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On 06/06/2010 02:47:38, Dan Nelson wrote:
>> flag_count=`expr $flag_count + 1`
> /bin/sh can do math on its own:
>
> flag_count=$((flag_count+1))
flag_count=$(( $flag_count + 1 ))
surely? Needs to dereference the variable inside the arithmetic expa
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On 06/06/2010 05:57:37, Aiza wrote:
> i) action="installworld"; flag_count=$((flag_count+1));;
Try it like this instead:
i) action="installworld"; flag_count=$(( $flag_count + 1 ));;
(Obviously, apply the equivalent change to the other lines)
Matthew Seaman wrote:
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i) action="installworld"; flag_count=$((flag_count+1));;
Try it like this instead:
i) action="installworld"; flag_count=$(( $flag_count + 1 ));;
(Obviously, apply the equivalent change
Hi all,
First of all my apologies if this is not an appropriate list. I'm a
newbie in FreeBSD and I'm a bit overwhelmed about mailing lists and
asking for help. If this list is not appropriate for this question I'd
appreciate if anyone could suggest an appropriate one.
The fact is that I've just
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:08:34PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > The TeX in ports is outdated and abandoned upstream. Install TeXLive
> > instead.
>
> yup, there is a tkxmlive port in ports/textproc. more to the
> point, i found a slew of texlive stuff hosts on google.
>
The t
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On 06/06/2010 08:40:56, Aiza wrote:
> I have been looking for documentation on freebsd's sh shell programming.
> Want to understand what is happening in that getopts I posted. Where can
> I find real explanations?
Well, the essential reference is the
On 06/06/2010 1:39 π.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> hello,
>
> i am coming from the linux world i was a gentoo user and i have install on
> my second machine FBSD,i have made many formats but every time i try to
> install a graphical enviroment (such as xfce,kde) many many errors come up.
> i ha
hello,
i was using gentoo linux and i have install FBSD 8.0 in my second machine..
i have read the handbooks but i cannot understand which version of FBSD i
have.
i mean i know that i have 8.0 but i have the stable or the unstable
version???
and what is going on with the mirrors?
On 06/06/2010 1:11 ?.?., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> i have FBSD 8.0 i have install the base system plus the bash shell
> from the CD.after the installiation of the system i install ports with
> portsnap and i update them with portmaster,no error came up,but now i
> receive errors from xfce4.
>
>
On 06/06/2010 1:27 μ.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> hello,
>
> i was using gentoo linux and i have install FBSD 8.0 in my second machine..
>
> i have read the handbooks but i cannot understand which version of FBSD i
> have.
> i mean i know that i have 8.0 but i have the stable or the unstable
>
FreeBSD-8.0-STABLE / amd64
I just finished updating which included the 'gettext' bump. Now, I am
experiencing a problem with the "nvidia-driver-195.36.15".
None of the 'opengl' screen savers worked. Examining the Xorg log
showed an error message that the nvidia opengl module was not loading.
I th
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On 6/5/10 2:43 AM, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
> On 5 June 2010 00:58, Adam PAPAI wrote:
>
>> How can I tune my disk to make it faster? Is it possible? What is the
>> reason of the really slow I/O with more than 4 threads? What do you
>> recommend me to d
Compiling a new kernel from source requires /usr/src to be populated, I
understand that.
The buildworld process for sure needs /usr/src. My question is , is
/usr/src also used in the installworld process?
Now I have never had to do this type of system RELEASE upgrade before,
so I just don't
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:55:22 +0800
Fbsd1 wrote:
> The postsnap says adding refuse statements to select the parts of the
> port tree you have use for will shorten the download process and
> conserve disk space on your host. That only the port categories not
> REFUSED will be selected and compre
On Sunday 06 of June 2010 13:32:56 Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> On 06/06/2010 1:11 ?.?., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> > i have FBSD 8.0 i have install the base system plus the bash shell
> > from the CD.after the installiation of the system i install ports with
> > portsnap and i update them with port
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On 06/06/2010 11:27:19, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> hello,
>
> i was using gentoo linux and i have install FBSD 8.0 in my second machine..
>
> i have read the handbooks but i cannot understand which version of FBSD i
> have.
> i mean i know that i
Hi!
It's good practice to keep /usr/src (your source) intact and the same
version as your world&kernel is and vica versa.
For the particular installworld step AFAIK /usr/obj is used, where the
system has the compiled world made in the build process.
steps here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/boo
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the response.
>
> That would be a great solution, I read that Apple doesn't permit
> it to be installed on the XServe. That comes from an Apple article
> in their support pages dated November 19, 2008. Firmware update
> is required and
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On 06/06/2010 11:55:51, Fbsd1 wrote:
> Compiling a new kernel from source requires /usr/src to be populated, I
> understand that.
Uh -- compiling a kernel requires /usr/src/sys. I think you can do
without the rest of the system sources if all you wan
On 6 June 2010 12:09, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote:
>
>>
>>> Thanks for the response.
>>
>> That would be a great solution, I read that Apple doesn't permit
>> it to be installed on the XServe. That comes from an Apple article
>> in their support pages dat
On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 22:35:09 +, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
wrote:
> hello,
> i am coming from the linux world where i was using the bash shell but
> i found out that there are also much more.
>
> can u tell me the basic differences between them?(pros and cons)
It isn't humanly possible to write *al
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From: "Matthew Seaman"
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 2:03 PM
To:
Subject: Re: freebsd releases?!?!?!(confused)
STABLE is a development branch: it's called 'STABLE' because it is
expected to run stably. STABLE generally receives continual fixes
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On 06/06/2010 12:30:53, Reko Turja wrote:
> From: "Matthew Seaman"
>> STABLE is a development branch: it's called 'STABLE' because it is
>> expected to run stably. STABLE generally receives continual fixes and
>> updates, but these will previously h
On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:19:08 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas articulated:
> You can always install bash with "pkg_add". The default package is
> not built as a static binary, but you can compile a static bash
> binary from its port:
>
> # cd /usr/ports/shells/bash
> # make WITH_STATIC_BASH=1 i
>Compiling a new kernel from source requires /usr/src to be populated, I
>understand that.
>
>The buildworld process for sure needs /usr/src. My question is , is
>/usr/src also used in the installworld process?
>
>Now I have never had to do this type of system RELEASE upgrade before,
>so I just don
hello,
i have seach to net but i haven't find a way to update my system from
8.0-release to stable-8.
can you tell me a way to do this?
thanks in advance
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On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:27:19AM +, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> hello,
>
> i was using gentoo linux and i have install FBSD 8.0 in my second machine..
>
> i have read the handbooks but i cannot understand which version of FBSD i
> have.
> i mean i know that i have 8.0 but i have the stab
On 06/06/2010 4:37 μ.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> hello,
>
> i have seach to net but i haven't find a way to update my system from
> 8.0-release to stable-8.
>
> can you tell me a way to do this?
>
> thanks in advance
>
Since you are just starting with this, I would advise against it. Unle
On Sun 2010-06-06 13:37:58 UTC+, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas (terie...@gmail.com)
wrote:
> i have seach to net but i haven't find a way to update my system from
> 8.0-release to stable-8.
>
> can you tell me a way to do this?
My immediate thought was that if you can't work out how to update your
s
FreeBSD-8.0 STABLE / amd64
After updating (gettext) the NVIDIA driver no longer worked in Xorg, nor
was it being loaded at boot-up even thought it was in
the /boot/loader.conf file and had worked correctly priviously. I am
also unable to load it manually.
kldload nvidia
KLD nvidia.ko: depends on
On 6 June 2010 16:12, Jerry wrote:
> FreeBSD-8.0 STABLE / amd64
>
> After updating (gettext) the NVIDIA driver no longer worked in Xorg, nor
> was it being loaded at boot-up even thought it was in
> the /boot/loader.conf file and had worked correctly priviously. I am
> also unable to load it manua
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:37:58 +, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
wrote:
> hello,
>
> i have seach to net but i haven't find a way to update my system from
> 8.0-release to stable-8.
>
> can you tell me a way to do this?
Basically, this process contains two main steps: fetching the
sources, and compilin
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
>
> I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas
> from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be copyfree rather than copyleft.
Do you use that as your interactive shell, for scripting, or both?
>
> man zs
hello,
i am trying to compile xorg and kde 4 but i receive these 2 errors.
i have updated the ports.
the kde error
===> kde4-4.4.4_1 depends on file: /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdebugdialog - not
found
===>Verifying install for /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdebugdialog in
/usr/ports/x11/kdebase4-runtime
On Jun 6, 2010, at 4:09 AM, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote:
EFI is the issue. I was hoping there is new information such as
an installation with EFI configuration files to permit the boot.
There are instructions available on creating such an installation
fo
On Sunday 06 of June 2010 19:38:29 Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> hello,
>
> i am trying to compile xorg and kde 4 but i receive these 2 errors.
>
> i have updated the ports.
>
> the kde error
>
> ===> kde4-4.4.4_1 depends on file: /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdebugdialog - not
> found
> ===>Verif
>hello,
>
>i am trying to compile xorg and kde 4 but i receive these 2 errors.
>
>i have updated the ports.
The errors are all coming from a failure to install the dependency
textproc/iso8879. What is the output of 'make -C
/usr/ports/textproc/iso8879 checksum' ? If it fails, try deleting the
dis
On 6/6/10, b. f. wrote:
...
> your other port builds. textproc/iso8879 may be modified soon,
> because unqualified use of 'unzip' in the install target seems to be
> causing confusion between the new base system unzip and
> archivers/unzip, which may have consequences for the extraction of
> fil
On Sunday 06 June 2010 17:12:46 Jerry wrote:
> FreeBSD-8.0 STABLE / amd64
>
> After updating (gettext) the NVIDIA driver no longer worked in Xorg, nor
> was it being loaded at boot-up even thought it was in
> the /boot/loader.conf file and had worked correctly priviously. I am
> also unable to load
On 6 June 2010 17:50, Chris wrote:
>
> On Jun 6, 2010, at 4:09 AM, Adam Vande More wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote:
>>
>> EFI is the issue. I was hoping there is new information such as
>> an installation with EFI configuration files to permit the boot.
>> There are instru
I'm having issues with the Fedora Core6 linux emulator on FreeBSD 8.0 it
panics when i run HLDS, the same issue was addressed by Daniel Ballenger in
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-February/054646.htmlbut
i did not get the fix. Giovanni Trematerra gave a response that it was
On Jun 06 2010 10:31, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> >
> > I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas
> > from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be copyfree rather than copyleft.
>
> Do you use that as your int
Hello all,
I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably
with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well.
Anyone willing to make a recommendation?
Thanks in advance,
Peter.
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On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:50:43AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> On Jun 06 2010 10:31, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> > >
> > > I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas
> > > from csh/tcsh, and the license appear
On Jun 06 2010 12:21, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:50:43AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> > On Jun 06 2010 10:31, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the goo
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1:44 PM, peter harrison
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably
> with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well.
If you are using Perl, might as well use any of the http servers
already imple
in message <20100606182148.gb28...@guilt.hydra>,
wrote Chad Perrin thusly...
...
> > > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of
> > > > the good ideas from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be
> > > >
This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap
me over to the right one.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite?
OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and open a
spreadsheet.
Short of the full suite, how about just a sprea
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:34:16 -0700, Chip Camden
wrote:
> This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap
> me over to the right one.
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite?
> OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and op
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 8:44 PM, peter harrison
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably
> with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well.
> Anyone willing to make a recommendation?
>
lighttpd is a decent lightweight
personally i use editors/ted for word processing. it's simple and
efficient. if you decide to try it out be sure to comment out the
openmotif stuff in the makefile so it gets linked to gtk2.
cheers.
alex
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Sorry for top posting (damn windows phone). I never thought of using
Perl directly, I'll look at that, thanks for the suggestion.
Peter.
-Original Message-
From: Alejandro Imass
Sent: 06 June 2010 19:58
To: peter harrison
Cc: questi...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Small webserver recommen
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:38:26PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:34:16 -0700, Chip Camden
> wrote:
> > This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap
> > me over to the right one.
> >
> > Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office s
Sorry for top posting (cheapo windows phone). Will it run cgi? Thanks
for the suggestion.
Peter.
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From: Eitan Adler
Sent: 06 June 2010 21:42
To: peter harrison
Cc: questi...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Small webserver recommendations
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 8:44 PM, pe
Hi Uwe,
thanks for the quick reply.
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On 30 May 2010, at 22:27, Uwe Laverenz wrote:
> Am 30.05.2010 20:46, schrieb Vincent Zee:
>
>> I recently upgraded to the newest version of audio/squeezeboxserver.
>> After the update the server is unable to rescan my music collection.
>>
>> Does
Hi George,
thank you for your answer, will try out your solution.
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On 31 May 2010, at 0:07, George Hartzell wrote:
> Vincent Zee writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently upgraded to the newest version of audio/squeezeboxserver.
>> After the update the server is unable to rescan my music colle
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 23:03:11 +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> Don't forget LaTeX! Especially since it is quite easy for scripting languages
> to generate LaTeX code (automation).
Oh, but *I* didn't forget LaTeX. The OP requested a word processor,
not a typesetting system (which is the next evolutiona
On Sunday 06 June 2010 19:31:00 Bogdan Webb wrote:
> I'm having issues with the Fedora Core6 linux emulator on FreeBSD 8.0 it
> panics when i run HLDS, the same issue was addressed by Daniel Ballenger in
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-February/054646.html
>but i did not ge
On June 6, 2010 04:34:16 pm Chip Camden wrote:
> This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap
> me over to the right one.
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite?
> OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and open a
> spr
As this link (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10570) says, JAVA
PLUGIN WONT WORK WITH FIREFOX 3.6.
I tried to use linux-sun-jdk16 port, but the plugin didn t work too.
Is there an workaround or anybody that knows how-to use java plugin within
firefox 3.6?
Thanks in advance,
Marcio C
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 5:00 PM, peter harrison
wrote:
> Sorry for top posting (damn windows phone). I never thought of using
> Perl directly, I'll look at that, thanks for the suggestion.
>
Jajajaja. Windows Mobile sucks big time. Switch to an Android device
and support Perldroid ;-) !!!
Alex
>
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Chip Camden wrote:
> This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap
> me over to the right one.
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite?
> OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and open a
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 01:34:16PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite?
> OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and open a
> spreadsheet.
>
> Short of the full suite, how about just a spreadsheet program that suppor
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:32:58AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> >
> I was a tcsh user before switching to zsh. But I was raised on the
> Bourne Shell, and used Korn shell a lot in the 90s. The C-shell versions
> of control flow commands always tripped me up, even though they're
> arguably more sa
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:06:28AM -1000, p...@pair.com wrote:
>
> I cannot say about the tcsh features.
That's kind of a shame, since tcsh is what I prefer these days, having
long since given up on bash (pretty much immediately after I started
using FreeBSD as my primary OS instead of bash, and
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:34:16 -0700
Chip Camden wrote:
> This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please
> slap me over to the right one.
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite?
> OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and ope
On Sun 06 Jun 2010 at 20:56:50 PDT Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 01:34:16PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite?
OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and open a
spreadsheet.
Short of the full suite, how
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Charlie Kester wrote:
> On Sun 06 Jun 2010 at 20:56:50 PDT Chad Perrin wrote:
>>
[...]
> I'm not sure what to do with PPT's. Can PowerPoint save to PDF, which
> is what almost everyone else seems to be using for presentations?
Latex Beamer rules!
> ___
On Sun 06 Jun 2010 at 21:44:45 PDT Alejandro Imass wrote:
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Charlie Kester wrote:
On Sun 06 Jun 2010 at 20:56:50 PDT Chad Perrin wrote:
[...]
I'm not sure what to do with PPT's. Can PowerPoint save to PDF, which
is what almost everyone else seems to be usin
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:20:08AM +, Márcio C.G. wrote:
>
> As this link (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10570) says, JAVA
> PLUGIN WONT WORK WITH FIREFOX 3.6.
> I tried to use linux-sun-jdk16 port, but the plugin didn t work too.
> Is there an workaround or anybody that knows ho
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