Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: The problem under discussion is that the kernel version does not change when a freebsd-update update does not include a kernel change. Perhaps we could adopt the Linux practice of placing the release information in /etc/issue Daniel

upgrade packages

2013-04-25 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all! I come from linux os and I read a lot documentations about freebsd. I've a doubt: when I've some packages installed and I need upgrade it, I need to recompile those packages or there's another (fast) way to do this? thanks! Pol ___ freebsd-qu

Re: Procmail Decoding Mime Messages

2013-04-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon writes: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:07:35 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: >> Is there a filter that one can run in procmail in which >> base64 encoded data go in and text comes out so one can allow >> procmailrc to do its work? >> [...] >> Is there anything which will take a raw

Re: upgrade packages

2013-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:05:25 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all! > > I come from linux os and I read a lot documentations about freebsd. > > I've a doubt: when I've some packages installed and I need upgrade it, I > need to recompile those packages or there's another (fast) way to do this? With t

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-25 Thread krad
type id from your user account and paste the results back here On 24 April 2013 14:55, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > 2013-04-24 15:40, Lowell Gilbert skrev: > > Arthur Chance writes: >> >> On 04/24/13 14:07, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >>> >>> No, that's from /etc/passwd which never shows any real p

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:37:01 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > > > > The problem under discussion is that the kernel version does not > > change when a freebsd-update update does not include a kernel change. > > > > Perhaps we could

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:37:01 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: The problem under discussion is that the kernel version does not change when a freebsd-update update does not include a kernel ch

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-25 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Arthur Chance To: Bernt Hansson Cc: questions FreeBSD Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Diskless question On 04/24/13 13:45, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > 2013-04-24 13:21, Arthur Chance skrev: >> On 04/24/13 11:55, Bernt Hansson

mouse in alpine

2013-04-25 Thread doug
on (.1 I built alpine with: ===> The following configuration options are available for alpine-2.00_3: THREADS=on: Compile with thread support MOUSE=on: Enable mouse support for xterm NLS=off: National Language Support ISPELL=on: Use ispell instead of aspell as default speller

Re: mouse in alpine

2013-04-25 Thread doug
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, doug wrote: on (.1 I built alpine with: ===> The following configuration options are available for alpine-2.00_3: THREADS=on: Compile with thread support MOUSE=on: Enable mouse support for xterm NLS=off: National Language Support ISPELL=on: Use ispell instea

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:14:06 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: > This is written as though it applies to FreeBSD, but I was > under the impression that FreeBSD didn't do anything with > /etc/issue. It actually works quite well, I'm using it for decades. :-) You just need to add the item "if=/et