On 12/12/2011 7:39 πμ, Robert Huff wrote:
Michael Powell writes:
Csup is a rewrite of cvsup in the C language, and as such can be
included as part of the base operating system. It is only linked
against a few system libraries. This also means it can be built
using the same tools and
On 10/12/2011 5:19 μμ, Warren Block wrote:
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, R Skinner wrote:
So I went to the handbook. I'm still a little confused though: can
one still setup the usr and var (and so forth)? It said you possibly
could, but it escaped me as to how.
Use the bsdinstall partition editor to
On 10/12/2011 11:41 μμ, Da Rock wrote:
On 12/11/11 02:09, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
On 10/12/2011 5:19 μμ, Warren Block wrote:
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, R Skinner wrote:
So I went to the handbook. I'm still a little confused though: can
one still setup the usr and var (and so forth)? It said you
On 12/11/2011 1:02 μμ, saeedeh motlagh wrote:
thanks for your reply
it's good but includes recompiling again. i don't want to recompile in
any way. is there any other solution for doing that? i don't think
so:(. are you sure recompiling is the only way to change the baud
rate?
thanks for your
On 9/11/2011 11:11 πμ, saeedeh motlagh wrote:
i know adding the COM_CONSOLE_SPEED=115200 to make.conf and
recompile it, change the baud rate but i want to know if there is a
way to change it without recompiling.
please let me know if there is any way to do that.
my FreeBSD is 8.0
thanks.
I am
On 6/10/2011 6:24 μμ, n dhert wrote:
Hi,
In your labserver, do you have a graphical login window at your labserver or
not ?
I don't want a graphical login, since I can't get anymore to the login
prompt via Ctrl Alt F1
No graphical login. My lab server stops at the console login prompt.
In
On 04/24/2011 11:26 AM, Carl wrote:
On 2011-04-22 4:13 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
On 04/22/2011 10:33 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote:
This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory
and will use the specified make file with name
On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote:
This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory
and will use the specified make file with name your_own_make_file_name .
make -f your_own_make_file_name
Yes, I did see that, but I interpreted that to mean my make file
*replaces* the
On 04/22/2011 10:33 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote:
This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory
and will use the specified make file with name your_own_make_file_name .
make -f your_own_make_file_name
Yes, I did see that, but I
On 04/19/2011 11:35 AM, H.Erkin ATAK wrote:
I am running freebsd 8.2 on virtualbox on an ubuntu machine.
I am running gnome and have network access no problem.
But I can not add any packages via pkg_add.
It gives can not fetch ftp address.
I tried different mirrors but it did not work.
On 04/16/2011 09:06 AM, Alexander Lardner wrote:
Hello list,
I have set a banner welcoming anybody on the console. I still see the
FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyvX) message. How can I stop this from
displaying? I'd like the banner to be the only thing displayed.
Thanks to anybody
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Hey all,
I have just completed an 8.2-RELEASE based build of the 'Custom
releases' project hosted here:
http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com
Both 32 and 64 bits are available for download:
http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/downloads-page
This
On 01/07/2011 10:57 PM, Τάσκος Κωνσταντίνος wrote:
Hello to all. I am a new user of FreeBSD-8.1 and I tried to compile a new
kernel, according to the instructions given by the handbook. The command 'make
buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL' failed with 'stop in
/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL error
On 01/01/2011 9:54 ?.?., Mike wrote:
Trying to buildworld but it keeps failing. I finally deleted /usr/src
and recopyed from a cd then cvsup using standard-supfile. Tried
limiting how much ram freebsd uses and only using one stick of ram.
All attempts have failed at the same place. Would
On 31/12/2010 7:07 μ.μ., Alain G. Fabry wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to get my XDMCP to work, but for some reason the XDM daemon
doesn't reply to XDMCP requests.
I see the XDMCP packet arriving on my xdm server
harley# tcpdump port 177
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full
On 05/10/2010 10:20 π.μ., Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
Le Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:26:26 +0300,
Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr a écrit :
Hello,
This release is based on the latest XFCE desktop and includes a wide
variety of desktop-related packages, like OpenOffice, abiword,
gnumeric, firefox35
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Hey all,
I have just completed an 8.1-RELEASE-p1 based build of the 'Custom
releases' project hosted here:
http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com
At the moment only the 64bit version is available, while a 32bit
version is in the works and is expected
On 08/09/2010 9:44 μ.μ., Patrick Mahan wrote:
I am wanting to burn the 8.1 DVD iso image onto a DVD-R disc. Previously,
I did this on my Macbook Pro using OSX, but alas, my HD died on the
Macbook
so I am trying to do this on my Sony Vaio desktop system.
Platform:
Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.80
On 27/08/2010 10:24 π.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote:
Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time?
I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from...
Will prepare the key again or just fill in the dumps I have...
matthias
I've heard of stories of
On 27/08/2010 3:17 μ.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote:
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias
escribió:
On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote:
Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time?
I'm wondering why the system even
On 24/08/2010 11:42 π.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote:
El día Monday, August 23, 2010 a las 02:31:08PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias
escribió:
Once having setup VMware (workstation), I plan to boot from FreeBSD live
CD, create the slices big enough and fill in the dumps of my current
system. Any
On 24/08/2010 10:58 μ.μ., Chris Maness wrote:
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Robert Bonomi
bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Aug 24 12:29:16 2010
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:29:27 -0700
From: Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com
To:
On 23/08/2010 10:08 π.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote:
Hello,
I've to re-install my laptop with some Windows version (Vista or Windows
7) with disk encryption. Of course I will go on to work in FreeBSD
9-CURRENT and KDE3 as desktop. Please, don't ask me why I have to put Windows
below :-)
I have
On 23/08/2010 1:31 μ.μ., Bruce Cran wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:39:14 +0300
Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote:
Vmware achieves very good performance without trouble.
VirtualBox works OK most of the time (and it's free) but I had some
kernel panics running FreeBSD (unless the host
On 23/08/2010 2:26 μ.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote:
El día Monday, August 23, 2010 a las 12:39:14PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias
escribió:
Win 7 is a lot better than Vista...
Any recommendation for the virtualisation software for best performance?
Vmware achieves very good
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Hey all,
After last week's release of the first 64bit XFCE custom FreeBSD
8.1-RELEASE, I am pleased to announce
the 32bit version is now also available at:
http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com
You may download the ISO file immediately using the
On 05/08/2010 2:25 μ.μ., Chris Whitehouse wrote:
As I noted previously, there do not appear to be any packages available
for 7.3, or at least portmaster doesn't find any.
You could try asking here:
http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/ or check the downloads-page
Chris
We don't have a
On 05/08/2010 5:02 ?.?., Mubeesh ali wrote:
Hi Manolis,
Thank You . Please advise if a GNOME version of 8.1 release will be
made available or is there a different project that you are aware that
makes this available.
thanks.
Mubeesh
GNOME is available on the official DVD. I haven't
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Hey all,
I have just completed the first 8.1-RELEASE based build of the 'Custom
releases' project hosted here:
http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com
At the moment only the 64bit version is available, while a 32bit
version is in the works and is
On 12/07/2010 9:51 μ.μ., Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Ryan Perry rpe...@madisonip.com wrote:
I need to make my own FreeBSD installer CD that installs 2 ports, and then
runs some custom scripts. What are the best methods to accomplish this?
I was also
On 11/07/2010 4:00 π.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
hello,
i am new to the freebsd world and i am trying to put screen saver to my box.
i have a freebsd 8.0-release,i386 system i have loaded to rc.conf
saver=rain
i have gave the command vidcontrol -t 3 in the ttyv and i am in
On 23/06/2010 5:52 π.μ., Al Plant wrote:
Aloha,
I am looking for the easiest way to copy a fresh working FreeBSD 8* HD
install (Manolis version) to a bigger HD that I found.
I plan to have the new HD in the same box for doing this copy.
Can I use sysinstall to make the new default slices
On 17/06/2010 6:27 μ.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
hello,
when i give the command pkg_version the following output comes up..
libxkbfile =
Long list of packages snipped
OpenSP =
pkg_version: corrupted record (pkgdep line without
On 13/06/2010 12:30 μ.μ., Istvan Galgand wrote:
If you type:
evince BSD_06_2010.pdf
at a command prompt, do you see any error messages?
Tony
Hi Tony,
You are absolutely right, I have tried this. Sorry for my forgetfulness...
The response is:
[igalg...@freebsd02
On 07/06/2010 12:42 μ.μ., n dhert wrote:
After an upgrade FreeBSD72 - 80, Xorg doesn't work
looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log tells
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p7
Current O S FreeSBD-8.0-RELEASE-p2
I have done a portupgrade -af after upgrading, but somehow if seems not to
have
On 08/06/2010 8:16 π.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
hello,
i am trying to install vlc but i came up against this error..
=== vlc-1.0.6_3,3 depends on file:
/usr/local/live/liveMedia/libliveMedia.a - found
=== vlc-1.0.6_3,3 depends on package: v4l_compat=1.0.20100321 - found
===
On 06/06/2010 1:39 π.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
hello,
i am coming from the linux world i was a gentoo user and i have install on
my second machine FBSD,i have made many formats but every time i try to
install a graphical enviroment (such as xfce,kde) many many errors come up.
i have
On 06/06/2010 1:11 ?.?., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
i have FBSD 8.0 i have install the base system plus the bash shell
from the CD.after the installiation of the system i install ports with
portsnap and i update them with portmaster,no error came up,but now i
receive errors from xfce4.
On 06/06/2010 1:27 μ.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
hello,
i was using gentoo linux and i have install FBSD 8.0 in my second machine..
i have read the handbooks but i cannot understand which version of FBSD i
have.
i mean i know that i have 8.0 but i have the stable or the unstable
On 06/06/2010 4:37 μ.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
hello,
i have seach to net but i haven't find a way to update my system from
8.0-release to stable-8.
can you tell me a way to do this?
thanks in advance
Since you are just starting with this, I would advise against it. Unless
you
On 04/06/2010 12:01 π.μ., Andy Hiscock wrote:
LOL - now stuck in and endless loop of:
Message ─┐
│Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media.
This is like a poorly written shareware app!
Really getting pissd here!
My guess is you
On 01/06/2010 2:33 ?.?., n dhert wrote:
Can somebody explain about the -plevel one sees in the output of the
uname -r ?
Under *exactly* what conditions the patch level changes to a new value
after you applied a freebsd-update install ?
If you are using the GENERIC kernel AND the kernel
On 24/05/2010 1:23 π.μ., Doug Hardie wrote:
I am periodically backing up a bunch of files to DVD. I use mkisofs to
create the original image and growisofs to write it to a real DVD. However,
at that point I want to verify that the write was successful. I tried using
dd to read back in
On 14/04/2010 8:55 μ.μ., Adam Vande More wrote:
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote:
For years I used Qemu to run Windows XP under FreeBSD. It worked fine.
A few months ago I saw a message that VirtualBox was now working
correctly under FreeBSD. So I
On 26/03/2010 3:42 ?.?., n dhert wrote:
FreeBSD8.0, gnome2-2.28.2_1, using gdm to login.
Gdm login screen presents a list of all users on the system to choose from.
I don't want the list, just a prompt for a username and password.
I tried
# gconf-editor
this graphical config program allows
On 17/03/2010 10:34 μ.μ., Erik Norgaard wrote:
Hi:
I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried
today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up
the installed FreeBSD.
This works except for three problems:
- The disk device is renamed, I
On 10/02/2010 11:10 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
Hi,
I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed
that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the
alternative to get a boot image to create my CD image?
Thanks!
You just use the boot/cdboot file from
On 10/02/2010 11:39 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot image, are the
kernel files contained in /boot/kernel read at all during boot?
How exactly are you creating your image?
The basic directories in a FreeBSD install iso are 'boot'
On 10/02/2010 11:56 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
I just realized that cdboot does not contain the kernel as boot.flp
used to, so I guess /boot/kernel has to be there... So it does not
seem to work with mkisofs. I did
mkisofs -J -R -no-emul-boot -b ./cdboot -iso-level 3 -V FreeBSD_Custom
-o
On 11/02/2010 12:08 π.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
What I am trying to do is basically to install FreeBSD 8.0 on a CD. I
followed these instructions to install FreeBSD on a USB stick:
http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2
minus the
On 07/02/2010 5:40 π.μ., James Colannino wrote:
Hey everyone. Please bear with me as I'm very new to FreeBSD. I've
recently started building a custom kernel after having had to apply a
patch to enable support for my wireless device (Atheros 9285) in
8.0-RELEASE, and had a quick question
On 07/02/2010 2:14 μ.μ., Dánielisz László wrote:
I think you can try this:
-y
--yes
Answer yes to all the questions. This option implies -v and negates -n .
László
On 2010.02.07., at 12:59, n dhert ndh...@gmail.com wrote:
When using portupgrade, from time to time, there is a
On 01/02/2010 5:34 π.μ., John wrote:
If this isn't the right list - if I should try another let me know -
but since this is the mysql-server-5.4.2 package, and since you
folks have been so helpful, I thought I'd give it a go.
Anyway, the system is 8.0-RELEASE and that package is installed,
On 31/01/2010 7:32 μ.μ., Frank Wißmann wrote:
Glen Barber schrieb:
Frank Wi?mann wrote:
Glen Barber schrieb:
Hi Frank,
Frank Wi?mann wrote:
Hi, folks!
I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the run-command
under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is Command can't
be
On 21/01/2010 8:54 μ.μ., rhin...@postmail.ch wrote:
Hi All,
Is-it possible to run xdm with remote access through XDMCP protocol on
freebsd 8 ?
Yes. I have an entire lab working this way :)
I have tried almost anything: commenting line about port 0 in xdm-config,
This is needed.
On 16/01/2010 6:57 π.μ., Greg Larkin wrote:
Craig Whipp wrote:
On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote:
Until recently, it seems like port dependencies were handled at
installation time. Lately, they're handled any time I try to do
anything with a port. I absolutely detest the
Hey all,
I have just completed the second 8.0-RELEASE based build of the 'Custom
releases' project hosted here:
http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com
This time, both 32 and 64 bit isos are offered, both based on
8.0-RELEASE-p2 and using packages from the same ports tree.
From this point on I will
On 04/01/2010 3:33 μ.μ., Mernoz Rostangi wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know if the FreeBSD 8.0 IA64 can be used on 32bit cpu also ?
If yes, what is the difference between IA64 and x86 versions ?
:-)
./m
The IA64 is intended for Intel's Itanium Processor. It is 64bit, but
will not on
On 03/01/2010 7:04 μ.μ., Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
I followed the instructions on
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot
precisely (annoying, because I can't cut and paste :) on both my VMWare
machine locally and on a VPS from ArpNetworks.com. In both cases, when
booting from the
On 03/01/2010 8:38 μ.μ., Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Manolis == Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr writes:
Manolis I've tried the exact steps on vmware fusion (8.0-RELEASE amd64) and
Manolis didn't notice anything. Did you get any error messages in any of the
Manolis commands shown
On 01/01/2010 10:01 μ.μ., Frank Wißmann wrote:
Hi all!
I am wondering where my handbook is. Under /usr/share/doc/de/ where it
used to be is nothing appropriate. Has anybody an idea for me? Using
sysinstall to install additional docs didn't solve the problem. Or am
I wrong?
Greetings Frank
On 01/01/2010 11:34 μ.μ., Frank Wißmann wrote:
Manolis Kiagias schrieb:
On 01/01/2010 10:01 μ.μ., Frank Wißmann wrote:
Hi all!
I am wondering where my handbook is. Under /usr/share/doc/de/ where it
used to be is nothing appropriate. Has anybody an idea for me? Using
sysinstall to install
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You may download the ISO file immediately using the downloads page:
On 23/12/2009 10:54 μ.μ., ajtiM wrote:
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 01:42:32 you wrote:
On 23/12/2009 2:03 π.μ., ajtiM wrote:
My system: FreeBSD 8.0
Something to do with the new Ghostscript version, most of the doc
package builds are broken. I was pointed to this patch
On 23/12/2009 2:03 π.μ., ajtiM wrote:
My system: FreeBSD 8.0
I had a problem with update freebsd-doc-en
**
Error: /undefinedfilename in --file--
Operand stack:
On 15/12/2009 4:58 μ.μ., Gary Kline wrote:
Guys,
A post I send yesterday never showed up, so I'll ask again
with the following question: Do we have a driver for the
APC SmartUPS 1500VA #sUA1500?
gary
Use sysutils/apcupsd
Works great with all APC
Ian Smith wrote:
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote:
However, I do not see any distributions listed that are prefixed with
X-. The choices are All, Reset, Developer, Kern-Developer
Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au
wrote:
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote:
Removing X from the distributions is a right step IMO
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Reed Loefgren
rloefg...@forethought.netwrote:
Exactly. Most desktop users want a working system in the minimum of time
(Can't blame them for that).
Even with packages, we cannot beat an image-based distro, esp. since it
Nicky Chorley wrote:
Hi,
I downloaded the DVD ISO for FreeBSD 8.0 (i386) and verified the MD5
checksum before burning. With regards to choosing distributions for
installation, the handbook says
If a graphical user interface is desired then a distribution set that
is preceded by an X should
Alex Huth wrote:
Hi!
I am trying to upgrade a 6.2-RELEASE to 6.4-RELEASE, but `freebsd-update -r
6.4-RELEASE upgrade` is not available in this version. Can i upgrade this or
do i have to go the old way? Unfortunately the `pkg_add -r cvsup` does not
find the package for it.
Thx
Alex
Gary Kline wrote:
How do I build tarballs of packages that usually wind up in
/usr/ports/packages?
I thought I had something in /etc/make.conf, but nope. My
build of OOo [311] recently finished on my new to-be server.
Since both the new Dell and this older
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After the successful release of 8.0, I am pleased to announce that I
have updated my little project here:
http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com
to provide an XFCE DVD based on the new release.
Here are the direct download links:
acheron wrote:
Hi,
I just got the news of someone who build binaries of TeXlive 2009.
http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html
This is great news, thanks for sharing. I was looking forward to get
TexLive 2009 running on FreeBSD.
Brett Glass wrote:
However, the machine still boots. And hyperthreading is enabled,
because the Atom has HTT. (I have been thinking of disabling it,
because hyperthreading may not work very well on the Atom. Does anyone
know how to do this properly? I tried setting machdep.hlt_logical_cpus
Brett Glass wrote:
At 04:33 PM 11/26/2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Though it seems hyperthreading is improved on the Atom and there is no
penalty for leaving it on.
Is there really no penalty? With HZ=1000 there are double the clock
interrupts to be serviced at least. And as I understand
John wrote:
Hello list
I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to
no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are
there gotchas because we are crossing major version numbers.
You can go the source way or the 'freebsd-update' way. Either
n dhert wrote:
I want to move the contents of a freebsd72 system entirely to different
hardware (also Intel 64-bit), using dump/restore
These are the filesystems now:
/dev/da0s1a 2026030650876121307235%/
/dev/da0s1e20308398652820 18030908 3%/tmp
Matias wrote:
Can any of you access http://wiki.freebsd.org ?
Seems down from here I'm getting a 503 error.
Same here, I am sure it is probably something temporary though.
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Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:38:45 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:54:14PM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
There is a question during sysinstall: Would you like to enable ssh login?
Guess you
Gary Kline wrote:
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:01:17PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:12:36 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
By the way, it's not a problem if /etc/rc.conf is empty.
In this
Len Conrad wrote:
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0
portsnap'd today
running ver 1.2.8 of
rdiff-backup
which gets:
ImportError: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by
librsync.so.1
thanks
Len
This is installed by the devel/gettext port. It is probably
Philipp Lengemann wrote:
Am Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:19:29 -0800
schrieb Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com:
I _did_ go and read the Handbook section that Manolis Kiagias
kindly posted a link to, and I have now tried _both_ of the two
ways described there to re-enable CNTL-ALT
Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:35:54 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote:
If you stick with HAL however (using AllowEmptyInput bypasses the
autodetection), you can just use the policy file in the Handbook and
just add the DontZap option in ServerFlags or ServerLayout
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Many thanks to those who responded regarding my two questions.
With regards to the CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE sequence and its ability
(or lack thereof) to cause an immediate shutdown of the X server...
well... I _did_ go and read the Handbook section that Manolis Kiagias
Gary Kline wrote:
ok, i have my new server-to-be underway but having problems exec'ing
/usr/sbin/sshd. i can ssh out to existing computers, but cannot ssh
or scp stuff in. so my question is: how do i create
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key ? checking around does no good.
Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:49:04 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote:
By the way Xorg configuration becomes more and more elusive. Initially,
DontZap was enough. Then it had no effect at all and the fdi file was
needed. Now seems both are needed. What's next
Polytropon wrote:
A little sidenote:
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:04 -0500, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote:
The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big
slice that covers the
entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have
/usr/local
in a
Henry Olyer wrote:
I very much appreciate the help I get here. And boy!, do I need it.
Undoubtedly I did something wrong when I was putting my system together.
But I just can't throw it away -- I'm trying to get some things done.
So, awk! help!
Where you performing an upgrade of an
Robert Huff wrote:
Manolis Kiagias writes:
Where you performing an upgrade of an existing system?
AFAIK libjpeg.so.* libraries get installed by the graphics/jpeg port.
This was (fairly) recently upgraded, and if you did not follow the
/usr/ports/UPDATING instructions carefully, you
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I've just been installing 7.2-RELEASE/amd64 on a fresh/wiped system
that I plan to use as my future main workstation.
Anyway, I've already noticed a couple of things that seem to be different
from prior release that I need to ask about, i.e.:
1) It appears that
Guy Marcenac wrote:
Hi,
I am an old debian user and I am looking at freebsd for security reasons
* I am very interested in the jail concept
* I have to relearn iptables syntax each time I want to add a rule
Don't we all :)
I am testing the system in vmware virtual machine.
There is a
Bruce Cran wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:15:08 +
Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, thanks for that. I knew about that file, but don't often read
it. There's even more to the saga - Xkblayout doesn't work. This
whole HAL thing stinks horribly. IF X is built with HAL
oscar Seo wrote:
I'm a beginner in freebsd.
my machine consists of freebsd-6.4 + i386 bootstrap loader,+ windowmaker
after upgrade freebsd-6.4 using sysinstall then reboot the system,
I got an error message as follows
+++
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
Rob Hurle wrote:
Thanks for your comments too, about use of the FAT32 file system. I
had thought about that, but the NTFS seemed to be a bit more universal
- I'm not sure that FAT file systems are recognised by default on Macs
(for example).
FAT (and almost to the same extent, FAT32)
Rob Hurle wrote:
Dear All,
This may sound like a Windows problem, but please read on. I made a
mistake and bought a WD My Passport external 350GB disc drive for
use on several Windows machines, on some of which I don't have admin
access, and a couple of FreeBSD systems.
On first use
Andrey Zhidenkov wrote:
I've installed FreeBSD 7.2 with Xorg 7.4 server, but mouse (usb)
and keyboard don't work. when I start X server the only way to exit
is Ctrl-Alt-F* and kill the process.
I've find out that Xorg now uses hal and dbus to configure mouse and
maybe this is a problem.
Andrey Zhidenkov wrote:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:30:27PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Andrey Zhidenkov wrote:
I've installed FreeBSD 7.2 with Xorg 7.4 server, but mouse (usb)
and keyboard don't work. when I start X server the only way to exit
is Ctrl-Alt-F* and kill the process
PJ wrote:
(trimmed down)
Is entirely possible that I mucked up somewhere and did not do the
shutdown -r quite right... anyway, it is working fine now.
I still have some minor questions, though...
Can glabel be done on a dormant file system and then boot that file
system to change the fstab?
PJ wrote:
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
PJ wrote:
Manolis, my state of mind is quite clear... and I'm coping with
everything quite allright... I'm not about to get mad at anyone or
anything...
but tell me, honestly, when you see the stuff I have described above?
Woldn't that confuse
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