On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:05:53PM -0700, Modulok wrote:
On 1/17/11, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alokat wrote:
Hi,
is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a
freebsd installation. Or do I have to do
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:42:37PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
Something I'm missing here? A fix would be nice, I should be used to it
though- ImageMagick _always_ has issues for me. I just thought it'd be
nice to get it updated for once- it looked so close :)
I'm getting
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 08:32:12AM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
I'm looking for a description on how to make the switching between
monitors work. In my case it's the key combination Fn + F8 on a Dell
Latitude E6500.
Try xrandr(1) instead. That should work even if you're not booting with the
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:06:31AM -0200, itpr0 wrote:
Hi list,
We are using postfix with system user authentication, I have to completely
remove an user for the system so he couldn't auth to send e-mails.
Some coworkers told to just remove the lines from /etc/passwd and
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:51:41PM +, Bruce Cran wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:03:02 -0600
Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote:
It's FAT32, so I'd try...
mount_msdosfs /dev/ugen2.2
You can't mount ugen devices! It seems umass hasn't attached so I guess
the camera might use
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:08:33PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote:
The GEOM_ELI class provides optional authentication/checksumming. See
geli(8),
especially the -a option.
snip
im not sure on whether that you be a viable replacement, as it has to be
a fairly good checksum
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:44:29PM +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote:
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:08:33PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
wrote:
But it's still not capable of true forward-error-correction. If we
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:30:16PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
Having said all that it really depends on whether you need the extra
features of zfs. Personally I cant see how anyone with any important data
can do without checksuming.
I guess that depends on what you're doing with the data
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 11:47:16PM +1100, David N wrote:
Hi,
I have multiple jails using ezjails, approx 20.
snip
Does anyone have any other ways to quickly upgrade multiple jails or
even multiple boxes?
If you don't mind that all 20 boxes have the same software installed;
1) Use one box
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:30:01AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
One thing that Linux misses--or seems to--is all the conversion
programs that go from one format to another. I _was_ able to use
abiread to get a PDF text into an obscure HTML, but hundreds of
paragraphs get broken up. So: is
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:36:16AM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
Hello folks;
I have a USB remote
(http://www.ortek.com/upimg/200732111364392163.jpg). It's an auvisio
VRC-1100 Ro, there is no much information on it. It's recognized as a
simple keyboard and mouse.
The buttons sends some
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 05:14:57PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
Colleagues,
The geli(8) man page suggests initializing a geli provider with a
random keyfile (geli init -K). It also asks for a passphrase by default.
What happens if a provider is initialized without the -K option, just
with
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:12:34PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
What can I try for the multimedia keys ?
Try using usbhidctl(1) to see if the multimedia keys generate data. In the
file
/usr/share/misc/usb_hid_usages you can find some possible actions.
If you have found the values
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:36:49PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
2010/10/24 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl:
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:12:34PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
What can I try for the multimedia keys ?
Try using usbhidctl(1) to see if the multimedia keys generate data
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:01:25PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
2010/10/24 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl:
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:36:49PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
2010/10/24 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl:
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:12:34PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
What can I
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:19:25PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
What can I try for the multimedia keys ?
Try using usbhidctl(1) to see if the multimedia keys generate
data. In the file
/usr/share/misc/usb_hid_usages you can find some possible actions.
If you
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:24:35PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
I don't think this is OS-specific, but this morning I *wasted* a few
hours trying to watch a DVD of Dr. Strangelove. I tried to dd the
iso into /usr/tmp, but that errored out too.
Try mplayer dvd://1 -v -dumpstream -dumpfile
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:20:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:00:17AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:30:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
I tried my first minor build of an unusual program [that only a
CLI geek like me would use]. But can't
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:30:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
I tried my first minor build of an unusual program [that only a
CLI geek like me would use]. But can't find the mkmf that I've
used for years. I haven't found anything comparable in the
Linux world. Has
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:39:59AM -0400, Jud wrote:
Here's an excellent place to start your research:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook
I've got a 13 MacBook Pro, version 5,5 specifically, with an Intel Core
2 Duo CPU and 4GB RAM (and a 256GB SSD, though I'm reasonably sure
that's
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 03:04:45PM -0800, David Allen wrote:
Multiple Machines
This is sort of a best practices kind of question so all comments are
welcome. I'm wondering what folks are doing when setting up multiple
(more than 1, but less than 10) machines.
Consider, for example, some
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 06:29:17PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
Question: what is best used to have an up2date ports collection nowadays?
This system is FreeBSD8/amd64.
IMO if you don't mind compiling your own ports, use portsnap and
portmaster. The sequence is like this;
1) Run `portsnap
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:10:56PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:45:54AM +0100, Chabane HEMDANI wrote:
I'm computer science teacher at university of Tizi-ouzou in Algeria. I'm
using FreeBSD since 2007 when I discover it by chance when searching in
the Web something
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:45:48AM +0100, David Southwell wrote:
Hi
One of our freebsd systems is a user terminal with desktop. We have constant
difficulties with web browsing on that platform. Here is the data
1. INFO:
System:
freebsd 7.2-RELEASE-p3 - GENERIC amd64
Desktop:
kde4.5.1
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 05:09:20PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be
able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find
that there, but no luck. Before I spend hours sifting through, still
without knowing
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:40:01PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
Sorry I made a mistake while I was writing. In fact there is the
permissions in the jail :
mark...@orange ~ $ sudo jexec 1 tcsh
# su -
People# ls -l /dev/pts/*
crw--w 1 zazak tty0, 118 3 Sep 20:39 /dev/pts/0
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 04:55:52PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
Hello list.
I've upgraded a system from 8.0 to 8.1 and it went well :-)
Followed the portmaster manpage on how to reinstall my ports.
Why?
You only have to re-install all ports when changing between major releases
e.g. 7.x to
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 09:10:10AM +0200, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote:
On 27.08.2010 20:52, Roland Smith wrote:
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:02:18PM +0200, Matias wrote:
Thanks for replying!
I've tried everything you mention here with no success:
The BIOS is pretty basic, just
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:02:18PM +0200, Matias wrote:
Thanks for replying!
I've tried everything you mention here with no success:
The BIOS is pretty basic, just allows to select boot order, set the
date, and not much more than that. No sysctls also.
Some desktop machines have a knob
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:56:57AM +0200, Matias wrote:
Hi,
I've just bought a Giada i20 mini-pc for my home server. I've managed to
slow down the cpu speed with powerd, but the fan keeps running at a
(what seems to me) too high speed.
snip
Do you know if there is anything I can do on
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:25:34AM +0100, Garry wrote:
This is a conversation held on a UK group page, can you confirm or deny this
as twaddle.
Mac OS X is basically BSD that's been appleised (serious vendor lock-in),
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X#History and
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:20:35AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote:
One of the common discussions of different OSes are their own
implementations of the TCP/IP stack. Most of the authors seem to agree
that while different OSes have their pros and cons, most seem to agree
that in terms of pure, network
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:48:50PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:35:57 +0200
Svein Skogen sv...@stillbilde.net wrote:
Anybody else seem to get these header-falsified messages lately:
I think anyone who posts to freebsd-questions is probably getting them.
I contacted
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 04:13:17PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 06:37:36AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote:
On 8/20/2010 7:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 06:45:11PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Gary
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:14:58PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:17:00 +0200
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
For future reference; you should never edit files in /etc/ directly.
If you want ot edit files in /etc or /usr/local/etc, first copy them
to a directory
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:29:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
no X11, but i do need it.
is there a way of getting, say, [c]twm configured remotely?
I don't think you have to. You just have to tell the X programs you want to
run on the server to connect to the X server on the
Dear Sir/Madam,
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it to.
For more information on our business please click on the following
link:
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it to.
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 01:01:08AM -0400, Derek Schwartz wrote:
Hey, I'm trying to install the latest release of FreeBSD on my Dell
Desktop, the computer originally had windows XP, but then the hard
drive was wiped clean.
I tried reconfiguring the geometry of the hard drive by using my Linux
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:54:53AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
i am not planning on watching a movie that is on a DVD-RW but
via [say] kmplayer via video stream. and rather than the std
'movie-length' of 120 minutes, an hour or less streamed by PBS.
with my 2.4ghz
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:07:51PM +0300, EforeZZ wrote:
I edited my 50Kb /etc/rc.conf, loaded a driver and got a kernel panic!!
After reboot my /etc/rc.conf is 0 bytes (after automatic background fsck).
Which tool should I try now to restore any version of my rc.conf?..
The programs from
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote:
I have a local box that downloads all my mail (~8 accounts) via fetchmail.
It's processed by sendmail/procmail and sorted into Maildir folder.
From there I retrieved via courier-imap (ssl) in Thunderbird.
This has worked well,
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 07:32:38PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:08:41 +0200
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl articulated:
Also anything special I need to do to uninstall or get rid of
sendmail on my system?
Put the following in /etc/rc.conf;
sendmail_enable
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it to.
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:24:27PM +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote:
Hi all,
I am unable to control my laptop's lid. Whenever I close the lid the
system enters a weird state and I have to reboot.
Are you sure you need to? My laptop automatically switches of the screen when
the lid is closed.
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:06:12AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
On 16-8-2010 20:14, Roland Smith wrote:
It could be that newfs is overwriting the partition table.
Can you post the output of 'gpart showdevice' and 'bsdlabeldevices1'?
westmark# gpart show ad8
= 63 976773105 ad8
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35:58AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 04:49 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote:
My 500Gb drives won't however. they keep on giving cg); bad magic number.
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:23:00AM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
Hi,
I enabled `device snp' in my kernel config file and with this I can
use the command watch(8) to see any tty device attached. For example :
# watch ttyv0
Give me the output of the console.
But in jails, it's not the
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 08:22:50AM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote:
Am using an ASUS MB which contains the subject driver, more specifically
rlphy.
Haven't found any support for this driver in FBSD-7.3. Has anyone else
solved this issue?
Read the rl(4) manual page. For this chip you need to have
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:09:23AM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
Does /dev/pts/0 actually exist in the jail's devfs instance, and are its
permissions correct?
(In jail) :
# ls -l /dev/pts/*
crw--w 1 markand tty0, 94 17 Aug 00:06 /people/dev/pts/0
crw--w 1 markand tty
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:35:11PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
My 1Tb sata2 drives work very well with FreeBSD. They can be sliced,
partitioned and newfs can be run.
However, no matter what I try (sysinstall, gpart) when I slice my 500Gb
drive and create a partition in it (1 block
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 04:44:19PM -0500, ajtiM wrote:
GNASH doesn't works for me anymore (FreeBSD 8.0, KDE 4.4.5, Firefox, Opera,
Konqueror).
Shouldn't you then investigate why not? It works fine here [FreeBSD
8.1-RELEASE amd64, firefox] (at least for youtube).
Try deleting the gnash port
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:59:20PM +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote:
Hi all,
Now that OpenSolaris is dead [1] I was wondering what the status of Java
is in FreeBSD.
[1] http://sstallion.blogspot.com/2010/08/opensolaris-is-dead.html
IMO the status of Java is best to avoid it. Just ask Google.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:58:01PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:57, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:59:20PM +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote:
Hi all,
Now that OpenSolaris is dead [1] I was wondering what the status of Java
is in FreeBSD
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:01:24AM +, Brice ERRANDONEA wrote:
Hello,
I've just created my first FreeBSD jail in order to install a web server
inside. But I don't know how to connect it to the web. When I try pinging a
http website, it doesn't work. Of course, it works when I do it from
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:37:42PM +0200, Victor Ophof wrote:
Its better to enable,
but AD4 can get renamed to ada0
I think you should change can to will. :-)
but it's easy to fix
you just need to edit the /etc/fstab to point to the newly named drives ..
Do this _before_ rebooting!
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 03:23:29PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
If you're in single user mode mount -uw / will make / (and thus
/etc/fstab) writable, although your choice of editors is restricted to
/bin/ed and /rescue/{ex,vi}.
Of course I tried that, and it did _not_ work! I'm not sure why,
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 05:22:47PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 August 2010 14:00, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote:
hi there,
chflags(1) mentions that a few utilities including pax(1) aren't chflags
aware yet. is there a list of all those utilties available somewhere?
snip
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:59:50AM +0400, Anonymous wrote:
AFIK, pax is a POSIX thing, and as such working
correctly or sanely would violate its posix nature.
(POSIX is an anagram of Pox? Si!)
Is cpio chflags-aware?
To the best of my knowledge the _only_ way to be sure you have
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 03:38:03PM -0700, Chris Maness wrote:
I have had two spontaneous reboots since I have began using
virtualbox. I have never had the issue before. I just upgraded to
8.1 yesterday, so I will see if it happens again.
Has anyone else had crashes/reboots running these
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote:
I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome
libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are
nice)
xterm does display some things correctly (like sysinstall type command
line GUIs).
Try
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:06:37PM +0200, thc wrote:
Hello
I have a concern with the deployment of FreeBSD 8.1.
I usually compile on a server and deploy the result by NFS.
It works fine with FreeBSD 6 and 7, but curiously,
I just can not get the same result with FreeBSD 8.1 (or with 8.0).
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 06:03:03PM -0700, Bill Tillman wrote:
I will give the drivers on the CD the once over as you suggest. I'm curious
about the touch command you recommend. By that do you mean I should
# touch /dev/da0s1
This one, I think.
Doing a 'camcontrol rescan' might also help.
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:26:23AM +0200, Kenny du Toit wrote:
Hi there
I would like to install FReebsd with a raid controller card. Can you tell me
if these two cards are supported:
1. Intel RAID Controller SRCSASRB
This should work with the mfi(4) driver, since it uses a 'LSI Logic
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 08:40:52AM -0700, Joshua Coats wrote:
I've been experimenting with a FreeBSD 8.1 build, booting with a root in
zfs, but I've found a problem with the kernel: using the generic kernel
works fine, but this particular server needs ipsec enabled, and the
kernel I built
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 07:28:24AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
I have been having problems with several different programs lately.
Would there be any serious drawback to simply setting: WITH_DEBUG=
in the /etc/make.conf file to force everything I build/rebuild to be
built with debug symbols?
No.
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:36:06PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
well.. I get nothing:
% pciconf -lv|grep iwn
%
And if you grep for Intel?
The old Broadcom card had 2 connectors, this
Intel card has 3, so I connected only terminals
1 and 2 to the laptop - there are no other wires.
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 03:07:40PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
The old Broadcom card had 2 connectors, this
Intel card has 3, so I connected only terminals
1 and 2 to the laptop - there are no other wires.
Wires on a built-in wireless? I don't follow you.
sorry, I meant
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:36:58PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
Firefox 3.6.8,1 coredumps on print preview or print. Can anyone else
confirm this? (8.1-stable using lpd.)
I'm using firefox-3.6.8,1 linked with cups-client-1.4.4 on 8.1-RELEASE amd64
using CUPS, and I can preview without
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:18:46AM -0700, Bill Tillman wrote:
I just purchased a setup which will allow me to access IDE and/or SATA
drives through a USB port. Of course I was hoping for it to work with
FreeBSD and in spite of the reviews which said it needed no Windows drivers
as soon as I
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:23:49AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
Hi
I've HP Compaq 6715s laptop. I'm trying
to get wireless working. The laptop has
Intel 4965 4965AGN wireless WiFi PCI-E card 802.11N AGN
which is supported by iwn(4). I compiled iwn support
into the kernel as suggested
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:29:37PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
The Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L has an ICH7, one PATA port, and four SATA
ports. This one now has the latest BIOS, F10.
Is it possible to run AHCI on this motherboard and chipset?
Only some ICH7 chipsets are able to run with AHCI.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:20:57AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm trying to learn how to keep my FreeBSD 8.0 updated (patched with
security updates) the correct (I know that's subjective) way.
snip
To keep my ports up to date, do I simply need to add:
ports-all tag=.
to this file
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:12:36AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote:
Thank you Roland; I didn't know portsnap is part of the base install.
:-)
From a book that I have (Absolute FreeBSD - 2nd Edition), it says
PORTSNAP VS. CSUP
Use either portsnap(8) or csup(1) to update the Ports Collection, but
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:26:48AM +, J. Altman wrote:
I would advise you to use portmaster;
1) portmaster -o lang/perl5.12 lang/perl5.10
2) portmaster p5-
That worked for me.
Hmm...well, I've used portupgrade since 4.3, and have only wondered
if switching is a good
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:43:27PM +0700, John Francis Lee wrote:
Hello,
snip
I'm trying to make an internet language lab for kids here in Chiangrai.
The tool I've found to record their voices over the wire (nanogong)
creates .wav files, but flash and the rest of the world want .mp3 files
to
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:50:12AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
I'm trying to solve a chicken-egg problem.
snip
Is there a reasonable way to build the proper boot/loader file for
an 8.1 boot floppy using a 6.x or 7.x system?
Install 8.1 in an emulator like qemu or virtualbox to create
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:39:14PM +0700, John Francis Lee wrote:
Thanks. I thought I had in knocked with lame, but the recorder I'm
using, a java applet called nonogong from Hong Kong university, uses an
imaADPCM, 4-bit format for its .wav files that lame chokes on. ffmpeg
has no problem! But
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:26:19PM +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
With dm_cryptlvm, i can install a Debian [in sraid1], that has only the
mbr the /boot unencrypted.
So if someone steals the server/hdds, it can't do anything to them.
That's ok.
They can wipe the harddrive and re-sell the
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:20:27PM +, J. Altman wrote:
Greetings...
I am looking at upgrading to 8.1 from 8.0 on an AMD64.
In case you're upgrading from source, do not forget to delete the archivers/xz
port before doing a buildworld, else buildworld will fail.
As you know, Perl is now
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:08:12PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote:
Anh Ky Huynh wrote:
Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry to ask about this since this has been beaten to death many
times, but I *wonder* why FreeBSD does not have TeXLive as default
tex installation?
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 07:51:55PM +, Antonio Olivares wrote:
Dear folks,
Sorry to ask about this since this has been beaten to death many
times, but I *wonder* why FreeBSD does not have TeXLive as default tex
installation?
TeXLive has a _huge_ list of options, and its own
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 07:50:26AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote:
I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD 8.0 server to run Apache that will be
facing the nasty and unforgiving WWW.
I have several good books on Apache that describe how to set up the
jail, when I came across several websites that reference
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
How can I slow down dd?
Play with the block size parameter (bs). Smaller block sizes means more
reads. The default is 512 bytes, which is very small.
I don't want to slow down the pc, when generating a big file [~40
GByte].
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:03:38PM -1000, Gary Dunn wrote:
Is there a file that associates drivers with USB device information?
More specifically, how does a USB mouse get assigned to the ums driver?
This is for FreeBSD 8.0, if it matters.
When queried on connection the mouse identifies itself
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:31:42PM -0400, Ashwin karanth wrote:
hello..
i have slackware installed on my system, and i have freebsd 8
source code downloaded from subversion. i want to port freebsd to the
s3c2410, so please help me the steps which should i follow, i am totally
newbie
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:12:13PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote:
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Michael W. Lucas wrote:
Hi,
I have to store a bunch of PDFs of orders. I'd like to be able to
tag these by customer, date, and a couple of other characteristics,
and then
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:08:34PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
The TeX in ports is outdated and abandoned upstream. Install TeXLive
instead.
yup, there is a tkxmlive port in ports/textproc. more to the
point, i found a slew of texlive stuff hosts on google.
The
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:38:26PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:34:16 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com
wrote:
This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap
me over to the right one.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 11:17:37PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
guys,
esp'ly tex wizards, is there a tex version of georgia? [[i know,
i know, somebody created this typefae for microwit.copr,
everybody favorite company. company, corp, or human being.]]
notwithstanding, i like it for printed
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 08:02:34AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
It seems that building mutt with the devel/ncurses port installed creates
the problem I was experiencing: most colors do not show up in mutt, and
the line-drawing characters are borked. Deinstalling devel/ncurses and
rebuilding
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:32:20PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes:
guys, i just found a truckload of Just Outstanding fonts. at the
CTAN .org site there must be hundreds of these superb serif
typefaces. in my /home/kline/ directory, i have a ~/.fonts
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:16:50PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote:
Is this a
a) PEBKAC
Maybe. I don't know how many ports have actually been tested with gcc 4.6. I'm
guessing the ports build cluster uses the base system compiler or the required
version.
b) freeBSD ports error
Don't think so. It
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 03:42:59PM +0800, Aiza wrote:
Is there a command to rename a directory in place.
Like mv does for a file name.
It works for directories as well.
Roland
--
R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:47:53AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
Dear list,
I've built a system to digitize content from VHS video tapes.
The setting consists of a 2 GHz P4 with a BrookTree based
video grabber card (supported by bktr driver) and a C-Media
sound card (supported by cmi driver).
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:59:56PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
i just tried using portmaster -a -B -d on my server that has many
fewer ports than anywhere else. both here [on tao] and on the
server, portmaster Aborts suddenly after complaining about my
have defined or set WITH_KDE_PHONON
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:03:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
guys,
my wife emptied a bunch of files onto her memory stick; the pc
is not here. i have never used one of these devices before and
want to know how, if it is possible, to read her dos/lose
material from my bsd system. 7.3,
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 01:46:16PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
i hope i'm not stealing this thread but here goes.
i can no longer get my freebsd to play my cd's.
audio-cd. k3b does regonize it in my second optical. i am
trying to transfer it from cd to ~/Music. [[and
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 08:04:58PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
I just installed the package for the audio player audacious and I
discovered that it won't recognize ogg vorbis files. I installed the
audacious-plugins package, but I don't see any vorbis plugins in the
file list, so has it been
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