Re: portupgrade -arR

2003-11-12 Thread Jan Grant
normally select batch operation and choose the appropriate options by putting them into /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf; the exact mechanism used to indicate non-interactive mode isn't uniform across all ports, however. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0

Re: exim not running after portupgrade?

2003-11-13 Thread Jan Grant
; if you look at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh you'll probably see it's checking for that flag. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ printf 'cat\nhello world' | `sh -c 'read c; echo $c

Re: Recursion with grep?

2003-11-14 Thread Jan Grant
of command composition these days. Chucking as much disparate functionality as possible into each tool is a poor tactic because you wind up with every tool being indistinguishable from its peers, modulo the totally incompatible and irregular interface :-) G'luck, jan * allegedly :-) -- jan grant, ILRT

Re: Ports intelligent?

2003-11-28 Thread Jan Grant
you'll be able to recover (and report the matter to the port maintainer). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: x11/kde3 and libglut error

2003-12-08 Thread Jan Grant
-libraries, you can pkg_deinstall nvidia-driver, do the build, then reinstall nvidia-driver. Much quicker. Incidentally pkgtools.conf can be taught to do this for you. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http

Re: how to build Spamassassin

2003-12-09 Thread Jan Grant
if the tree lives elsewhere. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ printf 'cat\nhello world' | `sh -c 'read c; echo $c'` ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: When FreeBSD have higer performans than Linux and When Linux have higher performans than FreeBSD

2003-12-12 Thread Jan Grant
for a particular application, then the man page tuning(7) has some information; or bring specifics to the list. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Work #90: As many pseudo-intellectual sycophants as necessary

Re: last question about up-to-date ( I hope )

2003-12-12 Thread Jan Grant
. Every (recent) release also has a maintenance branch, which merely receives security updates. Cvsup can track these just as easily for you. The handbook has more information on this. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112

Re: spamassassin

2003-12-21 Thread Jan Grant
on a multiuser system, since procmail is effectively a final delivery. There's also a port for MailScanner, which operates prior to final delivery on mail spools. It can integrate SpamAssassin and the virus scanner(s) of your choice; as a plus, the load generated is far more predictable. -- jan grant

Re: FreeBSD CVS for DOS/Windows sources?

2003-12-21 Thread Jan Grant
-oriented. The server itself will not insert any '\r' characters, so any that are in your repo files definitely came from a borked upload. You should be able to strip them out and re-checkout the files: diffs will be unaffected. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk

Re: How to count the lines of code in a project?

2003-12-23 Thread Jan Grant
-- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ (ECHOY GRUNTING) (EERIE WHISPERS) aren't subtitles great? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: use vi style in all line-edit environment

2003-12-23 Thread Jan Grant
that it offers a vi-style editing mode. You'll have to suck it and see: try echo set editing-mode vi ~/.inputrc and check the man page for more information. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http

Re: /usr/home directory

2003-12-23 Thread Jan Grant
rove. If you want to change this, pw useradd -D -b /home will probably do the trick (you will need to move existing directories). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Impact of vulnerability

Re: what are the pros and cons of running in single user?

2004-09-16 Thread Jan Grant
then you're effectively duplicating the multiuser startup anyway. jan * modulo securelevel changes which can only be reverted via reboot. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ The Java disclaimer

Re: White Paper on routing freebsd

2004-09-22 Thread Jan Grant
, but there are still couple of things that I haven't catch. Are you after the basic theory behind routing? If you have specific questions then this list is as good a place as any to ask them. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112

Re: Backup/Restore

2004-10-01 Thread Jan Grant
your mailstore into separate chunks may well help. Yes, the total time for a dump/restore may be close to your current state of play, but if you can split the partitions between machines then you have the option to perform these in parallel. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-26 Thread Jan Grant
. This is what the man for hold specifies, but I need the prompt. If you have the option to modify it, ensure that your script exits via exec sh. Alternatively a wrapper that does this is straightforward to build. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117

Re: Is my Apache server running as the root user or not?

2004-12-04 Thread Jan Grant
behaviour. The root process creates sockets and log files, then forks child worker processes which retain the open file handles. However, it is only the child processes that ever call accept: ps axlw | grep httpd -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel

Re: 300Gb hard drive formatting to 249Gb - boo.

2004-12-06 Thread Jan Grant
you're doing (that is: benchmark your typical usage to see if the performance is still within acceptable limits). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287864 or +44 (0)117 9287088 http://ioctl.org/jan/ You know something's gone badly wrong when your

Re: KDE not starting. Cannot start kdeinit

2005-04-17 Thread Jan Grant
use exec startkde to replace the .xinitrc process with the startkde one. In either case the only difference is that leaving out the exec means you've got one additional shell process hanging around until you quit X. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0

Re: What is --- WRONG --- with my network?

2005-05-06 Thread Jan Grant
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: Hello boys! I just spent a few days doing a make world and kernel. My machine is terribly slow. Yet, my network problem hasn't gone away. This shows that it wasn't an asynchronisation between my world and kernel. I've also compiled io and mem

Re: PF RULES! But mine doesn't ...

2005-05-08 Thread Jan Grant
, you can drop it from the DNS and NTP rule. # *** Active FTP # passin on $ext_if inet proto tcp \ from port 20 to ($ext_if) user proxy flags S/SA keep state -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 9287088 (with luck) http

Re: PF RULES! But mine doesn't ...

2005-05-10 Thread Jan Grant
is just generic firewall stuff :-/ It looks to me like your PF config is set up to use some kind of FTP proxy running on localhost:8021. On the other hand, I could be barking up the wrong tree completely; I've pretty much run out of useful things to say about this config. Cheers, jan -- jan

RE: BSD legal question

2005-05-19 Thread Jan Grant
and P - Q. I'm not taking issue with that; merely pointing out that (as you describe), Q is false, therefore since -Q - -P the conclusion is that you can't distribute. Incoherently yours, etc. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 9287088 or 3317661

Re: Cluster mail system using FreeBSD

2006-08-27 Thread Jan Grant
operations in the face of the loss of one member of the cluster then rsync is not enough. What other solution would you think of ? You might want to chase down the Cambridge patches to cyrus, which added an application-level transaction log to that particular imap server. -- jan grant, ISYS

Re: man page bug in mv(1) ?

2006-09-10 Thread Jan Grant
is correct, but a little misleading unless you read it carefully. The first two paragraphs of the description section define the term destination path. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Solution: (n) a watered-down

Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-11 Thread Jan Grant
something similar and can work around the lack of fdescfs. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ ( echo ouroboros; cat ) /dev/fd/0 # it's like talking to yourself sometimes

Re: is this for OO-2 for FBSD?

2007-10-30 Thread Jan Grant
complete a build on a filesystem with noatime; there's a perl(? it's a long time since I did this) script that can't tell the difference between an fstat successfully returning 0 (for midnight, Jan 1 1970) and failing. jan -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0

Re: sh script difficulties (running parallel functions)

2007-11-01 Thread Jan Grant
get passed on (appropriately) The wait shell builtin is part of what you're after. You probably will need to trap the signals you're interested in catching. Just a trap 'int=1' INT wait trap - INT if [ x$int = x1 ]; then ... ; fi should do it. -- jan grant

Re: Repeated PXE jumpstart

2007-09-21 Thread Jan Grant
, and call back to the deployment host at the end of installation (prior to reboot) to signal a DHCP reconfiguration. It adds a PXE timeout to each boot; the upside is that replacing a wedging or otherwise broken install is just a matter of reconfiguring a DHCP server. -- jan grant, ISYS

Re: best programming language for console/sql application?

2007-04-23 Thread Jan Grant
, but a big software like G-Forge is not what I am thinking of. Not sure it's quite what you're after, but have a look at request tracker. It is primarily web based, with an email gateway, but also supports command-line operation via its bin/rt. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol

Re: Shell scripts: variable assignment within read loops

2008-08-21 Thread Jan Grant
... foo=$bar ... done echo $foo ) ) Cheers, jan -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ ( echo ouroboros; cat ) /dev/fd/0 # it's like talking

Re: tao.thought.org is back.....

2006-10-18 Thread Jan Grant
a shutdown -r now?? Sounds like you need a mailertable entry that maps your incoming domain name to smtp:whatever.thought.org jan -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ New Freedom of Information Act: theirs, to yours

Re: tao.thought.org is back.....

2006-10-19 Thread Jan Grant
. If sendmail config is such an arcane art (and it is, unless you do it regularly) you might find there's mileage in installing an alternative MTA. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Goth isn't dead, it's just lying very still

Re: file redirect is destroying the file ? Help!

2006-10-30 Thread Jan Grant
for output, truncating it in the process, and exec grep. At that point the cat will have another go and find nothing there. Basically, what you've written is buggy and you need to use one of your workarounds. Cheers, jan -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0

RE: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-08 Thread Jan Grant
is a few years old; I've not tried again recently with new Dell kit. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Axioms speak louder than words. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

RE: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-08 Thread Jan Grant
slice, you should be ok. Usual provisos apply: back up, and if at all possible try it first on some scratch kit. G'luck, jan -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Leverage that synergy! Ooh yeah, looking good! Now stretch

Re: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-11 Thread Jan Grant
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:42:04AM +, Jan Grant wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Bob Schwartz wrote: ... at least as it is desribed in the DELL docs and bios... Be really careful. The windows boot loader should be able to boot

Re: What Is the PATH to cyrus-sasl2?

2006-11-15 Thread Jan Grant
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Rachel Florentine wrote: Hi; I'm building openldap from source since I can't figure out how to pass arguments to the port. I need to build with cyrus-sasl2, which is built. However, I don't know what the path is, and my build can't find it by itself. Please help.

Re: Real-time command history sharing between interactive shells

2006-11-29 Thread Jan Grant
constructs. You should look at that, in particular the set -o sharehistory option (which does half of what you're after). Combine this with a shared .history file and you should get the effect you're after. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117

Re: Real-time command history sharing between interactive shells

2006-11-29 Thread Jan Grant
as root, but that's a question of personal taste. Cheers, jan -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Spreadsheet through network. Oh yeah. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Corrupted C Compiler

2006-12-04 Thread Jan Grant
are compiled on first load instead). I suspect that that's what's going on. Cheers, jan -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Usenet: The separation of content AND presentation - simultaneously

Re: Corrupted C Compiler

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Grant
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Rachel Florentine wrote: From: Jan Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think it makes much sense, no. Zope is python-based and unless you're building products that rely on native libraries, what you describe doesn't sound like an accurate diagnosis. It's more likely

Re: What is fsck trying to tell me?

2005-09-10 Thread Jan Grant
and fixing the type of partition c: this should be ok. You can probably also tell fsck explicitly what type of filesystem to check, or just invoke the appropriate fsck_ufs directly. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan

Re: sysctl or system tweak for symbolic links?

2005-09-10 Thread Jan Grant
. Seemed like a reasonable conclusion after these tests have been failing, though it could be something else, too. Stock apache configuration. Look at the documentation for the Options directive, particularly SymLinksIfOwnerMatch. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http

Re: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Jan Grant
a macro defined by a header in L that will look at the wrong offset in the new structure. These kinds of ABI compatibility problems can be fixed by recompilihng P. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Strive

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