bf writes:
>> Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
>
> This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done.
Well *porting* TeX Live is certainly not trivial! But actually
installing it as free-standing software is not too hard.
Get it from here:
http://
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:20:10PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
> Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
> Running the latex command on a .tex file, I keep getting this error:
>
> xcolor.sty 140 Undefined control
> xcolor.sty 140 Emergency stop.
> *exit co
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
> bf writes:
>
> >> Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
> >
> > This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done.
>
> Well *porting* TeX Live is certainly not trivial! But actually
> ins
Luke Dean wrote:
>
> This is an answer to a question I started to post, but then decided to
> research instead. I know many readers of this list use the feature I'm
> describing.
>
> When Xorg was upgraded to version 7.4, the historic ability to shut
> down X
> with Control+Alt+Backspace became a
Roland Smith writes:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
>> bf writes:
>>
>> >> Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
>> >
>> > This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done.
>>
>> Well *porting* TeX Live is certainly
print/latex port. During the installation/building of the latex port,
I received a message that the version being installed was over 5 years
old. When I tried to add latex via pkg_add, I had no success (I
assumed the package was named latex, but it wasn't found).
Winefish works, and latex appea
Hi there,
I got cyrus-imapd working outside a jail.
But when i want to install it within a jail it won't start.
What are the extra steps, to get cyrus-imapd working inside a jail. Is there a
simple howto available?
greetings,
Danny
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Hello
My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS
development in particular. I know I am just a relatively poor person
so I can't contribute much (maybe on the order of 20-30 euro a month),
but I keep seeing FreeBSD core team members keep mentioning "we value
donations of all
Familie van der Schaft wrote:
Hi there,
I got cyrus-imapd working outside a jail.
But when i want to install it within a jail it won't start.
What are the extra steps, to get cyrus-imapd working inside a jail. Is there a
simple howto available?
Try to check logs or start the master process i
My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS
development in particular. I know I am just a relatively poor person
so I can't contribute much (maybe on the order of 20-30 euro a month),
donati...@freebsd.org
and of course you may sponsor it too by improving ZFS code, or maybe
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:08:23PM -0500, Kirk Strauser typed:
> Chris Rees wrote:
>
> >Traditional:
> >
> >% tar xzvf bluurgh.tgz
> >
> >GNU recommended:
> >
> >$ tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file bluurgh.tgz
> >
> >Seriously, why are long options encouraged?
>
> Scripting. I almost alway
what some single-letter option meant. I pretty much never use them on
the command line, though.
Agreed, the long options *as an alternative* can be descriptive in scripts,
tutorials, howto's etc.
The other reason often mentioned, there being not enough letters in the
alphabet to cover all possi
how can i put in setenv= definition a ":" character?
for example i would like to set enviroment variable a to b:c in login.conf
thanks
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On 6/6/09, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> how can i put in setenv= definition a ":" character?
>
> for example i would like to set enviroment variable a to b:c in login.conf
It's documented in login.conf manual.
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On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 11:49:51AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar typed:
> >>what some single-letter option meant. I pretty much never use them on
> >>the command line, though.
> >
> >Agreed, the long options *as an alternative* can be descriptive in scripts,
> >tutorials, howto's etc.
> >The other reason
On 6/6/09, ge...@dts.su wrote:
> Hello, Freebsd-questions.
>
> After one of new crash I have this:
>
> GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute cop
Hello.
What options I must add to kernel? Can You tell me what I must do when
system crash next time?
> On 6/6/09, ge...@dts.su wrote:
>> Hello, Freebsd-questions.
>>
>> After one of new crash I have this:
>>
>> GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
>> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> GDB is f
Erik,
I recieve the following message:
/usr/local/cyrus/bin >./master -D
No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging
init_kmem: kvm_openfiles failed: /dev/mem: No such file or directory
I noticed that it is the same message coming from:
/usr/local/cyrus/bin >netstat -rn
netstat: kvm not
2009/6/6
> Hello.
>
> What options I must add to kernel? Can You tell me what I must do when
> system crash next time?
>
> > On 6/6/09, ge...@dts.su wrote:
> >> Hello, Freebsd-questions.
> >>
> >> After one of new crash I have this:
> >>
> >> GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
> >> Copyright 2004 Free Soft
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 09:49:51AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > Winefish works, and latex appears to be installed, but I get errors
> > using code I know to be flawless. I suspect this relates to
> > out-of-date latex on my machine.
>
> why not print/teTeX
Because teTeX is unmaintained upst
Familie van der Schaft wrote:
Erik,
I recieve the following message:
/usr/local/cyrus/bin >./master -D
No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging
init_kmem: kvm_openfiles failed: /dev/mem: No such file or directory
I noticed that it is the same message coming from:
/usr/local/cyrus/b
Hello.
I have this options in kernel:
makeoptions DEBUG=-g# Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols
options KDB
options DDB
options GDB
What I need more in kernel conf?
> 2009/6/6
>> Hello.
>>
>> What options I must add to kernel? Can You tell me wh
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Wojciech Puchar <
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS
>> development in particular. I know I am just a relatively poor person
>> so I can't contribute much (maybe on the order of 20-30 euro a mont
for example i would like to set enviroment variable a to b:c in login.conf
It's documented in login.conf manual.
indeed i missed that.
Note that since a colon (`:') is used to separate capability entries,
a
`\c' escape sequence must be used to embed a literal colon in the
value
rsync isn't bloated and it's well written IMO. It still does only one job, and
it does it well. As you say, most common tasks can still be done with only
short options. This would change if some developer decided to add other,
unrelated functionality. But that's harder if you want to maintain shor
I really appreciate all the good suggestions I got from
everybody who responded.
"Barry Byrne" writes:
> I think the simplest thing would be to write a little wrapper script, that
> calls your other script.
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> echo "Stating Daemon Now"
> /path/to/mainscript &
This got me
On Saturday 06 June 2009 13:47:57 Neal Hogan wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Wojciech Puchar <
>
> woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> > My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS
> >
> >> development in particular. I know I am just a relatively poor person
> >>
I was just given a Gateway GT 52250 with an AMD Anthon 64 X2 Processor
3800+ with a nVidia Geforce 6150LE card.
Assuming I install the 64 bit version of FreeBSD on this machine, what
nVidea driver should I install? From what I understood, nVidia
was not producing 64 bit drivers for FreeBSD due to
nVidea driver should I install? From what I understood, nVidia
was not producing 64 bit drivers for FreeBSD due to a problem with the
FreeBSD kernel. There are none listed on the nVidea site either.
problem with FreeBSD kernel? what FreeBSD/amd64 kernel can't that i386 one
can?
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On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
> On Saturday 06 June 2009 13:47:57 Neal Hogan wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Wojciech Puchar <
> >
> > woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> > > My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS
> > >
> > >> dev
Although ZFS isn't currently listed as a project, I'm sure there's enough
interest from the community.
Just to clarify. . .
I'm not laughing at just the response, which was appropriate. I was laughing
at the combination of response and responder.
well - it's quite a big difference between you
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> sorry: should have been "bounce back". when i responded to the middle
> of
> an on-going debate last night, i received an automated reply that my
> post
> had to be approved because there were too many recipients to the
>
I have a Teclast TL-C300 usb media player which works fine with Slackware 12.2
and Windows XP, but is not properly recognised by
FreeBSD.
I have other usb devices, eg camera, which all work fine, so I am guessing that
my config is OK, although I do see errors with
these devices too.
According t
When the TL-C300 is plugged in after boot, it produces the following console
report:-
umass1: on uhub2
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(probe0:umass-sim1
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Medium not present
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Unretryable error
da0 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0
da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 1900MB (3892224 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 24
On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote:
> I did notice a driver on the nVidia page for FreeBSD x86, version #
> 185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports
> is: 180.44, which has actually been superseded four times since its
> release by nVidia.
>
> Would the x86 driver wor
Hey guys...
I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the
system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for
backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty.
When booting after an improper shutdown, the system starts the backgrounds
f
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:09:15 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> nVidea driver should I install? From what I understood, nVidia
>> was not producing 64 bit drivers for FreeBSD due to a problem with
>> the FreeBSD kernel. There are none listed on the nVidea site either.
>
>problem with FreeBSD k
system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for
backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty.
When booting after an improper shutdown, the system starts the backgrounds
fsck as usual and on all the other partitions, seem to take the "normal"
turn of
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100
Mike Clarke wrote:
>On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote:
>
>> I did notice a driver on the nVidia page for FreeBSD x86, version #
>> 185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports
>> is: 180.44, which has actually been superseded four times
How can I change the Terminal title (the title shown on open instances
of Terminal on the panel in xfce) to display *only* the present
working directory. Currently they all show "Terminal - dan...@bsdbox:
~", for example.
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John Nielsen. wrote:
I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the
system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for
backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty.
Some will disagree, but this almost screams for ZFS: no fsck, gr
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100
Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote:
>
> > I did notice a driver on the nVidia page for FreeBSD x86, version #
> > 185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports
> > is: 180.44, which has actually been superseded four
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:07:23 +, Paul B. Mahol wrote
> On 6/5/09, Gene wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:18:42 +, Paul B. Mahol wrote
> >> On 6/4/09, Gene wrote:
> >> > Hi All:
> >> >
> >> > I'm trying to get wireless working on a laptop. It works fine as long as
> >> > no
> >> > encryption
On 6/6/09, Gene wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:07:23 +, Paul B. Mahol wrote
>> On 6/5/09, Gene wrote:
>> > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:18:42 +, Paul B. Mahol wrote
>> >> On 6/4/09, Gene wrote:
>> >> > Hi All:
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm trying to get wireless working on a laptop. It works fine as long
I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the
system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for
backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty.
Some will disagree, but this almost screams for ZFS: no fsck, great RAID
support, and
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
my 6 disk system with 2 750GB disks, 2 500GB disks and 2 320GB disks
does fsck in 40 minutes. if you exclude these 320GB disk containing
system and squid cache (LOTS of files) it takes <5 minutes
That's a great example of why I like ZFS on new installations.
--
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2009/6/6 Wojciech Puchar :
>>> what some single-letter option meant. I pretty much never use them on
>>> the command line, though.
>>
>> Agreed, the long options *as an alternative* can be descriptive in
>> scripts,
>> tutorials, howto's etc.
>> The other reason often mentioned, there being not en
2009/6/6 Martin McCormick :
> This also works in Linux's /bin/sh which I believe is an alias
> for bash so occasionally little things work differently.
>
Usually is, but in some it's linked to dash.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
Also, you should ONLY use POSIX-compatible commands/extensio
On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100
>
> Mike Clarke wrote:
> >No, in the absence of a 64 bit driver from Nvidia you'd need to use
> >the nv driver included in the xorg-drivers port. I had quite a
> >struggle to get the nv driver to give me a 1280x1024 displ
2009/6/6 Wojciech Puchar :
>> Not counting the CPU and its power circuitry, I would be very suprised if
>> the other components on a normal motherboard pulled as much as half of
>> that
>> even when under load.
>>
>> In fact a typical modern desktop computer will, when idle, draw less than
>> 100W
Hello,
try to use journaling on the backup partition, (if you do not want to
use ZFS...)
than: supose your partition is ad0s1d,
this procedure will destroy ALL data on the partition!!!
gjournal load
gjournal label ad0s1d
newfs ad0s1d.journal
edit the /etc/fstab to look like:
/dev/ad0s1d.journa
Having trouble mounting the ISO:
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
-f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/
mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied
mount_cd9660: /dev: Block device required
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$
Please help me figure this out.
_
Erik,
Thanks for your efforts.
It works!!
,Danny
- Original Message -
From: "Erik Norgaard"
To: "Familie van der Schaft"
Cc:
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: cyrus-imapd2.3 in jail
> Familie van der Schaft wrote:
> > Erik,
> >
> > I recieve the following message:
>
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
> Having trouble mounting the ISO:
>
> [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
> -f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/
> mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied
Regular users don't have read/write permis
Roland Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
>> Having trouble mounting the ISO:
>>
>> [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
>> -f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/
>> mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied
>
> Regular user
[Please, remove the questions@ on the reply, this is the topic for
f...@].
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:16:00PM +0400, Chagin Dmitry wrote:
> - Forwarded message from ge...@dts.su -
>
> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 10:58:11 +0400
> From: ge...@dts.su
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject:
Has anybody gotten a Yubikey to work with FreeBSD? It attaches as a
uhid device on both 7 and 8.
ugen5.5: at usbus5
uhid0: on usbus5
For those not familiar with a Yubikey it is a usb device that attaches
as a keyboard and when the button is pressed it generates a 44
character One Time Password
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote:
> Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
> >> Having trouble mounting the ISO:
> >>
> >> [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
> >> -f ./texlve2008.iso`
Hello list,
Not sure if this is the right place to post, please steer me to
another list if this is the wrong place.
openoffice-3 from ports fails to build with the error
error 65280 occurred while making
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/OOO310_m11/instsetoo_native/util
listing this dir
didn't realise there is a freebsd-openoffice list! sorry for the noise
2009/6/6 John . :
> Hello list,
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Roland Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote:
>> Roland Smith wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Having trouble mounting the ISO:
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
>>>
Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask these questions. I emailed
this to Colin Percival a few weeks ago and heard nothing back, so I
figured I'd ask here.
Alex
-
Hi,
I tried to upgrade my system from 6.0-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE today,
using the procedure described on your blog page Fre
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 09:26:05AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > sorry: should have been "bounce back". when i responded to the
> > middle of
> > an on-going debate last night, i received an automated reply that my
> > post
> >
>> "Barry Byrne" writes:
B> I think the simplest thing would be to write a little wrapper script
B> that calls your other script.
B>
B> #!/bin/sh
B> echo "Stating Daemon Now"
B> /path/to/mainscript &
You might be better off using daemon to make sure you're detached from
the controlling term
try to use journaling on the backup partition, (if you do not want to
use ZFS...)
is it THAT a problem to wait 5-10 minutes for fsck?
on OS that really crash RARELY. Most cases not at all.
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Familie van der Schaft wrote:
Thanks for your efforts.
It works!!
Just before you call it a day and I break your jail, check that this is
the right method to mount devfs inside a jail. I have only worked with
chrooted environments where this is fine, but at least you know what
you're lookin
Roland Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote:
> > Roland Smith wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
> > >> Having trouble mounting the ISO:
> > >>
> > >> [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig
> > >
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical
examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly
to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people
know what's available on the website. Before you post a question
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Hello,
Finally I put an openoffice 3.2 devel working and tested for FreeBSD 7.2
AMD64
with support for Portuguese (BR) AND English (en).
it is distributed via torrent at:
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4938186/pt-openoffice.org-BR-3.2.20090528.tbz.4938186.TPB.torrent
Please watch out for the
Hi all,
On my AMD 64 system running freebsd 7.0 I try to install tcllib. I have up to
date ports and have installed tcl86-threaded first.
pkg_info | grep threads gives:
tcl-threads-8.6.b.1_4 Tool Command Language
Installing tcllib gives the following error:
[ * ] [8.6b1] cmdline PASS t
Guys,
I'm encloseing a brief C program that skips over php delimiters and a
74-byte test file. After gdb "reminded" me that it eats the last byte,
I was able to complete this. Am wondering if there is a better way.
Obv'ly there are other way to get past
2009/6/6 Alex Stangl :
> It's also not clear to me whether using freebsd-update.sh is the right
> approach for upgrading from 6.0-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE, or if I should
> follow some alternate approach, like booting the 7.2 CD and doing a
> binary upgrade from there?
I've always done such upgrade
Em Sáb, 2009-06-06 às 23:13 +0200, Wojciech Puchar escreveu:
> > try to use journaling on the backup partition, (if you do not want to
> > use ZFS...)
>
> is it THAT a problem to wait 5-10 minutes for fsck?
>
> on OS that really crash RARELY. Most cases not at all.
You are right Puchar, but so
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:36:33PM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote:
>
> On Jun 5, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> >
> > i'm trying to walk thru a short program and see what's actually
> >happening.
> > can anybody remind me how to send a file file "< redirect" to ./
> >a.out?
>
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On 6/6/09, Chris Rees wrote:
> 2009/6/6 Wojciech Puchar :
what some single-letter option meant. I pretty much never use them on
the command line, though.
>>>
>>> Agreed, the long options *as an alternative* can be descriptive in
>>> scripts,
>>> tutorials, howto's etc.
>>> The other rea
On 6/4/09, Peter wrote:
>> On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:48:21 Peter wrote:
>>> iH,
>>> This all started with NFS not mounting at bootso, testing in VMs:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Why is ping using one IP, and ssh/mount_nfs/showmount using another IP
> from /etc/hosts?
>>
>> Q: Where is described that nam
Installed texlive from ISO, and it all works perfectly now. Thanks folks!
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You are right Puchar, but sometimes (2 in 100 on powerfailure) the
filesystem
gets corrupted (database files opened, and being extended)... so
when the fsck enters, the database get corrupted..
Filesystem will rather be not corrupted, but database file data.
Non-journalled UFS with softupdate
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