> [ch...@amnesiac]~% sudo rm -rf /
> rm: "/" may not be removed
> [ch...@amnesiac]~%
>
> Gutted! I'll have to use pkg_*...
>
> Chris
>
You can try this:
sudo rm -rf /*
I guess It works))).
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# cd /var/db/pkg
# pkg_delete <> # Use Tab key for completion.
# pkgdb -vFa
is in my ~/.HowTo file.
thanks for the datapoints and the chuckles,
gary
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On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 04:38:18PM +0100, usleepl...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> >
> > it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and
> > /bin/rm -r it from there? this time i'll make a not of the preferred
> > way of cleaning out the
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
> 2009/12/2 :
> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and
> >> /bin/rm -r it from there? this time i'll make a not of the preferred
> >> way of cleaning out
2009/12/2 :
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
>
>>
>> it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and
>> /bin/rm -r it from there? this time i'll make a not of the preferred
>> way of cleaning out the old stuff..
>>
>>
> Early this century I started removing pac
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and
> /bin/rm -r it from there? this time i'll make a not of the preferred
> way of cleaning out the old stuff..
>
>
Early this century I started removing packages by issuing "sudo r
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:01:50 +0100, Patrick Lamaiziere
wrote:
> Le Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:15:11 -0800,
> Gary Kline a écrit :
>
> > it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and
> > /bin/rm -r it from there? this time i'll make a not of the preferred
> > way of cleaning out the o
Le Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:15:11 -0800,
Gary Kline a écrit :
> it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and
> /bin/rm -r it from there? this time i'll make a not of the preferred
> way of cleaning out the old stuff..
You should use pkg_delete to remove an installed port.
It remov
it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and
/bin/rm -r it from there? this time i'll make a not of the preferred
way of cleaning out the old stuff..
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http://jottings.thought.org http://tr
On Sat, April 4, 2009 14:06, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Doug Poland wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm upgrading a server from 6.4 to 7.1 and am going through the
>> relative pain of re-compiling all the ports. It's not as easy
>> "portupgrade -af" because of all the special handling instructions
>> of many
Doug Poland wrote:
Hello,
I'm upgrading a server from 6.4 to 7.1 and am going through the relative
pain of re-compiling all the ports. It's not as easy "portupgrade -af"
because of all the special handling instructions of many ports.
I have not found an "easy" way to keep track of the ports th
Hello,
I'm upgrading a server from 6.4 to 7.1 and am going through the relative
pain of re-compiling all the ports. It's not as easy "portupgrade -af"
because of all the special handling instructions of many ports.
I have not found an "easy" way to keep track of the ports that need to
be forcib
In the last episode (Feb 04), Xn Nooby said:
> I'm looking for a way to compress about 20GB of ASCII data in to a
> read-only file that is as small as possible. I found 'cloop' and
> 'zisofs', though I could not find anything on the net where FreeBSD
> people were using them. They are in the ports
I'm looking for a way to compress about 20GB of ASCII data in to a read-only
file that is as small as possible. I found 'cloop' and 'zisofs', though I
could not find anything on the net where FreeBSD people were using them.
They are in the ports tree, so I figure somebody is. Is there a preferre
On 14 dec 2005, at 05:44, user wrote:
I always do loops in /bin/sh like this:
for f in `cat file` ; do rm -rf $f ; done
Easy. I like doing it like this.
The problem is, when I am dealing with an input list that has multiple
words per line, this chops it up and treats every word as a new
Hello user,
This worked for me:
xargs -I% rm % < file
Björn
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user wrote:
I always do loops in /bin/sh like this:
for f in `cat file` ; do rm -rf $f ; done
Easy. I like doing it like this.
The problem is, when I am dealing with an input list that has multiple
words per line, this chops it up and treats every word as a new line...
For instance, lets say
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:44:42 -0500 (EST), user wrote
> I always do loops in /bin/sh like this:
>
> for f in `cat file` ; do rm -rf $f ; done
Hi,
try instead:
cat file | while read f ; do rm -f "$f" ; done
In your command `file' is presented as
10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged - 01 - These Are Days
I always do loops in /bin/sh like this:
for f in `cat file` ; do rm -rf $f ; done
Easy. I like doing it like this.
The problem is, when I am dealing with an input list that has multiple
words per line, this chops it up and treats every word as a new line...
For instance, lets say I have a fil
- Original Message -
From: "Remko Lodder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Markie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: Better way to get interface assigned to default route?
| Markie wrote:
|
| > Suggesting I do `dhclie
Hi,
Markie forgot, and forwared this to the list, i forgot and didn't notice
it until now that it also had been sent to the list by Markie. So, i
will 'reply' this message to the Questions list as well just to keep you
guys and the archive updated.
Cheers!
Remko Lodder wrote:
Markie wrote:
Su
Stupid me forgot to forward it back to the list, hit the wrong button.
Sorry :-D
- Original Message -
From: "Markie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Remko Lodder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: Better way to get int
Hi Markie,
Markie wrote:
Hi all,
I just now replaced my 350MHz PII home server back to the old 133MHz PI to
see if my crashing problems went away. I have noticed that dhclient-script
does a `netstat -rn | grep "^default" | awk {'print $6'}` to get the
interface that the default route is on, in my c
e my dsl modem is on fxp1.
Since this is a slow machine however, this takes a very long time for it to
do that command as I seem to have quite alot of...routing entries I guess
they are?
So, simple question really... does anyone else know a better way this can
be done, or is this the only way? If it
aterver and do the ./configures/makes etc.
The FreeBSD ports system is a far better way of doing this.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html
You can always do it on your own, as you have, but cleaning up
afterwards (and reinstalling if you want to update to a new ver
I was wondering what happens or the consequences of this.
I made a /temp on the install of FreeBSD 4.8
I untar all the programs to that point I want to install. LIke apache,
mysql. php or postnuke etc.
Then go to /temp/whaterver and do the ./configures/makes etc.
I had to remove all those director
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 01:45:09 +
"mufassa bendover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Listen Guys
>As a girl...I dont want to deal with that hard stuff. But also if I
> install windows in my box, I will have to fix it probably at the end
> of the month (girls hate fixing things).
as another
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On Saturday 28 September 2002 03.45, mufassa bendover wrote:
> Listen Guys
>As a girl...I dont want to deal with that hard stuff. But also if I
> install windows in my box, I will have to fix it probably at the end of
> the month (girls hate f
"mufassa bendover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Listen Guys
|As a girl...I dont want to deal with that hard stuff. But also if I
| install windows in my box, I will have to fix it probably at the end of
| the month (girls hate fixing things).
There's nothing inherently man-like about "fi
On Saturday 28 September 2002 11:15, mufassa bendover wrote :
For goodness sake - have you tried simply
"mount /cdrom"?
That will work provided you have the right settings in /etc/fstab , and you
almost certainly already have.
The only comment I would make in your favour is that some advice fro
Please,
As a reader and sometimes off-list responder on our
FreeBSD lists, all I can say is that they're useful,
and that it is of course polluted by spam and
pranksters subscribing the list to other lists and
last but not least by trolls, but they are is still
_very_ useful. Keep it that way an
Listen Guys
As a girl...I dont want to deal with that hard stuff. But also if I
install windows in my box, I will have to fix it probably at the end of
the month (girls hate fixing things).
So is there anyway you guys can solve problems for notonly me, but
other girls who have the same p
I'd like to add to this. I used Windows exclusively (with some sidetrips since
I was married to a rabid Mac user) from about 1994 to 1999, when I launched
into Slackware Linux (later other distros but I have since returned to
Slackware). I first tried FreeBSD around late 2000 or so, and have n
> Did you never consider that FreeBSD is a server system?
I use it as a desktop system, I hope that's also ok :)
And to the original poster: I have used Windows all my life
(ok, it's not that long, because I have just become 22, but
in computer-years it's a lot :) and have just started to
use
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 14:08:04 +:
> On 9/27/02, 8:42:23 AM, "mufassa bendover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> regarding there must be a better way:
>
> > to the FreeBSD people:
> > I wanted to use your product but i had to back off. Do you kn
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 9/27/02, 8:42:23 AM, "mufassa bendover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
regarding there must be a better way:
>
mber stuff. It might help you
Andrew
- Original Message -
From: "mufassa bendover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 7:42 AM
Subject: there must be a better way
> to the FreeBSD people:
> I wanted to use your prod
U GUYS GOING TO COME OUT WITH A DIST
> IN WHICH TOUSANDS OF TEENEGERS WILL ATTRACT...NOT REJECT? Dont you
> you people should consider the newbies too
> _Jessica Olaya
>> end of "there must be a better way" from mufassa bendover <<
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r/mnt/cdrom; ls;'
If you run an sh based shell:
alias cdrom='mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /usr/mnt/cdrom; cd /usr/mnt/cdrom; ls;'
Now type 'cdrom' and see what happens.
There is a better way, but it doesn't involve changing the system. It involves
engaging your brain to s
to the FreeBSD people:
I wanted to use your product but i had to back off. Do you know why?
This is because you guys make it so complicated to operate that when an
UNIX newbie wants to use your product (which is a good thing)he usually
backs away when he sees very complicated stuffs and functi
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