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

2010-04-18 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: I've looked at SVN and it looks reasonably easy to grok, but reading the Version Control with Subversion book... it seems there is no actual way to truly erase/delete/destoy/purge a part of an existing repository?

Re: Problems with Xorg after portupgrade

2009-04-19 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello Manolis, On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Browsing your xorg.conf, you forgot to add the keyword Option in front of AllowEmptyInput. And actually this should also go the ServerFlags

Problems with Xorg after portupgrade

2009-04-18 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, This week upgraded my Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop from FreeBSD 7.0 to FreeBSD 7.1 and also csup'ed my ports and portupgraded them and I am not able to start X correctly. When I invoke startx, it tries to start it and then the screen goes blank and black, nothing is seen on it and I am no

Re: Compiling everything myself?

2009-03-16 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Daniel annonymejens+...@runbox.no 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

Re: Free Pascal

2009-03-12 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Ian Fitzgerald i...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: Hello, On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Ian Fitzgerald i...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: cd /usr/ports/lang/fpc pkg_add -r fpc You should do # cd /usr

Re: kindle2

2009-03-12 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Pat Lackie lack...@cs.com wrote: Do you allow reformatting the hand book into kindle2 Please check the copyright notice of the FreeBSD Handbook at [1]. Regards Rambius [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/LEGALNOTICE.html --

Re: How do I determine the FreeBSD world revision/version?

2009-03-06 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Ian Bonnycastle ibo...@gmail.com wrote: If I have a particular FreeBSD system, and know its a modified kernel, how can I tell what base was originally on it? Actually, why would you want to know this and how do you define base? I have a laptop on which I

Re: Ports Options

2009-02-20 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: At the first install of a package via the ports collection (cd /usr/ports/../..; make install clean), if the package provides configuration options, you can check these on a menu screen, or accept all the

Re: How to generate password hashes for vipw and chpass

2008-10-06 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello Adam, On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Adam Zaleski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Rambius Ivanov pisze: # /sbin/md5 -s newpassword and then I passed the output to chpass. I tried to use the new password for the next login but it failed - so I believe this is wrong. Can you please show

How to generate password hashes for vipw and chpass

2008-10-05 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, According to man pages of chpass(1) and vipw(1) I can create and modify users by supplying a user database entry in passwd(5) format. The only problem I face is that I do not know how to generate the password hashes for the password field. Following section 14.4

Forwarding all mail to a local user

2008-08-31 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello list, I have the following questions. How can I forward all mail sent to anyone@localhost to a [EMAIL PROTECTED], where rambius is my own user account in my FreeBSD system and anyone can be anything including a user name that does not exist on the local machine? The reason I want this is

Re: Forwarding all mail to a local user

2008-08-31 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello Jeffrey, On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should edit /etc/mail/virtusertable to include a line like @localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a sample virtusertable you can look at. After you have edited the virtusertable file, you

Formatting dates to a specific pattern

2008-08-30 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, I need to format the current date (as returned by date(1) ) to the pattern m-d-, where m is the month in one or digits, d is the day in one or two digits, and is the year in four digits. The problem for me is the day and the month, for example August should be 8, and not 08, and

Re: Formatting dates to a specific pattern

2008-08-30 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, Thank you for all of your responses. I received earlier a private answer from another member of list. He told me to use the '-' sign after '%' in the date pattern of date(1) command: $ date +%-m%-d%Y This one seems to not include leading zeros and I reworked it to $ date +%-m-%-d-%Y

Re: Networking issues

2008-06-09 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have, for some time, been able to ssh into my father's FreeBSD machine in the Road Runner network in Central New York. Last night, I tried so that I could fix a problem for him and ssh timed out. No

Re: SVN Advice

2008-05-20 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello Montag, On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm seeking to set up an SVN repository on my home machine. I've come across the following two guides: http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/misc/subversion.php

Re: Which jdk port should I use?

2008-03-05 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Steven Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two installed: diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_9 jdk-1.5.0.14p8,1 I looked at the freebsd java pages, but I still don't know... It seems that you have diablo jdk and sun jdk installed on your machine. Diablo

Re: portupgrade

2008-03-03 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get the portupgrade to just accept all of the defaults for the configurations of the individual ports. I tried # env BATCH=yes, but it still just goes on hanging on the port configuration menus. It seems

How to backup the users

2008-01-27 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall FreeBSD on it, but I want to preserve the users' credentials. Can you please advise me how to back them up? Thank you in advance. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega

Re: How to backup the users

2008-01-27 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
On Jan 27, 2008 6:58 PM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: Hello, I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall FreeBSD on it, but I

Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile

2008-01-27 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell command from it and assign its output to a variable. The command in question is # make -f /usr/ports/lang/fpc/Makefile -V PORTVERSION and I have verified that it works on the command line. I try to use it in my port's

Re: Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile

2008-01-27 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello Alphons, On Jan 28, 2008 1:07 AM, Alphons Fonz van Werven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell command from it and assign its output to a variable. If you're using GNU make (called gmake on BSD systems

Re: Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile

2008-01-27 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello Georgious, On Jan 28, 2008 2:59 AM, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-01-28 00:48, Ivan Rambius Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell command from it and assign its output to a variable. The command

Re: /usr/local/rc.d/apache22 start doesn't start Apache

2007-12-14 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello Yuri, On Dec 14, 2007 5:03 PM, Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Apache port. But when I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start nothing happens. 'ps ax | grep httpd' returns nothing. So server wasn't started. Why nothing is printed and server not started with the first

Re: how to make a patch

2007-10-16 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, First, do you have the latest ports tree? If not, it maybe a good idea to update your ports tree and verify that the bug is still there. Second, since it concerns the ports be sure to checkThe FreeBSD Porters Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ and

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On 10/12/07, Connie Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. It is not clear from your email what do you want to do and what you have done up to know. If you do not have FreeBSD already installed you can start from Installing FreeBSD chapter in the

Re: BSD Live?

2007-10-11 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On 10/11/07, Timothy Klaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any BSD version that provides a LiveCD Yes, it is called Freesbie: http://www.freesbie.org/ Regards Rabius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___

Re: FreeBSD Tomcat

2007-09-28 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On 9/28/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not correct. The Java packages available from the FreeBSD Foundation are based on the same codebase as any other 1.5 JDK or JRE from Sun. Thank you for correcting me. I was not (fully) aware of this fact. Regards Rambius --

Re: FreeBSD Tomcat

2007-09-28 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello On 9/28/07, Yance Kowara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you mind explaining the difference between sun-jdk and diablo jdk? From the point of view of the end user or even the Java programmer there is no differences - both jdk's offer the same public APIs, compilers, runtime environments,

Re: FreeBSD Tomcat

2007-09-27 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On 9/28/07, Byung-Hee HWANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case I think you are better to use Linux than to use FreeBSD because still it's difficult to operate Java stuff on FreeBSD. So I recommend that you should move to Linux. Actually nowadays it is easy to use java and tomcat on

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, I am using Acer TravelMate 4060 and I am very satisfied. The wireless card works very well and I had no problems with the video card. Regards Rambius ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable

2007-09-14 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
In Sofia, Bulgaria as well. Regards Rambius On 9/14/07, Pablo Mora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/07, Caio Figueiredo Abecia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The website isn't working here too. (Brazil) In Chile neither --

Re: Configuring OpenLDAP on FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Problems.

2007-08-23 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, On 8/23/07, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I am pretty new with LDAP too :) I have no documentation beside the one I found from Googling around. Hi Olivier, There are a few good books about LDAP out there, but most of them are quite old unfortunately. Anyhow, I

Re: jdk15

2007-06-29 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello On 6/29/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I did was to install the native freebsd jdk, that is diablo-jdk (port java/diablo-jdk) and then I installed java/jdk-15 port. i'll try that. thanks... will report how it went... didn't do much. it installed very quickly I do

Re: jdk15

2007-06-29 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
On 6/29/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yea... i did all that stuff for both ports too. all the downloads, etc. i've been using freebsd as main os on my laptops for 5 years now - have never used windows. and java has historically been a pain in the ass to set up on freebsd. Well,

Unable to login using KDE

2007-04-26 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, I am debugging a (seemingly) KDE-related problem on a FreeBSD laptop. The version of FreeBSD is 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #0. I am starting in in debug mode. It is using kdm as a login screen. The corresponding line in /etc/ttys is ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure The problem

Re: Hi ;

2007-03-14 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, On 3/14/07, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/03/07, Halil Guven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sırs I want to open in FreeBSD program 21,443,11905,11907,12341 15501 ports.How can i do these. Please inform me and thanks in advance of your help. Wait of your kind

Re: odule php5_module is already loaded, skipping ?

2007-03-04 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, On 3/5/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Guys, I have apache 2.2.4 and PHP 5.2.1 installed this what I get when I restart the apache. # apachectl restart [Mon Mar 05 03:29:45 2007] [warn] module php5_module is already loaded, skipping Obviously there are

Re: Restoring FreeBSD grub loader

2006-10-01 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, Thank you for your response. On 10/1/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on one machine with grub boot loader. In the beginning there was only one entry in grub - namely FreeBSD. Later, I had

Restoring FreeBSD grub loader

2006-09-30 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on one machine with grub boot loader. In the beginning there was only one entry in grub - namely FreeBSD. Later, I had to install Windows XP on the machine and of course, it destroyed grub and now I cannot boot FreeBSD. I tried with booting from the FreeBSD

Re: KDE and libflashplayer - help?

2006-09-27 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, On 9/26/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've followed the instructions at http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php. libmap.conf contains: [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2 libdl.so.2

How to load iwi firmware at boot time

2006-09-26 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, I have an Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 running on it. I have Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless network card which I use successfully. I have the following iwi related entries in rc.conf: ## Intel Wireless Adapter settings iwi_enable=YES iwi_interfaces=iwi0

Re: How to load iwi firmware at boot time

2006-09-26 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, On 9/26/06, Ivan Rambius Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have an Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 running on it. I have Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless network card which I use successfully. I have the following iwi related entries in rc.conf: ## Intel

Problems with X mouse pointer

2006-09-24 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, After an year of successful using of FreeBSD, a friend of mine asked me to install it on her laptop. The laptop is Pestigio Visconte 120 with Intel 855 chipset. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and run X with only one problem. The mouse pointer in X is not a normal arrow, but a white big square.

Re: Problems with X mouse pointer

2006-09-24 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
On 9/24/06, Ivan Rambius Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, After an year of successful using of FreeBSD, a friend of mine asked me to install it on her laptop. The laptop is Pestigio Visconte 120 with Intel 855 chipset. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and run X with only one problem. The mouse

Re: Calling setxkbmap when starting X

2006-09-17 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, Thank you for your response. I think what you're looking for is xinit(1). My own: $ cat ~/.xinitrc #!/bin/sh xmodmap .xmodmaprc xsetroot -solid dimgray xgamma -gamma 0.8 exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session I forgot to explain that I do not start X manually with startx command. It is

Calling setxkbmap when starting X

2006-09-16 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, I am from Bulgaria and I use Bulgarian language on my FreeBSD machine. I use the following command $ setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us,bg -variant ,phonetic -option grp:alt_shift_toggle to enable both Bulgarian and English. However, I call this command every time I log in KDE. Is it

FreeBSD 6.1 laptop with wireless internet

2006-05-22 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Dear Colleagues, I have a laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 on it and it is working fine. I recently received a card for wireless internet; it is in fact a Verizon Wireless PC5740 card and I am wondering if I can set it up on my FreeBSD laptop. I googled about it and I found [1] mentioning about some

Setting up Sound Blaster Pro card

2006-01-26 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Dear Colleagues, I am trying to set up my sound card and I am finding some difficulties. First, here is the description of the hardware. I use Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop with 512 MB RAM with Intel Chipset 915GM. The Audio Section taken directly from the laptop's user guide is: Audio system with

Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'?

2006-01-16 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, baring this, is there a better tool to use then rpm? I am a newbie in freebsd with ambitions to become a master :) and up to now I have installed tons of software using freebsd ports collection and freebsd packages and I found them better than rpm. Anyway, FreeBSD can run rpm as well (if