Newbie question: Is this something I should send to buglist?

2006-07-30 Thread Oliver Iberien
After running portsnap this morning: bsd# pkg_version -v /home/oliver/version.txt Makefile, line 54: Could not find /usr/ports/print/cups-lpr/../../print/cups/Makefile.common make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue pkg_version: Failed to get PKGNAME from

Re: Newbie question: Is this something I should send to buglist?

2006-07-30 Thread Nicolas Blais
On Sunday 30 July 2006 13:09, Oliver Iberien wrote: After running portsnap this morning: bsd# pkg_version -v /home/oliver/version.txt Makefile, line 54: Could not find /usr/ports/print/cups-lpr/../../print/cups/Makefile.common make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue pkg_version:

another newbie

2006-07-02 Thread Isaac Friedman
I am new to UNIX but know the basics of getting around, writing simple shell scripts, etc. Is there any way to use a short perl program as a shell script? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

Re: another newbie

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 7/2/06, Isaac Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to UNIX but know the basics of getting around, writing simple shell scripts, etc. Is there any way to use a short perl program as a shell script? sat64% cat __END__ ./script.pl #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w print Hello world!\n; __END__

Re: another newbie

2006-07-02 Thread jdow
From: Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/2/06, Isaac Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to UNIX but know the basics of getting around, writing simple shell scripts, etc. Is there any way to use a short perl program as a shell script? sat64% cat __END__ ./script.pl

Re: another newbie

2006-07-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/2/06, jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/2/06, Isaac Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to UNIX but know the basics of getting around, writing simple shell scripts, etc. Is there any way to use a short perl program as a shell script?

Newbie install question about disks

2006-06-15 Thread DSA - JCR
Hi all I am installing a new and all Freebsd system (no other OS in it). The goal is to have a NFS for a network that has 2x200Gb in RAID 1 disks for data. It has 3 disks: - 80Gb Seagate IDE for FreeBSD OS alone - 2xSATA Seagate 200Gb disks in RAID 1 with the ICH7R motherboard chipset configured

Re: Newbie install question about disks

2006-06-15 Thread Reko Turja
In sysinstall appears: - ad0 = HD 80GB (for FreeBSD OS at complete) - ad12 = oine of the SATA HD I think - ad8 = The other SATA HD I think - ar0 = ??? (I suppose this is the RAID isnt'it?) What must I do? - Make only for ar0? Is the right alternative - ad8 and ad12 do not

Re: Newbie install question about disks

2006-06-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/15/06, DSA - JCR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I am installing a new and all Freebsd system (no other OS in it). The goal is to have a NFS for a network that has 2x200Gb in RAID 1 disks for data. It has 3 disks: - 80Gb Seagate IDE for FreeBSD OS alone - 2xSATA Seagate 200Gb disks in

newbie cyrus-imapd config

2006-05-24 Thread Noah
Hi, okay I am trying to configure and implement cyrus-imapd 2.3.3 on my FreeBSD machine. I am looking for a good HOW-TO tutorial to get started. This is what I came up with: http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cyrus-IMAP-7.html Might there be other tutorials that explain things well. Cheers, Noah

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-16 Thread Frank Steinborn
Maan Jee wrote: Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
Maan Jee wrote: Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-16 Thread James Long
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 21:38:57 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie File system To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed James Long wrote: Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:33

Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Maan Jee
Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e507630

Re: [freebsd-questions] Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Howard Jones
Maan Jee wrote: Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Andy Greenwood
On my system at least, /home is a symlink to /usr/home. I belive this is the default. On 5/15/06, Maan Jee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a507630

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Bill Moran
On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:33 +0200 Maan Jee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-05-15 17:20, Maan Jee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Fabian Keil
Maan Jee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread albi
On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:33 +0200 Maan Jee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Atom Powers
On 5/15/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:33 +0200 Maan Jee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Not reliably. Folks could guess. Post again and include the output of ls -l / this time. It's

RE: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread fbsd
Look in /usr/home -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Maan Jee Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie File system Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Gerard Seibert
Maan Jee wrote: Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? at / Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Andy Greenwood
or even easier... cd pwd On 5/15/06, Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/15/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:33 +0200 Maan Jee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Not reliably.

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
Maan Jee wrote: Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? at / Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread James Long
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:33 +0200 From: Maan Jee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbie File system To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
James Long wrote: Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:33 +0200 From: Maan Jee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbie File system To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Can someone explane that at which filesystem

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-13 Thread Barnaby Scott
Many thanks to all who have helped me on this one - I won't post a message in response to every suggestion, but they have all helped - thank you! It turns out it was sendmail causing the delay, so now my /etc/rc.comf reads: hostname=frankbruno ifconfig_re0=DHCP keymap=uk.iso

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Barnaby Scott wrote: Many thanks to all who have helped me on this one - I won't post a message in response to every suggestion, but they have all helped - thank you! It turns out it was sendmail causing the delay, so now my /etc/rc.comf reads: hostname=frankbruno ifconfig_re0=DHCP

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 07:28:06PM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: It turns out it was sendmail causing the delay, so now my /etc/rc.comf reads: sendmail_enable=NONE This is fine, but according to rc.sendmail(8) `NONE' is deprecated and will be removed in a future release (but, to be honest,

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
Daniel Bye wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 07:28:06PM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: It turns out it was sendmail causing the delay, so now my /etc/rc.comf reads: sendmail_enable=NONE This is fine, but according to rc.sendmail(8) `NONE' is deprecated and will be removed in a future

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:27:29PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 07:28:06PM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: It turns out it was sendmail causing the delay, so now my /etc/rc.comf reads: sendmail_enable=NONE This is fine, but according to

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-13 Thread Barnaby Scott
Gerard Seibert wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 07:28:06PM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: It turns out it was sendmail causing the delay, so now my /etc/rc.comf reads: sendmail_enable=NONE This is fine, but according to rc.sendmail(8) `NONE' is deprecated and will be removed

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:12:28AM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: Thanks for your reply. It didn't occur to me to look at the next line - I thought it must still be doing the Configuring syscons thing! Anyway, the next line is: Initial i386 initialization:. Armed with this knowledge, I

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Barnaby Scott wrote: Parv wrote: ... and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for between 4 and 5 minutes every time. Does your screen goes blank just after the above message? If so, press [Enter] key, you should see the boot being continued, and login: waiting for input at the end. No

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Barnaby Scott
Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:12:28AM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: Thanks for your reply. It didn't occur to me to look at the next line - I thought it must still be doing the Configuring syscons thing! Anyway, the next line is: Initial i386 initialization:. Armed with this

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Barnaby Scott wrote: The fact that the operating system knows what the machine is called, does not necessarily mean that the name is in the DNS. You can put an entry in your /etc/hosts file (take a look at the file for the format), which will allow sendmail and other daemons to start. OK, I

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Barnaby Scott wrote: Parv wrote: ... and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for between 4 and 5 minutes every time. Does your screen goes blank just after the above message? If so, press [Enter] key, you should see the boot being continued, and login: waiting for

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:21:09PM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: The fact that the operating system knows what the machine is called, does not necessarily mean that the name is in the DNS. You can put an entry in your /etc/hosts file (take a look at the file for the format), which will allow

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Bill Moran
Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:21:09PM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: The fact that the operating system knows what the machine is called, does not necessarily mean that the name is in the DNS. You can put an entry in your /etc/hosts file (take a look at the

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Barnaby Scott thusly... Parv wrote: ... and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for between 4 and 5 minutes every time. Does your screen goes blank just after the above message? If so, press [Enter] key, you should see the boot being continued, and

very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-11 Thread Barnaby Scott
I have mangaged to install version 6.0 and have had a bit of a play, but not before re-installing because the boot had been so slow, I thought I must have mucked it up! However it was just a slow point in the boot sequence - but one which I still can't believe is normal. The boot

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Barnaby Scott wrote: The boot sequence all goes smoothly, telling me all sorts of things I never thought I'd need to know, and frankly don't understand, until it gets to the following line: Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime screensaver. and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-11 Thread Barnaby Scott
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Barnaby Scott wrote: The boot sequence all goes smoothly, telling me all sorts of things I never thought I'd need to know, and frankly don't understand, until it gets to the following line: Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime screensaver. and then stops! I have timed

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-11 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Barnaby Scott thusly... I have mangaged to install version 6.0 and have had a bit of a play, but not before re-installing because the boot had been so slow ... The boot sequence all goes smoothly ... until it gets to the following line: Configuring

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-11 Thread Barnaby Scott
Parv wrote: ... and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for between 4 and 5 minutes every time. Does your screen goes blank just after the above message? If so, press [Enter] key, you should see the boot being continued, and login: waiting for input at the end. No the screen still has

Newbie Package Questions

2006-05-07 Thread Jim Angstadt
Hi All, I'm new to FreeBSD and a first time poster to this list. I have used Linux for several years but would like to see what FreeBSD is like. tiny# uname -a FreeBSD tiny.brc.localnet 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL

Re: Newbie Package Questions

2006-05-07 Thread Eric Schuele
Jim Angstadt wrote: Hi All, I'm new to FreeBSD and a first time poster to this list. I have used Linux for several years but would like to see what FreeBSD is like. tiny# uname -a FreeBSD tiny.brc.localnet 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL

Re: Newbie Package Questions

2006-05-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jim Angstadt wrote: Hi All, I'm new to FreeBSD and a first time poster to this list. I have used Linux for several years but would like to see what FreeBSD is like. Welcome! tiny# uname -a FreeBSD tiny.brc.localnet 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005

newbie wanting to switch to FreeBSD - planning stage question

2006-05-04 Thread Barnaby Scott
I am new to FreeBSD (or any other Unix operating system) but am very keen to make the switch. I have read as much as I can over the last couple of years, and am very nearly ready to ditch the various Windows versions on my network - however there is one Windows-only application I really cannot

Re: newbie wanting to switch to FreeBSD - planning stage question

2006-05-04 Thread Eric Schuele
Barnaby Scott wrote: I am new to FreeBSD (or any other Unix operating system) but am very keen to make the switch. I have read as much as I can over the last couple of years, and am very nearly ready to ditch the various Windows versions on my network - however there is one Windows-only

Re: newbie wanting to switch to FreeBSD - planning stage question

2006-05-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 04 May 2006 15:55, Barnaby Scott wrote: I am new to FreeBSD (or any other Unix operating system) but am very keen to make the switch. I have read as much as I can over the last couple of years, and am very nearly ready to ditch the various Windows versions on my network - however

Re: newbie wanting to switch to FreeBSD - planning stage question

2006-05-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Barnaby Scott wrote: I am new to FreeBSD (or any other Unix operating system) but am very keen to make the switch. I have read as much as I can over the last couple of years, and am very nearly ready to ditch the various Windows versions on my network - however there is one Windows-only

Re: Newbie question - cannot add new disk

2006-04-22 Thread Oliver Iberien
Thanks for your interest in this. A large part of the problem was in fact a bad cable. I went back and forth between the command line and sysinstall. They seem not to do the same things. It did seem to me that the disklabel in sysinstall and the disklabel command-line tool did not necessarily

Re: Newbie question - cannot add new disk

2006-04-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:40:09PM -0700, Oliver Iberien wrote: Hi, I have been trying to add a second IDE hard drive. I can't seem to get it mounted, or to get what I put into sysinstall and what comes out when I use the command line to agree. Are you using the command line interface or

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona
The short answer is to backup the files you want to save. As a general rule, I suggest backing up: /etc /usr/local/etc /usr/local/www The last one assumes you have some website(s). If you are also worried about email, if you are using the standard sendmail, also backup: /var/mail I would

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-18 Thread Eric Schuele
Oliver Iberien wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner, probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE. My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff? I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system

Re: Newbie question - using sysinstall Upgrade an existing system - easy?

2006-04-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What actually happens when you use Upgrade an existing system in sysinstall? Do you end up with the X-server, etc., all functioning as before, or is there a lot of cleanup to do afterwards? X doesn't get automatically updated by that path; just the

Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner, probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE. My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff? I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system backups for you. The

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Andy Reitz
Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the software thar you installed from ports. The last directory will det all of your user's data.

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the software thar you installed from ports.

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:00, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:08 AM 4/16/2006, Oliver Iberien wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:00, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That

Newbie question - using sysinstall Upgrade an existing system - easy?

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
What actually happens when you use Upgrade an existing system in sysinstall? Do you end up with the X-server, etc., all functioning as before, or is there a lot of cleanup to do afterwards? (In my case, this would be from 6.0 to 6.1, whenever the release version of 6.1 comes out. I am getting

Newbie question - cannot add new disk

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
Hi, I have been trying to add a second IDE hard drive. I can't seem to get it mounted, or to get what I put into sysinstall and what comes out when I use the command line to agree. I can use sysinstall and then run newfs: bsd# newfs /dev/ad1s1c /dev/ad1s1c: 39205.5MB (80292804 sectors) block

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jim Stapleton wrote: [ ... ] When it comes to changing the default compiler a good rule of thumb is that if you need to ask how to do it, then you should not do it. That seems to be a general *nix world rule of thumb for just about everything... The UNIX world is willing to give you a loaded

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-10 Thread offbyone
infernus - Bluelight wrote: Sorry for bothering this mailing list, but I realy need some help.. I find awsome screenshots from FreeBSD on various sites on the net, but on my comp, the only thing I see is a black screen with some white text on it, and: $| What you are

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
shell, log out and back in will be easier for a newbie): $ which lynx == read the handbook == Open the handbook in your web browser, I believe this is the correct directory to the handbook, but I'm not currently on a BSD machine, so I can't verify easily. Replace en with the appropriate directory

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
in earlier installs, I had to log out and log back in before this would work (or start a new shell, log out and back in will be easier for a newbie): Your shell most likely is keeping a hash of what commands it knows about. When you install a new one, the hash isn't updated automaticall, so

newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I did a make install clean in the lang/gcc40/ directory to get a newer version of GCC, and it seems happy, so the next thing I did was I replaced my /usr/bin/gcc, /usr/bin/g++, etc. binaries with hard links to the /usr/local/bin/gcc-freebsd-4.0, /usr/local/bin/g++-freebsd-4.0, etc. binaries. Now

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:43:51AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I did a make install clean in the lang/gcc40/ directory to get a newer version of GCC, and it seems happy, so the next thing I did was I replaced my /usr/bin/gcc, /usr/bin/g++, etc. binaries with hard links to the

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
how do I setup make.conf to automatically use the new compiler? Is there any way to set this new compiler as the default (such as building the OS), without causing issues? Or would that be just a royal pain in the posterior that is not worth the effort? On 4/10/06, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:01:21AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: how do I setup make.conf to automatically use the new compiler? Don't. But if you insist on doing that you could try putting CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc40 CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++40 into /etc/make.conf. Just be aware that it will

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
When it comes to changing the default compiler a good rule of thumb is that if you need to ask how to do it, then you should not do it. That seems to be a general *nix world rule of thumb for just about everything... ___

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread RW
On Monday 10 April 2006 16:01, Jim Stapleton wrote: how do I setup make.conf to automatically use the new compiler? Is there any way to set this new compiler as the default (such as building the OS), without causing issues? Or would that be just a royal pain in the posterior that is not worth

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-10 Thread RW
On Sunday 09 April 2006 20:38, infernus - Bluelight wrote: I was thinking about setting up a FTP and Apache server +mail maybe.. But now when I see this black screen and don't have a clue on what to do, or how to do enything.. I feel the hope is dripping into the sink! Several people have

Newbie help!

2006-04-09 Thread infernus - Bluelight
Sorry for bothering this mailing list, but I realy need some help.. I find awsome screenshots from FreeBSD on various sites on the net, but on my comp, the only thing I see is a black screen with some white text on it, and: $| - I just tested some commands

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-09 Thread Demian
infernus - Bluelight wrote: Sorry for bothering this mailing list, but I realy need some help.. I find awsome screenshots from FreeBSD on various sites on the net, but on my comp, the only thing I see is a black screen with some white text on it, and: $|

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-09 Thread Dennis Olvany
infernus - Bluelight wrote: How do I enter some kind of interface, or desktop, like on the screenshots? Is there a web-site or enything with tutorials explaining how to do all this.. 1) Install xorg. If you chose an x installation, such as x-user, then you can skip this step. To see what's

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-09 Thread David Stanford
Ivan, Yes, you are a newbie as many of us are (including myself ;). You have already gotten some pretty good responses pointing you in the right direction to correctly set up a graphical desktop, such as the ones you saw in the screenshots. However, what the responses have not mentioned, and I

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-09 Thread Duane Whitty
infernus - Bluelight wrote: Sorry for bothering this mailing list, but I realy need some help.. I find awsome screenshots from FreeBSD on various sites on the net, but on my comp, the only thing I see is a black screen with some white text on it, and: $|

Re: Newbie FreeBSD/Linux Question

2006-03-09 Thread hackmiester / Hunter Fuller
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 14:46, Lawrence Petrykanyn wrote: Hi! snip I tried make --with-default-tmpdir=/mnt/ramfs and received a message informing me that this is not correct Make syntax. No, you've got it all wrong! To build an application, you generally do this: ./configure make make

Newbie questions: 2 of a few.

2006-03-08 Thread Bruce M . Axtens
I've been trying to get FreeBSD 5.4 going on a friend's Celeron and have been doing okay ... until now. Question 1: How do I get automounting of cdroms working? Is it possible in KDE or GNOME, when you put in a cd that the icon just appears on the desktop (like it does in another OS I could

Re: Newbie questions: 2 of a few.

2006-03-08 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 3/8/06, Bruce M. Axtens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to get FreeBSD 5.4 going on a friend's Celeron and have been doing okay ... until now. Question 1: How do I get automounting of cdroms working? Is it possible in KDE or GNOME, when you put in a cd that the icon just appears

Newbie FreeBSD/Linux Question

2006-03-08 Thread Lawrence Petrykanyn
Hi! I am a newbie trying to compile the program JACK that is required for the midi sequencer Rosegarden. This program (JACK) is not available through the ports collection and is intended for a Linux system. I am running FreeBSD 5.4 with linux compatibility supported. Below

Re: Newbie FreeBSD/Linux Question

2006-03-08 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:46 PM 3/8/2006, Lawrence Petrykanyn wrote: Hi! I am a newbie trying to compile the program JACK that is required for the midi sequencer Rosegarden. This program (JACK) is not available through the ports collection and is intended for a Linux system. I am running FreeBSD 5.4

Re: Newbie FreeBSD/Linux Question

2006-03-08 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/8/06, Lawrence Petrykanyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] directed. What I don't understand is the last instruction of the second option listed below, the line that says, add --with-default-tmpdir=/mnt/ramfs to the JACK configure line when you build it. I tried make

Re: Newbie FreeBSD/Linux Question

2006-03-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Lawrence Petrykanyn wrote: Hi! I am a newbie trying to compile the program JACK that is required for the midi sequencer Rosegarden. This program (JACK) is not available through the ports collection and is intended for a Linux system. I am running FreeBSD 5.4 with linux compatibility

Re: Newbie FreeBSD/Linux Question

2006-03-08 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Lawrence Petrykanyn wrote: Hi! I am a newbie trying to compile the program JACK that is required for the midi sequencer Rosegarden. This program (JACK) is not available through the ports collection and is intended for a Linux system. I am I have jackd(1) installed (from ports) but maybe

Re: Newbie FreeBSD/Linux Question

2006-03-08 Thread wc_fbsd
At 05:30 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: I am a newbie trying to compile the program JACK that is required for the midi sequencer Rosegarden. This program (JACK) is not available through the ports collection and is intended for a Linux system. I am Perhaps I'm not understanding the whole scenario

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 08:15 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:36 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: what about the dependency then? Ignore it? What if there

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-23 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:36 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: what about the dependency then? Ignore it? What if there are files needed by xorg-clients? eg: libXX.so.Y and which

Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read Absolute BSD and still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to upgrading via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a rough diamond. Problem statement. FreeBSD-Release-6 Install from minimal cd

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read Absolute BSD and still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to upgrading via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a rough diamond.

RE: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread fbsd_user
of the ports collection in the install guide at www.a1poweruser.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ow Mun Heng Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:58 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 20:32 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read Absolute BSD and still $pkg_add -vr x11/xterm-206_1 pkg_add: package 'xterm-206_1' or its older version already

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read Absolute BSD and still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to upgrading via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a rough diamond. rough diamond ... I like that idea.

RE: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:37 -0500, fbsd_user wrote: do pkg_info look in the output for xterm. it will contain its complete name if its name in the list output is xterm-203 then I did that. pkg_delete xterm-203 this will remove it It says dependencies on xorg-clients. Another poster said

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