Re: lightweight Chat client/server?

2010-08-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
don't get a point'n'click interface to configure it. Oh, no, wait: that's another plus. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: Problem starting bconsole

2010-08-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-of-gibberish* Messages = Daemon } [...] Cheers, Matthew signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: fnd cause panic: page fault

2010-08-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
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Re: Sudden refusal to boot with page fault in swapper

2010-08-02 Thread Matthew Hambley
On 14/06/10 10:51, Matthew Hambley wrote: My FreeBSD system (amd64, SATA, root on ZFS) has suddenly started refusing to boot up. It crashes out with a page fault just after the ZFS warning that I only have 4GB of RAM. Just to conclude this issue in case anyone searches for it in the future

Re: Upgrading Boot Loader

2010-08-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror All you need is some bootable media with the latest gptzfsloader -- either 8.1-RELEASE or a recent 8.1-STABLE or 9-CURRENT snapshot. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Installing a system to use both gjournal and gmirror

2010-07-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
gnashing of teeth; but losing your swap area would almost certainly take your machine down hard. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
) in translucent red. About 3--4cm in diameter. Would make an excellent freebie to hand out at conferences and the like. Cheers Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http

Re: searching INDEX in .sh

2010-07-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
build dependencies as well as run- or lib- dependencies: if that's not what you want, then use cut(1) to get rid of the last two columns before passing the INDEX through grep(1) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
to be from a Russian mail service, it actually originated from somewhere in Canada. Cheers, Matthew [*] SpamAssassin slam-dunked it into the junk folder. If no one had answered, I'd never even have noticed it. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
not feel able to publically endorse the Pastafarian faith, but they should certainly agree with its objectives. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
assault those holy warriors attempting to drive out the daemonically possessed (Hint: turn off the power *before* applying the Holy Water.) Cheers, Matthew Disclaimer: Prophecy not valid where Enlightenment values have largely replaced the Medieval superstition, nor in those

Re: popt-1.50 or better??

2010-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
be something as simple as a failure to read all the digits in the popt version number, or comparing the numbers alphabetically rather than numerically. Shouldn't be too hard to debug. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: freebsd-install upgrade, how many install phases required

2010-07-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
about this directly, and the necessity of doing so is well documented all over the place eg. at Colin Percival's blog: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory

Re: monitor util in a scripted daemon?

2010-07-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
be used to pick up changes to the link count of a directory: ie that a file has been created or destroyed within it. Some C programming required. AFAIK there isn't a ready built application in the base OS to do what you want. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
it to run without complaints about missing dependencies and such, but if you don't it will do the best it can to produce something resembling an INDEX. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: pf behavior question

2010-07-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
from several different matching rules, and then have just one rule to express your policy for that class of traffic. See the example in http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/tagging.html which gives a pretty good idea how it all works. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: FreeBSD Support for Fibre Channel Devices

2010-07-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/07/2010 22:49:51, Tim Gustafson wrote: Can anyone recommend a FreeBSD-compatible fibre channel board to connect a FreeBSD 8.0 server to a Sun 3500 disk array? isp(4) mpt(4) ... which is basically what shows up on doing 'man -k fibre' Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J

Re: Openldap clustering ?

2010-07-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
, but frequently the extra complication just doesn't provide enough extra performance to justify the effort or the expense. Test early, and test often while working up your cluster. Cheers, Matthew [*] Partly this is due to the intrinsic nature of LDAP directories, where there tend

Re: tuning FB 7.2 stable for lighhttpd

2010-07-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
-- strategic use of caching (eg. memcached) can make a big difference, as can use of a PHP accelerator like eAccelerator (which is really just a cache for the byte-compiled PHP code generated from your pages). Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory

Re: jail and uname

2010-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
was developed partly in response to such things, and the whole release engineering process is done differently now. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http

Re: BIND Refusing to Resolve for External Hosts

2010-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
error code: /etc/namedb/named.conf:23: unknown option 'acl' /etc/rc.d/named: ERROR: named-checkconf for $named_conf failed Just defining the acl won't do a great deal on its own -- you need to add it to an allow-recursion {}; or similar block. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J

Re: BIND Refusing to Resolve for External Hosts

2010-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP

Re: Sendmail - One Trick Pony

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
. It could be the same sort of DNS address verification stuff as above, or it could be something to do with the actual content you're sending. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
is allocated all of the space for the zdevs on the system. This is much the best of both worlds -- you get as many filesystems as you can eat, but each of them can use as much of the total available space as it needs to. Cheers, Matthew [*] As this usually involves hardware RAID10

Re: /var/log/messages empty since June 26 :-/

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
logs -- if you don't see that, then your syslog.conf may be broken: syslogd can die silently in those circumstances. You'll need to run syslogd with the '-d' debugging flag in addition to what flags you usually use in order to see what the problem is. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr

Re: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
for something similar to happen again. Hopefully if there is a next time, you'll be able to catch it and fix the underlying problem before it takes the machine out a second time. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Convert all packages to ports

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
, there's nothing for it but to grit the teeth; gird up the loins; make plenty of hot, strong, black coffee and start compiling. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http

Re: Freebsd update from 7.2p8 to 7.3-RELEASE

2010-07-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
ports installed… Yes, this is perfectly fine: so long as the major version number stays the same, you don't need to reinstall all your ports. The FreeBSD project guarantees ABI stability for the shlibs in the base system over the lifetime of a major version. Cheers, Matthew

Re: BIND Refusing to Resolve for External Hosts

2010-07-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
#address_match_lists and http://www.isc.org/files/arm96.html#id2553419 So, for example, I use this in my own BIND configuration: acl public-nets { 127.0.0.1; ::1; 81.187.76.160/29; 81.187.220.164; 2001:8b0:151:1::/64; }; Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: fusefs-cryptofs vs fusefs-cryptofs

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt

Re: fusefs-cryptofs vs fusefs-cryptofs

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
if it works or not. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent

Re: Question RE: Linux Mode

2010-06-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
could just grit your teeth for a year or so, by which time most sites should be providing a flash-free alternative. The FlashBlock and NoScript add-on modules for firefox work pretty well to smooth over the rough edges caused by lack of Flash support. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr

Re: Just want to ask

2010-06-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
question is Yes. You can use this freely. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/06/2010 04:42:21, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Fix your ports supfile: for ports you /always/ want HEAD ... s/always/almost / If one wanted to download a copy of the ports tree

Re: slapd crash the HP proliant DL360 at 8.0

2010-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
slapcat to grab a copy of the directory before starting. You can't always tell if the update will require you to reload the data, so it's wise to always be prepared. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: How to get the SPD infomation in freebsd ?

2010-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
if you install a uniform set of RAM modules, and I don't think there's any option other than popping the case and pulling a RAM stick for a visual inspection if you want a 100% certain match. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
/always/ want HEAD. If you put something like RELENG_8_1 in ports.supfile, then you will see exactly the effect you described. It's quite obvious why: the ports are simply not tagged RELENG_X_Y. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory

Re: sudo last login message and how to turn it off FreeBSD8.0

2010-06-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
. The 'last login' message usually comes from login(1), but I don't see why sudo(8) would invoke login unless you were running 'sudo -i ...' Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3

Re: portupgrade -af in FreeBSDupdate to 8.0

2010-06-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
where you *started* your original portupgrade -af session. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt

Re: sparse image

2010-06-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP

Re: GCD technology...

2010-06-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
to receive patches to do that. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: Obtaining / downloading latest release of freeBSD

2010-06-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
will take further work. It's all covered pretty well in the Handbook, but feel free to ask here if you have further questions. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP

Re: system is under attack (what can I do more?)

2010-06-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
eating your bandwidth or flooding your log files quite so much, but it is still annoying. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: Followup On Perl Dumping Core

2010-06-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
kern.corefile to an absolute path -- eg /tmp/%N.core -- to always record corefiles in a writable directory. Also, look at setrlimit values for the maximum size core file permitted. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
integers. Even so, applying a little intelligent scrutiny to the list of results will help you sort out any spurious linkage. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 08:34:52, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 17/06/2010 01:59:04, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Warren Block wrote: ln -s libintl.so.9 libintl.so.8 has been misused a lot lately. Are there any programs that will detect

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
to generate a warning from bind about not having a writable current working directory -- which was basically harmless and could be ignored. However recent changes mean bind needs a writable working directory, so the latest layouts include /var/named/etc/namedb/working Cheers, Matthew

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 09:16:33, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:39:37 Matthew Seaman wrote: But what about hard links? I hear you ask. Simple: find /usr/lib /lib -name '*.so.*' -links +2 +1 surely? + modifier in find(1) means

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP

Re: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE?

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 13:41:43, Tom Worster wrote: On 6/16/10 1:06 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk would the order to do things be: update ports with portsnap, install misc/compat7x, upgrade with freebsd-update and reboot? You need

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
? Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN

Re: .sh and sed

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
(1): fname=$( echo $path | sed -e 's,^.*/,,' ) but the built-in prefix matching stuff is preferable since it is more efficient. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP

Re: Perl Dumping Core

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
processes. If you've actually got perl.core files you may be able to investigate with a debugger and work out what is producing them, but I wouldn't hold out too much hope of that. Cheers, Matthew [*] well, only occasionally. - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7

Re: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE?

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
and 8.1-RELEASE. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11

Re: ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
if you try and ping localhost? Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/06/2010 18:15:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:08:35PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/06/2010 17:59:10, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: After a recent upgrade to r209156 I

Re: * wildcard in.sh script

2010-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
from the shell. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent

Re: system state after freebsd-update and before portugprade -af

2010-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
is happening if you need to. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: SATA time outs

2010-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
the problem will be fixed in 8.1-RELEASE (although there has definitely been a zpool version bump between 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE). Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat

Sudden refusal to boot with page fault in swapper

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Hambley
My FreeBSD system (amd64, SATA, root on ZFS) has suddenly started refusing to boot up. It crashes out with a page fault just after the ZFS warning that I only have 4GB of RAM. The following is a transcription of what I see: ZFS file system version 13 ZFS storage pool version 13 Timecounters

Re: Simulate CRON

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
that a script under CRON would be running under. Are you possibly talking about a jail? Try: env -i USER=$USER HOME=$HOME LOGNAME=$LOGNAME \ PATH=/usr/bin:/bin SHELL=/bin/sh PWD=$HOME your-script-name Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: Archive Server Error

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
browser. If you're using a web proxy, then the same caching problem might occur there. If the proxy isn't under your control, then probably the best thing for you to do is leave well alone for several hours, and then try again. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: Archive Server Error

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
: 1098273480 1098273330 Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: turkish translate

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
, and enquire again there? They should be able to put you in touch with other people working on Turkish translations. Actually, I think most such could be contacted via http://www.enderunix.org/ Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Effort brings reward. This is something I find incredibly attractive; even after more than 10 years it is still refreshing. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
, Matthew Mind you, I am vaguely starting to wonder when perl5.12 is going to hit the tree... - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/2010 16:38:13, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 08:06:52AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Absolutely. Especially when you compare it to MacPorts and consider the disparity in numbers of users between MacOS and FreeBSD. Given

Re: php help, please....

2010-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
-latitude ;date.default_latitude = 31.7667 Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
students. If you don't have your own mail system, then I suspect that it will be quite hard for you to arrange to block the e-mail from midphase. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/2010 15:13:39, Matthias Fechner wrote: Am 10.06.10 15:30, schrieb Matthew Seaman: Until then, as someone upthread said, block them using your access DB if you run your own sendmail based mail system. The equivalents for people running

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/2010 17:12:50, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:12:48 +0200 Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za articulated: On Thursday 10 June 2010 15:04:53 Matthew Seaman wrote: The only other mechanism might be to tag each list e-mail

Re: CVSUP

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
to RELENG_8_0 on a box running 8.0-RELEASE, but check and edit the file to make sure) Cheers Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself?

2010-06-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
always shows the grep process, whereas on a single processor virtual machine running under VirtualBox, I never see grep in the ps output unless I renice the ps(1) process. Cheers Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: need help with apache22 and libphp5.so

2010-06-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
having to do that. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent

Re: office apps

2010-06-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Can't see how to force something like that to happen from a normal invocation of pkg_add(1) though. Would be a nice addition -- you could also emulate NOPORTDOCS and NOPORTEXAMPLES, except entirely with pkgs that way. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
acceptable even to the most unenlightened Windows users. Ideally though it should be possible to use an open standard, like XHTML or SVG, so the recipients could edit it themselves if needed. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory

Re: .sh getopts

2010-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
expansion. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW

Re: .sh getopts

2010-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
) Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP

Re: .sh getopts

2010-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
, this is pretty much the normal shell code idiom for handling command line options. After running this, you should be left with $@ containing just those arguments /not/ preceded by option flags. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: freebsd releases?!?!?!(confused)

2010-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
are 'stable/8', 'releng/8.0' or 'release/8.0.0' You may see these mentioned on various mailing lists. Just some more confusing terminology. What problems are you seeing with the mirrors? Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: installworld and sources

2010-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
, so I just don't know. Yes -- all of the Makefiles used to run your 'make installworld' are held under /usr/src. Amongst other things -- for instance, you'll need the contents of /usr/src/etc/ in order to run mergemaster(1). Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: freebsd releases?!?!?!(confused)

2010-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2010 12:30:53, Reko Turja wrote: From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk STABLE is a development branch: it's called 'STABLE' because it is expected to run stably. STABLE generally receives continual fixes and updates

Re: x11/xfce ssh-agent once per logon for minimal (no gnome/kde) installation

2010-06-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
will have their own pam.d files (either in /etc/pam.d or in /usr/local/etc/pam.d) but you should be able to make equivalent changes there -- either uncomment or add pam_ssh lines in the auth or session sections. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7

Re: Issues reinstalling Bind9 on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
.) Actually, I believe the various bind ports do this automatically now, but it doesn't hurt to double check. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http

Re: command to strip suffix in .sh script

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/2010 17:11:16, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:25:36 -0400 Vinny vinny-mail-01+freebsd20100...@palaceofretention.ca wrote: On 06/02/2010 04:30, Matthew Seaman wrote: archive_name=${fromarchive%-*} Thanks Matthew, that's

Re: fonts qstns.

2010-06-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
than that. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW

Re: command to strip suffix in .sh script

2010-06-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
the tr command coded correctly? Or should I be using something else instead of tr command? $ echo 'archivename-201006021514.34.tar.gz' | sed 's/-.*$//' archive_name=${fromarchive%-*} Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Sending alarms to my mobile phone

2010-06-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
or 5 ports you could choose from. Just do a 'make search name=sms' in /usr/ports. No idea about leaving a voice message -- doing voice synthesis is pretty well covered, but making a computer dial a phone and speak into it? Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: text editor

2010-06-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
Swapping! *GRIN* That's an old joke, but it's not particularly good anymore. . . . probably because it's increasingly inaccurate. Eighty was the good ol' days. Young whippersnappers. *Eight* was the good old days, back before the web was invented. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr

Re: how to debug .sh type script

2010-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW

Re: HELP: cups - can not login on localhost to cups server

2010-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
/pam.d/cups -- change it to use pam_unix rather than pam_unknown. (pam_unknown is, errr..., unknown on FreeBSD...) Like this: authrequiredpam_unix.so nodelay account requiredpam_unix.so Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: fonts qstns.

2010-05-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
- -- I've already mentioned their Gentium font, but Charis SIL and Doulos SIL looks promising too[*]. There isn't a port for either of those last two but you can look at the type-sample PDFs. Whipping a port together shouldn't be too much trouble. Cheers, Matthew

Re: Re : Possible to run Linux distro in a jail?

2010-05-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
to the main system (takes a bit of tweaking to make work properly, but this is used by the ports build cluster for example). Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http

Re: sh script writing help

2010-05-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
tabs from the lines in the here document. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt

Re: benchmark graphs, which software to use?

2010-05-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
? gnuplot Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW

Re: 'Serious' crypto?

2010-05-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
for hardware acceleration built into interface cards. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt

Re: BSD support for latest hardware

2010-05-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
: most server grade kit is pretty well supported. Cheers, Matthew [*] Support for the very latest code features and CPU specific optimizations does take some time to percolate through to RELEASE versions; exacerbated at the moment by the incompatibility of the GPLv3 license

Re: 'Serious' crypto?

2010-05-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
certainly don't fulfil the quiet requirement. Most of them have enough fannage to build a fairly respectable hovercraft. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
which haven't made it into FreeBSD yet -- FreeBSD pf is basically equivalent to about OpenBSD-4.1 I think. FreeBSD is compatible with more varieties of amd64/i386 based hardware, and it does threading and multi-cpu very much better. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

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