Re: pkg_add and me

2004-01-02 Thread parv
software are missing, but older versions would still work # w/ the port being installed. pkg_add -f # Readjust the dependencies (provided by portupgrade port) pkgdb -F - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: pkg_add and me

2004-01-02 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote parv thusly... > > # Should work w/ the force ... > pkg_add -f I meant to write "should work withOUT the force [option]". - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://

Re: Size of /var worries me

2004-01-07 Thread parv
es /usr3 - 'sup' tree for cvsup & ports tree. /cdrw - keeps 'src' tree & used for world building; works as port building space now that space on /usr3 is diminishing /tmp - mounted on swap; rarely gets heavy use. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-21 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Eric F Crist thusly... > Content-Description: signed data > What do people here use to edit HTML documents? Vim. Lacking that any other modern vi-like software; lacking that non-emacs software (but not pine); lacking that emacs ..

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-21 Thread parv
> > Any ideas on something interesting to use it for? Maybe some kind > of learning experience? Try to run (Free|Net)BSD-current? Or even, Sun Solaris 2.9? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: grepping distinct lines from many text files ?

2004-01-21 Thread parv
; > CUCU=`cat /path/to/files/* | sort | uniq` Better yet... CUCU=`sort /path/to/files/* | uniq` ...even (but do see sort(1))... CUCU=`sort -u /path/to/files/*` - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Size of /var worries me

2004-01-22 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg thusly... I apologize for replying so late. > parv wrote: > >...only thing that i desire(d) is/was to give / much less than 128MB, > >but couldn't (during the space slicing). > > >

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-22 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly... > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:06:17PM -0500, parv wrote: > : in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > : wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly... > : > > : > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite

Re: "rename" shell command

2004-01-26 Thread parv
e file > conversions, as you most likely know. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b45310c8ba0519a http://groups.google.com/groups?q=rename+file+group%3Acomp.unix.* - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

History of Rename, as I Know It (Re: "rename" shell command)

2004-01-26 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Andrew Kotsopoulos thusly... > > parv wrote: > > > http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b45310c8ba0519a > > Thanks for the tips to all that responded to me - I've seen quite > a few suggestions for scripts of various kinds.

Re: portsdb -U fails

2004-01-30 Thread parv
pass1 and change the 'make -j3' to > 'make'. I remember you mail about that. After modifying make_describe_pass*, i still got error messages like above. Mind that i do not have the complete tree. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: most used programs

2004-01-31 Thread parv
, awk, bash2, bitstream vera & screen fonts, bogofilter, dict, egrep, enscript, fetchmail, fvwm2, gimp, grpn, gv, less, mozilla, mutt, netscape, perl, procmail, rclock, sed, slrn, ssh, tee, tetex/latex, vim6, w3m, wmcliphist, xclip, XFree86, xlockmore

Re: I'm really upset with my new computer

2004-02-09 Thread parv
ty has ended on my Dell i5000e and a few days ago was having w/ startup (as in *no* response on pressing the power button), i am not sure i would want anoter Dell ... - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: another newbie struggling with ppp/modem issues

2003-09-13 Thread parv
lving ppp. If you can contact the modem, and successfully talk to the modem, via terminal, only then continue w/ solving the ppp problem. (Somebody else should fill in the process as i have forgotten it.) - Parv (no that's not a question, but sign off) --

Re: Newbi Question - Good console replacement for "mail" program?

2003-10-01 Thread parv
.. http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: vi and wrap text

2003-10-08 Thread parv
'E' works as described above except the formatting point is the line containing the current position of the cursor. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: vi and wrap text

2003-10-08 Thread parv
this context i became aware of par by the way.) Text::Autoformat does work quite good on regular text (non e-mail like text). - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: writing pdfs

2003-10-10 Thread parv
e only drawback is the font is packed along w/ the file, resulting in expansive files (when compred to using only Time, Helevetica, or Courier fonts). - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: *Editing* PDFs?

2003-10-14 Thread parv
nt to a file, like enscript, wordperfect (long live!), netscape, or mozilla which print to a printer by default? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Uninstalling Port installed applications

2003-10-16 Thread parv
uot;) - Remove B, C, D. - Done (since you need E, no need to do anything else). PS: You should consider installing portupgrade only if to keep the ports database current, like i do. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Howto find packages

2003-10-16 Thread parv
/INDEX There is also a perl module as a port to find various things about a port... /usr/ports/textproc/p5-FreeBSD-Ports ...author's web page... http://people.freebsd.org/~tom/portpm/ Now to toot my own horn, solid steel perl wheel reinvented (version =>5.6 syntax that could be eas

Re: Evolution without gnome

2003-11-02 Thread parv
quot;autoconf-2.13.000227_5 automake-1.4.5_9 docbook-1.2_1 docbook-241_2 docbook-3.0_2 docbook-3.1_2 docbook-4.0_2 docbook-4.1_2 expat-1.95.6_1 gettext-0.12.1 iso8879-1986_2 jade-1.2.1_5 libiconv-1.9.1_3 linuxdoc-1.1_1 m4-1.4_1 sgmlformat-1.7_2 xmlcatmgr-1.1" to build. - Parv --

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-04-09 Thread Parv
oul-named.tbz2'. If the size of foul-named.tbz2 is ~30 kB, send me this file as email attachment. Otherwise, please allow me to download it via FTP or HTTP. In all case, please keep the size less than a MB or so. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL P

Re: problems with .bashrc

2004-04-13 Thread Parv
(eventually) sourced. if interested in my settings (skip to "Modern Bourne Shell and Compatibles") ... http://parv.holy.cow/parv/comp/unix/cf/ - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: problems with .bashrc

2004-04-13 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... > > In my ~/.bashrc, file w/ alias listing is (eventually) sourced. if > interested in my settings (skip to "Modern Bourne Shell and > Compatibles") ... > > http://parv.holy.cow/parv/comp/unix/cf/ That URL

Re: pkg_deinstall or pkg_delete

2004-05-11 Thread Parv
te can delete ports given as a list just like it can delete single port; it, however, does not recurse like pkg_deinstall. I have not used pkg_deinstall to recursively ports much; I like pkg_delete better, more so in case of inconsistent state of installed dependencies. - Parv --

Re: pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts acroread-3*' - proper resolution

2004-05-11 Thread Parv
. Above 4 steps INSTALLS a new copy from source in the system. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: the most light weight X web browser?

2004-05-08 Thread Parv
her w/ image, w3m-img, and/or JavaScript support would not cut it? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0

2004-05-19 Thread Parv
Wo! That sent chills through my spine when my hard drive (IBM 10GB) died a noisy clickity-clack death w/ parting words like above a few weeks ago. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -

2004-05-19 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Marcia de Oliveira Cardoso thusly... (something about hard drive problems) Would you please stop sending similar messages repeatedly, so far 4-5 messages with in 2 hours? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PRO

Re: Kernel compile failing

2004-05-25 Thread Parv
ke shell) ... { make buildkernel && make installkernel; } >KERNEL.TXT 2>&1 ...should capture output in both the streams. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Odd characters in filename

2004-06-06 Thread Parv
t;\264" (backward slash). Bourne shell: sanename.sh ... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/sh/sanename.sh Perl: sanename, File::Name::Sanitize wrapper (requires knowledge of modules installation due to lack of makefiles; path adjustment may be needed in "use lib q/path/" directive)

Re: Command to combine several files as a single file, etc.

2004-06-10 Thread Parv
se, there are archive creaters like tar, pax, & cpio. See manual pages for respective commands, and some of the articles from a larger collection ... Archivers: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/1710 Tar: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/2416 Pax: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a

Re: Shrinking slices to make room for linux

2005-06-14 Thread Parv
try much or any power management in Windows Me. But don't let me hold you back. If you find that Linux provides usable better support wrt ACPI, more power to both of you. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: IPF Logging packets Every 2-10 Seconds.

2005-06-27 Thread Parv
7 b 138.217.177.128,2840 -> > 192.168.1.1,16478 PR tcp len 20 48 -S IN I was going to parse the logs, but the forced line breaks prevent me. When you (in general) are posting system messages, errors & such, please keep the line breaks/tabs as they appear i

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread Parv
ng. Well, did you try any other calculating software? grpn, perl, and dc gave me 46(.0...) even after asking for a result upto 20 digits. Here is a naive guess: kcalc stores the number in such a way that it causes the abnormality as above(?). - Parv -- _

Re: Can someone clarify ipfw's in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts?

2005-07-28 Thread Parv
240d22a55265689/4bb2dd91a376fa6c/groups?selm=3B5E86C8.8438BEE7%40amit.cz&#doc_8d3d7ceea76d1cca > ok kind of long ...do a search in google groups using- > Why is there a "out recv" interface spec in ipfw? That, of course, would have been faster if on

Re: Shell script help

2005-07-29 Thread Parv
macros' to standard out if it exists (otherwise no worries) when sed sees the 'man\.macros' pattern. And the 2d part, just deletes that pattern. There in the sed(1) man page all is. Or, line by line try this ... rm -f q ; echo polka > p { echo p ; echo q; echo p;

Re: Shell script help

2005-07-30 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... > > in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote > Paul Schmehl thusly... > > > > @${SED} -e '/man\.macros/r man.macros' ... > In the 1st p

Re: Shell script help

2005-07-30 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Paul Schmehl thusly... > > --On July 30, 2005 2:57:57 AM -0400 Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >wrote Paul Schmehl thusly... ... > >>@${SED} -e '/man\.macros/r

Re: localepurge for FreeBSD?

2005-10-16 Thread Parv
en executed the first time, can run > into many megabytes. I (may) like it. One question: in a remote chance if one wants to convert/translate text from one locale to another, will that conversion work (via iconv & its ilk) devoid of t

Re: [Fwd: Re: port config questions]

2005-10-19 Thread Parv
What did i miss then? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: bzegrep behaviour not consistent with egrep?

2005-10-20 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Jung-uk Kim thusly... > > On Thursday 20 October 2005 04:57 pm, Parv wrote: > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > wrote James Long thusly... ... > > > $ bzegrep "38436|41640" /var/log/maillog.0.bz2 | wc -l &g

Re: Maintaining my music collection (off topic)

2005-10-26 Thread Parv
SD /bin/sh. Install one of shells/bash* (guessing) ports and run this script under that shell (unless somebody does the conversion for you). - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: Maintaining my music collection (off topic)

2005-10-27 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Will Maier thusly... > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:39:48AM -0400, Parv wrote: > > Looks like this script is not going to work in FreeBSD /bin/sh. > > Install one of shells/bash* (guessing) ports and run this script > > under th

Re: laptop firewall rules

2005-10-30 Thread Parv
ny keep state pass out quick on proto icmp from any to any keep state ... which can|should be further augmented; see ipf(5), ipftest(1), and the ipfilter website. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: several versions of gcc

2005-11-21 Thread Parv
port's directory during patch|configure|build|install? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: A stupid 64bit question ... but ...

2005-12-05 Thread Parv
. Look in /var/run/dmesg for 'AMD Features' to report > > 'LM' (long mode). > > So why there is a 64int? We can suppose that perl has seen that > Marc's proc is a 64 one no? I asked that cause I got a 64bits > (amd

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2005-12-09 Thread Parv
even finer results, use word boundaries ... egrep '\bIN[^[:alnum:]]+A\b' file egrep '\' file - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Off-Topic

2005-12-13 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Roland Smith thusly... > > > Unix _is_ user-friendly. It's just a little picky about who it's > friends are. That is due to Tollef Fog Heen ... http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.maint.boot/message/a5ad57a7694c

Getting the network traffic amount since the interface went up

2005-12-13 Thread Parv
n has been (re)established. Is there a way to find out the amount of traffic (in & out) since a network interface has been up (not since the OS has been up)? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: ipfilter question

2005-12-13 Thread Parv
to log via syslogd(8) - put the .none, in "/etc/syslog.cong", to avoid other files receiving ipf messages. - adjust /etc/newsyslog.conf to properly rotate the ipmon log files. Don't forget to read up on syslog.conf(5), newsyslog.conf(5), and ipmon(8) in any case. -

Re: Getting the network traffic amount since the interface went up

2005-12-13 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Chuck Swiger thusly... > > Parv wrote: ... > > Is there a way to find out the amount of traffic (in & out) > > since a network interface has been up (not since the OS has been > > up)? > > There are lots of soluti

Re: DHCP and rc Questions For FreeBSD 4.10???

2004-08-12 Thread Parv
). In that case, send output, to this list, of following command too ... ipfstat -ionh - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Frequent crashes with Mozilla and Firefox

2004-08-16 Thread Parv
h versions were built from ports the day after the port was > committed. All other ports are up-to-date. No problems here w/ Mozilla 1.7.1,2 (gtk1, no proxy, no Java, no Flash, w/ JavaScript and custom stylesheet) while twiddling links/menus (DHTML) on a page or tw

Re: Frequent crashes with Mozilla and Firefox

2004-08-16 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote > [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly... > > > > Two sites that failed consistently for me were http://www.pga.com > > and http://www.statefarm.com > > > > T

Re: multi-homing and pf; removing user with uid 0

2004-08-17 Thread Parv
te: [ ... ] | |> Right now I've got a /27 and > | I am attemtpting to add 5 addresses |> of that adress block (ipv4) Additionaly, please properly quote only the relevant parts to your reply. Thanks much for your consideration. - Parv -- _

Re: make package-recursive

2004-08-23 Thread Parv
ge name is different or the checksums don't match (say, different options, CFLAGS & such), package should be built. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: vi editor related question

2004-08-27 Thread Parv
ide/change '^M' characters. Other methods is to preprocess your files... http://groups.google.com/groups?q=remove+%5EM+file http://groups.google.com/groups?q=remove+%5EM+group%3Acomp.* - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:

OT: Nachos - simulated OS

2004-08-31 Thread parv
se i am feeling lazy to compile gas, binutils, & gcc (which would make the 3d instance) from source to be cross-compile-able due to lack of a port. Speaking of which ... Nachos has been reported to be ported to FreeBSD, btw. (Hint, Hint.)

Re: CDRW trouble

2004-09-05 Thread Parv
0,0 100) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX700E ' '1.4h' Removable CD-ROM - Kernel configuration: http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/cf/freebsd/kern.atapicam.05sep2004 - Dmesg: http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/err/dmesg/dmesg-4.10-p2-2004.06.30.17.33.59

Re: VESA_800x600 (age old question)

2004-09-08 Thread Parv
is detected: > > (II) I810(0): VESA BIOS detected Same i get for R128. (using r128 from XFree86) > Can somebody please tell me what this means? All that means is the card does not have proper/complete VESA implementation. IOW, g

Re: failed to start X

2004-09-12 Thread Parv
software from the ports w/o the need of upgrading the base system. (In most cases anyway. Sometimes one would need to upgrade base system *eventually* to be able to build/install software from ports. But that's another thread.) - Parv -- __

Re: afpl vs gnu ghostscript

2004-09-24 Thread parv
nse (gpl vs ?) are there functional differences? Depending on how you compile any of these ports thru the annoying interactive dialog, things may or may not work sometimes... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/47768 - parv -- ___ [EMAIL

Re: Problem regarding dhcp and FreeBSD 4.10 on a laptop

2004-10-05 Thread Parv
> > The problem I am having is this: ... Not related to your problem, but your problem would have been much easier to read if your OP had been divided into 4-6 paragraphs (which is what i did to my local copy). That way your post would not have seemed too daun

Re: latex2html problems (fwd)

2004-10-08 Thread Parv
, IMO, it would not be a race condition but an indication of bad design of latex2html.) > "pnmtopng" was installed by "netpbm-10.24"... and it seems that > it is being called with a pair of parameters that does not seem to > work. Yes, see above. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: latex2html problems (fwd)

2004-10-08 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... > > > latex2html-2002.2.1_3 Convert LaTeX documents to HTML > > teTeX-2.0.2_2 Thomas Esser's distribution of TeX & friends > > ... with latex2html-2002.2.1_3 & teTeX-2.0.2_3. > >

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread parv
a problem with the csh man page. Other pages > > work fine, like 'man hosts | less +/named' or 'man devfs | less > > +/ruleset'. > > Actually, it appears to be a problem with long manual pages, > including csh, bash, or perlfunc. I tried with "man p

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-31 Thread parv
status 36096 >Error executing formatting or display command. >system command exited with status 36096 >No manual entry for ifconfig Now this is also reproducible. > Go to the EOF with "G" first, then press "q", and there are no > errors. Yep. Tha

Re: Make gtk widgets use a larger font

2010-12-10 Thread parv
er-tooltip" ... and in ~/.gtkrc ... style "default" { font="-adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" } style "user-tooltip" { font="-sgi-screen-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-0-iso8859-1" } widget "*&q

OT - Opera 12.12 crashes while uploading an image on Flickr

2013-01-11 Thread parv
essing "UPLOAD"). Could anybody tell me if the problem is with Opera-Flickr interaction or something inherent in the file itself? (Also posted to newsgroup opera.linux.) - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?

2013-01-29 Thread parv
ith just running "chown -R" on the parent directory (say /usr/local, where ports are installed by default)? - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Opera

2013-02-02 Thread Parv
in message <3869488.94aln8e...@luna.wi.rr.com>, wrote ajtiM thusly... > > Hi! > > I use Opera 12.12. I use KDE 4 and Fluxbox. > In operaprefs.ini I have > [File Selector] > Dialog Toolkit=4 > > which help me that Opera works othervise I get: > libpng error: incorrect data check > libpng error: inco

Re: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD?

2002-12-25 Thread parv
although I don't know how it would > work. RTFM? locate(1)? given a path name, it lists the file matching that pattern. man page state that it takes a "pattern". in practice i find its capabilities are rather restricted; using e?grep is much better... locate foo | grep

Re: Renaming files with spaces in the name to files without spaces..

2003-01-08 Thread parv
OF JAN 01 2002.txt " > > to > > "RESULTS_OF_JAN_01_2002.txt" here is another way in perl (though it changes blanks to '-'; edit as you desire)... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/sanename.perl description... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/sanen

Re: Renaming files with spaces in the name to files without spaces..

2003-01-09 Thread parv
ut /should/ have been '_p_q_r_', but is 'p_q_r'. > $ touch "a b" c > $ for i in *; do echo "arg $i endarg"; done ^ ^ ^ ^ > arg a b endarg > arg c endarg notice that you have enclosed the str

freebsd ports index (perl) searcher & browser

2003-01-12 Thread parv
if anybody is interested in a perl program which allows one to search & browse the ports index (w/o using make & going into the /usr/ports), the required parts are... description... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/parse-index.perl.pod main program... http:

Re: freebsd ports index (perl) searcher & browser

2003-01-13 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote parv thusly... > > ...a perl program which allows one to search & browse the ports index > (w/o using make & going into the /usr/ports) ... > main program... > > http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/parse-index.perl

Re: freebsd ports index (perl) searcher & browser

2003-01-15 Thread parv
lained, people are using at least perl 5.6. otherwise complaints related 3-argument open in perl 5.005 would be coming in my mailbox. i can/will easily change the "open()" statement to work in perl 5.005 IFF i get complaints about it.) URLs are the same... main program... http://

Re: Good C/C++ mailinglist for beginners

2003-01-16 Thread parv
(C++ the language, not C++ the standard, or C), you will be just fine. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

disappearing aterm windows in ion

2003-02-03 Thread parv
uid'd too.) and now restoring the old permissions of aterm (4755), its windows are being kept again. i do/did not have this problem w/ long running fvwm (2.5.x), tvtwm, or blackbox at all. what the hell is/was going on? - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: specifying the X window manager

2003-02-04 Thread parv
; on the console. and voila! (voila iff nothing else is not wrong). to toot my own horn, below is the shell script that i use to start xinit(1) directly w/o startx(1)... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/sh/xf ...my ~/.xinitrc... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/cf/x/xinitrc - parv

Re: handling non-printable characters in file names

2003-02-05 Thread parv
personally would love it, but that would cause lot of troubles, for instance, when saving e-mail attachments or file generation via slrn MIME decode. in the meantime check this out (a shameless plug)... perl program... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/sanename.perl documentati

Re: XFree86 from CVS?

2003-02-06 Thread parv
sted in the INSTALL and README files (or whatever they were called). It took some time & space to compile, but there were no problems in the compile process or installing the files at a preferred location. The only problem that i had was to set up the environment to pull the cvs source.

Re: Bourne shell redirection of STDOUT

2002-09-29 Thread parv
could use pipe (fifo) and/or, in bash2 & ksh93, arrays. a pipe is created by mkfifo(1); fill an array in a while loop. (yeah i know, that doesn't answer your question of not using a file in the bourne shell.) - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: Bourne shell redirection of STDOUT

2002-09-29 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote parv thusly... > > you could use pipe (fifo) and/or, in bash2 & ksh93, arrays. > a pipe is created by mkfifo(1); fill an array in a while loop. argh, never mind... better suggestions already made. sorry for the noise... -- To Unsubs

Re: Copying directories contents

2002-10-01 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Tim Peters thusly... > > # pax -rw /source /destination > > probably because it's not very portable - i only see pax(1) on > freebsd machines here. fwiw, i noticed pax on IBM OS/390; it's also available from att research -- who also brought to you the korns

Re: How to quickly setup a network printer?

2002-10-01 Thread parv
ript changes text files to postscript and lets PS & PDF files go thru as is. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

tmda & tdma (was Re: buried in spams, recommendation?)

2002-10-04 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Giorgos Keramidas thusly... > > On 2002-10-03 14:20, Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > mwm uses tdma (or tmda - can't remember which way it's spelled :) > > [ports]mail/tmda :) > "tdma" sounds more like a hallucinogenic drug, than a spam

Re: burncd error

2002-10-05 Thread parv
so, "file system full" messages were being generated... until somebody clued me in to use as minimum options to use as possible. those messages are in the (-questions, i think) archive somewhere. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

of profiling, system software , and gcc from ports

2002-10-05 Thread parv
r c++ software)? anything else that you may want to add? and thanks in advance for all reasonable responses. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

dilution of /dev/urandom

2002-10-06 Thread parv
brain; can't the entropy pool be replenished? enlighten please. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Proper way to upgrade packaes from ports

2002-10-07 Thread parv
rtsupgrade). actually, after INDEX is made, "portsdb -u" finishes lighting fast ... in comparison. for me, creating the INDEX takes less time than updating it cvsup over a dialup connection. i don't have problem w/ the creation process being CPU intensive; bottleneck on my system is h

Re: make world script

2002-10-09 Thread parv
rld, kernel and install everything without touching my > network settings so i can get back in later. below is the script which builds world, then kernel, and then installs the kernel; it saves the log of the three processes in three files... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/bin/cleanbw ...m

Re: Proper way to upgrade packaes from ports

2002-10-09 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Kent Stewart thusly... > > Someone made a comment about refusing ports/INDEX when you run > "portsdb -uU" ever time you cvsup ports-all commented by yours truly. (: -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in

a installed ports' info displaying perl program

2002-10-09 Thread parv
would anybody be interested in a perl program which displays information about installed ports? documentation (pod) is... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/doc/doc.bin/listpkg.perl.text ...and the program itself... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/bin/listpkg.perl ...currently

Re: a installed ports' info displaying perl program

2002-10-10 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote paul beard thusly... > > parv wrote: > >would anybody be interested in a perl program which displays > >information about installed ports? > > bsdpak (in the netBSD pkgsrc collection) seems close to what > you're sugges

Re: make installworld failing?

2002-10-18 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Nick Jennings thusly... > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:44:47PM -0400, Fuzzy wrote: > > > > cvsup to RELENG_4_7 > > make buildworld > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=POOHSN > > make installkernel KERNCONF=POOHSN > > reboot to singleuser > > > > while booted single

Re: favorite security software

2002-10-19 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Alex thusly... > > I beleave it [ipfilter] also has a bit more options for a normal > firewall but no extra's like ipfw does. The later reason is way i > also run ipfw. I use it for the traffic shaping and traffic policy > only. i have been faithful to ipfilte

Re: perl crashing - how to debug??

2002-10-21 Thread parv
-DDEBUGGING" option alone didn't build w/ the debugging support the last time i tried. "-g" option was necessary in addition. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

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