> I have an external firewire drive that I would like to use both with my
> Powerbook (Mac OS X 10.3.7) and FreeBSD 5.3.
>
> Ideally I would like read/write access from both machines.
Both OSs support UFS. Mac OS X gives you the option to format your drive
as UFS on installation but recommends H
> Hello!
Good evening!
> My name is Tadeusz Polak and I from Poland. I'm studying the Informatics at
> www.pjwstk.edu.pl and I'm interested in publishing of the informations and
> advices about FreeBSD Operational System as a website. I'd like to ask about
> the publishing rights of the logo
> Oh, and c) djbdns isn't Free or Open Source by any definition of
> either phrase. That's not important to some people, but others consider it
> kind of important.
Dan has given explicit permission to read, compile, modify and use
the source code of djbdns. The only restriction is that you may
> > Dan has given explicit permission to read, compile, modify and use
> > the source code of djbdns.
>
> From http://www.qmail.org/not-open-source.html:
>
> "For a program to be "open source", you must be able to, among other
> things, change the source and redistribute it. DJB prohibit
> > I was under the impression that kernel.org was the authoritative source
> > for the Linux kernel. What people are doing on the side was their own
> > project. *shrug* I could be wrong :-)
>
> kernel.org is the official source of straight vanilla linux, but no
> distros use vanilla linux
Where on earth is double log(double) actually defined? I'm talking
about the one in /usr/include/math.h.
Mark
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> markzero wrote:
> >Where on earth is double log(double) actually defined? I'm talking
> >about the one in /usr/include/math.h.
>
> See /usr/src/lib/msun/src/w_log.c. Or are you asking which library defines
> that symbol? It'd be in libm.a:
>
>
Has anybody had any luck with getting OpenNTPD (net/openntpd) to work
with anything other than UTC? I'm on GMT and recently we moved into
daylight savings. As OpenNTPD has decided that I'm on UTC, I'm now
an hour out (which is causing a few problems, as you can probably
guess).
Any help would be a
> On 2005-03-29, markzero scribbled these
> curious markings:
> > Has anybody had any luck with getting OpenNTPD (net/openntpd) to work
> > with anything other than UTC? I'm on GMT and recently we moved into
> > daylight savings. As OpenNTPD has decided that I'
(accidentally didn't CC the list...)
> That's the counter of how many times you have recompiled the kernel.
> In this example you are running the default kernel that is installed
> from cd.
Actually, this is a fresh recompilation but it's the first (and
hopefully only) one of 5.3p6. Thanks for th
> If you need more detailed information some patches at garage.freebsd.pl
> might be interesting - especially lrexec. It may be a bit outdated but
> it provides you with the information standard utilities don't.
>
> Michal
Thanks for the interesting link. How much of this is committed to the
tree
> These Maxtor drives may well be flaky, but they are very widely
> available and frequently installed in commodity machines.
Maxtor drives are flaky?
Oh dear.
How flaky?
Mine is starting to get a bit noisy.
Mark
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Hi, this is possibly the most open question posted here to date. :)
I'm looking to build/buy a large, low-access, long term storage
solution for my home. I'm a musician primarily so my files mostly
consist of lumps of audio. Ideally, I would like to be able to rsync
files to it, so I think I'd pro
> > To clarify, I'm looking for long-term reliability, low cost and large
> > space rather than high performance. I have a budget of around $600-900
> > to spend but I would not have to buy a PC as I have plenty of old
> > machines (average spec: Intel P3 700mhz) laying around that would=20
> > pro
> D'oh...should be:
>
> tcpdump -nl icmp |perl -e '$|=1;while(<>){print "\a";}'
>
> -Stephen
>
Great stuff. I can see some exciting things emerging upon piping this
into pure data!
http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html
Perhaps it's time to dig out my soundcard and put it in my desktop
ma
Hi, I've scoured the mailing lists and Google and can't seem to find a
solution to this little problem. I'm using the binary nvidia drivers on
my old 32mb TNT Riva 64 and from the framerates I'm getting from
xscreensaver, I think it's safe to assume that I'm not getting any
acceleration!
I install
> What about in Section "Module" -> Load "glx" like:
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "dri"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "glx"
> Load "record"
> Load "xtrap"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "type1"
> EndSection
>
Yes, I already
Some time ago, I mused upon the possibility of running Xorg in a
securelevel > 0 environment (and I forgot to thank Lowell Gilbert
for his advice, sorry!).
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-December/069141.html
I actually tried it on a test machine about five minutes ago a
> > securelevel is raised before xdm can start which causes fireworks.
> just a thought: if you raise the securelevel after xdm has started and it
> dies, would you get fireworks again?
>
I'm leaving the text consoles open for that very reason. If xdm dies,
tries to restart (it will try every 30
This is more of a followup for completeness than anything.
I reinstalled the driver but this time from ports. This fixed the GLX
problem but brought up the new error:
agp.ko detected, aborting setup of nvagp
Luckily, this was documented and it was a simple matter of recompiling
the kernel withou
> My thanks to all who replied. I ended up using this form (I don't
> recall who suggested it):
>
> find . -type f | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g'
>
> One problem, though: It appears that sed touches every file, resetting
> the last modification time, even if it didn't actually change anythi
> Hmm ... maybe I found it:
>
> grep -R -l "xxx" /www/htdocs | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/xxx/yyy/g'
>
> Does that look okay? Seems to work in my test.
>
> --
> Anthony
>
Looks good!
Mark
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> find . -type f | xargs grep -l 'foo' | \
> xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g'
>
> When passed the -l option (this is a lowercase 'EL'), it will not print
> the matched lines. Only the name of the files that *do* match. Then,
> once you have a list of files that really do match wi
> but what about:
>
> "**BSD is a registered trademark of Berkeley Software Design, Inc." ?
>
> taken from www.bsd.org
>
I have also heard 'Berkeley Systems Derivative' but that doesn't make it
correct... :)
Mark
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> > what's the output of ulimit -d?
>
> What's the trick to running "ulimit?"
>
> "command not found" yet whereis sez it is a shell builtin command.
>
> Jack
>
What about "limits"?
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> This is the output of my ulimit:
>
> #ulimit -a | grep data
> data seg size (kbytes, -d) 524288
> #
>
> So what is next?
> Is it possible to embed that information in the kernel?
> Or, how is this information set by default? Is there any specific
> .conf file I should edit?
>
> Thank
> Timothy Luoma wrote:
> >If not Jabber, what else?
>
> You could give 'silc' a try. It's in the ports tree:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/net/silc-server/pkg-descr
>
> There are clients for most operating systems, both graphical and not.
>
> --Tim Erlin
>
I once used an IRC serve
> In that case, this email is absolutely copyrighted by me (along
> with ... my recipie for coffee)
Hah! Bad move kiddo!
*slurp* *twitch*
I'll make a fortune! Hahaha...
Mark
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> Actually, I have a question. I'm in the middle of upgrading my
> dataserver, and I'm building ports on ttyv2,3&5. I have xdm
> running on ttyv8. I just finished installing wdm (on ttyv4) and
> I edited /etc/ttys to run wdm on ttyv8 instead of xdm. Is there
> a way to reset ttyv8 so that i
> * Erik Trulsson [2005-02-05 23:55 +0100]
> > Also keep in mind that if you leave the computer running all the time
> > it will show up on your electricity bill, so if you wish to save power
> > you should shut down your computer over night.
>
> Given that your house needs to be warmed up (a p
> > Since the computers are necessary for both work and play, I consider
> > running them to be electricity wisely used. I do turn the monitors off
> > when I'm not home, but since they are all flat panels now, that
> > represents only a trivial amount of electricity.
>
> That reminds me:
> Pleas
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:27:03AM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote:
> i've followed the howto exactly and it still doesn't work. i don't know
> wtf i'm doing wrong. here is the output i get in verbose mode
>
> the files i have in the remote host
> ls -l
> total 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 timothy wheel 241 Fe
Hello,
Could anybody recommend a good, solid DSL modem that is supported nicely
by FreeBSD? An internal modem would be preferred but I would consider
otherwise. My main requirements are stability and a lack of any kind of
external management (I want my box to be solely in control, not a
proprietar
> What is your DSL provider, what telephone company are they using?
> Are you running bridged or ppp mode DSL?
>
> DSL modems all use proprietary implementations of the DMT protocol,
> while many will interoperate with different DSL providers and
> DSLAMS, not all will.
>
> Ted
Hi Ted, the relev
> This is a really good universal combination. Many DSL modems will
> work fine. But there's 1 modem that I would strongly recommend
> in this instance over any other modem:
>
> Westell C90-36R516-01
>
> Why? Here's why:
>
> 1) These are dumb bridged modems so they aren't interfereing with
>
> >Is it possible to install multiple X servers on the same machine so that
> >one can fire up whichever one strikes one's fancy at a given time?
>
> I don't see why not, although it'd probably be more common to simply
> kill one wm session and start another to save resources. Maybe it's
> possib
> >This is certainly possible. You need to start X via something other than
> >startx as you must manually set DISPLAY vars. I have run two X servers on
> >my machine many times - one running a local desktop environment and the
> >other running a WM from a remote box over SSH (for no particular rea
> I'm currently struggling with the Xfce environment and I'd like to
> install Firefox, but neither the Firefox site nor anywhere else I've
> looked thus far has comprehensive installation instructions for the
> product on FreeBSD (or any flavor of UNIX, apparently). Is there a page
> somewhere tha
Oh the joys of binary drivers.
I awake from a peaceful slumber after a portupgrade to find that
I suddenly no longer have X. The playful and exciting words
dance across my colourless and tormented screen:
(WW) The NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro GPU installed in
(WW) this system is su
> Can you use the x.org "nv" driver instead? I've never really figured
> out what the binary driver buys you over the standard one, but then all
> I do is run X with fvwm2, mainly for software development, so I have
> never needed any "fancy" features. (I've never had a TNT2, but I
> believe
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:53:43PM -0400, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote:
>
> glxgears works for you with the nv driver? I cannot get it to work
> for me (I have a RIVA TNT as opposed to your RIVA TNT 2). Could you
> post your xorg.conf? I have the line Load "glx" in the "Module"
> Section. Perh
> >(WW) The NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro GPU installed in
> >(WW) this system is supported through the NVIDIA Legacy
> >(WW) drivers. Please visit
> >(WW) http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
> >(WW) information. The 1.0-7667 NVIDIA driver will ignore this
Hello.
I'm thinking of setting up a jail specifically to try and compile an
OpenBSD release on FreeBSD. No 'cross compiling' will be involved (same
target hardware architecture).
Has anybody here ever tried, or heard of anybody trying this?
I don't expect the journey to be without large potholes
> > I'm thinking of setting up a jail specifically to try and compile an
> > OpenBSD release on FreeBSD. No 'cross compiling' will be involved (same
> > target hardware architecture).
> >
> > Has anybody here ever tried, or heard of anybody trying this?
> >
> > I don't expect the journey to be wi
> > I should have explained myself a little better. What I'm actually trying
> > to do is compile a minimal OpenBSD snapshot so that I can
> > distribute binaries
> > to my very slow firewall machine (which also lacks a compiler, for
> > security reasons). The jail is purely there because the OpenB
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:17:57PM -0700, whistles wrote:
> On 7/21/05, markzero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:23:56PM -0400, ender wrote:
> > > Stephen Major wrote:
> > >
> > > >You are correct; I made a mistake on that one.
Hi.
I'm using a standard install of FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE.
I have a minimal jail, configured in the usual manner (a minimal install
into a directory). I installed Apache 1.3 from ports into the jail and
all seemed to be well until I tried:
# apachectl restart
The error log said:
[Sun Nov 27 20
Hello,
I would like to set up a machine with which to build world and kernels
for an assortment of slightly different machines. The machines are
an assortment of Pentium IIs', IIIs' and AMD K6s'. What CPU type should
I build for in order to safely accomodate the slight differences? i386?
Also, as
> >Hello,
> >I would like to set up a machine with which to build world and kernels
> >for an assortment of slightly different machines. The machines are
> >an assortment of Pentium IIs', IIIs' and AMD K6s'. What CPU type should
> >I build for in order to safely accomodate the slight differences? i
> > ssh was the first thing that sprang to mind but it also raised some
> > further questions, like what exactly to copy. /usr/obj would
> > obviously have to go over but what about all the makefiles required
> > for a 'make installworld' etc? I wondered if I would end up just
> > copying over /usr
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:01:23AM +0100, markzero wrote:
> ssh was the first thing that sprang to mind but it also raised some
> further questions, like what exactly to copy. /usr/obj would
> obviously have to go over but what about all the makefiles required
> for a 'make ins
> Have you found a solution to this? I am having the same problems on a
> machine very recently updated (cvsupped + buildworld on 4/14/2005):
> kernel.log:Feb 25 13:46:40 trinity kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame
> (ether type 3db4 flags 3 len 8381 > max 1514)
> kernel.log:Apr 10 14:27:37 trini
> Plug a USB mass-storage-type still camera, mount it, unplug it, and
> try to forcibly unmount it using 'umount -f'. The whole system hangs
> right away.
>
> Is it a known bug ?
I can confirm this. FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE-p9.
Mark
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FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p6 #0: Thu Mar 31 01:41:53 BST 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/L05
What exactly does the #0 signify?
Mark
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> On Thu, 05 May 2005 16:23:38 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
>
> hello , i would like to know how can i set a permission to a non root user
> to use the http public port 80 .
portacl is excellent for this purpose. I have been using it for some
time and it has never let me down.
http:
Hello,
How may one pretty print an epoch timestamp using date(1)? The date
manual page gives me a headache.
Essentially, I have the timestamp in a file:
$ cat t
1117417465
..and I want to print it in a standard UK format, such as:
+%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%y
Anybody?
(before anybody screams Perl or
> > How may one pretty print an epoch timestamp using date(1)? The date
> > manual page gives me a headache.
> >
> > Essentially, I have the timestamp in a file:
> >
> > $ cat t
> > 1117417465
> >
> > ..and I want to print it in a standard UK format, such as:
> >
> > +%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%y
>
> d
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 01:32:37PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-05-30 03:35, markzero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > How may one pretty print an epoch timestamp using date(1)? The date
> > manual page gives me a headache.
> >
> > Esse
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