Re: malformed man pages [SOLVED]

2009-12-05 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 05), Sagara Wijetunga said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 04), Sagara Wijetunga said: We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. Eg. man tar shows as follows

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-05 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Charlie Kester wrote: On Fri 04 Dec 2009 at 22:38:22 PST Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Michael Powell wrote: Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so

malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Hi FreeBSD community We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNAME0m 1mtar 22m-- format of tape archive files 1mDESCRIPTION0m The 1mtar 22marchive format collects any number of files,

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Boris Samorodov wrote: Hi, On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:31 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote: We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. What is the base FreeBSD version? FreeBSD 7.2 Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNAME0m

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 04), Sagara Wijetunga said: Hi FreeBSD community We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNAME0m 1mtar 22m-- format of tape archive files

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Michael Powell wrote: Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so, is there such a patch exist? Uhmm, this may sound a little strange

How to setup mDNSResponder on FreeBSD?

2009-09-12 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Hi all I have installed the net/mDNSResponder port on a FreeBSD 7.2 i386 computer. Set to launch the mdnsd on start up (in /etc/rc.conf). Changed hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf to hosts: files mdns dns. Rebooted. mDNSIdentify name.local immediately shows the IP address of the other

Re: Server screwed up (/lib/libc.so.7: Undefined symbol _nsdispatch)

2009-07-14 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Victor Starenky writes: Hi guys, I was running FreeBSD server at home for a few years on an old box for mail, some web and ftp etc. I've been through a number of upgrades even though it's not easy with the box as old as this one (PII 350). Right now I'm at 7.0 Release. Now last weekend

Re: Server screwed up (/lib/libc.so.7: Undefined symbol _nsdispatch)

2009-07-14 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Victor Starenky writes: Actually I am running this without GUI (X is a luxury on this machine) .But if I restore it from the live CD I understand that all ports I have will be messed up? You build ports on top of a working base. Now your foundation, aka the base has gone wrong. What you got

Re: Server screwed up (/lib/libc.so.7: Undefined symbol _nsdispatch)

2009-07-14 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Victor Starenky writes: Sorry for the lame question. But how exactly would I go about recompiling the base?Could you point me to any articles/manuals about it? I'm just trying to understand which steps exactly need to be done and how to do it. Compiling everything would take me a few weeks on

Re: Why this flash drive not detected in devd?

2009-07-13 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Mel Flynn writes: On Saturday 11 July 2009 00:36:09 Sagara Wijetunga wrote: I prefer to handle mounting through an automounter even without KDE running. I think most users want to handle the disk based on the content not on the device that has the disk. Ideally I would want my desktop

Re: Why this flash drive not detected in devd?

2009-07-11 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Roland Smith writes: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 08:41:28PM -0500, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Roland Smith writes: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:22:16PM +0800, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Hi FreeBSD community This is FreeBSD 7.2 on i386. sysctl -a | grep dev.umass dev.umass.1

Re: How to symlink devfs devices?

2009-07-09 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Paul B. Mahol writes: Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the symlink in place of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially in version 7.2? 1. A disk /dev/camera - /dev/da0s1 devfs.conf(5) 2. A network device re0 - lan0 same as above, but there is way to

devd configuration questions

2009-07-09 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Hi FreeBSD community I have few questions regarding devd configuration: 1. What is the difference between attach or notify and when to use them? 2. What are the possible values for class in attach and detach statements? 3. What are the possible values for subdevice in attach and detach

Re: devd configuration questions

2009-07-09 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Hi FreeBSD community I have few questions regarding devd configuration: 1. What is the difference between attach or notify and when to use them? 2. What are the possible values for class in attach and detach statements? 3. What are the possible values for subdevice

Why this flash drive not detected in devd?

2009-07-09 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Hi FreeBSD community This is FreeBSD 7.2 on i386. sysctl -a | grep dev.umass dev.umass.1.%desc: Imation Flash Drive, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 3 dev.umass.1.%driver: umass dev.umass.1.%location: port=6 interface=0 dev.umass.1.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x0718 product=0x0081 devclass=0x00

Re: Why this flash drive not detected in devd?

2009-07-09 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Roland Smith writes: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:22:16PM +0800, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Hi FreeBSD community This is FreeBSD 7.2 on i386. sysctl -a | grep dev.umass dev.umass.1.%desc: Imation Flash Drive, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 3 dev.umass.1.%driver: umass dev.umass.1.%location

How to symlink devfs devices?

2009-07-08 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Hi Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the symlink in place of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially in version 7.2? 1. A disk /dev/camera - /dev/da0s1 2. A network device re0 - lan0 Kind regards Sagara ___