RE: photoshop
What is the best aplication on freebsd for editing pictures ? I know this one! If you want something Photoshop-like and are using a GUI, then gimp If you want something from the command line, thein ImageMagick Cheers, Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Find Command Syntax
OK, I'm trying to understand the difference. According to the manual -ctime is change of file status and -mtime is last modification time. I think I understand what modification means (changing the contents of the file) but what is change of file status? In my particular situation, while reviewing my spam folder for possible ham, my IMAP client may change the message status from unread to read. How would this affect the actual message file? Contents change is when what's inside the file changes. Status change is when the file descriptor status, like read-only, or permissions changes. Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: parts of ports
I think if you read my tutorial, there should be enough information to figure that out. Basically, you need to go to the ports archive and figure out the dependencies heirarchically. That is described in the tutorial. If it's not clear, let me know where you are having troubleso I can revise it. Ralph -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of messmate Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:15 AM To: freebsd-questions-en Subject: Re: parts of ports On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:59:38 -0400 Ralph Hempel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is there a way to install only parts of the ports tree to set them up ? The ports tree takes 237M up :( Have only 600M hd space available included swap. The purpose is to setup a firewall/router/proxy VERY secured :) Thanks in advance for your help. mess-mate You can read this little tip on how I did it http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDPortsAndP erl.html It deals with installing a partial ports tree for building perl, but applies in general to any port you want to build. Ralph Hello again, as i early say, the /Mk, Templates, Tools and INDEX are installed. Now how can i retrieve the port i need ? for ex. fb_freebsd ? Amethod with cvs isn't described in the handbook :( mess-mate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: parts of ports
Hi, is there a way to install only parts of the ports tree to set them up ? The ports tree takes 237M up :( Have only 600M hd space available included swap. The purpose is to setup a firewall/router/proxy VERY secured :) Thanks in advance for your help. mess-mate You can read this little tip on how I did it http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDPortsAndPerl.html It deals with installing a partial ports tree for building perl, but applies in general to any port you want to build. Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to Build a Custom Port Tree
I am a newbie to FreeBSD I'm using an old machine right now with limited disk space, so I don't want to install the entire ports collection. I want to build a custom port tree, and I'm finding the docs to be a bit silent on this account as I guess nowadays disk space is usually abundant so installing the entire port tree is the preferred route. Can someone give some basic guidance on: 1) Do I install a compiler or does the basic FreeBSD install have it installed already? Already installed if you did a base install. 2) How do I setup a single application port? See this: http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDPortsAndPerl.html It described setting up perl 5.8 from a port, without all the other ports. 3) Will I need to trace dependence or will make pull in the required libraries? See above. 4) Can I use CVsup to keep a limited number of ports up to date? That I'm still looking at...stay tuned Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: What mouse? (was: Samsung Cordless Mouse)
Can anybody recommend a good mouse? My criteria are: - Middle button easy to use. The current crop of mice has the middle button integrated with the roller, and that makes the middle button either heavy or easy to confuse with the roller. - Preferably cordless. Cord mice tend to wander a little when you let go of them, and that's a real nuisance on a high-resolution display. Greg, Have you tried a trackball? I'm using a Logitech Marble Mouse, it has 4 buttons, I'm not sure if there's a three button version. Nice thing about a trackball is it stays where you park it, and I've felt much less writest strain lately... Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 4.10 Install failure.
I am havign some trouble installing FreeBSD 4.10 on my PC. I downloaded an ISO image (and verified the checksum) from the Canadian FreeBSD FTP site. After burning the image to CD, I checked the checksums, which were the same. When I put the CD in the drive and attempt to boot from it, I just get a register dump and the computer halts. I have just got over a similar painful learning experience. I made a dumb mistake that might help you. I first just burnt the ISO file to a CD like I would any other file. (I had no idea what an ISO image was :)) After i discovered that you need special software to burn an ISO image, I downloaded the trial version of UltraISO software. It wanted to use Nero Burning ROM to actually do the burn. Once I had these 2 bits of software installed, I could actually use the CD's I burnt. Unless you have a crippled version of Nero, it will let you burn ISO images. You don't need UltraISO. Just cancel the stupid wizard at startup and choose File/BurnImage from the main Nero window. I also burnt CD's of the 2 flp images. I happened to use Sonic Record Now to do that, and there was a button I could press that read the flp image and created a bootable CD. Also unnecessary. Nero lets you choose CDROM(boot) if you select File/New from the main menu. Just point it to the floppy image you want to burn and you are good to go. Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: root access to ftp, telnet -- CP/M?
Matthew, Thanks for your concern. Once there is anything on the computer, I will certainly close those security holes. Right now it is only a means to learn about FreeBSD and document the steps necessary to build a machine that will fit my needs. I opened ftp and telnet access to root as a simple way to copy files to and from a windows computer and to control the FreeBSD computer from another location. I do plan to implement ssh, but first I must evaluate PuTTY and other alternatives. PuTTY works great! Here's a bit more info on my experience setting up a FreeBSD server and using PuTTY: http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDandWindows.html Cheers, Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ADSL internet + router
Am about to get an ADSL internet connection... there are two devices available, an ADSL modem and a router... the modem should not have a problem to work (I have one at office), but have a doubt with the router and don't know which device aquire... I have my local network configured with private addresses in the range 192.168.0.* and GATEWAY=192.168.0.x (the ip of the server with firewall)... My question is... would I be able with the router to use it as gateway without assigning dynamic addresses via DHCP? I want to preserve my static private addresses 192.168.0.* with a GATEWAY=... configuration, is that possible? In the worst case I can setup a firewall and use one of my computers as gateway with 2 ethernet cards, one for the router and the other for my LAN... I have an ADSL modem, and I plug that into my wireless router. It's address is 192.168.1.1 and it acts as the gateway. I can also configure it (via braowser interface) to forward packets from the internet to specific machines on my network, on a port by port basis. I also use a dynamic DNS service, so that it just magically works. Here's a little article I worte on it: http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDApache2.html The dynamic DNS bit is at the end... Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: One OR MORE of source and destination addresses?
I just took a look at the code:
if (q != NULL) { /* should never occur */
if (last_log != time_second) {
last_log = time_second;
printf(ipfw: install_state: entry already present, done\n);
}
return 0;
}
What if I just hack the printf ... line out of there? Would that 'solve'
it? I know it's dirty; but would things still work?
I'll jump in here as a software manager and say NO!
Note, I have no idea if it will still work, but as a professional
programmer, the question raises a number of issues :-)
1. First of all, the original programmer took time to comment
this line:
if (q != NULL) { /* should never occur */
OK. There's no indication WHY it should never occur, but still, the comment
is there.
2. By adding this line:
if (last_log != time_second) {
He's limiting the printed errors to one every second, so you
are not beeing flooded with as many messages as are actually
ocurring.
Is last_log used anywhere else?
3. This line:
return 0;
will still return 0 if the error occurs, so the program will
work the same with or without the diagnostic message.
I'd do some more digging and find out exactly WHY this is a should never
occur case to be sure that the log is not needed. If you don't print
the log, then why do the test, except to return 0 :-)
Ralph
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RE: One OR MORE of source and destination addresses?
Bill, Thanks for the feedback. I've been programming embedded systems for almost 20 years, so I have a natural aversion to apparently simple changes that make things work :-) The nicest high-level code I've ever seen in the source to Tcl - if only all code looked like that. I've been playing with FreeBSD over the last two or three months trying to implement a headless server that will help dysfunctional development teams control their bugs and source code. I chose FreeBSD because Linux seems so frigging bloated, and the distros are too varied. You never know if the distro you pick will be around next year. FreeBSD gives me a much warmer and fuzzier feeling about the commitment to release quality code and making it very clear which releases are for production, and which are for testing. My work so far is documanted in these articles: http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDEmbedded.html http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDSetup.html http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDandWindows.html http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDPortsAndPerl.html http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDPostfix.html http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDApache2.html http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDGnats.html I hope to write more, including articles on customizing Gnats, using Subversion, splint, backups, and security. This developer community seems pretty friendly and knowledgable. I think I'll stick around :-) Cheers, Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: SSH Client - (newbie need help)
Im a newbie to FreeBSD and I need to run an SSH client to connect to the Solaris server at my University. I was previously using Putty on WinXP, however there appears to be a bug in the current putty port which causes it to crash before exchanging keys if the servers key is not cached. Is there a bug, or just a warning message that says the new key is not cached? I'm using PuTTY 0.54 right now and it works great. Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pserver unavailable for anoncvs.freebsd.org
RESEND: If this is the wrong list, which one is more appropriate. Perhaps freebsd-doc? I've been messing around with building ports directly from cvs. The examples in the anoncvs section of the Handbook indicate that the pserver access method is available for: anoncvs.freebsd.org ie setenv CVSROOT :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs Should allow a cvs login using anoncvs as the password. Unfortunately, we get this error: cvs [login aborted]: connect to anoncvs.FreeBSD.org(128.46.156.46):2401 failed: Connection refused Is this because pserver has been disabled on that server, because the connection limit has been exceeded, or some other issue? Note that I've been able to use pserver for other servers listed in anoncvs just fine. Cheers, Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: pserver unavailable for anoncvs.freebsd.org
Note that you can determine which ports you update with cvsup as well. Would the base system be enough? Using cvsup on base is fine, but I thought that to use cvsup on things like perl that I had to have the whole ports/lang tree (just ports, not source) on my machine. Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pserver unavailable for anoncvs.freebsd.org
I've been messing around with building ports directly from cvs. The examples in the anoncvs section of the Handbook indicate that the pserver access method is available for: anoncvs.freebsd.org ie setenv CVSROOT :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs Should allow a cvs login using anoncvs as the password. Unfortunately, we get this error: cvs [login aborted]: connect to anoncvs.FreeBSD.org(128.46.156.46):2401 failed: Connection refused Is this because pserver has been disabled on that server, because the connection limit has been exceeded, or some other issue? Note that I've been able to use pserver for other servers listed in anoncvs just fine. Cheers, Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
