On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 07:14:12PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
guys,
sound-juicer used to let me transfer one to some N tracks of my
OLD favorites. no mo'. or | unless i'm mouse clicking the wrong
place. what it the audio utility of choice these days for
freebsd?
Use audio/cdparanoia for
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:59:20AM +0300, Anas Matar wrote:
Dear Sir,
Can I use your great product FreeBSD as a proxy to translate POP3
requests to POP3s?
My problem is simply that I have a software which does not support other
than POP3 connections for mail servers , and im in need
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 06:37:49PM +0200, SmartTech Sales wrote:
Thanks Jerry
I had a reply that I should rather use 8.0 and there I can only download
disk1, the rest I can get from the ports collection. (I'm not sure that I
can download all 2GB of the DVD successfully, our bandwidth in SA
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:35:08AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl writes:
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:46:57PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
2010/5/11 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl:
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:40PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
Thanks for all
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:40PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
Thanks for all your answers.
mark...@melon ~ $ sudo tunefs -p /dev/ad0s1f
snip
tunefs: volume label: (-L) usr
It's weird, as you can see the label is set but nothing in /dev/label,
/dev/ufs,
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:26:35PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 10 22:25:31 2010
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 17:35:45 -0800
From: David Allen the.real.david.al...@gmail.com
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: md5(1) and cal(1)
1.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:46:57PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
2010/5/11 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl:
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:40PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
Thanks for all your answers.
mark...@melon ~ $ sudo tunefs -p /dev/ad0s1f
snip
tunefs: volume label: (-L
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:26:18PM +0200, Demelier David wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to follow this guide to make labels :
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-glabel.html
It does not work here, I boot single user and ran these commands :
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:36:20PM +0200, Demelier David wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:08:30PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:26:18PM +0200, Demelier David wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to follow this guide to make labels :
http://www.freebsd.org/doc
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 06:17:34PM +0400, Oleg Lutchenko wrote:
Hello!
Is there any regular way to synchronize installed packages in the farm of
FreeBSD servers quickly.
Forget packages. Here is wat I do to keep the ports on a couple of machines in
sync.
- Ports are built and installed on a
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 03:09:02PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Warren Block wrote:
For the sake of completeness: devd has to be restarted after changes to
devd.conf, and the code above is only executed when the scanner is
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:50:04PM +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
Hi,
I have a flatbed scanner (a HP ScanJet 4400c) that works with SANE (and
Xsane), but only as root and I want to access it as user. After some
googling and reading the handbook I copied the default file
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:00:40PM +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Roland Smith wrote:
Are the permissions correct? Check with 'ls -l /dev/usb/ /dev/ugen*'.
Is your user-id in the usb group? Check by running 'id' as the normal user.
If all that is in order, remove
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:26:16PM +0200, Demelier David wrote:
Hi freebsd-questions@,
I made some encryption on my USB mass storage, so I wanted to know if we
can
geli {attach,detach} as user ? Since we can mount devices as user it would
be
great for geli too.
It seems that
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:25:38AM +, Rom Albuquerque wrote:
Hi folks. Can anyone recommend a laptop compatible with FreeBSD that
doesn't require too much gymnastic to install the base system, KDE and
OpenOffice.. ?
My advice would be to take a FreeBSD liveCD to a store and ask if
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 06:08:49PM +0300, Dan Naumov wrote:
I think I am reaching the point where I want to have some kind of sane
and easy to use version/revision control software for my various
personal files and small projects. We are talking about varied kind of
data, ranging from binary
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:34:59PM -0800, jt wrote:
I've been doing searches for online schools that teach FreeBSD. I've been
trying to learn on an off for years but when it starts getting complicated,
I get stuck. The handbook don't do allot of good.
Check out
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:02:10AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
Wait a second. What do I have to do, mount single user to find the
darn things? They have completely disappeared, not even a
'GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/482b3a7c20b36d8c removed' in dmesg! (thought
I was previously seeing that on
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:35:30PM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote:
Hi,
I need to modify a file from a port before building. Specifically, the
sane-backends pnm.c driver has a bug and the folks at the original
project has not fixed for a while. I need to modify pnm.c in the work
directory
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:21:27PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:02:10AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
Wait a second. What do I have to do, mount single user to find the
darn things? They have
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 05:06:30PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote:
Is there any facility in FreeBSD for generating a random hostname? We have a
template with a fixed hostname that has to be changed after the template is
closed. It would be useful to have a hostname generated randomly.
For random
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:47:35AM +0800, Aiza wrote:
Chris Hill wrote:
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Aiza wrote:
[snip]
tried cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=acd0 blank=fast
gives this error Open by devname not supported on this OS.
What device am i to use?
cdrecord wants to see your ATA
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:16:45AM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
Short:
--
Why do compose key sequences fail to work in a UTF-8 xterm?
The port x11/rxvt-unicode is lighter on resources then xterm, and works fine
with utf-8. (with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 set)
Roland
--
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 01:43:27PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
Roland Smith:
Why do compose key sequences fail to work in a UTF-8 xterm?
The port x11/rxvt-unicode is lighter on resources then xterm, and works fine
with utf-8. (with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 set
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:31:50AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
I'm seeing this in my dmesg:
GEOM: ad0s1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s).
AFAICT, you can ignore this. There have been previous discussions of this on
the mailing list.
I'm guessing I screwed up tunefs -L,
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:08:05PM -0500, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
ie: This machine has a lot going on .. wiki's (ie: apache et al),
mysql databases, mailing lists, and a dozen hand rolled applications.
(Hey, someone has to write custom emulators of ancient systems to keep
BBSes alive,
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 09:27:48AM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
I'm trying to mount a floppy image following the instructions on:
http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/beginners/mdconfig_mount_images
To mount a floppy image, create a virtual
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
On Mon 25 Jan 2010 at 03:14:42 PST Dan Naumov wrote:
Not to steal your discussion thread, but I thought I'd ask (and you'd
perhaps too be interested) what's the status of FreeBSD on these 2:
Supermicro X7SPA-H:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 05:31:53AM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote:
Thanks, this probably wouldn't be such an issue if I hadn't thrown away
the box two-three weeks ago (at least, I think I threw it out; I've had
the card for about a two years).
no...@pci0:2:2:0: class 0x2
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:14:01PM -0600, John wrote:
The GENERIC 8.0 kernel and the kernel I built for my new FreeBSD 8.0
system both contain
options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4
yet, when I try to run a program compiled on the FreeBSD 4.3 system on
the new
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:04:21PM -0800, fpineda wrote:
Hi!
I like to know how can I optimize the execution about periodic daily. I know
periodic execute is a set of scripts, but I have some problems with a
sepecific script: 450.status-security.
When this script is running by
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:16:53PM -0600, LoH wrote:
I've got a system currently running FreeBSD-i386-8.0, and was wondering
whether or not it's possible to move the system to FreeBSD-amd64-8.0
without bringing it down for more than a reboot or two
It is possible, but not recommended. First
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:08:00AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
Why is that stored in the last sector of the device, rather than in the
key file? What is the purpose of the key file if not to hold that type of
information?
All geom(4) providers use their last sector to store metadata;
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:38:14AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
2) Create the geli device /dev/daXsYP.eli, and then create a label on that,
yielding /dev/label/bar. [not sure what the utility of this is, since the
label will only appear after the geil provider has been attached]
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:25:50AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
It has been a long time since I created those GELI partitions, but I
think I used the geli init -K keyfilename /dev/daXsYP, where P is the
partition identifier in slice Y of drive X. What I did when I screwed the
pooch on
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:31:55AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
I used glabel label to label each of the file systems I have on
external
disk drives. Unfortunately, afterward I am now unable to geli attach any of
the GELI-encrypted file systems. The system is FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE. Is
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:40:01AM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
Can anyone point me to an online or unix utility that decodes utf-16 to
ascii?
Or unicode? My google searches have been nonproductive.
Try uconv(1) from the devel/icu port.
Roland
--
R.F.Smith
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 04:41:24PM -0800, Knight Tiger wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to create a custom ISO image of FreeBSD 6.4. The only
difference between the release ISO and this custom image is a modified
driver (amdsmb.ko). I did not create the new driver. I believe it was
backported from a
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 09:13:00AM -0500, John Almberg wrote:
I am trying to update my ports collection on a new server using cvsup.
I've added a mirror site to my ports-supfile, but keep getting the
following error message:
Have you tried portsnap(8)? I find it much more convenient for
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 06:00:07PM +0800, Paul Shi wrote:
Dear Everyone,
I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at
the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0.
I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned
it with NERO
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:02:51PM +0100, b...@brinckman.info wrote:
Hi,
Just had to buy a new graphics card. Burned the previous
one.
I got myself an ATI Radeon HD4650 with a RV730 chipset.
According to their wiki (http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd) it
should work without any problem with the
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:03:10PM -, Graeme Dargie wrote:
Hi
I have been trying for a day or two to get
/usr/ports/multimedia/handbrake to install on 8.0-Release AMD64, the
port just stops bleating about wanting i386, I did some googling and
found a supposed patch to cure this so it
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 04:16:46PM +0100, beni wrote:
I am running 7.2-stable :
[b...@bsdaddict /usr/home/beni]$ uname -v
FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #3: Mon Oct 5 10:30:23 EDT 2009
k...@pcbsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PCBSD.i386
[b...@bsdaddict /usr/home/beni]$
I'm not sure if this is recent
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 05:24:47PM +0100, beni wrote:
These are the last lines of Xorg.0.log :
(II) RADEONHD: version 1.2.5, built from dist of git branch master, commit
cb54f48b
This driver is probably too old. I don't know if PCBSD has updates?
Else try building Xorg and its drivers from
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 08:25:55PM +0100, beni wrote:
I have posted on http://pastebin.com/m2532af91 my xorg.conf and the
/var/log/Xorg.0.log with the radeonhd driver active.
Copied from Xorg.0.log:
(--) PCI:*(0...@1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x9495)
The version 1.2.5 of the
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:00:38PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0 on my amd64 system attached to an APC
UPS via USB and a RealTek HDA onboard soundcard. I chose 'logo' as the
screensaver during installation, and put snd_hda_load=YES in
/boot/loader.conf and
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:41:04PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
Hi Roland,
many thanks for the response!!! :-)
You're welcome!
I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do..
In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult
to understand!!!
If
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 04:25:08PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
Thanks for the info so far. I have much to learn about LaTeX, that is
certain. To complicate matters, the output will be on US Letter,
landscape, multi-column, multi-sided, booklet format. No doubt LaTeX
will handle the
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:06:20AM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
my dll.conf:
Personally, I would only leave in the backends that I actually use.
epkowa.conf
usb 0x04b8 0x0130
That should be OK.
I've created /etc/devfs.rules it was not present!
With the line:
add path 'usb/*' mode
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:25:53PM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
On 2009-12-31 12:04, Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:06:20AM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
my dll.conf:
Personally, I would only leave in the backends that I actually use.
What do you mean?
I only have one
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:27:12PM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
I did a
sane-find-scanner -v -v
device descriptor of 0x04b8/0x0130 at /dev/usb:/dev/ugen7.2 (EPSON
EPSON Scanner)
According to
[http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html#S-EPKOWA],
your scanner requires
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:11:17PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
Yeah, I views the file with od -c; but wouldn't it be much faster
to have the data file part of my test program than having to open,
read, cat thru /dev/dsp each time, close file? I stole the cat
from the KR
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 06:48:56PM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
I'm at the point where sane-find-scanner detects my scanner but
scanimage cannot find it.
I know I must use the sane-epkowa backend.
I've edited the /usr/local/etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf but I think I need to
make sane aware of
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:03:54PM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
When I was running 7.2 I had found a way to make it work.
First I added the product in /sys/dev/usb/usbdevs then the same
information had to be added in /sys/dev/usb/uscanner.c then I had to
recompile the kernel, build and
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:23:40PM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
On 2009-12-30 23:08, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
Today I tried to burn an audio CD. This may actually be the first
time I ever did this.
I'm sure there are all kinds of GUIey tools, but I took the simple
route: expanded a
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:11:50AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
With these changes, only you and the superuser can read that file.
yes, an attacker gaining superuser access is my worry.
I'm reading Garfinkel and Spafford (1996) Practical UNIX internel security
(a bit out of date, I
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 01:27:00PM +0200, Daniel Dawalibi wrote:
Hi
We have installed FreeBSD 7.2 on Sun Server X4140 having the below
controller
Controller Kernel v5.2 build 16732
Adapter Raid Bios V5.2-0 Buil [16732]
STK RAID INT
Each time we power cycle the server, the server may
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:03:53AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
Anton Shterenlikht writes:
I'd be more worried that your password is sent as plaintext over
the network using e.g. POP3. You should use the --ssl option if
your mailserver allows it.
it looks like it doesn't allow
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 01:44:21PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
it doesn't work like that..
I think it's an imap server.
Anyway, I'm trying to get in touch with them.
One of the problems is that the Uni are trying to
implement a system where mail is never downloaded from the
main
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
[...]
What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
# ln -s /usr/home /home
ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
the root partition.
So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:26:42PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
Why not just point your preferred mail client at the imap server?
That way you can access your mail from anywhere (probably via
webmail too) Some imap clients, such as thunderbird and kmail, will
let you store your server
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 09:06:09PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
lot's of different pieces of advice rolling in now!
I guess what I will do as I have a small hard disk for what I want to do
which is to get rid of my music and few movies which are stored on my
laptop currently, is create
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:34:08PM +0100, n dhert wrote:
There have been updates to cups and gutenprint.
I now have # pkg_info | grep guten
gutenprint-base-5.2.4 GutenPrint Printer Driver
gutenprint-cups-5.2.4 GutenPrint Printer Driver
But an # lpstat -t
shows for my printers:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:15:53PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I use fetchmail
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-fetchmail.html
to download all my mail from the Uni mail
server to my fbsd box.
I typically run it in daemon mode, which requires
having my
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 05:24:32PM +0100, Paul B Mahol wrote:
On 12/25/09, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:29:20 +0100
Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com replied:
Argh, sorry but 7.2 doesnt have NDIS usb support. You need FreeBSD 8.0
I have been reading up on
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:47:49PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
Nothing tactile, and because neither Linux nor BSD has an audio
click, not even that. Sun does have a command line
It should. The X window system provides a way to get keyclicks with
xset(1). The command 'xset c 100'
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 03:00:27PM -0800, Matthew Fleming wrote:
We have a bunch of libraries to support our product and as far as I know
we only link to the shared library version. I'd like to skip the build
of the static version of our libraries to speed up our builds and save
on disk
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 02:23:26PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
It's quite confusing trying to figure out
which card is which. ath(4) only gives
chipsets as AR5210, AR5211, AR5212 and AR5416.
But the manufacturers rarely say which chipsets
their cards are using.
If you are looking at a
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 05:36:19PM +0200, Richard Mace wrote:
I developed a small molecular dynamics simulation under Linux some time ago.
Since recently moving to FreeBSD I thought that I'd try to get it running
here, too.
However, although I am able to get the code to build, it dumps
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:06:47PM +0200, Richard Mace wrote:
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 18:28:07 you wrote:
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 05:36:19PM +0200, Richard Mace wrote:
I developed a small molecular dynamics simulation under Linux some time
ago. Since recently moving to FreeBSD I
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:50:19PM +0200, Richard Mace wrote:
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 19:31:31 you wrote:
What version of the nvidia driver are you using?
The one in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173. I have to use this for the aging
FX 5200.
Have a look at the
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:57:57PM +0200, Richard Mace wrote:
In the end, as a last resort, I de-installed the nvidia driver and started X
with an empty /etc/X11/xorg.conf (which presumably loads the nv driver). I
re-built my code and it runs, albeit without the smoothest of graphics.
On a
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 01:22:50PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I seem to have a very slow network connection at work.
All local switches are supposed to be gigabit, and my
network card is gigabit as well. But download speed
seems to be much lower.
Are we talking download from the
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:40:48PM -0700, Modulok wrote:
Just a suggestion:
In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note
that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete?
Something like:
fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8). fdisk may not work
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 04:13:09PM +, Jamie Griffin wrote:
The handbook suggests the command:
# pciconf -lv
On my system, this command does print out information for quite a few
components, I just wondered if this information is all I need to work
from or is it not an accurate or
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:03:50AM +0100, n dhert wrote:
I want to clone a FreeBSD system on another system.
Say, Mondaymorning I use the dump(8) to make dumpfiles of all filesystems
(dumpofroot.dmp, dumpofvar.dmp, ...tmp.dmp, ...usr.dmp, ...home.dmp ) on an
external USB disk.
Dumping /tmp
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:35:29PM +, Mike Woods wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:51:28AM -0500, stan wrote:
I need to support 5 RS-232 streams with my FreeBSD 7.2 machine. I just
purchased UTS-408A-S1 8 port adapter. When I plug it in, I get the
following
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:29:54PM +0100, bsd wrote:
Hello,
I have been provided with a 1To backup space by my hosting company…
unfortunately It is only accessible by FTP which does not allow me to do the
regular backup / restore I use to do using RSYNC.
What are the options I have in
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:00:26PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote:
DNS config is flaud:
# host thought.org
thought.org mail is handled by 10 aristotle.thought.org.
# host aristotle.thought.org
Host aristotle.thought.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
I get something else;
# host thought.org
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:55:54PM +0100, bsd wrote:
Are there any specific scripting tools that I could use in order to achieve
that ?
Well, /bin/sh and 'man sh' spring to mind. :-) Or use another scripting
language if you are more familiar with that, e.g. perl or python. But since
you are
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:51:28AM -0500, stan wrote:
I need to support 5 RS-232 streams with my FreeBSD 7.2 machine. I just
purchased UTS-408A-S1 8 port adapter. When I plug it in, I get the
following in dmesg:
uhub3: vendor 0x0409 product 0x005a, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on
uhub1
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:50:04PM -0800, Doug Sampson wrote:
Does anyone have had positive or negative experience using these USB-based
DAT tape drives? Specifically, I am looking at the HP (Hewlett-Packard)
StorageWorks Q1581SB DAT 160 Tape Drive. If there are other branded USB
2.0-based
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:39:03AM +0200, David Naylor wrote:
snip
Also, is there anyway to detect if there are hardware without drivers (such
as
a sound card without any snd_ loaded) and to detect the type of device (e.g.
network, usb, sound, graphics)?
pciconf -lv|less
Every device name
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 04:25:46PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
Is there any way to mount webdav into the file system (like on OS-x
or fuse-dav)?
Have a look at the sysutils/fusefs-wdfs port. :-)
Roland
--
R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
[plain text
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:09:48PM -0800, Robert wrote:
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:56:53 +0100
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Now that my desktop and laptop are both running 8.0, I build ports on
my (faster) desktop, and then rsync /usr/local to the laptop. Works
fine. Of course my
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:05:47PM +, Ricardo Jesus wrote:
Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
I am just trying to find out if theres an easier way to do this.
currently to get wireless to work on my system, i have to clone the
wireless interface to a wlan0 interface to actually do any
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:39:59PM -0500, APseudoUtopia wrote:
Hello,
I'm working on editing the kernel configuration file for a custom
kernel. The system will be running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1. I'm
wondering about the use of the COMPAT options in the kernel config.
COMPAT_43
Well,
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:40:58PM -0600, Richard Kolkovich wrote:
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 08:42:30AM +0100, n dhert wrote:
In my nightly portupgrade I got, while upgrading print/cups-client :
...
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/crt1.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when
making
a
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:49:32AM +, John wrote:
Looks like I had to learn the hard way. portmanager won't fix it all.
Been there, done that. :-)
I think this problem is just too complex when updating between major versions,
for several reasons. First of all being that the port
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:43:07PM +0100, Philipp Lengemann wrote:
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schrieb Gary Kline kl...@thought.org:
How do I build tarballs of packages that usually wind up in
/usr/ports/packages?
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:46:01PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Andreas Rudisch wrote:
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:35:55 +0100
herbert langhans herbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote:
Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous MS-thing,
there is a simple window.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:43:15PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
But as you mentioned they do not come with optical drive bays, but with
with 4/8/16 gig flash drives no one really cares-
do you mean what i know as thumb drives? stick-like thing
you just plug in? i've never used
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:40:25PM +, John wrote:
Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main
machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will
be easier to make portmanager rebuild everything in pristine mode. It
will take a long time,
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:57:27PM +0100, Olivier GARNIER wrote:
Hi,
I have an usb weather station (oregon wmr100).
It's an usb device only.
I want to be able to get data from it (T°, H°, wind, ...)
This machine probably only comes with windoze software? If you don't know the
protocol for
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:41:31PM +0100, Olivier GARNIER wrote:
Roland Smith a écrit :
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:57:27PM +0100, Olivier GARNIER wrote:
Hi,
I have an usb weather station (oregon wmr100).
It's an usb device only.
I want to be able to get data from it (T°, H°, wind
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:04:03PM +0100, n dhert wrote:
I want to move the contents of a freebsd72 system entirely to different
hardware (also Intel 64-bit), using dump/restore
If you are running a custom kernel, check that all the drivers for the new
hardware are in there! Or switch to the
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:43:04AM -0800, Dánielisz László wrote:
Hello,
My computer get starts to reboot all the time I do a higher hdd use (like:
fsck, copying more GB of data). I was sure that my power supply its not
enough so I changed it (300W-450W), now it does the same. I'm looking
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 06:39:15PM -0500, David Jackson wrote:
I have a USB hard drive. Whenever I open two programs which utilise the
USB hard drive simultaneously, these programs, i assume when they
attempt to write to the hard drive lock up due to what i suspect must be
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This
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:14:10PM -0800, Dánielisz László wrote:
Roland,
I installed mbmon, it looks like its a great application, but I have a
question, I google it and I
found no answers yet.
With mbmon -r what values do you get? I figured out some but the rest I
have no idea for
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:06:55PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In one of my systems, I've got a Seagate SATA 500GB drive (ST3500320AS)
which is actually not very old... purchased 12/11/2008.
snip
same single block. Here's the relevant lines from /var/log/messages:
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