Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

> and AFIK have downloaded all the sys and ports > sources.. How do I confirm that, cd /usr/src make clean ; make cleandir ; make clean # gets rid of obj du -s -k 547684 . find . -type d -print | wc 47344734 119623 cd /usr/ports du -s -k 477244 . find .

Re: FreeBSD on IBM 3630

Peter Toth wrote: > Anyone is running IBM 3630 out there with FreeBSD? Short: Try Harder ;-) Medium: If one ask a better question, one gets better answers. Long: You may improve responses by adding eg: - Why you want to know Thinking of buying or selling ? Got it working & think

Re: FreeBSD on IBM 3630

Chris Hill wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Peter Toth wrote: > >> Anyone is running IBM 3630 out there with FreeBSD? > > > > Short: Try Harder ;-) > > Medium: If one ask a better question, one gets better answers. >

Re: how do i fsck my server?

Facts: 8.2-RELEASE man fsck -B ... background fsck is limited to checking for only the most commonly occurring file system abnormalities. Under certain circumstances, some errors can escape background fsck. It is recommended that you perform foreground fsck o

Re: versions of software

> FreeBSD can also run a lot of Linux Applications just fine with the > Linux_Enable="YES" added to /etc/rc.conf and, not only that, I've heard /etc/defaults/rc.conf has it in lower case linux_enable="NO" Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://b

Re: free sco unix

> I've set freebsd-chat as follow-up Me too. Postings about copyright etc too numerous/ boring/ ignorant/ irrelevant, Too much focus on American law that does not apply to many of us on this international list, eg Bernt H's Sweden, my bases of Britain & Germany, & 190+ other non USA countr

Re: Point me to resource or user info

or list of lists, see http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo So in this reply I set: To: Allen bcc:ctm-us...@freebsd.org cc: questi...@freebsd.org reply-to: questi...@freebsd.org, Allen , "Julian H

Re: freebsd list admins?

Hi questions@ > Robert Simmons articulated: > > There > > seems to be a few email addresses that are subscribed to these lists > > that keep spamming it periodically, je...@seibercom.net wrote: > Now, if this forum were conducted under the same restraints that the > Postfix forums(2) adhere to, t

Re: FreeBSD paid support

"Daniel Staal" wrote: > > On Mon, June 20, 2011 3:35 am, Dennis Perisa wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > Are there paid support services available for FreeBSD? If provided by a > > 3rd party, can you name or even recommend a few? > > I haven't tried any, so I can't make recommendations, but the FreeBSD

Re: How to connect a projector to a FreeBSD laptop?

Hi, Reference: > From: Warren Block > Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:51:14 -0600 (MDT) > Message-id: Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:32:55 -0700 (PDT), Unga wrote: > >> > >> Could somebody please highlight to me how to su

Re: List of Servers for FreeBSD and Ports Updates...

> 1-Port directory update through portsnap > 2-FreeBSD src update through CTM > 3-Port updates through distfiles and/or packages > > I think 1- and 2- are quite straightforward. To allow 1- I need to white > list the whole content of http://portsnap.freebsd.org/ . To allow 2- I need > to white li

Re: LTO3 tape drive not detected

Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Joe in MPLS wrote: > > > The system sees the SCSI controller as mpt0, and it seems to know there's > > something at SCSI ID 4, but I get an "AutoSense Failed" for hba/id/lun 0:4:0 > > at boot and subsequent camcontrol rescans. > > > > I ch

Re: freebsd list admins?

> > Should we send in a send-pr to edit src/etc/motd ? > > PR it. Sounds good. Thanks. Done. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=158238 Now it'll need a commiter. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; In

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

> I've always meant to submit it as a PR, but found the send-pr(1) too > daunting. (It is impossible/undesirable for me to have a working mail > sender on my system and I have not yet found a way for send-pr(1) to > work in offline mode for delayed sending by a different machine.) Easy. Just run s

Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers?

Kurt Buff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:37, Yuri wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I hit this problem periodically when a lot of disk space is gone and it's > > hard to tell where did it go. Once it was thunderbird writing huge index > > file as a consequence of some bug, on another occasion it was the

Re: Just a quick note/correction for whomever edits the web page:

Hi, Reference: > From: "SADM-IT Officer (HAL)" > Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 06:23:33 -0800 > Message-id: > "SADM-IT Officer (HAL)" wrote: > On the installation pages describing the process to make a USB installation, > you reference downloading win32-image-writer for making a U

Re: groff && UTF-8

Hi Matthias Sorry, I cant help on the OCR, though I had a quick try eith /usr/ports/graphics/claraocr > In the '90 I have used for a lot of my internal and external papers and > letter the groff suite (gtbl, groff, ...) with good results. Me too. I still do. FYI here is my bsd make macro set

Re: groff && UTF-8

> If you want to produce postscript output from groff, you will have to deal > with postscript fonts. The usual Type 1 fonts are single-byte fonts. Groff > only deals with Latin-1 characters (see groff_char(7)). What is Latin-1 ? ( BTW is Latin a common misnomer ? - I recall Latin by

Re: How much disk space required for make release?

Hi, Reference: > From: "Miller, Vincent (Rick)" > Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:38:31 + > Message-id: "Miller, Vincent (Rick)" wrote: > Hello all, > > I am attempting to 'make release' 8.2-RELEASE. After running for a few > hours, it died citing lack of disk space. The fi

Re: ISO images

Lars Eighner wrote: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Rui Silva wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to install FreeBSD for the first time but I have some doubts > > regarding > > the ISO images. > > > > I have downloaded an ISO image (FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) via > > torrent, but soon realised that

Re: ISO images

Hi, Reference: > From: "Michael Ross" > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:28:41 +0200 > Message-id: "Michael Ross" wrote: > Am 17.08.2011, 14:55 Uhr, schrieb Julian H. Stacey : > > > Lars Eighner wrote: > > ftp protocol does n

Re: ISO images

"Michael Ross" wrote: > Am 17.08.2011, 15:59 Uhr, schrieb Julian H. Stacey : > > > Hi, > > Reference: > >> From: "Michael Ross" > >> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:28:41 +0200 > >> Message-id: >

Re: new to os

> Aloha Lars, > > You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were > created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can > read them for transfer to a contemporary program? Do you mean Word Perfect ? Wordperfect-8.0 used to run on FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE & was

Re: new to os

Lars Eighner wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > >> Aloha Lars, > >> > >> You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were > >> created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can > >&g

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

Hi, Reference: > From: Dick Hoogendijk > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:24:37 +0200 > Message-id: <4e54d165.7090...@nagual.nl> Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Op 24-8-2011 10:41, Matthew Seaman schreef: > > > Virtualization is actually a bit of a tricky thing with FreeBSD. > > There's

Re: A quality operating system

Hi, Reference: > From: Allen > Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 05:17:51 -0400 > Message-id: <4e61f0bf.9030...@comcast.net> Allen wrote: > Maybe I can play Diplomat here, considering that I use both BSD and ..^ > Linux and Windows, and I won't pretend to care ab

Re: The future of FreeBSD at Yahoo!

Hi, Reference: > From: "O. Hartmann" > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:48:12 +0200 > Message-id: <4ea693ec.1070...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> "O. Hartmann" wrote: > The press in Germania is full of some statements, that Google is about > to overtake Yahoo!. As far as I know, Yahoo! is on

Re: idletime in login.conf

Hi, Reference: > From: Jason Helfman > Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:25:32 -0700 > Message-id: <20111031182532.gf82...@eggman.experts-exchange.com> Jason Helfman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:09:34AM -0500, Dan Nelson thus spake: > >In the last episode (Oct 31), Damien Fleu

Re: OT: Old books (before c. 2009) for the price of shipping

parv wrote: > I have following books (bought before 2009) that need to be disposed > of, one way or another within next 7-8 days. If you are interested > in any of them, contact me privately about the shipping payment (to > be shipped from Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA via USPS) & your list > ... >

Re: CARP related trivial question

Hi, Reference: > From: Damien Fleuriot > Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:44:50 +0100 > Message-id: <4eb16572.4080...@my.gd> Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 11/1/11 8:19 AM, Snoop wrote: > > Sorry but I have to re-post my question as I didn't get any exhaustive > > reply. I can't belie

Re: How to get /dev/smb* ?

> Have you tried: > > $ sysctl -a | grep temperature > dev.cpu.0.temperature: 29.2C > dev.cpu.1.temperature: 29.2C s/temperature/temp/ & some systems will show more, eg: sysctl -a | grep temp | grep -v template dev.cpu.0.temperature: 35.0C dev.amdtemp.0.%desc: AMD K8 Therma

mail list debug - Was Re: How to remove ACPI from boot ?

Al Plant wrote: > ## Please copy me directly as I cant get messages on the list for some > reason. Any one know who I can email about whats blocking the FreeBSD > list? ## It's downstream from freebsd.org toward you then, so suggestions: 1) Ask your own postmas...@hdk5.net Point them at

Re: CARP related trivial question

os it uses a tool chain that always breaks for me, so editing source for that is harder, but you can still use send-pr. If necessary let the www@ team reverse your HTML diffs back to their SGML or whatever ;-) > > Thank you all for your time, have a good day. > > On Wed, 2011-11-02

Re: Request for Reproduction Rights (Oxford University Press Spain)

> Dear Sir, Hi, To quote: http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html "All images listed under the heading "Resource" are available for use under license from The FreeBSD Foundation." which links to http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/Guidelines.shtml If you have queries, rather than

Re: Webmail for local system mail

Hi, Reference: > From: Errol Sayre > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:23:26 + > Message-id: Errol Sayre wrote: > Does anyone know of a webmail product that can provide access to local system > accounts? Even if it's just a script that runs /usr/bin/mail on behalf of the > use

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found

Robert wrote: > Greetings > > [robert@dell64] ~> uname -a > FreeBSD dell64.shasta204.local 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #34: Fri > Nov 18 06:43:01 PST 2011 > root@dell64.shasta204.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > I have two Lexar Professional 600X 16GB compact flash cards that are

Re: Free BSD Website Question

Hi, Reference: > From: Jonathan Vomacka > Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:39:44 -0500 > Message-id: > Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > Absolutely not Jonathan, Dont top post please. (But agreed, doesnt seem BSD) Frank, I looked at that site. I saw a Penguin. & http://www.webhosting.ne

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found

Hi, Reference: > From: Carl Johnson > Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:53:41 -0800 > Message-id: <87bos2e9hm.fsf@oak.localnet> Carl Johnson wrote: > "Julian H. Stacey" writes: > > > > > @ suggestions: > > 1 Try > > b

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

Hi, Please keep this on list. Forwarded from: "Julian Stacey" http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/ --- Forwarded Message >From travelin...@cox.net Thu Nov 24 05:15:33 2011 From: Robert To: "Julian H. Stacey" Subject: Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found Message-ID: &

Re: Free BSD Website Question

Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Frank wrote: > > > Hey FreeBSD, > > > > I saw that you had a list of web hosting providers on your website and > > wondered if you would consider adding WebHosting.net to your list. > > http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html > > > > I

Re: restore(8) to UFS on USB key: terrible slow

Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Thursday, December 08, 2011 a las 09:57:13AM -0600, Dan Nelson > escribió: > > > Cheap USB thumb drives aren't really optimized for small random-I/O writes. > > Can you try mounting the filesystem async? that might help a little. A > > workaround would be to use

hooking /usr/ports/graphics/gnash to /usr/ports/www/firefox ?

Hi questions@ cc Dmitry Marakasov ( of graphics/gnash/Makefile ) On 8.2-RELEASE amd64 I ran make install on both /usr/ports/www/firefox /usr/ports/graphics/gnash But I see no hint what to read, hot to get firefox to call gnash. I would like to view a flash eg from http:/

Re: hooking /usr/ports/graphics/gnash to /usr/ports/www/firefox ?

Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 12/27/11 4:45 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi questions@ > [snip] > > > Externaly > > { > > man gnash says what to do from CLI, > > But I'm not clear what the URL is, of the flash to save to file > >

Re: hooking /usr/ports/graphics/gnash to /usr/ports/www/firefox ?

Hi, "Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:32:42 +0100 > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > > Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > On 12/27/11 4:45 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > Hi questions@ > > > [snip] > > > >

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

Polytropon wrote: > Maybe consider the chance that a FreeBSD OS can be > turned into closed source (which the license explicitely > allows) and put into some embedded device, a router, > a DSL modem, a managed switch... In parts like this, > you won't recognize FreeBSD anymore. If you consider > s

Re: Browser

Hi, Reference: > From: Daniel Lewis > Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:17:47 -0500 > Message-id: > Daniel Lewis wrote: > Im running Free BSD 8.2 and was wondering whats a good web browser for > version 8.2? > Where and how would we install it? ( Im really new to unix) su cd /usr/p

Re: Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

Hi, Devin Teske wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon > > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 1:00 PM > > To: Dan Nelson > > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > > Subject: Re: Exact timestamp for

Re: COMPAT_* kernel config options -- some housecleaning overdue?

Hi, "Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: > I've been wondering for a while now about the accuracy of some of the > comments in /sys/conf/NOTES re: the various COMPAT_* options, and now, > with 9.0-RELEASE already out the door and 10.0-CURRENT as the current > development branch, it seems even more relevant

Re: Clang - what is the story?

Hi, Reference: > From: Da Rock > Reply-to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:13:49 +1000 > Message-id: <4f1c27ad.9070...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Da Rock wrote: > On 01/23/12 00:38, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Da Rock wrote: > > > >> I personally

Re: buildowrld fails in sendmail

Hi, Reference: > From: Robert Huff > Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:46:17 -0500 > Message-id: <20785.8617.401737.814...@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Robert Huff wrote: > > On a system running: > > FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Dec 30 12:52:09 EST 2012 amd64 > > "make b

Re: rm -R

Hi, Reference: > From: Jos Chrispijn > Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:44:22 +0100 > Message-id: <51323a76.2040...@webrz.net> Jos Chrispijn wrote: > > Teske, Devin: > > rm -R -- -S > > > > The "--" tells it "here's the end of the options, here come the > > file/directories" > >

Re: Grepping though a disk

Hi Polytropon & cc questions@ > Any suggestion is welcome! Ideas: A themed list: freebsd...@freebsd.org There's a bunch of fs tools in /usr/ports/sysutils/ My http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/slice/ slices large images such as tapes & disks (also the slice names would give n

Re: Hi BSD -

> > Since A.W.O.L bill is against that sort of thing I wonder why Lord > > Jesus is not working with all his might to do so. > > > > Is this emailing tongues? > > > Rod Don't feed troll quiet.rainbows@gmail.com Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich h

Re: Problem creating user account

"Herbert J. Skuhra" wrote: > Den 23.04.2013 13:17, skrev AMS_MDF_operations: > > LS, > > What is going ewrong? > > > > Problem : Creating user account > > > > -bash-2.05b$ uname -a > > FreeBSD us-syslog01.dcn.versatel.net 4.9-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD > > 4.9-RELEASE-p10 #1: Thu Jun 24 10:04:37 GMT 200

Re: Problem creating user account

Outback Dingo wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > "Herbert J. Skuhra" wrote: > > > Den 23.04.2013 13:17, skrev AMS_MDF_operations: > > > > LS, > > > > What is going ewrong? > > > > > >

Re: Procmail Decoding Mime Messages

Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:07:35 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Is there a filter that one can run in procmail in which > > base64 encoded data go in and text comes out so one can allow > > procmailrc to do its work? Good question, I havent tried that yet, (but should), but

Re: ls(1), rm(1) - No such file or directory even though they are there.

Reference: > From: Michael Bird > Reply-to: Michael Bird > Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 10:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Michael Bird wrote: > > Hi List, > > There is a rather curious problem that I have, which I haven't encountered > before. > I make regular backups of my packages and pu

List Spam Filtering

Hi questions@ ( spammer not cc'd ) Reference: > From: Aaron Seligman > Reply-to: aselig...@altitudedigitalpartners.com > Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 18:59:07 + (UTC) > Subject: Re: Display & Video Campaigns-Inventory Needed > Message-id: <1368039547.0568389241738...@

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

"Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: > > The subject line pretty much says it all. Additional to other ideas so far, You could also make a chroot, install normal bins from src, install all your ports, ^D to exit chroot, then do a compare & strip with eg: cd chroot ; find . -type f -exec cmpd -d {} / \;

Re: making photoalbums for web pages

Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Friday, May 10, 2013 a las 10:25:06AM +0200, Matthias Fechner escribió: > > > Am 10.05.2013 09:41, schrieb Matthias Apitz: > > > clicking them) and the application puts them together, with thumbnails, > > > to a tree which just goes per SCP -rp to our webserver; > >

Re: making photoalbums for web pages

Apologies my last post was multipart/mixed, (maybe my mouse skidded to some un-intended option). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. No quoted-pr

Re: List Spam Filtering

Hi, > From: Erich Dollansky > Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 08:33:47 +0700 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > > > > If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: &g

Re: List Spam Filtering

Hi, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" wrote: > On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > > If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: > > - List could silently discard such spam. > > - Postmaster@ (& webmaster@

Re: List Spam Filtering

> I'm curious how much spam you get through this list. > > Just counted, and I have about 2 Spams per week for the last month, > that's more than usual. Personaly I'm on ~ 47 freebsd lists or so my MH dirs + procmail filter boxes suggest, so when someone spams multiple lists with the same spam it

Re: compatibility SCO

grillo wrote: > I need use Microsoft Cobol Compiler and runtime developed for > Xenix/Unix system V SCO using NETBSD or FreeBSD, it is possible? have > binary compatibility ? environment compatibility ? > thank you A long time since I looked at this, but as no one else answered yet, hints to loo

Re: compatibility SCO (fwd)

Hi, cc questions@ was dropped so restoring Forwarded from: "Julian Stacey" http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/ --- Forwarded Message >From gri...@goldnet.it Sun May 12 09:15:13 2013 Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 09:12:53 +0200 From: grillo To: "Julian H. Stacey" Subject: Re: com

Re: List Spam Filtering

Bruce Cran wrote: > On 11/05/2013 02:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Good question. I don't know why. I wish all were, it would keep spam out. > > There have been some discussions about this in the past. > freebsd-questions doesn't require subscribing to avoid peo

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

Hi, Reference: > From: Xavier > 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 enabled and does not give any

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

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 --

Re: How can I unload/load modules that complied inside the kernel?

Hi, Reference: > From: Olivier Nicole > Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 17:54:59 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole wrote: > > [root@h-qa-033 ~]# uname -a > > FreeBSD h-qa-033 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0: Tue May 28 11:26:45 > > IDT 2013 root@h-qa-033:/usr/obj/lab/odeds/freebsd/9.1.0

Re: FreeBSD10: lock order reversal with portsnap extract

Hi, Reference: > From: Walter Hurry > Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 13:43:47 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: > I'm installing FreeBSD10 (head; snapshot from 30 May 2013) into a VM. > > One of the first things I do is a 'portsnap fetch extract'. As soon as > the extract starts it produ

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

Hi, Reference: > From: Chris Maness > Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:52:47 -0700 Chris Maness wrote: > Here is a link to the USNO article that the BASIC program originated from: > USNO171s.pdf > > Thanks, > Chris Maness As you need

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

> As you need max syntax checking from OCR, throw it at as many > different basic interpreters/ compilers as you can, & inspect where > each bleats, some error messages may be more & less usefull for > different errors. > > A friend of mine wrote a basic decades back, its in /usr/ports/lang/pbasic

Re: Avoid sharing interrupts in FreeBSD under ESXi

"C. L. Martinez" wrote: > HI all, > > I have installed a FreeBSD 8.4 vm under an ESXi 5.1 U1 server. All > works ok, except for interrupt usage between mpt and nic interfaces: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org is for beginners questions for newbies, as this question is deeper, I suggest try asking o

Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0

Warren Block wrote: > Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here: > http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/ > > emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdinstal directory, > but reports "no cdrom found". > > I mana

Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0

Warren Block wrote: > Decided to ignore the CD and just copy the files to a simulated MS-DOS > drive. Got to the point of copying distributions, process documented > here: http://wonkity.com/~wblock/freebsd-1.0/freebsd1.txt I had a quick scan BTW here's another URL for the same image: http://p

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

Hi, Reference: > From: ASV > Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:39:20 +0200 ASV wrote: > Thanks for your reply Polytropon, > > I'm using FreeBSD since few years already and I'm kind of aware of the > "dynamics" related to permissions, many of them are common to many > Unices. > I agree

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

Hi, Reference: > From: ASV > Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:10:02 +0200 [ I jhs@ reverted asv@'s top post to bottom post ] > > On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 01:47 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi, Reference: > > > From: ASV > > >

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 13:51:08 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > > El 05/07/2013 13:20, "Jens Jahnke" escribió: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 12:56:32 +0200 > > > CeDeROM wrote: > > > > > > C> Hey Raphael :-) Go to /usr/ports/editors/vim and make deinstall > >

Re: Help to secure my FreeBSD/Apache installation

Hi, Reference: > From: Andy Wodfer > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:11:27 +0200 Andy Wodfer wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I'm running a server on FreeBSD 8.1 STABLE (apache 2.2.16, mysql 5.1.50, To quote front page of http://www.freebsd.org: * Production: 9.1 * Legacy: 8.4 My

Re: Help to secure my FreeBSD/Apache installation

Hi, Reference: > From: "Julian H. Stacey" > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:38:51 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Hi, Reference: > > From: Andy Wodfer > > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:11:27 +0200 > > An

Re: Fresh installation 9.1

> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:13:07 +0530, hrkesh sahu wrote: > > Hi All, > > after using freebsd for 10 to 20 mins, Key board is getting locked. Apart from Polytopon's good questions & observations, such as "Is that inside X?" I'd also add 1 more question: Is that A) a PS2 [or older] direct

Re: Diskless question

Hi, Reference: > From: Bernt Hansson > Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:36:58 +0200 Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello list! > > I have a setup with a diskless machine and working, but I can not log in > as root on the diskless. How to proceed? Log in as non root & see what /var/log shows

Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted

Hi, Reference: > From: Danny Beger > Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:30:57 +0930 Danny Beger wrote: > I have a small law firm in Adelaide and I am looking to engage someone to > build / purchase a new server to replace my current server which runs v6 > freebsd. > > Can you recommen

Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted

Hi Greg & questions@ etc > That's massively out of date. Mike left Adelaide in 1998, and has > been working for Apple in Cupertino for about 10 years. OK deleted. > > Greg Lehey in Echunga +61 8 83888286 > > That's out of date too. I left Adelaide over 6 years ago. Up-to-date > information a

Re: Unban my second address from the mailing list

David Demelier wrote: > Hi, > > A long time ago, my domain malikania.fr has been banned because of lot > bounces, now the server is working and running. > > I sometime send some PR directly from my server using this domain, thus > I would like to be unbanned (the mail wasn't sent and postfix was

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

Hi, Good points in Brett & Michael's posts, but for brevity not copied. Best avoid having code written & reviewed just in USA as it would get less trust globaly, NSA is a known alien mega spy, & USA even coerces non USA citizens outside USA, eg http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/01/gary

Re: General questions regarding FreeBSD 10

Hi, Reference: > From: Nikolas Britton > Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:47:08 -0500 Nikolas Britton wrote: > General questions regarding FreeBSD 10: > > 1. Did virtualization containers (VPS) make it into FreeBSD 10? The > documentation I’ve read implies that you can have nested con

Re: FreeBSD routing problem

> From: hrkesh sahu > Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:09:02 +0530 > To: "Julian H. Stacey" > Cc: Polytropon , > FreeBSD questions Hi, No idea why it was To: me. > Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Re: 5.25" floppy drive

Hi Christoph, > In the end it turns out that the floppies that were lying in a drawer > for 19 years, are producing read errors. Do NOT throw them out. I have a tool that can rescue near all data. http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/ Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

Hi, Reference: > From: David Brodbeck > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:58:40 -0700 > Message-id: David Brodbeck wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Arthur Chance wrote: > > On 10/20/10 20:46, Bob Hall wrote: > > Getting back to reality, although I never did it (fortunately

Re: Administrating more than 10 servers

Hi, Reference: > From: Ahmed Ossama > Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:45:36 +0200 > Message-id: <4cc48ce0.4060...@master-zone.net> Ahmed Ossama wrote: > Hi folks, > > Lately I was put in charge to administrate 12 FreeBSD servers, and I was > wonder what is the best way to > admi

Re: Recovering a DVD

Hi, Reference: > From: Chuck Swiger > Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:04:15 -0700 > Message-id: <3ca64aa4-0063-4207-8e72-4eb9396b5...@mac.com> Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 29, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > I have a back up DVD that I cannot mount. dd won't read /dev

Re: /usr/local/sbin/apxs is missing.

Hi, "Ron (Lists)" wrote: > Still trying to unscrew my perl installation. Perl and Apache both > fail to install due to the missing /usr/local/sbin/apxs. I have no > idea what failed package removed it, but now I can't install perl. > > Who installs this file? cd /pri/FreeBSD/releases/current

Re: freebsd 8.1 iso 386

Hi, Reference: > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Samuel_Mart=EDn_Moro?= > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:37:18 +0100 > Message-id: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Samuel_Mart=EDn_Moro?= wrote: > 2010/11/9 Jean REY > > > Bonjour, > > > > Je voudrais charger la version 8.1 mais une boite de dialogue me deman

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > there will no no next language. there is no need to have C follower. > > C is perfect > > Which C are you referring to here? The original K&R, ANSI, or some > other variant? ANSI C is different enough from K&R C -- in strength > of ty

Re: BUG: freebsd.org/ru/releases

Hi, Reference: > From: =?windows-1251?B?yu7t/Oru4iDF4uPl7ejp?= > Reply-to: =?windows-1251?B?yu7t/Oru4iDF4uPl7ejp?= > Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:38:03 +0200 > Message-id: <1071667463.20101127183...@yandex.ru> =?windows-1251?B?yu7t/Oru4iDF4uPl7ejp?= wrote: > HI, Freebsd-qu

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

Bruce Cran wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:29:09AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > While installation and update via web browser makes sense as an option, it > > must not be the only option. What if the user starts with a blank hard > > drive, nothing installed? Then one needs to be able t

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

Bruce Cran wrote: > On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:09:24 +0100 > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > > FreeBSD has no instal...@freebsd.org list. Should it ? Only a few > > people tend to work on & know the constraints of the installer, > > many people over ye

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

Polytropon wrote: To: "Julian H. Stacey" I added back lost Cc: questi...@freebsd.org > On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:46:29 +0100, "Julian H. Stacey" > wrote: > > > Allow me a side question, but... what's wrong with ee? (Don't > > &

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