Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 05:51:42 -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 09:43:12 +0100 > Polytropon articulated: > > > On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 15:54:46 -0700, Chip Camden > > wrote: > > > What does KDE or GNOME buy you anyway? Besides overhead. > > > > Blo

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Polytropon
ptoms of that "closed- ness". Coming back to your initial statement: For users EXPECTING something to act in a specific way, KDE and Gnome really "boost" their productivity, as it doesn't force them to question or relearn things they take for granted. -- Polytropon Magdeb

Re: portupgrade fails to run or do anything

2010-11-07 Thread Polytropon
date and in sync with the ports tree. > Any ideas? I'm perplexed and Google is no help. I can suggest reading the manpages of the programs in question before consulting google. One of FreeBSD's strengths is its EXCELLENT documentation. Know about that fact, and it will help you in

Re: portmaster question

2010-11-07 Thread Polytropon
y used command to upgrade them is "portupgrad -af". -- 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-questio

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Polytropon
able, while GUI knowledge, achieved in a "Windows" of version N, is not portable to version N+1, as it is outdated. There even is no generic knowledge, one may assume. Let me ensure you that I'm NOT against GUI generically. I'm even lazy when it comes to reconsidering my da

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Polytropon
ging things. GUI alone, with no functional substance behind it, is useless. Sadly, you'll find more and more programs that have blingbling and "experience", but are useless to those who want to achieve a certain goal with it. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Polytropon
ferences, talents, knowledge and experience. I'm always impressed by people who are more advanced than me, who use "minimalistic" environments and can work faster, more productive, more relaxed. Allthough the tools they use may look &q

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 09:43:01 +, Bruce Cran wrote: > [...] I do think a well-designed GUI can increase productivity by > bringing things together that would otherwise be separate. Yes. Plain YES. I'm just waiting for the GUI that actually DOES that. :-) -- Polytropon Magdebu

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:49:26 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:21:01AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Polytropon wrote: > > > > > The STRENGTH OF GUI (yes, I'm really saying that) is to aid > > > using language elemen

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
something new. I've seen many friends being UNHAPPY with how things are forced upon them, and they asked for alternatives, which I could show them. Of course, at first sight, it looks like Magic, then it looks like Voodoo, after that like hard work, and finally like knowledge and experience.

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
I is limited to the use by halfway healthy individuals. They are a no-go for blind users, for example. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
pable of. The ability of EXCHANGE of programs for testing is also a strength of the CLI that does not have something corresponding in GUI land. If you want to see if GUI programs G1, G2 and G3 do the job you want, you need to perform the job THREE TIMES - once per program. For CLI programs C1, C2

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
by GUI programs because their programmers think about "their way" as the only way existing. So if "my" image viewer allows you to resize and convert ONE picture, why should it show you how to do that with an arbitrary amount of pictures? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Ha

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:33:38 -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:06, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:21:51 -0800, Rob Farmer > > wrote: > >> I'm not saying the CLI is universally bad - if you gain competence > >> with a set o

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
do that manually for every of my clients." When I then see that people actually have learned things, I see them being more professional - leading to being more happy, as they have less work to do (because they are now ABLE to DELEGATE this work to the computer). "Thanks you showe

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
debate. Why "vs"? It's "and". So let's have the "vs" vs "and" debate. And as we are already on-topic, let's discuss which logical operator is the best, maybe we find an alternative to "vs" or "and"... or... yes, what about

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
arlie> GPL vs BSDL > Charlie> C vs any other programming language > > Perl vs Readability > > :-) Man vs machine? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebs

Re: (no subject)

2010-11-17 Thread Polytropon
purchase it (demo version at www.pcrecovery.com available). Good luck! PS. Please use a *descriptive* subject line when posting to this list. This makes sure your message isn't overlooked or misidentified as spam. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: where is my text file?

2010-11-22 Thread Polytropon
ething. Also check if vim has been set to automatically create backups (of files before they get overwritten). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Gateway_Enable="NO"

2010-11-23 Thread Polytropon
.d/ to see what effects gateway_enable="YES" will cause. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-24 Thread Polytropon
D on "old-fashioned" hardware. For example, I have a 150 MHz P1 with 128 MB here doing some simple "in-house" server stuff - it currently runs 8.0 (and will soon receive an update using freebsd-update, a tool that will allow you to keep your system on a curre

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-25 Thread Polytropon
hat's easy: See the -P option explained in "man ftpd". Also see /etc/defaults/rc.conf which mentions ftpd_flags. Remember: This is FreeBSD, we have excellent manpages and other good documentation. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, .

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-26 Thread Polytropon
ty" shells are bash (obviously), zsh and ksh. > As an asside, having got the FTP server working, I then "had an idea" > and ended up breaking it. Cest la vie... I'll look to using a stand > alone program/utility I think, that involves less system settings >

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-26 Thread Polytropon
are provided by the window manager you're using. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Polytropon
packaes work without a ports tree installed. Obtains files via Internet and installs all needed dependencies. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Polytropon
corresponds to PF9) is X. The consoles for Alt+PF10,11,12 can be added easily. > I often leave the main console alone to > display system messages while I work at other consoles. In former times, this was my STANDARD development setting (text-mode only), 80x25 each. -- Polytropon Magd

Re: Digital camera (Canon)

2010-11-28 Thread Polytropon
bility to be either a PTP compatible (use gphoto2 and gtkam) or DA compatible (use mount_msdosfs). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Unable to access CDROM device to play music

2010-11-30 Thread Polytropon
LLY sad to see more and more simple things stopping working... Giving *others* write access (o+w) to sensitive system devices may not be a good idea in every setting. For the "old fashioned" solution, this was not needed: The user went to the operator ground, and g+w. Done. -- Polytro

Re: pkg_add fail on FreeBSD V8.0

2010-11-30 Thread Polytropon
behaviour", you can mix using ports and packages. As long as you keep an eye on not duplicating stuff (pkgdb -aF helps here), it will work well. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-11-30 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:03 +0100, David Demelier wrote: > Since OpenBSD and NetBSD can support at most 32 partitions iirc. I thought the limit was 26, as the letters a to z... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mo

Re: Problem building netdisco 1.0 from ports on FreeBSD

2010-12-01 Thread Polytropon
> > cd'ed to /usr/ports/x11/libX11, did a 'make deinstall', 'make clean', > 'make install' - same results. > > Any other thoughts? You'll need libXt for that, I think. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-03 Thread Polytropon
Network is the way to go. USB *may* be okay. Parallel is not living anymore - allthough I'm still using it that way, but my home setting is a life support system for obsolete technology anyway. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe,

Re: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE

2010-12-03 Thread Polytropon
ENT that is "good", and will therefore be the basis of RELEASE. The security patches are also made from this basis, they accompany RELEASE. See the text file /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mo

Re: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE

2010-12-03 Thread Polytropon
nt release branch 8 (with 8.2 expected) and also 7.3, the last release of the branch 7, the legacy branch. Those individual branches do exist for some time, but as a release branch is out of support, the development for this branch is stopped, it won't continue. -- Polytropon Magd

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:26:43 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Polytropon wrote: > > > I'm using a HP Laserjet 4000 duplex for more than 5 years now > > at home, I'm happy with it, allthough it's a _huge_ printer > > with all the

Re: regex question....

2010-12-04 Thread Polytropon
d to escape the [ or ] ? No, as you want them in their regex meaning, "in the range of", not literal [ and ]. > PS: See, this is why I keep cheatsheets. ;) That's the fat green book on my shelf. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, German

Re: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-05 Thread Polytropon
t existed as an addition to DOS. I'm not sure this exists for "Windows", or if you need some additional program for that. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: SV: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread Polytropon
If I remember correctly, it has FTP and archiver support, and comes in a handy text mode application. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-06 Thread Polytropon
improvements, especially the incorporation of the "new partitioning methods", involving labels, ufsids, GEOM, GPT and PMBR, keeping the traditional methods MBR, fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs available for those systems that the user INTENDEDLY wants to install with those methods (e. g. older har

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-07 Thread Polytropon
quot;You need a graphics card, a mouse and 1 GB RAM to install this" is not an option. As long as CHOICE is provided - no problem. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-07 Thread Polytropon
t" newbies. :-) > - There are small clones of standard vi, with executables > no larger than ee, could replace ee. Allow me a side question, but... what's wrong with ee? (Don't get me wrong, I've been a long-ter

Re: FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE

2010-12-07 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:14:10 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > I have no idea what an "FMV DESKPER ME4/535P" is. Fujitsu-Siemens FMV DESKPOWER maybe. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-07 Thread Polytropon
this problem with 4 and 5. But hey, the printer works (again), and with my "new" system getting ready for 8 and networked printing, I won't complain. :-) > I'm OK with a printer that's as slow as I am. ;) As long as the printer isn't as tall as you are... :

Re: savemail panic

2010-12-08 Thread Polytropon
create /home/root and specify it (via chsh) as root's new home directory. In this case, it will be on whatever partition /home is on. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-08 Thread Polytropon
system, can't reach hard disk, can't open laptop, and so on). -- 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

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-08 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:48:11 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 12/08/10 11:26, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:09:24 +0100, "Julian H. Stacey" > > wrote: > > > >> My comments/ wish list > >> - One text mode (non bitmap gr

Re: Make gtk widgets use a larger font

2010-12-09 Thread Polytropon
iso8859-15" with the font encoding you need, and of course "12" with any other font size that fits your needs. In order to construct the font determination string based on a visual impression and attribute selection from lists, you can use the % xfontsel program. Attention:

Re: "ultimate" backup choice

2010-12-11 Thread Polytropon
#x27;s folder, then it copies/removes > it/them to "SERVER B"'s folder. Maybe cpdup can help here. Anyway, rsync would be a recommended choice. After installing them, you'll dinf documentation in "man cpdup" and "man rsync", /usr/local/shar

Re: Unable to extract audio cd tracks

2010-12-13 Thread Polytropon
ed to specify the correct block size: dd if=/dev/acd0t01 of=track01.cdr bs=2352 This should give you a cdr (raw) file conforming to the CD audio specifications. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition

2010-12-15 Thread Polytropon
d transfer method of dump + restore. Before you can do so, run a script (e. g. from a live system CD) to perform the slicing and partitioning according to your needs (fdisk, disklabel/bsdlabel, newfs, tunefs, or geom tools, or zfs tools). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Unable to extract audio cd tracks

2010-12-19 Thread Polytropon
media in my extraction scripts, but I now do realize WHY: Before using dd bs=2352 to get the data, I did cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 info which prints out the TOC of the audio CD and, I assume, makes sure the corresponding /dev/acd0tNN track files get created; cdcontrol is part of the base sys

Re: Strange error

2010-12-19 Thread Polytropon
etting for /etc/rc.conf. The rc script basically is a search & replace mechanism that obtains the current version from a uname call. In your case, check if the one server in question does have update_motd="NO" set. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy F

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-20 Thread Polytropon
uch devices are still sold, but you should be able to get a used one for less than nothing. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Polytropon
onf which states: blanktime="300" # blank time (in seconds) or "NO" to turn it off. saver="NO" # screen saver: Uses /boot/kernel/${saver}_saver.ko -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Polytropon
'DELIMITER' ... pile ... ... of ... ... text ... $((the)) $USER `/bin/laden` ${causes `NO' touble here! 'DELIMITER' but # is the really safe form, as you can write ANYTHING behind it. Again, the form illu

Re: rc.d and environment variables

2010-12-23 Thread Polytropon
). In case the user does NOT have a default shell, I think you should be able to also define a system-wide environmental variable by coding KRB5_KTNAME=/home/svn/svn.keytab; export KRB5_KTNAME into /etc/rc.local (which will be executed at system startup). See "man rc.local" for de

Re: rc.d and environment variables

2010-12-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:14:43 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 08:12:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:27:52 +0600, Victor Sudakov > > wrote: > > > Colleagues, > > > > > > The svnserve daemon is star

Re: rc.d and environment variables

2010-12-23 Thread Polytropon
setting for /etc/rc.conf to be used by svnserve? This would be the method most other programs handle things like configuration flags that are not set by an own config file. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: rc.d and environment variables

2010-12-23 Thread Polytropon
me/svn/svn.keytab: embedded into the proper structures. -- 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-quest

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Polytropon
here - this is where docevot enters the scene). -- 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 uns

Re: cpio misunderstanding?

2010-12-24 Thread Polytropon
makes the copy. The schg flag has to be set on the destination file manually. It won't be copied by the cp command. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: cpio misunderstanding?

2010-12-26 Thread Polytropon
he /usr/src/bin subtree for the "chflags" call revealed that it is used by the chflags binary, cp, mv and rm commands, but no hint it is involved directly in cpio. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Updating.

2010-12-26 Thread Polytropon
oot into that new kernel is performed, in single-user mode of course, and finally the world is installed in this "construction environment". After that, the system is rebooted again to start into multi-user mode again with the fully updated system (kern

SD/CF card reader

2010-12-26 Thread Polytropon
B_ERR_TIMEOUT uhub_reattach_port: device problem (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT), disabling port 3 message recorded by dmesg? What should I do to get this internal reader working, or isn't it worth the time? I mean, if this is just the usual cheap and crappy VIA "Windows"-only shit, I won't bother anym

Re: SD/CF card reader

2010-12-26 Thread Polytropon
s I do consider this a security risk). As I'm mainly working with "outdated" stuff, I don't rely on the latest modern technology for partitioning. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: SD/CF card reader

2010-12-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:45:41 -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > Oh, I failed to mention that I did install 8.2-RC1 on this > > "new" machine. Time for updating. > > > > Well that should have the

Re: rcorder

2010-12-26 Thread Polytropon
hanism. > I'm pretty familiar with Ubunutu and the /etc/rc0-6 but I'm new to > FreeBSD FreeBSD does not have this kind of runlevel based startup. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: SD/CF card reader

2010-12-27 Thread Polytropon
ed to access various media - without any problems. Those cards work well on my v7 system (where those messages aren't shown). I just continue as if those messages haven't been issued. > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512k count=10 > fdisk -i /dev/da0 > newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s

Re: Openoffice

2010-12-27 Thread Polytropon
th it. It seems that it's not worth the time trying to get rid of the unused parts. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Android phone and FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-28 Thread Polytropon
# mount /dev/da2 /mnt # mount /dev/da3 /mnt will cause the proper device nodes (e. g. /dev/da0s1, /dev/da1s1, /dev/da2s1 and /dev/da3s1) corresponding to inserted media to appear. Those can then be mounted in the usual way. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Ha

Re: Does anybody know a PeerGuardian like app?

2010-12-29 Thread Polytropon
h blocking SSH brute force attacks or unwanted FTP connection attempts from unauthorized IPs. There are good automating mechanisms in those tools. Those tools are available from FreeBSD's ports collection. Is this what you had in mind? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user si

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Polytropon
quot;t" will follow, or * indicate that the word will end. In most cases, ' is replaced by `. Inn Germenny new Englis Orfograffy iss, very importent too the shildren in schol were thei ha've learn how to propperly write. Nicht`s ist verboten, wenn man nich't erwisch

Re: load windows

2010-12-30 Thread Polytropon
Usually I do just install FreeBSD's loader as there is nothing else to load. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: cshrc to bashrc??

2011-01-01 Thread Polytropon
ompt in bash, use this: export PS1="\...@\h:\w\$ " It is the equivalent to csh's set promptchars = "%#" set prompt = "%...@%m:%~%# " Note that csh does automatically use % or # according to the first setting. I'm not sure how bash

Re: cshrc to bashrc??

2011-01-01 Thread Polytropon
n-root) That's why I said csh's set prompt = "%...@%m:%~%# " equals bash's export PS1="\...@\h:\w\$ ", because bash does have a different default prompt (which might not be desired). A literal % can be used for bash's PS1 settin

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2011-01-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:34:39 -0600, "Michael D. Norwick" wrote: > And, where are those commented out option lines > in my xorg.conf documented? In the obvious place: "man xorg.conf". :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4

Re: csup and build question

2011-01-01 Thread Polytropon
/usr/src/Makefile). -- 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

Re: csup and build question

2011-01-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 11:23:11 -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Polytropon on Saturday, 01 January 2011: > > On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:38:22 -0800, Chip Camden > > wrote: > > > At the risk of confirming my reputation for asking stupid questions: > > > > > &

Re: the GIMP and Samba

2011-01-05 Thread Polytropon
r stage of dependency (maybe another library or a "primary program" - the thing you actually want to use). Note that observations like this are the reason you have to constantly buy a new computer in order to keep doing the same things at the same average speed. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, G

Re: the GIMP and Samba

2011-01-05 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:03:02 -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Gutenprint support is an OPTION in gimp -- perhaps turning that off > relieves you of the dependency? Or maybe it's an option to gnomevfs... or something related to Gtk 2 in general... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy F

Re: Kernel

2011-01-07 Thread Polytropon
didn't have > /dev/fuse (for ntfs write) and I had problems with module > fuse.ko I don't see anything related to FUSE or NTFS in your kernel config which looks quite like GENERIC... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Re[2]: How to clean system

2011-01-08 Thread Polytropon
rts or packages (/usr/local subtree). See /usr/src/Makefile's comment section about how to clean out obsolete parts of the base system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: WPA Supplicant issue (maybe)

2011-01-09 Thread Polytropon
;man xmms", "man opera"), but many don't (see = don't see "man firefox", "man thunderbird", or almost any KDE program, where documentation is traditionally left to the users, or left out, or redirected at the web, a forum or a wiki, usually outdat

Re: File Listing

2011-01-11 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:56:07 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > 2011/1/11 Alexander Konotop > > > Нет, не смотрел ещё. Вечером взгляну. > > > > > What? No, didn't look again, evening... is dark? MbI roBOPNM nO-PYCCKN. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?

2011-01-12 Thread Polytropon
that log to files may be confused that the file has disappeared. How about simply cutting the files to zero length? # cat /dev/null > /var/log/* This will affect ALL files (expansion of *) which may not be precise enough in case you want to keep some of the log files. -- Polytropon

Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?

2011-01-12 Thread Polytropon
LE in /var/log/*; do cat /dev/null > ${FILE}; done That would be better than my first suggestion. You can exchange the part "/var/log/*" for any `find ...` command that specifies the intended target(s) of your operation better than the builtin shell expansion of the * expression.

Re: Which php??

2011-01-12 Thread Polytropon
thin the process of "make update", but Makefile.local will be ignored, so it will still be present after the update of the ports tree. Still, using a centralized configuration file for ports options as provided by port management tools (such as portupgrade or portmaster) often is the bet

awk question: replacing "%d%s" by "%d %s"

2011-01-12 Thread Polytropon
. Obviously, sub(nr, "[a-z]", " [a-z]"); is nonsense. Can anybody please tell me the obvious and easy way which I am missing? Thanks a lot! =^_^= The reason I'd like to do this in awk is that I've already spent enough time creating a format converter i

Re: awk question: replacing "%d%s" by "%d %s"

2011-01-12 Thread Polytropon
e letters in one copy, then the numbers in another one, and finally overwrite nr with the proper recombination that includes the space. Works as intended, FULLY. Thanks! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Polytropon
forget about that, also nonsense, looks to new... -- 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 u

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-13 Thread Polytropon
mentioned, section "SECURING THE KERNEL CORE, RAW DEVICES, AND FILE SYSTEMS". It seems that this could cause different behaviour in relation to flags. I will _not_ advise you to kill the files per inode (fsdb, clri) because this could cause further filesystem trouble. :-) -- Polytropo

Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?

2011-01-13 Thread Polytropon
files. The methods of "echo '' > $file" or even the more verbose "cat /dev/zero > $file" have been mentioned on list, with $file being a shell wildcard expression or `find ...` for better control about what to w

Re: Which php??

2011-01-13 Thread Polytropon
pect DOS text streams.) The recode utility can be found in converters/recode port. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: awk question: replacing "%d%s" by "%d %s"

2011-01-13 Thread Polytropon
t; <<< ); awk: illegal statement at source line 79 source file konvertieren.awk But I'll keep your suggestion in the program source and test it on 8 as soon as my "new" home system is ready to use. At least, the & variant looks much better. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: awk question: replacing "%d%s" by "%d %s"

2011-01-13 Thread Polytropon
e string s. If s is not given, $0 is used. > > > So the correct syntax is: > > sub("[a-z]", " &", nr) Works in this version, thanks! Reduction of 7 lines of code. sub(from, to, where); is the correct form. -- Polytropon Magdebur

Re: How to adjust man page line length

2011-01-18 Thread Polytropon
4 -mandoc | ps2pdf - $1.pdf This would cause groff to format for A4 paper width. It's fully possible that a similar approach can be used for requesting a specific terminal width given in characters, rather than inches or centimeters (from a predefined value). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, German

Re: documentation OF FreeBSD

2011-01-18 Thread Polytropon
messages _independently_ from any MUA gives you the chance to test various applications, or even use them in parallel, employing one and the same mail data. Using the system's mailer (e. g. via SMARTHOST) makes you fully independent from the traditional POP/SMTP accounts _in_ the MUA. --

Re: documentation OF FreeBSD

2011-01-18 Thread Polytropon
inted by the fall of speed and accessibility with the switch from Gtk1 to Gtk2. I do NOT want to say that text mode MUAs can't be easy to use, versatile, powerful and _FAST_. In fact, pine was one of the first MUAs I've ever used, and there's nothing about "it's too complicated

Re: FreeBSD cups printing server

2011-01-19 Thread Polytropon
the actual printer filter. Sorry I can't be more CUPS-specific as I have abandoned this... "monster" many years ago. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Implications of missing this step?

2011-01-20 Thread Polytropon
kernel as kernel.GENERIC. This should be a -RELEASE kernel of the release you're currently using (8.0, 8.1, 8.1), but can be any GENERIC kernel of a -STABLE version, too. The system will also automatically save the last kernal as kernel.old. Before installing world, this old kernel will match ve

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