Re: satisfying package dependencies from installation DVD when building a port -- HOW?

2012-03-14 Thread Polytropon
hope you got some inspiration. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-14 Thread Polytropon
-questions@freebsd.org On 03/14/12 13:09, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:19:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i have heard about the 848 or whatever cards for years. should i have my sister's technician add one? i understood everything but your last paragraph. please do send me

Re: /usr/lib32 question

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
in that directory. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
of lost data of the / partition correctly. Any comments before I file a PR request ? If this directory has been created by the installation process, I think you should. Maybe you verify the issue on the freebsd-fs@ list? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
are something you'll hardly find on the modern web. But that doesn't mean you cannot turn streams into files. After all, the data _is_ trans- ferred to your computer. It's just a question to use the proper program. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
contains an example to record to file, which will implement the software video tape recoder functionality. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-12 Thread Polytropon
is your top priority. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

2012-03-12 Thread Polytropon
-loop-Bob:/home/bob:/usr/local/bin/joe could work (haven't tested that). A list of the files can be obtained when opening a file ^KE and pressing the Tab key. It would be worth testing if shell escapes like !command will work in this constellation... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

2012-03-12 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:19:51 -0700, Edward M. wrote: On 03/12/2012 03:10 PM, Polytropon wrote: /etc/shells to work, but a passwd entry like bob:*:1234:1234:Two-loop-Bob:/home/bob:/usr/local/bin/joe I think this would not let the user to login,etc I'm not sure... I assume

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

2012-03-12 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:34:18 -0700, Edward M. wrote: On 03/12/2012 03:47 PM, Edward M. wrote: On 03/12/2012 03:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:19:51 -0700, Edward M. wrote: On 03/12/2012 03:10 PM, Polytropon wrote: /etc/shells to work, but a passwd entry like bob

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Polytropon
tried to FORMAT.EXE my toaster but it didn't work. It turned into a bread slicer instead. Maybe the toaster is too old and requires paper tape... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?

2012-03-11 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-11 Thread Polytropon
? Yes, it is. It's also illegal to listen to MP3 in the US. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Polytropon
believe that imitating MICROS~1 technology is generally better? Or what is the reason? I'd be interested in learning more. For further trust, an OpenBSD psychotherapy is highly advised. ... I also run OpenBSD, so don't bash me for this comment. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Polytropon
their functionality. New kernel interfaces, changes in ABI or API, new libraries, as well as obsoleted things may be a valid (!) reason. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:42:52 -0500, David Jackson wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: David, allow me to add a few thoughts: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:28:47 -0500, David Jackson wrote: As for compile options, the solution is simple, compile in all

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 22:04:35 -0500, David Jackson wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:05:37 -0500, David Jackson wrote: Many of your issues are non-issues, as your suggestions were implemented in some form long ago

Re: port to package amd64 to i386

2012-03-05 Thread Polytropon
/etc/make.conf is used. Can the ports system be (ab)used in that way? I don't think it is that easy. :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: THe number of cdrom in /dev

2012-03-01 Thread Polytropon
I don't lose them permenetly? Which OS version are you currently using? anyway if you've got an advisory or a fix for this and your not to annoyed please send it. Just provide a bit more information so your problem can be diagnosed. At the moment, I'm just guessing. :-) -- Polytropon

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-29 Thread Polytropon
explained in The FreeBSD Handbook at 20.7.1: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-glabel.html (bottom of the page) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
at VirtualBSD. http://www.virtualbsd.info/ It can easily be used without installation in a VirtualBox environment which should even be possible in Windows. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Simple question about pkg_add ...

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
. It's a port. Extract the file and use it with the port infrastructure (i. e. make install). Seems that the instruction in man 4 upgt is just missing the proper terminology... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
to solve this issue? Label the drives and use labels instead of device names. Get some inspiration from Warren's excellent article here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Simple question about pkg_add ...

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:41:46 +1030, David Walker wrote: Hi Polytropon. I did have a look inside and I did pkg_add -v which gives enough information combined with my meagre knowledge to guess that it had something to do with source. A port (as you can find it inside the archive) is a recipe

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-27 Thread Polytropon
needed (as I'm happily wired here), but real networking is much better than this local fiddling with USB (so I can print to the color printer from all of my systems when it's _real_ networked, just as the HP Laserjet 4000d which even runs its own lpd server). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-26 Thread Polytropon
tools that seem to be easily capable of what the web-driven autodetected elastic-legged program magic of CUPS can't. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-26 Thread Polytropon
output PS (which should be standard), but instead PCL or whatnot. JIC you haven't considered this yet... HIH :) Considered - yes, but I thought I would be able to avoid it and use the modern CUPS toolkit for something simple like printing. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-25 Thread Polytropon
then integrate that with /etc/printcap (as I do with my PCL HP Laserjet 4000d). I think it should be possible to code that similar to a parallel printer (with ulpt instead of lpt device specification for the lp= parameter... What am I doing wrong? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-25 Thread Polytropon
). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:55:36 -0500, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:14:33 +0100 Polytropon articulated: I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631 web-based configuration, none of the methods that are supposed

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:07:36 +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631 web-based configuration, none of the methods

Re: Installation troubles

2012-02-22 Thread Polytropon
that doesn't run it). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-21 Thread Polytropon
/wechselplatten.htm#cm5400 (Historical note: K1600 series minicomputers are basically PDPs.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:45:05 +1000, Da Rock wrote: To the OP, check the pages Polytropon has linked here, but the chances of getting exactly that are nil to impossible. I've run about 6 or more laptops now without too much trouble. The biggest problems were wireless, but that was the bad

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-20 Thread Polytropon
be a problem. You could also _ask_ for how the FreeBSD support is, but don't expect any useful answers from an average salesperson. :-) Does it run FreeBSD? - Yes, you can click on the Internet with it, it's very shiny and comes with a wireless cable. =^_^= -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: CUPS 1.5.2 not working, like to test 1.4.x, how?

2012-02-20 Thread Polytropon
. You can use it to obtain older versions of a port. (I've been using it successfully to downgrade xzgv to a working version.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:16:39 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 02/18/12 12:16, 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_

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

2012-02-18 Thread Polytropon
to drop the partition into several linices with a high level of functionally - depending on application versioning being close to in sync.) And I assume you still have /home pointing to the correct location on that new path? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-18 Thread Polytropon
. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
local port or IP address. All the parts needed for that task are already present (and have been for many years). Would be interesting to see how this develops. Thanks for sharing that info, sounds really good. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools?

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
it up (e. g. by FTP, NFS, CIFS/SMB), things would be easy as those mechanisms can be kept internally in the printer without requiring arbitrary drivers to make things work. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
/mail). By the way, the suggestion of redirecting the system's mail output to a specific user account or external mail account removes the choice for a program for local use. So the user's default MUA (even if it's a web based solution) could be used. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
(including home) partitions plus one swap partition. [ ] user-defined Make your own partitioning selection manually. Of course, the default SIZES for second choice should be reasonable. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:11:52 -0800, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:53 PM To: Polytropon Cc: david.robi

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-11 Thread Polytropon
. _which_ of them, and if not, with which unexpected results). If it does work, my suggestion would be to dump CUPS and use the system's default mechanism with a man made printer filter. It's very easy. Easier than dealing with the CUPS blackbox in my opinion... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:40:50 -0500, David Jackson wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:04:56 -0500, David Jackson wrote: I wish to use binary packages and I specifically do not want to compile anything, it tends to take far

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread Polytropon
provides PPD device descriptions that can be incorporated in CUPS which has become the de-facto standard for printing? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: kernel generic options

2012-01-22 Thread Polytropon
_port_ delivers the compatibility for libraries (versions and their calls) that have changed from v8 to v9. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: libjawt.so and libz.so.5

2012-01-20 Thread Polytropon
installed applications after system upgrade (unless you have installed the compat8x-i386-x.y.* port and _not_ installed any further applications). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: freebsd-update and src.txz

2012-01-20 Thread Polytropon
beginning in / should do the correct thing. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Extract photo from digital camera that is not USB mass storage device

2012-01-19 Thread Polytropon
(and maybe delete) pictures from the camera. You can also automate this process (using devd) or use a GUI solution for it. I've been using Gtkam in the past for the task of selectively dealing with pictures. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:32:11 -0600, ajtiM wrote: On Sunday 15 January 2012 23:54:52 Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Monday, 16 January 2012: On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:40:20 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: Is it permissible to delete the dot snap folder which is created in a filesystem

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:21:27 +, RW wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:59:59 +0100 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:32:11 -0600, ajtiM wrote: On Sunday 15 January 2012 23:54:52 Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Monday, 16 January 2012: On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:40:20

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-15 Thread Polytropon
be ``0770''. *** So unless you're currently running a dump -L session, you can delete that directory. Maybe you need to be member of operator or be root in order to do it due to access permissions described above. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-15 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:03:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/14/12 22:06, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:37:14 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/14/12 19:54, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 14 02:32:15 2012 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:28:21 +0100

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
EXT2_LINK_MAX 32000 is defined. Can you check if 32000 is the amount of directories created? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
for me in this specific case), a simple test would reveal the truth of what will actually happen. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:22:36 +0100, Polytropon wrote: The mkdir() function can be found (for UFS2) in the file /usr/src/sys/gnu/fs/ext2fs/ext2_vnops.c at line (sources of 8.2-STABLE i386 here). If you examine what mkdir() does, you'll see that the too many links is true when LINK_MAX

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:12:48 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-01-14 09:22, Polytropon skrev: How many subdirectories are there? ls | wc -l 32765 Seems that you have reached LINK_MAX of 32767 (according to /usr/src/sys/sys/syslimits.h). The difference of 2, I assume, is one

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
: what if I use brackets instead? void *foo(int blah, void *meow[])(int ouch); Hmmm... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-13 Thread Polytropon
reinstallation of all your ports with a complete procedure. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-13 Thread Polytropon
directory. If faccessat() is passed the special value AT_FDCWD in the fd parameter, the current working directory is used and the behavior is identical to a call to access(). Also see SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS later on. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: BSD equivalent of GNU/Linux cp -rpu ?

2012-01-11 Thread Polytropon
something like rsync or pax ? Yes, rsync also sounds promising. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: starting firefox3 with defined geometry

2012-01-10 Thread Polytropon
1055 (IBM /370) PDP-11 or K1600? Oh, and EC1056 here (OS/ES SVM OP1). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: starting firefox3 with defined geometry

2012-01-10 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:56:21 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, January 10, 2012 a las 09:25:54AM +0100, Polytropon escribió: Answer: Yes, but it's not as easy as it could have been. Unlike nearly every other X11 program, notably the old and outdated ones, Firefox does _not_

Re: OpenBSD disk on FreeBSD.

2012-01-08 Thread Polytropon
guessing. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: OpenBSD disk on FreeBSD.

2012-01-08 Thread Polytropon
the mailing list archives, you will find hints to procedures and software to do a deeper analysis of the structures that need to be accessed, such as disk labels, file system data and other stuff. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

2012-01-07 Thread Polytropon
the size of ~17MB, but the created iso by me is ~10MB. So it seems I'm missing some files. You can mount the ISO you've generated and look inside to find out which files may be missing, or if there are differences in file sizes. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread Polytropon
/bashprompt/prompts/ for customizing your bash prompt. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

2012-01-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 01:11:30 +0100 (CET), Marco Beishuizen wrote: On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, the wise Polytropon wrote: If this is depending on the name [BOOT], there are two ways to deal with special characters in file names, if you need to specify them on the command line: a) use escape

Re: FreeBSD on kvm

2012-01-06 Thread Polytropon
and escape to the loader prompt, set to NO to disable autobooting That means =0 would mean to boot immediately _with_ the option to get to the boot prompt - you just need to be fast at the keyboard. :-) Oh, and see man loader.conf for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD on kvm

2012-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:49:41 +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: On 01/06/2012 06:24 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:50:41 +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Leaving delay boot to 10 sec, always block. Set delay boot to 1, it give me some crash. There is a possibility to run directly

Re: Browser

2012-01-05 Thread Polytropon
=0 session? Hmmm... On the other hand, installing google's Chromium browser went through without that kind of annoying trouble. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Polytropon
browsing habits and reporting them to the authorities, maybe you re-consider using Opera. Keep in mind that even if it's free, it's not really open, if I remember correctly. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

2012-01-04 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:01:32 +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 1:00 PM To: Dan Nelson

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Polytropon
consider such devices niche devices, think again: You'll find them near any Internet-connected computer and among the bowels of the whole Internet. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

2012-01-03 Thread Polytropon
precise than seconds. Does anyone have a suggestion how to precisely determine the order files have been created? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

2012-01-03 Thread Polytropon
to be a human-readable date representation. by the way, I'm running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE/x86 of late August 2011 here, file system used is UFS2. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
that, Gnome should be up and running. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Single user mode exits unexpectedly

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
should I look? Review your installation steps and _maybe_ redo the installation as indicated in the manual. Maybe there's really just something out of sync. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:15:00 -0500, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:39:58 +0100 Polytropon articulated: However, there are differences in how you judge documentation to be _good_. Talk to a mainframer, and he will tell you a different story. Then talk to a Windows person and explain

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
Polytropon has been rather helpful many times on this list regardless of how many faux pas maybe made; I'm sure you're not without fault either. The fact is that Poly has taken negativity bias to a new level. I fully realize that part of this is due to his socialist/fascist upbringing

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:14:35 +, RW wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:53:25 +0100 Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: I really appreciate that you all, Jerry, Polytropon and Chuck, took your time to answer me. But I think some of you understood paragraphs like individual-separated

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:59:14 -0500, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:22:30 +0100 Polytropon articulated: From man iwn: Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/1000/5000/5150/5300/6000/6050 IEEE 802.11n driver So they actually got support for one such device. I refer you to http

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
writers separated, but working together. This approach isn't free of problems, but also seems to work. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
the required privileges off the X server. Moving _that_ kind of functionality into the kernel could enable non-X use of graphics capabilities, I also assume. Details: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode-setting -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
actually needs. Role based models such as they can be done without root passwords (tools: sudo, super) can help here. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:23:31 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 12/29/11 10:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: Obviously, I must comply. At the same time, I cannot continue be accountable for those servers. Fully correct. Check the contract you

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:15:45 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd writes: On 12/29/11 10:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said customer's servers. snip

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
running 8.2-STABLE and ports from an updated tree. For a server, this approach might not fit - maybe you want to keep all things binary there, or from source only. It will be enough for me if someone just point me to documentation. The FreeBSD Handbook. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
_good_, or point at some FreeBSD documentation that you think needs heavy improvement, it would help to back your argumentation. Otherwise, it can be seen as already done. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-26 Thread Polytropon
, That's basically what man portmaster says, even though the options are different and allow more flexibility. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Archived FreeBSD versions

2011-12-25 Thread Polytropon
ISO-IMAGES/ in there. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Clearing Login Screen on Console

2011-12-25 Thread Polytropon
, local to the respective user ~/.login and ~/.logout)? You can also test those two commands interactively. I think they are connected to the ^L key, just to make sure if something's wrong with the /etc/gettytab file. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: LOCALE issue: Pysycache errors on run

2011-12-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:13:53 +1000, Da Rock wrote: %env LANG=en_EN.ISO8859-1 pysycache.py ^^ Isn't that supposed to be en_US or en_GB? I'm not sure if there's also en_AU... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: 7.4 - 8.2

2011-12-22 Thread Polytropon
for this situation. It should be similarly easy to achieve with portupgrade. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: LOCALE issue: Pysycache errors on run

2011-12-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:57:28 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 12/22/11 23:20, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:13:53 +1000, Da Rock wrote: %env LANG=en_EN.ISO8859-1 pysycache.py ^^ Isn't that supposed to be en_US or en_GB? I'm not sure if there's also en_AU

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