where to get the release notes for 9.2

2013-07-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
There is a specific feature I need to see if it is in 9.2 or just 10 where can I find the draft release notes for 9.2? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

java/icetea-web broken?

2013-07-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I install it (on a machine that it used to work on until I had to reinstall FB) and there is none of the normal command line tools and when I attempt to open a jnlp file in ff (21.0) java/icetea-web (1.4) it goes into an infinite loop of opening new blank tabs the site in question works perfect

stupid portmaster question

2013-03-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
How do I tell portmaster -ad to ignore certain ports because they are broken such as editors/libreoffice is currently marked as (I am sure this will change soon) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

an upto date list of new ports

2013-02-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
is there a site or other location that lists *NEW* (not updated) ports since a given date? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsub

i386 vs. amd64

2012-12-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Ever since 8.X (my system is now 9.1-RC3 [done via csup]) been using i386 with the following main ports: x11-wm/xfce4 www/firefox www/linux-f10-flashplugin11 editors/libreoffice www/tomcat-7 www/apace22 devel/aegis (I am the maintainer) devel/fhist devel/cook java/openjdk6 emulation/virtualbox-ose

switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if switching to amd64 finally makes sense (i.e. are enough ports working on it now [xfrce4, firefox, libreoffice, openjdk-6, tomcat, mysql, apache22, flash, cups, devel/aegis, devel/cook, devel/fhist, virtualbox-ose, nvidia-kmod are t

Re: video acceleration on vbox

2011-10-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
What port do I find them in? On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Aryeh Friedman > wrote: > >> I have installed win 7 as a guest on emulator/virtualbox-ose on my 9.0-RC1 >> (i386) machine and no matter what I set the vid

video acceleration on vbox

2011-10-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have installed win 7 as a guest on emulator/virtualbox-ose on my 9.0-RC1 (i386) machine and no matter what I set the video acceleration to it gives me nothing but "standard VGA" in win 7 (even after downloading the driver from nvidia) I am using x11/nvidia-driver under xfce4 on the FB side __

a portmaster/ports question

2011-09-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there any way to get portmaster to reinstall every port in the *EXACT* same order they where installed in, preferably with out any knowledge of what ports where installed after the current one was the reason for asking is many times it seems that subtle incompatibilities solely due to either

Re: Hi

2011-08-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Spencer Thompson < spencer.s.thomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear FreeBSD.org, > > I would like to order a CD with FreeBSD for an IBM Thinkpad. What is the > best package to get? Will it work perfectly? I want a package with the > manual, man-pages and how to use F

Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, Frank Shute wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 04:04:42PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > > > I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is > > attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does > not > > blank the scre

How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following: vidcontrol -S off disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config enabling dpms via the kernel con

baffled on how to get packages onto the disc image of a custom release

2011-07-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have been banging my head for almost a day now about how to get "make release" (or make iso.1 or package-split) to populate releaase/R/cdrom/* (actually I only care about dvd1 for now) and am totally lost on how to go from having a valid package list (and split) in /usr/ports/package to having it

re: skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
escription "Open Sound System" } } -- Forwarded message -- From: Frank Shute Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:52 AM Subject: Re: skype To: Aryeh Friedman Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 06:16:28AM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > I have a num

Fwd: skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:43 AM Subject: Re: skype To: claudiu vasadi not quiet webcamd sees my webcam but not skype On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:42 AM, claudiu vasadi wrote: > Try it now. It wo

skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a number of clients that prefer Skype over IM last time I tried to build it from ports I was unable to get to anywhere past the account login page (no matter what I tried it said it could not log me in and when I registered for an account it never registered)

Fwd: make release question

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:35 PM Subject: Re: make release question To: Nathan Whitehorn On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > found them in CHROOT/R and found I needed to do mkisofs on them to get

make release question

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Where does "make release" place the disk images (iso's) by default ___ 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"

best way to replicate system

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and now needs to be duplicated to an arbitrary number of other machines (23 currently)... none of the machines have optical drives (or floppies) so it has to be a USB install... what is the best way to do this all I can think of is "make release" or ma

Fwd: best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:00 AM Subject: best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface To: FreeBSD Mailing List I have both ethernet (the default route and such) and ppp done via "ppp -ddial" th

best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have both ethernet (the default route and such) and ppp done via "ppp -ddial" the man page for ppp(8) says tun0 will not have an IP assigned until a single packet is sent on it... what is the best way to have one packet sent on it (ping only always ifaces on multicast, traceroute seems to have no

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:47:24 +0700 >> C. Bergström articulated: >> >>> I wish people would spend as much time solving problems in *BSD as >>> they do trying to defend

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:47:24 +0700 > C. Bergström articulated: > >> I wish people would spend as much time solving problems in *BSD as >> they do trying to defend an irrelevant OS ;) > > Personally, I wish they would spend more time in developing ful

Fwd: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:16 AM Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore To: per...@pluto.rain.com That is the approach I am taking... RS's recommendation was we make a disk image to overwrite the exis

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am working on making a general purpose image for XEN (specifically for rack space but since it is a common framework attempting to make it vendor neutral) On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More > wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 17, 20

how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:30:32 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> >> I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI) >> >> browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better? >> &g

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
>> I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI) >> browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better? > > Maybe it's worth considering that in case the menu bar, > navigation bar and all the other (mostly nonsense) bars > of web browsers are not needed for the

boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am setting a read only kiosk (it displays various web pages progmatically and has *NO OTHER* function) and security is not a concern because the hardware is locked away and need to find the most hands free way method of going from power on to full screen www/firefox is it sufficent to have a

OT: How to set a timeout for a process

2011-01-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a script that may or not hang (the reasons why it hangs are unimportant here) and need to call it from an other script and need to say if it hangs to give up after X seconds and just continue the script (no harm done if it fails) ___ freebsd-questi

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I decided to build the sdk from sources and wondering why it reported "Donut" when I told repo -init to checkout Eclair? -- Forwarded message -- From: Ilias-Dimitrios Vrachnis Date: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:24 PM Subject: Re: problems mounting android htc To: Aryeh Frie

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
20, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Aryeh Friedman > wrote: >> % ant debug >> ... >> /shared/home/aryeh/HelloAndroid/build.xml:78: For 'AOSP' SDK Preview, >> attribute minSdkVersion in AndroidManifest.xml must be 'AOSP' > > Hmmm. Interesting. > I am looki

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Vrachnis Ilias Dimitrios wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > >> I do all my coding from the command line and not an IDE and got BSDoid >> and the Android SDK both downloaded but I can not get BSDoid installed >

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, Vrachnis Ilias Dimitrios wrote: > On Jan 16, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > >> Le Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:41:06 -0500, >> Aryeh Friedman a écrit : >> >>> My situtation is a little different I am a developer hired to do some >>> work on th

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
ere > wrote: >> >> Le Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:57:33 -0500, >> Aryeh Friedman a écrit : >> >> > No idea how but when I plug the USB in it says "USB Debugging >> > Connected" >> >> On my HTC dream when I connect it to USB, there is a n

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
No idea how but when I plug the USB in it says "USB Debugging Connected" On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:48 PM, George Liaskos wrote: >>> Already tried based on several email threads found on the net but here >>> is one last try: >>> >>> flosoft-stable# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 >>> dd: /dev/

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Forgot to include the list On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Already tried based on several email threads found on the net but here > is one last try: > > flosoft-stable# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 > dd: /dev/da0: Device not configured > flosoft-

problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am attempting to make it so I can communicate with the linux on my Android HTC 0100 and when I insert it I get the following on the console: ugen5.2: at usbus5 umass0: on usbus5 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
oops should of said the main disadvantage is it is not FreeBSD On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > For us it is mostly cost but the other advantage (with RS at least) is > you can size the "hardware" to fit your needs and not get any more > then you need.

Fwd: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
For us it is mostly cost but the other advantage (with RS at least) is you can size the "hardware" to fit your needs and not get any more then you need... for example when we first started our consulting firm back in July we bought 256MB of RAM (RS sizes the Disk, CPU, Bandwidth, etc. as a multiple

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Thats good news because currently we have a gentoo machine with them (the closest linux distro to FreeBSD in philosophy and implementation) and since i have been a big FB user for years I have already told them we would like to switch if they offered the option On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:43 AM, To

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Also you can make an official vote for freebsd at http://feedback.rackspacecloud.com/forums/71021-product-feedback and then search for freebsd On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Thats good news because currently we have a gentoo machine with them > (the closest linux

Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
' | grep -v src/build | cut -f6- -d'/'` ) ln -s ~aegis/fnre/baseline/$i $i end On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Joshua Isom wrote: > On 9/9/2010 12:24 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> >> I want to make it so every file is a seperate symlink in dir2 if and >> only

Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Should of mentioned that I was using C as an example we are in fact using Java and the archives in question are jar's On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 09/09/10 18:24, Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> >> I want to make it so every file is a seperate symlink in

how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I want to make it so every file is a seperate symlink in dir2 if and only if it is a regular file (not a dir) in dir1... the reason is if the file is unchanged then use symlink but I can rm the symlink and replace it with a non-symlink: To show the problem I am attempting to solve: foo: (owned by

thunderbird replacement

2010-06-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I currently am using mail/thunderbird as my mail reader and it is just doing the job very well (even with heavy use of filters) I use xfce4 on 8.1-PRERELEASE (updated and portmaster -Rafd'ed about 3 weeks ago) I am looking for a good replacement suggestions here are the minimal features

Re: Unit conversion program?

2010-04-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
units(1) On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Modulok wrote: > List, > > Is there a command-line program which does unit conversions between SI > and other unit forms? Perhaps something similar to Google's feature? > For example: > >    ...@bar> baz 41.5c to f >    106.7 > >    ...@bar> baz 190lbs to

/var/yp/securenets

2010-01-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Does the netmask in /var/yp/securenets have to match the one listed in ifconfig if both machines are on the same subnet specifically we get 5 static IP's from our ISP who also puts other customers in the same subnet (the mask if 255.0.0.0) and if possible I want to make an entry like this: 123

Re: example c program that does "beep"

2009-12-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
printf("\007"); /* assumes that your using a console/terminal that will beep on ctl-g */ On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > How can I get a beep from c? > I looked at curses and syscons.c, but > still not clear. > Could somebody send me an example. > I'd be soo grate

OT: XML newbie

2009-12-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am a relative XML newbie (i.e. our backend does spit out some XML I wrote but it just slapped together with no knowledge of the underlaying structure of XML)... Now I am going back and actually learning XML... our main application is to insert XML directly into XHTML documents and use either CSS

right CPUTYPE

2009-06-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
What CPUTYPE should I put in /etc/make.conf for: CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor (3210.85-MHz 686-class CPU) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: dummies version of dummies to setup printers in freebsd

2009-01-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
This may or may not be suitable for your situation but this is how I generally set printers up: 1. Install print/cups (yes the full wrapper port) 2. Edit your /etc/make.conf by adding a line that says no LPR 3. Add CUPS_ENABLE="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf 4. Manually start cups (run "cupsd" as root)

Re: wireless on a hp pavillion dv5000

2009-01-05 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Same card but no carrier... what did you do to see the carrier? On 1/5/09, michael wrote: > > > Glen Barber wrote: >> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >>> I have installed the ndis stuff and it sees the mac address but when i >>> push the "power" button on the wireless (build into the laptop) it does >>>

keeping clocks synced on a dual boot machine

2008-08-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a dual boot machine and if I set the Vista clock to the local time then no matter what I do on the fbsd side (via tzsetup) forces fbsd to report local time instead of GMT and vice versa (if fbsd is local then vista is GMT). How can I get them to agree? _

Re: using sys/fusefs-ntfs as the home dir

2008-08-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> The solution would be very simple, but because you're insisting > on having the "D:" partition formatted as NTFS, a problem occurs: > As far as I know, FreeBSD's NTFS support is okay for reading, but > not for writing. (I'm not 100% sure because I don't have any > "Windows" stuff around to check.

using sys/fusefs-ntfs as the home dir

2008-08-19 Thread Aryeh Friedman
For the last couple of months I have stopped using a dual boot machine due to: 1. Not having an activated copy of vista (fixed) 2. Wine handling 90% of my common needs up to last week (NBC is broadcasting the olympics in a format wine can't handle and most of my games don't work [and the ones that

Re: using sys/fusefs-ntfs as the home dir

2008-08-19 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Aryeh Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the last couple of months I have stopped using a dual boot machine due to: > > 1. Not having an activated copy of vista (fixed) > 2. Wine handling 90% of my common needs up to last week (NBC is

Re: Pls help: regarding gdb internals

2008-01-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Jan 16, 2008 4:24 PM, Arun Paneri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Aryeh & Chuck. > Well, I am trying to solve issues related to GDB. Like, gdb prints wrong > values of few parameteres eg "this" pointer, when we give "backtrace" or > "x/10x $ebp" command in core of our company product. It

Shrinking a partition

2008-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
After installing FreeBSD and Vista (463 GB and 30 GB respectivally) I found out I don't have enough free space on my 500 GB drive on the vista partition. How do I determine how much I can shrink the FreeBSD partition by safely (by just moving the end sector in fdisk(1))? _

OT: fixing a broken key

2008-01-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
After cleaning my keyboard by removing the keys and using a damp paper towel to clean the keys and the area between contacts (there is a barrier between the area under the keys and the contact so it is very unlikely the contacts got wet) my r key now registers as being constantly pressed any id

Re: How to patch the kernel?

2008-01-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 1/4/08, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:53:18 -0500 > "Lyle Scott III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't have much experience patching anything, really. > > > > I was told by the port security/ipsec-tools to patch the kernel if i > > wanted to use nat-transversals. >

Re: Finally, Flash seems to be working for Me :)

2008-01-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 1/4/08, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rudy writes: > > > I do do more than watch youtube videos, but people send me links > > and I'm always bummed if I have to reboot into Ubuntu just to see > > a stupid video :) > > What you need is www/youtube-dl. Deposits the conten

Re: Finally, Flash seems to be working for Me :)

2008-01-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 1/4/08, Xn Nooby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not just use gnash to watch youtube videos? It works fine for me, > with my user account. > > However, if I use Firefox+gnash as root, it makes my system unstable, > I lose /dev/null, and the system gets weird. I guess gnash will kill > your sy

looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have both vista and freebsd 8-current installed on the same drive and also have allocated the rest of the disk to be a fat32 partition. I know I should put any data I want to be passed between the two on the fat32 partition. Now the question is how to lay it out so that: 1. The home dir for m

loading modules not in /boot/kernel from loader.conf

2007-12-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have had bad experiences with loading modules anywhere except /boot/loader.conf and even so there is some hacking in the rc to make it work fine for example: (sleep 5;ntfs-3g )& is the last line in the rc > > Remember that this is the loader which will be loading the > module, so if /usr i

smart_host on sendmail min config

2007-12-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
What else do I need to add to this to make it work (i.e. send all mail via mx1.optonline.net): OSTYPE(`freebsd6')dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `mx2.optonline.net')dnl btw shouldn't there be a frebsd7 or freebsd8 OSTYPE? (I run -current) ___ freebsd-questions

urgent: undoing a cvsup update

2007-11-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I just cvsuped the latest sources and they break many programs named and most X11-apps comes to mind immediately Well how do I backout of the this keep in miond I use cvs-supfile to populate a local repo and did a rm -rf /usr/obj /usr/src thinking that might clear stuff up but it didn't As fa

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> > A typical "TV set service" is not really supported by FreeBSD > neither... or FreeBSD is not supported by "TV set service", or > something!! Talk about being a little literal I don't own a TV and watch everything I care about thanks to the networks sites, bit torrent and miro (hopefully will

Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Before I file a PR I just want to know if it is worth it to file a PR for: make -j1000 buildworld buildkernel installkernel seg faulting ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

getting rid of xconsole on xdm

2007-11-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am in the middle of setting up a new machine and want to get rid of the &^&*(*&%*&@ xconsole on xdm (it doesn't go away on login either)... how? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: +bfe0: watchdog timeout -- resetting

2007-11-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/23/07, Michael Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been receiving the same error message from my NAS box as of late. > > Until last week, I was been running Freebsd6.2, and I occassionally > received the message "re0: watchdog timeout". It would happen about > once a week. Last week

Re: OT: Beastie 3D-rendered

2007-11-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Nov 11, 2007 3:55 PM, Tino Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look what happened to Beastie: > > http://www.tilolit.de/images/tb/wallpapers/teufel.jpg Nice Can you produce an icon size one (or a powered by size one)? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: need an explanation of "make serarch" output

2007-11-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Sorry beinf rude but I wonder if either of the responders took there own advice and RTFM'ed (where M=mail) What I mean is I was *NOT* asking how to get the deps list... I was asking that for example "make search key=jdk16 display=bdeps" will display multiple "bdeps" lines which one contains the co

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Nov 8, 2007 11:55 AM, Expresso Digital ISP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, my name is Cesar. > > I'd like to know what is the diference between 7.0 and 6.3 and why create a > newest version and after old version. 6.X is the last of versions meant primarilly for single processing machines (with

Re: csup broken on -currnet amd64?

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/1/07, Steve Kargl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:06:54AM +0000, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > monster# uname -a > > FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 30 > > 18:07:21 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd

csup broken on -currnet amd64?

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
monster# uname -a FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 30 18:07:21 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 monster# csup -h cvsup8.us.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile Connected to 216.165.129.134 Updating collection ports-all/cvs Checkout p

strangeness with enigmail and thunuderbird

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Installing the port for enigmail-thunderbird and manually installing the plugin into my personal thunderbird profile (as per instructions in the port's pkg-message) and manually configuring it to use /usr/local/gpg (couldn't find it automatically) it spins forever (i.e. the task never completes) i

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/1/07, Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 00:38 01/11/2007, you wrote: > >Ouch! ...you are not trying to sell anything are you? It may be in > >your best interest if you proceed to the hackers list, to initiate > >conversation in a way that explains how your code will benefit a > >

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as "root" ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Aryeh Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME > > desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me. > > > I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do w

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as "root" ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME > desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me. I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root account that I can't with one. If you mean opening GUI apps try adding the foll

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as "root" ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
After seeing some of his other questions he should get a book on basic sysadmin also. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: can not load KDE in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, williamkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After configuring to run X.org, and I manage to have KDE by running > command "kdm". > Then I do some changes related to display, example : > a) 1024x768 to 800x600 > b) fonts size for menu, wallpaper ...etc > but then after the computer have s

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as "root" ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, williamkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD > 6.2-Release. > I created a user account named "william" and do not assign any group as > I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start > KDE, i us

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> > There are several kernel features that need to be implemented before an > amd64 nVidia driver will work - see > http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests for more info. nVidia do > want to create an amd64 driver, but they need the kernel work to be done > first. I just sent nVidia an off

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia > > driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's > > tar not the ports one) is src/nv

Re: best way to update ports

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> yeah, in that situation nfs mount will be easy. > > My servers are in different cities, and the ports are installed with > different options on different servers, for example, some postfix use unix > login accounts, some postfix use courier authentication with mysql database. > So unfortunately

Re: best way to update ports

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Bill Stwalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need your advice on how to update security patches for ports on a dozen > servers with minimal efforts. If the servers are homogenious why not have a single /usr/local and nfs mount it? __

rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf-i386-32 and amd64 wants it branded elf-amd64-64. This file comes from them as a precompiled object s

NVidia 100.14.19 for FreeBSD i386 released

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Not on amd64 but no nvidia kernel module ever has On 10/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > see: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=100077 > > is it working for anybody? > > regards, > > usleep > ___ > freebsd-ques

getting better then 1024x768 on xorg 7.3 w/ nv

2007-10-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there anyway using the NV (not kernel mod) to get better then 1024x768? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for openoffice)

2007-10-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> If you know neither and want to learn one well, choose TeX. That is > what is used more commonly. There's nothing wrong with troff, and the > support is still quite good, but all the major journals, for example, > accept TeX code but not troff. It is still a good idea to know enough > troff to

setting up a cvsup mirror

2007-10-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I want to setup a local cvsup mirror on my local machine (someone told me if you do it right you don't need to hand apply uncommitted patches) what do I need to do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> Yes there is wyswyg editor for TeX. Look among ports. I do not use one > like most long time TeX users as it is useless. Every time you compile lyx and I like it so far. > You sound like using TeX is a bad thing and so difficult. It is not my > 11 year old nice uses for her homeworks. >From wh

wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I finally got around to compiling abiword and I get the following when I try to run it: > abiword Segmentation fault (core dumped) > uname -a FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Oct 7 20:47:51 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MONSTER amd64 I don't want to

Re: Which java binary to use?

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/7/07, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed the Diablo java packages > (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml), but "which > java" shows "/usr/local/bin/java" which is a link to javavm in the same > directory. > > I wondered about changing the link to point to

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> PHP isn't really a programming language. It's more a fancy templating > system that happens to be able to use extensions that can provide C > style linkage. That said, I laude you for your desire to learn a real > programming language, and agree with the recommendation that you start > with somet

Re: Abit Motherboard

2007-10-05 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am planning for replacing one of my servers. I want to upgrade to > at least a dual-core machine. I found the Abit IP 35 Pro motherboard > at Frys which looks like it has most everything I need. However, I > don't find any discussions about

Re: how to play online TV program

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> - multimedia data file bears the (asf/asx) file extensions ; > - streaming formats using in CityTV: > Video : Microsoft Mpeg- 4 codec V2 [320 x 240, 25fps] > Audio : Mpeg Layer-3 (16KB/s, 11kHz, mono) VLC can handle this ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality > > (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) > > You really have to decide what you want to suite to do. Otherwise, your > problem is underspecified. > > 1) Co

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:00:10 -0400 > "Philip M. Gollucci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > NetOpsCenter wrote: > > > I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use > > > when all else fails. > > > Is there a way to copy that and have it

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