Re: Looking for the right FreeBSD.iso

2008-10-26 Thread Eitan Adler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 LennyCZ wrote: snip Please could you tell me which files I exactly need to download burn to install a normal FreeBSD installation? Do I need all three *-disc[n] discs? If so, is there a DVD version available? I'm going to call normal highly

Re: Funny slogans to put on tshirts

2008-11-01 Thread Eitan Adler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Redd Vinylene wrote: Hello guys, It's my friend's birthday tomorrow. I was thinking I'd make him a tshirt with some funny slogan on it or something. Preferably something UNIX related. But I'm all outta ideas. Perhaps y'all can help? Alright,

Re: XFCE4

2008-11-02 Thread Eitan Adler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FBSD1 wrote: What port names need to be installed to create a XFCE4 desktop environment? I was looking for a mega port like kde3 has but could not identify one. Thanks in advance. I'm going to rake a random guess: x11-wm/xfce4 ? -BEGIN PGP

spell check - how to?

2008-11-06 Thread Eitan Adler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [cc to -questions as it might be a general question] I'm looking to do a full spell check/fix on the handbook. I found make spellcheck-txt which apparently removed certain items that would not go well through a spell checker - however I don't know

Re: Confused About Linux Compatibility

2008-11-07 Thread Eitan Adler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Bottom line, what linux_base port should I install and do I need to set this sysctl to something? I'm confused... If you have a recent 7-STABLE changing the linux kernel version to 2.6.16 and running -f8 should not be a

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-27 Thread Eitan Adler
this: in most cases it will be a simple matter of changing the port's do-install: target to use INSTALL_* macros instead of cp/bsdtar etc. This would be a good project to get some familiarity with the ports tree. I was going to do some work on this except $file *|grep not stripped $ - -- Eitan Adler GNU

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Eitan Adler
that it causes. Perhaps someone should add a comment to the top of the passwd file (if there is such a thing as a comment in the file) saying: don't play with root. - -- Eitan Adler GNU Key fingerptrint: 2E13 BC16 5F54 0FBD 62ED 42B6 B65F 24AB E9C2 CCD1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9

Re: Release schedules

2008-12-14 Thread Eitan Adler
others could think of more 1) Testing -STABLE or -CURRENT and submitting bugs reports 2) Writing or translating docs 3) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributing/index.html section 1.1 -- Eitan Adler GNU Key fingerptrint: 2E13 BC16 5F54 0FBD 62ED 42B6 B65F 24AB E9C2 CCD1

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Eitan Adler
Build a bike shed over the server? :) make sure its green... -- Eitan Adler GNU Key fingerprint: 2E13 BC16 5F54 0FBD 62ED 42B6 B65F 24AB E9C2 CCD1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

snd_hda no sound; device hints question

2009-01-25 Thread Eitan Adler
} - feeder_root(0x) - {hardware} File Versions: $FreeBSD$ $FreeBSD$ -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: dlopen Undefined symbol with x11/nvidia-driver

2009-01-25 Thread Eitan Adler
. -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, Xorg 7.4, Nvidia

2009-01-25 Thread Eitan Adler
hald, devd, the computer 2) use xf86-video-nv 3) run X -configure again 4) recompile xorg-server 5) These same steps in a different order. Someone mentioned that I installed xorg after nvidia-driver which messed up some symlink or another. As far as I could tell this is not true. -- Eitan Adler

Re: make -jN build with portmaster

2009-01-26 Thread Eitan Adler
/SummerOfCode2008#head-1abba39cb7f9d11ebef625f2287dbaebe6daf000 Ready to enter CVS: Probably not. -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: security holes

2009-01-28 Thread Eitan Adler
://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories.html -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: chkrootkit

2009-01-28 Thread Eitan Adler
from the debian mailing list. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/12/msg02253.html -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Problems with Xorg update

2009-01-28 Thread Eitan Adler
? ___ 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 What video driver are you using? Could you give us output of any logs and config files? -- Eitan Adler Security

Re: Tool to uncat file

2009-02-01 Thread Eitan Adler
is incompatible with the -b and -l options. -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: How to tell what $var assigned PORTVERSION equals.

2009-02-02 Thread Eitan Adler
a number, not variable. Thanks ___ 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 -- Eitan Adler Security

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread Eitan Adler
To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

bump year on website

2009-02-16 Thread Eitan Adler
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html copyright should be 2009 now ;) -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: unhappy XOrg upgrade ate the linux version of libuuid.so.1

2009-03-02 Thread Eitan Adler
/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Eitan Adler
for their /projects/. http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/08/1832255 could we follow up to -chat please? -questions is usually meant for freeBSD questions. -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen

Re: best archiver?

2009-03-13 Thread Eitan Adler
than RAR for already compressed audio files but I don't remember the source. The file formats you mentioned are already compressed and depending on the contents you probably won't get /much/ better than you have now. -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually

Re: Finding Dependencies

2009-03-17 Thread Eitan Adler
pkg_info try pkg_info -R and also look at /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg_tree -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Desktop environments

2009-03-26 Thread Eitan Adler
You also have selectwm. $cat /usr/ports/x11-wm/selectwm/pkg-descr This is a small application (using GTK+) which lets you select your window manager. It looks for a file named .selectwmrc in the user's directory which contains a list of window managers. When you start X it should show a list

Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded... what to do?

2009-04-14 Thread Eitan Adler
VeeJay wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? please see tuning(7) -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing

snd-hda no sound whatsoever

2009-04-17 Thread Eitan Adler
-sysctl-output.txt $cat /dev/sndstat (hw.snd.verbose: 4) http://isis.poly.edu/~eitan/files/hda-sound-problem-sndstat-output.txt Any ideas? -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd

Re: snd-hda no sound whatsoever

2009-04-17 Thread Eitan Adler
have furtther experiences with the hda stuff, so these would be my basic ideas. Thanks -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: snd-hda no sound whatsoever

2009-04-18 Thread Eitan Adler
After upgrade upgrade my system to 7.2-PRERELEASE, my sound card works perfectly. This is why my sound broke (I forgot to mention it was after an upgrade). cd ~/stable7/sys/dev/sound/pci/hda svn update -r182969 fixed my problem. -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way

Re: showing dependency information in ports

2009-04-18 Thread Eitan Adler
Michael P. Soulier wrote: I'm sure that this has been asked before, but I cannot find the answer recorded anywhere. I'm likely looking in the wrong places. Is there a simple tool in freebsd to show the reverse dependency tree of a package? pkg_tree in ports Mike -- Eitan Adler Security

Re: snd-hda no sound whatsoever

2009-04-19 Thread Eitan Adler
. Regards -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

will these (bluetooth) devices work with freeBSD

2009-12-26 Thread Eitan Adler
Can anyone tell me if either of these devices are likely to work with freeBSD for a bluetooth headset? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833242004cm_re=bluetooth_dongle-_-33-242-004-_-Product

using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Eitan Adler
My laptop has a led for wireless - It has never been used since I installed freeBSD on this laptop. I was wondering if there was a way I could figure out a) if freeBSD detects it b) a way to use it for something ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Eitan Adler
I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as you mentioned that it is labelled wireless, it is in relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a device driver functionality that activates the LED when the WLAN device is active? Might be - but I don't have windows so I

Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Eitan Adler
. 0xc002 mem 0xf460-0xf460 irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci7 On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as you

NTOS: Timer fired even though it was canceled

2010-02-11 Thread Eitan Adler
Running freeBSD 8.0-RELEASE I got NTOS: timer 0xc4817a08 timer fired even though canceled from http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c?v=FREEBSD8 /* * This should never happen, but complain * if it does. */ if

Re: NTOS: Timer fired even though it was canceled

2010-02-11 Thread Eitan Adler
What miniport driver, what arch, how to reproduce it? a) no idea b) Sorry for leaving that out: 8.0-RELEASE-p2 i386 c) Boot the computer and watch tty0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: NTOS: Timer fired even though it was canceled

2010-02-13 Thread Eitan Adler
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/11/10, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: What miniport driver, what arch, how to reproduce it? a) no idea b) Sorry for leaving that out: 8.0-RELEASE-p2 i386 c) Boot the computer and watch tty0 Does

Re: NTOS: Timer fired even though it was canceled

2010-02-13 Thread Eitan Adler
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/13/10, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/11/10, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: What miniport driver, what arch, how

Re: NTOS: Timer fired even though it was canceled

2010-02-14 Thread Eitan Adler
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/13/10, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/13/10, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Paul B

Re: NTOS: Timer fired even though it was canceled

2010-02-15 Thread Eitan Adler
Can you explain what you did in detail and it have something to do with ndis(4)? Did you ever used ndisgen(8)? Last June I used ndisgen and my computer has been running fine since then. When I saw the NTOS warning I emailed this list. When I got your reply I removed if_bwi_ndis_load from

Re: ports/144357: emulators/wine build failure

2010-02-28 Thread Eitan Adler
I am not seeing this in any of my tests, nor is the FreeBSD ports cluster, nor have I seen any other report related to this.  This means something must be different/special with your system. Is your ports collection up-to-date?  (Running 'portupgrade -a' may be an option, then.) My ports

signal strength for wireless

2010-03-03 Thread Eitan Adler
Does any of the output of ifconfig have to do with the signal strength of the network? If yes - which part? If no - how can I determine that? I looked in the ifconfig man page but could not find any information relating to this. ___

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Eitan Adler
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:54 PM, John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them.  One day, over 6500.  This is enough that I can actually feel it in my network performance.  Other than changing ssh to a non-standard port - is there

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:07 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:03:58 +0100, Sabine Baer bae...@t-online.de wrote: Well, it is, indeed. Me I am very glad beeing able to do eg linux-opera -display :0

Re: ports/144357: emulators/wine build failure

2010-03-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Eitan Adler wrote: Which version of flex are you using (you can find out running /usr/local/bin/flex --version)? %flex --version flex version 2.5.4 that is the system version of flex; I was specifically asking for the one in /usr/local/bin/flex which is used by the wine

Re: ports/144357: emulators/wine build failure

2010-03-08 Thread Eitan Adler
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Gerald Pfeifer ger...@pfeifer.com wrote: On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Eitan Adler wrote: Interesting - I just used whatever flex was in my path. Is wine making the same mistake? % /usr/local/bin/flex --version flex 2.5.35 The following in wine/Makefile

sysinstall: download via pure http

2010-03-11 Thread Eitan Adler
instead of ftp through an http proxy is it possible to get a pure http mirror? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: sysinstall: download via pure http

2010-03-13 Thread Eitan Adler
You can just access ftp.freebsd.org by HTTP but sysinstall doesn't give me that option - or at least I can't find it ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: sysinstall: download via pure http

2010-03-13 Thread Eitan Adler
For the initial install? Yes -- you're right: there's no obvious 'install via HTTP' option.   Trying to install via HTTP proxy and saying ftp.freebsd.org:80 when prompted seems like it should work to me, but I haven't verified that. Next time I install I'll try this - I was just wondering if

Re: Portsnap vs cvsup

2010-03-15 Thread Eitan Adler
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:08 PM, mailinglist mailingl...@ucwv.edu wrote: What is the difference between using portsnap and cvsupping a ports supfile?   The last time I really used FreeBSD was several years ago, but it seems that portsnap has replaced cvsup ports-supfile.  What exactly is the

Re: ports/144357: emulators/wine build failure

2010-03-15 Thread Eitan Adler
rebuilding wine without any make.conf changed nothing OK - I managed to build wine after a recent ports update. The only difference I could see is that I used to use su to get root. I now use su - to get root. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Automatic Way to Tell if a FreeBSD system is 64 or 32-bit?

2010-03-16 Thread Eitan Adler
       I have built a fairly decent Bourne shell script to run just after installing mfsbsd on a target system. It figures out the likely boot drive, formats it and then begins to build a FreeBSD system on it. The script could intelligently ask for the 64-bit or 32-bit trees if it could

creating a socket for use with nc

2010-03-25 Thread Eitan Adler
I have a program which reads from stdin. I'd like to be able to close the terminal it is running in and interact with it via nc -U. How can I create a socket which I attach to the stdin of the program? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: creating a socket for use with nc

2010-03-25 Thread Eitan Adler
I think what you want - I'm not sure I understood you corretly - is a combination of a named pipe created by the mkfifo program, and the detach program from the ports collection. Either I don't understand how to use mkfifo or it is not what I want. mkfifo ppp; cat ppp; cat /dev/urandom |nc -U

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-04-22 Thread Eitan Adler
But it's working today.  I use portsnap to get the updates -- is there a delay in that process? Yes - there is. I've found it takes a couple of hours to get the newest updates but once in a while it takes longer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Portsnap metadata is correctly signed, but contains at least one line which appears bogus.

2010-04-22 Thread Eitan Adler
I've been getting the following message a lot lately. Portsnap metadata is correctly signed, but contains at least one line which appears bogus. I've used the following command in the past to fix the error but it didn't work this time. find /var/db/portsnap/ -newerct 1 day ago -delete

Re: Is there PHP 5.2.x in ports?

2010-04-22 Thread Eitan Adler
  Is there 5.2.x in ports, or is there other way to get it installed?   For MySQL, for example, there are both 5.0.x and 5.1.x in ports. php 5.2 is not currently in the ports system. You could get it by using porteasy or portdowngrade. ___

Re: Wpoison?????

2010-04-26 Thread Eitan Adler
I'm pretty concerned about its effectiveness.  It appears not to have been touched since 2001.  If it actually accomplished its goals, I think it would have been tuned up a bit, and it would be much more popular. I've been hanging around the web quite a bit in the last nine years, and it

Re: Wpoison?????

2010-04-26 Thread Eitan Adler
There are better systems that have a pure honeypot which actually accepts mail (and add the IPs that send mail to a blacklist) OK - where do we find one of THOSE? I have never researched this topic in depth but

geom, glabel, and related terminology

2010-04-27 Thread Eitan Adler
I'm a little bit confused about some of the file system terminology. What exactly is a GEOM label? What does it mean to have one or for one to be stopped? What is a GEOM provider? What is the difference between a bsd label and a geom label? If you could provide a high level overview the

Re: email address on google through this link

2010-04-27 Thread Eitan Adler
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. Which make it quite annoying when you want to reply privately to someone. ___

Is CTM still being offered for updating FreeBSD?

2011-02-25 Thread Eitan Adler
it nonetheless. If CTM is no longer an option for updating FreeBSD is there any reason to leave it in base? Is it still being used by a sufficient number of people to maintain it? -- Eitan Adler remove-ctm.patch Description: Binary data ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Is CTM still being offered for updating FreeBSD?

2011-02-25 Thread Eitan Adler
I thought the service is not being used. In case you did not notice the subject was in question form and points #2 and #3 both had an if not clause. Your initial response answered my question: that CTM is still being offered. and therefore the rest of the email is moot. Thanks Eitan Adler

Re: how to keep track of data usage (mobile broadband)

2011-03-05 Thread Eitan Adler
How can I keep track of data usage? It's a laptop so these counters needs to be reboot persistent. I'm running 8.1-R with ue0 interface. Check out http://humdi.net/vnstat/ and http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-vnstat-network-traffic-monitor-software/ -- Eitan Adler

Re: how to keep track of data usage (mobile broadband)

2011-03-06 Thread Eitan Adler
Looks like it's exactly what I was looking for, thanks! Do you have the rc.d script maybe? It should be part of the port. I don't have it on this computer. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-06 Thread Eitan Adler
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgrade.  Is there a way to make this a global default? You can put WITHOUT_HAL=yes in /etc/make.conf -- Eitan

Re: can make -j be used for ports?

2011-03-15 Thread Eitan Adler
building multiple ports in parallel. This can not be done (primarily because there is no locking done on ports) Certain utilities can make this process faster. For example portmaster prefetches as much as it can, -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions

Re: why vim ports have personal KNOBS for options

2011-03-27 Thread Eitan Adler
I expected to hear that just so happened historically. Тext question I ask only to satisfy my interest. What OPTIONS framework basically can someone not like it? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2010-October/063914.html -- Eitan Adler

Re: printf() leak?

2011-03-29 Thread Eitan Adler
of why this leak is detected you have the skills to follow up on this by yourself :-) Thank you for trying to make FreeBSD better! -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

tuning a system for a single user

2011-04-01 Thread Eitan Adler
kern.maxusers but I'm unsure how things affects things. Can I reduce the amount of time, memory, etc the kernel spends enforcing quota, scheduling, etc? I don't have anything particular in mind - just want to get a general set of tunables I might be interested in. -- Eitan Adler

Re: tuning a system for a single user

2011-04-04 Thread Eitan Adler
way to ask the question would be for a desktop user. I see a lot tuning guides that show how to getting scalable systems - but few show potential changes for desktop users. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Comparing two lists

2011-05-06 Thread Eitan Adler
They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. Use comm whenever you are dealing with set operations (in your case the intersection operation): http://www.catonmat.net/blog/set-operations-in-unix-shell -- Eitan Adler

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread Eitan Adler
/xlockmore or x11/xscreensaver. If you do want a logon screen take a look at x11/gdm (gnome) and x11/xdm both of which act as a display manager and a logon screen. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: find and remove ?

2011-05-14 Thread Eitan Adler
_vti_\* -delete run the command without -delete to see what will be removed. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-14 Thread Eitan Adler
...@freebsd.org -- Eitan Adler ___ 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: find and remove ?

2011-05-15 Thread Eitan Adler
then please be more specific about what should be deleted. If you do see the directories you expect and running the find command with -delete doesn't work then we could try and debug from that point. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: find and remove ?

2011-05-15 Thread Eitan Adler
it like: find /path/to/start/deleting -name _vti_\* -delete (^_^) -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

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

2011-05-16 Thread Eitan Adler
be required by some deeper-inside Gnome part that is used by Gimp, maybe a part of the Gtk+ library... I'm not sure it's trivial to find out which one it is. Also see ports-mgmt/pkg_tree pkg_tree -v is quite useful. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Filename containing French characters ?

2011-05-22 Thread Eitan Adler
called? You need to give us more data to help you. -- Eitan Adler ___ 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: ssh -X (X11 forwarding) not working from 6.1 to 8.1

2011-07-11 Thread Eitan Adler
/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Installation - VT4

2009-05-11 Thread Eitan Adler
When you install freeBSD via sysinstall you could switch to VT2 which displays what files it is currently installing and you could switch to VT4 which displays some kind of prompt. What exactly is that prompt? sh? What utilities does it have access to? When would you want to use it? -- Eitan

badly munged system

2009-07-17 Thread Eitan Adler
I tried to do a make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, reboot, make installworld from an old version of 7.2-STABLE to revision 195666. I was in single user mode the entire time. The first three steps worked perfectly. The final step resulted in an error which I forgot to log. I

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Eitan Adler
the answer bringing up possibilities they thought about. A stupid sysadmin would yell at someone asking a question claiming they should have known the answer. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Segmentation fault in FreeBSD 9.0 flockfile ()

2012-05-01 Thread Eitan Adler
-lpthread. I doubt this is related, but using -lpthread is wrong. use -pthread (without the l). -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Building kernel outside of /usr/src (with an unprivileged user)

2012-05-07 Thread Eitan Adler
with an unprivileged user and without interference with the STABLE sources in /usr/src. Does anyone have an idea how to achieve this? buildkernel and buildworld function without superuser permission. Just check out the directory in a different and run the typical commands. -- Eitan Adler

Re: Problem with npviewer.bin

2012-05-10 Thread Eitan Adler
(npviewer.bin): syscall pipe2 not implemented I have also discovered: npviewer.bin.core files in my HOME directory. Is there something that I can do to correct this problem? Which version of flash are you using? -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions

Re: hard link identification

2012-05-22 Thread Eitan Adler
files are exactly the same. You can use stat(1) to see how many hard links point to a file though. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Using inb() and outb()

2012-05-22 Thread Eitan Adler
On 22 May 2012 14:25, Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org wrote: On 05/22/12 14:08, Robert Bonomi wrote: That is what I thought. The entire operation will have to run as root.  Nothing will be non-root. Can you make a SUID helper which only does the inb/outb operations as root? -- Eitan

Re: library search path

2012-05-28 Thread Eitan Adler
$WRKDIRPREFIX to where you can compile, and $PREFIX to where you can install to. See man 7 ports for details. You can also try -DINSTALL_AS_USER though it may not work as advertised. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Portmaster Fetch

2012-05-28 Thread Eitan Adler
update? portmaster -F -- Eitan Adler ___ 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: (no subject)

2012-05-31 Thread Eitan Adler
patch) -- Eitan Adler ___ 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: prune ports tree?

2012-06-09 Thread Eitan Adler
On 8 June 2012 23:06, Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org wrote: Is it possible to specify that parts of the ports tree should never be used? yes, but don't do it. the ports tree needs to be complete to be guaranteed to function. -- Eitan Adler

Re: prune ports tree?

2012-06-09 Thread Eitan Adler
that operating with an incomplete ports tree is not supported and may cause unexpected results. Note that the issue of incomplete ports trees has nothing to do with portsnap - it is unsupported no matter how you obtain ports. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-13 Thread Eitan Adler
the line. -- Eitan Adler ___ 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: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-13 Thread Eitan Adler
). Is there a way I can restore it, or at least manually add entries I know for sure about? look in /var/db/pkgdb.bak.tbz -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Why Clang?

2012-06-17 Thread Eitan Adler
. I realize that still leaves much time to work out many of the bugs. We need your help though. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Eitan Adler
is much better on all the other fronts. Even if clang produces slightly slower code for math heavy code for now we don't care that much. The kernel does not spend much time in compute heavy code. :) -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

2012-06-22 Thread Eitan Adler
:) -- Eitan Adler ___ 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: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

2012-06-22 Thread Eitan Adler
On 22 June 2012 11:44, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 22/06/2012 18:40, Eitan Adler wrote: q) Is there a place where all sysctl variables are documented? It occurred to me when I was trying to find the memory usage on my system but `sysctl -a | grep mem' shows

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