RE: need help setting up a new partition

2006-02-08 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 09-Feb-2006 Peter wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have a dual-boot arrangement with Win2k (on the first and second > partition) and FreeBSD 5.4 (on the third partition). I am willing to > sacrifice the second partition and give it over to FreeBSD as I am > lacking space there. I'm just not sure

RE: problem

2006-02-05 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 05-Feb-2006 Jose Jesus Ortega wrote: > I installed Xorg and configurate it and everything and > installed WindowMaker of > "/usr/ports/x11-wm/windowmaker" but when I type in > echo "exec windowmaker" > ~/.xinitrc and use "startx" > it can't find windowmaker how do I make windowmaker > start? th

RE: Gnome port

2006-02-05 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 05-Feb-2006 Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: > Is there a reason that the gnome 2 ports don't use the conflicts > mechanism to avoid completely hosing an existing gnome 2 install? On > Friday I came across a gimp script-fu which would slice an image into > pieces and output html that rendered the

Re: Alternative to Running Portupgrade -rf In Upgrade of expat2

2006-02-04 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 04-Feb-2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2/4/06, Bob Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> /usr/ports/UPDATING recommends that users of textproc/expat2 >> run portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2 to properly update expat2 and all of >> its dependencies. Am I correct in that I should be able to run >

RE: Alternative to Running Portupgrade -rf In Upgrade of expat2

2006-02-04 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 04-Feb-2006 Bob Perry wrote: > /usr/ports/UPDATING recommends that users of textproc/expat2 > run portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2 to properly update expat2 and all of > its dependencies. Am I correct in that I should be able to run > portupgrade on the dependencies individually once identifi

RE: question of kernel options

2006-01-30 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 29-Jan-2006 gahn wrote: > Hi: > > Where can I find the list of all options of kernel > file for freebsd 5.4? > > Thanks /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES for cross-platform options /usr/src/sys/${ARCH}/conf/NOTES for architecture-specific options -- Conrad J. Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- "In Uni

Re: Mount point's drwxrwxrwt permissions change when device is mounted (5.4-STABLE, amd64)

2005-07-22 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:31:22PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > >The mount point, branching off of the root (/) directory and owned by > >root:wheel, is setup with the correct permissions (chmod 01777) prior > >to mounting the device, but immediatel

Re: Questions about "no window found" error

2005-07-19 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:03:21AM +0800, Kun Niu wrote: > Dear freebsd users, > > I've got such a strange question. > I can start my xwindow. > But each time I use mozilla bundled with my 5.3 release. > I found the error "no window found error" This is normal, and is not really an error per se.

Re: Problems after CVSUP

2004-05-28 Thread Conrad Sabatier
ny important changes in startup functionality. Then, and only then, should it be safe to reboot. If you've merged in any changes under /etc/mail, you should also cd /etc/mail and make all install before rebooting as well. HTH -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: best cd ripping option.

2004-05-08 Thread Conrad Sabatier
know to reverse the endianness, else all you'll wind up with is static. -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

MS Excel/Word compatible ports?

2004-04-13 Thread Conrad Sabatier
k. Thanks! -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Athlon

2004-02-29 Thread Conrad Sabatier
FLAGS= -O -pipe COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe HTH. -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Still no handbook

2004-02-08 Thread Conrad Sabatier
You can add this to /etc/make.conf. You'll also need to have the complete docproj port installed. -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: MP3 + Create Music CD

2004-02-08 Thread Conrad Sabatier
ders in a .wav file), but there are a lot of > other ways to do it. You can also convert directly to raw pcm files (basically wav files without the header), which you can then burncd to disc. This is how I do it myself. -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL

Re: Smarter 'make buildkernel'?

2003-03-31 Thread Conrad Sabatier
aptop, and the rebuilds take forever. > > 'make -DNOCLEAN buildkernel' should do the trick. That should be -DNO_KERNELCLEAN. -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: is our printf(1) behavior correct w.r.t \0 escapes?

2003-01-28 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 28-Jan-2003 John Reynolds~ wrote: > > [ On Tuesday, January 28, Conrad Sabatier wrote: ] >> >> Unless it's already been done. :-) Can you check the RCS Id in >> /usr/src/usr.bin/printf/printf.c? Here's what I have: >> >> $FreeBSD: src/usr.

Re: is our printf(1) behavior correct w.r.t \0 escapes?

2003-01-28 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 28-Jan-2003 John Reynolds~ wrote: > > [ On Tuesday, January 28, Conrad Sabatier wrote: ] > >> It may very well be that printf (or libc?) has a bug under -stable. Are you >> using any unusual optimization settings in /etc/make.conf, by the way? When >> did

Re: is our printf(1) behavior correct w.r.t \0 escapes?

2003-01-28 Thread Conrad Sabatier
5 > This behavior has been checked on HP-UX and Solaris and those two systems are > identical to the Linux one. It seems to me that our printf(1)'s behavior is > incorrect. Comments? It may very well be that printf (or libc?) has a bug under -stable. Are you using any unusual optimization settings in /etc/make.conf, by the way? When did you last upgrade? -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: make clean for /usr/ports fails repeatedly with rm: /usr/ports/net/bind9-dlz/Makefile.inc: Permission denied

2003-01-18 Thread Conrad Sabatier
without breaking other > stuff. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > > Stacey You would do well to install the portupgrade port, and then do "portsclean -C" to accomplish the same thing, only much, much faster. -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: watch: fatal: cannot open snoop device

2003-01-14 Thread Conrad Sabatier
> > Any idea what else could be wrong? You probably just need to make the device files under /dev (assuming you're not using devfs). -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: User Mode Linux under Linux emulation

2003-01-12 Thread Conrad Sabatier
7;m not sure exactly what the program(s) you're asking about do, but I've recently been experimenting with things like running rpmfind in a Linux shell (chroot /compat/linux /bin/bash). Amazingly, pretty much everything I've downloaded installs and runs just fine! Just watch those depe

Re: is there a "replace command" ?

2002-12-02 Thread Conrad Sabatier
cements "in place", i.e., without the need for a temporary file: sed -i -e 's/^touch /rm /' infile That were a easy one. :-) -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-02 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 01-Dec-2002 Mark Stosberg wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> >> Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my >> filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with >> more filesystems than I'm

Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-02 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 01-Dec-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:40:58AM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> >> Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my >> filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with >> mor

dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-01 Thread Conrad Sabatier
ntly using. For example, create a new /home partition instead of using a symlink in / to /usr/home. I'm just wondering if this will present any problems when restoring from backups. I can't seem to glean this information from the man pages. Thanks! -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROT

Re: xargs -J

2002-11-25 Thread Conrad Sabatier
laceholder, as those characters have a special meaning in the shell. Using something simple, like %, as the man page illustrates. -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: What happened to my ports system?

2002-11-23 Thread Conrad Sabatier
able sometimes. I ran into this problem once not too long ago. I think it was the result of running multiple portupgrades at once, which caused the database to become corrupted. Just delete /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db, then run pkgdb -u again. -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Port managment

2002-11-08 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 08-Nov-2002 Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: > Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> >> On 08-Nov-2002 Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: >> > Just to sum it up for the archives >> > >> > Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> >> >> >> On 07-Nov-2002 Lefteris T

Re: Port managment

2002-11-08 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 08-Nov-2002 Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: > Just to sum it up for the archives > > Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> >> On 07-Nov-2002 Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have acrually a few questions: >> > >> >

Re: Port managment

2002-11-07 Thread Conrad Sabatier
pkg_which file(s) > 3)How can I find modified files? pkg_info -ag > 4)How can I find missing port files? Need some clarification as to what you mean. > 5)_AND_ (yes finally) How can I find missing port dependencies? pkg_info -I $(pkg_info -arq | cut -d ' 

Re: Configuring XFree86 - not working...

2002-09-26 Thread Conrad Sabatier
mouse cursor" I > get some retarded shaky blue-ish crap. My machine is a Dell Inspiron > 8200 Laptop ( 15 IN SXGA+ || 64MB DDR 4X AGP NVIDIA NV17 3D VIDEO ). > > Any ideas what I have to do in order to get this to work? Try running "xf86cfg -textmode". -- Conrad Sa