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I found this post on some old mailing lists. It looks interesting. Maybe newsyslog have to add this functionality.

Hi to all, It would be great if you can tell me if there is any way to make newsyslog execute commands instead of sending signals to the pids. I have some "exotic" services that do not re-create log files with that way in order to rotate them. I really don't like running many different...

Hi to all, I recently tried to play with partition labels and I have some issues. I have problem removing partition labels created with tunefs -L command. I read the tunefs and I didn't find anything. I end up trying tunefs -L"" <device> :e with no success. The glabel itself works like a charm...

Since I don't trust pkg_delete -r for removing my packages ( some times ended with complete remove my whole gnome base by mistake) I use this simple script for manually uninstalling packages. It stores a backup for each uninstalled package and displays the remaining installed dependencies...

First decide what "tmp" dir you want to use, depending on your partition scheme and the available size. This is one example, if you have adequate disk space on the /var partition and want to use the /var/tmp , move the /tmp/* files to /var/tmp/ , erase the /tmp dir and then create the symbolic...

@chrcol You can use denyhosts to block the attackers through firewall as well as antik already said. This can be done by writing custom denyhosts plugins and whitelisting the valid ones. You can see below my configuration using pf: /usr/local/share/denyhosts/plugins/pf_deny.sh #!/bin/sh...

Gnome user too (with windomaker as an alternative wm). The main reason is that almost all of my interested applications are based on gtk* and gnome. Some months ago I had the kde-base port installed only for the K3B but I remove it lately since the Brasero does my job.