Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread perryh
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: We are pleased to announce a call for project proposals. We will accept proposals until February 15th. Please read Project Proposal Procedures to find out what needs to be included in your proposal. *end quote* Is this not what you want? This

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-15 Thread perryh
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 05:54:26PM +, Antonio Olivares wrote: ... For regular things, TeTeX is fine, but for bigger projects one can't do without texlive. I encountered the same problems with default tetex, but installed TeXLive from DVD and I no

Re: DOSBox: whole screen turns black

2011-07-14 Thread perryh
Adding emulation@ in hopes someone there will have an idea. emulation@ folks, please keep Philipp in the To: or Cc: since he may not be subscribed to emulation@. The original question is here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-July/231716.html Philipp

Re: DOSBox: whole screen turns black

2011-07-13 Thread perryh
Philipp trashave...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've installed DOSBox 0.74 from Ports on FreeBSD 8.2 STABLE. After starting DOSBox I get some weird graphical errors on the screen: short horizontal lines appear for less than a second, scattered on the whole screen. About 5 to 20 seconds later

Solved: Re: ssh -X (X11 forwarding) not working from 6.1 to 8.1

2011-07-12 Thread perryh
on the 8.1 system) on the ssh server -- although not on the ssh client. After installing it: $ ssh -Y fbsd81 'echo DISPLAY=%$DISPLAY%' /usr/local/bin/xauth: creating new authority file /home/perryh/.Xauthority DISPLAY=%localhost:10.0% and -X also works :) so this turns out to have been

Re: ssh -X (X11 forwarding) not working from 6.1 to 8.1

2011-07-12 Thread perryh
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:18:07AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: DISPLAY is not getting set in a remote shell started by ssh -X. ... Have you tried putting: DISPLAY=:0.0 in ~/.ssh/environment on the machine that's not setting DISPLAY

ssh -X (X11 forwarding) not working from 6.1 to 8.1

2011-07-11 Thread perryh
DISPLAY is not getting set in a remote shell started by ssh -X. $ echo $DISPLAY :0.0 $ ssh -X [server] 'echo DISPLAY=%$DISPLAY%' DISPLAY=%% How would I go about debugging this? DISPLAY _is_ set correctly on the ssh client -- I am running in an xterm there, and can successfully start

Re: ssh -X (X11 forwarding) not working from 6.1 to 8.1

2011-07-11 Thread perryh
Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: This sounds silly, but what happens if you try ssh -Y Exactly the same thing as with -X, in either direction. It still fails with the 6.1 system as the ssh client, and works with the 6.1 system as the ssh server ___

Re: ssh -X (X11 forwarding) not working from 6.1 to 8.1

2011-07-11 Thread perryh
Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: It still fails with the 6.1 system as the ssh client, and works with the 6.1 system as the ssh server Is X11Forwarding yes set in the server config of the failing direction? Both seem to be defaulted. On 6.1: $ egrep -C 2 X11Forwarding

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread perryh
Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: Let's face, ULE is not a silver bullet. Or perhaps it is, but this particular problem is so heavily armored as to demand depleted uranium :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Question about NIC link state initialization

2011-07-01 Thread perryh
Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net wrote: I was able to fix the single-user mode behavior (which I agree, isn't necessarily broken) and get it to bring up the links by simply patching init(8) to call system(/sbin/ifconfig) before prompting for the single-user shell. It works, but I feel dirty.

Re: Question about NIC link state initialization

2011-06-29 Thread perryh
Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net wrote: ... An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to end up in single-user mode ... some of these systems have a LOM (lights-out management) controller which shares the system's on-board NICs ... when the system drops out of init(8) and into

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-27 Thread perryh
Gyrd Thane Lange gyrd...@thanelange.no wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: ... The code in i386/boot2 and lib/libstand is written to find the / (or /boot) FS on a BSD partition of an fdisk primary partition (aka slice), or in a GPT partition, and

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread perryh
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: If building isn't an option then it's better to stick to one release trees at a time. Unfortunately, it seems that pkg_add(1) does not make that as easy as one might prefer. I discovered recently that, even though I am running 8.1-RELEASE (and not

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread perryh
d...@safeport.com wrote: If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, that would be a very useful howto. _Installing_ it in an extended partition is easy enough. geom(8) understands extended partitions (although sysinstall does not, so you need to install using Fixit# as for other

Re: FreeBSD reports incorrect amount of memory

2011-06-21 Thread perryh
Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com wrote: Machine has been running FreeBSD/amd64 with 2 GiB of memory. I just installed a 2nd 2 GiB of memory for 4 GiB total. FreeBSD thinks it now has 32 GiB ??? FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #22: Tue Jun ??7 12:37:21 PDT 2011 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+

mixing local and remote package repositories

2011-06-20 Thread perryh
No answer on ports@, maybe someone here knows. Suppose I start to install some packages using pkg_add -K -r and something goes wrong partway through. When trying again, AFAICT there is no way to tell pkg_add to first look for any package that it needs (e.g. dependencies) in the local repository

Re: upgrading the root FS to read-write

2011-06-19 Thread perryh
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: After booting 8.1-RELEASE single-user, what must I do to upgrade the root FS mount from read-only to read-write? I have tried: # mount -u / That's what I use. Try running fsck on it first. I

Re: Messages from MCA in the kernel log

2011-06-18 Thread perryh
Frederic Perrin f...@resel.fr wrote: ... I don't know what MCA, DRD, SNOOP and {D,G}CACHE stand for... MCA = Machine Check Architecture. DRD here probably refers to a data read cycle. SNOOP has to do with hardware-maintained cache coherency. DCACHE = data cache. Google and/or Wikipedia may

upgrading the root FS to read-write

2011-06-18 Thread perryh
After booting 8.1-RELEASE single-user, what must I do to upgrade the root FS mount from read-only to read-write? I have tried: # mount -u -o rw / # mount -u / # mount -u -w / and even # mount -u -w /dev/mirror/gm0a.journal / I don't get any error messages, but the FS remains read-only.

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-13 Thread perryh
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Sun's OpenWin (X11+Motif+DPS extension, IIRC) ... I'm fairly sure OpenWin did not include Motif, at least initially (although it may have been added later -- my experience with OpenWin ended with SunOS 4). olwm had a look and feel all its own.

Re: Query about FreeBSD and primary partitions requirements

2011-06-11 Thread perryh
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 11/06/2011 08:18, Bret Busby wrote: the current FreeBSD Handbook ... states FreeBSD must be installed into a primary partition. However, in the last couple of days, I have been advised that FreeBSD can be installed in, and,

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-05 Thread perryh
Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote: How do I wipe the whole thing in one go so that I can start afresh? gpart destroy ad4 ?? Yes, but first you must delete all of the slices/partitions. Think of it this way: you must go backwards down the path you just came with a delete for

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-04 Thread perryh
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Did you apply any updates shortly before it started to fail? No updates! I did however, install unrar through ports. Intuitively, that seems unlikely to have triggered the problem. I remember on other boards that went on me in the past with capacitor

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-03 Thread perryh
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: I have an ancient pre-HT PIV machine with 500MB RAM. ... Everything was running fine until round about 2 days ago when the system started locking up on me? ... is there anyway to fix the kernel error quickly? Did you apply any updates shortly before it

Re: acroread9 - kernel module load error

2011-06-02 Thread perryh
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 23:43:51 +0200, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: We need a kernel module to see some pdf with acrobat now? I was thinking exactly the same (without further investigation). I suspect it's because FreeBSD uses Linux

Re: Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?)

2011-05-20 Thread perryh
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: how to i get, say hello, \t how are \t you to translate to hello, how are you [?] in other words, tab - 1 space rather than the defaul of 4. You only need something like expand or tab.c if you want to convert each tab to a variable number of spaces

Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

2011-05-19 Thread perryh
Erik N?rgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: ... what is Serial Presence Detect RAM? SPD refers to an I2C device mounted on (most) DIMMS, which provides the BIOS with the DIMM's size and speed properties. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-15 Thread perryh
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Do _NOT_ hotplug the PS/2 port! It's not capable of that! I've seen myself in the past that trying so caused a mainboard to fly into the garbage can - as hotplugging the keyboard seemed to have damaged the PS/2 port (it didn't work anymore, with no

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-15 Thread perryh
Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: --As of May 15, 2011 8:03:29 PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com is alleged to have said: The AT and PS/2 keyboard interfaces are electrically identical -- only the physical connector is different. --As for the rest, it is mine. The physical connector is

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-14 Thread perryh
Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org wrote: let me ask you.. is sudo ping acceptable? Please explain the logical reason why not. It would be the preferred method if suid didn't exist and sudo was part of the base system. Without suid there would be no sudo ;) Part of the reason for ping

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-11 Thread perryh
Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org wrote: Seemed like I read that historically unix ran the #! command as the suid when it executed the file. Did Freebsd delete that functionality? (Otherwise how did suid scripts get the bad reputation if they could never execute suid.) There have

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-10 Thread perryh
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: ... it was the _initials_ of the name 'visual iinterace to ed(1). To ed(1), or to ex(1)? (ed(1) being the older -- and by a considerable margin the lighter, which is why we even now keep it in /bin where it does not depend on /usr being mounted.)

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-23 Thread perryh
Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Apologies for assuming you must have cc'd Jerry. I should have checked your original post in freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 359, Issue 4, which shows any ccs, but not headers such as Reply-To: per message .. That wasn't aimed at you, Ian, but at Jerry's

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread perryh
Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:01:28 -0500 Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu articulated: ... our entire network is on the blacklist ... Why are you blacklisted? It seems correcting that problem would be my first priority. Being a university,

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread perryh
Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: Actually yes. Ignoring for a moment the reply you sent me directly, conveniently bypassing the group forum, perry's message, like this one, was likely posted to you, cc the list. That's long been customary on freebsd lists, even this

Re: dhcpd in vmware

2011-04-06 Thread perryh
Kevin Wilcox kevin.wil...@gmail.com wrote: If you're just using the 192.168.4.129 - 254 addresses I would change it to subnet 192.168.4.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 Shouldn't that be netmask 255.255.255.128? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Port dependencies

2011-04-02 Thread perryh
Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 April 2011 00:58, Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org wrote: One of my biggest gripes with the ports system is dependency hell. I think you've misunderstood the term dependency hell [1]. Anyone who has spent hours struggling with rpm ... would

Re: graphical representation of `du`

2011-04-02 Thread perryh
Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I should port it... +1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD mirror server on a Debian operating system?

2011-03-27 Thread perryh
Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: ... the list does not 'mail-back' your e-mail ... i.e. you do not see your own post until someone replies to it. ... unless you go to the subscription page and select the option to be sent your own posts :)

Re: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes

2011-03-19 Thread perryh
Maxim Khitrov m...@mxcrypt.com wrote: ... these deviations should be noted in the man page to help eliminate such surprises. A single sentence would have sufficed in this case. As always, I'm sure patches would be welcome :) ___

logging to dmesg from userland

2011-03-13 Thread perryh
I am looking for a way to write into the kernel message buffer -- the one that dmesg prints out -- from a userland program, to help in relating kernel printf messages to the userland operations which provoked them. (Yes, I am aware of the potential DoS implications: the capability should be

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread perryh
John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy ... The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the device open just in case you might want to ask questions about it. I that case, shouldn't

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread perryh
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: lsof reports nothing open on either the mountpoint or the device. fstat blames gam_server: % fstat /home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage/ USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W NAME wblock gam_server 1409 776

Re: Server not booting

2011-03-09 Thread perryh
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: The motherboard doesn't recognize a USB stick for booting unfortunately. The motherboard manual is dated 2006 so I think its just too old for that. This http://www.plop.at/ can be loaded off just about any device the system _can_ boot from, and stands a

Re: grep: write error: Broken pipe

2011-03-06 Thread perryh
?? avs...@mail.ru wrote: ... how best can I repay you all? IMO, by paying it forward: as you become more familiar with/ knowledgeable of FreeBSD, continue to read freebsd-questions@ and assist when able. Everyone here was new to Unix and/or to FreeBSD at one time. Some of

Re: Firefox printing

2011-03-06 Thread perryh
ste...@mailer3.nospam.homeip.net wrote: With FreeBSD 8.2R and Firefox 3.6.13: When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too), the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good. When I do the same on Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get clear output. ...

Re: Bit order == byte order??

2011-03-04 Thread perryh
Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:26:12AM -0500, Frank Solensky wrote: In sys/netinet/ip.h, the first octet of the ip header structure tests the byte ordering to determine the ordering of the header length (ip_hl) and version (ip_v) fields. My

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-25 Thread perryh
Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.org wrote: tcsh is not a shell ... http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ If you are _that_ strongly opposed to (t)csh, sir, I submit that you are wasting your time reading and posting to a FreeBSD mailing list.

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

2011-02-19 Thread perryh
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A non-ZFS boot drive results in immediate, _guaranteed_, down-time for replacement if/when it fails. Not if it is gmirrored and hot-pluggable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: android

2011-02-16 Thread perryh
Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:39 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: You can check the partitioning of the da4 device with # fdisk da4 gpart show da4 is the modern way of doing this. Even if the disk was originally sliced and partitioned using

Re: script help

2011-02-15 Thread perryh
Jack L. Stone ja...@sage-american.com wrote: # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working script, I should be able to add it as a cron job to run on the first day of each new year. Before actually doing this,

Re: I have a question?

2011-02-13 Thread perryh
Jack L. xxjack1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Dieter dschoen...@frontier.com wrote: Can you use windows programs in freebsd? If you install wine, yes. _and_ if the windows programs you want to run _work_ in wine. Wine intends to become a complete win32

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread perryh
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: But for users who do not wish to learn anything ... the Microsoft Way fits the bill. ^ Of course. It's his company. But does it fit anyone else? ;-) ___

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-05 Thread perryh
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Somebody saying I'll buy it, if it supports _this_ scanner is motivation. So perhaps what is needed is for N FreeBSD users to say I'll buy it, if it runs on FreeBSD. Any guesses on how large an N would be needed to provide sufficient motivation?

Re: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-25 Thread perryh
Bahman Kahinpour bahman.li...@gmail.com wrote: Is AHCI mode the best mode for SATA controller? (highest speed, utilizing all fancy features, ...) In general, probably yes, provided the combination of hardware and driver actually works properly _all_ the time :) AHCI is new enough that the

Re: strange behaviour

2011-01-15 Thread perryh
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: # ping 10.7.7.7 PING 10.7.7.7 (10.7.7.7): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Invalid argument ping: sendto: Invalid argument ping: sendto: Invalid argument what is problem and how to fix?? Where are you routing 10.7.7.7 to? If you don't have a

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread perryh
Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Swe, I suspect the reason you can't just delete these files is likely because something has them open for writing, and the system won't let you remove such files, naturally enough. Really? Must be a fairly recent change -- and IMO not necessarily a good

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-14 Thread perryh
Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: ... I believe rm (-f) still requires *SOME* free space on a device to delete something. That being said, do you have more then 50G free elsewhere on the system? Say /home (/usr/home)? If you do, mv the file from /var/log to /usr/home. This would

Re: problem with shell script

2011-01-13 Thread perryh
David Scheidt dsche...@panix.com wrote: ps ax | grep [s]lapd | wc -l The [] creates a one-character class that doesn't match the regex. Doesn't [s]lapd need to be quoted? [] are special to (at least some) shells. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: How to clean system

2011-01-08 Thread perryh
keram...@freebsd.org (Giorgos Keramidas) wrote: Packages should never install stuff in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. Ports should *only* install files in /usr/local/... There are a few ports that includes options to override base-system files in /usr but these are the exception. The doc ports

Re: Help with nanobsd.sh??

2011-01-08 Thread perryh
Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: looks like NANO_MEDIASIZE=120 in nanobsd.sh is too small possibly IOW nanobsd will no longer fit on a 5.25 floppy? I'm _shocked_ :) A bit more seriously, it would be nice if it will still fit on a 3.5 floppy -- there are likely quite a few of

kernel config =? kernel code

2011-01-02 Thread perryh
This feels like a really dumb (as in, the answer should be obvious) question, but so far it has eluded me: Given an option name in the kernel configuration file, how -- exactly -- does the directive to include or exclude that option get translated into particular code (source lines, .o files,

Re: csup and build question

2011-01-01 Thread perryh
Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 20:44:01 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: If programs or other components of the world do have to be in sync with kernel or system files (sys/*.h), then I conclude that world also has to be compiled. In this regards, it means

broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

2011-01-01 Thread perryh
The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended article. A search for geom on that page retrieves 53 articles, none of which seem even vaguely related. Does

Re: broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

2011-01-01 Thread perryh
Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: On Sat Jan 1 11, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended article ...

Re: broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

2011-01-01 Thread perryh
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:57 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended

Re: disyfiles

2010-12-30 Thread perryh
wayne mitchell wayne.mitchell...@gmail.com wrote: i would like to get a hold of all 'relevant' distilfes - the current size of the complete distfiles tree is 140GB i have cottoned onto the idea of having somebody copy the entire tree onto HDD and posting it over ... happy to pay a few bucks

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-29 Thread perryh
Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: Most of the time, possessives are formed with apostrophe+s. I'm not sure, but its might be the only exception to the rule ... It's seems to be the most common misusage, but I have seen her's, our's, and occasionally their's. Interestingly, I've

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-28 Thread perryh
Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: ... could this be the fact that this is a really large drive and the bios is 'freaking' out (for lack of a better term) and not properly presenting the disk to the system? ... The disk is a different spindle-speed then the old one. [..] 250G -

Re: [Bulk] FreeBSD crash and CMOS bad checksum

2010-12-27 Thread perryh
Alexandre axel...@ymail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:59 AM, David Demelier mark...@live.fr wrote: I was working and suddenly FreeBSD freezes, I needed to hard reboot and when the BIOS post came two beeps appears with this message: CMOS/GPNV checksum bad ... What does that

Re: FBSD 8: custom kernel config ends boot at mountroot. Plz. help!

2010-12-19 Thread perryh
Rob spamref...@yahoo.com wrote: My system boots fine with the GENERIC kernel on FreeBSD 8.0 I made a custom kernel, but the boot process then ends with the mountroot error and prompt. One thing to try is entering ? there, to produce a list of recognized filesystems. Comparing that list with

where are the handbooks?

2010-12-18 Thread perryh
Which of the 8.1-RELEASE distribution sets contains the handbook, developer's handbook, porter's handbook, etc? I thought I had searched everywhere, but must have missed something. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: where are the handbooks?

2010-12-18 Thread perryh
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:09:16 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Which of the 8.1-RELEASE distribution sets contains the handbook, developer's handbook, porter's handbook, etc? Those distributions were a mystery to me the first time I installed FreeBSD

Re: can't mount root during freebsd-update 7.0 - 8.1 on amd64

2010-12-05 Thread perryh
David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Here : http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html GEOM_PART becomes the default slicer Status: Committed to -CURRENT Will appear in 8.0: sure Author: Marcel Moolenaar others Web: commit message GEOM_PART (gpart) is a new GEOM

Re: can't mount root during freebsd-update 7.0 - 8.1 on amd64

2010-12-05 Thread perryh
Andrey V. Elsukov bu7c...@yandex.ru wrote: NOTE: Some old utilities like bsdlabel may not work if the kernel doesn't include GEOM_BSD and other old slicer classes. In other words, bsdlabel et al don't work with GEOM_PART. Does this mean that, in 8.1-RELEASE, bsdlabel/disklabel will

Re: regex question....

2010-12-04 Thread perryh
Joshua Gimer jgi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I have tried :1,$/s/[0-9]][0-9][0-9]/foo/g Why not just %s/[0-9]*/foo/g Too broad -- it will match the null string. (* means zero or more instances of whatever preceded it.) Best RE I

Re: Support for hard drives 2 TB?

2010-12-03 Thread perryh
Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:12:58 -0600 Josh Paetzel j...@tcbug.org wrote: ... The caveat is that very few systems have a BIOS that can boot from a GPT labeled drive. So regardless of your OS, you may still have issues. That's why we have the Protective MBR

Re: Console Messages

2010-11-28 Thread perryh
Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: ... You may need to go -hackers for this... What is -hackers? freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org? Yep. I've observed a tendency not to put full listn...@domain addresses in messages, perhaps in an attempt to avoid harvesting by spammers :(

Re: missing digest mail?

2010-11-27 Thread perryh
Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: I just noticed, that I seem to have missed some digest mails, Vol 338, issues 4 to 7. (No list mail between the 24th and 27th November, only direct mails from list members.) Nothing in the spam bucket here either. Hopefully nothing useful to me passed

Re: a gmirror disappears after adding gjournals to its partitions

2010-11-25 Thread perryh
CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: ... I hope it makes sense! No problem with the explanation making sense; what I don't follow is the behavior of bsdlabel. Given the way I set it up this drive _should_ contain _two_ labels, but for some unfathomable reason bsdlabel seems to be using

Re: foo; no such thing as a dual-nic atom firewall

2010-11-24 Thread perryh
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I can't find an atom cpu computer with dual NICs. Dunno about having them on-board, but anything with a Poulsbo SCH should have two PCIe channels, each of which could be used for a NIC. ___

Re: a gmirror disappears after adding gjournals to its partitions

2010-11-24 Thread perryh
CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: If the kldstat Id numbers are assigned sequentially, it looks as if geom_journal got loaded first and this may somehow be related (although I don't entirely see how -- absent geom_mirror to make gm0 and its partitions visible, I'd think that

Re: a gmirror disappears after adding gjournals to its partitions

2010-11-22 Thread perryh
krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 November 2010 06:10, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: ... manually-created config files, while still in chroot after install Fixit# cat /boot/loader.conf geom_mirror_load=YES geom_journal_load=YES vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0a.journal

a gmirror disappears after adding gjournals to its partitions

2010-11-20 Thread perryh
Is there something wrong with this sequence, in Fixit: * create a mirror * partition it with disklabel * create journals on the partitions * install * reboot? After rebooting, the mirror had disappeared and the journals seemed to exist directly on partitions of the mirror's provider rather than

Re: disk recovery problem(s)

2010-11-19 Thread perryh
Thomas Exner thomas.ex...@uni-konstanz.de wrote: when running fsck the first error message is ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED ... Is there a chance to get the data back? Dunno about current versions, but IIRC some earlier versions of dump(8) could handle even a badly-corrupted FS. No harm in trying,

Re: NFS setup

2010-11-18 Thread perryh
n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote: I try to set up NFS between two freebsd-8.1 systems. ... # ps -jaxw | grep rpcbind root 747 1 747 7470 Ss??0:00.01 /usr/sbin/rpcbind ... client# mount server.subdomain.topdomain:/home /mnt (or client# mount

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-16 Thread perryh
Wojciech Puchar woj...@tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: there will no no next language. there is no need to have C follower. C is perfect Which C are you referring to here? The original KR, ANSI, or some other variant? ANSI C is different enough from KR C -- in strength of typing if nothing else --

History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread perryh
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 02:32:04PM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: should the one-leter name for 'c++' be 'd' or 'p'? (nobody could decide/agree, which *IS* why it is 'c++' to this day) ... D is already another programming language ... It wasn't back

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-09 Thread perryh
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: The STRENGTH OF GUI (yes, I'm really saying that) is to aid using language elements, CLI. Arranging windows, presenting information, displaying structures, managing things. GUI alone, with no functional substance behind it, is useless. Sadly, you'll find

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-09 Thread perryh
Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 335, Issue 11, Message: 4 On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 01:00:34 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Julian Fagir g...@physik.tu-berlin.de wrote: Does anyone has a generate-pi.c source code? ... 1 #include stdlib.h

Re: (no subject)

2010-11-07 Thread perryh
wayne mitchell waynemitch...@directsave.net wrote: i would like to get a hold of the 8.1 CURRENT 'distfiles' ... is there a source that makes dvd images of the distfile directory http://on-disk.com/cms/index.php?wiki=CustomDisc ___

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-06 Thread perryh
Julian Fagir g...@physik.tu-berlin.de wrote: Does anyone has a generate-pi.c source code? ... 1 #include stdlib.h 2 #include string.h 3 #include stdio.h 4 5 // Change this for a more accurate result. 6 long max = 1; 7 double a, b; 8 double pi; 9 long counter;

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread perryh
App Deb appde...@gmail.com!appdebgr@agora.rdrop.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Steven Susbauer ste...@too1337.com wrote: Sun was able to successfully sue Microsoft for similar reasons in 1997 (incomplete implementation of the Java standard). If I remember correctly, the Microsoft

Re: version of slapd?

2010-11-05 Thread perryh
Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: I will put /usr/local/libexec/ on my path when I get a chance ... This is not necessarily a good idea. Usually things are installed into libexec instead of into bin to keep them _out of_ the path. ___

Re: sysinstall(8) bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread perryh
Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: sysinstall probes hardware when it starts. Therefore, after making changes (specifically after writing) to the disk in the FDISK partition editor, you need to Ctrl-C and Abort-out and relaunch sysinstall so that it probes the new disk devices (ad4s1, ad4s2,

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-31 Thread perryh
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: % man csh | less +/rehash [...] Error executing formatting or display command. system command exited with status 36096 Error executing formatting or display command. system command exited with status 36096 No manual entry for csh % ...

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards..

2010-10-28 Thread perryh
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Plus . . . I like pie. A bit out of season, aren't we? It's nowhere near 1 minute before 2 on March 14. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread perryh
Svein Skogen (Listmail account) svein-listm...@tillbilde.net wrote: On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?: PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back

Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread perryh
Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?: PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX 780 days :-) I booted my first UNIX V7 tape on a PDP-11 around 1982, I think. Gotcha beat :) UNIX

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