Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-28 Thread Dimitar Vassilev
2013/2/28 Ben Cottrell tam...@wolfhut.org On Feb 27, 2013, at 19:08, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr jnagyjr1...@gmail.com wrote: If we can skip the finger wagging on that part I'd appreciate it. No finger-wagging from this quarter at least! Something I've sometimes done to retrieve text content is to

Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:08:58 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: Okay, I know I should pay more attention to what I'm doing, and having separate partitions isn't an excuse for regular backups. If we can skip the finger wagging on that part I'd appreciate it. I've experienced similar and

Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-28 Thread Doug Hardie
On 28 February 2013, at 01:02, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:08:58 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: Okay, I know I should pay more attention to what I'm doing, and having separate partitions isn't an excuse for regular backups. If we can skip the finger wagging

Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-28 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
On 02/28/13 03:02, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:08:58 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: Okay, I know I should pay more attention to what I'm doing, and having separate partitions isn't an excuse for regular backups. If we can skip the finger wagging on that part I'd appreciate it.

Re: backspace shows ^? in serial communication

2013-02-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2013-02-26 23:40, s m sperado_n...@yahoo.com wrote: hello all, i have problem with backspace in freebsd 8.2. when i run a serial program to communicate via a serial port to the other system, backspace shows ^? in opened terminal. i use termios and fcntl to open, read, write and close

Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:55:45 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: On 02/28/13 03:02, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:08:58 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: Obviously we're talking about a USB stick, so no TB amount of data has to be processed. First of all: Do _not_ alter the USB

Re: Journaling for a flaky FreeBSD VirtualBox guest.

2013-02-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 28/2/2013 9:41 πμ, Alan Gutierrez wrote: I'm getting to know FreeBSD by running a 64-bit FreeBSD guest in a VirtualBox machine on my OS X Mountain Lion laptop. On occasion, when waking up from sleep, the FreeBSD virtual machine will not restart. VirtualBox marks it as Aborted. Maybe you

Re: Journaling for a flaky FreeBSD VirtualBox guest.

2013-02-28 Thread CeDeROM
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Alan Gutierrez a...@prettyrobots.com wrote: I run a Linux guest that suffers the same abuse, but does not lose data. My question: If anyone runs FreeBSD in VirtualBox, what VirtualBox settings do you use so that UFS will work correctly and recover recent

Re: connect to a network printer to be able to print

2013-02-28 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Trond Endrestøl wrote: The rm (remote machine) property in /etc/printcap should be changed to 10.155.135.3, i.e. :rm=10.155.135.3:\ Then it's simply a matter of restarting lpd, i.e. /etc/rc.d/lpd restart If you're lucky, your first print job should appear as

Re: Performance Related Question

2013-02-28 Thread Frederico Costa
Hi... And thanks for the suggestions. I have now tested with -j option and i can confirm that my expectations are correct the Dual CPU dual core AMD completes the buildworld with -j4 in one hour only, while the intal core 2 does it in 1h30m should i stick the -j option in the make.conf?

Re: Performance Related Question

2013-02-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Frederico Costa fredpo...@mufley.com writes: And thanks for the suggestions. I have now tested with -j option and i can confirm that my expectations are correct the Dual CPU dual core AMD completes the buildworld with -j4 in one hour only, while the intal core 2 does it in 1h30m The ideal

Does anyone know how to install FreeBSD 8.3 under Virtual Box 4.2.6?

2013-02-28 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi, I booted the FreeBSD 8.3 DVD1 under Virtual Box, but it crashes in VB 4.2.6 under Win 7 and Linux. Seems to install OK on QEMU/VMM under Linux ... Does anyone know how to get it to run under Virtual Box? -- Regards, Richard Sharpe (何以解憂?唯有杜康。--曹操)

Re: Does anyone know how to install FreeBSD 8.3 under Virtual Box 4.2.6?

2013-02-28 Thread Trond Endrestøl
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:04-0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: Hi, I booted the FreeBSD 8.3 DVD1 under Virtual Box, but it crashes in VB 4.2.6 under Win 7 and Linux. Seems to install OK on QEMU/VMM under Linux ... Does anyone know how to get it to run under Virtual Box? Ensure firmware

Re: Does anyone know how to install FreeBSD 8.3 under Virtual Box 4.2.6?

2013-02-28 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Trond Endrestøl trond.endres...@fagskolen.gjovik.no wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:04-0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: Hi, I booted the FreeBSD 8.3 DVD1 under Virtual Box, but it crashes in VB 4.2.6 under Win 7 and Linux. Seems to install OK on QEMU/VMM under

an upto date list of new ports

2013-02-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
is there a site or other location that lists *NEW* (not updated) ports since a given date? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to