Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's assume we have a directory D with an inode number i(D).
It contains a file F with its inode number i(F).
May I state that i(D) i(F)?
In general, no. It might work in the special case where nothing
on the filesystem is ever moved or removed, and no
Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... It will force me to
do what I originally intended to do: Iterate from 2 up
to the maximal number and then check the availability,
and, if given, trace back the .. chain to an existing
directory entry point - or re-create one, if it is missing,
too.
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.
Supposing sudo spawns a shell, something like
~ sudo whoami \; whoami
I have some problem with my FreeBSD server. I have this:
#### #
# Linux1 # - ASA - Internet - # FreeBSD # - # Linux2 #
#### #
If I run a ssh for Linux1 to
On Thursday 06 November 2008 22:01:39 Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a
hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration,
what is RAID5 of RAID6???
'of' is 'or' in dutch, common typo for dutch or flemish people.
For Americans
Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?
I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible.
You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating
vector images, try either inkscape or xaralx. They're all in ports.
i have a friend that do offset
I picked up this jpg of Beastie over 10 years ago. Tried using
it for a gdm logon screen background, but it's really light.
http://www.a1poweruser.com/beastie.JPG
Does any one know where i can get a darker version of this image?
You're right, that's extremely faint, more like a
... Why doesn't FreeBSD ship bash and other shells besides
the `sh' linked statically is beyond me. It wouldn't break
ports, would it?
It does break ports. Very, very badly. I know because I've
personally attempted replacing /bin/sh with bash as a I have
a weekend to
So the bottom line is: Get a postscript printer. They're
rather expensive ...
I got a Samsung ML-2571N for well under $100 at Fry's something like
a year ago; granted that was a sale price, dunno regular. It speaks
PostScript and lpd, so no need to bother with drivers or CUPS; all
it needs
In the shell script, i have a
pkg_info -qLx ^$PKG-[0-9,._]+$
also tried (-X)tended regex instead of the standard rege(-x).
sh keeps erroring out saying various $ isn't a valid variable
name ...
Both sh and csh will try to treat $ inside of as a variable
reference. Does it work any
... I'm trying to remember why I did not like pkg_add -r.
IIRC, one issue with pkg_add -r is that it insists on doing
everything from the remote repository, and will not bother
looking for any packages (incl. dependencies) locally first.
This makes sense for a brand-new installation where you
Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ...
AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an
installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing nothing
important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR.
Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have or know of where to download the pkg files
for the various Qt4.5 ports as using pkg_add is the only way
im able to add them atm.
You can find many packages for several releases under
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386
after reading all these posts, i've still come up with this
answer after looking ..
freebsd - the power to serve
Might one reasonably surmise that the power to serve implies
doing a good job of running server software? Like mail servers,
FTP servers, web servers, file servers, database
Unfortunately, anything covered by a patent, as I hinted
above, is verboten.
Er, doesn't it depend on what is patented? If the h/w itself is
patented, but its software-visible interface is not, there should be
no problem writing a driver for that h/w. OTOH if the algorithms
used in the
As svn, when I try to delete the folder (/home/my_repos),
I get the error Permission denied.
Why do I get this error when I (svn) am the owner of that
directory?
To remove anything that is located in /home, including a directory
such as /home/my_repos, user svn would need write permission in
The only other thing being in group operator lets you run,
apart from what you've added into /etc/devfs.{conf,rules} is
/sbin/mksnap_ffs ..
In a default devfs config, it grants read permission to
the disk devices (presumably to enable running dump(8)).
I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco VPN
system, and it seems to make the connection, but after connecting
I can't ping the tun0 interface nor anything beyond it. The
symptom seems to resemble what is described in the Routing section
of
Does anyone know how to run asfiles on windowmaker?
Whereis its executable? (path)
I have no idea what asfiles is, but I would assume
`which asfiles' would tell you where it is located.
... unless it's not in PATH, and the OP is asking which directory
needs to be added. asfiles is a
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
1U=4.5cm
Approximately :)
At least in the US, 1U = 1.75 inches = 4.445 cm, so an 18cm case
will not quite fit into 4U. Perhaps metric racks are different.
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If a hard disk formatted and used in a position , in that position
it may be used if manufacturer is NOT advised a specific position.
After loading of files into hard disk , change of position may
cause difficulty in reading of already recorded data . This point
should be considered .
Sun,
I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco VPN
system, and it seems to make the connection, but after connecting
I can't ping the gateway nor anything beyond it ...
It turned out the only problem was the absence of
NAT Traversal Mode cisco-udp
in vpnc.conf. (Presumably
I also have this problem, the difference being that mine
**USED to** work, but now it suddenly stoped working.
I tried adding the line to my conf file as you did, but
for me, the problem remains:
Appears to connect and authenticate successfully to my office's
VPN concentrator Once
mojo fms fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote:
I was working on an upgrade to 6.3 from 6.2 and I lost power
during the install which hosed most of my system. Instead of
trying to really recover it I decided to just rebuild. I have a
backup of my /etc and /usr/local/etc on a different drive that
... I do have a Linux OS that I have access
to that strangely does use vpnc successfully.
That may help quite a bit. You can use something like tcpdump or
wireshark on the FreeBSD system to monitor the traffic between the
Linux system and the Cisco while connecting and doing something
simple
is there anything specific I should look at for switches or
just dump /dev/ad2s1 | restore?
Use:dump 0af - | restore -rf -
It would be advisable to read the dump and restore manpages first.
In 6.1, and I suspect still in 6.2, restore -r should be used only
when restoring onto an
Can someone confirm that these two lines are the same
-or- if one is preferred over the other ?
Code:
192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,-b,-i 0 0
192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,bg,intr 0 0
I've never seen the style of line 1 before,
no idea whether it would work or not.
there is also the droboshare. great little fileserver.
Last I knew Drobo supported only Samba, not NFS -- but that
was some time ago. Have they come out with an upgrade?
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You can always try to tar it up directly
tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/
Does it actually work to write to a burner without intervention by
the likes of cdrecord or burncd? If so, should it also be possible
to burn an existing .iso by something like
dd if=cd1.iso of=/dev/acd0 bs=64b
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
describe something more.
and what you mean rehash?
Rehashing forces the shell to reinitialise (for want of a
better term) so that it rechecks the path and can sometimes
discover new programs installed if they don't seem to work ...
I'd like to ask which sizes are comfortable to use for reading
from different media using the dd utility ...
In case anyone still cares, I have long used bs=120b for floppy
disks.
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... bsd.own.mk can be ahead of the man page.
Perhaps the OP would consider writing a sed script to generate
/usr/share/examples/etc/src.conf from /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk
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I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD
(6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64).
What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines,
but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture.
I also want to make rebuilding indexes run as
before starting to code on my own, I'd like to ask if there's
already a tool to uncat files, defining the file separation
position as a string of bytes, usually given in hexadecimal form.
An example could be this:
% uncat -p 0x12,0x52,0xf1,0x09 file_orig
It creates file_1
I'm searching for monkeys or intruders ...
Brief power outage, perhaps? Some BIOS have a selection of what to
do when power is restored from an outage, typical choices being to
start up, remain off, or return to the state before power was lost.
Others may offer only the first two, or be
1755708928*1024/512 = 3511417856 blocks. This number is larger
than 2^31, which techinically isn't a problem because the NFSv2
spec says that the filesystem size is unsigned. FreeBSD treats it
as signed, though, so it can display negative free space when
root starts using its 8% reserve, so
Brief power outage, perhaps? ...
note: the box is a laptop; I hit the power-off button and pulled
out the 220V power cable of the power-supply from the outlet
(that's why later the laptop after 2h uptime failed with battery
empty) ...
So much for the power-bounce theory.
Perhaps you have
you could rebuild df to print its numbers as unsigned
instead of signed. Just watch out if your local filesystems
start eating into their 8% reserve, since they'll start
reporting huge values.
Or patch df to print local filesystem sizes as signed -- so
that the reserve
I want to use SVN to automate the update process of a custom
application. So, I'm planning to indicate to every PC to update
periodically to a specific branch of the repository. The problem
is that I need to be sure the files where not corrupted during
the transfer. So, I'm planning to
huff@ newfs /dev/da3a
/dev/da3a: 78167.2MB (160086512 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
using 426 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes.
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624, 3010976,
...
I did consider running it off a straight cd, but I alter my routes
enough through various tunnels I have established that this would
be a pain. (i.e. updating vtund configs) ...
System on CD, reading config from floppy?
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Tim Judd gmail.com!taj...@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 23:48 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
I did consider running it off a straight cd, but I alter my routes
enough through various tunnels I have established that this would
be a pain. (i.e. updating vtund configs)
You can always check out ... from a date before its removal from
the ports/ tree ... If you need help with maintaining a local
copy of the relevant ports ... let me know and I'll write a short
mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and
building them as local ports.
This
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Robert Huff wrote:
Has any one seen more on this?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10170648-1.html
http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp
They claim only Linux support for the brick, but the blurb on the
88F6281 system-on-chip processor claims BSD
g_vfs_done():da4s1d[READ(offset=261868847104, length=16384)]error = 5
...
1. This only happens on drive-bay 4. If I swap the 300 Gig drives
around, they are all happy in any drive-bay but number 4 ...
2. The old 145Gig drives work perfectly in any bay, including bay 4.
... Why would one
Chris Rees googlemail.com!utis...@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
That passage says that any agreement with the knowledge of the
relationship in good faith is valid.
Where does it mention the difference between a click-through
licence and an oral agreement?
With apologies to a certain former U.S.
Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net wrote:
On Saturday 28 February 2009 23:06:10 Fbsd1 wrote:
I am looking for software like portmanager/portmaster but works
on the package system instead of the port system. Is there such
am application available?
Not (yet). Without /usr/ports it's
If the machines have floppies, there are downloadable floppy
images.
Is anyone aware of a simple method to construct a bootable
zip-drive image from the floppy images and/or bootonly.iso?
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Our NFS servers for user home directories are on FreeBSD (6.4),
MacOSX (10.5), Linux (still 2.4 kernel) and Tru64-UNIX boxes; NFS
clients are mostly Linux (2.6 kernel) and FreeBSD (6.4, 7.0, but
w/o kernel lockd) systems.
I have seen problems with NFS locking even in completely homogeneous
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Monday 23 March 2009 19:59:36 John Almberg wrote:
What I'm looking for is a utility that can scan a LAN for attached
clients... i.e., computers that are attached to the LAN.
I have one box (an appliance that I have no
Polytropon edvax.de!free...@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:39:38 +0100 (CET),
Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote:
From a terminal window command line xbiff -geometry 50x50-5+5 puts
it in my upper right corner, [...]
Do you use -5 to get rid of a window border added
Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote:
If the connection is down, I am probably NOT using the PC. Hell,
if the power is out for more than 30 minutes, my UPS is dead so
I am most definitely not using the machine.
So you never experience connectivity problems for any reason other
than a local power
Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists.
Johnson's Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere
within the organization.
Author unknown: If someone *does* know what is going on in the
organization, that person must be
O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:
I need to fetch a whole directory tree from a public remote site.
The top level directory and its subdirectories are accessible via
ftp:// and http:// so I tried fetch, but fetch does only retrieve
data on file basis and does not copy a whole
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote:
But I do need to figure out how to get the subversion archive (not
a particular branch of the archive, the whole kit and kaboodle).
devel/svk? (From a mention last December; I have not tried it.)
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Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote:
My suggestion is to start with a ports tree that is fixed in time.
Make that ports tree available as part of this package system and
compile a typical desktop set of ports ...
Isn't this exactly what is currently done as part of a release? The
ports
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote:
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote:
But I do need to figure out how to get the subversion archive (not
a particular branch of the archive, the whole kit and kaboodle).
devel/svk? (From a mention last December; I have
Trying here, after no answer on usb@
When I plug in the reader, I get (on the console):
umass0: SDMMC M121 USB 2.0 SD/MMC READER, rev 2.00/2.01, addr 2
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: USB 2.0 SD/MMC Reader \001\000\000? Removable Direct Access SCSI-0
device
da0: 1.000MB/s
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Are you sure that the drive isn't partitioned? In other words,
if you plug in the drive, and you give the command 'ls /dev/da0*',
do you only get /dev/da0 or perhaps also /dev/da0s1? If it is
partitioned, try /dev/da0s? instead.
It's an SD card, not a
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:47:23PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
It's an SD card, not a drive, so I had not expected it to be
partitioned; but yes, it is:
$ ls -l /dev/da0*
crw-r- 1 root operator0, 244 Feb 14 15:09 /dev/da0
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:47:23 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
It's an SD card, not a drive, so I had not expected it to be
partitioned; but yes, it is:
$ ls -l /dev/da0*
crw-r- 1 root operator0, 244 Feb 14 15:09 /dev/da0
crw-r- 1
Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com wrote:
I could also distribute the ports tree ...
I wonder if it's necessary to distribute the entire ports tree.
Perhaps it would suffice to distribute a timestamp for csup/cvsup
to retrieve the appropriate version.
Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su wrote:
... [svn] needs python26, perl and tcl - all the three of them ...
It seems you may have discovered the significance of the name:
it subverts the sysadmin's sanity. Maybe it can find practical
use as a meta-port for scripting languages, if someone cares
O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:
At this very moment I utilise a M-Audio 5.1 PCI-audio board with
which I'm really satisfied. My next box doesn't have PCI slots
at all ... I look for the Soundblaster X-Fi range of PCIe cards,
It's possible to get an adapter that plugs into
I wish to use the \033]0;%s\007 sequence in a shell-script to
set the title of a terminal. But only if I am able to undo it.
My requirement is that this must be done without using anything
outside the base system.
There is an escape sequence which will cause the terminal to echo
back its
Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote:
I'm playing around with diskless operation. I'd like to be able
to run privileged commands when a user logins or logs out:
- on login, nfs mount the user's home directory (ok, not critical,
I can mount /home)
Or, better yet, use an automounter.
-
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
What's the sequence for reading the terminal title?
If I remembered it I'd have included it :)
The first 3 results from Googling xterm escape sequences are
rtfm.etla.org/xterm/ctlseq.html
www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Xterm-Title.html
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
Is there any app or web site where you can select from a bunch of
math symbols and arrange them on-screen ... pre-drawn symbols that
could be moused around?
If not for the WYSIWYG requirement I'd suggest some variant of TeX.
Based entirely on reputation,
Doug Sampson do...@dawnsign.com wrote:
I need to do this at the command prompt for all directories:
...
r...@aries:/data/Products# getfacl . | setfacl -d -b -n -M - .
Now, I have thousands of subdirectories that I want to apply this
to. When I attempt to use the xarg command with the above
Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com wrote:
* Warren Block (wbl...@wonkity.com) wrote:
When you upgrade from 7.x to 8.x, it's necessary to rebuild
*all* ports.
...
Some people only use console, they should rebuild all ports
relating to their work.
They do not have to rebuild KDE or
Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote:
... I really cannot understand why nobody can change
just one parameter and put the file in a proper place in
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/
I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped
Marco Beishuizen mb...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Fot the first time in years I had a kernel panic in FreeBSD
(8.0-ST). While playing a flash movie in Firefox (3.6),
everything just locked up and only resetting helped. After the
reboot it wrote a corefile in /var/crash/ which is unfortunately
too big
Angelin Lalev lalev.ange...@gmail.com wrote:
So, SSH uses algorithms like ssh-dss or ssh-rsa to do key exchange.
These algorithms can defeat any attempts on eavesdropping, but cannot
defeat man-in-the-middle attacks. To defeat them, some pre-shared
information is needed - key fingerprint.
Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote:
What happened to Diffie-Hellman? Last I heard, its whole
point was to enable secure communication, protected from both
eavesdropping and MIM attacks, between systems having no prior
trust relationship (e.g. any sort of pre-shared secret)
Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote:
If your program never frees any memory, then there is never
any garbage to collect.
Last I knew, garbage collection refers to tracking down and
reclaiming allocated memory to which no valid references exist.
The particular example given here is
Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote:
what would lead malloc() into calling abort()?
Everything seems to be in order.
Something may have trashed its internal data structures.
I'd suggest a close look for things like buffer overflows.
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Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote:
When you execute a script ... the aliases are
ignored. Is there some way to fix this ...
Search for expand_aliases in the bash manpage.
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Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/27/10, Ron (Lists) rg.li...@rzweb.com wrote:
Is there a way to get my freebsd/postfix setup to send push
notifications to an iPhone ... I know it can be done with
Exchange and ActiveSync, but I don't want to run any kind of
exchange server.
Wouldn't
Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote:
For ActiveSync at least, the phone has to keep a TCP connection to
the server open 24/7, and the server sends a notification when a
new mail arrives. MobileMe probably works the same way. The IMAP
protocol supports a similar notify on new mail
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes:
Ident queries like this will cause a delay if the other side
doesn't respond respond to the ident query ...
I consider it polite for firewalls to actively refuse to open
the
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
One fairly well-known super computer class architecture from the
mid 1960s ran without *any* error checking in the CPU *or* main
memory. Dr. Seymour Cray analyzed things and concluded the
significant extra component count for just doing 'parity'
Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote:
In my read-only CD-ROM boot case, /var is created as a MFS device
automatically and populated, but a basic directory layout only is
used. Nothing from the CD-ROM /var is copied into the MFS /var
that is created.
I cannot figure out how BSD can do
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
... they are only attached for power purposes ...
Input power: DC 5V 500mA
Any chance these speakers need a USB 2.0 port, and all the ports
on your FreeBSD box are 1.x? I don't remember the USB power spec
offhand, but 2.5W may exceed
Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html
rant
This is absolutely the worst section of an otherwise great
handbook ... Nothing short of a rewrite from scratch could
fix it ...
As always, I'm sure a patch -- to provide that rewrite --
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote:
I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand
new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it ...
If speakers on USB 2.0 card, all else on 1.x builtins doesn't
work, you might want to try a power adapter
Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:
Has anyone (everyone?) else been receiving these DSNs a week or so
after having posted to freebsd-questions@ ? Since around early
April?
I've had four such in the last three days ...
If it's 'just me' I can block their source, but if more widespread
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
One bounce is bad enough if it goes back to the whole list
-- but that could be excused as a momentary aberration.
Any more than that is grounds for reporting the message to
postmas...@freebsd.org and having the sender blacklisted:
anyone
Graham Bentley ad...@cpcnw.co.uk wrote:
Could anyone using a network laser printer post
their working /etc/printcap entry?
Having mixed results getting a Kyocera FS-1010
working consistently on both ascii ps
These entries work here on 6.1:
lp|Samsung ML-2571N PostScript network printer:\
John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote:
There are better systems that have a pure honeypot which actually
accepts mail (and add the IPs that send mail to a blacklist)
OK - where do we find one of THOSE?
Unfortunately, THOSE may be a bit too simplistic :(
Someone forges an email appearing to come
John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote:
I wouldn't need to create a new e-mail account, I've already
got lots of them that seem to be pure spam magnates, including
man (the manual pages psuedo-user) which are getting stuff
sent to them all the time. I'm pretty sure that anyone sending
to
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
A non-ZFS boot drive results in immediate, _guaranteed_,
down-time for replacement if/when it fails.
Not if it is gmirrored and hot-pluggable.
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Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.org wrote:
tcsh is not a shell ...
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/
If you are _that_ strongly opposed to (t)csh, sir, I submit that you
are wasting your time reading and posting to a FreeBSD mailing list.
Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se wrote:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:26:12AM -0500, Frank Solensky wrote:
In sys/netinet/ip.h, the first octet of the ip header structure
tests the byte ordering to determine the ordering of the header
length (ip_hl) and version (ip_v) fields.
My
?? avs...@mail.ru wrote:
... how best can I repay you all?
IMO, by paying it forward: as you become more familiar with/
knowledgeable of FreeBSD, continue to read freebsd-questions@
and assist when able.
Everyone here was new to Unix and/or to FreeBSD at one time.
Some of
ste...@mailer3.nospam.homeip.net wrote:
With FreeBSD 8.2R and Firefox 3.6.13:
When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too),
the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good.
When I do the same on Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get clear
output.
...
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
The motherboard doesn't recognize a USB stick for booting
unfortunately. The motherboard manual is dated 2006 so
I think its just too old for that.
This
http://www.plop.at/
can be loaded off just about any device the system _can_ boot from,
and stands a
John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote:
[robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash
umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy
... The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully
has the device open just in case you might want to ask questions
about it.
I that case, shouldn't
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
lsof reports nothing open on either the mountpoint or the device.
fstat blames gam_server:
% fstat /home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage/
USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W NAME
wblock gam_server 1409 776
I am looking for a way to write into the kernel message buffer --
the one that dmesg prints out -- from a userland program, to help
in relating kernel printf messages to the userland operations which
provoked them. (Yes, I am aware of the potential DoS implications:
the capability should be
Maxim Khitrov m...@mxcrypt.com wrote:
... these deviations should be noted in the man page to
help eliminate such surprises. A single sentence would
have sufficed in this case.
As always, I'm sure patches would be welcome :)
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