Re: Playing audio CDs

data via the SCSI cable... At least the drive should show the typical playing activity which can be checked using a headphone on the drive's front connector (if it has one). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: hald makes cdrom fail

and non-backed up idea, but what about using the ATAPICAM facility (and /dev/cd instead of /dev/acd) for accessing the CD-ROM drive? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Determining process preventing umount of busy partition

and possible terminate / kill processes that cause this. Using the force (-f) seems to be unneccessarily unfriendly. =^_^= Thanks for suggestions! -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Determining process preventing umount of busy partition

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:44:19 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Polytropon writes: I'd like to ask how to determine which process (or program) keeps a partition in state busy so that umount will refuse to unmount this partition. The traditional tool for doing

Re: Determining process preventing umount of busy partition

: libkvm.so.4 = /lib/libkvm.so.4 (0x280a2000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x280aa000) So this is on the / partition. This should work, am I right? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Determining process preventing umount of busy partition

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:26:53 +, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Don't use lsof for that then. Use fstat(1) which is part of the base system: # fstat -f /usr Cool! I didn't know about how to use fstat for *this* purpose. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg

Re: Determining process preventing umount of busy partition

you to ~ (aka $HOME) Which would be /root in case of SUM. As I said, very strange... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How-to erase a DVD-RW

not substitute for blank- ing. If you want to nullify the media, e.g. for privacy reasons, do it explicitly with 'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/zero'. dvd+rw-format will clear DVD+RW disk. Definitely much easier. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: recovering from a power outage

everything's okay, there's no problem running into MUM *afterwards*. -- 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

Re: recovering from a power outage

waiting ... in my opinion. I'd rather wait than lose data. But as you said, it's very individual how you think about this. If backups are done properly, sometimes it might even be easier *not* to repair data, but to put back the backups on the newly initialized disks... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg

Re: recovering from a power outage

... -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Xorg - Resolution issues

) which I need to force to 1400x1050 (worked with old XFree86 and the setting in the config file, as you mentioned it). The autodetection of the screen (21 CRT) leads to stupid values that are completely unusable. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: confontation

is not a good idea... -- 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

Re: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting

. Joe's own editor (joe) now supports syntax highlightin, as well as VI improved (vim). The editor of the Midnight Commander (mcedit) is my individual program of choice, allthough I needed to modify the syntax files to fit my imaginations, just as I created new ones. :-) -- Polytropon From

Re: getty on /dev/ttypN

for the ttypN... init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/ttyp[01]: No such file or directory The ttypN files in /dev are, if I see this correctly, only generated when needed. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Mixer resets

and a text mode GUI for adjusting levels. Because I've used this program in the past, I can tell you that it's not resetting all the values. Good luck es vy 73 de D. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: freebsd 7.1 clean install with mouse completely hang

of PC. How can I solved that? Did you install X and Gnome from the installation CD or from (updated) ports? Maybe it's one of the improvements after major changes in X that require certain modifications (xorg.conf, HAL, DBUS). Check out ports/UPDATING, if this is the issue. -- Polytropon From

Re: tab-delimited to csv

-ordering, use -F or FS to specify the field separator, and then printf %s:%s:%s\n, $2, $1, $3;. These would be the easiest (I think) substitution approaches. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Determining process preventing umount of busy partition

contained in /usr/local. I can't imagine which application should still be running when nothing on /usr is accessed (lsof, fstat); I'll check on running applications using ps. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: World doesn't build correctly

-RELEASE? -- 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

Re: Determining process preventing umount of busy partition

should get a whiteboard, some pens and start making a drawing of the symptoms, until Dr. Cuddy tells me not to do so. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: World doesn't build correctly

, but not /boot/kernel/kernel.GENERIC which was instead loaded). :-) -- 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

SOLVED: Re: Determining process preventing umount of busy partition

. :-) -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: World doesn't build correctly

(as shown above). -- 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

Re: video editor

). -- 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 freebsd-questions

Re: Where is my STRFILE?

? % which strfile /usr/games/strfile This is from a 7-STABLE system from Aug 2008. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... strfile Description: Binary data ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Rsync | Push script

+%Y%m%d` to get a date signature that can be sorted. Just a suggestion - I've had the best experiences with the form DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d` attached to the backup's subject. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Alternative to sysinstall?

preconfigured on the builder machine. Other members of this mailing list will soon tell you some much better ways to achieve your goal. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: understanding freebsd development logic

to go into detail regarding your question. -- 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

Re: FreeBSD multiboot question.

them or even made to fit them to a particular OS version on a different slice / disk, modifying the bootloader's source is neccessary (followed by recompilation and reinstall). Other bootloaders may have an easier option to change the displayed names. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Determining scancodes for obscure keyboard to modify keymap

... (I've not taken the update yet.) If you got the keys working, please report back to the list. I'd be very interested in using them. They work fine when the keyboard is attached to an iBook. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: X to not blank screen or switch off monitor

only. You can add saver=NO do your /etc/rc.conf, but I think it's already a default value (check /etc/defaults/rc.conf). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: ALT key kills window/application

250 30 EndSection Insert the layout you need (e. g. US). -- 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

Re: ALT key kills window/application

and standard-compliant keyboard. Since the happy X upgrades, consider the HAL and DBUS stuff to be crap, too, especially when the keyboard worked as intended before the upgrade. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: kernel #4

at zero, how many times has the user taken the bus? And how does the computer count more than 1 (which is 2) when he does only understand 0 and 1? :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: where is gtk+-2?

. [...] GTK+-2 is a very stable release, similar only in design to GTK+-1. GTK+-2 can coexist happily alongside GTK+-1, but applications are written for one version or the other. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Ports on Macbook

Agree to an EULA? http://www.osnews.com/comments/21010 -- 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

Re: Root shell

) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x2823b000) There are library dependencies on /usr partition. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Root shell

obviously doing something wrong. :-) -- 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

Re: rc.conf and starting scripts

like in /etc. They usually have a corresponging enable setting (foo_enable) in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local (see man rc.conf), as well as means to set parameters (foo_flags or something specific). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Kernel Compile issue

at the comments /usr/src/Makefile, they're explaining the most obvious mistakes one could make. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Kernel Compile issue

? -- 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 freebsd-questions

Re: read BSD format disk from Mac OSX

trouble. Of course, you cannot read such a hard disk with Windows, but this wasn't part of the question anyway. There is no need to pollute a hard disk with MICROS~1 FAT when you're using UNIXens only. And yes, it is that simple. :-) Simple. Useful. UNIX. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany

Re: backup msdos slice

it a primary partition) from the FreeBSD side of things. I can read and write the slice nicely from FreeBSD, but not dump/restore. Now you can. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Ports on Macbook

. The Mac OS X versions sold along with the Hackintosh are no illegally pirated copies, they're boxes from the shelf. It's up to the customer what to do with it. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

(or bash) because I do use sh only for scripting, and bash never. :-) -- 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

Re: 7.1-release and KDE4

4 packages. Maybe install nasm prior to make. The Makefile of lame still states: RESTRICTED= patent issues, see http://www.mp3licensing.com/ If licensing problems are still present, there may be no way to put a precompiled package onto the FTP server. -- Polytropon From

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

put . ~/.bashrc into ~/.bash_profile to get a workaround. -- 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

Status field STATE in top(1) interactive mode

have a more descriptive name, such as pause, select or getblk and even kqread. Setting: I have opera-9.63.20081215_1 on OS 7-STABE from August 2008. Thank you! -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: How do I determine the FreeBSD world revision/version?

that these don't refer to a RELEASE or STABLE notation. -- 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

Re: Status field STATE in top(1) interactive mode

) gets the text for the locks from somewhere else, they're not part of the top(1) sources. At least, /usr/src/usr.bin/top is very dry and doesn't contain much more when in /usr/obj. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Health Monitoring on Dell 600SC

and healthd (from ports) can help you to monitor at least fan speeds and temperatures (as well as voltages). They're using the kernel's SMB facility. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: hardware list in a machine

that these are *system tools*. In order to obtain more information, it may be required to install some tools from the Ports Collection. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: hardware list in a machine

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:24:24 +, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon I can't seem to find usbconf. % usbconf usbconf: Command not found. % whereis usbconf usbconf: Is it a third party application? My mistake, sorry. Of course it's usbdevs, a tool that comes

Re: bsd vs gpl

platforms, such as here: http://www.osnews.com/comments/20740 Forgive me my comment. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

, there are already tools integrated in KDE and Gnome that automount USB devices. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

SanDisk USB stick with FreeBSD 7

the stick. I think about returning it to the vendor with a hardcopy of dmesg which reveals that the stick is defect. :-) Thanks for any recommendations. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: SanDisk USB stick with FreeBSD 7

Oops, hit the wrong reply button... On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:49:53 +0300, \Remorque\ odhia...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:33:23 +0300, \Remorque\ odhia...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for top-posting! No problem

Re: SanDisk USB stick with FreeBSD 7

there was nothing on the stick. Linux: Not invented here. :-) -- 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

Keyboard adaptor PS/2 - USB to use with FreeBSD

? Reason: I *insist* on using my IBM model M keyboard on that device. =^_^= -- 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

Re: Execute and lock a user into a program upon login

. (I haven't checked this, sorry.) -- 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

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6

enough because they may be dated some time behind the freshly updated ports tree. Usually, pkg_add -r will install all dependencies. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: GELI full disk, booting from thumb drive - can't get to /usr?

be /usr as something like /myusr, I can see that all of the things I expect to be there really are there (including, for example, libexec/getty). Does your thumb drive (for booting) something generally different than you do when starting with the LFS CD? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany

Re: installing packages

.txt | grep $1 | grep depends on | cut -d ' -f 6 | cut -d / -f 2`; do echo dependency for $1 is ${DEP} $0 ${DEP} done rm $1.txt exit 0 -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: renaming user account?

Meta-?, to search files for the old user name (or use find + grep). Eventually, check system's mail aliases file, if you had this user setup to receive mail (e. g. from night jobs). It's somewhat better suited for use in scripts than use by humans. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany

Re: RAID 1 failure

the directory gmo gmos1 gmos1a gmos1b gmos1c gmos1d gmos1e gmss1f I think there is a miss type (typo) in my part during I followed the HOW TO,in which incase of writing 0 i wrote letter o..am I write? Yes, looks like... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Text mode dialog library like TSO

not such a big deal, but if it alredy exists...? -- 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

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

create such kind of functionality? Seems that I'm not the only insane programmer on earth. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

/no buttons etc.) that I haven't thought of. Thank you, I'll take this into mind. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

/ Wow, I'm impressed: forms at least gives a good toolkit for what I need, and CDK (curses development kit) is even in the ports. It's examples are very interesting, it seems to be what I need. The world is safe, I won't reinvent the wheel. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: recover data from damaged msdos fat32 partition

. The manpage of fatback isn't great, info fatback has more details. For TSK, use something like this: % dls -t raw -f fat -v fat.dd I've got no FAT partitions (defective or intact) at hand so I cannot check if this really works as I think it should. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Old slow computers can still crank away (Formerly RE: Portsnap vs CSup)

, browser runs slower, nearly everything. I'm not lying, it's the truth. -- 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

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

. The SAA interface is much too complicated for the things I'd have to use it. It really needs to be as simple as possible, with a very narrow set of functionalities. SAA/TV is really too much (too good) for this. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: Compression with *.zip output

question, but... since WHEN is Windows able to handle any kind of archive file (except its own CAB format) without installing any third party software? Windows users NEED to install additional software for every little piece that a proper OS should be able to do on its own... -- Polytropon From

Re: Compression with *.zip output

x 10cm handy sized cubes. :-) -- 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

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

if the modem offers WLAN antennas. Tips? References? Advice? Sorry, no. :-) Just some basic thoughts from a radio amateur and FreeBSD user. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: utility that scans lan for client?

be: % arp -a And for a more detailed analysis, the successor of Ethereal called Wireshark can be very handy (requires X). It makes you be able to see anything that's going on on the LAN (read: everything that reaches your NIC). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: libxml-2-7-3 (php5 pkg_add)

), use # pkgdb -aF to fix package dependencies. -- 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

Re: networked audio

remote.computer.name ogg123 - ``locate xmms2'' found audio/gxmms2; under construction! Check /usr/ports/audio/xmms2, found out by % cd /usr/ports % make search name=xmms2 -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: unix admin incident levels

words. Me: Innovative and Creative. Him: Can you explain what you mean by that? Me: But you said two words... From SA's Dumb Interview Questions, page 3, via http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/dumb-interview-questions.php :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg

Re: networked audio

. http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Using_the_application A daemonic concept. =^_^= -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: installing freebsd on windows

not a linux expert so I don't know everything about linux, but I'm always learning. FreeBSD's documentation (the handbook and the FAQ, to be found on FreeBSD's web site) will help you to do so. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: xorg-server-1.5.3_7, /usr/ports/UPDATING, mouse

? -- 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 freebsd

Re: installing freebsd on windows

what you tell it to do, nothing more and nothing less.) -- 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

Re: installing freebsd on windows

I need to continue my questions on. Yes. I think it's okay to CC the list because our conversation may be helpful to others. I'm not intending something evil. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: how to configure xbiff

This is for the lower left corner of a 1400x1050 21 CRT. If you think you need further options, consult man xbiff. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Rebuild of Kernel to burn DVD failed

use the command % growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=foo.iso as presented in growisofs's manpage. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Repairing a defective UFS 2 partition with another BSD's fsck

cross-post it to questions@ in case someone there as an idea for this really strange problem - remember, I'm the second (!) being on this planet having encountered this particular problem. I hope that's an acceptable behaviour. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Desktop environments

without Compiz, those that don't utilize it won't have problems. If Compiz needs specific settings in ~/.xinitrc, you can put some kind of conditional into this file, loading Compiz only with the DE / WM you want. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: how to configure xbiff

xinitrc that launches KDE after successful login. I'm no KDE user so I can't tell. Just as a side question, doesn't KDE offer something with the same functionality like xbiff, so you can use KDE's builtin tool? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: init panic in freebsd 7.1

/init. Don't forget to fsck the hard disk, maybe due to the failing power supply you had some damages on the hard disk (file-wise), or even worse... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: init panic in freebsd 7.1

requires changes in /etc/fstab, e. g. ad4 - ad10 to make the system start on this hardware. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Why?? (prog question)

! :-) -- 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 freebsd-questions

Re: Why?? (prog question)

to use spaces for indentation instead of tabs (which I would even call standard). It's a honest question: What are your arguments for using tabs? Hint: it is *much* better doesn't count. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Why?? (prog question)

are your arguments for using tabs? Hint: it is *much* better doesn't count. :-) // EDIT: added one further argument pro tab /* -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

. Furthermore, I agree with the recommendation of ZFS. If your hardware is good enough (which shouldn't be a problem today), ZFS handles possible data damages much better and faster. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Why?? (prog question)

style over the years without even knowing it. :-) -- 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

Re: Why?? (prog question)

think OpenOffice has the function Input - from file (at least the german version has: Alt-E D = Einfügen Datei). This makes it easier to incorporate text from an external file. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Why?? (prog question)

, doodle.x, doodle.y, doodle,z, foo, bar, pups, furz, This is some stupid text., doom[dee].quoggle); This wouldn't be easy to achieve with tabs, especially when their width may vary. Thank you for your arguments, I stand partially corrected. :-) -- Polytropon

Re: py24-gobject won't deinstall

to correct the dependencies: # pkgdb -aF But note that if this procedure fails, you will usually have to deinstall the depending software and then start allover again, this will lead you finally to updated programs, as well as an updated py25-gobject (as a dependency). -- Polytropon From

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