Re: BSD sleep

2013-05-29 Thread Modulok
ay sleep for 1 hour I expect it to sleep for 3600 local seconds from the time the call is made until it wakes up again without any absurd gotchas. If the real-world time elapsed is more or less than 3600 seconds due to an internal clock error - fine. That's a different problem altogether. M

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Modulok
of the > address. Maybe this additiion is required in other cf files > containing Mlocal settings too? Of course it would be nice if > there was a corresponding setting for the mc files which the > cf files are usually generated from... So, best practices aside, this would be a bug in

Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Modulok
ve lots of case-sensitive usernames in various config files, etc this isn't a real option. By just altering their usernames I'm afraid I'd break the whole damn universe. How can I enable mail for them? Cheers! -Modulok- ___ freebsd

Revoke a DHCP lease early?

2013-03-09 Thread Modulok
d --revoke 192.168.1.24 How do you revoke a client's lease prematurely? Thanks. -Modulok- ___ 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: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Modulok
to the gmirror and the array rebuilds. I've not tried this with gpt, so I can't comment there. -Modulok- ___ 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: LaTeX Error: File `utf8x.def' not found

2013-01-20 Thread Modulok
hown below). Also, why is teTeX a dependency? I thought it was no longer maintained? Thanks! -Modulok- Command output shown below: # pkg_add -r latex-ucs Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.3-release/Latest/latex-ucs.tbz... Done. Fetching ftp://ftp.freeb

LaTeX Error: File `utf8x.def' not found

2013-01-20 Thread Modulok
ving this problem by installing ``unicode-tex``, but I didn't find a ``unicode-tex`` package in the FreeBSD packages list on ftp.freebsd.org. Any pointers? I'm using this with Sphinx on FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE if that matters. Thanks! -Modulok- ___

[no subject]

2013-01-15 Thread Modulok
List, When I boot the FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE install CD, everything boots as expected, except random letters appear in random colors. For example, a pink 'r' or a blue colon ":", etc. What could be causing this? -Modulok- _

Re: vidcontrol - How do I make these persist?

2012-11-26 Thread Modulok
In /etc/rc.conf and it works :) -Modulok- ___ 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"

vidcontrol - How do I make these persist?

2012-11-26 Thread Modulok
List, If I edit things via vidcontrol, e.g: `vidcontrol grey black` where do I put this to make it persist across reboots on all terminals? Cheers! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: 0

2012-10-16 Thread Modulok
1 On 10/15/12, abdou massnoue wrote: > > ___ > 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: pkgconf-0.8.9 conflicts...

2012-09-15 Thread Modulok
Thanks! Everything works now. I should have read UPDATING before posting. -Modulok- On 9/15/12, Mark Felder wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:33:09 -0500, wrote: > >> >> But of course I can't deinstall it because several hundred already >> installed >> requir

pkgconf-0.8.9 conflicts...

2012-09-15 Thread Modulok
gin11. pkgconf-0.8.9 conflicts with installed package(s): pkg-config-0.25_1 So, I try this:: pkg_delete pkg-config-0.25_1 But of course I can't deinstall it because several hundred already installed require it. Suggestions

Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

2012-07-21 Thread Modulok
worry about screwing things up. The last thing you want, is to get fired for trying to fix someone else's mistake. Tread carefully. Talk to the boss/owner/client about the pros, cons and risks before taking on such a project. Good luck with your nightmare. -Modulok- _

OT: Robotics or embedded or hardware programming... what is this called?

2012-06-20 Thread Modulok
programming? Robotics programming? Are there prefabricated, standard embedded boards and hardware specs that play together like PC parts do? In short, I don't even know where to start. Even general pointers to books/websites would be great. Once I know what it's called

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Modulok
This just keeps going on... ___ 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 this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Modulok
This thread has united the open source community into doing something useful and constructive. Thanks guys. You really showed 'em. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-02 Thread Modulok
lower depending on the situation, but nothing dramatic on either end. -Modulok- ___ 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"

Trouble installing py-sqlite3 port for python3.x

2012-03-31 Thread Modulok
n any python env var. I don't have any python config files overriding install locations or anything. My /etc/make.conf file contains no python variables. I can display UTF-8 characters on the console just fine e.g: $ pytho3.2 ... >>> chr(0xe4) 'ä' Suggest

Re: Removal of content from the mailing list

2012-02-10 Thread Modulok
On 2/9/12, yt wrote: > Who should I talk to about removing a thread from the mailing list? With the countless number of mirrors this list has, it's pretty much impossible. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-07 Thread Modulok
ne? If you're removing everything, can you just remove the directory and re-create it? e.g: cd .. rm -rf foo mkdir foo -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: software raid

2012-02-07 Thread Modulok
backup copy of the password somewhere! A word on graid3: For a multi-user file server, serving lots of small requests, graid3 is about the worst performance you can get due to its raid3 nature. Requests have to be served sequentially, using all disks in the array. Slow in my experience.

setuid directories - or other option?

2012-02-04 Thread Modulok
ctories. Sounds perfect! BUT I'll be moving to ZFS soon and from what I gather, it won't work there. I guess I could have a cron job run every minute and change offending permission bits, but that feels hacky. Any other ideas? -Modulok- ___ freebsd

Re: what are the top python books?

2012-01-25 Thread Modulok
tutor list.) Once you get into the flow of things, look at www.pythonchallenge.com it makes you use the language to solve problems in an interesting way. Then, once you have mad skills check out http://projecteuler.net/ Good luck! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-question

idletime in login.conf

2011-10-30 Thread Modulok
users idle for 20 minutes or more. I'm missing something. Other than an autologout shell variables, how do I force idle users to logout? Thanks. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

How to find out which version of PF a given box is using...

2011-09-21 Thread Modulok
List, Is there an easy way to find out what version of PF a given FreeBSD version is using? Currently I'm doing this: grep -iE '\bpf\b' /usr/src/UPDATING Just wondering if I'm missing something. I didn't see any '--ve

Re: copying hard drives

2011-06-10 Thread Modulok
;s still around. >> which I know dd can do - but I wonder if there is a way to do this so that >> clone drive can be smaller that the original. For this on FreeBSD, use dump(8) and restore(8) commands. Of course, they will only be suitable for FreeBSD, as they are file system (UFS) dep

Re: Long Day's Journey into

2011-06-09 Thread Modulok
it has been rock solid ever since. My only complaint is the proCurve has a very inaccurate internal clock, but that is easily remedied by configuring ntpd on it. So yeah, even solid state stuff can die! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: FreeBSD Python version

2011-05-25 Thread Modulok
7;' #!/usr/bin/env python2.7 '''I'll use python 2.7''' #!/usr/bin/env python3.2 '''I'll use python 3.2''' #!/usr/bin/env python '''I'll use whatever version `which python` returns.''' -M

Re: Filename containing French characters ?

2011-05-23 Thread Modulok
Short answer, use a glob pattern. Assume I have a file named 'à fichier.txt': ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 Modulok Modulok 12 May 23 09:01 ?? fichier.txt mv ?\ fichier.txt aFile.txt Long answer, for those who want to follow along and fix their terminal to display UTF-8, ke

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread Modulok
7;tbz' when using the 'j' flag.) find -E . -regex '.*\.txt$' -print0 | xargs -0 tar -cjf result.tbz As for pax, I thought tar could create pax archives too, via the --format pax option? Cheers Everyone! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-que

Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread Modulok
7; -print | tar -cjf result.tgz Thanks! -Modulok- ___ 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: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-27 Thread Modulok
>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Modulok wrote: >> > I don't know if this is a problem on FreeBSD... >> > >> > Process A requests memory. >> > Process A Stores a plaintext password in memory or other sensitive >> > data. Pr

Password theft from memory?

2011-04-24 Thread Modulok
emory, looking for ProcessA's previously stored password. Does anyone know if this is even possible on FreeBSD? Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Is it safe to run tcpdump?

2011-03-05 Thread Modulok
would be via the logging feature of the PF firewall. You can setup specific rules to capture tcpdump compatible logs and send them either to a log file or to a pseudo network interface (the pflog device) for live viewing. There's a chapter about this covered in Peter Hansteen's "

Re: GELI reliability

2011-02-25 Thread Modulok
ives. When done, run a diff on the copied file and the original (or at least a checksum) to see if it worked out. I'd do it for you and report back, but at the moment I don't have the hardware to spare. Let us know how it goes ;-) -Modulok- On 2/25/11, Terje Elde wrote: > Hi, >

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Modulok
So... how about those solid state drives... yup. -Modulok- On 2/13/11, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 07:38:01AM -0500, Jerry wrote: >> >> "Bloat" is a purely subjective term. What one user considers bloat >> could very well be a requirement for

Installing gnome2 problems...

2011-01-26 Thread Modulok
orked, but the build still failed. I ran gnomelogalyzer.sh as instructed, but it said the cause was unknown. Before I built anything, I updated my ports tree via 'portsnap fetch && portsnap update'. I'm on FreeBSD 8.1 RELEASE on amd64.

Re: The book of pf...

2011-01-19 Thread Modulok
On 1/19/11, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Modulok writes: > >> This book comes in two editions. The first was published in December >> 2007, the second, November, 2010. Does anyone have this? And if so >> would I be correct to get the first edition instead? I know Fr

Re: The book of pf...

2011-01-18 Thread Modulok
> No. The second edition also includes the syntax for FreeBSD 8.x.(It > also includes the old sytnax for OpenBSD as well as the new syntax) > > -- > chs, Thank you! That's what I needed to know. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: harddrive encryption

2011-01-17 Thread Modulok
The real danger, is loss or corruption of the decryption keys. Make backups! -Modulok- ___ 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"

The book of pf...

2011-01-17 Thread Modulok
be tacking a firewall project coming up and need to be well prepared. Suggested readings appreciated. Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: File Listing

2011-01-10 Thread Modulok
map /etc/apmd.conf /etc/auth.conf /etc/bluetooth /etc/bluetooth/hcsecd.conf /etc/bluetooth/hosts /etc/bluetooth/protocols There's also switches for how to handle symbolic links and staying on one file system, depth limits, file limits, etc. -Modulok- ___

Re: Is there a 'Y' (i.e. branch) version of a command pipe?

2011-01-09 Thread Modulok
On 1/8/11, Modulok wrote: > List, > > Is there a command that lets me send standard input to two different > places at the same time? (i.e. non-sequentially.) Think of it like a > pipe character, but with a 'Y' branch instead. Basically, I want to > record standard i

Is there a 'Y' (i.e. branch) version of a command pipe?

2011-01-08 Thread Modulok
her way of explaining it would be two write the same stdin to two named pipes and then have two different programs read from each pipe, getting the same output. I can probably write something in Python, but thought I'd ask first. Thanks! -Modulok- ___

Re: ZFS

2011-01-01 Thread Modulok
Probably. I think I've got like 10 of these on and off. -Modulok- On 1/1/11, Gabor Illo wrote: > Spam? > > 2010/12/6 > >> Dear Sir/Madam, >> >> Your email was unable reach the intended person that you were sending it >> to. >> For more informatio

Re: Terrible Clock Skew

2010-12-08 Thread Modulok
ot;100" > kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 > > Is there anything else I could do to debug this? I can't really blame > the hardware because I have these same boards/chips running in Linux > with no clock issues. In the man page for ntpd, you might look into "The huff-n

Broken port?

2010-11-29 Thread Modulok
List, I tried to install django with sqlite support from ports and got the error shown below. What do I do to fix this? Do I email a port maintainer or something? I used portsnap to update my ports collection before trying the install. I'm on 8.1-RELEASE amd64. Thanks! -Modulok- Error

Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-14 Thread Modulok
self heal and what not, still work? As I understand it, I can just treat a geli like a generic block device, right? Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Weird file system corruption or something else?

2010-10-24 Thread Modulok
orrupt. What's going on?! How do I fix this? Is there some mount option I missed? An mdconfig issue? A mount_ntfs bug? -Modulok- ___ 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"

dd to clone disks - new disk fails to boot.

2010-10-20 Thread Modulok
re some kind of partition (aka 'slice' in FreeBSD terms) table or CHS/LBA black magic going on? Any ideas? Thanks. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: (no subject)

2010-09-17 Thread Modulok
on the other end you have a SATA150 plug. This is news to me. I now have two on the way :) Thank you! -Modulok- ___ 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"

(no subject)

2010-09-16 Thread Modulok
that I can plug a few SATA drives into. Then I'll create a graid3 with them, or mess around with ZFS. Anyone using something worth a recommendation? Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Anybody can use webcam in skype in 8.1?

2010-07-18 Thread Modulok
I had a similar problem under linux the other day, if that helps. I ended up setting the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to modify how skype gets linked at runtime. In bash: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype Again that's on linux, so it's probably not relevant, or even if it is, the

Shaping torrent traffic?

2010-07-13 Thread Modulok
How do I catch torrent traffic with a pf.conf rule? It doesn't operate on any standard port numbers. Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, sen

Reconstruct meaningful data from tcpdumps?

2010-07-09 Thread Modulok
Is there a way to reconstruct network traffic from a tcpdump file? Or something similar? As in: analyze the dump file and attempt to re-construct files transfered though http, ftp, known messenger protocols, instant message conversations, http requests, web pages, and so forth? There's a bunch of

Re: VLANs is this right?

2010-07-05 Thread Modulok
y sense. On 7/5/10, David Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:16:19AM -0600, Modulok wrote: >> >> Criteria: >> - HostA must never directly talk to HostB. >> - Both hostA and hostB have an Internet connection. >> >> What I have to work with:

VLANs is this right?

2010-07-05 Thread Modulok
do more experimentation but I can't have down time until later tonight so I thought I'd ask in the mean time. Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: what is /usr/sbin/nmbd

2010-06-19 Thread Modulok
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and LanManager clients. It also participates in the browsing protocols which make up the Windows "Network Neighborhood" view. ..." -Modulok- On 6/19/10, Caleb Stein wrote: > I constantly get messages telling me

Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-15 Thread Modulok
e config files? Are there some sysctl's that would help this out or something. I'm almost ready to just buy a 'gaming' *gag* router which implements their own brand of QoS, but don't want to sink to that level if I don't have to. Help! -Modulok- _

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Modulok
BSD machine. If you're accessing it across a network you're never directly accessing the file system. There is always an intermediary between you and it; the daemon which handles file i/o requests. Notice: It handles your *requests*; you never actually access the underlying file system.

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Modulok
27; folder available in my '/mnt' directory. See 'mount_smbfs(8)' for more. Other options could involve setting up an SSH client/server on the two machines and use 'sftp' or 'scp' to transfer files, among others. -Modulok- On 5/6/10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: &

Broken port 'py-sqlite3'... or maybe something else?

2010-04-30 Thread Modulok
No SHA256 checksum recorded for python/Python-2.5.1.tgz. => No suitable checksum found for python/Python-2.5.1.tgz. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/py-sqlite3. What does it mean? And...how do I go about getting 'py-sqlite3' installed in light of it? -Modulok- __

Unit conversion program?

2010-04-28 Thread Modulok
ts? I could write one in python pretty easily, but just thought I'd check before re-inventing the wheel. Thanks. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Outdoor wireless - has anyone used Ubiquiti power stations?

2010-04-07 Thread Modulok
his all sound like a reasonable approach? I just thought I'd get a vote of confidence in my methods before I finally tackle this project and buy the equipment. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: SSH root login with keys only

2010-04-05 Thread Modulok
You should also consider posting your patch and related content to, 'freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org'. -Modulok- On 4/5/10, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: > On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:01:08 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >>

Re: theme

2010-04-05 Thread Modulok
them, depending on what the author of the said picture was using. -Modulok- On 4/5/10, tristan wrote: > In some FreeBSD pictures, i see a dock at the bottom. how do i get this? > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://

How to mark an interace as 'down' at boot time?

2010-03-28 Thread Modulok
in the dmesg output, but it's still up when the boot cycle completes. -Modulok- ___ 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"

Wireless access point rc.conf syntax in FreeBSD 8?

2010-03-21 Thread Modulok
n the handbook wireless section that I saw. Anyway, I want to run it as an access point, not a client. The ral driver supports this, but I'm not sure on the rc.conf synax for creating an access point out of it. Could anyone point to some access-point-like examples? Thanks

Re: Copying mirrored partitions - will this work?

2010-03-20 Thread Modulok
sure if it was a backward incompatible change, as I never went back to 6.2. Just something to be aware of. Sorry I can't be more helpful. Maybe someone else knows more. -Modulok- On 3/20/10, Mike Clarke wrote: > > I'm currently running 8.0-RELEASE and am considering experimenting with >

Re: Moving master.passwd file between servers... is this correct?

2010-03-11 Thread Modulok
Thanks guys, it worked! -Modulok- On 3/11/10, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/03/2010 05:41:10, Dan Nelson wrote: >> In the last episode (Mar 10), Modulok said: >>> I need to migrate a passwd file from an old 6.2 serve

Moving master.passwd file between servers... is this correct?

2010-03-10 Thread Modulok
asswd It seems to work, but is this correct? I'd hate to miss somethign before it goes online. Thanks guys! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

2010-02-05 Thread Modulok
Cable order is irrelevant. -Modulok- On 2/5/10, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Sunday 17 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> However, one of the really amazingly brilliant things about geom is >> that just about any disk / storage related thing can be a geom >> provider, and

Does geli metadata contain sensitive information?

2010-01-27 Thread Modulok
Does a geli metadata backup contain any sensitive information? Like... should apply the same precations as I do the key and password? Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Program to create/update Windows 'thumbs.db' files?

2010-01-02 Thread Modulok
pdate. Just thought there might be something already out there to do this. Thanks! Happy new year everyone. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

(no subject)

2009-12-23 Thread Modulok
List, Is there a software method (not a microwave oven) to destroy a CD-R? Something like: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/acd0? Obviously the above doesn't work, but the idea is there. Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-21 Thread Modulok
Just to clarify, when I say 'unused slices', I mean those of other operating systems I was no longer interested in having around, not as in 'marked as free space'. Thanks! -Modulok- On 12/21/09, Modulok wrote: >>> "As far as I know, "the class

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-21 Thread Modulok
ete some unused slices (not the one FreeBSD was one) and the master boot record remained unaltered. I tried the same with gpart and everything worked fine. I wish I would have know about gpart earlier though. -Modulok- On 12/20/09, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:40:48

Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-20 Thread Modulok
e top of the man page. Yes, it bit me today. Looking through the archives, apparently I'm not the only one. Thanks! -Modulok- ___ 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"

FreeBSD 8 USB stack - Thank you!

2009-12-13 Thread Modulok
I just installed FreeBSD 8. I'm not sure which developers had a hand in the new USB stack, but I appreciate the effort put forth. Thank you all! Finally, I can use my printer without having to hack the ulpt.c file. I'm so happy! :-

Re: Temporarily halt boot process to enter encryption keys?

2009-12-09 Thread Modulok
lse: sys.stderr.write("File, '%s' does not exist. Skipping...\n" % script) Hacky, perhaps buggy, but perhaps useful. Unless anyone has a better idea? With a little more refinement you could probably even convert your FreeBSD box into a sysV equivalent, making complex c

Re: recovering data from this disk

2009-12-04 Thread Modulok
You might try freesbie. It's not a fixit shell, it's a full FreeBSD on a live CD. I've had better luck with it in the past than the fixit shell. Worth a shot. -Modulok- On 12/4/09, Tom Worster wrote: > On 12/4/09 1:51 PM, "Henrik Hudson" wrote: > >> O

Re: Wester Digital 'deep recovery cycle' and gstripe?

2009-11-17 Thread Modulok
Correction, it would be a graid3 setup. Sorry. -Modulok- On 11/17/09, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Modulok wrote: > >> List, >> >> Has anyone used 'Wester Digital Caviar Black' disks in a gstripe? >> >> I'm buildi

Wester Digital 'deep recovery cycle' and gstripe?

2009-11-17 Thread Modulok
le' and is dropped from the array, and during that time another disks does the same the array is toast, right? Umm...what are the odds of this occurring? War stories? (The more I type this out, the more it's starting to sound like a bad idea.) Thoughts, ideas? -Modulok- __

Re: freebsd.org slow?

2009-11-14 Thread Modulok
Chris, Seems alright now, for me anyway. (Indeed, the ever-irritating "works for me" response. Though it seemed the only thing appropriate here. Sorry. :)~ -Modulok- On 11/14/09, Chris wrote: > Anyone else notice how slow freebsd.org

Re: CMS

2009-10-16 Thread Modulok
ple SSH connection cannot be beat. But maybe that's not what you had in mind :p -Modulok- ___ 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"

Tune USB latency...is that the right word?

2009-09-26 Thread Modulok
yway" sysctl or something? -Modulok- ___ 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"

Is it possible to setup a graid3 on root?

2009-09-25 Thread Modulok
Just wondering if it is possible to setup a striped root partition (graid3) and still be able to boot from it. Logically, it doesn't sound promising, but has anyone tried this? Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: internet access from FreeBSD

2009-09-22 Thread Modulok
cely from FreeBSD or do >> I need something to interface to it... I have no experience with this 'juno', so I can't help there. Perhaps others will have further advice. -Modulok- On 9/22/09, gs_stol...@juno.com wrote: > I have a copy of Greg Lehey's o

Is this a kernel memory leak or a process memory leak?

2009-09-22 Thread Modulok
it's a userland leak right? Anybody? -Modulok- ___ 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 there such thing as a 'soft checksum' tool?

2009-09-07 Thread Modulok
>> Modulok writes: >> > I'm not even sure such a tool exists, but it's worth asking: >> > >> > I'm looking for a pseudo-checksum tool for use with catalogging >> > images. For example, a strict checksum algorithm, like the sha >> &

Is there such thing as a 'soft checksum' tool?

2009-09-05 Thread Modulok
cksums. So the closer the checksums are, the more similar two given images are. Does anyone know of anything like this? -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

SANE configuration ... ideas?

2009-09-04 Thread Modulok
rk? I'm willing to read and tweak, but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to tweak anymore. Thanks! -Modulok- ___ 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"

SANE epson.conf vs. epson2.conf

2009-09-03 Thread Modulok
on2 backend." How did we know that? Thanks. -Modulok- ___ 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: Continuous backup of critical system files

2009-08-25 Thread Modulok
y, which consumes no real additional space. You can read all about it here: http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups.html Whatever you decide, best of luck! -Modulok- ___ 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: Managing encrypted disks

2009-08-14 Thread Modulok
[/snip] Steve, If there are no /dev/*.eli devices listed, then there are no geli providers attached. You can also check the output of the 'geli list' and 'geli status' commands. If they return nothing, no providers are attached, other

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: > upgrade 7.2

2009-08-06 Thread Modulok
[snip] > Once taken the time to set things up, they make you happy running for > a lifetime. :-) [/snip] It's nice to be able to go on vacation, without worrying about the servers back home craping out :) -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions)

2009-08-06 Thread Modulok
that could mean. For some things, I need a system which trusts me, the user, to make the right decisions. Knowing this, I must be willing to accept the consequences of my actions, should my choices prove to be incorrect. "If you prevent stupid people from doing stupid things, you prevent cleve

Re: How to find real CPU temperature?

2009-08-05 Thread Modulok
temperature readings when FreeBSD is running to > check whether the computer is over heating? If your mainboard supports it, and depending on your CPU, you might look into sysutils/mbmon, found in the ports collection. Aside from that, what does the following command o

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-04 Thread Modulok
As I understand it I would have to double the length of a hashed password for it to be as secure as an un-hashed one, as each pair of characters represent one byte. Aye? -Modulok- On 8/4/09, RW wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:20:50 -0800 > Mel Flynn wrote: > >> On Monday 03 Augus

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