25mb vs 300mb ports

2004-04-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
. Is this a matter of compressed versus uncompressed? Why the discrepancy? By the way, thank you to the many erudite and friendly faces who responded to my lament -- I am happy to see a lot of devices now supported under 5.2.1!! -- Peter Leftwich, President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla

xv flag to not create ~/dir/dir/.xvpics/

2003-09-12 Thread Peter Leftwich
If I `cd ~/dir/dir` then run `xv -vsmap` xv creates cached thumbnails. Does anyone know of a flag for xv to -NOT- create a directory called .xvpics? I do not want xv to create this directory. Thanks. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA

Re: xv flag to not create ~/dir/dir/.xvpics/

2003-09-16 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I `cd ~/dir/dir` then run `xv -vsmap` xv creates cached thumbnails. Does anyone know of a flag for xv to -NOT- create a directory called .xvpics? I do not want xv

Re: xv flag to not create ~/dir/dir/.xvpics/

2003-09-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Vlad D. Markov wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:44:16 -0400 (EDT) Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The option vsmap is asking for an image browser. The program need not necessarily cache thumbnails on the hard disk. Perhaps this is a wish list item for xv

Share/Freeware to see FBSD from Win_XPproSP1?

2004-02-07 Thread Peter Leftwich
Is there a program (go-between) that I can use to read my FreeBSD slices from Winbloze XP Pro SP1? I need to clean up some old OSs, make space...! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com

Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

2004-02-12 Thread Peter Leftwich
] operating system and running a daemon. Thanks mucho diGiornio, -- Peter Leftwich, President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Boot time, init? getty repeated too many times

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Leftwich
. -- Peter Leftwich, President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Boot time, init? getty repeated too many times

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Leftwich
Ryan Merrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Leftwich wrote: [snip] getty repeated too many times and that it will halt for 30 seconds. [snip] H, Review your #/etc/ttys and comment out any questionable lines. -Ryan Merrick / [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was able to get at my raw data (via mount -t ufs

lament about freebsd sacrifices

2004-04-14 Thread Peter Leftwich
and 2 devices * IM software features such as voice and video chat * websites that use ActiveX (Windows) controls * MP3 devices Any major sacrifices I've forgotten? :-\ -- Peter Leftwich, President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com

Re: Power off problem [from Dec-08-2002]

2002-12-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
holidays! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Softer crash a show-interrupter only (please CC me in reply)

2003-01-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
both to the console and to a file, such as `startx 2 startx.out` or something? Thx!! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com box 1743 ~ # startx xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ...r.com:0 in list command xauth

Re: Softer crash a show-interrupter only (please CC me in reply)

2003-01-06 Thread Peter Leftwich
of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everything, and the value of nothing. Vienna, AUSTRIA | Oscar Wilde -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail

uscanner and ppbus0 webcam (Please CC me)

2003-01-13 Thread Peter Leftwich
basis the billing might occur (hourly or by the job? ballpark estimate on the total? likelihood of success?) Thank you kindly, -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Manually reinstall various lib's?

2003-01-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
and now startx and lots of different pkg_add -rf package commands are giving me errors about expecting different libraries. Is there a way to manually install these? Please help, you're my only hope! =) Yours, faithfully as root right now, -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services

Mirroring tool? web snake? getbot?

2003-07-29 Thread Peter Leftwich
successive run of the program, it deletes the results of the last run! Stupid! Thanks for any ideas you all may have. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL

Re: Mirroring tool? web snake? getbot?

2003-07-30 Thread Peter Leftwich
On 2003-07-29 21:54 -0700, Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I'd like is a graphical tool that prompts the user for a URL then proceeds to mirror that URL to the working directory or to a base directory specified in its preferences. It would also be nice to filter by URL's ending

/var/log/wtmp and /var/log/system/log.*

2003-04-05 Thread Peter Leftwich
for that power-on session. Can someone comment on what to use for the at command command-line, and whether I'd put this in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/SOMETHING.sh or where? I think this is an interesting omission from Unixes in general. What's your opinion? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video

Monitor dimming

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
to dim now. Thanks all, please CC: me! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Resetting ports and pkg's?

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
wrong and indicated by an error message. Help! Thanks CC: me please... PS - Is it as easy as just `rm -rf /var/db/pkg/` or just one directory? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com

TZ

2003-06-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
/* and /boot/* returns nothing relevant. I also can't remember if this is something that can be played with in userland, that is, as a postprocessor (e.g. the tcsh shell using set or setenv). Ideas, from any timezone? PS - Please CC: me in your reply -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video

Mount My Creation

2003-06-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
this Leftwich guy ever shut up? :-o PS - Please CC: me in your reply! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Mount My Creation [ls -c, -t -u etc]

2003-06-22 Thread Peter Leftwich
is the switch to see the full date and time output, instead of this information being truncated to Dec 3 2002 instead of Dec 3 2002 15:16:01 for example? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com

Re: Mount My Creation [ls -c, -t -u etc]

2003-06-22 Thread Peter Leftwich
-R Thanks Axel S. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming

2003-07-02 Thread Peter Leftwich
installation to control it too? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
-- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Can you relate to my Tour of Despair?

2002-07-24 Thread Peter Leftwich
. All help warmly accepted. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

KDE = K.D.E.A.D! (2.2.2 to 3.0.1, cvspass?)

2002-07-25 Thread Peter Leftwich
or directory cvs [login aborted]: fatal error: exiting # man 1 cvs | col -b | grep -i cvspass e. What's a ~/.cvspass file and why do I need one? Thanks. f. PS when I cd to /usr/src and do `ls -al` there is nata, nothing. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA

pdf, *.doc; Java and jvm and flash

2002-07-25 Thread Peter Leftwich
:( Any clues? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

nautilus sux

2002-09-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
environment!! Should I be proud? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: nautilus sux

2002-09-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
On 18 Sep 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 21:33, Peter Leftwich wrote: I am trying to run Gnome 2.0 and before running startx I `setenv WINDOW_MANAGER metacity` (tcsh). You don't need this. GNOME will remember your window manager across sessions. Once you set things

Fwd: Making Mozilla like java????

2002-09-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
Where do I go from here? http://www.freebsd.org/java/links/freebsd.html Throw my hands up and go pffphfssh! and head to http://www.mozilla.org ? How does Kaffe compare with JVM compare with JDK (linux?) ?? Thanks. -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: weird files

2002-09-19 Thread Peter Leftwich
will be forced itself due to the quotes! so that I su to the root and the same problem. any ideas? tia su has nothing to do with it -- if the file was an ownership issue, the error would have said rm ___: Permission denied or the like. --- Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19

kldload way to send options into kernel?

2002-09-19 Thread Peter Leftwich
I tried running `wine GetBot.exe` because it is the best offline browser and web snake/bot program ever, but for Windows and I got this error: Did you reconfigure the kernel with options USER_LDT? Is there a command line I can give such as kldload to add this option in? -- Peter Leftwich

add to gnome start menu?

2002-09-20 Thread Peter Leftwich
Could be simple, but how do you add to Gnome 2's start menu? I am tiring of clicking the MainMenu then Run Program gaim or freeamp! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Fwd: kldload way to send options into kernel?

2002-09-20 Thread Peter Leftwich
Nevermind - I'm going to keep trying to get httrack to compile http://www.httrack.com -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Questions LIST [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: kldload way to send options into kernel? Date

Re: layers and layers of windows managers

2002-09-21 Thread Peter Leftwich
/default.wm to look something like this: [Default] WM=/usr/X11R6/bin/metacity 3. Rename or remove ~/.gnome2/session and re-run startx -- Forwarded message -- From: Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: layers and layers of windows managers

2002-09-21 Thread Peter Leftwich
/default.wm to look something like this: [Default] WM=/usr/X11R6/bin/metacity 3. Rename or remove ~/.gnome2/session and re-run startx -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD LIST

Re: layers and layers of windows managers

2002-09-21 Thread Peter Leftwich
/default.wm to look something like this: [Default] WM=/usr/X11R6/bin/metacity 3. Rename or remove ~/.gnome2/session and re-run startx -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: C. A. Daelhousen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
flag to find. Is it really that important or will directories possibly get acted upon badly? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

changing subjects [in this manner]

2002-09-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
like [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: changing subjects [in this manner]

2002-09-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
. PS - And that reminds me! Why am I still ssh'ing someplace and running pine when I could be running xpine and (probably) POP3s'ing my mail to my box!!! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

no xargs -i flag

2002-09-24 Thread Peter Leftwich
of the command line? It isn't clear from the manpage or examples I've browsed. Thanks. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: changing subjects [in this manner]

2002-09-24 Thread Peter Leftwich
/peter to localhost/var/mail/peter In Googlis non est, ergo non est. What does this mean? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

how to find executable files

2002-09-24 Thread Peter Leftwich
this be limited to x levels down? Thanks. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: how to find executable files

2002-09-25 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:13:51PM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: Two questions, first is why doesn't this work, or is there a flag I can use with ls? # find . -type f -perm +x find: -perm: x: illegal mode string # find . -type f -perm +x -print

Re: changing subjects [in this manner]

2002-09-25 Thread Peter Leftwich
asked for first an adjective (smelly) then a noun (tape she said) and searched Google Images for smelly tape, but alas, none was located. :( So it must not exist. :) -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe

/usr/ports/java/jdk

2002-09-28 Thread Peter Leftwich
RE: http://www.freebsd.org/java/install.html The first step is to cd /usr/ports/java/jdk -- what if I have no files and directories in there? How do I portupgrade or populate in one command? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403

man tcsh | col -b | grep -i stderr

2002-09-29 Thread Peter Leftwich
sh` - please help. Thanks kindly, -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: /usr/ports/java/jdk

2002-09-29 Thread Peter Leftwich
://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg Actually, what I'd like at this point is a way to just populate one folder: /usr/ports/java/jdk13 -- is there a single command line method to do so? Also, once make has run, are there steps to configure in my browser? Thx, -- Peter Leftwich President Founder

Re: man tcsh | col -b | grep -i stderr

2002-09-29 Thread Peter Leftwich
to know the numbers of the standard descriptors: 0 = stdin, 1 = stdout, 2 = stderr. $.02, /Mikko Thank you though for your timely info! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Ports FAQ is a great read

2002-09-30 Thread Peter Leftwich
different commands in the first place. PS - RE2 is also an amazing read, kudo's to the fine authors!! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: Copying directories contents

2002-10-01 Thread Peter Leftwich
be a scheme that favors only files and that runs a test of basically saying is the directory there already? yes, then mv this file into it, no, then create it and move this file into it... but on a wider scale. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA

burncd, cd-write, cdrecord

2002-10-01 Thread Peter Leftwich
listen in my car :) Thanks all. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: KDE, sound, artsd and xmms

2002-10-02 Thread Peter Leftwich
these features, and a speed-up / slow-down plugin such as the one Winamp for Windows supports (where the vocals are unaffected)?! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Problems with webcam+soundcard

2002-10-02 Thread Peter Leftwich
or modules you can load in /boot/loader.conf -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

buried in spams, recommendation?

2002-10-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
Can someone on the list PLEASE recommend a good quarantining filter app? I know mwm (Mike Someone) out there uses one that issues a challenge via reply or reply to all. Thanks!! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555

Re: Mutt and Filters [pine procmail]

2002-10-05 Thread Peter Leftwich
67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: Okay, that was too close for comfort. Not that slaying is ever comfy, but... you know what I mean. Buffy's cute. =) -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555

mtools eject CD? CD-R?

2002-10-05 Thread Peter Leftwich
Is it possible to eject a (mounted or unmounted) CD or DVD from the command line? Does a CD-R have to be specially mounted before using mkisofs or burncd? Appreciate any answers! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555

/dev/urandom is randomly cool

2002-10-05 Thread Peter Leftwich
the output into just [A-Za-z0-9] and no spaces or punctuation? And specify length? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

egrep sawfish|gnome-panel

2002-10-05 Thread Peter Leftwich
be similar to Start Run... to run a binary within the x session, no? Also, `top` shows me that gnome-panel IS running, so why don't I see it? Hopelessly lost, thanks for any guidance! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555

/etc/make.conf and AMD Athlon 600

2002-10-06 Thread Peter Leftwich
CPUTYPE=i686 -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool

2002-10-06 Thread Peter Leftwich
. Fer They ought to build motherboards with tiny lava lamps for randomness :) Another answer is, as always, use perl :-) $.02, /Mikko Yeah yeah-yeah. It's just nice having an all-inclusive OS, that's all! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services

Should I worry about having many X11 symlinks

2002-10-07 Thread Peter Leftwich
(/etc/X11/..)? ln -s thanks help\! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool

2002-10-07 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Oliver Fromme wrote: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Fernando Gleiser wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: tr -cd a-zA-Z0-9 /dev/urandom | dd bs=$len count=1 2/dev/null It didn't work. My shell is tcsh so I tried

Re: /etc/make.conf and AMD Athlon 600

2002-10-07 Thread Peter Leftwich
as HW allows. ;-) -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: help with ln linking Please! [attn manpage authors!]

2002-10-07 Thread Peter Leftwich
filesystems, i will see the same contents. Thanks for any help. I think you just had it backwards. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: help with ln linking Please! [attn manpage authors!]

2002-10-09 Thread Peter Leftwich
, what's the number? The said this for years was probably me cursing and drooling asleep. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: Please help me

2002-10-09 Thread Peter Leftwich
know. Someone told me that only an old school unix person would be able to tell me. Please help? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: How to create another account with root privileges ?

2002-10-09 Thread Peter Leftwich
really want to do this. What problem are you needing to solve by having multiple root accounts? Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. Google doesn't have new pages saved and served up 1 second ago, nor does it have unique pages that a cgi script create(d/s). -- Peter Leftwich

Re: Ports FAQ is a great read [port.tar??]

2002-10-14 Thread Peter Leftwich
certainly settling on a life of /stand/sysinstall and `pkg_add -r` :-( Can someone offer me hope? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Gnome URL Launcher captions?

2002-10-16 Thread Peter Leftwich
stored? In what path, files?? Thanks! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: du, find/xargs/sort, and MP3.tar

2002-10-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
On 22 Oct 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then I thought I'd get crafty and `tar tvf MP3.DONE0415021909MPT.tar the-tarfile.out` thinking I could later run things through `sort` but I am hung up on how to get similar output that shows the contents

What is vnlru really?

2002-10-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
of way. What else is there to check, using `ps auxww`? Thanks as always and ever after, PS - Is `arp -a` the most reliable way to get one's current IP address? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail

Port 514 unsafe? open to outside?

2002-10-23 Thread Peter Leftwich
? I know it works outbound because I am about to send this message ;-] -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

learning about ./configure and pkg-config

2002-10-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
in the colon-separated (on Windows, semicolon- separated) list of directories specified by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable. I couldn't find my /lib/pkgconfig directory or locate sample PKG_CONFIG_PATH statements on the web. Can someone clue me in please? -- Peter Leftwich President

Didn't think it was possible

2002-10-21 Thread Peter Leftwich
playing but The GIMP managed to force me to press the hard reset button and my box was not pleased. Oh my question: How was FreeBSD 4.6.2 able to log crash to wtmp? And how do you remember whether it is utmp or wtmp? What do they stand for? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services

du, find/xargs/sort, and MP3.tar

2002-10-22 Thread Peter Leftwich
/\/\aster$ work some unixiacal magic on my task? =^) It soothes my soul to know you care. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: What is vnlru really?

2002-10-26 Thread Peter Leftwich
while ipconfig tells me another. Is that because I'm using DHCP, or is arp -a maybe reporting a DNS value, not my currently-assigned IP? PS - Yack! .biz?! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Port 514 unsafe? open to outside?

2002-10-26 Thread Peter Leftwich
been able to send email to myself yet :( -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html The way I understand it, ntpd runs constantly, keeping your PC's clock accurate, whereas ntpdate is often called once via a cron or at boot time. My clock is accurate now, isc.org must not have set their time right away. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder

ld-elf.so.1 error

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
, is there some trusted place I can simply download libXaw3d.so.7 to trick emacs into working properly? Hope I can fix this! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

man 1 eject

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
using eject acd1 for example. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

mount transparently?

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
to convert filename.tgz to filename.iso Am I asking too much and at too many levels down? =) -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
a sysinstall-like interface. The manpage for tzsetup pointed me to /etc/localtime which, when viewed in the more viewer, had PST near the end so I'm assuming I'm setup okay now. But I wonder why there is no unix standard command to view and/or set the PC's current timezone! -- Peter Leftwich

Re: man 1 eject

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Hmm. Before we can improve the man page, we have to write it. Are you confusing FreeBSD with NetBSD? Greg See complete headers for address and phone numbers I don't get it. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692

What is bsd.port.mk ?

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
/Mk/bsd.port.mk make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue What is bsd.port.mk, where can I get it or pkg_add it, then am I all set? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: man 1 eject

2002-11-04 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Sue Blake wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:18:18AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Hmm. Before we can improve the man page, we have to write it. Are you confusing FreeBSD with NetBSD? Greg I don't get it. Peter, I

Re: What is bsd.port.mk ?

2002-11-04 Thread Peter Leftwich
looking for a way to download just one set of ported source by not using cvsup, then `make install clean` or `gmake install clean` whichever. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: man 1 eject [Giorgos]

2002-11-06 Thread Peter Leftwich
/man/man1/eject.1.gz) Don't know if that helps you. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: man 1 eject [DaleCo]

2002-11-06 Thread Peter Leftwich
original /stand/sysinstall install. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: burncd creates jittery audio cd's

2002-11-12 Thread Peter Leftwich
] Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 There is a flag to burncd of -s I believe. Try matching that to your hardware's speed or slower. Also, are you using mkisofs? (As far as I know, you should be.) -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039

Re: burncd creates jittery audio cd's

2002-11-12 Thread Peter Leftwich
, it must mean that it works without mkisofs?). Thanks, Jacob Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 6102 ITS DivisionEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 I don't know, and turn this back over to the list... -- Peter Leftwich President

Show-stopping Galeon bug!

2002-11-12 Thread Peter Leftwich
and keyboard?) I was forced to press my unit's Reset button (I waited until the mp3 finished playing due to HDD access). Has anyone else witness this or something similar with Mozilla? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http

Seeking command similar to dd

2002-11-14 Thread Peter Leftwich
Is there a command similar to dd to analyze a CD that is in the drive? I used mkisofs the other day, then burncd (forgot to say fixate on the end of the command line though), and now I cannot mount this CD. Ideas? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla

Searching for 'webcam' or 'cpia'

2002-11-14 Thread Peter Leftwich
and the ported apps for either webcam or cpia there are no hits. Has anyone gotten a parallel cam working? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Show-stopping Galeon bug!

2002-11-16 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Mike Erickson wrote: (11.12.2002 @ 2220 PST): Peter Leftwich said, in 1.3K: If you use the Galeon browser, be careful or mindful of the following bug that has actually crashed *look of awe!* my system 3 or 4 times now. For those of you just joining the thread

Re: Seeking command similar to dd

2002-11-17 Thread Peter Leftwich
On 15 Nov 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a command similar to dd to analyze a CD that is in the drive? I use the dd bs=2k command on ISO 9660 CDs. Is there more to that command line? Or does it let you browse RAW data? I used mkisofs

Re: Ports base? [hear me roar]

2002-11-25 Thread Peter Leftwich
-0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: I tried to install just the ports base using sysinstall but it started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is limited. I didn't think that sysinstall allowed you to install parts of the ports collection, only the entire collection (which

Re: changing directory listing type

2002-11-26 Thread Peter Leftwich
or install gnuls from ports /usr/ports/misc/gnuls and and run ls --color regard Easier yet, just add the following line in /etc/profile: # alias ls='ls -G' Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Peter

uscanner and ppbus0 webcam

2002-12-10 Thread Peter Leftwich
PPC2 Camera MEDIA CPIA_1-20 plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 Really appreciate some leading ideas, -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe

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