On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 07:11:14PM +0100, Sabine Baer wrote:
Well my problem is mounting my digital camera. If I remember correctly
I did it with
mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /lumix
I think that was under FreeBSD 6.n
But now, upgraded to 7.2, there ist no /dev/da0.
Attached to an iBook with Mac
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:43:31PM +, Bruce Cran wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:23:58 +0100
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Install the smartmontools port, and check the drive with
'smartctl -a /dev/ad4'. If you see a non-zero Reallocated_Sector_Ct,
RMA it immediately
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:16:54AM +, O. Hartmann wrote:
Hello.
Please respond also to my eMail address, since I'm not subscriber of
these lists! Thanks.
Since I utilise a MSI Radeon R4670/512 RV730-based graphics card, I'im
incapable of using either
Support for this chip is still
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:47:47PM -0400, PJ wrote:
I have posted to Xorg, but I find this list most reassuring and
competent ;-)
I have searched the web, followed the instructions in the manual, the
man pages and suggestions on the web.
Nothing, nada. And I see there is a lot of frustration
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 04:21:18PM -0400, PJ wrote:
I also have tried with the monitor in digital mode as well as in
analog... neither works.
Do you mean with a VGA and DVI connector?
It seems to me that the options for flatpanel must be activated... bin
there, done that...
Why?
And that
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 02:34:55PM -0700, Reed Loefgren wrote:
Did you ever run X with hal installed?
No. X always worked fine for me without hal, so I don't see a compelling
reason to use it. I'll keep disabling it as long as I can.
But these days digikam can't talk worth a damn to
my
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:59:51PM -0400, Henry Olyer wrote:
I have a fix for gnuplot;
How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice, I
am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least FBSD
6.1. Earlier than that I don't know.
Gnuplot builds
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:35:54PM -0700, Noah wrote:
Hi there,
I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build from
ports without downloading ports
Not directly.
But you can install pre-built packages instead. The only downside in that
case is that you cannot choose
Yes.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:48:26PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote:
the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows:
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 06:33:40AM -0700, Greg Morell wrote:
Since TrueCrypt doesn't work on FreeBSD, I'm wondering what you'd recommend
for this:
I like to keep all of my sensitive stuff in a few encrypted mountable files.
Something where I can copy the file to a USB key for backup, but
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 05:01:34AM -0400, PJ wrote:
I'm having a bit of a time with the calendar.sh script I found on the
Net; it doesn't display quite correctly.
It should have brackets around the current date, but I can't figure out
what is not functioning correctly:
#!/bin/sh
cal | awk
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:25:12PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
Since certain currently unused devices are not created in /dev
(specifically in my case /dev/fuse*) how do I tell what ever (I can't
tell it is devfs or what) to always make /dev/fuse* (when needed) with
777 perms (the
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:18:46AM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:25:12PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
Since certain currently unused devices are not created in /dev
(specifically in my case /dev/fuse*) how do I tell what ever (I
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:34:21PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
Den 9. okt. 2009 kl. 05.25 skrev Aryeh M. Friedman
aryeh.fried...@gmail.com:
Since certain currently unused devices are not created in /dev
(specifically in
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 03:15:05PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote:
I just compiled a nice, slim kernel on my laptop, but I dont want to carry
all the kernel sources around there.
Keep in mind that some ports (those that contain kernel modules) require the
kernel sources.
On my 7.2-RELEASE-p4
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 10:04:20AM -0400, Vince Sabio wrote:
I need to install zlib (not zlibc), and AFACT it is not included in
ports. When I look at the zlib web site, I see that there are several
(not a lot, but several) dependencies for the installation -- and I
think, OH NO, NOT
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:44:12AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
herbs wrote:
Hi Daemons,
I wonder whats wrong there:
I need to change the permissions from
/dev/speaker 600 to /dev/speaker 666
--all works ok.
Then I reboot the computer and the permissions of the file is back to
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:12:48PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote:
Presently, I have Samba set up on my FreeBSD machines. Windows can
access the shared directories without any problems. I also have Putty
installed on the Windows machines so I can directly access the FreeBSD
boxes when required.
I
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:39:53PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote:
Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two
or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately,
I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD
machines. I can get
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:35:44PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote:
Typically I would be doing this sitting behind one of those machines
with the X window system running and a local terminal and a terminal
running ssh to the other machine open.
I have not experimented with that yet. If needed,
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:06:28PM +0200, Anselm Strauss wrote:
Hi,
anybody knows if it's possible to set BIOS wake up time in FreeBSD. I
have a machine I would like to regularly shutdown and wake up at
different times depending the on the day of week.
The easy and cheap way to
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:17:31PM -0700, jaymax wrote:
Thanks Roland,
smartctl showed disk to be fine!
fls requires a disk image, is there one created by default in FreeBSD 6.0 .
No, you have to create one.
Running fls in directory of deleted files/dir produced
#fls -adr 2
Missing
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:14:59AM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote:
I would like to do a fresh installation of FreeBSD 7.2 and then update
it to the same state as another computer so I can transfer it's
packages and have them in sync with the ports. Is my understanding of
the system correct in that
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 01:34:04PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
It could be that the process is stuck in the 'D' state (uninterruptable
wait).
You can veryfiy that by running 'ps -u' and looking in the eight column when
gnuplot is running.
Does the window with the plot actually
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:40:24PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
The window does appear (just using simple gnuplot plot sin(x), and
the terminal is set to 'wxt', but nothing ever apears in the window.
The wxt terminal is only available when gnuplot is compiled with the
wxWidgets
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:58:14PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
Roland, perhaps you also know the origin of this gnuplot warning:
Could not find/open font when opening font arial,
using internal non-scalable font
From searching the net it appears that gnuplot is not finding
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:41:09PM +, b. f. wrote:
Patrick Gelsema wrote:
If the linux suggestion fails I will try this one.
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do here -- but from what I
saw, the suggestions you are referring to only mentioned different
ways of mounting the iso
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:13:26PM -0300, LuizBCampos wrote:
After I had downloaded 8.0beta4 amd64 and recorded it on DVD on my
Linux, I dont get booting this OS from DVD. I've followed all the info
from man growisofs but it's unable to boot
Can you be somewhat more specific? What is the
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:57:09PM +, Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
Hi folks,
dealing with broken package (virtualbox which is driving me crazy)
I am getting the following error everytime i try to deinstall it, to
make a clean installation from source:
pkg_delete: unable to completely
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:37:34PM -0700, jaymax wrote:
I seemed to have lost some critical dump files during a restore. The
directory in which they were backed up in seemed to vaporize. The data was
present as indicated by df -h but the directory was not listed.
fsck on the disk was
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:38:18AM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote:
Not all of them. My laptop is based on a quite modern cantiga (aka
centrino2) PM45 chipset (from 2008, according to Wikipedia). The function
keys for changing the creen brightness and sound volume work OK with
FreeBSD, even
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:54:39PM +0200, Alexander Best wrote:
Roland Smith schrieb am 2009-09-15:
You can put them in /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc, together with
the X
server.
Roland
thx. could you tell me what exactly i need to put in that file? because i
already tried
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:11:51PM +0100, Graeme Dargie wrote:
I have been trying on and off to set up postgresql for undernets
gnuworld services for ircd.
Now according to the instructions below this should build with tcl
support and you should end up with the following file
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:42:41PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:37:28PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
on ia64 HEAD, gnuplot-4.2.6, any plot command
hangs the program. top shows gnuplot is using 100% of CPU,
yeat CPU time is zero:
PIDUIDTHR
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:52:56PM +, Eitan Adler wrote:
My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys.
How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed?
That depends on a couple of things (assuming you're running the X window
system, I don't know
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:34:29 -0400, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
Roland Smith writes:
My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc
keys. How do I map each of them to run a specific shell
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:27:56PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/12 Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de:
hi there,
since i don't use ipv6 X produces the following warning when starting up:
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:27:12AM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a port on 7.2R that can do general small family
bookkeeping, I am not running gnome or kde, does anyone have any
recommendation? thank you!!
Have a look at finance/gnucash.
Roland
--
R.F.Smith
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:44:10AM -0400, Jim wrote:
First, I hope that you have a good reason for doing this, because it
is going to be a PITA, and prone to all sorts of problems. [...]
Unfortunately I do. The 32 bit stuff is *would be really nice, but not
necessary*, but the ability to
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:49:47AM -0400, Jim wrote:
Also note that it is possible to have an i386 port-building jail on an
amd64 system.
So, make/build/run a normal jail using the 64 bit os world, add -m32
to the make.conf CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, build stuff in the jail, and
copy it to
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:41:24AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to make a copy of a dvd that I have, video, using a technique
that I gleaned from this list nearly two years ago that has always worked
but now I'm having problems. (When I say always, please bear in mind
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:28:44AM -0400, Jim wrote:
I want to compile some 32 bit ports on an AMD64 system. I know the GCC
has to receive the -m32 flag to compile the ports as 32 bit, but I
also want to change the install directory with 32 bit ports, I was
wondering which would be the most
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:38:19AM -0700, Kin Tat Yau wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam
My server is running with FreeBSD i386 4.11 release. Now i want to install
FreeBSD i386 6.1 release.
First of all, do not use 6.1. It is not supported anymore. The current
production release is 7.2, with 8.0 not far
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:21:43AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
In recents months many if not all of my text messages displayed
thru mutt include things like \240 and other octal chars.
anybody know why and how to fix this?
What terminal emulator are you using, and what are
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:09:49PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:21:43AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
In recents months many if not all of my text messages displayed
thru mutt include things like \240
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 03:11:29PM +, Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
snip
updated to STABLE 7.2:
snip
Installed radeonhd from radeonhd:
after this, i edited my /etc/X11/Xorg.conf
editing that line:
[iscariote@ /usr/home/iscariote]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep radeonhd
Driver
radeonhd
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 08:43:26AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
Hi all,
I'm wondering if FreeBSD allows direct access to memory.
Yes, via /dev/(k)mem. Byte offsets in /dev/mem are interpreted as physical
memory adresses. See mem(4). Mind you that only root has access to this
device be
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:46:50PM -0600, Kelly Martin wrote:
plugging the drive in and accessing it, I heard those tell-tale signs
of hard drive failure: clicks and pops and other unusual noises, so I
know that it has some damage. I hate those sounds, having heard them
on failing drives too
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:45:47AM -0400, John Almberg 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 slice, which
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 06:54:25PM +0100, Tony McC wrote:
Hello,
I am running FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3 amd64 and am having trouble syncing my
Palm TX with jpilot. This used to work with 7.2-STABLE amd64 and I
suspect I'm just not using the usb: connection correctly but have not
been able to find
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:13:48PM -0700, George Davidovich wrote:
snip
If the drive is that bad, it is doubtfull if dd or ddrescue will be
able to get a good copy.
Probably true. I hesitate to suggest this, but sticking the drive in a
freezer (preferrably in a ziplock bag) for a few
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:03:58AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:07:41 +0200, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
If the drive is that bad, it is doubtfull if dd or ddrescue will be able to
get a good copy.
There's an additional problem: Let's assume dd creates an 1:1
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:50:28AM -0400, PJ wrote:
PJ wrote:
I am trying to move a 7.2 installation to another computer where it is
to be the only OS acting as a server for the lan.
On bootup I get the message:
Using drive 0, partition 3.
And there it hangs.
Probably because the boot
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 02:33:25PM -0400, PJ wrote:
I'm afraid I was a bit impatient
Patience is a virtue. Installing stuff can take hours, and a split-second can
suffice to screw it all up. Been there done that. :-)
and messed up the already messed up
disk... frankly, I don't recall
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:57:25AM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
Hello all,
I'm setting up a firewall using FreeBSD 7.2 and thought that it may
not be a bad idea to have a continuous backup for important files like
pf and dnsmasq configurations.
snip
My initial thought was to create a
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:29:19PM -0600, Kelly Martin wrote:
I just experienced a hard drive failure on one of my FreeBSD 7.2
production servers with no backup! I am so mad at myself for not
backing up!!
Welcome to the club. :-)
Now it's a salvage operation. Here are the type of errors
I
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:08:00PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote:
I'm running freebsd 7.2p3 and I believe I started seeing the following
messages after the p3 patch.
/etc/rc: WARNING: devfs_set_ruleset: you must specify a ruleset number
/etc/rc: WARNING: devfs_apply_ruleset: you must
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:54:37PM +, Michal 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:
attach 0 {
device-name ugen[0-9]+;
match vendor 0x0123;
match product 0x3210;
match sernum
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:59:32AM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote:
Thanks, I couldn't decipher these GEOM_LABEL messages, nice to know that
I can stop worrying. But for future incidents, the second question remains:
1. How do I best protect my system from disk errors in case of a crash?
One
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:54:51AM -0400, Sabeeh Baig wrote:
So, I've been wondering about something. FreeBSD is a general purpose
operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on
servers. Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop installation,
something
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:30:15AM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote:
Hi:
I woke op to a crash this morning after a powerfailure, and now dmesg
shows this:
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/442f8ac1c0db9af2 removed.
GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad6s1a is
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:00:31PM -0400, PJ wrote:
version 7.2 GENERIC kernel
on bootup,
dmesg shows plip0: WARNING: using obsoleted IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag
Is this significant? Of what?
It means that someone should update this driver. But unless you are using your
parallel port for IP traffic
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:27:42PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
Hello,
Hello, I have two questions:
1. Is it true that I have the choice to run these versions of FreeBSD:
8.0 CURRENT
7.2 RELEASE
7.2 STABLE
7.2 CURRENT
7.1 RELEASE
7.1 STABLE
7.1 CURRENT
7.0 RELEASE
7.0 STABLE
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 05:12:24AM -0700, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
A new issue I found is I can't control screen brightness contrast. This
machine has this control in Windows by clicking the [FN Key]+F6/F7.
Does anyone knows how to enable this in FreeBsd?
If it is not something you can
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 05:53:47PM +0700, Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote:
Dear my friends,
please tell me how I know whether my FreeBSD can run the 3D Accelerator
with my current ATI Radeon 3450 graphic card.
The Radeon 3450 uses a RV620 chip
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:26:56PM -0400, B. Cook wrote:
[/etc/defaults]# 2 grep dumpdev *
rc.conf:dumpdev=AUTO # Device to crashdump to (device name, AUTO,
or NO).
rc.conf:savecore_flags= # Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present.
Those are the defaults. Do you have anything
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ wrote:
I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give
some insight on what is see from this end:
Ok, I've had all night to (subliminally) think about all this and
actually, I am tending more toward problems in FreeBSD...
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:25:21PM -0400, B. Cook wrote:
Here is the full error:
Aug 13 09:29:57 gameface savecore: reboot after panic: ufs_dirbad: /var:
bad dir ino 3485849 at offset 3584: mangled entry
The error causes the machine to keep rebooting on its own over and over
again.
You
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:58:33PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ wrote:
I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give
some insight on what is see from this end:
Ok, I've had all night to (subliminally
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 07:34:49AM -0400, PJ wrote:
I'm actually at the stage of doing the save/copy/transfer or whatever
you can call it: here's what I am thinking and on which I need
clarification.
I ran HDD regenerator and it immediately flagged the very first sector
as being Bad.
Is
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:26:45AM -0700, Joseph Olatt wrote:
It appears that racoon2 has been removed from the ports.
Superseded by: ipsec-tools
Look closely. security/racoon was removed, not security/racoon2!
[/usr/ports]
x...@serenity$ make search name=racoon
Port: racoon2-20071227e_1
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:54:31PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Well, I've been looking at the disk(s) and I have found some interesting
shei**e that doesn't make sense.
1. The fbsd minimal installation that I had set up for recovery of the
previous crash does not boot... Now, why in Hades is that? I
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:24:19PM -0500, Jay Hall wrote:
On Aug 10, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
The fact that you are using tar also plays a part. Tar has some
overhead to
store information about the files it contains.
Is it possible to calculate the amount of overhead
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:21:58AM -0500, Jay Hall wrote:
I am sure there is an easy explanation for this, but I cannot find it.
I am backing up my /etc directory using the following command.
tar -cvf - /etc | dd of=/dev/nsa1 obs=10240
Why are you using dd? Tar was originally built to
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:38:54AM -0400, Identry wrote:
As part of my server recovery operation, I want to split off my mail
server onto it's own server. I've never built a mail server before, so
I'm debating how to go about it.
The old mail server was built with a toaster, and frankly, I
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 06:25:28PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:21:58AM -0500, Jay Hall wrote:
I am sure there is an easy explanation for this, but I cannot find it.
I am backing up my /etc directory using the following command.
tar -cvf - /etc | dd of=/dev
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 11:29:13PM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote:
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:38:25 +0200, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl said:
R At $WORK the Dell computers (both desktops and servers AFAIK) that we
R use are ditched at the first problem after the warranty runs out which
R is after
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 10:41:05PM +1000, Michael Christie wrote:
Hi there all,
I need your help. I have a supermicro server which was running Freebsd 7.1
with 2 SATA drives. I have had G mirror running on the server. I needed to
do a full reinstall of freebsd but was unable to disengage the
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:53:40AM -0400, Identry wrote:
Looks like your hardware is dying/dead.
Sadly, I agree.
snip
I'd get to the point of swapping hardware one at a time until it
fixes, or until you exhaust your options. Have any kind of support
contract with the OEM?
I do have
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 10:12:16AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:38:25 +0200
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:53:40AM -0400, Identry wrote:
Looks like your hardware is dying/dead.
Sadly, I agree.
snip
I'd get to the point
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:08:44AM -0400, Identry wrote:
if not have you tried it?
No. I need to figure out how to do that, and I didn't have enough
brain power last night after doing all those backups.
After sleeping on it, I am wondering if I can kill two birds with one
stone... by
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:25:48AM -0400, Identry wrote:
So I guess the question now is, if I can mount it manually, why
doesn't it mount during the boot process?
I'd give it an fsck or two (more than one has been needed once or
twice)
So I've been thinking about how to run fsck...
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:41:57PM -0400, Identry wrote:
Okay, back in the data center. I ran fsck_ffs -fp on my root file
system and it returned with no errors. It just printed some
information about number of files, used, free space, etc., ending with
the interesting fact of .3%
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:47:58AM -0400, Identry wrote:
Realize that if you upgrade to 7.x, you'll have to remove and reinstall
all ports because the version number of shared system libraries will
have changed.
Yes, I've decided this is way too complicated.
Or would it be safer to
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:19:47AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
Somewhere in *.freebsd.org is a page that lists which ports run
natively on amd64 and what the status is for the others. I've seen it,
I have it bookmarked in a place that is currently unavailable, and I
can't find it by
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 01:35:55PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote:
On 8/6/09, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi. I am attempting to secure some workstations in such a way that a
user would not be able gain full control of the computer (only user
access). However, they are able to see and
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:31:49PM -0400, Identry wrote:
Try downloading and booting the livefs environment (I think you need cd1
and the livefs cd or just the DVD) and see if you can mount it from
that, if not it could be a controller issue. If you can then its
probably your OS/kernel but
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:54:07AM +0100, David Southwell wrote:
I have found http://docs.freebsd.org/info/gcc/gcc.info.Optimize_Options.html.
I am about to build a new kernel am starting to dig a bit deeper into things
I
have, until now, taken for granted.
The above link is very
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:38:20AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:19:23 +0200 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:54:07AM +0100, David Southwell wrote:
I have found
http://docs.freebsd.org/info/gcc/gcc.info.Optimize_Options.html.
I am
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 02:02:05PM +0100, David Southwell wrote:
Additionally, compiler settings for building the kernel can be set with
COPTFLAGS in /etc/make.conf. Using anything other than -O or -O2 is
not guaranteed to work. If you don't know what you are doing, do not use
COPTFLAGS
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:28:52PM -0600, Modulok 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...
It is very easy to generate hard-to-guess semi-random passwords:
openssl rand
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 12:16:56PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
Until late Sunday night I was here at keyboard/computer virtually
24/7 working on thesis. So was my advisor, but then that's his
*job*. Anyway, now it's wait and see.
Good luck!
Meanwhile: how do I get
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:29:23AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
All,
I just purchased one of the units mentioned in the subject line
(http://www.microvision.com/store/ROV-Scanner-p-1.html), and want to
use it under FreeBSD.
According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BarcodeReaders it can
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:46:50PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote:
I have two file systems in very sad shape that I would like
to retrieve some files from. I've net booted the sick box
and can access the two bad UFSs. One file system, the root
file system, isn't too bad off. However, the usr
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:20:27AM +, michael green wrote:
7.2-RELEASE #0. Generic kernel. Full installation from DVD.
I'm trying to install ncurses because I want to run FoxPro Unix, which
expects a terminfo database.
You don't have to install it. It is already installed because it is
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:36:23PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Thanks for replying Roland,
I've been struggling with upgrading 7.0 to 7.2... it has taken a lot of
my time and I am still not happy.
snip
Anyway... back to the messed up 7.1 installation.
I ran livefs 7.1 and chose option 6 (I think; it was
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:12:21PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:20:55PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, PJ wrote:
What can be done to access a file system that seems to have
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:42:43PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Basically, the news is not good.
The directories files are not what I had to begin with.
ls /dev/ad0s1 or any disk/slice merely gets: Permission denied.
Now that is certainly weird. :-) I've never come across something like that.
What do
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:04:47PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I should have said that I'm also interested in
profilers. I have limited experience (in Linux) using gprof and
valgrind.
gprof is part of the base system. Valgrind is available in ports, but
only for the
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:38:30PM -0700, Christopher Chambers wrote:
Hi,
I am able to mount the camera (in 7.1-p6), but I am unable to read the
jpeg images. Varies programs claim that the file is not a valid jpeg.
Can you display it properly on the camera itself? The image could be
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