where to get the release notes for 9.2

2013-07-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
There is a specific feature I need to see if it is in 9.2 or just 10 where can I find the draft release notes for 9.2? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

java/icetea-web broken?

2013-07-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I install it (on a machine that it used to work on until I had to reinstall FB) and there is none of the normal command line tools and when I attempt to open a jnlp file in ff (21.0) java/icetea-web (1.4) it goes into an infinite loop of opening new blank tabs the site in question works

stupid portmaster question

2013-03-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
How do I tell portmaster -ad to ignore certain ports because they are broken such as editors/libreoffice is currently marked as (I am sure this will change soon) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

an upto date list of new ports

2013-02-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
is there a site or other location that lists *NEW* (not updated) ports since a given date? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

i386 vs. amd64

2012-12-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Ever since 8.X (my system is now 9.1-RC3 [done via csup]) been using i386 with the following main ports: x11-wm/xfce4 www/firefox www/linux-f10-flashplugin11 editors/libreoffice www/tomcat-7 www/apace22 devel/aegis (I am the maintainer) devel/fhist devel/cook java/openjdk6

Re: video acceleration on vbox

2011-10-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
What port do I find them in? On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.comwrote: I have installed win 7 as a guest on emulator/virtualbox-ose on my 9.0-RC1 (i386) machine and no matter

a portmaster/ports question

2011-09-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there any way to get portmaster to reinstall every port in the *EXACT* same order they where installed in, preferably with out any knowledge of what ports where installed after the current one was the reason for asking is many times it seems that subtle incompatibilities solely due to

Re: Hi

2011-08-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Spencer Thompson spencer.s.thomp...@gmail.com wrote: Dear FreeBSD.org, I would like to order a CD with FreeBSD for an IBM Thinkpad. What is the best package to get? Will it work perfectly? I want a package with the manual, man-pages and how to use FreeBSD

How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following: vidcontrol -S off disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config enabling dpms via the kernel

baffled on how to get packages onto the disc image of a custom release

2011-07-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have been banging my head for almost a day now about how to get make release (or make iso.1 or package-split) to populate releaase/R/cdrom/* (actually I only care about dvd1 for now) and am totally lost on how to go from having a valid package list (and split) in /usr/ports/package to having it

skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a number of clients that prefer Skype over IM last time I tried to build it from ports I was unable to get to anywhere past the account login page (no matter what I tried it said it could not log me in and when I registered for an account it never registered)

Fwd: skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:43 AM Subject: Re: skype To: claudiu vasadi claudiu.vas...@gmail.com not quiet webcamd sees my webcam but not skype On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:42 AM, claudiu vasadi claudiu.vas

re: skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Sound System } } -- Forwarded message -- From: Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:52 AM Subject: Re: skype To: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 06:16:28AM

best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have both ethernet (the default route and such) and ppp done via ppp -ddial the man page for ppp(8) says tun0 will not have an IP assigned until a single packet is sent on it... what is the best way to have one packet sent on it (ping only always ifaces on multicast, traceroute seems to have no

Fwd: best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:00 AM Subject: best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I have both ethernet (the default route

best way to replicate system

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and now needs to be duplicated to an arbitrary number of other machines (23 currently)... none of the machines have optical drives (or floppies) so it has to be a USB install... what is the best way to do this all I can think of is make release or

make release question

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Where does make release place the disk images (iso's) by default ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Fwd: make release question

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:35 PM Subject: Re: make release question To: Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: found them

Fwd: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:16 AM Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore To: per...@pluto.rain.com That is the approach I am taking... RS's recommendation was we make a disk image

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:47:24 +0700 C. Bergström articulated: I wish people would spend as much time solving problems in *BSD as they do trying to defend an irrelevant OS ;) Personally, I wish they would spend more time in

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:47:24 +0700 C. Bergström articulated: I wish people would spend as much time solving problems in *BSD as they do trying to defend

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am working on making a general purpose image for XEN (specifically for rack space but since it is a common framework attempting to make it vendor neutral) On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More

how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am setting a read only kiosk (it displays various web pages progmatically and has *NO OTHER* function) and security is not a concern because the hardware is locked away and need to find the most hands free way method of going from power on to full screen www/firefox is it sufficent to have a

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI) browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better? Maybe it's worth considering that in case the menu bar, navigation bar and all the other (mostly nonsense) bars of web browsers are not needed for the

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:30:32 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI) browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better? Maybe it's worth considering

Hung install (7.4 stable)

2011-03-18 Thread Friedman
like to know exactly what this means. BTW the machine is currently running Ubuntu and has no problem with booting up from the Ubuntu install CD. Any help greatly appreciated. -- Barry Friedman Emax Computer Systems Inc., 480 Tweedsmuir Ave., Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1Z 5N9

Re: Hung install (7.4 stable)

2011-03-18 Thread Friedman
You wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Friedman fried...@emax.ca wrote: I am trying to install 7.4 on an older machine, MSI K7N2 mobo, AMD athlon First thing I would do is update the BIOS It appears that the BIOS for this board (MSI K7N2 Delta2 LSR) is up to date. (W6570NMS V7.8

OT: How to set a timeout for a process

2011-01-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a script that may or not hang (the reasons why it hangs are unimportant here) and need to call it from an other script and need to say if it hangs to give up after X seconds and just continue the script (no harm done if it fails) ___

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: % ant debug ... /shared/home/aryeh/HelloAndroid/build.xml:78: For 'AOSP' SDK Preview, attribute minSdkVersion in AndroidManifest.xml must be 'AOSP' Hmmm. Interesting. I am looking at the applications I developed

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: A few things: 1. Yes it is required the reason I put it in the first place is ant refused to build without it. (note 1) 2. How do I check the version on the phone? 3. What

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, Vrachnis Ilias Dimitrios vrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 16, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:41:06 -0500, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com a écrit : My situtation is a little different I am a developer hired to do some work on the android but have

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Vrachnis Ilias Dimitrios vrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I do all my coding from the command line and not an IDE and got BSDoid and the Android SDK both downloaded but I can not get BSDoid installed I did a quick

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: Le Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:57:33 -0500, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com a écrit : No idea how but when I plug the USB in it says USB Debugging Connected On my HTC dream when I connect it to USB, there is a notification on the phone

problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am attempting to make it so I can communicate with the linux on my Android HTC 0100 and when I insert it I get the following on the console: ugen5.2: HTC at usbus5 umass0: HTC Android Phone, class 0/0, rev 1.02/1.00, addr 2 on usbus5 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:0:0:-1:

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Forgot to include the list On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: Already tried based on several email threads found on the net but here is one last try: flosoft-stable# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 dd: /dev/da0: Device not configured flosoft

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
No idea how but when I plug the USB in it says USB Debugging Connected On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:48 PM, George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com wrote: Already tried based on several email threads found on the net but here is one last try: flosoft-stable# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 dd:

Fwd: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
For us it is mostly cost but the other advantage (with RS at least) is you can size the hardware to fit your needs and not get any more then you need... for example when we first started our consulting firm back in July we bought 256MB of RAM (RS sizes the Disk, CPU, Bandwidth, etc. as a multiple

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
oops should of said the main disadvantage is it is not FreeBSD On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: For us it is mostly cost but the other advantage (with RS at least) is you can size the hardware to fit your needs and not get any more then you need

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Also you can make an official vote for freebsd at http://feedback.rackspacecloud.com/forums/71021-product-feedback and then search for freebsd On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: Thats good news because currently we have a gentoo machine with them

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Thats good news because currently we have a gentoo machine with them (the closest linux distro to FreeBSD in philosophy and implementation) and since i have been a big FB user for years I have already told them we would like to switch if they offered the option On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:43 AM,

how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I want to make it so every file is a seperate symlink in dir2 if and only if it is a regular file (not a dir) in dir1... the reason is if the file is unchanged then use symlink but I can rm the symlink and replace it with a non-symlink: To show the problem I am attempting to solve: foo: (owned

Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Should of mentioned that I was using C as an example we are in fact using Java and the archives in question are jar's On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 09/09/10 18:24, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I want to make it so every file is a seperate symlink in dir2

Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
/build | cut -f6- -d'/'` ) ln -s ~aegis/fnre/baseline/$i $i end On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/9/2010 12:24 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I want to make it so every file is a seperate symlink in dir2 if and only if it is a regular file (not a dir

how to burn 8.1-RELEEASE CD

2010-08-10 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am running a 7.2 machine and the main disk has gone bad (semi usable but I want to reinstall) after replacing the disk later want to upgrade it to 8.1-RELEASE and have downloaded disk 0 from the local FTP but am not sure how to burn it under 7.1... how do I do this?

Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am a consultant and was retained by my client to setup qmail or exim on a VPS running 8.0-STABLE (i386). After setting up the DNS (A record and MX record) we have been unable to send or receive mail. The client has/had a working script for installing qmail on 7.1-STABLE but it seems to not work

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:33:28 -0400 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:26:44 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com articulated: I am a consultant and was retained by my client to setup qmail or exim on a VPS running 8.0-STABLE (i386). After setting up

Re: qmail under 8.0-STABLE

2010-07-16 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:40:33 -0600 Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote: I have the following config: FreeBSD ppert-zone.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Wed Apr 14 01:44:13 UTC 2010 r...@canopus.ispsystem.net:/root/src/sys/i386/compile/ISPSYSTEM i386 it is a vps running via a jail.

qmail under 8.0-STABLE

2010-07-15 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I have the following config: FreeBSD ppert-zone.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Wed Apr 14 01:44:13 UTC 2010 r...@canopus.ispsystem.net:/root/src/sys/i386/compile/ISPSYSTEM i386 it is a vps running via a jail. I have installed mail/qmail and added it to rc.conf. It starts just fine

thunderbird replacement

2010-06-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I currently am using mail/thunderbird as my mail reader and it is just doing the job very well (even with heavy use of filters) I use xfce4 on 8.1-PRERELEASE (updated and portmaster -Rafd'ed about 3 weeks ago) I am looking for a good replacement suggestions here are the minimal

Advertising

2010-05-30 Thread Alexander Friedman
Hello, My name is Alexander Friedman and I'm interested in buying advertisement on your blog. I'm currently interested in buying banners and text links. Please provide me with all available sizes and options. Thanks, Alexander Friedman ___ freebsd

Re: Unit conversion program?

2010-04-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
units(1) On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, Is there a command-line program which does unit conversions between SI and other unit forms? Perhaps something similar to Google's feature? For example:    ...@bar baz 41.5c to f    106.7    ...@bar baz

how to compare permissions between two dirs

2010-03-22 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
In switching to a new make file for a personal project I have run into the problem of under the old makefile everything works (web site) and under the new one it does not... when manually looking at the two dirs they appear identical in layout, sizes and perms (dir and file level) but I want

OT: how to reset high scores on gnome games

2010-03-04 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
See subject ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

OT: finding every file not in a list

2010-01-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I have a list of files that should be in a dir tree and want to remove any files from the tree not in list (i.e. if it is on the list keep it else rm it)... any quick way to do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: OT: finding every file not in a list

2010-01-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have a list of files that should be in a dir tree and want to remove any files from the tree not in list (i.e. if it is on the list keep it else rm it)... any quick way to do this? Perhaps something like this will help

Re: finding every file not in a list

2010-01-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Lowell Gilbert wrote: *not* OT, I would say... Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com writes: I have a list of files that should be in a dir tree and want to remove any files from the tree not in list (i.e. if it is on the list keep it else rm it)... any quick way to do

/var/yp/securenets

2010-01-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Does the netmask in /var/yp/securenets have to match the one listed in ifconfig if both machines are on the same subnet specifically we get 5 static IP's from our ISP who also puts other customers in the same subnet (the mask if 255.0.0.0) and if possible I want to make an entry like this:

Re: ssh to root

2010-01-20 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I need to set up a machine so that I can type ssh [host] as root from some other host and I get a prompt with super user privs... I already have set this up for u...@host for root and ssh host for normal users... but root still asks for a password after I set the authorized_keys file in

ssh to root

2010-01-20 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I need to set up a machine so that I can type ssh [host] as root from some other host and I get a prompt with super user privs... I already have set this up for u...@host for root and ssh host for normal users... but root still asks for a password after I set the authorized_keys file in

simulating dnsdomain

2010-01-20 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I have an application that needs to reliably get the fully qualified dns name for the localhost (3rd party app so I don't want to change it unless I have to) currrently it calls dnsdomainname which is in linux is an alias for hostname --fqdn but FreeBSD does not have that option set... how

NIS oops

2010-01-20 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I set up and tested NIS on our new master server then rebooted and it failed to come up... it is not possible for me to get physical access (or anyone else for that matter) until tommorow afternoon... is there any way to use an other machine on the net to kick start it (NFS mount attempts to

Re: NIS oops

2010-01-20 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Olivier Nicole wrote: is there any way to use an other machine on the net to kick start it Unless you have an account on that master server that is not depending on NIS, I see no way. Bests, Olivier and thats the one error I made in setting it up likely... (I saw that note after

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
printf(\007); /* assumes that your using a console/terminal that will beep on ctl-g */ On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. Could somebody send me an example. I'd be

OT: XML newbie

2009-12-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am a relative XML newbie (i.e. our backend does spit out some XML I wrote but it just slapped together with no knowledge of the underlaying structure of XML)... Now I am going back and actually learning XML... our main application is to insert XML directly into XHTML documents and use either CSS

Re: What happened to the colors in VIM 7.2?

2009-11-08 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Aflatoon Aflatooni aaflato...@yahoo.com wrote: It looks like the color schemas in VIM 7.2 are missing? Any ideas? Errors? Symptoms? $HOME/.vimrc ? Related question does anyone know why elflord incorrectly identifies certain

Re: What happened to the colors in VIM 7.2?

2009-11-08 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: It looks like the color schemas in VIM 7.2 are missing? Any ideas? The seem to work for me: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Apr 25 2009 13:00:07) my ~/.vimrc: colorscheme elflord syntax enable set backspace=indent,eol,start

Re: a javascript issue wrt FreeBSD

2009-11-08 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
It is *EXTREMELY* unlike the issue is with JavaScript because JS can not call on any kind of OS service (at least on the client side) are you running a web server that allows files/arbitary text to be uploaded (I'll bet thats where it came from)... now if the virus effects your browser

win 7 dual boot

2009-10-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when I installed vista I had to do some boot manager tricks (both before and after install)... namely I had to allow windows to nuke my mbr then use EasyBCD to remake it in such a way that vista would still find it's

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when I installed vista I had to do some boot manager tricks (both before and after install)... namely I had to allow windows to nuke my mbr then use

Re: How to set device permissions at startup

2009-10-09 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: Den 9. okt. 2009 kl. 05.25 skrev Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com: Since certain currently unused devices are not created in /dev (specifically in my case /dev/fuse*) how do I tell what ever (I can't tell it is devfs or what) to always make /dev/fuse* (when

Re: How to set device permissions at startup

2009-10-09 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:25:12PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Since certain currently unused devices are not created in /dev (specifically in my case /dev/fuse*) how do I tell what ever (I can't tell it is devfs or what) to always make /dev/fuse* (when needed

Re: How to set device permissions at startup

2009-10-09 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Oliver Fromme wrote: Roland Smith wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Quote from the manpage: The devfs.rules file provides an easy way to create and apply devfs(8) rules, even for devices that are not available at boot. The rules take effect whenever a new node (devide) appears,

Re: How to set device permissions at startup

2009-10-09 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Oliver Fromme wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Roland Smith wrote: But one has to run '/etc/rc.d/devfs restart' for newly added rules to take effect! (or reboot the system, which is overkill). Yes, of course. I thought that was obvious. Maybe I

How to set device permissions at startup

2009-10-08 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Since certain currently unused devices are not created in /dev (specifically in my case /dev/fuse*) how do I tell what ever (I can't tell it is devfs or what) to always make /dev/fuse* (when needed) with 777 perms (the security implications are not an issue here)

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Good luck the community has tried for years to get it and adobe seems to not care Leandro F Silva wrote: Hey guys, Let's vote to have a native i386 / amd64 flash player \o/ .. We just have to create an account and voting on the link below =D http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1060

ot: regular expression help

2009-07-07 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am attempting to make (without the perl expansions) a regular expansion that when used as a delim will split words on any punction/whitespace character *EXCEPT* $ (for java people I want to feed it into something like this: for(String foo:input.split([insert regex here]) ...

Re: good morning to all

2009-07-05 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
malathi selvaraj wrote: i have any error like this enter the full path of shell or RETURN fr /bin/sh: after that i reinstall freebsd. and it will working, but now system is not boot, it show error unable to load a kernel .. Thanks in advance S.MALATHI

Re: good morning to all

2009-07-04 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
malathi selvaraj wrote: My system is rebooting contiguously, i show some error message after rebooting like 1.Enter full path of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: After change the rc.conf file also i can't get GUI. Thanks in advance s.Malathi ___

how do I append a PR I submitted?

2009-06-29 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
See subject ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am writting a parser (tokenizes all characters among other things) and need to know what control char is equivelent to a newline (I do not need windows cross compatibility) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I am writting a parser (tokenizes all characters among other things) and need to know what control char is equivelent to a newline (I do not need windows cross compatibility) Forgot to mention before someone recommends lex/yacc and/or some other parser generator (I

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Aryeh M. Friedmanaryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I am writting a parser (tokenizes all characters among other things) and need to know what control char is equivelent to a newline (I do not need windows cross compatibility) What do

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Aryeh M. Friedmanaryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: What do you mean exactly? What language(s)? If I understand your question correctly, the C / C++ / Java / PHP (and I think Perl) 'newline' character is '\n' I meant what ascii

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Just incase you guys are curious the reason for doing the parser from scratch is it is designed to lex/parse families of languages not just a single lang for example (there is very large overlap between c/c++/java/c#/etc. as there is in the tag langs like XML/HTML)... also generators

right CPUTYPE

2009-06-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
What CPUTYPE should I put in /etc/make.conf for: CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor (3210.85-MHz 686-class CPU) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

getting aux display on laptop to be the only display

2009-06-08 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I have following hardware on my laptop: dmesg|grep vga vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0x6110-0x6117 mem 0x9000-0x903f,0x8000-0x8fff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: Intel GM45 SVGA controller on vgapci0 vgapci1: VGA-compatible display mem 0x9450-0x945f at

Re: getting aux display on laptop to be the only display

2009-06-08 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
with the same setup put this in any of your personal rc's like .xsession: xrander --output LCVDS --off --output VGA --auto I'm welcome to corrections and learning myself, but I would shoot for VGA driver and/or xrandr tweaking first. On 6/8/09, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have

How to?

2009-04-29 Thread Lloyd Friedman
I have a Microway computer with a PC164LX. How and where can I down load FreeBSD ALPHA version. I know it is no longer supported, but I believe there are older versions I can down load. If not, then I will have to try to find a Linux that will work.

grammer checker

2009-03-16 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I use editors/openoffice.org-3 and need to grammer check a text file but there seems to be no option (or plugin) for this in OoO and a search of the ports tree for grammer returned nothing either... ideas (I want to avoid wine+MS office if possible)

OT: saving thunderbird in mbox format

2009-03-04 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am looking for someway to export my thunderbird mail boxs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

OT: what is the X11 equiv of /dev/null

2009-03-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I often want to run applications from my PC (actually the dual boot partition on my desktop 7.1) on one of the X11 capable 7.1 machine at work (identical configs except for dual booting) and want to be able to open applications (like deluge) on the work machine that require a X11 server... I

Re: OT: what is the X11 equiv of /dev/null

2009-03-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Modulok wrote: I was thinking is there someway to direct a X11 app to target the X11 equiv of /dev/null ? ...what? What problem are you trying to solve, exactly? -Modulok- I'd have to assume he wants to call a remote X program from his terminal and not have the program's

Re: portmanager/portmaster like application for packages?

2009-03-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Fbsd1 wrote: I am looking for software like portmanager/portmaster but works on the package system instead of the port system. Is there such am application available? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Xorg mouse and massive error log messages problems

2009-03-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Fbsd1 wrote: Just installed Xorg package from parkages-current hoping to get environment containing all the fixes. Still have the no mouse curser movement on xfce desktop. Adding Option AllowEmptyInput Off statement to ServerLayout section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf got the mouse curser moving.

Re: portmanager/portmaster like application for packages?

2009-03-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Fbsd1 wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: I am looking for software like portmanager/portmaster but works on the package system instead of the port system. Is there such am application available? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: MySQL / php differ

2009-03-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Jos Chrispijn wrote: | FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE Just upgraded my MySQL server/client to v5.0.77 and php version to php5-5.2.8 but something struck my eye when opening phpmyadmin, saying: 'Your PHP MySQL library version 4.0.27 differs from your MySQL server version 5.0.77. This may cause

Re: libpthread not found

2009-03-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Then you will need to limit it to diablo only by placing it in the exec path in []'s m.borsat...@alice.it wrote: amm ... when I change the 'candidate' something strange begins to happen: bash doesn't work anymore, saying that it does not find the library. this happens as soon as I do the

Re: libpthread not found

2009-03-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
m.borsat...@alice.it wrote: Hi. I've installed netbeans from ports without error messages. when I started the program I got an error like this: libpthread.so.2 needed by java not found. I've verified that there is a libpthread.so.20 in /usr/local/lib/pth. I've done a rough attempt making a

Re: openoffice-3.0.1 broken on FreeBSD

2009-02-07 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, Trying to run OO-3.0.1 crashes OO with the following error messages and ends into and enless loop trying to restart and crashing again: ... (soffice:2726): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated Xlib: extension

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