Re: chmod operation on directories / files

2008-05-07 Thread Gordon devel
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:56:42PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > How do I chmod separately files and directories? > > If I use chmod -R 644 then it will go through all the subdirectories > assigning everything 644 permissions, directories including. > How about? find . -type d -exec chmod

Re: BSD Computers

2008-04-20 Thread Gordon devel
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 07:13:19PM -0700, Jerry Rukavina wrote: > > I can?t find any out of the box computers that have FreeBSD loaded. Do you > know which computer manufactures, both laptop and desktop, which can run > FreeBSD? Do you recommend any particular models or know of which ones are > mo

Re: Where to have my .so files install?

2008-04-19 Thread Gordon devel
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:21:25AM +0200, Mel wrote: > > > Adam J Richardson wrote: > > > > Hi all. > > > > > > > > I'm writing a program which uses .so files as plugins. Now I need > > > > to decide where on the filesystem to install the plugins. I don't > > > > want to clutter the system location

Re: A couple of questions about 7.0-RELEASE and X11

2008-03-15 Thread Gordon devel
The configure program is now /usr/local/bin/xorgconfig . You might also want to try 'X -configure' , which does some hardware probing and puts a best guess configure file in /root/xorg.conf.new . The X documentation can still be a bit sketchy. Above advice came from books. Cheers, Gordon On Sa

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-11 Thread Gordon devel
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:35:13PM +, Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: > Wojciech Puchar cut a corner: > > I'm afraid it's not that simple. Counterexample: > > When I was shopping for a new parachute rig, one of the manufacturers I was > interested in turned out to have a Flash-only website. I