Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-04-05 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/5 Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com: 2009/3/31 Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de: Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote:   2009/3/31 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:     IMHO this background fsck isn't good idea at all     Why? Google background fsck damage.

Re: How to find out which ports contains a specified command.

2009-04-05 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/5 Peter Wang peterw...@vip.qq.com: for example, after i installed pfsense, which is based on freebsd release 7.1, i found adduser command is missing. so how to find out which ports contains `adduser' command? thanks for your replies. % which adduser /usr/sbin/adduser Thus it is

Re: Portsnap question

2009-04-07 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/7 Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu: I used to use csup and in my /root/ports-supfile I changed the default host line to a server near me. *default host=cvsup.se.FreeBSD.org Now I've been using portsnap for a while and when installing a new system I got to question if portsnap look in

Re: change in kernel config file

2009-04-12 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/12 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com:        With respect to the changes in the USB stack:        The old system was built in early February, before the new code went in.  The config file has: device          uhci device          ohci device          ehci device          usb device  

Re: change in kernel config file

2009-04-13 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/12 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com:  As to libusb:  -CURRENT does not need (actually needs to not have)  devel/libusb since its functionality(?) is part of the base system  now (post feb09).  What I did:        This is after installing the new kernel+world, right? Indeed. I

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-26 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/26 Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com: I have a machine I plan to use solely for testing.  I have FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT on it right now, and would like to add FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 as well as CentOS 5.3 Linux. Presently I have three Master Boot Record primary partitions - slices in the

Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?

2009-12-23 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/12/21 Yuri y...@rawbw.com: ill...@gmail.com wrote: Umm . . . yes?  But more seriously, FreeBSD is still very much a server operating system, expecting it to be exactly like Torvalds 2.6 OS or BiGa 0.7alpha right now is a bit much. Really? I was using FreeBSD as a desktop system

Re: how to modify date after unrar files?

2009-12-28 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/12/27 Tsu-Fan Cheng tfch...@gmail.com: Yeah, and I found there is a switch: tsm,c,a[N]  Save or restore file time (modification, creation, access) but what is the [N] supposed to mean? thanks!! Without myself expending the effort, I'd guess epoch time. -- --

Re: Failure to install icu

2010-01-02 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2010/1/2 Rem r...@remdog.bsd.net: /usr/ports/devel/icu is a needed dependency for a program I wish to install, but icu fails to make. This is the error message I receive: SUMMARY: *** [Total error count:     1]  Errors in   [/tsformat/ccaltst/TestCalendar] Elapsed Time: 00:00:28.000

Re: How far to go with jailing?

2010-02-01 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 1 February 2010 20:57, Jeff Mitchell skee...@skeleton.org wrote:        Strikes me that setting up jails for bloody-well-every-other service might be 'fun' ..        Jail the webserver; seems a logical break, and keep you honest for your partitioning. No more ~/public_html to access it I

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-02 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 28 February 2010 07:38, Aaron Lewis aaron.lewis1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   I gonna recompile kernel for my core2 CPU , so i'd like to pass some flags to gcc.   Kinds of -march=core2 , i tried to modify /etc/make.conf     e.g    CFLAGS += -march=core2 -O20 -ffast-math -mfpmath=sse   But it

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-03 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote: Dears, I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no floppy images in

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-05 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 5 March 2010 13:51, Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote: On 4 March 2010 05:51, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote: Dears, I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp

Re: Enough Is Enough

2010-03-27 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 27 March 2010 13:20, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: Ever since I installed jpeg-8 I have had nothing but problems. I ran portupgrade -a hoping to take care of all those problems, well no such luck. portupgrade -fa -- --

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 30 March 2010 12:11, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a

Re: linux-pango update fails

2010-04-12 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 11 April 2010 13:35, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I'm having an issue with a linux-pango update on a FreeBSD 7.2 system:    ---  Upgrading 'linux-pango-1.10.2_3' to 'linux-pango-1.10.2_4'    (x11-toolkits/linux-pango)    ---  Building '/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-pango'    ===

Re: Disk Usage

2010-04-23 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 22 April 2010 12:02, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: I just did a fresh install of FreeBSD-8.0/amd64. Previously, I had FreeBSD-7.3/i386  installed. It appears the the size of / has increased dramatically. $ df -H Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on

Re: Disk Usage

2010-04-30 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 23 April 2010 12:24, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:06:14 -0400 ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com articulated: 64bit executables are going to be larger, sometimes as much as 2x, but do you now have a bunch of (large) /boot/kernel/*.symbols files now? I

Re: How to determine /dev/ad* from mount label

2010-04-30 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 27 April 2010 18:29, Mark G. mark-fbsd-quest-10+20100...@giovannetti.ca wrote: On 04/27/2010 00:04, Carl Johnson wrote: Mark G.mark-fbsd-quest-10+20100...@giovannetti.ca  writes: [...] I just wanted to know if there was a utility to tell me which actual device was mounted.  I also tried

Re: android

2011-02-16 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 16 February 2011 03:45, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:39 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: You can check the partitioning of the da4 device with     # fdisk da4 gpart show da4 is the modern way of doing this. Even if

Re: android

2011-02-16 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 16 February 2011 15:13, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:41:08 -0500, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 February 2011 03:45,  per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:39 +0100 Polytropon free

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-17 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 17 February 2011 13:43, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Hello all. I am evaluating to buy a new laptop for using it only with Freebsd. I know in the website mention some options. Thing is that here the most powerful ones (I3, I5 I7) are sold ONLY with Windows installed and that

Re: are there any GUI editors that use vi/vim-like abbreviations

2011-02-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 21 February 2011 20:49, Fred f...@blakemfg.com wrote: On 02/21/11 18:32, Gary Kline wrote:        iF we throw out gvim since it is simply the GUI variant of        vim, are there are other GUI editors that use the kinds of :ab        abbreviations that vi does?  I ask this because I don't

Re: upgrading apr from v0 to v1 via portupgrade?

2011-02-24 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 24 February 2011 11:09, Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: I recently moved my server to a new box and in the process of doing that, I upgraded from FreeBSD 7.3 to 8.1. When I say I moved, I mean I backed up all my personal data (databases, config values, etc.), made a list

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 24 February 2011 16:05, Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.org wrote: Rob Farmer rfarmer at predatorlabs.net writes: Have you used the default FreeBSD shell (tcsh) recently? tcsh is not a shell. Well, it’s an interactive command line interpreter, not a bad one compared to what else is offered

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 24 February 2011 17:39, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: . . . Though I dislike the OP's dismissal of backticks, I must admit that I would prefer that the standard shell be at least Bourne-compatible.  I use csh for root for all the reasons that you shouldn't change your root

Re: usb portable drive (ntfs) issues

2011-02-26 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 26 February 2011 22:23, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: hi all gurus: for usb external drive, i followed the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html but i have some problems for mounting a portable usb external drive: 1) when i plugged in,

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 4 March 2011 17:10, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I know this is a awful subject, but I recently tried a Gentoo on my laptop and I was surprised to see Linux booting about 2-3 times faster than FreeBSD. I don't talk about the init/rc script but only kernel

Re: python27 update

2011-03-05 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 5 March 2011 21:52, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: My system: 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0 I tried to update python26 to python27. I did as I red in /usr/ports/UPDATING: portmaster -o lang/python27 lang/python26 and than  cd /usr/ports/lang/python make upgrade-site-packages

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 14 March 2011 20:00, freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices.  With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in controller (PCI) and are seeking to

Re: Minimum system requirements

2011-03-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 20 March 2011 03:52, aaron van caster darkstar99...@gmail.com wrote: Just would like to know what are the minimum system/hardware requirements to run 8.2 OS and do to have a simple video showing installation? The absolute minimum to run sysinstall is something like 24MB on an 80486. I

Re: firefox4 not starting

2011-03-25 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 25 March 2011 17:12, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: I upgraded from firefox3.6 to firefox4.0 and now it won't start even after doing a: rm -rf ~/.mozilla (I saved my profile). I set -x on the firefox shell script and this is the output: $ firefox +

Re: ruby cpu 100% hang during pkgdb -F

2011-03-31 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 31 March 2011 16:46, Roland van Laar rol...@micite.net wrote: Hello, I'm asking again about pkgdb -F because it's still running. On 03/29/2011 07:50 AM, Roland van Laar wrote: Hello, I updated FreeBSD 8.0 to 8.2 with freebsd-update. Everything went fine till I got to the ports: I

Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 8 April 2011 16:10, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: By the way, did you notice I directed a polite, one sentence directive towards Odhiambo. Suddenly, every buttinsky crawls out of the woodwork, sans any factual input on my original post and hijacks this thread Maybe you would be better

Re: SSHD Strangeness

2011-04-08 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 8 April 2011 15:22, Scott Ballantyne s...@ssr.com wrote: I've never seen this before, but when ssh'ing to my server today, I got: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed Was this multiple log-in failures receiving the same error message? is this log-in happening across the

Re: SSHD Strangeness

2011-04-09 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 9 April 2011 13:22, Scott Ballantyne s...@ssr.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:15 PM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2011 15:22, Scott Ballantyne s...@ssr.com wrote: I've never seen this before, but when ssh'ing to my server today, I got: ssh_exchange_identification

Re: zfs partition for /etc?

2011-04-23 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 23 April 2011 13:00, Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org wrote: I'm using PC-BSD and ZFS.  ZFS is outstanding.  Somewhat less impressed with PCBSD. . . . So so on to my question.  I'm sure others have thought about this.  I kind of want /etc to be it's own zfs partition so that I can

Re: Unix basics (was Re: For My Edification)

2011-05-03 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 2 May 2011 19:37, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2011, Louis Marrero wrote: Being familiar only with general knowledge on the Windows XP that I use daily, I've gone on the web to find out more information on some of the terms used by this programmer, such as BSD,

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

2011-05-03 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 3 May 2011 15:11, Mike Seda mas...@stanford.edu wrote: Hi All, When will FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE be available? I remember reading that it would be ready in May 2011. I just wanted to see if it was on schedule or not. Dr. Who has been running it for two regenerations already. Get with the

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-04 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 4 May 2011 12:50, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: is it safe to nuke /usr/local (excluding  /usr/local/home), rebuild world/kernel for 8.2 and start with a fresh ports tree? Yes, though pkg_delete -af will probably suffice for removing the ports ( /var/db/pkg/ as well). -- --

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-04 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 4 May 2011 15:54, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:40 PM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2011 12:50, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote:  is it safe to nuke /usr/local (excluding  /usr/local/home), rebuild world/kernel for 8.2

Re: Maximum partition size

2011-05-14 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 11 May 2011 03:37, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Hello. Sorry for the stupid questions, but Google only turns out very old answers which might be outdated (at least I hope so). What is the maximum partition size I can use on 7.3? I've used a 3TB gstripe on amd64, but now I'd

Re: cvsup and versions

2011-06-27 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 27 June 2011 17:17, wayne mitchell wayne.mitchell...@gmail.com wrote: hey, i have just cvsup'ed for first time (newbie) RELENG_8_1_RELEASE rebuilt world... there is a problem with a particular port: audio/libsndfile the version in this system ports tree is 1.0.21 the set of versions

Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-17 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 12 July 2011 10:02, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de wrote: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Correct. I'm currently on 7-STABLE where it's not yet part of the base system, but my new 8.2-STABLE also has it in /usr/bin. I believe it has been introduced with version

Re: ghghg

2011-07-17 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 14 July 2011 00:48, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: testing Error reading intarnet (A)bort (R)etry (F)ail? -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: best way to replicate system

2011-07-23 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 23 July 2011 04:54, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 July 2011 09:13, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and now needs to be duplicated to an arbitrary number of other machines (23 currently)... none of the machines have optical

Re: X and optimizing Kernel Resources

2009-04-26 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/25 Christopher Chambers ccha...@interchange.ubc.ca: Hi, Is there a guide that talks about how to optimize the kernel memory resources (kern.ipc.shmmax, etc)? Like man 7 tuning? -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/26 Jorg Andersson jorg_anders...@lavabit.com: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this still the case? They show up just fine here

Re: Ruby18 or Portupgrade error?

2009-04-28 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/28 Klaus Friis Østergaard farremo...@gmail.com: Hi, While upgrade gnome I have run into to this error, is it related to portupgrade or Ruby18 or something different. k...@prod01% sudo portupgrade -aOW -x x11/gdm                           /home/kfo mktemp: mkdtemp failed on

Re: where do I find libthr

2009-05-01 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/5/1 Bob Falanga rfalang@gmail.com: I am using pcbsd 6.3 When I try to use apache22 or kdesvn I get an error message (Shared object libthr.so.3 not found, required by libapr-1.so.2) What d'ya get when you type: locate libthr.so Also, how did you install apache22 or kdesvn? -- --

Re: where do I find libthr

2009-05-01 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/5/1 Bob Falanga rfalang@gmail.com: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:30 AM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/1 Bob Falanga rfalang@gmail.com: I am using pcbsd 6.3 When I try to use apache22 or kdesvn I get an error message (Shared object libthr.so.3 not found

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/5/4 Old Crankbuster crankbus...@gmail.com: Coming from Gnu/Linux, I see differences in group generation on regular user generation, and there's a group I'm not familiar with - 'operator'. What does that one do? Members of operator can run /sbin/shutdown among other things. find / -group

Re: What make is in 7.1?

2009-05-08 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/5/6 Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com: When I do man make I get a man page and it includes references to the pmake tutorial which seems to be basis of an HTMLize pmake tutorial in one of the books. But clearly the installed make is not the pmake described in the tutorial. The

Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-25 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/5/25 Graeme Dargie a...@tangerine-army.co.uk: Hi All I am trying to update 2 7.1 systems to 7.2. sun3# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2RELEASE 7.2-RELEASE Maybe? -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/5/27 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:43:51PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, a short question: I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct? Sure. Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such)..

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-28 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/5/28 Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com: Is this forum intended . . . This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient  and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential.  If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that  any review,

Re: Problem w/ 6.0 - 7.2 update

2009-06-06 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/6/6 Alex Stangl a...@stangl.us: It's also not clear to me whether using freebsd-update.sh is the right approach for upgrading from 6.0-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE, or if I should follow some alternate approach, like booting the 7.2 CD and doing a binary upgrade from there? I've always done

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/6/9 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using pdftotext.  I tried the following command: $ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies).pdf Sanda-JAMA-2009

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-10 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/6/9 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: When I enter: $ find *.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 pdftotext nothing seems to happen.  Although there is no error message, the text files are not created. Any idea why? Ah, apologies. I was just testing with $ find *.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 cat to

Re: Audio

2009-06-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/6/20 Jeff Molofee n...@telus.net: Just wondering what changed with the sound on BSD? My system way back in the 4.x days sounded not too bad... good bass, etc. After dropping my audio cards for on board audio (intel hda) I noticed the sound was really BAD... tin can, bad separation, no

Re: Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?]

2009-06-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/6/21 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org:        anyway, i see only wireless, and i'm cat5 only.  i've got a        13-yr-old people here who would love for me to go wireless so        said people could take her apple macbook into her bedroom and so        on.  well, said people need to be not

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/6/24 Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com: everyone has hundreds of GB's on the disk No. No they don't. Please hang up and try again. If you need to make a collect call, please dial zero to speak with an oper- ator. -- -- ___

Re: The Gimp

2009-06-25 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/6/23 Rob Hurle rob1...@gmail.com: freebsd [22:07] ~gimp [1] 3696 freebsd [22:09] ~ [1]    Segmentation fault            gimp freebsd [22:09] ~ If I run as root, there is no problem: freebsd [22:09] ~sudo gimp [1] 3700 freebsd [22:10] ~ [1]  + Suspended (tty output)        sudo

Re: 2 questions: GEOM_LABEL and partition naming

2009-07-07 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/7/7 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: Good morning, folks!  (At least, it's morning on the east coast of USA) QUESTION 1: Would someone please explain the /var/run/dmesg.boot excerpt below? Note: I have glanced at both of the following links, but at the moment, I do not have

Re: custom amd64 kernel

2009-07-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/7/21 PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca: Frankly, I have no idea how to configure the kernel from GENERIC... I have installed, in the past and recently, Intel i386 kernels without problem but this amd64 thingy is incomprehensible for me... the default GENERIC example holds HAMMER as the cpu; mine

Re: rm -rf and fat fingers

2009-07-22 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/7/22 Jimmie James jimmie...@gmail.com: So here I was, half asleep, removing some old directories as root, and here's what I did...sitting in /home/jimmie after su jim...@jimmiejaz 101 [0] /home/jimmie#rm -rf cd /usr/local/lib   (note the space, the PWD is home/jimmie/) Now, a lot of

Re: running out of inodes

2009-07-25 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/7/25 Peter peterp...@aboutsupport.com: Hello, We have a strange issue with one of our machines. We have a busy site on it with a lot content  and cache files - all of these a lot small files. We started to run out inodes. [r...@pistolcontent-lb3 /]# df -hi Filesystem       Size  

Re: freebsd-update userland sources

2009-08-02 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/8/2 Tom Mende tme...@optusnet.com.au: Is there a way to get freebsd-update to keep userland sources up to date? I had thought that having src, world and kernel as components in the freebsd-update.conf file would do this but it doesn't seem to. Do I just add usr.bin and usr.sbin to the

Re: How to check where space is LOST

2011-09-11 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2011/9/11 Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru: Hi. I notice that some times /var is overfull # df -h Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on /dev/ad1s1a    496M    239M    217M    52%    / devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev /dev/ad1s1e    124M     40K    

Re: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-15 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 15 September 2011 21:05, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 05:46:35PM -0400, Allen wrote: Sorry for top posting but can anyone send this to Computer Stupidities ? It seems to good to waste like this.  Anyone who thinks they're a Hacker yet doesn't know how FTP

Re: p11-kit port patch fail on 8.2p3.

2011-10-03 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 3 October 2011 11:04, R. Clayton rvclay...@verizon.net wrote: ...  ===  Applying FreeBSD patches for p11-kit-0.7  Ignoring previously applied (or reversed) patch.  1 out of 1 hunks ignored--saving rejects to p11-kit/modules.c.rej  = Patch patch-p11-kit-modules.c failed to apply cleanly.  

Re: p11-kit port patch fail on 8.2p3. [solved]

2011-10-09 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 3 October 2011 16:15, R. Clayton rvclay...@verizon.net wrote: Odd, I find no such file as patch-p11-kit-modules.c here (9.0-BETA3-amd64), either in /usr/ports/distfiles/ or in /usr/ports/security/p11-kit/files/.  It was in /usr/ports/security/p11-kit/files:    # cat

Re: using /sbin/gpart to add GPT volume

2011-10-10 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 10 October 2011 11:33, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote: I have a FreebSD 8.2 machine with 12 1-Tb disks used for making backups. now I try to create # gpart create -s GPT ad0s4 gpart: provider: Device not configured (NB I do not have a multi-boot system with an MBR scheme on it, so I'm

Re: What might be causing this during during buildworld in 7.4-STABLE ?

2011-11-30 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 25 November 2011 17:28, Jukka A. Ukkonen j...@iki.fi wrote: I keep persistently getting this for no obvious reason... === gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/makeinfo (installincludes) === gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/info (installincludes) === gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/infokey (installincludes) ===

Re: .config

2011-11-30 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 23 November 2011 08:31, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 23 November 2011 05:46:33 Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:39:21 -0600, ajtiM wrote: Hi! I succesfully installed FreeBSD 9.0 RC-2 and I didn't have problems with bsdinstall and others. What I didn't have on 8.2

Re: .config

2011-12-19 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: A dirty workaround might be to link /.config to something innocuous.  One could obvio- usly also have /.config mounted as a tmpfs(5). So it couldn't persist from boot

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 4 January 2012 07:59, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi, Reference: From:         Daniel Lewis innervisionnetw...@gmail.com Date:         Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:17:47 -0500 Message-id:   cahsizg-op0mo79qawg2grlyleatkcip8iabq+0ayqvk7idz...@mail.gmail.com Daniel Lewis wrote: Im

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 5 January 2012 22:16, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: ... then I attempted to reboot the system but nothing happened. And by that I mean the computer's flash screen would come up and give me the choice to enter the Bios Setup or Boot Menu and that's all. I could not enter the bios

Re: Browser

2012-01-06 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 4 January 2012 17:18, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:56:38 -0500 ill...@gmail.com wrote: If you have a few hours, lots of RAM, you'd like to stress- test your system: cd /usr/ports/www/chromium make install Unless things have changed radically that sounds

Re: Cannot update xfwm4-wm, compiling error on 3 machines two 8.2 and one 9.0

2012-01-16 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 16 January 2012 22:59, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear folks, I am trying to update all ports and have encountered xfce4-wm failing to compile.  I used # portmaster -a -x xfce4-wm to bypass the failure. . . .  CCLD   xfwm4-workspace-settings libtool: link: cannot

Re: libjawt.so and libz.so.5

2012-01-20 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 20 January 2012 14:21, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I ran pkg_libchk on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0 and I got: libreoffice-3.4.5: /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/basis3.4/program/libofficebean.so misses libjawt.so I did check and I have /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/i386/libjawt.so I had

Re: portmaster best practices

2012-01-23 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 23 January 2012 05:32, Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su wrote: Hello portmaster users, If portaudit shows that some installed packages have vulnerabilities, what do you usually do? Do you upgrade only the vulnerable packages, or vulnerable packages and dependent packages (portmaster

Re: lang/lua fails to build on 9.0-STABLE amd64 - bug or config issue?

2012-01-24 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 24 January 2012 02:12, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Lee Thomas lthomas_li...@lthomas.net wrote: Hello fellow FreeBSD users, I ran across an odd issue compiling lua from ports on amd64 with FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, and I'm not sure

Re: USB 3.0 with FreeBSD 8.1

2012-01-27 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 27 January 2012 22:55, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 January 2012 20:22, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: What's the plan?  Anything I can do? I don't see any xhci(4) support in 8-STABLE, but then there's this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions

Re: USB 3.0 with FreeBSD 8.1

2012-01-27 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 27 January 2012 20:22, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: What's the plan?  Anything I can do? I don't see any xhci(4) support in 8-STABLE, but then there's this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-July/231976.html -- --

Re: FreeBSD 9 buildworld with clang failure

2012-02-02 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 2 February 2012 14:43, Dean E. Weimer dwei...@dweimer.net wrote: I am trying to rebuild everything in a development machine with clang to test for production, and ran into a problem on the buildworld process.  This machine was already rebuilt from source using gcc, here are the options I

Re: How to build 9.0 from source?

2012-02-07 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 5 February 2012 09:15, james ja...@mansionfamily.plus.com wrote: I installed 9.0 without sources. Now I'd like to try building the kernel (or specifically the mfi driver), so I've tried to get the sources. The handbook says (in 9.55) to use sysinstall to get the source configuration -

Re: Installation troubles

2012-02-22 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 22 February 2012 09:04, herbert langhans w...@langhans.com.pl wrote: Hi Daemons, yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 9 on my 'new' laptop - an IBM X31. Since this model has no CD or floppy drive I copied the memstick-file to such an USB-thing and tried to boot. The laptop freezes when the

Re: disk labels (was: Re: fixating USB Storage)

2012-02-29 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 29 February 2012 10:33, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Warren Block writes:      I have a disk - ad1 - with a partition - p2 - that was   (obviously) created by gpart ... but no label was attached.      Can I add a label to that partition later?  man gpart only   shows a label

Re: make install fails for /usr/ports/security/sudo after downgrade from 9.0-R to 8-STABLE

2012-03-03 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 2 March 2012 14:44, FreeBSD Mailing Lists free...@growveg.net wrote: Hello list, I had to downgrade from 9-R to 8-STABLE. To do this, I did the following: 1. rm -rf /usr/obj 2. pkg_delete -a 3. rm -rf /usr/ports 4. mkdir -p /usr/ports/distfiles 5. rm -rf /usr/src 6. rm -rf

Re: make install fails for /usr/ports/security/sudo after downgrade from 9.0-R to 8-STABLE

2012-03-03 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 3 March 2012 14:43, FreeBSD Mailing Lists free...@growveg.net wrote: On 03/03/12 12:31, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Stale header files in /usr/include maybe? Hi, Yes that's it. It seems utmp.h got changed to utmpx.h between 8.2 and 9.0. Fixed by csup of 9.0-R and doing the buildworld

Re: Mouse disconnecting and reconnecting ...

2012-03-08 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 8 March 2012 12:25, David Walker davidianwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hey. I've recently installed 9.0 amd64 and X11 and Gnome. Here is my rc.conf mouse stuff: moused_nondefault_enable=NO Originally I'd bump the mouse and see it doing stuff on the console and although it's a common mouse

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-08 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 8 March 2012 23:56, Bruno Comerci bruno_come...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar

Re: Moved drives ...

2012-03-14 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 14 March 2012 17:39, David Walker davidianwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hey. I had installed 9.0 to a SATA drive (ada1 I think) and went to install Windows on a higher numbered drive but Windows doesn't like that or so I gathered. Anyway, I moved drives around and installed Windows - FreeBSD is

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-19 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 11 March 2012 04:17, Sabine Baer bae...@t-online.de wrote: Sorry if I'm totally wrong here but I don't know where to ask. I'm using WindowMaker as my window manager for some years. I do not remember why, but some days ago, I deinstalled ist. Now, I can't install it. $uname -rp  

Re: Convert mp3 to audio CD

2012-03-20 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 20 March 2012 23:10, Steve Bertrand steve.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: I know this is a backwards request, as I haven't had to go from mp3 to audio CD format in at least 10 years, but I do now. What is available to do so? Among probably thousands of other options, mplayer -vo null -ao

Re: current pids per tty

2012-04-03 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 3 April 2012 04:19, takCoder tak.offic...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, i'm trying to find out a way to list *all* the pids of which running in the background of or as the parent *of the current tty* device my shell file is running on.. is there a quick way to find it out as for commands

Re: Can FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE mount Ext3 file system ?

2012-04-07 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 7 April 2012 13:53, Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com wrote: Hi to all, I have: casa# disktype /dev/da1 --- /dev/da1 Character device, size 3.771 GiB (4048551936 bytes) FreeBSD boot loader (i386 boot2/BTX 1.02 at sector 2) BSD disklabel (at sector 1), 8 partitions Partition c:

Re: pcmcia wifi adapter that can be purchased?

2012-04-10 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 10 April 2012 13:37, Kendall Shaw ks...@kendallshaw.com wrote: Hi, This is my first post in a decade or so. Hopefully, it is the start of a serious of decreasingly stupid questions... I've looked through the hardware notes for freebsd 9.0 which I have installed in my fujitsu lifebook

Re: Wterm and FreeBSD 9

2012-05-07 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 7 May 2012 19:35, Joe Altman freebsd-annou...@chthonic.com wrote: Greetings... For FreeBSD 8, we see this for wterm: BROKEN=         does not compile .if ${OSVERSION} 97 BROKEN=         fails to build with new utmpx .endif I'd like to confirm that wterm will build and run on 9.

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