Re: cvs stupid question

2008-12-04 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-12-03 16:31:29 UTC+0100, Wojciech Puchar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs cvs checkout -rRELENG_7 src waited over an hour, no files got fetched what i'm doing wrong? Looks like the server is down: $ export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs $ cvs

cvs stupid question

2008-12-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i try export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs cvs checkout -rRELENG_7 src waited over an hour, no files got fetched what i'm doing wrong? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

[stupid question] setting env variables globally

2007-10-19 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Is there any way to set the default value of a enviromental variable globally. Specifically I want JAVA_VERSION to default to 1.6 unless the user sets it other wise. By global I mean no matter how something is invoked (command line, script, GUI, IPC trigger, etc.) if it checks the value of the

Re: [stupid question] setting env variables globally

2007-10-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:14:12PM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Is there any way to set the default value of a enviromental variable globally. Specifically I want JAVA_VERSION to default to 1.6 unless the user sets it other wise. By global I mean no matter how something is invoked

Re: [stupid question] setting env variables globally

2007-10-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 19, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Is there any way to set the default value of a enviromental variable globally. Specifically I want JAVA_VERSION to default to 1.6 unless the user sets it other wise. By global I mean no matter how something is invoked (command line,

Re: [stupid question] setting env variables globally

2007-10-19 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:14:12PM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Is there any way to set the default value of a enviromental variable globally. Specifically I want JAVA_VERSION to default to 1.6 unless the user sets it other wise. By global I mean no matter how something is invoked

SMTP stupid question

2007-06-07 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all Well I've very classic question but google/mail-archive don't give me a answer. I want to configure a FreeBSD box without sendmail-daemon but I want all all mail sent to my smtp-server. For that I put sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO

Re: SMTP stupid question

2007-06-07 Thread Joel Hatton
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:58:31 +0200, Albert Shih wrote: I want to configure a FreeBSD box without sendmail-daemon but I want all all mail sent to my smtp-server. For that I put sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=YES I haven't used

Re: SMTP stupid question

2007-06-07 Thread r17fbsd
At 05:58 AM 6/7/2007, Albert Shih wrote: I want to configure a FreeBSD box without sendmail-daemon but I want all all mail sent to my smtp-server. I usually disable sendmail completely, as you have done. Then install ssmtp from the ports. It's simple, secure, and only needs about 4 lines

Stupid question about mountpoints and fstab

2006-08-15 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hello people, I have never figured out something like this can be done, but today I see it. We have purchased s co-lo server. They have installed it and given me access to do whatever you want with the box, but their fstab has left me thirsty, wanting to know what's going on ... sp2817a# less

Re: Stupid question about mountpoints and fstab

2006-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Well it looks like home is on a second disk, which used 6 GB in overhead making the filesystem. -Derek At 10:41 AM 8/15/2006, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello people, I have never figured out something like this can be done, but today I see it. We have purchased s co-lo server. They

Re: Stupid question about mountpoints and fstab

2006-08-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-08-15 18:41, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello people, I have never figured out something like this can be done, but today I see it. We have purchased s co-lo server. They have installed it and given me access to do whatever you want with the box, but their fstab

Re: Stupid question about mountpoints and fstab

2006-08-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello people, I have never figured out something like this can be done, but today I see it. We have purchased s co-lo server. They have installed it and given me access to do whatever you want with the box, but their fstab has left me thirsty, wanting to know

Re: Stupid question about mountpoints and fstab

2006-08-15 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 06:41:43PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello people, I have never figured out something like this can be done, but today I see it. We have purchased s co-lo server. They have installed it and given me access to do whatever you want with the box, but their

Re: Stupid question about mountpoints and fstab

2006-08-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-08-15 19:08, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-08-15 18:41, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello people, I have never figured out something like this can be done, but today I see it. We have purchased s co-lo server. They have installed it and

Re: Stupid question about mountpoints and fstab

2006-08-15 Thread Jeff Rollin
if you go the /home2 root, any users whose home directories you create on/move to /home2 will have the correct entry to /home2/therightdirectory in /etc/passwd. obvious but easily missed! jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Stupid question about mountpoints and fstab

2006-08-15 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 15/08/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you go the /home2 root, any users whose home directories you create on/move to /home2 will have the correct entry to /home2/therightdirectory in /etc/passwd. obvious but easily missed! jeff erm, will NEED to have!

stupid question - disk mirroring

2006-03-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what is right/best/simplest way to configure mirrored disk system? there was raid driver in NetBSD, but how in FreeBSD. possibility of booting from this set is important. thank you (please point to RTFM) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: stupid question - disk mirroring

2006-03-22 Thread Joacim Melin
http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/ Cheers, Joacim On 22 mar 2006, at 15.50, Wojciech Puchar wrote: what is right/best/simplest way to configure mirrored disk system? there was raid driver in NetBSD, but how in FreeBSD. possibility of booting from this set

RE: stupid question - disk mirroring

2006-03-22 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/raid.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: March 22, 2006 3:50 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: stupid question - disk mirroring what is right

Re: stupid question - disk mirroring

2006-03-22 Thread robert
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 15:50 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: what is right/best/simplest way to configure mirrored disk system? there was raid driver in NetBSD, but how in FreeBSD. possibility of booting from this set is important. thank you (please point to RTFM) Here you go:

Re: stupid question - disk mirroring

2006-03-22 Thread Danny Butroyd
Wojciech Puchar wrote: what is right/best/simplest way to configure mirrored disk system? there was raid driver in NetBSD, but how in FreeBSD. possibility of booting from this set is important. If you are talking software raid then try Geom. A really nice howto can be found here:-

Re: a stupid question about sound

2006-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3/10/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I got a situation, for some reason, only root can use audio device when playing movies with mplayer on my freebsd 6.0/amd64 now, not user. But vlc is fine for both. I guess there is some audio wrapper issue but couldn't put a finger on

Re: a stupid question about sound

2006-03-11 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
the same thing happened to mpg321 too. as a regular user, I can't run mpg321, only root can run mpg321 to play mp3 files. TFC On 3/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/10/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I got a situation, for some reason, only root can

a stupid question about sound

2006-03-10 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, I got a situation, for some reason, only root can use audio device when playing movies with mplayer on my freebsd 6.0/amd64 now, not user. But vlc is fine for both. I guess there is some audio wrapper issue but couldn't put a finger on it, any idea? many thanks!! TFC

Wifi card shopping (stupid question)

2005-11-17 Thread Remington
I am planning no making a new 6.0 tower machine. I have some serious concerns in regards to PCI wifi card support and FreeBSD. Can anyone recommend a good PCI 802.11/g card that works with FreeBSD 6.0-R? Preferably one that is easily found(i.e. i can go to Best Buy tomorrow and buy one). thanks,

Re: Wifi card shopping (stupid question)

2005-11-17 Thread John Wilson
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:50:45 -0800 Remington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning no making a new 6.0 tower machine. I have some serious concerns in regards to PCI wifi card support and FreeBSD. Can anyone recommend a good PCI 802.11/g card that works with FreeBSD 6.0-R? Preferably one that

xmms, stupid question

2005-08-10 Thread slack _usr
Hi everyone, I'm new to FreeBSD, so I'm using DesktopBSD. But I think, it uses FreeBSD ports collection. So, question is, where I can find only xmms (plain player). I can find MANY MANY plugins and etc, but I can't find simple xmms. Please, help me If someone can. And sorry for the stupid

Re: xmms, stupid question

2005-08-10 Thread Glenn Dawson
If someone can. And sorry for the stupid question. it's usually in /usr/ports/multimedia/xmms -Glenn Thanks. -- Slack is GOOD (maybe FreeBSD better). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: xmms, stupid question

2005-08-10 Thread RW
, help me If someone can. And sorry for the stupid question. Thanks. See 'man ports' for how to search for a port ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: stupid question

2005-05-20 Thread Clement Twine
Charles Lamb wrote the following on 05/19/2005 07:25 PM: How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses? the most stupid question is that one which was not asked :) anyway: vi /etc/resolv.conf clem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: stupid question

2005-05-20 Thread Tony Shadwick
You're breaking my heart here. :) emacs /etc/resolv.conf *ducks* On Fri, 20 May 2005, Clement Twine wrote: Charles Lamb wrote the following on 05/19/2005 07:25 PM: How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses? the most stupid question is that one which was not asked :) anyway: vi

stupid question

2005-05-19 Thread Charles Lamb
How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stupid question

2005-05-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 19 May 2005 13:25:25 -0400 Charles Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses? take a look at /etc/resolv.conf and : man resolv.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: stupid question

2005-05-19 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:25 am, Charles Lamb wrote: How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses? I have a static setup. I just add them to /etc/resolv.conf. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html

This may be a stupid question but where can I compile quanta?

2004-12-11 Thread CHris Rich
I've searched the ports on freebsd.org googled around and still can't find where to compile quanta, am I overlooking something obvious? THanks in advance -- Regards ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: This may be a stupid question but where can I compile quanta?

2004-12-11 Thread Marcel de Reuver
I've searched the ports on freebsd.org googled around and still can't find where to compile quanta, am I overlooking something obvious? FreeBSD 5.3-Stable whereis quanta quanta: /usr/ports/www/quanta ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: This may be a stupid question but where can I compile quanta?

2004-12-11 Thread mnavarre
On Saturday 11 December 2004 10:40 am, CHris Rich wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:43:26 +0100, Marcel de Reuver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've searched the ports on freebsd.org googled around and still can't find where to compile quanta, am I overlooking something obvious? FreeBSD

Re: This may be a stupid question but where can I compile quanta?

2004-12-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
CHris Rich wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:43:26 +0100, Marcel de Reuver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've searched the ports on freebsd.org googled around and still can't find where to compile quanta, am I overlooking something obvious? [ ... ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/home/chris] cd /usr/ports/www/quanta

Re: This may be a stupid question but where can I compile quanta?

2004-12-11 Thread CHris Rich
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:43:26 +0100, Marcel de Reuver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've searched the ports on freebsd.org googled around and still can't find where to compile quanta, am I overlooking something obvious? FreeBSD 5.3-Stable whereis quanta quanta: /usr/ports/www/quanta

[Fwd: Re: Well here's a bit of a stupid question.]

2004-07-03 Thread Remko Lodder
and for the list as well (: Original Message Subject: Re: Well here's a bit of a stupid question. Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:44:38 +0200 From: Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Glenn Sieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glenn Sieb wrote: I have recently upgraded

Stupid question

2004-05-25 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all A stupid question : Anyone have some idea when the 5.3 is released ? (juste some idea : it's in middle of year or end of year) Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. Heure local/Local time: Tue May 25 17:40:22 CEST 2004

Re: Stupid question

2004-05-25 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 10:41 am, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all A stupid question : Anyone have some idea when the 5.3 is released ? (juste some idea : it's in middle of year or end of year) Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques

A stupid question about Linux-Flashplayer6 and firefox

2004-04-02 Thread f.johan.beisser
anyone actually have sound? I've got FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Mar 14 with Firefox 0.8. Latest linuxpluginwrapper (march 10, built from ports) and the correct (as suggested by the linuxpluginwrapper port) mappings for libmap. so, as far as i can tell, it *should* work, but just doesn't. ---/ f.

Re: A stupid question about Linux-Flashplayer6 and firefox

2004-04-02 Thread Thomas Lippert
on or about 04/01/04-19:28 f.johan.beisser wrote: anyone actually have sound? Sort of, if i turn the volume all the way up i can here the shutter clicks on canon's web site. It is definatly worse than it used to be, but not by much. It seems like this has always been a bit of a problem; i just

Maybe a stupid question but....

2004-03-09 Thread Alina Groulx
Hi everyone, I've searched high and low for a download for FreeBSD source code in a form that I recognize. I'm looking for tar.gz of the source code but am not seeing it anywhere. Can someone help me or perhaps let me know how I can download off the cvs site? Alina Groulx

Re: Maybe a stupid question but....

2004-03-09 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Alina Groulx wrote: Hi everyone, I've searched high and low for a download for FreeBSD source code in a form that I recognize. I'm looking for tar.gz of the source code but am not seeing it anywhere. Can someone help me or perhaps let me know how I can download off the cvs site? Alina Groulx

Re: Maybe a stupid question but....

2004-03-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jeremy Faulkner wrote: Alina Groulx wrote: Hi everyone, I've searched high and low for a download for FreeBSD source code in a form that I recognize. I'm looking for tar.gz of the source code but am not seeing it anywhere. Can someone help me or perhaps let me know how I can download off

Re: Maybe a stupid question but....

2004-03-09 Thread Cordula's Web
I've searched high and low for a download for FreeBSD source code in a form that I recognize. I'm looking for tar.gz of the source code but am not seeing it anywhere. Can someone help me or perhaps let me know how I can download off the cvs site? If you want to download via CVS:

Re: Maybe a stupid question but....

2004-03-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi everyone, I've searched high and low for a download for FreeBSD source code in a form that I recognize. I'm looking for tar.gz of the source code but am not seeing it anywhere. Can someone help me or perhaps let me know how I can download off the cvs site? Where have you been

Is this an stupid question?

2004-02-08 Thread Teilhard Knight
I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.2. My problem is that after being questioned about whether I really want to carry on with the installation, I get a message saying the root filesystem could not be created Also, I have three CD and DVD drives, and when questioned about which to use, I haven't got

stupid question

2003-08-17 Thread Eugene Vinokurov
'chmod -R o+w /' had been done on filesystem reinstall is impossible chmod -R o-w / , chmod o-w /, and chmod o+w /tmp /var/tmp seem to help What problems I have to expect ? Is there any way to restore default permissions for system directories? Maybe I have to check something? Please, help

Re: stupid question

2003-08-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-17T12:10:23Z, Eugene Vinokurov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to restore default permissions for system directories? Maybe I have to check something? Please, help Look at mtree. It can fix much of the damage. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: Stupid question

2003-04-01 Thread Terry Tyson
Check the man pages for write and talk. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerard Samuel Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:17 AM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Stupid question How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box

Re: Stupid question

2003-03-31 Thread Paharenko Gleb
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Gerard Samuel wrote: How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box via the command line?? Thanks -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://test1.trini0.org:81/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Stupid question

2003-03-28 Thread Gerard Samuel
How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box via the command line?? Thanks -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://test1.trini0.org:81/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Stupid question

2003-03-28 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 28-Mar-2003, Gerard Samuel wrote message Stupid question ~ How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box via

Re: Stupid question

2003-03-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:17:10AM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box via the command line?? write(1) talk(1) --- if you have the talk service enabled in /etc/inetd.conf Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J

Re: Stupid question

2003-03-28 Thread Gerard Samuel
Thanks everyone. It was write the command I was after. Gerard Samuel wrote: How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box via the command line?? Thanks -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://test1.trini0.org:81/

stupid question

2003-02-25 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi ! I am sure it is a common question, but I can't find the answer: - how can I save my defined settings when building a port ? Putting them in /etc/make.conf does not seem to work. For exemple, if I want to build imapd with drac support, I go make WITH_DRAC=yes install, but I would love

saving port settings (Was: stupid question)

2003-02-25 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: First, next time choose a better subect. Nearly every original post is a question. I am sure it is a common question, but I can't find the answer: - how can I save my defined settings when building a port ? Putting them in

Re: stupid question

2003-02-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-02-25 19:43, Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure it is a common question, but I can't find the answer: - how can I save my defined settings when building a port? Putting them in /etc/make.conf does not seem to work. Why not? What did you put in /etc/make.conf? I just

Re: saving port settings (Was: stupid question)

2003-02-25 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
First, next time choose a better subect. Nearly every original post is a question. Sorry about this. Use portupgrade, from the ports tree. Then you can do portupgrade imapd to update it, and it'll look in $(PREFIX)/etc/pkgtools.conf to see what settings you want to use. Hum I can't find

Re: stupid question

2003-02-25 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 20:51, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Putting them in /etc/make.conf does not seem to work. Why not? What did you put in /etc/make.conf? Well, besides some settings, I put WITH_DRAC=yes... I just tried rebuiding textproc/ispell with ISPELL_FR=yes in my make.conf

Re: saving port settings (Was: stupid question)

2003-02-25 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Use portupgrade, from the ports tree. Then you can do portupgrade imapd to update it, and it'll look in $(PREFIX)/etc/pkgtools.conf to see what settings you want to use. Hum I can't find anything to resolve my problem within

Re: saving port settings (Was: stupid question)

2003-02-25 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 23:37, Mike Meyer wrote: # e.g.: # MAKE_ARGS = { # 'databases/mysql323-*' = 'WITH_CHARSET=ujis', # } That looks like exactly what you're looking for. Sorry, I didn't see it... Well, this is great ;-) It only work for portupgrade though, right ?

Re: saving port settings (Was: stupid question)

2003-02-25 Thread Philip Hallstrom
# e.g.: # MAKE_ARGS = { # 'databases/mysql323-*' = 'WITH_CHARSET=ujis', # } That looks like exactly what you're looking for. Sorry, I didn't see it... Well, this is great ;-) It only work for portupgrade though, right ? There's no other place to save those args...