Beastie logo *is* a li'l devil, ya gotta admit

2005-02-11 Thread Mike Brown
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bob Johnson writes: I work in an office largely populated by born-again Christians, and some of them very definitely object to the BSD logo. Even after I explained the daemon thing, they still didn't think BSD should use The Devil as its logo. It doesn't

Re: non-English character support

2005-10-30 Thread Mike Brown
Alex Teslik wrote: I was also wondering why there is no en_US.UTF8 in /usr/share/locale? Any guidence is much appreciated. I am using FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p5. In FreeBSD 4.x, the UTF-8 locale support files have to be installed from the ports collection. cd /usr/ports/misc/utf8locale make

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-05 Thread Mike Brown
Bob Hall wrote: The belief that guys with red skin, horns, pointy tails, and pitchforks represent the devil is a European superstition, not a Christian doctrine. There's no support for it in the Bible or the writings of the church fathers. There is also no support, except among BSD fans, for

Re: Procedure for migrating user accounts to new system ?

2005-07-06 Thread Mike Brown
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: To answer my own posting. Simply copy(keeping correct permissions) /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group to the new system making sure you have a backup of the original if anything goes wrong. Then run pwd_mkdb -p /etc/passwd which will update /etc/pwd.db,

Re: pkg_create: correct usage?

2005-08-04 Thread Mike Brown
mdff wrote: i'm trying to create packages on freebsd-5.4-RELEASE. can anyone tell me how to define a packinglist for pkg_create with the ability to remove the directories after pkg_delete and not getting complaints if they are not empty? if i specify @dirrm dir in the packinglist, i get

FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE kernel boot problems

2004-11-30 Thread Mike Brown
First the system specs: * Motherboard: SuperMicro 370SED (manuf. in 2000; see [1]) * CPU: Intel Pentium III 933 MHz * RAM: 384 MB (128 MB PC100; 256 MB PC133) * network: * Linksys LNE100TX Etherfast 10/100 (device dc0) * Linksys LNE100TX Etherfast 10/100 (device dc1; unused for

Re: JDK14 fails to install

2004-12-10 Thread Mike Brown
Daniel Bye wrote: This has come up several times recently. The Linux Sun JDK (which is used to bootstrap the build of the native JDK) requires that the Linux procfs system is available. Add this to your /etc/fstab: linprocfs /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 and then, as

Re: stuck at gettext....

2004-12-17 Thread Mike Brown
Zachary Huang wrote: but still I got stuck here when installing the /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base. It appears that the patch for freebsd did not work for gettext... now what do I do? pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/linux_base-7.1_7.tgz

Re: No latin characters :(

2004-12-21 Thread Mike Brown
Mário Gamito wrote: Hi again, I did everything just as you told me. When i type a latin letter like á, etc., i get a greek letter :( Internally, your á is probably byte 0xE1, as that is how it is defined by the ISO-8859-1 character map, and I assume that it's being interpreted correctly on

Re: MAJOR DISFUNCTION! Computer reboots instead of booting FreeBSD!

2004-12-25 Thread Mike Brown
My computer (HP Compaq DC7100) refuses to boot to FreeBSD. It enters the MBR, I then select FreeBSD in the bootloader and the computer reboots! What kind of behavior is this, and why won't it give FreeBSD a chance? I had the same symptom on different hardware. If I watched closely, I could

Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

2005-05-10 Thread Mike Brown
Anthony Atkielski wrote: It _is_ the fault of the mailing list manager that posts are being archived without the permission of mailing-list members. Members must be required to explicitly grant permission when they subscribe. Even if they did, there is no way for the mailing list software or

sorry for late post on MY NAME ALL OVER blah blah

2005-05-10 Thread Mike Brown
Sorry; didn't notice as I was catching up on email that it was a dead thread already, and that I was replying to a known troll. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

installworld failure - osreldate.h

2005-06-07 Thread Mike Brown
Hi all, Any idea what would be causing this during a routine upgrade of FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE (Dec 1 2004) to today's STABLE? newvers.sh has a 'touch version' in it, but I don't see how that could ever produce 'not found'. --

Re: installworld failure - osreldate.h

2005-06-07 Thread Mike Brown
Mike Brown wrote: Hi all, Any idea what would be causing this during a routine upgrade of FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE (Dec 1 2004) to today's STABLE? newvers.sh has a 'touch version' in it, but I don't see how that could ever produce 'not found'. (and my system clock is OK; I just ran ntpdate

buildworld processes failing (was Re: installworld failure)

2005-06-07 Thread Mike Brown
Mike Brown wrote: (and my system clock is OK; I just ran ntpdate again to be sure. I also ran adjkerntz -i) Never mind; I have bigger problems. The 'touch: not found' I see now is related to the just-now-noticed fact that my buildworld had failed for some reason. Subsequent attempts to run

freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-03 Thread Mike Brown
I installed 8.2-RELEASE when it was new, and have been just using freebsd-update since then. I run freebsd-update whenever there are new critical patches. But for some reason, my system's reported patchlevel number hasn't updated since p3. For example, with this latest OpenSSL security update,

null bytes after ANSI sequences in color 'ls' output

2008-06-27 Thread Mike Brown
After I upgraded 6.2-STABLE (Feb 2007-ish) to 6.3-STABLE (last week), my colorized 'ls -G' output is now plagued with 8 null bytes following each ANSI sequence. I normally pipe my output to 'less -R' so ANSI sequences pass through while other control characters are converted to visible ones.

Re: null bytes after ANSI sequences in color 'ls' output

2008-06-28 Thread Mike Brown
OK, so the null bytes are correct for vt100 and should've always been there, and the fact that they've suddenly showed up in FreeBSD 6.3 is basically a feature. Setting NCURSES_NO_PADDING has no effect, so 'ls' apparently does just use termcap features. Following Dan Nelson's advice to switch

perl-after-upgrade mistakenly thinks nothing needs to be done

2013-04-11 Thread Mike Brown
Hi all, I'm running 8.3-RELEASE and thought I'd update Perl from 5.12 to 5.16. Silly me. I updated my ports snapshot, and as per UPDATING, ran portmaster -o lang/perl5.16 lang/perl5.12 This went OK, so I then ran perl-after-upgrade, with and without -f. It scans the packages and finds

Re: perl-after-upgrade mistakenly thinks nothing needs to be done

2013-04-11 Thread Mike Brown
Thanks for the replies; I really appreciate it. Alexandre wrote: Have you followed steps described in perl-after-upgrade man page? $ man perl-after-upgrade Yes, except for the last step (deleting old CONTENTS backups), since the previous steps didn't seem to do what they should. As I said,

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Mike Brown
Da Rock wrote: sysctl kern.version For me, that's the same info as in uname -a. Try this: grep -v # /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh | head -4 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

freebsd-update percentage indicators - what are they, why are they so random?

2013-06-22 Thread Mike Brown
I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to the latest minor release. At a couple points in the process, I get weird status indicators (percentages) showing me that something is happening: Fetching 1 metadata files... 70.5% done. 70.5% 70.5% 74.2% 74.2% 81.7% 81.7% 70.5%

Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-22 Thread Mike Brown
I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to the latest minor version (from 8.3-RELEASE to 8.4-RELEASE). I'm surprised that the merge handling system isn't more robust. When upgrading the old way, from source, I was used to using mergemaster to handle any merges that couldn't be done

Re: freebsd-update percentage indicators - what are they, why are they so random?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
Fetching 1 metadata files... 70.5% done. 70.5% 70.5% 74.2% 74.2% 81.7% 81.7% 70.5% I think this is a result of having -v in my GZIP environment variable. I always forget about my GZIP and BZIP2 variables. I should've known. So, never mind about that.

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to the latest minor version (from 8.3-RELEASE to 8.4-RELEASE). I'm surprised that the merge handling system isn't more robust. When upgrading the old way, from source, I was used to using mergemaster to handle any merges that couldn't be

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 15:29, Eugene wrote: I do not quite understand. Is the freebsd-update upgrade process completely broken? IMHO it is partially broken; I'm not doing anything special. How broken it is depends on what's getting changed. Most of what the system is designed to do, it

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-26 Thread Mike Brown
I wrote: The main problem this time is that I'm not so lucky with the password files, because for 8.4, freebsd-update has fetched new, stock .db files to put in /etc. Whoa, sorry, I misspoke here. freebsd-update asked me, after the merges, to approve unspecified differences in pwd.db and

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-08 Thread Mike Brown
alexus wrote: ok, I just did fetch install and got bumped from p5 to p9 # uname -a FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11 19:47:58 UTC 2012 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # can I take it all the way to -p12?

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-09 Thread Mike Brown
Eduardo Morras wrote: [...] uname -a should give the correct answer. Has uname other utility than show information about the operating system implementation? No, and it must be accurate. That's what I thought, but when I asked about it here last year, I was told that this is the way things