Re: Root password not working on console

gin to root from the console. Thanks for the quick help! I should've remembered that. -Walt On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Jeremy Johnston < jer...@stormy.smart-serv.net> wrote: > On 08/31/2012 03:37 PM, Walt Elam wrote: > >> I recently *accidentally* removed myself from

Root password not working on console

ny one know what I'm doing incorrectly? Thanks for any help in advance, -Walt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: mail server config

nfigure. In addition, it is easy to manage with qshape, which installs along with Postfix. The Postfix website has great documentation if you are interested in going this route: http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html -Walt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: Piping find into tar...

FWIW: Many have recommended using "xargs" to pass the generated list entries into "tar" or some other archiving program. I've often had trouble processing lists of filenames using "xargs." Most of the problems revolve around oddball characters in the filenames, which tend to be created by users us

Script behavior I can't grasp

My IPv6 tunnel has a tendency to vanish from time to time. So I thought I might write a script to check that and attempt reconstituting it if needed. After some considerable messing about, I really thought this ... #!/bin/sh if ifconfig en1|grep -q "inet6 2001" ; then exit; else if ps -ax

Re: CPU heating!

At 7:53 PM -0300 2/17/11, Mario Lobo wrote: >I replaced the thermal grease (as advised here) with a new one but that didn't >change those figures. I've not attempted to keep up with changes in thermal conductivity of heat sink compounds for something like 40 years. About that time, National Semico

Re: text editor

On Sun, 30 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: > Been using ee and been happy. > > Now I have need for an editor with block commands. I'd suggest looking into aee. -- Walter M. Pawley Wump Research & Company 676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97471 541-672-8975 _

Re: freebsd install from floppy

At 1:28 PM -0500 3/6/10, Chuck Swiger wrote: >While I think floppy drives are still useful for BIOS updates and the >like, it's not just Apple that isn't selling machines with floppy >drives any more. Go to HP or Dell and try to buy a new machine with a >floppy drive-- they don't sell them anymor

RE: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

>>b) go with gpt / gpart, which is okay if FreeBSD will >> be the only OS that accesses the disk(s) in question, >> as I may assume by your statements. >That's correct; these will be strictly BSD accessible drives. FWIW: I've used GUID drives with Mac OS X, Windows XP, Ubuntu and PC-BSD all resi

Re: and now for conky & gremlins

At 10:41 AM -0400 11/5/09, PJ wrote: >Ruben de Groot wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 09:26:15AM -0400, PJ typed: >> >>> Polytropon wrote: >>> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:25:58 -0400, PJ wrote: > output should be: 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 etc. > is:1 2 3 4 5 6 > > the c

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

At 4:44 PM +0200 8/17/09, Heiner Strauß wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 06:18:45PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: >> > On 17 August 2009 pm 18:09:06 cpghost wrote: >> > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:25:29AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: >> > > > By the way, where did I read that #define macro names have

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

At 6:44 PM +0200 5/30/09, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> the famous back-tics. >> >> % grep "expression" `find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print` >> >> Of course, there are surely easier, faster and better means, >> but from this one, I know it just works. :-) Furthermore, I > >unless filelist excee

Re: mkisofs and directories

At 4:48 PM +0200 4/15/09, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: >> unix naming convention normally dictates the following: >> cp -r /cdrom/dir /mnt/ >> # will create /mnt/dir and everything under it >> cp -r /cdrom/dir/ /mnt/ >> # will copy contents of dir into /mnt >That was what I thought it should do - but

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

At 12:31 PM -0700 1/6/09, Chad Perrin wrote: >On the other hand, I don't trust Verisign, either. What's to trust? If you pay them, you "in." -- Walter M. Pawley Wump Research & Company 676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97471 541-672-8975 __

Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

At 9:33 AM -0700 10/11/08, Kelly Jones wrote: >newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file, >messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc. > >This is ugly. IMHO, this is worse than merely ugly. I gave up "rotating" log files a long time ago when I kept running into problems that

Re: Coretemp seems to be off quite a bit

>On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >... >I remounted the heatsink (side note: curse you, Intel - was that meant >to be funny?), and didn't apply a single bit of paste other than what >came on it. FWIW: one needs to be careful with the application of heat sink "paste" if one doesn

Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl

At 10:01 AM +0100 8/23/08, Matthew Seaman wrote: >Walt Pawley wrote: >> >> At the risk of beating this to death, I just happened to >> stumble on a real world example of why one might want to use >> Perl for sed-ly stuff. >> ... snip ... >> wump$ ls -l D

Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl

At 9:59 AM +0200 8/22/08, Oliver Fromme wrote: > - The perl command you wrote above is pretty much a sed > command anyway (except you incorrectly used non-portable > regular expression syntax). Why use perl to execute a > sed command? At the risk of beating this to death, I just happened t

Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl

At 4:19 PM -0700 8/21/08, Walt Pawley wrote: >At 3:49 PM -0700 8/21/08, Walt Pawley wrote: > >>At 8:46 AM -0400 8/21/08, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> >>>- read email addresses from a file in the format: >>> >>>user.name TAB domain.tld >>> >>

Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl

At 3:49 PM -0700 8/21/08, Walt Pawley wrote: >At 8:46 AM -0400 8/21/08, Steve Bertrand wrote: > >>- read email addresses from a file in the format: >> >>user.name TAB domain.tld >> >>- convert it to: >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>- write i

Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl

At 8:46 AM -0400 8/21/08, Steve Bertrand wrote: >- read email addresses from a file in the format: > >user.name TAB domain.tld > >- convert it to: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >- write it back to either a new file, the original file, or to STDOUT I'm curious why Perl isn't a decent choice. I think I'd

Re: How to divide up?

At 5:23 PM -0700 7/19/08, Gary Kline wrote: >Guys, > >Is there an easyy way of splitting yp these tags into one-per-line? >I'm not obcessive [[?, :)]], but for what I've got in mind, the tags and stuff >would look better to my eyes? the outcome of this will go ino a special >database, not html

Re: What is CPP's real default include path?

At 12:06 PM +0200 5/5/08, Mel wrote: >On Monday 05 May 2008 10:12:05 Walt Pawley wrote: >> I've been fiddling with compiling nzbget-0.4.0 on a 6.3 system. >> My initial efforts failed the configuration process for not >> finding iconv.h. This, despite /usr/local/includ

Re: What is CPP's real default include path?

At 12:06 PM +0200 5/5/08, Mel wrote: >On Monday 05 May 2008 10:12:05 Walt Pawley wrote: >> I've been fiddling with compiling nzbget-0.4.0 on a 6.3 system. >> My initial efforts failed the configuration process for not >> finding iconv.h. This, despite /usr/local/includ

What is CPP's real default include path?

I've been fiddling with compiling nzbget-0.4.0 on a 6.3 system. My initial efforts failed the configuration process for not finding iconv.h. This, despite /usr/local/include/iconv.h being present and supposedly in the include search path if the info documentation can be believed. Just to see if I

Re: SCSI network

On 3/29/08 1:17 PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote on SCSI network >they are all adaptec (ahc driver) controllers - manual says it can be >target as well as initiator Others have been discussing the potential speed of such an arrangement. I'm more concerned about SCSI bus addressing being a problem.

Re: hardware information

At 12:08 PM -0800 3/7/08, Fred C wrote: >I have one of my disks over heating and I would like to monitor the >disk temperature. Is there any way to get the disk S.M.A.R.T >information on FreeBSD? How about smartmontools from ports? -- Walter M. Pawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wump Research & Company

Re: (bez temata)

At 1:41 PM +0200 1/13/08, Matiss wrote: > >Hey all > >Hope this is more or less right place to ask. > >What I noticed on my FreeBSD 6.2 installation, that >pkg_add -r ImageMagick results in a file not found error. > >DTG864# pkg_add -r ImageMagick >Error: FTP Unable to get >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pu

Log archiving question

Once upon a time I messed with FreeBSD rather frequently. Then things changed. Time passed and I'm back to tinkering with things a little, though mostly from the perspective of a Mac OS X user. In that distant past, I found that "rotating" log files in the classical manner - changing the number and

Re: will it work?

At 10:16 AM -0800 1/3/07, X X wrote: >... It needs to work with both windows and macs on >the network. It has to have the ability to run >automated backups to either internal hd (like raid >mirroring) or usb external hd. If you're planning to do backups of the client computers' hard disks, you ma

Re: How "real time" is FreeBSD?

At 11:47 PM -0500 9/20/06, W. D. wrote: >Just reading this about Linux on ZDNet and was wondering: > Cybernetic floobydust, IMHO. -- Walter M. Pawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wump Research & Company 676 River Bend Road, Ros

Re: DHCP question

At 5:03 PM -0400 8/24/06, Robert Huff wrote: >> >I need to monitor and record that IP address and initiate a >> >series of processes if/when the IP address changes. >> >> You could schedule a script that uses 'curl' or 'fetch' to >> acquire the status page from the router and parse the upstrea

Re: DHCP question

At 4:20 AM -0700 8/23/06, Vizion wrote: >My home network is connected by my Linksys Broadband Router >model RT31P2 to an upstream Cable company supplied Motorola >SB5100 cable modem. > >A single IP address is allocated via DHCP to the Linksys to >which my private network is attached. The IP addres

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

At 6:30 PM -0600 7/27/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >> Really? I wouldn't want such a myopic view when choosing to >> allocate our >> shareholders dollars. Best tool for the job. Period! > >That is not as easy as you make it out to be. WHat one might in the >short term see as the best to

FreeBSD Installation CD Creation

O files in my recycle bin. Is there a way for me to convert them to CD images from which I can boot my Windows XP system and install FreeBSD in my available 20 GB primary partition? Sincerely, Walt Haynes ___ freebsd-questions@free

Installing FreeBSD 4.9 on a Windows/XP Professional system.

in advance for your assistance. I'm very anxious to learn UNIX system administration and all of the related tasks (shell programming, security administration, etc.). Walt Haynes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: X ATI driver? - solved, sort of

Operationally, at least, I seem to resolved my problem with Xorg 6.9.0 and using the Mach32 ATI video card. I included lines in xorg.conf.new in Section "Device" ... Option "tv_out" "false" Option "tv_standard" "None" I suspect only the latter is necessary but haven't e

Re: X ATI driver?

At 2:35 PM -0500 6/17/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: >On 6/17/06, Walt Pawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At 10:42 AM -0500 6/17/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: >> >> >What kind of ATI card is this? >> >> There's a label on what's probably an E-PROM tha

Re: X ATI driver?

At 10:42 AM -0500 6/17/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: >What kind of ATI card is this? There's a label on what's probably an E-PROM that says PCI MACH32 113-23000-110 (C) 1995 >... Here's a wild guess: it might be the >DRI/DRM crap, disable it, in xorg.conf, and try again: > >Section "Module"

X ATI driver?

I have an old box I've been messing with. I had it running X on FreeBSD 5.3, seemingly well enough. I decided to move to 6.1, installed more RAM, a bigger hard disk and a CD-RW drive that can see CD-Rs (unlike the original old SCSI CD drive) and chose an "install everything" from CD. Things went we

Re: Directory and file comparison tool for X?

>> > I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to compare directories >> > (recursively) showing what files are different,etc. meld >>( textproc/meld ) >> > can do this to some extent, showing missing files,etc, but not showing >> > what files are different withoug having to open each file and

termcap vs terminfo, less, and Mac OS X

I've been messing about with FreeBSD lately, though mostly I use Mac OS X. I've grown accustomed to using "less" as a pager, generally preferring the manner in which it would make all the scrolled through crud vanish when I was done pawing about in it. But "less" didn't behave that way when telnet'

"max one 'fat' allowed as child of whole"

I found the following as the result of a search for the string "max one 'fat' allowed" at the following URL: http://www.watson.org/~arr/sri-audit/src/lib/libdisk/rules.c /* * * "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42)

I need help!!

I need help installing FreeBSD 5.3 as the second OS on my workstation. I have a 501 Mhz Pentium processor with Windows XP Professional and a 28Ghz hard drive that's divided into four equal sized primary partitions. I also have boot manager Boot-US 2.0.6 installed. How do I Install FreeB

subdomain masking and forwarding

ines and visitors coming through the "sub1" see all the "domain" HTML pages in the address bar... as... sub1.domain.com => sub1.domain.com/sub1.htm => sub1.domain.com/anypage.htm Please help... Thanks! -Walt "en telios echen" -- Regards, HYPERLINK &qu

Post-installation configuration problems with FreeBSD 4.4

I've installed FreeBSD 4.4 from the CD-ROM included in my FreeBSD Unleashed book (I installed 4.4 instead of 5.0 because it's supposedly more stable; 5.0 is a pre-release snapshot.). When I try to do the X Server configuration stuff, the server won't start and, consequently, X-Windows won't

Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.4 on the same hard drive

I am currently running Windows XP Professional on a HP Pavilion with a 27.95GB hard drive which I've partitioned with FDISK. Windows is in the primary DOS partition (about 7GB) on disk drive C and the extended DOS partition had three logical drives (D, E, and F) defined in it; they are 7.3G

open relay server

Hi all, hope someone is feeling charitable today to help with this problem, I have a freebsd 4.0 server with sendmail 8.9.3 that is acting as an open relay server now. beginning to get lost after trying so many ways to stop it. any help will be most appreciated. thanks Walt To Unsubscribe