Re: pwd.db/spwd.db file corupption when having unsafe system poweroff

2013-05-05 Thread Polytropon
. If your power button acts properly (check BIOS settings!), press it for just a moment. The system will then perform "shutdown -p now" and bring the system down properly. > i don't know what else to think of... First I'd suggest to perform a SUM boot and run fsck. Then check the file

Re: X11 screen grabber from cmd line

2013-05-09 Thread Polytropon
t; or "import -screen" can be used. -- 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,

Re: Downgrading a port

2013-05-09 Thread Polytropon
tdowngrade program relies on the ports infra- structure and requires you to build things yourself. I think this will be the easiest way to go. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-qu

Re: X11 screen grabber from cmd line

2013-05-10 Thread Polytropon
port a -display option. In case the root window (equals the whole screen) is captured, no further interaction is required (at least in case of xwd). This makes it easy to obtain screenshots non-interactively (e. g. time-triggered) from "outside" the

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-14 Thread Polytropon
method" of the driver, making the device come up as da0 (for example) or ada0, depending if EHCI or XHCI can be selected. But I assume this only applies to USB devices (and maybe Firewire). SATA should work fine with the default settings. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD u

Re: Will i be force.

2013-05-14 Thread Polytropon
general questions, usually answered by FreeBSD users and contributors). -- 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/fre

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-14 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 14 May 2013 16:34:11 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <20130514144721.aa321c25.free...@edvax.de>, > Polytropon wrote: > > >I've been using SCSI "hot swap" devices for many years, and > >they usually required a re-sca

Re: detecting keyboard layout during boot

2013-05-15 Thread Polytropon
d the blind knowledge of the US keyboard layout is quite standard among sysadmins. :-) As a summery: No soup for you! ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: detecting keyboard layout during boot

2013-05-15 Thread Polytropon
obtain some hardware identification of the eeePC you're using, maybe some kind of ACPI string or other vendor and product ID from some component, you could guess what "localization" the device has, and then assume what keyboard is installed. But that's just a wild gu

Re: check variable content size in sh script

2013-05-18 Thread Polytropon
he smallest portion of the prefix matched by the pattern deleted. Check the chapter "Parameter Expansion" for more surprising things that are supported by ye olde /bin/sh. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 && special function keys

2013-05-19 Thread Polytropon
. Maybe volume and brightness keys are handled in a similar way on your machine... -- 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

Re: signal vs. sigaction and SIGCHLD

2013-05-20 Thread Polytropon
func is called. >From my limited understanding, maybe this could help you find an explanation of the observed behaviour? Also compare /usr/include/sys/signal.h for the definition of the involved typedef's. -- Polytropon Magdeburg,

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

2013-05-22 Thread Polytropon
o make sure you're not missing a simple (but important) step during upgrades. Patches for the OS are of course handled independently from those applying to applications from the ports collection. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-26 Thread Polytropon
system use a "disk-backed dynamic swap file". If the swap won't be used, no space will be occupied or "reserved" on the SSD. You can also think about "changing stuff" you won't need to store on the SSD, maybe some content of /tmp or /var. You can also

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Polytropon
s mentioning _usernames_ will probably cause problems. > How can I enable mail for > them? Maybe it's possible to use /etc/mail/aliases? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ f

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:36:41 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > > On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:44:41 -0600, Modulok wrote: > > > I know usernames are case-sensitive, I thought emails were > > > too. > > > &

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Polytropon
ularly have problems with e-mail addresses and just don't care for upper and lower case), it's a good default setting. In _your_ case, it does not apply, because it introduces problems. So if you intend to make a local modification, that's no problem because you _can_ configure such th

Re: slice and partition in FreeBSD 9.1

2013-05-27 Thread Polytropon
dbook/geom-glabel.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-adding.html Still you have the choice to use MBR partitioning if this is a requirement (maybe due to hardware that has problems booting GPT partitioned media? who knows). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Ha

Re: cannot use ftp utility throught proxy

2013-05-27 Thread Polytropon
with other programs that use it (such as lynx(1)). NOTE: this is not used for interactive sessions, only for command-line fetches. You can also interactively set those (again, see "man

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Polytropon
an 'h' partitions, but the partitions will have different names, such as ad3s1p1, ad3s1p2, ..., ad3s1p10, ad3s1p11, ... and so on. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 07:10:03 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:10:32 +0430, s m wrote: > > > >> my question is: how can i define more partitions on my freebsd? (for > >> example, ad3s1a, ..., ad3s1h,

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Polytropon
estion is: how can i define more partitions on my freebsd? (for > > > example, ad3s1a, ..., ad3s1h, ad3s1i, ad3s1j, ...). > > > You cannot. You need to use the GPT partitioning approach > > and repartition your disk. With gpart, you can create more > > than 'h

Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-05 Thread Polytropon
But just to be fully sure: This is a USB stick / thumb drive, right? It's not some internal card reader (which would probably require "re-tasting")? Just asking to make sure I haven't missed this fact while reading... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user si

Re: Boot hangs in single-user mode

2013-06-06 Thread Polytropon
_ deduct from a label (for example of a disk that is reported as failing) like "red 2" that the disk is the 2nd mirror disk in the "red" stripe, and _which_ physical disk is it? The one with a red "2" on it. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD use

Re: 9.1-RELEASE slow boot

2013-06-07 Thread Polytropon
etting to my kernel configuration: options SCSI_DELAY=100 The default value is 5000. It's the delay in milliseconds for the SCSI probe. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ free

Re: custom kernel installation

2013-06-07 Thread Polytropon
OSE_LIMIT=500 options IPFILTER options IPDIVERT Of course you can also remove lines for hardware you don't have in your box, like trimming the support for NICs or SCSI controllers and the like. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany H

Re: custom kernel installation

2013-06-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 01:17:35 +0200, Norman Khine wrote: > thanks for the quick reply You're welcome. > On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 00:37:02 +0200, Norman Khine wrote: > > > hello, > > > i have a dedicated se

Re: XDM cannot start desktop after Xorg upgrade

2013-06-08 Thread Polytropon
X manually works. In this case, ~/.xinitrc will be processed. XDM does use ~/.xsession instead (same content can be used). This seems to indicate that the upgrade did not affect the programs called. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user s

Re: Setting a lcoale globally

2013-06-14 Thread Polytropon
ly seems counter-intuitive to me. True. :-) > Is it at all possible for me to specify in once place *somewhere" that > the entire server is to use the locale setting LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" ? >From my individual experience, adding it to the global C-Shell configuration

Re: Setting a locale globally

2013-06-14 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:54:06 -0400, Mike. wrote: > On 6/14/2013 at 9:12 PM Polytropon wrote: > > |On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:13:34 -0400, Mike. wrote: > |> I would like to set the locale of my 9.1 server to > |> > |>LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" > |> > |&

Re: installing a kernel under a custom location, not /boot/kernel?

2013-06-17 Thread Polytropon
t; kernel_options="foo bar blah" See /boot/defaults/loader.conf for details. For booting test kernels, you might also find the nextboot command very helpful; read "man nextboot" for more inspiration. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: FreeBSD maximum password length

2013-06-17 Thread Polytropon
me. Finite time, far far away. :-) -- 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 a

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Polytropon
or "directly" on the disk. > If one slice has several partitions, one single partition can > not be mounted from linux. The opposite should be true. You should be able to address each partition (each one carrying a file system) independently. What you're planning is a b

Re: showing CAPSLOCK state on display

2013-06-20 Thread Polytropon
and ScrollLock But don't look at the dependency lists, they're terrible. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: How do I launch Calligra?

2013-06-20 Thread Polytropon
$ grep "bin" /var/db/pkg//+CONTENTS where is the correct package name including the version (use TAB completition). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: Problem in installing textproc/asciidoc

2013-06-21 Thread Polytropon
(I've checked 8.6.6's on my 8.2 home system). Just to be sure, make clean and re-checkout the port, then try again. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Polytropon
ot -b 40 -s 512K ad0 # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ad0 See http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!

2013-06-23 Thread Polytropon
ht > hothey that would block manual control, or BIOS settings (like automatic > backlight) or maybe new BIOS would fix that problem..? Sometimes you can adjust brightness in BIOS setup. If you don't need to change brightness all the time, this seems to be the most comfortable situation.

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Polytropon
and I can't > believe I forgot to update fstab. That was a really dumb > mistake. Thanks very much. If you can use labels instead of device names, this problem can be avoided. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD use

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Polytropon
s start, and they will be logged in /var/log/messages anyway. -- 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/freebs

Re: Help finding sound driver

2013-06-25 Thread Polytropon
for that audio chipset, for FreeBSD 9.1? Probably snd_hda will work. A common solution is to try this first (because of the "name matching"), and then load all drivers and see which one is working. Check the kernel output messages and also "cat /dev/sndstat" to confirm success.

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Polytropon
mmarize the answer for your question: It's just the default. :-) -- 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-questi

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-26 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:40:07 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > Polytropon writes: > > > > During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed > > > that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently > > > modern machine it goes by too f

Re: Retrieving a FreeBSD installation

2013-06-27 Thread Polytropon
uot; mistake and I won't make fun on you, pointing you to use your backups. Of course you always have the option to send your disk to a professional recovery company. This substitutes learning and trying yourself by impressive amounts of money. ;-) Good luck! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Ge

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Polytropon
d 750 /root > for a couple of months & see if any burnt fingers. What programs or daemons should attention be paid at, especially? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune"

2013-06-29 Thread Polytropon
duce a different result? > root@psumc:/usr/local/tomcat5.5 # su -c 'killall -9 java' That command doesn't make sense. The prompt indicates that you are already root. The -c parameter for the su command is missing an argument, the class". See "man su" for details, n

Re: ALT key problem with Virtual Box?

2013-06-29 Thread Polytropon
he reason. Several window managers are using Alt + left mouse key for a windowing operation (usually moving the window without requiring dragging it by the title bar). Check if you can "unconfigure" this setting in Gnome's window management preferences. -- Polytropon M

Re: any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup

2013-07-01 Thread Polytropon
set to -1 if you don't want user to be allowed to interrupt autoboot process and escape to the loader prompt, set to "NO" to disable autobooting I'm using autoboot_delay="1" to limit the time which the system is waiting before continuing

Re: any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup

2013-07-02 Thread Polytropon
of the characters -, \, |, or / is displayed) before loader(8) is invoked. Booting will also be attempted at stage two, if the third stage cannot be loaded. It's always good to know where thine documentation is. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Hap

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Polytropon
libXaw-1.0.11,2 > libXft-2.3.1 > fontconfig-2.9.0,1 > expat-2.0.1_2 > freetype2-2.4.12_1 > pkgconf-0.9.2_1 > pcre-8.33 > libpthread-stubs-0.3_3 > > Obviously xterm does not depend on xorg-server. But one of its depe

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 18:07:11 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:47:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> [...] > >> Obviously xterm does not depend on xorg-server. > > > > But o

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Polytropon
make rmconfig first and then make install. And make sure /etc/make.conf does not contain any "offending" settings that might suggest you do not have or want X11. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: install on external hdd

2013-07-06 Thread Polytropon
u try to attach a separate power supply to the disk? For USB 3, _all_ involved parts (disk, cable, ports, controller, OS) need to be in "USB 3 mode", else it probably won't work. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: install on external hdd

2013-07-06 Thread Polytropon
on. > My hdd has an input for an external power supply, and it is > already connected to a second usb port. Also check the USB cable. Sometimes a "partially defective" cable causes this kind of trouble. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi e

Re: UEFI Secure Boot

2013-07-08 Thread Polytropon
they have already gotten their fingers everywhere, this doesn't seem to happen all too soon... :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: rsyslog

2013-07-16 Thread Polytropon
ectory thereof. -- 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 &q

Re: LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 with xterm - still French accented characters are corrupted

2013-07-17 Thread Polytropon
pand DECTERM=off: Enable DECterm Locator support GNOME=off: GNOME desktop environment support LUIT=on: Use LUIT for locale convertion from/to UTF-8 PCRE=off: Use Perl Compatible Regular Expressions WCHAR=on: Enable wide-character s

Re: Help to secure my FreeBSD/Apache installation

2013-07-17 Thread Polytropon
milar to one. It's comparable to the relation of the handbrake light in your car's dashboard vs. the real handbrake. Don't claim your handbrake light isn't working when in fact your handbrake is broken. :-) Bottom line: Directory correct, "folder" plain wrong. You

Re: Fresh installation 9.1

2013-07-19 Thread Polytropon
is working as expected, for example by testing it in a non-X session (text mode terminal). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: hey some questions

2013-07-19 Thread Polytropon
eebsd.org/showthread.php?t=19940 Does this provide some help for you? If not, you might need to be less un-bro-like and instead more specific in regards of your problem description. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi enne

Re: Creating freebsd usb boot

2013-07-25 Thread Polytropon
mstick.img will be the correct file which you can easily dd onto the USB stick. But maybe this will help you will the file you already have: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=30136 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD use

Re: Theft in the Clouds

2013-07-25 Thread Polytropon
is what the article refers to): http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448.pdf Source: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Polytropon
kaboom! It's really surprising that a (comparable) high-level function could fail in that drastic way, but on the other hand, one would assume that there is a _reason_ for this behaviour. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Polytropon
impossible? :-) > Returning ENOENT > or EACCES or ENOTDIR may be better ("No such directory", "Access denied" > or "Not a valid directory"). Depends on the applying definition of those errors. > The trouble is that it's tricky to test properly wi

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Polytropon
write protect" switch back... ;-) -- 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,

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-27 Thread Polytropon
e partitions on the slices, it's even easier to determine _which_ 'a' partition (root partition) you are currently dealing with. And if you continue your installation scheme in further versions, you will be freed from remembering what OS version resides on what slice. You then simp

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:18:39 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: > > >> A very important question is if sysinstall's option "Install the FreeBSD > >

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Polytropon
ersion of FreeBSD. -- 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 &q

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-29 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:34:10 +0930, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 29/07/2013 08:23, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:23:38 +, Teske, Devin wrote: > >> In this case, sade is (or was) a direct by-product of the death > >> of sysinstall(8). It only exists in 9

Re: Unusual file: /bin/[

2013-07-29 Thread Polytropon
YOu can _always_ counter-check by building /usr/src/bin/test from source and compare the resulting binary. Both /bin/[ and /bin/test are usually installed as hardlinks (two file names for one / for _the same_ file), as seen in the corresponding Makefile: LINKS= ${BINDIR}/test ${BINDIR}/[

Re: xcdroast cannot locate cdda2wav

2013-07-30 Thread Polytropon
ence, as cdda2wav is not part of this port, even though cdrtools is both defined as a build time and a runtime dependency... > I have not been able to locate "cdda2wav" on the system or in a > port. The cdda2wav program is part of the "cdrtools" port. Try updating that

Re: xcdroast cannot locate cdda2wav

2013-07-30 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:36:37 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:37:38 +0200 > Polytropon articulated: > > > The cdda2wav program is part of the "cdrtools" port. > > Try updating that one. > > Been there, done that, doesn't work. I am consideri

Assign program call to a key

2013-08-02 Thread Polytropon
use of additional and "multimedia" keys on laptops that simply send key codes that can be assigned key names. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Assign program call to a key

2013-08-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 14:43:14 + (UTC), jb wrote: > Polytropon edvax.de> writes: > > > > > Is there a way to assign a predefined program call to a key > > in X, _independently_ from the window manager or desktop > > environment in use? > > ... &g

Re: hardware monitor

2013-08-04 Thread Polytropon
healthd (system service), mbmon and xmbmon (in the ports collection). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: .sh script code to determine IPv4 or IPv6

2013-08-06 Thread Polytropon
Maybe from sysutils/bsdconfig in the ports collection? I have not checked if this specific subroutine file is part of the port... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: .sh script code to determine IPv4 or IPv6

2013-08-06 Thread Polytropon
ts of the library code). I think it should be relatively unproblematic to fetch the port and only use the subroutines "as is", even if it's just for educational purposes. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD u

Re: Setup HP Laserjet 1120m over network with LPD

2013-08-06 Thread Polytropon
m/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_m1120_mfp.html http://foo2xqx.rkkda.com/ I'm using a similar approach for a terrible Samsung color laserprinter (foo2qpdl-wrapper in my specific case) which I could easily integrate with the already mentioned CUPS, as well as the normal system's pri

Re: New to Free-BSD with questions.

2013-08-10 Thread Polytropon
this web page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html for the FAQ, and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html for The FreeBSD Handbook, but it might be unhandy for printing. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi en

Re: 9.2-RC1: Problem with Kernel

2013-08-10 Thread Polytropon
rompt? If GENERIC boots and your kernel doesn't, there should be a significant difference regarding the config file's content. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: 9.2-RC1: Problem with Kernel

2013-08-12 Thread Polytropon
alking to disk devices, similarly as the acd interface for optical media has been trans- formed into "SCSI over ATA" (ex device atapicam). So the disk drive has not been recognized by the kernel, therefore: No soup for you (i. e., no boot device). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

2013-08-16 Thread Polytropon
Thinkpads seem to live much longer (and therefore will probably many more years in productive use), compared to their crappy "competitors" on the laptop market. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

2013-08-16 Thread Polytropon
ich symbol is associated to which key (or key combination, if this creates a new unique key event). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

2013-08-16 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:07:25 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > What keyboard / laptop has the key code '150' map to 'go to sleep' ? My Sun Type 7 USB keyboard has the "Copy" key at code 150... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Mouse Trails?

2013-08-17 Thread Polytropon
configuration, but if I remember correctly, LXDE does not offer this. Additional software like Compiz could help you here: There seems to be a plugin that adds a mouse trail. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Mouse Trails?

2013-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 03:08:16 +0200, cpghost wrote: > On 08/17/13 18:14, Walter Hurry wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:31:26 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > >> If LXDE uses an ugly white mouse cursor, try changing it to black (the > >> normal color for mouse c

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

2013-08-18 Thread Polytropon
using TSK. Note: Do _not_ do ANY writes to the card! Mount it -o ro if needed. Make an 1:1 copy (using "dd_rescue" from ports), work with that copy. Everything that slips through fat fingers could reduce the chance of a successful recovery session. I know it. ;-) -- Polytropon Mag

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

2013-08-18 Thread Polytropon
those are using the free tools. :-) -- 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 unsubsc

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

2013-08-18 Thread Polytropon
e options. And local options, because you have to trust your online backup provider (except it's _yourself_ who provides and maintains the systems). > As always. Test restores > periodically. A backup that cannot be restored is _not_ a backup. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germa

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

2013-08-18 Thread Polytropon
reeBSD 10-CUR tool to undelete the files, as there are some for M$? > > /usr/ports/sysutils/testdisk > > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk That one is also on my "famous list", and if I remember correctly, also part of the UBCD for "OS-less" use. :-) -- Polyt

Re: freebsd 9.2 via svn

2013-08-18 Thread Polytropon
I aim to follow > 9.2-R with security updates. 9.2-RELEASE hasn't been released yet. :-) http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/schedule.html If you don't use a custom kernel, why not use freebsd-update and follow the 9.2-RELEASE path with the security updates? -- Polytropon Ma

Re: freebsd 9.2 via svn

2013-08-18 Thread Polytropon
lar approach with CVS to follow the -STABLE branch with a custom kernel and custom settings for building the system. If this makes me old, I should deserve several birthday parties per year. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Setup HP Laserjet 1120m over network with LPD

2013-08-20 Thread Polytropon
S test page as input, let it run through the filter, and send its output directly to the printer (with netcat if networked, with > to /dev/lpt or /dev/ulpt if local). If _that_ part is working, integrate it with the LPD subsystem or CUPS. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user si

Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync

2013-09-05 Thread Polytropon
/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c around line 330 (8-STABLE/i386 here). -- 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

Re: ufs recovery

2013-09-08 Thread Polytropon
loss (meanwhile cured!) brought me to this list, so I continue to spread my experience about recovery when needed. :-) Good luck! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: lpd(8) sending email to the wrong address

2013-09-09 Thread Polytropon
probably use an alias for those specific cases (via /var/mail/aliases). Because sendmail and lpr should match archaic-wise... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

2013-09-10 Thread Polytropon
the _right_ tools here. :-) -- 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: ufs recovery

2013-09-10 Thread Polytropon
recovery works, time does not matter. Success does. :-) -- 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

Re: question

2013-09-11 Thread Polytropon
you want to coredump to a USB device, you need to configure this accordingly. You can find more information about this topic in the following manual pages: "man 2 sigaction", "man 8 crash", and "man 5 core". -- Polytropon Magde

Re: cant mount CD

2013-09-12 Thread Polytropon
REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 > Sep 12 10:09:36 vm-9Current kernel: acd0: FAILURE - MODE_SELECT_BIG > ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x26 ascq=0x00 Proper cabling? Drive and media not covered with dust? ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

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