Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

On 01/10/2010 21:59:40, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:14:20 -0500 > Dan Nelson articulated: > >> You must have missed >> http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ; >> patches for 6, 7, and 8 are available there, and freebsd-update has >> fixed binaries if you use

Re: 5.25" floppy drive

Thanks to all. Solved. It was a multiple cause issue: 1st: BIOS Setting was incorrect (had to enable 1.2MB 5.25 rather than 3.5 which was it set to - an oversight in the firts place, that occured to me). 2nd: Cable issue: I had a combined cable (3.5 " connector at the end and edge connec

Re: BIND: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found

On 1 October 2010 21:16, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > On 10/01/2010 12:52 PM, Matthew wrote: > > I would be grateful for any pointers on how to resolve this. I suspect > > the error message may not be exactly descriptive of whats happening. > > Kinda. > > Here's a few points to keep in mind when wo

Swap on ZFS

Hi I have a virtual server with only 512 MB of memory but still want to run ZFS on it. When there is IO load and only few memory left it occasionally happens that the server freezes, network ping will still work. As far as I know there was the problem that an IO request on ZFS first needs to alloc

Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

How can one do a massive portupgrade, as with -r or -R, without being interrupted by options configuration screens for many individual ports? Idea is to let it run unattended such as when I might run it starting just before bedtime. Doing "make config" ahead of time also gives the chance to re

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

On 2 October 2010 11:27, Thomas Mueller wrote: > How can one do a massive portupgrade, as with -r or -R, without being > interrupted by options configuration screens for many individual ports? > Idea is to let it run unattended such as when I might run it starting just > before bedtime. Doing "

Re: FreeBSD on Compaq mini CQ10 anyone?

Le 02/10/2010 07:34, Gonzalo Nemmi a écrit : El 26/09/2010 01:32 p.m., BernardL escribió: Le 05/09/2010 06:04, Gonzalo Nemmi a écrit : I just got one and was wondering if anyone was running FreeBSD on it and how well does it work out of the box. All comments are welcome. I have one with Free

Re: 5.25" floppy drive

from "Christoph Kukulies" : > Thanks to all. > Solved. > It was a multiple cause issue: > 1st: BIOS Setting was incorrect (had to enable 1.2MB 5.25 rather than 3.5 > which was it set to - an oversight in the firts place, that occured to me). > 2nd: Cable issue: I had a combined cable (3.5 "

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

On Saturday 02 of October 2010 13:27:00 Thomas Mueller wrote: > How can one do a massive portupgrade, as with -r or -R, without being > interrupted by options configuration screens for many individual ports? > Idea is to let it run unattended such as when I might run it starting just > before bedt

Re: 5.25" floppy drive

On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:50:00 + Thomas Mueller articulated: > from "Christoph Kukulies" : > > > Thanks to all. > > > Solved. > > > It was a multiple cause issue: > > > 1st: BIOS Setting was incorrect (had to enable 1.2MB 5.25 rather > > than 3.5 which was it set to - an oversight in the fi

Re: Cache Memory in top command

_ From: Bas Smeelen [mailto:b.smee...@ose.nl] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:44:57 +0200 Subject: Re: Cache Memory in top command On 09/30/2010 01:37 PM, RW wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:24:58 +0200 > Bas Smeelen wrote: > > > >> *Wired:* number

Re: 5.25" floppy drive

Hi Christoph, > In the end it turns out that the floppies that were lying in a drawer > for 19 years, are producing read errors. Do NOT throw them out. I have a tool that can rescue near all data. http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/ Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD

Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote: >> Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ... >> >> On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companio

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

In the last episode (Oct 02), Thomas Mueller said: > How can one do a massive portupgrade, as with -r or -R, without being > interrupted by options configuration screens for many individual ports? > Idea is to let it run unattended such as when I might run it starting just > before bedtime. Doing

Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

On Saturday 02 October 2010 14:44:07 Anselm Strauss wrote: > On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote: > >> Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ... > >> > >> On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote: > >>> Hi >

ACPI & battery issues

I see ACPI Exception: AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] (20100331/evregion-588) ACPI Error (psparse-0633): Method parse/execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] (Node 0xc6adba60), AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE repeatedly in dmesg sysctl's relating to battery inform

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > How can one do a massive portupgrade, as with -r or -R, without being > interrupted by options configuration screens for many individual ports?  Idea > is to let it run unattended such as when I might run it starting just before > bedtime.

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 09:49:49 -0500 Brandon Gooch wrote: > Well, I'm not using portupgrade, but instead ports-mgmt/portmaster: +1 -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

On Oct 2, 2010, at 9:49, Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Thomas Mueller > wrote: >> How can one do a massive portupgrade, as with -r or -R, without being >> interrupted by options configuration screens for many individual ports? >> Idea is to let it run unattended such

Re: Swap on ZFS

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Anselm Strauss wrote: > Hi > > I have a virtual server with only 512 MB of memory but still want to run > ZFS on it. > > Has there been any fix or workaround for this? I guess it does not help > when I use a swap file on ZFS instead of a separate zvol. > Make sur

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:05:33 -0500 Doug Poland articulated: > If I understand the OPs question correctly, I believe setting the > environment variable BATCH=yes will give desired results with > portupgrade. This will cause port compile defaults to be used in > lieu of an existing /var/db/ports/*/

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Thomas Mueller > wrote: > > Well, I'm not using portupgrade, but instead ports-mgmt/portmaster: > > # portmaster --force-config --no-confirm [...] lang/perl5.12 > > Gets all of the config menus out of the way (

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

Jerry writes: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:05:33 -0500 > Doug Poland articulated: > >> If I understand the OPs question correctly, I believe setting the >> environment variable BATCH=yes will give desired results with >> portupgrade. This will cause port compile defaults to be used in >> lieu of an

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Jerry wrote: > I was of the opinion, and I could be wrong, that setting 'BATCH=yes' > simply stopped the build process from attempting to create an options > file; however, it would use an existing one if it was present. Perhaps > someone with more intimate knowle

ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 with XFCE packages released

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I have just completed an 8.1-RELEASE-p1 based build of the 'Custom releases' project hosted here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com At the moment only the 64bit version is available, while a 32bit version is in the works and is expected la

OT: fdisk

Greetings I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer access that drive. I pulled it and attached it via USB to one of my FreeBSD machines but it will not mount. It is a 500G hard drive and I get _wild_ r

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

Le Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:24:30 -0400, Kevin Kobb a écrit : > Both would probably be fine. However, I would recommend taking a look > at pfsense if I were you. It is made to do what you want without as > much of the overhead as a full blown *BSD install. > > It is easier to configure, update, the d

Re: OT: fdisk

Le Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:36:40 -0700, Robert a écrit : > I tried to use "dd" and copy data to another spare drive. It appears > to work but then I can no longer mount that drive. Other than taking > it to a data recovery shop does anyone have any idea. May be "photorec" will help (in systutils/tes

Re: OT: fdisk

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:36:40 -0700 Robert articulated: > I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running > XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer > access that drive. If the disk is the problem, I would suggest getting a copy of Spin-Rite

Re: OT: fdisk

On 02.10.2010 21:08, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:36:40 -0700 > Robert articulated: > >> I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running >> XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer >> access that drive. > > If the disk is the problem, I wou

Re: ACPI & battery issues

Sorry for the top post - I'm on my mobile. I get the same messages with the stock acpi on a Lenovo S10e. Someone on the acpi list (who's name I forget) wrote a patch which removes the error. If you think it might help I'll root it out and forward it on. Regards, Peter Harrison www.4harrisons.b

Re: ACPI & battery issues

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:01 PM, wrote: > I get the same messages with the stock acpi on a Lenovo S10e. Someone on the > acpi list (who's name I forget) wrote a patch which removes the error. If you > think it might help I'll root it out and forward it on. I'll be happy to take a look at the p

Re: OT: fdisk

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Robert wrote: Greetings I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer access that drive. I pulled it and attached it via USB to one of my FreeBSD machines but it will not mount. It is

Re: OT: fdisk

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:00:00 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Robert wrote: > > > Greetings > > > > I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was > > running XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no > > longer access that drive. > > > > I pu

Re: OT: fdisk

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Robert wrote: But I cannot mount /dev/da1s1 ~> sudo mount_ntfs /dev/da1s1 /mnt mount_ntfs: /dev/da1s1: Invalid argument It's weird that da1 can be mounted, but da1s1 can't. Maybe a problem with the filesystem. Might be repairable, although probably it would need propri

Re: OT: fdisk

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:09:27 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: > It's weird that da1 can be mounted, but da1s1 can't. Maybe a problem > with the filesystem. Might be repairable, although probably it would > need proprietary programs. Don't experiment with the original drive, > make a copy wit

Re: OT: fdisk

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Robert wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:09:27 -0600 (MDT) > Warren Block wrote: > > >> It's weird that da1 can be mounted, but da1s1 can't.  Maybe a problem >> with the filesystem.  Might be repairable, although probably it would >> need proprietary programs.  Don't