Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-09 Thread Mike Brown
Eduardo Morras wrote: > [...] uname -a should give the correct answer. Has uname other utility than > show information about the operating system implementation? No, and it must > be accurate. That's what I thought, but when I asked about it here last year, I was told that this is the way thing

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-08 Thread Mike Brown
alexus wrote: > ok, I just did fetch & install and got bumped from p5 to p9 > > # uname -a > FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11 > 19:47:58 UTC 2012 > r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > amd64 > # > > can I take it all the way t

Re: How to ask a DNS resolver listening on a different port than the tcp/udp 53

2013-09-28 Thread Mike.
On 9/28/2013 at 7:16 PM Laurent SALIN wrote: |Le 28.09.2013 18:32, Terje Elde a écrit : |> Not sure if I misunderstood what you're trying to do, but the way I |recall it, you have two boxes, one running with one recursive and one |authoritative nameserver, and you wanted a second box to quey the

Re: Just wanted to say "Thanks" to Polytropon

2013-09-26 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:42:15 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: > A few weeks ago I asked about mouse trails. Polytropon suggested xeyes. I > have found it excellent, and have had no trouble whatsoever with it. > > It has made my life so much easier. Thanks, Polytropon! > > __

Re: dangerously dedicated physical disks.

2013-09-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 16:16:17 - atar wrote: > Hi there!! > > During the reading of the FreeBSD handbook, I've encountered at the term > 'dangerously dedicated' regarding physical disks and the author of this > chapter in the FreeBSD handbook didn't think this term need more clarity. > s

Re: learn

2013-08-01 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:21:34 +0100 (BST) Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:29:25 +0200 > >From: herbert langhans > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: Re: learn > > >The handbook is a monster, even technically interested people get lost > >there. You know that, cor

Re: Unable to access http://sane-project.org/

2013-08-01 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 01 Aug 2013 11:58:01 Jerry wrote: > Not really a FreeBSD problem; however, I was wondering if anyone else > had been unable to access http://sane-project.org/ in the last 24 hours? http://www.isup.me/ is a useful site for instantly checking this sort of thing. -- Mike

Re: Saving scanned document

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 23 Jul 2013 23:37:45 Jerry wrote: > . There is a application that controls printing, > scanning, faxing and copying but that is only available on a Windows or > Mac machine. Might it work with wine? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-

Exim has stopped using SpamAssassin

2013-07-16 Thread Mike Clarke
e-installed Exim and SpamAssassin using the same make options as before to see if that had any effect but still no joy. I've set SAEximDebug to 1 in sa-exim.conf but there's still nothing in the logs to help. Any suggestions where I shou

Re: resolvconf.conf in 9.1

2013-07-15 Thread Mike.
On 7/14/2013 at 11:45 AM Mike. wrote: |I am trying to figure out and understand the config file |resolvconf.conf. The man page is a bit on the sketchy side, and I see |no reference for resolvconf.conf in the Handbook. Most of what google |finds looks like it is Linux-oriented, and that seems to

resolvconf.conf in 9.1

2013-07-14 Thread Mike.
I am trying to figure out and understand the config file resolvconf.conf. The man page is a bit on the sketchy side, and I see no reference for resolvconf.conf in the Handbook. Most of what google finds looks like it is Linux-oriented, and that seems to be an entirely different config structure

[Solved] Error upgrading sysutils/nepomuk-core - Could not find parser plugin for encoding trig

2013-07-13 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 12 Jul 2013 18:15:18 Mike Clarke wrote: > Could anyone advise how to get round this problem? > > [ 3%] Generating nie.h, nie.cpp > cd /usr/ports/sysutils/nepomuk-core/work/.build/libnepomukcore && > /usr/local/bin/onto2vocabularyclass --name NIE --encoding trig

Error upgrading sysutils/nepomuk-core - Could not find parser plugin for encoding trig

2013-07-12 Thread Mike Clarke
r code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/nepomuk-core/work/.build. *** [do-build] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/nepomuk-core. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: UEFI Secure Boot

2013-07-08 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 02:31:40 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:21:28 + (UTC), jb wrote: > > I hope FreeBSD (and other OSs) luminaries, devs and users will find a way > > not > > to harm themselves. > > A massive problem I (personally) have is that with Restricted Boot > (this

Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!

2013-07-06 Thread Mike C.
On 07/03/13 01:30, Mike C. wrote: > On 06/23/13 23:57, CeDeROM wrote: >> Hey :-) For my Dell laptop the backlight is controlled by hardware, >> unlike sound keys where you can assign them to use >> xf86audiovolumeup/down (or similar) to interact with mixer. I would &g

Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!

2013-07-02 Thread Mike C.
On 06/23/13 23:57, CeDeROM wrote: > > Hey :-) For my Dell laptop the backlight is controlled by hardware, > unlike sound keys where you can assign them to use > xf86audiovolumeup/down (or similar) to interact with mixer. I would > search for automatic backlight hothey that would block manual contro

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-26 Thread Mike Brown
I wrote: > The main problem this time is that I'm not so lucky with the password files, > because for 8.4, freebsd-update has fetched new, stock .db files to put in > /etc. Whoa, sorry, I misspoke here. freebsd-update asked me, after the merges, to approve unspecified differences in pwd.db a

Re: Hello

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:56:59 +1000 julius wrote: > Which BSD for a user desktop ??!. > I all ready have Linux mint but I like to try again, in the past I have > use it but no luck in dual booting system with windows and I have try to > follow youtube BSD users that gave instructions on the BSD

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 15:29, Eugene wrote: > I do not quite understand. Is the freebsd-update upgrade process > completely broken? IMHO it is partially broken; I'm not doing anything special. How broken it is depends on what's getting changed. Most of what the system is designed to do, it in

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
> I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to the latest minor version > (from 8.3-RELEASE to 8.4-RELEASE). > > I'm surprised that the merge handling system isn't more robust. When > upgrading > the old way, from source, I was used to using mergemaster to handle any > merges that couldn't

Re: freebsd-update percentage indicators - what are they, why are they so random?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
> Fetching 1 metadata files... 70.5% > done. > 70.5% > 70.5% > 74.2% > 74.2% > 81.7% > 81.7% > 70.5% I think this is a result of having "-v" in my GZIP environment variable. I always forget about my GZIP and BZIP2 variables. I should've known. So, never mind about that. ___

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Mike.
On 6/24/2013 at 4:05 PM Arthur Chance wrote: |On 06/24/13 14:23, Robert Huff wrote: |> |> During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed |> that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently |> modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. |> It is

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:23:10 -0400 Robert Huff wrote: > > During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed > that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently > modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. > It is my understanding that file gets

Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-22 Thread Mike Brown
I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to the latest minor version (from 8.3-RELEASE to 8.4-RELEASE). I'm surprised that the merge handling system isn't more robust. When upgrading the old way, from source, I was used to using mergemaster to handle any merges that couldn't be done automat

freebsd-update percentage indicators - what are they, why are they so random?

2013-06-22 Thread Mike Brown
I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to the latest minor release. At a couple points in the process, I get weird status indicators (percentages) showing me that something is happening: Fetching 1 metadata files... 70.5% done. 70.5% 70.5% 74.2% 74.2% 81.7% 81.7% 70.5% Inspecting

Re: Setting a locale globally

2013-06-15 Thread Mike.
On 6/14/2013 at 3:46 PM staticsafe wrote: |On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0400, Mike. wrote: |> |> |> I would like to set the locale of my 9.1 server to |> |>LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" |> |> |> globally, i.e., put the locale entry in one file, and then

Re: Setting a locale globally

2013-06-14 Thread Mike.
On 6/14/2013 at 9:12 PM Polytropon wrote: |On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:13:34 -0400, Mike. wrote: |> I would like to set the locale of my 9.1 server to |> |>LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" |> |> |> globally, i.e., put the locale entry in one file, and then have the |> loca

Setting a lcoale globally

2013-06-14 Thread Mike.
I would like to set the locale of my 9.1 server to LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" globally, i.e., put the locale entry in one file, and then have the locale propagate as I go into other shells and run various scripts. I have spent some quality time with google, and the best I have been about to a

Sound cards

2013-06-02 Thread mike miskulin
Hi all - I may be building a system which does not have any onboard sounds thus need to find either a pci-e or usb solution which will work with FreeBSD. I've combed newegg and have to say I never realized how crappy the sound cards have become - that used to be a big thing back in the day! Could

New LGA1150 / C222, C224 Xeons

2013-06-02 Thread mike miskulin
Hi - I am trying to replace an aging workstation on its last legs and have been waiting on the release of the new Intel hardware. They did so this weekend and I am leaning towards the E3-1245V3 over the vanilla i7s because of the extended page support for virutualization. So.. before I get kne

Re: Keeping my system up to date with CTM or subversion?

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Clarke
Notifications mailing list <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security-notifications> you'll get email notifications when security parches are available. These give details of the background and impact of the vulnerability along with instructions of how to obtain and app

9.1 - new install questions

2013-05-19 Thread Mike.
I just installed 9.1 on a clean disk. The dmesg is at the end of this message. For the network configuration, I selected DHCP for IPv4 and SLAAC for IPv6. When I boot the PC, it appears that dhclient tries to load twice. Why does it try to load the second time? >From the console log: May 1

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Mike.
On 4/25/2013 at 4:47 AM Polytropon wrote: |On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:32:17 -0400, Mike. wrote: |> If uname -r [-a] does not give the proper version of the OS, then it is |> either a bug, or the documentation for uname should be changed. |> Currently, the man page for uname gives the followi

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Mike.
On 4/24/2013 at 5:07 PM Mike Brown wrote: |Da Rock wrote: |> sysctl kern.version | |For me, that's the same info as in uname -a. | |Try this: | |grep -v # /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh | head -4 = If uname -r [-a] does not give the proper version of the OS, then it is eith

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Mike Brown
Da Rock wrote: > sysctl kern.version For me, that's the same info as in uname -a. Try this: grep -v # /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh | head -4 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: perl-after-upgrade mistakenly thinks nothing needs to be done

2013-04-11 Thread Mike Brown
Thanks for the replies; I really appreciate it. Alexandre wrote: > Have you followed steps described in perl-after-upgrade man page? > $ man perl-after-upgrade Yes, except for the last step (deleting old CONTENTS backups), since the previous steps didn't seem to do what they should. As I said,

perl-after-upgrade mistakenly thinks nothing needs to be done

2013-04-11 Thread Mike Brown
ing in the 5.12.4 directory and are not getting moved over to the 5.16.2 one. This naturally breaks everything depending on those modules. What's going wrong? Sorry if this is a novice question. Please let me know what I need to check. Thanks, Mike _

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Mike.
On 4/10/2013 at 3:39 PM Michael Powell wrote: |Mike. wrote: | |[snip] |> |> |> Additionally, for me, building from ports for me has tended to pull in |> many, many X-windows support files when they are not needed. |> |> Specifically, I run a non-windowing system using

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Mike.
On 4/10/2013 at 11:39 AM Brett Glass wrote: |For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long |waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating |small systems. But even though the development server security |breach is now long past, there are no published bina

Re: [Bulk] Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:42:52 -0400 Fbsd8 wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > > The next test is to check the clock in GMT. > > I expect it to be off, which means that the timezone rules are not the > > problem. If this is not the case, the diagnosis gets more interesting. > > > > > > And ho

Re: Problems Printing

2013-03-05 Thread Mike Clarke
/lp, /usr/bin/lpq and /usr/bin/lprm -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: mpd5 vs lt2pd vs sl2tps

2013-02-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
0 endpoints at a time with ~ 300Mb of traffic. We use FreeRADIUS for backend authentication. The config and CLI are not my favorite, but generally I dont find myself making many changes. ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net

split-logfile

2013-02-11 Thread Mike.
I've made the switch from apache to nginx for all the web servers I run. One thing that was missing from the nginx installs was the perl script that is used in apache-land to split a single server access file into separate files for each virtual host - split-logfile. While I could have continued

Portmaster runs make config three times for some ports

2013-02-09 Thread Mike Clarke
/usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc # Never search for stale distfiles to delete (-D) DONT_SCRUB_DISTFILES=Dopt # # Do not prompt the user for failed backup package creation PM_IGNORE_FAILED_BACKUP_PACKAGE=pm_ignore_failed_backup_package Any ideas how I can avoid this happening. -- Mike C

Re: zoneedit.com

2013-02-04 Thread Mike.
On 2/4/2013 at 9:48 AM Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: |Hi, | |I had a similar issue about my emails not getting forwarded by Zoneedit. |Now I am using the Google SMTP server to collect the emails for my domain. |Maybe I should also switch the DNS to another service. I need my router to |be able to updat

Re: zoneedit.com

2013-02-04 Thread Mike.
On 2/3/2013 at 3:04 PM Fbsd8 wrote: | [snip] | |After reviewing zoneedit new website looks like they are no longer free |and there now in the domain register business = Zoneedit was purchased by Dotster a while ago (few months? couple of years?) If you look at an legacy zonee

Re: Starting with ZFS on fresh install

2013-01-28 Thread Mike Clarke
le's ZFS Administration Guide - http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/zfsadmin.pdf -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: KDE Mouse Themes

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Clarke
a "themes" setting according to the KDE > documentation; however, there is none. I have checked under every item > setting in "system settings" for one. Try System Settings - Workspace Appearance - Cursor Theme -- Mike Clarke __

Re: Cronjob Cvsup -> What?

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Clarke
is may be complicated if any of /usr/ports, > /usr/ports/distfiles or /usr/ports/packages are on a separate partition > or ZFS. I suppose the best approach with ZFS would be to make a snapshot immediately prior to running portsnap. -- Mike Clarke __

Re: [Bulk] Re: sh script ?

2013-01-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:16:54 -0500 Fbsd8 wrote: > Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jan 24 12:11:42 2013 > >> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:07:40 -0500 > >> From: Fbsd8 > >> To: FreeBSD questions > >> Subject: sh script ? > >> > >> I get this message [: 10.0.10

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-18 Thread Mike Clarke
me I tried it out about a year ago. The most noticeable deterioration in performance is that it's much slower to start up than 3.5 was and kmail takes much longer to open a mail "folder" than it used to. -- Mike Clarke __

Re: [Bulk] FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT) Georg Reilinger wrote: > Hi everybody, > > > My issue is the following: > > As far as I know, FreeBSD has completely dropped support for KDE 3.5. > > Whether it's the ports, or the pkg_add precompiled binaries. Am I right in > > assuming this? >

Re: 9.1 won't install - GEOM/GRAID issues

2013-01-08 Thread Mike.
On 1/8/2013 at 7:51 AM Warren Block wrote: |On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Mike. wrote: | |> On 1/2/2013 at 12:11 PM Fbsd8 wrote: |> |> I tried to run the dd commands... |> |> Using the LiveFS disc for FreeBSD 9.1, I got some manner of permission |> error, indicating that something wo

Re: 9.1 won't install - GEOM/GRAID issues

2013-01-08 Thread Mike.
On 1/2/2013 at 12:11 PM Fbsd8 wrote: |Michael Powell wrote: |> Mike. wrote: |> [snip] |>> Thanks for the reply. The disk in question has never been used for |>> RAID, so if there is RAID metadata on the disk, I do not know how it |>> got there. The disk is (I belie

Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread Mike Woods
Quoting herbert langhans : All I use is Adblock Plus. With the automatic updates I havent seen any ad for month.. I'll second this endorsement, i've been using it for a good few years now and I "just works" :) ---- Mike Woods Full

Re: 9.1 won't install - GEOM/GRAID issues

2013-01-02 Thread Mike.
On 1/2/2013 at 2:38 PM Fabian Keil wrote: |"Mike." wrote: | |> My FreeBSD server had been running fine, no issues. This evening I |> tried to update it to 9.1. I don't "update in place", I update by |> wiping the prior version and letting the new ver

9.1 won't install - GEOM/GRAID issues

2013-01-01 Thread Mike.
My FreeBSD server had been running fine, no issues. This evening I tried to update it to 9.1. I don't "update in place", I update by wiping the prior version and letting the new version have its way with the disk. Well, 9.1 has issues with my system (dmesg is at the end of this message). When

Re: static ip address and ifconfig

2012-12-29 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:13:32 -0500 Fbsd8 wrote: > I don't have static ip address so I can not find out for myself. > Lets say I am a company that my ISP has assigned us > 25 static ip address. > > When I issue the ifconfig command what will it show me? > > Just the single primary static ip addr

ixgbe ALTQ support on 9.1-RELEASE

2012-12-27 Thread Mike Hix
not support altq altq(4) lists ixgbe under the SUPPORTED DEVICES secction. Is there some alternative to altq, or is there some other knob/sysctl/step I'm missing? -- Mike Hix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: PPPoE

2012-12-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
hclient.conf set it so it uses a default IP that does not have 0/8 ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/

Re: Gnome

2012-12-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 18:36:23 + ren_...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hello, I was wondering if you can use Gnome to run your FreeBSD server, > instead of using let's say Direct Admin ? > If so, is there any literature on it ? > Thank you, > Sam Fasciano > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > ___

Re: what replaces javaws? using icedtea-web and openjdk6.

2012-11-30 Thread Mike Clarke
Nov 09:32 /usr/local/bin/javaws@ -> /usr/local/bin/javavm curlew:/tmp% pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/javavm /usr/local/bin/javavm was installed by package javavmwrapper-2.4_2 -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread mike miskulin
> What port was that ? > > I've never had a *single* problem due to using amd64 over i386. Well I have to apologize, I've reached senility! My past bad experience was with netbsd amd64 afterwhich I bailed and went to FreeBSD i386 (thanks google). But I guess the basic question remains - are t

i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread mike miskulin
About to build a replacement system for an older i386 setup. A few years ago I had tried the amd64 port on it and found it was frustrating as things that just worked on i386 did not on amd64. IIRC ports were large annoyance too. Now I have a new system with 8GB, etc,etc and wonder if I am best

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-27 Thread Mike Clarke
way # script /path/to/usbstick/logfile # gpart show ada0 # gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0 # gpart show ada0 # Then /path/to/usbstick/logfile will contain a full log of your commands and output showing the partition information for ada0 before and after creating the new p

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Mike Clarke
uot; should only be used interactively; for non-interactive use, you should use "portsnap cron" "portsnap extract" is only needed for initialising your portsnap-maintained ports tree. So, after your initial portsnap run, what you need in your c

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

2012-11-20 Thread Mike Meyer
Zach Leslie wrote: >> http://www.fossil-scm.org/ l >> >> I'm not fossil user, but it's BSD licensed in written in C. >Also, this particular tool bails out on the unix philosophy, with its >web >gui, ticket tracker etc. Do one thing. Do it well. I would argue that git bails on that as well, b

packge options

2012-11-17 Thread Mike.
How do I find out what options were used when the pre-built packages were built? For example, say I want to install the Postfix package, how can I find out if TLS support is included in the package? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: Mounting SD card.

2012-11-15 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 15 November 2012 02:06:02 Warren Block wrote: > true > /dev/da0 > > is a little shorter and safer.  The search keywords for this are "GEOM > retaste" or "retasting". Thanks Warren. I wasn't aware of that option, it's certainly much neate

Re: Mounting SD card.

2012-11-14 Thread Mike Clarke
/dev/da0 count=0 That's what works here. See the thread starting with <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-February/212109.html> -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: GELI Swap password on boot

2012-11-08 Thread Mike Barnard
s failed on all attempts. But when I changed the ordering, creating the boot loader partition first, then swap next (ada0p2) then the boot partition after, ada0p3, all works well. I have no idea why that would be a problem though. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember

Re: GELI Swap password on boot

2012-11-07 Thread Mike Barnard
On 8 November 2012 03:30, Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Mike Barnard > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE and I am experiencing some strange > > behaviour with GELI. > > > > Every time I boot up

Re: 9.1-RC2: clang can no longer build a kernel that boots

2012-10-28 Thread Mike Cui
Let me clarify. If I build the 9.1-RC2 kernel using the clang binary from 9.0-RELEASE, it boots fine. On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Mike Cui wrote: > I'm seeing that on 9.1-RC2 (i386), clang can no longer build a kernel > that boots. Any kernel I build would get stuck at "T

9.1-RC2: clang can no longer build a kernel that boots

2012-10-28 Thread Mike Cui
I'm seeing that on 9.1-RC2 (i386), clang can no longer build a kernel that boots. Any kernel I build would get stuck at "Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec". However, building the same kernel with gcc has no problems. Also, if I build the kernel with clang from 9.0-RELEASE, it also works fine. I tr

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-28 Thread Mike Clarke
keep doing even more firefighting in the future. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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-update IDS

2012-10-27 Thread Mike Clarke
looking at different versions of the system or do I have a problem? Considering the very short time interval between installing the system and checking IDS I'm quite confident my system hasn't been hacked from outside. -- Mike Clarke ___

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-27 Thread Mike Clarke
ct the mapping to apply for only specified executables. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: ipfw headers

2012-10-23 Thread Mike Bristow
ut the source you are trying to compile on a web page, and tell us where we can find it. Also tell us the exact command you are running. -- Mike Bristow m...@urgle.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: Gimp - problem opening images using URI's

2012-10-23 Thread Mike Clarke
000,0x1,0x0) = 4096 (0x1000) pread(0x7,0x808c68000,0x1000,0x2000,0x1,0x0) = 4096 (0x1000) pread(0x7,0x808c69000,0x1000,0x3000,0x1,0x0) = 4096 (0x1000) close(7) = 0 (0x0) socket(PF_LOCAL,SOCK_STREAM,0) = 7 (0x7) stat("/tmp/fam-mike",0x7fffc900) ERR#2

Gimp - problem opening images using URI's

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Clarke
Gimp has recently become unable to open images using URI's, e.g.- -- curlew:/home/mike% gimp -c "http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/beastie.png"; Failed to connect to socke

Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2)

2012-10-14 Thread Mike Clarke
S then there are other possibilities like using sysutils/beadm from ports <http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=175325> to manage multiple boot environments in a single partition. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: editing pdf files

2012-10-14 Thread Mike Clarke
lected pages. You might then be able to extract the text with some OCR software. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebs

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-10-04 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:36:19 +0400 Австин Ким wrote: > Hi, all, > > > Paul Kraus writes: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:18 PM, wrote: > > > > > >> It's a real shame Unix doesn't have a really good tool for comparing > > >> two directory trees. You can use 'diff -r' (even on binaries), bu

Re: stop and start X server in FreeBSD 9.0

2012-10-02 Thread Mike Clarke
conf. Just make your desired changes to xorg.conf, then log out of kde and switch to a console as root and killall kdm-bin. This will stop and start X as well as kdm. You can do all this from a terminal window in your kde session but I prefer to logout cleanly instead

Re: older version of programs in freebsd

2012-09-30 Thread Mike Clarke
(like the xzgv image viewer where the last usable version > > has been xzgv-0.8_9). > > Thank you. > I will try it. If you use portsnap to keep your ports up to date then you can add a "REFUSE" line in /etc/portsnap.conf to stop new versions of

PC-BSD 9.0 in VirtualBox

2012-09-27 Thread Mike Jeays
I have been running PC-BSD 9.0 with the KDE interface in a VirtualBox VM, and notice that it uses CPU resources when idle, driving up my CPU temperature about 15 degrees on an otherwise idle machine. (It is an Intel i5 quad four). Is this to be expected? _

Re: LSI 9750-4i (tws based cards)

2012-09-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 9/12/2012 3:30 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with these cards ? We are looking for a > controller that has a little more gas than the twa based cards which > have been very reliable and stable for us on FreeBSD. I dont have any > experience with 3ware

Re: Questions about ZFS Tuning

2012-09-17 Thread Mike Clarke
ICE: Prefetch is disabled by default if less than 4GB of RAM is present; to enable, add "vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0" to /boot/loader.conf." Since you have 2GB RAM then it's best to leave things as they are with prefetch disabled. -- Mike Clarke _

LSI 9750-4i (tws based cards)

2012-09-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
m yet ? ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:55:57 -0700 Waitman Gobble wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On 12/09/2012 00:14, Polytropon wrote: > > > > % cksum > > > > > > > > and could obtain a checksum - so

Re: RFC 2385 TCP MD5 support on FreeBSD8.3

2012-09-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
ot;# Name of config file for setkey cd to /usr/ports/net/quagga and make install in your bgp config, the peer needs a line like neighbor 192.168.134.29 password HelloMD5 ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sente

Re: what is the best kind of KVM Switch?

2012-08-12 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 12 August 2012 02:41:57 Bob Hall wrote: > I'm currently on my third year > with an Aten and have had no problems. I've been using a cheap Aten CS-64A 4 Port Mini KVM for nearly 6 years now with no problems. -- Mike Clarke ___

Re: what is the best kind of KVM Switch?

2012-08-11 Thread Mike.
On 8/11/2012 at 12:18 PM Gary Kline wrote: |guys, | | can any of you with hardware background tell me which are | the better KVM makes? about three weeks ago my "Belkin | soho" 4-port kvm switch started going flakey on port #1. | | I ordered a new one, same make//model exc

Re: Webpage screenshot

2012-08-05 Thread Mike Clarke
the Pixlr Grabber extension for Firefox. You can specify the entire page, an area defined with the mouse or just the visible area and save the result to a .PNG file or copy it to the clipboard to paste directly into the Gimp. -- Mike Clarke ___

Re: Nasty reference loop in login.conf

2012-07-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Jakub Lach wrote: > Initially dropped to single user mode, but when > I saw ED(1) I reconsidered and dusted off trusty > LiveCD :) > > Thanks. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Nasty-reference-loop-in-login-

Re: ppp connection goes down - requires reboot

2012-07-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
et rid of the 209.161.205.12 line. Typically your ISP will assign you the static IP out of RADIUS and you dont need to specify it. ---Mike > > I shutdown ppp and restart it with no luck. I shutoff modem and > reboot it and wait for connection light to go solid - still no go. >

Re: How to mirror the FreeBSD OS on two disks

2012-07-12 Thread Mike Clarke
zpool export zroot zpool import -o cachefile=/var/tmp/zpool.cache zroot And then step 10 after running zfs receive cp /var/tmp/zpool.cache /mnt/boot/zfs/zpool.cache Are these steps needed when restoring from a snapshot? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-que

Re: umodem/ppp/3g stopped working after update from 9.0-RELEASE to 9-STABLE

2012-06-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
nges in 9-STABLE that broke it? Did it perhaps create more serial ports for you that were not there before ? What is the output of ls -l /dev/cuaU* ---Mike > > Here is more detailed info: > http://freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=169459 > > Regards, > vermaden --

Re: 32 bit to 64 bit

2012-06-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
the apps from the ports, and then migrate the customer data over. Even if the box is remote, it might be easier to ship the drive there and have someone change it out for you. ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:13:00 -0500 Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Al Plant wrote: > > > > I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to > > transfer some archives to new media. > > > > I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Z

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