On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:54:25 -0700 (PDT), Annelise Anderson
wrote:
> I'm running mergemaster as root (-v -i -c) on an upgrade to
> stable (I rebooted with the new kernel but have not done
> the install) and can't run mergemaster, with result as follows:
>
> Default is to use /var/tmp/temproot a
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:42:11 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>Bill Moran said the following on 2009-04-21 14:41:
>>In response to Bernt Hansson :
>>>Giorgos Keramidas said the following on 2009-04-20 23:59:
>>>>On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 +0200, Bernt Hansson
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> I was thinking of makeing a slice encrypted with geli.
>
> My question is: does geli init -s 4096 /dev/ad* erase the data on the
> slice. The handbook didn't say yes or no, and I don't want to try
> without asking.
No, but
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:11:13 -0700, Annelise Anderson
wrote:
> Mel Flynn wrote:
>> On Monday 20 April 2009 09:12:32 Annelise Anderson wrote:
>>
>>>Fbsd1 wrote:
>>>
Annelise Anderson wrote:
>I am trying to use fetchmail on FreeBSD but get the message:
>
>fetchmail: SMTP< 451 4
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:56:17 +0700, kyanh wrote:
>> Second, the sound files you are using might simply be a bit low on
>> the volume side. You may want to load them into something like
>> audacity to increase their loudness.
>
> The problem is that I use Pidgin's default sound files. I cannot
> l
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:21:31 +, Da Rock wrote:
>> Can you show us the *exact* deferral message?
>>
>> It may be greylisting from the FreeBSD.org mail servers.
>
> Ok. This is the exact message:
>
> Apr 11 16:26:40 postfix/smtp[1325]:
> 488851744F: to=,
> relay=mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.8
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:31:22 +, Da Rock wrote:
> I know this may be OT, but I could use some help on this one. I've
> completed a major changeover in network provider, and I've now got a
> proper static ip including ptr records for my mail server (the only
> service that really counts on this
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:53:09 -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
> Probably doing something stupid, but on the off chance I'm not:
>
> - Had to install a newer flex from ports for something.
> - Had to move the system flex to avoid hacking reams of bad makefiles
> - Did a buildworld, and it can't find a fle
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:54:13 +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I need to create a list with some valid values and check an input
> value. Should this makefile work?
>
> -
> LIST=f8 f9
>
> all:
> @echo USE_LINUX=${USE_LINUX}, LIST=${LIST}
> .if empty(LIST:M${USE_LINUX})
>
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:05:17 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:18:33 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
>>> What I don't know is, I use cvsup all the time, but when I switch to
>>> svn, what does the "cvsup" job of
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:57:34 -0400, Esmaeel Pashapouri
wrote:
> Hello list,
> Having truble sending mail through my ISP.
>
> I have freebsd 7.1 amd-64 generic installed.
>
> With smart host defined for sendmail I get my mails returned
> with unknown sender esma...@ca.inter.net.
>
> My user name at
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 07:05:53 -0300 (ADT), Andrew Hamilton-Wright
wrote:
> o ***Early Adopter Warning***: There has not been (as far as I know)
>a general call for people to move to this type of repository access
>except for committers -- therefore expect rough edges until a
>general a
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:18:33 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> What I don't know is, I use cvsup all the time, but when I switch to
> svn, what does the "cvsup" job of tracking an archive (not tracking
> the sources, I mean the archive)? Does svn do it all itself? If so,
> I can find out how, I just w
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:59:16 +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> When I would compare both indentation forms, I'd say that tabbing
> is the better form because
> + you can set your individually preferred tab with using the
>settings of your editor, be it 1, 4 or 8,
I like using TAB for indentation t
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:37:27 -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> Hello, list.
>
> Before I pose my question, I am not intending to start a flame-war of
> any sort -- I'm just searching for "different" ways of doing things.
>
> With so many different version control systems available (aside from
> the trad
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:53:00 +0300, "\"Remorque\"" wrote:
> I have installed 7.1-RELEASE on a hardware with AMD processor. I have
> successfully buildworld, and now doing the "make kernel" thing.The kernel
> config file is pretty GENERIC, I only removed the option to build a DEBUG
> kernel.I have
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:49:52 +0800, Ruel Luchavez
wrote:
> Hi list..
>
> we have here a mail server running in FreeBSD 6.2 which is holding out
> 2 domain (e.g u...@mydomain.com. w...@mydomain2.com) and it running
> very good, unfortunately I'm not the person who configure this mail
> stuff.
>
>
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:11:32 +0100 (CET), "Daniel"
wrote:
> Hi list
>
> This may be a basic question, but a question non the less.
>
> I have been using Debian for some years and have gotten tired by
> system freezes, having a slow system, and having a package system that
> requires that I instal
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:43:12 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:51:12 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
>> wrote:
>>> i'm just asking for sure - do sendmail has any limits of how much
>>> adresses is put in CC/BCC in single mail?
>>
>> Yes, of course. There is *support* f
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:51:12 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
> i'm just asking for sure - do sendmail has any limits of how much
> adresses is put in CC/BCC in single mail?
Yes, of course. There is *support* for a limit, but the default
is to accept a large number of recipients per-message:
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 07:44:23 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> in order to find out why Opera often keeps hanging (doing nothing),
> often for several minutes, I checked its top(1) output.
>
> Reading "man top", I found the following explaination:
>
> [...] STATE is the current state (o
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:31:55 +, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> FreeBSD port doesn't allow to configure Emacs in any way, neither from
> the original port, nor from the nox11 version. I don't think there is
> any special option for emacs to show 256 colors. Wherever I could find
> some information abo
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:35:00 -0800, "Overdorf, Sam"
wrote:
> I have three partitions loaded with different versions of FreeBSD.
> I have the multiboot option working and it shows the following:
>
> F1 FreeBSD
> F2 FreeBSD
> F3 FreeBSD
>
> Is there a way that I can change the description from "Fre
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:52:00 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:11:55PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:19:30 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
>> wrote:
>>> alpine works fine
>>
>> I know. That's why I am n
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:09:51 -0500, Jerry wrote:
> Specifically, what is it we are uncomfortable putting in the handbook?
> More importantly, what good is a handbook if it is not complete?
That's one way of looking at it. The obsessive compulsive perfectionist
perspective is that a Handbook is *
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:50:41 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:15:35PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> Documenting such local 'hacks' in the Handbook is a bit like rubber
>> stamping them with the official 'recommended by FreeBSD' seal of
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:25:59 -0800, prad wrote:
> i am puzzled by what seems to be almost a parallel processor
> development model that exists with freebsd. when 7 came out people
> were still working on 6.3 i think it was with the aim of going to 6.4
> and now with 7.x underway, there is work bei
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:04:48 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> You can always check out ... from a date before its removal from
>> the ports/ tree ... If you need help with maintaining a local
>> copy of the relevant ports ... let me know a
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:19:30 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
>> mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and building
>> them as local ports.
>>
>> The source for these ports is no longer maintained, and they may pose a
>> security risk if you use them on multi-user machines
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:11:46 +, Saifi Khan wrote:
> Gentoo userland and emerge tools are easier and elegant though not
> certainly superior to FreeBSD make mechanism. This is based on my
> personal experience as i heavily use Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD on older
> hardware. And offcourse, i can
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:41:34 -0500, Seur Bors wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm using 7.0-RELEASE-p9, Sendmail 8.14.2 (Compiled with ... STARTTLS SASLv2
> ...)
>
> I'm having problems with Sendmail. Everything is working fine, except
> that the sendmail daemon is not listening on port 465. I'm currentl
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:52:12 -0500, Eitan Adler
wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
> copyright should be 2009 now ;)
I've updated the year ranges in both freebsd-doc-license.sgml and
freebsd-license.sgml.
Thanks :)
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:30:10 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> Yet another option is to use the Subversion repository instead of CVS:
>
> svn log -v -r 1:HEAD svn://svn.freebsd.org/base
>
> will dump all commitlogs starting with the first. Probably not
> recommended if you are going to scan through ev
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:47:17 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith
wrote:
> I'm getting nowhere trying to parse out IP addresses from strings of
> this form in /bin/sh, which have been awk'd out of 'tail named.run':
>
> addr='195.68.176.4#1440:'
> addr='195.68.176.4#16811:'
> addr='195.68.176.4#276:'
>
> sh
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:45:59 -0700, Tim Judd wrote:
> I should make sure it's mentioned --
> FreeBSD 7.x started an /etc/src.conf that are the knobs for FreeBSD
> world ONLY. This leaves /etc/make.conf available for ports ONLY.
>
> I'd update your files, because there's a possibility your WITHOUT
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 19:19:09 +0200, Valentin Bud wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Giorgos Keramidas
>wrote:
>> > # --- system build options
>> > WITHOUT_IPFILTER=yes
>> > WITHOUT_IPX=yes
>> > WITHOUT_LPR=yes
>> > WITHOUT_RCMDS=yes
&g
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 17:52:09 +0200, Valentin Bud wrote:
> elo list,
>
> just updated a newly installed freebsd 7.1 system and it crashed here:
>
> ===> rescue (install)
> ===> rescue/librescue (install)
> ===> rescue/rescue (install)
> install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 rescue /rescue
> install:
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 17:52:09 +0200, Valentin Bud wrote:
> elo list,
>
> just updated a newly installed freebsd 7.1 system and it crashed here:
>
> ===> rescue (install)
> ===> rescue/librescue (install)
> ===> rescue/rescue (install)
> install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 rescue /rescue
> install:
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:09:49 -0500, wrote:
> Great! I will give this a try.
>
> If I put a single entry into the mailertable for the corporate domain
> would everything else default to the smarthost defined in sendmail.cf?
Yes. If you want *everything* to be handled through mailertable you
have
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:11:57 +0100, cpghost wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:14:14PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:58:00 +0100, cpghost wrote:
>>>> Let's assume for a moment that you install a post-commit hook that
>>>> generates
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:15:02 -0500, wrote:
> I am using Sendmail on a FreeBSD7.0 server as a mail relay for some of
> our servers. These servers relay messages to both internal recipients
> and external customers. I need to be able to relay mail destined to
> our internal domain recipients to our
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:58:00 +0100, cpghost wrote:
>> Let's assume for a moment that you install a post-commit hook that
>> generates a SHA-256 checksum of all the files in the latest repo
>> revision on the svn server.
>>
>> For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that this file is a simple,
>> p
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:20:25 -0500, FreeBSD wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have asked this question on the svnforum.org and didn't got a good
> answer, so I try it here.
>
> I want to use SVN to automate the update process of a custom
> application. So, I'm planning to indicate to every PC to update
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:11:11 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to ask which sizes are comfortable to use for reading
> from different media using the dd utility. As far as I know,
> these are good values:
>
> Format Device (example)bs=
> - -
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:48:08 +1100 (EST), "Trevor Smolinski"
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering if you can help. The permissions have been changed and
> now I can no longer login as root, it comes up and says "login: Could
> not determine audit condition".
>
> I am wondering if there is a command to
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:03:39 +1000, Da Rock
wrote:
> According to wikipedia Freebsd is only mostly compliant with POSIX, yet
> BSD/OS is fully- why would this be?
There are parts of FreeBSD that are deliberately "BSD compliant" instead
of POSIX compliant, because this is how they traditionally w
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:30:29 +0100 (CET), Andreas Davour
wrote:
> I just did something stupid and deleted my temproot before I had
> finished merging some stuff by hand. Can I recreate it, or is it
> actually living somewhere in /usr/src before being copied into /var by
> mergemaster? Can I find
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:11:56 -0500, David Karapetyan
wrote:
> Yes, I already am using colors. However, when I open mutt, the email
> located in the middle of my terminal screen is the one that is
> highlighted, rather than the topmost one. This strikes me as odd; I'd
> like for the topmost email (
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:14:18 +0100, Remko Lodder wrote:
>On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html
>> and rc.conf -> make.conf for SENDMAIL_XXX build options:
>>
>> IIRC Remko knows how to
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:01:52 -0500, Lowell Gilbert
wrote:
> Wouter Snels writes:
>> Lowell Gilbert schreef:
>>> Wouter Snels writes:
>>>
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html
i think there is a problem on that page, i've noticed that you are
supposed to
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 09:27:31 +0530, "Masoom Shaikh"
wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>> I'd be happy to review the patch that Gabor has written & if
>>> necessary add or subtract from it.
>>>
>>> It will
On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:48:36 -0500, Tim Kellers wrote:
> I'm having a tussle with one of those things I've done a zillion times,
> but now I can't fathom what the heck is wrong.
>
> When I run flexbackup from a cron job (as root) , the following error is
> returned by e-mail to root:
>
> Errors:
>
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:23:06 -0500, stan wrote:
> I have managed to build OO on a machine of the same architecture as I want
> to run it oon. The target machine does not seem to be capable of building
> it. I suspect that it does not have enough memory.
>
> Can I create a package on the "donor" mac
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:51:31 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> All right, then is this the right syntax. In other words, do
> I need the double quotes to match the "http:" string?
>
> perl -pi.bak -e 'print unless "/m/http:/" || eof; close ARGV if eof' *
Close, but not exactly right...
Y
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:33:45 +, Frank Shute wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute wrote:
>>> You can keep a local copy of the docs & update the sources for the
>>> docs with
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:31:17 +0100, "Len Conrad" wrote:
> A string in a file contains
>
> ('n...@domain.net'',
>
> ... where and we want to remove the extra tick mark, to have:
>
> ('n...@domain.net',
>
> iow, replace
>
> net''
>
> with
>
> net'
>
> We've tried many combinations with sed, but fail
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:43:19 +, Bruce Cran wrote:
> Are the docs branched? I tried running a csup with tag=RELENG_7 and
> nothing got created; changing the line
>
> doc-all
>
> to
>
> doc-all tag=.
>
> fixed it and fetched all the docs.
Hi Bruce,
No, there are no release-specific branches t
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute wrote:
> You can keep a local copy of the docs & update the sources for the
> docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command
> after you have csup'd.
>
> The process is described within this page I just put up:
>
> http://www.shut
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:49:03 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> I also have some very simple and efficient string-matching
> functions [[ for SHORT lines!! ]] and other thing we do very often.
> It was (is?) throw-away code. Does it made sense to have a place
> on the web where you can get these kind of
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:35:51 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:58:06PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:40:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>> > howdy,
>> >
>> > in a word, YES, /usr/bin/cmp saved the save before i unl
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:40:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> howdy,
>
> in a word, YES, /usr/bin/cmp saved the save before i unlinked the
> oldfile. here is the strangeness. maybe you know, giorgos, or
> somebody else on-list. At first--before i got smart and used your
> snprintf to simply /bin/cp a
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:56:34 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 03:29:05AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:13:39 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>> > is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a
>> > dos/win fil
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:13:39 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a
> dos/win file named, say, foo.htm\;7 to simply foo.htm?
>
> my program uses fopen/fgets/fputs to copy the markup files. of the
> several i have copied, no problem. unless i
ngs can work out are resolved.
Happy holidays :)
For the FreeBSD Core Team,
Giorgos Keramidas
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:27:44 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> perl -pi.bak -e 's/OLDSTRING/NEWSTRING/g' file1 file2 fileN
>
> that i swiped somewhere. [?]
>
> last night i was up until the wee hours coding or extending
> a c++ program to assist in this stuff. while i re
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:34:10 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> how can i delete, say, lines 8,9,and 10 from 200 files
> using sed? Is it
>
> sed '8,10d'< file> newfile
> or is there a better way?
Use in-place editing:
keram...@kobe:/tmp$ cat -n foo
1 foo
2 bar
3 baz
keram..
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:31:47 +0800, "Shaowei Wang (wsw)"
wrote:
> Hi, Guys,
> i've updated the FreeBSD sources from svn.freebsd.org/ and it's speed
> is very good. i want to know can i update the ports tree through some
> svn server ?
Unfortunately, no. Only the src/ tree has been converted to
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:16:00 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently
wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> Did you try the 'safe-mode' option from the loader menu?
>
> Yes, to reiterate...
Ok, just making sure that you didn't miss
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:05:05 +0100, Mel
wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 December 2008 01:54:57 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
>> The second invocation uses another set of options from `rc.conf':
>>
>> moused_ums0_enable
>> moused_ums0_port
>> moused_ums
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:36:05 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently
wrote:
> ThinkDifferently wrote:
>> Another item of curiosity... I just now tried booting from a CentOS
>> 5.2 DVD. It also hangs with a little window titled "Loading SCSI
>> driver" that says "Loading ahci driver..." The funny thing i
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:56:43 +0200, KES wrote:
> It there feature (option in rc.subr) to run multiple services at once?
None that I know of.
> For example I have 'service'
> to run service with specific flags I want to do:
>
> service_enable="YES"
> service_instances="instance1 instance2"
> serv
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:59:02 -0800, Noah wrote:
>> If you have customized `dired-listing-switches' try reverting it to a
>> simpler set of options, like:
>>
>> (setq-default dired-listing-switches "-lFa")
>>
>> The -b and -B options tend to confuse dired about what the *real*
>> filename is, a
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:12:16 +0100 (CET),
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>> freebsd-questions User questions and technical support
>>
>> Exactly. Note, however, that 'user questions' means something very
>> different from what you are pushing to convince everybody else :-)
>
> so please start to answe
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:06:52 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
>> I.e. "freebsd-quesitions" is for all FreeBSD-related questions, not
>> only questions about the FreeBSD base system.
>
> from handbook:
>
> freebsd-questions User questions and technical support
Exactly. Note, however, that
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:49:57 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
>> I think the list you're looking for when you talk about only
>> discussing the base-system already exists (probably stable or
>> arch). This is freebsd questions- and the nature of the list
>> according to the all-knowing handboo
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:06:58 +0100 (CET),
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> Now i'm using FreeBSD and it got better each version. Really better,
> not "better".
>
> And i really want to keep it that way, because there is no alternative
> now!
There are many constructive ways of improving FreeBSD. You ha
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:17:38 -0800, Charlie Kester
wrote:
> The conversations on ports@ seem to be mostly concerned with the needs
> of port maintainers rather than the users of ports. If you have
> problems getting a port to build or a package added, it feels like the
> right place to get help.
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:52:01 -0800, Noah wrote:
>>
>> * Use a file manager.
>>
>> I often use `dired-mode' inside an Emacs session to move around,
>> copy, re-organize, rename or delete files. Any file manager that
>> can display several character sets at once will do fine :
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:21:22 -0800, Noah wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> there is a blank directory that I cant seem to view. I believe the
> directory is a '^M'. can somebody please explain how I can see
> filenames and directories containing control characters. Also how do
> I rename the directory wit
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:51:23 -0800 (PST), vuthecuong
wrote:
> Hi all
> Firstly I'm terribly sorry for wrongly posted question not related to
> freebsd. I will pay attention so that this wrong posting will not
> occurr again. This is my fault.
>
> But I admit that freebsd-questions mailing list
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:18:47 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
>> There are some of us here who are interested in all things related to
>> Unicode and complex scripts questions; we are interested to have such
>> things working on FreeBSD. The OP's question was very interesting to me
>> _as a Fr
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:50:53 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> guys,
>
> i did something to evolution (or mail) so it sends a "your mail was
> opened on u...@foo.com". i've been hunting thru the mutt docs; i do
> not see how to get a similar ack from mutt as evo. is there, perhaps
> a sendmail.[cf|mc]
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:26:21 -0800, prad wrote:
> anyone know if there are moderators for this list?
>
> i know there are some very nice people who keep watch. once i messaged
> the test list with a ports question (i was having trouble emailing this
> one - so i was testing to see if there was som
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:48:55 +0100 (CET),
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>> thousands of unix software that runs on unices including FreeBSD?
>>
>> I don't see the difference. If a program runs on FreeBSD it runs on
>> FreeBSD, so it _is_ something that FreeBSD users may be interested in
>> for their ev
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:24:13 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
>> Technical note: questions@ may be an appropriate forum for
>
> general discussion about FreeBSD, or general discussion about
> thousands of unix software that runs on unices including FreeBSD?
I don't see the difference. If a p
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:03:39 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
>> after reading all these posts, i've still come up with this answer
>> after looking .. "freebsd - the power to serve"
>
> Might one reasonably surmise that "the power to serve" implies doing a
> good job of running server software
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:38:18 +0100 (CET),
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> Isn't getting Flash working *with* FreeBSD (and browser of choice) a
>> FreeBSD topic?
>
> WITH BROWSER. ask browser programmers for that.
Do you really, honestly expect Mozilla, Galeon, Epiphany and any random
browser team to su
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:22:15 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
>> There is _nothing_ that is inherently "server oriented" about the main
>> FreeBSD tree, and it hasn't "split" to anything of the sort.
>
> exactly! FreeBSD is unix oriented!
>
> everything else depends on what you install.
>
> th
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:28:26 +0300, Usr Random wrote:
> Hi dear sirs!
>
> Correct please if me wrong, but as i know the source tree of FreeBSD
> already split into two parts - Servers-oriented (FreeBSD) and PC-BSD
> (Desktop oriented) ? Or team from PC-BSD is not FreeBSD peoples? WBR
Not really,
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:46:03 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
> if someone like to compare KDE with windoze - OK but NOT THIS GROUP!
Hold the topic censorship horses there a bit...
The freebsd-questions list is a general discussion forum where FreeBSD
users exchange opinions, help, support a
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:23:04 +0100, Julien Cigar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> you may pkg_add from ftp repository
>
> of course .. too bad that there is no pkg_upgrade
You can use:
portupgrade -PP "pkgname"
This will only use pre-compiled packages to upgrade.
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Hi Michael,
This looks like a bug in 8.0-CURRENT.
Can you please file a bug report and include the text you sent below?
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:49:58 -0500, "Michael Proto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've noticed a behavioral difference of the "read" builtin statement within
> /bin/sh on CURREN
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 17:56:47 +0200, "Yony Yossef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> What mechanism should I use for making my netwrok driver call a
> function every half a second, for instnace?
>
> I am already using task queues but I haven't found a way to make it
> work with a timer.
callo
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:35:34 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> i've got once my asterisk process in umtxn state (as top shows) using
> 100% CPU.
>
> it was still answering calls.
>
> what's umtxn exactly?
A kernel lock operation. ``procstat -k PID'' may show more details
a
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:30:13 -0600, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> /root is on /dev/da0s1a
>
> This particular server is running in a VM on a vmware esx 3.5 server.
> The server runs fine, but every so often the dot files disappear for
> root. I have not found the behavior to follow a r
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:35:21 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rink Spinger has posted an excellent blog post about running with a
> small /boot partition and ZFS on the root filesystem (and everything
> else). His blog post is what I used to guide me thro
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:44:29 -0600 (CST), Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
>> For what it's worth, I've been reading newsgroups with more than 5000
>> messages in Gnus, a newsreader that runs inside GNU
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:24:48 -0600 (CST), Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Roland Smith wrote:
>
>> Application crashed can also be due to bad hardware, especially
>> memory. Make sure that you rule out hardware troubles before diving
>> into the software.
>
> I don't
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:58:52 +0200, "Aggelidis Nikos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for your help!
>
> some additional questions:
>
> 1) is there any way to give the root password once? i tried this:
> #!/bin/sh
>
> su root -c "\
> xterm -geometry 80x25 -title 'App 1' -e 'app1' &
> xterm -g
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:57:23 -0800, Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> The FreeBSD malloc(3) implementation can use either mmap() or sbrk() to
>> obtain memory from the system. It does not 'waste a high percentage of
>> memory' b
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