Re: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

2010-01-10 Thread Polytropon
; this will short circuit that. Excellent advice! -- 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

Re: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

2010-01-10 Thread Polytropon
' is defined). Where to go from here? Do I have and old version of something that is causing this? I get this error _right away_ before anything is even built. It seems to be a check by the Makefile at port's top level. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: must /compat/linux stay in root-fs?

2010-01-10 Thread Polytropon
compat@ - local/compat from within /usr? -- 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: any port use /dev/dsp directly?

2010-01-14 Thread Polytropon
format - CD audio). In this case, you have to specify how to build those raw data elements from the original waveform file (WAV does have a header that describes its content). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: curses init in one line?

2010-01-18 Thread Polytropon
(Half bright\n); printw(\n); attrset(A_BOLD); printw(Extra bright or bold\n); printw(\n); refresh(); return 0; } The initsrc() funtion is the key. I do not have it anywhere in my C files. But in the manpage. :-) -- Polytropon

Re: setting console width when running FreeBSD in VirtualBox

2010-01-19 Thread Polytropon
. Note that it may be needed to add a specific setting to /boot/loader.conf (e. g. VESA BIOS support). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: curses init in one line?

2010-01-19 Thread Polytropon
here: /usr/share/examples/dialog/ -- 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

Re: 8.0-RELEASE Hanging on boot-up/Harvesting

2010-01-19 Thread Polytropon
- Old but tends to be reliable ;) Don't mind - completely fine for a server. Sorry I haven't got the error exact error. As I said, it seems that it's about the entropy harvesting. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: cgiwrap

2010-01-21 Thread Polytropon
Jan 21 11:33 cgiwrap ^^^ Is nogroup intended? Check % ls -lno cgiwrap for anything untypical for a SUID executable. Furthermore, it would be helpful to know the full error message (if any). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-21 Thread Polytropon
This port installs libnspr. -- 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: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-21 Thread Polytropon
% make search name=nspr It doesn't work in all imaginable cases, of course, but here, it did. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-22 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:10:15 -0600, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: If one logs in to a FreeBSD system from a Linux platform, the terminal type is set to linux which is compatible with a vt100. What about using $TERM = xterm or cons25 (or cons25l1)? -- Polytropon

Re: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-22 Thread Polytropon
-specific stuff can be abstracted by another port? :-) -- 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

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Polytropon
access information about nearly everything in FreeBSD via the apropos, whatis and man commands - be it system binaries, library functions, kernel calls, configuration files, maintenance procedures and misc. documentation topics. So THAT's awesome! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Polytropon
of the driver (remember to check man bge to see what it is intended for). As soon as you've loaded it, dmesg will show its existance and ifconfig -a will print its settings. PS. The plip0 interface is the printer port Internet Protocol driver. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Polytropon
documentation in this context. :-) -- 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: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-24 Thread Polytropon
. Or maybe use an USB stick? -- 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: Is their Automatic command to send a JPG file using FTP

2010-01-28 Thread Polytropon
that FTP doesn't encrypt passwords. You should take into mind that using FTP with an SSH wrapper, or even better - scp - is a more secure way to send files. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Is their Automatic command to send a JPG file using FTP

2010-01-28 Thread Polytropon
| \ ftp ftp://$(FTPUSER):$(FTPPASSWD)@$(SERVER)/ This is what I call make deinstall for web pages. :-) This means that you could do the same as with .netrc. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Is their Automatic command to send a JPG file using FTP

2010-01-29 Thread Polytropon
. -- 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: How do I create a 40x40 pixel monochrome mage for KMail?

2010-01-29 Thread Polytropon
and that's why not supported. I can take one with pwcview, which is what I was talking about above. You can even use a regular digital camera to take the photo, transfer it from the camera (or its CF or SD storage) and then postprocess it with ImageMagick. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-31 Thread Polytropon
spaces in a folder or device name. Those are called directories, not folders. -- 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: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Polytropon
. But that's not modern - today's devices need a driver for that. :-) As I said: Useless stuff. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: .zshrc

2010-02-02 Thread Polytropon
Feb 2 18:52 .zshrc the file can be found in /root/.zshrc Seems to be correct. Do you have any idea why is not working? Wrong content of the file? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: .zshrc

2010-02-02 Thread Polytropon
made sure that permissions are correct (if you have recycled the .zshrc for / from root)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: .zshrc

2010-02-02 Thread Polytropon
vim This not; should be: alias vi='vim' But are you sure you want to do this? The call vi usually refers to /usr/bin/vi in the base system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: burncd issue

2010-02-02 Thread Polytropon
lazy. :-) -- 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

Re: How does Sysinstall Mount File Systems?

2010-02-02 Thread Polytropon
UFS without S), and the format option is set to N which will cause sysinstall not to format the partitions. In other words: It's obvious - you just use the disk. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
refers to the booting partition). A case when no 'a' partition can be created does exist when there is already an 'a' partition on the slice. If that's the case, make sure it's not the case. :-) fuming, reading man bsdlabel ;) FUMEN PROHIB, LEGERE LEVITICUS! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
? -- 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: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
to use the second disk as a pure data disk. I hear there's good reasons for not running my whole system off of a single partition. The example above would not only create one single partition, it would furthermore omit the slice containing it. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
- and they don't change when a disk is added or removed. -- 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: More sysinstall questions 1 of 2

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
the partition editor. If not UFS2+S Y is set, no formatting process will take place. -- 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: More sysinstall questions 2 of 2

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
, it seems to refer to an obviously UFS formatted media; maybe this is the hard disk (which has a UFS partition on it accessible via its UFSID)? The last part s1a may suggest that it is s1a (of ad0)... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Detecting cards in USB card reader

2010-02-06 Thread Polytropon
% man camcontrol for further (and maybe more elegant) details. -- 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

Re: Howto run privileged commands on login/logout

2010-02-07 Thread Polytropon
in. -- 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: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread Polytropon
symbols to draw a forula with them. Again, LaTeX would be the faster solution. :-) Ah, and a final idea, but that doesn't seem to be adopted well: Use MathML and combine it with HTML and CSS. And as you already have guessed: LaTeX is faster. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread Polytropon
never used it, but maybe it also contains a mouse-driven editing mechanism for formulas. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: gv(kernel|X)

2010-02-11 Thread Polytropon
) and then return to X with the focus of an xterm. Just imagine you selected rm -rf ~\ndf -h\n somewhere - oh you will LOVE your backups! :-) Sadly, I can't tell you how to get rid of this strange behaviour, but I can assure you that it hasn't always been present. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: midnight commander

2010-02-14 Thread Polytropon
, subshell and coloring behaviour - but it compiles. :-) By the way, this is on OS version 7, not 8. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: video and FreeBSD?

2010-02-17 Thread Polytropon
on what exactly you're trying to achieve. -- 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: how to read .ods (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) without KOffice?

2010-02-17 Thread Polytropon
that you can forward to printer preprocessing (in order to have PS or PDF). As I've never really worked with Abiword, I can't tell you if it'll run on IA64 / sparc64 and if it will open the ods files... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-19 Thread Polytropon
running: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html It is 6.2.3/4. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-19 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:26:29 -0600, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:09 -0600, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system

Re: Problems With K3b

2010-02-21 Thread Polytropon
prevent problems like this in the future and that's ok. I've often been told that portmaster would be a good choice. I've used portinstall / portupgrade in the past, but have to say that I honestly prefer pkg_add -r for simplicity. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-21 Thread Polytropon
. -- 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: earlier FBSD distributions...

2010-02-21 Thread Polytropon
-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ Check for local mirrors: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-21 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:52:31 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:50 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system

Re: Dump/restore to clone disk

2010-02-22 Thread Polytropon
Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1e989M384M527M42%/var THis should inspire you how to dimension the new partition. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Physic to KVM VPS server FREEBSD 8.0 STABLE

2010-02-22 Thread Polytropon
into the kernel by compiling your own, but it mostly isn't neccessary). Again, a copy of the error message or more detailed explaination of possibly malicious behaviour would really help to recognize the problem, and to help correcting it. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Limiting Port

2010-02-22 Thread Polytropon
for bandwidth and port status control? -- 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

Re: dump warning msgs??

2010-02-22 Thread Polytropon
that it will be on the next incremental tape. This fits the snapshot theory. Use the source, Luke. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Physic to KVM VPS server FREEBSD 8.0 STABLE

2010-02-22 Thread Polytropon
. :-) In order to find out if this is a critical message, more information is needed. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Physic to KVM VPS server FREEBSD 8.0 STABLE

2010-02-22 Thread Polytropon
on? -- 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: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)

2010-02-23 Thread Polytropon
Linux, I think GRUB may be a good solution. As I am not using multi-boot environments, I can't be more precise. But go ahead and try the presented suggestions. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)

2010-02-23 Thread Polytropon
with Linux as another OS on the disk, I think this would be the most comfortable solution. But as I said, I'm no multi-booter. =^_^= -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: IDE ZIP100 Drive

2010-02-23 Thread Polytropon
affected? I've never owned a ZIP drive, so I can't speak from my own experiences. -- 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: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Polytropon
Logitech because their webcams really seem to be incompatible. I had better luck with a model from Aiptek (AEG inside). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to check a ext3 partition ?

2010-02-27 Thread Polytropon
think the port sysutils/e2fsprogs contains a fsck program that can be run on ext3 partitions. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Eject CD

2010-02-28 Thread Polytropon
permissions (on the controlling devices) to do so, and I don't think programs like the ones you mentioned to have such abilities... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Adding slice on existing disk

2010-03-01 Thread Polytropon
the command line tools, in the same order: 1. create new slice, 2. create new partition inside slice, 3. format the partition, and finally 4. mount it. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: SOLVED....Re: Adding slice on existing disk

2010-03-02 Thread Polytropon
. -- 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: xorg, xdm, desktop env

2010-03-04 Thread Polytropon
for possible errors. What does happen if you don't run xdm, but instead log in with your user account and then run the startx command? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-04 Thread Polytropon
. Anyone who can fix this problem please point me out. Sure. Maybe the handbook can help here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html See 6.2.3 for detailed information. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Polytropon
it, I can honestly say that I'm fine without Flash. I may review my opinion, if given some reason to do so. But as it has already been mentioned, that's a very individual decision, based upon likes and dislikes. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: xorg, xdm, desktop env

2010-03-05 Thread Polytropon
settings. -- 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

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread Polytropon
, there's even a chance that Flash will be ignored by the rest of the world sooner or later. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread Polytropon
with mplayer. That's right - and works perfectly. Even for stand-alone Flash games, there's the swfplayer program. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread Polytropon
, and being able to be used in every country, would be a good solution. It HAS to be supported out of the box, at least in terms of web browsers (like the thing inside the browser that displays JPG images, to follow my example). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:15:37 +0100, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: If they don't want to make one, there's no way to convince them. Since the majority of free and standardized operating systems isn't oriented

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-06 Thread Polytropon
chemically and gets unreadable if touched with the finger on the wrong side. :-) -- 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: Updating ports was Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread Polytropon
or DVD, but it's usually up to date and fits better to the ports tree - which is useful when you install software both from source and from binaries. I always do this way since 5.4 without any problems excepted ``cdrecord'' as mentioned earlier. Which has been explained. -- Polytropon

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread Polytropon
am thankful to the developers who invest their time in order to provide an ongoing support for Flash. So maybe it always lasts some time until a FreeBSD based system is able to run the lastest Flash stuff, but finally it's possible. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Updating ports was Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread Polytropon
as a dependency. And as far as I've experienced, it can do everything needed. -- 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

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-08 Thread Polytropon
twenty (20!) years that work perfectly - that's much longer as a modern DVD driver works. :-) This leads me to my conclusion again: The older something is, the longer it lasts. Mostly. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: mysql,postgresql,client,server

2010-03-08 Thread Polytropon
is part of the portupgrade port. -- 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

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-12 Thread Polytropon
, or use pkg_add -r, which may be the better solution if you have an old system; in this case, step 4 can be omitted. 6. Configure your services. 7. Re-import your data, configure everything properly. 8. Give it a test run. 9. Yay! You did it! =^_^= -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Where is mkisofs

2010-03-13 Thread Polytropon
installing it, you would do something like this: % mkisofs -r -o myisofile.iso myfiles/ Keep in mind that it may be needed to specify additional options if you need Joliet extension - see man mkisofs. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: how to use cdrecord

2010-03-14 Thread Polytropon
permissions - this is important. Additionally, see man cdrecord on how to construct a simple config file so you don't have to put speed= and dev= whenever you want to use the program - it makes things more comfortable. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: how to use cdrecord

2010-03-14 Thread Polytropon
ATA cable. Replace it with an 80-pin (every 2nd wire is shield, still only 40 pins on the connector) cable which is finer. This way the drive can be accessed faster than UDMA33. Looks like this: % dmesg | grep acd acd0: DVDR HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H58N/1.01 at ata1-master UDMA66 -- Polytropon

Re: More ZIP Problems

2010-03-16 Thread Polytropon
formatted was a floppy disk on a Linux box). Then you haven't formatted a disk. :-) The newfs program initiates a file system, which is commonly called formatting. For floppy disks, see man fdformat. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: kldload vs Statically compiled in kernel

2010-03-16 Thread Polytropon
exactly to present hardware, letting it contain only those components that *need* to be present. This can be required when operating on low space. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: make buildworld runs out of space

2010-03-17 Thread Polytropon
of space problem. -- 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: creating a socket for use with nc

2010-03-25 Thread Polytropon
what you want - I'm not sure I understood you corretly - is a combination of a named pipe created by the mkfifo program, and the detach program from the ports collection. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: internet connection tester script

2010-03-27 Thread Polytropon
here, too. -- 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

Re: FreeBSD Instalation question

2010-03-30 Thread Polytropon
-- 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

Tool to produce A5 booklet from A4 pages PS / PDF

2010-04-01 Thread Polytropon
so you can print from a stack of images and result in a happy little booklet - jpg2tex, pdflatex, lpr. I don't want to do this again... :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-04 Thread Polytropon
is of a rather generic nature. :-) -- 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

Re: theme

2010-04-05 Thread Polytropon
://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/design-your-own-desktop-with-xfce-44-part-2/ Maybe it gives you some inspiration or further hints. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Polytropon
, there's excellent documentation that shows how and why the system tree has a well intended layout. :-) The command % man hier will explain everything in detail. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Polytropon
of the base system - mail transfer agent, then maybe its documentation should mention to pay attention when using it instead of what the system brings, so further problems with jails can be avoided, or at least cured (by a correct procedure given in the documentation). -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-08 Thread Polytropon
maintenance mode, and /usr wouldn't be mounted at all. Think about scenarios where /usr fails to mount for some reason. Then look at what's in /bin compared to what's in /usr/bin, and perhaps you'll understand the logic of it. The manpage man hier explains it very well. -- Polytropon

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-08 Thread Polytropon
is already installed. The options, for a short reference, are: -f = force, -K = keep, -n = no install, -r = remote and -v = verbose. You can then search for lines that address specific locations in /usr/bin rather than /usr/local/bin. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: Adding a Disk and Changing Mountpoints

2010-04-08 Thread Polytropon
under /export - a Solarism... Solaris-ism... just by the way. :-) -- 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: Adding a Disk and Changing Mountpoints

2010-04-09 Thread Polytropon
, as you're working with maximum privileges on file systems, pay attention to device names and directories. Triple-check them. Always. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Mixer Settings For Audacity

2010-04-11 Thread Polytropon
equipment? Just an idea - because I recently had a similar problem with a partially defective microphone. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: licence question

2010-04-14 Thread Polytropon
to Germany. :-) -- 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

Re: console no responding to key in.

2010-04-16 Thread Polytropon
above). -- 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

Re: console no responding to key in.

2010-04-16 Thread Polytropon
to initiate a controlled system shutdown. This should give you the chance to try SUM or a live CD. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-18 Thread Polytropon
inspirations and considerations there. -- 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

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