Obtaining an @freebsd.org email address.

2005-12-30 Thread Kevin Brunelle
Does anyone know what the requirements for a freebsd.org email address are? I have looked but I can't seem to find a link to them nor a description of who I would contact concerning this. I have read the following from the porter's handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/p

Re: Find Syntax

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin Brunelle
On Monday 02 January 2006 11:19, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm trying to find all files with a modification time older than three > weeks ago. In reading the find man page and searching Google, it seems > the time returned by 'ls -l' is mtime. Thus I construct the following > command: > > find . -n

Re: Find Syntax

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin Brunelle
> OK, I understand now. I ultimately want to delete files and was just > trying to check my command before doing the actual delete. I will use > '-ls' in my script. > > >find . -type f -mtime +1w -exec ls -l {} \; > > This works too. Thanks again! What is your intent with the -ls? Do you need

Re: We want tu use your company name and logo

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin Brunelle
On Thursday 02 March 2006 15:56, Ercan Pamuk wrote: > In our company we want to sell T-shirts,glasses,caps that are products of > FreeBSD Linux which we give them system supporting in our company.We want > to use Slackware FreeBSD Linux Logos Of all the spam, I think the FreeBSD "Linux" spam amus

Re: fortune database

2004-07-19 Thread Kevin Brunelle
> There are a couple of ports that install new fortune databases. See > /usr/ports/games/fortune-* and the Porter's Handbook for more. > > Kris I think you meant to type /usr/ports/misc/fortune-* At least that is where I found mine. Thanks BTW... I was wondering if there were more I could add.

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-10 Thread Kevin Brunelle
> In brief, the installation process is just awful. After multiple attempts > on an admittedly older machine (Pentium II 266Mhz, 256KB ram, 30GB hard > drive, S3 Virge graphics card), I was able to get the FreeBSD OS installed, > but could not configure Gnome or KDE properly. The documentation is s

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-13 Thread Kevin Brunelle
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 06:16, Jeff Rollin wrote: > I let a lot of BSD comments about Linux go "unpunished", but this one has > always got me. BSD had to be *almost totally rewritten* to avoid AT&T > licensing issues... added to the fact that I wouldn't be surprised if it's > hard to find a s

Re: Ports maintainer

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin Brunelle
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:43, Miguel Vazquez Gocobachi wrote: > Hi there! > > I am interesting to be a ports maintainer for FreeBSD project. What need I > do? > > Thanks a lot. > Miguel Find a port that needs a maintainer and take over it or find a program not in ports and bring it in. There

Re: rc.d scripts

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin Brunelle
> >Does anyone know how to make a script in /etc/rc.d run last? For instance > >I want dhclient to be the last script in /etc/rc.d/ to run. Any help is > >much appreciated. > > This may have already been answered by others, but I believe just rename > the script with a prefix of "z" for example:

Re: vim port not upgrading

2007-03-27 Thread Kevin Brunelle
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 09:40:09 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > I tried to upgrade vim, and I get a lot of these. ... > The number on the left just keeps going up and it just keeps spinning > it wheels. > > Any suggestions? As you have most likely noticed by now, it stopped at 7.0.214, which is the

Re: BSD make vs. GNU make

2007-04-18 Thread Kevin Brunelle
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 13:15:08 Bill Campbell wrote: > The gmake program has many extensions which tend to be used in > the gnu automake, autoconf, libtools system. > > I suspect that gmake will work with most non-gnu Makefiles, but > the reverse is not true. This suspicion is not necessarily tr

Re: where are /usr/local/etc/rc.d init scripts run from?

2006-12-23 Thread Kevin Brunelle
On Saturday 23 December 2006 18:15, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > I was looking in /etc/rc, and it's obvious to see where the /etc/rc.d > scripts are run from. > > skip="-s nostart" > [ `/sbin/sysctl -n security.jail.jailed` -eq 1 ] && skip="$skip -s nojail" > files=`rcorder ${skip} /etc/rc.d/* 2>/de

Re: where are /usr/local/etc/rc.d init scripts run from?

2006-12-23 Thread Kevin Brunelle
> So rcorder is not used for the rc scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d? That > explains much, since I have a runsvstat.sh script needed to start > runit, and a script to start one of its services starts with an 'm' > and is executing first, which I don't want. > > Why is rcorder not used on these files

Re: Producing a binary install

2006-07-11 Thread Kevin Brunelle
> Otherwise doing a 'make package' after the port has been installed will > create a package for you. You should then be able to install the package > on the other machine using pkg_add. > > HTH, > Micah If you've already done make clean... you're going to end up rebuilding if you use make packag