Re: ls-F tcsh built-in command

2012-05-20 Thread Polytropon
S "ExGxdxdxCxDxDxBxBxegeg" alias ls 'ls -FG -D "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"' alias ll 'ls -laFG -D "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"' This is nice because I haven't found a feature of gls yet that I needed,

Re: eliminate character with sed

2012-05-20 Thread Polytropon
% tr -d '\r' < config.php > config.php.new Put a bit of scripting around it, and it will do the same. See "man tr" for details. Regarding the use of "sed": I'm not sure if it's possible to do something like % sed -i '.bak' &#

Re: eliminate character with sed

2012-05-20 Thread Polytropon
e cp437..iso8859-1 It also doesn't do backups, which would be required to do using a surrounding script. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: NanoBSD Build Failure

2012-05-20 Thread Polytropon
t the amd64 sources do not understand "cpu I486_CPU". Compare to /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and /sys/i386/conf/NOTES to the respective /sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC and /sys/amd64/conf/NOTES for details, especially that amd64 uses "cpu HAMMER" instead of "cpu I{4/5/6}86_CPU".

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

2012-05-22 Thread Polytropon
s & -> sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus restart && sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald restart exec wmaker It should "happen" when X is running, and it should be "back to normal" when the WM or DE is launched (and all background programs hav

Re: I have a question.

2012-05-22 Thread Polytropon
/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html You'll find more information on the FreeBSD web page, e. g. the Porters Handbook and other development resources. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Evolution 2.32.3 && printing

2012-05-23 Thread Polytropon
of a config file that allows overriding the content of the printing dialog setting (such as xpdf can do). Good luck. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Working and Supported SCSI Controller

2012-05-23 Thread Polytropon
st, I've had _no_ problems using Ataptec's 2940 type of controllers (either W or U, and UW). The ahc driver worked well with them. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Polytropon
erverFlags" or /etc/X11/xorg.conf helps? -- 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: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: > > > > I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in > > the water when stuck in x.org. > > Maybe putting > &g

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Polytropon
ing, go away. | | +-++-+ | [ OK ] Cancel| ++ I soon expect the mentioned "programs"

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Polytropon
ot; > > in the options dialog. > > Can someone point me at the code that puts up the menu? See /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk as mentioned above. The "dialog" program also offers some examples which belong to the base syst

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Polytropon
ously have already been adjusted) would create such a directory and file, but I assume it does not, as it seems obvious that those are handled by the port building mechanisms (which aren't in use when you pkg_add something). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
ity very limited to what the browser can do (both on input and output), but isn't that what people believe in? Don't disturb their circles, just give them what they pray for, a cloud... a shiny foggy cloud... :-) -- Polytropon

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 May 2012 09:47:24 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > $ man -k cloud > http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-05-25 Very nice, but please compare: http://xkcd.com/908/ :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe,

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
former system disk and newfs it? That should "solve" the problem. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 05/25/12 14:21, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> something I'm not seeing > >> > >> I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm

Terminology: wheel

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
. From other UNIX systems I know that there are groups performing similar functions, but having different names (such as "sysadmin" on Solaris prior to RBAC). This question definitely shows my age. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD use

Re: Terminology: wheel

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
deal of power or influence, especially a high-ranking person in an organization. slang "big wheel" -> wheel bit -> wheel group -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10

2012-05-27 Thread Polytropon
alter them using its configuration tools, which will result in a "different" user configuration in the ~/.xfce4 directory. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10

2012-05-27 Thread Polytropon
t/tour > > Then clicked on the application finder, appearance, then clicked on > DPI and raised the number to 96 did not see what it was though. > > Thanks Polytropon for your valuable help and suggestions. I actually had a similar problem with the fonts in many Gtk and Gtk+ appli

Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
tate to update anything because, you know, never touch a running system. :-) Make sure your ports tree is okay. The file mentioned in the error message should be extracted intowork/: /usr/ports/irc/inspircd/work/InspIRCd-2.0.2/BSDmakefile. Do a "make clean" before yo

Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
d -r inspircd Maybe such a package is present (haven't checked). I hope I didn't misunderstand you, but allow me to repeat: You cannot use Linux sources with the ports collection. The ports collection has automated fetching, extracting, configuring and building mechanisms

Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
machine and resync it? You can use the files (_both_ files!) from before starting the dbus installation. Regenerate the databases with the pwd_mkdb command. > Or do I just flat install FreeBSD again and be done with it? That is possible, but should be your last option. -- Polytropon Mag

Re: library search path

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
WRKDIRPREFIX to where you can compile, and $PREFIX to where you can install to. See "man 7 ports" for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: sendmail, masquerading, exposed root?

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
roblem as you're not going to reply to that address. (If you had to, setting Reply-To: would surely help.) Or you could use /etc/mail/aliases to redirect root to a different mail address. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
compiled without it. Maybe some functionality might be missing, but if you don't depend on it... as for just automount, FreeBSD has a native solution that worked even before HAL and DBUS. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: Portmaster Fetch

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
ll packages they need update? Is "portmaster -n" (run through all steps, but do not make or install any ports) what you need? Maybe see "man portmaster" for more details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

2012-05-31 Thread Polytropon
t the file system to change, even if it's "just" in read-only state. Solution: Unmount the file system and re-run fsck. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise

2012-05-31 Thread Polytropon
been done many changes to in the recent years. Maybe CD-Audio functionality has been lost during that way? It's not the first time it's being discussed on list... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

2012-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 May 2012 12:26:21 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 05/31/12 05:54, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 31 May 2012 00:38:46 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> The cd mounts a regular file system ok and audio generally works > >> ok -- playing from a file works. > &g

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

2012-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:43:27 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 05/31/12 12:56, Polytropon wrote: > > Still, there _is_ a way of a workaround which is so ugly and > > partially stupid that I fear to mention it. > > > > You need a cable, 2 x 3.5mm stereo jack, which you

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Polytropon
ow-level file system aspects of UFS might be superior to using ZFS. -- 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/fre

Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-02 Thread Polytropon
ce 7600 GS (G73) here, using the "nvidia" driver and the kernel module. Works very good, except my GPU is broken and occassionally freezes the whole system in an unpredictable manner. :-) Previously I've been using an ATI Radeon 9200 (RV250) with less trouble, using XFree86's (and l

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-06-02 Thread Polytropon
spot. Right. If you look into a .ppd file, you'll see PostScript in there. It's (highly inaccurately described) code that instructs the PS interpreter (usually gs) on how to create the correct output language for the particular printer, tell details about options and parameters of the p

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:01:07 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 06/02/12 18:35, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:08:55 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> I've deinstalled cups and its dependencies and rebuilt only hpijs. > > > > You could have kept it in

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-03 Thread Polytropon
ould have been able to find the answer to at > least one of those but I'm coming up short. You could use "umount -f" to force it, but that may result in files missing. Anyway, I've never actually used NTFS with FreeBSD so this could also be a source of the problem. -- P

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 10:17:28 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote: > > > By the way, have you tried using your filter directly for testing? > > As mentioned before, prepare a printable PS file, then do: > > > > # cat test.ps

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-03 Thread Polytropon
t looks for the > > corresponding man page and shows it on the right pane formatted html, which > > is a webkit panel. > > > > https://github.com/creamy/man-browser > > > > it is intended as a way to quickly look at what's installed on your system >

Re: (no subject)

2012-06-04 Thread Polytropon
" has taken the place that formerly has been occupied by animated GIFs, except now sound and forced interactivity, as well as slowness and bloat, have been successfully added. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: (no subject)

2012-06-04 Thread Polytropon
hould's watch > it. Additionally, it allows the user to use his favourite media player (e. g. mplayer) with all its support (still, rew, ff, brightness/contrast adjust, keyboard support) except to have dealing with it in a web browser window with its very limited means of user frie

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 01:56:49 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 06/03/12 21:05, Polytropon wrote: > > Maybe the ganim "lock" is regarding a device file? Not sure > > about that, I'm not using it here. > > I'm not sure what the deal is here, but exiting X doe

Re: bsdlabel geometry params

2012-06-04 Thread Polytropon
; (one full disk, not bootable). You can have that much easier: # newfs /dev/da1 Of course you can add options to newfs if needed, and also apply tunefs afterwards. But dealing with slices (which are "DOS primary partitions") is not needed if what you're creating will be a

Re: umount device busy

2012-06-04 Thread Polytropon
pages. :-) Here's an example: http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html Of course you need to conclude to use either ~/.gaminrc for your user, or something different than /etc/gamin/mandatory_gaminrc for system-wide use. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeB

Re: (no subject)

2012-06-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:31:43 -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Monday 04 June 2012 11:12:01 Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 06:54:37 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > youtube is not a problem, use youtube-dl from ports and do download > > > videos to disk d

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Polytropon
:-) Check the BIOS settings: Sometimes you can enable "USB keyboard legacy" so it will also work at the "lower levels" of interactivity. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

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

2012-06-05 Thread Polytropon
es the competitor to obtain a "permission" by its concurrent to make his product work. It would also show a "security feature" being an aspect of "defective by design" regarding computer hardware and its manufacturers. Compiling from source? You don't even get

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

2012-06-06 Thread Polytropon
the future, the future will be much worse. :-) Note that flats are a familiar example of this model. You may live in the flat, but by paying a rent you don't own it. What you may do is limited. Another valid interpretation of this problem is of course "defective by design" and "plan

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Polytropon
oned) is to subtract `uptime` from current `date`. :-) -- 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-question

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Polytropon
troducing something along the /etc/rc execution? An /etc/rc.local entry like /bin/date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" > /var/log/thisboot.log and then just look at the file. Requires at least one reboot to take effect. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

2012-06-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 06:06:49 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > 2012-05-22 10:44, Polytropon skrev: > > On Tue, 22 May 2012 10:17:16 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > >> There is a second way of doing this stunt. > >> > >> Start X > >> When X is up

Re: prune ports tree?

2012-06-08 Thread Polytropon
here. This approach does _not_ work well when using portsnap. From the portsnap.conf manpage: "Note that operating with an incomplete ports tree is not supported and may cause unexpected results." -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mou

Re: fn going to X

2012-06-10 Thread Polytropon
tart fvwn2 However, the default key combination Ctrl+Alt+F should work without alteration in any window manager; at least it does in the few I've tried. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: possbility of a port for older versions of libintl?

2012-06-11 Thread Polytropon
aybe using the port compatx--. (which has the required lib version you need) in combination with the ld.so library mapping (see "man libmap.conf") will work? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade?

2012-06-11 Thread Polytropon
e xzgv image viewer), use the "portdowngrade" tool. As it as been mentioned, having an out-of-sync ports tree is not recommended and can lead to trouble. So for example, if gtk20 fails, remove its cruft ("make clean" for this port and maybe its dependencies; maybe also r

Re: text format

2012-06-11 Thread Polytropon
usr/src/share/examples/mdoc/example.1). The text's SOURCE file would have looked similarly I assume. THAT is the input format you need for the "NroffEdit" WYSIWYG "text" editor. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: note

2012-06-11 Thread Polytropon
7;t be frightened. Just install it. It's free. :-) No really: FreeBSD _is_ free to download and to use. You don't need to buy it (even though you _may_ do so; refer to the FreeBSD website for details). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mo

Re: text format

2012-06-12 Thread Polytropon
command: groff -Tascii < normal.txt > formatted.txt. But you need to test this yourself with your input text format. See "man nroff" for details. For using roff macros, "man 7 mdoc" has a nice summary. -- Polytropon Magdeburg,

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Polytropon
ant meaning in crontabs, so they cannot be used everywhere to align data columns. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: text format

2012-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:32:40 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, pwnedomina wrote: > > > On 12-06-2012 08:22, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:06:07 +0100, i pwn wrote: > >>> on groff i've used this cmd to format the text >

Re: P5-FuzzyOcr port

2012-06-12 Thread Polytropon
/packages-8-stable/All/ or whatever matches your platform and OS version). But the ports p5-FuzzyOcr and p5-FuzzyOcr-devel are still present (at least in my not up-to-date ports tree) - have you tried installing from a port instead? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.

Re: USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-13 Thread Polytropon
7;s powered on (plugged in), even if there is no reading / writing / mounting activity. After you've successfully performed umount, the USB stick _is_ synced and can safely be removed, no matter what you assume the funny lights want to tell you. Maybe that's just a "modern fe

Re: `ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

2012-06-13 Thread Polytropon
"forgetting" the factor mismatch 1024 vs. 1000 when they tell you how many GB the new shiny hard disk has. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: `ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

2012-06-14 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:40:27 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 14/06/2012 07:11, Polytropon wrote: > > Even school taught that in the 80's: When dealing with > > computers, 1 kB != 1000 B, but 1 kB = 1024 B. That is > > considered basic knowledge. > > Schools t

Re: USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-14 Thread Polytropon
owever, as you said it might be possible that _inside_ the USB stick there is still an action that needs to be performed and therefore requires power. But I doubt this takes several seconds to complete... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user si

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Polytropon
(e. g. a firewall appliance), and nobody will find out about that fact. WP has a nice comparison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open_source_software_licenses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License All those licenses do _not_ allow to steal copyright! --

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Polytropon
not the case. Hint: Read carefully: "I think", "as far as I know" or similar formulas are an indicator. Finally: Insulting me is not a way to go. It shows that you don't value the freedom of speech. Of course you are free to say whatever you wan

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:09:11 +0400, Евгений Лактанов wrote: > 20.06.2012 00:50, Polytropon пишет: > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:06:49 +0200 (CEST), Anonymous Remailer (austria) > > wrote: > >>> GPL protects the freedom of the programmer who licensed his > >>>

Re: Attaching a monitor via vga

2012-06-20 Thread Polytropon
are more versatile. A last option would be to check out TwinView if it's supported by your GPU. Settings like Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, CRT" can be used to tell X what monitors to connect on startup and how to initialize them. -- Polytropon Magdebu

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Polytropon
ectual property copyright expert can be more precise and elaborate. :-) -- 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/fre

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Polytropon
k (common means in open source when something needs to be changed that doesn't go well with "mainstream"), and that fork could keep the old license. Now there are two independent projects. BUT - as everyone is free to obtain, modify and re-issue GPL source code, I'm not sure such a

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Polytropon
, the "natural and normal interpretation" appears, i. e. you are the creator, copyright is yours. Even if it sounds strange, it still can apply in an employment setting. But as I said, contracts and local law may have some regulations that applies. -- Polytropon Magdeb

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

2012-06-21 Thread Polytropon
into an mfs (to > avoid disk access)? Yes, there is a variable to control it. See "man 7 ports" and maybe /etc/make.conf. I have to admit that I forgot it currently. $WORKDIR? $WRKPREFIX? > q) Is it possible to have the user asked to change their password the > first time they lo

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

2012-06-21 Thread Polytropon
oductive. > > s/would not/would/ > i assume this as mistake. do not journal on SSD. it increases amount of > writes, and fsck is quick anyway. Good you spotted it - of course there is no need for journaling in this case (too much writes, no real benefit). -- Polytropon Magdebur

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Polytropon
lman) have any effect outside the USA? I am not a lawyer, but because I have some legal knowledge I know for sure that "what's written in the law" and "how law is practiced in reality" does very much differ, in unpredictable and volatile. So I don't mak

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Add second hard drive multi-boot

2012-06-21 Thread Polytropon
th NTFS. > I ran fsidk -B on the zeroeth sector of the second hard drive, but > that did not seem to help. You need to apply boot0cfg to install the initial boot blocks. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: How can i disable cups, docbook, gutenprint and other ports?

2012-06-22 Thread Polytropon
ports so they won't build. But as I said, that depends on the "primary" ports you're using and their dependencies. You know, "by accident", you could even install LaTeX (teTeX) as a dependency! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: fsck_ufs running too often

2012-06-22 Thread Polytropon
it might take some time, but it's time well invested in your data integrity. Alternative: Perform a "shutdown now" and go into single-user mode. Then unmount all your file systems, do "mount -o ro /" and then perform the fsck run on all file systems. It's typically advi

Re: backup tools

2012-06-23 Thread Polytropon
cryption (which might be important when backups appear inside a network with non-trusted participants, or across the Internet). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: fsck_ufs running too often

2012-06-23 Thread Polytropon
n when they are marked clean (for file systems that support this)." This could also be done regularly on a scheduled (!) basis if there's the suspection of "silent corruption" - but in such cases, better spot the faulty hardware and replace it (bad disks, bad powe

Re: Building 9.0 failure

2012-06-24 Thread Polytropon
(noschg). See if you can apply "chflags noschg" for that directory and maybe try again? Should be something like this (on 8.2-STABLE/i386 here): % ll -do /var/empty dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel schg 512 2012-05-27 06:15:34 /var/empty/

Re: Understanding XDM

2012-06-24 Thread Polytropon
step. Sidenote: I've been using both XDM and WDM with WindowMaker and XFCE (not Xfce -- XFCE means version 3, Xfce means version 4). Works great. I prefer XDM, most secure and easy to use. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: fetch error

2012-06-25 Thread Polytropon
% env usr/bin/fetch env: usr/bin/fetch: No such file or directory And now properly: % env /usr/bin/fetch usage: fetch [-146AadFlMmnPpqRrsUv] It seems that env is used here to "set environment and execute command"; see "man env" for

Re: files need

2012-06-25 Thread Polytropon
g/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/8.3/ -- 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: Cannot mount storage drive in workstation

2012-06-28 Thread Polytropon
seems to be more confusing than all the system-level settings. Finally relapse to the Handbook again and check the results of all the steps described. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ fre

Re: OT: Linux EXT4 dump/restore equivalent?

2012-06-28 Thread Polytropon
some testing and see if they are sufficient for dealing with ext4. That would be my first impression: Use what's there and see if it works, as it _should_ work (given fundamental UNIX basics). (Sorry, my Linux knowledge is a bit outdated as I don't use it anymore on a regu

Re: video buffer location

2012-06-29 Thread Polytropon
see http://github.com/monsieurvideo/get-flash-videos for details. > HOWTO find the video buffer location if it is not /tmp ? I would assume there's some temporary storage either in ~/.opera or ~/.macromedia (for the "Flash" plugin). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

2012-07-02 Thread Polytropon
t; case, combine both, e. g. a custom kernel that only includes what you explicitely specity, and src.conf to avoid building of modules you're intendedly not going to need. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

2012-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:54:05 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Polytropon : > > > On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:59:44 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > How does one, when building the kernel, prevent building one or more > > > modules? > > > Use the "ne

Re: Understanding XDM

2012-07-03 Thread Polytropon
DE display manager and it designed to work well with WindowMaker, but it's a very nice replacement for xdm if you need that specific functionality. It's quite lightweight (compared to gdm or kdm) and easily configurable. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 And

Re: Understanding XDM

2012-07-04 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:40:05 +0200, uki wrote: > 2012/7/4 Polytropon : > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 23:27:21 -0700 (PDT), sw2wolf wrote: > >> I am using slim to login which can choose Window Manager by pressing F1 > >> key. > >> Can XDM choose Window Manager when l

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-05 Thread Polytropon
wsing experience using Opera. NO JOKE. "Mister Coffee" was my first FreeBSD workstation. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-06 Thread Polytropon
that some "modern" PCs fail to do: Just imagine users complaining about skipping audio when they move windows across the screen... :-) And I still have the machine I described. "Mister Coffee" is currently installed with FreeBSD 8.2, expecting to be used for experimental pro

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Polytropon
the slice and just create two partitions (one for FS and one for swap), FreeBSD will use this fine. Just make sure to set the boot parameters properly. Or simply use the GPT-related tools, so you don't have to deal with the question at all. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD u

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Polytropon
ithin slice). This also delivers most compatibility for other systems, if it should be needed, e. g. in a multiboot environment. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Polytropon
27;s far simpler. Anyway i wasn't aware it's called that way as i > don't use installer As far as I know, the installer dropped dedicated mode some time ago. So if you intendedly want to use it, you need to bypass the installer and do the few simple steps using the CLI. --

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Polytropon
#x27;s always risky. It maybe suggests to "repair" 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/list

Re: GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Polytropon
r and the utilities that come with that system. -- 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Polytropon
lices and partitions 'n stuff. :-) # newfs /dev/da0 This is all you need (see "man newfs" and "man tunefs" for options you might need to optimize utilization, and check best fitting options for /etc/fstab, e. g. noatime if you are not going to need it). -- P

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Polytropon
u don't need to mount and umount the stick. I'm assume _that_ construct cannot be booted. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

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