How older files installed by previous versions of FreeBSD are supposed to be deleted?

2011-02-20 Thread Yuri
I updated my system many times. As a result I have many older libraries with different numbers: /lib/libm.so.4 /lib/libm.so.5 /lib/libutil.so.5 /lib/libutil.so.7 /lib/libutil.so.8 /lib/libutil.so.9 /lib/libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.7 How older files are normally deleted? Is there a script that finds

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:44:32PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chip Camden on Saturday, 19 February 2011: Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: Need help

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:28:07PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, but here's where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can squeeze my 15 or small-n lines' worth into. xterm

Re: How older files installed by previous versions of FreeBSD are supposed to be deleted?

2011-02-20 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:05:00 -0800 Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I updated my system many times. As a result I have many older libraries with different numbers: /lib/libm.so.4 /lib/libm.so.5 /lib/libutil.so.5 /lib/libutil.so.7 /lib/libutil.so.8 /lib/libutil.so.9 /lib/libc.so.6

Re: 8.2-PRERELEASE?

2011-02-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/02/2011 03:05, Frank Shute wrote: Just keep following RELENG_8 and once the 8.2-RELEASE is done it will become 8.3-STABLE. Well, yes. But not for something like 4 months until the process for releasing 8.3 has happened. Most of the time between now and then, it will appear as

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 19 18:28:20 2011 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:23:00 -0800 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: variable line-display pager? On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

2011-02-20 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 19, 2011 11:39:38 PM +0100, Andy Wodfer is alleged to have said: Cool. Procmail is now installed, but the procmail.rc file, should that be placed under root's home folder ie /root/procmail.rc or another user? I assume root since Daniel's command doesn't specify any users?

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:28:07PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, but here's where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can squeeze my 15 or

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Robert Bonomi on Sunday, 20 February 2011: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 19 18:28:20 2011 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:23:00 -0800 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: variable line-display

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: snip Yes, this is much nicer that the more -15 that messes up the text with it's [MORE...] white within black. But here you can't just tap the spacebar; is there a way around that cr and turning it into a space...?

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 350, Issue 10

2011-02-20 Thread Chris Rees
Sorry Mats, I couldn't find anything in that email! Please would you resend it, with only relevant quotes and with an appropriate subject? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Backtick versus $()

2011-02-20 Thread Warren Block
$() apparently isn't quite the same as backticks, although sh(1) doesn't mention that, or I just missed it. This script is just supposed to escape special characters* in a path/filename: #!/bin/sh DESTDIR=./ COMPFILE=.cshrc PSTR=`echo ${DESTDIR}${COMPFILE} | sed 's%\([?:.%\\]\)%\\\1%g'`

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-20 Thread David Demelier
On 20/02/2011 18:40, Warren Block wrote: $() apparently isn't quite the same as backticks, although sh(1) doesn't mention that, or I just missed it. This script is just supposed to escape special characters* in a path/filename: #!/bin/sh DESTDIR=./ COMPFILE=.cshrc PSTR=`echo

umass troubles again

2011-02-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've a 4GB USB memory which is formatted as a single FAT32 partition. When I insert it, I get: root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x1e3d product 0x2092 bus uhub5 kernel: ugen5.3: USB0911B at usbus5 kernel: umass1: USB0911B Flash Disk, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3 on usbus5 kernel:

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-20 Thread Brian Callahan
snip After deciding I could not really buy a computer locally, I ordered my latest machine from Freedom Included, Inc from in the US. http://freedomincluded.com/product/lemote-yeeloong/ It is a MIPS-based subnotebook shipping with gNewSense (Linux distro). I don't think it is what the OP

Re:Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-20 Thread James Phillips
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:23:03 +0100 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Subject: Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS? To: Brian Callahan kors...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 20110220042303.0f730c6b.free...@edvax.de Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:26:32AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:28:07PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, but here's where

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:44:10AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: snip Yes, this is much nicer that the more -15 that messes up the text with it's [MORE...] white within black. But here you can't just tap the spacebar; is there a

Re: Set tty resolution using hint.sc.0.flags with VESA

2011-02-20 Thread Dima Panov
Hello! 07.02.2011, 03:57, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com: On 06/02/2011 17:52, Dima Panov wrote:  Hello!  [fluffy@Beastie] ~$ cat /boot/device.hints|grep sc.0  hint.sc.0.at=isa  hint.sc.0.flags=0x180  hint.sc.0.vesa_mode=0x1f0 absolutely great! But where did you find these

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:44:10AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: snip Yes, this is much nicer that the more -15 that messes up the text with it's [MORE...] white within black. But here you

Can FreeBSD be made to be as polished a desktop as Linux Mint?

2011-02-20 Thread Xn Nooby
I was wondering if there were any technical reasons why a FreeBSD desktop could not be hand-tweaked to be as nice as a Linux Mint 10 desktop. I only rarely use Linux Mint 10, but it's desktop and webrowsing seem to be about perfect (albeit green). The Gnome UI is very smooth to interact with,

revised pager.....

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
THis is to the entire list, mostly to Chip. It is o8.rb, my very slightly tweaked version of what you ma/// rather, what i found and began messing with a couple, three hours ago. I searched++ and could not find the C equivalent of if counter % N == 0 in

Re: revised pager.....

2011-02-20 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: THis is to the entire list, mostly to Chip. It is o8.rb, my very slightly tweaked version of what you ma/// rather, what i found and began messing with a couple, three hours ago. I searched++ and could not find the C

Flac and/or shell problem

2011-02-20 Thread RW
I found a recipe for converting flac to mp3: flac -cd in.flac | lame -h - out.mp3 and I thought I might be able to able to combine multiple flac files into a single mp3 file with something like the following: ( flac -cd file1.flac ; flac -cd file2.flac ) | lame -h - both.mp3 but in

Re: Can FreeBSD be made to be as polished a desktop as Linux Mint?

2011-02-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:15:30PM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: I was wondering if there were any technical reasons why a FreeBSD desktop could not be hand-tweaked to be as nice as a Linux Mint 10 desktop. I only rarely use Linux Mint 10, but it's desktop and webrowsing seem to be about perfect

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-20 Thread Warren Block
Dropped the last line of the script. Also lined up the seds to show the regex is the same in both. #!/bin/sh DESTDIR=./ COMPFILE=.cshrc PSTR=`echo ${DESTDIR}${COMPFILE} | sed 's%\([?:.%\\]\)%\\\1%g'` echo ${PSTR} PSTR=$(echo ${DESTDIR}${COMPFILE} | sed 's%\([?:.%\\]\)%\\\1%g') echo ${PSTR}

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-20 Thread Andres Perera
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:42 PM, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: I'd prefere $() rather than ``. It's more powerful, for example you can write a multiple $() but not `` see : that's not true for i in bash dash mksh; do echo $i: $i '!' echo `echo 1\`echo 2\\\`echo 3\\\`echo

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-20 Thread Andres Perera
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: With backticks, the backreference \1 never seems to be replaced with the actual pattern, regardless of search pattern.  Tested on 8-stable and 9-current. this isn't really new and it's not particular to freebsd sh(1) for

openldap not starting

2011-02-20 Thread Tim Dunphy
hello list!! I am building an ldap server on freebsd 8.1. For some reason if I include the inetorgperson schema in my slapd.conf slapd will not start here is the listing in slapd.conf # See slapd.conf(5) for details on configuration options. # This file should NOT be world readable. # include

Re: booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2

2011-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 19), Alexander Best said: On Sat Feb 19 11, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 19/02/2011 02:47, Alexander Best wrote: but that won't work. i get some numbers and then it says: btx halted or something like that. Can't you boot into fixit mode from installation media?

Re: openldap not starting

2011-02-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/02/2011 04:16, Tim Dunphy wrote: I am building an ldap server on freebsd 8.1. For some reason if I include the inetorgperson schema in my slapd.conf slapd will not start openldap is like that: if it has a problem with your config, it exits. The trick is to get it to tell you what the

[FYI] Bittorrent for 8.2 release

2011-02-20 Thread grarpamp
Some observations for those considering using bt this time... Vuze 4.6.0.2 under OpenJDK7 works fine. You need to grab swt-devel, log4j, junit, commons-cli. If you're using the ancient Vuze port, just replace the Vuze jar from that with the current one from sourceforge. Until swt is updated, you