Re: no spaces ....

2010-10-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:58:31 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Looks like the spacebar on my clicky keyboard is busted. Same thing > on FBSD as on the desktop [[ubuntu]]]. I'm typing this on my > laptop. Seems like every other key works. You can remap one of the unused advertising keys (those that

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-31 Thread parv
in message , wrote Warren Block thusly... > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:13 PM, wrote: > > I tried with "man perlfunc | less '+/y'" (also repeated the above > > with csh) which did not result in any error messages in zsh 4 on > >

Portable Makefile(s)

2010-10-31 Thread David DEMELIER
Hello, I'm working on many projects, and writing makefile is really painful. I love the BSD Makefile syntax obviously, but I also love that people using Linux could run make to build my projects too. And using BSD makefile syntax disallow this. Reducing the makefile to the minimal makes them port

Re: Portable Makefile(s)

2010-10-31 Thread Chris Rees
You could (at the risk of war) use autotools? Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 31 Oct 2010 11:35, "David DEMELIER" wrote: Hello, I'm working on many projects, and writing makefile is really painful. I love the BSD Makefile s

Re: Portable Makefile(s)

2010-10-31 Thread C. Bergström
David DEMELIER wrote: Hello, I'm working on many projects, and writing makefile is really painful. I love the BSD Makefile syntax obviously, but I also love that people using Linux could run make to build my projects too. And using BSD makefile syntax disallow this. Reducing the makefile to the

Fwd: Postfix SMTP server: errors from mx2.freebsd.org[69.147.83.53]

2010-10-31 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Hi, It looks like mx2.freebsd.org is blacklisted by Sorbs.net: Original Message Transcript of session follows. In: EHLO mx2.freebsd.org Out: 250-PIPELINING Out: 250-SIZE 2560 Out: 250-ETRN Out: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES Out: 250-8BITMIME Out: 250 DSN In: MAIL FROM:

mount_smbfs problem after upgrade Samba 3.4 -> 3.5

2010-10-31 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi, I'm doing a major overhaul of our Samba servers including an upgrade to the latest port version, 3.5.6. I'm getting most things in place but a remaining problem is that I cannot any longer use mount_smbfs: mount_smbfs -I 192.168.1.8 //p...@mars/inter /home/mnt Password: mount_smbfs: unabl

Re: mount_smbfs problem after upgrade Samba 3.4 -> 3.5

2010-10-31 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
On 10/31/10 14:06, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, I'm doing a major overhaul of our Samba servers including an upgrade to the latest port version, 3.5.6. I'm getting most things in place but a remaining problem is that I cannot any longer use mount_smbfs: mount_smbfs -I 192.168.1.8 //p...@mars/i

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Polytropon wrote: True - and just confirmed on 5.4-p14, so it must have been waiting inside the machine for many years now... Looks like the Norwiegans got to the the south pole first: http://lists.free

Re: can't add entries to fsab

2010-10-31 Thread Tim Dunphy
hey guys, thanks!! Yeah I tried adding the late option, but that didn't change anything. But then I thought that perhaps DNS was not loaded by the time the fstab is parsed making any DNS style mounts render the machine unbootable in normal mode. So I tried referring to the mount by the IP addre

Re: can't add entries to fsab

2010-10-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Tim Dunphy wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Tim Dunphy wrote: I am having some trouble adding entries to /etc/fstab.. what happens to work under CentOS does not under FreeBSD!! no surprise there, I suppose.. heh I have nf

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Warren Block on Saturday, 30 October 2010: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Warren Block wrote: > > >On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Chip Camden wrote: > > > >>>% man csh | less +/rehash > >>> > >>> rehash Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the > >>>directo- > >>> ries in th

Re: can't add entries to fsab

2010-10-31 Thread Tim Dunphy
oh ok, thanks good thing I saw this before I got to long in this process. I backed up the /etc/rc.d directory and started re-ordering things like this: 000netif 001netoptions 002routing 003network_ipv6 004ppp 005ipfw 006defaultroute 007routed 008mrouted 009route6d 0010mroute6d 011named

Re: can't add entries to fsab

2010-10-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Tim Dunphy wrote: So I tried referring to the mount by the IP address rather than the DNS name, and that fixed it.. I suppose I could setup the order in which the services load in /etc/rc.d/ by pre-pending each one with numbers (i.e. 00netif 01named 02syslogd...etc etc). C

Re: no spaces ....

2010-10-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 08:16:13AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:58:31 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Looks like the spacebar on my clicky keyboard is busted. Same thing > > on FBSD as on the desktop [[ubuntu]]]. I'm typing this on my > > laptop. Seems like every other key wor

can't start firefox

2010-10-31 Thread Tim Dunphy
Whenever I try to launch firefox I get a message saying Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. Then I try doing a ps so that I can find the pid and kill it... LBSD1# ps -auxwww | grep fire

sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-10-31 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I installed a 9-CURRENT from an USB key to a hard disk of a laptop and encountered a strange problem: I booted the USB key to normal multiuser mode and wanted to wipe out the Windows on the disk, create one slice ad4s1 and partitions in it for /, /usr, /var, ... I thought the simplest wa

Re: can't add entries to fsab

2010-10-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:11:31 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Actually this machine isn't on DHCP, it's statically assigned. My > basic goal is to get the box to the point where it can resolve DNS > before it mounts the contents of /etc/fstab... In case the interface is already up at mount time, you c

Re: can't start firefox

2010-10-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:11:22 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Whenever I try to launch firefox I get a message saying Firefox is > already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must > first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. Restart the system... very funny.

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-10-31 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sunday 31 October 2010 20:02:58 Matthias Apitz wrote: > How this is supposed to work using sysinstall(8) > or should one use only bsdlabel(8) directly in such a case? sysinstall isn't really intended for post-install use: you should probably learn how to use gpart instead - e.g. gpart create

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-10-31 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, November 01, 2010 a las 12:03:54AM +, Bruce Cran escribió: > On Sunday 31 October 2010 20:02:58 Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > How this is supposed to work using sysinstall(8) > > or should one use only bsdlabel(8) directly in such a case? > > sysinstall isn't really intended for