Re: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-15 Thread Bruce Cran
dies - FreeBSD just sits there forever trying to read the file, and the system refuses to shutdown. -- Bruce Cran -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:29 PM To: dick hoogendijk Cc: [EMAIL

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Bruce Cran
it. Enabling SpeedStep means that FreeBSD sees the full 2.0GHz. I've also heard about someone whose Dell had a broken BIOS, which meant that the CPU could never run at full speed, but was always running at 60%. Upgrading the BIOS was the solution in that case. -- Bruce Cran

Re: sendmail timeout

2003-03-27 Thread Bruce Cran
of that, then run 'make freebsd.cf' or whatever you called the custom copy, but with a .cf instead of .mc. Then, copy the .cf file to sendmail.cf and restart sendmail by running 'killall -HUP sendmail'. Bruce Cran ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: paths - a newbie question

2003-04-05 Thread Bruce Cran
'For People New to Both FreeBSD and Unix' (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/index.html) :) Under the 'Next Steps' chapter it does indeed tell you to 'rehash' after installing new software. Bruce Cran ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Mount command...again

2003-06-09 Thread Bruce Cran
/group whom you want the files to be accessible by. This works on my -current system. -- Bruce Cran ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: crashing fresbsd 5.1-current?

2003-07-02 Thread Bruce Cran
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Re: Hard error??

2003-02-14 Thread Bruce Cran
, and thought it a bit suspicious that the drive died at the instant I tried to install FreeBSD. Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Hard error??

2003-02-14 Thread Bruce Cran
to recognise it long enough to run IBM's smartdefender program. It told me the drive was basically dead. Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: NVidia vs FreeBSD 5.0

2003-02-14 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:22:25PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 11:45, Valentin Al. Sitnick wrote: I have problem with installation FreeBSD 5.0 to my PC because I have NVidia MX440 SE-T videocard. The original drivers from NVidia.com cannot be installed for this

where is gated?

2003-02-26 Thread Bruce Cran
to be any corresponding source code or binary. There also doesn't appear to be a port for gated - has it been removed from FreeBSD, or am I just missing something? Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: where is gated?

2003-02-26 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:11:06PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:07:24PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: I've just setup a network, and have been thinking about configuring the routing. I've seen various references to gated in the documentation, which seems to suggest

Re: Blackholes?

2003-03-02 Thread Bruce Cran
it drop SYN packets only, a value of 2 makes it drop whole segments without sending an RST. Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: BT878(Prolink PV-BT878P+4E)

2003-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
or tuners. Even Linux struggles to use my Pinnacle PCTV Pro card (bt878, tda9887) with the newest drivers. I've seen quite a few posts about TV cards recently, maybe we need a project to either port bttv/v4l2 from Linux, or start a new project to properly support tv cards in FreeBSD? Bruce

Binding SCTP sockets to the IPv6 lopback address

2008-10-15 Thread Bruce Cran
over IPv6 loopback? The code I'm running calls getaddrinfo with the hints to set AF_UNSPEC, SOCK_STREAM, AI_PASSIVE and then it calls bind with the protocol set to IPPROTO_SCTP. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-21 Thread Bruce Cran
://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-slides.pdf and the paper is at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-paper.pdf -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: GCC help

2008-10-23 Thread Bruce Cran
the base-system version. Can't you set $CC to gcc44 or whatever to make the ports system use a different version of gcc? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20081025 10:18:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Bruce Cran
getting in your way it's still easy to change a few settings to turn it off. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: garmin forerunner 305

2008-11-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:24:02 +0100 Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:51:33 -0300 Joey Mingrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has anyone had any success collecting data from a Garmin Forerunner 305? When I connect the device I see the kernel messages: Sep

Re: garmin forerunner 305

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:28:05AM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Bruce Cran On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:24:02 +0100 Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:51:33 -0300 Joey Mingrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had any success collecting data from

Re: garmin forerunner 305

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:57:14 +0300 Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if it'll work with the usb stack that's in shipping version of FreeBSD though, and even with the new stack I had to make a change to libgpsusb.c in gpsbabel

Re: /etc/src.conf WITHOUT_PROFILE=yes

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce Cran
libc.so and libc_p.so - the _p version is the profiled version. The only problem I can see with disabling it using WITHOUT_PROFILE is that unless you remove the _p libraries they'll become stale over time. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: uhub0: device problem

2008-11-05 Thread Bruce Cran
. The first step would probably be to let people see what sort of hardware you have: could you post the output of the dmesg command please? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy

2008-11-09 Thread Bruce Cran
be happening here too. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:56:28 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having a larger user-base is definitely a good thing. That means attracting NO IT IS NOT! Well, it sounds like Minix may be gaining a new user soon then ;) -- Bruce Cran

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Bruce Cran
doesn't work, you can generally just build a new kernel - without including it. If it's user-space you don't like - well, that's a problem with the distribution, not linux itself. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Bruce Cran
go wrong too, in trying to cater for two types of users at once and possibly failing both. I think beginners might actually be better off using one of the simpler window managers like Window Maker which have fewer items on the screen with simple rules to get things done. -- Bruce Cran

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-19 Thread Bruce Cran
. good to know. Actually, I think it is. See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html for the reasoning. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-27 Thread Bruce Cran
it couldn't find any data. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-02 Thread Bruce Cran
about GVFS are able to see the files. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Swapping to MMC (Was: To swap or not to swap)

2008-12-02 Thread Bruce Cran
even more than usual. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: To swap or not to swap

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce Cran
; however the current behaviour seems good to me. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce Cran
. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what is umtxn

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:36:29AM +, RW wrote: What's procstat? find isn't finding it, neither is make search in ports. It's a new utility that was introduced into -CURRENT in the past year and seems to have been MFC'd at least to 7.x. It should be in /usr/bin -- Bruce Cran

Re: FreeBSD cannot power down

2008-12-06 Thread Bruce Cran
during poweroff_wait but I can't see where ACPI is told to remove power. You might get more help by asking on the freebsd-acpi list. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Persistent Kernel Variables

2008-12-25 Thread Bruce Cran
set? How can I fix it. I think it's something that has to be set later during boot, via /etc/sysctl.conf. I tried setting it through /boot/loader.conf and it didn't work but there's no problem setting it once the system has booted. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Perl 5.10?

2008-12-25 Thread Bruce Cran
on it. It's one of the first things installed during an initial ports installation though. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Bruce Cran
to VxWorks. Probably because they realised they could get away with less memory and a slower CPU because code runs more efficiently on VxWorks vs. Linux on the same hardware. Of course it also provides fewer features than Linux, so I'd prefer a Linux-based router over VxWorks. -- Bruce Cran

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
connection is down ;) Are the docs branched? I tried running a csup with tag=RELENG_7 and nothing got created; changing the line doc-all to doc-all tag=. fixed it and fetched all the docs. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
doc-supfile which will contain the correct tag line. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Last q of '08...

2008-12-31 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:43:53 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: is there a C-beauitful//reformatter in ports? need one Badly!! It's not in ports, but /usr/bin/indent reformats C code. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: hex editors, disk info

2009-01-25 Thread Bruce Cran
/usr/bin/hd? It seems it doesn't have any problem opening disk devices. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Laptop battery life on FreeBSD

2009-01-27 Thread Bruce Cran
: acpi0 dev.cpu.0.freq: 533 dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 533/-1 266/-1 dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/0 C2/90 C3/900 dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% 0.00% -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Question about install of Fortran compiler

2009-01-28 Thread Bruce Cran
, i already installed c compiler, but calling g77 wouldn't work. Any help anyone could provide ? With the import of GCC 4.2 the Fortran compiler was removed from the base system a few versions ago. There are several in the ports system you can install instead. -- Bruce Cran

Re: system time on top output

2009-02-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 00:00:35 +0200 Omer Faruk Sen omerf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a running pgsql server but on heavy loads it consumes lots of time in system (more than %50). I can see that CPU states: 15.4% user, 0.0% nice, 81.9% system, 1.5% interrupt, 1.2% idle But how can I

Re: RTL8201 not explicitly in 7.1 / 2nd POSTING

2009-02-07 Thread Bruce Cran
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Re: How to compile a network driver given source code

2009-02-08 Thread Bruce Cran
doesn't seem to be used any more: modules are put into /boot/kerneldir which is /boot/kernel by default. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Bios chip update suggestions

2009-02-11 Thread Bruce Cran
that the flash program wanted to load an unsigned driver - I had to boot into XP using the CD because Vista x64 blocked the driver. Once booted from the CD you can access the Internet and see local drives. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: USB Hard disk with LUKS AES encryption regarding.

2009-02-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:17:38 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: i don't know what's LUKS AES but it sound like something proprietary, so unless LUKS AES software for FreeBSD exist you can't do it I'd not heard of it either but apparently LUKS is the Linux

Re: kernel compile problems

2009-02-21 Thread Bruce Cran
: make buildkernel KERNCONF=configfile Leave the KERNCONF out to build GENERIC. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html for more details. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: where is gtk+-2?

2009-02-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:10:01 -0800 (PST) gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Which is the package gtk+-2 located under /usr/ports? /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20 -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: What does df command use to get Used column?

2009-03-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: A typical df command looks like this: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0a 4.8G 2.0G 2.4G 46% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev linprocfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc

Re: updated world to CURRENT, how to update ports to CURRENT?

2009-03-24 Thread Bruce Cran
cvs mainline, and the only way to go back to a branch (e.g RELENG_5_5_0) is by using csup, which you would only really want to do if you're using a release of FreeBSD which has gone out of support, such as 5.x. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions

Re: utility that scans lan for client?

2009-03-24 Thread Bruce Cran
to broadcast ping, which appears to be usually disabled nowadays. At least on FreeBSD 7.1 net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho defaults to 0. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Cran
works on FreeBSD: perl use POSIX; sysopen(CD,/dev/acd0, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) || perror(sysopen) and before I fixed the permissions: perl use POSIX; sysopen(CD,/dev/acd0, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) || perror(sysopen) sysopen: Permission denied -- Bruce Cran

Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Cran
get if you use atapicam (ATAPI is SCSI over ATA from what I remember) - for example cdrecord has traditionally used it when writing CDs. Apparently the OP has the issue both when using atapicam (/dev/cd0) and the normal ata node /dev/acd0. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-27 Thread Bruce Cran
with and without atapicam. So it sounds like the OP is aware of the different device nodes created with and without atapicam, has checked he has permission to access the appropriate device and has come across a problem with perl itself. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-03-31 Thread Bruce Cran
, this was simply a matter of editing /etc/rc.sysinit. Things seem a bit more complicated in the BSD world. Can somebody please point me in the right direction ? I found this from a post last year: echo '/sbin/fsck -y -f' /etc/rc.early -- Bruce Cran

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-03-31 Thread Bruce Cran
overflowed); -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Build/Install world via ssh

2009-04-01 Thread Bruce Cran
because you could be left with a broken system if something does go wrong. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-04-05 Thread Bruce Cran
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Re: How big can a tar file get?

2009-04-06 Thread Bruce Cran
with files up to 128TB. However traditional tar only supports up to 8GB while the newer ustar format goes up to 64GB. It seems that at least on 7.x tar creates ustar archives by default. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: iwi-firmware-kmod port

2009-04-14 Thread Bruce Cran
kernel config file. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: hard drive performance

2009-04-15 Thread Bruce Cran
interface can support, but drives never get close to that because they can't read from disk at that speed. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Bruce Cran
FreeBSD to stop shouting too? :) -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Support for Apple iBook keyboards

2009-04-17 Thread Bruce Cran
can find powerpc -current ISO images at pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200812 on most FreeBSD ftp mirrors - I can't find any newer images, they don't seem to have been built for powerpc in February. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: write_dma error

2009-04-19 Thread Bruce Cran
I've seen ICRC errors was when FreeBSD was programming UDMA100 mode when I only had a UDMA33 cable installed. Overridding the mode using atacontrol solved it, as did installing a UDMA66 cable. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

2009-04-25 Thread Bruce Cran
and overwrote named.conf on a recently upgrade of 7-STABLE. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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 beastie plush toy?

2009-12-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:41:05 -0500 Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: Where can I purchase a FreeBSD beastie plush toy? Something like http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdbeanie?id=NkWSe8g8mv_pc=144 ? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
4.1MB. You should also be able to build Xorg so it'll use less memory - for example by not requiring hald but getting it to read the configuration from xorg.conf instead. You can also tell FreeBSD to agressively swap idle processes out by setting vm.swap_idle_enabled to 1. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-08 Thread Bruce Cran
partition or can it follow swap space? It may partly be historical: old PCs couldn't boot from past 504MB due to the 1023 cylinder limitation so /boot had to be first on the disk. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Mounting a v1.5 UDF filesystem

2010-02-12 Thread Bruce Cran
FSD does not lie within the partition!. I'm wondering if it maybe only supports the newer revisions? -- Bruce Cran signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Why Linux Firefox doesn't play flash movies?

2010-02-15 Thread Bruce Cran
/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop- browsers.html -- Bruce Cran signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Undocumented Userland Change ?

2010-02-15 Thread Bruce Cran
been removed from the base system. It can now be installed from ports. The port is called misc/window. -- Bruce Cran signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: how to disable loadable kernel moduels?

2010-02-24 Thread Bruce Cran
details of how to secure the system further. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: compiler flags

2010-02-28 Thread Bruce Cran
amd64 CPUs. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread Bruce Cran
more details. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: md5 of /dev/acd0

2010-03-08 Thread Bruce Cran
in so far that it didn't yield an error but after the DVD stopped spinning the command hung and I only could bail out using ^C. Try using bs=2048 . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: [FreeBSD 8.0] Installing KDE4 from sources: building xmlto fault

2010-03-13 Thread Bruce Cran
:) -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Compiling kernel with gcc43

2010-03-25 Thread Bruce Cran
kernel/world binaries? You should be able to use NO_WERROR in src.conf to prevent -Werror being used. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: make delete-old question (removing old binaries)

2010-04-04 Thread Bruce Cran
of the options - see src.conf(5). Files won't be removed unless they're listed in ObsoleteFiles.inc, and it's typically not been kept up-to-date. This is being fixed in -CURRENT but for just now you can remove the binaries manually. -- Bruce Cran

Re: question about FreeBSD installing

2010-04-21 Thread Bruce Cran
the same problem and ended up having to create a Xen image manually. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Upgrade/Install in one command?

2010-04-21 Thread Bruce Cran
. (cfengine2) Basically, I wish pkg_add would upgrade a package if it was already installed; of that portupgrade would install a package if it was missing. Neither seem to work. How do you manage packages on a large number of FreeBSD hosts? I use portmaster, since it seems to mostly DTRT. -- Bruce

Re: KDE 4.4.2

2010-04-23 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 07:58:12PM +1200, Andrew Hill wrote: Hi does anyone know if kde 4.4.2 is in freebsd ports? It's not yet - a big upgrade to Xorg and KDE is being worked on so I guess it'll be available in a few days. -- Bruce Cran

Re: email address on google through this link

2010-04-27 Thread Bruce Cran
which have never been published anywhere. At least one mailing list I'm on obfuscates the addresses on the server so all messages would, for example, appear to come *from* freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall

2010-05-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Saturday 01 May 2010 19:14:28 John Pollock wrote: When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error message that port is not installed. You should use pkg_delete instead: running make deinstall could fail if the port has been updated since installing it. -- Bruce

Re: using gpart(8) to slice a disk

2011-02-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:52:44 +0100 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I've read the man page of gpart(8) but do not see clearly what I did wrong with the above sequence and esp. what would have set the missing boot flag? gpart set -a active -i 1 ad4 -- Bruce Cran

Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread Bruce Cran
) driver which sends a spindown command when it expires. You'll need to keep using ataidle to fix the APM value. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:47 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: I'm wondering why you would prefere atacontrol? I think everyone's been looking for an official solution. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: portmaster -afv -no-confirm --clean-distfiles-all command - too much automation???

2011-03-02 Thread Bruce Cran
the man page for details. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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 kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread Bruce Cran
in a couple of seconds - but that was without any network card, USB support etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Is it safe to run tcpdump?

2011-03-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 11:47:19 -0700 Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: What do you mean by 'safe'? As in secure? http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:06.tcpdump.asc -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Quick question about sound drivers (esp. snd_hda)

2011-03-12 Thread Bruce Cran
be created automatically when something tries to access it (e.g. cat /dev/random /dev/dsp). -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: spam?

2011-03-13 Thread Bruce Cran
details. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-03-25 Thread Bruce Cran
:0:1 -- 2001:2f0:104:e001::34 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=0 hlim=48 time=269.213 ms 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=1 hlim=48 time=268.705 ms 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=2 -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd

Re: searching for a good IDE

2011-03-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:41:28 +0200 Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: I'm searching for a good IDE for my development stuff - c, c++, python, rails, php Can someone advise one? And I don't wanna use eclipse. :-) KDevelop (http://www.kdevelop.org/) 4 is quite good. -- Bruce Cran

Re: console based sound control

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On 03/04/2011 14:59, Alokat wrote: I'm looking for a sound control tool (like alsamixer) but for oss. Does someone know one? Have you tried mixer(8)? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mixerapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASEformat=html -- Bruce Cran

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On 02/04/2011 21:54, David Chanters wrote: You could have just sent yourself an email. But yes, here you are. I was going to suggest Gary should have used the freebsd-test mailing list but then I realised it's been broken since May last year. -- Bruce Cran

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-04 Thread Bruce Cran
and it doesn't appear to have been fixed yet. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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

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