Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread perryh
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:59:46 -0700, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such

Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized

2010-08-31 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2010-08-30 21:02, Bernt Hansson wrote: Put this in your .xinitrc setxkbmap se Thanks for the suggestion! I wonder, is this metod the correct way. According to the handbook one should use the /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi file. /Leslie

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread mailinglists
On 31/08/10 8:00 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Polytroponfree...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:59:46 -0700, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to

Re: reboot options

2010-08-31 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/8/30 Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:43:33AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Is there a way to specify which boot option to choose on the next reboot? I often find that I'll start a reboot and then get distracted by something else and miss my chance

Re: Firebird 2.1.3

2010-08-31 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.comwrote: This is my procedure to compile it: export CFLAGS=-DAMD64 ./configure --without-editline gmake ... and after a while I get this: ... /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libsupc++.a(tinfo2.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S can not

Re: Firebird 2.1.3

2010-08-31 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
31.08.2010 01:33, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: This is my procedure to compile it: export CFLAGS=-DAMD64 ./configure --without-editline gmake ... and after a while I get this: ... /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libsupc++.a(tinfo2.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S can not be used when making a shared object;

Re: Firebird 2.1.3

2010-08-31 Thread jhell
On 08/31/2010 05:09, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Yes. If it is not in the ports, you are pretty much on your own with firebird! That is why he had asked on questions@ instead of po...@. To see if anyone else had any luck compiling it on a version of FreeBSD over 7.3. -- I really need to

Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized

2010-08-31 Thread Bernt Hansson
2010-08-31 10:29, Leslie Jensen skrev: On 2010-08-30 21:02, Bernt Hansson wrote: Put this in your .xinitrc setxkbmap se Thanks for the suggestion! I wonder, is this metod the correct way. I think so, as long X is concerned. According to the handbook one should use the

The limit on the length of the login

2010-08-31 Thread Vladislav V. Prodan
pw: name too long `sdgkjdsfgkjdfghkdjsfgfsdjghdjks' (max is 16) Crutches pam_mysql and pam_ldap does not offer :) regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized

2010-08-31 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:38:57 +0200 Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net articulated: 2010-08-31 10:29, Leslie Jensen skrev: On 2010-08-30 21:02, Bernt Hansson wrote: Put this in your .xinitrc setxkbmap se Thanks for the suggestion! I wonder, is this metod the correct way. I

Re: Dell Latitude E6400 and Touchpad

2010-08-31 Thread Mike Barnard
Thanks Frank. I'll try asking there. Chip, my touchpad works.. the only features I want are vertical and horizontal scrolling. Do those work for you? On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.comwrote: Quoth Frank Shute on Monday, 30 August 2010: On Mon, Aug 30,

Re: Firebird 2.1.3

2010-08-31 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Washington wrote: Yes. If it is not in the ports, you are pretty much on your own with firebird! That is why he had asked on questions@ instead of po...@. To see if anyone else had any luck compiling it on a version of FreeBSD over 7.3. -- I got the solution in the firebird-devel

Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading

2010-08-31 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Suppose I have an executable which I need to invoke repeatedly (e.g. to run tests in a makefile). This executables spend most of its time loading (rather than processing), due to the need of several huge shared libraries. I'd welcome an hint on how to speed this up. Possible thing

Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized

2010-08-31 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2010-08-31 12:38, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2010-08-31 10:29, Leslie Jensen skrev: On 2010-08-30 21:02, Bernt Hansson wrote: Put this in your .xinitrc setxkbmap se Thanks for the suggestion! I wonder, is this metod the correct way. I think so, as long X is concerned. According to

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-31 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, August 30, 2010 a las 11:31:13AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time?

Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading

2010-08-31 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Aug 31 10, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. Suppose I have an executable which I need to invoke repeatedly (e.g. to run tests in a makefile). This executables spend most of its time loading (rather than processing), due to the need of several huge shared libraries. I'd welcome an

Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading

2010-08-31 Thread Ivan Voras
On 08/31/10 14:44, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. Suppose I have an executable which I need to invoke repeatedly (e.g. to run tests in a makefile). This executables spend most of its time loading (rather than processing), due to the need of several huge shared libraries. I'd welcome an hint on

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-31 Thread krad
On 30 August 2010 20:02, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Rename them, copy, then rename

Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP

2010-08-31 Thread krad
On 30 August 2010 18:38, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:30 PM, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: sounds like a bodge to me Sounds like FUD to me. -- Adam Vande More maybe but why install extra things when you dont have to.

Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading

2010-08-31 Thread C. Bergström
Ivan Voras wrote: On 08/31/10 14:44, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. Suppose I have an executable which I need to invoke repeatedly (e.g. to run tests in a makefile). This executables spend most of its time loading (rather than processing), due to the need of several huge shared libraries. I'd

freebsd-update newbie

2010-08-31 Thread Kyle Dippery
Hello, I've just installed 8.1 from distribution CDs and updated stable with cvsup. I want to enable freebsd-update to keep the system, well, updated. First try, 'freebsd-update fetch' yielded a number of failure messages regarding the public key. Found a fetch address to get the key manually,

Re: freebsd-update newbie

2010-08-31 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:56:19 -0400, Kyle Dippery k...@engr.uky.edu wrote: Hello, I've just installed 8.1 from distribution CDs and updated stable with cvsup. I want to enable freebsd-update to keep the system, well, updated. That won't work. The freebsd-update program is used to track

Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading

2010-08-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 31), Andrea Venturoli said: Suppose I have an executable which I need to invoke repeatedly (e.g. to run tests in a makefile). This executables spend most of its time loading (rather than processing), due to the need of several huge shared libraries. Link your program

Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 31 August 2010 14:51, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: On 30 August 2010 18:38, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:30 PM, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: sounds like  a bodge to me Sounds like FUD to me. -- Adam Vande More maybe but why

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? No. Per definition, a mail client (mail user agent - MUA) can not be the target of mail

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? No. Per definition, a mail client (mail user agent - MUA) can not be the target of mail

Re: wvstreaams + wvdial on FreeBSD 8.1 AMD 64

2010-08-31 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 326, Issue 2, Message: 2 On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:27:47 -0500 Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Antonio Olivares

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:52:45 -0700, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? No.

Re: Dell Latitude E6400 and Touchpad

2010-08-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Mike Barnard on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Thanks Frank. I'll try asking there. Chip, my touchpad works.. the only features I want are vertical and horizontal scrolling. Do those work for you? On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.comwrote:

Re: freebsd-update newbie

2010-08-31 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2010-08-31 09:56:19 UTC-0400, Kyle Dippery (k...@engr.uky.edu) wrote: hostname# freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from

Re: freebsd-update newbie

2010-08-31 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 31 August 2010, Kyle Dippery wrote: I've just installed 8.1 from distribution CDs and updated stable with cvsup. I want to enable freebsd-update to keep the system, well, updated. First try, 'freebsd-update fetch' yielded a number of failure messages freebsd-update will only

Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP

2010-08-31 Thread krad
On 31 August 2010 15:18, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 August 2010 14:51, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: On 30 August 2010 18:38, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:30 PM, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: sounds like a bodge to me

Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 31 August 2010 16:27, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: On 31 August 2010 15:18, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 August 2010 14:51, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: On 30 August 2010 18:38, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:30 PM, krad

Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP

2010-08-31 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:27 AM, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: ill repeat but why install extra things when you dont have to?. I dont think i mentioned difficulty did i? In addition to moving to a more tightly integrated OpenSSL derivative and the benefits from such a move, SCP

Re: freebsd-update newbie

2010-08-31 Thread RW
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:27:31 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:56:19 -0400, Kyle Dippery k...@engr.uky.edu wrote: Hello, I've just installed 8.1 from distribution CDs and updated stable with cvsup. I want to enable freebsd-update to keep the system,

getting eclipse to recognize that devel/subsclipse is installed

2010-08-31 Thread Eitan Adler
I installed eclipse and subclipse via ports. When I start eclipse I do not see svn as an option in the preferences menu nor or do any of subclipse's features. How can I tell eclipse that I installed subclipse? -- Eitan Adler ___

Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading

2010-08-31 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Il 08/31/10 16:35, Dan Nelson ha scritto: In the last episode (Aug 31), Andrea Venturoli said: Suppose I have an executable which I need to invoke repeatedly (e.g. to run tests in a makefile). This executables spend most of its time loading (rather than processing), due to the need of several

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
However, one *could* bypass the incorporation process and find a way to write the system messages DIRECTLY into Thunderbird's user mail storage, but I think that would be a crazy idea. :-) Agreed! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: getting eclipse to recognize that devel/subsclipse is installed

2010-08-31 Thread Andreas Maechler
I've always installed Subclipse directly through the Eclipse' plugin manager, which works very well. Andy On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: I installed eclipse and subclipse via ports. When I start eclipse I do not see svn as an option in the preferences

NFSv4 shows all ZFS filesystems as being owned by root

2010-08-31 Thread David Brodbeck
When a ZFS filesystem mountpoint is owned by someone other than root, this is not depicted properly on NFSv4 clients: On the server (FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE): temp-nfs# zfs create tank/test/testfs temp-nfs# chown brodbd:brodbd /tank/test/testfs temp-nfs# touch /tank/test/testfile temp-nfs# chown

Mirror mounts not available on FreeBSD? (was: Re: NFSv4 shows all ZFS filesystems as being owned by root)

2010-08-31 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:52 AM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: When a ZFS filesystem mountpoint is owned by someone other than root, this is not depicted properly on NFSv4 clients: After playing around a bit more, it appears the problem is that ZFS filesystems under an NFSv4 mountpoint

Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
In attempting to install /usr/ports/print/dvips I got the error message that dvips is an interactive port, and I can't remember how to handle that. Could I please get a heads up there. Thank you. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net writes: In attempting to install /usr/ports/print/dvips I got the error message that dvips is an interactive port, and I can't remember how to handle that. Could I please get a heads up there. Thank you. Just install it without BATCH.

Re: Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2010.08.31 12:34:21 -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: In attempting to install /usr/ports/print/dvips I got the error message that dvips is an interactive port, and I can't remember how to handle that. Could I please get a heads up there. Thank you. OK...I commented out the 'batch' entry in

Re: Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Glen Barber
Hi Rem, On 8/31/10 3:34 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: In attempting to install /usr/ports/print/dvips I got the error message that dvips is an interactive port, and I can't remember how to handle that. Could I please get a heads up there. Thank you. I suspect you have BATCH=yes in

Re: Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Glen Barber
On 8/31/10 3:39 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: On 2010.08.31 12:34:21 -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: In attempting to install /usr/ports/print/dvips I got the error message that dvips is an interactive port, and I can't remember how to handle that. Could I please get a heads up there. Thank you.

ACLs inheritance problem

2010-08-31 Thread Francis Dubé
Hi list, Here's my case. We have 3 web developpers creating files and folders in our main web folder. We would like to setup ACLs allowing them to modify each others file. So this is what I'm doing : # mkdir web #setfacl -d -m u::rwx,g::rwx,o::rx,g:web:rwx web # setfacl -m

Re: Firebird 2.1.3

2010-08-31 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
LMR Hi, does anyone successfully compiled Firebird 2.1.3+ on FreeBsd 7.2 or superior?. LMR I'm on 8.1 amd64 and can't compile it. on amd64 there some problems you can contact to ICQ:382796339 Could you tell me what are those problems in amd64? P.S.: better if we talk in this public

Re: ACLs inheritance problem

2010-08-31 Thread Polytropon
Sorry for not being able to answer your question, but please allow me to mention one thing - it's about correct terminology: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:09:10 -0400, Francis Dubé fran...@optiksecurite.com wrote: We have 3 web developpers creating files and folders in our main web folder. We would

Re: Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:39:35PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: On 2010.08.31 12:34:21 -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: In attempting to install /usr/ports/print/dvips I got the error message that dvips is an interactive port, and I can't remember how to handle that. Could I please get a heads

Re: Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:54:28 +0100, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: For printing from mutt, I use the following in ~/.muttrc set print_command=a2ps -1 ~/mail.ps; gv ~/mail.ps Obviously, that views the postcript file first then I print from gv. What about lpr ~/mail.ps instead of gv

Re: Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2010.09.01 01:11:46 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:54:28 +0100, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: For printing from mutt, I use the following in ~/.muttrc set print_command=a2ps -1 ~/mail.ps; gv ~/mail.ps Obviously, that views the postcript file first then I

Re: Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
Brother! Muttprint is now working fine. The problem: the printer was offline! Now, before you go accusing me of being a complete dufus, let me say that I had no way of knowing that that condition existed. The printer itself indicated that it was online---no problem. What happened is that

Re: Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 01:11:46AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:54:28 +0100, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: For printing from mutt, I use the following in ~/.muttrc set print_command=a2ps -1 ~/mail.ps; gv ~/mail.ps Obviously, that views the postcript file