Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Polytropon
ee the following shell script as an example of what you > > can do: > > Overkill. I have proper work to do rather than working out how to play > appropriate bit silly little tunes for every eventuality. Actually > spkr.c has some useful comments in it - apparently it works the sam

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
shell script as an example of what you > can do: Overkill. I have proper work to do rather than working out how to play appropriate bit silly little tunes for every eventuality. Actually spkr.c has some useful comments in it - apparently it works the same as IBM PC BASIC. Now how do I mak

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 07/10/2013 13:06, Peter Boosten wrote: echo "CTRL-V CTRL-G" should do the trick Or, more easily, printf "\a". Alas, not. The console driver won't ring the BIOS bell on anything I've tried. It might on a desktop with a built-in sound card and spe

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 07/10/2013 14:31, RW wrote: On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:53 +0100 Frank Leonhardt wrote: Alas, not. The console driver won't ring the BIOS bell on anything I've tried. It might on a desktop with a built-in sound card and speakers, but it won't do anything with the "beep" speaker. Are you sure

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:53 +0100 Frank Leonhardt wrote: > Then there's the issue of writing it to the console rather than a > virtual terminal, but I have a few hacks that'll achieve that part. /dev/console is your friend. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith _

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread RW
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:53 +0100 Frank Leonhardt wrote: > Alas, not. The console driver won't ring the BIOS bell on anything > I've tried. It might on a desktop with a built-in sound card and > speakers, but it won't do anything with the "beep" speaker. Are you sure you have one? The last two

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Leslie Jensen
Frank Leonhardt skrev 2013-10-07 13:37: In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic synthesised ting or beep from an terminal emulator IF it's got a sound card and so on, and an IBM-PC had a beep

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:37:35 +0100 Frank Leonhardt wrote: > In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending > \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic > synthesised ting or beep from an terminal emulator IF it's got a sound > card and so o

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 07/10/2013 13:06, Peter Boosten wrote: On 7 okt. 2013, at 13:37, Frank Leonhardt > wrote: In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic synthesised ting or beep from

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:37:35 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending > \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Ah, the famous ^G control character... :-) > Now there's an electronic > synthesised ting or beep from an termin

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Peter Boosten
On 7 okt. 2013, at 13:37, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending \a > to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic > synthesised ting or beep from an terminal emulator IF it's got a sound card > and so on, and a

How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic synthesised ting or beep from an terminal emulator IF it's got a sound card and so on, and an IBM-PC had a beep routine in the BIOS. Is there any way

Re: How do I launch Calligra?

2013-06-21 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:02:42 -0700 Ed Flecko wrote: > I've installed Calligra "Suite" from package, but I'm struggling to figure > out how to launch any of its programs??? These are my entries in the handwritten Fluxbox Menu: /usr/local/kde4/bin/kexi /usr/local/kde4/bin/calligrawords HTH > Ed

Re: How do I launch Calligra?

2013-06-20 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 20 June 2013 14:33, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:02:42 -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: > > I've installed Calligra "Suite" from package, but I'm struggling to > figure > > out how to launch any of its programs??? > > Check what's been installed, especially with a new entry > in /usr/loca

Re: How do I launch Calligra?

2013-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:02:42 -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: > I've installed Calligra "Suite" from package, but I'm struggling to figure > out how to launch any of its programs??? Check what's been installed, especially with a new entry in /usr/local/bin, maybe with $ grep "bin" /var/db/pkg//+CO

How do I launch Calligra?

2013-06-20 Thread Ed Flecko
I've installed Calligra "Suite" from package, but I'm struggling to figure out how to launch any of its programs??? Ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mai

Re: how do I restart lagg0 properly?

2013-02-01 Thread markus . hoenicka
Erich Dollansky writes: > I have used this configuration with success: > > ifconfig_em0="up" > ifconfig_iwn0="ether MAC address of em0" > wlans_iwn0="wlan0" > ifconfig_wlan0="WPA" > cloned_interfaces="lagg0" > ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport wlan0 > Your IP addres

Re: how do I restart lagg0 properly?

2013-01-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:09:36 +0100 markus.hoeni...@mhoenicka.de wrote: > I've tried to setup link aggregation to allow networking through WLAN > and ethernet on my laptop, see: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/248605.html > > (this thread contains my net

how do I restart lagg0 properly?

2013-01-28 Thread markus . hoenicka
Hi, I've tried to setup link aggregation to allow networking through WLAN and ethernet on my laptop, see: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/248605.html (this thread contains my network setup information) The lack of replies may indicate that it is not possible to

Re: Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library

2012-12-16 Thread Manish Jain
On 16-Dec-12 23:12, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 16/12/2012 17:22, Manish Jain wrote: Under /lib I have both versions - shared (libxyz.so.1) as well as static (libxyz.a) - of a library. How do I tell make to link to the static version, not the shared one ? The next obvious question is how to do the

Re: Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library

2012-12-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 16/12/2012 17:22, Manish Jain wrote: > Under /lib I have both versions - shared (libxyz.so.1) as well as static > (libxyz.a) - of a library. How do I tell make to link to the static > version, not the shared one ? The next obvious question is how to do the > vice versa - tell mak

Re: Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:52:05 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > Under /lib I have both versions - shared (libxyz.so.1) as well as static > (libxyz.a) - of a library. How do I tell make to link to the static > version, not the shared one ? The next obvious question is how to do the > vice

Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library

2012-12-16 Thread Manish Jain
Hello All, This is not a question strictly on FreeBSD. But since freebsd-questions is a lot quicker with its dependable responses, I decided to post my question here. Under /lib I have both versions - shared (libxyz.so.1) as well as static (libxyz.a) - of a library. How do I tell make to

Re: vidcontrol - How do I make these persist?

2012-11-26 Thread Modulok
>> If I edit things via vidcontrol, e.g: `vidcontrol grey black` where >> do I put this to make it persist across reboots on all terminals? > > Search for vidcontrol(1) in rc.conf(5) manual. Thanks! I ended up with just:: allscreens_flags="grey black" In /etc/rc.conf and it works :) -Modulok

Re: vidcontrol - How do I make these persist?

2012-11-26 Thread Maciej Suszko
Modulok wrote: > List, > > If I edit things via vidcontrol, e.g: `vidcontrol grey black` where > do I put this to make it persist across reboots on all terminals? Search for vidcontrol(1) in rc.conf(5) manual. -- regards, Maciej Suszko. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

vidcontrol - How do I make these persist?

2012-11-26 Thread Modulok
List, If I edit things via vidcontrol, e.g: `vidcontrol grey black` where do I put this to make it persist across reboots on all terminals? Cheers! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: How do I set number of retries in Firefox?

2012-09-20 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:52:27 -0400, Dieter BSD wrote: > I would have never guessed to type "about:config" as a URL. > Very useful to know.  Thank you. Allow me a sidenote: This also works in Opera and provides access to configuration and functionality that has no usable GUI equivalent. -- Poly

Re: How do I set number of retries in Firefox?

2012-09-20 Thread Dieter BSD
>> I have a problem with various parts of web pages stopping >> before getting completely downloaded. Links has a useful retries >> setting (setup->network options->retries) which seems to fix >> this. I need a similar fix for firefox 3.6.2 > Firefox 15 > URL: about:config > search: retry > networ

Re: How do I set number of retries in Firefox?

2012-09-13 Thread jb
Dieter BSD engineer.com> writes: > > [ no response on mozilla@ list, trying questions@ ] > > I have a problem with various parts of web pages stopping > before getting completely downloaded. Links has a useful retries > setting (setup->network options->retries) which seems to fix > this. I need

How do I set number of retries in Firefox?

2012-09-12 Thread Dieter BSD
[ no response on mozilla@ list, trying questions@ ] I have a problem with various parts of web pages stopping before getting completely downloaded. Links has a useful retries setting (setup->network options->retries) which seems to fix this. I need a similar fix for firefox 3.6.2 _

Re: How do I determine support for $xx?

2012-06-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Devin There were some great tips in your last post. Would be great if they couldfo in FreeBSD handbook somewhere. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format:

Re: How do I determine support for $xx?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Miller
Matthew/Devin, Thanks for the feedback. After I sent this email, I determined that the Intel i350 is indeed supported as a machine I built with FreeBSD was utilizing this NIC. I've tried the BCM5719 with stable/8 (5/21/2012) and it kernel panics when the interface is configured. I was told by a

Re: How do I determine support for $xx?

2012-06-08 Thread Devin Teske
On Jun 8, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Devin Teske wrote: > Hi Rick (!), > > On Jun 8, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > [snip] >> >> I browsed the source and found many references to the BCM5719 and >> BCM5720. However, I am unfamiliar enough with driver programming in C >> to identify if a cont

Re: How do I determine support for $xx?

2012-06-08 Thread Devin Teske
Hi Rick (!), On Jun 8, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > If this question is better suited for a different list please let me > know. Simply stated, my question is 'What is the best source for > identifying supported hardware?'. The source! Actually, pciconf and "grep unknown

Re: How do I determine support for $xx?

2012-06-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/06/2012 16:07, Rick Miller wrote: > If this question is better suited for a different list please let me > know. Simply stated, my question is 'What is the best source for > identifying supported hardware?'. Having said that, allow me to pose > an example... > > I've attempted to identify

How do I determine support for $xx?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, If this question is better suited for a different list please let me know. Simply stated, my question is 'What is the best source for identifying supported hardware?'. Having said that, allow me to pose an example... I've attempted to identify if various ethernet controllers are support

Re: how do I fix this?

2012-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 03:34:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 08:04:35AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > > what I want to do is get as current as possible and then > > > install 7.5. and stay there. > > > > 7.5 what? Do you mean Xorg? Please try and be specific. > >

Re: how do I fix this?

2012-06-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 08:04:35AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 08:04:35 +0200 > From: Roland Smith > Subject: Re: how do I fix this? > To: Gary Kline > Cc: FreeBSD > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 09:53:11PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > >

Re: how do I fix this?

2012-06-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 09:53:11PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Subject: Re: how do I fix this? > > To: FreeBSD > > X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3) > > > > On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:43:08 -0700 > > Gary Kline articulated: > &

Re: how do I fix this?

2012-06-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 06:24:57PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 18:24:57 -0400 > From: Jerry > Subject: Re: how do I fix this? > To: FreeBSD > X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3) > > On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:43:08 -0700 >

Re: how do I fix this?

2012-06-04 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:43:08 -0700 Gary Kline articulated: >from portupgrade, I just learned this: > >gmake[1]: Leaving directory >`/usr/ports/security/gnupg/work/gnupg-2.0.18' >gmake: *** [all] Error 2 >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /usr/ports/security/gnupg. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /usr/ports/

how do I fix this?

2012-06-04 Thread Gary Kline
guys, it has taken me almost a month to upgrade 700 ports. somehow, things grew to 1100+ ports. [?] {this is just FWIW.} I've tried portmaster and p'upgrade on "security/gnupg" I dont see why I should need these on my Server... anywa

Re: How Do I Remove Clang

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/29/12 00:27, Thomas D. Dean wrote: Oops, too fast. > cat /etc/make.conf PERL_VERSION=5.12.4 MK_CLANG_IS_CC="no" Tom Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Re: How Do I Remove Clang

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/29/12 00:49, Matthew Seaman wrote: Set WITHOUT_CLANG=yes in /etc/src.conf and do a normal buildworld cycle plus 'make delete-old' See src.conf(5) for more details. This breaks normal make: > cat /etc/src.conf WITHOUT_CLANG="Yes" > cat Makefile # Makefile for nanoBSD kld driver CC=gcc

Re: How Do I Remove Clang

2012-05-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/05/2012 08:27, Thomas D. Dean wrote: >> uname -a > FreeBSD P9X79.tddhome 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #2: Fri May 11 > 20:41:54 PDT 2012 tomdean@P9X79.tddhome:/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Hmmm... normally this sort of question is asked in exactly the opposite sense. I shall trust that i

How Do I Remove Clang

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas D. Dean
> uname -a FreeBSD P9X79.tddhome 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #2: Fri May 11 20:41:54 PDT 2012 tomdean@P9X79.tddhome:/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I want to remove clang from my system and stick with gcc. I do not want any code I produce to have a non-GPL license. Do I need to regress to 8.3

Re: csup: How do I know I have correct version?

2011-10-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Matthew Seaman : > Don't define PORTSSUPFILE in /etc/make.conf if you're using portsnap(1). > Apart from anything else, typing 'make update' in /usr/src will attempt > to cvsup not just the system sources but as well any of PORTS, DOC where > you've defined a ...SUPFILE. > In fact, without

Re: csup: How do I know I have correct version?

2011-10-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/10/2011 10:22, Thomas Mueller wrote: > From: Damien Fleuriot : >>> > >>From my /etc/make.conf: >> > SUP_UPDATE= yes >> > SUP=/usr/bin/csup >> > SUPFLAGS= -zgL 2 >> > SUPHOST=cvsup1.fr.freebsd.org >> > SUPFILE=/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile >> > PORTSSUPFILE=

Re: csup: How do I know I have correct version?

2011-10-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
From: Damien Fleuriot : > > Maybe also I should put this releng9-supfile in a safer place where > > it won't be deleted by the next installation/upgrade? > Indeed you should. > >>From my /etc/make.conf: > SUP_UPDATE= yes > SUP=/usr/bin/csup > SUPFLAGS= -zgL 2 >

Re: csup: How do I know I have correct version?

2011-10-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/10/2011 10:27, Thomas Mueller wrote: > After I run > > csup /usr/share/examples/releng9-supfile > > how do I know I have the correct version, like 9.0-BETA3 or 9.0-RC1? So long as you're confident that you have actually downloaded the sources from the RELENG_9 bra

Re: csup: How do I know I have correct version?

2011-10-21 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 10/21/11 11:27 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > After I run > > csup /usr/share/examples/releng9-supfile > > how do I know I have the correct version, like 9.0-BETA3 or 9.0-RC1? > > I can't find any such information explicitly anywhere under /usr/src . > > Th

csup: How do I know I have correct version?

2011-10-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
After I run csup /usr/share/examples/releng9-supfile how do I know I have the correct version, like 9.0-BETA3 or 9.0-RC1? I can't find any such information explicitly anywhere under /usr/src . This releng9-supfile was made from stable-supfile by changing RELENG_8 to RELENG_9 in the

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-20 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 09/20/11 01:23, Matthew Seaman wrote: 'Latest' packages are built for each updated port + OS version + architecture combination whenever resources are available on the build cluster. Typically that implies a delay of a few days or a week or so after the update hits the ports CVS. Yes, if you

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/09/2011 05:33, Jason C. Wells wrote: > I noticed only recently that there are now packages on FTP in a folder > called packages-8-stable. I am not sure how often these are built. I > expect that the entire ports tree is built much like it is during a > release, except at some later point in

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 09/19/11 13:56, Lars Eighner wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if things get too out of sync. Doh, I just read the handbook. http://

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 09/19/11 13:56, Lars Eighner wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if things get too out of sync. I noticed only recently that there are no

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if things get too out of sync. I'd like to say it doesn't matter, but ... If you are using packages from the ti

Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
Hi, I'm running RELENG_8_2 and I've been using packages instead of ports for most things, because they're so much quicker. But certain packages aren't compiled the way I need them to be-- postfix had no TLS or SASL support, for example, so I built it from the port. However, that is beginnin

Re: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread Christian Barthel
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:10:43AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jul 28 02:03:19 2011 > > Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:02:41 -0700 > > From: Gary Kline > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Cc: > > Subject: how do i f

Re: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jul 28 02:03:19 2011 > Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:02:41 -0700 > From: Gary Kline > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Cc: > Subject: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old? > > guys, > > > how can i us

Re: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread b. f.
On 7/28/11, b. f. wrote: >> how can i use find or whatever to find a file, say 6 levels deep >> that is <= 9 days old? i'm looking fo something i had to jt down >> [[ASCII]]. can't remembr te file name, nor when i was when i had >> the idea flash into my mind > > Try something like: > >

Re: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread b. f.
> how can i use find or whatever to find a file, say 6 levels deep > that is <= 9 days old? i'm looking fo something i had to jt down > [[ASCII]]. can't remembr te file name, nor when i was when i had > the idea flash into my mind Try something like: find / -type f -mtime -10d -mindept

how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread Gary Kline
guys, how can i use find or whatever to find a file, say 6 levels deep that is <= 9 days old? i'm looking fo something i had to jt down [[ASCII]]. can't remembr te file name, nor when i was when i had the idea flash into my mind sigh. thanks, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:31:00 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > right. i booted into single-user and fsck still gave me the NO > WRITE response; then i did a > > # shutdown now to get a # prompt in single-user and got the same > NO WRITE. Only it did fix the errors. dunno... str

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 01:04:23PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:04:23 -0700 > From: Chuck Swiger > Subject: Re: how do i fsck my server? > To: Gary Kline > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) > > On Jun 15, 2011, at 12

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Facts: 8.2-RELEASE man fsck -B ... background fsck is limited to checking for only the most commonly occurring file system abnormalities. Under certain circumstances, some errors can escape background fsck. It is recommended that you perform foreground fsck o

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-16 Thread RW
_ > From: Chuck Swiger > To: Gary Kline > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List > Sent: Wed, June 15, 2011 4:04:23 PM > Subject: Re: how do i fsck my server? > You can set fsck_y_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, but it shouldn't be > necessary.

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-15 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Chuck Swiger To: Gary Kline Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Sent: Wed, June 15, 2011 4:04:23 PM Subject: Re: how do i fsck my server? On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > can anybody clue me in on why fsck on my server [yes, of course as r

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > can anybody clue me in on why fsck on my server [yes, of course as root] > seem to refuse to WRITE? Bad sectors on the hard drive are a somewhat common cause of this. > we had a power out locally and i caught my UPS at > the last second. i power

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 6/15/2011 3:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > is there any way of scripting fsck *every* time i reboot this box? i just > want to make abs certain that the filesystems are clean. ---didn't fscking > used to be easier? Just override the defaults in /etc/rc.conf fsck_y_enable="YES" and if you are

how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-15 Thread Gary Kline
can anybody clue me in on why fsck on my server [yes, of course as root] seem to refuse to WRITE? we had a power out locally and i caught my UPS at the last second. i powered off my server to save the battery, etc, and a few minutes ago when i ran # fsck -y /var there were unresolved inconsis

Re: Jails: How do i limit what ifconfig shows?

2011-04-23 Thread Peter Toth
Use ugidfw to limit/deny access to ifconfig - "man ugidfw" Cheers, On 04/23/11 08:21, xor wrote: > Hullo > First off, thanks for a lovely operating system <3 > > I decided to go for FreeBSD perhaps 3 days ago. Before, ive been an > Debian/OpenBSD guy, and ive only used my obsd box for redundant

Re: Jails: How do i limit what ifconfig shows?

2011-04-22 Thread xor
But then the root in the jail can just go and compile a new version of ifconfig from the ports collection. (Generally its a flawed idea to just remove the binaries. Someone can just download new ones. And if downloading new binaries is not allowed, they can always just push stdin through b64.. etc

Re: Jails: How do i limit what ifconfig shows?

2011-04-22 Thread Michael Ross
Am 22.04.2011, 22:21 Uhr, schrieb xor : Hullo First off, thanks for a lovely operating system <3 I decided to go for FreeBSD perhaps 3 days ago. Before, ive been an Debian/OpenBSD guy, and ive only used my obsd box for redundant firewalls and networking. Ive not been running any services off th

Jails: How do i limit what ifconfig shows?

2011-04-22 Thread xor
Hullo First off, thanks for a lovely operating system <3 I decided to go for FreeBSD perhaps 3 days ago. Before, ive been an Debian/OpenBSD guy, and ive only used my obsd box for redundant firewalls and networking. Ive not been running any services off the boxen. The reason I decided to go for Fr

Xircom realport in 8.1-RELEASE - how do I determine proper cbb.start_memory ?

2011-03-27 Thread George Sanders
hw.cbb.start_memory=0xf480 sysctl hw.cbb.start_memory=0x3000 However, neither of these values work for me, and I continue to get this kind of error: dc1: No station address in CIS! etc. I am happy to use this workaround, I just wonder how do I determine the proper value for this

how do I get source off source.forge.com?

2010-10-03 Thread Gary Kline
Does anybody know how to grab the source files off sourceforge.com? I volunteered years back while busy with many other things and ran out of road. Now I am ready to do some devel on the project. The others are long gone. More offline. This can be made universal; I will need some help with t

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline writes: > Just to make =sure= about this: can using tar/gtar as root [or > sudo] make sure that all the permissions are correct? It =may= > save me keystrokes, :_) Permissions, yes. If you want flags, you'll need the base system tar. ___

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-09-02 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:48:28PM +0100, krad wrote: > On 30 August 2010 20:02, Chris Rees wrote: > > > On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad wrote: > > > On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon wrote: > > > > > >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten > > >> wrote: > > >> > Rename them, copy,

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-31 Thread krad
On 30 August 2010 20:02, Chris Rees wrote: > On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad wrote: > > On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten > >> wrote: > >> > Rename them, copy, then rename them back? > >> > >> Not good for a whole bunch of files;

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Rees
On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad wrote: > On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten >> wrote: >> > Rename them, copy, then rename them back? >> >> Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together, >> transfer the archive, unt

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-30 Thread krad
On 27 August 2010 19:15, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:54:52AM -0700, Jason wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:41AM -0700, Gary Kline thus spake: > > >On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: > > >>On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400 > > >>Glen Barber

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-30 Thread krad
On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten > wrote: > > Rename them, copy, then rename them back? > > Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together, > transfer the archive, untar it; rename afterwards if needed. :-) > > > >

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 29 August 2010, Polytropon wrote: > The "problem" (i. e. a convention) is that .* is not part of *, > which includes everything else, even "nothing", and the > form *.* (that looks like the DOS equivalent of "all files") > does seem to omit .*; the spaced form * .* would work as it > con

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 09:34:59PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:12:11 -0700, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. > Schwartz) wrote: > > > "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' writes: > > > > >> There's a big difference between: > > >> > > >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread 'Gary Kline'
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:12:11PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' writes: > > >> There's a big difference between: > >> > >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything > >> > >> and > >> > >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss all t

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:12:11 -0700, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > > "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' writes: > > >> There's a big difference between: > >> > >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything > >> > >> and > >> > >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' writes: >> There's a big difference between: >> >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything >> >> and >> >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss all the dotfiles >> >> Did you do the latter, by chance? 'Gary> Sure. my default is th

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread 'Gary Kline'
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 07:06:33AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' writes: > > 'Gary>at least for me, gtar fails to pick up dotfiles. > > How did you invoke it? > > There's a big difference between: > > cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # shoul

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' writes: 'Gary> at least for me, gtar fails to pick up dotfiles. How did you invoke it? There's a big difference between: cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything and cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss all the dotfil

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:05:31 -0700, "'Gary Kline'" wrote: > at least for me, gtar fails to pick up dotfiles. rsynx copies > =everything=, and it looks like the test rsync script i posted > last night was working all along. it was So fast that i assumed > it was bombin

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-28 Thread 'Gary Kline'
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:29:29AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 28/08/2010 08:02:31, 'Gary Kline' wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten > >> wrote: > >>> Rename them, copy, then rename them back? > >> > >>

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/08/2010 08:02:31, 'Gary Kline' wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: >>> Rename them, copy, then rename them back? >> >> Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together, >> transfer

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 28 August 2010 08:02, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: >> > Rename them, copy, then rename them back? >> >> Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together, >> transfer

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-28 Thread 'Gary Kline'
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: > > Rename them, copy, then rename them back? > > Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together, > transfer the archive, untar it; rename afterwards if neede

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: > Rename them, copy, then rename them back? Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together, transfer the archive, untar it; rename afterwards if needed. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote: >On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:29:14AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote: >> > >> >guys, >> > >> >this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say, >> >~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundred

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:54:52AM -0700, Jason wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:41AM -0700, Gary Kline thus spake: > >On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: > >>On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400 > >>Glen Barber wrote: > >> > >>> On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote:

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Jon Radel
On 8/27/10 1:51 PM, Gary Kline wrote: i've already done 98 or so straight scp copies. the thing is how to use rsync over to an empty ethic? [[ empty == "there are no \ dot files not .directories"] i want EVERYTHING from this desktop, tao, temp on ethic.

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Jason
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:41AM -0700, Gary Kline thus spake: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400 Glen Barber wrote: > On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > guys, > > > > this is the start of my master switchover. how to

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