Re: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ certificate error

2013-03-09 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On 2 March 2013 07:48, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > (Please keep me CC'd as I'm not subscribed to -questions) > > (I'm CC'ing Simon Nielsen who maintains the FreeBSD webserver cluster, as > this obviously needs to be looked at.) > [...] > NOW BACK TO THE ACTUAL P

Re: Old releases support

2013-03-02 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On 2 Mar 2013 09:47, "Andrea Venturoli" wrote: > Just a quick question on EOL dates. > > According to http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup, 7.4R support should have ended two days ago. Did it? > Is Feb 28 2013 date confirmed? > > Next, 9.0 should reach EOL at the end of this month. >

Problems with php5-pdo_pgsql, libpq etc. after upgrading postgresql

2011-10-23 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
p5-pdo_mysql-5.3.8 php5-pdo_pgsql-5.3.8 php5-pdo_sqlite-5.3.8 I will appreciate any help, since I really need this calendar server. -- *Jon Theil Nielsen* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: Help Finding ZFS snapshots

2011-09-05 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-09-05 17:23, Gene skrev: On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:48:22 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote --As of September 5, 2011 8:13:52 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have said: Using FreeBSD 8.1, amd64 - I wanted to recover files from a snapshot of usr/home. Everything I've found via googling refers to a link s

Re: Unbootable memory stick snapshot?

2011-08-29 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2011-08-29 19:07, Neil Cafferkey skrev: Hi, I can't boot the FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201107-ia64-memstick.img snapshot. From a hexdump, it doesn't appear to have a boot block. Regards, Neil ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: MFP recommendations

2011-08-11 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2011/8/11 Michael > > On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:51 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > > > 2011/8/10 Jon Theil Nielsen > > > > Since my main goal is to be able to print over the network via my FreeBSD > > station, I could put in another way: > > Can I expect that

Re: MFP recommendations

2011-08-11 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2011/8/10 Jon Theil Nielsen > Hi list, > > I want to buy another printer to use mainly with Windows. Even though I > have no good feelings about those devises, that claims to be able to do > everything I need. Even though, I need a better scanner with ADF and duplex > print

MFP recommendations

2011-08-10 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
t Pro 8500A (CM755A) HP Photosmart Premium Fax e-All-in-One (CQ521B) Canon PIXMA MX885 Epson... Brother... In the first place, I may have to connect it via USB or ehternet. If it could be connected by my wireless adapter (Linksys WUSB600N), it would be nice Best regards, Jon Theil Ni

Re: find and remove ?

2011-05-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-15 19:50, Rolf Nielsen skrev: 2011-05-15 19:41, Jack L. Stone skrev: At 12:19 PM 5/15/2011 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: The comamnd: #find /path/to/start/deleting -type d -name _vti_\* worked fine to give the listing of what to delete, but when just adding the "-delete" at the

Re: find and remove ?

2011-05-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-15 19:41, Jack L. Stone skrev: At 12:19 PM 5/15/2011 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: The comamnd: #find /path/to/start/deleting -type d -name _vti_\* worked fine to give the listing of what to delete, but when just adding the "-delete" at the end didn't delete, just ran the listing again. I

Re: Comparing two lists

2011-05-07 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-07 07:28, Robert Bonomi skrev: From listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com Fri May 6 20:14:09 2011 Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 03:13:39 +0200 From: Rolf Nielsen To: Robert Bonomi CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comparing two lists 2011-05-07 02:54, Robert Bonomi skrev: From owner

Re: Comparing two lists [SOLVED (at least it looks like that)]

2011-05-07 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-07 05:16, b. f. skrev: 2011-05-07 02:09, Rolf Nielsen skrev: Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do exist in both files are not necessarily in the same location. Now I need

Re: Comparing two lists [SOLVED (at least it looks like that)]

2011-05-07 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-07 05:11, Yuri Pankov skrev: On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 04:23:40AM +0200, Rolf Nielsen wrote: 2011-05-07 02:09, Rolf Nielsen skrev: Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do

Re: Comparing two lists [SOLVED (at least it looks like that)]

2011-05-06 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-07 02:09, Rolf Nielsen skrev: Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do exist in both files are not necessarily in the same location. Now I need to compare the files and output

Re: Comparing two lists

2011-05-06 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-07 02:54, Robert Bonomi skrev: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri May 6 19:27:54 2011 Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 02:09:26 +0200 From: Rolf Nielsen To: FreeBSD Subject: Comparing two lists Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common

Re: Comparing two lists

2011-05-06 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-07 02:33, Polytropon skrev: On Sat, 07 May 2011 02:09:26 +0200, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do exist in both files are not necessarily in the

Comparing two lists

2011-05-06 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do exist in both files are not necessarily in the same location. Now I need to compare the files and output a list of lines that exist in both f

Re: source code

2011-04-21 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2011-04-21 14:58, philippe joffre skrev: Hi , May you help me I'm looking for the code-source FREEBSD please it's possible to send me the links . Thank you in advance . Best regards Philippe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2011-02-22 17:47, Alokat skrev: On 02/22/11 17:44, Rolf Nielsen wrote: 2011-02-22 17:40, Alokat skrev: Hi, I have changed my shell from csh to bash ... Why? Do you use root as your regular login? But after that I have to call "reboot" like /sbin/reboot. How can I change th

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-02-22 17:40, Alokat skrev: Hi, I have changed my shell from csh to bash ... Why? Do you use root as your regular login? But after that I have to call "reboot" like /sbin/reboot. How can I change that without changing the shell. :) my /root/.profile: PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

Re: Status of UDF driver on FreeBSD?

2011-02-03 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-02-03 22:38, Alexander Best skrev: On Thu Feb 3 11, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Hello, I've never given this any thought, until I recently bought a Blu-ray drive, and realised that I can neither mount commercial Blu-ray discs or watch the films with mplayer. As I understand the problem,

Status of UDF driver on FreeBSD?

2011-02-03 Thread Rolf Nielsen
erely, Rolf Nielsen ___ 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: HPLIP 3.10.9 problems on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-01-26 Thread Rolf Nielsen
t, try one of them. Hm. I just checked the output of my usbconfig, and it also shows no ulpt, though I do have it. And I also checked the GENERIC config file, and it does include ulpt, at least for 8.2-PRERELEASE amd64. So, you may actually have it. But that's still the first thin

Re: How to label a GELI device

2011-01-25 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2011-01-25 19:37, J. Porter Clark skrev: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:28:25PM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: X-Spam-Level: 2011-01-25 19:13, J. Porter Clark skrev: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:29:37PM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong anyone. You need to first label da0s1d

Re: How to label a GELI device

2011-01-25 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-25 19:13, J. Porter Clark skrev: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:29:37PM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong anyone. You need to first label da0s1d e.g. like so glabel label data da0s1d then geli init the labeled device e.g. like so geli init -l 256 -s 4096 label

Re: How to label a GELI device

2011-01-25 Thread Rolf Nielsen
abel/data That will give you a device node called /dev/label/data.eli, that you can newfs and mount. Unfortunately, since you already encrypted da0s1d, you may have to back it up, and restore the data after you've redone it. I had this problem a few years ago, and I had to back

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-19 00:42, Keith Seyffarth skrev: Rolf, Thanks for the info. Are you by any chance overriding CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf? Or perhaps No, /etc/make.conf is just three lines: WITH_CUPS=yes # added by use.perl 2010-12-22 15:53:20 PERL_VERSION=5.10.1 even compiling using a gcc version

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-18 23:56, Keith Seyffarth skrev: OK. This is still being a problem. I've removed Firefox 3.6 from my system and installed Firefox 3.5. Use of menus doesn't cause 3.5 to crash, but it sill has problems. On some web sites, the browser dumps core. For example trying to log in, create an ac

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems [SOLVED]

2011-01-17 Thread Rolf Nielsen
> Anyway, thanks again for the input, > > Rolf Nielsen As you left sendmail and not mention about reconfiguring it I think that you should do it according to Dovecot wiki: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail Maciej I read that, and according to the instructions, it assumes

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems [SOLVED]

2011-01-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-08 13:26, Rolf Nielsen skrev: Hello, I have several e-mail addresses, and to make it easier to read them all, I use fetchmail to get the messages from the servers and deliver them to one local account. And I have a POP3 server running so I can read that local account's mail fro

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-08 16:01, Matthew Seaman skrev: On 08/01/2011 12:26, Rolf Nielsen wrote: So here's what I want to do. 1. Have fetchmail get the messages. Should not be a problem. 2. Have an MTA (is that the right name, I always confuse them) deliver them locally to a maildir. While you ca

[Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread Rolf Nielsen
O, or maybe some pointers? If I've left something out or I need to clarify anything, please let me know. I'll do what I can to help you help me. :) Thanks in advance, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: SD/CF card reader

2010-12-27 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2010-12-28 01:26, Polytropon skrev: ... Still the method of issuing something like # true> /dev/da1 Try # mount /dev/da1 /mnt That makes GEOM taste the card, thus creating the device node(s) for the partition(s) on the card. And as long as you don't reboot, the device node(s) rema

Re: Sorry state of the rsync based CVS,replication

2010-11-14 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
eful (IE, any of the primary mirrors requests it) we can probably rather easily set up rsync access via cvsup-master. That said, I think rsync access is likely not too interesting for most master mirrors as they likely provide access to the repo via CVSup already, so they have cvsup installed a

Re: Can't remove or move file

2010-08-20 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2010-08-20 18:00, Rem P Roberti skrev: This is a new one for me. I converted a YouTube selection using youtube_dl and the file that was created was named -elDeJaPWGg.flv. When I try to rename it, or delete it, I get an error message thus: root@ ~: rm -elDeJaPWGg.flv rm: illegal option -- e usag

Re: mrtg-2.16.2_6,1 does not run with perl-5.12.1_1

2010-08-02 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/8/2 Morgan Wesström > On 2010-08-02 10:49, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > > 2010/8/2 Jon Theil Nielsen > > > >> Hi list > >> > >> After upgrading perl according to UPDATING, I cannot use mrtg anymore. > The > >> error message is: > >&

Re: mrtg-2.16.2_6,1 does not run with perl-5.12.1_1

2010-08-02 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/8/2 Jon Theil Nielsen > Hi list > > After upgrading perl according to UPDATING, I cannot use mrtg anymore. The > error message is: > > Bareword "P_DETACH" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.1/MRTG_lib.pm l

mrtg-2.16.2_6,1 does not run with perl-5.12.1_1

2010-08-01 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
oes not happen, how can I fix it myself? Cheers, Jon -- Jon Theil Nielsen ___ 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: Digital camera for FreeBSD

2010-07-18 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2010-07-18 19:06, Polytropon skrev: On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:21:42 -0400, Robert Ames wrote: If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably MS-DOS

Re: resize freebsd slice

2010-06-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2010-06-12 15:50, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas skrev: i have a problem while i am trying to restore the dump files.. i followed your instructions but when i give "restore -rf /backup/root.dump" i receive the following error: expected next file 188417,got 4 and the output of ls in the /mnt directory

Re: resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2010-06-11 19:17, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas skrev: ok,but if i delete this 2 slices then i will delete my entire system.. then should i have to install it from the beggining,but i don't want to do that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2010-06-11 15:30, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas skrev: hello, in my machine i have gentoo and freebsd installed. i was using gentoo until i installed successfully FBSD,now i want to make my FBSD slice bigger.. i have 4 slices: ad0s1->gentoo ad0s2->linux swap ad0s3->free space (no type) ad0s4->FBSD ad0

Re: diablo-jdk-1.6 firefox plugin... doesn't work

2010-05-26 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2010-05-26 17:02, Neil Short skrev: New installation. having some problems. diablo-jdk-1.6 plugin isn't working in firefox. Some pertinent output: carmen# java -version java version "1.6.0_07" Diablo Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b02) Diablo Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-12 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/12 A. Wright > > > On 2010/5/2, Christopher Key wrote: >> >> frhed. Next write the data back to the disk: >>> >>> dd if=/tmp/hdr of=/dev/da0s2 >>> >> > > On 2010/5/12, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > > obviously this is no

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-12 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/2 Christopher Key > Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > > 2010/5/1 Christopher Key > > > > > >> Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > >> > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have >

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 Christopher Key > Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot > > with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via > Sysinstall > > with 7 partitions: >

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 Polytropon > On Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen > wrote: > > But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel > > (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: > > #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 > > which at least tells me that is ha

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 C. P. Ghost > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen > wrote: > > So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? Just a matter of > > interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. > > Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8)

Fwd: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 Da Rock On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 19:44 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot > > with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via > Sysinstall > > wit

Fwd: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Theil Nielsen Date: 2010/4/30 Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions To: Alberto Mijares 2010/4/30 Alberto Mijares On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jon Theil Nielsen > wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'm running 8.0-Release on

More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, lo

Re: What`s mistake in MYKERNEL?

2010-04-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-04-12 17:24, oleg wrote: Hi all users of Free BSD! I am really hopeing that someone can assist me here. Got some mistake in the course of assemblage kernel. Can`t understand myself, what`s wrong? My system is: FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE-201002 #0: Tue Feb 16 21:05:59 UTC 2010 That tree of src di

Re: What`s mistake in MYKERNEL?

2010-04-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-04-12 17:24, oleg wrote: Hi all users of Free BSD! I am really hopeing that someone can assist me here. Got some mistake in the course of assemblage kernel. Can`t understand myself, what`s wrong? My system is: FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE-201002 #0: Tue Feb 16 21:05:59 UTC 2010 That tree of src di

Re: Tool to produce A5 booklet from A4 pages PS / PDF

2010-04-01 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-04-02 02:27, Polytropon wrote: In order NOT to try to reinvent the wheel, I'd like to ask if anyone knows a tool that does helps to produce a printable and foldable booklet from A4 pages. I'm searching for a tool that scales down and reorders A4 pages (from a document, usually PS or PDF)

Re: Automatic Way to Tell if a FreeBSD system is 64 or 32-bit?

2010-03-16 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-03-16 18:02, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there a FreeBSD command similar to the Linux arch command? I have built a fairly decent Bourne shell script to run just after installing mfsbsd on a target system. It figures out the likely boot drive, formats it and then begins to

kmem_size / arc_max ratio

2010-02-02 Thread Rolf Nielsen
e it? I've had very noticably increased performance with larger arc size, so I would like to set it as high as possible without causing problems for or degradation of other kernel tasks and/or user applications. Please let me know if you need any further inform

Re: Generating normally distributed random numbers.

2010-01-31 Thread Rolf Nielsen
when it comes to math, but strangely I've never programmed computers for it. Thank you for your suggestions. I haven't yet looked too carefully into them, so I haven't decided which approach to use. But your suggestions have given me ideas to work on. T

Generating normally distributed random numbers.

2010-01-30 Thread Rolf Nielsen
, but strangely I've never programmed computers for it. Any help will greatly appreciated. Cheers, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Correcting misconceptions? (was Re: Server set up)

2010-01-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-01-16 04:53, Jon Radel wrote: Rolf Nielsen wrote: Secondly (also just for clarity, I guess), most of your post is OT, as it is basically a reply to my post, and my post was OT as it was simply a reaction to the original poster's mistake of saying Linux and meaning FreeBSD.

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
the one you CC'ed. Secondly (also just for clarity, I guess), most of your post is OT, as it is basically a reply to my post, and my post was OT as it was simply a reaction to the original poster's mistake of saying Linux and meaning FreeBSD. Cheers, Rolf Nielsen P.S. No, I'm

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-01-16 02:42, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:37 PM, wrote: I will be deleting the Window's stuff on the machine How would i SSH to the Linux pc and what software should i install one of the first things you should understand is FreeBSD is Not Linux _

Re: Crontab not working logwatch.pl [FreeBSD 8 stable]

2010-01-13 Thread Rolf Nielsen
emails arrived with is the proof that the script has worked. 2010/1/13 Rolf Nielsen: On 2010-01-13 21:43, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Hi folks, Im having probs when a root crontab located on /var/cron/tabs/root with this content # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp

Re: Crontab not working logwatch.pl [FreeBSD 8 stable]

2010-01-13 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-01-13 21:43, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Hi folks, Im having probs when a root crontab located on /var/cron/tabs/root with this content # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.DUtgfVoBT0 installed on Wed Jan 13 20:08:29 2010) # (Cron version -- $FreeBSD: src/u

Re: zpool upgrade - is it safe?

2010-01-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-01-12 22:57, krad wrote: 2010/1/12 Rolf Nielsen mailto:listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com>> Hi all, I just upgraded to a more recent version of 8.0-STABLE, and I noticed during boot that zfs had changed from version 13 to version 14. Is it safe to run zpool upgrade -

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
On 2010-01-12 22:04, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are bi-endi

zpool upgrade - is it safe?

2010-01-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
and/or booting into singleuser? Rolf Nielsen ___ 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: Burning an audio CD

2009-12-30 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2009-12-30 23:50, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:23:40PM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: On 2009-12-30 23:08, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Today I tried to burn an audio CD. This may actually be the first time I ever did this. I'm sure there are all kinds of GUIey tools,

Re: Burning an audio CD

2009-12-30 Thread Rolf Nielsen
recompile, install and reboot or kldload atapicam as root in the console or an xterm. To automate it, add atapicam_load="YES" to your /boot/loader.conf. Good luck, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: setlocale command is missing

2009-12-25 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Daniel Dvořák wrote: Hi, I updated a mc port to the last one, version 4.7.0pre4 and wanted to run mc, but mc display a warning message that the selected display charset or source codeset does not match one set via locale. I have never seen this message since I am a user of mc. Propably it is so

Re: build 7.x kernel without zfs

2009-12-24 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
he console, and add the listed modules to the MODULES_OVERRIDE. You can also specify that you don't want debug symbols built by removing or commenting out the makeoptions DEBUG=-g line. Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Supressing dd output

2009-12-23 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Noel Jones wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Hello everyone, I'm wondering if there's a way to supress the summary output from dd. I'm working on a backup script, that encrypts the backups, and after encrypting overwrites the unencrypted file several

Supressing dd output

2009-12-23 Thread Rolf Nielsen
e code of dd, but I'd prefer not to have to. Has anyone got any ideas? Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas to all of you, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: FreeBSD boot invalid partition

2009-12-23 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Michel Le Cocq wrote: I just dump a real host and try to restore it on a virtual host under kvm. When booting under KVM i see this : Booting From hard Disk... Invalid partition Invalid partition No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386/Boot Default: 0

Re: [NOT SOLVED]Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Leslie Jensen wrote: You where right! One of them loaded the other so problem solved :-) Thank you! You where right, but it's the wrong order They must be loaded in the reverse order. Sorry This is purely empirical knowledge, and I can't back it up by documentation. If module A

Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Leslie Jensen wrote: On 2009-12-21 17:35, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664&postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style sta

Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664&postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/ I found the answer here: http://sourceforge.net/

Re: Any chance ZFS becoming default?

2009-12-19 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Reko Turja wrote: under Other Kernel: ZFS as default So anyone running 32bit or under 2Gb of memory don't need to bother with FreeBSD anymore after 9.0 RELEASE? Since when does changing the default action imply making the previous default impossible or even difficult? And since when does ad

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-17 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 02:09:58AM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm creating binary files in fortran. Fortran adds 4 byte record delimiters at the beginning and the end of each record, which, in the case of a binary file, is just a

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-17 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm creating binary files in fortran. Fortran adds 4 byte record delimiters at the beginning and the end of each record, which, in the case of a binary file, is just at the beginning and at the end of the file. I need to delete these record delimiters, because the softwa

Re: Native PDF viewer

2009-12-16 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Ed Jobs wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009 05:04, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Hi all, Since I don't have Linux compat layer activated, and I have no need for it, I'd like to ask if anyone can suggest a native PDF viewer (I'm not fond of the idea of installing a compat layer for just

Native PDF viewer

2009-12-16 Thread Rolf Nielsen
l, so if anyone has ideas or can tell me what the pros and cons are for some of those apps, I'd greatly appreciate it. Cheers, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Nvidia amd64 driver (WAS: Root exploit for FreeBSD )

2009-12-13 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 12 December 2009 22:44:54 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 12 December 2009 21:23:00 Rolf Nielsen wrote: Where's that? The Nvidia site says nothing about it yet, and the makefile for x11/nvidia-driver still says ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386. I'

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 12 December 2009 21:23:00 Rolf Nielsen wrote: Where's that? The Nvidia site says nothing about it yet, and the makefile for x11/nvidia-driver still says ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386. I'm eagerly waiting for it, but I can't find anything other than a forum pos

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: Are you sure that OpenBSD has a better record? I found this for loose reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#Security_and_code_auditing I will say that even though on the surface OpenBSD appears to have a better track record security wise I tend to use FreeBSD

Re: make delete-old question

2009-12-09 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Frank Shute wrote: Hi, Successfully upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0 but had my usual problem when jumping major versions with the make delete-old target. The problem being that it asks me to confirm deletion of each lib/file with a "y" and a return. I've found that I never say "n" to any deletion and

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2009-12-09 Thread Rolf Nielsen
RW wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:42:31 -0800 (PST) James Phillips wrote: I sort of followed the discussion as well. There was some disagreement about what "dangreously dedicated" means. Does it mean getting rid of the DOS partition table (slices?) Or, does it mean creating a slice or disks

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-05 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Charlie Kester wrote: On Fri 04 Dec 2009 at 22:38:22 PST Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Michael Powell wrote: Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? Does the less need to be patched in Free

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and "dangerously dedicated" disks

2009-12-04 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
ngful to remove it (e.g. will it make the kernel smaller or have any positive impact on zfs performance)? And should DD disks work except to boot from, or shouldn't they work at all? Sincerely, Rolf Nielsen ___ 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: bash script question

2009-12-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 10:42:10PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:06:34 +0100, Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Why are you using bash? To make a shell script as portable as possible, use /bin/sh. Bash is a third party shell, that isn't included in a

Re: bash script question

2009-12-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
al parameters" section in the sh(1) man page to get the difference between $* and $@ and an explanation as to why I quote the $@). #!/bin/sh mkdir "$@" Cheers, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: ZFS pools of consisting of several mirrors

2009-12-01 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 01), Rolf Nielsen said: In experimenting a bit with ZFS, I, among other things, tried something like this zpool create -R /test test mirror file[01]0 mirror file[01]1 mirror file[01]2 mirror file[01]3 mirror file[01]4 mirror file[01]5 This

ZFS pools of consisting of several mirrors

2009-12-01 Thread Rolf Nielsen
ely, Rolf Nielsen ___ 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: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
re everything else. To skip the config dialogs altogether, specify -DBATCH on the make commandline (-m "-DBATCH" or -M "-DBATCH" to portupgrade to append or prepend the -DBATCH to the make commandline). Cheers, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-q

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
;ve tried the portupgrade approach too, and both have worked well for me. The latter approach is more time consuming, but ensures you have all your ports after the upgrade, while the former approach takes less time and may help get rid of ports you no longer need. Go

Re: Loader does not load after reinstall with previous mirrored disk attached

2009-11-18 Thread Rolf Nielsen
the extra space, I gave it a try. So, like I said, this worked for me, but I can't back my clam, neither by documentation nor reports from others, so I would still recommend backing your data up before issuing gmirror clear. Cheers, Rolf Nielsen

Re: NFS and crossmount

2009-11-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 16 November 2009 06:10:23 Patrik Usher wrote: > I'm chaning fileserver to a FreeBSD 7.2 from my old linux and can't find > how to define the option "crossmnt" (crossmount) for NFS. > > Does anyone know if it's supported under FreeBSD 7 and if so, how to > define it ? I don't believe a si

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Freminlins wrote: 2009/10/30 Adam Vande More Where's your config files, your errors logs, your stats? I am not going to reply to you after this because you are blinkered. I'm not going to waste my time with you. I've given you more

Re: Failure to do netinstall

2009-10-30 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 30 October 2009 03:12:29 Vadim Maksimenko wrote: > I have faced an unpleasant fact that your netinstall ability of 7.2 > RELEASE and 8.0-RC2 are dead. My network card is being identified and > initialized properly (an old 3com980), it gets DHCP setup (IP, gateway, DNS > info is ok), but..

PAM and xdm woes

2009-10-27 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
F file (perhaps I've missed something important in the kernel?) Any help appreciated. Sincerely, Rolf Nielsen ___ 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: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-02 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Where do I vote to have them continue forever not creating a FreeBSD version of that crap? -

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