Re: Need bsd make for AIX

2010-09-16 Thread Chuck Robey
On 09/16/10 20:34, Ivan Voras wrote: On 09/16/10 08:58, srividy...@tcs.com wrote: Hi Is there any BSD make versions available for AIX platform? We require the make utility of BSD to compile few source programs. Is there any make utility compatible with AIX? Could you please give us the UR

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-28 Thread Chuck Robey
Dale Scott wrote: > Personally, I enjoy our mascot Beastie, as well as the Beastie-influenced > official logo. I also smile when I see Casper, Wendy andHotStuff. > However, I also accept there are individuals who understand these symbols > differently than me, and that I may be alienating them t

Re: which java on 8-release

2010-02-05 Thread Chuck Robey
Rob Farmer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Steve Franks wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Tried to get any permutation of XYZ-jre or XYZ-jdk installed on 8-rc1 >> and gave up. I see still no diablo for 8. What is the best way >> forward (and how am I so dense that no one else has even asked this >> q

Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

2010-02-04 Thread Chuck Robey
Mike Clarke wrote: > On Thursday 04 February 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Kline wrote: >>>Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the >>>bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of >>> firefox35? >>> >>>though

X11/freebsd problem

2010-02-04 Thread Chuck Robey
I have this problem with my built-under-freebsd-current Xorg, it gives me this following sort of error everytime it starts up: (pts/2):{14}% Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Usually, that 2

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Chuck Robey
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman > wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently >> installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I >> tried to start X from the CLI using the normal startx com

Re: portupgrade failure

2009-12-16 Thread Chuck Robey
Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Warren Block wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Kevin wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> The only other symptoms I can identify right now are related to the >>> following entries in my crontab: >>> >>> 0 2 * * 6 /usr/local/sbin/portsclean -D

Re: X11's tcp port: FIXED

2009-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
Chuck Robey wrote: > I've got to be doing something wierd, for this not to work ... I wanted to > kick > off a app on a 2nd machine of mine, and have it display on my main FreeBSD > machine, but it won't work. I know all the security things, I know I had > xhost > an

X11's tcp port

2009-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got to be doing something wierd, for this not to work ... I wanted to kick off a app on a 2nd machine of mine, and have it display on my main FreeBSD machine, but it won't work. I know all the security things, I know I had xhost and DISPLAY corre

Re: Eclipse & Java 1.5

2009-11-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Alex Huth wrote: > Hi! > > I want to change my laptop system from Debian to FreeBSD. After installing 8.0 > RC2 in a virtual machine i have tried to install eclipse and changed the Java > version in the makefile to 1.5, but it still want to install the 1.6 jdk. > > I need the 1.5 version for seve

Re: vim Keybindings

2009-10-31 Thread Chuck Robey
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm experiencing an annoying problem with vim on FBSD 8 that I don't > have on FBSD 7. Whenever I start vim, if I press the down arrow as the > first key, it deletes the first line of my file and enters insert mode. > All the other keys work fine and even the down arrow wo

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-08 Thread Chuck Robey
Lars Eighner wrote: > > What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose > make is > being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why > make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with > implicit C > rules, while -- it seems to me -- mak

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-05-30 Thread Chuck Robey
Mel Flynn wrote: > All (including David with his kick-ass postmaster hat), > > while off-topic, flames and other non sense covered by Freedom of Speech are > an annoyance to many, I'm more bothered by some newcomers to the list that > are > being greylisted on first post and instantly hit the r

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-29 Thread Chuck Robey
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> I've been subscribed to this list for quite some time. I've tried to >> help where I know, Hey folks, all of you, could I please sugggest that this entire thread (under a variety of subject names) is an abuse of the lists? These topics should definitely occur, something

Re: compiling FreeBSD date on Linux

2009-05-19 Thread Chuck Robey
Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 2009 18:19:21 -0300, francis keyes wrote: >> I would like to compile the FreeBSD date command for use on Linux because >> the FreeBSD version has some features that are not present in Linux. >> I downloaded all the files from >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.

Re: Disabling ssh timeouts?

2009-05-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Steve Kargl wrote: > Is there anyway to disable sshd from timing out a connection? > I've tried setting ClientAliveCountMax and ClientAliveInterval > and TCPKeepAlive in sshd.conf, but no combination that I've > tried has worked. > > I'm trying to running the GCC testsuite, which is not an > int

Re: filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel C. Dowse wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:36:31 -0400 > Chuck Robey wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I just put a OpenBSD partition on a EIDE disk I had laying around. I

filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just put a OpenBSD partition on a EIDE disk I had laying around. I'd had some advice (apparently bad) that the OpenBSD UFS filesystem could provide a filesystem that I could access from FreeBSD ... least, just now when I tried to mount either of the

Re: CVS history access?

2009-04-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Nielsen wrote: > I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD > src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way > for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue. > > I t

filesystem compatibility

2009-04-23 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there any filesystems which FreeBSD has which offer compatibility to OpenBSD? I want to add a OpenBSD partition to my long-existing FreeBSD disk, make it OpenBSD, but I want to be able to transfer data between FreeBSD & OpenBSD. Any filesystem wh

Re: the 'make' command in the ports tree

2009-04-14 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:08:21 +0200, dede wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm a long time user of BSDs, and I don't find man pages or >> documentation on the way I can master the port collection (specialy the >> fonction of make). > > Did

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: >> But I do need to figure out how to get the subversion archive (not >> a particular branch of the archive, the whole kit and kaboodle). > > devel/svk? (From a mention last

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:18:33 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> What I don't know is, I use cvsup all the time, but when I switch to >> svn, what does the "cvsup" job of tracking an archive (not t

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote: > > Sorry to follow-up my own note, but . . . > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Andrew Wright wrote: > > [ further snippage of previous note ] > >> Strong Caveats: > >> o ***Early Adopter Warning***: There has not been (as far

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-03-31 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Wright wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> I've finally decided that it's way past time that I switched from >> using cvs for >> my home archive (currently /home/ncvs) to using subvers

going from cvs to svn

2009-03-31 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've finally decided that it's way past time that I switched from using cvs for my home archive (currently /home/ncvs) to using subversion. I'm trying to hunt down a web page that might give a set of rules to help moving things. I've spent about the

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Oh, crap, I flubbed it about the bash error. It's SO often something claimed by folks, I knee-jerked that it had to be a previous line in error. Sorry. > "Daniel Bye" writes: > >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Mic

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Daniel Bye" writes: > >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. >>> All >>> of a sudden when I login,

Re: Solaris Compat?

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> I don't want to raise an argument here (on multiple levels, no less...), >> but what would the compatibility be between FreeBSD (release) and >> Solaris? >> >> Why I ask is Adobe have released a version of flash for Solaris, a

Re: X11 forwarding through SSH: Can't open display

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sk89q wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Bill Moran wrote: >> In response to sk89q : >> >>> I meant sshd_config. >> Do you have the xauth package installed on the remote server? You don't >> need a full X install, but X11 forwarding won't work

Re: hex editors, disk info

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Karpovic wrote: >> That in mind, what's wrong with bpatch? I've used it for binary patching, it >> works just fine that that (if my first assumption is totally off-base). You >> download from the device, change any required data, and (if the dev

Re: Why are the Zionist leaders in Israel so happy about the newPresident?

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:04:15PM +, Anthony M. Rasat wrote: >> Lawrence Auster wrote: >>> Bla bla bla Ku Klux Klan crap. >> Why don't you bring your hatred outta here. This is a family-oriented >> channel. >> >> Next time, e

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie Kester wrote: > On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote: >> >> Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] >> chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? > > pdfsam ( http://w

Re: jdk16

2009-01-23 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Boosten wrote: > Peter Boosten wrote: >> Brian McQueen wrote: >>> I can't seem to find the files listed in the jdk16 port. What are >>> folks doing to get java going? The urls listed in the port are not >>> right, so the manual download step do

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-23 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0100 Frank Staals wrote: > >> It's a shame the FreeBSD port's version is so old (6.0-pre23 while the >> current version is allready 6.0-pre31 (or even 6.0-pre32 I'm not >> sure) though. > > Do y

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:34:26PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: >> My question is how do you clone PC over SSH (it would be too much a PITA >> to open each case to plug the HD directly in the source PC). > > Would it have to be ssh? Wh

How NOT to use multibytes

2009-01-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This might seem an odd problem ... I spend my computertime developing, and don't really have much care for my own personal use of multibyte character sets, at least when I playing with the shell or in an editor. I just finished fixing a problem in a h

Re: [ free_bsd_questions ] selecting a cpu heatsink / fan combo

2008-08-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 spellberg_robert wrote: > greetings, all --- > > this isn't exactly a free_bsd question, --but--, > since free_bsd is popular w/ the i386 crowd and > there are many rugged individualists on these lists > who like to "roll their own", > i figur

Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?

2008-08-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Gurvich wrote: > Using Xfree86 is possible but may require much manual configuration. I > also have problems with firefox and claws-mail in windowmaker & icewm, > but not in kde3 or kde4. I suspect there is a library path issue. I was doing so

Re: Tailing logs

2008-08-23 Thread Chuck Robey
DAve wrote: DAve wrote: I would love to have a way to tail a log, like piping to grep, except I see every line and the lines I would normally grep for are highlighted. That would be cool. Anyone know of a bash command or tool that will do this? Side note, I am tailing sendmail after changes

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-30 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:46:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: >> I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20" i can get widescreen >> with 1680x1050, so my current 1284x1024 would fit. IFF >> xorg kn

Re: whatkind of 19" LCD display??

2008-07-30 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:27:37PM -0500, Preston Hagar wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >

Re: whatkind of 19" LCD display??

2008-07-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >>so what are the top few makes of LCDs out there? > > I have several (6) Samsung SyncMaster 941BW monitors > I am very Happy with them I'd never purchased any 19" displays. About 5 years back, i was in the market for

Re: Component-based Operating System.

2008-07-28 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Voras wrote: > Juan Carlos Villalobos wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am writing a paper on Component-based Operating Systems. I just >> wanted to know if FreeBSD is an Operating System engineered based on >> Components. >> >> I appreciate your input

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 DSA - JCR wrote: > Hi all > > FreeBSD 6.2 > > I would like to put a password when booting/mounting mi Freebsd box. > is it possible? How? > > What I want is that if the system is rebooted or shutdown, somebody must > enter a password to boot and/or

Re: Reading from USB devices

2008-07-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd like to read data from a USB device that is not a thumb drive. >> How would I do this? For instance, it's an oximeter for reading >> biometrics. What libraries exist for rea

Re: Can't ping

2008-07-20 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > check your firewall rules > > > On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Rem P Roberti wrote: > >> Can someone tell what is going on here. All of a sudden I can't ping. >> When I try a get this message: >> >> ping: sendto: Permission denied >>

Re: Video Card Info

2008-07-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 George Hartzell wrote: > RW writes: > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 > > George Hartzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Warren Liddell writes: > > > > im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card > > > > an was

Re: Video Card Info

2008-07-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 > George Hartzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Warren Liddell writes: >> > im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card >> > an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any is

Re: Which file can I find the error message that shows on the screen when I build my kernel?

2008-06-22 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > On Sunday 22 June 2008 15:17:56 Chuck Robey wrote: >> make |& tee makeout >> >> where the complete ooutput goes into the "makeout" file. The "&" there >> doesn't take

Re: Which file can I find the error message that shows on the screen when I build my kernel?

2008-06-22 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi: > I have make some changes to the kernel files and rebuild the kernel, but > when I rebuild the kernel, it show some errors and stop rebuild. The > question I want ask is that: Is there any file that store all these erro

Re: FreeBSD as VOIP PBX

2008-06-22 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sergio lenzi wrote: > Em Sex, 2008-06-20 às 21:45 +0200, Wojciech Puchar escreveu: > when i connected 56 cisco phones to my laptop (used 4*16 port switches ;), and having all of them working (called from first to second, from third to

Re: shellscript conditional to check for external disk

2008-06-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Helge Rohde wrote: > Hello List, > > I need to write a backup script, and one of the required actions would be a > copy of the backup to an external firewire drive. I would like to make this > as easy as possible for the local staff, so i'd like to

Re: how to view environment variables

2008-06-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > RW wrote: >> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:27:10 +0100 >> Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> sysutils/fusefs-ntfs/files/README.FreeBSD refers to various >>> environment variables, eg UBLIO_BLOCKSIZE and

Re: Make buildworld

2008-06-08 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian wrote: > Jos Chrispijn wrote: >> Can someone tell me the difference between 'make -j2 buildworld' and >> 'make -j4 buildworld' ? >> >> Thanks, >> Jos >> ___ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: git

2008-06-04 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:22:09 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:31:24 -0400, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Wonder if anyone could

Re: git

2008-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 N.J. Thomas wrote: > * Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-03 16:46:55-0400]: >>>> git-pull gives me a coredump >>> Have you tried to clone other repositories and see if you can >>> replicate this error? >

Re: git

2008-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 N.J. Thomas wrote: > * Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-03 14:31:24-0400]: >> Wonder if anyone could tell me why anything I do to run git-pull gives >> me a coredump? The image that gets dumped is git-fetch, if that >

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Kline wrote: > Agree 100.0%, Ted. Long run, the inkjet will bleed you like a leech. > My 1991 [?] DeskJet 500 was > $400, major bux. But having bought at > least > two cadtrides/year until last winter. Lowball it: $20 per cartridge. > > Well

git

2008-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wonder if anyone could tell me why anything I do to run git-pull gives me a coredump? The image that gets dumped is git-fetch, if that helps, and I was just trying to update the xorg source tree. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (Fr

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar >> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 1:06 AM >> To: Warren Block >> Cc: FreeBSD Questions >> Subject: RE: Duplex print

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline > Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 12:23 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Cc: Kurt Buff; Derek Ragona > Subject: Re: Duplex printe

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Ovens wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: >> I saw a mail yesterday about something nearly like this, from nej, >> except with >> him, the umass device wasn't reporting anything at all, no device when he >> plugged it i

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Ovens wrote: > Bought an external USB HD enclosure but it doesn't work under FreeBSD. > > Under FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE: > > umass0: Super Top USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE, rev 2.00/2.01, addr 2 > da2 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da2: Fixed Direct Ac

Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?

2008-05-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:04:40PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: >> Currently using a Radeon 8500LE but since u/g to xorg 7.3 I've had >> nothing but trouble with X hanging/crashing/locking-up. >> >> From what I've read, the state of

Re: Stick memory USB

2008-05-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 nej ALL wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new on FreeBSD not on unix. > > I want to mount automatically an usb-stick memory into my machine ? > I get some problems. > > Need help. You're trying with your devfs stuff to create the file, but you have to realize i

Re: Lock down the all-staff email list? sendmail, alias, majordomo?

2008-05-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 brad davison wrote: > Our company has a sendmail server 8.13.8 running on FBSD 6.2 with procmail. > We currently have an alias set up for our all-staff email (we only have about > 200 users). Someone recently sent out an email to the all-staff that

Re: Belkin F5D9050 ver 4000

2008-05-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Friedrich wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing a descriptor dump, and posting the results to freebsd-usb@, might find someone who knows how to get that particular device to work. >>> Ok, I'll bite. How do you do a descrip

about Linux

2008-05-08 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to get a problem with my linuxulator working, where all of my items that came from the linux-blackdown port give an error about a missing libdl.so.2. I tried using the Linux ldd, no output at all to see if there are missing libs (that's wi

Re: about seamonkey

2008-05-08 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christer Hermansson wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I was wondering if anyone here knew the answer, I have built seamonkey >> with >> ports, but everytime

about seamonkey

2008-05-07 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering if anyone here knew the answer, I have built seamonkey with ports, but everytime I start it up, two windows pop up (the browser and the mail window). Seeing as I don't want the mailer EVER to pop up (I use thunderbird for that), anyone

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Banning wrote: > I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. > If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which > directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip > the files into a dir

Re: Wake-on-LAN and the em driver (freebsd 7.x)

2008-04-02 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> -Original Message- >> From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:46 PM >> To: Ted Mittelstaedt >> Cc: Walker; Kent Hauser; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: Wake-

Re: some pam problem?

2008-04-02 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 01), Chuck Robey said: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I can't figure out what this message below means to me: >> >> Mar 31 17:

some pam problem?

2008-04-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't figure out what this message below means to me: Mar 31 17:12:02 april sshd[26150]: in openpam_dispatch(): pam_nologin.so: no pam_sm_authenticate() I have guessed it meant I had something wrong with my login.access, but I wasn't able to find a

Re: How do I add search paths to gcc

2008-03-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo Cerejo wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:31:54 -0400 > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> mdh wrote: >>> --- Eduardo Cerejo &l

Re: How do I add search paths to gcc

2008-03-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mdh wrote: > --- Eduardo Cerejo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My gcc is only looking in /usr/lib and /usr/include >> for libraries and hearders and I added the paths >> /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include to my .cshrc >> file: >> >> set path = (/

Re: USB printer

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>> If your not a right-clicker or an i-book flipper than it's >>> understandable you would wonder why there's so much attention >>> paid to CUPS for FreeBSD since it does nothing for the usual >>> command line junkie. There's

Re: USB printer

2008-03-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Robey >> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:24 AM >> To: Predrag Punosevac >> Cc

Re: C compiler issue perhaps?

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Ragona wrote: > At 05:10 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: >> I have a program I was testing with gdb. I was trying to figure out >> why c.rmonths was always zero when it should have been 6. Stepped >> through using the gdb n command. Here is t

pam problems

2008-03-13 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My messages file is getting completely blasted by error lines like this: Mar 13 11:16:03 april sshd[80704]: in openpam_dispatch(): pam_nologin.so: no pam_sm_authenticate() Anyone got any idea what's causing this? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: USB printer

2008-03-13 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > Gligor Lucian wrote: > >>>> David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at >>>> 12:59:38PM -0700, Gligor Lucian >wrote: >&

Re: USB printer

2008-03-12 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > > Chuck Robey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Gligor Lucian wrote: >> >>> David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, M

Re: USB printer

2008-03-12 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gligor Lucian wrote: > > David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:59:38PM > -0700, Gligor Lucian >wrote: >>> Does FreeBSD support a USB printer? > >> Yes. > You know, while there are printing utils that actually work on F

Re: What provides libfontconfig.la?

2008-02-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, I recently upgraded my system from FreeBSD 6.0 to 6.3. But Im having > trouble > with some ports that are unable to find /usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.la. > Where does > this come from, so i can (re)install it? I cou

Re: python and Guile-gtk... [a bit OT]

2008-02-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vinny wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > [snip] > >> >> I'd like help getting python to read from a file and display a >> steram of text on a textcanvas. I'll fiure out the buttons later. >> I'd appreciate any insights about regular gtk and gui

Re: Recommended jet printer

2008-02-28 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ghirai wrote: > Hello list, > > Can anyone recommend a jet color > printer that works with CUPS on FreeBSD, > somewhere in the low - mid range. > Man, nearly every printer being sold is *SOMEBODY's* favorite, so you really, really should have noted

Re: linux program only runs from /compat/linux/usr/lib

2008-02-13 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Franks wrote: > If I cd to /compat/linux/usr/lib, and start , it > runs fine. If I start it from any other location, I get > /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 : wrong ABI. So the app is finding the > FreeBSD lib instead of the Linux one. I tried putt

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-13 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2008 21:50, Chuck Robey wrote: >> Jonathan McKeown wrote: > [snip] >>> There are a few sites which don't work without Flash. Having checked on a >>> number of occasion

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-12 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Monday 11 February 2008 22:26, Chuck Robey wrote: >> All you folks who are focussing on YouTube are (purposefully? I don't >> know) the fact that with just about half of the entire Web using flash in &

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> YouTube? Isn't the right spelling YouPorn? >> >> No, it isn't. If you find nothing worth watching on *You*Tube, it >> doesn't mean that others can't find interesting things. For example, I >> find there a lot of good and

Re: some help please

2008-01-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norman Maurer wrote: > Hi, > > please reread the handbook I think all you need is explained there > in detail > > bye > Norman > > Am Mittwoch, den 16.01.2008, 09:46 +0200 schrieb Moazzar Battah: >> Dear Sir, >> >> I need some help , I am a new

Re: disabling boot output

2008-01-07 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tilman Linneweh wrote: > > > * Omer Faruk Sen [ Jan 4, 2008 (15:20 )]: >> How can I disable boot messages so user can't see any boot message. >> I think there is 4 part for that and each of them requires a different >> configuration file to be edited

Howcome mail deletion time varies?

2008-01-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use, for my imap-based mail, a combination of postfix, dovecot, thunderbird, enigmail (for gnupg), and openssl for browser security. When I delete mail messages, the majority of them delete (what seems to me to be) instantaneously, but a small minor

Re: AAARRRGH: network foul-ups.

2007-12-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile) wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 18:38 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: >> The trouble is that two of my machines report the identical >> private IP: 10.0.0.250. Previously "tao" was 10.0.0.247 and > > > Be sure to flush o

Re: lost X11 input from kybd-SOLVED!

2007-12-27 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: > ,--[ On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:41:18PM -0500, chuckr wrote: > | I'm running FreeBSD-current. I updated about 30 hours ago, did a > | rebuild of world and the kernel (without changing my kernel config file > | at all.

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:34:24AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Even though it will take quite a bit longer you should just do a "make distclean" in /usr/ports that way anything you hand modified will be retained

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Jurjen Middendorp wrote: If you're familiar with pdksh, are you also familiar with ksh93, which is (I believe) Mr. Korn's own shell? If you are, I would be interessted in your opinion of the two, any comparisons you might give. I've never used ksh93 so I really can't say. There is a NOTES

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Michaël Grünewald wrote: Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: As long as folks don't stop me from running whatever I want, I don't care if you use bash, but it really irks me, that most Linux systems are broken in that respect: Most of them break badly in random ways, if yo

Re: csh programing book

2007-12-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 02:57:12PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Actually, I like ksh better, if you are really going all out for a programming shell, but if you're really after a scripting language, why restrict yourself to shells? things like Python & Ruby knock hel

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