Re: sendmail

2005-04-02 Thread Ben Munat
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 2, 2005 8:03 AM, Ben Munat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Just use the mail command. (the man page for mail is smaller) i read man mail and there is nothing about attachments in mail unless reading a file includes reading a movie file ? Why don't you just

Re: firefox doesn't show up

2005-04-01 Thread Ben Munat
Did you try running it from the command line? That way you can see if it prints errors when it fails. b T.F. Cheng wrote: hi, My firefox stop to show up after I started it these days, from ps and top I can see the process is running (firefox-bin), but it won't show up in the x-windows.

circular depenencies

2005-04-01 Thread Ben Munat
I'm upgrading using portmanager and it doesn't completely finish... from the output: checkForOldDepencies 0.2.9_3 skip: gstreamer-plugins-ogg-0.8.8_2 has a dependency gstreamer-plugins-core-0.8_1 that needs to be updated first checkForOldDepencies 0.2.9_3 skip: gstreamer-plugins-vorbis-0.8.8_2

Re: circular depenencies

2005-04-01 Thread Ben Munat
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 08:35 am, Ben Munat wrote: [... some stuff about circular dependencies] pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/gstreamer-plugins-* then rerun portmanager -u, it will pull the gstreamer stuff back in, in the correct order. -Mike Heh, ran the pkg_delete

Re: sendmail

2005-04-01 Thread Ben Munat
Gert Cuykens wrote: Just use the mail command. (the man page for mail is smaller) i read man mail and there is nothing about attachments in mail unless reading a file includes reading a movie file ? Why don't you just use your favorite mua to send it? What about using something like icq,

Re: Apache compile prob in portupgrade

2005-03-23 Thread Ben Munat
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 3:53 pm, Niq wrote: Umm I had a similar problem , do a cvsup on ure whole ports tree ,and then perhaps a portupgrade -a . I remember it had something to do with a package in the textconv tree. Hope this helps I just finished doing a complete cvsup with all ports src and a

mozilla port issues

2005-03-16 Thread Ben Munat
I've been working on upgrading 85 ports with portmanager -u for the last couple days. Had to restart it a few times, but little by little it seems to be whittling down the number of outstanding packages. Couple questions though... 1) a lot of the gnome stuff doesn't seem to be getting done...

Re: mozilla port issues

2005-03-16 Thread Ben Munat
Michael C. Shultz wrote: Until the upgrade is done you should set DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=YES in your make file. portmanager will be able to do the upgrade, but when it can't upgrade one port like mozilla it won't upgrade anything that depends on mozilla either. Ok, I'll give that a shot... but

Re: cron mail

2005-03-13 Thread Ben Munat
MAILTO=[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the /etc/crontab file... I believe. It's discussed in man 5 crontab. Ben Dennis Olvany wrote: How do I change the e-mail address and SMTP server cron uses to e-mail the daily root report? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

did a bad thing to my ports?

2005-03-13 Thread Ben Munat
This morning, after running cvsup and portsdb, portversion told me I had a stale dependency in linux-sun-jdk. This didn't surprise me, as I had installed the jdk yesterday (and what a pain that was). So, I did as it suggested and ran pkgdb -F it asked me some questions... well, I'll just

[asking again] did a bad thing to my ports?

2005-03-13 Thread Ben Munat
Don't mean to be a pest, but I can't believe no one has anything to say about this... :-) b -- previous message This morning, after running cvsup and portsdb, portversion told me I had a stale dependency in linux-sun-jdk. This didn't surprise me,

Re: [asking again] did a bad thing to my ports?

2005-03-13 Thread Ben Munat
Chris Hodgins wrote: Ben Munat wrote: This morning, after running cvsup and portsdb, portversion told me I had a stale dependency in linux-sun-jdk. This didn't surprise me, as I had installed the jdk yesterday (and what a pain that was). So, I did as it suggested and ran pkgdb -F it asked

Re: reload rc.conf without rebooting

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Munat
Peter Schuller wrote: How does one cause rc.conf to be reread without rebooting? Under linux I would generally do source somefile.conf. But if I do source rc.conf, I'm told that all my settings are not commands. Generally, you don't. For details, see the explanation of the FAQ:

Re: reload rc.conf without rebooting

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Munat
Chuck Swiger wrote: Ben Munat wrote: Thanks yeah, I figured that. However, in this case I had simply added keymap=us.iso to the rc.conf. So, I had to stop all my daemons just to change my keymap. Of course you didn't. Why not run: kbdctl -l /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd ...or run

Re: reload rc.conf without rebooting

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Munat
Chuck Swiger wrote: Ben Munat wrote: PS: what keymap should I use anyway? (logitech PC keyboard... US English...) Perhaps /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.emacs.kbd ...? Wouldn't that be for emacs users? Sigh... I just want my delete key to work... I got a response a while back to edit the keymap

Re: reload rc.conf without rebooting

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Munat
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-03-05 13:34, Ben Munat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The delete key sends ^? when in a cons-25 terminal. Depending on what your shell is, this may be remapped to perform whatever you feel suits you best. But this is a shell configuration issue. If you are using /bin

reload rc.conf without rebooting

2005-03-02 Thread Ben Munat
How does one cause rc.conf to be reread without rebooting? Under linux I would generally do source somefile.conf. But if I do source rc.conf, I'm told that all my settings are not commands. Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Munat
Why doesn't tab completion in the shell work for my regular (non-root) user? b ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Munat
According to /etc/passwd, both root and my regular user are using /bin/tcsh. b Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 01), Ben Munat said: Why doesn't tab completion in the shell work for my regular (non-root) user? That depends on what shell the shell refers to, of course

Re: tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Munat
terminals and all users (i.e. me) to have the same shell with the same capabilities? thnx, b PS: grrr... bottom posting. Matthew Seaman wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 01), Ben Munat said: Why doesn't tab completion in the shell work for my regular (non-root) user? That depends

Re: tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Munat
:28:02AM -0800, Ben Munat wrote: None of those commands worked... However, I've also found that echo $SHELL in my regular user's terminal says /bin/sh, while as root it says /bin/csh. If you're using /bin/sh, then of course none of the given commands will work as they are for tcsh. Both root

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Munat
How do I do this? b Chuck Swiger wrote: If you map the Backspace key to DEL and the Delete key to C-d on a standard PC 101/104/whatever-key keyboard... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-27 Thread Ben Munat
Dru Lavigne's book BSD Hacks has a hack called Build a Port Without the Ports Tree which might be useful to you... and -- lucky you -- it's one of the sample hacks on O'Reilly's site: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bsdhks/chapter/hack82.pdf Ben Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ramiro Aceves writes: If

gnomeapplets build failure

2005-02-27 Thread Ben Munat
Hello. I've been using gentoo for awhile, but when a disk failure meant a reinstall of my OS, I figured I'd give FreeBSD a shot. I got my system up and running fairly quickly by using all binary packages off the CD. Liked the quickness of that, but I've been struggling to get everything

Re: gnomeapplets build failure

2005-02-27 Thread Ben Munat
at 17:08 -0800, Ben Munat wrote: Hello. I've been using gentoo for awhile, but when a disk failure meant a reinstall of my OS, I figured I'd give FreeBSD a shot. I got my system up and running fairly quickly by using all binary packages off the CD. Liked the quickness of that, but I've been