Re: test...

2004-03-23 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Gary wrote: > > is anything getting thru? Nope. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Question

2004-03-18 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Adam wrote: >I am very new to this and I have installed the FreeBSD on my computer. >What is the command that you use to launch the GUI that is installed >with this?? (I think it was Xfree86 or Xwindows) Assuming you have everything properly installed you only need to execute the: startx c

Re: good things to say

2004-03-16 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
j. wrote: >my dear open sourcerers, > >i am writing this letter to ask for your assistance in advocating >open source and in particular freebsd for the enterprise. [...] There's a freebsd advocacy list for this kind of stuff, you know. -- Cheers, Bernard

Re:

2004-03-05 Thread bernard . el-hagin
Chris wrote: > > hi dear mr or mrs > > i use freebsd 5.0 . whenever i want boot my > > computer(when kernel want boot) i see this messages: > > unable to load kernel! > > > > cant load 'kernel' > > please guide me > > regads > > No offense - but without proper information, the list can't determin

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-26 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Uwe Doering wrote: >Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >> Uwe Doering wrote: >>>Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >>>>Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>[...] >>>>>I think there's something in one of the included makefiles that relies

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-25 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
I asked: >Uwe Doering wrote: [...] >>If you have the OS sources installed you could selectively upgrade the >>source files of make(1) via cvsup(1) and just install it. No need to >>upgrade the whole OS only because make(1) got an additional command line >>option. We recently did this fo

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-24 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Uwe Doering wrote: >Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >> Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:44:45AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >>> >>>>>>Since I have this same problem I ran 'make describe' and h

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-23 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:44:45AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > >> > > Since I have this same problem I ran 'make describe' and here's the >> > > result: >> > > >> > &

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-23 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Kris wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:57:18AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:28:32AM +, Robert Woolley wrote: > > > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Jeff Penn wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-23 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:28:32AM +, Robert Woolley wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Jeff Penn wrote: > > > > > My ports system is in a bit of a mess. The problems first surfaced > > > after last weeks 'cvsup; portsdb -uU'. This weeks cvsup did not > > > improve the si

Re: how to extract winzip files?

2004-02-23 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > Is there a way, I can uncompress zip files made under win? > Unzip from ports collection probably can't do that: > > End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not > a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In th

Re: pkgs managing

2004-02-13 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
flux wrote: > Hello everyone. > > How do I know what package does the file belong? man pkg_which -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMA

Re: your mail

2004-02-10 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
?? ?? wrote: > Sir, >would please ask me a simple problem? How can I download the source > code and what is the U RL? Now,I am trying to construct a operating > system, and I have lots of questions about OS. Can you help me? >Thanks a lot! You'll find everything you need at: http://ww

Re: how to get rid of ^M character using vi

2004-01-25 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sunday 25 January 2004 01:43 am, marlon corleone wrote: >> how do i get rid of this annoying character ^M using vi, in pico i >> used the arguments '-w' >> but what about in vi? > > >starting on the 1st line type >:.,$s/vm// > >The .,$ tells it to proces

Re: perl script question.

2004-01-11 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:26:30PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > At 06:02 PM 1/10/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > >On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 11:39:07PM +0100, Bj?rn Andersson wrote: > > > > > >> If this occures more than once on a line we should have the line as this: > > >>

Re: Download contents of http directory?

2004-01-10 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Minnesota Slinky wrote: > Hello list, > > How can I download the entire contents of a directory > on a webserver? I can see them in index mode, but > it's a list of about 2,000 jpg files for a reunion. > How can I download everything there to one directory? Use wget. It's in ports. -- Cheer

Re: perl script question.

2004-01-10 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Gary Kline wrote: > > Folks, > > Let's see if perl can do this one; it's as obscure a task > as I've run into. I have scores of files with: > > A regular sentence, or phrase. then_one_containing_underscores_- > between_each_word Followed by another regular, space-

Re: mass word find/replace

2004-01-07 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Mark wrote: >I am trying to find a way to replace one word in a file >with another word, like windows wordpad find/replace. > >I need to change pn_ to nuke_ and have a 188000 lines to do it on. ugh perl -i.bak -pe 's/pn_/nuke_/g' /input/file(s) The old file(s) will be saved with the extensi

Re: switching from sendmail to postfix

2004-01-07 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Ernst wrote: >On woensdag 7 januari 2004 13:07, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Nice mail client you have :-) Unfortunately, at work (where I am right now) I have to use what they tell me to use. I also have to do what they tell me to do, whic

Re: switching from sendmail to postfix

2004-01-07 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Markus wrote: > > >>Hello all, >> >>I´m running an FreeBSD 4.9 System and from scratch is an sendmail MTA installed and >>active. >> >>I would use postfix as my MTA. >>How should I switch to postfix at best? > > >When you install the postfix port you are given instructio

Re: switching from sendmail to postfix

2004-01-07 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Markus wrote: >Hello all, > >I´m running an FreeBSD 4.9 System and from scratch is an sendmail MTA installed and >active. > >I would use postfix as my MTA. >How should I switch to postfix at best? When you install the postfix port you are given instructions on how to do just that. If you've al

Re: XFree86 & Desktop installation

2004-01-06 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:04:48AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I already configured the XFree86 on my FreeBSD system and I want to run >> the KDE or Gnome desktop applications. How is this possible. >> >> I appreciate your help. Totally newbie here :) >

Re: How to count the lines of code in a project?

2003-12-23 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hello. How to count the number of lines in all *.c file in a directory? > >I can think of this on csh: > >> grep -c "" `find . -name "*.c"` | sed "s/.*:/e=e+/" > /tmp/countlines.py > >And edit the py file, and "e=0" as first line, "print e" as the last >line, and execut

Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD

2003-12-04 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:41, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:17, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >> >> >On T

Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD

2003-12-03 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:17, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> When I install some appliactions from po

Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD

2003-12-03 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >> Hello, >> >> When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice >> anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others >> do not (most notably gVim a

Anti aliased fonts in FBSD

2003-12-03 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Hello, When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications to always us

Re: No sound when playing a CD in FreeBSD 4.9

2003-11-21 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
You wrote: [...] >Maybe a common mistake: > >Is there an audio cable between the drive and the soundcard ? > >That is necessary to play cdda. > >I don't know the exact specs but your cd-drive sends the sound kinda >"directly" to your soundcard. So that cable is necessary But he said it worked