Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
or even your Linux partitions if you want, optical drives or NFS shares if you need.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:42:38 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Polytropon, I'll use journaling. That should give you additional security in integrity, especially on a everything in one / partition. I've to apologize for my broken English. No understanding problem here. Regarding to the comment

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
will chainload the FreeBSD loader (hd0,a:/boot/loader). Modern technology... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-24 Thread Polytropon
and disk initialisation: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:07:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 23:35 +0100, Polytropon wrote: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 63 12127468460637311 83 Linux This is the partition you're going to install

Re: portsnap

2012-11-22 Thread Polytropon
. :-) -- Polytropon 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: portsnap

2012-11-21 Thread Polytropon
to do (e. g. IEHDASDR if it should DUMP or RESTORE, because it can do both and more; still only _one_ program is called). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

2012-11-19 Thread Polytropon
to set up, providing a good out of the box experience. Checking settings on both sides, using the -vvv option or maybe even using tcpdump or Wireshark to examine the traffic could help to spot the problem. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

2012-11-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:00:29 -0500, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:43:06 +0100 Polytropon articulated: Allow me to provide just one example: More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20187.html That doesn't appear to be a bug. It appears

Re: OFF TOPIC -- Latex Question

2012-11-19 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

2012-11-19 Thread Polytropon
*something* might be interested in this. Even though it's not x86, this might be interesting as it is _really_ open: http://cubieboard.org/ You can freely obtain schematics, dimensions, components... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

2012-11-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:35:15 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:46:45AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:27:52 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: answer me this, daniel or anybody else:: isn't there a very small group who is devoted to creating a 100% open/free

Re: Freebsd 9 Startx

2012-11-18 Thread Polytropon
the software you're intending to run (e. g. which window manager), what you have installed, the content of config files (such as .xinitrc or .xsession) and the commands you've entered, plus their output and error messages. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Light word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
/Please_don't_send_me_Microsoft_Word_documents Also see the links to Word processors: stupid and inefficient and What has WYSIWYG done to us? at the end of the page. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: how to correct corrupted ports tree?

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
. :-) See man 5 make.conf for details, as well as man 7 ports. -- Polytropon 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

Re: how to correct corrupted ports tree?

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 05:57:40 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-11-18 05:14, Bernt Hansson skrev: There is a readme file too. ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/README.TXT Which mentions the evil cvsup... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
it. With some salt, please. :-) -- Polytropon 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

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-16 Thread Polytropon
to break unexpectedly (especially in library land). I usually delete all installed ports before the upgrade to a new major version. The EXAMPLES section of man portmaster has a nice instruction of how to do this. It's definitely the preferred way for a clean installation. -- Polytropon

Re: Light word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-15 Thread Polytropon
, the companion of abiword. :-) -- Polytropon 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

Re: Mounting SD card.

2012-11-15 Thread Polytropon
much neater and less prone to typing errors. Is there a recommended way to automate the GEOM re-tasting so SD cards can be accessed without further interaction (by simply using the correct mount command)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Mounting SD card.

2012-11-15 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:25:28 +1030, Shane Ambler wrote: On 16/11/2012 02:25, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Polytropon wrote: Is there a recommended way to automate the GEOM re-tasting so SD cards can be accessed without further interaction (by simply using the correct mount

Re: ugh. dump / restore problem(s) Cannot find file dump list

2012-11-14 Thread Polytropon
# restore -rf /usr/backup/dump_var_0_20121113_1920 should work. You can find an example in man restore. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ugh. dump / restore problem(s) Cannot find file dump list

2012-11-14 Thread Polytropon
also mentions this format: # mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt # mkdir /tmp/oldvar # cd /tmp/oldvar # restore -ruf /mnt/var.dump # umount /mnt Source: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/backup.html#_em_dump_8_em_em_restore_8_em -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: curious -- what's /tmp/fam-root ?

2012-11-14 Thread Polytropon
that is then required by again something else...). -- Polytropon 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

Re: why sync during shutdown when sync already done?

2012-11-14 Thread Polytropon
process. The shutdown sync seems to have a specific timeout that makes sure things get written definitely. That's why even the famous # sync ; sync ; sync ; reboot sequence would have the same effect. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Anyway, linux is installed; the box is on my internal IP net. I can ssh *out*. to my server, vut from my server

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:50:40 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, ja vohl. futher dhclient is there. I'll go back to you wanted to say 'jawohl'? Jawohl mein Herr! :-) What

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:09:08 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:35:43AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: box. it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that I never studied. yuk. I assume your HW firewall protects you to the outside. Of course

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:20:51 -0700, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Nov 13, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Polytropon wrote: Ouch. Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there is the word order that achieves

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:27:37 -0700, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Nov 13, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Polytropon wrote: That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match realitiy anymore. :-) A famous thing is comma in lists: Unlike German, where and substitutes a comma

Re: pkg_add and 9.1RC3

2012-11-12 Thread Polytropon
the STABLE-related access path looks valid. -- Polytropon 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

Re: Character set conversion, locales, UTF-8, etc

2012-11-05 Thread Polytropon
: % ls -w müslifraß.txt | od -h 000 fc6d6c73666961722edf78740a74 This is on en_US.ISO8859-1 (german special characters will be displayed properly as 1-bytes both in X and in console mode). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-05 Thread Polytropon
. Just in worst case. -- Polytropon 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

Re: Xiphos Locale Bug?

2012-11-05 Thread Polytropon
unsetenv LANG That will leave english text intact (most usable language setting for most programs), but allow specific settings like time notation or collation according to the german rules. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Xiphos Locale Bug?

2012-11-05 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:25:54 -0600, Joseph a Nagy Jr wrote: On 11/05/12 19:19, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:54:43 -0600, Joseph a Nagy Jr wrote: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, i386 Xiphos is giving me a strange warning[0], and I'm not quite sure what to make of it. Currently C

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
, break it into multi-volume parts and then record it to DVD+R. Is there any way to effectively deal with _this_ issue? Not per se, but I think all the required parts are in the system, it's just the question of how to efficiently combine them to meet your request. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: Character set conversion, locales, UTF-8, etc

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
). -- Polytropon 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 freebsd-questions

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:37:43 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message 20121105021817.fc5bff1b.free...@edvax.de, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks. If you think you can add compression to your files (if it makes

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:49:24 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message 20121105035233.e3c4ae8a.free...@edvax.de, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: But as I said (above) to make this really work right, dump restore really need to have -z options, and do the zipping/unzipping

Re: before new version

2012-11-03 Thread Polytropon
, or alternatively also use pkg_add -r from the Latest/ directory instead of RELEASE (which _always_ contains the ports generated from the frozen ports tree). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: before new version

2012-11-03 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 12:25:12 -0500, ajtiM wrote: On Saturday 03 November 2012 12:18:35 Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 11:23:12 -0500, ajtiM wrote: Hi! Could someone explain, please why ports should be frozen before a new version of FreeBSD came out? The idea is to make

Re: Autotools, libraries and man pages: oh my!

2012-11-02 Thread Polytropon
-llibrary for any library residing there should be fine - except of course you override default options of cc... For your project, you could create a Makefile containing the required CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, define a rule for building the target and then just use make. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: VirtualBox Guest Addons

2012-10-31 Thread Polytropon
/Makefile. -- Polytropon 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 freebsd

Re: how to disable page breaks in line printer

2012-10-30 Thread Polytropon
code 12) you could previously delete them with tr -d, just to make sure. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Famp Server

2012-10-30 Thread Polytropon
the error message of no success? and also when i install them should i go to the port directory or i can execute the command anywhere From anywhere. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: I need a simple cli tool to rotate mp4 video.

2012-10-30 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon 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 freebsd-questions

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-27 Thread Polytropon
to contend with being less image-inative in the coming days. You just need to imagine the images. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 05:47:46 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: On 28-Oct-12 01:49, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:43:11 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: But Mozilla applications like Firefox and Thunderbird present a peculiar problem - the buttons on the Tool bar/Menu bar do not have any

Re: rc.conf and loader.conf

2012-10-26 Thread Polytropon
variable assignments. It is that simple. It implies that you can arrange everything (with newlines, comments, in groups, as you wish) as long as it is valid shell syntax. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-26 Thread Polytropon
and has sorted it out. If anyone can provide a hint on how to fix the problem, I would be grateful indeed. Maybe an update of FF and TB would be sufficient, so it can link to the present (or at least expected) libraries accordingly. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: ata controller problem

2012-10-26 Thread Polytropon
I assume that you are using UFS. Is there a way to ensure that the onboard SATA Controller is always probed first. I'm not sure if this can be done, but using labels should make the question go away, and the problem causing it. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: ata controller problem

2012-10-26 Thread Polytropon
access to USB devices and memory card readers more efficient (i. e. making sure they are always represented by one and the same device, instead of the next free one). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:06:44 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Hello Polytropon, Thanks for replying. Maybe an update of FF and TB would be sufficient, so it can link to the present (or at least expected) libraries accordingly. Maybe I did not make it clear enough in the original message

Re: kernel config

2012-10-25 Thread Polytropon
, WITHOUT_BLUETOOTH will prevent building BT-related kernel modules and utilities. See man src.conf for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-10-25 Thread Polytropon
on future ia64 boxes.. There probably won't be much ia64 boxes in the future. You should worry to not be able to run FreeBSD on ARM, and maybe even later on normal x86 (amd64) hardware, if specific interested parties should get their will... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: FreeBSD based, standalone, print server

2012-10-25 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-24 Thread Polytropon
* and then branches to register #14 */ setpicardcolor(); /* 4 lights! */ :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: graphics card

2012-10-23 Thread Polytropon
, and check for GL support (glxinfo, glxgears, xvinfo; install xlockmore and see xlock -nolock -mode fire). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-23 Thread Polytropon
. The easiest way for creating the proper calculation is to refer to the equation percentage * 100 percentage value = base value and resolve it to whatever is required. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: license

2012-10-23 Thread Polytropon
-- Polytropon 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 freebsd-questions

Re: ipfw headers

2012-10-23 Thread Polytropon
found in ipfw's main.c. Final note: If you did actually use the name studio.h - that is a typo. There is no u in standard I/O. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: How to list /etc/fstab in new BFSD label?

2012-10-22 Thread Polytropon
HAL + DBUS combinations prefer not to have any media devices listed in /etc/fstab, because they're doing the stuff required on their own. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: pppoe configuration and dns name resolution

2012-10-20 Thread Polytropon
that the NIC has had an IP address, but in a different network. Can anyone throw light on the issue I'm facing? Any possible tricks I might be missing, while configuring PPP interface? Do things as simple as possible first. For the examples, see my initial message again. -- Polytropon

Re: pppoe configuration and dns name resolution

2012-10-19 Thread Polytropon
. This is the easiest approach to dealing with PPPoE modems (if they are used as actual modems without any additional routing, DHCP or other functionality). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-10-19 Thread Polytropon
(with the idea that on ARM, you cannot run anything else than what the hardware vendor allows, which is Windows). Any model people would recommend? IBM Thinkpad. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: pppoe configuration and dns name resolution

2012-10-16 Thread Polytropon
such features). :-) -- Polytropon 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 freebsd

Re: Graphiz broke because of swig

2012-10-14 Thread Polytropon
this. -- Polytropon 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 freebsd-questions

Re: editing pdf files

2012-10-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:47:01 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 01:19:07PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:46:28 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: The disassembling can be done with % pdfimages source.pdf . Then the files can be edited whatever tool you

Re: editing pdf files

2012-10-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:38:16 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 01:19:07PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:46:28 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: ive got a question that fits in here. hopefully. last week I found a book from 1901 that google had scanned

Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread Polytropon
-only option is required. See the ENVIRONMENT section below for additional requirements. This means --index-only is to be used when using portmaster for binary installs without an installed ports collection. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:34:17 + (UTC), jb wrote: Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de writes: On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:43 + (UTC), jb wrote: Hi, what is the diff between --index and --index-only ... --index use INDEX-[7-9] exclusively to check if a port

Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread Polytropon
This is with --index and _no_ ports collection in the default location (example quoted from your message)... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-10 Thread Polytropon
distribution to use, e. g. WITH_TEX=texlive (will install TeXlive) or WITH_TEX=teTeX (will install teTeX) if a dependency of TeX is requested? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-10 Thread Polytropon
as a metaport) doesn't look easy. As I don't need any feature of TeXlive, I'm _currently_ still using teTeX because it does everything I need. But I agree that TeXlive will be regarded _the_ TeX distribution in the future, leaving teTeX in the past... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Unlocking HDD ATA password

2012-10-09 Thread Polytropon
, but it looks like too much work to just get those 160 GB. But I did learn a lot. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: portmaster backup package

2012-10-08 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:18:20 + (UTC), jb wrote: Hi, what to do with that backup package (-b option) after installation of new port failed ? Install it with pkg_add? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: compile/install Libreoffice Writer only

2012-10-07 Thread Polytropon
it requires lots of Gtk dependencies). If installed, you will only have the text processing program -- no spreadsheet, no database, no presentation graphics. It's a quite versatile program and can even read outdated MICROS~1 memory garbage formats. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Polytropon
. Describe your problem as exact as possible, use the available troubleshooting resources first, like, do your homework. :-) http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo http://www.freebsd.org/support.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: compile/install Libreoffice Writer only

2012-10-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 12:12:17 + (UTC), jb wrote: Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de writes: On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 05:11:50 + (UTC), jb wrote: Hi, is there a way to do that right now in ports (config, make options) ? Or would that require separate source packaging per component

Re: Building Ports: Is there a make equivalent for --batch ?

2012-10-07 Thread Polytropon
it to solve port changes are provided when an entry to /usr/ports/UPDATING is added. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Building Ports: Is there a make equivalent for --batch ?

2012-10-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:57:05 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message 20121007234043.cadf5863.free...@edvax.de, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: A workaround (and not directly the answer to your question) is to process the config dialogs before starting the build: # make

Re: A problem with loader

2012-10-05 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:30:56 +, Zbigniew wrote: OK, maybe different way: where is the source code for this loader available? Somehow I'm unable to find it. You're searching for this? /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader And the Forth related stuff: /usr/src/sys/boot/forth -- Polytropon

Re: A problem with loader

2012-10-05 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:46:13 +, Zbigniew wrote: 2012/10/5, Polytropon free...@edvax.de: You're searching for this? /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader And the Forth related stuff: /usr/src/sys/boot/forth Made a quick search in the Internet - maybe too quick indeed. Just make a quick search

Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations

2012-10-03 Thread Polytropon
recommendations. Whenever I approach the border of what xpdf and gv can do, I use acroread filename. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations

2012-10-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:28:06 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: [ Polytropon wrote on Wed 3.Oct'12 at 11:26:38 +0200 ] On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:50:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I got sent a pdf file, version 1.6, with annotations. xpdf can view the file, but not the annotations

Re: Port update hosed entire system

2012-10-02 Thread Polytropon
to reboot at this point. From within X, you need Ctrl+Alt+PF2; from text mode, only Alt+PF2 is needed (even though I checked... Ctrl+Alt+ also works in text mode). So you can't even switch VTs? Interesting, makes the problem much more strange... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: stop and start X server in FreeBSD 9.0

2012-10-02 Thread Polytropon
(see man 8 rc for details). -- Polytropon 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

Re: Port update hosed entire system

2012-10-01 Thread Polytropon
(copy everything you might need afterwards, e. g. config files and your scripts!), repopulate it using the mtree file, and reinstall what you need. That will pull in any dependencies you may not have thought of in the first place. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: 8.3-R cannot mount non-BSD burned DVD

2012-09-30 Thread Polytropon
systems (or, to be correct, by many pre- mastering and burning tools), but Windows uses the Joliet extension. However, FreeBSD can understand both - _if_ they are properly done. See man mkisofs for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: older version of programs in freebsd

2012-09-29 Thread Polytropon
man pkg_add) in order to install from the RELEASE precompiled package collection instead of from the one updated to reflect the current ports tree. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-27 Thread Polytropon
and would be interested if Subversion can provide the same easy interface to that kind of functionality. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-26 Thread Polytropon
be updated with the same program (csup). -- Polytropon 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

Re: bad root shell in /etc/passwd

2012-09-26 Thread Polytropon
bash), you could type /rescue/sh instead. -- Polytropon 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

Re: bad root shell in /etc/passwd

2012-09-26 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:07:26 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: Thanks, all. On 09/26/12 19:18, Polytropon wrote: That's why you should be using the toor account and leave root unchanged. I realized that about the time I learned I had given root to a bad shell path; at which time I also

Re: trouble getting .shrc to take

2012-09-26 Thread Polytropon
of the manual at man bash. There are files for per-user configuration as well as system-wide files. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: bash Shell Scripting Question

2012-09-20 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:16:40 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: On 09/20/2012 04:29, Polytropon wrote: Correct. You could use different approaches which may or may not fail due to the directory names you will encounter (like directories with spaces or special characters). #!/bin/sh

Re: How do I set number of retries in Firefox?

2012-09-20 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Can't find kernel, finds slices but no files on them

2012-09-19 Thread Polytropon
sure that you will need to re-initialize something within the boot chain (guess without further diagnostics)... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Can't find kernel, finds slices but no files on them

2012-09-19 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:22:20 +0200, Fritiof Hedman wrote: On 19 September 2012 23:37, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:28:30 +0200, Fritiof Hedman wrote: Hi list! I must warn you, I'm quite new to FreeBSD (I'm mostly using Linux otherwise). I have inherited

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