What's wrong with this picture?

2009-05-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 30 May 2009, freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org wrote in freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 260, Issue 31 [..] 1. Fw: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console (Graham Bentley) 2. Re: find and searching for specific expression in files (Mel Flynn) 3. Re: find and searching for

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/31 Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:15 -0400, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'?  (Not arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) This depends on your file system layout, Glen. If

Re: FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro

2009-05-31 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/31 John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net: I'm looking for advice and/or pointers. I have an Intel-based MacBook Pro and I would like to use a USB thumb drive to be able to boot FreeBSD on it. Some questions: 1) Is this even possible? I've read that you _can_ boot Mac OS X from a USB hard

Re: Mysql6 or Mysql5

2009-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
Grant Peel wrote: Does anyone have any expierience with it? Is it solid? Fast? Are there any 'gotchas' when using databases developed on older versions of Mysql? (4). I can't answer about speed or solidity -- except to point out that MySQL themselves describe MYSQL 6.0 as an alpha development

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'? (Not in my case yes as / is usually my only filesystem. for those who keep programs (/usr) separate /usr/local2 or /usr/whatever will be OK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This depends on your file system layout, Glen. If you put everything into one partition, i. e. /, then everything is going into /. like in my case. with one exception - now i usually have /tmp separate but it's tmpfs :) other Solarisisms that I've already seen, such as /export on FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
4) Just to be contrary, I'd also like to use GELI (if possible) for everything but /boot. Does needing an extra /boot partition change anything? Actually you can't create /boot partition, but something else like /b and link /boot to /b/boot bootloader subsystem requires that things are in

Re: Myths about Power Over Ethernet

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Myths about Power Over Ethernet May 28, 2009 Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technology integrates power and data across standard Cat5/5e/6 network cabling and provides more flexibility in today?s workplace. PoE enables power to be supplied to network devices, such as IP phones, network cameras, and

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
same user password somewhere else. The whole point of ssh is to prevent this sort of thing, by encrypting the message traffic over this insecure communication channel. I think most people using ssh already know it. or maybe not?:) An attacker may be able to intercept the encrypted traffic,

Re: Audio boost OSS/Mplayer

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I want to boost the audio playback of my multimedia. you mean higher volume. use mixer command I use mplayer with oss for audio playback. I don't want to re-encode my media. uname -a:'7.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD' -- ~ ##The United States of America is a Slave Nation## ##The Human race is a Slave

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
(Wojciech Puchar) 33. Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint (Wojciech Puchar) 34. Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint (cpghost) 35. Filter request Re: GSM to Serial Converter (Wojciech Puchar) 36. Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail (Wojciech Puchar) Woj, 20 out of 36 messages, over

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:30:44 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: does Solaris REQUIRE things to be in /export to be able to export through NFS or is it just some kind of tradition or routinely repeated rule? No, just tradition or convention. In most cases,

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
No. The company CREATES a need for their product. That's the number one rule. if they succeed - what's wrong? You tell me. nothing. As long as nobody is forced to buy someones product, every kind of propaganda is allowed. It's just peoples problem if they will believe that they NEED for

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
all your examples are sounds just like kind of tradition. Just like for eg. creating lots of partitions no matter if it's needed or not On Sun, 31 May 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:30:44 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: does Solaris

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: other Solarisisms that I've already seen, such as /export on FreeBSD which is usually used on Solaris for NFS shares.) does Solaris REQUIRE things to be in /export to be able to export through NFS or is it just some kind of tradition or routinely repeated rule? It's

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:49:18 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: all your examples are sounds just like kind of tradition. Just like for eg. creating lots of partitions no matter if it's needed or not One exception: The creation of different partitions

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
In fact, given that FreeBSD doesn't seem to have a native convention on how exported filesystems are laid out (no mention in hier(7), no default /etc/exports file), it would make sense to adopt the Solaris/Linux style where feasible. it's best not to adopt any style, but do whatever is

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
One exception: The creation of different partitions according to different uses can (but doesn't neccessarily have to) be useful if partition-wise dumps are required or intended. As you know, there are advantages and disadvantages. There can This is only adventage - to use dump. Anyway - do

Re: [FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE] Audio going silent after wakeup.

2009-05-31 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 5/31/09, LoH lordofhyph...@gmail.com wrote: After setting up an Audigy2ZS with the emu10kx kernel driver, I found that after the machine goes into a suspend mode and wakes up, the sound stops playing. Unloading and reloading the kernel drivers (sound.ko and snd_emu10kx.ko) doesn't appear to

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 31 May 2009 11:19:10 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: For me it never succeeded, even if it dumps successfully produced output could be unrestorable. After getting this twice i stayed away from this great (but nonworking) tool. Backup tool that

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Your idea won't hurt in single-disk, single-partition case, but this case is prohibited by other blind repeat rule of making lots of partitions. I didn't say anything about how file system layout should be mapped to disk partitions[*]. Nor do I support the concept of

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 31 May 2009 11:15:19 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: it's best not to adopt any style, but do whatever is optimal in certain case. You propose just another example of blind repeated rule. It is often found as corporate standard. This doesn't mean

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I just prefer dump + restore for cloning systems because it explicitely takes care of file attributes and anything; I do use You are right, but rsync can do the same :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: about using ppp over ethernet

2009-05-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Yavuz Maşlak wrote: I have a adsl modem. I am going to use freebsd as a router and firewall. ... What am I doing wrong? It is probably the firewall, it seems that you use firewall_type=closed. Could give us some more info about it? Which firewall do you use? what are your custom rules?

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Your idea won't hurt in single-disk, single-partition case, but this case is prohibited by other blind repeat rule of making lots of partitions. I didn't say anything about how file system layout should be mapped to disk partitions[*]. Nor do I support the concept of making lots and lots of

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
case. You propose just another example of blind repeated rule. It is often found as corporate standard. This doesn't mean you Well i don't expect many smart people working in big corporations. There are exceptions of course - those that got there by accident and not yet left ;)

migrating berkeley DBs (4.3 to 4.6)

2009-05-31 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I have cyrus-imapd 2.3 with Berkeley DB 4.3 and openldap also compiled with BDB 4.3. Now, openldap won't build with 4.3 and defaults to 4.6 so I need to migrate my data, and I would like to migrate my cyrus-imapd also to a newer version of BDB. Are there any tools or tricks for doing

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sshd + pam_pgsql

2009-05-31 Thread Sajó Zsolt Attila
Hi! I would like use the sshd with pam_pgsql module. But it isn't work, and I can't configure the pam debug too. So my two question: How can I use the pam debug? How do I use the sshd with pam-pgsql? OS: FreeBSD 7.2 My /etc/pamd./sshd: authrequiredpam_unix.so

Re: sshd + pam_pgsql

2009-05-31 Thread Maciej Milewski
Dnia niedziela 31 maj 2009 o 16:18:09 Sajó Zsolt Attila napisał(a): How do I use the sshd with pam-pgsql? I don't know how tu use but I see something strange with your setup. In ssh-pam_pgsql.conf you have pw_type = md5 and in your database you have a cleartext password. I think it is your

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-31 Thread 郑天宇
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:25:12AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific text within files? If you just want the filenames which contain the string you are searching for, use the -l argument to tell grep to print out the

Re: portupgrade jails

2009-05-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Collins davidcollins...@gmail.com writes: I have several jails for the purpose of not trashing my root partition with junk programs that I may not need and also to learn how to run various system services, ie dns, http, mysql, samba etc. I have been running them for a while and have

kernel compile problem

2009-05-31 Thread Rodrigo Vilanova
Hi there, I want to use FreeBSD 7.2 as a simple firewall and VPN at home. I’ve a dedicated computer to this. I’m trying to compile my FreeBSD 7.2 Kernel on my computer and I having the following problem: [...] /usr/src/sys/modules/svr4/../../compat/svr4/svr4_stat.c: In function

Waiting for a process to die

2009-05-31 Thread Kelly Jones
How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like: waitpid 1234(echo done! | Mail -s PROC DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) I'm sure this is trivial, but I can't find a way to do it. I wrote a Perl script that checks every second if /proc/pid exists, but that only works

Re: Waiting for a process to die

2009-05-31 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/31 Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com: How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like: waitpid 1234(echo done! | Mail -s PROC DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) I'm sure this is trivial, but I can't find a way to do it. I wrote a Perl script that checks

Re: portupgrade jails

2009-05-31 Thread Tim Judd
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: David Collins davidcollins...@gmail.com writes: I have several jails for the purpose of not trashing my root partition with junk programs that I may not need and also to learn how to run

Mounting Encrypted ISO and mdconfig

2009-05-31 Thread Azim
Does FreeBSD or any BSD/OS have mount -o encryption support ? I want to pipe aespipe and mount an encrypted iso. I have already checked on FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 that loop option isn't available, so I am sticking to mdconfig and vnconfig on old versions. If not then, Is it possible to pipe aespipe

Re: kernel compile problem

2009-05-31 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/31 Rodrigo Vilanova vilanova_rodr...@hotmail.com: Hi there,  I want to use FreeBSD 7.2 as a simple firewall and VPN at home. I’ve a dedicated computer to this.  I’m trying to compile my FreeBSD 7.2 Kernel on my computer and I having the following problem: [...]

Re: migrating berkeley DBs (4.3 to 4.6)

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
my data, and I would like to migrate my cyrus-imapd also to a newer version of BDB. Are there any tools or tricks for doing this? possibly it's compatible but if you are not sure use dbversion_dump and _load to dump and restore data. ___

Re: Waiting for a process to die

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like: waitpid 1234(echo done! | Mail -s PROC DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) if i understand you correctly: your_program parameters bg_process_number=$! ...something else... wait $bg_process_number echo done!

Re: Waiting for a process to die

2009-05-31 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/31 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like: waitpid 1234(echo done! | Mail -s PROC DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) if i understand you correctly: your_program parameters bg_process_number=$!

changing tab stops

2009-05-31 Thread Robert Huff
I have a C program that writes to a terminal (currently xterm, but could be anything). For reasons I won't go into, I would like to read and change the terminal's tab stops ... from within the program ... in a generic/portable way. Is this possible? If so, what are the

Re: Waiting for a process to die

2009-05-31 Thread Steven Schlansker
Chris Rees wrote: [ `ps ax |grep pid | wc -l ` = 1 ] (echo done! | Mail -s PROC DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) Not always going to work. For example, [ste...@scs:~]% ps ax | grep init 1 ?Ss 0:39 init [2] 13421 pts/1R+ 0:00 grep init Also if you use its pid,

Re: [FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE] Audio going silent after wakeup.

2009-05-31 Thread LoH
Unloading the module, letting it suspend on its own, then waking it up and reloading the module does not cause the symptoms to appear. Wish I knew offhand what was being called to let it suspend, and which state it was. Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 5/31/09, LoH lordofhyph...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console

2009-05-31 Thread Graham Bentley
Sorry to keep banging on about this but does anyone actually have uk pound signs working in 7.2? What font and keymap are you using? And, what actually is the process for reporting bugs or getting help with problem like this. Any advice appreciated even from Mr Puchar :))

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
bugs or getting help with problem like this. Any advice appreciated even from Mr Puchar :)) who don't use UK keyboard and pound sign. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

dual gateways

2009-05-31 Thread Tim Judd
I know it is not typical, but here's my setup. I have a private IP scope (/24 block) split up. 2 /25's I have a box that has dual NICs. One is on the low /25 and one is on the high /25. The high /25 is only used for jails and his gateway is a soekris/alix board that will function. I can't

Re: Waiting for a process to die

2009-05-31 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:42:37PM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: Chris Rees wrote: [ `ps ax |grep pid | wc -l ` = 1 ] (echo done! | Mail -s PROC DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) Not always going to work. For example, [ste...@scs:~]% ps ax | grep init 1 ?Ss 0:39

Re: migrating berkeley DBs (4.3 to 4.6)

2009-05-31 Thread Erik Norgaard
Wojciech Puchar wrote: my data, and I would like to migrate my cyrus-imapd also to a newer version of BDB. Are there any tools or tricks for doing this? possibly it's compatible but if you are not sure use dbversion_dump and _load to dump and restore data. Thanks, I've had a look at the

Re: Waiting for a process to die

2009-05-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:42:37PM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: Chris Rees wrote: [ `ps ax |grep pid | wc -l ` = 1 ] (echo done! | Mail -s PROC DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) Not always going to work. For example, [ste...@scs:~]% ps ax | grep init 1 ?

Re: migrating berkeley DBs (4.3 to 4.6)

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Are there any tools or tricks for doing this? possibly it's compatible but if you are not sure use dbversion_dump and _load to dump and restore data. Thanks, I've had a look at the dump and load utilities, they have no man page it's not FreeBSD but GNU. No man is equivalent of read

Re: 4 apcupsd problems using USB to connect on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE

2009-05-31 Thread Chun-fan Ivan Liao
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 05:08:03PM +0800, Chun-fan Ivan Liao wrote: OS version: FreeBSD 7.2 RELEASE apcupsd version: 3.14.5 UPS model: APC-MGE Back-UPS RS 1000VA (BR1000TW) UPS cable type: usb 3 important lines

how to i designate the current function...?

2009-05-31 Thread Gary Kline
I'm not sure this is std yet, but think it is available in gcc. If I'm calling funtion bar(char *, char) with one of the args incorrect, is there a way to have gcc name bar() in an error message? I have a function that I may rename that asks whether or not to

Re: 4 apcupsd problems using USB to connect on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE

2009-05-31 Thread Chun-fan Ivan Liao
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu ite...@freebsd.org wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 17:08:03 +0800 Chun-fan Ivan Liao i...@ivangelion.tw wrote: OS version: FreeBSD 7.2 RELEASE apcupsd version: 3.14.5 UPS model: APC-MGE Back-UPS RS 1000VA (BR1000TW) UPS cable type: usb 3

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

2009-05-31 Thread GT
I'm pretty sure you could set up a filter on Mr Puchar's name; it's not hard. That said, I just read a sample of his posts (not all of them), and the ones I looked at didn't appear to be 'off-topic' and would probably have passed muster from any reasonable moderator (aye, but there's the rub: who

Re: dual gateways

2009-05-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Tim Judd wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis nvass9...@gmx.com mailto:nvass9...@gmx.com wrote: Tim Judd wrote: I know it is not typical, but here's my setup. I have a private IP scope (/24 block) split up. 2 /25's I have a box that has

Re: changing tab stops

2009-05-31 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 03:44:24PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: I have a C program that writes to a terminal (currently xterm, but could be anything). For reasons I won't go into, I would like to read and change the terminal's tab stops ... from within the program ... in a

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
Hi Graham, I never thought that I could help you, but playing around a bit on the keyboard seemed to open up an interesting obervation: - £ - A working Pound sign! On Sun, 31 May 2009 21:10:25 +0100, Graham Bentley ad...@cpcnw.co.uk

Re: how to i designate the current function...?

2009-05-31 Thread Ondřej Majerech
On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:31:40 +0200, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I'm not sure this is std yet, but think it is available in gcc. If I'm calling funtion bar(char *, char) with one of the args incorrect, is there a way to have gcc name bar() in an error message?

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console

2009-05-31 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 09:10:25PM +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: Sorry to keep banging on about this but does anyone actually have uk pound signs working in 7.2? What font and keymap are you using? keymap=uk.cp850 I guess I use the corresponding syscons font file as I don't have a

Re: how to i designate the current function...?

2009-05-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:53:39AM +0200, Ond??ej Majerech wrote: On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:31:40 +0200, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I'm not sure this is std yet, but think it is available in gcc. If I'm calling funtion bar(char *, char) with one of the args incorrect, is

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
passed muster from any reasonable moderator (aye, but there's the rub: who gets to define 'reasonable'?). The phrase You're fast to agree with our resident M$ troll when he argues against government control of anything, even of protecting the population from a 'free' market that's happy to

Re: changing tab stops

2009-05-31 Thread Robert Huff
Thomas Dickey writes: I have a C program that writes to a terminal (currently xterm, but could be anything). For reasons I won't go into, I would like to read and change the terminal's tab stops ... from within the program ... in a generic/portable way. You could make a

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

2009-05-31 Thread Glen Barber
Please take this to chat@, because this is getting really old. -- Glen Barber http://www.dev-urandom.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

is there a macro that prints the incoming param list?

2009-05-31 Thread Gary Kline
is there any marco that printfs the incoming list, or am i asking too much of the compiler at runtime? example: main (int argc, char *argv) with this macro might print: 2, testinput and baz(char *file, int count) similarly might print,

Re: is there a macro that prints the incoming param list?

2009-05-31 Thread till plewe
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: is there any marco that printfs the incoming list, or am i asking too much of the compiler at runtime? example: main (int argc, char *argv) with this macro might print: 2, testinput and

Re: is there a macro that prints the incoming param list?

2009-05-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:23:01AM +0900, till plewe wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: is there any marco that printfs the incoming list, or am i asking too much of the compiler at runtime? example: main (int argc, char *argv)

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Text attribute differences of syscons and xterm

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
I'd like to ask the following question: Can the syscons driver be configured in a way that certain screen attributes are displayed in the same way? Read: It is possible to use the underline attribute in text mode? For example, when I call man man in an xterm, the effect is this, black on white:

RE: kernel compile problem

2009-05-31 Thread Rodrigo Vilanova
Hi Chris,Tks for help. My source was incomplete. My bad! best regards,Cabelyn From: utis...@googlemail.com Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 20:32:46 +0100 To: vilanova_rodr...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel compile problem 2009/5/31 Rodrigo Vilanova

Re: Text attribute differences of syscons and xterm

2009-05-31 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Polytropon wrote: I'd like to ask the following question: Can the syscons driver be configured in a way that certain screen attributes are displayed in the same way? Read: It is possible to use the underline attribute in text mode? If your video card and monitor