Re: a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 17), Karl Vogel said: > >> In the last episode (Nov 17), Alexander Best said: > > A> i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them > A> seem to be doing something like this: > > A> Device 1M-blocks UsedAvail Capacity > A> /dev/lab

Re: a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Karl Vogel
>> In the last episode (Nov 17), Alexander Best said: A> i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them A> seem to be doing something like this: A> Device 1M-blocks UsedAvail Capacity A> /dev/label/swapfs 10239010239 0% A> /dev/label/sw

Re: a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Nov 17 10, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 17), Alexander Best said: > > hi there, > > > > i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them > > seem to be doing something like this: > > > > Device 1M-blocks UsedAvail Capacity > > /dev/lab

Re: a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 17), Alexander Best said: > hi there, > > i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them > seem to be doing something like this: > > Device 1M-blocks UsedAvail Capacity > /dev/label/swapfs 10239010239 0% > /dev/

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:59 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > On the page > > http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html > > Syntax is shown as: > > language_name:accounts_title:\ > :charset=MIME_charset:\ > :lang=lo

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread b. f.
... >Is it the colon or pipe sign that is correct? > >/Leslie The answer is clearly set forth in login.conf(5): "Records in a class capabilities database consist of a number of colon- separated fields. The first entry for each record gives one or more names that a record is to be kno

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/2010 11:00, Leslie Jensen wrote: > On the page > > http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html > > > Syntax is shown as: > > language_name:accounts_title:\ > :charset=MIME_charset:\ > :lang=

Re: A question about ptrace

2010-01-16 Thread Ali Polatel
Ali Polatel yazmış: > I'm trying to port a program using ptrace from Linux to FreeBSD. Answering myself after some more reading and trying... > assert(0 == ptrace(PT_TO_SCE, pid, 0, 0)); The third argument of this call should be 1 not 0. -- Regards, Ali Polatel pgpVCOf0yCg27.pgp De

Re: a question on ZFS boot/root in 8.0-RELEASE

2010-01-11 Thread krad
2010/1/11 Dan Naumov > Hello list. > > My concern is this: I really really like freebsd-update and want to > continue using it. Freebsd-update however, assumes that no part of > your base system has been compiled by hand, it's intended to be used > to update from official binaries to other offici

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-13 Thread Leslie Jensen
Polytropon skrev: On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:54:43 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: That's what troubles me, I'm used to use Yell so I'm certain that my config is ok. One thing I've been made aware of is that a laptop computer maybe do not have a "speaker". Only a sound card will produce sound in th

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:54:43 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > That's what troubles me, I'm used to use Yell so I'm certain that my > config is ok. One thing I've been made aware of is that a laptop > computer maybe do not have a "speaker". Only a sound card will produce > sound in the speakers. An

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-12 Thread Leslie Jensen
Polytropon skrev: On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:20:42 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: I have sound working but PC-speaker doesn't seem to be present. Do you have "device SPEAKER" in your kernel config, or have you loaded the appropriate kernel module? You can alway check it with something like

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-11 Thread herbert langhans
Leslie, /boot/loader.conf has to contain: speaker_load="YES" and even the little beep is a port to install: /usr/ports/audio/beep Cheers herb langhans On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 03:20:42PM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > I'm using audio/Yell a lot when I compile and run other scripted tasks. > >

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-11 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Friday 11 December 2009 18:13:04 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:20:42 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > I have sound working but PC-speaker doesn't seem to be present. > > Do you have "device SPEAKER" in your kernel config, > or have you loaded the appropriate kernel module? > > You c

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-11 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:20:42 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > I have sound working but PC-speaker doesn't seem to be present. Do you have "device SPEAKER" in your kernel config, or have you loaded the appropriate kernel module? You can alway check it with something like # echo "cdefg" > /d

Re: A question about the date Function

2009-09-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Martin McCormick writes: > Thanks to those who answered my question. I have discovered in > the process one big difference between the date function in > freebsd and Linux. Under freebsd, date -r 1234567890 or whatever > value you need converts that unsigned long in to the normal date > output se

Re: A question about the date Function

2009-09-17 Thread Martin McCormick
Thanks to those who answered my question. I have discovered in the process one big difference between the date function in freebsd and Linux. Under freebsd, date -r 1234567890 or whatever value you need converts that unsigned long in to the normal date output set to that reference value. IN Linux,

Re: A question about the date Function

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Martin McCormick wrote: date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s" >f0 date +%s >f1 What does the long form of this command give us that date +%s fails to do? It's a contrived example: date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s" -j says "don't alter the system date" -- t

Re: A question about the date Function

2009-09-16 Thread RW
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:25:04 -0500 Martin McCormick wrote: > > date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s" >f0 > date +%s >f1 > > I then compared the outputs of f0 and f1 and they are identical. > > What does the long form of this command give us that > date +%s fails to do? > >

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 17 August 2009 04:14:18 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Manish Jain wrote: > > You are right. Syntax highlighting only works well with X. On the > > console, to the best of knowledge, there is no way to change the colours > > through vim's rc files. > > Syntax colour changing does work via .vimrc

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Manish Jain wrote: > You are right. Syntax highlighting only works well with X. On the > console, to the best of knowledge, there is no way to change the colours > through vim's rc files. Syntax colour changing does work via .vimrc on the console. The constructs are named differently: ctermfg, ct

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Manish Jain wrote: > Hi Steve, > >> Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled >> the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. > > I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. > However, you can try the my set instead whic

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-14 Thread Manish Jain
Hi Steve, Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. However, you can try the my set instead which took me days to fine-tune t

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:17 -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: >> Look, use Joe. >> >> You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about >> meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the >> while wishing you had three hands. > > That's not a very

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:08:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas > wrote: >> There *are* good points about joe, eg.: >> >>   - It works very well even with pretty dumb terminals. >> >>   - It has a very small footprint >> >>   - It supports many features

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:08:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > There *are* good points about joe, eg.: > > - It works very well even with pretty dumb terminals. > > - It has a very small footprint > > - It supports many features a `coder' expects (auto indentation, > custom tab sizes

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:17 -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: > Look, use Joe. > > You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about > meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the > while wishing you had three hands. That's not a very good way of describing editors/joe.

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Henry Olyer
Look, use Joe. You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the while wishing you had three hands. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Mel Flynn < mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net > wrote: > On Tuesday 11

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 16:46:16 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: > > but may be handy until I become more fluent, > > as my first instinct is to hit the BACKSPACE > > ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H > > ^h key. terminal emulation fault. stty erase should fix it, on the shell that is. -- Mel

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > but may be handy until I become more fluent, > as my first instinct is to hit the BACKSPACE ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^h key. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > I'm looking for a new editor. Well, after a two week hiatus from technology, I'm back at work (actually, considering I build a large new deck, being back at work is more of a holiday than being on holidays :) Although it was recommended that I give both Emacs and Vi(m) a

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-03 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, >> Steve Bertrand said: S> I'm looking for a new editor. [...] In the last few weeks, I've been S> leaning toward vim. If you've read this far, then I very much welcome S> your feedback. If you're a VIM fan, here are a few examples of what you can do

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Forgive the verbosity. > > Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually > read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified > persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if a flame war

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:49:05 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:21:44PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > joe has also the advantage that it behaves differently depending > > under which name your start it. > > What do you mean by "which name"? I'm curious. According to "ma

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:46:14AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > In years gone by, I've toyed with both Emacs and vi. I'm no stranger to > using CNTL functions frequently (ee), but I've always felt more at home > with vi. I just never put in the initial effort to make it stick. I'm > going to g

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:21:44PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > I use joe, gedit, kate and bluefish. > > All have their week points. > > One advantage of using several in parallel is that you can > configure each to a special need of you and then start the one > which seems to fit best yo

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
Erich Dollansky wrote: > let me answer very shortly. > [..snip..] > ee is really just useful for very basic editing. But this is the > idea behind ee. I'd like to thank everyone for all of the well thought out, detailed and informative feedback. As far as ee, it's all I've really used for the l

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, let me answer very shortly. On 25 July 2009 am 10:49:10 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Forgive the verbosity. > I use joe, gedit, kate and bluefish. All have their week points. One advantage of using several in parallel is that you can configure each to a special need of you and then start the on

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:49:10PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Forgive the verbosity. > > Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually > read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified > persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if a fla

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > I'm looking for a new editor. I went on a similar journey, and I don't know if I'm already where I want to be, but maybe my path is helpful to you. > My desires/don't mind: > > - easily set tab width mcedit: PF9, Options, General jo

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 24 July 2009 18:49:10 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Forgive the verbosity. Forgiven, yet snipped ;) > My desires/don't mind: > > - easily set tab width See securemodelines.vim below sig. Put in $LOCALBASE/share/vim/vim72/plugin. And the modeline below in C-style comments, within the first or

Re: A question about the root shell

2008-10-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:20:32PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > > I'm not a csh user, in fact I hate it. Though, I use it as it is out of > the box for root so I'm reminded I'm not an unpriv user any longer. > > That being said I'm getting annoyed by the fact that the root shell is > always s

Re: A question about the root shell

2008-10-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:20:32PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > I'm not a csh user, in fact I hate it. Though, I use it as it is out of > the box for root so I'm reminded I'm not an unpriv user any longer. > > That being said I'm getting annoyed by the fact that the root shell is > always sho

Re: A question about 6.2 release

2007-07-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:38:29PM +0800, PowerMan wrote: > Dear sir, > > My first language is not English, if I made some bad words or > expression, please forgive me. > > I have learned from your web site http://www.freebsd.org > that 6.2-stable is relased on 15 Jan, 2007. > >

Re: A question about 6.2 release

2007-07-29 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hopefully this page will clear up things for you -- http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/release.html Regards, Rakhesh On Sun, July 29, 2007 12:38, PowerMan wrote: > Dear sir, > > My first language is not English, if I made some bad words or > expression, please forgive me. > > I h

Re: A question

2007-07-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Anthony Long wrote: > Can I download your software from the web? I can't find a link. > _ > PC Magazine’s 2007 editors’ choice for best web mail—award-winning Windows > Live Hotmail. > http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en

Re: A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation Solved

2006-10-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Those of you who recognised the example string I sent as a UUID really helped solve this problem. What happened was that the algorithm I wrote to parse the CSV values in each record is broken when it encounters a blank field as in ,, so it fails to increase the index counter and place a nu

Re: A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation

2006-10-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 6, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: My thanks to you and to one other individual who have written responses to my questions. You're welcome. I will talk to the people who extracted the file and see if there is a possibility we got the wrong data in that field.

Re: A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation

2006-10-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Chuck Swiger writes: > On Oct 6, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Does anybody know what this notation is called? Does an > explanation of the algorithm exist in public so one can convert the > strings that are part of the call manager output in to the unsigned >

Re: A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation

2006-10-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 6, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: Does anybody know what this notation is called? Does an explanation of the algorithm exist in public so one can convert the strings that are part of the call manager output in to the unsigned ints that actually carry the right values?

Re: A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-06 Thread Andrew Falanga
I am by no means the worlds best serial programmer, but recently I have done some work on this subject and I noticed one thing in the code sample above that should be avoided. However, I'll give you what I saw in-line: #include #include #include #include int main(void) { int t = 0, num =

Re: A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-04 Thread Сергей Собко
On Monday 04 September 2006 02:39, you wrote: > --- stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:26:04PM +0600, ?? > > > > ? wrote: > > > Hello. > > > I have a question I can't deal myself. > > > And nobody can help me in resolving my problem. > > > > > > Problem: > > > I

Fwd: Re: A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-03 Thread backyard
--- stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 16:49:51 -0400 > From: stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: backyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: A question about programming RS-232 > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 01:39:00PM -0700, backyard >

Re: A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-03 Thread backyard
--- stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:26:04PM +0600, ?? > ? wrote: > > Hello. > > I have a question I can't deal myself. > > And nobody can help me in resolving my problem. > > > > Problem: > > I have a hand-made device, I want to control from > FreeBSD 6.1 >

Re: A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-03 Thread stan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:26:04PM +0600, ?? ? wrote: > Hello. > I have a question I can't deal myself. > And nobody can help me in resolving my problem. > > Problem: > I have a hand-made device, I want to control from FreeBSD 6.1 > (I am porting this application from Windows equivalent).

Re: A question for the AWK wizards

2006-07-25 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... > > You need to use substr() not awk to shorten a line. ` ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ` ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Dang it! I meant to use the substr() function in awk. - Parv -- ___ f

Re: A question for the AWK wizards

2006-07-25 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:51:02AM -0400, Parv wrote: > > As it is, any line longer than 159 characters will just overflow. > You need to use substr() not awk to shorten a line. Even after that > modification, that won't solve your actual problem as the awk script > will just shorten EACH line (w

Re: A question for the AWK wizards

2006-07-25 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Murray Taylor thusly... > > # generate the sms message > # the awk code forces the message to be < 160 chars ... >tmpfile=`mktemp -t sms` >echo ${phone} >> ${tmpfile} >${AWK} '{ printf "%-0.159s", $0 }' >> ${tmpfile} << EOF2 > `echo $msg` > EOF2 As

Re: A question for the AWK wizards

2006-07-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-07-25 21:43, Murray Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a shell script which is called with an arbitrary message > argument. Punctuation excludes * ? & | > < chars. > > It processes it via an AWK command line 'script' and dumps the result > in a file for the SMS sender...

Re: A question on permissions

2006-03-06 Thread Jahilliya
On 3/7/06, Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to make a directory writable by one user, and readable by > another. It should be owned by the web server UID, and the group > should be the gid of my normal login user. > > %ls -ld /home/pergesu/logs > drwxr-x--- 6 www pergesu 512 Feb

Re: A question on console and UTF-8

2006-02-26 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 2/26/06, Igor Robul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:35:51PM +0200, a wrote: > > How to force a console to use a multibyte character set (UTF-8)? > > I use FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. > AFAIK, FreeBSD does not support UTF-8 locales on text console. > __

Re: A question on console and UTF-8

2006-02-25 Thread Igor Robul
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:35:51PM +0200, a wrote: > How to force a console to use a multibyte character set (UTF-8)? > I use FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. AFAIK, FreeBSD does not support UTF-8 locales on text console. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: A question on ndis with FreeBSD 6.0

2005-11-21 Thread Fabian Keil
Zeng Nan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After upgrading to FreeBSD 6.0, I don't know how to compile ndis > drivers. With 5.4, I just create ndis_driver_data.h under if_ndis > dir, but now, this file is not referenced in any codes. ndis.ko and > if_ndis.ko are generated by default but they don't wor

Re: A question about dwnloading Ports

2005-06-17 Thread 子耗
I was sorry because I did not express what I wanna do. I just wanna get the source codes in net cafe, and then, I could copy it to my mobile harddisk, which could let me take home and install it. The computers in net cafe is installed with Windows instead of any kinds of unix-like OS, and it has a

Re: A question about dwnloading Ports

2005-06-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:42:13PM +0200, Arek Czereszewski wrote: > U??ytkownik ?? napisa??: > > >I am a new user to Freebsd. I do not have a high speed connection, so > >I could not install softwares from ports directly. It takes me a lot > >of time. I wonder how to download the whole ports,

Re: A question about dwnloading Ports

2005-06-17 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:42:13 +0200 Arek Czereszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Użytkownik å­?è?? napisaÅ?: > > > I am a new user to Freebsd. I do not have a high speed connection, so > > I could not install softwares from ports directly. It takes me a lot > > of time. I wonder how to download

Re: A question about dwnloading Ports

2005-06-17 Thread Arek Czereszewski
Użytkownik 子耗 napisał: I am a new user to Freebsd. I do not have a high speed connection, so I could not install softwares from ports directly. It takes me a lot of time. I wonder how to download the whole ports, so that I could download it in Net Cafe, and save it to my moible harddisk and then

Re: A question about dwnloading Ports

2005-06-17 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 6/17/05, 子耗 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a new user to Freebsd. I do not have a high speed connection, so > I could not install softwares from ports directly. It takes me a lot > of time. I wonder how to download the whole ports, so that I could > download it in Net Cafe, and save it to my

Re: A question about dwnloading Ports

2005-06-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
子耗 wrote: I am a new user to Freebsd. I do not have a high speed connection, so I could not install softwares from ports directly. It takes me a lot of time. I wonder how to download the whole ports, so that I could download it in Net Cafe, and save it to my moible harddisk and then, I could inst

Re: A Question About the PowerPC Architecture

2005-06-12 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 6/12/05, Matthew Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Will the PowerPC port of FreeBSD beable to run on the IBM p5 Series >UNIX Servers? > >Also can the current snapshot operate on the p5 Series UNIX Servers? > _

RE: a question or 2

2005-05-24 Thread fbsd_user
not any longer boot windows system from existing partition. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of M B Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:52 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: a question or 2 Hello, I have similar situation. How much me

RE: a question or 2

2005-05-24 Thread M B
Hello, I have similar situation. How much memory and processor speed is necessary? Will a PII 233MHz with 128MB be capable of performing this installation? Best regards and thanks in advance. Mats, Malmö, Sweden [EMAIL PROTECTED] werote: this is know problem. 5.4 from floppy or cdrom now needs m

RE: a question or 2

2005-05-23 Thread fbsd_user
this is know problem. 5.4 from floppy or cdrom now needs more memory and cpu speed that legacy PC can provide. remove HD from legacy PC and connect it to faster / newer pc to do install, them return to legacy PC to run. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] B

Re: a question

2005-05-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ricardo wrote: Hi everyone, my name is Ricardo and i'm new to FreeBSD and a novice in the world of Unix-like OS's. My question is: do i have to download the 3 .iso images to install the system(for exemple: do i have to dowload the bootonlydisk iso)? Thanks for your patience and for reading this.

Re: a question

2005-05-09 Thread Harry
Am Dienstag, 10. Mai 2005 01:54 schrieb Ricardo: > Hi everyone, my name is Ricardo and i'm new to FreeBSD and a novice in > the world of Unix-like OS's. My question is: do i have to download the 3 > .iso images to install the system(for exemple: do i have to dowload the > bootonlydisk iso)? For ba

Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"

2005-03-29 Thread RW
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 04:27, well sun wrote: >thanks your answers. I use the ports-supfile and stable-supfile under >/usr/share/examples/cvsup to do upgrade. > >I think I understand what the difference between the pkg_add and "make >install". > >That is if I want to install t

Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"

2005-03-29 Thread RW
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 05:17, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2005 07:27 pm, well sun wrote: > >That is if I want to install the latest version, I should use the > >"make install" or get the xxx.tbz from the freebsd-current > > directory. Is it correct? > > You have to understan

Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"

2005-03-28 Thread Matt Navarre
On Monday 28 March 2005 05:12 pm, well sun wrote: >I had install the freebsd5.3 with custom setup and only install >the source code and base, not install xorg and perl. Then I use cvsup >to upgrade stable source code and current ports. After doing these, I >want to install the k

Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"

2005-03-28 Thread Kent Stewart
ster sites, how can I > do? > >>From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: Abu Khaled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>CC: well sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>Subject: Re: a question abo

Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"

2005-03-28 Thread Abu Khaled
you need to set PACKAGESITE environment variable example for i386 and 5.X STABLE # setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/ALL/ PS: don't forget the trailing "/" like i did If it fails I use this one # setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD

Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"

2005-03-28 Thread Abu Khaled
orts/i386/packages-5-stable/ALL If it fails I use this one # setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest > > >From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: Abu Khaled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC:

Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"

2005-03-28 Thread well sun
n I do? >From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Abu Khaled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: well sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean" >Date:

Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"

2005-03-28 Thread Abu Khaled
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:38:56 -0600, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Abu Khaled wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:12:10 +, well sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I had install the freebsd5.3 with custom setup and only install > >> the source code and base, not install xorg and p

Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"

2005-03-28 Thread Chris
Abu Khaled wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:12:10 +, well sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had install the freebsd5.3 with custom setup and only install the source code and base, not install xorg and perl. Then I use cvsup to upgrade stable source code and current ports. After doing thes

Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"

2005-03-28 Thread Abu Khaled
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:12:10 +, well sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I had install the freebsd5.3 with custom setup and only install >the source code and base, not install xorg and perl. Then I use cvsup >to upgrade stable source code and current ports. After doing these, I >

Re: A question occured when installing FreeBSD5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Peng Shan
"The boot menu offers you the option of booting without ACPI. That should get your system to boot." Sorry,I forget to tell that this prompt occur when I use the 6 boot item and input "boot -v". Almost all the item included boot with ACPI disabled,every time booting stopped with the screen disp

Re: A question occured when installing FreeBSD5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peng Shan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I use an installing CD to Boot my Computer,it > stopped at the beginning with this > > Error: > acpi_cmbat0:battery initialization failed > > So I know that is because my computer's motherboard's > battery run out.But because my computer is ASUS > Po

Re: A question about X

2004-10-31 Thread Subhro
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:09:36 +0600, baguio_sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #XFree86 -version > XFree86 Version 4.3.0 > Release Date: 27 February 2003 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 > Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 [ELF] > Build Date: 24 May 2003 > # I would recommend

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-09-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello, > > I want to install FreeBSD with a small root partition. It's > possible to use a different partition for /tmp, but /tmp can also be a > symbolic link pointing, for example, /var/tmp. Is it a good idea ? If not > what sort of problem will I encounter ? Your only problem is that you

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-08-09 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:51:15PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Well, that is debateable. The safest is for /tmp to be its own > partition/filesystem. If you have it in root, and some runaway process > fills it up, it can bring the system to a grinding halt. So, unless I The problem her

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-08-09 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:00:59PM -0400, Gary Mulder wrote: > Of course having /tmp -> /var/tmp means that you have no valid /tmp in > single user mode where /var is not mounted. That is unless you created > /var/tmp in single user mode, but that would mean /var would be mounted > over the root

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-08-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Gary Mulder wrote: > > Of course having /tmp -> /var/tmp means that you have no valid /tmp in > > single user mode where /var is not mounted. That is unless you created > > /var/tmp in single user mode, but that would mean /var would be mounted > > over the root partition's /var/tmp dir in

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-08-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Gary Mulder wrote: Of course having /tmp -> /var/tmp means that you have no valid /tmp in single user mode where /var is not mounted. That is unless you created /var/tmp in single user mode, but that would mean /var would be mounted over the root partition's /var/tmp dir in multi-user mode, whic

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-08-09 Thread Gary Mulder
Of course having /tmp -> /var/tmp means that you have no valid /tmp in single user mode where /var is not mounted. That is unless you created /var/tmp in single user mode, but that would mean /var would be mounted over the root partition's /var/tmp dir in multi-user mode, which can be non-intui

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-08-09 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:32:50AM +0200, roland Mathieu wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to install FreeBSD with a small root partition. It's > possible to use a different partition for /tmp, but /tmp can also be a > symbolic link pointing, for example, /var/tmp. Is it a good idea ? If not > what so

Re: A question about PPPoE and LQR.

2004-03-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:56:25 -0500 (EST), in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Greetings to to you. > >I'm running 4.9-STABLE, and using userland PPP to connect to my ISP. For > >Basically, am I missing something? Is there no real solution? Do I leave >my LQR enabled and live with freq

Re: A question on installing printer

2004-03-09 Thread Stephen Liu
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 01:21, Lowell Gilbert wrote: - snip - > > # lptest > /dev/lpt0 > >   > > One line printed on 1st page as follow; > > > > !"#$%&'()* > > +,-./0123456789:;<=>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >   > > It seemed OK but paper feed-in continued with 'no_paper' light on (I put > > only 1 pap

Re: A question on installing printer

2004-03-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - snip - > > > According to handbook I should run > > > > > > # ./MAKEDEV lpt0 (para port) > > > > > > whether to be replaced with > > > > > > # ./devfs -m lpt0 > > > > No, devfs should recognize the device on its own, without your having > > to do anythin

Re: A question on installing printer

2004-03-08 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - > > According to handbook I should run > > > > # ./MAKEDEV lpt0 (para port) > > > > whether to be replaced with > > > > # ./devfs -m lpt0 > > No, devfs should recognize the device on its own, without your having > to do anything. Is there a /dev/lpt0 already? > > Also, see "man devfs". H

Re: A question on installing printer

2004-03-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FreeBSD 5.2 > > I am now configuring printer and aware that 'MAKEDEV' has been replaced with > 'devfs' > > According to handbook I should run > > # ./MAKEDEV lpt0 (para port) > > whether to be replaced with > > # ./devfs -m lpt0 No, devfs should rec

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