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 the boot
sector screwed up?
Do you mean the filesystem's superblock? Or the slice table (partitions
in PC parlance) or the freebsd partitions (disk labels)? Because the
boot sector is
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 the boot
sector screwed up?
I forgot to mention that your boot sector is fine. If it were screwed
up
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:33:50PM -0400, PJ wrote:
I have been struggling for about 4 days trying to prepare 2 computers to
update to 7.2 with no success whatsoever.
The more I read the instructions, the less I understand.
And almost nothing works as it should
Some background:
I have been
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:58:19PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
I'm programming a multithreaded scientific program using pthreads and
c++. Currently The model is SMP, but may investigate MMP using MPI in
the future. Can anyone suggest a good debugger and possibly an
associated GUI? (E.g.,
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:36:09AM -0500, Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
Could I know which program print following lines to the /dev/devctl:
!system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=CREATE cdev=pass4
!system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=CREATE cdev=da4
!system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=CREATE cdev=da4s1
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 08:41:28PM -0500, Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
Roland Smith writes:
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:22:16PM +0800, Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
Hi FreeBSD community
This is FreeBSD 7.2 on i386.
sysctl -a | grep dev.umass
dev.umass.1.%desc: Imation
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:02:00AM -0500, Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
Hi FreeBSD community
I have few questions regarding devd configuration:
1. What is the difference between attach or notify and when to use them?
2. What are the possible values for class in attach and detach
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:22:16PM +0800, Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
Hi FreeBSD community
This is FreeBSD 7.2 on i386.
sysctl -a | grep dev.umass
dev.umass.1.%desc: Imation Flash Drive, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 3
dev.umass.1.%driver: umass
dev.umass.1.%location: port=6 interface=0
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:10:58AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:32 AM, kxorrao luizbcam...@gmail.com wrote:
What port of wine should I download in order to play 32bit .exe
files on FreeBSD-7.0 amd64? Linux wine or Wine?
It's not a terribly big port.
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 disk
/dev/camera - /dev/da0s1
devfs.conf(5)
Geneally, yes. But not in
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:32:47AM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
Hi,
I am using portmaster on FreeBSD-7.2 to keep my ports up to date. When
there are multiple ports to be updated, portmaster will fork off child
processes. Does each child start 'make fetch' in the background ?
The fetches
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:05:29PM -0400, Brad Mettee wrote:
If a system is stable and ports are up to date, serving mail web pages as
needed, is there any reason to update from this:
FreeBSD ns1.pchotshots.com 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24
10:35:36 UTC
2008
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:14:17PM +0100, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello.
What's the preferred virtual machine on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE on amd64 if
OpenGL support is required?
Depends on what your definitions of a virtual machine and OpenGl support
are. :-)
All CPU level virtual
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:59:04PM +0100, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 2009-06-29 23:34:08, Roland Smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:14:17PM +0100, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello.
What's the preferred virtual machine on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE on amd64 if
OpenGL
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 02:24:03PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
Have you tried Firefox3.5? It's in ports as www/firefox3-devel.
I just tried Yahoo! and had no problems.
I tried yahoo with firefox3 on 7.2-RELEASE-p2 amd64 without problems.
The problem is not restricted to firefox or
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 07:31:55PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
I traced the problem. It's related to flash. When I disable the
flash plugin, Firefox works smoothly.
I suspect a lot of sites are using a new version of flash, which
doesn't go down well with the existing browsers.
Are you using
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:14:55AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:32:31 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hopefully Polytropon will chime in on this, but I had to install
TeXLive for everything to work.
Ere I am, J. H., the ghost in the machine. :-)
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:00:21AM -0500, Patrick Reich wrote:
One thing to add here is that the ports tree remains tied to
teTeX. If you install TexLive (either from DVD or Romain's)
and then install a port like texmacs, lyx, texmaker, or auctex
to edit your files, you'll pull in teTeX as a
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:27:51PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:21:37AM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Is there a FBSD port of TeXLive?
No, but it's not necessary. Just go here
http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html and download the DVD image.
well..
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:04:22PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
Hi,
is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD
right now?
I don't care if it is native or a layer, geom-ified, fuse-based,
or even if it uses subversion as its backend, as long as it
provides some kind of
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:59:18PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:37:55PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:04:22PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
Hi,
is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD
right now?
I don't care
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:57:34PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
Quite true!
I see even more ambiguity here: What about a versioned file pointed
to by hard links from two versioned directories?
The more I think about it, the more problems I can see. Look e.g. at
symbolic links. Or looking from the
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:31:06AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
you guys aren't going to believe what i just found on the web for
the ASUS Eee-901 [or is it the 900]. it was for the 9- and
10-inch screens. i was using konq which just segv'd so i am
taking a break and
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:11:48PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
Hi,
I have solved most of the problems listed in my previous message with
help from Roland Smith.
The fact still remains that FreeBSD-7.2 has some definite problems on
AMD hardware :
1) On multi-core systems, the cores
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:23:22PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
whatever.
Not so. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_file_system
Most flash devices sold as harddisks have hardware that emulates a
traditional harddisk, representing it as a (P/S)ATA block device. Unless
you can
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:10:41PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:22:19PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 16:07, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote:
For a small unit like this, SSD is really nice.
But, for my workstations/servers, I'm wondering if a
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:54:02PM +, Brad Davison wrote:
I have a 7.2-RELEASE system for audio processing (Ardour, JACK, etc.) running
on a dual Xeon 2.8, 2gb ram
drm0: ATI Radeon X1950 on vgapci0
with xorg7.4_2
xorg-server-1.16.1,1
xfce-4.6.1
I was wondering if I was using the
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 03:18:33PM -0400, Thompson, Rhett wrote:
Is it possible for you to provide us with an updated hardware certified
vendor list for FreeBsd.
There is no such thing, AFAIK. The volunteers who form the FreeBSD
project spend their time improving FreeBSD, not doing formal
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:31:45AM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
Hi Roland,
Looks like nobody at freebsd-questions has any answers for me. Maybe
7.2-x86 doesn't like newish amd hardware. Anyway, here are the
contents of /dev/sndstat :
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 05:08:09PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
Roland Smith:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:11:56PM -0400, Carmel wrote:
This is my first attempt to compile in a driver in a new kernel I am
attempting to build.
Using loader.conf, I have the 'snd_hda' driver presently being
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 07:57:11PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
Roland Smith:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 05:08:09PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
Roland Smith:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:11:56PM -0400, Carmel wrote:
This is my first attempt to compile in a driver in a new kernel I am
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:48:32PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
Roland Smith skrev:
That doesn't help me. snd_hda driver won't load either way. I always
have to load it manualy.
What is the exact error message that you get?
None. No error message.
So the kernel now builds
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:11:56PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
I'm going to reboot now so i get a fresh dmesg. OAU
Good luck.
No luck. I've just rebuilt and installed a new kernel.
No snd_hda is loaded.
testbox# kldload snd_hda
testbox#
This indicates that kldload was able to
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:37:56AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
I'm having trouble making my ucom devices public, following the
handbook (had it working on 7.0, but had a disk crash).
So, should I be using devd.conf or devfs.rules? They sure seem built
to do the same thing to me...
For
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:47:14AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Steve Franksbahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm having trouble making my ucom devices public, following the
handbook (had it working on 7.0, but had a disk crash).
So, should I be using
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:52:06PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote:
Chris Maness wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Greg Larkinglar...@freebsd.org wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Chris Maness wrote:
Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have a mac with a
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:11:56PM -0400, Carmel wrote:
This is my first attempt to compile in a driver in a new kernel I am
attempting to build.
Using loader.conf, I have the 'snd_hda' driver presently being loaded.
I want to compile it directly into the kernel. I tried this:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:38:23AM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote:
Anyway, I can't get past this error and the app developers/users aren't
offering timely help, so if anyone here is interested in debugging a
configure script and helping me get this (nTop 3.3.10) compiled would be
GREATLY
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:53:12PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
Hello list
I've got a CD-R from a friend, (who runs windows) that I cannot mount on
my 7.2-RELEASE system. It's readable in another windows machine.
Other CD and DVD's is no problem but this one is.
The error I get is:
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:43:23PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
Unless I am missing it, I do not see any mention of NO_PROFILE listed
in the examples make.conf file. Has it been depreciated?
It has been moved to src.conf as WITHOUT_PROFILE. See src.conf(5).
Roland
--
R.F.Smith
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:29:28PM +0200, Samuel MartÃn Moro wrote:
Hi all.
I'm trying to format an USB key with mkntfs (I tried with 1.13.1_5 and
2.0.0).
Whatever I do, it never works.
Some of results I got:
(with 2.0.0)
~# mkntfs -F -p 63 -H 255 -S 63 /dev/da0s1
/dev/da0s1 is not a
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is
being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why
make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with implicit C
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:31:11PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
I added the winefish package (LaTeX editor) and installed the
print/latex port. During the installation/building of the latex port,
I received a message that the version being installed was over 5 years
old. When I tried to
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:20:10PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
Running the latex command on a .tex file, I keep getting this error:
xcolor.sty 140 Undefined control
xcolor.sty 140 Emergency stop.
*exit code: 1
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
bf bf20...@yahoo.com writes:
Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done.
Well *porting* TeX Live is certainly not trivial! But
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 09:49:51AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
snip
Winefish works, and latex appears to be installed, but I get errors
using code I know to be flawless. I suspect this relates to
out-of-date latex on my machine.
why not print/teTeX
Because teTeX is unmaintained
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Having trouble mounting the ISO:
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
-f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/
mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied
Regular users don't have read/write
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Having trouble mounting the ISO:
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
-f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:22:22PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote:
I have a laptop and I was looking at the ATT LaptopConnect cards. They
appear to only work with Windows. I do need windows support, but I
insist on FreeBSD support.
According to
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:43:22PM +0300, Azim wrote:
No it need not strictly be an iso. Infact I want a 10 GB file.
I had given GELI encrypted UFS file a thought but I want it to be
mountable from MS-Windows as well.
UFS Explorer mounts UFS Disks but allows one way data xfrer (from UFS to
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:35:31PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:46:15 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote:
Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere?
There is an open source clone in the works: http://www.freevms.net/
No idea of the state it is in.
The OZONE OS
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:41:56AM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
I have e-books in several formats (DOC, LIT, PDF, RTF, HTML, TXT,
etc). Is there a Unix command-line tool that converts between these
formats?
Not a single tool. Although some conversions are possible using
different tools.
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:24:17PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
I haven't looked at the ZFS code but this sort of thing is exactly why
all code I write uses int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, uint8_t, ... even when
the first thing I have to do with a new compiler is to work out the
proper typedefs
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:43:51PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote:
Hi Daemons,
a short question:
I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct?
Sure.
Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such)..
They won't. But they'll have to
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:57:58PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Server 1.5.3 also really wants to configure its input devices
via hald. This is causing some issues with moused and
/dev/sysmouse. There are a couple of options for how to deal
one more question - does it mean that it
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:15:32AM +0200, Pieter Donche wrote:
When doing a portupgrade -a
the port sane-backends-1.0.20_1 gives compilation errors...
What to do with that?
Don't upgrade it, but remove the port with pkg_delete and then compile
and install the newer version.
Upgrading
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:31:25AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
On May 25, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
You could use the -S option and specify a constant salt. It might make
the encrypted materials easier to break, though. You can generate a
random salt with openssl as well
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:39:25AM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
Is there a version/improvment of ispell that:
% Lets you exclude certain sections of a file from spellchecking?
Example: I often email sendmail logs with their random-character
queue ids. I don't want ispell to check those
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:57:35PM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
Are there any secure openssl symmetric encryption routines that
*don't* use a salt?
Is it secure to use a random-but-fixed salt (openssl enc -S salt)?
man enc says This option [-salt] should ALWAYS be used [...]
Reason I ask:
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:39:57PM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
I want to use rsync to backup a large file (say 1G) that changes a
little each day (say 1M), but I also want the ability to re-create
older versions of this file.
I could use --backup, but that would create a 1G file each day, even
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/apps/enc.html], using a random salt by
default is a design decision because
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 02:46:07PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
guys,
one thing i need to do before i submit my 600+ page tell-all novel
is fihure out howto turn *this* into italics in Ooo-3.01. i don't
think any regular publisher world rish this so it;s a roll-you-own.
what i submit in doc
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 05:00:08PM -0300, francis keyes wrote:
I added #include time.h to date .c but still get some errors:
date.c: In function *setthetime*:
date.c:192: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
/tmp/ccZTmvsY.o: In function `netsettime':
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:08:31PM -0300, francis keyes wrote:
I patched date.c and tried to compile but I get a few errors, as you
suspected:
In file included from date.c:59:
vary.h:35: warning: *struct tm* declared inside parameter list
vary.h:35: warning: its scope is only this
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:45:59PM -0300, francis keyes wrote:
Hmm... the date program looks pretty simple but I don't understand the
Makfile:
#@(#)Makefile8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
# $FreeBSD: src/bin/date/Makefile,v 1.11.30.1 2009/04/15 03:14:26 kensmith
Exp $
PROG=date
SRCS=
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 07:53:32AM +0200, marco.borsat...@poste.it wrote:
Hi to all.
I'd like to implement a little virtual network using QEMU 0.10.2, but, until
now, I have failed.
This is the situation.
Host: AMD 64 running FreeBSD 7.2
#ifconfig
nfe0:
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 09:51:25AM +0200, kenneth hatteland wrote:
First of all I`d like to say thank you for putting up with all my
amateur questions. I hope I can be of use here on the list some day...:)
I had CUPS working nicely on an networked HP cp1515n from all machines
in the house.
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 03:00:26PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote:
Each time gimp-app gets upgraded I lose the ability to open URI's
with Open location or by dragging images from firefox.
Apparently this is because I need to explicitly pass --without-gvfs to
configure [1] [2]. I was rather
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:17:29PM +, Paul Schmehl wrote:
I'm going to take another stab at this.
I'm wondering if I can use autofs on FreeBSD.
There is a libautofs library and a mount_autofs program in my 7.2 source
tree, but I'm not sure what it is, since it's not installed or built on
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 06:20:40PM +0700, Old Crankbuster wrote:
* Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org [2009-05-03 13:13:23 +0200]:
typicaly the images are uploaded first before the announcements are made.
Hmm. I just installed 7.1 today. Should I download the new iso and
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 07:27:25PM +0200, Bc. Radek Krejca wrote:
Hello,
starting this day I have problem with quagga, I get this messages
in my log:
May 3 19:15:36 gw bgpd[7225]: Assertion `len str_size' failed in file
bgp_aspath.c, line 619, function aspath_make_str_count
May 3
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:20:34PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I'm getting these errors on from xorg-server-1.6.0,1 on
FBSD 8.0-current i386:
(EE) Failed to load module xtrap (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module freetype (module does not exist, 0)
Some posts on the
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:18:24PM +0300, Ghirai wrote:
Hi,
I'm running a RAID1 setup with gmirror and geli (AES-128) on top of
that.
While searching for ways to improve read performance, i found some
posts (on kerneltrap i think) about vfs.max_read.
The author suggested that increasing
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:42:11AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
Bill Moran said the following on 2009-04-21 14:41:
In response to Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net:
Giorgos Keramidas said the following on 2009-04-20 23:59:
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 +0200, Bernt Hansson
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 06:53:50PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote:
First of all I must say I'm impressed by the latest stable freebsd
release (7.1). A lot of hardware which didn't work before now works out
of the box :) I only have problems watching video, it feels sluggish
and there frequently
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:35:45PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
For the best performance, you'll have to update to a recent 7-STABLE, or
wait for the upcoming 7.2 release. The kernel support code for graphics
chips has been updated since the release of 7.1.
Thanks
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:17:08PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote:
On Thursday 16 April 2009 07:15:05 Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49:43AM +0400, Eugene L. wrote:
I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading freebsd-current for
some time, apparently some ports require
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:59:30PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote:
snip
I guess I'm just anti-redoing-configuration, since there's so many formats
out
there. One can of course backup ${LOCALBASE}/etc --exclude rc.d, but the
number of exceptions grows over time (/etc/X11/xorg.conf,
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote:
I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring tool
(Not a viewer, see below.)
I have an image of a signature that I need to put into a PDF document.
I converted the original, un-signed PDF document to a raster PNG,
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49:43AM +0400, Eugene L. wrote:
I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading freebsd-current for
some time, apparently some ports require rebuilding as they are kernel
specific, like hal, so I wonder how to rebuild those ports automatically?
If you switch to
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:48:16PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:18:43PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:17:24 +0200, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote:
I'm trying to recover some deleted files from a UFS2 file
system with the sleuthkit.
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:54:29PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
is there any way t o not upgrade all installed ports, but only
those that are not current?
portmaster -a -B -d
tired of having my main box grinding away for endless days
:-)
Roland
--
R.F.Smith
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:07:25PM -0400, John Almberg wrote:
I have what looks like a hardware problem with an Intel 1U server,
which I am using mainly as a mysql database server for some of my
bigger website clients.
The server went down last week with a badly corrupted file system.
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 05:04:52PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
The mplayer installation went pretty smoothly - no problems with that.
And the gui is more than acceptable - I don't need the gnome-mplayer
add-on. But the application has failed to play any file/CD/DVD for me so
far. The
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:12:58AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Trying here, after no answer on usb@
When I plug in the reader, I get (on the console):
umass0: SDMMC M121 USB 2.0 SD/MMC READER, rev 2.00/2.01, addr 2
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: USB 2.0 SD/MMC Reader
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:47:23PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Are you sure that the drive isn't partitioned? In other words,
if you plug in the drive, and you give the command 'ls /dev/da0*',
do you only get /dev/da0 or perhaps also /dev/da0s1
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 08:01:29PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:47:23PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
It's an SD card, not a drive, so I had not expected it to be
partitioned; but yes, it is:
$ ls -l /dev
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:06:27AM -0700, new_guy wrote:
Hi guys,
I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already
have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it
up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to encrypt
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:48:31AM -0700, new_guy wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
My advice would be to put /home (where _your_ data resides) on a
seperate partition and encrypt only that partition, with a password.
Thanks to everyone for the advice. I really do appreciate it. I like
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:50:41PM -0700, Yuri wrote:
I got USB enclosure and put HD there.
I tried to create NTFS on it (using mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs).
And got the message:
/dev/da0 is not a block device.
Refusing to make a filesystem here!
mkntfs does 'stat' on /dev/da0.
Why
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:54:02PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
Hello pple,
I installed KDE-4.2.2 but I cannot see the office apps. What am I missing?
The Koffice version for KDE-4 is still in beta.
Looking at the ports tree, there is only the
/usr/ports/editors/koffice-kde3 port
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:15:59PM -0400, John Almberg wrote:
Well, I've got real problems with that database server that lost
power over the weekend. We reloaded FreeBSD from scratch and then
reinstalled mysql, and pf. I loaded up my database and switched over
all my customer's
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 07:40:53AM -0700, Juri Mianovich wrote:
Just trying to install rrdtool on a server.
Do not want X. Do not want X11. Do not want Xorg.
snip
Oops. Looks like I was going to get X11 anyway.
So, what other options do I need to add to make.conf in order to
install
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:44:20PM -0400, John Almberg wrote:
Apparently, power was fluctuating drastically before they decided to
cut power, so a hardware problem is a definite possibility. A PSU
failure would not surprise me in the circumstances.
Assuming I can ever ssh in again, what
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:08:18PM -0400, John Almberg wrote:
snip
Okay, so my new database server is running with backup data and I am
trying to salvage the old database, or what's left of it.
Unfortunately, it seems like what's left of it, is not much.
the /var/db/mysql directory tree
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 12:58:46PM -0600, Modulok wrote:
List,
I'm looking for a confirmation on the order: When setting up a (root
partiton) gmirror+geli, what is the propper order? e.g: gmirror the
disks and THEN initialize geli on the /dev/mirror partitions? Is this
correct?
That
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 07:37:27AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
Hello, list.
Before I pose my question, I am not intending to start a flame-war of
any sort -- I'm just searching for different ways of doing things.
With so many different version control systems available (aside from
the
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:17:44PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively]
simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a
remote computer (say, 25m
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 08:22:02PM +0100, marco.borsat...@libero.it wrote:
Hi, this are my questions.
1) I've installed many packages using pkg_add -rK [package] because I
had the idea to use the same packages on a different PC. Packages are
present in the directory i used as a repository,
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:42:25PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:36:25AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
There is a special codec for speech. You'll find it the
audio/speex port. From the pkg-descr:
actually i use it with asterisk - at about 15kbps (VBR) there are
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