Re: Unbootable memory stick snapshot?

2011-08-29 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2011-08-29 19:07, Neil Cafferkey skrev: Hi, I can't boot the FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201107-ia64-memstick.img snapshot. From a hexdump, it doesn't appear to have a boot block. Regards, Neil ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: source code

2011-04-21 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2011-04-21 14:58, philippe joffre skrev: Hi , May you help me I'm looking for the code-source FREEBSD please it's possible to send me the links . Thank you in advance . Best regards Philippe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2011-02-22 17:47, Alokat skrev: On 02/22/11 17:44, Rolf Nielsen wrote: 2011-02-22 17:40, Alokat skrev: Hi, I have changed my shell from csh to bash ... Why? Do you use root as your regular login? But after that I have to call reboot like /sbin/reboot. How can I change that without

Re: How to label a GELI device

2011-01-25 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2011-01-25 19:37, J. Porter Clark skrev: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:28:25PM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: X-Spam-Level: 2011-01-25 19:13, J. Porter Clark skrev: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:29:37PM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong anyone. You need to first label da0s1d e.g.

Re: Digital camera for FreeBSD

2010-07-18 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2010-07-18 19:06, Polytropon skrev: On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:21:42 -0400, Robert Amesroberta...@hotmail.com wrote: If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images

Re: resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2010-06-11 19:17, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas skrev: ok,but if i delete this 2 slices then i will delete my entire system.. then should i have to install it from the beggining,but i don't want to do that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
On 2010-01-12 22:04, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are

Re: setlocale command is missing

2009-12-25 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Daniel Dvořák wrote: Hi, I updated a mc port to the last one, version 4.7.0pre4 and wanted to run mc, but mc display a warning message that the selected display charset or source codeset does not match one set via locale. I have never seen this message since I am a user of mc. Propably it is

Re: build 7.x kernel without zfs

2009-12-24 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Oles Hnatkevych wrote: Hi! Since my installation has 496Mb on root partition, having to kernels (current and old) there becomes pain, only 4Mb free left. How can I build kernel without zfs module, since it consumes 12Mb with symbols? Hi Oles, I'm not sure how to specify which modules

Re: FreeBSD boot invalid partition

2009-12-23 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Michel Le Cocq wrote: I just dump a real host and try to restore it on a virtual host under kvm. When booting under KVM i see this : Booting From hard Disk... Invalid partition Invalid partition No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386/Boot Default:

Re: Supressing dd output

2009-12-23 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Noel Jones wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Rolf Nielsen listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com wrote: Hello everyone, I'm wondering if there's a way to supress the summary output from dd. I'm working on a backup script, that encrypts the backups, and after encrypting overwrites the unencrypted

Re: Nvidia amd64 driver (WAS: Root exploit for FreeBSD )

2009-12-13 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 12 December 2009 22:44:54 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 12 December 2009 21:23:00 Rolf Nielsen wrote: Where's that? The Nvidia site says nothing about it yet, and the makefile for x11/nvidia-driver still says ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386. I'm eagerly

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 12 December 2009 21:23:00 Rolf Nielsen wrote: Where's that? The Nvidia site says nothing about it yet, and the makefile for x11/nvidia-driver still says ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386. I'm eagerly waiting for it, but I can't find anything other than a forum post (I don't have

Re: make delete-old question

2009-12-09 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Frank Shute wrote: Hi, Successfully upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0 but had my usual problem when jumping major versions with the make delete-old target. The problem being that it asks me to confirm deletion of each lib/file with a y and a return. I've found that I never say n to any deletion and it

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-04 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:09:22 -0500, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Good. Except that in FreeBSD land you are talking about a slice table. To carry things forward consistently, the partition table is within a slice and describes FreeBSD partitions a..h (and more now I

Re: bash script question

2009-12-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Dánielisz László wrote: I just find out: #!/usr/local/bin/bash export IFS= cuc=$* mkdir cuc Thanks anyway! László From: Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, December 1, 2009 8:37:04 PM Subject: bash

Re: bash script question

2009-12-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 10:42:10PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:06:34 +0100, Rolf G Nielsen laz...@lazlarlyricon.com wrote: Why are you using bash? To make a shell script as portable as possible, use /bin/sh. Bash is a third party shell, that isn't

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
John wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:25:42PM +0100, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Tuesday 24 November 2009 16:45:14 John wrote: Hello list I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are there gotchas

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Charlie Kester wrote: On Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 13:09:48 PST Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:40:25PM +, John wrote: Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will be easier to make

PAM and xdm woes

2009-10-27 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Hi, Every time I start xdm I get the following message on ttyv0, xdm: pam_sm_close_session(): no utmp record for :0 Everything seems to work just fine. I can log in, and everything runs as expected, so it's basically just an annoyance, especially since I don't know whether I should be

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-02 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Leandro F Silva wrote: Hey guys, Let's vote to have a native i386 / amd64 flash player \o/ .. We just have to create an account and voting on the link below =D http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1060 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Wake up time

2009-09-21 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:06:28PM +0200, Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, anybody knows if it's possible to set BIOS wake up time in FreeBSD. I have a machine I would like to regularly shutdown and wake up at different times depending the on the day of week. The easy and

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-10 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Raisa Brokhshtut wrote: Hello, My old desktop has FreeBSD that I have never used. One of the friends of my son installed it long ago, but no one used that PC since then. Now I want to get rid of this program and to install Windows. Every time when I boot this PC it prompts for a user login

Re: rm -rf and fat fingers

2009-07-22 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Jimmie James wrote: So here I was, half asleep, removing some old directories as root, and here's what I did...sitting in /home/jimmie after su jim...@jimmiejaz 101 [0] /home/jimmie#rm -rf cd /usr/local/lib (note the space, the PWD is home/jimmie/) Now, a lot of libs went missing from

Re: my kernel is not build/install

2009-06-26 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Кирилл А. Фомин wrote: Здравствуйте, Rolf. In my first mail i attach my config file. Latest i attach full console output. Вы писали 26 июня 2009 г., 23:35:14: Brent Bloxam wrote: fo...@pisem.net wrote: When I make my kernel (make kernel KERNCONF=KERNEL) it stop whith Error code 1

Re: my kernel is not build/install

2009-06-26 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Brent Bloxam wrote: fo...@pisem.net wrote: When I make my kernel (make kernel KERNCONF=KERNEL) it stop whith Error code 1 According to Chapter 8.5 of the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html): 1. Change to the

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Bernt Hansson wrote: Polytropon said the following on 2009-06-12 12:54: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:45:59 +0200, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Mel Flynn said the following on 2009-06-12 01:23: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 11 21:56:24 CEST 2009

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Polytropon wrote: ... There is NO thing that works for everyone, a one size fits all egg-laying wool milk sow; in Germany, we call this eierlegende Wollmilchsau, a device (or system) that does everything under any circumstances, for everyone. People are different, that's why there are many

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-26 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: software installation CPU/RAM needs), run the dialog(3) interface. If it's a fast 686, default to a X environment. nonsense. please stop this stupid discussion at all. just use linux or

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Yuri wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: it's SLOW and resource hungry - giving nothing else than a good look. that's why i compare it to windoze. and why you need desktop (whatever it means) at all? You need desktop for Unix (Linux) to be adopted by simple users. Also GUI makes life much

Re: Problem with firefox3

2008-08-20 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I've some problem with firefox3, I would like to known if it's me or they are other user to have same problem. Sometime when I want to some website (very classic site) I loose every images, other time I've got something unreadable. Anyone have this kind of problem ?

Re: 486 Install??

2008-05-16 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Thomas F Simpson Jr wrote: I have a 486 DEEP GREEN system I would like to put some version of FreeBSD on (I have my reasons). I have other inquiries out on this, but if I correctly recall (and that is a real rusty recall at best), the max memory you could get on one of these beasts was 48MB,

Re: Logitech G9 mouse and FreeBSD 7

2008-05-05 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Nickolay D. Hodyunya wrote: Hi everyone. I'm using Logitech G9 mouse with my freebsd 7.0 box. The problem is that my mouse don't response after I click on additional buttons. The cursor stop moving in both system console and xorg session. I've had the same problem with my G5. When I disabled

Re: RFC: Article on implementing UFS journaling on desktop PCs

2008-04-24 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Manolis Kiagias escribió: I have just completed an article (mostly how-to) for implementing UFS journaling on a typical desktop PC: http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/gjournal-desktop/article.html It focuses on detailing an easy to follow, repeatable

Re: RFC: Article on implementing UFS journaling on desktop PCs

2008-04-24 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Manolis Kiagias escribió: I have just completed an article (mostly how-to) for implementing UFS journaling on a typical desktop PC: http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/gjournal-desktop/article.html

Re: Cannot get Script to Run Via Crontab

2007-12-16 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Christian Walther wrote: Hi, On 16/12/2007, David Goodnature [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The cron message to mail/root ends with: exec: ps2pdf12: not found I am assuming that cron cannot find a path or a config file for ghostscript, but I don't have any idea how to fix this problem.

xdm woes

2007-11-20 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Hi, I recently purchased a new computer (well, purchased the components and put them together). The hardware is ASUS P5B Premium, nVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT, 2-channel JMicron JMB 363 PCIe card, Intel Core2 Quad Q6600, six Samsung HD501LJ CR100-10 HDDs striped using gstripe (used for storage),

Re: xdm woes

2007-11-20 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Wojciech Puchar wrote: pushing aqnd releasing the power button, so the OS shuts down using ACPI). This happens every time. No matter what window manager I use. But it only happens when I use xdm. If I start X with startx, it shuts down cleanly and returns to the tty from which I ran startx.

Re: Congratulations

2007-11-07 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Federico Lorenzi wrote: On Nov 7, 2007 4:20 PM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:11:52 + (UTC) James Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:15:50 +0100 (CET) UK NATIONAL e-LOTTERY, ONLINE NOTIFICATION UNIT, HOME

Re: defend from - :() { ::; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Danielisz Laszlo wrote: Please do not try to execute this: :() { ::; } ;: on your BSD machine. I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

PAM issues in -CURRENT

2007-09-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
I just installed 7.0-CURRENT (after someone said on this list that it's very stable and there are very few bugs left). So far it seems to work fine, but there's one thing that bothers me. I repeatedly get the following messages in the console: in openpam_dispatch(): pam_nologin.so: no

Re: PAM issues in -CURRENT

2007-09-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:54:58 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: I just installed 7.0-CURRENT (after someone said on this list that it's very stable and there are very few bugs left). So far it seems to work fine, but there's one thing that bothers me. I repeatedly get the following

Re: PAM issues in -CURRENT (supplement)

2007-09-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:54:58 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: I just installed 7.0-CURRENT (after someone said on this list that it's very stable and there are very few bugs left). So far it seems to work fine, but there's one thing that bothers me. I repeatedly get the following

Re: PAM issues in -CURRENT (supplement)

2007-09-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 14:36:13 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Mel wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:54:58 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: I just installed 7.0-CURRENT (after someone said on this list that it's very stable and there are very few bugs left). So far it seems to work fine

Re: curious root find running

2007-08-17 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
brad clawsie wrote: hi while sitting at my computer tonight i noticed a great deal of disk activity. i found that this process was running: $ ps -auxwww 1463 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 1463 4.3 0.1 1876 1404 ?? D 3:01AM 0:07.26 find

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-10 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Danny Pansters wrote: (...) Hope I did. It's not all that hard to give a to-the-point and honest answer. Now here's some food for thought for all the advocates who found it necessary to answer: It's apparently harder to shut your fat fucking face if you don't have anything useful to

Re: Convince me, please! - too much about GUI

2007-08-09 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Reid Linnemann wrote: My ten year old niece has been brainwashed by the GUI quagmire. She saw my FreeBSD 6-STABLE console on my amd64 3000+ and wanted to know why i was using such an old computer. She had the visual aspect of the user interface ingrained as a measure of the capabilities of

USB mouse issues.

2007-08-05 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Hi, My new USB mouse (a Logitech G5) works fine both in the console (with moused) and under X (both with moused and directly)... For the most part... However, once in a while it just dies (the lights indicating the DPI setting on top and the lights underneath it goes off and it stops

Re: CRT value Absurd

2007-08-03 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Andrew Greenwood wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: On Thursday 02 August 2007 13:13:46 Subhro wrote: Hello Folks, Recently I got a HP nc6400 notebook for myself and decided to install FreeBSD on this. My system boots up fine but I am repeatedly getting Errors from ACPI. I am repeatedly getting

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-31 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Joel Hatton wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:46:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Rakhesh is correct. SATA / PATA drives show up under ad[m]s[n][l], where m is the disk number (zero based), n is the slice, aka partition number in the non-BSD (/Solaris?) world, number (zero based), and l is the

Re: ELI passphrase on boot with USB keyboard

2007-07-30 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Reid Linnemann wrote: Written by Rolf G Nielsen on 07/27/07 16:37 Reid Linnemann wrote: Written by Reid Linnemann on 07/27/07 15:49 Written by Rolf G Nielsen on 07/27/07 15:21 Hi, I recently purchased a new USB keyboard, since my old PS/2 one has seen its best days. This has caused me

Re: secondary hdd

2007-07-30 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Cyrus wrote: ok, i origainly had windows xp pro on my machine, i installed freebsd 6.2. my machine has a 40gb seagate disk for o/s, and a 160 gb WD disk for storage. my question is, how do i go about formating the 160 gb, from ntfs to ufs for use in freebsd? and make it automount when system

Tracing mouse events

2007-07-28 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Does anyone know a utility, that would let me se mouse events in human readable form? I recently bought a new mouse, which moused reports as having 16 buttons, and xmodmap -pp reports 15 buttons. As far as I can see, it doesn't have 15 or 16 physical buttons. If I count the wheel as two

Re: Tracing mouse events

2007-07-28 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Garrett Cooper wrote: Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Does anyone know a utility, that would let me se mouse events in human readable form? I recently bought a new mouse, which moused reports as having 16 buttons, and xmodmap -pp reports 15 buttons. As far as I can see, it doesn't have 15 or 16

ELI passphrase on boot with USB keyboard

2007-07-27 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Hi, I recently purchased a new USB keyboard, since my old PS/2 one has seen its best days. This has caused me annoying problems with my ELI disks, though. I have four SATA harddrives, all of which are encrypted using ELI encryption. I've encrypted the raw disks, ad0, ad1, ad2 and ad3. The

ELI passphrase on boot with USB keyboard... (supplement)

2007-07-27 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Forgot to mention, I've also tried a USB to PS/2 adaptor, but with that one, the USB keyboard won't work at all. Rolf Nielsen P.S. I'm sorry about the request for receit for the previous message. I have it activated by default, and forgot to deactivate it.

Re: ELI passphrase on boot with USB keyboard

2007-07-27 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Reid Linnemann wrote: Written by Reid Linnemann on 07/27/07 15:49 Written by Rolf G Nielsen on 07/27/07 15:21 Hi, I recently purchased a new USB keyboard, since my old PS/2 one has seen its best days. This has caused me annoying problems with my ELI disks, though. I have four SATA

Re: ELI passphrase on boot with USB keyboard

2007-07-27 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Reid Linnemann wrote: Written by Reid Linnemann on 07/27/07 15:49 Written by Rolf G Nielsen on 07/27/07 15:21 Hi, I recently purchased a new USB keyboard, since my old PS/2 one has seen its best days. This has caused me annoying problems with my ELI disks, though. I have four SATA