Inode numbering

2008-10-18 Thread Polytropon
tell me if there's already a tool that does this! :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Inode numbering

2008-10-19 Thread Polytropon
, kids: Learning is fun. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Extract Songs from DVD

2008-10-22 Thread Polytropon
at the manpages). If you want, you can add ID3 track information, or simply use a good file name. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: GCC help

2008-10-22 Thread Polytropon
install it from the ports collection (e. g. lang/gcc44). If I remeber correctly, it is called as gcc44 then instead of cc / gcc. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Inode numbering

2008-10-22 Thread Polytropon
in C is my forte, hehe, but dump's C code is very much lowlevel. I'm so lucky FreeBSD has the right attitude towards documentation. So I will find a way to implement it, I hope. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-22 Thread Polytropon
for more than a century now. =^_^= -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-22 Thread Polytropon
don't have any A4 paper. I checked it - excellent. The formatting of the structural elements works fine, the result is printable. I've just finished ~/bin/man2pdf. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-22 Thread Polytropon
or Gnome's default PDF viewer or the thing from Acrobat, if you like. Afterwards, the PDF file, stored temporarily, is deleted. One of its disadvantages is that you cannot search within the PDF file such as you can from within man's default pager less, using the / key. -- Polytropon From

Re: does hardware upgrade requires reconfiguration?

2008-10-22 Thread Polytropon
not to say: Man, this is FreeBSD, and not 'Windows'! :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-22 Thread Polytropon
, then forget it. An idea would be to place the paper size setting near your printing filter (not the spooler) and advice applications to read it from there, maybe from a file, maybe from an environmental variable. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: scp

2008-10-23 Thread Polytropon
... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Extract Songs from DVD

2008-10-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:35:25 -0400, John L. Templer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Polytropon wrote: % dd if=/dev/acd0t01 of=track01.cdr bs=2352 Very cool! I have a few questions though. I notice this doesn't work for my Plextor CD writer. What, dd doesn't work from Plextor writer? I had

Re: LOCALE ? FR-fr

2008-10-23 Thread Polytropon
it's possible, but it sometimes can make things _really_ difficult. I hope you won't run into such problems. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: LOCALE ? FR-fr

2008-10-23 Thread Polytropon
want. Time for Le Pétit Filè de lâ mũsic.MP3 :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:37:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Polytropon: thanks for pdfman script - but does 'pdfman ipfw' work for you? Here the 'overprinting' is misaligned in gv, while others are ok. Yes, but it outputs an error message: standard input:2620

Re: mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt =input output error

2008-10-24 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WINE 2 1.1.5 QUESTION...

2008-10-26 Thread Polytropon
it is documented in man wine how to use this? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: wall write talk Over subnet

2008-10-27 Thread Polytropon
. It requires enabling the corresponding line in /etc/inetd.conf. ntalk dgram udp waittty:tty /usr/libexec/ntalkd ntalkd The ntalk program itself is available via ports (net/ntalk). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: DHCP server

2008-10-28 Thread Polytropon
program. On the other hand, dhcpd starts the dhcp *server* Correct. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-28 Thread Polytropon
time dealer at system startup. :-) See ntpd and ntpdate for further information. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: How can I get the screenshots only under the command-line?

2008-10-29 Thread Polytropon
mouse button - the selected text will be put 1:1 into the file. Unelegang manual work, but sometimes useful (e. g. if you need screenshots for documentation purposes where a simple ASCII reproduction without colors or other attributes is needed). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-29 Thread Polytropon
KERNCONF, the GENERIC kernel configuration file will be used to build a kernel, if I remember the handbook correctly. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Script-friendly (parseble) ps(1) output?

2008-10-29 Thread Polytropon
: ps | awk -F 'NR 1 {printf(td%s/tdtd%s/tdtd%s/tdtd%s/tdtd%s/td\n, $1, $2, $3, $4, $5);}' The only problem I see is that $5, the COMMAND field, is truncated after the first space character, so command line arguments will be missing. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Firewalls in FreeBSD?

2008-10-29 Thread Polytropon
to use the correct interface names. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Building an inode

2008-10-29 Thread Polytropon
... :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building an inode

2008-10-29 Thread Polytropon
hope I'll be able to understand the answers because I'm quite new to low-level stuff. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Building an inode

2008-10-29 Thread Polytropon
is a bad idea. :-) panic: ffs_write: type 0xc5d37e04 0 (0,16384) Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Rebooting... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Status line for text mode console

2008-10-30 Thread Polytropon
24 contains a barrier, and the shell runs on lines 1 - 23. Is there anything comparable? Or do I have to write my own? :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Status line for text mode console

2008-10-30 Thread Polytropon
running a shell, along with some Ncurses stuff... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-31 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why does firefox not display icons?

2008-10-31 Thread Polytropon
of the img tag is shown, or, in case that an image has been referenced that does not exist, a red dot or X is shown. At least, that how your situation looks to me... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Polytropon
. If the magic of the tiling window managers opens up to you, you will even be more productive. Allthough I tried several of them, their magic wouldn't open up to me... :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: XFCE4

2008-11-02 Thread Polytropon
look. :-) http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/design-your-own-desktop-with-xfce-44/ http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/design-your-own-desktop-with-xfce-44-part-2/ Don't mind it's from a Linux blog, it will work in FreeBSD, too. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Polytropon
is intended for. At least, it's very useful if you want to follow the RELEASE path and only install the various security patches, so you don't have 7-STABLE, but, for example, 7.1-RELEASE-p5. This is a situation you will usually find on servers. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release

2008-11-04 Thread Polytropon
doesn't seem to work correctly, I believe... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release

2008-11-04 Thread Polytropon
... Alt+PF9 as you mentioned correctly. The functions of Alt+PF1 ... Alt+PF12 inside X depends on the window manager / desktop environment you're running, it can, for example, be used to switch virtual desktops. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release

2008-11-04 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: irc usenet clients for xfce

2008-11-05 Thread Polytropon
. On the other hand, using Firefox + Thunderbird would be usable, too. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Ideal SCSI adapter for me?

2008-11-06 Thread Polytropon
. It would even run a scanner, a JAZ drive, a CD-ROM drive and a PD drive (if anyone still knows what this is), as well as different hard disks. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?

2008-11-07 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-07 Thread Polytropon
(stories), lists and forms. When you're familiar with LaTeX, you won't want to miss it, because you can work faster *and* get better results than anyone with the usual Word skills, clickity click, nyak nyak, blah blah. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Glob error?

2008-11-07 Thread Polytropon
. The calls to mkdir and ls refer to programs, not to shell internal commands. The only problem could be the * wildcard that the shell would have to expand before calling the actual ls program... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?

2008-11-08 Thread Polytropon
} or ${variable%suffix} to $variable with the prefix or suffix, respectively, removed. So this would be more efficient: #!/bin/sh for f in *eps; do [ ! -f ${f%.eps}.jpg ] convert $f ${f%.eps}.jpg done -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?

2008-11-09 Thread Polytropon
-zealous. Especially when you're intending to use a piece of software, even if it's just a three line shell script, more than just one time, or if you want to share it with others. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Polytropon
to explore if this could have been the reason for my massive data loss and UFS file system corruption. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Console size and scrollback buffer.

2008-11-10 Thread Polytropon
is available, vidcontrol -i mode will tell you. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: trouble getting x11 xdm to work

2008-11-10 Thread Polytropon
, in order to try if xdm is working correctly it can be started directly by the command xdm anytime. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: file harvest

2008-11-10 Thread Polytropon
and recovery on UFS file systems. The most famous one is The Sleuth Kit, another useful tool is magicrescue. Try and see if they are helpful to you. Good luck! -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-10 Thread Polytropon
when using sudo. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Strange messages by fetchmail: Server certificate verification error

2008-11-10 Thread Polytropon
retrieval works there as well - with the same configuration files (~/.fetchmailrc). How can I get rid of these messages? Is it possible *not* to use any certification, just the way the older fetchmail version seemed it to do? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: non-US keyboard and KDM

2008-11-10 Thread Polytropon
XkbLayout de Option AutoRepeat250 30 EndSection -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Strange messages by fetchmail: Server certificate verification error

2008-11-10 Thread Polytropon
note to my holy pages how this problem could be solved. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: X11: 1280x768

2008-11-11 Thread Polytropon
, and when you found it working, put it into your ~/.xinitrc so it will take effect after login. But NB that xdm / kdm won't be affected - it will run as xorg.conf specifies. You can check with xrandr's information options (refer to man xrandr) and xvidtune. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg

Re: X11: 1280x768

2008-11-11 Thread Polytropon
this). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trouble getting x11 xdm to work

2008-11-11 Thread Polytropon
... VEB Mysteron Merkwürdigkeitenwerk Karl-Marx-Stadt... :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: X11: 1280x768

2008-11-11 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-11 Thread Polytropon
scripts, start them with #!/bin/sh instead of #!/bin/bash. The sh shell is the UNIX standard scripting shell, while Linux's one is bash. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: tool to recover fat partition

2008-11-12 Thread Polytropon
mdconfig to put the dd file onto a md device which is then used by the particular program. I can imagine how you feel about data loss, so good luck! -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: tool to recover fat partition

2008-11-13 Thread Polytropon
mdconfig to put the dd file onto a md device which is then used by the particular program. I can imagine how you feel about data loss, so good luck! -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: tool to recover fat partition

2008-11-13 Thread Polytropon
mdconfig to put the dd file onto a md device which is then used by the particular program. I can imagine how you feel about data loss, so good luck! -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-14 Thread Polytropon
that I could probably make some symbolic links or whatever; however, I feel that, that is the wrong way to get things to work properly. That's correct. Adding symlinks to structures controlled by the package management system or the OS itself can lead into problems. -- Polytropon From

Re: make doesn't know how to make KERNCONF

2008-11-15 Thread Polytropon
the src distribution). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Creating network interface in VM?

2008-11-15 Thread Polytropon
interface did you use from within FreeBSD? As far as I know, there's no vbox (pseudo)interface driver in FreeBSD, that's why the ifconfig create command returned an error. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-15 Thread Polytropon
or set promptchars = # set prompt = [EMAIL PROTECTED] %~ %# set autolist -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-16 Thread Polytropon
be frightened, try out FreeBSD. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Installing HP LaserJet 4+ in CUPS

2008-11-16 Thread Polytropon
, but maybe you'll find something in CUPS + foomatic (from ports). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: FreeBSD Media Center

2008-11-18 Thread Polytropon
or in Tcl/Tk I wrote myself. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz

2008-11-18 Thread Polytropon
this setting using the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Running X without a videocard

2008-11-19 Thread Polytropon
the applications from the desired X server. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ascii text format

2008-11-21 Thread Polytropon
as separator. Then, iterate over these words and put spaces after each word; repeat this until you've reached the desired text width. This should be relatively easy to accomplish. Furthermore, you can add an empty string before each output line in order to create a left margin. -- Polytropon From

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-21 Thread Polytropon
working FreeBSD installation. :-) Check if the Windows has got the correct IP, if the name server settings are correct and if you can (1st) ping the gateway machine and (2nd) something outside the gateway machine. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 fdisk issue during installation

2008-11-21 Thread Polytropon
to be slower than copies between two physical drives. In daily use, I don't think your suggestion would be of a significant benefit - if it was, it would have been done this way for years already. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: OO, text OR .odt to HTML?

2008-11-22 Thread Polytropon
? I think at least StarOffice had such kind of functionality, so OpenOffice should have, too. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Changing default colors of syscons / kernel messages

2008-11-23 Thread Polytropon
SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR=(FG_RED|BG_BLACK) options SC_KERNEL_CONS_REV_ATTR=(FG_BLACK|BG_RED) But I'm not sure you can change the settings for the boot manager itself in an easy way. Maybe a modification of the boot loader's source code makes it possible... -- Polytropon From

Re: getpriority(2) and rtprio(2) implementation

2008-11-25 Thread Polytropon
. getpriority() in /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_resource.c lines 88 cont. rtprio() should be around there, too, /usr/src/sys/kern/syscalls.master I hope this is what you've been asking for. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: getpriority(2) and rtprio(2) implementation

2008-11-27 Thread Polytropon
, refined getpriority(int to get the function's prototype and implementation. I'm a lazy guy. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: KDM stopping

2008-11-28 Thread Polytropon
data, maybe the user database is corrupted or entries refer to non-existing home directories or login shells? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Copying audio CD with dd/cdrecord produces unplayable CD

2008-11-28 Thread Polytropon
since FreeBSD 4. Since then, I#m very comfortable with cdrecord and cdrdao and the atapicam facility. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Copying audio CD with dd/cdrecord produces unplayable CD

2008-11-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:53:32 -0800, Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:26:51 -0800, Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you need to use cdrecord, you can preprocess the .cdr files with sox -x. You can always use the play command (from sox) to check

Re: Noisy mouse

2008-11-29 Thread Polytropon
sound effects. I have a Sun USB type 6 keyboard + type 6 mouse. I'm using a separate sound card (PCI) because I diskike the AC'97 CPU sound card emulation. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: for awk experts only.

2008-11-29 Thread Polytropon
myself as an AWK expert allthough I did abuse AWK lately to implement a stastistical evaluation program for blood sugar data into a PDF file with diagrams a CVS file, involving gnuplot and \LaTeX{}. =^_^= -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: for awk experts only.

2008-11-29 Thread Polytropon
Replying to my own message: I found a point for improvement. Why use grep when awk can grep by itself? % wn foot -over | awk '/Overview/ { printf(%s %s\n, $4, gsub(noun, n., $3)); }' Ah, much better. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: for awk experts only.

2008-11-29 Thread Polytropon
as a wrapper for the wn command. If you're only interested in the first result mentioned, you could test NR == 1. % wn foot -over | awk '/Overview/ (NR == 2) { printf(%s %s\n, $4, ($3 == noun) ? n. : ); }' foot n. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Polytropon
; sadly, I never saw any need for this. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Polytropon
data backup. Getting a decent performing desktop on there is as Polytropon said, a project you'd do for fun, not cause you need a desktop. That's correct. But hey, you learn a lot by building such a system, and in the end, you have your ultimate desktop right fitting your needs - not what

Re: Noisy mouse

2008-12-01 Thread Polytropon
could shield it if you can't move it. Tinfoil around only the one cable at close proximity sections should do the trick. Or the use of home-made shielded cables. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: open multiple xterms with script

2008-12-02 Thread Polytropon
called, not starting those that are running again (second session). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-02 Thread Polytropon
, but because I don't have sch large disks with UFS (I have ZFS for them), I cannot tell. PS. Corrected subject (was missing). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-02 Thread Polytropon
on one partition, but a runaway disk space consumer (e. g. a faulty program) can occupy all disk space causing problems for processes that would like to write to /tmp or /var. Finally, changing the paradigm would usually be combined with a complete re-installation. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg

Re: open multiple xterms with script

2008-12-03 Thread Polytropon
to be achieved using the example above. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Mounting ext3fs partition

2008-12-03 Thread Polytropon
a similar problem caused from a defective / missing inode. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Mounting ext3fs partition

2008-12-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 20:59:42 +0100, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any clues? From ports: sysutils/e2fsprogs? I don't have a Linux partition here so I cannot check / confirm. Maybe you could use ext3.fsck from this port to check the file system before mounting it? -- Polytropon

Re: IPFW Firewall Question

2008-12-05 Thread Polytropon
# /etc/rc.d/ipfw restart Just a small note, but I hope it will help you. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Image Programs

2008-12-05 Thread Polytropon
and especially its convert command are very useful and powerful (!) tools. What about Inkscape? Tried this one? But finally, for professional use, The Gimp seems to be the best program availabe at the moment. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Polytropon
to perform this operation from one drive to the other, it's okay to have a temporary file (first read, then burn). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Polytropon
for the same functionality applyable to DVD, so I can easily clone video DVDs I made, as well as data DVDs or DVDs with audio tracks (yes, this works, too). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: FreeBSD /dev/fd0

2008-12-07 Thread Polytropon
. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: bashrc configuration question: syntax error: unexpected end of file

2008-12-09 Thread Polytropon
, using cat -n filename. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Polytropon
read their mind... i don't think that's where we'd want freebsd to go. Personally, I would say so, or we'll end up here: http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ I do read along there when I feel sad or angry. Maybe this page helps you, too. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy

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