Re: mplayer + realaudio ... what to expect when installing ...

2004-05-26 Thread Lars Eighner
. Since it will no longer work with X if you suid it, I just copy and rename the binary which I suid. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ [EMAIL

Re: Map Windows Key under syscons

2003-09-12 Thread Lars Eighner
escfkey64 fkey64 fkey64 fkey64 fkey64 fkey64 fkey64 O 108 nopnopnopnopnopnopnopnop O Note: this will not carry over to X. Also, the numbers of the keys are different in X, so no X program can give you the right answers about console keymaps. -- Lars

Re: Want complete list of freebsd commands in freebsd 5.2

2004-03-16 Thread Lars Eighner
essential to any real-world installation. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters

2003-01-05 Thread Lars Eighner
receives the mail. The nearest thing to a default 8-bit standard is iso-8859-1, but since you think 159 is an umlaut u, you obviously aren't using it. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 600 E 53RD ST APT 119

How to simulate a mouse click from the keyboard?

2003-01-15 Thread Lars Eighner
It seems to me I vaguely recall that one or another of the window managers make it possible to simulate mouse clicks from the keyboard. Can someone refresh my memory? -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 600 E

Is FAQ answer 4.29 right?

2003-02-11 Thread Lars Eighner
tried device pnp0 and then I tried pseudo-device pnp0 I don't know how to include this pnp0 controller referred to in the FAQ is or how to get it. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 600 E

Lucent winmodem on A7V board vs. FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE

2003-02-12 Thread Lars Eighner
, it sticks it on irq 5 and irq 5 gets appended to the above. I installed ltmdm from the comms ports, but this doesn't seem to help. Or perhaps I have no idea where to look for the modem. Any insights appreciated. -- Lars Eighner -finger for geek code

Re: cons25 or vt100

2003-02-25 Thread Lars Eighner
echo $TERM (or as may be appropriate in your shell to read the TERM environmental variable.) -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 600 E 53RD ST APT 119 AUSTIN TX 78751 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Why can't I run seejpeg?

2003-02-27 Thread Lars Eighner
the owner of /dev/console (verified by peeking at /dev). Moreover seejpeg is suid root and I belong to group wheel. So how come I can't run seejpeg? -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 600 E 53RD ST APT 119 AUSTIN

Re: user-ppp, named and squid

2003-03-13 Thread Lars Eighner
in that exact order, not the other way around, and that the hosts file is correct? -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 600 E 53RD ST APT 119 AUSTIN TX 78751 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

How to make a linux binary run on FreeBSD

2003-03-16 Thread Lars Eighner
something that would allow either of the binaries to work on FreeBSD? -- Lars Eighner -finger for geek code- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.io.com/~eighner/ The US Constitution wasn't perfect, But it was better than what we have now

Re: How to make a linux binary run on FreeBSD

2003-03-16 Thread Lars Eighner
FreeBSD roulette - and linux compatibility is yet another tout that turns out to be bullshit. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 600 E 53RD ST APT 119 AUSTIN TX 78751 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-01 Thread Lars Eighner
to behave mostly the same way - and get that way to be what you want - by editing .Xdefaults and the syscons keymap you are using (probably both). But that doesn't mean that every application will behave as you think it should. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-03 Thread Lars Eighner
can output a file suitable for loading with xmodmap). I think some applications will thwart you by accessing the keyboard directly. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: looking for a shell editor

2005-03-25 Thread Lars Eighner
to cut, copy, and paste, respectively.) But just try it. Too many packages have been written that assume you won't move those keys. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd

Re: blanking the console

2005-04-02 Thread Lars Eighner
) equivalent, but what is it? kldload blank_saver (loads the blank screensaver kernel module) vidcontrol -t N (sets the timeout time to N seconds) You can set these as boot-up default using /stand/sysinstall . Look for post-install configuration, console. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: CRTL+ALT+DEL

2004-09-03 Thread Lars Eighner
'.''.''.'','','boot bootN 103 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 boot fkey61 O by changing boot to nop or some other definition of your choice. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX

How much can I upgrade?

2005-11-02 Thread Lars Eighner
I am running 5.4 stable. How much can I upgrade without losing Beastie? -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Lars Eighner
must use one the approved (i.e. big commercial) operating systems because of 9-11. When you start caving to such people, there is no stopping. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: libexpat.so.5 not found

2006-04-30 Thread Lars Eighner
is appropriate for the version of the system you are using. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Konsole Font Color

2006-02-09 Thread Lars Eighner
generally have to be configured one by one. Check the man page for your editor. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: how 'which'?

2003-11-29 Thread Lars Eighner
command, which actually searches the path every time it is invoked. To bypass the builtin, give the actual path to which, which accorting to which which is /usr/bin/which . -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX

Re: Remove ^M characters from xhtml file

2003-11-30 Thread Lars Eighner
or two files it might be just as easy to search and replace \r with nothing in your text editor (depending on your text editor). -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: cvups with 5.3 stable

2004-11-17 Thread Lars Eighner
RELENG_5_3 is not . using it will always delete the whole tree. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Error and install stops for KDE

2004-11-24 Thread Lars Eighner
and then return to kde3 and make. In that case fam will be skipped too along with the other components that have already been built. The problem seems to be getting the file, and if you can't do that manually, the ports won't be able to either. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek

Re: JDK Issues

2004-11-28 Thread Lars Eighner
*** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/local/ports/java/jdk14. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: JDK Issues

2004-11-29 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Dick Davies wrote: * Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1126 22:26]: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location ^ Mount linprocfs. (Incidentally, you could have just googled this. 'If you can't figure

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Lars Eighner
with receiving the reports. 3) I change resolution for consoles as vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 green. Can I change rate? How to do it? I don't know what rate you mean. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX

Re: realplayer - rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm

2004-11-30 Thread Lars Eighner
address/search bar. Edit this url to change the cs1 to cs2, then hit go. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: 5.3: cant install openoffice 1.1 from ports

2004-12-06 Thread Lars Eighner
you, to make bug reports, or to google for similar problem. Does anyone know if it is broken? or how i can get an openoffice release installed, as 1.0 is apparentlyu broken according to ports and 1.1 wont compile sucessfully. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com

Re: I lost ten percent of disk place in each partition, why?

2004-12-10 Thread Lars Eighner
wrong. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: ALT key on console25?

2004-12-15 Thread Lars Eighner
\ MetaKeygreater: string(0x1b) string() \n\ MetaKeyslash: string(0x1b) string(/) \n\ MetaKeyquestion: string(0x1b) string(?) \n\ KeyDelete: string(0x7f) \n\ KeyKP_Delete: string(0x7f) \n\ -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com

Re: ALT key on console25?

2004-12-16 Thread Lars Eighner
to handle a proper delete properly. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Disable gnome-keyring how?

2008-10-29 Thread Lars Eighner
Has anyone had any luck disabling the gnome keyring? It does nothing I am interested in and it spends many machine cycles trying to start hal, which also seems to be something useless. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-03 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Ryan da Silva wrote: Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Enable beastie and you won't have to look at the ugly letters. -- Lars Eighner http

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-04 Thread Lars Eighner
what you are doing. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Apache/php

2009-02-12 Thread Lars Eighner
are sources of inaccuracies which cannot be reduced. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting

2009-02-14 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Simon Griffiths wrote: So can anyone recommend an editor that can do this ? I did try vim some time ago but being a novice in these areas I couldn't get the syntax file to load and help on the web confusing or indecipherable. joe -- Lars Eighner http

Re: Apache

2009-02-28 Thread Lars Eighner
/4.08 [en] (Win98; I ;Nav) Where does Apache get the -0500 from? See what date '+%z' gets you. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: link to dos2unix

2009-03-01 Thread Lars Eighner
to each distinct configuration file. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: purpose of /etc/wall_cmos_clock

2009-03-03 Thread Lars Eighner
ALSOs). -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: What is the best XServer font configuration to use with international fonts (Cyrillic/Chinese/Korean)

2009-03-22 Thread Lars Eighner
with these issues is in your windows manager, or in some cases, the configuration of individual applications. I do not know if there really is a single best solution to your problem, but only that the solution is not in the X configuration. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35

Re: What is the best XServer font configuration to use with international fonts (Cyrillic/Chinese/Korean)

2009-03-22 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Yuri wrote: Lars Eighner wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Yuri wrote: I use the following font section: Section Files FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/ EndSection What is the best font configuration to use to show all

Umass and Olympus D-540

2009-04-04 Thread Lars Eighner
Umass used to mount my Olypus D-540 as a da device. Now (7.1) it won't. Can someone tell me what the latest version was that still had this functionality (i.e. how far back I have to try to downgrade). -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753

Re: Mysql make question

2009-04-07 Thread Lars Eighner
it, it is generally best to leave the defaults alone. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: is there a way to upgrade Only ports that need it??

2009-04-13 Thread Lars Eighner
persuade port management tools to use packages when packages are available. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: unable to completely remove directory during deinstall

2009-04-22 Thread Lars Eighner
. Also, is make deinstall the same as uninstall? I could be wrong because I never use anything other than 'make deinstall' but I don't find an 'uninstall' target in the port makefiles. A few applications have a uninstall command, and that is not the same thing. IOW, I don't know. -- Lars Eighner

Re: does toor have passwd or not? According to logins -p: yes

2009-12-30 Thread Lars Eighner
to authenticate and on various other security settings eg. in /etc/pam.d, but even so it is something that should be fixed pronto. Use vipw(8) to edit master.passwd and insert a * -- vipw will regenerate /etc/passwd and pwd.db automatically for you. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html

Re: how to disable loadable kernel moduels?

2010-02-24 Thread Lars Eighner
with root priviledges could replace them with trojans. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

ppp auto only works on boot (8.1)

2011-02-17 Thread Lars Eighner
X set ifaddr 10.0.0.3/0 10.0.0.4/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR# Add a (sticky) default route -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread Lars Eighner
EDITOR first if you are not comfortable with vi). If you activate toor, you can log in as toor, use bash, and yet you are root (try whoami as toor). This preserves the root login for emergencies when /usr may not be mounted. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT

8.1-p2 uart appears hopelessly broken

2011-02-24 Thread Lars Eighner
. But it is never possible to bring it back up on demand after it times out. This is pretty much my definition of hopelessly broken behavior and I cannot find a word of warning in the documentation. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Bug report marked [regression]

2011-03-06 Thread Lars Eighner
If my bug report is marked [regression] what does that mean? Am I a troglodyte or a Luddite or something? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

HAL must die!

2011-03-06 Thread Lars Eighner
Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global default? Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull in HAL without having a configuration switch? -- Lars Eighner http

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Ivan Voras wrote: On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote: Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global default? Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull

Re: Best practices on upgrading, etc.

2011-03-11 Thread Lars Eighner
buildkernel make installkernel make kernel combines the above two steps. Then as single user run mergemaster -p. make installworld then run mergermaster and delete old if you please. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Lars Eighner
...@freebsd.org -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Lars Eighner
corrections to their beautiful code. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Krutov Mikle wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:32:59PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote: Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-15 Thread Lars Eighner
differing values only the last is effective. The defaults are in /etc/defaults/rc.conf which should never be edited. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: copying hard drives

2011-06-10 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, David Banning wrote: 2. I'd like a simple way to copy - my FreeBSD system to another drive - a clone so to speak - which I know dd can do - Won't reliably leave you with an operable system. Use dump and restore -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread Lars Eighner
) for the common stuff. You can't find stuff encoded by Dr. Evil Genius Hacker -- but neither can the party claiming to be infringed and neither can Suzie Shebop who just wants free music. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

How to add sio to 8.2 ?

2011-07-19 Thread Lars Eighner
I've come to the conclusion that I need sio to be able to use 8.x. Can it be as simple as just dropping the code from 7.x into the source for 8.x and adding a line to the kernel configuration? Or would this be fraught with all kinds of deep traps? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com

Re: compat directory

2011-07-19 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: It may be a stupid question but my FreeBSD-8.2 system lacks a /compat directory. Is this normal? does it get installed through some kind of software package? check /usr/ports/misc/ for the various compat?x ports. -- Lars Eighner http

Re: How to add sio to 8.2 ?

2011-07-21 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: I've come to the conclusion that I need sio to be able to use 8.x. Can it be as simple as just dropping the code from 7.x into the source for 8.x and adding a line to the kernel configuration

Sio won't compile in 8.2

2011-07-22 Thread Lars Eighner
forever. But what does that mean in the not too distant future when 7.4 is no longer supported? Is there some way to prepare for that eventuality? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd

Re: more information

2011-08-04 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, zareena crisostomo wrote: Please help me with my research work..I'm working on Freebsd as my OS. Tnx. And you attach a Word document? Your scam stinks to high heaven. Zareena C. Bohol -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191

Re: ISO images

2011-08-17 Thread Lars Eighner
appropriate to an ISO image could contain such an ISO. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Lars Eighner
command online, which is a good place to start. But the best thing seems to me is to find some disk space and make a small installation. Start by running #man man and go from there. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Lars Eighner
for WP5, but in both cases this depends on having the original WP program to run in dosbox. Since intellectual property puts meat on my family's table, I naturally would not suggest that pirate copies of WP5 might be on the web somewhere. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800

Re: new to os

2011-08-19 Thread Lars Eighner
/jhs/editors/wordperfect/pkg/README.JHS You might need to either: upgrade port to run it on a new BSD run it on an old machine or emulator of an old FreeBSD Cheers, Julian -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Anyway to mount ext4fs?

2011-08-19 Thread Lars Eighner
Is there any port or other means of mount ext4fs? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-21 Thread Lars Eighner
since 4.x) and my PR is gathering dust, before I buy any more coaster sets from osdisc.com, it behooves to ask if there are any dialup modems that 8.x uart actually supports for ppp on demand? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-22 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:34:22 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Since uart in 8.x will not support my PCI 3com hardware modem (as FreeBSD sio has since 4.x) and my PR is gathering dust, before I buy any more coaster sets

Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-22 Thread Lars Eighner
- it is a very strange language in which unlimited means not really unlimited but only so much as we think you deserve. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-22 Thread Lars Eighner
for really actually does work. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-23 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Robert Bonomi wrote: From: Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com That's why I sprang for the 3Com which WAS supported by sio for years and is NOT supported by uart since 8.x. Why it is this device could be supported for so many years, but somehow it is impossible on 8

Re: freebsd-update, fetch once upgrade many machines

2011-08-23 Thread Lars Eighner
. The cvs-supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup if you have installed cvsup, seems to say it will reproduce the entire CVS tree on your machine. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd

What USB dialup modem WILL work with 8.2?

2011-08-26 Thread Lars Eighner
is it? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: What USB dialup modem WILL work with 8.2?

2011-08-26 Thread Lars Eighner
, so was ubsa and some other modules mentioned. umodem wasn't - and if the line was in GENERIC or NOTES I must have deleted it for some reason instead of commenting it out. Nonetheless, locate reveals it is being built. Works when it is loaded and creates cuaU0. -- Lars Eighner http

What make is in 7.1?

2009-05-06 Thread Lars Eighner
for the make I do have? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Perl upgrade

2009-05-09 Thread Lars Eighner
involved. Use pkg_info -R name of installed perl package to see what you may be in for. Perl was once (recently for some of us) part of the system. Logic may be on the side of considering it an application, but as a practical matter it is a distinction without a (big) difference. -- Lars

Re: Perl upgrade

2009-05-09 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Lars Eighner wrote: On Sat, 9 May 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote: You must be new around here. Yes, I am L-) The process described in UPDATING for upgrading to Perl 5.10 is relatively painless compared to previous perl upgrades. So much stuff depends

Re: Perl upgrade

2009-05-09 Thread Lars Eighner
pain. I concur. If you do the pkg_info thing and the list of stuff depending on perl is very short, by all means upgrade before it gets long. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd

Re: What do ASCII codes 128-159 stand for?

2009-05-25 Thread Lars Eighner
-bit standard. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console - A Question actually about FreeBSD

2009-05-29 Thread Lars Eighner
calling the application and to switch back afterwards. Fortunately many applications these days know what to do or can be configured to do the right thing without such drastic measures. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753

Re: Text attribute differences of syscons and xterm

2009-05-31 Thread Lars Eighner
card combination. By all means, backup your original termcap before trying this. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: RegEx

2009-06-05 Thread Lars Eighner
of explanations for why it won't.) Install the p5-HTML-Parser port in the www ports. Address further questions to an appropriate perl forum. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions

General and specific make questions

2009-06-07 Thread Lars Eighner
and make should not be perplexed over how to create them. How do I express that kind of relationship? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: freebsd update question

2009-06-11 Thread Lars Eighner
if there is a minor, perhaps unknown, variation in hardware. I am not sure if this is the right path, but looking to understand it a little better. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd

Re: Can't log in as toor since package update

2011-09-09 Thread Lars Eighner
to log in since a package update I did around August 22, so I didn't notice this problem until now. Does anybody have any idea what might be causing this? The fact that user 0 is root to the system. Calling it toor to use an alternate shell does not change that. -- Lars Eighner http

Re: copyrights

2011-09-13 Thread Lars Eighner
unnecessary. Signatories of the Berne Convention, including the United States and almost all civilized countries, do not require the notice at all. As a reminder to nice people, the shorter form would surely do. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Lars Eighner
is an option which I think is called WITH_APACHE. To be absolutely sure it is set, run make config in php5 port. The config will be saved and some port maintenance tools may assume it is right without prompting you. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753

Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute

2011-09-20 Thread Lars Eighner
on the browser portion of Mozilla afabry@desmo 7:28 % firefox firefox: Command not found. What could be the problem, where could I start looking? what happens when you %which firefox3 ? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-28 Thread Lars Eighner
. Things should go fine. Checksum mismatch nearly always means a truncated file. I cannot ever remember seeing it otherwise. Do not override it with NO_CHECKSUM. That will be useless with a truncated file and worse than useless if a security port really has been tampered with. -- Lars Eighner

Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Lars Eighner
to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

2012-02-17 Thread Lars Eighner
/local/data. It isn't exactly plug-n-play, but in tests and emergencies is has proved practical to drop the partition into several linices with a high level of functionally - depending on application versioning being close to in sync.) -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N

Re: HP PSC 1350

2005-04-14 Thread Lars Eighner
, and should function in the same way. A table of supported HP products can be found at http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/ . -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions

Re: HP PSC 1350

2005-04-14 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Lars Eighner wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Bachelier Vincent wrote: Hi, anybody know how to make HP PSC 1350 works ? on linux I use ptal but it would work on Freebsd my printer is USB one It is supposed to be supported by the hpoj port which is in the *graphics* ports

Re: about hpoj

2005-04-16 Thread Lars Eighner
documentation is pretty tough going, but the FreeBDS diary has a step-by-step which is very helpful. Once it is set up, cups administration is easy with any browser (lynx will work). -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

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