Re: ed -s

2015-05-09 Thread Jérôme FRGACIC
> Yes, the "-s" option concern only messages printed on stdout. Sorry, this is bullshit. The message: "newline appended" is an informational message, not a diagnostic (error message). I supposed this is why it is not concerned by the "-s" option.

Dealing with a mix of DHCP and fixed addresses

2015-05-09 Thread Alan Corey
I'm pretty sure I haven't seen this in the FAQ. I don't like DHCP, I consider it useful in temporary situations only. I've had a few machines on a LAN with fixed IPs for years and it all works fine. Along comes a cell phone and it becomes my internet gateway, at least most of the time. Typical A

ed -s

2015-05-09 Thread hruodr
Invoking "ed -s file.txt", where file does not contain a newline at the end, sends to stderr in spite of -s flag: "newline appended". Is this normal behaviour? Does ed/sed spoil files with non ascii bytes (for example unicode characters)? By experience seems to me that they, as also lex, do not s

Re: Problems Booting from CD2 of 5.7

2015-05-09 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 04:31:55PM +0100, Maurice McCarthy wrote: > On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 10:36:57AM +0100 or thereabouts, Richard Laysell > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My copy of 5.7 arrived yesterday, but I seem to have problems booting > > from the second CD (trying to boot an amd64 system) >

Re: Problems Booting from CD2 of 5.7

2015-05-09 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 10:36:57AM +0100 or thereabouts, Richard Laysell wrote: > Hello, > > My copy of 5.7 arrived yesterday, but I seem to have problems booting > from the second CD (trying to boot an amd64 system) > > The system will not boot at all - it reports that it can't see a > bootable

Re: xbacklight: No outputs have backlight property

2015-05-09 Thread Maximilian Pichler
I guess what you might be after is called DDC/IC or MCCS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Data_Channel#DDC.2FCI Not sure what part of OpenBSD manages this. On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Sandrine Duvalier wrote: > Hi! > > Not sure if this is possible but I'd like to dim my external displ

Re: spamdb - can't delete spam db entry (Error 22)

2015-05-09 Thread Adam Wolk
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015, at 11:45 PM, Adam Wolk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015, at 10:52 PM, Adam Wolk wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015, at 10:43 PM, Adam Wolk wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015, at 10:22 PM, Todd C. Miller wrote: > > > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:06:59 +0200, Adam Wolk wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Pidgin crashes when trying to paste text

2015-05-09 Thread sam
On Sat, 9 May 2015 15:28:50 +0200 Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 02:10:14PM +0100, sam wrote: > > Hello, > > > > When using Pidgin on ports (system, etc. = -current), I have found > > that Pidgin consistently crashes when pasting information from > > websites. This happens in p

Re: Pidgin crashes when trying to paste text

2015-05-09 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 02:10:14PM +0100, sam wrote: > Hello, > > When using Pidgin on ports (system, etc. = -current), I have found that > Pidgin consistently crashes when pasting information from websites. > This happens in particular with guardian.co.uk. Looks like you're using the gtkspell fl

Pidgin crashes when trying to paste text

2015-05-09 Thread sam
Hello, When using Pidgin on ports (system, etc. = -current), I have found that Pidgin consistently crashes when pasting information from websites. This happens in particular with guardian.co.uk. (gdb) [~]$ gdb pidgin pidgin.core GNU gdb 6.3 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is fre

Problems Booting from CD2 of 5.7

2015-05-09 Thread Richard Laysell
Hello, My copy of 5.7 arrived yesterday, but I seem to have problems booting from the second CD (trying to boot an amd64 system) The system will not boot at all - it reports that it can't see a bootable disk. I can boot the same system from the first CD (i386) and this all works OK If I take a

Re: OpenBSD Foundation and OpenBSD Project

2015-05-09 Thread Hrishikesh Muruk
Thank you for the replies. I donated the equivalent of the CD cost to OpenBSD Project. Hrishi On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:47 AM, dan mclaughlin wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2015 09:49:13 +0530 Hrishikesh Muruk > wrote: > > Hi > > > > I dont want to purchase 5.7 CDs and pay international shipping (also