Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-05 Thread Da Rock
On 02/06/12 06:21, Ouyang Xueyu wrote: Hello, I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address, is configured in CUPS but everytime I only get blank pages when I'm trying to print. Does anybody know a so

Re: OT: perl mail problems

2012-01-29 Thread Da Rock
On 01/29/12 18:56, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 29/01/2012 08:11, Da Rock wrote: Thanks for the help guys. I've stepped away from php for security reasons; and the fact that I can integrate perl right into apache with mod_perl. Verb. Sap. Checkout PSGI if you're doing web-based perl th

Re: OT: perl mail problems

2012-01-29 Thread Da Rock
On 01/29/12 02:13, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 28/01/2012 13:39, Da Rock wrote: I know this is not exactly FreeBSD related, but I'm in need of a monk that can enlighten me on a sacred incantation to connect perl to an imap server using Mail::Box modules :) If it helps people sleep, its all ru

OT: perl mail problems

2012-01-28 Thread Da Rock
I know this is not exactly FreeBSD related, but I'm in need of a monk that can enlighten me on a sacred incantation to connect perl to an imap server using Mail::Box modules :) If it helps people sleep, its all running only on FreeBSD systems... I have googled and searched, and googled some mo

Re: USB 3.0 with FreeBSD 8.1

2012-01-27 Thread Da Rock
On 01/28/12 11:22, Henry Olyer wrote: What's the plan? Anything I can do? I'm not 100% sure, but I believe I heard whispers of support in 9.x... I think you won't get much for 8.1 specifically, as 8.2 was the latest 8.x; that said you could try compiling it for your own purposes (if there is

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 12:55, Doug Poland wrote: On Jan 25, 2012, at 18:04 , Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 25, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Doug Poland wrote: The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and the code contains some ba

Re: FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works?

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 11:50, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, I discovered this thread: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=25539 and am wondering what will and won't work on my Lenovo X220 I'm currently in the process in deciding between FreeBSD 9 and Fedora 15/16. I love FreeBSD on servers but unf

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 08:08, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm trying port some shell scripts to FreeBSD that were originally written on Darwin (OS X). The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and the code contains some

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 03:39, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: [...] You know, sometimes all this process is what makes people shy off of *BSD. I am a diehard lover of FreeBSD, but the few times I have installed Linux on my laptop, this whole process wa

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 05:39, robert perry wrote: I intend to purchase a multifunction printer (including fax, scanner, & copier) and return to utilizing the BSD operating systems. Early research indicates that few printer manufacturers formally support the FreeBSD or Unix operating systems but imply tha

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-23 Thread Da Rock
On 01/24/12 11:33, gore wrote: On Monday 23 January 2012 12:17:33 pm Mark Felder wrote: I've recently been presented with new information: namely that RC3 had sysinstall as an option (I did not know this, and I've been reading the lists) and that it was taken away for -RELEASE even though it was

Re: MySQL Localhost install - Was: Hello

2012-01-23 Thread Da Rock
On 01/24/12 07:06, Crow wrote: I want to create MySQL localhost. Can you provide some more information? Like which version of FreeBSD you are using (or other OS if you happen to be needing other support), what you have completed so far, other parameters that you are able to tell us which may h

Re: php5 port seems broken

2012-01-22 Thread Da Rock
On 01/23/12 10:50, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hello again, Thanks for your input. Before attempting to install php on this machine I updated my ports tree with csvsup. But following the steps in this article helped me to get past this point. http://icesquare.com/wordpress/freebsdproblem-to-update-php

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Da Rock
On 01/23/12 07:26, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 09:33:02PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: PCC is only a C compiler, and there is some C++ code (e.g. groff) in the base system. The FreeBSD port is marked as i386 and amd64 only, even though other architectures seem to be there in the PCC

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Da Rock
On 01/23/12 00:38, Robert Bonomi wrote: Da Rock wrote: I personally had no idea this was going on; my impression was gcc grew out of the original compiler that built unix, and the only choices were borland and gcc. The former for win32 crap and the latter for, well, everything else. "

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Da Rock
On 01/22/12 22:37, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:06:04PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/22/12 17:45, Chad Perrin wrote: A couple years ago, it looked like a race between PCC and TenDRA, but Clang seemed to just come out of nowhere and steal all the attention. All three of them had

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Da Rock
On 01/22/12 17:45, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:09:52PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/22/12 17:02, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 03:43:13PM +, RW wrote: I was just wondering what would have happened if Apple hadn't backed clang/LLVM as BSD licensed pro

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-21 Thread Da Rock
On 01/22/12 17:02, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 03:43:13PM +, RW wrote: I was just wondering what would have happened if Apple hadn't backed clang/LLVM as BSD licensed projects. Was there a plan B (other than gcc 4.2.1) or did Apple save the *BSD world? The backup plan was pro

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-21 Thread Da Rock
On 01/22/12 02:39, David Jackson wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Da Rock< freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: I've been seeing a lot of hoorays and pats on the back and a general feeling satisfaction in being able to use clang to compile FreeBSD and port

Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-21 Thread Da Rock
I've been seeing a lot of hoorays and pats on the back and a general feeling satisfaction in being able to use clang to compile FreeBSD and ports. The only reason I can see from searching is a need to get away from gcc (which is tried and tested since the beginning of time) which is now apparen

Calxeda processors

2012-01-21 Thread Da Rock
I just stumbled on these new ARM based chipsets. Apparently one the FreeBSD folk was onboard with the company as a software engineer as well. http://www.calxeda.com Anyone know what the status would be of running our fav OS on these quadcore, blade based server processors? Running a server at

Re: Was... A quick fix for Firefox mailto: issues Now... The other way round problem

2012-01-20 Thread Da Rock
On 01/21/12 02:27, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2012-01-20 17:16, Leslie Jensen skrev: Excuse me for using this thread but I feel I have a problem related to this, but with Thunderbird not opening URLs. I followed all instructions I can find, but have not been successful. Using the config editor I

[SOLVED] A quick fix for Firefox mailto: issues

2012-01-20 Thread Da Rock
I don't know who else has come across this, or who even uses this particular combination of firefox and thunderbird. I use it for the sake of my users, so its just easier to be a roman in rome. I have setup IceWM as the standard though. In firefox when one clicks on a mailto: link it fails to

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-18 Thread Da Rock
On 01/16/12 16:19, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:03:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/14/12 22:06, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:37:14 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/14/12 19:54, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 14 02:32:15 2012 Date

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-15 Thread Da Rock
On 01/14/12 22:06, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:37:14 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/14/12 19:54, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 14 02:32:15 2012 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:28:21 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Robert Bonomi Cc: freebsd-questions

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-14 Thread Da Rock
On 01/14/12 19:54, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 14 02:32:15 2012 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:28:21 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Robert Bonomi Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx); On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:00:12 -0600 (CST), Rob

Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-14 Thread Da Rock
On 01/14/12 19:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/01/2012 05:25, Tobi wrote: Thanks!!! It works fine with this: if header :contains ["List-ID"] "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" { fileinto "INBOX.Mailinglisten.FreeBSD.freebsd-questions"; stop; } You'll find that whenever someone replies t

Re: wireless and/or routing question UPDATE - WPA

2012-01-13 Thread Da Rock
On 01/14/12 16:28, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Jan 13, 2012 7:19 AM, "Matthias Apitz" wrote: El día Friday, January 13, 2012 a las 07:03:11AM -0800, Waitman Gobble escribió: Hi, Thanks. I've always heard countless rumors about WPA being

Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-13 Thread Da Rock
On 01/14/12 15:13, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 01/14/12 13:37, Tobi wrote: Hi, I try to filter my maillist emails with slieve... but it dosen't work ;( here are my config: require "fileinto"; if address :is ["from", "to&quo

Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-13 Thread Da Rock
On 01/14/12 13:37, Tobi wrote: Hi, I try to filter my maillist emails with slieve... but it dosen't work ;( here are my config: require "fileinto"; if address :is ["from", "to"] "owner-freebsd-b...@freebsd.org" { fileinto "INBOX/Mailinglisten/FreeBSD/freebsd-bugs"; } elsif address :is ["

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-13 Thread Da Rock
On 01/14/12 01:38, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hello, I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble with the wireless setup. I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came with it, and an Atheros 5424/2424 that i swapped o

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-12 Thread Da Rock
On 01/13/12 17:11, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Da Rock< freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: On 01/13/12 15:29, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hello, I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble with the wireless setup.

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-12 Thread Da Rock
On 01/13/12 15:29, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hello, I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble with the wireless setup. I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came with it, and an Atheros 5424/2424 that i swapped out. I can run the BCM with ndis and the windo

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-09 Thread Da Rock
On 01/08/12 09:05, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Greetings, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am tearing my hair out trying to get FreeBSD 8.2 operating on my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation. I am a newcomer to FreeBSD. This workstation is used by several different people. Normally,

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-06 Thread Da Rock
On 01/06/12 07:42, Peter Harrison wrote: Thursday, 5 January 2012 at 9:04:40 +1000, Da Rock said: On 01/05/12 07:01, Peter Harrison wrote: On 4 Jan 2012, at 01:08, Da Rock wrote: On 01/04/12 10:38, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 01/04/12 02:10, Daniel

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Da Rock
On 01/05/12 08:39, Jerry wrote: I have noticed that somehow you have managed to piss off at least two other posters in the past 48 hours. In every case, you claim to have been basically misunderstood. I wonder, could a pattern be emerging? And you, Jerry, have successfully managed to piss off a

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Da Rock
On 01/05/12 08:25, Michael Ross wrote: Am 04.01.2012, 23:00 Uhr, schrieb Mario Lobo : On Wednesday 04 January 2012 17:47:52 Lyubomir Grigorov wrote: Mainly to Jerry and Chad, but anyone contributing to the flame and OT fest, How I feel whenever I see people argue on the internet http://i.im

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-04 Thread Da Rock
On 01/05/12 07:01, Peter Harrison wrote: On 4 Jan 2012, at 01:08, Da Rock wrote: On 01/04/12 10:38, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 01/04/12 02:10, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 01/03/12 22:10, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Da Rock
On 01/05/12 06:47, Lyubomir Grigorov wrote: Mainly to Jerry and Chad, but anyone contributing to the flame and OT fest, How I feel whenever I see people argue on the internet http://i.imgur.com/biopQ.gif LOL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-03 Thread Da Rock
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Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-03 Thread Da Rock
On 01/04/12 10:38, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 01/04/12 02:10, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 01/03/12 22:10, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:44:30 +1000 Da Rock articulated: On 01/03/12 11:15, Jeffrey McFadden wrote

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-03 Thread Da Rock
On 01/04/12 02:10, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 01/03/12 22:10, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:44:30 +1000 Da Rock articulated: On 01/03/12 11:15, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: Jerry, there are so many things that are so wrong and so un-pc in this

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-03 Thread Da Rock
On 01/04/12 01:06, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:17:36 +1000 Da Rock articulated: On 01/03/12 22:10, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:44:30 +1000 Da Rock articulated: On 01/03/12 11:15, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: I have a Toshiba Satellite U505-S2950 laptop with a Realtek RTL8191SEvB

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-03 Thread Da Rock
On 01/03/12 22:10, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:44:30 +1000 Da Rock articulated: On 01/03/12 11:15, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: I have a Toshiba Satellite U505-S2950 laptop with a Realtek RTL8191SEvB wireless card built in. FreeBSD doesn't recognize this card and can't use it,

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Da Rock
On 01/03/12 22:12, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:41:10PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: New users are nearly always dismayed at the apparent difficulty of things, and should be warned that they will need to do some work "under the hood" in order to get what they

Re: pf not seeing inbound packets on netgraph interface

2012-01-02 Thread Da Rock
On 01/03/12 16:17, Ed Carrel wrote: Hi freebsd-questions, I am running into a roadblock getting PF to filter traffic on a Netgraph interface representing an L2TP/IPSec connection. I have done some narrowing down of the problem, but was hoping to get some advice on figuring out where to go diggin

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-02 Thread Da Rock
On 01/03/12 11:15, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: I have a Toshiba Satellite U505-S2950 laptop with a Realtek RTL8191SEvB wireless card built in. FreeBSD doesn't recognize this card and can't use it, but Ubuntu does. Would it be possible to go glom a Linux driver off the web someplace and install it i

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-02 Thread Da Rock
On 01/03/12 12:06, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 12:33:20PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: Ubuntu, actually, has thrown out the baby with the bathwater. In its zeal to make things "just work" in a particular manner, it seems hell-bent on ignoring all but one way to do thin

Re: mailing list and personal assaults

2012-01-02 Thread Da Rock
On 01/03/12 08:19, Bill Tillman wrote: I agree. A mailing list like this should not fall to the lowest common denominator. And I would like to add that while this community seems to be an exception, far too often someone wastes bandwidth and bytes by telling the person with a question to RTFM.

Re: Waay OT Now... FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-02 Thread Da Rock
On 01/03/12 08:10, Mario Lobo wrote: On Monday 02 January 2012 18:42:44 Nikola Pavlović wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 03:32:17PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: [troll snipper] . perhaps could be a porting of the IOKit driver system from Darwin, perhaps even allowing Darwin drivers to be use

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-02 Thread Da Rock
On 01/02/12 23:31, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 23:55:26 -0700 Chad Perrin articulated: On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:14:20AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:56:45 +1000 Da Rock articulated: If you want to verify, then by all means parouse this list and others (even in the linux

nss_ldap and the linuxulator

2012-01-02 Thread Da Rock
I've just run into this snag again which I've resolved back in 7.x/8.1: the linuxulator cannot handle nss lookups from ldap. I ran a search for nss_ldap fedora 10 and simply extracted from the rpm the libnss_ldap*.so* in the usr/lib into the corresponding directory under /compat/linux. One th

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread Da Rock
On 01/01/12 21:42, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:03:38 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Mac doesn't support all hardware from what I understand, and the only system with 100% hardware support is Winblows. Given the design philosophy of Winblows, how well written do you think the har

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-31 Thread Da Rock
On 01/01/12 06:32, David Jackson wrote: An OS should strive to be a better platform for many people, including techies and non-techies. A good software design philosophy is that good software works out of the box without configuration using reasonable defaults, but, that that the software shoul

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2011-12-30 Thread Da Rock
On 12/31/11 14:45, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good evening, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am a newcomer, and have installed FreeBSD 8.2 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400. After many hours of frustration, I am tearing my hair out. I want my system to include an M-Audio Delta 1010LT sound c

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Da Rock
On 12/30/11 23:05, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:35:46 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Was this really necessary to post to the list? Publicly? Opinions are your own, but this does appear rather vindictive and not really wanted on a friendly list. For reference Polytropon has been rather

Re: Why do I feel like compact flash is more reliable than SSD ?

2011-12-30 Thread Da Rock
On 12/30/11 22:41, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:13:24PM -0800, UFS User wrote: I have run a lot of different FreeBSD systems off (fileservers, firewalls, routers, etc.) off of compact flash cards[1] and have never had a CF part fail. Most of these were read-only mode, but som

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Da Rock
On 12/30/11 22:11, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 30/12/2011 11:52, Da Rock wrote: I haven't looked, but it would be good to have some irc channels handled by the team though. http://wiki.freebsd.org/IrcChannels Ha! There you go... I've only just been finding out about the value of

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Da Rock
On 12/30/11 22:15, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:39:58 +0100 Polytropon articulated: However, there are differences in how you judge documentation to be _good_. Talk to a mainframer, and he will tell you a different story. Then talk to a "Windows" person and explain what documentation is,

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Da Rock
On 12/30/11 16:39, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:43:16 -0500, David Jackson wrote: However, My finding is that due to poor documentation, [...] That kind of statement doesn't fit well to FreeBSD which is known for its excellent documentation, often considered superior to other open s

Re: mutual forwarders in ISC BIND

2011-12-29 Thread Da Rock
On 12/29/11 12:45, Kevin Wilcox wrote: On Dec 28, 2011 9:26 PM, "Victor Sudakov" wrote: And the reason for the whole thread. One of the customers told me that 8.8.8.8 is faster than our own DNS servers which are located on the same 100 MBit/s LAN with them. I was shocked but it seems true, at

Re: Host Dynamic DNS configuration for 8.2-RELEASE

2011-12-29 Thread Da Rock
On 12/30/11 08:06, akshay sreeramoju wrote: Thanks Matthew. It works. Akshay On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Matthew Seaman< m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: On 29/12/2011 20:11, akshay sreeramoju wrote: What is the required configuration in a FreeBSD 8.2 release host for it to pu

Re: chroot error: /bin/csh: No such file or directory; trying to create customized livecd/dvd

2011-12-24 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 22:57, Antonio Olivares wrote: I'll ask a stupid question, and you're more than welcome to give a stupid answer: Is /bin/csh actually _in_ your chroot? So csh should be this path: /usr/home/olivares/tmp/tmp/R/bin/csh HTH ___ freebsd-questi

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-24 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 22:21, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:03:30PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: might render the application performing it unresponsive during that time. Bingo! Thats exactly the issue. Taking a look at FUSE I can see there are calls that FUSE_FSYNC which I would say is the

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-24 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 22:08, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:23:17PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 12/24/11 11:34, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 09:57:38AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: FreeBSD be default already does buffering in the VFS layer (unless you turn that off). I don't

Re: serial consoles

2011-12-24 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 19:34, Matthew Luckie wrote: Hi I'd like to be able to login using a null modem cable to a freebsd server, from a freebsd laptop. It doesn't need to display boot messages, just allow me to login after the system has booted. I've got a null modem cable connected to my freebsd ser

Re: chroot error: /bin/csh: No such file or directory; trying to create customized livecd/dvd

2011-12-23 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 14:28, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear folks, I am trying to build a simple livecd to learn more. I have successfully run some commands found here: http://www.secure-computing.net/wiki/index.php/FreeBSD/LiveCD # cd /usr/src # make buildworld DESTDIR=/usr/home/olivares/tmp/tmp/R/ # ma

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 11:34, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 09:57:38AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: FreeBSD be default already does buffering in the VFS layer (unless you turn that off). I don't think that adding more buffering would help. It might even make matters worse. If data is buffere

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 11:34, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 09:57:38AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: FreeBSD be default already does buffering in the VFS layer (unless you turn that off). I don't think that adding more buffering would help. It might even make matters worse. If data is buffere

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 09:21, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 08:03:22AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: If the network goes down, network drives won't work. Your users will be sad/scared/frustrated with or without error messages, I'm guessing. Nah. They'd flip out a whole lot more

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 03:31, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 01:27:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: couldn't give a shit about network drives. One scenario is network goes down and I get a screenful of error messages- it annoys the shit out of me, let alone scaring illiterate users. If the ne

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Da Rock
On 12/24/11 00:22, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 02:18:19PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: This is doing my head in. :-) I'm trying to get my head around hal, dbus, and PolicyKit, and I've made some inroads on the basics, but I cannot get a few things happening. One: I mana

Re: PolicyKit confusion - DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed: An operation is already pending

2011-12-23 Thread Da Rock
On 12/23/11 16:11, Da Rock wrote: On 12/23/11 15:37, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:18:19 +1000, Da Rock wrote: I checked out /media/hal-* and I see that the mount occurs only as root. How do I change that exactly? I need it showing for operator group. I've searched high an

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-22 Thread Da Rock
On 12/23/11 15:37, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:18:19 +1000, Da Rock wrote: I checked out /media/hal-* and I see that the mount occurs only as root. How do I change that exactly? I need it showing for operator group. I've searched high and low and googled my brains out, but any

PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-22 Thread Da Rock
This is doing my head in. I'm trying to get my head around hal, dbus, and PolicyKit, and I've made some inroads on the basics, but I cannot get a few things happening. One: I managed to get network:/// smb shares working in say nautilus (not that I've specifically mounted one- not a windows in

Re: LOCALE issue: Pysycache errors on run

2011-12-22 Thread Da Rock
On 12/22/11 23:20, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:13:53 +1000, Da Rock wrote: %env LANG=en_EN.ISO8859-1 pysycache.py ^^ Isn't that supposed to be en_US or en_GB? I'm not sure if there's also en_AU... :-) The one variation I didn't try I had t

Re: LOCALE issue: Pysycache errors on run

2011-12-22 Thread Da Rock
On 12/22/11 15:11, Da Rock wrote: Just something for the kids, but I'm wondering how to get this to work? I've installed from ports, but when I run it from the cli to test it I get an error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/pysycache.py",

Pysycache errors on run

2011-12-21 Thread Da Rock
Just something for the kids, but I'm wondering how to get this to work? I've installed from ports, but when I run it from the cli to test it I get an error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/pysycache.py", line 442, in if __name__ == '__main__': main(const.GWithFul

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-21 Thread Da Rock
On 12/22/11 11:37, Chris Hill wrote: Hello list, I apologize for this posting being not-much-on-topic, but my other resources have come to naught and I think you folks may have some experience in this area. I'm looking to set up some sort of revision control system at work. Simple enough, e

Atheros 9285 - not operating?

2011-12-21 Thread Da Rock
This is getting less and less funny as I get deeper in this. I tried a lower end model of the same laptop with 8.1 and 8.2 and completely failed to get the atheros 9285 to work (although I did have partial success building from head (9) on 8.1. Wouldn't work after that. Along came 9.0-RC3 and

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-20 Thread Da Rock
On 12/21/11 07:39, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: The laptop is a compaq cq62 with a quad core phenom and a ATI 4200 Radeon mobility GPU, as well as 6300 GPU. Sorry, I can't find any specs for a CQ62 with both ATI and NVidia. There's a trademark name fo

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
On 12/20/11 16:08, Allen wrote: On 12/13/2011 11:54 AM, Devin Teske wrote: *Snipping* On 12/13/11 06:00, Eric S Pulley wrote: As for one big / partition- linux may be using it: and its their biggest failing! I've had a system lockup due to lack of space. Never a problem with bsd as logs will o

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
On 12/20/11 14:33, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
On 12/20/11 03:05, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbde

Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbdev because there is no data module. I try uninstall

SD card readers

2011-12-13 Thread Da Rock
I've spent years fiddling and waiting for support for the ricoh drivers- finally they came up with support by 8.2 yay! and my laptops had died by that time :( Ohhh, the irony... I have new laptops, and HP have got the picture and are using usb based devices. But one has these: none1@pci0:3:0

Re: Installing free bsd

2011-12-12 Thread Da Rock
On 12/13/11 09:58, Frank Shute wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:05:29PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: First of all, always include the list in a response to something from the list. Other people will be reading and may well know more than me or any other person who responds. eg, don't just

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-12 Thread Da Rock
On 12/13/11 04:09, RW wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:42:52 +1000 Da Rock wrote: On 12/11/11 10:23, RW wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:17:41 +1000 Da Rock wrote: SUJ speeds up the check a lot, seconds as opposed to minutes. If something happens to the journal, it falls back to a standard fsck

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-12 Thread Da Rock
On 12/13/11 06:00, Eric S Pulley wrote: As for one big / partition- linux may be using it: and its their biggest failing! I've had a system lockup due to lack of space. Never a problem with bsd as logs will only fill up var, a user won't break it with filling up usr, etc. And root always stays pr

Re: bridging

2011-12-11 Thread Da Rock
ifconfig bridge0 addm gbeth0 addm igb0 addm igb1 addm gbeth1 up what is wrong here? it's so necessary for me to doing this:( Is it any 2 interfaces? What command do you use to get the 2 interfaces working? On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Da Rock< freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-11 Thread Da Rock
On 12/12/11 12:05, Foo JH wrote: On 11/12/2011 6:21 AM, Robison, Dave wrote: I prefer having separate partitions because it's more in line with traditional unix systems, and in particular, I don't like letting users have unlimited access to /tmp. Pardon the noob question: will using Disk Quota

Re: bridging

2011-12-11 Thread Da Rock
On 12/11/11 23:31, saeedeh motlagh wrote: hello everybody i have a problem in bridging my interfaces. i want to bridge my 4 interfaces and make switching in freebsd box but in doesn't work. with two interfaces the bridge works well and pass the traffic but for four interfaces in doesn't what is e

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-10 Thread Da Rock
On 12/11/11 10:23, RW wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:17:41 +1000 Da Rock wrote: SUJ speeds up the check a lot, seconds as opposed to minutes. If something happens to the journal, it falls back to a standard fsck. But fsck needs to be run manually- I have users that can't do that, an

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-10 Thread Da Rock
On 12/11/11 08:14, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: GPT is cool - no problems there. The main thing I want to know is if I need to run fsck every time the system dies unexpectedly (which is a higher occurrence on a laptop)? GJournal helps in that it takes care of that

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-10 Thread Da Rock
On 12/11/11 08:02, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 10/12/2011 11:41 μμ, Da Rock wrote: On 12/11/11 02:09, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 10/12/2011 5:19 μμ, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, R Skinner wrote: So I went to the handbook. I'm still a little confused though: can one still setu

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-10 Thread Da Rock
On 12/11/11 02:09, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 10/12/2011 5:19 μμ, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, R Skinner wrote: So I went to the handbook. I'm still a little confused though: can one still setup the usr and var (and so forth)? It said you possibly could, but it escaped me as to how

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-10 Thread Da Rock
On 12/10/11 22:20, RW wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:40:53 + Frank Shute wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 07:51:50PM +1000, R Skinner wrote: possibly could, but it escaped me as to how. And before I do- I looked up journaling on 9. I couldn't quite get to the bottom of whether it is or isn't

Re: Installing an older version of a port

2011-12-03 Thread Da Rock
On 12/02/11 17:51, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:25:48 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 12/02/11 14:01, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Da Rock mailto:freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au>> wrote: I've never actually done this before, so I

Re: Installing an older version of a port

2011-12-01 Thread Da Rock
On 12/02/11 14:01, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Da Rock <mailto:freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au>> wrote: I've never actually done this before, so I'm a little shaky on the details. ffmpeg-0.7.7,1 doesn't work for my p

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