File size discrepancies

2007-09-28 Thread Modulok
start hunting for corruption? FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: File size discrepancies

2007-09-29 Thread Modulok
KB >difference is probably just due to better packing of directories in >your newly-created tree as compared to your orignal one. So, the size of a directory itself can differ when the contents is identical? This is news to me. Thanks. -Modulok- _

Re: File size discrepancies

2007-10-01 Thread Modulok
Thanks for all the great feedback, guys. It helped. -Modulok- On 9/29/07, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Modulok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So, the size of a directory itself can differ when the contents is > > identical? This is news to me.

Base system config file headers...

2007-10-01 Thread Modulok
formation to be processed by some automated tool of some sort? Basically I just want to know if I can safely delete them in any config files I tweak. Thanks. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

arp: 192.168.1.1 is on lo0 but got reply from...

2007-10-30 Thread Modulok
host has a permanent entry for 192.168.1.1, why would it send out an arp request for an address it already knows (is this normal)? Just trying to make sure it's not something I screwed up... -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-10 Thread Modulok
aggregate populations that for individual components." http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf My 2 cents. -Modulok- On 11/10/07, David Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'd welcome suggestions on how (or wh

Memory leak with conky, anyone else?

2007-12-13 Thread Modulok
ng is seriously wrong. The following is after running for 6.5 days: top; PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 791 Modulok 1 960 280M 278M select 42:37 0.00% conky ps -u; USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND

Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: "Remote Code Execution...

2007-12-14 Thread Modulok
s the package maintainers, are doing an excellent job within the confines of the system they are bound to. Sorry if this is off topic in relation to the samba issue, but one of the replies hit a sore spot of mine. I had to spill a few lines of my own. -Modulok-

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Modulok
t leave well enough alone if you >>don't >>care. There goes any future donations from me and my organization as this is >>more than the first untactful email I recieved from this, I'll donate and use >>other >>platforms. Please don't send any other

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Modulok
>>Personally I cannot think of any situation where one would actually want (let alone need) as many as 3 or more subdirectories in a single directory. "No one will ever need more than 640K of memory!" Be careful. -Modulok- ___ f

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Modulok
> maybe this webforum could help by redirecting some kind of folks to it, > making mailing list less noisy. If we're talking about signal to noise ratio, this thread is getting pretty high on the noise end of the spectrum... -Modulok-

Re: 5 TB server

2008-11-28 Thread Modulok
even under heavy read/writes, but I haven't tried Seagate or any of the other major drive manufacturers in a long time, so they may be about the same. With a little work, your goal of a silent, high-capacity server is quite attainable. It can be pretty cheap to build too. -Modulok- _

Is this a kernel memory leak or a process memory leak?

2009-09-22 Thread Modulok
it's a userland leak right? Anybody? -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: internet access from FreeBSD

2009-09-22 Thread Modulok
cely from FreeBSD or do >> I need something to interface to it... I have no experience with this 'juno', so I can't help there. Perhaps others will have further advice. -Modulok- On 9/22/09, gs_stol...@juno.com wrote: > I have a copy of Greg Lehey's o

Is it possible to setup a graid3 on root?

2009-09-25 Thread Modulok
Just wondering if it is possible to setup a striped root partition (graid3) and still be able to boot from it. Logically, it doesn't sound promising, but has anyone tried this? Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Tune USB latency...is that the right word?

2009-09-26 Thread Modulok
yway" sysctl or something? -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: CMS

2009-10-16 Thread Modulok
ple SSH connection cannot be beat. But maybe that's not what you had in mind :p -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: freebsd.org slow?

2009-11-14 Thread Modulok
Chris, Seems alright now, for me anyway. (Indeed, the ever-irritating "works for me" response. Though it seemed the only thing appropriate here. Sorry. :)~ -Modulok- On 11/14/09, Chris wrote: > Anyone else notice how slow freebsd.org

Wester Digital 'deep recovery cycle' and gstripe?

2009-11-17 Thread Modulok
le' and is dropped from the array, and during that time another disks does the same the array is toast, right? Umm...what are the odds of this occurring? War stories? (The more I type this out, the more it's starting to sound like a bad idea.) Thoughts, ideas? -Modulok- __

Re: Wester Digital 'deep recovery cycle' and gstripe?

2009-11-17 Thread Modulok
Correction, it would be a graid3 setup. Sorry. -Modulok- On 11/17/09, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Modulok wrote: > >> List, >> >> Has anyone used 'Wester Digital Caviar Black' disks in a gstripe? >> >> I'm buildi

Re: recovering data from this disk

2009-12-04 Thread Modulok
You might try freesbie. It's not a fixit shell, it's a full FreeBSD on a live CD. I've had better luck with it in the past than the fixit shell. Worth a shot. -Modulok- On 12/4/09, Tom Worster wrote: > On 12/4/09 1:51 PM, "Henrik Hudson" wrote: > >> O

Re: Temporarily halt boot process to enter encryption keys?

2009-12-09 Thread Modulok
lse: sys.stderr.write("File, '%s' does not exist. Skipping...\n" % script) Hacky, perhaps buggy, but perhaps useful. Unless anyone has a better idea? With a little more refinement you could probably even convert your FreeBSD box into a sysV equivalent, making complex c

FreeBSD 8 USB stack - Thank you!

2009-12-13 Thread Modulok
I just installed FreeBSD 8. I'm not sure which developers had a hand in the new USB stack, but I appreciate the effort put forth. Thank you all! Finally, I can use my printer without having to hack the ulpt.c file. I'm so happy! :-

Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-20 Thread Modulok
e top of the man page. Yes, it bit me today. Looking through the archives, apparently I'm not the only one. Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-21 Thread Modulok
ete some unused slices (not the one FreeBSD was one) and the master boot record remained unaltered. I tried the same with gpart and everything worked fine. I wish I would have know about gpart earlier though. -Modulok- On 12/20/09, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:40:48

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-21 Thread Modulok
Just to clarify, when I say 'unused slices', I mean those of other operating systems I was no longer interested in having around, not as in 'marked as free space'. Thanks! -Modulok- On 12/21/09, Modulok wrote: >>> "As far as I know, "the class

(no subject)

2009-12-23 Thread Modulok
List, Is there a software method (not a microwave oven) to destroy a CD-R? Something like: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/acd0? Obviously the above doesn't work, but the idea is there. Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Program to create/update Windows 'thumbs.db' files?

2010-01-02 Thread Modulok
pdate. Just thought there might be something already out there to do this. Thanks! Happy new year everyone. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

/usr/local/www a tradition?

2008-03-13 Thread Modulok
acing said files in /usr/local was just a tradition or if there was another reason for it. Thanks. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: Tyan Motherboard

2008-03-13 Thread Modulok
> Model S2892GNR > North Bridge AMD 8131, South Bridge Nvidia nForce Prof. 2200 > Other chipset Winbond W83627HF Super I/O ASIC I'm can't say one way or another for the specific board you're looking at, but for what it's worth, I have two Tomcats (S2866A2N

Can one list permission bits numerically...

2008-03-15 Thread Modulok
Perhaps I missed it somewhere in the man page, but is there a way to list files with their permission bits displayed as numeric (octal, as in chmod(1)), instead of symbolic? Something like: ls -lF -imaginaryFlag 0755 4 Modulok Modulok 512 Dec 17 18:39 dir1/ 0644 1 Modulok Modulok 101786

Re: /usr/local/www a tradition?

2008-03-15 Thread Modulok
. I thought it would be easiest to keep all non-system data in one place (/home), but thought I'd best get the general consensus first. You have all been quite helpful. Thank you much. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

ARP(4) spoofing?

2008-03-16 Thread Modulok
(em0) is LAN facing and permanent entry in the arp cache. This happens constantly and is slowly filling my log files. Thoughts? Suggestions? -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ARP(4) spoofing?

2008-03-17 Thread Modulok
rmanent entry in the arp cache. This happens > > constantly and is slowly filling my log files. > What does an "ifconfig -a" on your machine show? It looks like you've > configured your loopback interface to also have 192.168.1.1 [-]Modulok> ifconfig -au inet em0: flag

Re: Can one list permission bits numerically...

2008-03-17 Thread Modulok
> > Perhaps I missed it somewhere in the man page, but is there a way to > > list files with their permission bits displayed as numeric (octal, as > > in chmod(1)), instead of symbolic? Something like: > > > > ls -lF -imaginaryFlag > > > > 0755 4 Modulok

Re: Ports/Packages Philosophy

2008-05-07 Thread Modulok
rom a few custom build options. My 2 cents worth. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: coretemp 70C = CPU too hot?

2008-05-08 Thread Modulok
s page (URL) may be of interest: http://www.heatsink-guide.com/maxtemp.shtml -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-06-03 Thread Modulok
roblem. Enough rambling out of me for now. Best of luck, Gary. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: software raid

2012-02-07 Thread Modulok
backup copy of the password somewhere! A word on graid3: For a multi-user file server, serving lots of small requests, graid3 is about the worst performance you can get due to its raid3 nature. Requests have to be served sequentially, using all disks in the array. Slow in my experience.

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-07 Thread Modulok
ne? If you're removing everything, can you just remove the directory and re-create it? e.g: cd .. rm -rf foo mkdir foo -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Removal of content from the mailing list

2012-02-10 Thread Modulok
On 2/9/12, yt wrote: > Who should I talk to about removing a thread from the mailing list? With the countless number of mirrors this list has, it's pretty much impossible. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Trouble installing py-sqlite3 port for python3.x

2012-03-31 Thread Modulok
n any python env var. I don't have any python config files overriding install locations or anything. My /etc/make.conf file contains no python variables. I can display UTF-8 characters on the console just fine e.g: $ pytho3.2 ... >>> chr(0xe4) 'ä' Suggest

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-02 Thread Modulok
lower depending on the situation, but nothing dramatic on either end. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

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

2012-06-11 Thread Modulok
This thread has united the open source community into doing something useful and constructive. Thanks guys. You really showed 'em. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Modulok
This just keeps going on... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

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

2012-06-20 Thread Modulok
programming? Robotics programming? Are there prefabricated, standard embedded boards and hardware specs that play together like PC parts do? In short, I don't even know where to start. Even general pointers to books/websites would be great. Once I know what it's called

Re: GELI reliability

2011-02-25 Thread Modulok
ives. When done, run a diff on the copied file and the original (or at least a checksum) to see if it worked out. I'd do it for you and report back, but at the moment I don't have the hardware to spare. Let us know how it goes ;-) -Modulok- On 2/25/11, Terje Elde wrote: > Hi, >

Re: Is it safe to run tcpdump?

2011-03-05 Thread Modulok
would be via the logging feature of the PF firewall. You can setup specific rules to capture tcpdump compatible logs and send them either to a log file or to a pseudo network interface (the pflog device) for live viewing. There's a chapter about this covered in Peter Hansteen's "

Password theft from memory?

2011-04-24 Thread Modulok
emory, looking for ProcessA's previously stored password. Does anyone know if this is even possible on FreeBSD? Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-27 Thread Modulok
>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Modulok wrote: >> > I don't know if this is a problem on FreeBSD... >> > >> > Process A requests memory. >> > Process A Stores a plaintext password in memory or other sensitive >> > data. Pr

Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread Modulok
7; -print | tar -cjf result.tgz Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread Modulok
7;tbz' when using the 'j' flag.) find -E . -regex '.*\.txt$' -print0 | xargs -0 tar -cjf result.tbz As for pax, I thought tar could create pax archives too, via the --format pax option? Cheers Everyone! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-que

Re: Filename containing French characters ?

2011-05-23 Thread Modulok
Short answer, use a glob pattern. Assume I have a file named 'à fichier.txt': ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 Modulok Modulok 12 May 23 09:01 ?? fichier.txt mv ?\ fichier.txt aFile.txt Long answer, for those who want to follow along and fix their terminal to display UTF-8, ke

Re: FreeBSD Python version

2011-05-25 Thread Modulok
7;' #!/usr/bin/env python2.7 '''I'll use python 2.7''' #!/usr/bin/env python3.2 '''I'll use python 3.2''' #!/usr/bin/env python '''I'll use whatever version `which python` returns.''' -M

Re: Long Day's Journey into

2011-06-09 Thread Modulok
it has been rock solid ever since. My only complaint is the proCurve has a very inaccurate internal clock, but that is easily remedied by configuring ntpd on it. So yeah, even solid state stuff can die! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: copying hard drives

2011-06-10 Thread Modulok
;s still around. >> which I know dd can do - but I wonder if there is a way to do this so that >> clone drive can be smaller that the original. For this on FreeBSD, use dump(8) and restore(8) commands. Of course, they will only be suitable for FreeBSD, as they are file system (UFS) dep

How to find out which version of PF a given box is using...

2011-09-21 Thread Modulok
List, Is there an easy way to find out what version of PF a given FreeBSD version is using? Currently I'm doing this: grep -iE '\bpf\b' /usr/src/UPDATING Just wondering if I'm missing something. I didn't see any '--ve

idletime in login.conf

2011-10-30 Thread Modulok
users idle for 20 minutes or more. I'm missing something. Other than an autologout shell variables, how do I force idle users to logout? Thanks. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: what are the top python books?

2012-01-25 Thread Modulok
tutor list.) Once you get into the flow of things, look at www.pythonchallenge.com it makes you use the language to solve problems in an interesting way. Then, once you have mad skills check out http://projecteuler.net/ Good luck! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-question

setuid directories - or other option?

2012-02-04 Thread Modulok
ctories. Sounds perfect! BUT I'll be moving to ZFS soon and from what I gather, it won't work there. I guess I could have a cron job run every minute and change offending permission bits, but that feels hacky. Any other ideas? -Modulok- ___ freebsd

Revoke a DHCP lease early?

2013-03-09 Thread Modulok
d --revoke 192.168.1.24 How do you revoke a client's lease prematurely? Thanks. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Modulok
ve lots of case-sensitive usernames in various config files, etc this isn't a real option. By just altering their usernames I'm afraid I'd break the whole damn universe. How can I enable mail for them? Cheers! -Modulok- ___ freebsd

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Modulok
of the > address. Maybe this additiion is required in other cf files > containing Mlocal settings too? Of course it would be nice if > there was a corresponding setting for the mc files which the > cf files are usually generated from... So, best practices aside, this would be a bug in

Re: BSD sleep

2013-05-29 Thread Modulok
ay sleep for 1 hour I expect it to sleep for 3600 local seconds from the time the call is made until it wakes up again without any absurd gotchas. If the real-world time elapsed is more or less than 3600 seconds due to an internal clock error - fine. That's a different problem altogether. M

dd to clone disks - new disk fails to boot.

2010-10-20 Thread Modulok
re some kind of partition (aka 'slice' in FreeBSD terms) table or CHS/LBA black magic going on? Any ideas? Thanks. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Weird file system corruption or something else?

2010-10-24 Thread Modulok
orrupt. What's going on?! How do I fix this? Is there some mount option I missed? An mdconfig issue? A mount_ntfs bug? -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-14 Thread Modulok
self heal and what not, still work? As I understand it, I can just treat a geli like a generic block device, right? Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Broken port?

2010-11-29 Thread Modulok
List, I tried to install django with sqlite support from ports and got the error shown below. What do I do to fix this? Do I email a port maintainer or something? I used portsnap to update my ports collection before trying the install. I'm on 8.1-RELEASE amd64. Thanks! -Modulok- Error

Re: Terrible Clock Skew

2010-12-08 Thread Modulok
ot;100" > kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 > > Is there anything else I could do to debug this? I can't really blame > the hardware because I have these same boards/chips running in Linux > with no clock issues. In the man page for ntpd, you might look into "The huff-n

Re: ZFS

2011-01-01 Thread Modulok
Probably. I think I've got like 10 of these on and off. -Modulok- On 1/1/11, Gabor Illo wrote: > Spam? > > 2010/12/6 > >> Dear Sir/Madam, >> >> Your email was unable reach the intended person that you were sending it >> to. >> For more informatio

Is there a 'Y' (i.e. branch) version of a command pipe?

2011-01-08 Thread Modulok
her way of explaining it would be two write the same stdin to two named pipes and then have two different programs read from each pipe, getting the same output. I can probably write something in Python, but thought I'd ask first. Thanks! -Modulok- ___

Re: Is there a 'Y' (i.e. branch) version of a command pipe?

2011-01-09 Thread Modulok
On 1/8/11, Modulok wrote: > List, > > Is there a command that lets me send standard input to two different > places at the same time? (i.e. non-sequentially.) Think of it like a > pipe character, but with a 'Y' branch instead. Basically, I want to > record standard i

Re: File Listing

2011-01-10 Thread Modulok
map /etc/apmd.conf /etc/auth.conf /etc/bluetooth /etc/bluetooth/hcsecd.conf /etc/bluetooth/hosts /etc/bluetooth/protocols There's also switches for how to handle symbolic links and staying on one file system, depth limits, file limits, etc. -Modulok- ___

The book of pf...

2011-01-17 Thread Modulok
be tacking a firewall project coming up and need to be well prepared. Suggested readings appreciated. Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: harddrive encryption

2011-01-17 Thread Modulok
The real danger, is loss or corruption of the decryption keys. Make backups! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: The book of pf...

2011-01-18 Thread Modulok
> No. The second edition also includes the syntax for FreeBSD 8.x.(It > also includes the old sytnax for OpenBSD as well as the new syntax) > > -- > chs, Thank you! That's what I needed to know. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: The book of pf...

2011-01-19 Thread Modulok
On 1/19/11, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Modulok writes: > >> This book comes in two editions. The first was published in December >> 2007, the second, November, 2010. Does anyone have this? And if so >> would I be correct to get the first edition instead? I know Fr

Installing gnome2 problems...

2011-01-26 Thread Modulok
orked, but the build still failed. I ran gnomelogalyzer.sh as instructed, but it said the cause was unknown. Before I built anything, I updated my ports tree via 'portsnap fetch && portsnap update'. I'm on FreeBSD 8.1 RELEASE on amd64.

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Modulok
So... how about those solid state drives... yup. -Modulok- On 2/13/11, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 07:38:01AM -0500, Jerry wrote: >> >> "Bloat" is a purely subjective term. What one user considers bloat >> could very well be a requirement for

Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

2012-07-21 Thread Modulok
worry about screwing things up. The last thing you want, is to get fired for trying to fix someone else's mistake. Tread carefully. Talk to the boss/owner/client about the pros, cons and risks before taking on such a project. Good luck with your nightmare. -Modulok- _

pkgconf-0.8.9 conflicts...

2012-09-15 Thread Modulok
gin11. pkgconf-0.8.9 conflicts with installed package(s): pkg-config-0.25_1 So, I try this:: pkg_delete pkg-config-0.25_1 But of course I can't deinstall it because several hundred already installed require it. Suggestions

Re: pkgconf-0.8.9 conflicts...

2012-09-15 Thread Modulok
Thanks! Everything works now. I should have read UPDATING before posting. -Modulok- On 9/15/12, Mark Felder wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:33:09 -0500, wrote: > >> >> But of course I can't deinstall it because several hundred already >> installed >> requir

Re: 0

2012-10-16 Thread Modulok
1 On 10/15/12, abdou massnoue wrote: > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > __

vidcontrol - How do I make these persist?

2012-11-26 Thread Modulok
List, If I edit things via vidcontrol, e.g: `vidcontrol grey black` where do I put this to make it persist across reboots on all terminals? Cheers! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: vidcontrol - How do I make these persist?

2012-11-26 Thread Modulok
In /etc/rc.conf and it works :) -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

[no subject]

2013-01-15 Thread Modulok
List, When I boot the FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE install CD, everything boots as expected, except random letters appear in random colors. For example, a pink 'r' or a blue colon ":", etc. What could be causing this? -Modulok- _

LaTeX Error: File `utf8x.def' not found

2013-01-20 Thread Modulok
ving this problem by installing ``unicode-tex``, but I didn't find a ``unicode-tex`` package in the FreeBSD packages list on ftp.freebsd.org. Any pointers? I'm using this with Sphinx on FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE if that matters. Thanks! -Modulok- ___

Re: LaTeX Error: File `utf8x.def' not found

2013-01-20 Thread Modulok
hown below). Also, why is teTeX a dependency? I thought it was no longer maintained? Thanks! -Modulok- Command output shown below: # pkg_add -r latex-ucs Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.3-release/Latest/latex-ucs.tbz... Done. Fetching ftp://ftp.freeb

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Modulok
to the gmirror and the array rebuilds. I've not tried this with gpt, so I can't comment there. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?

2007-07-14 Thread Modulok
e switch as I've tried re-ordering them several times as well as testing them individually. The cables are all good and wired correctly. I've pulled my hair out trying to find what's wrong. I'm not sure I care anymore. I just need something stable enough th

Re: quick router question

2007-07-14 Thread Modulok
conf: gateway_enable="YES" -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?

2007-07-17 Thread Modulok
'll report back to the list if I find anything noteworthy. Thanks guys! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Intel PWLA8391GT NIC...does it work?

2007-07-17 Thread Modulok
The only thing I could find on google was the mention of it in a review on newegg.com, but the guy never mentions what version of FreeBSD he's using, or what driver the card uses. If anyone has this card...does it work and which driver does it use...and any gotcha

Safely power down an individual disk drive (non-SCSI)?

2007-07-24 Thread Modulok
repeat. Fans, memory modules, disk drives, processors (in a multi-processor system of course). Granted, this would likely require some fundamental hardware changes and cost developers a few migraines...I can dream. Anyway, powering down a disk drive? -Modulok

Re: bootable rescue cd?

2007-07-24 Thread Modulok
specify a custom kernel to use and packages you wish to have installed in the ISO file it constructs from your existing installed system. It's worth looking at, even if just to see what makes it tick under the hood. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@

"umount -f" Complete system crash...

2007-07-28 Thread Modulok
something terribly unorthodox to invoke this crash, given the situation? If so, what could be done different? Any pointers would be appreciated. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: How to know the size of RAM memory

2007-08-04 Thread Modulok
l hw.usermem sysctl hw.realmem To get memory usage statistics you can use ps(1) and top(1): ps -u top -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Bizzare routing table entry.

2007-08-07 Thread Modulok
en I attempt to delete it, route(8) gets very upset: root# route delete 0&0xc0a80132 [1] 37343 route: writing to routing socket: No such process delete net 0: not in table 0xc0a80132: Command not found. [1] + Exit 1

Re: Bizzare routing table entry.

2007-08-08 Thread Modulok
You guys are sweethearts. We're ship-shape again :) Thanks all who contributed. -Modulok- On 8/7/07, Modulok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a bizarre entry in the routing table on one my machines. What > is it, and how do I delete it? The output of "netstat -rnf

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-09 Thread Modulok
he rewards are rich indeed. The majority of what you would learn about FreeBSD can also be applied to almost any other flavor of Unix, should you decide to jump ship again. The FreeBSD project has excellent documentation for learning the system, as well as a very s

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