Re: OT: Network admin/Sysadmin help needed

2003-06-23 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Aliquis thusly... > > I need help with administering a small network (about 8 servers > running Debian Linux or FreeBSD), mostly updates, security... The proper list is [EMAIL PROTECTED], created especially for the purpose. - Parv -

Re: mozilla is started instead of genuine netscape while opening anew window

2003-06-26 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote parv thusly... > > Problem does not happen when the genuine netscape is not running. > In that case, it is started anew. In addition, mozilla doesn't > start if its is not already running. > > Say, i have /both/ mozilla & net

Re: Questions about x-windows, startx (Extremely long and probablymost blahblah)

2003-07-02 Thread parv
/ ...FVWM is highly configurable, so don't let the fvwm(1) man page overwhelm you. If you encounter problems w/ fvwm, consult the mailing lists... http://www.fvwm.org/contact/ - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... h

Re: Need guidance in choosing mail-client

2003-07-02 Thread parv
n X (in xterm) or in console. (I use -devel port w/ almost all the options, plus some external (to port) nifty patches: tag_prefix_cond & threadcomplete.) - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/par

Re: Need guidance in choosing mail-client

2003-07-03 Thread parv
in version 1.5.4i) and evrything else. - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?

2003-07-03 Thread parv
|cvs|mobile|questions|ports|java) { list = "f-${MATCH}" } # dafault $list for/from any freebsd list :0 E { list = f-misc } } # do other things # file message :0: * list ?? ^^f-[a-z]+^^ $list - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix

Re: Weird messages during 'pkgdb -F'

2003-07-06 Thread parv
ng bourne-like shell)... cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig \ && make install clean \ && pkgdb -F - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work/ _

Re: What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC.

2003-07-07 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote DanB thusly... > > What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC? A shell. At least bash2 & ksh93 can, depending upon configuration. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Re: No output from periodic

2003-07-08 Thread parv
er to be invoked by cron - In wrapper... - Execute the real command & save the output in a temporary file - Send e-mail only if file size is zero - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment...

Re: Which "mozilla" accepts options

2004-10-24 Thread Parv
to search the bugs database for mozilla (or file a bug yourself) ... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ ...supplying "width height option" as the search term, yields ... -width and -height options ignored: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50201 - Parv

Re: blackbox, bbkeys, and .xinit... (solved) --> UNIX behind the scenes

2004-11-03 Thread Parv
ll execute your .xinit - Search "Google Groups" at http://groups.google.com/ ... + comp.unix.* newsgroups for "foreground background process OR command shell" search term + comp.unix.* & comp.windows.x newsgroups for "shell xinitrc OR xses

Re: World Clock "timezones"

2004-11-03 Thread Parv
Try sunclock in astro/sunclock. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: blackbox, bbkeys, and .xinit... (solved) --> UNIX behind the scenes

2004-11-04 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Mike Hauber thusly... > > On Wednesday 03 November 2004 09:25 pm, Parv proclaimed: > > > > In your situation, blackbox runs in the background & bbkeys in > > foreground. If you wanted to run bbkeys only if blackb

Re: custom shell script .. OT maybe .

2004-11-04 Thread Parv
g a meaningful connection, say, courtesy of firewall/dhcp running order/configuration. Well that was my problem w/ ipf & dhcp involving a NIC anyway. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Can I use mtools to access usb flash memory?

2004-11-25 Thread Parv
le system(s) on the USB drive are supported by mtools (assuming of course that your FreeBSD system can recognize the usb device). Nothing more. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: what does "rm //" delete?

2004-11-28 Thread Parv
"checking shell $shell" $shell -c 'cd //usr///local/bin && echo $PWD && pwd' echo done ... here is what i get in some shells (bash is bash 3) ... checking shell /bin/bash //usr/local/bin //usr/local/bin checking shell /usr/local/bin/ksh93

Re: what does "rm //" delete?

2004-11-28 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... > > for shell in sh csh tcsh bash ksh93 blah ^ ^ ^ ^ Sorry, that "blah" shell was there only to test for existence of a shell which i forgot

Re: Correct Way to Update the Ports

2004-11-30 Thread Parv
make fetchindex ; portsdb -Uu -- as i read it, will nullify index fetching. Or, am i drastically missing something? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How to edit file in single user mode

2004-12-01 Thread Parv
s me of my old C++ class editor project. My version of the editor -- ed like commands, no regex support, menu driven -- statically compiled w/ GCC 3.4 & stripped takes 403 kB (-O1) or 389 kB (-O2). (It has yet to go through a thorough review though. Anybody care to take a look?) I suppos

Re: How to edit file in single user mode

2004-12-02 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Matthias Buelow thusly... > > Parv wrote: > > >...my old C++ class editor project. My version of the editor -- > >ed like commands, no regex support, menu driven -- statically > >compiled w/ GCC 3.4 & stripped takes 403

Remove f-q@chvlva... address (was Re: How to edit file in single user mode)

2004-12-02 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... (something) Those replying to this & its child messages, please remove "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" address before sending your reply. I meant "f-q" to expand to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" which obviously it did n

Re: is there a native driver for 'Dell Wireless 1397'?

2010-03-10 Thread parv
amp; WPA2 work with the card? - 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: Compose key and xterm vs. UTF-8

2010-03-14 Thread Parv
The experience was rather annoying. After waking up I realized what had happened, and life went on as it was before. - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: procmail regex help ... sometimes works, sometimes doesn't...

2010-03-29 Thread parv
ig5" emails are not matching my procmail > regex ... is it obvious to anyone ? Is "Content-Type:" completely missing from the body of your first example? Do you have your examples flipped? I would have thought that first example would have delivere

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-04 Thread parv
les (see -a option). Or, simply ... #!/bin/sh # If your particular egrep is laced with potent PCRE, may use -P # option (before "$@") to specify Perl regex. egrep -r $@ . - 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: perl qstn...

2010-04-05 Thread parv
refer "Only a mother would ...". > PRINT a > IF a % 3 = 2 > FOR a = b TO b+7 > FOR b = 0 TO 90 STEP 10; Oh Randal, don't tease me please about the lack of such loveliness in perl. - parv -- ___ freebs

Re: perl links

2010-04-10 Thread parv
you are the guilty one. By that logic, every software should assume some location, so that people can have fun with link farm maintainance. - 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: [OT] Was: Disabling DNS

2010-04-22 Thread parv
no personal attack. I got that sense after reading Alberto's reply, before both Bill's explanation & your indignation. Please read the response in context. - 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: Magic Jack VOIP telephone

2010-05-06 Thread parv
s/net/asterisk1{2,6}? - 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: eSATA and/or Firewire 800|400 card, cardbus or expresscard 54mm

2009-06-30 Thread parv
space, where should I ask the question again: -hardware, -firewire, -stable, here[1]? - Parv [0] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2009-June/011664.html [1] Well, I kind of did. -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Base system directory sizes for FreeBSD/i386 7 & 8

2009-07-11 Thread parv
& 8? What would be the additional overhead for encryption of slices|direcoteries? And, how does zfs use affect the overall things? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Availability & quality of manual pages (was Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman))

2009-08-09 Thread Parv
Have you ever tried "man opera" ... Hot Diggity! I never thought of Opera having a man page. Thanks much. Dang it! Firefox does not have one. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: Don't let mergemaster beat you down [was Re: Failed update]

2009-08-11 Thread parv
ve not been user modi- > fied. Ah. My mnemonic would be "PiU" as in "Pew! Pew!". - 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: Is there such thing as a 'soft checksum' tool?

2009-09-07 Thread parv
the checksums are, the > > more similar two given images are. > > > > Does anyone know of anything like this? See if this ... http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col50.html ... fits. - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread parv
II text q: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators perl -pi -e 's#\\r#\\n#g' q # quotes are mine file p q p: ASCII text q: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators This works... perl -pi -e 's/\r$//g' q file p q p: ASCII text q: ASCII text -

Re: Need Access Control List(ACL) or any kind of substitute for it

2003-08-02 Thread parv
n explicitly grant > permission to nobody user. It seems from your actions that you think you have powers to change groups willy-nilly. And i do not think that the hosting company would do add nobody user to your group. Why? See above. I think there is something missing from my res

Re: Updates from 4.8-RELEASE to 4.8-RELEASE-p1

2003-08-14 Thread parv
... Topic: Kernel memory disclosure via ibcs2 ... Announced: 2003-08-10 Credits:David Rhodus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Affects:All FreeBSD releases up to and including 4.8-RELEASE-p2, 5.1-RELEASE-p1 Corrected: ...

Re: Installing Free over linux

2006-04-18 Thread Parv
Anyway, i re-sliced the disk and repartitioned the subsequent slice w/ partitions sizes already calculated. This time i had no problem. Mind you that i installed from the same disc previously on a different computer, and missing swap node message did not come up while adjusting the partition size

Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)

2006-04-19 Thread Parv
adjustments to your "theme" as you may or may not have all the programs installed (or even care about) which are listed in the menus and|or displayed as buttons. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Perl: sort string alphabetically, or remove dupe chars?

2006-04-25 Thread Parv
... another but rather clunky version is ... my $string = 'letter'; { my %string; @string{ split '' , $string } = (); $string = join '' , sort keys %string; } print $string; - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Data on desktop music players

2006-04-26 Thread Parv
so far, etc... mplayer, xmms, splay, & workman. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-04-30 Thread Parv
n patch; did building|installing of world & kernel; on reboot of Dell Inspiron 5000e laptop, there still was a beep. So the patch did not work for me. Did i miss something? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-01 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Giorgos Keramidas thusly... > > On 2006-05-01 02:05, Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eric Anderson wrote: > > >This thread: > > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html > &g

Re: graceful way of stopping X remotely

2006-05-02 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Noah thusly... > > Its been a while since I've had to admin X. What is a graceful > way to stop X when I am remote to the machine? Send a SIGTERM (or any other appropriate one) signal to the controlling|foreground X

Re: ipfirewall tricks

2006-05-02 Thread Parv
fw(8); ipfilter, ipf(8) ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ refers to, well, ipf. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: "Inappropriate file type or format" error when accessing berkely DB file via perl

2006-05-03 Thread Parv
eparately) is included w/ Perl (at least in 5.8.8). Well, i just searched "Google Groups" for 'perl DB_File db3 "Inappropriate file type or format"' which presented ... http://groups.google.com/group/fa.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/783254b63fbba089/3a8af6e2d78282f9 - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows

2006-05-06 Thread Parv
tightvnc & such) to move mouse on already running X session. Please let me know if that is possible. There, however, is x11vnc port (net/x11vnc) which can connects to already running X instance which should fulfill Marc's requirement. See also x2vnc (x11-servers/x2vnc) port. -

Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows

2006-05-06 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Ow Mun Heng thusly... > > On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 01:34 -0400, Parv wrote: > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > wrote Marc G. Fournier thusly... > > > > > > I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migr

Re: 7-CURRENT

2006-05-08 Thread Parv
ording to Perl rules.) Above regex fails, when there is no minor version since matching of minor version is not optional. To get past that, regex should be ... /^(((\d+)(?:\.\d+[^.\-]*?)?)-(\w+)(-\S+)?) (\w+)$/ ^ ^ optional match - P

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-11 Thread Parv
nking people who have helped you give them the incentive to keep on helping you & others. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Barnaby Scott thusly... > > Parv wrote: > ... > >>and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for between 4 and 5 > >>minutes every time. > > > >Does your screen goes blank just after the above message? If so,

Re: Converting a zsh prompt to bash

2006-05-16 Thread Parv
;\w', and so on. I personally put the color, bold, normal, etc. sequences in a separate file, which is sourced inside the file setting prompt. That gives less of gobbledygook to parse. For zsh, i have somewhere in ~/.zshrc ... # http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/cf/sh/var/colors .

Re: Makefile and '$(addprefix)'

2006-05-22 Thread Parv
are using gnu make syntax. Read make(1) man page. Replace $(VAR) with ${VAR} & see what happens (i am unsure as i am a light user of BSD make). - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: min disk size for (useful) desktop

2006-05-27 Thread Parv
really is is 20G enough ? ? ? 20GB disk should be enough unless you are going to build everything that you need from source in one go without cleaning in bewteen. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: Directory and file comparison tool for X?

2006-06-10 Thread Parv
but not showing what files are different withoug having > to open each file and do a diff. People mentioned diff & rsync, among other things. Nobody mentioned one named unison, which is similar & different to workings of rsync. - Parv --

Re: perl and openwebmail - cant locate vars.pm

2004-02-25 Thread parv
again problem could itself be w/ the speedyCGI port. For comparison, i have only Perl 5.8.2 installed & @INC is... # perl -e '$, = qq/\n/; print @INC' /usr2/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/mach /usr2/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr2/lo

Re: CVSUP and the refuse file

2004-02-27 Thread parv
of two hand and tongue days ago, wrote i ... http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20020311043929.GA12768%40moo.holy.cow ...According to which, you should not be having any problems, unless your refuse file is not quite right. What /exactly/ are you refusing? - Parv -- ___

Re: 'pkg_delete port' vs 'cd /usr/ports/port;make deinstall'

2004-03-06 Thread parv
en the installed port version is same as in /usr/ports// AND happened to be in that directory. Otherwise, i just use pkg_de(install|delete). - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-08 Thread Parv
Barbish or whoever you are this week, It seems the Message-ID pattern has not changed. Oops, did i say that out loud? - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-08 Thread Parv
"philosopher" ... http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame12.html http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame17.html > Also are these kinds of posts tolerated? Well, you are seeing them on this list, aren't you? This will go on until one side tires or looses interest, only to be revi

Re: [OT] sed question

2004-03-15 Thread Parv
actually would be better as > > perl -pe 's/\s./\n/g' my_test_text_document.txt ^ ^ Why do you have '.' after '\s'? Did you mean '+' instead? - Parv -- ___ [EMAI

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-03-15 Thread Parv
in the most left hand column. # ls -iaB1 - Find(1) the files matching above inodes (assuming evil files are in current directory & inode-1 & inode-2 are the inodes of two nasty files) ... # find . \( -inum -o -inum \) -print0 - Pass the find(1)

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-03-15 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... > > # find . \( -inum -o -inum \) -print0 \ > # | xargs -0 rm -fv Oh, don't forget the '-r', for recursion, option for rm(1) as i did. Use this instead... # find . \( -inum -o -inum \) -print0 \ #

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Parv
cal purposes. This message of yours was around ~72 characters, and i like you for that. Now. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Passing make parameters

2004-03-18 Thread Parv
ort builds, and to buildworld > as well. If that's not what you want, try a Makefile.local in the > port's directory. Mind that, Joshua, not every port /actually/ uses Makefile.local. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
ove message was a *reply* to one of the messages in that thread. It was quite a rude surprise. People, kindly do not hijack a thread; start a new one. Thanks for your cooperation in future. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://l

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Walter thusly... > I apologize for the late reply. > Parv wrote: > > > # find . \( -inum -o -inum \) -print0 \ > > # | xargs -0 rm -rfv > > > > Thanks, but when I did: > ls -i > and then typed in the inode

Starting a new thread (was Re: drive / IDE controller questions)

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Joey Mingrone thusly... > > On March 19, 2004 18:37, Parv wrote: > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > wrote Joey Mingrone thusly... > > > > > I've been having problems with my western digital drive > &g

Re: Mail readers

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
org/in-notes/rfc3676.txt ... which supersedes RFC 2646. "What does that superseding actually translates to?", i do not know. > not solve any problem in particular. Actually both RFCs do try to. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PRO

Re: Errors upgrading lang/perl5.8

2004-03-25 Thread Parv
ast weekend, No problem in building. Build failure for you could be -CURRENT related; try asking on -current@ list? Then again it has been only a day for your OP... - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Cleaning up multiplicates in elf ldconfig path

2009-03-29 Thread Parv
pat /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/compat/package" ... but then I would have make sure above does not miss any new paths added to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Opinions or suggestions? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Cleaning up multiplicates in elf ldconfig path

2009-03-30 Thread Parv
in message <20090329143915.ga1...@holstein.holy.cow>, wrote Parv thusly... > ... > I failed to find a solution to the (cosmetic) problem of ldconfig > path having duplicate directories ... > I suppose I could stick in /etc/rc.conf this ... > > ldconfig_paths="/

Re: Cleaning up multiplicates in elf ldconfig path

2009-03-31 Thread Parv
in message <200903302145.48743.mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net>, wrote Mel Flynn thusly... > > On Sunday 29 March 2009 16:39:15 Parv wrote: > > I am on FreeBSD/i386 6.4-STABLE (around Mar 1, 2009). I failed > > to find a solution to the (cosmetic) problem of

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-25 Thread parv
battery (6600 mAh) gives me around 4.5 hours autonomy, but > often I find a point with power. (Argh, darn quicky fingers!) Sorry for bothering with earlier mail about battery life. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-25 Thread parv
an attached USB Huawei E220 dongel for > UMTS. I have installed 8-CURRENT and all works as it should, only > the inbuild cam is not supported, but I don't neet this at the > moment (maybe later when Skype for FreeBSD can do video as well). Matthias, What kind of battery life do you

Re: requesting some info on CVSUP (some is help related, others are your own personal preferences)

2006-06-30 Thread Parv
than /usr which has space only for the base system files (plus some room to cope with the growth). - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: shell scripting: help appreciated

2006-07-03 Thread Parv
gt; if i comment out some records of my foo.conf, the sub-shell gets > executed for more records. So, what is it exactly in the records (and/or values given to subprogram.sh) where the execution stops? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: shell scripting: help appreciated

2006-07-03 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net thusly... > > By the way [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net do something about ... Reporting-MTA: dns; mta9.adelphia.net Arrival-Date: Mon

Re: shell retrieve history (up arrow) not working

2006-07-11 Thread Parv
t; doesn't, displaying instead > > > > $ ^[[A^[[C^[[B^[[D > > > > when I press the arrow keys in order (up, right, down, left) > > They are using different shells. Root uses csh by default, your > user account is using sh. Try "set -o emacs" for sh.

Re: aterm -e screen does not source .bashrc (was: Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution))

2006-07-11 Thread Parv
he bogus request. I meant: > > $ ls -ld .bash* .sh* .profile If Peter had a ~/.bash_profile that would have shown even with your first request. So ... relax. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Searching a drive and copying files

2006-07-23 Thread Parv
ub usage { my ( $exit, $message ) = @_; print STDERR $message, "\n" if $exit && $message; my $old_fd = select( $exit == 0 ? \*STDOUT : \*STDERR ); print <<"_USAGE_"; similar-image - Keep|Delete similar looking images similar-image [ -fuzz ]

Re: A question for the AWK wizards

2006-07-25 Thread Parv
CH line (when record separator is newline), not the whole output. There are ports which seems to do what you want to do. - 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 question for the AWK wizards

2006-07-25 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... > > You need to use substr() not awk to shorten a line. ` ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ` ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Dang it! I meant to use the substr() function in awk.

Re: Finding out which options you used when compiling a package?

2006-08-15 Thread Parv
ike logging the make output, showing last few lines of the log on a failure, seeing the last used options|commands, etc. to have something like this, mostly uncommented, script ... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/sh/port-make - Parv -- ___ fr

Re: pkgdb -Fu failing: can't convert nil into String

2006-08-19 Thread parv
under ${PORTSDIR:-/usr/ports}, of the dependency port. > Install stale dependency? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [yes] a > can't convert nil into String When you answered "all", pkgdb prepared to install the port "marked" but could not parse that name in - format, so the result

Re: an ACK, still here...

2010-05-22 Thread parv
will become a factor when powering a, well, power hungry(ier) USB devices (say, a 2.5 in HDD in an external enclousre). - 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: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread parv
(instead of {a,b,c,d}) in file name generation work as expected. zsh has more ways to help file name generation which I have not looked into yet. And of course, as stated earlier, compatibility between a bourne shell script & an interactive shell helps immensely while developing|debugging a scri

Re: office apps

2010-06-08 Thread parv
an-0.16.6 Dependency: pkg-config-0.23_1 Dependency: png-1.4.1_1 Dependency: printproto-1.0.4 Dependency: randrproto-1.3.0 Dependency: renderproto-0.9.3 Dependency: shared-mime-info-0.71 Dependency: tiff-3.9.2_1 Dependency: xcb-util-0.3.6_1 Dependency: xextproto-7.0.5 Dependen

Re: office apps

2010-06-09 Thread parv
0 -nologo". ... > I'm not sure what you mean by this. Empty window? Sorry, by "empty window" I meant the open office swriter window showing an empty, spanking new document (to start writing in). - parv -- ___ freebsd-quest

Re: check for numeric content in a shell script (FreeBSD sh)

2010-06-24 Thread parv
be missing > >> something. > > > > I just realized that I had a stupid mistake there and should > > have used: > > if expr "$arg" : "[0-9]*\.[0-9]*$" > /dev/null > And of course that was another stupid mistake that I didn't t

Re: check for numeric content in a shell script (FreeBSD sh)

2010-06-24 Thread Parv
without > # leading digits before the decimal point. . ^ . ^ plural > ^ > -? > ( > [0-9] [.]? [0-9]* > | > [0-9]? [.] [0-9]+ .^ .^ oops Please change the immediately above rege

Re: check for numeric content in a shell script (FreeBSD sh)

2010-06-25 Thread parv
in message <20100624192256.gf...@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>, wrote Chip Camden thusly... > > On Jun 24 08:39, Parv wrote: > > in message <20100624183407.ga49...@holstein.holy.cow>, > > wrote p...@pair.com thusly... > > > > > > # Matches

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-16 Thread parv
ce a problem with videos on YouTube, Vimeo, & some others while playing them in Firefox via Flash plugin. On FreeBSD, when possible, I download the file to play with xine. - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Re : cannot install opera

2010-07-17 Thread parv
e, I did not submit a PR. Let me know if anybody wants it. - 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: Skype

2010-08-11 Thread parv
nfo/soft/distfiles/skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2 ... in /misc/ports/distfiles; edit net/skype/Makefile to set proper PORTVERSION; & generate net/skpe/distinfo which led to successful install & use of skype as in I could log in with the same password & userid generated earlier &am

Re: Can't remove or move file

2010-08-20 Thread Parv
utube_video' > > This sets the name of the file that will appear on your computer to > "output_filename.flv", so you control what the file is called. ... On a similar & more flexible note, using --title option will make youtube-dl to use title for the file name. This

Re: Customizable wall clock for several time zones

2010-08-21 Thread Parv
| > | BLAH MEOWDOGFOOD! | > +--+ You could place multiple x11-clocks/rclock instances side by side with different time zones (-adjust option) to partially reach there, as it does not allow to set the title (I only tested -title option). - parv --

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread parv
erm -T 'Die, Die!' You would need to then exit that program so that open files close, other programs die, X11 shuts down, and so on, so forth. - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Opera 10.61 (FreeBSD 8/i386) crash - can't read kernel memory

2010-08-24 Thread parv
down normally? (Yes, of course, only root:kmem has read access to /dev/mem.) Also, is there any way to prevent creation of /var/tmp/crash.txt every time it crashes? - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

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