Re: Need bsd make for AIX

2010-09-16 Thread Chuck Robey
On 09/16/10 20:34, Ivan Voras wrote: On 09/16/10 08:58, srividy...@tcs.com wrote: Hi Is there any BSD make versions available for AIX platform? We require the make utility of BSD to compile few source programs. Is there any make utility compatible with AIX? Could you please give us the

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-28 Thread Chuck Robey
Dale Scott wrote: Personally, I enjoy our mascot Beastie, as well as the Beastie-influenced official logo. I also smile when I see Casper, Wendy andHotStuff. However, I also accept there are individuals who understand these symbols differently than me, and that I may be alienating them to

Re: which java on 8-release

2010-02-05 Thread Chuck Robey
Rob Farmer wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Tried to get any permutation of XYZ-jre or XYZ-jdk installed on 8-rc1 and gave up. I see still no diablo for 8. What is the best way forward (and how am I so dense that no one else has even

X11/freebsd problem

2010-02-04 Thread Chuck Robey
I have this problem with my built-under-freebsd-current Xorg, it gives me this following sort of error everytime it starts up: (pts/2):{14}% Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Usually, that 2nd line

Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

2010-02-04 Thread Chuck Robey
Mike Clarke wrote: On Thursday 04 February 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of firefox35? thought

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Chuck Robey
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@optiplex-networks.com wrote: Hi guys, I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I tried to start X from the CLI using

Re: portupgrade failure

2009-12-16 Thread Chuck Robey
Glen Barber wrote: Hi, On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Kevin wrote: [...] The only other symptoms I can identify right now are related to the following entries in my crontab: 0 2 * * 6 /usr/local/sbin/portsclean -DD 0

X11's tcp port

2009-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got to be doing something wierd, for this not to work ... I wanted to kick off a app on a 2nd machine of mine, and have it display on my main FreeBSD machine, but it won't work. I know all the security things, I know I had xhost and DISPLAY

Re: X11's tcp port: FIXED

2009-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
Chuck Robey wrote: I've got to be doing something wierd, for this not to work ... I wanted to kick off a app on a 2nd machine of mine, and have it display on my main FreeBSD machine, but it won't work. I know all the security things, I know I had xhost and DISPLAY correct, so I went

Re: Eclipse Java 1.5

2009-11-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Alex Huth wrote: Hi! I want to change my laptop system from Debian to FreeBSD. After installing 8.0 RC2 in a virtual machine i have tried to install eclipse and changed the Java version in the makefile to 1.5, but it still want to install the 1.6 jdk. I need the 1.5 version for several

Re: vim Keybindings

2009-10-31 Thread Chuck Robey
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm experiencing an annoying problem with vim on FBSD 8 that I don't have on FBSD 7. Whenever I start vim, if I press the down arrow as the first key, it deletes the first line of my file and enters insert mode. All the other keys work fine and even the down arrow works

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-08 Thread Chuck Robey
Lars Eighner wrote: What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with implicit C rules, while -- it seems to me -- make

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-05-30 Thread Chuck Robey
Mel Flynn wrote: All (including David with his kick-ass postmaster hat), while off-topic, flames and other non sense covered by Freedom of Speech are an annoyance to many, I'm more bothered by some newcomers to the list that are being greylisted on first post and instantly hit the resend

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-29 Thread Chuck Robey
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I've been subscribed to this list for quite some time. I've tried to help where I know, Hey folks, all of you, could I please sugggest that this entire thread (under a variety of subject names) is an abuse of the lists? These topics should definitely occur, something

Re: compiling FreeBSD date on Linux

2009-05-19 Thread Chuck Robey
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009 18:19:21 -0300, francis keyes fke...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to compile the FreeBSD date command for use on Linux because the FreeBSD version has some features that are not present in Linux. I downloaded all the files from

Re: Disabling ssh timeouts?

2009-05-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Steve Kargl wrote: Is there anyway to disable sshd from timing out a connection? I've tried setting ClientAliveCountMax and ClientAliveInterval and TCPKeepAlive in sshd.conf, but no combination that I've tried has worked. I'm trying to running the GCC testsuite, which is not an

filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just put a OpenBSD partition on a EIDE disk I had laying around. I'd had some advice (apparently bad) that the OpenBSD UFS filesystem could provide a filesystem that I could access from FreeBSD ... least, just now when I tried to mount either of

Re: filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel C. Dowse wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:36:31 -0400 Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just put a OpenBSD partition on a EIDE disk I had laying around. I'd had some advice

Re: CVS history access?

2009-04-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Nielsen wrote: I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue. I tried

filesystem compatibility

2009-04-23 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there any filesystems which FreeBSD has which offer compatibility to OpenBSD? I want to add a OpenBSD partition to my long-existing FreeBSD disk, make it OpenBSD, but I want to be able to transfer data between FreeBSD OpenBSD. Any filesystem

Re: the 'make' command in the ports tree

2009-04-14 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:08:21 +0200, dede sserre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm a long time user of BSDs, and I don't find man pages or documentation on the way I can master the port collection (specialy the fonction of make).

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:18:33 -0400, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: What I don't know is, I use cvsup all the time, but when I switch to svn, what does the cvsup job of tracking an archive (not tracking the sources

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: But I do need to figure out how to get the subversion archive (not a particular branch of the archive, the whole kit and kaboodle). devel/svk? (From a mention last December; I

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote: Sorry to follow-up my own note, but . . . On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Andrew Wright wrote: [ further snippage of previous note ] Strong Caveats: o ***Early Adopter Warning***: There has not been (as far as I know)

going from cvs to svn

2009-03-31 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've finally decided that it's way past time that I switched from using cvs for my home archive (currently /home/ncvs) to using subversion. I'm trying to hunt down a web page that might give a set of rules to help moving things. I've spent about the

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-03-31 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Wright wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: I've finally decided that it's way past time that I switched from using cvs for my home archive (currently /home/ncvs) to using subversion. I'm trying to hunt down a web page

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org writes: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. All of a sudden when

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Oh, crap, I flubbed it about the bash error. It's SO often something claimed by folks, I knee-jerked that it had to be a previous line in error. Sorry. Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org writes: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009

Re: Why are the Zionist leaders in Israel so happy about the newPresident?

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:04:15PM +, Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Lawrence Auster wrote: Bla bla bla Ku Klux Klan crap. Why don't you bring your hatred outta here. This is a family-oriented channel. Next time, even when you

Re: hex editors, disk info

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Karpovic wrote: That in mind, what's wrong with bpatch? I've used it for binary patching, it works just fine that that (if my first assumption is totally off-base). You download from the device, change any required data, and (if the device

Re: X11 forwarding through SSH: Can't open display

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sk89q wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to sk89q the.sk...@gmail.com: I meant sshd_config. Do you have the xauth package installed on the remote server? You don't need a full X

Re: Solaris Compat?

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar wrote: I don't want to raise an argument here (on multiple levels, no less...), but what would the compatibility be between FreeBSD (release) and Solaris? Why I ask is Adobe have released a version of flash for Solaris, and I'm

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie Kester wrote: On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? pdfsam (

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-23 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0100 Frank Staals wrote: It's a shame the FreeBSD port's version is so old (6.0-pre23 while the current version is allready 6.0-pre31 (or even 6.0-pre32 I'm not sure) though. Do you know

Re: jdk16

2009-01-23 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Boosten wrote: Peter Boosten wrote: Brian McQueen wrote: I can't seem to find the files listed in the jdk16 port. What are folks doing to get java going? The urls listed in the port are not right, so the manual download step does not

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:34:26PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: My question is how do you clone PC over SSH (it would be too much a PITA to open each case to plug the HD directly in the source PC). Would it have to be ssh? Why not

How NOT to use multibytes

2009-01-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This might seem an odd problem ... I spend my computertime developing, and don't really have much care for my own personal use of multibyte character sets, at least when I playing with the shell or in an editor. I just finished fixing a problem in a

Re: [ free_bsd_questions ] selecting a cpu heatsink / fan combo

2008-08-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 spellberg_robert wrote: greetings, all --- this isn't exactly a free_bsd question, --but--, since free_bsd is popular w/ the i386 crowd and there are many rugged individualists on these lists who like to roll their own, i figure i'll

Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?

2008-08-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Gurvich wrote: Using Xfree86 is possible but may require much manual configuration. I also have problems with firefox and claws-mail in windowmaker icewm, but not in kde3 or kde4. I suspect there is a library path issue. I was doing some

Re: Tailing logs

2008-08-23 Thread Chuck Robey
DAve wrote: DAve wrote: I would love to have a way to tail a log, like piping to grep, except I see every line and the lines I would normally grep for are highlighted. That would be cool. Anyone know of a bash command or tool that will do this? Side note, I am tailing sendmail after changes

Re: whatkind of 19 LCD display??

2008-07-30 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:27:37PM -0500, Preston Hagar wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I really like the Dell, both because

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-30 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:46:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20 i can get widescreen with 1680x1050, so my current 1284x1024 would fit. IFF xorg know what

Re: whatkind of 19 LCD display??

2008-07-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: so what are the top few makes of LCDs out there? I have several (6) Samsung SyncMaster 941BW monitors I am very Happy with them I'd never purchased any 19 displays. About 5 years back, i was in the market for 3 2-

Re: Component-based Operating System.

2008-07-28 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Voras wrote: Juan Carlos Villalobos wrote: Hello, I am writing a paper on Component-based Operating Systems. I just wanted to know if FreeBSD is an Operating System engineered based on Components. I appreciate your input on this.

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all FreeBSD 6.2 I would like to put a password when booting/mounting mi Freebsd box. is it possible? How? What I want is that if the system is rebooted or shutdown, somebody must enter a password to boot and/or mounting

Re: Reading from USB devices

2008-07-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to read data from a USB device that is not a thumb drive. How would I do this? For instance, it's an oximeter for reading biometrics. What libraries exist for reading

Re: Can't ping

2008-07-20 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar wrote: check your firewall rules On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Rem P Roberti wrote: Can someone tell what is going on here. All of a sudden I can't ping. When I try a get this message: ping: sendto: Permission denied All internet

Re: Video Card Info

2008-07-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Liddell writes: im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within

Re: Video Card Info

2008-07-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 George Hartzell wrote: RW writes: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Liddell writes: im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was wondering if anyone

Re: FreeBSD as VOIP PBX

2008-06-22 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sergio lenzi wrote: Em Sex, 2008-06-20 às 21:45 +0200, Wojciech Puchar escreveu: when i connected 56 cisco phones to my laptop (used 4*16 port switches ;), and having all of them working (called from first to second, from third to fourth

Re: Which file can I find the error message that shows on the screen when I build my kernel?

2008-06-22 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I have make some changes to the kernel files and rebuild the kernel, but when I rebuild the kernel, it show some errors and stop rebuild. The question I want ask is that: Is there any file that store all these error

Re: Which file can I find the error message that shows on the screen when I build my kernel?

2008-06-22 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Sunday 22 June 2008 15:17:56 Chuck Robey wrote: make | tee makeout where the complete ooutput goes into the makeout file. The there doesn't take it's normal meaning of throwing the task into the background, instead

Re: shellscript conditional to check for external disk

2008-06-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Helge Rohde wrote: Hello List, I need to write a backup script, and one of the required actions would be a copy of the backup to an external firewire drive. I would like to make this as easy as possible for the local staff, so i'd like to

Re: how to view environment variables

2008-06-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Whitehouse wrote: RW wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:27:10 +0100 Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, sysutils/fusefs-ntfs/files/README.FreeBSD refers to various environment variables, eg UBLIO_BLOCKSIZE and others. How do I

Re: Make buildworld

2008-06-08 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian wrote: Jos Chrispijn wrote: Can someone tell me the difference between 'make -j2 buildworld' and 'make -j4 buildworld' ? Thanks, Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: git

2008-06-04 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:22:09 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:31:24 -0400, Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wonder if anyone could tell me why anything I do to run git-pull

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 1:06 AM To: Warren Block Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: Duplex printer advice

git

2008-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wonder if anyone could tell me why anything I do to run git-pull gives me a coredump? The image that gets dumped is git-fetch, if that helps, and I was just trying to update the xorg source tree. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Kline wrote: Agree 100.0%, Ted. Long run, the inkjet will bleed you like a leech. My 1991 [?] DeskJet 500 was $400, major bux. But having bought at least two cadtrides/year until last winter. Lowball it: $20 per cartridge. Well over a

Re: git

2008-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 N.J. Thomas wrote: * Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-03 14:31:24-0400]: Wonder if anyone could tell me why anything I do to run git-pull gives me a coredump? The image that gets dumped is git-fetch, if that helps, and I was just trying

Re: git

2008-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 N.J. Thomas wrote: * Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-03 16:46:55-0400]: git-pull gives me a coredump Have you tried to clone other repositories and see if you can replicate this error? No, that's the only git repo I have now. Got a url

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 12:23 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Cc: Kurt Buff; Derek Ragona Subject: Re: Duplex printer

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Ovens wrote: Bought an external USB HD enclosure but it doesn't work under FreeBSD. Under FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE: umass0: Super Top USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE, rev 2.00/2.01, addr 2 da2 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da2: MAXTOR 6 L040J2

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Ovens wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: I saw a mail yesterday about something nearly like this, from nej, except with him, the umass device wasn't reporting anything at all, no device when he plugged it in. I sent him a little piece of usb driver

Re: Stick memory USB

2008-05-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 nej ALL wrote: Hi, I'm new on FreeBSD not on unix. I want to mount automatically an usb-stick memory into my machine ? I get some problems. Need help. You're trying with your devfs stuff to create the file, but you have to realize it's a

Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?

2008-05-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:04:40PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: Currently using a Radeon 8500LE but since u/g to xorg 7.3 I've had nothing but trouble with X hanging/crashing/locking-up. From what I've read, the state of the

Re: Belkin F5D9050 ver 4000

2008-05-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Friedrich wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing a descriptor dump, and posting the results to freebsd-usb@, might find someone who knows how to get that particular device to work. Ok, I'll bite. How do you do a descriptor dump? One way

Re: Lock down the all-staff email list? sendmail, alias, majordomo?

2008-05-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 brad davison wrote: Our company has a sendmail server 8.13.8 running on FBSD 6.2 with procmail. We currently have an alias set up for our all-staff email (we only have about 200 users). Someone recently sent out an email to the all-staff that

Re: about seamonkey

2008-05-08 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christer Hermansson wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering if anyone here knew the answer, I have built seamonkey with ports, but everytime I start it up, two windows pop up (the browser

about Linux

2008-05-08 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to get a problem with my linuxulator working, where all of my items that came from the linux-blackdown port give an error about a missing libdl.so.2. I tried using the Linux ldd, no output at all to see if there are missing libs (that's

about seamonkey

2008-05-07 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering if anyone here knew the answer, I have built seamonkey with ports, but everytime I start it up, two windows pop up (the browser and the mail window). Seeing as I don't want the mailer EVER to pop up (I use thunderbird for that),

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a

Re: some pam problem?

2008-04-02 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 01), Chuck Robey said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't figure out what this message below means to me: Mar 31 17:12:02 april sshd[26150]: in openpam_dispatch(): pam_nologin.so

Re: Wake-on-LAN and the em driver (freebsd 7.x)

2008-04-02 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:46 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Walker; Kent Hauser; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wake-on-LAN and

some pam problem?

2008-04-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't figure out what this message below means to me: Mar 31 17:12:02 april sshd[26150]: in openpam_dispatch(): pam_nologin.so: no pam_sm_authenticate() I have guessed it meant I had something wrong with my login.access, but I wasn't able to find

Re: How do I add search paths to gcc

2008-03-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo Cerejo wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:31:54 -0400 Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mdh wrote: --- Eduardo Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My gcc is only looking in /usr/lib and /usr

Re: How do I add search paths to gcc

2008-03-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mdh wrote: --- Eduardo Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My gcc is only looking in /usr/lib and /usr/include for libraries and hearders and I added the paths /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include to my .cshrc file: set path = (/sbin /bin

Re: USB printer

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: If your not a right-clicker or an i-book flipper than it's understandable you would wonder why there's so much attention paid to CUPS for FreeBSD since it does nothing for the usual command line junkie. There's where you

Re: USB printer

2008-03-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Robey Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:24 AM To: Predrag Punosevac Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org; Gligor Lucian Subject

Re: C compiler issue perhaps?

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Ragona wrote: At 05:10 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: I have a program I was testing with gdb. I was trying to figure out why c.rmonths was always zero when it should have been 6. Stepped through using the gdb n command. Here is the

Re: USB printer

2008-03-13 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Predrag Punosevac wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: Gligor Lucian wrote: David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:59:38PM -0700, Gligor Lucian wrote: Does FreeBSD support a USB printer? Yes. You know

pam problems

2008-03-13 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My messages file is getting completely blasted by error lines like this: Mar 13 11:16:03 april sshd[80704]: in openpam_dispatch(): pam_nologin.so: no pam_sm_authenticate() Anyone got any idea what's causing this? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: USB printer

2008-03-12 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gligor Lucian wrote: David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:59:38PM -0700, Gligor Lucian wrote: Does FreeBSD support a USB printer? Yes. You know, while there are printing utils that actually work on FreeBSD, I

Re: USB printer

2008-03-12 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manolis Kiagias wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gligor Lucian wrote: David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:59:38PM -0700, Gligor Lucian wrote: Does FreeBSD support

Re: What provides libfontconfig.la?

2008-02-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded my system from FreeBSD 6.0 to 6.3. But Im having trouble with some ports that are unable to find /usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.la. Where does this come from, so i can (re)install it? I couldnt

Re: python and Guile-gtk... [a bit OT]

2008-02-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vinny wrote: Gary Kline wrote: [snip] I'd like help getting python to read from a file and display a steram of text on a textcanvas. I'll fiure out the buttons later. I'd appreciate any insights about regular gtk and guile-gtk.

Re: Recommended jet printer

2008-02-28 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ghirai wrote: Hello list, Can anyone recommend a jet color printer that works with CUPS on FreeBSD, somewhere in the low - mid range. Man, nearly every printer being sold is *SOMEBODY's* favorite, so you really, really should have noted

Re: linux program only runs from /compat/linux/usr/lib

2008-02-13 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Franks wrote: If I cd to /compat/linux/usr/lib, and start nameless linux app, it runs fine. If I start it from any other location, I get /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 : wrong ABI. So the app is finding the FreeBSD lib instead of the Linux

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-13 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2008 21:50, Chuck Robey wrote: Jonathan McKeown wrote: [snip] There are a few sites which don't work without Flash. Having checked on a number of occasions, I've found (and I stress

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-12 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 11 February 2008 22:26, Chuck Robey wrote: All you folks who are focussing on YouTube are (purposefully? I don't know) the fact that with just about half of the entire Web using flash in one way or antoehr

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar wrote: YouTube? Isn't the right spelling YouPorn? No, it isn't. If you find nothing worth watching on *You*Tube, it doesn't mean that others can't find interesting things. For example, I find there a lot of good and

Re: some help please

2008-01-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norman Maurer wrote: Hi, please reread the handbook I think all you need is explained there in detail bye Norman Am Mittwoch, den 16.01.2008, 09:46 +0200 schrieb Moazzar Battah: Dear Sir, I need some help , I am a new user for Linux

Re: disabling boot output

2008-01-07 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tilman Linneweh wrote: * Omer Faruk Sen [ Jan 4, 2008 (15:20 )]: How can I disable boot messages so user can't see any boot message. I think there is 4 part for that and each of them requires a different configuration file to be edited. 1)

Howcome mail deletion time varies?

2008-01-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use, for my imap-based mail, a combination of postfix, dovecot, thunderbird, enigmail (for gnupg), and openssl for browser security. When I delete mail messages, the majority of them delete (what seems to me to be) instantaneously, but a small

Re: AAARRRGH: network foul-ups.

2007-12-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile) wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 18:38 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: The trouble is that two of my machines report the identical private IP: 10.0.0.250. Previously tao was 10.0.0.247 and Be sure to flush old

Re: lost X11 input from kybd-SOLVED!

2007-12-27 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: ,--[ On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:41:18PM -0500, chuckr wrote: | I'm running FreeBSD-current. I updated about 30 hours ago, did a | rebuild of world and the kernel (without changing my kernel config file | at all. I

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:34:24AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Even though it will take quite a bit longer you should just do a make distclean in /usr/ports that way anything you hand modified will be retained (also you

Re: csh programing book

2007-12-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 02:57:12PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Actually, I like ksh better, if you are really going all out for a programming shell, but if you're really after a scripting language, why restrict yourself to shells? things like Python Ruby knock hell out

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Michaël Grünewald wrote: Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As long as folks don't stop me from running whatever I want, I don't care if you use bash, but it really irks me, that most Linux systems are broken in that respect: Most of them break badly in random ways, if you don't run bash

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Jurjen Middendorp wrote: If you're familiar with pdksh, are you also familiar with ksh93, which is (I believe) Mr. Korn's own shell? If you are, I would be interessted in your opinion of the two, any comparisons you might give. I've never used ksh93 so I really can't say. There is a NOTES

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