Re: manpages query (net/openntpd)

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 09:32:03PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > > Hi, > > > I installed net/openntpd some time ago. I think I read about it's usage > possibly on OpenBSD's site. Installed it & did the necessary in rc.conf > > The other day I wanted to have a look at the local docs for it as I fe

Re: Error building docs *blank page!!* *bad magic number 0x2d67*

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 07:40:21PM +0100, driesm.michi...@gmail.com wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Benjamin Kaduk > > Sent: woensdag 13 november 2019 8:39 > > To: driesm.michi...@gmail.com > > Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Err

Re: Error building docs *blank page!!* *bad magic number 0x2d67*

What does pkg(1) think the version of the installed /usr/local/bin/pnmtopng is (on both systems)? -Ben On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 09:46:31PM +0100, driesm.michi...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi doc mailing list, > > > > Since a few weeks now, I have been unable to build the documentation tree. > > Th

Re: Which comma style does the FreeBSD handbook use? Or is that up to individual contributors and editors?

On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 05:02:28PM +, Pau Amma wrote: > I've seen examples of both styles in the handbook, eg > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/audit-administration.html > and > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-usb-tethering.html, > s

Re: Incorrect link

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 03:39:52PM +0300, A P wrote: > Hi. When browsed docs - > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/ru/articles/explaining-bsd/compairing-bsd-and-linux.html > - > I found the incorrect link about Concurrent Versions System. Adding the > screenshot. > > It goes onto site of low cost tree r

Re: Incorrect information

Hi James, On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 07:50:47PM -0400, James Larrowe wrote: > This page > > contains > invalid information. The correct version is included below. Perhaps you could say a bit more about what motivates t

Re: New account on FreeBSD Wiki

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 01:15:13PM +, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:20:41PM +1100, Trevor Roydhouse wrote: > > To be fair, the Wiki was changed AFTER Grégory mailed the list. > > As a result of ;-) Well, shame on me for not having checked the history. Grégory, my apologies

Re: New account on FreeBSD Wiki

On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 06:40:59PM +0100, Grégory Reinbold wrote: > Hello > > I want to updload my tutorial to setup a CalDAV/CardDAV server with Radicale. > My tutorial is already linked on the following page > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/www/radicale?highlight=(\bCategoryHowTo\b) but > I > w

Re: FreeBSD web build failed on build-web.ysv.freebsd.org

I had assumed it was just waiting for INDEX to be regenerated, since tobik has changed the offending port's COMMENT already. -Ben On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 06:39:21PM +, Glen Barber wrote: > I'm poking at the build machine now. Ignore any excessive failure > emails. I think I see what is(n't)

Re: FreeBSD web build failed on build-web.ysv.freebsd.org

This looks like fallout from a Unicode apostrophe in the COMMENT for the recently-added x11-fonts/linden-hill. I sent tobik@ (its committer) a note about it but failed to cc the list here. -Ben On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:24:37AM +, User Www-data wrote: > n-hill">linden-hill-g20110526 Digita

Re: Document Enhancement 2.3.1.1. Writing an Image File to USB

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 02:54:17PM +, Rob Hulley wrote: > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html > > > For OSX > > # dd if=FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1M conv=sync > > Should read bs=1m

Re: Willing to help with documentation

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 01:55:07AM +0530, Nikolai Lvovich wrote: > Hi. > > I am new to the FreeBSD project (using since FreeBSD 11.1), and I use it as > only desktop OS during my university research, for frankly, I am amazed by > the quality and reliability of it, including the friendly handbook.

Re: option sort order in usage/man pages/documentation

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:25:21AM -0400, Allan Jude wrote: > On 2018-08-30 03:50, Yuri Pankov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm working on some man page updates, and, thinking about consistency, > > been wondering if there's any policy set on the order of options that > > one should use in usage message

Re: Status Update about effort to translate the FreeBSD Documentation from en_US to pt_BR

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 02:25:41PM -0300, Edson Brandi wrote: > Hello Guys, > > First of all, i'm sorry for the text wall... But I think it's worth > sharing with you what we did in the last 2 weeks, because I believe > that what we have learned can be useful to other translation groups. I do, to

Re: Review of a handbook patch

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 08:43:17PM +0200, Rocky Hotas wrote: > Hi! > This is about the review: > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10600 > (patch to LDAP section of the FreeBSD Handbook) > > I wrote the text as a newbie, enthusiast user who tried to install an > OpenLDAP server, found some difficult

Re: How to write an addendum to 22.2 Using Localization

On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 10:10:49AM +, Vitalio D wrote: > Hello doc team, > > I'd like to write a short addendum or rewrite some subsections of 22.2 of > handbook concerning i18l. Since some time (since when ?) the vt has replaced > syscons as default, but the i18n section still based on sysc

Re: Faizal Alfaritsy menambahkan foto baru

On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 10:54:47PM -0500, Rick Miller wrote: > I only recently subscribed to this list. It seems to see a lot of these > messages. Is that the expected behavior? No, it's not expected. Someone(TM) should probably ask postmaster@ to take a look. -Ben __

Re: Porters Handbook section 4.4

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 08:26:21PM -0700, Russell Haley wrote: > Hello, > > I'm still stuck building the new chapters I wrote for the Porters > Handbook. I can't seem to get the system to "find" the file noted in > my previous post: Sorry I missed this the first time around. It would be highly u

Re: [PATCH] Fix jail(8) manpage.

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 01:15:27PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > According to src/UPDATING, > > 20110930: > sysinstall has been removed > > The following patch changes jail(8) to refer instead to bsdinstall. > > Index: jail.8 > ==

Re: Porters Handbook section 4.4

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 06:40:20PM -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote: > > Have nothing to add here, but this post peaked my interest about what > your talking about. > > What is Phabricator? Phabricator is a project/software for doing code review of all sorts. The FreeBSD documentation tree contains a l

Re: Porters Handbook section 4.4

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:23:58AM -0700, Russell Haley wrote: > Here is chapter 1 in an odt since it's a new work and I wanted to bang > it out without formatting. I'll add it to the sources after I get a > good start on Chapter 2 and post a patch. I assume phabricator the > preferred tool for com

Re: wireless network driver "urtwn"

On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 11:09:30PM +0200, Patrik Horst wrote: > Hi, > > I'm refering to "https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/hardware.html": > The wireless network driver "urtwn" also supports "Asus USB-N13, rev. B1". > > Maybe you want to expand the documentation. The release notes are fixed

Re: Porters Handbook section 4.4

On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 12:22:11AM -0700, Russell Haley wrote: > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Russell Haley wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Russell Haley wrote: > >> > >>> Thanks! I'll play with this on the weekend. > >> > >> > >> Pleas

Re: why recommend "portmaster -af" for full port rebuild?

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 02:55:31PM +, Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote: > > Dear FreeBSD Docs, > > On the upgrading/updating page: > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html > there is a line that recommends using > portmaster -af > to rebuild all of the

Re: FreeBSD Day in Yerevan

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:51:20AM +0400, Antranig Vartanian wrote: > Hi Ben! thanks for the reply! > > yes, I just made this event link, > https://www.facebook.com/events/113662152573216/?active_tab=about > is it better? :) Yes, thanks! -Ben ___ freeb

Re: FreeBSD Day in Yerevan

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:02:53PM +0400, Antranig Vartanian wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm organizing FreeBSD Day in Yerevan, Armenia. there's gonna be a > install-a-thon, presentation, pizza and juice. > > June 19, 2017 at IBM Innovative Solution & Technologies Center, Alek > Manukyan 1, YSU 7th buil

Re: handbook TOC

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 11:31:15AM -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote: > Been working on updating a chapter in the English version of the > handbook. I deleted a section from the chapter.xml file and now keep > getting an error code 4 from the "make". Without looking at the actual patch and build log in q

Re: having trouble making changes to the handbook

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:57:43PM -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote: > Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 09:17:47AM -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote: > >> I am following the info in this link > >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/ > &g

Re: having trouble making changes to the handbook

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 09:17:47AM -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote: > I am following the info in this link > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/ > > I installed the textproc/docproj package. > > The above link says that svn is installed as part of that port. But it > really is

Re: The future of the roff toolchain

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > What I want to propose now, it to render them as PDF (html?) once and push > them > somewhere (to be defined) as static document on our documentation website. > Please doceng@ provide me a location where to push them. > > An

Re: FreeBSD Handbook - LDAP section

On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 02:46:52PM +0200, Rocky Hotas wrote: > Hi! > This section about LDAP of the FreeBSD Handbook > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ldap.html > > is outdated and with several errors. For the first half, the structure of the > guide can be p

Re: Spelling mistake in the Handbook

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 11:29:17PM -0400, Casey Timmers wrote: > 4.4.1, sentence after the first code example, last word, "succeed". Fixed in r50053. (It will take some minutes for the website rebuild cron job to pick it up.) Thanks! -Ben ___ freebsd-

Re: Fwd: 28.10. File and Print Services for Microsoft® Windows® Clients (Samba)

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 12:23:32PM +0200, Boyko Yordanov wrote: > Hi, > > there’s a typo - a space is missing here > > This allows the administrator to create SMB/CIFSshares on the FreeBSD > > I assume it should be SMB/CIFS shares > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-samba.html > <

Re: Mellanox as an HW vendor in FreeBSD 9.x (and above) HW notes

Meny > > > -Original Message- > From: Benjamin Kaduk [mailto:ka...@mit.edu] > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 11:42 PM > To: Meny Yossefi > Cc: d...@freebsd.org; Hans Petter Selasky ; > r...@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Mellanox as an HW vendor in FreeBSD 9.x (a

Re: Enabling PF

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 04:37:36PM -0600, Michael Keen wrote: > In 29.3.1. Enabling PF there is a reference to a default ruleset > already created at /etc/pf.conf. In my install of FreeBSD 11 there is > not a default ruleset there. The link to the pf tutorial at the top of > Chapter 29 suggests

Re: handbook chapter 14. Jails is out of date

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:03:45PM +0800, Ernie Luzar wrote: > > I hope someone will work on this to make it happen. > > Ya I know, patches are welcome. Not just patches but entries in the bug tracker as well: https://bugs.freebsd.org/ -Ben ___ freebs

Re: Mellanox as an HW vendor in FreeBSD 9.x (and above) HW notes

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 03:38:06PM +, Meny Yossefi wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Meny and I'm leading Mellanox's FreeBSD team these days, > developing Ethernet and InfiniBand drivers for our ConnectX NICs. > > We came across the FreeBSD 11.0 hardware notes and found that we were not > include

Re: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE upgrading comments

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 07:26:41PM -0500, Eric Rucker wrote: > Ben, > > I've already upgraded to 10.3-RELEASE, and do not have uname -a output > available from the system before the upgrade. But, this should be good > enough, from the last kernel log from before I upgraded: > > +FreeBSD 9.3-RELEA

Re: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE upgrading comments

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 08:13:06AM -0500, Eric Rucker wrote: > Hello, > > I've noticed that I was unable to perform an upgrade directly to > FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE from 9.3-RELEASE by following the directions in > this document: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/installation.html > > Upon atte

Re: cupsd.conf JobRetryLimit =0 not mentioned in documentation

On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 03:18:26AM +0100, Jens Redecker wrote: > Hi there, > > > the documentation of cupsd.conf > https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cupsd.conf mentions > " The cupsd.conf manual page comes from the ports collection, and as such it is maintained by the cups project, not

Re: FreeBSD Handbook A.3.6 has incorrect (old?) cert-fingerprint info for svn.freebsd.org

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 08:34:00AM -0500, Michael C Voorhis wrote: > The FreeBSD handbook section A.3.6, under > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/svn.html > > lists certificate fingerprints which appear to be outdated. It > appears that the SHA1 fingerprint, listed

Re: Is there a possibility to obtain the most recent FreeBSD documentation in .pdf format?

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 10:56:19PM +0100, John W. Kitz wrote: > Hi, > > > > I was wondering; most books on FreeBSD that are on the market at any one > time are typically based on a release that is quite a bit older than the > most recent GA'd one. Obviously there is the HTML version online, but

Re: This article by nasa might be worth mentioning in "in the press"

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 01:12:15PM +, Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas wrote: > https://www.nas.nasa.gov/SC16/demos/demo9.html Yes, it probably is worth including; thanks for the pointer. There are some stale instructions to doc committers in the relevant source file and I'm trying to settle what t

Re: Updating the ieee80211(9) manual page

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 03:49:33AM +, Fehmi Noyan ISI wrote: > Thanks Benjamin, > > Both NetBSD [1] and FreeBSD [2] versions of ieee80211.9 manual pages have > been licensed with a 2-cluase BSD license by their respective authors. > > > If I update the FreeBSD ieee80211(9) man page with th

Re: Updating the ieee80211(9) manual page

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 09:59:23PM +, Fehmi Noyan ISI via freebsd-doc wrote: > Hiya, > > I am considering to update ieee80211(9) manual page with function call > definitions found in NetBSD ieee80211(9) manual[1]. Many functions, such as > ieee80211_mhz2ieee() ,are defined in sys/net80211/ie

Re: Dead links

On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 06:13:05PM -0400, Gilles Kirouac wrote: > The ftp links for Canada on > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html > > seem dead and have been so for at least a few months, if my memory ... > > > And so is the > > > > address where t

Re: samba44

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit wrote: > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-samba.html should point > to net/samba44, not net/samba43? Can you say a bit more about why? net/samba43 still exists and is not marked DEPRECATED and seems like it will have a few more months of

Re: An error in Handbook IPFW example

On Sat, 8 Oct 2016, Petri Riihikallio wrote: > About half way through > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html it says: > > > # Allow outbound NTP > > $cmd 00260 allow tcp from any to any 37 out via $pif setup keep-state > > But that doesn’t allow NTP. NTP uses UDP 123. TCP 37 i

Re: non absolute path in hier(7) manual page

On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Teng Zhang via freebsd-doc wrote: > hi, the relative path in hier(7)  becomes very inconsistent for me when > one directoryincludes too much sub-directory, sometimes i can't figure > out the sub-directory belongsto whom.so, change the relative path to > absolute path will be a

Re: [PATCH] Fix markup in sntp.8

On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 01:47:37PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > Index: sntp.8 > > > === > >

Re: [PATCH] Fix markup in sntp.8

On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 01:47:37PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > > Index: sntp.8 > > === > > --- sntp.8 (revision 303492) > > +++ sntp.8 (working copy) > > @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ > > mor

Re: FreeBSD Man Pages: MAKE(1) -- Word Document Attached

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Dennis Jensen wrote: > Here is my finished word document of this with all my corrections put into > place in case this helps facilitate with getting the corrections put into > place. Unfortunately, the mailing list strips attachments before distributing the message. It may

Re: Typo on the mailing list "Browse" page...

On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Chris Watson wrote: > Folks, > > There is a very minor typo that I have been staring at since it was > created when 11-STABLE was branched. > > One the following page: https://docs.freebsd.org/mail/ > > Towards the bottom "svn-src-stable-10" is listed twice. I am guessing a > c

Re: Possible typo in handbook

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016, Daniel Li wrote: > Hi there, > > On the handbook page for sudo > , I believe > NOPASSWORD should be NOPASSWD. Using the former gives a syntax error in > visudo; the latter is accepted as correct. You are correct; fixed

Re: Missing links on 10.3 Installation Instructions page

Adding re, dropping -stable, since this is in the release documentation. (There are elements but no body of them to actually render.) -Ben On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Nathan Bosley wrote: > Hello, > > I had a glance at https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/installation.html. > > I believe this line

Re: Erroneous repository

On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, Richard Palusaar wrote: > Greetings! > > I believe there is a mistake in the docs and felt it worth looking into. > > > Doc at: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/errata.html > > |#| svnlite co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/10.2 /usr/src > > > That is under section 4.0

Re: Error in 10.3 errata doc

On Wed, 6 Apr 2016, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/errata.html says "svnlite co svn:// > svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/10.2 /usr/src" > > I would assume this should reference 10.3 instead. > > You fix? :-) I think that the errata page is controlled by the re

Re: Broken link for clamav-milter-0.99.1 long description

On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > Hello, > > I am looking at: > > https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=clamav&stype=all > > This link (from "Long description") is broken: > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/security/clamav-milter/pkg-descr?revision=HEAD Thanks for the rep

Re: Suggestion for addition to FreeBSD Handbook; 5.6. The X Display Manager

Was there supposed to be an attachment containing the proposed patch? This mailing list removes attachments before delivering the message. -Ben On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, sid -- wrote: > > ___ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.or

Re: 17.12. Encrypting Disk Partitions

On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, christian.djuml...@yahoo.de wrote: > Hello freeBSD-Team, > I believe there is an error in the chapter on disk encrpytion (geli-part). > In the suggested edits to rc.conf, the flags contains -p."-p" means "do not > ask for a passphrase", but the text above works with a passphr

Re: error 404 from wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng#Resources – pres-pkgng-bsdcan.pdf not found

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Graham Perrin wrote: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng#Resources refers to > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/pres-pkgng-bsdcan.pdf > > That's not found. Instead, > > https://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/pres/pres-pkgng-bsdcan.pdf Updated; thanks for the report. -Ben

Re: Documentation on NFS Exports is wrong

On Fri, 18 Dec 2015, Sebastian Schaack wrote: > Hello, > > I’m new to freebsd an read the handbook a lot. Thank you , for this great > work. > > Yesterday I setup a nfs server and tried to export /home like it is mentioned > in the documentation. > > But after restarting the mountd service. It

Re: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/pgpke ys.html

On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, Kurt Lidl wrote: > Greetings, > > In this document, it suggests running "gpg --gen-key". > > As of today's version of gnupgp: > > lidl@hydra-129: gpg --version > gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.8 > libgcrypt 1.6.3 > > The dialog that is presented doesn't give the option for > specifying keyle

Re: Old Items

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Russell Haley wrote: > Hey, I'm just browsing through bugzilla and I see that about half of the > open items for documentation are from before 2014. Is there any plan to > clear those items? They are sitting in bugzilla so that when a commiter has time to actually work on the

Re: freebsd-update for jails built after "Updating Multiple Jails"

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015, User Phryk wrote: > PS: I found this mail address below the documentation, not sure if its > an ML i need to join - if so please don't hesitate to tell me to join > so this question can be answered publicly. I think https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: 3.6. Disk Organization in FreeBSD Handbook

Hi Ryan, On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Ryan England wrote: > I noticed when reading through the handbook that there are broken images in > the page titled "3.6 Disk Organization."  I've included a link below for your > convenience. > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disk-organiza

Re: Updating the VMware Fusion section

On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Douglas Carmichael wrote: > To whom it may concern: > > I was looking at the VMware Fusion part of the FreeBSD handbook > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-guest-vmware.html) > and the screen shots come from an old version of Fusion. >

Re: freebsd documentation help

On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > it'd be clunky, & freebsd.org doc project till now uses non HTML > master format & doc tools (that never build for me), but consider: cherry-picking, but feel free to start a new thread for that if you want to dig into why they are not building for yo

Re: FSTYP(8) Man Page

On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, TD RSS wrote: > Regarding FSTYP(8)Man Page > (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fstyp&sektion=8) > > The HISTORY section states: > The fstyp command appearedin FreeBSD 11.0. > As of this date (3 Sep 2015), I don't believe FreeBSD 11.0 has been > released. Shoul

Re: mention authenticated SMTP from ports in Sec 28.9

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I've been using smtp auth, as per handbook > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/SMTP-Auth.html > for years. > > Lately I'm trying to move to binary updates on amd64, > which means not rebuilding parts of the world by hand. > >

Re: Editing FDP files with Emacs (Newbie Question)

Hello Hoyoung, On Sun, 31 May 2015, Hoyoung Kim wrote: > Hello. I'm trying to edit FDP xml files with Emacs. > I followed the instruction of FDP > Primer(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/editor-config-emacs.html), > added several lines to my .emacs file. > However, it

Re: Improvement to pthread_getspecific(3)

On Mon, 18 May 2015, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > 2. Markup - should I be using .Pq instead of explicit parentheses? > > > > We do not have a strong preference for Pq over explicit parentheses, so I > > would leave them in. > > Ah, I thought we preferred mdoc markup (Pq, Dq, etc.) when possible.

Re: Improvement to pthread_getspecific(3)

On Mon, 18 May 2015, Patrick Kelsey wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to make the attached improvement to pthread_getspecific(3), and > this is my first time through a man page edit/commit, so I have a couple of > questions and would like to catch whatever else I'm missing. > > 1. Attribution - I'm using

Re: Handbook x-config-quick-start is missing information to configure HAL and DBUS

On Thu, 2 Apr 2015, Kaio Rafael wrote: > Hello, > > I am following Chapter 6. The X Window System [1] to install Xorg into my box. > > I have installed the xorg package with "pkg install xorg" as the > handbook explains, but HAL service procedure is giving error: > > ' > service hald start > hald

Re: zpool(8) says hot spares work

On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > Hi, > > It would be nice if zpool(8) said that hot spares don't work. > > This is a page synced from upstream, but other ZFS man pages contain > FreeBSD-specific notes about missing functionality. > > Or is there some reason it shouldn't? Is this wort

Re: Possible correction in FreeBSD documentation

On Sat, 14 Mar 2015, Tyrone Cusi wrote: > Hello FreeBSD Doc team, > Looks like this section in the document: > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kerberos5.html needs to be > corrected. > Under the Heimdal configuration in the documentation, this was asked to do in > /etc/rc.conf > I

Re: FreeBSD Handbook correction?

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Nathan Rosenquist wrote: > Potentially change: > > /mnt/freebsd_install/usr/freebsd_dist/base.txz > > To: > > /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/base.txz I believe you are correct; the change is committed in r46338. > It is also worth noting that I didn't use the following comman

Re: no poudriere(8) man page online

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-poudriere.html > > The very last line gives a link to poudriere(8) man > page only, which does not exist. Try https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=poudriere&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma

Re: Handbook Section: 4.2.1 | Suggested Revision(s)

On Sat, 31 Jan 2015, Nick Casey wrote: > Section 4.2.1, "Virtual Consoles", recommends using Alt+F# for accessing > the virtual consoles outlined by /etc/ttys. I found, using 10.1-RELEASE > with a generic AMD64 kernel and NVIDIA's GeForce 500 Series (non-notebook) > driver, that said advice is ins

Re: [FAQ] Wrong size of supported maximum RAM

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote: > On 21.01.2015 19:57, Allan Jude wrote: > > On 2015-01-21 13:55, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > th

Re: [FAQ] Wrong size of supported maximum RAM

On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote: > Hello, > > the FAQ says in chapter 4.1.2: > "AMD64 platforms currently deployed support up to 1 TB of physical memory." > > This is currently no longer true since 10.0. There it was raised to 4 TB. Have > a look at: > https://www.freebsd.org/releas

Re: Getting an Event Posted on www.freebsd.org

On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Kirk McKusick wrote: > I am getting ready to teach my FreeBSD Class in Berkeley and would > like to get a link to it noted in the upcoming events section of > the www.freebsd.org web page. Who is the person to whom I should > send my request? Sending the details to this list

RE: Wiki - Unable to create an account

On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Ricardo Santos wrote: > > Subject: Re: Wiki - Unable to create an account > > From: li...@isogram.nl > > Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 13:39:39 +0100 > > CC: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org > > To: r.san...@live.co.uk > > > > Hi, > > > > > In order to share my experience with 11.0-CURRENT on m

Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg?

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:20:20AM +0200, Lars Engels wrote: > > > Please register with your realname and I can give you the needed rights. > > A snag... > > When I click 'Logic' at the top of the page it brings me to the login form, > which has a l

Re: libthr and main thread stack size

On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > Doc people, please review the man page in the patch. BTW, mandoc -Tlint is always a useful sanity check; it found: ./libthr.7:31:5: WARNING: document title should be all caps ./libthr.7:36:2: WARNING: section header suited to sections 2, 3, and 9

Re: /etc/motd update

On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Warren Block wrote: > Agreed. Updated, shorter version: > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd.diff % o Documents installed with the system are in /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd. That line is only 75 characters, so I would str

Re: /etc/motd update

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014, Warren Block wrote: > The existing /etc/motd breaks many of our document rules and has some weird > language constructs. The current version in HEAD: > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/etc/motd?view=co > > Here is a rewrite. URLs are now the only thing on a line, instead

Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg?

On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Andrew Berg wrote: On 2014.07.26 00:06, Dylan Leigh wrote: The big difference between them from a user POV is that pkg still requires a bit of knowledge of ports and how it works (what options are, categories etc.) whereas using apt requires no knowledge of the Ubuntu packa

Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg?

On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 07/18/14 15:14, Allan Jude wrote: So you mean like, a phpmyadmin-apache-config metapackage, that depends on apache and phpmyadmin, but installs an enabled, working config? Exactly. Here at MIT, our Athena systems have something like 40 different

Re: Booting FreeBSD from an LVM volume

Hi David, On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, David Newall wrote: I've written a brief article explaining how to boot FreeBSD from a LVM2 volume. Extensive search of the web suggested it could not be done, but it can, and easily. I thought this might be of interest to the community, and perhaps even suitabl

Re: request: help updating TASKQUEUE(9)

On Sat, 24 May 2014, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hi, I've just added a new call to taskqueue - taskqueue_start_threads_pinned(). It's like taskqueue_start_threads(), but it takes a cpuid to pin the threads to. Would someone please help me with the manpage markup and wording? Something like this? -B

Re: docs/188214: Manpage for fsck(8) doesn't say what happens when no -t or -T

The following reply was made to PR docs/188214; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Benjamin Kaduk To: Tom Rhodes Cc: Allan Jude , bug-follo...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/188214: Manpage for fsck(8) doesn't say what happens when no -t or -T Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 17:42:47 -0400 (EDT) O

Re: docs/188786: Bug in inet(3) man page (inet_aton())

Hi Michael, Sorry it took me so long to reply. I had a lot of catching up to do after BSDCan... On Sat, 17 May 2014, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: I think that what makes the page a little confusing is that it uses both terms "Internet address" and "network address" without making it c

Re: hier(7) mentions tests(7) which does not exist

On Thu, 8 May 2014, Allan Jude wrote: On 2014-05-08 19:23, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Thu, 8 May 2014, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: hier(7) has tests/The FreeBSD test suite. See tests(7) for more details. HOwever tests(7) man page doesn't se

Re: hier(7) mentions tests(7) which does not exist

On Thu, 8 May 2014, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: hier(7) has tests/The FreeBSD test suite. See tests(7) for more details. HOwever tests(7) man page doesn't seem to exist. Should hier man page be updated? Is /usr/tests still being used for the test suit

em dashes in mdoc (was Re: Hello fdclose)

[changing cc list dramatically] On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Bruce Evans wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, John Baldwin wrote: @@ -84,7 +130,9 @@ .Sh NOTES The .Fn fclose -function +and +.Fn fdclose +functions does not handle NULL arguments; they will result in a segmentation violation. This is intentional

Re: docs/186608: typo in 'ctime(3) man page

The following reply was made to PR docs/186608; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Benjamin Kaduk To: Jamie Landeg-Jones Cc: freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/186608: typo in 'ctime(3) man page Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:54:16 -0500 (EST) On Sun,

Re: docs/186608: typo in 'ctime(3) man page

On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote: Description: Another typo. This time in ctime.3 man page.. I realise this is in 'contrib' but there doesn't seem to be any info regarding who this is pulled from. I think that the current ~upstream for the tzcode is supposed to be https://g

Re: Fwd: Re: svn commit: r258713 - in head/sys: kern sys

On Fri, 24 Jan 2014, Andriy Gapon wrote: I would like to commit the following manual page update. Could you please review it? Thank you very much! Original Message Message-ID: <52d93f91@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:34:57 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon To: Justin T. G

Re: Web site build issue: ports/categories

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Václav Zeman wrote: I am using portsnap to fetch the Ports. Why would it be corrupt? The "mate" category is there. My apologies, your initial diagnosis seems correct. I am confused why we are not seeing automated build failure mail, though; I thought only some of the aut

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