Re: Possible /bin/sh Bug?

2012-06-05 Thread Randy Pratt
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:40:45 -0500 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: Given this script: #!/bin/sh foo= while read line do foo=$foo -e done echo $foo Say I respond 3 times, I'd expect to see: -e -e -e Instead, I get: -e -e The last line echo $foo is what is

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:28:30 -0700 Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: This isn't really a question. It's more of a semi-rant, combined with some information that I wanted to put on the record (so that it can be googled) because it may benefit some folks, other than just me.

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-23 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:03:23 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi questions@ Robert Simmons articulated: There seems to be a few email addresses that are subscribed to these lists that keep spamming it periodically, snip I think we should: make questions@

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-23 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:14:55 -0400 Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, June 23, 2011 08:10:29 PM Randy Pratt wrote: I don't think making a list writable only to subscribers solves anything since it seems the spammers are already subscribed. This only makes it difficult

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:21:58 -0400 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Why?  More specifically, can't it be started from the XFCE menu with Run Program or right-click the desktop and Create Launcher? I don't know, honestly. Whenever I try to run it from a Launcher or via Run

Re: USENET?

2009-03-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 07:14:26 -0700 For text, I'd recommend slrn. Gary is already using mutt, so I'd suggest he go that route, or alternatively, try mutt's nntp patch and use mutt instead. Works perfectly well and it's what I use. If reading news is going to be a regular thing, then setting

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:39:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also

Re: Firefox, or FreeBSD?

2008-12-18 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:28:04 -0800 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:29:37AM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: I'm visiting various web sites, and having a stupid little issue which is really

Re: switching discs during install

2008-09-07 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:22:37 +0100 Mike Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 07 September 2008, James Strother wrote: That said, I still think that as long as the freebsd foundation distributes CD images it would be worthwhile to make them as effective as possible. Actually, even if

Re: Why /usr/local/etc???

2008-08-23 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:24:48 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, This may have been covered too-often before, buy why can't *everything* related to /etc hang off /etc? I can create a symlink in /etc to /usr/local/etc named loc or local. Thing

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:22:24 -0500 Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but

Re: List replies

2008-03-22 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:07:57 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dmitry RCL Rekman writes: I actually did the mistake of subscribing to mailing list, because I did not know that I would be able to post (and receive answers) without being subscribed. That resulted in a few tens

Re: Portmaster error or actual bug?

2008-02-26 Thread Randy Pratt
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:08:59 -0500 Michael W. Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Not sure if this is a bug, but it sure looks like one to me. I run: # portmaster -o lang/expect-devel expect-5.43.0_3 expecting to replace Expect 5.43 with the version in expect-devel (5.44). Instead,

Re: Handbook out-of-date after csup/buildworld

2008-02-11 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:54:15 +0200 Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a machine which was initially installed from CD (including the source tree). It's subsequently been updated with cvsup, and latterly csup, and the make buildworld/make kernel/make installworld sequence

Re: Shell scripting kungfu

2008-01-18 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:09:14 -0600 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to do the following: Take a list of various strings, one of which is a quoted IP address, and extract the IPs. (Done that.) Then take the list of IPs and convert them to a list of IPs with masks on a

Re: goffice fails to install

2008-01-12 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:04:49 +0100 Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Rucci írta: Ghirai wrote: Hello list, I had gnumeric installed, and wanted to upgrade. portupgrade gnumeric failed because it wanted a newer version of goffice. I deinstalled the old goffice and did

Re: Opera, Flash and the stench of failure...

2008-01-04 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 06:16:59 -0700 Modulok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seeing the thread about flash with mozilla, I thought, a flash plugin with opera would be cool. Last night I tried to get flash working with opera. I failed. With native opera, I cannot get any plugins to work. Here is what I

Re: Is it safe yet!

2007-12-15 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:59:49 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, I'd like to do a complete upgrade to see if I can fix whatever is broken with evolution. Evolution was updated a few days ago but there's no guarantee that it will fix whatever. You might try

Re: still no luck in coping a 6 G dvd to a 4.7 dvd...

2007-12-11 Thread Randy Pratt
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:21:49 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, I've set up a test account which is pure KDE. Still, using both my Pioneer and the Lite-on burners, no luck in burning a DVD that is larger than thee default. This time I'm using a

Re: Amarok crashes X (since portupgrade)

2007-11-29 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:47:01 + John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Testing 7.0 beta2 so I should upgrade to beta3, but all was working well until I portupgraded yesterday. Now amarok shuts down X server: Nov 30 00:14:37 asus kdm-bin[1146]: X server for display :0 terminated

Re: Unexpected shutdown

2007-11-18 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:12:34 +0100 n j [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it happened before, or does it happened everyday at 3 am, or is this the first time your box shutdown without explaination? No, this is the first time this has occurred, that is what makes it completely unexpected.

Re: strange error when building cups

2007-11-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:18:20 + Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found

Re: cannot get screen out of black/black mode...

2007-11-04 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 22:14:18 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I set up the screen to never go blan? both in console (white on black) mode and in X? Every so often my video card driver (mga) remains blank after 10 to 15 minutes. And gets stuck in

Re: Ports problem

2007-11-04 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 12:30:07 + Desmond Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am having multiple problems with the ports collection # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade # make install clean [ build log removed for brevity ] === Registering installation for

Re: cannot get screen out of black/black mode...

2007-11-04 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 14:18:19 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:22:07AM -0500, Randy Pratt wrote: On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 22:14:18 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I set up the screen to never go blan? both in console (white

Re: xorg driver bug

2007-10-15 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:04:02 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Has anybody with any Dell run into this before? I just got a new Matrox with 32M of video ram. Run with the mga driver, X comes up

Re: Installing FreeBSD using a PPPoE connection

2007-09-06 Thread Randy Pratt
to be an (unofficial) page by Randy Pratt: Installing FreeBSD Using PPPoE: http://www.treefort.org/~rpratt/pppoe/article.html but it's no longer there. I still have a copy at: http://myfreebsd.homeunix.net/pppoe-article/article.html Its probably still pretty close since sysinstall

Re: /usr/ports/packages cleanup

2007-07-12 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:46:26 -0500 Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my packages dir is starting to have more than a few packages of incrementing versions. example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All] $ ls kde-3* kde-3.5.6_1.tbz kde-3.5.7.tbz is there a simple way to clean the packages

Re: Recursivity of -r and -R in portupgrade

2007-07-04 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:56:13 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am wondering is the option -R and -r are mutually recursive in portupgrade. That is, if the option -R applies to every ports detected by -r and respectively if -r applies to every ports detected by -R.

Re: running portupgrade -a

2007-06-29 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:14:52 -0400 Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It seems like a lot of people keep their ports regularly up to date by just running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books. I've been updating ports daily for several years using portupgrade since

Re: auto-removal of earlier package??

2007-03-24 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:37:58 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, Can anybody suggest ascript means to rm -i a whole slew of packages I am collection in /usr/ports/packages/All/? On some of my i686's I have collected as many as three versions

Re: Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

2007-03-12 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:15:20 -0400 Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Alexander Schlichting thusly... On a server I have a package installed using ports and now I have to install the package with exactly the same make arguments on another server. I just

Re: searching archives broken?

2007-03-10 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:51:03 -0800 Ed Zwart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to search the archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/. No matter what I search for, I get no results (even one-word searches that should

Re: [portupgrade] pkgdb -L

2007-03-03 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 01:57:54 +0100 Patrick Lamaizière [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm asking about the goal of the new option -L of pkgdb : -L --fix-lost Check and restore lost dependencies against the ports tree. What is a lost dependency ? I hope I can explain this right. Its a

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:29:37 -0500 Chris Slothouber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Lentvorski wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: But isn't the whole point of peer to peer file distribution to *distribute* the bandwidth requirements to the point that the costs involved for each of the

Re: Guidance requested for multimedia conversion

2007-02-08 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:15:21 + dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 February 2007 00:04, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, Being much more a system programmer / database person than a multi media type I am requesting a 'recipe' from a video media expert. I need to convert an 8

Re: Makefile knobs

2007-02-06 Thread Randy Pratt
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:14:29 +0100 n j [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a question regarding the various knobs one can set while building a port. The problem as I see it is that the user usually has to be a makefile lingo expert (okay, not an expert, but you catch my drift) to

Re: Search Replace Issue

2006-12-23 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:29:40 -0600 Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Appreciate a tip on how to search replace hundreds of *.htm files: From this: lia href=http://www.domain.com/tales/wouf.html To this: lia href=tales/wouf.html In other words, I just want the relative path and

Re: Getting a list of dependencies which have to be installed ?

2006-12-14 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:10:27 +0100 Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey..., Is there a utility to display the dependencies of a port which have yet to be installed ? I know you can get a complete dependency list on freebsd.org/ports , pkg_info -r or just looking in the files in the

Re: dbus_enable

2006-12-12 Thread Randy Pratt
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:14:08 + eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Dec 2006, at 20:57, Garrett Cooper wrote: eoghan wrote: Hi Im seeing some dbus_enable warnings when booting... saying its not set properly in rc.conf I dont see these warnings in dmesg though. I assume its

Re: streaming content on fbsd

2006-11-12 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:49:45 +0100 dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the latest ports. I run freebsd-6.1 I compiled almost every option / dataformat into mplayer. Still no streaming media. Although about:plugin states the format is supported (and mplayer is compiled to support

Re: portupgrade ruby package

2006-07-31 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:07:39 +0800 jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys, portaudit reperoted a vulnerability on the ruby package, so i did the following: # cvsup -L 2 ports-supfile # portsdb -Uu # portupgrade -rR ruby but i encountered this error message, i can't upgrade ruby.

Re: portupgrade ruby package

2006-07-31 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:50:28 +0800 jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/31/06, jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/31/06, Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:07:39 +0800 jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys, portaudit

Re: unable to mount VCD's

2006-07-07 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:16:03 +0200 Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arun G Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am unable to mount VCD's on freebsd 6.1. I have a custom kernel. When trying to mount it says input/output error. Am trying to copy a VCD as i can't play the last part of any

Re: Apache22 + PHP5 installation issues

2006-06-03 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 19:12:04 +0100 robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am having problems with setting up a web server. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-Release-P1, updated of yesterday. I have installed Apache22, php5 and php5-extensions from the ports. (I did check the build Apache module

Re: How to get networker backup software

2006-06-02 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:49:09 -0300 Donald Teed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Our institution uses networker for backups. We absolutely require networker client for FreeBSD. I'm astonished that it was just dropped from ports. I have a dozen or so machines where networker client is already

Re: How to get networker backup software

2006-06-02 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:01:38 -0300 Donald Teed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know, the security issues are moot. The note I remember seeing said that the default configuration was problematic. If our backup server is behind a firewall, and we always config things after installing, I

Odd sendmail behavior change

2006-06-01 Thread Randy Pratt
Sendmail seems to have changed its behavior in the last week. I only use sendmail for system mail and it was working up until May 28: May 28 03:08:23 kt sendmail[96390]: k4S78MdC096390: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=32393, relay=[127.0.0.1]

Re: Odd sendmail behavior change

2006-06-01 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 10:03:35 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now all system mail seems to want to be forwarded thru some relay a t hus.parkingspa.com. I have no clue where this came from nor Try dig kt.weeble.com it is just an alias name for hus.parkingspa.com Doh.. the

Re: What is the maximum file size on a dvd+r ?

2006-05-28 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 28 May 2006 22:51:07 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Lambermont) wrote: yattaran wrote: Hans Lambermont wrote: What is the maximum file size on a dvd+r ? Here's a list of sites I have bookmarked about DVD sizes: Hi Yattaran, I'm not looking into the size of a DVD disc, I'm

Re: colors in messages

2006-05-19 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 20 May 2006 00:33:58 +0200 Mathias Menzel-Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I'm asking about FreeBSD (version 4.3), I'm asking about the echo , print , printf , etc. commands, and similar commands ib PERL , awk , etc. Where can I

Re: Find the Date a Port Was Installed

2006-05-17 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 17 May 2006 17:30:55 -0500 Jeff Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently upgraded to RELENG_6_1 and have attempted a portupgrade on all ports since the upgrade so that new libs, etc. are being used with the installed ports. When it *finally* finished I saw that 9 ports were not

Re: FreeBSD wiki

2006-03-10 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:32:16 -0600 (CST) Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found a really interesting FreeBSD wiki at www.freebsdwiki.net which covers FreeBSD admin info. Does anyone know of a wiki for FreeBSD developers? Looking for info on FreeBSD kernel and some OS theory. The

Re: Sending a message to another computer on the network

2006-03-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:30:15 - Maldonado Dennis R SrA AFIA/MSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Can you tell me how to message other computers on my network? Thanks Take a look at the man pages for wall, mesg and write. They may suit your need for network messaging. HTH, Randy --

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-03-01 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:09:51 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Chris Maness wrote: How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates for ports. And would the best thing to do after I synced CVS, do portupgrade -a so that everything selected gets rebuilt.

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-03-01 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 14:31:55 -0800 (PST) Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Randy Pratt wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:09:51 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Chris Maness wrote: How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-03-01 Thread Randy Pratt
As an addendum: I forgot to mention that its a good idea when updating sources or ports to wrap the process in script so that you have a log of what was actually done. script /path/to/someplace_with_space/scriptname Then run the commands for the process involved. When you are finished

Re: Path And 'cron'

2006-02-20 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:21:22 -0600 Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy Pratt wrote: On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:25:49 -0600 Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the default path for cron jobs established? (And can it be changed...) Take a look at: http

Re: Path And 'cron'

2006-02-19 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:25:49 -0600 Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the default path for cron jobs established? (And can it be changed...) Take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-cron.html and see if that answers your question.

Re: hostname

2006-02-19 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:55:14 + eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Im wondering what the hostname value should read in my rc.conf... I booted to gnome and it was complaining it couldnt find myhostname... suggested adding it to /etc/hosts So i added 127.0.0.1 nathaniel also in here

Re: command line sound player?

2005-11-23 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:59:47 +0100 Blue Raccoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have searched high and low for a simple command-line sound player that I can call from other apps. I need something that just plays the sound, without any feedback. Like 'cat sound.wav /dev/dsp' but without

Re: port version

2005-10-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 08:30:26 -0700 Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eoghan wrote: Hello I have done some searching but not really found my answer. I was wondering if there is a way to check port version? I cvsup'd my ports and id like to check version of some ports before I install

Re: New user

2005-09-28 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:38:53 -0600 Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed 28 Sep 05 03:54, Dmitry Mityugov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/28/05, Xian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Tharaka Abeysekera wrote: I'm a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services

Re: 5.4 or 6 ?

2005-08-19 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:52:29 +0300 Omer Faruk Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I will be installing a server that will be online for production environment in 1 month. I want your suggestions if I should use 5.4 or 6 ? I am thinking to install 6.0-Beta2 and upgrade to 6.0-RELEASE when

Re: screen grabs

2005-08-16 Thread Randy Pratt
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:34:44 +0100 Charles Smyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wondered if anyone can advise me about how to get screen shots / grabs of the FreeBSD installation screens as shown in the online manual, etc. I can use The Gimp’s resources to do screen shots with everything

Re: All about netgraph

2005-08-12 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:29:22 +0200 Peter Blok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was looking for the all-about-netgraph document on www.daemonnews.org http://www.daemonnews.org/ , but DNS ( even a root server ) doesn't resolve the name anymore? Does somebody know what is going on?

Re: A question about dwnloading Ports

2005-06-17 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:42:13 +0200 Arek Czereszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uytkownik ??? napisa?: I am a new user to Freebsd. I do not have a high speed connection, so I could not install softwares from ports directly. It takes me a lot of time. I wonder how to download the whole

Re: portaudit is being stubborn

2005-05-20 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 20 May 2005 13:43:29 +0100 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This annoys me as well, I expect portaudit to alert me when an update is available to fix an exploit, but wget has no update so what is the point of the warning, there also seems to be no way to shut it up. Chris On

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 04 May 2005 09:12:09 -0400 MikeM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/3/2005 at 5:29 PM Benjamin Keating wrote: |A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR). |Some parts are out of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that |could really help. For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could

Re: .iso

2005-04-06 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:23:03 -0400 Jonathan Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bertybadboy wrote: Which .iso files do i download and burn onto a cd? I was all set with a big explanation of what the ISOs were, and to complain that there wasn't a nice, easy to find, concise description in the

Re: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-04 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 01:03:24 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip top-posted tirade -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Hill Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 10:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Randy Pratt; Giorgos

Re: question

2005-04-02 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 22:30:13 -0500 fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reinstall from scratch using cd install disk. Keep trying until you get it correct. That's how you learn FreeBSD. Follow instructions from this url http://freebsd.easyasthat.co.uk/ Is there something wrong with the

Re: Portupgrade (vs. Portmanager) question

2005-03-28 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:49:11 -0800 Jay O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: It would be nice if the ports make options were better documented, but you can read through /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk and find information on the various options. here is an example:

Re: How to get send-pr/porttools working when on a cable (dsl) provider link

2005-03-27 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:00:15 +0200 Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just migrated all my stuff to a new machine and having troubles sending any mail to the freebsd lists and inparticular with send-pr. I have a cable modem connected to my gateway which connects to a gbit

Re: Where does FreeBSD install the Qt directory?

2005-03-16 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:40:26 -0600 CHris Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to compile mysqlcc from source (ports didn't work) and it says install a version of Qt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/X11R6/include] pkg_info | grep qt qt-3.3.3_2 Multiplatform C++ application framework [EMAIL

Re: Items exist in ports, but not as packages.

2005-02-21 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:50:12 + Paul Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been trying to install a few packages using 'pkg_add -r' but I have found that there are a few which only exist as ports, and not packages. The main one which I am missing is 'vtk-tcl'. Is it generally the

FreeBSD motherboard survey site disappeared

2005-02-15 Thread Randy Pratt
There was a site collecting information about motherboards. It was at: http://www.eilio.com/freebsd-motherboards/ It seems to be gone along with all the information that was collected. For reference, this was the original list mail that started the project:

Re: dmesg.boot - strange content...

2005-02-04 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:58:18 +0100 Morten Rønseth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, One of my servers running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE has the following in its dmesg.boot file: _max R *Handler Int 6 coll_weights_max R *Handler Int 7 expr_nest_max R *Handler Int 8 line_max R

Re: FreeBSD 3.2

2005-02-03 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:39:11 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where am I going to find a 3.2 to install, looked on the net and linuxcentral for it with no luck. You can search ftp sites by architecture/release at: http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php HTH, Randy --

Re: which bittorrent client

2005-01-26 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:48:21 -0500 Timothy Luoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, wonderful... I was hoping someone would ask this question. Since I'm running sans-X I was wondering what my options were. Tried ctorrent, but the UI was really confusing, and it didn't seem to upload (for me,

Re: FreeBSD PVR Solution -- any?

2004-10-17 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:53:43 -0500 Mark Beaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to build a FreeBSD based PVR station with at least Svideo output and ideally digital coax sound (maybe not dolby digital) Currently I have: P3 350 448 Megs of ram 160Gigs of storage I'd like to know if

Re: p5-Class-DBI update broken

2004-08-12 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 06:13:48 -0700 (PDT) Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just updated my Ports tree, and among other things there was an update to the p5-Class-DBI port. But i can't portupgrade this; it's broken in an odd way: --- === p5-Class-DBI-0.96_1 depends on file:

Re: portugrade -aR (except)

2004-08-05 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:56:50 -0400 Mike Hauber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, all. I am running 4.10-Stable, and I have the following question about portupgrade. So far, I have not had a successful build of OpenOffice (on any version of FreeBSD... ever... so I use their binaries

Re: FreeBSD ISO-image

2004-07-23 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:03:38 +0200 Maksym Marchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:52:20 -0400, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maksym Marchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! So I need to download FreeBSD iso image 4.10 Can anybody say, what a difference

Re: Ftp server near me

2004-07-10 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:18:36 -0700 Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD from FTP to use the FTP server closest to you. So how do you determine the best server. I recall reading a post that said run a command that will

Re: allowing users to mount cdrom again

2004-07-08 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:41:59 +0200 Grant Speelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I read in the previous post about allowing users to mount cdrom and wanted to try it for myself I did the follow : added vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf changed the permissions on /dev/acd0 to include the

Re: portsclean -DD

2004-07-07 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:25:39 -0500 (CDT) Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The man page for portsclean is a little vague on the exact semantics of using portsclean -DD. I understand that -D specified once cleans out any distfiles for ports which are not currently installed, but

Re: cue images

2004-06-29 Thread Randy Pratt
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:15:36 -0700 Dan Finn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone provide me with the correct syntax for burning bin/cue files using cdrdao. I read through the man page but it doesnt' seem to recognize my .cue file as a toc file. I am trying: cdrdao write -v

Re: what happened to ppp-primer

2004-06-23 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:01:35 -0400 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ppp-primer/index.ht ml The directory is there but it's empty. Has the ppp-primer been retired, or has someone messed up? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=42392 Its

Re: How can I upgrade my FreeBSD Handbook?

2004-06-22 Thread Randy Pratt
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:35:31 -0700 (PDT) Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've already upgraded my freebsd 4.9 to 4.10 using make buildworld and installworld. I also have rebuilded the kernel. I'm totally sure that when I used cvsup to fetch the sources for FreeBSD 4.10,

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Randy Pratt
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:53:57 -0400 Mi A. Llort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:02:49PM -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing Ed, it's obvious you've hit a nerve. Many list subscribers who have never

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:05:43 +0800 Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all kinda fragmentation information. How do I correct this? Any good reading material? FreeBSD will defragment itself without

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:36:52 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:05:43 +0800 Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:45:06 -0400 (EDT) Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:05:43 +0800 Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all kinda fragmentation

portupgrade -c (was Re: Boot GUI / Boot data and process / Fragmentation)

2004-06-08 Thread Randy Pratt
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:59:58 -0700 Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2004 12:37 am, Bruce Hunter wrote: Thanks for your help Kent I read something about using portversion -c with the portupgrade command to upgrade installed pkgs that needed to be updated. When I

Re: PPPoE/tun0 doesn't work after upgrade to 4.10 Stable

2004-06-07 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:22:45 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, i run into somekind of trouble after upgrading to the latest stable version of FreeBSD. After building and installing a new kernel and world from 4.9-Stable to 4.10-Stable the ppp-Deamon can't connect to my isp

Re: voice talk between 2 FBSD boxs

2004-06-06 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 13:13:31 -0400 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The talk command is not really voice talk but what is normally considered as console text chat these days. Is there an 2 way voice talk command or port application between 2 unix type systems with an ms/windows version?

Re: upgraded perl ... now missing mods that was installed before upgrade

2004-06-06 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 12:48:27 -0700 white vamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i did a portupgrade -acCrRv -x kde and every thing upgraded just fine and now when i goto run perl -MCPAN -e shell it loads ok but in the shell if i do a install Bundle::CPAN or any outhere one it cant seam to find

Re: Apache pkg-messagees

2004-06-06 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 23:24:47 +0200 Hutterer Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading to apache 1.3.29_4 you have to add a line to rc.conf pkg_message in the ports tree says: === BE CAREFULL HOW TO BOOT on 1.3.29_4 or after: To run apache www server from startup, add

Re: How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-05 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 17:22:50 +0800 (CST) Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Randy, FreeBSD 5.2 vidcontrol -p /dev/ttyv0 shot.scr with the above command a file 'shot.scr' was created. But I have no program to view it. # pkg_info | grep scr2txt # pkg_info | grep

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