Re: [6.3] Get e-mail when CTRL-ALT-DEL is used?

2010-07-08 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 12:12:27PM +0200, Gilles wrote: This is on a remote 6.3 host: I'd like to get an e-mail if a user hits the CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot the server. Googling told me that the use of the three-key combo can be enabled/disabled when compiling a new kernel, but not how to

Re: jail and uname

2010-07-03 Thread George Davidovich
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 02:13:13PM +0800, Aiza wrote: From the console of a jail I issue uname -r and get 8.0-RELEASE-p3, which is the release level of the host. I know the jail is running a pristine minimum install of 8.0-RELEASE. I would think issuing uname from within a jail environment

Re: text to html

2010-07-03 Thread George Davidovich
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 11:07:29AM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote: input: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MqPXZwc3 output: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=8QCkp4yv it will be a long day.. :D could someone please help with it? i have to make a one liner that get's the input, and gives the

Re: .sh ip address

2010-06-22 Thread George Davidovich
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:31:51AM +0800, Aiza wrote: I looking to take the last group number in a ip address and bump the number by 1. BY the way is there some name for each group of numbers in the ip address? Octet. Something like. org_ip=10.0.10.2 short_ip=need command to strip off

Re: Booting multiple choice, and pause to read bootup info

2010-06-21 Thread George Davidovich
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 08:19:22PM -0500, J. Porter Clark wrote: 1. I'd like to be able to expand the list of choices in the boot menu (the menu with single user mode, safe mode, etc.) to include booting in any of several different environments, e.g., home wired, home wireless, work wired,

Re: command to strip suffix in .sh script

2010-06-03 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:11:16PM +0700, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:25:36 -0400 Vinny wrote: On 06/02/2010 04:30, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 02/06/2010 09:24:01, Matthias Apitz wrote: Aiza wrote: I have this code [snip] $ echo

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-07 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 06:41:16PM -0700, Liontaur wrote: I'm looking for a small (and relatively inexpensive) computer to run a GUI, I don't much care if it's KDE or Gnome or one of the others. Just so that I can browse the Internet using Firefox (unfortunately I may need to look at some

Re: Kill via Cron...

2010-04-20 Thread George Davidovich
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:57:25PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Karl == Karl Vogel voge...@hcst.com writes: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:52:58 +0100, mcoyles mcoy...@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk said: M kill -9 `ps ax | grep backup | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'` And you don't

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 04:25:08PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: On 2010-01-01 14:18, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:36:25PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:24:21 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: Thanks for the info so far. I have much to learn about LaTeX, that is

Re: Adding an alias to .cshrc

2009-12-29 Thread George Davidovich
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:50:21PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: I want to add an alias to my .cshrc file: alias srm find . -name *~ | xargs rm No need for xargs: alias srm find . -name '*~' -exec rm {} + or alias srm find . -name '*~' -delete ...so that I have an easy way to remove

Re: Sendmail client configuration to connect to ISP's SMTP server

2009-12-26 Thread George Davidovich
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:20:27AM -0800, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: What configuration do I need to set in my freebsd.submit.mc in order to connect to the ISP's SMTP server? The ISP is blocking all the emails unless it goes through their mail server, so I need my FreeBSD box to connect to the

Re: PF binat rule issue - feature or bug?

2009-12-04 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:41:20AM -0600, Greg Barniskis wrote: Using 7.2-RELEASE-p4 i386 with GENERIC kernel, I've found (the hard way) that if I have a pf.conf rule like nat on $ext_if proto { tcp udp icmp } from $my_subnet \ to any - some.public.ip.num then pfctl will perform the

Re: Mount dump0 as ISO9660 filesystem?

2009-12-04 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:27:48PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: I heard somewhere that you can mount a dump as an ISO9660 filesystem, but I cannot find any Google answers on this subject. I took my dump in the following fashion: dump -0Lan -C 16 -f - /usr | gzip -2 |

Re: Last login message

2009-12-04 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:16:54PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: When I ssh to my FreeBSD machine, I get something like this: Last login: Thu Dec 3 15:12:40 2009 from 11.22.33.44 Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California.

Re: Mount dump0 as ISO9660 filesystem?

2009-12-04 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:50:43PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: Either way, the file remains just a file, and is read using restore(8). [snip] All I really want to do is take my dump file and see the files inside it, and do things with those files such as copy or md5sum (not edit). And I

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread George Davidovich
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:34:05PM -0800, Randi Harper wrote: I'm going to just reply to all of these at once. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:59:42AM -0500, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Peggy Wilkins wrote:

Re: Prompt containing SSH login information

2009-11-23 Thread George Davidovich
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:10:38AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: again, a strange question: I'd like to know if there is a builtin means to let the csh's (or bash's) prompt show an information if the current dialog session has been opened via SSH from another system. The obvious is:

Re: Dump

2009-11-21 Thread George Davidovich
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 04:12:42AM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: Matthew Seaman skrev: Bernt Hansson wrote: I've been testing backups with dump, works well BUT -L does not work. For example dump -0 -a -u -L -f /mnt/dump.home.full /dev/ad0s2d I believe that you need to tell

Re: Dump

2009-11-21 Thread George Davidovich
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 04:12:42AM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: Matthew Seaman skrev: Bernt Hansson wrote: I've been testing backups with dump, works well BUT -L does not work. For example dump -0 -a -u -L -f /mnt/dump.home.full /dev/ad0s2d I believe that you need to tell

Re: SLIM and XFCE4

2009-11-05 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 10:49:44PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:01:19 -0800 (PST), Alexandre L. wrote: mmm. I don't know. But with this config file, XFCE4 launch is OK (or seems OK). That may be possible, as well as correct. I have learned - many many years ago, so it

Re: error output redirection

2009-10-11 Thread George Davidovich
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:36:52PM +0200, Stefan Miklosovic wrote: if error output of some program appear on screen, it is possible to print it also to some file simultaneously? Depends on the program, but generally, yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_streams

Re: A general sed question

2009-10-07 Thread George Davidovich
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:45:36PM -0700, David Allen wrote: I keep bumping up against this, so I thought I'd throw this question out to those who understand sed better than I do. What I'm trying to do is to clean up the contents of some files (/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC would be a good example)

Re: Daily report cannot be emailed to a jailed mail server

2009-10-07 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 09:02:50AM +1100, David N wrote: FreeBSD 7.2-R box with 10 jails. The mail server (actually its a mail filter) is hosted on the same server inside a jail. I can't seem to get the main server reports to be sent to the mail filter inside the jail inside the same box.

Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy

2009-09-09 Thread George Davidovich
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: http://site1/dir/; http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; http://site4/dir/; I'm want to match http:* and stop

Re: 'alias' + sudo

2009-09-04 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:10:36PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:34:05 +0200 Mel Flynn wrote: alias spico='/usr/local/bin/sudo pico -m' and be done with it. Instead of an extra alias, why not export $VISUAL or $EDITOR, and rely on sudoedit(8)? That is what I am currently doing;

Re: remove newlines from a file

2009-09-01 Thread George Davidovich
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 06:03:19PM +, Paul Schmehl wrote: I found a sed tutorial once that did this, but I can't seem to find it again. You're probably thinking of Useful One-Line Scripts for Sed: http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt A good follow-up:

Re: SUID permission on Bash script

2009-08-28 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:01:54AM +0100, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: 2009/8/28 Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:35 +0100, Jeronimo Calvo jeronimocal...@googlemail.com wrote: Im trying to set up a reaaallly basic scrip to allow one user to shutdown my

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread George Davidovich
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:07:41PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:46:50PM -0600, Kelly Martin wrote: plugging the drive in and accessing it, I heard those tell-tale signs of hard drive failure: clicks and pops and other unusual noises, so I know that it has some

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread George Davidovich
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:45:40PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:23:47PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:13:48PM -0700, George Davidovich wrote: I remember this special non-condictive 3M fluid that can be used to cool electronics. A group

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-16 Thread George Davidovich
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:54:41AM -0400, Charles Oppermann wrote: I assume your use of MICROS~1 is some sort of clever dig at Microsoft, but this is 2009 - not 1995 Sorry, but while I agree the MICROS~1 pejorative can be a bit juvenile and uncalled for, your assertion that 8.3 filenames are

Re: Trying to Install Man Page

2009-08-11 Thread George Davidovich
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:59:43PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: There is a test man page I am trying to install and the system is not finding it. I put it in /usr/local/man/man1 and think I should at least get complaints about the page as it is the start of a man page, not the whole thing. I

Re: MIME attachments in mbox files

2009-05-30 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:40:52PM -0400, Vince Sabio wrote: I have a need (well, I have lots of needs, but I'll try to stay focused here) Given the nature of most messages in the last few days, I'd suggest you're trying too hard. ;-) to be able to take a Windows zip file that is stored as

Re: USENET?

2009-03-09 Thread George Davidovich
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:44:38PM +0100, cpghost wrote: On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:39:43AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: news/pan seems to work OK, if you want a GUI. But be aware that nowadays, you'll probably have to pay a monthly fee for usenet. ISPs don't seem to routinely offer it

Re: Battery powered, SBC that can run BSD

2009-03-05 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:53:45AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: I'm looking for a small, single board computer that can run for a week or two on batteries (so very low power drain), topped up by solar cells when the sun is out, and that can run some sort of unix... preferably one of the BSDs. No

Re: Odd DNS requests

2009-02-28 Thread George Davidovich
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 04:32:47PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: Recently we've had a Mac notebook of some sort on our LAN, that likes to make these DNS queries from time to time, to no avail, as noticed on a filtering bridge between the LAN and the router+DNS at 192.168.0.1: 16:13:05.020397

Re: Blocking very many (tens of thousands) ip addresses in ipfw

2009-01-14 Thread George Davidovich
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:30:53PM -0800, mojo fms wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2009 17:23:25 Artem Kuchin wrote: I need to block around 15 ip addreses from acccess the server at all

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread George Davidovich
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:47:38PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:54:24PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature (running Thunderbord on FreeBSD),

Re: bash versus sh test builtin

2009-01-11 Thread George Davidovich
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:08:18PM -0600, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: The -ne operator for [ in /bin/sh doesn't seem to work as in bash. Also the bash behavior here is what matches /bin/[ most closely. $ /bin/sh $ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi [: -ne: unexpected operator $

Re: shell scripting problems

2008-11-29 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:31:17PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure what the problem is, but are you just looking for the output of pkg_info -qxL on the *first* instance of

Re: inet hosts question

2008-11-14 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote: Vincent Hoffman wrote: Gary Hartl wrote: I thought I could do it by using the /class ie /32 for class c but i can't remember what the class delegation is for that size of pool, I think it is a class B. 192.168.0.0/16 for your example.

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-06 Thread George Davidovich
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 07:28:28PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we've got it improperly

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread George Davidovich
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 02:06:25PM -0400, pete wrote: I have a hosted domain that recently changed their mail filtering. I am not happy with the new setup and am considering setting up my own. Looking for tips on setting up something on my freeBSD 6.1 box. My ISP is cablevision IO. Not sure

Re: Tailing logs

2008-08-23 Thread George Davidovich
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:07:59AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: DAve wrote: DAve wrote: I do this commonly to catch the lines with the word Building in them, from a file build.out: tail -F build.out | grep --color=always Building When I get a free moment, I need to see about making