Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
Alt-F1 (doesn't respond) > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (doesn't respond) Do you have ``Option "DontVTSwitch" "false"'' in xorg.conf? > Any clue why? Is my command "X :0 vt4" wrong or not supposed to work? What is the correct notation for the

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
; HAL. Those servers are not yet available on FreeBSD but presumably it > > would be possible to use devd for the same purpose. > I'm referring to what Polytropon said about all the "new" stuff required > by X. As I understood him he was talking about the XML-files

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
orks fine on FreeBSD, including proper device identification. My assumption still is: Not _every_ keyboard manufacturer does code the layout into the USB identification. If you tell me I'm wrong with this assumption, I'll be happy. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD u

Re: FreeBSD make buildworld fail: cc: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1)

2011-11-11 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:45:15 +, Traiano Welcome wrote: > And I don't seem to have a src.conf anywhere on my filesystem ... Hmmm. You'll have to create it yourself (just like /etc/make.conf). See "man src.conf" for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeB

Re: No usb keyboard in single user mode

2011-11-11 Thread Polytropon
to identify ukbd0, it could be used as intended for local logins. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: What are the technical differences between Linux and BSD?

2011-11-12 Thread Polytropon
" and also > the DVD "25 Years of Berkeley Unix", and a few others mentioned already. For more details about SysV and explaination of historical contexts I may append: The magic garden explained. The internals of UNIX System 5 release 4. by Benny Goodheart & James Cox. --

Re: apps to display cpu temp

2011-11-12 Thread Polytropon
-cmtcpu CS -cltcpu cyan \ -cmtcs SYS -cltcs green \ -vmin 2.0 -vmax 3.0 -cmvc V -clvc red & Depending on the sensor installation of your particular system, check if the different values do match the hardware. Maybe check from within your CMOS setup for reference values.

Re: apps to display cpu temp

2011-11-14 Thread Polytropon
rnel configuration notes. The OS in question was 7-STABLE. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: Build options built by dialog(1)

2011-11-15 Thread Polytropon
27;s directory. Also note that /etc/make.conf as well as the configuration files of port management tools may contain options. > Once again, this old 650-704-7070-PDP4-KA/KI/KL/KS-CTSS- > Convex-IBMPC-3B1 warrior needs help :-} Impressive path! =^_^= -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: The results of your email commands

2011-11-20 Thread Polytropon
1 /mnt/usb There is a section in the FreeBSD Handbook discussing the topic of how to access MS-DOS formatted media per USB. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Compiler

2011-11-20 Thread Polytropon
y. > Is there any online tool ? I'm not aware of one, but you could use scp to transfer the source files to the server, then use ssh to call the compiler needed (e. g. cc), and then put the results into the proper locations. You could automate this process by a Makefile. -- Polyt

Re: .config

2011-11-23 Thread Polytropon
autostart/ gsmartcontrol/ gtk-2.0/ menus/ Okay, seems that other toolkits also use it. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: HDD formatted in FreeBSD/386 on Win XP

2011-11-26 Thread Polytropon
;: http://ufs2tools.sourceforge.net/ Also try some googling, maybe like this: http://www.google.com/search?q=read+ufs+freebsd+windows+xp Sorry for not being more specific, as I'm not a "Windows" person. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi e

Re: .config

2011-11-30 Thread Polytropon
completely okay. But in / it simply sounds WRONG. Sorry. JUST PLAIN WRONG! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: Failed make buildworld on 8.2-RELEASE

2011-11-30 Thread Polytropon
s ZFS or dtrace). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Re[2]: Problem with jail network

2011-11-30 Thread Polytropon
;> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> This last command seems to have frozen my system. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Confirm that the MISSING SPACE between your "inet" and "xxx.216..." > >>>

Re: problem formating disk with gpart

2011-12-01 Thread Polytropon
s here, but there are the following commands: atacontrol attach channel atacontrol detach channel atacontrol reinit channel atacontrol spindown device [seconds] atacontrol list It seems as they are intended to support &

Re: Xfce and session lock (xlock)

2011-12-01 Thread Polytropon
sually lock the session by pressing ("slapping") the "Help" key (which is the double-width key on the top left on a Sun keyboard, quite handy). I'm not sure if xlock has an option for setting a timeout value... -- Polytropon

Re: Installing an older version of a port

2011-12-01 Thread Polytropon
nt versions (e. g. of other programs it depends on, or libraries). Typically, they are "downward compatible", for example if the port requires libfoobar-1.4, but 1.5 is the current version in ports, install it, and it will still work. In worst case you have to manually add a symlink for t

Re: make buildworld powers down system

2011-12-02 Thread Polytropon
. You can override it in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf by setting Option "DPMS" "false" in the section "Monitor" where you define the values for your monitor. I had a similar experience with an 21" CRT Eizo F980 going to sleep unintendedly. :-) -- Polytropon Mag

Re: make buildworld powers down system

2011-12-02 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:28:09 -0500, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 02:06:26 -0500 (EST), d...@safeport.com wrote: > > > The screen does go into standby and I am not > > > sure what is cont

Re: upcoming 9.0 release

2011-12-02 Thread Polytropon
om the system prior to updating. Then install the ports on your list, as they will pull in any dependencies they need. This makes sure you don't carry "cruft and bloat" from your prior installation that you _maybe_ don't have any actual use for. Needless to say, you sho

Re: upcoming 9.0 release

2011-12-03 Thread Polytropon
" of using the compatibility layers of FreeBSD n for n-1. This refers to the compat-* ports and the COMPAT_* kernel configuration items. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: sudo log messages

2011-12-04 Thread Polytropon
ich you can create your own sudo.conf file from. Also see the notes in "man sudo", section "SECURITY NOTES". Maybe you'll find something useful in the provided documentation at /usr/local/share/doc/sudo/. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy Fre

Re: sudo log messages

2011-12-04 Thread Polytropon
are/doc/sudo/sample.sudoers contains an example. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: I am FreeBSD user.

2011-12-04 Thread Polytropon
n apply it there. Also note that there are manuals for OpenBSD, SunOS, ULTRIX or HP-UX which are definitely not related to the Linux emulation (which is an alternative binary interface - ABI - on FreeBSD). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra m

Re: umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-05 Thread Polytropon
tly accessing. As the USB IDs stay the same for at least the card reader, it should be easy to conclude. :-) USB devices are usually "enumerated" in the order they appear to the system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: drivin' me nuts: permissions and cdda2wav

2011-12-06 Thread Polytropon
tor permpass0 0660 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &qu

Re: Playing .ASX files via/within Firefox ?

2011-12-06 Thread Polytropon
ov/d3-whitmore-grade-80"; After the cache has been filled, IT WORKED! It can even run in fullscreen (or you can do all the tricks mplayer and mencoder is capable of). I'm not sure how to integrate that with Firefox (as I am an Opera person), sorry. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Polytropon
the authors of the original software, not the distributor. This could do damage to F/O products, at least in "Windows" land. Luckily, those who build from source or use precompiled packages from a trustworthy vendor don't have to care for that stuff. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg,

Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?

2011-12-09 Thread Polytropon
aptops come with keys (or key combinations, usually Fn + Cursor or Fn + PF key) to adjust brightness and contrast, or has this lowest-level functionality finally moved into the world of software, i. e. drivers? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user sinc

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:05:05 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:38:59 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: > >> It's still not malware, it's bloatware. Why would you > >> not go to the de

Re: .config

2011-12-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > >> A dirty workaround might be to link /.config > >> to something innocuous.  One could obvio- &

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Polytropon
The EXAMPLES section of the manpages have some ideas on how to do "full updates". Unless you're using a custom kernel and want to follow the RELEASE branch, including the security patches, also consider using freebsd-update. This tool updates the OS (the base system) in a binary way, al

Re: LOCALE issue: Pysycache errors on run

2011-12-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:13:53 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > %env LANG=en_EN.ISO8859-1 pysycache.py ^^ Isn't that supposed to be en_US or en_GB? I'm not sure if there's also en_AU... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: 7.4 -> 8.2

2011-12-22 Thread Polytropon
03000.201008_1 port or package has been installed. However, kernel and world should match each other. After an upgrade from one major version to the next one, it's the best solution to update _all_ installed ports. The "man portmaster" manpage contains a nice example for this situa

Re: LOCALE issue: Pysycache errors on run

2011-12-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:57:28 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 12/22/11 23:20, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:13:53 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > >> %env LANG=en_EN.ISO8859-1 pysycache.py > > ^^ > > Isn't that supposed to be en_US or en_GB? >

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-22 Thread Polytropon
I had set it... I'm also unsure if NFS mounts are "fixed" or "removable" in PK terminology. Regarding your second question, I can't provide any further information. I just assume it's a means to turn a safe multi-user system into an insecure single-user

Re: Archived FreeBSD versions

2011-12-25 Thread Polytropon
x27;ll also find ISO-IMAGES/ in there. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: Clearing Login Screen on Console

2011-12-25 Thread Polytropon
27;s login and logout files (globally /etc/csh.login and /etc/csh.logout, local to the respective user ~/.login and ~/.logout)? You can also test those two commands interactively. I think they are connected to the ^L key, just to make sure if something's wrong with the /etc/gettytab file. --

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-26 Thread Polytropon
ly upgrades everything, no need to mess around, That's basically what "man portmaster" says, even though the options are different and allow more flexibility. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
TRACT: _you_ are not responsible if he does "sudo rm -rf /" or something similar. I'd give the customer only that much access as he actually needs. "Role based models" such as they can be done without root passwords (tools: sudo, super) can help here. -- Polytropon Mag

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:23:31 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 12/29/11 10:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: > >> Obviously, I must comply. At the same time, I cannot continue be > >> accountable for those servers. > &

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:15:45 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > Damien Fleuriot writes: > > > On 12/29/11 10:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: > >>> For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
, this approach might not fit - maybe you want to keep all things binary there, or from source only. > It will be enough for me if someone just point me to documentation. The FreeBSD Handbook. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
ment their code when they > upload it, and document their hardware support additions, are just good > software practices that should be highly recommended and encouraged I fully agree with that statement. If you could, for example, point to documentation you judge _good_, or point at some F

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:15:00 -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:39:58 +0100 > Polytropon articulated: > > > However, there are differences in how you judge documentation > > to be _good_. Talk to a mainframer, and he will tell you a > > different story. Then

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
friendly list. > > > > For reference Polytropon has been rather helpful many times on this > > list regardless of how many faux pas maybe made; I'm sure you're not > > without fault either. > > The fact is that Poly has taken "negativity bias"

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:14:35 +, RW wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:53:25 +0100 > Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > > > I really appreciate that you all, Jerry, Polytropon and Chuck, > > took your time to answer me. But I think some of you understood > > paragraph

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:59:14 -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:22:30 +0100 > Polytropon articulated: > > > >From "man iwn": > > > > Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/1000/5000/5150/5300/6000/6050 > > IEEE 802.11n driver > >

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
. In some teams, you'll find code writers and doc writers separated, but working together. This approach isn't free of problems, but also seems to work. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
hardware (GPU and display) to initiate certain resolutions and color settings, which could make the booting process colorful and entertaining, providing an appealing "first sight effect". Switching between X and not-X should be easier. Doing such settings in the kernel could also benefi

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
"file does not exit." I realize > that I may be missing something o > b! > vious. It seems that you're missing X. :-) You need to install the xorg port (or package via pkg_add -r) along with the driver for your graphics card. If you have successfully accomplished that,

Re: Single user mode exits unexpectedly

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
> However, I can cold boot this machine into single user mode with > nothing unusual. > > This is FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64, rebuilt on 12/26/2011 > > I guess I may have unintentionally changed a config file? Where should > I look? Review your installation steps and _m

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
; problem to operate on the device files associated with a _mounted_ partition. The more I think about it... /var is a really bad choice. Use /scratch, or at least /home. AGAIN: NOT TESTED! MAY BLOWENFUSEN & CORKENPOPPEN! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Polytropon
FreeBSD anymore. If you consider such devices "niche devices", think again: You'll find them near any Internet-connected computer and among the bowels of the whole Internet. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

2012-01-03 Thread Polytropon
(which is the facility stat's -t parameter addresses), but found nothing that is more precise than seconds. Does anyone have a suggestion how to precisely determine the order files have been created? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

2012-01-03 Thread Polytropon
_exactly_ looks like what I'm searching for. It doesn't need to be a "human-readable" date representation. by the way, I'm running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE/x86 of late August 2011 here, file system used is UFS2. -- Po

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Polytropon
st a little bit better suited, that's all. If you have concerns regarding web browsers spying at your browsing habits and reporting them to the authorities, maybe you re-consider using Opera. Keep in mind that even if it's free, it's not really open, if I r

Re: Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

2012-01-04 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:01:32 +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi, > Devin Teske wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon > > > Sent:

Re: Browser

2012-01-05 Thread Polytropon
ons more carefully. But anyway, you type "make" and the intended web browser wants to access X? >From within a UID=0 session? Hmmm... On the other hand, installing google's Chromium browser went through without that kind of anno

Re: FreeBSD on kvm

2012-01-06 Thread Polytropon
you don't want user to be allowed to interrupt autoboot process and escape to the loader prompt, set to "NO" to disable autobooting That means ="0" would mean to boot immediately _with_ the option to get to the boot prompt - you just need to be

Re: FreeBSD on kvm

2012-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:49:41 +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > On 01/06/2012 06:24 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:50:41 +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > >> Leaving delay boot to 10 sec, always block. Set delay boot to 1, it give > >> me some "crash&

Re: creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

2012-01-07 Thread Polytropon
-G instead of -b? > Strange thing also is the fact that the original iso has the size of > ~17MB, but the created iso by me is ~10MB. So it seems I'm missing some > files. You can mount the ISO you've generated and look inside to find out which files may be missing, or if there a

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread Polytropon
ook "Absolute FreeBSD" by Urban and Tiemann, > I found a two line command to cause the bash prompt to > display the file path and current directory. Unfortunately, > the text is quite unclear as to the name of the file to > which these line are to be

Re: creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

2012-01-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 01:11:30 +0100 (CET), Marco Beishuizen wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, the wise Polytropon wrote: > > > If this is depending on the name "[BOOT]", there are > > two ways to deal with special characters in file names, > > if you need to specify t

Re: OpenBSD disk on FreeBSD.

2012-01-08 Thread Polytropon
of the partitions, you can use its content to avoid guessing. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: OpenBSD disk on FreeBSD.

2012-01-08 Thread Polytropon
t; fsck_ufs: /dev/da0s4a: can't read disk label > > $ > > so maybe the partition names are wrong. Can you obtain partitioning information via bsdlabel (disklabel) for the s4 slice to check if FreeBSD can identify the other partitions properly. If you visit the mailing l

Re: How To Enable ls Color?

2012-01-08 Thread Polytropon
sh's initialisation file (typically ~/.cshrc for local use, /etc/csh.cshrc for global effect) and maybe setup an alias: alias ls 'ls -FG' alias ll 'ls -laFG' However, ls should provide colored output even if you don't set the $LSCOLORS variable. It sho

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Polytropon
on for hours. Consensus: Use a port management tool (such as portmaster or even portupgrade) if you don't want to deal with "bare ports". Furthermore, consult the mailing list archives for more elaborate answers and discussions. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Ha

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Polytropon
the default options from wich the package has been built. Also may apply to X.org (HAL and DBUS dependencies, if they're not desired or basically useless). Otherwise, no objections. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra m

Re: starting firefox3 with defined geometry

2012-01-10 Thread Polytropon
users expect working for 30 years. > UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) PDP-11 or K1600? Oh, and EC1056 here (OS/ES SVM OP1). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: starting firefox3 with defined geometry

2012-01-10 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:56:21 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Tuesday, January 10, 2012 a las 09:25:54AM +0100, Polytropon escribió: > > > Answer: Yes, but it's not as easy as it could have been. > > > > Unlike nearly every other X11 program, notably the

Re: BSD equivalent of GNU/Linux cp -rpu ?

2012-01-11 Thread Polytropon
> Would I use something like rsync or pax ? Yes, rsync also sounds promising. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-13 Thread Polytropon
o follow in this matter? I'd like to get some > pointers if possible. Sure. See "man portmaster", section EXAMPLES, where you'll find "Using portmaster to do a complete reinstallation of all your ports" with a complete procedure. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, German

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-13 Thread Polytropon
located relative to the directory associated with the file descriptor fd instead of the current working directory. If faccessat() is passed the special value AT_FDCWD in the fd parameter, the current working directory is used and the behavior is i

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
links" is true when LINK_MAX is exceeded. Per /usr/src/sys/gnu/fs/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h we can determine that #define EXT2_LINK_MAX 32000 is defined. Can you check if 32000 is the amount of directories created? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andr

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
environment. Especially when interpreting the content of the manual is debatable (as it is at least for me in this specific case), a simple test would reveal the truth of what will actually happen. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:22:36 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > The mkdir() function can be found (for UFS2) in the > file /usr/src/sys/gnu/fs/ext2fs/ext2_vnops.c at > line (sources of 8.2-STABLE i386 here). If > you examine what mkdir() does, you'll see that > the "too

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:12:48 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-01-14 09:22, Polytropon skrev: > > How many subdirectories are there? > > ls | wc -l > 32765 Seems that you have reached LINK_MAX of 32767 (according to /usr/src/sys/sys/syslimits.h). The difference of 2, I

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:37:14 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 01/14/12 19:54, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 14 02:32:15 2012 > >> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:28:21 +0100 > >> From: Polytropon > >> To: Robert Bonomi

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-15 Thread Polytropon
7;', its group should be ``operator'', and its mode should be ``0770''. *** So unless you're currently running a dump -L session, you can delete that directory. Maybe you need to be member of "operator" or be "root" in order to do it due to acces

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-15 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:03:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 01/14/12 22:06, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:37:14 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > >> On 01/14/12 19:54, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >>>>From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 14 02:32:15 2

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:32:11 -0600, ajtiM wrote: > On Sunday 15 January 2012 23:54:52 Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Polytropon on Monday, 16 January 2012: > > > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:40:20 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: > > > > Is it permissible to delete the do

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:21:27 +, RW wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:59:59 +0100 > Polytropon wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:32:11 -0600, ajtiM wrote: > > > On Sunday 15 January 2012 23:54:52 Chip Camden wrote: > > > > Quoth Polytropon on Monday, 16 Ja

Re: Extract photo from digital camera that is not USB mass storage device

2012-01-19 Thread Polytropon
es appeared. See "man gphoto2" on how to scan for devices and how to copy (and maybe delete) pictures from the camera. You can also automate this process (using devd) or use a GUI solution for it. I've been using Gtkam in the past for the task of selectively dealing with pictures. --

Re: libjawt.so and libz.so.5

2012-01-20 Thread Polytropon
ly before rebuilding Opera. This is important when rebuilding installed applications after system upgrade (unless you have installed the compat8x-i386-x.y.* port and _not_ installed any further applications). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: freebsd-update and src.txz

2012-01-20 Thread Polytropon
> installed under /usr/src or /usr/src/sys? I think it will be obvious place, which is /usr/src, as "usr/src/" is "hardcoded" in the path prefix of the archive file, so extraction "beginning" in / should do the correct thing. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germ

Re: kernel generic options

2012-01-22 Thread Polytropon
he compat-8x _port_ delivers the compatibility for libraries (versions and their calls) that have changed from v8 to v9. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread Polytropon
uxprinting.org which provides PPD device descriptions that can be incorporated in CUPS which has become the "de-facto standard" for printing? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freeb

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread Polytropon
e way. I have named some examples that show how difficult it can get. That is only for installation. If you consider updating, things may get a bit more complicated. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ f

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:40:50 -0500, David Jackson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:04:56 -0500, David Jackson wrote: > > > I wish to use binary packages and I specifically do not want to compile > > > anything,

Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument

2013-02-09 Thread Polytropon
to > move over several KB of data (wireless setup). That's true. Don't you have any floppies at hand? ;-) (Note: The tar approach also works on floppies, and even across OS borders, e. g. between Solaris and Linux.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument

2013-02-09 Thread Polytropon
o limitations of file name length, possibly also characters in file names, and maximum file sizes. If those factors are not triggered, it seems to be okay. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: building custom kernel on -current: unknown option "COMPAT_LINUX"

2013-02-09 Thread Polytropon
systemsupport (requires COMPAT_LINUX and PSEUDOFS) options LINSYSFS# Enable the linux-like sys filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX and PSEUDOFS) device lindev options COMPAT_AOUT # Enable i386 a.out binary support (note PSEUDOFS is also needed)

Re: building custom kernel on -current: unknown option "COMPAT_LINUX"

2013-02-09 Thread Polytropon
k I had the same question some time ago and found out that if those options are present, the Linux functionality will build properly in the kernel. So I assume they are required. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: packages listing

2013-02-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 22:52:37 -0800 (PST), Dánielisz László wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages > that are not required by any other? You can use sysutils/pkg_cutleaves to determine those. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-11 Thread Polytropon
I can't recommend it enough. > > > > Anton > > Suspend and resume? I'd be interested in that, too (to possibly transform this knowledge to the T60p I have). And docking station support (if you have it)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-11 Thread Polytropon
ing I should check/test in BIOS? The obvious things, but I assume the presets are already fine for a laptop. > I see that power management is enabled in BIOS. > Is that enough? It should be. Note that PM can also include things like spinning down disks

Re: Chmod of /dev/ulptN

2013-02-12 Thread Polytropon
proper method. :-) Make the change you need in /etc/devfs.conf, e. g. perm ulpt0 0664 if you need rw/rw/r. You can also use "own user:group" in a similar way if you need to change file owner or group. See "man devfs.conf" for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germ

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