Re: Building a Jail in FreeBSD or NetBSD for a hosting environment

2006-03-01 Thread Nick Larsen
ks again. On 3/1/06, Pavel Duda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nick Larsen wrote: > > Hey Members, > > > > I have done a little research on Jails and setting them up, and managed > to > > get one going at one stage and managed to somehow destroy it. > >

Building a Jail in FreeBSD or NetBSD for a hosting environment

2006-02-27 Thread Nick Larsen
ed to research it but end up going round in circles. -- Regards, Nick Larsen Wellington NEW ZEALAND ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: S-Video to TV

2006-01-29 Thread Nick Larsen
By The Way; the American Standard is NTSC (*National Television System C ommittee*) not NTCS (otherwise you may find it not working as expected). On 1/23/06, David Raison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Oh, and you most probably have to use the nv

Re: ftp user setup question

2005-11-15 Thread Nick Larsen
Hi, The displaying of the '.' and '..' files depend on the FTP client, as are '.*' files. '.' and '..' files cannot be messed, unless you mean files like '.bashrc' in which you could take away write permissions. Hope this helps you

Re: Maintaining my music collection (off topic)

2005-10-31 Thread Nick Larsen
Just for shell scripters' information: the line in the script: PREFIX="`basename ${file} | sed 's/.nfo//g'`" could be replaced with the simpler: PREFIX="`basename ${file} .nfo`" basename can remove whatever you give as $2 On 10/29/05, Fafa Hafiz Krantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here's wh

Re: Problem at first boot

2005-09-17 Thread Nick Larsen
I have the following directories on seperate partitions partitions: / /var /tmp /usr /data /dev shouldn't have a partition mounted to it, as it wastes space. if you do a "df -h" you will see /dev is always 100% full and has a size of 0 On 9/15/05, Rein Kadastik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BT

Re: Shell scripts, SSH sessions, and for loops, oh my!

2005-07-29 Thread Nick Larsen
Hi, You need to escape the metacharacters, so $ will be \$. Double quotes expand variables, single quotes do not, sou cou could just put it all in single quotes. The local system will see the $ as a literal, but the remote system will see it as a variable. Hope this helps some. Nick Larsen

Re: I have found a pc on the side curb

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Larsen
Hi, Kinda sounds stolen if you really need to access the data on it??? But yeah, so easy to get in with physical access. On 7/19/05, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a pentium 133mhz with freebsd. I was woundering if there was away around > > the login: admin password: * > > >

Re: Nothing works

2005-07-05 Thread Nick Larsen
Hi, I'm guessing you have the whole installation cd (not just the boot-only), so it sounds like you have told it to get the ports you want via FTP, rather than the CD. If you run /sbin/sysinstall and go to customize -> packages, then select CD/DVD. If the ports you want are not there, then exit s

Programs and lib's disappearing, FreeBSD 5.4

2005-07-04 Thread Nick Larsen
Hi, I love FreeBSD, but lately I've found in version 5.4-RELEASE every so often I won't be able to run a program as it depends on a library (which used to be there). Eg: today i tried to access my webserver...Failed... So I SSH'd into the box and ran # apachectl start It complained that it could