Re: kernel designations terminology confusion -- amd64 used for into quad core

2009-08-06 Thread perryh
Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl wrote: ... PowerPC is dead ... I suspect both IBM and Freescale would beg to differ :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Weird networking issue

2009-08-04 Thread perryh
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Joel Dahlj...@vnode.se wrote: [snip description of network flakiness on one server, out of several on the same switch behind the same gateway] Any ideas? :-) I have 2: 1.) Bad NIC 2.) Bad CPU 3. Bad cable from

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-08-01 Thread perryh
Gardner Bell gbel...@rogers.com wrote: The stench from Denmark is getting to me... ;-) Insulting much with your remark about Denmark? Methinks it be an oblique reference to a line from Shakespeare's play about the Dane with no insult intended, then or now.

1 linux_base port (Re: 7.2 amd64 Flash)

2009-07-26 Thread perryh
Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca writes: I already had f8 installed as well as fc-4 That's wrong. Two linux_base ports should not be installed at a system ... Might it be advisable for each new linux_base port to declare itself incompatible with all earlier ones,

Re: intel atom mobo support; ASUS AT3GC ?

2009-07-24 Thread perryh
Henrik Hudson li...@rhavenn.net wrote: [snip Q about support of Realtek 8112 NIC] One will be a dual-homed box, so I need both the onboard and the single PCI slot. Or, perhaps, a one-slot dual-port NIC using already-supported devices -- provided someone still makes such.

Re: Support of UDF ISO-13346 on 7.1-RELEASE-p2

2009-07-19 Thread perryh
Bryant Eadon bryant.ea...@gmail.com wrote: ... sudo mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt/iso/ ## lists only a single file 'readme.txt' : This disc contains a UDF file system and requires an operating system that supports the ISO-13346 UDF file system specification. ## lovely .. sudo mount -t

Re: Strange (repeatable) hang when ripping a CD

2009-07-19 Thread perryh
jw jwde...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Polytroponfree...@edvax.de wrote: Maybe wrong cable (40 pin)? The device detached message doesn't look good. First of all, it shouzld at least be UDMA66. Maybe defective drive due to failing TUR taskqueuing? Wow, thanks for the

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-18 Thread perryh
Elliot Finley efinley.li...@gmail.com wrote: A T1 can only run about 600 feet. Yes, that's right, 600 feet. When people talk about T1s running long distances, the reference to 'T1' is only the signalling at the end. In the middle, that T1 will be carried by other methods such as SONET over

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-18 Thread perryh
So . . . how do I upgrade Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 without running the risk of losing everything (bookmarks, a 100-tab session, et cetera)? Well, I don't think those settings get altered in any way - they do not reside in the port's directories (where it will be installed into). To be

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-17 Thread perryh
David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no special hardware? After reading (at least most of) the discussion that has arisen from this, I've had another

Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync

2009-07-05 Thread perryh
insrc informatique@gmail.com wrote: it seems that i've to use a BSD liveCD but i can't find one :-/ www.freesbie.org The site is not responding for me ATM, but the text is cached here: http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:WjK0Anp5tb4J:www.freesbie.org/+freesbie+freebsdhl=engl=usstrip=1

Re: how do I append a PR I submitted?

2009-06-30 Thread perryh
Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: See subject It is impolite to expect someone responding to a message to have to go back to the subject line like this. See subject is a very inadequate and somewhat tersely offensive. To each his own, I guess. In the case of a one-liner question

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread perryh
ed is an interactive program, and it has always been considered as such, at least since BSD 4.2. Way back then there were three main editors, ex, vi, and ed. ed goes back at least as far as the Bell Labs 6th Edition (PDP-11), where it was the only editor in the distribution. ex and vi (and

OT: Dark humor (Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start)

2009-06-20 Thread perryh
Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Aside: My Bonnie looked into a gas tank, The height of its contents to see! She lit a small match to assist her, Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me. Hah... I like that. Dark, but witty. I first heard it some 50 years ago, and it was not new

Re: need network printer printcap example

2009-06-11 Thread perryh
dacoder d...@dcoder.net wrote: has anybody got an example of a printcap file w/ an entry for a standalone network printer? This is for a printer that understands lpd protocol natively, and it presumes that you will send it only languages that it understands natively. (This one happens to be

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-10 Thread perryh
Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: Thanks to all. In this case, I made SIGTSTP have the same effect in the program that CTRL-C does (SIGINT) so now either signal makes the application remove the lock and quit gracefully. To each his own, I guess. To anyone familiar with

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread perryh
Roland Smith xs4all.nl!rsm...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: Having trouble mounting the ISO: [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-30 Thread perryh
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Even 15 seconds of thinking is enough to understand that logging to other user and then su - gives completely no extra security. I don't buy this, given that root's login name

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-29 Thread perryh
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: CUPS isn't extra software in my opinions. CUPS is a PITA, but it may nevertheless be the least bad solution if one is stuck with a junk printer. Decent, network-capable, PostScript printers do not have to be costly. I bought a Samsung ML-2571N at Fry's for

Re: character sets for file names on ufs?

2009-05-29 Thread perryh
Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: ... ufs filenames have no assumed character set. I take it the / character is the same across all encodings then? Last I knew the pathname separator was treated specially. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-29 Thread perryh
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Even 15 seconds of thinking is enough to understand that logging to other user and then su - gives completely no extra security. I don't buy this, given that root's login name is well known :) If a system accepts remote root logins, an

Re: character sets for file names on ufs?

2009-05-29 Thread perryh
Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl wrote: % touch ??? ? ?? ?? ??? % ls ??? ? ?? ?? ??? % rm ???\ ?\ ??\ \ ??\ ???\ % (I don't have a clue what that means btw) Here it

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-29 Thread perryh
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: ... If the printer has PS or PCL, gs or even apsfilter will help. Dunno about PCL, but if the printer has PS it surely does not need gs. The whole point of gs -- in connection with printing -- is to translate PS into some other form that a non-PS printer can

Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-25 Thread perryh
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: even more important - why you are upgrading at all. did you find in 7.1 problems that you wanted to solve by moving to 7.2? Are you suggesting a user should

Re: proftpd TLS

2009-05-20 Thread perryh
alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: ... i guess my main concern it not to run it as root now AFAIK it is normal for a daemon to run as root if it expects to receive login credentials: * For any but the most minimal authentication scheme, it must be root to authenticate the credentials. (A scheme

Re: matlab 2009a

2009-05-17 Thread perryh
Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: FreeBSD7-amd64 linux_base-fc-4_14 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64) When running the install script, I get cat: /proc/cpuinfo: No such file or directory ... What is this /proc/cpuinfo file not found? Perhaps you do not

Re: how to fix interrupt storm

2009-05-17 Thread perryh
Nicolais got2get.net...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: PerryH-2 wrote: There are no USB devices connected. I think those must actually be atapci1 interrupts, since irq9 is where dmesg reported it. I think this could be related to previous issues on same topic. I don't recall the thread titles

Re: Emailing 100+ PDFs, one at a time, to a given address

2009-05-15 Thread perryh
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com wrote: I need to email 100s of PDFs, 1 per email, to a given address. What's the easiest way to do this? /usr/bin/Mail won't work, since PDFs are binary, so I must

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread perryh
Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: From all the discussion I have walked through on the issue of where to place vi, it does appear FreeBSD has a skewed policy on the issue. There are plenty of reasons you might need access an editor in single-user mode - editing fstab is just one.

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-14 Thread perryh
Chris Rees googlemail.com!utis...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: 2009/5/14 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:38:30AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: I think the problem with that is he meant changing the root shell to /usr/local/bin/bash. You're better off using /bin/sh if you

Re: how to fix interrupt storm

2009-05-10 Thread perryh
Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/9/09, per...@pluto.rain.com per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/8/09, per...@pluto.rain.com per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: What, exactly, is an interrupt storm, and how do I fix it? ... interrupt storm

Re: how to fix interrupt storm

2009-05-10 Thread perryh
Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/10/09, per...@pluto.rain.com per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: ... interrupt storm detected on irq9:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq9:; throttling interrupt source ad6: FAILURE - SET_MULTI

Re: how to fix interrupt storm

2009-05-09 Thread perryh
Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/8/09, per...@pluto.rain.com per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: What, exactly, is an interrupt storm, and how do I fix it? ... interrupt storm detected on irq9:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq9:; throttling interrupt

how to fix interrupt storm

2009-05-08 Thread perryh
What, exactly, is an interrupt storm, and how do I fix it? I have added a 64GB Patriot flash drive to a 7.0 system, but it does not seem to be working properly. Pertinent parts of dmesg.boot: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008

Re: clear old output in login screen?

2009-05-05 Thread perryh
Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Monday 04 May 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: ... ? #!/bin/csh ? clear ? vidcontrol -C ? exec /usr/bin/login.real $@ But this wouldn't prevent someone scrolling back with the scroll lock key before logging in. I assume the OP's

Re: clear old output in login screen?

2009-05-03 Thread perryh
jw jwde...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: echo $TERM | grep cons25 /dev/null clear vidcontrol -C Aha! I didn't know about 'vidcontrol -C' That combined with 'clear' does the trick. However... Is there any way I could have this

SATA flash drive vs 7.0

2009-05-03 Thread perryh
Should FreeBSD handle SATA-attached flash drives? I have added a 64GB Patriot flash drive to a 7.0 system, but it does not seem to be working properly. Pertinent parts of dmesg.boot: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-11 Thread perryh
Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com wrote: I could also distribute the ports tree ... I wonder if it's necessary to distribute the entire ports tree. Perhaps it would suffice to distribute a timestamp for csup/cvsup to retrieve the appropriate version.

USB SD-card reader recognized, but not working, on 6.1

2009-04-09 Thread perryh
Trying here, after no answer on usb@ When I plug in the reader, I get (on the console): umass0: SDMMC M121 USB 2.0 SD/MMC READER, rev 2.00/2.01, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB 2.0 SD/MMC Reader \001\000\000? Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s

Re: USB SD-card reader recognized, but not working, on 6.1

2009-04-09 Thread perryh
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Are you sure that the drive isn't partitioned? In other words, if you plug in the drive, and you give the command 'ls /dev/da0*', do you only get /dev/da0 or perhaps also /dev/da0s1? If it is partitioned, try /dev/da0s? instead. It's an SD card, not a

Re: USB SD-card reader recognized, but not working, on 6.1

2009-04-09 Thread perryh
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:47:23PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: It's an SD card, not a drive, so I had not expected it to be partitioned; but yes, it is: $ ls -l /dev/da0* crw-r- 1 root operator0, 244 Feb 14 15:09 /dev/da0

Re: USB SD-card reader recognized, but not working, on 6.1

2009-04-09 Thread perryh
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:47:23 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: It's an SD card, not a drive, so I had not expected it to be partitioned; but yes, it is: $ ls -l /dev/da0* crw-r- 1 root operator0, 244 Feb 14 15:09 /dev/da0 crw-r- 1

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-04 Thread perryh
Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: My suggestion is to start with a ports tree that is fixed in time. Make that ports tree available as part of this package system and compile a typical desktop set of ports ... Isn't this exactly what is currently done as part of a release? The ports

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-04 Thread perryh
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: But I do need to figure out how to get the subversion archive (not a particular branch of the archive, the whole kit and kaboodle). devel/svk? (From a mention last December; I have

Re: Fetching directories inclusive subdirectories on HTTP server via fetch or othe FreeBSD-own tools?

2009-04-02 Thread perryh
O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: I need to fetch a whole directory tree from a public remote site. The top level directory and its subdirectories are accessible via ftp:// and http:// so I tried fetch, but fetch does only retrieve data on file basis and does not copy a whole

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-02 Thread perryh
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: But I do need to figure out how to get the subversion archive (not a particular branch of the archive, the whole kit and kaboodle). devel/svk? (From a mention last December; I have not tried it.) ___

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread perryh
Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: If the connection is down, I am probably NOT using the PC. Hell, if the power is out for more than 30 minutes, my UPS is dead so I am most definitely not using the machine. So you never experience connectivity problems for any reason other than a local power

Heller-Johnson syndrome (Re: installing freebsd on windows)

2009-03-28 Thread perryh
Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists. Johnson's Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within the organization. Author unknown: If someone *does* know what is going on in the organization, that person must be

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread perryh
Polytropon edvax.de!free...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:39:38 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: From a terminal window command line xbiff -geometry 50x50-5+5 puts it in my upper right corner, [...] Do you use -5 to get rid of a window border added

Re: utility that scans lan for client?

2009-03-24 Thread perryh
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Monday 23 March 2009 19:59:36 John Almberg wrote: What I'm looking for is a utility that can scan a LAN for attached clients... i.e., computers that are attached to the LAN. I have one box (an appliance that I have no

Re: Is NFS Locking Reliable?

2009-03-11 Thread perryh
Our NFS servers for user home directories are on FreeBSD (6.4), MacOSX (10.5), Linux (still 2.4 kernel) and Tru64-UNIX boxes; NFS clients are mostly Linux (2.6 kernel) and FreeBSD (6.4, 7.0, but w/o kernel lockd) systems. I have seen problems with NFS locking even in completely homogeneous

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-04 Thread perryh
If the machines have floppies, there are downloadable floppy images. Is anyone aware of a simple method to construct a bootable zip-drive image from the floppy images and/or bootonly.iso? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: portmanager/portmaster like application for packages?

2009-03-01 Thread perryh
Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2009 23:06:10 Fbsd1 wrote: I am looking for software like portmanager/portmaster but works on the package system instead of the port system. Is there such am application available? Not (yet). Without /usr/ports it's

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-02-28 Thread perryh
Chris Rees googlemail.com!utis...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: That passage says that any agreement with the knowledge of the relationship in good faith is valid. Where does it mention the difference between a click-through licence and an oral agreement? With apologies to a certain former U.S.

Re: disk/drive-bay problem

2009-02-26 Thread perryh
g_vfs_done():da4s1d[READ(offset=261868847104, length=16384)]error = 5 ... 1. This only happens on drive-bay 4. If I swap the 300 Gig drives around, they are all happy in any drive-bay but number 4 ... 2. The old 145Gig drives work perfectly in any bay, including bay 4. ... Why would one

Re: new hardware platform?? :-)

2009-02-25 Thread perryh
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Robert Huff wrote: Has any one seen more on this? http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10170648-1.html http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp They claim only Linux support for the brick, but the blurb on the 88F6281 system-on-chip processor claims BSD

Re: hi

2009-02-22 Thread perryh
You can always check out ... from a date before its removal from the ports/ tree ... If you need help with maintaining a local copy of the relevant ports ... let me know and I'll write a short mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and building them as local ports. This

Re: NanoBSD :: smallest image size

2009-02-21 Thread perryh
Tim Judd gmail.com!taj...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 23:48 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I did consider running it off a straight cd, but I alter my routes enough through various tunnels I have established that this would be a pain. (i.e. updating vtund configs)

Re: NanoBSD :: smallest image size

2009-02-19 Thread perryh
I did consider running it off a straight cd, but I alter my routes enough through various tunnels I have established that this would be a pain. (i.e. updating vtund configs) ... System on CD, reading config from floppy? ___

Re: disk recovery problem II

2009-02-07 Thread perryh
huff@ newfs /dev/da3a /dev/da3a: 78167.2MB (160086512 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 426 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624, 3010976, ...

Re: NFSv2 Wrong FS Size

2009-02-05 Thread perryh
you could rebuild df to print its numbers as unsigned instead of signed. Just watch out if your local filesystems start eating into their 8% reserve, since they'll start reporting huge values. Or patch df to print local filesystem sizes as signed -- so that the reserve

Re: OT: SVN checkout checksumming

2009-02-05 Thread perryh
I want to use SVN to automate the update process of a custom application. So, I'm planning to indicate to every PC to update periodically to a specific branch of the repository. The problem is that I need to be sure the files where not corrupted during the transfer. So, I'm planning to

Re: NFSv2 Wrong FS Size

2009-02-04 Thread perryh
1755708928*1024/512 = 3511417856 blocks. This number is larger than 2^31, which techinically isn't a problem because the NFSv2 spec says that the filesystem size is unsigned. FreeBSD treats it as signed, though, so it can display negative free space when root starts using its 8% reserve, so

Re: no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots

2009-02-04 Thread perryh
Brief power outage, perhaps? ... note: the box is a laptop; I hit the power-off button and pulled out the 220V power cable of the power-supply from the outlet (that's why later the laptop after 2h uptime failed with battery empty) ... So much for the power-bounce theory. Perhaps you have

Re: no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots

2009-02-03 Thread perryh
I'm searching for monkeys or intruders ... Brief power outage, perhaps? Some BIOS have a selection of what to do when power is restored from an outage, typical choices being to start up, remain off, or return to the state before power was lost. Others may offer only the first two, or be

Re: Tool to uncat file

2009-02-01 Thread perryh
before starting to code on my own, I'd like to ask if there's already a tool to uncat files, defining the file separation position as a string of bytes, usually given in hexadecimal form. An example could be this: % uncat -p 0x12,0x52,0xf1,0x09 file_orig It creates file_1

Re: remove kerberos 5 from FreeBSD

2009-01-25 Thread perryh
... bsd.own.mk can be ahead of the man page. Perhaps the OP would consider writing a sed script to generate /usr/share/examples/etc/src.conf from /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

2009-01-25 Thread perryh
I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64). What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines, but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture. I also want to make rebuilding indexes run as

Re: Registry corrupt?

2009-01-24 Thread perryh
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: describe something more. and what you mean rehash? Rehashing forces the shell to reinitialise (for want of a better term) so that it rechecks the path and can sometimes discover new programs installed if they don't seem to work ...

Re: Comfortable dd bs= parameters for different media

2009-01-24 Thread perryh
I'd like to ask which sizes are comfortable to use for reading from different media using the dd utility ... In case anyone still cares, I have long used bs=120b for floppy disks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-23 Thread perryh
You can always try to tar it up directly tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/ Does it actually work to write to a burner without intervention by the likes of cdrecord or burncd? If so, should it also be possible to burn an existing .iso by something like dd if=cd1.iso of=/dev/acd0 bs=64b

Re: Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?

2009-01-20 Thread perryh
there is also the droboshare. great little fileserver. Last I knew Drobo supported only Samba, not NFS -- but that was some time ago. Have they come out with an upgrade? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-13 Thread perryh
is there anything specific I should look at for switches or just dump /dev/ad2s1 | restore? Use:dump 0af - | restore -rf - It would be advisable to read the dump and restore manpages first. In 6.1, and I suspect still in 6.2, restore -r should be used only when restoring onto an

Re: NFS fstab style

2009-01-13 Thread perryh
Can someone confirm that these two lines are the same -or- if one is preferred over the other ? Code: 192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,-b,-i 0 0 192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,bg,intr 0 0 I've never seen the style of line 1 before, no idea whether it would work or not.

Re: FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work

2009-01-12 Thread perryh
... I do have a Linux OS that I have access to that strangely does use vpnc successfully. That may help quite a bit. You can use something like tcpdump or wireshark on the FreeBSD system to monitor the traffic between the Linux system and the Cisco while connecting and doing something simple

Re: FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work

2009-01-11 Thread perryh
I also have this problem, the difference being that mine **USED to** work, but now it suddenly stoped working. I tried adding the line to my conf file as you did, but for me, the problem remains: Appears to connect and authenticate successfully to my office's VPN concentrator Once

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-11 Thread perryh
mojo fms fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote: I was working on an upgrade to 6.3 from 6.2 and I lost power during the install which hosed most of my system. Instead of trying to really recover it I decided to just rebuild. I have a backup of my /etc and /usr/local/etc on a different drive that

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread perryh
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: 1U=4.5cm Approximately :) At least in the US, 1U = 1.75 inches = 4.445 cm, so an 18cm case will not quite fit into 4U. Perhaps metric racks are different. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread perryh
If a hard disk formatted and used in a position , in that position it may be used if manufacturer is NOT advised a specific position. After loading of files into hard disk , change of position may cause difficulty in reading of already recorded data . This point should be considered . Sun,

FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work

2009-01-04 Thread perryh
I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco VPN system, and it seems to make the connection, but after connecting I can't ping the gateway nor anything beyond it ... It turned out the only problem was the absence of NAT Traversal Mode cisco-udp in vpnc.conf. (Presumably

vpnc connects, but does not work

2008-12-29 Thread perryh
I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco VPN system, and it seems to make the connection, but after connecting I can't ping the tun0 interface nor anything beyond it. The symptom seems to resemble what is described in the Routing section of

Re: running asfiles on windowmaker...

2008-12-29 Thread perryh
Does anyone know how to run asfiles on windowmaker? Whereis its executable? (path) I have no idea what asfiles is, but I would assume `which asfiles' would tell you where it is located. ... unless it's not in PATH, and the OP is asking which directory needs to be added. asfiles is a

Re: [6.3] Assigning shutdown to eg. Syst?

2008-12-23 Thread perryh
The only other thing being in group operator lets you run, apart from what you've added into /etc/devfs.{conf,rules} is /sbin/mksnap_ffs .. In a default devfs config, it grants read permission to the disk devices (presumably to enable running dump(8)).

Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

2008-12-19 Thread perryh
As svn, when I try to delete the folder (/home/my_repos), I get the error Permission denied. Why do I get this error when I (svn) am the owner of that directory? To remove anything that is located in /home, including a directory such as /home/my_repos, user svn would need write permission in

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread perryh
Unfortunately, anything covered by a patent, as I hinted above, is verboten. Er, doesn't it depend on what is patented? If the h/w itself is patented, but its software-visible interface is not, there should be no problem writing a driver for that h/w. OTOH if the algorithms used in the

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-13 Thread perryh
after reading all these posts, i've still come up with this answer after looking .. freebsd - the power to serve Might one reasonably surmise that the power to serve implies doing a good job of running server software? Like mail servers, FTP servers, web servers, file servers, database

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-05 Thread perryh
Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ... AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing nothing important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR.

Re: QT4.5 packages

2008-12-05 Thread perryh
Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have or know of where to download the pkg files for the various Qt4.5 ports as using pkg_add is the only way im able to add them atm. You can find many packages for several releases under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386

Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms...

2008-12-02 Thread perryh
... I'm trying to remember why I did not like pkg_add -r. IIRC, one issue with pkg_add -r is that it insists on doing everything from the remote repository, and will not bother looking for any packages (incl. dependencies) locally first. This makes sense for a brand-new installation where you

Re: shell scripting problems

2008-11-29 Thread perryh
In the shell script, i have a pkg_info -qLx ^$PKG-[0-9,._]+$ also tried (-X)tended regex instead of the standard rege(-x). sh keeps erroring out saying various $ isn't a valid variable name ... Both sh and csh will try to treat $ inside of as a variable reference. Does it work any

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-19 Thread perryh
So the bottom line is: Get a postscript printer. They're rather expensive ... I got a Samsung ML-2571N for well under $100 at Fry's something like a year ago; granted that was a sale price, dunno regular. It speaks PostScript and lpd, so no need to bother with drivers or CUPS; all it needs

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-16 Thread perryh
... Why doesn't FreeBSD ship bash and other shells besides the `sh' linked statically is beyond me. It wouldn't break ports, would it? It does break ports. Very, very badly. I know because I've personally attempted replacing /bin/sh with bash as a I have a weekend to

Re: Desktop image of Beastie

2008-11-15 Thread perryh
I picked up this jpg of Beastie over 10 years ago. Tried using it for a gdm logon screen background, but it's really light. http://www.a1poweruser.com/beastie.JPG Does any one know where i can get a darker version of this image? You're right, that's extremely faint, more like a

Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?

2008-11-08 Thread perryh
Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating vector images, try either inkscape or xaralx. They're all in ports. i have a friend that do offset

Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk

2008-11-06 Thread perryh
On Thursday 06 November 2008 22:01:39 Wojciech Puchar wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, what is RAID5 of RAID6??? 'of' is 'or' in dutch, common typo for dutch or flemish people. For Americans

Re: Problems with FreeBSD

2008-11-03 Thread perryh
I have some problem with my FreeBSD server. I have this: #### # # Linux1 # - ASA - Internet - # FreeBSD # - # Linux2 # #### # If I run a ssh for Linux1 to

Re: sudo multiple commands at once without shell script

2008-10-25 Thread perryh
How do I run multiple sudo commands at once? This fails because the semicolon ends the whole sudo command: sudo whoami; whoami root user This confuses tcsh: monica:~ sudo ( whoami ; whoami ) Badly placed ()'s. Supposing sudo spawns a shell, something like ~ sudo whoami \; whoami

Re: Inode numbering

2008-10-19 Thread perryh
Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It will force me to do what I originally intended to do: Iterate from 2 up to the maximal number and then check the availability, and, if given, trace back the .. chain to an existing directory entry point - or re-create one, if it is missing, too.

Re: Inode numbering

2008-10-18 Thread perryh
Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's assume we have a directory D with an inode number i(D). It contains a file F with its inode number i(F). May I state that i(D) i(F)? In general, no. It might work in the special case where nothing on the filesystem is ever moved or removed, and no

cc-mail file format

2008-10-13 Thread perryh
Is anyone aware of a program that can read cc-mail mailboxes, similar to readpst from mail/libpst for Outlook? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

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