Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: The problem under discussion is that the kernel version does not change when a freebsd-update update does not include a kernel change. Perhaps we could adopt the Linux practice of placing the release information in /etc/issue

upgrade packages

2013-04-25 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all! I come from linux os and I read a lot documentations about freebsd. I've a doubt: when I've some packages installed and I need upgrade it, I need to recompile those packages or there's another (fast) way to do this? thanks! Pol ___

Re: Procmail Decoding Mime Messages

2013-04-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:07:35 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there a filter that one can run in procmail in which base64 encoded data go in and text comes out so one can allow procmailrc to do its work? [...] Is there anything which will take

Re: upgrade packages

2013-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:05:25 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi all! I come from linux os and I read a lot documentations about freebsd. I've a doubt: when I've some packages installed and I need upgrade it, I need to recompile those packages or there's another (fast) way to do this? With the

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-25 Thread krad
type id from your user account and paste the results back here On 24 April 2013 14:55, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: 2013-04-24 15:40, Lowell Gilbert skrev: Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org writes: On 04/24/13 14:07, Lowell Gilbert wrote: No, that's from /etc/passwd

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:37:01 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: The problem under discussion is that the kernel version does not change when a freebsd-update update does not include a kernel change. Perhaps we could adopt the

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:37:01 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: The problem under discussion is that the kernel version does not change when a freebsd-update update does not include a kernel

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-25 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org To: Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se Cc: questions FreeBSD FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Diskless question On 04/24/13 13:45, Bernt Hansson wrote:

mouse in alpine

2013-04-25 Thread doug
on (.1 I built alpine with: === The following configuration options are available for alpine-2.00_3: THREADS=on: Compile with thread support MOUSE=on: Enable mouse support for xterm NLS=off: National Language Support ISPELL=on: Use ispell instead of aspell as default speller

Re: mouse in alpine

2013-04-25 Thread doug
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, doug wrote: on (.1 I built alpine with: === The following configuration options are available for alpine-2.00_3: THREADS=on: Compile with thread support MOUSE=on: Enable mouse support for xterm NLS=off: National Language Support ISPELL=on: Use ispell

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:14:06 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: This is written as though it applies to FreeBSD, but I was under the impression that FreeBSD didn't do anything with /etc/issue. It actually works quite well, I'm using it for decades. :-) You just need to add the item