[FYI] Bittorrent for 8.2 release

2011-02-20 Thread grarpamp
Some observations for those considering using bt this time... Vuze 4.6.0.2 under OpenJDK7 works fine. You need to grab swt-devel, log4j, junit, commons-cli. If you're using the ancient Vuze port, just replace the Vuze jar from that with the current one from sourceforge. Until swt is updated, you p

Re: openldap not starting

2011-02-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/02/2011 04:16, Tim Dunphy wrote: > I am building an ldap server on freebsd 8.1. > > For some reason if I include the inetorgperson schema in my slapd.conf > slapd will not start openldap is like that: if it has a problem with your config, it exits. The trick is to get it to tell you what th

Re: booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2

2011-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 19), Alexander Best said: > On Sat Feb 19 11, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 19/02/2011 02:47, Alexander Best wrote: > > > but that won't work. i get some numbers and then it says: > > > btx halted or something like that. > > > > Can't you boot into fixit mode from installat

openldap not starting

2011-02-20 Thread Tim Dunphy
hello list!! I am building an ldap server on freebsd 8.1. For some reason if I include the inetorgperson schema in my slapd.conf slapd will not start here is the listing in slapd.conf # See slapd.conf(5) for details on configuration options. # This file should NOT be world readable. # include

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-20 Thread Andres Perera
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Warren Block wrote: > > With backticks, the backreference \1 never seems to be replaced with the > actual pattern, regardless of search pattern.  Tested on 8-stable and > 9-current. this isn't really new and it's not particular to freebsd sh(1) for i in bash dash

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-20 Thread Andres Perera
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:42 PM, David Demelier wrote: > > I'd prefere $() rather than ``. It's more powerful, for example you can > write a multiple $() but not `` see : that's not true for i in bash dash mksh; do echo $i: $i <<'!' echo `echo 1\`echo 2\\\`echo 3\\\`echo 4\\\`\\\`\`` ! d

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-20 Thread Warren Block
Dropped the last line of the script. Also lined up the seds to show the regex is the same in both. #!/bin/sh DESTDIR="./" COMPFILE=".cshrc" PSTR=`echo "${DESTDIR}${COMPFILE}" | sed 's%\([?:.%\\]\)%\\\1%g'` echo ${PSTR} PSTR=$(echo "${DESTDIR}${COMPFILE}" | sed 's%\([?:.%\\]\)%\\\1%g') echo

Re: Can FreeBSD be made to be as polished a desktop as Linux Mint?

2011-02-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:15:30PM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: > I was wondering if there were any technical reasons why a FreeBSD > desktop could not be hand-tweaked to be as nice as a Linux Mint 10 > desktop. I only rarely use Linux Mint 10, but it's desktop and > webrowsing seem to be about perfect

Flac and/or shell problem

2011-02-20 Thread RW
I found a recipe for converting flac to mp3: flac -cd in.flac | lame -h - out.mp3 and I thought I might be able to able to combine multiple flac files into a single mp3 file with something like the following: ( flac -cd file1.flac ; flac -cd file2.flac ) | lame -h - both.mp3 but in practic

Re: revised pager.....

2011-02-20 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: > THis is to the entire list, mostly to Chip. It is o8.rb, my > very slightly tweaked version of what you ma/// rather, what i > found and began messing with a couple, three hours ago. > > I searched++ and could not find the

revised pager.....

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
THis is to the entire list, mostly to Chip. It is o8.rb, my very slightly tweaked version of what you ma/// rather, what i found and began messing with a couple, three hours ago. I searched++ and could not find the C equivalent of "if counter % N == 0" i

Can FreeBSD be made to be as polished a desktop as Linux Mint?

2011-02-20 Thread Xn Nooby
I was wondering if there were any technical reasons why a FreeBSD desktop could not be hand-tweaked to be as nice as a Linux Mint 10 desktop. I only rarely use Linux Mint 10, but it's desktop and webrowsing seem to be about perfect (albeit green). The Gnome UI is very smooth to interact with, and

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:44:10AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: > > > > > > > > Yes, this is much nicer that the more -15 that messes up the > > > text with it's [MORE...] white within black. But

Re: Set tty resolution using hint.sc.0.flags with VESA

2011-02-20 Thread Dima Panov
Hello! 07.02.2011, 03:57, "David Demelier" : > On 06/02/2011 17:52, Dima Panov wrote: > >>  Hello! >> >>  [fluffy@Beastie] ~$ cat /boot/device.hints|grep sc.0 >>  hint.sc.0.at="isa" >>  hint.sc.0.flags="0x180" >>  hint.sc.0.vesa_mode=0x1f0 > > absolutely great! But where did you find these vesa_mo

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:44:10AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: > > > > > Yes, this is much nicer that the more -15 that messes up the > > text with it's [MORE...] white within black. But here you can't > > just tap the spacebar; is there

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:26:32AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: > > >On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:28:07PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > >>On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: > >> > >>>Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, > >>>b

Re:Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-20 Thread James Phillips
> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:23:03 +0100 > From: Polytropon > Subject: Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS? > To: Brian Callahan > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <20110220042303.0f730c6b.free...@edvax.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Thu, 17 Feb

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-20 Thread Brian Callahan
> > After deciding I could not really buy a computer locally, I ordered my latest > machine from "Freedom Included, Inc" from in the US. > http://freedomincluded.com/product/lemote-yeeloong/ > > It is a MIPS-based subnotebook shipping with gNewSense (Linux distro). I > don't think it is what th

umass troubles again

2011-02-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've a 4GB USB memory which is formatted as a single FAT32 partition. When I insert it, I get: root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x1e3d product 0x2092 bus uhub5 kernel: ugen5.3: at usbus5 kernel: umass1: on usbus5 kernel: umass1: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x kernel: umass1:3:

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-20 Thread David Demelier
On 20/02/2011 18:40, Warren Block wrote: $() apparently isn't quite the same as backticks, although sh(1) doesn't mention that, or I just missed it. This script is just supposed to escape special characters* in a path/filename: #!/bin/sh DESTDIR="./" COMPFILE=".cshrc" PSTR=`echo "${DESTDIR}${C

Backtick versus $()

2011-02-20 Thread Warren Block
$() apparently isn't quite the same as backticks, although sh(1) doesn't mention that, or I just missed it. This script is just supposed to escape special characters* in a path/filename: #!/bin/sh DESTDIR="./" COMPFILE=".cshrc" PSTR=`echo "${DESTDIR}${COMPFILE}" | sed 's%\([?:.%\\]\)%\\\1%g'

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 350, Issue 10

2011-02-20 Thread Chris Rees
Sorry Mats, I couldn't find anything in that email! Please would you resend it, with only relevant quotes and with an appropriate subject? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011: > > Yes, this is much nicer that the more -15 that messes up the > text with it's [MORE...] white within black. But here you can't > just tap the spacebar; is there a way around that and > turning it into a space...? > >

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Robert Bonomi on Sunday, 20 February 2011: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 19 18:28:20 2011 > > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:23:00 -0800 > > From: Gary Kline > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Cc: > > Subject: Re: variable line-display pager? > > > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 a

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:28:07PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, but here's where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can squeeze my "15" or sm

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

2011-02-20 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 19, 2011 11:39:38 PM +0100, Andy Wodfer is alleged to have said: Cool. Procmail is now installed, but the procmail.rc file, should that be placed under root's home folder ie /root/procmail.rc or another user? I assume root since Daniel's command doesn't specify any users? That

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 19 18:28:20 2011 > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:23:00 -0800 > From: Gary Kline > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Cc: > Subject: Re: variable line-display pager? > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Gary Kline on Sa

Re: 8.2-PRERELEASE?

2011-02-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/02/2011 03:05, Frank Shute wrote: > Just keep following RELENG_8 and once the 8.2-RELEASE is done it will > become 8.3-STABLE. > Well, yes. But not for something like 4 months until the process for releasing 8.3 has happened. Most of the time between now and then, it will appear as 8.2-ST

Re: How older files installed by previous versions of FreeBSD are supposed to be deleted?

2011-02-20 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:05:00 -0800 Yuri wrote: > I updated my system many times. > As a result I have many older libraries with different numbers: > /lib/libm.so.4 > /lib/libm.so.5 > > /lib/libutil.so.5 > /lib/libutil.so.7 > /lib/libutil.so.8 > /lib/libutil.so.9 > > /lib/libc.so.6 > /lib/libc.s

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:28:07PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: > > >Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, > >but here's where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can > >squeeze my "15" or small-n lines' worth into. > > x

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:44:32PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chip Camden on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > > > > Ne

How older files installed by previous versions of FreeBSD are supposed to be deleted?

2011-02-20 Thread Yuri
I updated my system many times. As a result I have many older libraries with different numbers: /lib/libm.so.4 /lib/libm.so.5 /lib/libutil.so.5 /lib/libutil.so.7 /lib/libutil.so.8 /lib/libutil.so.9 /lib/libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.7 How older files are normally deleted? Is there a script that finds