Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-16 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Did anyone bothered to check wikipedia? 80+? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BSD_operating_systems On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 00:34 -0800, Hub- FreeBSD wrote: Actually, according to what we are tracking at http://bsdstats.org, there are currently *8*: PC-BSD FreeBSD PYC-BSD (aka Rus-BSD)

Re: fdisk flag bootable partition during install

2012-04-25 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 23:35 +0200, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 22:52 +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 08:14:19PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: You do not flag which to use. Multiple A6 entries brings problems since you get multiple disklabels

Re: ksh and # in the command line

2012-04-24 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Be cautious when citing examples on a list :-) louis@athlon ~ $ whois example.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Server Name:

Re: ksh and # in the command line

2012-04-24 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 12:10 -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 16:07, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: Be cautious when citing examples on a list :-) louis@athlon ~ $ whois example.com What's your point? RFC 2606 specifically reserves example.com for example purposes

Re: fdisk flag bootable partition during install

2012-04-24 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 22:52 +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 08:14:19PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: You do not flag which to use. Multiple A6 entries brings problems since you get multiple disklabels. Trust me: I'll remember that in the future. I am pretty sure

Re: error building jdk 1.5/1.6 on current as of 13 Feb

2010-02-13 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
/bin/sh is *NOT* /usr/local/bin/bash Donald Cooley wrote: I'm receiving this error when I run make in either jdk 1.5/1.6 bash-4.0$ pwd /usr/ports/devel/jdk bash-4.0$ cd 1.5 bash-4.0$ make /bin/sh: no closing quote *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/jdk/1.5 (line 1793 of

Re: perl script-cron fails, at and command line work

2010-01-23 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Frank Bax wrote: Chris Bennett wrote: I just re-installed fresh from 4.5 to 4.6. I now have a problem with a script that ran from cron for many months without problems. From cron I get: Logfile LWP_SupeRref.log failed to open at /home/user/LWP/LWP_ref.pl line 73. I have tried altering

Re: New user trying to plan for upgrade

2009-12-22 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
What is wrong with /var/backups ? I like tp have all those config files, ALL and in one place. L. V. Lammert wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Paul M wrote: On 22/12/2009, at 2:23 PM, David Shuman wrote: It appears there are issues and processes that require the maintenance of config

Re: viewing non-Youtube embedded video

2009-12-20 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
You may want to look at www/mozplugger as a starting point, http://openports.se/www/mozplugger then http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html to have a look at the configuration script. If memory serves, I compiled the source 3 or 4 releases ago with no problem. On the plus side, when the config

Re: kqemu amd64

2009-08-17 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Must load the kqemu as a kernel module at kernel/pre-secure level .not. as an application switch. cat /var/db/pkg/kqemu-{your version}/+DISPLAY Bobby Johnson wrote: I'm having trouble getting qemu under amd64 to use kqemu. I'm running a snapshot from a couple days ago. I've tried installing

Re: kqemu amd64

2009-08-17 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Johnson wrote: The module is loading, as noted previously. I think the application needs to use -kernel-kqemu to not run kqemu in user mode. Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: Must load the kqemu as a kernel module at kernel/pre-secure level .not. as an application switch. cat /var/db/pkg/kqemu-{your

Re: Intel D945GCNL with OpenBSD 4.4 Hangs

2009-04-09 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Marcello Cruz wrote: Dear all, I have an Intel D945GCNL board and when I try to enable a second NIC the system hangs. I really don't know where to search for a clue. I took some steps before posting this message: * replaced the HD with another one * replaced the NIC (D-Link DFE-530, 3COM

Re: mouse cursor is too fast with wsmoused

2009-01-15 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Olivier Cherrier wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:07:15AM +0100, lvl...@skynet.be wrote: Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical (USB) on Dell PE1950, wsmoused_flags= in /etc/rc.conf.local Mouse cursor is very fast, almost unusable. man for wsmoused nor Mr. Google gave me any clue, is there any way

Re: mouse cursor is too fast with wsmoused

2009-01-14 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
rga wrote: Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical (USB) on Dell PE1950, wsmoused_flags= in /etc/rc.conf.local Mouse cursor is very fast, almost unusable. man for wsmoused nor Mr. Google gave me any clue, is there any way to slow the mouse down? Not a joke, first try this cheapest tip:

Re: Soekris equivalent

2008-12-17 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
bofh wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Daniel E. Hassler hass...@speakeasy.net wrote: http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ms_9832 Interesting. I read somewhere that it is one of the things Intel is limiting customers to, via chipsets and whatnots. I wonder if these guys are using a

Re: Hardware recomendations please

2008-12-02 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-12-02, nuffnough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there. My firewalls are getting old, so I thought it would be a great idea to replace them. I figured that a budget of around $1500 would be more than adequate, but because no one makes mobos with 5 pci slots

Re: Using a separate boot partition

2008-11-12 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Seems to me we are not looking at the good direction. I seem to understand that the problem is multi-booting, with OSes possibly on multiple physical devices. It also seems that the starting point is a Lunixish advocating of having a /boot partition handling *all* parameters for all OSes,

Re: browsing ports from the command line

2008-11-10 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Faster, search description cut -d'|' -f4 /usr/ports/INDEX pipe it if needed archivers with pkg name starting with an a cut -d'|' -f2,4 /usr/ports/INDEX | grep archivers/a same, add the current ports stem and version cut -d'|' -f1,2,4 /usr/ports/INDEX | grep archivers/a Rem: which installed

Re: pkg_add error: +CONTENTS does not exist

2008-11-05 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-11-05, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I been updating packages from 4.3 to 4.4 but my box rebooted due to a power outage and now I'm getting the following error while updating packages: Warning: couldn't read packing-list from installed package jasper-1.900.1

Re: pkg_add error: +CONTENTS does not exist

2008-11-05 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Send to: misc@, not me ;-) Happens to me all the time. Marc Espie wrote: On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 07:05:56PM +0100, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-11-05, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I been updating packages from 4.3 to 4.4 but my box rebooted

Re: PostgreSQL Problems

2008-10-29 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Simon Connah wrote: Sorry if this is the wrong list, I debated whether to post it to ports but as it is not a problem with the port itself and is more a user problem (i.e I'm being stupid :)) I thought misc was probably more appropriate. Anyway I've been trying to get PostgreSQL setup on my

Re: Intel Atom and D945GCLF2

2008-09-29 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Andres Genovez wrote: 2008/9/26 Steve B [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is anyone running OpenBSD on one of these boards? The supported platform page does not list either the chipset or the CPU so I'm guesing it is not supported at this time. Steve Hi, I got an Acer One that is the same chipset, I will

Re: eSATA support?

2008-09-22 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Damien Miller wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Brian wrote: I'm thinking about picking up an eSATA pci card and backing up my data to an external hd over eSATA using rsync. Is this supported? eSATA is a conector, cable and electrical specification and otherwise is identical to regular

Re: cd drive error

2008-09-18 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Paul M wrote: Hi all, I find I'm unable to coerce my mitsumi cd drive into writing a track. I've been using it for years to read, which it does just fine, but it's the first time I've attempted to write with this particular drive (I can write just fine using other drives). Checking the

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Ted Unangst wrote: On 8/17/08, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have this BSD box with some films on, and someone had the idea of hookiing it up to the TV so we can watch DVD's etc in the living room. Not a bad idea, but I don't know how. So far, nobody has suggested the

Re: Problem with CD/DVD RW - only read

2008-07-31 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Tomas Bodzar wrote: Hi all, Do you know someone what does mean this error? pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf5cd0/192 (10 entries) cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: HL-DT-ST, DVDRAM GSA-4163B, A103 SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide1:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pcibios0:

Re: keyboard encoding

2008-07-29 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hi! On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:53:37PM +0200, Mats O Jansson wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Hannah Schroeter wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 07:30:35PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is your

Re: keyboard encoding

2008-07-28 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hi! On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:22:37PM +0200, Tony Berth wrote: I have in 4.3 with a default US keyboard. When I set wsconsctl keyboard.encoding=de in order to get a German one, nothing happens! I get following reply: keyboard.encoding - de

Re: X font sizes

2008-07-14 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Michael wrote: Hi, sometime between the June 25 snapshot and today something in X changed. Font sizes of some programms (like Konsole, Psi, xclock when using -render) are much larger then before. It also isn't possible to get back to the old look by just selecting a smaller font size.

Re: Can't install using pkg_add from FTP mirror and from Local Mirror

2008-07-10 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
a -current ports tree, and you will have problems. http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html thank you all (Jacob Meuser, Markus Lude, Louis V. Lambrecht, James Hartley) for your help i have reinstall my openbsd 4.3 and then use this -rOPENBSD_4_3 for update ports, and now i have been able to install

Re: Can't install using pkg_add from FTP mirror and from Local Mirror

2008-07-09 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:04:38AM -0700, my mail wrote: I have success install OpenBSD 4.3, but when i want install packages using pkg_add, why i can't install it? first i try from local ssh server from my LAN --- # export

Re: Can't install using pkg_add from FTP mirror and from Local Mirror

2008-07-09 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
my mail wrote: --- On Wed, 7/9/08, Louis V. Lambrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Definitely a libraries mixup with gettext and libiconv versions. Just curious, what is the output of: ls -ald /var/db/pkg/.* guess there must be some list. this a result from previous command # ls -ald

Re: font size with xenocara -current

2008-06-17 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Matthieu Herrb wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Nicolas Letellier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:42:37 +0300 Ihar Hrachyshka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to manually specify -dpi XX, f.e. -dpi 96 in your 'xserveropts' in 'startx' script. I don't know

Re: [Perl/locales] Warning about locales

2008-06-16 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Philip Guenther wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:26:05PM -0600, Philip Guenther wrote: ... I found a workaround: # ln -s /usr/share/locale/en_GB.ISO8859-1 /usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8 That

Re: [Perl/locales] Warning about locales

2008-06-15 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
F. Caulier wrote: I get the following when I (as root and standard user) execute pkg_info, pkg_add or pkg_delete with Xorg on: # pkg_info perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset) LC_CTYPE =

Re: pf.conf comment lines

2008-06-13 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Ooops! Lars answered to my mail. Means, I hadn't replied to misc@ but the lazy in me just replied. Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: Lars NoodC)n wrote: Jose Fragoso wrote: Now, if a comment line ends with \, should the next line be also treated as comment? I noticed this behaviour and I do

Re: gmake error, please help :)

2008-05-08 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
vatocleti wrote: Hey all, I'm running OpenBSD 4.2/i386 and am booting bsd.mp. I have brought over a linux program that uses gcc as the compiler. I have installed the following sets: - gmake-3.80p1.tgz - gettext-0.14.6p0.tgz - libiconv-1.9.2p3.tgz and when I do a gmake I get the following

Re: gmake error, please help :)

2008-05-08 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
vatocleti wrote: Louis V. Lambrecht-3 wrote: vatocleti wrote: Hey all, I'm running OpenBSD 4.2/i386 and am booting bsd.mp. I have brought over a linux program that uses gcc as the compiler. I have installed the following sets: - gmake-3.80p1.tgz - gettext-0.14.6p0.tgz - libiconv

Re: Apache suexec problem

2008-05-05 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Dan Harnett wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:39:03AM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: Actually I didn't, checked that right after I posted, BUT it was already set as setuid!! A mistake in release?? No. There is no mistake. $ sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/suexec $ ls -l /usr/sbin/suexec

Re: Really large drives (was Re: Is there a badblocks-equivalent for OpenBSD?)

2008-04-20 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Chris Zakelj wrote: Travers Buda wrote: I can certainly see various drive makers pushing capacity irrespective of reliability. Germane to this case, some of them reduce the reserve storage for bad sectors for that extra storage. Going along with this, on a recent trip to my local

Re: : Dual boot problem

2008-04-08 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Not quite, you don't need a specific partition for grub.Grub only needs to be installed on the BIOS first boot device. Which can be a hard drive, a floppy, a cdrom, an usb key... On a hard drive with only OpenBSD slices, grub will usually be installed on the first slice, the one with the

Re: : : Dual boot problem

2008-04-08 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Cm'on Raimo. Tssk! Tssk! http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/grub/files/ I mostly use openports.se, rather than searching my own filesystem which is not quite conforming to the standard file hierarchy. :-) Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:54:48PM +0200, Louis V

Re: OpenBSD TV tuner

2008-04-04 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:19:27AM +0200, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: TV is limited to the bktr driver, see man bktr In short TV cards with the bt848 or bt878 chip (and very early bt8x8 compatible conexant chips). CX23xxx will not work. I've only seen conexant 878

Re: OpenBSD TV tuner

2008-04-03 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
TV is limited to the bktr driver, see man bktr In short TV cards with the bt848 or bt878 chip (and very early bt8x8 compatible conexant chips). CX23xxx will not work. There are two apps to watch TV, fbtv (needs some editing not explained clearly) and xawtv xawtv can further be hacked to allow

Re: what version/release for Thinkpad x61

2008-03-16 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Michael wrote: Hi, What version or release should I choose? 4.2 or 4.3 or latest snapshot? I am usually just following current... updating once in a while or directly after a security fix that affects me. Zoong PHAM schrieb: What is the status of (k)qemu in OpenBSD now?

Re: UFS2 status in 4.3?

2008-03-16 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: On 15 Mar 2008 21:37:45 -0700, Unix Fan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They are the same thing, FFS is an acronym for Berkeley's Fast File System - which is a decedent of ATT UFS (Unix File System). I agree, the naming conventions between the BSD's are unique... but see

Re: sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-12 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Marc Rene Arns wrote: Hi, I need to transfer files via sftp (ssh ftp) from a Windows machine. This files may contain Umlauts (vd|) and Spaces. I made several tests and stuck with the following: sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:'/file-withv|d.txt' works, but sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:'/file with

Re: OpenBSD and Mysql+Sun

2008-02-27 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Tim Donahue wrote: Quoting Gustavo Polillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sun +Mysql.. The mysql database will be portable in the next Openbsd versions? How openbsd team loook this? OpenBSD has had a MySQL port for nearly 9 years now.* I would imagine that nothing will change in that respect, and

Re: hd ext3 no mount

2008-01-17 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Gustavo Polillo wrote: Hi sorry by my english.. In Brazil does not a real openbsd list.. so I am here.. I did: openbsd:~# sysctl hw.disknames hw.disknames=wd0,cd0,wd1 openbsd:~# disklabel wd1 disklabel: warning, DOS partition table with no valid OpenBSD partition # /dev/rwd1c: type: ESDI

Re: a dual-boot way to upgrade openbsd

2008-01-06 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Imre Oolberg wrote: Hallo! I would be thankful if somebody comments on the following sequence to upgrade OpenBSD system. The main purpose is to make an upgrade with as little downtime as possible and to have a way to return to the last known working state. Essentially it involves creating

Re: setxkbmap kills X

2007-12-11 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Try this ln -s /etc/X11/xkb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: Hi, as you can read in the subject, running e.g. setxkbmap us will kill X totally. I don't see any core dumped or similar. What can be the problem? Here you are my dmesg (an zzz froze the laptop and I had to power

4.2-beta _oss_ioctl/ossaudio

2007-08-21 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
My tv applications were working fine with the 4.1-snapshots, but suddenly stopped working on 4.2-beta. Both fxtv and xawtv has image but no sound. Only xawtv tells me $ xawtv [2] 32414 $ This is xawtv-3.94, running on OpenBSD/i386 (4.2) xawtv:/usr/local/lib/xawtv/snd-oss.so: undefined symbol