Re: best archiver? (for music)

2009-03-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:51:02PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:26:02AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 08:05:59PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: lame -h -V 3 - nobody could tell the difference, it gives 200kbps bitrate lame -h -b 192 - as above

Re: best archiver? (for music)

2009-03-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 08:05:59PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: lame -h -V 3 - nobody could tell the difference, it gives 200kbps bitrate lame -h -b 192 - as above lame -h -b 128 - they were able to tell difference, but not on all music/songs lame -h -b 96 - i was able to tell the

Re: best archiver? (for music)

2009-03-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:15:24PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is nearly full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio files. mp3, ogg, and .flag. All of these are already compressed.

Re: gnash and ff3

2009-03-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 04:02:11PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: Hi, I have 7-1 RELEASE running with up-to-date packages, including firefox3. I also have gnash-0.8.3 and mozplugger-1.10.2. I'm confused as to why gnash and mozplugger are not automatically enabled and/or used by ff3. That is, ff

Re: bsdtar

2009-03-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:05:19PM -0400, alexus wrote: or maybe someone knows which flag i need to use to use rsync? You can use the --fileflags option, if rsync has been compiled with it. See /usr/ports/net/rsync/Makefile Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:10:46AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote: My question to you would be: What exactly do you mean by automatically detect? The drive *is* automatically detected. Should it be mounted afterwards? Yeah, I guess my wording was a little vague. I know that the system

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:49:18AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote: Last week I submitted a patch to get this system and subsystem documented in the manual page of devd.conf. It should be in CURRENT now, and will be MFC'd to STABLE in a week or so. This looks like exactly what we need, except

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:49:18AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote: Last week I submitted a patch to get this system and subsystem documented in the manual page of devd.conf. It should be in CURRENT now, and will be MFC'd to STABLE in a week or so. This looks like exactly what we need, except

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 06:09:24PM +, Mike Clarke wrote: snip The scripts are a bit primitive and get totally confused if I insert more than one USB storage device at a time so would need some refinement for general use but work OK for me as the only user on this PC. If you give the

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:13:08AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote: It's missing the call to devctl_notify in the devfs handling. This was added to RELENG_7 on the 28th of May 2008. You'll need at least rev. 1.208.2.4 of /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_conf.c. See:

Re: Is there a roadmap for FreeBSD ?

2009-03-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:37:28AM +, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: Is there a roadmap for FreeBSD ? I'm not sure there even is one. :) The road that is taken depends mostly on what the people working on the code want to tackle, I guess. Looking at the -current mailing list should probably

Re: read BSD format disk from Mac OSX

2009-03-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:16:02AM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi all, I format a ext disk (UFS) and transfer some files into it, hand it over to my friend who has a macbook. He complained the macbook can't read it. I don't have a mac on hand, I wonder if there is any utility that will

Re: backup msdos slice

2009-03-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:10:42PM -0500, Jerry wrote: Hi, I hate to start this potential storm, but... I have a machine with both an MS and FreeBSD slices on it. I can easily back up and recover the FreeBSD slices using dump(8)/restore(8) But, that won't work for the MS slice (which

Re: link to dos2unix

2009-03-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:00:27PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: I use the dos2unix console command all the time. I am tried to typing in that long name. I tried to do a hard link on it. ln /usr/local/bin/dos2unix /usr/local/bin/d2u This command is accepted without error, but when it execute it d2u

Re: How to use portmanager/portmaster?

2009-02-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:49:16PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote: Hi, list! I have a problem using the above mentioned programs because there doesn't seem to be a manpage installed. Can anybody give me a clue on how to get help? Both do have manpages. What kind of error do you get when you try

Re: How to use portmanager/portmaster?

2009-02-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote: Am Samstag 28 Februar 2009 21:42:35 schrieb Roland Smith: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:49:16PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote: Hi, list! I have a problem using the above mentioned programs because there doesn't seem

Re: How to use portmanager/portmaster?

2009-02-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:33:01PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote: Both do have manpages. What kind of error do you get when you try e.g. 'man portmaster'? It might be that your manual pages setup is broken. I get the message No manual entry for portmaster, but using your command

Re: disk/drive-bay problem

2009-02-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:59:58PM -0800, Richard Stockton wrote: I have a Dell PowerEdge 4400 running FreeBSD 6.2 (yes, I know it's old). This machine has 8 hot-swapable drive bays. Recently I purchased 7 new drives for it (300Gig 15K) to replace the old ones (145Gig 10k). I was able to

Re: RELENG_7 != STABLE?

2009-02-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:33:09PM +, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Tuesday, February 24, 2009 14:24:29 -0600 Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2009 10:07:35 Paul Schmehl wrote: I have this in my /etc/cvsupfile: *default tag=RELENG_7 And your

Re: Determining scancodes for obscure keyboard to modify keymap

2009-02-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:28:54PM -0700, carnage wrote: I'm wondering how to go about determining the scancodes for keys on keypress. Try xev(1). Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:49:34PM -0800, prad wrote: my son has a hp TC4200 tablet which worked very well with ubuntu. he has switched to fbsd7.1 and installed /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom it was compiled without usb support since the tablet uses a serial connection. Are you sure

Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: touch gtype-desc.h touch: No such

Re: Web or X GUI for pf / isc-dchp3-server

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:26:04AM +0200, Jaco le Roux wrote: Hi, Would anyone know if there is any kind of X-style (or web) GUI for FreeBSD applications like pf and isc-dhcp3-server ? The sysutils/webmin port would enable you to configure DHCP and a lot of other things from a browser.

Re: broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:51:05PM +, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1 There are no Broadcom wireless drivers in 7.1. The command 'apropos broadcom' only returns a couple of wired

Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:27:06PM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 23, 2009 10:43am, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:52:48AM -0800, prad wrote: snip is there anyway to find out if the tablet is actually being recognized? Check if /dev/ttyd0 really exists. Also check dmesg output to see if the device is recognized. here we have a curious problem. /dev/ttyd0 is there

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:30:10AM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote: I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to switch to using AMD64. First of all, your Core2 Duo should work just fine with i386. The amd64 architecture is an extension of the x86 arch. Unless

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:59:21PM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote: Thank you. You're welcome! Please don't top post; it destroys the flow of the conversation. I have 8 gigs of memory in this system, and I decided go to the ZFS route, and am now getting kernel panics about kmem exhaustion. I

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:56:11PM -0800, prad wrote: i got this post on the freebsd forum from kamakazi: The kernel module is really only for wacom tablets. More precisely for USB connected tablets, IIRC. To use the Xorg driver you have to run Xorg without HAL support. I always compile

Re: understanding freebsd development logic

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 02:25:59PM -0800, prad wrote: i am puzzled by what seems to be almost a parallel processor development model that exists with freebsd. when 7 came out people were still working on 6.3 i think it was with the aim of going to 6.4 and now with 7.x underway, there is work

Re: FreeBSD on Intel Xeon processor 5160

2009-02-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:41:23PM +0200, Metias Adel wrote: I have IBM x3550 server with Intel Xeon (Dual-Core) processors 5160 @ 3.0 GHz. I need to install FreeBSD 7.0 but I do not know which type of FreeBSD I have to use to take the best performance of the EM64T and Hyperthreading

Re: Rsync | Push script

2009-02-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 06:14:27PM +0100, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Sorry for the confusion; the problem is in the rsync line: rsync -avpog /var/db/mysql //r...@10.10.10.50:123/usr/backup/ Running this line causes rsync to say: Unexpected remote arg: r...@10.10.10.50:123 rsync error: syntax or

Re: video editor

2009-02-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:32:43AM -0800, prad wrote: any recommendations for software that can join or split wmv, mpg, avi etc etc? The program you found, mencoder, will work fine. E.g. Cutting one minute from a video starting at 8:09, and converting to msmpeg video goes like this: mencoder

Re: tab-delimited to csv

2009-02-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:55:50AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to convert a tab-delimited file to csv using standard unix utilities? I could whip up a Ruby script to do it, but As long as the files don't contain commas themselves, it is a straightforward sed or perl

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:22:17AM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote: OK, I'm sure this question has been asked a million times, but I havn't been able to find a straight answer that actually solves the problem, so here goes. We have a FreeBSD server with multiple users. I would rather each user

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:38:33PM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote: ... really? Write a script to copy the user's files over on a schedule...? I can see where that might be an option for some people, but that's entirely not an option in this case. I'd have to schedule it to run every 5 seconds

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:23:23PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:38:33 -0600 Keith Palmer ke...@academickeys.com wrote: ... really? Write a script to copy the user's files over on a schedule...? I can see where that might be an option for some people,

Re: disk recovery problem(s)

2009-02-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 02:48:41PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Had a power outage recently; when trying to fsck several external hard drives I'm getting unexpected errors. For example: huff@ fsck /dev/da3a ** /dev/da3a ** Last Mounted on /backup ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and

Re: simple printer setup

2009-02-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 08:50:46PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: FreeBSD 7.0: what is the most simple and quickest way to set up printing from the unix command line to a few HP printers (all Postscript enabled) that have an IP address (direct printer to IP address) ? (printing of unix text files

Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0

2009-02-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:10:30AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: Ok, I give up... wtf am I missing here? The Xext library has the extension, but the server hasn't yet. It should be harmless. I don't notice any problems with it. (7.1-RELEASE amd64 with Xorg 7.4) I can now confirm this problem in

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:35:52PM +0100, t-u-t wrote: hi, i don't know if this is a freak question, but i was looking around to see if this is possible, and what the convention would be. if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others, and i want to perform any

Re: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab)

2009-01-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:37:19AM -0800, drc...@yahoo.com wrote: I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD AMD64 Rel. 7.0 I am following process described here for rsync : http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html I have a backup script's created for daily,

Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System

2009-01-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:30:54PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands working, but then it all died when I moved it to a

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:18:26PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? Ghostscript (when built with the pdfwrite driver) will

Re: ghostscript8 fails to build

2009-01-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:38:25PM +, LtCdData wrote: Hi I am having problems building ghostscript8-8.63 from ports with the below errorsnip : multiple definition of `gs_shared_init' ./obj/../soobj/gdevl256.o(.text+0x780): first defined here gmake[1]: *** [bin/../sobin/libgs.so.8.63]

Re: remove kerberos 5 from FreeBSD

2009-01-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:06:32AM -0500, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Hello All, Does anyone know how I can remove the Kerberos 5 installation from FreeBSD? Put 'WITHOUT_KERBEROS=true' in /etc/src.conf, and rebuild the system from source, as documented in the Handbook. Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: remove kerberos 5 from FreeBSD

2009-01-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 03:05:37PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2009 2:25:55 pm Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:06:32AM -0500, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Hello All, Does anyone know how I can remove the Kerberos 5 installation from FreeBSD? Put

Re: Backup program on FreeBSD for DLT drive

2009-01-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:30:56PM +0100, bsd wrote: I am using a FreeBSD server 7.0 as a Samba server and wanted to backup this server using Quantum DLT tape. I would need a simple tool that could be configured rapidl at that's stable enough to provide high security for the data.

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:37:34PM -0800, prad wrote: any recommendations? i've tried dia and inkscape. the former seems to be good for flowcharts and general diagrams while the latter is great for all sorts of things, but i'd like to be able to do accurate geometric diagrams and was

Re: Cannot perform user mounts after upgrade

2009-01-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:44:48PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The mount point still has the same ownership (me) and permissions (755) as before. Both /etc/devfs.rules, /etc/rc.conf and /etc/sysctl.conf have the relevant lines for allowing user mounts, namely: /etc/sysctl.conf==

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:34:26PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: My question is how do you clone PC over SSH (it would be too much a PITA to open each case to plug the HD directly in the source PC). Would it have to be ssh? Why not just use netcat [nc(1)] if both machines are on your local network?

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:59:47PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Your answer is perfectly correct, but a couple of reasons makes me want to point up a tried true tool like rsync. It'll do what the man wants while using ssh to cover security, give really nice running feedback (if the user likes

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:43:56PM -0500, Freebsd wrote: Sounds pretty interesting to me but i couldn't test right now. As nc is in /usr/bin how will i not face the same problem as with ssh? Can you point me to a freebsd live cd that has nc included? The 7.0-RELEASE livefs CD that I had

Re: Runtime de/encryption

2009-01-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:57:38PM +0100, Marco wrote: First, thanks Roland. On-disk encryption is not meant to secure access on a running machine. This is very true. And the reason for my thoughts on that topic. I don't think there is something like that can be easily done. You'd have

Re: Runtime de/encryption

2009-01-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:59:34PM +0100, Marco wrote: Hello List, i'am using the geom framework for quite a time. I'am happy about gbde/geli implementations(beside the race condition in geli) however, i wonder since some time, as the data may get exposed on a running server(as the

Re: Printing - standard? CUPS? ...??

2009-01-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:44:10PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:59:33 -0500, Jason Lenthe len...@comcast.net wrote: The problem [with CUPS] was that certain other software (gtk+ and gnome as I recall) expected /usr/bin/lpr to be the CUPS lpr (the CUPS port normally

Re: Flash for FreeBSD - GNOME - Firefox

2009-01-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:25:10AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Is there a port that emulates Adobe Flash? i.e. Adobe's download site says 'Platform not supported' is there a port or package thats can be used to view Flash content in Firefox? You could try graphics/gnash Roland --

Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

2009-01-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:23:09PM -0500, Johann Hasselbach wrote: I read the encrypting disk partitions section of the Handbook. What is the preferred method nowdays, geli or gbde? Geli seems to be the preferred method these days. It is also what I use to encrypt my /home. It works without

Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:03:02PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I am now full into planning the 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE upgrade. I know that at the end of the day it will also mean upgrading all ports (portupgrade -af). Not necessarily. Upgrading all ports is only mandatory

Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

2009-01-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:55:38PM +, RW wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:59:54 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Geli is convenient and seems to work well. On modern machines the performance penalty is slight. It supports well-regarded encryption algorithms like AES

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:54:24PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: 1. I have been searching for a iTunes client. i.e. a player that I can play my iTunes on. Does such a thing exist? There are lots of players capabable of playing mp3 in /usr/ports/multimedia/, e.g. audacious, amarok, xmms2, xmms

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:08:16PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I'm afraid it's gone from bad to worse. The 7.1 system may have recognised the ethernet adapter, but it seemed to fail writing to the hard drive. I got this during installation: Progress

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:11:00PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command It won't mount automatically, unless you have the

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 07:39:05AM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: Is there an easy way to tell whether the new 7.1 release will officially support my hardware? I looked at this url: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/relnotes.html#PROC Look at this manual page for the re(4)

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:11:00PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf -lv'

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 06:17:35PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: Well isn't that just great. I'm using the amd64 version, don't know if this makes a difference. It shouldn't really. AFAIK the code for the network interface drivers is architecture independant. On amd64 I also had

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Question 1) I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c: alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c' It works fine. I thought that I could automate the process further by mounting /c at boot-up time, so I

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:05:20PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Roland Smith wrote: When using the built-in mount_ntfs you should really mount read-only. Maybe using the options 'ro' and 'late' will help. I changed the fstab options to 'ro' and /c still won't mount at startup

Re: Restore deleted files

2009-01-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 12:28:46AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask a two-stage question: 1. Is it possible to recover files that have been deleted? Sure. You just restore them from backups. (Sorry, couldn't resist. :-) If you don't have backups it might be possible, if the

Re: semi OT: 64-bit-clean code

2009-01-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:51:40PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Is there a good guide anywhere to writing 64-bit-clean code? Something that's thorough but understandable, possibly with examples of the trickier bits. Do not assume that the size of a void* equals the size of an integer and

Re: X11 - radeon or radeonhd? (ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT)

2009-01-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 01:42:38PM -0500, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: On Friday 02 January 2009 13:32:57 Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I've got a PC (Dell) that came with a Radeon HD 2400 XT (RV610 chipset). Afaik there isn't 3D support yet with this card, so my primary goal is to get it

Re: well, blew it... sed or perl q again.

2008-12-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:31:14AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: The problem is that there are many, _many_ embedded A HREF=http://whatever Site/A in my hundreds, or thousands, or files. I only want to delete the http://junkfoo.com lines, _not_ the other Href links.

Re: well, blew it... sed or perl q again.

2008-12-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:51:31PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:16:23PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:31:14AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: The problem is that there are many, _many_ embedded A HREF=http://whatever Site/A in my hundreds

Re: amarok install failure

2008-12-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:57:20PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:00:35AM -0900, Mel wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2008 00:35:56 Alain G. Fabry wrote: [snip] This is a result of libmtp update. Either don't use libmtp, downgrade it to previous version 0.2.6 or add the

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:31:56PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. That's probably the easiest way. I already have. Also I don't know too much about

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:49:44PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well. Now I'd like to

Re: Video driver

2008-12-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:39:17AM +0100, Alain BATARD wrote: I am M. Alain BATARD and i work in a formation center. For my Unix course i use Freebsd (V 7), we recently change our computers for laptops (Compaq 6820s) these computers are equipped with integrated video : ATI Mobility Radeon

Re: Firefox, or FreeBSD?

2008-12-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:29:37AM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: I'm visiting various web sites, and having a stupid little issue which is really annoying. FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Dec 14 22:08:22 PST 2008 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Same here.

Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 rl0 watchdog timeout with custom kernel

2008-12-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:31:16AM +0300, Gennady Kudryashoff wrote: Hello, all! I have Asus X51RL laptop with FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 installed. There were no troubles with GENERIC kernel, but when I've compiled custom kernel, rl ethernet driver tells to the console a lot of errors: rl0: link

send performance of rl(4)

2008-12-14 Thread Roland Smith
Transferring files from my desktop to my laptop with rsync (over a point-to-point netowork connection) is extremely slow, maxing out at around 50 kB/s and often dropping to 0. Both systems show hardly any activity. Is this normal for rsync running over a network? There is a rsync daemon running on

Re: send performance of rl(4)

2008-12-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:45:35PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Transferring files from my desktop to my laptop with rsync (over a point-to-point netowork connection) is extremely slow, maxing out at around 50 kB/s and often dropping to 0. Both systems show hardly any activity. Is this

Re: send performance of rl(4)

2008-12-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 04:34:17PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: it may be problem with autoconfiguration of speed and half/full duplex. try setting it manually on one or both sides. Both were showing 100baseTX full-duplex on autoselect. Setting both manually with 'ifconfig [rl1|xl0]

Re: Returning User With Filesystem/Memory Tuning Questions

2008-12-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:24:09PM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote: FreeBSD Fans, I think I've just about talked myself into coming back for another try. snip First, to ZFS or not to ZFS, that is the question. While I like some of the features ZFS has to offer, I realize it may be overkill

Re: any way to turn a pdf file into something OCR-able?

2008-12-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:23:09PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Roland Smith writes: pdftotext fail on the large [32MB] file I've got. Is there any other way I can translate this huge textfile to ascii or html or text? Please define fail in this context? I've used

Re: any way to turn a pdf file into something OCR-able?

2008-12-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 03:14:43PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: pdftotext fail on the large [32MB] file I've got. Is there any other way I can translate this huge textfile to ascii or html or text? Please define fail in this context? I've used pdftotxt on documents exceeding

Re: Copying audio CD with dd/cdrecord produces unplayable CD

2008-11-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:26:51PM -0800, Yuri wrote: I am trying to copy an audio CD. First I've ran: dd if=/dev/acd0tN of=track-N.cdr bs=2352 for every track. This gets raw track files. It is better to use cdparanoia (from the audio/cdparanoia port), since it outputs WAV files. It also

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2008-11-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:11:56PM -0800, Rommel Tan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Sir/Madam: Pleasant day! First of all, sorry if this enquiry shouldn’t be directed to you, please help me direct to the right person. The questions mailing list is OK. Few months ago I’ve

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:37:25AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: Since a Xeon Quad Core is a 64bit processor, would it work ok with FreeBSD? Or would the adm64 release be better for that chip? don't be suggested by amd in port name. it's for AMD64-compatible

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:49:37PM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: Would there be a major performance gain with amd64 over that of the i386 build on a Xeon Quad Core? It will depend on your workload. If your machines were strapped fo address space on i386, switching to amd64 (with

Re: OO, text OR .odt to HTML?

2008-11-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 01:43:14PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: is there a push button way of turning an odt file or plain ascii file into HTML using openoffice? For converting plain text you could use this: http://txt2html.sourceforge.net/ Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:49:44AM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux printing

Re: 7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:01:53PM +0200, Ott Köstner wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: I don't think it is a matter of days, we have not even reached RC status yet on 7.1 On a production server you will probably wish to go with 7.0-RELEASE-p5. It would be trivial to upgrade to 7.1 by

Re: cvsup first time - connection refused

2008-11-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:49:04PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: Hi, I'm running cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with all kinds of host names from this list: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvsup.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-MIRRORS-IL-CVSUP I get a Connection refused error. Help..

Re: cvsup first time - connection refused

2008-11-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:53:02PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:49:04PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: Hi, I'm running cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with all kinds of host names from this list: http://www.freebsd.org/doc

Re: High Noonn DVD??

2008-11-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46:03AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on my computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Zero. I watched the *original* in the theater (I think); then have watched the tape in

Re: High Noonn DVD??

2008-11-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:47:14PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:37:26 +0100, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46:03AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on my

Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:13:47PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2008 14:01:47 Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer any help or useful

Re: FreeBSD and USBmemorystick

2008-11-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:44:14PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2008 9:17:36 pm Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:04:13PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2008 5:39:02 pm Pieter Donche wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote

Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer any help or useful suggestions, but here goes... What on earth is going on with release scheduling? Two words: volunteer project I would propose to

Re: Server Freezing Solid

2008-11-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 06:42:39AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: I am having a new problem. I have been running FreeBSD for years with no crashing. All of a sudden my server starts crashing with no panic messages. I am suspecting hardware because there are no messages, but the CPU temp is

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