Re: using /sbin/gpart to add GPT volume

2011-10-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
I don't think you can use gpart on a slice of an MBR-partitioned disk. You can run man gpart if you didn't already; I didn't see anything to migrate an MBR partition table to GPT. The older gpt, which NetBSD still uses, can migrate an MBR partition table to GPT. You could try Roderick Smith's

can't find installed executables

2011-10-11 Thread Jim jim
Hallo, I'm kind of new to FreeBSD and installed the latest version a few days ago, it gave me the option to install some packages and I chose some of them like 'FlightGear' for example.But now I don't know how to execute this game or any other program I got installed. I can find the folder and

Re: can't find installed executables

2011-10-11 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:09:40 +0200 Jim jim jimbo...@msn.com wrote: Hallo, I'm kind of new to FreeBSD and installed the latest version a few days ago, it gave me the option to install some packages and I chose some of them like 'FlightGear' for example.But now I don't know how to execute

Re: can't find installed executables

2011-10-11 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 10/11/2011 11:09 AM, Jim jim wrote: Hallo, I'm kind of new to FreeBSD and installed the latest version a few days ago, it gave me the option to install some packages and I chose some of them like 'FlightGear' for example.But now I don't know how to execute this game or any other program

User tasks in ~/.logout

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
I have some users who I want to schedule a specific job for which gets executed on their user account. For some of them, it will be twice a day, for others just once a month. It should happen at logout time. The intended mechanism to do so is ~/.logout, the C shell's logout script. Example: The

Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
This is _not_ a spam message trying to sell something stupid to the list. I'm just searching for a solution to turn consumed computing resources into a number and a currency symbol. :-) Reason: A growing amount of (my) customers seems to like this concept: They speed a low fee for access to

Re: User tasks in ~/.logout

2011-10-11 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 10/11/11 3:57 PM, Polytropon wrote: I have some users who I want to schedule a specific job for which gets executed on their user account. For some of them, it will be twice a day, for others just once a month. It should happen at logout time. The intended mechanism to do so is

Re: User tasks in ~/.logout

2011-10-11 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Polytropon wrote: I have some users who I want to schedule a specific job for which gets executed on their user account. For some of them, it will be twice a day, for others just once a month. It should happen at logout time. The intended mechanism to do so is ~/.logout,

Re: User tasks in ~/.logout

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:27:13 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Polytropon wrote: I have some users who I want to schedule a specific job for which gets executed on their user account. For some of them, it will be twice a day, for others just once a month. It

Re: can't find installed executables

2011-10-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:09:40AM +0200, Jim jim wrote: Jim, First, just a politeness thing; please break your lines at about 72 character length. It helps in reading and responding to your questions. Most Email clients allow you to set a line length. Hallo, I'm kind of new to FreeBSD

comms/qpage port issue

2011-10-11 Thread Alton Pouncey
I am having a serious problem with the comms/qpage port. I was running on an 8.2-RELEASE patch level 0 system: #uname -a FreeBSD dns.uasys.edu 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 18 02:24:46 UTC 2011 When I tried to send myself a page via qpage, I get a Fatal error,

Where to go for xorg information

2011-10-11 Thread doug
If this is not the list, please point me to the correct one. Is there a list that corresponds to the XFree86 newbies list? Anyway my question: I imderstand that the FreeBSD Foundation is/was sponsoring coding for the Intel Ironlake chip. Does anyone know the status of this or perhaps where to

Printing

2011-10-11 Thread Jerry
I am using Cups 1.5.0 with FreeBSD-8.2/amd64. My printer is set up with cups and print a test page perfectly. The problem is if I go to print a document, say from my MUA or Firefox and choose the printer from the pop-up menu, only a blank page is ejected from the printer. Now, if I choose the LPR

Re: Linux 64bit compatability

2011-10-11 Thread Steven Friedrich
Sorry, thanks for informing me. It's particularly frustrating since OSX IS FreeBSD, under the hood. WHEN will Apple show their gratitude? I suspect never. It's a give and take relationship. The FreeBSD community gave and Apple took. They don't even create a FreeBSD version of iTunes.

Re: Where to go for xorg information

2011-10-11 Thread Maciej Milewski
Dnia wtorek, 11 października 2011 11:52:15 d...@safeport.com pisze: Anyway my question: I imderstand that the FreeBSD Foundation is/was sponsoring coding for the Intel Ironlake chip. Does anyone know the status of this or perhaps where to inquire about the project status? _ Douglas

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 10/11/2011 5:06 PM, Polytropon wrote: This is _not_ a spam message trying to sell something stupid to the list. I'm just searching for a solution to turn consumed computing resources into a number and a currency symbol. :-) Reason: A growing amount of (my) customers seems to like this

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:14:44 +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Yes, the builtin accounting facilities do most of the stuff you are interested in. Just add 'accounting_enable=YES' in your /etc/rc.conf, run '/etc/rc.d/accounting start' and use sa to examine the output. I believe the per-user

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:06:19 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: This is _not_ a spam message trying to sell something stupid to the list. I'm just searching for a solution to turn consumed computing resources into a number and a currency symbol. :-) Reason: A growing amount of (my)

Re: Where to go for xorg information

2011-10-11 Thread doug
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Maciej Milewski wrote: Dnia wtorek, 11 pa?dziernika 2011 11:52:15 d...@safeport.com pisze: Anyway my question: I imderstand that the FreeBSD Foundation is/was sponsoring coding for the Intel Ironlake chip. Does anyone know the status of this or perhaps where to inquire

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Ever heard of bold_or_underline? On Oct 11, 2011 10:06 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: This is _not_ a spam message trying to sell something stupid to the list. I'm just searching for a solution to turn consumed computing resources into a number and a currency symbol. :-) Reason: A

Re: User tasks in ~/.logout

2011-10-11 Thread Karl Vogel
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Polytropon wrote: P I have some users who I want to schedule a specific job for which gets P executed on their user account. For some of them, it will be twice a P day, for others just once a month. It should happen at logout time. If using the ~/.logout file works,