printf and utf-8

2009-01-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
As far as I can see, printf is not calculating strings lengths correctly when using utf-8 encoding. Either that, or I'm using byte count, and can't find the character count :-/ Eg: $ printf |%-10s| æøå |æøå| $ printf |%-10s| 123 |123 | I'm on 7.1-p2 sv.

Re: printf and utf-8

2009-01-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: As far as I can see, printf is not calculating strings lengths correctly when using utf-8 encoding. Either that, or I'm using byte count, and can't find the character count :-/ printf(1) explicitly states

Re: printf and utf-8

2009-01-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Do you have a suggestion to solve the following problem without using printf(1): I have a text file that I want to print in a box on a terminal from a shell script. Now I've padded the lines with spaces

Re: Keeping FreeBSD updated (the binary way)

2009-01-23 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: I want to make sure I have better routines this time around, when I'm starting a-fresh. I'd like to keep my system and packages fairly up to date, and still keep the compiling to a minimum. Is it possible to pkg_add -r packages from -STABLE on the latest

Re: Keeping FreeBSD updated (the binary way)

2009-01-23 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Svein Halvor Halvorsen svei...@lvor.halvorsen.cc wrote: Is it possible to pkg_add -r packages from -STABLE on the latest -RELEASE? That is, will the following work, or slowly render my system to an incoherent state: RW wrote: It'll work most of the time, but occasionally it will fail, when

Keeping FreeBSD updated (the binary way)

2009-01-22 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Hi, list! I have just acquired a new computer to replace an old server. This older server has been running FreeBSD 5.3 since 2004 and most of its packages are way out of date. I've been scared of changing something in fear of rendering the machine unbootable, or some core applications

Re: DHCP server

2008-10-29 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
bofh42 wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dhcpcd -n eth0 eth0: dhcpcd 4.0.2 starting eth0: broadcasting for a lease eth0: offered 10.0.0.176 from 10.0.1.1 `mirrorball' eth0: checking 10.0.0.176 is available on attached networks Are

DHCP server

2008-10-24 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Hi, I'm not sure if this is an issue with my dhcp server or the client, but since I seem to get troubles with two different clients, I'm thinking it might be the server: I've got a FreeBSD 7.0-p4 machine running isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.5_2 serving my home network. When my Linux (Archlinux)

Re: DHCP server

2008-10-24 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Wojciech Puchar wrote: a lease, this happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dhcpcd -n eth0 eth0: dhcpcd 4.0.2 starting eth0: broadcasting for a lease eth0: offered 10.0.0.176 from 10.0.1.1 `mirrorball' what's your netmask? if /24 your dhcp server is

Re: DHCP server

2008-10-24 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:43:32AM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is an issue with my dhcp server or the client, but since I seem to get troubles with two different clients, I'm thinking it might be the server: I've got a FreeBSD 7.0-p4

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Wojciech Puchar wrote: (look at how long it took the BSDs to have native file-level ACLs). because in unix they are not actually needed. usersgroups system is just perfect. That's one man's opinion. i don't know anyone here that actually use ACL under unix because he/she needs it. It

Re: A few questions from a current linux user

2008-08-09 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Polytropon wrote: 4) If a binary update leads to an unstable system, how easy it is to backtrack to an earlier working version along with working config files? An update set provided via freebsd-update should not render a system unstable / unusable; at least it's possible that the system is

Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)

2008-08-09 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Hello, fellow FreeBSD-ers! I'd like to a good neighbor and share my DSL line and set up an unencrypted free wireless access point. I often find myself wanting more free access points around the city, so I thought I'd stand up as a good example for others :-) I want people to know that they can

Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)

2008-08-09 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: This sounds like too much work for a doubtful amount of gain. It is probably a lot easier to use ipfw or pf+altq to rate limit the bandwidth others can use :) Marcel Grandemange wrote: Sounds To Me Also too much work for little gain... The learning experience in

Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)

2008-08-09 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Matthias Apitz wrote: To the OP: Be aware that depending on the local laws you might (will) be responsible if the NATed IP is used in criminal affairs (downloads, child porno, etc.); at least the local authorities will ask you who used that IP and take your complete system with them for

ACLs, permission mask and chmod g=

2008-08-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
If I have acls enabled on a file, running chmod g=rw on that file, will not change its group permissions, but the acl mask. That is, running the following command: $ chmod g=rw foo ... is equivalent with $ setfacl -m m::rw- ... and not, as I would suspect: $ setfacl -m

Re: ACLs, permission mask and chmod g=

2008-08-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
still think that this isn't obvious. Svein Halvor Halvorsen-4 wrote: If I have acls enabled on a file, running chmod g=rw on that file, will not change its group permissions, but the acl mask. That is, running the following command: $ chmod g=rw foo ... is equivalent

Re: ACLs, permission mask and chmod g=

2008-08-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
acmeinc wrote: One last thing have you tried; setfacl -s setfacl -s is not documented, and also gives illegal option -- s signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: OT: encrypted email using web based application

2008-07-30 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Andrew Gould wrote: If I start with Subject line with the word secure using my work's email system, the email is sent to a secure, web based application where the recipients can view the message securely. The recipients receive a message that a secure email message is waiting for them there.

Network, routers, DHCP and PXE

2008-07-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Hi, list! I have a private home network, on an ADSL2+ connection to the internet. The home network is behind NAT, all automatically set up by the router/dhcp server/wlan access point/adsl modem that I got from my ISP. It's a Thomson SpeedTouch 585 router. Now, on this network, most of the

Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE

2008-07-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Now, on this network, most of the computers get their IP by means of DHCP. Except our home audio server, which have a hard coded ip address in rc.conf, set to something within the range of the dhcp server (10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253). The server seems to pick this up, and

Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE

2008-07-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Yeah, but even though the router has customizable values for this range, and issues a warning when i try to change them, it still doesn't change them when I click yes on the warning. It is pre-configured to 10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253 I could of course use 10.0.0.254 for my

Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version + ports

2008-07-27 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: I want to upgrade two freebsd machines I have from 6.1-SECURITY and 5.3-RELEASE respectively, to the latest 7.0 release of FreeBSD. I don't want to cvsup and build, but prefer to use prebuilt binaries. Also I'd like to avoid wiping the systems, and starting

Binary upgrade from legacy version

2008-07-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Hi, list! I want to upgrade two freebsd machines I have from 6.1-SECURITY and 5.3-RELEASE respectively, to the latest 7.0 release of FreeBSD. I don't want to cvsup and build, but prefer to use prebuilt binaries. Also I'd like to avoid wiping the systems, and starting afresh. I know this might

ACL and ls: operation not supported

2008-07-17 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Hi, I have acl support on some filesystems, and wanted to turn it on on /home, too. So I ran: # mount -u -o acls /home Now, just mount listed /home as supporting acls. But now, whenever I ls -l on any folder on that filesystem, I get operation not supported. It seems other file system access

Re: ACL and ls: operation not supported

2008-07-17 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: I have acl support on some filesystems, and wanted to turn it on on /home, too. So I ran: # mount -u -o acls /home Ok, I'm just being an ignorant noob, who's not able to read the documentation. I'm sorry for the noise, but for the record: ACLs cannot be turned

Re: ACL and ls: operation not supported

2008-07-17 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: I have acl support on some filesystems, and wanted to turn it on on /home, too. So I ran: # mount -u -o acls /home Ok, I'm just being an ignorant noob, who's not able to read the documentation. I'm sorry for the noise

Help with default route

2008-06-08 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Hi! I usually use the wired network at home, in which everything gets configured automatically as soon as I attach the cable to my network card. However, when using the wireless network, I need to run # route add default -iface ipw0 This will give me a route to the gateway (10.0.0.1), and I

Re: UTF-8 in Opera/FreeBSD

2007-12-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Martin Tournoij wrote: The problem is that the font you're using doesn't support the character(s) you want to type. You'll have to change the font in the opera preferences dialog, I think the bitstream family supports most UTF-8 fonts. This site may be useful in testing:

Re: UTF-8 in Opera/FreeBSD

2007-12-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Martin Tournoij wrote: It's a different setting, make sure that not only web page normal text but also the text field single-line font is set to a font which supports your Norwegian characters. I don't think it's a font issue. I have no trouble viewing æøå even in input fields--I have trouble

UTF-8 in Opera/FreeBSD

2007-12-23 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I'm switching to UTF-8, and everything seems to work flawlessly, except for Opera. If I type one of the norwegian letters æøå into a text input box all I get is a square box. If I type backspace over it, it gets converted to a questionmark on the first stroke of backspace, and deleted on the

Re: Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-24 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
icantthinkofone wrote: My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source driver for flash for freebsd? Is it a legal issue? Or does it take more time than anyone has to give? Or is it just too difficult to do without help from Adobe? http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

USB disk causes panic in 7.0-PRERELEASE

2007-10-22 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Hello, list! Jeg just bought a LaCie external USD hdd to store my pictures. When I plug it in, it causes my laptop to panic after ~15-20 seconds. After a reboot (with the disc still plugged in) it functions properly. These are the messages I get when I plug it in: umass0: SAMSUNG

Re: USB disk causes panic in 7.0-PRERELEASE

2007-10-22 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
James wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 12:33 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: xptioctl: pass driver is not in the kernel xptioctl: put device pass0 in your kernel config file Have you tried putting device pass0 into your kernel config file and seeing if that solves it? Yes, I see

Re: help with text-append over SSH ? - dd: unknown operand

2007-10-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a remote text file, over SSH. : Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: cat file1 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd -of file2 That will replace the contents of file2, not append it. Also it should be dd of=file1. However, you can use seek=n to

Re: I am looking for a bandwidth limiter tool as to time and kilobytes.

2007-10-07 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Halid Faith wrote: Hello I use dummynet to limit bandwidth on freebsd6.2. But I don't know how I limit an ip blocks as to time ( for instance like 1 Gbyte in 1 month ). I am looking for a tool which provides to limit bytes according to time. is there any free tool for this

Re: I am looking for a bandwidth limiter tool as to time and kilobytes.

2007-10-07 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I used to live at a campus dorm where you would get 10 Gbit outbound traffic per 24h. If you used more than that, they would cut your just 2 CD's. not that much My bad: this was gigabytes. Also, it was just the outbound traffic that was limited, not the download. (They

Re: Linuxulator and SSE

2007-09-06 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Ivan Voras wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Hello, list! I'm trying to get Bibble to run under the Linuxulator on FreeBSD, but it keeps complaining about missing SSE support. What does the top of dmesg (generated during boot) tells you about the processor? If it doesn't list SSE under

Linuxulator and SSE

2007-09-05 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Hello, list! I'm trying to get Bibble to run under the Linuxulator on FreeBSD, but it keeps complaining about missing SSE support. Some useful info: $ uname -a FreeBSD weld.ej2.thelosingend.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD 6.2. Can I get 128x48 (or similar) console screens?

2007-08-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Alan Mackenzie wrote: I'm not sure I prefer the alternative, something like Ubuntu or PCLinux, where you just shut your eyes, lie back and think of South Africa, not knowing quite what's getting installed on your PC. Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: That's not a very nice comment to do. Please, keep

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:15:19PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: I share Roland's concern about the reliability of any new code designed to accomplish the 'full rollback' desired, but of course anything would have to undergo

Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list! Is it possible to rollback a file system snapshot, i.e. restore the file system to the state it was in at the time a mksnap_ffs command was issued? I know that I can delete an old snapshot, but could I delete the current one (i.e the

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: Is it possible to rollback a file system snapshot, i.e. restore the file system to the state it was in at the time a mksnap_ffs command was issued? You can mount the snapshot, and then copy the files back to the original fs.

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: You can mount the snapshot, and then copy the files back to the original fs. Note that cp can preserve flags, but not ACLs AFAIK. Yes, I know that this is possible. However, it's a lot of work. Huh? Suppose you did

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: You could use rsync instead of tar. That would save time. I'm not talking about saving time. But saving CPU time and HDD stress. However, the disk space issue is a bigger one: (b) Undo all the bit flipping I have done, since I

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pete wright wrote: hmm...i'm still a little confused as to where you are going. there are three main way's i've used snapshot's in large (~1PB) environments, two of which are applicable to you i believe: *snip dump/restore plug* Yes, I

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: You can't restore a previous situation _unless you saved it in some form_. So if you want a possibility to restore stuff, you'll have to keep a copy of it somewhere. Maybe in compressed form, and maybe you can clump changes

Re: Maple 10

2007-05-24 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Colin Percival wrote: Hmm. Maybe it was 9.5 which I last tried -- I ran into problems with the installer saying hey, you're running FreeBSD. I have no idea what that is, so I'm going to refuse to install. When i fiddled with this some time back, I started

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Bill Moran wrote: A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy) describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a research assignment that involved that information. Apparently the number of

Re: Qemu Kqemu on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-12-11 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Frank Staals wrote: Unfortunately I need some stupid windows programs so I decided to install win2k in qemu on my laptop. It works well but I have a small question: when running qemu it gives an message it couldn't load kqemu. Allthough I did load the kernel module: See this thread for

Re: The Opera browser on FreeBSD

2006-12-07 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Me: Btw, sound in flash is lagging (this is nothing new, though, it was always the case). Has this something to do with the Opera/Flash-combo, or is it due to the Linuxulator-stuff? Does anyone else see this? Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: It's a known bug in Flash 7 for Linux. It's supposed to be

Re: The Opera browser on FreeBSD

2006-12-06 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
on youtube et.al. Svein Halvor Halvorsen (Opera user since 3.-something [BeOS]) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-05 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Marc G. Fournier wrote: report_devices sends the output of pciconf -l | grep -v none (active devices) http://bsdstats.org/freebsd/devices.php?show=class suggests that there are 27,000 bridge devices in use, but according to the main report on the front page, only ~3,000 FreeBSD systems overall.

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon

2006-12-01 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Graham Bentley wrote: Example: you install Z, which depends on Y, which depends in X, ..., which depends on Q. What if Q is xorg-server-6.9.0_1? I installed 'feh' thinking wrongly it was a console app and ended up getting x, xlibs etc etc when all I wanted was a console app to view jpgs in

Touchpad and mousebuttons

2006-12-01 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I have three questions about the touchpad on my laptop: 1) Simulate three buttons: When using my laptop at my desk, I use a USB-mouse with three buttons. When I leave my desk, I unplug the extra mouse, and take my laptop with me, often without turning it off. Then, later, the

Re: To which port GPG belongs?

2006-11-22 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
VeeJay wrote: I have this Help Instructions from a Step-by-Step for Apache installation On a side note, you would probably want to install Apache via ports. Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Small Redundant web/mail setup

2006-10-18 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Ian Lord wrote: 2- Is there a better way to replicate data than RSYNC (without going to san of expensive hardware) ? If not, is there a hotsync feature (I mean by that as soon as server A modify something, server B knows and replicate)? I've never tried the following setup myself, but you

python-mode in emacs

2006-10-16 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Emacs doesn't seem to load files in /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp installed by ports. E.g python-mode installs files in this directory, but python-mode is not available in emacs afterwards. I have to manually tell emacs to look in these files. Are there any way to get emacs to automatically

Re: python-mode in emacs

2006-10-16 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
cpghost wrote: Well, it doesn't cause any harm to add to your ~/.emacs ;; Add python-mode (autoload 'python-mode python-mode Python editing mode. t) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '(\\.py$ . python-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) Are there any way

Re: python-mode in emacs

2006-10-16 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: In emacs do ESC-x describe-variable load-path which tells you where emacs is looking. /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp shows up! Make sure you environment does not set EMACSLOADPATH which would override compile-time defaults. This is not set. Svein Halvor

Re: Changing Hostname = Reboot machine?

2006-10-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
David Schulz wrote: i wasnt asking how to change the hostname, but if there are any things i should be aware of or have to do if changing the hostname. You can just change it, and it will take effect immedeately. However, there may be some server software you have running that needs to be

Re: Question

2006-09-11 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Jonathan Chen wrote: To unzip ZIPs, you need to install archivers/unzip. To unzip RARs, you need to install archivers/unrar. The new bsdtar (by way of libarchive) can read zip files quite nicely. At least most of them, in my experience. According to the man page libarchive-formats(5): Zip

Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Viswas Nair wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf 3) Created a group called optical and added

Re: Newbie questions

2006-08-22 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Subhro wrote: yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports tree before you start using it to get the required software. Refer to the handbook for understanding how ports work. For most people portsnap would be a better way of updating one's ports tree. Firstly, it's in the base system and

Re: Accessing FreeBSD partition from Windows with dual boot

2006-08-10 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Martin Miedema wrote: I'm looking for a way to access (read only is fine) a FreeBSD partition on my Windows installation on a dual boot notebook (so Samba won't do the trick) Maybe this will do: http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ I haven't tried it myself, though, so I can't really recommend that

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-09 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Nikolas Britton wrote: I still like my idea the best for unique keys. It's a better way to detect hosts behind NATs, here it is again, four versions to pick from: # ifconfig | sha256 cbcc2f55a340c248af7e8a10871150d827af11d7051bbc782eefa04b0603248b # ifconfig | sha1

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-09 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Why not hash just the hostname? Or MAC-address? Of course these could Disregard this. I see that the discussion has moved on. I'm with Matthew Seaman's suggested server generated id-string. Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

2006-08-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
DW wrote: Just started using a .bash_logout script to handle doing my unison : The problem with that though, is that the shutdown process runs as root, and just drops the system, and I'm never actually getting logged out as much as booted out. So my .bash_logout doesn't run, and thus no unison

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-31 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Colin Percival wrote: There are still a lot of people (particularly on pre-6.0 systems) who are using CVSup rather than portsnap for updating their ports trees. Also, I would guess that some people who run multiple FreeBSD systems, use some sort of local propagation of either the entire ports

Re: portsdb output and portaudit question

2006-07-31 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
jan gestre wrote: i was trying to portupgrade ruby coz portaudit is complaining of vulnerabilities, i did run cvsup and portsdb -Uu before portupgrade, at first i couldn't upgrade ruby coz portupgrade is complaining maybe coz portaudit but someone in the list suggested this: # portupgrade

Re: update info on ports

2006-07-30 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
dick hoogendijk wrote: Normally I upgrade my ports if I see new versions. But now I have a question: I saw a new apache22 version (apache-2.2.2_1) but on the apache site I could not find anything related to security bugs or whatever. I *did* find a version 2.2.3 though (not yet in ports!)

smb issue

2006-07-27 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
After loading ichsmb, smbus and smb, dmesg reports: ichsmb0: Intel 82801DC (ICH4) SMBus controller port 0x1880-0x189f irq 10 at device 31.3 on pci0 ichsmb0: [GIANT-LOCKED] smbus0: System Management Bus on ichsmb0 smb0: SMBus generic I/O on smbus0 Then, mbmon -d -S gives: [EMAIL

Re: smb issue

2006-07-27 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: After loading ichsmb, smbus and smb, dmesg reports: : Erik Nørgaard wrote: kldload smb? What did I just say? (quoted as a hint :-P) Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Corrupt MBOX

2006-07-22 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Gerard Seibert wrote: It may be corrupted by spam. This happens when SPAM has bad headers. This effects all POP clients/servers. -Derek OK, is there any easy repair process that I can use to remedy the situation? Second, why isn't the mail corrupted on the mail server that I

Re: mount privileges...what the heck?

2006-07-21 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
DW wrote: Discovered something odd today, trying to get the procedures down to help someone who wanted to mount a second drive to a mount point in their home directory. : Ownership on mount point: dude:dude /usr/home/dude/drive2 Now when I do: # mount /dev/da1s1d

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Warren Block wrote: mkisofs can be used to create bootable CDs with a DOS floppy image. The DOS system has to set up CD support, and the additional files end up being on that drive. See This is a problem, I think. The supplied FreeDOS boot floppies won't support USB CD-ROM drives.

Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I have a problem with my laptop, and before Dell will consider taking it back, I have to go through their checklist and make sure I've tried everything on that list first. This includes upgrading the BIOS. The problem is that Dell provides the BIOS upgrade in two forms: (a) A DOS executable (b)

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Adrian Pavone wrote: What about using 2 floppies? The first, your FreeDOS disk, to boot from, then, once booted, change to the disk you have put the BIOS executable on? I don't have a floppy drive. I don't think I've even seen a floppy disk in several years, much less used one. Svein

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Derek Ragona wrote: go to bootdisk.org and download a suitable verision. There are many floppy images there. For instance the win98 diskette version, when booted creates a ramdrive you can switch to, then change the usb disk. Or boot with two usb drives inserted, the bootable one and the

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Jason L. Ellison wrote: I had a situation with needing to boot into dos to flash firmware. I booted using a Freedos CD with my utilities on the same CD. I think I had to create a RAM drive to use the firmware upgrade utility. How did you create such a CD? signature.asc Description:

Re: ndis with USB wifi dongle - no joy

2006-05-24 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Tom K wrote: I'm running PC-BSD, with FreeBSD 6 under the hood. The device is a Netgear MA111, with Prism 2.5 chipset, which dmesg shows as ugen1: vendor 0x0846 product 0x4110, rev 1.10/1.32 This is what I've done so far: - Installed the kernel source in /usr/src/sys. - Copied over the

Re: Getting xmms to use glib-2

2006-05-02 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 5/2/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers Svein - tried audacious but couldn;t get sound output to work at all. esound and/or oss . realplayer would play the same file just fine (mp3) Sorry, but I can't help you. It works here. I don't know the code base, so I can only

Re: Getting xmms to use glib-2

2006-05-01 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 5/1/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've rebuilt everything that used glib-1.2* to use glib-2.10.* without a problem, with the exception of xmms (multimedia/xmms). : Should I uninstall glib-2, install xmms with glib1.2, then reinstall glib-2? Try one of these ports instead:

Re: getting a user's home dir (sed/awk?)

2006-04-17 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 4/17/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found pw usershow user1 will return a line from the passwd file, but that needs to be split chewed, and spit out. Seems awk can do it but I have no clue. cut is probably about the cheapest way to split a line: pw usershow user1 | cut

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 4/13/06, Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that if only one person questions this, their response will be that there aren't enough FreeBSD users to worry about. If several question it (politely), it might get a little attention somewhere above the front-line customer service

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 4/13/06, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen writes: They were understanding, though, and asked me to file a feature request for the Flash team, to support FreeBSD, which I did. Did you, by any chance, an id on that request? I'm looking for something

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On Thursday 13 April 2006 14:17, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: They were understanding, though, and asked me to file a feature request for the Flash team, to support FreeBSD, which I did. On 4/13/06, Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do you go to file this feature request? I

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 4/13/06, Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reading the Adobe licensing FAQs http://www.macromedia.com/licensing/distribution/faq/ It seems to me that the proper route would be via a special license request rather than a feature request. You are probably right. I filed the feature

Re: pow function working unexpectedly

2006-04-11 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 4/12/06, Jonathan Herriott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question then. Why would it work when I don't use variables if I don't include the library? This question is just out of curiosity. Since you use only hard coded operands, the result is given, and gcc optimizes such arithmetics and

Re: How to see keyboard scan codes?

2006-03-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 3/28/06, User Elisej [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a program showing keyboard scan codes? I mean I press a key, and the program shows its code. Under X, xev might help. Svein Halvor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: dvd-slideshow

2006-03-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 3/12/06, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to see if others are getting similar errors with dvd-slideshow. If you have the current ports tree, try to install and run dvd-slideshow. The ports tree has version 7.2. When I try to run the script, I get error messages like

Re: switching timezone within crontab?

2006-03-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 3/3/06, Danny Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a system is not running UTC as its locale, but I want to schedule a UTC cron job in crontab, is it sufficient to put a little: TZ=UTC Right before the job? On 3/4/06, Noel Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty sure the above will only

Re: Recommended Web Mail software

2006-03-02 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 3/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was wondering what you recommend. We have a small 5 person user base on a [fairly] screamin' new Dell box, so performance isn't an issue. Just easy to use, reliable, basic, low maintenance web mail. I'm leaning toward SquirrelMail, as I

Re: console beep?

2006-03-02 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Andrew Spott, 2006-03-01] Hi. I'd like to change the console beep to a visual beep whenever possible. Not only in X, but also in the console. [Svein Halvor Halvorsen, 2006-03-01] At least you could have readline ommit the beep and issue a visual signal, bu placing

Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie

2006-03-01 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 2/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? You could go via vnc. It can save vnc-sessions to

Re: console beep?

2006-03-01 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 3/1/06, Andrew Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'd like to change the console beep to a visual beep whenever possible. Not only in X, but also in the console. At least you could have readline ommit the beep and issue a visual signal, bu placing this in your .inputrc-file: set

Re: console beep?

2006-03-01 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Sorry about all the typos. Bah! On 3/1/06, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/1/06, Andrew Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'd like to change the console beep to a visual beep whenever possible. Not only in X, but also in the console. At least you could have readline

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
At 18:26 24.02.2006, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Welcome to the select few on my kill list. On 2/28/06, Kristian Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you threatening me man? No, he's ignoring you. (You might interpret it as a threat to ignore you, but certainly not a threat to kill you)

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 2/7/06, FreeBSD Prospect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The approach with different qualification of a software state (stable / unstable at least) is a common way to go, as it is handled with the FreeBSD OS (release / stable / current). That's why I wanted to know, how everybody else is comming

Re: OS use rate

2006-01-16 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 1/14/06, n-n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OS use rate in my project. 2005/01/10 - 2006/01/10 RedHat Enterprise Linux ES3.0 - 3947 RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3.0 - 1287 Sun Solaris 9 - 583 *BSD - 0 You use FreeBSD: http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?host=yahoo.co.jp

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