Re: FreeBSD routing problem

> From: hrkesh sahu > Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:09:02 +0530 > To: "Julian H. Stacey" > Cc: Polytropon , > FreeBSD questions Hi, No idea why it was To: me. > Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Re: General questions regarding FreeBSD 10

Hi, Reference: > From: Nikolas Britton > Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:47:08 -0500 Nikolas Britton wrote: > General questions regarding FreeBSD 10: > > 1. Did virtualization containers (VPS) make it into FreeBSD 10? The > documentation I’ve read implies that you can have nested con

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

Hi, Good points in Brett & Michael's posts, but for brevity not copied. Best avoid having code written & reviewed just in USA as it would get less trust globaly, NSA is a known alien mega spy, & USA even coerces non USA citizens outside USA, eg http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/01/gary

Re: Unban my second address from the mailing list

David Demelier wrote: > Hi, > > A long time ago, my domain malikania.fr has been banned because of lot > bounces, now the server is working and running. > > I sometime send some PR directly from my server using this domain, thus > I would like to be unbanned (the mail wasn't sent and postfix was

Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted

Hi Greg & questions@ etc > That's massively out of date. Mike left Adelaide in 1998, and has > been working for Apple in Cupertino for about 10 years. OK deleted. > > Greg Lehey in Echunga +61 8 83888286 > > That's out of date too. I left Adelaide over 6 years ago. Up-to-date > information a

Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted

Hi, Reference: > From: Danny Beger > Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:30:57 +0930 Danny Beger wrote: > I have a small law firm in Adelaide and I am looking to engage someone to > build / purchase a new server to replace my current server which runs v6 > freebsd. > > Can you recommen

Re: Diskless question

Hi, Reference: > From: Bernt Hansson > Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:36:58 +0200 Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello list! > > I have a setup with a diskless machine and working, but I can not log in > as root on the diskless. How to proceed? Log in as non root & see what /var/log shows

Re: Fresh installation 9.1

> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:13:07 +0530, hrkesh sahu wrote: > > Hi All, > > after using freebsd for 10 to 20 mins, Key board is getting locked. Apart from Polytopon's good questions & observations, such as "Is that inside X?" I'd also add 1 more question: Is that A) a PS2 [or older] direct

Re: Help to secure my FreeBSD/Apache installation

Hi, Reference: > From: "Julian H. Stacey" > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:38:51 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Hi, Reference: > > From: Andy Wodfer > > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:11:27 +0200 > > An

Re: Help to secure my FreeBSD/Apache installation

Hi, Reference: > From: Andy Wodfer > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:11:27 +0200 Andy Wodfer wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I'm running a server on FreeBSD 8.1 STABLE (apache 2.2.16, mysql 5.1.50, To quote front page of http://www.freebsd.org: * Production: 9.1 * Legacy: 8.4 My

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 13:51:08 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > > El 05/07/2013 13:20, "Jens Jahnke" escribió: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 12:56:32 +0200 > > > CeDeROM wrote: > > > > > > C> Hey Raphael :-) Go to /usr/ports/editors/vim and make deinstall > >

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

Hi, Reference: > From: ASV > Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:10:02 +0200 [ I jhs@ reverted asv@'s top post to bottom post ] > > On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 01:47 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi, Reference: > > > From: ASV > > >

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

Hi, Reference: > From: ASV > Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:39:20 +0200 ASV wrote: > Thanks for your reply Polytropon, > > I'm using FreeBSD since few years already and I'm kind of aware of the > "dynamics" related to permissions, many of them are common to many > Unices. > I agree

Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0

me image: http://phk.freebsd.dk/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/ > So far, it's giving me a new appreciation for modern installers. > > Julian, you are listed in the SUPPORT.TXT file. Congratulations! Thanks Warren, Scarey - Twenty years - Wow ! Illustrious company in that file: Rod G, G

Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0

Warren Block wrote: > Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here: > http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/ > > emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdinstal directory, > but reports "no cdrom found". > > I mana

Re: Avoid sharing interrupts in FreeBSD under ESXi

"C. L. Martinez" wrote: > HI all, > > I have installed a FreeBSD 8.4 vm under an ESXi 5.1 U1 server. All > works ok, except for interrupt usage between mpt and nic interfaces: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org is for beginners questions for newbies, as this question is deeper, I suggest try asking o

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

> As you need max syntax checking from OCR, throw it at as many > different basic interpreters/ compilers as you can, & inspect where > each bleats, some error messages may be more & less usefull for > different errors. > > A friend of mine wrote a basic decades back, its in /usr/ports/lang/pbasic

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

Hi, Reference: > From: Chris Maness > Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:52:47 -0700 Chris Maness wrote: > Here is a link to the USNO article that the BASIC program originated from: > USNO171s.pdf > > Thanks, > Chris Maness As you need

Re: FreeBSD10: lock order reversal with portsnap extract

Hi, Reference: > From: Walter Hurry > Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 13:43:47 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: > I'm installing FreeBSD10 (head; snapshot from 30 May 2013) into a VM. > > One of the first things I do is a 'portsnap fetch extract'. As soon as > the extract starts it produ

Re: How can I unload/load modules that complied inside the kernel?

Hi, Reference: > From: Olivier Nicole > Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 17:54:59 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole wrote: > > [root@h-qa-033 ~]# uname -a > > FreeBSD h-qa-033 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0: Tue May 28 11:26:45 > > IDT 2013 root@h-qa-033:/u

Re: using ports or gems (easy_install)

On Tue, 28 May 2013 15:06:15 +0200 Albert Shih wrote: > Le 28/05/2013 ? 14:50:25+0700, Olivier Nicole a écrit > > Hi, > > > > > I would like to known how you manage your gem (ruby) or > > > easyinstall (python). Do you use ports ? or directly gems or > > > easyinstall ? or both ? > > > > As f

Re: a copy of ASL dump for acer aspire laptops models

Hi Xavier cc questions@ & acpi@ I wrote: > acpidump -dt produces 15,840 lines, > so I'll not append to list but private mail you. I put it here so others on acpi@ & questions@ can look too if they want. http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/acer/aspire/5741/ Cheers, Julian --

Re: a copy of ASL dump for acer aspire laptops models

Hi, Reference: > From: Xavier > Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 14:21:04 +0200 Xavier wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I need a copy of ACPI Source Language (ASL), '# acpidump-dt> > copy_model_laptop.asl' of any version of FreeBSD you have the option > ACPI always enabled and does not give any

Subversion load problem- "svnadmin: Dump stream contains a malformed header (with no ':')"

Hi all, I have problem loading a partial dump of one repository into a new repository. When I try to load a partial dump of the old repository, which paths also corrected, I've got the "Checksum mismatch" error for a file. When I try to replace the "Text-content-md5" field of the file on the dump

Re: List Spam Filtering

Bruce Cran wrote: > On 11/05/2013 02:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Good question. I don't know why. I wish all were, it would keep spam out. > > There have been some discussions about this in the past. > freebsd-questions doesn't require subscribing to avoid peo

Re: compatibility SCO (fwd)

Hi, cc questions@ was dropped so restoring Forwarded from: "Julian Stacey" http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/ --- Forwarded Message >From gri...@goldnet.it Sun May 12 09:15:13 2013 Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 09:12:53 +0200 From: grillo To: "Julian H. Stacey" Subject: Re: com

Re: compatibility SCO

grillo wrote: > I need use Microsoft Cobol Compiler and runtime developed for > Xenix/Unix system V SCO using NETBSD or FreeBSD, it is possible? have > binary compatibility ? environment compatibility ? > thank you A long time since I looked at this, but as no one else answered yet, hints to loo

Re: List Spam Filtering

> I'm curious how much spam you get through this list. > > Just counted, and I have about 2 Spams per week for the last month, > that's more than usual. Personaly I'm on ~ 47 freebsd lists or so my MH dirs + procmail filter boxes suggest, so when someone spams multiple lists with the same spam it

Re: List Spam Filtering

Hi, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" wrote: > On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > > If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: > > - List could silently discard such spam. > > - Postmaster@ (& webmaster@

Re: List Spam Filtering

Hi, > From: Erich Dollansky > Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 08:33:47 +0700 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > > > > If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: &g

Re: making photoalbums for web pages

Apologies my last post was multipart/mixed, (maybe my mouse skidded to some un-intended option). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. No quoted-pr

Re: making photoalbums for web pages

Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Friday, May 10, 2013 a las 10:25:06AM +0200, Matthias Fechner escribió: > > > Am 10.05.2013 09:41, schrieb Matthias Apitz: > > > clicking them) and the application puts them together, with thumbnails, > > > to a tree which just goes per SCP -rp to our webserver; > >

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

"Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: > > The subject line pretty much says it all. Additional to other ideas so far, You could also make a chroot, install normal bins from src, install all your ports, ^D to exit chroot, then do a compare & strip with eg: cd chroot ; find . -type f -exec cmpd -d {} / \;

List Spam Filtering

Hi questions@ ( spammer not cc'd ) Reference: > From: Aaron Seligman > Reply-to: aselig...@altitudedigitalpartners.com > Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 18:59:07 + (UTC) > Subject: Re: Display & Video Campaigns-Inventory Needed > Message-id: <1368039547.0568389241738...@

Re: ls(1), rm(1) - No such file or directory even though they are there.

Reference: > From: Michael Bird > Reply-to: Michael Bird > Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 10:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Michael Bird wrote: > > Hi List, > > There is a rather curious problem that I have, which I haven't encountered > before. > I make regular backups of my packages and pu

Re: Procmail Decoding Mime Messages

Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:07:35 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Is there a filter that one can run in procmail in which > > base64 encoded data go in and text comes out so one can allow > > procmailrc to do its work? Good question, I havent tried that yet, (but should), but

Re: Problem creating user account

Outback Dingo wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > "Herbert J. Skuhra" wrote: > > > Den 23.04.2013 13:17, skrev AMS_MDF_operations: > > > > LS, > > > > What is going ewrong? > > > > > >

Re: Problem creating user account

"Herbert J. Skuhra" wrote: > Den 23.04.2013 13:17, skrev AMS_MDF_operations: > > LS, > > What is going ewrong? > > > > Problem : Creating user account > > > > -bash-2.05b$ uname -a > > FreeBSD us-syslog01.dcn.versatel.net 4.9-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD > > 4.9-RELEASE-p10 #1: Thu Jun 24 10:04:37 GMT 200

Re: Hi BSD -

> > Since A.W.O.L bill is against that sort of thing I wonder why Lord > > Jesus is not working with all his might to do so. > > > > Is this emailing tongues? > > > Rod Don't feed troll quiet.rainbows@gmail.com Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich h

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST) wrote: > Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed > on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how > can this installation be done? In particular, is there a way to > install 9.1 so that it can be booted from th

Re: What is your favorite board for a micro system?

On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:53:27 +0100 Erik Nørgaard wrote: > Hi! > > What is your favorite mini/micro/nano/pico-itx platform for home > projects? > > I currently run a home server on an Intel mini-itx board but was > looking around for something fun to play with with the following > specs: > > -

Re: Grepping though a disk

Hi Polytropon & cc questions@ > Any suggestion is welcome! Ideas: A themed list: freebsd...@freebsd.org There's a bunch of fs tools in /usr/ports/sysutils/ My http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/slice/ slices large images such as tapes & disks (also the slice names would give n

Re: rm -R

Hi, Reference: > From: Jos Chrispijn > Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:44:22 +0100 > Message-id: <51323a76.2040...@webrz.net> Jos Chrispijn wrote: > > Teske, Devin: > > rm -R -- -S > > > > The "--" tells it "here's the end of the options, here come the > > file/directories" > >

Re: buildowrld fails in sendmail

Hi, Reference: > From: Robert Huff > Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:46:17 -0500 > Message-id: <20785.8617.401737.814...@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Robert Huff wrote: > > On a system running: > > FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Dec 30 12:52:09 EST 2012 amd64 > > "make b

Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs

> From: Anonymous > On topic... More off remit noise (**) Questions@ is for questions, Not an opinion dump. > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html > http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.1TODO (** wiki & web could benefit from greater synch., But www & wiki & doc teams will ha

Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$

Hi, Reference: > From: Warren Block > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:10:16 -0700 (MST) > Message-id: Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example, > > evince or some other PD

Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs

anonym...@foto.nl1.torservers.net wrote: > We, the users of FreeBSD, *do hereby challenge* the FreeBSD project Troll Detected ? - List remit requires a question. Poster gave no question, just criticised. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions - There are better add

Re: question about my new Dell 3010

On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 15:47:06 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > Rats:: xvidtune gave me > > "Video modes are not settable on this chip." > > how cheap can you get? no, the question is: what chip/video > card do I need that will get me [at least] 1920x1280? Unless you wish

Re: Stickers

"CONNOR KELLY (RIT Student)" wrote: > I am a student at Rochester Institute of Technology. I was wondering if > you could send any stickers or swag with the freebsd logo or something > similar to me. I would probably keep some for myself and pass the rest out > to my friends at my university. Th

Re: CTM status

Hi, Fbsd8 wrote: > With cvs having support ending next year and svn becoming the main work > horse, Just what is the status of CTM? I would think its more out dated > than cvs. You havent grasped what CTM is: A method of distributing trees man ctm:source code mirror prog

Re: Testing for false email freebsd.org

Hi, Reference: > From: Al Plant > Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:17:17 -1000 > Message-id: <5094547d.5030...@hdk5.net> > To: freebsd-t...@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions Al Plant wrote: > Test Read list mandates. Cross posting is deprecated Send test mail only to t...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2)

On 2012/10/14 at 01:59, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > > When setting up my 1TB harddisk for FreeBSD 9.0, I have some questions > about partioning: > I think of creating two partitions of 5Gb; one for the standard > FreeBSD file layour and a second one with a /backup slice on it. > Does this make sense?

Do I need to use sysutils/ataidle to avoid high LCC for my hard drive?

Hi list. I am currently running FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE on my laptop. And I am wondering if I still need to use sysutiles/ataidle to avoid high Load Cyle Count for my hard drive. Is there still a need to run this utility to avoid LCC under FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE? Thanks for your attention! ___

Re: What replaces csup?

Hi, Reference: > From: Paul Schmehl > Reply-to: Paul Schmehl > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:45:23 -0500 > Message-id: Paul Schmehl wrote: > Now that we're switching to svn, is there a utility analogous to csup for > fetching source? Is that utility available for 8.3?

Re: NFS Install

Hi Gardner Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:29:47 -0400, Gardner Bell wrote: > > What I'm wanting to do is build/installworld from my workstation to a > > remote machine but both have different /etc/src.conf and kernel > > configuration files. Is there a way to define seperate files so

Re: ftp2.ca.freebsd.org out of date?

Hi, Reference: > From: Pierre-Luc Drouin > Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:13:27 -0400 > Message-id: > Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > Hi, > > it seems that the ftp2.ca.freebsd.org mirror has not been updating since > August 3rd. At least this is the case for the files in > ftp://ftp

Re: Patch into kernel sources

Venkat Duvvuru wrote: > Does this procedure hold good for a device driver module's patch as well? Yes > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Venkat Duvvuru wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Could somebody please point me to a procedure

Re: Patch into kernel sources

Venkat Duvvuru wrote: > Hi, > Could somebody please point me to a procedure to apply a patch to the > sources? > I have a driver patch that I would like to commit. If you want to send from local mail client man send-pr If you want to send via web http://www.freebsd.org/sup

Re: Tangental And OT: Commercial Support For 'sudo'

Hi, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Please forgive the OTishness of this, but I'm hoping some of > my fellows in the large data center space may have a hint or > two here ... > > I am working with a firm that needs to run sudo in a variety of > OS environments. A few of these - noteably IBM AIX - do not pr

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

> > If you have a system you want to try you can also check out > > http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html. > > > That is a great resource for laptops, too bad it isn't mentioned in the > Handbook compatibility chapter. Suggestion: send-pr Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Lin

Re: start kernel

Hi, Reference: > From: "blank blank" > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:11:35 -0400 > Message-id: <20120821061135.210...@gmx.com> "blank blank" wrote: > i am beginning to question how computers work. > i am using darwin 10.0.0. > is there a place or way that i can get a thoroughly c

Re: Listing in http://www.ro.freebsd.org/gallery/pgallery.html

Hi, Reference: > From: Michael Bedin > Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:16:56 +0400 > Message-id: > Michael Bedin wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to ask you to remove link to 'niga.ru' web site from the > listing (in the subject). Now this domain does not belong me. This list i

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

> This is the reason software patents comprise such a blight on the world > of software development. Yes, agreed, & not just software. The european patent office system pressures examiners towards granting if they can't quickly find prove the application is already known. http://www.berklix.co

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

Hi Robert, cc questions@ cc postmaster@ (***) > What I am is an information systems professional with 45 years experience. Interesting reading that & your prior post. 'Edge of the track, & turn up the op. amps' has been an interesting technique for decades, I

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

Hi, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi, > > Reference: > >> From: Carsten Mattner > >> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:28:32 +0200 > >> Message-id: > >> > > > > Carst

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

Hi, Reference: > From: "Thomas Mueller" > Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:09:17 -0400 > Message-id: <53.21.06836.dac26...@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > from Ivan Ivanov : > > > Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it > > posi

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

Hi, Reference: > From: Carsten Mattner > Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:28:32 +0200 > Message-id: > Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Wojciech Puchar > wrote: > >>> As for reading anything else than internal firefox data it is not > >>> possible > >>> exce

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

Hi, Reference: > From: Carsten Mattner > Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:41:27 +0200 > Message-id: > Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Carsten Mattner wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:29 P

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Wojciech Puchar > wrote: > > the major difference between Hurd and FreeBSD is that FreeBSD actually work. > > > > > >> http://pastehtml.com/view/c3kw80dyq.html - Does anyone know if FreeBSD > >> core > >> developers left FreeBSD to work in G

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

Hi, Reference: > From: IamTrying > Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 05:47:06 -0700 (PDT) > Message-id: <1341406026965-5724143.p...@n5.nabble.com> IamTrying wrote: > http://pastehtml.com/view/c3kw80dyq.html - Does anyone know if FreeBSD core > developers left FreeBSD to work in Google? W

Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:12:36 +0100 RW wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:53:45 -0500 > Zane C. B-H. wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100 > > RW wrote: > > > > > > freebsd-update doesn't support development branches, you have > &g

Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100 RW wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:21:18 -0500 > Zane C. B-H. wrote: > > > Howdy! > > > > Any one have any idea what is going on below? > > > > [root@shiela]/root# uname -a > > FreeBSD shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net

Re: printing jpeg slides to a Postscript printer

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:15:36 +0200 Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > I have 10 jpeg slides (screen shoots) and I want to print them to a > Postscript printer (CUPS controlled), on each page 2 slides. I know > I could make some presentation from them or wrap them into a HTML > file, but I was

Re: Understanding XDM

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:19:54 +0200 Christian Graulund wrote: > The others have answered your questions concerning DM v. WM, but if you are finding XDM annoying to configure, you may possible wish to take a look at slim, x11/slim. ___ freebsd-questions

freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

Howdy! Any one have any idea what is going on below? [root@shiela]/root# uname -a FreeBSD shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 25 04:55:35 CST 2012 kits...@shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/sheila amd64 [root@shiela]/root# freebsd-update -r

Re: fsck_ufs running too often

> My suggestion: Set background_fsck="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and let > the system boot up that way. _If_ you have a faulty disk or other > data corruption, you'll notice this _before_ going multi-user and > maybe making things worse. Yes, it might take some time, but it's > time well invested in your

Re: Why Clang

Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:06:12PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > i already proposed (but not publically) to turn FreeBSD into > > commercial system. > > > > REALLY i would not see a problem to pay say 100$ per server licence. > > I would see a problem with that -- not bec

Re: A bash scripting question

CyberLeo Kitsana wrote Odhiambo Washington: > By the way, what's gammu, /usr/ports/comms/gammu presumably ( for mobile phone connection ) > and why is it in /usr/bin ? Pass. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

> Agreed. Wojciech Puchar is in my 'probable troll' file at this point, Here too, http://berklix.com/~jhs/dots/.procmailrc.lists Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with

Re: Why Clang

Hi Polytropon, cc questions@ (No CC Wojciech P. as my local filters drop text from him ) > To translate this to a programmer's job: > > You're being paid to write a program for a customer. You > deliver the program. That's what you are paid for. Still > the source code is yours (as _you_ are the

Re: Why Clang

Polytropon wrote: > I assume it's just an aspect of "still being too young" in > regards of missing the difference between freedom and > anarchy: the right to extend one's freedom is limited > as soon as it limits the freedom of others. Maybe another > aspect is the lack of discussion culture and t

Re: Why Clang

Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > If you cannot see this - i cannot help you any more. sorry. Your noise is no help. Use appropriate lists. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below no

Re: Why Clang

Sorry, my last header wrongly to Mark Felder, & could give the wrong impression. I would like Wojciech Puchar (not Mark F.) to stop banging on about 'GNU communist licence' etc. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above

Re: Why Clang

> GNU communist licence for C compiler is not bad at all (contrary to other ..^ ..^ > software). I & many others _Know_ what BSD & FSF licenses are. Don't wwant repeated nonsense about 'communism'. If you didn't subscribe http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

Hi Cordula, Good points you made. The sooner it's blocked the easier to block. *BSD, + *Linux, Solaris etc people could start contacting their local anti monopoly / anti free trade, government departments to give them time to look into the issues. If eg EU commision found it a monopolist con

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

Hi, Reference: > From: "C. P. Ghost" > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:51:46 +0200 > Message-id: > "C. P. Ghost" wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > > UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries > > http://cwonline.computerw

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

Hi Simon > Thanks Julian. The reason for freebsd-questions is because when I looked > thru isp, database, and performance, and few others, they had one or two > threads a month with barely much input. Yup, isp@ is quiet, some other lists too, doesn't necessarily mean there'snot good people listen

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

> Those only using questions@ _Please_ realise there are other lists. > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo > Read the remits of the other lists & subscribe &/or post those lists > that match your topic. PS All credit & thanks to a few highly skilled & informed people on questions@ wh

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

> Maybe I'm contacting wrong mailling list, I can't seem to get ahold of > ISP/hosting guys > on this list. Truly amazing that for a server OS, there is so little input > for something like > MySQL server. Perhaps everyone else is still using text files, does 10TPS, or > runs > linux, don't know

Re: FreeBSD 10/9: Lexar 64GB JumpDrive USB 2.0 isn't recognized anymore!

> I have a Lexar 64GB USB 2.0 JumpDrive which worked in its "pristine" or > "virgine" state very well. I used it yesterday, brand new, to fill it up > with data. Some 30GB data got stored, I shut down the system (FreeBSD > 10.0-CURRENT/amd64) and this morning, I put the USB drive out of the USB > p

Re: freebsd-update Not Recognizing Updated Custom Kernel for 9.0-RELEASE-p3

Resend as I lost cc questions@ by mistake Ryan Frederick wrote: > I have several FreeBSD 9 systems with custom compiled kernels. After > using freebsd-update to go from 9.0-RELEASE-p2 to 9.0-RELEASE-p3 this > morning I rebuilt the kernels. However after recompiling, installing, > and reboo

Re: USB 3.0 delay in 'detecting' attached drive

Waitman Gobble wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Waitman Gobble wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a new machine with 2 USB 3.0 ports and 2 USB 2.0 ports. When I > > plug > > > a USB 3.0 drive / cable i

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

Jerry wrote > It is posts like this that basically turn my stomach Never argue with a drunk. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, m

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

Too much hot air & preaching to the choir is counter productive & would die away after internal argument. Better be active Externaly. Defend our future by alerting governments there is an upcoming issue. (eg EU has mega fined MS before for monopoly abuse, EU etc could warn off MS if we alert gover

Re: how to allow by MAC

"Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Bill Yuan wrote: > > come on , someone help please, > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Bill Yuan wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > how to allow by MAC in ipfw > > >

Re: how to allow by MAC

Hi, Reference: > From: Bill Yuan > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:09:01 +0800 > Message-id: > Bill Yuan wrote: > come on , someone help please, > > > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Bill Yuan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > how to allow by MAC in ipfw > > > > currently i set th

Re: Question about FreeBSD for IA-64 software

Hi, Reference: > From: Denis Guzanov > Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 15:45:54 +0400 > Message-id: > Denis Guzanov wrote: > Dear FreeBSD Team, > > Firstly I would like to say you Big thanks for your really good job and the > best system for us, small IT staff. > > Second, I would

Re: prune ports tree?

Gary Aitken wrote: > Is it possible to specify that parts of the ports tree should never be used? Yes. Although as others pointed out it depend quite what you mean by that :-) Example setenv DUDS SomeEndPortToSkip_eg_ghostview One could also do setenv DUDS "`printenv DUDS` vietn

Re: How do I determine support for $xx?

Hi Devin There were some great tips in your last post. Would be great if they couldfo in FreeBSD handbook somewhere. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format:

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

grarpamp wrote: > Isn't there a lot of needless handwaving going on when the spec is > pretty clear that installing your own complete PKI tree will all > boil down to what is effectively a jumper on the motherboard? The hope for a jumper is insufficient. Cracking open laptops is no fun. It's not

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