Re: Creating freebsd usb boot

2013-07-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:01:10 +0300, Erhan Gulsen erhangulse...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am Erhan,i have a problem,i read your all definition but i can not create usb boot FreeBSD,i have a ubuntu 12.04 operating system.I want to create it with FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso but when i try

Re: Bill Paul's network drivers

2013-07-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:28:39 -0300, Michel Behr michelb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm considering learning how to build drivers, so I can make my Lenovo S400 wireless card get detected by FreeBSD. The Architecture Handbook cites these Bill Paul's network drivers. 9.5 Network Drivers: Drivers

Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX

2013-07-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:35:00 -0700, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I have been using rsync with Mac OSX with no issues until today. I generally use it instead of the copy command because if the copy fails on large files, I can pick up where I left off. I have backed up entire Final

Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX

2013-07-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 14:48:03 -0700, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.grwrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:35:00 -0700, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I have been using rsync with Mac OSX with no issues until

Re: FFMpeg and FreeBSD

2013-06-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:25:19 +0930, Shane Ambler free...@shaneware.biz wrote: On 27/06/2013 09:57, Simon wrote: Hello Everyone, Does anyone use the latest FFMpeg version 1.2 and FreeBSD? How did you compile it? did you run into any issues? The FFMpeg port is 6+ months behind and I feel

Re: ZFS on MBR does not boot at all

2013-05-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 05 May 2013 17:56:49 -0500, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/5/2013 3:20 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hi David, Thanks for following up with what the real problem was. I updated the Wiki to include this: Note that partition order is important. It seems that zfsboot

Re: ZFS on MBR does not boot at all

2013-05-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:29:18 +0200, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/4/18 David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com: Hello, I would like to use ZFS over MBR for multiboot purposes. I've followed that guide https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition but it does not

Re: svn new pkg system

2013-03-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2013-03-09 22:04, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Giorgos Keramidas writes: Is svn going to become part of the base system in 9.2-RELEASE? No. [good reasons for not including subversion ellided] On the other hand ... The traditional - and I believe still canonical

Re: svn new pkg system

2013-03-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:39:50 -0400, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:18:04 -0400 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: No body has made a case for NOT including svn in the base system. If it can be a port there is no reason why it can not be

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:30:22 +0100, Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org wrote: Hello, Zitat von Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr: If this is a UFS2 filesystem, it may be a good idea to snapshot the filesystem, and then rsync-backup the snapshot instead. Last time I tried UFS2

Re: svn new pkg system

2013-03-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:25:22 -0500, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Is svn going to become part of the base system in 9.2-RELEASE? No. Subversion is a large system, with a ton of dependencies, and there's basically _nothing_ to gain by having to spend extra effort trying to keep an imported

Re: Zlib version in FreeBSD - 3 releases behind?

2013-03-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2013-03-06 08:06, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 03/05/13 16:12, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2013-03-04 07:28, KrisUniverse kris.unive...@gmail.com wrote: The Zlib baked into FreeBSD is Zlib 1.2.4 even on 9.1R. However, Zlib has gone to 1.2.7 sometime ago after stepping

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2013-03-04 03:35, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: As a result of this past Black Friday weekend, I now enjoy a true abundance of disk space, for the first time in my life. I wanna make a full backup, on a weekly basis, of my main system's shiny new 1TB drive onto another

Re: backspace shows ^? in serial communication

2013-02-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2013-02-26 23:40, s m sperado_n...@yahoo.com wrote: hello all, i have problem with backspace in freebsd 8.2. when i run a serial program to communicate via a serial port to the other system, backspace shows ^? in opened terminal. i use termios and fcntl to open, read, write and close

Re: Fun Scripting Problem

2013-02-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2013-02-13 12:27, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I know how to do this in Python, but I really want to do it in straight Bourne shell. I have some ideas, but I thought I'd give you folks a crack at this Big Fun: a) You have a directory of files - say they're logs - generated

Re: shell scripting: grepping multiple patterns, logically ANDed

2012-06-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:25:46 -0400, Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: hello, I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but here goes. I have the following in a shell script: #!/bin/sh if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then find /foo fi if [

Re: opening a shared object / failing with Undefined Symbol.

2011-03-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Jim stapleton...@gmail.com wrote: I have an application that opens two .so files with dlopen(3):  /usr/local/lib/libag_core.so  /usr/local/lib/libag_gui.so Both files exist Running nm(1) against each produces a lot of output, showing all the symbols I know

Re: license of the code in freebsd documantation

2011-03-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
2011/3/3 Kouichiro Iwao m...@club.kyutech.ac.jp: I'm writing a script based on the code in freebsd docs, and caring about the license of it. The original scripts are example 6 and 7 of the following page. How do I have to treat my code if I distribute it?

Re: switching from gnu make to bsd make

2011-02-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:59:14 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From: Vikash Badal vikash.ba...@is.co.za Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:30:02 +0200 Subject: RE: switching from gnu make to bsd make -Original Message- From: Polytropon [mailto:free...@edvax.de]

Re: switching from gnu make to bsd make

2011-02-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:26:13 +0200, Vikash Badal vikash.ba...@is.co.za wrote: Make all produces the follow output: make all cc -o bin/nntpd -lpthread -lmysqlclient_r -Wall -g -Iinclude -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/mysql -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib/mysql obj/log.o

Re: nedit problem

2011-02-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:33:50 -0700, Fred Boatwright f...@blakemfg.com wrote: Hello, After updating all ports on 8.1-RELEASE, nedit has a problem. The right mouse button works ok in the toolbar but if it is pressed in the text area, for example to copy a block of text, the cursor changes

Re: gmake format

2011-01-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:37:58 +1000, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: You'll have to excuse my ignorance (and my curious mind...), but I can't seem to find a straight answer to this. I know linux uses gmake, and gmake is installed via ports on FreeBSD, but does that

Re: Running two daemon instances -- rc.d or not?

2011-01-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:16:29 -0500, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: I need to set up a server with two instances of SphinxSearch searchd (listening on different ports, of course). What's a good way to do it? Copying /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch2

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:51:45 -0600, David J. Weller-Fahy dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com wrote: * Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr [2011-01-19 02:57 -0500]: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:02:56 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: In ancient times man was originally a shell script. What is old is new again. Is this a consequence of the move to mdocml instead of groff? No, we are still using groff's groff_mdoc(7) package for authoring

Re: How to adjust man page line length

2011-01-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, David J. Weller-Fahy dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com wrote: To expand on the question in the subject: How

Re: How to adjust man page line length

2011-01-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, David J. Weller-Fahy dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com wrote: To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly easy way to do this, or confirmation it

Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

2011-01-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 22:19:02 +0100, Tony Maserati ableton...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm just curious - what's the point of including X11 as a dependency to vim? And then making a vim-lite port (which you usually discover after installing X11). How about making it vim and vim-x11 instead? Maybe

Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

2011-01-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:43:13 +0100, Tony Maserati ableton...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 22:19:02 +0100, Tony Maserati ableton...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just curious - what's the point of including X11

Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

2011-01-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:02:35 -0500, Ed Smith abandon.every.h...@gmail.com wrote: This seems bizarre. Logically, it would seem better to do a split like vim (bare vim - what you would expect) and xvim (vim with X11) similar to how emacs does emacs/xemacs. XEmacs[1] is not 'Emacs with X11

Re: How to clean system

2011-01-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:18:07 +0200, Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: Hi System have many programs. Wanna to upgrade to new version of FBSD Is it possible to clean system from garbage (all programs, files, header files, except configuration files) like installing FBSD from CD? is

Re: How to clean system

2011-01-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:41:24 +0200, Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: GK On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:18:07 +0200, Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: Hi System have many programs. Wanna to upgrade to new version of FBSD Is it possible to clean system from garbage (all programs, files,

Re: is there a best online python tutorial?

2011-01-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 13:29:44 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, I actaully have studied python...but only for about twenty minutes); maybe a few days, actually. What is the best online tutorial to learn python? With ink+paper book, altho in lots of ways I prefer real books,

Re: Where to post FreeBSD tutorials?

2010-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:17:31 -0500, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: If I write a document about how to do something with FreeBSD, is there a good place to post it, or a link to it? Something like how to edit a video in FreeBSD, not official documentation. I usually have to google things to

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:31:37 -0800, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: Giorgos == Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr writes: Giorgos Edit it's 'Makefile'. Look for an assignment of the form: Minor nit... that's its not it's. If you can't say it is or it has in place

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:49:25 +1000, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Pardon me for being the queer one to ask this- but how does one force/override building a port marked as broken? I'm not about to run a make install clean on it, but I would like to at least have a

Re: FreeBSD IPSec stack contains backdoors?

2010-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
The FreeBSD security officer team has already written an official response about this. Please have a look at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2010-December/005746.html Regards, Giorgos On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:28:37 +0600, Victor Lyapunov fullblastst...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: FreeBSD IPSec stack contains backdoors?

2010-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:36:39 -0500, Mike L jackoro...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@freebsd.orgwrote: The FreeBSD security officer team has already written an official response about this. Please have a look at: http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition

2010-12-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:57:33 +0100, bsd b...@todoo.biz wrote: Le 15 déc. 2010 à 16:45, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit : On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:11:45 +0100, bsd b...@todoo.biz wrote: Is there a way to dd to a file to create an iso image and then restore (still using dd from this image). I only have

Re: Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition

2010-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:11:45 +0100, bsd b...@todoo.biz wrote: Is there a way to dd to a file to create an iso image and then restore (still using dd from this image). I only have one IDE -- USB cable so this is the reason why It'd more simple for me to create an iso image of the disk and then

Re: Kind of off topic.

2010-12-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:21:06 -0600, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Hello all. A friend is asking me to help him to solve some problem he has in his servers. To some I would be able to connect using ssh, with other just it i snot possible. I remember that on the windows world

Re: Want sendmail applying aliases to 'cc:' field too

2010-12-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:12:17 +0300, c0re nr1c...@gmail.com wrote: I do use aliases file and I know what is it. But it looks like not this case. I want Cc: be rewritten like in aliases file defined in Cc: header, not only those one that comes in RCPT TO:. And sendmail does not do it with Cc:

Re: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 08:17:17 +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot zszal...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, 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

Re: Thanks.

2010-11-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:25:31 +0330, Mohsen Mostafa Jokar mohsenjo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Thank you very much. You are welcome :) I want make a new community of FreeBSD for my country, i think i must serve a domain like you tell me. if i serve a domain, second step what is it? i want

Re: Sendmail Question: Smart Host Round-Robin In Mailertable?

2010-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:51:59 -0500, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: A bit OT, but I'm hoping one of you resident geniuses can point me to an answer I have a situation where I need to set up round-robin across several smart hosts in the sendmail mailertable for all traffic. (For

Re: gzip tries to unpack/pack 1st the filename of $GZIP

2010-10-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:36:59 +0200, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, I was facing a problem in some Makefile/shell-scripting and finally I could nail it down: when you set the environment variable GZIP to something, for example to let it point to gzip itself, it tries 1st to

Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:24:50 -0400, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com 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

Re: Writes to Hard Disk Going Beyond Capacity

2010-07-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:10:31 -0400, Patrick Donnelly batr...@batbytes.com wrote: Hi List, I have a strange problem in a C program I wrote. I open a hard disk character file (/dev/ad1) and attempt to write over the entire disk. I expect the last write that would go beyond the hard disk

Re: fetchmail certificate verification messages

2010-07-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 23:36:58 +0200 (CEST), Marco Beishuizen mb...@xs4all.nl wrote: Hi, I'm seeing in my logfiles a lot of messages like these from fetchmail: Jul 3 22:02:54 yokozuna fetchmail[1437]: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate in certificate chain Jul

Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable=YES - which instructions executed?

2010-07-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:10:41 -0700 (PDT), Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@yahoo.com wrote: My rc.conf file has this entry: gnome_enable=YES Q: Where on my hard drive can I find the instructions executed to enable GNOME? A: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gnome [bad answer: file does not exist]

Re: .sh check for numeric content

2010-06-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:19:53 +0200, Thomas Keusch f...@bsd-solutions-duesseldorf.de wrote: t...@eternity:~$ b=5 t...@eternity:~$ case $b in [0-9] ) echo numeric ;; * ) echo alpha ;; esac numeric t...@eternity:~$ Works for me. Depending on what numeric

Re: Perl Dumping Core

2010-06-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:18:19 +0100, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 16/06/2010 15:11:15, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am running 8.1-PRERELEASE and seeing a half dozen of these a day: (perl5.10.1), uid 0: exited on signal 11 Anyone have theories on this? You have a

Re: Too many defunct processes; kill -9 not working

2010-06-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:08:58 +0300, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Lately I've been getting a considerable number of defunct processes. I do not know of any major event that changed my computer (ie it is not related to an ports update or a freeBSD upgrade). This is often caused by me

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 07:57:51 -0400, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:19:08 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr articulated: You can always install bash with pkg_add. The default package is not built as a static binary, but you can compile a static

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 22:35:09 +, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas terie...@gmail.com wrote: hello, i am coming from the linux world where i was using the bash shell but i found out that there are also much more. can u tell me the basic differences between them?(pros and cons) It isn't humanly

Re: two questions....

2010-06-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:04:20 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: guys, i just found a truckload of Just Outstanding fonts. at the CTAN .org site there must be hundreds of these superb serif typefaces. in my /home/kline/ directory, i have a ~/.fonts directory. but it's been awhile

Re: text editor

2010-05-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:59:00 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here: keram...@kobe:/usr/ports/packages/All$ ls -ld vim* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 5757731 1 Απρ 17:11 vim-lite-7.2.344.tbz Does Vim install more than the

Re: text editor

2010-05-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:36:53 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here: keram...@kobe:/usr/ports/packages/All$ ls -ld vim* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 5757731 1

Re: text editor

2010-05-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:36:31 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Been using ee and been happy. Now I have need for an editor with block commands. Put dd on the first line of sequence number you want to start deleting and dd on the last line of the block and hit enter and the block of

Re: sh script writing help

2010-05-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 30 May 2010 13:14:01 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: In a .sh type script I have exerr very long message gt 250 char all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit. Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line so I can see it on the screen and still have

Re: text editor

2010-05-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:28:27 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:31:59PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: If you don't mind the size of the respective packages, both VIM and GNU Emacs have support for many features that ee(1) lacks. I'm not sure why you

Re: Cloning question

2010-05-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 26 May 2010 22:33:16 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ipv6canada.com wrote: I've written a few howto's on backup/restore/cloning in the past, but now I have a question that I hope to have quickly answered. I'm not looking for criticism on my approach, only on whether it will work. With

Re: Bash lockups

2010-05-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 21 May 2010 09:30:05 -0700, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote: Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr writes: Does this lock-up happen if you leave the shell 'idle' for too long over an ssh session? There may be problems with stateful connection tracking between your terminal

Re: Bash lockups

2010-05-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 19 May 2010 16:14:52 -0700, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote: I have been experimenting with FreeBSD for a while, and I consistently get bash lockups at irregular intervals when it is otherwise idle. By lockup, I mean that it stops responding to the keyboard and uses 100% CPU. It

Re: Suspect results from iostat--FBSD bug?

2010-05-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 5 May 2010 07:34:55 -0500, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: We use iostat to collect statistics of hard drive activity. We've been seeing some values for the transaction wait column that look suspicious. This is easy to reproduce by just running iostat repeatedly over a short

Re: newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

2010-05-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 5 May 2010 08:01:26 -0700, Paul Hoffman phoff...@proper.com wrote: Greetings again. Running FreeBSD 8.0, I have added the following to /etc/rc.conf: newsyslog_flags=-a /usr/old-log/ I have stopped and started newsyslog. However, the rotated logs are still being written into

Re: reoeating, which port offers blog-style feedbak?

2010-04-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:48:49 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, I'm creating another virt website and intend to publish things that users could respond to. It is also time to rethink my JOTTINGS thoughts and put each of the 15 sections|chapters into a format where readers

Re: version/revision control software for things mostly not source

2010-04-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:34:19 +0300, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: I've looked at SVN and it looks reasonably easy to grok, but reading the Version Control with Subversion book... it seems there is no actual way to truly erase/delete/destoy/purge a part of an existing repository? This

Re: setting sendmail.mc options?

2010-04-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 03:53:18 -0700, Jeff Hamann jeff.ham...@forestinformatics.com wrote: I'm sure this isn't the correct place for this question, but I'm not sure where to go as I only use my FreeBSD Unleashed to admin my sendmail. I'm a newbie at this and could use a little help. I'm

Re: How to make man pages

2010-04-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:49:04 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: For the questions list archives: I wrote an How To Creating a manpage from scratch. You can read it here. http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4602 Thanks to all the people who replied to my post. Nice post.

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:01:53 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: thanks for your url as well and the others to posted. but it seems like overkill since i dont need any explicit option or argument. i just need the script to tell me whether i have an arg or not. following is something

Re: How to make man pages

2010-03-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:54:25 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit it with ee? And how do I turn the

Re: emacs-23.1_3,1 - 23.1._4,1 upgrade

2010-03-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:22:12 +0200, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote: There was an emacs upgrade in the ports today, but it fails: ... image.o(.text+0x6674): In function `png_load': : undefined reference to `png_check_sig' image.o(.text+0x6db4): In function `png_load': : undefined reference

Re: How to send a patch in a proper way?

2010-03-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:20:49 +0100, Adam PAPAI w...@wooh.hu wrote: Hi, As of today I'll try to help and create bugfix patches for usr/src and usr/ports. I've already done 2 patches and posted it to the -current list but don't really know what is the best way to post the patches. Who will

Re: Custom Kernel to Memory Stick

2010-03-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:49:08 -0500, Jay Hall jh...@socket.net wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been asked to explore the possibility of booting FreeBSD from a memory stick. This was not a problem; worked great when installed from the distribution CD. What would be the best way to get

Re: sendmail UTF-8

2010-03-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:29:27 +0100, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, I want to sendout mail the following way: sendmail -t filename where the file 'filename' contains some header lines, especially To: Subject: and From: and as well the body of the mail; all is in

Re: make buildworld runs out of space

2010-03-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:38:06 -0700 (PDT), Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I have built two machines with 8.0-STABLE-201002-amd64. When I updated the sources and ran make buildworld process it would fail claiming that / was full. It seems to be running into the problem when the make

Re: mailing list archive as mbox

2010-03-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:08:32 +0100 (CET), Alexander Best alexbes...@wwu.de wrote: Dan Nelson schrieb am 2010-03-07: In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said: hi there, what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire mailingslist archive of lets say

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:26:20 +0200, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: See the section 3.17.14 Intel 386 and AMD x86-64 Options in the gcc Info manual. It contains a full list of the supported CPU-TYPE values for the -mtune=CPU-TYPE option. The -march=CPU-TYPE option accepts the same CPU

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:38:45 +0800, Aaron Lewis aaron.lewis1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I gonna recompile kernel for my core2 CPU , so i'd like to pass some flags to gcc. Kinds of -march=core2 , i tried to modify /etc/make.conf e.gCFLAGS += -march=core2 -O20 -ffast-math

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:37:27 +0800, Aaron Lewis aaron.lewis1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul B Mahol wrote: On 2/28/10, Aaron Lewis aaron.lewis1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I gonna recompile kernel for my core2 CPU , so i'd like to pass some flags to gcc. Kinds of -march=core2 , i tried to modify

Re: Mailing lists link in handbook redirects to......

2010-02-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:22:32 +0100, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: If I do host lists.freebsd.org lists.freebsd.org is an alias for wwwdyn.freebsd.org. wwwdyn.freebsd.org has address 69.147.83.38 wwwdyn.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:fff6::26 wwwdyn.freebsd.org mail is handled

Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:32:20 -0800 (PST), Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wearab...@yahoo.ca wrote: Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: NetBSD needs a *very* minimal set of POSIX tools to build, e.g. you can get away with an sh(1) utility and a pretty basic make(1) tool. They have

Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:09:54 +0530, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: here is excellant intoduction to NetBSD-5.0 http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html certain statements are very impressive in those slides like Build any NetBSD platform from any POSIX environment $ uname -s -m

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:04:00 +, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@black-earth.co.uk wrote: On 11/02/2010 05:23, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? For most purposes, what's

Re: python script to backup installed packages

2010-02-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:15:12 -0600, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes you have need to backup installed packages. I realize most port management tools do this automatically, but if you're on a system with a lot of packages installed and one port management tool fails and

Re: python script to backup installed packages

2010-02-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:35:16 -0600, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the tips, I may add some of your functionality to my own. I think I might add a couple more features like accepting a backup path from the command line and an auto create for the dir if it doesn't

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:35:17 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: On 10/02/2010 11:10 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the alternative to get a boot image to

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? For most purposes, what's important is not the account name, but the User II. Root is special because it has UID 0. You can, create other accounts with UIS

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:58:07 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:00:00PM +, Frank Shute wrote: AFAIK, the system compiler is going to be clang in the future and for ports you'll install a compiler from ports. Can you provide a URL for some discussion of

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:59 +0100, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: On the page http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html Syntax is shown as: language_name:accounts_title:\ :charset=MIME_charset:\

Re: make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc

2010-01-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:59:16 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I've seen this behaviour for years, but never bothered to ask why. Imagine I already have in /etc/mail local .mc and .cf files. Imagine I then update freebsd.mc. When I run make nothing happens. What I think

Re: FreeBSD sources from svn repos

2010-01-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:51:26 +, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, I am confused about FreeBSD versions maintained in svn repos 1. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.0/ 2. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/8.0.0/ 3. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/ (2) is

Re: Setting zfs_arc_max value in FreeBSD 8.

2010-01-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:49:15 +0530, Sherin George l...@sheringeorge.co.cc wrote: Hello, I am trying to tune ZFS file system by setting zfs_arc_max value in FreeBSD 8. In solaris, it is achieved like this == === For example, if an application

Re: vi editing

2010-01-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:37:49 -0800 (PST), gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi gurus: I am trying to add a word on every line (right in front of every line) via vi. Right now I have: x x x after that, I want to have: new word x new word x new word

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:11:12 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: On Wed 23 Dec 2009 at 22:33:20 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I can still login as regular user, and when I run 'pwd -P' the output is / and then it goes back to the prompt. Output of 'ls -ld /home is: lrwxr-xr-x

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:13 -0800, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:29:18 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: My bet would be /usr/ports/editors/hexedit. Been a while since I've used it, but AFAIR, it has a curses or a curses like interface, and it's fairly simple to use, yet sufficiently powerful for most normal binary

Re: Have not received emails for a few days now....

2009-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:28:41 -0500, jw011235 jw011...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting. I assumed it was a gmail issue because my openvpn mailing list on the same gmail account disappeared at the same time. Clearly bad to assume... There was indeed a problem with mailman's handling of posts

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:49:10 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: But aristotle is halted and I am back into learn mode. This sentence probably belongs in a fortune cookie collection somewhere. Hah! :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

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