Re: Buying new sound card

2007-10-23 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
s not too hard ;-) > Note that in my opinion the native FreeBSD drivers are a lot better. What drivers? The ones that don't exist for the card? In my opinion the SB Audigy is a very common card that should have been supported long ago. On the other hand, the OSS drivers are very good. --

Re: 100 MHz pentium: can that play avi-file movies?

2003-12-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:47:05 +0900 Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 100 MHz pentium with up-to-date FreeBSD-stable; > would that allow me to play avi-file movies with mplayer > or equivalent media player? > > Videocard is a Riva TNT2 with 16 Mb. If you want to *enjoy* the movie in a good resolut

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 11 Dec C. Ulrich wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 14:08, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > I don't wish to get into a shouting match, but I don't think I > > > completely agree with some of the things you say here. > > > > OK. Well, just toddle on over to the advocacy list where this > > can

Re: confirm 817357904d84cd1e47a2ecea977498053e7e7f69

2003-12-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 08:39:16 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Your membership in the mailing list freebsd-questions has been > disabled due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you > was dated 14-Dec-2003. You will not get any more messages from this > list until you re-enable your

codeweavers crossover office

2003-12-21 Thread dick hoogendijk
Does anybody run Codeweavers crossover Office on FreeBSD? I know it rusnb very well on linux and would like to run it on fbsd too (if at all possible). If it is possible, can someone explain to me how to install the package on my fbsd-4.9R? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F8628

Re: codeweavers crossover office

2003-12-23 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 06:48:22 -0500 Dan Pelleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anybody run Codeweavers crossover Office on FreeBSD? > > I know it rusnb very well on linux and would like to run it on fbsd > &g

Re: restrict FreeBSD users to their home directory

2008-10-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
l access to the machine, these > security measures are _useless_. A hostile user could take out the > harddisk, put it in a machine where he has a root account and read all > the disk's contents (unless it's encrypted). You're right here but I get the feeling this is beside the po

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
by any limewire connections. But ymmv. > When people ask my advice about computers, I always include: "Never > use Limewire, or anything like it." You can also say: use them but don't connect them to the net. I know, I'm cynical here, but limewire is not all bad! -- Dick H

Re: Unix program that sends email directly using MX record

2008-11-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
nerability or a similar flaw > because it's designed with security in mind. Not only with security. Also with lack of possiblities. > Sendmail never was. But it is still the most used mta worldwide. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv103 ++ +

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
d their unix is damn slow compared to FreeBSD. These kinds of personal (subjective) remarks are FUD if you don't deliver the test results. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv103 ++ + All that's really worth doing is

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
with ZFS. (and NO, this is not all on Sun hardware). I for one will never go back to filesystems like UFS/UFS2. My data is quite safe on ZFS; my systems are fast; backups are a snap with snapshots; the list of PROs is long, very long (and all this for a still young filesystem...) -- Dick Hoogend

Re: Virtualized FreeBSD

2008-03-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
ou mean FreeBSD jails - yes it runs fine, i use them on 6.3p1 I think it's obvious he means running freebsd as a guest OS on some kind of VM (VMWare, VirtualBox) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
to _not_ see all the annoying flash-based ads. And for me it's a handicap. It's like looking to the net through glasses that are to dark to see all. I think it's a pity fbsd people tend to ignore modern internet. Flash (or flash-like) webcontent will not go away. Not for quite a while

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
x27;s. Lots of us are 'good' people y'know. All mail coming from one of my servers is clean. Period. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
i-spam system. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Back up files...

2008-04-09 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
> dump the root partition: > > dump -0 -a -C 8 -h 0 -L -u -f - / |gzip > >/where/to/put/root-0-20080409.gz OK. Right. And what is exactly the command for restore? Something like "gunzip dumpfile.gz | restore rf dumpfile" Or what. Compressing is nice but the use of gzip is

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-07 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
rted. That's a major problem in these modern times, although lots of fbsd people tend to say it is not. That's not everyday's live however. FreeBSD does not make the web. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ _

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-08 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:16:34 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 12:03:50AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:33:26 -0500 > > "Sam Fourman Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
h the ability to boot off ZFS root. Production servers need to be well (no thoroughly) tested ;-) The best stable (production) server with ZFS is solaris-10u5 If you want to boot off ZFS, S10u6 will support that. But these versions too need lots of ram. I think fbsd has a lighter footprint. -- Dick Hoo

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
on't execurate. For a webserver on zfs 4GB is more than enough. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
scheduling on Solaris. > maybe that's their 32-64 hardware threads capable chip is advertised > so much? :) Don't write about things you don't know. *Maybe's* don't help. You don't have to like solaris but don't troll about it, please. Both systems have their

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
emory and CPU eater. Your entitled to your opinion, but please try to base it on some facts. ZFS is herre to stay. You better get used to it. at least you could try to work with it before you make up an opinion. Have you -any- idea at all what this FS is capable off? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/G

Re: Dump Restore on ZFS root system

2012-02-07 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 7-2-2012 15:18, William Brown schreef: On 07/02/2012, at 22:25, dick wrote: Op 7-2-2012 12:23, Vincent Hoffman schreef: On 07/02/2012 11:00, dick wrote: I run a ZFS on root FreeBSD system. I know I can backup with snapshots but I want a dump/restore action because I want to transfer this s

Re: Port dependencies

2011-04-02 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 2-4-2011 2:51, Polytropon wrote: So there is still stuff one needs to compile, and YOU are in charge to define the options you need. This is the "downside" when you're running a multi- purpose OS like FreeBSD. That is a good thing. But I remember an issue that I never understood. I onced se

Re: Port dependencies

2011-04-03 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 2-4-2011 19:03, Randal L. Schwartz schreef: That's one of the first things I do with a fresh system that will be only a server: echo "WITHOUT_X11=yes">> /etc/make.conf And then *never* use packages. Only ports Are the quotes neccessary? ___

FreeBSD ZFS system

2011-06-21 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
OK, it works very well. Installing a ZFS FreeBSD system with an ufs /boot is very very easy using the PC-BSD DVD. However, I have one question: I'd like to install FreeBSD (pcbsd) on a (zfs) mirror In OpenSolaris you can install directly to the zfs mirror, but how's this in this situation> Afte

gpart

2011-06-25 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
OK, I follow the manual but still... I have a disk fo 20Gb I create a GPT table for the whole disk on it: # gpart create -s gpt /dev/md0 -> md0 created # gpart show md0 34 8573 md0 GPT (4.2M) Only 4 Mb?? Not really what I wanted. Anyone an idea of why the whole disk is nog used? What am I do

Re: gpart

2011-06-25 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 25-6-2011 15:14 schreef Dick Hoogendijk: OK, I follow the manual but still... I have a disk fo 20Gb I create a GPT table for the whole disk on it: # gpart create -s gpt /dev/md0 -> md0 created # gpart show md0 34 8573 md0 GPT (4.2M) Only 4 Mb?? Not really what I wanted. Anyone an idea

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

2011-06-25 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 23-6-2011 9:35 schreef Valentin Bud: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Dick Hoogendijk <mailto:d...@nagual.nl>> wrote: OK, it works very well. Installing a ZFS FreeBSD system with an ufs /boot is very very easy using the PC-BSD DVD. However, I have one question: I&

mountroot

2011-06-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I'm a little desperade. I installed a mirrored ZFS freebsd system in a VM the other day and all went well. Now I did the same procedure on a real systrem with two drives and I can't get the system to boot properly. Everytime it halts at the mountroot prompt. If I manually put zfs:zroot at the pr

Re: mountroot

2011-06-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 29-6-2011 21:15, Trond Endrestøl schreef: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I'm a little desperade. I installed a mirrored ZFS freebsd system in a VM the other day and all went well. Now I did the same procedure on a real systrem with two drives and I can'

Re: mountroot

2011-06-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 29-6-2011 21:19, Trond Endrestøl schreef: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:18+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 29-6-2011 21:15, Trond Endrestøl schreef: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I'm a little desperade. I installed a mirrored ZFS freebsd system in a VM the other da

zfs tuning

2011-06-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I would welcome some advise on zfs tuning. Coming from solaris I need this info. The system only has 2MB of ram. No problems running solaris11 in it so far so FreeBSD should do just fine too, but who can suggest some settings for: vm.kmem_size vm.kmem_size_max vfs.zfs.arc_max vfs.zfs.vdev.cache

Re: zfs tuning

2011-06-30 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 29-6-2011 23:45, Gary Gatten schreef: 2 "Mega" Bytes? Surely that's a typo, but is it 200MB? 2GB? Those that know ZFS will want to know the primary use / load of this system. It was a typo for sure. Should be 2GB It will be a server, so no X FAMP Mailserver for < 10 users (imap) Nameserve

Boot Environments

2011-06-30 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On solaris you can have different BE's (boot environments) using ZFS. Is this possible with FreeBSD ZFS? I can't recall ever have seen a tool like BEadm (solaris). But maybe using ZFS manually I can get more BE's? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

ZFS on root backup

2011-07-11 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
OK, so now my ZFS on root FreeBSD-8.2 system runs smoothly and I'm very happy being able to have ZFS (coming from solaris11), but.. what is the best strategy to back this fbsd system up. do I create various ZFS backup filesystem streams or can I easely backup the zroot pool as a whole? And if y

mutt and slrn

2011-07-12 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I've been a GUI man for the last couple of years. Recently I wanted to change back to the two programs I used most: mutt (email) and slrn (news) only to find out they were not in ports anymore. Yes I know, there'se japanese versions, but what ever happened to the 'normal' programs? Are they gon

Re: mutt and slrn

2011-07-12 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 12-7-2011 11:39 schreef Dick Hoogendijk: I've been a GUI man for the last couple of years. Recently I wanted to change back to the two programs I used most: mutt (email) and slrn (news) only to find out they were not in ports anymore. Yes I know, there'se japanese versions, but

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-17 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 17-7-2011 14:17 schreef Subbsd: community decreases. It is a pity that many developers of FreeBSD have left in Apple, the small part works over {NET,OPEN,DRAGONFLY}.BSD but as a whole it already absolutely small small groups of people. And do you feel this will be the end of FreeBSD?

compat directory

2011-07-19 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
It may be a stupid question but my FreeBSD-8.2 system lacks a /compat directory. Is this normal? does it get installed through some kind of software package? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: compat directory

2011-07-19 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 19-7-2011 12:21 schreef Polytropon: So it should be there when you've been using sysinstall for system installation. If you've used a different tool (or "no tool"), it may be the reason why it is missing. I installed a ZFS on root system using the known scripts. So the symlink is not created

emacs-nox11

2011-07-24 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I want a plain console version of emacs installed on my freebsd-8.2 system. So I chose the editors/emacs-nox11 port, but I get an option screen with a lot of options set to 'on' for which I get the feeling they are X related. I.e. Freetype, Jpeg, Gif, GConf en lots of others. So, I'm confused a

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-24 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 24-7-2011 2:00 schreef Jerry: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:58:07 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: You are clearly an asshole who has no interest in having a reasonable discussion. "Newer methods" do not "frighten" me, you stupid asshole. Thanks Chad. At one time I thought you were intelligent with

Re: emacs-nox11

2011-07-24 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 24-7-2011 12:46 schreef C. P. Ghost: Since there are no X11 libs in emacs despite all those options being set anyway, I suppose that setting WITHOUT_X11 creates a non-X11 emacs. I'm using the following port (normal emacs, with WITHOUT_X11 set): % echo /var/db/pkg/emacs* /var/db/pkg/emacs-23.

Re: Android (Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?)

2011-07-25 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 25-7-2011 18:59 schreef Chad Perrin: So the problem is not a missing app, it is more of the usual "vendor lock" stuff. There's that -- but there's also a lot of missing applications. HTC is removing the root lock protection soon. ___ freebsd-quest

MC and snapshots

2011-07-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Can one of you tell me why it is not possible to browse .zfs directories (from snapshots) with midnight commander? I'm running FreeBSD-8.2 w/ mc from ports. Manually switching to .zfs and it's subdirectories does show the snapshotted files, but I would like to be able to browse them (its so muc

Re: MC and snapshots

2011-07-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 29-7-2011 22:14, Daniel Staal schreef: On Fri, July 29, 2011 2:26 pm, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Can one of you tell me why it is not possible to browse .zfs directories (from snapshots) with midnight commander? I'm running FreeBSD-8.2 w/ mc from ports. Manually switching to .zfs and

larger disk for a zfs pool

2011-08-01 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
OK, my freebsd system runs on ZFS boot. W/ solaris getting larger disks for a pool was quit easy. Simply replace one disk from a mirror for a larger one, wait for the resilvering and after this replace the second one for a larger disk and wait for the resilvering again. That's it. Been there, d

Re: larger disk for a zfs pool

2011-08-01 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 1-8-2011 16:37, Dan Nelson schreef: In the last episode (Aug 01), Dick Hoogendijk said: OK, my freebsd system runs on ZFS boot. W/ solaris getting larger disks for a pool was quit easy. Simply replace one disk from a mirror for a larger one, wait for the resilvering and after this replace

Re: larger disk for a zfs pool

2011-08-01 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 1-8-2011 17:06, andrew clarke schreef: On Mon 2011-08-01 16:30:50 UTC+0200, Dick Hoogendijk (d...@nagual.nl) wrote: OK, my freebsd system runs on ZFS boot. W/ solaris getting larger disks for a pool was quit easy. Simply replace one disk from a mirror for a larger one, wait for the

mysql client(s)

2011-08-11 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
PhpMyAdmin shows: Server: Localhost via UNIX socket Server version: 5.5.15 Protocol version: 10 User: root@localhost MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8) Apache/2.2.19 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.19 OpenSSL/0.9.8q DAV/2 PHP/5.3.6 with Suhosin-Patch MySQL client version: mysqlnd 5.

pdo_mysql.so

2011-08-12 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I need pdo_mysql.so for Drupal7 to work correctly, but I only see pdo.so and pdo_sqlite.so in the php5 extension directory. So, I checked the 'make config' to see if I forgot something. But the option to build pdo_mysql is not there. How do I get this pdo_mysql.so file?

zfs-snapshot-mgmt.conf

2011-08-13 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I would like to get some suggestions on the configuration of zfs snapshots taken for the root pool. zfs-snapshot-mgmt.conf.example just gives some info on /usr/home and/or /usr Does anybody use this utility for automated snapshots for his/her rootpool and want to share some code? I use it in a

drupal7 port

2011-08-22 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I installed the drupal7 port but noticed that the webserver root (the drupal core files) were *all* owned by www:www Isn't this an enormous security risk to have apache being able to write in the core directorues of drupal7? ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 24-8-2011 10:41, Matthew Seaman schreef: Virtualization is actually a bit of a tricky thing with FreeBSD. There's Jail, which is excellent -- very light weight, but it only works with FreeBSD guests. There's VirtualBox, but that runs the guest OSes as a standard client application and it te

portmaster -a -B -d

2011-08-28 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
A few days back I did a "portmaster -a -B -d" but later on I found out that one port (www/eAccelerator) complained about being compiled for another version of PHP (which by then was updated by portmaster). I expected portmaster to take care of these kind of dependencies. Where am I wrong in thi

Re: portmaster -a -B -d

2011-08-28 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 28-8-2011 16:27, Matthew Seaman schreef: Ideally ports committers should bump the eaccelerator PORTREVISION to make ports management tools do that automatically, but if not, you're going to have to remember to do it by hand. Thank you for your explanation. I enjoyed reading it and learned a

Re: Best Server OS for Someone That Does not Want to Touch a Shell on a Regular Basis?

2011-09-05 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
If you really want. GUI based server, go for a Windows one. It will cost you but security has improved. I would never do it though but I manage my server with shell tools. I love the easiness of textbased config files ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

upcoming 9.0 release

2011-12-02 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Setting up plans for the upcoming 9.0 release I have one question. Assuming the freebsd-update utility will bring me from the 8.2-release to the new 9.0-release I'm not sure what to do exactly with the installed ports. I always use portmaster. What steps do I take to get from installed ports

freebsd-update

2011-12-04 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Why do I get a warning if I use freebsd-update about a renewal of my FreeBSD installation within the next two months because after that time it will nog be supported anymore? I run FreeBSD-release-p4. Freebsd-update 'sees' p3. Is this the cause? ___ fr

Re: freebsd-update

2011-12-04 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 4-12-2011 13:03, andrew clarke schreef: From what I understand, the focus is on releasing FreeBSD 9.0, and 8.3 will be released after that. But 9.0 is still in testing. Despite the message, I suspect security updates for 8.2 will still be issued for several months after 8.3 is released, to g

Re: FreeBSD9 + PHP

2012-01-10 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 9-1-2012 21:06, Chuck Swiger schreef: On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:02 PM, alexus wrote: there is no way to make it like that? so it has to be build via ports? The PHP maintainer decides the default options, which is what the precompiled package you got used. While many people want PHP in the form

Re: FreeBSD9 + PHP

2012-01-10 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 9-1-2012 21:02, alexus schreef: there is no way to make it like that? so it has to be build via ports? On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Peter wrote: I created a jail and within a jail I did pkg_add -r apache22 pkg_add -r php5 now I have apache and php, but whenever I'm trying to hit phpinf

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-10 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 9-1-2012 23:00, alexus schreef: Thank you so much for this wonderful feedback! One of the things I'm seeing is that unfortunately packages are somewhat limited vs ports... For example: I'm trying to get Apache httpd + PHP to work, after pkg_add -r php5, php5 doesn't have libphp5.so that lin

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-10 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 10-1-2012 12:36, Eric Masson schreef: Dick Hoogendijk writes: Hi, As I write in another reply: that's true and totally stupid imo. *You* think it's stupid. Yes, as I wrote: "stupid imo" But thanks again for your reply. You may be right but I still feel it's b

Re: FreeBSD9 + PHP

2012-01-10 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 10-1-2012 15:30, Damien Fleuriot schreef: On 1/10/12 11:11 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 9-1-2012 21:06, Chuck Swiger schreef: On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:02 PM, alexus wrote: there is no way to make it like that? so it has to be build via ports? The PHP maintainer decides the default options

Re: FreeBSD9 + PHP

2012-01-10 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 10-1-2012 15:32, Damien Fleuriot schreef: A possible alternative that would keep everyone happy would be *another* package that actually includes the module, like for example a package called "mod_php5", it would install the stuff from php5 + the apache module. That is the way CentOS handl

upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-13 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I possible I want my server to upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE. I guess the binary upgrade will not be a problem with "freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE fetch" If so, I do like to hear the caveats. My main problem lies with the installed ports. I know the -all- have to be recompiled, but I d

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-13 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 13-1-2012 14:56, Bas Smeelen schreef: On 01/13/2012 02:42 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I possible I want my server to upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE. I guess the binary upgrade will not be a problem with "freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE fetch" If so, I do like to hear the c

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 13-1-2012 15:00, Polytropon schreef: On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:42:03 +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I possible I want my server to upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE. I guess the binary upgrade will not be a problem with "freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE fetch" If so, I do like t

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 14-1-2012 12:37, Mike Clarke schreef: On Saturday 14 January 2012, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: My system is running ZFS on root now, so I would very much like to hear if the binary upgrade through freebsd-update works well for such a system (w/ zfs on root). I don't want to get stuck w

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 14-1-2012 17:04, Mike Clarke schreef: On Saturday 14 January 2012, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I had not heard of this project before. Sounds very nice if it works. Manging BE's is one of the main things I miss in the FreeBSD ZFS support. Coming from (open)Solaris this was quite a disappoin

update from 8.2 ZFS on root to 9.0

2012-01-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Does anybody already did a *binary* update (w/ freebsd-update) from a zfs on root freebsd-8.2-RELEASE to a new freebsd-9.0-RELEASE zfs on root system? Did all went well? I know the procedure (freebsd-update, recompile all ports, finish freebsd-update). Succes stories please.. ;-) __

Re: update from 8.2 ZFS on root to 9.0

2012-01-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 16-1-2012 13:17, Magnus Strahlert schreef: On 15 January 2012 14:23, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Does anybody already did a *binary* update (w/ freebsd-update) from a zfs on root freebsd-8.2-RELEASE to a new freebsd-9.0-RELEASE zfs on root system? Did all went well? I know the procedure (freebsd

freebsd-update and src.txz

2012-01-20 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Is it true that freebsd-update does not update the souce files from 8.2-R to 9.0-RELEASE? And if not what is the best way to get the src.txz installed on an updated system? I do have the disc1 iso. Is src.txz installed under /usr/src or /usr/src/sys?

Re: flash plugin in 6.0

2005-12-19 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 18 Dec Beecher Rintoul wrote: > On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:16 pm, Dev Tugnait wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 01:06 -0500, James Bailie wrote: > > > Dev Tugnait wrote: > > > > The port is not broken cvsup your tree > > > > > > Yes it is. While some things work, it still does not create the

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 24 Dec Danial Thom wrote: > Schwab Streetsmart > Accounting Software (CA) > Quicken > Photoshop > Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs) > > Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there are > some half-assed alternatives for some of these, > but if I have to use something inferior to use > FreeBSD

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 24 Dec Kent Stewart wrote: > There is also the problem that some sites are designed to work with > Internet Explorer. You can try to visit with firefox but that doesn't > always work even with firefox on XP. NO site should be designed to work with IExplorer. I know it's done, but it should not

Re: Uninstall Apache???

2005-12-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 25 Dec legalois wrote: > ("make uninstall" is not a valid target for any Makefile in the ports > tree that I am aware of.) It's sometimes done this way on linux systems ;-) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 +++ The Power to Serve __

Re: Uninstall Apache???

2005-12-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 12:19:10 +0100 jakels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > On 25 Dec legalois wrote: > > > >>("make uninstall" is not a valid target for any Makefile in the > >>ports tree that I am aware of.) >

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote: > It doesn't really matter what the "accepted" standard is; its the one > that *most* people are using. Bring this "rule" to society and it won't take all that much time before we'll live in a jungle (happely ever after ? ;-) It's the decease of this era that lost o

Re: how to dual boot

2005-12-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 26 Dec Jerry McAllister wrote: > Just put the FreeBSD install CD back in and install the FreeBSD MBR. > It will give you a choice as to which to boot. It works just fine. > It's only quirk is that, if the MS slice is an NTFS type of filesystem > it will identify it as ??? in the menu rather th

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 27 Dec Danial Thom wrote: > --- dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote: > > > > > It doesn't really matter what the "accepted" standard is; its the > > > one that *most* people are using. > &g

Re: compat 5x libraries missnig after restart

2005-12-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 28 Dec Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > But why not put > compat_xx_enable="YES" There's more wrong to the script. I have compat5x_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and the script start up, _BUT_ if I shut down (for whatever reason) I get this console msg question: "compat5x.sh running?" Strange,

amsn-095_1

2005-12-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
I upgraded my aMSN today and hoped to have webcam sessions with my chatmates. This was a new feature after all. I was very surprised not to see this happening. Webcamsn was not installed. Strange, because I had seen it on the compile screens ;-) I looked and there was no /usr/local/share/amsn/util

Re: amsn-095_1

2006-01-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 01 Jan Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: > actually it is > make install clean > -jahan It may be because you top-posted, but in my case I could not use "make install clean" That way I wouldn't have been able to manualy move the webcam directory, wouldn't I. Not been installed and deleted in the 'clea

webcam

2006-01-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
OK, maybe it's OT, but I try it anyway. After all, I looked through the support dox for 6.o release and found not much about my question. I want to buy a new webcam device. I want it to be clear and sharp. So it may cost a little more then the all-to-cheap ones (but not too much ;-) Plus it needs

Re: good blogging port?

2006-01-08 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:44:29 +0100 Kristian Vaaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > www.textpattern.com -- by far the best CMS. True! But as you may well know, textpattern is far more than blog software. It's what the name says: content management system. It does a great job though. I dropped wordpress

webcam usb device

2006-01-15 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have a Logiteck QuickCam Chat webcam (USB-2) When I run usbdevs or usbdevs -v I get the following: [usbdevs] addr 1: UHCI root hub, VIA addr 2: Camera, vendor 0x046d addr 1: UHCI root hub, VIA [usbdevs -v] Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x),

Re: webcam usb device

2006-01-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:20:21 +0100 dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Logiteck QuickCam Chat webcam (USB-2) > The device is detected alright. But I cannot get it to work. > Kopete (KDE) i.e. does not see the device. > > I have two questions: > (a) do

Re: webcam usb device

2006-01-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 16 Jan Andrew P. wrote: > On 1/16/06, dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I googled a lot on "webcam and freebsd" but could not find something > > relevant. I did read somewhre that on linux one has to create > > a /dev/video* which on my fbsd-6R

atapicam load question

2006-01-21 Thread dick hoogendijk
Hi, When I "kldload atapicam" the permissions in /etc/devfs.conf for cd0 are _not_ honored. (I want cd0 to have 0666) When I put atapicam_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf the permissions are set the way I want them. I would like to make the choice for atapicam later if posssible, so my question is

Xorg6.9 XkbLayout us_intl

2006-01-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
After upgrading Xorg to 6.9 the keyboard option "XkbLayout" "us_intl" does not work anymore. so, I don't have accents :-( Does anybody know how to (re) install international keyboard layout? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 ++ The Power to Serve

Re: Xorg6.9 XkbLayout us_intl *SOLVED*

2006-01-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:52:43 +0100 dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After upgrading Xorg to 6.9 the keyboard option "XkbLayout" "us_intl" > does not work anymore. so, I don't have accents :-( > Does anybody know how to (re) install internatio

Re: gamin vs fam

2006-01-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:17:28 +0100 Michael Nottebrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dick hoogendijk schrieb: > > Running pkgdb -F everytime is not pleasant. What is (are) the > > advantage (s) of gamin over fam? Is it wise to change to gamin? > > The recent change of t

Re: VMware host on stable?

2006-02-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 16 Feb Scott Long wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > >On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:15:55 -0700 > >Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Michael Butler wrote: > >> > >>>What is the most recent version of VMware known to work on 6.x in

wireless question

2006-02-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
Up 'till now all my (home) netwrok computers are cabled. My FreeBSD-6.1PR is hidden in the closet (I want no noise!) The problem is my new notebook -- it's wireless. so now I have to learn how to deal with this. I don't want my server leaving the closet (too much noise). Can someone give me some

lpr -> cups

2006-02-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
I'm thinking of changing my printing system from good-old lpr to cups. Mainly because my (home) network computers can find the main printer more easy with cups than with /etc/printcap (windows and os-x machines) Installing cups should not be too difficult. I have a very goo how2 for it. However,

Re: Accesing BSD disk under windows

2006-03-07 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:58:50 +0100 (CET) Nicolas BOUTIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > thank you again for your answers. I will try with cygwin and I'm > downloading a Linux LiveCD (oops)... I used to be under Linux more > time than BSD... That may be, but it is by far the most powerful

TFT monitors and Xorg

2006-03-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
Hello, Probably a stupid question, but I'll take my chances. For years now I only used "normal" monitors on windows, linux, FreeBSD but soon I'll get a Samsung 930BF TFT screen. What I'd like to know is, if Xorg is capable of "seeing" this monitor and sets the right options. I know it does a good

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