On Wednesday 12 September 2012 22:29:45 Gary Kline wrote:
how, with mtree, could I tell whether dir1 == dir2 or not?
From the manpage:
``The mtree utility compares the file hierarchy rooted in the
current directory against a specification read from the standard
input. Messages are
On Wednesday 12 September 2012 08:31:45 Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 12/09/2012 00:14, Polytropon wrote:
% cksum directory
[snip]
That will give you a checksum on the directory inode -- file names and
associated metadata only, not file content.
[snip]
Generally I find the best test for
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 15:41:05 David Jackson wrote:
So this is clearly not about portability, FreeBSD is free to implement
these software interfaces to assure that software is portable to FreeBSD.
Really? You make software portable by writing it to one environment and then
changing every
On Friday 22 June 2012 07:04:35 Bernt Hansson wrote:
I want to whish all a very mery Midsummer's Eve and Midsummer's Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer#Sweden
I appreciate the sentiment but it's midwinter here ;)
Jonathan
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On Wednesday 20 June 2012 12:59:51 Stephen Cook wrote:
On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote:
[snip childish invective]
I'm a relative newcomer. Are the FreeBSD mailing lists always this
flame-y? I realize that this particular post might be trolling / satire
No, they
On Monday 03 October 2011 14:05:42 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I tried sorting a file with a column of floating
point numbers (below) with sort(1) -n. However,
the numbers seem to have been sorted by the first
digit only.
sort -g
Due to the GNU project's obsession with info
On Tuesday 16 August 2011 12:13:24 Amanda Lynn wrote:
Hi!
[snip]
Regards,
Amanda Lynn
+(360) 488-0303
Google the phone number. This has cropped up here before iirc - I'm not sure
exactly what the scam is, but scam it is.
Jonathan
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On Thursday 12 May 2011 17:26:49 Chris Telting wrote:
On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
I'll say that again. It is inherently insecure to run an interpreted
program set-uid, because the filename is opened twice and there's no
guarantee that someone hasn't changed the contents
On Thursday 12 May 2011 16:13:50 Chris Telting wrote:
On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote:
I've googled for over an hour.
I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs
that are currently
On Wednesday 11 May 2011 04:19:29 Devin Teske wrote:
The reason that the suid bit doesn't work on scripts (shell, perl, or
otherwise) is because these are essentially text files that are interpreted
by their associated interpreter. It is the interpreter itself that must be
suid.
I'm pretty
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 17:58:33 David Scheidt wrote:
ps ax | grep [s]lapd | wc -l
The [] creates a one-character class that doesn't match the regex. Easier
to type and grep should be a bit faster.
And you can save another process by using
ps ax | grep -c '[s]lapd'
Although as
On Monday 10 January 2011 15:02:35 Ed Smith 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.
Er, no. xemacs is a fork of emacs. emacs has X-related dependencies
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 12:32:00 S Mathias wrote:
cat asdf.txt
bla-bla
bla-bla
bla[XYZ]
importantthing
another important thing
[/XYZ]
bla-bla
bla-bla
[XYZ]
yet another thing
hello!
[/XYZ]
bla-bla
etc.
$ SOMEPERLMAGIC asdf.txt output.txt
$ cat output.txt
importantthing
On Thursday 09 December 2010 01:07:38 Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Chuck Swiger wrote:
You don't magically get immunity from SQL injection by using
JDBC or EOF or whatever, but using bound variables in queries rather
than feeding user input into raw SQL, or invoking stored procedures
or
On Friday 05 November 2010 22:51:01 Robert Bonomi wrote:
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Nov 5 02:26:31 2010
From: Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:27:38 +0200
Subject: Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE
On Friday 05 November 2010 09:28:27 Ian Smith wrote:
But you don't always have any control of what parent nameservers do;
eg we do DNS for a .com but both NS are in .au so DNS reports always
whinge about lack of glue
They should be whingeing about lack of clue (their own) unless I'm horribly
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote:
I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find
it incredible that there is virtually no support for modern hardware;
i.e., drivers for 'N' protocol devices. That one factor alone, and there
are others, precludes me
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 15:47:36 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote:
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote:
I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find
it incredible
On Wednesday 15 September 2010 13:02:41 Jerry wrote:
It took years, literally, before FreeBSD matured enough to get 64-bit
drivers for nVidia working correctly on its platform. The failure to
get the latest version(s) of Java working correctly on FreeBSD and
thereby, at least in my case, make
On Friday 13 August 2010 15:47:38 Jack L. Stone wrote:
The only thing it didn't do for me was the next step. My final objective
was to really determine the words in the word.file that were not in the
main.file. I figured finding matches would be easy and then could then
run a sort|uniq
On Wednesday 11 August 2010 03:07:32 Rocky Borg wrote:
You should probably preface this by saying you're the author of Qjail
and have been actively promoting it in a few places including the fbsd
forums.
That's interesting, given that you're replying to Fbsd8
fb...@a1poweruser.com. The
On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:39:37 Matthew Seaman wrote:
But what about hard links? I hear you ask. Simple:
find /usr/lib /lib -name '*.so.*' -links +2
+1 surely? + modifier in find(1) means ``more than'', not ``at least''.
Jonathan
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On Monday 14 June 2010 13:39:15 Carmel wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:41:19 +0530
Amitabh Kant amitabhk...@gmail.com articulated:
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote:
I saw a posting here months ago regarding a way to simulate running
a script under CRON.
On Thursday 10 June 2010 18:30:52 Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 10/06/2010 17:12:50, Jerry wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:12:48 +0200
Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za articulated:
Isn't that called VERP (variable envelope return path)? I agree - the
load it would impose isn't worth
On Thursday 10 June 2010 03:30:14 Pieter de Goeje wrote:
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 09:34:40 Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 09/06/2010 08:15:23, Eitan Adler wrote:
Why do I sometimes see the grep in ps's output and sometimes not see
it?
When you run that pipeline the OS doesn't start both
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On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:06:46 Rob Farmer wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Matthias Fechner ide...@fechner.net
wrote:
Hi,
Am 10.06.10 11:47, schrieb Jonathan McKeown:
Subject: [#24548754] Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:46:31 -0500
On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:51:42 Rob Farmer wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za
wrote:
[rant about midphase hosting and mpcustomer.com]
They posted in a previous thread about this, saying they couldn't
unsubscribe under their address, ie. somebody
On Thursday 10 June 2010 15:04:53 Matthew Seaman wrote:
The only other mechanism might be to tag each list e-mail with a unique
value for each recipient in such a way that it is preserved in the
message that mpcustomer.com's help system sends out. That has severe
problems of scale and load
On Sunday 30 May 2010 22:29:14 Alejandro Imass wrote:
Hi all,
I sent a question regarding a problem with USB and I get this in reply.
Can someone explain?
Thanks,
Alejandro Imass
Yes. There's a hosting company called MidPhase whose support queue (at
mpcustomer.com) has been added
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 11:13:13 Fbsd1 wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only
contain binaries installed from ports or packages.
No. The /usr/local
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 13:34:07 Jerry wrote:
I noticed that someone in another thread mentioned:
quote
(2010-03-22) added option to install Postfix into the base
/quote
I have not been able to locate that item. Could someone list the URL
for that notice or tell me where to look for it?
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 09:31:00 Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 30/03/2010 03:01:27, Tim Judd wrote:
I've never heard of either, but when I configure my IMAP server and
put any mail client to it, as soon as a mail is delivered, the mail
client is notified.
That's the IDLE extension to IMAPv4
On Saturday 06 March 2010 15:02:20 Martin McCormick wrote:
Fbsd1 writes:
just dd the image to what ever drive you want
That is the goal. The challenge is to launch a script
that detects when the boot device has been unmounted as dd will
not work on an active file system.
Martin
it
On Friday 05 March 2010 16:20:36 Aaron Lewis wrote:
Hi,
I installed some software from ports today , and it outputs some
useful information when finished.
e.g where its config file is
Due to some mistakes , i lost these important information , how do i
see it again ? Is there any
On Thursday 04 March 2010 19:13:36 Matthew Seaman wrote:
You got bitten by an ill-considered change introduced after the UPDATING
instructions were written. To work around it, you need to set
DISABLE_CONFLICTS when rebuilding the port, eg like this:
# portupgrade -m DISABLE_CONFLICTS=yes
On Sunday 17 January 2010 10:24:43 Matthew Seaman wrote:
Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
I'd be very happy if I could:
- fetch the distfiles, even if I have a conflicting port installed
- be able to use portmaster -o to switch from one port to an other one
that conflicts with it.
- be able to
On Monday 18 January 2010 17:48:37 b. f. wrote:
Argh! Stop! I wish that people who felt the need to add to this
thread would read the prior posts beforehand, and consider their
comments before posting.
I don't know why you assume people didn't. I read the whole thread. I saw
people who had
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 23:24:16 Linda Messerschmidt wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com
wrote:
It's defined in src/lib/libc/Makefile, so you should be able to remove
that line, rebuild libc and reinstall, and see whether your performance
issue
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 22:05:06 Peter Wemm wrote:
Daignostic message to trace mailing list processing, please ignore.
You have heard of freebsd-test@ , haven't you?
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On Friday 11 December 2009 08:17:06 Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
Please
see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
Just a side
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 09:15:43 Gary Kline wrote:
it's time to come clean an admit that i have never taken
advantage of the option that lets you press [???], then press
other keys in order so the result is like pressing multiple
keys at once.
i have never
On Thursday 29 October 2009 20:44:12 Martin McCormick wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas writes:
You should use a Perl or Python script, and a hash...
If you show us a few sample lines from the input file and how you want
the output to look, it shouldn't be too hard to quickly hack one of those
On Thursday 29 October 2009 21:58:54 Lars Eighner wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote:
sendmail is NOT a legacy application. It's actively being developed
ON FreeBSD. Actually, the maintainer(s) are doing a great job
Bullshit.
Why does sendmail call up the internet during
On Monday 26 October 2009 21:29:27 Yuri wrote:
It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail.
How many people actually use it? Very few.
Why isn't it moved to ports?
What is this anti-sendmail obsession people have?
Almost everyone I've ever spoken to about why they dislike sendmail trots out
a bunch of
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 18:04:41 Jacques Henry wrote:
Alternatively, from the commandline try
ntpd -g -q -c /etc/ntp.conf
The -g flag allows ntpd to set the clock once regardless of the offset
and the -q causes it to quit after setting the time.
I tried this command without
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 18:44:57 Jon Radel wrote:
Jacques Henry wrote:
I commented the commands involved and nothing changed... (with only 10
minutes of time difference)
The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is
hardly enough time to see if ntpd was slewing
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 16:59:27 Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Wednesday, September 16, 2009 06:08:50 -0500 Jerry ges...@yahoo.com
The backscatter is useful in a way, in that it confirms that my original
reasons for applying an ignore filter on Jerry's email address still apply,
but I wish a
[Agghh. To list this time]
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 20:03:19 Paul Schmehl wrote:
I found a sed tutorial once that did this, but I can't seem to find it
again. I have a file with multiple lines, each of which contains a single
ip followed by a /32 and a comma. I want to combine all
On Monday 31 August 2009 17:00:07 Jerry McAllister wrote:
Same response. Do your homework.
The nature of the OP's questions strongly suggested that we are doing his
homework. I'm surprised so many people spoonfed the answers rather than
pointing to resources like the handbook, as the first
On Friday 28 August 2009 10:54:19 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:35 +0100, Jeronimo Calvo
jeronimocal...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi folks!
Im trying to set up a reaaallly basic scrip to allow one user to shutdown
my machine without root permisions, seting up SUID as
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 15:44:41 Adam Vande More wrote:
[450 lines including multiple signatures and twelve levels of quoting, all to
say:]
Specifically what am I confused on? Or are you just going to continue
with the personal attacks? You've offered no technical rebuttal, simply
On Monday 24 August 2009 10:07:50 Olivier Nicole wrote:
Is there a command like fuser or lsof which can be used to determine
what files this perl instance is using? Any other ideas on how to figure
out what is going on here?
lsof is in the ports.
and fstat(1) is in the core.
On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:43:47 Mark Stapper wrote:
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
FreeBSD.
[snip]
To achieve this, there are two things that should be made
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 15:14:49 David Southwell wrote:
Hi every one
My understanding is that one uses the amd64 for building a kernel for
systems with Intel Quad Core processors.
It is helpful when naming conventions follow a logical strand. I mean why
does freebsd use a single
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 15:49:38 PJ wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:58 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would
overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that
files will not be
On Thursday 30 July 2009 23:14:39 PJ wrote:
But isn't it strange that it used to be pretty simple to upgrade and
update. But recently, I notice that communication between the developers
and users (or is it the manual page writers) are getting far away from
the realities of user/operational
On Wednesday 15 July 2009 12:45:02 Matthew Seaman wrote:
I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty
little feature. I'm surprised it's not been copied into other screensaver
applications since, as it's pretty simple. They just had a facility where
moving the
On Friday 10 July 2009 16:10:24 RS Wood wrote:
I run a small engineering company* that exchanges large files (CAD,
etc.) with clients, and I want to keep the docs off my email server by
setting up a stand alone FTP server where each client can upload and
download its relevant files. As such,
On Thursday 02 July 2009 07:21:25 Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com
wrote:
QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
prefer? and why?
Actually, I'm not a Linux user. But Linux was my first step into
using
This whole thread only really got started because I questioned Manish Jain's
assertion that there was no editor available in /bin.
To summarise:
There are several editors available ranging from ed (49604 bytes) and ee
(60920 bytes) (both with two library dependencies) to emacs (in ports;
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 12:59:13 Manish Jain wrote:
About ed first. I might annoy a few people (which would gladden me in
this particular case), but ed was just one of Ken Thompson's nightmares
which he managed to reproduce in Unix with great precision. By no
stretch of imagination would it
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:41:48 Manish Jain wrote:
I hope the next release will address these problems, as well as a pretty
reasonable request from me much earlier to move vi from /usr/bin to
/bin. Even in single-user mode, you almost always need an editor.
Which is why you have ed(1) - both
On Friday 12 June 2009 12:54:19 Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:45:59 +0200, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net
wrote:
Mel Flynn said the following on 2009-06-12 01:23:
FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 11 21:56:24 CEST 2009
r...@fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:06:06 Karl Vogel wrote:
Create 256 folders named 00-ff:
#!/bin/sh
hex='0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f'
for x in $hex ; do
for y in $hex ; do
mkdir ${x}${y}
done
done
exit 0
Or use
On Monday 08 June 2009 17:37:14 Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote:
may be this solution will help you:
[snip]
* * 31 1/2 *
* * 30 4/2 *
* * 28 2 *
This isn't right, surely? It goes wrong in August and stays wrong for the rest
of the
On Saturday 06 June 2009 05:43:15 Charlie Kester wrote:
On Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 15:06:40 PDT Paul Chvostek wrote:
If you elect to filter this person's traffic, and are concerned that
you'll continue to be inundated with replies, I'd like to suggest a
small procmail script I wrote years ago.
On Thursday 04 June 2009 17:28:56 Tim Judd wrote:
On 6/4/09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
Hello list,
Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation
CD, or must boot.flp be used as per
make your own CD
add file boot.config containing
On Thursday 04 June 2009 15:46:11 John . wrote:
Hello list,
Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation
CD, or must boot.flp be used as per
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-advanced.html ?
(the machine has no floppy drive (yet)
It's possible -
Hi Martin
On Thursday 04 June 2009 16:23:29 Martin McCormick wrote:
I have been asked to enable the following kernel option:
SetUID/SetGID - Allow directories to inherit their owner from the
parent directory.
The generic kernel under FreeBSD6.3 is what we presently use on
the
On Thursday 28 May 2009 22:52:47 Jerry wrote:
Did you ever bother to consider that if the printer manufacturers
actually formed a consensus on a printer language, some third world
county or the EU would probably sue them. Nothing I have seen in 20
years equals the audacity of the EU. As long
[Sorry for the excessive quoting - I couldn't decide which bits to take out]
On Friday 29 May 2009 12:48:00 Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:36 +0200
Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote:
On Thursday 28 May 2009 22:52:47 Jerry wrote:
Did you ever bother to consider
On Monday 11 May 2009 21:38:50 Saifi Khan wrote:
Hi all:
The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process
identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1.
[snip]
How does the labelling logic work ?
FreeBSD reserves numbers for devices that aren't currently connected, so that
On Friday 01 May 2009 22:43:51 Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
Let's say we have a system that is backed up regularly and it
vanishes in a puff of smoke one day. One can get FreeBSD
installed on a new drive in maybe half an hour or
On Monday 04 May 2009 15:59:14 Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
If you have kept the right information beforehand, you can actually
restore your dumps onto ``bare metal'' without doing a partial install
first, and with the same newfs
On Thursday 16 April 2009 12:27:04 Mel Flynn wrote:
But yes, all-depends-list is exactly that, with the provision
that it does not take changed OPTIONS into account.
That's what I suspected you were saying yesterday, and it seems to be wrong.
Try this (assuming you haven't already
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 21:02:08 Mel Flynn wrote:
On Monday 13 April 2009 03:56:15 Tim Judd wrote:
make all-depends-list
Two things:
1) It surpresses config target and if a port has OPTIONS set, then you may
get surprised once you've configured the port and ticked/unticked an option
I'm
On Wednesday 15 April 2009 03:58:08 Ruel Luchavez wrote:
Hi..
I know someoene here can help fix my biggest problem so far.
I can't log-in any more in my FreebSD box
the serverver always complain
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:shared object lib.so.7 not found, required by sh
Enter full pathname of
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 21:24:00 Bob Johnson wrote:
PC-BSD seems to already keep up-to-date binary packages of their
applications. Do they accomplish that by only offering a small subset
of the full ports collection?
Yes - have a look at http://www.pbidir.com/. I installed PC-BSD on a spare
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 23:35:03 Bob Johnson wrote:
On 4/4/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote:
Hi all
[...]
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
On Thursday 12 February 2009 03:07:42 Paul Schmehl wrote:
Sorry if I wasn't clear.
I wasn't suggesting that the *users* chgrp the files. Keith would do that
as root. Then he sets the setgid bit to www (or whatever the web user is),
and from that point going forward any files created by the
On Thursday 12 February 2009 19:15:21 Paul Schmehl wrote:
If you set the world readable bit, you break the entire schema. To make it
work, world must have no access - not even directory search access. So you
set u=rwx,g=srx,o-rwx (or 2750), for homedirs and u=rw,g=sr,o-rwx (or 2640)
for
On Wednesday 11 February 2009 12:47:17 Ian Smith wrote:
I'm getting nowhere trying to parse out IP addresses from strings of
this form in /bin/sh, which have been awk'd out of 'tail named.run':
addr='195.68.176.4#1440:'
addr='195.68.176.4#16811:'
addr='195.68.176.4#276:'
sh(1) in hand,
On Friday 06 February 2009 02:55, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I think you should be able to do it with a combination of -prune and
-delete (or -exec rm -rf {} \; ) on a find command. Substitute your
other commands for rm -rf in the -exec above.
I would give you a working example except I can't
On Monday 26 January 2009 17:02:05 n j wrote:
Linus Torvalds on KDE4...
[quote]
A: I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I
switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do
what I want it to do. But the whole break everything model is
painful for
On Monday 26 January 2009 09:17:05 Andrew Robinson wrote:
Message: 2
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500
From: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org
Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file?
To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Message-ID: 497d0ff3.6090...@telenix.org
On Friday 16 January 2009 12:48:38 O. Hartmann wrote:
Hello,
I have the following situation:
Users are stored in OpenLDAP. I need to create homes directories on new
machine memebers in the pool of workstations and do not want the usage
of an automated creation of loggin in user via
On Monday 22 December 2008 00:27:44 Gary Kline wrote:
anyway, this is one for giiorgos, or another perl wiz. i've
been using the perl subsitution cmd one-liner for years with
unfailing success. is there a way of deleting lines with perl
using the same idea as:
On Friday 12 December 2008 19:26, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
--
From: Joe S js.li...@gmail.com
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 12:20 PM
To: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Jonathan McKeown
jonathan+freebsd-questi
On Thursday 27 November 2008 15:46:58 Dominik Meister wrote:
Hi
Gian Paolo Buono [Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:05:44PM +0100]:
there is a method in freebsd for restart process whenever it terminates
? I use in linux respawn in inittab...
One possibility that comes to mind is using daemontools
On Friday 21 November 2008 12:49:16 pwn wrote:
algouth this is not a freebsd specific text, i need to format some texts
under freebsd for they appear in the center of the page when opened in a
browser, but i dont want to use HTML for format them, i just want to add
tabulation to my *.txt.
On Friday 14 November 2008 14:32, O. Hartmann wrote:
Hello,
I have a OT question and maybe some of the FreeBSD server admins here
can help me out.
[snip]
Having nss_ldap and pam_ldap installed on every single FreeBSD
server/box which is capable of being accessed I found in etc/ldap.conf
the
On Friday 14 November 2008 19:36, Martin McCormick wrote:
I inherited a mrtg application thatnow is running on a
FreeBSD6.3 system. Clients report that one can see the php pages
when using Internet Explorer but not other browsers that should
display the pages. Those customers see raw
I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer
any help or useful suggestions, but here goes...
What on earth is going on with release scheduling?
FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, according to the scheduling page at www.freebsd.org,
should have had a Release Candidate
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 14:01:47 Roland Smith wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can
offer any help or useful suggestions, but here goes...
What on earth is going on with release
On Sunday 09 November 2008 00:02:11 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 19:43:52 +0100, bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a file containing a list of items like that:
line1item1 line1item2 line1item3
line2item1 line2item2 line2item3
…400 times
I need to insert this into
On Friday 07 November 2008 21:19, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:36:51 +0100, Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
A batch solution is simple:
#!/bin/sh
for f in *eps; do
convert ${f} `basename ${f} .eps`.jpg
done
You can also save yourself
On Saturday 08 November 2008 13:55, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:28:00 -0700
Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
. . . or, as someone else pointed out, one could just learn to scroll
to the end before typing. It's not that difficult -- even in Outlook.
CTRLEND works like a charm
On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote:
[Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions]
I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting
is hideously broken. Please fix it.
It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard
quoting and forces
On Sunday 02 November 2008 03:21:55 David Allen wrote:
My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need
to use awk to generate a report.
I'm working with a large data set spread across multiple files, but to
keep things simple, say I have A Very Long String that
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