Re: Cronjob

2009-06-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 08 June 2009 17:37:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: > > may be this solution will help you: [snip] > > > > * * 31 1/2 * > > * * 30 4/2 * > > * * 28 2 * This isn't right, surely? It goes wrong in August and stays wrong for the res

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-09 Thread Peter Andreev
yes, you're right, thank you/ the right version will be: * * 31 1,3,5,7,8,10,12 * * * 30 4,6,9,11 * * * 28,29 2 * 2009/6/9 Jonathan McKeown > On Monday 08 June 2009 17:37:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: > > > may be this solution wil

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-09 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:43:08AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar typed: > > Buy second hand branded hardware from ebay (allegro in poland). It's > usually hardware that was used in offices and replaced by more "modern" > ones. It's already tested!!! > > You could get high-end PIII with 512MB RAM for $

Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes

2009-06-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 08), Kelly Jones said: >> What UFS-like filesystem has unlimited inodes, but is a drop-in >> replacement for ext3, and is fairly easy to configure? >> >> Is UFS2 no longer considered the "best" general-use filesystem? >> >> Reason I ask: I'm going to cre

compile error, 7.2R

2009-06-09 Thread DA Forsyth
Hiya all I am trying to compile 7.2 on a box currently running 7.1 which was compiled from 7.0 (in fact way back to 5.2.1) make buildworld and make kernel-toolchain both produce this error mkdep -f .depend -a-I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include config.c /usr/src/usr.sbin/config/main.

emX (intel) interface ring parameters

2009-06-09 Thread Martin Badie
Hi, On linux I can change ring parameters like: /sbin/ethtool -G eth1 rx 4096 -G --set-ring change the rx/tx ring parameters of the specified ethernet device. how can I do that in FreeBSD so I can get a better performance from my interface Regards. __

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:58:57PM -0400, Chuck Robey typed: > Lars Eighner wrote: > > > > I have some sources which may or may not exist. My target should be > > rebuilt > > if a source exists that is younger than the target. But sources that do > > not exist should be ignored and make should n

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:37:01 -0400 (EDT), vogelke+u...@pobox.com (Karl Vogel) wrote: >Are these PDF files generated by scanning journal pages, or do they >contain text? If the latter, you could use something like xapian or >hyperestraier to make a full-text index of your files. On a

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 23:11:50 -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned "images"), can I > simply use some command like grep to search for text within the > collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from > within PDFs? I don't think so, b

Re: emX (intel) interface ring parameters

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
man em hw.em.rxd Number of receive descriptors allocated by the driver. The default value is 256. The 82542 and 82543-based adapters can handle up to 256 descriptors, while others can have up to 4096. hw.em.txd Number of transmit

Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Or store your data in a RDBMS rather than in the filesystem. sounds like the best solution. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-question

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
task that even Pentium 100 will do. I'm hosting websites on 5-10 years old SUN hardware. V100/120 with ultrasparc II 400-650 Mhz. Just put in some new disks and memory, no sweat. They allmost normal. 400MHz SUNs are available here for 100$ or less. they usually have quite a lot of RAM even 51

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-09 Thread madunix
so people do not be afraid to think outside the the box Finally, out of my experience with Linux and FreeBSD is that once a setup is working, it stays working, sometimes the initial setup takes longer , I ll be honest, there have been times when I spent days trying to get something working on

python upgrade 2.5 to 2.6

2009-06-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I use portmaster. What shall I use instead of pkg_which? PORTUPGRADE_CMD?= ${LOCALBASE}/sbin/portmaster ^ changed to portmaster PKG_WHICH_CMD?=${LOCALBASE}/sbin/pkg_which ^ this I haven

Spamassasin no DCC header

2009-06-09 Thread lyd mc
Hi guys, I just installed spamassassin and dcc form ports. It seems to be working, no errors from spamassassin --lint. Later I found out there are no any DCC header in a mail. local.cf bayes_file_mode 0770 dns_available yes razor_config /var/spool/spamd/.razor/razor-agent.conf add_header all D

Re: 7.2-RELEASE panics with snd_ds1 loaded.

2009-06-09 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Hi Mel, Thanks for responding. In <200906081647.15069.mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net>, Mel Flynn wrote: [...] Nothing points to the sound module specifically. The first trace is unusable (frames missing) and the second trace panics in sleep, which maybe points to the sound mo

Re: port for separation audio from video in mp4 file

2009-06-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 08 June 2009 03:05:20 pm Stefan Miklosovic wrote: > title says it, i downloaded mp4 file by youtube-dl, > but it downloaded video and audio as well. I would > like to separate audio from that file. > > i try to find some port in /usr/ports/audio but nothing > reasonable occudred. For thi

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Grünewald Michaël
Le 8 juin 09 à 23:20, Polytropon a écrit : On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:12:17 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I kno

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Grünewald Michaël
Le 8 juin 09 à 23:17, Daniel Underwood a écrit : I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. Hi Daniel, I

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-09 Thread Grünewald Michaël
Le 7 juin 09 à 06:48, Daniel Underwood a écrit : Installed texlive from ISO, and it all works perfectly now. Thanks folks! However, you may realize that ports installing LaTeX style files (or other things) usually do it in a directory that TeXlive is not aware of. You have to play a bit

Re: burncd

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 07 June 2009 20:40:44 David M. Patronis wrote: > I suspect, unlike cdrecord and > growisofs, that burncd is no longer a modern utility, and is in serious > need of an overhaul. And sos@ retired :/ -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: issue with dhcp and dns

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 07 June 2009 13:42:36 Dave wrote: > I'm trying to get dhcp and dns going ddns on FreeBSD 7.2. In my > dhcpd.leases file i see the forward and reverse information given on the > lease. A host fqdn and a host IP address both return correct dns > information on this host. My issue is

Re: 7.2-RELEASE panics with snd_ds1 loaded.

2009-06-09 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 6/9/09, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Hi Mel, > > Thanks for responding. > > In <200906081647.15069.mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net>, Mel > Flynn wrote: > > [...] > >>Nothing points to the sound module specifically. The first trace is >> unusable >>(frames missing) and the second trace p

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 04:18:10 Grünewald Michaël wrote: > Le 8 juin 09 à 23:20, Polytropon a écrit : > > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:12:17 +0200, Roland Smith > > > > wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > >>> What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that d

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 08 June 2009 08:59:30 Tim Judd wrote: > What make.conf was to world+ports, is now > src.conf = world, make.conf = ports Nope. src.conf = world, make.conf = world+ports. Important distinction, which you'll notice when putting shared variables in make.conf (WITH_DEBUG, WITH_OPENLDAP f.e.

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 08 June 2009 18:36:39 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Jun 8, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Tim Judd wrote: > > If that's related to 'world', all world-related build options should > > be placed in src.conf now. What make.conf was to world+ports, is now > > src.conf = world, make.conf = ports > > What

OT: XEON W3550?

2009-06-09 Thread O. Hartmann
Maybe some of you have already heard about Intels product change and early EOL of various newly introduced Core-i7 CPUs like i7-940 and i7-965. I was wondering if Intel isn't also changing XEON products to adjust clock speed and replace XEON W3540 with XEON W3550 and XEON W3570 with, say, XEON

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Correct. I do the same here. I also do use make to produce LaTeX documents. I even `published' my collection of makefiles at https://gna.org/projects/bsdmakepscripts/ make is universal too, as many other unix tools. for example i use make and cpp (C preprocessor) for making HTML pages :) __

Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes

2009-06-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 03:10:46 am Matthew Seaman wrote: > Or store your data in a RDBMS rather than in the filesystem. Hear, hear. I'm hard pressed to imagine why you'd need 100M 1KB files. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-09 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Mike Jeays wrote: Isn't that a linuxism? Looking at the man pages for the date command for FreeBSD, it looks as if 'date -v+1d' will return tomorrow's date (and it does, I checked). The -d option is to do with daylight saving time. - eot- I see; will have that incorporated in the script. Tha

another compile error

2009-06-09 Thread DA Forsyth
Hiya trying to build kernel for 7.2 and get this (my earlier problem was my having CFLAGS=... in /etc/src.conf) MAKE=make sh /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh LERGY72 cc -c -O -pipe -std=c99 -g -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs - Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winlin

OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Gary Gatten
Hello, I'm basically a novice at the whole configure/make process. I've hacked my way through some errors in the past, but I can't get past this one. It used the GNU auto tools and the configure script has a bunch of shell, c, sed, awk, etc. stuff that's k1lling me! Anyway, I can't get pas

Re: another compile error

2009-06-09 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 08:00:20 am DA Forsyth wrote: > Hiya > > trying to build kernel for 7.2 and get this > (my earlier problem was my having CFLAGS=... in /etc/src.conf) > > MAKE=make sh /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh LERGY72 > cc -c -O -pipe -std=c99 -g -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs

skype12 login problem and debug logging

2009-06-09 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I use skype on 3 computers. 1. FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE, port skype12-1.2.0.18 2. FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE, port skype 2.x 3. Windows XP, skype 3.8 Suddenly, starting a couple of weeks ago, I'm no longer able to log in to Skype on computer 1 (Skype just says "Invalid password"). I can still log

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:38:23 -0500, "Gary Gatten" wrote: > Hello, > I'm basically a novice at the whole configure/make process. I've > hacked my way through some errors in the past, but I can't get past > this one. It used the GNU auto tools and the configure script has a > bunch of shell, c, sed

Re: another compile error

2009-06-09 Thread Valentin Bud
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 08:00:20 am DA Forsyth wrote: > > Hiya > > > > trying to build kernel for 7.2 and get this > > (my earlier problem was my having CFLAGS=... in /etc/src.conf) > > > > MAKE=make sh /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh LERGY72 > >

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:38:23AM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: > > > Anyway, I can't get past this error and the app developers/users aren't > offering "timely" help, so if anyone here is interested in debugging a > configure script and helping me get this (nTop 3.3.10) compiled would be > GREATLY

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Valentin Bud
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:38:23 -0500, "Gary Gatten" > wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm basically a novice at the whole configure/make process. I've > > hacked my way through some errors in the past, but I can't get past > > this one. It used the

RE: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Gary Gatten
Yep, one reason I thought OT would be best is I'm trying to move this app to a Solaris 10 x86 system (don't ask). Got all the GNU tools from csw.org. Anyway, the autoconf/make/configure scripts are "basic" code so figured anyone that's done this stuff could help. I don't feel like joining YAUG f

RE: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Gary Gatten
With all the recent "what's appropriate for this list and wha's not" issues, I didn't know if this was the appropriate forum or not since it's not really a FBSD issue. ESPECIALLY since I'm trying to get it to configure/make on Solaris 10 x86. See my recent post, but I though I could get some help

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
so this could be a reference to all of them. I know (and agree) that everybody should RTFM but there are times when the fine manual is just not enough and real world examples provide a thorough understanding. just few months and this will be general unix support list for everybody. how about na

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Valentin Bud
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > so this could be a reference to all of them. >> >> I know (and agree) that everybody should RTFM but there are times >> when the fine manual is just not enough and real world examples >> provide a thorough

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Daniel Underwood
I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using "pdftotext". I tried the following command: $ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies).pdf Sanda-JAMA-2009 (Prostate Cancer Treatment).pdf ' Why is this not working?

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just few months and this will be general unix support list for everybody. how about name change? and here we go again ... yes. Into general mess of everything off topic being ok because you/others only want to "help people" ___ freebsd-questio

Re: another compile error

2009-06-09 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 09:54:41 am Valentin Bud wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Kent Stewart wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 08:00:20 am DA Forsyth wrote: > > > Hiya > > > > > > trying to build kernel for 7.2 and get this > > > (my earlier problem was my having CFLAGS=... in /etc/src.

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread John Almberg
On Jun 8, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the cour

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 07:12:57PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >so this could be a reference to all of them. > > > >I know (and agree) that everybody should RTFM but there are times > >when the fine manual is just not enough and real world examples > >provide a thorough understanding. > > > ju

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 07:25:10PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >just few months and this will be general unix support list for everybody. > >how about name > >change? > > > > > >and here we go again ... > yes. Into general mess of everything off topic being ok because you/others > only w

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:12:57 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> so this could be a reference to all of them. >> >> I know (and agree) that everybody should RTFM but there are times >> when the fine manual is just not enough and real world examples >> provide a thorough understanding. > > just

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/6/9 Daniel Underwood : > I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using > "pdftotext".  I tried the following command: > > $ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext > Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies).pdf > Sanda-JAMA-2009 (Prostate Cancer Trea

Re: another compile error

2009-06-09 Thread Valentin Bud
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 09:54:41 am Valentin Bud wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 08:00:20 am DA Forsyth wrote: > > > > Hiya > > > > > > > > trying to build kernel for 7.2 and get th

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just few months and this will be general unix support list for everybody. how about name change? Stop the whining already, will you? If you have no useful content to contribute to a thread, please consider ignoring it. could you precisely define "useful content". I just point out that this l

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
only want to "help people" The most off-topic stuff on this list lately has been your complaining about stuff being off-topic. Not most, but certainly off topic. But well - with no moderation or other execution of on-topic rule, what you expect? On the other hand, using make to grow

RE: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Gary Gatten
I this thread dies right now, I PROMISE I'll just figure it out myself... -Original Message- From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:49 PM To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Giorgos Keramidas; Gary Gatten; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Valentin

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:47:49 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> just few months and this will be general unix support list for >>> everybody. how about name change? >> >> Stop the whining already, will you? If you have no useful content to >> contribute to a thread, please consider ignoring

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread LoH
ill...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/9 Daniel Underwood : I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using "pdftotext". I tried the following command: $ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies).pdf Sanda-JAMA-2009 (P

RE: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I this thread dies right now, I PROMISE I'll just figure it out myself... what exactly do you want to figure? -Original Message- From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:49 PM To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Giorgos Keramidas; Gary Gatten;

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Valentin Bud
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > I this thread dies right now, I PROMISE I'll just figure it out >> myself... >> > > what exactly do you want to figure? > With all due respect Mr. Puchar I guess you haven't read the OP's problem which he p

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 09 Jun 2009 at 10:09:17 PDT Gary Gatten wrote: With all the recent "what's appropriate for this list and wha's not" issues, I didn't know if this was the appropriate forum or not since it's not really a FBSD issue. The attempt to restrict this mailing list to "appropriate" questions se

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 09 Jun 2009 at 10:35:28 PDT Jerry McAllister wrote: The most off-topic stuff on this list lately has been your complaining about stuff being off-topic. ...and people complaining about Woj's complaints. ...and my own complaining about the people complaining about Woj's complaints. :)

Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Leslie Jensen
Hello list I've got a CD-R from a friend, (who runs windows) that I cannot mount on my 7.2-RELEASE system. It's readable in another windows machine. Other CD and DVD's is no problem but this one is. The error I get is: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argumen

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:53:12PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > Hello list > > I've got a CD-R from a friend, (who runs windows) that I cannot mount on > my 7.2-RELEASE system. It's readable in another windows machine. > > Other CD and DVD's is no problem but this one is. > > The error I get i

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Daniel Underwood
$ find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \; Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Leslie Jensen
Roland Smith skrev: On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:53:12PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: Hello list I've got a CD-R from a friend, (who runs windows) that I cannot mount on my 7.2-RELEASE system. It's readable in another windows machine. Other CD and DVD's is no problem but this one is. The err

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread LoH
Daniel Underwood wrote: $ find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \; Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF Have you run pdftotext on a single file in your archive as a test? --Joseph Lenox ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Daniel Underwood
Hmm.. The command find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \; works in directories in which no PDF file returns the "Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF" error. When a directory contains one of these files, none of the files get converted. Is there some way to ignore or skip over this %EOF problem

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Leslie Jensen wrote: I've got a CD-R from a friend, (who runs windows) that I cannot mount on my 7.2-RELEASE system. It's readable in another windows machine. Other CD and DVD's is no problem but this one is. The error I get is: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount_cd96

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Leslie Jensen
Warren Block skrev: On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Leslie Jensen wrote: I've got a CD-R from a friend, (who runs windows) that I cannot mount on my 7.2-RELEASE system. It's readable in another windows machine. Other CD and DVD's is no problem but this one is. The error I get is: mount -t cd9660 /dev/

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Michael Powell
Leslie Jensen wrote: [snip] > > I tried that as well, same error unfortunately > > mount -t udf /dev/acd0 /cdrom > mount_udf: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument > > So is this a new MS filesystem that no one but Vista users can read? I'm > afraid we'll properly see more of these problems unless suppor

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The error I get is: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument I've Googled and read the handbook but I think my settings are ok. Any suggestions? ask your friend what filesystem he use. "what is filesystem?" ;) With windoze user there are only two options -

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The most off-topic stuff on this list lately has been your complaining about stuff being off-topic. ...and people complaining about Woj's complaints. ...and my own complaining about the people complaining about Woj's complaints. :) and the circle goes on. Who is right - doesn't matter isn'

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what exactly do you want to figure? With all due respect Mr. Puchar I guess you haven't read the OP's problem which he posted in the first message. i read, but THEN it got completely off topic and THEN i started to complain. ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Because that version by default now uses an UDF-based "live file system" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_File_System]. Try mount_udf Does it actually work now? I tried once in FBSD 6.1 with one made under windoze and mastered DVD (which by standard requirements are UDF, and may be UDF+ISO).

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Leslie Jensen
Michael Powell skrev: Leslie Jensen wrote: [snip] I tried that as well, same error unfortunately mount -t udf /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount_udf: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument So is this a new MS filesystem that no one but Vista users can read? I'm afraid we'll properly see more of these problems unl

Problem with burncd

2009-06-09 Thread Carmel
I just installed FreeBSD-7.2. I attempted to burn a CD; however, when the burn completes, I receive this message: burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE); Input/output error. This is the command line: # burncd -ev -s max fixate data notes.txt Now, if I do not use the 'fixate' command, no error message is d

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Try kldload udf.ko prior to the mount attempt. Check and see if it auto- loaded udf_iconv.ko as it should. If that one isn't present in kldstat load it too. Don't really know if the particular UDF spec/format that FreeBSD supports is the same as Vista. No Vista here to try. -Mike udf.k

Re: Problem with burncd

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE); Input/output error. This is the command line: # burncd -ev -s max fixate data notes.txt are notes.txt your CD image? at least should be multiple of 2kB, and probably some minimal size. i don't know what is minimal track size but in order of 100K. _

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Michael Powell
Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > Michael Powell skrev: >> Leslie Jensen wrote: >> >> [snip] >>> I tried that as well, same error unfortunately >>> >>> mount -t udf /dev/acd0 /cdrom >>> mount_udf: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument >>> >>> So is this a new MS filesystem that no one but Vista users can read?

Re: Problem with burncd

2009-06-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Carmel writes: > I just installed FreeBSD-7.2. I attempted to burn a CD; however, > when the burn completes, I receive this message: > > burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE); Input/output error. > > This is the command line: > > # burncd -ev -s max fixate data notes.txt > > Now, if I do not use the 'fixat

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Leslie Jensen
Michael Powell skrev: A long time ago I tried a Nero add-on of some form or fashion (don't recall the exact name) for Windows that essentially allowed a CD disk to be mounted and used as a disk drive, which allowed for drag and drop in Explorer. It was buggy and crashed regularly so I remov

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread LoH
Daniel Underwood wrote: Yes, it works fine on most PDFs. There are a couple that give me: $ pdftotext Sanda-JAMA-2009\ \(Prostate\ Cancer\ Treatment\).pdf Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF It's probably an issue with the PDF itself, not with the program. --Joseph Lenox __

Re: Problem with burncd

2009-06-09 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/9/09, Carmel wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD-7.2. I attempted to burn a CD; however, > when the burn completes, I receive this message: > > burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE); Input/output error. > > This is the command line: > > # burncd -ev -s max fixate data notes.txt > > Now, if I do not use t

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Don Read
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:31:42 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar said: > >> Correct. I do the same here. > > > > I also do use make to produce LaTeX documents. I even `published' my > > collection of makefiles at https://gna.org/projects/bsdmakepscripts/ > > make is universal too, as many other unix too

Re: Problem with burncd

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:31:10 -0400, Carmel wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD-7.2. I attempted to burn a CD; however, > when the burn completes, I receive this message: > > burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE); Input/output error. > > This is the command line: > > # burncd -ev -s max fixate data notes.txt

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:07:03 -0500, LoH wrote: > Daniel Underwood wrote: > > Yes, it works fine on most PDFs. There are a couple that give me: > > > > $ pdftotext Sanda-JAMA-2009\ \(Prostate\ Cancer\ Treatment\).pdf > > Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF > > > > > > It's probab

Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-09 Thread Martin McCormick
Which signal is sent to a process when one types ^z or Control-z? It appears to be SIGSTOP and according to signal's man page, this is one signal you can't catch. I have an application with a signal handler I wrote and I am trying to discourage folks typing CTRL-Z if it hangs because that

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:30:30 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Which signal is sent to a process when one types ^z or > Control-z? It appears to be SIGSTOP and according to signal's > man page, this is one signal you can't catch. You can check the setting with this command: % stty -a

Re: Problem with burncd

2009-06-09 Thread Bob Johnson
On 6/9/09, Carmel wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD-7.2. I attempted to burn a CD; however, > when the burn completes, I receive this message: > > burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE); Input/output error. > I have been getting that error message on and off for some time (years) now. The CD comes out ok, t

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Daniel Underwood
I retrieved a fresh copy of the error-causing PDF, and now all is well. Thanks for all the excellent help! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebs

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 09), Polytropon said: > On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:30:30 -0500, Martin McCormick > wrote: > > Which signal is sent to a process when one types ^z or Control-z? It > > appears to be SIGSTOP and according to signal's man page, this is one > > signal you can't catch. ^Z sends

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:42:15PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:30:30 -0500, Martin McCormick > wrote: > > Which signal is sent to a process when one types ^z or > > Control-z? It appears to be SIGSTOP and according to signal's > > man page, this is one signal you can't catch

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:07:30 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > ^Z sends a SIGTSTP, which can be caught (or ignored, in your case). > > 18SIGTSTP stop process stop signal generated from > keyboard What is the way to get this information?

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:15:27 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > Not quite. It indicates (according to stty(1)) that ^Z generates the > SUSP character. > The termios(4) manpage (referenced by stty(1)) says that > > SUSPIf the ISIG flag is enabled, receipt of the SUSP character causes >

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:31:12PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:55:49 -0600 > Chad Perrin wrote: > > >I try to learn from others' mistakes to reduce the likelihood that I > >will be forced to learn from my own. If you really want to learn from > >your own mistakes, though, go ahea

Re: flaw found [in my own program]

2009-06-09 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 8, 2009, at 7:15 PM, Gary Kline wrote: not surprisingly, i found a fla w in my getc(fp) program that tried to read past "" ... the example i added to my test file was simply the 2 bytes "<" and "?". so if you have a stray " Back in the days when

Re: python upgrade 2.5 to 2.6

2009-06-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:16:42AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I use portmaster. What shall I use instead of pkg_which? > > PORTUPGRADE_CMD?= ${LOCALBASE}/sbin/portmaster > ^ changed to portmaster > PKG_WHICH_CMD?=${LOCALBASE}/

Re: flaw found [in my own program]

2009-06-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 06:19:21PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Jun 8, 2009, at 7:15 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > not surprisingly, i found a fla w in my getc(fp) program that > > tried to read past "" ... the example i added to my > > test file was simply the 2 bytes "<" and "?

kernel compiling questions

2009-06-09 Thread Jason Helfman
Hi. I am trying to figure out how when making the kernel that the number is incremented. For example my system reads: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #4 I have my own kernel that works, however I would like to have it read this: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0 Is there a way to resolve this? Thanks! Jason ___

RE: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Gary Gatten
Several people have contacted me privately so I'll be in touch with them as needed. I've literally worked on this ALL day (and yesterday) and hacked my way past a number of errors, but STILL don't have a working app. Although I have learned a few useful things, I'm about ready to smash something/

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-09 Thread Martin McCormick
Dan Nelson writes: > ^Z sends a SIGTSTP, which can be caught (or ignored, in your case). > > 18SIGTSTP stop process stop signal generated from > keyboard > > According to > > > > % stty -g > > ... status=14:stop=13:susp=1

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