Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-08 Thread Gökşin Akdeniz
Those error messages are due to GTK interface of Xscreensaver configuration tool which can be called with xscreensaver-demo If you want xscreensaver start when user type command startx simply edit the .xinitrc file. Sample configuration is for a fluxbox windows manager and Xscreensaver.

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-08 Thread pwnedomina
Em 08-05-2011 03:10, Polytropon escreveu: On Sun, 08 May 2011 02:59:11 +0100, pwnedominapwnedom...@gmail.com wrote: man xscreensaver dont display information about fluxbox wm. Of course not. :-) You need to consult the documentation of fluxbox in order to find out how to integrate it (if

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-08 Thread pwnedomina
Em 08-05-2011 10:27, Gökşin Akdeniz escreveu: Those error messages are due to GTK interface of Xscreensaver configuration tool which can be called with xscreensaver-demo If you want xscreensaver start when user type command startx simply edit the .xinitrc file. Sample configuration is for a

conky problem

2011-05-08 Thread pwnedomina
Ive just setup conky in my fluxbox startup file the thing is that when fluxbox starts i see it running but then suddenly disappears, i see its running on background but how can i make it to appear in the screen? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

remove all ports

2011-05-08 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi freebsd people, just to make sure I don't end up with a unworkable system I want to ask the list if I'm on the right track. I have this workstation running FreeBSD 8.1 and have used it as an application/database server for most of the last 2 years. Do to my assignment being finished I want

remove all ports

2011-05-08 Thread Robert Huff
Dino Vliet writes: Over time a few ports  were installed, for which I have no use now. I figured out the alternatives I have are: Which is easier depends on a) how many total ports b) how many you want to remove c) whether you know exactly which ones need to

Re: remove all ports

2011-05-08 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 05:05:19AM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi freebsd people, just to make sure I don't end up with a unworkable system I want to ask the list if I'm on the right track. I have this workstation running FreeBSD 8.1 and have used it as an application/database server for most

Re: i messed up, need to do fsck and also uncomment the /usr line if /etc/fstab

2011-05-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com writes: I had an old FBSD 7.2 CD. good enough for this I thought. I booted from that but now I need to mount the file systems on my hard drive. How do I do that? I agree,, once I get the /etc file system mounted I can edit the file. Okay, next.. How do

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 08 May 2011 03:18:31 +0100, pwnedomina pwnedom...@gmail.com wrote: ive added an entry to .xinitrc # Start the screensaver daemon xscreensaver -no-splash but i cant get into work. what is wrong? I think you need to configure the screensaver for the first time, so a configuration

Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error

2011-05-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com writes: Trying to build thunderbird-3.1.10 on a FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 machine and getting this error: gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/mail/thunderbird/work/comm-1.9.2/mailnews/import' gmake[6]: Entering directory

Re: Firefox URL Address Bar does not work under 8.1-RELEASE

2011-05-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com writes: Hi list, I hope that you can offer some suggestions to help make some sense of this odd situation. The situation is that we install FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE onto standard Intel workstation hardware. We then add about 400 packages to the system. On top of

Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error

2011-05-08 Thread Janos Dohanics
On Sun, 08 May 2011 13:14:36 -0400 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com writes: Trying to build thunderbird-3.1.10 on a FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 machine and getting this error: gmake[4]: [...] Error 2 *** Error code 1

Re: firefox-4.0.1,1 crashes

2011-05-08 Thread Janos Dohanics
On Fri, 06 May 2011 23:45:25 +0200 Herbert J. Skuhra h.sku...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2011 09:31:57 -0400 Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com wrote: After updating Firefox and all the ports it depends on, firefox-4.0.1,1 crashes when trying to use any part of the toolbar or the

Re: firefox-4.0.1,1 crashes

2011-05-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com wrote: Rebuilt the kernel with options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES and Firefox now works fine. Since this option seems to be required for Firefox (and perhaps for other ports?), shouldn't /usr/ports/UPDATING or /usr/src/UPDATING

Re: firefox-4.0.1,1 crashes

2011-05-08 Thread Michael Powell
Adam Vande More wrote: On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com wrote: Rebuilt the kernel with options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES and Firefox now works fine. Since this option seems to be required for Firefox (and perhaps for other ports?), shouldn't /usr/ports/UPDATING

Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error

2011-05-08 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 May 2011 18:37, Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011 13:14:36 -0400 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com writes: Trying to build thunderbird-3.1.10 on a FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 machine and getting

Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error

2011-05-08 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 May 2011 20:03, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 May 2011 18:37, Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011 13:14:36 -0400 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com writes: Trying to build

Re: Firefox URL Address Bar does not work under 8.1-RELEASE

2011-05-08 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: Hi list, I hope that you can offer some suggestions to help make some sense of this odd situation. The situation is that we install FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE onto standard Intel workstation hardware. We then add about 400

Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread John or Judy Hixson
At the risk of being told to get out of here and never come back (until you know enough to not need to come back), I need help on some very elementary stuff. I haven't found anywhere else to ask these questions and am therefore taking my chances. I'm trying to learn some FreeBSD in

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth John or Judy Hixson on Sunday, 08 May 2011: At the risk of being told to get out of here and never come back (until you know enough to not need to come back), I need help on some very elementary stuff. I haven't found anywhere else to ask these questions and am therefore taking my

Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error

2011-05-08 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun May 8 12:15:43 2011 From: Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org To: Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 13:14:36 -0400 Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thunderbird-3.1.10

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 8, 2011 5:45:55 PM -0700, Chip Camden is alleged to have said: For viewing or editing a file, what you want is a text editor. I use vim, but it really isn't designed for beginners. Whatever editor you decide to use, I would advise reading up on it before jumping into text files.

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread Noel
On 5/8/2011 7:17 PM, John or Judy Hixson wrote: At the risk of being told to get out of here and never come back (until you know enough to not need to come back), I need help on some very elementary stuff. I haven't found anywhere else to ask these questions and am therefore taking my

Re: fix an audio conversion script to work through multiple directories and convert mp3s to ogg vorbis

2011-05-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: On Sat, 7 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: My question is the following: How can I run the script to recursively find all mp3's and convert them to ogg vorbis(with ogg extension already in place/or rename them in one

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread Jon Radel
On 5/8/11 8:17 PM, John or Judy Hixson wrote: At the risk of being told to get out of here and never come back (until you know enough to not need to come back), I need help on some very elementary stuff. I haven't found anywhere else to ask these questions and am therefore taking my

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:17 PM, John or Judy Hixson johnorj...@earthlink.net wrote: At the risk of being told to get out of here and never come back (until you know enough to not need to come back), I need help on some very elementary stuff. I haven't found anywhere else to ask these

Re: fix an audio conversion script to work through multiple directories and convert mp3s to ogg vorbis

2011-05-08 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 8 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: On Sat, 7 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: My question is the following: How can I run the script to recursively find all mp3's and convert them to ogg vorbis(with ogg

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread Janos Dohanics
On Sun, 8 May 2011 17:17:48 -0700 John or Judy Hixson johnorj...@earthlink.net wrote: [...] Another problem that's throwing me for a loop is that even though I'm logged in as root I'm getting a permission denied return when I list a file (e.g. /etc/fstab) and press enter. When you enter a

Re: firefox-4.0.1,1 crashes

2011-05-08 Thread Janos Dohanics
On Sun, 8 May 2011 13:32:47 -0500 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com wrote: Rebuilt the kernel with options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES and Firefox now works fine. Since this option seems to be required for Firefox