Re: two ata-related problems

2010-09-04 Thread perryh
Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se wrote: So, yes, FreeBSD 8.1 *should* be able to recognize an ATAPI Zip drive. No great urgency -- I won't need it during the install and no specific plans even after that -- but any ideas how to go about tracking this down?

Re: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates

2010-09-04 Thread perryh
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 09/03/10 09:19, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chris Reesutis...@gmail.com wrote: You have to SIGHUP cron, not restart it. # killall -HUP cron Isn't crontab(1) supposed to do that, without separate intervention? From man cron

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-04 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, September 03, 2010 a las 12:53:35PM -0700, Rob Farmer escribió: Assuming you aren't in a US export restricted country (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria) I should be able to give you a legal copy. ... Rob, Thanks for this. Btw: It's a pity that I'm not in Cuba, I'm

Re: Which of these NICs will work?

2010-09-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/09/2010 18:32:49, Robert Huff wrote: Ryan Coleman writes: Any thoughts? I need/want to get a multi-port NIC for my new system but I haven't purchased the guts for the server yet.

Benchmark tool

2010-09-04 Thread bsd
Hi, I am looking for a tool (or a configuration setup) that will allow me to benchmark (performance test) couple of firewall based on pfSense, and eventualy to compare them with other software / hard solution. Any idea, clue, link will be highly appreciated. Thanks

Re: Need to run a Command Once on Boot. FreeBSD8.1

2010-09-04 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Jason jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 02:50:48PM -0500, Martin McCormick thus spake: Robert Bonomi writes: /etc/rc.local maybe? contrary to the 'rc.d' way of doing things, but 'simple'. :) Thanks so much to both people who

Updating KDE4

2010-09-04 Thread Jerry
From the UPDATING file: 20100902: AFFECTS: users of KDE4 AUTHOR: k...@freebsd.org KDE SC ports has been updated to 4.5.1. A number of files were moved between packages, manual intervention into update procedure is required: # pkg_delete -f kdehier4\* kdelibs-4\* kdebase-4\*

Re: Which of these NICs will work?

2010-09-04 Thread H.Fazaeli
based on 10+ exprience and working with a dozen models, I recommend intel cards: - Intel explicitly supports freebsd. - the cards are highly stable - have best performance among all other cards on freebsd and if you look for best performance, buy a card based on 82575 or 82576 controllers. On

FreeBSD8.1 AMD64 UFS2 file system size issues.

2010-09-04 Thread troy
Hello. I am having a problem with a fresh install onto a = raid5 file system that is 9TB in size. during the initial install, the syste= m shows the correct disk size and partition sizes, but after it has complete d and rebooted it shows the the large partition as only 1TB. I am

proper way to setup laptop with apache22

2010-09-04 Thread Jim Pazarena
I'm setting up a laptop with apache, just to play, basically. But apache doesn't like the fact that it can't resolve the lappy's hostname to an IP number and it will not load. The laptop gets its IP # via DHCP so it changes at various locations. I could use the localhost name IP #, which

Re: Directory Encryption?

2010-09-04 Thread Bernt Hansson
2010-08-23 18:04, Timm Wimmers skrev: Am 23.08.2010 16:36, schrieb Chris Maness: What is a good tool to encrypt a directory? I need an application that is also readily available for Apple OSX, and that does not get mangled when transferring via rsync. How about openssl'? Encrypt a TARed

Re: proper way to setup laptop with apache22

2010-09-04 Thread Glen Barber
On 9/4/10 5:59 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: I'm setting up a laptop with apache, just to play, basically. But apache doesn't like the fact that it can't resolve the lappy's hostname to an IP number and it will not load. The laptop gets its IP # via DHCP so it changes at various locations. I

Re: proper way to setup laptop with apache22

2010-09-04 Thread Glen Barber
On 9/4/10 6:34 PM, Glen Barber wrote: On 9/4/10 5:59 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: I'm setting up a laptop with apache, just to play, basically. But apache doesn't like the fact that it can't resolve the lappy's hostname to an IP number and it will not load. The laptop gets its IP # via DHCP so it

PDF to HTML translations

2010-09-04 Thread Chad Perrin
What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find that there, but no luck. Before I spend hours sifting through, still without knowing whether I missed something that should be obvious, I figured I'd ask

Re: PDF to HTML translations

2010-09-04 Thread Antonio Olivares
On 9/4/10, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find that there, but no luck. Before I spend hours sifting through, still without knowing whether I missed

Re: PDF to HTML translations

2010-09-04 Thread b. f.
What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find that there, but no luck. Off the top of my head: OpenOffice graphics/xpdf (via pdftotext -htmlmeta, simplistic) graphics/poppler-utils (pdftohtml) I'm

Re: PDF to HTML translations

2010-09-04 Thread b. f.
On 9/5/10, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find that there, but no luck. Off the top of my head: OpenOffice graphics/xpdf (via pdftotext -htmlmeta,

FreeBSD on Compaq mini CQ10 anyone?

2010-09-04 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
I just got one and was wondering if anyone was running FreeBSD on it and how well does it work out of the box. All comments are welcome. Best Regards. Gonzalo Nemmi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

gmirror load broken in 8.1 memstick

2010-09-04 Thread perryh
Fixit# gmirror label -vb round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0s2a appeared to work properly. (I didn't write down the exact message, but it said something about the metadata having been written successfully.) However: Fixit# gmirror load gmirror: Command 'load' not available. and it did not create