Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:21:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:38:45 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > # cd /root > > # mv .mc .mc.orig > > # mcedit > > $ mv .mc .mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013 > $ su root -c "mv /root/.mc /root/.mc.pre.update-01-Jan-

Re: Editors are broken after update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
spot.de/2008/08/howto-musicpd-music-player-daemon-on.html > > is not a valid howto for my upgraded FreeBSD ports :(. >From a short look at it, the content looks valid. But I haven't tried it in order to confirm that it's working. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happ

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
ort-list file anymore, especially as portmaster can automatically determine which ports need to be worked on (portmaster -a). It's also a nice feature to put the "non-interactivity options" into a config file (/usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc) so you really only need the -a option if

Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
e the -a option. Still when run in an X terminal, they are properly displayed. I think to avoid problems, the use of linedrawing characters has been dropped. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
I didn't edit anything, I suspect > just one job is running. 837 ports where found with 420 new versions. I > wonder how long it will continue compiling. That doesn't sound very much. Less than 24 hours of scheduled happy downtime should be sufficient.

Re: laptop fan control via FreeBSD

2013-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:19:39 +0100, Xavier wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 05:04:36PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > Hi Polytropon, > > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:55:23 +0100, Xavier wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:13:58PM +0100, Fabian Keil w

Re: laptop fan control via FreeBSD

2013-01-19 Thread Polytropon
fan' don't show these parameters. Why ? > Because, my BIOS don't support these aparameters ? Another answer ? For laptops, you usually load a kernel module for interfacing with the specific ACPI functions, like acpi_ibm.ko. There are several others, but see "ma

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-18 Thread Polytropon
uot;make config" screens, whereas --force-config visits all of them prior to the "real work". -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: pax error message

2013-01-18 Thread Polytropon
;, the BUGS section contains: The cpio archive formats cannot support files over 4 gigabytes, except for the ``odc'' variant, which can support files up to 8 gigabytes. And cpio has a -c option (equals --format odc), maybe you can hand this over from pax? -- Polyt

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-18 Thread Polytropon
r can fix things as it processes only those parts that need to be compiled (for example due to a newer or missing library dependency); the "portmaster -arf" command should do this, if I remember correctly. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mou

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-18 Thread Polytropon
ne tells: "I open two shells and this almost crashes the system", it sounds terribly wrong. I know it's not about the actual shells, but the environment they're being used in. That's everything I wanted to express with this s

Re: Account only on the console

2013-01-18 Thread Polytropon
u, everyone who is in the "wheel" group _and_ knows the new account's password will be able to su; make sure the password is _not_ known to them. Users outside of "wheel" cannot su anyway. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi enne

Re: time_t definition

2013-01-17 Thread Polytropon
.tv_sec, (int)spi_stop.tv_usec); The reason is simple: You should not blindly _rely_ on the assumtion that (time_t) which you know is "some integer type" is _exactly_ (int) -- it doesn't neccessarily have to be. Similarly, you shouldn't assume that it's (long) either.

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-17 Thread Polytropon
;compile everything" (update all ports) action. See the EXAMPLES section of "man portmaster" for how to do this. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Polytropon
et. A good start would be to install the KDE stuff on a "clean" system (right after compat7x) so there won't be much confusion. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-ques

Re: time_t definition

2013-01-17 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:24:27 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Polytropon writes: > > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:21:03 -0800, Michael Sierchio wrote: > >> Top posting for brevity - the fact is, the code in your original > >> example is wrong. There are reasons t

Re: time_t definition

2013-01-16 Thread Polytropon
boils down to if you follow the chain to the machine level. :-) > I am attempting to understand the difference. Probably you will from my previous message. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: time_t definition

2013-01-16 Thread Polytropon
avoid the warning. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &

Re: Starting the desktop environment doesn't work automatically

2013-01-14 Thread Polytropon
apabilities are not "sufficiently" provided. > I don't like vi and similar > editors. You don't need to like vi, but you should know the most basic actions to use this editor in _worst case_. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD u

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:58:35 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:48:01 +0100 > > From: Polytropon > > To: Fbsd8 > > Subject: Re: Reading the handbook from console > > Cc: scotteb...@gmail.com, dte...@freebsd.org, questi...@freebsd.o

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-13 Thread Polytropon
it doesn't work anymore. I've actually never seen this working on FreeBSD; maybe it's just a Linuxism. Maybe it's just because I've never tried. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: manpage -> html

2013-01-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:20:02 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > Fbsd8 wrote: > > Polytropon wrote: > >> On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:52:06 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > >>> OK let me be more specific. > >>> Using just commands that are in the base system. > >>

Re: manpage -> html

2013-01-12 Thread Polytropon
ver, the output looks a bit strange here (tested with lynx and Opera), so maybe some additional options are required. I've just derived this from my man2pdf script and read "man groff" for the -T parameter. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user sin

Re: Duplicate files on distro ISO

2013-01-12 Thread Polytropon
umentation on what you need to do manually. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: suggestions wanted.... {OT}

2013-01-11 Thread Polytropon
59-1/articles/install-eeepc/article.html http://www.unixarea.de/installEeePC.txt The requirements are met: small screen, physical keyboard, built-in speakers. If getting online with it is required, that's also possible by using some selected USB "web stick". -- Pol

Re: A serious flaw in Java

2013-01-11 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:50:07 + (UTC), jb wrote: > http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/625617 http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/critical-java-zero-day-bug-is-being-massively-exploited-in-the-wild/ -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mo

Re: 9.0 vs 9.1

2013-01-10 Thread Polytropon
so installing from CD or DVD is more comfortable * not enough computing power, especially for "big stuff" like desktop environments or office packages * SSD (less wearing through writes desired) Except those, there is no difficulty in using ports. :

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-10 Thread Polytropon
x11, fb, and gtk2 dependencies. If desired, w3m can use the lynx keyboard map. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-10 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:48:33 -0800, dte...@freebsd.org wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon > > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:33 PM

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-10 Thread Polytropon
dbook entry or section TOC you want to access, on the command line, maybe using the shell's autocomplete capability. This might make navigation a bit easier in case you know what you're searching for. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe,

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-08 Thread Polytropon
UModify the owner, group, permissions, and modification time of existing files to match the specification and create any missing directories or symbolic links. User, group and permissions must all be specified for missing directories to be created. Correc

Re: Backup with mtree and rsync?

2013-01-08 Thread Polytropon
ith content), but cpdup can; see "man cpdup" for details and inspiration. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: User IDs

2013-01-07 Thread Polytropon
easily script and automate things. If urgently needed, you could create a GUI wrapper with Tcl/Tk, but you'll probably find that the CLI tool is much easier to use. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread Polytropon
rything works as intended, and Opera as my main browser, with "Flash" deactivated, and quite picky about what sites are allowed to do. If I urgently need to access something that doesn't show in Opera, I'll use Firefox for this one occassion. :-) -- Polytropon Magd

Re: OT - turn off your cam and mike, now ...

2013-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 21:21:50 + (UTC), jb wrote: > > http://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-dvr-will-know-what-your-doing-and-saying-2012-12 http://boingboing.net/2012/11/08/microsoft-patents-spying-on-yo.html http://hdguru.com/is-your-new-hdtv-watching-you/7643/ -- Polytropon Mag

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 20:02:04 + (UTC), jb wrote: > Polytropon edvax.de> writes: > > > ... > > However, your transition of this knowledge to the terminology > > to be used in combination with _virtual_ machines makes sense. > > Maybe that wording is really

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Polytropon
n combination with _virtual_ machines makes sense. Maybe that wording is really not optimal. "Kill guest" matches today's understanding, but could possibly be formed better in regards of future use (like the power off vs. shutdown difference that was totally clear in the 1990's, but m

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Polytropon
ing settings that might be inappropriate (or leaving out functionality that would be irrelevant) in this _one_ application. The strength of a general-purpose OS is that it can be applied in many settings. It's the administrator's task to deal with the implications that this set of fe

Re: Reduce the consumption of video memory

2013-01-05 Thread Polytropon
it will deal with this setting in the desired way. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: Which k3b is recommended?

2013-01-05 Thread Polytropon
sing k9copy without a full KDE installation, with WindowMaker as my window manager (no desktop at all). I'm not missing any essential functionality for this program. So probably using k3b should work just fine. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user si

Re: system restart after some seconds

2013-01-04 Thread Polytropon
ing (...)&. Beware - endless loop! You need to be fast enough to revert the change or go to SUM to do so. :-) Parameters to shutdown itself, as well as for the "at" command, only allow minutes as most precise elements; see "man shutdown" and "man at" for details.

Re: somewhat OT ... in parts

2013-01-04 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 14:29:39 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 06:09:53AM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: > > > > On Jan 3, 2013, at 11:03 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:27:38 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > >> one qu

Re: somewhat OT ... in parts

2013-01-04 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 13:59:45 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 08:03:39AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:27:38 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > one question I have may solve the problem of vim displaying > > > all the ^/search terms

Re: somewhat OT ... in parts

2013-01-03 Thread Polytropon
ill be placed at the first match. I don't see an option to highlight the _next_ result only. However, if you do _not_ set hlsearch, searching and continuing searching will not highlight anything, instead let the cursor skip to the next match (tried here with "gvim /COPYRIGHT", /this

Re: somewhat OT ... in parts

2013-01-03 Thread Polytropon
se the > scheme for xterm and rxvt and the only real issue I ran into so far is > that when using mc the background comes out light blue and the file > names are in a light grey and hard to see. Otherwise it's great. I'm using a similar approach inspired by XFCE (version 3)

Re: somewhat OT ... in parts

2013-01-02 Thread Polytropon
sr/ports/audio/espeak in ports, and Gtk is also in there. What would cause this software to refuse working on FreeBSD? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: using /etc/portsnap.conf

2013-01-02 Thread Polytropon
the availability of dependencies and turtles all the way down, plus the top level files (such as /usr/ports/Makefile) and the Mk/ and Tools/ subtrees. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: using /etc/portsnap.conf

2013-01-02 Thread Polytropon
-f conffile Read the configuration from conffile. (default: /etc/portsnap.conf) See "man portsnap" for reference. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ fre

Re: is csup broken?

2013-01-02 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:08:24 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:34:54 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > >> Polytropon wrote: > >>> On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:14:17 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > >>>> Been using same script for years to fetch

Re: is csup broken?

2013-01-02 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:34:54 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:14:17 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > >> Been using same script for years to fetch selected port files. > >> Today I get error message > >> Unknown collection "ports

Re: is csup broken?

2013-01-02 Thread Polytropon
ed services for obtaining src and ports? Have you tried checking out via SVN which now is the desired default method (even though it's not integrated in the base install and the "make" scripting mechanism)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBS

Re: ssh server hashcode change on nanoBSD

2013-01-02 Thread Polytropon
sly stay the same, and the SSH client won't complain. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: ssh server hashcode change on nanoBSD

2013-01-01 Thread Polytropon
enerated - a different one each time, of course. So what you're seeing seems to be "normal", even though not desired at all. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ f

Re: http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2013-01-01 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 14:01:53 +0100, Bekim's Mac wrote: > {nothing} My PHP admin has no idea what to answer. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: changing prompt for user in jail

2012-12-31 Thread Polytropon
bed in "man hier": /usr/ contains the majority of user utilities and applications share/ architecture-independent files skel/ example . (dot) files for new accounts -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: changing prompt for user in jail

2012-12-31 Thread Polytropon
ead them. > No matter what I do to the config of the jail files it makes no > difference when I use ssh to login to the jail user account. > > Anyone have any idea what I any doing wrong? > > Or is this just now jails work? It should at least work on "normal lev

Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT

2012-12-30 Thread Polytropon
; found nothing which covered this. That's why _I_ prefer old-fashioned MBR partitioning with sysinstall which has never failed me. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-

Re: static ip address and ifconfig

2012-12-29 Thread Polytropon
m foo 123.456.789.11 foo.example.com foo All this implies that those settings are quite static. But for a static IP that might be fully desired. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: Full disk encryption without root partition

2012-12-29 Thread Polytropon
manually entering a passphrase in combination with the keys on the stick could be required. Of course a strong passphrase would have to be chosen, and not written on the USB stick. :-) The options has on a _running_ system with encrypted components is a completely different topic. -- Polytrop

Re: static ip address and ifconfig

2012-12-29 Thread Polytropon
ive However, I've not seen that in reality. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: static ip address and ifconfig

2012-12-29 Thread Polytropon
at are _then_ assigned to individual network interfaces. However, at my old location I had assigned one static IP address directly delivered to the NIC, and ifconfig did show exactly that address. Simply try "ifconfig" and show what it prints for YOU. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy F

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:34:34 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > First, the lines with "read" have to be: > > cat /foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE1 > > cat /foo/bar/foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE2 > > Reason: $LINE1 and $LINE2 will be evaluated here, they are &quo

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-23 Thread Polytropon
line (uninitialized) Value of sw is : 0 <- after 2nd line DO SOMETHING! Current value of sw is : 1 <- after 3nd line (common entry) Value of sw is : 0 <- after 4th line DO SOMETHING! Value of sw is : 0 <- after 5th line DO SOMETHING

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-19 Thread Polytropon
or wait for a new version. > I suspect if it's impossible or at least less good to mix binaries and > from source build software for FreeBSD, I should chose to build from > source. Basically there is no problem. One thing you have to pay attention

Re: which C function is best to check for directory EXISTANCE?

2012-12-18 Thread Polytropon
dirstat("PATh") that would work? $ man dirstat No manual entry for dirstat :-) > just want to see which way is best? Depends. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: updatedb?

2012-12-18 Thread Polytropon
they can see the covers and know what you've got stocked on the shelves). Again: If that's intended, locate.updatedb will act as instructed. Oh behold the unlimited power of root. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: updatedb?

2012-12-18 Thread Polytropon
ot; user account when invoked automatically. This means that the directory restrictions can apply (e. g. user home directories cannot be searched when they have o-x attribute). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-18 Thread Polytropon
ing this many times, i. e. first install base system from installation media without additional packages, setup networking (PPPoE in former times, DHCP today), then update the system to the desired version or branch (e. g. -STABLE via source), and then start installing the applications from ports (also u

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-18 Thread Polytropon
ch keeps all your partition settings and doesn't require any other work to be done on that level. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: using AWK

2012-12-17 Thread Polytropon
# 12345 # calling awk... # 12345 # 24690 The example shows how to use the variable inside awk. You could get rid of the getline function in case the file contains only the number you're interested in. If you need further processing of the file, you can do that inside awk (e. g. omitting

Re: using AWK

2012-12-17 Thread Polytropon
ically in the awk script, or use ${filename} in the script (use double quotes to allow resolution). Also note that $0 is the name by which the script has been called. $1 is the 1st parameter. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: PS: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
r current installation) and new GPT style (to get rid of the "DOS primary partitions", "DOS extended partitions", and "logical volumes inside a DOS extended partition"). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html As it seems, the installer guide defaults to GPT; what you have (judging from the Linux construction) is MBR, but there is a slice available, and that should be sufficient. You can compare: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:13:36 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 12/16/12 07:08, Polytropon wrote: > > > And if you're using Firefox, there are plugins available that > > allow you to download video content instead of dealing with the > > "Flash" player t

Re: Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
versa - tell make to link to the shared version, not the static one. > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" This can be done by addressing the linker through $LDFLAGS. I think "man ld" will be helpful. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, G

Re: aclocal-1.12: error: 'configure.ac'

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
onfusing here is the fact that the OP seems to have a "mixed" installation. The prompt reads: > > /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade sudo make install But the error messages say: > > /usr/bin/touch /opt/ports/lang/ruby18/work

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
help, when websites expect newer versions. Correct, so this is another good reason for finally dropping "Flash" and move on to better alternatives. Side note: I've been experiencing working "Flash" for many years now without any trouble on FreeBSD. Sometimes I wish it woul

Re: Software Manager - try again later

2012-12-15 Thread Polytropon
ions mentioned in "man restore". Make sure you backup all your partitions -- I see you have /, /var and /usr; if that's everything, it's okay. Additionally, you could backup your disks's MBR using dd. # dd if=/dev/ of=/where/your/backup/is/disk_mbr.dd bs=512 count=1

Re: Software Manager - try again later

2012-12-15 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:25:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 13:11 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > Mixing PBI and ports/packages is possible, but discouraged. > > I read about it, but don't understand the issue. > > If I never ever would use PBI again

Re: Software Manager - try again later

2012-12-15 Thread Polytropon
t it should work. Mixing PBI and ports/packages is possible, but discouraged. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: modem communication

2012-12-15 Thread Polytropon
rial port. In addition, depending on how you access the modem, e. g. via open() or fopen(), you could use the corresponding flush operation - fsync() - to make sure the commands are written to the modem port _right now_. There should be no need to re-open the modem for every AT command you send.

Re: Listen to file changes

2012-12-14 Thread Polytropon
ir" for more info. And struct ufs2_dinode in /usr/include/ufs/ufs/dinode.h should have the information you need to parse for; maybe also check the FILE type in /usr/include/stdio.h for access flags. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-14 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:56:51 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 12/12/12 23:51, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:27:16 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> Can anyone suggest an audio playback application that allows you to vary > >> the > >> tempo? I&#x

Re: [solved] PPPoE

2012-12-13 Thread Polytropon
et dial > > > set login > > > > I don't think you need these. > > Thank you :) > > uncommenting "enable dns", commenting out "set dial" and "set login" > does the trick. As seen in The

Re: http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2012-12-13 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:53:19 +0530, Anil Kumar wrote: > i want start The local host, PHP My Admin says: "Well then, buddy, go ahead!" -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ free

Re: [Bulk] audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-12 Thread Polytropon
e web in order to install software on FreeBSD. The tasks are automatically done by the ports infrastructure. So it's much simpler: # /usr/ports/audio/audacity # make install or use the package management tool of choice (e. g. portmaster), or just use "pkg_add -r audacity&q

Re: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-12 Thread Polytropon
t, the output will be text only for information purposes). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: how to get audio from youtube?

2012-12-11 Thread Polytropon
low you to paste a YT URI and then download it in MP3 format. Such a service is http://www.youtube-mp3.org - but there are several others. But please be advised that it's illegal to listen to MP3 in the USA. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$

2012-12-11 Thread Polytropon
with it. So the "in-line processing chain" consisting of Firefox + somehow embedded acroread (really?) could be split, so the reason for the system freeze could be determined. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?

2012-12-11 Thread Polytropon
for requiring SMB stuff). Delegating the configuration into _one_ file (instead of spreading it across /etc/fstab, /etc/nsmb.conf and maybe some handcrafted /usr/local/etc/rc.d script) sounds like a much better approach. -- Polytropon Magde

Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?

2012-12-11 Thread Polytropon
ml Note that if you still encounter network problems, it's better to write a short rc.d style script that performs the mount_smb commands, and use the proper keywords to have it run when the network connection is up and running. See &quo

Re: mount -u effects

2012-12-11 Thread Polytropon
some time typing the mount command, and you should be fine. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: mount -u effects

2012-12-10 Thread Polytropon
rently open for writing unless the -f flag is also specified. The set of options is determined by applying the options specified in the argument to -o and finally applying the -r or -w option. So I'd say you should always take care that write operations are finished properly (and so brought t

Re: Brian

2012-12-10 Thread Polytropon
pinion. That should at least give you some inspiration on the "why". FreeBSD's networking stack has proven to be reliable and efficient over many years, and being "ready for the show" (especially in regards of IPv6 features) prior to many other systems. -- Polytropon Magd

Re: question about my new Dell 3010

2012-12-09 Thread Polytropon
uot;all digital all the time". Even though both VGA and DVI have a "data channel" to transmit data (like monitor pixel size) to the GPU, DVI seems to be the preferred solution for flatpanels, especially wide ones. 1920x1080 is already widescreen. Does it match the size descripti

Re: question about my new Dell 3010

2012-12-08 Thread Polytropon
ose commands from an X terminal: xrandr --fb 1920x1280 xrandr --size 1920x1280 You can use xvidtune (usually _not_ used for LCDs, only for CRTs and tuning) to verify. In worst case, put those two commands in your X initialization file (usually ~/.xinitrc, sometimes ~/.xsession, if not cas

Re: Install on Intel

2012-12-04 Thread Polytropon
justify. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "free

Re: i am new with this

2012-12-03 Thread Polytropon
host www.freebsd20.12.02 12h 23m > www/videos This remotely looks like what you can achieve with Apache's configuration file (httpd.conf), but would also apply if you'd choose to employ jails to maintain web servers on a per-jail basis. I'm almost sur

Re: Gnome

2012-12-02 Thread Polytropon
/books/handbook/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy Fr

Re: set connection to a modem

2012-12-02 Thread Polytropon
tion to find out which config file it uses. There is no system-wide configuration file for what you need. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

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