On 7/4/09, Bill Campbell free...@celestial.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009, Kelly Jones wrote:
I'm looking for a command-line (VT100) FreeBSD spreadsheet that has
data manipulation connections.
One that I have used off and on for years is ``sc''. It's
simple, and stores data in fairly simple
I'm looking for a command-line (VT100) FreeBSD spreadsheet that has
data manipulation connections.
That is: other applications can edit the spreadsheet (via some API),
and the spreadsheet can run commands when cells are edited.
My goal: create a VT100 spreadsheet-like interface to sqlite3 (and
that resistance to
new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.
On 6/28/09, Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote:
I know how to use ctorrent to create a torrent file, but how do I
actually seed the resulting file so that others can get it, and how do
I 'register' myself w/ a tracker
I know how to use ctorrent to create a torrent file, but how do I
actually seed the resulting file so that others can get it, and how do
I 'register' myself w/ a tracker so that others will know what IP
address to connect to, etc?
Can ctorrent seed torrents, or do I need another program for that?
On 6/8/09, Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote:
What UFS-like filesystem has unlimited inodes, but is a drop-in
replacement for ext3, and is fairly easy to configure?
Thanks to everyone who replied.
I'm using 100+ rented cloud servers to do stuff for me and rsync the
results back
What UFS-like filesystem has unlimited inodes, but is a drop-in
replacement for ext3, and is fairly easy to configure?
Is UFS2 no longer considered the best general-use filesystem?
Reason I ask: I'm going to create many small (~1K) files on a 100G
disk and thus need at least 100M inodes.
newfs
How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like:
waitpid 1234(echo done! | Mail -s PROC DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com)
I'm sure this is trivial, but I can't find a way to do it.
I wrote a Perl script that checks every second if /proc/pid exists,
but that only works
I'm using 'vacation' as an autoresponder, but can't seem to customize
.vacation.msg to include the subject, sender, recipient, etc.
Is there a way to do this?
If not, is there a better autoresponder I can use?
I realize I could write one myself, but I'd prefer to use an existing
solution.
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Woops, that's not quite what I meant, sorry. I meant something like:
From: some...@somewhere
Subject: Re: {subject of message you sent}
Dear {email address of person who sent message},
You recently sent an email to {to address of messages}...
and so on. I realize the to address is often fixed,
I have a lot of disk space on one of my remote dedicated FreeBSD
servers, and I'd like to resell it as cloud space.
Is there a program that does something like this? Specifically:
% Makes the disk space available through standard cloud protocols
% Calculates how much space/bandwidth each user
I have e-books in several formats (DOC, LIT, PDF, RTF, HTML, TXT,
etc). Is there a Unix command-line tool that converts between these
formats?
If not, is there at least a tool that converts these formats to TXT?
My goal is to read these books on my Kindle, even if it means losing
some
Has anyone setup a VM server sharing arrangement, whereby I run some
of their vmdk files on my VM server, and they run some of my vmdk
files on their VM server?
VM servers are great, but if the whole server (or its network) goes
down, there's no redundancy. VM server sharing would allow people to
Is there a version/improvment of ispell that:
% Lets you exclude certain sections of a file from spellchecking?
Example: I often email sendmail logs with their random-character
queue ids. I don't want ispell to check those cut/pasted logs.
% Lets you declare correctly-spelled words as being
I want to use rsync to backup a large file (say 1G) that changes a
little each day (say 1M), but I also want the ability to re-create
older versions of this file.
I could use --backup, but that would create a 1G file each day, even
though I only really need the 1M that's changed.
How do I tell
man ascii defines the ASCII codes from 0-127, and the various
ISO-8859-x tables define the ASCII codes from 160-255 (depending on
your character set), but are there standard representations for the
ASCII codes between 128 and 159 inclusive?
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Are there any secure openssl symmetric encryption routines that
*don't* use a salt?
Is it secure to use a random-but-fixed salt (openssl enc -S salt)?
man enc says This option [-salt] should ALWAYS be used [...]
Reason I ask: I was using this command to backup files using
I use /bin/ps -www -ax -eo 'pid etime args' to see how long a
process has been running. This usually works fine, but I sometimes see
things like:
17469 49710-06:28:15 /usr/bin/fly -q -i [...]
indicating a process has been running for 49710+ days.
I originally thought that was the time from the
I want to use a random Blowfish key to encrypt files, so I did this:
dd if=/dev/random of=mykey.bf count=100 bs=100
to create a 10K byte mykey.bf file. I can now encrypt foo.txt by doing:
openssl enc -bf -pass file:mykey.bf -in foo.txt foo.txt.encrypted
However, man enc says Blowfish and RC5
I tried using Mozy for backups because they offer unlimited space, but
1) they don't support FreeBSD, 2) they encrypt file contents, but NOT
file names, and 3) they don't do true versioned backups. Easy
workaround for 1): rsync to a Mac/Windows and backup from there, but
2) and 3) are more
This question is OT by definition: are there any Windows mailing lists
similar to this one?
Ideally one for people who hate Windows, but have to deal w/ it (eg,
Windows command-line and Cygwin users, not people who use it by
choice).
I know Cygwin has mailing lists, but it's not quite the same
I often need to compare two Perl files sans comments. This mostly works:
egrep -v '^#' file1.pl file1.tmp
egrep -v '^#' file2.pl file2.tmp
diff -B file1.tmp file2.tmp
(yes, it breaks for perldoc style comments, comments on lines w/ code,
# characters inside HERE docs, and probably other
I just installed qmail on my FreeBSD box out of /usr/ports/mail/qmail,
and noticed this:
# ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 May 15 18:43 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh@ - /va\
r/qmail/rc
# ls -l /var/mail/rc
ls: /var/mail/rc: No such file or directory
I read
I need to email 100s of PDFs, 1 per email, to a given address.
What's the easiest way to do this?
/usr/bin/Mail won't work, since
PDFs are binary, so I must first BASE64 encode them.
I could write a Perl script to BASE64 encode them and MIME-wrap them,
but is there an existing tool for this?
I often use make -DBATCH install to install ports.
Problem: many ports spew out a warning/todo message after you install
them (eg, you must manually create an x user or something).
Since ports install recursively, I miss most of these messages.
Can I tell ports to store these messages for me
Can I split a large (4G+) bzip2 file into smaller bzip2 files? Notes:
% Obviously, 'split' won't work for 2 reasons:
% Each chunk won't have the BZIP2 header
% 'split' will cut the file inside a bzip2 block, rendering the
first/last blocks of each file unreadable.
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We're just a Bunch
Has anyone tried publishing non-DNS information via DNS? Advantages:
% Automatic distributed caching on various nameservers.
% UDP, so no TCP overhead
I know SPF uses this, and clamav publishes their current version
number this way, but has anyone done this on a large scale basis?
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We're
On 12/17/08, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
Kelly Jones wrote:
Has anyone tried publishing non-DNS information via DNS? Advantages:
% Automatic distributed caching on various nameservers.
% UDP, so no TCP overhead
I know SPF uses this, and clamav publishes
I just installed Tulip on my FreeBSD server. The server has X11
installed, but isn't running it. I asked the questions below to the
Tulip list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) earlier, but got no
reply, so I was hoping someone here was familiar w/ it and could help
me.
Does Tulip have a command-line mode?
Whenever I use sniffit on a new machine, I have to create this conf file:
select both mhosts 0
select both mhosts 1
select both mhosts 2
select both mhosts 3
select both mhosts 4
select both mhosts 5
select both mhosts 6
select both mhosts 7
select both mhosts 8
select both mhosts 9
Not a huge
For mimedefang/clamav purposes, I'm trying to setup a Unix domain
socket that tunnels to a TCP port on another machine.
For example, if I telnet -u /var/spool/mysock on machine X, I want
it to be just like doing telnet Y 25.
I've poked around with stunnel and ssh's port forwarding/ControlMaster
What Unix program sends email directly, using the MX record of the
recipient, instead of using sendmail or an installed MTA?
I realize I could tweak sendmail.cf/etc to do this, but that's not
working in my (fairly unusual) special situation.
I also realize that sending email directly is normally
How do I run multiple sudo commands at once? This fails because the
semicolon ends the whole sudo command:
sudo whoami; whoami
root
user
This confuses tcsh:
monica:~ sudo ( whoami ; whoami )
Badly placed ()'s.
I could obviously write a shell script or something or do:
sudo whoami; sudo
Can I force tcsh to say previous command returned empty stdout or
something? I often cut and paste shell output for my cow-orkers, and
it's crucial to note when a command returns nothing.
Currently, I insert the information manually:
ls | fgrep 'phrase'
[no results]
but it'd be nice if tcsh
newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file,
messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc.
This is ugly. If I tell my fellow sysadmins that I ran this command:
zfgrep 'bad thing' /var/log/messages.4.gz
and found stuff, they may run it the next day and get different
results
Here's one way to install multiple FreeBSD ports unattended on a
machine:
cd /usr/port/foo/prog1; make install; cd/usr/ports/foo/prog2; make install
and so on (perhaps even in a shell script). Two problems:
% It's ugly. I'd prefer cd /usr/ports; make foo/prog1 foo/prog2 ...
% make install
There are several projects (like [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], etc) that let you donate spare CPU power to a specific
cause.
Is there a project that lets you donate spare CPU power to anyone who
needs it? That is, a pool of CPU power that anyone can tap into for
free to
I begrudgingly use a Windows SharePoint server at a customer's request.
I'd like to automate (command-line) updating and creating documents,
lists, etc.
Is there a Unix tool that does this?
I know SharePoint has an API, which basically spoofs the GET/POST
calls that your browser would make(?).
Telnet has a line-by-line mode that's really useful on a slow
connection: you can type in an entire line of text and hit return
instead of having to type one character at a time.
Is there anything similar for ssh?
I tried tunelling port 23 on my machine to port 22 on the remote
machine and then
When a critical service on a system goes down, fixing it is top priority.
Unfortunately, this makes doing a post-mortem analysis more
difficult-- after you've fixed the problem, doing ps, mailq, or
whatever isn't that helpful.
Question: has anyone written a script that quickly snapshots (saves
Months ago, I got a new USB drive for my Mac OS X, did newfs
/dev/disk1 on it, and it's been working fine.
I then foolishly did disklabel -create /dev/disk1, which broke
it. How can I recover my data? I've tried fsck w/ alternate
superblocks to no avail.
less -f /dev/disk1 shows me the disk
Most FreeBSD kernels let you set a flag(?) to decide whether chflags
noschg will work in multi-user mode.
How do I do this w/ Mac OS X? Here's what happens when I do chflags
noschg in multi-user mode:
# chflags noschg test.txt
chflags: test.txt: Operation not permitted
The opposite, chflags
I recently discovered LD_PRELOAD, a cool environment variable that
lets a library intercept system calls. For example, setting
LD_PRELOAD to /usr/lib/libtsocks.so lets tsocks intercept socket
connections and redirect them to a SOCKS proxy.
My question: how can I write a library that intercepts
Here's a Makefile that converts 3 GIFs to JPGs in a given directory:
1.jpg: 1.gif
/usr/local/bin/convert 1.gif 1.jpg
2.jpg: 2.gif
/usr/local/bin/convert 2.gif 2.jpg
3.jpg: 3.gif
/usr/local/bin/convert 3.gif 3.jpg
How do I generalize this to apply to ALL the GIFs in a given
I currently backup important files to DVD weekly. These files are 2G
in size total, so I waste ~2.7G on each DVD (these are DVD-Rs, so I
can't wipe/re-use them).
How can I use this wasted space to do a complete backup? Example:
first week, backup the first 2.7G of my HD; second week, backup the
What are the FreeBSD equivalents of hwclock (view/set the BIOS
hardware clock) and adjtimex (adjust clock speed)? I couldn't find
these two well-known Linux commands in ports?
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to understand and assimilate technology. We feel
To fight spam, I want to validate the address (not necessarily in
real-time) of the a given email sender. Is there a Unix tool that does
this?
The basics are simple: to validate [EMAIL PROTECTED], I connect to
the MX record of wnonline.net and go as far as RCPT TO as follows:
host -t mx
I often run commands piped to 'less', to make sure the command is
working OK by looking at the first few lines of output.
Once I'm convinced, though, I'd like to get rid of less, and just
have the rest of stdout spewed to the terminal (and/or /dev/null
and/or to a file I specify).
In other
I'm looking to rent a low-cost FreeBSD dedicated server or VPS with
root access. For a VPS, I realize this is really psuedo-root access.
I once rented a VPS on a FreeBSD box that was split into virtual boxes
using jail, but wasn't happy with it. So, if it's not a dedicated
box, I'm looking for
Thanks, Derek. I'm not looking to run this machine from home or to
co-locate an existing box (though I suppose I could do that).
As Jay mentions, I'm looking for something like:
http://tektonic.net/unmanaged.html
http://www.leeware.com/vps100.html
http://rosehosting.com/virtserv.html
(all bad
It's easy to write a shell script that dumps/mails the output of
several status commands (eg, df -k, crontab -l, ps -aux -www,
top -n -d 1 infinity, w -d, mailq -v, netstat -a, vmstat,
etc) every hour, but I'm wondering if I'm re-inventing the wheel.
Is there a FreeBSD command that reports
I want to sign a document with ~/.ssh/id_dsa so that people who have
my public SSH key (~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub) can confirm that it's from me. I
don't want to encrypt the document, just sign it.
How can I do this? Is it a good idea? Does ssh-keysign (which is
disabled by default) play into it?
I
Is there a Unix or shell command that runs a given program for n
seconds and then terminates it (unless the program takes less than n
seconds to run, obviously)?
I know ulimit can limit a program's CPU time and sh's TIMEOUT variable
can limit idle time at the shell prompt, but how to limit a
I've seen lots of iridium flare prediction software that's
graphics-based, but is there any that can be run from the command
line?
I want to run the predictor as a cron job and pipe the output to a
Perl script, for example.
I'm running Mac OS X, but if I can get the source of anything that
runs
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