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2013-08-06 Thread Barbaraann Coleman
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Re: Unable to build DOC ports

2013-07-23 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 08:47:47AM -0400, Carmel wrote: I am having a problem updating some ports since installing the print/texlive-full port a few days ago. I have: TEX_DEFAULT=texlive sans quotes at the top of my /etc/make.conf file. [...] I think you have the reason just above. For the

Unable to build DOC ports

2013-07-22 Thread Carmel
I am having a problem updating some ports since installing the print/texlive-full port a few days ago. I have: TEX_DEFAULT=texlive sans quotes at the top of my /etc/make.conf file. For instance, the en-freebsd-doc-42326,1, and in fact all of the *-freebsd-doc ports are refusing to build

Updating broken link from your page: http://forum.vstyle.co.il/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html

2013-07-13 Thread Lurie Austinser
Hello, I have bumped into your site while seeking for software and found your website very interesting :) Just a quick note, http://www.dvdrw.com/ is no longer active, and you are linking to it from page - http://forum.vstyle.co.il/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.h tml I

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

2013-06-25 Thread Stephen Burke
Does anyone know how I could push serial output to an IP port that I could SSH to? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

2013-06-25 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 11:23, Stephen Burke wrote: Does anyone know how I could push serial output to an IP port that I could SSH to? You want something like a Portmaster or Lantronix device that will provide serial consoles over SSH

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

2013-06-25 Thread pete wright
On Jun 25, 2013 9:25 AM, Stephen Burke sbu...@verizon.com wrote: Does anyone know how I could push serial output to an IP port that I could SSH to? Sounds like you are looking for something like SOL (serial over LAN) which can be setup with IPMI. Google should help you find more info on

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-set up.html

2013-06-25 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Mark Felder wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 11:23, Stephen Burke wrote: Does anyone know how I could push serial output to an IP port that I could SSH to? You want something like a Portmaster or Lantronix device that will provide serial consoles over SSH

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-set up.html

2013-06-25 Thread Jungle Boogie
Raspberry pi running headless with practically no services and usb to serial connection is what I'm likely to use. -- sip:jungleboo...@sip2sip.info inum: +883510009902611 On Jun 25, 2013 6:23 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Mark Felder wrote: On

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-28 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Warren Block wrote on Thu 27.Sep'12 at 14:11:39 -0600 ] Yes. If a new version of a file conflicts with your local changes, svn will complain and try to help resolve those conflicts. When I changed to svn, I completely remove or moved (mv(1)) the /usr/ports tree. Created a new /usr/ports

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-28 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: [ Warren Block wrote on Thu 27.Sep'12 at 14:11:39 -0600 ] Yes. If a new version of a file conflicts with your local changes, svn will complain and try to help resolve those conflicts. When I changed to svn, I completely remove or moved

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-27 Thread Trond Endrestøl
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:12-0700, Ed Flecko wrote: I see that CVS is being phased out in favor of subversion. I follow the documentation to keep my system up to date by doing: # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel # make installkernel # shutdown -r now and then... #

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
from David J. Weller-Fahy dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com: svn update /usr/src/ When you use svn the first time, svn doesn't know where the repository is, and svn repository is not fully in sync with cvs or csup repository. So you might need, in a fresh directory, svn co

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:34:47 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: from David J. Weller-Fahy dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com: svn update /usr/src/ When you use svn the first time, svn doesn't know where the repository is, and svn repository is not fully in sync with cvs or csup

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/09/2012 07:41, Polytropon wrote: Does anyone know if there are already plans to make svn part of the base system and integrate it with make, so that one can use make update (in /usr/src and/or /usr/ports) with control files or options (e. g. in /etc/make.conf) to have influence on the

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-27 Thread Alexandre
if it is not the current (running) kernel of the system. [...] Sources : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html freebsd-update tool works only with -RELEASE, you are right. Best Regards, Alexandre ___ freebsd

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-27 Thread Lars Eighner
If only subversion had some scripts similar to the *-supfile s with cvsup, including some first time scripts. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-27 Thread Ed Flecko
Thank you all! I'm a little confused by Trond's reply, Make sure your /usr/src and /usr/ports directories does not contain files and directories served by Subversion, they will hinder extraction/updating when checking out a Subversion working copy on top of the existing hierarchy. Simply delete

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-27 Thread Trond Endrestøl
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:18-0700, Ed Flecko wrote: Thank you all! I'm a little confused by Trond's reply, Make sure your /usr/src and /usr/ports directories does not contain files and directories served by Subversion, they will hinder extraction/updating when checking out a Subversion

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-27 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Ed Flecko wrote: Thank you all! I'm a little confused by Trond's reply, Make sure your /usr/src and /usr/ports directories does not contain files and directories served by Subversion, they will hinder extraction/updating when checking out a Subversion working copy on top

How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-26 Thread Ed Flecko
I see that CVS is being phased out in favor of subversion. I follow the documentation to keep my system up to date by doing: # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel # make installkernel # shutdown -r now and then... # mount -u / # mount -a -t ufs # adjkerntz -i # mergemaster -p # cd

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-26 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:12:34 -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: I see that CVS is being phased out in favor of subversion. I follow the documentation to keep my system up to date by doing: # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel # make installkernel # shutdown -r now and then... #

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-26 Thread Ed Flecko
Thank you. I am using a custom kernel, but you're right - I should have said so. :-) Do you have any feedback using subversion? I know I can still use csup; I'm basically trying to figure out how to subversion to achieve the same result. Ed ___

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-26 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
While I track CURRENT, not STABLE, the process should not be significantly different. Here is what I do. * Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com [2012-09-26 17:18 -0400]: I follow the documentation to keep my system up to date by doing: Here I update the src tree. # svn update /usr/src/ # cd

Re: doc

2012-08-18 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:43:58 +0200 Polytropon articulated: On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:17:42 +0400, иван кузнецов wrote: how to open RU_FREEBSD_DOC_20111014.TBZ under windows? The file is a tar archive compressed with BZip2. It's no real surprise that Windows cannot natively handle it, as

Re: doc

2012-08-18 Thread Bruce Cran
On 17/08/2012 10:17, иван кузнецов wrote: how to open RU_FREEBSD_DOC_20111014.TBZ under windows? several program cant,i was attempt.7zip cant. why i not able read documentation BEFORE install? where it after install? second,you installer is not well, not very undersandingable for newbis.i mean

Re: doc

2012-08-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 06:16:31 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:43:58 +0200 Polytropon articulated: On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:17:42 +0400, иван кузнецов wrote: how to open RU_FREEBSD_DOC_20111014.TBZ under windows? The file is a tar archive compressed with BZip2. It's no real

doc

2012-08-17 Thread иван кузнецов
how to open RU_FREEBSD_DOC_20111014.TBZ under windows? several program cant,i was attempt.7zip cant. why i not able read documentation BEFORE install? where it after install? second,you installer is not well, not very undersandingable for newbis.i mean user must hit tab in some dialogs,but

Re: doc

2012-08-17 Thread Polytropon
are: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/ Check out FreeBSD's main web page for language selection. Here you can find a russian translation of all those documents: http://www.freebsd.org/ru/docs.html Again, it's possible to make

Can't build en-freebsd-doc-20120205

2012-02-11 Thread Mike Clarke
curlew:/home/mike% uname -a FreeBSD curlew.lan 8.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p5 #0: Tue Sep 27 16:18:26 UTC 2011 r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 curlew:/home/mike% cd /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en curlew:/usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en% make

Re: Can't build en-freebsd-doc-20120205

2012-02-11 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 11 February 2012, Mark wrote: I had this a few days ago. A search returned keep restarting make install and it will build and install. You will notice it will stop at different place each time, just restart the buld. Thanks for the tip. It completed on the second pass. --

Re: Building misc/freebsd-doc-en fails

2011-06-02 Thread newsbox
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 02:32:37PM +, Joe Altman wrote: There is this thread from 2009, and it looks like the same issue as the one in this message: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-December/209892.html It looks like I'll need to open a bug report with the Doc

Re[6]: How to install doc for 9-CURRENT

2011-05-30 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hello, Adam. That does not help. #man locate No manual entry for locate # 2011/5/29 Kon'kov Evgenij [1]kes-...@yandex.ru sorry, but that is not what I am looking for. How to install 'man' pages? they are not included in .iso and there are not on link you

Re: Building misc/freebsd-doc-en fails

2011-05-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Joe Altman freebsd-annou...@chthonic.comwrote: === en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/building-products (all) groff -p -S -Wall -mtty-char -man /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en/work/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/building-products/../../../share/images/articles/building

Re: Building misc/freebsd-doc-en fails

2011-05-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Joe Altman freebsd-annou...@chthonic.com wrote: === en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/building-products (all) groff -p -S -Wall -mtty-char -man /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en/work/doc

Re: Building misc/freebsd-doc-en fails

2011-05-29 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Seems like there should be more detail. Try make clean make -j1 Interesting: === Building for en-freebsd-doc-20110521 /bin/cat /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en/pkg-plist.html-split /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc

Re[4]: How to install doc for 9-CURRENT

2011-05-29 Thread Коньков Евгений
Zdravstvujte, Adam. Vy pisali 29 maya 2011 g., 1:53:41: 2011/5/28 Adam Vande More [1]amvandem...@gmail.com 2011/5/28 Kon'kov Evgenij [2]kes-...@yandex.ru I take snapshot from that. It is not include doc. while installing it says: 'Can not find doc packages' [3

Re: Building misc/freebsd-doc-en fails

2011-05-29 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 02:32:37PM +, Joe Altman wrote: There is this thread from 2009, and it looks like the same issue as the one in this message: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-December/209892.html It looks like I'll need to open a bug report with the Doc

Re: Re[4]: How to install doc for 9-CURRENT

2011-05-29 Thread Adam Vande More
2011/5/29 Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru sorry, but that is not what I am looking for. How to install 'man' pages? they are not included in .iso and there are not on link you advice. I don't know how to install the man pages from the snapshot cd, but if you have the source for your

How to install doc for 9-CURRENT

2011-05-28 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hello I am trying to install doc from ftp because it is not included in .iso but also get problem ┌ User Confirmation Requested ┐ │ Warning: Can't find the `9.0-CURRENT' distribution on this │ │ FTP server. You may need to visit

Re: How to install doc for 9-CURRENT

2011-05-28 Thread Lokadamus
Am 28.05.2011 20:46, schrieb Коньков Евгений: Hello I am trying to install doc from ftp because it is not included in .iso but also get problem ┌ User Confirmation Requested ┐ │ Warning: Can't find the `9.0-CURRENT' distribution

Re[2]: How to install doc for 9-CURRENT

2011-05-28 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Lokadamus. Вы писали 28 мая 2011 г., 22:01:40: L Am 28.05.2011 20:46, schrieb Коньков Евгений: Hello I am trying to install doc from ftp because it is not included in .iso but also get problem ┌ User Confirmation Requested

Re: Re[2]: How to install doc for 9-CURRENT

2011-05-28 Thread Adam Vande More
2011/5/28 Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru I take snapshot from that. It is not include doc. while installing it says: 'Can not find doc packages' ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-current/docs/ -- Adam Vande More

Re: Re[2]: How to install doc for 9-CURRENT

2011-05-28 Thread Adam Vande More
2011/5/28 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com 2011/5/28 Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru I take snapshot from that. It is not include doc. while installing it says: 'Can not find doc packages' ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-current/docs/ You probably want

Building misc/freebsd-doc-en fails

2011-05-28 Thread Joe Altman
of the error: === en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/building-products (all) groff -p -S -Wall -mtty-char -man /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en/work/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/building-products/../../../share/images/articles/building-products/freebsd-branches.pic

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Polytropon
... same with catdoc. i'll try antiword. [forgot about that. ] This makes me believe that the original DOC file has been created with a wrong character set or language setting. Windows - as far as I know - does not use standard locales such as all other systems do, but uses an arbitrary

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Bob Hall
years since I used sed on doc files, but I recall that the character codes that displayed on my screen were not the codes that I needed to use in sed scripts. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:45:38AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: Another possibility, if you haven't considered it, is using sed to convert everything. If you know all the characters that need to be Never mind. I just remembered about the garbage at the beginning of doc files. I had forgotten that I

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
. the \x94, x9d, \x9c... same with catdoc. i'll try antiword. [forgot about that. ] This makes me believe that the original DOC file has been created with a wrong character set or language setting. Windows - as far as I know - does not use standard locales such as all other systems do

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Gary Kline
, the hard part is figuring out how to represent the special characters in sed. It's been a few years since I used sed on doc files, but I recall that the character codes that displayed on my screen were not the codes that I needed to use in sed scripts. the DOC file i was trying to convert

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-27 Thread Gary Kline
? in this case, the \x99 would be an apostrophe. thus: We Don't tia, gsry ps: even lynx -dump messes up, i believe. i'm trying to go from DOC back to typewriter Yes, even a typewriter is better than DOC. :-) man, you got that right

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-27 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:36:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: ps: antiword same as catdoc. back to my per substitutions. that works, along with vi's Builtin subs. Have you considered using whatever replaces the most special characters, and fixing the few characters that remain with

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Thursday 27 May 2010 05:18:07 pm Bob Hall wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:36:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: ps: antiword same as catdoc. back to my per substitutions. that works, along with vi's Builtin subs. Have you considered using whatever replaces the most special

any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-26 Thread Gary Kline
guys, is there anything that can take these hex triplets such as We Don\xe2\x80\x99t and render them back to the ascii or keyboard equivalents? in this case, the \x99 would be an apostrophe. thus: We Don't tia, gsry ps: even lynx -dump messes up, i believe. i'm trying to go from DOC

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-26 Thread Polytropon
tia, gsry ps: even lynx -dump messes up, i believe. i'm trying to go from DOC back to typewriter Yes, even a typewriter is better than DOC. :-) To process DOC files into ASCII, there are several ways, with different complexity: Most complex ones: Use OpenOffice or Abiword, open

8.0 and freebsd-doc native languages

2010-02-18 Thread n dhert
I installed a new 8.0 from the DVD and the ports collection. Did a portsnap update, pkg_version -vIL reported 21 ports to upgrade of which 19 XX-freebsd-doc-20100213 (XX = two letters identifying a native language) I throught this would just install preformatted files, so started the 21 ports

Re: freebsd-doc-en

2009-12-23 Thread ajtiM
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 01:42:32 you wrote: On 23/12/2009 2:03 π.μ., ajtiM wrote: My system: FreeBSD 8.0 Something to do with the new Ghostscript version, most of the doc package builds are broken. I was pointed to this patch http://paste.lisp.org/display/92500 and it continued

Re: freebsd-doc-en

2009-12-23 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 23/12/2009 10:54 μ.μ., ajtiM wrote: On Wednesday 23 December 2009 01:42:32 you wrote: On 23/12/2009 2:03 π.μ., ajtiM wrote: My system: FreeBSD 8.0 Something to do with the new Ghostscript version, most of the doc package builds are broken. I was pointed to this patch

freebsd-doc-en

2009-12-22 Thread ajtiM
My system: FreeBSD 8.0 I had a problem with update freebsd-doc-en ** Error: /undefinedfilename in --file-- Operand stack

Re: freebsd-doc-en

2009-12-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 23/12/2009 2:03 π.μ., ajtiM wrote: My system: FreeBSD 8.0 I had a problem with update freebsd-doc-en ** Error: /undefinedfilename in --file-- Operand stack

How to doc available?

2009-07-27 Thread Mikel King
Anyone know of a good tutorial for making a system on a USB key in limited space? I have a project that requires enough of running system with lighttpd and php5 to do some network magick. I would like to keep the thing below 512MB but if that is not feasible then I'll shoot for whatever

Re: How to doc available?

2009-07-27 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
excuse-me, but what is the problem with size??? I have a PQI stick that is 29mm X 11mm X 2.5mm and have 4gbytes... and works very good... sells for US$12 here... take a look: http://www.pqigroup.com/product2.asp?oid=19cate1=19proid=333 you have inside 4Bg of storage.. usb2.0

Re: How to doc available?

2009-07-27 Thread Mikel King
On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: excuse-me, but what is the problem with size??? I have a PQI stick that is 29mm X 11mm X 2.5mm and have 4gbytes... and works very good... sells for US$12 here... take a look:

Re: How to doc available?

2009-07-27 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 03:19:17PM -0400, Mikel King wrote: Anyone know of a good tutorial for making a system on a USB key in limited space? I have a project that requires enough of running system with lighttpd and php5 to do some network magick. I would like to keep the thing below 512MB but

Re: How to doc available?

2009-07-27 Thread Chris Rees
lib sbin share games libdata snip 292Mshare/doc snip 428Mtotal [ch...@amnesiac]/usr% So, excluding /usr/share/doc, and /boot/xboxkern.0 (a leftover from when amnesiac was an xbox), my install with no ports etc is ~203-112=91MB for /, 428-292=136MB for /usr, plus /var and /tmp (both

Re: How to doc available?

2009-07-27 Thread Mikel King
/ 112Mtotal [ch...@amnesiac]/usr% du -hc bin include lib sbin share games libdata snip 292Mshare/doc snip 428Mtotal [ch...@amnesiac]/usr% So, excluding /usr/share/doc, and /boot/xboxkern.0 (a leftover from when amnesiac was an xbox), my install with no ports etc is ~203-112=91MB

RE: need Tutorial IN Pdf or Doc.

2009-01-23 Thread Mbung Linux
thank's - Original Message - From: Johann Kois jk...@freebsd.org To: 'Mbung Linux' mbung.li...@linuxmail.org, d...@freebsd.org Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: need Tutorial IN Pdf or Doc. Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:18:06 +0100 Hi, try using one of the http mirrors

need Tutorial IN Pdf or Doc.

2009-01-22 Thread Mbung Linux
hello i'm from indonesia.i really want to try freebsd,but my office have a proxy... it very sucks..i can't download u'r documentation at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/ so please send tutorial in pdf or doc that i can learn more about it Thank's a lot. Danang = -- Powered

RE: need Tutorial IN Pdf or Doc.

2009-01-22 Thread Johann Kois
Hi, try using one of the http mirrors instead if you are not allowed to access ftp sites. You can find a list here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html. Look for one which has the comment (http) after its name. For example http://ftp2.de.freebsd.org/pub

obsolete /usr/share/doc/handbook ?

2008-12-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I update my local FBSD documentation with cvsup doc-all. I note that the latest FBSD documentation is under /usr/doc. However I still have /usr/share/doc which is about 2 years out of date. On the other hand /usr/doc does not appear in hier(7), whereas /usr/share/doc does. Can I safely delete

SOLVED: Re: obsolete /usr/share/doc/handbook ?

2008-12-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 01:30:48PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I update my local FBSD documentation with cvsup doc-all. I note that the latest FBSD documentation is under /usr/doc. However I still have /usr/share/doc which is about 2 years out of date. On the other hand /usr/doc does

Re: obsolete /usr/share/doc/handbook ?

2008-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk writes: I update my local FBSD documentation with cvsup doc-all. I note that the latest FBSD documentation is under /usr/doc. However I still have /usr/share/doc which is about 2 years out of date. On the other hand /usr/doc does not appear in hier(7

Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc. Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM area, but no reference... Do i have to keep it read/write ? Can i put it in /var instead of / to be able to keep / read-only ? Thanks a lot, Best regards

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Bye
entropy : -rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc. Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM area, but no reference... Do i have to keep it read/write ? Can i put it in /var instead

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Wojciech Puchar wrote: -rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc. Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM area, but no reference... at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:07:48 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes and at shutdown it's saved from random generator. Only at shutdown, the entropy stored every eleven minutes is in /var/db/entropy/

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
boot. Thanks a lot ! 1- How may i suggest/learn to add this info in the random generator man page, so that a search in doc gives the right result ? use sent-pr 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
shutdown it's saved from random generator. Only at shutdown, the entropy stored every eleven minutes is in /var/db/entropy/ thanks for correction. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:23:05 +0100 Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote: 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ? It has to be on the root

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread RW
There is only 1 file, named entropy : -rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc. It contains random numbers that are written-out at shutdown and used to seed /dev/random on the next boot. Do i have to keep it read/write ? Can i

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc. Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM area, but no reference... at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes and at shutdown it's saved from

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ? man rc.conf seek entropy_file and entropy_dir Thanks, detail is available in

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Thank you RW, i am new on the list, i didn't answer you because i didn't received your answer while i received others, don't know why yet. I would be very interested to find a large but right view in the man documentation of what is happening exactly to this poor lost file :-) The

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:39:56 +0100 Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ?

where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports, src, etc. for 7.0-REL?

2008-03-05 Thread William Bulley
I can't seem to find the distributions listed in the Subject: line on any of the 7.0-RELEASE ISO images. What am I missing? I know the 7.0-RELEASE announcement says the bootable ISO can be used along with FTP to finish the install, but I can't get FTP (or passive FTP, for that matter) to work as

Re: where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports, src, etc. for 7.0-REL?

2008-03-05 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
, 2008 4:42 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports,src, etc. for 7.0-REL? I can't seem to find the distributions listed in the Subject: line on any of the 7.0-RELEASE ISO images. What am I missing? I know the 7.0-RELEASE

Re: where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports, src, etc. for 7.0-REL?

2008-03-05 Thread William Bulley
According to Sean Cavanaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: are you using 7.0-RELEASE--bootonly.iso or 7.0-RELEASE--Disc1.iso the later has the files on it and can be installed without any network connection at all. Thanks. I have 7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso and burned it onto a CD-ROM, but

RE: where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports, src, etc. for 7.0-REL?

2008-03-05 Thread Terry Sposato
-questions@freebsd.org Subject: where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports, src, etc. for 7.0-REL? I can't seem to find the distributions listed in the Subject: line on any of the 7.0-RELEASE ISO images. What am I missing? I know the 7.0-RELEASE announcement says the bootable

Re: ipfw(8) doc bug?

2008-01-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:07:19 +0100 Daniel Gerzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Monday, January 21, 2008, 2:42:53 PM, you wrote: I was just browsing various versions of ipfw(8) such as: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfwapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stableformat=html

ipfw(8) doc bug?

2008-01-21 Thread Ian Smith
I was just browsing various versions of ipfw(8) such as: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfwapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stableformat=html and noticed that (and 6.3-RELEASE) manuals sport 'FreeBSD 7.0' footers, however the proper FreeBSD 7 manual includes the new 'ipfw nat'

Re: ipfw(8) doc bug?

2008-01-21 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Ian, Monday, January 21, 2008, 2:42:53 PM, you wrote: I was just browsing various versions of ipfw(8) such as: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfwapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stableformat=html and noticed that (and 6.3-RELEASE) manuals sport 'FreeBSD 7.0' footers,

Lacky Doc @ 5.6.2 Using XDM

2006-11-26 Thread Ralf Schreijer
Hi there! Today I just installed FreeBSD(6.1) for the first time in my life. After several tries on my own I decided to go through the installation by following the instructions in the handbook. I successfully installed and configured Xorg. Everything went well, until I reached the section

Re: Lacky Doc @ 5.6.2 Using XDM

2006-11-26 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:09:58 +0100 Ralf Schreijer wrote: Today I just installed FreeBSD(6.1) for the first time in my life. After several tries on my own I decided to go through the installation by following the instructions in the handbook. I successfully installed and configured Xorg.

Re: Lacky Doc @ 5.6.2 Using XDM

2006-11-26 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Ralf Schreijer wrote: Hi there! Today I just installed FreeBSD(6.1) for the first time in my life. After several tries on my own I decided to go through the installation by following the instructions in the handbook. I successfully installed and configured Xorg. Everything went well,

Re: Lacky Doc @ 5.6.2 Using XDM

2006-11-26 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:09:58 +0100 Ralf Schreijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! Today I just installed FreeBSD(6.1) for the first time in my life. After several tries on my own I decided to go through the installation by following the instructions in the handbook. I successfully

Re: Lacky Doc @ 5.6.2 Using XDM

2006-11-26 Thread ajm
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:09:58PM +0100, Ralf Schreijer wrote: Hi there! Today I just installed FreeBSD(6.1) for the first time in my life. After several tries on my own I decided to go through the installation by following the instructions in the handbook. I successfully installed and

Re: Lacky Doc @ 5.6.2 Using XDM

2006-11-26 Thread perryh
You have just about any right in single user mode. Type chmod 644 /etc/ttys If you edit the file using vi and it isn't writable you can force to write to it by typing :w! Not if his FS is mounted read-only. Sure, he can remount it read-write, if he knows how :) (Someone else already posted

Re: Lacky Doc @ 5.6.2 Using XDM

2006-11-26 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:06:20 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have just about any right in single user mode. Type chmod 644 /etc/ttys If you edit the file using vi and it isn't writable you can force to write to it by typing :w! Not if his FS is mounted read-only. Yes, I forgot that

Re: securelevel doc?

2006-01-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-01-23 14:52, Joel Hatton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I may be confused, but istr that man security[7] used to document the results of different kernel securelevels; this no longer seems to be the case. Is this still documented in the base system without recourse to online help? (I'm

securelevel doc?

2006-01-22 Thread Joel Hatton
Hi, I may be confused, but istr that man security[7] used to document the results of different kernel securelevels; this no longer seems to be the case. Is this still documented in the base system without recourse to online help? (I'm OK with securelevels, btw, I'd just like to know where to

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