portmaster embarrassingly simple question (y- option)

2012-07-03 Thread Jakub Lach
to specify with -y to automatically answer those? I've tried --clean-distfiles, --clean-packages but it's not it. It usually happens when doing portmaster --packages-build --delete-build-only build. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/portmaster-embarrassingly-simple

Re: portmaster embarrassingly simple question (y- option)

2012-07-03 Thread Dean E. Weimer
when doing portmaster --packages-build --delete-build-only build. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/portmaster-embarrassingly-simple-question-y-option-tp5723878.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: portmaster embarrassingly simple question (y- option)

2012-07-03 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/03/2012 12:29 PM, Jakub Lach wrote: === Starting check for runtime dependencies === Gathering dependency list for archivers/unzip from ports === No dependencies for archivers/unzip === Installing package === Installation of archivers/unzip (unzip-6.0_1) succeeded === Delete

Re: portmaster embarrassingly simple question (y- option)

2012-07-03 Thread Iqbal Aroussi
Hi Jakub, On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Dean E. Weimer dwei...@dweimer.net wrote: -d tells it to always delete old files without prompting. Thanks, Dean Weimer On Jul 3, 2012, at 5:29 AM, Jakub Lach jakub_l...@mailplus.pl wrote: === Starting check for runtime dependencies ===

Re: portmaster embarrassingly simple question (y- option)

2012-07-03 Thread Jakub Lach
Excellent, I knew I was missing something simple. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/portmaster-embarrassingly-simple-question-y-option-tp5723878p5723916.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: portmaster embarrassingly simple question (y- option)

2012-07-03 Thread Jakub Lach
Now I see that I even used -d in my own portupdating wrapper, but forgot about it and it's meaning, embarrassing. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/portmaster-embarrassingly-simple-question-y-option-tp5723878p5723918.html Sent from the freebsd-questions

Re: portmaster embarrassingly simple question (y- option)

2012-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/07/2012 13:06, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 07/03/2012 12:29 PM, Jakub Lach wrote: What option do I need to specify with -y to automatically answer those? -d Add this to ${LOCALBASE}/etc/portmaster.rc ALWAYS_SCRUB_DISTFILES=dopt if that's something you're going to be doing all the time.

Re: Simple question about pkg_add ...

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:52:13 +1030, David Walker wrote: Hey. I believe I have a pcmcia card that requires upgt firmware. From upgt(4) ... This driver requires the upgtfw firmware to be installed before it will work. The firmware files are not publicly available. A package of

Re: Simple question about pkg_add ...

2012-02-28 Thread David Walker
Hi Polytropon. I did have a look inside and I did pkg_add -v which gives enough information combined with my meagre knowledge to guess that it had something to do with source. I'm so unfamiliar with pkg_add I'm not sure if that is normal. I'm very new here. Certainly it's not in a suitable format

Re: Simple question about pkg_add ...

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:41:46 +1030, David Walker wrote: Hi Polytropon. I did have a look inside and I did pkg_add -v which gives enough information combined with my meagre knowledge to guess that it had something to do with source. A port (as you can find it inside the archive) is a recipe

a simple question about snapshot, thanks for reply

2007-07-29 Thread PowerMan
Dear sir, My first English is not English, please forgive me if I made some bad words or expression. I have learned from your web site http://www.freebsd.org, that version 6.2 is released in 15 Jan, 2007. Is that a stable release? If it is, why there is 6.2-stable

Re: a simple question about snapshot, thanks for reply

2007-07-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
PowerMan wrote: Dear sir, My first English is not English, please forgive me if I made some bad words or expression. I have learned from your web site http://www.freebsd.org, that version 6.2 is released in 15 Jan, 2007. Is that a stable release? If it is, why there is

a simple question about snapshot, thanks for reply

2007-07-29 Thread PowerMan
Dear sir, My first language is not English, please forgive me if I made some bad words or expression. I have learned from your web site http://www.freebsd.org, that version 6.2 is released in 15 Jan, 2007. Is that a stable release? If it is, why there is 6.2-stable

Re: a simple question about snapshot, thanks for reply

2007-07-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
PowerMan wrote: I guess you mean that: The snapshots of 6.2 stable released in June 2007 have been patched , I can also download patches from http://security.freebsd.org/patches/ http://security.freebsd.org/patches/ and apply them to the offical release manually. Is that right? thanks.

very simple question about patches on freebsd

2007-07-29 Thread b s
dear sir, I copy some content from http://security.freebsd.org/, * FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc * FreeBSD-SA-07:04.file.asc * FreeBSD-SA-07:03.ipv6.asc * FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind.asc FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE released. * FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail.asc * FreeBSD-SA-06:26.gtar.asc

A simple question about patches for FreeBSD from http://security.freebsd.org/patches

2007-07-29 Thread PowerMan
Dear sir, My first language is not English, please forgive me if I made some bad words. And I do not know if that is the right e-mail address to ask questions. I copy a few lines from http://security.freebsd.org/ -

Re: A simple question about patches for FreeBSD from http://security.freebsd.org/patches

2007-07-29 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Is that mean if I use 5.5-release, I should apply all the patches above and if I use 6.2-release I need only apply the FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.aschttp://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc to

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon

2006-12-01 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Graham Bentley wrote: Example: you install Z, which depends on Y, which depends in X, ..., which depends on Q. What if Q is xorg-server-6.9.0_1? I installed 'feh' thinking wrongly it was a console app and ended up getting x, xlibs etc etc when all I wanted was a console app to view jpgs in

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon

2006-11-30 Thread Graham Bentley
And ... how to remove a package and all the packages it sucked in ? All I get from pkg_delete that it isnt even installed when I know it is because that was the previous command I just ran !!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon

2006-11-30 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Graham Bentley írta: And ... how to remove a package and all the packages it sucked in ? All I get from pkg_delete that it isnt even installed when I know it is because that was the previous command I just ran !!! Can you please send us the commands that you have executed? If you used

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon

2006-11-30 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday November 30, 2006 at 07:25:32 (AM) Graham Bentley wrote: And ... how to remove a package and all the packages it sucked in ? All I get from pkg_delete that it isnt even installed when I know it is because that was the previous command I just ran !!! Are you sure you are

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon

2006-11-30 Thread Robert Huff
Graham Bentley writes: And ... how to remove a package and all the packages it sucked in ? You don't want to do this blindly. Example: you install Z, which depends on Y, which depends in X, ..., which depends on Q. What if Q is xorg-server-6.9.0_1?

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon

2006-11-30 Thread Graham Bentley
Example: you install Z, which depends on Y, which depends in X, ..., which depends on Q. What if Q is xorg-server-6.9.0_1? I installed 'feh' thinking wrongly it was a console app and ended up getting x, xlibs etc etc when all I wanted was a console app to view jpgs in elinks. So, the above is

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon a particular port

2006-11-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
Dino Vliet wrote: I'm almost ashamed to ask this BUT I really don't know how to find the packages which depend upon a particular port. pkg_info -R port-name-\* (-r does the inverse, packages on which port-name depends) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon a particular port

2006-11-29 Thread Micah
Matthew Seaman wrote: Dino Vliet wrote: I'm almost ashamed to ask this BUT I really don't know how to find the packages which depend upon a particular port. pkg_info -R port-name-\* (-r does the inverse, packages on which port-name depends) Cheers, Matthew Also, if

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon a particular port

2006-11-29 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Dino Vliet thusly... I'm almost ashamed to ask this BUT I really don't know how to find the packages which depend upon a particular port. In this case, a portversion -l showed mysql-client in that list. I can't recall having installed it by myself Did

Re: Probably a simple question but...

2006-06-16 Thread Atom Powers
I haven't worked with multicast much, but from my understanding you may have to join the router to the multicast domain. On 6/15/06, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe this is a simple fix, but I sure can't find it. I set up 2 FreeBSD boxes as dual-stack

Re: Probably a simple question but...

2006-06-16 Thread Danial Thom
Are you running mrouted? --- Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't worked with multicast much, but from my understanding you may have to join the router to the multicast domain. On 6/15/06, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe this is a

RE: Probably a simple question but...

2006-06-16 Thread Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI
-Original Message- From: Danial Thom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:59 AM To: Atom Powers; Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Probably a simple question but... Are you running mrouted? I'm

Probably a simple question but...

2006-06-15 Thread Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI
I believe this is a simple fix, but I sure can't find it. I set up 2 FreeBSD boxes as dual-stack network routers and I'm using them to test an application capable of generating both TCP and UDP messaging. The TCP part of this equation is working great -- my message fly around the network just

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:08:33PM -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: What's the command to stop a service like gdm? Killall. Seems like a bad idea, unless the service is hung. Using the proper init script would make more sense. To simply stop the service, /etc/init.d/gdm stop as root would do the

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: What's the command to stop a service like gdm? Formally it's: invoke-rc.d gdm stop But everybody (including myself) uses: /etc/init.d/gdm stop To stop it permanently use: update-rc.d gdm remove Thanks a lot. Teilhard.

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
Am 2005-12-20 04:04:24, schrieb Teilhard Knight: What's the command to stop a service like gdm? It depends. 1) For killing it the current bootet Computer /etc/init.d/gdm stop 2) Only from the runlevel 2 rm /etc/rc2.d/??gdm 3) Permanently apt-get --purge remove gdm

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: What's the command to stop a service like gdm? Teilhard. Simple answer: RTFM Extended answer: $ info gdm Thanks. Teilhard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
as root: /etc/gdm stop Are you sure? I haven't tried it, but seems something is missing. Thanks anyway. Teilhard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Teilhard Knight wrote: as root: /etc/gdm stop Are you sure? I haven't tried it, but seems something is missing. Thanks anyway. Teilhard. /etc/rc.d/gdm stop See: rc(8) rcorder(8) rc.conf(5) Regards, Gabor Kovesdan ___

a simple question...

2005-11-04 Thread Javier Matos
Hello, I´m a student of computer science and this year I must to do an application using system calls. We are using linux system calls like pid_t fork(void) and other services of the standard POSIX. I want to know if it´s possible to use that system calls in FreeBSD because I prefer to improve

Re: a simple question...

2005-11-04 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 4, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Javier Matos wrote: Hello, I´m a student of computer science and this year I must to do an application using system calls. We are using linux system calls like pid_t fork(void) and other services of the standard POSIX. I want to know if it´s possible to use that

Re: Simple question of dns?

2005-08-10 Thread Hornet
On 8/10/05, Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to configure my dns to redirect all request from : http://www.mail.mydomain.com http://www.mail.mydomain.com to http://mail.mydomain.com Many users do first request and my server respond only al the second url. Tks!

Re: Simple question of dns?

2005-08-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-10 10:01, Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to configure my dns to redirect all request from : http://www.mail.mydomain.com http://www.mail.mydomain.com to http://mail.mydomain.com Many users do first request and my server respond only al the second url. Tks! 1. Add

Re: Simple question of dns?

2005-08-10 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 12:01 PM Subject: Simple question of dns? I want to configure my dns to redirect all request from : http://www.mail.mydomain.com http

Re: (KAME-snap 9155) Simple question

2005-07-14 Thread Keiichi SHIMA
Hello, From: Tiago Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:24:49 +0100 In what concern to my previous mails I can summarize and simplify the problem: Why when I enable the ipv6_gateway_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf the following error occurs (I am using freebsd 5.4 and the last kame

Re: Simple question

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 6, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi again, I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD Handbook and there I always find this references: sendmail (8) sshd(8) /etc/inetd.conf(5) -Which is the meaning of those numbers Thanks It refers to the section of

Re: Simple question

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On 7/6/05, Efren Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD Handbook and there I always find this references: sendmail(8) sshd(8) /etc/inetd.conf(5) -Which is the meaning of those numbers Thanks The numbers refer to

Re: Simple question

2005-07-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi again, I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD Handbook and there I always find this references: sendmail(8) sshd(8) /etc/inetd.conf(5) -Which is the meaning of those numbers Those are the man page sections to look at for documentation. So 'man

Re: Simple question

2005-07-06 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 07/06/05 03:45 PM, Efren Bravo sat at the `puter and typed: Hi again, I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD Handbook and there I always find this references: sendmail(8) sshd(8) /etc/inetd.conf(5) -Which is the meaning of those numbers This refers

Re: Simple question

2005-07-06 Thread Bryan Maynard
I just want to note: it tokk all of five minutes to get an answer to this question. I know not all questions are, or can be, answered this quickly. I just think it's worth noting that Open Source Software does have excellent user support. . . Just my .02 :-) On Wednesday 06 July 2005 07:45

RE: Simple question--OT

2005-07-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Swiger Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:51 PM To: Efren Bravo Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: Simple question On Jul 6, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi again, I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD Handbook and there I always find this references: sendmail (8) sshd(8

Quick and Simple question

2004-12-02 Thread Alvaro Rosales
Hello Guys a quick and simple question. Which command line should I use to see the type of processor I am using? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Quick and Simple question

2004-12-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 02), Alvaro Rosales said: Hello Guys a quick and simple question. Which command line should I use to see the type of processor I am using? The file /var/run/dmesg.boot will give you a lot of detail, some of which is stored in the hw sysctl tree for easy retrieval

Re: Quick and Simple question

2004-12-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Alvaro Rosales wrote: Hello Guys a quick and simple question. Which command line should I use to see the type of processor I am using? uname -mp sysctl -a hw -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Quick and Simple question

2004-12-02 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:30:18 -0600, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Dec 02), Alvaro Rosales said: Hello Guys a quick and simple question. Which command line should I use to see the type of processor I am using? The file /var/run/dmesg.boot will give you a lot

FreeBSD newbye simple question

2004-11-05 Thread Vittorio
Experienced linux debian user, recently I smoothly moved to linux gentoo (BSD compliant) AND to FreeBSD 5.2.1. 1) I want to tailor my freeBSD slice according to my machine (gentoo experience is helpful!). Now, while i I know how to compile an application in /usr/ports I cannot find sources of

Re: FreeBSD newbye simple question

2004-11-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Experienced linux debian user, recently I smoothly moved to linux gentoo (BSD compliant) AND to FreeBSD 5.2.1. 1) I want to tailor my freeBSD slice according to my machine (gentoo experience is helpful!). Now, while i I know how to compile an

Re: FreeBSD newbye simple question

2004-11-05 Thread Subhro
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:29:07 +, Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Where are those sources? /usr/src 2) The questions' question: where can I read what are the options I can use with a certain source package and how can I use them when make(-ing) the program? Read the makefile or

Re: FreeBSD newbye simple question

2004-11-05 Thread nick holley
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:29:07 +, Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I want to tailor my freeBSD slice according to my machine (gentoo experience is helpful!). Now, while i I know how to compile an application in /usr/ports I cannot find sources of the base system I had to install when

Re: FreeBSD newbye simple question

2004-11-05 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:29:07PM +, Vittorio wrote: Experienced linux debian user, recently I smoothly moved to linux gentoo (BSD compliant) AND to FreeBSD 5.2.1. 1) I want to tailor my freeBSD slice according to my machine (gentoo experience is helpful!). Now, while i I know how to

A simple question

2004-10-31 Thread baguio_sun
Hi! Can anyone tell me the size of folder '/usr/src' when the cvsup is complete? I ran cvsup 8 hours ago and it's still running ... my network is very slow... :( Thanks in advance! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: A simple question

2004-10-31 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 11:20:08PM +0600, baguio_sun wrote: Hi! Can anyone tell me the size of folder '/usr/src' when the cvsup is complete? About 350 MB. I ran cvsup 8 hours ago and it's still running ... my network is very slow... :( If you have a slow network connection, then it can

Re[2]: A simple question

2004-10-31 Thread DanGer
Hello baguio_sun, Sunday, October 31, 2004, 7:23:06 PM, you wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 11:20:08PM +0600, baguio_sun wrote: Hi! Can anyone tell me the size of folder '/usr/src' when the cvsup is complete? About 350 MB. I ran cvsup 8 hours ago and it's still running ... my network

Re: one simple question

2004-03-04 Thread Cordula's Web
I compile a test C file. I notice there are a few lines at the beginning of the assembly code. I want to know what it means, but can't figure out one of them. Can anyone tell me what the following line does please? and$0xfff0,%esp Hmmm, when I compile the simplest possible C file:

Re: one simple question

2004-03-04 Thread bear
thank you very much for the reply yes and I am using gcc 3.2.2 if you gdb the executable and disassemble main you will see the line like that but if you use gcc -S something.s something.c it won't appear in the assembly code and I google around, I think it does the alignment for optimization

Re: one simple question

2004-03-04 Thread Cordula's Web
I compile a test C file. I notice there are a few lines at the beginning of the assembly code. I want to know what it means, but can't figure out one of them. Can anyone tell me what the following line does please? and$0xfff0,%esp gcc2_compiled.: .text

one simple question

2004-03-03 Thread chungwei Hsiung
Hello.. I have a simple question, but I am not sure what the answer is. If anyone can possibly help me, it is really appreciated. I compile a test C file. I notice there are a few lines at the beginning of the assembly code. I want to know what it means, but can't figure out one of them. Can

Re: one simple question

2004-03-03 Thread Chris Pressey
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:13:43 + chungwei Hsiung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello.. I have a simple question, but I am not sure what the answer is. If anyone can possibly help me, it is really appreciated. I compile a test C file. I notice there are a few lines at the beginning

Re: rc.firewall 'simple' question

2004-01-19 Thread Radek Kozlowski
On Monday, January 19, 2004, 2:00:21 AM, Rishi Chopra wrote: Forgive the stupid question, but why are the 'rfc1918' and 'draft manning' sections repeated in the default rc.firewall file? Does this have something to do with the natd statement in between them? I understand the rules are

rc.firewall 'simple' question

2004-01-18 Thread Rishi Chopra
Forgive the stupid question, but why are the 'rfc1918' and 'draft manning' sections repeated in the default rc.firewall file? Does this have something to do with the natd statement in between them? I understand the rules are processed (added) sequentially, so am I missing something?

Re: minimum memory [was: A simple question about FreeBSD]

2003-03-16 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 07:17:51AM +1100, Sue Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This memory question comes up a lot, and I'm not sure how up to date that part of the documentation is. Has anyone _definitely_ run an install on a machine with only 8MB in the last couple of years? Twice I have

Re: minimum memory [was: A simple question about FreeBSD]

2003-03-16 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 07:17:51 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:28:14PM -0500, taxman wrote: On Friday 14 March 2003 08:23 pm, Wizard of Wor wrote: I was unable to find the minimum requirements on x86 platform. Can I run FreeBSD on mz 486dx2 8Mb laptop smoothly? The

minimum memory [was: A simple question about FreeBSD]

2003-03-15 Thread Sue Blake
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:28:14PM -0500, taxman wrote: On Friday 14 March 2003 08:23 pm, Wizard of Wor wrote: I was unable to find the minimum requirements on x86 platform. Can I run FreeBSD on mz 486dx2 8Mb laptop smoothly? The install documentation or the FAQ does have this answer, but

A simple question about FreeBSD

2003-03-14 Thread Wizard of Wor
I was unable to find the minimum requirements on x86 platform. Can I run FreeBSD on mz 486dx2 8Mb laptop smoothly? Please help me by answering this simple question. regards, wauf To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: A simple question about FreeBSD

2003-03-14 Thread taxman
On Friday 14 March 2003 08:23 pm, Wizard of Wor wrote: I was unable to find the minimum requirements on x86 platform. Can I run FreeBSD on mz 486dx2 8Mb laptop smoothly? The install documentation or the FAQ does have this answer, but yes you should be able to run fine on this machine. Just

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:42:31PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Why are ports sometimes released, when

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they compiled file on the committers box. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they compiled file on the committers box.

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? Lots of different reasons, the most

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 02), Cliff Sarginson said: Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? More details please. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Simple question about profiling

2003-02-20 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:40:43PM +0100, Paolo Pisati wrote: I've to confess this my first serious profile session, and i found something really strange (at least for me... =P) see my answer to your previous posting. mcount is a function used by profiling. toni -- Terror ist der Krieg der

Re: Simple question about profiling

2003-02-19 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:36:16PM +0100, Paolo Pisati wrote: I've to confess this my first serious profile session, and i found something really strange (at least for me... =P) 74.4 39.2639.26 .mcount (83) i think this is the beef: what the hell is

Fwd: Re: Simple question about X

2003-01-25 Thread Willie Viljoen
DAMMIT! Yet again I send it back to the sender, and not the list, if I do this one more time, somebody have me banned. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Simple question about X Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:41:18 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian McCann

Re: Simple question about X

2003-01-25 Thread Mykroft Holmes IV
You shouldn't even need to configure X if you are exporting the display. X needs to be installed merely for the support apps libraries. Make sure your DISPLAY Variable is set to windowshostname:0 where 0 is the number of your display (And it should be 0 by default). Then from the command line,

RE: Simple question about X

2003-01-25 Thread Brian McCann
libraries, but how to I get it to install? Thanks, --Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mykroft Holmes IV Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 2:59 PM To: Brian McCann Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Simple question about X You shouldn't

RE: Simple Question

2002-12-03 Thread Barry Byrne
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Asenchi Sent: 03 December 2002 20:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Simple Question What is the smallest fBSD install out there? How small of a hard drive could you fit a good install of bsd on? Not a problem, just

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Kent Stewart
mike wrote: Hello all, The easiest way of going about this is giving you a example. I am in /usr and i want to tar -xzvf ports.tar.gz, but i want to continue working in my shell while this process runs in the background. What would i type to make the output of that command not show but at the

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul A. Scott
On 11/6/02 1:43 AM, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike wrote: What would i type to make the output of that command not show but at the end simply do let me know its finished? thanks guys tar -xzf ports.tar.gz Turn off the verbose and to background it. Kent That will work

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul A. Scott
On 11/6/02 1:43 AM, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike wrote: What would i type to make the output of that command not show but at the end simply do let me know its finished? thanks guys tar -xzf ports.tar.gz Turn off the verbose and to background it. Kent That will work

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Paul A. Scott wrote: On 11/6/02 1:43 AM, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike wrote: What would i type to make the output of that command not show but at the end simply do let me know its finished? thanks guys tar -xzf ports.tar.gz Turn off the verbose

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul A. Scott
Just a shot in the dark, but how about... # script tarout tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz ...? Best regards, Paul [Everlund] Well, yes. That will work, too. Better yet, it is immune to the differences between shells. Simpler is often better. :-) I had hoped my explanation would lead to a

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul A. Scott
Just a shot in the dark, but how about... # script tarout tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz Actually, that won't work. The 'script' command will redirect the output to a file, but it still outputs to the terminal, which is not what was originally requested. My previous explanation is the correct

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Paul A. Scott wrote: Just a shot in the dark, but how about... # script tarout tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz Actually, that won't work. The 'script' command will redirect the output to a file, but it still outputs to the terminal, which is not what was originally

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, The easiest way of going about this is giving you a example. I am in /usr and i want to tar -xzvf ports.tar.gz, but i want to continue working in my shell while this process runs in the background. What would i type to make the output of that command

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread John Bleichert
mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, The easiest way of going about this is giving you a example. I am in /usr and i want to tar -xzvf ports.tar.gz, but i want to continue working in my shell while this process runs in the background. What would i type to make the output of that

Re: Simple question about sendmail

2002-10-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Sorry I bothered you with this question - I found all the answers in /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README. It was not quite as hard as I expected. Stephen Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I am using the default freebsd sendmail set up. I don't want to learn the theory of sendmail - I just want