Devin Teske wrote:
> sysinstall probes hardware when it starts. Therefore, after making
> changes (specifically after writing) to the disk in the FDISK
> partition editor, you need to Ctrl-C and Abort-out and relaunch
> sysinstall so that it probes the new disk devices (ad4s1, ad4s2,
> etc.) befo
Warren Block wrote:
> >>> % man csh | less +/rehash
> >>> [...]
> >>> Error executing formatting or display command.
> >>> system command exited with status 36096
> >>> Error executing formatting or display command.
> >>> system command exited with status 36096
> >>> No manual entry for csh
> >
Chad Perrin wrote:
> Plus . . . I like pie.
A bit out of season, aren't we? It's nowhere near 1 minute before 2
on March 14.
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"Svein Skogen (Listmail account)" wrote:
> On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >> El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline
> >> escribi?:
> >>> PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX
> >>> 780 days :-)
Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?:
> > PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX
> > 780 days :-)
> I booted my first UNIX V7 tape on a PDP-11 around 1982, I think.
Gotcha beat :) UNIX V6, PDP-11/34
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Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Monday 27 September 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > I've recently started on a new system, and am planning to
> > install 8.1-RELEASE, including the corresponding ports tree;
> > then install what ports I can from packages and also fetch the
> > corresponding distfil
Steven Friedrich wrote:
> ... tried sudo mail. I got root's mailbox nd I deleted all but two
> emails. When I q(uit) mail, it said it saved 2 messages in mbox.
> But when I try to go back in it says I don't have any mail. There
> is no root directory in /var/mail.
>
> Did sudo lose my mbox?
"mbo
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 26/09/2010 13:30:19, Michel Talon wrote:
> > Matthew Seaman said
> >> Be aware that installing the ports tree from the DVD images
> >> is not the ideal way to do it ... it is better to ... grab
> >> an up-to-date copy of the ports directly from the net.
> >
> > I disagr
Warren Block wrote:
> If someone comes up with a working GDI printer emulation layer,
> that would make a great port.
They already did, and it's already in ports.
It's (part of) wine.
Unfortunately it uses CUPS.
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> > > Personally, for bulk printing, and even more so for
> > > intermittent printing (the kind where ink dries up and gets
> > > tossed away when you use the printer once every blue moon),
> > > most users would save a _LOT_ of money by looking at a laser
> > > printer instead.
+1
> > > Take a g
Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > "Common Unix Printing System" certainly sounds as if the intent
> > was to be the "ONE thing that is used for printing". Whether
> > they did a good job of it is another question entirely :(
>
> I think that you don't fully apreciate the task at hand. When
> Unix was
Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:10:45 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > Polytropon wrote:
> > > I would like to have ONE thing that is used for printing,
> > > and that does support ALL printers ...
> >
> > Isn't that exactly what CUPS is supposed to be?
>
> Obviously not.
Er,
Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, wrote:
> > > Next fdisk/gpart accordingly (don't forget to make it bootable).
> >
> > This is where I get stuck. I've partitioned the physical drives
> > using sysinstall, but how do I go about partitioning gm0?
>
> Your problem is that
Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:14 PM, wrote:
> > The part I don't know how to do is partitioning gm0 by hand.
> > (I suppose it would require some sort of arcane incantations
> > involving bsdlabel.) For all its limitations, sysinstall
> > seems at least to know how to tran
Polytropon wrote:
> I would like to have ONE thing that is used for printing, and that
> does support ALL printers ...
Isn't that exactly what CUPS is supposed to be?
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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 12/09/2010 05:09:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > How do I get sysinstall to recognize a gmirror?
> > ...
> I don't think sysinstall will do what you want.
It certainly has been less than totally cooperative so far :(
> However, what is your ultimate goal?
> To in
How do I get sysinstall to recognize a gmirror?
I've created the mirror -- which currently has only one provider --
using Fixit#, followed by
Fixit# ln -s /dist/boot/kernel /boot
Fixit# gmirror load
after which /dev/mirror/gm0{,a,b} exist. However, even after
rescanning the disks, sysin
Victor Sudakov wrote:
> ... the 'fwd ... keep-state' statement does create a useful
> dynamic rule. It contradicts the ipfw(8) man page but works ...
Hopefully someone who understands all this will submit a patch
for the man page :)
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mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
> ... PCBSD can install a typical FreeBSD install without all of
> the PCBSD extra packages.
Is there a writeup somewhere on how to do this, much preferably
involving something like memstick rather than having to burn a
CD or DVD?
I wrote:
> The good news is ...
>
> Fixit# ln -s /dist/boot/kernel /boot
>
> after which "gmirror load" works, creating /dev/mirror/gm0{,a,b}.
and the bad news is that it still doesn't work:
* "gmirror load" did create /dev/mirror/gm0{,a,b}, and it produced
no output on stdout or stderr, but i
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> If you've been able to run 'gmirror label' then geom_mirror.ko is
> almost certainly already loaded into your kernel, making 'gmirror
> load' superfluous. Check using kldstat(8).
Fixit# kldstat
Id Refs AddressSize Name
11 0xc040 bb5504 kernel
It looks
Frank Shute wrote:
> Drew, try this:
>
> * ^From:.*famous-smoke\.com
>
> I think it's not catching it because the period isn't backslash
> escaped ...
Unless there's some edge case that I'm not thinking of, adding a
backslash to escape a period will never convert a non-match into
a match. An un
Fixit# gmirror label -vb round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0s2a
appeared to work properly. (I didn't write down the exact
message, but it said something about the metadata having
been written successfully.) However:
Fixit# gmirror load
gmirror: Command 'load' not available.
and it did not create /dev/mir
Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 09/03/10 09:19, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > Chris Rees wrote:
> >> You have to SIGHUP cron, not restart it.
> >> # killall -HUP cron
> >
> > Isn't crontab(1) supposed to do that, without separate
> > intervention?
>
> From man cron
>
> > Additionally, cron checks
Erik Trulsson wrote:
> So, yes, FreeBSD 8.1 *should* be able to recognize
> an ATAPI Zip drive.
No great urgency -- I won't need it during the install
and no specific plans even after that -- but any ideas
how to go about tracking this down?
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Two questions about installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a Dell Precision 420
(yes, I know it's old):
1. Should FreeBSD 8.1 be able to recognize a 100MB ATAPI Zip drive?
I'm not finding it in the dmesg, although BIOS Setup recognizes
it. (It and a CDROM are on the secondary IDE channel; I've tried
Chris Rees wrote:
> You have to SIGHUP cron, not restart it.
>
> # killall -HUP cron
Isn't crontab(1) supposed to do that, without separate intervention?
> On 2 Sep 2010 21:11, "patrick" wrote:
>
> I recently upgraded a FreeBSD 7.0 system to 8.1-RELEASE (via
> freebsd-update) and am experienci
Rem P Roberti wrote:
> Brother! Muttprint is now working fine. The problem: the printer
> was offline! Now, before you go accusing me of being a complete
> dufus, let me say that I had no way of knowing that that condition
> existed. The printer itself indicated that it was online---no
> prob
Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:59:46 -0700,
> Rem P Roberti wrote:
> > At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/,
> > which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have
> > system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or
> > Mutt?
>
>
Polytropon wrote:
> > tar -cf ports.tar /usr/port
>
> It should be, better suited:
>
> # cd /usr
> # tar cf ports.tar ports
>
> So one could do "tar xf ports.tar" in the target machine's /usr
> ...
Better put the created tarfile somewhere other than in the directory
that is being
Fred Boatwright wrote:
> Until FBSD X is working on the pc I have to use Netscape 4.79 on
> a Sun running Solaris 2.6 (which I would prefer to keep using if
> only a modern browser was available) ...
If the problems with X on FBSD are limited to the X "server"
(display subsystem), perhaps you ca
"Jason C. Wells" wrote:
> By process of elimination (swap cables, swap ports, try different
> host pairs) I was able to discover that a single server on my home
> LAN was getting about 1.6% performance compared to other servers
> getting 94%
...
> What would be the next step to figuring out why th
Scott Bennett wrote:
> No packages appear to be available for these ports.
As of a week or so ago, freebsd.org (and presumably at least some of
the mirrors) had openoffice.org-2.4.3_2.tbz among the 8.1 packages.
I didn't check any other releases.
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Aram H??v??rneanu wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:38 PM, wrote:
> > I've read the Handbook sections on gmirror and gjournal, and
> > the gjournal-desktop article, and I'm still unclear on how to
> > go about setting up a configuration that uses both.
>
> I have GPT disks and do GEOM mirror f
Adam Vande More wrote:
> > * Since I can't mirror or journal a FAT32 slice AFAIK,
>
> You can do both to it, it just won't be able to handle the journal.
> Mirroring is just fine. GEOM stuff works at the block level making
> it filesystem independant.
Wouldn't journalling a FS that doesn't supp
krad wrote:
> have a play with the latest pc-bsd disk if you are having issues.
> It will install a native freebsd, and supports gmirror and
> gjournal. You can do it via a script type install or GUI.
I'm not to the point of having issues yet :)
I haven't found any instructions on the pc-bsd si
I've read the Handbook sections on gmirror and gjournal, and the
gjournal-desktop article, and I'm still unclear on how to go about
setting up a configuration that uses both.
* Since I haven't started the installation -- thus the partitions
haven't even been created yet -- it seems as if it "sho
When installing from the 8.1-RELEASE memstick, what is the correct
selection for Installation Media? I'm not finding any mention of
memstick in the Handbook.
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Luca Renaud wrote:
> I updated my system from FreeBSD 8.0 to 8.1 using the tool
> freebsd-update. As far as I know this tool only updates the
> core system and user land utilities, thus, all other apps
> are not updated.
Correct.
> I use the gnome desktop, and I regularly receive the warning fr
"Thomas Mueller" wrote:
> > Should I be able to do a network install of 8.1 using a 7.3 boot
> > floppy set? (I'm not planning to set up zfs, at least initially.)
...
> I once net-installed FreeBSD using a boot CD from an earlier
> version; I think it was a disk one rather than boot-only ...
> I
Frank Shute wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog
> > than i had YEARS ago. cannot find.
> >
> > it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii. things like
> >
> >
> >
> > # Bill's birthday:
> > 08 08 echo "Sen
I'm trying to solve a chicken-egg problem.
I need to boot from floppy to install 8.1, and I don't already have
a running 8.1 system on which to build a set of 8.1 floppy images.
(The machine in question is an oldish Pentium-III that only boots
from its hard drive or from floppy -- the BIOS claims
Gary Gatten wrote:
> Will someone PLEASE kill this thread! Moderator(s)?
Er, questions@ is not moderated ...
You are, of course, welcome to add a rule to your procmail
or whatever to delete these messages before you see them.
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"Jack L." wrote:
> Oh, they aren't on the freebsd package sites due to some of the
> dependencies having licensing issues preventing it from being
> built automatically (java). That's why there's a seperate site
> for them.
The 8.1 package collection on freebsd.org includes OOo 2.4.3.
Unless OOo
"Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" wrote:
> Pan (god of the shepherds) ... partially resembles a goat.
And thus, when a critic Pans a show, he gets the performers' goat?
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Aiza wrote:
> ... see a big inconsistence in how ports list build-deps
> and run-deps. Some ports list no build-deps just run-deps
> and vise-versa and some have same listed list in both.
None of these is necessarily wrong. A port consisting solely of a
Perl script would have no build-deps -- t
Chip Camden wrote:
> Personally, I like the devilish association, however indirect
> it may be. FreeBSD is somewhat counter-cultural and anti-
> authoritarian, after all.
This discussion has drifted badly OT, but I feel compelled to
point out that Christ Himself was very counter-cultural and an
Anonymous wrote:
> Dmitry Lunts writes:
>
> > Hello,All!
> > There is debugfs program dealing with ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems.
> > Is there some tool in FreeBSD with functionality analogous to debugfs
> > which can operate on UFS2?
>
> Not sure but fsdb(8) may help.
Before the development of fs
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Fix your ports supfile: for ports you /always/ want HEAD ...
s/always/almost &/
If one wanted to download a copy of the ports tree as it existed
when, say, 6.1 was released, specifying the corresponding tag would
be the way to get it. Granted one seldom wants a frozen c
CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
> ... Alas, this box lacks obvious serial ports.
If you don't mind taking it apart, there's a fair chance of finding
a 3- or 9-pin SIO header on the circuit board. It may be TTL level
rather than RS232, however.
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Charlie Kester wrote:
> Can PowerPoint save to PDF, which is what almost
> everyone else seems to be using for presentations?
Just about any app, including PPT, can print to PDF if Acrobat
is installed. Without Acrobat, print-to-file specifying a
PostScript printer (e.g. an Apple LaserWriter) w
mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
> Robert> Anybody else familiar with TECO? <*EVIL* grin>
> I wrote a screen-based editor in it, having heard of Emacs,
> wanting to do the same thing.
Didn't Emacs start out as a reimplementation of TECO in Lisp?
_
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Young whippersnappers. *Eight* was the good old days,
> back before the web was invented.
Dept of (in)famous last words:
There is no reason for anyone to have a computer in their home.
-- Gordon Bell, founder of DEC
No one will ever need more than 640K.
-- Bill
Fbsd1 wrote:
> Been using ee and been happy.
> Now I have need for an editor with block commands.
...
> Is there any editors with a function like this?
Either vi or emacs can do this general sort of thing.
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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> ... I don't think you could get support cover with a 4 hour
> on-site response from Soekris...
OTOH, given the price difference, one could afford to keep a
whole spare system on hand.
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Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> >> I'm using FBSD 8.0-STABLE and trying to connect to a Cisco
> >> VPN at work. Windows PCs connect with the basic Microsoft
> >> dial-up networking client. Thus I assume pptpclient is my
> >> answer for FBSD.
> >
> > I would think GRE would be the answer here.
> >
Chip Camden wrote:
> Does anyone have a recommendation for NAS that works well for
> both FreeBSD and Windows clients?
IME, among commercial offerings, virtually all support SMB (via
Samba) but only the high-end (large & relatively costly) ones
support NFS also. (A while back, the largest Buffa
Robert Huff wrote:
> I seem to have lost the bookmark, but within the last 18
> months or so I saw an article for something that might work here.
> It ran Linux, so hopefully it would run *BSD.
> It had a 1 ghz processor, and 512 mbytes of RAM.
> The package was a a cube. 2"x2"x
wrote:
> And the fsck:
>
> # fsck
...
> ** /dev/aacdu0s1e (NO WRITE)
> ** Last Mounted on /var
> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
> ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
> ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
> ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
> UNREF FILE I=23587 OWNER=root
> MODE=100644
> SIZE=0 MTIME
Jamie Griffin wrote:
> When it crashes, i've noticed another error that shows on the console:
>
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so:
> Undefinded symbol "xf86LoaderReqSymLists"
^^
> ... not sure what that means exactly, any ideas?
Among other things
John 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 "m...@starfire.mn.org"
John 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 from one of yo
"Graham Bentley" 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:\
:sh
Matthew Seaman 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 that configures a mail ser
Ian Smith 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
> I'll ask our
Programmer In Training 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 that has a USB host
c
Ian Smith wrote:
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html
>
> 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 --
would be welcome.
_
Programmer In Training 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 what a USB 1.x port can su
Peter Steele 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 this automagically,
Robert Bonomi 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'
> checking, let alone
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Matthew Seaman 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 connection (TCP reset) rather than just dropping the request,
>
Dan Nelson 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" option, but for
> some r
Tim Judd wrote:
> On 3/27/10, Ron (Lists) 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 push email be a functio
Manish Jain 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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Peter Steele 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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Scott Bennett 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 sufficiently trivial not
Olivier Nicole 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) ...
>
> I am not expe
Angelin Lalev 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.
What happened to Diffi
Marco Beishuizen 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 to read by
Piotr Lukawski 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
because few current (o
Pongthep Kulkrisada 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 GNOME, for exa
Doug Sampson 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 command
> modifi
Gary Kline 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, I'd think PowerP
Warren Block 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
www.kitebird.com/csh-tcsh-boo
Erik Norgaard 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.
> - on logout a syst
> 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
"O. Hartmann" 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 a PCIe slot and
provides a P
Victor Sudakov 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 to
add ruby to the
Greg Larkin wrote:
> ...
> > truncate -4 myfile should get rid of the last four bytes. Maybe
> > there's a similar efficient way to truncate the start of a file.
>
> This should do it:
>
> dd if=oldfile of=newfile bs=1 skip=4
Or, perhaps marginally more efficient:
dd if=oldfile of=newfile bs=4
Oliver Mahmoudi wrote:
> you can try to delete the /dev/ad10 entry with sed and then just
> append it to the end manually using the printf(1) utility like so:
>
> # ls /dev/ad* | sed s/"\/dev\/ad10"// | grep "/dev/ad" && printf
> "/dev/ad10\n"
Or strip the non-numerics from the beginning of each
"Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote:
> If one can't even install from the distribution CDs/DVDs
> on perfectly good hardware ... it's not like the whole SATA
> interface standard is exactly ``new'' or anything anymore.)
>
> ... Should I stick my neck out and label this PR
> either severity==critical or pr
Mihai Don??u wrote:
> I don't think the kernel is the one that initializes the
> 0, 1 and 2 file descriptors (stdin, stdout and stderr).
Correct so far.
> I think you have to open them yourself ...
No, the shell does it. That's how it is able to set up
pipes and redirection.
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Gary Kline wrote:
> the keybd isn't the problem ... problem is that on my KVM
> switch are only ps2 plugs. on the back of the dell are USB
> jacks. i need something to convert from the PS2 plug to
> fit into the USB
Such things do exist:
http://www.amazon.com/Adesso-Adapter-connects-con
> > > ... If you are refering to a kind of
> > > hard disk, use "disk" with k. Think like "diskette". If you
> > > are refering to optical media, use "disc" with c. Think like
> > > "CD = compact disc".
> >
> > An arbitrary convention adopted by you and a few other people
> > does not invalidate th
Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> ...
> > Q1: Is 26M free space on / after installing FreeBSD normal?
>
> It depends on the FreeBSD version, and whether you installed
> the kernel with debug symbols. 430 MB space used in the
> root file system isn't completely uncommon.
>
> Nowa
Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> After some time I cannot open any new windows in X,
> I get
> No protocol specified
> Error: Can't open display: :0.0
>
> This is on i386 9.0-current with ... xorg-7.4_2,
> xorg-server-1.6.1,1, xf86-video-intel-2.7.1
...
> After logging into X via xdm I can
Jerry wrote:
> Waiting until someone is harmed is tantamount to being an
> accomplice to the act.
And providing details of a currently-undefendable vulnerability
to a black hat who did not previously know about it, thereby
enabling the black hat to perpetrate harm that would otherwise
not have oc
Roland Smith wrote:
> Writing a driver to detect if headphones are connected sounds
> much more complicated to me than connecting a couple of switches!
> I mean, you'd have to measure something like the impedance of
> the jack. Surely that is more expensive than a simple switch?
Or use a simpler
Mel Flynn wrote:
> On Monday 07 September 2009 05:09:53 Michael David Crawford wrote:
> > > M> I'm looking for a pseudo-checksum tool for use with
> > > M> cataloging images.
> > One way you could approach it might be to use a blur filter ...
> > Small differences in individual pixels would be blu
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