Re: multishell user profile

a good comparison chart of shell syntax and capabilities. As stupid as it may sound, you'll find some information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_command_shells http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: installing gnome

, depending on using gdm or not. I also get this error during boot: gdm-binary[1285]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log mention in (EE) (errors)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: USB keyboard: mode switch / numlock freezes

that doesn't fail after the 4th use - see xmodmap. -- 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: More than 8 partitions

. Obviously, this refers to the possible letters a, b, c, ..., z as partition identifiers instead of numerical ones (e. g. ad0p7). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: I am new to BSD

are supported and which means of configuration you can use to optimize the whole process for you. Have fun! The most important hint! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: ziz a dumb question?

it for anything that would allow me to call it a server, so I can't be more specific. -- 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: ziz a dumb question?

On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer

Re: ziz a dumb question?

. 10 disks and lots of noise must use a few watts, though size and weight wouldn't have that much influence per se :) But it's more than 10 years old, too old to seriously measure something! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: window/app aware bindkey/input control application?

not sure if such a solution already exist in ready form, but it shouldn't be hard to implement it. Additionally, I'm not sure if this can be done with all kinds of window managers or full desktop environments. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: android

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:41:08 -0500, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 February 2011 03:45, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:39 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: You can check the partitioning of the da4 device

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:18:47 -0500, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds like I really need to learn about dump/restore. You should - it's fundamental UNIX basic knowledge. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

the cpdup program (found in ports) which is also very handy for rsync-like tasks. -- 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: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:57:02 -0800, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: Sometimes there can be activation issues with OEM versions of Windows XP. They're usually keyed to the manufacturer's BIOS. Not a problem anymore - after 2014. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

or as preinstalled part of a bundle with PC hardware, you do not own it, you're not allow to do with it as you please, instead you rent a limited right to just use it under certain circumstances and terms.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Stuck

on it! The procedure described above reminds me to how kernels have been built in the FreeBSD 4 era. Interesting to see that it is -a- still supported and -b- serves a specific purpose that may be intended sometimes. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

when you try to use it from a different ISP, it will deny your access. -- 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: Backtick versus $()

), superior to the hyped bash. But it's also worth mentioning that there are even better shells which combine the best of both worlds, like zsh, a shell that many professionals seem to prefer over the other ones mentioned. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Backtick versus $()

spending too much time in sh interactive sessions to think about it, you're probably doing something wrong. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Backtick versus $()

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:54:25 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:40:44PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:24:37 -0800, Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net wrote: I've read it before. Who hasn't? I haven't. :-) While reading

Re: Backtick versus $()

opinion, and equal to csh (which I prefer in this regards). Oh prefer - it's all very individual, that's why the system's default shell should be replaced by punched cards. Everyone likes colorful punched cards. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: Backtick versus $()

for. -- 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

Re: HAL's demise

and he assured that SAL is already taking over the neccessary functionalities, being scheduled for obsolescence within the next two years. So don't hesitate to put sal_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf. It will at least coredump in a pleasant voice. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: HAL's demise

suddenly do better than Windows? I know we could in the past... -- 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: display resolution on my thinkpad t61

properly: xrandr --fb 1680x1050 xrandr --size 1680x1050 I'm using this hack to convince X to run my monitor at 1400x1050 which it doesn't seem to be able to anymore (unlike XFree86 - same system, GPU, and monitor). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

corresponds to partition da0s1f. -- 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: Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?

the .dump files as intended. This is fast enough as it is a very safe solution. -- 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: Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?

procedures if you are using ZFS. -- 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: Cannot build jdk16

. So what's the best way of installing jdk16 despite of this? Rename tzupdater-1_3_35-2011b to tzupdater-1_3_34-2010o.zip and make -DNO_CHECKSUM? If you don't depend on tzupdater, you should run make config and disable it prior to the build process. Then it won't be requested. -- Polytropon

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

it was. :-) -- 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: Purchased Binaries

to make this stuff run. It shouldn't be neccessary to use older versions of FreeBSD. However you can install the COMPAT[4567] components (kernel settings and ports) to provide that level of OS access if it should be required. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Fresh binary install

to this is to keep the ports tree up to date, and tools like portsnap fetch extract can help you with this. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

with patterns and autocompletition than manually selecting things from a list. -- 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: xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox

, this should not happen (in relation to Firefox) there should at least be an error message. Did you try to enter the full command into xpdf's printing dialog, e. g. /usr/local/bin/lpr -Pprinter, just in case the .xpdfrc setting hasn't been read upon program start? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Best practices on upgrading, etc.

are important); you can also use portmaster for that, this should be easier than dealing with the ports directly (which is, in any case, possible too). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Character shortcuts

the letter and the key you need to press in order to generate it. You can also rearrange them if you feel a need for that. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Character shortcuts

On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:57:31 -0600, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Frank Polytropon for your input. I have students that bug me with how to put the characters on their responses to their instructors on the web pages via email. I tell them to open OpenOffice

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

use them from the mainboard). If you omit the slicing step, all examples remove s1. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

of that (never tried, but sounds achievable). -- 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: HAL must die!

? -- 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: HAL must die!

). -- 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: HAL must die!

documentation in the standard way, try man firefox or any KDE program. In some cases, documentation is left to the users and scattered across the Internet in web pages and Wikis. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: HAL must die!

is there is next to nix in complete and/or understandable documentation anywhere for it. Obsolete or not, that is a bad case... Obsolete / incomplete / incorrect / unusable documentation equals NO documentation - especially from a user's point of view. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: devd started with single-user mode?

, I still have to keep a PS/2 AT keyboard handy. -- 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: Minimum system requirements

is important, too, so you chose your GPU according to good driver support (ATI Radeon old-fashioned in my case). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: devd started with single-user mode?

that it worked in the past (as you've noticed, I did define german keyboard settings), and it stopped working with FreeBSD 7. Of course I didn't use kbdmux prior to that. Good to know about that. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: glabel causes GEOM: ada1: media size does not match label messages

* operating systems can't deal with it. Those systems are traditionally located in MICROS~1 land. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: devd started with single-user mode?

will be used, the AT phantom keyboard will be ignored (which is good when it's not even present). So basically, kbdmux means use all of them, while its absence means use this or that. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Automating mounting of ISO images

it wrong in the suggestive script. :-) I'm not sure if you can mount from ISO files directly, but maybe you can try that too. Remember unmounting the files when not in use (scripted: umount and mdconfig -d). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Automating mounting of ISO images

create the directories needed prior to the mount attempt. -- 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: Automating mounting of ISO images

} mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -f ${FILE}` /mount/new_brighton/images/${DIRNAME} done Thanks to Polytropon and Chuck for their guidance. Just a little note: Make sure you're mounting the ISOs as -o ro to prevent write access to them. If users don't have +w access to the mounted

Re: Automating mounting of ISO images

to pure filenames only in this case. If we have 100+ ISOs to mount then I'll worry. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Automating mounting of ISO images

... mount... so there will be no error if the script is started for the second time (and the directories still exist), means: create them only if not yet present. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Automating mounting of ISO images

who checks the results of fopen(), fgets(), fprintf() and even of fclose(). :-) -- 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: Sound with FN Button

identify what the keys DO and then connect them to a keyname. This keyname is then connected to a specific program call, mixer with the intended parameters in case of volume control. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Sound with FN Button

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:52:03 +0100, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: On 03/24/11 21:52, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:28:05 +0100, Alokatmail...@alokat.org wrote: Hi, how can I use the FN Buttons to regular the sound? I'm using fluxbox. Use the xev program to check which

Re: why does this simple counter fail?

removing extra spaces, it should be fine. :-) -- 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: searching for a good IDE

). -- 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: use CD burner on thinkpad x300

you already try low level diagnostics, i. e. checking the output of camcontrol devlist and try to burn a CD or DVD using growisofs / cdrecord / cdrdao? This should tell you if you're fighting a nonfunctioning CD burner or just a lazy application. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

as an installation starter too, not fully sure). Oh, and please remember: Everything that I've said is just my very individual opinion, my own experience. Everyone else has the right to express a totally different opinion. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

my statement: PCs are not simple. Face it, it's a fact. :-) -- 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: Easiest desktop BSD distro

GeoWorks Ensemble had that back in the early 90s: New user, average user, experienced user. Depending on the setting, more or less options where shown, and less or more defaults have been set. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

you to adopt to many variations of the same old thing as you do know what's inside it. ONLY THIS KIND of essential basic knowledge makes you a real professional - in opposite to dilletantic artists in IT. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

the few really simple things? :-) -- 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: Easiest desktop BSD distro

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:56:14 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: T: (a deep sigh while rolling his eyes) No, that's not the fuel, that's the tachometer. It is supposed to point at zero if the car is not started

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

above, and then let ctorrent get the file. -- 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: Easiest desktop BSD distro

the wireless network, the manufacturer has to do it using his black box driver. If this also doesn't work (maybe because the driver is not compatible to the Windows), the product gets discarded, and a new one is bought. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

. It doesn't raise exceptions, it simply explodes! :-) -- 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: Gui CD soft recommend

. :-) -- 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: Easiest desktop BSD distro

buildkernel; make installkernel, once you had it figured. Oh, on FreeBSD it's a lot easier than that: make kernel. :-) See /usr/src/Makefile's comment header where the build targets get explained. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:33:09 +0100, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 03/31/11 17:06, Arthur Chance wrote: On 03/30/11 23:00, Polytropon wrote: There is a project called VirtualBSD that developed a FreeBSD system image that can be used with VirtualBox. Nitpick: the web site

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:05:36 -0400, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:12:26 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de articulated: On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:12:23 -0400, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:32:29 -0700 (PDT) four.harris

Re: Ethernet connection and monitor resolution in DesktopBSD

is done using a GUI tool (maybe a tool provided by KDE). Basically the handbook sections about how to configure X should apply. See Section 5.4 of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

up with DHCP. The only problem with the RELEASE discs is that they do not provide something preinstalled preconfigured. However, it's quite simple to follow the steps in the handbook to get KDE or Gnome running and start from there. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Port dependencies

- purpose OS like 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

Re: Port dependencies

On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:36:55 -0700, Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org wrote: On 04/01/2011 17:51, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:58:04 -0700, Chris Teltingchristopher...@telting.org wrote: Just in a thoughtful mood and thought I'd to the question to the cloud. Oh

Re: am i back up....???

can access it by any IMAP capable client you want, and you could even install a web mail client (e. g. roundcube) to bind to that IMAP inter- face. In my opinion, this is way better than the POP/no-SMTP thing I'm currently doing. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: console based sound control

that provides a curses-based graphical mixer, the port brings both a mixer for console and one for X, but sadly I can't remember its name... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: am i back up....???

On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 09:46:26 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:43:59AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: For example, you could install an IMAP interface for mail stored on the server, so you can access it by any IMAP capable client you want, and you could

Re: am i back up....???

wanted web mail, and they insisted on RoundCube, so they got it. They're slow in thinkind and reading, slower in typing, so the program speed is still too fast for them. That's all the magic behind the story. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: Place to install library of shell functions

) - things that usually are not called directly. -- 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: GEOM warning in dmesg

.html http://koitsu.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/testing-out-freebsd-8-0-rc1/ There are explainations and solutions. I hope it will help. But as I said, I'm quite sure you can ignore the messages as they do not affect the system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: shell programming question: help with expr command

, as this is NOT portable (if this is one of your goals); use the standard #!/bin/sh instead. Depending on what you have in mind, maybe mentioning the strengths of perl, sed and awk is worth being mentioned. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: malloc: errno: 22: Invalid argument

return values like EX_CONFIG, EX_USGE or EX_SOFTWARE (as defined in sysexits.h), but I'm not sure if this is fully portable across all BSDs, UNIX, and the various Linusi. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: No login prompt when ssh-ing into my machine.

get it to show the login prompt as well? See man sshd_config for details, especially the keyword Banner may be interesting. For configuring your local SSH client program, see man ssh_config. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: double spacing in vim, vi, or cream

? If you're fine with postprocessing, use sed 's/./ /g'. If you want to use LaTeX, \usepackage{soul} and then \so{The text you want doublespaced}. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: double spacing in vim, vi, or cream

, use the command awk '{ printf(%s\n\n, $0); }' single.txt double.txt for vertical double-spacing. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: double spacing in vim, vi, or cream

, oe, ue and ss substitutions which are valid. -- 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: can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf

. -- 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

Re: can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf

should tell you about this. -- 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: can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf

and use mplayer on a VOB file directly, e. g. mplayer /mnt/video_ts/vts_01_1.vob. The output should be similar... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf

, VLC isn't bad, although I really prefer mplayer as I'm using it since the earliest days. But I doubt VLC will play without the codecs (that are, as far as I understood, an independent part and port). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

, NAME=value. -- 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: can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf

* that machine has SATA cables not IDE like this one, this is my take on the issue. If i install/try a SATA dvd drive, it will work* Really, try a different drive, and if you can, also try different cables, just to make sure it's NOT the cables causing trouble. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: easy Firewall setup

from inside to outside, but deny any requests coming from outside. -- 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: disk problem: suggestion on how to handle...

which should be used on unmounted partitions whenever possible. Files like /usr/src/sys/bio.h and /usr/src/sys/geom/geom_vfs.c give some hints about what the numbers are refering to. Sadly I'm not a system programmer, so I can't be more specific. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: access an extended partition and

the mount command (mount_ntfs I assume in your case) to test-mount the drives (use -o ro for this, just to be sure). I am not a multi-booter and do not use any Windows, so I can't be more specific, sorry. Still I hope you can try something given the above explainations. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: Any way to have login output AND use rsync/scp ?

file (which is only executed if the shell is an interactive login shell). -- 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: Any way to have login output AND use rsync/scp ?

On Mon, 2 May 2011 02:13:17 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 1 May 2011 15:58:45 -0700 (PDT), George Sanders gosand1...@yahoo.com wrote: I have my .cshrc file run some basic netstat and 'w' commands so that when I log in, I can see at a glance what is going

Re: For My Edification

to determine _what_ to read. Those resources can be easily accessed through the FreeBSD web page, but can also used locally (maybe on systems without Internet or web access). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: For My Edification

arbitrary Wiki on the web. :-) -- 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

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