a question

2005-05-09 Thread Ricardo
Hi everyone, my name is Ricardo and i'm new to FreeBSD and a novice in the world of Unix-like OS's. My question is: do i have to download the 3 .iso images to install the system(for exemple: do i have to dowload the bootonlydisk iso)? Thanks for your patience and for reading this. Ricardo,

a question

2003-01-23 Thread peter andrus
hi, i just bought a brand new system. I want to set it up as a dual boot system with XP and FreeBSD. I would like to know where I can get an updated list of supported hardware,especially flat panel monitors. I have a samsung syncmaster 170MP, and I want to know if it is supported. also, i am cur

a question

2002-11-12 Thread peter andrus
Does the current release of FreeBSD come with the full version of GVIM? Also, does the standard application package come with any sort of a compiler for 3d gaming code? I am thinking of going windows free, but i have lots of questions, answering these would really help me. Thanks peter

A question

2007-07-21 Thread Anthony Long
Can I download your software from the web? I can't find a link. _ PC Magazine’s 2007 editors’ choice for best web mail—award-winning Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_

portupgrade -a question

2004-06-03 Thread Jarrod Wageman
Hello, I have a freebsd box I just set up and I am wondering about some things. I just ran `make buildworld` installworld and all that after an extensive cvsup. I still have perl version 5.6 something. The new version according to perl.com is 5.8 I ran portupgrade -a and it didn't upgrade anythin

Re: a question

2005-05-09 Thread Harry
Am Dienstag, 10. Mai 2005 01:54 schrieb Ricardo: > Hi everyone, my name is Ricardo and i'm new to FreeBSD and a novice in > the world of Unix-like OS's. My question is: do i have to download the 3 > .iso images to install the system(for exemple: do i have to dowload the > bootonlydisk iso)? For ba

Re: a question

2005-05-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ricardo wrote: Hi everyone, my name is Ricardo and i'm new to FreeBSD and a novice in the world of Unix-like OS's. My question is: do i have to download the 3 .iso images to install the system(for exemple: do i have to dowload the bootonlydisk iso)? Thanks for your patience and for reading this.

Just a question.....

2003-12-17 Thread soultrax
I havent seen another os more stable than frebsd and i love it. It uses less memorey than windows and linux. Thats what i was looking for. Now, I love computers and I have to tell you that my hobbie is to test computers, configure them, install operating systems on them and i want to know w

Re: a question

2003-01-23 Thread Andrew Y Ng
I setup FreeBSD dual-boot on my dad's machine with a Samsung 170 flat panel and it worked just fine. Just make sure you specify the right sync frequencies in your XFree86 config file. and KDE looked *NICE* on the 17" flat panel. i think 5.0 has nv driver. I think just used the nv driver for his nv

Re: a question

2003-01-23 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Andrew Y Ng wrote: > Subject: Re: a question > > I setup FreeBSD dual-boot on my dad's machine with a Samsung 170 flat panel > and it worked just fine. Just make sure you specify the right sync > frequencies in your XFree86 config file. and KDE looked *NIC

Re: a question

2002-11-12 Thread Adam Weinberger
g code? I am thinking of going windows free, but i > have lots of questions, answering these would really help me. Thanks peter >> end of "a question" from peter andrus << Yes to both, in the ports tree. Though I'm not quite sure what you mean by the "full

Re: a question

2002-11-12 Thread John Bleichert
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, peter andrus wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:16:15 + > From: peter andrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: a question > > Does the current release of FreeBSD come with the full version of GVIM? > Also, does the standa

portmaster -a question

2010-01-05 Thread kalpin
Hello all, Is it possible to run portmaster -a with other options to recompile all dependency without interactive? Of course accept default options for all modules. Thank you Kalpin E. Silaen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: A question

2007-07-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Anthony Long wrote: > Can I download your software from the web? I can't find a link. > _ > PC Magazine’s 2007 editors’ choice for best web mail—award-winning Windows > Live Hotmail. > http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en

A question about /tmp

2004-08-09 Thread roland Mathieu
Hello, I want to install FreeBSD with a small root partition. It's possible to use a different partition for /tmp, but /tmp can also be a symbolic link pointing, for example, /var/tmp. Is it a good idea ? If not what sort of problem will I encounter ? thanks, roland.

Re: portupgrade -a question

2004-06-04 Thread Andy Smith
[long lines rewrapped, please try to keep lines below about 72 characters] On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:34:16PM +, Jarrod Wageman wrote: > Hello, I have a freebsd box I just set up and I am wondering about > some things. I just ran `make buildworld` installworld and all > that after an extensive

a question or 2

2005-05-23 Thread T.F. Cheng
Hi, have a few questions to ask. First: install 5.4 release from floppy can't seem to locate hard drive. I have a ~2GB HD that I was trying to use, 5.4 booting can't locate my HD when partitioning, but 5.3 floppy okay. 2nd: How big a HD should I use? I can't install system+X in that 2GB I just m

A question about X

2004-10-31 Thread baguio_sun
Hi! I have Freebsd 5.1 installed (never cvsup'ed). Yesterday my box was running all the day(without rebooting), and during that time i've installed many of ports(Krusader, Psi, mplayer, and so on). Everything was fine, but when I booted freebsd today, typed startx, (I'm using GNOME), I found, t

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-18 Thread David D.W. Downey
- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 8:37 PM Subject: Just a question. I havent seen another os more stable than frebsd and i love it. It uses less memorey than windows and linux. Thats what i was looking for. Now, I love com

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-18 Thread Cordula's Web
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What programming languages do you use for interacting with > freebsd( the kernel,ports)? FreeBSD and most other third-party applications are written in C. You can also program in other languages if you like: just have a look at the huge collection of compilers and inte

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-18 Thread Simon Barner
> What programming languages do you use for interacting with > freebsd( the kernel,ports)? The FreeBSD kernel and most of the applications are written in C, others in C++. If you don't know them yet, you will benefit from every minute you spend on learning them. Note, that if you want C++ to bec

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-18 Thread zaphod
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Simon Barner wrote: [...] > Apart from the online books mentioned by David, you should certainly > have a look at some books on C and C++ Programming, Programming in a > UN*X, TCP/IP networking, Operating Systems in general (I have some books > in mind, but need to look up

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-18 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:55:50PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Simon Barner wrote: > > [...] > > > Apart from the online books mentioned by David, you should certainly > > have a look at some books on C and C++ Programming, Programming in a > > UN*X, TCP/IP networ

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-18 Thread Cordula's Web
> > Apart from the online books mentioned by David, you should certainly > > have a look at some books on C and C++ Programming, Programming in a > > UN*X, TCP/IP networking, Operating Systems in general (I have some books > > in mind, but need to look up the exact references - maybe someone else >

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-18 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:30:34PM +0100, Cordula's Web wrote: > > > Apart from the online books mentioned by David, you should certainly > > > have a look at some books on C and C++ Programming, Programming in a > > > UN*X, TCP/IP networking, Operating Systems in general (I have some books > > > i

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-21 Thread Mark Terribile
Luis Sime ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) asks: > Now, I love computers ... im not a programmer yet, but i > want to be. > These are my questions. > I plan on going to college to study computer science but i > dont want to waste my time studying programming languages > like visual basic, even thoug

i have a question!

2002-07-11 Thread snaelq
since i'm new to all these stuff, my question is what's the difference between your FreeBSD & Linux ??! p.s. i'm an Electrical Eng. student, & have to learn the UNIX OS, so i'm looking for the most similar/close OS to UNIX. THNX -- Qudsi N. Electircal Eng. Dep. - Technion, Haifa Israel. T

A question about host...

2003-09-24 Thread Payne
Hi, I am wanting to use host.allow and host.deny to make my box more secure. Is there a site that can explain how to use them. Thanks, Pup ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

A question about freeBSD.

2003-10-05 Thread Dawn0001
Hello all. I am a new comer to the freebsd scene and don't know much about it but the frugal side of me likes it for various reasons. I need to know how free bsd can be used in a server network for a lawfirm of only 6 partners. would freebsd support the lawfirms needs and what servers

Hello and a question :)

2003-03-02 Thread Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek
Hi there all, I'm new on the list, and decided to start with a question: I'm using FreeBSD 4.7 for quite a time now (at least I think :) ) and I wanted to get my scanner to work. I own a Starlight StarScan 4800 (some say it is made by Ultimate, but I'm not sure) with FCC-ID: I

a question on threads

2003-03-05 Thread Manas
hi, I wrote a threaded program and ran it. When i did top , i saw a numbers of instances of the same program running with different pids. Since a thread exist in a process, therefore there should have been only one instance of the process not many. I want to know how freeBSD implements pthreads a

I have a question?

2011-02-13 Thread Dieter
Can you use windows programs in freebsd? ___ 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"

I have a question.

2012-05-22 Thread JAEHO LEE
Dear Sir, I would be a FreeBSD open source committer. But I don't know how to do. Could you teach me ? Best regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

A question on permissions

2006-03-06 Thread Pat Maddox
I want to make a directory writable by one user, and readable by another. It should be owned by the web server UID, and the group should be the gid of my normal login user. %ls -ld /home/pergesu/logs drwxr-x--- 6 www pergesu 512 Feb 23 13:05 /home/pergesu/logs However, the www user apparently

Re: Ask a Question

2006-06-04 Thread Lisandro Grullon
-2-87975970 Http://www.areca.com.tw <http://www.areca.com.tw> Ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw <ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw> - Original Message - *From:* Lisandro Grullon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* Areca Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Sent:* Friday, May 26, 2006 10:14 PM *Subject:* Re: Ask a Que

A question about ptrace

2010-01-16 Thread Ali Polatel
I'm trying to port a program using ptrace from Linux to FreeBSD. For this reason I'm trying to understand how ptrace on FreeBSD works. Below is a sample program I've written which fork()'s and executes "true" after calling PT_TRACE_ME. Having read the manual page of ptrace I assume the printf() in

A question for developers

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
Forgive the verbosity. Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if a flame war does ensue, I ask that you refrain from responding. I'm looking fo

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-08-09 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:32:50AM +0200, roland Mathieu wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to install FreeBSD with a small root partition. It's > possible to use a different partition for /tmp, but /tmp can also be a > symbolic link pointing, for example, /var/tmp. Is it a good idea ? If not > what so

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-08-09 Thread Gary Mulder
Of course having /tmp -> /var/tmp means that you have no valid /tmp in single user mode where /var is not mounted. That is unless you created /var/tmp in single user mode, but that would mean /var would be mounted over the root partition's /var/tmp dir in multi-user mode, which can be non-intui

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-08-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Gary Mulder wrote: Of course having /tmp -> /var/tmp means that you have no valid /tmp in single user mode where /var is not mounted. That is unless you created /var/tmp in single user mode, but that would mean /var would be mounted over the root partition's /var/tmp dir in multi-user mode, whic

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-08-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Gary Mulder wrote: > > Of course having /tmp -> /var/tmp means that you have no valid /tmp in > > single user mode where /var is not mounted. That is unless you created > > /var/tmp in single user mode, but that would mean /var would be mounted > > over the root partition's /var/tmp dir in

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-08-09 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:00:59PM -0400, Gary Mulder wrote: > Of course having /tmp -> /var/tmp means that you have no valid /tmp in > single user mode where /var is not mounted. That is unless you created > /var/tmp in single user mode, but that would mean /var would be mounted > over the root

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-08-09 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:51:15PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Well, that is debateable. The safest is for /tmp to be its own > partition/filesystem. If you have it in root, and some runaway process > fills it up, it can bring the system to a grinding halt. So, unless I The problem her

Re: A question about /tmp

2004-09-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello, > > I want to install FreeBSD with a small root partition. It's > possible to use a different partition for /tmp, but /tmp can also be a > symbolic link pointing, for example, /var/tmp. Is it a good idea ? If not > what sort of problem will I encounter ? Your only problem is that you

RE: a question or 2

2005-05-23 Thread fbsd_user
] Behalf Of T.F. Cheng Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 4:35 PM To: FreeBSD Subject: a question or 2 Hi, have a few questions to ask. First: install 5.4 release from floppy can't seem to locate hard drive. I have a ~2GB HD that I was trying to use, 5.4 booting can't locate my HD when partiti

RE: a question or 2

2005-05-24 Thread M B
: FreeBSD Subject: a question or 2 Hi, have a few questions to ask. First: install 5.4 release from floppy can't seem to locate hard drive. I have a ~2GB HD that I was trying to use, 5.4 booting can't locate my HD when partitioning, but 5.3 floppy okay. 2nd: How big a HD should I us

RE: a question or 2

2005-05-24 Thread fbsd_user
not any longer boot windows system from existing partition. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of M B Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:52 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: a question or 2 Hello, I have similar situation. How much me

A question about dwnloading Ports

2005-06-17 Thread 子耗
I am a new user to Freebsd. I do not have a high speed connection, so I could not install softwares from ports directly. It takes me a lot of time. I wonder how to download the whole ports, so that I could download it in Net Cafe, and save it to my moible harddisk and then, I could install software

Re: A question about X

2004-10-31 Thread Subhro
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:09:36 +0600, baguio_sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #XFree86 -version > XFree86 Version 4.3.0 > Release Date: 27 February 2003 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 > Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 [ELF] > Build Date: 24 May 2003 > # I would recommend

A question on installing printer

2004-03-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I am now configuring printer and aware that 'MAKEDEV' has been replaced with 'devfs' According to handbook I should run # ./MAKEDEV lpt0 (para port) whether to be replaced with # ./devfs -m lpt0 Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___

Re: i have a question!

2002-07-11 Thread Brett Cates
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:17 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: i have a question! > > >since i'm new to all these stuff, my question is what's the difference >between >your FreeBSD &

Re: i have a question!

2002-07-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:17 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: i have a question! > > > > > >since i'm new to all these stuff, my question is what's th

RE: i have a question!

2002-07-11 Thread Joe & Fhe Barbish
Both FreeBSD and Linux are flavors of Unix. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: i have a question! since i'm new to all these stuff, my questi

Re: i have a question!

2002-07-15 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > since i'm new to all these stuff, my question is what's the difference between > your FreeBSD & Linux ??! > > p.s. i'm an Electrical Eng. student, & have to learn the UNIX OS, so i'm > looking for the most similar/close OS to UNIX. They are both i

Re: A question about host...

2003-09-24 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hello, On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:51:38AM -0400, Payne wrote: > Hi, > > I am wanting to use host.allow and host.deny to make my box more secure. > Is there a site that can explain how to use them. hosts.deny is depricated just use hosts.allow. please read 'man 5 hosts_options' or if you dont li

Re: A question about host...

2003-09-24 Thread Rob Lahaye
Thomas Spreng wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:51:38AM -0400, Payne wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I am wanting to use host.allow and host.deny to make my box more secure. >>Is there a site that can explain how to use them. > > > hosts.deny is depricated just use hosts.allow. Hmmm, "man h

Re: A question about host...

2003-09-24 Thread Armand Passelac
[ On Wed, 24 Sep, 2003 at 9:51, Payne wrote: ] > Hi, > > I am wanting to use host.allow and host.deny to make my box more secure. > Is there a site that can explain how to use them. If I remember well : The lib libwrap.a corresponds to the famous name "tcp_wrappers". This lib is desig

Re: A question about host...

2003-09-24 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Armand Passelac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:46 AM Subject: Re: A question about host... > [ On Wed, 24 Sep, 2003 at 9:51

Re: A question about host...

2003-09-24 Thread Armand Passelac
riginal Message - > From: "Armand Passelac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:46 AM > Subject: Re: A question about host... > > > > [ On Wed, 24

Re: A question about host...

2003-09-24 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Armand Passelac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Micheal Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:37 PM Subject: Re: A question about host... > [ On Wed, 24 Se

RE: A question about freeBSD.

2003-10-05 Thread Minnesota Slinky
ehalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A question about freeBSD. Hello all. I am a new comer to the freebsd scene and don't know much about it but the frugal side of me likes it for various reasons. I need to know how fre

A question asked many times-

2003-01-29 Thread Thaddeus J. Quintin
Greetings- I've looked around in google and the FreeBSD archives and I've seen this question asked many times, but never found the answer. I would like to map my "alt" keys to be "meta" keys. Is there any reason why I shouldn't do that? Is there a better/different solution? Using ESC just doesn'

A question about kernel modules

2003-03-07 Thread Damien Tougas
Is there any advantage/disadvantage to using kernel moduls vs. staticly linking stuff in the kernel? I would like to eliminate everything from my kernel config that can be loaded as a module, then load them at boot using loader.conf. Is there any reason I would not want to do that? It seems to m

A question about configuringl freeBSD

2003-03-18 Thread Vinh
I install xfree86(KDE) of freeBSD, MY COMPUTERS 1 pentium 200Mhz card grahics s3 Trio64v+, monitor zenith 2 K6 AMD 500Mhz CARD graphics ATI 4Mb Mache 64 IIC, MONITOR dell E77p0, After configuring ? the mouse appear on monitor, but when i move the mouse, it disappears How can i do to install

Re: I have a question?

2011-02-13 Thread Jack L.
If you install wine, yes. On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Dieter wrote: > Can you use windows programs in freebsd? > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send a

Re: I have a question?

2011-02-13 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Jack L. wrote: > If you install wine, yes. Uhmm good luck with that, I think maybe we should ask him to define "programs" > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Dieter wrote: > > Can you use windows programs in freebsd? > > _

Re: I have a question?

2011-02-13 Thread Jack L.
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Jack L. wrote: >> >> If you install wine, yes. If all else fails, you can always install virtualbox and install windows to run windows apps on freebsd. That works great for my needs :) __

Re: I have a question?

2011-02-13 Thread perryh
"Jack L." wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Dieter wrote: > > Can you use windows programs in freebsd? > > If you install wine, yes. _and_ if the windows programs you want to run _work_ in wine. Wine intends to become a complete win32 implementation, but: 1. It's not there yet. Many

Re: I have a question.

2012-05-22 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 22 May 2012 13:42:56 +0900, JAEHO LEE wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I would be a FreeBSD open source committer. > But I don't know how to do. > Could you teach me ? Check out the FreeBSD home page, especially the article about contributing to FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/

Re: I have a question.

2012-05-22 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
This doesn't answer your question but let me be the first to congratulate you on your wisdom of not posting this to m...@openbsd.org ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: A question on permissions

2006-03-06 Thread Jahilliya
On 3/7/06, Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to make a directory writable by one user, and readable by > another. It should be owned by the web server UID, and the group > should be the gid of my normal login user. > > %ls -ld /home/pergesu/logs > drwxr-x--- 6 www pergesu 512 Feb

May be a question repeated

2005-12-12 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, I have a server which runs Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) and exim 4.53-0 on a FreeBSD 5.4. I wanted to upgrade exim to 4.60 so i did the below steps 1 ) cd /usr/ports/mail/exim 2 ) make clean 3 ) make at this step the make stops saying openssl already installed. I have on the server OpenSSL 0.9.7e

Re: A question about ptrace

2010-01-16 Thread Ali Polatel
Ali Polatel yazmış: > I'm trying to port a program using ptrace from Linux to FreeBSD. Answering myself after some more reading and trying... > assert(0 == ptrace(PT_TO_SCE, pid, 0, 0)); The third argument of this call should be 1 not 0. -- Regards, Ali Polatel pgpVCOf0yCg27.pgp De

A question about 6.2 release

2007-07-29 Thread PowerMan
Dear sir, My first language is not English, if I made some bad words or expression, please forgive me. I have learned from your web site http://www.freebsd.org that 6.2-stable is relased on 15 Jan, 2007. But why there is also 6.2-stable snapshots released in May 2007 and June 20

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 24 July 2009 18:49:10 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Forgive the verbosity. Forgiven, yet snipped ;) > My desires/don't mind: > > - easily set tab width See securemodelines.vim below sig. Put in $LOCALBASE/share/vim/vim72/plugin. And the modeline below in C-style comments, within the first or

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > I'm looking for a new editor. I went on a similar journey, and I don't know if I'm already where I want to be, but maybe my path is helpful to you. > My desires/don't mind: > > - easily set tab width mcedit: PF9, Options, General jo

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:49:10PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Forgive the verbosity. > > Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually > read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified > persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if a fla

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, let me answer very shortly. On 25 July 2009 am 10:49:10 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Forgive the verbosity. > I use joe, gedit, kate and bluefish. All have their week points. One advantage of using several in parallel is that you can configure each to a special need of you and then start the on

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
Erich Dollansky wrote: > let me answer very shortly. > [..snip..] > ee is really just useful for very basic editing. But this is the > idea behind ee. I'd like to thank everyone for all of the well thought out, detailed and informative feedback. As far as ee, it's all I've really used for the l

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:21:44PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > I use joe, gedit, kate and bluefish. > > All have their week points. > > One advantage of using several in parallel is that you can > configure each to a special need of you and then start the one > which seems to fit best yo

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:46:14AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > In years gone by, I've toyed with both Emacs and vi. I'm no stranger to > using CNTL functions frequently (ee), but I've always felt more at home > with vi. I just never put in the initial effort to make it stick. I'm > going to g

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:49:05 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:21:44PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > joe has also the advantage that it behaves differently depending > > under which name your start it. > > What do you mean by "which name"? I'm curious. According to "ma

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Forgive the verbosity. > > Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually > read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified > persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if a flame war

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-03 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, >> Steve Bertrand said: S> I'm looking for a new editor. [...] In the last few weeks, I've been S> leaning toward vim. If you've read this far, then I very much welcome S> your feedback. If you're a VIM fan, here are a few examples of what you can do

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > I'm looking for a new editor. Well, after a two week hiatus from technology, I'm back at work (actually, considering I build a large new deck, being back at work is more of a holiday than being on holidays :) Although it was recommended that I give both Emacs and Vi(m) a

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > but may be handy until I become more fluent, > as my first instinct is to hit the BACKSPACE ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^h key. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 16:46:16 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: > > but may be handy until I become more fluent, > > as my first instinct is to hit the BACKSPACE > > ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H > > ^h key. terminal emulation fault. stty erase should fix it, on the shell that is. -- Mel

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Henry Olyer
Look, use Joe. You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the while wishing you had three hands. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Mel Flynn < mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net > wrote: > On Tuesday 11

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:17 -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: > Look, use Joe. > > You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about > meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the > while wishing you had three hands. That's not a very good way of describing editors/joe.

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:08:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas > wrote: >> There *are* good points about joe, eg.: >> >>   - It works very well even with pretty dumb terminals. >> >>   - It has a very small footprint >> >>   - It supports many features

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:08:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > There *are* good points about joe, eg.: > > - It works very well even with pretty dumb terminals. > > - It has a very small footprint > > - It supports many features a `coder' expects (auto indentation, > custom tab sizes

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:17 -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: >> Look, use Joe. >> >> You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about >> meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the >> while wishing you had three hands. > > That's not a very

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-14 Thread Manish Jain
Hi Steve, Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. However, you can try the my set instead which took me days to fine-tune t

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Manish Jain wrote: > Hi Steve, > >> Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled >> the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. > > I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. > However, you can try the my set instead whic

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Manish Jain wrote: > You are right. Syntax highlighting only works well with X. On the > console, to the best of knowledge, there is no way to change the colours > through vim's rc files. Syntax colour changing does work via .vimrc on the console. The constructs are named differently: ctermfg, ct

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 17 August 2009 04:14:18 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Manish Jain wrote: > > You are right. Syntax highlighting only works well with X. On the > > console, to the best of knowledge, there is no way to change the colours > > through vim's rc files. > > Syntax colour changing does work via .vimrc

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