Re: freebsd-update - Automatic merge

2010-02-17 Thread Chris Rees
/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-August/203831.html Some day I'll submit that to doc@ Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturallynot the administrator root

2010-02-13 Thread Chris Rees
of FreeBSD is /bin/sh.  Shouldn't cause the observed problem.        Cheers,        Matthew I would imagine then that /etc/ttys is set to 'insecure' for all. Can you log in as root Jason? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-09 Thread Chris Rees
you may be out of luck... May be out of luck? I would hope he is totally out of luck without physical access, if you get my drift! Hope you do have physical access Eric Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Rees
freebsd.mc is updated? 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: Patch

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Rees
to apply the patch.  I would appreciate any help. Thanks, Mike Krafczyk Are you certain that you need to? What version of FreeBSD are you using? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
/msg001695.html Chris ps I removed some of the recipients from the recipients list as my original post was held for moderation because of Too many recipients to the message - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Alexander Motin wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: CPU-performance-wise, I am not really worried. The current system is an Atom 330 and even that is a bit overkill for what I do with it and from what I am seeing, the new Atom D510 used on those boards is a tiny bit faster. What I

What sort of file system is this and how to mount it?

2010-01-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
GMT 2009 r...@eco.config:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 thanks 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: What sort of file system is this and how to mount it?

2010-01-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: ... That makes me think ad4p2 is HFS or HFS+ so I installed hfsexplorer (http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html) and it tells me ad4p2 is an invalid HFS type. So try a few other things eco# mount /dev/ad4p2 /mnt mount

Re: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Rees
is dynamically created... HTH 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

ISO simple non-forking TCP connection forward/balance tool

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Peiffer
I'm looking for a simple program I can use to forward incoming TCP connections to several other addr:port pairs. (including one on the machine itself.) Holding the connections open and passing the data back and forth until both parties close their ends. I need a solution that doesn't

Re: Support for Asus MicroATX Boards

2010-01-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
in the BIOS. You can manually kldload sbp once the system is up but not in loader.conf (at least for me). Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
USA In Nero version 6 it's Recorder / Burn Image and just before you click Burn you have to select whether you are writing a CD or a DVD. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

graphics card/monitor question

2009-12-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
://uk.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=amYCbidk7vhOQLWp http://www.lge.com/uk/it-products/monitors/LG-lcd-monitor-W2361V.jsp I'm using FreeBSD 8 i386 with x11/nvidia-driver Thanks very much for any comments and I hope you all had an enjoyable christmas. Chris

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
up :) 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: question about xorg 7.4

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Whitehouse
(if enabled) Not trying to rtfm but http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

2009-12-12 Thread Chris Rees
, and has an obnoxious licence. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Chris Rees
at all??? Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
with an article is how to view it during an install and how to know it is even there. 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: what ports to open in firewall for bitlord

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Rees
such as Transmission or μTorrent? This link might help: http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-GBGB344GB344sourceid=chromeie=UTF-8q=bitlord+ports Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
, too. icewm is a nice lightweight wm (which I use) but with your hardware you might want to look at http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/ it's an xfce4 based installation dvd which includes many precompiled package. There are notes for installing flash. Chris

Re: which is the better way...?

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Rees
]~% Gutted! I'll have to use pkg_*... Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?

2009-11-29 Thread Chris Rees
2009/11/26 Jerry ges...@yahoo.com: rant rant snipped Even OSX greatly simplifies the installation process. What are you trying to say about OS X? -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the

Re: zfs on 8.0-RELEASE

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Hill
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Victor Lyapunov wrote: I wanted to ask a simple question, is ZFS now ready to be used on production systems? From Thursday's announcement: - ZFS no longer in experimental status ...so I would guess the answer is 'yes'. -- Chris Hill ch

Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?

2009-11-27 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Warren Block wrote: As far as GUI goes, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that a couple GUI network managers are around: sysutils/desktopbsd-tools includes a wireless network configurator according to its pkg-descr, haven't used myself though. Chris

Re: [Ticket#2009112310000017] Scilab and FreeBSD

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Rees
2009/11/23 Scilab Support scilab.supp...@scilab.org: Hello Wiebe, Chris Rees is currently working on the upgrade of the Scilab package. We are in touch with him to maintain and improve the package. Regards, Sylvestre 23.11.2009 11:13 - W.R. Pestman a écrit: Dear Scilab team, I don't

Re: need a newline between paragraphs....

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Cowart
and re-run the program, you should be good to go. If you don't have the original anymore, it'll be a lot harder and much less accurate. print $fh $_; } Good luck, -- Chris Cowart Network Technical Lead Network Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT UC Berkeley pgp51hzqyX77C.pgp Description: PGP

Re: need a newline between paragraphs....

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Cowart
going to spend a lot more time mucking through it. -- Chris Cowart Network Technical Lead Network Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT UC Berkeley pgpUdCgaJ96xC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: there will be a log in apache access.log?

2009-11-22 Thread Chris Rees
the problem? Is it _your_ box you're getting into, or are you worried someone else is going to see _their_ access log? Sorry to sound paranoid, but your question is seriously strange. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad

Re: device hint - disable firewire or sbp driver

2009-11-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
, thanks for the info 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: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-21 Thread Chris Rees
2009/11/20 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:56:03PM +, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/11/20 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? Any advice? Your question could have been phrased better but that's

Re: Dump

2009-11-21 Thread Chris Rees
or directory Just for sanity... Are you root? Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd

Re: device hint - disable firewire or sbp driver

2009-11-21 Thread Chris Whitehouse
r...@eco.config:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC_NO_SBP i386 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: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-20 Thread Chris Rees
: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=398 My advice: Get an Nvidia card, and install FreeBSD/i386. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-20 Thread Chris Rees
2009/11/20 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com: Chris Rees writes:   Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch?   Any advice?  Nvidia GPUs work on IA-32 machines, but AFAIK there's still no  amd64 driver.        There was a posting within the last 24 hours on one of the FreeBSD

Re: Default cannot install 8.0 rc2 in mobo P5QL-EM Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under the boot of the install dvd I get this run_interrupt_driven_hooks: sti

2009-11-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
/query-pr.cgi?pr=136327 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: Produce identical packages for checksum comparison?

2009-11-15 Thread Chris
b. f. wrote: Chris wrote: I'm also thinking of building a simple checksum database to track what actually changes and what my options were when I compiled it. It would allow me to better make regression decisions. I could also be free to delete packages and know if I recompile it later

Produce identical packages for checksum comparison?

2009-11-14 Thread Chris
with consistent checksums? 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

freebsd.org slow?

2009-11-14 Thread Chris
Anyone else notice how slow freebsd.org is? 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: Produce identical packages for checksum comparison?

2009-11-14 Thread Chris
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Saturday, November 14, 2009 a las 07:51:17AM -0800, Chris escribió: I have a somewhat flaky system. I would like to compile ports to packages multiple times and do a file comparison. ... Hi Chris, What is behind the idea to compile and pack a given port

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-11 Thread Chris Rees
2009/11/11 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: snip  That is because MS-Win doesn't play very well if installed later and/or in a different slice. Windows behaves fine for me whatever slice it's installed in. What IS important is that it's installed first, as you said before. You can

Re: x11/lxpanel build fails - wrong linux base?

2009-11-09 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:41:19 +, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I have WITHOUT_ALSA=true in lxpanel's options and I have even changed the line in lxpanel/Makefile: eco# diff Makefile Makefile.original 31c31 WITH_ALSA=off --- WITH_ALSA=yes Maybe

x11/lxpanel build fails - wrong linux base?

2009-11-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
the line in lxpanel/Makefile: eco# diff Makefile Makefile.original 31c31 WITH_ALSA=off --- WITH_ALSA=yes so how do I stop lxpanel calling linux-alsa-lib? Alternatively can I make it use linux-f10-alsa-lib by changing the Makefile to point to linux-f10-alsa-lib? thanks Chris

Re: please help me make sense of top's CPU output

2009-11-03 Thread Chris Stankevitz
weighted-cpu values at the moment. Makes sense, thank you. If I want to hack a port program, I go to the work directory, edit the source, and rebuild. How do I hack a non-port program like top? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: please help me make sense of top's CPU output

2009-11-03 Thread Chris Rees
2009/11/3 Chris Stankevitz cstankev...@toyon.com: Dan Nelson wrote: Junior Hacker Project: add an instantaneous-CPU value (calculated by subtracting successive ki_runtime values) to the list of things top calculates and toggle it and weighted-CPU when pressing C.  The toggling code

please help me make sense of top's CPU output

2009-11-02 Thread Chris Stankevitz
? Thank you, Chris PS: conky does the same thing -- I assume this means the seemingly disagreeing numbers are coming from the FreeBSD kernel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-31 Thread Chris Rees
/search?q=sendmail.mc Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Disk vs Disc (was: WD External Disc Drive)

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/10/26 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk: Chris Rees wrote: I have always considered hard disk, floppy diskette, and compact disc (and digital versatile disc) to be the terminology; but then again the official British spelling is disc, whereas AFAICR the US spelling is disk

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Rees
to it, Almost everyone I've ever spoken to about why they dislike sendmail trots out a bunch of cliches based on sendmail 8.8. People, we're up to sendmail 8.14 now. Get over it! [1] Chris [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg223489.html -- A: Because it messes up the order

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/10/27 Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/10/27 Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 26 October 2009 21:29:27 Yuri wrote: It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. How many people actually

Re: [freebsd-questions] in subject line

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Chris-- On Oct 26, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name in square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists

Re: Disk vs Disc (was: WD External Disc Drive)

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Rees
the US spelling is disk. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Henry Olyer wrote: I need more information to make this work. help, please. And thank you! On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Jules Gilbert wrote: now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse. when I am in screen

Re: can't make www/linux-f10-flashplugin10

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Just in case someone looks here and not in UPDATING referred above, they go in /etc/make.conf but you probably meant that :) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

[freebsd-questions] in subject line

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
settings to add that behaviour. Is it possible somehow? Or is it seen as undesirable? Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Wifi Router and FreeeBSD - need some hints..

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Hill
is set up the wireless channel, SSID and encryption (type and key). HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

incorrect info in mysql docs

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
/etc/rc.d/mysql-server. rc(8) says *.sh is for older style startup scripts or for scripts that are to be read into the current shell. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Is this card supported: Broadcom BCM94312MCGSG

2009-10-22 Thread Chris Stankevitz
and recompiling the kernel: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg222481.html Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: (no subject)

2009-10-22 Thread Chris Stankevitz
nicholas addei wrote: please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as root You need to follow these instructions: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/index.html Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: All in one printer?

2009-10-16 Thread Chris Rees
difficult to follow. What about Epson printers? They're usually fine with Gutenprint CUPS, and my CX3650's scanner works fine. This is a change in 7.2 (I think) when suddenly they both started being detected, rather than only one (scanner or printer) being allowed to work at a time. Chris

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Chris
? ... try your left mind or even, wrong mind?! -- Best regards, Chris () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments There's no place like 127.0.0.1 ___ freebsd-questions

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Stankevitz
explanation. I hope to find that my PAGER environment variable is less -E. If so, I will drop the -E. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: test please ignore

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Rees
://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-test Please use it. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list

Re: ldap and pam-mkhomedir, anyone know how to set directory ownership to the ldap user logging in ??

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Cowart
being created correctly? Do you see the entry? -- Chris Cowart Network Technical Lead Network Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT UC Berkeley pgpdVmY1iejNt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Hill
may pipe up... Can you not set the clock manually, then let ntpd take it from there? Seems like your clock would become synced a lot faster if it started out close. Sorry if I'm being naive, but this seemed like the obvious thing to do. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org

man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
to the prompt after CTRL-G? Thank you, 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

View font selection

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Question: What command should I issue to see what each of my installed x11 fonts looks like? Thank you, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Howto: ethernet card on dell M6300

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Stankevitz
using sysinstall 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

/ almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Stankevitz
be able to install GNOME, Firefox, download 30 MB of files, and place them on my GNOME dekstop? (I believe the desktop is located at /home/cstankevitz/.desktop aka on the root partition where there is only 26M of free space) Q3: Which changes, if any, should I make to my system? Thank you, Chris

Re: dump_snapshot file

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Philip Jocks wrote: BTW: is everyone else getting messages from the list twice, once with the list's signature, once without? Normal procedure on the FreeBSD mailing lists is to respond to the message and CC the list (or vice versa) so replies are

Re: FBSD 7.2 - ports blocked but no firewall

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Cowart
and not on *. Look for something like: | listen *:6697 | { | ... | }; And make sure it's * and not 127.0.0.1. -- Chris Cowart Network Technical Lead Network Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT UC Berkeley pgpvPG6ZUs2mH.pgp Description: PGP signature

FreeBSD Projects

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
a list of other such projects? Thanks, 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

Updating the ports collection

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
after using sysinstall to obtain it? Q2: Is this explained in the handbook? If so, where? Thank you, Chris PS: I uses sysinstall to obtain the ports collection from the CD during OS install ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Updating the ports collection

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi Chris, The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap

Re: NO ONE knows??

2009-10-02 Thread Chris
for eSpeak. I looked and it appears the developer himself responds to questions people have. http://sourceforge.net/projects/espeak/forums Chris gary -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes

Re: lacie external hard drive supported?

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 26), Chris Whitehouse said: Hi all Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton eSATA, FireWire 400 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ? http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064

Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread Chris
- have not tried a restore). Some specs I'm using to compare: A typical restore/save currently with other OS's using CloneZ takes about 12 minutes with a simple boot from CD. The restored/imaged drive is 400 meg sata. -- Best regards, Chris () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-27 Thread Chris Rees
, basically. Ignore him, and concentrate on real Oracle employees for sources. Of course, if this was an Oracle employee, then you really should think about using some different software Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad

Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
AutoAddDevicesoff option AllowEmptyInput off in the ServerFlags section in xorg.conf Or you can configure hal to recognise them - there are various threads in the archives i believe. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

lacie external hard drive supported?

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
to assume it is under FreeBSD? Thanks 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

ipfw: install_state: entry already present, done

2009-09-24 Thread Chris St Denis
(not that that should matter) network card: em0 -- Chris St Denis Programmer SmarttNet (www.smartt.com) Ph: 604-473-9700 Ext. 200 --- Smart Internet Solutions For Businesses ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: portupgrade broken

2009-09-17 Thread Chris Whitehouse
. including updating INDEX-7 or is that taken as read? #make fetchindex if done at the same time as updating the ports tree #make index any other time but it takes a long time Chris 2) Remove: /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db 3) Run: /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -Ffuv 4: Run: /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -fUu 4) Run: /usr

Re: warning, 100pc Ot... almost

2009-09-17 Thread Chris Whitehouse
could _try_ one from here http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/downloads-page it's 3.1.0 and FreeBSD 7.2 but it might do the trick. Chris tx in advance, gary :wq ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

HELP

2009-09-17 Thread Chris Hickey
full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh. If you could give me a step by step of what to do that would be awesome. I tried sending this to your bug department and they told me to talk to you. -- Chris Hickey Kickey Hollywood Dropout Productions cell: 858-220-6610

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Chris Cowart
supported. -- Chris Cowart Network Technical Lead Network Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT UC Berkeley pgpdLHTVAM3EC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread Chris Maness
utis...@googlemail.com wrote: On 14 Sep 2009 02:50, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level 0 dump of my server. I lost a file that I need back. Is it possible to use restore like tar and explode

Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread Chris Rees
2009/9/14 Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com: utis...@googlemail.com wrote: On 14 Sep 2009 02:50, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level 0 dump of my server.  I lost a file that I need back

Re: Non-root user and accept() or listen()

2009-09-14 Thread Chris Rees
actually run as root... I suppose it'd be possible, but would it actually be useful? BTW, there may be an ipfw rule for this, I'll have to look it up when my servers are back online! Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad

Re: Can't install FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE and 8.0-BETA4

2009-09-14 Thread Chris Whitehouse
and install a new kernel with device sbp disabled - restore the hard disk to your laptop, see if it boots. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Dump/Restore?

2009-09-13 Thread Chris Maness
seems stupid. Chris KQ6UP ___ 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: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-13 Thread Chris Maness
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level 0 dump of my server.  I lost a file that I need back.  Is it possible to use restore like tar and explode it into a directory instead of a pristine partition/mount?  Or even better, is it possible to just

Re: sudo script not executing

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Cowart
on the line with your sudo rule which might make sudo think you've typed a literal command with arguments instead of a command that can be run with arbitrary arguments? -- Chris Cowart Network Technical Lead Network Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT UC Berkeley pgphSFQguJkgd.pgp Description: PGP

7.2-RELEASE kbdmux

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Knipe
/kbdmux.c:261: warning: nested extern declaration of 'KBDMUX_CHECK_CHAR' *** Error code 1 This is a stock standard cvsup'ed machine, nothing changed, altered, added, or removed. Any help appreciated. -- Chris. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: DVD-R not recording .iso

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Hill
on the BSD forum said :^) HTH. Hang loose. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

how to display pkg-message

2009-09-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
. thanks 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: how to display pkg-message

2009-09-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Randy Belk wrote: On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Kalle Møllerfreebsd-questi...@k-moeller.dk wrote: Looking for that feature to :) On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hello Could someone remind of the make target for showing messages which

Re: how to display pkg-message

2009-09-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Mel Flynn wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 20:18:38 Chris Whitehouse wrote: Thanks for the info. I read man ports, quite a lot of bsd.ports.mk plus list archives If you want to see the dynamically generated pkg-message of a *port*, before building/installing it (f.e. to identify what

Re: Upgrading packages

2009-09-02 Thread Chris
On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:50:08 +0400 Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:25:18 -0500 Chris wrote: On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:17:12 +0400 Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 17:15:53 -0500 Chris wrote: Probably a long time discussed question

Re: Upgrading packages

2009-09-02 Thread Chris
On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:42:02 +0400 Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 01:08:54 -0500 Chris wrote: On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:50:08 +0400 Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:25:18 -0500 Chris wrote: Thanks - although, this seems a moot point if one

Upgrading packages

2009-09-01 Thread Chris
Greetings, Probably a long time discussed question: Updating a system is (or can be) done with freebsd-update. What is the suggested way of upgrading packages (not ports)? -- Best regards, Chris () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary

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