Re: pkg_upgrade ?

2004-09-24 Thread CARTER Anthony
Nope. pkgdb -F fixes the package database and removes old entries... Anthony On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 17:55, David Bear wrote: I've been searching the handbook and can't seem to find what I'm looking for regarding upgrading a port. I know there is portupgrade... which I'd like to avoid

cleaning out files

2003-04-04 Thread CARTER Anthony
How do I clean the contents of text files without actually removing the files? Thanks, Anthony ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mail_lists] Re: cleaning out files

2003-04-04 Thread CARTER Anthony
: The best way is simply doing: bash]$ filename This clears the file out without destroying any open file descriptors on the file. - Jim | On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:27:46PM +0200, CARTER Anthony wrote: | How do I clean the contents of text files without actually removing the | files

Question on scripting, sort of...

2003-04-04 Thread CARTER Anthony
Hi, I have 5000 IP addresses that I need to get the following info for: Name of Organisation Country of Organisation Web Address or organisation. The IPs can be from anywhere, and whois reports are different depending on which server the info comes from. Does anyone have any genius style ideas

Re: portsdb fails on perl

2003-04-04 Thread CARTER Anthony
This is probably also due to a problem in recursive looped dependencies in Xft... However, a little question. What is portsdb, I known pkgdb, and portsupgrade, but what does portsbd do? Anthony On Friday 04 April 2003 15:32, Dru wrote: Anyone else having problems using portsdb this morning?

Re: OpenOffice broken???

2003-04-03 Thread CARTER Anthony
Hi, Does anyone have any ideas on this? Anthony On Thursday 03 April 2003 08:16, CARTER Anthony wrote: Hi, I had a bit of a problem with the new openoffice 1.0.2. It stops out with the following: === Installing for openoffice-1.0.2_2 === openoffice-1.0.2_2 depends on file: /usr/local

Re: OpenOffice broken???

2003-04-03 Thread CARTER Anthony
You tried installing sed? It fixed that one for me... Anthony On Friday 04 April 2003 02:17, Louis LeBlanc wrote: This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service. To view the original message content, open the attached message. If the text doesn't display

OpenOffice broken???

2003-04-02 Thread CARTER Anthony
Hi, I had a bit of a problem with the new openoffice 1.0.2. It stops out with the following: === Installing for openoffice-1.0.2_2 === openoffice-1.0.2_2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.1 - found # # UGLY hack to not have to specify a X-Display. # /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb :1001 -screen 0

XF86Config file help

2003-04-01 Thread CARTER Anthony
My XF86Config file has in the Module section: Load glx Load dri Load dbe I know what these are, no problems. Now: Load record Load extmod Load type1 I don't know what these are used for, can someone tell me? Now: Load xie Load pex5 Load pcm I know what pcm is for (the sound), but not the

Re: Running X from a windows PC

2003-04-01 Thread CARTER Anthony
Or HummingBirds Exceed, very good but it costs... Anthony On Friday 28 March 2003 20:22, Terry Tyson wrote: Try cygwin. http://www.cygwin.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Edinho Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:35 PM To:

Re: evolution...

2003-03-31 Thread CARTER Anthony
Unless of course you consider the following easier: Click Start Hover to All Programs Click Windows Update Wait for Internet Explorer to load. Wait for page to load Click Scan drive for all information pertaining to MS (and non apparently) software. Select the updates requires using multiple

Re: KDE startup slow

2003-03-31 Thread CARTER Anthony
How do you start your ppp connection over ADSL? Is your modem internal, USB or Ethernet? Anthony On Monday 31 March 2003 14:20, Paul Everlund wrote: Hi all! After I got ADSL for my FreeBSD box the startup of KDE takes very long time. It stops at Initializing System Services, then after a

Re: KDE startup slow

2003-03-31 Thread CARTER Anthony
all this, then make sure you have enable dns as the last entry in ppp.conf. Anthony Carter On Monday 31 March 2003 15:33, Paul Everlund wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote: How do you start your ppp connection over ADSL? Is your modem internal, USB or Ethernet? Anthony

Re: installing mozilla in Freebsd

2003-03-31 Thread CARTER Anthony
as root: cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla make clean make install clean wait for download and compile of program. Done. Don't know about IPV6 thought... Anthony On Monday 31 March 2003 13:22, Tiago Andre wrote: Hi there, iam new in the unix world... I already dowload the

Re: latest version of ports

2003-03-31 Thread CARTER Anthony
they go in /usr/ports/distfiles use cvsupit (/usr/ports/net/cvsupit) to update ALL for 5.0-CURRENT. when updating, do a portupgrade -rRa (you have to install portupgrade from ports) to update all your progs... easy 123 For fresh OS, read /usr/src/UPDATING but, in brief: cd /usr/src make

Re: pear.ini necessary?

2003-03-31 Thread CARTER Anthony
you have to be in the right directory in the ports. then: make clean make install clean You should be connected to the internet when you do this as it will download the source file into /usr/ports/distfiles if it does not exist. Anthony Carter On Tuesday 01 April 2003 07:54, Joel Rees

Re: latest version of ports

2003-03-31 Thread CARTER Anthony
know KERNCONF is not needed when making buildworld, I just got carried away copying and pasting ;) Sorry bout that! Anthony On Tuesday 01 April 2003 09:14, Miguel Mendez wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:08:25 +0200 CARTER Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, For fresh OS, read /usr/src

Re: problem

2003-03-31 Thread CARTER Anthony
I had this problem for a while... It was with a Prophet 4500 (KYRO II chipset). I resolved it by recompiling the kernel with options VESA in the kernel configuration file, and this solved it for me. Anthony On Monday 31 March 2003 11:27, Paharenko Gleb wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Aleksey V.

Re: Request to join id-freebsd denied

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
What? Did someone try and register freebsd-questions e-mail address to another mailing list, thereby adding all the messages from that list to this list also? Hey, then we can register yahoo groups email to freebsd-questions group and get a nice little loop of messages going... :D Anthony On

KSim

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
Ksim doesn't report Hard Drive activity correctly. How do I set it up to do so? Currenttly the disk plugin is set to All Disks, but it still registers nothing, even when compiling the kernel...Is there a configuration I need to do? I even tried adding disk /dev/ad0s3f etc (my /usr partition)

Ymessenger

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
I have compiled ymessenger, and I have COMPAT4X in my make.conf file, but when launching the app, I get: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.4: Undefined symbol stpcpy What is happening? Anthony Carter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

UDMA

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
From dmesg I get the following: ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC error cmd=read fsbn 61731938 I found in the troubleshooting faq information about

Re: FreeBSD and Oracle

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
I know that there is an Oracle 7 client on FreeBSD, but I don't know about 8i. Do you want to run Oracle server on FreeBSD or just a client? Anthony On Friday 28 March 2003 10:25, Michael Hostbaek wrote: Hi, I have a linux box runnning Oracle, I'd like to switch it to FreeBSD. Has anyone

Problem with kdm (or not)?

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
When I boot my machine, I get the following message at the command prompt before it launches me into the KDM login screen (it works, there is no problem with that). What does it mean? kdm[605]: Abnormal helper termination, code 0, signal 5 Thanks, Anthony Carter

Re: Perl

2003-03-28 Thread CARTER Anthony
Where can I add the $TERM variable? I am using KDE. I put in my ~/.cshrc the following: setenv TERM xterm-color but I don't seem to have a color xterm when I open a new shell...Is this the wrong place? Thanks, Anthony On Thursday 27 March 2003 15:36, Michael A. Smith wrote: Ok, lets try

SQL Server and FreeBSD-5-CURRENT

2003-03-27 Thread CARTER Anthony
Hi, I am currently responsible for managing some oracle and MS (yuck) SQL servers. I am using 5-CURRENT tree and would like to know if there are any applications that would allow me to managed my SQL servers straight from BSD. I dual-boot currently every time I need to run Enterprise manager,

Perl

2003-03-27 Thread CARTER Anthony
Has anyone any recommended perl development editors? Once with syntax highlighting and stuff would be great! Thanks, Anthony ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Perl

2003-03-27 Thread CARTER Anthony
Ok, lets try again...Free software to allow me to...(read below)... Anthony ;) On Thursday 27 March 2003 12:45, Perica Veljanovski wrote: Has anyone any recommended perl development editors? Once with syntax highlighting and stuff would be great! Thanks, Anthony Komodo Here is a

Re: Okano Mouse

2003-03-25 Thread CARTER Anthony
Try disabling the touchpad from the BIOS of the laptop. With Windows drivers, I believe that the touchpad gets disabled if a detection on the PS/2 port is detected, but I don't know if FreeBSD does... Anthony On Monday 24 March 2003 20:59, Pierrick Brossin wrote: Hey! Wheel still not

Portupgrading all

2003-03-25 Thread CARTER Anthony
Hi, Is there anyway to portupgrade all the installed applications that I have on my FreeBSD box? Anthony portupgrade -rRN pkgconfig???would this do? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Question

2003-03-25 Thread CARTER Anthony
Take a normal DOS boot disk with fdisk on it and do: fdisk /mbr That will get your NT back... Now boot FreeBSD and add the loader, if you so wish. Please note, PQMagic ver 7 does not recognise FBSDs filesystem (don't know about version 8). Anthony On Tuesday 25 March 2003 12:23, wrote:

Re: 5.0 In-stalls

2003-03-25 Thread CARTER Anthony
As default during install i believe that root is 256MB...maybe try that... Anthony On Tuesday 25 March 2003 15:53, John Straiton wrote: But the install breaks telling me that the filesystem is full while trying to complete an extract. I allocate 128MB for the root mount, but when I

XDM

2003-03-20 Thread CARTER Anthony
After problems with GDM after updating to latest XFree86 et al, I am using XDM as a temporary solution. However, I have a xconsole window continuously open...Is there a way I can remove this? Not even sure if it needs to stay open or not... Thanks, Anthony Carter To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Gnome2 2 KDE

2003-03-20 Thread CARTER Anthony
I am thinking of moving from gnome2 to KDE on my FreeBSD5.0-CURRENT box. Are there any gotchas to avoid? Any advice before this move? Thanks, Anthony To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: pkg_upgrade ?

2003-03-18 Thread CARTER Anthony
Nope. pkgdb -F fixes the package database and removes old entries... Anthony On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 17:55, David Bear wrote: I've been searching the handbook and can't seem to find what I'm looking for regarding upgrading a port. I know there is portupgrade... which I'd like to avoid

Mozilla problem...

2003-03-18 Thread CARTER Anthony
Hi, I get this error on my console every now and then...It doesn't seem to cause any real problems, but should I be worried? How can I get rid of this? ** (galeon-bin:91169): CRITICAL **: file mozilla-embed.cpp: line 1363 (void mozilla_embed_visibility_cb(GtkMozEmbed*, int, MozillaEmbed*)):

Re: portupgrade mess

2003-03-14 Thread CARTER Anthony
What I did was move my distfiles directory elsewhere and made a symbolic link to it. That means that the pointers are still valid in every compile, but they exist elsewhere... You could just empty distfiles with a rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/* (don't forget the *) Anthony On Fri, 2003-03-14 at

seahorse-0.7.1 port broken?

2003-03-14 Thread CARTER Anthony
Hi, I am trying to upgrade seahorse to 0.7.1 from 0.7.0 using: portupgrade -r seahorse and cvsuped followed by make clean, make install clean... They both get to the point given below and then just sits there and idles out... === Building for seahorse-0.7.1 cd . CONFIG_FILES=

Re: seahorse-0.7.1 port broken?

2003-03-14 Thread CARTER Anthony
I can confirm this is correct, and functions. Should this not be updated in the ports for other users? Why does your build not execute this step? Anthony Carter On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 16:19, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 10:02, CARTER Anthony wrote: Hi, I am trying

Re: seahorse-0.7.1 port broken?

2003-03-14 Thread CARTER Anthony
, CARTER Anthony wrote: Hi, I am trying to upgrade seahorse to 0.7.1 from 0.7.0 using: portupgrade -r seahorse and cvsuped followed by make clean, make install clean... They both get to the point given below and then just sits there and idles out... === Building

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2003-03-13 Thread CARTER Anthony
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