Re: recommendation(s) for new computer

2012-04-21 Thread Christian Baer
On 21.04.2012 02:06, Adam Vande More wrote: I'm not sure where the power/performance/price ratio is at currently, but it wasn't that long ago purchasing an intel was a much better deal long term. It was something like it took a year and half of an AMD and intel cpu idling to draw even in

Re: recommendation(s) for new computer

2012-04-21 Thread Christian Baer
On 22.04.2012 01:04, Wojciech Puchar wrote: REALLY - i an for a long time not up to date what is modern today, as FreeBSD and software i use works lightning fast on ANY new computer you can buy today - if it works at all. [...] The real problem is graphics. I do not have any need of high

recommendation(s) for new computer

2012-04-20 Thread Christian Baer
Mellow greetings, y'all! :-) After several years, I think it's about time for a new computer, since my current one is slowly aging to a meltdown. Well, that and I currently have the dough for a new one. So before I spend it uselessly on women, I'll see to it that I get my new machine ASAP. ;-)

make installworld broke - try again?

2010-04-07 Thread Christian Baer
Hi there peeps! I just tried to update from 8.0-RELEASE to RELENG_8_0. I gut this far: - buildworld - buildkernel - installkernel - reboot - mergemaster -p Then I started a make buildworld and it broke here: install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 sort /usr/bin install -o root -g wheel -m 444

Did something in the hashes change from 6 to 8?

2010-03-02 Thread Christian Baer
Mellow greetings! On a box running FreeBSD 6.something (probably 6.4) the boot drive died. I had never bothered to update it to 7 or 8, since I was planning to build a new computer anyway. Since I hadn't done that yet and I still needed the work of this machine, I just put in a new drive and

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-19 Thread Christian Baer
krad schrieb: On another point make sure your p4 has plenty of ram preferably 4gb, but at least 2 Exactly what good will that much RAM do for a 32Bit-CPU? Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Exchanging encrypted data between FreeBSD und Windows

2010-02-14 Thread Christian Baer
Mellow greetings! There is this thingy that I'd like to do. :-) Basicly plugging a USB-stick (or other portable storage device) into a Windows-box, putting data on it and unloading the data again onto my FreeBSD-box. Sometime the data will have to travel in the other direction too. As long as

Re: Strange HDD order

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 09:40:53 -0600 Matt wrote: Is the concern with the apparent out-of-order numbering based on how you want to access these devices in areas like fstab? No, not really. Once I set them up in the directory tree, what the drive's device name is won't make a diff to how the

Re: Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 17:55:12 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: that's like 64-bit soundcards that have to be better than 32-bit, while most of them was unable to actually get past 13-14 bit (most past 12) with it's signal to noise ratio. Maybe that's not quite the same thing. :-) However.

Re: Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:39:52 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: did you ever got your UFS filesystem broken not because your drive failed? That is not the point here. I have been using FreeBSD sind version 3.3, which was released in 1999. Before that I used Linux. So I can't even look back on 10

Suggestion for a file manager?

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Baer
Good afternoon, everybody! I'm looking for a suggestion for a file manager. Something like the Total Commander known from Windows. I know the mc and I already use it. But it has a few functions I miss. Most importantly being able to create queues. I have a lot of work to do that looks like this:

Re: Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:11:21 +0100 Mel wrote: If you review the Not done items @ http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS and still are doubting, then http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/whatis/ describes what the features *can* be. I got a good impression from that text what the advantages

Re: Behind a router

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 02:24:43 -0500 Jeremy Gransden wrote: please fix the line wrap in your email. It is unreadable And you really neaded to quote over 600 lines just to write that? Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Behind a router

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:49:55 -0800 (PST) Eugen Udma wrote: I took the liberty of cleaning up you post. Please fix your line wrap! One word per line is not what I call easy reading. I had a working minimal FreeBSD system until I put it behind a wireless router. Since then, my network is not

Re: Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:38:49 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ZFS ends the microsotf monopoly over our disks. And this monopoly is founded on ... what? ZFS begins the world as a 128bit dadaspace. Using ZFS fixes allocations and massaging your NAS. The inode is now the wenode. Usaging ZFS will

Re: buildworld failed

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:00:36 +0530 Venkatesh K wrote: I did try that too! Still same problem. 1. Please do not quote everything and then put your comment on top. 2. Try a new csup. Sometime the source tree even in -STABLE is a little unstable. :-) 3. Try removing the -march argument.

Strange HDD order

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
Greetings programs! I have a computer here with 10 HDDs. Four of them are connected to the southbridge of the mainboard. The other 6 are connected to two Promise SATAII 300 TX4. Four of the drives are connected to the first controller (making it 'full') the other two connected to the second. To

Re: Strange HDD order

2008-02-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 14:03:33 +0100 Erik Trulsson wrote: D 0 WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08 (ad4) D 1 WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0 08.05J08 (ad6) D 2 SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11 (ad8) D 3 SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR100-11 (ad10) D 4 Seagate ST3500320AS SD04 (ad12) D 5 Seagate ST3500320AS SD04 (ad14)

Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-02 Thread Christian Baer
Hello people! Can anyone give me a link to a text on ZFS that tells me why I might want to use that instead of FFS? I don't want to start a discussion which is better, just a comparison, as I assume that the two are not designed to do the same things. And if possible one that is understandable to

Re: RAID mirror really worked

2008-01-14 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:48:09 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: gmirror works too very good without any hardware :) Yes, but a hardware RAID works without the OS having to know about it. :-) Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Changing the output of uname -m or -p

2008-01-14 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:03:42 +0100 Kris Kennaway wrote: Can this even be done and if so how? See the manpage, and the UNAME_* variables. One other thing: Will that change the way the system reacts in any way? Apps should run normally (well, a browser may give a wrong plattform information but

Re: Reinterpret gamepad input as keyboeard input

2008-01-14 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:12:51 +0100 Christopher Illies wrote: I tried out usbhidaction with something like: Generic_Desktop:Game_Pad.Button:Button_1 1 1 /bin/echo -n ls Obviously, this approach does not work as I hoped. ls is echoed in a shell window, but it is not interpreted as input. Then

Changing the output of uname -m or -p

2008-01-13 Thread Christian Baer
Hello Folks! This may be a bit of a hacker's question, but I'll just go for it in here - at least for starters. I want to play a prank on a friend of mine. He does a csup at least once a day and also makes a new world at least once a day. He is pretty nutty about that which is ok for some

Re: Changing the output of uname -m or -p

2008-01-13 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:03:42 +0100 Kris Kennaway wrote: Can this even be done and if so how? See the manpage, and the UNAME_* variables. I already did that once and it didn't work out. I just found the reason: I'm too thick. :-/ I though all the letters had to be capitals, so I set UNAME_M

Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

2008-01-08 Thread Christian Baer
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 02:27:29 -0600 Paul Procacci wrote: And for what it's worth, I agree that what I provided wasn't pretty, but at least it gives everyone something to stare at for a while. ;P Great, just like a bad accident on a major road. It isn't pretty, but you just have to look. :-

KDEWallet is only partially installed?

2007-10-19 Thread Christian Baer
Hiya folks! On my Sun (this machine), I only wanted a base KDE with very few apps installed, as I wanted to choose the ones I needed instead of going with the big meta-port. So I just installed kde-base. The whole KDE wouldn't be run anyway, but instead usually only a single apps at a time and

Re: Is anybody here running Pidgin (under FreeBSD)?

2007-09-27 Thread Christian Baer
Hey Fans! :-) Vince wrote: Hope this is enough. I stripped some email addresses out but otherwise untouched. I only use it for ICQ/MSN and have never bothered trying anything more than messaging (no voice etc.) Dmitry Gorbik wrote: Ok, there is my log in attach. No problems coming through

Re: Is your Thunderbird OK?

2007-09-27 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:00:10 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: If you can live without the pretty pictures, you can configure Mutt to use an external browser like lynx or links to display HTML. Otherwise, you could give Claws a closer look. ^

Is anybody here running Pidgin (under FreeBSD)?

2007-09-25 Thread Christian Baer
Hi there again, peeps! Since I still can't get Pidgin to run on this box and it seems that nobody had any advice for me, I have decided to go at this step by step. I hope you can bear with me on this one. BTW. The note on the subject, running Pidgin under FreeBSD, is there because not all people

Re: Confusion on SSH and PAM

2007-09-25 Thread Christian Baer
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:56:22 +0400 (GST) Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Any ideas or nudges in the right direction as to why this is happening? Looks like I've understood the interaction between SSH and PAM wrong here, so would appreciate some enlightenment. I'm not sure if I can offer any

Re: Is your Thunderbird OK?

2007-09-25 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:41:53 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Yeah I also like text based MUAs such as mutt or pine. Sometimes I get HTML messages from my co-workers who use webmail. I must read those HTML messages for my work, study. That's why I need windows-like MUAs, not text based MUAs. Is

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-24 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:36:24 -0400 DAve wrote: First item, ignore the qmail haters. We run qmail quite successfully and find it very powerful, very secure, and well designed. I will not go into a point by point debate. Goo idea! Lets also ignore all Windows haters. I'm sure that plenty of

Re: The best way to keep the system clean?

2007-09-24 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:17:42 +0800 ronggui wrote: My problem, many times I install some software from ports, it install the dependency software. Then after some time, I find that software isn't what I want, and deinstall it. At this point, the dependency software isn't necessary as well. Is

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-23 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:18:53 +0200 Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: The qmail-configuration can be read an evaluated *without* a parser. Excuse my spelling in the last message! :-) I corrected it in this quote. Sorry, but that's BS (IMHO). Don't tell me, tell Dan Berstein (happy hunting):

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-23 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:31:34 -0500 Eric wrote: Don't tell me, tell Dan Berstein (happy hunting): http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html Observe point 5. DJB has not honored at least one vulnerability in qmail. read the link i posted early in this thread and decide for yourself. theres a

Getting pidgin(1) to run...

2007-09-23 Thread Christian Baer
Hi there people! I may be posting this question (which is rather lengthy, I know) on the sparc64 mailing list too, as it might be an issue with this architecture. Please don't complain, just answer where you think the answer belongs. I know that running FreeBSD on a Sun is a rather exotic choice

Re: OpenOffice problems

2007-09-23 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:09:12 +0200 (CEST) Marco Beishuizen wrote: I don't want openoffice to use this library but it seems that openoffice needs it for something. I only upgraded the port and that whole process went ok. How did you do that? Regards, Chris

Re: Gnome FreeBSD from putty

2007-09-23 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:35:00 -0700 Timothy McGee wrote: Any way of running Gnome or Firefox from putty remotely? What's the best way to test for the displays setup, etc? I'm not too sure, what you are trying to do here. If you want to run a program or an entire desktop on one computer and

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:47:09 +0200 Lotfi kecir wrote: hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Why in heaven's name

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:29:30 +0200 Lotfi kecir wrote: to give answer to your answer: i rent a dedicated server (Fedora 6) witch has qmail installed on. and in my old Server witch is in our office turn has Postfix. The new sever has as Admin panel Plesk. I already create all email acounts and

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:47:06 +0200 Johan Andersson wrote: The best MTA is? exim? Not that this is really a subject for this list, I don't really agree. We did some studies on several MTAs a while back and found out (quite by accident) that Exim has some real performance issues. I personally

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:13:58 +0100 Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Yeah right. I don't have hands-on experience with any MTA other than Postfix, but I never read a good thing about qmail. Thing is, I work for a design company - we have 3 VPSs two using Plesk and another on extend, I noticed that

trouble compiling some ports

2007-07-22 Thread Christian Baer
Hello Folks! Currently I am setting up a new computer (Sun U60) with FreeBSD and I am in serious guano. :-/ I am currently running 6.2-p6, of course with the ports up to date. Normally the ports would not be the install method of choice since the processors of this machine are relatively slow

Re: trouble compiling some ports

2007-07-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:47:08 -0500 Derek Ragona wrote: I am grateful for your feedback, but please try to avoid fullquotes and only quote the part you are directly refering to. That makes things a lot shorter and easier to read. And avoids long scrolling. :-) I had similar problems on one

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:44:16 -0600 Josh Paetzel wrote: The issues with the config screen sounds like a bug, but one that is unlikely to get fixed any time soon. You can avoid it by doing a make config-recursive before building the port, but you're still going to run in to the problem that

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:07:24 -0500 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Exactly right. However, you can get some parallel building by doing more than one single-threaded build at the same time. This leads to some danger of corrupting the database, though, so it's not for the squeamish. I know that

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:37:33 + RW wrote: There are two problems here. The first is that not all of the underlying builds support this. The second is that we are using Make as our ports scripting language - I'm guessing that in Gentoo no-one expects portage itself to be parallel. I

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:50:44 -0700 Steve Franks wrote: Excellent! Never had that one answered. I've gone down the typical road of being an MS booster (It doesn't take 10 hours to set up and configure) to experiencing glee when I find yet another way FBSD kicks the crap out of MS. Why?

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:39:05 -0500 Jerry McAllister wrote: Well, it would do some, but for the greatest effect, you would need: dump + rm -rf * + restore That would get it all. Of course, I should have re-emphasized that this is not needed. You will not improve performance. Its only

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:12:25 -0500 Jerry McAllister wrote: On the other hand, doing all this either way wouldn't make any difference in performance for file access in a running system because so-called fragmentation is not an issue in the UNIX file system - except in the small possibility

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:56:02 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: For what it's worth, this has been Microsoft's official position since NTFS became mainstream. As usual, it's not worth much if it come from Microsoft... Regards Chris ___

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:21:57 -0500 Bill Moran wrote: But this also makes it _easy_ for the filesystem to avoid causing the type of fragmentation that _does_ degrade performance. For example, when the first block is on track 10, then the next block is on track 20, then we're back to track 10

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:56:30 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: UFS fragmentation refers to dividing blocks (e.g. 16KB in size) into block fragments (e.g. 2KB in size) that can be allocated separately in special circumstances (which all boil down to: at the end of files). This is done to lessen

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:14:07 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: As you said, HFS(+) is not a native unix file system, but maybe someone will know about it. All I know about is that HFS+ is a journaling file system and that it defragments (in the Windows sense) files smaller than certain size (20MB?) on

Re: test

2007-02-28 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:26:28 -0800 Bill Campbell wrote: Test Messages The lists freebsd-test, ..., ... have been created for test messages. Please use only these test lists for test messages. Do not send test messages to any of the normal lists. If you do send test messages, at least put some

compiling ports with more than one job

2007-02-28 Thread Christian Baer
Good morning[1], folks! I am currently setting up a Sun U60 with FreeBSD. A few amount of apps will be installed on it, when I'm through with it. And that is where it gets a little frustrating. The packages for SPARC64 aren't really up to date. That is why using them isn't really an option.

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

2007-02-24 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:46:08 -0500 DAve wrote: Or am I missing the issue here? Not at all, I am thinking my next staff meeting I am going to propose just that solution. Now it might be that I think about a few things a little 'differently' but as far as I can remember running a Unix box

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

2007-02-24 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:18:39 -0800 Bill Campbell wrote: Or am I missing the issue here? I think the issue is how localtime displays dates. This whole ``problem'' is a typical example of brainless politicians (but I repeat myself) doing things that cause far more problems then they

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

2007-02-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:55:05 -0500 DAve wrote: I noticed Yahoo switched to GMT. Is anyone else running all their servers on GMT? Actually, all of my Unix Boxes have been running UTC as far as I can remember. :-) Or am I missing the issue here? Regards Chris

Re: Compiler Flags for SPARC64

2007-02-21 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:45:51 -0500 Kris Kennaway wrote: Has anyone got any ideas on how to go on with this? You'll have to look at the compiler spec and how it is bootstrapped. That could become quite a project. FWIW, I don't think there are any secret flags you can set to improve the

Re: Remote access to config FreeBSD server

2007-02-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:26:02 -0800 (PST) satimis wrote: I'm going to install the captioned OS as server, web/mail/database etc., for test purpose and without X. I'm prepared to connect a workstation for fine tuning the server. Can I use a Linux workstation to do the job because I have no

Compiler Flags for SPARC64

2007-02-19 Thread Christian Baer
Hello everybody out there! Please excuse my posting this question again on this list, but the last post on the freebsd-sparc64 didn't help much. There isn't really much traffic on that list. Assuming that gcc when run on sparc64 produces v7 code (for sun4/4c) by default, I went about trying to

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:54:40 -0900 Jeff Mohler wrote: One polite request: Would you please quote properly? I know this is not the usenet, but quoting serves a purpose and should make reading you question/comment easier. If there is a fundamental reason why we still partition things like we

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:53:20 -0800 Garrett Cooper wrote: One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech definition but the traditional definition, to divide) filesystems such that if one person fills up /, it won't cause a program that needs to write to /var or /tmp

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:42:36 -0600 Doug Poland wrote: # DeviceMountpoint FStype OptionsDumpPass# /dev/da0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 ^^ Where did you

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:58:18 -0800 Garrett Cooper wrote: Why create so many partitions? You can use slices to your benefit and you wouldn't use up your allocatable partitions on the disk's MBR. The point is that I wasn't given the chance to create any slices. Regards Chris

Re: /etc problems when upgrading to FBSD 6.2

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:15:24 +0100 (CET) Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: My question is what I messed up? Was this something during mergemaster phase? If not, then what else could have gone wrong? Yes, you probably messed up there. Mergemaster shows you - I'll call them suggestions - for the config

Re: Mail server intermittent freeze

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:56:08 -0600 (CST) Rich Winkel wrote: Has anyone else seen this behavior?? What are the HDs doing? Is there swapping going on? 512 megs of RAM are not really a generous amount for this kind of work. Regards Chris ___

Re: FreeBSD challenged by Internet

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:45:27 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: That's $5K difference not $10. Thieves can get away with a lot if they steal it in small bits. So if I steal $1 from every account of New York's biggest bank they would smile and see that as a sporting achievement? Somehow I doubt

Re: Turion64 x2 vs Centrino Duo 2 which is faster for FreeBSD and KDE Desktop?

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:12:25 +0300 Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: [broken up Xpost] I plan to buy a new notebook and will use FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, I have 2 choices, Turion64 x2 with 2.0 GHz and Centrino Duo 2 with 2.0 GHz, but with 2 GB DDR2 ram, with the same speed of the hd 5400 RPM. So which

Re: upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 with custom kernel

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:29:52 -0600 Jonathan Horne wrote: Terrific waste of bandwidth. *shrug* i dont see it that way. i see it as insurance that when i build kernels for 15 machines, they are all getting the cleanest sources possible, with absolutely nothing left over from a previous

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:04:00 +0100 (CET) Christian Baer wrote: Basically, it does not work on 6.1-RELEASE, so you should consider updating to 6.2-RELEASE. Bin there, done that. Was one of the first things I tried. Now running: FreeBSD sunny.rz1.convenimus.net 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE

more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
Hi folkes! Is there any way to do this with FreeBSD? Background: I have to admit, that I have never actually done or even tried this with any OS whatsoever. I am running a two drive system with two mirrors on it. Because I wanted a lot of room for /usr while /usr/home ist mounted on a different

Re: ssh public key authentification

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:53:23 -0600 Kirk Strauser wrote: Why not? Group write is plenty enough for someone else to replace the .ssh directory with another one, so sshd checks for that. To replace it with another 700 directory owned by the user, containing a 40= file also owned by the user?

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:00:18 -0500 Kris Kennaway wrote: That's a number indicating a version of FreeBSD. [link to handbook] Basically, it does not work on 6.1-RELEASE, so you should consider updating to 6.2-RELEASE. Bin there, done that. Was one of the first things I tried. Now running:

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:11:33 -0500 Michael Johnson wrote: I upgraded my sparc64 box today (7-CURRENT) and I do see Firefox segfaulting when starting now, I'm not sure what has changed in Firefox or FreeBSD yet, but I'll be looking for a fix in the coming days. Thanks! I'll be looking out for

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:03:22 -0500 Bob wrote: I Live with a very hairy, large, Main Coon cat called Tania; she sheds tons of fine hair all over the place. She is a Mouser, and proudly rids our home (a boat) of all sorts of mice. Unfortunately she also kills Computer mice! Therein lies my

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:29:39 -0500 Robert Huff wrote: I've used the MicroSoft Intellimouse Explorer and liked it. Will obviously work with Windows ... but be careful: sometimes MS puts out a new sub-generation that changes the mouse protocol just enough to cause problems with the

Re: Live CD

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:05:26 -0500 Jeff Royle wrote: http://www.freesbie.org/ has been updated to 6.2 Release That's right! And a funny thing happened there yesterday that I wouldn't have expected: A notebook that only caused crashes when booting knoppix booted perfectly with freesbie. Ok, the

Re: upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 with custom kernel

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:25:16 -0600 Jonathan Horne wrote: usually, i: rm -rf /usr/src/* /usr/obj/* and then just cvsup a whole new set of sources. i then buildworld and buildkernel as laid out in the handbook: You do of course know that by doing that you also erase your custom

A little trouble starting (X-) Programs over ssh...

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
Good evening peeps! This probably isn't a real FreeBSD-issue itself, but it doesn't really fit any other topic that has a newsgroup out there, so please bear with me here! What I have done: I've installed an X-server (XMing) on a Windows-XP box and connect via PuTTY to a FreeBSD box (Sun U60). I

Re: ssh public key authentification

2007-01-19 Thread Christian Baer
Kirk Strauser wrote: The problem was not the authorized_keys file itself, it was my home directory. I don't think so. More likely, it was the .ssh directory itself. Nope. :-) The only thing I changed was /usr/home/christian from mode 770 to mode 750. Then it worked. I'm guessing it was

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-18 Thread Christian Baer
John Nielsen wrote: I installed FreeBSD on an Ultra 5 sometime last year and I had Firefox (probably 1.5 or earlier) working just fine. Lucky you! :-) I don't have the machine up right now to tinker with, though. That would have been an interesting test. Are you running the latest

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-18 Thread Christian Baer
Michael Johnson wrote: Firefox only runs on = 601101 sparc64. I am guessing that means a special revision of the UltraSPARC II processor, but I don't really know, because google gets a lot of hits, mainly explaining all sorts of soft that seems to have the same problem, but none of these hits

ssh public key authentification

2007-01-18 Thread Christian Baer
Hi peeps! This may not seem to be a real FreeBSD-issue, but I've gotten this to run on several other machines, just not my Sun running FreeBSD. To clarify this: I haven't really tried this on any other FreeBSD system recently though. I'm probably just to thick to get it right, so go ahead and

Re: ssh public key authentification

2007-01-18 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:50:52 -0600 Parker Anderson wrote: Have you verified the permissions of the authorized_keys file on the server? If you have permissions set too loose (e.g. unneeded read/write permission to groups/other users), sshd may be refusing to trust that file. The directory

Re: ssh public key authentification

2007-01-18 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:14:34 -0600 Noel Jones wrote: Did you copy the displayed Public key for pasting into OpenSSH from PuttyGEN, or did you paste the actual contents of the public key? Putty's on-disk format for public keys is not compatible with OpenSSH. Yeah, I got that right. sshd wants

Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-16 Thread Christian Baer
Greetings fellow computer haters! :-) As I have already written on the STABLE mailing list, I can't seem to get Firefox to start on my Sun U60. Thunderbird works fine (as far as I can tell after two days), but Firefox just exits instantly with a segfault. I didn't get any replies from the STABLE

Compiling mtr without GUI

2007-01-15 Thread Christian Baer
Hi there Peeps! Somehow the mtr-port is bugging me a little. I want to install mtr on a machine with no keyboard and no monitor and thus no X - and I'd like to keep it that way. Since I couldn't find a package of mtr without the GUI, I guess, I'm stuck with the port. I've looked at the makefile

Strange HD-device

2006-01-28 Thread Christian Baer
Hello *! I am experiencing a very annoying problem when trying to (re-) install hard drives. What happened is this: I set up a new (private) server, removed all the hard drives from the old one and installed these drives and one new drive in the new server. The old server was running

GBDE error message - what does it mean?

2006-01-28 Thread Christian Baer
Hello again everybody! A few days back I got my first GBDE-device up and running. After that I had a slight problem described in [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I already discribed this problem in a newsgroup (comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc) and didn't get much help there[1] (apart from the adive to use geli