Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

On 03/04/2012 12:27 AM, jb wrote: But ..., the charm disappeared when I (intentionally ?) pulled ethernet plug and started update manager ... Classic example of fallacious reasoning. update manager needs the internet to access the updates ___ freeb

Re: port to package amd64 to i386

On 03/05/2012 12:42 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: Build the port on amd64 and install it on i386 as a package. Is it possible? Pointers? Handholding? How-to? http://filipenf.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/cross-compiling-for-x86-in-freebsd-64-bit/ ___ f

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

On 03/12/2012 03:10 PM, Polytropon wrote: /etc/shells to work, but a passwd entry like bob:*:1234:1234:Two-loop-Bob:/home/bob:/usr/local/bin/joe I think this would not let the user to login,etc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

On 03/12/2012 03:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:19:51 -0700, Edward M. wrote: On 03/12/2012 03:10 PM, Polytropon wrote: /etc/shells to work, but a passwd entry like bob:*:1234:1234:Two-loop-Bob:/home/bob:/usr/local/bin/joe I think this would not let the user to

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

On 03/12/2012 03:47 PM, Edward M. wrote: On 03/12/2012 03:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:19:51 -0700, Edward M. wrote: On 03/12/2012 03:10 PM, Polytropon wrote: /etc/shells to work, but a passwd entry like bob:*:1234:1234:Two-loop-Bob:/home/bob:/usr/local/bin/joe I

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

On 03/12/2012 05:33 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Mar 12 17:46:04 2012 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:47:59 -0700 From: "Edward M." To: Polytropon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Editor With NO Shell Access? On 03/12/2012 03:23 PM,

Re: 9.0 spontaneously reboots

On 03/13/2012 01:59 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: I already moved from Kingston to Hynix with no luck. Next guess points is motherboard problem (as memory is separated between processors) or processor problem. I'll gonna pop one processor out Leaving all memory on another one. I had a mo

Re: need help in freebsd

On 03/25/2012 04:36 PM, Stanley Aisi wrote: hi there, i need your help in freebsd regards, Stanley papua new guinea ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

On 04/08/2012 05:40 AM, Tony wrote: Hello! As much as I love FreeBSD, I'm a bit alarmed by its webdesign / corporate identity. Since FreeBSD is the world's best OS, I believe it should have a design that reflects this. A design that is so neutral and stripped of any unnecessary details that the

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

On 04/28/2012 11:16 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: That is what worries me, is that it wasn't just some random bit or cosmic ray, but the potential of happening again. I am not so sure that it is*impossible* that a jail could affect other jails with EzJail. Sorry I'm late to the party. How about

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

On 04/30/2012 08:38 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: just not very helpful or fun. This attitude will get He is helping,you need to learn how UFS, jails, nullfs, journaling, disk I/O and other stuff work. I have been following this thread and i must admit I also need to learn more on th

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

On 04/30/2012 10:22 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: Oh, please! He's not helping anyone. He's just being an obnoxious prick that thinks that by pointing out a lot of technical blabber and some cheap philosophical posé I guess i was going according to the fact that i have followed his suggestions

which filesytems zfs needs to function

Hi, I was running FreeBSD 9.0 using ZFS with the following setup on one harddrive: *(5) Create appropriate filesystems (feel free to improvise!).* zfs create zroot/usr zfs create zroot/usr/home zfs create zroot/var zfs create-o compression=on-o exec=on-o setuid=off zroot/tmp zfs create-o c

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

On 04/30/2012 10:58 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: Reading_both_ of McKusick's "Design of .." books, and the 'Unix System Admininstration Handbook', by Nemeth, et al. is a good_start_. Having a bunch of the books from O'Reilley& Assoc. (), especially for 'standard' tools that y

Re: which filesytems zfs needs to function

On 04/30/2012 05:52 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: The filesystems are mostly arbitrary. You really only need the rootfs with appropriate directories underneath. The list provided is simply a concise idealized layout. Thanks!. I will try creating different filesytems to further my learning

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

On 05/01/2012 06:43 AM, Polytropon wrote: Except buying (good) books, you can also search for articles on the web. For example, "A Fast File System for UNIX" by M. K. McKusick is very interesting (at least it was for me when I lost all my important data). Some fs-related articles here: http://ww

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

On 05/10/2012 03:45 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: Regarding Nemeth's I am undecided between the 4th (Unix& Linux) or the 3rd. Please advise. i purchased the third edition because I took a look in the 4th the table of contents and it appears anything FreeBSD related was remove and

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

On 05/11/2012 10:47 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: Is there something else I should try to find in the index or table of contents that would be in the third edition but not the fourth? Can you give me some examples of the sorts of things you'd expect to find in the table of contents that is lacking in t

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

On 05/11/2012 12:11 PM, Edward M wrote: So far I think I found a few that may make a difference. According to the "table of contents" in the 4th edition in the chapter called "Booting and shuting down it only shows entries for: red hat, HP-UX, AIX, SUSE,Ubuntu. Howeve

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

On 05/11/2012 05:18 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: I appreciate the time you put into this. It was no problem at all:-) had fun comparing. Now that I'm free and have more time I went over the 3rd edition table of contents and found a few instances that mentions FreeBSD. In chapter "Adding

Re: FreeBSD X?

On 05/17/2012 05:36 PM, Vance Siemens wrote: http://www.trollaxor.com/2012/05/freebsd-x-berkeley-unix-apple-quality.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: buildworld problem

On 05/18/2012 09:17 PM, Andriy Babiy wrote: FreeBSD myhost 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Mar 23 20:00:59 PDT 2012 root@myhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 root#cd /usr/obj root#chflags -R noschg * root#rm -rf * root#make buildworld ... cd /usr/src; MACHINE=i386 MACHINE_ARCH=

Re: buildworld problem

On 05/18/2012 09:17 PM, Andriy Babiy wrote: Makefile.inc1", line 160: CPUTYPE global should be set with ?= I think the problem is the wrong cpu type define. . I took a glance at the code in the makefile.inc1 to see what would set that error off and i found this in the makefile.inc1

Re: buildworld problem

On 05/19/2012 09:18 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: As it says, you need CPUTYPE?=nocona instead of CPUTYPE=nocona in /etc/make.conf or /etc/src.conf; otherwise the build process chokes while building the 32-bit compatibility stuff, since it cannot override your 64-bit CPU selection with a 32-bit one

Re: Wine for Diablo 3 on FreeBSD 9.0R amd64

On 05/19/2012 02:28 PM, lokada...@gmx.de wrote: On 05/17/12 07:54, Любомир Григоров wrote: We have to wait, unfortunately. I am using a Linux partition with Wine meanwhile. As long as it's not mainstream, it will be hard to do. Not to mention port is at 1.4. FreeBSD have 2 wine- ports. :) http:

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

On 06/06/2012 01:35 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: But this is more to do with the BIOS than with Intel as such. Wasn't there a FreeBIOS, later LinuxBIOS, now coreboot I believe..? So replacing the BIOS entirely wouldn't suffice to override all this nonsense? _

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

On 06/10/2012 08:09 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote: This is really missing the point. The issue is not open source vs. proprietary although many people seem to try to steer everything into that meaningless conflict. The point is the WinTel Mafia's many years of collusion and screwing over the customer.

Re: text format

On 06/12/2012 01:40 PM, pwnedomina wrote: to format an ascii text to be identical to that one, centered and aligned.. would not that require the use of HTML? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: text format

On 06/12/2012 02:01 PM, Edward M wrote: On 06/12/2012 01:40 PM, pwnedomina wrote: to format an ascii text to be identical to that one, centered and aligned.. would not that require the use of HTML? Oops... just dawn on me you may be trying to print an ascii file and may not be trying

Re: No surround sound with Creative SB Live! card

On 06/14/2012 09:03 AM, David Demelier wrote: I have an old SB Live! card with a 5.1 speaker set, but i can't get sound from center and rear speakers with mplayer. I'm using the snd_emu10kx driver and when I try to play a DVD I get sound only through the front speakers (and LFE) like a 2.1 A

Re: No surround sound with Creative SB Live! card

On 06/15/2012 01:06 AM, David Demelier wrote: That's what mplayer says: == Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/9.72% (ratio: 56000->576000) Selected au

Re: OT: Robotics or embedded or hardware programming... what is this called?

On 06/20/2012 06:54 PM, Modulok wrote: Even general pointers to books/websites would be great. Once I know what it's called I can google much more effectively Mars rover is robotic/embedded. I am using this site myself. http://www.societyofrobots.com/

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

On 06/21/2012 12:33 AM, Hooman Fazaeli wrote: Now, I want to the same thing on 8.3 and wanted to know your opinion on ZFS stability. Is there any success story using ZFS in 24x7, large volume, heavy duty servers? Is there any other option other than ZFS to build larger than 2TB file systems?

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

On 06/23/2012 04:19 PM, Edward M wrote: On 06/21/2012 12:33 AM, Hooman Fazaeli wrote: Now, I want to the same thing on 8.3 and wanted to know your opinion on ZFS stability. Is there any success story using ZFS in 24x7, large volume, heavy duty servers? Is there any other option other than ZFS

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

On 06/23/2012 05:16 PM, John Levine wrote: Sorry, I misread my notes, 8.2 uses v 15, 8.3 uses v 28. R's, John yeah, I remember version 15 was really stable. Opensolaris 2009.06 last binary production ready, used version 14; i also found it to be stable Any opensource zfs pool ve

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

On 06/23/2012 10:38 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: last binary production ready, used version 14; i also found it to be stable Any opensource zfs pool verisons beyound that, i am not really sure about their stablity compared to UFS rock solid filesystem. No ZFS pool version can be as trus

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

On 06/24/2012 04:23 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Edward M <mailto:eam1edw...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dont email me privately. Don't be an ass. Standard list conventions allows for private email. If this is simply an individual case of not lik

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

On 06/25/2012 08:00 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Edward M wrote: That reply was not meant for you, so why do you care? If it wasn't meant for everyone on the list, why was it sent to the list? by accident. still learning how to use email client:-[ . once i notic

Re: TRENDnet, which?

Gary Kline wrote: > Well, it pays to check prices! the Avocent brand of KVM > are an arm and *three* legs. I have abs no use for anything > fancy. just want something to get me to boot status on > different boxes... a number of you suggested a kvm switch > with the brand