Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)

2004-01-16 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:51:23PM + I heard the voice of Andrew Boothman, and lo! it spake thus: Scott W wrote: Hey all, just wanted to share a link to an interesting article comparing/contrasting *BSD (primarily FreeBSD) and Linux, at

Re: Vim and C code

2003-09-06 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 11:50:40AM +0200 I heard the voice of Martin Vana, and lo! it spake thus: PS: A bonus questions for those who haven't answered any newbie question yet: I can't get :s/aaa/bbb/g to be working from curosor till the end of file only. :.,$s/aaa/bbb/g -- Matthew Fuller

Re: PAM, X11, and su as a normal user?

2003-09-06 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 08:11:21AM -0700 I heard the voice of Steven G. Kargl, and lo! it spake thus: Thanks for the hint. I took the rather draconian action of deleting user sgk's .Xauthority file. Then I used xauth to merge in user kargl's entire .Xauthority. This appears to work only

Re: TWM focus

2003-06-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:06:12AM +0200 I heard the voice of Antoine Jacoutot, and lo! it spake thus: How can I make TWM to automatically focus a new window ? Each time I launch an application, a square (empty window) appears under my mouse pointer and I have to click to make the window

Re: Installing packages

2003-06-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:48:42AM -0500 I heard the voice of Bingrui Foo, and lo! it spake thus: I'm sure I'm doing something wrongly, wonder what it is. See -I and -L in gcc(1). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator |

Re: What ASCII sequence is used to set xterm title?

2003-06-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:17:12PM +0400 I heard the voice of Sergey Akifyev, and lo! it spake thus: Hello! I just want to make shell prompt with changing gnome-terminal window title (to show host on which I'm sitting now). Does someone know how? I use a script to set it when I login to a

Re: /dev/tty keeps changing permissions..?

2003-06-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:21:17PM -0700 I heard the voice of Thomas Park, and lo! it spake thus: Hello, I've been having an interesting problem with my FreeBSD 5.0 install - for whatever reason, the permissions and ownership on /dev/tty keep on being automatically changed in such a way that

Re: /dev/tty keeps changing permissions..?

2003-06-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:41:01AM -0700 I heard the voice of Thomas Park, and lo! it spake thus: Interesting. I have access to several FreeBSD 4.6 STABLE boxes, and /dev/tty on each of them looks thusly: 4.x doesn't have devfs, so /dev is static. It's just internally (in the kernel) that

Re: ADSL: Using mpd(8) for PPPoE

2003-06-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 10:35:25PM -0700 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: ppp(8) also uses netgraph for PPPoE. Anyway, are you sure you need to worry about mpd? My Pentium 120 router handles my 1.5MBit ADSL at full speed with ppp(8)'s pppoe. Don't be silly8-}

Re: /dev/tty keeps changing permissions..?

2003-06-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:59:18AM -0700 I heard the voice of Thomas Park, and lo! it spake thus: By God, I see that you're right! This is what I've been telling you8-} I think the problem arises when I su into another account and try to ssh outbound. Which should arguably be possible

Re: tty's root restriction access...

2003-06-10 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:29:10AM -0400 I heard the voice of Xpression, and lo! it spake thus: Hi list, I wonder if I can restrict several users to access the system by some ttys, for example: root only can take access to the server/system by the first terminal...thanks See /etc/ttys

Re: quick question please

2003-06-10 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:31:08PM -0400 I heard the voice of Steve, and lo! it spake thus: i know this might be common question but id really like to know, why your logo is a small devil? please reply thanks. Because the normal size of button-banners for webpages is too small to make it a

Re: shell scripting - automating rotation of files in differentdirectories

2003-06-12 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:58:32PM -0400 I heard the voice of Dave [Hawk-Systems], and lo! it spake thus: For example, brutally pseudo script for($i=30; $i0;$1--){ # 30 days is maximum retained for LOG in `ls /users/*/logs/ | grep .$i'`; do # move any of the previous logs

Re: Networking/Routing

2003-06-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:51:59PM -0400 I heard the voice of Bill Moran, and lo! it spake thus: 192.168.2.0 is not a valid IP address. The last number must be somewhere between 1 and 254 (inclusive). Well, just to be anal about it... false. 192.168.2.0 is a perfectly valid IP address in

Re: Networking/Routing

2003-06-18 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 07:45:43AM -0700 I heard the voice of Bryan W. Maxwell, and lo! it spake thus: Thanks everyone! I fixed the local address with the eth0 now so thats all good. But my serial line only allows me to ping 192.168.2.2, the otherside is connected to a micropic web server

Re: XFree86 screen area problem

2003-06-22 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:15:44AM -0700 I heard the voice of Alex, and lo! it spake thus: It looks like the screen area was set to 640 x 480 when it should be 1024 x 768, but I'm having trouble figuring out why this is happening. Find the Modes line in the Screen section. It'll look something

Re: vi

2003-07-06 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 03:04:16AM +0800 I heard the voice of adrian kok, and lo! it spake thus: My friend puts some words in in.txt eg: xxx wq! and vi in.txt then this program in in.txt will automatically do it and finally save and exit With vim, use -s (see manpage). --

Re: Seeking command similar to dd

2002-11-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:10:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of Adam Weinberger, and lo! it spake thus: If the CD is all data (i.e. just one track): dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd.iso bs=2048 If the CD is multiple tracks: for i in `/compat/linux/usr/bin/seq 1 100`; do

Re: Manage, centralize and backup configuration files

2002-11-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:49:36PM -0500 I heard the voice of Karl Vogel, and lo! it spake thus: J What about a combination of rsync and CVS? Rsync is a good idea if you want your files backed up on a separate server. CVS is a bit inflexible with directories, so I prefer RCS. Eh?

Re: Dump/Restore to disk and tape

2002-12-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:44:29PM -0800 I heard the voice of Oliver Crow, and lo! it spake thus: Of course this doesn't work because pax just creates the file 'dump.0.2002-10-10'. Is there some way to move a dump file to a set of tapes, without having to do the dump from the original

Re: CVS

2002-12-13 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 07:34:25PM + I heard the voice of Philip M. Gollucci, and lo! it spake thus: I want to send 1 E-Mail for each commit to my cvs repositories to any number of addresses. Try the package I wrote for it. http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/projects/cvsmail/ --

Re: Automatically include debug symbols?

2003-02-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:32:14AM +1030 I heard the voice of Greg 'groggy' Lehey, and lo! it spake thus: On Sunday, 9 February 2003 at 18:42:15 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: It's just a disk space issue then? Because ... if it doesn't eat up RAM, I have a hard time thinking why I shouldn't

Re: Automatically include debug symbols?

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
[ trim the cc's ] On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:30:24PM +1030 I heard the voice of Greg 'groggy' Lehey, and lo! it spake thus: As you see, this is in the kernel build directory. There's no point in actually installing it into /boot. Also note: There is when you regularly blow away /usr/src

Signal-related kernel messages on threaded processes?

2003-03-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
So, I'm working on a small threaded program here, and I get these: Mar 9 07:39:53 mortis kernel: failed to set signal flags properly for ast() Mar 9 07:39:53 mortis kernel: failed to set signal flags properly for ast() Mar 9 07:42:21 mortis last message repeated 3 times Mar 9 07:51:00

Re: R: Re: rsh fails: [WAS] pvm connection problems

2005-11-30 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:01:06PM +0100 I heard the voice of Vittorio, and lo! it spake thus: 6) I reciprocate the same configuring steps on the other machine uffbsd. Well in the end: # rsh uffbsd uffbsd.myd.prv: Connection refused rsh with no arguments uses rlogind, not the rshd.

Re: Harddrive size being reported incorrectly?

2005-12-29 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:02:51PM -0700 I heard the voice of Travis Poppe, and lo! it spake thus: reports the drive as being a 320GB, but FreeBSD (dmesg) sees it as a 305245MB (or 298GB drive) in two separate machines. When it has finally been formatted for use, I get 289GB of available

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

2006-03-11 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:29:15PM -0500 I heard the voice of Gerard Seibert, and lo! it spake thus: I would have thought that the port maintainer would have foreseen this predicament and taken steps to alleviate it however. My offhand guess (based on coincidence, not any knowledge that it

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

2006-03-12 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 08:29:36PM -0800 I heard the voice of Ade Lovett, and lo! it spake thus: Since libtool has precisely nothing to do with texinfo files, I'm curious as to how you came to this co-incidental guess. libtool is merely a wrapper around compiling and linking executable code

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

2006-03-12 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 10:51:32PM +0900 I heard the voice of Norikatsu Shigemura, and lo! it spake thus: + to the latest versions. Please remove the following entries + manually from $PREFIX/info/dir before upgrading them to + vcdimager-0.7.23_2 (and later) and dirmngr-0.9.3_2 (and later)

Re: Problems with X11 Forwarding

2006-01-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
[ shifting to -questions@ ] On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:24:04AM -0700 I heard the voice of Aaron Dalton, and lo! it spake thus: editors/fte is fully installed (with X11libs and all that) but I wonder if there is more I need installed on the FreeBSD end to make things work. You have to have

Re: Problems with X11 Forwarding

2006-01-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:36:36PM -0700 I heard the voice of Aaron Dalton, and lo! it spake thus: *files this away in his head* I just never saw anything that explicit in the docs anywhere. I apologize for my ignorance and thank you for your help! Oh, I don't think it's in docs anywhere

Re: Phenom II 975 BE shows 0 celsius

2011-08-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 09:28:29PM -0300 I heard the voice of Mario Lobo, and lo! it spake thus: Unfortunately this Mobo died and only found AM3 boards for which my phenom 955 doesn't fit. Not that it helps you now, but the 955 _is_ perfectly compatible with AM3. It's only the initial 920

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-14 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:43:12AM +1100 I heard the voice of Andrew Reilly, and lo! it spake thus: Matrox used to have a reputation for goodness (I used to have a G400 or the like), but it's been a long time... I'm sitting on a G450 here. Works great. I've never heard anything bad about

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:51:33AM -0800 I heard the voice of Jeremy Chadwick, and lo! it spake thus: So let's tell Navneet exactly what he's getting into, shall we? OK, but let's do that by telling him what he's getting into, not vague gestures at overblown half-truths. - Ruby is not