Re: System mail
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 as Thunderbird or Mutt? No. Per definition, a mail client (mail user agent - MUA) can not be the target of mail delivery ... Depending on what the OP had in mind, ports/mail/procmail might turn out to be (at least part of) a solution. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: System mail
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 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 delivery ... Depending on what the OP had in mind, ports/mail/procmail might turn out to be (at least part of) a solution. Actually Mutt can read directly from a mbox file like in /var/mail/ ***deze e-mail is gescand door Onlinespamfilter.nl*** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reboot options
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 to specify which way to boot before the beastie screen times out. A nit, I know -- but bothersome to a nitwit such as I. A nit by which others have obviously been irritated - nextboot(8) is probably what you're looking for! Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ If you don't remember a command, and knows the subject and what the command is supposed to do try the command apropos. $ apropos boot Shows many intersting things :-). -- Demelier David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firebird 2.1.3
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 be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/libsupc++.a: could not read symbols: Bad value gmake[2]: *** [../gen/firebird/lib/libfbclient.so.2.1.3] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/martin/desarrollo/Firebird-2.1.3.18185-0/gen' gmake[1]: *** [libfbclient] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/martin/desarrollo/Firebird-2.1.3.18185-0/gen' gmake: *** [firebird] Error 2 Any hint? Yes. If it is not in the ports, you are pretty much on your own with firebird! -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!. -- Lucky Dube ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firebird 2.1.3
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; recompile with -fPIC Here you go, linker says you what to do. /usr/lib/libsupc++.a: could not read symbols: Bad value gmake[2]: *** [../gen/firebird/lib/libfbclient.so.2.1.3] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/martin/desarrollo/Firebird-2.1.3.18185-0/gen' gmake[1]: *** [libfbclient] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/martin/desarrollo/Firebird-2.1.3.18185-0/gen' gmake: *** [firebird] Error 2 Any hint? try CFLAGS=-DAMD64 -fPIC -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firebird 2.1.3
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 discard this list. jhell,v ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized
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 /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi file. There are no *.fdi files on this machine, and I don't feel like fiddling with hal. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
The limit on the length of the login
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 any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized
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 think so, as long X is concerned. According to the handbook one should use the /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi file. There are no *.fdi files on this machine, and I don't feel like fiddling with hal. No one in their right mind likes messing with hal. HAL is now (at least on other OSs) deprecated, since it has become a large monolithic unmaintainable mess, and also duplicates a lot of functionality which are nowadays provided by udev and the kernel itself. Hopefully, FreeBSD will soon free itself from its clutches. -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ Take Care of the Molehills, and the Mountains Will Take Care of Themselves. Motto of the Federal Civil Service ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dell Latitude E6400 and Touchpad
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, 2010 at 04:59:55PM +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: anyone on this... Synpatics Touchpad on FreeBSD 64-bit? Mike, since you haven't received a reply from this list, your best bet is probably to post to the freebsd-mobile list. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html My ASUS K72F has a touchpad, but I don't know if it's Synaptics. Any way I can tell? In any case, it worked automagically with FreeBSD 8.0 and 8.1 amd64. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firebird 2.1.3
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 list, it's an easy one, just apply this patch: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.1.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/no-static-linkage.patch;hb=HEAD Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading
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 would be to cache these shared libraries (and possibily the executable too) in memory, so that any invocation after the first is faster. Is this possible at all? Any other idea? bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized
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 the handbook one should use the /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi file. There are no *.fdi files on this machine, and I don't feel like fiddling with hal. OK, thank you. /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player
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? I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... Will prepare the key again or just fill in the dumps I have... matthias I prepared another USB key which boots fine in my laptop, boots fine in the other laptop native (i.e. without VM-player); but in the VM-player and in an older laptop of my wife it can't mount the root file system on boot; it says: ... Because the USB key was not booting in the VM I've now used a 8.0 livefs ISO to boot from. I used this livefs for the 1st time, I think, and even beeing an experienced FreeBSD user for more than 15 years it is not easy to understand how the livefs should be best use to 1) partition the slice and install boot manager 2) restore dumps from the USB disk I have The livefs brings you into the same menu like any other install CD. I was awaiting a straight forward boot into a multiuser run level and then do the work from there. Ofc you can user the installer and dont install anything (because there is nothing in this moment on the CD), and then jump to the shell. In this case the created file systems are already poluted with some stuff and are mounted together. I found no way to unmount /mnt/ad0s1a (todo newfs again). It always said 'busy'. So I booted a 2nd time the livefs and went right away to the shell... Now I have already again my 'old' root partition booting to single user mode and I'm filling in the 120 GByte dump of the /usr ... The 1st try crashed the Win7 to blue screen over the night :-( matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading
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 hint on how to speed this up. Possible thing would be to cache these shared libraries (and possibily the executable too) in memory, so that any invocation after the first is faster. Is this possible at all? Any other idea? i don't think there's an out-of-the-box solution. have you checked out ports to see if there's something there which might do what you're looking for? another possibility would be to use tmpfs and store the files and libraries on a memory based partition. you could write a script which would copy files/libs to the tmpfs partition during boot time e.g. cheers. alex bye Thanks av. -- a13x ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading
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 how to speed this up. Possible thing would be to cache these shared libraries (and possibily the executable too) in memory, so that any invocation after the first is faster. Is this possible at all? Normal file system caching will cover this case (unless you have very little memory available). The only other thing you might do to speed this up is prebinding / prelinking but if you are often rebuilding the project it might not help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??
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 them back? Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together, transfer the archive, untar it; rename afterwards if needed. :-) or sudo tar cf - /somepath | ssh x...@y sudo tar xvf - -C somepath I agree with other posts though rsync is the easiest Why sudo with tar? Chris make sure all perms correct and can read all files ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading
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 welcome an hint on how to speed this up. Possible thing would be to cache these shared libraries (and possibily the executable too) in memory, so that any invocation after the first is faster. Is this possible at all? Normal file system caching will cover this case (unless you have very little memory available). The only other thing you might do to speed this up is prebinding / prelinking but if you are often rebuilding the project it might not help. With the PathScale compiler we tightly integrate hugetblfs support on linux. (At some point we'll likely adapt this approach to work with FBSD superpages) It can provide significant speed-up in some cases. (Like the initial loading of Firefox and some SPEC benchmarks) I would give that a try and see what sort of results you get.. (Not exactly what you were asking about, but could help) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
freebsd-update newbie
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, put it in /var/db/freebsd-update, and ran again. Now I get: 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 update5.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. This is the case even when rule 1 of ipfw is 'allow all from any to any'. What am I missing? Thanks, Kyle -- Kyle Dippery Engineering Computing Services Phone: (859) 257-1346 280 FPAT 0046 Fax: (859) 323-3848 UK - One Great Place to Work ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update newbie
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 RELEASE (including the security patches) in a binary way, bringing you from 8.1-RELESE to 8.1-RELESE-p1 to 8.1-RELESE-p2 and so on. STABLE is not supported by freebsd-update. If you want to track STABLE, you need to compile stuff yourself from sources updated via cvsup or csup (see instructions in the FreeBSD handbook and additionally /usr/src/Makefile). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading
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 statically and bypass the dynamic linker completely. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP
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 install extra things when you dont have to. Because this allows people to use scp and nothing else; mooting your argument: ''SFTP is better than scp if you just want to transfer files, as the users dont have to have shell access to the box to use the openssh SFTP system. [snip]'' How difficult is it to install a port, really? Do you ever run with just the base system? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: System mail
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 delivery ... Depending on what the OP had in mind, ports/mail/procmail might turn out to be (at least part of) a solution. Actually, I do have procmail installed for use with Mutt, but I have never been able to create a recipe that works. Cheers... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: System mail
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 delivery ... Depending on what the OP had in mind, ports/mail/procmail might turn out to be (at least part of) a solution. Actually Mutt can read directly from a mbox file like in /var/mail/ You are quite right. I was thinking more on the lines of having system mail read by Thunderbird. Cheers.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: wvstreaams + wvdial on FreeBSD 8.1 AMD 64
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 olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear FreeBSD users, I have run out of ideas to troubleshoot a difficult task: get wvstreams and wvdial to work on FreeBSD 8.1. Why don't you just use the native ppp in FreeBSD? Don't have experience with it :( Have used kppp in FreeBSD and Linux, but also use wvdial. I prefer those tools and examples in FreeBSD Handbook have not worked for me before sadly. Regards, Antonio Did you try PC-BSD? No :( Had tried it before, but I read that it too lacks kppp and that the port is broken with no apparent fix in sight. It's not just that kppp, from KDE's linuxcentricity, only supported pppd not FreeBSD's ppp(8), but that pppd on FreeBSD received scant attention in recent years and was dropped altogether in FreeBSD 8.0 ppp(8) works fine and is well supported and well documented in the man page and Handbook. You shouldn't have any trouble gaining experience with it, and if you do, lots of people here can help with config. Having delved into the complexities of pppd setup on a Linux system myself, I quite understand why people preferred a front-end for it :) ppp(8) needs one config file and is easily managed by simple script/s. cheers, Ian___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: System mail
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. Per definition, a mail client (mail user agent - MUA) can not be the target of mail delivery ... Depending on what the OP had in mind, ports/mail/procmail might turn out to be (at least part of) a solution. Actually Mutt can read directly from a mbox file like in /var/mail/ You are quite right. I was thinking more on the lines of having system mail read by Thunderbird. In this case, configuring the system's mail delivery to a local account instead of directly to root, and then have Thunderbird incormporate mail from local spool will easily do the trick. I don't have Thunderbird installed, but you should be able to find the correct setting. 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. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dell Latitude E6400 and Touchpad
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: Quoth Frank Shute on Monday, 30 August 2010: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:59:55PM +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: anyone on this... Synpatics Touchpad on FreeBSD 64-bit? Mike, since you haven't received a reply from this list, your best bet is probably to post to the freebsd-mobile list. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html My ASUS K72F has a touchpad, but I don't know if it's Synaptics. Any way I can tell? In any case, it worked automagically with FreeBSD 8.0 and 8.1 amd64. I don't even know how to do that with a mouse that doesn't have a third button, short of clicking on a scroll bar. I generally avoid the mouse where I can. Can you instruct me? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpyy6yhMdEWg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: freebsd-update newbie
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 update5.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. Short answer: freebsd-update doesn't support updating systems running -STABLE. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update newbie
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 track the RELEASE branch. If you want to track STABLE you'll have to use csup and rebuild the entire system from source each time. Unless you really want to track the latest developments in STABLE you can stay with RELEASE and use freebsd-update to ensure that you get all the security patches. See section 24.5.2 in the FreeBSD Handbook to help you decide if you really need STABLE http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html If you choose to stick with RELEASE then it's worth subscribing to the FreeBSD Security Advisories mailing list and only running freebsd-update after any updates have been announced. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security-notifications -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP
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 Sounds like FUD to me. -- Adam Vande More maybe but why install extra things when you dont have to. Because this allows people to use scp and nothing else; mooting your argument: ''SFTP is better than scp if you just want to transfer files, as the users dont have to have shell access to the box to use the openssh SFTP system. [snip]'' How difficult is it to install a port, really? Do you ever run with just the base system? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ill repeat but why install extra things when you dont have to?. I dont think i mentioned difficulty did i? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP
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 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. Because this allows people to use scp and nothing else; mooting your argument: ''SFTP is better than scp if you just want to transfer files, as the users dont have to have shell access to the box to use the openssh SFTP system. [snip]'' How difficult is it to install a port, really? Do you ever run with just the base system? ill repeat but why install extra things when you dont have to?. I dont think i mentioned difficulty did i? So what's the problem? It allows you to use whatever protocol you like, without worrying about shell access. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP
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 performance greatly exceeds FTP based solutions IME. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update newbie
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, well, updated. That won't work. The freebsd-update program is used to track RELEASE (including the security patches) in a binary way, bringing you from 8.1-RELESE to 8.1-RELESE-p1 to 8.1-RELESE-p2 and so on. And to upgrade between two such branches. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
getting eclipse to recognize that devel/subsclipse is installed
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading
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 huge shared libraries. Link your program statically and bypass the dynamic linker completely. Then my binary would be more than 200MB and it wouldn't load that fast either. Besides I have several binaries using the same libraries and linking them all statically would take up a lot more time. bye Thanks anyway av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: System mail
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 http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: getting eclipse to recognize that devel/subsclipse is installed
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 menu nor or do any of subclipse's features. How can I tell eclipse that I installed subclipse? -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
NFSv4 shows all ZFS filesystems as being owned by root
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 brodbd:brodbd /tank/test/testfile temp-nfs# ls -l /tank/test total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 brodbd brodbd 0 Aug 31 04:48 testfile drwxr-xr-x 2 brodbd brodbd 2 Aug 31 04:48 testfs On the client (RedHat Linux 5.4): r...@dryas:~# mount temp-nfs:/tank/test /test r...@dryas:~# ls -l /test total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 brodbd brodbd 0 Aug 31 04:48 testfile drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2 Aug 31 04:48 testfs The same sequence works as expected when the server runs OpenSolaris. Am I missing something? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Mirror mounts not available on FreeBSD? (was: Re: NFSv4 shows all ZFS filesystems as being owned by root)
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 are not auto-mounted by Linux clients of a FreeBSD server the way they are when they're clients of an OpenSolaris server; if I mount them manually, the ownership is correct. I think OpenSolaris calls this functionality mirror mounts. Is there a way to get mirror mounts to work on FreeBSD, or is it necessary to mount every sub-filesystem manually? The intended application here is a server hosting user home directories, where each user has their own ZFS filesystem. Having to list every user in /etc/fstab on every client is not really workable. With an OpenSolaris server, I can have the Linux clients mount /tank/home, and all the filesystems under /tank/home come along for the ride; I'm trying to duplicate this with a FreeBSD server. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Interactive Port
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 http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Interactive Port
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Interactive Port
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 make.conf. Now I get this error message: === dvips-5.76 conflicts with installed package(s): teTeX-base-3.0_20 teTeX-texmf-3.0_6 The whole problem is that I am trying to get muttprint to work, and my understanding is that it is dependent on teTeX for its operation. But when I tried to print I got an error message telling me that the print operation needs to see dvips. So I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Interactive Port
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 /etc/make.conf; if so, comment out that line and run make(1) again. Cheers, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Interactive Port
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. OK...I commented out the 'batch' entry in make.conf. Now I get this error message: === dvips-5.76 conflicts with installed package(s): teTeX-base-3.0_20 teTeX-texmf-3.0_6 The whole problem is that I am trying to get muttprint to work, and my understanding is that it is dependent on teTeX for its operation. But when I tried to print I got an error message telling me that the print operation needs to see dvips. So I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Looking at the Makefile for the port, all teTeX ports conflict with dvips. Deinstalling teTeX-* from your system will allow this port to build/install; I'm not familiar enough with muttprint enough to be of much more help with it though. Cheers, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ACLs inheritance problem
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 u::rwx,g::rwx,o::rx,g:test1:rwx web # getfacl -d web # file: web # owner: root # group: wheel user::rwx group::rwx group:web:rwx mask::rwx other::r-x # getfacl web # file: web # owner: root # group: wheel user::rwx group::rwx group:web:rwx mask::rwx other::r-x Now, when I create a subfolder or a file in the web folder, I would expect them to have theses ACLs. # mkdir web/subfolder # touch web/file # getfacl web/file # file: web/file # owner: root # group: wheel user::rw- group::rwx # effective: r-- group:web:rwx # effective: r-- mask::r-- other::r-- # getfacl web/subfolder # file: web/subfolder # owner: root # group: wheel user::rwx group::rwx # effective: r-x group:web:rwx # effective: r-x mask::r-x other::r-x Where is that new mask coming from ? Shouldn't it be the same as the default mask from it's parent directory ? I need the new files to be writable by the web group by default, am I missing something ? We are using FreeBSD 8.1 Released on AMD64. Any pointer would be appreciated, thanks a lot. Francis Dubé . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firebird 2.1.3
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 mailing list, this way others can learn from us!. Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ACLs inheritance problem
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 like to setup ACLs allowing them to modify each others file. [...] Now, when I create a subfolder or a file in the web folder, I would expect them to have theses ACLs. [...] Where is that new mask coming from ? Shouldn't it be the same as the default mask from it's parent directory ? FreeBSD, as UNIX in general, has directories, not folders. In the last line quoted, you used the correct term. It's not that you also called files sheets of paper, and hard disks drawers for putting folders in :-) I know that I sound picky, but using proper terminology is important. Please don't feel offended personally - I'm correcting nearly everyone who talks about folders on this list. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Interactive Port
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 up there. Thank you. OK...I commented out the 'batch' entry in make.conf. Now I get this error message: === dvips-5.76 conflicts with installed package(s): teTeX-base-3.0_20 teTeX-texmf-3.0_6 The whole problem is that I am trying to get muttprint to work, and my understanding is that it is dependent on teTeX for its operation. But when I tried to print I got an error message telling me that the print operation needs to see dvips. So I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. teTeX comes with dvips IIRC, which is why you're getting the error. 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. gv a2ps are in ports. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Interactive Port
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 ~/mail.ps? This would actually send the output PS to the default printer queue, causing the message to be printed. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Interactive Port
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 print from gv. What about lpr ~/mail.ps instead of gv ~/mail.ps? This would actually send the output PS to the default printer queue, causing the message to be printed. Nothing is working, regardless of whether I try to print from Muttprint, or with Frank's setup. In either case I get this error message: Press any key to continue...cannot remove path when cwd is /tmp/muttprint-GOauzJ for /tmp/muttprint-GOauzJ: at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/File/Temp.pm line 902 I'm beginning to wonder if this doesn't have something to do with the fact that my printer is installed via CUPS. There may need to me a special parameter set up in .muttprintrc. But so far I haven't found any info on it. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Interactive Port
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 somehow, and I'm not sure what caused this, the printer became disengaged from its usb port. Weird. I noticed that this had happened when I tried to print from another program without success. The only way that I could get it talking again to usb was by doing a reboot. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Interactive Port
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 first then I print from gv. What about lpr ~/mail.ps instead of gv ~/mail.ps? This would actually send the output PS to the default printer queue, causing the message to be printed. I like to view it first. Make sure there are no orphaned/widowed paragraphs etc. If so, then I might cat it to plain ascii, edit it then run it through a2ps. Works for me! Not often that I print email. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
