Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 06/26/13 15:47, Ayan George wrote: ASV: This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a while now so I gotta ask. There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases

Re: svn incantation for 9.1-RELEASE

2012-12-04 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 12/04/12 20:47, John wrote: On 03/12/2012 07:42, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:16 AM, John free...@growveg.net wrote: Hello list, At the moment, I get sources via a line like this: svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ /usr/src That one should give

Re: CSH prompt

2012-05-13 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 05/13/12 07:25, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:56:31 +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: In cshell I use this prompt: set prompt = %B[%@]%b %m[%/] The problem I face now is that if I use this prompt with symbolic links, the presented location is displaying the symbolic link rather than

Re: AMD64 with 9.0 PRERELEASE freezing/hanging without any messages

2011-11-19 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 11/19/11 03:54, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote: Hello, Has anyone else noticed a similar odd behavior with AMD64 and 9.0 prerelease (as well as RCs and betas)? On my 12 core (2*4162EE) the whole system just freezes quite often without any warning, without any messages being logged. Neither is there

Re: Do you find chrome on FreeBSD buggy?

2011-10-15 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 10/15/11 11:27, Yuri wrote: I keep seeing some artefacts, like text selection isn't cleared by clicking anywhere else. Or when some strange (Unicode) symbol shows up, for example on wikipedia article history. Or some page would randomly blank out. Or some page would show message like Aw,

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-07 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 05/07/11 08:30, Bill Tillman wrote: I knew this thread would bring up some ironies. For the record it's all in their minds. E-Mails have been upheld in the US Court system as legal documents. And those people afraid or distrusting of e-mail have only to give me their fax number and watch how

Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 03/09/11 16:31, Frank Shute wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 02:00:37PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: This is not a technical question. Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. Don't invest your cash

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-20 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 12/20/10 18:05, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:25:03 -0800, David Brodbeckg...@gull.us wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Charlie Kestercorky1...@comcast.net wrote: As a last gasp effort, I gave my LJ4+ a thorough cleaning and replaced the rollers for the output feed in the

Re: FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE

2010-12-08 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 12/08/10 06:21, Kazuhiro Satoyoshi wrote: They're old, but not so old that 8.1 shouldn't work. Some day, I tried to install FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE (i386, amd64), but I could't. I did't know the reason why... That's why I though to need old FreeBSD version for my PC. OK,

Re: Disk very slow in FreeBSD

2010-07-10 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 07/09/10 20:26, Depo Catcher wrote: I've tried everything here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15747 and here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15722 Also followed this: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.p...8postcount=38

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Reed Loefgren
Exactly. Most desktop users want a working system in the minimum of time (Can't blame them for that). Even with packages, we cannot beat an image-based distro, esp. since it will also provide all essential default settings. If I might butt in: If the user-to-be wants a working system in 5

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-29 Thread Reed Loefgren
Freminlins wrote: 2009/10/29 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com Far be it from me to pile on when you're already so frustrated, but I run into these sorts of problems myself from time to time. It's usually because I didn't bother to read /usr/ports/UPDATING first, which in this case

Re: Anybody is using VirtualBox?

2009-10-24 Thread Reed Loefgren
Glen Barber wrote: Hi, On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I am tryingto run Windows under FreeBSD. When I run: cat /dev/ad1s1 | VBoxManage stdin OutPutFile.vdi 21474836480 on 80-RC2 I get this output: ERROR: failed to create the VirtualBox object! ERROR: code

Re: usb device not recognised

2009-06-07 Thread Reed Loefgren
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I played around with the quirks and found that it needs both these to create the device and make it mountable:- NO_TEST_UNIT_READY | NO_SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE Works fine now please make patch with diff -u diff -u usbdevs.orig usbdevs

Re: kernel compile problems

2009-02-21 Thread Reed Loefgren
Wojciech Puchar wrote: # make depend make clean depend --? make shows : make : don't know how to make ../../../dev/agp/agp.c. Stop anyone know anything? Thanks! that you miss some files - this file do exist. ___

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-16 Thread Reed Loefgren
Wojciech Puchar wrote: The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. It is our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channel for FreeBSD users around the world and as a complement to our

Re: digression: There is no ye (was Re: what happened to groff?!!)

2006-11-04 Thread Reed Loefgren
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:53:21PM +, Bill Moran wrote: On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:56:07 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, This roff script is in a directory with ye-olden-English font, There is no word ye, and there never

Paging multiple columns in the console

2004-06-10 Thread Reed Loefgren
All, I'm moving to FreeBSD from Slackware and have one thing that bugs me a bit. If I do an ls on a big directory, say /usr/bin, I get output in a couple columns (I'm using bash.) In FreeBSD (4.9) If I ls a big directory it will output a couple columns, but I can't page it unless I pipe the