Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Nick Barnes
At 2009-12-26 09:36:14+, Matthew Seaman writes: Uh, it was done years ago. Look at the xset(1) manual page -- there are options there to turn on key-click. They've been there since before the millennium as I recall. Most people find key-click intensely annoying (even more so if it's on

Re: Where is gfortran in FreeBSD 7.2 Release (i386)?

2009-12-24 Thread Nick Barnes
At 2009-12-21 23:31:13+, Erik Trulsson writes: Install the lang/gcc44 port which includes Fortran support. The Fortran compiler will be installed as gfortran44. Somewhat frustrating that the lang/gcc42 port used to include Fortran, and no longer does, and (ISTR) the same goes for

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Nick Barnes
/ are generated on big-endian machines), you will need to add code to tweak the 'size' value after reading it, and when checking the record-end marker. Nick B /* convert.c: remove record length fields from Fortran output file. */ /* Nick Barnes, Ravenbrook Limited, 2009-12-18 */ #include stdlib.h

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Nick Barnes
At 2009-12-18 16:33:49+, Warren Block writes: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org 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:

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-11 Thread Nick Barnes
At 2009-12-11 11:29:44+, $witch writes: but i look in syslogs of some FreeBSD internet server and there is a great evidence that some botnets are (again) tryng simple combination of uid/pwd. # always, everywhere: PasswordAuthentication No Nick B

how does gmirror start up?

2009-10-13 Thread Nick Barnes
it into another FreeBSD system then that machine would automatically set up gm0 with this disk). Possibly I'm just being dense. Can someone enlighten me? Nick Barnes Ravenbrook Limited ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Barnes
At 2005-07-15 19:35:55+, Chuck Swiger writes: As someone else suggested, you can also stick things like config files into version control (like CVS, subversion, etc), and then back that up via the mechanism above. We do this; all our system config files (except /etc/passwd) are in

Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Barnes
At 2005-07-15 23:58:27+, Alex Zbyslaw writes: Nick Barnes wrote: Here are my previous questions on the related subject, some 4 years ago now: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=872461+0+archive/2001/freebsd-questions/20010617.freebsd-questions Shame no-one answered

better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-15 Thread Nick Barnes
that rsync might be a better tool for this, as it would allow me to mount and browse the backup. Opinions? Nick Barnes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

identifying filesystem blocks (was Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine)

2005-07-15 Thread Nick Barnes
At 2005-07-15 17:01:18+, Chuck Swiger writes: Nick Barnes wrote: [ ... ] I don't want to have to do all that ever again, after this iteration. You've had a learning experience, I see. :-) Yeah, and I've had them before, and this time enough is enough. On a related subject, the last

Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-15 Thread Nick Barnes
At 2005-07-15 17:01:18+, Chuck Swiger writes: Nick Barnes wrote: [ ... ] I don't want to have to do all that ever again, after this iteration. You've had a learning experience, I see. :-) Here are my previous questions on the related subject, some 4 years ago now: http