Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 04:48 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > Let's hope people are going to get smarter than I assume. :-) It's new, not even 100 years old. Within our lifetimes people likely become more stupid, but yes, it will take some generations and people will get smarter. __

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

2013-10-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 16:50 -0700, cikitaluzza wrote: > can i run exe files on freeBSD? The raw answer is, no, you can't. > it spoils fast or not?this question comes from fastest ever spoil OS > windows which always spoil in a week seven times i think with things > like errors or dll and many thi

Re: Adoble Flash troubles on 9.2-RELEASE

2013-10-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 11:52 +0200, David Demelier wrote: > I don't like much chrome but I'll give a try to see. +1 It's not a browser I like. Since I'm using my computer for audio production my FreeBSD isn't maintained, I need to use Linux, so I don't know if Chrome is available for FreeBSD. When

Re: Adoble Flash troubles on 9.2-RELEASE

2013-10-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
If you really need to visit sites that need Adobe Flash, you perhaps should use the google-chrome browser. For some websites with flash content, we don't need flash anymore, just modern HTML5 capable web browsers. For *nix there never will be a current version for flashplayer again. __

Re: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)

2013-10-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 19:14 +0300, Jarmo Hurri wrote: > I would like to switch from Linux to FreeBSD, but am puzzled by the > timeliness of the ports. In particular, I use a drawing program called > asymptote quite heavily in my work. From the ports page I noticed that > the ports version is approx

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 20:00 -0400, Robert Simmons wrote: > Any contribution from a company like Verisign needs to be carefully > scrutinized. No it has to be turned down flat. Huge companies from the USA at all events are untrustworthy. The only trustworthy companies are such companies: "I have b

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 10:53 -0700, Robison, Dave wrote: > All this bike shedding and crosstalk has produced far more pointless > email than all the spam I've gotten from this list in the last month. I don't know if those mails where pointless, but there were much mails and I only read two or three

Re: detecting keyboard layout during boot

2013-05-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 09:35 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > is there some way to detect the actual keyboard layout > automagically? I suspect it's impossible to request what keyboard is used, since some Linux installers ask the user to type some keys, after that auto-detection does work. Perhaps yo

Re: X breaks sound

2013-05-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 21:20 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Briefly, the sound works fine until X starts. > As soon as X starts, sound doesn't work until a reboot. Assumed pulseaudio should be installed, this likely is the culprit, if so, remove it. Hth, Ralf _

Re: Bootloader/Replace GRUB

2013-05-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
This one is tricky, but it does work. I've got two SATA HDDs, Linux names are sda and sdb. /dev/sda1 is ufs including my FreeBSD and /dev/sdb1 is ntfs including the Windows XP install, there are many other installs, all of them are Linux distros. To install XP on /dev/sdb1 I had to disconnect /dev/

Re: Bootloader/Replace GRUB

2013-05-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 12:41 -0400, Louis Ciotti wrote: > Hello, > > I replaced a Linux partition on my laptop with FreeBSD. Now it will not > but giving me an GRUB error. I assume I have to remove/replace GRUB, as I > will want to dual boot this with a windows partition. > > So being the FreeBS

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 12:52 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > su does not "work" it sayes sorry. Is the user in a group that does fulfil special permissions? Regarding to Google results, the group for FreeBSD is "wheel". ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 12:52 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > su does not "work" it sayes sorry. polkit:*:562:root,$USER ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 10:18 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > I have set up a diskless machine with 8.3-stable and i as a user can log > in, but when I try to log in as root it won't work. How to resolv that > issue. I have tried with and without password but the computer said no. Do you want to st

Re: Flash?

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 21:37 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > That's an issue with Firefox. Search the list. There is a setting you have > to change in Firefox in order to avoid that problem. Perhaps the answer is somewhere in the thread "[Solved] Youtube & Flash Videos broken?", but OTOH, Flas

Re: Flash?

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 19:24 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > What is wrong? It's wrong to consume crap that needs proprietary software, that isn't available for *nix, resp. it's smarter to use an OS that fit to the individual needs of the user. FreeBSD and Linux aren't a good choice, if you want to c

[slightly OT] Hi BSD -

2013-04-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 18:13 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > On 04/07/13 15:34, Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: > > Hi BSD - > > > > I know on my websites that more worrisome than someone caught reading > > my poetry as their own is that they have told something is mine that > > is not. > > > > I was th

Re: seeking mailing list manager(s)

2013-04-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 07:53 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > (Yes - I know there's a list owner's address. > I send mail there. > Nothing happens. I am chosing to believe this is a technical > problem, perhaps part of the same problem about which I wish to > complain.) > > Hello: >

Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 07:44 -0400, Jerry wrote: > You hear FreeBSD users who claim > that they never use Flash, which in itself is an interesting > statement. > If it doesn't work, then obviously you cannot take advantage of it. I > suspect at least 50% of them are liars. The rest are more than lik

Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 06:21 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:57:47 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf articulated: > > > On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > > > > http:/

Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg > > Firefox 20.0 Arch Linux x86_64 can't play this video too. Neither flash, > nor gnash installed. Perh

Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg Firefox 20.0 Arch Linux x86_64 can't play this video too. Neither flash, nor gnash installed. Perhaps it's a video with a commercial, before the video can be watched? Wicked! > http://www.yout

Don't replay to spam

2013-03-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
The original "trying freeBSD 9.1 [...]" mail is spam, since the original message had a "signature" about face lifting or something like that. Take a look at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-March/249992.html Once you visited the page from the link in the signature, you ev

Re: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1

2013-03-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 16:59 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote: > I tried google search but w and who are not good search terms. Indeed, it for sure isn't easy, but did you try with quotes and other options? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=freebsd+%22who+command%22 I don't know if there is a solution, but you're at

EU Regulation and gvfs

2013-03-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
cross-posting this information, hopefully you understand why I'm doing this. Regards, Ralf [1] From: Ralf Mardorf To: linux-audio-user Subject: [solved] External USB 2 HD for real-time recording Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:43:57 +0100 On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 18:12 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The

Re: About freebsd

2013-03-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 21:44 -0400, Bujinkan Ninpo wrote: > Hello I was thinking about buying a new laptop I was looking at the dell > Inspiron 15 3521 and I was wanting to order a cd copy of freebsd 9.1 and I > was wondering how it would work running a dual boot win8 w/ freebsd 9.1 > Thank you f

Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:00 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list, > because people are not required to subscribe to post. That makes sense and does explain why my last mail came th

OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: > Please Cc responses to the mailing list I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing lists nowadays it's common to reply to the list only. Most MUA nowadays provide an option to automatically repl

Re: linux program with kernel module

2013-03-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 15:03 +, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:42:41PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf typed: > > On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 21:43 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote: > > > Can it run linux programs that have their own (linux) kernel module? > > > If

Re: linux program with kernel module

2013-03-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 21:43 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote: > Can it run linux programs that have their own (linux) kernel module? > If yes, how can I install such program, and how can I load the kernel module? > > (If I know correctly nvidia drivers have their own kernel modules, and > FreeBSD can >

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 12:25 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > Booting the same Windows install alternately in a VM and then on real > hardware may trigger the "Genuine Advantage" annoyance. This is true, but for some exceptional cases perhaps untrue. I wasn't aware about this possibility, but it does

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 09:05 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk, > but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use > partitions on a disk that any other partitions are being used by > anything else, including FreeBSD i

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 14:31 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote: > On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:14:05 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 13:51 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote: > > > As an addon to other answers, you can install VirtualBox, create a > > > min

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 13:51 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote: > As an addon to other answers, you can install VirtualBox, create a > minimal hard disk with MBR boot menu that points to the WindowsXP > partition. This way you don't need to restart in WinXP. The same can > be done from WinXP side, a minim

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > "Partition Magic" I would avoid to use proprietary software, ntfs, fat16 and fat32 are full supported by Linux gparted, available for free as in beer at http://partedmagic.com as a live media. Perhaps you need to defragment the Windows partiti

Re: rm -R

2013-03-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 16:50 +0100, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > I made a folder called -S; > > how can I remove that again? > > did a rm -R '-S;' but that doesn't work (...). rm -R "-S\;" rm -R ?S? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ certificate error

2013-03-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 09:08 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > When my browser access wiki.freebsd.org > I get certificate error message. > > Who should I notify about this problem? No error here, with Firefox [1] Arch Linux. Regards, Ralf [1] $ firefox -version Mozilla Firefox 19.0 ___

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 13:13 +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Is there a file .mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini? If so it should list > which profile to use. Just change it to the one you want and it > should > just work. > > I'm using an older version so don't know how the latest works Good point C

OT: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 11:39 +0100, CeDeROM wrote: > Agree, it contains more information than the second one which is > picture-flash based and I cannot see ~80% of its content :-) And the biggest evil is, that those web pages hide important things and they don't add a site map. I can't find the

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forwarded Message From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:52:34 +0100 On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 00:47 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The best websites are made by people using brai

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 00:16 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > Even though I don't like "Flash" especially because it > has become what animated GIFs have been used for in the > past - replacement for HTML, nagging, stealing focus, > aggressive advertising with sound and so on - it perfectly > works with O

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 23:26 +0100, CeDeROM wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > Firefox is my preferred browser, but it has some disadvantages compared > > to other browsers. > > Give a try to Chromium :-) I have been using Opera for lo

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 23:00 +0100, CeDeROM wrote: > Hey Ronald, are you sure there is no corruption on the disk? Have you > preformatted your new drive? I had disks that lost data if used with > no pre-format stage. Have you tried forcing fsck? Sometimes when my > machine crash there is a silent co

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:52 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > The profile should be available by 'firefox -ProfileManager' [1], OTOH > > I'm booted to Ubuntu Precise and the ProfileManager doesn't start, for

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The profile should be available by 'firefox -ProfileManager' [1], OTOH > I'm booted to Ubuntu Precise and the ProfileManager doesn't start, for > Arch Linux I used two profiles, one shared with another Linux a

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
The profile should be available by 'firefox -ProfileManager' [1], OTOH I'm booted to Ubuntu Precise and the ProfileManager doesn't start, for Arch Linux I used two profiles, one shared with another Linux and after a while I couldn't use the shared profiles anymore, but the ProfileManger still start

Evolution

2013-02-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Does Evolution support maildir? 2.32.1 seems to support mbox only. Regards, Ralf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@f

[solved] How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?

2013-01-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
It were > 20 directories/files with a wrong owner. ___ 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: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?

2013-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I don't use space in filenames, I just wanted to ensure, that file names with spaces will be handled partly correctly. At the moment I'm not working intensively. Every once in a while I take a look at a directory and compare it with the backups. If there's something wrong, I manually run chow

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

2013-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I'm surprised, there's no /bin/sh for the backup: # ls -ld /bin/sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 142952 Dec 23 18:38 /bin/sh # ls -ld /usr/TMP4DIFF/bin/sh ls: /usr/TMP4DIFF/bin/sh: No such file or directory This is an error in reasoning :D. I compared the original /bin, with a restore from

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

2013-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:58:18 +0100, wrote: mtree I was confused, since the existing files only provide directories. Ok, I guess I understand, I can let mtree generate new files using the backup. I anyway need to take care about files that are missing by the backup. Thank you. -- Sent fr

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

2013-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I suspect it's less effort to use Thunar and instead of scrolling, as I did before (when I missed some wrong owners), to switch sorting by owner between ascending and descending, to ensure not to miss a bad owner again. I'm surprised, there's no /bin/sh for the backup: /bin # find /usr/TMP4

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

2013-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:44:55 +0100, Erich Dollansky wrote: It cannot get worse. His experience will show also others how robust FreeBSD is in case of failures. Indeed. Linux users ask me why I play with FreeBSD. I already could make a list with drawbacks and advantages of both OS. Some of m

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

2013-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 10:08 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new installation. Perhaps true, but if such a simple mistake can't be fixed, what happens when somebody makes a big mistake? Perhaps more people stay with Linux than other *NIX, regardin

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

2013-01-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 22:28 -1000, parv wrote: > in message , > wrote Ralf Mardorf thusly... > > > > Hi :) > > > > I hope it's ok, when I open a new thread for this issue. > > First I need to know what files have a bad owner. > > > > I'm

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

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:19:08 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:15:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:04:21 +0100, Joshua Isom wrote: On 1/28/2013 8:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:41:34 +0100, Joshua Isom wrote: On 1/28/2013 7

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

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:15:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:04:21 +0100, Joshua Isom wrote: On 1/28/2013 8:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:41:34 +0100, Joshua Isom wrote: On 1/28/2013 7:56 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Still not perfect, I guess I need

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

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:04:21 +0100, Joshua Isom wrote: On 1/28/2013 8:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:41:34 +0100, Joshua Isom wrote: On 1/28/2013 7:56 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Still not perfect, I guess I need something similar to ls -RAl for some directories :S and I

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

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:41:34 +0100, Joshua Isom wrote: On 1/28/2013 7:56 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Still not perfect, I guess I need something similar to ls -RAl for some directories :S and I didn't test what awk will do with names including a space. Try `find /dir -ls`. You can pipe it

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

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:21:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The output of "freebsd-update IDS >> outfile_28Jan2013.ids" is useless for this purpose. I now will do it like that: root@freebsd:/mnt/dump/tmp # bzcat ../dump-9.1-RELEASE-20130123_193142-usr_f.dump | restore rf -

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

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
The output of "freebsd-update IDS >> outfile_28Jan2013.ids" is useless for this purpose. I now will do it like that: root@freebsd:/mnt/dump/tmp # bzcat ../dump-9.1-RELEASE-20130123_193142-usr_f.dump | restore rf - unfortunately it happened: /mnt/dump: write failed, file system is full wri

Re: sh & export

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:55:02 +0100, Fbsd8 wrote: The env command does not show them. Does set or printenv show them? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

[solved] Suspend caused trouble

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 14:43 -0700, Warren Block wrote: # fsck -tufs -y Thank you, it wasn't that easy, but a hint into the right direction. $ cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass /dev/ad4s1b noneswapsw

Suspend caused trouble

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) today I tried suspend for the first time. While I was off I had an idea, how to fix an issue for my install. When I was home again, I wanted to start FreeBSD, but now I've got an additional problem. It always starts with the GRUB menu and what ever I do, it ends in single user mode, with "

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

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) I hope it's ok, when I open a new thread for this issue. First I need to know what files have a bad owner. I'm running # freebsd-update IDS >> outfile_28Jan2013.ids perhaps this will give some useful output, regarding to a wrong owner for files from world. It's still running. I still

Re: Usage of "restore"

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Another issue. # bunzip2 < dump-9.1-RELEASE-20130123_193142-usr_f.dump | restore -t -f - does work, but the output doesn't show the owner and I want to get some output I can use with mtree, to fix a broken owner for some files. Regards, Ralf PS: "man restore" doesn't tell me, that I missed

Re: Usage of "restore"

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:54:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote: The answer is in "man restore". :-) No it isn't ;). I did read it. This was a Wald'n'Bäume situation. Even if I would have add a .bz2, I would have missed it, since on Linux I .tar.bz backups and it's more automated to extract a .tar.foo.

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:37:25 +0100, Polytropon wrote: It's rather untypical to check out _only_ kernel sources without the "top level" content. For the update from 8.x to 9.1 I even didn't check out the kernel source, this is something I did much later ;). I simply followed the FreeBSD ins

Usage of "restore"

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) I don't understand how to use the restore command. root@freebsd:/mnt/dump # restore -v -t dump-9.1-RELEASE-20130123_193142-usr_f.dump Verify tape and initialize maps /dev/sa0: No such file or directory root@freebsd:/mnt/dump # restore -v -t -f dump-9.1-RELEASE-20130123_193142-usr_f.d

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 23:57 -0500, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:24:06AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 19:24 -0500, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > > > You can use mtree against the spec files in /etc/mtree/ to check for and > > >

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 10:51 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:36:36 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > > # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing yo

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 19:24 -0500, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > You can use mtree against the spec files in /etc/mtree/ to check for and > fix incorrect permissions and owners on base system files. It won't help > with /usr/local, but at least you can get the base straight. > > As root, from the root

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 01:46 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:36:36 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > > # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source > > > tree

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > If you only will have to handle a few ports, using the "bare > > ports method" (make) is probably the easiest way (in case > > everything else stays definitely consistent). What could become inconsistent without upgrading or downgrading? I d

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:38:38 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:15:09 +0100 > > "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > > > Is there a command to deinstall and reinstall al

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 01:36 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > # cd /usr/ports/misc/mc && make install clean > # uname -r > 8.3-RELEASE > # freebsd-update -r 9.1-RELEASE upgrade > # freebsd-update install > # shutdown -r now > > # freebsd-update install > # c

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). > # 2. `make buildworld' > # 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). > # 4. `make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (

Re: who am i logged in as

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:01:46 +0100, Fbsd8 wrote: I know there is a command that will give me the name of the account I am logged in on. But I can not recall the name of this command. What is the name of this command? As user run $ id uid=1000(rocketmouse) gid=1000(rocketmouse) groups=100

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:28:47 +0100, Erich Dollansky wrote: I think that installing it in multi-user mode without other users having things running, will work in 99.% of the cases. In his special case, it will work 100% as only the permissions should et changed. I think so, but I asked, be

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Good morning, if I run 'make deinstall reinstall' for a port, it doesn't ask a single question, at least not for dbus. # ls -l /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 377744 Jan 18 22:44 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon # cd /usr/ports/devel/dbus ; make deinstall reinstall

Good news for snd_hdspe ADAT sync slave

2013-01-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, special thanks to John Rigg :), he mentioned sync. Thank you very much! In general the driver should use master for sync as default, since the default is slave, it's good for my needs, because my ADA8000 is an elCheapo ADAT device, the RME card should be able to be the better sync slav

Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:24:06 +0100, Carl Johnson wrote: /dev/ada0s8 /u01ext2fs ro,noauto 00 I've got 2 ext3 "partitions" mounted. /dev/ada0s8 /mnt/dump ext2fs rw 0 0 /dev/ada0s9 /mnt/archlinux ext2fs rw

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 08:49 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:22:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:51:55 +0100, Joshua Isom wrote: > > > Sorry if my original command ended up breaking your system > > > > Don't worry, I run

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 08:48 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:15:28 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: > > Ignore /proc, unmount it even. You don't need it on FreeBSD and > > shouldn't expect it to be there. > > As far as I know, Gnome (or at least GDM) _requires_ it to > be able to show

Re: ADAT does work, but often is interrupted by noise - Was: FreeBSD and snd_hdspe last-ditch attempt

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
s, not the outputs. Regards, Ralf [1] --- Forwarded message --- From: "Ralf Mardorf" To: "Jack devel" Subject: [Jack-Devel] Jack1 on FreeBSD Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:20:20 +0100 Hi :) I'm testing audio on FreeBSD. It can't compare to Linux, but it's anywa

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:51:55 +0100, Joshua Isom wrote: Sorry if my original command ended up breaking your system Don't worry, I run dump to backup it, but I'll try to fix it without restoring it from the backup. -- Technology doesn't necessarily make you smarter http://lists.alioth.debian

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
It still does list directories in /home :(. This file definitively only is in /home: $ grep find_ find_1000.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root rocketmouse 81920 Jan 25 20:52 find_1000.txt $ ls -ld find_1000.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root rocketmouse 513434 Jan 25 21:14 find_1000.txt Others seemin

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:12:15 +0100, Polytropon wrote: find / -exec ls -l {} \; | grep -v "/home" | grep "rocketmouse" -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 32736 Dec 23 18:38 ssh-agent -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 32736 Dec 23 18:38 /usr/bin/ssh-agent ^C A lot of stuff from /tmp is show

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:26:23 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: There anyway is an issue, it doesn't show the pass, I checked this with $ ls -lR /home/ | grep -v "/home" after running $ ls -lR / | grep -v "/home" | grep "rocketmouse" IOW I get tons of files

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:04:14 +0100, Polytropon wrote: % ls -lR / | grep -v "/home" | grep "rocketmouse" It's better I umount at least Arch Linux. # cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass /dev/ad4s1b noneswap

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thank you all :) everything is ok now. I don't mark the thread as solved, since I still didn't set up Evolution. On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:33:46 +0100, Polytropon wrote: $ ls -l `which su` -r-sr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 16880 Dec 23 18:38 /usr/bin/su Erm... that looks horribly wrong. The

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Erich :) On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:25:07 +0100, Erich Dollansky wrote: What happens on a normal TTY? Ctrl + Alt + F2 > So, you can switch to them. Can you try a su here? Ctrl + Alt + F* will open a ttyv* I can log in as root, but if I log in as user, I can't run su successfully. Der

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) after running '# /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -d /etc /etc/master.passwd' (FWIW there were no messages) I can now log in to a user X session by GDM. The user can't become root using Xfce Terminal Emulator or by ttyv1 (Ctrl + Alt + F2). This was possible before I switched the uid. Before the s

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 08:03 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > You should have been reading my advice about changing the > UID:GID in detail. :-) I deleted it by accident from the until now _not_ shared mails, IOW I deleted it from the FreeBSD mails only and missed it, when having a brief look at the mail

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thank you Kevin, thank you Erich, On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 21:10 -0500, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > The correct way to edit the password file is with the "vipw" > command. When you are done with your changes it rewrites the password > file AND rebuilds the password database. > > I'm guessing you have

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi all, hi Joshua, On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:10 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: > find / -uid 1001 -exec chown 1000 '{}' \; > find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000 '{}' \; I made one mistake, when I run "find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000 '{}' \;" for the fist time, I did it without the ":". Later I run it

Again: Security updates of individual porst

2013-01-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Oops, the security update issue isn't solved. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/248511.html # /usr/local/sbin/portaudit -Fda Database created: Thu Jan 24 15:50:04 CET 2013 Affected package: chromium-24.0.1312.52 Type of problem: chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Re: Fwd: Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I was surpriesed, when Evolution from Linux had no permissions anymore to access the mail folder, after drwxrwx--- rocketmouse wheel was stable for FreeBSD I wasn't aware, that even between Linux only, the folders for mount points share the same permissions, once the partition is mounted, si

Re: OSS and ALSA

2013-01-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:20:51 +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hi Ralf, the idea was to only comment out BUILD_DEPENDS+= ${LOCALBASE}/lib/oss/include/sys/soundcard.h:${PORTSDIR}/audio/oss not the whole OSS4 block ;) But Ma Should I build it again? IMO it isn't needed, since OSS does

Re: OSS and ALSA

2013-01-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
The audacious-plugins on my system were build with NOTIFY, OSS4 and PULSE disabled, anything else was enabled. # cd /usr/ports/multimedia/audacious-plugins ; make deinstall ===> Deinstalling for multimedia/audacious-plugins ===> Deinstalling audacious-plugins-3.3.3 pkg_delete: file '/usr/loc

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