Re: How to achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?

2013-02-12 Thread Polytropon
implement this and add a custom rc.d-style script (or even few lines in ye olde /etc/rc.local). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Polytropon
dual experience, Opera offers the best integration of mouse and keyboard. It's sufficiently fast and renders stuff acceptably correct. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-question

Re-sending selected e-mail messages

2013-02-13 Thread Polytropon
message should already be properly pre-composed. What is the easiest way to do this without reinventing the wheel, or should I? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questi

Re: Windowmaker build error, freebsd 9.1 inotify_init

2013-02-13 Thread Polytropon
LDFLAGS+= -L${LOCALBASE}/lib To be changed into: LDFLAGS+= -L${LOCALBASE}/lib -linotify Then try to build WindowMaker again. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ f

Re: Quota as a boot time module

2013-02-16 Thread Polytropon
a module, which implies you have to compile it into your (custom) kernel. In /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES there is an entry for quota. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: bsd lost partition recovery

2013-02-17 Thread Polytropon
Z and get everything back. :-) Proprietary (and expensive) tools like "R-Studio" or "UFS Explorer" can still be considered worth a try. Their trial versions are for free. "UFS Explorer" even works using wine (I've tried it). If you have one or two spare disks, initia

Re: How to add zfs support to FreeBSD?

2013-02-18 Thread Polytropon
dding zfs_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf and issuing the command "service zfs start" the ZFS subsystem should be up and running. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-que

Re: How to add zfs support to FreeBSD?

2013-02-18 Thread Polytropon
inary. If the exact config list (from the kernel _configuration_ file) is not plain-text part of that file, grep will not find the text you're grepping for. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: How to add zfs support to FreeBSD?

2013-02-18 Thread Polytropon
t; else echo "ZFS is currently _not_ running." fi Check on a system running ZFS. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: clicking on URL'S in mutt.

2013-02-18 Thread Polytropon
rbird to access it? If I remember correctly, KMail and Thunderbird are using the same storage format (mbox, I think)... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: sh script & files

2013-02-20 Thread Polytropon
x27;re using infront of >, as the command you've shown will simply generate a null file (file with no actual content). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: cdrecord: Please report.

2013-02-21 Thread Polytropon
e. I've left burncd somewhere in FreeBSD 5 and I'm now using cdrecord exclusively. When run as a !root user, make sure permissions to access the recorder are set properly. Maybe add an alias for your dialog shell. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra m

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Polytropon
eBSD Foundation. > | (...) Because you need to exclude 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1990 which are missing in list of years. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freeb

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:14:48 +0100, vermaden wrote: > > > Od: "Polytropon" > Do: "vermaden" ; > Wysłane: 17:11 Sobota 2013-02-23 > Temat: Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg? > > > On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:47:10 +01

Re: BAD link

2013-02-25 Thread Polytropon
//www.virtualbsd.info/ > What EXACTLY is PC-BSD? It's an operating system and applications package with preinstalled and precondigured desktop environment and custom installer, using FreeBSD at its heart. See: http://www.pcbsd.org/ > Does it install on a WINDOZE OS ? No. You

Re: how to disable bluetooth

2013-02-27 Thread Polytropon
n to use wifi. You can try to omit Bluetooth entirely by defining the symbol WITHOUT_BLUETOOTH=yes in /etc/src.conf and rebuilding your system (kernel and world). See "man src.conf" for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD u

Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-28 Thread Polytropon
y. Their trial versions are for free. "UFS Explorer" even works using wine (I've tried it). Note: I've dealt with a comparable problem some months ago when a "Windows" PC has "repaired" a FAT file system on a USB stick, with the "excellent" result

Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:55:45 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: > On 02/28/13 03:02, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:08:58 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: > > Obviously we're talking about a USB stick, so no TB amount > > of data has to be processed. Fi

Re: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ certificate error

2013-03-01 Thread Polytropon
e used for several IP addresses. Both www and wiki are located at 8.8.178.110 (returned by "host" command), so there might be a DNS issue or something comparable strange... I've checked with Opera 11.50 here, no problems. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: rm -R

2013-03-02 Thread Polytropon
m (if I remember correctly), search strings usually needed to include + (AND) and - (AND NOT) if you wanted to construct a search term consisting of more than one word. With google implying a "+ prefix" for every search word _and_ assuming they should be as near as possible to each ot

Re: rm -R

2013-03-02 Thread Polytropon
es to "rm -R -- -S;". I'd be interested in what happens when you have such a directory name and press PF8 in the Midnight Commander in order to delete it. Now go ahead and create a file "*" in / and tell a junior sysadmin to remove it. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Grepping though a disk

2013-03-03 Thread Polytropon
functionality I need in terms of data recovery? Results so far: The disk in question is a 1 TB SATA disk. The command has been running for more than 12 hours now and returned one false-positive result, so basically it seems to work, but maybe I can do better? I can always continue search by add

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Polytropon
memory is not working well anymore, so I can only remember parts of it... :-( -- 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: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Polytropon
/ad6 | strings". (Interesting idea, I will investigate this further.) The file size of the file I'm searching for is less than 10 kB. It's a relatively small text file which got some subsequent additions in the last days, but hasn't been part of the backup job yet. I can only re

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:29:00 +, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:15:24 +0100 > Polytropon wrote: > > > But I don't know how to do this. From reading "man dd" > > my impression (consistent with my experience) is that > > the opt

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-04 Thread Polytropon
till hardware failures can corrupt data on all participating disks. > As far as I know however it will not save your > bacon in the event of a fumble fingers "rm -rf *" moment. Only frequent > and routine actual backups can do that. Correct. It&

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-05 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:19:09 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <20130304125634.8450cfaf.free...@edvax.de>, > Polytropon wrote: > > >On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:35:30 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> Now, unfortunately, I have just been bit

Re: process eating up all memory - what should happen next?

2013-03-07 Thread Polytropon
hile e. g. only 50% of the available RAM is being used by _that_ process (and therefor still leaving enough resources for other system and user processes). You could also monitor resource consumption with tools like top, htop, vmstat or systat in adjacent xterms while you run the test, seeing &qu

Re: Raspberry Pi

2013-03-07 Thread Polytropon
ing a google search. :-) -- 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

Re: fetchmail/sendmail: Domain of sender address does not exist

2013-03-07 Thread Polytropon
was the solution. See "man fetchmail" for the corresponding command line options (and you could probably add -v to see what's actually going on). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: fetchmail/sendmail: Domain of sender address does not exist

2013-03-07 Thread Polytropon
tion involved logging into the ugly webmailer of my ISP and deleting the few offending messages manually. It should be easier than that. :-) Thanks in advance. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: How to know % of read file in cat?

2013-03-09 Thread Polytropon
amount of data processed should be possible somehow. PS. cat-less command: fossil import --git file.fossil < file.git -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Polytropon
bout the new installer. This will also cover dual-booting. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/disks.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:49:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > "Partition Magic" > > I would avoid to use proprietary software, ntfs, fat16 and fat32 are > full supported by Linux gparted, available f

Re: While Updating doxygen

2013-03-10 Thread Polytropon
equired for building the documentation. Is the file /usr/local/share/doc/doxygen/html/infoflow.gif present on your system? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: While Updating doxygen

2013-03-10 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:00:57 -0500, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: > On 03/10/13 16:59, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:45:31 -0500, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: > >> (./install.tex [5] [6] [7] [8] > >> Overfull \hbox (127.39917pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 231

Re: While Updating doxygen

2013-03-10 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:11:59 -0500, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: > On 03/10/13 17:06, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:00:57 -0500, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: > > >>> Is the file /usr/local/share/doc/doxygen/html/infoflow.gif > >>> present on your syst

Re: Using bsdinstall to create MBR

2013-03-12 Thread Polytropon
and disklabel / bsdlabel. You should be able to access them via the shell. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Port devel/arduino serial port problems [SOLVED]

2013-03-14 Thread Polytropon
e see any problems with making the lock directory world > writeable? Simply add your user (or the account the program is running under) to the "dialer" group. This has been a common method to allow users to access dialing programs (which were reserved for root use without this group addition

Re: Port devel/arduino serial port problems [SOLVED]

2013-03-14 Thread Polytropon
ock - isn't that > what /dev/cuaU0.lock is for?) No, those are actual devices, see "man 4 uart" for details. The subtree /var/spool is primarily used for things like mail and printer subsystems. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi enn

Re: how run snort in quiet and deamon mode

2013-03-17 Thread Polytropon
you can use the system's "daemon" command to basically do what -D would do, or use the port "detach". daemon snort -q See "man daemon" for options you might need to add. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe,

Re: Current Way To Update Sources & Rebuild World/Kernel?

2013-03-17 Thread Polytropon
pdate what I need? As explained above - or make yourself familiar with SVN, which is the CVSup / csup replacement. > Is there a page that describes the > steps to accomplish this? See "man freebsd-update" and the comments in /etc/freebsd-update.conf for details. Also see the Handboo

Re: Current Way To Update Sources & Rebuild World/Kernel? -- SOLVED

2013-03-20 Thread Polytropon
OS, plus configuration templates that can be used to do a source incorporation via SVN. > And following the steps listed in comments in > /usr/src/Makefile worked for building and installing the sources. I've relied on them for many years, and they seem to work happily. :-) --

Re: kernel config file

2013-03-21 Thread Polytropon
n of modules. > I need the options statements for those items so I can compile then into > the kernel. If I remember correctly, you'll need "device sc", "device vga" and "device splash" for the splash screen and screen saver support. Also see /usr/src

Re: No sound with Thinkpad X60

2013-03-21 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:27:22 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: > sound_enable="YES" Dont know if that should be in loader.conf or > rc.conf. Not having it myself. That would be /boot/loader.conf, see /boot/defaults/loader.conf for examples (e. g. how to specify snd_hda use). -- Poly

Re: mutt and http//url???

2013-03-22 Thread Polytropon
line break emphasizer ('+' character) in the display. Have you tried set markers=no in your ~/.muttrc? Or was it unset markers Something with "markers"... I'm not fully sure if this is the setting you're searchin

Re: mutt and http//url???

2013-03-22 Thread Polytropon
complicated. An intermediate solution could be to maximize the whole terminal application and use virtual desktops (workspaces) to switch between MUA and web browser. Still that's suboptimum. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Client Authentication

2013-03-24 Thread Polytropon
just a broad suggestion. Many things in this idea depend on what software the client systems use, and how this software actually deals with security-related settings and procedures. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: line lengths in /etc/hosts

2013-03-27 Thread Polytropon
ams that read this file... -- 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 &quo

Re: OT: The future of USENET?

2013-03-27 Thread Polytropon
and more "service- oriented" ones like the many web-based platforms. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re:

2013-03-29 Thread Polytropon
wrong in a try first? Maybe first PC-BSD, then "normal" FreeBSD? In worst case, he would be able to download some Linux distribution (and I second your suggestions of Ubuntu and Mint, maybe add openSuSE?) and use that instead. There is no reason to stay with &quo

Re: EOL

2013-03-29 Thread Polytropon
stallations over a long time. Of course you will need to perform updates, but this is very easy to do, as I said. You may check "The FreeBSD Handbook" for more information. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re:

2013-03-30 Thread Polytropon
ture that emphasizes how non-invasive Linux and BSD treats their users. > But I don't hold > that against bsd. You can't be all things to all people, bsd is very > good for servers and linux is good for home use, and they each have > their place. In the end, all of them

Re: use of the kernel and licensing

2013-03-31 Thread Polytropon
t comes from, or any file it is accompanied by), how would you be able to conclude something _else_ than this is public domain with _no_ copyright holder? Note that copyright and license are two different things. A skilled lawyer will be able to explain it more precisely and show you how it applies

Re: use of the kernel and licensing

2013-03-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:43:27 +0200, Michael Ross wrote: > On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:31:43 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:39:29 -0400, Joe wrote: > >> Does one have to file legal paper work with the government to be issued > >> a copyright on

Re: smartd

2013-03-31 Thread Polytropon
that might be the reason why smartd doesn't automatically start. Sadly I can't find a reference to how to edit rc.conf in "man smartd"; at least the manual explains the options well... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happ

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-02 Thread Polytropon
guration, even though it's mostly directed at mobile use (laptops and such). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-02 Thread Polytropon
f whoever write and distributed this realized that he/she could > be sued for copyright infringement for about 5 of the simple tunes that are > embedded in that thing. Sad but true. > :-( Is it really that bad already? "Patent of swinging on a swing or exercising a cat" time? ;-)

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-03 Thread Polytropon
verified backup or the successful completition of a task. > >Can you hear a sound? > > Yes. This means two things: Your speaker is present and works, and the /dev/speaker mechanism also works. > >> I wonder if whoever write and distributed this realized t

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-03 Thread Polytropon
even if you've never met him), de impera et virtutibus loquitur, as the lawman would say. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:51:21 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > Polytropon writes: > > > On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:55:20 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > > No, that does not work. Read the manpage to recognize clearly > > _what_ kind of input the /dev/speaker d

Re: Restaging from scratch

2013-04-03 Thread Polytropon
tions covering the topic both in The FreeBSD Handbook and the FAQ, but this article is a very good "concentrate". -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-04 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 05:23:31 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 461, Issue 6, Message: 1 > (sorry about the threading) > On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:12:17 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:10:59 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >

Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Polytropon
Tube video, why not use youtube-dl and mplayer? I haven't tested it for those particular two videos, but it tends to work for everything. :-) I cannot provide a reference regarding Firefox (with "Flash" installed as described in the Handbook) because it free

Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Polytropon
FLV file can be played comfortably with mplayer. I'm not sure in how far this combination can be integrated with the web browser... Again, it's worth noting that you should not touch a running system. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Ger

Re: Power switch not working

2013-04-06 Thread Polytropon
seconds to work. You can easily examine if it's working properly when you have a look at the system messages on ttyv0. I cannot remember the correct messages because I'm too lazy to press this switch when Ctrl+Alt+Moon is so much more comfortable - thank you, Sun Microsys

Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-07 Thread Polytropon
leges. Gain access to sensitive data. Highly Critical." and "Gain access to a system and execute arbitrary code with local user privileges. Bypass security systems. Gain access to sensitive data. Extremely Critical.", there might be a reason not to use it - it depends. It _always

Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-07 Thread Polytropon
in business) to publish content in a more portable way. In my opinion, HTML5 is the way to go, as soon as they got the mentioned main problems out of the way. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-08 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 17:03:13 +0200, Harald Weis wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 12:09:32AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > If it's just about YouTube video, why not use youtube-dl and > > mplayer? I haven't tested it for those particular two videos, > > b

Re: Power switch not working

2013-04-09 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:49:49 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <20130407060507.76fd8bd1.free...@edvax.de>, > Polytropon wrote: > > >This is what "shutdown -p now" does. > > It's times like these than make me want to go off to som

Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-09 Thread Polytropon
27 here, not the most recent one. Sometimes there is a problem when your version has been obsoleted by something YouTube did change. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-14 Thread Polytropon
ly cd, maybe also da and ada depending on your setup). Also see: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5796 Compare to Handbook 19.5.2: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/usb-disks.html Maybe also helpful: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-allow-ordinary-users-mount-cd-ro

Re: dvd recorder & audio cd problems

2013-04-15 Thread Polytropon
at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,cd0) at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,cd1) You can see two drives in this example: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N RL00 = 0,0,0 = cd0 = acd0 HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0L30 = 0,1,0 = cd1 = acd1 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 A

Re: FreeBSD fstab Entry for Windows Share

2013-04-16 Thread Polytropon
r it won't resolve: 192.168.123.456 WINPC This is also helpful as soon as you have to run network diagnostics as you can now use "WINPC" for the "Windows" PC in any commands. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi e

Re: pwd.db/spwd.db file corupption when having unsafe system poweroff

2013-04-16 Thread Polytropon
ve" (i. e., put the setting background_fsck="NO" in /etc/rc.conf because you NEVER know). > i'm sorry if my question seems dummish! No, it doesn't. It's just important that you recognize what you are actually doing, and what it implies for the OS and the tasks it

Re: FreeBSD fstab Entry for Windows Share

2013-04-16 Thread Polytropon
e file permissions. > /etc/fstab : > > > - > > > //user_name_in_Windows_Administrators@NetBIOS_NAME_in_Windows/Share_Name_in_Windows > /mnt smbfs rw 0 0 You could possibly add the "late" option ("rw,auto,late") so in case of network

Re: dvd recorder & audio cd problems

2013-04-16 Thread Polytropon
preserve your user's environment; see "man su" for details. That could be worth a try (and a partial "solution"). Anyway, check the permissions. What you're attempting _is_ possible. I've been able to do all this stuff as a regular user after proper configuratio

Re: Keeping FreeBSD with custom kernel up to date: freebsd-update no option?

2013-04-16 Thread Polytropon
t;world" and "src", leave out "kernel", the rebuild the kernel by source and install it. Then reboot. > Is this really "the way to do it" or am I missing something? There are _several_ ways to do it. :-) > There are quite

Re: pwd.db/spwd.db file corupption when having unsafe system poweroff

2013-04-17 Thread Polytropon
s currently checked by fsck. Yes, I know, snapshots and all this stuff. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. My additional advice would be: Do not use a background fsck. If you had a power failure (for whatever reason), take the time to make sure your system boots into a verified state (N

Re: portmaster -- no execute command

2013-04-17 Thread Polytropon
old_app Is the -n option what you are looking for? >From "man portmaster": -n run through all steps, but do not make or install any ports This common flag seems to be allowed for installation via -o, according to the synopsis: portmaster [Common Flags] -o

Re: Keeping FreeBSD with custom kernel up to date: freebsd-update no option?

2013-04-17 Thread Polytropon
nd the prebuild world and kernel at the revision when X.Y-RELEASE-pZ has been verified", sloppily said. So it basically doesn't matter what sources you have on your machine (or even if you have any sources) as long as you're not going to compile anything. But because this is a require

Re: How to manually start firewall after system completed boot.

2013-04-17 Thread Polytropon
etting in /etc/rc.conf (here: for IPFW). -- 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

Re: sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-18 Thread Polytropon
0660 own cd1 root:operator permcd1 0660 own pass0 root:operator permpass0 0660 own pass1 root:operator permpass1 0660 own xpt0root:operator permxpt00660 See "man xpt"

Re: sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-18 Thread Polytropon
a or into /cdrom or /dvd, you need to set the proper owner. If you are using X with the GiveConsole and TakeConsole script. Then you can do things like this: % mount /media/dvd given that all the over information is preprogrammed in /etc/fstab. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happ

Re: CPU clock rate

2013-04-20 Thread Polytropon
http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/ports/xcpufreq.tgz Example: xcpufreq -geometry 189x164+151+826 -cpuscalecolor grey -freqscalecolor grey -scales 6 -update 1 -jumpscroll 1 & You could also examine how the kernel generates its CPU identification message found on top of dmesg output: /u

Re: Newbies Questions

2013-04-20 Thread Polytropon
at LibreOffice has become the common replacement for OpenOffice in free software distributions. Also note: What Oracle touches, that turns into crap. :-( I wish you fun experiencing FreeBSD. You'll probably learn a lot which will position you on top of the food chain, compared to common &qu

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Polytropon
o 9.1-p2, and _no_ change has been written to the kernel, it will still report 9.1, even though the updates for -p2 have been applied to other places (like system binaries or libraries). You can use the -r option to freebsd-update to explicitely specify a version to update to. See "man free

Re: Procmail Decoding Mime Messages

2013-04-24 Thread Polytropon
sage > and spit out linear strings which can be processed like normal > text? I think this is possible with uudecode, in this case b64decode. See "man uuencode" for more information. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user si

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Polytropon
hen following -STABLE where no X.Y-pZ version information is provided) this file could be installed properly. By checking this file the user could quickly retrieve the required information in a quickly understandable form. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD u

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Polytropon
efering to the kernel instead of the OS. -- 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 un

Re: upgrade packages

2013-04-25 Thread Polytropon
PUs with tons of RAM and endless hard disks, so running "portmaster -a" won't be a big deal. :-) On FreeBSD, it's _your_ choice. It's already in The FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/pkgng-intro.html Soon, it will be the system's default.

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Polytropon
the binary package for freebsd-update has been created from), and maybe the SVN revision number, because it looks important. :-) Then, if there could be mechanisms to plug this information properly into the traditional placeholders as described. Uhm... that would be g

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Polytropon
om terminal line: %t ttyv1 date: %d Fri Apr 26 04:37:00 CEST 2013 They are also listed in "man gettytab". Also know the "figlet" program (plus the figlet-fonts package) to design nice ASCII banners

Re: loading ipfw at boot time

2013-04-28 Thread Polytropon
# Firewall Is this what you've been searching for, or did I misunderstand your question? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: enter single user mode from boot menu

2013-04-28 Thread Polytropon
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/boot-init.html 25.7.6: Drop to Single User Mode http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html Fortunately, good documentation can be found in the manual pages. I recommend "man 8 boot" and "man 8 loader", which are involved in ge

Re: Firefox is so slow

2013-04-30 Thread Polytropon
ecomes a bit more firefox like. Hopefully not speed-wise! :-) -- 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: pwd.db/spwd.db file corupption when having unsafe system poweroff

2013-05-01 Thread Polytropon
gin.conf.db, but I think those are not critical to the success of a login attempt per se. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: difference img \ iso

2013-05-02 Thread Polytropon
recording application, such as cdrecord (CD) or growisofs (DVD), while for writing the IMG file you'd simply use dd. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: sshd - time out idle connections

2013-05-03 Thread Polytropon
DOING ACTUAL WORK, depending on how they use their SSH connections for that! However, the most excellent certification does not take that into mind, so why should you? ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: ls(1), rm(1) - No such file or directory even though they are there.

2013-05-04 Thread Polytropon
t; is corrupt. You should not use this for backups, or at least use an "encapsulation" as suggested. This "NTFS" is known to be easily affected by errors, and it does not provide the required compatibility to store FreeBSD backups. > What does the list say about the above

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