Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

Hi, On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:11:27 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi all, hi Joshua, > > On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:10 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: > > find / -uid 1001 -exec chown 1000 '{}' \; > > find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000 '{}' \; > > I made one mistake, when I run "find / -gid 1001 -exec chow

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

Hi, On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:05:51 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > after running '# /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb > -d /etc /etc/master.passwd' (FWIW there were no messages) > I can now log in to a user X session by GDM. > this sounds so much better. > The user can't become root using Xfce Terminal Emulator

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

Hi Ralf, On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:39:07 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:25:07 +0100, Erich Dollansky > wrote: > > What happens on a normal TTY? > > > >> Ctrl + Alt + F2 > > > > > So, you can switch to them. Can you

Re: lagg problems (or lack of understanding?)

Hi, On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:55:59 +0100 markus.hoeni...@mhoenicka.de wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-aggregation.html > > Specifically, I use the rc.conf entries mentioned in the box at the > very bottom on the page, except that my ethernet interface is

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

Hi, On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:15:09 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > Good morning, ood morning? The sun is settling soon! > > if I run 'make deinstall reinstall' for a port, it doesn't ask a > single question, at least not for dbus. > > # ls -l /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon > -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

Hi, On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:58:06 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:38:38 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:15:09 +0100 > > "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > > > > > Good morning, > > >

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

Hi, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:36:36 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your > > source tree). # 2. `make buildworld' > > # 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is

creating bootable disk with gpart

Hi, I followed http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html to create bootable disks with GPT. As you know from my former post, I tried to boot via USB from a GPT disk and failed. I inserted the disk into the notebook and bootin also failed. Irony is that inserting the MBR disk into t

Re: creating bootable disk with gpart

Hi, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:41:10 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I followed http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html > > to create bootable disks with GPT. > > > > As you

Re: how do I restart lagg0 properly?

Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:09:36 +0100 markus.hoeni...@mhoenicka.de wrote: > I've tried to setup link aggregation to allow networking through WLAN > and ethernet on my laptop, see: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/248605.html > > (this thread contains my net

Re: creating bootable disk with gpart

Hi Warren, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:41:10 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I followed http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html > > to create bootable disks with GPT. > > > > A

Re: creating bootable disk with gpart

Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:08:19 +0700 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi Warren, > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:41:10 -0700 (MST) > Warren Block wrote: > > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I followed h

Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?

Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:08:20 +0100 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Monday, January 28, 2013 a las 10:28:06PM -1000, parv escribió: > > > In general, I find all this thread (wrong file owner) a bit boring. I find it very interesting. > This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a n

Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?

Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:57:30 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:44:55 +0100, Erich Dollansky > wrote: > > It cannot get worse. His experience will show also others how robust > > FreeBSD is in case of failures. > > Indeed. Linux users

Re: BSDstats Statistics for Aug, 2007 ...

Hi, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- FreeBSD + 2.7% I hope the numbers are not this bad that my machine alone made your numbers jump his much. My FreeBSD was offline for a year. It was a hard time. Erich ___

Re: Weird FTP issue???

Hi, did you also use different cable and different switch ports for this problematic machine? Yes, your problem sounds weird. Life told us so many times that things like this can happen. Erich Michaela wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone can possibly explain or give their expertise

Re: periodic freeze and reset

Hi, I have had crashes too on my machine with the 6.2 RELEASE kernel. They are gone since I use a custom kernel. The fun is that I have t use the rl NIC driver like you do. Erich Ghirai wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:46:54 -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase that there was such a difference, in order to replace the logo with a round

Re: Newbie questions about updating

Hi, let me give some very basic answers. cothrige wrote: ports system is completely separate from the OS itself, and that these Applications have nothing to do with the operating system. In theory at least. Practically it is more limited. can be upgraded or updated separately. From what

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Installation Problems

Hi, G. Yager wrote: Hello: I'm trying to install release 6.2 (i386 ) of FreeBSD from ISO disks I've downloaded from the main site. After installing the main operating system, I have a problem when trying to install PACKAGES. When I select ALL PACKAGES, verify that all of t

Re: graphics and freebsd

Hi, depending on what you want to do, GIMP (pixel oriented) and INKSCAPE (vector oriented) will be the tools of your choice. Erich Burhan Teoman wrote: Hello, Im a newbie to freebsd. I'm a graphic designer and i need profession graphic applications on freebsd. Please send your advice. __

Re: setting up xorg - mouse

Hi, I have the same problem. If I leave the definitions for the mouse out, X starts without problems and uses the mouse. As long as a mouse definition is given in the configuration file, I cannot use the mouse. Erich Martin Tournoij wrote: On Fri 07 Sep 2007 22:09, Computer Answers wrote: H

Re: setting up xorg - mouse

Hi, Martin Tournoij wrote: On Fri 07 Sep 2007 22:09, Computer Answers wrote: Hi, right now I am running freeBSD 6.2 RELEASE with xorg 6.9 and I am I updated meanwhile to 7.2, but the result stayed the same. Please put reply messages at the _bottom_, not at the top. One list on top, the ot

X11 reports BadLength (poly request too large ...

Hi, I mentioned this error before on the X11 list without getting a response. I found out meanwhile that I get this error message only when I run my custom kernel. Running either the kernel from the 6.2 RELEASE or the rebuilt GENERIC kernel did not result in this error message. I added this

hosts is ignored

Hi, I have the feeling to be blind but I cannot find out why my FreeBSD 6.2 machine ignores hosts. host.conf says hosts dns resolv.conf contains my two dns ip addresses. Even a simple hosts like this has no effect 127.0.0.1 kopi Results in that ping does not find the host named 'ko

Re: hosts is ignored

Hi, Matthew Seaman wrote: What does /etc/nsswitch.conf say? group: compat group_compat: nis hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: compat passwd_compat: nis shells: files Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: hosts is ignored

Hi, Peter Boosten wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, I have the feeling to be blind but I cannot find out why my FreeBSD 6.2 machine ignores hosts. host.conf says hosts dns What is host.conf used for? Never heard of it. Put the following line in your resolv.conf lookup file bind no

Re: hosts is ignored

Hi, Pollywog wrote: Hosts is still fully ignored. And the permissions for /etc/hosts ? I know it's a dumb question but something like this happened to me once and I discovered that something had changed file permissions so it was not readable. It happened to me in Linux but it's still wo

Re: how to change next boot from windows to freebsd?

Hi, I am not sure but cygwin could be of help here. Erich Georgi Iovchev wrote: Hello guys On my pc I have FreeBSD and Windows partitions. I often use my computer remotly, and sometimes i need to switch from bsd to windows and vice versa. I use freebsd's boot manager to select os at boot, a

Re: hosts is ignored

Hi, Don Read wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:51:23 +0800 Erich Dollansky said: Hi, checked. It is readable by all. I agree. It is something stupid like. Try to delete and re-type it. I got stung by a non-printing character once ... thanks, this was the reason. Erich

Re: enabling SMP

Hi, Frank Shute wrote: I've just got a new box, an HP DC5750 with an Athlon X2 3800 but I can't get SMP working. It *was* cheap :) my family's comment to this is: ' we are too poor to buy cheap. CPUTYPE?=athlon-mp You run 32 bits on a 64 bit machine? Are you aware of it? I've had problem

Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable

Hi, J65nko wrote: On 9/14/07, Harry Maugans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've confirmed (through a friend) in England it's not accessible either. I'm surprised they wouldn't have redundancies to prevent this from happening. Round robin DNS with collocation at least. There is a kind of redunda

Re: troubles with attach too big HDD through USB

Hi, Andrew Wingorodov wrote: my sata -> usb ext. box (vipower VPA) can't attach a new big 500gb wdc. he writes: kernel: da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present is the drive really up and running? Does it work on any other machine via USB with any other operati

Re: Software

Hi, iTunes will be the killer application which will keep you with Windows. I have not seen on FreeBSD. There is actually more software available for FreeBSD than for Windows if you work in the fields of science or engineering. Some ports are now ported so that they can support Windows. Eri

Re: Are you guys using xcdroast?

Hi, hey, this is an X application. Lisandro Grullon wrote: Hi Ladies and Gentleman, I have been trying to get a Buring aplication going in my box, as per the handbook recomendation I decided to get xcdroast, I am getting an error when I try launching it from commmand line as root. Can someone

Re: How to convert ASCII to Hexadecimal format?

Hi, man hexdump will explain the details. Erich ronggui wrote: for example: ASCII: a test HEX : 61 20 74 65 73 74 Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: disc failure? at least snail snow CPU...

Hi, Gary Kline wrote: Anybody got suggestions on what kind of hard drive to buy for my new main server--if is *is* the drive? The video board began SCSI? Fujitsu. Else? Any with 5 years of warranty available near your place. I do not bother to buy any other drives anymore. Erich

Re: Software

Hi, looking for other things, I found this: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=5774 Wine is working nicely for me but I do not use iTunes. Erich Kellen Dale wrote: I was wondering what kind of software freeBSD can support. I am currently a windows user but I would

Re: Vhat kind of *simple* video card?

Hi, Gary Kline wrote: Sometimes it gets into a mode where it is super slow. Do you, or anybody else have a clue why?? it could be caused by a faulty hard disk. Is the system just waiting? Also:: would a simple Matrox Millennium serve as a new video board?

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

Hi, Eric Osterweil wrote: make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB of it. Can anyone help me figure out how to make use of the missing GB? FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 this looks like a 32 bit binary to me. You either need a 64 bit binary

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

Hi, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On September 26, 2007 9:06:57 PM -0700 Eric Osterweil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 26, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Eric Osterweil wrote: make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB of it. Can anyone help me

rough method of cleaning the ports tree

Hi, after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the compilation is finished. This should be much faster and also should do some kind o defragmentation. I simply cannot believe that the huge ports tree wil

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

Hi, John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Erich Dollansky wrote: There are at least two better ways of doing this that will take less time and not put unnecessary load on the CVS servers. this was the main reason for asking. If all would do it, CVSup would be of no help at all

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

Hi, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:31:05PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erich Dollansky wrote: after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one

Re: Server crashes

Hi, if it is this easy to reproduce, go to the second or third console, start the compilation and switch to the first console. Do you get any error messages there? Also, do not run X while doing this. X is currently - depending on your graphics card - also a good candidate for crashes. Eri

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

Hi, I use hosts to block unwanted content but on per machine base. I use currentlu this as a starting point and add private preferences to hosts. http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt Has bind a visible advantage in the response time? Erich Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hello, I'm currently s

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

Hi, Olivier Nicole wrote: Has bind a visible advantage in the response time? Maybe not in response time, but certainly in centralisation: you only maintain one DNS instead of every machine. this is obvious to me too. I would not like to use bind for filtering except in larger organisations.

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

Hi, the guys seem to have some humour: Linux/Unix/Mac OSX Remove the extension and save this to your /etc directory. Considering unix is a server-based OS with a complex permission structure you'll probably want to just append your hosts file instead of overwriting it. OSX can use the host

Re: Photo organizer for FreeBSD?

Hi, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On 15:49:56 Dec 29, Laszlo Nagy wrote: I wonder if netpbm or ImageMagick is available in Cygwin or in some other form in Windows. ImageMagick is available native for Windows. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

Hi, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Dec 30, 2007 12:31 PM, Darren Spruell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 30, 2007 9:52 AM, Maxim Khitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I then installed dnsmasq, which is able to read domain info from the hosts file. Just for the fun of it, I loaded domains from all th

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

Hi, Victor Subervi wrote: toward a low-level language. I am not good in any :( I'm thinking Java's Assembler? probably my best bet, just because there are more Java programmers out there than any other language (I think). But what about C++ or C#? Your comments I would use a combination ou

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

Hi, Victor Subervi wrote: Good point. Most legacy s/w is in C++. I'm assuming from lack of comment that C# is as yet an unborn language ;) there is another very simple problem with languages like C# or Java. In the case of C, it is the developers machine which has to have the proper software

Re: pIII coppermine?

Hi, Chris Maness wrote: I have an ABIT VP6 dual socket that I want to use as my FreeBSD server. I only have one CPU installed, and I was told that if I were to add another CPU that the serial numbers of the CPU had to be sequential. Is this true? I see these processors on e-bay for $7 it wo

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

Hi, why don't you use powerd? Erich Andreas Davour wrote: I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried to lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some reason it don't seem to work, even though the script works for simple debug output. Anyone hav

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

Hi, Andreas Davour wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, why don't you use powerd? Now I know a reason. It made my whole computer freeze and C-ALT-DEL or C-ALT-BS didn't even work. Maybe it's not that stable yet. I use it with the -v option without any

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

Hi, Andreas Davour wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried to lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some reason it don't seem to work, even though the script works for simple debug output.

Re: are we CRIMINALS?

Hi, Wojciech Puchar wrote: http://www.spamsuite.com/node/351 jest first step to criminalize unix at all first step? Many Unix tools are considered illegal by German law since last summer. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: are we CRIMINALS?

Hi check google: http://www.google.com/search?q=illegale+hackertools&btnG=Search&hl=en The problem will be that the repsective articles will all be in German. Wojciech Puchar wrote: jest first step to criminalize unix at all first step? Many Unix tools are considered illegal by German law

Re: setup question

Hi, can you check with the downloadable handbook what the currently recommended procedure to setup X is. Books tend to be outdated. If I remember right then the current version of X starts just fine without any configuration file. We also would need the program versions to help you a bit m

Re: Removing FreeBSD

Hi, Bnw CmpRpr wrote: Hi. I recently purchased a HDD from a man that runs a data center, and on this HDD is FreeBSD. My problem is I want it off, and for some ungodly reason, it keeps coming back. I cant format the drive with Windows, and I cant load it as a slave to format, either. Any help

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

Hi, Reid Linnemann wrote: Written by James on 02/10/08 21:59>> I just tried a portupgrade out and it failed on linux flashplugin. Apparently, none of the file exist in the ftp repositories anymore. Any idea what happened there? James from /usr/ports/UPDATING: 2006-04-08 Affects: users of

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

Hi, Nikola Lečić wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:40:34 +0100 "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is another reason why Flash is bad, bad, bad. Am I repeating myself? this is known. I mean, it is known that Flash is bad.

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

Hi, just send them an e-mail telling them that you are so sorry about the quality of their website that you have to buy somewhere else. Do not send this to the webmaster, send it to the sales department. Those people fight for the clients and give a shit on technology. Erich Alphons "Fonz"

Re: What version of Freebsd to run

Hi, it seems your question got lost in nirvana. Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, Just received my Dell PowerEdge SC 1435. Going to be a webserver for me. What version of Freebsd should I run on this box ? I want rock solid stability. If stability is your main concern, you will have to stick w

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

Hi, Wojciech Puchar wrote: just send them an e-mail telling them that you are so sorry about the quality of their website that you have to buy somewhere else. Do not send this to the webmaster, send it to the sales department. Those people fight for the clients and give a shit on technolo

Re: Help with su on 6.3

Hi, su works on my 6.3 - but without ssh - just as expected. Do you have physical access to the machine? Try it without ssh to help isolate the problem. Erich Neil Gruending wrote: Hi, Today I upgraded my computer to 6.3, but now root can't su to other users. I login as a regular user (nei

Re: FW: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

Hi, I am also getting these e-mail which land directly in the spam folder. Yes, I also get suddenly mails which seem to be from last month. I did not check where they got stuck. Erich Da Rock wrote: I am getting a serious case of deja vu here- anyone else? I've gotten a whole bunch of thes

Re: question about xwindows

Hi, first of all, you used that bad letter. Just call it X. Never add an s at the end of the other word. Some people are real allergic to this. Robert Falanga wrote: First let me say that I am quite new at freebsd or any other unix type system. My son helped me set up the xwindows (KDE) on th

Re: question about xwindows

Hi, Alphons "Fonz" van Werven wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: first of all, you used that bad letter. Just call it X. Never add an s at the end of the other word. Some people are real allergic to this. no allergic, just matter of proper naming. X Window System is not a kind of windows. KDE

Re: X86 cpu without a FPU - Vortex86sx

Hi, you might look for older version which have had support for a plain 386. 4.x and maybe 5.2 still have had it. Erich Doug C wrote: I am trying to build FreeBSD 5.5 or 6.3 to run on a board that uses the DMP Vortex86sx SOC. This chip looks like a 486sx, no FPU. Is there a way to make a bu

Re: Computers that us FreeBSD. HELP!!!!!!!

Hi, Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Toshiba plus all the PC built around standard components will do. If you would be a bit more specific about price, speed and function of the machine, we could help you better. You might will have problems getting certain machines without operating

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 Xorg issues

Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else having issues getting Xorg working with 6.3? I get a pcidata error when trying to startx. Used to work great on 6.2. Do I have to instal Xorg manually with 6.3? --Joe I upgraded by accident to 6.3 and did not even notice any difference. I starte

Re: GELI encryption and HDD critical temperature

Hi, this problem is caused by how the drives are installed in the machine. Can you add a fan? Erich s.g. wrote: Guys, I notice occasional overheating of my GELI-encrypted hard drives followed by the reboot. This happens when there is heavy activity on the drive - eg when trying to dump part

Re: Is my hard ware sufficient?

Hi, Lone Wolf wrote: I'm not going to serve any one, I just want to take a small test drive with FreeBSD . I run it on a smaller machine than this but with more RAM. Regarding my graphic card, it is 32 MB, is it ok? This sounds like an overkill. I would say anything from 4MB onwards will

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 Xorg issues

Hi, what happens if you simply start X without any configuration? My X runs only if I do not specify a mouse in the configuration file. I also have had to create the file by hand. Erich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:10:14 +0800> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Is my hard ware sufficient?

Hi, Lone Wolf wrote: It is not bundled. Almost nothing is bundled. But it is available in ports and installing it is one of the special options during a standard installtion. it is an option depending on your installation menthod. Please correct me if I'm wrong: GNOME (or KDE) in included

Re: Is my hard ware sufficient?

with FreeBSD since years but it looks strange for people coming from different professions ... Erich Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Lone Wolf wrote: It is not bundled. Almost nothing is bundled. But it is available in ports and installing it is one of the special o

Re: where is the new kernel(GENERIC) file?

Hi, if nothing has changed, the file stayed the same. You can make a simple test. Delete or rename it and start csup again. If it reappears, it has to be the old file. Erich Efren Bravo wrote: Hi there. I downloaded the sources of freebsd 6.3 via cvsup. Where the new kernel file is

Re: Did Microsoft give up?

Hi, NetOpsCenter wrote: Aloha, I just saw on TV news that Micro$oft has announced that it is opening its code for development of its operating system. Does this mean the Open Source Community has proved itself the best way to go? they use this just as another form of outsourcing. As long a

Re: POP3 recommendations...

Hi, in addition to the IMPA server, you could run your favorite application at the server and log on remotely. Erich Peter Harrison wrote: I've not run a POP3 server before, but now I'm getting tired of confusing myself pulling my email down from my ISP across my laptop, desktop, and home

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

Hi, just buy the hard disk of your choice and put it into the case of your choice. I use only disks which come with five years warrenty. On 14 January 2010 pm 20:01:08 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a las 08:12:17AM +0100, Bas Smeelen escribió: > > I use Freecom hard

Package and Ports using PKGDIR

Hi, I use a mix of ports and packages. I keep the downloaded packages stored at the machine. PKGDIR is defined. So, I use pkg_add -r --keep PackageName to download and install the package. When I then compile a port, I will not be able to install it as PKGDIR is defined and used as the direc

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

Hi, On 23 January 2010 am 01:12:19 John wrote: > Now that I've actually gotten the new system to boot, I need to > figure out how I'm going to migrate everything - users, data, > MySQL, NAT, firewall, apache, DHCP, gateway services BIND, > Sendmail, etc., etc from > FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 00:19:34 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:15:19AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On 23 January 2010 am 01:12:19 John wrote: > > > 1) Create a "migrate" account in Wheel with home as > > > /var/migrate so

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 01:08:27 John wrote: > doing this on a new machine! And I don't need any "migration" > storage, because, well, gosh - it's tcp, people! ;) I just > did the first transfer of home, and it went swell: > how did you handle the strange group IDs? > > 10:56AM up 492 days,

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

Hi, On 24 January 2010 pm 14:42:11 John wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:55:14AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > how did you handle the strange group IDs? > > Have not done that yet. My current best plan (which I'm not > really crazy about, but haven't

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

Hi, On 24 January 2010 pm 15:35:20 Doug Hardie wrote: > On 23 January 2010, at 22:42, John wrote: > > I just tried it with FreeBSD 7.2 creating a tar file. Digging > through the file it shows the ascii names for owner and group - > not uid/gid. I un-tar'd it on a Mac and sure enough it used > th

Re: Weird build errors only on 3rd core of quad core CPU

Hi, On 28 January 2010 am 06:54:13 Pieter de Goeje wrote: > I am suspecting a broken CPU, but am not sure. it really looks like. Are you sure it is a quad core and not just a triple core? As already mentioned, you should check the stepping the software tells you but also what is actually writt

gam_server opening 4000 file descriptors

Hi, I have had to set a FreeBSD up again after the hard disk died. It runs now on 7.2. I noticed today that the gam_server opens some 4000 file descriptors. Ok, I have read http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/ All I have found out is that I should increase the number of file descriptors. Is

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

Hi, I did recently an unplaned update of a machine out of the same time. You will face so many changes that simply setting up the machine newly might be less work. Of course, do a good backup to at least two media and then install the new version. One thing I experienced was a bit strange. 8.

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

Hi, On 31 January 2010 pm 19:18:35 Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > On 31.01.2010 06:08, Jeff Mitchell wrote: > > > Strikes me most people will recommend (3) -- nice big new drive, no risk > > of destroying a working machine (can always slap old drive back in), > > easy migration of service by service

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

Hi, On 01 February 2010 am 08:12:56 Jeff Mitchell wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > > 5.4 seemed to actually have many issues with USB; some devices including 7.2. USB was the main reason why I left the machine on 6.x. I planned then an direkt update to 8.0 when i

Re: Shutdown

Hi, On 02 February 2010 am 10:18:28 Jeff Molofee wrote: > I have completely lost the ability to shutdown/reboot/logout... I've > found a few pages on this issue, and nothing seems to resolve the > issue. I'm in wheel, operator groups, hal, dbus, gnome_enable all > set... consolekit showing a t

Re: How far to go with jailing?

Hi, On 02 February 2010 am 09:57:13 Jeff Mitchell wrote: > > Strikes me that setting up jails for bloody-well-every-other > service might be 'fun' .. > it is just your work. As there is still only a single kernel running, there is no real difference. But you must maintain every jail as

Re: Mac applications on FreeBSD

Hi, On 03 February 2010 pm 23:38:55 Bill White wrote: > Will Mac OS X applications run on FreeBSD? Specifically, Microsoft > Office:Mac? If so, does it require special manipulation like hacking > the system kernel and/or application in order to get it to run? Thanks not to my knowledge. On

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

Hi, On 07 February 2010 pm 22:41:29 alex wrote: > > Today I reformatted a machine (network server) thats run FreeBSD nonstop > for at least the last 3 years and installed linux on it. I have a raid 0 > setup with 2 hard disks in the very same machine. can you do the same for FreeBSD? Just inst

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

Hi, On 25 June 2009 pm 13:03:01 Manish Jain wrote: > > If you want to make a case for replacing ed(1), you're going > > to have to come up with some concrete reasons for doing so, > > not just make a (long and hyperbolic) statement that you > > don't like it. > > requirements of being interactive.

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

Hi, On 25 June 2009 pm 19:13:14 Konrad Heuer wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Manish Jain wrote: > > Maybe you're right, maybe not. > > 20 years ago, I've written and edited voluminous fortran code > on a silly rs232 terminal using ed. So, it is possible, and one I do not believe you. This must have

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

Ho, On 26 June 2009 am 04:32:31 Erik Osterholm wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:28:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On 25 June 2009 pm 13:03:01 Manish Jain wrote: > > > > If you want to make a case for replacing ed(1), you're > > > > isn't the

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

Hi, On 26 June 2009 am 09:06:49 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:20:19 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > >On 25 June 2009 pm 19:13:14 Konrad Heuer wrote: > >> Maybe you're right, maybe not. > >> > >> 20 years ago, I've written and

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