On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 05:02:22 -0400
Michael Powell wrote:
David Demelier wrote:
Hello there,
I'm writing because after a power failure I was unable to log in on
my FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE. The SU+J journal were executed correctly
but some files disappeared, including /etc/pwd.db. Thus I
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:34:36 +0200
David Demelier wrote:
On 14.10.2013 14:39, RW wrote:
If you are having problems with data integrity you might try
gjournal or zfs instead.
Why? SU+J is enabled by default. Isn't the purpose of a journaled file
system to ensure that any bad shutdown
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:48:18 -0700
Charles Swiger wrote:
Yes. Without journalling, you'd normally perform the full
timeconsuming fsck in the foreground.
Journalling removes the need for the background fsck which only recovers
lost space.
With journalling, it should be
able to do a
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:48:18 -0700
Charles Swiger wrote:
fsck_y_enable=YES
One of the most annoying things about SU+J is that fsck asks if you
want to use the journal. So fsck -y wont do a proper check unless the
journal replay fails.
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On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:53 +0100
Frank Leonhardt wrote:
Alas, not. The console driver won't ring the BIOS bell on anything
I've tried. It might on a desktop with a built-in sound card and
speakers, but it won't do anything with the beep speaker.
Are you sure you have one? The last two
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:22:30 -0400
Andre Goree wrote:
Hey list,
I have a disk that was at one time part of a GPT/GELI configuration
and thus, had a passphrase attached to it.
I've since reformatted that disk and am using it for another purpose,
but the system still appears to think the
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:33:55 +0400
Eugene wrote:
Hello Gary,
Also make sure there is no packed dirt on the heatsink -- I don't
know about AMDs, but older Intel heatsinks often tend to accumulate a
paper-like layer of dirt on the 'top' of heatsink grid, blocking the
airflow. I once had
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:25:08 +0100
Paul Macdonald wrote:
Hi, I spotted what i'd call an unusual file in the basejail on a jail
install, and have since seen this on other non jailed boxes.
-r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 11488 Jun 10 12:19 [
man [ reveals
test, [ -- condition
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:24:38 -0300
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
I could not find only a one user that wants to use FreeBSD and/or
LInux AND windows
Some people don't want to delete a preinstalled copy of Windows so they
can buy another and install it in a virtual server.
There are also
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:52:48 +
Teske, Devin wrote:
On Jun 17, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:25:54 -0500, Teske, Devin
devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote:
The default in FreeBSD is MD5
MD5 is no longer the default.
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 11:35:58 +0430
s m wrote:
thanks guys,
i understand another solution is GPT partitioning. but i prefer to
have more partitions in traditional freebsd (with MBR table i think).
using GPT is the last solution for me.
i should create more than 8 partitions with gpart
On Wed, 29 May 2013 19:52:02 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com writes:
BTW you mean paging, or swap use, rather that swapping. Linux
supports only paging, so it can be taken as read that swapping
means paging, but FreeBSD supports both.
Yes, there is some
On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:48:18 -0500
Adam Vande More wrote:
Um, that is wrong. It is in fact the basically the point of TRIM.
And SSD's typically use the best form of wear leveling and it's
usually advisable to leave a bit of the drive unpartitioned/unused to
ensure the wear leveling works
On Sun, 26 May 2013 12:36:42 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
But, swapping is also a symptom, not a problem.
It is never a good idea to let it get to that point.
No, there are thing that are better on disk than in memory. The most
common example is tmpfs. It's much better that files left on tmpfs can
On Wed, 29 May 2013 13:57:22 +0200
Fred Morcos wrote:
Linux has a sysctl variable vm.swappiness which you can set to 0 or 1
out of 100. Not sure how to achieve the same on FreeBSD, maybe one or
more combinations of the following?
You'll probably make things worse.
vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsout:
On Wed, 29 May 2013 12:04:47 +0100
Chris Rees wrote:
On 29 May 2013 07:13, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote:
Right. The fact that on very rare occasions a minute may not have
60 seconds in it plus many other corner cases in calculating the
current wall-clock time is an amusing
On Wed, 29 May 2013 10:01:53 -0400
Paul Kraus wrote:
Agreed. When I first started dealing with Unix professionally (1995,
I started playing with Unix-like OSes almost 10 years earlier) I was
taught that each Unix command does one thing and does it well.
It would still just be doing one thing
On Tue, 28 May 2013 09:17:55 +0200
O. Hartmann wrote:
I tried mail/claws-mail for now and I'm surprised how cryptic and
fast an email client can be, but I also have serious struggles with
this email client.
When fetch and filtering Emails from the account of our computer
center's IMPA4
On Mon, 27 May 2013 11:00:52 -0700
Ed Flecko wrote:
Clearly, I'm doing something wrong.
:-)
I thought I was using svn to keep my ports, src and docs up to date,
but pkg_version seems to disagree.
I'm running 9.1 and I've installed ports, src, and docs as part of my
install. After
On Thu, 23 May 2013 09:57:50 +0430
s m wrote:
my problem is, i can not run gjournal command for root partition in
fixit mode nor single user mode.
Just to check, you did boot into single user mode rather than shut-down
into single user mode?
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On Fri, 17 May 2013 09:15:35 -0400
Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 17 May 2013 14:03:01 +0100
RW articulated:
On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:45:29 -0400
Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100
RW articulated:
On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:29 +0100
Bruce Cran wrote:
Yes
On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:29 +0100
Bruce Cran wrote:
On 17/05/2013 11:42, Jerry wrote:
Seriously? If some potential poster were so brain dead that he/she
could not comprehend how to subscribe to the mailing list then I
would seriously doubt that they would possess the necessary skills
On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:45:29 -0400
Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100
RW articulated:
On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:29 +0100
Bruce Cran wrote:
Yes, seriously. Have you seen the number of people who post
messages PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST!!, apparently
On Tue, 14 May 2013 07:45:21 -0400
Robert Huff wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
3) Assuming that I want to do this stuff, what BIOS options
should I be setting or unsetting on the motherboard?
I am unable to check the BIOS settings on that MB (which may
be ASrock as well),
I see that if you run fsck on a filesystem with SU+J turned-on, fsck
asks whether you want to use the journal.
This causes a problem when running fsck -y. The traditional meaning of
this command was: do a thorough, unconditional, non-interactive check;
but now SU+J filesystems only get a journal
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:16:32 -0400
Michael Powell wrote:
Alejandro Imass wrote:
[snip]
Most consider the answer to use WPA2, which I do use too. Many
think it is 'virtually' unbreakable, but this really is not true;
it just takes longer. I've done WPA2 keys in as little as 2-3
hours
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:25:30 -0400
Michael Powell wrote:
Most consider the answer to use WPA2, which I do use too. Many think
it is 'virtually' unbreakable, but this really is not true; it just
takes longer. I've done WPA2 keys in as little as 2-3 hours before.
Are you saying that any WPA2
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 22:25:33 +0100
mhca12 wrote:
Does skipping authentication also remove the requirement of
zeroing the whole eli disk for the checksums?
It's not needed from that perspective, but it makes it a bit more
secure if you do that or fill the device from /dev/random before the
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:51:12 -0500
MFV wrote:
Hello Matthew,
Thanks for an outstanding piece of documentation. It resolves a
number of concerns I had and convinced me to move from portsnap where
I discovered an apparent bug that gave me security concerns. More
specifically I manually
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT)
Georg Reilinger wrote:
As a consequence, I can see myself do two possible things, to have a
system
running with KDE 3.5 once again:
1. Go back to an older release of FreeBSD and install KDE 3.5 from
the
that's pointless
2. To be honest, I
I'm looking for a replacement for kget from KDE3 which I use
with Konqueror on easynews.com. As the site has download accounting
and I have a slow dsl line I have hundreds of files queued-up - often
for months.
Ideally what I after is something similar
- Browser integration
- The ability to
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:23:08 -0800
David Brodbeck wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Artifex Maximus
artife...@gmail.comwrote:
Hello!
I am using portmanager for updating my ports. I love its -p switch.
Is there any similar program with such option? I am asking because
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:32:35 +0100
Polytropon wrote:
Today I don't need to deal with this question anymore. I've
been using a two browsers approach: Firefox with Flash
installed, everything works as intended, and Opera as my
main browser, with Flash deactivated, and quite picky
about what
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:19:55 +0200
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
03.01.2013 11:54, David Demelier:
subversion is not in base and will probably never? So this is not a
real problem :)
Nope, importing svnsup would suffice.
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/des/svnsup/
Even that isn't
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:34:51 +0100
David Demelier wrote:
I think a good idea would be to store the key directly in the
bootloader, but that needs a large enough partition scheme that can
store the bootloader (boot0 or boot1) plus the encryption key.
However this needs to add support for
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:43:29 +0100
Martin Laabs wrote:
Hi,
Are there any plans or is there already support for full
disk encryption without the need for a boot partition?
Well - what would be your benefit? OK - you might not create another
partition but I think this is not the problem.
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 06:22:44 -0800 (PST)
Jack Mc Lauren wrote:
Hi fellas
How can I exclude specific directories from my find command ? I want
to look for all files in the whole system except for those in
e.g /extra directory. I use this command to find all files, but how
can I exclude /extra
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:16:26 -0800
Devin Teske wrote:
On Dec 17, 2012, at 3:39 AM, Jack Mc Lauren wrote:
Hi guys
How can I read a file which contains a number and assign that
number to a variable via awk programming? By the way, I want to use
this awk program in a shell script.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:01:33 + (UTC)
Walter Hurry wrote:
$ sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
WARNING
Executing updatedb as root. This WILL reveal all filenames
on your machine to all login users, which is a security risk.
$
Why is it a security risk? Security through obscurity?
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:53:29 +0100
Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:32:50 +, RW wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:01:33 + (UTC)
Walter Hurry wrote:
$ sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
WARNING
Executing updatedb as root. This WILL reveal all filenames
on your
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:00:51 -0500
Aryeh Friedman wrote:
I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if
switching to amd64 ... nvidia-kmod are the minimal ones I need]) the
main reason for asking is PAE seems to be broken now
The last I heard the nvidia driver wasn't
On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:13:40 +0100
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
##enable dns # request DNS info (for resolv.conf)
You probably need this if you haven't set resolv.conf manually
set dial
set login
I don't think you need these.
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:13:50 +
Arthur Chance wrote:
On 11/27/12 05:50, Dale Scott wrote:
Hi, I was running portsnap fetch on a remote terminal when my
connection failed. After connecting running portsnap again, it
appeared to complete correctly. However, when I run portsnap
extract I
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:51:51 +1100
andrew clarke wrote:
On Tue 2012-11-20 11:49:38 UTC+1100, andrew clarke
(m...@ozzmosis.com) wrote:
In the meantime I've switched to using mpd5 (/usr/ports/net/mpd5)
and /sbin/ipnat. So far, so good:
# ifconfig ng0
ng0:
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:21:19 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
Hi,
have i caught portsnap with its pants down ?
# rm -rf /usr/ports
# portsnap fetch update
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:10:48 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
You gave portsnap two commands - one succeeded and the other failed.
fetch downloads and applies patches to the compressed
snapshot. update uses the compressed snapshot to update a
pre-existing ports tree created by an extract
...
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:58:02 -0600 (CST)
Robert Bonomi wrote:
In 'classic' English (as taught in the 60s and earlier), a comma was
_required_ before a trailing 'and' in a list of 3 or more items, and
forbidden if there were only two items.
Not really:
console over ip.
I tried it remote on a 9.1-RC2 system that has / /tmp /var and /usr
as seperate partions
For / i can do a mount -o ro / and tunefs -j disable /dev/da0p2 then
mount -o rw /
For the /tmp /var and /usr filesystems this does not work bcause hey
cannot be remounted ro while
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:20:35 +0700 (ICT)
Olivier Nicole wrote:
Hi,
The network card on my HP 4300 is definitely dead. I don't want to
invest in a new network card though, while I have a bunchg of old
systems lying around.
Have you considered the cost of powering an additional computer?
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:42:31 +0530
Jack wrote:
Hi again,
This time I disabled DHCP on my fxp0 interface and
in my adsl modem too.
But the problem still exists.
This time I tried both approaches:
assigned an IP address explicitly to fxp0, and
then no explicit assignment to fxp0.
I'd
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:38:47 +0530
Jack wrote:
My network schematic is:
PC --- ADSL modem - Internet
192.168.1.2 192.168.1.1
...
/etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by resolvconf
nameserver 192.168.1.1
If 192.168.1.1 is the modem, how can it be a proxy
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:43 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
Hi,
what is the diff between
--index
and
--index-only
From a *very* quick look, it appears that --index-only means don't use
the the port-directory at all, so that the index file is downloaded
into /tmp, and some checks and optimizations
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:47:04 -0700
Gary Kline wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:55:57AM -0700, Waitman Gobble wrote:
are you sure it's not 'md5sum' ? ... that seems to be on all my
GNU/Linux machines.
Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA
yup, you be right. altho we
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:24:47 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com
wrote:
tmpfs and swap md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen
any advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp.
Then you don't understand
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200
Andy Wodfer wrote:
Hi,
I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
periodic LOCATE script runs every week.
What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply
remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:14:17 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:
This will happen automatically if you go to multiuser without a
writeable /tmp. See /etc/rc.d/tmp
It doesn't, the default is an old-fashioned md device, not tmpfs.
I have a problem with the semantics of the rc scripts for this and
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:21:12 +0100
RW wrote:
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:14:17 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:
This will happen automatically if you go to multiuser without a
writeable /tmp. See /etc/rc.d/tmp
It doesn't, the default is an old-fashioned md device, not tmpfs.
Sorry I misread
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:35:29 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Sorry I misread the previous post which *was* referring to an md
device, but the rest is right.
Not really. ;-) The one compelling reason to use an md
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:09:15 +0200
Polytropon wrote:
I'm not sure if wine can run those native DOS games, but
the big virtualisation software (VirtualBox, VMWare)
should be able to emulate a PC, t
You don't need to go that far, dosbox will run most dos games.
To: Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org
Cc: RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?
That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC
Jason: It looks like you may have installed the 64-bit
distribution on your
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:53:04 -0700 (PDT)
Jason Usher wrote:
I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's
an i686 CPU.
By default, GENERIC has HAMMER as the cpu, and that isn't working.
So I tried both:
That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC
On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:20:52 +0200
kaltheat wrote:
Hi,
I tried to replace three letters with three letters by awk using the
sub-routine. I assumed that my regular expression does mean the
following:
match if three letters of any letter of alphabet occurs anywhere in
input
$ echo
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:47:10 +0200
Ivan Voras wrote:
On 26/07/2012 04:14, RW wrote:
I asked a similar questions to the OPs in the geom list and didn't
get an answer. Geli doesn't need or isn't using any advantages of
XTS. And CBC in geli is actually equivalent to ESSIV (see
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:49:00 +0200
Fabian Keil wrote:
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
In the end I went with 128 bit aes-cbc since it's the fastest
setting and Bruce Schneier recommends 128 over 256 AES as being
more secure.
Can you provide the source for the as being more
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:52:39 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi wrote:
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jul 25 14:00:27 2012
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:57:30 +0200 (CEST)
From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: geli - selecting
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:45:35 -0700 (PDT)
Mr U wrote:
hi all
I want to install openbox from ports collection.
freebsd attempting to download libxml2 from fr.rpmfind.net but
I don't know why connection speed slow down after a while and finally
failed.
is it possible to change download
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:26:10 -0700 (PDT)
Jakub Lach wrote:
Or vi in place.
Really, it always surprises me there's
no vi available in single user mode.
There is /rescue/vi
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:52:50 +0200
Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
hello, world\n
is anybody else seeing this? On a fresh 9-STABLE/amd64 as of July 7,
with all ports compiled from scratch. Qbittorrent (2.9.11) freezes
after about 10 to 20 seconds, reacts to mouse clicks only after a
minute or so;
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 22:34:21 +0200
Harald Weis wrote:
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:46:00PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
I would recommend you to remove flash at all. It actually improves
web browsing experience, removing problems with constant CPU load
because you have few tabs with
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:21:18 -0500
Zane C. B-H. wrote:
Howdy!
Any one have any idea what is going on below?
[root@shiela]/root# uname -a
FreeBSD shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 25 04:55:35 CST 2012
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:53:45 -0500
Zane C. B-H. wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
freebsd-update doesn't support development branches, you have to go
from security branch to security branch.
I know it can't be used to update to stable
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:53:50 -0700 (PDT)
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Hey there,
I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from
rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump.
Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI changes, such
as the
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:56:39 -0700 (PDT)
Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
Hi, since a few of days ago, I noticed my home server turns very slow
more than once a day, so every time I run top to see what's
processes are running, I can see fsck_ufs at the very top, and the
hard drive working like mad.
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:45:07 +0100
Matthew Seaman wrote:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Persuade vboxheadless to start before samba.
# PROVIDE: precedence
# REQUIRE: vboxheadless
# BEFORE: samba
:
Make it executable. Note -- the ':' does seem to be necessary.
Why? None of the dummy scripts in the
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:22:37 +0300
mbsd wrote:
Hi there.
Now I'm using FreeBSD 9 without swap, and without additional swap -
related configurations.
..
And the question is:
Does it correct to use freebsd like this? Or I need specific setup?
Option NO_SWAPPING if I understand right not
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:48:13 +0100
RW wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:22:37 +0300
mbsd wrote:
Hi there.
Now I'm using FreeBSD 9 without swap, and without additional swap -
related configurations.
..
And the question is:
Does it correct to use freebsd like this? Or I need specific
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:17:20 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
William Orr will at worrbase.com writes:
Hello,
I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing
/var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've
been backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 07:22:50 -0600
Gary Aitken wrote:
I reconfigured my ssd filesystem with the /var partition of size
512M. Unfortunately, something in portsnap or the ports tree in
general uses a boatload of small files, and i ran out of inodes. Can
anyone recommend an appropriate size
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 07:36:24 -0400
Jerry wrote:
In any event, it won't belong before some hacker comes up with a way
to circumvent the entire process anyway,
It sounds like Fedora already have. They say that they are only going to
sign a thin shim that loads grub.
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:47:29 +0200
Rada alive wrote:
I was hoping to test dns/unbound as a lighter-weight DNS cache
service to replace BIND. A few hours into make install i decided to
abort and have a look at the dependencies.
Can someone tell me why a DNS server needs packages like
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:47:47 +0100
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
c400# uname -a
FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25
UTC 2012
r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
Following the handbook:
c400# freebsd-update -r 9-STABLE upgrade
...
On Tue, 22 May 2012 21:30:44 -0400 (EDT)
Thomas Mueller wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Tue, 22 May 2012 19:02:30 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: portsnap update won't update original /usr/ports
According to the
On Tue, 22 May 2012 13:50:10 +0200
Jos Chrispijn wrote:
I have this issue with running commands from a script:
In my crontab I define script 'do_daily.run':
30 23 * * * root
/root/cronjobs/do_daily.run
The content of this script (amongst others)
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT)
Beastie-Boy wrote:
Ok, many thanks for your replies.
I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE.
That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk.
When you cross a major OS release boundary, you need to
On Thu, 17 May 2012 13:37:49 +0200
Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 17/05/2012 08:27, Peter Barnes wrote:
I would like to use BSD but I use KPPP to connect to my ISP. Is
anyone working on KPPP to include it with BSD? According to
Distrowatch no BSD O/S's have KPPP
KPPP is just a KDE-based GUI
On Tue, 8 May 2012 15:09:26 -0400
Carmel wrote:
I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content
was not view-able.
Example:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html?ref=fbsrc=spcomm_ref=false
There is a
On Tue, 8 May 2012 16:51:06 -0400
Carmel wrote:
On Tue, 8 May 2012 21:14:23 +0100
RW articulated:
It's a bit anecdotal, but I've had fewer problems with flash video
since upgrading to modern hardware a year ago.
Define modern hardware. The Windows machine is actually older
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:25:39 -0400
Daniel Staal wrote:
So, is there any way to *avoid* getting that error? Some way where I
can actually use the ports system to keep my stuff up to date? (Even
if it doesn't include the manually-installed software?)
It think you should be able to prevent
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:32:39 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com writes:
...
http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/19036310553/two-things-that-really-helped-
speed-up-my-mac-and
http://dywypi.org/2012/02/back-on-linux.html
2) Inactive memory (which is
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:12:41 +0200
Julian H. Stacey wrote:
No mention of ext3 there, nor from find (above).
.. so you May be out of luck ..
ext3 is ext2+journalling. If fsck supports ext3, then it can sync the
journal and the partition can be safely mounted as ext2.
It's a long time since
What's the explanation for this:
$ ldd /usr/compat/linux/bin/pwd
/usr/compat/linux/bin/pwd:
/tmp
$ LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 /usr/compat/linux/bin/pwd
libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x28076000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x2805)
From what I've read ldd works through
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 14:40:12 +0200
Tony wrote:
Tony
http://siegelgale.com/
The FreeBSD site isn't great, but this site is worse.
Has no-one ever pointed-out the irony that the top 20% of the page
bangs-on about simplifying, and has a fight bloat on your website
link, but the other 80% is a
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 01:25:54 +0200
Mikkel Bang wrote:
Den 23:44 8. april 2012 skrev RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com
følgende:
The FreeBSD site isn't great, but this site is worse.
Has no-one ever pointed-out the irony that the top 20% of the page
bangs-on about simplifying, and has
On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:18:19 +0100
Dave wrote:
fbsd8
How do you connect to your TW ISP? Just a Cable modem of some sort,
or is there a Router involved somewhere? It makes a whole world of
difference
If you read the rest of the thread you'll see that that the problem
was solved
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:52:26 -0400
Fbsd8 wrote:
Da Rock wrote:
On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote:
Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable
system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their
dhcp server has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is not public
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:35:41 +0100
RW wrote:
The difference here is that the DHCP server is in a different address
block to the DHCP server,
That should be: the temporary address is in a different address
block to the DHCP server
___
freebsd
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:14:20 -0400
Mike Jeays wrote:
I strongly recommend a laser printer over an inkjet even for home
use. The reduced running costs and better reliability are easily
worth the lack of colour, IMO.
How do they compare for light and occasional use? I'm thinking in
terms of a
I've noticed for some time that claws-mail and less (which I think use
libc's regex(3)) don't support word boundaries in searches. I might be
delusional, but I think I've used \b in the past in both of those
applications in FreeBSD.
According to regex(3) it's an implementation POSIX.2, so the
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:28:47 -0500
David Jackson wrote:
One faulty argument I heard was that it is often not a good idea to
upgrade to new software release.
This is an argument that you appear to have completely misunderstood.
The point of suggesting that you use release package is that it's a
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:30:07 -0500
Chuck Swiger wrote:
On 3/6/2012 2:13 PM, Luke Marsden wrote:
* Resident corresponds to a subset of the pages above: those
pages which actually occupy physical/core memory. Notably pages may
appear in size but not appear in resident for
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