Re: How to change all /bin/bash at /etc/passwd to /sbin/nologin?

2006-10-09 Thread pbdlists
sed -i .backup s,:/bin/bash$,:/sbin/nologin, /etc/passwd But at least on my FBSD systems bash is in /usr/local/bin/bash, not /bin/bash! And what would you need this for? Cheers, Kurt On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 03:24:30PM +0800, James Corteciano wrote: Dear guru's: How to change all word

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-23 Thread pbdlists
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 04:12:03PM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: File locking works reasonably well within a single system (defined as a combination of hardware and software that all crashes together :) I doubt anyone will ever get it to work all that well when the locks must be shared

Re: Cluster File System

2006-06-23 Thread pbdlists
Hi Christopher! GFS (Global File System) is for Red Hat Linux, but GPL, if you have the programming muscle to port it. http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/ But does MySQL support accessing one file storage from two separate servers? Even with GFS, applications must play along and do _proper_

Edgeport USB-serial device

2006-02-20 Thread pbdlists
Hello, Anybody ever tried to run one of the following usb-serial devices on a FreeBSD 5/6 box? Does it work out of the box, not work at all, work with some driver code adjustments? There is something about ETHERPORT4 in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb_quirks.c and /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs, but I'm

Re: Free BSD and HP's Integrated Lights Out

2005-03-22 Thread pbdlists
As far as I know, basic iLO features are not OS dependent at all. But if you need a license, you're using advanced features; basic support is included with the server. Possibly you want to get to a graphic display? If you can do with access to a text terminal you should be fine. Switching to a

Re: apm device not configured ?!

2004-01-24 Thread pbdlists
Julian, Did you try to add the following line to your /boot/kernel.conf file? en apm and make sure the file ends with a q all by itself on a line. Unfortunately I have quite some issues with either apm or acpi on my Dell laptop as well when installing FBSD 5.2; it stops during boot when a

Re: Installing from ISO images

2004-01-24 Thread pbdlists
Sure, On a separate machine setup an ftp server, create a directories named 4.9-RELEASE and 5.2-RELEASE right where you will be placed when connecting with ftp. Then mount the iso image as follows (4.x syntax): vnconfig -e /dev/vn0 4.9-image.iso vnconfig -e /dev/vn1 5.2-image.iso mount -t cd9660

ep driver problem in 5.2?

2004-01-18 Thread pbdlists
Today I installed FBSD 5.2 on my main notebook because I want to make the switch from 4.7. I have a 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN PC Card Model 3CCFE574BT. ep0: 3Com Megahertz 574B at port 0x100-0x11f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard0 Unknown ID: 0x201 ep0: Ethernet address

Re: zmore for bzip2?

2003-08-30 Thread pbdlists
Adapting zmore for the case where you specify the files to display on the command line is not problem at all: diff kk zmore 5,14d4 get_decompressor () { case `file ${1--} | sed s/[^:]*: *\([^ ]*\).*/\1/` in compress*) DECOMPRESSOR=uncompress -c;;

Re: fscking remotely

2003-07-10 Thread pbdlists
I have a couple of completely headless systems (some of them so far away it takes about 12 hours by direct flight). But I always make sure there are at the very least 2 systems at each location and they are together close enough to run serial cables between them. Then I redirect the console to the

PostScript UTF-8 fonts?

2003-06-10 Thread pbdlists
I do have a PostScript capable printer (Lexmark E310) and printing to it via lpr works fine. However, I do have the requirement to print Japanese. When the printer is being used from a Windows machine, this works fine. I guess the necessary fonts are being included in the print job itself. After

Re: shell script

2002-11-21 Thread pbdlists
Hello Brian, First of all, your script will not run, you forgot a closing quote on the third line from the end. But not to your problem. I was pounding over a similar issue recently and the solution I came up with was to replace the for loop with a while loop combined with a read command. not

Re: UUCP Mail

2002-11-06 Thread pbdlists
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:10:23PM +0200, Doron Shmaryahu wrote: I have a machine with a permanent connection, that I am installing for a client. Their provider lets them collect mail via UUCP. Can anyone explain in simple terms how to use uucp. I have the node name, username and password. I

Re: buried in spams, recommendation?

2002-10-04 Thread pbdlists
I've had very good results with SpamProbe: http://sourceforge.net/projects/spamprobe This is one of the (better, if you ask me) tools which popped up as a reaction to Paul Graham's splendid article: http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html Cheers, Kurt On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at

Re: grub boot loader or freebsd boot loader

2002-10-04 Thread pbdlists
Grub is very powerful. (I would like to see it as the default boot loader on FreeBSD.) But it is not so easy to configure, a bit a steep learning curve. However, if you dig in, you'll be greatly rewarded with flexibility. I suggest you give it a shot. Cheers, Kurt On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at

Re: /var/spool/uucppublic

2002-10-02 Thread pbdlists
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:39:19PM -0700, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: Just delete the directory. And keep deleting it after every new upgrade, install or make world, until uucp finally is divorced from the base system, causing grief for all of the three people still alive using uucp... ;-).