Re: perl and berkeley

2004-05-26 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-26 14:18 -0800]: 1. installed a perl mod that decided it needed Perl 5.8. that went ok, but now I've got /usr/bin/perl 5.0 /usr/local/bin/perl 5.8 What is the command to get the sytstem to switch to defaulting to 5.8? According to

Re: perl and berkeley

2004-05-27 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-26 20:42 -0800]: # use.perl port # which perl /usr/bin/perl Check out the rest of that file for more information. ports are not installed, just specific pkgs # pkg_info ... db3-3.3.11,1The Berkeley DB package, revision 3 ... perl-5.8.0_4

Re: perl and berkeley

2004-05-27 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-27 01:53 -0800]: This is perl, v5.8.4 built for i386-freebsd so the 5.8 is now the default version, good, 1 of 2 problems solved. It sure looks like the db3 pkg install is screwing up since perl -MCPAN -e 'install BerkeleyDB' ... still gives:

Re: perl and berkeley

2004-05-28 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-28 09:17 -0800]: my first try would probably be to remove all CPAN modules installed under the old perl, and reinstall them. Then try installing that DB. However, wiser heads may have a better clue. Sounds like a good plan, but MCPAN doesn't seem to

Adding a partition

2005-01-28 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
I left about 26GB free on my 80GB hard drive. Having found a use for that space, I now want to add a partition. I've not added one by hand, and /stand/sysinstall gives me a 'cannot write to ...' message, so I want confirmation that what I'm about to do won't crump on me. ;] System is two 80GB

Re: Adding a partition

2005-01-29 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* David J. Weller-Fahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-01-29 00:49 +0100]: h: 52487298 1038090244.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 You will need to be booted in such a way as nothing on that slice is mounted to be able to write the new label, I believe. Ah! That's what I was missing. Thanks

Re: Cleaning Out Ports?

2005-02-01 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* David J. Weller-Fahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-01 08:24 +0100]: * Matt LaPlante [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-01 02:36 +0100]: Attached is my script, and my conf file. Unfortunately, my script got stripped. Here's the script with a txt extension. Regards, -- dave [ please don't CC me

Re: Need IMAP Server Selection Advice

2005-02-21 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* James Stallings II [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-21 02:06 +0100]: Whats the shortest path to a working configuration? I'm not particular about whose software I use; I just need to be able to hit it for mail via IMAP with Thunderbird or Mozilla. I'd recommend Binc IMAP. Author is very involved

Scripting oddness (sh)

2005-03-23 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
I've been working on a script, and am having a bit of trouble producing reasonable output. First, the script removes all leaf packages that are not listed in a configuration file and are not required by any of those packages, or by any package that those packages require, etc. The problem is

Re: Scripting oddness (sh)

2005-03-23 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* David J. Weller-Fahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-23 20:36 +0100]: Anyone have any ideas on how to troubleshoot? It helps if I include the script. Regards, -- dave [ please don't CC me ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Scripting oddness (sh)

2005-03-23 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Danny Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-23 23:29 +0100]: Bonus points if you inline the relevant portion, or at least name your attachment something like foo.sh. And, as pointed out - apparently that didn't work either. Here's the relevant portion of the script (I'll include only the

Re: Scripting oddness (sh) - SOLVED (kind of)

2005-03-25 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
After some experimenting I believe that I've discovered how to fix the problem, and the reason for it - I'd been thinking of the '' shortcut as functionally identical to the if-then-fi construct. That's obviously (now ;) not the case. If, as in the previous message, the following '' shortcut is

md5 giving inconsistent results

2004-10-14 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
I just installed 5.2.1-RELEASE on a RAID1 setup (atacontrol using Sil0680 chipset), and was in the process of transfering files from my old server. However, I'm having an issue with the md5 sum of a file. Here's my uname -a: FreeBSD tigger.weller-fahy.com 5.2.1-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD

Re: md5 giving inconsistent results

2004-10-15 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* David J. Weller-Fahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-10-14 10:57 -0800]: * Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-10-14 10:49 -0800]: On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 06:01:37AM -0800, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote: I just installed 5.2.1-RELEASE on a RAID1 setup (atacontrol using Sil0680 chipset

Question about nice

2004-11-16 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
I've set a very few commands as NOPASSWD in sudo, and run them from my normal user's crontab. I've seen some examples of crontab's that use nice, but none that use sudo and nice. That led me to a few questions. All paths have been stripped stripped - sudo and isoqlog are in /usr/local/bin, nice

Re: Question about nice

2004-11-16 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-16 16:56 +0100]: In the last episode (Nov 16), David J. Weller-Fahy said: If so, what is the difference between the following two commands (in terms of priority level)? nice isoqlog isoqlog man nice: The nice utility runs utility

Re: Question about nice

2004-11-16 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-17 01:52 +0100]: nice isoqlog isoqlog According to the man page nice(1) The nice utility runs utility at an altered scheduling priority, by incrementing its ``nice'' value by the specified increment, or a default value of

Re: upgrading 4.10 to 5.3

2004-12-21 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Damien Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-21 07:27 +0100]: If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong let me know. Also, if you think I should just dump 4.10 and do a new install of 5.3 I can do that as well. I've got another drive I can install 5.3 on. I'm hoping I can upgrade so I don't have

Accounting disabled/enabled messages

2011-09-04 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
I noticed today the following entries in my dmesg. #v+ Accounting enabled Accounting disabled Accounting enabled Accounting disabled Accounting enabled Accounting disabled Accounting enabled #v- The uname -a follows. FreeBSD NAStie 9.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 #0: Thu Jul 28 16:34:16 UTC 2011

Re: Accounting disabled/enabled messages

2011-09-05 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com [2011-09-05 03:26 -0400]: Assuming you have accounting enabled in /etc/rc.conf, that's to be expected. Accounting is enabled on boot, disabled on shutdown, and cycled twice during /var/account/acct rotation at 3am. See /etc/rc.d/accounting and

Re: two TOTALLY diff questions.

2011-12-21 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Gary Kline kl...@thought.org [2011-12-21 19:54 -0500]: the first one is a bit off topic because our vim and the vim on linux may differ. but does anybody know how to get rid of the file and file~ OR, pref, turn the file~ into file.bak? i thought there was a areadme in .vimrc, but i don't

Re: two TOTALLY diff questions.

2011-12-23 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Gary Kline kl...@thought.org [2011-12-22 00:04 -0500]: [?] I'LL Try it Hope it works for you - also try out backupdir if you're looking to keep your backups around for a while. ps: thanks el mucho. No worries. Regards, -- dave [ please don't CC me ] pgp6w6iSow6wN.pgp

Question about processes

2005-04-10 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
How does one determine which process initiated any given network connection? Or which program (on disk) initiated the process that initiated the network connection? Been searching, but not finding. Regards, -- dave [ please don't CC me ] ___

Re: Question about processes

2005-04-10 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-10 23:26 +0200]: sockstat will show you all network and unix sockets and the processes and their PIDs. If you want to know more such as the full path or so (if used when invoked), you can run ps wwwaux and grep on the PID. That's exactly what I was

How to adjust man page line length

2011-01-17 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal gymnastics I may not be willing to perform. The quick fixes which did not work: I ensured

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-19 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr [2011-01-19 02:57 -0500]: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Set the 'columns' attribute of your tty: stty columns 60 man xxx

Re: How to adjust man page line length

2011-01-19 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Polytropon free...@edvax.de [2011-01-18 13:44 -0500]: man2pdf.sh: #!/bin/sh [ $1 != ] zcat `man -w $1` | \ groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc | ps2pdf - $1.pdf This would cause groff to format for A4 paper width. It's fully possible that a similar approach can be

Re: How to adjust man page line length

2011-01-19 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net [2011-01-18 07:05 -0500]: As for the request not to be CC'ed in reply, put the list address in the Reply-To: header as I have done here. I started to last night, and realized I couldn't devise a simple way to do so automatically for all lists I subscribe to

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-20 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr [2011-01-20 06:03 -0500]: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:51:45 -0600, David J. Weller-Fahy dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com wrote: Regardless, I ended up finding two solutions. Nice! I'll check with our groff maintainer(s) to see

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-26 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
While I track CURRENT, not STABLE, the process should not be significantly different. Here is what I do. * Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com [2012-09-26 17:18 -0400]: I follow the documentation to keep my system up to date by doing: Here I update the src tree. # svn update /usr/src/ # cd