Re: recent RELENG_5 error

2005-03-17 Thread Bjrn Knig
Tell the kind of your machine and the content of your make.conf, i.e. CFLAGS if there are any and so on. Regards Björn ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

RE: Extended msdos partition

2005-02-26 Thread Bjrn Knig
Jan Sebosik wrote: I`ve klkload-ed msdosfs module, tried disklabel on /dev/ad0s2 (which damaged my partition table), but it still something about that it cannot mount partition (yeh, mount point e.g. /mnt/c exists :-\ ). Is freebsd so different against Linux, or NetBSD? What is the error

correct value for LANG variable

2005-01-22 Thread Bjrn Knig
I am a bit confused. Neither de_DE.ISO-8859-1 nor de_DE.ISO8859-1 work properly in all cases. setenv LANG de_DE.ISO8859-1 echo abcdef uvwxyz | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' ABCDEF ÚWXYÝ] setenv LANG de_DE.ISO-8859-1 echo abcdef uvwxyz | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' ABCDEF UVWXYZ perl perl: warning: Setting locale

Re: correct value for LANG variable

2005-01-22 Thread Bjrn Knig
Michael Nottebrock schrieb: Use tr [:lower:] [:upper:] instead. I was wondering about a third-party script which always worked for years with Solaris. I just didn't realized that this issue concerns a difference between SysV and BSD. I tried to set another LANG string and it worked, but now I see

Re: FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 available

2005-01-20 Thread Bjrn Knig
It has been decided to provide two disc1 ISO images, one with the KDE windowing system packages on it and the other with the GNOME windowing system packages. They are named disc1-kde and disc1-gnome respectively. Other than which major windowing system is on them they are identical. It

RE: Very large directory

2005-01-20 Thread Bjrn Knig
Darryl Okahata wrote: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f Slightly more typing, but more robust. The find utility of FreeBSD knows a -delete option, e.g.: find /path/to/your/directory -type f -delete Regards Bjrn ___

RE: Old version of bison

2005-01-04 Thread Bjrn Knig
Godwin Stewart wrote: Is there any particular reason why ports are sticking with this version when 1.875 was released 2 years ago almost to the day? From the first commit comment of devel/bison1875: Some grammars require the new version of Bison (such as PostgreSQL), however the new

Re: everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date

2005-01-02 Thread Bjrn Knig
Hello, thanks a lot for your hints. The null-modem cable connection is working now. Anyway, it was surprisingly easy, but I'm totally inexperienced and the neglected manpages and handbook discouraged me, because I didn't touch serial ports since a decade ;-) Finally someone points me at [1].

everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date

2005-01-01 Thread Bjrn Knig
Hello, I wanted to use SLIP to connect two machines with a null-modem cable, but I realize that all information concerning this topic seems to be out of date. First of all the device sl0 doesn't exist in 5.3 although there is a device sl in sys/i386/conf/GENERIC for Kernel SLIP. The manpage of

RE: Can't find the `5.3-STABLE' distribution on this FTP server.

2004-12-01 Thread Bjrn Knig
Either you set the release name in Options menu to 5.3-RELEASE before going to Packages menu or start sysinstall with sysinstall releaseName=5.3-RELEASE configPackages Regards Bjrn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: CVS/cvsup problems (ports/74157)

2004-11-21 Thread Bjrn Knig
Hello, Your problem occures with bash-3.0.16, but it works fine for me. I have bash-3.0.16_1. That's the reason why the maintainer told you that you have to update your ports. Maybe your used CVSup server is out of date; try another one, e.g. cvsup2.freebsd.org. Bjrn

Re: Either I do something wrong or there is a regexp bug in sed !!

2004-11-14 Thread Bjrn Knig
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Re: standard-supfile = stable-supfile with 5.3 ?

2004-11-09 Thread Bjrn Knig
Rob wrote: [...] both have *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 although the first one claims to download CURRENT. And, eh, why is the filename standard-supfile and why not the more obvious current-supfile ? It only claims, but it doesn't bring you -CURRENT. That's the reason why it

Re: standard-supfile = stable-supfile with 5.3 ?

2004-11-09 Thread Bjrn Knig
Rob wrote: If so, then why do we have a standard-supfile and a stable-supfile doing the same thing? If both bring you -STABLE, one of the two seems to be redundant to me and having two sup files doing the same only causes confusion. Maybe you're right. There is a kind of redundancy now, but