Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-23 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: It is my personal view that FreeBSD-Questions should be consolidated into the chat forum. Chat forums are rarely moderated and tend to be open to the general public. Some of us have workflows that favor e-mail over those

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: I'ts _MUCH_ simpler, to just sign and date a copy of the work, and have a notary public 'witness' the signature. True. Without the service of a public registry of copyrighted works that (I think) only the US

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From cpgh...@cordula.ws  Sat Jun 18 08:28:25 2011 Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:28:24 +0200 Subject: Re: free sco unix From: C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com Cc: freebsd

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I tried ekiga but it doesn't work. It gets into standby mode and stays this way. I think it's because of firewall. There is the PR for this. Just to rule out the obvious, are you sure you've configured the *audio* ports and the mixer

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:23:15 +0100, Frank Shute wrote: I think we have to wait for somebody to write a Skype clone and hopefully MS taking over Skype will provide the impetus (MS will drop the linux port as soon as they can).

Re: OT: printer, our cups port, and is-there-a-generic-laser?

2011-06-16 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: we had a power out here this morning and besides it costing most of my day, it blew out my Brother laser printer.  i just got it working FINALLY with our cups stuff.  don't asked me how; other than i was using our olden

Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep

2011-06-10 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:56:59PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm still bringing back the dozens of things I removed from ethic. And testing new ideas.  But I have a general question: have any of you wizards who run your own

Re: x11-wm/olvwm

2011-05-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM, fr...@getnet.com wrote: Hello, I have updated ports and when reinstalling I found x11-wm/olvwm which I was using was gone from the ports tree.  Why? I noticed that too, and was bit by that change as well. Since I love the olvwm look and feel, I'm sad to see

Re: Filename containing French characters ?

2011-05-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: Short answer, use a glob pattern. Assume I have a file named 'à fichier.txt': (...) Very good hints indeed. I once had a directory full of files with strange characters, so I wrote a little program that replaced every non-ascii

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: (How hard/easy woold be be to hack out a better one...or do GOOG and YHOO already have their own versions of skyip?) Check out Ekiga: /usr/ports/net/ekiga3 It is pretty good, as long as you can get your friends to use it too

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Thursday, May 12, 2011 a las 08:22:42PM +0200, C. P. Ghost escribió: Check out Ekiga: /usr/ports/net/ekiga3 It is pretty good, as long as you can get your friends to use it too (or any other SIP- or H323-based

Re: start X in background without it taking over the console?

2011-05-11 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org wrote: I know this isn't strictly a Freebsd question. I want to start up X in the background without it taking over the console.  I want to switch over to it manually when I press alt-F9. Why not start if from another

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-10 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I knew this thread would bring up some ironies. For the record it's all in their minds. E-Mails have been upheld in the US Court system as legal documents. Maybe. But as soon as you have to interact with non-US companies

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-05-01 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: I know that each process has its own private memory segment, but after a process exits, it nolonger owns that memory. What happens to it? If it's not zeroed out by my process, and it doesn't turn into pixie food, and it's not

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-26 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: The above quote states that the memory not occupied by the remapped object is zero filled. Which is to say that memory allocated by mmap() is either filled with new data or filled with zeros. In context it says:     If

Re: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped)

2011-04-26 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Mikael Bak m...@inbox.lv wrote: Hi list, I have a system running FreeBSD 7.3. Its main function is running Postfix SMTP server and a few perl based content filters. Nothing exotic really. It has been nicely up and running approx 150 days when it suddenly

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-25 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:18:46PM +0100, RW wrote: I don't believe the heap is allocated zeroed pages.  The kernel does allocate such pages to the BSS segment, but that's because it holds zeroed data such as C static variables.

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if this is a problem on FreeBSD... Process A requests memory. Process A Stores a plaintext password in memory or other sensitive data. Process A terminates and the memory is reclaimed by kernel. Process B

Re: Purchased Binaries

2011-03-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: Any chance those binaries might work on FreeBSD? It depends. If they don't use too many linuxisms (stuff that is only present in Linux but not on other Unices), they might work on FreeBSD's Linuxulator. Just give it a try. Your

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-02 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote: On 01/02/2011 19:48, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: No, seriously... I was using sendmail before discovering postfix, and pretty darn good at m4.  Or is that m4()dnl()? :) But I've never found postfix without a knob to do

Re: Could any port be sucking up bandwidth?

2011-01-28 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, Before the 11th of January I was streaming both audio and video streams with little to zero wait time.  In other words, I could stream about 50 minutes of audio with only a second or two of pause time delay [[AKA

Emulators to test non-x86 FreeBSD ports?

2011-01-28 Thread C. P. Ghost
Hello list, are there any emulators out there that can run the non-x86 versions of FreeBSD on a FreeBSD/i386 or FreeBSD/amd64 host? I'm especially interested in trying FreeBSD/sparc64 port, but I'd also like to test the FreeBSD/powerpc and the FreeBSD/arm ports on an emulator, before seeking

Re: Emulators to test non-x86 FreeBSD ports?

2011-01-28 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Fri Jan 28 11:37:00 2011 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:27:35 +0100 From: C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject

Re: Emulators to test non-x86 FreeBSD ports?

2011-01-28 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:56 PM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Hello list, are there any emulators out there that can run the non-x86 versions of FreeBSD on a FreeBSD/i386 or FreeBSD/amd64 host? I'm especially

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2011-01-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: On 14 dec 2010, at 09:12, Peter Boosten wrote: Hi all, In an attempt to update glib on my 8.0-machine, portupgrade stops with this message: gnome-libtool: compile:  cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..

Re: a few Last qstns on the wordpress installation....

2011-01-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:        I've been trying my level best to keep the sharks'teeth of        reality from knocking me too far ever since last Sunday when the        murders in Tuscon invaded the news and other parts of life.        Then, last

Re: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2010-12-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Mohammad Hedayati hedayati...@gmail.com wrote: I'm writing a simple char device. So far everything went so good (read/write), but here I'm going to add support for ioctl. int ioctl(struct cdev *dev, u_long cmd, caddr_t data, int flags, struct thread *td) {

geli(8) and amd(8) working together?

2010-12-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
Hi, I'm wondering how to get the most out of geli(8) encrypted volumes, in combination with something like amd(8) (but without the overhead of NFS, if at all possible) that mounts and umounts file systems only as needed. Basically, I'd like to mount a geli volume on demand (e.g. via amd), but

Re: [2nd try] OpenGL 3.3 and 4.0/4.1 for FreeBSD?

2010-11-08 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:34 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Sorry to repeat my question: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-November/223379.html but I got no replies at all. Anyone

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-08 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:08:33PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote: But it's still not capable of true forward-error-correction. If we are to embark upon creating a new solution, using something that is cheap

Re: FreeBSD as a xen host

2010-11-07 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello,  I am attempting to turn my two FreeBSD hosts into xen hosts that can run some vms. I am using this guide: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen I get down to this step: cd xen-3.3-testing.hg ; make world make

[2nd try] OpenGL 3.3 and 4.0/4.1 for FreeBSD?

2010-11-06 Thread C. P. Ghost
Sorry to repeat my question: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-November/223379.html but I got no replies at all. Anyone with accelerated 3D on FreeBSD out there using binary drivers and the new OpenGL APIs? Some practical recommendations as to GPUs and drivers? Pointers?

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: Maybe I should go back to UFS, CCD, GEOM, etc. instead of continuing to support f***ing Oracle. ZFS was honestly very easy and seemed very reliable and fast, but I would like the opinion and position of people here on ZFS

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: So, my inquiry to this community is: should we really be promoting the use of ZFS directly by putting it on the FBSD handbook? Maybe it should go on a different document, and make it really optional. MySQL is another

OpenGL 3.3 and 4.0/4.1 for FreeBSD?

2010-11-01 Thread C. P. Ghost
Hi, I'd like to write some 3D programs with OpenGL 3.3 and OpenGL 4.0/4.1 API on FreeBSD, but I wonder which GPUs are supported at all, and which are well supported with stable drivers (on FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64). I know that MesaGL is still at OpenGL 2.1 level, so a proprietary closed

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-10-11 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Harald Weis ha...@free.fr wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 03:04:00PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it would

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience on what path to follow? KDE? any other? Using fluxbox here for ages (used olvwm, ctwm, and fvwm[2] before. It's low overhead, very low cpu/disk/memory

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-21 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:42:22 +0200, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Is that really so? How about writing some emulation shim like ndis(4

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-21 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:47:27 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de articulated: On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:36:00 +0200, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: At the moment there was a program (or any other kind of facility

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-20 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Adapting  MS-Windows print drivers is not 'practical' either.  A windows print driver is embedd in the O/S KERNEL,  with _system_ calls_ (not mere 'library' routines) that implement the 'device-dependant' rendering

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-19 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Chabane HEMDANI hemdani2...@gmail.com wrote:  I'm computer science teacher at university of Tizi-ouzou in Algeria. I'm using FreeBSD since 2007 when I discover it by chance when searching in the Web something about Linux.  Since that date, I always invited and

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-16 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: As per the Mozilla site: Starting in Firefox 3.6, you also need the new Java plugin included in Java 6 Update 15 and above. FreeBSD does not supply, nor support as far as I can decipher, that version or any of the

Re: GnuPG not allowing passphrase entry

2010-09-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:49 PM, jh...@socket.net wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, I an attempting to decrypt a file using the following command line. /usr/local/bin/gpg --output /usr/local/scripts/test. --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring 09-2010.sec --keyring 09-2010.pub --always-trust

Re: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules)

2010-08-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I have commented out the lines that load kernel modules for virtualbox, and made sure they were gone with kldstat. However I am still getting VERY infrequent spontaneous reboots. So it is not the modules. I am thinking

Re: Customizable wall clock for several time zones

2010-08-21 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 05:52:24AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: I'm searching for a round-clock style clock application for X, and I would prefer a standalone program (not integrated with KDE, Gnome, or else). It should be

Re: Customizable wall clock for several time zones

2010-08-21 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:51 AM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 05:52:24AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: I'm searching for a round-clock style clock application for X, and I would prefer a standalone

Re: How to restore a text file from UFS??

2010-08-19 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:07 PM, EforeZZ efor...@gmail.com wrote: I edited my 50Kb /etc/rc.conf, loaded a driver and got a kernel panic!! After reboot my /etc/rc.conf is 0 bytes (after automatic background fsck). Which tool should I try now to restore any version of my rc.conf?.. I think

Re: Realtek 811c LAN driver avail. on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-08-15 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 7:33 PM, sg obsidia...@idnet.com wrote:  I cannot see this listed in the H/W compat. list but I had heard it isn't always up to date so thought I'd ask. Want to build a NAS using FreeBSD/ZFS/Raid-Z on Gigabyte MA-785GT-UD3H base but it uses Realtek 8111c Gige LAN H/W.

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:15:53PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote: On 7/28/10 10:04 PM, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS ago.  cannot find.

Re: problem with ffmpeg port

2010-07-26 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:07 AM, John Francis Lee j...@robinlea.com wrote: Thanks... I did that and ffmpeg did install! But... [...@28amen ~/www/robinlea.com]$ ffmpeg -i introduction.wav introduction.mp3 FFmpeg version 0.6, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers  built on Jul 26 2010

Re: Writes to Hard Disk Going Beyond Capacity

2010-07-10 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Patrick Donnelly batr...@batbytes.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:10:31 -0400, Patrick Donnelly batr...@batbytes.com wrote: Hi List, I have a strange problem in a C

Re: Writes to Hard Disk Going Beyond Capacity

2010-07-10 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:03 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Patrick Donnelly batr...@batbytes.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:10:31 -0400, Patrick Donnelly batr

Re: Writes to Hard Disk Going Beyond Capacity

2010-07-10 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Patrick Donnelly batr...@batbytes.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 2:38 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Or, to be more precise, is it possible that write(2) returns 0 for some reason, perhaps because the device isn't ready and can't accept more

Re: How to get the SPD infomation in freebsd ?

2010-06-29 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 29/06/2010 03:29:04, zaxis wrote: In windows, the `CPU-Z` utility can be used to get the SPD(Serial Presence Detect) information. How about freebsd ? I want to get those information especially frequency

Re: RESOLVED: Problem upgrading ports - libintl.so.8 not found

2010-06-16 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Scott Schappell arc...@silvertree.org wrote: After digging through /usr/ports/UPDATING, I copied all .so.8 and .so.16 libraries to /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg and those ports are now compiling. I'm assuming that's the approved solution until

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-16 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it would be nice to know I won't be the only one. I'm actually going right now to do so. Good luck with that. Adobe doesn't care about FreeBSD.

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-16 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:53 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:04:00 +0200 C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release

Re: Perl Dumping Core

2010-06-16 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I am running 8.1-PRERELEASE and seeing a half dozen of these a day:   (perl5.10.1), uid 0: exited on signal 11 Anyone have theories on this? If perl doesn't always crash, but only when running certain programs, it may

Re: Simulate CRON

2010-06-14 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: No, sorry. There was a command or program, I forgot which, that would allow a user to run a program under another environment, similar to the environment that a script under CRON would be running under. at(1) maybe?

Re: lang/cmucl broken on amd64?

2010-06-10 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Douglas Thrift douglas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've run into this before and it seems to me like the port should actually depend on misc/compat6x. I emailed Martin about this a while back, but never received any reply. Apparently there is even an open bug

lang/cmucl broken on amd64?

2010-06-10 Thread C. P. Ghost
Hello Martin, *, the port lang/cmucl has a dependency on a very old libutil, libc and libm: % lisp /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libutil.so.5 not found, required by lisp % which lisp /usr/local/bin/lisp % ldd `which lisp` /usr/local/bin/lisp: libutil.so.5 = not found (0x0)

Re: Too many defunct processes; kill -9 not working

2010-06-09 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Joshua Gimer jgi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: What can I do to determine why processes are not getting killed by kill -9? Try attaching to it using truss to see if it will shed some light on the

Re: Java plugin with Firefox 3.6

2010-06-08 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:19 PM, bdsf...@att.net wrote: Firefox 3.6 needs Java 6 Update 10. [1] For now, as a newbie, I generally try not to install anything not in the ports collection. From there you can find some JREs, but none are at Update 10, including Linux emulation. [2] At this time,

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com wrote: Short of the full suite, how about just a spreadsheet program that supports complex formulas and charting?  If it could also be used without X11 when charting isn't needed, that would make my day. Gnumeric provides a good

Re: Alternate method for fetching source

2010-06-04 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Ross Penner ross.pen...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to update my system and when I run cvsup, the connection repeatedly has problems (TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed). I'm wondering if anybody can suggest any other method to grab the

Re: bash instead of csh (completely)

2010-06-04 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Stefan Miklosovic miklosovic.free...@gmail.com wrote: What I still miss is a way how to bend freebsd to my needs. In linux, it is easy as hell, remove this, change that, and it still runs. I am afraid that if I cut off some parts of system, I will not benefit

Re: minicom freebsd 8.0

2010-06-02 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: akash kumar wrote: Hi, Can some one help me with the steps configuring minicom on freebsd 8.0. I have a serial to usb converter running between my  board and host machine. Thanks, Akash. I take it a minicom is a

Re: minicom freebsd 8.0

2010-06-02 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:30 AM, akash kumar akashb...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Hi, I was referring to minicom command similar to one on linux. On linux the config file is /etc/minirc.configfile and the  Serial Device is  /dev/ttyUSB0, which was working for me. On freebsd  the config file is

Re: Add watermark to PDF

2010-06-01 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: So basically this script would have to read in the PDF and (ideally) a plain text file, and output a PDF with the plain text merged into the PDF as a footer. Maybe this will help?

Re: Verifying a DVD

2010-05-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I think it isn't important how many blocks are on the DVD, but more important that a) all files area readable on the DVD and b) are MD5 identically with the original on the hard disk. That's why after burning a tree of

Re: http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2010-05-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:53 PM, TERRY ELLENDER terry.ellend...@btopenworld.com wrote: How to I free Port 80 on my computer.  I am trying to use XAMPP.  It all loads OK and I get the start screen but when I press start a message appears syaing Busy and Program NOT responding appears above the

Re: grub2 not in ports?

2010-05-07 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Lokadamus lokada...@gmx.de wrote: Am 07.05.2010 02:10, schrieb C. P. Ghost: has someone successfully ported GRUB2[1] to FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64? I see no port sysutils/grub2 in the tree, even though I know that GRUB2 *can* boot FreeBSD directly and via

grub2 not in ports?

2010-05-06 Thread C. P. Ghost
Hello, has someone successfully ported GRUB2[1] to FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64? I see no port sysutils/grub2 in the tree, even though I know that GRUB2 *can* boot FreeBSD directly and via chain-loading. And while we're at it, I'm wondering if there is an effort underway to make the kernel

Re: Farm synchronization

2010-05-02 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 06:17:34PM +0400, Oleg Lutchenko wrote: Hello! Is there any regular way to synchronize installed packages in the farm of FreeBSD servers quickly. Forget packages. Here is wat I do to keep the ports

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions?  Just a matter of interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which supports up to 15 partitions, bsdlabel(8) supports

Re: Which CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2010-04-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: I think this matters more to third party ports software builds than it does the system. I thought that large pieces of the kernel were designed to not make much, if any, use the various SIMD extensions. Maybe this has

Re: version/revision control software for things mostly not source

2010-04-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
There's also a fuse-svnfs port for NetBSD, but I don't know its status, nor if it is usable at all: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/filesystems/fuse-svnfs/ http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-04/0210.shtml -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: version/revision control software for things mostly not source

2010-04-17 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: I think I am reaching the point where I want to have some kind of sane and easy to use version/revision control software for my various personal files and small projects. You're looking for a versioning file system?

Re: are the are C [or C++] src sites ....

2010-04-11 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:        what i am thinking of is functions that work in any of        several venues:                math, For maths, I'm particularly fond of GiNaC (+CLN) FreeBSD ports: math/GiNaC, math/cln WWW: http://www.ginac.de/

Re: are the are C [or C++] src sites ....

2010-04-10 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Rather than re-inventing the wheel over and again, wouldn't it be nice to have a library of all kinds of functions? --For kernel use, yes, they would need to be BSD specific... Not sure what you're

Re: example C code for reading db hash files

2010-04-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Jim Sander jimsan...@mac.com wrote: Is there a handy C code reference or examples for db files? (google has not been kind to me) I have a tied hash from Perl using DB_File, and need read only access in a C program. You mean a reference... like this?

Re: example C code for reading db hash files

2010-04-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Jim Sander jimsan...@mac.com wrote: Thank you - but unfortunately, that doesn't help (it was the first place I checked actually) - I assume because of historical changes, but possibly because I'm missing something obvious.

Re: Caution:: Off-topic Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-04 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Can C include the perl regex packages? Yes! Just use PCRE. Or, if you prefer C++, Boost.Regex: http://www.pcre.org/ http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/regex/doc/html/index.html -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Berkeley DB upgrade

2010-03-13 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: Hi: I want to upgrade my BerkeleyDB, I have some 500MB in BDB 43. - What is the latest stable version? - Is there any way of determining if datafiles are compatible  across versions? - Is there any tool for

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Mark Shroyer subscriber+free...@markshroyer.com wrote: Bear in mind that the added electricity costs will more than cover the cost of a new Linksys (or equivalent) router in a few months. If energy consumption is a concern, you might try one of these:

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@icsmx.com wrote: The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB. It won't do anything else but a dns slave for maybe 100 domains, mail and squirrel for 10 domain, not

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: Yep! Geode-based boxes are great. The ALIX boards are looking like Soekris gear, which I'm very happy with (of course running FreeBSD): http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm Is there a nice guide that explains how to

Re: Downloading issue!

2010-03-09 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Emmanuel Opio immanuel...@gmail.com wrote: Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our server administrators blocked ftp and filtered out images, so we can not download any image file, the most common extension for operating systems.

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: Adobe, a commercial entity, obviously feels that the cost of supporting the FreeBSD community is not a financially prudent business venture. Well, that's their decision, of course. However, Linux and FreeBSD aren't so far apart

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:03:58 +0100, Sabine Baer bae...@t-online.de wrote: Well, it is, indeed. Me I am very glad beeing able to do eg linux-opera -display :0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmf4l4OxNw since I live in a Windows

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: If they don't want to make one, there's no way to convince them. Since the majority of free and standardized operating systems isn't oriented at market share, there is no reason for Adobe to follow a crying Please! :-) There

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:   And remember, youtube-dl is a hack. It can break anytime   YT changes its embedding.  That's what make update is used for. :-)        More importantly, it's about the author (and maintainer, if they're different) fixing

Re: amd64 won't install on Core Duo

2010-03-06 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 03:19:31PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: What system board revision does you're Thinkpad have?     You can use CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) to check on this. That looks like a handy tool.  Is

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that ``flash viewer'' is not installed. Shockwave/Adobe/Macromedia flash viewers are not shipped with FBSD CD. I'm running OpenSolaris/x86 as guest in VirtualBox on FreeBSD/amd64 for that, since Adobe

Re: Perl 5.8 - 5.10 On Current Production System

2010-03-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: However, when I run:   portupgrade -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8\.* I get this problem: ---  Upgrading 'perl-5.8.9_3' to 'perl-5.10.1' (lang/perl5.10) ---  Building '/usr/ports/lang/perl5.10' ===  

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com wrote: Or the problem is that I cvsup(ed) from 7.1 to 7.2 and then csup(ed) to 8.0. If you csup, you update only /usr/src (or /usr/ports). Have you actually updated the system and the ports as well? FBSD should make it

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com wrote: * C. P. Ghost (cpgh...@cordula.ws) wrote: If you csup, you update only /usr/src (or /usr/ports). Have you actually updated the system and the ports as well? % uname -a FreeBSD bsdhost.localdomain 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I tried cups but I could not get it to work even though it found the printer on ulpt0:. You may have the permissions-related problem described here:

Re: about the checksum

2010-02-26 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com wrote: they are there so you can compare the real checksum hash for the .ISO file against what you downloaded as a way to make sure you downloaded every single bit of the file or if it has been changed. There are many

Re: how to disable loadable kernel moduels?

2010-02-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Can somebody point me towrads the source module(s) that contain the syscall 'dispatch' code and/or the loadable module implementation. According to /usr/src/sys/kern/syscalls.master, the kldload() syscall ID is

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