Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-21 Thread Robert Backhaus
On 5/22/06, Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you administrate system(s) running FreeBSD (in the broad sense of "are responsible for keeping system(s) secure and up to date"), please visit http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/survey.html and complete the survey below before May 31st,

Re: Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...

2005-09-28 Thread Robert Backhaus
On 9/29/05, Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brad Knowles wrote: > > > However, it would be nice if mergemaster could be made to > > automatically accept changes that occur only in the comments of the > > files it is trying to merge. > > What would be nice is if people actually read the

Re: 6.0 and -O2 option

2005-08-29 Thread Robert Backhaus
> > Kernel and world seem to be ok with -O2, for ports it is not advised. > > Hi, > I may have missed a thread or something (just let me know :) ) - why is > -O2 not advised for ports on 6.0? > cheers, > Beto Simply because not every port works with -O2 optimisations. It caused bad code in some c

Re: /dev/midi and /dev/sequencer

2005-08-23 Thread Robert Backhaus
On 8/24/05, Ben Paley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running 5.4-STABLE, cvsupped and everything rebuilt Mon Aug 22. > > Does anyone know what's happening with MIDI? I've got no /dev/midi > or /dev/sequencer and don't know if it's even possible to turn them on in the > kernel at the

Re: burncd: Device busy error.

2005-07-14 Thread Robert Backhaus
On 7/14/05, Yann Golanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to burn to my CD drive and I keep getting the same error, > namely "only wrote -1 of 37632 bytes: Device busy". I've been able to > write to that dive from FreeBSD in the past but now, nada. > # burncd -f /dev/acd0 audio test.wav

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Robert Backhaus
Having just read this thread, I'd like to say that all messages are making valid points, and all participants agree with each other. However, the argumentative discussion is creating a lot of noise. Meanwhile, there are people doing meaningful work on this. A good standby would be to patch your 5

Re: ATA Timeouts

2005-05-28 Thread Robert Backhaus
> I temporarily moved the disk to a recent 5.4 desktop machine equipped > with the same chipset and the timeouts stopped, so it appears that the > problem is not with the disk. So the problem exists on 5.S and not on 5.4-RELEASE? or is it vice versa? ___

Re: Weird jdk14 build

2005-05-02 Thread Robert Backhaus
On 01 May 2005 09:20:55 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jayton Garnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > This weekend i've been reinstalling fbsd on my desktop and while > > installing /usr/ports/java//jdk14 (yes i downloaded all the files from > > sun and the pat

Re: Preposterous errno values from kernel

2005-04-24 Thread Robert Backhaus
On 4/23/05, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:34:39AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-Apr-21 22:04:01 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >I'm getting this on a RELENG_5_4 sparc64 system (e4500): > > > > > ># rm -rf * > > >/bin/rm: Unknown error: 7283. >

Re: Package managment

2005-04-12 Thread Robert Backhaus
On Apr 12, 2005 6:28 PM, Jan Sebosik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I`ve got one simple question: if i`ve built packages on my freebsd > 5.3-RELEASE system, do I need to rebuilt them again for 5.4-RELEASE > (after downloading && compiling from sources) ? > > Best regards, > Jan Sebosik > ___

Re: how to remote update 4.10 -> 5.3?

2004-12-29 Thread Robert Backhaus
Remember, a remote install is possible (although I've never done it) by connecting a null modem cable between two machines' serial ports and using that for a console - Some people keep remote systems daisy-chained in this manner to cope with boot failures. On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:38:23 -0500, Paul

Re: problem with the CD driver

2004-11-30 Thread Robert Backhaus
Is that the full train of error messages? I have a similar problem that begins with a DONEDRQ warning. I'll be posting my own PR on it tonight if none of the bsdforums crowd can come up with anything. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: 5.2 -> 5.3 without single mode?

2004-11-28 Thread Robert Backhaus
In general, yes, there will be. Quite an extensive one. Usually thoroughly bikeshedded on the lists beforehand. As a rule, always do installkernel before installworld. The new kernel will always run the old world (within reason), although often not vice versa. Then, in case of a failure, it should