Re: Will i be force.

2013-05-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:18:43PM +, k_win...@ovi.com wrote: Dear Sir/Madam My name is Kevin, I want to build an OS that is derived from freebsd but Should i be worried about FreeBSD license when i am deriving. No. Not at all. FreeBSD allows free use including modifying. Look it up

Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Please Cc responses to the mailing list I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing lists nowadays it's common to reply to the

Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example

2013-03-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
Subject: Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:08:37AM +, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:47:24 -0800 Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: In the man page for restore(8) I see the following: The -r flag ... can

Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs

2012-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:52:04AM -0500, Anonymous wrote: We, the users of FreeBSD, *do hereby challenge* the FreeBSD project to meet its future release dates. OK. Get busy. You have a lot of work to do. Have you ever created or maintained a large project using volunteer help? Get serious

Re: Which Release

2012-08-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 07:29:14AM -0400, Rich wrote: Hi, I was looking around and decided that I would try BSD. However, I am having a problem determining which release will work for me. I have a Intel Quad CPU Q6600, 64-bit.So the AMD64 is out, the i386 is out, and here I bog

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 07:44:28AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: You don't. You wipe the FAT32 with fdisk and make a FreeBSD slice on it. Then you can bsdlabel it with one partition and newfs it. Or you can repeat 100 times more that you have to make fdisk and bsdlabel. you don't, and it

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 02:27:05PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On 08/07/2012 13:30, Polytropon wrote: With few routine, tasks are performed more natural using the desired CLI tools. You don't go Now I have to remember which command to format the disk, you just format the disk, which means

Re: files need

2012-06-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 09:53:37PM -0700, j wrote: I am a newbie to linux and unix. I want to install freebsd 8.3 and want to know what files I need to download. Go to: http://www.freebsd.org/ and study the handbook. It has complete sections on getting ISO files and doing the

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Add second hard drive multi-boot

2012-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 09:59:19AM -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: You need to put the FreeBSD boot manager on both disks. Use bootcfg. jerry Good morning, FreeBSD enthusiasts. On my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation, I had one hard drive. I partitioned it with two

Re: mail server

2012-06-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:55:08AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: 11.06.2012 16:33, Bahaa Babekir ??: I want to sent me configuration to build mail server step by step I'd suggest to begin with: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html Yes, read the

Re: why I am upset

2012-05-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 06:04:04AM -0500, Franci Nabalanci wrote: My French and Italian is enough for me, dear Sir. There are not just English on the world!! Speak whatever language you want. I don't support that part of a former post. How do you know that I didn't contribute to the

Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be contradictory. I am not sure which to believe. My new machine has two disk drives.

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:32:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. My problem

Re: AFS install

2012-05-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
not finding another file. ../rpc/types.h:77:27: error: rpc/netconfig.h: No such file or directory I will send along another message with the build script attached. Hi Jerry, On Mon, 14 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I installed AMD64 FreeBSD 8.3 on a new machine a couple of days ago

AFS install

2012-05-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
is the biggest part, but still, do not need the server part hanging around if it would work happily that way) Thanks for any help, jerryJerry McAllisterjerr...@msu.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 02:40:12PM +0200, Tony wrote: Hello! As much as I love FreeBSD, I'm a bit alarmed by its webdesign / corporate identity. Since FreeBSD is the world's best OS, I believe it should have a design that reflects this. A design that is so neutral and stripped of any

Re: FreeBSD losing market share?

2012-04-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 09:37:15AM -0500, Jay West wrote: Tony wrote... --- I'm a bit alarmed by the fact that none of the major low-cost Xen VPS-based hosting providers in the modern web development scenehttp://rubyonrails.org/screencasts/rails3 (Rackspace, Linode,

Re: Reading an unknown DAT Tape

2012-03-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:17:05PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: This is a case of idle curiosity and not an urgent need to recover a valuable backup. I found an old DAT tape and attempted to read it on the very drive that probably once wrote it and it appears to read the tape properly

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 06:39:00AM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: AHA. probably an 'RL-05', cousin to the better known RK-05 I had a memory fault -- the RLs were the RL-01 and RL-02. 14 media, in a 'cartridge'. I -think- it was an 'SMD' interface 14 could be true as it

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:55:01AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Nor does it prevent any of the schemes people have been advocating or requesting. You seem to forget normal users who just want to use the system. They do not think of recovery until it actually happens. We

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 02:22:12AM -0500, Stephen Cook wrote: On 2/18/2012 8:03 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: I don't see that this plan adds any significant complication or confusion. Nor does it prevent any of the schemes people have

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 07:38:14PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From: Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:10:57 -0500 Message-id: bb02d7694d475b85761e4...@mac-pro.magehandbook.com Daniel Staal wrote: --As of February

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:14:35PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I remember when why the list was set up. See src/ etc/motd I don't see how this is so OT for a general questions list - regardless of verbiage about its charter. A general question was asked and many people

Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

2012-02-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:16:34PM -0500, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to have said: Well, to be honest, I never liked the old style default with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_ default style for separated

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 2/17/12 11:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: Hiya, [snip] We realize that one can use bsdinstall to create as many partitions as one wants. However, the new default is for one partition and swap. We want to know if people

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:03:39AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even suggest just two choices

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:05:23PM -0800, Robison, Dave wrote: Hiya, A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD. It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap as such:

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. Why not add a selection to the installer, something like this: Partition scheme [ ] all in one + swap Create one partition containing all subtrees plus one

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:34:20AM -0500, Henry Olyer wrote: So what do I change if I want to increase the shell's file limit? You don't want to diddle the shell. Use the correct UNIX utilities such as - for, xargs or find - in this case as have been suggested by other responders. That is

Re: Removal of content from the mailing list

2012-02-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:03:46AM +0800, yt wrote: Who should I talk to about removing a thread from the mailing list? As has been mentioned many times in the lists - it's a lost cause. These lists are archived, mirrored and otherwise duplicated hundreds or even thousands of times around the

Re: Mailing list recommend

2012-02-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 09:59:06PM -, Graham Bentley wrote: Default Mail SignatureHi All - can anyone recommend an easy / simple mailing list software? All I need is to subscribe/ un-subscribe and a little maintainance of users. MySQL if its worth it, or a just php? Any pointers

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:52:17AM -0600, Mark Felder wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:40:42 -0600, je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:27:32 -0600 Mark Felder articulated: Just as you don't get to express your opinion about the government if you don't vote, Excuse me, but

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:47:52PM -0800, Lyubomir Grigorov wrote: Mainly to Jerry and Chad, but anyone contributing to the flame and OT fest, Note that there are more than one persons using the name Jerry. Where I might dip in to an argument a bit, especially if I see humor in it, I never

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:01:47AM -0600, Mark Felder wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:46:54 -0600, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: I would just like to add that is FreeBSD was so crappy open sour software, why does it run half the Internet? This must be a mistake. I was just assured

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 05:16:11PM +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: Hi, I am not expert on all this, but can give a couple of impressions. Hello, I am giving my firsts steps with FreeBSD. Welcome to FreeBSD. It is a good system. I've searched a lot in google, mailing list,

Re: Installing free bsd

2011-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:36:04PM -0600, Daniel Lewis wrote: Im new to FreeBSD and did a FTP of 8.2 and unzipped to a cd rom. It was an ISO Version. I then FTP the CDROM BOOT file and un zipped it. Unfortunately It wont auto start when i put disk in computer startup. Need support.. Is the

Re: Installing free bsd

2011-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
it automatically with no choice. The burncd utility needs to have you specify it. jerry On 12/12/11, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:36:04PM -0600, Daniel Lewis wrote: Im new to FreeBSD and did a FTP of 8.2 and unzipped to a cd rom. It was an ISO Version. I

Re: file system on 9.0

2011-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:25:35AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: from darc...@gmail.com (Denise H. G.): I strongly advise that /usr and /usr/local reside on different partitions. Furthermore, If you plan to run a desktop environment, your /usr/local should be big enough, say 8G - 10G, to

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 07:55:02AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:28:57 -0300 Mario Lobo articulated: Aren't there enough laws already to protect copyright? Laws to protect copyrighted or patented goods certainly exist. Unfortunately, they are poorly enforced. There is no

Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf

2011-11-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 01:10:28AM -0300, Zantgo wrote: Without wanting to erase all contents of / etc / rc.conf, by running echo slim_enable = YES / etc / rc.conf. Please help!. First, please learn to break your lines at about 70 characters. It makes it easier to reply appropriately.

Re: Problem with X

2011-11-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:40:10PM -0300, Zantgo wrote: on the console keyboard and mouse do work Did you run X config It is one of the steps in the Handbook You can fake a .Xauthority and get rid of the message by doing touch .Xauthority in your home directory (and in roots home)

Re: Three button mouse emulation

2011-10-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 07:06:08AM -1000, Open Slate wrote: A simple way to enable three button mouse emulation is to put mouse_flags=-3 in /etc/rc.conf. I cannot find this documented anywhere. Section 4.5 of the faq mentions this feature and refers to the moused man page, where we are

Re: can't find installed executables

2011-10-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:09:40AM +0200, Jim jim wrote: Jim, First, just a politeness thing; please break your lines at about 72 character length. It helps in reading and responding to your questions. Most Email clients allow you to set a line length. Hallo, I'm kind of new to FreeBSD

Re: dump/restore, how to reduce slice size

2011-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 03:41:26PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 9/29/11 10:09 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:36:38PM +0300, ??? ??? wrote: Hi, Freebsd-questions. # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a

Re: dump/restore, how to reduce slice size

2011-09-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:36:38PM +0300, ??? ??? wrote: Hi, Freebsd-questions. # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 2G206M1.6G11%/ devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad4s1e3.9G 13M3.6G

Re: rsync over nfs or rsync protocol

2011-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 09:10:22AM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: On 09/23/11 14:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: Why would you interject NFS in the middle of it? jerry There would be no middle. I would run rsyncd or nfsd, but not both. Ah, I get it. In that case, I think rsync is probably

Re: rsync over nfs or rsync protocol

2011-09-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 02:04:03PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: I am looking into finally setting up a backup solution that's a little more sophisticated than a bunch of DVD-RWs. I have two servers. I'd like to make each a backup server for the other. I'm considering using rsync. Is

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:14:50PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Sep 22 14:30:49 2011 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:30:54 -0700 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: much to my

Re: Hi

2011-08-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 02:09:30PM -0700, Spencer Thompson wrote: You have an interesting thing to start on and a worthwhile place to begin your exploration, but you will need to do some studying. It will be necessary to explore some things on the net. The Handbook is a good place to start.

Re: 9.0-RC1 Release?

2011-08-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 01:52:02AM -0500, Nathaniel Torbett wrote: Hello, Distrowatch has you slated to release 9.0-RC1 on 8/24. I cannot find the release for download. Is this delayed and is there a new release date/schedule? Anyone, even Distrowatch, who posts a specific date for a

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:47:04PM -0500, Evan Busch wrote: Hi, I make decisions about hardware and software for those who work with me. Talking with my second in command this morning, we reached a quandary. Ron is completely pro-Linux and pro-Windows, and against FreeBSD. What is odd

Re: new to os

2011-08-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:18:09PM -0700, scott mcclellan wrote: I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis).   Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 03:28:24PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: I'ts _MUCH_ simpler, to just sign and date a copy of the work, and have a notary public 'witness' the signature. True. Without the service of a

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 05:20:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Hey Guys, What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? i know there is probably a port for this for the BSD'S. ISn't it just a VOIP thing... maybe with some video glued on? I am sure MS will find a way to use it to

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 07:13:50AM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:44:57PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: There's also ee in the base system, which is good enough for editing configuration files, and is much easier for a casual user. The benefits of vi and emacs are mostly for developers. It's not just for software

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

2011-05-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 08:48:55PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of May 3, 2011 5:33:23 PM -0400, Jerry McAllister is alleged to have said: I don't remember seeing that. Anyway, go to the FreeBSD Release Engineering web site for information. http://www.freebsd.org/releng

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

2011-05-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 12:11:07PM -0700, Mike Seda wrote: Hi All, When will FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE be available? I remember reading that it would be ready in May 2011. I just wanted to see if it was on schedule or not. I don't remember seeing that. Anyway, go to the FreeBSD Release

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:47:11PM -0400, Louis Marrero wrote: Gentlemen, I have a number of really dumb questions that I hope you might be able to shed some light on. Although I am familiar with basic computer operation, I've been trying to understand a very experienced programmer

Re: hello

2011-04-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:38:45PM +0200, Julian Fagir wrote: Hi, can you help me, i will freebsd 8.1 32bit downgraden to freebsd 7.1 or 7.2 as ? I think you ask on one of the regional mailing lists in your mother tongue. According to your errors (German, Dutch?), your language has a

Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.

2011-04-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 06:56:53AM -0700, Stefan N wrote: Hi Christer, As there are many parts of the source code(from bin,cddl,contrib..usr.sbin), which part(s) of source code do I need to modify? That is a strange question. I guess the answer is 'Yes' It depends on what you want

Re: Stopping Less from creating Log Files

2011-04-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:36:37AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: This is a minor problem but I use more to read Email messages from nmh. If one forgets what screen one is in, it is possible to start typing and create a log file of the message in which ever mailbox directory one is reading

Re: graphical representation of `du`

2011-04-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 08:34:42PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: 2011/4/6 Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org: Again, why don't you guys just use perl to provide a graphical du? I believe perl is just present on every freebsd machine where graphical du is needed. Why on Earth would you

Re: Place to install library of shell functions

2011-04-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 05:23:47PM +0200, Michael Grünewald wrote: Dear FreeBSD users, today I come to you with what seems to be somehow pedantic question: where is the best place to install libraries of shell functions. I read hier(4) carefully and it seems the correct place for this

Re: mount a dumpfile

2011-04-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:08:15PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: Is it possible to mount a dump(8) dumpfile? restore(8) obviously knows everything about the file structure, and restore -i is nearly a read-only mount_dump already. I don't think so. It is a different structure. jerry

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:10:44PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn knowt...@aloha.com wrote: When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it is 4.2.1. The ports tree has newer, up to 4.7.0 dated 19 Mar 2011. Probably never, as

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:45:27PM -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: I want to learn BSD. I find that the best way to familiarize myself with a distro is to adopt it as my main distro (for web browsing, email, word processing, etc.). But the challenge of BSD have so far proven too much for me.

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:23:48PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth William Brown on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: On 30/03/2011, at 07:15, Chip Camden wrote: So what do you recommend as my first desktop BSD distro? What desktop BSD distro is so easy to use that even Paris Hilton or

Re: Can FreeBSD be made to be as polished a desktop as Linux Mint?

2011-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:15:30PM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: I was wondering if there were any technical reasons why a FreeBSD desktop could not be hand-tweaked to be as nice as a Linux Mint 10 desktop. I only rarely use Linux Mint 10, but it's desktop and webrowsing seem to be about perfect

Re: How to install Tomcat 7

2011-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:18:28PM +1030, Andreas Junius wrote: Hi All, This is my first post to this list, so I hope I get it right. I'm new to both Unix and freeBSD and I've been doing my first steps for three days now. I was able to install Java and Tomcat 6, because these products are

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:53:44AM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: On Linux I use clonezilla, which understands the EXT3 filesystem, and it can skip unused space (I'm using about 3GB out of 1TB). On FreeBSD, I have to fill the 1TB drive with zero-filled files, then delete them, on each partiton,

Re: Starting from Scratch!

2011-02-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:09:11PM -, Graham Bentley wrote: After several months away from FreeBSD I am asking for advice on versions for general desktop / interest use [non critical learning platform] Should I hang on a bit for 8.2 to go current? Or will I easily be able to update

Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1?

2011-01-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:05:14PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:02:59PM +, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 07:45:28AM -0800, patrick wrote: I know this is a bit crazy, but is there any opinion as to whether a binary upgrade using an 8.1 CD

Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1?

2011-01-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 07:50:20AM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:05:14PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:02:59PM +, Frank Shute wrote

Re: Swap Space

2011-01-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:42:36AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/01/2011 22:33, Jeff Whitman wrote: I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM, others say stay with 2 x RAM. Standard advice is 2x RAM -- but that dates back to the days when servers would

Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1?

2011-01-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 07:45:28AM -0800, patrick wrote: I know this is a bit crazy, but is there any opinion as to whether a binary upgrade using an 8.1 CD would work to upgrade a system running 4.10? Normally I would want to do a fresh install, but it's at a remote client site where it's

Openoffice

2010-12-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, It has been a long time since I tried to install Openoffice from packages, but I would prefer not to have to build it. I have been fishing around at all the old sites where I found it some years ago and can't seem to find anything reasonable. eg.: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ and:

Re: rc.d and environment variables

2010-12-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 08:12:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:27:52 +0600, Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su wrote: Colleagues, The svnserve daemon is started from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve. I need to pass the environment variable

Re: SEBSD is dead?

2010-12-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:14:22AM -0500, Outback Dingo wrote: SeBSD is a FreeBSD project for security enhancement... ACLs and stuff... its part of FreeBSD Something like SeLinux those other guys use??? jerry On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Odhiambo Washington

Re: SEBSD is dead?

2010-12-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 03:42:45PM +, Vincent Hoffman wrote: On 17/12/2010 15:27, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:14:22AM -0500, Outback Dingo wrote: SeBSD is a FreeBSD project for security enhancement... ACLs and stuff... its part of FreeBSD Something like

Re: Spam with fake address from the list?

2010-12-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello *, does someone get this kind of spam too? Yes. Lots of it from various lists and other paths. Just delete it. jerry Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack - Forwarded message

Re: ultimate backup choice

2010-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 04:17:46AM -0800, S Mathias wrote: i have: SERVER A SERVER B with full root permisson [ssh, etc] each server has a folder. i want to backup a folder in SERVER A. are there any backup methods, that meets these two requirements? : 1) running from e.g.: a

Re: FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE

2010-12-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:21:05PM +0900, Kazuhiro Satoyoshi wrote: They're old, but not so old that 8.1 shouldn't work. Some day, I tried to install FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE (i386, amd64), but I could't. I did't know the reason why... That's why I though to need old FreeBSD version for my

Re: Shopping cart other than OSCommerce? [LONG]

2010-12-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 04:13:25PM -0500, Karl Vogel wrote: On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 21:23:04 -0700, Dale Scott dalesc...@shaw.ca said: D I'll interpret that as saying a large percentage of the PHP apps vying D for your attention are crap, but buyer beware. Just be careful, have a D healthy

Re: FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE

2010-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:40:43PM +0900, Kazuhiro Satoyoshi wrote: Dear sir, Hi, I'm kazu from Japan. I'd like to install [freebsd 3.5.1-RELEASE] into my PC. Is there any good reason for installing such an ancient version of FreeBSD?Install the most recent RELEASE you can get to

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 09:45:15AM -0200, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: According to Darwin's law, the most fit will survive... That is a misrepresentation of Darwin's theory. It does not say the 'most fit' will survive. It says that the one that is best able to expoit the environmental

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 01:10:25PM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:00:00 + Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk articulated: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:47:26 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: [r...@blackdragon [~]# kldload ntfs (just so I can read from the device and

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:08:51PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward ...it installs Windows 2000 I like this one - though you

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote: i guess it is high time this list bans the word devil in subject ;-) Can we add this once-a-month question about Beastie to either the FAQ or the resources for newbies on the website? Now that is a good

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:36:29PM -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: José Silveira jmlsilve...@gmail.com Date: 2010/11/11 Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 07:26:17PM -0600, Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: PLEASE let's not rehash this again!!! I'm only sending the link to the haloed (sp?) daemon now because I wish I had last time but f'd it up. I'm done now .

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:15:37PM -0500, Tom Worster wrote: On 11/12/10 2:29 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Lots of people see FreeBSD and the web site and the mascott, etc for the first time probably each day.Some of them will have the same mistaken idea since

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:39:28PM +, José Silveira wrote: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! Of course, it is not a devil. IT is a helper daemon. It is your prejudice and lack of knowledge of ancient mythology

Re: removing files

2010-11-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 11:40:20AM +0530, yoganjaneyulu kasetti wrote: hi, I have a problem for deleting files using scriptplease some one can guide me for the same. I have some files with the extension of .chk extension along with the extension of .log and .gjf extension in the

Re: removing files

2010-11-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:49:12PM +, Frank Shute wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:48:18AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 11:40:20AM +0530, yoganjaneyulu kasetti wrote: hi, I have a problem for deleting files using scriptplease some one

Re: Server hardware

2010-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:52:22AM -0400, Scott Sipe wrote: Hello, I'm getting ready to buy a new server system (running FreeBSD of course) for a small business. I have always before bought off-the-shelf parts and built my own, but am thinking of getting a packaged system this time. I want

Re: acroread9 crashing

2010-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 07:25:27AM -0400, Jerry wrote: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE /amd64 I continue to have a problem getting acroread9 to run. 1) It will not create its directory in my home directory. I have not been able to get acroread to work. I gave up and use XPDF which does what I need,

Re: filter a binary file and reduce 0x150a to 0x15

2010-10-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 03:08:45PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Before I programm it in C (or whatever), is there any normal shell tool to filter a (large) binary file and change any occurance of 0x150a to 0x15 (i.e. delete \n but only if it follows a char 0x15)? Can you manage it

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:58:46PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question has been asked by someone from that domain. And not the first time some idiot rude reply caused much more harm than good. jerry Opportunity is most

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >