Re: A non FreeBSD question.

2008-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:59:22AM +0530, Anuj Singh wrote: Hi, It may start flame, Next lines may seem funny but I want to see what people think say, sorry i am posting here, just to get an idea. Cause i am also one of the open source user/lover and my most of the time goes

Re: A non FreeBSD question.

2008-02-08 Thread Simon Chang
On Feb 7, 2008 10:29 PM, अनुज Anuj Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, irrelevant drivel snipped... This is completely off-topic. Either post something on-topic, or do not post at all. SC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: A non FreeBSD question.

2008-02-08 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:59:22AM +0530, Anuj Singh wrote: Hi, It may start flame, Next lines may seem funny but I want to see what people think say, sorry i am posting here, just to get an idea. Cause i am also one of

A non FreeBSD question.

2008-02-07 Thread अनुज Anuj Singh
Hi, It may start flame, Next lines may seem funny but I want to see what people think say, sorry i am posting here, just to get an idea. Cause i am also one of the open source user/lover and my most of the time goes with computers over freebsd/linux. If someone is away from his cell for around an

Re: A non FreeBSD question.

2008-02-07 Thread Peter Boosten
अनुज Anuj Singh wrote: Hi, It may start flame, Next lines may seem funny but I want to see what people think say, sorry i am posting here, just to get an idea. Cause i am also one of the open source user/lover and my most of the time goes with computers over freebsd/linux. If someone is away

RE: FreeBSD question

2008-01-03 Thread takhoos
Hello I am Polish FreeBSD system administrator, I would like to participate in the course and get a certificate of achievement of FreeBSD system and in the future, if possible, I would like to become a trainer of FreeBSD. What do I have to do to

FreeBSD question

2008-01-02 Thread Administrator ZSK
Hello I am Polish FreeBSD system administrator, I would like to participate in the course and get a certificate of achievement of FreeBSD system and in the future, if possible, I would like to become a trainer of FreeBSD. What do I have to do to get a certificate of an administrator and how

Re: FreeBSD question

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Administrator ZSK [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello I am Polish FreeBSD system administrator, I would like to participate in the course and get a certificate of achievement of FreeBSD system and in the future, if possible, I would like to become a trainer of FreeBSD. What do I have

Re: Fluxbox Themes on FreeBSD Question

2007-11-23 Thread Oliver Peter
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 12:19:40PM -, Graham Bentley wrote: Hi All, Does anyone remmeber from ages ago there was a theme pack tarball knocking about for Fluxbox - must have had about 20 themes in it, some with backgrounds. I have Googled about and looked at the ones in ports but thats

Fluxbox Themes on FreeBSD Question

2007-11-19 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, Does anyone remmeber from ages ago there was a theme pack tarball knocking about for Fluxbox - must have had about 20 themes in it, some with backgrounds. I have Googled about and looked at the ones in ports but thats not them. Anyone know where I might find this now such along

Question on the IFS variable (not a FreeBSD question)

2007-08-12 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hi, This isn't really a FreeBSD question. But I figure most people on this list would know the answer and so I'm asking. I've tried to get the answer out of Google, but I guess I am not asking it the right question and so not getting much hits. I understand that the default value

Question on the IFS variable (not a FreeBSD question)

2007-08-12 Thread Robert Huff
Rakhesh Sasidharan writes: I understand that the default value of the IFS variable in bash is space, tab, newline. I believe this to be correct. For a script I am playing around with, I want to change IFS to be just newline. I tried the obvious like IFS=\n -or-

Re: Question on the IFS variable (not a FreeBSD question)

2007-08-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:57 AM 8/12/2007, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Hi, This isn't really a FreeBSD question. But I figure most people on this list would know the answer and so I'm asking. I've tried to get the answer out of Google, but I guess I am not asking it the right question and so not getting much

Re: Question on the IFS variable (not a FreeBSD question)

2007-08-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Hi, This isn't really a FreeBSD question. But I figure most people on this list would know the answer and so I'm asking. I've tried to get the answer out of Google, but I guess I am not asking it the right question and so not getting much hits. I understand

Re: Question on the IFS variable (not a FreeBSD question)

2007-08-12 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Do a little experiment (inspired from the post stated above): #export IFS=\n #printf '%s\n' $IFS | cat -vt will give \n == not what you expect #export IFS='\n' #printf '%s\n' $IFS | cat -vt will give \n == again, not what you expect #export IFS=$'\n' #printf '%s\n' $IFS

Re: Question on the IFS variable (not a FreeBSD question)

2007-08-12 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Robert Huff wrote: A bit of Google searching got me the solution too. That I must set IFS this way: IFS=$'\n' It is also possible to use: IFS= with the default shell; this has been (personally) confirmed within the least few weeks Hmm, yeah, that too should work. Will

Newbie NMap in FreeBSD Question

2007-01-15 Thread linux quest
Note: forwarded message attached. - Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit.---BeginMessage--- Lets say, I wanted to create a Perl script to execute a very simple nmap command as

Re: Newbie NMap in FreeBSD Question

2007-01-15 Thread Dave Grochowski
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Newbie NMap in FreeBSD Question

2007-01-14 Thread linux quest
Lets say, I wanted to create a Perl script to execute a very simple nmap command as listed below, may I know how do I do it? unix# nmap 192.168.1.2 I know we need to save it in .pl extension. May I know what else I need to do. I hope someone can share with me the simple coding.

Re: FreeBSD question

2006-10-27 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Nikhil Patel wrote: 1. I want to teach basic unix command, shell scripting to my students, does BSD is same like Unix? Absolutely. 2. Can I install FreeBSD on Pentium PC that has 2 partition 1 has windows XP and 1 will have FreeBSD. Yes. 3. Is installation process easy? Not too

Re: FreeBSD question

2006-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 04:17:37PM -0700, Nikhil Patel wrote: Yes, to all three questions. 1. I want to teach basic unix command, shell scripting to my students, does BSD is same like Unix? Yes, FreeBSD is Unix in all but name (the name is owned by someone else). Is is BSD UNIX as

FreeBSD question

2006-10-26 Thread Nikhil Patel
1. I want to teach basic unix command, shell scripting to my students, does BSD is same like Unix? 2. Can I install FreeBSD on Pentium PC that has 2 partition 1 has windows XP and 1 will have FreeBSD. 3. Is installation process easy?

Re: FreeBSD question

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 26, 2006 4:17:37 PM -0700 Nikhil Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I want to teach basic unix command, shell scripting to my students, does BSD is same like Unix? Yes. BSD is just like Unix. In fact, it *is* Unix. 2. Can I install FreeBSD on Pentium PC that has 2 partition

Re: FreeBSD question

2006-10-26 Thread Bachilo Dmitry
В сообщении от Пятница 27 октября 2006 06:17 Nikhil Patel написал(a): 1. I want to teach basic unix command, shell scripting to my students, does BSD is same like Unix? 2. Can I install FreeBSD on Pentium PC that has 2 partition 1 has windows XP and 1 will have FreeBSD. 3. Is

[OT] spam on freebsd-question@

2006-09-20 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi List, recently (last few days) a lot of spam has begun to arrive on this list could anyone concerned ([EMAIL PROTECTED], ...) check/upgrade the filters? Thanx -- Pietro Cerutti ICQ: 117293691 PGP: 0x9571F78E - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments

Re: [OT] spam on freebsd-question@

2006-09-20 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 20 , at 08:28, Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hi List, recently (last few days) a lot of spam has begun to arrive on this list could anyone concerned ([EMAIL PROTECTED], ...) check/upgrade the filters? Incidentally I'm subscribed to about a dozen other FreeBSD mailing lists. It's

Re: [OT] spam on freebsd-question@

2006-09-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 03:52:41PM -0400, Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 20 , at 08:28, Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hi List, recently (last few days) a lot of spam has begun to arrive on this list could anyone concerned ([EMAIL PROTECTED], ...) check/upgrade the filters?

Re: [OT] spam on freebsd-question@

2006-09-20 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006, Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 20 , at 08:28, Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hi List, recently (last few days) a lot of spam has begun to arrive on this list could anyone concerned ([EMAIL PROTECTED], ...) check/upgrade the filters? Incidentally I'm subscribed to about

Re: [OT] spam on freebsd-question@

2006-09-20 Thread jdow
From: Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Sep 20, 2006, Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 20 , at 08:28, Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hi List, recently (last few days) a lot of spam has begun to arrive on this list could anyone concerned ([EMAIL PROTECTED], ...) check/upgrade the filters?

freebsd question

2005-01-11 Thread Tri
Dear Sir or Madam: I am currently learning about unix, and my teacher told me about freebsd. He also told me that this program is free, stable, and secure. I am interested in creating my own ftp server using freedsb. However, I don't know how. I've tried to search from google on how to setup

Re: freebsd question

2005-01-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 03:00 am, Tri wrote: Dear Sir or Madam: I am currently learning about unix, and my teacher told me about freebsd. He also told me that this program is free, stable, and secure. I am interested in creating my own ftp server using freedsb. However, I don't know how.

Re: freebsd question

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Tri wrote: I am currently learning about unix, and my teacher told me about freebsd. He also told me that this program is free, stable, and secure. I am interested in creating my own ftp server using freedsb. However, I don't know how. I've tried to search from google on how to setup a freedsb

sort of a freebsd question

2004-01-28 Thread J.D.
To whom it may concern, What happened to www.bsdi.com website. Can't seem to get to it. Thank you, James Falknor smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: sort of a freebsd question

2004-01-28 Thread W. D.
At 22:30 1/28/2004, J.D., wrote: To whom it may concern, What happened to www.bsdi.com website. Can't seem to get to it. Thank you, James Falknor WhoIs is OK: http://www.TrueWhois.com/print_version.php?domain=BSDI.com WindRiver.com is OK: http://www.WindRiver.com/products/bsd_os/ NetCraft

Re: Postfix and FreeBSD question

2003-12-17 Thread Sven Pfeifer
Hi, Ihsan Junaidi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] once you have postfix installed, my personal preference is to symlink /usr/local/sbin/postfix to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix (postfix binary accepts start/stop args in compliance with freebsd's rc architecture)

Re: Postfix and FreeBSD question

2003-12-17 Thread Ihsan Junaidi
Sven Pfeifer wrote: don´t you need to add the extension .sh to your link? I fond the following in the handbook. what a miscue that was. thanks sven. it's /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix.sh symlink'ed to /usr/local/sbin/postfix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Postfix and FreeBSD question

2003-12-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everyone. I am in the process of setting up a Mail server that will be running FreeBSD 4.9 and postfix. My question is that, by default, FreeBSD has sendmail up and running. I seem to vaguely remember that there were a few extra steps that were needed to remove and install postfix

Re: Postfix and FreeBSD question

2003-12-16 Thread Ihsan Junaidi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is that, by default, FreeBSD has sendmail up and running. I seem to vaguely remember that there were a few extra steps that were needed to remove and install postfix correctly. yes, there is. in /etc/rc.conf, disable sedmail by including this line:

Re: Postfix and FreeBSD question

2003-12-16 Thread Simon Barner
P.S. I am planning to install postfix through ports. :) Fine :-) The port will do all the FreeBSD specific things for you (some are automated, for the others you get detailed instructions which you can re-read in either the pkg-message file in the port's directory). For the rest of the setup,

Re: Postfix and FreeBSD question

2003-12-16 Thread Andrew Boothman
Simon Barner wrote: P.S. I am planning to install postfix through ports. :) Fine :-) The port will do all the FreeBSD specific things for you (some are automated, for the others you get detailed instructions which you can re-read in either the pkg-message file in the port's directory). Yes I