Re: [Solved] Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-08 Thread parv
in message 20130408093145.GA3009@tinyCurrent, wrote Matthias Apitz thusly... El día Monday, April 08, 2013 a las 11:04:41AM +0200, Patrick Lamaiziere escribió: Le Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:38:55 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt schwe...@schweikhardt.net a écrit : # We've had a thread about it in

Re: Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Parv
Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPtiYiMCbQ Yes, plays fine. No problem here either with either of the browsers. - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Parv
of video to be played initially before it can be downloaded (outside of YouTube; for YouTube videos, I prefer to use youtube_dl). - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

math/p5-Bit-Vector size error (was PERL problem installing SQLgrey)

2013-02-21 Thread parv
in message 51253e9d.901a.28c09d00.5088e...@go2france.com, wrote lcon...@go2france.com thusly... freebsd 9.0 portsnap fetch update ... === Installing for sqlgrey-1.8.0 ... === sqlgrey-1.8.0 depends on package: p5-Date-Calc=0 - not found ===Verifying install for p5-Date-Calc=0 in

Re: Opera

2013-02-02 Thread Parv
in message 3869488.94aln8e...@luna.wi.rr.com, wrote ajtiM thusly... Hi! I use Opera 12.12. I use KDE 4 and Fluxbox. In operaprefs.ini I have [File Selector] Dialog Toolkit=4 which help me that Opera works othervise I get: libpng error: incorrect data check libpng error: incorrect data

Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world build from ports?

2013-01-29 Thread parv
/local, where ports are installed by default)? - parv -- ___ 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

OT - Opera 12.12 crashes while uploading an image on Flickr

2013-01-11 Thread parv
anybody tell me if the problem is with Opera-Flickr interaction or something inherent in the file itself? (Also posted to newsgroup opera.linux.) - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-07 Thread parv
is the fact that people have to be more careful when shopping for new hardware with FreeBSD in mind. AMD based hardware is here of advantage at the moment. But it has other disadvantages. ... What would be the said disadvantages? - parv

Re: Somewhat OT - A Makefile Question

2012-06-07 Thread parv
in message 4fd0adfb.8030...@tundraware.com, wrote Tim Daneliuk thusly... On 06/07/2012 12:19 AM, Parv wrote: in message4fcf48af@tundraware.com, wrote Tim Daneliuk thusly... ... Within a makefile, I need to assign the name of a program as in: FOO = bar. The problem

Re: Somewhat OT - A Makefile Question

2012-06-06 Thread Parv
zsh sh tcsh csh 2/dev/null | fgrep -v 'not found' | head -n 3` all: @printf %s\n ${shell} - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-19 Thread parv
drwxr-xr-x 27 root wheel 512 Feb 18 13:11 /var/ (There is another partition, /toybox of 8.5 GB, currently not mounted, to experiment with virtualbox.) - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

OT: Old books (before c. 2009) for the price of shipping

2011-11-02 Thread parv
Shinder, Ed Tiltel * Cybercrime Vandalizing the Information Society -- Steven Furnell * Codes, Ciphers and Other Cryptic and Clandestine Communication: 400 Ways to Send Secret Messages from Hieroglyphs to the Internet -- Fred B Wrixon - parv

Re: p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56_1 and p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54_1 conflict

2011-07-07 Thread parv
/dist/ExtUtils-Install/Changes ... which, in short, shows the EU::I extracted from EU::MM is slowly diverging from its origin; work is ongoing to keep it compatible with the EU::MM version of the installed files. - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions

Re: pkg-add - package insists on old version of Perl

2011-06-27 Thread parv
in installing the desired package in the end? I wonder if using -F ... -F Already installed packages are not an error. ... would install perl 5.10 too in addition to 5.12, or install of 5.10 would be skipped?. - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions

Re: editors/openoffice.org-3

2011-05-30 Thread parv
even if only to be replaced later? - parv -- ___ 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: Make gtk widgets use a larger font

2010-12-10 Thread parv
--16-*-*-*-*-0-iso8859-1 } widget * style default widget *tooltip* style user-tooltip - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-31 Thread parv
to the EOF with G first, then press q, and there are no errors. Yep. Thanks Warren for listing various cases. That made me realize that I did went to the end of two manual pages when I had tried to reproduce the error earlier. - parv -- ___ freebsd

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread parv
repeated the above with csh) which did not result in any error messages in zsh 4 on FreeBSD 8-STABLE (c. Sep 9 2010). - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Opera 10.61 (FreeBSD 8/i386) crash - can't read kernel memory

2010-08-24 Thread parv
shutting down normally? (Yes, of course, only root:kmem has read access to /dev/mem.) Also, is there any way to prevent creation of /var/tmp/crashdatetime.txt every time it crashes? - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-22 Thread parv
files close, other programs die, X11 shuts down, and so on, so forth. - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Customizable wall clock for several time zones

2010-08-21 Thread Parv
! | +--+ You could place multiple x11-clocks/rclock instances side by side with different time zones (-adjust option) to partially reach there, as it does not allow to set the title (I only tested -title option). - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Can't remove or move file

2010-08-20 Thread Parv
you control what the file is called. ... On a similar more flexible note, using --title option will make youtube-dl to use title for the file name. This option has given me back lost sanity when trying to find the right file after fetching more than one. - parv

Re: Skype

2010-08-11 Thread parv
-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2 ... in /misc/ports/distfiles; edit net/skype/Makefile to set proper PORTVERSION; generate net/skpe/distinfo which led to successful install use of skype as in I could log in with the same password userid generated earlier place a call or two. - parv

Re: Re : cannot install opera

2010-07-17 Thread parv
. As the port was intended only for i386 architecture, I did not submit a PR. Let me know if anybody wants it. - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-16 Thread parv
in Firefox via Flash plugin. On FreeBSD, when possible, I download the file to play with xine. - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: check for numeric content in a shell script (FreeBSD sh)

2010-06-25 Thread parv
in message 20100624192256.gf...@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com, wrote Chip Camden thusly... On Jun 24 08:39, Parv wrote: in message 20100624183407.ga49...@holstein.holy.cow, wrote p...@pair.com thusly... # Matches a number, either positive (without '+' sign) or # negative

Re: check for numeric content in a shell script (FreeBSD sh)

2010-06-24 Thread parv
(this one seems to be due to typo) nor a negative number. I would personally to use egrep or awk (printf %s ${arg} | egrep ${regex} [0]) instead of expr. - parv [0] Compact regex # Matches a number, either positive (without '+' sign) or # negative, which is either a whole

Re: check for numeric content in a shell script (FreeBSD sh)

2010-06-24 Thread Parv
the decimal point. . ^ . ^ plural ^ -? ( [0-9] [.]? [0-9]* | [0-9]? [.] [0-9]+ .^ .^ oops Please change the immediately above regex portion to ... [0-9]* [.] [0-9]+ - parv

Re: office apps

2010-06-09 Thread parv
by this. Empty window? Sorry, by empty window I meant the open office swriter window showing an empty, spanking new document (to start writing in). - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: office apps

2010-06-08 Thread parv
: xproto-7.0.15 Depends on: Information for en-openoffice.org-US-3.0.0: - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread parv
not looked into yet. And of course, as stated earlier, compatibility between a bourne shell script an interactive shell helps immensely while developing|debugging a script. - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: an ACK, still here...

2010-05-22 Thread parv
, a 2.5 in HDD in an external enclousre). - parv -- ___ 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: Magic Jack VOIP telephone

2010-05-06 Thread parv
/ports/net/asterisk-bristuff or /usr/ports/net/asterisk1{2,6}? - parv -- ___ 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: [OT] Was: Disabling DNS

2010-04-22 Thread parv
was referring to the task not the person being dummy (as in basic, easy) as explained already by Bill. There was no personal attack. I got that sense after reading Alberto's reply, before both Bill's explanation your indignation. Please read the response in context. - parv

Re: perl links

2010-04-10 Thread parv
can have fun with link farm maintainance. - parv -- ___ 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: perl qstn...

2010-04-05 Thread parv
, don't tease me please about the lack of such loveliness in perl. - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-04 Thread parv
$@ . - parv -- ___ 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: procmail regex help ... sometimes works, sometimes doesn't...

2010-03-29 Thread parv
one in your unreadable_messages one. In any case, what does the procmail log say? See also http://www.professional.org/procmail/sandbox.html#. Do try your luck on procm...@lists.rwth-aachen.de list, http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/procmail. - parv

Re: Compose key and xterm vs. UTF-8

2010-03-14 Thread Parv
realized what had happened, and life went on as it was before. - parv -- ___ 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: is there a native driver for 'Dell Wireless 1397'?

2010-03-10 Thread parv
in message 201003100850.58321.l...@bsd.com.br, wrote Mario Lobo thusly... ... I have 8-STABLE amd64 I have a dell vostro 1320 with a 4315 wireless and got it working with the bwn driver from HEAD (svn) and the net/bwn-firmware-kmod port. Mario, do WPA WPA2 work with the card? - parv

Re: GEOM label clarification

2009-10-17 Thread parv
). - parv -- ___ 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: Is there such thing as a 'soft checksum' tool?

2009-09-07 Thread parv
if this ... http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col50.html ... fits. - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Don't let mergemaster beat you down [was Re: Failed update]

2009-08-11 Thread parv
!. - Parv -- ___ 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

Availability quality of manual pages (was Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman))

2009-08-09 Thread Parv
thought of Opera having a man page. Thanks much. Dang it! Firefox does not have one. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Base system directory sizes for FreeBSD/i386 7 8

2009-07-11 Thread parv
? What would be the additional overhead for encryption of slices|direcoteries? And, how does zfs use affect the overall things? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: eSATA and/or Firewire 800|400 card, cardbus or expresscard 54mm

2009-06-30 Thread parv
should I ask the question again: -hardware, -firewire, -stable, here[1]? - Parv [0] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2009-June/011664.html [1] Well, I kind of did. -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-25 Thread parv
. (Argh, darn quicky fingers!) Sorry for bothering with earlier mail about battery life. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-25 Thread parv
the inbuild cam is not supported, but I don't neet this at the moment (maybe later when Skype for FreeBSD can do video as well). Matthias, What kind of battery life do you get (with and without WIFI use)? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Cleaning up multiplicates in elf ldconfig path

2009-03-31 Thread Parv
in message 200903302145.48743.mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net, wrote Mel Flynn thusly... On Sunday 29 March 2009 16:39:15 Parv wrote: I am on FreeBSD/i386 6.4-STABLE (around Mar 1, 2009). I failed to find a solution to the (cosmetic) problem of ldconfig path having duplicate

Re: Cleaning up multiplicates in elf ldconfig path

2009-03-30 Thread Parv
in message 20090329143915.ga1...@holstein.holy.cow, wrote Parv thusly... ... I failed to find a solution to the (cosmetic) problem of ldconfig path having duplicate directories ... I suppose I could stick in /etc/rc.conf this ... ldconfig_paths=/usr/lib/compat /usr/local/lib /usr/local

Cleaning up multiplicates in elf ldconfig path

2009-03-29 Thread Parv
/compat/package ... but then I would have make sure above does not miss any new paths added to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Opinions or suggestions? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: game advice

2007-07-05 Thread Parv
xjewel more -- all three are tetris like in one way or other. Oh, there is also koth ( scorched3D) which takes^Wtests patience aiming skills. I remember a Mac version (around 1994-1997) being not so hard. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Anyone has migrated Xorg from 6.9 to 7.2 with success ?

2007-07-02 Thread Parv
symbolic link to $LOCALBASE, and set $X11BASE same as $LOCALBASE in /etc/make.conf. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Post Xorg 7.x - Settings for switching to console from X (was Re: Stranges messages in terminal)

2007-05-30 Thread Parv
. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - Perl Script in Apache

2007-05-07 Thread Parv
the print argument to just the file name, as in ... print $files[$image_to_use]; (... for there is no need to generate a HTTP header (which could be considered erroneous) for your usage for the header has been already sent as part of the page presented containing the img tag)? - Parv

Re: normal mount points

2007-04-28 Thread Parv
, but I have never seen them before. If they are legit, they are for something I do not run. Could it be that /{ne,hos}t mount points are due to use of a{manda,utomounter}? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Loop/wildcard-like syntax for GNU make?

2007-04-17 Thread Parv
\ echo i: $$i;\ done ... so some version of body of a target below should work for you (mind the spaces|tabs) ... @cd $$image_dir;\ for f in *.gif;\ do \ new=$( basename $$f '.gif' )'.jpg';\ convert $$f $$new;\ done - Parv

Re: [OT] can sed handle this situation? (might require variable)

2007-04-15 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Zhang Weiwu thusly... On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 01:40 -0400, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Zhang Weiwu thusly... ... I've got a situation that looks like require using variable and not possible to process with sed. But I am not sure

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Parv
- and backup/restore server, heterogeneous computing environment, etc. -- can help only for non-system administration positions. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: [OT] can sed handle this situation? (might require variable)

2007-04-14 Thread Parv
as separator. $block .= \n\n ; } # For each every block processed ... continue { print $block ; } } __END__ - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Append only directory ? Is this possible with unix permissions ?

2007-04-10 Thread Parv
implementation based on extended attributes for the UFS and UFS2 file systems. See also acl(9) which lists the appropriate kernel option (UFS_ACL). - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: problems installing perl-5.8.8

2007-04-03 Thread Parv
: You've never run 'make test' or some tests failed! (Installing anyway.) /misc/local/bin/perl5.8.8 /misc/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/abbrev.pl ... - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Parv
fine on console too for fast reading). Some of my configuration files .. http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/cf/ http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/x/ - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

2007-03-12 Thread Parv
at such a wrapper (feel free to change) ... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/sh/pmk ... to see available commands just run pmk without any arguments. Provide arguments to a make target as ... pmk command [ arg_1 arg_2 arg_3 ... ] - Parv

Re: Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

2007-03-12 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Randy Pratt thusly... On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:15:20 -0400 Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Alexander Schlichting thusly... On a server I have a package installed using ports and now I have to install the package

Re: [OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-24 Thread parv
as , except that the file is created if it does not exist, even if CLOBBER is unset. In fact it's simply a shortcut for 21 (which means to dup descriptor 2 [=stderr] to desciptor 1 [=stdout]). - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Releng-6.2 upgrade HINT for iwi0 user !!

2007-01-20 Thread Parv
is using a version of FreeBSD new enough, for most purposes cvsup(1) can be replaced with system csup(1). - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: regexp [. .]

2007-01-20 Thread Parv
are|can use perl, following use of zero-width negative look-ahead assertion will match 'some' that is not followed by 'pattern' ... 'm/some(?!pattern)/' See perlre(1), (?!pattern) section ( around it) for details. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Search Replace Issue

2006-12-24 Thread Parv
with -i option[0]) one ... find ... \ | ... sed -i -e 's,\(href=\)http://www\.domain\.com,\1,g' [0] That makes this reply on point. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Search Replace Issue

2006-12-24 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Garrett Cooper thusly... cat file.html | sed -e s|http://www.domain.com||g ... Not really a need for cat(1), just use input redirection ... sed -e '...' file - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

OT: sed usage (was Re: Search Replace Issue)

2006-12-24 Thread Parv
the pattern '*.htm'. In particular, in zsh 4.2.6 ... # cat p polka dot # cp -f p q; cp -f p qq # ls -l p q* -rw--- 1 parv people 10 Dec 24 23:32 p -rw--- 1 parv people 10 Dec 24 23:32 q -rw--- 1 parv people 10 Dec 24 23:32 qq # sed -e '' q* | q* # ls -l q* -rw

Re: wireless 3945 status?

2006-12-18 Thread Parv
, system used to go in panic on shutdown or reboot. There definitely was a working connection during my unstructured testing. Will post again w/ more details. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon a particular port

2006-11-29 Thread Parv
) man pages; - ${PORTSDIR:-/usr/ports}/Mk/bsd.port.mk - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WiFi Woes !

2006-11-26 Thread Parv
man pages I seriously apologize for providing the incorrect man page section. The reference to the man page should have been route(8). - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: WiFi Woes !

2006-11-26 Thread parv
-routing.html - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opera and FreeBSD

2006-11-18 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Bachilo Dmitry thusly... FreeBSD is not Linux, FreeBSD is UNIX. Close but not quite. FreeBSD is Unix not UNIX; difference is in the money to be paid to be certified as all capitals. ... Unless you were going for the emphasis. :) - Parv

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-15 Thread Parv
management, a press of the power button should cleanly shut down the computer. At least that is what happens on/with FreeBSD 6.x, with ACPI enabled, on my IBM Thinkpad T42 when I am feeling lazy enough to avoid typing shutdown -p now. - Parv

Re: Window Manager Recommendations

2006-09-09 Thread Parv
the window raising moving, focus changing, pointer moving poiclies to achieve what you want. You can even set it per window (based on its resource or title). You should install fvwm-themes too (in /usr/ports/x11-themes/fvwm-themes) if you don't want to directly edit the configuration files. - Parv

Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?

2006-09-08 Thread Parv
mentioned new Toshiba Satellite. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pkgdb -Fu failing: can't convert nil into String

2006-08-19 Thread parv
? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [yes] a can't convert nil into String When you answered all, pkgdb prepared to install the port marked but could not parse that name in name-version format, so the result was empty string or 'nil' in Ruby, the programming language of choice for portupgrade tools. - Parv

Re: Finding out which options you used when compiling a package?

2006-08-15 Thread Parv
output, showing last few lines of the log on a failure, seeing the last used options|commands, etc. to have something like this, mostly uncommented, script ... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/sh/port-make - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions

Re: A question for the AWK wizards

2006-07-25 Thread Parv
to do what you want to do. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A question for the AWK wizards

2006-07-25 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Parv thusly... You need to use substr() not awk to shorten a line. ` ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ` ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Dang it! I meant to use the substr() function in awk. - Parv

Re: Searching a drive and copying files

2006-07-23 Thread Parv
; exit( $exit ); } __END__ - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shell retrieve history (up arrow) not working

2006-07-11 Thread Parv
press the arrow keys in order (up, right, down, left) They are using different shells. Root uses csh by default, your user account is using sh. Try set -o emacs for sh. Just a note, arrow keys for history retrieval also works with 'vi' option (set -o vi). - Parv

Re: aterm -e screen does not source .bashrc (was: Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution))

2006-07-11 Thread Parv
... relax. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shell scripting: help appreciated

2006-07-03 Thread Parv
records. So, what is it exactly in the records (and/or values given to subprogram.sh) where the execution stops? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: shell scripting: help appreciated

2006-07-03 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Parv thusly... in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net thusly... By the way [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net do something about ... Reporting-MTA: dns; mta9.adelphia.net Arrival-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 13:49:48 -0400 Received-From

Re: requesting some info on CVSUP (some is help related, others are your own personal preferences)

2006-06-30 Thread Parv
with the growth). - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Directory and file comparison tool for X?

2006-06-10 Thread Parv
are different withoug having to open each file and do a diff. People mentioned diff rsync, among other things. Nobody mentioned one named unison, which is similar different to workings of rsync. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: min disk size for (useful) desktop

2006-05-27 Thread Parv
? ? ? 20GB disk should be enough unless you are going to build everything that you need from source in one go without cleaning in bewteen. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Makefile and '$(addprefix)'

2006-05-22 Thread Parv
am a light user of BSD make). - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Converting a zsh prompt to bash

2006-05-16 Thread Parv
) corresponds to bash '\u', '%~' to '\w', and so on. I personally put the color, bold, normal, etc. sequences in a separate file, which is sourced inside the file setting prompt. That gives less of gobbledygook to parse. For zsh, i have somewhere in ~/.zshrc ... # http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Barnaby Scott thusly... Parv wrote: ... and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for between 4 and 5 minutes every time. Does your screen goes blank just after the above message? If so, press [Enter] key, you should see the boot being continued

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-11 Thread Parv
the message when OP tells when/if the problem is solved. IMO, there is really no need to generate a message for each person; a combined (if applicable) public thank you note should be enough. Thanking people who have helped you give them the incentive to keep on helping you others. - Parv

Re: 7-CURRENT

2006-05-08 Thread Parv
matching of minor version is not optional. To get past that, regex should be ... /^(((\d+)(?:\.\d+[^.\-]*?)?)-(\w+)(-\S+)?) (\w+)$/ ^ ^ optional match - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows

2006-05-07 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Ow Mun Heng thusly... On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 01:34 -0400, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Marc G. Fournier thusly... I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migrating ppl over to using X vs M$ Windows ... I'd like to be able to help

Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows

2006-05-06 Thread Parv
if that is possible. There, however, is x11vnc port (net/x11vnc) which can connects to already running X instance which should fulfill Marc's requirement. See also x2vnc (x11-servers/x2vnc) port. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Inappropriate file type or format error when accessing berkely DB file via perl

2006-05-04 Thread Parv
/ Perl (at least in 5.8.8). Well, i just searched Google Groups for 'perl DB_File db3 Inappropriate file type or format' which presented ... http://groups.google.com/group/fa.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/783254b63fbba089/3a8af6e2d78282f9 - Parv

Re: graceful way of stopping X remotely

2006-05-02 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Noah thusly... Its been a while since I've had to admin X. What is a graceful way to stop X when I am remote to the machine? Send a SIGTERM (or any other appropriate one) signal to the controlling|foreground X process? - Parv

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