Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-13 Thread Benjamin M. A7;Lee
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:51:46PM +0530, manish jain wrote: > I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in > single-user mode. This sounds simple (and should be if all you have is > a single partition), but there are problems. For starters, terminfo > can't locate its database i

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Benjamin M. A7;Lee
ve all posts that are not about group topic! Group topic? As far as I can tell, the topic is "user questions" (according to http://lists.freebsd.org/ and the List-Id header). Where exactly is it defined what those questions may be about? -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: b...@subvert.

Re: When switching from console to X, mousebuffer gets pasted

2007-12-05 Thread Benjamin M. A7;Lee
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 04:52:23PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > cpghost writes: > > > > For instance: I open an xterm, type some text and select it. When i > > > do a switch to a console, and get back to my X with Alt-F9, the text > > > is automaticly pasted into my xterm. As if i pressed the >

Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux

2007-12-02 Thread Benjamin M. A7;Lee
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:15:22AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-11-30 16:06, "Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I am trying to build all of FreeBSD from a Linux Machine and seem to > > be running into problems. We have farm of build machines th

Re: [freebsd-questions] Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-10-30 Thread Benjamin M. A7;Lee
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:39:00PM +, Howard Jones wrote: > Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: >> You could possibly also put "bash -l && exit" in your .shrc, which would >> exit if bash exited successfully. I haven't tested it, but it should >> work.

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-10-30 Thread Benjamin M. A7;Lee
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 08:50:40PM +, Stephen Allen wrote: > It's been drawn to my attention not to use bash from the ports collection, > because if one of it's dependencies (gettext or libiconv) fails or is > updated significantly, it could break, and prevent login. The suggested > solution

Re: Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-24 Thread Benjamin M. A7;Lee
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:47:56AM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote: > Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: >> icantthinkofone wrote: >> >>> My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source >>> driver for flash for freebsd? Is it a legal issue? Or does it take more >>> time than anyo

Re: Per-port options in make.conf?

2007-10-23 Thread Benjamin M. A7;Lee
at 07:30:29AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:32:39PM +0100, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > > Is there any way to specify options in make.conf on a per-port basis? > > > > For example, if I want Vim built without X11, I can specify the WITHOUT_X11 >

Re: help in deletion part of a line

2007-10-22 Thread Benjamin M. A7;Lee
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:41:40PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Is there an easier way by sed or ed to remove strings > (caight by grep) of the sort: > > part5.chapter2.text- > > where "5" and "2" can be any integer below 10? > > (I know how to delete the *entire*

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Benjamin M. A7;Lee
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:25:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 06:44:18PM +0200, Martin Tournoij wrote: > > On Sun 21 Oct 2007 12:10, Danielisz Laszlo wrote: > > > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > > > I ask all who already tried it how

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-22 Thread Benjamin M. A7;Lee
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:33:57PM +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons > become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or > current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to make the >

Per-port options in make.conf?

2007-10-22 Thread Benjamin M. A7;Lee
Is there any way to specify options in make.conf on a per-port basis? For example, if I want Vim built without X11, I can specify the WITHOUT_X11 flag, but putting that in make.conf will affect every port. I'm aware it's possible to do it with portupgrade, but I was hoping for a method that would