Re: System initialization

2012-04-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I think you have had the list twice in the address list. On Thursday 19 April 2012 06:23:26 Brett Glass wrote: > Has anyone out there worked on the problem of generating > configuration files for important daemons (e.g. mpd, dnscache from are you sure that you really need this dynamically

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 28 April 2012 09:33:47 Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > > We had a server crash and required a hard reboot. The system is on one > > disk and another disc mounts /usr/jails and everything runs in jails, > > pristine base system

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 28 April 2012 09:23:26 Frank Shute wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:33:29PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > > Reminds me of an episode of "The Office". sounds more like real life to me. > > The manager gets a pile of resumes/CVs and immediately bungs half of > them in the

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 28 April 2012 20:15:25 Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Wojciech Puchar > wrote: > >> I somewhat agree, but it wasn't a person. I am the only administrator, > >> the only one with root access. The jails were effectively moved to the > >> /usr/local/etc/apa

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 29 April 2012 08:58:17 Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Erich Dollansky > wrote: > > On Saturday 28 April 2012 20:15:25 Alejandro Imass wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Wojciech Puchar > >> wrote: > >&g

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 30 April 2012 02:02:41 jb wrote: > Alejandro Imass p2ee.org> writes: > > > ... > > > What you should do right now is to get some recent general or security > > > cd/dvd > > > with chkrootkit and rkhunter and run them from that external read-only > > > media. > > > I would also s

Re: recommendation(s) for new computer

2012-04-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 30 April 2012 15:38:38 krad wrote: > > - AMD FX-8150 I am also considering this one for the next buy. > > - Corsair Vengeance 16GB Kit > > [Note: This combination is known to work because a friend has exactly > > those components.] I would use ECC on a machine like this if it is

Re: recommendation(s) for new computer

2012-04-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
hI, On Monday 30 April 2012 17:52:35 Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Apr 30, 2012, at 4:41 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > >>> - Enermax Platimax 600W > > > > I do not know about your location but at mine power supplies have the > > tende

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 30 April 2012 18:36:08 Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Alejandro Imass wrote: > That simply *ISN'T* going to happen -- not without a -lot- more evidence > than any individual can provide from a single =unrepeadable= incident. > ok, I am not the original poster but let me tell me of an e

Re: recommendation(s) for new computer

2012-04-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 30 April 2012 18:22:18 Robert Bonomi wrote: > > If you have a bunch of 'sensitive' gear, also look at a Tripp-lite voltage > conditioner. that gear, and and a lot of other Tripp stuff comes with an > insurance coverate (in five figures) that will replace gear -behind- the > Tripp

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 30 April 2012 22:38:13 Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Robert Bonomi > wrote: > > > A competennt, "not stupid", sysadmin would know these things. And not > > 'remove all doubt' (in the words of Abraham Lincoln), by raising such > > nonsense questions. >

Re: laptop very hot and noisy

2012-05-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 01 May 2012 19:41:11 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:25:11AM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Anton Shterenlikht > > wrote: > > I didn't even know they put fluid heatsinks in laptop. > I thought this was something from IBM c

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 01 May 2012 20:43:43 Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2012 00:37:51 -0700, Edward M wrote: > > 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_

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 01 May 2012 20:43:43 Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2012 00:37:51 -0700, Edward M wrote: > > 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_

Re: laptop very hot and noisy

2012-05-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 01 May 2012 20:52:11 Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2012 13:41:11 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:25:11AM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > Not a big issue. Make sure you can remember which parts belong where. > Make photos if it helps you, or dra

Re: laptop very hot and noisy

2012-05-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 02 May 2012 19:09:56 Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2012 06:19:50 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 May 2012 20:52:11 Polytropon wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 May 2012 13:41:11 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 01, 2012

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 09 May 2012 18:57:06 Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Robert Bonomi > > wrote: > >> > > [...] > > >> One comment: for 'defensive' purposes it would be useful to break ad6 up > >> into two slice

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 09 May 2012 20:30:37 Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Erich Dollansky > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wednesday 09 May 2012 18:57:06 Alejandro Imass wrote: > >> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: >

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 05 June 2012 19:59:48 Waitman Gobble wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Scott Ballantyne wrote: > > i'll give that a try. After updating a couple of days ago the mouse is > glued to the center of the screen after starting X. I noticed if i first > kill moused before startx it works

Re: Attaching a monitor via vga

2012-06-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 20 June 2012 07:52:58 David Tilbrook wrote: > I have a thinkpad t61p running freebsd9.0. The window size is 1680x1050 > -- a reasonable size -- but the screen itself is 38cm. (15") which is > irritatingly > small for my old eyes. > yeah, the age. > So I want to attach an exter

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 20 June 2012 11:26:13 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > How about leaving politics and getting back to technical grounds? what is the problem as long as gcc is in the ports tree? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 20 June 2012 11:46:20 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> How about leaving politics and getting back to technical grounds? > > > > what is the problem as long as gcc is in the ports tree? > > what is a problem as clang is in the ports tree? for the port? It does not make a difference.

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

2012-06-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 20 June 2012 19:32:24 Fred Morcos wrote: > > I am new to FreeBSD, coming from a GNU/Linux background (most > comfortable with Archlinux). I compiled a series of questions I would > like to ask in different areas and categories. Should I send them all > in a single email message o

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

2012-06-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thursday 21 June 2012 18:24:26 Fred Morcos wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Wojciech Puchar > > q) Is it possible to run a FreeBSD system without much building? In > other words, can I survive by depending on packages and only resorting > to ports when really needed? you can run

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

2012-06-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thursday 21 June 2012 23:55:38 Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:24:26 +0200, Fred Morcos wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Wojciech Puchar > > q) Is it possible to get native resolution on the console? I played > > with vesa and vidcontrol but could never get what I wan

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 22 June 2012 11:18:01 Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-06-21 10:59, fred.mor...@gmail.com skrev: > > we have feelings too!!! > > Ouch! Another "feeling" person. Can't you just stop this feeling stuff. > do not forget the feelings regarding the devil. Erich _

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 22 June 2012 12:04:35 Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-06-22 06:50, Erich Dollansky skrev: > > On Friday 22 June 2012 11:18:01 Bernt Hansson wrote: > >> 2012-06-21 10:59, fred.mor...@gmail.com skrev: > >>> we have feelings too!!! > >> > >>

Re: I have a problem to my server running under FreeBSD 8.1 p-1 release

2012-06-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 23 June 2012 09:47:35 RetspaN Code wrote: > Hello, > > Since you all the responsible of freebsd source and updates... Is there you are the only one responsible for the break in. So, what was the problem? > anyway to fix my server without re install the system? > Oh yes, you can

Re: I have a problem to my server running under FreeBSD 8.1 p-1 release

2012-06-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
ke a backup of your user data. Use different passwords and - most important - keep the machine offline until the new system is installed. I cannot think of a faster way to get rid of the problem. Erich > > Thanks Erich, > > Regards, > > FredFoxs > > > ___

Re: I have a problem to my server running under FreeBSD 8.1 p-1 release

2012-06-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 23 June 2012 13:24:02 RetspaN Code wrote: > Hello, > > Intruder already block, but my problem is the intruder before they get > block they load their exploit file to my machine that cause of my machine > /usr/src directory is set to read only i can't upload or put any file on > th

Re: I have a problem to my server running under FreeBSD 8.1 p-1 release

2012-06-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 23 June 2012 13:41:24 RetspaN Code wrote: > 49129472 drwxr-x--x 20 root tonyx 512 Jun 5 13:00 .. who belongs to this group? > 49134586 -rw-r--r--1 root wheel6206 Jun 13 2010 COPYRIGHT > 49134587 -rw-r--r--1 root wheel 442 Jun 13 2010 LOCKS > 49134588 -

Re: I have a problem to my server running under FreeBSD 8.1 p-1 release

2012-06-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
t access and might have left the company since then? Erich > > Thanks! Erich > > Regards, > > FredFoxs > > > ________ > From: Erich Dollansky > To: RetspaN Code ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 3:02

Re: I have a problem to my server running under FreeBSD 8.1 p-1 release

2012-06-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 23 June 2012 14:44:18 RetspaN Code wrote: > > I did own now by root:wheel but now i'm under on ddos attack. :( but still > not yet done the exploit not yet remove. > > too lag my server due to ddos attack. > the server must be off-line if you want to have the tiniest chance to

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 23 June 2012 15:08:53 Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I don't think I ever tried to connect a USB 2.0 device to 3.0 port, but I > tried the opposite. > I have here 2 hard disks and 2 flash drives with USB 2.0. Three of them work on FreeBSD on an USB 3.0 port. One hard disk only works

Re: I have a problem to my server running under FreeBSD 8.1 p-1 release

2012-06-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 23 June 2012 15:33:45 RetspaN Code wrote: > also this > > 14417 ?? Ss 0:00.02 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily > 14425 ?? I 0:00.04 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily as long it is online, there is a very, very low chance to get anything done. And even when it

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 23 June 2012 18:18:58 Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:50:05 +0700 > > Erich Dollansky articulated: > > USB is more a lottery than real computing for me. > > That is really sad. I am sort of forced to use USB devices on a > daily basis, Luckily,

Re: 32 bit to 64 bit

2012-06-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thursday 28 June 2012 00:33:03 Robert Huff wrote: > > Odhiambo Washington writes: > > > > Will the buildworld ---> buildkernel KERNCONF=FOO64 allow a 32 bit > > > installation to build a 64 bit kernel? I'd like to upgrade this > > > machine to 64 bit AMD and I'd prefer not to do it f

Re: Basic i5/i7 Motherboard Suggestion..

2012-07-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thursday, July 12, 2012 09:04:37 AM Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > > I am looking to build a simple i5 or i7 CPU-based desktop computer that is > compatible with FreeBSD. Could someone suggest me a sub $200 motherboard > whose chipsets and BIOS works well with FreeBSD? I would prefer to stick

Re: Quick question about sound drivers (esp. snd_hda)

2011-03-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 12 March 2011 04:29:44 Brian Waters wrote: > It seems to me that under /dev, you can have the following > sound-related device files: > > dspX > dspX.Y > (among others) > this is what you see after your driver is loaded. You might have to tell an application which one to use. >

Re: How to get Huawei USB modem to work ?

2011-03-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 02 January 2011 19:54:57 Manish Jain wrote: > >Hello, >From a similar thread, I picked up some information that I should try >kldload'ing usba. But when I ran the command, I got an error message >that there is no such module. I searched under sys/modules and there >

Re: "Best practices" on upgrading, etc.

2011-03-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 12 March 2011 05:03:22 Ed Flecko wrote: > > I have a production server running FBSD 8.1 (and I'm following the > errata branch) that works just fine, with no problems. > > I see that the "Production Release" of 8.2 is available. > > Obviously, 8.2 has features that 8.1 does not,

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Guidance with the following: > > We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant > devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in > controller (PCI)

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 16 March 2011 07:37:53 Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:32:01 +1000 > Da Rock articulated: > > > On 03/08/11 03:00, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: > > > > > The nice thing about standards is that there are so man

Re: FreeBSD Boot

2011-03-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, you have a bootmanager installed. On Monday 21 March 2011 19:48:27 Michael Klapheke wrote: > Hi. I know this subject has been addressed in other posts, but I cannot seem > to get it to work. I have inherited a FreeBSD server and I cannot get it to > boot properly. I read the articles on

Re: Mobile hard disk does not respond

2011-03-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 22 March 2011 10:04:42 xinyou yan wrote: > I have i mobile hard disk 320g . this is not of very much help. > > However ,frebsd can't respond to it > > ls dev/ > > have no message da0 for it Can you enlight us with information from dmesg and usbconfig? Maybe with and withou

Re: boot error

2011-03-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 27 March 2011 20:17:09 Franci Nabalanci wrote: > Hi! > > My system is FreeBSD releaese 8.2. > I installed KDE 4.6.1 and run it. And I updated ATI drivers too. > When I start KDE It freeze when I try to change a background picture.. After > restart of computer I got an error and boot

Re: searching for a good IDE

2011-03-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 27 March 2011 20:41:28 Alokat wrote: > > I'm searching for a good IDE for my development stuff - c, c++, python, > rails, php > Can someone advise one? > And I don't wanna use eclipse. :-) I am pretty happy with Kate from the KDE package. Erich __

Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 09 April 2011 05:46:43 Carmel wrote: > On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:50:52 -0600 > Chad Perrin articulated: > > The solution to this problem is so obvious that I am amazed that no one this is a solution which creates just new problems. > has proposed it. Simply require the poster to be

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, did you really get no other answer? On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: > Hello. I intend to use FreeBSD instead of PC-BSD. The sound card doesn't > work on FreeBSD 8.2. I tried to follow the manual and loaded all sound > card drivers > > # kldload snd_driver this

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 16 April 2011 11:16:39 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: > On 04/16/2011 10:42 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: > >> # kldload snd_driver > > this will never work. > > > > You must load the d

Re: How to customize login?

2011-04-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, you have changed the file /etc/motd? Erich On Saturday 16 April 2011 13:06:16 Alexander Lardner wrote: > Hello list, > I have set a banner welcoming anybody on the console. I still see the > "FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyvX)" message. How can I stop this from > displaying? I'd like the bann

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 16 April 2011 14:42:43 Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 09:42:38AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > > > # kldload snd_driver > > > > this will never work. > > Yes, it will. 'snd_driver' is a meta-module which

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, does the loader start? It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true? Erich On Saturday 23 April 2011 05:38:41 Doug Hardie wrote: > I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to install > 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up an

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 23 April 2011 12:57:32 Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 22 April 2011, at 21:28, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true? > > > I am not sure. The last message is the timestamp from the original > distribu

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
On 22 April 2011, at 23:46, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 12:57:32 Doug Hardie wrote: > >> > >> On 22 April 2011, at 21:28, Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> > >>> It looks to me that not even the loader

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 23 April 2011 16:30:39 Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 23 April 2011, at 02:20, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > I only can tell what I do when a machine does not boot from the > > installation media: I plug the disk into another machine, install the > >

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 24 April 2011 00:37:52 Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 23 April 2011, at 03:04, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 16:30:39 Doug Hardie wrote: > >> > >> On 23 April 2011, at 02:20, Erich Dollansky wrote: > >>> > >&

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 06 August 2011 02:12:14 Christian Barthel wrote: > > I read on slashdot that Linus Torvalds moved from Gnome 2.3x to Xfce. It > seems that he isn't thrilled by xfce, but it's far better than Gnome3. > what else can he do? He already wrote a kernel for them. Should he now also w

Re: no borders with firefox, terminal (xfce on FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 STABLE)

2012-01-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I did not see which window manager or desktop you are using. Erich On Wednesday 01 February 2012 10:45:26 Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear folks, > > I am having some difficultites when starting up the desktop. The > desktop starts up automagically and when I start firefox or terminal > ther

Re: no borders with firefox, terminal (xfce on FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 STABLE)

2012-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 01 February 2012 19:44:15 Antonio Olivares wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Erich Dollansky > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I did not see which window manager or desktop you are using. > > > xfce, thought I included it :( yes, you included

Re: help needed for connecting internet with ZTE ac 8700 USB cdma ( EvDO) modem

2012-02-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thursday 02 February 2012 16:53:11 Subhasish Chakraborty wrote: > > In my my PC-BSD /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file looks like . > can you also try do start ppp manually and enter the commands directly? It seems that your only problem is the connection to the ISP. The rest seems to work. set d

Re: help needed for connecting internet with ZTE ac 8700 USB cdma ( EvDO) modem

2012-02-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, ok, I saw that I made a mistake. Check what I have added. On Thursday 02 February 2012 20:07:41 Subhasish Chakraborty wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Erich Dollansky < > erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Thursday 02

Re: help needed for connecting internet with ZTE ac 8700 USB cdma ( EvDO) modem

2012-02-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, try set ctsrts on Check the man pages for ppp. You see there several commands and options which might will help you. I really cannot tell why my modem works. It was just a strange trial and error sequence until it started to work. ppp does not detect that there is a carrier. The command

Re: freebsd package update / upgrade

2012-02-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 03 February 2012 08:52:07 alexus wrote: > What's the procedure on updating packages (not ports), can someone > point me (preferably in a handbook) or else where is fine too... it is also done with portupgrade. You just have to use -P or -PP. Check the manual to find out more. Eric

Re: Possible move back to FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 03 February 2012 12:34:57 Chris wrote: > Hi > > I have been using Debian for a few years now (previous BSD user) and I'm > considering moving back. > > Admittedly, I have gotten used to the simplicity of using apt-get to update > the system. > > What will pull me back is if ther

Re: Possible move back to FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
job then. Erich > > Sent from my HTC. > > - Reply message - > From: "Erich Dollansky" > Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 11:44 pm > Subject: Possible move back to FreeBSD > To: > Cc: "Chris" > > > Hi, > > On Friday 03 February 2012 12:

Re: help needed for connecting internet with ZTE ac 8700 USB cdma ( EvDO) modem

2012-02-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
>TIMEOUT 40 \ > >CONNECT" > > > > set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 > > add default HISADDR > > enable dns > > nat enable yes > > nat deny_incoming yes > > ... > > > > Thanks again :-)

Re: Cannot resolve localhost

2013-02-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:35:12 +0100 Martin Pola wrote: > I'm trying to get my FreeBSD system to resolve localhost into > 127.0.0.1, but unfortunately it doesn't work. It appears the resolver > is never reading from /etc/hosts, where I have this line: 127.0.0.1 > localhost > > Here's a sample

Re: bsd lost partition recovery

2013-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:56:54 +0330 takCoder wrote: > *here's the question:* > how to restore lost data of a formatted bsd partition?! > restore it from a backup? > *and here's what has happened to me:* > i was trying to install windows xp sp2 on a HD on my system to move > it to another ha

Re: bsd lost partition recovery

2013-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:50:57 +0330 takCoder wrote: > Thank you for your reply.. you are welcome. > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Erich Dollansky < > erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com> wrote: > > > >On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:56:54 +0330 > > >takCoder

Re: Using bsdinstall to create MBR

2013-03-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:36:15 -0700 Doug Hardie wrote: > I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I > can set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add > in slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters. > Everything I have tried gives a

Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:11:24 -0700 (PDT) wrote: > Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several good morning, > people who have responded to my previous messages. I have made > significant progress, but am now flummoxed at the installation of the this is good to

Re: can not use intel GPU, no /dev/dri/card0

2013-03-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:14:28 + uki wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting the folowing error when I try to start X using intel > drivers: > > [ 8669.844] (II) > Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so [ 8669.844] > (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card su

Re: can not use intel GPU, no /dev/dri/card0

2013-03-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
> > Cheers, > Łukasz Gruner > > > 2013/3/24 Erich Dollansky : > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:14:28 + > > uki wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm getting the folowing error when I try to start X using intel

Re: line lengths in /etc/hosts

2013-03-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:09:29 +0100 Erik Nørgaard wrote: > On 27 Mar 2013, at 09:57, per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) > wrote: > > > Is there a limit on line length in FreeBSD's /etc/hosts? > > > > I'm not finding any mention of such a limit in hosts(5), but > > characters beyond the

Re: EOL

2013-03-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:19:02 -0600 David Thurber wrote: > I have 5 XP machines on my node that are used to crunch data 24/7. > So, I'm looking for an OS platform that has a 10 year EOL to replace > XP/3. > if you do not count the service packs and updates, your XP installation is EOL since

Re: gpart

2013-03-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:28:40 -0400 "Grant Peel" wrote: > I am in the midst of setting up the framework for new servers using > FreeBSD 9.1. I used the bsdinstall and Manual`` option when setting > up the disk geometry using GPT - graphical setup. > > The idea will be to eventually dump the

Re: gpart

2013-03-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:06:24 -0500 Joshua Isom wrote: > On 3/31/2013 8:54 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > I have had only one problem with this description. I could not boot > > from a GPT setup on my machine done as described there. But I have a > > disk done with PCB

Re: gpart

2013-04-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 09:20:21 -0400 "Grant Peel" wrote: > I am currently running 8.0 and am in need of many of the ports to be > upgraded, and have never had much luck doing the upgrade thing with > the base system and ports, preferring instead to completely rebuild > in restore user data. >

Re: use of the kernel and licensing

2013-04-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:26:15 -0400 Joe wrote: > snip > > How do you explain all the forks of UNIX each claiming their own > copyright. They all provide the same concept, use the same names for > their commands, use the same programming language, have a filesystem > as their base. Just

Re: Availability of downloads

2013-04-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:20:41 -0400 Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: >Hi FreeBSD - >Since PCBSD takes care of all these details this is not actually a >complaint. >When I was using FreeBSD the only server I could get packages from > was in Japan which did so every time althoug

Re: RSync exclusion

2013-04-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:30:45 +0200 Jos Chrispijn wrote: > I have a local folder called /files/ > In my daily backup event I create as per day a backkup folder that > contains this /files folder including all its sub folders > > --- cut --- > > rsync -avrz -e ssh /files/ backupr@x.x.x.x:/v

Re: SMP boot differences between 8.4 and 9.1?

2013-04-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:29:04 -0700 Dennis Glatting wrote: > > I have two four socket Opteron 6200 motherboards with populated > 16-core Opteron 6200 series processors. Onw is Tyan (below) and the > other Supermicro. nice machines. > > When booted under 8.4 only two sockets are recognized

Re: Upgrading from 7.4 to 9.1

2013-04-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:32:53 +0200 "b...@todoo.biz" wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to know if you would consider updating from 7.4 to 9.1 > directly ? > you might will face the same problem I face when trying to upgrade 7.x to 8.x on old hardware. The USB controller was not supported anymore

Re: Witness on FreeBSD 10.*

2013-04-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:43:51 -1000 Al Plant wrote: > Aloha, > > Is there a way of turning off the witness feature on the FreeBSD > Current 10.* > > I want to use a stripped down version as a test firewall with pf. > you must take this out of your kernel configuration: options WITNESS # E

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: some lists are like this anyway. Why are not all like this? I notice that my postings get delayed and obviously check when I use by accident my real e-mail address. Eric

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 16 May 2013 23:05:33 +0100 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

Re: HP 2570p installation

2013-05-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, it might be a good idea to tell us from where you booted. The internal disk, an USB stick, a USB drive ... And of course, what was on that media. Erich On Thu, 23 May 2013 13:02:37 +0200 (CEST) Ludovit Koren wrote: > > Hi, > > I bought HP Elitebook 2570p(B6Q08EA). I checked everything,

Re: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:32 -0700 (PDT) "M. V." wrote: > I have a 24/7 network server/gateway with FreeBSD-8.2 on a SSD drive. > it's partitioned as normal (/ , /tmp, /var , /usr and swap) for a > long time now. But recently I heard from a FreeBSD expert that I > shouldn't have swap partiti

Re: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, sorry for my English. Here is what I wanted to say. On Sun, 26 May 2013 16:09:06 +0700 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:32 -0700 (PDT) > "M. V." wrote: > > > I have a 24/7 network server/gateway with FreeBSD-8.2 on a SSD > &

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:44:41 -0600 Modulok wrote: > List, > > Step1: Make a new user:: > > root@localhost# pw useradd foo -m -s /bin/tcsh -h 0 > password for user foo: (secret) > > Step 2: Does sendmail know them:: > > root@modunix# sendmail -bv foo@localhost > foo@localh

Re: routing issues to freebsd.org

2013-07-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 08:01:09 -0400 staticsafe wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 09:57:59AM +0100, Paul Macdonald wrote: > > > > On doing some updates this morning, am seeing a routing issue beyond > > bgp1-ext.ysv.freebsd.org... > > > > Updating Index > > fetch: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 fails to boot from CD on Notebook

2013-07-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:56:12 +0200 Martin Siebel wrote: > > Any ideas about BIOS settings I may change? > find out how how the CD drive is connected and then play with the settings fir this interface Erich > I burnt the CD twice by the way, with different burning software, to > avoid dam

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: I've a related question, but my primary constraints are physical. I'm looking for a lightweight and low-profile package, like the fabulous (and wicked prone to hard failure) Sony 505 series of products. take a look at the P-series from Fujitsu. I ran FreeBSD o

Re: OT - Filter for Thunderbird

2004-12-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Chris wrote: Sorry for posting here - but perhaps someone has done this. Is so, reply please. I wish to create a filter based on the Subject, in short, I want it to flag all duplicate emails. Has someone done this? I think the access to the other mails is missing. The main problem will be t

Re: OT - Filter for Thunderbird

2004-12-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Chris wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Chris wrote: Sorry for posting here - but perhaps someone has done this. Is so, reply please. I wish to create a filter based on the Subject, in short, I want it to flag all duplicate emails. Has someone done this? I think the access to the other mails

Re: OT - Filter for Thunderbird

2004-12-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Colin J. Raven wrote: On Dec 18, Chris launched this into the bitstream: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, If I failed to articulate that - then it's my fault. I hope I'm understanding...you mean apply a filter to *existing* mail?? I'm not even sure it's possible in T/Bir

Re: FreeBSD logo design competition

2005-02-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, stheg olloydson wrote: Any communications should come from someone with an easy-to-pronounce northern European surname (but not French) and, if at all possible, a first name that sounds American. Can I suggest Mark from a lovely town in Austria? www.fucking.at This is the next kind of problems

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Erich Dollansky writes: Do above attributes apply to the logo of the most successful software package known as Windows? Yes. The Windows logo is simple and easy to recognize. The full logo is in multiple colors and requires screens to print, which is a bit of a

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Erich Dollansky writes: Do you believe that Windows is this successful because of its logo? No, but the logo accounts for a lot of brand recognition for Windows, as it does for most other products. Simple logos are easy to retain and Yes, after Windows become

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