Re: bash Shell Scripting Question

2012-09-19 Thread Polytropon
someothercommand's output (stdout), but instead interprets it as a file specification and then reads from that files (if existing). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: 8.1 - 8.3

2012-09-16 Thread Polytropon
such programs. There may be one addition: Sometimes, programs originating from ports become part of the OS (the base system). If I remember correctly, that happened in the 7.x branch with xz (becoming /usr/bin/xz). In such cases, it's good to revier the related ports. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: kinternet alternative in FreeBSD

2012-09-14 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:05:03 +0200, suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: Matthias, Polytropon: I have answered to your messages using reply to but my messages haven't reached the mailing list. I am posting now my answer in a new (not reply to) mail. Check your mail client for reply options. I'm using

Re: NFS Install

2012-09-13 Thread Polytropon
/remotehost/etc/src.conf (fits the machine you build for); and a similar symlink for /sys/i386/conf/REMOTE - /mnt/remotehost/sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL. I know that looks ugly, but it's the easies solution that currently occurs to my mind. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-13 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:46:25 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 12/09/2012 00:14, Polytropon wrote: % cksum directory and could obtain a checksum - so it _seems_ to work. After alteration of one file within the hierarchy

Re: svn and/or portsnap

2012-09-11 Thread Polytropon
) to be able to update ports and sources via CVS. Today this is not needed anymore, as CVS (as csup) is part of the OS. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: kinternet alternative in FreeBSD

2012-09-11 Thread Polytropon
... networkmanager??? -- 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 freebsd

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-11 Thread Polytropon
within the hierarchy a different result was printed. Tested on OS version 8.2-STABLE/i386, one year old. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-11 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:24:08 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 01:14:43AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:38:04 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm trying to checksum directories as I move them around. ive read the man page for sum and cksum ... or maybe

Re: portsnap Generating a Bad file descriptor Error Message

2012-09-10 Thread Polytropon
that in the past myself. -- 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

Re: svn and/or portsnap

2012-09-09 Thread Polytropon
updates, better integration with make update target). Depending on your updating habits, choose the tool that works best for you. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: svn and/or portsnap

2012-09-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 11:26:50 + (UTC), Helmut Schneider wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 10:37:03 + (UTC), Helmut Schneider wrote: Hi, I'm running a custom kernel so I (guess I) need svn in future to fetch sources instead of cvsup. Should I still use portsnap

Re: ports

2012-09-08 Thread Polytropon
questions in PC-BSD's web forum as those are not exactly native FreeBSD things. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: openbsd packet firewall

2012-09-07 Thread Polytropon
'(you may wish to use -i, along with -U or -F). 10. `reboot' 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) The proper use of mergemaster and the two delete* targets seems to be different from your description. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: FreeBSD in finance sector

2012-09-07 Thread Polytropon
. -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: gpart and mbr give no operating system message at boot.

2012-09-07 Thread Polytropon
that is present on disk correctly. -- 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

Re: .package files?

2012-09-06 Thread Polytropon
that block manually to a separate file and then try uudecode (or some other decoder) on it. It's possible that it is a self-contained installer from a Linux distribution... Keep on fighting, Blondie has puppies. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: Auto-mounting sshfs from /etc/fstab

2012-09-05 Thread Polytropon
/usr/local/bin/sshfs your parameters And to /etc/rc.shutdown.local: echo -n sshfs umount where it was mounted to Note that you can add additional configuration tweaks by using the rc.conf mechanism, and you can also add tests to increase reliability. -- Polytropon

Re: NFSv4 ACL permissions setting

2012-09-05 Thread Polytropon
buffer. In that case, you could modify the command to process one result at a time: # find . -type f -exec /bin/setfacl -b {} \; for all files, and # find . -type d -exec /bin/setfacl -b {} \; for all directories. Not tested. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: Error with Coretemp

2012-09-04 Thread Polytropon
device iicbb device iic With xmbmon, temperatures could then be queried. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Polytropon
? I'm sure the compatibility is restricted, but maybe you can give it a try. http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mskermit.html Note that I haven't tried this with any recent FreeBSD system. But it _was_ possible with FreeBSD 4 and 5. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: CMI8788 audio card/chip support

2012-08-30 Thread Polytropon
it (maybe with limited functionality)? I know a similar approach has been possible to magically activate some incompatible USB hardware... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: text editor

2012-08-28 Thread Polytropon
vim and gvim, also give mcedit and joe a try. Make sure your system is properly configured (terminal emulation and language settings, keyboard settings) so you can benefit from what those editors can do. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: text editor

2012-08-28 Thread Polytropon
they are or where to download them. 16-bit DOS text editor program will not run on 64-bit operating system. That lack of compatibility is a significant problem on Windows, don't you think? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: GTK and black window content

2012-08-28 Thread Polytropon
to Firefox (and games such as Doom 3 demo and Quake 4 demo, but not to OpenArena). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: how to solve the problem to install R?

2012-08-26 Thread Polytropon
PDF_MANUALS. Start in a clean environment. Follow the steps as described in the manuals (e. g. man 7 ports) and The FreeBSD Handbook and you should be fine. In _worst_ case, try # pkg_add -r R to do a binary install. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: CMI8788 audio card/chip support

2012-08-26 Thread Polytropon
CMI8738B It lists older CMI8788 as supported devices. Doesn't it provide sufficient compatibility? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: how to solve the problem to install R?

2012-08-25 Thread Polytropon
1 Stop in /usr/ports/math/R. Enter the command # make configure and deselect the PDF_MANUALS option. (Not tested!) This should leave you with GNU info manuals if you keep that option selected. Then repeat the installation command. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: how to solve the problem to install R?

2012-08-25 Thread Polytropon
Makefile excerpt above). If you don't have success with any advice, maybe file a ports PR. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: EXIF inspector

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
be excellently integrated into scripts. In case you need more info from a photo file, use the strings utility provided by the system and parse its output. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
_file_ names (or names containing corrupt characters maybe), that could also be a problem, as the locate command also records those, if I remember correctly. You can change the -type d to -type f to test for file names (_including_ the path). See man find for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: freebsd-update question.

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
with the compat8x port. There are more such ports for older versions that allow running binaries compiled for those OS versions (API/ABI remapping). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
. -- 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 freebsd-questions

Re: firefox png

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:26:18 -0400, david coder wrote: +++ Jamie Paul Griffin [23/08/12 07:54 +0100]: [ Polytropon wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 2:00:15 +0200 ] On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:43:55 -0400, david coder wrote: thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. unfortunately

Re: port configuration data [was re: firefox png]

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:41:41 -0400, david coder wrote: it's happened already: in another post here, polytropon gives a more central role to /var/db/ports/png/options. if i understand him correctly, make showconfig executed in /usr/ports/graphics/png reads from that file. changes made through

Re: freebsd-update question.

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
i386 But make index thinks (I think) this is an 8.x system. pkg_add did add from ...lastest..9.0 for xorg and xdm. AFAIK there are no 8.x components. You could install the ports tree from a 9.0 installation media or simply use CVS to obtain (or at least update) it. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: implications of adding root to a group

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
and programs that are executable for the respective group, even though they are owned by root, like rwx/r-x/---. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Polytropon
files deleted daily_clean_rwho_verbose=YES # Mention files deleted You could however (temporarily) add your own debugging statements to the script in question. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Polytropon
left little reason to keep using FreeBSD. Why use an OS that has less features and capabilities when there are more powerful alternatives with more capabilities that are just as reliable, available? Because it JUST WORKS(tm). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: firefox png

2012-08-22 Thread Polytropon
a better diagnostics step can be done. -- 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

Re: firefox png

2012-08-22 Thread Polytropon
to be reinstalled... :-) -- 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

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Polytropon
clear_tmp_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf), whereas /var/tmp is to be preserved during reboot. Some programs rely on this behavior when putting delete-temporary and keep-temporary files into the respective directories. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Double boot

2012-08-21 Thread Polytropon
fdisk for details, as well as man boot0cfg. -- 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

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-20 Thread Polytropon
such as portmaster) is possible. Of course you have to think first, then do, but I assume it's not needed mentioning. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Polytropon
directly, but it should get you away from any related trouble. -- 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

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-20 Thread Polytropon
should be easy and provide you with a procedure that reliably works. -- 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

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-20 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:46:30 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Polytropon writes: Very good point! I'd clear the /usr/src/obj directory as pointed out, then build a generic kenel, install it and boot from it. Then you know you've got a working kernel to fall back on. You could

Re: doom, quake, hexen...

2012-08-20 Thread Polytropon
which I switched back to i386 on my home system due to trouble with wine. -- 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

Re: doom, quake, hexen...

2012-08-20 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:05:17 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: Polytropon wrote: Please advise if there are any 3D shooters in the ports collection which work out of the box on 9.0-STABLE (amd64)? None of those I have tried work for a number of irritating reasons, like e.g. games

Re: doom, quake, hexen...

2012-08-20 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:46:40 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: Polytropon wrote: I could also play Quake, Quake 2 from ports, and Jedi Knight II via wine. Oh, is there really nothing native? No, that game is far too old, but Quake and Quake 2 have ports (to native FreeBSD) which

Re: user specific xorg.conf?

2012-08-19 Thread Polytropon
should not be able to have access to such files. -- 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

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread Polytropon
doing the same on FreeBSD. -- 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

Re: user specific xorg.conf?

2012-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:38:13 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: Combining a couple of responses into one to cut down traffic... On 08/19/12 11:51, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:44:15 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: In attempting to zero in on my system crash problem, I need to customize

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:54:52 +0200, vermaden wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:33:49 +0200, vermaden wrote: HI, OpenBSD seems to have packages for everything, even for LAME (audio/lame), why FreeBSD can not provide package for LAME the same way

Re: user specific xorg.conf?

2012-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:45:28 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/19/12 15:01, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:38:13 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: Combining a couple of responses into one to cut down traffic... On 08/19/12 11:51, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:44:15 -0600

Re: fsck recoveries, configuration

2012-08-18 Thread Polytropon
). What does (fixed) mean? A can only guess: It probably means that the button is fixed (mounted) in the machine, e. g. at the front panel. You could also check in sysctl's output on what state the button will initiate when pressed (usually S3). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: about system api

2012-08-18 Thread Polytropon
/src directory. Whatever you want to understand as system APIs will be in there. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: doc

2012-08-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 06:16:31 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:43:58 +0200 Polytropon articulated: On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:17:42 +0400, иван кузнецов wrote: how to open RU_FREEBSD_DOC_20111014.TBZ under windows? The file is a tar archive compressed with BZip2. It's no real

Re: handbook pkg name

2012-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:48:24 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: What is the pkg name of the English version of 9.0 handbook? It should be en-freebsd-doc or freebsd-doc-en. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: fsck recoveries, configuration

2012-08-17 Thread Polytropon
what the heck is going on. Try to construct a more _defined_ situation for further diagnostics. Also you could boot the system up in SUM (use boot -s) and then perform fsck manually, just to make sure your disks are fine. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: doc

2012-08-17 Thread Polytropon
comfortable. what you can say about it? with best regards,ivan,Russia,Moscow. MHOrO YCnEXOB! ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: fsck recoveries, configuration

2012-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:44:10 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/17/12 19:05, Polytropon wrote: 2. When my machine hung (could not rlogin or ping), I powered off and rebooted. Does the machine have a soft power button and it is configured to issue a shutdown -p now (which is quite common

Re: fsck recoveries, configuration

2012-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:14:47 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/17/12 21:17, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:44:10 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/17/12 19:05, Polytropon wrote: 2. When my machine hung (could not rlogin or ping), I powered off and rebooted. Does the machine

Re: Blender port

2012-08-16 Thread Polytropon
disillusioning, even more than the typical Linuxisms that sometimes hits a FreeBSD port... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: freebsd-update and csup - I'm going around in circles.

2012-08-16 Thread Polytropon
=RELENG_9 in it. You could also use tag=RELENG_9_0_0_RELEASE to revert back to 9.0-RELEASE.) You can find an example for what the CVS tags mean here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: problem

2012-08-13 Thread Polytropon
If possible, you may consider updating your system to a newer version, 8.3 or 9.0 if it fits your requirements. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Polytropon
fallback kernel in case of problems!), and you boot from /boot/mykernel which still contains your untouched kernel. However, what you're doing seems to be not supported, but it would be a shame if it was impossible. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: Optimus vga on notebook

2012-08-13 Thread Polytropon
of problems, provide more information (commands you tried, their results, significant log messages etc.). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:35:12 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: At 05:24 AM 8/13/2012, Polytropon wrote: That seems to be the default behaviour, as freebsd-update is not supposed to be used with a custom kernel. It works with GENERIC kernels (because it updates them by overwriting). Actually

Re: Question?

2012-08-10 Thread Polytropon
emulation existed, I'm not sure you're legally allowed to run PS3 games outside of a real Sony PS3. Anyway, I'm not a typical gamer, so my short statement is ready to be corrected by someone who knows better. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Apple Aluminium Keyboard (w/ numpad) woe

2012-08-09 Thread Polytropon
, german layout). Thanks very much, and apologies if there's a known answer, it's not something I've managed to find yet if it is. Sorry, no solution here, only confirmation... :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-07 Thread Polytropon
. :-) -- 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 freebsd-questions

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-07 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 01:04:49 +0100, RW wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 23:26:33 +0200 Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:14:30 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Aug 7 02:44:36 2012 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 09:41:41 +0200 (CEST) From

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Polytropon
it: # mount -t msdosfs -o ro /dev/md0s2 /mnt/win Of course you can access all slices and partitions independently. That should be the best approach for recovering data. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Polytropon
a lawsuit, it seems that spreading FUD is often the more profitable way of using patents: I told you! I have patents! But if you pay me $$$, maybe I won't sue you and your users. Maybe... but now PAY!!! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Webpage screenshot

2012-08-05 Thread Polytropon
if the result is a 800x1 px image with 300 px white margin left and right. :-) -- 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

Re: Installing details

2012-08-04 Thread Polytropon
. -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: confused about the png/APNG issue

2012-08-01 Thread Polytropon
the PNG library to be part of that basic distribution content. obviously, i'm confused. will some patient person please explain where i'm going wrong? I think it has been done hereby. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Mail Reference Manual?

2012-07-31 Thread Polytropon
. I understand mail is not very popular these days, but for me a combination of mail/mpack does all I need. Maybe it looks to you that it's not popular among users, but it's very popular among programs. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Flash in Firefox

2012-07-30 Thread Polytropon
linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5 -- 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

Re: Where did my port go?

2012-07-29 Thread Polytropon
with bin/ to find the binaries. However, I don't see a port haskell-platform on my systems (ports collection updated few days ago). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: acroread9 makes CPU spin (busy loop?)

2012-07-29 Thread Polytropon
. :-) -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Where did my port go?

2012-07-29 Thread Polytropon
as described in my previous message. -- 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

Re: Where did my port go?

2012-07-29 Thread Polytropon
mentioned investigation, it's probably the ghc or runhaskell command. I'm not familiar with Haskell, so I can only guess. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Where did my port go?

2012-07-29 Thread Polytropon
or pkg_delete). -- 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

Re: FreeBSD on SSD

2012-07-28 Thread Polytropon
) appear. If I'm wrong and it should really be two units in one, your idea would work. Install FreeBSD to the SSD part and apply the known optimizations. Make use of the HDD part for OS components that need much writes to prevent wearing the SSD. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD on SSD

2012-07-28 Thread Polytropon
other hard disk. You will then (hopefully) see a speed gain when in use. :-) -- 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

Re: acroread9 makes CPU spin (busy loop?)

2012-07-28 Thread Polytropon
is still responsive (as far as you can say this for bloated programs). In top, the WCPU value increases until it reaches 100.00%, and CPU utilization monitor shows a bar. When the program is closed, everything goes back to normal. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Polytropon
that inspects network packets! :-) -- 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

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Polytropon
convince his superior to switch on his brain for thinking about the corporate guidelines. It's worth it, and it saves money. I'm confident that it is a chance to finally dump the stupid idea of insisting to have a virus scanner on FreeBSD where there are no viruses it could scan for. -- Polytropon

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Polytropon
to make.conf: FORCE_MAKE_JOBS=yes MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=4 I'm not sure this is supported on a _single_ core Pentium 4 CPU (or will gain speed if it was emulated). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Polytropon
% -875+548k 44987+6963io 2950pf+0w -- 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

Re: how to determine the temperature of your CPU?

2012-07-25 Thread Polytropon
311 hostb/amdtemp There are programs in ports like mbmon and xmbmon to easily output the CPU temperature values. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Polytropon
by control files (loader.conf et al.) which previously required at least rebuilding the kernel (e. g. firewall, divert). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-24 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:13:00 +0800, lei yang wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:29:38 +0800, lei yang wrote: Yes, the second version I post is using the source from you supplied, then I compiled it, but it has no -U flag like

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:59:55 +0800, lei yang wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:41:57 +0800, lei yang wrote: Hi, I want to build a netcat on my local pc (ubuntu) with gcc, is it possible? I'm new to free bsd I hope I

Re: Question about install from ports

2012-07-23 Thread Polytropon
more than one source listed. If one fails, try the next one. Then place the file in /usr/ports/distfiles and restart the build. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-23 Thread Polytropon
hierarchy which should have detailed information on what is stored where. -- 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

Re: usb identity issue (adds more info)

2012-07-23 Thread Polytropon
of the commands you entered (just to make sure it's not blocked by permission issues or typos). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Removing sendmail from an installed system

2012-07-23 Thread Polytropon
in mergemasterrc? I've never tried to actually _remove_ sendmail (because simply ignoring it seems so much easier when needed), but did you try the make delete-old and make delete-old-libs as explained in /usr/src/Makefile's comment header for the updating process? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

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