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

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: 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 ___

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

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

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
PicoBSD (http://www.picobsd.org/) fits on a floppy. -- Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland Phone: +353 1 417 0150 Fax:+353 1 478 5544 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.wbtsystems.com -Original Message-

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