Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:06:49PM +0300, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: Oops, sorry, I was not specific enough: FreeBSD 4 or older NetBSD are no go: The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand new, but it uses an embedded cpu, a 486 clone as SoC without math. See

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:30:17PM +0300, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: Frank Shute wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:06:49PM +0300, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: Oops, sorry, I was not specific enough: FreeBSD 4 or older NetBSD are no go: The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:53:56PM -0400, Andrew Berry wrote: Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:17:59AM +0100, RW wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:53:56 -0400 Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually

Re: [OT]Change font for aterm

2008-06-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: Dear All, I used to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono in Gnome-terminal, by change the configure in the menu. Now I am using aterm, but I also want to use that font. I can see it by fc-list: [3:39pm:kemian] ~ fc-list | grep Sans

Re: [OT]Change font for aterm

2008-06-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 06:06:38PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: 2008/6/8 Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: Dear All, I used to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono in Gnome-terminal, by change the configure in the menu. Now I am using

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:23:19PM +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 06/08/2008 10:12 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I tried to make a grep script on find a string in all files on path ./ and down. It does anything exept searching in files and

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 09:34:20PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:23:19PM +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 06/08/2008 10:12 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I tried to make a grep script on find a string in all files on path

Re: change the file date and time

2008-06-06 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 08:25:41PM +0300, Georgi Tyuliev wrote: Dear Sirs 1. How to mount Sony Ericsson k750i mobile phone with FreeBSD 7.0 ? Plug it in and see what shows up in /var/log/messages. Then read the handbook:

Re: Denyhost

2008-06-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:19:26PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 04:36 PM 6/5/2008, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Anyone using this? I've used it for a long time on a 6.x box and it worked fine. Recently I had to deactivate it since it seems to lock away every IP which is listed in the logs.

Re: Cannot open /etc/termcap

2008-06-03 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 05:17:28AM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: csh: Cannot open /etc/termcap. csh: using dumb terminal settings. Are you sure /usr/share/misc/termcap isn't empty and accesible on the target machine? lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel23B May 31 2007 /etc/termcap@ -

Re: Cannot open /etc/termcap

2008-06-03 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 10:44:57PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: I had a friend help me with this. the trouble is my TERM was set to wsvt25 somehow. and all I had to do was set it to env TERM cons25 and vim would compile. You would have expected to get an error message from csh along the

Re: logo

2008-06-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 06:57:00PM +, Pollywog wrote: On Monday 02 June 2008 15:58:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree completely, it's what got me over to BSD ! I am a little confused. I just see a sphere with horns on it that reminds me of the BSD daemon's head, only made to

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 07:39:02PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:05:36PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:05:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: [[ ... ]] /* * strange:: the way that mutt queues [ and orders ] its replies and threads

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:07:56PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Gary Kline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:14 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Kevin Downey; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be

Re: Need to build a new mail server

2008-05-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:09:25PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: I agree. No one should use Qmail unless they have read and completely understand every email-related RFC and have at least two years of experience running a commercial mail server. Amateurs shouldn't even consider it. I used

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:05:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu May 29 2008 00:39:06 Christian Zachariasen wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read.

Re: Your suggestions about this Dell configuration?

2008-05-23 Thread Frank Shute
time during weekend, Thanks! *Please continue...* On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:49:51AM +0200, VeeJay wrote: Hello friends, My employer is buying this Dell server and I would like to have your opinion about

Re: vi secure

2008-05-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:26:20AM -0700, William O. Yates wrote: On 21/May/2008 19:26 Frank Shute wrote .. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:51:03PM -0700, William O. Yates wrote: [sent the below message thru the freebsd-security list with no answers, hope for more from freebsd-questions

Re: Your suggestions about this Dell configuration?

2008-05-21 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:49:51AM +0200, VeeJay wrote: Hello friends, My employer is buying this Dell server and I would like to have your opinion about the configuration. Requirements are: 2 Websites with 3-4 million hits per month with video ads. If it's 3-4 million hits per month as

Re: vi secure

2008-05-21 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:51:03PM -0700, William O. Yates wrote: [sent the below message thru the freebsd-security list with no answers, hope for more from freebsd-questions] Recently started using vi macros. Show us the macro. When attempting to use one which accessed the external

Re: SVN Advice

2008-05-20 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 06:05:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm seeking to set up an SVN repository on my home machine. I've come across the following two guides: http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/misc/subversion.php

Re: interrobang and other fun characters

2008-05-14 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:25:37PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I'm looking for an easier way to insert interrobangs and other non-ASCII characters (em-dashes, et cetera) into text on my FreeBSD laptop than by way of copy/paste. Any recommendations? A hunt-and-select clicky GUI probably

Re: Compiz Fusion brings all Gnome with itself

2008-05-13 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 02:19:29PM -0500, Novembre wrote: Hi, I've installed Compiz Fusion on my machine using packages. Installing it from ports was unsuccessful since it needs gio-fam-backend which in turn needs glib-2.16.3 to be installed. I don't really want to update my glib since I

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:06:03PM -0400, David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:25:12AM -0400, David Banning wrote: For backing up purposes, I use a number of tools. Thanks Frank for your input. I have chosen for now use Chuck's suggestion, that being cvsup. The only thing I would like to do is omit certain files that I don't want backed up

Re: mailcap documentation?

2008-05-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:44:04PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hello all, There's apparently an RFC-standard file called /etc/mailcap (as well as .mailcap), but I can't find any docs on this file. Would it be worthwhile to rework the RFC into a manpage (I am willing to do

Re: X Screensaver

2008-04-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:27:03PM -0400, Fred Schnittke wrote: Hi: I've installed FreeBSD 7.0, just a standard install with X. I load XDM via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/x.sh, which states: /usr/local/bin/xset s off /usr/local/bin/xdm But I can't get the screensaver to disable. After about

Re: start up scripts stopped working

2008-04-15 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:37:41PM -0600, Eric Zimmerman wrote: Eric Zimmerman wrote: Frank Shute wrote: I spotted a couple of things with your rc.conf that could be causing you trouble: 1) There are a lot of unquoted YES's for enabling services. I don't know if that could screw thing's

Re: start up scripts stopped working

2008-04-14 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:18:52PM -0600, Eric wrote: tomasz dereszynski wrote: Eric wrote: hello, does anyone know what I can do to fix the following problem? Every time my FreeBSd 6.2 machine reboots, none of the scripts in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory launch the various

Re: Permissions problem

2008-03-31 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:22:51AM +0200, Sisantha Godawela-Ohle wrote: Hi all, iŽm following this freeBSD chat for a long time and i also wish to submit a question regarding a FreeBSD Version 7.0, which i installed yesterday. After logging in as root, i started with startx and Gnome and

Re: desktop dominance

2008-03-26 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:28:15PM -0400, Benjamin Cance wrote: I have had Linux for a long time. I have a different desktop coming that I am eager to play with FreeBSD on. It is a dual processored Intel Xeon @ 3.2ghz (64-bit). How are HP workstations with FreeBSD? Check that it is

Re: Any software that can do X windows screen capture (with mouse cursor)

2008-03-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 03:37:05PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008, Patrick Dung wrote: Hello As title, I have tried xwd, it can't capture mouse curosr. I'm not sure how a simple screen capture program would capture the mouse cursor since they all ask that you either

Re: email pop3 question

2008-03-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:49:18PM -0400, David Banning wrote: I am using dovecot email on my server - Users can connect via IMAP or POP3. I have a user who is using pop3 but not removing the email from the server - so the email stays on the server, -and- it is collecting on their computer

Re: K8N-VM CSM not seeing over 2240MB RAM

2008-03-10 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:50:25AM -0600, Jeremy Johnston wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: use PAE or (even better) 64-bit kernel On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Jeremy Johnston wrote: I have been trying to trouble shoot a problem where my 32bit kernel will not see past 2240MB of RAM where as the

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:38:09PM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi guys, just take every part out and dust with a brush, reseat the m-board and hook on the power supply, switch on the power and both fans spin for quite a while, seeing this, I switch it off and start to connect all the

Re: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4

2008-02-20 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:06:30PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: Hi, I am currently replacing my defunct motherboard, I am unable to test the hardware before purchase and I am seeking advice on which motherboard to get. Upon review I have selected a Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4, does FreeBSD

Re: need help getting lpr/lpt working again.

2008-02-16 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:47:30PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: People, Can anybody clue me in on getting my hp500 working? I don't care if I use CUPS or the old way with lpd and lpr. There is no /dev/lpt0 in /dev, and /etc/devfs.* does not create this file.

Re: downloading video from http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=...

2008-02-13 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:07:12PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Is there any command line tool in FreeBSD for downloading a video from a URL like http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=7540047147367608928 in the way youtube-dl, for example, does? Thx in advance

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:00:27AM +, Da Rock wrote: include link to www.anybrowser.org on your pages :) Mind you I'm building clients sites this way, as well as my own. The link looks good, but is there a way for me to get as many browsers and platforms to check my pages for

Re: inetd + few ip

2008-02-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 04:32:25PM +0200, Roman Otsaljuk wrote: how can I specify few ip-addresses inetd listen on? not all. or all except few? Have a look at hosts_access(5) and hosts_options(5). -- Frank Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html

Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 09:12:27PM +, Mike Clarke wrote: After running a 90 hour portupgrade job on my current Duron 1600 based system I've persuaded myself that a hardware upgrade is due. I'm contemplating building a system around an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ CPU. I'm not into games and

Re: Starting X: Intel GM965/GL960

2008-01-31 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:42:48PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: Frank I have added DefaultColorDepth 24 to it as you said, but still havent changed the keyboard settings (mine is a UK keyboard according to sysintall). I have posted the contents of Xorg.0.log in reply to an earlier email

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:08:59AM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just reinstalled Xorg

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:59:09PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: snip (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID

Re: packaging a metaport

2008-01-21 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:14:06PM -0500, Dave wrote: Hello, I'd like to compile and install xorg and gnome via metaports on a machine, making packages out of the entire process, including dependencies. My goal is to have a tarball that i can take to other machines, extract it and do a

Re: port collection RELEASE6.2 lost after reinstall with CVSUP

2008-01-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:03:12AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Frank Shute wrote: So if it's not branched but tagged, what's the difference between the ports tree I get if I use RELENG_4_8 compared to RELENG_7_0 as tags in my ports supfile? Probably not a very great deal

Re: Asterisk-addons FreeBSD 7.0 :(

2008-01-06 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:11:40AM -0600, David Alanis wrote: Good Day: I just recently converted to FreeBSD and convinced my highly religious (Gentoo) friend over as well. However, the ride has not been as smooth as I would have liked. To make this story short, here is my late

Re: port collection RELEASE6.2 lost after reinstall with CVSUP

2008-01-06 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:10:59PM +0100, Walter Jansen wrote: Hi Upon reading chapters of the Handbook about the Ports collection and CVSup, I wanted to CVSup the ports collection for the RELEASE 6.2. Stupidly using the wrong tag (tag=.), I erroneously but successfully installed the

Re: port collection RELEASE6.2 lost after reinstall with CVSUP

2008-01-06 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:24:15PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:05:17PM +, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:10:59PM +0100, Walter Jansen wrote: Hi Upon reading chapters of the Handbook about the Ports collection and CVSup, I wanted

Re: port collection RELEASE6.2 lost after reinstall with CVSUP

2008-01-06 Thread 'Frank Shute'
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:34:50AM +0100, Walter Jansen wrote: Thanks for your effort Fank, but unfortunately the Handbook shows that your answer does not reflect the actual use of tags for fetching ports with cvsup. Your answer triggers me to look for other places where information can be

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 07:33:22PM +0100, Peter Schuller wrote: other BSDs for that matter. It being GPL guarantees that quite apart from it general suckiness. Can someone please explain why bash sucks? Everyone keep's saying this but I have never heard anyone explain why, other than

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 07:21:23PM -0500, Tom McLaughlin wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 04:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hi Frank, Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)? I've installed it and successfully run moderately large ksh scripts (like the

Re: csh programing book

2007-12-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:23:52PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 02:57:12PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Actually, I like ksh better, if you are really going all out for a programming shell, but if you're really after a scripting language, why restrict

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-15 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 04:13:49AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-12-14 21:10, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used bash for an interactive shell for about 5 years until I discovered the goodness of pdksh. About half the size, statically linked, not full of bugs and better

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-15 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 06:57:09AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: On December 14, 2007 at 08:03PM Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: On December 14, 2007 at 04:10PM Frank Shute wrote: [ snip ] I'm happy with sh

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:12:32PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: On December 13, 2007 08:05:42 pm Chad Perrin wrote: I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful I wonder what responses I might get here, and

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: On December 14, 2007 at 04:10PM Frank Shute wrote: [ snip ] I'm happy with sh as the system shell though; it's light weight: $ ls -l /bin/sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 111028 Nov 30 00:10 /bin/sh $ ls -l /bin/ksh

Re: How to use cut or awk commands into sed command ?

2007-12-13 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:35:29AM +0200, Halid Faith wrote: Let me try to explain I have a file called A which contains variable values as below; file1, abc12 foot1, cba11 boby, def123 ... Also I have another file called B which contains partly valuable values as following; ### file

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:56:33PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:43:35PM +, John Murphy wrote: snip Thanks for all the tips on this subject. One more question: How would I enable a local keyboard layout in single user mode? I have had to find '/' by

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode? [now: keyboards]

2007-12-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:42:45PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:33:25PM +, Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:56:33PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:43:35PM +, John Murphy wrote: snip Thanks for all

Re: ECCN# of the freeBSD V6.1

2007-12-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:30:09PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would like to export a personal computer which FreeBSD Ver6.1 was installed in from Japan. Could you tell me the ECCN# of this software? Best regards, Ishihara Hi Ishihara, I've done a bit of googling and I believe

Re: PDF_toTEXT Port /Package Is ther For FreeBSD-6.2 version ?

2007-11-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:14:51AM +, dhaneshk k wrote: Hi fiiends; I need PDF to Text converter Program in My FreeBSD6.2 Server : CAn any one please point out is ther a PORT for PDF_to_TEXT conversion OR how to install this utility . Any hints most welcome Thanks

Re: Xen howto: inexplicable Kernel image does not exist error

2007-11-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:04:37AM -0500, Matt Pounsett wrote: On 2007-Nov-29, at 01:29, Le Cocq Michel wrote: I'm in front of the same trouble, did you find a solution ? No, I haven't found a solution, and haven't received any suggestions. I've moved on until the FreeBSD under Xen

Re: remove X11

2007-11-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:33:47PM -0500, Jeff Maxwell wrote: I have X11 installed on a server 6.1. Is there an easy way to remove it all? Do I have to remove each package individually? You could probably make a good start with: # pkg_deinstall -rf xorg-\* check 1st what it will

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:25:52AM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Before I file a PR I just want to know if it is worth it to file a PR for: make -j1000 buildworld buildkernel installkernel seg faulting No. Where in the handbook or UPDATING does it tell you to build your system like that? --

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:02:44PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Before I file a PR I just want to know if it is worth it to file a PR for: make -j1000 buildworld buildkernel installkernel seg faulting I thought that the kernel builds

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 08:12:36PM -0600, eBoundHost: Artur wrote: PS. What should be abolished on the grounds of decency is top posting rehashing topics that have been gone on about ad nauseum, on the wrong mailing list. My apologies for top posting, will never happen again. I've never

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-25 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 05:53:54PM -0600, eBoundHost: Artur wrote: T, I don't know any soft way to say this. The man, Hitler, was the most evil person that our generation has ever witnessed. He wasn't witnessed by our generation IMHO Stalin was worse. The things he did and what was

Re: Fwd: Upgrading X11 port

2007-11-24 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 01:53:48AM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: Thanks for this. I have tried to follow the guidelines here: http://www.math.colostate.edu/~reinholz/freebsd/xupgrade.html and I am trying to install gnome2 again through the ports. How do I get xorg-7.3? through the

Re: building php5

2007-11-24 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:17:26PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was testing an application that suggesting my problem was the Suhosin patch. I built php5 with it and got the application running. Now I want to rebuild php5. How do I get it to reconfigure? I did a make: deinstall make

Re: Fwd: Upgrading X11 port

2007-11-24 Thread Frank Shute
about port/software installation in freebsd :) I think you're getting the hang of it :) PS. Please don't top post. On 24/11/2007, Bob Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:09:20 + Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 01:53:48AM +

Re: Has anybody written a script to automate CD duplication?

2007-11-23 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:39:51PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I can live with gnome-cd to play my CD's ... or use sound-juicer to play and extract if I want to use up that much space. But nothing that we FBSDer's have will copy an audio CD using the ATAPI drive.

Re: (no subject)

2007-11-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:43:05AM -0600, Chris wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:04:47 +0530 tusar kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i want to know how can i assembly laptop. i want a video copy Awe! Where's Frank Shute' Witty and sensible words of directions for this user?! See

Re: lightly loaded php+mysql - high syscall/csw rates

2007-11-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:43:25PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: We have a php+mysql web server. It serves 15-20 http requests per second, resulting in 100-200 sql qps. But according to vmstat(1), it all peaks at over 500k syscall/s and 100k cswitch/s. The peaks are quite frequent, even at

Re: firefox+flash = i'cant got to my shell

2007-11-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:12:04PM -0800, Viktor Penkov wrote: Hello.I want to install flash and using it with firefox.I used this guide - http://freebsdgirl.com/2005/06/freebsd_firefox_flash.html That guide is almost 3 yrs old. Totally useless. When i rebooted my system i got this message

Re: firefox+flash = i'cant got to my shell

2007-11-19 Thread Frank Shute
Hi Viktor, Looking at that page, you don't need to mount your partitions. You should be able to edit /etc/libmap.conf directly. Apologies for the error. -- Frank Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html ___

Re: Website

2007-11-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 09:41:51AM -0600, Chris wrote: ... seems to be going bonkers?! -- Best regards, Chris Your post is a little short of information. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html HTH -- Frank Contact info:

Re: Website

2007-11-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:42:57AM -0600, Chris wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:34:56 + Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 09:41:51AM -0600, Chris wrote: ... seems to be going bonkers?! -- Best regards, Chris Your post is a little

Re: Website

2007-11-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 11:07:11AM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:42:57AM -0600, Chris wrote: ** pissing contest snipped ** One of the questions I like to ask myself before I post to the list is, Will my reply add value to the individual

Re: Problems with X

2007-11-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 09:27:53PM +, Desmond Chapman wrote: I've done a minimal install of FreeBSD and followed a suggestion of enabling cvsup/csup from the command line. Xorg-7.3 was installed. However, the command of xorgcfg and xorgxonfig was not. I'm not too sure what you mean by

Re: problems using ls with for_in (SH)

2007-11-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:49:24PM -0300, Sdvtaker wrote: Im trying to get a file with all the md5 hashes of one directory. My initial script was this: #!/bin/sh for file in $(ls) do echo $file md5 $file done The problem is with the file names who contains whitespaces

Re: syslog time resolution

2007-11-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:29:23PM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, I would like to increase the number of decimals reported in logfiles by syslogd(8), anyone knows if it is possible and perhaps a hint on how to do it? tcpdump for instance, has six decimals: 21:25:20.160833 whereas

Re: vim doesn't preserve the terminal content

2007-11-03 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:09:15PM -0700, Philip Hallstrom wrote: I use vim both on Linux and FreeBSD. On Linux after I exit vim original screen content is restored. On FreeBSD vim leaves the last content viewed in vim. How do I make vim preserve the screen? I don't know how to do that,

Re: LaTeX oder teTeX

2007-10-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:46:18AM +, Christian Walther wrote: Hi there, thanks Predag and Roland for your replies. I'll stick with teTeX for the beginning, it looks like a promising start. I think you're wise to. I use teTeX and it's got most things. I've only ever had to get

Re: LaTeX oder teTeX

2007-10-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:21:49PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:46:18AM +, Christian Walther wrote When I need additional macro packages (one for creating nice presentations would be nice indeed) I'll check with ctan. Check

Re: Is your Thunderbird OK?

2007-09-24 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:24:34PM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 11:41 +0330, Bahman M. wrote: Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Just been wondering about this for long weeks. I have some complain Thudnerbird's the speed when it start up on FreeBSD. Its speed is very slow.

Re: How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ...

2007-09-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 02:50:25PM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: Hi there, Since I recently upgraded to xorg-7.3, I cannot use my laptop because nvidia has not yet provided an upgraded driver. I've tried all the recommended workarounds for tweaking the xorg.conf file but to no avail. My

Re: Xorg errs after updating ports

2007-09-16 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:45:29AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING (which may itself have been updated after you did your ports download, so you may not yet have this advice on your hard disk): Users of nvidia-driver will have to make sure Composite extension

Re: F11 in Firefox

2007-09-13 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:43:15AM -0700, David Benfell wrote: Hello all, Having long fingers, I occasionally hit F11 while typing into a text box in Firefox. F11 does something truly horrible that I never under any circumstances want. It moves the window partially off screen such that

enabling SMP

2007-09-13 Thread Frank Shute
I've just got a new box, an HP DC5750 with an Athlon X2 3800 but I can't get SMP working. It *was* cheap :) My kernel config: machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident MELON_SMP # To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints #hints

Re: enabling SMP

2007-09-13 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:03:05PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Frank Shute wrote: I've just got a new box, an HP DC5750 with an Athlon X2 3800 but I can't get SMP working. It *was* cheap :) my family's comment to this is: ' we are too poor to buy cheap. I was tempted by a Sun box

Re: problem with sed substitution

2007-06-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:58:17PM +0200, Olivier Regnier wrote: Hi everyone, I try to use sed with /etc/gettytab file. I would like to replace this text : \r\n%s\%m ($h) (%t)\r\n\r by Hello world. I tested with this command : % sed -i.old -e 's/\r\n%s\%m ($h) (%t)\r\n\r/Hello world/'

Re: How to manually patch/configure/compile Apache 2.2.4's mod_autoindex module?

2007-04-24 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:03:33PM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: Hiya, Hi Olaf, I have run into a seemingly trivial, yet annoying issue. I used to use Apache 1.3.33 on my live server, and recently I upgraded to Apache 2.2.4, which apart from some hassles when upgrading the PHP4

Re: mail and system-generated events

2007-04-10 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:37:15PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: Hate replying to myself, but I seem to have come up with a workaround. I hope it's actually a good fix. As part of my efforts earlier (deinstall and reinstall postfix) I also searched for and rm'ed all of the sendmail binaries I

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:09:51AM +0200, Ivan Zenzerovi? wrote: Hello, here I am again with another problem. Thanks for your answers, I managed to setup my system, and now almost everything works. Still, I must configure my printer (Hp LaserJet 6L), but this is not the issue now. I have

Re: display power

2006-12-06 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:48:06AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can someone tell me how to stop FreeBSD (4.11) from turning off my monitor (after whatever preset timeout there is)? vidcontrol -t off Unless you're running X, in which case I

Re: probleme avec mysql

2006-12-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:02:39AM +0100, sebcouf wrote: Hi I've just instal apache2 server and php4 on a freebsd 6.1. I want to instal mysql server 4.1 or 5 (i tryed both) and when i want to start this deamon, it isn't started because when i want to change the password root, there is a

Re: unable to Check wtmp file contents for last month.

2006-12-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:51:16PM +0500, DeadMan Xia wrote: Hello Every1, well i m using FreeBSD 6.0 with qmail. i usually used to take backups remotely. i want to check the content of wtmp files for last month which was overwritten by new wtmp file of current month. Any body help

Re: Quick mail advice / Laptop use

2006-11-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:30:09AM -, Graham Bentley wrote: Hi All, I noticed that fetchmail created a file mbox but Mutt creates a 'Mail' directory however the mail seems to download into /var/mail Mutt asks me on exit to copy to mbox format. The Mail directory also has only one

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