Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:10:39 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Re: Misc Questions. (reposted yet again) Message-ID: <200301252110.39889.will@unfoldings.net>
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Yet again, I post only to the sender, not the list, sorry :) ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Misc Questions. Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:07:30 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Some friendly corrections, sorry Bill :-) On Saturday 25 January 2003 20:55, Bill Moran wrote: > You'll get better response if you send each question as a seperate emai= l, > with an appropriate subject line for each one. May sound silly, but a > lot of people will delete messages with subjects like "Misc Questions" > without even reading them. I'm with you on the subjects, but he's perfectly fine putting it in one e-mail, multiple mails would have annoyed me more. > pura life CR wrote: > > 1. Where can i get the source code of the "daemon" saver? I want to k= now > > how the logo can "jump" in the screen. > > /usr/src/usr.sbin/daemon/ As I pointed out in my previous post, it is at /usr/src/sys/modules/syscons/daemon/daemon_saver.c /usr/src/usr.sbin/daemon contains source for the daemon(8) utility used t= o daemonize a normally non-daemon process. > > 2. What command can i use if I want to crypt a word and I see it > > encrypoted just like the /etc/master.passwd file? For example, I want= to > > know how the password "foobar" would be encrypted in /etc/master.pass= wd > > if It would be my real passwd. > > I don't know the answer to this one, check the source. See my other post, it's in libcrypt, more information is in crypt(3) > > 3. Where can I get more informacion about svr4 and linux emulation?, > > The handbook is a good place to start: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html > > > What does this emulation consist on? Can I run linux and svr4 binarie= s?. > > It's not really emulation. In the case of Linux, it actually installs = a > RedHat kernel and uses it when the system calls differ from the native > FreeBSD system calls. > You should be able to run most Linux and srv4 binaries. In my experien= ce, > I've only ever come across 1 Linux binary that wouldn't run (Pervasive > database server). I can't vouch for the srv4 compatibility, as I've ne= ver > used it. Bill is spot on here. For more information, section 20 in the handbook (o= ther post) -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net ------------------------------------------------------- --=20 Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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