On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, hide110 wrote:
> Are there any IRC chatrooms that you guys know of where people get together
> for Unix related topics or just general related topics?
irc.freenode.net is probably best for that, #freebsd and many other
unix/linux-oriented channels
Cheers,
Viktor
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> > >>man cron gives:
> > >>
> > >>crontab [-u user] file
> > >>
> > >>'file' being the important part, methinks. ;)
> > >
> > >I'm not sure what you mean ... If you're wondering, I'm using the
> > > main crontab file (/etc/crontab), as right now there's
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, [iso-8859-1] Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am still not very clear on the function between
>
> # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile
>
> and
>
> # portupgrade -aRr
>
> I have following questions;
>
> 1) What will be their diffenece in function
>
> 2) If havin
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, jimmie james wrote:
> Doing login accounting:
> total 1438.65
> jimmie 1435.18
> root 3.46
>
> This all makes perfect sense, though I was wondering,
> if there's an easy way to get the script to log how
> many times (and optionally, who) uses "su" or "su -"
> and to what accoun
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Robert Storey wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2004 01:00:37 -0500
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Has there been any new work on the installer or planned? If not, I would like
> > to help... What about graphical?
>
> If you're looking to improve FreeBSD's user-friendliness, more us
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Phil Thomson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user to
> being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got FreeBSD installed on an older
> PC with a 3 GB drive and a 5 GB drive (which has not yet been mounted).
> The system is instal
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Lee Harr wrote:
> >I'd like to install FreeBSD on a single partition, how can I do that?
> >The sys/installer complains about a missing swap partition, (I'd rather
> >use swap files though).
> >
>
>
> I have never tried this. It is very possible that the installer cannot
> wor
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Bob Perry wrote:
> Just setup mutt and I've begun to notice mail return to me
> indicating that it did not pass the server content filter,
> etc. The last one stated that a virus was found, file name
> disco.zip, virus name W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] and apprarently
> was found by
On Sun, 9 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I had a similar, but different problem with 4.7 which impacted all network
> traffic but was most noticible using Konqueror. I was getting similar pauses
> regardless of the application I ran. Unless you are running BIND and
> attempting to get at zo
On Sat, 8 May 2004, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Hello. My friend is running a tea house, she want to put her ancient
> Pentium 100 notebook (24MB memory) running FreeBSD 4.9, on the bar so
> customers can use it check mails and browse the web. (and I want to help
> her.) She want it to just function as a
On Thu, 6 May 2004, Joshua Lokken wrote:
> * Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-06 14:25]:
> > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:08:21PM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone out there use a tool similar to plod for personal logging
> > > of administrative tasks? I've looked throug
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Mark wrote:
> Maybe a stupid question, but on a FreeBSD 4.9R-p4, is it possible to play a
> sound, like a wav file, without having installed any graphic shells? I'd
> like to play some wav sounds on certain events.
If it's wav files you specifically want to play try
/usr/port
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, fudo wrote:
> I'm new to FreeBSD, and to bash. I'm running FreeBSD 5.0, and added
> bash from the cd during install. There are .profile and .shrc files in
> my home directory; .profile references .shrc with ENV=$HOME/.shrc;
> export ENV. There are several uncommented alias lin
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote:
> Yes. Is this correct?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:40 PM
> To: Rob
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Off topic but se
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote:
> Thanks for the help,
>
> I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when
> I try to make I get this error:
>
> make: don't know how to make install. Stop
>
> I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts.
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Rob wrote:
> Is it correct, that the combination of firewall and natd divert
> all requests and thus hide the home network for my provider?
> Are requests from all other networked home PC's done on behalf of
> the router, so that my provider will only see requests from my route
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, [iso-8859-1] noir noir wrote:
> I am looking for a Yahoo! or MSN Messenger which would
> work from the console.
>
> I did a Freshmeat and Sourceforge search and came up
> with libyahoo2/ ari-yahoo/ gtmsn messengers where none
> of them are able to connect to the chat server.
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Dan Busarow wrote:
> On Nov 13, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > The man page for grep says to use "-r" to recurse, yet when I try
> > something like
> >
> > grep -r -li string *.c
>
> find . -name "*.c" -exec grep -li string {} \;
If there are a large number of files this will c
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, twig les wrote:
> Hey all, in my /etc/csh.cshrc I have
>
> xset b off
>
> which does what I want, which is to tell X to shut up without me
> having to type the command in every X session. But it seems
> clumsy as it puts up an error "xset: unable to open display """
> when
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> I hate to seem like a jerk, but I get these messages through the list
> already, and see no reason to get them in multiple boxes. Please feel
> free to continue this discussion on list, but please take this email
> out of the recipients list. I will
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Preston Crawford wrote:
>
> I'm missing this. Can someone give me an example cvsupfile for FreeBSD
> 4.9?
Example files covering all major configurations can be found in:
/usr/share/examples/cvsup
Cheers,
Viktor
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task
> of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be
> pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is
> interesting, the OS I ad
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Uuencoding works fine...
>
> yup, that's what I thought. And it works fine indeed. However, I was
> thinking into more of a MIME or multi-part message, much like a regular
> attachment. That's not really essential, however. Thi
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Gregory Stearns wrote:
> I hate to be a pest but is there a utility to do http web browsing from the command
> line, and how would I use it?
>
> Also how do I configure Xwindows?
Start off with (as root):
XFree86 -configure
This will build a basic XF86Config file
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Xpression wrote:
> Hi list, can I edit a file and delete a line by searching any parameter with
> bash ??? Thanks...
sed '/searchstring/d' file1 >file2
Cheers,
Viktor
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am wondering if it is currently possible to run freebsd on a Mac.
> please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> THANKS!
Although OS X is partially derived from FreeBSD, there is no Mac port yet.
NetBSD and OpenBSD do though, check them out.
Cheers,
V
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Pascal Giannakakis wrote:
> Lo folks,
>
> i would like to change the colors of the shell to FG=green BG=black. I do
> _not_ ask how to change the promt, i rather want to change the default FG BG
> colors, so that with whatever program (be it Konsole, putty, ssh.org, ...) i
>
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi Robin and Director:
>
> The situation is, I have 3 servers, now sun, but planning to
> change them to FreeBSD, so right now I have a program in FoxPro
> to administer the database of diskless, with this program I
> generate the bootptab and dow
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, yo _ wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
>
> The MBR on my hard disk is corrupted (or sometimes is), after re-installing
> FreeBSD it was not overwritten and fixed even though the complete system
> was. So when i need to boot i use the bootcds i used to install FreeBSD and
> at boot0 i pr
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Charles Howse wrote:
> Here's an interesting anniversary from my daily calendar report...
>
> History:
> Oct 23Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
> Oct 23Day of the 1956 revolution in Hungary
> Oct 23Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC.
>
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, jason dictos wrote:
>I've always used grep text /*/*/* to recursivly search directories for
> files with the specified text string in them, however this method doesn't
> always work very well (sometimes it bails out halfway through with error
> "Argument list too long").
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Micke P wrote:
>
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I opened the port on my (hardware) router box, not
> > the
> > > FreeBSD firewall. Internet -> ISP -> Modem ->
> > Router
> > > -> FreeBSD box. Hopefully that's all I need to do
> > to
> > > forward the port 8080 packets.
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Micke P wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get things
> set up to see my website on the Internet. I know
> people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually am.
> :-)
>
> My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 and
> I'm serving on port 808
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 01), Martin Vana said:
> > I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with
> > list of path/files to programs like cp/mv.
>
> If the list is small (less than 65000 characters total):
>
> cp $(cat myfile) /othe
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Charles Swiger wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Felix Deichmann wrote:
> > Chuck Swiger wrote:
> >> tar handles symbolic links properly, whereas cp will "copy through"
> >> the contents of the link.
> >
> > Also true for cp -R? :-)
>
> No, but not all syst
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Dragoncrest wrote:
>
> Of course MS and Sun are loving this up and helping out SCO a lot
> since they see Linux as their worst competitor. In their eyes the sooner
> linux dies the happier they'll be. Oh well, too late now cause Linux (and
> the BSD's) are here to
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Timothy Luoma wrote:
>
> I installed 4.8-Release on my machine, and got the dual boot working with
> WinXP thanks to GAG[1]
>
> So now I have this shiny new OS sitting there, and I can login, but I
> haven't a clue where to begin. I don't know the diff. between KDE and
> GN
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Ajax Munroe wrote:
> I dont have a question but I would like to make a statement. I
downloaded
> Freebsd version 5.0 release and unpacked it in great anticipation. I made
> a bootable CD (the best I could, It's not as easy as making a bootable
> windows CD) put the cd in
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, synrat wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone is aware of any scripts
> or programs that can retrieve mail from different
> webmail sources.
hotwayd and gotmail are both available in ports and can be used for
hotmail, I haven't heard if either can do yahoo or not.
Cheers,
Vik
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Andy wrote:
> Apologies if I should have found the answer already, but it would appear
> from both sites that BSD is a marvellous operating system, very secure,
> efficient, etc, based on Berkeley Unix, etc. Both are free and maintained by
> really skilled technical peop
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Gary wrote:
> Hello Mike,
>
> Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 11:58:31 AM, you wrote:
>
> >> dev/ad0s1a128990 86254 3241873%/
> >>
> >> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4122347 Apr 3 04:53 kernel
> >> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4122347 Apr 3 04:53 kernel.GENERIC
>
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Gary wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>
> It seems that on a remote box FBSD 4.8, my /dev/ad0s1a or / dir is at 73% capacity
> already, and this has me somewhat worried. I attribute this to the /etc
> dir inside of the / dir, as it contains many log files, etc... or perhaps
> the 2 ker
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to find out how to get sound configured on my machine with
> FreeBSD 4.8 (or even 5.1) for that matter. I have a Creative
> Soundblaster Live! card. I added sound to the kernel, rebooted, and
> made the device(for 4.8).
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Your Name wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Does freebsd provide dialin server function?
>
> If yes, please give me hint
>
> I can't get information in the documentation
>
> Thank you
What documentation were you checking if not the handbook?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/boo
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> please forgive me if this is a FAQ, but just what is the meaning of the RELENG_4
> branch? Is it more current then RELENG_4_7 or RELENG_4_8 ?
> What should i use if i want to get security patches for my 4.7-RELEASE-p4
> installation?
> What w
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, fallenbr wrote:
>
> > What's supposed to change?
> > Try "ls -G" for example, and see if you get colored output when you
> > ask for it.
>
> Well, I get no colored output with it.
Have you verified with "echo $TERM" that it is in fact getting set to
xterm-color?
Cheers,
V
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Scott Schappell wrote:
> I have a question regarding whether or not I need to upgrade my system, and
> if so, what's the best way to do it to minimize downtime.
>
> uname output:
>
> bash-2.05b$ uname -a
> FreeBSD arthur.silvertree.org 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #1: Sat A
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:52:33PM -0500 or thereabouts, Eric Murphy wrote:
>
> > Is there a command to browse files by pages? When ever I ls in a
> > big dir, I can't shift page up for some reason. This is very
> > annoying =(
>
> Option 1) ls | les
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, James Litz wrote:
> So I finally got up the courage to try FreeBSD... I
> got some CDs from osdisc.com, but my computer cant
> boot of off CDs (its just too old).. anyone know where
> i can find the boot floppies?
The boot floppies are on the 1st CD. Refer to section 2.2.7
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Cavallini David wrote:
> Recently I've installed the version 5.1 of the FreeBSD.
> I added a new user with login 'davcav' in the 'wheel' group and also I
> added this user in the 'operator' group.
> In the new user login the commands 'shutdown -p now' and 'su' works but
> w
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Simon Barner wrote:
> > Setting up the OS itself for Arabic should be covered at least in a
> > general way in the Handbook (Chapter 14 Localization). OpenOffice also
> > includes setup routines for different languages, presumably Arabic is
> > included in that as well.
>
>
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, rani ahmad wrote:
> how can i type arabic both on console and on
> X-windows?
> i am using FreeBSD 4.7 and KDE as a desktop. it's Ok
> if there is support for arabic on GNOME. i need only
> to type on OpenOffice also. all i want is just typing.
> thnaks. BSD rocks more than
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi good people.
> I am not the cluiest here.
> Suddenly my fbsd 4.7. qmail router/gateway is dead slow and
> ps -ax reports all normal procs plus heaps! of procs like...
>
> 5567(some flags) 0:00:02 qmail-remote hotmail.com
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> I want to get to learn the world of TeX.
> I know I have to read some books about it, but I'm a little confused
> about which port(s) I need to install.
>
> TUG (TeX User Group) speaks of teTeX, but in the ports is also a TeX
>
> I guess I have to in
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Viktor Lazlo wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 08 July 2003 22:55, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > > Ion-Mihai Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > I need to make an image (I do need a c
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 July 2003 22:55, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Ion-Mihai Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I need to make an image (I do need a copy so saving and writting
> > > individual tracks is of no use) of an audio CD, but when I try:
> > > # d
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> One of those firewalls is quite flexible about protocol state
> timeouts, I can set this on a service-by-service basis. (ie I could
> increase it for SSH and no other service)
>
> Unfortunately the firewall on the other side isn't so accommodating.
>
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> http://cgisleve.tripod.com/bsd/xfreebad.html is a web page of this info.
>
> XFree86 Configuration Problems
> by Steve LeBlanc © 2003.6.22
> Installed FreeBSD for first time. Text login was fine. NIC worked. Did a telnet and
> ftp to computers
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Peter Leftwich wrote:
>
> [1] If I'm in a directory, and do "ls -alF" and see for example:
>
> drwx-- 2 pete users 512 Jun 22 13:41 myfiles/
>
> What "ls" command can I do IN THE CURRENT WORKING DIRECTORY to just see the
> "myfiles/" listing? That is, if I type "
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Roger Merritt wrote:
> I've just installed a new, 40GB hard drive, and copied my system over to
> it. It booted and seems to be running fine, but I have a couple of worries.
>
> 1. My BIOS setup utility doesn't detect the drive using the Auto Detect
> Hard Drives feature. In
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Rod Person wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm looking for a small database application to create a database of all
> may dvds and cds. I think mysql my be too much overkill, since it would
> be running on my laptop. Any suggestions.
If that's all you're using it for you don't need a
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, george donnelly wrote:
> I recently purchased a server installed FreeBSD on it. when it boots i get
> an image that was put there by the manufacturer. How do i change this image?
> where is it, etc?
If it appears after you have formatted the hard drive and installed
FreeBSD
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Rogue Spider wrote:
> I have a Compaq presario 4770
> monitor is a Compaq 1525
> grafix card is s3 Trio64V2
> every time I try to start X server I get
> " Fatal Server Error"
> " No Screens Found"
> " No Drivers Available"
> I know I have the monitor settings correct
> the o
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Alexandru Savescu wrote:
> Hello BSD-lovers,
> i'm stuck on a tricky situation:
>
> i got FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE running smoothly on a SCSI disk,
> but i had to move the HDD on a multi-OS system, so i am
> heading this problem:
>
> there are 3 disks
> - ad0: IDE WDC-drive with a
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> Hi,
> I was wondering whether there is any, preferably good ;-), open source
> virus scanning engine for FreeBSD I could use on my mailserver. I
> don't particularly mind buying a commercial one but I'd prefer an open
> source one of course...
>
> An
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Karsten Fuhrmann wrote:
> Hello, i am trying to partition my 1.6TB scsi raid.
> The problem is that disklabel only support up to 8 partitions but i want
> more (about 30).
>
> Is there any way to do this ?
>
> Cheers,
> Karsten
Yes--you'll need to create additional BSD slic
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, sweetleaf wrote:
> I choose to use the entire disk during freebsd install. Ok, that creates
> 1 really large slice correct? Now within this slice how may partitions
> cam there be? I tried setting up /root /tmp /home /var /usr /sandbox/
> /private /storage . after adding
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent wrote:
> Hello, I've recently begun experiencing a very strange
> phenomenon. My browser, Konqueror based on KDE 3.1.2, does not render
> text that is enclosed in tags; instead, it presents a series of
> small boxes. Copying the "boxes" to the
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Frank wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam;
>
> I am having trouble installing the FreeBSD software 5.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.
> Here are the particulars of what I am using and what I have done.
>
> - Changed AMI CMOS setting to load from CD first.
>
> The CD appears to be reading the creat
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Steve Coile wrote:
> I've just installed a new software package that includes manual pages.
> When I try to read the pages with "man -M ", I'm told the
> manual page doesn't exist. When I use "truss man -M ",
> truss generates *NO* output. Is that normal?
Are you able t
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, P. U. Kruppa wrote:
> Hello List!
>
> Since some cvsup three or four weeks ago my text-console on
> -CURRENT is a complete mess (on previous versions of -CURRENT
> everything worked fine).
>
> Here are some symptoms:
> - special characters (you need for drawing neat lines in
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Guus Bekkema wrote:
> How can I get the bootloader off my system and get it working again with
> Micro(shit)soft
Boot off a DOS disk and do fdisk /mbr
Cheers,
Viktor
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Steve Coile wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Bill Moran wrote:
> [...]
> > Depends on the component and how the previous admin handled things. Most
> > FreeBSD users use the ports/package system to add/remove programs. The
> > docs are very good:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/do
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Dragoncrest wrote:
> Ok, not sure if this is possible, but I thought I'd ask just in
> case. What I'm looking to do is to assign a given Program ID number to a
> specific process if possible. I know FBD assigns them automatically as
> they're executed, but I've hit i
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Bborie Park wrote:
> Anyone know how I can disable or delete fortune properly? When I say
> properly, I mean when I delete its command entry in my .profile, it
> won't come back as well as new users will not have the command entry
> placed into their .profile.
Check the ap
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Constantine wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD 4.8. How can I synchronise my clock with some NTP
> server? The time on my server right now is 4 minutes fast, and I do not
> like that... Can I set up a script that would automatically synchronise
> the time with some available serve
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Adam wrote:
>
> The absolute EASIEST way to set up SMTP is to use sSMTP .. It might be
> too simplistic for you, but in many cases it is sufficient for someone
> who only needs a barebones SMTP solution.
>
> http://packages.debian.org/testing/mail/ssmtp.html
> ftp://metalab.u
On Fri, 30 May 2003, JOHN HOOVER wrote:
> We had power outage and machine went down, now during boot and after
> mounting the root partition the character string '^[[0' appears alot.
> The machine still runs and seems ok, but since I can't seem to get a
> search engine to take the string anyone
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
> For many years I have used several GUI, but I never have
> learnt to include a "tab" char in an input box.
>
> Tab char always changes the graphic item you are working with,
> v. gr. I'm using SquirrelMail to write this text. If I
> press "tab
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Carl Morley wrote:
> Hi,
> I just tried to use the time command to time a process, but with the -h
> (human readable) output option:
>
> Eg. time -h ping -c 5 some_ip_address
>
> But I get back:
> -h: Command not found.
> 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>
>
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, David Olbersen wrote:
>
> Does anybody have a nice definition of the UNIX term "load" ?
>
> I have a gut-level idea of what it is, but nothing that I can pass on to non-UNIX
> people.
>
> Any help?
The load averages displayed in commands like top, uptime and w are the
avera
On 23 Mar 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> "Tamir Halperin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Which command retrieves the version / release number of my FreeBSD?
>
> uname -m
uname -m only writes the hardware platform, uname -v gives the version.
Cheers,
Viktor
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've read the man pages but see no option for configuring tin to auto magically
> enter a user name/password when it connect to the nntpserver.
> Is there anyway to do this (my new provider require some random set of symbols for
> username and pas
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Chris P wrote:
> How about an example? I know only know sed for replacing things, not
> inserting a new line into a file in a specific place, even though the info
> around it changes.
>
> > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Chris P wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hello..
> > > Not really a fre
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Daxbert wrote:
> DISPLAY=`who -m | awk '{print $6}' | sed -e 's/[(|)]//g'`:0.0
>
> give that a shot...
>
> I'm sure there's a shorter, cleaner way...but it works.
Since you're using awk anyways why not eliminate piping through sed:
DISPLAY=`who -m | awk '{ print $6":0.0" }'
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Michael Collette wrote:
> It's ugly. It won't work if you multiple NICs. It may just work for what you
> need just the same.
>
> echo `ifconfig | grep broadcast | cut -d" " -f2`":0.0"
>
> This takes the output of ifconfig and parses it just a wee bit with grep and
> cut. I
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, David Banning wrote:
> I am running an Xwindow on a windows box. I need a script to
> tell me what my network address is so that I can set my DISPLAY
> varible correctly eg: 192.168.1.2:0.0
>
> Any idea what command would be useful for this purpose?
If I understand correctly
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> I want to remove CRs from text files so what I did is this:
>
> cat filename | tr -d '\r' > filename
>
> However, I often end up with an empty file. Just out of
> interest, somebody who knows why that is?
This is because prior to any other action the
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Ismaeil Fathi wrote:
> Dear:
> I had formatted the c drive which includes Windows98 after installing Free
> BSD, but after resetting up the Windows I couldn't get the chance to login
> BSD since the starting message of (F1 DOS F2 BSD ) had gone?!!
> I installed your bootin
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> since i'm new to all these stuff, my question is what's the difference between
> your FreeBSD & Linux ??!
>
> p.s. i'm an Electrical Eng. student, & have to learn the UNIX OS, so i'm
> looking for the most similar/close OS to UNIX.
They are both i
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Matt Snow wrote:
> I am going on a trip and will not be able to access my ISP mail on the
> road. Does anyone know of an app that will pop mail every x minutes and if
> their are any new messages forward them to another email address?
The simplest way is to set up fetchmai
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