Re: SOLVED: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

2010-09-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann

Re: How to connect a jail to the web ?

2010-08-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
the following line, so you don't have to install any additional allow rules: optionsIPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT That's especially useful if you want to use IPFW for forwarding only, and use another software for actual packet filtering (i.e. pf or ipf). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme

Re: Re : How to connect a jail to the web ?

2010-08-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
ifconfig and netstat -rnfinet. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758

Re: Re : Re : How to connect a jail to the web ?

2010-08-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
the complete list of rules. Otherwise, it might help to run tcpdump(1) on the host, so you can see the actual packets that are transmitted and received. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA

Re: Grepping a list of words

2010-08-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
be important if that kind of grep command is run very often by a script, or if it's run on very large files. My guess is that one large regular expression is more efficient than many small ones. But I haven't done real benchmarks to prove this. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
hits, but it's not difficult to narrow it down from there. Also, is p5-Tk the same as Perl/Tk? I think so. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix

Re: Re : How to connect a jail to the web ?

2010-08-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
router_enable=YES Remove both. You don't need either of those. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister

Re: How to connect a jail to the web ?

2010-08-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Brice ERRANDONEA berrando...@yahoo.fr wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: sysctl security.jail.allow_raw_sockets=1 I did it but ping still doesn't work. Which IP address are you using for the jail now? If you're using 127.0.0.1, you can only ping the host's own IP addresses, because packets

Re: UPS question

2010-08-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
it will be less because no UPS has 100% efficiency. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht

Re: USB pen drive not detected

2010-08-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
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Re: MCA error

2010-08-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
was correctable (e.g. with ECC mechanisms), so it is not fatal yet. Do you overclock that processor? Did you check that the cooling is sufficient? I.e. check the fan, remove dust etc. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M

Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd

2010-08-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Paul Lambert eb30...@gmail.com wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Paul eb30...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Oliver I can just get the i386 vmware version and should install and run. Last question is there a x86_64 bit Linux module? No, unfortunately x86_64 linux binaries

Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd

2010-08-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
try asking in the freebsd-emulat...@freebsd.org mailing list. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister

Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd

2010-08-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
). But I'm afraid this is the smallest of the problems. I suspect you won't be able to get this script to run correctly on FreeBSD, because it seems to do too many linux-specific things. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M

Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd

2010-08-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
the shell with -vx. Then it prints the script as it is being parsed, and additionally each command is printed after expansion. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung

Re: Compiling kernel with gcc43 [SOLVED]

2010-04-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann

Re: for perl wizards.

2009-10-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
contents, do this: $ recode utf8..iso8859-15 old.txt new.txt Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht

Re: How to set device permissions at startup

2009-10-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
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Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
seem to be ready yet. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Randi Harper wrote: / = 1GB /var = 2GB /tmp = 2GB Depending on the size of installed RAM, /tmp could also be a memory disk by default. I do that on all of my machines. I never have /tmp physically on disk anywhere. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG

Re: How to set device permissions at startup

2009-10-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Roland Smith wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Quote from the manpage: The devfs.rules file provides an easy way to create and apply devfs(8) rules, even for devices that are not available at boot. The rules take effect whenever a new node (devide) appears, even after devfs

Re: for perl wizards.

2009-10-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Warren Block wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script to translate hex back into ', , -- [that's

Re: for perl wizards.

2009-10-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Warren Block wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Warren Block wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner

Re: How to set device permissions at startup

2009-10-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Roland Smith wrote: But one has to run '/etc/rc.d/devfs restart' for newly added rules to take effect! (or reboot the system, which is overkill). Yes, of course. I thought that was obvious. Maybe I whould add

Re: Show bandwidth usage by IP address (through pf)

2009-10-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
or none at all. If you want to see the amount of accumulated traffic (i.e. since boot) per interface and per IP address, the commands netstat -i and netstat -ib will tell that (in packets and in bytes, respectively). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29

Re: FBSD 7.2 - ports blocked but no firewall

2009-10-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
problem with that daemon. If it listens on all interfaces (*), then the problem is somewhere else, e.g. a packet filter (on the server or client side, or somewhere between), or maybe a typo when starting the client (wrong port number or address). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix

Re: A general sed question

2009-10-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
-Buw (sed 's/#.*//' GENERIC) (sed 's/#.*//' MYKERNEL) I think bash has a similar feature, but I don't know the syntax, so please see the manpage if you're a bash user. If you need to do that oftem, it's worth to create an alias or shell function. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix

Re: Howto: ethernet card on dell M6300

2009-10-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
that the developers of the NIC drivers aren't always reading the questions@ mailing list. Thank you very much! Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
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Re: sendmail CLIENT_OPTIONS

2009-10-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
processes are running, then perform the start. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

2009-10-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
that remotely without single user mode, but it's always better to be prepared to have access to the console. And of course, you should always have good backups. A RAID is never a substitute for a backup. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M

Re: Jails: /bin/tcsh: Permission Denied

2009-10-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
, but for building ports I recommend to use a separate jail anyway, create packages and pkg_add them in the actual webserver jail. Just my 2 cents. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606

Re: Jails: /bin/tcsh: Permission Denied

2009-10-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
is currently not available. Yeah, when the trace aborts, it is still executing the su binary. It doesn't get as far as actually trying to execute the shell. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen

Re: Jails: /bin/tcsh: Permission Denied

2009-10-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
the umask at the default of 022, unless you specifically know that you need a different one for a certain installation. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
, it will not be completely without a trace. As soon as you connect to the SMTP port, it might cause an entry in that server's logfile, even before entering any SMTP command. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht

Re: Every 12-hrs -- ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA

2009-10-04 Thread Oliver Fromme
for DJNA-3x The maintenance mode is described in chapter 10.12 (page 99). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-04 Thread Oliver Fromme
an account and voting on the link below =D http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1060 There's no way I'm going to create an account at Adobe and give them my personal data. No thanks. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister

awk question

2009-04-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
it (i.e. use the -F option). This one should work: awk -F';' '$3 ~ /^[a-z]{5}$/ {print}' file If that still doesn't work for you, please specify your file format more exactly, and provide an example of the input lines. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
authentication, server aliases (via ~/.ssh/config) etc. You can also use other file copy tools (such as cpdup) that can be tunneled through ssh. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606

Re: powerd

2009-04-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
configuration. If you don't have it, try to load the module: kldload cpufreq Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH

Re: powerd

2009-04-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
(501.14-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 Features=0x383fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE I'm afraid this one does not support CPU frequency control. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix

Re: C programming question

2009-04-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
controller through the serial port. Well, it's not hard or complicated, but it requires a certain amount of knowledge. First you have to learn C programming. Then you have to learn about the termios(4) interface and related things. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG

Re: How to find out which ports contains a specified command.

2009-04-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
/sbin. It's unlikely that a port requires a different command with the same name without having a dependency on the port that provides that command. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA

Re: anybody know about a 3.01 package *With* browser?

2009-04-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
, it all adds up. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer

Re: gmirror THEN geli, correct?

2009-04-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
instance detects data corruption (if integrity verification is enabled). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH

Re: anybody know about a 3.01 package *With* browser?

2009-04-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
Robert Huff wrote: Oliver Fromme writes: I'm not sure why there's so much depenencies, but if anyone wants me to post it, I want to know. Because OOo declines to re-invent the wheel? Some of these are easy to understand if you know almost nothing about

Re: gmirror THEN geli, correct?

2009-04-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
it is right order. No, there is no right or wrong order. It depends on what features of gmirror and geli you want to exploit. See my more detailed explanation in this thread. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister

Re: py24-gobject won't deinstall

2009-04-03 Thread Oliver Fromme
Richard DeLaurell wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: PS: To check the consistency of your package database, you can use this small script (requires Python): http://www.secnetix.de/olli/scripts/pkg_check_dependencies If you get no output from pkg_check_dependencies -q, then your

Re: WinPopUp type messages from FreeBSD to Mac OS X

2009-04-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
to create simple dialogs (Such as OK / Cancel) that can be used from shell scripts. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH

Re: py24-gobject won't deinstall

2009-04-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
(requires Python): http://www.secnetix.de/olli/scripts/pkg_check_dependencies If you get no output from pkg_check_dependencies -q, then your dependencies are good. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606

Re: Fetching directories inclusive subdirectories on HTTP server via fetch or othe FreeBSD-own tools?

2009-04-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
or Novell Netware that looked _really_ weird. These are not supported by omi, I'm afraid. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik

Re: too many video drivers

2009-04-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
certain you won't need the driver. I'm surprised that it still exists today in Xorg at all. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch

Re: Xeon Quad with 9 GB RAM - only 4 GB detected

2009-04-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
. Also, I don't see any specific exceptions concerning kernels for amd64 in the release build scripts (/usr/src/release). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung

Re: Fetching directories inclusive subdirectories on HTTP server via fetch or othe FreeBSD-own tools?

2009-04-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
that, by default, it tries to synchronize the local dir perfectly, i.e. if the remote dir is empty, it will wipe out the local dir. (The option -P 0 will prevent omi from removing anything.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-03-31 Thread Oliver Fromme
Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-03-31 Thread Oliver Fromme
are large and you can't afford the fsck time, consider using ZFS, which has a lot of benefits besides not requiring fsck. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix

Re: analyzing httpd-error.log

2009-03-31 Thread Oliver Fromme
, such as perl error messages, exception traces from Python programs (usually multiple lines each), and so on. There is no simple way to reliably parse and analyze all of that completely automatically. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M

Tablet PC recommendation?

2009-03-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
plan to do any fancy 3D stuff on it. Power consumption should be as low as possible. Any recommendations? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix

Re: switching bsdlabel's label

2009-01-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
partition at the boot0 prompt. So it is really a good idea to switch the partitions in the label before putting that disk into production. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit ?binaries?

2008-10-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
nice if it ignored incompatible libraries :) No. Please don't put such pseudo-cleverness into rtld. It wouldn't be an improvement, in fact it might break some working configurations. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M

Re: NTP on 7.1 BETA amd64 odd behaviour

2008-09-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
be considered a bug that -f /var/db/ntpd.drift is included in the default flags. If someone wants to override the default location of the drift file, it is much better to specify it in the ntp.conf file. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

2008-09-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
really doesn't matter. Just make sure that your root file system is partition a. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

2008-09-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Mel wrote: that's aside from the fact that the root partition '/' always has to be the first partition, for the simple reason that everything else is mounted on top of it. It's not the partition device

Re: freebsd 7.1 - Good luck

2008-09-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
be a good start. Best regards. Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-09-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
whether your version of that NIC is already covered, or whether it has a product ID that the driver doesn't know about yet. As far as I can tell from the repository history, the driver is well maintained. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing

Re: kill -KILL fails to kill process

2008-09-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
entry. There can be other reasons on occasion, but those three are the most common ones. Simply look at the STAT column in the ps(1) output for the process in question. It will tell you the reason why the process is stuck. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz

Re: disk writer utility

2008-09-18 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dánielisz László wrote: What is your favorite disk writer utility? (under X) cdrecord for CDs, growisofs for DVDs. (in an xterm) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606

Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl

2008-08-26 Thread Oliver Fromme
specialized tool in C. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf

Re: For this hardware amd64, ia64 or i386 to install?

2008-08-26 Thread Oliver Fromme
of problems). Also, MySQL runs faster when compiled for 64bit. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht

Re: turn on beastie beside the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot optionsmenu

2008-08-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
Kevin Monceaux wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: How would you like this one? http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/vloader/screenshot5.png (It's work in progress. See the latest FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report.) When I recently came across info on the graphical boot loader

Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl

2008-08-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
: Size of sed: 27 KB. Size of perl + libperl: 1126 KB Thats more than 40 times bigger. Of course, YMMV. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung

Re: Again: fsck_ffs memory requirements

2008-08-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
in a safe deposit box at your bank company), so you still have a good backup if your house burns down or an alien space ship crashes on it. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606

Re: turn on beastie beside the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot optionsmenu

2008-08-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
Its good to see my old friend back where he belongs How would you like this one? http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/vloader/screenshot5.png (It's work in progress. See the latest FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29

Re: X11 tunnel over ssh and then rsh

2008-08-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
), I think. Using xhost(1) is much easier, but it's insecure. On the other hand you're using rsh and a public network socket to connect to, so everything you do is insecure anyway. I hope you're going to make your users aware of that. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co

Re: turn on beastie beside the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot optionsmenu

2008-08-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ivan Voras wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: enom-FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: beastie_disable=NO had no effect. That's because NO is already the default. Setting it to YES will completely disable the whole boot menu. All that was needed was loader_logo

Re: rtprio + su - doesn't work

2008-08-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
=65534(nobody) gid=65534(nobody) groups=65534(nobody) rtprio: realtime priority 31 # This is on 7-stable (a few months old, though). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606

Re: Tailing logs

2008-08-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
usage information. So you can do things like this: $ tail -f /var/log/maillog | bold -l myhost.mydomain (The -l option specifies to highlight the whole line, not just the part that matches.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M

Re: X11 tunnel over ssh and then rsh

2008-08-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
between hosts B and C? Using ssh would solve all of the problems at once. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister

Re: [OT] Evaluate strings in bash

2008-08-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
Matias Surdi wrote: Oliver Fromme escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: Oliver Fromme escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: # echo $BINMAKE `if [ -x /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make ]; then echo /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make; else echo make; fi` -m /usr/src/share/mk

Copying a directory tree (was: xargs)

2008-08-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
to find and clean up afterwards. Been there, done that, a thousand times. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister

Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl

2008-08-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
of the above command read from stdin and write to stdout, so you can use shell redirection to read from a file and/or write to a file. There is no need to use cat(1). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht

Re: THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ

2008-08-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
that hassle in the first place. I'd recommend you buy a new drive and save you some hours of work, a bunch of hairs turning grey, and some swearing. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA

Re: Again: fsck_ffs memory requirements

2008-08-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
place? Allthough I've been using FreeBSD since 4.0, it seems that I got a little stupid over the years... :-/ It's a loader tunable, so you must put it in /boot/loader.conf. Best regards, and good luck with your recovery! Oliver PS: Better make good backups next time. -- Oliver Fromme

Re: /etc/groups gone

2008-08-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
-- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart

Re: Recommended newfs settings for 600GB mail (maildir) store?

2008-08-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
it, I'm afraid. You should either use UFS with gjournal, or use ZFS. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister

Re: Python script for configuring wifi hot spots on FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
upload it somewhere and tell us the URL. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB

Re: [OT] Evaluate strings in bash

2008-08-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
echo $BINMAKE` By the way, this has nothing to do with bash. Those things work with every bourne shell, including FreeBSD's /bin/sh. It even works with Solaris' /bin/sh which is very far from a POSIX shell. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567

Re: [OT] Evaluate strings in bash

2008-08-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Matias Surdi wrote: Oliver Fromme escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: # echo $BINMAKE `if [ -x /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make ]; then echo /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make; else echo make; fi` -m /usr/src/share/mk I'd like to have a second variable like: [code] # echo

Re: USB Drive Reliability

2008-08-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
development by Hans Petter Selasky. I'm not sure when it will be committed to 8-current, but I think it's pretty much ready. It will certainly fix some of the problems people are seeing with the old USB stack. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b

Re: Shell scripts: variable assignment within read loops

2008-08-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
if you need to get the exit code of some parts of the pipe except the last one. You didn't ask for that, though. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix

Re: Is it possible to run i386 only, on a amd64 freebsd 7?

2008-08-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Christopher Joyner wrote: Is there some way of doing that? Running i386 software on amd64 machine? Yes. FreeBSD/amd64 contains a compatibility facility for i386 binaries. It should just work out of the box, unless disabled explicitly. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH

Re: make.conf

2008-08-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf

Re: Is it possible to run i386 only, on a amd64 freebsd 7?

2008-08-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
library, then that library must be i386, too. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen

Re: Is it possible to run i386 only, on a amd64 freebsd 7?

2008-08-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
to provide further assistance. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758

Re: usb-serial device

2008-08-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf

Re: Max. number of opened files, efficiency

2008-08-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
want to use file semantics (with read() and write() methods etc.), you can easily do that in Python with memory objects, too. See the StringIO and cStringIO modules for details. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister

Re: Interpreting top, vmstat, and company

2008-08-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb

Re: Cluster Filesystem

2008-08-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
allows replication between local and/or remote file systems. So, yes, it is intended to support clustering. Clustering and SSI is the main goal of DragonFly BSD, after all. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
be the only device on its channel, i.e. no slave, in the PATA case.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister

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