Re: Local patches to ports?

are sure that there is no possibility of conflict between the local patches and the ones in the distributed ports tree, then putting your local patches, as has been suggested by others, in `www/apache13/files' is an option. See the Porter's Handbook, Section 4.4, for guidelines. Raghaven

Re: More build problems: portmaster and portupgrade not properly working.

At 2008-09-10T03:46:52Z, Desmond Chapman wrote: > ===> Registering installation for portmaster-1.25 > # portmaster > portmaster: Command not found. After installing a command, do # rehash before invoking the installed command. See tcsh(1). Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[

Re: FreeBSD CVS tag

and commit `options'. Now, only the `StupidProject' keyword will be expanded, leaving other keywords unexpanded. See: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/CVSROOT/options http://dotat.at/writing/cvs-guidelines.html Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | h

Re: FreeBSD CVS tag

rg/viewvc/cvs/ccvs/ the LocalKeyword mechanism was introduced with CVS 1.12.2. The system CVS in FreeBSD 7-STABLE seems to be 1.11.17. I think even the tagexpand capability comes through FreeBSD patches to that version. Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrot

Re: Port for drawing directed graphs?

27; is similar to a matrix in LaTeX. The package essentially views the graph as a matrix, each of whose entries is a label for a vertex together with vectors that represent the edges starting from that vertex. Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ H

Re: FreeBSD CVS tag

/options in support of the tagexpand approach. > To be (even more) honest, I have a strong desire *not* to be a CVS > expert. Indeed :-) Since switching over to Mercurial, my interest in CVS has been somewhat cursory, as well. Anyway, thanks for the response. Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra

Unable to use CD/DVD drive

4,0,0 400) 'PBDS' 'DVD+-RW DH-16W1S' '2D14' Removable CD-ROM 4,1,0 401) * 4,2,0 402) * 4,3,0 403) * 4,4,0 404) * 4,5,0 405) * 4,6,0 406) * 4,7,0 407) * -- N. Raghavendra | http:

Re: download source code on Linux

amples, see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP

Re: Configuring Bash

effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a $" So, something like export PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED] " in `~/.bashrc' should produce the prompt you want. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ H

Re: Lock down the all-staff email list? sendmail, alias, majordomo?

is a file containing addresses from which messages to the list will be accepted. In addition, you may want to configure `/etc/mail/virtualusertable' as in Majordomo FAQ 3.6, http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/majordomo-faq.html#3.6 HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Freebsd behind a proxy

variable that is set among FTP_PROXY, ftp_proxy, HTTP_PROXY, and http_proxy. AFAIK, wget(1) doesn't --- if ftp_proxy is unset, it doesn't use a proxy for FTP requests, even if http_proxy is set. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

-c ~/catalog -egsu foo.html HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd-

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

to use it. In fact, the W3C validator is based on OpenSP, see http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#how Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for conta

Re: Open Source and 3rd world countries

Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | See message headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Rsync Setup

cpierce/unison/ Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: ls colorized in freebsd csh??

;*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.ppm=01;35" setenv LS_COLORS "$LS_COLORS":"*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35" setenv LS_COLORS "$LS_COLORS":"*.tif=01;35:*.mpg=01;37:*.avi=01;37" setenv LS_COLORS "$LS_COLORS":"*.gl=01;37:*.dl=01;37:*.tex=01;35"

`call' function in `make'

Hi, Is there an analogue in BSD `make' of the `call' function in `gmake': $(call VARIABLE,PARAM,PARAM,...)? Thanks, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute

Re: `call' function in `make'

if test ! -d $@ ; then rm -f $@ ; mkdir $@ ; fi (`dir2' not created) Can someone tell me why this is happening? Thanks, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___

Re: `call' function in `make'

At 2004-05-26T12:41:57+01:00, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:15:57PM +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote: > > ### Makefile > > > > ## Create directory FOO if it does not exist. > > create_dir = if test ! -d foo ; then rm -f foo ; mkdir foo ;

Re: What's the big difference between Linux and Unix??

At 2004-06-12T14:06:07+01:00, Matthew Seaman wrote: > For more detail that you could possibly want about the descent of > Unix, see: > > http://www.levenez.com/unix/ Hi Matthew, Thanks for pointing out that interesting site. Cheers, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[

Re: Low volume

t; hint.pcm.0.phin="100" hint.pcm.0.phout="100" hint.pcm.0.video="100" I do not understand the way the sound system works, so some of the above channels may be meaningless. However, it should give one the idea. HTH, Ragha

Re: _dhcp user problems

ABLE to 6.0-STABLE, and noticed that it added the `_dhcp' record to `/etc/passwd' and `/etc/group', and did `pwd_mkdb' as well. As far as I remember, those were the only changes made by `mergemaster -p'. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | See message

Re: _dhcp user problems

be saved. I assume you opted for the choice > of merging the two files? Yes, I used the merging feature of `mergemaster'. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | See message headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institu

Re: Lousy network performance ...

y downloading large files with wget(1) from high bandwidth servers like `kernel.org', convinced them that we were not getting what we should have been. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | See message headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Ins

Re: ls colorized in freebsd csh??

numbers? See the tcsh(1) man page [ENVIRONMENT, LS_COLORS]. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

t; them out There are a few Indian shops which do sell inexpensive FreeBSD and GNU/Linux CD-ROMs --- costing about USD 4.00 for three CDs. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra R

Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

At 2005-04-14T23:16:17+05:30, Subhro wrote: > >There are a few Indian shops which do sell inexpensive FreeBSD and > >GNU/Linux CD-ROMs --- costing about USD 4.00 for three CDs. > > I didnt find any. See http://www.roseindia.net/linux/free_bsd_5_3.shtml Raghavendra. -- N. R

Re: Non Network cvsup?

ccount on a machine outside your firewall, you can use CVSup with SSH port forwarding. There have been several threads in the list on this topic, which can be found by searching the archives. See, e.g., http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2003-March/000213.html Raghavendra.

Re: how to set fixed address problem at dhcpd.conf

touch /var/db/dhcpd.leases before the first run of `dhcpd'. HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: TrueType fonts sources

fonts'. You can find more choices by searching the ports tree. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questio

Re: tetex, latex, dvips

ipt viewer such as `print/gv', and a PDF viewer such as `print/acroread'. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questio

Re: the 'make' command in the ports tree

mation aimed at users, and the Porter's Handbook for technical information. HTH, Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. __

Re: the 'make' command in the ports tree

At 2009-04-13T10:48:51+05:30, N. Raghavendra wrote: > The ports(1) man page describes several targets ^ Sorry, that is ports(7). Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact

Re: Format of history output Sometimes is very Different.

I did to get that alternative output? In tcsh, one way to do that is `history -T'. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact a

Re: Format of history output Sometimes is very Different.

At 2009-04-24T08:35:22-05:00, Martin McCormick wrote: > Thanks to you and "N. Raghavendra" > for your help. That has got to be what I did. You are welcome :-) Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.m

Re: X Window - how to get the standard font

tain you can add xrdb -merge ${HOME}/.Xresources to ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession, as the case may be. I personally keep my Xresources elsewhere, and merge them as above.) HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See mes

Re: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

led: 404 Not Found (foo) drwxr-xr-x -- ~ drwxr-xr-x -- ~/pub drwxr-xr-x -- .. drwxr-xr-x -- . drwxr-xr-x- 2007-11-02 00:00 fbsd-compat -rw-r--r-- 1k 2002-04-03 00:00 supfile HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Resea

Re: generating random passwords

e64 encoding transforms every group of 3 octets to 4 encoded characters, so `openssl rand -base64 3N' produces a string with 4N encoded characters. In case it is relevant, the generated strings are made up of the 62 US-ASCII alphanumerical characters, `+', and `/'. HTH, Raghavendra.

Re: why can't I use $1 in .cshrc ?

;^man' /etc/passwd man:*:9:9:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:/usr/sbin/nologin HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. _

Re: Windows > Unix volunteers

> As a FreeBSD fan, I'd love to see it in ports. I guess you have already checked out graphics/chbg, and perhaps some other similar ports, before asking that question. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institut

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and RAM limit

odinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_address Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information.

Re: Library mapping question

e search path. Then, append these two lines to `/etc/libmap.conf': [app2] libXXX.so libFOO.so HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message heade

Re: PACKAGESITE

ing passive mode >>> PASV <<< 227 Entering Passive Mode (204,152,184,73,88,54) opening data connection initiating transfer >>> RETR expat.tbz <<< 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for expat.tbz (148302 bytes). Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports

Re: PACKAGESITE

Mode (204,152,184,73,68,212) opening data connection initiating transfer >>> RETR expat.tbz <<< 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for expat.tbz (148302 bytes). Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/expat.tbz... Ra

Re: PACKAGESITE

riable: http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pkg_add http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add ) Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact

Re: httpd could not be started

adding one may help: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.example.net 192.168.8.10foo.example.net foo Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message heade

Re: pkgsrc vs ports

rg/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-April/039802.html Enjoy, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. _

Re: pkgsrc vs ports

At 2008-07-18T13:41:08+02:00, Eduardo Morras wrote: > Ejem, it's the 1st April joke > >>Enjoy, >>Raghavendra. Indeed :-) I thought it could be enjoyed even now. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandr

Re: How to divide up?

ate lines. Here is a second approximation: [/home/raghu]% cat foo.sed s//>\ /g [/home/raghu]% cat foo.html worldbetween hells...next world [/home/raghu]% sed -f foo.sed foo.html | sed '/^$/d' world between hells... next world Perhaps the pipe to remove blank lines ca

Re: How to divide up?

in this respect is close to the style guidelines in the FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer [10.1.4.2, Separating tags]. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message

Re: How to divide up?

r the refresher! You are welcome. > I'll check the FBSD Docs for `Separating Tags'; that level of > obscurity is beyond amazing, :-) Just in case the "obscurity" refers to the location of the document, here is its URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/writing-

Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies

lso be done with `ports-mgmt/portmanager' (with the -slid option) or `ports-mgmt/portmaster' (with the -s option). Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message head

LispWorks Personal on FreeBSD 7

9d3.html and in the LW mailing list thread http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.lispworks.general/8422 which also describes some minor tweaking of LD_LIBRARY_PATH that was needed. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute

Re: tex, teTex, LaTeX help

atics for more than a decade using the teTeX distribution, and have found it sufficient for my needs. I've used TeXLive too, but have not found any need to do so. YMMV. HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/

Re: Query regarding Advertisment

At 2008-08-11T08:10:02-04:00, Bill Moran wrote: > "Biju Sreenivasan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Dear Sir, >> I am planning a website with BSD FDL. > > What is FDL? Perhaps "Free Documentation License", as in "G(NU

Re: stopping less command from garbaging on the screen

nd freebsd. I used Debian for several years before moving to FreeBSD some years ago. I don't remember particularly making an effort to deal with the differences between them, so I can't help you there. FWIW, I found Matthew Fuller's article `BSD vs Linux' at http://www.ove

Re: ports AUTOCONFxxx

ollowed strictly. For instance, the above section of the Porter's Handbook says, "The first letter of the name part should be lowercase." However, % make -C /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick -V PKGNAME ImageMagick-6.4.1.8 Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

es 1f:c6:81:66:a6 16:d3:9e:eb:74 Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd-q

Re: Playing Audio CDs

ics.html > Also, whats the most commonly used or popular CD + DVD burning > software used in BSD? Perhaps `cdrecord' from the `sysutils/cdrtools' port. See [Handbook, Section 17.6] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html HTH, Raghavendra. --

DHCP problem after upgrade

I upgraded my system from 7.2-STABLE to 8.1-STABLE, and have done `mergemaster'. Earlier the system used to get its IP address by DHCP at boot time without any problem. After the upgrade, it is not doing so. I have ifconfig_em0="DHCP" in /etc/rc.conf. After booting, manually doing `/sbin/dhclie

Re: DHCP problem after upgrade [solved]

At 2010-09-23T11:17:48+05:30, N. Raghavendra wrote: > I upgraded my system from 7.2-STABLE to 8.1-STABLE, and have done > `mergemaster'. Earlier the system used to get its IP address by > DHCP at boot time without any problem. After the upgrade, it is not > doing so. I have i