Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-14 Thread Bruce Cran
development system the only ways to improve the situation would be to mount with the 'sync' option, disable write caching on the disk or to switch to a different filesystem like ZFS. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-14 Thread Bruce Cran
e replayed, bringing both data and metadata into a consistent state. This mode is the slowest except when data needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time where it outperforms all other modes. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread Bruce Cran
. All that the present system does is act as an enabler for Spam merchants and Trolls. Yes, seriously. Have you seen the number of people who post messages "PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST!!", apparently not understanding how to manage their subscription? --

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-16 Thread Bruce Cran
ng put off posting to it. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Bruce Cran
right assignment agreements so all the code is under a single owner. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-question

Re: SSH on FreeBSD

2013-01-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On 15/01/2013 12:51, Matthias Apitz wrote: Why it is more secure via inetd.conf? You can centralise access control via TCP Wrappers - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/tcpwrappers.html . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: SSH on FreeBSD

2013-01-15 Thread Bruce Cran
root logins by default. You can change that by editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config . -- Bruce Cran ___ 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"

Boot of 9.1 under qemu-kvm 1.3 hangs at pci probing

2012-12-16 Thread Bruce Cran
domain=0, bus=0, slot=2, func=0 class=03-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0 cmdreg=0x0103, statreg=0x, cachelnsz=0 (dwords) lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0ns), maxlat=0x00 (0ns) [hang] Has anyone come across this before and know of any workarounds? -- Br

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Bruce Cran
a few, including Goscomb. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Bruce Cran
hine and what you're expecting (e. g. will you want to save kernel dumps to the swap partition?). You probably want to stop following that rule some time before you get to 8 TB RAM (http://semiaccurate.com/2010/09/29/inphi-imbs-can-stuff-8tb-ram-sy

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-17 Thread Bruce Cran
On 18/11/2012 05:21, Robert Simmons wrote: Yup: https://github.com/freebsd/ There's also git.freebsd.org. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-10-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:40, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > So this means I might not > be able to boot freebsd at all > on future ia64 boxes.. Ignore the FUD - there will be an option to disable it in the firmware/BIOS settings. -- B

Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-10-25 Thread Bruce Cran
g. > USB flash drives is trivial on ia64. > Perhaps what you are describing is not about the EFI > specification iteself, but what > different manufacturers add on top of it? It's in the latest UEFI spec - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensi

Re: Is there anything like strace for 64-bit Systems?

2012-09-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On 08/09/2012 18:14, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there anything like strace for AMD64 FreeBSD? See truss(1) - "trace system calls". -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: fsck recoveries, configuration

2012-08-18 Thread Bruce Cran
for providing basic functionality during boot time or in the case of major system failure." -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: doc

2012-08-18 Thread Bruce Cran
, but you'll need 2 steps - the first time you run extract you'll get a tar file. Then run extract on *that* file to get the documentation. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On 09/08/2012 16:09, Matthias Gamsjager wrote: Beside in production one should run with ECC memory to eliminate the possibility of incorrect data from memory ECC doesn't detect all memory errors. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-22 Thread Bruce Cran
sed disk. Sorry, I forgot the say that in this example Windows is booted from \\.\PhysicalDrive1 :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-22 Thread Bruce Cran
- I didn't say users couldn't boot from a FreeBSD/etc live CD, but zeroing the disk in Cygwin is an alternative. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On 22/07/2012 11:38, Robert Bonomi wrote: Needless to say, that approach doesn't work under Windows. 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M' works under Cygwin - or you can just write a load of zeros to \\.\PhysicalDrive0 . -- Bruce Cran

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-19 Thread Bruce Cran
(https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase) may clear all that data too, but without any guarantees it's better to destroy the disk than risk leaving classified data on it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On 15/07/2012 19:43, Wojciech Puchar wrote: both do the same 'scandisk' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On 15/07/2012 09:56, Wojciech Puchar wrote: but, in spite of some fanatics here my get worried, i do recommend use windoze scandisk. I'd forgotten about scandisk - for modern Windows (XP and newer) you'll want to use chkdsk ( e.g. 'chkdsk /F C:'

Re: Using smartctl to detect "scan errors" (like google tells me to do ...)

2012-07-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On 09/07/2012 16:12, Jason Usher wrote: What is a scan error, and which metric should I tell smartctl to check ? I think they mean a SMART scan, as in a self-test - http://www.twopenguins.it/2011/12/test-an-hard-disk-with-smartctl/ has details of how to run it. -- Bruce Cran

Re: YASSDQ

2012-07-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On 09/07/2012 11:31, Wojciech Puchar wrote: All use 4K as it is NTFS default block size and most are sold to be used with windoze. Apparently the Intel 320 SSDs use an 8KB page/block size. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On 09/07/2012 13:29, Wojciech Puchar wrote: only your fault, not FreeBSD. Why you connected your data disk at first place. I didn't say it was FreeBSD's fault. If I thought it was, I would have fixed it! -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Bruce Cran
ple using floppy or USB disks would be more ready for there to be data on the disk without a partition table. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Bruce Cran
ices are now partitions, and instead of 'ada0s1a' (disk 0, slice 1, partition a) you just have 'ada0p1'. A partition table supports up to 4096 entries (gpart creates one supporting 128 by default) so there's no need for the freebsd container any more - you just create f

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On 08/07/2012 13:10, Warren Block wrote: bsdinstall(8) has a curses partition editor. There is probably a trick needed to use that outside of an install context. Just run "bsdinstall partedit". -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On 08/07/2012 21:51, Wojciech Puchar wrote: can you give me an example of pendrive that supports TRIM? LaCie FastKey (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/usb-3.0-thumb-drive-flash-drive,review-32174-5.html). -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On 08/07/2012 16:06, Ian Smith wrote: In general they're not distinct in usage from any other type of disk. The more expensive disks of course support TRIM so you'd want to pass -t to newfs to enable it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Cran
ut for an ordinary user adding a new disk maybe once a year it's most likely more efficient to just use the GUI. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On 07/07/2012 23:08, Bruce Cran wrote: On 07/07/2012 23:04, Thomas Mueller wrote: I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, replacing the older gpt still used in NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD. No. gpart is the tool - it supports both mbr and gpt partitioning schemes

Re: GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On 07/07/2012 23:04, Thomas Mueller wrote: I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, replacing the older gpt still used in NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD. No. gpart is the tool - it supports both mbr and gpt partitioning schemes. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-10 Thread Bruce Cran
lenty of AMD machines in major stores and they come with Windows too. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-question

Re: Configuration problem with IPv6 router ("cannot forward src")

2012-06-08 Thread Bruce Cran
"nat on $ext_if..." line fixed it. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Configuration problem with IPv6 router ("cannot forward src")

2012-06-08 Thread Bruce Cran
" dhcpd_chroot_enable="YES" dhcpd6_chroot_enable="YES" dhcpd_devfs_enable="YES" dhcpd6_devfs_enable="YES" dhcpd_rootdir="/var/db/dhcpd" dhcpd6_rootdir="/var/db/dhcpd6" rtadvd_enable="NO" rtadvd_interfaces="em0" I've tried configuring a machine with a static configuration, bypassing any issues with rtadvd/dhcpd6 so I'm fairly sure the problem is on the router. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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"

Configuration problem with IPv6 router ("cannot forward src")

2012-06-07 Thread Bruce Cran
orward src" messages on the router (strangely, despite hisaddr being fe80::205:... in ppp.log, the kernel logs the address as fe80:f::205:...). Is there some extra configuration I've likely missed that's needed when using IPv6 via PPP? -- Bruce Cran

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Cran
is asking for a lawsuit. To me it would be perfectly reasonable to revoke the key as soon as you signed the first piece of malware. And then anyone who has used the service is left with broken binaries, so the model fails. -- Bruce Cran ___ fr

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On 06/06/2012 11:38, Bruce Cran wrote: It's not the $99 that'll be the problem, but the fact that it's Verisign (actually Symantec, since they bought Verisign) that you deal with. Whereas Globalsign accept applications from individuals, Verisign require company documents

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Cran
m, but the fact that it's Verisign (actually Symantec, since they bought Verisign) that you deal with. Whereas Globalsign accept applications from individuals, Verisign require company documents before they'll generate a certificate. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Cran
project, the logical consequence is that FreeBSD source should come with a signing key for anyone to use. It just means that anyone wishing to run their own kernels would either need to disable secure boot, or purchase/create their own certificate and install it. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Bruce Cran
tand it, on ARM secure boot will be enabled by default and users won't have any option of disabling it or adding their own keys. On x86 secure boot will be enabled by default too, but with the option of disabling it or adding custom keys. -- Bruce Cran ___

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Bruce Cran
s stuff people would have to break, but UEFI. I think secure boot actually makes sense, but preventing users disabling it or installing their own keys on ARM platforms is totally wrong. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

9.0 and bsdinstall - avoiding updating the MBR

2011-11-20 Thread Bruce Cran
bsdinstall? I don't seem to remember seeing any option to avoid writing out the new boot code. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf

2011-11-06 Thread Bruce Cran
f The ">>" appends the line instead of replacing the existing contents. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On 22 Oct 2011, at 15:12, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:08:50 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: >> I suspect that these sorts of attacks are fairly normal if you're >> running ssh on the standard port. I used to have lots of 'break-in >> attempts'

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Cran
carry on? I suspect that these sorts of attacks are fairly normal if you're running ssh on the standard port. I used to have lots of 'break-in attempts' before I moved the ssh server to a different port. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Turn off hyperthreading on dual core Atom?

2011-08-29 Thread Bruce Cran
and the topology of such CPUs. I don't know what it does with the information, but it probably works to optimize cache usage etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On 27/08/2011 20:58, Frank Shute wrote: Where's the documentation for Windows Explorer for Vista on microsoft.com? A link will do. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/help/using ? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On 05/08/2011 20:12, Christian Barthel wrote: Are there any other window manager worth looking? What is your window manager? When I'm not running KDE I like using Window Maker. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-23 Thread Bruce Cran
tings. %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc contains several BSD configuration files for DNS settings, protocols etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
robably to use portmaster (ports-mgmt/portmaster): it has a PM_SU_CMD which is normally set to /usr/local/bin/sudo which it uses whenever it needs to elevate to root. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
e in Vista, for example. However, they do seem rather good at supporting older technologies such as TDI, and I suspect those drivers that fail aren't very well written. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
the API/ABI issue is far worse, since you have a different ABI between different builds of the same kernel. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: ghghg

2011-07-15 Thread Bruce Cran
"not available" The last email in the freebsd-test archives is from May 2010, so I think it's broken - which is rather unfortunate. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: {SPAM} New games for you

2011-06-19 Thread Bruce Cran
I had to ask Norton to re-check it before it marked it as OK. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: finding kernel 'r' number

2011-06-16 Thread Bruce Cran
rnel? I'm not sure you can: the revision only shows up if you have svn installed (devel/subversion-freebsd) and have built the kernel from code checked out from the svn server. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Critical issues with WD green drives

2011-06-02 Thread Bruce Cran
robably due to their overly-aggressive power management. If you can, run wdidle3.exe from a Windows environment to turn off the default idle timer. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

2011-05-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 03 May 2011 20:48:55 -0400 Daniel Staal wrote: > Basically, as far as I can tell, 9 and/or 8.3 will come out when they > come out. No sooner and no later. I think the plan for 9.0 is some time this summer. -- Bruce Cran ___ f

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Cran
happens once for each byte, so realloc() and reallocf() calls do not zero memory that was previously allocated. This is intended for debugging and will impact performance negatively. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-question

Re: gpart questions

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Cran
ant to specify a size, you can use "-s 512m" -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: disk problem: suggestion on how to handle...

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Cran
way past the end of the disk? -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-23 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:52:44 -0700 "Devin Teske" wrote: > Looks like `--hline' is not supported anymore. Thinking this should > either be patched or documented in ERRATA/UPGRADING. I think you mean UPDATING :) -- Bruce Cran

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:41:46 + Alexander Best wrote: > FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT amd64 A new version of dialog was imported a few days ago - maybe something broke? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

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

2011-04-08 Thread Bruce Cran
know about anyone else, but personally I like getting replies CC'd to me because they end up in my INBOX - otherwise I often don't notice someone's replied since there are so many new messages to the mailing list each day. -- Bruce Cran _

Re: 8-CURRENT: where is my memory?

2011-04-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thursday 07 Apr 2011 11:58:50 Matthias Apitz wrote: > VMware memory control driver initialized Could this have removed a block of memory for its own use outside of the normal VM subsystem? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: GEOM warning in dmesg

2011-04-06 Thread Bruce Cran
erating systems don't. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-04-04 Thread Bruce Cran
is really slow - I only get around 12 kB/s from the UK. From looking at things at my end it looks like a problem with a machine somewhere between the USA and Japan, but I don't know if the path's symmetric. It's been suggested that it might be a TCP windowing problem on one of

Re: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-04-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:53:59 +0200 Ross Cameron wrote: > works just fine here (im in south africa) so maybe a routing issue ??? It seems to have been fixed in the time between the original message and your reply :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questi

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-04 Thread Bruce Cran
year and it doesn't appear to have been fixed yet. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: am i back up....???

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On 02/04/2011 21:54, David Chanters wrote: You could have just sent yourself an email. But yes, here you are. I was going to suggest Gary should have used the freebsd-test mailing list but then I realised it's been broken since May last year. -- Bruce Cran

Re: console based sound control

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On 03/04/2011 14:59, Alokat wrote: I'm looking for a sound control tool (like alsamixer) but for oss. Does someone know one? Have you tried mixer(8)? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mixer&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASE&format=html -- Bruce Cran

Re: searching for a good IDE

2011-03-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:41:28 +0200 Alokat wrote: > I'm searching for a good IDE for my development stuff - c, c++, > python, rails, php > Can someone advise one? > And I don't wanna use eclipse. :-) KDevelop (http://www.kdevelop.org/) 4 is quite

Re: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-03-25 Thread Bruce Cran
:5d59:5c40:0:1 --> 2001:2f0:104:e001::34 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=0 hlim=48 time=269.213 ms 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=1 hlim=48 time=268.705 ms 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=2 -- Bruce Cran ___

Re: spam?

2011-03-13 Thread Bruce Cran
>free...@edvax.de, href="mailto:lum...@gmail.com";>lum...@gmail.com, mailto:freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org">freebsd-questions@freebsd.org That's not from me - it's from a company called ParkLogic who are forging emails. See http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/F

Re: Quick question about sound drivers (esp. snd_hda)

2011-03-12 Thread Bruce Cran
er appears to load, then /dev/dsp should be created automatically when something tries to access it (e.g. cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp). -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: Is it safe to run tcpdump?

2011-03-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 11:47:19 -0700 Modulok wrote: > What do you mean by 'safe'? As in secure? http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:06.tcpdump.asc -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread Bruce Cran
oot in a couple of seconds - but that was without any network card, USB support etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "free

Re: portmaster -afv -no-confirm --clean-distfiles-all command - too much automation???

2011-03-02 Thread Bruce Cran
See the man page for details. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:47 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > I'm wondering why you would > prefere atacontrol? I think everyone's been looking for an "official" solution. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread Bruce Cran
imer in the ad(4) driver which sends a spindown command when it expires. You'll need to keep using ataidle to fix the APM value. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: using gpart(8) to slice a disk

2011-02-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:52:44 +0100 Matthias Apitz wrote: > I've read the man page of gpart(8) but do not see clearly what I did > wrong with the above sequence and esp. what would have set the missing > boot flag? gpart set -a active -i 1 ad4

Re: android

2011-02-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:45:47 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Bruce Cran wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:39 +0100 > > Polytropon wrote: > > > You can check the partitioning of the da4 device with > > > # fdisk da4 > > "gpart show da4"

Re: android

2011-02-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:39 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > You can check the partitioning of the da4 device with > > # fdisk da4 "gpart show da4" is the modern way of doing this. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: delay in boot: ata2: on atapci0

2011-02-15 Thread Bruce Cran
of the CAM-ATA wrapper. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Bruce Cran
c" in the "Run" window to load the Group Policy Editor and navigate to the settings. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Bruce Cran
n buried. Also, the way traditional sub-menus work in Windows is really awful for people who don't have accurate mouse skills - move the mouse outside the menu and it disappears. The Ribbon solves this problem. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-quest

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Bruce Cran
in its infancy. There is no way it > can be compared to a full blown MS Office 10 suite. For some, Office is unusable due to the new Ribbon interface and libreoffice is the usable office suite due to its familiar menus. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-ques

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:56:42 +0100 Damien Fleuriot wrote: > The list strips non-text attachments so there isn't much to see at > the moment though... It wasn't supposed to be attached - try http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt :)

Re: Bad hard driver [SOLVED]

2011-02-10 Thread Bruce Cran
t stands for, so is 3 of that mystery good? Look at the first 3 results from http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Multi+Zone+Error+Rate -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-08 Thread Bruce Cran
http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: putting "/tmp" to memory

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Cran
ce to > make a good first impression would seem to be apropos to the > situation. From what I can ascertain and having actually used it, ZFS has great support on FreeBSD. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:09:05 -0500 Jerry wrote: > I had not heard about that. What problems does its use exhibit when > used in conjunction with ZFS? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-January/060867.html -- Bruc

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:18:21 + RW wrote: > tmpfs is nominally > experimental, but it seems to be very stable, and it's much more > memory efficient than md devices. But it doesn't work well with ZFS. -- Bruce Cran __

Re: harddrive encryption

2011-01-18 Thread Bruce Cran
plain UFS but PCBSD's (pc-sysinstall) supports encryption, ZFS etc. - and it can do a plain FreeBSD installation as well as PCBSD. You can get it from http://www.pcbsd.org . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: documentation OF FreeBSD

2011-01-18 Thread Bruce Cran
mething like http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mail-agents.html ? :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-q

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem

2011-01-16 Thread Bruce Cran
a short default timeout after which they park the heads. I think you'd need to run the wdidle3.exe application to disable the internal timer, but it may just be a default APM setting that can be changed from within FreeBSD using sysutils/ataidle

Re: Resume from suspend

2011-01-13 Thread Bruce Cran
ng the power button? (or opening the lid) Suspend/resume generally doesn't work - apparently there's lots of work that needs done before it'll be reliable. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: error while compile port

2011-01-08 Thread Bruce Cran
ystem itself. So MAKE_JOBS_SAFE applies to the code, "make -j 16" applies to the ports infrastructure - both of which could be using BSD make :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

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