Re: py24-gobject won't deinstall

). In any event your solution does seem to have worked. It is intended to work. :-) -- 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: gcc 2.95 - 4.4

understood, CC is the variable used by the port's make subsystem. Maybe it's possible to install the port over the system's compiler by defining a prefix other than /usr/local, but I don't know if this is recommended. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: new package system proposal

in a company's network)? It might be possible to distribute the actual compiling to users with spare cpu cycles, a bit like the s...@home projects etc. I'll reserve some spare cycles for you with my for(;;); program. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: new package system proposal

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:48:01 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hmm Polytropon you seem to be dismissing my idea with minor examples. Actually not, because I'm a big fan of pkg_add -r. :-) I honestly run older machines, the oldest one is a P1 150MHz with 128 MB EDO-RAM where

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

or Gnome which provide the usual means for a full-featured graphical environment. (At this point, I can really recommend reading FreeBSD's excellent documentation in the handbook and in its FAQ, to be found on the main web site.) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

this particula problem (and others, too). It isn't that hard to find. It's NOT DOS, and NOT WINDOWS I'm glad it's not. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: new package system proposal

''(!) In fact, it has. -- 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: awk question

the default action (to print the whole line, i. e. $0) when no action is given for a pattern. % awk -F';' '$3 ~ /^[a-z]{5}$/' file When using this in a shell, keep an eye on eventually needed quoting or escaping of $. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: USB SD-card reader recognized, but not working, on 6.1

of the drive while writing on it. Just imagine it was a regular hard disk - does the system encourage you to do so? :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

terrible English :) I'm not sure mine is better, don't mind. The guys on that list have a lot of translational phantasy. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: new package system proposal

simply don't want to waste time for Next, next, okay, next, next, next, reboot. :-) -- 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: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

don't have such a PC at hand... Maybe a (very overcomplicated) solution is to (install and then) run some kind of Windows in a VM and format the disk from there... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: sorta newb help compiling samba

not being mounted? Exit code 0 is usually used to signal that no error has happened (successful program run), which isn't the case when the script is not (completely) run. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: ULE scheduler

-- 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: sound configuration for pidgin

is less expensive while the CPU temperature is hot. :-) -- 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: the 'make' command in the ports tree

. -- 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: Creating a custom install disk for Freebsd?

for, maybe the make release from the FreeBSD /usr/src tree will help you. You can furthermore create a custom installation file for sysinstall. That's possible, too. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: mayday, mayday

stupidity.) Checked /etc/resolv.conf? -- 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: Block device to regular file?

behave like a regular file? Something like mdconfig -t vnode, but in reverse? Maybe you could dd the partition into a (named) pipe and then run TSK on this pipe? Anyway, I'm not sure if this is such a good idea... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

to the trouble it seems to cause... :-) -- 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: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

do this by default without any questions. :-) And yes, I'm paranoid and old-fashioned. =^_^= -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

not *that* bad and offers a lot of handholding, automation and preconfiguration.) -- 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: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

that is detected (-o ro, of course), has a nice GUI and is quite fast. I hope this isn't too off-topic; if it is, then sorry; :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: where to grab source tarball?

the source to the server, rather than inserting a CD in the machine, since Im 2 hours away from the machine. Then the way mentioned above will be no problem. You can use the CLI ftp to automate it. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Need to change screen resolution...

. Did you intendedly exclude the list from receiving answer? If not, you may forward my reply to the list. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Need to change screen resolution...

two (as I did). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... # /etc/X11/xorg.conf # == Section ServerLayout Identifier Layout0 Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDevice Mouse0

Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

louder? I always assumed they would just consume more disk space... RYRYRYRYRYRYRY!!! :-) -- 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: Console mode scrolling

be echoed to the terminal. You will see it after exiting ScrL mode. To indicate ScrL mode, the block cursor will disappear. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Console mode scrolling

. -- 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: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?

be done with overlaying another image, and afterwards pdflatex (from the teTeX package) can be used to create a PDF document again. Anyway, while this is a possible way, it seems to be one of the most over-complicated ones. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: snd-hda no sound whatsoever

these would be my basic ideas. -- 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: Console mode scrolling

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:34:03 +0200, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 17 April 2009 19:09:00 Polytropon wrote: Not neccessarily - if the Pause / Break key is still present, it has the same functionality as Scroll Lock. Good to know for this case

Re: write_dma error

or not) I'd be inclined to agree with you on the disk dying bit What disk exactly is it? Would be worth checking the S.M.A.R.T. details (port: smartmontools; program: smartctl). Looks a bit familiar to me, I had those errors on a 2,5 6GB laptop hard disk... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Problems with Xorg after portupgrade

, because I'm still using an older X. Maybe it helps you as a template or to get spare parts. :-) And finally, have a look at EE lines in /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see if any driver complains. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... # /etc/X11

Re: Customized Remote Install

as the clients. Under controlled conditions, it's even possible to build the needed system in a virtualized environment. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Customized Remote Install

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:47:11 -0400, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:51:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:42:32 -0600, Scott Seekamp sseek...@risei.net wrote: My hope was that I could make an automated install CD/DVD

Re: Disk usage analysis

, in the Midnight Commander, use PF9, Command, Show directory sizes. -- 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: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

looked at the list of projects and didn't see it there ... did I miss something? Obviously. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: awk question (actively tail a file notify when expression is found)

/apache2/access.log | awk '/192.168.1.100/ { system(sprintf(echo %s | mail m...@email.address, $0)); }' Any pointers would be much appreciated. It should work, but I'm sure someonle else will soon show you some more elegant way. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

* the actions you can do with it. Simply consider what will happen if you try to use a GUI installer via a serial console (and this is a common task in datacenters). it doesn't make sense. Exactly. More graphics != better. And surely not modern. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: i had a tought

? ;-) No no, FreeBSD is the better Linux, as a german computer magazine titled some years ago. :-) PS. Please don't put HTML stuff in your mails. A mail client is not a HTML browser and renderer. Thanks! -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

-defined order. -- 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: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

-fashioned anyway. :-) -- 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: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

: Network (9/28) | Next: Kernel (11/28) | Cancel And yes, I know emplying the function keys can be a problem, but I like them. :-) But I think you get the idea. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

honest 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

Re: filesystem compatibility

data via FTP, rsync or scp between machines. But because you asked about file systems, just try the mount advice. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: filesystem compatibility

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/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: mail server/webmail

for any help you can offer folks! Well, I know that my comment isn't much help, but maybe you find a starting point in it, and if it's only to start *not* using Outlook Express, because it solves nothing. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: mail server/webmail

, because I don't consider them mail clients, but a bad excuse for not being one. :-) -- 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: mail server/webmail

. Thunderbird) in this setting to have your mail done more comfortable, without interfering with what's already done. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

. -- 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: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

have. Wouldn't it be easier to use a natural speaker then? I know there's no such person in the ports collection... :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

is a simple .flv file, it could be turned into something standardized using mencoder again. I've used youtube-dl and mencoder to do so - but only three times! I swear it's true! :-) (After Flash annoyed me so much on web pages, I decided to relapse my system into a Flash-free state. -- Polytropon From

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

language (because it simply doesn't sound correct), but cannot find them. -- 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: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

, if you get the sources from the install disc, sysinstall could provide a step to update them right away, letting you select the update server and then run csup to bring them up to date. Just an idea. One of many possible ideas. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

. Another point would be to select the LANGUAGE of the installer in the first place. Germans get scared by english words! :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

they work. So I can understand everyone who says: When FreeBSD gets a crappy installerjust like 'Windows' and some Linusi, then I would look around for another OS that fits my needs. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

it IS optional (read: not required) for real work. -- 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: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

, and they won't know why. Can you imagine they'll try a second time? :-) -- 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: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

have three buttons. Which to make the default button? Human perception. Use colours. Which colours? Colour blindness, anyone? Attention distraction. Where to put the buttons? What to put on the screen along with them? Giving an alert: How? I could go on for hours. :-) -- Polytropon From

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

on GUI tools already have their answers, and those who administer their system purely won't even touch these tools. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: (no subject)

specific options (dev=, speed=) for your recorder. However, after a successful recording, it's easier to destroy the CD-R physically. If the session (and media) is already closed, the same idea applies. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: What happened to /home?

! I hope you have good backups. That's not an impolite joke. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: What happened to /home?

no problems accessing files as /home/poly/some/dir/some/file from wherever I am. As far as I understood, relative symlinks prefix their respective targets always with their own location, so /home + export/home gives /export/home. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: After freebsd-update - all went wrong.

file examples. Maybe rc.local overrides things that should already work? This shouldnot happen with freebsd-update tool !! what the heck! Wrong use of the right tool maybe? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: After freebsd-update - all went wrong.

before), the services activated in there should be started, too... You could additionally check /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts for any malformed entries. I think /etc/hosts could be altered / overwritten by freebsd-update? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: example c program that does beep

generates an audible bell, or beep. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: example c program that does beep

(); nonl(); intrflush(stdscr, FALSE); keypad(stdscr, TRUE); start_color(); printf(beep: %d\n, beep()); fflush(stdout); printf(flash: %d\n, flash()); fflush(stdout); return 0; } -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: clicky driver

adding a click driver? You could initially have a look at the atkbd (or ukbd?) source files. Maybe just inserting some output of the ASCII character 0x07 (BEL) after each recognized keypress would be sufficient, but... no, it won't be that easy. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: clicky driver

since 1990, even though they employ modern means of education... a joke from an educational (scientifical) point of view. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: clicky driver

//* OFFLIST On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:50:48 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:53:43PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: There are a few who actually *do* have text-only pages. And fewer do

Re: setlocale command is missing

part of the LC setting, as well as the correct charset name? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: clicky driver

here, too. Even xset c on (as mentioned in man xset) doesn't work. Maybe the AT / USB keyboard is missing a speaker. The Sun type = 4 keyboards included one. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: clicky driver

ancient IBM Selectrics. Connect an IBM 3270 to your server and you'll have the keyclicks implemented in hardware. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: clicky driver

On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:01:07 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: //* OFFLIST Sorry, hit the wrong button - I hope it doesn't bother anyone. If it does, don't read it. Outdoor concert will start today at 3 p.m., but if it rains a 3 p.m., we'll already begin at 1 p.m. :-) -- Polytropon

Re: example c program that does beep

, for simple beeping, the speaker device (device SPEAKER or speaker_load=YES) isn't required. Maybe some wild mixer-settings? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: clicky driver

respectively), requiring a specific driver to access the particular hardware. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: clicky driver

speakers, then, right? I've got volume and power, treble/bass. If the PC speaker output is realized through the sound card (and its speakers), it will leave the computer through those speakers, or through the headphone jack. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Sendmail client configuration to connect to ISP's SMTP server

with a valid IP from their range. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: how to modify date after unrar files?

to change access / modification time, just % touch files and they'll have the correct date and time. Use -m for modification time. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Re[2]: How to force tar to be quiet?

? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

name. Everything else seems to be correct to me, as well as written in an appealing way, and technically understandable. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

. :-) The FreeBSD fdisk program has option to write a simple boot menu program to the MBR. Its called the FreeBSD boot manager. The program boot0cfg does this. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: fpc on FreeBSD?

]); -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

partition” and then sub-divide it into logical dos drives lettered C, D, E, F. One of these Not limited to F: as above (adding the DOS colon as Polytropon suggests) My suggestion comes from documentation where C: is preferred to C (in context of drive letters), like The C: drive is the booting

Re: Burning an audio CD

the ATAPICAM facility). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

. Of course, you stay in the free land of open source with this combination. In case you want to have an example file, write off-list to me - no need to pollute the list with this niche-market stuff. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: HNW, everybody.

On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:46:35 -0500, n...@hdk5.net n...@hdk5.net wrote: Happy New Year 2010.! To all on the FreeBSD list. Your help is always appreciated. Completely seconded. And finally, roman notation of 2010 is MMX - the year of the multimedia enhancement. :-) -- Polytropon

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:11:05 -0600, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: On 2010-01-01 11:42, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:30:09 -0600, Doug Polandd...@polands.org wrote: Hello, I've been tasked to print a phonebook style directory for an organization. The data

Re: Midnight Commander - Where is the subshell?

press ^o, I can switch between the MC and the subshell, even as an ordinary user. It even seems to be not a common problem. Just common on my FreeBSD-computers.. Now no more. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

psnup or mpage (I think those were their names) to re-order the content of the resulting PS / PDF file. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Midnight Commander - Where is the subshell?

. in sysinstall (borders), but not in MC. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Rename pictures in the command-line interface

else if ( ${%n} == 1 ) then mv ${f} ${base}_0${n}.${extn} else mv ${f} ${base}_${n}.${extn} endif endif end -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Rename pictures in the command-line interface

at it. It's worth it. The MC is a powerful and still easy to use tool for file administration. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

ddrescue fetch -rR device recoverdisk I'm quite sure it was one of them. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Need sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset

. For a better explaination than mine, refer to the excellent documentation in the FreeBSD handbook, ch. 5.4, to be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?

mentioned (guessed) before. For security considerations, keep an eye on /etc/ftpusers; the names ftp (stands for anonymous FTP account - if you don't want to provide that service) and of course root should be contained. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Question and support

because of the reason that is, as opposite to many other operating systems, very well documented, and structured well-intendedly itself. You won't have serious problems understanding how things work. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

? Have you checked /etc/make.conf? For X applications, there's no X11BASE anymore because the difference between /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 has been obsoleted by putting everything into /usr/local (which is correct according to FreeBSD's software management concept). -- Polytropon Magdeburg

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