Re: Why the extra shells?

2008-09-10 Thread Paul Chvostek
that TTY, including anything that might have been launched by bash (and therefore possibly subject to a HUP sent by the shell as you kill it). p -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it.canadahttp:/

chio: /dev/ch0: CHIOMOVE: Device not configured

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Chvostek
LEGAL REQUEST asc:25,0 Jan 2 22:05:19 install kernel: (ch0:isp0:0:0:1): Logical unit not supported Jan 2 22:05:19 install kernel: (ch0:isp0:0:0:1): Unretryable error What am I missing? Thanks. :) p -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL P

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Chvostek
ail which sees the alias in procmail rc and sends the mails > out? Correct? You could do it that way, but it requires more setup. This is easier: # formail -s sendmail y...@example.com < /var/mail/root p -- Paul Chvostek

Re: Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box

2004-12-11 Thread Paul Chvostek
ike the one your friend has. If more people dumped compost in their living rooms, I'm sure carpet manufacturers, Dirt Devil, Hoover, etc would come up with tools to help them back out of such a change to their environment. -- Paul Chvostek

Re: Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ??

2004-01-12 Thread Paul Chvostek
Or you could come up with other clever behaviour based on whatever criteria you dream up. But you have to dream it up first. Figure out exactly what you want to do with your users' mail. Then try to write something that does it. And if you have problems with that, come back to the list and a

Re: 2 ISP on one FreeBSD router

2004-05-25 Thread Paul Chvostek
sition with a simple shell script that would ping the "active" connection, and if it fails, `killall natd`, wait for the process to die, and re-launch with the different command line opts. The exact mechanics are left as an exercise for the reade

Re: Problem Piping iostat -c to awk!

2005-07-14 Thread Paul Chvostek
). > Not sure how to allow awk to delete two top rows of iostat... other that > the grep option -v. Does not seem to be working in awk. You could try something like: iostat -c 300 | awk 'BEGIN {getline;getline;} $1~/^[0-9]+$/ {print $1}' or for something even lighter-weight: io

portmap running amok

2002-12-25 Thread Paul Chvostek
merely spontaneously reboot. I can see no other strange behaviour (or network traffic) going on with this box -- aside from this problem, it behaves perfectly. Does any of this sound familiar? Where do I look for the problem? Tnx. -- Paul Chvostek

Re: portsentry

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Chvostek
ir /etc/rc.local. It's not as SysV-compliant, but it works. -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Operations / Abuse / Whatever it.canada, hosting and development http://www.it.ca/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

umass0: CBI reset failed, STALLED (with Sony DCR-PC101)

2002-07-14 Thread Paul Chvostek
ix-like operating systems.) Are there significant changes to umass since 4.5-RELEASE? Thanks for any advice -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Operations / Abuse / Whatever +1 416 598- it.canada - hosting

Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Chvostek
ead and write vmdk files, so you may have an easy migration path. But if your issue is speed, have you looked at the kqemu-kmod port? It's the bit that allows guest code to run directly on the host cpu. YMMV, but it seems to allow QEMU to run Windows guests at abo

OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 quits on launch

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
fonts work in other apps, and OO was built with these in /etc/make.conf: WITH_EVOLUTION2=yes WITH_TTF_BYTECODE_ENABLED=yes WITH_SYSTEM_FREETYPE=yes Any suggestions? Has anyone else seen and solved this? Thanks. -- Paul Chvostek

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
ame -s Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l `which bash sh` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 616248 Aug 13 2006 /bin/bash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 25 20:36 /bin/sh -> bash -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 quits on launch

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
P, which is mentioned in a number of mailing list and forum posts for other operating systems. But thanks for the suggestion. Hrm, I just realized there's a freebsd-openoffice@ list. Perhaps I'll look there. p -- Paul Chvostek

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 quits on launch

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:47:55AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now, when I launch OO, it complains not at all, but opens no windows. ... > > I'm in 6.1-RELEASE-p17. Java (diablo-jdk1.5.0) works standalone,

buffered fifo?

2003-06-12 Thread Paul Chvostek
27;d settle for single- server-multiple-client (i.e. a single `tail -f fifo | while read line` and dot-locking for the clients). I don't care if data gets lost in a crash, but I'd really rather not get into alot of programming. Is there an elegant way to achieve any of this in

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
uestions to be stored in a folder named "questions", just move the \/ (which marks the beginning of the MATCH variable) to after the "freebsd-". And if you want it to support other RFC2919-compliant lists (that is, ones which include the "List-Id:" header), simply re

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
Woops... On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:12:46PM -0400, Paul Chvostek wrote: > > Easy enough: > > :0: > * List-Id:[^<]+<\/freebsd-[^.] > $MATCH That should have been: :0: * ^List-Id:[^<]+<\/freebsd-[^.]+ $MATCH But I'm sure everyone already kn

Re: Adding disk space to an FTP directory -- ideas?

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
, there's discussion of this for proftpd at http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/localsite/Userguide/linked/chroot-symlinks.html Lots of options. -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it.canada

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:12:22AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > :0: > * ^List-Id:[^<]+ Maildir/FreeBSD/$MATCH/new > > And I'm getting messages like this in my procmail log: > > procmail: Assigning "PATH=/home/drew/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" > procmail: Lock failure on "Maildir/FreeBSD

Re: format of /etc/crontab?

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
What further information do you need? -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Operations / Abuse / Whatever it.canada, hosting and development http://www.it.ca/ ___ [EM

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Chvostek
cmail will create the necessary directories if they don't exist, > rather than treat the mailbox as a non-existent filename. > > I feel I am close. Can anyone enlighten me and point out what I'm > missing? Remember that paths that start with a / are absolute, and a

List friendliness

2003-07-04 Thread Paul Chvostek
CTED] 'my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' ... etc. This way, you can use the 'L' key to follow up to the list, the 'g' key to do a group-reply, or the 'r' key to reply just to the sender, and your headers will include the custom Reply-To for 'L&#x

Re: vi

2003-07-04 Thread Paul Chvostek
Ex and vi are different interfaces to the same program, ... VI is a VIsual editor. If you have commands you'd like to execute on stdin, try using ex. If your stdin uses commands that exist in vim but not in ex, I'd recommend rewriting your stdin.

problem upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Chvostek
: undefined reference to `_pthread_mutex_trylock' | /usr/obj/var/src/i386/usr/lib/libc.a(_flock_stub.o): In function `funlockfile': | _flock_stub.o(.text+0x10d): undefined reference to `_pthread_self' | _flock_stub.o(.text+0x149): undefined reference to `_pthread_mutex_unlock' |

Re: problem upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Chvostek
CFLAGS= -O3 -pipe COPTFLAGS= -O3 -pipe MAKE_IDEA= YES # IDEA (128 bit symmetric encryption) COMPAT4X= yes Any further wisdom? -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Operations / Abuse / Whatever

Re: dual-homed problems

2003-07-08 Thread Paul Chvostek
ask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.1.253 netmask 255.255.255.252" But if 192.168.1.0/24 is in your routing table, its traffic goes out of one, and only one, interface. -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PR

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

2009-06-05 Thread Paul Chvostek
. I haven't actively used this thing since 2003, but procmail hasn't changed much in that time either. Hope it helps. Sometimes killing the trolls is just too much effort. -- Paul Chvostek it.canada

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Paul Chvostek
job by putting a little scripting intelligence into the crontab itself: 0 1 28-31 * * test `date -v+1d '+%d'` -eq 1 && /path/to/script That may be your easiest option. The script only gets run on the correct dates, but the cron job still gets run

Re: building a routing machine

2003-07-17 Thread Paul Chvostek
firewall, rather than a router. To connect to the Internet in general from your desktop, you'll probably want to run natd. The man page for natd should be your starting point. -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it.canada

Re: CVSupping 5

2003-08-05 Thread Paul Chvostek
xamples/cvsup/stable-supfile has a default tag of RELENG_4 which I didn't see until after I had run a `make update`. Presumably this is an error and it should really be RELENG_5_1 (and ditto for 5.0, which also defaulted to RELENG_4). Lesson for the day: READ EVERYTHING. ;-) -- Paul

Re: "dd" question

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Chvostek
.feyrer.de/g4u/, along with the FAQ at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#shrinkimg . p -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it.canadahttp://www.it.ca/ __

Re: Can Freebsd run on linux?

2004-02-23 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:49:10PM -0800, Ken Finegood's Office 2 wrote: > Subject: Can Freebsd run on linux? Yes, it can, but you'll likely need a product like VMWare to to it. Questions about what software can run in Linux should probably be directed to a Linux mailing list

Re: Best SMTP Gateway Program and Reporting Tools

2008-08-14 Thread Paul Chvostek
of your log data is a direct one that you can get using grep. I don't know those other packages, but I do love Sawmill's web UI. (Hear that, Greg? I'm marketing for ya! ;] ) p -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___

Re: Tailing logs

2008-08-26 Thread Paul Chvostek
, green, $0, norm); next; } /delayed for/ { printf(fmt, yellow, $0, norm); next; } # /skipping greylist/ { printf(fmt, blue, $0, norm); next; } { print; } Same deal with the "^[". Enjoy. p -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Chvostek
i); } } ' | sort -nr You can join the lines into a single command line if you like, or toss it as-is into a tiny shell script. Awk is forgiving about whitespace. You should theoretically be able to feed the same regex to awk, but I've

Re: Dual DVI, PCI-Express, xorg and FreeBSD

2006-06-27 Thread Paul Chvostek
s, but the card definitely works. $154 Cdn. You can probably find it cheaper South of the border. p -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it.canadahttp://www.it.ca/ _

Re: need help w/ simple bash script

2006-06-27 Thread Paul Chvostek
rsion -v | while read package status text; do echo "$package $text" >> $tmpfile."$status" done Now you have tempfiles with package lists for the various stati, which you can parse as you see fit. Note that you may get better (i.e. more useful) mileage out of

Re: multiple links with single ln command

2006-06-27 Thread Paul Chvostek
28 test/b/c -> ../c # (Bear in mind that the symbolic link you create will be evaluated relative to ITS location, not your cwd when you create the link.) -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it.canada

Re: Urgent: Downgrading from 6.X to 5.X?

2006-07-01 Thread Paul Chvostek
e seen none of the timeouts. Hardly scientific, but my $0.02 nonetheless I'm using HP DL380-G4 servers (onboard bge, ciss RAID), with a BlueArc Titan for NFS. Of course, I'm not running nfsd on the FreeBSD boxes, they're just clients. -- Paul Chvostek