Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

t have standard manpages... :-) Never mind, I'm just joking. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked^M -- TECRA

compilation a file named "/boot/kernel^M" is requested, but does not exist? I'm not sure at this, I'm just guessing. Maybe it helps... -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Symbolic link

some.kind.of.server.org/home/foo/furz.txt local.txt To mount a distant file system, tools like NFS or fuse can be used. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-question

Re: enable usb mouse copy and paste from console

; Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "EmulateWheel" "true" Option "EmulateWheelButton""2&q

Re: automagically share knoqueror with ff3-- bookmarks?

r export the bookmarks as HTML file? Then they could be opened in Firefix 3. Maybe there's another export functionality in Konqueror or import functionality in Firefox? Maybe via CSV? -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user sin

Re: How to test an unsupported scanner (CanoScan LiDe 90)?

ing things complicated exactly this way. Maybe this scanner is compatible to another driver, but that's only a guess. Maybe it's not compatible to anything that exists. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Multiple installation of one ports

esults in programs using the wrong libs. Furthermore, you need to specify a different bin/ path to run the application. Another option would be jails - each port installed and running in its own jail at the internal standard locations. But as you may see and already know, it's a bit complic

Inode numbering

ames - assumed that the corresonding inode information structures are still complete. Thanks for comments! And please tell me if there's already a tool that does this! :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Inode numbering

Will be a lot of work, but I think I can learn much from this. Remember, kids: Learning is fun. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Extract Songs from DVD

re you'll find a better way, just have a look at the manpages). If you want, you can add ID3 track information, or simply use a good file name. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: GCC help

er version (e. g. 4.4), you can install it from the ports collection (e. g. lang/gcc44). If I remeber correctly, it is called as gcc44 then instead of cc / gcc. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Inode numbering

dmit that it's a bit complicated. Programming applications in C is my forte, hehe, but dump's C code is very much lowlevel. I'm so lucky FreeBSD has the right attitude towards documentation. So I will find a way to implement it, I hope. -- Polytropon >From Magdebur

Re: man -t odd page size

et a system A4 compliant. Greetings from Germany, where A4 is the standard for more than a century now. =^_^= -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: man -t odd page size

n't really test > it because I don't have any A4 paper. I checked it - excellent. The formatting of the structural elements works fine, the result is printable. I've just finished ~/bin/man2pdf. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy Free

Re: man -t odd page size

nt it (from within the viewer); I chose gv, but you can use xpdf, KDE's or Gnome's default PDF viewer or the thing from Acrobat, if you like. Afterwards, the PDF file, stored temporarily, is deleted. One of its disadvantages is that you cannot search within the PDF file such as you can fro

Re: does hardware upgrade requires reconfiguration?

not sure about this. Finally, it's hard not to say: "Man, this is FreeBSD, and not 'Windows'!" :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: man -t odd page size

n administrating a system - set paper size once, then forget it. An idea would be to place the paper size setting "near" your printing filter (not the spooler) and advice applications to read it from there, maybe from a file, maybe from an environmental variable. -- Polytropon &

Re: scp

file gives some information... -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Extract Songs from DVD

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:35:25 -0400, "John L. Templer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > % dd if=/dev/acd0t01 of=track01.cdr bs=2352 > > Very cool! I have a few questions though. I notice this doesn't work > for my Plextor CD writ

Re: LOCALE ? FR-fr

, apostrophes, doublequotes or similar things. I know it's possible, but it sometimes can make things _really_ difficult. I hope you won't run into such problems. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: LOCALE ? FR-fr

characters you want. Time for Le Pétit Filè de lâ mũsic.MP3 :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: man -t odd page size

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:37:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Polytropon: thanks for pdfman script - but does 'pdfman ipfw' work for > you? Here the 'overprinting' is misaligned in gv, while others are ok. Yes, but it outputs an error messag

Re: mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt ="input output error"

indicates an error of this kind. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: WINE 2 1.1.5 QUESTION...

ts (or device files?) of removable media. Maybe it is documented in "man wine" how to use this? -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: wall write talk Over subnet

lk there's the ntalk utility. It requires enabling the corresponding line in /etc/inetd.conf. ntalk dgram udp waittty:tty /usr/libexec/ntalkd ntalkd The ntalk program itself is available via ports (net/ntalk). -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBS

Re: DHCP server

emed to be the correct DHCP client site program. > On the other hand, dhcpd starts the dhcp > *server* Correct. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ free

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

time from your local atomic time dealer at system startup. :-) See ntpd and ntpdate for further information. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: How can I get the screenshots only under the command-line?

use Alt+PF2 (for example) to switch to another VT, login, start an editor (ee screen.txt) and then press the middle mouse button - the selected text will be put 1:1 into the file. Unelegang manual work, but sometimes useful (e. g. if you need screenshots for documentation purposes where a simple

Re: GPT Support on Freebsd

nel is compiling... Without setting KERNCONF, the GENERIC kernel configuration file will be used to build a kernel, if I remember the handbook correctly. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Script-friendly (parseble) ps(1) output?

u can use awk, it's quite simple: ps | awk -F " " 'NR > 1 {printf("%s%s%s%s%s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5);}' The only problem I see is that $5, the COMMAND field, is truncated after the first space character, so command line arguments will be missing. -- Polytro

Re: Firewalls in FreeBSD?

any to any x11 in recv xl0 add reset tcp from any to any x11 in recv xl0 add allow ipencap from any to any add allow ip from any to any This should work fine. NB to use the correct interface names. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Ge

Building an inode

ffs)...? Hey, it's not that I try to build my own nuclear plant in the living room... :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: Building an inode

-hackers. I'll do that, thanks! I hope I'll be able to understand the answers because I'm quite new to low-level stuff. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebs

Re: Building an inode

g with ffs2recov is a bad idea. :-) panic: ffs_write: type 0xc5d37e04 0 (0,16384) Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Rebooting... -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 A

Status line for text mode console

sits in line 25, line 24 contains a barrier, and the shell runs on lines 1 - 23. Is there anything comparable? Or do I have to write my own? :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Status line for text mode console

consideration. Maybe I have some ideas running a shell, along with some Ncurses stuff... -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0

ble for FreeBSD, are powerful tools, too. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: why does firefox not display icons?

bein loaded. Instead, the alt or longdesc attribute of the tag is shown, or, in case that an image has been referenced that does not exist, a red dot or X is shown. At least, that how your situation looks to me... -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy Fr

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

l (!) system even on a P1 150 MHz system with it. No joke. If the magic of the tiling window managers opens up to you, you will even be more productive. Allthough I tried several of them, their magic wouldn't open up to me... :-) -- Polytropon >From M

Re: XFCE4

have a look at, in case you want a "standard look". :-) http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/design-your-own-desktop-with-xfce-44/ http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/design-your-own-desktop-with-xfce-44-part-2/ Don't mind it's from a Linux blo

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

hat's what freebsd-update is intended for. At least, it's very useful if you want to follow the RELEASE path and only install the various security patches, so you don't have 7-STABLE, but, for example, 7.1-RELEASE-p5. This is a situation you will usually find on servers. -- P

Re: virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release

root can't be the reason why console switching doesn't seem to work correctly, I believe... -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release

ole. As long as you're in text mode, you can switch around with Alt+PF1 ... Alt+PF9 as you mentioned correctly. The functions of Alt+PF1 ... Alt+PF12 inside X depends on the window manager / desktop environment you're running, it can, for example, be used to switch virtual desktops. -- Po

Re: virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release

why console switching doesn't work as intended. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: irc & usenet clients for xfce

s not involve too much dependencies. On the other hand, using Firefox + Thunderbird would be usable, too. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: Ideal SCSI adapter for me?

r (from vers. 4 up to 7) worked well. It would even run a scanner, a JAZ drive, a CD-ROM drive and a PD drive (if anyone still knows what this is), as well as different hard disks. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?

nd to avoid repeated conversions. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

umentation, statistics (in combination with gnuplot), books (stories), lists and forms. When you're familiar with LaTeX, you won't want to miss it, because you can work faster *and* get better results than anyone with the usual "Word" skills, clickity click, nyak nyak, blah blah.

Re: Glob error?

ash). I did try BASH too, with same result as above - works. The calls to mkdir and ls refer to programs, not to shell internal commands. The only problem could be the * wildcard that the shell would have to expand before calling the actual ls program... -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germa

Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?

ally, a Bourne-type shell with parameter expansion expands > ${variable#prefix} or ${variable%suffix} to $variable with the prefix or > suffix, respectively, removed. So this would be more efficient: #!/bin/sh for f in *eps; do [ ! -f ${f%.eps}.jpg ] &

Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?

y are of high quality. > Also remember that double-quoting filenames or variables that are used > as filenames is a VERY good idea. Filenames with spaces are quite > common these days. It's best to assume the worst, but not be *too* > over-zealous. Especially when you'r

Re: UFS2 limits

ask this in order to explore if this could have been the reason for my massive data loss and UFS file system corruption. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: Console size and scrollback buffer.

ith vidcontrol but was not quite successful. Make sure the requested videomode is available, "vidcontrol -i mode" will tell you. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-qu

Re: trouble getting x11 xdm to work

ation with X... By the way, in order to try if xdm is working correctly it can be started directly by the command "xdm" anytime. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebs

Re: file harvest

used for diagnostics and recovery on UFS file systems. The most famous one is The Sleuth Kit, another useful tool is magicrescue. Try and see if they are helpful to you. Good luck! -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: root /etc/csh

) command is advised. In my opinion, you could add "bash" as the last line of your ~/.login file which will be executed by csh, so bash starts up right after login, but NB this may cause problems when using sudo. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.

Strange messages by fetchmail: Server certificate verification error

ssage retrieval works there as well - with the same configuration files (~/.fetchmailrc). How can I get rid of these messages? Is it possible *not* to use any certification, just the way the older fetchmail version seemed it to do? -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user s

Re: non-US keyboard and KDM

; Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "AutoRepeat""250 30" EndSection -- Polytropon >From Magde

Re: Strange messages by fetchmail: Server certificate verification error

rade ca_root_nss to 3.11.9_2, now everything works as intended. So the problem is solved and I made a written note to my "holy pages" how this problem could be solved. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: X11: 1280x768

t will take effect after login. But NB that xdm / kdm won't be affected - it will run as xorg.conf specifies. You can check with xrandr's information options (refer to "man xrandr") and xvidtune. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 And

Re: X11: 1280x768

ot;. maybe this helps, but it can also block the machine (I had this). -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: trouble getting x11 xdm to work

hat X is started correctly from a regular user's account... Mysterious... VEB Mysteron Merkwürdigkeitenwerk Karl-Marx-Stadt... :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: X11: 1280x768

DefaultDepth24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x768" EndSubSection EndSection How about trimming your section down (as above), just to eliminate possible causes for the problem? >From the log file

Re: root /etc/csh

e not using any bash specific techniques in your scripts, start them with #!/bin/sh instead of #!/bin/bash. The sh shell is the UNIX standard scripting shell, while Linux's one is bash. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: tool to recover fat partition

sible, use dd_rescue or ddrescue. For most operations, it's good to use mdconfig to "put" the dd file onto a md device which is then used by the particular program. I can imagine how you feel about data loss, so good luck! -- Polytropon >

Re: tool to recover fat partition

sible, use dd_rescue or ddrescue. For most operations, it's good to use mdconfig to "put" the dd file onto a md device which is then used by the particular program. I can imagine how you feel about data loss, so good luck! -- Polytropon >

Re: tool to recover fat partition

sible, use dd_rescue or ddrescue. For most operations, it's good to use mdconfig to "put" the dd file onto a md device which is then used by the particular program. I can imagine how you feel about data loss, so good luck! -- Polytropon >

Re: root /etc/csh

correct. Adding symlinks to structures controlled by the package management system or the OS itself can lead into problems. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: make doesn't know how to make KERNCONF

t least they should get installed by installing the "src" distribution). -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Creating network interface in VM?

ch network from out of the FreeBSD VB, a virtual network adapter. Which interface did you use from within FreeBSD? As far as I know, there's no vbox (pseudo)interface driver in FreeBSD, that's why the ifconfig create command returned an error. -- Polytropon >

Re: root /etc/csh

set prompt = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:%~%# " set autolist or set promptchars = ">#" set prompt = "[EMAIL PROTECTED] %~ %# " set autolist -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, M

Re: re changing from vista

eeBSD always meant fun to me using the computer. I hope you'll feel so, too. "In a world without walls and fences - who needs windows and gates?!" :-) Don't be frightened, try out FreeBSD. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennep

Re: Installing HP LaserJet 4+ in CUPS

convinced that there's a special driver neccessary, but maybe you'll find something in CUPS + foomatic (from ports). -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: FreeBSD Media Center

: WindowMaker, Midnight Commander, X Terminals and some utilities as shell scripts or in Tcl/Tk I wrote myself. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: FBSD 7.1 & kern.maxdsiz

sysctl list, you won't find it there. :-) In FreeBSD 7 you should be able to set this setting using the file /boot/loader.conf. I think I had this setting on a FreeBSD 5 machine, I'll go and check. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennep

Re: Running X without a videocard

192.168.0.100:0 % xterm See the advice regarding xhost in order to have the correct permissions to run the applications from the desired X server. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: ascii text format

put line into words using the space character as separator. Then, iterate over these words and put spaces after each word; repeat this until you've reached the desired text width. This should be relatively easy to accomplish. Furthermore, you can add an empty string before each output line in

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

123 \ -redirect_address 192.168.1.5 123.456.789.123" In any case, go and check your "Windows" the usual way. Don't forget to do it, instead you'll end up searching for an error on the correctly working FreeBSD installation. :-) Check if the "W

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 fdisk issue during installation

r example, a master -> slave copy usually is slower than a master -> master copy; copies between partitions on the same drive tend to be slower than copies between two physical drives. In daily use, I don't think your suggestion would be of a significant benefit - if it was, it would have b

Re: sockstat problem

exactly following the instructions - just in case. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: OO, text OR .odt to HTML?

r maybe File / Export? I think at least StarOffice had such kind of functionality, so OpenOffice should have, too. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: Changing default colors of syscons / kernel messages

) options SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR=(FG_RED|BG_BLACK) options SC_KERNEL_CONS_REV_ATTR=(FG_BLACK|BG_RED) But I'm not sure you can change the settings for the boot manager itself in an easy way. Maybe a modification of the boot loader's source code makes it possi

Re: getpriority(2) and rtprio(2) implementation

tree, that is, in which file/s. getpriority() in /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_resource.c lines 88 cont. rtprio() should be around there, too, /usr/src/sys/kern/syscalls.master I hope this is what you've been asking for. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user s

Re: getpriority(2) and rtprio(2) implementation

arch from /usr/src in *.c containing "getpriority", refined "getpriority(int" to get the function's prototype and implementation. I'm a lazy guy. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: KDM stopping

ecause KDM remembers users that have been logged in and presents a list of users on the system. Maybe it fails to retrieve the needed data, maybe the user database is corrupted or entries refer to non-existing home directories or login shells? -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy Free

Re: Copying audio CD with dd/cdrecord produces unplayable CD

-r 14400 -c 2 -b -L -S ${OUTFILE}.cdr ${OUTFILE}.wav > burncd doesn't work on my system: it breaks with my PIONEER DVD-RW > DVR-112D/1.21. I didn't try burncd since FreeBSD 4. Since then, I#m very comfortable with cdrecord and cdrdao and the atapicam facility. -- Polytropon

Re: Copying audio CD with dd/cdrecord produces unplayable CD

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:53:32 -0800, Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:26:51 -0800, Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you need to use cdrecord, you can "preprocess" the .cdr > > files wit

Re: Noisy mouse

n the keyboard result in strange "sound effects". I have a Sun USB type 6 keyboard + type 6 mouse. I'm using a separate sound card (PCI) because I diskike the "AC'97" CPU sound card emulation. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: for awk experts only.

}' And the more I think about it, the more I believe there are much easier ways to do this. But I'm sure the magic of how it works just opened up to you. Sidenote: I wouldn't consider myself as an AWK expert allthough I did abuse AWK lately to implement a stastistical evaluation pr

Re: for awk experts only.

Replying to my own message: I found a point for improvement. Why use grep when awk can grep by itself? % wn foot -over | awk '/Overview/ { printf("%s %s\n", $4, gsub("noun", "n.", $3)); }' Ah, much better. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Ger

Re: for awk experts only.

u want to abbreviate other kinds of words (e. g. "verb" -> "v.", "adverb" -> "adv.", "adjective" -> "adj."), it would be better to implement a short awk script as a "wrapper" for the wn command. If you're only inte

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

hat is intended to fit per se. I can't answer your question regarding "Flash" and encryption; sadly, I never saw any need for this. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ fr

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

t to me. > Backup machine if disks are good. Or backup server if added some exchangable media (tape / DVD-RAM), inexpensive solution for automated data backup. > Getting a decent performing desktop on there is as Polytropon said, a project > you'd do for fun, not cause you need a

Re: Noisy mouse

and the expansion cards). > I > guess you could shield it if you can't move it. Tinfoil around only the one > cable at close proximity sections should do the trick. Or the use of home-made shielded cables. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Hap

Re: open multiple xterms with script

xterm -geometry -title "App 4" -e su root -c "app4" & ~/bin/run_all: #!/bin/sh ~/bin/run_1 ~/bin/run_2 ~/bin/run_3 ~/bin/run_4 Not very elegant and tidy, but should work. You could add some checking to the first script mentioned s

Re: UFS partitioning

D-partition letter is h), you need to give up at least > one of d, e, f, g. ... correct or not (then what)? I quite doubt that FreeBSD's UFS 2 cannot handle a 2 TB partition as a whole, but because I don't have sch large disks with UFS

Re: UFS partitioning

roblems for processes that would like to write to /tmp or /var. Finally, changing the paradigm would usually be combined with a complete re-installation. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: open multiple xterms with script

ot;app" fails (thatÄs why I suggest using ; instead of &&). > So basically the idea is open 4 terminals, execute a specific command > inside them but if the command finishes or stops, the terminal stays > {with a new prompt}. This sould be able to be achieved using the exa

Re: Mounting ext3fs partition

tion is not mounted? I'm asking because I have a similar problem caused from a defective / missing inode. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Mounting ext3fs partition

e system before mounting it? -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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