boot question

2011-05-14 Thread Robert Simmons
Perhaps my earlier question was too complex and specific. I will rephrase it a bit: How do I boot from a kernel that is in a non-standard location on a disk that is partitioned with the GPT scheme? How do I tell that kernel the location of /etc/fstab?

Re: boot question

2011-05-14 Thread Robert Simmons
On Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:38:37 AM you wrote: > > Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 09:44:42 -0400 > > From: Robert Simmons > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: boot question > > > > How do I boot from a kernel that is in a non-standard location on a d

Re: adding new disk >2TB, gpt?

2011-05-16 Thread Robert Simmons
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:27 AM, n dhert wrote: > I have a running FreeBSD-8.2-amd system, > FreeBSD was installed in jan 2009 (then FreeBSD 7.0), which a fisk disk of > 200 GB > for /, swap /usr /var /tmp. > Later that month, I added a 9 TB disk using /sbin/gpt > (since sysinstall uses bsdlabel/

Re: adding new disk >2TB, gpt?

2011-05-17 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Maciej Milewski wrote: > On Tuesday 17 of May 2011 15:19:40, n dhert wrote: >> Thanks for your answer! >> I am trying out gpart. >> On an old PC with 38 GB disk, I have triple boot Windows, OpenSuSE and >> FreeBSD-8.2. >> I created an unalloated space of 973 MB at

SSD drive not recognized

2011-05-19 Thread Robert Simmons
I recently upgraded a hard drive to an SSD drive. Initially I bought a cheap(er) Microcenter house branded SATA II drive (after looking around online it turns out it is really an A-Data that was rebranded). It was recognized by the BIOS, but not by FreeBSD. I decided to return it and try a name

ipv6 spam

2011-05-21 Thread Robert Simmons
I have begun receiving ipv6 spam from this mailing list, and I was wondering how to determine who the owner of a particular ipv6 address is. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: Other lists exist too - Was Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-21 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Questions@ started as a catch all fallback address for simple beginners > questions from the newly installed, who didn't know /  hadn't yet read >  http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html >  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8

Re: Xfce4.8 Trash?

2011-05-22 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Hello, > > Since Xfce 4.8 the trash applet does not work : "Can't connect to the > trash". > > I've googled a bit but can't find any solution (Thunar, dbus and hal are > running). This is a fresh install and not an update. Have you trie

Re: Xfce4.8 Trash?

2011-05-22 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Le Sun, 22 May 2011 10:09:37 -0400, > Robert Simmons a écrit : > >> > Since Xfce 4.8 the trash applet does not work : "Can't connect to >> > the trash". >> > >> > I&#x

Re: Ekiga && FreeBSD (for a future without Skype)

2011-05-22 Thread Robert Simmons
Also, unless my friends all change from Skype or Skype becomes intolerable with SIP, I'm stuck with Skype. Also, we should wait and see what ms does with Skype before we condemn them. On May 22, 2011 7:20 PM, "ajtiM" wrote: On Sunday 22 May 2011 12:44:50 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > paid) PSTN-

Re: Filename containing French characters ?

2011-05-23 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun May 22 10:02:02 2011 > From: Frank Bonnet > Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 17:00:48 +0200 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Filename containing French characters ? > > Hello > > I'm going mad trying to Open a file which the filename contains one

Re: Filename containing French characters ?

2011-05-23 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun May 22 23:56:05 2011 > Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 06:54:44 +0200 > From: Frank Bonnet > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Filename containing French characters ? > > > > Le 22/05/2011 17:31, Mike Jeays a ecrit : > > On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:

Re: Filename containing French characters ?

2011-05-23 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 06:54:44 +0200 > From: Frank Bonnet > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Filename containing French characters ? > > Le 22/05/2011 17:31, Mike Jeays a ecrit : > > On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:00:48 +0200 Frank Bonnet > > wrote: > > > >> Hello > >> > >> I'm going

Re: Filename containing French characters ?

2011-05-24 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue May 24 02:32:36 2011 > Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 09:32:20 +0200 > From: Frank Bonnet > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Filename containing French characters ? > > OK now the filenames are well displayed in the console > \BUT ... > > It

Re: Filename containing French Characters

2011-05-24 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:28:02 +0200 > From: Frank Bonnet > Subject: Re: Filename containing French characters ? > > On 05/24/2011 10:01 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue May 24 02:32:36 2011 > >> Date: Tue, 24 Ma

Re: x11-wm/olvwm

2011-05-24 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Chris Rees wrote: > On 24 May 2011 18:09, C. P. Ghost wrote: >> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM,   wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have updated ports and when reinstalling I found x11-wm/olvwm which I was >>> using was gone from the ports tree.  Why? >> >> I noticed t

FreeBSD Python version

2011-05-25 Thread Robert Huff
other functionalities? Maybe, maybe not; it would vary by the port that uses python. See /usr/ports/UPDATING for possible issues. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Disable or limit email in root?

2011-05-26 Thread Robert Simmons
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > I am trying to find if sendmail was the problem or what... thing is not that > root receive email but that root was used to send email to a list of > address... Was the root account on the box actually used, or did someone spoof email coming

Re: remote password change

2011-05-28 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:17 AM, pepe wrote: > I have two FreeBSD 8 servers running. Server A is for shell access and > server B for www pages. On B there is only scp/sftp access and no shell > login. > Now I'm looking for solution for people to be able to change password for > server B from insid

Re: remote password change

2011-05-29 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:26 AM, wrote: > For NIS, yes, if correctly configured.  Each server can have its > own set of local users in addition to those authenticated via NIS. > Dunno about K5. Yes, by using .k5users and .k5login you can administrate which k5 principles can access which accounts

Re: Funny thing with portsclean

2011-05-29 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: > # Papi/root [23:28:52] > [~]>portsclean -D > > Detecting unreferenced distfiles... <-- !! > > Delete /usr/ports/distfiles/KDE/akonadi-1.5.2.tar.bz2 > Delete /usr/ports/distfiles/KDE/kdeaccessibility-4.6.2.tar.bz2 > Delete /usr/ports/distfiles/K

Re: Funny thing with portsclean

2011-05-29 Thread Robert Simmons
Sorry, I didn't mention why. You need use -DD if you don't want that to happen, and you want it to follow installed packages as well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

acroread9 - kernel module load error

2011-06-02 Thread Robert Huff
ion is to (re-)build the kernel and program using the same source tree. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > - or any problems (problems as in I've never tried that before) - using > gpart instead of the "old" scheme? Sorry for the double post, but the only problem that I've encountered is after creating a encrypted provider with geli(8), that provi

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > I just realized how many years ago I haven't been partitioning any disks .. > this system is so stable :) So, now I see I have gpart as alternative to > fdisk/bsdlabel. gpart(8) from my experience is far superior to all the older tools. > >

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Warren Block wrote: > There's a sample in the second half of my disk setup article: > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html Looks good. I have a few critiques: 1) Linux and FreeBSD do not have alignment requirements, as far as I know. So you

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote: > Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the > following sequence: > > # gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR > # gpart add -t freebsd ad4# Create a BSD container

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:59:44 AM Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 06:40:22 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the > > following sequence: > > > > # gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR > >

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 08:03, Robert Simmons wrote: >> On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote: >> > Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the >> > follo

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:35 AM, wrote: > Robert Simmons wrote:> >> > How do I wipe the whole thing in one go so that I can start >> > afresh? >> > >> > gpart destroy ad4 ?? >> >> Yes, but first you must delete all of the slices/partitions. &

MySQL update

2011-06-07 Thread Robert Huff
of least resistance. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

MySQL update

2011-06-07 Thread Robert Huff
Robert Huff writes: > That may, however, quite likely be the path of least > resistance. Also - have you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: ftp installation

2011-06-11 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > I have tried many of the ftp sites enumerated in sysinstall, with both > 7.4-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE, and in all cases the installation proceeds > for a few seconds and then hangs, with the last message on the console > always being: > >

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > twm doesn't stand for "Trivial Window Manager"-- it stands for "Tom's Window > Manager" because it was written by Tom LaStrange on Sun-3_35 or 3_50 hardware > back around X11R1. Stood for, you mean. It evolved to Tab Window Manager, and no

Re: 'About FreeBSD' international

2011-06-15 Thread Robert Watson
ank -- the names on the e-mails vary, but the text is otherwise the same -- googling the phone number is enlightening :-) ) Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Alyona Lompar wrote: Hi! I'm willing to translate page located at http://

Re: SATA SDD cards

2011-06-15 Thread Robert Simmons
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Rob wrote: > Has anyone tried using an SATA SSD card (SATA add-on card that is a SSD > drive) in FreeBSD?  I was looking at an OCZ RevoDrive and was wondering if > anyone had tried using one of those specifically, or any SATA SSD card in > general. I have not use

finding kernel 'r' number

2011-06-16 Thread Robert Huff
For some time now, people have been referring to what build they're using by the 'r' number, which I believe to be part of svn. How would one go about determining this value for the installed kernel?

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 09:22:43 AM Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 16/06/2011 13:52, Peter Vereshagin wrote: > > You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions! > > 2011/06/15 17:08:31 -0400 Chris Brennan => To > > Thomas Hansen : CB> FreeBSD is a UNIX-like clone, which is indeed free, > > wher

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:29:42 AM Peter Vereshagin wrote: > There should be a difference recognized between "own a Unix trademark" by > http://www.unix.org/trademark.html and "ownership of the Unix copyrights" > by http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100330152829622 where I'm > pass.

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:47:32 AM Peter Vereshagin wrote: > This will require some efforts from Open Group. Does FreeBSD Foundation pay > for that? Not necessary. FreeBSD does not use (want to use/need to use) the UNIX trademark and according to the USL vs. BSDi court case, FreeBSD does not

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:31:19 PM Reko Turja wrote: > In that fictional world MySQL needed a fork and some GPL'd programs > have been retroactively made completely closed source, forking denied > after taking the issue into court... I thought that Sun reversed that decision in 2008. Can you

Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Robert Bonomi
> c=1 sm=1 a=psGcP66QiRcA:10 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 > a=olICo1sKaMXbpqbYUd6B5g==:17 a=FRAN3z_KNnB9zMti78sA:9 > a=Vsz6ik2fFBHHgstyK_YA:7 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 > a=olICo1sKaMXbpqbYUd6B5g==:117 > X-CM-Score: 0.00 > Authentication-Results: cox.net; none > Date:

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Jun 17 12:22:42 2011 > Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:03:47 -0500 > From: Alex Stangl > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: free sco unix > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:28:51AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > Registration aids enforcement. Of

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From cpgh...@cordula.ws Sat Jun 18 08:28:25 2011 > Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:28:24 +0200 > Subject: Re: free sco unix > From: "C. P. Ghost" > To: Robert Bonomi > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Robert Bonomi > wr

Re: {SPAM} New games for you

2011-06-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
Anybody running procmail who is tired of this Netlog cr*p (thanks to one Elias Shashati, who subscribed the questions mailing list to their service) is welcome to use the procmail recipe that I have posted at: Original message: > From owner-freebs

Re: {SPAM} New games for you

2011-06-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Jun 19 06:38:27 2011 > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:38:05 -0400 > From: Jerry > To: FreeBSD > Subject: Re: {SPAM} New games for you > > On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:52:15 -0500 (CDT) > Robert Bonomi articulated: > > > Anyb

freebsd list admins?

2011-06-20 Thread Robert Simmons
Who is the admin for freebsd-quesitons and freebsd-security? There seems to be a few email addresses that are subscribed to these lists that keep spamming it periodically, or in the case of freebsd-security actually don't exist and have a broken mailserver that sends a reponse back to the list.

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-21 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 07:44:16 AM Jerry wrote: > You have voiced a concern that has been voiced here several times in > the past. Unfortunately, this is an "open" list; ie, anyone subscribed > or not can post. This leads to the inevitable problems that plague this > forum. I have tried contacti

Re: (no subject)

2011-06-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
"Those who think they know it all are really annoying to those of us who do." > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:04:52 +0200 > From: Lokadamus > > Your folder tmp is an own partition with just 1GB size. FALSE TO FACT. You can run df(1), giving it _any_ fileneme -- whether OR NOT it is a directory -

Re: Two Networks on one System

2011-06-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Jun 21 17:34:22 2011 > From: n j > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:02:53 +0200 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Two Networks on one System > > I can't really say I understand the exact problem the OP has, As _I_ understand it, one of tw

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-21 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > I'm against merging chat@ & questions@, & don't believe it will happen >        Lists for different purposes, but even if questions@ people >        might come to a consensus in favour of merging, lots of >        people on other lists hav

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-21 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 06:03:23 PM Julian H. Stacey wrote: > The traffic on questions@ has now become very heavy. > > Traffic too heavy in fact, & a mess of themes, >Some traffic would be better posted to hackers@ or >current@ or other more specialist lists Also, one place

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:00:01 +0200 > From: Frank Bonnet > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: freebsd list admins? > > hello > > If anyone knows some free USENET servers I would be happy to know it in > France it becomes VERY hard to find one and I would like to setup one BUT

'mount -u' stumper

2011-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
Environment is FreeBSD 7.2 i386 I have a Berkeley FFS filesystem that is mounted ro at boot time. If I do a 'mount -u' to make it writable, it _is_ made writable, but "soft-updates' is also set. Incidentally, does anybody know _where_ the 'soft-updates' optioon is documented?? I've looked ev

Re: 'mount -u' stumper

2011-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From er...@midgard.homeip.net Wed Jun 22 06:51:47 2011 > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:51:00 +0200 > From: Erik Trulsson > To: Robert Bonomi > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: 'mount -u' stumper > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 06:45:27AM -0500, Robert

Re: 'mount -u' stumper

2011-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jun 22 07:11:09 2011 > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:10:35 +0100 > From: RW > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: 'mount -u' stumper > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:45:27 -0500 (CDT) > Robert Bonomi wrote: >

Re: 'mount -u' stumper

2011-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jun 22 10:57:33 2011 > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:56:07 +0100 > From: RW > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: 'mount -u' stumper > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:54:53 -0500 (CDT) > Robert Bonomi wrote: &g

Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Huff
> me is how quick support was pulled from version 4. My morning-fogged mind says Version 4 was out less than a year. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 23 07:02:56 2011 > From: Robert Huff > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:02:23 -0400 > To: FreeBSD > Subject: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support > > > Jerry writes: > > > >From URL: > > <h

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Huff
Which says something about the relative trust levels about Mozilla and Microsoft bringing out a a new .0 of their core product. Robert "still using XP" Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Huff
relating to HTML v5. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Simmons
Why not take this discussion to freebsd-chat? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thursday, June 23, 2011 08:10:29 PM Randy Pratt wrote: > I don't think making a list writable only to subscribers solves > anything since it seems the spammers are already subscribed. This only > makes it difficult for others like myself who read the lists online and > only post occasionally.

Re: Performance of a USB ZIL for ZFS

2011-06-26 Thread Robert Simmons
On 25 Jun 2011, at 19:17, Joshua Isom wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had tried using a decent USB flash drive for > the ZIL. I know it'd be hard finding one fast enough, but some from > patriot seem like they might be suitable for home use. Part of the > idea is to just minimize hard drive t

RE: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Robert Huff
* y MIPS? It is my understanding surplus RAM will be allocated to file-caching. Whether this benefits your particular application set I would have no idea. Respectfully, Robert Huff ___ fr

Re: PID 11 using 400% CPU

2011-06-29 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jun 29 23:07:59 2011 > Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:37:11 +0530 > From: Manish Jain > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: PID 11 using 400% CPU > > >Hello All, >I have a strange problem with my 8.1 box. After booting, the hard disk >

Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-02 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jul 2 06:45:00 2011 > Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 13:43:55 +0200 > From: Polytropon > To: Chris Whitehouse > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: What is xz ? > > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:26:14 +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > On 02/07/2011 0

Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-02 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:25:11 + > From: "b. f." > To: Robert Bonomi , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: > Subject: Re: What is xz ? > > > > From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org Sat Jul 2 06:45:00 2011 > > > Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 1

Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-02 Thread Robert Huff
lt system compiler is gcc-4.2.1 (I believe). There are several higher numbered versions in ports. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Upgrading very old installation

2011-07-15 Thread Robert Huff
liable backup (which carries its own set of risks). Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jul 16 21:40:19 2011 > Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:40:19 -0400 > From: Aryeh Friedman > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: how to force a hard reboot remotely > > Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a > i386 without phys

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Jul 18 03:55:59 2011 > Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:55:58 +0200 > From: Frank Bonnet > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) > > On 07/18/2011 10:45 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jul

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:01:53 -0700 > From: per...@pluto.rain.com > Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) > > Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > All well and good for locating files of a certain format and/or > with partic

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:01:20 -0400 > From: Jerry > Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:31:41 +0200 > Polytropon articulated: > > > Your TV example is very good. I've recently read a text > > that predicts the future of CDs - a text from the

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From edi...@d3photography.com Tue Jul 19 00:05:30 2011 > Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) > From: Ryan Coleman > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:05:27 -0500 > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > To: Robert Bonomi > > > On Jul

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Jul 19 05:54:52 2011 > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:54:38 +0200 > From: Damien Fleuriot > To: "C. P. Ghost" > Cc: Frank Bonnet , > "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" > Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) > > > > On

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From cpgh...@cordula.ws Tue Jul 19 07:26:51 2011 > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:27:01 +0200 > Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) > From: "C. P. Ghost" > To: Robert Bonomi > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > On

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Jul 19 08:55:07 2011 > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:54:32 +0200 > From: Damien Fleuriot > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) > > > > On 7/19/11 1:

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Jul 19 09:05:02 2011 > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:03:55 +0200 > From: Damien Fleuriot > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) > > On 7/19/11 3:49 PM, Rober

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

2011-07-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:03:58 -0700 > From: ssgriffonuser > Subject: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25 > > Hi all, > > I'm having difficulty getting sendmail set up on my server. I can send > and receive to localhost and I can send to external networks but I can > not receive f

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Huff
the U,S, do, as part of spam control procedures. I am obliged to relay through my I.S.P.; after some initial set-up issues, this works flawlessly as long as at least one relay machine is up. Robert Huff ___ freebs

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25 (solved)

2011-07-23 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:03:26 -0700 > From: ssgriffonuser > Subject: Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25 (solved) > [[.. sneck ..]] > However, I also learned that my home ISP blocks outbound > traffic on port 25 (I thought it only blocked inbound) so I could not

Re: legal notices at the end of emails

2011-07-27 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From: Ryan Coleman > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:33:53 -0500 > Subject: Re: legal notices at the end of emails > > > -- > > Jerry > > > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they > > are addresse

Re: Printr?

2011-07-27 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:16:48 -0700 > From: Gary Kline > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: Printr? > > > folks, > > i sent a couple freebsd questions days ago and did not bcc myself. i > never saw the post nor got any response. anyway, new one: is there > any way of getting my 'b

Re: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jul 28 02:03:19 2011 > Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:02:41 -0700 > From: Gary Kline > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Cc: > Subject: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old? > > guys, > > > how can i use find or whatever to find a file, sa

Re: disappearing files

2011-07-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:30:36 +0200 > From: ad...@prnet.org > Subject: Re: disappearing files > > Hi, > > Dmesg returns no error. Also smartctl returns no errors. I will wait for > other suggestion before unmounting the volume in this machine for the case > someone else has another suggestion

Re: "Distributions" are missing from home burnt CD

2011-08-01 Thread Robert Simmons
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Grant Walter wrote: > Hi guys, > > I burned a CD of the LiveFS image and my installation failed. I then tried > installing from the Disk 1 image and the install succeeded. > > My problem is that there are no "Ditstributions" on the disk. I don't even > have bash

Re: "Distributions" are missing from home burnt CD

2011-08-01 Thread Robert Simmons
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Distributions, by nature, shouldn't be on the disc... they are outdated the > moment they are made into an ISO. > > run these commands: > > These are written assuming you are in as root. > > # ftp ftp://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/port

Re: "Distributions" are missing from home burnt CD

2011-08-01 Thread Robert Simmons
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Is portsnap installed? I was going with the effed up installer route. :) > > This works - I tried it when I wrote up the directions. I assume that if the machine boots into the OS, that base is installed and portsnap is in base. _

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Aug 3 11:42:44 2011 > Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:41:44 +0100 > From: Chris Whitehouse > To: User Questions > Subject: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D > > Hi, > > before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell > me how I can ge

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Bonomi
Pierre, please do not 'top post' replies -- it makes the 'logic' of the message hard to follow, to wit: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? See

top-posting 'condescending asshats' (to use Ryan Coleman's description of himself)

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Bonomi
the double-standard of "do as I say, not as I do" given that you left in over 60 lines of material that was entirely irrelevant to your empty-headed posturing. Note: The _entire_ prior conent is left intact here, to expressly document the truth of the above statement. > > On

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Robert Huff
7;t understand why you have chosen AMD64? You only have 2 GB > memory, which can be adressed under i386 too and you can avoid a > lot of problems. Perhaps they think it will be easier to add more memory than to reinstall FreeBSD and ports?

Re: looking for a spammer/virii/malware .... on my system

2011-08-15 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Aug 15 12:37:33 2011 > Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:05:15 -0400 > From: alexus > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: looking for a spammer/virii/malware on my system > > I received a SPAM complain from my ISP and we're trying to figure out

Re: wpa_cli issues

2011-08-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Aug 19 07:41:44 2011 > Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:22:34 -0500 > From: "Zane C. B-H." > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: wpa_cli issues > > Is there any way to undefine a variable once it has been set? *As(stated*, the answer involves the offspring o

Re: My server is under attack (I think)

2011-08-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Aug 19 10:02:30 2011 > Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:01:21 -0400 > From: Mark Moellering > To: FreeBSD > Subject: My server is under attack (I think) > > I keep seeing a flood of messages when I run dmesg -a that look like this: > > mail sshd[1831]: war

Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Aug 22 05:20:20 2011 > Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:18:18 -0500 (CDT) > From: Lars Eighner > To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart? > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Conrad J. S

Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Aug 22 17:55:46 2011 > Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:53:55 -0500 (CDT) > From: Lars Eighner > To: Robert Bonomi > Cc: luvbea...@larseighner.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and ua

Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-23 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From l...@larseighner.com Tue Aug 23 07:33:23 2011 > Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:31:50 -0500 (CDT) > From: Lars Eighner > To: Robert Bonomi > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart? > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Robert B

Re: What USB dialup modem WILL work with 8.2?

2011-08-26 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Aug 26 18:21:24 2011 > Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:19:13 -0500 (CDT) > From: Lars Eighner > To: Mike Tancsa > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: What USB dialup modem WILL work with 8.2? > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > >

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