Re: USB mount delay

2010-05-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
might need to use glabel to make sure only that one disk is mounted automatically. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
any more about how much power it's using right now than knowing my car's top speed would tell you anything about how long it takes me to drive to work. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Disk Usage

2010-04-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
/amd64? New modules, mostly. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Upgrade/Install in one command?

2010-04-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
number, but I still follow the build server approach... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: csup vs cvs

2010-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
there. The cvsup protocol (whether implemented in the cvsup program or csup) is the main way these things are distributed, but rsync, anonymous cvs, FTP, and probably other methods are supported optionally (which means some mirrors offer them and others don't). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
that option back off and you'll be fine. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. By default, it does not. You have to enable the Install into /usr and /etc/postfix configuration option for it to do so. I don't

Re: csup vs cvs

2010-04-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
hub, you could track down its manager and ask. I remember that being public information, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Sendmail Five Second Greeting Delay

2010-04-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
post) turning it off is a good idea in my book. I consider it polite for firewalls to actively refuse to open the connection (TCP reset) rather than just dropping the request, though. There's really no downside to doing so. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: libiconv-1.11_1

2010-04-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to use the libiconv that new ports are already trying to use on your system, and get rid of the old one. I find it really unlikely that iconv could affect the system sshd, though (you are using sshd from the base, right?), so there may be something else going on. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded

Re: FreeBSD8.0 Firewall Script behaves much differently than 6.x

2010-03-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
through while still keeping any potential error information -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
! Murphy never said anything about *when* things go wrong... Sorry if I've gone overboard in following your jocular tone. I realize that you might be feeling desperate by now, particularly if the machine really is critical. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: Availability of pm-utils

2010-03-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com writes: Is 'pm-utils http://pm-utils.freedesktop.org/wiki/ available in the ports system? I am unable to locate it if it does exist. I don't think it is. I suspect it would be a big porting job; it looks thoroughly Linux-centric these days. -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: Automatic Way to Tell if a FreeBSD system is 64 or 32-bit?

2010-03-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to me. It's reporting the architecture of the OS, not of the CPU, and that's what you actually need to know. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Measuring Free memory

2010-03-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
-FREEMEM and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FREE-MEMORY-AMOUNT by any chance? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Measuring Free memory

2010-03-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br writes: On Wednesday 17 March 2010 19:03:03 Lowell Gilbert wrote: First, you'll need a precise definition of what you mean by free memory. Free physical memory available. Not precise enough to have a clear answer. Does it have to be zeroed already, or do clean

Re: limit bandwidth on sftp

2010-03-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
krad kra...@googlemail.com writes: On 15 March 2010 13:34, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Tsu-Fan Cheng tfch...@gmail.com writes: I need to limit my sftp session bandwidth to 20K, can someone show me how to do it? thank you! There's no simple way

Re: More ZIP Problems

2010-03-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
a newfs(8), right? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: More ZIP Problems

2010-03-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us writes: On 03/16/10 10:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us writes: OK, so I got the disk mounted as it was. Then I used fdisk to reformat it (probably not the best tool to do so, but it worked

Re: limit bandwidth on sftp

2010-03-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tsu-Fan Cheng tfch...@gmail.com writes: I need to limit my sftp session bandwidth to 20K, can someone show me how to do it? thank you! There's no simple way to do that. scp has such a capability, though; maybe using that is your easiest option? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking

Re: jpeg2swf segfaults

2010-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
failed to update some other library that also links to jpeg. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: About Which Version I'll Use?

2010-03-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
amd64 version of FreeBSD? Either one will work fine. If you have more than 3GB of memory, go for amd64. If you have less than half of that, go for i386. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com writes: Is there a nice guide that explains how to install FreeBSD onto a headless system (such as one of these small devices) via serial port? It's documented in the installation chapter of the Handbook. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the cost of a new Linksys (or equivalent) router in a few months. The answer to your question, though is that FreeBSD can certainly work as a wireless access point. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: unzip fails to extract password protected archive

2010-03-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, but there are a number of problems with the zip encryption (even aside from the fact that it's easy to break). You might want to take a look at the extensive DECRYPTION section in the unzip(1) man page. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
secret with the server and that's the authentication password why we could not use that instead of or in addition to a key fingerprint? Because we don't want to give an attacker access to a shared secret if we can verify host identity with a public key first. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded

Re: How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?

2010-03-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the file system is read-only. What should I do? It's exactly what you need. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Perl 5.8 - 5.10 On Current Production System

2010-03-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
portupgrade to handle this would be a Simple Matter of Programming. Maybe even a strategy as simple as adding the variable to the make command lines automatically any time '-o' is specified. I wonder whether I could write that change without actually learning ruby... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded

Re: OT: how to reset high scores on gnome games

2010-03-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com writes: See subject See /usr/ports/games/gnome-games/pkg-install -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Installing x11

2010-02-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
this error ? Please help Look a little earlier in the output to see what the original problem was. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
version, you probably won't find it any easier to build the program from scratch. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Intel Turbo Boost

2010-02-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
by the chip on any core in P0 state, no? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Why does soft link in /var/log disappear?

2010-02-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
? When does it happen? Without knowing that, we're pretty much into wild-guess territory. That said, my wild guess is that it happens at installworld time and there's something strange in your mtree file for var. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: Follow Up Question On Upgrading And Ports

2010-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. [You can add the 'rR' if you like, but they're redundant with '-a'.] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Clarification Of In Place Upgrade Process

2010-02-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
are linked against the old libraries, and if you get something linked against a mix of old (e.g., 7.x) and new (e.g., 8.x) libraries, it won't work. But then, that's covered in the upgrade instructions also... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: crontab

2010-02-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
versions. The script got wrapped and apparently cut off. I can't understand it, and probably nobody else could either. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd

Re: GCC broken?

2010-02-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
using gcc from later ports). I suppose you could try rebuilding the base system if your compiler seems to have problems. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd

Re: /root permission reset on boot

2010-02-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
sensitive in that directory, so there's no reason to protect it more thoroughly than the defaults. If you put something in that directory, you might want to change the permissions, but that would be up to you and your own knowledge of your system. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: /root permission reset on boot

2010-02-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
(make buildworld, make installworld, etc.). I do this often (every time a release patch is released). So, perhaps this only happens during these upgrades? Yes, that makes more sense. Just change the setting in /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: 8.0 and floppy support

2010-01-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
for me. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: adduser and single-user groups

2010-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John j...@starfire.mn.org writes: Could someone point me in the direction of enlightenment with regard to the value add of the group per user approach that adduser uses? man adduser; about 60 lines in, there is a whole section titled UNIQUE GROUPS. This is the document you want. -- Lowell

Re: finding every file not in a list

2010-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
*not* OT, I would say... Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com writes: I have a list of files that should be in a dir tree and want to remove any files from the tree not in list (i.e. if it is on the list keep it else rm it)... any quick way to do this? mtree(8) -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: finding every file not in a list

2010-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: *not* OT, I would say... Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com writes: I have a list of files that should be in a dir tree and want to remove any files from the tree not in list (i.e. if it is on the list

Re: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
-4.8.2 [1003] (dhcptest) ~ But if you really rebuilt everything, that should've already been rebuilt by now. On most desktops, other things will use it too. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. Farmer shouldn't assume that the application will work anywhere without actually trying it. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net writes: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: As the original poster observed, PowerPC, Sparc and IA64 are all capable of being used in either endian setting. I checked endian.h, and it looks

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
if you want to do that. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Accessing Computer

2010-01-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
machine. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Any delivery block to freebsd-questions list?

2010-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
on the message reads as the time I sent it. Didn't think anyone else was having this problem. Sounds like that's just graylisting. The delay will depend on how long it takes your MTA (or the smarthost you use) to retry the message. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer

Re: Security Hardening: Removing Permissions; Suggestions

2010-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. The jails don't need compilers in the first place. Disabling the compiler is pretty much useless if the web server's users are going to be allowed to copy their own files onto the machine anyway. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: Rename pictures in the command-line interface

2010-01-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
it again you get the same results) and sorts into proper order. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Error at make buildworld with sources from release and stable

2010-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to make sure you avoid: something stale in the obj tree, a clock that's off... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: is there a way to convert an audio file into a char array?

2009-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, 0x3f, 0xfe, 0x7f, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xf8, 0x1f, 0xf8, 0x1f, 0xf8, 0x1f}; Are there tools to do the same with a .au or .wav file? od(1), but that would be silly. Just have your program open the file and read it in. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston

Re: is there a way to convert an audio file into a char array?

2009-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the click.h data file it seems everything would go much faster. Faster, yes, by multiple microseconds. Save your time, not the computer's. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Missing library building Amarok

2009-12-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
where that error shows up. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Max kernel dump size

2009-12-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
going to be overkill most of the time. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: samba3.x - 3.0 won't compile, 3.2 and 3.3 can't be installed

2009-12-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
it. Otherwise, you'll need to install 3.x to a non-standard prefix, or use 4.0. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Destroying CDs (Re: (no subject))

2009-12-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Modulok modu...@gmail.com writes: Is there a software method (not a microwave oven) to destroy a CD-R? Not that I would trust, even if it existed. Heavy duty office shredders do the job for me. A blowtorch is more fun, though (and I actually own one). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking

Re: binary package dependencies

2009-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
was built depending on that. I think this should be entered as a bug, but I'm not quite positive... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Why there are so many binary packages missing?

2009-12-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to go to find out what's available. In particular, see http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/packagestats.html Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
# devfs ruleset to apply to jail Is the problem perhaps in your /etc/rc.d/vm1 script? Normally you would use /etc/rc.d/jail. Are those addresses already assigned on the host? Was the jail perhaps already running? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
drive's bad-sector table is full; only errors on write indicate that. If you can try manufacturer's drive diagnostics, do that. If you can't, then it's harder to fix things up, but not impossible; write back if you really can't use a low-level diag. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: 7.2-p4 serial console not showing kernel messages?

2009-11-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
prompt after a while on the serial console though. If I boot the same kernel over PXE on the ALIX, the kernel messages *do* go to the serial console... What am I overlooking? Checking the obvious: syslog.conf is configured to send the messages to the console? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded

Re: IPv6-only host and portupgrade

2009-10-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
or i am too blind to find them; is there anybody that can post hostnames or links to souch kind of servers? obviously i can workaround using an IPv4--IPv6 intermediate-host, but the goal is a pure IPv6 FreeBSD farm. You could ask Colin Percival... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking

m4 (was Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?)

2009-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to fix it, and if it will bite if I leave it alone. The port one is the Gnu version. The base system one is the traditional one that goes back to the ATT days, although it has been updated to meet POSIX. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Yuri y...@rawbw.com writes: Adam Vande More wrote: Did you remove devel/libusb It's installed: libusb-0.1.12_4 That's your problem, then. You need to remove it and rebuild the ports that depended on it. This was mentioned in /usr/ports/UPDATING and /usr/src/UPDATING. -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Green! No, no, Blue! AA -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the advantages of ZFS, but having it in FreeBSD didn't bre -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: terminal setup issues on FreeBSD

2009-10-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to remember all of the relevant implementation details that have changed in the intervening eight years. Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
an unacceptable license. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Apache20 port on FreeBSD 7.2 does a core dump

2009-10-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. I'm assuming you're not used to using a debugger on a core file, on the theory that you would have done that already if you were comfortable with it. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: usenet configuration

2009-10-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
yet, nntp. I think cnews is still the standard server software, but there are a bunch of alternatives that might be easier for a small installation. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Looking up libraries and header files

2009-10-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
? Is there another route that will deal with stuff not on the system? David You can search the pkg-plist files in the ports tree. This won't work for ports that build a dynamic plist, but those are fairly unusual among library ports. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: usenet configuration

2009-10-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, not the software. Aflatoon Aflatooni aaflato...@yahoo.com writes: From: Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org To: Aflatoon Aflatooni aaflato...@yahoo.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 10:12:56 AM Subject: Re: usenet configuration Odhiambo

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
with. spamassassin works well with pretty much any MTA, as far as I'm aware. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: /sys/modules/mii/nsgphy.c compilation errors

2009-09-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, right? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file? Of course. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: libxcb won't compile from ports

2009-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
-- incorrectly, somehow -- at some point to get stale patches with the current Makefile). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Virtualbox does not lunch (FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE)

2009-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
what's left, and either submit a fix for the port to remove it, or perhaps find out that there is local configuration that the port *shouldn't* be removing. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: A question about the date Function

2009-09-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
in to the normal date output set to that reference value. IN Linux, -r should be followed by a file name and it gives you the formatted date as read from the mtime of that reference file. The *only* standardized option for date is -u... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston

Re: What I'd Like To See In A Netbook

2009-09-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
that until something new happens in display technology. The screen, small as it is, is already most of the parts cost of those netbook units, so putting a big screen on one would make it as expensive as a low-end real notebook. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to stick with increasing the size of the swap partition. It's easy to *try* the swap files. Then measure the performance. If the behaviour is really as specific to your custom application as you indicate, then general advice may not apply either. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
a file from it (then use it for swap or whatever)?That is in RAM. Not necessarily. What he wants is the '-t vnode' option for mdconfig(8). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Is there such thing as a 'soft checksum' tool?

2009-09-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
similar checksums. So the closer the checksums are, the more similar two given images are. Does anyone know of anything like this? It turns out this is a remarkably hard problem. You can look at p5-Image-Compare, but be prepared to experiment before trusting the results. -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: 32 bit ports on an AMD64 system

2009-08-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
are regularly running out of address space on i386.) Also note that it is possible to have an i386 port-building jail on an amd64 system. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: unknown oid

2009-08-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
loader that will tell you everything you need to know. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Removing firefox-2.0.0.20_9,1 from system

2009-08-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
on it to see when the changes come into the tree. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
per...@pluto.rain.com writes: Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Kelly Martin kellymar...@gmail.com writes: I just experienced a hard drive failure on one of my FreeBSD 7.2 production servers with no backup! ... First, try copying the entire disk, *without

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to damage it further. I desperately need to salvage the data, what do the kind people on this list recommend? First, try copying the entire disk, *without* mounting it. Use dd(1) to get a copy of the whole disk. I believe that conv=noerror may be necessary. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking

Re: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1

2009-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: Howard Goldstein h...@queue.to writes: It's like the cat dragged in firefox2 despite use of 3.5 for actual browsing :( Is there a good way to resolve these dependencies through firefox3 or 3.5 short of ditching gnome? Yeah

Re: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1

2009-08-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, I think you could add something like the following to make.conf to do what you need: USE_GECKO= firefox3-firefox -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Recovering files after a crash

2009-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
). Integrity checks on files will catch damage to files; ZFS does this automatically, but mtree(8) can do various types of checksums to serve the purpose as well. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: pf: unlocked lookup

2009-08-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
what you're doing when you enable a debug flag. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: problem with startx..!

2009-07-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
thanos trompoukis atr0...@gmail.com writes: I removed .Xauthority and I still have the same problem Then the error messages will have changed; look at the log again. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: problem with startx..!

2009-07-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
because you didn't set it up to do so. Please read the documentation. E.g., http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: problem with startx..!

2009-07-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
with) Thanx! * ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: problem with startx..!

2009-07-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Failing to compile a new kernel

2009-07-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
is to make a few changes at a time. That way, if the build fails, you can reverse those changes and figure out what was wrong with them. I adjunt the configuration file Looks like you included NFS_LOCKD without including NFS. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: amarok

2009-07-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
in /usr/ports/audio/amarok. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/audio/amarok. Thanks. Looks like a bogus include problem. Did you try make clean in the port first? is the libtunepimp installed?;2~ -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: Resetting user password in cron

2009-07-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to do in a cron job. Thanks/ Hi, Jos You can use chpass(1) in root's crontab: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chpasssektion=1 And note the '-p' option in particular. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

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