On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:33:29PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
Indeed -- and the employer who bucks this trend does him/her self a huge
service, because large numbers of very skilled and/or talented people are
being
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 09:17:50AM +0100, Sabine Baer wrote:
Sorry if I'm totally wrong here but I don't know where to ask.
I'm using WindowMaker as my window manager for some years. I do not
remember why, but some days ago, I deinstalled ist. Now, I can't
install it.
$uname -rp
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:20:57PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
On 03/12/2012 03:13 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:19:06PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
I have a situation where I need to provide people with the ability to edit
files. However, under no circumstances do I want
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:04:35PM -0500, David Jackson wrote:
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:05:37 -0500, David Jackson wrote:
Many of your issues are non-issues, as your suggestions were
implemented in some form long ago.
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 07:10:30PM +0100, Terrence Koeman wrote:
Could someone point me to the right mailinglist to discuss adding
support for the MCS9904 chip to uart? I'm working on it, but I have
some questions regarding FIFO sizes and how they are currently
determined.
Thanks.
--
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:32:42PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
I've been struggling with this on my own for ages now, and I was
determined to try and sort it myself. But I'll now eat my humble pie and
ask for some help :)
I have (I believe I have mentioned this before) 5 dvb tuners in a
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:48:31PM -0500, sean wrote:
On 02/17/12 19:27, sean wrote:
Now when I run nspluginwrapper -v -a -i as a user I get the following,
Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
Auto-install
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:49:27PM -0500, sean wrote:
Hello All,
I am trying to get the Adobe Linux Flash working with Firefox.
I have followed the directions in the browser handbook section.
-kldstat shows linux.ko, and linprocfs.ko.
-df lists linprocfs mounted on
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 02:47:08PM -0500, Mike Dockery wrote:
Greetings,
Aloha,
I have been a user of Linux since 1994, but most of the linux distros
seem to be getting away from freedom... which is why I chose it in the
first place. They seem intent on forcing things that do not work
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 04:37:37PM -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote:
Hello all.
This is kind of off topic. My apologies in advance.
I am helping a non profit organization and giving some classes to
prepare students so they can be prepared and try to get a job (they
are students also and have
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:24:21PM +0200, ??? ??? wrote:
Hi
# ps ax|grep rad
45471 ?? TLs 263:35.44 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd
26473 1 S+ 0:00.00 grep rad
flux# date
Fri Jan 20 23:20:28 UTC 2012
flux# kill -KILL 45471
flux# date
Fri Jan 20 23:20:41 UTC 2012
flux#
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:31:00PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote:
-Original Message- From: 'Frank Shute'
[mailto:fr...@shute.org.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:52
PM To: Devin Teske Cc: 'Chad Perrin';
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Dave Robison Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:22:14AM -0800, Devin Teske wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:15:08AM +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote:
I think that a full/complete update of the old installer to add
it support GEOM, ZFS, scripting and more newer features will
consume more manpower and
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 02:36:29PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote:
I believe the difficulty in maintenance stems primarily from
the fact that the existing partition editor MAY have to be
entirely rewritten to accommodate other root filesystem types
(but even that's not entirely true
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 12:32:25AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 15:05:55 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net
wrote:
(1) Does anyone know how to get FreeBSD to read the
motherboard name? This name, on an xw4400, starts with
HP followed by a eleven digits, and
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 08:24:01PM -0700, ss griffon wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Da Rock
freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:
On 12/22/11 11:37, Chris Hill wrote:
Hello list,
I apologize for this posting being not-much-on-topic, but my other
resources have
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:05:29PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
First of all, always include the list in a response to something
from the list. Other people will be reading and may well know
more than me or any other person who responds. eg, don't just
send the follow-on question back
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 07:51:50PM +1000, R Skinner wrote:
I bit the bullet and installed the rc3, after spending half the day
fighting to get atheros 9285 working on a new laptop. I have to do
another as well, so...
After recovering myself from the shock of the new bsdinstall (not bad. A
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:40:45AM -0500, William Bulley wrote:
According to Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au on Sat, 11/19/11 at 13:29:
Unfortunately that concentrates on creating a GPT layout, encouraging a
Linux-like single (plus a boot) partition - forget using dump/restore -
and
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:56:23PM -0500, William Bulley wrote:
According to Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk on Tue, 11/22/11 at 13:36:
Can't help you with your bsdinstall woes but to upgrade from
8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE(currently RC2) branch you want to do a
csup(1)/buildworld cycle
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:51:29AM +, Traiano Welcome wrote:
Another question worth asking: how much memory/swap does the machine
have? If FreeBSD runs short of memory, it will start killing
processes.
Hi Frank
As follows:
Mem: 96M Active, 286M Inact, 224M Wired, 213M Buf, 1368M
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:05:27AM +, Traiano Welcome wrote:
Hi All
I'm trying to upgrade from FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0 to FreeBSD 8.2 or
better. My upgrade sequence would be as follows:
0. cd /usr/src/;make cleanworld (and in extreme cases rm -rf /usr/src/*
and rm -rf /usr/obj)
1.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:05:27AM +, Traiano Welcome wrote:
[snip]
cc -O2 -pipe -DIN_GCC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-DPREFIX=\/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr\
-I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../cc_tools
-I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../cc_tools
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 11:54:27AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Mark == Mark Felder f...@feld.me writes:
Mark Does freebsd-update follow /etc/mergemaster.rc?
No, apparently it just calls classic merge, which doesn't have any
kind of ignore CVS tags. No wonder it's painful.
But
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:28:24AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
You cannot even get a decent N - protocol wireless device, or even
a not so decent one for that matter, to work on FreeBSD while the
rest of the world has had working solutions for 5 years. What the
hell are they waiting for -- the second
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:34:18PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere
patf...@davenulle.orgwrote:
Hello,
I use sysutils/most to have nice manual pages in color, that's cool but
is there a way to do
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 06:16:04PM -0400, Chuck Bacon wrote:
I often receive PDFs which die with gv. I have just downloaded the
current copy of BSD_10_2011.pdf, with stats:
MD5 (BSD_10_2011.pdf) = 69c8b0be7c59870eb41e09b46fa568ba
-just so's you know.
This one causes gv to respond with:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 06:53:33PM +0200, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote:
To improve on my C and to learn something about systems programming, I
have begun to pick out bite-size bits from the bin-PRs. Currently, I
am dispairing about bin/149972, which is about 1) adding error handling
to pw being
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:33:01PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
Good Day;
Since installing FreeBSD 9-beta2 (now 9-beta3) I have not been able to
play a music cd with the dvd writer on this laptop. It is a Dell
Latitude D630. I have built several new worlds and kernels with the
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:47:40AM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
On 10/10/11 01:37, Frank Shute wrote:
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:33:01PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
Good Day;
Since installing FreeBSD 9-beta2 (now 9-beta3) I have not been able to
play a music cd with the dvd writer
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 04:23:22PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
Just looked at the project Web site, and the timeline for
9.0-RELEASE is way, way out of date. If all goes well, when is 9.0
expected to be released? What remains to be done?
There might be another BETA or it could go in to the
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:35:58PM -1000, Open Slate wrote:
Failing to build multimedia/gstreamer-ffmpeg
--- Upgrading 'gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.11_1' to 'gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.12'
(multimedia/gstreamer-ffmpeg)
--- Building '/usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-ffmpeg'
=== Cleaning for
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 08:38:49PM +0300, ??? ??? wrote:
hi, Freebsd-questions.
last pid: 92665; load averages: 2.40, 2.68, 4.75up 5+02:45:23
20:29:07
218 processes: 3 running, 215 sleeping
CPU: 59.6% user, 0.0% nice, 40.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle
Mem: 225M
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:28:50PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote:
On Sep 22, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Sep 22 14:30:49
2011 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:30:54 -0700 From: Gary Kline
kl...@thought.org To: FreeBSD Mailing List
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:44:31PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:40:42PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
So, what do you get if you now type:
/usr/local/bin/firefox3
or
/usr/local/bin/firefox
--
What I mentioned before ;-) 'command not
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:06:44PM -, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
Hi,
After upgrading to Java6, I am having a problem when I launch the Java
application that my bank/broker uses. It halts with Start: applet not
initialized. Unfortunately, FreeBSD is not a 'supported platform'
for my
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 05:46:35PM -0400, Allen wrote:
Sorry for top posting but can anyone send this to Computer Stupidities
? It seems to good to waste like this. Anyone who thinks they're a
Hacker yet doesn't know how FTP works is not only funny, it's
entertainment. And also, the web site
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:20:22 -0400, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
How well does it work to use binary packages only to maintain a FreeBSD
web server in general (I am thinking of package availability, but also
and in particular as a
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 01:56:16PM -0500, Evan Busch wrote:
I can see this will be important here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
But allow me to say
that _if_ you are interested in contributing in _that_
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:18:09PM -0700, scott mcclellan wrote:
I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm
going through a midlife crisis).
Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate
back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 03:22:06AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
I'm using FreeBSD/amd64 on an Intel Core 2 4300 (1.8GHz)
on a VIA-equipped mainboard. The whole machine is a quite
cheap one from a discounter (mainly food).
OS is 8.2-STABLE (July 2011). I have xorg-7.5.1 installed
with
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:18:07PM +1000, Daryl Sayers wrote:
FreeBSD 7.4
I am having trouble building the xmlto port on FreeBSD 7.4. I am getting an
error:
=== Building for xmlto-0.0.24
make all-am
for xml in xmlif.xml xmlto.xml; do FORMAT_DIR=./format /usr/local/bin/bash
./xmlto
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 08:26:39AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:20:08PM -0600, Dmitri Brengauz wrote:
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 07:08:25PM -0400, Rod Person wrote:
If you like Fluxbox you
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 01:41:15AM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
Dear kind folks,
I got me a new hard drive on one of my machines and installed FreeBSD
8.2 amd64 on it. I tried to run
# portupgrade -R firefox
which would update firefox to latest and all the ports that depend on
it,
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 06:16:28AM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
I have a number of clients that prefer Skype over IM last time I
tried to build it from ports I was unable to get to anywhere past the
account login page (no matter what I tried it said it could not log me
in and when I
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:41:27PM +, Dieter BSD wrote:
Reducing the color depth to 16 allows the wimpy Rage XL (8 MiB) to
do 1920x1080.
So then I moved the old slow X terminal out of the way and moved the
shiny new Dell ST2220T LCD into the prime spot in front of the
keyboard
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 01:15:07AM +, Dieter BSD wrote:
Have you tried:
$ xset +dpms
to use standby etc.?
xset: unknown option +dpms
I assume it needs more than the 5 coaxes to do dpms.
(It did appear to be working with the short cable that came
with the monitor.)
I wonder if
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 01:49:03PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:30:00 -0400, Jerry wrote:
I suggested several years ago, and I will re-suggest that FreeBSD start
a program that would allow programmers to be paid to write code that
either the regular contributors do not
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 05:54:26PM +, Antonio Olivares wrote:
[snip]
Anton,
This is what I mean. For regular things, TeTeX is fine, but for
bigger projects one can't do without texlive. I encountered the same
problems with default tetex, but installed TeXLive from DVD and I no
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:18:07AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
DISPLAY is not getting set in a remote shell started by ssh -X.
$ echo $DISPLAY
:0.0
$ ssh -X [server] 'echo DISPLAY=%$DISPLAY%'
DISPLAY=%%
How would I go about debugging this?
DISPLAY _is_ set correctly
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:33:06AM -0500, Edgar Rodolfo wrote:
Hi guys!, i am new on freebsd, but i had installed freebsd 8.2 with
graphical interface (gnome), i was very happy, but suddendly i saw a
message, exactly the message said:
we were not expecting has ocurred ..., look the photo, i
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 01:37:22PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
... and the gstreamer upgrade blows up because of this:
/usr/local/bin/g-ir-scanner: not found
Ideas?
On my machine:
$ pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/g-ir-scanner
/usr/local/bin/g-ir-scanner was installed by package
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:19:33AM -0700, Yuri wrote:
I tried ekiga but it doesn't work. It gets into standby mode and stays
this way. I think it's because of firewall. There is the PR for this.
I looked into Empathy. On Linux telepathy-sofiasip should be installed
to add SIP to empathy,
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 02:33:06PM -0700, Yuri wrote:
On 06/18/2011 14:23, Frank Shute wrote:
I was going to use Ekiga but it's dependency on qt and my small SSD
meant it was a no go. As another poster mentioned, I wasn't overly
impressed that you have to muck about with your router etc
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 04:38:39AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:52:06 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
Seems that neither core and core2 are fully supported. Which
CPUTYPE should be used for Intel
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:21:13AM -0400, Brent Bloxam wrote:
I'm going through the freebsd-update process to move from 7.0 to 7.4. I
followed the handbook, rebooted to GENERIC and followed up with
`freebsd-update install` and got the following output:
# freebsd-update install
Installing
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 08:48:18AM +0200, n dhert wrote:
There seems to be an error with the recently (5 days ago) distributed new
1.0_7 version of cmpsfont:
--- Upgrading 'cmpsfont-1.0_6' to 'cmpsfont-1.0_7' (print/cmpsfont)
--- Build of print/cmpsfont started at: Mon, 30 May 2011
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 06:08:55AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote:
Hi folks,
I've installed FBSD 8.2 and Fluxbox. Fluxbox works just fine, but I
can't figure out how to change my resolution to 1024x768 (my monitor
is a 19 - but the square format, not widescreen format). When Fluxbox
runs...it's too
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 07:10:06AM +0200, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
On Sun, 22 May 2011 19:36:46 -0400
Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, unless my friends all change from Skype or Skype becomes
intolerable with SIP, I'm stuck with Skype.
You use Skype -- SIP gateway?
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 08:34:21AM +0200, Jens Jahnke wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to get gpg-agent running under 8.2 using the same setup I've
had on my linux box.
The agent is started via .xinitrc:
export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
if [ -z `pgrep gpg-agent` ]; then
eval $(gpg-agent --daemon
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:38:21PM -0700, Alexander Lardner wrote:
Hello,
Is it possible to do something like this:
shutdown -p now /root/somefile
How would I do that, or is it even possible?
Thanks,
Alex
Use wall(1)
# wall somefile shutdown -p now
Regards,
--
Frank
Contact
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 05:50:28PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
Dear all,
I was running FreeBSD 8.1 and am in the process of updating it
following advice in handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html
ran
# freebsd-update fetch
#
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:01:46AM -0700, Arthur Barlow wrote:
Does anyone know if this will ever be supported for FreeBSD 8.x? I
tried both the version in ports as well as the one directly from
NVIDIA. No joy. Does anyone know of other possibilities?
You might try putting the port's
I upgraded from firefox3.6 to firefox4.0 and now it won't start even
after doing a: rm -rf ~/.mozilla (I saved my profile).
I set -x on the firefox shell script and this is the output:
$ firefox
+ moz_libdir=/usr/local/lib/firefox
+ found=0
+ progname=/usr/local/bin/firefox
+
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote:
Dear FreeBSD experts,
There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find
a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special
characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS].
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 03:57:31PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote:
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:07:59 -0600, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear FreeBSD experts,
There has been something that I find hard to
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 03:29:44PM -0500, Brian Waters wrote:
It seems to me that under /dev, you can have the following
sound-related device files:
dspX
dspX.Y
(among others)
I'm having some trouble getting my sound to work (Dell Inspiron
E1705/Inspiron 9400 with Sigmatel STAC9220
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 02:00:37PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote:
This is not a technical question.
Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing
part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind.
Don't invest your cash in a company that has reached
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:38:28AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
Hello.
I've got a weird problem here. Very often I download scientific papers
as pdf from protals and they got opened via firefox3 with the configured
propper utility, in this case xpdf. In such a case, printing is
impossible.
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:53:14PM +0900, Kouichiro Iwao wrote:
I'm writing a script based on the code in freebsd docs,
and caring about the license of it. The original scripts are
example 6 and 7 of the following page. How do I have to treat
my code if I distribute it?
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:59:59AM -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote:
Hello all.
I am sorry in advance if this question sounds too stupid.
I have a small server for personal use of webpages running:
7.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE #0
it is working fine , no problem very stable.
I
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:23:03AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I'm learning how to set up svn server.
I've read through several sections of
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/
Here's what I do:
ZEEV svnadmin create /home/mexas/zzz
ZEEV svnlook info zzz
2011-02-25 09:15:28
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:04:19PM +0100, Harald Servat wrote:
Hello list,
yesterday (Feb, 17th) I performed a cvsup (using csup, infact) of my
/usr/src tree using
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8
in my csup file (based on the csup
file /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile).
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:05:51PM -0500, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
Can you guys please take Microsoft bashing elsewhere? This thread is
about FreeBSD and SSDs - a topic I'd like to hear more about from
people with first-hand experience in running such setup.
- Max
Agreed. I posted my short
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 07:12:08PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote:
Define a *lot*. If you look up the spec's on the common (currently)
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:48:45PM -0500, Chuck Bacon wrote:
SERIOUS APOLOGIES! I've found out my dvd is marginal, or
possibly the drive. What seemed like a bad dvd apparently
resulted in a scan (by the BIOS?) until it found a boot loader
it understood, PC-DOS it said, which was one of
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 04:53:15PM -0500, Chuck Bacon wrote:
I downloaded it yesterday. Here's the facts:
1. md5 matches CHECKSUM.MD5
2. When I boot off the BIOS, it takes a half minute or so, and
then: voila! PC-DOS boots, and for all the world look as
though it will boot a
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 03:32:26PM +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix?
thanks in advance
I've used both and both have their advocates/supporters.
I used qmail for about 10 yrs and picked it when basically the choice
was qmail, sendmail and smail.
It
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:09:11PM -, Graham Bentley wrote:
After several months away from FreeBSD I am asking
for advice on versions for general desktop / interest
use [non critical learning platform]
Should I hang on a bit for 8.2 to go current?
Or will I easily be able to update
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 09:08:36PM -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote:
Hi,
Anybody on the list having recent problems with the awesome window
manager? I get the following error when I try to run awesome:
W: awesome: image_new_from_file:288: cannot load image
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 03:34:50PM -0500, John R. Levine wrote:
java/openjdk6 WITH_WEB will give you the plugin to use with www/firefox.
I'm trying to build openjdk6, and I get this error message. Any
suggestions?
R's,
John
IcedTeaPluginUtils.cc IcedTeaScriptablePluginObject.cc
In
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 07:45:28AM -0800, patrick wrote:
I know this is a bit crazy, but is there any opinion as to whether a
binary upgrade using an 8.1 CD would work to upgrade a system running
4.10? Normally I would want to do a fresh install, but it's at a
remote client site where it's
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:56:33AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I'm updating to teTeX-base-3.0_21. I can build the
port, but trying to install it gives me this error:
*snip*
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./mktex.opt
/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.opt
install -o root -g wheel
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:04:23PM +, Paul Macdonald wrote:
I've just tried again to donate to the foundation for the end of year push,
but 3 UK based cards all failed on the groundspring interface ( 2 x visa,
1 x mastercard, all had funds obv)
Paypal also failed stating i couldn't
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 05:32:28PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
n == n j nin...@gmail.com writes:
n Thanks for the input, I'll look into the suggested options:
n http://arpnetworks.com/vps
n http://www.rootbsd.net/virtual-hosting/
n http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html
There
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 01:41:50AM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote:
I installed FreeBSD 8.1, and the xorg package automatically detected
my video-card and monitor. I did not have to create an xorg.conf
file.
If I want to webpages to look better in Firefox, I think I need to
install the webfonts
I generally play my tracks of an album like so:
for track in $(cat trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u); do
mplayer $track
done
They then play in the correct order.
How would I go about randomising the order of play using
sh (preferably) or perl?
Sorry for the OT posting but I thought a brainteaser
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 06:01:45PM +, RW wrote:
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:40:43 -0800
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote:
Quoth Frank Shute on Sunday, 26 December 2010:
I generally play my tracks of an album like so:
for track in $(cat trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 05:11:58AM -0800, Rob wrote:
Hi,
My system boots fine with the GENERIC kernel on FreeBSD 8.0
I made a custom kernel, but the boot process then ends with the
mountroot
error and prompt.
Apparently something is wrong with my kernel config file.
Can
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 07:22:34PM -0800, Dan Strick wrote:
I am running FreeBSD release 8.1. I normally run a Linux Firefox
(currently version 3.5.15) because I need the flash plugin
(/usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10). I also need to print web pages
on occasion but the Linux Firefox
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 03:36:02PM +0800, kan wrote:
Hi Support,
I have a FreeBSD server for mailing, I must make backup and check the which
bit (32bit/64bit) is now use in FreeBSD,
so can you provide the command for me?
Regards,
Kan
Not too sure I'm clear what you're askingyou
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 03:07:55PM -0500, Fbsd8 wrote:
Frank Shute wrote:
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:18:19PM -0500, Fbsd8 wrote:
As I do a complete fresh install of 8.1 I saw that apache13 is no longer
being supported, so thought this is the time I will move to apache22.
Now everything
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:18:19PM -0500, Fbsd8 wrote:
As I do a complete fresh install of 8.1 I saw that apache13 is no longer
being supported, so thought this is the time I will move to apache22.
Now everything went real easy until testing my websites. In apache13 the
.css (style sheet)
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:48:18AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 11:40:20AM +0530, yoganjaneyulu kasetti wrote:
hi,
I have a problem for deleting files using scriptplease some one can
guide me for the same.
I have some files with the extension of
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 09:21:22AM -0800, Ron (Lists) wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade my ports and I can't get portupgrade to do
anything. I type 'sudo portupgrade apache' (or any package) and all I
get back is a command prompt. No error or any other message.
portversion seems to work
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 08:55:45AM +0200, Valentin Bud wrote:
Hello community,
I am trying to build a startup script for an application built from source
code. The application name is SOGo (sogo.nu).
I will attach the rc script and the error I receive when I run it.
#!/bin/sh
#
#
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:55:41AM -0500, Mike Overton wrote:
(New Dell Poweredge T110, X3430 Xeon, 4GB 1333MHz ). Machine replaces
operating freeBSD 8.1 Dell 686 machine with active Internet connection.
When trying to load freeBSD 8.1 from a boot only i386 ISO disc, which
installed with
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:12:16PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
Good day;
Having a time getting cut and paste to work in a new
FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-p1 installation
I am using a newly rebuilt world and kernel that I cvsup'd yesterday
but, I was not able to get it
going with GENERIC
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:17:54PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
Good day;
How does one load a downloaded fluxbox theme? I have unpacked a nice
vermaden authored theme into
.fluxbox/flux-themes but that is where I am stuck.
fluxbox ver. 1.1.1 from ports
What goes in the
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 06:35:15PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
Frank Shute wrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:12:16PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
Good day;
Having a time getting cut and paste to work in a new
FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-p1 installation
I am using a newly rebuilt
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