Re: Fwd: Re: root no found

2004-05-19 Thread andrew clarke
On 2004-05-19 18:33, mehrdad nosrati wrote: Note: forwarded message attached. But if see the man of atrun(8) then you can see these line: */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun which create an error for me! atrun(8) refers to /etc/crontab, not /var/cron/tabs/root.

Re: Disabling atime updates...

2004-05-21 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:09:03PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: I'm plan to disable atime updates in some Web + MySQL servers (to get a bit more performance, even if insignificant). Is there any OS, Apache or MySQL feature that would be affected by setting noatime in fstab? ( I couldn't

Re: NATD Port Forwarding question

2004-07-04 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 06:57:16PM +1000, Jon Kurjakovich wrote: My problem: I am trying to use NATD to forward packets to machines on the internal network using the redirect_port command. I don't have a solution to your problem with natd, however net/rinetd (from ports) might be a good enough

Re: Ports files

2004-02-12 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:09:25AM -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote: My port hierarchy seems to have gotten out of date or something. It is missing some subdirectories, like multimedia, even though I run cvsup every other night on it. I had this problem too with /usr/ports/dns not being updated,

Re: Creating mp3

2004-02-13 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:16:12PM -0600, Earl wrote: What is a good program to create mp3s with? /usr/ports/audio/lame http://lame.sourceforge.net/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

e-mail notification

2004-02-20 Thread andrew clarke
Just wondering if anyone knows of a program that will connect to a POP3 mailbox and then send me an e-mail notification when there are new messages in the mailbox (rather than sending me those messages)? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: how to extract winzip files?

2004-02-23 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:55:24AM +0100, Martin Vana wrote: Is there a way, I can uncompress zip files made under win? Unzip from ports collection probably can't do that: It should. My guess is the file you're attempting to unzip is corrupt somehow, or simply not a ZIP file at all. Try

Re: runing FreeBSD on WinXP using free PC virtualization software

2004-07-20 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:27:11AM +0600, ashadul hoque wrote: Is there any free software to run FreeBSD on WinXP? QEMU: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Where can I find 2.7.1?

2004-08-21 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:42:38PM -0700, Daniel Beck wrote: Hi, I am pretty new to freeBSD, so please excuse this question. However, I have a laptop with only 4Mb of RAM, and I had read on the website that the last version that I could install on it would be the 2.7.1 release. I have no

fine grained firewall?

2006-02-09 Thread andrew clarke
Is it possible to configure the FreeBSD firewall to block ports on a per-user or per-executable basis? eg. - Block /usr/local/bin/irc from connecting to TCP port 6667 - Block user 'johnsmith' from connecting to TCP port 21 etc. Thanks. Regards Andrew

Re: fine grained firewall?

2006-02-09 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 07:30:17AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: Is it possible to configure the FreeBSD firewall to block ports on a per-user or per-executable basis? eg. - Block /usr/local/bin/irc from connecting to TCP port 6667 - Block user 'johnsmith' from connecting to TCP

Re: Protecting Windows

2006-02-09 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:32:44PM +1030, Brian Astill wrote: Person with deteriorating vision has discovered Dragon Naturally Speaking which not only allows the construction of text from speech but can also speak from received text. ie letter writing and email conversing etc become

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-20 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 04:50:58PM +, Danny Browne wrote: How do i turn off IPv6 support in FreeBSD 4.10? Remove options INET6 from your kernel config file (/sys/i386/conf/XXX), rebuild your kernel and reboot your machine. There may be a way to turn it off at runtime using sysctl, but I

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:58:39AM -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote: To get rid of IPv6 completely (why would you want this? :) ), you should definitely rebuild your kernel without INET6. I suppose it would be a good idea to remove IPv6 support from hosts on IPv4-only intranets because it's then

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2008-10-18 09:47:51 UTC+0200, Peter Boosten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#CAD-REBOOT Hmmm, didn't know about the second one, and doesn't seem to be working either (on both 7.0 and 6.3): sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot=0

Re: MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-24 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2008-10-24 10:50:39 UTC-0500, Kevin Kinsey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: For various reasons, I find myself in need of an MTA accepting submission on a port other than 587 (or 25). From what I can tell Postfix can be configured to listen on any unused port (or multiple thereof) by editing

Re: Running legacy i386 binaries on a amd64

2008-10-24 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2008-10-24 14:03:42 UTC-0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a fresh install of FBSD 7 amd64, and I want to run some legacy binaries from my old box (Fbsd 5.x i386). I don't run 64-bit FreeBSD but from what I've read elsewhere, you can install 32-bit binary

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-10-29 16:53:26 UTC+0800, joeb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well if you have this cluster build process why have some ports never been built all the way back to release 5.0 like kdenetwork-kopete-0.12.8. That is almost 3 years of waiting to get in the cluster build process. You need

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-10-29 04:10:33 UTC-0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm not sure I got all the emails in this thread... maybe some just haven't arrived yet. It began on freebsd-ports, then the OP started cross-posting to -questions, so I moved my replies to -questions.

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-10-29 13:43:23 UTC+, pwn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be performed by order 1 - Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel 2 - The Cutting Edge 3 - Updating FreeBSD Is this the proper order? there is some set of rules to

Re: freebsd-update can't find update.FreeBSD.org

2008-10-29 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-10-29 13:37:11 UTC-0600, Steven Susbauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: freebsd-update fetch fails if the default ServerName update.FreeBSD.org is not changed to ServerName update1.FreeBSD.org in /etc/freebsd-update.conf. thinkpad# freebsd-update --debug fetch Looking up

Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems

2008-10-30 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2008-10-30 22:38:58 UTC+1100, Alasdair Reed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have been trying to update my system remotely using freebsd-update.sh . On 6.3 you should be using /usr/sbin/freebsd-update. Can you ping update1.freebsd.org? $ ping -c 5 update1.FreeBSD.org PING

Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems

2008-11-02 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2008-10-31 08:11:49 UTC+1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: localhost# /usr/sbin/freebsd-update --debug fetch Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... fetch: http://update1.FreeBSD.org/6.3-STABLE/i386/pub.ssl:

Re: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In

2008-11-04 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2008-11-03 18:33:57 UTC-0400, Marc G. Fournier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to set things up. I stopped using bsdstats after it caused my FreeBSD router to take too long to boot up after a reboot. If I recall

Re: gcc 3.4.4 -fno-gcse

2008-11-05 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-11-05 13:02:27 UTC+, Robin Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to do some benchmarks for a new/improved version of CPython and would like to know if gcc 3.4.4 as distributed with FreeBSD 6.1 handles the -fno-gcse option reasonably. I looked in the man page, but

Re: Glob error?

2008-11-07 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2008-11-07 15:13:03 UTC-0800, Steve Watt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld */dir1/new drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10 a/dir1/new/ What file system are you using?

Invalid address running apps using wine-1.1.8,1

2008-11-10 Thread andrew clarke
Hi, I'm getting an Invalid address error trying to run Windows apps under WINE. wineconsole cmd works OK though, and so does winefile. The error seems to only occur with apps that aren't supplied with WINE, eg. C:\Program Files\Winampwinamp.exe wine: could not load LC:\\Program

Re: FreeBSD Media Center

2008-11-18 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-11-18 11:21:02 UTC-0500, Gary Hartl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd. I am wondering what the validity of putting FBSD on it running VLC or something like that feeding to my tv. 550 MHz will be a bit slow for

Re: FreeBSD Media Center

2008-11-18 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-11-18 17:06:44 UTC-0500, michael ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 550 MHz will be a bit slow for playing DivX/XviD movies, especially if they're high definition (beyond 640x480 approx). Presumably Windows is installed on it at the moment, so you can give the Windows version of VLC a

Re: Running X without a videocard

2008-11-18 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-11-18 19:02:48 UTC-0500, Gary Hartl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am running FBSD-stable 6.0 on some Sun Netra X1's so it is sparc64. There is no video card on these puppies. But I seem to recall that we ran solaris X using WinAXE or VNC or something like that I'm wondering if

Re: preparing for an upgrade

2008-11-18 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-11-18 16:47:20 UTC-0700, Kelly Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: With the release of FreeBSD 6.4 imminent, I'd like to prepare for an upgrade from FreeBSD 6.2 - 6.4. Have you considered using freebsd-update? From memory, it supports 6.2. Please excuse my ignorance but in my mind

Re: freebsd-update and sources / custom kernel

2008-11-25 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-11-25 07:16:44 UTC+0100, Zbigniew Szalbot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I hope you can clear my doubts. When I use freebsd-update to update a machine with a custom kernel, do I need to fetch sources before I rebuild the kernel or are they fetched by freebsd-update utility?

Re: freebsd-update

2008-11-27 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-11-26 20:45:34 UTC-0800, gahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i did freebsd-update fetch and i got message: No updates needed to update system to 6.3-RELEASE-p6 what does that suppose to mean? My current system (this one is online) is p4. Did you run freebsd-update install? Did

Re: Temporarily blocking ports

2008-11-29 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2008-11-29 20:39:47 UTC+0100, Jos Chrispijn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can someone hint me how I can block ports for let's say 30 minutes if someone repeatedly tries to do a SSH login? I use ipfw as firewall... security/sshguard-ipfw works well for me.

Re: documentation problem for times(3) man page

2008-12-01 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2008-12-01 09:51:46 UTC+0100, Viktor ??tujber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/172448.html. The subject was a documentation issue where a man page mismatched the actual system

Re: Uninstalling kde3 meta-port

2008-12-02 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-12-02 19:26:40 UTC+0530, Masoom Shaikh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How would you guys uninstall a meta-port? can try `pkg_delete -a` No Masoom, this is wrong advice. pkg_delete(1) manpage: -a, --all Unconditionally delete all currently installed packages.

Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms...

2008-12-02 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-12-02 00:41:58 UTC-0600, Javier Vasquez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was reading chapter 4 of the handbook, as well as chapters 24 and 26... If I got it clear, I pretty much might get the base system updated by using freebsd-update script. Ports collection can get updated with

Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms...

2008-12-02 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-12-02 09:28:44 UTC+0100, Mel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Portupgrade -PP is detrimental for bandwidth. It's not really portupgrade's fault (well, partially, it shouldn't offer the feature), because it will quite often download Latest/foo.tbz, unpack it entirely and then say oops,

Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms...

2008-12-02 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-12-02 17:22:53 UTC+0100, Mel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Yes, this happens. -PP is not ideal for regular updates but it's still useful for when you have a new FreeBSD install with no packages installed, and want to get up and running quickly, grabbing the most recent binaries

Re: freebsd-update through proxy with auth

2008-12-04 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-12-03 10:36:29 UTC+0200, DA Forsyth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How do I get freebsd-update to fetch through a proxy that requires authentication? I cannot find any options in the man pages. freebsd-update is a /bin/sh shell script. Looking at the source I can see it uses

Re: cvs stupid question

2008-12-04 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-12-03 16:31:29 UTC+0100, Wojciech Puchar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs cvs checkout -rRELENG_7 src waited over an hour, no files got fetched what i'm doing wrong? Looks like the server is down: $ export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs $ cvs

Re: freebsd-update killed my /var

2008-12-14 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2008-12-14 19:28:16 UTC+0500, FuLLBLaSTstorm (fullblastst...@gmail.com) wrote: Recently I've run freebsd-update on my desktop machine, but it failed saying that it cannot save its files anymore to /var because the filesystem is full. If you are short on disk space then from what I can

Re: is there a way to get an ACK from the mutt version of FBSD?

2008-12-14 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2008-12-13 17:02:48 UTC-0500, Glen Barber (glen.j.bar...@gmail.com) wrote: i did something to evolution (or mail) so it sends a your mail was opened on u...@foo.com. i've been hunting thru the mutt docs; i do not see how to get a similar ack from mutt as

Re: Release schedules

2008-12-14 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2008-12-13 19:05:35 UTC+, Matthew Seaman (m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk) wrote: Ports aren't actually frozen at the moment. Neither are they completely open for any sort of updates. Instead they're in a 'slush' -- no sweeping changes permitted, no major changes to the

Re: wich are the difference among freebsd, NetBsd and HPUX?

2008-12-14 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2008-12-14 16:50:09 UTC+0100, Wojciech Puchar (woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) wrote: Hi everybody somebody cand explain me wich are the difference among freebsd, NetBsd and HPUX? NTG. I had to look up what NTG stood for. Not This Group? Is freebsd-questions a group? NEHTBAA (Not

Re: Last q of '08...

2008-12-31 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2009-01-01 01:03:12 UTC+, Bruce Cran (br...@cran.org.uk) wrote: is there a C-beauitful//reformatter in ports? need one Badly!! It's not in ports, but /usr/bin/indent reformats C code. I prefer the GNU version. devel/gindent in ports. $ cat ~/.indent.pro -kr -bl -bli0 -bls -i4

Re: pkg_info php

2009-01-06 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2009-01-06 10:50:39 UTC-0600, Kevin Kinsey (k...@daleco.biz) wrote: IANAE, but (and I don't intend a personal offense) this is a very convoluted configuration. Having PHP4 and PHP5 side by side isn't something I'd try on one box Presumably one could make use of FreeBSD's jails then

Re: freebsd-update patch not being applied

2009-03-01 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2009-03-01 08:50:48 UTC-0800, James (ja...@slohall.com) wrote: For some reason when i type uname -a on my desktop, which is running 7.1, all I see is this: $ uname -a FreeBSD me 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 08:58:24 UTC 2009

Re: best archiver?

2009-03-13 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2009-03-13 12:15:24 UTC-0700, Gary Kline (kl...@thought.org) wrote: guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is nearly full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio files. mp3, ogg, and .flag. i cross backup among my servers and would

Re: the pause that removes

2009-03-14 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2009-03-12 22:37:13 UTC-0700, prad (p...@towardsfreedom.com) wrote: one of the neat things i've found about freebsd vs linux is the 'instantaneous' rm. when you remove a large file or a substantial directory, freebsd does it right away ard you get your prompt back, while with every

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-22 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2009-04-23 05:05:25 UTC+1000, andrew clarke (m...@ozzmosis.com) wrote: durep seems to have no concept of security :-) So how did you go about restricting unwanted people from viewing its output? I'm referring to the CGI version of durep here, of course

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-22 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2009-04-22 10:46:14 UTC-0400, Mikel King (mikel.k...@olivent.com) wrote: I used to run durep on my shared servers. durep seems to have no concept of security :-) So how did you go about restricting unwanted people from viewing its output? Regards Andrew

Re: (no subject)

2009-12-23 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2009-12-23 12:05:40 UTC-0700, Modulok (modu...@gmail.com) wrote: Is there a software method (not a microwave oven) to destroy a CD-R? Something like: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/acd0? Obviously the above doesn't work, but the idea is there. I suspect most CD burners are designed

pkgtools and xz compressor

2009-12-31 Thread andrew clarke
Hi, I notice FreeBSD 7.2's pkg_add, pkg_create, etc don't have support for the xz compressor, evidently due to lack of support for the xz format in bsdtar. Does bsdtar support xz in FreeBSD 8.0? Failing that, is xz support for the pkgtools something being looked at in future? xz's compression

Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 Release

2010-01-04 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2010-01-04 20:32:54 UTC+0800, Paul Shi (shih...@hkusua.hku.hk) wrote: I am looking for a FreeBSD release which is most similar to 4.4 BSD-Lite and I chose FreeBSD 2.0.5, the oldest release since 4.4 BSD-Lite. However, after downloading iso file from archive

Re: wps to odt?

2010-02-02 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2010-02-02 12:44:41 UTC-0800, Gary Kline (kl...@thought.org) wrote: is there such a converter that sends m$ Works [.wps] to odt? AbiWord. And a quick-and-dirty shell script to convert all .wps (Microsoft Works) word processor files in the current directory to .odt (OpenDocument Text):

Re: wps to odt?

2010-02-02 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2010-02-02 16:35:42 UTC-0800, Gary Kline (kl...@thought.org) wrote: outstanding! but if abiword can grow wps [thru hook or crook], i might as well use abiword [?] I think AbiWord will only read WPS format, not write it. pps: i did try abiword, first, just % abiword

Re: problem with `find -delete`

2010-02-10 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2010-02-10 14:24:34 UTC+0100, Alexander Best (alexbes...@wwu.de) wrote: thanks goes to jilles on #freebsd-bugbuster. he told me that -delete doesn't delete directories recursively. so what i'm bow using is sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -exec rm -rf {} +

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-16 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (st...@ibctech.ca) wrote: The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB. I run FreeBSD 7.2 on a headless 1 GHz Pentium III with 256 MB RAM. ... Again... so long as

Re: problem with mailing list archives?

2010-03-30 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2010-03-30 11:55:18 UTC-0400, Robert Huff (roberth...@rcn.com) wrote: If I go to http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-questions.html;, the last weekly archive is dated March 07. What's up with that? :-) Mar 07 means the week preceding March 7, 2010. It looks

Re: Auto update

2010-04-11 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2010-04-11 08:14:48 UTC+0200, Jos Chrispijn (ker...@webrz.net) wrote: Can someone tell me if there is a way of generating an email on the moment that someone logs in to my FreeBSD server? By which method? SSH? ___

Re: freebsd-update housekeeping?

2011-02-27 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2011-02-25 17:26:52 UTC+, Neil Long (n...@cymru.com) wrote: Just noticed how large /var/db/freebsd-update has grown on a box I just upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 (but I can't recall when I started using it). Is there a recommended approach or just rm the directory if I have no need

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-04 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2011-05-04 12:50:05 UTC-0400, Chris Brennan (xa...@xaerolimit.net) wrote: I have an old PIII running FreeBSD7.3 currently, ports is all kinds of screwed up, when I did my first cross-version upgrade from 6.x to 7.x, I didn't know I had to rebuild ports, I subsequently upgrades though

Re: larger disk for a zfs pool

2011-08-01 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2011-08-01 17:05:02 UTC+0200, Dick Hoogendijk (d...@nagual.nl) wrote: But I'm confused about the gpart thing I did on the original disks. $ gpart show = 34 156301421 ad4 GPT (75G) 341281 freebsd-boot (64K) 16283886082 freebsd-swap

Re: larger disk for a zfs pool

2011-08-01 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2011-08-01 09:37:55 UTC-0500, Dan Nelson (dnel...@allantgroup.com) wrote: In the last episode (Aug 01), Dick Hoogendijk said: OK, my freebsd system runs on ZFS boot. W/ solaris getting larger disks for a pool was quit easy. Simply replace one disk from a mirror for a larger one,

Re: larger disk for a zfs pool

2011-08-01 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2011-08-01 16:30:50 UTC+0200, Dick Hoogendijk (d...@nagual.nl) wrote: OK, my freebsd system runs on ZFS boot. W/ solaris getting larger disks for a pool was quit easy. Simply replace one disk from a mirror for a larger one, wait for the resilvering and after this replace the second

Re: basic

2009-05-07 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2009-05-06 14:32:47 UTC+0200, giorgio novello (gio@vodafone.it) wrote: Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller The OP is likely trolling, but reminded me of the Lazarus project. It's loosely based on Borland Delphi and is apparently quite

Re: Preferred client for DynDNS

2009-05-07 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2009-05-06 10:40:46 UTC-0400, Daniel Underwood (djuatde...@gmail.com) wrote: There appear to be several clients capable of working with DynDNS.com services here: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/dns.html E.g., dns/inadyn, dns/ipcheck Can anyone make recommendations? My goal in using

Re: Command-line IRC client

2009-05-08 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2009-05-07 17:19:47 UTC-0700, Nerius Landys (nlan...@gmail.com) wrote: What is the most recommended IRC client that runs in a terminal? irssi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2009-05-11 23:17:09 UTC+0930, Daniel O'Connor (docon...@gsoft.com.au) wrote: Recreating a disk - slice/parttion/newfs - is one of the main things to do under a fixit. You should have fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs there as well as restore for sucking dumps back in. Depends what sort

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-13 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2009-05-13 12:51:46 UTC+0530, manish jain (invalid.poin...@gmail.com) wrote: I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in single-user mode. You may be able to use /rescue/vi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

feet to metres [was: 5000' ethernet?]

2009-07-15 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2009-07-15 22:27:35 UTC+0200, Michelle Konzack (bsd4miche...@tamay-dogan.net) wrote: Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no special hardware? I do not know hoe much a feet is in

Re: freebsd-update

2011-12-04 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2011-12-04 11:06:29 UTC+0100, Dick Hoogendijk (d...@nagual.nl) wrote: Why do I get a warning if I use freebsd-update about a renewal of my FreeBSD installation within the next two months because after that time it will nog be supported anymore? Presumably you mean 8.2-RELEASE.

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-08 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2012-01-07 15:05:55 UTC-0800, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net (leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net) wrote: (5) What device driver must be installed for the sound board to be able to receive a m.i.d.i. over u.s.b. signal? This signal would be generated by a musician's keyboard, and would

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-08 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2012-02-07 23:17:16 UTC+, RW (rwmailli...@googlemail.com) wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:14:56 + Matthew Seaman wrote: ls -1 | xargs rm but be aware that that wont work for filenames with spaces. In addition, I don't believe it solves the OP's initial problem of the

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-10 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2012-02-10 16:12:06 UTC+, Matthew Seaman (m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk) wrote: In addition, I don't believe it solves the OP's initial problem of the argument list being too long! You'd probably need to use the xargs -n switch here. Go and read the xargs(1) man page

Re: ps, clang and make variables

2012-03-31 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2012-03-31 20:32:04 UTC+1000, R Skinner (ro...@herveybayaustralia.com.au) wrote: Stupid question, but I need to clarify and make sure I'm right here: what should I see as the running process if clang is compiling? ATM I see cc1plus. clang for C, clang++ for C++ I'm trying to set

Re: Follow up....Re: Updating for the FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl

2012-05-03 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2012-05-03 19:17:05 UTC+0200, Leslie Jensen (les...@eskk.nu) wrote: After a reboot my system now has the following label FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0 How come it downgrades the label from p6 to p3 when upgrading to p7. This is a FAQ. There's a thread about it here:

Re: Follow up....Re: Updating for the FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl

2012-05-03 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2012-05-03 20:48:17 UTC+0200, Leslie Jensen (les...@eskk.nu) wrote: Short answer: The patch level (-p3) displayed by uname -r after a reboot will not change if freebsd-update has not touched the kernel. ... I have read similar answers and was partly aware of this. But I was just

Re: ls-F tcsh built-in command

2012-05-20 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2012-05-17 15:17:13 UTC+0200, Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote: Search for LS_COLORS in the environment variables section of man csh. However, I've always been satisfied with using $LSCOLORS as ExGxdxdxCxDxDxBxBxegeg. :-) Before I discovered $LSCOLORS I used gls from

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-07 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:14:50PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: right now, we are at ~200 hosts checking in, from various time zones (see http://bsdstats.hub.org/bsd_statistics.php for countries that have checked in so far) ... so, even at month end, taking into consideration time zones, I

Re: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

2006-08-25 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:50:04AM -0500, David J Brooks wrote: The difference for you with untrained eyes is the double spacing after the dot instead of the standard single spacing. I was just curious if there's a reason to this or not. Back in the Jurassic era, when typewriters still

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:36:54PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE audio mp3 files into much much smaller files? Say taking man mp3 files that are stored at 198k high fidelity and outputting these to 16k or 32k mp3 (or *.ogg or

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-30 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 06:13:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose I can buy a DVD-R[W] and fnd out, but is there any reason why I can't have many hours of audio on a DVD? In other words, id a DVD *only* for video? --Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's onto

Re: filter a binary file and reduce 0x150a to 0x15

2010-10-19 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2010-10-19 15:08:45 UTC+0200, Matthias Apitz (g...@unixarea.de) wrote: Before I programm it in C (or whatever), is there any normal shell tool to filter a (large) binary file and change any occurance of 0x150a to 0x15 (i.e. delete \n but only if it follows a char 0x15)? I'd be

Re: filter a binary file and reduce 0x150a to 0x15

2010-10-20 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2010-10-19 21:21:00 UTC-0400, Karl Vogel (vogelke+u...@pobox.com) wrote: me% perl -0pe 's/\025\n/\025/g;' blah | od -c Nitpicking a little, but Perl isn't part of the FreeBSD base any more. Most FreeBSD users probably have it installed, though (perhaps as a dependency)...

Re: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2010-12-06 08:17:17 UTC+0100, Zbigniew Szalbot (zszal...@gmail.com) wrote: From time to time I want to archive a quite a few directories to download them conveniently. I have been using tar to do it, endingin up with a tar.gz file. But the problem with it is that I do not have a unix

Re: Mutt Help

2007-10-02 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:54:37PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: Hi All...I am a newbie using Mutt, and I have Fetchmail running as daemon. Fetchmail is doing its job, periodically retreiving my pop3 mail, but I am so far unable to find the correct entry for the .muttrc file which will result

Re: Mutt Help

2007-10-04 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:37:11PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: Hi All...I am a newbie using Mutt, and I have Fetchmail running as daemon. Fetchmail is doing its job, periodically retreiving my pop3 mail, but I am so far unable to find the correct entry for the .muttrc file which will

Re: ffmpeg not installing

2007-10-04 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:51:03PM -0600, James wrote: /usr/local/include/log.h:112: error: syntax error before A_ I'm curious which port installed log.h. I don't have it on my system and it wouldn't surprise me if a local log.h conflicts with this log.h. Could you show output of:

Re: BASH as root shell (static linking)

2007-10-06 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 04:54:26AM +1000, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: I'm wanting to use BASH as my root shell, so I compiled a statically linked version then tried to log in with only / mounted. But I was locked out because elf.ld.so could not be found.. I though elf was the native binary

Re: BitTorrent configuration in FreeBSD-6.2 -for Large file downloads uploads

2007-10-14 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 03:15:28AM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: There are quite a few PHP trackers around, though the one I use is Torrent Trader Lite. (http://www.torrenttrader.com/) This is a lightweight tracker that stores all its information in flatfiles, so no rdbms is necessary. This

rename file based on file's timestamp

2007-10-24 Thread andrew clarke
Hi, Hopefully, a simple request... I have a series of files in a directory: -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 28 2006 209.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 31 2006 212.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Aug 1 2006 213.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:28:49PM -0400, fbsd wrote: I for one think the port/package collection has already grown to large to handle in it's present state. I suspect you are in the minority here. Users are consuming massive bandwidth to download and it consumes a very large chunk of disk

Re: What FreeBSD users really want

2006-07-22 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 09:03:47PM +1000, sammy sumer wrote: 1.Reinvent the installer and interface. Fundamental thing like system installer is still phenomenally arcane. There is no excuse for FreeBSD developers not to upgrade the system installer and A lot of people consider FreeBSD

Re: Sed in FreeBSD

2008-07-05 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2008-07-05 16:06:39 UTC+0200, Sebastian Tymk?w ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to use sed in script to append file after pattern but I couldn't find any good example how can I do it. I've tried with sed -e '/PATTERN/ a\ line' file but this did'n work. There are many axamples in

Re: Firefox 3 problems - SLOW...

2008-07-13 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2008-07-13 18:24:50 UTC-0600, Keith Seyffarth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Has anyone else had problems with Firefox 3 installed from the ports being massively slow? No. I installed it from Ports on a FreeBSD 7.0 and it seemed to run with no major dramas. Certainly no long delays

Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies

2008-07-27 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2008-07-27 12:52:56 UTC+0200, bsd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS server. I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X? This has been useless!! I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port

Re: seen in ports and used but dont remember the name ;)

2008-07-30 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-07-30 09:31:13 UTC-, DSA - JCR ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have used in the past year an utility for terminal that permit me to split the terminal in several sesions vertically/horizontally and also save and restore the sesion, letting it doing some commands. I installed

Re: How to compare 2 images from command line

2008-09-02 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-09-02 11:57:35 UTC-0400, FreeBSD ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can you put the screenshots into some other format? As you mentioned, the jpeg format includes metadata, which might include the creation time and would cause every image to be unique from a filesystem view. For example,

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