I'd occassionally like to be able to read manpages from somewhere other
than the MANPATH.
Let me give you two concrete examples of things that I can do on linux,
that I don't know how to do on FreeBSD
$ man /mnt/falco3/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.bz2
$ man /home/andi/foo/doc/foo.1
In the first
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 00:20, DavidB wrote:
My question is this, I would like to have a little exposure to linux and
am wondering which distro to run, I used redhat back at the same time I
started with FreeBSD3~ , not sure if I should check them out.
My personal favorite distro is
Notice that everyone praising Evolution or Kmail used their mailer of
choice to compose the message in question, but:
Harald Schmalzbauer:
User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4
Well, even this incredible slow thunderbird was better than evolution IMHO.
Scratch one vote for Thunderbird (leaving 0).
I think this is (mostly) a GiB vs. GB confusion.
In case you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's some background
(if you do, skip the next paragraph):
Giga is the metric prefix meaning billion (or thousand million, if
you're British)--that is, 10^9. Computer people tend to use it to mean
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 05:51, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
andi payn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Was the xterm termcap changed for FreeBSD 5, or have I just done
something to fix this and forgotten about it?
It's a little more complicated, because the *classical* xterm does
*not*, in fact, have
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 20:28, Malcolm Kay wrote:
If you are in X and using xterm then this also has the capability but by
default other programs such as ls are not informed of this because the
termcap description for terminal type 'xterm' does not declare it.
After telling him this same
The rest of your question has been answered, but:
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:00, William O'Higgins wrote:
I found that there was only on reference to the filename in the
Makefile, so I changed it, and then I generated an MD5 on the file that
I had and put it into distfile.
Instead of manually
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 15:50, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
Well, even this incredible slow thunderbird was better than evolution IMHO.
I have a pretty complicated setup--multiple identities, even more IMAP
mailboxes, mailing lists that I want to filter into separate folders and
auto-purge, a Palm
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 06:16, SWIT wrote:
Is there a way to make the directories to show in color when doing a ls ?
thanks
mark
Did you try a man ls? It should give you two options: use the -G
parameter, or set the CLICOLOR environment variable. If you don't know
how to do this (or how to make
Meanwhile, on Sat, 2003-11-01 at 12:34, SWIT wrote:
I am just curious. But for those that continually sing unix over ms praise
you think that matters like this would be looked after so
unixes would be easier for the common man/woman to use.
Do you think Microsoft always gives you new code as
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 16:38, Gregory Stearns wrote:
I hate to be a pest but is there a utility to do http web
browsing from the command line, and how would I use it?
As othes have mentioned, there are many choices--but you probably just
want to know which one to use, and how to get started.
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 03:35, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:57:31AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you create/add a system log to monitor every access to a specific file (say
a database file accessed through samba)? A sample line for syslog.conf would be
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 02:00, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:07:26AM -0800, andi payn wrote:
The second is to use fam. I should mention that I've only used fam under
linux, and, after a brief glance, it looks like the FreeBSD port
(/usr/ports/devel/fam) is not as powerful
M.D. DeWar:
What is the purpose of them exactly. I have read the sites but being
alien to the unix world it confuses me.
Do they just make unix a windows type enviroment ?
Is KDE/GNOME the same or they like themes to X windows.
The simple answer is: X plus KDE or GNOME provides Unix with a
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:33, M.D. DeWar wrote:
for curiosity and exciting dinner banter, why is it I see
programs/application etc referring to FreeBSD as
i386-unknown-freebsd4.8 system
or when doing a configure it shows as that ?
The short answer is that 'unknown' means that the applications
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 17:01, .VWV. wrote:
Hello to all.
OK, this is probably a troll (and I notice that it was composed on
Outlook Express--I'm guessing not running under WINE), but I'm going to
answer it anyway
I'm happy for the new release.
Otherwise, in my opinion it is necessary to
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:56, Xpression wrote:
Hi list, the question is: can I tar a hole directory without include the
tree ??? I mean when I tar all files in a /dir1/dir2/dir3 path, the tar file
includes me the path too and I want to tar only the filenames in dir3: I'm
using the syntax tar
I already asked some of this before, so I apologize. If anyone here
doesn't know the answers, but does know where I should go to ask, that
would be just as helpful.
I have a Mach64 video card (a 3D Rage IIc rev 7a), and I can't get Xv or
DRI to work under FreeBSD. I'm using the
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 05:08, Andrew Humphries wrote:
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 13:51, C. Ulrich wrote:
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 00:43, andi payn wrote:
4. While running a similar set of services, FreeBSD may be using less
background processing time. Or maybe not. I definitely see significantly
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 08:02, RexFelis wrote:
I am using FreeBSD 5.1-p10, and recently I have
need to record spoken sounds.
As DavidB said, the fact that it no longer works in linux implies that
you might have a hardware problem--with the sound card, or even with the
mic. (Is this the same mic
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 14:44, Alessio Caffi wrote:
dear FreeBSD team:
I am a new user to both Linux and FreeBSD. I installed
both system (4.8 and slackware 9) under VMware for
windows they are working ok.
Before parting my HD and do a real installation ,
without VMware emulator. I am
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 07:03, Miguel Gonalves wrote:
How stable is the FreeBSD support for ext2fs?
First, if you're planning to migrate your server permanently, you're
probably better off reformatting in UFS: it's faster, and better for
error recovery. And computers that mount nfs/Samba/whatever
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