On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:45:08 -0500
Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My Thinkpad got instable, and I haven't figured out yet whether it's
> hardware, FreeBSD's RELENG_6 kernel or X11/DRI. Anyway...
>
> I always go through a foreground fsck, no matter whether the thing
> paniced or had
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:58:14 +0100
Miguel Giral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> also, a side question. When attaching a geli provider, i get this:
>
> GEOM_ELI: Device ad4s3.eli created.
> GEOM_ELI: Encryption: Blowfish-CBC 256
> GEOM_ELI: Crypto: software
> WARNING: Expected rawoffset 14548865
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:15:51 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is worth noting, however, that there are usually fairly easy ways
> to work with huge lists of command-line arguments. Instead of writing
> things like this, for example:
>
> for file in *.ogg ; do
>
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:08:31 -0500
David T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am worried that I installed the 64 bit version of FreeBSD with an
> amd kernel on an Intel i386 box.
> Is there something wrong when I see the following:
Intel produce CPUs that are compatible with amd64. If yours wasn'
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:14:45 -0800 (PST)
Lone Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But according to Wikipedia, FreeBSD is able to run Linux compatible
> software without any problems (exception for Linux Kernel 2.6) I
> can't run Linux software on FreeBSD?
Linux emulation is for running Linux bina
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:02:45 -0700
Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:32:16PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> >
> > One could mount an md filesystem and then use that as swap. That
> > way you wouldn't need to use any disc space. As a plus, the
> > performance wo
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:52:21 +
Frank Shute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:07:12PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there any command line tool in FreeBSD for downloading a video
> > from a URL like
> > http://video.google.com/googleplayer.sw
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:55:28 +
RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:19:21 -0500
> Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > I could imagine screwing-up the operation of rc.shutdown w
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:19:21 -0500
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I could imagine screwing-up the operation of rc.shutdown with a
> > syntax error, but I don't see how I could stop it being run at all.
> > As I
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:24:09 -0700
cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are multiple bittorrent clients in ports like net-p2p/mldonkey,
Best avoid this one as it's mainly an eD2k client with a other
protocols like bittorent tacked-on.
If you have Opera, it can do Bittorrent downloads itsel
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:02:15 +
RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Afer putting in some extra logging to check something, I've just
> noticed that my rc.d scripts are not being run at shutdown.
>
> By way of confirmation, my entropy file, which is written out by
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:26:00 +0530
"lokesh babu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi
>
> i want to know how to stop a service from a script
> this is the sample script to stop and start a service in linux,when i
> kept faststart then starting a service is working in freebsd
> similarly i want to know
Afer putting in some extra logging to check something, I've just noticed
that my rc.d scripts are not being run at shutdown.
By way of confirmation, my entropy file, which is written out by an
rc.d script, has not been written to for a week (I shut-down most
nights). I don't recall doing anythin
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:22:39 +
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA256
>
> RW wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:19:48 +0530
> > "navneet Upadhyay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
>
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:19:48 +0530
"navneet Upadhyay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> After putting my script to /etc/rc.d , it gets executed at
> startup and the parameter passed to the script is *faststart .*
> *I want the same script to be executed when system shuts down , how
> can i d
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:45:14 -0800
"Eli Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently installed FreeBSD 7.0 RC-1 on my hobby system,
>..
> performance seems to degrade whenever i'm compiling
> things (like, performing a buildworld, installing from ports, etc)
> which manifests itself as considerab
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:09:50 +
Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I personally much prefer scripts in rc.d because it's much easier to
> migrate than crontabs, and if I never use a crontab I always know
> where to look.
>
> It looks to me like you shouldn't be starting the demon as us
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:55:12 +0100
Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've seen some complicated examples on this thread, and want to
> suggest a simple one:
>
> 1. create a regular shell script in /etc/rc.d, n
>..
> A more semantically pure example (and the one that's preferred if your
> s
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:52:26 +0100
"Ivan Voras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 06/02/2008, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > (for example: "/etc/rc.d/myscript")
> > > 2. chmod a+x the script
> > > 3. you're done.
> > >
> > > This will work for the recent versions of FreeBSD (you did
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:12:00 +0100
"Wouter Oosterveld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't find this in the FreeBSD handbook (not in
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html
> anyway). Would that be a documentation bug? If not, which piece of
> documentation should
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:12:27 +
Mike Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After running a 90 hour portupgrade job on my current Duron 1600
> based system I've persuaded myself that a hardware upgrade is due.
>
> I'm contemplating building a system around an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ CPU.
> I'm not into
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:13:22 -0800
"Jason C. Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote:
> > I'm having troubles updating my buildworld and i've had troubles
> > narrowing it down on google.
> >
> > My question is:
> >
> > Is there any way i could update the system in the st
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:05:04 +
Mike Bristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Note that you can use UFS (and other filesystems labeling) too: for
> example. 'newfs -L bobs_disk' will cause the device containing it to
> appear as /dev/ufs/bobs_disk.
For an existing filesystem you'll need to use
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:49:29 +0100
Giorgio Valoti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 20/gen/08, at 01:22, RW wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:35:42 +0100
> > Giorgio Valoti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >> I’ve
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:25:36 +0400 (GST)
Rakhesh Sasidharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought this should be easy but its not working ... :(
>
> I have a USB disk /dev/da0. That's got a GELI key. I also have an
> external hard-disk with partitions /dev/da1s1[a-f]. All GELI
> encrypt
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:13:26 +0100
"Zbigniew Szalbot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which lines should I delete and which leave intact?
> This one here is short but there are some other where the changes
> apply to quite a few lines. I have trouble finding out how to "accept
> the new versions"?
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:42:57 +0100
"Zbigniew Szalbot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Encouraged by an apparent ease of use of FreeBSD update utility to go
> to 6.3 I decided to perform the update on an office machine, too. I
> issued:
>
> $ sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:35:42 +0100
Giorgio Valoti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I’ve noticed that using the -P option with portupgrade, which should
> try to fetch the binary version of a package rarely works. Most of
> the times it tries to fetch the package from the freebsd site, it
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:38:27 -0800
"Jason C. Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's interesting to note that Gutmann's earlier work said, loosely
> "If you do this, you should be fairly certain you data is
> unrecoverable." He now says, "A few passes of random data is as good
> as can be expect
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:59:44 -0800
"Jason C. Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gutmann method might be excessive but any software that uses it shows
> a seriousness about security.
Gutmann himself regards the continued use of his method as "Voodoo"
Gutmann's paper was about wiping the kind o
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:30:15 -0500
Schiz0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2008 2:13 PM, Wojciech Puchar
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Does anybody have an idea when 7.0 will be released? It looks
> > > like the schedule hasn't been updated, and it was scheduled for
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:48:44 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> growfs is for people that like challenges ;)
>
> i have to use it growing 800GB filesystem to 1400GB, finally (after
> patching it a bit) i did it, but root directory was destroyed (no
> idea why). all subdirs
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:59:04 +
Dead Line <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello People..
>
> I recently have noticed something!
> Im installing FreeBSD 6.2R fresh install, When im downloading
> anything using the ports, The download speed appear as it is 33 K or
> 32 K! In fact im on
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:17:13 +0100
"文鳥" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> is there any way to securely follow the STABLE branch of FreeBSD, e.g.
> a cryptographically signed distribution method like portsnap? Afaik,
> the usual update methods (CVSup, etc.) do not include any
> authentic
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:35:56 -0500
Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I may be missing what you want, but I try CDing to the directory
> and then doing the du -hs *eg
> cd /tmp
> du -hs *
>
> It seems to get it when naming the directory doesn't.
Personally I tend to use "du -hd
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 06:16:59 -0700
Modulok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Seeing the thread about flash with mozilla, I thought, "a flash plugin
> with opera would be cool." Last night I tried to get flash working
> with opera. I failed. With native opera, I cannot get any plugins to
> work. Here is
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 01:06:42 -0500
"Aryeh Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/4/08, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:53:18 -0500
> > "Lyle Scott III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I don'
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:53:18 -0500
"Lyle Scott III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't have much experience patching anything, really.
>
> I was told by the port security/ipsec-tools to patch the kernel if i
> wanted to use nat-transversals.
>
> they provide me with
> http://vanhu.free.fr/FreeB
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:13:28 -0800 (PST)
Eugen Udma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to install FreeBSD on a laptop with 4 GB of RAM and a
> hard disk of 100 GB. Should I waste 8 GB for a swap partition,
> as it is recommended in the handbook?
Probably not. The twice the ram rule is for people
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:42:14 -0600
Joe in MPLS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having issues when multiple clients try to access the same user's
> mailbox. Typically the TREO will do a scheduled check for new mail
> while Thunderbird has it already open. Research indicates that this
> is a limit
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:04:07 -0400
"Victor Subervi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the comments. It's a serious project. It appears that no
> one has yet done anything substantial in open source for translation,
> which is a $12 billion/yr industry.
If I were you, I'd look into what lang
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:40:25 +0100
"Warren Head" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2007/12/29, Eric Osterweil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> >
> > Should I be using a different arch? Do I need a flag in the
> > make.conf (I just have -pipe and -O2)
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:02:44 -0500
Eric Osterweil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do I need a flag in the
> make.conf (I just have -pipe and -O2)?
If you don't set any such variables in make.conf they get sensible
defaults that depend on your CPUTYPE setting. You shouldn't really mess
with them u
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:49:53 -0800 (PST)
RSean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Just curious if anyone has tried regular expressions to handle ads and
> banners.
That's what adzap and similar squid filters do.
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:47:52 -0600
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --On December 23, 2007 1:19:21 AM +0100 Peter Schuller
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > In particular, given a re-build (e.g. upgraded) port X, all ports
> > depending on X will also be re-built regardless of whethe
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:07:29 +0100
Gabor Kovesdan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> my problem is that I cannot really turn on gjournal for existing
> filesystems, just only if the journal is placed onto another
> partition. So, how can I make a journaled root filesystem?
Is there any pa
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:06:25 -0800
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Consider also that the majority of webinterfaces to mailservers
> are written using the uw-c-client imap libraries. So you go ahead
> and install dovecot - then watch when you install a webinterface
> the port mana
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:04:24 -0800
"Jason C. Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Brian wrote:
>
> > The fact that each mailing list exists as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes me need to make 2 filters for each
> > list I subscribe to. Can I suggest that
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:09:41 -0700
Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm -- fair answer. I was kind of thinking that on FreeBSD I should
> maybe do such work in csh as the standard shell, but it occurs to me
> that I'd probably be pretty hard-pressed to find a FreeBSD system
> without sh o
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:17:09 +0100
Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think it is possible to set a default rule, which for security
> should be block, which means that any packet that falls through your
> rule set will be blocked.
I'm not aware that there is, the FAQ suggests having
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:05:53 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It may be possible to use an Adblock "subscription" to update a squid
> setup. That would provide the best of both.
There's no need to do that, you can use a script like adzapper with
squid. It's in ports (www/a
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:31:08 +
Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have zero experience of squid beyond reading about it, but it has
> always sounded like a major resource hog.
It depends how you use it. I think you can probably get it down to
about 15 MB, if you eliminate memory c
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:34:19 -0500
"Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>
> Simon Gao wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wonder if just having port-all is enough in cvsupfile as follow.
> > If I just want to keep ports tree up to date, do I really
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:28:15 -0800
"Mark D. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The solution is @ http://www.openspf.org/FAQ/Forwarding
> If garga@ isn't following the recommended practice of whitelisting
> freebsd.org's MX servers then breakage results. That said,
> mx2.freebsd.org is NOT LISTE
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:39:51 -0800
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With kmplayer, altho it works with virtually everything,
> it is a bi t"clunky". Also, it will not show the menu part
> of my DVD. So far, vlc wins (in my lineup). But it's not
> intuitive at a
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:23:52 -0500
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> . Even though kmplayer works, I
> found it's interface (which uses mplayer and xine as backends) ssmed
> a little clunky.
I wouldn't want to use kmplayer like that either, but it work
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:09:40 +0100
Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:57:18PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> > I tried youtube-dl but every url I tried gave
> > youtube-dl: No match.
> >
> > eg
> >
> > %youtube-dl http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA
> > you
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 14:45:22 +
neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have had unsolvable (so far) problems with playing both
> dvd movies and cd audio. MPlayer will play VOBs but no
> menus, no navigation which can make watching pretty much
> impossible sometimes.
>
> I had actually given u
On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:58:47 -0600
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, if you need a daemon to start before another daemon, rename the
> startup script to begin with a number.
A cleaner way to do it is to create a dummy script that sorts in
between them - that avoids altering any in
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:42:22 -0500
Randy Ramsdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Vince wrote:
> > What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ?
> >
> >
> This isn't set. Was is supposed to be?
No, it's on by default, but there's an early check to determine if the
background check can
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:37:21 +0200
Silver Salonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is all the traffic pass through the root-bridge in this case, so that
> if bridge1 wants to talk to bridge2, it has to go through root-bridge
> and not straight? In my case there's a straight connection between
> bridge
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:04:23 -0700
Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've read reports to the effect that GBDE is vulnerable to online
> dictionary attacks unless two-factor authentication is used. The only
> such report I can find now is this discussion of NetBSD's CGD, where
> its author
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:36:15 -0500
Patrick Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd
> like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed
> is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF
> line. Is there an
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100
Jorn Argelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write
> to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions.
I think vi will also fail unless it has access to termcap, so you'd
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:51:57 -0500
"Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> bsd wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > There is a way to calculate the checksum in ports using make with
> > an argument…
> cd /usr/ports/...
> make sums
That should be:
make makesum
(assuming the intent is to update d
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:20:57 -0800 (PST)
cuongvt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> sarek wrote:
> >
> > to allow for csup/cvsup'ing the source code.
> >
> Yes, it is solution for freebsd on usb stick.
> But you know, They are hosting internal LAN for file sharing, so I
> think usb solution is
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 20:53:41 -0500
Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried using dd with two 80GB disks, using a much larger block size
> (512M), booting Knoppix to make sure the filesystems on the 'input'
> disk were quiescent. It worked, but took an amazing 14 hours, which
> is only abou
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 14:06:19 +
John Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:18:13 +
> RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Selecting /bin/[t]csh always works for me.
>
> I just tried it again with exactly the same results (FreeBSD-7.0
&g
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 04:44:27 +
John Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2
> to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too
> bad this time. I thought I'd broken it after choosing /bin/tcsh as my
> shell
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:56:34 +0100
Joerg van den Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dear list,
>
> today I've tried a very first installation of 6.2 on the
> second disk of an i86 machine which runs windows xp
> professional 2002 service pack 2 on disk one.
>
> initially, I erroneo
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:21:46 -0500
"Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> > What I've done in the past is create extra categories in the KDE
> > menu with the names of the other users, and then copy selected
> > applications under the
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:31:15 -0500
"Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>but I don't want to logout
> and login back in and/or have to invoke the app from the cmd line
> (i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY :0; app cmd line)... I am looking for a
> way to make it so I can launch apps from a
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:40:24 +0100
Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeff Maxwell wrote:
> > I have X11 installed on a server 6.1.
> >
> > Is there an easy way to remove it all?
> >
> > Do I have to remove each package individually?
> Suppose you have installed the xorg server, you could re
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:17:01 -0800
"Zachary Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "RW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:24:32 -0800
> > "Zachary Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:45:56 +0200
Cristian KLEIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> > On one box, however, portaudit's db won't update automatically. The
> > security reports will mention no vulnerability, even when I know
> > they are there.
> > Running "periodic daily" from
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:06:45 +
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 'portsnap extract' or 'portsnap update' will however blow away local
> additions in the part of the ports tree it is operating on -- there
> are clear warnings to that effect in the man page.
There are clear warning
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:52:31 +0700 (ICT)
Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > How can I incorporate my patch into the portupgrade system, so
> > > that an upgrade of Xpdf will apply my patch? If I download the
> > > bzip file, apply the patch, re-bzip the sources, and then try
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:24:32 -0800
"Zachary Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've read through the sections of the handbook quite carefully,
> and haven't quite found what I'm looking for.
> To be specific, I've no plans to install X11 or anything like it
> on this machine yet. I
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:41:51 -0200
"Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2007/11/24, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > No I didn't mean that; use your own favourite packet filter, any of
> > them can handle what you've described. Bill suggested pf - lots of
> > people
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:34:31 -0800
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your input, but it was ignorance that KsCD is not
> for playback of audio CD's on FBSD.
I'm not sure what that means, since it's a CD player. Are you saying
that some part of it is broken on FreeBSD?
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:21:17 -0500 (EST)
Michael S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good day all,
>
> I am running 6.2 with patches, however my package_site
> points to 6-stable. Upgrading binary packages gives
> this message: Undefined symbol "__sbmaskrune".
>
> >From the few results Google returne
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:28:31 +0100
Andrea Venturoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm running a dozen boxes (most being 6.2) with portaudit installed
> and I usually get a port vulnerability report in the daily security
> run.
>
> On one box, however, portaudit's db won't update automatic
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:06:54 +1100
Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I for one used to run fwvm2 under linux back in 95, then KDE... but
> since then I got a bit tired of the endless new tools for kde or
> gnome or this or that.. (eg, KDE front end for mplayer...what's wrong
> with mp
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:22:50 +1300
"Brent Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a
> comment that comes up very regularly; "please don't top post..."
>
> I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular
> thread enoug
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:19:55 +
Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi folks:
>
> What is the approved method of applying personalised patches to ports
> sources?
>
> A current example, which was no problem under Linux, is giving me a
> bit of a hassle under FreeBSD>
>
> I use pdftotext exte
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:27:48 -0500
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The systems
> in question have no way to connect without using the proxy, and I'd
> like to convince fetch(3) to use the proxy for https as well.
curl & wget work, if it's any help
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:27:58 -0700 (MST)
Christoper Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I have a 600mhz PIII computer with an older BIOS that will not
> recognize my 160GB new HD that I installed for use with FreeBSD.
>
> I can install FBSD if I limit the drive to 32GB, but before I
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:01:56 +0100
Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Isn't that what the -U option in mergemaster does?
> >
> >
> >-U Attempt to auto upgrade files that have not been user
> >modified.
>
> I believe I t
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:15:58 +0100
Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> etcmerge, with three-way merging, has been available for a while, but
> the man page still warns of it not being extensively tested, and of
> course mergermaster still seems to be the officially supported to
I have a couple of USB devices that I mount as /dev/da0s1, which what I
would expect.
I've just got a memory stick that's showing as /dev/da0 & /dev/da0s4.
and only /dev/da0 mounts. The output of fdisk is garbage, showing four
unfeasibly large partitions with unknown sysid values.
On the other
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:58:35 -0500
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ed to take exception to that. My claim (and I have the messages
> in which I made it) is that the setting of options needed these
> changes:
>
> (1) To move the time that they need to be set, from ports compile
> time to
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:04:07 -0700
Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:43:16PM +, RW wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:00:55 -0500
> > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I've a
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:00:55 -0500
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've already deleted the message that kicked me off, but it looked to
> me that you were talking about the 10,000 ports I was talking about,
> and that meant you were referring to new installs, not upgrades.
Why would
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:55:02 -0500
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you seriously saying that a decision regarding what ports are to
> be installed should be made after they are installed? If you have
> 10,000 ports installed, you obviously have no need whatever to make
> any decisio
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:37:11 -0500
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> RW wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:54:33 +0100
> > Tino Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's not hard to script it though, something like the following
> > would do
>
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:54:33 +0100
Tino Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> RW schrieb:
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:10:29 -0500
> > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I hope not. We really need to move this out of being a ports
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:25:47 -0500
Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On November 12, 2007 at 03:14PM RW wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > Yes, but that doesn't work if you are doing a portupgrade -a, you
> > then need to wrap the makes in a simple script, w
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:10:29 -0500
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope not. We really need to move this out of being a ports
> buildtime thing. Currently, to build ports in batch either requires
> someone to be chained to the computer, so as to intercept all those
> screens, or to si
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:18:50 -0500
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Setting the menus is pretty easy to script, and you can also set
> > BATCH to take the default options
>
> A suggestion I recently made on the ports list would, as a side
> effect, make a better solution.
I don't see
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:04:12 +0200
Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> RW wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:14:02 -0800
> >
> > Setting the menus is pretty easy to script, and you can also set
> > BATCH to take the default options
>
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