So what do I change if I want to increase the shell's file limit?
I use bash 4.
And by the way, for me, part of the normal installation of a new FBSD box
is to make certain changes. For example, for uniq -c I use %06 instead
of %d because this way I can sort the output. Things like that.
I
First, thank you folks for your help. Each of you.
I been pretty much a glass terminal UN*X user since I started. Now,
because of you guys and the people behind X and oh!, all those programs
that get linked in (three hours of package loading plus six hours of ports
downloading and compilation,
So I was coding along...
On my laptop, on session #1, and I get a notice that someone did an su.
Except I'm the only user and I didn't have an ethernet cord connected.
(And no, it wasn't me...)
I just built this laptop a few days ago. Fresh. I did have to get on the
net to
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From: Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:44 PM
Subject: the WD USB 3.0 My Book Essential
To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl
Has anyone gotten one to work?
Either as a USB 2.x
Ah!, I didn't know that some USB connectors (the receptacle on the computer
side of the cable,) were for 3.0 and others for 2.0. How do I discover or
test my USB receptacles?
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Thomas Mueller muelle...@insightbb.comwrote:
Has anyone gotten one to work?
Has anyone gotten one to work?
Either as a USB 2.x or 3.x? Yes, I know that to do 2.x one must use a
different cable. I do that. Because I am wondering what's going on.
Possibly I just happened to buy a drive that's DOA, I don't know, and I'm
not say that, YET.
I'd like to hear from other
I've been using FBSD since 2000 and a Macsyma user since 1976.
And done my own FBSD installs since 5.1, I think, maybe a few before. For
those early years I was content to install a lisp and then do my own FTP's,
getting maxima and doing things manually. No problems.
But the installs have
When I boot the CD I get a different menu, ie., boot, shell, install.
Since the CD is in the CD-ROM drawer and I know how to use sysinstall (or
so I thought!,) I get a fresh shell and say sysinstall.
Okay?
Except I can't write the disk. Notice, I have not explicitly mounted it or
done anything
What's the plan? Anything I can do?
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On 27 January 2012 20:22, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote:
What's the plan? Anything I can do?
I don't see any xhci(4) support in 8-STABLE,
but then there's this:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-July
I've said this here before. And been attacked, pretty much by everyone.
But I was telling the truth.
When I put up any version of FBSD I usually try to install Maxima. Which
fails because the sub-install of gnuplot fails.
I go to through various work-arounds, different things.
But Saturday I
Baloney.
Sure, nothing human is perfect, that includes the people behind FreeBSD and
also the OS.
But compared to (gasp!,) windoz and linux, (not too bad, but it's as
non-secure as windoz!,) FreeBSD and OpenBSD standout for one reason, their
better.
I would like to see negotiate a deal to give
I love FreeBSD, (and though years ago I was a Slackware user,) I much prefer
the BSD's. But guy's, we really have to solve these problems.
So here it is, I just installed 8.2 and need the latest Flash. What's the
right procedure here, please.
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Woe is me.
First, I simply messed up, happens to us all from time to time. I lost
power on an laptop running 8.2.
Restarted it but for some reason the fsck didn't run and I lost some /usr
files.
I tried to do an fsck manually but because it's mounted I got nowhere. So I
put a comment (#) in
up?
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.comwrote:
Boot to a boot disk.. anything... CD, DVD, USB
Load up vi - you can probably do this from a live linux distro.
Unedit the line.
Save.
Quit.
Reboot.
You're golden.
On May 6, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Henry
Having trouble with DRi's. The weird thing about this is that it only
happens immediately after a sendmail interrogation.
Ideas?
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I have some information that the problem is because the Macbook fonts are
different from the FreeBSD fonts.
Thank you!, thank you very much.
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:22:26 -0400, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com
wrote:
I
I wrote some files using a MacBook and saved them as .RTF files.
And discovered that I couldn't move them to FreeBSD and use AbiWord.
What do I to make them work?
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
Sorry: don't bother with this [below]; there
The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this
going. But I know it does. And I don't blame the FreeBSD team.
I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists. ie., we should
have scripts that describe every aspect of a computer, so that such scripts
can be
My first machine was an IBM 1620, but hey, at least we had an actual disk.
A couple of 2311's.
To quote a fellow I used to consult for, two days' I had solved a
particularly nasty programming problem for his company, But what have you
done for us lately?
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:57 AM, RW
I'm not sure which writer said it, but whoever it is who started that
paragraph with Kinda wish you... you sir are the problem. Not just a
problem for us FreeBSDer's, but also for American's.
You probably don't see yourself that way. I understand that. But what you
are doing is surrilous.
And still the wife doesn't suspect?
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:53:09 +1100 (EST)
Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:
Ian
I am in the process of dd the entire disk to a 1TB disk but I wanted to
respond to you. You have given
Several people in this group took a lot of time and helped me when I
couldn't get FBSD 7.2 running with X on an HP Presario.
Now, I'm having *somewhat* *similar* problems, doing the install for 8.1.
I've attached my rc,conf, the X log file, and the list of installed
packages.
I've also said:
with this and a couple tweaks.
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote:
Several people in this group took a lot of time and helped me when I
couldn't get FBSD 7.2 running with X on an HP Presario.
Now, I'm having *somewhat* *similar* problems, doing the install for 8.1
Not that I blame the people behind FBSD. I am amazed that it's so robust.
But of course, since I purchased this ASPIRE laptop (model 7741Z,) for
FreeBSD I'd like to run that on it. So far, well, maybe Billy Gates has
finally gotten his memory back, maybe he'll finally make something that
works.
This morning I downloaded and burned the latest CD for 8.1.
Then I took a brand new laptop, an ACER, model ASPIRE-7741Z-5731, and tried
to install FreeBSD. (It had a copy of windoz on it. goodbye and good
riddance.)
My point is simple, this is about as vanilla as it gets.
And I get the error,
I'm about to put up 8.1.
And would like (I know I'm dreaming,) to get this right, first time. Many
times I've had to scrap an installation and restart from scratch because I
didn't do things right.
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at
Hi all,
So how do I delete a running load module?
Is this even possible?
Please copy your replies to me: henry.ol...@gmail.com
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file (/boot/loader.conf)
and
Option AutoAddDevice Off
Option IgnoreEmptyInput Off
in the xorg.conf file
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote:
I installed FBSD 7.3
I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box. It has a built-in video card,
this isn't a top of the line superfast machine.
But it is important for me to press it into service.
I tried using a couple of Option lines in xorg.conf, but no luck.
so now my questions...
Will FBSD 7.3 make use of
For example, the editor I use normally writes to /tmp -- I changed that,
making it slower, but in the event that someone takes my laptop I want to
sleep at night.
I've no problem letting some poor person make a windoz machine out of my
laptop -- but I don't want to share my work, my intellectual
And I can get the basic screens up but have no working keyboard or mouse.
To each of you, thank you very much for your assistance.
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I very much appreciate the help I get here. And boy!, do I need it.
Undoubtedly I did something wrong when I was putting my system together.
But I just can't throw it away -- I'm trying to get some things done.
So, awk! help!
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A FreeBSD machine I have has caught a scripting virus; And I'd rather
not save what I must and rebuild it -- though if I have to I will of
course.
Anyone got any ideas to find/isolate the virus?
Please copy me directly, my email service is limited until I can fix this.
Message-
From: Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com
Sent: Oct 26, 2009 2:53 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: Kenneth kennet...@earthlink.net, Chris Whitehouse
cwhi...@onetel.com
Subject: am I the only one, wrt gcc44 -- it is failing and I can't build
octave or much else
Look, keep claiming that it's working if you like, but I've been backing up
another machine and making notes -- so that when I do my reinstall of 7.2, I
don't have to come back here again, asking for help that's already been
given.
My point is: gcc44 doesn't work. It is broken and I suspect
I want to turn the disks off.
I sometimes run large jobs and want to switch down the drives.
On some IBM blades, I have FBSD 6.1, on another machine I am using 7.2.
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'everything; is dying in /usr/ports/lang/gcc44
I know, (in all likelihood,) I'll have to scratch this area and do a
complete re-install. Fine. The thing is, I didn't change anything to mess
this area up in the first place.
I've just been going to various directories in /usr/ports and saying,
I need more information to make this work.
help, please. And thank you!
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote:
Jules Gilbert wrote:
now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working
mouse.
when I am in screen mode (normal, -- with
I'm trying to X (re)configure a CQ60, which is not so trivial to do...
Kenneth CF once wrote:
2) Install the nvidia-driver.
# cd /usr/ports/x11-driver/nvidia-driver
# make install clean (I built with options FREEBSD_AGP checked, ACPI
checked, LINUX unchecked).
And this was not a typo.
:06 AM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote:
In the last episode (Oct 20), Henry Olyer said:
I have a fix for gnuplot;
How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice,
I
am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least
FBSD
6.1. Earlier
I have a fix for gnuplot;
How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice, I
am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least FBSD
6.1. Earlier than that I don't know.
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I know about all the drivers being for windoz. And how we're pretty much
left out in the cold. Does any solution exist? For example, if I access my
USB modem via the Wine emulator, will that work?
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How do I get to use the headphones?
The speaker works but continues to play when I plug in headphones.
Also adjusting the keyboard function controls to control the sound, (o
anything else,) does nothing -- what is with this?
Last, how do I change the font size with FVWM? As you can see I am new
So I have a FreeBSD system.
Is their a way to install windoz? Say, XP-pro? Or whatever...
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So I want to show a movie;
How do I make sound work? I'll be using mplayer.
--jg
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First, I want to thank Kenneth and Warren, and a few others who's names I
never caught. I am up now with FBSD 7.2, on a browser and with my air-card
running.
Okay, so now I am back at work on my application. A few of you know of my
science-fiction work.
I'm trying to run a movie using
-- I couldn't do this stuff by
myself.
--jg
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Henry Olyer wrote:
I am putting up 7.2 and I am attempting to use a wireless router.
How do I tell the 7.2 configurator to use my router, wirelessly
I am putting up 7.2 and I am attempting to use a wireless router.
How do I tell the 7.2 configurator to use my router, wirelessly?
--jg
I am using an Atheros chip-set, so I am not expecting trouble. I just need
FBSD to see my system. I know my wireless 'name'. What do I do??
Look, use Joe.
You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about
meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the while
wishing you had three hands.
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Mel Flynn
I have been having a lot of trouble getting X running on my HP/Compaq
laptop. A lot of trouble.
For years I used to use xf86cfg and/or xf86config, but now, with FreeBSD 7.2
I can't find them. (Don't tell me that such useful tools were -- ugh --
depreciated. No, please no.)
And worse, the
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