FreeBSD & SCSI LUN reservation (essentially an exclusive lock)

2012-10-07 Thread Jukka A. Ukkonen
Hello all, Is there any way for a process in user space to try to trigger a SCSI LUN reservation in FreeBSD? This would be a very useful thing to have when using a multi-port storage device which can be simultaneously connected to multiple systems. --jau

New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread alwin doss
Hi, Let me be honest at the outset, I have never used an operating system other than linux with enthusiasm. But something about Linux always troubled me "It's licensing", "such complex family of distributions which are so different from each other". Which is when I came across FreeBSD. I fell in

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:17 AM, alwin doss wrote: > Hi, > > Let me be honest at the outset, I have never used an operating system other > than linux with enthusiasm. > But something about Linux always troubled me "It's licensing", "such > complex family of distributions which are so different fr

Re: Xterm options for correct man page display?

2012-10-07 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Thomas Dickey wrote on Sat 6.Oct'12 at 7:32:00 -0400 ] > On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 07:31:07AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 10:45:52AM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > [ Ronald F. Guilmette wrote on Sat 6.Oct'12 at 2:25:04 -0700 ] > > > > > > > > > > > When I

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 12:47:26PM +0530, alwin doss wrote: > Which is when I came across FreeBSD. I fell in love with it, but yes I have > never used it yet, I have tried many times to install it, but the > installation process is really hard, I must say. > I really want to install it on my lapto

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Waitman Gobble wrote on Sun 7.Oct'12 at 0:38:30 -0700 ] > On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:17 AM, alwin doss wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Let me be honest at the outset, I have never used an operating system other > > than linux with enthusiasm. > > But something about Linux always troubled me "It's li

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Let me be honest at the outset, I have never used an operating system other > than linux with enthusiasm. > But something about Linux always troubled me "It's licensing", "such > complex family of distributions which are so different from each other". > Which is when I came across FreeBSD. I fel

Re: Xterm options for correct man page display?

2012-10-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 09:09:13AM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > [ Thomas Dickey wrote on Sat 6.Oct'12 at 7:32:00 -0400 ] > > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 07:31:07AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 10:45:52AM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > > [ Ronald F. Guilme

Re: compile/install Libreoffice Writer only

2012-10-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 05:11:50 + (UTC), jb wrote: > Hi, > is there a way to do that right now in ports (config, make options) ? > Or would that require separate source packaging per component ? I'm not aware that this is possible, as LibreOffice (like OpenOffice) is designed as an "integrated pac

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 12:47:26 +0530, alwin doss wrote: > But something about Linux always troubled me "It's licensing", "such > complex family of distributions which are so different from each other". A valid point. With UNIX basic knowledge, you can master nearly any "outdated" commercial UNIX, BSD

Re: compile/install Libreoffice Writer only

2012-10-07 Thread jb
Polytropon edvax.de> writes: > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 05:11:50 + (UTC), jb wrote: > > Hi, > > is there a way to do that right now in ports (config, make options) ? > > Or would that require separate source packaging per component ? > > I'm not aware that this is possible, as LibreOffice (like

Re: Virtualbox

2012-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 7 Oct 2012, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list! When I try to start a virtual os in virtualbox i get an error. kldload vboxdrv.ko kldload: can't load vboxdrv.ko: Exec format error Rebuilt VB and still this error 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jan 12 15:13:06 CET 2012 GENERIC amd6

Re: compile/install Libreoffice Writer only

2012-10-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 12:12:17 + (UTC), jb wrote: > Polytropon edvax.de> writes: > > > > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 05:11:50 + (UTC), jb wrote: > > > Hi, > > > is there a way to do that right now in ports (config, make options) ? > > > Or would that require separate source packaging per component

Re: compile/install Libreoffice Writer only

2012-10-07 Thread jb
Polytropon edvax.de> writes: > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 12:12:17 + (UTC), jb wrote: > > Polytropon edvax.de> writes: > > > > > > > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 05:11:50 + (UTC), jb wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > is there a way to do that right now in ports (config, make options) ? > > > > Or would th

dd zero on the wrong disk. ZFS over GELI on that disk, recover possible?

2012-10-07 Thread Stefano Rossi
Hello, I made a tremendous mistake with a "dd of=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada1" command. ada1 was the wrong disk. The command was interrupted after a few seconds (I only wanted to erase the partition table), and a "gpart create -s gpt ada1" was given before I realized my mistake. On ada1 there was a s

Building Ports: Is there a "make" equivalent for --batch ?

2012-10-07 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I am impatient by nature. Nowadays, whenever I use portinstall/portupgrade, I use the --batch option, so that I don't have to sit around at the console, waiting for and then accepting the default build options for a boatload of depended-upon ports for whatever I am actually trying to install or u

Re: Building Ports: Is there a "make" equivalent for --batch ?

2012-10-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:09:44 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Nowadays, whenever I use portinstall/portupgrade, I use the --batch > option, so that I don't have to sit around at the console, waiting > for and then accepting the default build options for a boatload of > depended-upon ports for wh

Re: Building Ports: Is there a "make" equivalent for --batch ?

2012-10-07 Thread jb
Ronald F. Guilmette tristatelogic.com> writes: > ... > However there's one instance where I don't know how to get this > functionality, i.e. the functionality provided by the --batch option. > ... There is no guarantee that either of those will work (try them separately): $ cat /etc/make.conf

Re: compile/install Libreoffice Writer only

2012-10-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:44:15 +, jb wrote: > Polytropon edvax.de> writes: > > >> On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 12:12:17 + (UTC), jb wrote: >> > Polytropon edvax.de> writes: >> > >> > >> > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 05:11:50 + (UTC), jb wrote: >> > > > Hi, >> > > > is there a way to do that right n

Re: Building Ports: Is there a "make" equivalent for --batch ?

2012-10-07 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <20121007234043.cadf5863.free...@edvax.de>, Polytropon wrote: >A workaround (and not directly the answer to your question) is >to process the config dialogs before starting the build: > > # make config-recursive > >Once set, the options won't be requested on a second run. Hey!

Re: compile/install Libreoffice Writer only

2012-10-07 Thread jb
Walter Hurry gmail.com> writes: > ... > Yes, but libreoffice-common is essentially the whole thing; libreoffice- > base, libreoffice-calc, libreoffice-draw, libreoffice-impress and > libreoffice-writer are (relatively) small front ends. > > To all intents and purposes, Polytropon is right. > .

Re: Virtualbox

2012-10-07 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:49 PM 10/6/2012, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list! When I try to start a virtual os in virtualbox i get an error. kldload vboxdrv.ko kldload: can't load vboxdrv.ko: Exec format error Rebuilt VB and still this error 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jan 12 15:13:06 CET 2012 GENERIC am

Re: Building Ports: Is there a "make" equivalent for --batch ?

2012-10-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:57:05 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <20121007234043.cadf5863.free...@edvax.de>, > Polytropon wrote: > > >A workaround (and not directly the answer to your question) is > >to process the config dialogs before starting the build: > > > > # make config

Re: Building Ports: Is there a "make" equivalent for --batch ?

2012-10-07 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <20121008012414.34fd6a65.free...@edvax.de>, Polytropon wrote: ... >> ># make config-recursive ... >This target (and several other useful ones) are listed >and explained in the manpage: "man 7 ports". :-) Hey! Thanks again. I didn't know about that man page either! P.S. I'm

Re: 8.3-R cannot mount non-BSD burned DVD

2012-10-07 Thread Jin Guojun
Here are two DVDs burned by MS Windows. DVD1 is Visual Studio 2008 distributed by MS in UDF FS. mount_udf cannot mount it and mount_cd9660 can mount it but see only a readme.txt. % cdcontrol info Starting track = 1, ending track = 1, TOC size = 18 bytes track start duration block length

aobut mongodb update

2012-10-07 Thread zhang dahai
hi~master! I noticed the mongodb of port version is 2.0.6 in freebsd , but the mongodb latest version is 2.2.why port not update to new version? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Building Ports: Is there a "make" equivalent for --batch ?

2012-10-07 Thread John Levine
>... Note that setting the BATCH environment variable to yes will answer >yes to any prompts during this process, removing the need for manual >intervention during the build process. > >(This was said with respect to upgrading ports via portupgrade.) Or you can use portmaster, which ru

DVD OPC errors with growisofs

2012-10-07 Thread Warren Block
I'm using growisofs to write DVDs of backup files. Some combinations of older drives and newer media give ":-( unable to PERFORM OPC: Input/output error". Can limiting write speed avoid these errors? And what ways are there to detect the fastest speed supported by both drive and media?

geforce 310m CUDA problem

2012-10-07 Thread Ashkan Rahmani
hi I'm really interesting to switch from Linux to FreeBSD for my personal use. Currently I'm using Archlinux on my Asus K52J notebook. Unfortunately (for me of course) it has geforce 310m cuda 1gb VGA, and it seems this VGA is not supported by FreeBSD. After installing FreeBSD/PC-BSD resolution i