Re: device nodes in usb2 stack

On Tuesday 20 October 2009 23:13:27 Alexander Best wrote: > Hans Petter Selasky schrieb am 2009-10-19: > > On Sunday 18 October 2009 23:08:14 Alexander Best wrote: > > > posted this to freebsd-questions@ a while ago and got no answer. > > > > > > alex > > > > Hi, > > > > For every USB device there

I REPEAT: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download

Dear Dan: I don't want to cause people to jump up and down, but one fact I am absolutely certain of!, is the following; Take a hard-drive you can write on, burn a copy of FBSD 7.2 onto a CD, and do the basic install. Then, when the base system is up, run sysinstall and do a "Configure" followed b

Re: Force installation of dependencies

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:53:05 +1000 Warren Liddell (shin...@maydias.com) replied: >is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to >forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? portmanager: to add/update/repair a single port with logging and forcing all

Re: Force installation of dependencies

53 PM, Warren Liddell mailto:shin...@maydias.com> >> wrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ?

(no subject)

please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as root would appreciate your help. :49:13 UTC 2009 r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i 86 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _

Re: (no subject)

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:26:45 -0700 (PDT) nicholas addei (uncleka...@yahoo.co.uk) replied: >please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as >root > >would appreciate your help. > >:49:13 UTC 2009 >r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i Maybe next time yo

gnu tar checkpoint variable expansion

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am working with gnu tar checkpoints this morning can cannot seem to get variables to expand properly when they are passed as part of a checkpoint action. Following is how I am using gnu tar DIR="/home/test" WHATTOBACKUP="/home/somedir" /usr/local/gtar-1.22/bin/tar

Re: gnu tar checkpoint variable expansion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:44-0500, Jay Hall wrote: > [...] Following is how I am using gnu tar > > DIR="/home/test" > WHATTOBACKUP="/home/somedir" > > /usr/local/gtar-1.22/bin/tar -cf - ${WHATTOBACKUP} \ > --checkpoint-action='echo=Checkpoint #%u

Re: gnu tar checkpoint variable expansion

Jay Hall wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, I am working with gnu tar checkpoints this morning can cannot seem to get variables to expand properly when they are passed as part of a checkpoint action. Following is how I am using gnu tar DIR="/home/test" WHATTOBACKUP="/home/somedir" /usr/local/gta

Re: Question about FreeBSD syscall usage

Yan, Yeqing wrote: Hi: I'm from Intel China. Our project use FreeBSD 7.0 > and I have some questions about the FreeBSD syscall. I don't know how to use these syscall below. Is there having some doc or example about how to use these syscall? kse_exit kse_wakeup kse_create kse_thr_interrupt kse

Re: gnu tar checkpoint variable expansion

On Oct 21, 2009, at 8:55 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: That's fairly basic shell syntax. Use "double quotes" on any string where you want variable interpolation. Cheers, Matthew I will try that again and let you know what happens. Thanks, Jay

Re: (no subject)

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 02:26:45AM -0700, nicholas addei wrote: > please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as root > > would appreciate your help. You will get more help if you first, use a meaningful subject line on your post and then if you put some useful information

Looking for troubleshooting tips.

I use Freebsd as the base for my network monitoring sensors. These machines run a netflow probe, act as a netflow collector and spool full content data from a snort process FIFO that is bound to a span port. During peak hours this can be 100MB saturated, its connected to a GB intel NIC on the box (

Re: Looking for troubleshooting tips.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Paul Halliday wrote: > I use Freebsd as the base for my network monitoring sensors. These > machines run a netflow probe, act as a netflow collector and spool > full content data from a snort process FIFO that is bound to a span > port. During peak hours this can b

Re: Force installation of dependencies

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Warren Liddell wrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? Depending on what you mean by "dependency", either portupgrade -rf pkg or portupgrade -Rf pkg -Warren Block * Ra

Re: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:59:51PM -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: > I have a fix for gnuplot; > How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice, I > am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least FBSD > 6.1. Earlier than that I don't know. Gnuplot builds

Re: (no subject) Gnome

nicholas addei schrieb: please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as root would appreciate your help. :49:13 UTC 2009 r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i 86 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com __

Re: (no subject) Gnome

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:36:27 +0200 Lokadamus Lokadamus replied: >nicholas addei schrieb: >> please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in >> as root >> >> would appreciate your help. >> >> >> >> :49:13 UTC 2009 >> r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i >

Re: Force installation of dependencies

Warren Liddell wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell > wrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? Judging from the to

Re: I REPEAT: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download

In the last episode (Oct 21), Henry Olyer said: > Take a hard-drive you can write on, burn a copy of FBSD 7.2 onto a CD, and > do the basic install. Then, when the base system is up, run sysinstall > and do a "Configure" followed by "Packages". Then go to "math" and select > maxima. > > Then wat

undo make deinstall

How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpgM3SVob9Ae.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: (no subject) Gnome

I had the same problem. An arrogant person at the freebsd forum said I had a lack of resolving, but I didn't know what he was talking about. Someone said to edit /etc/rc.conf but that didn't help because it was a read only file. I reinstalled freebsd all over again and that time it worked. You ma

Re: undo make deinstall

On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? Do you have a package of this port handy?-- try doing a pkg_add of that... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: undo make deinstall

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:38:48PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > >How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? > > Do you have a package of this port handy?-- try doing a pkg_add of > that... It is, for the moment, a hypothe

Re: undo make deinstall

In the last episode (Oct 21), Chad Perrin said: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:38:48PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > >How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? > > > > Do you have a package of this port handy?-- try doing

Re: Force installation of dependencies

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Al Plant wrote: I installed: portsnap fetch extract -to get rid of this issue of dependencies. portsnap updates the ports tree. AFAIK, it will not help with updating ports that have already been installed. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA _

Re: undo make deinstall

Hi-- On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:38:48PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? Do you have a package of this port handy?-- try doing a pkg_a

Is this card supported: Broadcom BCM94312MCGSG

I have a netbook which I would like to install FreeBSD on. I am going to order a new harddrive. But will this Broadcom card be supported or I also need to get another miniPCI replacement card? This page: http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell-mini-9-hardware-upgrades/4785-mini-9-compatible-netw

Re: (no subject) Gnome

Steven Seipel schrieb: I had the same problem. An arrogant person at the freebsd forum said I had a lack of resolving, but I didn't know what he was talking about. Someone said to edit /etc/rc.conf but that didn't help because it was a read only file. I reinstalled freebsd all over again and th

rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

Hi, could a resource leak or bug in pf(4) crash a RELENG_7 router (as of Oct 6th)? I'm experiencing frequent crashes on my soekris net4801 home router for some months now, and I'm wondering if it could be some kind of pf-related bug similar to this on OpenBSD: http://www.mail-archive.com/m...@

Re: (no subject) Gnome

Jerry schrieb: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:36:27 +0200 Lokadamus Lokadamus replied: nicholas addei schrieb: please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as root would appreciate your help. :49:13 UTC 2009 r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i

Re: (no subject) Gnome

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:10:53 + (GMT), Steven Seipel wrote: > I had the same problem. An arrogant person at the freebsd > forum said I had a lack of resolving, but I didn't know > what he was talking about. That's not a good way to promote FreeBSD, but be sure that this list is full of friend

Re: undo make deinstall

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:31:03PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > And, of course, if you care about a system, then you would already be > taking backups that you could restore from if you needed to... Of course, but I would hope there's an easier way to handle things than restoring the whole sy

Re: undo make deinstall

In the last episode (Oct 21), Chad Perrin said: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:31:03PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > > And, of course, if you care about a system, then you would already be > > taking backups that you could restore from if you needed to... > > Of course, but I would hope there's

Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned

>> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:55:07 -0700 (PDT), >> Tom Worster said: T> is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed T> width font? that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and T> pads each field in the file with a suitable amount of space? http://www.cs.

Re: Is this card supported: Broadcom BCM94312MCGSG

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Yuri wrote: I have a netbook which I would like to install FreeBSD on. I am going to order a new harddrive. But will this Broadcom card be supported or I also need to get another miniPCI replacement card? This page: http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell-mini-9-hardware-u

Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned

Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Oct 20), Tom Worster said: >> is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed >> width font? >> >> that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and pads each field >> in the file with a suitable about of space? > > The

Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned

Karl Vogel-3 wrote: > >>> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:55:07 -0700 (PDT), >>> Tom Worster said: > > T> is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed > T> width font? that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and > T> pads each field in the file with a suitable

Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned

>> In an earlier message, I wrote: K> Align is a general-purpose text filter tool that helps vertically align K> columns in string-separated tables of input text. >> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:58:25 -0700 (PDT), >> Tom Worster said: T> if only it had a way to truncate fields in a column that has a