Re: version/revision control software for things mostly not source

2010-04-18 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello, On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: > I've looked at SVN and it looks reasonably easy to grok, but reading > the "Version Control with Subversion" book... it seems there is no > actual way to truly erase/delete/destoy/purge a part of an existing > repository? This sounds ra

Re: Problems with Xorg after portupgrade

2009-04-19 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello Manolis, On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Warren Block wrote: >> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> >>> Browsing your xorg.conf, you forgot to add the keyword "Option" in front >>> of "AllowEmptyInput". And actually this should also go the "ServerFlags"

Problems with Xorg after portupgrade

2009-04-18 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello, This week upgraded my Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop from FreeBSD 7.0 to FreeBSD 7.1 and also csup'ed my ports and portupgraded them and I am not able to start X correctly. When I invoke startx, it tries to start it and then the screen goes blank and black, nothing is seen on it and I am no ab

Re: Compiling everything myself?

2009-03-16 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Daniel wrote: > Hi list > > This may be a basic question, but a question non the less. > > I have been using Debian for some years and have gotten tired by system > freezes, having a slow system, and having a package system that requires that > I install e

Re: kindle2

2009-03-12 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello, On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Pat Lackie wrote: > Do you allow reformatting the hand book into kindle2 Please check the copyright notice of the FreeBSD Handbook at [1]. Regards Rambius [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/LEGALNOTICE.html -- Tangra Mega Roc

Re: Free Pascal

2009-03-12 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello, On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Ian Fitzgerald wrote: > Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Ian Fitzgerald >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote: >>

Re: How do I determine the FreeBSD "world" revision/version?

2009-03-06 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello, On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Ian Bonnycastle wrote: > If I have a > particular FreeBSD system, and know its a modified kernel, how can I tell > what base was originally on it? Actually, why would you want to know this and how do you define base? I have a laptop on which I installed yea

Re: Ports Options

2009-02-20 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello, On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Pieter Donche wrote: > At the first install of a package via the ports collection (cd > /usr/ports/../..; make install clean), if the package provides configuration > options, you can check these on a menu screen, > or accept all the defaults. > > If later

Re: How to generate password hashes for vipw and chpass

2008-10-05 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello Adam, On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Adam Zaleski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov pisze: > >> # /sbin/md5 -s newpassword >> and then I passed the output to chpass. I tried to use the new >> password for the next login but it failed

How to generate password hashes for vipw and chpass

2008-10-05 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, According to man pages of chpass(1) and vipw(1) I can create and modify users by supplying a user database entry in passwd(5) format. The only problem I face is that I do not know how to generate the password hashes for the password field. Following section 14.4 [http://www.freebsd.org/do

Re: Forwarding all mail to a local user

2008-08-31 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello Jeffrey, On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should edit > > /etc/mail/virtusertable > > to include a line like > > @localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > There is a sample virtusertable you can look at. > > After you have edited the virtusertable

Forwarding all mail to a local user

2008-08-31 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello list, I have the following questions. How can I forward all mail sent to @localhost to a [EMAIL PROTECTED], where rambius is my own user account in my FreeBSD system and can be anything including a user name that does not exist on the local machine? The reason I want this is the following:

Re: Formatting dates to a specific pattern

2008-08-30 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, Thank you for all of your responses. I received earlier a private answer from another member of list. He told me to use the '-' sign after '%' in the date pattern of date(1) command: $ date +%-m%-d%Y This one seems to not include leading zeros and I reworked it to $ date +%-m-%-d-%Y t

Formatting dates to a specific pattern

2008-08-30 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, I need to format the current date (as returned by date(1) ) to the pattern m-d-, where m is the month in one or digits, d is the day in one or two digits, and is the year in four digits. The problem for me is the day and the month, for example August should be 8, and not 08, and 5t

Re: Networking issues

2008-06-09 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have, for some time, been able to ssh into my father's FreeBSD machine in > the Road Runner network in Central New York. Last night, I tried so that I > could fix a problem for him and ssh timed out.

Re: SVN Advice

2008-05-20 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello Montag, On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:05 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm seeking to set up an SVN repository on my home machine. I've come > across the following two guides: > > http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/misc/subversion.php > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/

Re: Which jdk port should I use?

2008-03-05 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Steven Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two installed: > diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_9 > jdk-1.5.0.14p8,1 > > I looked at the freebsd java pages, but I still don't know... It seems that you have diablo jdk and sun jdk installed on your machine. Di

Re: portupgrade

2008-03-03 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:55 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to get the portupgrade to just accept all of the defaults > for the configurations of the individual ports. I tried # env BATCH=yes, > but it still just goes on hanging on the port configuration menus. It > se

Re: Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile

2008-01-27 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello Georgious, On Jan 28, 2008 2:59 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-01-28 00:48, Ivan Rambius Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell > > command from

Re: Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile

2008-01-27 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello Alphons, On Jan 28, 2008 1:07 AM, Alphons Fonz van Werven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote: > > > I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell > > command from it and assign its output to a variable. > > I

Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile

2008-01-27 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell command from it and assign its output to a variable. The command in question is # make -f /usr/ports/lang/fpc/Makefile -V PORTVERSION and I have verified that it works on the command line. I try to use it in my port's Make

Re: How to backup the users

2008-01-27 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
On Jan 27, 2008 6:58 PM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users > > >> ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall

How to backup the users

2008-01-27 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall FreeBSD on it, but I want to preserve the users' credentials. Can you please advise me how to back them up? Thank you in advance. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega

Re: /usr/local/rc.d/apache22 start doesn't start Apache

2007-12-14 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello Yuri, On Dec 14, 2007 5:03 PM, Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed Apache port. > But when I run "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start" nothing happens. > 'ps ax | grep httpd' returns nothing. > So server wasn't started. > > Why nothing is printed and server not started with the firs

Re: how to make a patch

2007-10-16 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, First, do you have the latest ports tree? If not, it maybe a good idea to update your ports tree and verify that the bug is still there. Second, since it concerns the ports be sure to checkThe FreeBSD Porters Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ and e

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, On 10/12/07, Connie Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please help as I don't know where to begin. It is not clear from your email what do you want to do and what you have done up to know. If you do not have FreeBSD already installed you can start from Installing FreeBSD chapter in the handb

Re: BSD Live?

2007-10-11 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, On 10/11/07, Timothy Klaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any BSD version that provides a LiveCD Yes, it is called Freesbie: http://www.freesbie.org/ Regards Rabius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: FreeBSD Tomcat

2007-09-28 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, On 9/28/07, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is not correct. The Java packages available from the FreeBSD > Foundation are based on the same codebase as any other 1.5 JDK or JRE > from Sun. Thank you for correcting me. I was not (fully) aware of this fact. Regards Rambius

Re: FreeBSD Tomcat

2007-09-28 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello On 9/28/07, Yance Kowara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would you mind explaining the difference between > sun-jdk and diablo jdk? > >From the point of view of the end user or even the Java programmer there is no differences - both jdk's offer the same public APIs, compilers, runtime environ

Re: FreeBSD Tomcat

2007-09-27 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, On 9/28/07, Byung-Hee HWANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this case I think you are better to use Linux than to use FreeBSD > because still it's difficult to operate Java stuff on FreeBSD. So I > recommend that you should move to Linux. Actually nowadays it is easy to use java and tomcat

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
Hello, I am using Acer TravelMate 4060 and I am very satisfied. The wireless card works very well and I had no problems with the video card. Regards Rambius ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable

2007-09-14 Thread Ivan &quot;Rambius&quot; Ivanov
In Sofia, Bulgaria as well. Regards Rambius On 9/14/07, Pablo Mora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/14/07, Caio Figueiredo Abecia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The website isn't working here too. (Brazil) > > > > In Chile neither > > -- >

Re: Configuring OpenLDAP on FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Problems.

2007-08-23 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello, On 8/23/07, David Robillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, I am pretty new with LDAP too :) I have no documentation beside > > the one I found from Googling around. > > Hi Olivier, > > There are a few good books about LDAP out there, but most of them are > quite old unfortunately. An

Re: jdk15

2007-06-29 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
On 6/29/07, kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: yea... i did all that stuff for both ports too. all the downloads, etc. i've been using freebsd as main os on my laptops for 5 years now - have never used windows. and java has historically been a pain in the ass to set up on freebsd. Well,

Re: jdk15

2007-06-29 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello On 6/29/07, kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What I did was to install the native freebsd jdk, >> that is diablo-jdk (port java/diablo-jdk) and then I installed >> java/jdk-15 port. > > i'll try that. thanks... will report how it went... didn't do much. it installed very quic

Unable to login using KDE

2007-04-26 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello, I am debugging a (seemingly) KDE-related problem on a FreeBSD laptop. The version of FreeBSD is 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #0. I am starting in in debug mode. It is using kdm as a login screen. The corresponding line in /etc/ttys is ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure The problem i

Re: Hi ;

2007-03-14 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello, On 3/14/07, Christian Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 14/03/07, Halil Guven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Sırs > > I want to open in FreeBSD program 21,443,11905,11907,12341 15501 ports.How > can i do these. > > Please inform me and thanks in advance of your help. > > Wait of yo

Re: odule php5_module is already loaded, skipping ?

2007-03-04 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello, On 3/5/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Guys, I have apache 2.2.4 and PHP 5.2.1 installed this what I get when I restart the apache. # apachectl restart [Mon Mar 05 03:29:45 2007] [warn] module php5_module is already loaded, skipping Obviously there are

Re: Restoring FreeBSD grub loader

2006-10-01 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello, Thank you for your response. On 10/1/06, backyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on one machine with grub > boot loader. In the > beginning ther

Restoring FreeBSD grub loader

2006-09-30 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello, I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on one machine with grub boot loader. In the beginning there was only one entry in grub - namely FreeBSD. Later, I had to install Windows XP on the machine and of course, it destroyed grub and now I cannot boot FreeBSD. I tried with booting from the FreeBSD install

Re: KDE and libflashplayer - help?

2006-09-27 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello, On 9/26/06, Oliver Iberien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've followed the instructions at http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php. libmap.conf contains: [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2 libdl.so.2

Re: How to load iwi firmware at boot time

2006-09-26 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello, On 9/26/06, Ivan Rambius Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have an Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 running on it. I have Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless network card which I use successfully. I have the following iwi related entries in rc.conf: ##

How to load iwi firmware at boot time

2006-09-26 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello, I have an Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 running on it. I have Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless network card which I use successfully. I have the following iwi related entries in rc.conf: ## Intel Wireless Adapter settings iwi_enable="YES" iwi_interfaces="iwi0" iwi_mode

Re: Problems with X mouse pointer

2006-09-24 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
On 9/24/06, Ivan Rambius Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, After an year of successful using of FreeBSD, a friend of mine asked me to install it on her laptop. The laptop is Pestigio Visconte 120 with Intel 855 chipset. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and run X with only one problem. The

Problems with X mouse pointer

2006-09-24 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello, After an year of successful using of FreeBSD, a friend of mine asked me to install it on her laptop. The laptop is Pestigio Visconte 120 with Intel 855 chipset. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and run X with only one problem. The mouse pointer in X is not a normal arrow, but a white big square. I

Re: Calling setxkbmap when starting X

2006-09-17 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello, Thank you for your response. I think what you're looking for is xinit(1). My own: $ cat ~/.xinitrc #!/bin/sh xmodmap .xmodmaprc xsetroot -solid dimgray xgamma -gamma 0.8 exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session I forgot to explain that I do not start X manually with startx command. It is st

Calling setxkbmap when starting X

2006-09-16 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello, I am from Bulgaria and I use Bulgarian language on my FreeBSD machine. I use the following command $ setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout "us,bg" -variant ",phonetic" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle" to enable both Bulgarian and English. However, I call this command every time I log in KDE. Is i

FreeBSD 6.1 laptop with wireless internet

2006-05-22 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Dear Colleagues, I have a laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 on it and it is working fine. I recently received a card for wireless internet; it is in fact a Verizon Wireless PC5740 card and I am wondering if I can set it up on my FreeBSD laptop. I googled about it and I found [1] mentioning about some conf

Setting up Sound Blaster Pro card

2006-01-26 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Dear Colleagues, I am trying to set up my sound card and I am finding some difficulties. First, here is the description of the hardware. I use Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop with 512 MB RAM with Intel Chipset 915GM. The Audio Section taken directly from the laptop's user guide is: Audio system with

Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'?

2006-01-16 Thread Ivan \&quot;Rambius\&quot; Ivanov
Hello, > baring this, is there a better tool to use then rpm? I am a newbie in freebsd with ambitions to become a master :) and up to now I have installed tons of software using freebsd ports collection and freebsd packages and I found them better than rpm. Anyway, FreeBSD can run rpm as well (if