Re: Delayed cronjobs
On Friday 30 May 2008 11:19:10 Jos Chrispijn wrote: Let's say my system has been down for one day. Is it possible to automatically (re)start cronjobs on system startup that should have been run the day before? -- Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Jos, you might want to have a look at anacron(8). From its man page: Anacron can be used to execute commands periodically, with a frequency specified in days. Unlike cron(8), it does not assume that the machine is running continuously. Hence, it can be used on machines that aren't running 24 hours a day, to control daily, weekly, and monthly jobs that are usually controlled by cron. I hope that helps. michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hald/xfce removable media
On Sunday 13 April 2008 05:15:33 Warren Block wrote: Removable media in xfce used to automatically mount, at least as of a few weeks ago. Now I see: Failed to mount NIKON D40. org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed no -- (action, result). Has there been a configuration change? FreeBSD speedy.wonkity.com 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #1: Wed Apr 2 12:34:32 MDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SPEEDY i386 dbus-1.1.20 A message bus system for inter-application communication dbus-glib-0.74 GLib bindings for the D-BUS messaging system hal-0.5.11.r2_5 Hardware Abstraction Layer for simplifying device access policykit-0.7_5 Framework for controlling access to system-wide components policykit-gnome-0.7_3 GNOME frontend to the PolicKit framework /etc/rc.conf: dbus_enable=YES hald_enable=YES polkitd_enable=YES (looks like this is obsolete now) -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA Hello Warren you might want to have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q3 I hope that helps. michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD's and fonts....
On Monday 12 November 2007 03:37:46 Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 12:58:13AM +0100, Michael Rudolph wrote: On Sunday 11 November 2007 23:55:50 Gary Kline wrote: After many tries , my secoond burner finally opopened a CD full of hundreds of TTF fonts. I don't know how to use the graphics widget to move the contents of /media/cdrom/1 to whereever so that all these fonts are usable by both AbiWord and OOo-2.3. (On my Ubuntu platform I used the command line to copy from /cdrom/*.ttf to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/. ) I am using the OOo font wizard to install the few M$ free fonts, but sem to be missing BASIC. [[???]]. At any rate, any tips or insights would be very much appreciated here. tia, gary Hi Gary, as far as I know, you are using KDE, which makes things pretty easy. You can just use Konqueror to browse to your fonts and use the appropriate option in the context menu to install the selected fonts. If you want to do the font installation by hand, as you described, you have to make sure that X is aware of the directory where your font files reside and that the directory is properly prepared. This is best described in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.h tml I hope that helps. michael Well, your handbook URL helped, :-) ... I have in bookmarked in konq. I pointed the browser at the CDROM but there were too many files--hundred--and the browser choked. I'm not sure if I can do a CLI cp -rp from the disk, so I'm **trying** to figure out how to use these GUI tools. If you , or anyone else, would be so kind as too explain how to copy one file or multiple files or a directory and its subdirectories from (say) /media/cdrom/1 to /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType, I would be much obliged. Typing a single string in an xterm seems lots easier than doing it by file-manager. ... thanks, gary Hi Gary, I assume konqueror is chocking because you have font previews enabled. If you deselect Font Files in konquerors View Preview submenu, prior to entering your font directory, you should be able to use konqueror. As I said before, it's a piece of cake to do it this way. If you want to do it as per the handbook, you'd have to copy your font files to an appropriate directory, which could look something like this: # cp /media/cdrom/1/*.ttf /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType I'm not sure if I understood you question correctly, but either the man page for cp(1) might help or you ask again here. Have a nice time. michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD's and fonts....
On Sunday 11 November 2007 23:55:50 Gary Kline wrote: After many tries , my secoond burner finally opopened a CD full of hundreds of TTF fonts. I don't know how to use the graphics widget to move the contents of /media/cdrom/1 to whereever so that all these fonts are usable by both AbiWord and OOo-2.3. (On my Ubuntu platform I used the command line to copy from /cdrom/*.ttf to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/. ) I am using the OOo font wizard to install the few M$ free fonts, but sem to be missing BASIC. [[???]]. At any rate, any tips or insights would be very much appreciated here. tia, gary Hi Gary, as far as I know, you are using KDE, which makes things pretty easy. You can just use Konqueror to browse to your fonts and use the appropriate option in the context menu to install the selected fonts. If you want to do the font installation by hand, as you described, you have to make sure that X is aware of the directory where your font files reside and that the directory is properly prepared. This is best described in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html I hope that helps. michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no glxgears with xorg 7.2?
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 13:53:25 Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Hello, I wanted to test OpenGL with my navidia driver but ould not find glxgears anymore (fresh 7.0/7.2 installation). Does anybody know what additionalport I have to install? Or is there a replacement? Thanks, -Harry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Harald, running pkg_which(1) on glxgears on my not yet updated system, reveals xorg-clients as the origin of glxgears(1). If I'm not mistaken, xorg-clients was renamed to xorg-apps during the upgrade of xorg 6.9 to xorg 7.2. I hope that helps. michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Screen
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 18:22, Dan Sikorsky wrote: Hey, I have a good question for you guys. Lets say, I started a job on a computer, if you must know, portmanager -u , and then left... but I know its sitting there stuck on a config window waiting for someone to press enter... I do not have screen installed on this machine... my question is, can I ssh in, install screen (or not i suppose it wouldnt matter) and bring that process to either screen, or my ssh terminal? i was hoping there would be a way maybe to suspend it, and then bring it to another term. thanks dan Hi Dan, I would try watch(8). Depending on many circumstances this may or may not work for you. Just read the man page. As far as I know, screen(1) would not work for the situation that you described. Good luck. michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RSS feeds for important sites?
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 05:57, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Napoleon Dynamite wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 19:21, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm trying to get my rss reader configured up so that I no longer miss anything ... or, at least, make it easier to keep on top of everything ... I can't seem to find stuff like DaemonNews and such ... Does anyone have a list of BSD related RSS feeds that they'd be willing to share? Thankx ... Hi Mark, I think you're asking about all the BSDs, so here is what I have. For FreeBSD I use the RSS feeds off the main project page, for NetBSD off theirs, and for OpenBSD, which doesn't have any on their page, I get them off of http://undeadly.org (the busiest of these first three.) I also subscribe to the BSD related feeds off of Secunia. I don't know DragonflyBSD well enough to point you anywhere. Other than that I haven't found any others. The security feeds are the best because the instant I get one on FreeBSD, I recompile userland and the kernel. Actually, in this case, I'm more interested in FreeBSD stuff ... but, for instance, I can't find an RSS feed for Daemonnews or bsdnews, whcih would be cool ... an RSS feed for the 'In the News' section on the FreeBSD site would be cool ... that sort of thing ... Thanks ... Hi Marc, the newsfeeds you are looking for should be relatively easy to find on their respective websites, at least I managed to find them. Right now both feeds seem to be unfetchable, but attached you'll find all my FreeBSD feeds as an opml file, so as soon as they are back online, you can start reading. Should the mailinglist software cut off the attachment, feel free to contact me off list. michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
