Re: Reinstall without reformat

fully verify this logic, even though it would be a reasonable approach. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: Reinstall without reformat

On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:01:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: > >> Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk? > > > > Yes. The

Re: Reinstall without reformat

talls with > the shell and mounting the zpool to /mnt, would that work here too? Probably yes (never tried that myself). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: what kind of freeBSD to download for my pc?

Typo warning! On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 03:26:45 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:50:32 -0700 (PDT), cikitaluzza wrote: > > can i run exe files on freeBSD? > > Depends. VMX EXE files may work via the SimH emulator. For ^^^ > DOS EXE and "Windows"

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

s an improving understanding of what DRM does to their freedom). It will take some time to show significant effect. Let's hope people are going to get smarter than I assume. :-) > So what are we left with? Free software to replicate what Flash > does (at least) that does not have th

Re: what kind of freeBSD to download for my pc?

://www.freebsd.org/ and you _might_ also want to check out PC-BSD (might be perfect for what you want) and VirtualBSD (easy way to try it out without installing it). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: what kind of freeBSD to download for my pc?

ding on what non-OS software you're going to run on that machine). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

ander, go to /usr/ports, Meta-?, seach in "pkg-plist", search for text "librsvg" and examine the results with PF3. This method relies on approaches that might be wrong... :-) Note that my (locally installed) ports tree is not up to date anymore so you should consider performing

Re: Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso?

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:45:58 -0500, W. D. wrote: > Thanks, Polytropon. I couldn't get FrieSBIE to work. It's a rather old project, and as far as I know, it isn't being continued anymore. It should still support at least the CLI mode for most computers... (I have to admit that

Re: mounting a .iso image? ... missing man page

ectly, it actually matters, as you said. By the way, the manpage mentions mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -f cdimage.iso` /mnt as an interesting construction in the EXAMPLES section. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: mounting a .iso image? ... missing man page

s from the image, change whatever you want, and use mkisofs afterwards to rebuild the (new) image, in case you want to modify its content. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

t;src" distribution: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.2-RELEASE/src.txz -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: How do I ring a bell?

On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 21:09:44 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > On 07/10/2013 13:36, Polytropon wrote: > > > Is there any way to make a noise through the built in "bell" speaker > > > found on an IBM PC compatible server box? Writing 007 to the BIOS cout > > >

Re: How do I ring a bell?

it removed along with floppy drive connector, parallel port or power switch. > P.S. "cdcontrol -f /dev/mycdrom eject" is the best I've come up with so > far for getting attention. That's a really clever idea, never heared of that. It has the advantage of being perma

Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 08:08:42 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 05/10/2013 21:41, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 16:00:25 -0400, Eric Feldhusen wrote: > >> I see my /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC is a 9.2 kernel, so I should just > >> be able to do a >

Re: Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso?

t of my data. A good approach. If possible, try to obtain a 1:1 copy of the disk (or partition) and work with that. Check the mailing list archives for further inspiration. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

do. When kernel and world sources are in sync, a new kernel can always be installed in multi-user mode. To install world, you should drop to single-user mode to avoid interferences with a full-featured system running in the "background". This procedure (or parts of it) will also work when

Re: Failure to build FreeBSD 9.2

le. In addition, there's the suggestion to add the line debug.acpi.disabled="hostres" to /boot/loader.conf and reboot. Source: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/errata.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 21:49:18 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 4 October 2013, at 20:03, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:42:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: > >> > >> On 4 October 2013, at 19:08, Polytropon wrote: > >> > >>>

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:42:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 4 October 2013, at 19:08, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 18:58:52 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: > >> The exact sequence was: > >> > >> Step 1: freebsd-update from 9.1 to 9.2

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

7; 7. `make installworld' 8. `make delete-old' 9. `mergemaster'(you may wish to use -i, along with -U or -F). 10. `reboot' 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: gptid's in fstab while installing FreeBSD using ISO

only). PS. I've trimmed the CC list to the freebsd-questions@ list for my reply, hope that's okay. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: cause of reboot

before reboot, when the connection drops. > I once had a box where the RAM chips > would "sing" with a high-pitched whistle only during the 0300 periodic run. > It sounded just like the horizontal output on a television right before > destruction. :-) I have heared some

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:58:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. > Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:05:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > I also assume the zsh

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

d not be trivial, at least regarding the C shell, because lots of quoting and escaping would be needed; maybe zsh does not behave like a madman in this regards ("unmatched this, unmatched that, sytax error, cannot expand, missing argument, blah ..."). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Ge

Re: Voice Mail required QuickTime

if it's just a "stupid MP3 download" or something comparable. Everyone else on the planet can already play audio data via web pages without QT for decades. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

sh is sort of a ksh clone; I remember porting the zsh onto > my 286 in 1989. got a lot of csh-isms :) The Z shell combines nice interactive features of the C shell (to be correct: the tcsh) and the scripting features of sh and bash. It's considered one of the most powerful shells. S

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:21:04 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. > Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:23:27AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

. Is this what you're searching for? Or do you refer to command lines where "@:" would repeat the last command (started with ":")? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ f

Re: dangerously dedicated physical disks.

oting it. The old MBR approach (as well as dedicated) will probably only be needed in niche applications and exceptions. You can have all the advantages of "being easy stuff" known from dedicated layout by using the GPT tools, plus you gai

Re: history

similarly. Bash uses .profile as well as .bash_profile and .bash_login in a comparable manner. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: FreeBSD stuck during the boot process.

remember correctly, "safe mode" refers to the mode with ACPI disabled, right? In this case, it _could_ be an ACPI problem (a really wild guess, as you have provided no information about the system you are trying to boot FreeBSD on). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBS

Re: test if script called by cron

On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:28:17 -0400, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:05:04PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:26:59 +0100, Paul Macdonald wrote: > > > Is there a simple way of testing whether a given script was called via > > > cr

Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX --> TeXlive

On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:33:15 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:57:51AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:00:22 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > > Personally I don't think TeX is a good fit for the ports tree (because of > > >

Re: persistence in freeBSD

fied in the argument to -o and finally applying the -r or -w option. The -u flag is referenced in other sections of the manpage. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-question

Re: test if script called by cron

ed: #!/bin/sh /bin/date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" > /tmp/scriptrun # ... your script content here ... Of course you would have to manually remove that file after you have verified its existence and content. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD use

Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX --> TeXlive

s intact. :-) > To see which ports require (parts of) teTeX, use `pkg_info -Rx tetex` Plus `pkg_info -Rx teTeX` because of the way it is spelled. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebs

Re: howto kill x if x is running?

(as expected). I'm sure someone will present a much better, less dirtier approach to accomplish the requested task. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: mount: /dev/ada0p1: Device busy Busy with what?

se help to sort this please? Maybe a fsck is running on the disk device? Also check "mount -v" if the disk is really unmounted. Make sure any running fsck has been finished and try again. In worst case, manually initiate a file system check. Then try mounting the disk again. -- Po

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

he newfs_msdos tool. There is no need to deal with "Windows" for this task. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:13:11 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 09/12/13 15:51, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:39:26 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. > >> I need to initialize a usb memory

Re: cant mount CD

REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 > Sep 12 10:09:36 vm-9Current kernel: acd0: FAILURE - MODE_SELECT_BIG > ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x26 ascq=0x00 Proper cabling? Drive and media not covered with dust? ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: question

you want to coredump to a USB device, you need to configure this accordingly. You can find more information about this topic in the following manual pages: "man 2 sigaction", "man 8 crash", and "man 5 core". -- Polytropon Magde

Re: ufs recovery

recovery works, time does not matter. Success does. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

the _right_ tools here. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: lpd(8) sending email to the wrong address

probably use an alias for those specific cases (via /var/mail/aliases). Because sendmail and lpr should match archaic-wise... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: ufs recovery

loss (meanwhile cured!) brought me to this list, so I continue to spread my experience about recovery when needed. :-) Good luck! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync

/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c around line 330 (8-STABLE/i386 here). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Setup HP Laserjet 1120m over network with LPD

S test page as input, let it run through the filter, and send its output directly to the printer (with netcat if networked, with > to /dev/lpt or /dev/ulpt if local). If _that_ part is working, integrate it with the LPD subsystem or CUPS. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user si

Re: freebsd 9.2 via svn

lar approach with CVS to follow the -STABLE branch with a custom kernel and custom settings for building the system. If this makes me old, I should deserve several birthday parties per year. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: freebsd 9.2 via svn

I aim to follow > 9.2-R with security updates. 9.2-RELEASE hasn't been released yet. :-) http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/schedule.html If you don't use a custom kernel, why not use freebsd-update and follow the 9.2-RELEASE path with the security updates? -- Polytropon Ma

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

reeBSD 10-CUR tool to undelete the files, as there are some for M$? > > /usr/ports/sysutils/testdisk > > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk That one is also on my "famous list", and if I remember correctly, also part of the UBCD for "OS-less" use. :-) -- Polyt

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

e options. And local options, because you have to trust your online backup provider (except it's _yourself_ who provides and maintains the systems). > As always. Test restores > periodically. A backup that cannot be restored is _not_ a backup. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germa

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

those are using the free tools. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

using TSK. Note: Do _not_ do ANY writes to the card! Mount it -o ro if needed. Make an 1:1 copy (using "dd_rescue" from ports), work with that copy. Everything that slips through fat fingers could reduce the chance of a successful recovery session. I know it. ;-) -- Polytropon Mag

Re: Mouse Trails?

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 03:08:16 +0200, cpghost wrote: > On 08/17/13 18:14, Walter Hurry wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:31:26 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > >> If LXDE uses an ugly white mouse cursor, try changing it to black (the > >> normal color for mouse c

Re: Mouse Trails?

configuration, but if I remember correctly, LXDE does not offer this. Additional software like Compiz could help you here: There seems to be a plugin that adds a mouse trail. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:07:25 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > What keyboard / laptop has the key code '150' map to 'go to sleep' ? My Sun Type 7 USB keyboard has the "Copy" key at code 150... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

ich symbol is associated to which key (or key combination, if this creates a new unique key event). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

Thinkpads seem to live much longer (and therefore will probably many more years in productive use), compared to their crappy "competitors" on the laptop market. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: 9.2-RC1: Problem with Kernel

alking to disk devices, similarly as the acd interface for optical media has been trans- formed into "SCSI over ATA" (ex device atapicam). So the disk drive has not been recognized by the kernel, therefore: No soup for you (i. e., no boot device). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: 9.2-RC1: Problem with Kernel

rompt? If GENERIC boots and your kernel doesn't, there should be a significant difference regarding the config file's content. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: New to Free-BSD with questions.

this web page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html for the FAQ, and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html for The FreeBSD Handbook, but it might be unhandy for printing. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi en

Re: Setup HP Laserjet 1120m over network with LPD

m/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_m1120_mfp.html http://foo2xqx.rkkda.com/ I'm using a similar approach for a terrible Samsung color laserprinter (foo2qpdl-wrapper in my specific case) which I could easily integrate with the already mentioned CUPS, as well as the normal system's pri

Re: .sh script code to determine IPv4 or IPv6

ts of the library code). I think it should be relatively unproblematic to fetch the port and only use the subroutines "as is", even if it's just for educational purposes. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD u

Re: .sh script code to determine IPv4 or IPv6

Maybe from sysutils/bsdconfig in the ports collection? I have not checked if this specific subroutine file is part of the port... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: hardware monitor

healthd (system service), mbmon and xmbmon (in the ports collection). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Assign program call to a key

On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 14:43:14 + (UTC), jb wrote: > Polytropon edvax.de> writes: > > > > > Is there a way to assign a predefined program call to a key > > in X, _independently_ from the window manager or desktop > > environment in use? > > ... &g

Assign program call to a key

use of additional and "multimedia" keys on laptops that simply send key codes that can be assigned key names. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: xcdroast cannot locate cdda2wav

On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:36:37 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:37:38 +0200 > Polytropon articulated: > > > The cdda2wav program is part of the "cdrtools" port. > > Try updating that one. > > Been there, done that, doesn't work. I am consideri

Re: xcdroast cannot locate cdda2wav

ence, as cdda2wav is not part of this port, even though cdrtools is both defined as a build time and a runtime dependency... > I have not been able to locate "cdda2wav" on the system or in a > port. The cdda2wav program is part of the "cdrtools" port. Try updating that

Re: Unusual file: /bin/[

YOu can _always_ counter-check by building /usr/src/bin/test from source and compare the resulting binary. Both /bin/[ and /bin/test are usually installed as hardlinks (two file names for one / for _the same_ file), as seen in the corresponding Makefile: LINKS= ${BINDIR}/test ${BINDIR}/[

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:34:10 +0930, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 29/07/2013 08:23, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:23:38 +, Teske, Devin wrote: > >> In this case, sade is (or was) a direct by-product of the death > >> of sysinstall(8). It only exists in 9

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

ersion of FreeBSD. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:18:39 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: > > >> A very important question is if sysinstall's option "Install the FreeBSD > >

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

e partitions on the slices, it's even easier to determine _which_ 'a' partition (root partition) you are currently dealing with. And if you continue your installation scheme in further versions, you will be freed from remembering what OS version resides on what slice. You then simp

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

write protect" switch back... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

impossible? :-) > Returning ENOENT > or EACCES or ENOTDIR may be better ("No such directory", "Access denied" > or "Not a valid directory"). Depends on the applying definition of those errors. > The trouble is that it's tricky to test properly wi

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

kaboom! It's really surprising that a (comparable) high-level function could fail in that drastic way, but on the other hand, one would assume that there is a _reason_ for this behaviour. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Theft in the Clouds

is what the article refers to): http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448.pdf Source: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Creating freebsd usb boot

mstick.img will be the correct file which you can easily dd onto the USB stick. But maybe this will help you will the file you already have: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=30136 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD use

Re: hey some questions

eebsd.org/showthread.php?t=19940 Does this provide some help for you? If not, you might need to be less un-bro-like and instead more specific in regards of your problem description. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi enne

Re: Fresh installation 9.1

is working as expected, for example by testing it in a non-X session (text mode terminal). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Help to secure my FreeBSD/Apache installation

milar to one. It's comparable to the relation of the handbrake light in your car's dashboard vs. the real handbrake. Don't claim your handbrake light isn't working when in fact your handbrake is broken. :-) Bottom line: Directory correct, "folder" plain wrong. You

Re: LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 with xterm - still French accented characters are corrupted

pand DECTERM=off: Enable DECterm Locator support GNOME=off: GNOME desktop environment support LUIT=on: Use LUIT for locale convertion from/to UTF-8 PCRE=off: Use Perl Compatible Regular Expressions WCHAR=on: Enable wide-character s

Re: rsyslog

ectory thereof. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: UEFI Secure Boot

they have already gotten their fingers everywhere, this doesn't seem to happen all too soon... :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: install on external hdd

on. > My hdd has an input for an external power supply, and it is > already connected to a second usb port. Also check the USB cable. Sometimes a "partially defective" cable causes this kind of trouble. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi e

Re: install on external hdd

u try to attach a separate power supply to the disk? For USB 3, _all_ involved parts (disk, cable, ports, controller, OS) need to be in "USB 3 mode", else it probably won't work. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

make rmconfig first and then make install. And make sure /etc/make.conf does not contain any "offending" settings that might suggest you do not have or want X11. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: X client without X server

On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 18:07:11 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:47:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> [...] > >> Obviously xterm does not depend on xorg-server. > > > > But o

Re: X client without X server

libXaw-1.0.11,2 > libXft-2.3.1 > fontconfig-2.9.0,1 > expat-2.0.1_2 > freetype2-2.4.12_1 > pkgconf-0.9.2_1 > pcre-8.33 > libpthread-stubs-0.3_3 > > Obviously xterm does not depend on xorg-server. But one of its depe

Re: any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup

of the characters -, \, |, or / is displayed) before loader(8) is invoked. Booting will also be attempted at stage two, if the third stage cannot be loaded. It's always good to know where thine documentation is. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Hap

Re: any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup

set to -1 if you don't want user to be allowed to interrupt autoboot process and escape to the loader prompt, set to "NO" to disable autobooting I'm using autoboot_delay="1" to limit the time which the system is waiting before continuing

Re: ALT key problem with Virtual Box?

he reason. Several window managers are using Alt + left mouse key for a windowing operation (usually moving the window without requiring dragging it by the title bar). Check if you can "unconfigure" this setting in Gnome's window management preferences. -- Polytropon M

Re: question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune"

duce a different result? > root@psumc:/usr/local/tomcat5.5 # su -c 'killall -9 java' That command doesn't make sense. The prompt indicates that you are already root. The -c parameter for the su command is missing an argument, the class". See "man su" for details, n

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

d 750 /root > for a couple of months & see if any burnt fingers. What programs or daemons should attention be paid at, especially? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Retrieving a FreeBSD installation

uot; mistake and I won't make fun on you, pointing you to use your backups. Of course you always have the option to send your disk to a professional recovery company. This substitutes learning and trying yourself by impressive amounts of money. ;-) Good luck! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Ge

Re: logging during loader

On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:40:07 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > Polytropon writes: > > > > During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed > > > that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently > > > modern machine it goes by too f

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

mmarize the answer for your question: It's just the default. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

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