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: 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:

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

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: Newbie: Touchy Travan tape drive rewind problem

2003-11-12 Thread Brent Wiese
I have to agree with Bill. I don't like the me-too postings, but in this case, I can't recommend highly enough dumping that Travan. I've never had one work for more than a year or so before dying various deaths. Get yourself a nice big 250GB USB/firewire drive and zip your backups tight. You'll

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Marty Leisner
I've been programming in C for over 20 years. I've gotten up to speed on C++ for work. I like the expression in C you can shoot yourself in the foot, in C++ you can blow off your leg. C++ does have advantages -- but I haven't seen most C++ programmers use them -- instead they often obscure

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Lucas Holt
On Nov 12, 2003, at 8:37 PM, Marty Leisner wrote: BTW -- I've been doing object oriented stuff in C for years -- its harder, but its doable. You have a much simpler language to deal with. First learn how to write good programs in C. Then see if C++ buys you anything extra. If it doesn't, you

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/12/03 09:36 PM, Lucas Holt sat at the `puter and typed: On Nov 12, 2003, at 8:37 PM, Marty Leisner wrote: BTW -- I've been doing object oriented stuff in C for years -- its harder, but its doable. You have a much simpler language to deal with. First learn how to write

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread paul van den bergen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:24 pm, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 11/12/03 09:36 PM, Lucas Holt sat at the `puter and typed: On Nov 12, 2003, at 8:37 PM, Marty Leisner wrote: BTW -- I've been doing object oriented stuff in C for years -- its harder, but its doable. You have a much simpler language

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:36:15PM -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: On Nov 12, 2003, at 8:37 PM, Marty Leisner wrote: BTW -- I've been doing object oriented stuff in C for years -- its harder, but its doable. You have a much simpler language to deal with. First learn how to write good

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Marty Leisner
My take on computer science (which is an oxymoron) is this: Researchers look at successful programmers and try to figure out what they're doing. In the 70s, it was structured programming. In the late 80s it was object oriented. You can manipulate the data with a struct -- put in function

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:31, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are

Re: newbie: vi - go to previous file

2003-11-11 Thread Konrad Heuer
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 run vi file1 file2, which opens file1, :N begin to

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 02:52, Tom Munro Glass wrote: I guessed there isn't a default, but I thought there might be a convention for this and I want to follow conventions where ever possible. I prefer to put things onto /usr/home (e.g.

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Depends on what philosophy you subscribe to- if it's on a local system only, then create a group for members that will need access to it, and create a directory in the /home tree, like /home/'project_foo If it's going to be NFS mounted by other systems, then create an /export directory and

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:38, Tom Munro Glass wrote: filesystem for /home, should I mount this at /home and make /usr/home a link to /home, or do I just mount it at /usr/home? The latter is probably preferable. - -- Cheers, Chris

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Tom Munro Glass wrote: Depends on what philosophy you subscribe to- if it's on a local system only, then create a group for members that will need access to it, and create a directory in the /home tree, like /home/'project_foo If it's going to be NFS mounted by other systems, then create an

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-11 Thread Matthew Emmerton
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? You can't learn C++ without learning C first. So I'd suggest you become

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-11 Thread Lucas Holt
On Nov 11, 2003, at 9:06 PM, 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? Alex

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-11 Thread Lucas Holt
You can't learn C++ without learning C first. So I'd suggest you become intimiately familiar with C, and then move on to the advanced concepts and features that C++ provides once you want/need to use them. -- Matt Emmerton Thats not entirely accurate. Western Michigan University only teaches

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
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? Alex Again, it depends on WHAT you'd like to program.

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/11/03 09:26 PM, Matthew Emmerton sat at the `puter and typed: 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?

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-11 Thread Robin Schoonover
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:02:53 -0500, Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can't learn C++ without learning C first. So I'd suggest you become intimiately familiar with C, and then move on to the advanced concepts and features that C++ provides once you want/need to use them. --

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-11 Thread Alexander Franco
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 Bahh. Just jump straight into C# and you will avoid all those doubts. just kidding ;) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Hi Tom- /usr doesn't _have_ to be mounted read-only, but it's not uncommon to do it on systems connected to the net/susceptible to hacking/just for security. Default Sun for home is /export home, primarily b/c Solaris thinks it's always the NFS server ;-) Most Linux distros use /home, and

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:47, Chris Howells wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:38, Tom Munro Glass wrote: filesystem for /home, should I mount this at /home and make /usr/home a link to /home, or do I just mount it at /usr/home? The latter is probably preferable. Thanks Chris. Please

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Tom Munro Glass wrote: Hi Tom- /usr doesn't _have_ to be mounted read-only, but it's not uncommon to do it on systems connected to the net/susceptible to hacking/just for security. Default Sun for home is /export home, primarily b/c Solaris thinks it's always the NFS server ;-) Most Linux

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-10 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are common to many users? Would this be something like /usr/home/public or

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-10 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:31, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are common to many users?

Re: Newbie USB Printer Problem

2003-11-09 Thread Alex Kelly
(I did it through konqueror at localhost:631). I'm going to keep trying. :) - Original Message - From: Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alex Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 11:02 PM Subject: Re: Newbie USB Printer Problem On Sat, 8 Nov

Re: Newbie USB Printer Problem

2003-11-09 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Sunday 09 November 2003 12:35, Alex Kelly wrote: fine. But, when it attempted to print anything, the print attempts were listed as cancelled in the list of web-based print jobs (I did it through konqueror at localhos In cupsd.conf chage

Re: Newbie USB Printer Problem

2003-11-09 Thread Alex Kelly
Thanks, Chris. I'll make the change and hopefully I'll be able to pin down the problem to something more specific. In cupsd.conf chage the logging level to debug, and run 'tail -f /var/log/ cups/error_log' -- probably something very trivial. ___

Re: Newbie USB Printer Problem

2003-11-08 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Sunday 09 November 2003 00:44, Alex Kelly wrote: I cannot get my HP Deskjet 3420 printer to work. I've read all the prior posts for USB printers, checked the handbook and the complete freebsd book. After doing so, I've come up with this...

Re: Newbie USB Printer Problem

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Kelly
No particular reason I tried lpd. I'll try CUPS and see what happens. On Saturday 08 November 2003 07:53 pm, Chris Howells wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Sunday 09 November 2003 00:44, Alex Kelly wrote: I cannot get my HP Deskjet 3420 printer to work. I've

Re: Newbie USB Printer Problem

2003-11-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Alex Kelly wrote: I cannot get my HP Deskjet 3420 printer to work. I've read all the prior posts for USB printers, checked the handbook and the complete freebsd book. After doing so, I've come up with this... I edited printcap in /etc to look like this: lp|ps|local hp

Re: newbie: myPHPadmin - LOCK TABLES

2003-10-31 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Friday 31 October 2003 06:44 pm, Noah wrote: Hi, okay I am a little new to myPHPadmin and mysql in general.I am trying to figure out how to set LOCK TABLES priv to a specific user? how Might I go to do this. this user has access only to specific databases. I hope my quesiton is

Re: Newbie - calcru message questions-problem

2003-10-14 Thread Kenton Brede
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:03:48PM -0400, Peter J. Mignone wrote: Hi: I just complete my first installation of FreeBSD 5.1 and I keep getting messages scrolling on the screen which say calcru: negative time of -671171 usec for pid 10304 - message varies by pid. Obviously I have a problem but

Re: Newbie - Web based interface for mail program?

2003-10-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:24:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any web based interface programs similar to exchanges web mail that one can use with their FreeBSD mail server? There are at least 5 webmail systems in ports: % make search key=webmail Port: imp-3.2.2

Re: Newbie question - package versions in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-10-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:53:35PM +0100, Darren Phillips wrote: Sorry for the dumb-sounding question - is having multiple package versions installed in 5.1 going to burn me ? I (think I) understand the install process but not the consequences. How do all the versions coexist ? eg.

Re: Newbie question - package versions in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-10-01 Thread Felix 'buebo' Kakrow
Darren Phillips schrieb: Sorry for the dumb-sounding question - is having multiple package versions installed in 5.1 going to burn me ? I (think I) understand the install process but not the consequences. How do all the versions coexist ? eg. install another linux base package. Normally

Re: newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 01), Martin Vana said: I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with list of path/files to programs like cp/mv. If the list is small (less than 65000 characters total): cp $(cat myfile) /otherdir/ If the list is large: xargs myfile -J% cp %

Re: newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument

2003-10-01 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 01-Oct-2003, Martin Vana wrote message newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument ~ I was just wondering if there is a way

Re: newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument

2003-10-01 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 01), Martin Vana said: I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with list of path/files to programs like cp/mv. If the list is small (less than 65000 characters total): cp $(cat myfile) /otherdir/

RE: Newbie - Web based interface for email program?

2003-10-01 Thread Gil Agno Virtucio
there are many webmail systems available at the ports. /usr/ports/mail/imp3/ /usr/ports/mail/openwebmail/ /usr/ports/mail/nocc/ /usr/ports/mail/squirrelmail /usr/ports/mail/sqwebmail and many others... hope this helps... :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Newbie need help on configuring mouse and X windows

2003-09-28 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:51:10PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Lei Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am new to FreeBSD and just trying to learning something. I installed FreeBSD without X system on my computer and it works fine. But when I tried to configure mouse and X windows, I had big

Re: Newbie MAKE question

2003-09-20 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Sunday, 21 September 2003 04:39, Erick Smith wrote: This really is a ridiculous question, but I don't have the answer, so here I am. I'm trying to build qt in the ports tree using: portinstall -f x11-toolkits/qt32 What I WANT to do is specify WITHOUT_OPENGL as per the instructions:

RE: Newbie MAKE question

2003-09-20 Thread Ph. Schulz
to get myself 'intoxicated', too. Phil. | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alastair G. | Hogge | Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:18 PM | To: Erick Smith; FreeBSD Questions Mailing List | Subject: Re: Newbie MAKE question

Re: Newbie MAKE question

2003-09-20 Thread Erick Smith
the problem was that I sent the wrong switch to potinstall the command should be: portinstall -f x11-toolkits/qt32 -M WITHOUT_OPENGL=yes On Saturday 20 September 2003 11:39 am, Erick Smith wrote: This really is a ridiculous question, but I don't have the answer, so here I am. I'm trying

Re: Newbie MAKE question

2003-09-20 Thread Peder Blom
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:57:15 -0700 Erick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem was that I sent the wrong switch to potinstall the command should be: portinstall -f x11-toolkits/qt32 -M WITHOUT_OPENGL=yes Hint: if you use portinstall/portupgrade you can define make arguments in

RE: newbie downloading iso images

2003-09-18 Thread Charles Howse
I am trying to download a release 4.8 of FreeBSD but I am having problems finding the correct file names/locations to download the files. I can ftp to ftp1.us.FreeBSD.org as well as other mirror sites I can cd to pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.8-RELEASE I cannot dir or ls to see the list

RE: newbie downloading iso images

2003-09-18 Thread Charles Howse
C:\downloadftp ftp open ftp1.us.FreeBSD.org Connected to freebsd.secsup.org. 220 Welcome to mirrors.secsup.org FTP service. User (freebsd.secsup.org:(none)): ftp 331 Please specify the password. Password: 230 Login successful. Have fun. ftp cd pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.8

Re: Newbie need help on configuring mouse and X windows

2003-09-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lei Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am new to FreeBSD and just trying to learning something. I installed FreeBSD without X system on my computer and it works fine. But when I tried to configure mouse and X windows, I had big problem. As instructed in the handbook, I configured the type and

Re: [newbie] 4.8-STABLE became unreachable

2003-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am suspecting hardware issues - perhaps the RAM memory board. 512MB single board. If your suspicion is strong, test this directly. Do a full memory test if you can take the machine offline long enough; if not, do something that is both memory- and cpu-

Re: newbie

2003-09-04 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, [iso-8859-1] Florin Betivoiu wrote: I'm trying to mount a floppy and not having much success... I don't know what it is wrong that I do, cause on the same machine (but on Linux) everything is fine. Below is my kernel configuration file, my dmesg and the error I get

Re: newbie

2003-09-04 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:48:58 +0100 (BST) Florin Betivoiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to mount a floppy and not having much success... I don't know what it is wrong that I do, cause on the same machine (but on Linux) everything is fine. Below is my kernel configuration file, my

Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question

2003-09-03 Thread Kent Stewart
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 02:20 pm, Tony Pagliocco wrote: I have a cd writer on my FreeBSD 4.4 Machine. I'm new to FreeBSD and have tried using the burncd command that is in the documentation. However, I do not think the CD Burner is located on /dec/acd0c because it says no such file or

Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question

2003-09-03 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:20:51PM -0700, Tony Pagliocco wrote: The command I am using is # burncd -f /dec/acd0c data /home/www/directory fixate Should be dev, not dec. Is this just a typo in your email, or were you really typing dec? If you were, maybe that explains the error. What I

Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question

2003-09-03 Thread Todd Stephens
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:20 pm, Tony Pagliocco wrote: CD Burner is located on /dec/acd0c because it says no such file or directory is located. The command I am using is # burncd -f /dec/acd0c data /home/www/directory fixate Are you typing /dev or /dec? It should be /dev. Also,

Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question

2003-09-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # mkisofs -o image.iso /home/www/directory # burncd -f /dev/acd0c data image.iso fixate or # mkisofs /home/www/directory | burncd -f /dev/acd0c data - fixate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: newbie questions (2) 5.1

2003-08-20 Thread lilyslipper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello again, first, i can't seem to get my modem to do anything, i think it's an irq conflict, but don't really want to mess around with the config files too much if i don't have

Re: newbie questions (2) 5.1

2003-08-20 Thread Mark Woodson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 11:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello again, first, i can't seem to get my modem to do anything, i think it's an irq conflict, but don't really

Re: Newbie question

2003-08-03 Thread B.Bonev
Thanks, for all. And... i have another question! On 3rd subnet that must be used for internet connection(192.168.0.x) have a small Internet Server (DLink - 192.168.0.1) who listening for http connections (192.168.0.0/24 Dial on Demand) and have NAT, FreeBSD gateway is on 192.168.0.2. What I want

Re: Newbie problems with X11, Xf86

2003-08-02 Thread Benjamin Gonzalez
In my .cshrc file under set path = there is a /usr/X11R6/bin. # PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config* (when I run this it tells me bad : modifier in $ (/) - I do not know what that means. I still keep getting the following error: Unable to locate/open config file Error

Re: Newbie problems with X11, Xf86

2003-08-02 Thread Tim Kellers
On Saturday 02 August 2003 10:44 pm, Benjamin Gonzalez wrote: In my .cshrc file under set path = there is a /usr/X11R6/bin. # PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config* (when I run this it tells me bad : modifier in $ (/) - I do not know what that means. I still keep

Re: [NEWBIE] Using external SMTP-Server for mail

2003-07-31 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've gotta question, which may seem very dumb for some of you, but I really need to know. How do I set up mail in FreeBSD that it uses an external mail-server? In my case I need to send the messages that will send my cron and some apps. But our

Re: [NEWBIE] Using external SMTP-Server for mail

2003-07-31 Thread MatzeLoCal
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put the following lines in /etc/rc.conf: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=YES FreeBSD will then run a sendmail daemon listening on the loopback interface for mail submission only. This sendmail process will not be visible from

Re: [NEWBIE] Using external SMTP-Server for mail

2003-07-31 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put the following lines in /etc/rc.conf: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=YES FreeBSD will then run a sendmail daemon listening on the loopback interface for mail submission only. This sendmail process will not be visible from

Re: [NEWBIE] Using external SMTP-Server for mail

2003-07-31 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:19:09AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] How do I set up mail in FreeBSD that it uses an external mail-server? In my case I need to send the messages that will send my cron and some apps. But our Systemadministrator will does not allow me to use the FreeBSD with

Re: Newbie problems with X11, Xf86

2003-07-31 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:06:11PM -0400 or thereabouts, Benjamin Gonzalez wrote: I installed X-Free86 - 4.2.0_1,1 from my Free BSD Cd using sysinstall and cannot get it to run. I see the directory X11R6 under /usr, I run 'xf86config' and it says 'command not found'. I typed 'XFree86

RE: Newbie question

2003-07-29 Thread Derrick Ryalls
What I need to change on a PC with FreeBSD4.8 with 2 NICs, so that for Win computers must see each other on different subnets - 192.168.1/24 and 192.168.2/24? I want Win clients to be just like they are on a Win network? Or maybe i must do anything on those Win machines? Need more info.

Re: Newbie question

2003-07-29 Thread B.Bonev
Just I want Shared resources from 192.168.1 to use on 192.168.2 Thanks. I try and tell yo back is everything OK. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

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