Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-07 Thread Erich
Hi, On 06 June 2012 23:27:39 Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 03:05:00PM -0400, Jerry wrote: I don't know of any user personally who purchased a new PC and then threw FreeBSD on it. Most users that I have come into contact with use 2+ year old units that have been replaced by

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-07 Thread parv
in message 1849552.ouqdgjx...@x220.ovitrap.com, wrote Erich thusly... On 06 June 2012 23:27:39 Chad Perrin wrote: ... I have immediately installed FreeBSD on the last four or five laptops I I do this since 5.2 is out with all my purchases. ... I have to admit, that I have had to install

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-07 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 7 Jun 2012, at 01:54, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jun 6 18:13:09 2012 Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:09:54 +0100 From: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-07 Thread Erich
Hi, On 06 June 2012 21:10:14 p...@pair.com wrote: in message 1849552.ouqdgjx...@x220.ovitrap.com, wrote Erich thusly... On 06 June 2012 23:27:39 Chad Perrin wrote: ... I have immediately installed FreeBSD on the last four or five laptops I I do this since 5.2 is out with all my

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-07 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/6/12 9:43 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 6/6/12 6:45 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing key have to keep it secret? Contract

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-07 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/5/12 10:19 PM, Colin Barnabas wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:19:26AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ This would seem to make compiling from source

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-07 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/6/12 9:55 PM, Robert Simmons wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:49:53 -0400 Daniel Staal articulated: On 2012-06-05 17:20, Jerry wrote: The question that I have not seen answered in this thread is what FreeBSD intents to

changes to ioctl has me flumoxed

2012-06-07 Thread David Tilbrook
To support my line editor I used to use: sgtty.c_lflag = ISIG; sgtty.c_iflag = BRKINT | IGNPAR | IXON | ICRNL; sgtty.c_oflag = (ONLCR | OPOST | TAB3); sgtty.c_cc[VMIN] = 1; sgtty.c_cc[VTIME] = 1; iotcl(0, TCSETAW, sgtty); but this no longer appears

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Snippet from Jerry je...@seibercom.net: I don't know of any user personally who purchased a new PC and then threw FreeBSD on it. Most users that I have come into contact with use 2+ year old units that have been replaced by shiny new Windows units. I don't see that changing anytime soon. I

Re: mount failure

2012-06-07 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: Running under X with xfce, just did this: gpart show -l da0 gpart delete -i 1 da0 gpart destroy da0 gpart create -s GPT da0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr da0 gpart add -t freebsd-boot -i 1 -s 512K -l gptboot da0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/gptboot -i

Re: Somewhat OT - A Makefile Question

2012-06-07 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 06/07/2012 12:19 AM, Parv wrote: in message4fcf48af@tundraware.com, wrote Tim Daneliuk thusly... ... Within a makefile, I need to assign the name of a program as in: FOO = bar. The problem is that 'bar' may also be know as, say, bar.sh. ... Is there a simple way to determine which

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-07 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Isn't there a lot of needless handwaving going on when the spec is pretty clear that installing your own complete PKI tree will all boil down to what is effectively a jumper on the motherboard? No, considering 99.99% of of current Windows victims can't even install a fresh copy of Windows.

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-07 Thread Nomen Nescio
But my point is that MS doesn't issue the updates, they have to ask the BIOS vendors to do so, and then the MB vendors have to take the update, and then the users have to install the update. The incentive at each level is generally very small. It does create some confusion, but is hardly

Contribution to PUC driver

2012-06-07 Thread Dennis Oyama
Patch to update pucdata.c to support the Perle Systems Ltd. Multiport Speed LE Serial cards. --- pucdata.orig.c 2012-02-10 12:24:47.0 -0500 +++ pucdata.c 2012-02-10 12:40:34.0 -0500 @@ -668,11 +668,35 @@ */ { 0x155f, 0x0331, 0x, 0, -

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-07 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/7/12 3:43 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote: But my point is that MS doesn't issue the updates, they have to ask the BIOS vendors to do so, and then the MB vendors have to take the update, and then the users have to install the update. The incentive at each level is generally very small. It does

driver for cell phone modem

2012-06-07 Thread Fbsd8
Running 9.0 and thinking about changing to this verizon model 551L usb cell phone modem. http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirstaction=viewPhoneDetailselectedPhoneId=5632 It's a usb plugin cell modem for internet access. Before I go through the purchase and signup

List total traffic amount across external nic

2012-06-07 Thread Fbsd8
Running ipfilter and trying to list the total amount of the traffic passing through the external NIC. Maybe there is some other command to show this info. Any help is appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Proper Port Forwarding

2012-06-07 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 418, Issue 10, Message: 7 On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:31:24 -0400 Simon si...@optinet.com wrote: Can someone suggest an alternative/proper way to port forward using ipfw. Right now I have the following and some bad clients cause too many FIN_WAIT_2 state

Re: Contribution to PUC driver

2012-06-07 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Dennis Oyama doy...@perle.com wrote: Patch to update pucdata.c to support the Perle Systems Ltd. Multiport Speed LE Serial cards. Maybe you could post this at freebsd-hackers@ for discussion or send the patch using send-pr[1] Cheers. [1]

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-07 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:33:43 +0200 Bernt Hansson articulated: 2012-06-06 04:21, Walter Hurry skrev: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:22:51 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: Option AutoAddDevices On Set this to off. Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've tried setting it to Off, but there is no apparent

Re: List total traffic amount across external nic

2012-06-07 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, June 07, 2012 a las 12:14:56PM -0400, Fbsd8 escribió: Running ipfilter and trying to list the total amount of the traffic passing through the external NIC. Maybe there is some other command to show this info. Any help is appreciated. In the past I used for this: $ cd

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-07 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to

Re: Proper Port Forwarding

2012-06-07 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Sierchio wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Simon si...@optinet.com wrote: This easily causes DoS for when too many FIN_WAIT_2 are created and IPFW stops forwarding using the rule above because of too many dynamic rules Change the defaults for the fw.dyn sysctl MIB nodes

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-07 Thread Erich
Hi, On 07 June 2012 12:51:05 Jerry wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:33:43 +0200 Bernt Hansson articulated: 2012-06-06 04:21, Walter Hurry skrev: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:22:51 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: Option AutoAddDevices On Set this to off. Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've

Re: driver for cell phone modem

2012-06-07 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, June 07, 2012 a las 12:00:26PM -0400, Fbsd8 escribió: Running 9.0 and thinking about changing to this verizon model 551L usb cell phone modem. http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirstaction=viewPhoneDetailselectedPhoneId=5632 It's a usb plugin

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-07 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:14 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD is

Re: List total traffic amount across external nic

2012-06-07 Thread Dean E. Weimer
On 06/07/2012 11:14, Fbsd8 wrote: Running ipfilter and trying to list the total amount of the traffic passing through the external NIC. Maybe there is some other command to show this info. Any help is appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Proper Port Forwarding

2012-06-07 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: There is also this you can place in /etc/sysctl.conf: net.inet.tcp.fast_finwait2_recycle=1 Good catch. The defaults are perhaps not ideal in all cases: net.inet.tcp.finwait2_timeout: 6 - ms, ten minutes

Re: Proper Port Forwarding

2012-06-07 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: net.inet.tcp.finwait2_timeout: 6  - ms, ten minutes I can't do arithmetic, but you get the idea. A full minute. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Proper Port Forwarding

2012-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 7, 2012, at 10:29 AM, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: net.inet.tcp.finwait2_timeout: 6 - ms, ten minutes I can't do arithmetic, but you get the idea. A full minute. Yes; that's already shorter than possible

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-07 Thread Nomen Nescio
Totally off-topic, but I actually used mine to run gameboy and gameboy advance emulators ^^' And I use mine to write PPC code. But Sony's business model wasn't about software development or doing what you and I are doing. Windows activation can check the firmware level and Intel's

Re: driver for cell phone modem

2012-06-07 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: Running 9.0 and thinking about changing to this verizon model 551L usb cell phone modem. http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?\ item=phoneFirstaction=viewPhoneDetailselectedPhoneId=5632 Your link does not lead to specific information about

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-07 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:17:42 +0200 C. P. Ghost articulated: On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:14 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to FreeBSD (though

doesn't dummynet work with vlan ?

2012-06-07 Thread Yavuz Maşlak
Hello there  I use freebsd8.2 I added dummynet and other followings into the kernel; options IPFIREWALL #firewall options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE #print information about options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD #enable trasparent proxy support  options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT #allow everything by default

dumping file system subtree (/var)

2012-06-07 Thread Gary Aitken
When I originally set up my SSD, the stuff I was following indicated there was no need to put anythng on a separate filesystem. I'm now trying to build a backup system on a usb drive and I want a separate /var and /tmp. I had originally set the nodump flag on /tmp and /var, so my snapshot is

Re: dumping file system subtree (/var)

2012-06-07 Thread Mark Felder
Would rsync or cpdup from single user mode cover your needs? Should cover everything and then you can just reboot into your newly partitioned system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-07 Thread Edward M
On 06/06/2012 01:35 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: But this is more to do with the BIOS than with Intel as such. Wasn't there a FreeBIOS, later LinuxBIOS, now coreboot I believe..? So replacing the BIOS entirely wouldn't suffice to override all this nonsense?

Re: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

2012-06-07 Thread David Christensen
On 06/06/2012 08:33 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: This looks like the processor I have, I think you would use amd64. Almost certainly your system is 64-bit as opposed to 32-bit. Thanks for the reply. :-) Yes, definitely 64-bit. For a new computer, I wouldn't go with anything earlier than

Re: dumping file system subtree (/var)

2012-06-07 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-06-07 22:05, Gary Aitken skrev: When I originally set up my SSD, the stuff I was following indicated there was no need to put anythng on a separate filesystem. I'm now trying to build a backup system on a usb drive and I want a separate /var and /tmp. I had originally set the nodump

Configuration problem with IPv6 router (cannot forward src)

2012-06-07 Thread Bruce Cran
I'm trying to set up a IPv6 router (running -current) on my home network. My ISP gives me a /128 via PPP and I have a /48 allocation, which I use to give em0 and tun0 public addresses in different subnets (tun0 is assigned the address via ppp.linkup). I've added all the IPv6 settings to rc.conf

Re: Configuration problem with IPv6 router (cannot forward src)

2012-06-07 Thread Robert Bonomi
From: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk I'm trying to set up a IPv6 router (running -current) on my home network. My ISP gives me a /128 via PPP and I have a /48 allocation, which I use to give em0 and tun0 public addresses in different subnets (tun0 is assigned the address via ppp.linkup).

find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Fbsd8
dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: dumping file system subtree (/var)

2012-06-07 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: When I originally set up my SSD, the stuff I was following indicated there was no need to put anythng on a separate filesystem. I'm now trying to build a backup system on a usb drive and I want a separate /var and /tmp. I had originally set the nodump

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? Perhaps somehow subtract `uptime` from today's date? -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ]

how to filter network by MAC and IP at the same time

2012-06-07 Thread Bill Yuan
hi all, i am using freebsd 9.0 as a firewall and i want to filter the traffic by the mac and the ip at the same time, for example, i only allow my laptop MAC Address 1 can go throught the firewalll when it's using IP IP Address 1 for how to config the firewall rules? I tried to configure the

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Bill Yuan
If you store the time in a file as log everytime when it boots up, then that means you can have more then now - uptime On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:15:25 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? Check the lines in /var/log/messages. Unless you're not experiencing a newsyslog message (new log file started), the kernel: Copyright (c)

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Chris
On 6/7/2012 6:31 PM, Bill Yuan wrote: If you store the time in a file as log everytime when it boots up, then that means you can have more then now - uptime On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Fish Kungfu
Try: who -b Cheers...Fish 07.06.2012, 18:31, Bill Yuan byc...@gmail.com: If you store the time in a file as log everytime when it boots up, then that means you can have more then now -  uptime On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote:  On Thu, 7 Jun 2012,

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 7 18:16:50 2012 Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:15:25 -0400 From: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: find date of last boot dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Karl Vogel
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:15:25 -0400, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com said: F dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other F commands to find date of last boot? Try last reboot. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company He is not only

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Doug Hardie
On 7 June 2012, at 16:33, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:15:25 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? Check the lines in /var/log/messages. Unless you're not experiencing a newsyslog message

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 7, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? Try last | grep reboot. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

setting gcc46 as default compiler?

2012-06-07 Thread Jeff Hamann
I've built and installed the gcc46 compiler(s) - need gfortran - and I can't seem to find the correct documentation on how to update /etc/make.conf for including the gfortran46. This is what mine currently looks like: $ cat make.conf # added by use.perl 2012-06-07 03:03:21 PERL_VERSION=5.10.1

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? That was fun. Google helped me with this; the crappy skillz are all mine. --- cut here --- #!/bin/sh # # Find date of last boot # DAYS_UP=`uptime | awk

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Chris
On 6/7/2012 8:14 PM, Chris Hill wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? That was fun. Google helped me with this; the crappy skillz are all mine. --- cut here --- #!/bin/sh # #

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Chris wrote: On 6/7/2012 8:14 PM, Chris Hill wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? That was fun. Google helped me with this; the crappy skillz are all mine.

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Chris == Chris rac...@makeworld.com writes: Chris Why create something that is already built in? Chris As I mentioned previously, the last command lists when the system was Chris rebooted. You must reboot a lot. My last log goes back only to the first of the month, and my uptime is 16 days

Re: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

2012-06-07 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of June 7, 2012 3:30:52 PM -0700, David Christensen is alleged to have said: For a new computer, I wouldn't go with anything earlier than FreeBSD 9.0, and in my case, upgrading to 9.0-STABLE proved stabler than the 9.0 release. STFW:

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Chris
On 6/7/2012 8:32 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Chris == Chris rac...@makeworld.com writes: Chris Why create something that is already built in? Chris As I mentioned previously, the last command lists when the system was Chris rebooted. You must reboot a lot. My last log goes back only

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 7 20:26:46 2012 Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:24:49 -0500 From: Chris rac...@makeworld.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find date of last boot On 6/7/2012 8:14 PM, Chris Hill wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote:

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:02:57 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 7 20:26:46 2012 Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:24:49 -0500 From: Chris rac...@makeworld.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find date of last boot On 6/7/2012

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Maybe introducing something along the /etc/rc execution? An /etc/rc.local entry like        /bin/date +%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S /var/log/thisboot.log and then just look at the file. Requires at least one reboot to take effect.

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Karl Vogel
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:35:19 -0400 (EDT), Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org said: C $ ls -l /var/run/dmesg.boot C -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7248 Dec 26 2010 /var/run/dmesg.boot For the sake of completeness: me% stat -f %Sm /var/run/dmesg.boot Jan 10 14:56:45 2012 me% ls -l -D

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 7, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: You must reboot a lot. My last log goes back only to the first of the month, and my uptime is 16 days right now, so I can't see the most recent reboot with last. FreeBSD aggressively rotates the utmp/wtmp databases; most other platforms

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Carl Johnson
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? In addition to the other responses: sysctl kern.boottime -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Chris == Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org writes: Chris I'll credit Doug Hardie with the best solution: Chris $ ls -l /var/run/dmesg.boot Chris -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7248 Dec 26 2010 /var/run/dmesg.boot Ouch! There've been some security patches since then. Are you sure you want to tell

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Chuck == Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com writes: Chuck FreeBSD aggressively rotates the utmp/wtmp databases; most other Chuck platforms leave it in place until the sysadmin decides to rotate Chuck it per local policy. Chuck Tweaking the monthly? periodic entries would change this, I'd Chuck

Re: Somewhat OT - A Makefile Question

2012-06-07 Thread parv
in message 4fd0adfb.8030...@tundraware.com, wrote Tim Daneliuk thusly... On 06/07/2012 12:19 AM, Parv wrote: in message4fcf48af@tundraware.com, wrote Tim Daneliuk thusly... ... Within a makefile, I need to assign the name of a program as in: FOO = bar. The problem is that

Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-07 Thread Victor Sudakov
Peter Vereshagin wrote: VS What video card would the collective mind of FreeBSD users recommend? VS I'm not a gamer, this box runs FreeBSD only with a recent xorg, I VS often watch movies on it. I'd try with nvidia. Any modern one has support of 'xvideo' extension with the 'driver nv' that

Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-07 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: 2. It looses one of the HDDs during intensive read/write operations: Jun 2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 4 port 0 Jun 2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: is cs 00c0 ss 00f0 rs 00f0 tfd c0 serr cmd c617 Jun 2 00:56:48