Re: Embedded scripting language advice sought

worked with it a bit on a past employer's project where it was the primary scripting language for a large commercial hardware-test system. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com

Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?

) if it weren't for needing 2+ drives for mirroring. I'm comfortable either building my own system, or buying a packaged system if it offers better value. Any advice would be welcomed. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@lava.net President - I

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

, or install it to where you can bring it up in single-user and run some listener which is simpler than sshd. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network

Re: Edit user groups

times as often as su. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services

Re: Edit user groups

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 09:23:32PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: Clifton Royston wrote: Good advice given so far (pw is a good tool, direct editing works) but I'd also suggest you consider installing and using sudo; I always install it on all of my systems and use it probably 10-20 times as often

Re: Filesystem tunning

whatever additional processing you want if not. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services

Problem linking MySQL 4.1.11 via FreeBSD 4.10 ports

after page of undefined reference errors. I will be happy to provide more detail if helpful; right now I am feeling like I must be an idiot and overlooking something obvious, but can not find the evidence to convict me of that. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problem linking MySQL 4.1.11 via FreeBSD 4.10 ports

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:02:39PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: When I try to make the current port of the MySQL 4.1 server under FreeBSD 4.10, I get a huge stream of undefined reference errors at the link step for mysqld. More factoids - the same error continues to happen: * After

Re: Problem linking MySQL 4.1.11 via FreeBSD 4.10 ports

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:22:29PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: ... so I can see that gcc 2.95 and gcc 3.3 would be handled quite differently by these conditional defines. I am starting to think this might be a toolchain issue, where the ports have gotten out of sync with what the default

Re: gnome2 over an ssh2 connection

daughter's iBook last summer so she could run OpenOffice. It is indeed perfectly feasible to run X apps over the network, that's what it was designed for. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna

Re: backup FreeBSD system

and history of the first system.) * Done. This should get you a system that in every respect but name and IP functions as a clone of your existing one, and it should be pretty fast to do. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead

Re: need help pls asap

complicated what with needing to go through 2 in succession.) -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide

Re: Audit tools?

is assuming you mean audit in the taking an inventory sense. If you're talking about audit in the security sense, the above doesn't do it, and you need to look at tools like mtree (should be there as built-in), Tripwire (extra package), etc. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL

Re: OT: HTTP response handling - date correction in the client?

used to be active on it years back but have been doing other stuff more recently. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart

Re: Need help with a swap file

after rebooting if you go through it again, you should be fine. Next time just make sure you really get a 200MB file before you turn it into a vn device. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell

Re: What is ata2 ?

don't know what they did but they might have changed the pinout or something so that it was only compatible with Creative CD-ROMs. In the best case, if you got it to work, it would be deathly slow. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead

Re: What is ata2 ?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:31:01PM -0700, Rob wrote: --- Clifton Royston wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:48:00AM -0700, Rob wrote: Eventually I would like to achieve this: I have another, very old, PC with following configuration: IDE/0 (on motherboard) master and slave HDs

Mailorder vendors (was Re: Does FreeBSD work with SB Live and GeForce?)

and on for the last 10 years; they cater to BSD and Linux users especially, are very value-oriented, and have great service. They do have desktop/workstation offerings as well as servers. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software

Re: Qpopper SSL TLS problem

. Courier-IMAP does (despite the name, it's both IMAP and POP) but it requires maildir format. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart

Re: longest uptime

you're running, or involve always-running services? Sometimes. Can you get away without patching and rebooting FreeBSD for every security update? Usually for long periods of time, depending on what you're running. Is it a good idea to patch anyway? Yes. -- Clifton -- Clifton

Re: swap space

definitely add more RAM before worrying about adding more swap. The swap won't hurt, but the RAM is what will actually benefit your system. (Depending on your application, software changes may have the most benefit of all.) There's my free advice, worth every penny. -- Clifton -- Clifton

Re: swap space

, you do not want to be running your system with full swap. You want it only for emergencies. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart

Re: unary operator expected

statement that will work on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE? One time-honored idiom is: [ X${NETWORKING} = Xno ] exit 0 or you can just make sure that NETWORKING always gets set to some value. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer

Re: Running out of memory

-- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide... -- 'Whip-Smart', Liz Phair

Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

- for example, by searching web archives of the mailing list or employing common sense - and to post intelligent answers when you have them. Not acting like a buffoon will go a long way on the Net. Of course that may be just too hard for a few people. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston

Re: 5 day lockup on Densitron

settings (I assume it has a BIOS?) for anything that sounds like it might relate. I'm not sure what else to tell you, other than to check with the manufacturer if possible. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect

Re: Low bandwidth

ifconfig to fix speeds on *both* ends of each connection to 100/FD, then see what happens to the throughput. The xl and fxp drivers are both very reasonable drivers/cards, so assuming your wiring is solidly connected cat 5, you should get great throughput. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston

Re: Process tracking

which usually tells you how perl was invoked. If you use the above options, the most CPU intensive task will appear at the top of the list: ps -auxww | head -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna

Re: revert to old kernel help ?

and modules before you start tinkering. Doesn't hurt to always keep a GENERIC kernel around too. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart

Re: 5 day lockup on Densitron

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 04:30:15AM +0100, RW wrote: On Saturday 07 May 2005 02:00, Clifton Royston wrote: What you describe could conceivably be the result of a special counter or RTC chip running as a watchdog timer with a count-down from boot time, and generating some kind of special

Re: A beautiful dmesg! Maybe one day?

wins. Mostly people in the OSS world take it for granted that others understand this, which may be why nobody has told you this in so many words before now. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna

Re: pthread compiler issues

if you get anywhere with this, and if I get anywhere on going back to the problem - which I need to do eventually - I will post a followup. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow

Re: Cdce Patch

to apply it. If it happens to be named beginning with patch-, then simply putting it in the files subdirectory of the port in question usually does the job. The ports makefile system has code for automatically applying any patch- files found in the files directory. -- Clifton -- Clifton

Re: problems with pop3 daemons

about reporting this than most POP servers. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide

Re: I need further HDD advice before submitting order.

/data /var/db/mysql or CVSROOT=/data/cvs Otherwise what you're proposing looks good at first glance. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green

MySQL port building solution: -O is required

was untouched except for the variables set by use.perl ports. I'll file a pr on this, as well as the necessary tweaking on my own system. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow

Re: Cdce Patch

to remove your first attempt to build it. It's probably not applying the patch and recompiling, if it has a version already built in the work subdirectory. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell

Re: two ISP connections, three nics, and a NAT

about doing it. Actually, I for one would be quite interested in seeing this. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart as the English

Re: NFS freeze

. This largely eliminates the unkillable process problem. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 apache vs. apache+mod_ssl and mod_php4 dependencies.

files, and/or the Makefiles themselves. OPTIONS tells it what type of Apache installation to look for among other things. BTW, I recommend you go to Apache 2 when you can, as it's been stable for years now and that's where all the development is going on. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston

Re: Hints for small file system

overhead ? One thing going for FAT32 for portable media is that it can be read and written reliably by any major OS on the market now - Linux, OS X, or of course Windows XP/NT or 98. You could view that as a positive or negative depending on the application. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston

Re: OS bug in taskq

. Both crashed in the last week. I got a dump on one, which I now need to analyze, but have twice failed to get a dump on the other. (Once this past week, once the previous month.) -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I Computing