Pkg in FreeBSD 9.1 release, file not found

2013-03-29 Thread Edgar Rodolfo
Hi guys! :) I put in .cshrc: setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/Latest; and afterwards #pkg_add -r pkg to use pkg But currently i can not use pkg :(, but i remember that few days ago i was using I used pkg to update and install some binary package,

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2013-03-29 Thread Polytropon
Sorry I have to say that, but I feel I have to comment on this: On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:46:53 -0400, Quartz wrote: [pc/free]bsd *can* be used as a desktop system, but it's really aimed more at servers... FreeBSD is, per definition, a multi-purpose operating system. It can be used on servers,

Re:Re:Flat Windshield Wiper Blade You Want

2013-03-29 Thread sales3
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2013-03-29 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Jeff Belyea jbely...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new computer with windows 8, which I hate with a passion. I don't play music and I don't do a lot of pictures. Basically I only search, some EBay and games. Can I replace win8 with BSD? Of course you can. I

dump locking up system

2013-03-29 Thread Robert Huff
(While the system involved is -CURRENT, this doesn't seem to have anything CURRENT-related.) On a system running: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Dec 30 12:52:09 EST 2012 amd64 running dump causes the system to lock up ... sometimes. Specifics: I have a

EOL

2013-03-29 Thread David Thurber
I have 5 XP machines on my node that are used to crunch data 24/7. So, I'm looking for an OS platform that has a 10 year EOL to replace XP/3. What I got from your website appears to be a year or two at most on freebsd 8.3, and we really don't want to repeat the travails of the transition from

Re: EOL

2013-03-29 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:19:02 -0600, David Thurber wrote: I have 5 XP machines on my node that are used to crunch data 24/7. So, I'm looking for an OS platform that has a 10 year EOL to replace XP/3. It's good you're paying attention to the upcoming death of Windows XP and the expected birth of

Re: EOL

2013-03-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/03/2013 15:19, David Thurber wrote: I have 5 XP machines on my node that are used to crunch data 24/7. So, I'm looking for an OS platform that has a 10 year EOL to replace XP/3. What I got from your website appears to be a year or two at most on freebsd 8.3, and we really don't want to

Re: external hdd

2013-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Laszlo Danielisz wrote: If I'm sharing an external 1TB HDD with FreeBSD and OS-X (I wan to use Time Machine), what is the best file system to use? Time Machine is only supported on top of journaled HFS+; I'm not sure how fusefs-hfs is doing on FreeBSD, though. Or

Operation timed out with smtp.gmail.com - please help

2013-03-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Please help debug sendmail / smtp.gmail config. My University just switched to gmail (dickheads) and I'm trying to figure out how to set it up. It used to work ok with the University smtp auth server. Now I get in /var/log/maillog: sm-mta[72300]: r2TI0vQc072134: to=me...@bris.ac.uk,

Re: Operation timed out with smtp.gmail.com - please help

2013-03-29 Thread CeDeROM
gmail has blocking mechanism when you use it from different devices, try this maybe it will help: https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

x11-toolkits/gtksourceview2 is broken

2013-03-29 Thread Walter Hurry
FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE on amd64 This afternoon I upgraded textproc/libxml2 from version 2.7.8_5 to version 2.7.8_0 (at least I think it's libxml2 that's the problem - I upgraded py27-libxml2 and gdk-pixbuf2 at the same time). Then x11-toolkits/gtksourceview2 would not compile. I got the following

Re: Operation timed out with smtp.gmail.com - please help

2013-03-29 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:32:34 GMT Anton Shterenlikht articulated: Please help debug sendmail / smtp.gmail config. My University just switched to gmail (dickheads) and I'm trying to figure out how to set it up. It used to work ok with the University smtp auth server. Now I get in

Re: x11-toolkits/gtksourceview2 is broken

2013-03-29 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 29 March 2013 15:11, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE on amd64 This afternoon I upgraded textproc/libxml2 from version 2.7.8_5 to version 2.7.8_0 (at least I think it's libxml2 that's the problem - I upgraded py27-libxml2 and gdk-pixbuf2 at the same time).

Proper way to update ports with svn

2013-03-29 Thread Andre Goree
I seem to have to run 'make index' in /usr/ports after I've run 'svn up /usr/ports' in order to see which ports need to be updated using 'portversion'. This doesn't seem correct...and if so portsnap would seem like a much better tool. Perhaps I should be running 'make fetchindex' instead? I'm

Re: external hdd

2013-03-29 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 29 March 2013 18:06, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Laszlo Danielisz wrote: If I'm sharing an external 1TB HDD with FreeBSD and OS-X (I wan to use Time Machine), what is the best file system to use? Time Machine is only supported on top of journaled

Re: external hdd

2013-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Mar 29, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 29 March 2013 18:06, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Time Machine is only supported on top of journaled HFS+; I'm not sure how fusefs-hfs is doing on FreeBSD, though. Or you could setup multiple partitions and have an exFAT

Re: OT: The future of USENET?

2013-03-29 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.orgwrote: There are several free public USENET text servers (no binary groups), granted it's nothing like the days when every ISP ran one but there are still several about (eternal-september.com is one of the biggest).

Re: EOL

2013-03-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:19:02 -0600 David Thurber dav...@thurber.org wrote: I have 5 XP machines on my node that are used to crunch data 24/7. So, I'm looking for an OS platform that has a 10 year EOL to replace XP/3. if you do not count the service packs and updates, your XP

Re: external hdd

2013-03-29 Thread Shane Ambler
On 30/03/2013 09:43, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Mar 29, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 29 March 2013 18:06, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Time Machine is only supported on top of journaled HFS+; I'm not sure how fusefs-hfs is doing on FreeBSD, though. Or you could setup

Re: external hdd

2013-03-29 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 30 March 2013 02:14, Shane Ambler free...@shaneware.biz wrote: On 30/03/2013 09:43, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Mar 29, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 29 March 2013 18:06, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Time Machine is only supported on top of journaled HFS+; I'm not

Re: Proper way to update ports with svn

2013-03-29 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 29 March 2013 22:29, Andre Goree an...@drenet.info wrote: I seem to have to run 'make index' in /usr/ports after I've run 'svn up /usr/ports' in order to see which ports need to be updated using 'portversion'. This doesn't seem correct...and if so portsnap would seem like a much better

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2013-03-29 Thread Quartz
Personally I'm using FreeBSD _exclusively_ (!) on the desktop since version 4.0, and I haven't missed _any_ common desktopy thing that is required for my daily work. I was referring to general intent when I wrote that. For example, bsd has poor support for things like

Re: external hdd

2013-03-29 Thread Laszlo Danielisz
Thank you Chuck! I've tried fusefs-hfs a couple months ago and wasn't working very well. So yeah, I might create some DOS partition to be shared. Regards, Laszlo -- Laszlo Danielisz On 2013 March 29 Friday at 6:06 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Laszlo Danielisz

Portsnap gets ports that claim to be out of date

2013-03-29 Thread John Levine
When I do portsnap update and try building stuff, I get errors like this: Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 5: warning: You are using a ports file that originated from CVS!! Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 6: warning: The FreeBSD project has switched from CVS to SubVersion. Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 7: warning: This CVS