Having trouble getting flshh to work with native firefox,
I decided to try one or other of the linux versions.
With
linux-firefox-devel-3.5.9
I was able to get flash wworking OK.
But the linux version does not find any any printer access.
I am using (traditional) lpd for spooling to a Postscript
n
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:49 pm, Aiza wrote:
> Vincent Hoffman wrote:
> > On 23/06/2010 11:26, Aiza wrote:
> >> Is there an equivalent of the MAC sparseimage on FreeBSD?
> >
> > If you mean you would like to make a sparse file and attach
> > it using mdconfg then
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/outfil
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:18 pm, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> > On my release 8.0 system I find 'portmaster' in the ports
> > but not in the base system!
>
> csh is base system
> portmaster is a port
Yes of course!
Sorry, I must have read Glen's post rather carelessly.
With apology,
Malcolm
>
> portmast
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:28 am, Mark Terribile wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have several systems, one on 5.4 and two on 7.2 . I keep
> the 5.4 system because every time I upgrade something breaks
> and cannot be fixed without (apparently) weeks of effort. I
> *am* trying to get off it.
>
> Now: my 5.4 system
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:56 pm, Glen Barber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 6/15/10 7:15 AM, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > my system has 2 users the user "terietor" and the root user.
> >
> > after a failed upgrade of my system with portmaster,i can't
> > login as root but i can login as terieto
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:49 am, Dan D Niles wrote:
> I had been using csh/tcsh for 20 years and I just switched to
> bash. The recent discussion about the differences between the
> shells prompted me to take another look at bash. I thought
> I'd share my perception of the differences between tcsh a
,
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:35 pm, Ian Smith wrote:
> Has anyone (everyone?) else been receiving these DSNs a week
> or so after having posted to freebsd-questions@ ? Since
> around early April?
Yes Ian,
I've received at least 6 in total -- the latest on 25-04-2010
Regards,
Malcolm
>
> I've had four
I have a real solution.
I'll try removing the cronjob.
Thanks again for your attention,
Regards,
Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:38 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:03 am, Ian Smith wrote:
> > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 306, Issue 1, Message: 1
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:03 am, Ian Smith wrote:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 306, Issue 1, Message: 18
>
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:31:33 +0930 Malcolm Kay
wrote:
> > I desperately need to make some progress on this issue.
>
> Then I suggest taking it to freebsd-acp
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:40 pm, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Malcolm Kay
>
> wrote:
> > I desperately need to make some progress on this issue.
> >
> > Is it likely that the issue is real rather than hardware
> > or disk corruption? Ear
se!
Thank you for your attention.
Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:22 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> My machine had two SATA 300GB drives
> (WDC WD3200KS-00PFB0 21.00M21) one carrying FreeBSD
> RELEASE-6.3 and the other RELEASE-7.0 all of which worked OK.
>
> Recently added SATA
r:
>
> ===> mysql-server-6.0.11 cannot install: unknown MySQL
> version: 60. *** Error code 1
Hmm, seem to reacall discarding mysql60 for some reason but
I think not for the error you experienced.
Malcolm Kay
>
> Anyone know what that's all about?
>
> T
asks
performed by ACPI.
Is my guess that I have an interaction problem between ACPI and
RELEASE-8.0 a reasonable one? Where can I go from here?
The system uses a Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 mother board and the
prcessor is AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
Please offer suggestio
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:23 pm, krad wrote:
> 2010/3/4 Malcolm Kay
>
> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 02:44 am, krad wrote:
> > > On 3 March 2010 14:23, Malcolm Kay
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote:
> > > > > On 28 F
nstalled (of cource updated...)
> >
> > Elias
> > ___
> > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "
> >
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 02:44 am, krad wrote:
> On 3 March 2010 14:23, Malcolm Kay
wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote:
> > > On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 28 of February 2010 15:26:54 Frank Shut
freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
>
> You might well find it easier to use rsync rather than dump.
> Just make sure you use the following flags
>
> rsync -aHP --numeric-ids
>
This is a bit questionable for copying live fs. Probably OK if
you use snapshots. Leaves you
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:20 pm, david wilson wrote:
> I am using win xp on a hp laptop.
> I want to run bsd. So i get the cd burned and then
> when i reboot my system. it starts up in the usual way.
> i have tried setting bios settings for the boot device and
> nothiing seems to work. any other help
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:29 am, Chris Rees wrote:
> I have always considered hard disk, floppy diskette, and
> compact disc (and digital versatile disc) to be the
> terminology; but then again the official British spelling is
> disc, whereas AFAICR the US spelling is disk.
What organisation defines
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:27 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:39 pm, Polytropon wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > just a little terminology note (from me, Mister
> > Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of
> > hard disk, use "disk&
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:39 pm, Polytropon wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> just a little terminology note (from me, Mister
> Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of hard
> disk, use "disk" with k. Think like "diskette". If you are
> refering to optical media, use "disc" with c. Think like "CD =
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:31 am, kalin m wrote:
> hi all...
>
> i used to be able to put startup scripts in
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. now on a new 7 install i have the
> scripts there but after restart nothing happens
>
Most startup scripts now require a line:
enable_whatever="YES"
in rc.conf befor
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:08 pm, Madana wrote:
> Dear sir/madam..
> I am a student studying computers and would like to build unix
> operating systems later on so i was browsing through your
> website for the source code but could not find it so it would
> be very very nice if you could give me th
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:51 am, Peter Boosten wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My harddisk was failing and I wanted the data copied to
> another disk, but since my original wouldn't boot, I installed
> a minimal FreeBSD on the new disk, mounted the old partitions
> under /mnt and copied from the original to the
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:34 am, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:00 am, EdwardKing wrote:
> > I use mailx command,such as Tom to Kate,I like following
> > command: $mail Kate
> > Subject:Hello
> > Hello world
> > (press Ctrl+D)
> > EOT
> >
>
that assumes the 8-char-
acter name limit, such as NIS. The NIS protocol mandates an
8-character username. If you need a longer login name for e-mail
addresses, you can define an alias in /etc/mail/aliases.
Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:34 am, Mel wrote:
> On Thursday 10 July 2008 16:48:42 Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:45 pm, Mel wrote:
> > > On Thursday 10 July 2008 06:24:46 Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > > > >9255 if { as_var=$as_ac_var; eval "test \"
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:45 pm, Mel wrote:
> On Thursday 10 July 2008 06:24:46 Malcolm Kay wrote:
>
> > >9255 if { as_var=$as_ac_var; eval "test \"\${$as_var+set}\" = set"; };
> > > then
> >
> > I find this line somewhat strange as I'
ot;$0" ||
>
> ECHO_N and ECHO_C :
>
> 474 ECHO_C= ECHO_N= ECHO_T=
> 475 case `echo -n x` in
> 476 -n*)
> 477 case `echo 'x\c'` in
> 478 *c*) ECHO_T=' ';; # ECHO_T is single tab character.
> 479 *) ECHO_C='\c';;
> 480 esac;;
> 481 *)
> 482 ECHO_N='-n';;
> 483 esac
>
>
Best of luck,
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:19 am, Chip wrote:
> Just installed FBSD 7, after being gone from FBSD the last 3 years.
> During boot I see that the mouse is detected as ums0, but cannot get it
> to work in X11. I cannot find any xorg.conf. or xorg.conf.new files. I
> have gnome installed and working, s
ts ppp, through /etc/rc.d/ppp.
Normally the file time is updated every 30 seconds or so by setting "enable
echo".
The loop also includes a call to sleep of a few minutes so the the loop does
not
greatly consume processing time. This has worked well for us and I suspect would
also work i
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:43 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:31 pm, Michaël Grünewald wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am planning to distribute some of the makefiles I wrote on various
> > platforms, including FreeBSD. I need the help of some insightful soul
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:31 pm, Michaël Grünewald wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am planning to distribute some of the makefiles I wrote on various
> platforms, including FreeBSD. I need the help of some insightful soul to
> take a few decisions:
>
> --- Where to install? I think /usr/local/share/mk is fin
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:57 pm, Ruel Luchavez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can you help me on this..I attached it in this email
> whats the meaning of it and how can i get rid of that??
>
> Please...Thanks
>
I don't believe attachments are redistributed by this
mailing list.
Best to cut and paste your error
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:45 am, Da Rock wrote:
> Out of sheer curiosity- is this spam? Is there any reference to the
> "paint" on FreeBSD? I can't imagine where it would be used...
>
A google search shows it up in http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/
Malcolm
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:59 am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2008-03-17 00:26, Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:46 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:17:47PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > > > The send-pr
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:07 am, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:26:07AM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:46 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:17:47PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > > > The send-pr appears to
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:46 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:17:47PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > The send-pr appears to assume that mail can and will be sent
> > directly through sendmail or equivalent rather than inderctly through
> > an ISP mail serv
rver in the Helo command -- after all this is the
rout that
will be followed by any responses.
Is there a better way around the difficulty.
Views please
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ca. But you may need to brand the ELF type
on binary executables and possibly also the libraries you have installed.
# brandelf -t Linux file ...
See brandelf(1).
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:34 pm, Nerius Landys wrote:
> I am having problems installing both 6.3 and 7.0 using a CDROM drive that
> plugs into a USB port. The boot process starts, then I get scrambled text
> over the whole screen scrolling like crazy. I can't read any of it.
Are you sure the CD ima
Solved.
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 07:04 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> The default output from ls in a normal shell on my system
> is
> mode links owner group size month day time/year filename
> corresponding to LANG=C or en_US...
> For most other locales month and day are swapped, including
.
Is there someway to force ftpd to report ls according to the
LANG=C default so that I can successfully access through windows.
Any ideas please?
The FreeBSD system is 6.3-Release and the windows W2K.
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 07:33 am, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto
> on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful.
> The help from this group has been outstanding, but getting things
> CD and DVD actually
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:16 am, N.J. Mann wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Peel wrote:
> >
> > Whenever I reset my DRAC cards on my Dell machines,
>
> I'm sorry but I can't help you with your problem. But, you do need to
> reset your clock, since you appear to have reached October tw
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:09 am, DAK GHATIKACHALAM wrote:
> Hi Freebsd
>
> Question about FDISK
>
> Do you have an idea what does that '+' means in Blocks
> columns
>
> as seen below it is 419425019+
>
> Does it signify anything , because for certain disks I do not
> see that '+' as the end of bloc
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:35 pm, DeadMan Xia wrote:
> Dear Friends ,,
>
> Well i m facing some problem reagrding System Boot in FreeBSD
> 6.1, I have installed GNOME2 and when my system reboots its
> start in X Windows. Now i want to change Run Level 5 to Run
> level 3. Can anybody help me out ?
Is anyone using the Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4
motherboard with FreeBSD?
Are there known problems?
I am looking for a AMD Athlon X2 5600+ machine,
running FreeBSD 6.x,
with particular emphasis on numeric simulations.
Comments and suggestions would be very welcome!
Thank you,
Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:18 am, ann kok wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to test the clone harddrive to boot up the
> system. I got an error
>
> init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port
> /dev/tty..
>
> but I check the clone harddive. the file is there
> /usr/libexec/getty and /dev/tty.
>
> i
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:03 am, Tim Nilimaa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im not able to run fortune on my freeBSD 5.3 installation, and
> I know why - since its not installed and thats where I step
> into trouble. Im not able to install it. I've searched the
> portscollection and asked Mr. Google but none of the
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:02 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:13 am, Brett Davidson wrote:
> >> I have a curious problem.
> >>
> >> I need an executable file to be owned by a user's uid and
> >> gid so they can
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:13 am, Brett Davidson wrote:
> I have a curious problem.
>
> I need an executable file to be owned by a user's uid and gid
> so they can run it.
A user does not need to own a file to be able to run it. All they
need is execute permission. So what is the real problem?
> HOWE
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:37 am, Jay Chandler wrote:
> Sorry for the dumb question this morning-- caffeine hasn't yet
> worked its wondrous magic upon my person.
>
> I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the
> aliases file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after
> the eventua
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 02:18 pm, Michael M. Press wrote:
> I have a 2 gigabyte USB memory stick from made by PNY. When I
> plug it in, I get the following:
>
> umass0: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2
> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: < USB Flash Memory 6.50> Removabl
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:27 pm, Noah wrote:
> well I am pressing control-J for return not control-M so I
> dont understand your rationale.
>
There seems to be considerable confusion in this thread between
keystrokes and the codes they produce.
Most modern keyboards report some form of scan code fo
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:39 am, Lars Kristiansen wrote:
> Gary Kline skrev:
> > People,
> >
> > Weeks ago I tried this *without* the --exclude flags and
> > overwrote DOT file that I didn't want to. Iust rechecked
> > this use of rsync, saving important files from my work
> > server else
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:15 am, Gary Kline wrote:
> People,
>
> Weeks ago I tried this *without* the --exclude flags and
> overwrote DOT file that I didn't want to. Iust rechecked
> this use of rsync, saving important files from my work server
> elseswhere, and see that some files
Running mount_smbfs as a regular user generates a permission
denial in relation to iconv in the kernel.
This is apparently a well known problem which can be circumvented
by setting the set-user-id-on-execution bit for mount_smbfs.
This works for me but leads to the problem that the mount is now
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:20 pm, jekillen wrote:
> Hello again;
> I have a question about how mail from the system is generated
> for root. This question was prompted when I edited the Postfix
> aliases file and ran newaliases, then did postfix reload,
> assuming the mail system was running. I was inf
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:31 am, Peter wrote:
> On a test system I have 3 SATA drives. On the 1st drive I
> installed FBSD 6.0, updated sources/ports, build and install
> world/kernel. Rebooted. All is well.
>
> I set up RAID0 on the other 2 drives using my (Tyan) mobo's
> controller (NVRAID). This
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:21 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I believe that this might be possible..
>
> I have created a snapshot of a filesystem and moved it to a
> remote host:
>
> dump -L0af - / | ssh remote_host 'gzip > snapshot.gz'
>
> Now I have the file snapshot.gz on the remote h
I installed octave-2.1.73 under FreeBSD 5.4
using the FreeBSD ports.
This seems to be a very useful mathematical
processor.
Unfortunately the 'fsolve' function seems
not to work. It seems always to return the
given starting point value and a status of -1.
Is this a known issue?
Does anyone have
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:10 am, Joseph Gleason wrote:
> Is it possible to reach two hosts via two interfaces that are
> both on the same subnet?
>
> Example:
> em0: 172.20.0.1/16
> em1: 172.20.0.2/16
>
> And I want to reach 172.20.0.3 via em0 and 172.20.0.4 via em1.
>
> From 'netstat -nr' I see a line
I am running Xorg under FBSD 5.4 with a
1600x1200 19inch monitor. I am also running xfs
to serve fonts.
According to log file Xorg.0.log the screen
resolution is discovered:
(**) NV(0): DPI set to (119, 119)
But if I call an xterm with:
% xterm -fn '-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:40 am, Aguiar Magalhaes wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Using standard installation (sysinstall), I'm trying
> to install the FreeBSD 6.0 in the machine where exist
> a old linux installation (The linux will be full
> replaced)
>
> In the fdisk stage, I've created /, swap, /var, /usr
>
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:15 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:47:01PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > My primary activity at home is on a machine "alpha" running
> > FBSD 5.4 and Xorg version of X. But I have a couple of other
> > machines running old
ients
to be expected or am I missing something? More importantly is
there a way around it?
Is it feasible to install both Xorg and XFree86 on the one system
and choose the appropriate one at a given time?
Any help or information appreciated.
Malcolm Kay
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:57 am, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to use less paper by printing on both sides of each
> sheet.
>
> The printer is capable of duplex printing, but all the
> postcript I send to it ends up printed single-sided.
>
> The original PS is generated by a web-browse
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 10:50 am, Jose Borquez wrote:
> How do you add a floppy device and then mount a floppy in
> FreeBSD?
Others have answered this; but many of us most of the time find
it more convenient to use mtools for MS floppy access rather
than a proper mount.
You'll find it in the ports a
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> El día Thursday, March 02, 2006 a las 11:29:31PM +1030, Malcolm
Kay escribió:
> > It is not very clear what utilities are capable of writing R
> > or RW CDs on a multipurpose optical drive. It seems that
> > burncd do
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:25 am, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > It is not very clear what utilities are capable of writing R
> > or RW CDs on a multipurpose optical drive. It seems that
> > burncd doesn't do this and the man pages for growisofs talks
> >
I wrappers for command line utilities but the base
level utilities.
Any help appreciated.
Malcolm Kay
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On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:24 am, Wendell Anderson wrote:
> I have successfully installed FreeBSD 6.0 with X.org and
> KDE 3.4.3.
>
> When I execute "startx" the "tcm" windowing system, starts
> up fine. However when I try starting KDE, I get x-server
> errors.
Do you mean tcm or twm?
>
> I need h
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:26 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > I can now send e-mails using the standard 'mail' utility
> > to most destinations but apparently 'alpha.home' is still
> > used as the source domain in the HELO command and as
Host not found
<<< 554 Error: no valid recipients
How do I get sendmail to use a valid host name such as
"internode.on.net"?
Help would be much appreciated,
Malcolm Kay
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whether reservations for things
like disklabels are not automatically taken care of when 'a' is
the first partition in the slice, so I suggest if you place the
'b' partition first you do this with an offset of 16 sectors.
But make it a rule to retain the traditional relationsh
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:54 pm, user wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > On my system (5.4) mdconfig reports the created device to
> > stdout: So:
> > memdevice=`mdconfig -a -t malloc -s10M`
> > sets the device name in $memdevice.
>
> Thank you
ig -l` before and after the
> mdconfig, and choosing the one that shows up as new, but that
> is not elegant and is vulnerable to a race condition.
>
On my system (5.4) mdconfig reports the created device to stdout:
So:
memdevice=`mdc
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:05 am, Tim Greening-Jackson wrote:
> Hello there. I hope someone can help me with what I am sure is
> an elementary problem. I am currently investigating FreeBSD
> with a view to using it on my server in place of Fedora Core
> 4. Before I move the server from Fedora to FreeBSD
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:29 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:34 am, E. Eusey wrote:
> > The secondary screen functionality on my xterm
> > (rxvt-unicode) was acting strangly. So, following the
> > advice at:
> >
> > http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*check
e
> determined by the system? Is there a way to detect my new
> termcap entry? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
You should be able to set this through resources:
For example in .Xdefaults add:
Rxvt*termName: rxvt-unicode
Malcolm Kay
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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:37 am, Marc Evans wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I am running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE as of Dec-15-2005 on a P4
> system. I have a CDRW drive attached, which identifies as
> follows:
>
> acd0: CDRW at ata1-slave UDMA33
>
> I wish to use this device to produce CDRW backup disks
> perio
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:25 pm, Gayn Winters wrote:
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> > Russell J. Wood
> > Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 3:54 PM
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Disk error messages (ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk#
> > xx)
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 a
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:58 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 03:50 am, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> > I want to run a job every 00:05 sunday morning.
> > It is a script which run for a few minutes, then
> > attempts to re-submit itself via at.
> > at the end of the scr
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 03:50 am, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> I want to run a job every 00:05 sunday morning.
> It is a script which run for a few minutes, then
> attempts to re-submit itself via at.
> at the end of the script, it has:
> echo "/usr/local/bin/script" | at 00:05 sunday
> this produces an error
;
> Hmmm - looks like no-one has good news for me on this front so
> I'll try a different approach:
>
> Can anyone suggest a UNIX filesystem for a removable IDE disc
> that can be used on linux and freebsd and that can be exported
> by NFS?
>
I thought most
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:15 am, Danial Thom wrote:
> --- Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:27 am, Danial Thom
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Schwab Streetsmart
> > > Accounting Software (CA)
> > > Qu
identified as HP allowed some
reintallation to proceed but it is incomplete and doesn't
run.
I have never experienced this sort of lockout on a FreeBSD
system.
It is looking as though I will need to do a completely new
XP installation -- which I am not looking forward to.
It has been said before Windows is OK until something goes
wrong; but then it is mostly unfixable.
Malcolm Kay
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r narrow range of popular applications. Go
outside that range and and other systems are more
than competitive.
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:19 am, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:46 pm, TV JOE wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've a C program written for Suse linux. I'm having minor
> > problems compiling. First is that the cexp (complex
> > exponent) is
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:46 pm, TV JOE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a C program written for Suse linux. I'm having minor
> problems compiling. First is that the cexp (complex exponent)
> is not available in /usr/include/math.h. Is it possible to add
> on a library that includes this function? I compile as
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:00 am, Teo De Las Heras wrote:
> I looked through the man pages and online, but I can't find
> information on what the M is for in 'tar Mcvf'. I constantly
> see this as a way to archive / backup files.
I find it in the man pages without problems:
-M
--multi-volume Creat
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:47 pm, Eric Murphy wrote:
> Malcolm Kay wrote:
> >On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:31 pm, Eric Murphy wrote:
> >>Maybe some body can explain this alittle better then my
> >> google searchs and other readings.
> >>
> >>My question
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:31 pm, Eric Murphy wrote:
> Maybe some body can explain this alittle better then my google
> searchs and other readings.
>
> My question is this: Lets say your installing BSD on some
> workstation, you dont know the hardware specs of the monitor
> (Vertical and Horizontal rat
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:45 am, Eric Murphy wrote:
> A Inspiron 9300, I cant seem to find this info ANYWHERE, and i
> want to configuer Xorg :) Can anyone point me in the right
> direction?
>
google-ing
Inspiron 9300 refresh rate
gives a number of references to 60Hz maximum.
Malcolm
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:01 pm, Noah wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am wanting to copy standard output to a file.
>
> I know that 'tee' will do this fine.
>
> blah | tee it
>
> but I am find that on some occasions processes will not output
> when pipping to tee.
>
> other than screen what are some applicat
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 05:51 pm, Glenn Dawson wrote:
> At 11:20 PM 11/1/2005, user wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Sometimes I have a bunch of data that I want to transfer from
> > source to destination over ssh, but I want to tar it up on
> > the way over (that is, I don't have enough space on the
> > source
machine usage and
what factors you consider most important.
In this day use of a separate partition for /home (and of course
one for swap) with the remainder all in the root partition '/'
seems to be quite satisfactory for general use.
Malcolm Kay
> The default FreeBSD installa
time for your CMOS clock,
I believe the equivalent result can be achieved by copying
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles to /etc/localtime.
Malcolm Kay
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