On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:38:03 +0200
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:04:51 +0400, Arkady Tokaev
tok...@hotmail.com wrote:
While I was trying to update ports I have received message
about absence disk space.It's impossible, I thought.But df
command said:
$ df
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:59:49 -0400
Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote:
nVidia (AMD64) is not supported in 7.x versions of FreeBSD as far as I
know. There was some talk of it being supported in 8.x, but I have
not heard from anyone actually doing so.
The existing driver is 32 bit and will never run
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:10:02 -0700
Chris Stankevitz cstankev...@toyon.com wrote:
Bill Campbell wrote:
The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of
these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit
at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:27:31 -0600
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:15:22PM +0100, RW wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:28:09 +0200 (CEST)
Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote:
Depending on the size of installed RAM, /tmp could also
be a memory disk
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:28:08 -0700 (PDT)
Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote:
The only time I can
really think I'd want /tmp to be in RAM is if I already had too much
RAM for the needs of the box - otherwise, just give me the RAM...
But it wouldn't actually be a ram disk, that's just
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:43:25 -0700 (PDT)
Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Sat, 10/10/09, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
But it wouldn't actually be a ram disk, that's just just a misnomer
that people, who ought to know better, are throwing around. It
would probably
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:28:09 +0200 (CEST)
Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote:
Randi Harper wrote:
/ = 1GB
/var = 2GB
/tmp = 2GB
Depending on the size of installed RAM, /tmp could also
be a memory disk by default.
I don't see why it should depend on the amount of RAM, since
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:43:56 -0700
Chris Stankevitz cstankev...@toyon.com wrote:
The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for
obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and
sysinstall.
Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:08:43 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will
keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:49:47 +0700 (ICT)
Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote:
Hi,
form time to time, there appears some error / warning
messages in console, which say this:
Sep 28 00:13:40 dell kernel: aac0: **Monitor** Battery needs
reconditioning.
What is your
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will
keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately
with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device.
Why?
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:01:18 +0800 (WST)
Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
Hello.
I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq
NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition.
I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in
Issue 124, comes with
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:21:21 -0400
Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote:
IIRC, random_id allows initial TCP sequence numbers to be randomized.
I was a bit sceptical about that because it's inet.ip., not inet.tcp.
From a quick grep of the source it appears to be for setting the ip id,
for ip
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:30:14 -0500
Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello list,
I am trying to use FreeBSD 8 RC1 to setup L2 tunnels via mpd5.
My problem is the pf.conf file is never parsed because ng0 does not
exist yet on startup
ng0 is this case is DSL PPPoE to our local
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:25:04 -0500
Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote:
date -j -f %a %b %d %T %Z %Y `date` +%s f0
date +%s f1
I then compared the outputs of f0 and f1 and they are identical.
What does the long form of this command give us that
date +%s fails to do?
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 18:34:15 -0700
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:56:12AM +0100, RW wrote:
Wouldn't you be better-off just turning-off session management, and
using autostart instead
sounds like a good idea; how do i accomplish
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:51:20 -0500
Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote:
Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual
disk for swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition?
For example, I could do something like this:
mdconfig -a -t swap -f /var/swap0
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 20:08:26 -0500
Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Jerryges...@yahoo.com wrote:
cd /usr/ports/security/gnutls
make deinstall make reinstall make distclean
cd -
make install
--
Jerry
ges...@yahoo.com
The package
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:43:30 -0700
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
i can use grep to find S and grep gives me the file[s] that
have the string. now, is there any easy way of reading that
file, or deleting or otherwise munging that file?
nutshell is that every
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:06:29 -0700
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com wrote:
It's not that setuid shell scripts are really more
inherently insecure than programs written in C.
Actually, absent some careful cooperation between the kernel
and the interpreter
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:54:19 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:35 +0100, Jeronimo Calvo
jeronimocal...@googlemail.com wrote:
As far as i know, using SUID, script must runs with root
permissions... so i shoudnt get Permission denied, what im
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400
John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote:
Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup
partition to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm
guessing not, since Chapter 8 in Absolute FreeBSD says that a
partition is part of a
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:37:09 -0700
Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote:
Then why
can't I do a lookup right after named starts?
Possibly it's a delay in bind being ready or maybe you don't have any
network access - the latter is common with ppp.
By the way, the underlying issue that I'm
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:05:27 -0500
Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM, RWrwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:41:12 -0500
Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote:
STABLE is what it sounds like.
I don't think it is
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:54:37 +
Michal m...@infosec.pl wrote:
Hello,
I've got a Canon digital camera set up and working with gphoto2 via
devfs+devd but it's not elegant/clean enough:
...
Problem with this solution is that it changes owner for all /dev/usb
files i.e. usb, usb0, usb1,
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:41:12 -0500
Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote:
STABLE is what it sounds like.
I don't think it is what it sounds like - STABLE branches are
development branches with stable binary interfaces. It's the security
branches that are intended for production use.
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:10:19 -0400
Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote:
What I'd like to know, is if it's possible to somehow check to see if
there are any GELI 'attach'ed disks on a given system that have not
yet been mounted (or, iow, were umount'd, but were left attached).
#dmesg
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 07:16:15 -0700 (PDT)
Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote:
I thought I'd give freebsd-update a try since I run a GENERIC kernel.
mobius# freebsd-update -s update.freebsd.org fetch
Looking up update.freebsd.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching public key from
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 11:14:10 -0700 (PDT)
Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote:
mobius# dig +short _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org srv
(returns nothing)
This is typically either due either to broken SRV support in DNS, or
the absence of full dns on a private network behind proxies. Perhaps
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:33:38 -0700
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
i'd be interested in Paul's question. it may be that kde3
is sopping up wy to much disc space. only have 6.5g
left
KDE4 makes KDE3 look like Fluxbox.
I can't remember the exact figures on
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:53:05 -0500
Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote:
--On August 6, 2009 7:15:18 PM -0500 Andrew Gould
andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote:
Unless things have changed very recently, KDE4 is in its own
directory folder. This may imply that KDE3 and KDE4 can coexist.
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:12:03 -0500
Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there an increase in usability/benefit to match the increase in
resource consumption? (Please forgive me - I know that's a horribly
subjective question.)
IMO it's less usable in terms of ergonomics, and they
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:14:49 +0100
David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote:
Hi every one
My understanding is that one uses the amd64 for building a kernel for
systems with Intel Quad Core processors.
It is helpful when naming conventions follow a logical strand. I mean
why does freebsd
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:20:50 -0800
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 18:28:52 Modulok wrote:
I wrote a python script which uses /dev/random, and hashes the
output with sha256. I then truncate the output to the desired
length.
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:28:52 -0600
Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
However, wouldn't hashing bytes from /dev/random be quite secure? The
hash function would cover any readily apparent patterns, if they were
found to existed.
That's fine, the only issue is that hex digits lead to long
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:42:22 -0600
Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
As I understand it I would have to double the length of a hashed
password for it to be as secure as an un-hashed one, as each pair of
characters represent one byte. Aye?
I wouldn't put it quite like that, it's the hexadecimal
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:32:54 -0400
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
Meanwhile: how do I get rid of a truckload of old binaries
that I rarely/never use? Most show a list of dependencies that's
about 70 lines long, and I don't want to break things.
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:34:27 -0400
Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote:
Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all
about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing
something...
You could just use apg ...
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:48:44 +0200
Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com wrote:
Hello,
Jerry pisze:
ntpd_enable=YES
ntpd_flags=-g -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid
-f /var/db/ntp.drift
Assuming you are running the system ntpd file, the above are not
really required. They
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:58:05 -0400
PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Let's try 3 questions, all related.
1. Which linux emulator is one supposed to use or is this something
that should not be installed and left to be handled as a dependency
by ports?
2. I am trying to install ogle on
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:17:49 +0200
Stefan Miklosovic miklosovic.free...@gmail.com wrote:
hi all
i am going to encrypt my /home directory
which is mounted in /etc/fstab like
/dev/ad0s2f /home ufs rw,noatime
I think that should be /dev/ad0s2f.eli in fstab
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:28:14 -0800
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Friday 24 July 2009 05:52:37 chris scott wrote:
maybe it would be a good idea for ports to have an event log like
yum does on centos. Just a simple log of stuff added, removed, and
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:33:46 +0200
Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote:
Scott Bennett wrote:
This is a curiousity question. I'm running 7.2-STABLE at
present on an old Inspiron XPS, which has a 3.4 GHz P4 Prescott
CPU. I have hyperthreading enabled in the kernel. The question
is:
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:18:37 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote:
There's a catch here that may go unnoticed for a while...
rc.conf may be sourced by /etc/rc *long* before filesystems are
mounted. As a result grep or awk may be not be available and stop
rc.conf from
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:51:57 -0700 (PDT)
Zohreh zohreh...@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam
i have a question about free bsd and squid that was installed on it.
i insatlled squid 2.6 stabled 20 on freebsd 7. and i enabled firewall
on freebsd . now i brows http sites on internet but i cannot
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:00:28 +1200
Jonathan Chen j...@chen.org.nz wrote:
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:50:17PM +0200, dan wrote:
THat's the point !
isnt that -R implied by -N ?
From the portupgrade man page
[...]
-N
--new
Install a new port/package when a specified
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:45:48 +0200
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:49:24PM +, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the
symlink in place of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially
in version 7.2?
1. A
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:46:45 -0400
DJ Lawless jlawless...@aol.com wrote:
Do you need to become a member of freeBSD to get a freeBSD.org email
address?
if yes how do you become a member?
If you have to ask, it's not going to happen.
___
On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:36:33 +0200
Roy Stuivenberg roys1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Sometimes when I send a message with pidgin, or evolution, the
application shuts down.
Is there an option with sysctl, that would prevent this to happen?
sysctl is an interface to the kernel, it doesn't
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:31:41 -0700
Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote:
I know how to use ctorrent to create a torrent file, but how do I
actually seed the resulting file so that others can get it, and how do
I 'register' myself w/ a tracker so that others will know what IP
address
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:15:12 -0500
Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote:
I like M$ Notepad - is there a version of that for FBSD?
Actually, there is. Wine implements it's own version of notepad.
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On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:20:12 +0100
Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote:
RW wrote:
Portmanger does cope with most of the portupgrade -o and
portupgrade -r entries, although sometime it will need to be run
(or rerun) in pristine-mode.
just curious, do you know this because you
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:37:12 +0200
Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote:
You're right, as long as port-knocking as a first pass authentication
scheme is not in wide spread use, then any attackers will not waste
time port-knocking. If ever port-knocking becomes common, attackers
will
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:12:59 +0200
cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote:
It all boils down to this: do you login from a secure machine
or not? Each tool has its own set of uses. When I want to log in
from a public terminal, I prefer OPIE;
OPIE is probably fine in almost all cases, but you may
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:21:21 +0100
Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote:
RW wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100
Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote:
I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using
ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten
about /usr
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100
Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote:
I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using
ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten
about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it
was. I've upgraded ports just by doing
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:09:17 +0200
Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net wrote:
RW wrote:
For the most part you don't, you can just run perl-after-upgrade.
Good suggestion, thanks.
If you are referring to the switch from lang/perl5.8 to
lang/perl5.10, then that's exceptional and optional
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:47:39 +0200
Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net wrote:
Can someone tell me why I have to recompile all related programs when
I upgrade to a newer version of Perl?
For the most part you don't, you can just run perl-after-upgrade.
If you are referring to the switch from
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:26:34 -0400
Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote:
To install the nvidia-driver port a kernel module named nvidia.ko is
compiled. This module requires linux.ko to be loaded first. The
reason is the nvidia-driver itself is a linux binary blob, and
consequently
On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:13:30 -0400
Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote:
The nv can easily be installed along with Xorg. The nvidia driver is
more complex as it relies on the linuxolator to function, so there is
a larger number of dependencies.
I think that's misleading, AFAIK it's
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 21:11:58 -0400 (EDT)
Chuck Bacon c...@cape.com wrote:
Is there a better tool than burncd?
I've used burncd for CD's, but for DVDs I follow the handbook, and have
never had any problems:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100
Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote:
On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote:
I did notice a driver on the nVidia page for FreeBSD x86, version #
185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports
is: 180.44, which has actually
On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:50:34 +0100
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
Momchil Ivanov wrote:
how can I view the second and third screens in top? Is it possible?
Ah, now for that you'ld have to use middle(1) and bottom(1),
Unfortunately no one has written them yet...
On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:19:49 -0400
Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote:
I had the same situation here, and nice(1) wasn't cutting it for me.
I finally switched to idprio(1):
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=idpriosourceid=opensearch
idprio 31 mysqldump .
will run only when
On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:12:50 +0200
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:56:22 Valentin Bud wrote:
2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com
You can use egrep -r * (grep -e) to search for specific text
pattern while you are in a
On Thu, 28 May 2009 07:49:12 +0200
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Thursday 28 May 2009 03:13:46 RW wrote:
On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Using e.g. 'portmaster --clean-distfiles-all' only removes those
On Thu, 28 May 2009 12:24:30 +0100
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2009 07:49:12 +0200
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Thursday 28 May 2009 03:13:46 RW wrote:
On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl
On Thu, 28 May 2009 17:17:38 +0200
cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote:
The following excerpt from:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/relnotes-detailed.html
may be helpful:
[amd64, i386] The FreeBSD virtual memory subsystem now supports
fully transparent use of superpages for
On Thu, 28 May 2009 23:38:46 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
i repeated what i read recently about ICE ON ARCTIC SEA melting that
will flood.
Even knowledge from primary school physics and no single calculation
is enough to prove that water level will not
On Fri, 29 May 2009 00:53:53 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
is enough to prove that water level will not change at all.
Even for you this is a new low.
just another attack? you really can't discuss like a human? I think
you can, but you like behave in
On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Using e.g. 'portmaster --clean-distfiles-all' only removes those
distfiles that do not belong to installed ports.
I've not used it myself, but there is also a shell script called
distviper in bsdadminscripts which
On Wed, 27 May 2009 21:34:58 -0400
Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
RW writes:
Personally I much prefer the less aggressive mode (distclean -D)
which deletes files unreferenced by the ports tree, rather than
unreferenced by installed ports.
I use -DD. With nearly 1000
On Tue, 26 May 2009 19:02:10 +0200
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Or if you have the case of a 'known-plaintext' attack. It happens
more often than you would think:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known-plaintext_attack]
Note that using a random salt would be a good protection against
On Sun, 24 May 2009 22:57:35 -0700
Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote:
and was surprised that doing this to identical files yielded different
results. I then realized openssl enc randomly(?) chooses a salt if
you don't supply one.
I want my backups encrypted, but I also want
On Mon, 25 May 2009 21:00:39 +0200
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Or you can use the -nosalt option. But as explained in
[http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/enc.html], using a random salt by
default is a design decision because: Without the -salt option it is
possible to perform
On Mon, 25 May 2009 23:52:05 +0200
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:06:01PM +0100, RW wrote:
On Mon, 25 May 2009 21:00:39 +0200
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Or you can use the -nosalt option. But as explained in
[http://www.openssl.org/docs
On Thu, 14 May 2009 13:39:17 +0200
marco\.borsati...@poste\.it marco.borsat...@poste.it wrote:
First, thank you.
You are right, qemu has an internal DHCP server, which should be
perfect for me, becuse I would like to emulate a network without any
contact with external (real) world. The
On Mon, 11 May 2009 16:11:08 -0400
Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote:
-Stable is where newer software from -Current (HEAD) is merged
backwards. An example would be a driver bug that was fixed in
8.0-Current would be made available in 7.2-Stable. The main purpose
for using -Stable
On Sat, 09 May 2009 13:05:32 +0200
Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net wrote:
Not that I am that paranoid, but can someone tell me why Perl 5.8 is
not automatically updated to 5.10 thru the ports, but (accordingly by
UPDATING) has to be updated by some manual interaction?
That's the way the port
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:21 -0400
Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
On the other hand, you can just stick with FreeBSD and not bother
with the Lunix stuff and you will get along just fine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:09:09 +0200
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:39:32 Matthew Seaman wrote:
* Don't run 'ntpd -g' as the documentation tells you is the
modern and accepted method. Instead, run 'ntpdate' as a separate
process
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:32 +0200
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote:
The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the
problem entirely, since the real problem is not the step, but the
fact
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:23:14 +0200
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:31:33 RW wrote:
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:32 +0200
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:17:40 -0600
Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
Cryptographically speaking: No, the majority of your data still
exists as magnetic signatures on the physical disk. (Though is not
directly accessible.)
This is a bit misleading, the data in the unwritten disk sectors is
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:55:16 +0200
Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to scroll the screen in console mode? Something like I
do in Linux with Ctrl + Page Up?
I find it specially useful, but I don't know how to do it in FreeBSD.
I'm using FreeBSD
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:19:31 -0400
Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote:
RW wrote:
I picked-up the most recent xorg update a couple of days ago, and
since then X has been failing to start with the binary nvidia
driver, and is leaving the following in Xorg.0.log:
(EE) NVIDIA
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:55:44 +0800 (CST)
makefile makef...@yeah.net wrote:
Every time I run make fetch-recursive,it fetched all the dependence
packages.Not only the package I need to compile. For example,in
the /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel,I run make
fetch-recursive,it will
I picked-up the most recent xorg update a couple of days ago, and
since then X has been failing to start with the binary nvidia driver,
and is leaving the following in Xorg.0.log:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): This video driver ABI is not supported.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Use the -ignoreABI option to override
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:15:54 +0200
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 08:05:11 manish jain wrote:
I am migrating from Linux and am still learning the basics of
FreeBSD. One thing that I would to carry over from my Linux days is
to
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:00:18 +0530
manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote:
As for the reason why I want to force fsck is that it has now
happened 3 timed that, after a clean and proper shutdown - with no
foreign filesystems mounted, FreeBSD has complained on system restart
(twice on a
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:36:32 +0200
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 14:24:11 RW wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:15:54 +0200
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
somebody please point me in the right direction
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:53:43 +0100
Anders Holmström holmstrom.and...@gmail.com wrote:
The current xorg.conf I'm using is listed below. It was generated with
X -configure. I've used many different xorg.confs, but they've all
more or less been using the same settings as below,
I don't know if
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:01:51 +0100
Roy Stuivenberg roys1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm having a problem with Gmail and IPFW.
Gmail is configured in Evolution.
running prerelease 7.2 / stable + Gnome2
When I can't send mail (with attachment), I
have to disable IPFW, and at that point
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:20:38 +0100
Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.net wrote:
Hi,
My WINE was running fine, but while performing a portupgrade I got an
error message. So I decided to remove WINE and reinstall. Now I can't
install it either.
If you ever do that again, make a package
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:55:50 +0800
Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD
containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice.
What is the mount command to use?
Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:21:10 +0100
Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote:
El día Tuesday, March 24, 2009 a las 10:07:14AM +, Bruce Cran
escribió:
The ports tree isn't versioned like /usr/src; 'portsnap fetch' will
always fetch the latest copy from cvs mainline, and the only way to
I see that when I run Spamassassin's sa-compile it generates a bsdpan
package. Is there any way of preventing this?
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On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:39:31 -0500
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote:
RW wrote:
IMO this doesn't make any sense. If portupgrade is failing on a port
where manual make install works, then portupgrade simply has a
bug. Any port upgrading tool belongs in a port, because it's more
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:15:37 -0600 (MDT)
Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote:
At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window
manager.
The XFCE upgrade went smoothly for me, apart from missing icons,
although I don't use it all that much so I may have missed something.
At
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:04:00 -0500
Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote:
But, I wonder what the most efficient way is to update ports. I
appreciate Adam's point about the fact that portupgrade (and
portmanager and portmaster) are ports themselves and are going to not
be as reliable as what is
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