Re: Urgent! Firewire support in 4.6.2?

2004-07-26 Thread Mathias Haas
ter to build a copy of the old 4.6.2 and then DD the whole disk to the old machine. Thanks for the help, it's easy to panic in situations like these. /Mathias Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:34:49AM +0200, Mathias Haas wrote: Hello! My wifes' company had a break-in d

Urgent! Firewire support in 4.6.2?

2004-07-26 Thread Mathias Haas
Hello! My wifes' company had a break-in during the night today and they stole ALL the computers. They have their backup on an external firewire disk. At home I have a FreeBSD 4.6.2 setup - but I believe that 4.6.2 doesn't have firewire support, is this correct? Is there any way to add firewire s

Re: Shell scripting woes.

2004-02-24 Thread Mathias Haas
Julien Gabel wrote: The following works fine, here is the detail: $ date ; ls -lF /tmp/test.* Tue Feb 24 22:50:11 CET 2004 -rwxr-x--- 1 jgabel wheel 49 Feb 24 22:50 /tmp/test.bash* $ $ cat /tmp/test.bash #!/usr/local/bin/bash echo start > /tmp/test.txt $ $ crontab -l * * * * * /tmp/test.bash $

Re: Shell scripting woes.

2004-02-24 Thread Mathias Haas
Julien Gabel wrote: As a reply to both answers, here's a script that wont' run: #!/usr/local/bin/bash echo start > test.txt ...and here is bash: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc]>> whereis bash bash: /usr/local/bin/bash this is /var/log/cron Feb 24 19:20:00 p3-550 /usr/sbin/cron[27988]: (root) CMD

Re: Shell scripting woes.

2004-02-24 Thread Mathias Haas
It is executable and it didn't have a newline at the end, it does now - but there's still no difference... Do you have to do something to get FreeBSDs (4.6.2) cron to run shellscripts? ..and I can still run the script "by hand" Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mathias Haas <[E

Re: Shell scripting woes.

2004-02-24 Thread Mathias Haas
Julien Gabel wrote: Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts: 2) The same backup job - is written as a bash script, and it works perfectly when run by hand, but it won't run as a cron job. Are you using a full path in the shebang at the top of the script? Such as: #!/bin/sh or #!

Re: FreeBSD on Dell PowerEdge 2500

2004-02-16 Thread Mathias Haas
I've installed it on a 2550, no problem what so ever. /mathias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's what I was hoping to hear. Thanks for the responses, all! Take care, Mike On Monday 16 February 2004 02:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any experience installing FreeBSD on a Dell