howto kill x if x is running?

2013-09-15 Thread Gary Kline
Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. guys, I've evidently had too many pain meds; this shelll script should be easy. say that I have a utility xxx running sometimes. xxx is

Re: howto kill x if x is running?

2013-09-15 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 23:20:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: say that I have a utility xxx running sometimes. xxx is soaking up a chunk of my load. I have to use top to find if xxx is running, then kill -9 to kill xxx and have a steady load of, say, between 0.10 and 0.15.

Re: howto kill x if x is running?

2013-09-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 15/09/2013 07:20, Gary Kline wrote: I've evidently had too many pain meds; this shelll script should be easy. say that I have a utility xxx running sometimes. xxx is soaking up a chunk of my load. I have to use top to find if xxx is running, then kill -9 to kill

Re: howto kill x if x is running?

2013-09-15 Thread Gary Kline
Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:56:17AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 15/09/2013 07:20, Gary Kline wrote: I've evidently had too many pain meds; this shelll

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-23 Thread Michael Grimm
On 20.07.2013, at 18:34, Michael Grimm trash...@odo.in-berlin.de wrote: On 20.07.2013, at 14:53, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious how to monitor changes in

HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Grimm
Hi -- I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am looking for a functionality/port that works like 490.status-pkg-changes for my host. Question: is there any functionality within the periodic system or a

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am looking for a functionality/port that works like 490.status- pkg-changes for my host. Question: is there any

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Grimm
On 20.07.2013, at 14:53, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am looking for a functionality/port that

pkg version -L howto?

2013-05-18 Thread Leslie Jensen
I ran into a little problem with my old crontab scripts. I do the following: portsnap -I cron update /usr/local/sbin/portmaster -y --clean-distfiles /usr/local/sbin/portmaster -aF pkg version -vIL After changing to pkg the check for outdated ports fails on the -L flag pkg version -vIL

pkg version -L howto?

2013-05-18 Thread Robert Huff
Leslie Jensen writes: pkg version -vIL pkg: option requires an argument -- L usage: pkg version [-IPR] [-hoqv] [-l limchar] [-L limchar] [[-X] -s string] [-r reponame] [-O origin] [index] pkg version -t version1 version2 pkg version -T pkgname

Re: /usr/bin/find - binary operands howto

2012-06-05 Thread grarpamp
A single find already had the needed selection and execution ops. So I was trying it first, before writing an external parser, etc. It's still not clear to me how find is compiling the arguments internally, but using -vv on the utils helped a lot. After adding -false after all the -exec's, it now

Re: /usr/bin/find - binary operands howto

2012-06-04 Thread Karl Vogel
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 19:10:00 -0400, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com said: G Given a fs with millions of inodes, multiple find runs is expensive. As G is performing the ch* on more than the minimum required inodes, which G also needlessly updates the inode ctime. So I want one find, doing the G ch*

/usr/bin/find - binary operands howto

2012-06-03 Thread grarpamp
Given a fs with millions of inodes, multiple find runs is expensive. As is performing the ch* on more than the minimum required inodes, which also needlessly updates the inode ctime. So I want one find, doing the ch* only if necessary. I came up with this. But any true line short circuits the

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-07 Thread vermaden
Good to see you've finally been burned. You'll never make that mistake again. :) I liked that syntax: ASD { asd } || { bsd } mostly because of syntax highlighting, to be precise highlighting of the second bracket of a pair at editors, nor VIM neither GEANY highlight if/then/elif/else/fi

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
vermaden == vermaden verma...@interia.pl writes: Good to see you've finally been burned. You'll never make that mistake again. :) vermaden I liked that syntax: vermaden ASD { vermaden asd vermaden } || { vermaden bsd vermaden } vermaden mostly because of syntax highlighting, to be

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-07 Thread vermaden
Emacs indents it nicely, and colorizes the keywords so that it stands out. Indentification is not a problem, it work both in geany and vim. Probably I haven't made clear what I meant ;) Take a look at this picture: http://ompldr.org/vZG50bQ The brackets in that specific section (asd) are

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-05 Thread vermaden
And no difference on 8.3 :( Should there have been a promote in there somewhere? It looks like the boot env is still dependent on the very old zroot. Hi, I have just recreated from scratch Your zroot root setup under VirtualBox and tested it deeply. There was an interesting BUG in the

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
vermaden == vermaden verma...@interia.pl writes: vermaden To the point, check these two code snippets, they should vermaden do EXACLY the same, logic is the same, the differece is vermaden only the syntax. vermaden snippet 1: vermaden [ ${MOUNT} -eq 0 ] { vermaden zfs set

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread vermaden
I have zfs-on-root using the classical documentation (everything under zpool, possibly with some sub-mounts, but I've left those out lately). Is there a way to transition my system to a form that beadm expects? I tried just running it, and it's upset that zpool/ROOT doesn't exist. Hi, I

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
vermaden == vermaden verma...@interia.pl writes: vermaden # fetch https://github.com/vermaden/beadm/blob/master/beadm Heh. That's HTML. I think you want fetch https://raw.github.com/vermaden/beadm/master/beadm vermaden # chmod +x beadm vermaden # ./beadm list vermaden # ./beadm activate

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: vermaden == vermaden verma...@interia.pl writes: vermaden # fetch https://github.com/vermaden/beadm/blob/master/beadm Randal and after reboot, zfs set mountpoint=none zroot would also seem to Randal clean that up. Oh wait, it looks

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: Randal Oh wait, it looks like zroot is still holding 1.04G of data... will Randal that ever go away? Shouldn't all the data be in the /ROOT/xxx Randal items? And worse, the things from the readme don't work: locohost# ./beadm create

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: Randal This is FreeBSD 8.2. And no difference on 8.3 :( Should there have been a promote in there somewhere? It looks like the boot env is still dependent on the very old zroot. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services,

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 5/4/2012 5:10 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: Randal Oh wait, it looks like zroot is still holding 1.04G of data... will Randal that ever go away? Shouldn't all the data be in the /ROOT/xxx Randal items? And worse, the things

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-03 Thread vermaden
Hi, I just tested your tool the last few days and I must say I love it already. Though I can get one of the commands to work - might be me or the syntax beadm create [-e nonActiveBe | beName@snapshot] beName I read it as you can do the following beadm create beName@snapshot beName

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-03 Thread vermaden
Kalle Møller freebsd-questi...@k-moeller.dk: And I forgot If I do a create and destroy, I would assume my system was back to same state, but you keep the snapshot when I destroy the clone, dont know if its working as intended (better safe to keep it than sorry) or you just didn't think of

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-02 Thread Kalle Møller
Is that correct or is it beadm create -e beName@snapshot beName Well neither of those seems to work for me, can you give an example of the use? Thanks Kalle On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:08 AM, vermaden verma...@interia.pl wrote: Hi, I have just created new HOWTO [1] on how to use Boot Environments

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-02 Thread Kalle Møller
beName@snapshot beName Well neither of those seems to work for me, can you give an example of the use? Thanks Kalle On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:08 AM, vermaden verma...@interia.pl wrote: Hi, I have just created new HOWTO [1] on how to use Boot Environments on FreeBSD with new created

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-04-27 Thread vermaden
Hi, do you know manageBE? Google for it, it is the first hit. This works for me like a charm since about a year. Bye, Alexander. Hi, yes I know and used manageBE for a while, I even mentioned it in the HOWTO (quote below) but thought that making *beadm* that is compatible with Illumos

HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-04-26 Thread vermaden
Hi, I have just created new HOWTO [1] on how to use Boot Environments on FreeBSD with new created utility *beadm* that I put on SourceForge [2]. Feel free to send Your ideas/critique about it. [1] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31662 [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/beadm

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-05 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Julian. Вы писали 5 февраля 2012 г., 9:15:35: JE On 2/4/12 10:53 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/2/12 1:33 AM, Коньков Евгений wrote: this is the mine script which helps me keep my firewall very clean and safe. It is easy to understand even if you have a thousands ruBTWles, I

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/4/12 10:53 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/2/12 1:33 AM, Коньков Евгений wrote: this is the mine script which helps me keep my firewall very clean and safe. It is easy to understand even if you have a thousands ruBTWles, I think =) please comment. PS. If anybody may, please put into

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/2/12 1:33 AM, Коньков Евгений wrote: this is the mine script which helps me keep my firewall very clean and safe. It is easy to understand even if you have a thousands rules, I think =) please comment. PS. If anybody may, please put into ports tree. thank you. it would probably be get

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
2012/2/4 Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org: On 2/2/12 1:33 AM, Коньков Евгений wrote: this is the mine script which helps me keep my firewall very clean and safe. It is easy to understand even if you have a thousands rules, I think =) please comment. PS. If anybody may, please put into

HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-02 Thread Коньков Евгений
this is the mine script which helps me keep my firewall very clean and safe. It is easy to understand even if you have a thousands rules, I think =) please comment. PS. If anybody may, please put into ports tree. thank you. usr-local-etc-firewall.rar Description: Binary data

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-02 Thread Jason Hellenthal
You are welcome to create a port and submit it for reccomendation... For that you should review the documents etc... at http://freebsd.org/docs Good Luck On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:33:14AM +0200, Коньков Евгений wrote: this is the mine script which helps me keep my firewall very clean and

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-02 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:10:14 -0500 Jason Hellenthal articulated: For that you should review the documents etc... at http://freebsd.org/docs Which will get you a big: 404 - Not Found You could start here though: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-concepts.html

Re: anybody know howto do eazy abbrevs?

2011-11-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:15:24PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:15:24 -0500 From: Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com Subject: Re: anybody know howto do eazy abbrevs? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i486-pc-linux-gnu) On Fri, 11

anybody know howto do eazy abbrevs?

2011-11-11 Thread Gary Kline
around thanksgiving in 1996 I began using//STUDYING the Xlib set that is behing every other toolkit in the NIX world. I eventually moved to the Athena toolkit. IIRC, there is a faily simple Xlib editor. it would save [or speed up] typing to use abbrevs. without too much effort, do any of you

Re: anybody know howto do eazy abbrevs?

2011-11-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 11, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote: hw r u gys dng? into: how are you guys doing? Assuming you've got emacs installed: info emacs -s abbrev Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: anybody know howto do eazy abbrevs?

2011-11-11 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:40:23 -0800 Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Nov 11, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote: hw r u gys dng? into: how are you guys doing? Assuming you've got emacs installed: info emacs -s abbrev Regards, -- -Chuck

Dell PowerEdge 1950 with LSI SAS1068E/aka DeLL SAS-6 HBA: howto update firmware with FreeBSD?

2011-06-29 Thread O. Hartmann
We run a Dell PowerEdge 1950 Server which is equipted with a LSI Logic LSISAS1068E SAS HBA, branded as a Dell SAS-6 HBA (MPT). The firmware is dated to 2007 and is not capable of handling hard disks larger than 2 TB. We got now a 3 TB SATA harddrive (WD WD30EZRX) which doesn't get recognized

FreeBSD CURRENT custom ISO install image: howto?

2011-03-16 Thread O. Hartmann
I'm desperately looking for howto creating my own FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 custom installation DVD. Google delivers a lot of outdated stuff and I wasn't able to find some hints in the handbook, so maybe one here can help. I've already all sources via 'svn' (no CVS) on the local box

Re: FreeBSD CURRENT custom ISO install image: howto?

2011-03-16 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/16/11 19:10, Al Plant wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: I'm desperately looking for howto creating my own FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 custom installation DVD. Google delivers a lot of outdated stuff and I wasn't able to find some hints in the handbook, so maybe one here can help. I've already all

howto un-chmod 755 /usr/local?

2010-08-30 Thread Steve Franks
Would you believe me if I said a script I use daily went awry? Is there a list of the proper permission modes for things in /usr/local to get a working system back, aside of starting over? Is there a better way? I've already tried and upgrade from the 8.1 cd, which doesn't seem to have affected

Re: howto un-chmod 755 /usr/local?

2010-08-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Steve == Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com writes: Steve Is there a list of the proper permission modes for things in Steve /usr/local to get a working system back, aside of starting over? I think you can use mtree(8) to repair your system, with the masters in /etc/mtree/*. -- Randal L.

Re: Howto create FAT32 bootable USB device with gpart?

2010-08-27 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 08/26/2010 10:34 AM, Hartmann, O. wrote: Trying to create a bootable USB device (memory stick) with gpart - and failed. I need those USB mem sticks for BIOS flashing purposes on an older main PCB, utilizing FreeDOS. The old BIOS is capable of booting off from USB mem sticks, since I booted

Howto create FAT32 bootable USB device with gpart?

2010-08-26 Thread Hartmann, O.
Trying to create a bootable USB device (memory stick) with gpart - and failed. I need those USB mem sticks for BIOS flashing purposes on an older main PCB, utilizing FreeDOS. The old BIOS is capable of booting off from USB mem sticks, since I booted and installed FreeBSD via this method. But

Re: FreeBSD PXE installation howto

2010-04-29 Thread egoitz
Well finally... I have updated my pxe installation guide... reducing some unnecessary steps... here you are the updated howto : http://postfixquotareject.ramattack.net/freebsdpxehowto.pdf You know any doubts this is my mail :). Bye!! Hi all, I have seen a way for reducing some steps

Re: FreeBSD PXE installation howto

2010-04-16 Thread egoitz
Hi all, I have seen a way for reducing some steps... after installing dhcpd and active tftpd in inetd.conf and starting inetd... have just done : tar -C /expert/netboot/freebsd8 -pxvf 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (really it's an own release based on release plus security patches RELENG_8_0 but

FreeBSD PXE installation howto

2010-04-11 Thread Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre
Hi, I'm working on a project for setting up a freebsd installation server with pxe. When I started I see the doc was a bit old-fashioned... so I started looking at some blogs... freebsd doc that could help me understanding the whole process and so on... finally I have ended looking at source

Re: FreeBSD PXE installation howto

2010-04-11 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
Hello There: I will read it, just found a mountpoint named puntodemontaje, that maybe you forgot to translate. Will check it out latter. Diego Arias On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre ego...@ramattack.net wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project for setting up a

Re: FreeBSD PXE installation howto

2010-04-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project for setting up a freebsd installation server with pxe. When I started I see the doc was a bit old-fashioned... so I started looking at some blogs... freebsd doc that could help me understanding the whole process and so on...

bruteforce protection howto

2010-03-20 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
Two pc's: 1 - router 2 - logger Situation: someone tries to bruteforce into a server, and the logger get's a log about it [e.g.: ssh login failed]. What's the best method to ban that ip [what is bruteforcig a server] what was logged on the logger? I need to ban the ip on the router pc. How can

Re: bruteforce protection howto

2010-03-20 Thread Jamie Griffin
Two pc's: 1 - router 2 - logger Situation: someone tries to bruteforce into a server, and the logger get's a log about it [e.g.: ssh login failed]. What's the best method to ban that ip [what is bruteforcig a server] what was logged on the logger? I need to ban the ip on the router

Re: bruteforce protection howto

2010-03-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 20/03/10 23:17, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: What's the best method to ban that ip [what is bruteforcig a server] what was logged on the logger? I need to ban the ip on the router pc. Take your time to think about if this is indeed the right solution. 1st: You need to decide which is the right

Re: Howto run privileged commands on login/logout

2010-02-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:55:02 +0100, Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: Hi: I'm playing around with diskless operation. I'd like to be able to run privileged commands when a user logins or logs out: You can handle this in two ways: a) On a per-user basis, you can use the user's

Howto run privileged commands on login/logout

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I'm playing around with diskless operation. I'd like to be able to run privileged commands when a user logins or logs out: - on login, nfs mount the user's home directory (ok, not critical, I can mount /home) - on logout a system reboot to clean up any temporary files left from the

Re: Howto run privileged commands on login/logout

2010-02-06 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: Hi: I'm playing around with diskless operation. I'd like to be able to run privileged commands when a user logins or logs out: - on login, nfs mount the user's home directory (ok, not critical, I can mount /home) -

Re: Howto run privileged commands on login/logout

2010-02-06 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Sunday 07 February 2010 01:55:02 Erik Norgaard wrote: I'm playing around with diskless operation. I'd like to be able to run privileged commands when a user logins or logs out: - on login, nfs mount the user's home directory (ok, not critical, I can mount /home) This can be done using

Re: Howto run privileged commands on login/logout

2010-02-06 Thread perryh
Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: I'm playing around with diskless operation. I'd like to be able to run privileged commands when a user logins or logs out: - on login, nfs mount the user's home directory (ok, not critical, I can mount /home) Or, better yet, use an automounter. -

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:32:21 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Scott Bennett wrote: Alexander Best wrote: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-28 Thread Alexander Best
Scott Bennett schrieb am 2009-10-27: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:40:48 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Alexander Best wrote: Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts:

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-27 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:40:48 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Alexander Best wrote: Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Powell
Scott Bennett wrote: Alexander Best wrote: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. [snip] Perhaps the easiest direct solution is to

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-27 Thread RW
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:29:13 +0100 (CET) Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: i'm not using a webserver or anything. i'm just a regular user. the point is: i often forget to specify https://... for that specific address in apps like lynx or firefox. that's why the non-ssl

howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. any advice on how to do this? cheers.

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Alexander Best wrote: hi there, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. It doesn't

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. De3finitely not. man hosts to see the

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Alexander Best
Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax.

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
Alex, i'm not using a webserver or anything. i'm just a regular user. the point is: i often forget to specify https://... for that specific address in apps like lynx or firefox. that's why the non-ssl version of that site is being loaded. i'd like freebsd to take care of this so even if the

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Alexander Best wrote: Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: Alexander Best wrote: Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address.

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread jhell
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:29, alexbestms@ wrote: Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address.

Re: howto install virtualbox

2009-10-14 Thread henter2009
, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/howto-install-virtualbox-tp25001665p25889863.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd

Howto: ethernet card on dell M6300

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Stankevitz
I was saddened to find that my ethernet card did not work on my FreeBSD 7.2 machine. The bge driver in the kernel did not support the broadcom 5756ME. Here is how I got it to work: 1. Set my machine up to compile the kernel (see section 8.5 of manual) 2. Edit

Re: Howto: ethernet card on dell M6300

2009-10-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@yahoo.com wrote: I was saddened to find that my ethernet card did not work on my FreeBSD 7.2 machine. The bge driver in the kernel did not support the broadcom 5756ME. Here is how I got it to work: 1. Set my machine up to compile the kernel (see

Re: howto alias a stty erase?

2009-08-30 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Gary Kline wrote: is there a way of setty'ing stty erase to [backspace key? pretty sure that is the delete key. i'm tired of having to hand set it every time when i use the Konsole term. thanks, gary to set this you need to specify

Re: howto alias a stty erase?

2009-08-30 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:59:27AM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Gary Kline wrote: is there a way of setty'ing stty erase to [backspace key? pretty sure that is the delete key. i'm tired of having to hand set it every time when i use the Konsole term.

howto alias a stty erase?

2009-08-25 Thread Gary Kline
is there a way of setty'ing stty erase to [backspace key? pretty sure that is the delete key. i'm tired of having to hand set it every time when i use the Konsole term. thanks, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public

Re: howto alias a stty erase?

2009-08-25 Thread Scott Schappell
If you use sh or bash, you can add to .profile or .bash_profile: stty erase ^h That should do it. Type the caret (^) and (h). On Aug 25, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Gary Kline wrote: is there a way of setty'ing stty erase to [backspace key? pretty sure that is the delete key. i'm

Re: howto install virtualbox

2009-08-18 Thread Mark Stapper
Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:34:42 +0200 Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl wrote: I'm currently migrating my home desktop from Gentoo linux to FreeBSD 8.0(Beta but it'll be Stable soon. Using RELENG_8 btw). I'm kind of a OS collector/nut/geek/nerd. As such virtualization is

Re: howto install virtualbox

2009-08-18 Thread lucian
Mark Stapper writes: Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:34:42 +0200 Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl wrote: I'm currently migrating my home desktop from Gentoo linux to FreeBSD 8.0(Beta but it'll be Stable soon. Using RELENG_8 btw). I'm kind of a OS collector/nut/geek/nerd. As such

howto install virtualbox

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Stapper
Hello, I'm currently migrating my home desktop from Gentoo linux to FreeBSD 8.0(Beta but it'll be Stable soon. Using RELENG_8 btw). I'm kind of a OS collector/nut/geek/nerd. As such virtualization is quite important to me. I've been using VMware Server 2.x on Gentoo for quite some time and, apart

Re: howto install virtualbox

2009-08-17 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:34:42 +0200 Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl wrote: I'm currently migrating my home desktop from Gentoo linux to FreeBSD 8.0(Beta but it'll be Stable soon. Using RELENG_8 btw). I'm kind of a OS collector/nut/geek/nerd. As such virtualization is quite important to me. I've

Re: howto install virtualbox

2009-08-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mark Stapper wrote: Hello, I'm currently migrating my home desktop from Gentoo linux to FreeBSD 8.0(Beta but it'll be Stable soon. Using RELENG_8 btw). I'm kind of a OS collector/nut/geek/nerd. As such virtualization is quite important to me. I've been using VMware Server 2.x on Gentoo for

Howto: To know whether the 3D accelerator works on my desktop with ATI Radeon 3450.

2009-08-15 Thread Ricky Tompu Breaky
Dear my friends, please tell me how I know whether my FreeBSD can run the 3D Accelerator with my current ATI Radeon 3450 graphic card. Thank you very much in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Howto: To know whether the 3D accelerator works on my desktop with ATI Radeon 3450.

2009-08-15 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:53:47 +0700, Ricky Tompu Breaky ricky.bre...@uni.de wrote: Dear my friends, please tell me how I know whether my FreeBSD can run the 3D Accelerator with my current ATI Radeon 3450 graphic card. As far as I know, the glxgears program is a good indicator. It can be

Re: Howto: To know whether the 3D accelerator works on my desktop with ATI Radeon 3450.

2009-08-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 05:53:47PM +0700, Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote: Dear my friends, please tell me how I know whether my FreeBSD can run the 3D Accelerator with my current ATI Radeon 3450 graphic card. The Radeon 3450 uses a RV620 chip

Re: Samba3 domain controller howto?

2009-06-08 Thread Mister Olli
hi, yes, you are mis-understanding samba itself is a NT4-type domain. not quite right. It depends on the samba version your using. - samba3 only provides NT4-type domains - samba4 provides active directory domain types including GPO (I have such a setup running in 7.SOMETHING with around 10

RE: Samba3 domain controller howto?

2009-06-08 Thread Mister Olli
Hi, I used the following procedure to install samba4 on a freebsd box: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO in my current setup (which is about 4 months old) the following this do not work: - active directory groups did somehow not work as expected, but I didn't had the time to look

Re: Samba3 domain controller howto?

2009-06-08 Thread Mister Olli
). maybe one thing that you should be aware of is, that UFS does not support extend file attributes as linux does. so you need to save this informations into a file. the correct procedure is described in the samba4 howto article within the samba wiki (http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO

Samba3 domain controller howto?

2009-06-07 Thread Dave
Hello, I've found a lot of this for LInux, but am looking for something FreeBSD specific. I'm wanting to set up a FreeBSD 7.2 machine, samba3, dynamic dhcp and dns, to act as a domain controller. Has anyone done this and do you have some notes or a howto? Thanks. Dave

Re: Samba3 domain controller howto?

2009-06-07 Thread Mark Busby
--- On Sun, 6/7/09, Dave dave.meh...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dave dave.meh...@gmail.com Subject: Samba3 domain controller howto? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009, 6:28 AM Hello,     I've found a lot of this for LInux, but am looking for something FreeBSD

Re: Samba3 domain controller howto?

2009-06-07 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/7/09, Mark Busby redt...@sbcglobal.net wrote: --- On Sun, 6/7/09, Dave dave.meh...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dave dave.meh...@gmail.com Subject: Samba3 domain controller howto? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009, 6:28 AM Hello, I've found a lot

Re: Samba3 domain controller howto?

2009-06-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Samba is still only a NT4-type DC, no Active Directory type of function (Group Policies, u...@domain logins, kerberos, ldap, etc) I am not sure if I understand you well, but my samba is authenticating users agaiinst LDAP. Best regards, Olivier

Re: Samba3 domain controller howto?

2009-06-07 Thread Tim Judd
yes, you are mis-understanding samba itself is a NT4-type domain. samba can use authentication backends that include passwd files, LDAP and kerberos. Active directory is a requirement to use LDAP, whereas samba is offering it as a auth backend only. fine line, I know. IOW, whereas Active

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-13 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? Since you are using the snapshot DVD you should have the live/fixit environment which is very handy for this. I would

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking for an approach to drive the entire installation from the Fixit# command line

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 11/5/09 11:48, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking for an approach to drive the entire installation from the Fixit# command line

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