Re: time_t definition

2013-01-20 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On 1/16/13 1:14 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 01/16/13 03:00, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Looks like gcc47 checks the printf format string (-Wformat) Disable this check or convert your time_t. Yes, I know gcc47 checks the format string. But, time_t is of type int32, from a typedef statement.

Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 2:54 PM -0600 9/9/10, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 04:28:59PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: I believe early X11-distributions had a script called "lndir" would pretty much do exactly what you want here. And then there was a companion command called "break

Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 1:24 PM -0400 9/9/10, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I want to make it so every file is a seperate symlink in dir2 if and only if it is a regular file (not a dir) in dir1... the reason is if the file is unchanged then use symlink but I can rm the symlink and replace it with a non-symlink: To show the

Re: Is this bunk.

2010-08-22 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 1:25 AM +0100 8/23/10, Garry wrote: Mac OS X is basically BSD that's been appleised (serious vendor lock-in), they do give a little back to BSDs, but have made sure that BSDs can't get much off of them, but they can get a lot out of BSD. Mac OS is the Mach kernel, plus a userland and unix l

Re: RootBSD?

2010-04-09 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 9:04 AM -0400 4/6/10, Tom Ierna wrote: Hi, Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? I'm looking to move an office-hosted machine's services to the cloud, and they seem to be one of the only VPS companies centered around BSD support instead of Linux. I've been using them for a few yea

Re: Newsyslog mode on /var/log/security?

2009-03-29 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 8:08 AM +0200 3/30/09, Roger Olofsson wrote: Garance A Drosehn skrev: At 10:48 PM +0200 3/29/09, Roger Olofsson wrote: I seem to have forgotten something about /var/log/security and newsyslog.conf. I get wrong mode after the trim. Excerpt from /etc/newsyslog.conf: /var/log/security

Re: Newsyslog mode on /var/log/security?

2009-03-29 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:48 PM +0200 3/29/09, Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, I seem to have forgotten something about /var/log/security and newsyslog.conf. I get wrong mode after the trim. Excerpt from /etc/newsyslog.conf: /var/log/security 644 7 5000 * JC Are you sur

Re: Looking information about CF files of LPD

2008-11-14 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:55 PM -0700 11/13/08, Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: Hi: I have the idea of had seen the description of the content of CF files, but I can't find anymore in the handbook. That information had been removed? There's some RFC for it, but pretty much nobody implements CF-files in t

Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

2008-10-11 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 9:33 AM -0700 10/11/08, Kelly Jones wrote: ...but has anyone considered tweaking newsyslog to name files messages.2008-10-05-12-00-00.gz or something. IE, give them a constant name that doesn't change and then delete them after how many ever days? It would be bad to change the default behav

Re: newsyslog.conf / rotating logs based on size AND time

2008-08-07 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:17 AM +0200 8/5/08, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: My question is how can I make sure the logs are rotated when they grow too large AND they are also rotated at a specified point in time (start of a new month). I am reading man newsyslog.conf and it says: If the when field contains an asterisk

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 7:02 PM -0400 6/20/08, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hello all, I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the format of the a

Re: Asus eee (was Re: G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?)

2008-01-18 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 9:14 AM -0500 1/2/08, Ed Maste wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:20:22PM +, James Jeffery wrote: Before i end the toipic, anyone got any feeback on the Asus Eee (mini laptops) with FreeBSD? It works, but no drivers exist for the wireless or wired Ethernet ports. The wireless is a new

Re: LPRng question and printing in general

2007-12-08 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 2:07 PM -0700 12/8/07, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I would like to ask people who use LPRng spooling system on FreeBSD to clarify something for me. I have never used LPRng in production, although I know the guys in our (RPI) CS department used to use it for their printing world. I also notice

Re: portupgrade modifys EVERY +CONTENTS now?

2007-08-06 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 2:55 AM -0400 8/6/07, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: Ok. But I part of my question to people , and reason for posting it here, is the old "Is anyone else seeing this". When/if you use portupgrade, does it do the same for you? Or is it just something that I happened some how to inherit on a

Re: PRs dead

2006-11-24 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:13 PM +0100 11/24/06, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Since the move to the new servers my followups disappear in an unknown black home. Others told me that the same happens to the PRs they try to send. I understand that unexpected things happen, but this is basic infrastructure that doesn't work fo

Re: Apache log rotation question...

2006-11-03 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 5:02 AM +0900 11/4/06, Curtis Jewell wrote: My question really is, does newsyslog send the signal at the right time [after the rotation is done, per http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html#rotation ] and does it do the lines in order???) You can see what it will do by running newsy

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-09 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 9:32 AM +1000 8/9/06, Antony Mawer wrote: What if we improved upon this - if instead of storing the hostname and IP address, we stored a one-way hash of this information? OpenSSH in recent versions takes the same approach with its authorized_keys files... A scattered list of ideas: It migh

Re: Unable to Print

2006-08-01 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On August 1/2006, I (Garance) wrote: Check to see if you have multiple versions of 'lpr' running. *If* you do, then the results that you see will probably depend on which version you run. What I meant to say was: Check to see if you have multiple versions of `lpr' *installed*. See what you

Re: Unable to Print

2006-08-01 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 5:05 PM -0400 8/1/06, Gerard Seibert wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 The printer on my system is connected to a WinXP machine. I installed apsfilter to configure the print setup. Everything appears to be working and I can print to the printer from within apsfilter. However, when I attempt to print either

Re: log file rotation

2006-01-17 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 9:23 AM -0600 1/17/06, Jason King wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:16 -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:23:25AM -0600, Jason King wrote: > Hmm, when I run newsyslog I get the following message: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] newsyslog -vv > newsyslog: malformed 'at' value: >

Re: log file rotation

2006-01-16 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 2:50 PM -0600 1/16/06, Jason King wrote: My maillog and daillog files have stopped rotating everyday like they use to. I have 2 FBSD machines that have stopped these files from rotating as of Dec 15th. I have no idea what could have caused two different machines to have the same thing happen t

Re: 4_stable changelog

2005-12-14 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 4:00 PM +0100 12/14/05, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. Since a server of mine is behaving strangely lately, and since I've seen some patches going round lately, I'm considering upgrading from 4.11 (latest patchlevel) to 4-STABLE. I downloaded the source, but /usr/src/UPDATING says almost noth

Re: Apache log rotation

2005-10-19 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:00 PM +1300 10/19/05, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:54:15PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: [...] Is there a clean way to rotate these logs a la newsyslog? I know I can use newsyslog to rotate them, but then how to notify Apache to use the new log files? I don't expect

Re: Looking for other UNIONFS users ...

2005-10-04 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 9:45 PM -0300 10/4/05, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I've been talking to one developer that would be interested in fixing UNIONFS, but due to the # of bugs that existed *before* the VFS changes, the "fix" is going to involve a complete re-write, instead of just adding more bandaids and patches. S

Making UFS snapshots

2005-08-07 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 1:48 AM +0300 8/7/05, Michael Dexter wrote: Hello Garance and all, Garance wrote: I think there's a writeup somewhere on making/using snapshots. I'll see if I can remember where it is. Any pointers are appreciated. Seriously, I can't find any useful documentation on how they work or what

Re: 5.x separate /boot slice?

2005-08-05 Thread Garance A Drosehn
While this is a reply to a private message, I'm also sending it back to freebsd-questions. I would rather not spend this much time writing up information for a general topic, and then send it to just one person... Given how often this topic comes up, my hope is that other users might find these

Re: 5.x separate /boot slice?

2005-08-04 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 12:56 AM +0300 8/5/05, Michael Dexter wrote: I would like to try a separate /boot slice as permitted by FreeBSD 5.x... I missed the beginning of this thread. Where did you get the impression that FreeBSD will work if you create /boot as a separate partition? Search the list. This comes

Re: Shell script frustration

2005-07-28 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:10 AM +0100 7/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Garance wrote: > What I do in this cases is create a script called "list_args.sh": #!/bin/sh printf "\nlist_args.sh at `date +%H:%M:%S` with \$# = $#\n" # Process all parameters. N=0 while test $# != 0 ; do N=$(($N+1)) printf

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 6:24 AM +0100 3/4/05, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Jesse Guardiani writes: > Doesn't the boot partition have to NOT have soft updates > though? That's your choice. By default, it won't, since data loss is more likely with soft updates (anything that doesn't immediately write everything physically

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 2:06 AM -0800 2/12/05, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: For the last time, it is not the contest that I and others are objecting to. I am glad to hear that this message was the last time you mention it. Thanks. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:09 PM -0800 2/10/05, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > While you seem determined to pretend that Robert Watson is > somehow the sole person interested in this, let me note I am > one of the FreeBSD committers who would like to see some new > ideas for a logo. Good. At least you have my respect n

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 8:13 PM -0500 2/10/05, Mike Hauber wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 05:49 pm, Technical Director wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > No. While Beastie is cute and well executed, it's not > professional graphic art. Here here... Rob. I have two questions. These are no

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 5:27 PM -0500 2/10/05, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 02/10/05 03:31 PM, Jacob S sat at the `puter and typed: And a very poor example, IMHO. Can you give any proof that it's a valid example to say that Christians object to the use of the acronym "daemon" in Unix-like operating systems? I have not be

Re: changing logo

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 3:36 PM -0600 2/10/05, Tom Mecke wrote: Many people may think twice about donating money to the project if you are worrying about trivial complaints about a cute little "daemon" logo instead of directing energy all to the project! Oooo. I work on FreeBSD for free. I get zero money from it. Al

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 12:50 AM -0800 2/10/05, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: No, sorry. The core team apparently feels that the way to do things now is to made decisions of this nature first, then have discussion later, rather than the reverse which previously has been the case. This contest came out because the developers

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 12:50 AM -0800 2/10/05, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: It is clear from reading both lists that much of the anger is based upon false assumptions, misinformation and incomplete editing of the leaked document. Sorry, but that is false. Much of the anger is based on Robert Watson (and whatever other

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:59 AM -0500 2/10/05, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > Logos need to be as neutral as possible, since they will be > very widely used and very heavily imprinted in customers' > minds. They must not conjure up thoughts of anything except > the brand they represent. Neutrality is purely objective

Re: newsyslog.conf question

2004-09-28 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 7:38 AM -0700 9/28/04, Ronnie Clark wrote: Hello all, Having read the man page for this file's configuration, I notice there is not an option to digitally sign the logs on rotation using PGP/GPG. Is there a workaround? or are there plans to add this functionality to future versions, like 5.3 -ST

Re: alternative method for make / install world --- ?

2004-06-24 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 4:14 AM -0400 6/24/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all, I have recently been mulling over an article which proposes an abridged set of steps for updating the system. --- http://www.bsdnews.org/03/bsd_update.php alias rebuild 'cd /usr/src && make update && make world &&