Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-09 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I've just been installing 7.2-RELEASE/amd64 on a fresh/wiped system > that I plan to use as my future "main" workstation. > > Anyway, I've already noticed a couple of things that seem to be different > from prior release that I need to ask about, i.e.: > > 1) It appear

Re: libjpeg.so.9 missing from my installation of FBSD 7.2

2009-11-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Henry Olyer wrote: > I very much appreciate the help I get here. And boy!, do I need it. > > Undoubtedly I did something wrong when I was putting my system together. > But I just can't throw it away -- I'm trying to get some things done. > > So, awk! help! > Where you performing an upgrade of

Re: libjpeg.so.9 missing from my installation of FBSD 7.2

2009-11-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Robert Huff wrote: > Manolis Kiagias writes: > > >> Where you performing an upgrade of an existing system? >> AFAIK libjpeg.so.* libraries get installed by the graphics/jpeg port. >> This was (fairly) recently upgraded, and if you did not follow the >>

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: > A little sidenote: > > On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:04 -0500, Roger wrote: > >> The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big >> slice that covers the >> entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have >> /usr/local >> in a separate s

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Many thanks to those who responded regarding my two questions. > > With regards to the CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE sequence and its ability > (or lack thereof) to cause an immediate shutdown of the X server... > well... I _did_ go and read the Handbook secti

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Gary Kline wrote: > ok, i have my new server-to-be underway but having problems exec'ing > /usr/sbin/sshd. i can ssh out to existing computers, but cannot ssh > or scp stuff in. so my question is: how do i create > /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key ? checking around does no good

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:49:04 +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> By the way Xorg configuration becomes more and more elusive. Initially, >> DontZap was enough. Then it had no effect at all and the fdi file was >> needed. Now seems both are needed. Wha

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Philipp Lengemann wrote: > Am Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:19:29 -0800 > schrieb "Ronald F. Guilmette" : > > >> I _did_ go and read the Handbook section that Manolis Kiagias >> kindly posted a link to, and I have now tried _both_ of the two >> ways describ

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:35:54 +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> If you stick with HAL however (using "AllowEmptyInput" bypasses the >> autodetection), you can just use the policy file in the Handbook and >> just add the "DontZap&qu

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:01:17PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:12:36 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: >>> By the way, it's not a problem if /etc/rc.conf is empty. In thi

Re: where to find libintl.so.8

2009-11-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Len Conrad wrote: > FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0 > > portsnap'd today > > running ver 1.2.8 of > > rdiff-backup > > which gets: > > ImportError: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by > "librsync.so.1" > > thanks > Len > This is installed by the devel/gettext port

Re: Wiki down?

2009-11-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matias wrote: > Can any of you access http://wiki.freebsd.org ? > > Seems down from here I'm getting a 503 error. Same here, I am sure it is probably something temporary though. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:38:45 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:54:14PM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> >>> Gary Kline wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>> There

Re: moving an entire system

2009-11-19 Thread Manolis Kiagias
n dhert wrote: > I want to move the contents of a freebsd72 system entirely to different > hardware (also Intel 64-bit), using dump/restore > These are the filesystems now: > /dev/da0s1a 2026030650876121307235%/ > /dev/da0s1e20308398652820 18030908 3%/tmp > /de

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
John wrote: > Hello list > > I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to > no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are > there gotchas because we are crossing major version numbers. > > You can go the source way or the 'freebsd-update' way. E

Re: TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64)

2009-11-26 Thread Manolis Kiagias
acheron wrote: > Hi, > > I just got the news of someone who build binaries of TeXlive 2009. > > http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html > > This is great news, thanks for sharing. I was looking forward to get TexLive 2009 running on FreeBSD. _

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset

2009-11-26 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Brett Glass wrote: > > However, the machine still boots. And hyperthreading is enabled, > because the Atom has HTT. (I have been thinking of disabling it, > because hyperthreading may not work very well on the Atom. Does anyone > know how to do this properly? I tried setting machdep.hlt_logical_cpu

Re: HTT on Atom (Was: FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset)

2009-11-26 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Brett Glass wrote: > At 04:33 PM 11/26/2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> Though it seems hyperthreading is improved on the Atom and there is no >> penalty for leaving it on. > > Is there really no penalty? With HZ=1000 there are double the clock > interrupts to be

Re: how do i automate building packages?

2009-11-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Gary Kline wrote: > How do I build tarballs of packages that usually wind up in > /usr/ports/packages? > > I thought I had something in /etc/make.conf, but nope. My > build of OOo [311] recently finished on my new to-be server. > Since both the new Dell and this ol

ANNOUNCE: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE Custom XFCE build available

2009-11-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, After the successful release of 8.0, I am pleased to announce that I have updated my little project here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com to provide an XFCE DVD based on the new release. Here are the direct download links: http://freebs

Re: binary upgrade 6.2

2009-12-02 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Alex Huth wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to upgrade a 6.2-RELEASE to 6.4-RELEASE, but `freebsd-update -r > 6.4-RELEASE upgrade` is not available in this version. Can i upgrade this or > do i have to go the old way? Unfortunately the `pkg_add -r cvsup` does not > find the package for it. > > Thx > > A

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Nicky Chorley wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the DVD ISO for FreeBSD 8.0 (i386) and verified the MD5 > checksum before burning. With regards to choosing distributions for > installation, the handbook says > > "If a graphical user interface is desired then a distribution set that > is preceded by an

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Ian Smith wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8 > On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > > > > > > However, I do not see any distributions listed that are prefixed with > > > "X-". The

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith > wrote: > >> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8 >> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> > Removing X from the distributions is a right step

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Reed Loefgren > wrote: > > >> >>> Exactly. Most desktop users want a working system in the minimum of time >>> (Can't blame them for that). >>> Even with packages, we cannot beat an image-based distro, esp. since it >>> will a

Re: APC Smartups 1500va sua1500

2009-12-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 15/12/2009 4:58 μ.μ., Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, > > A post I send yesterday never showed up, so I'll ask again > with the following question: Do we have a driver for the > APC SmartUPS 1500VA #sUA1500? > > gary > > > Use sysutils/apcupsd Works great with all A

Re: freebsd-doc-en

2009-12-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 23/12/2009 2:03 π.μ., ajtiM wrote: > My system: FreeBSD 8.0 > > I had a problem with update freebsd-doc-en > > ** > Error: /undefinedfilename in --file-- > > Operand sta

Re: freebsd-doc-en

2009-12-23 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 23/12/2009 10:54 μ.μ., ajtiM wrote: > On Wednesday 23 December 2009 01:42:32 you wrote: > >> On 23/12/2009 2:03 π.μ., ajtiM wrote: >> >>> My system: FreeBSD 8.0 >>> > >> Something to do with the new Ghostscript version, most of the doc >> package builds are broken. I was pointe

ANNOUNCE: 64 bit 8.0-RELEASE-p1 Custom XFCE build available

2009-12-26 Thread Manolis Kiagias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I have just completed the long awaited, first 64bit build of the 'Custom releases' project hosted here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com You may download the ISO file immediately using the downloads page: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com

Re: Where did the handbook go?

2010-01-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 01/01/2010 10:01 μ.μ., Frank Wißmann wrote: > Hi all! > > I am wondering where my handbook is. Under /usr/share/doc/de/ where it > used to be is nothing appropriate. Has anybody an idea for me? Using > sysinstall to install additional docs didn't solve the problem. Or am > I wrong? > > Greetings

Re: Where did the handbook go?

2010-01-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 01/01/2010 11:34 μ.μ., Frank Wißmann wrote: > Manolis Kiagias schrieb: >> On 01/01/2010 10:01 μ.μ., Frank Wißmann wrote: >>> Hi all! >>> >>> I am wondering where my handbook is. Under /usr/share/doc/de/ where it >>> used to be is nothing a

Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 03/01/2010 7:04 μ.μ., Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > I followed the instructions on > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot > > precisely (annoying, because I can't cut and paste :) on both my VMWare > machine locally and on a VPS from ArpNetworks.com. In both cases, when > booting from

Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 03/01/2010 8:38 μ.μ., Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Manolis" == Manolis Kiagias writes: >>>>>> > Manolis> I've tried the exact steps on vmware fusion (8.0-RELEASE amd64) and > Manolis> didn't notice anythi

Re: FreeBSD versions

2010-01-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 04/01/2010 3:33 μ.μ., Mernoz Rostangi wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if the FreeBSD 8.0 IA64 can be used on 32bit cpu also ? > > If yes, what is the difference between IA64 and x86 versions ? > > :-) > ./m > > > The IA64 is intended for Intel's Itanium Processor. It is 64bit, but will

ANNOUNCE: New Custom XFCE isos based on 8.0-RELEASE-p2 (32 and 64 bits)

2010-01-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Hey all, I have just completed the second 8.0-RELEASE based build of the 'Custom releases' project hosted here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com This time, both 32 and 64 bit isos are offered, both based on 8.0-RELEASE-p2 and using packages from the same ports tree. >From this point on I will t

Re: Installation

2008-03-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mike Clarke wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008, dajaasge wrote: As a relatively inexperienced user of FreeBSD I have little input to offer the community as a whole save to suggest that offering a DVD iso image from which to install would save the sometimes extreme tediousness of disc swappi

Re: USB printer

2008-03-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gligor Lucian wrote: David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:59:38PM -0700, Gligor Lucian >wrote: Does FreeBSD support a USB printer? Yes. You know, while there are printin

Re: USB printer

2008-03-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Pollywog wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008 19:37:47 Manolis Kiagias wrote: I have cups working on my system, printing on locally attached USB printers. I have followed the instructions in dekstopBSD wiki: http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:printing (though I used ports and not

Re: Why not a DVD iso version too?

2008-03-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Miguel Mayol i Tur wrote: I do like to try free OSs and distributions Why not a DVD version at bittorent and or at the FTP? I cannot understand why not on these days. http://www.tuxdistro.com/download.php?id=921&name=FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE-DVD-ISO.torrent _

Re: Anyone have any luck installing openoffice?

2008-03-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Andreas Davour wrote: No I have tried to manually download the package for openoffice, which barfed since dependencies where not present. pkg_add -r didn't work since there was no package where it should have been on the site to download. I have tried to build from source as well and that

Re: KDE doesn't switch between keyboard layouts in FreeBSD

2008-03-19 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Yuri wrote: Hi, I am using 'KDE Keyboard Tool' on FreeBSD-7.0. I have US layout and Cyrillic layouts selected. And on "Xkb Options" tab I selected "Both Shift Keys together change layout" But when I press both Shifts layout doesn't change. Anyone has this working? Yuri _

Re: Error code 1 upon building-installing kernel FreeBSD 7.0

2008-03-20 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Indiana Jones wrote: Hi, If anybody could help, I'd be most grateful. I have been getting this error message during buildinfg and installing a custom kernel on FreeBSD 7.0, after make depend command! options INET # InterNETworking #options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols options SCTP

Re: KDE doesn't switch between keyboard layouts in FreeBSD

2008-03-20 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Yuri wrote: Edit the file: ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals and add the following line in the "Global Shortcuts" section: Switch to Next Keyboard Layout=default(Alt+Shift_L) I already have similar line: Switch to Next Keyboard Layout=default(Alt+Ctrl+K) And it witches English->Cyrillic, but

Re: Auto Mounting USB Sticks and CD's

2008-03-31 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: Hello, I have a FreeBSD 7.0 install, and I am running the Gnome Desktop (2.22) I was hoping that someone had a nice HOWTO or could paste their config files. I want my usb sticks to auto mount when I insert them like they do on PC-BSD I know that if I put gnome_enable in m

Re: utf8

2008-04-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
alexus wrote: how do I make my FreeBSD-7 to understand UTF-8? I have files that i need to transfer, but when i do it converts to ? instead of name The console will not show UTF-8 filenames, though they are stored normally. If you use X, then doing something along the line of export

Re: Delete the Users

2008-04-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi.. I could log-in as a root in the data server of my friend, he give me a task to delete some users that he added in the server few months ago. Unfortunately, I've tried reading in other blogs but none of them is correct, there are some but at the end its not what i want. I

Re: utf8

2008-04-08 Thread Manolis Kiagias
alexus wrote: I'm not an X user, I use shell. On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: alexus wrote: how do I make my FreeBSD-7 to understand UTF-8? I have files that i need to transfer, but when i do it converts to ? inst

Re: A silent UPS - (A little OT, I know...)

2008-04-08 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Da Rock wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 23:45 +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: Da Rock wrote: This may sound like a strange question, but is there a way to mute the voice box of a UPS? I have a highly specialised application for one- I need a mobile desktop pc (very cheap). I need to setup a

Re: A silent UPS - (A little OT, I know...)

2008-04-09 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 08:24 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 01:02 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 23:45 +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: Da Rock wrote: This may sound like a strange

Re: Question on Hardware support

2008-04-09 Thread Manolis Kiagias
dick wrote: I am trying to find the hardware support list for the releases and have been unsuccessful. Any ideas where to look for this? My reason is that I have a new computer with the ASUS motherboard in an Intel Core2 Duo configuration. This board has an ATTANSIC Technology Corp. L1 Giga

Re: swapping hardware

2008-04-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I'm currently running FreeBSD 6.2 on a PIII 550 with 384 of ram and 10 gig drive- I got my hands a "new" box it's a PIV 1.8 with 1 gig of ram- I was wondering if it were possible to take the hard drive out from the older machine ( it's a dell dimension) and put it in

Re: swapping hardware

2008-04-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Believe me , I wish I knew how to do something weird with the kernel- I'm still wet behind the ears in BSD land. This machine , believe it or not , I use a mail filter server- BSD/CLAM/SA and EXIM- and I only putty into it- no X no video nada- but it should* recog

Re: No disks found during install (was: Problem! Help me!)

2008-04-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
kostis papa wrote: Hello, I have a problem with installation. I choose country, keyboard and then I can not continue installation, because it says "No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being ." My pc is new (core 2 quad, sata 500-SeaGate) I have installed the windows

Re: Limiting apache's upload speed?

2008-04-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Patsy wrote: Hello list, I am running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC), I am running Apache 2.2.6_2 and hosting a small website with a few relatively small (500kB-900kB) photographs. I am doing so from a home ADSL connection in the UK and so I am estimating my upload capacity at 500kb/s. When

Re: overnight upgrade interrupted by questions

2008-04-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Pollywog wrote: I did 'portupgrade -aP' last night but this morning I found that one package had some questions for me about how I want to compile the package (wants to know which options I want). This meant that no packages were compiled since the cups package asked questions. Is there a

Re: FTP server behind firewall?

2008-04-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Gilles wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:06:24 -0400, Jon Radel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What control do you have over the firewall? One of the cleaner solutions would be to run an ftp proxy on the firewall, such as that supplied with pf. See ftp-proxy(8) or http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ftp.

Re: RTL8111C driver for FBSD7

2008-04-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Da Rock wrote: Hey, hey... I made a boo boo and ordered a unit with this nic onboard (truthfully, I never thought I'd have any trouble since I had done this before). Loaded 7 and couldn't find the nic. A little investigation found that the nic was the above, and a little further found that ther

Re: RTL8111C driver for FBSD7

2008-04-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 10:11 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: Hey, hey... I made a boo boo and ordered a unit with this nic onboard (truthfully, I never thought I'd have any trouble since I had done this before). Loaded 7 and couldn't find the nic

Re: RTL8111C driver for FBSD7

2008-04-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:08 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 10:11 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: Hey, hey... I made a boo boo and ordered a unit with this nic onboard (truthfully, I never

Re: UFS2 Journaling implementation detail

2008-04-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Unga wrote: --- Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unga wrote: Hi all I'm looking for papers or documentation covering details of the UFS2 Journaling implementation of the FreeBSD. Please give me links to them if you guys know any. Many thanks in advance.

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 not executing /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ at startup

2008-04-19 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Marco Beishuizen wrote: On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:44:59 -0600 Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: are you changing the kernel security level in your rc.conf file? if so, comment it out and reboot. that was an issue i had on a 6.x box recently and commenting out the security level change fixed it

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 not executing /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ at startup

2008-04-19 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Marco Beishuizen wrote: On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:20:36 +0300 Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: securelevel -1 is fine. This is the default: quote from init(8): -1Permanently insecure mode - always run the system in level 0 mode. This is the default initial value.

RFC: Article on implementing UFS journaling on desktop PCs

2008-04-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
I have just completed an article (mostly how-to) for implementing UFS journaling on a typical desktop PC: http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/gjournal-desktop/article.html It focuses on detailing an easy to follow, repeatable procedure, to install FreeBSD on a typical PC and enabl

Re: RFC: Article on implementing UFS journaling on desktop PCs

2008-04-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Manolis Kiagias escribió: I have just completed an article (mostly how-to) for implementing UFS journaling on a typical desktop PC: http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/gjournal-desktop/article.html It focuses on detailing an easy to follow, repeatable

Re: RFC: Article on implementing UFS journaling on desktop PCs

2008-04-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Manolis Kiagias escribió: I have just completed an article (mostly how-to) for implementing UFS journaling on a typical desktop PC: http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/gjournal-desktop/article.html It focuses on detailing an easy

Re: RFC: Article on implementing UFS journaling on desktop PCs

2008-04-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Manolis Kiagias escribió: I have just completed an article (mostly how-to) for implementing UFS journaling on a typical desktop PC: http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/gjournal-desktop/article.html It

Re: RFC: Article on implementing UFS journaling on desktop PCs

2008-04-25 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Joshua Isom wrote: On Apr 24, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: I have just completed an article (mostly how-to) for implementing UFS journaling on a typical desktop PC: http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/gjournal-desktop/article.html It focuses on detailing an

Re: RFC: Article on implementing UFS journaling on desktop PCs

2008-04-25 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Unga wrote: --- Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have just completed an article (mostly how-to) for implementing UFS journaling on a typical desktop PC: http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/gjournal-desktop/article.html It focuses on detailing a

Article on implementing UFS journaling on desktop PCs (updated)

2008-04-27 Thread Manolis Kiagias
I have just updated my recent article on journaling for desktops: http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/gjournal-desktop/article.html Main differences: - The abstract is somewhat shorter - Separate providers for journal and data are needed only when the partition to be journale

Re: [6.3] Keeping host up to date

2008-05-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Gilles wrote: Hello I have some newbie questions: 1. Am I right in understanding that running "make ; make install" in /usr/ports/ turns the port into a package, so that when I run "pkg_info", it doesn't make any difference whether a package was downloaded directly from the Net or compiled loca

Re: living with freebsd

2008-05-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
prad wrote: i'd like to know how people live with freebsd. do you use only ports or only packages or a mixture? do you upgrade from version to version using freebsd tools or do it manually? do you have a different approach regarding the above depending on whether it is for a server or a desktop?

Re: SMB share not mounting at startup

2008-05-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Stephen Allen wrote: I am trying to mount an SMB share at startup. I have configured (as root) .nsmbrc so I don't have to type a password. When I run "mount -a", it mounts beautifully. However, when restarting the server, it will not mount automatically. According to rc.conf(5), smbfs is pa

Re: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-09 Thread Manolis Kiagias
prad wrote: i can't seem to boot the cdrom on older hardware (500MHz and down). i read somewhere that the older drives aren't supported by the installation cdrom. i want to create a series of 'dumb terminals' which can ssh -Y into a faster machine. if necessary i suppose i can floppy in and th

Re: Xfce with graphical login

2008-05-11 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Nishita Desai wrote: Hello, I just installed Xfce4.4 on FreeBSD 7.0. I have been trying to get it to directly give me a graphical login. The Xfce manual says this can be done using gdm. According to it, I need to copy the example file "xfce44.desktop" into /usr/X11R6/share/xsessions. The example

Re: freebsd-update question

2008-05-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
RJ45 wrote: hello, I have updated qith command freebsd-update and hte command freebsd-update fetch shows me I have already hte latest patch level 7.0-RELEASE-p1 anyway uname -a shows me always 7.0-RELEASE #0 how can I do to have uname to show me the correct patch level ? thanks Rick ___

Routing to internet addresses ending with 255

2008-05-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
I had this weird problem today, and I would like to know what caused it: I have two home servers, on different locations, on two ADSL lines using dynamic DNS. One is running Debian, the other FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. I usually ssh from one to the other. Today, the debian server had a public (inte

Re: Routing to internet addresses ending with 255

2008-05-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have two home servers, on different locations, on two ADSL lines using dynamic DNS. One is running Debian, the other FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. I usually ssh from one to the other. Today, the debian server had a public (internet) IP ending in 255. The FreeBSD 7.0 system ref

Re: Routing to internet addresses ending with 255

2008-05-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Friday 16 May 2008 12:32:35 Manolis Kiagias wrote: I had this weird problem today, and I would like to know what caused it: I have two home servers, on different locations, on two ADSL lines using dynamic DNS. One is running Debian, the other FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE

Re: Routing to internet addresses ending with 255

2008-05-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i don't think it's freebsd version dependent, unless developers made a bug. all these systems are behind ADSL routers and use NAT. Their internal addresses are in the 192.168.0.X range. I could easily consider this a problem of the (cheap) ADSL routers, but 6 very l

Re: [SOLVED] Routing to internet addresses ending with 255

2008-05-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: i don't think it's freebsd version dependent, unless developers made a bug. all these systems are behind ADSL routers and use NAT. Their internal addresses are in the 192.168.0.X range. I could easily consider this a problem of the (c

Re: [SOLVED] Routing to internet addresses ending with 255

2008-05-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Checking with the internal log of the router confirmed the suspicions of people answering my question: The adsl router is responsible for the problem with the 255 address. It seems it cuts out these addresses as some kind of "attack". No changes in configuration (firew

Re: 486 Install??

2008-05-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Thomas F Simpson Jr wrote: I have a 486 DEEP GREEN system I would like to put some version of FreeBSD on (I have my reasons). I have other inquiries out on this, but if I correctly recall (and that is a real rusty recall at best), the max memory you could get on one of these beasts was 48MB

Re: Asus eee (was Re: G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?)

2008-05-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Friday, January 18, 2008 a las 10:41:28PM -0500, Garance A Drosehn escribió: At 9:14 AM -0500 1/2/08, Ed Maste wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:20:22PM +, James Jeffery wrote: Before i end the toipic, anyone got any feeback on the Asus Eee

Re: Asus eee (was Re: G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?)

2008-05-23 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, May 21, 2008 a las 07:44:31PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: ... - Note you can install either to SSD or an external SDHC. The SSD is somewhat faster though. (But you can get larger SDHCs). I am dual booting Linux and FreeBSD on mine right

Re: How to mount memory stick on sony vaio laptop?

2008-05-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Andrei Flame wrote: I've just installed FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE on my Sony Vaio VGN-FE31ZR laptop with built-in memory stick duo pro slot. The problem is that I can't get memory stick card detected and mounted. When I'm inserting a card, nothing happens - no new messages in dmesg and /var/log/mes

Re: How to mount memory stick on sony vaio laptop?

2008-05-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Andrei Flame wrote: pci10: at device 3.2 (no driver attached) This is, I am afraid, your card reader device :( You're right about the device, thanks! My pciconf -lv says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10:3:2: class=0x018000 card=0x81ef104d chip=0x803b104c rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 ven

Re: mounting and using cd-rw media from a non root account

2008-05-25 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Desmond Chapman wrote: I'm still stuck on the command line for this one. How do I give the user permissions and allow an application such as k3b to access the device? Any and all links to howtos or your own method is welcome. Thank you in advance. I have the following in my /etc/devfs.co

Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?

2008-05-25 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mark Ovens wrote: Currently using a Radeon 8500LE but since u/g to xorg 7.3 I've had nothing but trouble with X hanging/crashing/locking-up. From what I've read, the state of the radeon drivers leaves much to be desired and although some people seem to have trouble with nVidia cards they ap

Re: Asus eee (was Re: G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?)

2008-05-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, May 27, 2008 a las 04:16:44PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: El día Friday, May 23, 2008 a las 01:18:06PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Yes, I am already planning to upgrade :) At this time, it is not available in Greece (though I have

Re: freeBSD7 in a vm (vmware fusion) - Shared object "lib.so.6" not found

2008-06-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
kevin kempter wrote: Hi All; This seems to be more of a lib not found than a vm issue: I've done this: 1) installed freeBSD 7 in vmware fusion (v 1.1.3) 2) selected to install vmware tools from the menu 3) logged into the console as root 4) mounted the vmware virtual cd 5) copied the vmw

Re: Vmware/Xorg blues

2008-06-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
kevin kempter wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: kevin kempter wrote: Hi All; This seems to be more of a lib not found than a vm issue: I've done this: 1) installed freeBSD 7 in vmware fusion (v 1.1.3) 2) selected to install vmware tools from the me

Re: Upgrading Kernel on a Remote Server

2008-06-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Camilo Reyes wrote: I don't have much experience with this other than once I ran a server from home and remotely ssh'ed to it to do maintenance. One of the things I learned from that experience was that you can easily patch your services any time there is a new threat, all you have to do is

ANNOUNCING: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Custom XFCE builds (32/64bits) released

2011-04-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I have just completed an 8.2-RELEASE based build of the 'Custom releases' project hosted here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com Both 32 and 64 bits are available for download: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/downloads-page This release

Re: How to customize login?

2011-04-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 04/16/2011 09:06 AM, 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 banner to be the only thing displayed. > Thanks to anybody helpin

Re: pkg_add problem

2011-04-20 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 04/19/2011 11:35 AM, H.Erkin ATAK wrote: > I am running freebsd 8.2 on virtualbox on an ubuntu machine. > > I am running gnome and have network access no problem. > > But I can not add any packages via pkg_add. > > It gives can not fetch ftp address. > > I tried different mirrors but it did not

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote: > >> >> This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory >> and will use the specified make file with name your_own_make_file_name . > make -f your_own_make_file_name > > Yes, I did see that, but I interpreted that to mean my make file > *rep

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 04/22/2011 10:33 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote: >>> This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory >>> and will use the specified make file with name your_own_make_file_name . >> make -f your_own_make_file_nam

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 04/24/2011 11:26 AM, Carl wrote: > On 2011-04-22 4:13 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> On 04/22/2011 10:33 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >>> On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote: >>>>> This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory >>>&g

Re: X on Xterminals but not on console

2011-10-06 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 6/10/2011 6:24 μμ, n dhert wrote: Hi, In your labserver, do you have a graphical login window at your labserver or not ? I don't want a graphical login, since I can't get anymore to the login prompt via Ctrl Alt F1 No graphical login. My lab server stops at the console login prompt. In KDM

Re: changing baud rate without recompiling

2011-11-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 9/11/2011 11:11 πμ, saeedeh motlagh wrote: i know adding the "COM_CONSOLE_SPEED=115200" to make.conf and recompile it, change the baud rate but i want to know if there is a way to change it without recompiling. please let me know if there is any way to do that. my FreeBSD is 8.0 thanks. I a

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