Re: Administrating more than 10 servers

2010-10-24 Thread Randy Belk
This is a must read for multiple UNIX server administration, http://www.cae.tntech.edu/~mwr/unix_infrastructure_management_from_scratch.pdf . On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Ahmed Ossama wrote: > Hi folks, > > Lately I was put in charge to administrate 12 FreeBSD servers, and I was > wonder wha

Re: freecolor: Bus error. software or hardware problem?

2010-07-22 Thread Randy Belk
Have you updated your ports? This was an issue on the amd64 distribution, but it was fixed. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Antonio Kless wrote: > Strange freecolor behavior on fresh 8.0-RELEASE system. > > # uname -a > FreeBSD alternate-1.net 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 > 15:

Re: .sh and sed

2010-06-16 Thread Randy Belk
You could always use basename for this. "basename /usr/local/bin/bash" will display "bash" On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Aiza wrote: > Trying to use sed to remove the path from the file name. > Variable has complete path plus the file name > /usr/local/etc/filename > Need variable containing o

Re: What VM does FreeBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Randy Belk
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:14 AM, stan wrote: > I am planing on rebuilding my laptop shortly. I am going to put Ubuntu 9.10 > on as the base OS, and I want to be able to run various versions of FreebSD > as guest OS'es under one of the free (EG not VMWare) virtual machine > choices. > > Which of t

Re: BSD Professional Job Task Analysis Survey

2009-10-07 Thread Randy Belk
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Mikel King wrote: > The BSD News Network reports that volunteer as desperately needed to > complete the BSDP JTA Survey by the deadline of October 16th. The BSD > Certification Group has been diligently working toward this goal for quite > some time now. > > http://

Re: how to display pkg-message

2009-09-06 Thread Randy Belk
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Kalle Møller wrote: > Looking for that feature to :) > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > >> Hello >> >> Could someone remind of the make target for showing messages which are >> displayed when installing ports please. I thought it was some

Re: how to display pkg-message

2009-09-06 Thread Randy Belk
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Randy Belk wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Kalle > Møller wrote: >> Looking for that feature to :) >> >> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> >>> Hello >>> >>> Could someone

Re: 'alias' + sudo

2009-09-04 Thread Randy Belk
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:50 AM, George Davidovich wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:10:36PM -0400, Jerry wrote: >> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:34:05 +0200 Mel Flynn wrote: >> >> > alias spico='/usr/local/bin/sudo pico -m' and be done with it. > > Instead of an extra alias, why not export $VISUAL or $E

Re: freeBSD logo

2009-06-25 Thread Randy Belk
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Randall Wood wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:16:12AM -0800, Peter Giessel wrote: >> >I want to make a t-shirt with the caption "The Power to Serve" but I can't >> >find it in a good resolution. Can you send it to me? >> >> Vector formats (which would allow you t

Re: freeBSD logo

2009-06-25 Thread Randy Belk
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Randy Belk wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Randall Wood wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:16:12AM -0800, Peter Giessel wrote: >>> >I want to make a t-shirt with the caption "The Power to Serve" but I can't >&g

Re: xinetd for FreeBSD 6.2

2009-04-06 Thread Randy Belk
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Madhusudan R wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know the version of xinetd that can be run on FreeBSD 6.2. And > where can I find it? > > Anything else I need to know before I start using xinetd on the aforemention > platform. > > Thanks! > Madhu > __

Re: w(5) shows non-existent or lost process?

2009-02-17 Thread Randy Belk
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > The who (or w, or finger) command shows that I'm still logged into ttyp5, > even though I have rebooted the box many times since. Does this mean > the corresponding entry in /var/run/utmp is wrong and shouldn't be there, or > is there