Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-02 Thread Chris Doherty
cycle back to zero after 497 days, exactly as if the machine had been rebooted at that precise point. Thus it is not possible to see a HP-UX, Linux or Solaris system with an uptime measurement above 497 days. -- wacky. how/why is this the case? chris --- Chris Doherty

Re: bgcc, an idea

2003-01-05 Thread Chris Doherty
n't say "arised". please don't feed the troll. c not that anyone gung-ho on a flame war is going to read farther into the thread than the original post, and the irony of writing an email to stop emails doesn't escape me... --- Chris Doherty

Re: Renaming files with spaces in the name to files without spaces..

2003-01-08 Thread Chris Doherty
is already a general utility for this: /usr/src/contrib/perl5/eg/rename . leviathan:/home/chris:1168> /usr/src/contrib/perl5/eg/rename Usage: rename perlexpr [filenames] not only already written and tested, but you get to use perl regexen. :-) HTH, Chris ------- Chris Do

Re: Running portupgrade in the background?

2003-01-10 Thread Chris Doherty
s running after you log out, and will dump the output to the file nohup.out unless you redirect it elsewhere. HTH, chris ------- Chris Doherty chris [at] randomcamel.net "I think," said Christopher Robin, "that we ought to eat all our provisions now, so we wo

Re: make in ports versus pkg_add

2003-01-16 Thread Chris Doherty
ion has not changed (e.g. the version of zip in /usr/ports/archivers/zip is still 2.3), you can cd to the ports directory and type "make deinstall". it's always worth a shot: if the port version has changed it will just say "Port is not installed", with no harm done. HTH, Chr

Re: IPFW, blocking IM servers

2003-01-22 Thread Chris Doherty
not that they originated the idea, but the first I heard about every application using HTTP was maybe five years ago when it turned out that if you blocked AIM's normal ports, it would just start using HTTP over port 80. :-) c ------- Chris Doherty chris [at]

Re: Modifying /etc/rc?

2003-01-30 Thread Chris Doherty
nal (but rather obsolete)", but nowhere in my FreeBSD travels over the past four years have I found any suggestion of what else you're supposed to use. I may not be understanding the problem you're trying to solve. HTH, Chris --- Chris Doherty chris [at]