history

2013-09-19 Thread william benton
when I log into free bsd I am in the sh shell. i type history at the command line and the machine says history not found. If I type h at the command line it works like i expect the history command to work. In the csh or tcsh shells history works as well as h. why does entering history at the com

memory stick

2013-08-08 Thread william benton
I am trying to mount a memory stick at the command line. I seem to be able to mount and unmount it but i can't copy files into the stick. please see the attached image for the commands I used and the results. If you have any suggestions on what the problem might be I would sure like to know what

[SOLVED] Re: www/179397: I used mouse focus in open-motif and shift-click3 to iconify xterms, doing so causes cursor to disappear and mouse is unusable!

2013-06-10 Thread William Bulley
as the cause of my problems with mwm (part of the x11-toolkits/open-motif port) but it did not impact other window managers such as FVWM which may be why this patch was overlooked. Regards, web... -- William

9.1-STABLE with xterm-292 oddity

2013-05-10 Thread William Bulley
this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-14 Thread William Orr
Thanks, it looks like I had a copy from May in there that was fairly accurate! On Jun 13, 2012 5:03 PM, "Warren Block" wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: > > On 12 June 2012 18:03, William Orr wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I h

Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-12 Thread William Orr
Hello, I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an initial full when this happened). Is there a way I can restore it, or at least manually add entries I know for

Re: Dump Restore on ZFS root system

2012-02-07 Thread William Brown
pio or pax) > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Why not use the ZFS send / rec

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-06 Thread William Brown
hat would be cross platform using this tool. Finally, the best cross platform tool is a web service. So perhaps you should explore the Django or Ruby on Rails path? Sincerely, William Brown Research & Teaching, Technology Services The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005 CRICOS

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-22 Thread William Brown
indows. You can use git like SVN if you push to the master after every commit though. I also have found git's support for merging to be a lot better. Additionally it stores branches and tags as metadata on commits rather than svn's "dumb" tag / branch system where you just co

Re: failure building www/webkit-gtk2 on 8.2-STABLE

2011-12-02 Thread William Bulley
and for my own sanity, how would I have been able to avoid this problem? Thanks. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___

Re: failure building www/webkit-gtk2 on 8.2-STABLE

2011-12-01 Thread William Bulley
According to Robert Bonomi on Wed, 11/30/11 at 16:12: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Nov 30 09:14:56 2011 > > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:12:23 -0500 > > From: William Bulley > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Cc: gn...@freebsd.org > >

failure building www/webkit-gtk2 on 8.2-STABLE

2011-11-30 Thread William Bulley
#x27;, '-lcairo', '-lX11', '-lpango-1.0', '-lm', '-lfreetype', '-lfontconfig', '-lsoup-2.4', '-lgio-2.0', '-lgobject-2.0', '-lgmodu

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 390, Issue 3

2011-11-23 Thread William Bulley
st for me, but had trouble in the attempt to upgrade to a 9.x variant before it was ready for prime time. I would not normally have done this, but there were extenuating circumstances that required the attempt. Thanks again. :-) Regards, web... -- Wil

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-23 Thread William Bulley
According to Ian Smith on Tue, 11/22/11 at 23:48: > > Sorry William, this arrived not long after I crashed, 18-hour odd time > difference .. I've since seen Frank Shute advise how to csup from 8.2-S > to RELENG_9_0 and in your case that's likely the easiest way to go.

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-22 Thread William Bulley
installworld process. I hope this works this time. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-22 Thread William Bulley
r the record, how do I upgrade to 9.0RC2 (or any 9.0 variant) from a system already running 8.2-STABLE? Had this attempt been using the sysinstall method, I would have long since been up and running FreeBSD 9.x on this laptop. Please advise. Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bull

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-20 Thread William Bulley
see? That just goes to show you... ;^) The above section is missing from my 8.2-STABLE platform tar(1) man page. The whole problem is my trying to "get there from here" - which was what started this thread... :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-20 Thread William Bulley
7 Everything is there and listed. Amazing! You learn something every day. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-qu

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-19 Thread William Bulley
will try using manual and see what happens I did not try guided. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-19 Thread William Bulley
al -- your hard > drive is mounted at something like /mnt while the system is installed > onto it. The installer is just using paths relative to that mountpoint. Well, now that is interesting! I hadn't thought of that possibilit

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-19 Thread William Bulley
x27;s a definite win. > > But for files that will be compressed and uncompressed regularly, or > compressed and usually never touched again, it's worth thinking about > what's the best balance of resources. Thanks for that explanation! :-) Regards, web...

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-19 Thread William Bulley
iled upgrade attempt, the RC1 ISOs and so forth were missing from ftp.freebsd.org which I thought was odd. Shortly thereafter RC2 was being seen around *.freebsd.org in various places, so I must have been making this attempt during the transition from RC1 to RC2 in all the distribution places. This convince

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-19 Thread William Bulley
x27;t handle GPT > partitioning, should still be useful for partitioning and maintaining > many existing systems. I've yet to install RC1, and here's RC2, but I'm > encouraged to see the memstick.img has dropped GPT partitioning for MBR > with a sin

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-18 Thread William Bulley
. Or, perhaps you are saying 4 GB is insufficient for /var? Since it seems to be complaining about not being able to write to "var/". Regards, web... -- William Bulley Emai

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-18 Thread William Bulley
(base.txz) chunk that the popup appeared giving me the "unable to write" or "unable to uncompress" message. Can't recall the exact error now some hours later... :-( So the extraction step failed the first file, and I never made it to the Post-Installation phase, sigh..

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-18 Thread William Bulley
According to Matthew Seaman on Fri, 11/18/11 at 17:41: > On 18/11/2011 21:27, William Bulley wrote: > > I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today. This defaults > > to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall. > > > > This process gave me an error, but

where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-18 Thread William Bulley
I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today. This defaults to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall. This process gave me an error, but I'm not sure in which forum to discuss this problem/error. Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Ema

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-24 Thread William Myers
I'm seeing the same thing from the same IP adresses. William Myers Associate Professor, Computer Studies 100 Belmont-Mount Holly Road Belmont Abbey College Belmont, NC 28012-1802 (704) 461-6823 FAX: (704) 461-5051 my...@crusader.bac.edu On Sat, 22 Oct 2011, Admin ValhallaProjectet

gmirror resync seems stalled

2011-10-05 Thread William Yardley
I had a drive which had some timeout problems, and got kicked out of a gmirror based RAID1 on my FreeBSD machine (now 8.2-RELEASE-p3). Normally, if the devices get out of sync, they rebuild relatively quickly, and I can watch the progress. This time, after running gmirror forget and inserting the

Re: binary upgrade problems (8.1-RELEASE-p5 -> 8.2-RELEASE-p3)

2011-10-05 Thread William Yardley
Sorry for the self-follow-up, but I did eventually fix it - I thought I had tried this already, but the machine seems to have been booting from the inactive component of a gmirror array; doing a gmirror forget gm0 and a reboot fixed the problem. w ___

binary upgrade problems (8.1-RELEASE-p5 -> 8.2-RELEASE-p3)

2011-10-05 Thread William Yardley
I'm having some problems after doing a: freebsd-update -r 8.2-RELEASE upgrade (I had also done an upgrade from 8.1-p5 to p6 without rebooting; not sure if that's part of the problem). I did the update, merged the config files, ran freebsd-update install, rebooted, and then ran freebsd-update inst

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-15 Thread William Bulley
S. I suspected that If by chance my device.hints > will "just work", the "pedantic engineer" in > you would be silenced somehow :P Well, then you don't know me very well then, do you?? ;^) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@u

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-15 Thread William Bulley
gain later. > Helping others is a side benefit. It isn't for me that I am doing this. It is to help others - really. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@um

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-14 Thread William Bulley
d luck, Thanks! But no thanks -- because I got it to work with your T400 hints! :-) You have been most helpful and I really appreciate it. I wonder just who came up with those in the first place? :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.e

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-14 Thread William Bulley
what are the chances it will "just work" for me? I do hate just copying something without knowing what the heck it means -- just the pedantic engineer in me, I reckon... :-) The snd_hda(4) man page is not very helpful in explaining what your four hints would do for my T500 problem, but

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-14 Thread William Bulley
GPIUnsol=1 GPIO: data=0x enable=0x direction=0x wake=0x unsol=0xsticky=0x Now, re-reading the snd_hda man page with the above in hand, I just may be able to make changes similar to what you have shown above provided I can make sense of

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-14 Thread William Bulley
n. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-14 Thread William Bulley
This situation sucks, but we have not been able to suss out what the problem is. He and I have been running FreeBSD for over a decade, so we are not clueless, but this laptop audio weirdness has us stumped. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters

Re: EXABYTE 8200 on FreeBSD 5.3

2011-07-08 Thread William Stevenson
Hi Scott, Do any of these links help? http://cis.kutztown.edu/~frye/cgi-bin/unixManPages.cgi?st+7D http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=115&prodSeriesId=63988&prodTypeId=12169&objectID=lpg51061 http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/19

can't build graphics/xfig-3.2.5b on 8.2-STABLE nor databases/p5-DBD-Oracle with lang/perl5.14

2011-06-23 Thread William Bulley
5.14 were observed trying to launch apache2 (2.2.19) with mod_perl2 (2.0.5). Those problems also went away once I rebuilt my ports starting with Perl 5.12.3 version. This makes me suspect Perl 5.14 changes or the effect those changes have had on other ports in the ports tree.

system upgrade introduced oddball apache error...

2011-06-15 Thread William Bulley
og since I rebooted and shut down apache2 on June 9th as part of the upgrade. Any and all ideas welcome. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| _

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread William Brown
ng before you start, in case of the worst. I have wiped many machines by accident while learning (and as such learn the value of backups and how to restore systems). You will not master anything unless you actually put in the time and effort. Facing challenges will catalyse this process.

Tape drive for backup soloution

2011-03-28 Thread William Brown
backups over time. My server on hand has sata and IDE available. Are there any recommendations that you can make about compatible solutions. My knowledge in this area is limited. Sincerely, William Brown Research & Teaching, Technology Services The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

Re: Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

2011-01-28 Thread William Bulley
ics/gimp. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp. Investigating this I found poppler.h in this directory: /usr/local/include/poppler/glib/ on another system recently upgraded where the Gimp had built successfully. This directory did not exist here! That directory was the one I ha

Re: Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

2011-01-27 Thread William Bulley
ave re-built/installed graphics/poppler and also graphics/gimp (using "make install") but I still get the same error. :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->|

Re: Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

2011-01-27 Thread William Bulley
d that not imply that -I/usr/local/include/poppler is wrong and instead should be: -I/usr/local/include/poppler/glib ?? Thanks for all the suggestions, but I am still in a pickle... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley

Re: Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

2011-01-27 Thread William Bulley
According to Lowell Gilbert on Thu, 01/27/11 at 11:04: > William Bulley writes: > > > Everything up to this point builds okay. Then this happens: > > > > Making all in common > > gmake[3]: Entering directory > > `/usr/ports/graphics/gimp-app/work

Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

2011-01-26 Thread William Bulley
rts/graphics/gimp-app/work/gimp-2.6.11' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp-app. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp-app. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp. A

Re: Xorg 7.5 and OpenMotif: mouse stuck in box

2010-10-11 Thread William Bulley
k" directory, found the dit/events.c file, and made those above mentioned (about six or so) small source code patches. I then re-made the port and re-installed the port. After it tested successfully, I reported my results to the -questions list in case it would help others. YMMV. And good luc

Re: Xorg 7.5 and OpenMotif: mouse stuck in box

2010-10-11 Thread William Bulley
not yet > available in the ports tree, nor it looks like a patch is in for the > current version (I tried to recompile xorg today after a port tree > update). Is manually compiling Xorg the only solution right now? > > thanks in advance for any advice > > giuseppe > >

Booting up FreeBSD 8.0

2010-09-28 Thread William Lang
I have just installed FreeBSD 8.0 and after I login it stops at $ like its waiting for me to put some type of information in or something. So what do I put after the dollar sign??? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

wireless networking

2010-09-20 Thread William Kindler
-- I have 2 wireless adapter that I am able to use for my system. One is a usb device, a D-Link DWA130, and the other is a PCI device, a Netgear WN311T. I can find no information about Linux or UNIX support, or drivers for either, on your website or on the respective manufacturer's sites, nor

SOLVED: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

2010-09-02 Thread William Bulley
See below for details of solution. - Forwarded message from William Bulley - To: FreeBSD Questions From: William Bulley Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:38:34 -0400 Subject: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE For years I have run Open-Motif on FreeBSD without issue

Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

2010-08-26 Thread William Bulley
p" "false" > > EndSection > > And the other option is already a default. So removing or commenting > that section would let xorg-server use hald. > > I don't know if this will affect your window manager. Probably not, but > worth testing. D

Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

2010-08-26 Thread William Bulley
I was hoping someone in FreeBSD-land would have some suggestions. I have heard that contacting the Xorg developers may not result in a timely resolution. I greatly appreciate the comments on -questions to date. Thanks guys. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@um

Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

2010-08-25 Thread William Bulley
knew how to use hald, how would that solve my problem of the disappearing mouse pointer and consequent loss of functionality of my window manager? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters wi

Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

2010-08-25 Thread William Bulley
According to jhell on Wed, 08/25/10 at 09:24: > On 08/25/2010 07:38, William Bulley wrote: > > For years I have run Open-Motif on FreeBSD without issue. > > > > I use a USB keyboard and a USB three button mouse attached to a Dell > > Optiplex 960. This combination h

serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

2010-08-25 Thread William Bulley
xt. I suspect Xorg, or the keyboard and mouse driver, not the video driver, that came with. It might be a problem with hald(8), but again, I don't know how to debug this. Any help with this very odd bug would be greatly appreciated. Regards, web... -- Willia

Unable to kldload linux

2010-07-31 Thread William Vining
Hi, I have just upgraded my system to 8.1-RELEASE $ uname -a FreeBSD makalu.abqhomenet 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #10: Thu Jul 29 08:12:40 MDT 2010 r...@makalu.abqhomenet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRAGMENT amd64 only to find that I cannot load linux.ko # kldload linux kldload: can't load linux

CUPS between systems

2010-06-16 Thread William Bulley
is gap. FWIW, using CUPS 1.3.10 in the Fall of 2009, I did have Kerberos support (via GSSAPI) and I was able to talk directly to the network printer. Does anyone have any suggestions for me to consider trying? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72

Re: What have I done?

2010-05-24 Thread William Vining
I experienced a similar situation under different circumstances. It turned out that the sysctl variable hw.snd.default_unit was refering to the wrong sound card. Not sure if thats the problem, but it might be worth checking if you have multiple sound cards. -- WFV wfvin...@gmail.com On Mon, May 2

CUPS in ports (e.g., v1.4.3) --disable-gssapi WHY??

2010-04-29 Thread William Bulley
get a ticket granting ticket for printing). Why is this the case? Can someone elaborate on this, or point me to the correct forum to get an answer? Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

HP Proliant ML 150 G5

2010-04-25 Thread William E. Moreno A.
. Thanks   William Moreno P.D.: El presente correo no contiene tildes para evitarle al receptor inconvenientes en su lectura. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread William Bulley
crete video cards? > Lenovo's web site doesn't seem very oriented to telling potential > customers details about their newer computers. I think yes. At least in my case. I have a T500 and it came with both integrated Intel video plus an additional ATI mini-card. I d

bonding NICs with netgraph

2010-02-25 Thread Urbanski, William
Hi, I am setting up a freebsd box to act as a snort sensor on a network. The box has three nics, one internal nic for talking on the network and to the management server, and two nics on a single pci card that each connect to SPAN ports on my switch. I am trying to bind the two adapters on the f

Re: vi question

2010-02-19 Thread William Bulley
nter this sequence: 2dw (the line will disappear) Enter this sequence: 100P (voila!) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freeb

Re: cannot build GIMP 2.6.8-1 on 8.0-STABLE

2010-02-16 Thread William Bulley
e help was very outdated anyway. > > Don't know why the webkit-gtk2 build dies, though. Thanks. That suggestion allowed me to build the GIMP successfully. Although I still don't know why the GIMP depends on gnome-keyring... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley

cannot build GIMP 2.6.8-1 on 8.0-STABLE

2010-02-15 Thread William Bulley
orts/graphics/gimp. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-qu

confounding finding in print/cups-base (CUPS 1.4.2)

2010-02-04 Thread William Bulley
N in CUPS 1.3.9 last Fall? What should I do if I desire Kerberos support in CUPS 1.4.2 ?? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___

8.0 zfs install

2009-12-04 Thread William Taylor
Does the installer in 8.0 support zfs? If not whats the easiest way to get a full zfs install done? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-quest

Re: tcp delays in jails

2009-12-01 Thread William Taylor
On Dec 1, 2009, at 3:07 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > William Taylor wrote: >> I recently started having a problem with tcp connections in one of my jails. >> Im running 4.9-stable > > I guess it will not do any good to tell you to upgrade to 8.0? :) > Not at this time al

tcp delays in jails

2009-11-30 Thread William Taylor
9 CALL sendto(0x6,0xbfbfe100,0x2b,0,0x28269b60,0x10) 86872 perdition 1259617195.147186 GIO fd 6 wrote 43 bytes Any ideas of what I can do to figure this out? Thanks, William ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: dbus/hal in freebsd 7.2 hangs X11

2009-09-25 Thread William Bulley
things in xorg-7.4_2 and open-motif-2.2.3_6 and 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 15 14:33:54 EDT 2009 work for me. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| __

Re: Repeatable X lockups

2009-05-06 Thread William Bulley
following a csup(1) of complete ports tree on either 24 Apr or 25 Apr - so approximately the same timeframe as you. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addres

fatal error from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk

2009-04-26 Thread William Bulley
equired, let me know. The next thing I will try is changing /etc/make.conf to override "f8" instead of "f9" Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addres

Re: mysql memory

2009-04-08 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
I think 'top' is showing the external view of the process and how many pages total of heap have been allocated (under 'RES'). Possibly your tuner program is just showing the size of the cache specifically. -Will Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have mysql installed on FreeBSD 7.0 i38

Re: C programming question

2009-04-08 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
Valentin Bud wrote: Thanks everybody for the heads up. I don't know (yet) which path i am going to take. I know a little bit of perl so i guess i'll start reading on how can i accomplish my goal with perl. thanks, v I've been programming for a very long time, and I can tell you that both Per

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
Polytropon wrote: Okay, now I understand what you mean. "Consistency" refers to the usage of spacing / tabbing for a given project that is adopted by several programmers. Yes, I agree with that: It's a very bad idea to have many different styles within the same project. . . . When I need to rea

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
Oliver Fromme wrote Of course this is purely a matter of taste and personal preference. My preference is similar to yours, but my main reasoon is to save space. I think it is a ridiculous waste of space if every third line consisted only of a sole brace (opening or closing). To my eye, such li

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-03-31 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:48:00 -0400, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: Tabbing is the worst form of indentation. It is *much* better to use spaces consistently. may I ask what exactly you mean by "consistently"? I've seen various opinions about how m

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-03-31 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
Polytropon wrote: I don't want to start a "style debate", but forgive me the following annotations: 1. Use the tab character for indentation. You can set its length with your favourite editor (e. g. mcedit: F9, Options, General; joe: ^TD). Don't waste with spaces. 2. The main() function s

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-03-31 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
This isn't a BSD question. It's just about elementary C. As other people pointed out, you could have easily caught it anyway just by turning on warnings. -Will Gary Kline wrote: people, i've been under the weather for days and will probably be for a few more. new and TEMPORARY meds dont l

startx on FreeBSD 7.1

2009-03-22 Thread William E. Moreno A.
when startx on FreeBSD 7.1... 1- Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "0.0" 2- [drm] failed to load kernel module "via"    (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed.    (EE) CHROME(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.   I need some guiance

Re: Your Amazon.com Order

2009-02-19 Thread William Bentley
I think you may have replies to the wrong email;) Becki Trujillo wrote: I just placed an order, and I am wondering where exactly my order is being shipped. I want it shipped to Rebecca or Becki Trujillo POBox 178 Ojo Caliente, NM, and NOT to Franklin, TN/ My email is becki.truji...@k12espano

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread william
Score 1 to Chris, nice come-back. Flame on!! --Original Message-- From: Chris Knight Sender: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: michael copeland Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Feb 10, 2009 20:35 Subject: Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer On Tu

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread william
Let the flaming begin Or continue..meh! --Original Message-- From: michael copeland Sender: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: Jerry McAllister Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Feb 10, 2009 19:50 Subject: Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalze

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread william
I am curious to see if the idea is entertained even. --Original Message-- From: Chris Knight Sender: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Feb 10, 2009 16:29 Subject: Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer Damn, that i

Re: insert new line in files

2009-02-07 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I want to insert a new line of text at a certain position in certain files recursively under a directory. More specifically, I want text like this: include('/usr/home/www/imp-sites/default_inventory.php'); write a script: #!/usr/local/bin/bash (a=0 while [ $a -lt 36

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-04 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
Lars Eighner wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, t-u-t wrote: hi, i don't know if this is a freak question, but i was looking around to see if this is possible, and what the convention would be. if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others, and i want to perform any said

Re: intel 64-bit version?

2009-02-03 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
I'm using the amd64 version of FreeBSD for an HP Pavillion using an Intel Core 2 Quad processor (Q6600). So far it's doing fine with the processor. There are some driver problems, for instance no sound. However, as I'm using this machine as a compute server, I'm ignoring those limitations.

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-03 Thread William Bulley
sure you write on the right device! So you don't think the "bad card reader" suggestion is relevant? I will also try this approach. Thanks for all the feedback. Now, I've got some avenues of testing to work through. Later... Regards, web... -- William Bulley

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-03 Thread William Bulley
n the purchase. Thanks again. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-03 Thread William Bulley
reeBSD system and plop it onto another. > Finally, there are more than a few reports of SD cards with false > capacities bought on ebay. This SD card was purchased from a reputable firm in New York whose name you would recognize were I to mention it. I have had nothing but good e

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-03 Thread William Bulley
;t have to touch Windows XP at all, grrr... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread William Bulley
ard advertised (and sold) as a 2.0 GB card actually hold (approximately) 2.0 GB? That is what bugs me... I believe that FAT16 is capable of addressing a 2.0 GB disk drive, yes? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread William Bulley
According to Mel on Mon, 02/02/09 at 12:46: > > On Monday 02 February 2009 07:52:44 William Bulley wrote: > > Recently purchased a brand new 2.0 GB secure digital (SD) card. > > > > When I plugged this into a USB dongle and plugged the USB dongle > > into an avai

short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread William Bulley
gards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Tool to uncat file

2009-02-01 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
$ man split This (split) is the standard unix utility to break a file up into pieces. It breaks it down either by a fixed number of lines or by a fixed number of bytes. Also the rules for dividing lines is simplistic: simple newline division, no special escape handling. If that doesn't su

Re: Perl5.8 Won't Build

2009-01-31 Thread William Bentley
I tried this as you said, to no avail. Same error. Please advise. Mel wrote: On Friday 30 January 2009 14:55:47 William Bentley wrote: No, this is a new install and there are no env vars set. I made sure that the env was clean anyways. As a work-around compile as: env MAKEFILE

Re: Perl5.8 Won't Build

2009-01-30 Thread William Bentley
No, this is a new install and there are no env vars set. I made sure that the env was clean anyways. Mel wrote: On Friday 30 January 2009 14:07:17 William Bentley wrote: Here is the output: (cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.9; /usr/bin/env LANG="" LC_ALL=&qu

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