On Wed, 12 May 2004, Bob Perry wrote:
Just setup mutt and I've begun to notice mail return to me
indicating that it did not pass the server content filter,
etc. The last one stated that a virus was found, file name
disco.zip, virus name W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] and apprarently
was found by
On Thu, 6 May 2004, Joshua Lokken wrote:
* Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-06 14:25]:
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:08:21PM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote:
Does anyone out there use a tool similar to plod for personal logging
of administrative tasks? I've looked through
On Sat, 8 May 2004, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Hello. My friend is running a tea house, she want to put her ancient
Pentium 100 notebook (24MB memory) running FreeBSD 4.9, on the bar so
customers can use it check mails and browse the web. (and I want to help
her.) She want it to just function as a
On Sun, 9 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had a similar, but different problem with 4.7 which impacted all network
traffic but was most noticible using Konqueror. I was getting similar pauses
regardless of the application I ran. Unless you are running BIND and
attempting to get at zones
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Lee Harr wrote:
I'd like to install FreeBSD on a single partition, how can I do that?
The sys/installer complains about a missing swap partition, (I'd rather
use swap files though).
I have never tried this. It is very possible that the installer cannot
work without
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Phil Thomson wrote:
Hi all,
I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user to
being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got FreeBSD installed on an older
PC with a 3 GB drive and a 5 GB drive (which has not yet been mounted).
The system is installed
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Robert Storey wrote:
On Mon, 17 May 2004 01:00:37 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has there been any new work on the installer or planned? If not, I would like
to help... What about graphical?
If you're looking to improve FreeBSD's user-friendliness, more usefual than
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, jimmie james wrote:
Doing login accounting:
total 1438.65
jimmie 1435.18
root 3.46
This all makes perfect sense, though I was wondering,
if there's an easy way to get the script to log how
many times (and optionally, who) uses su or su -
and to what account they
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, [iso-8859-1] Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi folks,
I am still not very clear on the function between
# cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile
and
# portupgrade -aRr
I have following questions;
1) What will be their diffenece in function
2) If having run
#
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Gary wrote:
Hello Guys,
It seems that on a remote box FBSD 4.8, my /dev/ad0s1a or / dir is at 73% capacity
already, and this has me somewhat worried. I attribute this to the /etc
dir inside of the / dir, as it contains many log files, etc... or perhaps
the 2 kernels
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Gary wrote:
Hello Mike,
Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 11:58:31 AM, you wrote:
dev/ad0s1a128990 86254 3241873%/
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4122347 Apr 3 04:53 kernel
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4122347 Apr 3 04:53 kernel.GENERIC
I don't know
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Andy wrote:
Apologies if I should have found the answer already, but it would appear
from both sites that BSD is a marvellous operating system, very secure,
efficient, etc, based on Berkeley Unix, etc. Both are free and maintained by
really skilled technical people,
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, synrat wrote:
I was wondering if anyone is aware of any scripts
or programs that can retrieve mail from different
webmail sources.
hotwayd and gotmail are both available in ports and can be used for
hotmail, I haven't heard if either can do yahoo or not.
Cheers,
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Ajax Munroe wrote:
I dont have a question but I would like to make a statement. I
downloaded
Freebsd version 5.0 release and unpacked it in great anticipation. I made
a bootable CD (the best I could, It's not as easy as making a bootable
windows CD) put the cd in my
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Timothy Luoma wrote:
I installed 4.8-Release on my machine, and got the dual boot working with
WinXP thanks to GAG[1]
So now I have this shiny new OS sitting there, and I can login, but I
haven't a clue where to begin. I don't know the diff. between KDE and
GNOME or
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Dragoncrest wrote:
Of course MS and Sun are loving this up and helping out SCO a lot
since they see Linux as their worst competitor. In their eyes the sooner
linux dies the happier they'll be. Oh well, too late now cause Linux (and
the BSD's) are here to
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Charles Swiger wrote:
On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Felix Deichmann wrote:
Chuck Swiger wrote:
tar handles symbolic links properly, whereas cp will copy through
the contents of the link.
Also true for cp -R? :-)
No, but not all systems have cp -R,
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Oct 01), Martin Vana said:
I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with
list of path/files to programs like cp/mv.
If the list is small (less than 65000 characters total):
cp $(cat myfile) /otherdir/
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, jason dictos wrote:
I've always used grep text /*/*/* to recursivly search directories for
files with the specified text string in them, however this method doesn't
always work very well (sometimes it bails out halfway through with error
Argument list too long).
Is
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Charles Howse wrote:
Here's an interesting anniversary from my daily calendar report...
History:
Oct 23Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
Oct 23Day of the 1956 revolution in Hungary
Oct 23Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC.
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, yo _ wrote:
Hi Everyone!
The MBR on my hard disk is corrupted (or sometimes is), after re-installing
FreeBSD it was not overwritten and fixed even though the complete system
was. So when i need to boot i use the bootcds i used to install FreeBSD and
at boot0 i press
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Robin and Director:
The situation is, I have 3 servers, now sun, but planning to
change them to FreeBSD, so right now I have a program in FoxPro
to administer the database of diskless, with this program I
generate the bootptab and download
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Pascal Giannakakis wrote:
Lo folks,
i would like to change the colors of the shell to FG=green BG=black. I do
_not_ ask how to change the promt, i rather want to change the default FG BG
colors, so that with whatever program (be it Konsole, putty, ssh.org, ...) i
log
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am wondering if it is currently possible to run freebsd on a Mac.
please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
THANKS!
Although OS X is partially derived from FreeBSD, there is no Mac port yet.
NetBSD and OpenBSD do though, check them out.
Cheers,
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Xpression wrote:
Hi list, can I edit a file and delete a line by searching any parameter with
bash ??? Thanks...
sed '/searchstring/d' file1 file2
Cheers,
Viktor
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Gregory Stearns wrote:
I hate to be a pest but is there a utility to do http web browsing from the command
line, and how would I use it?
Also how do I configure Xwindows?
Start off with (as root):
XFree86 -configure
This will build a basic XF86Config file
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Rob wrote:
Is it correct, that the combination of firewall and natd divert
all requests and thus hide the home network for my provider?
Are requests from all other networked home PC's done on behalf of
the router, so that my provider will only see requests from my router?
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote:
Thanks for the help,
I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when
I try to make I get this error:
make: don't know how to make install. Stop
I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts.
Are you
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote:
Yes. Is this correct?
-Original Message-
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Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:40 PM
To: Rob
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed
On Sat, 10 Apr
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, fudo wrote:
I'm new to FreeBSD, and to bash. I'm running FreeBSD 5.0, and added
bash from the cd during install. There are .profile and .shrc files in
my home directory; .profile references .shrc with ENV=$HOME/.shrc;
export ENV. There are several uncommented alias lines
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Mark wrote:
Maybe a stupid question, but on a FreeBSD 4.9R-p4, is it possible to play a
sound, like a wav file, without having installed any graphic shells? I'd
like to play some wav sounds on certain events.
If it's wav files you specifically want to play try
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote:
I want to get to learn the world of TeX.
I know I have to read some books about it, but I'm a little confused
about which port(s) I need to install.
TUG (TeX User Group) speaks of teTeX, but in the ports is also a TeX
I guess I have to install
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi good people.
I am not the cluiest here.
Suddenly my fbsd 4.7. qmail router/gateway is dead slow and
ps -ax reports all normal procs plus heaps! of procs like...
5567(some flags) 0:00:02 qmail-remote hotmail.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, rani ahmad wrote:
how can i type arabic both on console and on
X-windows?
i am using FreeBSD 4.7 and KDE as a desktop. it's Ok
if there is support for arabic on GNOME. i need only
to type on OpenOffice also. all i want is just typing.
thnaks. BSD rocks more than Lin.
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Simon Barner wrote:
Setting up the OS itself for Arabic should be covered at least in a
general way in the Handbook (Chapter 14 Localization). OpenOffice also
includes setup routines for different languages, presumably Arabic is
included in that as well.
I just
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Cavallini David wrote:
Recently I've installed the version 5.1 of the FreeBSD.
I added a new user with login 'davcav' in the 'wheel' group and also I
added this user in the 'operator' group.
In the new user login the commands 'shutdown -p now' and 'su' works but
when
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote:
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:52:33PM -0500 or thereabouts, Eric Murphy wrote:
Is there a command to browse files by pages? When ever I ls in a
big dir, I can't shift page up for some reason. This is very
annoying =(
Option 1) ls | less
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, James Litz wrote:
So I finally got up the courage to try FreeBSD... I
got some CDs from osdisc.com, but my computer cant
boot of off CDs (its just too old).. anyone know where
i can find the boot floppies?
The boot floppies are on the 1st CD. Refer to section 2.2.7
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Scott Schappell wrote:
I have a question regarding whether or not I need to upgrade my system, and
if so, what's the best way to do it to minimize downtime.
uname output:
bash-2.05b$ uname -a
FreeBSD arthur.silvertree.org 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #1: Sat Aug 2
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, fallenbr wrote:
What's supposed to change?
Try ls -G for example, and see if you get colored output when you
ask for it.
Well, I get no colored output with it.
Have you verified with echo $TERM that it is in fact getting set to
xterm-color?
Cheers,
Viktor
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
Hi,
please forgive me if this is a FAQ, but just what is the meaning of the RELENG_4
branch? Is it more current then RELENG_4_7 or RELENG_4_8 ?
What should i use if i want to get security patches for my 4.7-RELEASE-p4
installation?
What would
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Your Name wrote:
Hi all
Does freebsd provide dialin server function?
If yes, please give me hint
I can't get information in the documentation
Thank you
What documentation were you checking if not the handbook?
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, David Olbersen wrote:
Does anybody have a nice definition of the UNIX term load ?
I have a gut-level idea of what it is, but nothing that I can pass on to non-UNIX
people.
Any help?
The load averages displayed in commands like top, uptime and w are the
average
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Carl Morley wrote:
Hi,
I just tried to use the time command to time a process, but with the -h
(human readable) output option:
Eg. time -h ping -c 5 some_ip_address
But I get back:
-h: Command not found.
0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
What am I
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
For many years I have used several GUI, but I never have
learnt to include a tab char in an input box.
Tab char always changes the graphic item you are working with,
v. gr. I'm using SquirrelMail to write this text. If I
press tab the
On Fri, 30 May 2003, JOHN HOOVER wrote:
We had power outage and machine went down, now during boot and after
mounting the root partition the character string '^[[0' appears alot.
The machine still runs and seems ok, but since I can't seem to get a
search engine to take the string anyone got
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Adam wrote:
The absolute EASIEST way to set up SMTP is to use sSMTP .. It might be
too simplistic for you, but in many cases it is sufficient for someone
who only needs a barebones SMTP solution.
http://packages.debian.org/testing/mail/ssmtp.html
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Constantine wrote:
I am running FreeBSD 4.8. How can I synchronise my clock with some NTP
server? The time on my server right now is 4 minutes fast, and I do not
like that... Can I set up a script that would automatically synchronise
the time with some available server?
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Bborie Park wrote:
Anyone know how I can disable or delete fortune properly? When I say
properly, I mean when I delete its command entry in my .profile, it
won't come back as well as new users will not have the command entry
placed into their .profile.
Check the
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Dragoncrest wrote:
Ok, not sure if this is possible, but I thought I'd ask just in
case. What I'm looking to do is to assign a given Program ID number to a
specific process if possible. I know FBD assigns them automatically as
they're executed, but I've hit into
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Steve Coile wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Bill Moran wrote:
[...]
Depends on the component and how the previous admin handled things. Most
FreeBSD users use the ports/package system to add/remove programs. The
docs are very good:
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Guus Bekkema wrote:
How can I get the bootloader off my system and get it working again with
Micro(shit)soft
Boot off a DOS disk and do fdisk /mbr
Cheers,
Viktor
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, P. U. Kruppa wrote:
Hello List!
Since some cvsup three or four weeks ago my text-console on
-CURRENT is a complete mess (on previous versions of -CURRENT
everything worked fine).
Here are some symptoms:
- special characters (you need for drawing neat lines in
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Steve Coile wrote:
I've just installed a new software package that includes manual pages.
When I try to read the pages with man -M path page, I'm told the
manual page doesn't exist. When I use truss man -M path page,
truss generates *NO* output. Is that normal?
Are
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Frank wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam;
I am having trouble installing the FreeBSD software 5.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.
Here are the particulars of what I am using and what I have done.
- Changed AMI CMOS setting to load from CD first.
The CD appears to be reading the created disk
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent wrote:
Hello, I've recently begun experiencing a very strange
phenomenon. My browser, Konqueror based on KDE 3.1.2, does not render
text that is enclosed in H1 tags; instead, it presents a series of
small boxes. Copying the boxes to the
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, sweetleaf wrote:
I choose to use the entire disk during freebsd install. Ok, that creates
1 really large slice correct? Now within this slice how may partitions
cam there be? I tried setting up /root /tmp /home /var /usr /sandbox/
/private /storage . after adding
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Karsten Fuhrmann wrote:
Hello, i am trying to partition my 1.6TB scsi raid.
The problem is that disklabel only support up to 8 partitions but i want
more (about 30).
Is there any way to do this ?
Cheers,
Karsten
Yes--you'll need to create additional BSD slices.
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering whether there is any, preferably good ;-), open source
virus scanning engine for FreeBSD I could use on my mailserver. I
don't particularly mind buying a commercial one but I'd prefer an open
source one of course...
Any
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Rogue Spider wrote:
I have a Compaq presario 4770
monitor is a Compaq 1525
grafix card is s3 Trio64V2
every time I try to start X server I get
Fatal Server Error
No Screens Found
No Drivers Available
I know I have the monitor settings correct
the only thing I
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, george donnelly wrote:
I recently purchased a server installed FreeBSD on it. when it boots i get
an image that was put there by the manufacturer. How do i change this image?
where is it, etc?
If it appears after you have formatted the hard drive and installed
FreeBSD
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Rod Person wrote:
Hi Guys,
I'm looking for a small database application to create a database of all
may dvds and cds. I think mysql my be too much overkill, since it would
be running on my laptop. Any suggestions.
If that's all you're using it for you don't need
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Roger Merritt wrote:
I've just installed a new, 40GB hard drive, and copied my system over to
it. It booted and seems to be running fine, but I have a couple of worries.
1. My BIOS setup utility doesn't detect the drive using the Auto Detect
Hard Drives feature. In
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
One of those firewalls is quite flexible about protocol state
timeouts, I can set this on a service-by-service basis. (ie I could
increase it for SSH and no other service)
Unfortunately the firewall on the other side isn't so accommodating.
It
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 22:55, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I need to make an image (I do need a copy so saving and writting
individual tracks is of no use) of an audio CD, but when I try:
# dd
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Viktor Lazlo wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 22:55, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I need to make an image (I do need a copy so saving and writting
individual tracks is of no use
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
I want to remove CRs from text files so what I did is this:
cat filename | tr -d '\r' filename
However, I often end up with an empty file. Just out of
interest, somebody who knows why that is?
This is because prior to any other action the shell
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Michael Collette wrote:
It's ugly. It won't work if you multiple NICs. It may just work for what you
need just the same.
echo `ifconfig | grep broadcast | cut -d -f2`:0.0
This takes the output of ifconfig and parses it just a wee bit with grep and
cut. I use
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, David Banning wrote:
I am running an Xwindow on a windows box. I need a script to
tell me what my network address is so that I can set my DISPLAY
varible correctly eg: 192.168.1.2:0.0
Any idea what command would be useful for this purpose?
If I understand correctly and
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Chris P wrote:
How about an example? I know only know sed for replacing things, not
inserting a new line into a file in a specific place, even though the info
around it changes.
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Chris P wrote:
Hello..
Not really a freebsd question,
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've read the man pages but see no option for configuring tin to auto magically
enter a user name/password when it connect to the nntpserver.
Is there anyway to do this (my new provider require some random set of symbols for
username and
On 23 Mar 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Tamir Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Which command retrieves the version / release number of my FreeBSD?
uname -m
uname -m only writes the hardware platform, uname -v gives the version.
Cheers,
Viktor
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
man cron gives:
crontab [-u user] file
'file' being the important part, methinks. ;)
I'm not sure what you mean ... If you're wondering, I'm using the
main crontab file (/etc/crontab), as right now there's no need for
me to use
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote:
Hello,
Uuencoding works fine...
yup, that's what I thought. And it works fine indeed. However, I was
thinking into more of a MIME or multi-part message, much like a regular
attachment. That's not really essential, however. This just
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote:
Hey guys,
I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task
of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be
pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is
interesting, the OS I
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Preston Crawford wrote:
I'm missing this. Can someone give me an example cvsupfile for FreeBSD
4.9?
Example files covering all major configurations can be found in:
/usr/share/examples/cvsup
Cheers,
Viktor
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
I hate to seem like a jerk, but I get these messages through the list
already, and see no reason to get them in multiple boxes. Please feel
free to continue this discussion on list, but please take this email
out of the recipients list. I will
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, twig les wrote:
Hey all, in my /etc/csh.cshrc I have
xset b off
which does what I want, which is to tell X to shut up without me
having to type the command in every X session. But it seems
clumsy as it puts up an error xset: unable to open display
when I ssh in.
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Dan Busarow wrote:
On Nov 13, Francisco Reyes wrote:
The man page for grep says to use -r to recurse, yet when I try
something like
grep -r -li string *.c
find . -name *.c -exec grep -li string {} \;
If there are a large number of files this will call grep
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, [iso-8859-1] noir noir wrote:
I am looking for a Yahoo! or MSN Messenger which would
work from the console.
I did a Freshmeat and Sourceforge search and came up
with libyahoo2/ ari-yahoo/ gtmsn messengers where none
of them are able to connect to the chat server.
I
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, hide110 wrote:
Are there any IRC chatrooms that you guys know of where people get together
for Unix related topics or just general related topics?
irc.freenode.net is probably best for that, #freebsd and many other
unix/linux-oriented channels
Cheers,
Viktor
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