From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 22 21:19:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB7A16A4CF for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:19:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D4DC43D2D for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:19:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from defcon8@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so1106627wri for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:19:29 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=YevJiI/Ydngyn0gXUKgBswxipArJ88CkHCGy36zkOmBfQvyOpCIjetJ7BurFbBh38qkcB89Lsj3x4ov+q7UJyQfYqgqUUq8f8SmugZhGV/CRPluk4D/m9VLMgMOCJ/boqhL6sfIDma8k7+/0Dq8e4IgrbDUbAn0tWOcaewomYQk= Received: by 10.54.103.7 with SMTP id a7mr294896wrc; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:19:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.53.24 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:19:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:19:29 +0200 From: siraj kutlusan To: Frank Shute , siraj kutlusan , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050322193842.GA1757@peach.veggie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050322095141.GA431@peach.veggie.com> <20050322193842.GA1757@peach.veggie.com> Subject: Re: freebsd kernel developing X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: siraj kutlusan List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:19:31 -0000 wasnt perl originally developed because some guy couldnt get what he wanted out of awk? oh and i see you use a gpg id. you didnt give the server you uploaded it to so how do i find out its really you? (I just started finding out about gpg today) On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:38:42 +0000, Frank Shute wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:05:20PM +0200, siraj kutlusan wrote: > > > > i think you understood me wrong. i was looking for a girl for her > > interests not looks. > > Yeah, that's what we all say ;) > > I was largely joking though. All FreeBSDers require a laugh now & then. > > > oh and i have been using FreeBSD for 1.5 years now but i havent been > > very serious with it. oh and i would like to reqest Turkish keyboard > > support on FreeBSD. As I am forced to use it here. I know other people > > have requested it for a while and i dont know why it isnt added > > instead of having to config it all. I could config it but what about > > the Turkish people that want to use FreeBSD for the first time and > > just want the turkish Q keyboard working straight away. > > Basically with any unix you spend a few days getting it configured > which means sorting out your keyboard etc. Unless you buy a unix > machine off a vendor and even then you'd have to tweak it. > > I did my tweaking about 4-5 years ago on this machine. ie. Do it once > and forget about it. When you're more familiar with FreeBSD, you'll > find it fairly straightforward. When I have to do it again (when I get > my next machine), I'll just copy my tweaks over. > > One tweak for you to map your Windows keys and F5 in the console to > something useful: > > kbdcontrol -f 62 "sudo reboot" > kbdcontrol -f 64 "sudo halt -p" > kbdcontrol -f 5 "less " > > and F5 in ~/.Xdefaults: > > XTerm*VT100*translations: #override \ > F5 : string("less ") > > I suppose you could write a perl script to do all the necessary tweaks > sort of automagically when it's called. ie. It sorts out syscons(4) > via kbdcontrol(1), edits XF86Config, sets $TERM etc. > > Something you could have a bash at if you're keen. It's worth learning > perl if you haven't already. It's a good language for sysadmin along > with shell. > > -- > > Frank > > print "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k" | sed 's/ //g' > > --->PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B<--- >