On 6/25/10, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 6/25/10, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote:
Martin McCormick wrote:
I have been attempting to shut off that last login message
that occurs on some FreeBSD systems every time one runs a sudo
command. I decided to bring back the last kernel
I have a file containing this
drwxrwxr-x 14 89987 546 512 Jun 6 2009 7.2-RELEASE
drwxrwxr-x 14 89987 546 512 Mar 23 04:59 7.3-RELEASE
drwxrwxr-x 13 89987 546 512 Nov 23 2009 8.0-RELEASE
drwxrwxr-x 13 89987 546 512 Jul 1 04:56 8.1-RC2
I want to strip off everything to the left of
Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:53:17 +0800, Aiza aiza21 at comclark.com wrote:
Trying the set the pkg_add environment variable PKGDIR using this
setenv PKGDIR=/usr/packages and get this error message
setenv: Syntax Error.
Of course. The sh shell doesn't have setenv.
It looks like
I use a laptop with PC-BSD and couldn't get output over the headphone.
The built-in speakers of the laptop work fine and keep working even
when a headphone is plugged in (whereas on Windows they get muted). I
tried every slider and switch in KMix, but nothing enables sound over
the headphone.
You
My hdd is using UDMA33 under PC-BSD (which uses a FreeBSD kernel). The
Nvidia SATA chipset seems to be detected, but isn't used! I hope this
is easily solvable because my laptop becomes really slow when the hdd
is used now.
It seems to be using UDMA133, which isn't all _that_ slow. :) But of
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:46:15 +0200
Jozsi Avadkan jozsi.avadkan at gmail.com wrote:
Does someone know a distribution/operating system, that rather uses
the GPU for working, not the CPU? [by default]
Not exclusively, no. But there are developments, still mostly in the
research stage, for
after reading some docs about hardening freebsd installations, I
decided to enforce password expiration after 90days. I've added the
corresponding line to /etc/login.conf and ... after quite some time
(way more than 3 months already!) nothing happens ...
If you want help, you'll have to be
On 7/14/10, Fernan Aguero fernan.agu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:19 PM, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm sorry about that. My apologies. I just assumed that you assumed
that I was doing the right thing(TM). :)
That would be a very bad assumption to make, when
I'm pretty new to this mailing list, and FreeBSD, in the last 2 weeks i was
trying to use
FreeBSD as alternative to Windows, but i can't make the flash videos work on
most of the
popular flash video sites. I've tried to pkg_add, compile from source,
swfdec-plugin,
gnash on FreeBSD 7.3 and 8.1
On 7/14/10, Fernan Aguero fernan.agu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:25 PM, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 7/14/10, Fernan Aguero fernan.agu...@gmail.com wrote:
...
The first time you have to change it manually for each account, with
passwd(1);
Sorry if I'm getting dense
Yuri wrote:
Before one of the releases, I remember, kernel stress tests results were
online.
Now I can't find them.
Are they run? (I guess they must be.)
Particularly would be interesting to see tests for FreeBSD 8.1-RC2,
FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE and FreeBSD-9.0.
Also does stress test only cover kernel
Benjamin Lee wrote:
On 07/22/2010 06:20 PM, Fbsd8 wrote:
I have a pristine install of 8.0.
There is no /usr/ports directory yet.
I am trying to use the portcheckout port and the porteasy port to
just populate the ports tree with only the ports I use.
Problem is in both cases the above
FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jul 14
15:35:26 CST 2010
root at mybsd.zsoft.com:/media/G/usr/obj/media/G/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386
Can i just use the following commands to upgrade to 8.1 kernel ? And does
the virtualbox-ose still work under 8.1 ?
Check the
On 7/23/10, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
b. f. wrote:
Benjamin Lee wrote:
On 07/22/2010 06:20 PM, Fbsd8 wrote:
...
Well first thanks for the info you provided though it was all negative.
I think that you were misinterpreting what I wrote if you think that
it was all negative.
I
I have always been thinking of trying FreeBSD but as a Christian I get
deterred by its un-Christian
logo.
It's amazing how exercised people get over a topic like this, like in
that old story:
http://www.milk.com/true-stories/unix_for_the_masses.html
I think it's a pretty dumb logo myself,
here are the last few lines of output from configure, ots-0.5.0:
checking for pkg-config... /usr/X11R6/bin/pkg-config
checking for glib-2.0 = 2.0 libxml-2.0 = 2.4.23... yes
checking OTS_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/libxml2
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 07:38:51PM +0800, Aiza wrote:
Since the release team never makes a announcement on this list when a
new RELEASE is published. I will let you all know that
RELEASE 8.1 has been published and is available for download.
And if you were wondering why the release iso
On 7/24/10, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
b. f. wrote:
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 07:38:51PM +0800, Aiza wrote:
What I am wondering is why the release iso have been renamed. The path
and file name was to long before and now with 8.1 some fool added the
word Freebsd to it. What on earth
I'm looking for a snippet of .sh type shell code that searches the
/usr/ports/INDEX-8 file for dependents.
Just a pointer to a script in the ports system that has this would be
helpful
Do you mean that, given port A, you want to find all ports that need
port A in order to be fetched, extracted,
On 7/25/10, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote:
the parts of ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk that are used by running `make -C
insert PKGORIGIN of port A here pretty-print-run-depends
pretty-print-build-depends`.
Sorry, it's actually 'pretty-print-build-depends-list' and
'pretty-print-run-depends-list
On 7/25/10, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote:
b. f. wrote:
I just found /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/postsearch which uses the
/usr/ports/INDEX-8 file as its source to search. This is a perl script
but can be used from within in .sh script.
Ah, ok. I thought you wanted to use the Bourne shell
On Monday 26 July 2010, zaxis wrote:
I want to upgrade my freebsd 8.0 to 8.1. I have read all the steps
about upgrading freebsd. I feel mergemaster is difficult to use e.g.
which parameters should i use ? (you may wish to use -U or -ai or
-Fi)
Well, obviously you will get more out of
I was wondering about your update strategy. Do you update your apps as soon
as a new version is available in the ports ? Or do you follow the if it
works, don't touch it strategy ?
There is no one strategy that pleases everyone. You'll have to
consider the time required to perform updates
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:53:03PM +, b. f. wrote:
here are the last few lines of output from configure, ots-0.5.0:
checking for pkg-config... /usr/X11R6/bin/pkg-config
checking for glib-2.0 = 2.0 libxml-2.0 = 2.4.23... yes
checking OTS_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr
On 8/9/2010 4:14 PM, Robert Huff wrote:
Polytropon writes:
I've installed FreeBSD-amd64. It runs very well. The packages I fetch
are amd64 too, but what about the ports I compile myself? Are those
amd64 too?
Yes, as your compiler infrastructure and target platform
is
Is it really better to enable AHCI driver?
Almost certainly, yes. If your BIOS and SATA controller use AHCI, and
are recognized by the ahci(4), mvs(4), or siis(4) drivers (I think
that these drivers are built as kernel modules by default in the
recent versions of FreeBSD, and don't require the
I have 8.0-STABLE amd64 machine, and I need to run some 32-bit FreeBSD
process which runs fine on 8.0-STABLE i386.
So I copied all shared libs needed by it from i386 into there respective
locations on amd64, but under lib32/ folder.
libexecinfo.so.1 = /usr/local/lib32/libexecinfo.so.1
Since installing 8.1-RC2 and now on up-to-date RELENG_8 I am frequently
getting kern.crit messages like
ts_to_ct(1281661818.743348859) = [2010-08-13 01:10:18]
and have been unable so far to determine their origin or purpose. I saw
no such messages while running 7.x or earlier releases.
This
On 08/14/2010 04:05, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
There are patches for CURRENT here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2010-July/010470.html
Thank you Tijl,
cc-m32-2.diff has some failures:
--
|diff --git a/include/Makefile b/include/Makefile
|index
Warren Block wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Ondrej Majerech wrote:
On 08/19/2010 15:02, Warren Block wrote:
Don't need it in FreeBSD, either. In fact, using it in FreeBSD often
causes hesitant input characters that only show up when you move the
mouse. Or a draggy mouse. Or both.
Finally got
...
MPI is typically dependent on the network not OpenMP. OpenMP 3.0 can
be made more scalable if there's tasks built-into the kernel that can
be cleanly exposed to userland. (Like OpenSolaris + libtask from
Moinak is a good example)
If you have a specific set of modifications in mind,
On 8/20/10, Eduardo emor...@xroff.net wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:24:16 +
b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote:
Reading documentation, thanks b. f. I'm already on freebsd-hackers
list. Is that the correct list for this topic?
If you have a specific technical question about FreeBSD
What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be
able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find
that there, but no luck.
Off the top of my head:
OpenOffice
graphics/xpdf (via pdftotext -htmlmeta, simplistic)
graphics/poppler-utils (pdftohtml)
I'm
On 9/5/10, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote:
What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be
able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find
that there, but no luck.
Off the top of my head:
OpenOffice
graphics/xpdf (via pdftotext -htmlmeta
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