Re: ZFS Boot Menu

2013-09-30 Thread Lars Engels
Am 28.09.2013 23:30, schrieb Teske, Devin: In my recent interview on bsdnow.tv, I was pinged on BEs in Forth. I'd like to revisit this. Back on Sept 20th, 2012, I posted some pics demonstrating what exactly code that was in HEAD (at the time) was/is capable of. These three pictures (posted the

Re: Discussing ideas or wish list

2013-08-08 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 10:34:21AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > > I think systat is great, too. We could probably import some > functionality from OpenBSD as I recall their systat has more features. It depends. FreeBSD's systat has some features that OpenBSD's doesn't have and vice versa (list tak

Re: Kernel dumps [was Re: possible changes from Panzura]

2013-07-11 Thread Lars Engels
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:04:17PM -0600, asom...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Jordan Hubbard > wrote: > > > > On Jul 10, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > >> My first candidates are: > > > > Those sound useful. Just out of curiosity, however, since we're

Re: GSOC: Qt front-ends

2013-04-25 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:57:50AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 25 April 2013 01:38, Lars Engels wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:25:46AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> .. or we could just bite the bullet and split GENERIC into GENERIC > >> (which would have

Re: GSOC: Qt front-ends

2013-04-25 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:25:46AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > .. or we could just bite the bullet and split GENERIC into GENERIC > (which would have modules for everything) and GENERIC_NOMODULES. > > Then just populate a default module list that goes into /boot/loader.conf. No, the list must be

Re: Fwd: GSOC: Qt front-ends

2013-04-24 Thread Lars Engels
Am 24.04.2013 13:44, schrieb Chris Rees: On 24 Apr 2013 05:36, "Justin Edward Muniz" wrote: Justin I say stick to FreeBSD-update . My reason is, as Pkgng becomes more popular , a front end for ports will be less useful as binary packages become more popular . Kports is a monster program

Re: GSOC 2013 project " Kernel Size Reduction for Embedded System "

2013-04-12 Thread Lars Engels
Am 10.04.2013 15:27, schrieb Matthew Jacob: On 4/9/2013 11:53 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote: this host can run x11 apps! so 'Huge' is a relative matter, my first PDP11/45 has 64K :-) danny Bah. Real old farts ran munix on a 32k PDP 11/03- shell and apps in the low 16k and the kernel in the upper. Or

Re: Vice versa of 'pkg_info -W'

2013-01-04 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:47:53PM +0100, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: > > Am 02.01.2013 18:55, schrieb rank1see...@gmail.com: > > > For example: > > > # pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/lynx > > > /usr/local/bin/lynx was installed by package lynx-2.8.7.2,1 > > > > > > # pkg_deinstall lynx-2.8.7.2,1 > >

Re: Vice versa of 'pkg_info -W'

2013-01-03 Thread Lars Engels
Am 02.01.2013 18:55, schrieb rank1see...@gmail.com: For example: # pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/lynx /usr/local/bin/lynx was installed by package lynx-2.8.7.2,1 # pkg_deinstall lynx-2.8.7.2,1 # pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/lynx pkg_info: /usr/local/bin/lynx: file cannot be found As you can figure

Re: Give users a hint when their locate database is too small.

2012-11-13 Thread Lars Engels
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:07:16PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > What do people think of this? Maybe /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb is a > better pointer? > > commit fb03b777daf2c69bb9612902e38fdb25b256be72 > Author: Eitan Adler > Date: Mon Nov 12 22:05:55 2012 -0500 > > Give users a hint when

Re: FreeBSD on RaspberryPi

2012-11-07 Thread Lars Engels
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 08:01:08AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > WARNING: This is still highly experimental and by no > means ready for "production use", but some folks might > find it interesting. > > To boot FreeBSD on your RaspberryPi, you'll need: > 1) A RaspberryPi. > 2) A serial cable si

Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

2012-10-24 Thread Lars Engels
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:59:07PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 23 October 2012 12:54, David Magda wrote: > > On Tue, October 23, 2012 10:39, Fbsd8 wrote: > >> > >> The subject is Google Code-In and all the posted tasks are directed at > >> creating documentation. Not one deals with coding any p

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Lars Engels
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:00:21AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Lorenzo Cogotti > wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering about the possibility of FreeBSD to provide an official > > supported graphical environment. > > > > Currently FreeBSD doesn't provide any standard

Re: [maybe spam] Re: FreeBSD 1.x Binaries Work Except under Chroot

2012-08-16 Thread Lars Engels
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 06:54:59PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message > > , Adrian Chadd writes: > >Holy. Crap. 17 seconds? > > > >Can we please go back to having it take this long? please? > > 386BSD was even better, and I have a machine that boots it in less > than 15 seconds from po

Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-13 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 07:13:23AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Wednesday 13 June 2012 23:35:17 Mel Flynn wrote: > > On 13-6-2012 23:16, claudiu vasadi wrote: > > > If you simplky do "sysctl -d hw.usb.no_boot_wait" you will see the > > > explanation ;) > > > > Probably why Eitan asked as

Re: cleaning /usr/obj before copying it to USB key

2012-06-11 Thread Lars Engels
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:07:58PM +0300, Aldis Berjoza wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 08:57:33 -0700 > Tim Kientzle wrote: > > > > > You can delete all of the '.o' files using a command like this: > > > >find /usr/obj -name '*.o' | xargs rm > > > > > I think: > find /usr/obj -name '*.o'

Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-07 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:45:26AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > It's long been a wish of mine to have an ability to decide at boot time that a > system should boot in "console-only" mode. That is, that no graphics/X > applications like e.g. xdm/kdm/gdm are automatically started even when they

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-29 Thread Lars Engels
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 07:39:25AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > My opinion is that most important obstacle in front of FreeBSD is its > > installation structure : > > > > > > It is NOT possible to install and use a FreeBSD distribution directly as it > > is . > > > > In Linux distrib

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-29 Thread Lars Engels
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 09:08:18PM -0400, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:24 PM, wrote: > > > Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:06 PM, wrote: > > > > I'm wondering if spinning up a "live DVD" desktop version, using > > > > GENERIC, and/or Gno

Re: Never forget a special trick...

2012-03-05 Thread Lars Engels
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 03:49:35PM -0500, Nate Dobbs wrote: > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Phillip Spring < > gatinhodosseusson...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Dear anonymous open-source enthusiasts friends, > > > > How to echo a string backwards into a terminal? > > For example (or something

Re: devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-18 Thread Lars Engels
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 06:06:23PM +0100, Uffe Jakobsen wrote: > > > On 2012-02-18 14:09, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > On Saturday 18 February 2012 10:48:11 vermaden wrote: > >> Added a check if ntfs-3g is available, if not then mount_ntfs is used > >> instead. Added deleting of empty directori

Re: Adventure into S3 state and back

2011-11-13 Thread Lars Engels
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 02:29:24PM +0100, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Lars Engels > To: rank1see...@gmail.com > Cc: pyu...@gmail.com, hack...@freebsd.org, freebsd-a...@freebsd.org > Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:48:10 +0100 > Subject: Re:

Re: Adventure into S3 state and back

2011-11-13 Thread Lars Engels
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 03:41:49PM +0100, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: > - Original Message - > From: YongHyeon PYUN > To: rank1see...@gmail.com > Cc: hack...@freebsd.org, freebsd-a...@freebsd.org > Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:27:27 -0800 > Subject: Re: Adventure into S3 state and back > >

Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-04 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:58:02PM +0200, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: > On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:22:22 +0100 > Lars Engels wrote: > > >> Hi Hackers, > >> > >> maybe you've heard of the upcoming Raspberry Pi, a credit card sized > >> ARM computer whic

Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-03 Thread Lars Engels
Hi Hackers, maybe you've heard of the upcoming Raspberry Pi, a credit card sized ARM computer which is about to get sold for 25$ - 35$ from december on. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/302 Hardware details: http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard#Hardware_Details The first charge will be 10,000

Re: Capsicum project: Ideas needed

2011-08-04 Thread Lars Engels
I just stumbled upon this rather outdated thread... On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:09:52 +0400, Ilya Bakulin wrote: [...] wget curl links/lynx This is Ports software, we may try to modify it and even send patches to upstream, or maintain our local patches. I wanted to focus on base system components du

Re: [UPDATE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.4

2011-05-10 Thread Lars Engels
Kris Moore CC'ed On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:41:40AM -0700, Devin Teske wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Lars Engels [mailto:lars.eng...@0x20.net] > > Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 2:19 AM > > To: Devin Teske > > Cc: FreeBSD Hackers > > S

Re: [UPDATE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.4

2011-05-09 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 01:20:43AM -0700, Devin Teske wrote: > Hello fellow -hackers, > > I'm so very proud to offer the latest update to my new boot loader > menu -- version 1.4 -- addressing ACPI detection, bringing it in-line > with HEAD. > > It took some work and a few days, but I got it! Hav

Re: State of FreeBSD/xbox

2011-04-03 Thread Lars Engels
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:26:18PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:40:14PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've got an xbox running at my parents' house as a backup MX, among > > other things. > > > > Ages ago I updated it from 7.2 -> 8.1, and I ended up wi

Re: [PATCH] Add HISTORY to strlen(3) and strstr(3) man pages

2010-12-06 Thread Lars Engels
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 10:31:28AM +0200, Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Lars Engels wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 06:00:02PM +0200, Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Matthias Andree > >> wrote:

Re: [PATCH] Add HISTORY to strlen(3) and strstr(3) man pages

2010-12-06 Thread Lars Engels
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 06:00:02PM +0200, Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Matthias Andree > wrote: > > Am 04.12.2010 12:33, schrieb Marin Atanasov Nikolov: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Could someone review the attached patches and possibly commit them? > >> > >> The patch

Re: sched_autogroup_enabled

2010-11-25 Thread Lars Engels
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:02:26PM +0100, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > On Thu, 18.11.2010 at 21:51:52 +0100, Harald Servat wrote: > > Alexander (& rest of the list), > > > > -performance has a thread about this topic. If you're interested, you can > > take a look there. Here's the URL > > > > http:

Re: Remove printf in acpi_tz_sanity()

2010-11-22 Thread Lars Engels
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:18:13PM -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 21/11/2010 13:07 Paul B Mahol said the following: > >>> This patch removes printf which spams console wh

Re: little mistake in rc.subr?

2010-09-27 Thread Lars Engels
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:04:21PM +0400, Dmitry Banshchikov wrote: > Hello, > > In /etc/rc.subr, at line 231, there is: > > if [ ! -f $_pidfile ]; then > debug "pid file ($_pidfile): not readable." > return > fi > > Is check "[ ! -r $_pidfile ]" more correct? There's pratically no differen

Re: A simple and hopefully usable FreeBSD live CD

2010-08-23 Thread Lars Engels
e resulting ISO so that people who don't want to create it themselves can test your CD? TIA Lars -- Lars Engels E-Mail: lars.eng...@0x20.net pgpTPsw0849RV.pgp Description: PGP Digital Signature

Re: regenerating /var/db/pkg

2010-04-22 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:21:16PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > > Just asking opinions, if people want this, I'll make a patch and > > file a PR. > > > > Is this script correct? > > #!/bin/sh > # > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/periodic/daily/210.backup-aliases,v 1.6.36.1.2.1 > 2009/10/25 01:10:29 kensm

Re: Looking for a mentor

2010-03-22 Thread Lars Engels
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 09:33:04PM -0700, Guillermo Amaral wrote: > Hi FreeBSDers, > > I'm a C and C++ developer and I am looking for anybody would be > willing to help me get started in the FreeBSD development community. > :D > > I'm trying to get more experience in both kernel and user-land >

Re: [RFC] [patch] pkill verbose option

2010-02-04 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:01:26PM +0200, Eitan Adler wrote: > This patch hijacks pgrep's -l > I'd like to paint the bikeshed with little -p's ;-) pgpnxCW9VgVDg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pam_passwdqc update to latest vendor release

2009-12-17 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:15:30AM +0200, Leonidas Tsampros wrote: > Hello, > > I read a mail on this list 3 or 4 weeks saying/stating that pam_passwdqc > was out of date. To update the module I used the vendor release 1.0.5 > which can be found here > > http://www.openwall.com/pam/modules/pam_pa

Re: unit testing automated password assignment

2009-11-18 Thread Lars Engels
Quoting Dag-Erling Smørgrav : Lars Engels writes: And if you want to enforce strong passwords, take a look at pam_passwdqc(8). Or don't, it's waaay out of date. I should import a newer version, just never got around to it. Patches are welcome. Yes, today I was looking for t

Re: unit testing automated password assignment

2009-11-18 Thread Lars Engels
nce and such is easy but how do I test that the password is correct? And if you want to enforce strong passwords, take a look at pam_passwdqc(8). -- Lars Engels E-Mail: lars.eng...@0x20.net pgpaXVQsALRJG.pgp Description: PGP Digital Signature

Re: Make process title - % complete

2009-10-20 Thread Lars Engels
Quoting Alex Kozlov : On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:51:42PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: 2009/10/19 Alex Kozlov : > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 04:35:08PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >> >> if nobody objects, I'll commit it :) >> > >> > I seem to recall that setproctitle() is quite expensive to call; perha

Re: small usr.bin/find patch

2009-06-24 Thread Lars Engels
Quoting Alexander Best : hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard telling app developers what to use? Actually thats only BSD's dd. GNU dd only accepts uppercase letters. pgpDWwEavbi

Re: concurrent sysctl implementation

2009-05-09 Thread Lars Engels
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:41:17PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hi, > > * vasanth raonaik wrote: > > Hello Jt, > > > > I am a newbee in this alias. I am having a very basic question. It would be > > really good if you could give me some of this information. > > Could you please elaborate on what

Re: Linux setpci equivalent in FreeBSD?

2009-04-16 Thread Lars Engels
Quoting Zahemszky Gábor : Hi! I'v found (well, mav@ found it) on a wiki page (*) a trick to use some TI sdhci cards. They use the setpci command, to set some bits in the HW. Are there any tool under FreeBSD to do the same? Thanks, Gábor at Zahemszky dot HU (*) http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Ac

Re: Small change to wc

2008-12-16 Thread Lars Engels
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:25:05PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:40:14 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas > wrote: > > The updated patch, and a manpage change to document the new option is > > attached below. Konstantin, if you like this version of the patch, > > I'll commit it

Re: Is there virtualbox ports?

2008-10-31 Thread Lars Engels
Quoting Boern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi,all: I am ready to intall sun xVM VirtualBox on my FreeBSD7.0,but have no found in the ports,anybody can help me? VirtualBox doesn't work on FreeBSD... pgpOXLlePpZcx.pgp Description: Digitale PGP-Unterschrift

Re: SSH Brute Force attempts

2008-09-30 Thread Lars Engels
Quoting Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Recently I'm getting a lot of brute force attempts on my server, in the past I've used various tips and tricks with linux boxes but many of them were fairly linux specific. What do you BSD guys use for this

Re: USB Video class

2008-09-01 Thread Lars Engels
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 05:53:32PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting "Peter B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:05:29 +0200 > (MEST)): > > > > >Is there any ongoing project towards USB Video class support in FreeBSD ..? > > This is better asked on usb@ (CCed). I'm not awar

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Lars Engels
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:16:36PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > >The Solaris smf tools provide some nice facilities: one is single > >interface to start, stop, check and restart all the services on a > >system. We pretty much have that ... > >The other is a single interface to enable, disable and q