Re: FreeBSD 9.1 fails to boot from CD on Notebook

2013-07-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:56:12 +0200 Martin Siebel wrote: > > Any ideas about BIOS settings I may change? > find out how how the CD drive is connected and then play with the settings fir this interface Erich > I burnt the CD twice by the way, with different burning software, to > avoid dam

Re: routing issues to freebsd.org

2013-07-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 08:01:09 -0400 staticsafe wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 09:57:59AM +0100, Paul Macdonald wrote: > > > > On doing some updates this morning, am seeing a routing issue beyond > > bgp1-ext.ysv.freebsd.org... > > > > Updating Index > > fetch: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:44:41 -0600 Modulok wrote: > List, > > Step1: Make a new user:: > > root@localhost# pw useradd foo -m -s /bin/tcsh -h 0 > password for user foo: (secret) > > Step 2: Does sendmail know them:: > > root@modunix# sendmail -bv foo@localhost > foo@localh

Re: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, sorry for my English. Here is what I wanted to say. On Sun, 26 May 2013 16:09:06 +0700 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:32 -0700 (PDT) > "M. V." wrote: > > > I have a 24/7 network server/gateway with FreeBSD-8.2 on a SSD > &

Re: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:32 -0700 (PDT) "M. V." wrote: > I have a 24/7 network server/gateway with FreeBSD-8.2 on a SSD drive. > it's partitioned as normal (/ , /tmp, /var , /usr and swap) for a > long time now. But recently I heard from a FreeBSD expert that I > shouldn't have swap partiti

Re: HP 2570p installation

2013-05-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, it might be a good idea to tell us from where you booted. The internal disk, an USB stick, a USB drive ... And of course, what was on that media. Erich On Thu, 23 May 2013 13:02:37 +0200 (CEST) Ludovit Koren wrote: > > Hi, > > I bought HP Elitebook 2570p(B6Q08EA). I checked everything,

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 16 May 2013 23:05:33 +0100 Bruce Cran wrote: > On 11/05/2013 02:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Good question. I don't know why. I wish all were, it would keep > > spam out. > > There have been some discussions about this in the past. > freebsd-questions doesn't require subscribing

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: some lists are like this anyway. Why are not all like this? I notice that my postings get delayed and obviously check when I use by accident my real e-mail address. Eric

Re: Witness on FreeBSD 10.*

2013-04-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:43:51 -1000 Al Plant wrote: > Aloha, > > Is there a way of turning off the witness feature on the FreeBSD > Current 10.* > > I want to use a stripped down version as a test firewall with pf. > you must take this out of your kernel configuration: options WITNESS # E

Re: Upgrading from 7.4 to 9.1

2013-04-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:32:53 +0200 "b...@todoo.biz" wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to know if you would consider updating from 7.4 to 9.1 > directly ? > you might will face the same problem I face when trying to upgrade 7.x to 8.x on old hardware. The USB controller was not supported anymore

Re: SMP boot differences between 8.4 and 9.1?

2013-04-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:29:04 -0700 Dennis Glatting wrote: > > I have two four socket Opteron 6200 motherboards with populated > 16-core Opteron 6200 series processors. Onw is Tyan (below) and the > other Supermicro. nice machines. > > When booted under 8.4 only two sockets are recognized

Re: RSync exclusion

2013-04-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:30:45 +0200 Jos Chrispijn wrote: > I have a local folder called /files/ > In my daily backup event I create as per day a backkup folder that > contains this /files folder including all its sub folders > > --- cut --- > > rsync -avrz -e ssh /files/ backupr@x.x.x.x:/v

Re: Availability of downloads

2013-04-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:20:41 -0400 Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: >Hi FreeBSD - >Since PCBSD takes care of all these details this is not actually a >complaint. >When I was using FreeBSD the only server I could get packages from > was in Japan which did so every time althoug

Re: use of the kernel and licensing

2013-04-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:26:15 -0400 Joe wrote: > snip > > How do you explain all the forks of UNIX each claiming their own > copyright. They all provide the same concept, use the same names for > their commands, use the same programming language, have a filesystem > as their base. Just

Re: gpart

2013-04-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 09:20:21 -0400 "Grant Peel" wrote: > I am currently running 8.0 and am in need of many of the ports to be > upgraded, and have never had much luck doing the upgrade thing with > the base system and ports, preferring instead to completely rebuild > in restore user data. >

Re: gpart

2013-03-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:06:24 -0500 Joshua Isom wrote: > On 3/31/2013 8:54 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > I have had only one problem with this description. I could not boot > > from a GPT setup on my machine done as described there. But I have a > > disk done with PCB

Re: gpart

2013-03-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:28:40 -0400 "Grant Peel" wrote: > I am in the midst of setting up the framework for new servers using > FreeBSD 9.1. I used the bsdinstall and Manual`` option when setting > up the disk geometry using GPT - graphical setup. > > The idea will be to eventually dump the

Re: EOL

2013-03-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:19:02 -0600 David Thurber wrote: > I have 5 XP machines on my node that are used to crunch data 24/7. > So, I'm looking for an OS platform that has a 10 year EOL to replace > XP/3. > if you do not count the service packs and updates, your XP installation is EOL since

Re: line lengths in /etc/hosts

2013-03-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:09:29 +0100 Erik Nørgaard wrote: > On 27 Mar 2013, at 09:57, per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) > wrote: > > > Is there a limit on line length in FreeBSD's /etc/hosts? > > > > I'm not finding any mention of such a limit in hosts(5), but > > characters beyond the

Re: can not use intel GPU, no /dev/dri/card0

2013-03-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
> > Cheers, > Łukasz Gruner > > > 2013/3/24 Erich Dollansky : > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:14:28 + > > uki wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm getting the folowing error when I try to start X using intel

Re: can not use intel GPU, no /dev/dri/card0

2013-03-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:14:28 + uki wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting the folowing error when I try to start X using intel > drivers: > > [ 8669.844] (II) > Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so [ 8669.844] > (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card su

Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:11:24 -0700 (PDT) wrote: > Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several good morning, > people who have responded to my previous messages. I have made > significant progress, but am now flummoxed at the installation of the this is good to

Re: Using bsdinstall to create MBR

2013-03-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:36:15 -0700 Doug Hardie wrote: > I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I > can set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add > in slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters. > Everything I have tried gives a

Re: bsd lost partition recovery

2013-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:50:57 +0330 takCoder wrote: > Thank you for your reply.. you are welcome. > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Erich Dollansky < > erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com> wrote: > > > >On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:56:54 +0330 > > >takCoder

Re: bsd lost partition recovery

2013-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:56:54 +0330 takCoder wrote: > *here's the question:* > how to restore lost data of a formatted bsd partition?! > restore it from a backup? > *and here's what has happened to me:* > i was trying to install windows xp sp2 on a HD on my system to move > it to another ha

Re: Cannot resolve localhost

2013-02-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:35:12 +0100 Martin Pola wrote: > I'm trying to get my FreeBSD system to resolve localhost into > 127.0.0.1, but unfortunately it doesn't work. It appears the resolver > is never reading from /etc/hosts, where I have this line: 127.0.0.1 > localhost > > Here's a sample

Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?

2013-01-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:57:30 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:44:55 +0100, Erich Dollansky > wrote: > > It cannot get worse. His experience will show also others how robust > > FreeBSD is in case of failures. > > Indeed. Linux users

Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?

2013-01-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:08:20 +0100 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Monday, January 28, 2013 a las 10:28:06PM -1000, parv escribió: > > > In general, I find all this thread (wrong file owner) a bit boring. I find it very interesting. > This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a n

Re: creating bootable disk with gpart

2013-01-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:08:19 +0700 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi Warren, > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:41:10 -0700 (MST) > Warren Block wrote: > > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I followed h

Re: creating bootable disk with gpart

2013-01-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi Warren, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:41:10 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I followed http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html > > to create bootable disks with GPT. > > > > A

Re: how do I restart lagg0 properly?

2013-01-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:09:36 +0100 markus.hoeni...@mhoenicka.de wrote: > I've tried to setup link aggregation to allow networking through WLAN > and ethernet on my laptop, see: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/248605.html > > (this thread contains my net

Re: creating bootable disk with gpart

2013-01-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:41:10 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I followed http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html > > to create bootable disks with GPT. > > > > As you

creating bootable disk with gpart

2013-01-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I followed http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html to create bootable disks with GPT. As you know from my former post, I tried to boot via USB from a GPT disk and failed. I inserted the disk into the notebook and bootin also failed. Irony is that inserting the MBR disk into t

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:36:36 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your > > source tree). # 2. `make buildworld' > > # 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:58:06 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:38:38 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:15:09 +0100 > > "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > > > > > Good morning, > > >

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:15:09 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > Good morning, ood morning? The sun is settling soon! > > if I run 'make deinstall reinstall' for a port, it doesn't ask a > single question, at least not for dbus. > > # ls -l /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon > -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse

Re: lagg problems (or lack of understanding?)

2013-01-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:55:59 +0100 markus.hoeni...@mhoenicka.de wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-aggregation.html > > Specifically, I use the rc.conf entries mentioned in the box at the > very bottom on the page, except that my ethernet interface is

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi Ralf, On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:39:07 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:25:07 +0100, Erich Dollansky > wrote: > > What happens on a normal TTY? > > > >> Ctrl + Alt + F2 > > > > > So, you can switch to them. Can you

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:05:51 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > after running '# /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb > -d /etc /etc/master.passwd' (FWIW there were no messages) > I can now log in to a user X session by GDM. > this sounds so much better. > The user can't become root using Xfce Terminal Emulator

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:11:27 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi all, hi Joshua, > > On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:10 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: > > find / -uid 1001 -exec chown 1000 '{}' \; > > find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000 '{}' \; > > I made one mistake, when I run "find / -gid 1001 -exec chow

Re: 9.0 & 9.1-RELEASE and HP Proliant DL 360 G3

2013-01-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:50:30 +0100 Peter Hunčár wrote: > usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 > ugen0.1: <0x1166> at usbus0 > uhub0: <0x1166 OHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on > usbus0 so, it hangs here? Should be the probing for the CD drive next? I would check the setting

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:31:11 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:18 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > I guess it would be possible to change the id for the existing > > > FreeBSD user and then to chown /home/user_name to fit to 1000? > > >

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hallo Ralf, On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:53:52 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 07:31 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:33:49 +0100 > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > > > root@freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l /mnt

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:33:49 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > root@freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l /mnt > drwxrwx--- 21 1000 1000 4096 Oct 28 19:11 archlinux > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 4096 Jan 20 20:09 dump > it seems that you do not have a user with the id 1000 on this machine.

Re: Safe way to repair corrupted GPT partition table?

2013-01-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:59:07 -0600 Bob Willcox wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 07:25:09AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:08:25 -0600 > > Bob Willcox wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to repair a GPT parti

Re: Safe way to repair corrupted GPT partition table?

2013-01-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:08:25 -0600 Bob Willcox wrote: > Is there a way to repair a GPT partition table that has gotten > corrupted (following a system hang during heavy I/O to a ZFS > filesystem)? > I would use a hex editor. Of course, try it out on another disk before working on that disk.

Re: SSH on FreeBSD

2013-01-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:10:16 + Mannase Nyathi wrote: > CipherWave Fibre Broadband with FREE installation from only > R8840/month > > Good day, > > I have just configured FreeBSD on my server. I would like to find out > how can I be able to login to it via ssh? > > Looking forward to h

Re: gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

2013-01-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:36:21 -0500 kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 08:09:00AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > For what is glabel then still good? > > It is still useful for partition schemes that don't have labels (eg, > MBR) AND the filesyst

Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

2013-01-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:39:09 -0800 "Thomas D. Dean" wrote: > On 01/12/13 17:59, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > > cat /etc/rc.conf > ... > ifconfig_wlan0="SYNCDHCP WPA ssid tddhome mode 11b" > wlan0_bwn0="wlan0" > ... > > I found another email that said the device did not support mode 11n. > B

Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

2013-01-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:58:31 -0800 "Thomas D. Dean" wrote: > FreeBSD 9.0 as of June 1, 2012. > > I have an older laptop with a PC Card Linksys WiFi adapter. > > I cannot connect to a close-by (2 ft) wireless router. > > > cat rc.conf > ... > ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP" you must add he

Re: gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

2013-01-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:56:39 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > in general, I try to create the partitions with gpart, add a label > > with glabel and put a filesystem. I think that I am doing something > > very si

gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

2013-01-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, in general, I try to create the partitions with gpart, add a label with glabel and put a filesystem. I think that I am doing something very simple the wrong way but I cannot see the error. I try to do it in the following way: # gpart destroy -F da0 # gpart create -s GPT da0 # gpart add -t fr

Re: suggestions wanted.... {OT}

2013-01-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:52:16 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > > note that this question is =OT=. > > sorry if this is a re-request for clues. I =did= ask a very > similar question a year or three ago; I'm just not sure > where. Ah, I remember. Wans't it when the Newton was r

Re: sound issue: play interrupt timeout, channel dead

2013-01-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:02:08 +0100 Stephan Schindel wrote: > after upgrading to 9.1 I have got a problem with my sound card. Sry I > am not sure what sound card I have (onboard chipset by NVidia), but it > uses the snd_hda module for sure. Sometimes my sound goes completely > away and I foun

Re: 9.0 vs 9.1

2013-01-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:02:01 -0600 Scott Eberl wrote: > OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading > all the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after > upgrading to 9.1 I have to compile from source to install stuff now. > It takes forever and a

Re: keyboard and mouse problem

2013-01-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 23:53:04 -0800 (PST) Jack Mc Lauren wrote: > I have a freeBSD 8.2 amd64 on my system and I'm using > gnome environment. But after a few seconds my USB keyboard and  PS/2 > mouse hang up !!! > when did you setup the system? Did this happen after an update? > What should I

Re: which version of FBSD should i install?

2013-01-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 23:16:58 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 12:55:49PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:55:04 -0800 > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > ms well use my 2005 Thinkpad. it is reason

Re: which version of FBSD should i install?

2013-01-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:55:04 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > ms well use my 2005 Thinkpad. it is reasonably fast at > 3.06GHz. should clue me in on how much stuff I need to compile to > test. You should be able to run anything from 7.4, 8.3, 9.1 to 10.0. I mention 7.4 here for a simple rea

Re: Trying to update from 9.0 to 9.1 via svn

2013-01-04 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 02:40:13 + (UTC) "Helmut Schneider" wrote: > Trond Endrestøl wrote: > > > BTW, do you nuke the contents of /usr/obj prior to recompiling the > > system? The command rm -Rf /usr/obj/* should accomplish this rather > > well. > > That might have been the issue, yes. W

Re: utility to compare 2 dir trees

2012-12-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:45:39 -0500 Fbsd8 wrote: > Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Fbsd8 > > wrote: > > > >> I want to compare 2 different directory trees to each other to > >> locate any differences in directories and files contained there in. > >> > >> Any sugg

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:13:39 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > ok, so "FreeBSD release" is the version of the kernel and not a > labelling for the collection of all the software. yes. It is even so that the ports work on all 'current' FreeBSD versions but not the packages. With other words, you w

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:09:16 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 10:14 -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > You may also use at your discretion the portmaster tool? It works > > very well and a nice example is given by W. Block: > > > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/

Re: i386 vs. amd64

2012-12-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, wasn't the same question here a few days ago? On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:16:36 -0500 Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Ever since 8.X (my system is now 9.1-RC3 [done via csup]) been using > i386 with the following main ports: > > x11-wm/xfce4 yes. > www/firefox Yes. > www/linux-f10-flashplugin11 > e

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:00:51 -0500 Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if > switching to amd64 finally makes sense (i.e. are enough ports working > on it now [xfrce4, firefox, libreoffice, openjdk-6, tomcat, mysql, > apache22, flash, cups,

Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs

2012-12-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:21:50 +0100 Matthias Gamsjager wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Chad Perrin > wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:52:04AM -0500, Anonymous wrote: > > > We, the users of FreeBSD, *do hereby challenge* the FreeBSD > > > project to meet its future release d

Re: Questions not working again?

2012-12-07 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:32:40 -1000 Al Plant wrote: > Aloha FreeBSD mail list. > > This is the second month that it questions have stopped working to my > mail box. All the other lists are fine that I subscribe to. My > firewall spam wall has not been changed. > what Do you mean? You could

Re: i am new with this

2012-12-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 22:41:06 + BOY RULES wrote: > i want to run a server from home running open source software and > easy to manage it like in 3 clicks and done the site is up and > running > three clicks? Not really. It is a bit more. > > if possible the developers to build a new f

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:38:35 -0600 Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I am currently running FBSD 8.3-STABLE on a production server that > provides http, dns, smtp, and so on for a small domain. This is not > a high arrival rate environment but it does need to be rock solid > (which FBSD 4-8 have been).

Re: /usr/sbin/ppp doubling connections on tun0

2012-11-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:49:39 +1100 andrew clarke wrote: > I'm using /usr/sbin/ppp for PPPoE over an ADSL modem in bridged mode: > > # ifconfig tun0 > tun0: flags=8051 metric 0 mtu 1492 > options=8 > inet 203.217.27.170 --> 203.215.15.252 netmask 0x > ine

Re: Freebsd 9 Startx

2012-11-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:28:13 + Hooman Oroojeni wrote: > Dear All, > I would like to use GUI in Freebsd 9, but I face with following error. I think that you have mist a paste command here. Anyway, what graphics adaptor are you using? Intel? It it is Intel, read about Intel KMS. Erich _

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:58:14 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:26:00 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800 > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48A

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800 > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800 > > > Gar

Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:00:15 +0100 Leslie Jensen wrote: > > I just read in another post about disklayout > _ > According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment > and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided y

Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:23:38 -0200 Friedrich Locke wrote: > 0) To have a single process "accepting" incoming connection on port > 80 and send the new socket fd to one of the http server in a > round-roubin manner, or if you have N cores, create N - X processes or threads for handling the re

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Anyway, linux is > > > installed; the box is on my internal IP net. I can ssh > > > *out*. to my server, vut

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > hold your flame-throwers, because this is about how to get you do not allow us some fun? > ssh working from an outside computer into my brand new "tao" that is > running a flavor of linux. I just got my quad i5 box to replace th

Re: ata controller problem

2012-10-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:25:41 +0200 Gerhard Schmidt wrote: > On 26.10.2012 18:00, Polytropon wrote: => > I'm not sure if this can be done, but using labels should > > make the question go away, and the problem causing it. :-) > > Labels are good for naming Drives but how does it help me if t

Re: ata controller problem

2012-10-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:22:01 +0200 Gerhard Schmidt wrote: > > hint.ada.3.at="scbus3" > > hint.ada.4.at="scbus4" > > hint.ada.5.at="scbus5" > > > > See CAM(4) man page (read it, don't skim!) for full details. Just > > please for the love of god do not use labels to solve this. > > > Sorry

Re: ata controller problem

2012-10-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:33:38 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Regarding this: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-October/245862.html > > No no NO *NO*! > YES, YES, YES, YES! > The proper way to solve this problem is to user /boot/loader.conf How does this help w

Re: FreeBSD help require for DellpowerEdge R620

2012-10-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:56:49 -0400 Rick Miller wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Md Samadul Sarker > wrote: > > > > I have got DELL PowerEdge R620 which raid controller is H710. Can > > anyone help me that is there any chance to install FreeBSD on this > > and how? Any suggestions

Re: FreeBSD help require for DellpowerEdge R620

2012-10-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:54:39 +0100 "Md Samadul Sarker" wrote: > I have got DELL PowerEdge R620 which raid controller is H710. Can > anyone help me that is there any chance to install FreeBSD on this > and how? Any suggestions will be highly appreciated. > just check this and you should be

Re: rc.conf and loader.conf

2012-10-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:47:29 +0330 Ashkan Rahmani wrote: > hi, > what is the best order of items in rc.conf and loader.conf? > actually items order is important? > as you know already, the order does not matter at all. But there some modules which cannot coexist. I prefer to build a custo

Re: kernel config

2012-10-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:26:27 + (UTC) jb wrote: > Erich Dollansky ovitrap.com> writes: > > > ... > > Just check how a custom kernel is build. You can then build three > > versions of it. One with nothing, one with the modules you want and > > one

Re: kernel config

2012-10-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:41:44 + (UTC) jb wrote: > Hi, > what controls how parts of kernel are built, that is, built-in or > modular ? For example, I want to: > - build a kernel that has eveything built in this is normally not possible as some thing conflict which each other. But most thi

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:23:17 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:39:55 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:13:05 -0700 > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:52:02PM -0700, Gezeal

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:13:05 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:52:02PM -0700, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: > if/when I ever find that v short exercise, THIS time, il'l remember to > 'splain stuff in > > /* >* comments >*/ > your programs are no

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:20:07 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: > > apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C > program, but 3+ hours of grepping havent found it. I would have bet > my last cent that I had a summary Somewhere, but cant find that > either. > > here is the pr

Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version

2012-10-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:32:15 +0900 Rei Okamoto wrote: > Hi Adam, Olivier, Erich, and the rest, > > Thank you for your replies. > > It sounds like the best thing to do is to migrate > the contents to a server with new versions of all softwares. > this is the ideal solution. But do not forg

Re: license

2012-10-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:01:03 -0500 ajtiM wrote: > Again me > > Last time I try to make some T-shirts which I have on my redbubble > page. It is not a big nmoney, I didn't sell anything just one card :) > but I like to make a T-shirt design with Beastie on it too. Do I need > a permissio

Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version

2012-10-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:31:36 +0900 Rei Okamoto wrote: > One of the clients is running the web site using > FreeBSD 4.7. this is not a real fresh installation. > > Although it is surely the best to renew the server to > newest machine and OS, the client is reluctant to do so > because of mo

Spam and more spam

2012-10-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, could t be that everybody can post now on this list without being registered and without having administrator's approval? I remember that my messages got delayed when I used my work's e-mail address but when I just send an answer to a question intentional with my work's e-mail address, it wor

Re: Spam and more spam.

2012-10-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi Gary, On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:03:49 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:49:34AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:43:13 -0700 > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 01:27:30PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrot

Re: Spam and more spam.

2012-10-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi Gary, On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:43:13 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 01:27:30PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > hello erich and everyone, > > im getting too aged [and achy and cranky:)] to sleep well, oh, do you have a Win

Re: Spam and more spam.

2012-10-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:04:48 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 05:06:11PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: > > Erich Dollansky wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:39:12 +1100 > > >andrew clarke wrote: > > > &

Re: Spam and more spam.

2012-10-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi Al, On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:06:11 -1000 Al Plant wrote: > Erich Dollansky wrote: > > I wonder how many people did what I did an classified this as spam. > > Aloha Erich, > my wife loves you. This is for sure. Why? She loves your place. > I'm getting SPAM on the

Re: Info 2 Release

2012-10-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:02:48 +0100 (BST) Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From: andrew clarke > > PS. This is an English-speaking mailing list. > > What's the problem? > If there are non-english posts > and non-english helpful replies, > who suffers? > I think that the original po

Re: Info 2 Release

2012-10-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:39:12 +1100 andrew clarke wrote: > On Wed 2012-10-10 10:16:35 UTC+0200, René Mercier > (realmo.merc...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Bonjour, > > > > Je suis sous Debian, mais travaillant dans les réseaux, je > > souhaiterai passer sur FreeBsd pour sa stabilité et pour sa

Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations

2012-10-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:50:16 +0100 (BST) Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I got sent a pdf file, version 1.6, with annotations. > xpdf can view the file, but not the annotations. > Please suggest a pdf viewer from ports that might help. > evince? Did you try it? I do not have it installed at the

Re: Port update hosed entire system

2012-10-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:20:45 -0400 Rod Person wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 08:02:54 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 20:08:29 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I was attempting to update ports that used libogg with the command > > > > > > portmaster -d -y

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