Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-22 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/22/12 17:32, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a number of 9.0-R boxes, some of which I've updated in the past > to 9.0-STABLE (as of the date they were done). > > I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent > way t

Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:32:21 +, Karl Pielorz wrote: > I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent way > to get it to update me to '-STABLE'? No. The freebsd-update program can only be used to follow the RELEASE branch, plus t

freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-22 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I have a number of 9.0-R boxes, some of which I've updated in the past to 9.0-STABLE (as of the date they were done). I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent way to get it to update me to '-STABLE'? i.e. If I run this on a

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-22 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: Warren Block skrev 2012-11-22 05:19: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote: Got a chance to set up a scratch drive and check this. Turns out I left out the step of creating a "slice" (MBR partition) to hold the FreeBSD partitions.

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-22 Thread Leslie Jensen
Thank you very much for your work on this. I have found this conversation and your article very informative. I've already installed W7 on my SSD but I let the installation program create the windows (MBR) partition. I'm going to install FreeBSD 9.1 as soon as it is ready so I w

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-21 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote: Got a chance to set up a scratch drive and check this. Turns out I left out the step of creating a "slice" (MBR partition) to hold the FreeBSD partitions. Also, GPT labels cannot be used in an MBR. Fixed below. I will probably add this

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-21 Thread Warren Block
27;: No such file or directory Expected? Anyway, is it any way to but FreeBSD on something like s2? Sorry, typo. FreeBSD does not have to be the first slice. # gpart create -s bsd ada2s2 # gpart set -a active -i 1 ada2s2 Hm, still doesn't work. Look: # gpart destroy -F ada2 ada2 destroyed #

Re: gpt booting (Was: Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3)

2012-11-21 Thread Warren Block
doc: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2012-June/020060.html Help would be greatly appreciated. ___ 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"

gpt booting (Was: Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3)

2012-11-21 Thread Arthur Chance
src/sys/boot/common/gpt.c _______ 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: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote: On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote: On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 ... "Not UFS" "No ada0" "No boot" Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2

Re: eGalax USB touch panel on ExoPC Slate vs. FreeBSD and X11

2012-11-20 Thread Bill Paul
ver). At minimum, USB keyboard is required in order to install FreeBSD. I also the USB thumbdrive installer to load the OS. After that I used the USB ethernet to load papckages. Once I had the OS installed, I switched to using a bluetooth keyboard. It's less clunky without the extra wires. Not

Re: SSD for FreeBSD NAS device

2012-11-20 Thread Shane Ambler
. As an offsite backup server the time saved in performance is only going to impact a few times a day and will be outweighed by the network speed. The cost of the SSD drives could add more drives to increase space or redundancy - RAIDZ3 ? _______ fr

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

2012-11-20 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
how things are done in fossil and you would understand that the last sentence is totally wrong. Fossil has really nice features that could nicely fits with FreeBSD workflows and greatly improves it. It has most of the new shiny feature everyone can expect from a dvcs, but it also has it drawbacks:

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread freebsd
On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: >> freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 ... >> "Not UFS" "No ada0" "No boot" > > Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2 > I previously u

Re: The Opera browser on FreeBSD

2012-11-20 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 20 November 2012 13:23, peter weismann wrote: > I find two native FreeBSD ports for OPERA. > With that I want to say, I am not using Linux-Opera anymore. > But since some time, I had installed > www/opera-devel > and > www/opera > at the same time and played with them.

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread Gary Aitken
63 - free - (31k) > 126 3907028979 1 freebsd [active] (1.8T) >3907029105 62 - free - (31k) > > => 0 3907028979 mirror/gm0s1 BSD (1.8T) > 0 2- free - (1.0k) >

boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread freebsd
Hello, I recently installed a 9.1-RC2 system using gmirror with MBR, and swap in first bsdlabel. orsbackup# gpart show =>63 3907029104 mirror/gm0 MBR (1.8T) 63 63 - free - (31k) 126 3907028979 1 freebsd [active] (1

The Opera browser on FreeBSD

2012-11-20 Thread peter weismann
I find two native FreeBSD ports for OPERA. With that I want to say, I am not using Linux-Opera anymore. But since some time, I had installed www/opera-devel and www/opera at the same time and played with them. Now I see, that opera has a greater release-level then opera-devel. That makes no sense

Re: SSD for FreeBSD NAS device

2012-11-20 Thread Dan Nelson
ig ? For any "critical" server, don't think of RAID as an option, think of it as a requirement. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Tuning modern (i.e. 9.x) FreeBSD Systems for 'servers' - any guides?

2012-11-20 Thread Karl Pielorz
s for this stuff, which appears to be all very out of date. Does anyone have any links for 'modern' tuning guides - or is it simply not necessary with newer FreeBSD versions? (e.g. 9.x upwards) e.g. if the machine is amd64 w/6-8Gb of RAM - running GENERIC. The servers typicall

Re: PPPoA section of FreeBSD Handbook

2012-11-20 Thread RW
gt; # ifconfig ng0 > > ng0: flags=88d1 > > metric 0 mtu 1492 inet 124.170.51.116 --> 203.215.7.251 netmask > > 0xffff > > Incidentally the PPPoA section of the FreeBSD is very out of date: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoa.ht

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

2012-11-20 Thread Mike Meyer
cused on the core task. They will reject a change proposal because it's not part of that task. That said, much as I like fossil (it's my goto VCS) I don't think it would be a good choice for FreeBSD. We're not a small project - we have people who are willing to devote time to t

SSD for FreeBSD NAS device

2012-11-20 Thread bsd
etOSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetO _______ 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: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-19 Thread Eitan Adler
lly go away - git is exported from svn. It will remain as an option for developers (including myself). > To obtain the FreeBSD source, you can use CVS, SVN, or Git? Do all have > the same level of support? Are they all up to date? SVN is *always* up to date. We try really hard to keep the

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

2012-11-19 Thread Zach Leslie
control system. Also, this particular tool bails out on the unix philosophy, with its web gui, ticket tracker etc. Do one thing. Do it well. -- Zach _______ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

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

2012-11-19 Thread Zach Leslie
> There's a git repository. It's public. You can look at what goes into > the FreeBSD git clone to get your assurance that things aren't being > snuck in. People are using it, right now. I've always been confused by this. Which source repo is the true source of

Re: Freebsd 9 Startx

2012-11-19 Thread Hooman Oroojeni
Issue solved; I forgot to edit .xinitrc. Cheers, Hooman On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:28:13 +, Hooman Oroojeni wrote: > > Dear All, > > I would like to use GUI in Freebsd 9, but I face with following error. > > Any idea t

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:07:44 -0500 > Fbsd8 wrote: > > Snip ... > > > So how can I run rpd on the freebsd host running the virtualbox > > server system so I can access the configured vm? I this > > configur

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Snow Mountains
ada2 MBR (223G) 63 2016- free - (1M) 2079 62914509 1 ntfs (30G) 62916588 405945540- free - (193G) # true > /dev/ada2 # gpart create -s bsd ada2s2 gpart: arg0 'ada2s2': Invalid argument S. _____

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Warren Block
27;: No such file or directory Expected? Anyway, is it any way to but FreeBSD on something like s2? Sorry, typo. FreeBSD does not have to be the first slice. # gpart create -s bsd ada2s2 # gpart set -a active -i 1 ada2s2 Hm, still doesn't work. Look: # gpart destroy -F ada2 ada2 destroyed #

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Snow Mountains
#x27;1': No such file or directory >> >> Expected? Anyway, is it any way to but FreeBSD on something like s2? > > > Sorry, typo. FreeBSD does not have to be the first slice. > > # gpart create -s bsd ada2s2 > # gpart set -a active -i 1 ada2s2 Hm, still doesn&#

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Snow Mountains wrote: Just one small problem. Here I got this: # gpart create -s bsd ada2s1 gpart: geom 'ada2s1': File exists # gpart set -a active -i 1 ada2s1 gpart: index '1': No such file or directory Expected? Anyway, is it any way to but FreeBSD

PPPoA section of FreeBSD Handbook

2012-11-19 Thread andrew clarke
--> 203.215.7.251 netmask 0x Incidentally the PPPoA section of the FreeBSD is very out of date: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoa.html The ambiguously named net/pppoa port in section 28.6.1 has been marked as broken since 2009. (Ambiguous since it's

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Snow Mountains
2012/11/19 Warren Block : > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Snow Mountains wrote: > >> 2012/11/18 Shane Ambler : >>> >>> On 18/11/2012 06:49, Snow Mountains wrote: >>> >>>> Could you recommend a reliable document on how to do a correct block >>>>

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-19 Thread Mario Lobo
On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:07:44 -0500 Fbsd8 wrote: Snip ... > So how can I run rpd on the freebsd host running the virtualbox > server system so I can access the configured vm? I this > configuration even possible? > I'll give it one last shot. CREATE/RUNNING <> ACCESSIN

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Snow Mountains wrote: 2012/11/18 Shane Ambler : On 18/11/2012 06:49, Snow Mountains wrote: Could you recommend a reliable document on how to do a correct block alignment for new FreeBSD 9 install? FreeBSD Handbook doesn't mention this at all, although I can find a l

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Snow Mountains
2012/11/18 Shane Ambler : > On 18/11/2012 06:49, Snow Mountains wrote: > >> Could you recommend a reliable document on how to do a correct block >> alignment for new FreeBSD 9 install? FreeBSD Handbook doesn't >> mention this at all, although I can find a lot of (not

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

2012-11-19 Thread Alexander Yerenkow
http://www.fossil-scm.org/ I'm not fossil user, but it's BSD licensed in written in C. Baptise Daroussin probably could tell us more about fossil pro and cons. -- Regards, Alexander Yerenkow _______ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

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

2012-11-19 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
c.com/about/ "Mercurial is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt> or any later version." No one of them above mentions "BSD license" , or "dual license" , etc. Thank you very

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

2012-11-19 Thread C. P. Ghost
ependency: Python; and Git is Perl-based. So neither of them is ideal, IMHO. If at all, we'd need a lean and mean distributed SCM program like Mercurial or Git, but written in C that we could add to base. Any volunteers? -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _

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

2012-11-19 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
ne 1991 <http://selenic.com/repo/hg/file/fd903f89e42b/COPYING#l3> " In their repository , it is GPL v2 . Is there any other place which specifies its license as BSDL ? Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

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

2012-11-19 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Q#FAQ.2FTechnicalDetails.How_do_Mercurial_hashes_get_calculated.3F :%s/BSD/LGP/ http://mercurial.selenic.com/about/ -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &qu

Re: Freebsd 9 Startx

2012-11-18 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:28:13 +, Hooman Oroojeni wrote: > Dear All, > I would like to use GUI in Freebsd 9, but I face with following error. > Any idea to help is appreciated. You need to show the error message for diagnostics and suggestions better than pure guessing. :-) Meanwhile,

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

2012-11-18 Thread grarpamp
> I won't fail to defend general anti-nym opinion or guidance d-oh, s/defend/defend against/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "free

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

2012-11-18 Thread grarpamp
>> grarpamp >> the various good uses for nyms. > cpgh...@cordula.ws > I hope you realize whom you're trying to lecture here! > Joerg Wunsch is a highly appreciated long-time FreeBSD contributor Of course. No one here has any question as to anyone's FreeBSD particip

Re: Freebsd 9 Startx

2012-11-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:28:13 + Hooman Oroojeni wrote: > Dear All, > I would like to use GUI in Freebsd 9, but I face with following error. I think that you have mist a paste command here. Anyway, what graphics adaptor are you using? Intel? It it is Intel, read about Intel KMS.

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

2012-11-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
historical use cases. If that's counter to your beliefs, you > are free to show us the way and post all your personal infos to the > list. Uh-oh grarpamp, I hope you realize whom you're trying to lecture here! Joerg Wunsch is a highly appreciated long-time FreeBSD contributor and was me

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > One word answers have no meaning. > That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. > As I understand the VB manual there is only 2 ways to CREATE virtual > machines on a freebsd host. Launch VB from

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-18 Thread Fbsd8
Using ssh from remote pc only works if ssh is run from a desktop. IE: you can not start ssh from a freebsd host command line to connect to a remote VB to create Virtual machines. Incidentally it's possible to use RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to connect and control any VirtualBox guest - incl

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

2012-11-18 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Garrett Wollman wrote: >> the various good uses for nyms. > > There are no such uses on the FreeBSD mailing-lists; if you wish for > anyone to pay attention to you, then use a real name. Otherwise, > FOAD. > > -GAWollman It appears y

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-18 Thread Fbsd8
ways to CREATE virtual machines on a freebsd host. Launch VB from the host x11 desktop which launches the VB config screen or use headless commands from host command line which just creates control files without the VB screens being displayed. If you know of some other ways them explain your

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-18 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ual box VMs using baseline images and definition files to create VMs on the fly in response to a simple command. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith _______ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-18 Thread andrew clarke
nections - provided VRDP is enabled for that guest VM. I do this running when VirtualBox on a Linux host, and can't confirm it works for FreeBSD hosts, but assume it does. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-18 Thread Adam Vande More
ditional server means, it's a desktop app? -- Adam Vande More ___ 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: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-18 Thread Fbsd8
to the XP guest, for it to use as a keyboard, mouse, and display. (This supposes that the FreeBSD box in question _has_ a keyboard, mouse, and display, and thus has a VT that it can hand off.) Fbsd8 wrote: I have 9.0 installed on my 200gb hard drive, it's configured to use the first

Re: confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-18 Thread Fbsd8
Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:28:02 -0500, Matthew Pope wrote: However, I do need to run a web site again, and I am more than convinced on the superior performance, and hardening possible with FreeBSD bind, and Apache running in jails. However, I'd like to run FreeBSD in a V

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

2012-11-18 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Adrian. You wrote 18 ноября 2012 г., 8:55:54: AC> There's a git repository. It's public. You can look at what goes into AC> the FreeBSD git clone to get your assurance that things aren't being AC> snuck in. People are using it, right now. But commits in th

Re: confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:28:02 -0500, Matthew Pope wrote: > However, I do need to run a web site again, and I am more than convinced > on the superior performance, and hardening possible with FreeBSD bind, > and Apache running in jails. However, I'd like to run FreeBSD in a > VMW

Re: confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-18 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:49:54 -0500 Matthew Pope wrote: > On 12-11-17 09:07 AM, andrew clarke wrote: > > On Sat 2012-11-17 01:28:02 UTC-0500, Matthew Pope > > (mp...@teksavvy.com) wrote: > > > >> Could anyone be kind enough to recommend a free, or share their own

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

2012-11-17 Thread Bruce Cran
On 18/11/2012 05:21, Robert Simmons wrote: Yup: https://github.com/freebsd/ There's also git.freebsd.org. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

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

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
ve that the source code repositories were unaffected, we are in the process of verifying this and taking steps to enhance security across the kernel.org infrastructure. However, this is a Linux problem, not a FreeBSD one, regarding repository infrastructure. > >

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

2012-11-17 Thread grarpamp
show us the way and post all your personal infos to the list. > spamming a large number of FreeBSD mailinglists with your advocacy? This topic would benefit from the review and involvement of users (questions), committers (hackers), security (security), and distribution (hubs). > -- > Nev

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

2012-11-17 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Those who want to use git can use it, right now. Honest. Yup: https://github.com/freebsd/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

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

2012-11-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
[snip] There's a git repository. It's public. You can look at what goes into the FreeBSD git clone to get your assurance that things aren't being snuck in. People are using it, right now. Honestly, I'd rather see subversion grow this kind of cryptographic signing of each comm

Re: confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-17 Thread Matthew Pope
On 12-11-17 09:07 AM, andrew clarke wrote: On Sat 2012-11-17 01:28:02 UTC-0500, Matthew Pope (mp...@teksavvy.com) wrote: Could anyone be kind enough to recommend a free, or share their own FreeBSD VM image that has bind pre-configured in a jail, and / or an Apache web server pre-configured in

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-17 Thread Shane Ambler
On 18/11/2012 06:49, Snow Mountains wrote: Could you recommend a reliable document on how to do a correct block alignment for new FreeBSD 9 install? FreeBSD Handbook doesn't mention this at all, although I can find a lot of (not quite consistent) advises on the net on how to do it with

Re: confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-17 Thread Eric S Pulley
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:28:02 -0500 Matthew Pope wrote: > Dear FreeBSD community, > > It has been wonderful being a full-fledged member of this community, > an administrator running FreeBSD on bare hardware (in his basement) > for years. This is the coolest, hippiest, histori

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

2012-11-17 Thread Ivan Klymenko
В Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:00:06 -0500 grarpamp пишет: > http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html > http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/11/17/143219/freebsd-project-discloses-security-breach-via-stolen-ssh-key > > This is not about this incident, but about why major opensource > p

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-17 Thread Snow Mountains
2012/11/17 ill...@gmail.com : > On 17 November 2012 12:26, Snow Mountains wrote: >> * How will FreeBSD 9 behave in such situations? Any special tweaking needed? > > I wouldn't expect any special behaviour, though you need to take care > with block alignment. Perhaps in

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

2012-11-17 Thread grarpamp
http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/11/17/143219/freebsd-project-discloses-security-breach-via-stolen-ssh-key This is not about this incident, but about why major opensource projects need to be using a repository that has traceable, verifiable, built

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-17 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 17 November 2012 12:26, Snow Mountains wrote: > Hello, > > I'm about to upgrade hardware on my desktop and to install FreeBSD 9 > on it. I have ASUS P5KPL-C and want to buy a SSD or SATA-III 6Gb/s > drive for it. > > Please advise me: > > * does it make sens

FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-17 Thread Snow Mountains
Hello, I'm about to upgrade hardware on my desktop and to install FreeBSD 9 on it. I have ASUS P5KPL-C and want to buy a SSD or SATA-III 6Gb/s drive for it. Please advise me: * does it make sense to buy SSD drive for a mb that supports 4x SATA 3Gb/s (of couse, expecting a possible futu

Security advisory FreeBSD - intrusion incident

2012-11-17 Thread jb
http://www.freebsd.org/ jb ___ 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: confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-17 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2012-11-17 01:28:02 UTC-0500, Matthew Pope (mp...@teksavvy.com) wrote: > Could anyone be kind enough to recommend a free, or share their own > FreeBSD VM image that has bind pre-configured in a jail, and / or an > Apache web server pre-configured in a jail, for a non-commer

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-17 Thread Mario Lobo
virtualbox _should_ be able to hand off a VT to the > XP guest, for it to use as a keyboard, mouse, and display. (This > supposes that the FreeBSD box in question _has_ a keyboard, mouse, > and display, and thus has a VT that it can hand off.) > > Fbsd8 wrote: > > I ha

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-17 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
rtualised display talks to X as the display backend. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith _______ 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"

sha-1 Re: Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure

2012-11-17 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2012/11/17 10:04:26 + FreeBSD Security Officer => To FreeBSD Security : FSO> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- FSO> Hash: SHA1 What's the state of the art about 'sha-1' digesting with freebsd security? At the least debian seemed to be migratring since 20

confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Pope
Dear FreeBSD community, It has been wonderful being a full-fledged member of this community, an administrator running FreeBSD on bare hardware (in his basement) for years. This is the coolest, hippiest, historically pure, and most technically advanced UNIX community on the planet (I'm o

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Adam Vande More
hand off a VT to the > XP guest, for it to use as a keyboard, mouse, and display. (This > supposes that the FreeBSD box in question _has_ a keyboard, mouse, > and display, and thus has a VT that it can hand off.) I see what you are saying but that isn't possible currently with Virtual

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread perryh
display. (This supposes that the FreeBSD box in question _has_ a keyboard, mouse, and display, and thus has a VT that it can hand off.) Fbsd8 wrote: > I have 9.0 installed on my 200gb hard drive, it's configured to use > the first 100gb leaving the second 100gb free. I was going to install &

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Mario Lobo
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:18:10 -0500 Fbsd8 wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. > >>>> No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox > >>>> running from the FreeBSD host comma

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Adam Vande More
ronment], can I do > all that from the host command line? Yes. Although you certainly wouldn't use the headless mode since you want a head. > I do not run x11 or any desktop on > my 9.0 host. This would be your problem. -- Adam Vande More __

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > >>>>> Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. >>>>> No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox >>>>> running from the FreeBSD host command line or fro

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Fbsd8
Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop. Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run under? NOPE !! VBoxHeadless -startvm "vm name"

Re: eGalax USB touch panel on ExoPC Slate vs. FreeBSD and X11

2012-11-16 Thread Bill Paul
Well... apparently I was able to get this to work on my own. To recap, I have an ExoPC Slate running FreeBSD 9.0 and xorg 1.7 with an eGalax USB HID touch screen. Out of the box, ums(4) claims it but doesn't like it. After investigating a bit more, I found that the screen has multipl

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Mario Lobo
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:44:54 -0500 Fbsd8 wrote: > Mario Lobo wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500 > > Fbsd8 wrote: > > > >> Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. > >> No where in that section does it say anything about v

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Mario Lobo
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:44:54 -0500 Fbsd8 wrote: > Mario Lobo wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500 > > Fbsd8 wrote: > > > >> Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. > >> No where in that section does it say anything about v

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Fbsd8
Mario Lobo wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500 Fbsd8 wrote: Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop. Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Mario Lobo
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:57:53 -0500 Fbsd8 wrote: > Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. > No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox > running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop. > > Do I need a Desktop for virtualb

virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-16 Thread Fbsd8
Section 23.3 of the handbook speaks about FreeBSD as a host. No where in that section does it say anything about virtualbox running from the FreeBSD host command line or from A Desktop. Do I need a Desktop for virtualbox to run under? ___ freebsd

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-16 Thread dweimer
On 2012-11-15 15:57, Matthias Petermann wrote: Hello, from a freshly installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE I did a freebsd-update to bring it to the latest patch level. After: # freebsd-update fetch I got this message: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-16 Thread Polytropon
tallation. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-16 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:52:02 +0100 "Matthias Petermann" wrote: >do I understand it right - the default behaviour of freebsd-update will >be to update a 9.0 system to 9.1 when it becomes available? So this is >a rolling procedure? >I ask this because I coul

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-16 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:04:17 -0800 mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > >> Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to > >> upgrade > >> from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? > > Andreas> Yes, it

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-16 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/16/2012 08:52 AM, Matthias Petermann wrote: > Hi Andreas, > do I understand it right - the default behaviour of freebsd-update will > be to update a 9.0 system to 9.1 when it becomes available? So this is > a rolling procedure? Hi No it only updates the release

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-15 Thread Matthias Petermann
Hi Andreas, do I understand it right - the default behaviour of freebsd-update will be to update a 9.0 system to 9.1 when it becomes available? So this is a rolling procedure? I ask this because I could not find a parameter etc. in the man page which may influent this, e.g. to

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-15 Thread Doug Hardie
he clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to >>> upgrade >>> from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? > > Andreas> Yes, it is. > > Can I go from 8.3 directly to 9.1, or should I stop over at 9.0 first? For me that was not possible.

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> writes: Andreas> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:53 +0100 Andreas> Matthias Petermann wrote: >> Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to >> upgrade >> f

eGalax USB touch panel on ExoPC Slate vs. FreeBSD and X11

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Paul
Okay. I have my doubts that anyone will be able to answer this question but I'm going to try anyway. I have an ExoPC Slate tablet with FreeBSD 9.0 freshly installed on it, and it has the following touch screen device: ugen0.2: at usbus0 ums0: on usbus0 tablet# usbconfig -u 0

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-15 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:53 +0100 Matthias Petermann wrote: > Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to upgrade > from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? Yes, it is. Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/how

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