Re: Why process memory starts so high up in virtual space with FreeBSD malloc?

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:28:48 -0800, Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am compiling the following program: > > #include > main() { printf("0x%x\n", malloc(1)); } You should probably use printf("%p", ptr) to print pointers :) > in 32-bit 7.1-PRERELEASE and get 0x28201100 which is ~673MB of 4GB >

Re: documentation problem for times(3) man page

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:17:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 +0100, "Viktor Štujber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/fre

Re: documentation problem for times(3) man page

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 +0100, "Viktor Štujber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/172448.html. > The subject was a documentation issue where a man page mismatched the > actual syste

Re: Regular Expression Help

2008-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:14:53 -0800, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm attempting to take an ldiff file and flip first/last name order. > However I can not figure out how to match hyphenated last names. In > vim, my current search/replace string is: > > %s/cn=\(\w\+\-*\) \(\w\+\),/cn=

Re: for awk experts only.

2008-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:15:15 -0800, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:47:29AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Don't do this with a long stream of if/else/.../else blocks. AWK is >> a pattern based rule-language. You can apply diff

Re: for awk experts only.

2008-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:59:51 -0800, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wordnet/wn prints the string "noun" out whereas I'd rather it simply > printed "n." Is there a way of making this substitution using awk? > (I've never used awk except as a cmdline filter.) > > The

Re: bootselector - lame question

2008-11-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:19:13 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry but while i use FreeBSD for a long time i need dual boot for the > first time. > > i already have installed DOS in dospartition 1 (/dev/ad0s1) and FreeBSD > on dospartition 2 slice a (/dev/ad0s2a) > > i ca

Re: offline upgrade

2008-11-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:03:33 -0800 (PST), gahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, All: > > I have two boxes running 6.3. For certain reasons that I can't upgrade > them online with "freebsd-update" utility; the ftp sessions are > blocked. Are there any other way to upgrade the system offline, both >

Re: FreeBSD-STABLE: How do I change my Local IP Address statically?

2008-11-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:16:35 -0800, "Mike Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My IP Address on my FreeBSD Server 4.11-STABLE keeps changing. What I > need to do is find the file or command to change it statically. Network configuration is saved in `/etc/rc.conf' in FreeBSD. Before you make any ch

Re: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

2008-11-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:53:02 +0200, "tethys ocean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have no idea since any other people doing something but i dont know > exactly according to their claim he doing some stuff with python for > web and i suppose he want to restart apache Maybe it's a good idea to avoid

Re: ascii text format

2008-11-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:53:09 +, pwn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes, i want that the text appears displayed such as manpages like, how > can i accomplish this task? The manpages are written in groff. More specifically, they are written in a format that may be formatted by the `mdoc' macros o

Re: ascii text format

2008-11-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:49:16 +, pwn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > algouth this is not a freebsd specific text, i need to format some texts > under freebsd for they appear in the center of the page when opened in a > browser, but i dont want to use HTML for format them, i just want to add > tabul

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:43:29 +0100, Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First thanks you for you help > In fact I make the wifi run by using wpi driver. That's nice, yes. The wpi(4) driver seems to support the chipset of your wlan adapter :) > Running wihtout problem: > >

Re: Free usenet nntp servers

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:33:48 +0800, Fbsd1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the past (alt.binaries.warez) contained monthly posts of a list of > Free usenet nntp servers. I dont have access to a nntp server so I > can't search foe the list. Does any one here know of a Free usenet > nntp server I can

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:40:09 +0100, Manfred Usselmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a small example, how limited Windows really is: Even today it is > not possible to configure the standard interface of Windows XP (Luna) > in any other color than blue, olive green and silver. LOL. Not to menti

Re: Apology

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:10:13 -0500, "Gary Hartl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry group I just realized I've been sending HTML emails to the > group. Plain text now set. > > Stupid Outlook. It's not a *huge* deal, but _thanks_ for fixing that :D ___

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:55:35 +0100, Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I would like to buy a PCMCIA card for my new laptop (because FreeBSD > do not recognise my internal wifi AND RJ45 ethernet cardsh** > windows say it's Broadcom netXtreme 57xx gigabit ). Hi Albert, If you c

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:01:03 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> those who are not just less experienced but so brainless that they >>> can't even sent a subscribing mail to mailing list >>> >>> they will not become experienced unix users ever. >> >> We can help as much

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:27:08 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> _large_ number of inexperienced people may result in a significantly >> lower signal/noise ratio. I can definitely agree to that. > > with 100:1 signal/noise ratio experienced people will start to leave the >

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:29:42 +, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> * Having five gazillion posts that say "me too", is not exactly a >> productive answer to a problem. Alas, this is often what you get >>

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:58:39 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce >> the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. >> It is our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channe

Re: how to create tbz package in freebsd

2008-11-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:19:32 -0800 (PST), w_anup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello All, > > i am newbie to freebsd , i want to create customize tbz package for > free bsd , can anybody provide the procedure to create packages in > free bsd, or any tutor will be helpful. The ``FreeBSD Ports'' fram

Re: scripting text replacement

2008-11-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 19:43:52 +0100, bsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for this cross posting, but I can not find a good "bash" mailing > list… > I am certain FreeBSD gurus will provide me with a fast and reliable > answer to this little question. > > Here is the deal: > - > > I

Re: spell check - how to?

2008-11-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:42:52 -0500, Eitan Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [cc to -questions as it might be a general question] Hi Eitan :-) > I'm looking to do a full spell check/fix on the handbook. I found > "make spellcheck-txt" which apparently removed certain items that > would not go we

Re: irc & usenet clients for xfce

2008-11-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 22:38:03 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What irc, pop mail, and usenet clients from gmone or kde or x would > you recommend to use on xfce? My setup is a bit `unusual' for those who like holistic approaches to the desktop, like GNOME and KDE, but I use GNU Emacs for email, ne

Re: Problems with FreeBSD

2008-11-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:10:25 -0200, "J MPZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > When my connections freeze, I open the tcpdump in other terminal. If I type > something, type "Enter", on the terminal frozen, the tcpdump show packets, > like that: > > 11:18:45.526256 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 51, id 651

Re: help with MY Book external drive

2008-11-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:13:21 + (GMT), AN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just purchased a WD MY Book external USB disk, I reformatted in UFS > and created a filesystem with sysinstall. I was able to put data on > it successfully, however overnite I had a power failure. Now I am > unable to moun

Re: source for dict?

2008-11-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:39:26 -0800, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the source file/database for dict in ports? I *thought* I had it > at one time. tia, Maybe. There are a few '*dict*' matches, but without more context it is a bit hard to really know which dict program you are looking

Re: Status line for text mode console

2008-10-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:30:15 +0100, Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:10:02 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sounds like something screen(1) offers. See sysutils/screen. > > Much too complicated. :-) I'm using screen on a daily basis to manage > mul

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:35:31 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Adding a few options in `loader.conf' should preload IPFW and DIVERT in >> the running kernel: >> >> ipfw_load="YES" >> i

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:40:01 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Inspired by this discussion (and just replying to a random post) I > tried for the first time to get a test machine as a gateway. I tried > the handbook's instructions, here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO88

Re: bash script on FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:11:40 +0700, Kalpin Erlangga Silaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am going to extract field username and UID from /etc/passwd and > passed into some scripts. Let say I got line > > admin 100 > admin2 200 > admin3 300 > admin4 400 > > and then I want to echoin

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:44:54 +0100, "James Seward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've never gotten a definite answer as to what happens if you use "flags >> S/SA" on a rule that is for UDP, since UDP is a non-negotiated pr

Re: stupid xfce clock question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:28:12 -0400, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If you are using XFCE4 then you are reaping all the benefits of the >>> freely available work of others. This style of subject is offensive >>> to their efforts to provide a light-weight, beautiful, functional

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 04:51:01 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I run my laptop with a `pf.conf' that (putting most of the comments and >> other disabled rules for one-off tests aside) looks pretty much like: >> >> set block-policy drop >> set require-order yes

Re: stupid xfce clock question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:39:20 -0400, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I work remotely with a company that is across the international date > line from me and I can do the math in my head but want to know if it > is possible to add a clock to my xfce panel that shows the time their >

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 02:07:04 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> This is incredibly draconian. :-) I was trying my best to remain >>> realistic. >> >> It's no such thing. This is the recommended standard practice when >> designing firewalls: always start from the premise that al

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 00:26:11 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:19:09AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> block drop all >> >> looks fairly magical to me. Stick that at the top of your ruleset as >> your default policy, add more specific rules beneath it to

Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:31:57 +0100, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Nash Nipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> char * >>> function(void) >>> { >>> char buffer[100]; >>> >>>

Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:57:06 -0700 (PDT), Nash Nipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for making it even more clear to me. > actually what i meant was this: > > void function(void){ > char *p; > p = malloc(1); > } > int main(void){ > while (1){ > function(); > /* in the end of t

Re: Segmentation fault when free [SOLVED]

2008-09-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:04:03 -0700 (PDT), Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 9/20/08, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> : free(0xbfbfc9c9) >>> >>> 1. This clearly shows my program is trying to free a memory that >>> has not be

Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:31:41 -0700 (PDT), Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Sat, 9/20/08, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You are probably calling free() multiple times for the same buffer. >> >> Try tracing the malloc and free calls, u

Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:03:03 -0700 (PDT), Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi thank you very much for your reply and the test case. > > That is, in a trivial case like this, free() works well. Hopefully > free() works well in all cases too. > > But my main program is 1900 lines, f1() and f2() are

Re: rsync colon in filename to MSWin fails

2008-09-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:37:50 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot trasfer a file with a colon via rsync to a Win box. > I've rsync-3.0.4 on the FBSD (sending side) and rsync-2.6.9 > under cygwin on Win (receiving side). I'm not sure what the > error message means: > > %

Re: How to split a C string by a string?

2008-09-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:32:56 -0700 (PDT), Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Wed, 9/17/08, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: How to split a C string by a string? >> To: [EM

Re: How to split a C string by a string?

2008-09-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:45:46 -0700 (PDT), Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I'm writing an C application on FreeBSD 7+. I need to split a string > by another string (ie. the delimiter is "xxx") similar to strtok split > a string by a single char. Is there a standard function or is there

Re: Disappearing Hard Drive?

2008-09-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:40:20 -0700 (PDT), Richard Mahlerwein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a puzzling problem.  I'm sure I just missed something simple, > but I can't figure out what. > > I added a drive to my system as Master on controller 2.   After > turning back on, I found I couldn't se

Re: Copying a FreeBSD install to a smaller disk

2008-09-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:55:36 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [8] The final step was to chroot [...] > [9] Finally, I checked the new `/etc/fstab' [...] Heh! Adding `one last "final" step' didn't really work very well in this case.

Re: Copying a FreeBSD install to a smaller disk

2008-09-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:19:55 -0700, "Chris Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would I go about copying an existing FreeBSD installation to a smaller > disk? > > I've got a 3rd FreeBSD install I can boot from and store temporary > files on, all the disks are in the same hardware, so there's no

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:35:07 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, > > This is one of the I've-been-meaning-to-ask questions; but other > things keep happening that took precedence. Now it's time to ask what > are the voodoo commands to set up in my ~/.zshrc or other initiation > fil

Re: Postfix issue

2008-09-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 05:21:03 -0700, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the same protocol was applied to physical mail then we would not > have been allowed to send letters unless we had a big building to send > it from and all letters would have had to have had a "big building" > sendin

Re: Postfix issue

2008-09-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 04:33:14 -0700, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Monday 08 September 2008 03:57:11 you wrote: >>On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 02:47:47 -0700, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Could anyone tell me what entry I should make in postfix configuration >>> files to boun

Re: Postfix issue

2008-09-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 02:47:47 -0700, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Could anyone tell me what entry I should make in postfix configuration > files to bounce mails directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that emanate from a > source outside my local network. > > Sorry to ask the question he

Re: changes to -CURRENT tty

2008-09-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:05:15 -0400, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Yes, I'm on current@ ... in digest mode. Besides others may be > interested.) > > The 20080820 entry in /usr/src/UPDATING concerns a substantial change > to the tty subsystem. Assuming I'm not trying anything fancy, and

Re: core manpages

2008-09-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 12:38:57 -0400, "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm testing an upgrade of 5.5 -> 6.3, so I installed 5.5 from an iso, > and installed the minimal system. > > This minimal system is apparently without manpages for the basic > commands, or perhaps the

Re: How to delete non-ASCII chars in file

2008-09-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:27:12 -0400, "Mark B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Giorgos Keramidas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> $ echo '^Fhello^F' | sed -e 's/[^[:print:]]*//' | hd >> 68 65 6c

Re: How to delete non-ASCII chars in file

2008-09-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:14:08 -0400, "Mark B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a text file that includes some non-ASCII characters > For example, opening the file in vi shows lines like this: > > 'easth_0.541716776378' 0 \xe2\x80\x98dire' 2 > > Is there a command-line tool I can use

Re: cd and rm a directory with '^M'

2008-09-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:51:11 -0700, Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I had rsync create a directory with a '^M' in it. > > how do I rm -rf the directory? These are a few options: (1) In most shells, you can type a ^M character as part of a filename by prefixing the ^M character

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-09-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 02:40:10 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Did you really run dump on a 'live' filesystem? The filesystem may be >> changing under the feet of dump, while it copies data. That is bound to >> cause trouble later on. > > but shouldn't make NO files rest

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:03:53 -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > this all on a 7.0 freebsd system. > > Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It > would be better to remove information from the handbook rather then have > information that d

Re: I can't make world without the "games" group?

2008-08-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:20:31 -0400, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Making it easy to disable stuff in `src.conf' is sort of a >> middle-path approach. I can live with that for now. If someone else >> comes along and moves fortune(1) and the other src/games/ stuff in a >> port, I w

Re: I can't make world without the "games" group?

2008-08-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:30:02 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:04:26 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> % -- &

Re: I can't make world without the "games" group?

2008-08-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:29:48 +0200, "Redd Vinylene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ok, this may be a bug in the makefiles then. My apologies if you have >> already written all that. I caught the email thread some time after it >> started, and I replied while being offline on a trip. > > Welcome ba

Re: I can't make world without the "games" group?

2008-08-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:04:26 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > % -- > % >>> Making hierarchy > % -- > % cd /home/build/src; make

Re: I can't make world without the "games" group?

2008-08-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:26:36 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # Removing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from the recipient list. This isn't > # really a thread about marketing or promoting FreeBSD, so it's a bit > # off-topic for that list. > > On T

Re: I can't make world without the "games" group?

2008-08-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
# Removing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from the recipient list. This isn't # really a thread about marketing or promoting FreeBSD, so it's a bit # off-topic for that list. On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:01:03 +0200, "Redd Vinylene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23,

Re: I can't make world without the "games" group?

2008-08-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:31:22 +0200, "Redd Vinylene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why can't I make world without the "games" group? I run a serious > server, not a kindergarten ;) > > I don't want the games group there, I just don't need it! Have you tried building with an src.conf file that include

Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:49:53 -0700 (PDT), Andrei Iarus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD? The same way you can format any other disk. I usually format my USB sticks by creating a single da0s1 slice and then one (or more) BSD labels in that slice, by ty

Re: Sendmail email delays

2008-08-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:36:11 -0600, "Tom Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made the changes to rc.conf as suggested. Also below are the new diffs. > > firewall-1# diff freebsd.mc firewall-1.xxx.com.mc > 77c77 > < dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server') > --- >> define(`SMART_HOST', `s

Re: Shell scripts: variable assignment within read loops

2008-08-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:33:05 +0200, Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I thought while reading your message, awk seems to be > a good solution. Just a note: > > On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:29:03 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Would y

Re: Shell scripts: variable assignment within read loops

2008-08-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:33:28 -0700, David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am writing a (Bourne) shell script that is intended (among other > things) to obtain information from a command, such as: > > netstat -nibd -f inet > > by reading and parsing the output. > > However, the "obvio

Re: Sendmail email delays

2008-08-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:27:50 -0600, "Tom Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are my diffs for the files as requested. I'm thinking the actual > issue may lay in my submit.mc configuration. Right now I have just the > base file as I've tried editing it to no success so I changed it back > to n

Re: Sendmail email delays

2008-08-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:49:39 -0600, "Tom Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried doing the forwarding via /etc/mail/aliases and it worked > identically as it was with the /root/.forward. The mail does go through but > gets delayed 5+ minutes, however when I send mail interactively using m

Re: error allocating memory with realloc(). how can i increase max_allowed in the system? [solved]

2008-08-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:22:21 +0200, Jordi Moles Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > thank you very much for your time and help, i had completely > misunderstood how realloc() works. You are welcome, of course :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: error allocating memory with realloc(). how can i increase max_allowed in the system?

2008-08-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:02:43 +0200, Jordi Moles Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > i'm running a FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 machine and struggling with some C > code i'm writing. > > I've had some trouble with this home-made script as it keeps crashing > while launching a "realloc()" call. > > I n

Re: Kernel compile R7.0 i386 GENERIC, fails

2008-08-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:32:02 +0200 (MEST), Peter B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Extracted sources: sbase, srelease, ssys >> >> You also need scontrib (ACPI sources are there) component and maybe >> some others for successful build. btw, this is not a very usual (and >> a simple) way to make kern

Re: A few questions from a current linux user

2008-08-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:15:07 -0700, "Krishna Mohan Gundu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 2) Is it possible to compile multiple versions of gcc? If so what is >>> the best way to do it? >> >> Yes, of course. >> >> The "base system" of FreeBSD includes _one_ version of gcc, installed as >> `/usr/bin

Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)

2008-08-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:54:04 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, fellow FreeBSD-ers! > > I'd like to a good neighbor and share my DSL line and set up an > unencrypted free wireless access point. I often find myself wanting > more free access points around the city, so

Re: A few questions from a current linux user

2008-08-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:20:08 -0400, "Krishna Mohan Gundu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am currently using Fedora Core 4 linux distribution for my everyday > needs like programming, checking emails etc on my two year old HP > laptop. I feel that time has come for me to move away from Fedora.

Re: A few questions from a current linux user

2008-08-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 07:01:14 +0200, Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:20:08 -0400, "Krishna Mohan Gundu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> 5) Does FreeBSD have support for PCMCIA-USB cards? > > Don't know. Yes. ___ freebsd-ques

Re: memory allocation with malloc

2008-08-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:58:40 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:46:06 +0530, "Shyamal Shukla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However, this does not happen. Can someone please correct my >> understanding and provide

Re: memory allocation with malloc

2008-08-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:46:06 +0530, "Shyamal Shukla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to validate my understanding of how malloc works by means > of the below C program which tries to corrupt essential information > maintained by malloc for free() operation. > > The program alloc

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:49:23 +0200, mcassar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks alot for that. > > i mean, apart from your general overview of freebsd (system, project > and community), which gives me an idea how things are done, what's > happeniing and where things are, you really put me at ease wi

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 18:32:53 +0200, mcassar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > damn, thanks - I had mistaken stable to be what is release; i had come > across the difference at some point but didn't realise when i tried > cvsup (which i also mistook to be more recent than csup). First of all, a hearty "w

Re: own OS-Name

2008-07-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:48:14 +0200, Markus Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran schrieb: >> In response to Markus Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> I will create my own *BSD OS based on FreeBSD. How can I change the >>> Name of this OS ? I mean, that in Logfiles, for example, of >>> ser

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:43:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> You can edit `/etc/hostname.foo0' in the Sun too, and add >> something like: >> >> 192.168.1.10/24 mtu 640 > > [getting OT for FreeBSD] > > Are you sure that works as far back as SunOS 4.1.1? Ah! That will not work, you are right

Re: own OS-Name

2008-07-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:37:34 +0200, Markus Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will create my own *BSD OS based on FreeBSD. How can I change the > Name of this OS ? I mean, that in Logfiles, for example, of servers, > which I connect by sufing in the web and in application which locate > the O

Re: sendmail base configuration

2008-07-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:41:24 -0700, Tim Traver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Set the `SMART_HOST' option in your `custom-sendmail.mc' file. That >> should do it. > > I tried that, and regenerated the cf files using "make all&q

Re: sendmail base configuration

2008-07-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:08:11 -0700, Tim Traver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this isn't exactly the right place for a sendmail question, but > it has to do with the system configuration, and I'm trying to find > some help to create a relatively simple solution (I think)... > > ok,

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:20:06 -0500, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:04 PM 7/29/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > [TCP] splits traffic to 'segments' using its own logic ... >> >> Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer to use a >> transmit segment size of, say,

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:09:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- so that the peer will never try to send a packet larger than that? I'm trying to get around a netwo

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:04:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> [TCP] splits traffic to 'segments' using its own logic ... > > Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer > to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- so that > the peer will never try to send a packet large

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:36:34 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:04:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> [TCP] splits traffic to 'segments' using its own logic ... >> >> Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD syste

Re: Two minor IPFW-related questions

2008-07-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:48:09 -0700, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:15:32 -0700, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> deny any to any in frag >> >> Is that actually a Good Thing To Do? Are there really no legitimate >> packate frag

Re: Two minor IPFW-related questions

2008-07-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:15:32 -0700, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a couple of questions about IPFW-related things: > > 1) Somewhere the other day I read a recommendation... which looked > rather official to me that the time... that all fragments should be > firwalled out,

Re: malloc options

2008-07-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
lem only occurs on FreeBSD 7.0, not any other Unix systems. In > D> the meantime I am losing money because of it. > >>> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:03:58 +0300, >>> Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > G> While that's understandable, the cur

Re: malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:36:35 -0700, Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 26, 2008, at 17:10, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Firstly, if you did not recompile the program under 7.0 then it is not >> using the new malloc at all. > > It was recompiled. All there is on the system is new stuff. It

Re: freebsd wireless question

2008-07-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:49:01 -0700 (PDT), gahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello: > > i installed cisco aironet 802.11a/b/g wirless adapter on 6.3 and have > some issues. basically it works like charm with wpa2/dhcp, but it > doesn't work with wpa2/static ip address. > > here is my working configu

Re: DNS troubles

2008-07-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:30:56 -0400, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get a machine working, but it can't seem to handle DNS > requests. I've just done a 7.0 install (from CD, usually I use net, > but it wasn't connecting to anything, now I know why). > > I have a machine with two buil

Re: Very Beginning CVSup Questions

2008-07-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:08:37 -0400, "J.C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a beginner with FreeBSD and somewhat intermediate with Unix-like > operating systems in general, so please bear the nature of my > questions. I have some questions about CVSup that seem unclear from > the handbook. Right no

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