Xorg, HDMI

2013-08-24 Thread Andrew Beauchamp
Forget that last email. Apparently this little thing doesn't support it's native 1366x768 via HDMI. As soon as I bumped it down to 1024x768 it started working. I can manage from here! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Xorg, HDMI

2013-08-24 Thread Andrew Beauchamp
I've followed the Xorg configuration instructions per: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html I've added the resolution as well as a mode line. Any time I start X, my TV goes out of range and says 'resolution not supported.' Any ideas? PC is an Acer Aspire

Re: Boot hangs in single-user mode

2013-06-24 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
I have tracked down the issue. Not sure whether this is a PR issue or not... On 2013-06-06, at 11:18 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:24:52 -0300, Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote: >> >> Strangely, it seems that I cannot boot single user, either >> using &q

Re: Boot hangs in single-user mode

2013-06-19 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
Hi Everyone, On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:24:52 -0300, Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote: > > Strangely, it seems that I cannot boot single user, either > using "boot -s" from the boot loader, or using the boot menu. > When I get to the point where the root filesystem is mounted,

Re: Boot hangs in single-user mode

2013-06-06 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
[ Condensation of earlier comments below ] On 2013-06-06, at 11:18 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:24:52 -0300, Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote: >> >> When I get to the point where the root filesystem is mounted, >> it hangs right after printing the message: &g

Boot hangs in single-user mode

2013-06-06 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
otice that there are several messages (dating back to 2004) in the list indicating 'hang after "Trying to mount root"' or 'hang after sbin_init' (which is the message that will be seen when booting single-user in "verbo

VIA PV530

2013-03-03 Thread Andrew Pack
Does anyone have any experience running FreeBSD on this platform? Unless I'm mistaken, I could't find it listed under the new release compatibility list.  ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: PPPoE

2012-12-06 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2012-12-06 16:13:40 UTC+0100, Ralf Mardorf (ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com) wrote: > how do I have to set up PPPoE? > This doesn't work: [1] In what way does it not work? In your example, at the very least you should be able to ping 213.191.89.25: > tun0: flags=8051 metric 0 mtu 1492 >

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

2012-11-19 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2012-11-19 07:55:16 UTC-0500, Daniel Feenberg (feenb...@nber.org) wrote: > The only way for FreeBSD (or Linux, for that matter) to survive in a > world where hardware vendors care only about Windows, is to make sure > that FreeBSD only depends upon features that Windows uses. In a world wh

PPPoA section of FreeBSD Handbook

2012-11-19 Thread andrew clarke
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: flags=88d1 metric 0 mtu > 1492 > inet 124.170.51.116

/usr/sbin/ppp doubling connections on tun0

2012-11-19 Thread andrew clarke
ed to using mpd5 (/usr/ports/net/mpd5) and /sbin/ipnat. So far, so good: # ifconfig ng0 ng0: flags=88d1 metric 0 mtu 1492 inet 124.170.51.116 --> 203.215.7.251 netmask 0x Regards Andrew ___ 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: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-18 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2012-11-18 08:50:34 UTC-0500, Fbsd8 (fb...@a1poweruser.com) wrote: > By design virtualbox requires a desktop on the host to use the > virtualbox built in config screens and the only way to access a > configured and installed guest VM is from a remote PC with a desktop. No, you can create a

Re: confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-17 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2012-11-17 01:28:02 UTC-0500, Matthew Pope (mp...@teksavvy.com) wrote: > Could anyone be kind enough to recommend a free, or share their own > FreeBSD VM image that has bind pre-configured in a jail, and / or an > Apache web server pre-configured in a jail, for a non-commercial site? I

Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version

2012-10-22 Thread andrew clarke
es which meant binaries built for, say, FreeBSD 4.0 would not run under later versions (4.8 perhaps). I only mention this because you might encounter problems running binaries built for FreeBSD 4.7 under FreeBSD 4.11. Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@f

/usr/bin/lint - bitrot?

2012-10-22 Thread andrew clarke
this issue has existed for at least 12 years if I'm reading this PR correctly: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18326 Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: pkgng and the old pkg_* programs

2012-10-22 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2012-10-21 18:10:06 UTC+0100, Arthur Chance (free...@qeng-ho.org) wrote: > Now that portmaster officially supports pkgng I've converted to using > it. Is there any reason to keep the old pkg_* programs around, or can I > delete them and add WITHOUT_PKGTOOLS to my /etc/src.conf? I'm runnin

Re: how many memory is needed for FreeBSD 9 ?

2012-10-21 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2012-10-21 18:21:59 UTC+0200, Patrick Lamaiziere (patf...@davenulle.org) wrote: > I'm updating an old laptop running FreeBSD 8.1 with 64 MB ram (44MB > available) but now FreeBSD 9.1 panics at boot time: > > panic: kmem_malloc(4194304): kmem_map too small: 24584192 allocated? That's one

Re: clang options question

2012-10-16 Thread andrew clarke
, admittedly): $ clang -o hello -arch i386 hello.c clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-arch i386' $ clang -v clang version 1.1 (branches/release_27) Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Thread model: posix Regards Andrew ___ freeb

Re: pppoe configuration and dns name resolution

2012-10-16 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2012-10-16 20:38:47 UTC+0530, Jack (jacks.1...@gmail.com) wrote: > I'm new as a FreeBSD user, and trying to configure my > pppoe connection. > > After reading handbook and searching on various forums, > I prepared the ppp.conf file, and tried starting the ppp via > # ppp -ddial adsl > > H

Re: SATA Controllers

2012-10-13 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2012-10-09 09:25:34 UTC-0700, Doug Hardie (bc...@lafn.org) wrote: > Looking through the list of SATA Controllers available at Best Buy, I > don't find any of them listed on the 9.0 hardware page. I need a > couple cheap ones (for non-production systems). Does anyone have > recommendations

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 RC2

2012-10-10 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2012-10-09 15:54:23 UTC-0500, ajtiM (lum...@gmail.com) wrote: > I saw that is no more iso for FreeBSD RC1. Now is for RC2. Is it possible or > better safe to use freebsd-update to update 9.1 RC1 to RC2, please? You can use "freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC2". Safe? You probably wouldn't

Re: Info 2 Release

2012-10-10 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2012-10-10 10:02:48 UTC+0100, Anton Shterenlikht (me...@bristol.ac.uk) wrote: > From: andrew clarke > > PS. This is an English-speaking mailing list. > > What's the problem? > If there are non-english posts > and non-english helpful replies, >

Re: Info 2 Release

2012-10-10 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2012-10-10 10:16:35 UTC+0200, René Mercier (realmo.merc...@gmail.com) wrote: > Bonjour, > > Je suis sous Debian, mais travaillant dans les réseaux, je souhaiterai > passer sur FreeBsd pour sa stabilité et pour sa sécurité,, je vois > qu'actuellement il y une 9 rc1, pourriez vous s'il vous

Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations

2012-10-03 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2012-10-03 11:26:38 UTC+0200, Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:50:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > I got sent a pdf file, version 1.6, with annotations. > > xpdf can view the file, but not the annotations. > > Please suggest a pdf viewer from ports

Re: Auto-mounting sshfs from /etc/fstab

2012-09-05 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2012-09-05 19:38:54 UTC+0200, OriS (site.free...@orientalsensation.com) wrote: > I've been trying to find a page on the Internet where an example is posted > explaining how to mount sshfs from /etc/fstab, but I can't find any! Have you tried running sshfs from cron? eg. run "crontab -e"

Re: FreeBSD 8-STABLE on R620 w/ X520-DA2/Intel 82599

2012-06-29 Thread Andrew Boyer
Please post the output of pciconf -lvc for these devices. -Andrew On Jun 29, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > I have 2 hosts, HP DL360 G8 and Dell R620. Both have the > X520-DA2/Intel 82599 10G Fiber NIC. Both also have the same FreeBSD > 8-STABLE image. Th

Re: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-25 Thread Andrew Boyer
num_queues > hw.intr_storm_threshold -- Andrew Boyerabo...@averesystems.com ___ 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: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-22 Thread Andrew Boyer
The ixgbe driver creates devices named ix0, etc. I believe you need to run 'ifconfig ix0 up' before it will attempt to get link. -Andrew On Jun 22, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Rick Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Rick Miller wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Wond

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Andrew Boyer
s to have to make rc.conf > changes, pf.conf changes, and who knows what other software could be on these > machines that is trying to bind to a specific NIC... > > > Thanks! > You could try switching mpt to MSI. MSI interrupts are never shared. Add this to /boot/

Re: ls-F tcsh built-in command

2012-05-20 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2012-05-17 15:17:13 UTC+0200, Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote: > Search for "LS_COLORS" in the environment variables section > of "man csh". However, I've always been satisfied with using > $LSCOLORS as "ExGxdxdxCxDxDxBxBxegeg". :-) Before I discovered $LSCOLORS I used gls from /usr/po

Re: Follow up....Re: Updating for the FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl

2012-05-03 Thread andrew clarke
utely no need to rebuild it. Apologies if this was already obvious. Regards Andrew ___ 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: Follow up....Re: Updating for the FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl

2012-05-03 Thread andrew clarke
ws the distro name and version. Perhaps this or something similar could be provided in future FreeBSD releases and updated by freebsd-update. $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 12.04 LTS \n \l Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: FTP oddness, over SSH session.

2012-04-11 Thread Andrew Gould
c) that are available for multiple operating systems. The only configuration change I make is to change the port used by ssh. That simple change eliminated most of the hacker attempts found in various logs (failed logins, etc). Andrew ___ freebsd-questio

Re: ps, clang and make variables

2012-03-31 Thread andrew clarke
I've never tried building LibreOffice at all, let alone with Clang, but apparently it can be done: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-clang-success-td3788899.html Regards Andrew ___ 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: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-30 Thread Andrew Gould
Do you need it to be a laser printer? The Lexmark Pro915 is an inkjet all-on-one that speaks Postscript. I print over wireless network via cups. When I need to scan, I scan to a usb thumb drive. It will store scanned images as jpeg or pdf. Regards, Andrew On Mar 30, 2012 12:24 PM, "

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Andrew Gould
Troll alert. (just let it die) On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Bruno Comerci 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

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Gould
it would not be FreeBSD, it would > be something else. (Like Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, which sounds like what > you are looking for.) > > -- > Benjamin Tovar > It is not newbie friendly. As a non-techie (CPA), however, I can tell you that it makes the user a better user; and **that*

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Gould
best operating system to run the software. >> 4. Choose the best hardware to run the operating system. >> >> If you've performed these steps out of order, you're unlikely to be happy. >> >> Andrew > > > You have just now declared complete indifference to an

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Gould
the best software to meet your needs. 3. Choose the best operating system to run the software. 4. Choose the best hardware to run the operating system. If you've performed these steps out of order, you're unlikely to be happy. Andrew ___ 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: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Gould
portupgrade, which has options to control whether you compile updates from source or install binary packages. FreeBSD is a very flexible and powerful operating system. That power and flexibility, however, requires the user to take the time to learn the operating system and its options. This may

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-10 Thread andrew clarke
rm -f '{}' ';' > > but let's not leave people in any doubt that this is not the best option. True, but I can never remember the syntax for -exec. :-) Regards Andrew ___ 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: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-08 Thread andrew clarke
ilenames with spaces. Or the scenic route, using xargs, with one rm per file (slower): find . -type f -depth 1 -print0 | xargs -n1 -0 rm -f (The "scenic route" is useful if you want to do something else with the files instead of deleting them with rm.) Regards Andrew ___

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-08 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2012-01-07 15:05:55 UTC-0800, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net (leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net) wrote: > (5) What device driver must be installed for the sound board to be > able to receive a m.i.d.i. over u.s.b. signal? This signal would be > generated by a musician's keyboard, and wou

Re: freebsd-update

2011-12-04 Thread andrew clarke
ver. I understand this is expected behaviour on account of there being no kernel patches between p3 & p4. Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: larger disk for a zfs pool

2011-08-01 Thread andrew clarke
s.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2011-June/011887.html Although the question was asked with regards to ZFS v28, which may be newer than what you are using. Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: larger disk for a zfs pool

2011-08-01 Thread andrew clarke
was not with FreeBSD booting from 'tank'. Trying to run "zpool export tank" may result in a "Device busy" error if the boot device was the "tank" pool. It might be worthwhile experimenting in on a spare (or virtual) machine to get a definitive answer

Re: larger disk for a zfs pool

2011-08-01 Thread andrew clarke
g space. Don't forget this step: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i nnn device > Is it compatrible to putting the solaris bootcode on disk before > attaching them to a rootpool and resilvering? I want to expand my > rootpool but am a little confused about the r

ZFS on root and "find" performance

2011-06-23 Thread Andrew Moran
Is anyone else running zfs on root and running into very slow finds? The /etc/periodic/daily/450.status-security can take over a noisy HD thrashing hour to finish, the culprit being the find that crawls the filesystem. I'm hoping there is some I'm not sure if there if some simple zfs tuning I

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-04 Thread andrew clarke
no requirement that the installation needs to be done on the same machine it's going to ultimately boot from. Do you actually need to upgrade to 8.x? I'm not sure there's much to gain from putting 8.x on an old P3... Regards Andrew ___

Re: msk0 interface stops working when downloading

2011-03-28 Thread Andrew Moran
To close the loop on this, I upgraded the latest freebsd current (8.2) and it now seems to work with the integrated chip.Huzzah. --Andy On Dec 2, 2010, at 10:10 PM, Andrew Moran wrote: > Good to know about the GB switch vs 100MB switch. > > But rather than downgrade my switc

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

2011-03-13 Thread Andrew Moran
I have successfully upgraded form FreeBSD 8.1 to FreeBSD 8.2. Here were my steps: cvsup /root/stable-supfile cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel shutdown -r now *select single user mode* mount -u / zfs mount -a mergemaster -p make installworld mergemaster gpart b

Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

2011-03-13 Thread Andrew Moran
Hallo, I switched my system over to using a ZFS on root setup in 8.1. I want to upgrade it to 8.2. Is there any changes to the buildworld/buildkernel/installworld/installkernel/mergemaster routine? The only thing I found via google was this: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?23,178

Re: freebsd-update housekeeping?

2011-02-27 Thread andrew clarke
you're still wary you could make a tarball backup of that directory somewhere else before emptying it out. IIRC, freebsd-update will complain if /var/db/freebsd-update/ doesn't exist, so you may need to mkdir it after using rm -rf. Regards Andrew __

Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
e asker know what is really thought by the responder. Inevitably, many forum polls have the same problem. Limit the available choices and you can't get appropriate or meaningful results. There are always other options that aren't seen in the poll. This might give you an idea:

Re: [Linux-HA] Issues when running Heartbeat on FreeBSD 8.1 RELEASE

2011-01-17 Thread Andrew Beekhof
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Kevin Mai wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to build a failover solution using FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE and > Heartbeat from ports (v2.1.4-10). > > I've already configured heartbeat in the two peers, but once I start the > daemon using the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/heartbea

Re: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2010-12-06 08:17:17 UTC+0100, Zbigniew Szalbot (zszal...@gmail.com) wrote: > From time to time I want to archive a quite a few directories to > download them conveniently. I have been using tar to do it, endingin > up with a tar.gz file. But the problem with it is that I do not have a > un

Re: msk0 interface stops working when downloading

2010-12-02 Thread Andrew Moran
l Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of John Baldwin > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 8:54 AM > To: freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org > Cc: Andrew Moran; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: msk0 i

msk0 interface stops working when downloading

2010-11-23 Thread Andrew Moran
Hey guys, After banging my head against this for a few hours, I've decided to ask for help. I installed FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 on a Shuttle J1 4100 system (tech specs here http://us.shuttle.com/J1_4100.aspx). I installed from DVD and the install went fine. I notice when I pkg_add -r anythin

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-20 Thread Andrew Falanga
2010/11/11 José Silveira > Why do you use a devil as a mascot? > > For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! > > Jose, So many have replied already and I truthfully haven't read each post. I did want to say something about this though since I am a Christian. E

Re: filter a binary file and reduce 0x150a to 0x15

2010-10-20 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2010-10-19 21:21:00 UTC-0400, Karl Vogel (vogelke+u...@pobox.com) wrote: >me% perl -0pe 's/\025\n/\025/g;' < blah | od -c Nitpicking a little, but Perl isn't part of the FreeBSD base any more. Most FreeBSD users probably have it installed, though (perhaps as a dependency)... __

Re: filter a binary file and reduce 0x150a to 0x15

2010-10-19 Thread andrew clarke
\25\12world.\12' > blah 0:28 ozzmo...@blizzard [~/tmp]hd blah 48 65 6c 6c 6f 15 0a 77 6f 72 6c 64 2e 0a|Hello..world..| 000e 0:28 ozzmo...@blizzard [~/tmp]tr -s '\25\12' '\25' < blah | hd 48 65 6c 6c 6f 15 77 6f 72 6c

Re: Compiling software with different compiler than cc or clang results in unusable output

2010-09-11 Thread Andrew Brampton
me with gcc44. This way will help you track down exactly which C file has "the bug". 3) Finally do some printf debugging to find the first line of code that is generating the wrong value. I hope these suggestions help. Andrew ___ freebsd-quest

Re: how to tell "ls" output date in digital

2010-09-09 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2010-09-09 13:11:39 UTC+, Pala, Santosh (santosh_p...@keane.com) wrote: > The ls command with -E switch will give the required output. Hmm, not in FreeBSD 7.3: 23:19 ozzmo...@blizzard [~]/bin/ls -E ls: illegal option -- E usage: ls [-ABCFGHILPRSTUWZabcdfghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]

Re: how to tell "ls" output date in digital

2010-09-09 Thread andrew clarke
so --color=auto 21:23 ozzmo...@blizzard [~]ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel 512 2010-09-05 03:11 / Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Should a "squid" user have a shell?

2010-09-01 Thread andrew clarke
ce. All of this is done automatically if you build Squid from source using the Ports tree - probably www/squid, or www/squid31. Are you sure you want to do it manually? Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: freebsd-update newbie

2010-08-31 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2010-08-31 09:56:19 UTC-0400, Kyle Dippery (k...@engr.uky.edu) wrote: > hostname# freebsd-update fetch > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. > Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE fr

Re: booting install DVD while hard drive is in RAID mode

2010-07-29 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Diego Arias wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Gould > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Diego Arias wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Andrew Gould >&

booting install DVD while hard drive is in RAID mode

2010-07-29 Thread Andrew Gould
option I can pass to the kernel to bootup the FreeBSD installation DVD while the hard drive is in RAID mode? Thanks, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Real-Time Video Recording (ionice equivalent)

2010-07-27 Thread Andrew Gould
if the user is > "camera". > > Any idea? > > Thanks > > Laurent Debacker Would putting the camera's storage space on a separate HDD from the other users help? Andrew ___ 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: OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-07-26 Thread Andrew Gould
software.com | http://chipstips.com        | > http://chipsquips.com > Compiling OpenOffice is not a practical option for many of us due to hardware restraints. I'm glad to see that there's a compiled binary somewhere! Andrew ___ freebs

Re: Digital camera for FreeBSD

2010-07-18 Thread andrew clarke
in emergencies when the camera's batteries have inevitably gone flat. Good luck, Regards Andrew ___ 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: sort: write error with portsnap

2010-07-11 Thread andrew clarke
egards Andrew ___ 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"

java citrix client on seamonkey

2010-07-01 Thread Andrew Gould
have tried using openjdk on FreeBSD; but I didn't know if it would do any good (or cause problems) since icedtea6-stubs requires diablo. Thanks, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: Icelandic FTP server doesn't work? I don't think it's been up for a while?

2010-06-25 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2010-06-24 23:28:27 UTC+, Svavar Ingi Hermannsson (sva...@security.is) wrote: > I just wanted to notify you that the Icelandic ftp mirror site doesn't seam > to be working. > > ftp.is.freebsd.org 21:48 ozzmo...@blizzard [~]host ftp.is.freebsd.org ftp.is.freebsd.org is an alias for ft

Re: Is it appropriate to mount /var and /usr on ext2fs partition ?

2010-06-25 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2010-06-24 18:36:13 UTC-0700, zaxis (z_a...@163.com) wrote: > /dev/ad4s8 on /media/G (ext2fs, local) > > The /dev/ad4s8 is an empty partition. Now i want to move /var and /usr to > it. Do i need to format /dev/ad4s8 to UFS ? I would reformat it as UFS unless you plan on dual-booting Linux

Re: Archive Server Error

2010-06-14 Thread Andrew Wright
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, A. Wright wrote: Not a cache issue; clearing/restarting has no effect, and I have seen the issue on several machines/browsers (FBSD/links, Mac/Firefox, Mac/Safari). I'm wondering about firewall/proxy -- I'll give it a whirl when off-site later today. Still nothing when ch

Re: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-07 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2010-06-06 18:44:10 UTC+0100, peter harrison (four.harris...@googlemail.com) wrote: > I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably > with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well. > Anyone willing to make a recommendation? thttpd? htt

Re: upgrade from FBSD from 8.0-release to stable-8

2010-06-06 Thread andrew clarke
le.html Most FreeBSD users install FreeBSD-RELEASE then use the freebsd-update command to either patch it with security updates or upgrade to a newer version of RELEASE. As far as I know you can't use freebsd-update to upgrade to/from STABLE, only RELEASE. Regards Andrew ___

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-17 Thread Andrew Gould
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:43:09AM -0500, Andrew Gould typed: >> >> Another item to consider in this discussion is sharity-light, an >> easy-to-use program that allows FreeBSD to mount Windows shares. >> Sharit

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
back from WD, and your nether regions are correct -- this _is_ a 4096 byte sector drive. I have suggested to WD that they may wish to mention this salient fact somewhere. Thanks again, Andrew. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
Sorry to follow myself up . . . On Wed, 12 May 2010, A. Wright wrote: I just noticed, however, the following two interesting lines that /var/log/messages seems to have acquired: May 12 15:44:00 qemg kernel: ad8: FAILURE - SMART status=51 error=4 May 12 16:05:27 qemg kernel: sw

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Andrew Gould
bility that the OP will want to add related, optional services later. One example might be the option to choose whether the usb drive is scanned or completely erased by overwriting the drive with zeros. Another good use for the GUI, as scanning an 8GB or 32GB usb drive may take some time, is t

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-11 Thread Andrew Gould
ut you'll need Samba on the client. > Another item to consider in this discussion is sharity-light, an easy-to-use program that allows FreeBSD to mount Windows shares. Sharity-light is in the ports and Sharity is available as a commercial product: http://www.freshports.org/net/sharity-light

Re: md5(1) and cal(1)

2010-05-10 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2010-05-10 17:35:45 UTC-0800, David Allen (the.real.david.al...@gmail.com) wrote: > 1. Why doesn't cal(1) hilight the current day? Hell, some days I'm > not even sure what day or week it is, so after typing 'cal', I have to > type in 'date', and then sit there for a few seconds to interp

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-10 Thread Andrew Gould
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Timm Wimmers wrote: > Am Montag, den 10.05.2010, 14:35 +0200 schrieb Frank Bonnet: >> Hello >> >> Is there a simple software to share files between a FreeBSD server and a >> windows client other than Samba which is a bit overkill for my needings, >> >> I just want

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-10 Thread Andrew Gould
1. Samba. 2. You could purchase a networked drive (network attached storage) that both computers can access. Many retail stores now carry these. 3. Webdav (included with Apache 2.2). This setup is as complex as Samba; but you can access it securely across the

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-08 Thread Andrew Gould
k at the fit-PC2? Since it can run Linux, the odds are it can run FreeBSD as well. You might want to ask the creators. http://www.fit-pc.com/web/ Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: Number of columns when redirecting ps command stdout to a file

2010-05-07 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2010-05-07 11:53:03 UTC+0200, Bastien Semene (bsem...@cyanide-studio.com) wrote: > I wish to log the 'ps' command output in a file through a cron job. > If I execute the command on the console, the result lines are > truncated depending on the number of columns of the client console, > wha

Re: booting??

2010-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
eb page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html Andrew ___ 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: anybody know if there is a 32-bit distro of pcbsd?

2010-05-04 Thread Andrew Gould
test release) here: http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/152/11/ Your computer meets the recommended specifications as far as processor speed and RAM. Best of luck, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: pf suggestions for paced attack

2010-05-03 Thread Andrew Wright
ntion. If anyone is interested, I can send (or I suppose post) the scripts. Andrew ___ 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"

8.0-RELEASE upgrade -- no files visible

2010-04-27 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
olution is rather unpalatable). Any input appreciated, Andrew. ___ 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"

Gnome 2.30

2010-04-25 Thread Andrew Hill
Hi does anybody know if Gnome 2.30 will be out soon in the FreeBSD ports? Thanks Andrew Hill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ques

KDE 4.4.2

2010-04-23 Thread Andrew Hill
Hi does anyone know if kde 4.4.2 is in freebsd ports? Thanks Andrew Hill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-uns

Re: Auto update

2010-04-10 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2010-04-11 08:14:48 UTC+0200, Jos Chrispijn (ker...@webrz.net) wrote: > Can someone tell me if there is a way of generating an email on the > moment that someone logs in to my FreeBSD server? By which method? SSH? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: problem with mailing list archives?

2010-03-30 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2010-03-30 11:55:18 UTC-0400, Robert Huff (roberth...@rcn.com) wrote: > If I go to > "http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-questions.html";, the > last weekly archive is dated March 07. > What's up with that? :-) "Mar 07" means the week preceding March 7, 2010. It lo

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-16 Thread andrew clarke
ilesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a496M144M312M31%/ Although, with a cheap PCI SATA controller card you should be able to use current model terabyte-sized hard drives on a Pentium III, so hard drive space is a bit

Re: Gvinum RAID1+0

2010-02-23 Thread Andrew Klaassen
>From the lack of response, am I correct to conclude that Gvinum can't do >RAID1+0 (as opposed to RAID0+1)? Thanks. Andrew --- On Mon, 2/22/10, Andrew Klaassen wrote: > Hi. > > Newbie question:  I'm trying to figure out how to > create a stripe-over-mirrors

Gvinum RAID1+0

2010-02-22 Thread Andrew Klaassen
a RAID1+0. I'm using 112 drives, so I'd much rather have RAID1+0 than RAID0+1. Does anyone have an example kicking around they could kindly send me? Thanks. Andrew __ Ask a question on any topic and get answer

Re: problem with `find -delete`

2010-02-10 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2010-02-10 14:24:34 UTC+0100, Alexander Best (alexbes...@wwu.de) wrote: > thanks goes to jilles on #freebsd-bugbuster. he told me that -delete doesn't > delete directories recursively. > > so what i'm bow using is > > sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -exec rm -rf

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