Re: Prompt containing SSH login information

2009-11-24 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:22:47 -0800, George Davidovich free...@optimis.net wrote: I'd suggest parsing out w(1), or better yet, making use of environmental variables instead. The following, for example, are set by ssh: SSH_CLIENT SSH_CONNECTION SSH_TTY That sounds interesting, I'll

restore -rf u...@host:file

2009-11-24 Thread n dhert
To use the restore command (dump/restore) with a dump file on a remote machine, the man restore tells you can use the syntax restore -rf u...@host:file, this uses rcmd(3) If from the target machine (on same subnet as remotemachine), logged in as root, I enter targetmachine# cd /home/testrestore

Re: Prompt containing SSH login information

2009-11-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:10:38AM +0100, Polytropon typed: Hi, again, a strange question: I'd like to know if there is a builtin means to let the csh's (or bash's) prompt show an information if the current dialog session has been opened via SSH from another system. The obvious is:

Re: restore -rf u...@host:file

2009-11-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, November 24, 2009 a las 11:44:52AM +0100, n dhert escribió: To use the restore command (dump/restore) with a dump file on a remote machine, the man restore tells you can use the syntax restore -rf u...@host:file, this uses rcmd(3) If from the target machine (on same subnet as

Re: Prompt containing SSH login information

2009-11-24 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:19:45 +0100, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: In tcsh there's the REMOTEHOST env variable. Don't know about bash. Something like: set prompt = ${us...@${host}${REMOTEHOST} should do it? That's an approach, it it makes the upper stage visible; it works in

freebsd.org problems?

2009-11-24 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Is www.freebsd.org haiving problems? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.freebsd.org seems to indicate a general problem. (not that I cant just use a mirror but I'm curious) Vince ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: freebsd.org problems?

2009-11-24 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:36:35 +, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: Is www.freebsd.org haiving problems? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.freebsd.org seems to indicate a general problem. (not that I cant just use a mirror but I'm curious) Same here: % wget

Re: nanobsd (Freebsd 7.2) and GENERIC.hints

2009-11-24 Thread Maciej Milewski
Dnia niedziela, 22 listopada 2009 o 22:52:12 Bruce Griffiths napisał(a): Is there any way of forcing a nanobsd build to use a file other than GENERIC.hints to create the /boot/device.hints? Using a target specific hints file is much simple and less error prone than other methods. Bruce Have

7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread John
Hello list I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are there gotchas because we are crossing major version numbers. -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop

Re: need insights with openssl....

2009-11-24 Thread Bernt Hansson
Gary Kline said the following on 2009-11-24 05:53: guys, here is the web page for my network guy's cut and paste page. http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org/index.php/Deploying_a_FreeBSD_6.2_Server#Configuring_Mail_Services We need to generate SSL keys for the Apache server. Have a

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread John
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:25:42PM +0100, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Tuesday 24 November 2009 16:45:14 John wrote: Hello list I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are there gotchas

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 16:45:14 John wrote: Hello list I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are there gotchas because we are crossing major version numbers. You got it right. Just the

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
John wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:25:42PM +0100, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Tuesday 24 November 2009 16:45:14 John wrote: Hello list I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are there gotchas

Re: need a newline between paragraphs....

2009-11-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:39:35 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: PS: is there any one-liner to add back one newline between paragraphs? Not an accurate one. You can *guess* when a line ends with a punctuation character *and* it is shorter than some configurable wrapping column that it is

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread John
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 06:05:13PM +0100, Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Just another note or two. If you decide to recompile the ports using portupgrade, portmaster or a similar tool, rather than, as Pieter suggested, deleting them and re-installing, make sure your ports are up to date before

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
John wrote: Hello list I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are there gotchas because we are crossing major version numbers. You can go the source way or the 'freebsd-update' way. Either

Re: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:43:15PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: But as you mentioned they do not come with optical drive bays, but with with 4/8/16 gig flash drives no one really cares- do you mean what i know as thumb drives? stick-like thing you just plug in? i've never used

Re: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:19:15AM -0800, Matt Szubrycht wrote: Gary, If you could shell out $30 or so for an external CD/DVD - see this link and revisit on Friday - they have great Black Friday sale every year:

This is to good to be true

2009-11-24 Thread stan
I have about a dozen FreeBSD boxes serving a dedicated function. Among other things these machines run a local copy of Firefox, which is updated rapidly by a CGI script. These machines were at 6.2 STABLE, and Firefox 1.x. I am upgrading them to 7.2 STABLE, and Firefox 3. Historically memory

RE: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-24 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Im still trying to locate the 200 HP Although bestbuy has the a gateway for 229 today -Original Message- From: Gary Kline [mailto:kl...@thought.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:12 PM To: Matt Szubrycht Cc: Jean-Paul Natola; Doug Poland; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: hp

Re: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:34:04PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Aloha Gary, I have one running Ubuntu Linux on the HD. It works ok on a wired or wireless network with a Fixed IP. The automatic gui for setting up the network failed to work and stay where it was set so I wrote

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, John wrote: Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will be easier to make portmanager rebuild everything in pristine mode. It will take a long time, but I accept this. Before

Re: need a newline between paragraphs....

2009-11-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:39:35PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: PS: is there any one-liner to add back one newline between paragraphs? As someone else said -- that depends on how you define a paragraph in the file. If any time there's a newline you've got a new paragraph, you can

Re: need a newline between paragraphs....

2009-11-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 07:09:34PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:39:35 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: PS: is there any one-liner to add back one newline between paragraphs? Not an accurate one. You can *guess* when a line ends with a punctuation

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:40:25PM +, John wrote: Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will be easier to make portmanager rebuild everything in pristine mode. It will take a long time,

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 13:09:48 PST Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:40:25PM +, John wrote: Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will be easier to make portmanager rebuild

Re: need a newline between paragraphs....

2009-11-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:07:41PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:39:35PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: PS: is there any one-liner to add back one newline between paragraphs? As someone else said -- that depends on how you define a paragraph in the file. If

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Charlie Kester wrote: On Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 13:09:48 PST Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:40:25PM +, John wrote: Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will be easier to make

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:18:51PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: On Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 13:09:48 PST Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:40:25PM +, John wrote: Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT

pf nuttyness

2009-11-24 Thread Brian McCann
I'm at the end of my rope here with PF. I have a ruleset loaded, that is long and complicated...but I've shortened to to a pass all rule. The box has 4 interfaces, one for pfsync, one for me to connect to it, and two bridged interfaces. The only traffic on the bridged interfaces is STP and IP

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-24 Thread Michael Schaefer
Hi Michael, On 24.11.2009 00:41, Michael K. Smith wrote: We had similar crashes with PF, although not related to rtorrent specifically. However, we use the following sysctl values that have helped stability and performance immensely. net.inet.carp.preempt=1 net.inet.carp.arpbalance=0

Re: [] confession...

2009-11-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:40:08AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:15:43 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: it's time to come clean an admit that i have never taken advantage of the option that lets you press [???], then press other keys in order so the

rTorrent and XML-RPC

2009-11-24 Thread Micah R Ledbetter
Hello. I am ultimately trying to install rtgui 0.2.7, which is a frontend for the rtorrent bit torrent client. I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2, and I've installed apache22, mod_scgi, xmlrpc-c-devel, and rtorrent-devel from ports. rtorrent works great on the CLI as-is; I've been using it

Re: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:26:46PM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Im still trying to locate the 200 HP Although bestbuy has the a gateway for 229 today $229 isn't that bad; Bestbuy may be just about breaking even. Still, I'm waiting for some store to soak up the loss and

Tunning 8.0 for multiple VMs (VBox)

2009-11-24 Thread Mario Lobo
Hi to all; I have a system where I will be running 5 VBox VMs (3 W2K3, 1 XP 1 Linux) for a lab simulation (work obligations). I have already ran the 5 VMs with a regular load on each and everything went fine. I think VBox is truly a great VM Manager, and it runs better (smoother and faster)

Re: rTorrent and XML-RPC

2009-11-24 Thread mikel king
On Nov 24, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Micah R Ledbetter wrote: Hello. I am ultimately trying to install rtgui 0.2.7, which is a frontend for the rtorrent bit torrent client. I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE- p2, and I've installed apache22, mod_scgi, xmlrpc-c-devel, and rtorrent-devel from ports.

RE: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-24 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Target has the asus at 199 -Original Message- From: Gary Kline [mailto:kl...@thought.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 7:38 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: Matt Szubrycht; Doug Poland; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: hp 10-in mini? On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:26:46PM -0500, Jean-Paul

Re: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-24 Thread Al Plant
Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:34:04PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Aloha Gary, I have one running Ubuntu Linux on the HD. It works ok on a wired or wireless network with a Fixed IP. The automatic gui for setting up the network failed to work and stay where it was

p5-Email-* ports

2009-11-24 Thread n dhert
My daily ports upgrade check told me: libvorbis-1.2.3,3 needs updating (index has 1.2.3_1,3) p5-Email-MIME-1.902needs updating (index has 1.902_1) p5-Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper-1.31.6 needs updating (index has 1.31.6_1) p5-Email-MIME-Creator-1.455

Re: p5-Email-* ports

2009-11-24 Thread wen heping
Please visit: http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=200911242144.naolij34053...@repoman.freebsd.org wen On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:22 PM, n dhert ndh...@gmail.com wrote: My daily ports upgrade check told me: libvorbis-1.2.3,3 needs updating (index has