Re: Clarification about AMD64 port for Core Duo

2012-01-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
say you have seen claiming to run FreeBSD with a Core Duo are actually using a Core 2 Duo. As for your own C2D E8400, well the 'C2D' is short for 'Core 2 Duo', so yes it should support amd64 just fine. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se _

Re: why newline scape sequence does not work in Freebsd's bash

2011-12-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
using is the one builtin into bash and is described in the bash(1) manpage (including mention of the -e option.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Is it safe to interrupt (Ctrl + C) while building a port or kernel?

2011-11-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
left something out of the config > > > file, after you edit the config file, you have to rerun _all_ those steps. > > > > > > > Is it even advisable to build the kernel the "old" way ? > > On a slow processor, it makes a *BIG* differnence. >

Re: What USB dialup modem WILL work with 8.2?

2011-08-26 Thread Erik Trulsson
really want, I am afraid I can't give any. It has been several years since I last used a dialup modem, so I don't know for sure what *will* work with todays software, only what should work.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se

Re: 'mount -u' stumper

2011-06-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
the read-only status of the filesystem. > > Anybody got a bright idea I haven't thought of? To change if a given filesystem should use soft-updates or not you use tunefs(8) on that filesystem. (Read the manpage to find exact syntax.) Note

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
ers. (If you don't believe me try checking the output of 'kldstat' before and after doing 'kldload snd_driver') -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
st. > > I consider "not cluttering up the inboxes of people subscribed to the > list" a "good reason to do otherwise". You seem to miss one crucial fact: Not all the people who write to this list are subscribed to it. They will not see any replies directed only t

Re: why vim ports have personal KNOBS for options

2011-03-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
so difficult ;) Because the maintainer of the vim port has a dislike for the OPTIONS framework. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

Re: Bit order == byte order??

2011-03-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 01:09:23AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:26:12AM -0500, Frank Solensky wrote: > > > In sys/netinet/ip.h, the first octet of the ip header structure > > > tests the byte ordering to de

Re: Bit order == byte order??

2011-03-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
rect. > It just surprised me to see that recently Unless you have a CPU where memory is addressed bit-by-bit rather than byte-by-byte the ordering of bits within a byte is not only completely irrelevant, it is also pretty much impossible to determine programatically. --

Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1?

2011-01-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
using a CD wouldn't work as the filesystem changed from > UFS1 to UFS2 betweeen 4 and 5. That by itself should not be a showstopper, since newer FreeBSD releases (incl. 8.1) still support UFS1 and can run perfectly fine on it. Although it is generally a good idea to use UFS2 rather tha

Re: Detecting updates to ports not installed

2010-12-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
n when an update comes through. Is there a more > excellent way to receive the same sort of notification for a port that is > not installed? I think you can use http://www.freshports.org for that purpose. (I have never used it myself, but it looks like it should do the trick.) --

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

2010-12-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
er. > > Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! > > Bit of an oversight that I suspect Probably. The shortcomings of sysinstall are many and varied, so one more is not surprise. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se __

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
nce the OP mentioned using EVFILT_VNODE I would assume he is already using kqueue but is not satisfied with it. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 04:08:35PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Trulsson writes: > > Erik> Since it essentially says that if you export it from the USA you will > Erik> have to follow whatever laws and regulations covers such

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
you will have to follow whatever laws and regulations covers such exports, it doesn't really add any burden since anybody doing such an export would be legally required to do so anyway. AFAICT the paragraph in question does not add any restrictions o

Re: simplest way to get gnome/ kde up and running

2010-10-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
ome you will probably want the x11/gnome2 port/package while for KDE you will probably want either x11/kde3 or x11/kde4 (depending on if you want KDE 3.x or KDE 4.x) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
;> help? :) > > > > I use iftop[1] > > No, this one is built into the system. I havent't used it for some > time and cannot now recollect it. :( Try 'systat -if 1' or 'netstat -I re0 -w 1' / 'netstat -I lo0 -w 1'. On

Re: Linux filesystems accessible from FreeBSD 8-stable?

2010-09-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
an ext4 filesystem can be mounted as an ext3 partition (using "ext3" as the filesystem type when mounting). However, if the ext4 partition uses extents (a major new feature of ext4), then the ability to mount the file system as ext3 is lost. So, if an ext4 filesystem can be mounted as e

Re: PDF to HTML translations

2010-09-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
ead. > > Try textproc/pdftohtml Uhm, he said "other than pdftohtml" so I suspect he already knew about that one. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: two ata-related problems

2010-09-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
r parallell devices. You should only need the 'ata' and 'atapifd' devices (both of whoch are included in GENERIC) to handle an ATAPI Zip drive. So, yes, FreeBSD 8.1 *should* be able to recognize an ATAPI Zip drive. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se

Re: Upgrade 6.4-stable to 7.3

2010-07-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
to 7.3 and then from 7.3 to 8.1 Just remember to make good backups first, just in case something goes wrong. (There should not be any serious problems involved - the source upgrades I have done from 6.x to 7.x and later from 7.x to 8.x were fairly uneventful - but you never know wha

Re: 'file' Command Giving False Positives

2010-07-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
at an MS-DOS style .EXE file should start with. For an MS-DOS .COM file there is no header or other metadata in the file so there is no good way of distinguishing it from any other binary file. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-q

Re: Question on packages and ports (and versions)

2010-06-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
ftware installed from ports? If not, how does FreeBSD select > one over the other? A package is best seen as simply a pre-compiled port, i.e. packages are built from ports. After it has been installed there is no difference between software installed via por

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
thing! :-) > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: perl links

2010-04-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
rl was part of the base system - it is a Perl convention which was established before FreeBSD (or Linux for that matter) even existed. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Enough Is Enough

2010-03-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
to work correctly every time. The problems you are running into is essentially due to trying to build updated binaries while still having old binaries installed (and having this trigger bugs in the build mechanism of various ports.) If you first remove all the old binaries

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
SE-8LPML) because we > couldn't create a larger RAID5 than 1.99TB. That is strange, since all the 3ware 9000-series controllers (including the 9650) are supposed to be able to handle arrays larger than 2TB. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se __

Re: how to use cdrecord

2010-03-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
; > HTH. > > > > -- > > Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org > > > > > > > cdrecord -scanbus gives a error. Invalid argument. Camiocommand ioctl > failed, can not open scsi driver Do you have that atapicam(4) kernel module loaded? If n

Re: Ports overlay

2010-03-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
detect and keep local changes. The disadvantage of this method is that updating the ports tree will be slower. The advantage is much increased flexibility in maintaining local changes or checking the history of any file. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se

Re: selling freebsd cd for profit

2010-02-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
n site you have no guarantees that they will keep the source for that particular version of the software in question for as long as needed. Going by the strict letter of the GPL (v2) I don't see that merely providing a link to somebody else's site is sufficient. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1..

Re: Is it possible to see memory over 3GB on 32-bit FreeBSD?

2010-02-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
nfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: backup terminal title

2010-02-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
a stack. > printf "\033[23;0t" > This restores them from the stack. > > It works fine with xterm, has no effect on rxvt-unicode (which I > am using), though. > > That might well be a termcap problem. I've got to look into this. Not a termca

Re: Errors on UFS Partitions

2010-01-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
the tunefs(8) utility for this. (Note that it cannot be used on a filesystem which is mounted read-write.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: can't update system.

2010-01-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
__ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se

Re: does toor have passwd or not? According to logins -p: yes

2009-12-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
rd authenictation is disabled for that account. (See the passwd(5) manpage for details.) This means that unless you set a password for toor you cannot login as toor, so the mere presence of that account is not a security problem. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se

Re: "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

2009-12-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
m. > > -- > Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN > sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to &

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
tive paths in symlinks start at the symlink is in, not the current directory. I.e. that the symlink is relative should not be a problem. (Under AmigaOS relative symlinks worked as you describe, which made them a PITA and fairly useless, but under Unix relative symlinks have a more sane behaviour.)

Re: Where is gfortran in FreeBSD 7.2 Release (i386)?

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
d model: posix > gcc version 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD] > $ > > A little help please? Install the lang/gcc44 port which includes Fortran support. The Fortran compiler will be installed as gfortran44. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___

Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive

2009-12-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
pdates is supposed to guarantee that those are the only types of filesystem errors that can occur, but in reality that guarantee does not always hold.) If you have other instances of filesystem corruption (which includes everything which can trigger a kernel panic) you need to use a fore

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
a batch build option, but unless I'm > mistaken, that skips any ports that need interaction to build. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscrib

Re: Hi! a question about log in dmesg

2009-11-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
s. I have desactivate udma > and no results. the firs message about at_matroute and delroute issues i > have no idea. > > Anyone has a clue??? > > greetings to everyone out there! > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: FreeBSD_RC2?

2009-10-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
has just been made so I guess any RC2 files found now are indeed the real deal. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

2009-10-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
he 1999 revision of the C standard, and was already then a very common extension that was supported by many compilers. If gcc supports "//" comments or not depends on which mode it is running in. If you run it in strict C89 mode, then it will not support "//

Re: FWD: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
> == > > So, is there a definite, unique answer? > > Does it matter whether I run IA64 or AMD64 in the above Dell 1850? It matters very much. AMD64 should work fine. IA64 will will not work at all. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se __

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
y mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > > > -- > > ;; dataix.net!jhell 2048R/89D8547E 2009-09-30 > ;; BSD since FreeBSD 4.2Linux since Slackware 2.1 > ;; 85EF E26B 07BB 3777 76BE B12A 9057 8789 89D8 547E > > ___ &

Re: server specification.

2009-10-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
ional controllers that might be included on the motherboard or on add-on cards.) Most chipsets work fine, but some of the very newest might not be supported yet. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
is was > overlooked? Personally I don't think it's ever good to overlook > security, especially in the case of a root exploit. > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.4R/announce.html -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ fre

Re: shell command line argument + parsing function

2009-08-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
t;. > > I WANT that function style. How to do it ? > > thank you > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-q

Re: Firefox 3.5 on FBSD

2009-08-26 Thread Erik Trulsson
e here run firefox 3.5 on their box? If > so, what is the trick? kldload sem See the 20090628 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Boot failure

2009-08-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
sck_ffs -y' to have it try and repair all damage that it finds. > > Excellent. Thanks for all your advice Roland. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: kernel designations terminology confusion -- amd64 used for into quad core

2009-08-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
the wild. Not surprising since the Itanium is mainly used in the kind of high-end server systems that us ordinary people rarely see and certainly can't afford to buy. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: kernel designations terminology confusion -- amd64 used for into quad core

2009-08-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
Later Intel also started using it (while using their own name(s) for it), but FreeBSD has stuck with the name amd64. This is no more strange than calling the i386 architecture for i386 even if it runs on a whole lot of processors other than the original Intel 80386. -- Er

Re: cvs tag usage

2009-08-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
or > > do I need to use something like: > > > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7_2-p2 > > > > No. Read the link I posted above. > > > Where can I find some explanation on this? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > -- > Glen Ba

Re: How to find what symlink points to?

2009-07-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
By using the readlink(2) system call. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: question about a driver - Gigabit - HP NC362i

2009-07-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
ok very promising Looks like a quite good chance of it working. That controller is apparently based around Intel's 82576 controller chip, which should be supported by the igb(4) driver. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-quest

Re: Checksum mismatches when csup-ing.

2009-06-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
not clear if you too is doing that, or if you use cvsup to check out just the latest version. > > Paul > > >> > >> The fact that all errors are on src-all and none on ports-all make me > >> suspect it is not a local problem on > >> my syst

Re: Very slow disk speed / mpt0: LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter

2009-06-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
0xfcefc000-0xfcef,0xfcee-0xfcee irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci5 > mpt0: [ITHREAD] > mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.16.0 > mpt0: Capabilities: ( RAID-0 RAID-1E RAID-1 ) > mpt0: 1 Active Volume (2 Max) > mpt0: 3 Hidden Drive Members (10 Max) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.s

Re: Pre-compiled package shortage

2009-06-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
pre-compiled packages. Quite possibly you ran into one or more of those. Other than those ftp.freebsd.org (and mirrors) should have a complete set of pre-compiled packages. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
, and the SUSP character is discarded when processed. So it appears to be SIGTSTP which is sent by typing ^Z, which agrees with signal(3) where the SIGTSTP signal is described as "stop signal generated from keyboard" -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se _

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
extent that a modern high-quality PSU running at a low load will still have higher efficiency than an ordinary 5-year old PSU had at its best. Be that as it may, when I was talking about the power draw of the whole system, I meant the whole system, including PSU, so any power losses in the PSU are

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
W for the whole system. It is not even difficult to put together a system that will stay under 100W even when under load. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Intel NIC issues

2009-06-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
ink you have. The *complete* dmesg output as well as the output of 'pciconf -lv' might be useful in determining what you actually have. (Opening the box and checking for any useful labels on the motherboard can also of course be useful, but is not something we can help you doing.) -- Eri

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console

2009-06-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
to something suitable to make programs accept such characters. (I know it makes a difference for some shells at least.) Using the correct *.fnt or *.kbd files just tell the system which key should generate a character and what it should look like if displayed, not which characters ar

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
tring in the files examined. Or you could use the output of find(1) as a list of files that are given as arguments to grep(1). -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: What is the highest hard drive read/write speed you were able to achieve by entire disk mirroring or striping?

2009-05-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
he transfer speed to RAM. Of these I suspect the controller itself will be the major bottleneck in your case closely followed by the CPU. Exactly how much they can support is not so easily predicted however - it will have to be measured. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se __

Re: qmail.sh is broken symlink

2009-05-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
or using different support-programs. I can't find a description of exactly what the difference between them is, so you will probably have to look through them to see which one suits your setup best. (There are comments in each of them giving a brief description of what it does.) -- E

Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'

2009-05-11 Thread Erik Trulsson
> > Your BIOS is reporting two IDE interfaces, each of which could have a master > and slave disk drive, so ad0-3 are reserved for those four drives, meaning > SATA starts at ad4. > > Some BIOSes let you change this. > > Jonathan -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 released?

2009-05-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
problem do pop you should not have to wait all that long. (And if there is some last-minute problem it is probably a good idea to wait until it is fixed.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
gt; I'd be happy to provide feedback; these were brainstorming ideas and would > really like to see progress move toward a more eye-candy installer. I fail to see what the point of an X-based install would be - other than pure eye-candy, which does not seem very important for something like

Re: Why USB harddrive is so slow under FreeBSD?

2009-04-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
f > speed. > > > Hope this explanation helps. > > --TJ > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd

Re: Why USB harddrive is so slow under FreeBSD?

2009-04-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
dered quite good, so the 25-27MB/s you are seeing are actually not all that bad. Some other controller *might* give you a few more MB/s but probably not more than that. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: powerd

2009-04-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
conf and I loaded/unloaded it separately. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.or

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
Caveats: > o One of the peculiarities of subversion is that if you > leave off the "head" portion of the URL, you will get _all_ of > the nodes in the repository -- that is, the history at every point. > > o As I mentioned earlier, this will produce a newly ch

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-03-31 Thread Erik Trulsson
that background fsck relies on snapshots to work, At least in the past snapshots had stability problems. Things are supposed to be better these days, but many people have long memories for these kind of problems. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se __

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

2009-03-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
as well as the form, menu. and panel libraries that are usually included with most curses implementations (including ncurses.) See for example http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/ -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: links vs real directories

2009-03-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:47:23AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: > > On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:22:13AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: > >> I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the > >&

Re: links vs real directories

2009-03-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
11:06 db > etc... > > > So, I guess a link is NOT exactly equivalent to a directory. At least > not the way I am doing it. > > I'm guessing I'm making a real newbie mistake, so if anyone can set > me straight, I'd appreciate it. > > Thank: John &

Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card

2009-03-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:28:03PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I need to buy a PCI eXtended dual network card, any advise on what > brand is supported and work reliabily? The Intel PRO/1000 series should all work fine. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@s

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6

2009-03-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
manager. > > Keith S. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Erik Trulss

Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 -> amd64 ?

2009-03-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
tain it is not supported. Source upgrades from i386 to amd64 are possible, but not trivial and not recommended. The recommended procedure for changing from i386 to amd64 is to make a backup of all important data on the machine, and then do a fresh install of amd64 after which any needed data is

Re: Which install ?

2009-03-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 02:15:25PM -0400, Michael Powell wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:25:06AM -0500, Darryl Hoar wrote: > >> Greetings, > >> I just purchased an older rack mounted supermicro server. It is running > >> Cent

Re: Which install ?

2009-03-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
it is an older server then i386 is probably the right version to use. The recent processors from Intel that use the 'Xeon' name also support amd64, but older ones did not. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: USENET?

2009-03-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
ibute the various newsgroups available on Usenet. (And several of the more popular web-browsers can also be used as newsreaders.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: How do I determine the FreeBSD "world" revision/version?

2009-03-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
ifferent parts of your system come from different versions of FreeBSD you will have to keep track of this yourself. Having kernel and userland from different FreeBSD versions is not supported and can somtimes cause problems. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se __

Re: zfs raid and/or hardware raid..

2009-02-11 Thread Erik Trulsson
worry about what would happen if you were trying to boot from a degraded RAID-1 array. What happens if the BIOS tries to boot the wrong disk?) For a RAID-0, RAID-5, or RAID-10 array on the other hand, I think it is not possible to boot from them unless you have a BIOS which understands the array

Re: zfs raid and/or hardware raid..

2009-02-11 Thread Erik Trulsson
till feels a little bit too experimental for my own tastes (although opinions differ on that matter), but apart from that ZFS is probably the best solution. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
nted with any side or end vertical or hori- zontal. Do not mount the drive in a tilted position. [*] "resonably modern drives" includes just about all drives any sane person would even consider using for a new computer build. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se _

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
-location services either only accepts rack-mountable servers, or charge extra for non-rackmounted cases, so it might be worth checking that. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
ny > problem. And if you ask the various harddisk manufacturers they will say "It will work fine. No problem." when asked if it matters if a disk is mounted horisontally or vertically or upside down. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
It is also the list one should use to ask FreeBSD-related questions when one is not sure which list is most appropriate for that particular question. I.e. "freebsd-quesitions" is for all FreeBSD-related questions, not only questions about the FreeBSD base system. -- Erik Trulsson

Re: 7.1 - with x.org 7.4?

2008-12-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
and this far into the release process it is too late to update such an important port - too much risk of something going wrong. The X.org port(s) will probably be updated to 7.4 not too long after FreeBSD 7.1 has been released and the dust has settled. -- Erik Trul

Re: Strange behaviour of the filesystem on FreeBSD-5.5

2008-12-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
, since this FreeBSD box is our enterprise's router, and i > sometimes must go to office and reboot it even on holidays. Maybe, > reinstalling everything from scratch would be the simplest thing to do, > but i still hope, that somebody can tell me how to fix everything 'in

Re: some ipfw filter does not function under Release 6.3

2008-11-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
8.099443 IP 221.192.199.36.3362 > 192.168.2.14.80: S > 2422872529:2422872529(0) win 65535 > 05:28:18.352083 IP 221.192.199.36.3362 > 192.168.2.14.80: . ack > 3968474717 win 65535 > 05:28:18.367745 IP 221.192.199.36.3362 > 192.168.2.14.80: P 0:205(2

Re: Server Freezing Solid

2008-11-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
ou may have hit the bad cap problem with the VP6. See http://www.badcaps.net for much more information about problems with bad capacitors, and yes the Abit VP6 is one of the boards that commonly exhibits that particular problem. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
al database system, for example.) Besides, most (all?) of the situations where one might concievably want many entries in a single directory, what one would usually want is lots of files, not lots of sub-directories - once you start using sub-directories, you might as well use more than a single level of

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:58:11PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > Erik Trulsson writes: > > > > Question (for anyone who has an informed opinion): > > > If there any technical reason that couldn't be expanded to 32 > > > bits? Or is it possible but

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 12:48:51PM -0500, Dan wrote: > Erik Trulsson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.09 17:53:14 +0100: > > Personally I cannot think of any situation where one would actually want > > (let alone need) as many as 3 or more subdirectories in a single > > dire

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
and entries in a single directory, then you are probably doing something wrong. Personally I cannot think of any situation where one would actually want (let alone need) as many as 3 or more subdirectories in a single directory. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:47:11AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:35:21 +0100, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note that this does not limit the number of files you can have in a single > > directory, since normal files do not contain ha

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