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An off-site howto article demonstrating some simple techniques to automate ftp.

Handy information @Carpetsmoker. I appreciate it!

An offsite HowTo that describes serving compressed (static) HTML: http://freebsd.hypermart.net/compressed-html.html

Glad you've fixed it & no need to thank me, just noting the anomaly ('%%' preserves the string). Good luck & best wishes with your port bkouhi. =)

Hello bkouhi. It appears you have embedded doubled forward-slashes '//' pkg_delete: file '/usr/local//usr/local/share/logisim' doesn't exist ... PLIST_FILES= %%DATADIR%%/${PORTNAME}-generic-${PORTVERSION}${EXTRACT_SUFX} \ bin/logisim But...later you seem to preserve it?

Very nifty script. =) (Just thinking aloud here) would be handy if the end user could install a given package/port using your idea. Something like: <pseudo-code> dialog --yesno --title "Install $PKG_NAME?" "$PKG_DESCR" $HEIGHT $WIDTH [ $? -eq 0 ] && func_add_pkg $PKG_NAME || func_next_routine...

Hi fonz. Yep, that's exactly what my 1st attempt used (the builtin construct). Slowly but surely finding my way around FreeBSD, I appreciate the help & patience you all've shown me =)

Gordon you nailed it, thanks. Just discovered $IFS on my end, was thinking of splitting $PATH with awk which led me right back to the 1st issue (awk is an external dependency itself). Coming from a WinAPI world, alot to learn on my end still. Lots of folks helping me 'get there'. Its a great...

Well if the which command is not present, the script can not verify the existence of other dependencies, e.g. the external which (in this case) is itself a dependency. Chicken & egg...

ahh!

Sure enough... script in question assumes /bin/sh so I can't use which. I'm stumped for the time being :/

Trying to find both a portable & posix method to test for the existence of a given file along the default system path using -only- builtins, if you have a more succinct method, I'd like to study your snippet. The following works, but somehow feels like I'm on the wrong track... #!/bin/sh...

Just discovered this, very handy (please excuse if its a repeat): # obtain console screen width/height w=$(tput cols) # width h=$(tput lines) # height x=$(expr $w / 2) # 1/2 width y=$(expr $h / 8) # 1/8 height, etc...

Simple script to load a random screensaver module. Best called from something like /etc/rc.local #!/bin/sh # only root may run the script [ $(id -u) -ne 0 ] && exit 1 # id of current screensaver module IDM=$(kldstat|grep -i saver|awk '{print $1}') # list of screensaver modules excluding...

How many bytes (or kb etc...) must one dd at the end of the disk?

Hi Frederic. Yes I agree with your changes, & thanks for the updated shar. I appreciate that you took the time to explain the ports Makefile rationale.

Okay then, I'll get right on that (web interface) & quite things down now.

Final question (I hope)... If I've already submitted the port for consideration via send-pr -a topic.shar, yet sill need to correct the MAINTAINER line in the port's Makefile. How does one rectify that situation? Simply wait until & if its approved or... I'm not sure honestly.

Yes sir, will do. A question in fact I was about to ask (examples seemed ambiguous to me on that point).

Okay. Edited as per your suggestions to placate portlint & re-uploaded (still learning the in's & out's, mighty grateful for the tips jrm).