portupgrade problem

2004-11-16 Thread Brian W.
I've been having this problem for about a week now. I've already deinstalled and reinstalled the ruby, rubybdb and portupgrade ports, what else can I look at? The below process takes at least an hour, its a k62-450. The no such user problem doesn't occur until a lot of time has gone by. #

Re: kde4 on 8.3 and laptop

2012-05-29 Thread Brian W.
On May 29, 2012 10:28 PM, Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org wrote: On 05/29/12 22:15, Jim Pazarena wrote: I had kde3 running just fine on 8.2 on my laptop. I have now installed 8.3 -and- kde4 on my laptop, and the kde system will not work as expected. when I type kdm (which is at

upgrade from 7-stable to 8-stable

2012-06-06 Thread Brian W.
It is time to do the above for me. I have done several upgrades within the same major version but have not done a version hop yet. Aside from extra paranoia about backups and the need to rebuild all ports, are there other gotchas to watch out for? I am going to try it on a test VM system first.

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Brian W.
I would ask what problem do you want to solve here; is it preventing a userjust from getting out unless they are using their assigned address, or something else? On Jun 10, 2012 8:16 PM, Bill Yuan byc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Lan, Thanks for your reply, I am reading some old emails which you

Re: Version Selection

2012-06-11 Thread Brian W.
There are two advantages that come to mind quickly. With amd64 you could install more than 4 gigs of ram and have it recognized. With i386 if you need to do this pae would need to be installed, which FreeBSD doc pages say is if beta quality. I bet that amd64 will get more dev attention. On Jun

P5-FuzzyOcr port

2012-06-13 Thread Brian W.
Pkg_add -r can't find a package for this; I presume this is deliberate because of the unmaintained status of fuzzyocr? Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: P5-FuzzyOcr port

2012-06-13 Thread Brian W.
I was migrating from v7 to v8 when I saw this a few nights ago. The upgrade was going speedily well till I hit that. Like I said I was able to get through it by building the port. On Jun 13, 2012 12:25 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 13/06/2012 07:17, Brian W. wrote

Re: (Free 7.2) su -l didnt prompt password.Is it possbile?

2012-06-18 Thread Brian W.
I have only seen thuis after a source upgrade where mergemaster wants to remove the passwd. Has a source upgrade been done recently? Brian On Jun 18, 2012 7:26 AM, Budnev Vladimir vladimir.bud...@gmail.com wrote: 18.06.2012 18:02, Mike Tancsa написал: On 6/18/2012 9:31 AM, Budnev Vladimir

Re: Sendmail and Postfix

2012-06-22 Thread Brian W.
During subsequent system upgrades, of you build from source, you should watch out for thus during the mergemaster piece. Brian On Jun 22, 2012 11:44 AM, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: On 22/06/2012 19:19, Walter Hurry wrote: It seems that Sendmail is embedded somehow in the base

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Brian W.
You could use pkg_add -r xorg to get it and all of its dependencies installed. I usually use that, in combination with ccache to speed up compiles called by portupgrade. Brian On Jul 25, 2012 8:38 AM, Mr U mru...@yahoo.com wrote: hi is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Brian W.
The pcbsd project which uses FreeBSD is another option. On Aug 20, 2012 11:31 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, James D. Parra wrote: I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the

Re: procmail in v4 vs v5

2005-08-26 Thread Brian W.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-26 10:02, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-26 08:34, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All my recipes that used to work in 4-stable seem to fail in 5-stable. When I invoke procmail with what looks like

Re: procmail in v4 vs v5

2005-08-26 Thread Brian W.
I have in no way modofied it, I have what mergemaster gave me. Brian On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-26 11:50, Brian W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Brian W. wrote: Error snapshot- Aug 26 08:20:37 entwistle sm-mta[658]: j7QFKbVD000654: to=|exec

Re: procmail in v4 vs v5

2005-08-26 Thread Brian W.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-26 12:36, Brian W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. Now, if it's not too much trouble to ask, please run the following commands and show me the output. You don't have to be root when these are run: # cd /etc/mail

Re: procmail in v4 vs v5

2005-08-26 Thread Brian W.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-26 12:16, Brian W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-26 11:50, Brian W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aug 26 11:47:40 entwistle sm-mta[1347]: j7QIlegN001345: to=|/usr/local/bin/procmail

Re: have desktop on freebsd

2012-09-20 Thread Brian W.
Pcbsd is always an option. On Sep 20, 2012 2:50 AM, saeedeh motlagh saeedeh.motl...@gmail.com wrote: thank you every body for your answers. i understand that my garphic card is NVIDIA not intel therefore i installed nvidia driver from port. now it seems that everything is ok. there is no error