RE: too many open files

2011-11-27 Thread Murray Taylor
start doing this or anything...? -- Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 5168 F: +61 3 9238 5140 |_|0|_|Absence of evidence |_|_|0|is not evidence of absence |0|0|0|Carl Sagan -Original Message- From

issue with IPF firewall state tables

2011-11-06 Thread Murray Taylor
. I am aware I can flush the state table, but until the router breaks itself again, I cannot clear it. Does this sound like a full state table? Am I using the best method to check? Is there any form of notification that this is happening anywhere? -- Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special

RE: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-13 Thread Murray Taylor
Follow up --- I have just been told that the issue will be resolved over the weekend -- there apparently is some other issue being dealt with first. I should have the 44 files in the inbucket on Monday. -- Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61

RE: scrpt help neded...

2011-07-21 Thread Murray Taylor
the grepped target. -- Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer |_|0|_|Absence of evidence |_|_|0|is not evidence of absence |0|0|0|Carl Sagan --- The information transmitted in this e-mail

RE: how to concatenate 2 pdf files to 1?

2011-05-01 Thread Murray Taylor
If you are using KDE try kpdftool from ports splits file / merges files / ... -- Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 |_|0|_|Absence of evidence |_|_|0|is not evidence of absence |0|0|0

Hitting kern.openfile ~= kern.maxfiles

2011-04-03 Thread Murray Taylor
. It will sometime hover there for days, Then go up and cause freezes, nonstarts etc . Other times it will go up Within a hour or so I've looked at tuning(7) and currently kern.maxfiles is set to 24000. I have hald and dbus running for xorg Any udeas ? -- Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems

RE: WiFi HotSpot

2010-10-18 Thread Murray Taylor
m0n0wall has a 'standard' set of scripte that implement this Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 -- |_|0|_|Absence of evidence |_|_|0|is not evidence of absence |0|0|0|Carl Sagan

RE: text editor

2010-06-02 Thread Murray Taylor
with the addition of 'random' control key additions Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 -- |_|0|_|Absence of evidence |_|_|0|is not evidence of absence |0|0|0|Carl Sagan -Original

RE: Sending alarms to my mobile phone

2010-06-01 Thread Murray Taylor
and use kannel from ports and a Telco SMPP service. Send / receive rates are 30 messages / second Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 -- |_|0|_|Absence of evidence |_|_|0|is not evidence of absence

RE: text editor

2010-05-31 Thread Murray Taylor
and 6 NOTE all these have been replaced by nanobsd, but the techniques are still useful, especially if you are pushed for space. Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 -- |_|0|_|Absence of evidence |_|_|0

RE: text editor

2010-05-30 Thread Murray Taylor
buffers also ... a through z ad'adeletes test from marker a to current into buffer a appastes from buffer a dd delete current line into default buffer bdd delete current line into buffer b etc etc Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710

Parent Child SIGPIPE and write problem

2010-04-30 Thread Murray Taylor
loop through the write before giving up. Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 -- |_|0|_|Absence of evidence |_|_|0|is not evidence of absence |0|0|0|Carl Sagan

NFS under load-balanced apache

2008-09-21 Thread Murray Taylor
files etc, while the web boxen do the dynamic stuff from the databases etc. We are also considering storing session stuff on the NAS Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 -- |_|0|_|Absence of evidence |_|_|0

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

2008-09-18 Thread Murray Taylor
string, copies from start up to that point to a workspace, inserts the new text, then appends the remainder, starting AFTER the search string fragment. with a bit of work you could make it do your string splitting Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D

RE: gantt/pert chart in ports ?

2008-06-23 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Shterenlikht Sent: Monday, 23 June 2008 8:16 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: gantt/pert chart in ports ? Can anybody recommend a simple Gantt or PERT chart program from ports?

RE: Squid with a Net nanny type setup....

2007-11-22 Thread Murray Taylor
look at dansguardian its in the ports and is excellent for kid-management mjt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Sent: Friday, 23 November 2007 4:34 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Squid with a Net nanny type

RE: batch conversion of TeX

2007-10-17 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giorgos Keramidas Sent: Saturday, 13 October 2007 12:46 AM To: Aryeh M. Friedman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: batch conversion of TeX On 2007-10-12 09:44, Aryeh M. Friedman

RE: minimal install is too big

2007-10-07 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dmitry Gorbik Sent: Friday, 5 October 2007 6:25 PM To: Tim Judd Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minimal install is too big On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Tim Judd

RE: FreeBSD and Robotics

2007-06-17 Thread Murray Taylor
I can only think of one other point for this... Interrupt latency. Depending on what you are attempting to do, the variable nature of interrupt responses could be an issue. I.e. if the system becomes io bound during a data capture cycle, and something occurs that requires a response within a very

RE: open source X11 capture/playback tool

2007-06-13 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthias Apitz Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2007 11:07 PM To: Reid Linnemann Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: open source X11 capture/playback tool El día Wednesday, June 13, 2007 a

RE: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-02 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maxim Khitrov Sent: Saturday, 2 June 2007 8:37 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for config file revision control On 6/1/07, Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: printing a very long-line files with openoffice using letter pages

2007-05-31 Thread Murray Taylor
the poster util is what you want /usr/ports/print/poster POSTER(1) POSTER(1) NAME poster - Scale and tile a postscript image to print on multiple pages SYNOPSIS poster options infile DESCRIPTION Poster can be used to create a large poster by building it from multi-

RE: Spaces in SSID in /etc/rc.conf

2007-05-14 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gunther Mayer Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 5:46 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Spaces in SSID in /etc/rc.conf Hi there, I got a low key server who is wirelessly connected to the

RE: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?

2007-05-13 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 13 May 2007 5:19 PM To: jekillen Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD? On 12/05/07, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher?

2007-04-29 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 29 April 2007 6:41 PM To: Murray Taylor; Garrett Cooper; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices,Will FreeBSD accept Office 98

RE: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher?

2007-04-28 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garrett Cooper Sent: Sunday, 29 April 2007 4:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 +

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Murray Taylor
path, which is obviously much softer on the vagaries of ACPI and is ignoring the crap data returns. mjt -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 12:40 AM To: Murray Taylor Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Murray Taylor
into the red book! mjt -Original Message- From: Mark Tinguely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 3:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Murray Taylor Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem If you can either

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
count ?? That's a quick summary of the problem we have, and the path(s) we have been down to date to attempt to fix it. Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated. We are at the position now where we are prepared to pay for consulting services to get it going. Dave Faulkner / Murray

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
count ?? That's a quick summary of the problem we have, and the path(s) we have been down to date to attempt to fix it. Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated. We are at the position now where we are prepared to pay for consulting services to get it going. Dave Faulkner / Murray

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output

FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more part 2

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
BTW we have also successfully booted the 'offending box' with FC4 and it all came up ok. This should rule out hardware issues I hope. Is there a way to force a (re)scan of the other PCI busses ?? Or is there a hint.??? line I can add? mjt -Original Message- From: Murray Taylor Sent

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:34 PM To: Murray Taylor; FreeBSD Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem At 07

FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output

FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more part 2

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
BTW we have also successfully booted the 'offending box' with FC4 and it all came up ok. This should rule out hardware issues I hope. Is there a way to force a (re)scan of the other PCI busses ?? Or is there a hint.??? line I can add? mjt -Original Message- From: Murray Taylor

FW: IBM / FreeBSD - Install Update - Seems to be ACPI

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
In our initial posts, we stated that we seemed to be having issues getting the machine to boot with the 4 processors, so to bypass this we disabled ACPI on boot. This allowed us to get past the CPU error and continue to boot. However down the track we noticed things like the ethernet adapater not

RE: Port for Roller?

2007-04-11 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Stanford Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2007 9:54 AM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Port for Roller? Hi all, Does anyone know if a port exists for Rollerhttp://rollerweblogger.org/project/?

RE: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-12 Thread Murray Taylor
Akk hate top posting but following the mode of this email http://www.ultradesic.com/index.php?section=125 This is the site for making a mini flash disk-able version of FreeBSD 6.x mjt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Franks

[SOLVED] Guidance requested for multimedia conversion

2007-02-09 Thread Murray Taylor
PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:15:21 + dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 February 2007 00:04, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, Being much more a system programmer / database person than a multi media type I am requesting a 'recipe' from a video media expert

Guidance requested for multimedia conversion

2007-02-08 Thread Murray Taylor
Hi all, Being much more a system programmer / database person than a multi media type I am requesting a 'recipe' from a video media expert. I need to convert an 8 minute .avi file into a basic dvd. No menus or anything, just a dumb as possible 'load it, press play' disk. As long as I can do

RE: Labeling a backward-compatible Zip disk?

2007-01-30 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Strauser Sent: Wednesday, 31 January 2007 12:21 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Labeling a backward-compatible Zip disk? Out of idle curiosity, I dug out my old box of Zip disks

RE: WWW Proxy/Traffic Analyzer

2007-01-18 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Munyak Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 4:20 AM To: FreeBSD Questions; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: WWW Proxy/Traffic Analyzer -- Forwarded message -- From: Bachilo Dmitry

RE: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term)

2007-01-18 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 10:13 AM To: Murray Taylor Cc: Dak Ghatikachalam; freebsd-questions Subject: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term) [heavily trimmed, subject line clarified

RE: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-18 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josef Grosch Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 10:59 AM To: hal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11 On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:31:22PM -0700, hal wrote:

RE: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term)

2007-01-18 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: Greg Albrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 11:42 AM To: Murray Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term) On 18/01/07, Murray Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting

RE: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-17 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dak Ghatikachalam Sent: Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:48 AM To: freebsd-questions Subject: What is this mean by this term I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , What do we

RE: FreeBSD 3.4 / 4.5 - 2007 DST Changes

2007-01-10 Thread Murray Taylor
check ports .. there is a port now in misc (?) that does the tzfile updating for you... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cormany, Adam Sent: Tuesday, 9 January 2007 7:49 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD 3.4

RE: Externally connecting to databases?

2006-12-14 Thread Murray Taylor
Make sure that skip-networking is commented out or removed from /etc/my.cnf You may be 'turned off' there. You will need to stop - start mysql if you change this setting. mjt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john Mish III

RE: dd mini-iso image to USB pendrive?

2006-12-11 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill-Schoolcraft Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2006 6:19 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dd mini-iso image to USB pendrive? Hello Family, I'm trying to get my server to boot off

RE: finding out what devices got an ip from the dhcp ?

2006-12-04 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Beni Sent: Tuesday, 5 December 2006 7:19 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: finding out what devices got an ip from the dhcp ? Hi all, Is there an easy and fast way to find out what

RE: Western Australian Daylight Savings changes

2006-12-03 Thread Murray Taylor
Have a current ports tree cd /usr/ports/misc/zonefile make install this gets the correct (and current) timezone file tzdata2006p.tar.gz and does all the right stuff for you. Make sure that you follow the last instruction from the build as you have to manually run tzsetup at the end. mjt Murray

RE: Reply: Mini-Freebsd system on ram, to reduce noise?

2006-11-26 Thread Murray Taylor
partitions on the card - the root (r/o) and /config (r/o on boot, r/w during rc.shutdown to save my configs and scripts) Runs vi, tcpdump, net-snmp No moving parts (HDs, Fans, nada..) mjt Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems -- Any intelligent fool can make things

RE: Question re ncurses and the various ttys

2006-10-12 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: Raaf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13 October 2006 7:36 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Murray Taylor Subject: Re: Question re ncurses and the various ttys Hi all I've been digging around in the various man pages and havent

RE: idle auto logoff

2006-10-11 Thread Murray Taylor
for an autologout shell variable in /root/.cshrc man csh open man page then /autologoutto search then n repeatedly to step through mjt Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Any

Question re ncurses and the various ttys

2006-10-11 Thread Murray Taylor
this selected screen or would it go to the initial console screen? (Hmm maybe that is part of the answer, in the form of Does curses output only go to the current console? ( ... am I even on the right track ?? ) Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems -- Any intelligent fool can

RE: tool for checking website

2006-10-05 Thread Murray Taylor
continued) Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems -- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Anyone used this mobo with 6.1 ??

2006-09-28 Thread Murray Taylor
ASUS P5LD2-VM-DH/C Onboard Audio, VGA, 1*GLAN, 1*PCI-E, 2*PCI, 4*DDRII, 4*SATAII (RAID 0,1), mATX --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential

RE: pdf editor

2006-09-27 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Damian Wiest Sent: Thursday, 28 September 2006 3:33 AM To: Anton Shterenlikht Cc: George Allan; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdf editor On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:14:03PM +0100,

RE: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-20 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephanie Bridges Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2006 11:48 PM To: 'Ashley Moran' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

RE: fire_saver while inside kde???

2006-08-08 Thread Murray Taylor
try launching xscreensaver before kde ... I have all those screensavers running and dont use the kde ones... I think that there is a firesaver in there. mjt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter Fuller Sent: Wednesday, 9 August

RE: Adding a FreeBSD Gateway on a DSL/ ATM circuit

2006-08-03 Thread Murray Taylor
look at the defaults in /etc/defaults/rc.conf specifically look for lines with gateway in them iegateway_enable=NO copy the appropriate lines into /etc/rc.conf edit iegateway_enable=YES You will need to set the the default_route line also to point to the isp I think ... HTH mjt

RE: How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?

2006-07-30 Thread Murray Taylor
Try these methods of 'minimising' FreeBSD FWIW - I run 4.11 in 20M of a 32M Compact Flash card with the build described here https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html The box acts as a network health monitor with SNMP and fping utilities running, has a DHCP server running, a GSM modem daemon and has

RE: How to Change the Time Zone Rules?

2006-07-30 Thread Murray Taylor
. Neither does Lindeman but Lord_Howe does sigh end procedure 8-- NB you may need to update this file also _before_ doing the above ... (Im not sure, but our net weenie said it was necessary) /usr/share/misc/iso3166 Murray Taylor Special

A question for the AWK wizards

2006-07-25 Thread Murray Taylor
} --8-- Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage

RE: using fping to monitor internet connection status

2006-07-06 Thread Murray Taylor
switch is missing) NB I also listen for SNMP traps from appropriately cabable devices Fping is in ports /usr/ports/net/fping Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Any intelligent fool can make

RE: getting alerts about system upgrades

2006-05-31 Thread Murray Taylor
in the normal INBOX.. I have used Cyrus / Sieve for this at home, and also do it in (ptui) outlook at the office... HTH Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Any intelligent fool can make things

RE: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right.

2006-05-10 Thread Murray Taylor
as files of 0 length, rather than re-established as links. What am I doing wrong here, or is my tar broken? to preserve symlinks you need to use cpio specifically the -p and -l options man cpio It is a bit of a read Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P

RE: Substitute command on vi

2006-05-07 Thread Murray Taylor
This is a good vi incantation (NB The ^V is only there to allow you to put in the ^M. The ^V doesnt show in the final command line, so dont panic that you cant see it) :g/^V^M/s///g ie g/^V^M/ - find a ^M (any one will do, you dont need to be at the file start) s/// - substitute

RE: resetting clock after power outage

2006-05-07 Thread Murray Taylor
if you have ntp setup you may need to do a single ntpdate -b or ntpd -q to get the clock within a reasonable limit so ntpd can run properly man (8) ntpd man (8) ntpdate Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E

RE: ipfirewall tricks

2006-05-03 Thread Murray Taylor
man ipa-conf is your friend .. mind you it is a large chunk.. here is the home page for IPA ... http://ipa-system.sourceforge.net/ it is capable ... and large ... also ipastat could be used to feed a web page maybe ? HTH Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61

RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER

2006-05-03 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: fbsd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 10:36 PM To: Murray Taylor Subject: RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert

RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER

2006-05-03 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: fbsd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2006 11:02 AM To: Murray Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER The script I sent are operational on FBSD 4.11 with the enter/exit-hooks scripts

RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER

2006-05-03 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: fbsd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:56 AM To: Murray Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: ipfirewall tricks

2006-05-02 Thread Murray Taylor
' com try ipa from ports... it is an 'accounting' packege that monitors the firewall, and can activate/deactivate rules based on usage, time-of-day etc (if I remember correctly) Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E

RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER

2006-04-30 Thread Murray Taylor
, as I prefer to 'see and know' certain changes from my ISP so that is the reason for the email setup Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger

RE: Proper Method of Time Sync? (added: time server choices)

2006-04-17 Thread Murray Taylor
Google for pool.ntp.org to find a set of NTP servers near you ... Also read this http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/ For how not to do it !! mjt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 16 April 2006 12:53 PM

Is there a way of automatically including a CVS tag in a string substitution

2006-04-06 Thread Murray Taylor
into programs that can be viewed with ident or what. man ident man what cheers mjt Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555

RE: TCP/IP source Code

2006-04-04 Thread Murray Taylor
can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Indiana goes to DST

2006-03-28 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DAve Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Indiana goes to DST Dave McCammon wrote: Take a look at /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/northamerica, particularly

RE: FreeBSD advocacy PDF?

2006-01-16 Thread Murray Taylor
. --Albert Einstein Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge Mario G. Mazo Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:39 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD advocacy PDF? hi there some

RE: FreeBSD advocacy PDF?

2006-01-16 Thread Murray Taylor
http://linux.oreilly.com/news/bsd_ss.pdf and here too Murray T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murray Taylor Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:37 AM To: Jorge Mario G. Mazo; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD

RE: Send emails with attachments from command line

2005-12-08 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 2:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SV: Send emails with attachments from command line -Ursprungligt

RE: simple shell script

2005-12-08 Thread Murray Taylor
Beech, For what it is worth, and if you are interested in another method, here is a ruby script that I found somewhere and tweaked up a bit more. (Probably not the best ruby, but it was my learning effort) It is called by cron, and does a website 'connectivity' test, ie it attempts to get the

RE: Windows/FreeBSD VPNs

2005-11-28 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan Vidican Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:31 AM To: Dave Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Windows/FreeBSD VPNs Dave wrote: Hello, Do you use mpd through a firewall? If so, how

RE: UPS advice, please ...

2005-11-20 Thread Murray Taylor
Second the motion -- nut works well with the APC ups's -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cezar Fistik Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 10:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPS advice, please ... Hello Kiffin,

RE: Question about programming graphics

2005-11-17 Thread Murray Taylor
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Help: Asus P5WD2 mobo and ITE IDE controller problem

2005-11-13 Thread Murray Taylor
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RE: Help: Asus P5WD2 mobo and ITE IDE controller problem

2005-11-13 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: Roland Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:13:51AM +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, I have had a system configured using this mobo and have hit a showstopper. The HDD (a seagate 330GB IDE) have been connected to the ITE

RE: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-26 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murray Taylor Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:43 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hardware selection for comment. Comments requested from people who may have used / broken the following components. I'm

RE: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-26 Thread Murray Taylor
for Viruses by MailMarshal.*** -Original Message- From: Micah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:09 AM To: Murray Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware selection for comment. Murray Taylor wrote: Thanks to those who commented - the PSU

RE: Contact Management Software

2005-10-19 Thread Murray Taylor
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 4:06 PM To: Murray Taylor Cc: Vampire D; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Contact Management Software Thanks for the suggestion of SugarCRM. I think this may work out great for him with a couple of modules. :) Only thing left

Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-18 Thread Murray Taylor
Comments requested from people who may have used / broken the following components. I'm looking for items like unwanted interactions, driver probs, etc. From looking at the 5.4 hardware page http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html the general selection seems to be supported,

RE: How well do USB - parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-18 Thread Murray Taylor
Troy make a very useful Ethernet - parallel print server that works well. I dont have the actual part number on hand but searching for this Troy device XCD SS-8S-2 (their serial server) should get you to their pages. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Contact Management Software

2005-10-18 Thread Murray Taylor
| grep Port If it doesnt return Port:sugarcrm-2.5.1b_1 or so then your ports tree needs updating. mjt From: Vampire D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:49 PM To: Murray Taylor Subject: Re: Contact Management Software I did

RE: Contact Management Software

2005-10-17 Thread Murray Taylor
SugarCRM is in ports and its web site has a good demo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew P. Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 6:34 PM To: Mark Kane Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Contact Management Software On

RE: unexplained system hangs - possible smbfs issue ??

2005-10-10 Thread Murray Taylor
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unexplained system hangs - possible smbfs issue ??

2005-10-09 Thread Murray Taylor
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RE: unexplained system hangs - possible smbfs issue ??

2005-10-09 Thread Murray Taylor
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RE: USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5?

2005-09-04 Thread Murray Taylor
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Re: Monitor tools

2005-08-02 Thread Murray Taylor
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