a copy of ASL dump for acer aspire laptops models

2013-05-26 Thread Xavier
Hi everyone, I need a copy of ACPI Source Language (ASL), '# acpidump-dt copy_model_laptop.asl' of any version of FreeBSD you have the option ACPI always enabled and does not give any problem on ACER laptops. Anyone can send me a copy of your ASL dump ( see above ) of ACER ASPIRE laptops model

Re: a copy of ASL dump for acer aspire laptops models

2013-05-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 14:21:04 +0200 Xavier wrote: Hi everyone, I need a copy of ACPI Source Language (ASL), '# acpidump-dt copy_model_laptop.asl' of any version of FreeBSD you have the option ACPI always

Re: a copy of ASL dump for acer aspire laptops models

2013-05-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Xavier cc questions@ acpi@ I wrote: acpidump -dt produces 15,840 lines, so I'll not append to list but private mail you. I put it here so others on acpi@ questions@ can look too if they want. http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/acer/aspire/5741/ Cheers, Julian --

Question about GEOM_ELI` root partition automount [COPY from i...@rdmitry.name]

2012-06-19 Thread Дмитрий Резниченко
* [COPY from i...@rdmitry.name]* { # (Russian lang, ORIGINAL) Имеется:: 1) Загружаемая некриптованная партиция /boot со скриптами ядра 9.0-release и самим ядром; 2) Криптованная только файл-ключом (ключ лежит сейчас в (1)/boot ) рутовая партиция со всем своим содержимым. Проблема: При

BUG: scp -pr does not copy directories that have ':' sign in their names

2011-11-19 Thread Коньков Евгений
HI, Tri. scp -pr * name@host:/home/dir does not copy files which have ':' sign in their names -- С уважением, Коньков mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 05/11/2011 19:47, Chris wrote: I'm having difficulty copying a directory tree from my FreeBSD server to USB storage. The problem is that the tree contains file and folder names which have spaces, similar to the following: ./foo bar/some name.tar.gz ./foo bar/child dir/some other name.tar.gz

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:47:20 -0400, Chris wrote: I'm having difficulty copying a directory tree from my FreeBSD server to USB storage. The problem is that the tree contains file and folder names which have spaces, similar to the following: The thing you're intending to name are properly called

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-06 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: However, if you _can_, solve the _cause_ of your problem, i. e. educate those who create that kind of trouble-carrying file and directory names _not_ to use spaces! Amen, Brother. Just because you *can*, doesn't mean you

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-06 Thread Ian Smith
the filesystem appears to FreeBSD. For example, a 'cp -pR /etc /mnt/usb also complains about not being able to set the ownership or permissions (other than DOS' read-only attribute) on target files, but it will still copy them ok, including filenames with spaces - but not with ',+' or other non-DOS

recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Chris
I'm having difficulty copying a directory tree from my FreeBSD server to USB storage. The problem is that the tree contains file and folder names which have spaces, similar to the following: ./foo bar/some name.tar.gz ./foo bar/child dir/some other name.tar.gz I've tried various combinations of

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Sierchio
I just use tar for this. ( cd /path/to/src ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /path/to/obj ; tar xf - ) - M On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Chris cpubur...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having difficulty copying a directory tree from my FreeBSD server to USB storage. The problem is that the tree contains file and

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com writes: I just use tar for this. ( cd /path/to/src ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /path/to/obj ; tar xf - ) I was going to launch into an explanation of shell quoting, but come to think of it, tar is how I do this too. On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Chris

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Chris
The tar one-liner is similar what I used to use on Gentoo and Arch linux, so I thought it strange that it isn't working here. I'm still having problems though, since the command returns Can't create '$FILENAME' for all files found. I quick tested by telling the tar command to copy to /tmp

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris cpubur...@gmail.com writes: The tar one-liner is similar what I used to use on Gentoo and Arch linux, so I thought it strange that it isn't working here. I'm still having problems though, since the command returns Can't create '$FILENAME' for all files found. It would have been a

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Sierchio
Oh, and what kind of filesystem is on the USB device? - M On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Chris cpubur...@gmail.com writes: The tar one-liner is similar what I used to use on Gentoo and Arch linux, so I thought it strange that it

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com writes: Oh, and what kind of filesystem is on the USB device? msdosfs. Sorry; I trimmed that from what I quoted. - Lowell - M On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Chris cpubur...@gmail.com

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Chris
I apologize for the lack of detail. The command I'm using is: ( cd /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads/ ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /mnt/usb ; tar xf - ) I've also tried: cp -afv /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads /mnt/usb rsync -aq /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads /mnt/usb

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Chris cpubur...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize for the lack of detail. The command I'm using is: ( cd /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads/ ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /mnt/usb ; tar xf - ) Show, don't tell. What does tar report when you run it?

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Chris
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Chris cpubur...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize for the lack of detail. The command I'm using is: ( cd /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads/ ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /mnt/usb ; tar xf - )

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Chris
On a hunch, I gave the following a shot: tar -cvlf - '/usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads'/ | split -a 2 -b 3900m - /mnt/usb/TX_DL.tar. which created a split tar archive of the files on /mnt/usb. I'm still thinking there's something with the source path/file names that the msdosfs driver

9.0 and mouse copy/paste function

2011-09-24 Thread Fbsd8
Since release 4.0 I have been using this statement in /etc/rc.conf moused_flags=-m 2=3 to enable mouse copy and paste function. I see in 8.x and 9.0 that there is no man page for it anymore even though it still works correctly. The man page for moused has one short sentence about vidcontrol

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-18 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:30:17 -0800, Robison, Dave david.robi...@fisglobal.com wrote: I like bacula, I've used it for years. I also like this command Julian once taught me: find . -name | cpio -pdmluv /destination/folder/here ^^ Directory. UNIX

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-17 Thread Xn Nooby
Wow, that article is just what I was looking for! I will check out your other articles too. Thanks! On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Xn Nooby wrote: I downloaded the alternative testing ubuntu-based version of Clonezilla, and it

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
I like bacula, I've used it for years. I also like this command Julian once taught me: find . -name | cpio -pdmluv /destination/folder/here On 02/17/11 18:25, Xn Nooby wrote: Wow, that article is just what I was looking for! I will check out your other articles too. Thanks! On Thu, Feb

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-16 Thread Xn Nooby
Sylvester wrote: I tried a version of Clonezilla that understood ufs and it was really fast copying a slice: It did not understand disklabels and copied only the a partition pretending that it did the entire slice. Did you try to copy a slice with multiple partitions? Since my T42 is handy, I'm

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-16 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:18:47 -0500, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds like I really need to learn about dump/restore. You should - it's fundamental UNIX basic knowledge. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-16 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Xn Nooby wrote: I downloaded the alternative testing ubuntu-based version of Clonezilla, and it appeared to backup my FreeBSD machine. It identified my filesystem as UFS. I will wipe the drive and try a restore later tonight. It said it was backing up 30GB of files,

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Xn Nooby wrote: Is there an image-copy backup program that understands the UFS file-system? Or perhaps there is a better solution on FreeBSD? Perhaps I do not understand what you are trying to do, but dump and restore are the only sort-of bulletproof way to backup (copy

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
/partitioning on the copy and then use dump/restore on each partition from the new drive to the copy drive. A dd image is not really all that good a way to do it. It just produces a sector by sector copy which is not efficient. The dump/restore produces what you want which is an efficient

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Alexander Best
than that. My suggestion would be to do the slicing/partitioning on the copy and then use dump/restore on each partition from the new drive to the copy drive. A dd image is not really all that good a way to do it. It just produces a sector by sector copy which is not efficient

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Warren Block
+gzip on the entire drive. Some of the development versions of Clonezilla do understand UFS. It's been a few months since I looked at this, and I need to go back and figure out exactly which. Is there an image-copy backup program that understands the UFS file-system? Or perhaps

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
and it was really fast copying a slice: It did not understand disklabels and copied only the a partition pretending that it did the entire slice. Did you try to copy a slice with multiple partitions? Cheers, Jan Henrik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Warren Block
a version of Clonezilla that understood ufs and it was really fast copying a slice: It did not understand disklabels and copied only the a partition pretending that it did the entire slice. Did you try to copy a slice with multiple partitions? AFAIR, yes, and a restore seemed okay afterwards

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: I tried a version of Clonezilla that understood ufs and it was really fast copying a slice: It did not understand disklabels and copied only the a partition pretending that it did the entire slice. Did you try to copy a slice with multiple

What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-14 Thread Xn Nooby
to another raw drive. Is there an image-copy backup program that understands the UFS file-system? Or perhaps there is a better solution on FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Copy all users between systems

2010-11-08 Thread mattibj...@bredband.net
Hello Matthew, On 10/29/2010 04:51 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 29/10/2010 12:46, Laszlo Nagy wrote: I would like to copy all user accounts, including root from an already installed 8.0 system to a fresh new 8.1 system. My plan is to boot into single user mode, then copy these: /etc/passwd

Re: Copy all users between systems

2010-11-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/11/2010 22:44, mattibj...@bredband.net wrote: Its never bad to be careful but shouldn't it be enough to change init mode? This isn't SysV. BSD init doesn't really do modes. However, yes, taking the system down to single user and then back up to multiuser is a possibility.

Copy all users between systems

2010-10-29 Thread Laszlo Nagy
I would like to copy all user accounts, including root from an already installed 8.0 system to a fresh new 8.1 system. My plan is to boot into single user mode, then copy these: /etc/passwd /etc/master.passwd /etc/group then run pwd_mkdb and finally restart the system. (Obviously, I also

Re: Copy all users between systems

2010-10-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/10/2010 12:46, Laszlo Nagy wrote: I would like to copy all user accounts, including root from an already installed 8.0 system to a fresh new 8.1 system. My plan is to boot into single user mode, then copy these: /etc/passwd /etc/master.passwd /etc/group then run pwd_mkdb

Why in FreeBSD Tk apps don't copy to clipboard selected text?

2010-10-04 Thread Yuri
For example, tkdiff. In Linux when I select something it is being copied and I can paste it with middle mouse button click. In FreeBSD -- text isn't being copied when selected. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why in FreeBSD Tk apps don't copy to clipboard selected text?

2010-10-04 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: For example, tkdiff. In Linux when I select something it is being copied and I can paste it with middle mouse button click. In FreeBSD -- text isn't being copied when selected. Probably has something to do with your xorg.conf,

Re: Why in FreeBSD Tk apps don't copy to clipboard selected text?

2010-10-04 Thread Yuri
On 10/04/2010 20:12, Adam Vande More wrote: Probably has something to do with your xorg.conf, middle button paste works fine on every system I use and they all run FreeBSD. It works for me very well too. Everywhere, but from Tk apps on FreeBSD. Yuri

Re: Why in FreeBSD Tk apps don't copy to clipboard selected text?

2010-10-04 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 10/04/2010 20:12, Adam Vande More wrote: Probably has something to do with your xorg.conf, middle button paste works fine on every system I use and they all run FreeBSD. It works for me very well too. Everywhere, but from Tk

Re: Copy a FreeBSD 8* install to larger HD

2010-06-23 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 23/06/2010 5:52 π.μ., Al Plant wrote: Aloha, I am looking for the easiest way to copy a fresh working FreeBSD 8* HD install (Manolis version) to a bigger HD that I found. I plan to have the new HD in the same box for doing this copy. Can I use sysinstall to make the new default slices

Copy a FreeBSD 8* install to larger HD

2010-06-22 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, I am looking for the easiest way to copy a fresh working FreeBSD 8* HD install (Manolis version) to a bigger HD that I found. I plan to have the new HD in the same box for doing this copy. Can I use sysinstall to make the new default slices on the big HD and then move the OS

Re: Copy a FreeBSD 8* install to larger HD

2010-06-22 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Al Plant wrote: I am looking for the easiest way to copy a fresh working FreeBSD 8* HD install (Manolis version) to a bigger HD that I found. I plan to have the new HD in the same box for doing this copy. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html

Re: Copy a FreeBSD 8* install to larger HD

2010-06-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Al Plant wrote: Aloha, I am looking for the easiest way to copy a fresh working FreeBSD 8* HD install (Manolis version) to a bigger HD that I found. I plan to have the new HD in the same box for doing this copy. Can I use sysinstall to make the new default slices on the big HD

Re: Copy a FreeBSD 8* install to larger HD

2010-06-22 Thread Antonio Olivares
Al and others, One solution or way to do it would be to get Clonezilla Live CD http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/ Connect both hard drives check carefully which one is the smaller one and select it as the source, and copy it exactly as it is. Let clonezilla do its thing. When finished

How can I copy the data of buf in kernel space to the uio structhre in user space.

2010-02-01 Thread Jun Furukawa
Hi, For my research, I am now hooking the function vn_write(). This is the part of the source code. #include sys/param.h/* module */ #include sys/module.h /* module */ #include sys/kernel.h /* module */ #include

Re: How can I copy the data of buf in kernel space to the uio structhre in user space.

2010-02-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jun Furukawa wrote: Hi, For my research, I am now hooking the function vn_write(). [ big snip ] How can I solve this problem? Subscribe to freebsd-hackers@, and post your message there. Hopefully they can help. Steve ___

How to make netboot copy of an existent system?

2009-09-03 Thread Yuri
I have a spare machine that lacks hard drive. Is there an easy setup that would allow me to boot it via netboot and to be a mirror of another existing system: root and home directories should be NFS mounted from an existing system. In other words it should be just like the other system except

Copy directory tree as hard links...

2009-07-13 Thread Modulok
What is the easiest way to copy a directory tree as hard links? Linux has a nice little 'cp -al' flag combo to do this. The FreeBSD cp(1) manual page says to use pax or tar, but how do I get the ability to rename the file without first creating a destination file? I don't want an archive, just

Re: Copy directory tree as hard links...

2009-07-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
Modulok wrote: What is the easiest way to copy a directory tree as hard links? Linux has a nice little 'cp -al' flag combo to do this. The FreeBSD cp(1) manual page says to use pax or tar, but how do I get the ability to rename the file without first creating a destination file? I don't want

Re: Copy directory tree as hard links...

2009-07-13 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 13 July 2009 00:17:14 Matthew Seaman wrote: Modulok wrote: What is the easiest way to copy a directory tree as hard links? Linux has a nice little 'cp -al' flag combo to do this. The FreeBSD cp(1) manual page says to use pax or tar, but how do I get the ability to rename

Re: Copy directory tree as hard links...

2009-07-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Modulok wrote: What is the easiest way to copy a directory tree as hard links? Linux has a nice little 'cp -al' flag combo to do this. The FreeBSD It's also present in FreeBSD: -lCreate hard links to regular files in a hierarchy instead of copy- ing

Re: Copy directory tree as hard links...

2009-07-13 Thread Modulok
, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Modulok wrote: What is the easiest way to copy a directory tree as hard links? Linux has a nice little 'cp -al' flag combo to do this. The FreeBSD It's also present in FreeBSD: -lCreate hard links to regular files in a hierarchy instead of copy

Do not copy kernel to kernel.old

2009-05-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, Many of my routers boot/run from a USB thumb stick. To upgrade these routers, I dd the device onto another one, pop the backup into a build machine, and do the normal build*/install* with a DESTDIR parameter. If the upgraded device does not boot (due to kernel problems), I just wipe it

Re: Do not copy kernel to kernel.old

2009-05-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca writes: Many of my routers boot/run from a USB thumb stick. To upgrade these routers, I dd the device onto another one, pop the backup into a build machine, and do the normal build*/install* with a DESTDIR parameter. If the upgraded device does not boot (due

Re: Do not copy kernel to kernel.old

2009-05-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca writes: Many of my routers boot/run from a USB thumb stick. To upgrade these routers, I dd the device onto another one, pop the backup into a build machine, and do the normal build*/install* with a DESTDIR parameter. If the upgraded

how to copy files without directories

2009-04-20 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear all, I have read the cp manual and I cannot find an option how to copy directories without files they contain. Is this possible? Thank you very much! Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: how to copy files without directories

2009-04-20 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On 4/20/09, Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com wrote: Dear all, I have read the cp manual and I cannot find an option how to copy directories without files they contain. Is this possible? Maybe I read it wrong, but the subject and the paragraph above say two different things. Thank you

Re: how to copy files without directories

2009-04-20 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:22:38 +0200, Fernando ApesteguĂa fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/20/09, Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com wrote: Dear all, I have read the cp manual and I cannot find an option how to copy directories without files they contain. Is this possible? Maybe

Re: how to copy files without directories

2009-04-20 Thread Odhiambo ワシントン州
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.comwrote: Dear all, I have read the cp manual and I cannot find an option how to copy directories without files they contain. Is this possible? Thank you very much! I don't get your requirement. You'd like to copy empty

Re: how to copy files without directories

2009-04-20 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:24:42 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com: Ahh... I am sorry. Wrong subject. I want to copy directories without files they contain. see mtree(8) Something like $ mtree -dc -p path1 | mtree -U -p path2 will copy path1 under path2

Re: how to copy files without directories

2009-04-20 Thread Odhiambo ワシントン州
2009/4/20 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:22:38 +0200, Fernando ApesteguĂa fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/20/09, Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com wrote: Dear all, I have read the cp manual and I cannot find an option how to copy

Re: how to copy files without directories

2009-04-20 Thread Odhiambo ワシントン州
2009/4/20 Patrick Lamaizière patf...@davenulle.org Le Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:24:42 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com: Ahh... I am sorry. Wrong subject. I want to copy directories without files they contain. see mtree(8) Something like $ mtree -dc -p path1 | mtree -U -p path2

Re: how to copy directories without files (was How to copy files without directories)

2009-04-20 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Ahh... I am sorry. Wrong subject. I want to copy directories without files they contain. see mtree(8) Something like $ mtree -dc -p path1 | mtree -U -p path2 will copy path1 under path2 Excellent! Thank you so much! Zbigniew Szalbot

Re: how to copy files without directories

2009-04-20 Thread Karl Vogel
Corrected by original poster - to copy directories without files, try this: % cd /source/dir % find . -type d -depth -print | pax -rwd -pe /dest/dir Permissions and modification times should be preserved. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company A codicil

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-03-03 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hello Jerry, For more information see http://docsnap.sk.freebsd.org/ and possibly the rsync manual page. I was having a problem reaching that URL; however, I found that this one: http://www.oook.cz/bsd/docsnap.html did seem to work. In any case, I am unable to get the

Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-24 Thread af300wsm
On Feb 23, 2009 6:41am, Erich Dollansky ocean...@pacific.net.sg wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 01:15 +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point

Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
exist. So it is probably the 'touch' binary itself is missing. Try 'which touch'. It should report '/usr/bin/touch'. If it doesn't, touch is MIA. It might be saved in the lost+found directory of the partition that holds /usr/bin. The easiest way to get it back is to just build touch. Or copy

Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread af300wsm
/touch'. If it doesn't, touch is MIA. It might be saved in the lost+found directory of the partition that holds /usr/bin. The easiest way to get it back is to just build touch. Or copy it from the install/live-cd. I'ma little unclear about how to build individual programs from within

Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
it back is to just build touch. Or copy it from the install/live-cd. I'm a little unclear about how to build individual programs from within the source tree. Can you please explain how I'd do this? I think the correct way is to do the following: cd /usr/src/usr.bin/touch make obj

Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Huff
af300...@gmail.com writes: I'ma little unclear about how to build individual programs from within the source tree. Can you please explain how I'd do this? Assuming 1) you have the source tree installed, and 2) it and the kernel are of compatible versions (shouldn't be a problem

Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
af300...@gmail.com writes: On Feb 23, 2009 10:43am, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night).

Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 01:15 +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: so, you did what you are supposed to do to get

What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-22 Thread af300wsm
Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: touch gtype-desc.h touch: No such file or directory A little history for what's going on; the server was not

How to copy only skeleton files while creating a existing user's homes directory?

2009-01-16 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, I have the following situation: Users are stored in OpenLDAP. I need to create homes directories on new machine memebers in the pool of workstations and do not want the usage of an automated creation of loggin in user via pam_mkhomedir. Creation should be done manually. My question: is

Re: How to copy only skeleton files while creating a existing user's homes directory?

2009-01-16 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 16 January 2009 12:48:38 O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I have the following situation: Users are stored in OpenLDAP. I need to create homes directories on new machine memebers in the pool of workstations and do not want the usage of an automated creation of loggin in user via

setting up bootable copy of server on my home PC

2009-01-15 Thread Kurt Bigler
I'm running a small server based on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC). I hope to be able to create an bootable copy of the server at home, and so I freed up enough partition space on my PC, using a gparted CD, which is what someone suggested I use. The PC is running Vista. I defragmented

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:59:04 -0500 Randy Pratt bsd-u...@embarqmail.com wrote: You might consider using Docsnap. This allows you to maintain all the FreeBSD documentation with a minimum of effort. Docsnap is an rsync repository for easy updating of installed FreeBSD documentation

Re[2]: local copy of handbook

2009-01-04 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Jerry, For more information see http://docsnap.sk.freebsd.org/ and possibly the rsync manual page. I was having a problem reaching that URL; however, I found that this one: http://www.oook.cz/bsd/docsnap.html did seem to work. In any case, I am unable to get the 'rsync' command to work.

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-04 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:28:46 +0100 Daniel Gerzo dan...@freebsd.org wrote: The docsnap.sk.FreeBSD.org (as well as ftp.sk and cvsup.sk) server is currently offline due to some problems after its update. Unfortunately it's been a vacations period here and we were unable to get personally to the box

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-04 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:59:04 -0500 Randy Pratt bsd-u...@embarqmail.com wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:39:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
to get up to speed with the mark-up review/grok the updating docs in the round. ATM, they certainly fall short of including anything about updating a local copy of the docs. I can build a patched Handbook and upload it online, if that helps. Then you don't have to learn SGML to read it. Just let

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-01 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:27:31AM +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: snip wow, am waiting eagerlyHTML is complex, what is SGML :) The fdp primer introduces it: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html All the docs are written it, from which the html, postscript

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-01 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:27:31AM +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: snip wow, am waiting eagerlyHTML is complex, what is SGML :) The fdp primer introduces it:

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-01 Thread Michael Powell
Masoom Shaikh wrote: [snip] wow, am waiting eagerlyHTML is complex, what is SGML :) Stands for Standard Generalized Markup Language, with roots in the printing industry. When authors submit a manuscript for publishing it contains content, but it is up to the typesetter how it will

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-31 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-31 Thread Masoom Shaikh
wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have csup'd. The process is described within this page I just put up: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html Hi Masoom

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:33:45 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread RW
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file *default tag=RELENG_7 *default host=ftp2.tw.freebsd.org *default prefix=/usr *default

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file *default tag=RELENG_7 *default

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:39:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
sources if they happen to be some simple target You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have csup'd. The process is described within this page I just put up: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have csup'd. The process is described within this page I just put up

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have csup'd. The process is described within this page I just put up: http

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:43:19 +, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: Are the docs branched? I tried running a csup with tag=RELENG_7 and nothing got created; changing the line doc-all to doc-all tag=. fixed it and fetched all the docs. Hi Bruce, No, there are no release-specific

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:43:19PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have csup'd

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