Re: Commercial Licensing

2013-08-10 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On 10/08/13 03:41, Someth San wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in installing FreeBSD into a small form factor PC for > commercial use and was wondering whether there is a EULA in place for that > purpose. I would like to avoid the open source requirement of disclosing my > codes to a public comm

Re: texlive and package updating

2013-08-10 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On 09/08/13 18:40, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I've given up on all OS distribution-based TexLive drops. I install > texlive manually from their installer and then run tlmgr under > cron control nightly to keep it up-to-date. I do this on > FreeBSD (my primary dev and server platform) as well as all >

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-28 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:36:59AM +0200, Nikola Pavlović wrote: > I'm still a bit reluctant to run the ports tree update again, but I'll > ask on -ports@ for further assistance with that. > Actually, no need. I retried it and it worked without any problem. --

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-28 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:06:45AM -0700, Charles Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Jun 27, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Charles Swiger wrote: > >> If you haven't rebuilt the mirror already, running a full disk read scan > >> against both drives (ie, v

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-28 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:09:33PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Nikola Pavlović wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Last night during a massive (~1 year worth :| ) > > portsnap fetch > > > > the server went unresponsive and ssh

Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-26 Thread Nikola Pavlović
Hi, Last night during a massive (~1 year worth :| ) portsnap fetch the server went unresponsive and ssh eventually disconnected. I decided to leave it during the night, and, sure enough, the situation was the same in the morning, so I had to do a hard reset. It came back up, but one of the two

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:04:35PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:05:37 -0500, David Jackson wrote: > > > > Many of your issues are non-issues, as your suggestions were > > > > implemented in some form long ago. For exa

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-04 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 07:24:23PM +1030, David Walker wrote: > Nikola Pavlović nzp at riseup.net > > If you did it the normal way > > Please define normal. > > As per the way you do it? Surely that's not what you mean right? > > As per the handbook? > As pe

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-03 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 06:37:07AM +1030, David Walker wrote: > So I installed amd64 9.0 tonight and decided against installing "ports". > I'm at a point now where I'm thinking about adding it and I see sysinstall: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html > Looks easy. > > For some u

Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

2012-02-19 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 06:00:50PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 19/02/2012 17:49, Nikola Pavlović wrote: > > If it will feel you more confident that everything is OK, I too have -p3 > > reported from the kernel, but -p6 in newvers.sh. I remember a > > discussion shortl

Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

2012-02-19 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 05:17:59AM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Matthew Seaman > wrote: > > Here is the thing I alluded to under option (1).  The security patch for > > the unix domain socket problem came out in two chunks.  There was an > > original patch to f

Re: [OT] Build deps caching (was: How to prevent gam_server from running?)

2012-02-16 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 08:00:28AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 16/02/2012 02:44, Nikola Pavlović wrote: > > (Yes some of the stuff in that list can be > > weeded out with pkg_cutleaves but they end coming back as build > > dependencies of other stuff that I do need

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-15 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:57:38PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which > desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them seem > to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and > once this thing

Re: Using sendmail as a client with auth

2012-02-14 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 06:49:52AM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-02-13 17:35, Nikola Pavlović skrev: > > There are lightweight MTAs just for this purpose, > >I use mail/msmtp and it works great with multiple accounts. > >Usually, this is much simpler to set up than usi

Re: Using sendmail as a client with auth

2012-02-13 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 03:28:45PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 13/02/2012 15:08, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > Is this is OT then i'm sorry. > > > > Trying to get sendmail act as a mua, following this tutorial > > > > http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html > > > > Scroll down a bit to Usin

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-07 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:06:49PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 07:36:46PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > > However, from personal experience, I know that Larry Wall understands > > Object Oriented Programming, and Guido definitely doesn't get it. > > Obviously, othe

Re: OT: Slackware: Starting Servers at Boot

2012-02-02 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 01:21:41PM -0800, Waitman Gobble wrote: > On Feb 2, 2012 1:09 PM, "Chris Maness" wrote: > > > > > > After more searching it turns out that all that one needs to do is > > make the rc.bind executable in the rc.d directory. Wow, that is as > > straight forward as it comes. >

Re: Support Issue 164620

2012-01-31 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:28:25PM -0600, Morris Allen wrote: > > > To whom it may concern: > > > > My question is? So is this problem in the process of being looked > at? Or am I being directed to a different group in the BSD support staff? > > It's an automatic notice to let

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-10 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 03:56:39PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: > > And that's just the way it is now. Try replicating the wealth of > > information you get in various config files in FreeBSD in a GUI. Just > > how hard it is to open a simple text file in an editor and just fracking > > do what it

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-02 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 02:59:20PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: > > >> > > FreeBSD is very well documented! > > I guess a lot of people can't cope with how structured and professional it > > is. They are used to chaos, fear, uncertainty and doubt and feel > > comfortable that way. > > > > > My expe

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-02 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 03:32:17PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: > An OS should strive to be a better platform for many people, including > techies and non-techies. > > A good software design philosophy is that good software works out of the > box without configuration using reasonable defaults, bu

Re: FreeBSD on Amazon AWS EC2 for production servers?

2011-12-17 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:42:01PM -0500, firm...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > Amazon AWS offers a free tier service for the first year, for one > running instance of FreeBSD (and other OS's) It's a great place to > experiment for free if you don't have any spare hardware. I have > installed a few F

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-03 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:47:11PM -0400, Louis Marrero wrote: > > Here are some questions that can help my understanding: > > > 1. I know that Windows is an OS, and Linux/Unix as well as FreeBSD > are other Operating System. My very basic question is this: Is it even > possible to inst

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 02:00:37PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: > This is not a technical question. > > Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing > part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. You > could say that I'd like to judge Apple's moral cha