Re: How can I extract differences between 2 folders ?

2009-05-05 Thread Polytropon
are in different lines. You could first run the files through sort, then diff them. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Polytropon
. This latest addition to the Handbook was in fact inspired by questions and info appearing on this same list :) A very polite addition of mine: It's always wise to study /usr/ports/UPDATING, a file that explains the reasons when your system suddenly went nuts. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Polytropon
. Customer: I've just done a new Word document, saved it, then accidentally deleted it. Is there anything you can do to get it back? Tech Support: Sorry, no, the backup isn't run until night time. Customer: Ohh, can we restore it tomorrow, then? :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Polytropon
isn't sold. So it doesn't have to care about market share and best seller. And for the weekend: 10 GOTO KNEIPE 20 INPUT BIER -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Java without CUPS

2009-05-06 Thread Polytropon
. If it can't be done I'll deal, but I'd like to stay CUPS-free if possible. Same here, too. :-) Philosophy behind the idea: I don't want to install software that I don't need / don't run. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Developing and maintaining a rapidly deployable image of an installed system

2009-05-06 Thread Polytropon
towards documentation or any other resources that might be of use I would greatly appreciate it. There has been a discussion thread some days ago on this list which covers a bit of this topic (deploying). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: abiword

2009-05-07 Thread Polytropon
via the pkg_add command. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

2009-05-07 Thread Polytropon
. You can add further IPs with the same name if your machine spans a LAN (such as from 192.168.1.1). You can check everything with % host localhost and % host bsdbox so it should resolve to 127.0.0.1. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

2009-05-07 Thread Polytropon
instead of .local; .localdomain is okay, too. -- 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: basic

2009-05-07 Thread Polytropon
use it as an OS, not as a church. :-) -- 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: Command-line IRC client

2009-05-07 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 7 May 2009 17:19:47 -0700, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: What is the most recommended IRC client that runs in a terminal? rtorrent is to bit torrent what is to IRC. Solution = { irc, BitchX } :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

2009-05-07 Thread Polytropon
127.0.0.1 localhost It can cause big (stupid) problems if you miss them. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Reformatting external harddrive

2009-05-12 Thread Polytropon
a FreeBSD partition on that disk. Which files do you have in /dev? # ll /dev/da0* Maybe you just need to newfs /dev/da0s1{a,c,d,e,...?}. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Installing Unix

2009-05-12 Thread Polytropon
here: The FAQ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ The Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Reformatting external harddrive

2009-05-12 Thread Polytropon
# umount /backup It's quite simple to do so. :-) -- 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: Reformatting external harddrive

2009-05-13 Thread Polytropon
at the beginning of the newfs program. (I ask about the -O and -T options becase I would like to use this harddrive on both my FreeBSD and my linux machine.) I'm not sure if Linux is able to use UFS... (I don't use Linux, so I really can't tell.). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-13 Thread Polytropon
as with the canonical way of updating the system through make update and make build/install kernel/world. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: scrotwm can't find bsd.prog.mk

2009-05-13 Thread Polytropon
sys.mk bsd.init.mk bsd.port.options.mk version_gen.awk If they aren't there (maybe due to a defective install / upgrade procedure), you can get them from the source tree. # cd /usr/src/share/mk # make install -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-14 Thread Polytropon
doing. My root shell is less prone to break then the standard csh shell, because I compile it statically (and also on the / partition). That's a completely valid solution - better than just chsh and then trouble. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Polytropon
that csh is your dialog shell. If it's not, you may need another syntax to change DISPLAY, e. g. for BASH. It worked in the past, but who knows what still works in X... :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: matlab 2009a

2009-05-17 Thread Polytropon
cpu MHz : 2018.20 bogomips: 2018.20 -- 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: compiling FreeBSD date on Linux

2009-05-19 Thread Polytropon
this, I can't tell you how to achieve this. Furthermore, I'm not sure in how far date hooks into the FreeBSD kernel in order to work. It's completely possible that it would be easier to implement FreeBSD's date functionality in Linux's date command itself (from scratch). -- Polytropon From

Re: compiling FreeBSD date on Linux

2009-05-20 Thread Polytropon
interface which would be something similar in Linux, and the libutil library, which is maybe present on Linux, too. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Win4BSD 1.1 on 7.1

2009-05-23 Thread Polytropon
. :-) -- 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: backspace-key and ^H when ssh -X remote.

2009-05-23 Thread Polytropon
key does ^H in this setting? -- 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: compiling FreeBSD date on Linux

2009-05-23 Thread Polytropon
*src, size_t size); size_t strlcat(char *dst, const char *src, size_t size); Check if Linux has them, too, and if yes, that they have the same parameter definition. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Polytropon
in the future. By the way, can you tell me how expensive (approx.) is the UMTS dongle, and how much is using it? (I'm curious, and since you're from a .de domain, your answer should apply to me, too.) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Win4BSD 1.1 on 7.1

2009-05-24 Thread Polytropon
clean command in win4bsd's directory. As I said, dry assumption - I haven't tried it. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-24 Thread Polytropon
, NetBSD isn't FreeBSD. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-26 Thread Polytropon
by pkg_add -r apsfilter or pkg_add -r cups) and loads the proper driver automatically. This should be mentioned. Just my 0,02 Euro. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Streaming server / YouTube

2009-05-26 Thread Polytropon
possible to watch inclomplete files with mplayer). And for complete correctness, the video IS stored on the harddrive in parts (according to the hard drive based caching of the stream). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: df -h returns negatives values

2009-05-26 Thread Polytropon
... -- 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: rtmpdump (was: Re: Streaming server)

2009-05-26 Thread Polytropon
datastreams (coming from another file, a DVD, a HTTP link or something else) into a file (see -dumpfile). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: df -h returns negatives values

2009-05-26 Thread Polytropon
slice (/dev/aacd0s1d). In any case, a check in SUM with unmounted partition would be good, as you mentioned. Maybe you should run fsck -fFyv /var -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Streaming server / YouTube

2009-05-26 Thread Polytropon
file in the main file system (as a file or part of a file). Temporarily, of course, and splitted. You know what I mean. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

A FreeBSD program that rotates text

2009-05-26 Thread Polytropon
is standing up. A pictural figure should be placable in the inner of the circle. Colours should be applyable. Final output can be everything: Image formats like PNG or JPG, PDF files, Postscript. Suggestions, anyone? =^_^= Thank you! -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: A FreeBSD program that rotates text

2009-05-26 Thread Polytropon
in \LaTeX{} then ]; until 1400 tomorrow. :-) // -- 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: A FreeBSD program that rotates text

2009-05-26 Thread Polytropon
installed Inkscape and just had a look into it. I've been advised that it's a powerful tool, still relatively easy to master, and I've been told that I should use it to postprocess my manga drawings. If you don't mind, can you describe me in a few steps what to do? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg

Re: A FreeBSD program that rotates text

2009-05-26 Thread Polytropon
it does. Thanks again! That Inkscape really seems to be a very cool program. Wished I had played around with it earlier, not at night time (it's almost midnight here in Germany). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Is this a gmirror bug?

2009-05-26 Thread Polytropon
assumed that a disk occupation 100% would go into this reserved area, which would turn the Capacity field to be more than 100%, and not less than 0%? This is the case when I have more data on a UFS partition than it is allowed to... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-26 Thread Polytropon
about how it would be to finish with an uptime of 666 days, of course at 6:66 o'clock. =^_^= -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: A FreeBSD program that rotates text

2009-05-27 Thread Polytropon
. =^_^= -- 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: 7.2: Xorg no keyboard/mouse input

2009-05-27 Thread Polytropon
startup or needed modifications to xorg.conf. Thre have been earlier posts about this problem on the mailing list. Feel free to check the archives. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: ipod nano 3th 8gig

2009-05-27 Thread Polytropon
assume that it shows itself to the system as a regular direct access storage device (da) and not as a generic device (ugen). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Polytropon
disk or a optical disc drive longer than the period it is utilized in the server - it doesn't break when you switch to a newer system. Erm sorry, I forgot the truth: It will of course break before this point in time; in fact, it will break when you need it most. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
to get stupid non-printers working with a standard compliant operating system, and I always save such instructions locally, because one day, I can solve a problem that the printer manufacturer can't (because he originated it by his lack of standard compliance). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
spending. Remember that we who have learned to get things working are always called when troubles arise, and we are paid to do so. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Formatted text conversion

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
, even if it means losing some formatting/bells/whistles. If the Kindle does support PDF (I don't know if it does), wouldn't that be a better alternative, because it lets you keep the format of the document? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: A FreeBSD program that rotates text

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
as well, and do the clipping of the drawing inside the inner circle. Maybe it can even to the outlines of the letters, this seems to depend on the text font used. Thank you, I will keep this in mind, as well as the solution based on Inkscape. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
/ csup doesn't seem to be interested in distfiles/, maybe portupgrade or portmaster is. (I'm using portupgrade tools, and I've not found myself in a difficult situation.) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
, lots of autodetect... users like this. :-) (On the other hand, it's problematic to add a parallel printer with CUPS that isn't attached to the system - bad idea in my opinion, just because the printer isn't available AT THE MOMENT should not disable me to select it.) -- Polytropon From

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
too late. Special offer from Lehmann brothers. :-) -- 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: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
. -- 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: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
, is to find the cheapest and most efficient solution for a given problem. I have found one that works just fine for me. Then again, it's okay for you, even if I don't consider it cheap (exta PC purchase, PC running, license) or most efficient (exta PC needed). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Is this a gmirror bug?

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
the software needed on the other systems... -- 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: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
the better. :-) At the point where this the more generates so much overhead that things are lagging, stalling or just work much too slow, or slower than they should, you can re-thing the situation. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Failure to get past a PCI bridge

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
. Check the blinkenlights with caps lock, num lock and scroll lock (if present). If optical mouse doesn't have any light, it's nearly obvious that it doesn't get power from the USB port. This doesn't need to imply that the keyboard is off, too. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
to be old-fashioned (not very much in fact, but slightly increasing). I hope this trend continues, so printer manufacturers (and those that built other stuff used together with computers) will change their attitude towards interoperability and standards. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
, of course. :-) -- 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: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
and get things done. In the result, those people say: Wow, I'm so clever, that was really easy! I'm a Program Manager! (I really met a person who called from himself as being a Program Manager.) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
discs they need to spend some time with before being able to actually use their new printer. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
to buy extra batteries? No way! :-) -- 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: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
. I'm nearly out of brain capacity because I had to read through more than 300 messages today. =^_^= -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
class at the moment. -- 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: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-29 Thread Polytropon
of getting a color laser printer some times in the future. :-) -- 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: character sets for file names on ufs?

2009-05-29 Thread Polytropon
. Before the characters seemed to be Braille characters (dotmatrix characters in a 2x3 matrix to be read by blind persons), but I can't remember the letters anymore in order to translate. :-) By the way, I'm using Sylpheed 2.4.7. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-29 Thread Polytropon
(those who are responsible for the decisions made) create their own problems - they are the source of the problems. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-29 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 29 May 2009 01:35:00 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: ... If the printer has PS or PCL, gs or even apsfilter will help. Dunno about PCL, but if the printer has PS it surely does not need gs. The whole point of gs -- in connection

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-29 Thread Polytropon
goal is to achieve the same via network, shouldn't be a problem, worked before.) -- 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: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-29 Thread Polytropon
to have theirselves? If you think that's stupid - well, at least it's the reality here. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: difference between cvsup and portsnap

2009-05-29 Thread Polytropon
) or the current point in development (head). There's a tool called portdowngrade (if I remember correctly) that lets you fetch ports from an older version. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: pfsync in GENERIC?

2009-05-29 Thread Polytropon
that cannot be done via kernel tunables or loadable modules. The discussion online is not conclusive (then again I'll probably just get contradictory opinions again here!) Of course. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
| | | | [ OK ] [ Tree ][ Cancel ] | +--+ That's what I mostly use. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
/ update / deinstall scripts). -- 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: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
is a good choice You can even keep it out of /usr employing the /opt Linuxism. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Multiple program launches in Midnight Commander

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
- learned on a real typewriter. :-) -- 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: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 23:50:42 +0200, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: /opt is actually a Solarism... ;-) That's true, but nobody knows, because Solaris doesn't exist. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
that it is possible. (There are other Solarisisms that I've already seen, such as /export on FreeBSD which is usually used on Solaris for NFS shares.) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
), but called /usr/people... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
, and sometimes everything altogether... How many fingers? ;-) -- 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: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
systems because it explicitely takes care of file attributes and anything; I do use it usually from hard disk to hard disk, not via storage media (backup set). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
you have to use it on your own systems, but it helps to understand why things are there and configured in a specific way. With ZFS, of course, there's much room for improvement. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
. :-) -- 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

Text attribute differences of syscons and xterm

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
on black), and both bold and underlining do work, inverse too. Blinking doesn't. At the text mode console, blink works, inverse too, but underlining does not (no effect). Is there any possible way to get underlining in the real text mode? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: a binary package update

2009-06-01 Thread Polytropon
would be as follows: Get the newest version of a package along with all those packages this new version depends on. In order to do so, you may use the simple (and ugly) shell script I attached. It uses pkg_add to fetch those packages, but it does NOT install anything. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg

Re: a binary package update

2009-06-02 Thread Polytropon
. -- 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: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
in security considerations applies there, too.) -- 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: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
be of high quality (as an exception to MICROS~1 stuff). Also, how many people actually review source code AND have the skills to find security related issues? Obviously enough of them - OpenSSH is an example. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
apps from other systems (like unix) easier. The Open indicates that it is conform to certain standards, like it's open for interoperability in terms of certain interfaces. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:50:24 +0100, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts. I just LOVE the webpage. The kind of one I'd make in my spare time... Why? Because it's so L33T? :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
be 2009/032. I've read man date and man strftime, and it didn't look like this is already built in. What am I missing? If it's not invented yet, I'll do this on my own, but maybe I don't need to re-invent the wheel. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
). Would be nice to have this in man date, too. :-) -- 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: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
from man date to man strftime where I should have recognized the correct answer. Life is hard if you can't read properly. :-) PS. I love FreeBSD for its excellent documentation. Can't tell something similar about Linux, sadly. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Polytropon
on their own. :-) I think Wojciech just had the same observation. -- 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: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Polytropon
-mandoc | ps2pdf - man.pdf I'm not sure you can do this with info based manuals... -- 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: Open_Source

2009-06-04 Thread Polytropon
knows from mind what I'm talking about. But don't mind, they don't exist anymore. :-) -- 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: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Polytropon
documentation often is supplied in /usr/local/share/doc and /usr/local/share/examples - available locally. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Polytropon
pictures to describe a certain process, which often makes it look like a children's book. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Polytropon
ABCDEFGHKL + up/down YXCVBNM,.- | | :.:..:.:.: ---+ The Braille output was 1x80 or 2x80. For outputs with less colums, 1x40 or 2x40, an additional horizontal slider was added. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Can a Bourn Shell Script put itself in the background?

2009-06-05 Thread Polytropon
) is a solution. It let's you decouple a program from the controlling terminal session, so it can be run in the background even if you logged off. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

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