Re: recommendation(s) for new computer

2012-04-21 Thread Christian Baer
On 22.04.2012 01:04, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > REALLY - i an for a long time not up to date what is "modern" today, as > FreeBSD and software i use works lightning fast on ANY new computer you > can buy today - if it works at all. [...] > The real problem is graphics. I do not have any need of hi

Re: recommendation(s) for new computer

2012-04-21 Thread Christian Baer
On 21.04.2012 02:06, Adam Vande More wrote: > I'm not sure where the power/performance/price ratio is at currently, but > it wasn't that long ago purchasing an intel was a much better deal long > term. It was something like it took a year and half of an AMD and intel > cpu idling to draw even in

recommendation(s) for new computer

2012-04-20 Thread Christian Baer
Mellow greetings, y'all! :-) After several years, I think it's about time for a new computer, since my current one is slowly aging to a meltdown. Well, that and I currently have the dough for a new one. So before I spend it uselessly on women, I'll see to it that I get my new machine ASAP. ;-) Us

make installworld broke - try again?

2010-04-07 Thread Christian Baer
Hi there peeps! I just tried to update from 8.0-RELEASE to RELENG_8_0. I gut this far: - buildworld - buildkernel - installkernel - reboot - mergemaster -p Then I started a make buildworld and it broke here: install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 sort /usr/bin install -o root -g wheel -m 444 sort

Did something in the hashes change from 6 to 8?

2010-03-02 Thread Christian Baer
Mellow greetings! On a box running FreeBSD 6.something (probably 6.4) the boot drive died. I had never bothered to update it to 7 or 8, since I was planning to build a new computer anyway. Since I hadn't done that yet and I still needed the work of this machine, I just put in a new drive and insta

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-19 Thread Christian Baer
krad schrieb: > On another point make sure your p4 has plenty of ram preferably 4gb, but at > least 2 Exactly what good will that much RAM do for a 32Bit-CPU? Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Exchanging encrypted data between FreeBSD und Windows

2010-02-14 Thread Christian Baer
Mellow greetings! There is this thingy that I'd like to do. :-) Basicly plugging a USB-stick (or other portable storage device) into a Windows-box, putting data on it and unloading the data again onto my FreeBSD-box. Sometime the data will have to travel in the other direction too. As long as the

Suggestion for a file manager?

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Baer
Good afternoon, everybody! I'm looking for a suggestion for a file manager. Something like the Total Commander known from Windows. I know the mc and I already use it. But it has a few functions I miss. Most importantly being able to create queues. I have a lot of work to do that looks like this:

Re: Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:39:52 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > did you ever got your UFS filesystem broken not because your drive failed? That is not the point here. I have been using FreeBSD sind version 3.3, which was released in 1999. Before that I used Linux. So I can't even look back on 10

Re: Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 17:55:12 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > that's like 64-bit soundcards that have to be "better" than 32-bit, while > most of them was unable to actually get past 13-14 bit (most past 12) with > it's signal to noise ratio. Maybe that's not quite the same thing. :-) Howev

Re: Strange HDD order

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 09:40:53 -0600 Matt wrote: > Is the concern with the apparent out-of-order numbering based on how > you want to access these devices in areas like fstab? No, not really. Once I set them up in the directory tree, what the drive's device name is won't make a diff to how the syst

Re: Strange HDD order

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 14:03:33 +0100 Erik Trulsson wrote: >> D 0 WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08 (ad4) >> D 1 WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08 (ad6) >> D 2 SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11 (ad8) >> D 3 SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11 (ad10) >> D 4 Seagate ST3500320AS SD04 (ad12) >> D 5 Seagate ST3500320AS SD04

Strange HDD order

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
Greetings programs! I have a computer here with 10 HDDs. Four of them are connected to the southbridge of the mainboard. The other 6 are connected to two Promise SATAII 300 TX4. Four of the drives are connected to the first controller (making it 'full') the other two connected to the second. To m

Re: buildworld failed

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:00:36 +0530 Venkatesh K wrote: > I did try that too! Still same problem. 1. Please do not quote everything and then put your comment on top. 2. Try a new csup. Sometime the source tree even in -STABLE is a little unstable. :-) 3. Try removing the -march argument. Regards

Re: Behind a router

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:49:55 -0800 (PST) Eugen Udma wrote: I took the liberty of cleaning up you post. Please fix your line wrap! One word per line is not what I call easy reading. > I had a working minimal FreeBSD system until I put it behind a wireless > router. Since then, my network is not ac

Re: Behind a router

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 02:24:43 -0500 Jeremy Gransden wrote: > please fix the line wrap in your email. It is unreadable And you really neaded to quote over 600 lines just to write that? Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:38:49 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ZFS ends the microsotf monopoly over our disks. And this monopoly is founded on ... what? > ZFS begins the world as a 128bit dadaspace. > Using ZFS fixes allocations and massaging your NAS. > The inode is now the wenode. > Usaging ZFS

Re: Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:11:21 +0100 Mel wrote: > If you review the "Not done" items @ http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS and still > are > doubting, then http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/whatis/ describes > what the features *can* be. I got a good impression from that text what the > advanta

Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-02 Thread Christian Baer
Hello people! Can anyone give me a link to a text on ZFS that tells me why I might want to use that instead of FFS? I don't want to start a discussion which is better, just a comparison, as I assume that the two are not designed to do the same things. And if possible one that is understandable to

Re: Reinterpret gamepad input as keyboeard input

2008-01-14 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:12:51 +0100 Christopher Illies wrote: > I tried out usbhidaction with something like: > Generic_Desktop:Game_Pad.Button:Button_1 1 1 /bin/echo -n ls > > Obviously, this approach does not work as I hoped. "ls" is echoed in a > shell window, but it is not interpreted as input.

Re: RAID mirror really worked

2008-01-14 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:48:09 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > gmirror works too very good without any hardware :) Yes, but a hardware RAID works without the OS having to know about it. :-) Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: Changing the output of uname -m or -p

2008-01-14 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:03:42 +0100 Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Can this even be done and if so how? > See the manpage, and the UNAME_* variables. One other thing: Will that change the way the system reacts in any way? Apps should run normally (well, a browser may give a wrong plattform information bu

Re: Changing the output of uname -m or -p

2008-01-13 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:03:42 +0100 Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Can this even be done and if so how? > See the manpage, and the UNAME_* variables. I already did that once and it didn't work out. I just found the reason: I'm too thick. :-/ I though all the letters had to be capitals, so I set UNAME_M i

Changing the output of uname -m or -p

2008-01-13 Thread Christian Baer
Hello Folks! This may be a bit of a hacker's question, but I'll just go for it in here - at least for starters. I want to play a prank on a friend of mine. He does a csup at least once a day and also makes a new world at least once a day. He is pretty nutty about that which is ok for some -CURREN

Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

2008-01-08 Thread Christian Baer
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 02:27:29 -0600 Paul Procacci wrote: > And for what it's worth, I agree that what I provided wasn't pretty, but at > least it gives everyone something to stare at for a while. ;P Great, just like a bad accident on a major road. It isn't pretty, but you just have to look. :-> R

KDEWallet is only partially installed?

2007-10-19 Thread Christian Baer
Hiya folks! On my Sun (this machine), I only wanted a base KDE with very few apps installed, as I wanted to choose the ones I needed instead of going with the big meta-port. So I just installed kde-base. The "whole" KDE wouldn't be run anyway, but instead usually only a single apps at a time and t

Re: Is your Thunderbird OK?

2007-09-27 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:00:10 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: >> If you can live without the pretty pictures, you can configure Mutt to use >> an external browser like lynx or links to display HTML. >> >> Otherwise, you could give Claws a closer look. > ^^^

Re: Is anybody here running Pidgin (under FreeBSD)?

2007-09-27 Thread Christian Baer
Hey Fans! :-) Vince wrote: > Hope this is enough. I stripped some email addresses out but otherwise > untouched. I only use it for ICQ/MSN and have never bothered trying > anything more than messaging (no voice etc.) Dmitry Gorbik wrote: > Ok, there is my log in attach. No problems coming through

Re: Is your Thunderbird OK?

2007-09-25 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:41:53 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > Yeah I also like text based MUAs such as mutt or pine. Sometimes I get > HTML messages from my co-workers who use webmail. I must read those HTML > messages for my work, study. That's why I need windows-like MUAs, not > text based MUAs. I

Re: Confusion on SSH and PAM

2007-09-25 Thread Christian Baer
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:56:22 +0400 (GST) Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > Any ideas or nudges in the right direction as to why this is happening? > Looks like I've understood the interaction between SSH and PAM wrong here, > so would appreciate some enlightenment. I'm not sure if I can offer any enl

Is anybody here running Pidgin (under FreeBSD)?

2007-09-25 Thread Christian Baer
Hi there again, peeps! Since I still can't get Pidgin to run on this box and it seems that nobody had any advice for me, I have decided to go at this step by step. I hope you can bear with me on this one. BTW. The note on the subject, running Pidgin under FreeBSD, is there because not all people o

Re: The best way to keep the system clean?

2007-09-24 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:17:42 +0800 ronggui wrote: > My problem, many times I install some software from ports, it install > the dependency software. Then after some time, I find that software > isn't what I want, and deinstall it. At this point, the dependency > software isn't necessary as well. I

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-24 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:36:24 -0400 DAve wrote: > First item, ignore the qmail haters. We run qmail quite successfully and > find it very powerful, very secure, and well designed. I will not go > into a point by point debate. Goo idea! Lets also ignore all Windows haters. I'm sure that plenty of

Re: Gnome & FreeBSD from putty

2007-09-23 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:35:00 -0700 Timothy McGee wrote: > Any way of running Gnome or Firefox from putty remotely? What's the best > way to test for the displays setup, etc? I'm not too sure, what you are trying to do here. If you want to run a program or an entire desktop on one computer and

Re: OpenOffice problems

2007-09-23 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:09:12 +0200 (CEST) Marco Beishuizen wrote: > I don't want openoffice to use this library but it seems that openoffice > needs it for something. I only upgraded the port and that whole process > went ok. How did you do that? Regards, Chris

Getting pidgin(1) to run...

2007-09-23 Thread Christian Baer
Hi there people! I may be posting this question (which is rather lengthy, I know) on the sparc64 mailing list too, as it might be an issue with this architecture. Please don't complain, just answer where you think the answer belongs. I know that running FreeBSD on a Sun is a rather exotic choice

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-23 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:31:34 -0500 Eric wrote: >> Don't tell me, tell Dan Berstein (happy hunting): >> http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html >> Observe point 5. > DJB has not honored at least one vulnerability in qmail. read the link i > posted early in this thread and decide for yourself. there

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-23 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:18:53 +0200 Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: >> The qmail-configuration can be read an evaluated *without* a parser. Excuse my spelling in the last message! :-) I corrected it in this quote. > Sorry, but that's BS (IMHO). Don't tell me, tell Dan Berstein (happy hunting): htt

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:13:58 +0100 Gabriel Dragffy wrote: > Yeah right. I don't have hands-on experience with any MTA other than > Postfix, but I never read a good thing about qmail. Thing is, I work > for a design company - we have 3 VPSs two using Plesk and another on > extend, I noticed t

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:47:06 +0200 Johan Andersson wrote: > The best MTA is? exim? Not that this is really a subject for this list, I don't really agree. We did some studies on several MTAs a while back and found out (quite by accident) that Exim has some real performance issues. I personally do

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:29:30 +0200 Lotfi kecir wrote: > to give answer to your answer: i rent a dedicated server (Fedora 6) witch > has qmail installed on. and in my old Server witch is in our office turn has > Postfix. > The new sever has as Admin panel Plesk. > I already create all email acounts

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:47:09 +0200 Lotfi kecir wrote: > hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup > one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail > server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Why in heaven's nam

Re: trouble compiling some ports

2007-07-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:47:08 -0500 Derek Ragona wrote: I am grateful for your feedback, but please try to avoid fullquotes and only quote the part you are directly refering to. That makes things a lot shorter and easier to read. And avoids long scrolling. :-) > I had similar problems on one serve

trouble compiling some ports

2007-07-22 Thread Christian Baer
Hello Folks! Currently I am setting up a new computer (Sun U60) with FreeBSD and I am in serious guano. :-/ I am currently running 6.2-p6, of course with the ports up to date. Normally the ports would not be the install method of choice since the processors of this machine are relatively slow and

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:14:07 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: > As you said, HFS(+) is not a native unix file system, but maybe someone > will know about it. All I know about is that HFS+ is a journaling file > system and that it defragments (in the Windows sense) files smaller than > certain size (20MB?)

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:56:30 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: > "UFS fragmentation" refers to dividing blocks (e.g. 16KB in size) into > block fragments (e.g. 2KB in size) that can be allocated separately in > special circumstances (which all boil down to: at the end of files). > This is done to less

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:21:57 -0500 Bill Moran wrote: > But this also makes it _easy_ for the filesystem to avoid causing the type > of fragmentation that _does_ degrade performance. For example, when the > first block is on track 10, then the next block is on track 20, then we're > back to track 1

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:56:02 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: > For what it's worth, this has been Microsoft's official position since > NTFS became mainstream. As usual, it's not worth much if it come from Microsoft... Regards Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:12:25 -0500 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On the other hand, doing all this either way wouldn't make any difference > in performance for file access in a running system because so-called > fragmentation is not an issue in the UNIX file system - except in > the small possibility

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:39:05 -0500 Jerry McAllister wrote: >> Well, it would do some, but for the greatest effect, you would need: >> dump + rm -rf * + restore >> That would get it all. > Of course, I should have re-emphasized that this is not needed. > You will not improve performance. Its on

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:50:44 -0700 Steve Franks wrote: > Excellent! Never had that one answered. I've gone down the typical > road of being an MS booster ("It doesn't take 10 hours to set up and > configure") to experiencing glee when I find yet another way FBSD > kicks the crap out of MS. Why?

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:37:33 + RW wrote: > There are two problems here. The first is that not all of the > underlying builds support this. The second is that we are using Make as > our ports scripting language - I'm guessing that in Gentoo no-one > expects portage itself to be parallel. I d

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:07:24 -0500 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Exactly right. However, you can get some parallel building by doing > more than one single-threaded build at the same time. This leads to > some danger of corrupting the database, though, so it's not for the > squeamish. I know that por

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:44:16 -0600 Josh Paetzel wrote: > The issues with the config screen sounds like a bug, but one that is > unlikely to get fixed any time soon. You can avoid it by doing a > make config-recursive before building the port, but you're still > going to run in to the problem t

compiling ports with more than one job

2007-02-28 Thread Christian Baer
Good morning[1], folks! I am currently setting up a Sun U60 with FreeBSD. A few amount of apps will be installed on it, when I'm through with it. And that is where it gets a little frustrating. The packages for SPARC64 aren't really up to date. That is why using them isn't really an option. Besid

Re: test

2007-02-28 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:26:28 -0800 Bill Campbell wrote: >>Test Messages >>The lists freebsd-test, ..., ... have been created for test messages. >>Please use only these test lists for test messages. >>Do not send test messages to any of the normal lists. > If you do send test messages, at least p

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

2007-02-24 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:18:39 -0800 Bill Campbell wrote: >>Or am I missing the issue here? > > I think the issue is how localtime displays dates. > > This whole ``problem'' is a typical example of brainless > politicians (but I repeat myself) doing things that cause far > more problems then they os

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

2007-02-24 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:46:08 -0500 DAve wrote: >> Or am I missing the issue here? > > Not at all, I am thinking my next staff meeting I am going to propose > just that solution. Now it might be that I think about a few things a little 'differently' but as far as I can remember running a Unix box

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

2007-02-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:55:05 -0500 DAve wrote: > I noticed Yahoo switched to GMT. Is anyone else running all their > servers on GMT? Actually, all of my Unix Boxes have been running UTC as far as I can remember. :-) Or am I missing the issue here? Regards Chris

Re: Compiler Flags for SPARC64

2007-02-21 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:45:51 -0500 Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Has anyone got any ideas on how to go on with this? > > You'll have to look at the compiler spec and how it is bootstrapped. That could become quite a project. > FWIW, I don't think there are any secret flags you can set to improve > the

Re: Remote access to config FreeBSD server

2007-02-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:26:02 -0800 (PST) satimis wrote: > I'm going to install the captioned OS as server, web/mail/database etc., for > test purpose and without X. I'm prepared to connect a workstation for fine > tuning the server. Can I use a Linux workstation to do the job because I > have no

Compiler Flags for SPARC64

2007-02-19 Thread Christian Baer
Hello everybody out there! Please excuse my posting this question again on this list, but the last post on the freebsd-sparc64 didn't help much. There isn't really much traffic on that list. Assuming that gcc when run on sparc64 produces v7 code (for sun4/4c) by default, I went about trying to im

Re: /etc problems when upgrading to FBSD 6.2

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:15:24 +0100 (CET) Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > My question is what I messed up? Was this something during mergemaster > phase? If not, then what else could have gone wrong? Yes, you probably messed up there. Mergemaster shows you - I'll call them suggestions - for the config

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:58:18 -0800 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Why create so many partitions? You can use slices to your benefit and > you wouldn't use up your allocatable partitions on the disk's MBR. The point is that I wasn't given the chance to create any slices. Regards Chris __

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:42:36 -0600 Doug Poland wrote: > # DeviceMountpoint FStype OptionsDumpPass# > /dev/da0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 > /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 ^^ Where did yo

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:53:20 -0800 Garrett Cooper wrote: > One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech definition > but the traditional definition, "to divide") filesystems such that if > one person fills up "/", it won't cause a program that needs to write to > "/var" or "/

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:54:40 -0900 Jeff Mohler wrote: One polite request: Would you please quote properly? I know this is not the usenet, but quoting serves a purpose and should make reading you question/comment easier. > If there is a fundamental reason why we still partition things like we > on

more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
Hi folkes! Is there any way to do this with FreeBSD? Background: I have to admit, that I have never actually done or even tried this with any OS whatsoever. I am running a two drive system with two mirrors on it. Because I wanted a lot of room for /usr while /usr/home ist mounted on a different

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:04:00 +0100 (CET) Christian Baer wrote: >> Basically, it does not work on 6.1-RELEASE, so you should consider >> updating to 6.2-RELEASE. > > Bin there, done that. Was one of the first things I tried. Now running: > > FreeBSD sunny.rz1.convenimus.n

Re: upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 with custom kernel

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:29:52 -0600 Jonathan Horne wrote: >> Terrific waste of bandwidth. > > *shrug* i dont see it that way. i see it as insurance that when i build > kernels for 15 machines, they are all getting the cleanest sources possible, > with absolutely nothing left over from a previous

Re: Turion64 x2 vs Centrino Duo 2 which is faster for FreeBSD and KDE Desktop?

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:12:25 +0300 Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: [broken up Xpost] > I plan to buy a new notebook and will use FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, I have > 2 choices, Turion64 x2 with 2.0 GHz and Centrino Duo 2 with 2.0 GHz, > but with 2 GB DDR2 ram, with the same speed of the hd 5400 RPM. > > So wh

Re: FreeBSD challenged by Internet

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:45:27 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > That's $5K difference not $10. Thieves can get away with a lot if they > steal it in small bits. So if I steal $1 from every account of New York's biggest bank they would smile and see that as a sporting achievement? Somehow I doubt th

Re: Mail server intermittent freeze

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:56:08 -0600 (CST) Rich Winkel wrote: > Has anyone else seen this behavior?? What are the HDs doing? Is there swapping going on? 512 megs of RAM are not really a generous amount for this kind of work. Regards Chris ___ freebsd-que

A little trouble starting (X-) Programs over ssh...

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
Good evening peeps! This probably isn't a real FreeBSD-issue itself, but it doesn't really fit any other topic that has a newsgroup out there, so please bear with me here! What I have done: I've installed an X-server (XMing) on a Windows-XP box and connect via PuTTY to a FreeBSD box (Sun U60). I

Re: upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 with custom kernel

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:25:16 -0600 Jonathan Horne wrote: > usually, i: > > rm -rf /usr/src/* /usr/obj/* > > and then just cvsup a whole new set of sources. i then buildworld and > buildkernel as laid out in the handbook: You do of course know that by doing that you also erase your custom kernel

Re: Live CD

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:05:26 -0500 Jeff Royle wrote: > http://www.freesbie.org/ has been updated to 6.2 Release That's right! And a funny thing happened there yesterday that I wouldn't have expected: A notebook that only caused crashes when booting knoppix booted perfectly with freesbie. Ok, the

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:29:39 -0500 Robert Huff wrote: > I've used the MicroSoft Intellimouse Explorer and liked it. > Will obviously work with Windows ... but be careful: sometimes MS > puts out a new sub-generation that changes the mouse protocol just > enough to cause problems with the {Xf

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:03:22 -0500 Bob wrote: > I Live with a very hairy, large, Main Coon cat called Tania; she sheds > tons of fine hair all over the place. She is a Mouser, and proudly rids > our home (a boat) of all sorts of mice. Unfortunately she also kills > Computer mice! Therein lies my p

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:11:33 -0500 Michael Johnson wrote: > I upgraded my sparc64 box today (7-CURRENT) and I do see Firefox > segfaulting when starting now, I'm not sure what has changed in Firefox > or FreeBSD yet, but I'll be looking for a fix in the coming days. Thanks! I'll be looking out fo

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:00:18 -0500 Kris Kennaway wrote: > That's a number indicating a version of FreeBSD. [link to handbook] > Basically, it does not work on 6.1-RELEASE, so you should consider > updating to 6.2-RELEASE. Bin there, done that. Was one of the first things I tried. Now running:

Re: ssh public key authentification

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:53:23 -0600 Kirk Strauser wrote: >> Why not? Group write is plenty enough for someone else to replace the >> .ssh directory with another one, so sshd checks for that. > > To replace it with another 700 directory owned by the user, containing a 40= > file also owned by the u

Re: ssh public key authentification

2007-01-19 Thread Christian Baer
Kirk Strauser wrote: >> The problem was not the authorized_keys file itself, it was my home >> directory. > I don't think so. More likely, it was the .ssh directory itself. Nope. :-) The only thing I changed was /usr/home/christian from mode 770 to mode 750. Then it worked. I'm guessing it wa

Re: ssh public key authentification

2007-01-18 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:14:34 -0600 Noel Jones wrote: > Did you copy the displayed "Public key for pasting into OpenSSH" from > PuttyGEN, or did you paste the actual contents of the public key? > Putty's on-disk format for public keys is not compatible with OpenSSH. Yeah, I got that right. sshd wa

Re: ssh public key authentification

2007-01-18 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:50:52 -0600 Parker Anderson wrote: > Have you verified the permissions of the authorized_keys file on the > server? If you have permissions set too loose (e.g. unneeded > read/write permission to groups/other users), sshd may be refusing to > trust that file. The directory

ssh public key authentification

2007-01-18 Thread Christian Baer
Hi peeps! This may not seem to be a real FreeBSD-issue, but I've gotten this to run on several other machines, just not my Sun running FreeBSD. To clarify this: I haven't really tried this on any other FreeBSD system recently though. I'm probably just to thick to get it right, so go ahead and insu

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-18 Thread Christian Baer
Michael Johnson wrote: > Firefox only runs on >= 601101 sparc64. I am guessing that means a special revision of the UltraSPARC II processor, but I don't really know, because google gets a lot of hits, mainly explaining all sorts of soft that seems to have the same problem, but none of these hits

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-18 Thread Christian Baer
John Nielsen wrote: > I installed FreeBSD on an Ultra 5 sometime last year and I had Firefox > (probably 1.5 or earlier) working just fine. Lucky you! :-) > I don't have the machine up right now to tinker with, though. That would have been an interesting test. > Are you running the latest -s

Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-16 Thread Christian Baer
Greetings fellow computer haters! :-) As I have already written on the STABLE mailing list, I can't seem to get Firefox to start on my Sun U60. Thunderbird works fine (as far as I can tell after two days), but Firefox just exits instantly with a segfault. I didn't get any replies from the STABLE

Compiling mtr without GUI

2007-01-15 Thread Christian Baer
Hi there Peeps! Somehow the mtr-port is bugging me a little. I want to install mtr on a machine with no keyboard and no monitor and thus no X - and I'd like to keep it that way. Since I couldn't find a package of mtr without the GUI, I guess, I'm stuck with the port. I've looked at the makefile a

GBDE error message - what does it mean?

2006-01-28 Thread Christian Baer
Hello again everybody! A few days back I got my first GBDE-device up and running. After that I had a slight problem described in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I already discribed this problem in a newsgroup (comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc) and didn't get much help there[1] (apart from the adive to use geli ins

Strange HD-device

2006-01-28 Thread Christian Baer
Hello *! I am experiencing a very annoying problem when trying to (re-) install hard drives. What happened is this: I set up a new (private) server, removed all the hard drives from the old one and installed these drives and one new drive in the new server. The old server was running 4.11-STABLE,