Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

so it doesn't break anytime soon (such as modern web pages do when a new version of some arbitrary extension is out or when the underlying implementation language breaks things due to updates). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

on something? Like awk on a anchor, C on a chimney or Java on Jambalaya? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: install IDS from port , but can not find the Ports security/acid

admin can decide what and how much information each user can see. It also has a simple to use, web-based setup program for people not comfortable with editing files directly. Maybe you can check this one in relation to your requirements? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: How to successfully enable HP LaserJet Professional m1212nf MFP,

and doesn't support a lot of standards, depending on what I found on this page: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/18972-18972-3328064-12004-3328083-3965847.html?dnr=1 Good luck anyway! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Sendmail recommended permissions for apache/php server

. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Sendmail recommended permissions for apache/php server

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:17:33 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 12/04/2012 02:49, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:57:51 +, Ian Lord wrote: I then got a different error in /var/log/messages Apr 11 19:38:40 dev sendmail[41170]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(www): can not write to queue

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

! ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: link_elf: symbol ata_controlcmd undefined

and SCSI functionality for disks and optical devices. Try removing it from loader.conf and try again. (Note possible device name changing ad - ada unless you're using labels.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:49:40 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Friday 13 April 2012 23:37:16 Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:59:41 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Friday 13 April 2012 20:56:35 Sean Cavanaugh wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd

Re: Changing psm (mouse) resolution?

be good for testing. To make the settings permanent, you can code them into /etc/rc.conf, using moused_enable=YES moused_port= moused_type= moused_flags= with the required values. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: find sources to build Handbook and FAQ for FreeBSD?

for the supported languages. SGML source files are in /usr/src/release/doc (part of the system sources). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML

, as working with normal (ASCII) letters, cyrillic ones, chinese and japanese symbols, arabic writing is no big deal as long as all the tools do properly support it the _same_ way. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML

to display the semi-graphic mouse pointer, so the full set cannot be used all the time.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Dual monitors ok, but no mouse and keyboard action on the slave screen

). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Lots of lagging after upgrade of xorg.

before the upgrade of xorg. Did you done any changes to the possible HAL settings (with or without - needs to be set at compile time, and maybe xorg.conf with some options)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Was..... Lots of lagging after upgrade of xorg. Now keyboard layout is lost

file which can be used to make keyboard language settings work _independently_ from both xorg.conf and XML files scattered across the local/ subtree. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Python module wnck?

to be a Python module, but maybe it interfaces with Python somehow? You can also use make search key=wnck to bring up a list of keyword search results. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:45:53 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Thanks for that article, it's really sad. One of the main problems is (in my opinion) that GENERIC SKILLS aren't recognozed with the big importane they have

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

teach them to yourself. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: need help on installing bsd in virtual box

and pay attention to 32/64 bit when doing so. The bootonly image is typically used to install the system via network, there are no installation datasets on that media. The CD1 and DVD1 media images will be the ones used in typical installations. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

questions, or unable to understand your answers. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:36:03 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:41:18 +0200 Polytropon articulated: On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:46:52 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:58:40 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:57:10PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

the _responsible administrator_ to give permission. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

it was, hoping it would not happen again. I've experienced such kinds of trouble myself. (That's why I'm on this list.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: laptop very hot and noisy

On Wed, 2 May 2012 06:19:50 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 01 May 2012 20:52:11 Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2012 13:41:11 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:25:11AM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: Not a big issue. Make sure you can remember

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

' an update, to revert to a prior system state, if needed. In fact, it would be 'easy' to have automation perform that task. How about performing version skips, e. g. from -p1 to -p4 directly (using freebsd-update), or wider steps, e. g. from 8.3 to 8.4 (using sources per CVS)? -- Polytropon

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

First of all, thanks for explaining your point of view. Allow me to add a few thoughts: On Fri, 4 May 2012 11:44:49 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012 04:14:05 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: What is required is a differentation

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

On Fri, 4 May 2012 16:45:51 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: First of all, thanks for explaining your point of view. Allow me to add a few thoughts: On Fri, 4 May 2012 11:44:49 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

. This _ALL_ depends on what the system should be used for. Only the OP can decide about what applies, and what doesn't. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

) you'll need. Update the system if needed, or if you're okay with a not so current system, just leave the software as-is, if it fits your needs. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Best mail setup for home server?

with the suggestions given on the list. There are some things to consider, but what you're basically planning is possible without much trouble, as long as you pay attention to the protocol. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: kernel configuration file

of RAM! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: kernel configuration file

of GENERIC. As I said, there may be parts that one can safely drop (e. g. WLAN, floppy, ISDN or sound for a server). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: maybe not truly freebsd related

version. :-) Remember that it's a MUA. It's not a calendar, not a web browser, not a multimedia player and not a PDF viewer. (But you can interface it to open content based on file type by using external programs, such as xmms, xpdf, xzgv etc.). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: error: libm.so.4 needed by libspeex may conflict w libm.so.5

a newer version of speex or mplayer that will happily work with the system's libm v5? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: User can't login but /etc/(master.)passwd OK

when the user in question attempts an login? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

) Even THIS can be mounted. In case I'm misunderstanding your question, could you alter the expression? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: djvu viewers from ports or add capability to view to xpdf, gv or other

with support for djvu format. To view a file, simply call display file. Not tested. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: djvu viewers from ports or add capability to view to xpdf, gv or other

it shouldn't pull too many dependencies into the system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: file permission template

bash or a different shell, consult the respective documentation.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: file permission template

and the chmod step. However, is there any problem _for your particular case_ that setting secret/ to rwx/-/- only, and leaving the files inside with the default umask rw/r/r? Maybe there really is a more elegant way. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: CSH prompt

precmd 'set prompt = %B[%@]%b %m[`pwd`] ' Much better. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: CSH prompt

On Sun, 13 May 2012 08:16:51 -0600, Reed Loefgren wrote: On 05/13/12 07:25, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:56:31 +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: In cshell I use this prompt: set prompt = %B[%@]%b %m[%/] The problem I face now is that if I use this prompt with symbolic links

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

the possibility of an update going awry on the main installation. That's right. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: This does look strange

device file, just forget everything I mentioned and use the correct one. However, I'm not fully sure if FreeBSD's fsck can be used to _really_ perform file system checks on FAT or NTFS partitions, erm postcards. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Article Inquiry

for RDIST March 17, 1994 4.3 Berkeley Distribution Source: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=44bsd-rdistsektion=1apropos=0manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE+and+Ports Does this help? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Ethernet driver HP ProLiant BL460c G7

always use man driver to find out more about drivers on an installed system, or you can use the hyperlinks in that lists to access the online documentation of the drivers. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: disable console messages

://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=58256#post58256 You'll find a suggestion there on how to avoid fiddling with the /etc/rc boot script (which should stay untouched due to many reasons). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

. It should not _require_ you to deal with a custom kernel if you want to avoid that. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

of building big ports on a USB stick, especially on the older computer with 256 MB RAM and USB 1.1 on motherboard. Also note that USB sticks are not real R/W media, they suffer more from using than hard disks do, and they're slower of course. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: ls-F tcsh built-in command

arguments to ls(1) if it is given any switches, so `alias ls ls-F' generally does the right thing. So if you use ls-F -l, the C shell will _not_ use ls-F, but call /bin/ls instead. So what you've been observing seems to be the intended behaviour. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: ls-F tcsh built-in command

$LSCOLORS as ExGxdxdxCxDxDxBxBxegeg. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

section should work. Additionally, I see that I have Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp in the InputDevice section of Keyboard0. It just works. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

you cross a major OS release boundary, you need to force a rebuild of all installed package, or reinstall from package files. It's often easy to do this using a port management tool. See man portmaster containing an example of exactly this procedure (EXAMPLES section). -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

packages (if desired) is possible. See man portmaster and its EXAMPLES section for inspiration. Sorry i cant paste logs, bsd is running on another machine. You can use SSH to log into the BSD machine and cut text from the session. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: ls-F tcsh built-in command

'ls -laFG -D %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' This is nice because I haven't found a feature of gls yet that I needed, but which system's ls couldn't provide. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: eliminate character with sed

of sed: I'm not sure if it's possible to do something like % sed -i '.bak' 's/\r//g' config.php because I assume (not tested!) that it's not possible to put in escape sequences like that. But try for yourself and surprise me. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: eliminate character with sed

be required to do using a surrounding script. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: NanoBSD Build Failure

not understand cpu I486_CPU. Compare to /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and /sys/i386/conf/NOTES to the respective /sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC and /sys/amd64/conf/NOTES for details, especially that amd64 uses cpu HAMMER instead of cpu I{4/5/6}86_CPU. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

exec wmaker It should happen when X is running, and it should be back to normal when the WM or DE is launched (and all background programs have fully started). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: I have a question.

/articles/contributing/index.html You'll find more information on the FreeBSD web page, e. g. the Porters Handbook and other development resources. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Evolution 2.32.3 printing

can do). Good luck. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Working and Supported SCSI Controller

using Ataptec's 2940 type of controllers (either W or U, and UW). The ahc driver worked well with them. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting Option DontVTSwitch false in Section ServerFlags or /etc/X11/xorg.conf helps? -- Polytropon

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting OptionDontVTSwitch false

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

in the offing? I would welcome a kind of text file that lists all the strange names with a short description of what they are and what you need them for, being more informative than the short one liners in the options dialog. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

some examples which belong to the base system, see /usr/share/examples/dialog, and of course see man dialog. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

adjusted) would create such a directory and file, but I assume it does not, as it seems obvious that those are handled by the port building mechanisms (which aren't in use when you pkg_add something). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Cloud software ?

), but isn't that what people believe in? Don't disturb their circles, just give them what they pray for, a cloud... a shiny foggy cloud... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Cloud software ?

On Fri, 25 May 2012 09:47:24 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: $ man -k cloud http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-05-25 Very nice, but please compare: http://xkcd.com/908/ :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/25/12 14:21, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: something I'm not seeing I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. What's the key to removing /var/empty

Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10

in a different user configuration in the ~/.xfce4 directory. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10

on the application finder, appearance, then clicked on DPI and raised the number to 96 did not see what it was though. Thanks Polytropon for your valuable help and suggestions. I actually had a similar problem with the fonts in many Gtk and Gtk+ applications, so I changed the DPI value for the whole X

Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

mentioned in the error message should be extracted intowork/: /usr/ports/irc/inspircd/work/InspIRCd-2.0.2/BSDmakefile. Do a make clean before you try again. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

me to repeat: You cannot use Linux sources with the ports collection. The ports collection has automated fetching, extracting, configuring and building mechanisms. You should use them. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format

and resync it? You can use the files (_both_ files!) from before starting the dbus installation. Regenerate the databases with the pwd_mkdb command. Or do I just flat install FreeBSD again and be done with it? That is possible, but should be your last option. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: library search path

install to. See man 7 ports for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: sendmail, masquerading, exposed root?

not going to reply to that address. (If you had to, setting Reply-To: would surely help.) Or you could use /etc/mail/aliases to redirect root to a different mail address. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format

on it... as for just automount, FreeBSD has a native solution that worked even before HAL and DBUS. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Portmaster Fetch

? Is portmaster -n (run through all steps, but do not make or install any ports) what you need? Maybe see man portmaster for more details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

the file system and re-run fsck. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise

functionality has been lost during that way? It's not the first time it's being discussed on list... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

On Thu, 31 May 2012 12:26:21 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/31/12 05:54, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2012 00:38:46 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: The cd mounts a regular file system ok and audio generally works ok -- playing from a file works. You're sure it's a normal audio CD? How

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:43:27 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/31/12 12:56, Polytropon wrote: Still, there _is_ a way of a workaround which is so ugly and partially stupid that I fear to mention it. You need a cable, 2 x 3.5mm stereo jack, which you connect from the front connector

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

to using ZFS. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

, except my GPU is broken and occassionally freezes the whole system in an unpredictable manner. :-) Previously I've been using an ATI Radeon 9200 (RV250) with less trouble, using XFree86's (and later on X.org's) stock ati driver. Any not-too-recent card should work fine. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

(such as paper feeds, duplexer, paper sizes and so on). ideas? Some of your code (scripts and commands) would help (at least me) to understand your current state better. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:01:07 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/02/12 18:35, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:08:55 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: I've deinstalled cups and its dependencies and rebuilt only hpijs. You could have kept it installed (maybe some ports will want

Re: umount device busy

the answer to at least one of those but I'm coming up short. You could use umount -f to force it, but that may result in files missing. Anyway, I've never actually used NTFS with FreeBSD so this could also be a source of the problem. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 10:17:28 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote: By the way, have you tried using your filter directly for testing? As mentioned before, prepare a printable PS file, then do: # cat test.ps | /var/spool/lpd/hp8500/diff.2 | nc

Re: umount device busy

' commands. Thanks. There's also a traditional way: xman. You can use it like % xman -bothshown then select Manual Page and then select a command from the directory on top. It's quite simple, but renders fast. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

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and bloat, have been successfully added. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

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it. Additionally, it allows the user to use his favourite media player (e. g. mplayer) with all its support (still, rew, ff, brightness/contrast adjust, keyboard support) except to have dealing with it in a web browser window with its very limited means of user friendlyness. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: umount device busy

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 01:56:49 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/03/12 21:05, Polytropon wrote: Maybe the ganim lock is regarding a device file? Not sure about that, I'm not using it here. I'm not sure what the deal is here, but exiting X does solve the problem. I didn't try just killing

Re: bsdlabel geometry params

options to newfs if needed, and also apply tunefs afterwards. But dealing with slices (which are DOS primary partitions) is not needed if what you're creating will be a data disk as described. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: umount device busy

/~veillard/gamin/config.html Of course you need to conclude to use either ~/.gaminrc for your user, or something different than /etc/gamin/mandatory_gaminrc for system-wide use. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

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On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:31:43 -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Monday 04 June 2012 11:12:01 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 06:54:37 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: youtube is not a problem, use youtube-dl from ports and do download videos to disk drive, then watch instead of having

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

can enable USB keyboard legacy so it will also work at the lower levels of interactivity. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

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