Re: pkg_deinstall or pkg_delete

2004-05-11 Thread Parv
pkg_deinstall. I have not used pkg_deinstall to recursively ports much; I like pkg_delete better, more so in case of inconsistent state of installed dependencies. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts acroread-3*' - proper resolution

2004-05-11 Thread Parv
in the system. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-08 Thread Parv
not cut it? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0

2004-05-19 Thread Parv
my hard drive (IBM 10GB) died a noisy clickity-clack death w/ parting words like above a few weeks ago. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -

2004-05-19 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Marcia de Oliveira Cardoso thusly... (something about hard drive problems) Would you please stop sending similar messages repeatedly, so far 4-5 messages with in 2 hours? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Kernel compile failing

2004-05-25 Thread Parv
21 ...should capture output in both the streams. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Odd characters in filename

2004-06-06 Thread Parv
... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/sh/sanename.sh Perl: sanename, File::Name::Sanitize wrapper (requires knowledge of modules installation due to lack of makefiles; path adjustment may be needed in use lib q/path/ directive) ... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/dist/sanename

Re: Command to combine several files as a single file, etc.

2004-06-10 Thread Parv
for respective commands, and some of the articles from a larger collection ... Archivers: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/1710 Tar: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/2416 Pax: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/2660 Cpio: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/2445 - Parv

Re: Portsdb Update Error

2004-06-16 Thread Parv
/pkg sane. I do not know or care if downgrading portupgrade to the above stated date would cause problems w/ other functions. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: any use to build from source?

2004-06-18 Thread Parv
, jdk-1.4 requires ~1.7 GB for example. BTW, your concerns have had been dealt w/ in past, at least once this year. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Parv
sans mono font listed in xfontsel(1)'s list or xlsfonts(1)'s output? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly... On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:07:09 -0400 Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried w/ xterms included in 4.3.0 and locally compiled version (patch 187) w/o any problems; the exact command was... xterm -fn \ '-bitstream

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly... On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:07:09 -0400 Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried w/ xterms included in 4.3.0 and locally compiled version (patch 187) w/o any problems; the exact command was... xterm -fn \ '-bitstream

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Parv
don't mind ... Does the xterm start w/ the given font string? Which type of font syntax -- string enclosed in single quotes or only the quotation of white space -- worked? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: command-line calculator?

2004-06-25 Thread Parv
+(17 * 36)' awk: echo |awk '{print 17 * 36}' - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: command-line calculator?

2004-06-25 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Parv thusly... Perl: perl -e 'print +(17 * 36)' awk: echo |awk '{print 17 * 36}' Oh, in Rexx... echo 'say 17 * 36 ' | rexx ...or... rexx # Interpreter say 17 * 36 ^D # Ctrl-D Just wondering out loud ... Is it not possible

Re: Can't install XVID from ports tree, can someone understand the error message?

2004-06-29 Thread Parv
you please include some more lines above the error report it as being error in lang/gcc33 so that others could help you better? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: another newbie struggling with ppp/modem issues

2003-09-13 Thread parv
. (Somebody else should fill in the process as i have forgotten it.) - Parv (no that's not a question, but sign off) -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Newbi Question - Good console replacement for mail program?

2003-10-01 Thread parv
://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vi and wrap text

2003-10-08 Thread parv
of the cursor. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vi and wrap text

2003-10-08 Thread parv
does work quite good on regular text (non e-mail like text). - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: writing pdfs

2003-10-10 Thread parv
? No, i did not have any problems in creating PS or PDF files (from tex ones) using Computer Modern fonts. The only drawback is the font is packed along w/ the file, resulting in expansive files (when compred to using only Time, Helevetica, or Courier fonts). - Parv

Re: *Editing* PDFs?

2003-10-14 Thread parv
enscript, wordperfect (long live!), netscape, or mozilla which print to a printer by default? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uninstalling Port installed applications

2003-10-16 Thread parv
if to keep the ports database current, like i do. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Howto find packages

2003-10-16 Thread parv
://people.freebsd.org/~tom/portpm/ Now to toot my own horn, solid steel perl wheel reinvented (version =5.6 syntax that could be easily molded for use w/ version 5.005)... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/parse-index.perl http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/parse-index.perl.pod

Re: Evolution without gnome

2003-11-02 Thread parv
docbook-4.0_2 docbook-4.1_2 expat-1.95.6_1 gettext-0.12.1 iso8879-1986_2 jade-1.2.1_5 libiconv-1.9.1_3 linuxdoc-1.1_1 m4-1.4_1 sgmlformat-1.7_2 xmlcatmgr-1.1 to build. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Extracting individual Files via tar

2003-11-06 Thread parv
or writing to/from stdin/stdout. ...try this instead... tar zxf /usr/local/src/ports.tar.gz ports/print/pstotext/ - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla???

2003-11-09 Thread parv
/netscape just read ~/.mailcap adjusted themselves. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-21 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Eric F Crist thusly... Content-Description: signed data What do people here use to edit HTML documents? Vim. Lacking that any other modern vi-like software; lacking that non-emacs software (but not pine); lacking that emacs ... - Parv

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-21 Thread parv
to use it for? Maybe some kind of learning experience? Try to run (Free|Net)BSD-current? Or even, Sun Solaris 2.9? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: grepping distinct lines from many text files ?

2004-01-21 Thread parv
... CUCU=`sort /path/to/files/* | uniq` ...even (but do see sort(1))... CUCU=`sort -u /path/to/files/*` - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Size of /var worries me

2004-01-22 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg thusly... I apologize for replying so late. parv wrote: ...only thing that i desire(d) is/was to give / much less than 128MB, but couldn't (during the space slicing). That and to combine /usr2 /usr3 now. But default inode

Re: rename shell command

2004-01-26 Thread parv
. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b45310c8ba0519a http://groups.google.com/groups?q=rename+file+group%3Acomp.unix.* - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

History of Rename, as I Know It (Re: rename shell command)

2004-01-26 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Andrew Kotsopoulos thusly... parv wrote: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b45310c8ba0519a Thanks for the tips to all that responded to me - I've seen quite a few suggestions for scripts of various kinds. Did you send personalized email to everybody

Re: portsdb -U fails

2004-01-30 Thread parv
like above. Mind that i do not have the complete tree. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: most used programs

2004-01-31 Thread parv
screen fonts, bogofilter, dict, egrep, enscript, fetchmail, fvwm2, gimp, grpn, gv, less, mozilla, mutt, netscape, perl, procmail, rclock, sed, slrn, ssh, tee, tetex/latex, vim6, w3m, wmcliphist, xclip, XFree86, xlockmore, xv and others. - Parv

Re: I'm really upset with my new computer

2004-02-09 Thread parv
was having w/ startup (as in *no* response on pressing the power button), i am not sure i would want anoter Dell ... - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: perl and openwebmail - cant locate vars.pm

2004-02-25 Thread parv
' /usr2/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/mach /usr2/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr2/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr2/local/lib/perl5/5.8.2/BSDPAN /usr2/local/lib/perl5/5.8.2/mach /usr2/local/lib/perl5/5.8.2 . - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL

Re: CVSUP and the refuse file

2004-02-27 Thread parv
://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20020311043929.GA12768%40moo.holy.cow ...According to which, you should not be having any problems, unless your refuse file is not quite right. What /exactly/ are you refusing? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: 'pkg_delete port' vs 'cd /usr/ports/port;make deinstall'

2004-03-06 Thread parv
/category/port AND happened to be in that directory. Otherwise, i just use pkg_de(install|delete). - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-08 Thread Parv
the Message-ID pattern has not changed. Oops, did i say that out loud? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-08 Thread Parv
://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame12.html http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame17.html Also are these kinds of posts tolerated? Well, you are seeing them on this list, aren't you? This will go on until one side tires or looses interest, only to be revived some time later. As always. - Parv

Re: [OT] sed question

2004-03-15 Thread Parv
/g' my_test_text_document.txt ^ ^ Why do you have '.' after '\s'? Did you mean '+' instead? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-03-15 Thread Parv
are the inodes of two nasty files) ... # find . \( -inum inode-1 -o -inum inode-2 \) -print0 - Pass the find(1) output to rm(1) ... # find . \( -inum inode-1 -o -inum inode-2 \) -print0 \ # | xargs -0 rm -fv - Done ...Read up on ls(1), find(1) xargs(1). - Parv

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-03-15 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Parv thusly... # find . \( -inum inode-1 -o -inum inode-2 \) -print0 \ # | xargs -0 rm -fv Oh, don't forget the '-r', for recursion, option for rm(1) as i did. Use this instead... # find . \( -inum inode-1 -o -inum inode-2 \) -print0 \ # | xargs

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Parv
. This message of yours was around ~72 characters, and i like you for that. Now. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Passing make parameters

2004-03-18 Thread Parv
not what you want, try a Makefile.local in the port's directory. Mind that, Joshua, not every port /actually/ uses Makefile.local. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
of the messages in that thread. It was quite a rude surprise. People, kindly do not hijack a thread; start a new one. Thanks for your cooperation in future. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Walter thusly... I apologize for the late reply. Parv wrote: # find . \( -inum inode-1 -o -inum inode-2 \) -print0 \ # | xargs -0 rm -rfv Thanks, but when I did: ls -i and then typed in the inode in the command (saved in an old List e-mail

Starting a new thread (was Re: drive / IDE controller questions)

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Joey Mingrone thusly... On March 19, 2004 18:37, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Joey Mingrone thusly... I've been having problems with my western digital drive What that has to do w/ the thread discussing wget proxy problem

Re: Mail readers

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
.txt ... which supersedes RFC 2646. What does that superseding actually translates to?, i do not know. not solve any problem in particular. Actually both RFCs do try to. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Errors upgrading lang/perl5.8

2004-03-25 Thread Parv
on -current@ list? Then again it has been only a day for your OP... - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-04-09 Thread Parv
me this file as email attachment. Otherwise, please allow me to download it via FTP or HTTP. In all case, please keep the size less than a MB or so. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: problems with .bashrc

2004-04-13 Thread Parv
) ... http://parv.holy.cow/parv/comp/unix/cf/ - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems with .bashrc

2004-04-13 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Parv thusly... In my ~/.bashrc, file w/ alias listing is (eventually) sourced. if interested in my settings (skip to Modern Bourne Shell and Compatibles) ... http://parv.holy.cow/parv/comp/unix/cf/ That URL would work if you had access to my computer

Re: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD?

2002-12-25 Thread parv
, it lists the file matching that pattern. man page state that it takes a pattern. in practice i find its capabilities are rather restricted; using e?grep is much better... locate foo | grep 'foo$' - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Renaming files with spaces in the name to files without spaces..

2003-01-08 Thread parv
.txt here is another way in perl (though it changes blanks to '-'; edit as you desire)... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/sanename.perl description... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/sanename.perl.pod - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Renaming files with spaces in the name to files without spaces..

2003-01-09 Thread parv
^ ^ ^ ^ arg a b endarg arg c endarg notice that you have enclosed the string to echo in double quotes, which preserves the spaces. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

freebsd ports index (perl) searcher browser

2003-01-12 Thread parv
if anybody is interested in a perl program which allows one to search browse the ports index (w/o using make going into the /usr/ports), the required parts are... description... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/parse-index.perl.pod main program... http://www103.pair.com

Re: freebsd ports index (perl) searcher browser

2003-01-13 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote parv thusly... ...a perl program which allows one to search browse the ports index (w/o using make going into the /usr/ports) ... main program... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/parse-index.perl module required (needs to be more

Re: freebsd ports index (perl) searcher browser

2003-01-15 Thread parv
at least perl 5.6. otherwise complaints related 3-argument open in perl 5.005 would be coming in my mailbox. i can/will easily change the open() statement to work in perl 5.005 IFF i get complaints about it.) URLs are the same... main program... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/parse

Re: Good C/C++ mailinglist for beginners

2003-01-16 Thread parv
, not C++ the standard, or C), you will be just fine. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

disappearing aterm windows in ion

2003-02-03 Thread parv
restoring the old permissions of aterm (4755), its windows are being kept again. i do/did not have this problem w/ long running fvwm (2.5.x), tvtwm, or blackbox at all. what the hell is/was going on? - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: specifying the X window manager

2003-02-04 Thread parv
nothing else is not wrong). to toot my own horn, below is the shell script that i use to start xinit(1) directly w/o startx(1)... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/sh/xf ...my ~/.xinitrc... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/cf/x/xinitrc - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread parv
: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators perl -pi -e 's#\\r#\\n#g' q # quotes are mine file p q p: ASCII text q: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators This works... perl -pi -e 's/\r$//g' q file p q p: ASCII text q: ASCII text - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system

Re: Need Access Control List(ACL) or any kind of substitute for it

2003-08-02 Thread parv
to change groups willy-nilly. And i do not think that the hosting company would do add nobody user to your group. Why? See above. I think there is something missing from my response; somebody will fill in that i am sure. - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur

Re: Updates from 4.8-RELEASE to 4.8-RELEASE-p1

2003-08-14 Thread parv
: 2003-08-10 Credits:David Rhodus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Affects:All FreeBSD releases up to and including 4.8-RELEASE-p2, 5.1-RELEASE-p1 Corrected: ... 2003-08-10 23:31:11 UTC (RELENG_4_8) - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system

Re: cleaning out files

2003-04-04 Thread parv
ways are (bourne shell)... cat /dev/null file file ...w/ above three methods, you would/should not have problem w/ binary files too, unlike the echo -n method. - parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: pkgdb -F

2003-05-29 Thread parv
, the refuse list has around 490 items. - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment. Details... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Is portsdb -U broken again?

2003-06-02 Thread parv
). The same thing happens when I try to run 'make index', but I can run 'portsdb -u' and 'pkgdb -F' ok. Consider that index making (or make describe) is CPU disk intensive work; 'portsdb -u' and 'pkgdb -F' are nothing in comparison. Hardware problems perhaps? - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix

Re: Listing installed ports without any ports dependent on it

2003-06-03 Thread parv
- Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment. Details... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Listing installed ports without any ports dependent on it

2003-06-03 Thread parv
Excellent! This does exactly what I was after! Above program gives the exact result as the one i posted, except one non essential pkgdb line. What did i miss? - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment. Details... http://www103.pair.com

Re: Xterm won't accept changes to .Xdefaults

2003-06-11 Thread parv
have to run the same command...the changes won't become permanent. Stick a line like above somewhere in your xinitrc, xession, etc. - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment. Details... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work

Re: X TrueType font spacing

2003-06-11 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Jesse D. Guardiani thusly... parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Jesse D. Guardiani thusly... EVERY TIME, the WXP fonts will display fine in MOST KDE applications, but occassionally (like in Konqueror) the horizontal spacing

Re: FVWM on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-06-17 Thread parv
) http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/cf/fvwm/ http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/ - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

mozilla is started instead of genuine netscape while opening a newwindow

2003-06-19 Thread parv
. ) Could anybody tell how to actually fix netscape-wrapper, or what causes mozilla to respond instead of navigator? - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work

Re: OT: Network admin/Sysadmin help needed

2003-06-23 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Aliquis thusly... I need help with administering a small network (about 8 servers running Debian Linux or FreeBSD), mostly updates, security... The proper list is [EMAIL PROTECTED], created especially for the purpose. - Parv -- A programmer, budding

Re: mozilla is started instead of genuine netscape while opening anew window

2003-06-26 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote parv thusly... Problem does not happen when the genuine netscape is not running. In that case, it is started anew. In addition, mozilla doesn't start if its is not already running. Say, i have /both/ mozilla netscape running. If i want to open a new

Re: Questions about x-windows, startx (Extremely long and probablymost blahblah)

2003-07-02 Thread parv
configurable, so don't let the fvwm(1) man page overwhelm you. If you encounter problems w/ fvwm, consult the mailing lists... http://www.fvwm.org/contact/ - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work

Re: Need guidance in choosing mail-client

2003-07-02 Thread parv
, plus some external (to port) nifty patches: tag_prefix_cond threadcomplete.) - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Need guidance in choosing mail-client

2003-07-03 Thread parv
. - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

2003-07-03 Thread parv
list :0 E { list = f-misc } } # do other things # file message :0: * list ?? ^^f-[a-z]+^^ $list - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work

Re: Weird messages during 'pkgdb -F'

2003-07-06 Thread parv
install clean \ pkgdb -F - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC.

2003-07-07 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote DanB thusly... What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC? A shell. At least bash2 ksh93 can, depending upon configuration. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: No output from periodic

2003-07-08 Thread parv
... - Execute the real command save the output in a temporary file - Send e-mail only if file size is zero - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work

Re: XFree86 ports problem when trying to build package

2002-07-15 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly... I get this error when i try to build x11/XFree86-4 as an port: thrawn/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4# make package 2:02PM ... === XFree86-4.2.0_1,1 is already installed - perhaps an older version?

Re: XFree86 ports problem when trying to build package

2002-07-16 Thread parv
to explain what i am trying to say above, or if anything is incorrect. (hint, hint) - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote John Mills thusly... Pavan - On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Balaji, Pavan wrote: make buildworld -- builds the kernel and the libraries (both kernel and user level) make buildkernel -- builds only the kernel Thanks - I didn't realize 'buildkernel' was

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Balaji, Pavan thusly... Nope. buildworld != builkernel. But buildworld does link the libraries. thanks for clearing that up. for a moment you had me in utter amazement. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: help..

2002-07-18 Thread parv
about software/hardware configuration? - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Bourne shell redirection of STDOUT

2002-09-29 Thread parv
ksh93, arrays. a pipe is created by mkfifo(1); fill an array in a while loop. (yeah i know, that doesn't answer your question of not using a file in the bourne shell.) - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Bourne shell redirection of STDOUT

2002-09-29 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote parv thusly... you could use pipe (fifo) and/or, in bash2 ksh93, arrays. a pipe is created by mkfifo(1); fill an array in a while loop. argh, never mind... better suggestions already made. sorry for the noise... -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Copying directories contents

2002-10-01 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Tim Peters thusly... # pax -rw /source /destination probably because it's not very portable - i only see pax(1) on freebsd machines here. fwiw, i noticed pax on IBM OS/390; it's also available from att research -- who also brought to you the kornshell.

Re: How to quickly setup a network printer?

2002-10-01 Thread parv
and lets PS PDF files go thru as is. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

tmda tdma (was Re: buried in spams, recommendation?)

2002-10-04 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Giorgos Keramidas thusly... On 2002-10-03 14:20, Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... mwm uses tdma (or tmda - can't remember which way it's spelled :) [ports]mail/tmda :) tdma sounds more like a hallucinogenic drug, than a spam filter.

Re: burncd error

2002-10-05 Thread parv
as minimum options to use as possible. those messages are in the (-questions, i think) archive somewhere. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Proper way to upgrade packaes from ports

2002-10-07 Thread parv
finishes lighting fast ... in comparison. for me, creating the INDEX takes less time than updating it cvsup over a dialup connection. i don't have problem w/ the creation process being CPU intensive; bottleneck on my system is heavy disk activity. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: make world script

2002-10-09 Thread parv
without touching my network settings so i can get back in later. below is the script which builds world, then kernel, and then installs the kernel; it saves the log of the three processes in three files... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/bin/cleanbw ...make changes as appropriate

a installed ports' info displaying perl program

2002-10-09 Thread parv
would anybody be interested in a perl program which displays information about installed ports? documentation (pod) is... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/doc/doc.bin/listpkg.perl.text ...and the program itself... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/bin/listpkg.perl ...currently

Re: a installed ports' info displaying perl program

2002-10-10 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote paul beard thusly... parv wrote: would anybody be interested in a perl program which displays information about installed ports? bsdpak (in the netBSD pkgsrc collection) seems close to what you're suggesting and groks ports as well as pkgsrc

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