Re: test...
Gary wrote: is anything getting thru? Nope. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question
Adam wrote: I am very new to this and I have installed the FreeBSD on my computer. What is the command that you use to launch the GUI that is installed with this?? (I think it was Xfree86 or Xwindows) Assuming you have everything properly installed you only need to execute the: startx command. Here's some more info on the subject: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: good things to say
j. wrote: my dear open sourcerers, i am writing this letter to ask for your assistance in advocating open source and in particular freebsd for the enterprise. [...] There's a freebsd advocacy list for this kind of stuff, you know. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
Chris wrote: hi dear mr or mrs i use freebsd 5.0 . whenever i want boot my computer(when kernel want boot) i see this messages: unable to load kernel! cant load 'kernel' please guide me regads No offense - but without proper information, the list can't determine your real issues. Perhaps a flavor of Windows is for you? I'm curious as to what possible reason you could have had to make such a ridiculous statement. *Why* exactly do you think a flavor of Windows is for the OP? Is it because he's having trouble with FreeBSD? Perhaps if he switches to Windows and has problems with *that* you could suggest yet another OS. Let's hope he runs out of problems before he runs out of OSes. No offence, but your post reeks of the arrogance, which, unfortunately, is quite abundant in the (Uni|Linu)x world and which puts off many potential converts. I don't blame them one bit. -- Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry
Uwe Doering wrote: Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Uwe Doering wrote: Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I think there's something in one of the included makefiles that relies on a change to make(1) that happened after 5.1-RELEASE. Note that only the most recent release is supported by the ports collection (http://www.freebsd.org/ports); try updating to 5.2 or 4.9, which should fix the problem. Wow, that really sucks, since I've had zero luck updating to 5.2 the two times I tried, and going with 4.9 from 5.1R means a reinstall, rather than an upgrade (I'm led to believe). If you have the OS sources installed you could selectively upgrade the source files of make(1) via cvsup(1) and just install it. No need to upgrade the whole OS only because make(1) got an additional command line option. We recently did this for our 4.5 based systems. Could you please explain how that's done? I've never selectively upgraded the source and I'm afraid of screwing something up. If you haven't already done so, install the port 'cvsup', preferably the precompiled package in order to avoid having to install Modula (which 'cvsup' is written in). Then you need an appropriate supfile, '/etc/cvsup-src-5.2' in this example, which should look like this: - cut here *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_5_2 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all - cut here Now do cvsup -g -i src/usr.bin/make /etc/cvsup-src-5.2 Once this went through successfully, build and install the new version: cd /usr/src/usr.bin/make make obj make depend make make install (clean up /usr/obj afterwards if desired) That's it. You can selectively upgrade other programs the same way if necessary, provided of course there are no incompatibilities in the respective areas between the OS releases. A look at the CVS commit comments is always a good idea in this context. Thanks very much for that information, Uwe. I had no idea that such selective upgrading was possible. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry
I asked: Uwe Doering wrote: [...] If you have the OS sources installed you could selectively upgrade the source files of make(1) via cvsup(1) and just install it. No need to upgrade the whole OS only because make(1) got an additional command line option. We recently did this for our 4.5 based systems. Could you please explain how that's done? I've never selectively upgraded the source and I'm afraid of screwing something up. Pretty please? -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry
Uwe Doering wrote: Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:44:45AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Since I have this same problem I ran 'make describe' and here's the result: - === devel/sparc-rtems-gdb *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports. - What version of FreeBSD are you running? Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I'm running 5.1-Release. I think there's something in one of the included makefiles that relies on a change to make(1) that happened after 5.1-RELEASE. Note that only the most recent release is supported by the ports collection (http://www.freebsd.org/ports); try updating to 5.2 or 4.9, which should fix the problem. Wow, that really sucks, since I've had zero luck updating to 5.2 the two times I tried, and going with 4.9 from 5.1R means a reinstall, rather than an upgrade (I'm led to believe). If you have the OS sources installed you could selectively upgrade the source files of make(1) via cvsup(1) and just install it. No need to upgrade the whole OS only because make(1) got an additional command line option. We recently did this for our 4.5 based systems. Could you please explain how that's done? I've never selectively upgraded the source and I'm afraid of screwing something up. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to extract winzip files?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there a way, I can uncompress zip files made under win? Unzip from ports collection probably can't do that: End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. and I'm sure this is not multipart archive or broken file. Then something else is wrong since unzip() can handle such files easily. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:28:32AM +, Robert Woolley wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Jeff Penn wrote: My ports system is in a bit of a mess. The problems first surfaced after last weeks 'cvsup; portsdb -uU'. This weeks cvsup did not improve the situation: I don't have a solution, but I'm getting just the same problem with portsdb -uU; and it happened at the same time. Run 'make describe' on its own..it will give an error at some point, which should let us determine what is going wrong. Since I have this same problem I ran 'make describe' and here's the result: - === devel/sparc-rtems-gdb *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports. - Any clue as to how to fix this? -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry
Kris wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:57:18AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:28:32AM +, Robert Woolley wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Jeff Penn wrote: My ports system is in a bit of a mess. The problems first surfaced after last weeks 'cvsup; portsdb -uU'. This weeks cvsup did not improve the situation: I don't have a solution, but I'm getting just the same problem with portsdb -uU; and it happened at the same time. Run 'make describe' on its own..it will give an error at somepoint, which should let us determine what is going wrong. Since I have this same problem I ran 'make describe' and here's the result: - === devel/sparc-rtems-gdb *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports. - What version of FreeBSD are you running? Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I'm running 5.1-Release. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:44:45AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Since I have this same problem I ran 'make describe' and here's the result: - === devel/sparc-rtems-gdb *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports. - What version of FreeBSD are you running? Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I'm running 5.1-Release. I think there's something in one of the included makefiles that relies on a change to make(1) that happened after 5.1-RELEASE. Note that only the most recent release is supported by the ports collection (http://www.freebsd.org/ports); try updating to 5.2 or 4.9, which should fix the problem. Wow, that really sucks, since I've had zero luck updating to 5.2 the two times I tried, and going with 4.9 from 5.1R means a reinstall, rather than an upgrade (I'm led to believe). Thanks for your help. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkgs managing
flux wrote: Hello everyone. How do I know what package does the file belong? man pkg_which -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: your mail
?? ?? wrote: Sir, would please ask me a simple problem? How can I download the source code and what is the U RL? Now,I am trying to construct a operating system, and I have lots of questions about OS. Can you help me? Thanks a lot! You'll find everything you need at: http://www.freebsd.org/ -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get rid of ^M character using vi
Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2004 01:43 am, marlon corleone wrote: how do i get rid of this annoying character ^M using vi, in pico i used the arguments '-w' but what about in vi? starting on the 1st line type :.,$s/ctrlvctrlm// The .,$ tells it to process from the current line to the last one. If you're doing this for the whole file it's faster to use % :%s/ctrlvctrlm// It's even faster to use :se ff=unix but that assumes we're talking about Vim, not Vi. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perl script question.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:26:30PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 06:02 PM 1/10/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 11:39:07PM +0100, Bj?rn Andersson wrote: If this occures more than once on a line we should have the line as this: perl -pi.bak -e 's/\s+\w+_\w+\.?//g;' filename Good point. Also, if the stuff_separated_by_underscores wraps around onto more than one line, then there may not be any leading whitespace: I don't see why the translate sol'tn that Gary Kline gave first isn't adequate. Err --- Gary Kline was the OP asking how to do this: I think you mean Bernard El-Hagin's solution? % perl -i.bak -pe 'tr/_/ /' files That doesn't do the right thing. It turns: This is a sample ordinary sentence. This_is_joined_up_with_underscores. into: This is a sample ordinary sentence. This is joined up with underscores. but the requirement is to produce: This is a sample ordinary sentence. Yes, I completely misread the question. Sorry. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perl script question.
Gary Kline wrote: Folks, Let's see if perl can do this one; it's as obscure a task as I've run into. I have scores of files with: A regular sentence, or phrase. then_one_containing_underscores_- between_each_word Followed by another regular, space-delimited sentence. Followed_by_another_string_with_underscaores. Is there a perl way to get rid of the string_containing_underscores and leave the regular sntences?? Any thoughts very welcome!! Perhaps this will be enough: % perl -i.bak -pe 'tr/_/ /' files -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Download contents of http directory?
Minnesota Slinky wrote: Hello list, How can I download the entire contents of a directory on a webserver? I can see them in index mode, but it's a list of about 2,000 jpg files for a reunion. How can I download everything there to one directory? Use wget. It's in ports. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching from sendmail to postfix
Markus wrote: Hello all, I´m running an FreeBSD 4.9 System and from scratch is an sendmail MTA installed and active. I would use postfix as my MTA. How should I switch to postfix at best? When you install the postfix port you are given instructions on how to do just that. If you've already installed postfix, but missed those instructions try cat /usr/ports/mail/postfix/pkg-messeges. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching from sendmail to postfix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus wrote: Hello all, I´m running an FreeBSD 4.9 System and from scratch is an sendmail MTA installed and active. I would use postfix as my MTA. How should I switch to postfix at best? When you install the postfix port you are given instructions on how to do just that. If you've already installed postfix, but missed those instructions try cat /usr/ports/mail/postfix/pkg-messeges. messages, not messeges, of course. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching from sendmail to postfix
Ernst wrote: On woensdag 7 januari 2004 13:07, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice mail client you have :-) Unfortunately, at work (where I am right now) I have to use what they tell me to use. I also have to do what they tell me to do, which is much worse. ;-) -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mass word find/replace
Mark wrote: I am trying to find a way to replace one word in a file with another word, like windows wordpad find/replace. I need to change pn_ to nuke_ and have a 188000 lines to do it on. ugh perl -i.bak -pe 's/pn_/nuke_/g' /input/file(s) The old file(s) will be saved with the extension .bak. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 Desktop installation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:04:48AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I already configured the XFree86 on my FreeBSD system and I want to run the KDE or Gnome desktop applications. How is this possible. I appreciate your help. Totally newbie here :) If you have the time, patience and disk space, you could: for gnome: # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 # make install clean for kde: # cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 # make install clean Or just install the packages (will fetch from the ftp servers) # pkg_add -r kde or # pkg_add -r gnome2 And then, after they're installed put the following in ~/.xinitrc: exec start-kde, if you want KDE or exec gnome-session, if you want Gnome. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to count the lines of code in a project?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. How to count the number of lines in all *.c file in a directory? I can think of this on csh: grep -c `find . -name *.c` | sed s/.*:/e=e+/ /tmp/countlines.py And edit the py file, and e=0 as first line, print e as the last line, and execute the python script. wooo pretty cool for a newbie like me:) So is there a better method? I think a *slightly* better method is to use: wc -l *.c ;-) -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:41, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:17, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Hello, When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased fonts in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts by default and others don't. That's my real problem. Yes it does. The last paragraph states: Anti-aliasing should be enabled the next time the X server is started. However, programs must know how to take advantage of it. At present, the Qt toolkit does, so the entire KDE environment can use anti-aliased fonts (see Section 5.7.3.2 on KDE for details). Gtk+ and GNOME can also be made to use anti-aliasing via the ``Font'' capplet (see Section 5.7.1.3 for details). By default, Mozilla 1.2 and greater will automatically use anti-aliasing. To disable this, rebuild Mozilla with the -DWITHOUT_XFT flag. So, do you have gVim built with gtk+-2 support, and have you done what section 5.7.3.2 tells you for KDE/Qt apps (i.e. set QT_XFT to true)? I don't use KDE nor Gnome, but as I understand it any application which is built with either Qt or Gtk+-2 support should be capable of using anti-aliased fonts. What I'm asking is how do I: Yes, per the cross-referenced sections in the above paragraph, you may have to do some additional setting of variables if you do not use the respective desktops. 1. find out before building an application whether it will be built with support for either of those, As things are right now, looking at the ports' Makefiles is your best bet. OK, that's what I was looking for. Thanks. 2. make sure that such support is added if it's not there by default (which I should be able to establish in step 1). Once you figure out the variable to set, you can add it to make.conf or pkgtools.conf (or both). Does this mean that the name of the variable governing the AA fonts will be the same for any application which can use them? That's cool. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anti aliased fonts in FBSD
Hello, When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. Thanks. Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Hello, When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased fonts in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts by default and others don't. That's my real problem. Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:17, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Hello, When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased fonts in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts by default and others don't. That's my real problem. Yes it does. The last paragraph states: Anti-aliasing should be enabled the next time the X server is started. However, programs must know how to take advantage of it. At present, the Qt toolkit does, so the entire KDE environment can use anti-aliased fonts (see Section 5.7.3.2 on KDE for details). Gtk+ and GNOME can also be made to use anti-aliasing via the ``Font'' capplet (see Section 5.7.1.3 for details). By default, Mozilla 1.2 and greater will automatically use anti-aliasing. To disable this, rebuild Mozilla with the -DWITHOUT_XFT flag. So, do you have gVim built with gtk+-2 support, and have you done what section 5.7.3.2 tells you for KDE/Qt apps (i.e. set QT_XFT to true)? I don't use KDE nor Gnome, but as I understand it any application which is built with either Qt or Gtk+-2 support should be capable of using anti-aliased fonts. What I'm asking is how do I: 1. find out before building an application whether it will be built with support for either of those, 2. make sure that such support is added if it's not there by default (which I should be able to establish in step 1). Thanks. Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No sound when playing a CD in FreeBSD 4.9
You wrote: [...] Maybe a common mistake: Is there an audio cable between the drive and the soundcard ? That is necessary to play cdda. I don't know the exact specs but your cd-drive sends the sound kinda directly to your soundcard. So that cable is necessary But he said it worked correctly under Linux, so that can't be it. Unless he was wrong and it *didn't* work correctly under Linux, of course. :) Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
