Re: sh script writing help

2010-05-29 Thread Aiza

Anh Ky Huynh wrote:

On Sun, 30 May 2010 14:10:36 +0800
Aiza  wrote:


Dan Nelson wrote:

In the last episode (May 30), Aiza said:

In a .sh type script I have && exerr " very long message gt 250
char" all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit.

Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line
so I can see it on the screen and still have the command
function? I tried \ with no luck.

\ should work just fine:

$ echo "long line \
split onto two"
long line split onto two
$



You example works only because the continuation starts at position
1.

$   [ -n "${test-name-fowarding}" -o -n "${test-noname}" ] || \
 exerr "\
"
this is for ease of reading the code but will display with a bunch
of spaces in the middle of the sentence. The \ works fine bypassing
all white space between code not so for white space between the "
".

Is there a coding method to get around this?


Do you try to read your expression from a file?
exerr `cat /path/to/data`

the contents of /path/to/data are your very long string.

Regards,



Thanks I never though of that solution.
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Re: fonts qstns.

2010-05-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
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On 29/05/2010 22:11:07, Gary Kline wrote:
> guys,
> 
> given the depth and wide scope of knoweldge on this list, i'm
> hoping that somebody can clue me in on font stuff... BUT:
> the fonts i'm interested in have to work with openoffice.

Any truetype or postscript font should work with OOo.  I believe OOo
will pick up whatever is available system-wide nowadays.  If not, there
will be an admin app you can use to add your font to the repertoire it
knows about.  Last time I used it, it vaguely recall it was called
"sadmin," but that was a long time ago now.

Note that this controls what OOo wll display to you on-screen.  You make
not get exactly the same font on a printout, depending on the make and
model of your printer.

> first, i'm looking for a font that is apropos for long
> manscripts.  printed.  books rather than newspapers or other
> ink+paper material.  to me, GEorgia works quite nicely for
> my book "JOURNEY."  but am wondering if there is such a thing as 
> a semi-bold  [or darker than usual regular] typeface.  

I'm quite partial to Gentium as a well proportioned, easy to read serif
font.  It's not very dark on the page though -- from a distance a sheet
of Gentium text appears noticably lighter than many other fonts.

> i hope you're all sitting down now; i'm ready to pay for this
> font.  --hope nodybody fell over :)

You might want to take a look at
http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=Font
- -- 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

[*] These are the people to go to if you are desperate for a font based
on Sudanese camel branding marks...

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Re: sh script writing help

2010-05-29 Thread Anh Ky Huynh
On Sun, 30 May 2010 14:10:36 +0800
Aiza  wrote:

> Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (May 30), Aiza said:
> >> In a .sh type script I have && exerr " very long message gt 250
> >> char" all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit.
> >>
> >> Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line
> >> so I can see it on the screen and still have the command
> >> function? I tried \ with no luck.
> > 
> > \ should work just fine:
> > 
> > $ echo "long line \
> > split onto two"
> > long line split onto two
> > $
> > 
> 
> 
> You example works only because the continuation starts at position
> 1.
> 
> $   [ -n "${test-name-fowarding}" -o -n "${test-noname}" ] || \
>  exerr "\
> "
> this is for ease of reading the code but will display with a bunch
> of spaces in the middle of the sentence. The \ works fine bypassing
> all white space between code not so for white space between the "
> ".
> 
> Is there a coding method to get around this?

Do you try to read your expression from a file?
exerr `cat /path/to/data`

the contents of /path/to/data are your very long string.

Regards,

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Re: sh script writing help

2010-05-29 Thread Aiza

Dan Nelson wrote:

In the last episode (May 30), Aiza said:
In a .sh type script I have && exerr " very long message gt 250 char" 
all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit.


Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line so I can 
see it on the screen and still have the command function? I tried \ with 
no luck.


\ should work just fine:

$ echo "long line \
split onto two"
long line split onto two
$




You example works only because the continuation starts at position 1.

$   [ -n "${test-name-fowarding}" -o -n "${test-noname}" ] || \
exerr "\
   "
this is for ease of reading the code but will display with a bunch of 
spaces in the middle of the sentence. The \ works fine bypassing all 
white space between code not so for white space between the "  ".


Is there a coding method to get around this?
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Re: text editor

2010-05-29 Thread perryh
Fbsd1  wrote:
> Been using ee and been happy.
> Now I have need for an editor with block commands.
...
> Is there any editors with a function like this?

Either vi or emacs can do this general sort of thing.
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Re: sh script writing help

2010-05-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 30), Aiza said:
> In a .sh type script I have && exerr " very long message gt 250 char" 
> all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit.
> 
> Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line so I can 
> see it on the screen and still have the command function? I tried \ with 
> no luck.

\ should work just fine:

$ echo "long line \
split onto two"
long line split onto two
$

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sh script writing help

2010-05-29 Thread Aiza
In a .sh type script I have && exerr " very long message gt 250 char" 
all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit.


Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line so I can 
see it on the screen and still have the command function? I tried \ with 
no luck.


thanks
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text editor

2010-05-29 Thread Fbsd1

Been using ee and been happy.

Now I have need for an editor with block commands.
Put dd on the first line of sequence number you want to start deleting and dd 
on the
last line of the block and hit enter and the block of lines are deleted.
OR
Put cc on first line and cc on last line of black to copy and enter "I" on line 
where
you want the copied block to be inserted after.
Also same for mm meaning move block.

Is there any editors with a function like this?
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FreeBSD 8.1-BETA1 Available

2010-05-29 Thread Aiza


http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4797

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Re: FireFox problem ?

2010-05-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 29), zaxis said:
> 
> >uname -a
> FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #9: Sat Mar 27 
> 15:06:39 CST 2010 r...@mybsd.zsoft.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  i386
> 
> >pkg_version -vIL= | grep -i firefox
> firefox-3.5.9,1 <   needs updating (index has 3.5.9_1,1)
> 
> Sometimes when i close one page tab, firefox will exit automatically !

Please make sure you are running the most recent version before reporting
problems.

3.5.9_1,1:
 date: 2010/05/18 14:17:31;  author: beat;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
 - Fix crash when closing tab after recent cairo update
 - Bump PORTREVISION


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FireFox problem ?

2010-05-29 Thread zaxis

>uname -a
FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #9: Sat Mar 27
15:06:39 CST 2010 r...@mybsd.zsoft.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL 
i386

>pkg_version -vIL= | grep -i firefox
firefox-3.5.9,1 <   needs updating (index has 3.5.9_1,1)

Sometimes when i close one page tab, firefox will exit automatically !

Sincerely!

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Re: Upgrading default Apache1.3 to Apache22 port??

2010-05-29 Thread Kaya Saman

On 30/05/2010 02:01, Michael Powell wrote:

Kaya Saman wrote:

[snip]
   

It seems to have worked I just go into the config and check it; only
that part seems missing?? Maybe it's in a different place then /etc in
FreeBSD and I haven't worked it out yet. Even apache22 daemon is not in
/etc/rc.d.

Oh well am sure will all be fine more Google'ing I think for me :-)

 

FreeBSD has a slightly different layout than Linux or Solaris. The configs
and startup scripts belong in /usr/local/etc and /usr/local/etc/rc.d
respectively.

To invoke the startup script on boot up, simply place apache22_enable="YES"
into the /etc/rc.conf file. The manual method using apachectl will still
work at a command prompt.

This is very general and you will find most things you install will operate
this way.

-Mike



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Thanks Mike!! :-D

Yeah I can see what your saying now as I'm SSH'd into my server.

It's really similar to the extra repos I have on my Solaris boxes as 
they're totally odd places which is normal for them but perhaps not so 
normal for the newcomer or unsuspecting!


This is cool now, all I need to do is sort out the MySQL database and 
Cronjob for Cacti then get that working.


Thanks so much,

Best regards


Kaya
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Re: Upgrading default Apache1.3 to Apache22 port??

2010-05-29 Thread Michael Powell
Kaya Saman wrote:

[snip]
> 
> It seems to have worked I just go into the config and check it; only
> that part seems missing?? Maybe it's in a different place then /etc in
> FreeBSD and I haven't worked it out yet. Even apache22 daemon is not in
> /etc/rc.d.
> 
> Oh well am sure will all be fine more Google'ing I think for me :-)
> 

FreeBSD has a slightly different layout than Linux or Solaris. The configs 
and startup scripts belong in /usr/local/etc and /usr/local/etc/rc.d 
respectively. 

To invoke the startup script on boot up, simply place apache22_enable="YES" 
into the /etc/rc.conf file. The manual method using apachectl will still 
work at a command prompt.

This is very general and you will find most things you install will operate 
this way. 

-Mike



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Re: Upgrading default Apache1.3 to Apache22 port??

2010-05-29 Thread Kaya Saman

On 29/05/2010 23:52, Jerry wrote:

On Sat, 29 May 2010 23:23:10 +0300
Kaya Saman  articulated:


   

Hi guys,

after Google'ing around a bit I managed to stumble across this:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html

http://www.freebsddiary.org/portupgrade.php

what I am trying to achieve is to upgrade the currently install
Apache 1.3.x port over to the Apache22 port. The Apach1x got
installed through some ports which I built which if am not mistaken
was either Cacti or Munin.

Anyhow, previously when running these guys and more on Linux I've
always used Apache2x so it would be great to do the same here

If I attempt to deinstall Apach1x the system tells me that I have to
do the same for all the dependencies too, which is not what I want.

Is there a way to upgrade cleanly and smoothly??
 

If it was me, I would use 'pkg_delete' to remove the existing
'apache' port. "pkg_delete -dfv apache*"

Make sure to update your ports tree, then cd to the www/apache22 port
and run "make config" to insure you have it configured correctly. Then,
"portmanager www/apache22 -l -f" to install the new version and insure
that all dependencies are properly updated. I have done similar before
and its worked well.


   


Thanks Jerry!!

It seems to have worked I just go into the config and check it; only 
that part seems missing?? Maybe it's in a different place then /etc in 
FreeBSD and I haven't worked it out yet. Even apache22 daemon is not in 
/etc/rc.d.


Oh well am sure will all be fine more Google'ing I think for me :-)

Regards,

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

2010-05-29 Thread Alexandre L.
I have this link to a French Blog : 
http://blog.etoilebsd.net/post/Emprisonner_une_debian_dans_un_FreeBSD

This describe how to "jail" a Linux Debian in FreeBSD.

I hope this will help you. I haven't used it. 
Thanks to its author : Baptiste Daroussin.

I translated it in English : 

<

# mkdir /home/jails/debian
# mkdir /home/jails/debian/dev
# mkdir /home/jails/debian/proc
# mkdir /home/jails/debian/sys
# kldload linux
# kldload linprocfs
# kldload linsysfs
# kldload lindev
# mount -t devfs none /home/jails/debian/dev
# mount -t linprocfs none /home/jails/debian/proc
# mount -t linsysfs none /home/jails/debian/sys

We are using /home/jails/debian for the root of the Linux Debian.
We will load all the necessary devices (nota : lindev appeared in Freebsd 
9-CURRENT and has MFCed in 8-STABLE, it is not obligatory).

We could do the install with debootstrap, but I prefered to use an openvz 
template : 
# fetch http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/debian-5.0-x86.tar.gz

And I unpack it in my jail : 
# tar xvfp debian-5.0-x86.tar.gz -C debian --exclude dev* --exclude proc* 
--exclude sys*

To correctly start my jail, at least 1 service must be started in the jail (I 
failed to build a persistent linux jail only). By default the startup script of 
jails try to launch /etc/rc that we will create and launch /etc/rc.shutdown to 
stop it.

# echo "/etc/init.d/cron start" > /home/jails/debian/etc/rc
# chmod 755 /home/jails/debian/etc/rc
# echo "/etc/init.d/cron stop" > /home/jails/debian/etc/rc.shutdown
# chmod 755 /home/jails/debian/etc/rc.shutdown

In /etc/rc.conf we configure the startup of the jail : 
jail_debian_rootdir=/home/jails/debian
jail_debian_hostname="debian"
jail_debian_ip="192.168.1.3"
jail_debian_interface="nfe0"
jail_debian_devfs_enable="YES"
jail_debian_devfs_ruleset="devfsrules_jail"
jail_debian_flags="-n debian"

We start the jail : 
# /etc/rc.d/jail start debian

And voilà : 
#jls
   JID  IP Address  Hostname  Path
15  192.168.1.3 debian/home/jails/debian
#jexec debian uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.16 FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #3: Sun Jan 10 20:39:38 CET 2010 i686 
GNU/Linux
#jexec debian cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.4

Here a beautiful Debian Linux jailed in FreeBSD
But be careful, not everything works perfectly : sysklogd don't run cause to 
/dev access. But 99% is functional.

--- En date de : Ven 28.5.10, Yuri  a écrit :

> De: Yuri 
> Objet: Possible to run Linux distro in a jail?
> À: "freebsd-questions" 
> Date: Vendredi 28 mai 2010, 20h16
> When I googled "linux in a jail" I
> got some references but no particular howto.
> Since currently VirtualBox is broken (hangs OS after a
> while), is it really possible to install Linux into a jail
> as a virtual machine?
> 
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fonts qstns.

2010-05-29 Thread Gary Kline
guys,

given the depth and wide scope of knoweldge on this list, i'm
hoping that somebody can clue me in on font stuff... BUT:
the fonts i'm interested in have to work with openoffice.

first, i'm looking for a font that is apropos for long
manscripts.  printed.  books rather than newspapers or other
ink+paper material.  to me, GEorgia works quite nicely for
my book "JOURNEY."  but am wondering if there is such a thing as 
a semi-bold  [or darker than usual regular] typeface.  

i hope you're all sitting down now; i'm ready to pay for this
font.  --hope nodybody fell over :)

thanks in advance,

gary,
who is almost done with his final copyedit.


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Upgrading default Apache1.3 to Apache22 port??

2010-05-29 Thread Kaya Saman

Hi guys,

after Google'ing around a bit I managed to stumble across this:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html

http://www.freebsddiary.org/portupgrade.php

what I am trying to achieve is to upgrade the currently install Apache 
1.3.x port over to the Apache22 port. The Apach1x got installed through 
some ports which I built which if am not mistaken was either Cacti or Munin.


Anyhow, previously when running these guys and more on Linux I've always 
used Apache2x so it would be great to do the same here


If I attempt to deinstall Apach1x the system tells me that I have to do 
the same for all the dependencies too, which is not what I want.


Is there a way to upgrade cleanly and smoothly??


Many thanks,

Kaya
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Re: benchmark graphs, which software to use?

2010-05-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
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> 
> I don't know how to create images like these:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/p3.png
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/os-mysql.png
> 
> Which software should I use?

gnuplot

Cheers,

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benchmark graphs, which software to use?

2010-05-29 Thread Adam PAPAI
Dear Mailing List,

I don't know how to create images like these:

http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/p3.png
http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/os-mysql.png

Which software should I use?

Thanks in advance,

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Re: VHS to file codec recommendation

2010-05-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:47:53AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I've built a system to digitize content from VHS video tapes.
> The setting consists of a 2 GHz P4 with a BrookTree based
> video grabber card (supported by bktr driver) and a C-Media
> sound card (supported by cmi driver). The video card does
> only have mono sound input, so I'm using the sound card's
> line in for stereo audio. A proper cable from a SCART to
> a Cinch connector and a 3,5mm TRS connector has been created.
> 
> I can already play on screen and through speakers with this
> command:
> 
> mplayer tv://0 on:driver=bsdbt848:device=/dev/bktr0:norm=PAL:noaudio:input=2

Use the '-dumpstream' and '-dumpfile foo.dump' options to save output to disk.
 
> I am intending to use mencoder for the whole process.
> 
> Which codec would you recommend for encoding?

If you want to stick to mencoder, use x264 with mp3 audio. I've got the 
following in
~/.mplayer/mencoder.conf: 

[hqmovie]
profile-desc="High-quality movie encoding."
ovc=x264=1
oac=mp3lame=1
x264encopts=subq=6:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=umh:frameref=5:bframes=3
x264encopts=weight_b:qp=18:threads=auto
idx=1

Ecoding the movie is done with:

mencoder -profile hqmovie -o foo.avi foo.dump
 
> I'm searching for a solution that doesn't introduce too
> much loss of quality (as the tape's quality usually is
> considered "bad enough"), and the resulting files should
> not be too big. 

Bad tape quality will mean bigger files, I'm afraid. You could try some of the
filtering options of mencoder. See the VIDEO FILTERS section of
mencoder(1). Which filter to use is a bit of trial-and-error depending on the
quality of the material you've got. Use mplayer to cut a short but relevant
section from your material, and experiment on it with different filter
parameters. Start with e.g. '-vf pp=de/-al' or '-vf hqdn3d'. Using the
'decimate' filter might reduce filesize as well. Using the 'unsharp' filter
might help as well.

> If possible (but not needed), they should
> be playable by hardware DVD players (given the situation
> when a digitized video is put into a ISO-9660 image on a
> DVD).

In that case you should stick to MPEG2 video with AC3 audio. This will not be
the smallest file, though. This combo should work on all players, I
believe. Other than this, the capabilities of hardware players varies greatly.

Using Ogg Theora video with Ogg Vorbis audio in a Matroška container usually
gives the smallest files for me, when encoding good quality material;

ffmpeg2theora -v 8 -a 2 foo.dump
mkvmerge -o foo.mkv foo.ogv
rm foo.ogv

Hope this helps. :-/

Roland
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disabling uhid driver

2010-05-29 Thread freebsd


Hello,

I'm attempting to use a usb connected CyberPower UPS on generic kernel FreeBSD 
7.1:
~
FreeBSD epicenter 7.1-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p8 #0: Fri Oct  2 07:10:41 
UTC 2009
r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
~

The UPS uses an hid interface and apparently the uhid driver is preventing
the ugen driver from attaching to this device.

It keeps connecting and disconnecting (from messages):
~
May 26 14:16:42 epicenter kernel: uhid0:  on uhub1
May 26 14:17:04 epicenter kernel: uhid0: at uhub1 port 2 (addr 2) disconnected
May 26 14:17:04 epicenter kernel: uhid0: detached
May 26 14:17:07 epicenter root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x0764 product 
0x0501 bus uhub1
May 26 14:17:08 epicenter kernel: uhid0:  on uhub1
May 26 14:17:11 epicenter kernel: uhid0: at uhub1 port 2 (addr 2) disconnected
May 26 14:17:11 epicenter kernel: uhid0: detached
~

I use no other hid devices. Is there some way, short of recompiling the kernel,
to disable uhid, for this device or entirely?

I hope to configure the nut utility which utilizes ugen and libusb.

Thanks for any suggestions!

johnea

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VHS to file codec recommendation

2010-05-29 Thread Polytropon
Dear list,

I've built a system to digitize content from VHS video tapes.
The setting consists of a 2 GHz P4 with a BrookTree based
video grabber card (supported by bktr driver) and a C-Media
sound card (supported by cmi driver). The video card does
only have mono sound input, so I'm using the sound card's
line in for stereo audio. A proper cable from a SCART to
a Cinch connector and a 3,5mm TRS connector has been created.

I can already play on screen and through speakers with this
command:

mplayer tv://0 on:driver=bsdbt848:device=/dev/bktr0:norm=PAL:noaudio:input=2

I am intending to use mencoder for the whole process.

Which codec would you recommend for encoding?

I'm searching for a solution that doesn't introduce too
much loss of quality (as the tape's quality usually is
considered "bad enough"), and the resulting files should
not be too big. If possible (but not needed), they should
be playable by hardware DVD players (given the situation
when a digitized video is put into a ISO-9660 image on a
DVD).

Can you give an example for the proper encoding parameters
(frame rate, audio rate, resolution and so on)?



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Re: 'Serious' crypto?

2010-05-29 Thread perryh
Matthew Seaman  wrote:

> ... I don't think you could get support cover with a 4 hour
> on-site response from Soekris...

OTOH, given the price difference, one could afford to keep a
whole spare system on hand.
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