lobbers anybody else's file.
All that part is done except for that last part and that
is what you helped with. Many thanks.
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While running an expect script, is it possible to set an
expect script variable to the string kept in a shell variable?
I can generate the shell variable just fine but when I
try to export it to the expect script for later use with something like:
set LOGFILENAME [exec echo \$TMPF
opened by the new child.
Excellent ideas from both! Thank you.
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on about dialup lines and terminals, but
this is actually less complex.
Many thanks for any good advice about stty or anything
else that will allow one to use standard devices for this
project.
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ointers as to where to read about
this change.
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the
script is in the execution path, you get an error because there
are no slashes in the string so awk gets confused.
Is there a better way to always end up with only the script name and
nothing else no matter whether the path was prepended or not?
Thank yo
"Brian A Seklecki (Mobile)" writes:
>The exact mksiofs(8)/mkhyrbid(8)/cdrtools flags are in a shell script
>burried in src/release/* somewhere. Its probably a matter of
>not-following-symlinks or crossing filesystem mount-points, etc.
Most definitely. It obviously can be done as the image
so the problem appears to be something
I am not setting in both tar and mkisofs. I am thoroughly stuck.
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Jonathan McKeown writes:
> [that was me - I'm glad I was of some help]
Most definitely. You've been a tremendous help but I am still
stuck and I believe all issues are known except this one.
I should know when the unpacking/packing part is working
by unpacking the FreeBSD iso image and th
eding to do
one of these installs in a day or so and it would be nice to
know that all the image is there.
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Tim Kellers writes:
> Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer
> Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production
> environment?
We recently installed Dell 2950's for DNS and DHCP
server applications. They work great but some of their
ho
at one error and I wonder,
A. What did I miss?
B. Is there a way to work around this?
As always, thanks.
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ntroduced in FreeBSD6 if that
helps narrow things down any.
Thanks for any further suggestions.
I did go ahead and enlist the aid of a coworker on this
system so the immediate problem is solved, but I have been
experimenting with the CD this afternoon to see if the
suggestion so
s:/dev/md0
This is always the last message before a hard lockup at
which time the party is over. If we reboot and do not do the
headless install, the installation works properly.
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ockup.
If I have a cowworker help me and run the install off
the new system's video display, all is well and we get a good
FreeBSD installation.
Can anybody think of a way to get the headless install
to work in FreeBSD 6.2?
Many thanks.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stil
x27;s also.
It just hadn't occurred to me before that you don't
seize a tty on the remote system when you remotely run an ssh
command.
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We have 3 FreeBSD systems. One is trying to use ssh and sudo to
run commands on two other systems. The remote command being
executed is:
ssh remote.system.domain sudo dhcpreset
dhcpreset is an expect script most of which is shown
here:
spawn $env(SHELL)
expect -exact "\#"
send -- "date\r
"fbsd2" writes:
> I use the sample ipfw rules with keep state as shown in the handbook
they do work fine. They just aren't meant for the kind of load
they were under. I needed to know how to get the same
functionality by other means.
If you use the keep-state directive, high traffic can
b
"n j" writes:
> Or awk only i.e. no sed:
>
> awk '!(/^$/) { print $(NF-1) }' user.csv
That's right. I originally suggested the sed and then was
thinking about it as I walked home yesterday and knew that awk
could test for the blank line condition before committing
suicide.:-)
Martin
Don Hinton writes:
> On Thursday 26 July 2007 15:26:02 Peter Boosten wrote:
> > P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> > > > awk '{print $(NF-1)}' user.csv
Yup, those blank lines will kill it for sure. A sed filter to
remove blank lines ahead of the awk statement should all
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access.
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Paul Chvostek writes:
> This is actually just the difference between sh and bash. You'll see
> the latter error if you type `a = 5` in bash in any OS. It just so
> happens that most Linux distributions don't have a real sh:
I kind of thought that was the real issue. While
something like
sts or let
it slide a few days until a better time.
I like the quotation I read once that said that Unix is
a user-friendly operating system. It is just particular about
who it makes friends with.
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stkey algo not supported:
client ssh-rsa, server ssh-dss
Is there a safe way to make this work?
Thank you.
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Roland Smith writes:
> Maybe the ownership and/or permissions of /usr/share/misc are wrong?
I checked against another system that isn't having any
trouble and found the permissions to be exactly the same. I
then ran strace -e trace=file to see what all it opens when
being run.
Bingo!
is variable set. At least you don't
see it in the output of env.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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Features=0x3febfbff
Logical CPUs per core: 2
real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB)
avail memory = 1041784832 (993 MB)
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#x27;t should be mechanically testable.
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tween this system and the SQL server we communicate
with. Our campus had Spring Break week before last and lots of
systems were upgraded and or modified. It's like trying to find
that one dead Christmas tree lamp in a series string of 100
which is
t has worked fine until now for all these
years.
Any ideas are much appreciated.
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The system is up and running, but presently not in production.
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upgrade it before we use it.
Many thanks.
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same thing?
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"Ted Mittelstaedt" writes:
> sendmail_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf?
Many thanks. That's exactly what I had, but after
looking at it again, I also had something much worse in the
startup line. This new system is a replacement for the one I am
on now and the name is similar. The rc.conf.l
ts and messages that say that a
given message is deferred due to not being able to be delivered
so it appears to be stuck both directions.
Any suggestions on what else to look at?
Thank you.
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Forums - How to chroot your existing
isc-dhcpd server on freebsd
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*default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix
src-all
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Kevin Kinsey writes:
> The mirrors are in the form "cvsupN.freebsd.org". I use cvsup12, cvsup13,
> cvsup6 from SW Missouri (and my upstream links go through NE Oklahoma,
> dunno if they are close to you or not).
Probably close enough. It will probably work when I connect to
the right site.
> It
s for FreeBSD6.2, is there a better
choice of sites? I got these 2 site names from the FreeBSD
handbook. We have been using FreeBSD here since 2001, but I have
never seriously tried cvsup until now since we are installing
several new servers, all using FreeBSD6.2.
Thanks.
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John Nielsen, referring to running multiple DHCPD's, writes:
> For what you're talking about, jails make a lot more sense than
> virtualization or emulation.
Thank you! That is exactly the kind of input I was
looking for. As soon as I read yours and Frank Staals' mention
of jails, it cl
SD if that makes any difference.
There will be no X windows involved, just hopefully 2
DHCP servers running as if they were on two separate boxes.
Any information to point me in the right direction or
reasons why this is not a good idea are appreciated.
Thank you.
M
our succinct answers.
I took it back off and commented out the line I added to
/etc/fstab so it can be brought back temporarily when needed but
isn't just sitting there waiting for lightning to strike.
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s directory. The datadir
variable which some of the posters mentioned is no longer needed.
Has anybody gotten sqld_safe to work in FreeBSD?
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that system,
but it is a rather busy workhorse for our group and is already
busy enough that one notices slowdowns at times and, when we
check, it is all legitimate. In this business, paranoia is a virtue.
Again, thanks for your help.
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-bogom. It is probably
fine, but it duplicates bogofilter's function on a system-wide
basis.
Any ideas are much appreciated.
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w I figured it might need to go in the
operator account, but that's where it wound up. I am sure that
solves the problem. I'll know in 15 minutes when the next
newsyslog command fires and I don't get the squawk.:-)
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ystems' crons are showing the same environments if I make them
run the env command. Many thanks.
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ct for both UtC and local.
So, for some reason, about 5 FreeBSD systems work
properly without the leapseconds data base and one needed it. Why?
It would stand to reason that all the systems need the
leapseconds since that agrees with the rules for calculating
correct time.
Than
Alex Zbyslaw writes:
> set prompt="hello%{^G%}there "
>
> where ^G is a single control char, not two chars.
Thanks. It works perfectly. I am reading the man for
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still default so I figured I would ask before changing it so as
not to introduce hidden problems later. Basically, I like bash
better and also add a couple more paths such as /usr/local/etc
for home-grown applications.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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field was populated but it silently failed on lines of real
data because of blank fields.
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Chuck Swiger writes:
> On Oct 6, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> Does anybody know what this notation is called? Does an
> explanation of the algorithm exist in public so one can convert the
> strings that are part of the call manager output in
ng that contains the data we need. Are
there any FreeBSD libraries we can use to help the process along?
I am sure this notation has a name, but not knowing it,
makes searching for information about it rather difficult.
Many thanks.
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Martin McCormick writes:
> I must have dome something wrong setting up a FreeBSD5.4
> system, but I haven't a clue as to what.
This is still Martin McCormick. I haven't found exactly
what I did yet, but I remembered that I do have a second 5.4 box
and it appears
thing.
What do I need to look at to fix this properly?
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but it appears to work properly with w3m.
Again, many thanks. That will certainly save some
typing energy in the future.
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repl -editor mha-mhedit
Any constructive suggestions are much appreciated.
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Thank you both. This is what I needed.
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hits.
Many thanks.
For those who may be wondering, DST ends as it has for
many years, on the last Sunday in October so the new rules don't
take effect until March 11 of 2007.
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our PBX, used to march []
and various other garbage characters that did look just like
regex. You just had to keep re-dialing until you finally got a
connection that worked.
Thanks to everyone for the help.
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ere a sed script or other native application in FreeBSD that
can do this?
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>http://www.freebsd.org/releases/snapshots.html
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The FreeBSD site has an installation ISO image for FreeBSD5.4
but it is dated last May. There have been several core security
updates since then. should I be looking in a different place to find
a stable 5.x ISO image that is current?
Thank you very much.
Martin McCormick
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popular OS's that can't even dream of that much uptime.
Thanks for any useful information.
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Paul Schmehl quotes and then writes:
>> Copying with dd(1) is not as fast :)
>
>Have you tried dcfldd? sysutils/dcfldd
Thank you. I hadn't thought of that. This is what I
appreciate about groups like this.
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I thought I was limited to only the block size of the disks.
I am now trying a much larger block size as suggested and will see
what happens. Many thanks.
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d think it should have finished by now, but it is
still running. Is this a valid method of copying the entire contents
of one drive to another? Thank you.
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can since these things
always happen on holidays or weekends or at 03:00 in the morning.
This system doesn't die that often, but it is often enough to
take measures to prevent it from needing our laying on of hands at odd
hours.
Thank you.
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Greg Barniskis writes:
>This section of rc.firewall refers to valid values you can place in
>rc.conf for firewall_type. In rc.conf you can name any of the types
>defined in rc.firewall /or/ you can specify a file of your own
>(instead of rc.firewall). I don't think you can invoke rc.firewall
>/
sed when it didn't like that either.
If I replace rc.firewall with firewall_rules.ns, then only
those rules get added which is why the tcp/ip stack appeared dead.
What do I need to put in /etc/rc.firewall so it just includes
/etc/firewall_rules.ns like the #include directive u
nored.
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Greg Barniskis writes:
>If I'm right, you'll see that something happens, in at least the
>target IP address is ARPed for and you should see the target's MAC
>in the arp table on the known good system, even if the pings never
>return. That should at least give you confidence that the NIC in
>que
as to what I can test next?
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ailure of a hard drive on our master DNS last
Summer means that it has version 4.11 and the rest need to catch up or
go to version 5.x or 6.x.
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sleep .1
exp_send -s -- $arg
}
}
spawn $env(SHELL)
match_max 10
expect -exact "bash-2.05b# "
When it fails, the prompt never appears.
Any ideas as to why this occasionally happens or whether my
slow-down of the "typed" output
t after looking at all the other examples, they should work also
giving living proof that in UNIX, there are many perfectly valid ways
to solve the same problem. Again, many thanks.
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file so that is not too useful
either. Putting double quotes around the RE didn't help either.
It seems to match almost everything.
Thanks for any good ideas.
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cribe what I do.
Please tell me any thoughts you might have. Stating that I've
been messing around with UNIX systems for about 14 years probably
won't get me very far.:-)
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Alex Zbyslaw writes:
>Looks to me like you've taken away x bit for other (otherwise the t
>would be lower case). x permission on directories allows you to search
>that directory.
>
>Try chmod o+x /var/tmp (as root).
Thank you! I did and the T changed to t, fixing the
permission problem
gets.
Thank you for any help.
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gh to blow away the special partition and then
everything works like normal.
Thanks to those who had helpful suggestions. It turned out
not to be FreeBSD's fault at all.
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You might first try making a generic kernel with no
customization and see if that works. If it does, you might be
accidentally leaving out support for something vital like disk drives
or something else equally vital causing the kernel to not get along
far enough to produce error messages.
e backup, only
until I can get something working again. Many thanks.
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ost of us are in this business
because we love to tinker, but sometimes there is a job to be done and
the faster it gets done, the better.
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The CDROM drive works well enough to boot and the boot process
looks right until I try to extract the distributions such as /bin,
etc.
Are there any other things to investigate before saying that
4.11 and Dell 1850's don't get along?
Thanks for any ideas.
Martin McCorm
While not laughing at what happened too hard, can you think of
how I ended up with the bad mask that wouldn't go away? Many thanks.
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The network mask is 255.255.252.0. Is there any way to have
more than one interface on the same subnet with that same subnet mask?
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mptied so the file is left
either empty or partially filled depending upon luck and how much data
got written to the disk before the abnormal end.
My short-term problem is solved so thanks again, but it
appears that even opening new files without appending them confuses
the shell o
should be a way to make it all happen from one script.
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4.11 are owned
by uucp but are in a group called dialer and have a mode of 660
already set meaning I don't have to do anything but put those who
would use them in the dialer group. Problem solved!
Again, thanks to everyone who responded.
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My thanks to all who have responded with this and similar
recommendations:
Roland Smith writes:
>Making kermit users members of a group, and have that group own
>/dev/cuaa* with read/write privileges seems like a good idea.
>
>For instance, create a group "kermit" with 'pw groupadd kermit'
re, I want the users to be able to use C-kermit to talk to a
remote device without them having to be root.
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The
newer platforms with at least two serial ports need cuaaN if there is
to be no hardware flow-control. ttydN calls just hang forever and may
or may not unblock if they see DSR from the other system.
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ame way every time?
The dmesg output describing the serial ports from one of the
2-port systems reads as follows:
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
Any suggestions are appreciated.
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presence on our network.
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