Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:24:29 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On December 12, 2009 10:31:59 AM -0600 Polytropon > wrote: > > > > The FreeBSD OS, on the other hand, follows approach (a) and > > aids the user with (b) - the defaults are intendedly and > > wisely chose

Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

rks" (TM)? I'm not sure many programs will run on it, because the dependencies refer to xorg-stuff-1.2.3... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: 'X' vs. 'Mouse'

the > LANG setting. But if LANG isn't set, and LC_* settings differ? I think detecting the keyboard layout from the keyboard itself is not possible at all (how should it?). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Native PDF viewer

nonstandard stuff, and for those that "process" input fields, the acroread port is still on my system as "fallback solution". -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Simple Monitoring Of TCP/IP Question

son to e. g. Nagios), GUI-based and very comfortable. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: is this booting info correct?

s on this hard drive and any other hard drives > cabled to the PC. It displays a menu giving you the option to choose > which one you want to boot from. This gives you the ability to have more > that one operating system installed on your PC at one time. Exact. -- Polytropon Magdebur

Re: is this getting out?

t.org.9551IN SOA aristotle.thought.org. hostmaster.thought.org. 2008121902 10800 3600 604800 38400 ;; Query time: 44 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.100.1#53(192.168.100.1) ;; WHEN: Thu Dec 17 15:47:02 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 86 -- Polytropon Magdebur

Re: is this getting out?

ethic.thought.org ethic.thought.org has address 209.180.213.210 Host ethic.thought.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Host ethic.thought.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) And I can now ping it, as well as aristotle and plato. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.

Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?

ld. Integrity, consistency and well-intended layouts and principles (instead of arbitrary decisions that vary with each release or distribution) are another topic. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: (no subject)

-data - Maybe you need to set specific options (dev=, speed=) for your recorder. However, after a successful recording, it's easier to destroy the CD-R physically. If the session (and media) is already closed, the same idea applies. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy Fr

Re: What happened to /home?

970, then... well... it indicates a problem some way similar to mine... Good luck! I hope you have good backups. That's not an impolite joke. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-q

Re: What happened to /home?

t/home and /export lives on another partition. But I have no problems accessing files as /home/poly/some/dir/some/file from wherever I am. As far as I understood, relative symlinks prefix their respective targets always with their own location, so /home + export/home gives /export/home. -- Polytr

Re: After freebsd-update - all went wrong.

ting it, e. g. with "make update" in /usr/src (using csup or cvsup). > and still reading the default route from rc.local It would be helpful to see some config file examples. Maybe rc.local overrides things that should already work? > This shouldnot happen with f

Re: After freebsd-update - all went wrong.

ee, the settings in rc.conf are completely valid, and should work. If this is still the "old" rc.conf (that worked before), the services activated in there should be started, too... You could additionally check /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts for any malformed entries. I think /etc/hosts

Re: example c program that does "beep"

tes an audible bell, or beep. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: example c program that does "beep"

; nonl(); intrflush(stdscr, FALSE); keypad(stdscr, TRUE); start_color(); printf("beep: %d\n", beep()); fflush(stdout); printf("flash: %d\n", flash()); fflush(stdout); return 0; } -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happ

Re: clicky driver

eck > with to see about adding a "click driver"? You could initially have a look at the atkbd (or ukbd?) source files. Maybe just inserting some output of the ASCII character 0x07 (BEL) after each recognized keypress would be sufficient, but... no, it won't be that easy. :-

Re: clicky driver

, if properly used. Wrong use can lead into the opposite. I can only tell you from Germany where school and education are epically failing since 1990, even though they employ "modern means of education"... a joke from an educational (scientifical) point of view. -- Polytropon Mag

Re: clicky driver

//* OFFLIST On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:50:48 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:53:43PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > There are a few who actually *do* have text-only pages. > > > > And f

Re: setlocale command is missing

t of the LC setting, as well as the correct charset name? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: clicky driver

x27;bell' from the PC > speaker, but no clicks. Same here, too. Even "xset c on" (as mentioned in "man xset") doesn't work. Maybe the AT / USB keyboard is missing a speaker. The Sun type <= 4 keyboards included one.

Re: clicky driver

gt; ancient IBM Selectrics. Connect an IBM 3270 to your server and you'll have the keyclicks implemented in hardware. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: clicky driver

On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:01:07 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > //* OFFLIST Sorry, hit the wrong button - I hope it doesn't bother anyone. If it does, don't read it. Outdoor concert will start today at 3 p.m., but if it rains a 3 p.m., we'll already begin at 1 p.m. :-) -- Po

Re: example c program that does "beep"

aven't turned beeping completely off with some xset call? As far as I remember, for simple beeping, the speaker device (device SPEAKER or speaker_load="YES") isn't required. Maybe some wild mixer-settings? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 An

Re: clicky driver

s - won't be possible in the future... This will force the output of any sounds through the "sound card" (or its representation by the chip"set" respectively), requiring a specific driver to access the particular hardware. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy Fre

Re: clicky driver

to be determined by hardware. > Should be a way to send the beep to my desktop speakers, then, > right? I've got volume and power, treble/bass. If the PC speaker output is realized through the sound "card" (and its speakers), it will leave the computer through those

Re: Sendmail client configuration to connect to ISP's SMTP server

h a valid IP from their range. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: how to modify date after unrar files?

k you!! In order to change access / modification time, just % touch and they'll have the correct date and time. Use -m for modification time. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: Re[2]: How to force tar to be quiet?

o be the subject of the archiving operation. Which shell are you using? Is it maybe not expanding * and instead taking it literally? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

a 20 machine gun hard disk, too. :-) > The default MBR code written by the Microsoft/Windows fdisk program is > hard coded to boot the C drive. The FreeBSD fdisk program has option to > write a simple boot menu program to the MBR. You could add that

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

artition table is limited to 4 entries. This means no > matter how large your hard drive is (20MG or 200GB) you can only > sub-divide it into a maximum 4 slices/partitions. I'm sure you wanted to say 20MB - megaBytes. :-) > The FreeBSD fdisk program has optio

Re: fpc on FreeBSD?

didn't code TP anymore, and switched to C as my primary language. I hope nobody will give me a C box as a present. :-) But it's okay, I deserved it, because my TP coding was completely awful - obfuscation in its finest form, completely unintended. :-) init;bk(0);setpicardcolor(x0+x1+xk+a

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

obotron resurrection). :-) > > An alternate method is to allocate an “extended dos partition” and then > > sub-divide it into logical dos drives lettered C, D, E, F. One of these > > Not limited to F: as above (adding the DOS colon as Polytropon suggests) My suggestion comes f

Re: Burning an audio CD

eep in mind that I'm not sure about this; I'm not using burncd anymore since I discovered cdrecord and cdrdao (that use the ATAPICAM facility). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freeb

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

ter comes with FreeBSD, and LaTeX can easily be installed, e. g. with "pkg_add -r teTeX". Of course, you stay in the free land of open source with this combination. In case you want to have an example file, write off-list to me - no need to pollute the list with this niche-marke

Re: HNW, everybody.

On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:46:35 -0500, "n...@hdk5.net" wrote: > Happy New Year 2010.! > To all on the FreeBSD list. > Your help is always appreciated. Completely seconded. And finally, roman notation of 2010 is MMX - the year of the "multimedia enhancement". :-)

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:11:05 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > On 2010-01-01 11:42, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:30:09 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I've been tasked to print a phonebook style directory for an > >> org

Re: Midnight Commander - Where is the subshell?

X] except X11. When I press ^o, I can "switch" between the MC and the subshell, even as an ordinary user. > It even seems to be not a common problem. Just common on my > FreeBSD-computers.. Now no more. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

programs like psnup or mpage (I think those were their names) to re-order the content of the resulting PS / PDF file. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Midnight Commander - Where is the subshell?

anymore; they are present e. g. in sysinstall (borders), but not in MC. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: Rename pictures in the command-line interface

}" else if ( ${%n} == 2 ) then mv "${f}" "${base}_0${n}.${extn}" else mv "${f}" "${base}_${n}.${extn}" endif else if ( ${%n} == 1 )

Re: Rename pictures in the command-line interface

owerful Midnight Commander can do this for you (select and > > PF6). > > Anyway, I gonna look at it. It's worth it. The MC is a powerful and still easy to use tool for file administration. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mo

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

of recovery-related tools: dd_rescue ddrescue fetch -rR recoverdisk I'm quite sure it was one of them. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Need sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset

of the valid locations, so: yes. For a better explaination than mine, refer to the excellent documentation in the FreeBSD handbook, ch. 5.4, to be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Hap

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

e, but there should be similar information in earlier man pages. It describes the stuff sysinstall does, as I mentioned (guessed) before. For security considerations, keep an eye on /etc/ftpusers; the names "ftp" (stands for anonymous FTP "account" - if you don't want to provide t

Re: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

e instead of the > pdo_sqlite version. As I said, I would suggest to try to achieve this through the ports system. It's easier than fighting ./configure. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: Question and support

Definitely YES. This is mainly because of the reason that is, as opposite to many other operating systems, very well documented, and structured well-intendedly itself. You won't have serious problems understanding how things work. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD us

Re: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

ASE in any of the files in the package, or in my env. > > Any ideas? Have you checked /etc/make.conf? For X applications, there's no X11BASE anymore because the difference between /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 has been obsoleted by putting everything into /usr/local (which is correct ac

Re: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

GD > try and pull in X dependencies; this will short circuit that. Excellent advice! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

efine BLA -> symbol 'BLA' is defined"). > Where to go from here? Do I have and old version of something that is > causing this? I get this error _right away_ before anything is even built. It seems to be a check by the Makefile at port's top level. -- Polytropon Magdeb

Re: must /compat/linux stay in root-fs?

viding an additional symlink compat@ -> local/compat from within /usr? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

system's default mechanism with a "man made" printer filter. It's very easy. Easier than dealing with the CUPS "blackbox" in my opinion... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

mplemented, i. e. only _one_ filter needs to be present: one that converts an application's PS to PDF and the send it to the printer's local port or IP address. All the parts needed for that task are already present (and have been for many years). Would be interesting to see how this deve

Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools?

ore data on CDs and DVDs which are intendedly less compatible by omitting the ISO 9660 file system. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

rough the network interface, or keep it in local storage so network access can "pick it up" (e. g. by FTP, NFS, CIFS/SMB), things would be easy as those mechanisms can be kept internally in the printer without requiring arbitrary "drivers" to make things w

Re: Maildir Format

relation to /usr/bin/mail). By the way, the suggestion of redirecting the system's mail output to a specific user account or "external" mail account removes the choice for a program for local use. So the user's default MUA (even if it's a web based solution) could be used.

Re: One or Four?

e one partition containing all subtrees plus one swap partition. [ ] separate partitioning + swap Create /, /var, /tmp and /usr (including home) partitions plus one swap partition. [ ] user-defined Make your own partitioning selecti

Re: One or Four?

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:11:52 -0800, Devin Teske wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jerry McAllister > > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:5

Re: /usr/home vs /home

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:16:39 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 02/18/12 12:16, Daniel Staal wrote: > > --As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to > > have said: > > > >> Well, to be honest, I never liked the "old style" default

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

ich I mount arbitrarily at /usr/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.) And I assu

Re: /usr/home vs /home

just to mention the loads of philosophy hidden within the system. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: /usr/home vs /home

n the xdm/ subtree (in /usr/local/lib/X11!) there are files with hardcoded paths. I think a better separation of configuration and library items should be provided, and a startup per rc.d/ file (such as kdm and gdm provide them) should be possible. I'm not sure how wdm (the WindowMaker display manag

Re: Hardware compatibility

that test media, it shouldn't be a problem. You could also _ask_ for how the FreeBSD support is, but don't expect any useful answers from an average salesperson. :-) "Does it run FreeBSD?" - "Yes, you can click on the Internet with it, it's very shiny and comes

Re: CUPS 1.5.2 not working, like to test 1.4.x, how?

7;s a port to do so: portdowngrade. You can use it to obtain older versions of a port. (I've been using it successfully to downgrade xzgv to a working version.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: /usr/home vs /home

oer/wechselplatten.htm#cm5400 (Historical note: K1600 series minicomputers are basically PDPs.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Hardware compatibility

On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:45:05 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > To the OP, check the pages Polytropon has linked here, but the chances > of getting exactly that are nil to impossible. I've run about 6 or more > laptops now without too much trouble. The biggest problems were > wireless,

Re: Current way of downloading sources

pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/src.txz (and for amd64 architecture respectively) Leaving the discussion "old vs. new installer" aside, this method should always work. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Hardware compatibility

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:44:08 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 02/22/12 01:44, Polytropon wrote: > > Today's problems seem to be suspend/resume/hibernate (all > > the variations of "it's not switched on, but also not > > switched off entirely") and some speci

Re: Installation troubles

per install image (e. g. don't try to install amd64 version of the OS on a system that doesn't run it). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

CL HP Laserjet 4000d). I think it should be possible to code that similar to a parallel printer (with ulpt instead of lpt device specification for the lp= parameter... What am I doing wrong? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

(adding a printer by specifying port and type) is _impossible_). I'll begin to write a lpr printer filter instead. That has been proven to work (see initial message). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:55:36 -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:14:33 +0100 > Polytropon articulated: > > > I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color > > laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631 > > web-based configuration, n

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:07:36 +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color > > laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631 > > web-based configuration, none of the methods tha

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

ups with crwxrwx--- permissions, the /dev/u(n)lpt0 devices are also root:cups with crw-rw permissions. Really, I _need_ to dump CUPS relapse to _standard_ system tools that seem to be easily capable of what the web-driven autodetected elastic-legged program magic of CUPS can't. :

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

have hardcoded "calls" to CUPS programs, some seem to even _not_ output PS (which should be standard), but instead PCL or whatnot. > JIC you haven't considered this yet... HIH :) Considered - yes, but I thought I would be able to avoid it and use the "modern" CUPS too

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

(WLAN, LAN, USB, parallel) - following Jerry's suggestion - I'll try tp get rid of the USB cable at the next step. Wireless printing isn't urgently needed (as I'm happily wired here), but real networking is much better than this local fiddling with USB (so I can print to the color p

Re: FreeBsd Beginner

t a configured system I recommend having a look at VirtualBSD. http://www.virtualbsd.info/ It can easily be used without installation in a VirtualBox environment which should even be possible in "Windows". -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Simple question about pkg_add ...

, and pkg-plist. Obviously, that's not a binary package for pkg_add use. It's a port. Extract the file and use it with the port infrastructure (i. e. "make install"). Seems that the instruction in "man 4 upgt" is just missing the proper terminology...

Re: fixating USB Storage

not present. > > How to solve this issue? Label the drives and use labels instead of device names. Get some inspiration from Warren's excellent article here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Simple question about pkg_add ...

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:41:46 +1030, David Walker wrote: > Hi Polytropon. > > I did have a look inside and I did pkg_add -v which gives enough > information combined with my meagre knowledge to guess that it had > something to do with source. A port (as you can find it inside th

Re: fixating USB Storage

a typical reader's mind. :-) They can be found explained in The FreeBSD Handbook at 20.7.1: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-glabel.html (bottom of the page) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: THe number of cdrom in /dev

send it. Just provide a bit more information so your problem can be diagnosed. At the moment, I'm just guessing. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: port to package amd64 to i386

man, man ports. But I do not find the flag > -build-for-another-system-cpu-whatever Some settings can be transferred to the make environment, usually /etc/make.conf is used. > Can the ports system be (ab)used in that way? I don't think it is that easy. :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

ting the kernel _may_ cause many "dependency programs" (the userland and often the installed 3rd party applications) to become target of updating in order to keep their functionality. New kernel interfaces, changes in ABI or API, new libraries, as

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:42:52 -0500, David Jackson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > > David, allow me to add a few thoughts: > > > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:28:47 -0500, David Jackson wrote: > > > As for compile options, the solution

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

rking on getting the logs Those should be interesting. From my own experience, I know there is some software that cannot be easily be updated the binary way, but for most things, it should "just work", especially if you keep the default options and have suffic

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 22:04:35 -0500, David Jackson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:05:37 -0500, David Jackson wrote: > > > > Many of your issues are non-issues, as your suggestions were > > > > implemented

Re: Suggestion

you can't even try out without contamining your hard disk. > [...] and dont trust Linux and any other Unix-based OS. Why is that? Do you believe that imitating MICROS~1 technology is generally better? Or what is the reason? I'd be interested in learning more. For further trust, an

Re: Suggestion

, every toaster ... Sorry, you must be wrong. I tried to FORMAT.EXE my toaster but it didn't work. It turned into a bread slicer instead. Maybe the toaster is too old and requires paper tape... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeB

Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?

r network-mounted file systems. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

> or is that illegal, too? Yes, it is. It's also illegal to listen to MP3 in the US. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

I understood you correctly, getting WindowMaker (not sure about the current correct spelling!) installed and running is your top priority. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-quest

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

o work, but a passwd entry like bob:*:1234:1234:Two-loop-Bob:/home/bob:/usr/local/bin/joe could work (haven't tested that). A list of the files can be obtained when opening a file ^KE and pressing the Tab key. It would be worth testing if shell escapes like !command will work in this const

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:19:51 -0700, Edward M. wrote: > On 03/12/2012 03:10 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > /etc/shells to work, but a passwd entry like > > > > bob:*:1234:1234:Two-loop-Bob:/home/bob:/usr/local/bin/joe > > >I think this would not let the user t

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:34:18 -0700, Edward M. wrote: > On 03/12/2012 03:47 PM, Edward M. wrote: > > On 03/12/2012 03:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:19:51 -0700, Edward M. wrote: > >>> On 03/12/2012 03:10 PM, Polytropon wrote: > >>>

Re: /usr/lib32 question

nue trying to change permissions or remove the files in that directory. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: lost+found dir placement

er root dir as /lost+found. Correct. It will be assigned to the results of possible recoveries of lost data of the / partition correctly. > Any comments before I file a PR request ? If this directory has been created by the installation process, I think you should. Maybe you verify the iss

Re: lost+found dir placement

in a normal case, lost+found is tied to a partition (and per implication to a mountpoint). The mountpoint, if _not_ in use, should be empty. > I will take a look at source code of fsck* entries and perhaps find a clue. I posted the file name where you can find the handling of the creation of l

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

re only for "pledge week" Regular file downloads are something you'll hardly find on the "modern" web. But that doesn't mean you cannot turn streams into files. After all, the data _is_ trans- ferred to your computer. It's just a question to use the proper prog

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

aw video feed (from VTR or camera). However, there's documentation that may help: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/tv-input.html It also contains an example to "record to file", which will implement the "software video tape recoder" functionality. --

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