Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:28:51 + "b. f." wrote: >Scott Bennet wrote: > >There haven't been much changes in the infrastructure of these two >ports recently, so any problems are probably arising from changes in >the distfiles, or problems in your base system or the ports that are >used to bui

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:32:21 -0400 Michael Powell wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: > > Alexander Best wrote: >> Hi, > >>> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > >>> permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 > >>> so what i want is f

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:03:12 -0200 Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: >On Tuesday 27 October 2009 4:32:45 pm Erik Norgaard wrote: >> Jonathan McKeown wrote: >> > Just as a matter of interest, if you want to rip sendmail out of >> > the base system, which MTA would you like to replace it with? Or >> > are y

Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-28 Thread b. f.
On 10/28/09, Scott Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:28:51 + "b. f." > wrote: >>Scott Bennet wrote: ... > > With one exception, I do not alter the > contents of the ports tree manually. ... > I have not made alterations to any ports in the ports tree by hand. Any > changes th

Re: gcc -pg and ld error, "cannot find -lgcc_p"

2009-10-28 Thread b. f.
>> > Use sysinstall to add the proflibs distribution. >> >> Or one could rebuild/install world (and kernel if necessary) >> after investigating the "NO_PROFILE" option in /etc/make.conf. > >There's only a PERL_VERSION in make.conf. Since sysinstall doesn't work >(this is -p4, not a base medi

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:11:15 -0400 "Aryeh M. Friedman" wrote: > I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista > partition... when I installed vista I had to do some boot manager > tricks (both before and after install)... namely I had to allow > windows to nuke my mbr then use Easy

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Bernt Hansson
Lars Eighner said the following on 2009-10-28 05:46: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting language to configure it. Other than personal profit I cannot see

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Bernt Hansson
Lars Eighner said the following on 2009-10-28 05:46: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting language to configure it. Other than personal profit I cannot see

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:05:39 +0100, Michaël Grünewald wrote: > (I feel sorry for the very poor english I demonstrated in the message I > wrote this morning: I was in a hurry!) Don't mind, many user here aren't native speakers, but are still completely good to understand. > I have backups of

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:56:11 -0400, PJ wrote: > I have tried them all... now I have linux-f10 with > flashplayer10 installed and all I get is an error that flashplugin.so > cannot be started because a shared file "freetype.so.6" cannot be > found... It's there allright and is linked to fretype.so.

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:56:11 -0400, PJ wrote: I have tried them all... now I have linux-f10 with flashplayer10 installed and all I get is an error that flashplugin.so cannot be started because a shared file "freetype.so.6" cannot be found... It's there allright and is linked t

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Tony McC
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:43:11 -0500 PJ wrote: > I wish someone could explain to me why I am no longer able to install > flashplugin ... none of the methods work for me on amy version... I > have literally tried them all.. > the latest was linux-f10 - I cleaned out all the linux stuff, > umounted

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:53:18 +, Tony McC wrote: > You seem to want everything to just work without > having to think about it, so perhaps Windows would be better for you? > [...] > But my > guess is that you really would be happier and more productive with a > Windows OS. That isn't meant to

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Tony McC
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:10:25 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > In "Windows", things don't work without thinking. The > misbelief that is does is grounded in the fact that > other people have to deal with problems, while the > user praises "Windows" for its easyness of use. > > In PJ's case, maybe PC-BSD

FreeBSD_RC2?

2009-10-28 Thread David McDonald
I looked at the contents of the link to 8.0_RC1 and found files there marked RC2. I will give it a try but is that the real RC2 release for FreeBSD 8.0? thanks David McDonald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:53:18 +, Tony McC wrote: > >> You seem to want everything to just work without >> having to think about it, so perhaps Windows would be better for you? >> [...] >> But my >> guess is that you really would be happier and more productive with a >> Wi

m4 (was Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?)

2009-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lars Eighner writes: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner >> wrote: >>> Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting >>> language to configure it. Other than personal profit I cannot see why >>> people ar

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:16:27PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Jack L. wrote: > >I was able to dual boot win7 and freebsd 8 without any problem, just > >installed windows first and installed freebsd with the freebsd boot > >manager and it said F1 windows and the rest are FreeBSD > > > > I

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
Tony McC wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:10:25 +0100 > Polytropon wrote: > > >> In "Windows", things don't work without thinking. The >> misbelief that is does is grounded in the fact that >> other people have to deal with problems, while the >> user praises "Windows" for its easyness of use. >

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:03:12PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > >> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 4:32:45 pm Erik Norgaard wrote: >> > Jonathan McKeown wrote: >> > > Just as a matter of interest, if you want to rip sendmail out of >> > > the base system, which MTA would you

Re: FreeBSD_RC2?

2009-10-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:48:16AM -0600, David McDonald wrote: > I looked at the contents of the link to 8.0_RC1 and found files there > marked RC2. I will give it a try but is that the real RC2 release > for FreeBSD 8.0? In general one should not assume that any Release or Release Candidate f

Two versions of m4

2009-10-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:46:07 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: >On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner >> wrote: >>> Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting >>> language to configure it. Other than personal p

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Walter Venable
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > Lars Eighner said the following on 2009-10-28 05:46: >> >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner >>> wrote: Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet ano

Re: FreeBSD_RC2?

2009-10-28 Thread David McDonald
Thank you for your reply. Now to try it out. David McDonald At 09:22 AM 10/28/2009, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:48:16AM -0600, David McDonald wrote: > I looked at the contents of the link to 8.0_RC1 and found files there > marked RC2. I will give it a try but is that the r

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Powell
Michaël Grünewald wrote: [snip] > > I have backups of the data contained in the broken, so the data on this > disc are not a concern. I have however a question: How do I verify that > a hard-drive is accurately working if its firmware will hide the bad > sectors as long as possible? > [snip] As

How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread George Sanders
I would like to: - upgrade the built-in OpenSSL that comes with FreeBSD (in my case, 6.4-RELEASE) - replace it with OpenSSL that I build myself from the source tarball If I do this with a plain old: ./config ; make ; make install OpenSSL does indeed build and install, but it installs in an

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Tony McC
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:13:02 -0400 PJ wrote: > But to study the manual is beyond the capabilities of anyone ... sure, > you can read it and study it... but you will forget anything you have > read almost immediately if you are not applying what you are studying > at once... there may be some resi

RE: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread Gary Gatten
Maybe remove the existing package first? And try to use a pkg if you can for the new one. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of George Sanders Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:58 AM To: freebsd-questions@

Re: gcc -pg and ld error, "cannot find -lgcc_p"

2009-10-28 Thread Vaibhav Gavane
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:34 AM, wrote: >> >  Use sysinstall to add the proflibs distribution. >> >>       Or one could rebuild/install world (and kernel if necessary) >> after investigating the "NO_PROFILE" option in /etc/make.conf. > > There's only a PERL_VERSION in make.conf. Since sysinstall

Re: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread George Sanders
- Original Message > From: Gary Gatten > To: George Sanders ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Sent: Wed, October 28, 2009 11:01:35 AM > Subject: RE: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ? > > Maybe remove the existing package first? And try to use a pkg if you

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Tony McC
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:00:00 + Tony McC wrote: > Hi PJ, > > ok, I tried (I was also trying to offer you support, just a different > kind). There was a lot of irrelevant material in your response but the > part I have quoted shows such a deep misunderstanding of what I was > trying to suggest

Re: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:57:52 -0700 (PDT) George Sanders replied: > > >I would like to: > >- upgrade the built-in OpenSSL that comes with FreeBSD (in my case, >6.4-RELEASE) > >- replace it with OpenSSL that I build myself from the source tarball > > >If I do this with a plain old: ./config ; make

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-28 Thread DAve
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: You aren't supposed to use CNAMES for anything found in other RR's; in particular, you should always use an A record with the hostnames used for nameservers (ie, have an NS record), because you are supposed to be using the

Re: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
George Sanders wrote: > > > - Original Message > >> From: Gary Gatten >> To: George Sanders ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Sent: Wed, October 28, 2009 11:01:35 AM >> Subject: RE: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ? >> >> Maybe remove the existing package f

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 02:14:17AM +, Frank Shute wrote: > > I'll speculate as to the reasons: > > NetBSD: probably wanted something smaller footprint-wise. > > OpenBSD: wanted something more secure. Those both sound like great reasons. > > Dragonfly: started afresh, so could replace it

Re: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:14:22AM -0700, George Sanders wrote: > > Yes, but I still won't know how to put the new version in _exactly the > same place_ as the one I just removed. > > For complex reasons of space and tools (embedded system, etc.) I do > indeed need to use the source tarball. > >

Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Yuri
When I plug in my USB floppy drive I get these messages: ugen1.2: at usbus1 umass0: on usbus1 umass0: UFI over CBI with CCI; quirks = 0x umass0:4:0:-1: Attached to scbus4 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device (da0:umass-s

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 12:14:17 am Frank Shute wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:45:59PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 October 2009 7:31:34 pm Jerry McAllister wrote: > > [snippage] > > > > So, that leaves personal preference as the only real reason > > > for wanting to repl

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
Tony McC wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:00:00 + > Tony McC wrote: > > >> Hi PJ, >> >> ok, I tried (I was also trying to offer you support, just a different >> kind). There was a lot of irrelevant material in your response but the >> part I have quoted shows such a deep misunderstanding of

Re: Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Yuri wrote: > When I plug in my USB floppy drive I get these messages: > > ugen1.2: at usbus1 > umass0: on usbus1 > umass0: UFI over CBI with CCI; quirks = 0x > umass0:4:0:-1: Attached to scbus4 > (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4 > (da0:umass-sim0

Re: Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Yuri
Adam Vande More wrote: Did you remove devel/libusb It's installed: libusb-0.1.12_4 I enabled debugging and now get an extended dmesg log: ugen1.2: at usbus1 umass0: on usbus1 umass0: UFI over CBI with CCI; quirks = 0x umass0:umass_cam_action: 4:-1:-1:XPT_PATH_INQ:. umass0:4:0:-1: Attac

Re: Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Adam Vande More
What does this mean? > > I remember using the same drive in 7.0 without problems. > > Yuri > > -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Yuri
Adam Vande More wrote: What does this mean? I remember using the same drive in 7.0 without problems. It used to work in FreeBSD-70 long time ago. Now in FReeBSD-8.0-RC1 it doesn't. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:05:39 +0100, Michaël Grünewald wrote: I have however a question: How do I verify that a hard-drive is accurately working if its firmware will hide the bad sectors as long as possible? I think the smartctl program from ports/smartmontools is a good t

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:13:02 -0400, PJ wrote: > And I do wish I could use only FreeBSD... the > problem is that there are some limitations on compatibility with the > "normal" user's MS systems... You're mixing up things here. Things in MICROS~1 land are not compatible to the rest of the world.

Re: Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Yuri writes: > Adam Vande More wrote: >> Did you remove devel/libusb > > It's installed: libusb-0.1.12_4 That's your problem, then. You need to remove it and rebuild the ports that depended on it. This was mentioned in /usr/ports/UPDATING and /usr/src/UPDATING. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/net

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread David N
2009/10/29 Michaël Grünewald : > Polytropon wrote: >> >> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:05:39 +0100, Michaël Grünewald >> wrote: >>> >>> I have however a question: How do I verify that a hard-drive is >>> accurately working if its firmware will hide the bad sectors as long as >>> possible? >> >> I think t

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-28 Thread Alexander Best
Scott Bennett schrieb am 2009-10-27: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:40:48 -0400 Michael Powell > > wrote: > >Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> Alexander Best wrote: > >>> Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: > Hi, > > i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > > permail.uni-mu

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:13:02 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> And I do wish I could use only FreeBSD... the >> problem is that there are some limitations on compatibility with the >> "normal" user's MS systems... >> > > You're mixing up things here. Things in MICROS~1 land are > n

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Hello David, thank you for your comments, David N wrote: 2009/10/29 Michaël Grünewald : === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline

Is Intel 5100AGN WiFi card supported?

2009-10-28 Thread Yuri
I have to change WiFi card, and my laptop only accepts certain types, others are banned by BIOS. Is this one: Intel 5100AGN supported? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Yuri
Lowell Gilbert wrote: That's your problem, then. You need to remove it and rebuild the ports that depended on it. This was mentioned in /usr/ports/UPDATING and /usr/src/UPDATING. I removed this port but still have this problem. Yuri ___ freebsd-

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:45:24 -0400, PJ wrote: > Yeah, but stupid errors are not. Nobody can make all the errors. > anyway I goofed somewhere. but what is strange is that > the only obvious problem I have is this flashplugin - no matter what I > do, I cannot get it to work. But obviously, as o

Re: Is Intel 5100AGN WiFi card supported?

2009-10-28 Thread herbert langhans
Do you know the card's chipset? The Atheros chips are working well, I have a TP-Link card with such.. Cheers herb langhans On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 02:08:14PM -0700, Yuri wrote: > I have to change WiFi card, and my laptop only accepts certain types, > others are banned by BIOS. > Is this one: I

Re: Is Intel 5100AGN WiFi card supported?

2009-10-28 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Yuri wrote: > I have to change WiFi card, and my laptop only accepts certain types, others > are banned by BIOS. > Is this one: Intel 5100AGN supported? There was a commit to 9 CURRENT the other day r198429 so Current has some support for it Sam Fourman Jr. Fourm

breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
well, i just bought a used dell for my new DNS, mail, and web server. they snickered when i asked if they would pre-install freebsd... so it's up to me. this dell was running losedows, vista, so i assume it has some kind of sound card. it has "2

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:25:53 +0100 Polytropon Polytropon replied: [snip] >That's not FreeBSD's fault. If "professional web designers" >need to "optimize" their content in order to prevent you from >properly accessing it, it's their fault. I would complain to >them, or just ignore them. Content t

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > this dell was running losedows, vista, so i assume it has some > kind of sound card. That's an interesting conditional implication thought. :-) > it has "256MN ATI X1300 PRo" video. is this enough to power > my new

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:55:20 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:25:53 +0100 > Polytropon Polytropon replied: > > [snip] > > >That's not FreeBSD's fault. If "professional web designers" > >need to "optimize" their content in order to prevent you from > >properly accessing it, it's thei

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:25:53 +0100 > > You don't really believe that do you. Web creators attempt to make their > sites accessible to the largest possible audience. It is probably cost > prohibited, if even reasonably possible to make a site 100% vi

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread David N
2009/10/29 Michaël Grünewald : > Hello David, > > thank you for your comments, > > David N wrote: >> >> 2009/10/29 Michaël Grünewald : >>> >>> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === >>> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 >>> Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining

[OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, my company is going to shoot a TV spot that will show me at work. The first thing my desktop will contain is some BSD/FreeBSD logo. As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge columns of numbers running over the screen or at least one window. Does somebody know a progr

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:32:42 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge > columns of numbers running over the screen or at least one window. > Does somebody know a programm that produces such nice output? What about "ls -laFG /"? It produce

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Mak Kolybabi
On 2009-10-28 23:32, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge columns of > numbers running over the screen or at least one window. Does somebody know a > programm that produces such nice output? If you're not dead-set on numbers, somethings like t

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
Replying to myself and adding: % hexdump looks interesting, too. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:55:20 -0400, Jerry wrote: > >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:25:53 +0100 >> Polytropon Polytropon replied: >> >> [snip] >> >> >>> That's not FreeBSD's fault. If "professional web designers" >>> need to "optimize" their content in order to prevent you fr

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:43:01 -0500, Mak Kolybabi wrote: > If you're not dead-set on numbers, somethings like the following works: > > while true; do; dd if=/dev/urandom bs=64 count=1 2>/dev/null | sha256; done ^ Without this ; it works (tested: sh, bash) - and looks nice, too. :-)

Bind Sendmail to an IP address

2009-10-28 Thread Aflatoon Aflatooni
Hi, I have a Freebsd 7.2 installation and using Sendmail for the SMTP service. This server has two public interfaces and different IP addresses. I need to have sendmail configured so that the outbound emails are sent using a certain IP address (SPF rules).  I have tried the following without any

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > this dell was running losedows, vista, so i assume it has some > > kind of sound card. > > That's an interesting conditional implication thought. :-) > > > > it ha

Re: gnu tar checkpoint variable expansion

2009-10-28 Thread Jay Hall
Try this: /usr/local/gtar-1.22/bin/tar -cf - ${WHATTOBACKUP} \ --checkpoint-action='echo=Checkpoint #%u' \ --checkpoint-action="exec=/usr/local/scripts/check_disk_usage.sh $ {DIR}" The use of single quotes prohibits the expansion of environment variables. Use double qoutes instead.

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 16:08, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: >> >     so: what is the URL to download the 8.0-PRE freebsd? >> >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGE

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread Mario Lobo
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 23:11:15 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Completely side question I use sysutils/fusefs-ntfs to mount my vista > partition do I need to change anything in my /etc/rc.d/* hierachy and/or > /etc/fstab after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g > instead of via the m

I'm sure you've heard this before...

2009-10-28 Thread Henry Olyer
I want to turn the disks off. I sometimes run large jobs and want to switch down the drives. On some IBM blades, I have FBSD 6.1, on another machine I am using 7.2. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Gary Gatten
Why not "Beastie" smashing avitars of the PC and MAC dudes from the Apple commercials in the US? That would be sweet! Those commercials are pretty funny, and just keep getting better! Marketing GENIUS' from Apple! Which BSD core did they borrow? Is it Free or Open? - Original Message

Re: I'm sure you've heard this before...

2009-10-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:12:06 -0400 Henry Olyer wrote: > I want to turn the disks off. > > I sometimes run large jobs and want to switch down the drives. > > On some IBM blades, I have FBSD 6.1, on another machine I am using > 7.2. If they're ATA drives you can use my ATAidle utility from sysu

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread jhell
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:32, lists@ wrote: Hi, my company is going to shoot a TV spot that will show me at work. The first thing my desktop will contain is some BSD/FreeBSD logo. As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge columns of numbers running over the screen or at

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread jhell
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:03, jhell@ wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:32, lists@ wrote: Hi, my company is going to shoot a TV spot that will show me at work. The first thing my desktop will contain is some BSD/FreeBSD logo. As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge column

Re: Bind Sendmail to an IP address

2009-10-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:49:15 -0700 (PDT), Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: > Hi, > I have a Freebsd 7.2 installation and using Sendmail for the SMTP > service. This server has two public interfaces and different IP > addresses. > > I need to have sendmail configured so that the outbound emails are > sen

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread RW
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:04:24 + Freminlins wrote: > I must admit I gave up ever getting Flash to work RELIABLY on FreeBSD > a long time ago. It's just too hard, too much work, and not worth the > misery of installing heaps of crud just to get a flipping browser > plugin working unreliably. S

Multiple PostgreSQL 8.4 instances in FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 Jails

2009-10-28 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
Hello List, I want to setup 5 postgreSQL 8.4 servers in separate jails on a amd64 FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 machine while searching the web for someone that has done this before I found this: my question is this... is this still relevant on FreeBSD 8.0 RC2(amd64) and postgreSQL 8.4 The following was take

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Gary Gatten
How but some ascii art that animates Beastie walking across the screen or something? A little creativity? - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: jhell Cc: Bertram Scharpf ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed Oct 28 22:14:09 2009 Subject: Re: [OT] Show

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread jhell
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:11, aryeh.friedman@ wrote: I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when I installed vista I had to do some boot manager tricks (both before and after install)... namely I had to allow windows to nuke my mbr then use EasyBCD to remake it

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:44:42PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 16:08, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > >> >     so: what is the URL to download the 8.0-PRE freebsd..

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread jhell
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:37, Ggatten@ wrote: How but some ascii art that animates Beastie walking across the screen or something? A little creativity? - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: jhell Cc: Bertram Scharpf ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: We

Re: Multiple PostgreSQL 8.4 instances in FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 Jails

2009-10-28 Thread Uwe Laverenz
Sam Fourman Jr. schrieb: I want to setup 5 postgreSQL 8.4 servers in separate jails on a amd64 FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 machine while searching the web for someone that has done this before I found this: my question is this... is this still relevant on FreeBSD 8.0 RC2(amd64) and postgreSQL 8.4 There s

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:00:57 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:44:42PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ > > Yes! but i bought the *Intel* 2-duo-core or whatever; not the AMD > (aDvanced micro Devices) chip. Are these b

Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:19:08 + "b. f." wrote: >On 10/28/09, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:28:51 + "b. f." >> wrote: >>>Scott Bennet wrote: >... >> >> With one exception, I do not alter the >> contents of the ports tree manually. >... >> I have not made alt

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 05:11:54PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 October 2009 12:14:17 am Frank Shute wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:45:59PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > > > On Tuesday 27 October 2009 7:31:34 pm Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > [snippage] > > > > > > So, th

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:34:25AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:00:57 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:44:42PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ > > > > Yes! but i bought the *Intel* 2-du

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: so: what is the URL to download the 8.0-PRE freebsd? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/Free

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:32:42 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge columns of numbers running over the screen or at least one window. Does somebody know a programm that produces such nice output? What about "ls -laF