Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?
At 17:10 06/11/2008, you wrote: Hi there, Earlier I was asking for some help getting XSP/ mod_mono on FreeBSD. I may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community: 1. What programming language(s) do you deploy on FreeBSD? Pascal and ObjectPascal with FreePascal Compiler and Lazarus for my programs. C with GCC for play with FreeBSD source code. 2. Is FreeBSD more optimised in performance for any particular language? Don't know. 3. Is FreeBSD even a popular choice as a development platform, or is it better suited as a special-purpose OS (eg. mail server, DNS server)? Depends. For me it's THE development platform. Thanks. L --- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Replace XP with FreeBSD (was Re: (no subject))
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Hill Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:08 PM To: SAM HAYNES Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Replace XP with FreeBSD (was Re: (no subject)) On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, SAM HAYNES wrote: I am 76, a retired Master Electrician, PC builder since '87, have a wife of 40 plus years, debilitating medical problems and a strong belief that I can milk a living out of internet affiliate marketing despite the current economic crisis. Good. You have been building PCs -and- doing wiring a lot longer than I have been doing either. Nobody needs to tell you what an IRQ is, or why a loose neutral might be a problem. My current model is to generate a basic website, use my existing isp to promote two consistent converting products, bootstrap the proceeds from that into building my own dedicated server to market 'how-to' products over a hundred or more websites. I have no business sense, and can't comment on the model. I do and can. We have customers doing this. However it is going to take you many years to get this up and going and there's a huge amount of competition. You have a LOT to learn. And it will never pay much. Your most profitable bet is to visit your local IBEW office and get your license current, then start going around to all of the local builders and giving them your card. There's a big need for people who can do small electrical jobs under permit. If this is out, and your dead-set on doing something on the Internet, then go to some classes, learn how to write a decent website, and spend a few years doing websites for people. There's not a lot of money in that either, but there's more than trying to do what you think you want to do. And, you will never be able to do what you think you want to do until you are intimately familiar with HTML. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk
Pieter Donche wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive. If you want to extend your disk space by plugging in an extra disk, the hardware RAID controller will probably detect it and add it in his management, but will it be seen by FreeBSD? How can you make the added disk-space available for FreeBSD. Can this be done without shutting down the system? How?? I think this would be possible using vinum, but I've never tested it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive. what is RAID5 of RAID6??? RAID5 or RAID6 (sorry, typing error) If you want to extend your disk space by plugging in an extra disk, the hardware RAID controller will probably detect it and add it in his management, but will it be seen by FreeBSD? FreeBSD will see larger drive. With what command can you see that FreeBSD had 'seen' it ? Or is the the bsdlabel command? Is bsdlabel a partition management program (such as GParted, Partition Magic)? you then have to fix partition table (use bsdlabel -e) fix c partition to be actually sized of whole drive, and then a) add new partition(s) for new space b) extend the size of last partition and use growfs I guess here you mean 2 alternatives: a) using the new space for new partition(s) leaving the existing as they are or b) create no new partitions but extend the last partition to include the new space, by using the growfs command ? How can you make the added disk-space available for FreeBSD. Can this be done without shutting down the system? How?? i don't think FreeBSD can be told to reget device info from controller when partitions of that device are mounted. but i may be wrong Hmm, man growfs says: Currently growfs CAN ONLY ENLARGE UNMOUNTED FILE SYSTEMS. DO NOT TRY ENLARGING A MOUNTED FILE SYSTEM, YOUR SYSTEM WILL PANIC AND YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE THE FILE SYSTEM ANY LONGER. If your FreeDSB only has swap and a / file system (with all users inside /usr/home) or you set up FreeBSD with a swap, /, /var and /usr filesystems (with users in /usr/home) and you want to grow a file system (e.g. /usr to give the extra space to users) (scenario b)) then, I guess, you will need to go into single-user mode and boot from CD with a FreeBSD in RAM to be able extend the (unmounted) file system /usr Can scenario a) (making new file system for new space) be done in multi-user mode, or only in single-user mode, will it need a reboot ?? Is there any document (besides the manual pages bsdlabel, growfs, ..) that describes step-by-step what to do to grow an existing file system of to add a new file system on newly added disk space ? Pieter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geom multipath
Thanks!. I did know that there would be only one active path, but path switching doesnt seem to happen when one path fails. The behaviour is intermittent, so i was wondering if there are any kernel tunables that i could play with, like timeout variables etc. From: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ganesh kamath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2008 8:36:13 PM Subject: Re: Geom multipath On Thursday 06 November 2008 07:13:36 am Ganesh kamath wrote: I am trying to get multipath running in freebsd version 7. Are there any configuration files that i can tweak with geom multipath?. The paths are active/passive to the storage array and i dont seem to have control of what path the IO takes, so i was wondering if there are any tweaks thati could do to control the flow of IO to a specific path. Read the manpage. Thoroughly. gmultipath(8). :) There is only one active path to any device, and it is the first in the list of devices. You specify the device list when you create the provider and it is updated if errors occur and when gmultipath labeled devices reappear. I would guess/hope that the order would be preserved across a reboot but I'm not sure. That type of question might be suitable for the freebsd-geom@ mailing list. Also, the IO doesnt resume when i try to do some cable pulls and plug them back. If you're not using an mpt or isp disk controller then you have to initiate a rescan manually for the device to reappear. See camcontrol and/or atacontrol. When the device _does_ reappear it will be inserted at the end of the list, so I/O will continue across the alternate path which is still first in the list. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spell check - how to?
Giorgos Keramidas writes:
The main drawback of being unable to use the `freebsd' wordlist
is that you will get many false positives for words that are
perfectly valid for FreeBSD documentation but are not standard
English words.
I have a script which does something similar, using ispell.
It's based on the Perl script - found on-line - appended below.
I pseudo-fixed that running the output through sort and
starting with least frequent hits.
Attempts to build a project-specific dictionary proved too
confusing and it was ultimatly not worth the effort.
Robert Huff
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -W
# WordFreq.pl -- Count word frequency in a text file
$ver = v1.0; # 05-Dec-2001 JP Vossen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Basics from 8.3, page 280 of _Perl_Cookbook_
# Added stop words
(($myname = $0) =~ s/^.*(\/|\\)|\..*$//ig); # remove up to last \ or / and
after any .
$Greeting = ($myname $ver Copyright 12001 JP Vossen
(http://www.jpsdomain.org/)\n);
$Greeting .= (Licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE:\n);
$Greeting .= (See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for full text and
details.\n); # Version and copyright info
%seen = (); # Create the hash
# Define the stopwords
@stopwords = (a, an, and, are, as, at, be, but, by,
does, for, from, had, have, her, his, if, in, is,
it, not, of, on, or, that, the, this, to, was,
which, with, you);
if ((@ARGV =~ /\?/) || (@ARGV 5) || (@ARGV 0)) { #if wrong # of args, or
a ? in args - die
print STDERR (\n$Greeting\n\tUsage: $myname -i {infile} [-s]\n);
print STDERR (\nIf -s is used, the list of stop words will NOT be
used.\n);
print STDERR (The stopwords currently defined are:\n\n );
foreach $stopword (@stopwords) {
print STDERR ($stopword );
} # end of foreach stopword
die (\n);
}
use Getopt::Std; # User Perl5 built-in program argument handler
getopts('i:o:s');# Define possible args.
if (! $opt_i) { $opt_i = -; } # If no input file specified, use STDIN
if (! $opt_o) { $opt_o = -; } # If no output file specified, use STDOUT
open (INFILE, $opt_i) || die $myname: error opening $opt_i $!\n;
open (OUTFILE, $opt_o) || die $myname: error opening $opt_o $!\n;
print STDERR (\n$Greeting\n);
while (INFILE) {# Read the input file
while ( /(\w['\w-]*)/g ) {# If we have a word
$seen{lc $1}++; # Count it in the hash
} # end of while words
} # end of while input
if (! $opt_s) { # If we're using stopwords
foreach $stopword (@stopwords) { # for each stopword
delete($seen{$stopword}); # Remove it from the hash
} # end of foreach stopword # This way we only test once for each
} # end of if using stopwords stopword, rather than in a loop!
# Print the results, sorted most frequent words at the top
foreach $word ( sort { $seen{$b} = $seen{$a} } keys %seen) {
printf OUTFILE (%6d %s\n, $seen{$word}, $word);
} # end of foreach word
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Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?
Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi, I need to convert eps files into jpeg files in batch mode. Gimp works perfectly, except that I cannot use an X display. I tried eps2png with no success: %file test.eps test.eps: DOS EPS Binary File Postscript starts at byte 30 length 566887 TIFF starts at byte 566917 length 4741 %eps2png -jpg -width 1000 -verbose -output test.jpg test.eps Producing jpg (jpeg) image. Not EPS file: test.eps, skipped What port should I use to convert EPS into JPG? I would like to use a program that shares the same library with Gimp, because we know that Gimp works great for this task. Thanks, Laszlo How about using 'convert' from graphics/ImageMagick? It would be as simple as convert myfile.eps myfile.jpg and there are myriads of options to fiddle if you wish. I've been using it with great success for quite some time now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?
Laszlo Nagy schrieb: I need to convert eps files into jpeg files in batch mode. Gimp works perfectly, except that I cannot use an X display. I tried eps2png with no success: %file test.eps test.eps: DOS EPS Binary File Postscript starts at byte 30 length 566887 TIFF starts at byte 566917 length 4741 %eps2png -jpg -width 1000 -verbose -output test.jpg test.eps Producing jpg (jpeg) image. Not EPS file: test.eps, skipped What port should I use to convert EPS into JPG? I would like to use a program that shares the same library with Gimp, because we know that Gimp works great for this task. Take a look on GhostScript, a PostScript interpreter. -- Timm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pkg_delete delete files even if md5 check fails
How can i tell pkg_delete to delete all files of a package even if the md5 checks fail? Regards, Johan Hendriks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkg_delete delete files even if md5 check fails
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:25:30PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote: How can i tell pkg_delete to delete all files of a package even if the md5 checks fail? Does the -f flag do this? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?
On Thursday 06 November 2008, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:10:41AM +0800, Foo JH wrote: Hi there, Earlier I was asking for some help getting XSP/ mod_mono on FreeBSD. I may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community: 1. What programming language(s) do you deploy on FreeBSD? 2. Is FreeBSD more optimised in performance for any particular language? 3. Is FreeBSD even a popular choice as a development platform, or is it better suited as a special-purpose OS (eg. mail server, DNS server)? FreeBSD suppports just about any programming language that has been created. If you go to /usr/ports/lang/ you will see a large list of them that you can install. As for the most common, well, C and C++, Shells such as SH, CSH/TCSH and Perl are very common, plus in conjunction with web servers such as Apache, PHP, Python, Ruby and a number of others are common. If you are doing number crunching, you can use FORTRAN and if you are in to historical business environments, there is even Cobol. As for being optimized for a language, it is more likely the other way around. Are there any languages that have good optimization for running on FreeBSD. Maybe. Someone else may know more about that, than I do. jerry And don't forget Java. Eclipse-devel + jdk16 make an excellent development environment on FreeBSD. -- Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to upgrade to KDE4
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:26 PM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:52:06 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the only thing that updated was the meta-port (I did a portupgrade -r too). Aside from the fact that there are separate kde meta-ports, portupgrade -r kde... updates the metaport and everything that depends on the metaport, not everything the metaport depends on. Thanks for the clarification. I think I had things backwards. Also, as I'd like to go to KDE 4, should I do a make deinstall in kdebase, or perhaps pkg_delete for the kde packages before installing? I know that the first respondent said the two versions could be run in tandem, and while I've got plenty of disk space for this, it also seems quite error prone. What would be the recommended course? Andy -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 7/CURRENT and AutoFS or AMD (automounter) with OpenLDAP
Hello out there, I run into trouble. When looking for AutoFS in the net I find a lot about AutoFS on Linux and, surprisingly, for FreeBSD 6.X, but those messages are dated to the year 2004/2006. I'm running FreeBSD 7.X and FreeBSD 8.0-CUR boxes and tried to find something about AutoFS, but I'm still stuck with the 'well known AMD or Berkeley AutoMounterDaemon. What happened to AutoFS? I'm stuck with amd (from FreeBSD's contrib) and I need to keep my maps in OpenLDAP, but when searching for how to map amd.map-files into the right shape of an OpenLDAP object (I borrowed the RedHat automount.ldif-schema, OpenLDAP 2.4.11 seems to lack in an apropriate schema), I only find Linux-Howtos reflecting AutoFS in Linux (and that is different from amd). Is help possible? Thanks, in advance, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 7/8 and AMD/automounter with LDAP support
Just sneaked through the /usr/src/contrib/amd code base of the amd automounter and found amd is naturally not built with LDAP support. Well, how can I configure 'make world' to automatically build 'amd' with LDAP support (as I can do this with sendmail being build with cyrus-sasl-support via some knobs in /etc/make.conf)? I did not understood whether amd has full LDAP support or is lacking in some code, so I appreciate any hint or help. Thanks in advance, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Preserving X forwarded applications
I'm looking for a solution similar to the screen utility, but for X11. I want, for example, to burn a cd on a remote computer using some GUI application. If, for any reason, the network goes down while burning, I suppose I lose the whole thing. Same thing goes when editing a document. I know that I can launch a VNC/NX server, but X forwarding is a much more comfortable solution. Is there any way to make sure a X forwarded application won't die when my session is disconnected? Also, I would like to be able to reconnect the window when logging back in. -- Roey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Preserving X forwarded applications
On Friday 07 November 2008 18:01:28 Roey Dror wrote: Is there any way to make sure a X forwarded application won't die when my session is disconnected? Also, I would like to be able to reconnect the window when logging back in. Of course you can try to fiddle with X forwarding to do this, but net/x11vnc, especially the -shared option is made for this. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: pkg_delete delete files even if md5 check fails
Yes off course it does! I thought it only deleted the package even if other packages depends on it. Sorry for the somewhat stupid question. Regards, Johan Hendriks -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: vrijdag 7 november 2008 15:28 Aan: Johan Hendriks CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Onderwerp: Re: pkg_delete delete files even if md5 check fails On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:25:30PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote: How can i tell pkg_delete to delete all files of a package even if the md5 checks fail? Does the -f flag do this? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.0/1771 - Release Date: 6-11-2008 20:23 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.0/1771 - Release Date: 6-11-2008 20:23 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:35:39AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive. what is RAID5 of RAID6??? RAID5 or RAID6 (sorry, typing error) If you want to extend your disk space by plugging in an extra disk, the hardware RAID controller will probably detect it and add it in his management, but will it be seen by FreeBSD? FreeBSD will see larger drive. With what command can you see that FreeBSD had 'seen' it ? The answer is: it depends. The below applies to SATA, SAS, and SCSI only; you cannot hot-swap PATA disks. If you have a hot-swap enclosure or a hot-swap backplane, and are using a hardware RAID controller (and I do mean *real* hardware RAID, not BIOS-level RAID like Intel MatrixRAID or Adaptec HostRAID), then the FreeBSD controller driver should report the disk falling off the bus (if a disk is removed), or a disk appearing on the bus (if a disk is added). If the driver does not handle this natively, you will have to rely on command-line utilities from the RAID card vendor to manage this. If you have a hot-swap enclosure or a hot-swap backplane, and are using software/OS-based RAID (such as gvinum, ccd, or ZFS), then it depends on the underlying type of disk you're using. With SATA disks, you rely on the FreeBSD ata(4) layer. You are at the whim of the ata(4) layer and its support for your motherboard chipset, assuming that's what you're using (there are exceptions; see below). Removal of a SATA disk should show the disk falling off the bus, and you will need to perform atacontrol detach channel to ensure the kernel knows the disk has been removed (this is not done automatically, despite what you see on the console; I recommend you do the detach prior to disk removal). Addition of a SATA disk will require you to perform atacontrol attach channel, and hopefully you will see the disk make and model show up moments later. With SCSI or SAS disks, you rely on the FreeBSD da(4) layer, backed by the FreeBSD CAM(4) layer. This layer is proven reliable, and even some SATA RAID controllers use it (such as Areca controllers; yes, they're SATA disks on a hardware RAID controller, but the FreeBSD driver for the Areca card uses da(4) and CAM(4)). Removal of a SCSI disk should show the disk falling off the bus. You can use camcontrol to examine the state of things; you may need to use start/stop (it's been a while since I've used camcontrol). Addition of a SCSI disk might require camcontrol rescan; again, it's been a while since I've used camcontrol. In general, there is no easy way to describe every single scenario under the sun. It greatly depends upon what hardware you're using, and what kind of disk you're using. If you choose to use a hardware RAID card, the card user manual should describe *exactly* how to accomplish additions and removals. Chances are you're talking about generic SATA disks hooked up to your generic motherboard. You should be aware that FreeBSD is somewhat flaky in this regard. I've recently written about a disk swap gone bad (while using a Promise TX4310 controller), which should give you some idea of the chaos that can happen as a result of shoddy driver support: http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/ZFS_disk_upgrade_gone_bad This article is followed-up by a fully-working example when using an Intel ICH-based board with Intel AHCI enabled (meaning, everything worked flawlessly and exactly how it should've): http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/ZFS_disk_upgrade_gone_bad_part_2 I'm still in the process of writing the details that make up Part 2. Or is the the bsdlabel command? bsdlabel(8) is what creates filesystems. To format filesystems, you use newfs(8). Is bsdlabel a partition management program (such as GParted, Partition Magic)? No, that's fdisk(8). FreeBSD calls these slices, not partitions, but they're the same thing. If you want to keep it simple, I recommend you use sade(8), which is the text-based interface for partitioning and filesystem creation that you see when you install FreeBSD. If you don't have the sade command, just run sysinstall and choose post-configuration. Is there any document (besides the manual pages bsdlabel, growfs, ..) that describes step-by-step what to do to grow an existing file system of to add a new file system on newly added disk space ? What everyone else is telling you is sending you on a wild goose chase. I'm sitting here imagining you clicking your mouse at 6000 clicks per second, eyeballs rolling around, sweating profusely. :-) I wish FreeBSD mailing list people wouldn't do this to new folks, because all it's doing is confusing you. The simple answer is this: on FreeBSD, there is not a reliable way to grow an existing filesystem without taking the machine down, bringing it into single-user,
Re: How to upgrade to KDE4
--- On Fri, 11/7/08, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to upgrade to KDE4
To: RW [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 9:49 AM
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:26 PM, RW
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:52:06 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the only
thing that updated was the meta-port (I did a
portupgrade -r too).
Aside from the fact that there are separate kde
meta-ports,
portupgrade -r kde... updates the metaport and
everything that depends
on the metaport, not everything the metaport depends
on.
Thanks for the clarification. I think I had things
backwards.
Also, as I'd like to go to KDE 4, should I do a make
deinstall in
kdebase, or perhaps pkg_delete for the kde packages before
installing?
I know that the first respondent said the two versions
could be run
in tandem, and while I've got plenty of disk space for
this, it also
seems quite error prone. What would be the recommended
course?
KDE3 and KDE4 co-habitate just fine. You'll likely need KDE3 installed for
some apps which don't use KDE4 libs yet. I am pretty sure ktorrent is what
installed kde3 on my system when I upgraded recently. There are plenty of
others, though. KDE4 installs under /usr/local/kde4, while KDE3 installs under
/usr/local at this time (assuming you haven't changed port bases yourself.)
Because of this, you'll likely want to remember to add
/usr/local/kde4/{bin,sbin} to your shell search paths, and remember to use kdm
from KDE4 as your login manager (this tricked me at first, and I was wondering
for a bit why I was still getting a KDE3 login manager until I realized that
KDE4 went under /usr/local/kde4/). I would not say that it is error prone at
all. Everything has, so far, worked out of the box just fine save a couple of
KDE4 bugs I've tweaked, none of which are bad enough to prevent me from working
normally in KDE4 or to make me want to dump KDE4.
- mdh
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Confused About Linux Compatibility
I am attempting to install a Linux RPM of Legato's Networker Backup Client on FBSD 7.1 I do not know if this is possible but I hope so. :) I have followed instructions in the Handbook and http://www.linux.com/articles/53055. I am at the point of installing an appropriate linux_base port and linux_base-f8 seemed like the most recent/reasonable. However when I attempt to install, I get this output: ** Port marked as IGNORE: emulators/linux_base-f8: compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 is not supported ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) - emulators/linux_base-f8 Further Google searches suggest that compat.linux.osrelease is a sysctl setting. I've seen reference to setting it to 2.6.16 but also that this is experimental. I found http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel but this leaves me confused as well. Bottom line, what linux_base port should I install and do I need to set this sysctl to something? I'm confused... Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
FBSD1 wrote: Looking for word processer that runs on xfce and can output document in ms/word format. Thanks for your help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha, I use ABIword from ports. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 18:13 +, Mike Clarke wrote: I've installed en-openoffice.org-GB-3.0.0 from ports on my 6.4-RC1 system. The install, using the command portinstall -m LOCALIZED_LANG=en-GB -DWITH_KDE editors/openoffice.org-3, appeared to complete OK and I can run /usr/local/bin/openoffice.org-3.0.0-swriter but attempts to check spelling in a document with known spelling errors always fail to find any errors. The Available language modules section in Tools - Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids is empty, unlike my copy of Openoffice 2.3 which has 3 entries in this section. Should the language modules have been installed or have I missed anything when installing the port? Hi Mike, Don't think ya missed anything, I am in the same boat... I also compiled with the LOCALIZED_LANG=en-GB flag. Anybody with a solution ? my spelling isn't that good so would need to spell check my documents. Regards Craig B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eps to jpg conversion - which program?
Hi, I need to convert eps files into jpeg files in batch mode. Gimp works perfectly, except that I cannot use an X display. I tried eps2png with no success: %file test.eps test.eps: DOS EPS Binary File Postscript starts at byte 30 length 566887 TIFF starts at byte 566917 length 4741 %eps2png -jpg -width 1000 -verbose -output test.jpg test.eps Producing jpg (jpeg) image. Not EPS file: test.eps, skipped What port should I use to convert EPS into JPG? I would like to use a program that shares the same library with Gimp, because we know that Gimp works great for this task. Thanks, Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
FBSD1 wrote: Looking for word processer that runs on xfce and can output document in ms/word format. Thanks for your help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well not realy solution for the problem you mentioned. But if you have a bit of a programming background you may want to take a look at TeX/LaTeX for you documents. I know it may be like using a cannon to kill a fly but I prefer writing my documents in my basic-text editor using TeX much rather than in a a word-like application. Besides that it looks a lot better IMO. Might be something to look into if you are not realy satisfied with word-processors. Good luck, -- - Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (no subject)
SAM HAYNES wrote: Greetings, O Learned Ones from: Sam Haynes, Pathfinders 2008 I haven't the foggiest as to how you came to be in my favorites list, other than that I probably tagged you in an ongoing search for both or either something to replace Win XP and or build my own personal server. I have been usining XP for several years now. Recently, I tried to install XP from my OEM cd and was notified by Gates and Company that XP would no longer be supported. Bummer! So what else is new? Time to part company with Bill? Vista was tha final straw. I need something that will replace XP in all the essentials but without a useless bag full of coverups for poor performance.. Debian was the first encouraging encounter. It was recommended as a cheap entry into the personal server concept, using a two to three year old PC chassis. Sounded good but I could never figure out just how to download it. So, FreeBSD appears in my fave list and server appears in the same paragraph as operating system. Here is my plan. I am 76, a retired Master Electrician, PC builder since '87, have a wife of 40 plus years, debilitating medical problems and a strong belief that I can milk a living out of internet affiliate marketing despite the current economic crisis. My current model is to generate a basic website, use my existing isp to promote two consistent converting products, bootstrap the proceeds from that into building my own dedicated server to market 'how-to' products over a hundred or more websites. All using ready to serve apps and a WYSIWYG HTML generator. I appreciate your time reading this over long monologue... I'd appreciate it even more if you could take some time to throw some suggestions back at me.. [snip] Just some ideas from the $.02 department: As far as replacing XP with something else to be used as a desktop machine, ala the GUI route, my own personal preference is the KDE desktop. I've been using it so many years now it is second nature, but there are just useability patterns which I've become so accustomed to that make it so I don't want to use XP any longer. I just like KDE as a GUI instead of the XP interface. It is also, imho an easier transition from Windows for someone with little or no Unix experience. I used KDE on FreeBSD as my main desktop for many years, but I finally gave in to openSUSE 10.3 on my workstation as I really found a need for Virtualbox and being able to run virtual machines. I have three Linux browsers, a VM with Windows XP SP2 and IE6, and a Windows XP SP3 VM with IE7, Opera, Firefox, and Safari. I confirm that all xhtml-transitional web pages I write look the same in all of these. And I can do this with no rebooting the machine. If you are totally new to Linux/Unix and have zero experience and just want an easy, out of the box something other than XP you might try the latest incarnation of Kubuntu. I know in a FreeBSD list these comments are sacrilege, but the broader picture is what your needs truly are. Now on the server side things are much different. In spite of the steep learning curve associated with being a newbie to Unices, I still feel FreeBSD makes a better server platform. You just need to recondition your expectations to administrating it largely via command line, as most sysadmins who operate FreeBSD servers do not install any GUI software on them. I know I don't. You will find maintaining a FreeBSD server much less aggravating than Linux. It is coherent, clean, well documented, a well thought out and very complete operating system. Performance is pretty good too. Especially when you factor in what you payed for it! :-) As far as setting up server(s) at your home, this is a good way for learning. It is also a test platform for any web sites you may be running. Keep a mirror at home to make and evaluate changes thoroughly _before_ uploading them to your active site(s). Never make changes that you haven't tested out first. Now running a real live Web presence out of your house is probably not really a good idea if it has anything to do with business. A personal blog can go down for indefinite periods and no harm done, but a business site is a different story. First, the reason for having your servers located in a data center is they are sitting directly on the fat pipes of the Internet. Second, these data centers are multi homed in their peerage to other backbones. If one connection path develops a problem your site is still going to be accessible via one of the other paths. You simply will never have the kind of connectivity found in a real data center at home. I do not approve of HTML WYSIWYG editing abominations such as Dreamweaver and their ilk. They make it seem like anyone can write a Web page but in reality what they output isn't standards compliant. Over the years I've looked at a few, and found they all output crap. The only way to write technically proficient Web sites is to know the material. It does
host -6 failure
Howdy folks, I'm having a little trouble understanding a problem that the `host` command in RELENG_7_0 (very recent) is having. This is by and large my first time working with IPv6, which I've been meaning to learn for some time. First off, I've got my zone file configured to return a record for x1.mydomain and named isn't complaining. However, when I run `host -6 x1.mydomain`, host returns the following output: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [/etc/namedb]: host -6 x1.mydomain /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179: internal_send: :::127.0.0.1#53: Invalid argument /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179: internal_send: :::IP.IP.IP.8#53: Invalid argument /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179: internal_send: :::127.0.0.1#53: Invalid argument /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179: internal_send: :::IP.IP.IP.8#53: Invalid argument ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached IP.IP.IP.8 is my ISP's DNS server, and is a third option just in case the localhost DNS server crashes or goes batty while I'm out drinking or somesuch. Here's my resolv.conf, which shows ::1 listed as the second nameserver entry - however, it seems host -6 never even tries it. domain mydomain search mydomain nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver ::1 nameserver IP.IP.IP.8 The DNS server running on localhost is authoritative for mydomain. I can ping it via localhost using both v4 and v6, and I can also ping the external v4 and v6 addresses just fine remotely. As I said, I'm new to IPv6, but this behavior seems to be counterintuitive. Am I just doing it wrong? Thanks, Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:36:51 +0100, Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I need to convert eps files into jpeg files in batch mode. Gimp works
perfectly, except that I cannot use an X display. I tried eps2png with
no success:
You can use the convert command from ImageMagick:
convert eps-file jpg-file
A batch solution is simple:
#!/bin/sh
for f in *eps; do
convert ${f} `basename ${f} .eps`.jpg
done
You can add
[ ! -f `basename ${f} .eps`.jpg ]
infront of the convert command to avoid repeated conversions.
--
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From Magdeburg, Germany
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Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:37:21 +0100, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well not realy solution for the problem you mentioned. But if you have a bit of a programming background you may want to take a look at TeX/LaTeX for you documents. I know it may be like using a cannon to kill a fly but I prefer writing my documents in my basic-text editor using TeX much rather than in a a word-like application. A big advantage is that LaTeX source files are plain text, so they can be transferred between systems without problems. Furthermore, you don't need a particular program to read a file. Besides that it looks a lot better IMO. From the standpoint of typography LaTeX is superior to any WYSIWYG word processor. Why? Because it's a professional typesetting system. Hyphenation, paragraph setting, picture adjustment and other things tha are important are handled correctly. The support for other languages (e. g. German) is excellent. Might be something to look into if you are not realy satisfied with word-processors. An alternative to use the power of LaTeX without needing to know about the macros is to use LyX. But using LaTeX itself is much easier. The difference between LaTeX and the usual wprd processors is like the difference between HTML (created by hand) and the crap that comes out of authoring systems and CMSs. I'm doing most of my stuff with LaTeX: Letters (dinbrief class), technical documentation, statistics (in combination with gnuplot), books (stories), lists and forms. When you're familiar with LaTeX, you won't want to miss it, because you can work faster *and* get better results than anyone with the usual Word skills, clickity click, nyak nyak, blah blah. :-) -- Polytropon From 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?
Wojciech Puchar skrev: may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community: 1. What programming language(s) do you deploy on FreeBSD? whatever i need. i personally use mostly C. 2. Is FreeBSD more optimised in performance for any particular language? i don't think so. 3. Is FreeBSD even a popular choice as a development platform, or is it better suited as a special-purpose OS (eg. mail server, DNS server)? i don't know how popular it is for what tasks. but it works excellent for all you specified. it's unix anyway. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.0/1771 - Release Date: 2008-11-06 07:58 IMHO there are only three alternatives left these days when creativity seems to be fading C - the prince among languages and Eclipse + Java - the future already today. And - For learning purposes - the highly underrated Pascal by Niklaus Wirth. In my mind C was created as a tool needed to create UNIXWhere did creativity like this vanish? (does anyone still use the word homepage?) (cm.bell-labs.com/~dmr) /Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sudo, LDAP, and Kerberos
I'm setting up a centralized Kerberos/LDAP authentication system and trying to get sudo to use a) Kerberos for the password, and b) LDAP for a non-local user's group. Locally on a client system /etc/sudoers specifies %sysadmin to be able to sudo to root. I don't need to move sudoers to LDAP just yet. I've had success on some machines compiling sudo from source with --enable-kerb5 and --enable-ldap. But on many other systems sudo segfaults, or returns bus errors, and overall gave me nothing but grief. So I'm looking for alternate ways of supplying sudo with a user's group. Is it possible to compile sudo (without kerberos and ldap support) and configure a pam.d file (/etc/pam.d/sudo) to interact with kerberos and LDAP? I created a sudo file with authsufficient pam_opie.so no_warn no_fake_prompts authrequisite pam_opieaccess.so no_warn allow_local authsufficient pam_krb5.so warn try_first_pass ... and running sudo (compiled with only a ./configure, no other options) as a non-local user I successfully authenticate, but then sudo has no idea of the group this user belongs to and says not in the sudoers file. Is it possible to use PAM as a go-between for sudo and the remote LDAP system to provide sudo with the user's group info? How has everyone else set up a central auth system? Seems to me sudo's configure script has some flaws and I don't want to rely on it. Maybe there's a better way, but aside from sudo acting up, the above would be a fine set up for me. Any pointers appreciated. - Darek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?
IMHO there are only three alternatives left these days when creativity seems to be fading C - the prince among languages and Eclipse + Java - the future already today. it's very sad that such crap like java have to be the future. unfortunately already it's popular. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Confused About Linux Compatibility
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Bottom line, what linux_base port should I install and do I need to set this sysctl to something? I'm confused... If you have a recent 7-STABLE changing the linux kernel version to 2.6.16 and running -f8 should not be a problem. If your running 6-* or 7-RELEASE stick with linux base fc4. - -- GNU Key fingerptrint: 2E13 BC16 5F54 0FBD 62ED 42B6 B65F 24AB E9C2 CCD1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkUo4kACgkQtl8kq+nCzNELmACdG92S7vBswh/33vKxt8n3EBeB AnYAnREzk7Jj+1+NdWT4F31ZTKwqGorJ =01rY -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Confused About Linux Compatibility
Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am attempting to install a Linux RPM of Legato's Networker Backup Client on FBSD 7.1 I do not know if this is possible but I hope so. :) I have followed instructions in the Handbook and http://www.linux.com/articles/53055. I am at the point of installing an appropriate linux_base port and linux_base-f8 seemed like the most recent/reasonable. However when I attempt to install, I get this output: ** Port marked as IGNORE: emulators/linux_base-f8: compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 is not supported ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) - emulators/linux_base-f8 Further Google searches suggest that compat.linux.osrelease is a sysctl setting. I've seen reference to setting it to 2.6.16 but also that this is experimental. I found http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel but this leaves me confused as well. Bottom line, what linux_base port should I install and do I need to set this sysctl to something? I'm confused... Current default (i.e. well tested and supported) linux base port is linux_base-fc4 with compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2. This should be your first try. If you get any further questions a better mailing list (to look for additional information as well as asking questions) is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:17:25 + Craig Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 18:13 +, Mike Clarke wrote: I've installed en-openoffice.org-GB-3.0.0 from ports on my 6.4-RC1 system. The install, using the command portinstall -m LOCALIZED_LANG=en-GB -DWITH_KDE editors/openoffice.org-3, appeared to complete OK and I can run /usr/local/bin/openoffice.org-3.0.0-swriter but attempts to check spelling in a document with known spelling errors always fail to find any errors. The Available language modules section in Tools - Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids is empty, unlike my copy of Openoffice 2.3 which has 3 entries in this section. Should the language modules have been installed or have I missed anything when installing the port? Hi Mike, Don't think ya missed anything, I am in the same boat... I also compiled with the LOCALIZED_LANG=en-GB flag. Anybody with a solution ? my spelling isn't that good so would need to spell check my documents. I have sr-openoffice.org-3.1.20081009/, i.e. openoffice.org-3-devel compiled with 'editors/openoffice*' = [ 'LOCALIZED_LANG=sr', 'WITHOUT_CUPS=yes', 'WITH_SYSTEM_FREETYPE=yes', 'WITH_SYSTEM_ICU=yes', ] on FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Oct 12 (i386) and I have all 3 sections in Tools - Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids. The OpenOffice.org dictionaries page says: IMPORTANT NOTE: From OpenOffice.org 3.0 on the dictionary wizard is not longer available -- Dictionaries are now available via the extensions repository. [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries] So, the OpenOffice.org-3 users are supposed to download .oxt files and run them. However, I experienced the 'bad transfer url' problem with all extension files; this was reported on FreeBSD mailing lists in the past with no available solution. Happily, the instruction from the same page (DictOOo-Wizard, intended for OpenOffice.org-2) worked just fine in my OpenOffice-3. I downloaded http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/dicooo/DicOOo.sxw and it worked like a charm, installing Hunspell Spellchecker module and dictionary files. Hope this helps. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkkUrO0ACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZigygQAoaoye0FYqsGtJzCBTZyXRC3M M9WnvgbNKM5rtN8C4MCtdrtUf0yh9hckFdCd1HsQg6IiqCu0qw2iY8VpYp3++D6H xeTYLqMV6Rs5WdsdUpZZUSvA4YfeGhkKK0J4nHNG884XKzx3moqDc3OZISN08zX3 +byFpVnii7CIFxdmFeU= =RK8z -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning
On Friday 07 November 2008, Nikola Lečić wrote: Happily, the instruction from the same page (DictOOo-Wizard, intended for OpenOffice.org-2) worked just fine in my OpenOffice-3. I downloaded http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/diction aries/dicooo/DicOOo.sxw and it worked like a charm, installing Hunspell Spellchecker module and dictionary files. Hope this helps. Thanks for your help Nikola. I downloaded and ran DictOOo-Wizard and it worked perfectly. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:51:06AM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:34 AM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry Ditch Outlook and use Evolution or Thunderbird or KMail or hell anything . . . or, as someone else pointed out, one could just learn to scroll to the end before typing. It's not that difficult -- even in Outlook. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Larry Wall: You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow. pgp5LCEezZ19L.pgp Description: PGP signature
Glob error?
( Please cc: me on replies, as I can't keep up with traffic on -questions ) I did the following: % cd /tmp % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld */dir1/new drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10 a/dir1/new/ % System is: FreeBSD wattres.Watt.COM 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #9: Tue May 13 16:06:34 PDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WATTRES i386 Source was probably updated a few hours before the kernel build time. Shell doesn't seem to matter (have tried both tcsh and bash). My cygwin installation seems to get it right. Known issue? A quick glance for glob in gnats didn't show anything promising. -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121W 56' 57.5 / 37N 20' 15.3 Internet: steve @ Watt.COM Whois: SW32-ARIN Free time? There's no such thing. It just comes in varying prices... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (no subject)
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:28:07AM -0500, Michael Powell wrote: If you are totally new to Linux/Unix and have zero experience and just want an easy, out of the box something other than XP you might try the latest incarnation of Kubuntu. I know in a FreeBSD list these comments are sacrilege, but the broader picture is what your needs truly are. I'd suggest PC-BSD instead, and not only because it's a FreeBSD spin-off. It also provides PBI for software management, which will surely provide a gentler transition for people used to the Microsoft way of installing software, and doesn't make a lot of the design mistakes I see in Ubuntu and its spin-offs. DesktopBSD is a pretty good choice along those lines, too. Still better than Ubuntu, in my opinion. Furthermore . . . they both use KDE by default, and you don't have to use a red-headed stepchild or second-hand citizen like Kubuntu to get it. Now running a real live Web presence out of your house is probably not really a good idea if it has anything to do with business. A personal blog can go down for indefinite periods and no harm done, but a business site is a different story. First, the reason for having your servers located in a data center is they are sitting directly on the fat pipes of the Internet. Second, these data centers are multi homed in their peerage to other backbones. If one connection path develops a problem your site is still going to be accessible via one of the other paths. You simply will never have the kind of connectivity found in a real data center at home. Make sure the colocation facility of your choice is multi-homed before simply assuming it is. Some aren't. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Larry Wall: Just don't create a file called -rf. pgpjWixg2rE94.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Glob error?
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:13:03 -0800, Steve Watt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ( Please cc: me on replies, as I can't keep up with traffic on -questions ) I did the following: % cd /tmp % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld */dir1/new drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10 a/dir1/new/ % Really strange... I did use C Shell on FreeBSD 7-STABLE. % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld */dir1/new drwxr-xr-x 2 poly staff 512 Nov 8 00:57 a/dir1/new/ drwxr-xr-x 2 poly staff 512 Nov 8 00:57 b/dir1/new/ drwxr-xr-x 2 poly staff 512 Nov 8 00:57 c/dir1/new/ Shell doesn't seem to matter (have tried both tcsh and bash). I did try BASH too, with same result as above - works. The calls to mkdir and ls refer to programs, not to shell internal commands. The only problem could be the * wildcard that the shell would have to expand before calling the actual ls program... -- Polytropon From 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Glob error?
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:13:03PM -0800, Steve Watt wrote: ( Please cc: me on replies, as I can't keep up with traffic on -questions ) I did the following: % cd /tmp % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld */dir1/new drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10 a/dir1/new/ % System is: FreeBSD wattres.Watt.COM 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #9: Tue May 13 16:06:34 PDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WATTRES i386 Source was probably updated a few hours before the kernel build time. Shell doesn't seem to matter (have tried both tcsh and bash). My cygwin installation seems to get it right. Known issue? A quick glance for glob in gnats didn't show anything promising. I can't reproduce this on any of the systems I have access to: 8.0-CURRENT amd64(build: 2008/11/07) 7.1-PRERELEASE amd64 (build: 2008/10/02) 7.1-PRERELEASE i386 (build: 2008/10/12) 7.0-STABLE i386 (build: 2008/04/19) 6.4-PRERELEASE i386 (build: 2008/10/02) 6.4-PRERELEASE i386 (build: 2008/10/02; different box) 6.2-STABLE i386 (build: 2007/08/02) 4.8-RC i386 (build: 2003/03/18) P.S. -- You're playing with Maildir, aren't you? :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 22:01 +, Mike Clarke wrote: On Friday 07 November 2008, Nikola Lečić wrote: Happily, the instruction from the same page (DictOOo-Wizard, intended for OpenOffice.org-2) worked just fine in my OpenOffice-3. I downloaded http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/diction aries/dicooo/DicOOo.sxw and it worked like a charm, installing Hunspell Spellchecker module and dictionary files. Hope this helps. Thanks for your help Nikola. I downloaded and ran DictOOo-Wizard and it worked perfectly. also worked like a charm here, thanks a million. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Glob error?
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:19:47PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:13:03PM -0800, Steve Watt wrote: ( Please cc: me on replies, as I can't keep up with traffic on -questions ) I did the following: % cd /tmp % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld */dir1/new drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10 a/dir1/new/ % System is: FreeBSD wattres.Watt.COM 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #9: Tue May 13 16:06:34 PDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WATTRES i386 Source was probably updated a few hours before the kernel build time. Shell doesn't seem to matter (have tried both tcsh and bash). My cygwin installation seems to get it right. Known issue? A quick glance for glob in gnats didn't show anything promising. I can't reproduce this on any of the systems I have access to: Interesting. The cvsup was 13 May, about 21Z. I can't reproduce it on a 7.1-PRE box (build: 2008-Oct-15) either. The 6.3-STABLE box has been well-behaved since, so I haven't had a lot of reason to futz with it. Maybe I'll run it up to the top of 6-STABLE tonight. 8.0-CURRENT amd64(build: 2008/11/07) 7.1-PRERELEASE amd64 (build: 2008/10/02) 7.1-PRERELEASE i386 (build: 2008/10/12) 7.0-STABLE i386 (build: 2008/04/19) 6.4-PRERELEASE i386 (build: 2008/10/02) 6.4-PRERELEASE i386 (build: 2008/10/02; different box) 6.2-STABLE i386 (build: 2007/08/02) 4.8-RC i386 (build: 2003/03/18) P.S. -- You're playing with Maildir, aren't you? :-) Hmm... Wonder what tipped you off? :) I switched over to dovecot in Maildir mode for some of my users who seem to have excessively large mailboxes. Performance is much better for them, and I'm trying to adapt myself. Anyone know of patches for mush to use maildir or imap? (Antique finger neurons that really don't want to be retrained.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:51:06AM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:34 AM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry Ditch Outlook and use Evolution or Thunderbird or KMail or hell anything . . . or, as someone else pointed out, one could just learn to scroll to the end before typing. It's not that difficult -- even in Outlook. Press the END key. -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Glob error?
Steve Watt wrote:
( Please cc: me on replies, as I can't keep up with traffic on -questions )
I did the following:
% cd /tmp
% mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur
% mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur
% mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur
% ls -ld */dir1/new
drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10 a/dir1/new/
%
System is:
FreeBSD wattres.Watt.COM 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #9: Tue May 13 16:06:34
PDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WATTRES i386
Source was probably updated a few hours before the kernel build time.
Shell doesn't seem to matter (have tried both tcsh and bash).
My cygwin installation seems to get it right.
Known issue? A quick glance for glob in gnats didn't show anything promising.
I too can't reproduce this on any of my machines:
nat# mkdir -p {a,b,c}/dir/{cur,new}
nat# ls -ld */dir/*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 7 19:07 a/dir/cur
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 7 19:07 a/dir/new
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 7 19:07 b/dir/cur
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 7 19:07 b/dir/new
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 7 19:07 c/dir/cur
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 7 19:07 c/dir/new
Awefully strange indeed.
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new idea: requiring php and java; maybe other ports...
Yesterday while I was trying to read a newspaper article online using firefox yet-another idea struck me. This may/may not work with FreeBSD ... or is might be crafted for FBSD 1st and later ported to every other operating system. To avoid flames, I'll just mention this. Any interested hackers, please write me offlist. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Confused About Linux Compatibility
Eitan Adler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Bottom line, what linux_base port should I install and do I need to set this sysctl to something? I'm confused... If you have a recent 7-STABLE changing the linux kernel version to 2.6.16 and running -f8 should not be a problem. If your running 6-* or 7-RELEASE stick with linux base fc4. Thank you for your reply. I am running 7.1-PRERELEASE. I plan to update to 7.1-RELEASE as soon as I can get to the console, probably within the next month or so. Is 7.1-PRERELEASE recent enough for -f8? It was built Oct. 9th. Is there any big advantage of -f8 over -fc4? I guess I just *feel* like -f8 would be more updated and less hassle in the long run. However I know that with software, newer isn't always better. :) Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Confused About Linux Compatibility
Boris Samorodov wrote: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am attempting to install a Linux RPM of Legato's Networker Backup Client on FBSD 7.1 I do not know if this is possible but I hope so. :) I have followed instructions in the Handbook and http://www.linux.com/articles/53055. I am at the point of installing an appropriate linux_base port and linux_base-f8 seemed like the most recent/reasonable. However when I attempt to install, I get this output: ** Port marked as IGNORE: emulators/linux_base-f8: compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 is not supported ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) - emulators/linux_base-f8 Further Google searches suggest that compat.linux.osrelease is a sysctl setting. I've seen reference to setting it to 2.6.16 but also that this is experimental. I found http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel but this leaves me confused as well. Bottom line, what linux_base port should I install and do I need to set this sysctl to something? I'm confused... Current default (i.e. well tested and supported) linux base port is linux_base-fc4 with compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2. This should be your first try. If you get any further questions a better mailing list (to look for additional information as well as asking questions) is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your reply and the suggestion of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Messenger servers
I haven't checked the list for around a week- I'm still catching up! :) I'm trying to sort out a messenger server for work purposes, and although I've found a few I'm hoping some input from sysadmins who have deployed these might help our decision. I've found Gale, Jabberd2, OpenFire, and SJECS (Sun Java Communication Suite). Our requirements are for collaboration (multiple users simultaneous chatting together- with audio/video if possible), realtime audio/video (with a preference for audio; ergo video can go to the dogs to maintain audio quality, although a means to adjust this- on the fly if possible- would be useful), and chat. Tall order, eh? Ease of admin would be good, but my main concern is stability and reliability (I'll make up a software solution to administrate if needs be). Thanks guys. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (no subject)
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:45 -0500, SAM HAYNES wrote: Greetings, O Learned Ones from: Sam Haynes, Pathfinders 2008 I haven't the foggiest as to how you came to be in my favorites list, other than that I probably tagged you in an ongoing search for both or either something to replace Win XP and or build my own personal server. I have been usining XP for several years now. Recently, I tried to install XP from my OEM cd and was notified by Gates and Company that XP would no longer be supported. Bummer! So what else is new? Time to part company with Bill? Vista was tha final straw. I need something that will replace XP in all the essentials but without a useless bag full of coverups for poor performance.. Debian was the first encouraging encounter. It was recommended as a cheap entry into the personal server concept, using a two to three year old PC chassis. Sounded good but I could never figure out just how to download it. So, FreeBSD appears in my fave list and server appears in the same paragraph as operating system. Here is my plan. I am 76, a retired Master Electrician, PC builder since '87, have a wife of 40 plus years, debilitating medical problems and a strong belief that I can milk a living out of internet affiliate marketing despite the current economic crisis. My current model is to generate a basic website, use my existing isp to promote two consistent converting products, bootstrap the proceeds from that into building my own dedicated server to market 'how-to' products over a hundred or more websites. All using ready to serve apps and a WYSIWYG HTML generator. I appreciate your time reading this over long monologue... I'd appreciate it even more if you could take some time to throw some suggestions back at me.. Thanks, Sam I Am, PATHFINDERS 2008 Perhaps you should try the linux distros first to get a bit of a feel of *nix variants? FreeBSD can be daunting to the first time user, but is one hell of a production system once you know how to handle it properly. Maybe start with Ubuntu rather than Debian straight off (I never quite worked out how to download Debian either... wierd bunch that :) ), it is a bit like a half way house for new users, and helps out with some of the usual administrative tasks. Fedora is another good one, but the support is better with ubuntu, plus the Ubuntu is more forgiving admin wise. In any case I'd say you'll be in for a steep learning curve, but at least the gradient is not as sharp when you start with Ubuntu. Keep watching this list, it'll answer any questions you have (no matter how silly they may seem to experienced users, and without most of the condescension you'll find on a lot of lists- Ubuntu support is similar to this list), and read the handbook, and eventually you'll be able to tame one of the most powerful operating systems in the computing world and put it to work for you. Some servers have been going for months and even years without stopping (depending on security required and experience of the admin), so it is rock solid. Good luck! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Messenger servers
Da Rock wrote: I haven't checked the list for around a week- I'm still catching up! :) I'm trying to sort out a messenger server for work purposes, and although I've found a few I'm hoping some input from sysadmins who have deployed these might help our decision. I've found Gale, Jabberd2, OpenFire, and SJECS (Sun Java Communication Suite). Our requirements are for collaboration (multiple users simultaneous chatting together- with audio/video if possible), realtime audio/video (with a preference for audio; ergo video can go to the dogs to maintain audio quality, although a means to adjust this- on the fly if possible- would be useful), and chat. Tall order, eh? Ease of admin would be good, but my main concern is stability and reliability (I'll make up a software solution to administrate if needs be). Thanks guys. I would avoid OpenFire, some pretty gnarly vulnerabilities were announced today, and the vendor doesn't seem to be in a hurry to fix them. http://www.andreas-kurtz.de/advisories/AKADV2008-001-v1.0.txt Good luck! -Steve signature.asc Description: PGP signature signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Glob error?
On Fri 2008-11-07 15:13:03 UTC-0800, Steve Watt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld */dir1/new drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10 a/dir1/new/ What file system are you using? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
install on Dell SMT-116B
I'm trying to install 7.0-RELEASE from cd on a Dell SMT-116B, but it is hanging on GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_INSTALL. Is this computer just incompatible with FreeBSD, or is there something I can do to get it working? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?
Hello guys, Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. Thanks, DEK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
