Laptop with external monitor, how to make it work

I'm looking for a description on how to make the switching between monitors work. In my case it's the key combination Fn + F8 on a Dell Latitude E6500. Any help appreciated :-) Thanks /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Nullfs Allows Jailbreaking

On 12/22/10 19:00, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I have been doing this for years with great success. I don't understand your question. How does it look like everything is read only from inside the jail? The fact that a "df" only shows the root filesystem and not all your others file

Re: Nullfs Allows Jailbreaking

On Dec 22, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote: > Here is my file system scheme for a newly created jail as viewed from the > host: > > /usr/jail/template on /usr/jail/f1 (nullfs, local, read-only) > /usr/jail/f1-fs/etc on /usr/jail/f1/etc (nullfs, local) > /usr/jail/f1-fs/tmp on /usr/jail/f

Re: Nullfs Allows Jailbreaking

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote: > I like the idea of using a template for multiple jails that I plan to use > later. I like the ide of mounting the template read only. I had to splice > in the other nullfs filesystems so that things that need to be read-write > can be. >

Nullfs Allows Jailbreaking

Here is my file system scheme for a newly created jail as viewed from the host: /usr/jail/template on /usr/jail/f1 (nullfs, local, read-only) /usr/jail/f1-fs/etc on /usr/jail/f1/etc (nullfs, local) /usr/jail/f1-fs/tmp on /usr/jail/f1/tmp (nullfs, local) /usr/jail/f1-fs/var on /usr/jail/f1/var (n

Re: A jail with a dash in its name

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:31:42PM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Matthew Seaman > wrote: > > > Of course, there's no problem with using the form 'forest-friend' on the > > RHS of any assignments, so long as it's properly quoted, of course. > > > > Thanks for

what's wrong?

Hopefully this will work. I attached a text file of my dmesg. After boot, I start getting ACPI errors. Here's an excerpt. Root mount waiting for: usbus1 ugen1.3: at usbus1 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a wlan0: Ethernet address: c4:17:fe:24:04:eb wlan0: link state changed to UP AC

Which network driver for RTL8211 or 8201 NIC's?

I need to replace a failing motherboard. I'm aiming to keep the existing Athlon CPU so I'm tied down to to a socket AM2(+) board and the majority of those available seem to have nForce 630a chipsets and RTL8211CL or 8201EL NIC's which aren't explicitly mentioned in the release notes

Re: Strange error

On Sunday 19 December 2010 12:57:39 pm Jack Raats wrote: > I have a strange error. > > Normally when you compile the complete system, the first line of /etc/motd > is being adjusted telling you the time and version you just compiled. On > one server this is not being done. > What is the problem. W

RE: do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

No, I've done that before I could get what's called a pointer record or reverse DNS for my mail server ... Register a domain and setup the DNS server. If the ip is dynamic you have to regularly update your DNS server. The forward zones will work. If you use openssl to generate your own ssl ce

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Well, rc.conf isn't supposed to have anything but variable settings, so > for syntax alone, "/bin/sh /etc/rc.conf" is a perfectly fine test. If > you want to check semantics as well, things get com

Re: 9 TB single device and zfs

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Omer Faruk SEN wrote: > Is it suggested to create a zfs on a single 9 TB volume? Depends on your need. You really haven't provided enough info to give advice ie how many disks do you have, what storage capacity do you need, performance etc. ZFS capability are

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

Jason Helfman writes: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:49:46AM -0500, Chris Brennan thus spake: >>On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - >>> "Dave" wrote: >>> >>> > Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! >>> > >>> > Bi

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:45, Jason Helfman wrote: > IMHO... > It seems that /etc/rc.conf is in need of a sytax check script. Something > similiar to visudo for editing /usr/local/etc/sudoers. > Just run it with /bin/sh. If no errors appear the syntax is good. Or you can use /bin/sh -x to see mo

9 TB single device and zfs

Hi, Is it suggested to create a zfs on a single 9 TB volume? There is hardware raid and I am thinking to enable write-back cache on that hw based raid card. Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:49:46AM -0500, Chris Brennan thus spake: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - "Dave" wrote: > Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! > > Bit of an oversight that I suspect Fixed in r21

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:49:46 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - > > "Dave" wrote: > > > > > Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! > > > > > > Bit of an oversight that I suspect

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:54:02 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From: "Dave" > > Also. What's the "Correct" way to disable a console screensaver? > > # vidcontrol -t off > > see 'man splash' Also see /etc/defaults/rc.conf which states: blanktime="300" # blank time (in second

Re: DES Cipher

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Wed Dec 22 08:22:15 2010 >> From: Mohammad Hedayati >> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:50:19 +0330 >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: DES Cipher >> >> Can anyone please show me a sample co

Re: DES Cipher

> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Dec 22 08:22:15 2010 > From: Mohammad Hedayati > Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:50:19 +0330 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: DES Cipher > > Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD? I hate to say it, but R

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Dec 22 05:01:28 2010 > From: "Dave" > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - > Subject: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release > > Hi... > > I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in > sy

Re: Port based VLAN

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 22/12/2010 11:15, Indexer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I plan to make a FreeBSD based router sometime soon. I would like to be > able to do port based vlanning on the router, so that a client computer that > p

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:49:46 -0500 Chris Brennan articulated: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - > > "Dave" wrote: > > > > > Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! > > > > > > Bit of an oversight that I suspe

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - > "Dave" wrote: > > > Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! > > > > Bit of an oversight that I suspect > > Fixed in r216651 :) > IIRC ';' isn't a valid bash comment ... (whic

Re: DES Cipher

On 12/22/2010 9:35 AM, Mohammad Hedayati wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Anton Shterenlikht > wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 05:50:19PM +0330, Mohammad Hedayati wrote: >>> Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD? >> >> bdes(1)? >> >> % ls -al > zzz

Re: DES Cipher

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 05:50:19PM +0330, Mohammad Hedayati wrote: >> Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD? > > bdes(1)? > > % ls -al > zzz > % bdes < zzz > zzz.des > Enter key: > % > > -- > Anton Sh

Re: DES Cipher

On 22/12/2010 14:20, Mohammad Hedayati wrote: > Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD? To encrypt, something like: openssl enc -e -des -in plaintext.txt -a -out encrypted.asc Decrypt like so: openssl enc -d -dex -in encrypted.asc -a -out plaintext.txt

Re: DES Cipher

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 05:50:19PM +0330, Mohammad Hedayati wrote: > Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD? bdes(1)? % ls -al > zzz % bdes < zzz > zzz.des Enter key: % -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University Univers

DES Cipher

Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.

Re: Port based VLAN

On 22/12/2010 11:15, Indexer wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to make a FreeBSD based router sometime soon. I would like to be able > to do port based vlanning on the router, so that a client computer that plugs > into that socket is "dumb" to the vlans' existance. > > IE > > em0 - untagged > em1 - vla

FreeBSD crashes

Hi! A while back I wrote about some problems I was having with FreeBSD crashing randomly. I then disappeared for a while, due to a variety of issues, but I'm still having problems. The computer in question is a general-purpose server -- it runs listservs, websites, databases (both MySQL and Pos

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - "Dave" wrote: > Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! > > Bit of an oversight that I suspect Fixed in r216651 :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

On Wednesday 22 December 2010 07:53:11 S Mathias wrote: > is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, > when i want to use ssl on my domain? It's only necessary if you want to use name based virtual hosts with a different SSL certificate for each virtual host. This

Re: do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

On 2010-12-22 07:53, S Mathias wrote: http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 "# Set up SSL protection on your website." is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, when i want to use ssl on my domain? Obviously, you cannot have a website without an IP address. Ano

Re: do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010/12/22 S Mathias : > http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 > > "# Set up SSL protection on your website." > > is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, > when i want to use ssl on my domain? > > thank you > > happy Christmas! :) > > > > _

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

On 22 Dec 2010 at 11:41, b. f. wrote: > dave wrote: > ... > >I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in > >sysinstall, there is no way to select "none" as an option. > > > >So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:- > >Saver="fire" (or whatever it is) > > >

do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 "# Set up SSL protection on your website." is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, when i want to use ssl on my domain? thank you happy Christmas! :) ___ freebsd-questio

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:01:10AM -, Dave wrote: > Hi... > > I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in > sysinstall, there is no way to select "none" as an option. > > So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:- > Saver="fire" (or whatever it is) >

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

dave wrote: ... >I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in >sysinstall, there is no way to select "none" as an option. > >So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:- >Saver="fire" (or whatever it is) > >I put a ; at the beginning of the line, and now FreeBSD

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Chris Rees wrote: > Your PATH isn't set. > > # fsck / > # mount -uw / > # /bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf > > Or (can't remember where des is kept) > > # fsck /usr > # mount /usr > # /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf > > For someone who asked a

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

Your PATH isn't set. # fsck / # mount -uw / # /bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf Or (can't remember where des is kept) # fsck /usr # mount /usr # /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf Good luck! Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet

Port based VLAN

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I plan to make a FreeBSD based router sometime soon. I would like to be able to do port based vlanning on the router, so that a client computer that plugs into that socket is "dumb" to the vlans' existance. IE em0 - untagged em1 - vlan 1 em2 -

Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

Hi... I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in sysinstall, there is no way to select "none" as an option. So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:- Saver="fire" (or whatever it is) I put a ; at the beginning of the line, and now FreeBSD wont come up,