Re: php problems

2013-08-06 Thread Lars Eighner
@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: Copyright notice in 9.1-RELEASE-p1 is 1992-2012 instead of 1992-2013

2013-02-22 Thread Lars Eighner
) are sufficient to protect the work. (I am not a lawyer, but I live from intellectual property.) -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-27 Thread Lars Eighner
If only subversion had some scripts similar to the *-supfile s with cvsup, including some first time scripts. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Lars Eighner
be the right answer.) Termcap seems to be in order. cons25l1 tc's cons25w, and cons25w seems to have the correct ANSI values for the function keys. So howcome if TERM=cons25l1 is set, the keyboard produces weird xterm-like strings? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:18:23 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings? It appears to me it does not. Although I set TERM=cons25l1 in .profile (running bash) and have verified that it is set

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:13:09 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:18:23 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Does 9.0 honor

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:13:09 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:18:23 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Does 9.0 honor

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:20:18 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner l...@larseighner.com wrote: I grepped the entire /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf directory. There is no TEKEN_CONS25 or TEKEN or CONS25. Exactly where is this documented? /usr/src/sys/conf

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:11:19 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: If 9.0 had not broken my most important applications, I wouldn't be asking. Which applications - and are they still broken with the right TERM

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:58:36 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:20:18 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner l...@larseighner.com wrote: I grepped the entire /usr

Re: Flash in Firefox

2012-07-30 Thread Lars Eighner
or a year will fix this, and it is hoped it will get fixed when linux-flash is bumped to 13.x Please send a cc of your reply to me at bourne.ident...@hotmail.com -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: Twitter.com is loading slowly after updating to Firefox 13.0.1

2012-07-17 Thread Lars Eighner
without js work fine. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Tweetless

2012-07-05 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: On 04-Jul-2012, at 7:44 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: On 04-Jul-2012, at 1:59 AM, Lars Eighner wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: Hello, On 03-Jul-2012, at 9:14 PM, Tobias Rehbein

Re: Tweetless

2012-07-05 Thread Lars Eighner
is that something in twitter is hitting a bug in firefox 13.0.1,1. If firefox 13.0.1,1 is correct then it is the only one in step on the parade ground. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd

Re: Tweetless

2012-07-04 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: On 04-Jul-2012, at 1:59 AM, Lars Eighner wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: Hello, On 03-Jul-2012, at 9:14 PM, Tobias Rehbein wrote: Am Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 01:04:07AM -0500 schrieb Lars Eighner: Call me crazy, but it seems

Re: Tweetless

2012-07-04 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: On 04-Jul-2012, at 1:59 AM, Lars Eighner wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: Hello, On 03-Jul-2012, at 9:14 PM, Tobias Rehbein wrote: Am Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 01:04:07AM -0500 schrieb Lars Eighner: Call me crazy, but it seems

Tweetless

2012-07-03 Thread Lars Eighner
, etc seem to be normal. Is anyone else noticing something of the sort? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Tweetless

2012-07-03 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: Hello, On 03-Jul-2012, at 9:14 PM, Tobias Rehbein wrote: Am Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 01:04:07AM -0500 schrieb Lars Eighner: Call me crazy, but it seems that since the perl bump (5.12 - threaded-5.16) when firefox (13.0.1,1) got rebuilt, it seems

Re: printing jpeg slides to a Postscript printer

2012-06-25 Thread Lars Eighner
printer's stand-alone functions, since I gather from your question that you are not embedding the photos in some larger document. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions

Re: text format

2012-06-12 Thread Lars Eighner
suggests, you might start with fmt and fix up the output with whatever scripting language you know. If you could find a good hyphenation routine you might get better results. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: note

2012-06-11 Thread Lars Eighner
into your hands. You can download and/or install FreeBSD for free. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: altfn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Lars Eighner
will have to discover from the documentation of your window manger. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: altfn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Lars Eighner
, but in that case there is no way to switch terminals into or out of them. You can only launch them and quit them. Maybe (or not) X could run like that if you did not have a dedicated ttyv set up in /etc/ttys. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: driver for cell phone modem

2012-06-07 Thread Lars Eighner
through the purchase and signup process I want to verify Freebsd has a driver that works with this 4G cell device. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-04 Thread Lars Eighner
. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-03 Thread Lars Eighner
is busy. You have to drop back (exit su) and move out of the device before you can umount it. Seems like I should have been able to find the answer to at least one of those but I'm coming up short. Thanks for relevant pointers, -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35

How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Lars Eighner
does not exist anymore because nouveau doesn't exist anymore. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Connect to Clear hub modem

2012-05-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote: Whoops! By imaginary, I meant not really on the internet, but in 198.168.x.x block reserved for private netting. This combination of things seems to work in rc.conf: network_interfaces=lo0 re0

Re: Connect to Clear hub modem

2012-05-24 Thread Lars Eighner
the ethernet cable connection is supposed to be the bullet-proof fallback for this device. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: And in worst case, use portdowngrade to get

Re: Connect to Clear hub modem

2012-05-23 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue May 22 23:03:03 2012 Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 22:58:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Connect to Clear hub modem This is NOT a wireless

Connect to Clear hub modem

2012-05-22 Thread Lars Eighner
, but the hub is more or less a black box to me. If anyone has already done this, please explain -- slowly and loudly. Oh, yeah, Clear Customer Service is strictly for the entertainment of masochists. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: First character typed lost

2012-04-29 Thread Lars Eighner
it altogether. 2. check /etc/issue to see if there is a trailing ANSI sequence that might eat a character. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML

2012-04-22 Thread Lars Eighner
text mode is not worth while for most people, especially people who work in text. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML

2012-04-21 Thread Lars Eighner
to resolve the problem. Non UTF-8 charsets are a leftover from last millenia that we sometimes still choke on .. sorry the rant ;) UTF-8 is a waste of storage for most people and is incompatiple with text-mode tools: it's simple another bid to make it impossible to run without a GUI. -- Lars Eighner

Re: pcre library linking issues

2012-04-19 Thread Lars Eighner
. Some upgrades will wipe out the link so it may be necessary to recreate it until things get straightened out. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-09 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012, Tony wrote: Satanic 3D-lookalike logo Satanic logo complaints: Hallmark of retarded trolls -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: GIMP(1) don't run

2012-03-20 Thread Lars Eighner
?) So, in /usr/local/lib make a symbolic link to libpcre.so.1 from libpcre.so.0 . That's not the right answer, but it will work. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions

Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

2012-02-17 Thread Lars Eighner
/local/data. It isn't exactly plug-n-play, but in tests and emergencies is has proved practical to drop the partition into several linices with a high level of functionally - depending on application versioning being close to in sync.) -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N

Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Lars Eighner
to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-28 Thread Lars Eighner
. Things should go fine. Checksum mismatch nearly always means a truncated file. I cannot ever remember seeing it otherwise. Do not override it with NO_CHECKSUM. That will be useless with a truncated file and worse than useless if a security port really has been tampered with. -- Lars Eighner

Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute

2011-09-20 Thread Lars Eighner
on the browser portion of Mozilla afabry@desmo 7:28 % firefox firefox: Command not found. What could be the problem, where could I start looking? what happens when you %which firefox3 ? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Lars Eighner
is an option which I think is called WITH_APACHE. To be absolutely sure it is set, run make config in php5 port. The config will be saved and some port maintenance tools may assume it is right without prompting you. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753

Re: copyrights

2011-09-13 Thread Lars Eighner
unnecessary. Signatories of the Berne Convention, including the United States and almost all civilized countries, do not require the notice at all. As a reminder to nice people, the shorter form would surely do. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX

Re: Can't log in as toor since package update

2011-09-09 Thread Lars Eighner
to log in since a package update I did around August 22, so I didn't notice this problem until now. Does anybody have any idea what might be causing this? The fact that user 0 is root to the system. Calling it toor to use an alternate shell does not change that. -- Lars Eighner http

What USB dialup modem WILL work with 8.2?

2011-08-26 Thread Lars Eighner
is it? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: What USB dialup modem WILL work with 8.2?

2011-08-26 Thread Lars Eighner
, so was ubsa and some other modules mentioned. umodem wasn't - and if the line was in GENERIC or NOTES I must have deleted it for some reason instead of commenting it out. Nonetheless, locate reveals it is being built. Works when it is loaded and creates cuaU0. -- Lars Eighner http

Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-23 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Robert Bonomi wrote: From: Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com That's why I sprang for the 3Com which WAS supported by sio for years and is NOT supported by uart since 8.x. Why it is this device could be supported for so many years, but somehow it is impossible on 8

Re: freebsd-update, fetch once upgrade many machines

2011-08-23 Thread Lars Eighner
. The cvs-supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup if you have installed cvsup, seems to say it will reproduce the entire CVS tree on your machine. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd

Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-22 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:34:22 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Since uart in 8.x will not support my PCI 3com hardware modem (as FreeBSD sio has since 4.x) and my PR is gathering dust, before I buy any more coaster sets

Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-22 Thread Lars Eighner
- it is a very strange language in which unlimited means not really unlimited but only so much as we think you deserve. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-22 Thread Lars Eighner
for really actually does work. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-21 Thread Lars Eighner
since 4.x) and my PR is gathering dust, before I buy any more coaster sets from osdisc.com, it behooves to ask if there are any dialup modems that 8.x uart actually supports for ppp on demand? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: new to os

2011-08-19 Thread Lars Eighner
/jhs/editors/wordperfect/pkg/README.JHS You might need to either: upgrade port to run it on a new BSD run it on an old machine or emulator of an old FreeBSD Cheers, Julian -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Anyway to mount ext4fs?

2011-08-19 Thread Lars Eighner
Is there any port or other means of mount ext4fs? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Lars Eighner
command online, which is a good place to start. But the best thing seems to me is to find some disk space and make a small installation. Start by running #man man and go from there. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Lars Eighner
for WP5, but in both cases this depends on having the original WP program to run in dosbox. Since intellectual property puts meat on my family's table, I naturally would not suggest that pirate copies of WP5 might be on the web somewhere. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800

Re: ISO images

2011-08-17 Thread Lars Eighner
appropriate to an ISO image could contain such an ISO. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: more information

2011-08-04 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, zareena crisostomo wrote: Please help me with my research work..I'm working on Freebsd as my OS. Tnx. And you attach a Word document? Your scam stinks to high heaven. Zareena C. Bohol -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191

Sio won't compile in 8.2

2011-07-22 Thread Lars Eighner
forever. But what does that mean in the not too distant future when 7.4 is no longer supported? Is there some way to prepare for that eventuality? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd

Re: How to add sio to 8.2 ?

2011-07-21 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: I've come to the conclusion that I need sio to be able to use 8.x. Can it be as simple as just dropping the code from 7.x into the source for 8.x and adding a line to the kernel configuration

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread Lars Eighner
) for the common stuff. You can't find stuff encoded by Dr. Evil Genius Hacker -- but neither can the party claiming to be infringed and neither can Suzie Shebop who just wants free music. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

How to add sio to 8.2 ?

2011-07-19 Thread Lars Eighner
I've come to the conclusion that I need sio to be able to use 8.x. Can it be as simple as just dropping the code from 7.x into the source for 8.x and adding a line to the kernel configuration? Or would this be fraught with all kinds of deep traps? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com

Re: compat directory

2011-07-19 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: It may be a stupid question but my FreeBSD-8.2 system lacks a /compat directory. Is this normal? does it get installed through some kind of software package? check /usr/ports/misc/ for the various compat?x ports. -- Lars Eighner http

Re: copying hard drives

2011-06-10 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, David Banning wrote: 2. I'd like a simple way to copy - my FreeBSD system to another drive - a clone so to speak - which I know dd can do - Won't reliably leave you with an operable system. Use dump and restore -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-15 Thread Lars Eighner
differing values only the last is effective. The defaults are in /etc/defaults/rc.conf which should never be edited. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Krutov Mikle wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:32:59PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote: Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Lars Eighner
corrections to their beautiful code. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Lars Eighner
...@freebsd.org -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Best practices on upgrading, etc.

2011-03-11 Thread Lars Eighner
buildkernel make installkernel make kernel combines the above two steps. Then as single user run mergemaster -p. make installworld then run mergermaster and delete old if you please. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Ivan Voras wrote: On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote: Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global default? Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull

Bug report marked [regression]

2011-03-06 Thread Lars Eighner
If my bug report is marked [regression] what does that mean? Am I a troglodyte or a Luddite or something? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

HAL must die!

2011-03-06 Thread Lars Eighner
Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global default? Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull in HAL without having a configuration switch? -- Lars Eighner http

8.1-p2 uart appears hopelessly broken

2011-02-24 Thread Lars Eighner
. But it is never possible to bring it back up on demand after it times out. This is pretty much my definition of hopelessly broken behavior and I cannot find a word of warning in the documentation. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread Lars Eighner
EDITOR first if you are not comfortable with vi). If you activate toor, you can log in as toor, use bash, and yet you are root (try whoami as toor). This preserves the root login for emergencies when /usr may not be mounted. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT

ppp auto only works on boot (8.1)

2011-02-17 Thread Lars Eighner
X set ifaddr 10.0.0.3/0 10.0.0.4/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR# Add a (sticky) default route -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Lars Eighner
, clone, move) and restore filesystems. Recipes can be found in the Handbook so you do not have to work out the switches for common tasks for yourself. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

7.3 Get uart to grab modem instead of sio

2010-12-09 Thread Lars Eighner
I am running 7.3. I would like uart to grab the modem, but sio does. I don't want to upgrade to 8.x until I see that things will work with uart. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Make gtk widgets use a larger font

2010-12-09 Thread Lars Eighner
How do I make gtk widgets use larger fonts? I found an old linux FAQ on this, but it appears to have nothing to do with the way configuration works on FreeBSD. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Switch ppp.conf with tun w/o reboot

2010-12-02 Thread Lars Eighner
Can I switch ppp configurations for ppp on demand using tunneling without rebooting? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: need help with php.

2010-10-19 Thread Lars Eighner
entries for some modules. Whatever is really wrong with your php, this isn't it. As I said, harmless, and generally not noticed except at the command line. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Clear and FBSD

2010-07-31 Thread Lars Eighner
Does Clear: 1) Work with FreeBSD --- you just plug it in. 2) Works with FreeBSD --- you need a custom kernel and you sacrifice a goat. 3) Doesn't work with FreeBSD. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: Alternate method for fetching source

2010-06-04 Thread Lars Eighner
with your current system. It's in ports/net . (Of course backup what you have before trying any of this.) You may get a more specific response if you include uname -a for your current system and the tags you are trying to use with cvsup. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html

Re: text editor

2010-05-30 Thread Lars Eighner
. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: how to disable loadable kernel moduels?

2010-02-24 Thread Lars Eighner
with root priviledges could replace them with trojans. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: does toor have passwd or not? According to logins -p: yes

2009-12-30 Thread Lars Eighner
to authenticate and on various other security settings eg. in /etc/pam.d, but even so it is something that should be fixed pronto. Use vipw(8) to edit master.passwd and insert a * -- vipw will regenerate /etc/passwd and pwd.db automatically for you. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html

Re: request

2009-12-20 Thread Lars Eighner
it possible. Here are the FTP mirrors: http://www.freebsd.org/./doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html FTP Sites -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: hplip 3.9.8 on fbsd 7.1 with HP LJ P2035

2009-12-09 Thread Lars Eighner
, but no info on how to get that plugin. Help!! Thanks, Rich ___ 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 -- Lars Eighner

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-30 Thread Lars Eighner
service has managed to come up with. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-29 Thread Lars Eighner
of the maintainer(s). Why can't it be a option to configure the system without it? Not any money in that, is there? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Lars Eighner
. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/10/27 Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 26 October 2009 21:29:27 Yuri wrote: It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. How many people actually use it? Very few. Why isn't it moved to ports? What

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/10/27 Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/10/27 Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 26 October 2009 21:29:27 Yuri wrote: It's in /usr

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, pete wright wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: You guessed wrong. We use m4, which cuts out most of the crap that you had to write into sendmail.cf. You write sendmail.mc and compile it. Sendmail.mc on my system is less

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting language to configure it. Other than personal profit I cannot see why people are clinging

Re: for perl wizards.

2009-10-09 Thread Lars Eighner
) to operate on. And finally, there are tons of perl forums, mailing lists, and newsgroups. Pick one to ask perl questions. perl -pi.bak -e s/\xe2\x80\x99/'/g OOo If there any another other tools, I'm interested! check out sed and tr. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com

Re: for perl wizards.

2009-10-09 Thread Lars Eighner
for so long as there are unix-like systems. It is not clear that perl is going to continue to work. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-07 Thread Lars Eighner
of running as root and crud accumulates in /root or you keep several old kernels. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Approx. restore time estimate

2009-09-14 Thread Lars Eighner
*is* very, very slow and lacks reassuring progress indicators. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

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