No GPT on an usb key

2010-10-28 Thread David DEMELIER
Hello, I'm trying to put on my USB mass storage device a GPT scheme partitions. But gpart still add them as slices : To be sure to remove the MBR before I dd'ed it $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.003369 secs (151970 byte

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards..

2010-10-28 Thread perryh
Chad Perrin wrote: > Plus . . . I like pie. A bit out of season, aren't we? It's nowhere near 1 minute before 2 on March 14. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, sen

Digicom Internet Key

2010-10-28 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've been asked to try to send SMs via a 3G Internet Key. I've not seen it personally, but it should be a Digicom 7.2 HSUPA. Here's what I get: > # usbconfig > ugen0.1: at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON > ugen1.1: at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON > ug

Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Illies
To send email from my computer at work I need to send through a smarthost. In the past I had added the line: define(`SMART_HOST', `[smpt.ki.se]') to my mc file, plus some address rewriting for outgoing mail. This has worked for years. Now the mail system has changed and it requires some authent

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards.

2010-10-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From: Gary Kline > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Cc: > Subject: okay, time to ask the wizards. > > I've got a very large file with paragraphs separated only by "\n". > How do I put a blank line _after_ each newline? have you tried something as simple as sed -e 's/\n/&&/' outfile -or- awk

Port update problem?

2010-10-28 Thread Arthur Chance
I just updated /usr/ports (with portsnap fetch update) and then ran /etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg to check which needed rebuilding and got (please excuse any line wrapping) fileserver# /etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg Check for out of date packages: pkg_version: Failed to get PKGNAME

Re: Shotwell 0.7 on FreeBSD

2010-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anselm Strauss writes: > I was wondering if there are any plans when shotwell in version 0.7 will > come on ports. Currently it is on 0.6.1, the new version would make it > possible to import a f-spot library. But it also requires an update of > vala from 0.8 to 0.9. Are there any blockers? You

ghostscript install problem

2010-10-28 Thread Fred
Hello, I am trying to install ghostscript8 from ports on 8.0-RELEASE-p4. The build stops when /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8/work/ghostscript-8.64/epag-3.09/ert is to be installed in /usr/local/bin. The error is file not found. Error code 71. I tried going to the epag-3.09 directory: make clea

Jeane Wullur invites you to Trusted Opinion

2010-10-28 Thread Jeane Wullur
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Nina Zokaya. has forwarded a page to you from Wacom India

2010-10-28 Thread zokayanina
[1]Wacom India [2]Nina Zokaya. thought you would like to see this page from the Wacom India web site. Message from Sender: zokayan...@yahoo.co.uk Hello!!! I am Nina Zokaya I saw your contact mail today when i was searching and browsing through internet,and i was deeply mo

RE: Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Illies
>2010-10-28 14:49, Christopher Illies: >> To send email from my computer at work I need to send through a >> smarthost. In the past I had added the line: >> >> define(`SMART_HOST', `[smpt.ki.se]') > >Brackets are only needed for ipaddresses. > >What happens when you remove the brackets, like so >de

Re: ghostscript install problem

2010-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fred writes: > Hello, > > I am trying to install ghostscript8 from ports on 8.0-RELEASE-p4. The > build stops when > /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8/work/ghostscript-8.64/epag-3.09/ert is to > be installed in /usr/local/bin. The error is file not found. Error > code 71. I tried going to the epa

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 27 October 2010: > I know that in sh you can get the contents out of files specified as > command line arguments: > > while read data; do > echo $data > done <$@ > > I know you can also get the contents of files from pipes and redirects: > > whil

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards.

2010-10-28 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 15:18 +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > I've got a very large file with paragraphs separated only by "\n". > > > How do I put a blank line _after_ each newline? > In this particular case however, sed does offer the "

Re: Shotwell 0.7 on FreeBSD

2010-10-28 Thread Koop Mast
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:00:50 -0400 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Anselm Strauss writes: > > > I was wondering if there are any plans when shotwell in version 0.7 will > > come on ports. Currently it is on 0.6.1, the new version would make it > > possible to import a f-spot library. But it also requir

Re: download cvsup?

2010-10-28 Thread Tim Dunphy
thanks for the suggestion! but the other machines on this network do not use the FreeBSD machine as a router. They merely reference it as their first choice of DNS servers. So as of now networking is good to go for all machines. best!! On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Michael Powell wrote: > Tim

Re: Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-28 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:49 +0200, Christopher Illies wrote: > Not knowing much about sendmail, I tried google and more or less > blindly followed suggestions. Here is what I have done so far, but > sending email still does not work: > > 1. recompiled sendmail with sasl by adding the following l

start slapd automatically

2010-10-28 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hey listers, I have a quick one for ya.. I am running openLDAP 2.4 server on my freebsd box and it's coming along nicely. But whenever I reboot the box it doesn't start automatically. What's the best way to accomplish this? My /etc/defaults/rc.conf has the following entry: local_startup="/u

RE: Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Illies
>On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:49 +0200, Christopher Illies wrote: > >> >> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 >> LOGIN PLAIN')dnl FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl >> >> dnl Set port define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `IPC $h 587') < >I can't speak to the

Re: start slapd automatically

2010-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Dunphy writes: > I have a quick one for ya.. I am running openLDAP 2.4 server on my > freebsd box and it's coming along nicely. > > But whenever I reboot the box it doesn't start automatically. What's > the best way to accomplish this? > > My /etc/defaults/rc.co

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:11:48AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > Here's a way to do what you're wanting to do. Unfortunately, it isn't a > generalized, single construct: > > #!/bin/sh > if [ $# -ge 1 ];then > exec cat $@ | $0 > exit > fi > > while read data; do > echo $data > done > > My

mediatomb and m3u issues

2010-10-28 Thread Justin V.
Hi, This is for any mediatomb users. I recently installed Mediatomb with mencoder. Everything works solid on the video side of things.. I can stream video from my FreeBSD machine to my PS3 without any issue. The only issue I see is when I add my music to the mediatomb db. I keep getting a s

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 28 October 2010: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:11:48AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > Here's a way to do what you're wanting to do. Unfortunately, it isn't a > > generalized, single construct: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > if [ $# -ge 1 ];then > > exec cat $@ | $0 > >

Re: start slapd automatically

2010-10-28 Thread Tim Dunphy
ok thanks.. this is what I tried: [r...@lbsd2:/var/run/openldap]#vi /usr/local/etc/rc.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sun Aug 15 18:54:08 2010 # Created: Sun Aug 15 18:54:08 2010 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards.

2010-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 03:18:02PM +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 18:16 -0700, Liontaur wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > I've got a very large file with paragraphs separated only by "\n". > > > How do I put a blank line _after_ each newli

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards.

2010-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:18:06AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > From: Gary Kline > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Cc: > > Subject: okay, time to ask the wizards. > > > > I've got a very large file with paragraphs separated only by "\n". > > How do I put a blank line _after_ each newline? >

Jabber/XXMP suggestions?

2010-10-28 Thread Ryan Coleman
What are your recommendations for a Jabber server? I've tried to get jabberd (2) installed but had PAM issues with it; previously ran openfire but wasn't happy with it running in Java and the same goes, now, with ejabberd which I haven't installed but also runs on Java. Not a lot of users, but

Resetting the sound system

2010-10-28 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Dear list, the audio software I use sometimes seems to handle unappropriately its input and leave the sound system in a strange state. When this happens, the lowest frequencies of the played sound are very attenuated and what is still audible sounds unpleasantly metallic. Rebooting the machi

RE:Port update problem?

2010-10-28 Thread Doug Spangler
Fetch the current INDEX as well, or build a new INDEX, that happens when there isn't a proper INDEX. Also take a look at the FreeBSD Handbook Chapter 5 and the man page for portsnap. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards.

2010-10-28 Thread Devin Teske
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:31 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:18:06AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > > From: Gary Kline > > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > > Cc: > > > Subject: okay, time to ask the wizards. > > > > > > I've got a very large file with paragraphs separate

slightly OT... .

2010-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
First, since abiword and OOo both work across many platforms, this isn't a FreeBSD question, but humor me anyway. A [long] while ago I checked on the OOOForums list and got the howto's of changing "this into ``this'' in openoffice. [[And 'this i

RE:Port update problem?

2010-10-28 Thread Doug Spangler
Fetch the current INDEX as well, that happens when there isn't a proper INDEX. Also take a look at the FreeBSD Handbook Chapter 5 and the man page for portsnap ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Devin Teske
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 15:28 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > I know that in sh you can get the contents out of files specified as > command line arguments: > > while read data; do > echo $data > done <$@ > > I know you can also get the contents of files from pipes and redirects: > >

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:17:12 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Perhaps someone with more sh fu can transform the > 'if' paragraph into a one-liner at least. When I tried to do so, I got an > unexpected ; error. Not tested, but this should do the trick: #!/bin/sh if [ $# -ge 1 ] && (

Re: Jabber/XXMP suggestions?

2010-10-28 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
ejabberd is erlang not java. I used it without any problems for some years Rodrigo On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:28:48 -0500 Ryan Coleman wrote: > What are your recommendations for a Jabber server? I've tried to get > jabberd (2) installed but had PAM issues with it; previously ran > openfire but wa

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards.

2010-10-28 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Devin Teske on Thursday, 28 October 2010: > On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:31 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:18:06AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > > > > From: Gary Kline > > > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > > > Cc: > > > > Subject: okay, time to ask the wizards. >

Re: Port update problem?

2010-10-28 Thread Arthur Chance
On 10/28/10 17:56, Doug Spangler wrote: Fetch the current INDEX as well, that happens when there isn't a proper INDEX. Also take a look at the FreeBSD Handbook Chapter 5 and the man page for portsnap The command (it's portsnap wrapped up with start & finish time messages that can be run from c

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:28:26 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:17:12 -0700, Chip Camden > wrote: > > Perhaps someone with more sh fu can transform the > > 'if' paragraph into a one-liner at least. When I tried to do so, I got an > > unexpected ; error. > > Not tested, but this

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Polytropon on Thursday, 28 October 2010: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:17:12 -0700, Chip Camden > wrote: > > Perhaps someone with more sh fu can transform the > > 'if' paragraph into a one-liner at least. When I tried to do so, I got an > > unexpected ; error. > > Not tested, but this should d

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:17:12 -0700, >> Chip Camden said: C> Perhaps someone with more sh fu can transform the 'if' paragraph into a C> one-liner at least. When I tried to do so, I got an unexpected ; error. Try this: #!/bin/sh test $# -ge 1 && cat $@ | exec $0 && exit 0

Re: Jabber/XXMP suggestions?

2010-10-28 Thread Ryan Coleman
Well, it's requiring that I download updates from Sun... so I'm avoiding it from past experience with trying to navigate their website. I'll put it back on the list. On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: > ejabberd is erlang not java. > > I used it without any problems for some

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Karl Vogel on Thursday, 28 October 2010: > >> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:17:12 -0700, > >> Chip Camden said: > > C> Perhaps someone with more sh fu can transform the 'if' paragraph into a > C> one-liner at least. When I tried to do so, I got an unexpected ; error. > >Try this: > >

Re: Port update problem?

2010-10-28 Thread Doug Spangler
You are correct I meant chapter 4. Just out of curiosity is your INDEX intact or is that the cause of the odd behavior of /etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg, portion of the problem. I understand that it is not the root cause of your problem just a symptom. On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 18:41 +0100, Arth

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Devin Teske
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:17 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 28 October 2010: > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:11:48AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > > > Here's a way to do what you're wanting to do. Unfortunately, it isn't a > > > generalized, single construct: > > >

Re: Jabber/XXMP suggestions?

2010-10-28 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
I didnt remember that, checking erlang port it has # The Java applications that are part of the Erlang distribution are # not strictly necessary - it is included for completeness sake. A # problem with the Erlang build procedure is that it only checks if # javac is in the regular path - and then a

adding user ldif to ldap

2010-10-28 Thread Tim Dunphy
hi list.. I am trying to add an ldif with my users that I have derived from /etc/passwd. for some reason ldapadd is choking on the root user... may I ask how best to correct this? Here is the error: LBSD2# ldapadd -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=summitnjhome,dc=com" -w localG30rg3T0wn -f /tmp/passwd.ldif a

Re: Jabber/XXMP suggestions?

2010-10-28 Thread Ryan Coleman
excellent. I didn't dig in too deeply last night when I was trying to install it. On Oct 28, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: > I didnt remember that, checking erlang port it has > > # The Java applications that are part of the Erlang distribution are > # not strictly necessary - it is

Re: slightly OT... .

2010-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
Sorry: don't bother with this [below]; there weren't that many embedded quotes. By-hand worked fine. --g On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:12:38AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > First, since abiword and OOo both work across many platforms, > this isn't a F

Re: ghostscript install problem

2010-10-28 Thread Fred
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fred writes: Hello, I am trying to install ghostscript8 from ports on 8.0-RELEASE-p4. The build stops when /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8/work/ghostscript-8.64/epag-3.09/ert is to be installed in /usr/local/bin. The error is file not found. Error code 71. I tried g

Re: ghostscript install problem

2010-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fred writes: > Ghostscript8 compiled and installed ok. It was probably the rmconfig > that fixed it. I had unset a lot of options that were of no value to > me. Maybe one or more of them are not really optional. Or more likely, optional but other options depend on them. > Concerning the copy

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread John Levine
>I was hoping for a generalized, simple idiom for this, rather than >needing to implement it myself, for demonstration purposes #!/bin/sh cat "$@" | while read x do echo "I saw $x" done Sheesh. R's, John _

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth John Levine on Thursday, 28 October 2010: > >I was hoping for a generalized, simple idiom for this, rather than > >needing to implement it myself, for demonstration purposes > > > #!/bin/sh > > cat "$@" | > while read x > do >echo "I saw $x" > d

ssh key authentication problem...

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Harrison
Can anyone help me debug an ssh key-based authentication problem? I have an 8.1-R server running sshd, with one user account. On the server, I've used ssh-keygen to generate id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. On my laptop I then pulled the id_rsa.pub file over and: % cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys

Re: ssh key authentication problem...

2010-10-28 Thread Jon Radel
On 10/28/10 3:39 PM, Peter Harrison wrote: Can anyone help me debug an ssh key-based authentication problem? I have an 8.1-R server running sshd, with one user account. On the server, I've used ssh-keygen to generate id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. On my laptop I then pulled the id_rsa.pub file over

Re: ssh key authentication problem...

2010-10-28 Thread krad
On 28 October 2010 20:39, Peter Harrison wrote: > Can anyone help me debug an ssh key-based authentication problem? > > I have an 8.1-R server running sshd, with one user account. On the server, > I've used ssh-keygen to generate id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. > > On my laptop I then pulled the id_rsa.p

Re: ssh key authentication problem...

2010-10-28 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
You have to do the other way generate at laptop, put in authorized_key at server the public key and then you will be able to ssh to server from laptop using key authorization On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:39:53 +0100 Peter Harrison wrote: > Can anyone help me debug an ssh key-based authentication

Re: ssh key authentication problem...

2010-10-28 Thread krad
On 28 October 2010 22:13, krad wrote: > > > On 28 October 2010 20:39, Peter Harrison wrote: > >> Can anyone help me debug an ssh key-based authentication problem? >> >> I have an 8.1-R server running sshd, with one user account. On the server, >> I've used ssh-keygen to generate id_rsa and id_rs

Re: ssh key authentication problem...

2010-10-28 Thread pete wright
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Peter Harrison wrote: > Can anyone help me debug an ssh key-based authentication problem? > > I have an 8.1-R server running sshd, with one user account. On the server, > I've used ssh-keygen to generate id_rsa  and id_rsa.pub. > > On my laptop I then pulled the

OT: What's going on with gcc?

2010-10-28 Thread Arthur Barlow
I seems like there are changes every other day. And on my old machine it takes about eight hours to recompile. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

Re: OT: What's going on with gcc?

2010-10-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > I seems like there are changes every other day. And on my old machine it > takes about eight hours to recompile. > /usr/ports/devel/ccache -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: OT: What's going on with gcc?

2010-10-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 28, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > I[t] seems like there are changes every other day. And on my old machine it > takes about eight hours to recompile. The base system compiler doesn't change that often (unless you are tracking -CURRENT), so you probably are asking about one of

Re: ssh key authentication problem...

2010-10-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Peter Harrison wrote: > debug1: trying public key file /home/peter/.ssh/authorized_keys > debug1: fd 4 clearing O_NONBLOCK > debug3: secure_filename: checking '/usr/home/peter/.ssh' > debug3: secure_filename: checking '/usr/home/peter' > debug3: secure_filename:

Re: OT: What's going on with gcc?

2010-10-28 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 28, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > > I[t] seems like there are changes every other day. And on my old machine > it takes about eight hours to recompile. > > The base system compiler doesn't change that often (unless you are

Re: OT: What's going on with gcc?

2010-10-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 28, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > Yes, that's it. I'm running FBSD 8.1 and I check the ports with "pkg_version > -vIL=" daily, and it seems there has been this almost > constant version upgrade for the last couple of weeks. I use "portupgrade" > to do my upgrades. Hmm, update

mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-28 Thread dan
Hello :-) 'mount_msdosfs -L en_US.UTF-8 /dev/da0 local/mnt/' executed by a non root-user prints out the following "mount_msdosfs: msdosfs_iconv: Operation not permitted" and then stops with error 71 on console. Later, the same command, executed by the same user, completes correctly if some t

mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-28 Thread dan
Hello :-) 'mount_msdosfs -L en_US.UTF-8 /dev/da0 local/mnt/' executed by a non root-user prints out the following "mount_msdosfs: msdosfs_iconv: Operation not permitted" and then stops with error 71 on console. Later, the same command, executed by the same user, completes correctly if some t

Re: mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Dan-- On Oct 28, 2010, at 3:45 PM, dan wrote: > 'mount_msdosfs -L en_US.UTF-8 /dev/da0 local/mnt/' > > executed by a non root-user prints out the following > > "mount_msdosfs: msdosfs_iconv: Operation not permitted" > > and then stops with error 71 on console. > > Later, the same command,

Re: ghostscript install problem

2010-10-28 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Fred wrote: Concerning the copy & paste, root is not running X so there is no copy and paste. I tried redirecting error output from make with 2>$HOME/make_error but make sees the redirection as an instruction it does not know how to do. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthrea

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Charlie Kester
On Thu 28 Oct 2010 at 13:52:27 PDT Chip Camden wrote: Smacks forehead as if starring in a V-8 commercial A friend of mine used to call that a Neanderthal Moment. (Smack your forehead, shrug your shoulders, and imagine it is reshaping your body.) _

Re: Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 28/10/2010 15:25, Christopher Illies wrote: >> 2010-10-28 14:49, Christopher Illies: >>> To send email from my computer at work I need to send through a >>> smarthost. In the past I had added the line: >>> >>> define(`SMART_HOST', `[smpt.ki.se]') >> Brackets are only needed for ipaddresses. >> >

Re: slightly OT... .

2010-10-28 Thread Henry Olyer
I wrote some files using a MacBook and saved them as .RTF files. And discovered that I couldn't move them to FreeBSD and use AbiWord. What do I to make them work? On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > >Sorry: don't bother with this [below]; there weren't that many >

Re: slightly OT... .

2010-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:22:26 -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: > I wrote some files using a MacBook and saved them as .RTF files. > > And discovered that I couldn't move them to FreeBSD and use AbiWord. > > What do I to make them work? You could try to use one of the tools provided in the ports collect

Re: ssh key authentication problem...

2010-10-28 Thread Mikel King
Peter, Have you verified permissions of 700 on .ssh and 640 on authorized_keys and authorized_keys2? If you do not have an authorized_keys2 simply copy the former to that name and give it a go. Cheers, Mikel King _ From: Peter Harrison [mailto:peter.piggy...@virgin.net] To: questi...@

start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread Tim Dunphy
hey guys, I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1 I found the following advice on the net with so far isn't working to start it: echo "startkde" > ~/.xinitrc I have attempted startx but the system doesn't know about it. may I have a suggestion to proceed? thanks! -- H

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread Tim Dunphy
sorry forgot to mention I am running it on a dell optiplex gx620 .. thanks in advance On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > hey guys, > >  I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1 > >  I found the following advice on the net with so far isn't working to start > it

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread justin v
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:24:19 -0700, Tim Dunphy wrote: sorry forgot to mention I am running it on a dell optiplex gx620 .. thanks in advance On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: hey guys, I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1 I found the following adv

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread Liontaur
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > hey guys, > > I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1 > > I found the following advice on the net with so far isn't working to start > it: > > echo "startkde" > ~/.xinitrc > > I have attempted startx but the system doesn't

Re: Resetting the sound system

2010-10-28 Thread Liontaur
2010/10/28 Michaël Grünewald > Dear list, > > the audio software I use sometimes seems to handle unappropriately its > input and leave the sound system in a strange state. When this happens, the > lowest frequencies of the played sound are very attenuated and what is still > audible sounds unple

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread Carl Johnson
Tim Dunphy writes: > sorry forgot to mention I am running it on a dell optiplex gx620 .. > thanks in advance > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: >> hey guys, >> I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1 >> I found the following advice on the net with so far isn

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Tim Dunphy wrote: I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1 I found the following advice on the net with so far isn't working to start it: echo "startkde" > ~/.xinitrc I have attempted startx but the system doesn't know about it. may I have a suggestion to

man(1) output error

2010-10-28 Thread Warren Block
On 8-stable, this works: % man csh | less +/rehash but after exiting less: Error executing formatting or display command. system command exited with status 36096 Error executing formatting or display command. system command exited with status 36096 No manual entry for csh This error seems new.