Fast question abount EDITOR

2012-04-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. This might be a stupid question... however... %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw setenv: Too many arguments. %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw %crontab -e crontab: emacs -nw: No such file or directory crontab: emacs -nw exited with status 1 Is there a way I can easily achieve the above? Do I really

what is the path of kernel build directory?

2012-04-05 Thread saeedeh motlagh
hello guys i want to install the openvswitch 1.4.0 from a linux package. the below command should be executed: ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/'uname -r '/build this is a linux command and i should execute the FreeBSD equivalent but i don't know how to do that. the manual says: To build

Links the command line browser

2012-04-05 Thread Fbsd8
My mouse works as expected for copy and paste function on the xterm console. But when I launch the links command line browser the mouse pointer is OVER active. I move the mouse a hair and the pointer on the links browser screen moves 2 inches. Is there some way in links to control the mouse

order of source_dirs in cp(1)

2012-04-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I was doing $ cp -Rv 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2 /mnt/osm and was surprised seeing that source_dir 17 was done before 16; the man page does not specify the order, but I was thinking it just goes through the list in the given order... Why this is done this way? Thanks matthias

Re: Fast question abount EDITOR

2012-04-05 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:57:55 +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. This might be a stupid question... however... %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw setenv: Too many arguments. %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw %crontab -e crontab: emacs -nw: No such file or directory crontab: emacs -nw exited with

Re: Fast question abount EDITOR

2012-04-05 Thread Robert Bonomi
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. This might be a stupid question... however... %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw setenv: Too many arguments. %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw %crontab -e crontab: emacs -nw: No such file or directory crontab: emacs -nw exited with status 1 Is there a way I can easily

Re: what is the path of kernel build directory?

2012-04-05 Thread Jason Hellenthal
/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNELNAMEHERE/ The handbook has a very clear section on this. Good luck. On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 12:21:18AM -0700, saeedeh motlagh wrote: hello guys i want to install the openvswitch 1.4.0 from a linux package. the below command should be executed: ./configure

Re: what is the path of kernel build directory?

2012-04-05 Thread Robert Bonomi
saeedeh motlagh saeedeh.motl...@gmail.com wrote: hello guys i want to install the openvswitch 1.4.0 from a linux package. the below command should be executed: ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/'uname -r '/build this is a linux command and i should execute the FreeBSD equivalent but i

Re: Fast question abount EDITOR

2012-04-05 Thread John Levine
Do I really need a script which in turns call emacs -nw? Authoritative answer: 'maybe'. grin There may be an alternative to the obvious one line shell script, but that's what one line shell scripts are for. One of the strengths of Unix is that its design encourages people to solve problems by

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomesegvhandler after upgrade from 8.2 - 9.0

2012-04-05 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hi, I just upgraded from 8.2 - 9.0 using freebsd-update, my first time for the binary upgrade. Since the upgrade, I've been getting these unable to load gnomesegvhandler messages from various software, such as emacs. Any idea what I can do to fix his? The upgrade went fairly smoothly,

Problem installing bind in jail

2012-04-05 Thread bsd
Hi, I have followed the tutorial provided in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-application.html I have now five jails up and running and I am very happy with the system. One of my jail is acting as an important DNS server and It needs to be up to date. I have

Freebsd 9.0 and cdrecord

2012-04-05 Thread Fbsd8
Since the device name change for cdrom drives in 9.0 the burncd command no longer functions. I installed the cdrtools package pkg_add -r cdrtools on my 9.0 box, got cdrtools-3.00_1. Every time I use cdrecord command I get error message The unit seems to be hung and needs power cycling. It will

Re: Freebsd 9.0 and cdrecord

2012-04-05 Thread jb
Fbsd8 fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com writes: ... Since all those archive posts are over 3 years old I am confused on what is the 9.0 procedure, (IE: is the 9.0 pkg any good? which port version is complete? Does atapicam_load=YES still have to be added to /boot/loader.conf? ... When in doubt

Re: Links the command line browser

2012-04-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 09:33:43AM -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: My mouse works as expected for copy and paste function on the xterm console. But when I launch the links command line browser the mouse pointer is OVER active. I move the mouse a hair and the pointer on the links browser screen moves 2

Re: Links the command line browser

2012-04-05 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2012/04/05 09:33:43 -0400 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com = To FreeBSD Questions : F My mouse works as expected for copy and paste function on the xterm F console. But when I launch the links command line browser the mouse F pointer is OVER active. I move the mouse a hair and the pointer on

Re: Problem installing bind in jail

2012-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/04/2012 18:24, bsd wrote: I have decided to recompile bind in the latest version and I am running into a problem which is caused by bind port not following the FreeBSD requisites and trying to install things in /usr/include/isc What on earth gives you the idea that dns/bind98 doesn't

Re: Problem installing bind in jail

2012-04-05 Thread Da Rock
On 04/06/12 03:24, bsd wrote: Hi, I have followed the tutorial provided in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-application.html I have now five jails up and running and I am very happy with the system. One of my jail is acting as an important DNS server and It

Re: what is the path of kernel build directory?

2012-04-05 Thread Da Rock
On 04/05/12 17:21, saeedeh motlagh wrote: hello guys i want to install the openvswitch 1.4.0 from a linux package. the below command should be executed: ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/'uname -r '/build this is a linux command and i should execute the FreeBSD equivalent but i don't know