Re: Ports on Macbook

> >> Interesting! Suse comes to mind, but is suse linux still based in germany? >> >>> Same >>> thing applies to EULAs. I read a very interesting article on German iX >>> magazine recently wich was covering this. Don't have access to it >>> right

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009/3/12 Gilles : > Hello > > I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, > without their knowing it's from us. > > The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix > version, much less a command-line version (the download script will > run  on a non-X FreeBSD

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009/3/11 David Kelly : > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:20:18AM -0700, prad wrote: >> i've not paid much attention to licensing philosophy i the past, >> because for me it was always windoze vs the goodguys. >> >> however, recently i've become aware of there being a chasm within the >> goodguys in tha

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009/3/11 David Kelly : > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:20:18AM -0700, prad wrote: >> i've not paid much attention to licensing philosophy i the past, >> because for me it was always windoze vs the goodguys. >> >> however, recently i've become aware of there being a chasm within the >> goodguys in tha

Re: links vs real directories

2009/3/16 John Almberg : > > On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:22:13AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: >>> >>> I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the >>> same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation where >>

Re: grammer checker

2009/3/16 Bernt Hansson : > Aryeh M. Friedman skrev: >> I use editors/openoffice.org-3 and need to grammer check a text file but >> there seems to be no option (or plugin) for this in OoO and a search of >> the ports tree for "grammer" returned nothing either... ideas (I want to >> avoid wine+MS of

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009/3/18 Paul B. Mahol : > On 3/18/09, Gary Dunn wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 18:53 +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote: >>> On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan wrote: >>> > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: >>> > >>> >> Saifi Khan wrote: >>> >> > Hi all: >>> >> > >>> >> > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgrou

Re: Wine without X

2009/3/26 Robert Huff : > > Bill Moran writes: > >>  > I want to install wine, but without X on the system. >> >>  Why would you expect this to be possible?  The GUI is an integral >>  part of MS Windows ... I can't imagine how wine would work at all >>  without X installed -- which is probably why

Re: Wine without X

2009/3/28 Robert Huff : > > Mel Flynn writes: > >>  > Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I >>  >  can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible >>  >  for one reason oranother, place to download application source to? >> >>  Most systems I use or inherited use a

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009/3/31 Wojciech Puchar : > > IMHO this background fsck isn't good idea at all Why? Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009/3/31 manish jain : > BTW, a lot of people who posted replies thought I was not aware that a preen > is always executed at startup. When I said I wanted to force an fsck, I > meant 'fsck -fy'. As for background checks, they are - in my opinion - a > real nightmare. Even though I am just a lear

Re: installing freebsd 7.1 ( error mounting /dev/acd0 input/outputerror)

[lines broken in quote] 2009/3/31 ajeesh joseph : >  hello,I have tried the way how you suggested. But unfortunately iam getting > same error.today > i tried to install by plugging HDD as primary master and cdrom and primary > slave.I tried > to install.During install a new problem of /dev/ad0s1

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:00:18 +0530 manish jain wrote: > Having bgfsck enabled is like > inviting a dragon to dinner when this happens. 2009/3/31 RW : > If you've done a normal install, soft-updates aren't enabled on /, > so it will get foreground checked by default. > > If I were you I'd reboot i

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009/3/31 Oliver Fromme : > Chris Rees wrote: >  > 2009/3/31 Wojciech Puchar : >  > > >  > > IMHO this background fsck isn't good idea at all >  > >  > Why? > > Google "background fsck damage". > > I was bitten by it myself, and

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009/4/6 Bruce Cran : > On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:40:52 +0100 > Chris Rees wrote: > >> 2009/3/31 Oliver Fromme : >> > Chris Rees wrote: >> >  > 2009/3/31 Wojciech Puchar : >> >  > > >> >  > > IMHO this background fsck isn't

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

> > On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:12, Chris Rees wrote: > >> Can >> no-one can come up with a reply either quoting a mailing list or >> giving the circumstances when: >> >> a) Background fsck caused data CORRUPTION >> >> _and_ >> >> b) A for

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009/4/8 Wojciech Puchar : >>     I have successfully downloaded FreeBSD 6.4 Release linux & installed >> on my PC.  But it starts in DOS Mode. > > how you started FreeBSD in DOS mode? i would like to do so as i sometimes > need to run DOS programs, but i have to boot DOS or use slow dosbox. > > te

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

Quoting from earlier: 2009/4/8 Fernando Apesteguía : > On 4/8/09, Rajeev Sharma wrote: >> Sir, >>      I have successfully downloaded FreeBSD 6.4 Release linux & installed > > FreeBSD is _not_ linux ;) > >> on my PC.  But it starts in DOS Mode. > > aka "Console" mode. > >> >> I want to shift to G

Re: Driver Problem: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet

2009/4/9 Alexander Tarasov : > Hi, All! > > After installing FreeBSD 7.1 I've got problem with my network card. > > [root ~]# uname -a > FreeBSD  7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #1: Thu Apr  9 13:34:46 NOVST > 2009 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP  i386 > [root ~]# pciconf -lv > ... cut ... > no..

Re: Dump/Restore

2009/4/9 Daniels Vanags : > This is a source comp output, after dump/restore /dev is empty. I run > freesbie on target machine. > > -Original Message----- > From: Chris Rees [mailto:utis...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 11:56 AM > To: Daniels Vanag

Re: no USB mice detected on GA-MA74GM-S2

2009/4/9  : > On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:48:04 -0500, Robert Noland wrote >> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 21:08 +0200, Piotr Smyrak wrote: >> > >> > I recently upgraded my system to newer hardware with > motherboard >> > GIGABYTE GA-MA74GM-S2 Rev 1.0 with AMD 740G chipset (north > bridge) >> > and AMD SB700 (

Re: Dump/Restore

2009/4/9 Daniels Vanags : > Please Help! After dump-restore /dev, /proc, /usr/compat/linux/proc - is > empty, system fealure to boot. Please guide me, how to dump/restore > devfs. > > > >> df -h > > Filesystem                     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on > > /dev/mirror/gm0s1a    

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester : > Yuri wrote: >> I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things > > mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. > Yuri had already written ONE LINE below your quote: > I tried to use mkntfs from ports/ntfsprogs but it didn't finish after an

Re: The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application

2009/4/11 Manish Jain : > > Hi all, > > After weeks of fumbling and struggling, I have made my full transition from > Linux to FreeBSD, thanks in no mean measures to the assistance of this > forum. I've got my FreeBSD 7.1 x86 system set up exactly as I wanted it and > now I am looking to move one s

Re: questions about Fatal Trap 12

2009/4/9 Ray : > On Friday 03 April 2009 11:44:31 Ray wrote: >> Hello, >> I have received a kernel Trap 12 error several times now and am trying to >> figure it out. >> the error occurred today, and the previous time was about two weeks ago. >> last time I had to run fsck manually if that proves an

Re: Can I resume the perl upgrade?

2009/4/11 David Southwell : > On Friday 10 April 2009 11:43:33 kime...@gmail.com wrote: >> Paul Schmehl wrote: >> > --On Friday, April 10, 2009 11:17:00 -0500 Paul Schmehl >> > >> > wrote: >> >> According to /usr/ports/UPDATING, if you want to upgrade to perl5.10, >> >> you do >> >> the following:

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester : > Chris Rees wrote: >> >> 2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester : >>> >>> Yuri wrote: >>>> >>>> I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things >>> >>> mkntfs from sysutil

Re: sorta newb help compiling samba

2009/4/9 Gary Gatten : > Yup - tried samba3 and a couple others.  None of them liked a function about > current_time in krb5. > > What's up with the top posting thing?  You don't like the most recent stuff > at the top? > No, top posting is horrible! And frowned upon in this community http:

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009/4/12 Chris Whitehouse : > Hi all > > very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other > forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now > out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead and I'm in shock :(( > > Thanks > > Chris Tried the HP

Re: USB SD-card reader recognized, but not working, on 6.1

2009/4/10 : > Polytropon wrote: >> On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:47:23 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> > It's an SD card, not a "drive", so I had not expected it to be >> > partitioned; but yes, it is: >> > >> > $ ls -l /dev/da0* >> > crw-r-  1 root  operator    0, 244 Feb 14 15:09 /dev/da0 >

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009/4/13 Tsu-Fan Cheng : > Hi, >    correct me if I am wrong, but is it true that ntfsprogs is the > only port that comes with formating disk into NTFS system? because > days ago I also had this problem with my friend's extra USB 1T HD, I > had to use my windows laptop to do the job. thanks!! > >

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009/4/15 Odhiambo Washington : > Hello List, > > For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has > FreeBSD under the hood. No! It has Darwin under the hood, but uses the FreeBSD userland. > When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external > drive) to a Mac, it gets au

Re: How to "portinstall -P" packages that alter ther names via PKGNAMESUFFIX?

2009/4/15 Panagiotis Christias : > RW wrote: >> >> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:24:59 +0300 >> Panagiotis Christias wrote: >> >>> The setup works quite well and has saved us a lot of time and effort. >>> Currently we are looking for ways to automate as much as possible the >>> whole process. One of the

Re: Can't log-in anymore

2009/4/15 Ruel Luchavez : > Hey.. > > Thanks for your reply..lucky for me I have solve my problem...:-) > > > How did you solve it? It's always best to say what you did, in case someone stumbles on this thread using Google; even a link to somewhere explaining is better than nothing. > ...FreeBS

Re: hard drive performance

2009/4/15 Bruce Cran : > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:54:13 +0200 (CEST) > Alexander Best wrote: > >> hi there, >> >> i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the other >> one UDMA100. here are the dmesg entries: >> >> ad0: 238474MB at ata0-master SATA300 >> ad1: 157066MB at ata4-mas

No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

Pasted from subject: 2009/4/16 vijay kumar : > > SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY Please don't shout. Have you checked that / has sufficient space? Try root # fsck / --- root # df -h and post the result. Regards, Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally

Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009/4/16 Bruce Cran : > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:03:58 +0100 > Chris Rees wrote: > > 2009/4/16 vijay kumar : >>> >>> SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY > >> Please don't shout. > > fsfsck_ffs/dir.c:467:           pfatal("SORRY. NO SP

Re: passwd file transfer

2009/4/16 gahn : > > Hi all: > > we have a linux based system and it will be replaced with freebsd based > system. but i would like to reuse users' password. is there any better way to > do this? > > > You *could* use some fancy awk | sed stuff to get passwords from your existing file and stick

Re: boot manager vista

2009/4/17 Manolis Kiagias : > John Beukema wrote: >> I am having trouble with the freebsd boot manager on an >> ACER Aspire 4730Z laptop. >> >> I installed the latest version >> of FBSD on partition 3.  Partition 1 is a 10 G compressed >> partition with the Windows Vista Home system to install and

Re: [tobias.rehb...@web.de: Re: [OT] C programming question: reopen stdin]

2009/4/16 Tobias Rehbein : > s/Good/Could/ > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Tobias Rehbein > To: Mel Flynn > Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:03:52 +0200 > Subject: Re: [OT] C programming question: reopen stdin > Am Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:07:26PM +0200 schrieb Mel Flynn: >> On Tues

Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?

2009/4/17 Ltcddata : > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:22:08 +0100 > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:26:39AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote: >> > > I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring >> > > too

Re: write_dma error

2009/4/18 mac.tc : > hi, can anyone tell me what this message is related to? > > WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=62939519 > > drive/hardware failing? > i am seeing a lot of it lately on a particular disk where i have tried a few > different installs and don't always > get this prob

Re: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libcairo.so.2: Undefined symbol "pixman_region32_init"

2009/4/13 firm...@gmail.com : > Hi, > > After installing Freebsd 7.1 with this as my uname -a: > 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0 > > And then updating the ports, and doing the following: > > pkg_add -r xorg > pkg_add -r blackbox > pkg_add -r firefox3 > > I can start blackbox fine, but when

Re: basic

2009/5/6 giorgio novello : > Do you want obtain new market share? > > Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and  your OS will be a best > seller > > > > Regards > > Giorgio Novello > > Vb developer > > Italy But VB only works on one platform! Chris -- A: Because it messes up the

Re: Changing NIC

2009/5/8 Johan Hendriks : >>- FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE >> >>I am about the change the (working) nic of my FreeBSD server with a >>gigabit one. >>Logically I think it would be good to add the new nic first and test it >>and if it is working, just remove the old one (or leave it without cable). >>Is that t

Re: Help creating bpf0 device (bpf won't do it for me)

2009/5/8 D C : > Hello, > > I'm in the final stages of setting up a new wireless connection but have > been having problems getting bpf running.  For some reason, even though bpf > has been compiled into a new kernel, the system won't automatically create a > bpf0 device.  On boot, the system compl

Re: Disabling ssh timeouts?

2009/5/13 Wojciech Puchar : >> >> Read from remote host troutmask.apl.washington.edu: Connection reset by >> peer >> Connection to troutmask.apl.washington.edu closed. >> >> The only way I'v efound to complete a run of the GCC testsuite >> is to sit at the terminal and hit enter every so often.  Al

Re: How to move vi to /bin

> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:51:46PM +0530, manish jain wrote: >> I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in >> single-user mode. This sounds simple (and should be if all you have is >> a single partition), but there are problems. For starters, terminfo >> can't locate its data

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009/5/13 Mel Flynn : > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 11:34:43 Michael Powell wrote: > >> Kind of like how those coming over from a >> Linux environment all seem to want to change root's shell to bash, it >> serves no purpose except foot-shooting. > > - csh cannot redirect stderr seperately from stdout

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009/5/14 Chad Perrin : > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:38:30AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: >> 2009/5/13 Mel Flynn : >> > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 11:34:43 Michael Powell wrote: >> > >> >> Kind of like how those coming over from a >> >> Linux environm

Re: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009/5/14 Saifi Khan : > On Wed, 13 May 2009, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > >> -- >> From: "Saifi Khan" >> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:04 PM >> To: "Sean Cavanaugh" >> Cc: ; ; >> >> Subject: RE: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list >> >>

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009/5/14 Mel Flynn : > On Thursday 14 May 2009 12:38:30 Chris Rees wrote: >> 2009/5/13 Mel Flynn : >> > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 11:34:43 Michael Powell wrote: >> >> Kind of like how those coming over from a >> >> Linux environment all seem to want to ch

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009/5/24 Wojciech Puchar : >>    From the glossary (p. 630) of _The_Design_and_Implementation_of_the >> _FreeBSD_Operating_System_ by McKusick and Neville-Neil: >> >>        load average  A measure of CPU load on the system.  The load >> average >>                in FreeBSD is an average of the nu

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009/5/25 Wojciech Puchar : >>> first - says that it's measure of CPU load >>> then - "or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O" - which is NOT >>> measure of CPU load. >>> >> >> Er, what? Of course it is! >> > amount of disk I/O is a measure of CPU load? seems you are true expert ;) > Do

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009/5/25 Peter Boosten : > Chris Rees wrote: >> 2009/5/25 Wojciech Puchar : >>>>> first - says that it's measure of CPU load >>>>> then - "or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O" - which is NOT >>>>> measure of CPU lo

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009/5/25 Wojciech Puchar : > you are funny. > > Don't ever send me private messages like that. You are a troll who gives harmful and misleading advice. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: Wha

Re: Streaming server / YouTube

2009/5/26 Wojciech Puchar : >> >> So again, speaking before you research? > > again unnecessary comments. > Sorry, what? Do you really think: Wojciech wrote: > you mean videos from youtube are copyrighted? that was necessary? Stop making noise! >> >> It's in the terms of use >> http://www.yout

Re: dump through ssh problem

2009/5/27 Matiss : > Allright, false alarm.. > should've just tried to enter the password and not look at the > messages, lol > cheers, > Matt >  Quoting Matiss : Hey there, >  Here's a command that I use >  dump -0aunL -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh -p 182 m...@192.168.0.1 "dd > of=/home/matt/usb_hdd/mail

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009/5/23 Wojciech Puchar : >> >> I'm about to buy a netbook, which: >> - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) >> - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) >> - has a normal HDD not an SSD > > point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway in > order of

Re: Another uptime story

2009/5/27 Glen Barber : > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: >> Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds >> the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the >> actual uptime. I know this denies everything uptime stands for, >> let's call it acc

Re: Another uptime story

2009/5/27 Andrew Gould : > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> 2009/5/27 Glen Barber : >> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: >> >> Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds >> >> t

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >> 1.         Monthly sponsoring of around 50 to 100 USD > > add two zeroes to this values then maybe FreeBSD core team will be > interested. of course i can't speak of them, but i think so. > > if they would mention companies for 50$ then www.freebsd.org would be > unre

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >> Kian: This guy doesn't speak for the majority, so please ignore him. > > as usually - i speak for myself. and will keep it that way. > But the email was not addressed to you, nor was it asking your opinion. Or do you consider yourself a member of the FreeBSD Team? D

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009/5/27 Kurt Buff : > All, > > I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the > authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small > problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. > > I cd'ed into the > /usr/ports/%CATEGORY%/%PROGRAM%/work/%PROGRAM-VE

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009/5/26 Polytropon : > Jerry, > > please excuse my reply, but I think you're not right, and > unfair. Atleast in Germany, they let a "computer literate friend" do this, because they are not able to, not willing to, or just too lazy. :-) > -- > Polytropon > >From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy F

Re: turning [x]html files into .odt files.

2009/5/26 Gary Kline : > >        This may or may not be of interest to anybody who creates professional >        typeset-looking manuscripts.  I use vi as I have for 30 years simply >        because my fingers know it.  I can keep fingers on keyboard rather than >        switch back and forth to m

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

Er, I also need to learn that reply-all skill! This'll make for easy understanding in the Archives 2009/5/27 Kurt Buff : > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:48, Chris Rees wrote: >> 2009/5/27 Kurt Buff : >>> All, >>> >>> I've gotten a patch f

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >> >> One of your problems is that you type faster than you think. But the thing >> that really pisses me - YOU MAKE MONEY out of FreeBSD OS by offering >> hosting but every time someone on this lists says "hello" and wants to >> either learn or help with the development

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >>> add two zeroes to this values then maybe FreeBSD core team will be >>> interested. of course i can't speak of them, but i think so. >> >> No, any financial contributions are welcome. > > they request small logo/advert on main webpage. that's the difference. Do you

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >> >> It is NOT an opinion that you were rude in your reply, and it is NOT >> an opinion that it's not your place to advise on how much constitutes >> an 'acceptable' or 'sufficient' donation. >> >> You were just plain wrong in doing so, and you should either quietly >>

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : No, any financial contributions are welcome. >>> >>> they request small logo/advert on main webpage. that's the difference. >> >> >> Do you know who Boris is? > > checked a FreeBSD site - he is a listed as a developer. > > but how does it compare to what i said abou

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >>> exactly does. i just don't catch why he - while stopping using it >>> because of forum - still read and posts here. >>> >> >> None of your concern: this is just what everybody is writing about. >> Whether someone is using FreeBSD or not, and reading here or not,

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >>> "mainstream", or because i have opinion at all, i just respond normally. >> >> Wojtek - I also think you have the capacity to help and you often do. But >> don't pretend to be speaking for the FreeBSD team because you are doing > > reread my posts. i didn't speak for

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >> thread is a PERFECT example there of, but there are many, many, many >> threads that got COMPLETELY derailed because someone said the smallest >> little thing that annoyed someone else.  GROW UP PEOPLE FFS. > > no matter what you think and what your opinion is, you wi

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009/5/28 Olivier Nicole : >> > How could I nicely and securely connect from the script on the web >> > server to the file server, in order to edit the quota? It should be >> use rsh and .rhosts :) > > I do that already, not really what I call secure ;) As I put up a new > machine, I'd prefer somet

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009/5/28 Wojciech Puchar : >> rsh and ssh are so similar in use there's really no point in using rsh >> at all any more. > > there is a point. Just try to think why instead of simply repeating a phrase > "ssh is secure, rsh is not, don't use it". > rlogin has several serious security problems:

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009/5/28 Wojciech Puchar : >>> anyway, i reread the original "sponsoring" offer and i think i understand >>> well. so - if FreeBSD team like to accept donations that way, my 100$ is >>> still waiting :) >> >> I am afraid you still do not understand it. This sponsorship offer was NOT >> directed to

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009/5/27 Jerry : > On Wed, 27 May 2009 17:09:05 +0100 > Chris Rees wrote: > >>Seriously, why give up on something because it takes an hour or two >>out of your day, and carry on the ~seven minute >>reboot-to-'Windows'-cycle out of laziness? Sounds counter-p

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009/5/28 Wojciech Puchar : >> Due to these serious problems rlogin was rarely used across untrusted >> networks > > Good you finally pointed out the most important thing > > "rlogin/rsh is insecure across untrusted network" > > This is QUITE a difference between this and "rsh is insecure. period"

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009/5/28 Wojciech Puchar : >> >> Actually he said: >> >> > href=http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/12268152.html> >> What we ask for in return for our sponsorships is a short mentioning >> on the site somewhere with a link to our website. > > so if you believe it m

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009/5/28 Polytropon : > On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:04:43 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: >> Well, I can transfer 25MB/s between hosts on the LAN without my CPU ever >> breaking 10% CPU usage.  I'm of the opinion that most people don't need to >> optimize for CPU in such cases when the security payoffs ar

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009/5/29 Wojciech Puchar : > Hello all ,  I want to install a  Mail Server with  Webmail, > > as i can't find the first post of that post i will answer the question what > i see on top. > > > What i use is: > > sendmail - in base system+procmail from ports. procmail is mainly used to > st

Re: What is this forum for?

2009/5/28 Wojciech Puchar : > >> These are interoperability questions. Nobody here is asking Windows >> support questions. > > example - "do you know how to shrink windows partition from 250 to 50 gigs > without losing data" > > Yes he wanted this 200GB for FreeBSD, but that question has NOTHING to

Re: 7-2 from scratch install , but no sound

2009/5/29 Frank Bonnet : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello > > I have freshly install a HPXW4200 ( i386 ) but > sound system does not work > > I have gnome installed and all the above services are running > > moused_enable="YES" > nfs_client_enable="YES" > sshd_enable="YES

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009/5/29 Wojciech Puchar : >>> >>> What i use is: >>> >>> sendmail - in base system+procmail from ports. procmail is mainly used to >>> store messages in maildir format. >>> spamassassin as antispam, someone already pointed that dspam is faster i >>> must check it. Anyway properly configured spama

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009/5/29 Wojciech Puchar : >> The EU has acted against two companies (Microsoft and Intel) who have used >> illegal business methods to protect and extend their monopolies and >> suppress >> competition. > > This is just the occasion to get another tax by UE clerks. As Microsoft and > Intel just p

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009/5/28 Kirk Strauser : > On Thursday 28 May 2009 02:34:02 pm Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> And yes - i do log as root by "insecure" rsh and telnet. > > OK, I'm now promoting you to "batshit insane".  Seriously, there's no excuse > for running telnet - even in a "secure" (ha!) environment - when so

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009/5/29 Wojciech Puchar : >>> itself, and how much of stupid-written PHP programs >>> >> >> I don't think PHP itself is buggy, in fact I think badly written C >> programs are responsible for far more lossage. > > It all depends who write programs. > Yes... but that has nothing to do with PHP. P

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009/5/29 Wojciech Puchar : >> Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >>> Even 15 seconds of thinking is enough to understand that logging >>> to other user and then su - gives completely no extra security. >> >> I don't buy this, given that root's login name is well known :) > > if someone can intercept the p

Re: system reboot because of hdd

2009/5/29 claudiu vasadi : > Hello ppl. > > > Straight to business. > > FreeBSD 7.1-stable > > 2 hdd. 1 is ad2 and the other is ad6. ad2 is the BSD hdd, and ad6 is just > for data (movies, music, etc). ad2 is a 80GB Samsung P-ata133 and ad6 is a > WD 250GB S-ata2. > > While running a process that w

Re: Deinstall software

2009/5/31 Polytropon : > On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:15 -0400, Glen Barber > wrote: >> For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'?  (Not >> arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) > > This depends on your file system layout, Glen. If you put > everything into one pa

Re: FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro

2009/5/31 John Nielsen : > I'm looking for advice and/or pointers. I have an Intel-based MacBook Pro > and I would like to use a USB thumb drive to be able to boot FreeBSD on > it. Some questions: > > 1) Is this even possible? I've read that you _can_ boot Mac OS X from a > USB hard drive on a new

Re: Waiting for a process to die

2009/5/31 Kelly Jones : > How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like: > > waitpid 1234&&(echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC DONE" kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) > > I'm sure this is trivial, but I can't find a way to do it. > > I wrote a Perl script that checks every second if

Re: kernel compile problem

2009/5/31 Rodrigo Vilanova : > > Hi there, > > >  I want to use FreeBSD 7.2 as a simple firewall and VPN at home. I’ve a > dedicated computer to this. > > >  I’m trying to compile my FreeBSD 7.2 Kernel on my computer and I having > the following problem: > > > [...] > > /usr/src/sys/modules/svr4/..

Re: Waiting for a process to die

2009/5/31 Wojciech Puchar : > >> How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like: >> >> waitpid 1234&&(echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC DONE" >> kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) > > if i understand you correctly: > > your_program parameters & > bg_process_number=$! > > ...something

Re: http://localhost/phpmyadmin

On 18 May 2010 16:53, TERRY ELLENDER wrote: > How to I free Port > 80 on my computer.  I am trying to use XAMPP.  It all loads OK and I get the > start screen but when I press start a message appears syaing Busy and Program > NOT responding appears above the XAMPP Box.  When I do a port check it s

Re: Advertising

On 30 May 2010 15:41, Alexander Friedman wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Alexander Friedman and I'm interested in buying advertisement on > your blog. > > I'm currently interested in buying banners and text links. > > Please provide me with all available sizes and options. > *Everything* you need

Re: bash instead of csh (completely)

Why would you want to do that? On 4 Jun 2010 19:57, "Stefan Miklosovic" wrote: Hi list, title says it, i would like completely remove csh and install bash instead. As far I know, csh is build in system, could I remove it manually and install bash (of course, in reverse order :D) Are there such

Re: Booting Xserve on 8.0

Perhaps you need to install Boot Camp. The booting procedure is EFI, maybe that's playing havoc. On 5 Jun 2010 03:37, "Chris" wrote: I have two new Xserves (last years units, 2.8 quad cores). After fighting with OSX for two months, I decided to see if I could install FreeBSD since that is what w

Re: Booting Xserve on 8.0

On 6 June 2010 12:09, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote: > >> >>>  Thanks for the response. >> >> That would be a great solution, I read that Apple doesn't permit >> it to be installed on the XServe. That comes from an Apple article >> in their support pages dat

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