Re: md5(1) and cal(1)

2010-05-10 Thread Warren Block
'm annoyed by the behavior of the cal utility and the extra work I'm forced to do. cal(1) is pretty old. I suspect it was written partly so the output could be printed out on paper. cal on FreeBSD 8 does highlight the current date. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA __

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-10 Thread Warren Block
ad from MS. It doesn't sound like fun. There's sshfs for Windows: http://dokan-dev.net/en/download/ Untested by me, but I like the idea. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: Xorg 7.5, XFCE4 and radeon

2010-05-04 Thread Warren Block
s from the original that won't hurt but look confusing. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: help

2010-05-03 Thread Warren Block
PoE, though... The device to use would be ue0. Tested with an old Ambit cable modem here; it's detected as cdce0 and the ue0 device is automatically created. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: xfce4 and xorg-7.5

2010-05-02 Thread Warren Block
s.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?ef8c8a881003211016r57b184bagb65e5a2dd1038952 Without xfce4-session, xfce starts and runs every time. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: xfce4 and xorg-7.5

2010-05-02 Thread Warren Block
it. It might be picking up an old lib or some such think. Lately that seems to be a common problem. I pkg_deleted all three, rebuilt libICE (because it's a requirement for xfce4-settings) and then the other two... and it still has the problem.

Re: xfce4 and xorg-7.5

2010-05-02 Thread Warren Block
ll in one go? Just tried those here, rebuilding each and rebooting before testing, and still have the problem. The shotgun approach of 'portupgrade -rf libxfce4gui' didn't help, either. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ fr

Re: xfce4 and xorg-7.5

2010-05-02 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 2 May 2010, Carmel wrote: On Sat, 1 May 2010 17:43:48 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block articulated: I've upgraded three computers to xorg 7.5 so far, all three with xfce4 and 8-stable. Only one has an unexpected weirdness with dbus and xfce. This error happens every time on the

Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall

2010-05-01 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 13:13 -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote: Am running FreeBSD 8.0 p2, and had installed Firefox3. Since it keeps crashing when viewing some web pages, I wanted to deinstall it. When I cd /usr/ports

Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall

2010-05-01 Thread Warren Block
it shouldn't prevent the deinstall. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall

2010-05-01 Thread Warren Block
message, exactly? The Firefox ports have moved around, and you may be trying to uninstall one that isn't actually installed. Which brings up a question, when installing using ports I normally run make install clean. Does this prevent then at later date make deinstall? No. -Warren Block *

Re: Using a scanner (USB) as user and not as root

2010-04-29 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 03:09:02PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: One other difference I found in my /etc/devfs.rules: add path 'ugen*' mode 0660 group operator add path 'usb/*' mode 0770 group operator Mode 0660 should be sufficien

Re: Using a scanner (USB) as user and not as root

2010-04-29 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Marco Beishuizen wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Warren Block wrote: One more problem: there should be a quote at the end of the last line. attach 100 { device-name "ugen[0-9].[0-9]"; match "vendor" "0x04b8"; match &quo

Re: Using a scanner (USB) as user and not as root

2010-04-29 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Warren Block wrote: You can use devd.conf for this: attach 100 { device-name "ugen[0-9].[0-9]"; match "vendor" "0x04b8"; match "product" "0x010a"; act

Re: Using a scanner (USB) as user and not as root

2010-04-29 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Marco Beishuizen wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Warren Block wrote: For the sake of completeness: devd has to be restarted after changes to devd.conf, and the code above is only executed when the scanner is detected (USB cable plugged in or scanner powered on). I rebooted

Re: Using a scanner (USB) as user and not as root

2010-04-29 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/4/28 Warren Block : devfs.rules don't apply to devices that are created dynamically after boot-up.  Or I guess they might be if you reload the ruleset with applyset after the device is created, but devd is a lot more capable. from devfs.ru

Re: Using a scanner (USB) as user and not as root

2010-04-29 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Marco Beishuizen wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Warren Block wrote: You can use devd.conf for this: attach 100 { device-name "ugen[0-9].[0-9]"; match "vendor" "0x04b8"; match "product" "0x010a";

Re: Why hald causes system to hang up?

2010-04-29 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Yuri wrote: Warren Block wrote: Do you have AllowEmptyInput in in ServerLayout or ServerFlags of xorg.conf? I have it: Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "no" EndSection Using AEI sometimes causes problems with input, like

Re: Convert Windows driver via ndisgen

2010-04-29 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Jerry wrote: Apparently, FreeBSD does not have a driver for a Linksys WUSB600N network adapter. If it has an RT2870 chipset, there's been some work: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7010 -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakot

Re: Why hald causes system to hang up?

2010-04-29 Thread Warren Block
nds around every 15 seconds, especially when I type in KDE konsole. string in konsole doesn't get selected any more when I double click on it. Anybody has any insight why hald would cause such consequences? Do you have AllowEmptyInput in in ServerLayout or ServerFlags of xorg.conf?

Re: Using a scanner (USB) as user and not as root

2010-04-28 Thread Warren Block
devices that are created dynamically after boot-up. Or I guess they might be if you reload the ruleset with applyset after the device is created, but devd is a lot more capable. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Network laser printcap

2010-04-24 Thread Warren Block
-1010 working consistently on both ascii & ps What consistency problems are you having? What are you using for the rp= parameter (queue name)? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Problems with printing

2010-04-23 Thread Warren Block
now? That may be a function of the desktop environment. With xfce4, Settings/Printing set to "BSD/LPR", Firefox prints fine. Worst case, you can enter lpr in the Command Line box of the Firefox printing dialog. Or /usr/bin/lpr if it's wrongly trying to run the CUPS lpr.

Re: Problems with printing

2010-04-22 Thread Warren Block
hat didn't help, too. You should not be a member of the daemon group; operator is fine. And also beware of changing multiple settings at the same time. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: Problems with printing

2010-04-22 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Warren Block schrieb: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: I'm facing serious problems with my new bought HP ColorLaserjet 2025dn. I plugged it in the right interface and it got detected. I did set up /etc/printcap as following: p|local

Re: Problems with printing

2010-04-22 Thread Warren Block
can't just comment out individual sections. Remove the whole ps2pcl filter line. That may not be the whole problem, but it's a start. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Question. Multi Boot

2010-04-18 Thread Warren Block
SD boot manager. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-18 Thread Warren Block
te that I only noticed the UFS mode lately and have only tried it once so far, so no real experience on how safe it is yet. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Warren Block
h-power OLED keyboard (my eyes!). Speakers labelled 500 mA but really only a low-power USB device. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Warren Block
e the port. That should show in /var/log/messages. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-que

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Warren Block
7;s before allowing them to boot into the manufacturer Windows setup. (PS: please trim your responses. Thanks.) -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Warren Block
whole Windows partition before you add another OS. For backup, you can use the FreeBSD livefs and dd, but clonezilla or partimage are faster. Clonezilla automatically saves a separate copy of the MBR, AFAIR. http://www.clonezilla.org/ http://sysresccd.org/Main_Page -Warren Block * Rap

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Warren Block
e for private use from <http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm> Clonezilla is open source and has worked for me: http://www.clonezilla.org -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: Marvell Yukon Driver for Hp notebook??

2010-03-29 Thread Warren Block
l need a total re-install but so far BSD seems completely hosed on my machine :-( You may be able to unload that kernel module before booting. If it's a kernel module; don't know. The one Marvell card I have in a notebook is supported by the open FreeBSD msk driver thanks to Pyun Yo

Re: Marvell Yukon Driver for Hp notebook??

2010-03-28 Thread Warren Block
icular hardware you have. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Weird Problems with User Home Directory , Asking for help

2010-03-22 Thread Warren Block
=== Have you set up a jail? The "no home directory" message appears in usr.sbin/jail/jail.c in 8-stable. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: VirtualBox from the command line

2010-03-19 Thread Warren Block
://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=170485+0+archive/2010/freebsd-stable/20100221.freebsd-stable -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Trouble Installing JKD15 On A Vanilla 8.0 Installation

2010-03-19 Thread Warren Block
package manager. Would it therefore make sense to re-install it using the "make deinstall && make install clean" command? Which "it"? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: greylisting with sendmail recommendations

2010-03-18 Thread Warren Block
does anyone use this and have you found it to be effective? It works for me. Article that's a bit old but probably still close: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/greylist.pdf -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd

Re: VirtualBox from the command line

2010-03-18 Thread Warren Block
airly involved. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Irritating delay in mouse in kde4

2010-03-17 Thread Warren Block
;AutoAddDevices" "false" -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: problems w/ touching all files?

2010-03-11 Thread Warren Block
trying to install from ports. Please show an example. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Warren Block
.x to 8.x, it's necessary to rebuild *all* ports. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Port/package install preview

2010-03-05 Thread Warren Block
thing if that port isn't already installed. If you're looking at installing a new port, portinstall may act differently. But I prefer to just cd to the port directory and do 'make missing'. 'make fetch-list' will show the fetch commands. -Warren B

Re: xorg, xdm, desktop env

2010-03-04 Thread Warren Block
e x11/xorg-apps port. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd

2010-03-04 Thread Warren Block
ven't tried. There's a probably-related thread in -emulation. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Warren Block
ogramming information for their boards; nVidia has not. Which is why there's a mostly-functional open-source driver with 2D and 3D acceleration for ATI, ...and nouveau for nVidia. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questio

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Warren Block
o cards? Lenovo's web site doesn't seem very oriented to telling potential customers details about their newer computers. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Warren Block
impler /etc/printcap above using ps2hl1250 which is a very short script works as well. No need to have to load the foomatic-filters port. Although like apsfilter, foomatic provides other features you may like. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA_

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Warren Block
inting.pdf -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Warren Block
verify whether the plain lpd entry with the unlpt0 device works? lp:\ :lp=/dev/unlpt0:\ :sh:\ :mx#0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/ps2hl1250: \ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA__

Re: no new/current f10 emulator?!

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Block
e 2.6.16. *** Error code 1 IS there a way of using the f10 version of this stuff or other workarounds? Works fine here. Do you have a leftover compat.linux.osrelease setting in loader.conf or sysctl.conf? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Block
thing: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10710 Try using the unlpt0 device. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Block
nprinters just encourages them to make more.) -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Block
ould still only be one running. Is the second one grep, maybe? After reboot and restarting lpd, the job is in the queue but nothing is printing when using the USB connection. Check the status: % lpc status lp And try restarting the printer: % lpc restart lp -Warren B

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Block
"LPD Printing" document is now here: http://wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/lpdprinting.pdf Feedback and error corrections welcome. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Block
ter. This works for me here--I reconnected my printer via USB to try it. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Warren Block
ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-intro-setup.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-advanced.html -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: can I do away with most things-java?

2010-02-24 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Gary Kline wrote: Still cannot find the Latest tzupdater; it's like 90 links to find the bloody thing. Aaarrrgh. cd /usr/ports/java/jdk16 make config turn off TZUPDATE -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakot

Re: how to read .ods (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) without KOffice?

2010-02-17 Thread Warren Block
math/gnumeric has been able to read .ods files for me. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd

Re: cannot build GIMP 2.6.8-1 on 8.0-STABLE

2010-02-15 Thread Warren Block
help was very outdated anyway. Don't know why the webkit-gtk2 build dies, though. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: xorgconfig missing FBD_8

2010-02-11 Thread Warren Block
other problems. On FreeBSD it was used to address an early bug, since fixed. Then it became seen as the way to disable hal in xorg. It can cause trouble doing that, though. So if you're trying to disable hal devices in xorg, first try Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" -

Re: Detecting cards in USB card reader

2010-02-10 Thread Warren Block
unsuspecting device to signal a media change just looks wrong. usbconfig -d 3.3 reset seemed to work with my Sandisk card reader just now. This is still a side effect, but doesn't look as bad. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ fr

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread Warren Block
it via the keyboard. --and even then, you may not get it right for several tries. i was thinking of simple things like, say, the integral from 0 to pi dxdy; ormaybe the nth root of x-to-the-yth power. OOo Math: int from 0 to pi dxdy nroot n (x^y) Please reconsider the indenting on your posts

Re: xorgconfig missing FBD_8

2010-02-09 Thread Warren Block
you are looking for. AllowEmptyInput bad, AutoAddDevices good. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: VirtualBox is broken?

2010-02-09 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Yuri wrote: Bernt Hansson wrote: I can run the GUI but not load the kernelmodule. I can run GUI and load module, but module seems to crash the system on VM start. Did you rebuild the kernel module after updating the system? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread Warren Block
f TeX. Based entirely on reputation, I'd think PowerPoint could do this fairly easily, provided the symbols you need are in one of the installed fonts. Have you tried the corresponding OpenOffice tool? (I think it may be called "present" or some such.) OOo "Math". -Wa

Re: portupgrade

2010-02-08 Thread Warren Block
x27;pkgdb -F' or 'pkgdb -L' usually isn't required unless there is an error, although in most cases it wouldn't do any harm. Doh, that's correct--portsdb. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Can loader.conf give you NATD support?

2010-02-08 Thread Warren Block
r using pf instead of ipfw. pf does NAT without needing natd or those kernel options. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: portupgrade

2010-02-08 Thread Warren Block
outdated. csup/portsnap, run pkgdb -Fu, and try it again. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &qu

Re: Breaking the sendmail code / sendmail for dummies

2010-02-08 Thread Warren Block
Yes, editing hostname.mc should be all that's necessary. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

Re: Breaking the sendmail code / sendmail for dummies

2010-02-07 Thread Warren Block
`masquerade_entire_domain') FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') After the edits, do a 'make all install restart'. Done! -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: Cannot build perl on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-02-07 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Robert Huff wrote: Warren Block writes: > Not yet. I'm trying to do this - a lot of ports depend on perl, and I > get stuck with it. > No, there are no any extra settings in /etc/make.conf. You may be running into the situation where something Perl ne

Re: Cannot build perl on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-02-07 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Denis wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Warren Block wrote: Did you rebuild all your ports after the upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0? Do you have any extra settings in /etc/make.conf? Not yet. I'm trying to do this - a lot of ports depend on perl, and I get stuck wi

Re: Cannot build perl on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-02-07 Thread Warren Block
any extra settings in /etc/make.conf? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-uns

Re: backup terminal title

2010-02-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Warren Block wrote: What's the sequence for reading the terminal title? If I remembered it I'd have included it :) I did some unsuccessful searching for "query xterm title" earlier today. The first 3 results from Go

Re: backup terminal title

2010-02-06 Thread Warren Block
ant to (somehow) cover problematic cases like terminals that don't reply to the inquiry even though TERMCAP implies that they should. % printf "\033]0;Title Here\007" What's the sequence for reading the terminal title? -Warren B

Re: Wireless Access Point

2010-02-06 Thread Warren Block
ernet from any of the wireless machines. I could use some advice on what to do to correct this. Sounds like NAT is working for the internal wired interface, but not the wireless interface. Check your firewall rules. -Warren Block * Rapid City, So

Re: Shutdown

2010-02-01 Thread Warren Block
olkit port upgrade, too. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Warren Block schrieb: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Warren Block schrieb: ... The GUI is /usr/local/bin/VirtualBox. All of the others are command-line interfaces. ... Maybe you turned off the QT4 option in the VirtualBox port config

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Warren Block schrieb: ... The GUI is /usr/local/bin/VirtualBox. All of the others are command-line interfaces. I only have this in /usr/local/bin: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 33 30 Jan 20:45 VBoxBFE@ -> /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VBox

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Hi, Warren1 Warren Block schrieb: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the "run"-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the "run"-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is "Command can't be executed" in german. I also tried with

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Warren Block
BFE", but that doesn't work either. Where should I look for a solution? Please post the full command line you are using. Why are you using VBoxBFE rather than VirtualBox or VBoxSDL? I would also suggest using the links in /usr/local/bin rather than going to /usr/local/lib/virtualbo

Re: Intel Pro/Wireless3945 issue

2010-01-27 Thread Warren Block
curity, try without first wlans_wpi0="wlan0" # mine is wlans_iwn0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" The virtual wlan0 was added for FreeBSD 8. For 7.2, it should still be done the old way (using the actual card, wpi0 in this case). -Warren Block *

Mouse selection overeagerness

2010-01-24 Thread Warren Block
d just be nice if there was a way to reduce this selection oversensitivity. Is there a place to increase the threshold that defines when a selection is taking place? Somewhere between moused and syscons, maybe, but a cursory [hah] look at their man pages didn't show an adjustment. -Warre

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Warren Block
#x27;m not sure what package I would need for that. Post the model number of the Zonet card. Is it PCI or USB? You could try just loading all of the wireless kernel modules and seeing if any of them find the hardware. There's a list of those in the See Also section for wlan(4). -Warre

Re: What sort of file system is this and how to mount it?

2010-01-23 Thread Warren Block
argument eco# mount_msdosfs /dev/ad4p2 /mnt mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad4p2: Invalid argument eco# mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad4p2 /mnt mount: /dev/ad4p2 : Invalid argument Any ideas? file -s /dev/ad4p2 may be able to identify it. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA

Re: Restarting after Make Install....

2010-01-19 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Programmer In Training wrote: On 1/19/2010 9:57 PM, Warren Block wrote: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start Wouldn't restart be better? If not I think the old processes will still be loaded up and serving pages. On a first install of apache, there won't

Re: Restarting after Make Install....

2010-01-19 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Diego Montalvo wrote: 2010/1/19 Warren Block : No, restarting the computer is very rarely necessary. There are some less involved steps that might be needed, like setting flags in /etc/rc.conf to enable new ports.  Some ports have services that need to be started, and csh

Re: Restarting after Make Install....

2010-01-19 Thread Warren Block
ng... No, restarting the computer is very rarely necessary. There are some less involved steps that might be needed, like setting flags in /etc/rc.conf to enable new ports. Some ports have services that need to be started, and csh/tcsh users may need to use the rehash command before using new ports.

Re: Link to File for JDK16 tzupdater-1_3_21-2009p.zip

2010-01-19 Thread Warren Block
es someone have link where I can download the file? or can someone email me the file? You can use 'make config' in the port to disable the need for that file entirely. I don't know what the down side is to that. -Warren Block * Rap

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-17 Thread Warren Block
amiss. Agreed. A warning would give time to interrupt a big distfile fetch or build without taking that option away by default, or encouraging disabling conflict checks altogether. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questi

Re: wireless ath - unable to get scan results

2010-01-15 Thread Warren Block
ot;. I can't find a PR for updating the Handbook on this. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 ipw WPA

2010-01-12 Thread Warren Block
I've entered PR kern/142766 for this. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-question

Re: sendmail issues - make fails to create aliases.db in /etc/mail

2010-01-12 Thread Warren Block
he man page for mailer.conf. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: El d?a Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a las 08:48:31AM -0700, Warren Block escribi?: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and

Re: sendmail issues - make fails to create aliases.db in /etc/mail

2010-01-12 Thread Warren Block
same way. You might try newaliases. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Warren Block
lash plugin run under Wine. There are occasional graphic artifacts and Firefox windows want a double-click on the close gadget to actually close, but otherwise it works very well. Java also runs, although there it's not 100%. Maybe enough for Webex. -Warren Block * Rapid Ci

Re: Catastrophic Installation Failure now!

2010-01-10 Thread Warren Block
supposed to be created by mysql_install_db. Looking at the log file it created may help; suspect directory ownership or permissions, or maybe it is working in the wrong directory entirely. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-quest

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