Re: clicky driver

2009-12-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 02:11:55AM -0500, b. f. wrote: Anybody know how I can redirect the beep to my speakers? I miss the confirmation that vi/vim puts out. Outside of X, our kbdcontrol(1) offers pitch and duration (but not volume) control for the console bell via the -b

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-27 Thread b. f.
On 12/27/09, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 02:11:55AM -0500, b. f. wrote: A BEL-per-key drove me beyond the limits back in '99; that isn't the answer, but to key a truncated bell, a click, at something well below middle-C: yes, this kind of

Re: Looking for a convenient way in C to retrieve CPU and memory usage of a process

2009-12-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Manish Jain wrote: I am looking for a convenient way using C to retrieve the current CPU and memory utilization of a process of which I have the pid. Can somebody please give me a hint of which system-calls/library-functions to use for this ? I don't want to use the system() function or grep

Re: Looking for a convenient way in C to retrieve CPU and memory usage of a process

2009-12-27 Thread b. f.
I am looking for a convenient way using C to retrieve the current CPU and memory utilization of a process of which I have the pid. Can somebody please give me a hint of which system-calls/library-functions to use for this ? I don't want to use the system() function or grep for information via the

Re: strange find process

2009-12-27 Thread Anh Ky Huynh
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:24:04 -0500 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Anh Ky Huynh wrote: Hi all, At 2:00 am today, I turned my laptop on and suddenly found a strange process: $ ps xauw | grep find ... find -sx ./bin -type f ( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:07:34 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:19:49AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:22 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: [..] Wow; the stuff I've never heard about:-) --I just tried spkrtest and

Re: Package Size Discrepency

2009-12-27 Thread b. f.
Why is gcc42 from: ftp://ftp3.ca.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/gcc42.tbz ~66.6Mbs and has libobjc.so.2 but gcc42 from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/gcc42.tbz ~18.9 and doesn't have this library? Thanks, jlc Probably because

TP-LINK wireless pci - ath(4) driver - Atheros chipsets = WAS: [mary...@tp-link.com: RE:]

2009-12-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Below is the reply I received from TP-LINK about chipsets in some of their pci wireless adapters. This might be of interest to somebody who is buying a pci wireless. My interest in Tp-link is because there are hundreds of cards on sale at ebay.co.uk at the moment. However, I'm more confused by

Re: which IP+gateway for Freebsd guest VM in VMware workstation

2009-12-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/27/2009 12:10 AM, Len Conrad wrote: VMWare has lots of info how to set up the (Windows XP) VMWare Workstation networking side, but not much on setting up networking in the guest OS. I've tried NAT and bridging, no DHCP, and can't ping anything except the localhost IPs. XP ipconfig

Re: which IP+gateway for Freebsd guest VM in VMware workstation

2009-12-27 Thread Len Conrad
VMWare has lots of info how to set up the (Windows XP) VMWare Workstation networking side, but not much on setting up networking in the guest OS. I've tried NAT and bridging, no DHCP, and can't ping anything except the localhost IPs. XP ipconfig shows the fixed IP, plus 2 192.168.c.d IPs from

Jails setup with binary packages only

2009-12-27 Thread Guy Marcenac
I would like to use a freebsd system with binary packages only. I want to heavily use the jail concept. All the documentation about jails implies the use of buildworld into the jails. In order to avoid any compilation time, I installed a minimal base system for the host and I nullfs mounted

Labeling a USB drive

2009-12-27 Thread Carmel
I have FreeBSD-7.2 installed. I also have several USB Flash drives that I use. I was using the following to partition and format the drives. # fdisk -I /dev/da4 # bsdlabel -w /dev/da4 Now, that appears to work correctly. I would also like to name the drive. I cannot find any command that will

Re: Labeling a USB drive

2009-12-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Carmel wrote: I have FreeBSD-7.2 installed. I also have several USB Flash drives that I use. I was using the following to partition and format the drives. # fdisk -I /dev/da4 # bsdlabel -w /dev/da4 Now, that appears to work correctly. I would also like to name the drive. I cannot find any

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:11:12 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: On Wed 23 Dec 2009 at 22:33:20 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I can still login as regular user, and when I run 'pwd -P' the output is / and then it goes back to the prompt. Output of 'ls -ld /home is: lrwxr-xr-x

Re: Sendmail client configuration to connect to ISP's SMTP server

2009-12-27 Thread Aflatoon Aflatooni
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 01:13 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:50:39 -0600, Lane Holcombe wrote: Check out SMART_HOST in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README I'm using the SMART_HOST functionality, too. But there's no authentification (username + password). The relay I'm

How to force tar to be quiet?

2009-12-27 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Freebsd-questions. when tar -cf file.tar /home/* It always says: tar: Removing leading '/' from member names man tar -P Preserve pathnames... But I do not need to preserve. I want to tar without that warning. How to force tar to be quiet? -- С уважением, Коньков

Issues with make -j option on ports

2009-12-27 Thread Simon Griffiths
Hello, I seem to get errors with quite a few ports if I use the make -j option. The errors surround multiple make commands not getting the files it expects in order. Is this the correct behaviour? make -j 8 install clean install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555

Re: chroot SSH users.

2009-12-27 Thread krad
2009/12/27 Marwan Sultan dead_l...@hotmail.com Hello people, Im on FreeBSD 7.2-R P5 Its easy to chroot ftp users - adding users to /etc/ftpchroot -makes the job easy. How about if I want to chroot the SSH users (not ftp) any easy way? no need for jail installation or anything

how to modify date after unrar files?

2009-12-27 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I don't know how to modify the time of files after it's extracted by unrar, the extracted file has the time that it's created on the other side, but I want it to have time/date on my side, thank you!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Issues with make -j option on ports

2009-12-27 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Simon Griffiths wrote: I seem to get errors with quite a few ports if I use the make -j option. Building with multiple jobs is part of the ports system for several months now. See the MAKE_JOBS variables in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk. Overriding that with -j is going to

Re: how to modify date after unrar files?

2009-12-27 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:27:53 -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng tfch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I don't know how to modify the time of files after it's extracted by unrar, the extracted file has the time that it's created on the other side, but I want it to have time/date on my side, thank you!! In order

RE: Issues with make -j option on ports

2009-12-27 Thread Simon Griffiths
Hello, On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Simon Griffiths wrote: I seem to get errors with quite a few ports if I use the make -j option. Building with multiple jobs is part of the ports system for several months now. See the MAKE_JOBS variables in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk. Overriding that with -j

Re: Jails setup with binary packages only

2009-12-27 Thread Tim Judd
On 12/27/09, Guy Marcenac g...@posteurs.com wrote: I would like to use a freebsd system with binary packages only. I want to heavily use the jail concept. All the documentation about jails implies the use of buildworld into the jails. In order to avoid any compilation time, I installed a

Re: how to modify date after unrar files?

2009-12-27 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Yeah, and I found there is a switch: tsm,c,a[N] Save or restore file time (modification, creation, access) but what is the [N] supposed to mean? thanks!! TFC On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:27:53 -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng

Re: How to force tar to be quiet?

2009-12-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Коньков Евгений wrote: Здравствуйте, Freebsd-questions. when tar -cf file.tar /home/* It always says: tar: Removing leading '/' from member names man tar -P Preserve pathnames... But I do not need to preserve. I want to tar without that warning. How to force tar to be quiet? Don't give the

RE: Issues with make -j option on ports

2009-12-27 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Simon Griffiths wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Simon Griffiths wrote: I seem to get errors with quite a few ports if I use the make -j option. Building with multiple jobs is part of the ports system for several months now. See the MAKE_JOBS variables in

Re[2]: How to force tar to be quiet?

2009-12-27 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Matthew. Вы писали 27 декабря 2009 г., 20:46:05: MS Коньков Евгений wrote: Здравствуйте, Freebsd-questions. when tar -cf file.tar /home/* It always says: tar: Removing leading '/' from member names man tar -P Preserve pathnames... But I do not need to preserve. I want

RE: chroot SSH users.

2009-12-27 Thread Marwan Sultan
Dear Krad, Thank you for your reply, regarding your answer, i have few questions here 1- in sshd_config file the default line is : Subsystem sftp/usr/libexec/sftp-server So should i comment out the line? or just add your line ? Subsystem sftp internal-sftp 2- the

Re: Re[2]: How to force tar to be quiet?

2009-12-27 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:10:31 +0200, Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: # tar -cf /home/kes/backup/conf/aaa_etc.tar -C / boot/loader.conf etc/* usr/local/etc/* usr/local/virtwww/* tar: No match. And next does not work as expected: # tar -cf /home/kes/backup/conf/aaa_etc.tar -C /

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 07:54:02PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:07:34 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:19:49AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:22 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: [..] Wow; the stuff I've never

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 03:18:51AM -0500, b. f. wrote: On 12/27/09, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 02:11:55AM -0500, b. f. wrote: A BEL-per-key drove me beyond the limits back in '99; that isn't the answer, but to key a truncated bell, a click, at

atrun: Missing Shared Object: libpam

2009-12-27 Thread APseudoUtopia
# /usr/libexec/atrun /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libpam.so.4 not found, required by atrun # find / -type f -name libpam* -ls 3274162 284 -r--r--r--1 root wheel 143412 Dec 5 04:48 /usr/lib/libpam.a 3273935 56 -r--r--r--1 root wheel 28296 Dec 4

Re: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file

2009-12-27 Thread Victor Sudakov
David Kelly wrote: Colleagues, Am I the only one to have this problem? No. Telling you more than I know: FreeBSD.org is moving (or has moved) from CVS to SVN. Is my guess that what we are seeing is an artifact of that move where data is hacked into cvs compatible format and

acroread8 error: The security plug-in required by this command is unavailable

2009-12-27 Thread Yuri
When I am trying to open pdf file I get this error. This pdf is an ebook borrowed from the library. Is it possible to install this plug-in in any way? One of the web howtos suggests that there is something called EBL plug-in that is required. Thanks, Yuri

Re: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file

2009-12-27 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: [dd] I would be happy to use svn as I do for my own projects. To run a cvs repository, you just need /usr/bin/cvs started from inetd. It is even in the base system. To run a subversion repository, you need much more infrastructure and more overhead (lots of