Re: Possible /bin/sh Bug?

2012-06-05 Thread Randy Pratt
with xtrace: sh -x /path/to/script I'd recommend that you write the last line with quotes: echo $foo and I think it'll produce the results you expect. HTH, Randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

zpool not grabbing hot spare

2012-02-28 Thread Randy Schultz
was supposed to come online and be resilvered automatically. Did I miss some config thing or did I just misunderstand how the hot spare bit works? -- Randy(schu...@earlham.edu) 765.983.1283 * nosce te ipsum ___ freebsd-questions

Re: zpool not grabbing hot spare

2012-02-28 Thread Randy Schultz
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Randy Schultz spaketh thusly: -} -}I thought the spare was supposed to come online and be resilvered -}automatically. Did I miss some config thing -}or did I just misunderstand how the hot spare bit works? Gah. Forgot to check the beasty forums (tnx Mark for the gentle

Re: zpool not grabbing hot spare

2012-02-28 Thread Randy Schultz
- - 20 2 69.3K 30.1K da44- - 20 2 69.3K 30.1K da45- - 20 2 69.3K 30.1K da46- - 20 2 69.3K 30.1K da47- - 20 2 69.3K 30.1K -- Randy(schu...@earlham.edu) 765.983.1283

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Randy Pratt
/apsfilter.php Take a look at http://www.apsfilter.org/ for detailed information. Randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Ezjail freebsd-update

2011-08-22 Thread Randy Schultz
., you can then just issue an ezjail-admin update -i. I'm not familiar with the -u option to ezjail and my man pages do not show it as an option. ; -- Randy(schu...@earlham.edu) 765.983.1283 * nosce te ipsum ___ freebsd-questions

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-23 Thread Randy Pratt
don't think making a list writable only to subscribers solves anything since it seems the spammers are already subscribed. This only makes it difficult for others like myself who read the lists online and only post occasionally. Just my 0.02. Randy (Apologies if snipping irrelevant text makes

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-23 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:14:55 -0400 Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, June 23, 2011 08:10:29 PM Randy Pratt wrote: I don't think making a list writable only to subscribers solves anything since it seems the spammers are already subscribed. This only makes it difficult

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Alokat wrote: On 02/22/11 17:49, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 22/02/2011 16:40, Alokat wrote: Hi, I have changed my shell from csh to bash ... But after that I have to call reboot like /sbin/reboot. How can I change that without changing the shell. :) don't change your root shell! csh is in

Re: Administrating more than 10 servers

2010-10-24 Thread Randy Belk
This is a must read for multiple UNIX server administration, http://www.cae.tntech.edu/~mwr/unix_infrastructure_management_from_scratch.pdf . On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Ahmed Ossama ah...@master-zone.net wrote: Hi folks, Lately I was put in charge to administrate 12 FreeBSD servers, and

Re: freecolor: Bus error. software or hardware problem?

2010-07-23 Thread Randy Belk
Have you updated your ports? This was an issue on the amd64 distribution, but it was fixed. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Antonio Kless antoniok@gmail.comwrote: Strange freecolor behavior on fresh 8.0-RELEASE system. # uname -a FreeBSD alternate-1.net 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

Re: .sh and sed

2010-06-16 Thread Randy Belk
You could always use basename for this. basename /usr/local/bin/bash will display bash On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Trying to use sed to remove the path from the file name. Variable has complete path plus the file name /usr/local/etc/filename Need variable

Re: Making installworld got stuck on SunFire v20z (Freebsd 8.0)

2010-02-19 Thread Randy Schultz
but fiddle a bit with the partition sizes and/or force a newfs of the partitions. Also, at the install step where you select the entire drive (assuming this is what you are doing), you can delete what's there and re-select use the entire drive. That also forces newfs'ing. YMMV -- Randy(schu

Re: freebsd

2010-02-15 Thread Randy Schultz
manager by default. You have to pick one. There are many for all ranges of needs. If you do not wish to deal with installing one but want the power/stability of freebsd, look for distros that come complete with a window manager, such as pc-bsd. -- Randy(schu...@earlham.edu) 765.983.1283

Re: Migrating Thunderbird 3 Email Archives from XP Pro SP3 to FreeBSD 8.0

2010-01-27 Thread Randy Woy
using a USB memory key. Copy the contents of C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\.default\Mail\Local Folders\ to /usr/home/username/.thunderbird/.default/Mail/Local Folders/ That's it. Randy -- Randy Woy ra...@woy.us From Thunderbird on FreeBSD 7.1 Believe

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Randy Bush
but i look in syslogs of some FreeBSD internet server and there is a great evidence that some botnets are (again) tryng simple combination of uid/pwd. /usr/ports/security/sshguard-* randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Randy Bush
FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. unlike linux or windoze, rofl randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: What VM does FreeBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Randy Belk
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:14 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: I am planing on rebuilding my laptop shortly. I am going to put Ubuntu 9.10 on as the base OS, and I want to be able to run various versions of FreebSD as guest OS'es under one of the free (EG not VMWare) virtual machine choices.

Re: BSD Professional Job Task Analysis Survey

2009-10-07 Thread Randy Belk
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Mikel King mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: The BSD News Network reports that volunteer as desperately needed to complete the BSDP JTA Survey by the deadline of October 16th. The BSD Certification Group has been diligently working toward this goal for quite some

Re: how to display pkg-message

2009-09-06 Thread Randy Belk
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Kalle Møllerfreebsd-questi...@k-moeller.dk wrote: Looking for that feature to :) On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hello Could someone remind of the make target for showing messages which are displayed when

Re: how to display pkg-message

2009-09-06 Thread Randy Belk
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Randy Belkrandy.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Kalle Møllerfreebsd-questi...@k-moeller.dk wrote: Looking for that feature to :) On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hello Could someone remind

Re: 'alias' + sudo

2009-09-04 Thread Randy Belk
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:50 AM, George Davidovichfree...@optimis.net wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:10:36PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:34:05 +0200 Mel Flynn wrote: alias spico='/usr/local/bin/sudo pico -m' and be done with it. Instead of an extra alias, why not export

RE: FreeBSD IBM Thinkpad - What Model to Choose?

2009-08-02 Thread Randy Booth
Avoid T42 (2374-K5U). Everything works fine, but it's an oddball version apparently and there is next to no documentation regarding it on many of the wiki sites. There are many decent models of T42. I'd just avoid this particular model to avoid confusion. Thanks, Randy -Original

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Randy Pratt
mode but they can be reattached at any time. HTH, Randy ___ 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: freeBSD logo

2009-06-25 Thread Randy Belk
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Randy Belkrandy.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Randall Woodrs...@cornell.edu wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:16:12AM -0800, Peter Giessel wrote: I want to make a t-shirt with the caption The Power to Serve but I can't find it in a good

Re: freeBSD logo

2009-06-25 Thread Randy Belk
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Randall Woodrs...@cornell.edu wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:16:12AM -0800, Peter Giessel wrote: I want to make a t-shirt with the caption The Power to Serve but I can't find it in a good resolution. Can you send it to me? Vector formats (which would allow

Re: xinetd for FreeBSD 6.2

2009-04-07 Thread Randy Belk
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Madhusudan R madhu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'd like to know the version of xinetd that can be run on FreeBSD 6.2. And where can I find it? Anything else I need to know before I start using xinetd on the aforemention platform. Thanks! Madhu

Re: USENET?

2009-03-09 Thread Randy Pratt
. The other tools usually required for these multipart postings are also in the tree. A little bit of Googling will cover learning how to use them. Back to my lurking corner ;-) Randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: w(5) shows non-existent or lost process?

2009-02-17 Thread Randy Belk
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: The who (or w, or finger) command shows that I'm still logged into ttyp5, even though I have rebooted the xxx box many times since. Does this mean the corresponding entry in /var/run/utmp is wrong and shouldn't be

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Randy Pratt
/doc/ For more information see http://docsnap.sk.freebsd.org/ and possibly the rsync manual page. HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Firefox, or FreeBSD?

2008-12-18 Thread Randy Pratt
message comes in. I'm on 6.4-STABLE and the Breaking News and Latest Headlines are present but no beeping. If you can't find the problem you can shut off the beeping with: xset -b off Of course, the downside is it turns off _all_ beeping for everthing. Randy

Re: switching discs during install

2008-09-07 Thread Randy Pratt
and providing a DVD of packages that could be used after installation. HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why /usr/local/etc???

2008-08-23 Thread Randy Pratt
is, why this isn't done by default? Everything could be off / too but that's not how FreeBSD does it. See man 7 heir. Its a sketch of the FreeBSD filesystem hierarchy. Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: URGENT: Need help rebuilding iir RAID5 array with failed drive

2008-06-26 Thread Randy Bush
do perform very well. these days, i get the most reliable simple non-raid card and run zfs with a gmirrored root partition. randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-09 Thread Randy Pratt
how your particular mail client operates and what format it uses, but what you want to do is possible. I would recommend backing up your mail before experimenting and using the test mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Updated php, and apache segfaults on SIGHUP

2008-05-20 Thread Randy Bush
configuration: Segmentation fault (core dumped) Starting apache22. Segmentation fault (core dumped) randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Updated php, and apache segfaults on SIGHUP

2008-05-20 Thread Randy Bush
/usr/local/etc/php/extensions.php solved the startup problem commenting out all extensions did not solve it randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Updated php, and apache segfaults on SIGHUP

2008-05-19 Thread Randy Bush
be worth trying reverting to that, to get the order you had before that seemed OK. still coring but it is nice to know i have company :) randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Updated php, and apache segfaults on SIGHUP

2008-05-19 Thread Randy Bush
did you ever try comment out the three extensions I mentioned in my previous email? That fixed it right up for me. i did not have those extensions at all. or maybe i did not understand where they are. randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
David Kelly wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:31:15AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? Not that I know of. You should look into denyhosts (in the ports) it works well and even

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Doug Hardie wrote: On May 6, 2008, at 10:57, Randy Ramsdell wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:31:15AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? Not that I know of. You

ipf fails after cvsup

2008-05-02 Thread Randy Schultz
, with *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 src-all I've had this before when I've spaced out the make installworld. I've never gotten this *after* the sync/build. Have I missed a bit of documentation somewhere? -- Randy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 765.983.1283 * Love with your heart, think

Re: List replies

2008-03-22 Thread Randy Pratt
the Raw E-Mail in the appropriate way for your email client. I quit subscribing to the lists about 5 years ago and exclusively read them online. Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Portmaster error or actual bug?

2008-02-26 Thread Randy Pratt
, it reinstalls expect-5.43. Am I doing something wrong? Or is this an actual bug in portmaster? I think this has been reported and Doug Barton has a patch for it already: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?47BF5119.206 I don't think its been committed yet though. HTH, Randy

Re: Handbook out-of-date after csup/buildworld

2008-02-11 Thread Randy Pratt
in updates. Some information on usage is at http://docsnap.sk.freebsd.org/ . Its really quite easy. HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Shell scripting kungfu

2008-01-18 Thread Randy Pratt
: while read line; do echo -n ${line}/32,; done hostlist | sed 's/\,$//' or to be a bit more understandable: while read line; do echo -n ${line}/32, done hostlist | sed 's/\,$//' the little sed part just removes the last comma from the list. HTH, Randy

Re: goffice fails to install

2008-01-12 Thread Randy Pratt
been fixed in the tree: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200801101834.m0AIYEX7060675 Re-cvsup/csup and try it again. It should work now. HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Opera, Flash and the stench of failure...

2008-01-04 Thread Randy Pratt
if it doesn't. Caveat: I'm not an opera user and I don't use flash. ;-) HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is it safe yet!

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Pratt
? I'm presuming you mean is it safe to update ports at this time. The ports tree is in thaw state after the tree was tagged for the 6.3 and 7.0 releases so new commits are being made. I'm just not sure how to answer the 'safe' part though. HTH, Randy

Re: still no luck in coping a 6 G dvd to a 4.7 dvd...

2007-12-11 Thread Randy Pratt
. HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
this? Thanks, Randy Ramsdell Unix Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Bart Silverstrim wrote: Randy Ramsdell wrote: We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote location without

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Vince wrote: Randy Ramsdell wrote: We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote location without needing

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Robert Huff wrote: Randy Ramsdell writes: What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? This isn't set. Was is supposed to be? So far, I have only installed applications we need. And everything seem fine except the reboot issue. I'm going to jump in here

Re: Amarok crashes X (since portupgrade)

2007-11-29 Thread Randy Pratt
list=$(ls -trd */+COMMENT) for item in ${list}; do _date=`stat -f %Sm ${item}` printf %-25s %s\n ${_date} `echo ${item} | sed 's/\/.*//'` done I can't help with the debug part though. Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Unexpected shutdown

2007-11-18 Thread Randy Pratt
in the process. My feeling is that it was hard drive heat-related so my suggestion is to do some poking around for hot spots, clogged fan filters and any other factors affecting temperatures. In any case, in the grand scheme of things, *all* hardware will fail ... eventually ;-) Randy

jails and security [was: Jails and multicore boxes]

2007-11-16 Thread Randy Schultz
and see tons of traffic to/from a.b.c.d on port 22, with TCP bits set so you know there's a conversation going on there, yet no sign of login in the jail's logs. Just some random musings. -- Randy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 765.983.1283 * Love with your heart, think with your head

Re: strange error when building cups

2007-11-09 Thread Randy Pratt
( # ) the particular line in the ports/print/cups-base/Makefile: #FORBIDDEN= remote execution of arbitrary code I would presume that cups-base-1.3.4 is going to be committed shortly since there are quite a few ports that depend on it. HTH, Randy

Re: cannot get screen out of black/black mode...

2007-11-04 Thread Randy Pratt
/query-pr.cgi?pr=117726 HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ports problem

2007-11-04 Thread Randy Pratt
as other things). It might be a good idea to review that UPDATING entry and see if there are other things that might apply. HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: cannot get screen out of black/black mode...

2007-11-04 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 14:18:19 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:22:07AM -0500, Randy Pratt wrote: On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 22:14:18 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I set up the screen to never go blan? both in console (white

Re: xorg driver bug

2007-10-15 Thread Randy Pratt
some searching but have not turned up anything helpful so far. Maybe give the older driver a try and see if that works for you. Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Installing FreeBSD using a PPPoE connection

2007-09-06 Thread Randy Pratt
to be an (unofficial) page by Randy Pratt: Installing FreeBSD Using PPPoE: http://www.treefort.org/~rpratt/pppoe/article.html but it's no longer there. I still have a copy at: http://myfreebsd.homeunix.net/pppoe-article/article.html Its probably still pretty close since sysinstall

Re: /usr/ports/packages cleanup

2007-07-12 Thread Randy Pratt
directory, and only keep the latest version of each package? I use portsclean -P to clean out /usr/ports/packages. Perhaps it is what you're looking for. Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Recursivity of -r and -R in portupgrade

2007-07-04 Thread Randy Pratt
, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: running portupgrade -a

2007-06-29 Thread Randy Pratt
updated that it may be just as fast to deinstall all ports and install fresh. Frequent updating also gains you more familarity with the ports system. I don't think there are any tools that are 100% perfect and human errors do happen. HTH Randy

Re: syslog configuration

2007-05-29 Thread Randy Schultz
? Quite a few things are monitored/logged by default. Check /etc/syslog.conf for which. To tweak, man syslogd and man syslog.conf will give you many juicy details. -- Randy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 765.983.1283 * Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. - H

Re: Fwd: Static Routes, gateways and the end of my sanity

2007-05-29 Thread Randy Schultz
/etc/ssh/sshd_config needs a line that says ListenAddress 192.168.4.80, the parent's sshd_config needs to say ListenAddress 10.228.228.228. Also, crank up the debugging for sshd with something like LogLevel DEBUG3 and watch your log files. -- Randy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 765.983.1283

Re: building packages for dependencies

2007-05-21 Thread Randy Schultz
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Erik Norgaard spaketh thusly: -}Hi: -} -}When I do a -} -}# make install package -} -}I only get a package built for the port in question, not for dependencies. How -}do I make packages of all dependencies too? portupgrade -N package -- Randy([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Anti Spam

2007-04-21 Thread Randy Schultz
hour. I suspect the 400 could handle 50k/day w/o trouble. (and no, I have never worked for Barracuda, nor do I have any stock in them. ;) -- Randy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 765.983.1283 * Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. - H. Joseph Gerber

Re: Anti Spam

2007-04-20 Thread Randy Schultz
at. A fair amount of data was available but nearly all of it required further massaging by us to be useful. All of these thoughts were circa 2003/2004 so FWIW. -- Randy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 765.983.1283 * Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. - H

Re: program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-19 Thread Randy Schultz
. -- Randy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 725.983.1283 * Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. - H. Joseph Gerber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: auto-removal of earlier package??

2007-03-24 Thread Randy Pratt
; suddenty I've got 50 new ones!! ) You might try portsclean -P. I've not used it but it looks like it might be what you're looking for. You can also test it by adding the -n (no execute) to see if it will do what you want, ie portsclean -nP for a dry run. Randy

Re: Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

2007-03-12 Thread Randy Pratt
... or portinstall to install new ports rather than make install. See the man pages for further information. HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: searching archives broken?

2007-03-10 Thread Randy Pratt
site:freebsd.org at the end and it limits the searches to freebsd.org. Other operators can be used for google also: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/operators.html HTH some, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: [portupgrade] pkgdb -L

2007-03-03 Thread Randy Pratt
your ports were updated, the 20070102 entry regarding portupgrade may also be of interest. HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Randy Pratt
to the system via cvsup/csup and built. I have 6.2-STABLE running on all systems but don't have any 6.x CDROM's. I used some 5.x version image to reinstall from 4.x in order to ease that transition point but normally reinstalls are unnecessary and avoided. Randy

Re: Guidance requested for multimedia conversion

2007-02-08 Thread Randy Pratt
of the utilities will depend largely on the source material. Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Makefile knobs

2007-02-06 Thread Randy Pratt
by first doing a make config before building and selecting options. It will store those options in /var/db/ports/... directories and use them for future builds (man 7 ports for more info). I would suspect that more ports will use this approach in the future. HTH, Randy

Re: Search Replace Issue

2006-12-23 Thread Randy Pratt
and remove all the extra: http://www.domain.htm/ portions of the lines. Probably many ways to do this but I typically use sed to edit files in-place: sed -i 's/http:\/\/www.domain.com\///g' *.htm Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Getting a list of dependencies which have to be installed ?

2006-12-14 Thread Randy Pratt
can modify it to do as you want. Its probably a wise idea to make sure all ports have been updated to match your ports tree. HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: dbus_enable

2006-12-12 Thread Randy Pratt
:44:03 nathaniel root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $polkitd_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5). You might find this recent thread useful: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2006-October/015587.html Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions

Re: streaming content on fbsd

2006-11-12 Thread Randy Pratt
/dewerelddraaitdoor/bb.20061109.asf/ STARTTIME VALUE=0:0:1478.6/ DURATION VALUE=00:06:37/ /ENTRY /ASX Then play it like: mplayer mms://topstreams.omroep.nl/tv/vara/dewerelddraaitdoor/bb.20061109.asf HTH, Randy $ fetch -o - 'http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/tv/vara/dewerelddra

Re: portupgrade ruby package

2006-07-31 Thread Randy Pratt
It may be that portaudit is preventing you from updating. You could try: portupgrade -Rr -m DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes ruby and see if that allows you to update. I use the -m DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes all the time for updating. HTH, Randy

Re: portupgrade ruby package

2006-07-31 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:50:28 +0800 jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/31/06, jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/31/06, Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:07:39 +0800 jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys, portaudit

Re: unable to mount VCD's

2006-07-07 Thread Randy Pratt
could also try readcd's -c2scan option to see if the disc itself is ok. You might try vcdxrip ( /usr/ports/multimedia/vcdimager ) to extract the mpeg file from the VCD. Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Apache22 + PHP5 installation issues

2006-06-03 Thread Randy Pratt
be in the archives. HTH Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get networker backup software

2006-06-02 Thread Randy Pratt
. Caveat: I could be wrong on this since I don't use and have never used this port. HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: How to get networker backup software

2006-06-02 Thread Randy Pratt
you're quite familar with these ports. Perhaps if you can get them security patched you might consider becoming the maintainer for the ports and get them back in the tree. Perhaps this will get you closer to where you need to be. If anyone spots anything I missed, be sure to comment. Randy

Odd sendmail behavior change

2006-06-01 Thread Randy Pratt
for fixing this would be appreciated. If any information is needed, just ask. Randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Odd sendmail behavior change

2006-06-01 Thread Randy Pratt
anyone would actually use such a stupid hostname for real ;-) Best regards, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is the maximum file size on a dvd+r ?

2006-05-28 Thread Randy Pratt
in the PR locally and can read those large files back to the system (and reapply it after each CVSup since it hasn't been committed). HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: colors in messages

2006-05-19 Thread Randy Pratt
/article335.shtml HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Find the Date a Port Was Installed

2006-05-17 Thread Randy Pratt
failures. Its the information in those logs that will be most helpful in resolving problems and is also the information others would need to see if you needed additional help. HTH a bit, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD wiki

2006-03-10 Thread Randy Pratt
/developers-handbook/ If you need answers to specific questions, I'd suggest the place to get the most definitive answers are the FreeBSD mailing lists. There are also other documents you may find of interest at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/ . HTH, Randy

Re: Sending a message to another computer on the network

2006-03-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:30:15 - Maldonado Dennis R SrA AFIA/MSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Can you tell me how to message other computers on my network? Thanks Take a look at the man pages for wall, mesg and write. They may suit your need for network messaging. HTH, Randy

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-03-01 Thread Randy Pratt
and therefore tracks 5.4-RELEASE. Additionally, I'd suggest subscribing to one of these mailing list so that you are notified when a SA is issued: [EMAIL PROTECTED] freebsd-announce@freebsd.org HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-03-01 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 14:31:55 -0800 (PST) Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Randy Pratt wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:09:51 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Chris Maness wrote: How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-03-01 Thread Randy Pratt
then type exit to stop the script process. You will have a complete log of everything that was displayed. If you have any problems during an update, then people may ask for a log excerpt to see the actual problem. For more information on script: man script HTH, Randy

loader.conf != limits?

2006-02-27 Thread Randy Schultz
infinity kB Anybody know what's up with this? -- Randy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 715-726-2832 email bodhisattva * There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed

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