Re: USB 3.0
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:39:09 -0500 Jerry said: I just found this regarding USB 3.0: snipage Will FreeBSD be able to take advantage of this updated technology? Looking over the FAQ http://www.everythingusb.com/superspeed-usb.html ... it seems to be a change in pinouts ... INAD, but FreeBSD probably already can take advantage of it. -- Don Readdon_r...@att.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: restoring a dump file across the network
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:15:26 -0400 Dave said: Hello, I've got a dumpfile taken of one machine and placed on another. Now i want to push it to a third, i was wondering if this were doable? Machine 3 does not have dump/restore on it can't get it, so needs to have it sent over an encrypted ssh connection. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. Can you mount the files system(s) with nfsd? Regards, -- Don Readdon_r...@att.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: General and specific make questions
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:31:42 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar said: Correct. I do the same here. I also do use make to produce LaTeX documents. I even `published' my collection of makefiles at https://gna.org/projects/bsdmakepscripts/ make is universal too, as many other unix tools. for example i use make and cpp (C preprocessor) for making HTML pages :) Yep. On the old DG/SCO (spit) box I used to admin; I used a makefile to generate the Sales, Inventory, AR, AP, etc. reports every day. if SGDSR.SP out of date or missing? then run script to spool it to disk. if ARAGE.SP out of date or missing? then run script ... etc. ... -- Don Readdon_r...@att.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro
On Sat, 30 May 2009 21:36:49 -0400 John Nielsen said: I'm looking for advice and/or pointers. I have an Intel-based MacBook Pro and I would like to use a USB thumb drive to be able to boot FreeBSD on it. This should get you started: http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.questions/msg/5c759b1c87376b22?pli=1 Regards, -- Don Readdon_r...@att.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: csup source tree as of a certian date
On Thu, 14 May 2009 12:45:51 -0500 Sam Fourman Jr. said: hello, I would like to know how to obtain the FreeBSD -CURRENT source tree as of 4-29-2009 (anywhere in that day is fine) I normally run this command to follow -CURRENT csup -g -L 2 -h cvsup15.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile as my kernel now panics on a i386 kernel as of today, as well as 5-1-2009 (A source tree I had on a alternate machine) What would I have to modify to move my source tree back to say the april 29th or so? I have a kernel from 4-13-2009 that works fine. so I have a window to track down the trouble. Sam Fourman Jr. Have you tried: *default date=2009.04.28.23.59.59 Back when I had to get the old XOrg, *default date' in my ports-supfile returned me to sanity ... -- Don Readdon_r...@att.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: make install krb5 conflict with heimdal
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:20:35 -0500 Gary Gatten said: On FreeBSD 6.0. I have FreeRADIUS installed and functional. Trying to integrate with AD so trying to install SAMBA for the NTLM Auth functions. SAMBA installs failed with a problem with krb5. Finally got the make of krb5 to succeed, but the make install fails with error below. Tried removing heimdal but FreeRADIUS depends on it! Any help getting past this paradox would be GREATLY appreciated! I'm stuck right now and really don't want to uninstall FreeRADIUS. === Installing for krb5-1.6.3_5 === krb5-1.6.3_5 conflicts with installed package(s): heimdal-1.0.1 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/security/krb5. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/security/krb5. 1. Stop hijacking threads. 2. man pkg_delete. Note the -f, --force argument. furrfu ... -- Don Readdon_r...@att.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Physical location of cvsup servers
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:50:46 -0500 Charles Howse said: Hi, Can anyone point me to a link that shows the physical location of the U.S. cvsup servers? Not physical, but by wire time: localhost# fastest_cvsup -c us -- Don Read donr...@sbcglobal.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:54:18 -0500 michael copeland said: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:52 PM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: i agree now that i think about it. but what about the ipv6?! vi versus Emacs? -- Don Read donr...@sbcglobal.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Fwd: newsyslog.conf / rotating logs based on size AND time
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:25:39 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot said: Hello all, Would anyone want to comment if it is possible to rotate logs with newsyslog based on size and time (using FBSD 7.0-Release)? Many thanks! Have you considered using a separate .conf file? cat /etc/crontab ... # Rotate log files every hour, if necessary. 0 * * * * rootnewsyslog # Rotate apache logs once a month 0 0 1 * * rootnewsyslog -f /usr/local/etc/nsl.http.conf # Regards, -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which environment variable?
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:35:41 +0200 Matiss said:
Is there such environment variable, which changes window title for
putty? I mean, MC is able to change it to working dir I think.. How
do I change that title to let's say server name for my shell?
Thanks :)
man xprop
Or for the terminally lazy,
cat xtitle
#!/bin/sh
#
# gets/sets xterm title
#
me=`basename $0`
usage=Usage : $me [pwd | new title ... ] ('pwd' sets it to the current
directory);
Adjective='Current'
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
case $1 in
--help | -help | -h | -\?)
echo;
echo $usage;
exit 0;;
-*) echo $me: Unrecognized switch: $1 ($me -help to show valid
options);
exit 1;;
pwd) Adjective='New';
Title=`pwd`;;
*) Adjective='New';
Title=$1;
while [ $# -gt 1 ]
do
shift;Title=$Title $1;
done;;
esac
shift
done
if [ -n $Title ]
then
xprop -id $WINDOWID -set WM_NAME $Title;
fi
Title=`xprop -id $WINDOWID | grep WM_NAME | cut -d= -f2`
echo $Adjective 'title :' $Title
exit 0
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Re: Mutt Help
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:37:11 -0700 Bill Campbell said: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007, andrew clarke wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:54:37PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: snip By default, Fetchmail will put your mail wherever $MAIL points to. Usually this is in a file named /var/mail/username, where username is your login name. I thought that the default for fetchmail was to pass the messages to the system's MTA (postfix, sendmail, etc.), not to attempt delivery itself. Bill Correct. quote: As each message is retrieved, fetchmail normally delivers it via SMTP to port 25 on the machine it is running on (localhost), just as though it were being passed in over a normal TCP/IP link. fetchmail provides the SMTP server with an envelope recipient derived in the manner described previously. The mail will then be delivered locally via your system's MDA (Mail Delivery Agent, usually sendmail(8) but your system may use a different one such as smail, mmdf, exim, postfix, or qmail). All the delivery-control mechanisms (such as .forward files) normally available through your system MDA and local delivery agents will there- fore work automatically. If no port 25 listener is available, but your fetchmail configuration was told about a reliable local MDA, it will use that MDA for local delivery instead. /quote $ man fetchmail Regards, -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrading cups-base gives compiler error
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:06:37 + Aryeh Friedman said: When will this be in cvsup? --Aryeh About 30 hours ago. localhost.root# ls -l /var/log/cvsup.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 41979 Sep 29 03:19 /var/log/cvsup.log localhost.root# grep cups-base /var/log/cvsup.log Edit ports/print/cups-base/Makefile Edit ports/print/cups-base/distinfo Delete ports/print/cups-base/files/patch-CVE-2007-3387 Checkout ports/print/cups-base/files/patch-Makedefs.in Delete ports/print/cups-base/files/patch-Makefile Checkout ports/print/cups-base/files/patch-auth.c Checkout ports/print/cups-base/files/patch-configure Edit ports/print/cups-base/pkg-plist localhost.root# Regards, -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to delete a package
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:34:15 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: snip === Installing for libgda3-1.9.102_3 === libgda3-1.9.102_3 conflicts with installed package(s): libgda2-1.2.4_1,1 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). snip ...so I: root# pkg_delete libgda2-1.2.4_1,1 pkg_delete: package 'libgda2-1.2.4_1,1' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: py25-gnome-extras-2.14.3_3 straw-0.27 gnome2-fifth-toe-2.18.3 *** ...so I then try to install the new libgda separately: Try using the '-f' force flag as in: pkg_delete -f libgda2-1.2.4_1,1' Regards, -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hosts is ignored
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:51:23 +0800 Erich Dollansky said: Hi, checked. It is readable by all. I agree. It is something stupid like. Try to delete and re-type it. I got stung by a non-printing character once ... Regards, -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running X from a windows PC
On 28-Mar-2003 Pierrick Brossin wrote: Marcel Stangenberger wrote: You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd server) Do you know any free software to do display exporting on Windows ? A few years back a company called 'Microimage' used to offer a free MS-Windows X-Client. Regards, -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. (53kr33t w0rdz: sql table query) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: make clean of /usr/ports
On 25-Oct-2002 David Oleszkiewicz wrote: I haven't been that good at running make clean after installing my ports and could like to clean things up now. I tried running make clean at the top of the ports tree and it works, it just keeps recursing on everyones dependencies so ports like autoconf get make clean'ed a real lot. Is there a way to tell the Make to ignore the dependencies. I couldn't figure one out from looking at the Make files. Please cc this address as I am not subscribed to the list. make NOCLEANDEPENDS=YES distclean Regards, -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
