Re: Is it Possible to shrink a FBSD Partition?

2004-05-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 08:01:36PM -0500, Chris Collins wrote: Hello Is there any easy way to shrink a freebsd partition? When I created the slice (I think it is called) I used the complete drive. No, there is no easy way to do it AFAIK. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik

Re: Boot Floppy Images

2004-05-11 Thread Erik Trulsson
that still has the 4.1.1 binaries sitting around. I can't even guess if such a beast exists. Finding old releases is no problem Use http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org to find a FTP mirror carrying a given release. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Disk Usage

2004-05-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
AND no program has the file open. This is the normal cause for df/du discrepancies that you describe. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: permissions

2004-05-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
. - How to delete the directory? Not even root can change those permissions, nor delete the directory with these permissions. Read the FAQ. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#VAR-EMPTY -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: grep RegEx Syntax- How to Match?

2004-05-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
the output from the first grep into a second grep. For example: grep '^123\.456\.789\.123' /path/to/file | grep 'htm' -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: 4.10 RC3

2004-05-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
be in the final release either. They seem to be supported by 5-CURRENT though. It is essentially only bugfixes that get added between a release candidate and the final release; not new features. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mplayer + realaudio ... what to expect when installing ...

2004-05-26 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:32:50PM +0200, Henrik W Lund wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: snip mplayer does have about a gazillion dependencies (most of them optional) including X (not optional), so if you don't want X installed then mplayer isn't for you. (It is a multimedia player after

Re: security level and fsck

2004-06-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
in order to do its job, but such access is not allowed under securelevel 2 and above. fsck is normally run very early in the boot-sequence - before the securelevel is raised - so in normal operation that would not be any major problem. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL

Re: security level and fsck

2004-06-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 02:00:36PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:32:51PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: is there any connection to fsck not be able to run when I am at security level 3 under 5.2.1? That seems odd, but sure

Re: XFree and VIA chipset

2004-06-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
is not available yet, but once the X ports have been updated to the latest release it should work. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: I messed up, removed /usr/X11R6/lib

2004-06-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
a 'make reinstall' for each of them rather than deleting them first, but by deleting and installing all ports you minimize the risk for having problems with ports only having half of their files installed, or missing some port. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I messed up, removed /usr/X11R6/lib

2004-06-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:39:22AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:34:02AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Hi. Apart from the obvious answer to use the backup, is there any way to get it all back in /usr/X11R6/lib

Re: pkg_delete multimedia/mplayer doesn't work

2004-06-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
'mplayer*' to delete all all packages whose name start with mplayer.) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: [OT] fetchmail, procmail and mutt (oh my!)

2004-06-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
am not certain, but I believe it simply checks the IP-address to see if a host is allowed to connect. As for security, NFS is well-known for *NOT* being secure. Do not use NFS over networks where you don't trust all the machines. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL

Re: What determines if kernel modules are auto-loaded?

2003-09-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
chunk of code makes it into the kernel itself. If the module is compiled into a .ko file, and if the code isn't present in the kernel, then it can be loaded by kldload. Is this correct? Yes, that is essentially correct. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: auto-patching the system

2003-09-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
modifications. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q: Compiles for wrong processor and it still worked

2003-09-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
Pentium 4. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD4.5 release supports bigLBA( over 136GB HDD)?

2003-10-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
has support for 48-bit addressing. Devices larger than 137GB are now supported. So the answer would seem to be Yes. If not, which release of FreeBSD can support bigLBA? -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL

Re: wav to mp3?

2003-10-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
, and there are plenty of those in the ports collection. Personally I like audio/bladeenc, but audio/lame is also nice and has more features and options. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Uname -v incorrect

2003-10-11 Thread Erik Trulsson
is running on. It is the name of the host the kernel was built on. A rebuild will indeed change the hostname displayed by 'uname -v'. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: postscript to pdf conversion

2003-10-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
appreciate it. If you have Ghostscript installed, you already have the ps2pdf(1) script installed, which should do the job. The commandline should simply be something like: ps2pdf infile.ps outfile.pdf -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why build INDEX ?

2003-10-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:42:13PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 19 October 2003 10:21 am, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:09:59AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Adam McLaurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That doesn't mean you have to rebuild your own INDEX file

Re: Deleting dirs to save space.

2003-10-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
installkernel' is finished /usr/obj/* can be deleted. If you haven't a /usr/src around there is absolutely no reason to have /usr/obj around. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Why build INDEX ?

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:39:37AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:49:18PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:42:13PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: If that was true, why does the man page for portupgrade tell you to do the following o

Re: How to get out of Africa?

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Trulsson
the CD. Running the tzsetup(8) utility might prove to be useful. ('man -k timezone' is useful for finding out what commands might be useful for this purpose.) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
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Re: No MD5 checksum file for kde

2003-10-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
checksum for this port, since it has no distfiles to checksum. It is just a metaport to make it convient to build and install all the separate ports that make up KDE without having to install them one at a time by hand. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: No MD5 checksum file for kde

2003-10-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
to fetch all the distfiles for all the dependencies and check that they transferred correctly. On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:13:48AM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:21:39PM +0100, R.T.G. TAN wrote: I've been cvsupping my portstree several times now over the last past weeks

Re: 2 different versions of libtool installed

2003-10-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
need libtool14. Thus both versions are available at the same time, and some ports depend on one, while some depend on the other. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Problems with 'make world' stuff

2003-10-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
correctly if the world and kernel are not in sync; the error messages you report are typical for such a case. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: why is it known as unknown

2003-10-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
the middle part is just reported as 'unknown'. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Mouse

2003-10-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 3.3 in 5.1 -RELEASE's ports collection?

2003-10-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
). For XFree86 4.x you would want the x11/XFree86-4 port. The reason the old XFree86 port is still in the tree is that some older hardware is not supported by XFree86 4.x so some people still need the 3.x version of XFree86. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Divert port 80 to internal server

2003-11-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
believe it does exactly what you want. Let natd handle the redirection rather than ipfw. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: revived ports collection, errors galore

2003-11-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
tested that myself, so I don't know how well it works.) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: unkown this port

2003-11-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
? Use sockstat(1) or the sysutils/lsof port to see which program is listening on that port. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: unkown this port

2003-11-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
don't know which programming the server is running on this port? | 3/ I don't know the server is compromised or not | | Thank you for your help -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Old Computer + New HD

2003-11-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
of supporting higher transfer speeds from modern disks, than the controllers built in on older motherboards are capable of. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: about PAE questions under 4.9R

2003-10-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
to be such a line, but there isn't. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: at my wit's end on buildworld

2003-11-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
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Re: umass.o error

2004-01-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
, and then things should work better. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What exactly is ipfilter?

2004-01-26 Thread Erik Trulsson
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Re: Tracking local port hacks?

2004-01-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
of doing it, but it is the way I do it and it works fairly well. The ports part of the CVS repository uses around 600MB of disk space. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: swap usage

2004-01-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
it. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cvsup and RELENG_4 or RLENG_4_9

2004-02-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
, but then it is not crucial that my machines stay up all the time, so if they crash due to some new bug introduced in RELENG_4 it is not a major catastrophy. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: What does __restrict do?

2004-02-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
explanation. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with ssh

2004-02-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
the sshd_config(5) manpage. The 'PasswordAuthentication' keyword seems to be what you are interested in. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: startup daemon as unpriviliged user

2004-02-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
, keep in mind that the script's name requires a suffix of '.sh', or else the system won't execute it automatically. Uwe I think you could also setuid for that user to the shell script. No, the setuid flag does not work for shell scripts. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik

Re: IPFW ruleset not working... advice? WAS Re: Running processes...

2004-02-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
0 0 deny ip from not 1.2.3.4/29 8080 to me 65535 101 13960 deny ip from any to any Thanks. -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL

Re: continued IPFW issues... (actually a lack of ability on my part)

2004-02-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
[-1] log Thanks. -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: continued IPFW issues... (actually a lack of ability on my part)

2004-02-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
. They are probably what you want. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: copying files with same name

2004-02-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
the same name as the source, you must invoke cp(1) once for each file. You will have to use some kind of loop to do this. A for loop iterating over the output of find(1) would seem to be better suited for this problem than a while loop. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL

Re: copying files with same name

2004-02-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:16:18AM -0500, Dru wrote: On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:49:37PM -0500, Dru wrote: Okay, I must be missing something obvious here. How do you do a batch copy while renaming the destination files? I want to copy all

Re: copying files with same name

2004-02-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:00:07AM -0500, Dru wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:16:18AM -0500, Dru wrote: On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:49:37PM -0500, Dru wrote: Okay, I must be missing

Re: scheduling priority not working?

2004-02-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
significant disturbance. You might wish to try mpg123 instead, in my experience it needs less CPU-power than mpg321. You could also try using a higher nice value for the make process. (i.e run it with 'nice -19 make' or something like that.) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson

Re: scheduling priority not working?

2004-02-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 01:06:35PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:37:51AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I thought scheduling priority is the kind of absolute priority, that is only when the higher priority process don't ask for resource

Re: kernel compile Q - How to get the speaker to work?

2004-03-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
documented and supported, and I think it might even have been removed entirely from 5.x -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: sparc classic

2004-03-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
. You could try NetBSD instead. I am fairly sure that works fine on both 32- and 64-bit Sparcs. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
boot from this disk since all the files needed for booting reside below the 512MB mark. Once I have booted FreeBSD I can access the whole disk precisely because FreeBSD does *not* use the BIOS, but use its own routines. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: writing to specific block address

2004-03-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
. You should be able to do that using dd(1). -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-03-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
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Re: FreeBSD - Linux / Unix ?

2004-03-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
system that is descended from V7 Unix. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 4.4 in FreeBSD?

2004-03-31 Thread Erik Trulsson
XFree86 4.3 is what is included in the FreeBSD ports collection. The FreeBSD version numbers that you mention are irrelevant to this discussion. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: How best to reply to list (Was Re: startssl at boot time)

2004-04-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
and then replied to it just as if I had received it normally. It is a bit of work, but it works fine. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
or relative path reference. For example: rm /home/user/-filename rm ./-filename -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
. Would something strange happen now if I added a line for 'ports-accessability' in my ports-supfile and tried to cvsup again? Probably not. I guess I *really* should do a pkgdb -Uu then? -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix

2004-04-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
read/write, and then a 'mount /usr' to mount /usr where vi and find lives. Then you should be able to fix rc.conf without much trouble. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: timezone command

2004-04-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
$timezone= $ENV{TZ} and I did not get 00:00 format which I was looking for. Try 'date +%z' to get the timezone in the format +0200. Not exactly what you asked for, but almost. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Dependency hell

2004-04-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
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Re: Maximumx Memory for Free BSD 4.7?

2002-12-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
be compatible. FreeBSD cannot handle more than 4GB of memory on x86 systems, but 2048MB should work fine. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Seagate Barracuda ATA IV ST380021A

2003-01-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
more convenient for computers, but technically wrong. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: entropy

2003-01-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
the efficiency of existing or developing compression algorithms. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: How to safely unmount a filesystem mounted async?

2003-01-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
an active async filesystem? Does the unmount process automatically force a complete flush to disk? You unmount the same way you would any other filesystem. Yes, doing an unmount will automatically flush any unwritten data to the disk. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL

Re: problem with sys/select.h and sys/types.h

2003-01-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
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Re: 200Gig disk shrinks to 124 upon install

2003-02-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
using IDE disks. Upgrading to 4.5 or later might help. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: vt/ansi codes

2003-07-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
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Re: ps2pdf

2003-07-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
it is just a shell script frontend for ghostscript, so it is not of any use without that installed. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: FreeBSD and OSX applications

2003-07-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
trivial.) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: buggy optimization levels...

2003-07-31 Thread Erik Trulsson
this optimization for correct code also even though it is not necessary there. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: buggy optimization levels...

2003-08-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 12:19:06PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 10:30:57PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] I understand that figuring out why the kernel died can be hard, particularly if the failures aren't concise and completely reproducable

Re: buggy optimization levels...

2003-08-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:52:25PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: [ ... ] A somewhat contrived example that behaves differently when compiled with -O3 or when compiled with -O2 or lower optimization follows: static int f(int a) { return a/0; } int main(void

Re: Static CVSup still possible?

2003-08-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
sources (also had to manually copy /usr/share/mk/bsd.port* files) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: make options for ports

2003-08-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
the distribution (which wipes out my edits); or simply reinstalling the already-compiled binaries without recompiling (which ignores my edits). I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but I can't figure it out. Help? -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: make options for ports

2003-08-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
helpful than the Porter's Handbook. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hard disk performance issue

2003-08-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
of of=/home/chris/tmp.dat) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade 5.0 to 5.1

2003-08-31 Thread Erik Trulsson
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Re: Ports Collection

2003-03-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
/bsd.port.mk also contains useful information. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Smarter 'make buildkernel'?

2003-03-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
the trick. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to list installed ports that have no dependant ports

2003-04-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
to come up with anything that works nicely. Look at the output from 'pkg_info -a -R'. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: 4.3 - 4.8 upgrade: pitfalls?

2003-04-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
or the installworld will fail.) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc (3.2.3) implicit struct copy exploit

2003-06-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
exhibit the bug. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printing man pages and source code (with vgrind + troff)

2003-06-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
-liner would look something like: a2ps -2 -o - /path/to/input/file | ps2pdf - outputfile.pdf There are lots of flags you can give to a2ps to control the exact look of the output. Read the documentation if necessary. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Setting kernel name in buildkernel

2003-05-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
of the default 'kernel' -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to Tell When Man Page Changes?

2003-05-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
first created, even though they have changed since then. In short: Yes, the date displayed is probably supposed to be the date of last modification, but you can't rely on it being correct. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: HDD does not work up to capacity

2003-06-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
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Re: How to get FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE?

2003-06-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
release you want. (Most mirrors don't carry the older releases, but some do.) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: compilation of port 'latex' fails repeatedly

2003-06-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
? Use the print/teTeX port instead to get TeX stuff. It is what just about everybody uses. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Difference between ipf/ipfw and ipnat/natd

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Trulsson
differences (the implementation is completely different, the configuration files are completely different) but for an ordinary user who is not familiar with either the differences are not very important. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: what kernel does freebsd use?

2003-06-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
(no, there is no specific name for it) just as NetBSD uses the NetBSD kernel and so on. You can't swap it out for another kernel (not without lots of work anyway) and if you did it would no longer really be FreeBSD but some new system. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED

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