Re: ask for help on a strange question

2009-11-03 Thread Jonathan Chen
s licensesphpsqliteadmin var > jove# ./lampp start > ./lampp: Command not found. Assuming that "lampp" is a script with the exec bit set, you may want to check that the first line references a script-int

Re: korean & english on same box?

2009-11-01 Thread Jonathan Chen
ell as firefox and thunderbird and their internationalisation support. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen -- "If everything's under control, you're going too slow"

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-30 Thread Jonathan McKeown
to use sendmail, or even to like it, but please don't lie about it; and if you don't want sendmail in the base system, do as several people have suggested, pull your finger out and do the work to fix it. Jonathan (Just in case, I should p

Re: Merging Related Information from 2 Tables

2009-10-30 Thread Jonathan McKeown
;cordell-north,009,192.168.2.123" This will work well since the default join field is the first field in the line. Jonathan ___ 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: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Jonathan McKeown
dmail trots out a bunch of cliches based on sendmail 8.8. People, we're up to sendmail 8.14 now. Get over it! Just as a matter of interest, if you want to rip sendmail out of the base system, which MTA would you like to replace it with? Or are you suggesting the system ship with

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 18:04:41 Jacques Henry wrote: > > Alternatively, from the commandline try > > > > ntpd -g -q -c /etc/ntp.conf > > > > The -g flag allows ntpd to set the clock once regardless of the offset > > and the -q causes it to quit after setting the time. > > I tried this comman

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
andline try ntpd -g -q -c /etc/ntp.conf The -g flag allows ntpd to set the clock once regardless of the offset and the -q causes it to quit after setting the time. In /etc/rc.conf, all you should need is ntpd_enable="YES" ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" The second option add

Re: Security blocking question

2009-10-09 Thread Jonathan Chen
ere are only a handful of people who have access to that server. If there are only a handful, then I'd suggest that you put a whitelist of IP addresses in your firewall config. -- Jonathan Chen -- "A little learning is

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-07 Thread Jonathan Chen
has a /boot/kernel and a /boot/kernel.old, both of which chews up 210M each. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen -- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? __

Re: Virtualbox does not lunch (FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE)

2009-09-24 Thread Jonathan Chen
albox/ > # ls > Makefilefiles pkg-message work > distinfopkg-descr pkg-plist > # make install > # exit > exit > $ VirtualBox > bash: VirtualBox: command not found Try "/usr/local/bin/VirtualBox" -- Jonathan Chen -

Re: evince paper size

2009-09-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
nguage=en_NZ.UTF-8 Layout=us Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen -- "In mathematics you don't understand things. You just

Re: Virtualbox does not lunch (FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE)

2009-09-17 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:36:08PM +, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > Hi folks! > > I do have a problem when launching VirtualBox (installed from source), > when launched as a normal user it doesnt lunch. Takes few secs... but > nothing happens... Did you "kldload vboxdrv.ko

Killfiles (was Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security...)

2009-09-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 16:59:27 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Wednesday, September 16, 2009 06:08:50 -0500 Jerry The backscatter is useful in a way, in that it confirms that my original reasons for applying an ignore filter on Jerry's email address still apply, but I wish a few more people

Re: VLC from ports collection

2009-09-13 Thread Jonathan Chen
ith perl ${PERL_VERSION} > .endif > > Can I (and if so who) edit this option? [FreeBSD 7.2 stable - gnome2] The obvious solution is for you to upgrade perl. Is there a specific requirement for the perl ver

Re: remove newlines from a file

2009-09-01 Thread Jonathan McKeown
[Agghh. To list this time] On Tuesday 01 September 2009 20:03:19 Paul Schmehl wrote: > I found a sed tutorial once that did this, but I can't seem to find it > again. I have a file with multiple lines, each of which contains a single > ip followed by a /32 and a comma. I want to combine all t

Re: questions about FreeBSD

2009-08-31 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 31 August 2009 17:00:07 Jerry McAllister wrote: > Same response.   Do your homework. The nature of the OP's questions strongly suggested that we are doing his homework. I'm surprised so many people spoonfed the answers rather than pointing to resources like the handbook, as the first r

Re: SUID permission on Bash script

2009-08-28 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 28 August 2009 10:54:19 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:35 +0100, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > > Hi folks! > > > > Im trying to set up a reaaallly basic scrip to allow one user to shutdown > > my machine without root permisions, seting up SUID as follows: > [snip] > > Th

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 15:44:41 Adam Vande More wrote: [450 lines including multiple signatures and twelve levels of quoting, all to say:] > Specifically what am I confused on?  Or are you just going to continue > with the personal attacks?  You've offered no technical rebuttal, simply > in

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-24 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 24 August 2009 10:07:50 Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Is there a command like fuser or lsof which can be used to determine > > what files this perl instance is using? Any other ideas on how to figure > > out what is going on here? > > lsof is in the ports. > and fstat(1) is in the core.

ipfw, NAT and CISCO IPSec VPNs

2009-08-10 Thread Jonathan Belson
Hiya I've got a pretty standard network which uses a FreeBSD server to perform NAT between my internal IPs (192.168.0.x) and the outside world. Everything is working tickety-boo, but I'm trying to tweak my firewall rules (ipfw, based on the 'SsIiMmPpLlEe' firewall template in rc.firewall) to

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions)

2009-08-06 Thread Jonathan McKeown
rm -rf /" as root, so to say. This is what a couple of projects are already doing. PC-BSD springs to mind - I can't remember what the other one is called. PC-BSD is FreeBSD, pre-packaged with a usable desktop and its own simplified package manager. Jonathan _

Re: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions

2009-08-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
board), and astonishingly well-documented. It's also supported by one of the friendliest and most knowledgeable communities I know. I don't recognise FreeBSD or its user community in your description and I hope your tirade, on an extremely publically archived mailing list, doesn't pu

Re: kernel designations terminology confusion -- amd64 used for into quad core

2009-08-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
tel. ia64 saw so little uptake that Intel started using the AMD instruction set, but amd64 is still the appropriate description for most 64-bit processors these daya regardless of manufacturer. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-31 Thread Jonathan McKeown
hat X doesn't recognise your mouse. Unfortunately, that doesn't have much to do with FreeBSD. It's a result of a decision by the X developers to require a hardware abstraction layer - you probably need to enable hal and dbus. Googling will put you on the right trac

Re: source code licensing questions

2009-07-27 Thread Jonathan Chen
do some kernel changes, do I need to open those changes as well? No. > 3.What about Dtrace, if I use DTrace will I need to open code that use it? The CDDL licence seems to imply that you do. > 4.Suppose the answer for 1-3 is no, s there any other reason why I need to > open the code. On

Re: MS Project file viewer

2009-07-22 Thread Jonathan Chen
bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6633656 Workaround available at: http://www.pikopong.com/blog/2008/09/09/java-printing-fix-for-linux-with-cups/ Hope this helps. -- Jonathan Chen -- When you don't kn

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 July 2009 12:45:02 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty > little feature. I'm surprised it's not been copied into other screensaver > applications since, as it's pretty simple. They just had a facility where > moving the

Re: FTP Server for individual client spaces

2009-07-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ies created below it). Let us know how it goes! Jonathan ___ 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: portupgrade question

2009-07-08 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:20:41PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:00:28 +1200 > Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:50:17PM +0200, dan wrote: > > > THat's the point ! > > > > > > isnt that -R implied by -

Re: portupgrade question

2009-07-08 Thread Jonathan Chen
or > to the installation a new port/package, all the required packages are > upgraded. No. Since the dependant package *is* installed. It's just not up to date. -- Jonathan Chen -- "A little learning is

Re: JDK6 for FreeBSD-64?

2009-07-02 Thread Jonathan Chen
cessfully built openjdk6 for FreeBSD? Yes. However the GUI support under openjdk6 is iffy. % java -version openjdk version "1.6.0-internal" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-internal-root_24_may_2009_16_24-b00) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11

Re: JDK6 for FreeBSD-64?

2009-07-02 Thread Jonathan Chen
n > the Diablo port. We're particularly interested in the memory profiling > tool jmap. There's java/jdk16 and the java/openjdk6 ports. However, I don't know whether they support jmap or not. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
too: I bought the Walnut Creek 4-CD box of Slackware 3.6 in a little shop in the West End of London, and a couple of years later, the boxed set of FreeBSD 4.5 from either the Linux Emporium or CheapBytes (can't remember which). Jonathan ___ fr

Editor in minimal system (was Re: The question of moving vi to /bin)

2009-06-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
nt it''. I find that argument unconvincing, but it's not up to me. I'm open to a sensible argument, if anyone has one. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-24 Thread Jonathan McKeown
sted doing away with ed and /rescue/vi altogether. You may not need statically-linked tools very often, but when you do need them, you *REALLY* need them. Don't suggest throwing them away without thinking through the implications. Jonathan ___

Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start

2009-06-23 Thread Jonathan McKeown
dlinks to the same file), so you need to convince people who think /bin should stay small to let it grow by a third to save people learning ed(1). Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: Terminal / vim / shortcuts

2009-06-13 Thread Jonathan Chen
#x27;d put the following into ~/.exrc map #5 ^[:w^M where ^[ is "esc", and ^M is "enter". This maps the keys to F5. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen -- "A person should be able to d

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ate a copy of GENERIC > and work with that. Just to emphasise this point: look at the other kernel configs supplied with source. They tend to include GENERIC, and then have a small list of changed options. Messing about with GENERIC is not a good idea. Jonathan __

Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes

2009-06-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
>        done >        exit 0 Or use jot(1) instead of two for loops: for i in `jot -w %02x 256 0`; do mkdir $i; done To see the output of the jot in a readable format: jot -w %02x 256 0 | rs 0 16 Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
rong in August and stays wrong for the rest of the year. The 31-day months are 1,3,5,7,8,10,12. > Don't forget leapyear. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

2009-06-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
you're absolutely certain someone is never going to talk sense, I reckon the backscatter is quite useful, to keep an eye on what the killfiled person is talking about and how people are reacting. Killfiling whole threads automatically because a particular person has joined in is a drastic step.

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
d0, as you point out) in /etc/ttys before you reboot at the end of the installation. > I think it's more complicated than that. And what if the boot process > hangs for some reason? no console output either by your solution. It's not an ideal process (particularly since the serial

Re: SetUID/SetGID Kernel Option

2009-06-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
thing, as the behaviour that's optional on sysV systems like Linux is the default behaviour on FreeBSD. Jonathan ___ 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: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
drive (yet) It's possible - but only by making your own install CD. Check back through the list archives: Martin McCormick and I had a lengthy discussion about this a while back. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-29 Thread Jonathan McKeown
[Sorry for the excessive quoting - I couldn't decide which bits to take out] On Friday 29 May 2009 12:48:00 Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:36 +0200 > > Jonathan McKeown wrote: > >On Thursday 28 May 2009 22:52:47 Jerry wrote: > >> Did you ever bother to

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-29 Thread Jonathan McKeown
took off and expanded the way it did: once upon a time the US courts did take antitrust seriously, and prevented AT&T using its telco monopoly to expand into market domination of the computer business. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: ghostscript8 - errors when compiling from ports

2009-05-13 Thread Jonathan Chen
d apparently broken) dependency on cups (ie, it's not in the Makefile). If you (forcibly) deinstall cups-base and cups-client, you will be able to install ghostscript cleanly. Then when that succeeds, you reinstall cups-client (f

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2009-05-12 Thread Jonathan Pressnell
__ Message from "Jonathan Pressnell" __ I recognize from your email address that this is the first message I have received from you since Blue Poi

Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'

2009-05-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
#x27;t currently connected, so that if you connect them later your existing devices don't need to be renumbered. Your BIOS is reporting two IDE interfaces, each of which could have a master and slave disk drive, so ad0-3 are reserved for those four drives, meaning SATA starts at ad4. Some BI

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 04 May 2009 15:59:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > > If you have kept the right information beforehand, you can actually > > restore your dumps onto ``bare metal'' without doing a partial ins

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
-b /mnt/boot/boot /dev/ad6s1 assuming you mounted /dev/ad6s1a on /mnt). If you have a different device name, of course, you also need to edit your fstab before rebooting. Jonathan ___ 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: clear old output in login screen?

2009-05-03 Thread Jonathan Chen
How do I get it to clear the screen (and the scroll buffer) when the > login prompt gets redisplayed? If you're using tcsh, you can put the following into ~/.logout: clear -- Jonathan Chen "We laugh i

Re: Firefox3 and dependencies on firefox2,libxul,xulrunner

2009-04-23 Thread Jonathan Chen
r "xulrunner" references in pkgtools.conf with "libxul". Then, you can: portupgrade -f -r -o www/libxul xulrunner -- Jonathan Chen --

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-16 Thread Jonathan McKeown
like doing overnight unattended installs and don't want to accept default settings (so can't use BATCH=yes). Until I discovered it I had immense frustration setting an installation/upgrade running only to come back the next day and find a d

Re: Can't log-in anymore

2009-04-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ands-on help than you can get here; either that or you're going to have to provide more detail about exactly what you were doing. Jonathan ___ 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 run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
over 100MB of download not counting its own dependencies - behind the scenes as part of installing documentation?) Jonathan ___ 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: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-11 Thread Jonathan Chen
I can run a > resolveip successfully here. > The reverse lookup is done against the IP connecting to FreeBSD mail servers. If you post your IP to the list (and it's really no big deal), we can easily check if it's okay. -- Jonathan Chen

Re: Dump/Restore

2009-04-09 Thread Jonathan Chen
stem. You aren't expected to back them up. If you're system failed to boot, how did you inspect the filesystem? -- Jonathan Chen -- Do not take

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ng to install a bunch of stuff from outside the PBI system (in other words, from ports, which are still there under the hood of PC-BSD) will soon want to switch to mainstream FreeBSD. As such PC-BSD has the potential to be an effective ``gateway drug''(!) Jonathan

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ine, you need to keep 9 complete versions available. Chris's suggestion is certainly more than just a request for more packages, though. Jonathan ___ 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: Execute and lock a user into a program upon login

2009-03-13 Thread Jonathan Chen
will act when the user > terminates the vtysh application (^C)... Change the contents of ~/.login to: exec vtysh This overlays the shell with "vtysh". When it exits, the session will be closed. -- Jonathan Chen --

Re: reclaiming /var capacity?

2009-03-11 Thread Jonathan Chen
> > > > --j. > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF > > > > > > Thanks, Yuri. According to the FAQ you linked, wouldn't a good smattering > of "sync ; sync ; sync ; sync ; sync" cause the the two to reflect

Re: PHP5 and ldap

2009-02-24 Thread Jonathan Chen
sed in method invocations to the library have changed. Failure to rebuild may result in sporadic crashes, data corruption and General Bad Things (tm). -- Jonathan Chen -- "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is

Re: Performance problem with samba/zfs

2009-02-20 Thread Jonathan Belson
Jonathan Belson wrote: I just moved my work to an exported UFS partition and I've seen the same problem appear a couple of times. It's possibly a little less frequent though. So with zfs off the hook, it's possible that the problem lies with samba (or maybe the editor its

Re: Where is my STRFILE?

2009-02-20 Thread Jonathan Chen
anybody check and invoke >strfile on his comp? I have FreeBSD 7.1 > here. I want my fortunes back, they dont install without strfile!! > /usr/games/strfile -- Jonathan Chen -- "If everything's

Re: Problem with BASH and [ ! -t 0 ] test.

2009-02-18 Thread Jonathan Chen
ash is looking up the user's bash startup-scripts, and one of the script commands assumes that it's running on a terminal. -- Jonathan Chen -- "In mathematics you don't understan

Re: Performance problem with samba/zfs

2009-02-18 Thread Jonathan Belson
Mel wrote: On Monday 16 February 2009 07:56:02 Jonathan Belson wrote: I export a few samba shares from a FreeBSD amd64 server and I've been editing text files on one of the shares via a Windows box. This /usually/ works fine, but occasionally I'll get a pause of several seconds w

Re: top output question

2009-02-17 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:35:27AM +0200, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Hi, > > I see process like what is the meaning of <> in top output > I couldn't find it in the manual page. It's been sw

Performance problem with samba/zfs

2009-02-16 Thread Jonathan Belson
Hiya I export a few samba shares from a FreeBSD amd64 server and I've been editing text files on one of the shares via a Windows box. This /usually/ works fine, but occasionally I'll get a pause of several seconds when I save back a modified file. No errors are generated on the server, but i

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ownership of files to the group of the directory they're created in, so all you need to do is change the ownership of the directory and the umask. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
p the same as the directory they're created in - so all you need to do is change the group ownership of the directory (which has to be done by root). Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: sh parameter substitution problem

2009-02-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
the : in the parameter expansion. $ addr='195.68.176.4#1440:'; ip=${addr%#*}; echo $ip 195.68.176.4 : is for supplying default values or an error for unset variables. Jonathan ___ 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: xorg && 7-current && ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-10 Thread Jonathan Chen
ine? This laptop > must be at least 10 years old, right? Having a newer machine doesn't ensure that it will work either. I've got a Dell Latitude D830 running 7-STABLE/amd64, and if I run xorg 7.4 with the "nv" driver I get a black screen followed by a reboot. I'm s

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ames and a -print for others. That tells you you need an -or, and the -print must come after it because it's always true. Before the -or, -prune is always true so you need some sort of testing primary before the -prune. That gives you find . -name dir1 -prune -or -print Jonathan ___ 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: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
f file into smaller [ say 1MB ] > > >> chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can > > >> build? [various suggestions including pdfmerge and psnup from ports] Alternatively, if you have a reasonably complete TeX inst

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
applications running - the KBreakout game and the Psi Jabber/XMPP client - the game was unplayable because each time Psi received an incoming chat or event, the game froze for a second or two while KDE struggled to open the chat window. The claim that KDE4 is faster than KDE3 is frankly incr

Re: Firefox and Java?

2009-01-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
gin_oji.so", so > according to the googling I've been doing that's correct. Any thoughts > on how to proceed? The default firefox3 doesn't use the standard browser plugin location. You have to: # cd /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins # ln -s /usr/local/lib/b

Re: How to copy only skeleton files while creating a existing user's homes directory?

2009-01-16 Thread Jonathan McKeown
but pw > errors me saying the user USER already exists (is a OpenLDAP user). Try usermod instead of useradd. Jonathan ___ 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: Slow startup of Gnome - error from "gnome-keyring-daemon"

2009-01-14 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:13:36PM +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 06:56:13AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > > The obvious question is: > > Have you got hald running? > > > > Make sure your /etc/rc.conf has: > > gnome_enable

Re: Slow startup of Gnome - error from "gnome-keyring-daemon"

2009-01-14 Thread Jonathan Chen
onnect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No > such file or directory > Jan 14 16:45:47 mybox gnome-keyring-daemon[977]: Scheduling hal init retry The obvious question is: Have you got hald running? Make sure your /etc/rc.conf has: gnome_enable="YES" -- Jonathan

Re: logout and login after compilation

2009-01-07 Thread Jonathan Chen
ome other way? > > my shell is csh, 7.1-RELEASE Use the command 'rehash'. -- Jonathan Chen -- Don't worry about avoiding temptation,

Re: Open with O_APPEND fails

2008-12-27 Thread Jonathan Chen
I recall correctly, this behaviour has been standard on UNIX-like OS's for a *very* long time now. If you are seeing a write allowed with just O_APPEND on Linux, it would very likely be a Linux only "feature". Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen

Re: Sed question

2008-12-22 Thread Jonathan McKeown
print($_)); -e syntax OK The ,-p argument to -MO=Deparse tells it to put in parentheses everywhere. If you're like me and like to leave them all out, feed your expression to Deparse with all the parens in and leave off the ,-p argument: Deparse will get rid of

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:57:09PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: > i havent tried nmap yet, but you said it also detected the remote, though no > port is open? ICMP doesn't require any open ports. -- Jo

su qeustion

2008-12-17 Thread Jonathan Moore
I just installed FreeBSD with Gnome. And I changed the shell when I was logged ito the terminal as su root. Now when I try to log in to su it asks for a password and I get "su: /usr/bin/csh: No such file or directory" how can I change it back. Thanks Jona

Re: Release schedules

2008-12-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 12 December 2008 19:26, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > -- > From: "Joe S" > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 12:20 PM > To: "Roland Smith" > Cc: ; "Jonathan McKeown" > > Subject: Re: Rele

Re: process always running

2008-11-27 Thread Jonathan McKeown
someone who's done it could comment? Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ascii text format

2008-11-21 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ow ( tags?) so you might be better off just using HTML/CSS to control the format. However, you could look at various tools for processing text, depending exactly what you're trying to do: the manpages for fmt, groff, and pr might all offer some ideas. Jonathan _

Re: php5 Only IE Users can View Pages.

2008-11-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
erver's instruction and therefore display the raw HTML as plain text without any interpretation. Check whether Apache has an AddType application/x-httpd-php .php line or similar in the config file. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: host based authetication with OpenLDAP and FreeBSD

2008-11-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 14 November 2008 14:32, O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello, > I have a OT question and maybe some of the FreeBSD server admins here > can help me out. [snip] > Having nss_ldap and pam_ldap installed on every single FreeBSD > server/box which is capable of being accessed I found in etc/ldap.conf >

Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 14:01:47 Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can > > offer any help or useful suggestions, but here goes... > > >

Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
anything a busy sysadmin, poor in time, bandwidth and C skills, can do to help with either the release itself or the apparent scheduling/communication issues? (I've sent this to -questions rather than -stable because it seems to be an ongoing problem

Re: scripting text replacement

2008-11-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ne is identical bar the four parameters from the first file (in other words your bla bla bla is the same for every input line) (in which case a simple awk '{printf}' will meet the need), or are you actually doing a merge of two files where bla bl

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
s, so there is no reason for top-posting just because the cursor happens to be there. It's a bit like crapping in your pants because that's where your arse happens to be." -- Peter Corlett, london.pm Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?

2008-11-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
tially, a Bourne-type shell with parameter expansion expands ${variable#prefix} or ${variable%suffix} to $variable with the prefix or suffix, respectively, removed. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)

2008-11-03 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote: [Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions] > > I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting > > is hideously broken. Please fix it. > > It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no

Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)

2008-11-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 03 November 2008 08:38:07 joeb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > FBSD1 wrote: > > What port names need to be installed to create a XFCE4 desktop > > environment? > > > I was looking for a mega port like kde3 has but could not identify one. > > Thanks in advance.

Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk

2008-11-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
lected BSD commands everyone should know more about, along with lam(1) and jot(1). Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: root | su

2008-10-25 Thread Jonathan McKeown
to meet the same requirements as any other user before using su. Of course there's nothing to stop someone with root access from editing this file, but now the problem user has to actively subvert a measure that's been taken by another sysadmin - which may provide a better

Re: mysql rc script failure - correction: most installed rc scripts not running manually

2008-10-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
hat. I did end up using it that way, but I was still unaware that it > was mandatory. The problem with forcestart is that it ignores any errors that may occur. The better option for a manual start is onestart, which simply bypasses the test for the option

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