Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
On the question of playing Adobe Flash in FreeBSD, could one use the MS-Windows 32-bit version with (i386-)Wine? I plan to try that. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 13.10.2013 12:16, CeDeROM wrote: On 13 Oct 2013 11:30, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com mailto:demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there, I'm writing because after a power failure I was unable to log in on my FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE. The SU+J journal were executed correctly but

Re: persistence in freeBSD

2013-09-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:29:26 -0400 Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com wrote: mount -o rw / That would need to be mount -u -o rw / Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org I think you could shorten that to mount -uw / Is that correct? Tom

Re: Excessive bounces

2013-08-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
My membership to this list has been disabled due to excessive bounces. Could somebody please tell me how to stop these bounces in the future ? What is their operating mode ? What can I do if they do not require to break my (inclusive) firewall which seems to work fine and which is

RE: Pre-sales question

2013-08-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
I would like to know if your freebsd OS 9.1 suite on CD(DVD) can be installed, and then run, on a Dell Inspiron 531S? I looked-over your website, and did +not see a citation for that specific PC (though I did see it for others). For your reference, my PC has a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual core

Re: cursor keys not working on console

2013-08-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
-noapp and improvement. -- Thomas E. Dickey dic...@invisible-island.net http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Creating freebsd usb boot

2013-07-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hi, I am Erhan,i have a problem,i read your all definition but i can not create usb boot FreeBSD,i have a ubuntu 12.04 operating system.I want to create it with FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso but when i try this,it shows ''boot error''.Can you help me? Do you want to install onto USB,

Re: will freebsd run on a mac osx 10.8.4

2013-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
I assume you are running Mac OS X 10.8.4 on Intel CPU. I assume it must be 64-bits, so you would want amd64 version of FreeBSD, though you could also run i386 version. I don't know if you could install FreeBSD on same hard disk with Mac OS X, but you ought to be able to install FreeBSD on a

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:10:32 +0430, s m wrote: hello all i want to install freebsd8.2 on my system. for some reasons, i need partitions more than 6. my freebsd just allow me to define partitions from a to h, not any more. That's correct and expected for the MBR partitioning

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org: 3. Note that Mailman, as part of that same mechanism, allows list-owners to add non-subscribers to a list of those permitted to send traffic to the list without approval. This feature is probably more often used to allow traffic from alternative

Re: Leaking disk space

2013-03-22 Thread Dan Thomas
A stab in the dark, but does # sync change anything Alas, no. On 21 March 2013 13:21, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: On 2013-03-21 11:40, Dan Thomas wrote: Have you used fstat to identify the big growing file which is taking up the space, and which process has the file open

Re: Leaking disk space

2013-03-21 Thread Dan Thomas
2013 23:08, Daniel O'Callaghan da...@clari.net.au wrote: On 21/03/2013 3:55 AM, Dan Thomas wrote: Stopping Postgres doesn't fix it, but rebooting does which points at Have you used fstat to identify the big growing file which is taking up the space, and which process has the file open

Leaking disk space

2013-03-20 Thread Dan Thomas
Hi Guys, We're seeing a problem with some of our FreeBSD/PostgreSQL servers leaking quite significant amounts of disk space: df -h /usr/local/pgsql/ Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mfid1s1d1.1T772G222G78%/usr/local/pgsql du

Re: Leaking disk space

2013-03-20 Thread Dan Thomas
, 20 Mar 2013 15:23:18 + Dan Thomas godd...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, We're seeing a problem with some of our FreeBSD/PostgreSQL servers leaking quite significant amounts of disk space: df -h /usr/local/pgsql/ Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev

Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-14 Thread Bejoy Thomas
partition it with the default configuration using Entire Disk . The FreeBSD handbook should help you http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#windows-coexist Bejoy Thomas On 15-Mar-2013, at 5:14 AM

Re: 3 TB disk troubles

2013-02-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
I recently bought a 3 TB external hard drive. I attached it to the Firewire (400) bus and waited for my 8.2-STABLE i386 system to recognize it. After a small flurry of Firewire protocol messages, the kernel eventually said, Feb 12 23:35:42 hellas kernel: da2 at sbp0 bus 0

Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?

2013-01-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
28.01.2013 01:57, james: I have a 9.1 system with some SATA disks in RAIDZ, upgraded from 9.0. The disks are all the same type, and I formatted them for FreeBSD and put ZFS in a slice covering most of them. I have seen suggestions for OpenIndiana etc that it is better to let ZFS have the whole

Re: bsdinstall(8) line drawing characters

2013-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
that the terminal cannot use line-drawing characters. However, it uses the VT100 line-drawing characters if possible. Running vttest establishes that the issue is not in ncurses (menu item 3, character sets). That shows only ASCII characters. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible

Re: time_t definition

2013-01-17 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 01/17/13 06:24, Lowell Gilbert wrote: A lot of discussion about what I can do other than understand why gcc does not keep track of the basic typedef. Mayhe the question is beyond this list. Thanks for the replies. Tom Dean ___

Re: time_t definition

2013-01-16 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 01/16/13 03:00, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Looks like gcc47 checks the printf format string (-Wformat) Disable this check or convert your time_t. Yes, I know gcc47 checks the format string. But, time_t is of type int32, from a typedef statement. #include stdio.h typedef int zzz; typedef

Re: time_t definition

2013-01-16 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 01/16/13 10:41, Robert Bonomi wrote: *precisely* and the format string had %ld. this IS a type mismatch, if a 'long' is a 64-bit value. The original code was compiled on a 32-bit machine for a 32-bit target. I tried %d, %ld, and %lld with the same result. FALSE. Calculation is OK.

time_t definition

2013-01-15 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I am attempting to recompile some code from an older version. uname -a FreeBSD ZD7000 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #1: Sun Jan 13 23:44:33 PST 2013 root@ZD7000:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 make gcc47 -O2 -pipe -I../../include -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector -Wsystem-headers

Re: SPAM-flag on FBSD list

2013-01-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
FreeBSD emailing lists are not spammers, though they let some spams through that their filters miss. Insight Cable uses synacor.com spam-filtering (dis)service that the Insight Cable user can't turn off. This remedy is worse than the disease in my case because it causes bounces, and then my

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
On my now-older computer (from July 2001, 256 MB RAM), svgalib ran on FreeBSD but was very crash-prone. svgalib in Linux was erratic and caused color distortions when switching to an X window. So I decided I wanted no part of svgalib on the new computer, FreeBSD or Linux. Use ASCII art or

BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

2013-01-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
FreeBSD 9.0 as of June 1, 2012. I have an older laptop with a PC Card Linksys WiFi adapter. I cannot connect to a close-by (2 ft) wireless router. cat rc.conf ... ifconfig_wlan0=WPA SYNCDHCP wlans_bwn0=wlan0 ... cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf network={ ssid=tddhome psk= } #

Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

2013-01-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 01/12/13 17:39, Waitman Gobble wrote: # kldload wlan_ccmp # kldload wlan_ccmp kldload: can't load wlan_ccmp: File exists Tom Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

2013-01-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 01/12/13 17:59, Thomas D. Dean wrote: cat /etc/rc.conf ... ifconfig_wlan0=SYNCDHCP WPA ssid tddhome mode 11b wlan0_bwn0=wlan0 ... I found another email that said the device did not support mode 11n. But, this does not seem to have changed anything. Tom Dean

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: i386 will not see anything above 4 GB Actually you *can* give access to 4Gb RAM for your system: PAE allows you to use 36 bits instead of 32 to address your memory (and supported till Pentium Pro) but that is only

Re: dd command: BSD analog of conv=fsync?

2012-11-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
In the last episode (Nov 18), Thomas Mueller said: What is the (Free)BSD counterpart of conv=fsync in dd command? Command in question is dd if=GNOME-3.6.0.iso of=/dev/DRIVE bs=8M conv=fsync This is for writing to a USB stick, and of course DRIVE is replaced by the actual device node

Re: Mounting SD card.

2012-11-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
I think that's pretty much standard behaviour. The solution appears to be to wake it up with the following incantation: dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 That's what works here. See the thread starting with http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-February/212109.html

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

2012-11-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
Short version: Is it possible to group existing partitions into slices without affecting data? Long version: I had a disk sliced/partitioned like this: ad4s1 ad4s1a ad4s1b (swap) ad4s1d ad4s1e ad4s1f ad4s2 (storage) ad4s3 ad4s3a ad4s3b (swap) ad4s3d ad4s3e

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

2012-11-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
Thomas, thank you for reply! No, it wasn't dangerously dedicated disk. However, what is the exact command to add ad4s1 and ad4s3 using bsdlabel? Is it possible at all? I thought I should use fdisk or gpart for that. Thanks, Sergi M You use fdisk to create what FreeBSD calls slices

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

2012-11-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
Thomas, thank you very much for your mail, but that isn't what I asked. Of course, I know that bsdlabel -R ad0s1 new_label_file writes new labels to ad0s1. My question is: what to do if I _lost_ s1, s2, and s3 - how to recover _them_ first? Without that, all I can do is to write labels

Re: yelp could not be built because of libxul dependency (10.0 vs. 2)

2012-10-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at: I'm trying to get my system up2date using portupgrade as usual. However during the upgrade process I ran into a problem during upgrade of yelp: === yelp-2.30.2_4 depends on package: libxul2 - not found === Found libxul-10.0.10, but you need to upgrade

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Let me be honest at the outset, I have never used an operating system other than linux with enthusiasm. But something about Linux always troubled me It's licensing, such complex family of distributions which are so different from each other. Which is when I came across FreeBSD. I fell in

Re: Xterm options for correct man page display?

2012-10-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 09:09:13AM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: [ Thomas Dickey wrote on Sat 6.Oct'12 at 7:32:00 -0400 ] On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 07:31:07AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 10:45:52AM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: [ Ronald F. Guilmette wrote

Re: Xterm options for correct man page display?

2012-10-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 07:31:07AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 10:45:52AM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: [ Ronald F. Guilmette wrote on Sat 6.Oct'12 at 2:25:04 -0700 ] When I view man pages in a xterm window, some parts of them are coming out a bit

Re: Xterm options for correct man page display?

2012-10-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
... The usual problem with fonts is from overwriting the utf8Fonts resource setting via a too-wide fonts wildcard pattern. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgp7olkEfKQJo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Problem upgrading misc/help2man: missing language files

2012-10-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
I am unable to upgrade misc/help2man, required by autoconf and other ports that I want to upgrade that depend on perl and/or png. Currently installed version of help2man is 1.40.12 and new version is 1.40.13 I get a bundle of error messages like Extracting help2man (with variable

Re: A problem with loader

2012-10-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com : installed recently 9.0 - and I've got a little problem: while booting, loader somehow gets incorrect currdevice value, stopping boot process. It does get disk1s6a, but it should be disk1s7a. I can boot system, when I set currdev manually, then type boot.

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
from David J. Weller-Fahy dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com: svn update /usr/src/ When you use svn the first time, svn doesn't know where the repository is, and svn repository is not fully in sync with cvs or csup repository. So you might need, in a fresh directory, svn co

Re: fsck not working on messed-up file system

2012-09-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
* PLEASE RERUN FSCK * Script done on Wed Sep 19 04:17:27 2012 Would this indicate a software bug, or is my Western Digital Caviar Green 3 TB hard drive failing? Either something was referencing sectors off the end of the disc, or the drive is failing. I'd be inclined

fsck not working on messed-up file system

2012-09-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
I have or had a problem with a file system (FreeBSD UFS2) messed up, either by errant software or system freeze/crash. I successfully cross-compiled, from FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, a NetBSD 5.1_STABLE i386 system to install on 8 GB USB stick. I have both the NetBSD system source as well as pkgsrc

Re: svn and/or portsnap

2012-09-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
Regarding my question, How do you get the ports tree or svn in that case if not using portsnap? Helmut Schneider had two suggestions: You install ports from CD/DVD. Or use pkg_add -r subversion. :) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ I guess I could use the latter and then build

NFSv4 mounts succeed on 8.2, but fail on 8.3

2012-09-12 Thread Thomas Hager
no matter what option i specify. The server always complains about the client issuing requests from an unprivileged port. is mount_nfs no longer honoring the resvport option in 8.3? anything else i might be missing? tia, tom. -- Thomas Duke Hager d...@sigsegv.at GPG

Re: svn and/or portsnap

2012-09-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 10:37:03 + (UTC), Helmut Schneider wrote: Hi, I'm running a custom kernel so I (guess I) need svn in future to fetch sources instead of cvsup. Should I still use portsnap then for ports or also fetch them via svn? Polytropon responded: Ports and system sources are

Re: text editor

2012-08-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
On getting vim text editor (vi improved) for FreeBSD, you can either pkg_add or use the ports system, where you build from source code with a convenient setup. You can check http://www.freebsd.org/ and check the documentation, including the handbook and ports system. I've heard of Cygwin but

Re: Partitioning with gpart

2012-08-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Lynn Steven Killingsworth blue.seahorse.syndic...@gmail.com: I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say. The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs and another which is on an mbr partition. I thought I would format the mbr disk with zfs

Re: Upgrading 9.1-BETA1 - 9.1-RC1

2012-08-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Maarten Billemont lhun...@lyndir.com: I've installed a FreeBSD server using the BETA1 release because RC1 was delayed. I notice the 9.1-RC1 is available now, so I thought I'd upgrade ASAP. The following command, however, fails me: freebsd-update -r 9.1-RC1 upgrade Looking up

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Peter Wemm pe...@wemm.org: As a data point.. if you're talking about stable/9, then that is still available via cvs/csup/cvsup as RELENG_9. If you track 9-stable, you're unaffected. I got two private emails about this. To be clear, yes, if you're tracking RELENG_9, you will get

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
-specific, and like most of the Arch wiki - not insightful). (other responses in the thread seem to have answered the question) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpL3GAW9IKHM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
So this statement in the WikiP is false? systemd is Linux-only by design, as it relies upon features such as cgroups and fanotify.[6] Debian is avoiding the adoption of systemd due to this issue.[7] -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. I read an

Re: 9.0 release not dead but barely breathing after idling

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org: Aargh... So my 9.0 RELEASE system no longer totally hangs when sitting idle... it seems to run quite a bit longer, waking up from screen blanking in general even after long (overnight) periods of sitting idle. However, not always. X (screen was

Re: Linux-firefox does not start

2012-08-09 Thread Thomas
Firefox keeps a lock file at $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/{hash.something}/lock . Delete that and try again. Or just run firefox -no-remote -P and create another profile. You should find backups of your bookmarks in the older profile's folder, so you can recover them. Greetings, Thomas Thu, Aug 09

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
Regarding the security of various methods of deleting data, I just saw in Office Depot's online ad for the coming week, which is the reason I couldn't post this any earlier: Need to discard an old PC but worried about protecting your identity? Let us securely erase your personal files and

Questions on ndis for USB wireless adapter

2012-07-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
I am having problems getting the Hiro USB wireless adapter to work and think I might possibly be missing something. Chip is Realtek RTL8191S. I read the man pages for ndisgen and ndiscvt and the FreeBSD Handbook online. Do I need options NDISAPI # and device ndis in the kernel config, even

Re: Broken link on your website

2012-07-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
Snippet from Robert Bonomi regarding spam from Emma Haze emmakh...@gmail.com: Now, *PLEASE* stop bombarding the innocent users of the support mailing-list with your ignorant, ill-informed, impossible-of-fullfilment nonsense. Continued spamming off the mailing-list might well result in

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:45:17 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: Does a USB flash drive also work as a giant floppy, no partitions? Can you make a flash drive bootable when nonpartitioned and formatted that way? Polytropon responded: Yes, that's exactly what my advice was aiming to, but let's try

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:15:10 -0400, Carmel wrote: This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on a USB flash drive? I have not been able to figure out how to do it. I want to erase the entire drive and format it for a FreeBSD UFS2 file system. In that case, screw slices and

Re: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 08:58:06 -0400, Carmel wrote: I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for gpart I heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD,

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 22:00:11 +0300 (EEST), Ivan Ivanov wrote: Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD Polytropon free...@edvax.de

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
No, I'm just borderline sure that WITHOUT_MODULES works the same way as MODULES_OVERRIDE, that is it looks in top directory in /usr/src/sys/modules/ and ulpt is in /usr/src/sys/modules/usb/ulpt Speaking of RAM savings, things you would always load should be compiled in kernel, modules per

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Ivan Ivanov hel...@abv.bg: Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD I think it would be possible, but there would not be

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Ivan Ivanov hel...@abv.bg: Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD I think it would be possible, but there would not be

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

2012-07-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Polytropon free...@edvax.de: Yes, /etc/src.conf uses WITHOUT_* on a per-module basis, so you need to explicitely name the modules not to build. But you're right, there's only WITHOUT_USB (for not building the USB-related parts), so going with kernel configuration would be a good point

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

2012-07-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:59:44 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: How does one, when building the kernel, prevent building one or more modules? Use the new means of /etc/src.conf (see man src.conf for details) to prevent the building of modules. I looked

WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

2012-07-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
How does one, when building the kernel, prevent building one or more modules? I have WITHOUT_MODULES= ulpt in /etc/make.conf but ulpt.ko always appears in /boot/kernel directory. For now, I want to build all modules except for this one, but perhaps I could keep everything in kernel config and

Re: OT: Linux EXT4 dump/restore equivalent?

2012-06-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
Peter A. Giessel pgies...@mac.com responded: According to: http://www.sysresccd.org/Detailed-packages-list It does not contain any version of restore. There are a lot of Linux boot disks out there. I haven't found one yet that includes an ext4 compatible restore. Debian lets you roll your

Re: OT: Linux EXT4 dump/restore equivalent?

2012-06-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Jun 28, 2012, at 11:59, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: We use dump to backup ext4 filesystems on linux (Centos6) at work Peter A. Giessel pgies...@mac.com responded: You can find a version of dump for Linux that supports ext4. What I have been completely unable to find is a

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Al Plant n...@hdk5.net: Aloha Woj, How did you get the drive to work with USB? By a hardware adapter? I read there is a USB to ide on the market. I remember specifically that Iomega produced USB Zip drives, though not when they first produced SCSI, ATAPI and parallel-port Zip drives.

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hi, On Saturday 23 June 2012 15:08:53 Thomas Mueller wrote: I don't think I ever tried to connect a USB 2.0 device to 3.0 port, but I tried the opposite. I have here 2 hard disks and 2 flash drives with USB 2.0. Three of them work on FreeBSD on an USB 3.0 port. One hard disk only works

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com: I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! Both mine suffered from the click of death some years ago, round about when 4.11 was current. I would get any data off them and onto a CD/DVD as soon as possible. For me, they would make nice museum

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Al Plant n...@hdk5.net: Thanks Of the 4 I had to play with one literally fell apart one scsi card is throwing errors. The one I finally got working is an old IDE on a FreeBSD 10 box that I experiment with. This should work fine to archive the Omega disks we found. Again thanks

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
My elder colleague often told me that it is the easiest and well-working way to check whether the one is certified to work for Mac OS X to get USB mass storage devices which work with *BSD :) Just my 5 yen, -|-__ YAMAMOTO, Taku | __ t...@tackymt.homeip.net What if a USB mass storage

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:06:12PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: for commercial sponsors of FreeBSD, it has zero bearing on FreeBSD itself. If FreeBSD appears as a subsidiary of some commercial company (say Juniper) i am not sure this will be good I think any project that size is actually

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
Snippet from Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: I successfully predicted the fall of linux (in quality point of view) years ago, then netbsd - after this and my prediction were good. Now i predict FreeBSD will fall within 2015 time frame. What i mean fall - that it would be

Re: List flames (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Stephen Cook scli...@gmail.com: No, this is unusual. But also remember that most of these lists are not just unmoderated but open to posting without subscription. Then it becomes kind of amazing at how little flaming and trolling there is. That's not an accident, the admins work hard

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
Snippet from Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com: I have some friends that develop software. They had released it under GNU umbrella. Later on, other folks were taking advantage and not giving back as the license requires. There was little to no way to enforce the license, he decided

Re: Why Clang?

2012-06-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
on an experimental/testing installation, such as HEAD, where the basic intent is development. From Volodymyr Kostyrko: Thomas Mueller wrote: Now one concern is wine not working when Clang is used to make buildworld. For me I'm just waiting on toolchain stabilization as both this one and (open

Re: Why Clang?

2012-06-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 17 June 2012 21:37, Thomas Mueller mueller...@insightbb.com wrote: What is the current status of Clang vs. GCC as default compiler for ports and for make buildworld and make buildkernel in HEAD and 9.0-STABLE? http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsAndClang Now one concern is wine

Re: Why Clang?

2012-06-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
What is the current status of Clang vs. GCC as default compiler for ports and for make buildworld and make buildkernel in HEAD and 9.0-STABLE? Now one concern is wine not working when Clang is used to make buildworld. I see from reading the emailing lists that the intention is to make Clang the

USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
I can understand why I would see activity on a USB device when it's first plugged in. But why do I see continued activity (i.e. the light blinks on a usb disk or memory stick)? When I umount one of these, they keep being beat up on and it makes me nervous... At what point is it sync'd

Re: ports: make config-recursive doesn't really

2012-06-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org: I'm trying to build a script to rebuild and reinstall everything I have installed from ports. I don't want to have to keep checking on it and filling out the +appropriate check boxes for options. I naively assumed: for port in $ports do cd

Re: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

2012-06-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
Snippet from David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-March/239742.html It looks like -STABLE are daily development/ test builds (?): ftp://ftp.allbsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-snapshots/amd64-amd64/ I'm looking for stability. I'll try

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Snippet from Jerry je...@seibercom.net: I don't know of any user personally who purchased a new PC and then threw FreeBSD on it. Most users that I have come into contact with use 2+ year old units that have been replaced by shiny new Windows units. I don't see that changing anytime soon. I

Re: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

2012-06-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
- Original Message - From: David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com I have a new computer with an Intel i7-2600S processor and DQ67SWB3 motherboard that I'd like to run with ZFS, virtual machine host, desktop, Samba, and terminal server (on second NIC). Can this be done with

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS server with 2x 2TB disks and 2x4TB disks as storage - all spread out over 2

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Polytropon, you mention ppd files (.ppd or .ppd.gz). Is this the binary plugin that hplip was unable to install for me? Or am I grasping at straws? Somehow I thought the binary plugin was much bigger than the .ppd.gz files found in /usr/local/share/ppd/HP/ Tom

Re: (no subject)

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
For a server, you don't need a lot of fancy stuff such as Adobe Flash and do you need this for a non-server? Adobe don't want us (FreeBSD users) to use their closed-source software. And i respect their will and don't use it. Which resulted in much easier browsing by the way :) Some, too many,

Re: (no subject)

2012-06-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Well, I still see complains about a few quirks in 9 here in the list, specially after certain src updates. Re:Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148 Re: kern/168190: [pf] panic when using pf and route-to (maybe: bad fragment handling?) Re: ULE/sched issues on stable/9 -

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-06-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: seems you like to incredibly complicated things. It just happens that i configured that printer in one office and there is NO NEED for this windows-style crappy shit from HP. /usr/ports/print/hplip (make config and disable GUI trash) is

Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-02 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 06/02/12 12:07, Peter Vereshagin wrote: I am using a MSI N210 w/ FreeBSD 9-Stable. Seems to work Ok. Tom Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

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2012-06-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 29 May 2012 20:06, phnxcs_...@lycos.com wrote:    Hello,   I am moving away from MS products due to security a nd stability   concerns.  Below are the machines I use and would like to know which   version of FreeBSD will work best with each.  The computer s are used   at home and away,

Re: MK_CLANG_IS_CC mis-formed when compiling ports

2012-06-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 06/01/12 00:00, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 07:13:11PM -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I built FrfeeBSD 9 with WITHOUT_CLANG=Yes When I try to build the net/bwn-firmware-kmod/ I get an error that MK_CLANG_IS_CC is mis-formed. If I define this in make.conf, I get

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
freebsd-questions-owner@... is correct, except that to my knowledge there isn't really a moderator for freebsd-questions (it's an open list that anyone can post to without having to be a member) and that address ultimately gets dealt with by postmas...@freebsd.org. The message you got about

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 05/31/12 09:57, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged to an USB2(two!) reports da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 da5:ST1000LM 024 HN-M101MBB

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
From Gary Aitken a...@dreamchaser.org : I've got an HP printer directly connected to the local network. hp-probe finds it: #hp-probe -bnet HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2) Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 ... Device URI Model

MK_CLANG_IS_CC mis-formed when compiling ports

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I built FrfeeBSD 9 with WITHOUT_CLANG=Yes When I try to build the net/bwn-firmware-kmod/ I get an error that MK_CLANG_IS_CC is mis-formed. If I define this in make.conf, I get an error that the user may not set this. If I use 'make MK_CLANG_IS_CC=no' the port compiles. How do I fix this?

Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
When a list member has problems with the list that require contacting a human list owner/operator, what is the address to send to? I received a probe message regarding messages to me that bounced, might have been spams that slipped by the list's filters. I was advised in the message that the

Re: termcap/terminfo magicians anyone? // colors in vim

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
, the -T option should be used only if the automatic way (setting $TERM correctly) doesn't work. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpj6Yh3B2Vea.pgp Description: PGP signature

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