Re: two questions....

2010-06-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:04:20 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: guys, i just found a truckload of Just Outstanding fonts. at the CTAN .org site there must be hundreds of these superb serif typefaces. in my /home/kline/ directory, i have a ~/.fonts directory. but it's been awhile

Re: text editor

2010-06-03 Thread perryh
mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: Robert Anybody else familiar with TECO? *EVIL* grin I wrote a screen-based editor in it, having heard of Emacs, wanting to do the same thing. Didn't Emacs start out as a reimplementation of TECO in Lisp?

Re: Apache 2.2, mod_auth_kerb

2010-06-03 Thread John
On 2010-06-03 07:45, Benjamin Lee wrote: On 05/20/2010 06:02 AM, John wrote: Hi list. I'm having problems getting mod_auth_kerb to play nice on one of my servers. I have the exact same setup on other machines and it works perfectly, only difference is this ones running CURRENT while they

FreeBSD-update

2010-06-03 Thread Fbsd1
After running FreeBSD-update fetch and install is there any way to tell it worked without rebooting? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: FreeBSD-update

2010-06-03 Thread Anh Ky Huynh
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:46:54 +0800 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: After running FreeBSD-update fetch and install is there any way to tell it worked without rebooting? A kernel upgrade requires your system to reboot :( -- Anh Ky Huynh ___

Re: .sh tar

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:32:17 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: When I exec tar from within a .sh shell script I get this message tar: Removing leading '/' from member names I have tar outputting to /dev/null and still get this message. With -v or without makes no difference. How can I

Re: text editor

2010-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 12:04:06AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: Robert Anybody else familiar with TECO? *EVIL* grin I wrote a screen-based editor in it, having heard of Emacs, wanting to do the same thing. Didn't Emacs start

Re: .sh tar

2010-06-03 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 3 June 2010 07:42, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:32:17 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: When I exec tar from within a .sh shell script I get this message tar: Removing leading '/' from member names I have tar outputting to /dev/null and still get this

Strying off topic, but Re: text editor

2010-06-03 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 31 May 2010 17:38, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I meant to reply to the list, as a response to this, but accidentally replied directly to Giorgos Keramidas. On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:45:07PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:59:00 -0600, Chad Perrin

Xorg .Xauthority troubles

2010-06-03 Thread Demelier David
Hi freebsd-questions@, Sometimes when I type startx, Xorg starts but nothing happens and I get a lot of : Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key In the console. The only way to remove this is deleting ~/.Xauthority* files because xinit starts with : xauth: error in locking authority

Re: .sh tar

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 10:03:04 -0400, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: tar -cvf - ./ -C / /dev/null ? Yes, of course! But I said lazy man's method, and lazy does only include x, c, v and f options, and -C is substituted by a cd command. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Issues reinstalling Bind9 on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-06-03 Thread Bogdan Webb
Ok i'll make it short coz it's the 2nd time i write this -.-' and don't even ask why :D So here it goes: Fresh FreeBSD 8.0 install, installed bind97 to witch i have busted up the named.conf fine and tought, at the time, that deleting the whole content of /etc/namedb and reinstalling the bind port

Re: .sh tar

2010-06-03 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 03 2010 10:03, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 June 2010 07:42, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:32:17 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: When I exec tar from within a .sh shell script I get this message tar: Removing leading '/' from member names I have

Re: Issues reinstalling Bind9 on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-06-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, /etc/rc.d/named: WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/sbin/named /etc/rc.d/named ans /usr/sbin/named are not from the ports but from native FreeBSD distribution. Portsx will go into /usr/local/ only. So apparently you mixed-up distribution and port, deleted part of one and part of the

cannot ping private IP within the same subnet of AP

2010-06-03 Thread samuelwang
Dear all: I have setup an AP by using freeBSD 8 on eeebox b202. The eeebox has two network interface. One is ethernet and the other is wireless. I setup AP, DHCP, NAT on it. I can already connect to this AP and connect to the internet normally. But, I can't ping the other client which is

Re: command to strip suffix in .sh script

2010-06-03 Thread Anh Ky Huynh
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:25:36 -0400 Vinny vinny-mail-01+freebsd20100...@palaceofretention.ca wrote: On 06/02/2010 04:30, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/2010 09:24:01, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, June 02, 2010 a las 04:15:22PM

USB-Boot over fat32 parition

2010-06-03 Thread Tjado Mäcke
Hi there, I'm trying to boot FreeBSD 8.0 over or rather from an USB stick. The memstick freebsd version doesn't work because my pc reboots after it wants to boot from the stick (written with Windows dd on the stick). This happens also, if i format the stick myself with ufs2 and install the boot

Re: text editor

2010-06-03 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 03 2010 11:11, Murray Taylor wrote: Hmm i remember a 'game' where you opened a file then predicted what would happen if you just typed your name at the command prompt... then of course you had to do it to see if your guess was right... ie in vi dwight would delete a word then

Re: Issues reinstalling Bind9 on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/2010 16:51:09, Olivier Nicole wrote: /etc/rc.d/named: WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/sbin/named /etc/rc.d/named ans /usr/sbin/named are not from the ports but from native FreeBSD distribution. Portsx will go into

Re: command to strip suffix in .sh script

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/2010 17:11:16, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:25:36 -0400 Vinny vinny-mail-01+freebsd20100...@palaceofretention.ca wrote: On 06/02/2010 04:30, Matthew Seaman wrote: archive_name=${fromarchive%-*} Thanks Matthew, that's

Re: command to strip suffix in .sh script

2010-06-03 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:11:16PM +0700, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:25:36 -0400 Vinny wrote: On 06/02/2010 04:30, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 02/06/2010 09:24:01, Matthias Apitz wrote: Aiza wrote: I have this code [snip] $ echo

Re: Hi es_MX internationalization needed.....

2010-06-03 Thread Eric De La Cruz Lugo
Bernt: Thanks for your reply, I read it already, and ended my self reading the mklocale manuals The problem i have now is where to find a suitable es_MX.UTF-8.src file, I looked here: http://cvsup.hu.freebsd.org/viewvc/FreeBSD/src/share/mklocale/?sortby=file to no avail. Do you know or some

UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Andy Hiscock
After being advised to upgrade after a freebsd-update I have successfully upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0-p3. OK but have come across a major problem for me. OK time for a BIG rant this has been going on for 2 days (very sorry) After the install of the new kernel Samba isn't working. I TTL's onto

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 19:10:32 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: After being advised to upgrade after a freebsd-update I have successfully upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0-p3. OK but have come across a major problem for me. OK time for a BIG rant this has been going on for 2 days

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread David Allen
On 6/3/10, Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: After being advised to upgrade after a freebsd-update I have successfully upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0-p3. OK but have come across a major problem for me. OK time for a BIG rant this has been going on for 2 days (very sorry) After the install

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Andy Hiscock
Again Ports? What is that about... I've run the server and upgraded from 7.0-7,2 with no problem or need to change any config files before. Its upgraded with no problem before. How do I install Ports? How do I reinstall Samba without getting a error -1 in sysinstall?

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
Re-including the list... On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:14:03 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: Right how can I uninstall back to 7.2? Well... I have to admit that I've never done that. Basically, it should be possible if you install the sources of 7.2 (e. g. from the CD) to

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Andy Hiscock
Why during the upgrade process the inspecting system shouldnt be able to find and identify and prepair everything that needs to be upgraded and reconfigured accordingly. Surely thats what Inspecting system is meant to be doing. No matter if it is FreeBSD 1.0 or the prior version to the

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Andy Hiscock
ok so then running testparm i'm getting leopard# testparm /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libcrypt.so.4 not found, required by testparm leopard# From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de To: Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Andy Hiscock
Anyone want to log on to my server and investigate/correct? From: Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thu, 3 June, 2010 21:29:28 Subject: Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED Why during the upgrade process

Sluggish Apache Server

2010-06-03 Thread Barry Steyn
Hi guys, We're having a serious problem here with our live server, it's very sluggish all of a sudden. The problem is that Apache is *really* slow responding to https requests but still fairly quick on http. We've checked and ruled out all of the following: * CPU usage is normal and so

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Andy Hiscock
LOL - now stuck in and endless loop of: Message ─┐ │Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media. This is like a poorly written shareware app! Really getting pissd here! From: Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com

Re: Sluggish Apache Server

2010-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Barry Steyn ba...@redbutton.co.za: Hi guys, We're having a serious problem here with our live server, it's very sluggish all of a sudden. The problem is that Apache is *really* slow responding to https requests but still fairly quick on http. We've checked and ruled out

Re: [#24536008] Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Andy Hiscock
Ah seems like FTP as well as Samba is blocked after the upgrade I have ran FreeBSD 7 to 7.2 using the freebsd upgrade process painless in the past, however.. Have followed the instructions for upgrade 7.2 to 8.0-P3 from the FreeBSD website. As I am not a FreeBSD guru all I can say is

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:21:29 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: Again Ports? What is that about... I've run the server and upgraded from 7.0-7,2 with no problem or need to change any config files before. Its upgraded with no problem before. That's correct. Upgrading

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 04/06/2010 12:01 π.μ., Andy Hiscock wrote: LOL - now stuck in and endless loop of: Message ─┐ │Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media. This is like a poorly written shareware app! Really getting pissd here! My guess is you

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:29:28 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: Why during the upgrade process the inspecting system shouldnt be able to find and identify and prepair everything that needs to be upgraded and reconfigured accordingly. Because this is the responsibility of

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:33:49 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). Doesn't exist To install FreeBSD from source, you need to install the src distribution, or get the desired sources via CVS (csup).

Re: text editor and your postscript

2010-06-03 Thread Richard T C Farnes
To Matthias Apitz I read with interest your contribution and those of others in text editor usage. In this I do not have much to contribute as I am so far perfectly happy with vi. BUT I noticed your political comment at the end of your contribution. I find this out of place as this questions

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:38:22 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: ok so then running testparm i'm getting leopard# testparm /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libcrypt.so.4 not found, required by testparm leopard# Seems like something failed during the update. Program

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 21:01:25 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: LOL - now stuck in and endless loop of: Message ─┐ │Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media. Do you obtain data via network (up running checked?) or from

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 21:38:42 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: Ah seems like FTP as well as Samba is blocked after the upgrade This explains the error message presented. If you want to install from FTP, but FTP can't reach anything, then... well... no INDEX for you.

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:02:44 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: leopard# pkg_delete -x samba pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/share/swat/js' doesn't exist pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/local/share/swat/js' pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:15:16 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: OK now I know... Why should I have to know this in the fist place? Hey, that's no problem - I also learned about this some time AFTER is has been common. :-) If Im just as User getting worrying messages

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:20:50 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: well surely if the upgrade IS going to affect ANY pre installed package that should be taken into consideration? - Im not having a dig, Im just suggesting how FreeBSD has fallen behind in the User Experience

Re: text editor

2010-06-03 Thread Fbsd1
Walt Pawley wrote: On Sun, 30 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: Been using ee and been happy. Now I have need for an editor with block commands. I'd suggest looking into aee. That has what I am looking and so simple. Thanks for your info. ___

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:29:28 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: I have sort of giving up and the cant be arsed Ill put windows on factor has stepped in. Have you considered entering single user mode and trying to get back to 7.2 (freebsd-update rollback)? In this case, you

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:32:56 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: I assume the only other solution is download all the CDs of the latest FreeBSD. Do a clean install and replace the data? It's possible, but why reach for the big weapons in the first place? Did you (1) check

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:47:57 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: I stopped reading after the line freebsd-update is not one of them. You're missing the best parts. :-) I know its not your fault. But before progressing with technology perhaps support and support while

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:58:48 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: So am I lead to believe FreeBSD is mean to be a Mechanics Operating system? I say that in the nicest way. I wouldn't go that far, but FreeBSD, as well as repairing a car, requires certain knowledge and

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 23:18:48 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: right scrolling to to top... Gonna go back to VHS here.. Do a clean install as far as i'm concerned freebsd-update only works for patches and not for OS upgrades from experiences or considering ubuntu who's

Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED

2010-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 23:19:28 + (GMT), Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: enough sarcasm No sarcasm in here, just honest and fact-based statements (except those obviously signed by a smiley). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa,

x11/xfce ssh-agent once per logon for minimal (no gnome/kde) installation

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Franks
I'm totally lost. What I desire is to put in my passphrase for my public key(s) when I logon to my box. Since I usually install from ports and use xfce, I have no infrastructure for this, and I'm getting nowhere fast. My Fedora box popped up a nice little enter passphrase box the very first

Re: text editor and your postscript

2010-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:49:04PM +0200, Richard T C Farnes wrote: To Matthias Apitz I read with interest your contribution and those of others in text editor usage. In this I do not have much to contribute as I am so far perfectly happy with vi. BUT I noticed your political comment at

Re: Strying off topic, but Re: text editor

2010-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:14:19AM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know much, but the source tarball is slightly over 7m. I suspect a lot of that is documentation. One thing Vim definitely has going for it is the breadth and depth of user documentation that comes with it. In any

Re: text editor and your postscript

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.03 19:46, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:49:04PM +0200, Richard T C Farnes wrote: To Matthias Apitz [ ...snip ...] Yours sincerely Richard Farnes I don't recall any netiquette rules about making your signature block on-topic. Aren't you getting a bit uptight?

Re: text editor and your postscript

2010-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:25:54PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2010.06.03 19:46, Chad Perrin wrote: If anything, it's *you* who took things into the realm of politics by pulling it out of the signature block where it belonged. Nicely put Chad. Thanks! ...here's an example...

Re: text editor and your postscript

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.03 20:40, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:25:54PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: ...here's an example... use vi(m). It solves ALL of the world's problems. I'm beginning to think nvi, in particular, might do so. For one thing, it has a friendlier license (since we're

Re: text editor and your postscript

2010-06-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 06:40:14PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:25:54PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2010.06.03 19:46, Chad Perrin wrote: If anything, it's *you* who took things into the realm of politics by pulling it out of the signature block where it

Re: text editor

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.03 18:35, Fbsd1 wrote: Walt Pawley wrote: On Sun, 30 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: Been using ee and been happy. Now I have need for an editor with block commands. I'd suggest looking into aee. That has what I am looking and so simple. Simple is in the eye of the beholder. Also,

.sh getopts

2010-06-03 Thread Aiza
Have this code shift; while getopts :ugr: arg; do case ${arg} in u) action=freebsd-update;; g) action=freebsd-upgrade;; r) action=freebsd-rollback;; ?) exerr ${cmd_usage};; esac; done; shift $(( ${OPTION} -1 )) Command being executed looks like this, cmd action -flags