Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-29 Thread Unga
- Original Message - From: Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 4:47 AM Subject: Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux? Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux? I have

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
Then I have to portupgrade hplip and dependencies (portupgrade -r ...) or the portmaster equivalent. Welcome to the wonderful world of printing on FreeBSD. By the way, is the time you are investing in this venture considered billable hours or just self-flagellation? -- Jerry ???

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-29 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi articulated: Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and denying them the 'freedom of choice' to make their own decisions on the matter -- e.g. anyone offering such products should be to some degree held legally

Abstraction leakage burning test DVD+R

2011-10-29 Thread freebsd-questions
Hello, After my dump/restore test failed back in May of 2010[1], I finally got around to burning a test DVD after installing about 2.5 inches of semi-rigid foam under the machine to dampen any local vibration. In designing the test, I was under the mistaken impression that buffer under-runs

update packages by pkg_add

2011-10-29 Thread hvn
Hi, Using version 8.2, can somebody tell me how I can upgrade packages that I installed using pkg_add? I'm trying to install more packages but get messages that there are package-conflicts because of older installed version. Thanks. ___

Re: update packages by pkg_add

2011-10-29 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 29 October 2011, hvn wrote: Using version 8.2, can somebody tell me how I can upgrade packages that I installed using pkg_add? I'm trying to install more packages but get messages that there are package-conflicts because of older installed version. pkg_delete -f name-of-package

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-29 Thread Warren Block
While political and economic issues are important, most of them are not directly relevant to the freebsd-questions mailing list, and reduce the usefulness of the list in helping people get answers to questions about FreeBSD. Please continue such subjects somewhere else, like private email or

Re: update packages by pkg_add

2011-10-29 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, hvn wrote: Using version 8.2, can somebody tell me how I can upgrade packages that I installed using pkg_add? I'm trying to install more packages but get messages that there are package-conflicts because of older installed version. sysutils/bsdadminscripts has a

Re: update packages by pkg_add

2011-10-29 Thread Huub van Niekerk
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.ukwrote: On Saturday 29 October 2011, hvn wrote: Using version 8.2, can somebody tell me how I can upgrade packages that I installed using pkg_add? I'm trying to install more packages but get messages that there are

Re: update packages by pkg_add

2011-10-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:53:28 +0200, Huub van Niekerk wrote: Thank you for your answer. But how about if the package-to-be-replaced is a dependency? Just remember the dependency and do the same ? As you're going to reinstall the package immediately, there won't be a problem. Of course, a

Samba/CIFS, what I'm serving?

2011-10-29 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi, I've installed Samba on my server to share some directories to Windows machines. It is working very well. Since a couple of days, I noted the whole server's performance was slow, then I started to check open ports, stopped some services, until samba was the only service still working (my

Strange httpd-error.log

2011-10-29 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi, I installed the Apache::MP3 module, to stream mp3 files, it works ok, but I found this on my httpd-error.log: [Sat Oct 29 15:11:03 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Sat Oct 29 15:11:03 2011] [notice] Digest: done [Sat Oct 29 15:11:04 2011] [notice]

Re: update packages by pkg_add

2011-10-29 Thread doug
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:53:28 +0200, Huub van Niekerk wrote: Thank you for your answer. But how about if the package-to-be-replaced is a dependency? Just remember the dependency and do the same ? As you're going to reinstall the package immediately,

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-29 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Oct 29 06:29:33 2011 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:28:24 -0400 From: Jerry je...@seibercom.net To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi