Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
) %which xz /usr/bin/xz I'm on 8.1-R Chris ___ 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: Looking to build a router box, seeking some general advice

2011-07-02 Thread Chris Brennan
* Maciej Milewski m...@dat.pl [2011-07-01 01:15:15 +0200]: Hi Chris, Case for Alix shouldn't be a problem. Many universal ones may be used (although they may be larger than your needs f.ex. external ones with integrated antennas) I took the PS, aluminium case for home/office use and board

Re: Looking to build a router box, seeking some general advice

2011-07-02 Thread Chris Brennan
. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-23 Thread Chris Brennan
://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ . This looks great, but my foggy brain isn't understanding how to use it? Do I just burn the iso to media and boot it? Or is there some track that involves a wand (sorry for my sarcasm lol) -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow

ZFS on Root

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Brennan
to tank. I can make the scripts available if someone would like to look at them. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Brennan
Fixit# zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot I subsequently modified that as follows: Fixit# mkdir /boot/zfs Fixit# zpool create tank /dev/gpt/disk0 Fixit# zpool set bootfs=tank tank So was the wiki mistake and I do indeed need to zpool set bootfs=tank/root tank instead? -- Chris Brennan

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Brennan
=tank/root tank cannot set property for 'tank': no such pool or dataset. Fixit But ... there is! It was a great tip and a worthy try. But it didn't work, got any more idea's? -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q

New FreeBSD8.2 server install.

2011-06-20 Thread Chris Brennan
I've got a new machine to replace the one that died on me a few weeks ago and since then, I've collected and cataloged my drives of various sizes and I am curious if I am able to do something like a poor-mans LVM, I thought about gmirror but that might be tricky, since I would have to slice

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Chris Rees
. This thread appears to have drifted off topic. Perhaps move to chat? Chris ___ 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: free sco unix

2011-06-15 Thread Chris Brennan
* Thomas Hansen t...@danskdatacenter.dk [2011-06-15 22:34:23 +0200]: one of my mates teacher says that unix is free and your system running like UnixWare / SCO UNIX and and that unix is free Do your BSD kernel run the same unix kernel as unixware FreeBSD is a UNIX-like clone, which

Fwd: free sco unix

2011-06-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net Date: Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:06 PM Subject: Re: free sco unix To: Thomas Hansen t...@danskdatacenter.dk 'y' and 't' are too close in mutt :( * Thomas Hansen t...@danskdatacenter.dk [2011-06-16 00:07:11 +0200

Re: FreeBSD on IBM 3630

2011-06-14 Thread Chris Hill
-- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: MySQL update

2011-06-07 Thread Chris Rees
the manpage! If it doesn't work (because I made a mistake with the -o syntax), read the manpage and then let us have the output. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: FreeBSD Questions off line?

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Aloha, I havent seen any FreeBSD questions on line for 2 days. Any body have any knowledge about this? Well, it's not offline, your mail came though just fine ... maybe no one has sent anything? -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A:

Re: A small script to customize FreeBSD

2011-05-31 Thread Chris Rees
a default of theuser, but take the value for username as the first argument. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-27 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 27 May 2011, Jaime Kikpole wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? FWIW, I can tell you some

RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Hill
on how much memory it looks like I'll need. I may also install webmin for the benefit of my computer-literate-but-not-unix-savvy coworkers. Thanks! -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Hill
Message - From: Chris Hill [mailto:ch...@monochrome.org] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 06:46 PM To: FreeBSD Questions List questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RAM needed for DHCP + router? Hello list, I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I

Re: CRUX and FREE BSD

2011-05-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
a note about gparted? http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ In fact it's mentioned in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: x11-wm/olvwm

2011-05-24 Thread Chris Rees
unnecessary, but that's just IMHO. I don't understand your comment on silence -- they've been deprecated for a while now. I'll take a look at resurrecting and hosting it tomorrow, if people are interested. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ipv6 spam

2011-05-21 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote: I have begun receiving ipv6 spam from this mailing list, and I was wondering how to determine who the owner of a particular ipv6 address is. A whois may tell you who the block has been given too (ISP wise) ... that may

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2011 21:58:13 -0400, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: One last question ... hopefully lol. am I going to run into any issues w/ the default fbsd6 layout? [root@Ziggy [~]# df -h Filesystem

Re: Over-whelmed by ports and package tools

2011-05-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: I think the extract is only done during the install, and then after that it would be portsnap fetch update ? Or is it better to do an extract each time? I've always been told to do portsnap fetch extract, but I went a step

Re: Over-whelmed by ports and package tools

2011-05-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: I have tried PC-BSD, and look forward to version 9.0. I really don't like KDE, though. I hear some rumblings about a Gnome developer wanting to drop BSD support, so maybe I better start liking KDE. PC-BSD seems to have done

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 20 May 2011 10:26:01 -0400, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: OK, I am off now to research how to build the kernel w/o debugging symbols ... then I shall embark on this. It should be makeoptions DEBUG=-g

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-19 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: Yes, from the man pages it states it will rebuild all packages and their dependencies. I simply include the l so he would have a log file available if something did go wrong. In any case, I thought it might save him some trouble

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-19 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I would advice to do so, no matter what the pkg_delete command will cause. If I remember correctly, MODYFIED files will not be touched (checksum test), and a directory won't be removed if it contains something that won't be

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-19 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Yes, the recommended order. :-) First, update your ports/ and src/ trees (e. g. using portsnap and csup), then compile and install. You don't need any tools provided by ports for this task. After you've started your new

GL811e usb chipset

2011-05-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi, does anyone know if the GL811e chipset is supported in 8.2R? It's supposed to be common in external usb hard disk and optical disk drives. It's not mentioned in the hardware notes and google didn't turn up much. thanks Chris ___ freebsd

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-15 Thread Chris Telting
On 05/13/2011 14:34, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org wrote: On 05/13/2011 01:32, krad wrote: [...] me ask you.. is sudo ping acceptable? Please explain the logical reason why not. It would be the preferred method if suid didn't

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-13 Thread Chris Telting
On 05/13/2011 00:32, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 12 May 2011 17:26:49 Chris Telting wrote: On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I'll say that again. It is inherently insecure to run an interpreted program set-uid, because the filename is opened twice and there's no guarantee

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-13 Thread Chris Telting
On 05/13/2011 01:32, krad wrote: what i cant understand is the complete aversion to sudo. Could you shed any light on why you are trying to avoid a tried and tested method. That I freely admit is for no rational reason. It's just annoying. But let me ask you.. is sudo ping acceptable? Please

Re: start X in background without it taking over the console?

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Telting
On 05/11/2011 04:07, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 05/11/2011 05:36 AM, Chris Telting wrote: I already do... I'm want to automate it. Every other virtual screen terminal can start without grabbing the console, I don't want X to either. I do development and I suffer crashes. I want to do work

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Telting
On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. But if you

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Telting
On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 12 May 2011 16:13:50 Chris Telting wrote: On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security

Re: start X in background without it taking over the console?

2011-05-11 Thread Chris Telting
On 05/11/2011 03:10, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org wrote: I know this isn't strictly a Freebsd question. I want to start up X in the background without it taking over the console. I want to switch over to it manually when I

Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Telting
I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a kludge and I don't want to use sudo. I'm hoping it's

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Telting
On 05/10/2011 19:19, Devin Teske wrote: On May 10, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. But if you are using suid

start X in background without it taking over the console?

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Telting
I know this isn't strictly a Freebsd question. I want to start up X in the background without it taking over the console. I want to switch over to it manually when I press alt-F9. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error

2011-05-09 Thread Chris Rees
. Chris ___ 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: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error

2011-05-08 Thread Chris Rees
, I wasn't - I posted the full make output to http://wwwp.3dresearch.com/thunderbird. Thank you for taking the time and looking into it... To clarify; have you tried make clean and starting again? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error

2011-05-08 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 May 2011 20:03, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 May 2011 18:37, Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011 13:14:36 -0400 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com writes: Trying to build thunderbird

Re: fix an audio conversion script to work through multiple directories and convert mp3s to ogg vorbis

2011-05-08 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 8 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: On Sat, 7 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: My question is the following: How can I run the script to recursively find all mp3's and convert them to ogg vorbis(with ogg

Re: fix an audio conversion script to work through multiple directories and convert mp3s to ogg vorbis

2011-05-07 Thread Chris Hill
. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: i messed up, need to do fsck and also uncomment the /usr line if /etc/fstab

2011-05-07 Thread Chris Rees
understand ed... As Yuri suggested: # fsck / # mount -ie / Then you can just use sed in place; # sed -i.bak -e 's,#\(.*/usr\),\1,' /etc/fstab # fsck /usr # reboot Hope that helps! Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-05 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 5 May 2011 17:50:28 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Tried to do this: # portupgrade -f ruby # rm

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Rees
or find . -depth -print | pax -wd | bzip2 archive.tbz By the way, in reference to the commands above the -j option is for bzip2, so the extension should be .tbz o_O Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Rees
On 4 May 2011 10:42, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, in reference to the commands above the -j option is for bzip2, so the extension should be .tbz o_O Thanks everyone! I went with the following, because it works regardless of space characters in filenames. (Thanks for the

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Rees
with find! Chris ___ 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: Seeking full-cups/lpd compilant printer

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Rees
gutenprint-cups? Chris ___ 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: Limitting SSH access

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Rees
with jails. Or you could have a special /bin-restricted that you nullfs mount into ~userN/bin. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Limitting SSH access

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Rees
2011/5/4 Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org: Wake me up when September ends, freebsd-questions! 2011/05/04 16:47:33 +0100 Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com = To krad : CR Is it possible to limit the SSH access? CR Regarding ssh login, I usually use rbash from the ports, that CR restricts

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: Chris, when I have had to do major rebuilds, I have found portmanager to be the best tool. It just seems to work. In any case, if it were me, I would clean out the /usr/ports/distfiles directory, update your ports tree

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:40 PM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2011 12:50, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: is it safe to nuke /usr/local (excluding /usr/local/home), rebuild world/kernel for 8.2 and start with a fresh ports tree? Yes, though pkg_delete -af

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 04/05/2011 20:53, Chris Brennan wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Jerryje...@seibercom.net wrote: Chris, when I have had to do major rebuilds, I have found portmanager to be the best tool. It just seems to work. In any case, if it were me, I would clean out the /usr/ports/distfiles

Enabling composite-out in a video card.

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Rees
) Is there a command can put in to force TV-out through VGA (through DVI?)? Chris ___ 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: Enabling composite-out in a video card.

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Rees
On 3 May 2011 20:21, Mark redt...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com Subject: Enabling composite-out in a video card. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 2:06 PM OK, so in what can only be described as a ridiculous shot in the dark... I've

Unix basics (was Re: For My Edification)

2011-05-02 Thread Chris Hill
or FreeBSD and exercise Unix/Linux commands. If so, how is that done? The server's admin would have to give you a shell account. Most commercial ISPs won't do that, but maybe your friend will. I'd be grateful for any information. Hope this helps, and welcome. -- Chris Hill ch

RE: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped)

2011-04-27 Thread Chris Hill
Devin, Thanks for the reply. Info inline. On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: Chris Hill [mailto:ch...@monochrome.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:51 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: david.robi...@fisglobal.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Teske, Devin

Re: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped)

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Rees
by hand. See dmesg output below. Have you run memtest86? Looks like a textbook bad RAM issue. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Jaime Kikpole jkikp...@cairodurham.org wrote: I'm looking for new hardware for my web filter (FreeBSD + dansguardian + squid). Can anyone suggest good (or warn about bad) models of hardware for this? I'm looking for a small tower or compact chassis (not rack

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 26/04/2011 18:45, Jaime Kikpole wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Chris Brennanxa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Just out of curiosity, why not rack-mounted boxed? Space issues. They'll have to either fit on a shelf in one of two rooms, depending on the outcome of some other things

RE: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped)

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Hill
`da5' is your thumb drive tripel# echo p 2 0x0c * * | fdisk -f - /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** fdisk: Class not found tripel# Any notion why? `man fdisk` isn't much help. Thanks. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-24 Thread Chris Rees
exists. How about my earlier suggestion of populating a 'makefile' no capitals with the appropriate WITH and WITHOUT flags defined, then .include-ing the original Makefile? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

zfs partition for /etc?

2011-04-23 Thread Chris Telting
labels. Any thoughts? Chris ___ 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: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Rees
BATCH= yes to skip the OPTIONS dialog), stick the line: .include Makefile and use make -f _my_Makefile Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: how to protect my system from third party apps crashes

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
of npviewer.bin frees everything up again. I usually have an xterm open just in case. Don't have a problem with other apps so this might not be the solution for you. My firefox is 3.6.10, flashplayer is linux-f10-flashplugin-10.1r85 and I'm on 8.1R x86 Chris

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 April 2011 14:51, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies, ignored and/or rerported as Spam. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. s#\(re\)r\(ported\)#\1\2# Chris ___ freebsd-questions

ZFS Striping and Optimizing Capabilities

2011-04-09 Thread Chris Telting
. the sectors are already in the linear read ahead buffer? I appreciate any answers, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

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

2011-04-08 Thread Chris Rees
an email? Chris ___ 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: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 April 2011 20:28, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 08:30:25PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: On 8 Apr 2011 20:25, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I, for one, am glad this does not happen more often.  I really do *not* need a bunch of duplicates

Re: graphical representation of `du`

2011-04-06 Thread Chris Rees
2011/4/6 Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org: Again, why don't you guys just use perl to provide a graphical du? I believe perl is just present on every freebsd machine where graphical du is needed. Why on Earth would you use Perl when a simple awk script will do??? Chris

Re: Place to install library of shell functions

2011-04-05 Thread Chris Rees
and it seems the correct place for this would be somewhere under `/usr/local/share':                 share/    architecture-independent files I would go with /usr/local/lib. I'd rather agree with the OP; shell functions are arch-independent, and are DATADIR suited IMO. Chris

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

2011-04-03 Thread Chris Rees
last year. Hah, ironic or what??? Chris. ___ 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: Re[2]: graphical representation of `du`

2011-04-03 Thread Chris Rees
On 3 April 2011 20:26, Австин Ким avs...@mail.ru wrote: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:01:24 +0200 письмо от David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com: On 02/04/2011 19:30, Chris Rees wrote: On 2 April 2011 18:22, Chris Reesutis...@gmail.com  wrote: On 2 April 2011 18:07, Mike Jeaysmike.je

Re: Tinderbox question...

2011-04-02 Thread Chris Rees
queue, or do it manually? What do you think about this? Thank you! Best regards, Ivan. Distfiles aren't cached by default. http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com/README/README.html#AEN587 Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Port dependencies

2011-04-02 Thread Chris Rees
On 2 April 2011 00:58, Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org wrote: Just in a thoughtful mood and thought I'd to the question to the cloud. One of my biggest gripes with the ports system is dependency hell. I think you've misunderstood the term dependency hell [1]. Anyone who has spent

Re: mount a dumpfile

2011-04-02 Thread Chris Rees
using rsync incremental backup, for which I have a script sy home I'd you're interested. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: graphical representation of `du`

2011-04-02 Thread Chris Rees
... |--net [31K] |pppoa [24K] |--CVS [4.5K] |--files [12K] |CVS [4.5K] |CVS [5.5K] [crees@zeus]~/workspace/ports% Any refinements requested I'll have a look at. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: graphical representation of `du`

2011-04-02 Thread Chris Rees
On 2 April 2011 18:07, Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 17:15:04 +0100 Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: du -h . | awk '{a[i++]=$0} END {for (j=i-1; j=0;) print a[j--] }' | awk '{print($2 [$1]);}' | sed -e 's,[^-][^/]*/,--,g' -e 's,^,|,' I confess to being

Re: graphical representation of `du`

2011-04-02 Thread Chris Rees
On 2 April 2011 18:22, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 April 2011 18:07, Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 17:15:04 +0100 Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: du -h . | awk '{a[i++]=$0} END {for (j=i-1; j=0;) print a[j--] }' | awk '{print($2 [$1]);}' | sed -e

Re: Port dependencies

2011-04-02 Thread Chris Telting
all the make config options that we deal with? Such as does such and such package pull in samba... Or does debian just compile with every option more or less enabled? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Port dependencies

2011-04-01 Thread Chris Telting
configuration? Is a configuration run time system library needed to make it easier? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Kerberos and su to root

2011-04-01 Thread Chris Telting
I have multiple systems and jails at my home. I would very much like to implement a single sign on strategy with kerberos. I think it's safer than having private keys on every single box. I can easily do this for shh user logins to multiple boxes. But I like to sign in as a user and then

Re: Port dependencies

2011-04-01 Thread Chris Telting
On 04/01/2011 17:51, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:58:04 -0700, Chris Teltingchristopher...@telting.org wrote: Just in a thoughtful mood and thought I'd to the question to the cloud. Oh the joy of cloud computing, erm... discussion. :-) Wasn't that the a subplot of the hitch

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-31 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Gökşin Akdeniz goksin.akde...@gmail.com wrote: Try tkdvd. It is in ports tree (sysutils/tkdvd) -- Gökşin Akdeniz (Gökşin Akdeniz) goksin.akde...@gmail.com Anahtar parmakizi/key fingerprint= FE10 8C14 A144 4FDE BE18 D5E3 E758 F49A 8A5D F8AE [Son kullanma

SSH persistent sessions without screen?

2011-03-31 Thread Chris Telting
and it should be tolerant of a dropped connection. I'm thinking there is probably a way to do this with just ssh. Maybe have separate sshd daemons running on specific ports. Any ideas? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD mirror server on a Debian operating system?

2011-03-27 Thread Chris Brennan
2011/3/27 Paul Chany csanyi...@stcable.net Hi, I have installed on my old Toshiba Satellite 2540CDS Laptop the minimal FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, using CD image: FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso I have a home LAN with a gateway and I have a public Debian Server too. When on my laptop want to

Re: searching for a good IDE

2011-03-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Charlie Kester on Sunday, 27 March 2011: Personally, I prefer vim. ;) +1 Someone will object that the OP asked for an IDE. IMO, vim Integrates quite well with the shell, make, etc. vim is all one

Re: FreeBSD mirror server on a Debian operating system?

2011-03-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net writes: 2011/3/27 Paul Chany csanyi...@stcable.net This same piece of mail, you sent a few hours ago frrom this very same e-mail address with a different name Yes, because when

Re: Bridge, dpcpd, sshd

2011-03-24 Thread Chris
--- On Thu, 3/24/11, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: From: Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Bridge, dpcpd, sshd To: Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 1:56 AM I have a server machine that I use as DHCP server

Bridge, dpcpd, sshd

2011-03-23 Thread Chris
like I'm doing something badly wrong? Can I force bride0 to be configured earlier in the boot so it is always there when the daemons start waking up? Configuration info below. TIA, Chris = rc.conf extract dhcpd_enable=YES dhcpd_ifaces=bridge0 cloned_interfaces=bridge0 ifconfig_bridge0

Re: spam?

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-questions/2010-December/225226.html That report may or may not help gmail users, as Chris Brennan reported gmail provides no way to filter on message headers such as Message-ID, still at least it shows how to determine that these messages are indeed forgeries. Maybe by now parklogic realise

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

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Rees
everything. If the driver appears to load, then /dev/dsp should be created automatically when something tries to access it (e.g. cat /dev/random /dev/dsp). An important point that I had trouble with recently; the dsp* files don't appear until they are read/written to! Chris

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Greetings On two separate systems running 8.2 Stable updated yesterday, I am unable to umount any USB thumb drives after mounting. I have tried both Fat32 and UFS formatted drives. I have tried with and without HAL enabled.

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Thank you for the reply. As shown above, I mounted the drive and then tried to umount the drive. I did not access it other than the ls command. [robert@dell64] ~ lsof Flash [robert@dell64] ~ lsof /dev/da6s1 [robert@dell64]

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 - John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy Try umount -f The problem is likely that HAL or one of its

Fresh binary install

2011-03-08 Thread Chris
a few years so I would appreciate the best way to do this. Any an all guidance would be great. -- Best regards, Chris 1AB5FEF8 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: grep: write error: Broken pipe

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Hill
answer *my* question next time :^) -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-02-28 Thread Chris Rees
it would have done the trick from multi-user mode. umount / ??? Chris ___ 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

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