Related Q: (was) Re: Newbie question

2004-01-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:59:25AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 -- caveats about early adopters notwithstanding, by all accounts 5.2 is turning out nicely.

Re: Related Q: (was) Re: Newbie question

2004-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:23:57AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:59:25AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 -- caveats about early

newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread marlon corleone
forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks :##:# :### :# :#:# :#:#:### :###:## :# :# :# # :# :#:# :#:# :#:#:# :#:# :# :# :# :#:# :#:# :#:# # :# :#:#:# :#:# :# :# :# :#:# :#:### :### :#:#:#:#:###

Re: newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks :##:# :### :# :#:# :#:#:### :###:## :# :# :# # :# :#:# :#:# :#:#:# :#:#

Re: newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: --On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks :##:#

RE: newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Didier WIROTH
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newbie question On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: --On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default

Newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Gafgo
Hello there! I am a newbie to FreeBSD but have read a lot of handbooks. I have also installed different versions on my old computer just to practice (incl 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1). Now I have bought a new computer and wanted to install 4.9 for real. But during boot up this happened: ad0: REAL command

NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Donald Turnbull
I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? Donald M. Turnbull MCSE, MCDBA _ Let the new MSN Premium

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Donald Turnbull wrote: I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? cd /usr/ports make search name=kde cd /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3 make install wait

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:47:08 +, Donald Turnbull wrote: I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Already installed? No. A large number people want to run FreeBSD on their servers, and having a GUI on a server isn't usually a good or desired

RE: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Philip Payne
I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? Like any newbie I heartily recommend reading through the handbook under the documentation section of www.freebsd.org . I

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:47 am, Donald Turnbull wrote: I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? Donald M. Turnbull MCSE, MCDBA KDE and Gnome

I am a newbie

2003-12-24 Thread Robert
My name is Robert. I am 13 and I want to use a bsd distro because my of best friend uses it and he says you can really get into it deeper than any closed OS like Windows and its stability is greater than any other OS in the world. He likes worshiping BSD and wrote this cool program that

Re: I am a newbie

2003-12-24 Thread Markus Kovero
Are 13yrs old people in highschool? :-p Greets Markus Kovero Robert wrote: My name is Robert. I am 13 and I want to use a bsd distro because my of best friend uses it and he says you can really get into it deeper than any closed OS like Windows and its stability is greater than any other OS in

Re: I am a newbie

2003-12-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
Are 13yrs old people in highschool? :-p Precocious ones maybe, but that would be a year too young usually. Greets Markus Kovero Robert wrote: A couple of things. You can learn a lot starting with the web pages at: http://www.freebsd.org/ Start there and follow lots of

Re: I am a newbie

2003-12-24 Thread Cordula's Web
machine types. All BSDs have a lot in common, and the three projects are cooperating by sharing their experiences. So, at the end of the day, it's your call what OS you would use. For a newbie, FreeBSD is certainly the better choice. People using OpenBSD or NetBSD have generally already some

Re: FreeBSD newbie general and SMP questions for i386]

2003-12-18 Thread Elijah Plunkett
Hi there Mark! - Original Message - From: Mark Wolfskehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: FreeBSD newbie general and SMP questions for i386] Hi, I'm a FreeBSD newbie. I'm considering installing either FreeBSD i386 or Linux

Re: FreeBSD newbie general and SMP questions for i386]

2003-12-18 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:42:19PM -0800, Mark Wolfskehl wrote: Hi, I'm a FreeBSD newbie. I'm considering installing either FreeBSD i386 or Linux on a 2 AMD Athelon CPU machine. The motherboard is an ASUS A7M266-D, and the machine has 2GB memory installed. I'm working on trying

FreeBSD newbie general and SMP questions for i386]

2003-12-17 Thread Mark Wolfskehl
Hi, I'm a FreeBSD newbie. I'm considering installing either FreeBSD i386 or Linux on a 2 AMD Athelon CPU machine. The motherboard is an ASUS A7M266-D, and the machine has 2GB memory installed. I'm working on trying to answer some key questions before making a final decision which OS

Newbie NFS problem

2003-12-10 Thread sundeep.puliccott
Hi, I am currently using FreeBSD 4.8 and I have a problem with NFS. FBSD-A-FBSD-G On the box FBSD-A I have set up a cvs repository I want to have box FBSD-G as the working server. I have mounted the cvs repository on FBSD-G with NFS. Problem : I checkout the repository

Re: newbie ports question

2003-12-06 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-12-03 17:46:49 -0500: AFAIK the subject's accurate, best I could do anyway. Hmm, I failed to find your question in the message. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see

Re: newbie ports question

2003-12-06 Thread Marty Landman
At 06:56 AM 12/6/2003, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-12-03 17:46:49 -0500: AFAIK the subject's accurate, best I could do anyway. Hmm, I failed to find your question in the message. Woops, Eudora's been acting funny that way; this isn't the first time. Thanks for following

md5 newbie question

2003-12-06 Thread Marty Landman
Trying to verify a d/l before compiling: Swami: md5 -s 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c /tmp/httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz MD5 (466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c) = 017b97dd023763b82a219bdfedd5cc29 MD5 (/tmp/httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz) = 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c Swami: By eyeballing the first part of line1

Re: md5 newbie question

2003-12-06 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 09:59:07 -0500 Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to verify a d/l before compiling: Swami: md5 -s 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c /tmp/httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz MD5 (466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c) = 017b97dd023763b82a219bdfedd5cc29 MD5 (/tmp/httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz)

Re: md5 newbie question

2003-12-06 Thread Marty Landman
At 02:48 PM 12/6/2003, Chris Pressey wrote: The -s 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c part of your command is requesting an md5 hash of the literal string of characters 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c. That's almost certainly not what you want, and will only serve to confuse. Ah, but you've now

Re: md5 newbie question

2003-12-06 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 16:52:42 -0500 Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Seems the problem here is that the md5 cmd's output is not simply the result string but a description of the cmd together with the result. If I need to do much of this guess a little pgm's called for. From man

Re: md5 newbie question

2003-12-06 Thread Marty Landman
At 05:55 PM 12/6/2003, Chris Pressey wrote: From man md5: -q Quiet mode - only the MD5 sum is printed out. #md5 -q httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz thing1 ; echo 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c thing2 ; echo difference is `diff thing1 thing2` ; rm thing1 thing2 difference is Thanks Chris,

newbie ports question

2003-12-03 Thread Marty Landman
AFAIK the subject's accurate, best I could do anyway. Here's what I get on /var/log/httpd-error.log when running a program I wrote which works on other webservers (that I didn't set up): [Wed Dec 03 16:29:10 2003] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] Can't locate object method new via package

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 08:36:57PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: [Problems sending mail...] In a moment. First I'll say what I do know: - there is a /var/mail/Marty, empty - emails to Marty go to root's mailbox with the message user unknown I don't know much. :) I did sendmails to

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-30 Thread Marty Landman
At 04:14 AM 11/30/2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: Try changing your user account to 'marty' -- all lower case. Use vipw(8) to do that. In general under Unix, usernames are almost always all lower case and so are most host and domainnames. Ohhh, didn't know that. Thanks Matthew, this worked. The

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:48:18AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: However on unix systems, user 'Marty' is not automatically the same as user 'marty' or as user 'MARTY'. If I understand correctly you're saying that by and large, modern Unix systems are case sensitive but since email is not

newbie source question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
I installed the 4.8 mini iso w/o the source and would like to now install the source code too. How is this done, and is there a beginner's tutorial on working with gcc (I assume that's the standard compiler?) on fbsd? Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web

Re: newbie source question

2003-11-29 Thread Aaron Myles Landwehr
you can /stand/sysinstall to re-enter the sysinstall menu and install the src that way, or you can use cvsup. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html btw heres a tutorial on cvsup if the handbooks to confusing(it isn't): http://tutorials.snaphat.com -aaron[EMAIL

Re: newbie source question

2003-11-29 Thread Richard Coleman
Marty Landman wrote: I installed the 4.8 mini iso w/o the source and would like to now install the source code too. How is this done, and is there a beginner's tutorial on working with gcc (I assume that's the standard compiler?) on fbsd? Chapter 21 of the FreeBSD handbook covers most of this.

Re: newbie source question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
At 12:03 PM 11/29/2003, Aaron Myles Landwehr wrote: you can /stand/sysinstall to re-enter the sysinstall menu and install the src that way Where on the sysinstall menu is this option? Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site Make a

sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
I'm trying to understand how to configure sendmail on my fbsd box but hope this is on topic enough for the list. I can send an email from a user account to root and receive it fine, but can't send an email to the user account. Also there's mail for user www (apache's installed). What am I

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 18:10, Marty Landman wrote: I'm trying to understand how to configure sendmail on my fbsd box but hope this is on topic enough for the list. I can send an email from a user account to root and receive it fine, but can't send an email to the user account. Also there's

Re: newbie source question

2003-11-29 Thread Aaron Myles Landwehr
/stand/sysinstall configure Distributions then select src after that all the sources are in there. Just select what you want. -aaron[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:03 PM 11/29/2003, Aaron Myles Landwehr wrote: you can /stand/sysinstall to re-enter the sysinstall menu and install the src that way Where

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
At 06:33 PM 11/29/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: What command are you using to send the mail? FreeB sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello there . FreeB mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. /var/mail/Marty: 0 messages q FreeB Are you sending to an actual domain on the box? Huh? (warned you I

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
Woops heh heh heh At 06:33 PM 11/29/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: What command are you using to send the mail? FreeB sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello there [dot] FreeB mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. /var/mail/Marty: 0 messages q FreeB Are you sending to an actual domain on

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
Woops heh heh heh At 06:33 PM 11/29/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: What command are you using to send the mail? FreeB sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello there [dot] FreeB mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. /var/mail/Marty: 0 messages q FreeB Are you sending to an

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
At 08:19 PM 11/29/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: Are there any clues in /var/log/maillog? Paste the information from that log file here for review. In a moment. First I'll say what I do know: - there is a /var/mail/Marty, empty - emails to Marty go to root's mailbox with the message user unknown I

newbie install question

2003-11-26 Thread Marty Landman
I've had so many truncated d/l's trying to install the Mysql server from the port that came with my 4.8 mini iso that I decided instead to d/l the mysql-max-4.0.16-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz from mysql.org and install from there. How is this done? Do I just drop the tar.gz into the ports

Re: newbie install question

2003-11-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've had so many truncated d/l's trying to install the Mysql server from the port that came with my 4.8 mini iso that I decided instead to d/l the mysql-max-4.0.16-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz from mysql.org and install from there. How is this done?

Re: newbie install question

2003-11-26 Thread Bob Collins
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've had so many truncated d/l's trying to install the Mysql server from the port that came with my 4.8 mini iso that I decided instead to d/l the mysql-max-4.0.16-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz from

Re: newbie install question

2003-11-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did mine the hard way. I grabbed that file and put into /tmp. I then gunzipped un-tarred and configured and made. It worked, but surely the distfiles methods is easiest. It also means you can't use the package tools on the program should you want to

Re: newbie install question

2003-11-26 Thread Bob Collins
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did mine the hard way. I grabbed that file and put into /tmp. I then gunzipped un-tarred and configured and made. It worked, but surely the distfiles methods is easiest. It also means you can't use the

Re: newbie install question

2003-11-26 Thread Marty Landman
At 12:15 PM 11/26/2003, Bob Collins wrote: Have you resolved the truncated downloads? I would make sure that is not an issue prior to installing from the gz. You sure don't want the further aggravation of some file broken while installing. What can/should I do other than make dist-clean prior

Re: newbie install question

2003-11-26 Thread Marty Landman
At 12:51 PM 11/26/2003, Bob Collins wrote: BTW, I guess I am not the only one to not be able to install MySQL from ports. I have tried on three different machines all running 4.9 and it never worked. Go figure. Glad to hear it's probably not my machine then. Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc

Re: newbie install question

2003-11-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, I guess I am not the only one to not be able to install MySQL from ports. I have tried on three different machines all running 4.9 and it never worked. Go figure. Doesn't build or doesn't run? I just built it moments ago, and it seemed fine. I

Re: newbie install question

2003-11-26 Thread Bob Collins
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Marty Landman wrote: At 12:15 PM 11/26/2003, Bob Collins wrote: Have you resolved the truncated downloads? I would make sure that is not an issue prior to installing from the gz. You sure don't want the further aggravation of some file broken while installing. What

Re: newbie install question

2003-11-26 Thread Marty Landman
At 02:59 PM 11/26/2003, Bob Collins wrote: I found on my Bellsouth DSL at home, I often have intermittent troubles installing from ports with the DSL router being (seeming) flaky during the day. I have found, empirically, during the later evening hours (9:00 or later) the same installs proceed

Re: help, i'm a newbie

2003-11-25 Thread dillon ross
display.. i'm doing all of this on my laptop, with silicon motion graphics lynx em+ graphics card. is there a min on the video ram that kde or any such need to operate? pulling out what little hair i have. newbie peter lageotakes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you configured X-Server? If not try

Re: help, i'm a newbie

2003-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post, and a carriage return every 70 characters or so of text wouldn't go amiss either. dillon ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: that didn't seem to help much or i'm doing something terribly wrong. i did try to reconfigure x-server and went to xdesktop to choose default desktop

Re: help, i'm a newbie

2003-11-25 Thread Chris Readle
of this on my laptop, with silicon motion graphics lynx em+ graphics card. is there a min on the video ram that kde or any such need to operate? pulling out what little hair i have. newbie peter lageotakes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you configured X-Server? If not try this as root

Re: newbie: use CR in RE?

2003-11-24 Thread M.D. DeWar
i find this and seems to work good. cat {filename} | tr -d '/r' out; mv out {new filename} It gets rid of all them ^M from the files for me. HTH Mark - Original Message - From: Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 8:00 AM Subject: newbie

Newbie question with Squirrelmail 1.41 and IMAP

2003-11-24 Thread Matthew A. Lee
I just recently installed 4.9 on a fresh server. I was also installing squirrelmail 1.41 from the ports directory and also imap-uw (imap4rev1). I pointed my virtual server to the squirrelmail directory. I can get the login prompt, but when I login with a username and password, I receive an

Re: newbie: use CR in RE?

2003-11-24 Thread Ilya Varlashkin
- Original Message - From: Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 8:00 AM Subject: newbie: use CR in RE? Hello. Just want to know how to use special character in Regular Expression. I wish to remove all the carrier returns

Re: Newbie question with Squirrelmail 1.41 and IMAP

2003-11-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:34:40AM -0500, Matthew A. Lee wrote: I just recently installed 4.9 on a fresh server. I was also installing squirrelmail 1.41 from the ports directory and also imap-uw (imap4rev1). I pointed my virtual server to the squirrelmail directory. I can get the login

help, i'm a newbie

2003-11-24 Thread NYROSS29
i'm a newbie and i just installed freebsd 4.8. the basic installation seemed to have gone fairly well, i can use the console mode fine enough. the problem is when i try to load a window manager, KDE, Afterstep, Windowmaker (the ones i've tried thus far) i get a blank screen when i use

newbie: use CR in RE?

2003-11-22 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. Just want to know how to use special character in Regular Expression. I wish to remove all the carrier returns from a text file, I can use: tr -d \r text_file modified_text_file But if I do: sed -i s/\r//g text_file it actually removes all the character r from the file. This is also a

newbie: to pipe the result of a program as commandline parameter for another.

2003-11-22 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I just checkouted a big program. What I want to do is to remove all CVS/ folders from the hierarchy. There might be other ways to do so (give me a hint?). What I can think of is to run find(1) to find out all CVS folders, and pass them as parameters of rm(1), but I don't know how to do

Re: newbie: use CR in RE?

2003-11-22 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 09:00:26PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: snip This is also a problem in vi(1). Besides CR I wish to manipulate tabstops and line-feeds with RE too. I'm not sure about vi, but in vim this works: :%s/\n// to remove all newlines throughout a document. To substitute all

Re: newbie: to pipe the result of a program as commandline parameter for another.

2003-11-22 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 09:02:41PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I just checkouted a big program. What I want to do is to remove all CVS/ folders from the hierarchy. There might be other ways to do so (give me a hint?). What I can think of is to run find(1) to find out all CVS folders,

Re: newbie: to pipe the result of a program as commandlineparameter for another.

2003-11-22 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
You can use: find [whatever] -exec rm -rf '{}' \; or find [whatever] | xargs rm -rf Usually, the answer to your question would be: use xargs or put the second command between apostrophes. Something like: vi `which mozilla` I think if you use rm -rf `find [whatever]` it might work.. DON'T

Re: newbie: use CR in RE?

2003-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello. Just want to know how to use special character in Regular Expression. I wish to remove all the carrier returns from a text file, I can use: tr -d \r text_file modified_text_file But if I do: sed -i s/\r//g text_file it actually removes all the character r from the file. This

Re: newbie: use CR in RE?

2003-11-22 Thread Scott W
Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello. Just want to know how to use special character in Regular Expression. I wish to remove all the carrier returns from a text file, I can use: tr -d \r text_file modified_text_file But if I do: sed -i s/\r//g text_file it actually removes all the character r from

Re: newbie: use CR in RE?

2003-11-22 Thread Robin Schoonover
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 10:44:30 -0500, Scott W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: So why not just use tr? \t should get tabs, as you noted \r gets CRs I don't know linefeed off hand, but wouldn't be surprised if it was \l. It follows the usual conventions. There are more

Re: newbie: to pipe the result of a program as commandlineparameter for another.

2003-11-22 Thread Scott W
Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote: You can use: find [whatever] -exec rm -rf '{}' \; or find [whatever] | xargs rm -rf Usually, the answer to your question would be: use xargs or put the second command between apostrophes. Something like: vi `which mozilla` I think if you use rm -rf

Re: newbie: to pipe the result of a program as commandlineparameter for another.

2003-11-22 Thread Richard Coleman
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I just checkouted a big program. What I want to do is to remove all CVS/ folders from the hierarchy. There might be other ways to do so (give me a hint?). What I can think of is to run find(1) to find out all CVS folders, and pass them as parameters of rm(1), but I

Re: newbie: to pipe the result of a program as commandline parameter for another.

2003-11-22 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 22, 2003, at 8:02 AM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I just checkouted a big program. What I want to do is to remove all CVS/ folders from the hierarchy. There might be other ways to do so (give me a hint?). Do a cvs export instead: export Prepare copies of a set of source files for

still about Newbie USB Printer Problem

2003-11-22 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I read the previous post Newbie USB Printer Problem and its follow-ups, well, I am more newbie than him:). Now I wish to connect my Canon S400SP printer with my Thinkpad 600X notebook (running 5.1-RELEASE), since I never printed anything with FreeBSD before, 1. Do I need a specific

Re: Newbie USB Printer Problem

2003-11-21 Thread Barry Bouwsma
[Drop hostname part of IPv6-only address above to obtain IPv4-capable e-mail, or best of all, don't reply to me at all] A bit late for this, but here goes anyway, in case it helps: (Please don't top-post; it makes it difficult for me to reply and keep wanted context while stripping away

Re: Total newbie: What's after installation?

2003-11-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[cross-posted in attempt to change forums] Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: Hi, It's my first time using FreeBSD so wish me luck! :) I installed the OS, logged on as root and I have now the prompt in front of me, now what? I installed Gnome but the system didn't reboot using the Gnome interface.

Re[2]: newbie dns mess w/ nic

2003-11-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ahh, but the line in rc.conf should be like that: defaultrouter=192.158.0.1 Thanks for the follow up Dmitry. Right now I've got the typo'd line commented out on /etc/rc.conf and am accomplishing this with the line I apologize for this corrupted info that I sent. 1. what's the difference

Re: newbie: vi - go to previous file

2003-11-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, Konrad Heuer wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I am using the BSD's vi not vim. I learned from :exusage that :N is to swich to the next file in argument list while :P swich to the previous file. :N woks fine, while :P does nothing. say, I

RE: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-15 Thread Gaston Benitez
! :) - Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: yo _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:28 PM Subject: Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++ I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-14 Thread C. Ulrich
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 19:12, Scott W wrote: Books and references- C- Already mentioned, KR 'The C Programming Language' is 'the bible.' This is also generally a lousy book to start with if you aren't programming already, but an invaluable reference. Pick up another book, wish I knew a

Re[2]: newbie dns mess w/ nic

2003-11-13 Thread Dmitry Kochetov
Greetings, Thursday, November 13, 2003, 12:21:00 AM, you wrote: ML At 03:32 PM 11/12/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: Add the following to your /etc/rc.conf file: default_router=192.168.0.1 Ahh, but the line in rc.conf should be like that: defaultrouter=192.158.0.1 Wrong syntax, did it myself a

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-13 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Alex Kelly wrote: Thanks for all of the great suggestions to my previous question! Yet, the responses have led me to another question. If C++ is newer and more advanced than C, will it replace C? If so, should I learn C++ and forget C? Good advice: Have a look at Bruce

Re[2]: newbie dns mess w/ nic

2003-11-13 Thread Marty Landman
At 10:13 AM 11/13/2003, Dmitry Kochetov wrote: Ahh, but the line in rc.conf should be like that: defaultrouter=192.158.0.1 Thanks for the follow up Dmitry. Right now I've got the typo'd line commented out on /etc/rc.conf and am accomplishing this with the line route add default 192.168.0.7 in

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-13 Thread Chris Howells
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Alex Kelly wrote: Good advice: Have a look at Bruce Eckel's free, though excellent, electronic books at http://mindview.net/Books/ Thinking in C++ and get started. FreeBSD's built in gcc should do all you need for the beginning. There's no way, IMO, that you can learn

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-13 Thread abowhill
Am I missing something here? When does C have OO capability? Structs don't count. What about inheritance and polymorphism? That's in the implementation AND application. Just because you CAN access part of a lowly struct, doesn't mean you have to. It's object oriented if you OBSERVE the

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-13 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:01:54 -0800 abowhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I missing something here? When does C have OO capability? Structs don't count. What about inheritance and polymorphism? That's in the implementation AND application. Just because you CAN access part of a lowly

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-13 Thread Louis LeBlanc
I hate to seem like a jerk, but I get these messages through the list already, and see no reason to get them in multiple boxes. Please feel free to continue this discussion on list, but please take this email out of the recipients list. I will join in when I am able. Granted that doesn't

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-13 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Louis LeBlanc wrote: I hate to seem like a jerk, but I get these messages through the list already, and see no reason to get them in multiple boxes. Please feel free to continue this discussion on list, but please take this email out of the recipients list. I will

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:00:33PM -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: I'm also starting to learn objective C (the competitor to C++) so that I can utilize my Macintosh as a development platform. The reason apple used objective C was because Mac OS X is really Nextstep which

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wednesday 12 November 2003 04:10, Tom Munro Glass wrote: Thanks Chris. Please take a look at my reply to Scott because the two of you seem to be suggesting contradicting ideas, and I'm keen to learn why! Have done. It's just my preference

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread yo _
I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that statement. If the

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/12/03 12:09 PM, yo _ sat at the `puter and typed: I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason,

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. If the courses are any good, you'll get feedback, and you'll be paced and challenged with projects

Newbie: Touchy Travan tape drive rewind problem

2003-11-12 Thread Christophe
I've installed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on a Dell 400SC with an ATA Travan tape drive, accessing it through /dev/ast0. On linear writing operations, it works great... but there appears to be some kind of timeout problem on rewind: # mt -f /dev/nast0 rewind mt: /dev/nast0: rewind: Input/output

Re: Newbie: Touchy Travan tape drive rewind problem

2003-11-12 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003, Christophe wrote: I've installed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on a Dell 400SC with an ATA Travan tape drive, accessing it through /dev/ast0. On linear writing operations, it works great... but there appears to be some kind of timeout problem on rewind: A good general rule about

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-12 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Thanks Chris and Scott for your input on this subject - I've found it most helpful. The freedom to tweak the system to your own way of working is great, and I now feel I am better informed on how to do this without doing anything radical that I will regret in years to come. Thanks again to

newbie dns mess w/ nic

2003-11-12 Thread Marty Landman
I had everything working as evidenced by installing a port or two - including the Lynx browser which worked; then rebooted last night and now can't get dns working again. My LAN has a windoz xp box with dial up and ICS enabled. It is 192.168.0.1 on the network. My FBSD box will ping to

Re: newbie dns mess w/ nic

2003-11-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
I had everything working as evidenced by installing a port or two - including the Lynx browser which worked; then rebooted last night and now can't get dns working again. My LAN has a windoz xp box with dial up and ICS enabled. It is 192.168.0.1 on the network. My FBSD box will ping to

Re: newbie dns mess w/ nic

2003-11-12 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:32 PM 11/12/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: Add the following to your /etc/rc.conf file: default_router=192.168.0.1 and then perform the following command to get it online without a reboot: # route add default 192.168.0.1 Steve, I decided to add the line to rc.conf and then shutdown... have

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:06:51 -0500 Alex Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all of the great suggestions to my previous question! Yet, the responses have led me to another question. If C++ is newer and more advanced than C, will it replace C? Unlikely. Old languages die hard - it's a

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:06:51 -0500 Alex Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all of the great suggestions to my previous question! Yet, the responses have led me to another question. If C++ is newer and more advanced than C, will it replace C? Unlikely. Old languages die

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread Scott W
yo _ wrote: I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that

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