Re: Problems with the Asus P8h61 -m pro motherboard

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 08:24 +0200, Matevž Markovič wrote: > Asus P8h61 -m pro motherboard Did you try the re driver? The chipset is Realtek 8111e. This is supported by 8-stable, I think. Did you look at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-June/062886.html tomdean _

Re: How to fix bad superblock on UFS2?

Try to use tools/tools/find-sb to locate superblocks. -- Maxim Konovalov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.o

Re: Problems with the Asus P8h61 -m pro motherboard

I did check the whole dmesg output, but nothing. I also tried to recompile the kernel, but I found no acceptable non-included nic drivers, so I just backed off. Now I have Ubuntu installed, but that does not mean that I am too happy about it... The manufacturer of the nic is realtek, by the way...

Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

In the last episode (Jul 19), Rogelio said: > The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e. > handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I > was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions > that could scale much better? 200 per

Re: trying for 1920x1080 was: Re: Attempting to get an X11 server running

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 01:15:07AM +, Dieter BSD wrote: > > > Have you tried: > > $ xset +dpms > > to use standby etc.? > > xset:  unknown option +dpms > > I assume it needs more than the 5 coaxes to do dpms. > (It did appear to be working with the short cable that came > with the monitor.)

high performance open source DHCP solution?

The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e. handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions that could scale much better? (Ideally, I could find a free version of a solution like No

Re: trying for 1920x1080 was: Re: Attempting to get an X11 server running

> Have you tried: > $ xset +dpms > to use standby etc.? xset:  unknown option +dpms I assume it needs more than the 5 coaxes to do dpms. (It did appear to be working with the short cable that came with the monitor.) > Font for xterm: x11-fonts/inconsolata-ttf I installed package inconsolata-ttf

Re: printer - broadband router

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, ajtiM wrote: My system: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 #0m I use KDE 4.6.5 CUPS and HPLIP are installed. I have an old broadband router D-604 (dlink), cable Internet and my computer with FreeBSD and the other one with Windows are connected to the router. I got HP bussiness inkjet 50

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On Tuesday 19 July 2011 10:06:22 Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:33:01 -0300 > > Mario Lobo articulated: > > First of all, forgive me for top posting but I don't want to > > "disturb" the debate between Jerry and Polytropon. In fact, I enjoyed > > it so much that I saved it in separate folde

Re: trying for 1920x1080 was: Re: Attempting to get an X11 server running

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:41:27PM +, Dieter BSD wrote: > > Reducing the color depth to 16 allows the wimpy Rage XL (8 MiB) to > do 1920x1080. > > So then I moved the old slow X terminal out of the way and moved the > shiny new Dell ST2220T LCD into the prime spot in front of the > keyboard dr

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

On Tuesday 19 July 2011 03:18:41 Konrad Heuer wrote: > > But: Neither BSD nor Linux will ever have chance to conquere the desktop, > despite of KDE, Gnome or anything else. In business environments there is > no alternative to Windows. Microsoft successfully created Active Directory > from DNS, LD

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

--On July 19, 2011 8:18:41 AM +0200 Konrad Heuer wrote: In 2020 *I* won't be relevant any more. :-) -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** "It is as useless to arg

printer - broadband router

Hi! My system: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 #0m I use KDE 4.6.5 CUPS and HPLIP are installed. I have an old broadband router D-604 (dlink), cable Internet and my computer with FreeBSD and the other one with Windows are connected to the router. I got HP bussiness inkjet 5000 which was connected to the n

Re: trying for 1920x1080 was: Re: Attempting to get an X11 server running

Reducing the color depth to 16 allows the wimpy Rage XL (8 MiB) to do 1920x1080. So then I moved the old slow X terminal out of the way and moved the shiny new Dell ST2220T LCD into the prime spot in front of the keyboard drawer... ...and the cable doesn't reach. Two HD-15 to BNC cables back-to-ba

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 13:57, Robert Bonomi skrev: "male bovine excrement" applies. Only in your jurisdiction. Oh my. making back-ups is unlawful. Yes I guarantee you that _I_, as a system administrator, don't need a court order to do such things. And, if you claim otherwise, you better be prepar

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

2011-07-19 09:03, ssgriffonuser skrev: Hi all, I'm having difficulty getting sendmail set up on my server. I can send and receive to localhost and I can send to external networks but I can not receive from external networks (I receive a 550: Address rejected). Netstat says sendmail is listening

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 04:27:14PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > ssgriffonuser writes: > > > I'm having difficulty getting sendmail set up on my server. I can > > send and receive to localhost and I can send to external networks but > > I can not receive from external networks (I receive a 550:

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

ssgriffonuser writes: > I'm having difficulty getting sendmail set up on my server. I can > send and receive to localhost and I can send to external networks but > I can not receive from external networks (I receive a 550: Address > rejected). Netstat says sendmail is listening on port 25 but I

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 12:18 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: After some more reading and searching, I decided to not use ataraid. I went into BIOS and deleted the RAID volume. I am installing 8.2 on ad4 with a subsequent change to 8-stable. After getting to 8-stable, I will look into setting up a RAID

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > I still do not understand which disk to install to, ad4, ad6, or, ar0? My original reply mentioned: "ar0 is the RAID-0 volume." Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:52 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: I discovered how to get to BIOS on the laptop. very early in the power process brings up a menu. F10 gets in to BIOS. One item, OROM UI was disabled. Enabling this flashes a menu for 2 sec on boot that allows to get into the raid ROM for

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

On 7/19/2011 at 8:18 AM Konrad Heuer wrote: |[snip] | |But: Neither BSD nor Linux will ever have chance to conquere the desktop, |despite of KDE, Gnome or anything else. |[snip] = Perhaps the real question should be - how much longer will the desktop be relevant? __

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

From: Robert Bonomi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; ssgriffonu...@gmail.com Sent: Tue, July 19, 2011 12:31:56 PM Subject: Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25 > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:03:58 -0700 > From: ssgriffonuser > Subject: Sendmail no

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: >> ar0 is the RAID-0 volume. However, I would advise against using Intel's >> Matrix pseudo-RAID for a boot volume, > > Why? > > I searched and did not find a reason to not use it. Just a few > "recommend against it" without reasons. There'

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:36:46 -0700 Thomas D. Dean articulated: > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:31 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > Umm, please don't inflict autoresponders upon people who answer > > your questions... > > > I don't know where this came from... > > tomdean I have been getting hit with t

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:19:04 -0400 Michael Sierchio articulated: > IMHO what has helped Linux is the existence of commercial > distributions with support - Red Hat, SUSE, etc. The only attempts to > do this for BSD have been undercapitalized and/or half-hearted. Yes, it is hard to sell a car san

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

I booted the DVD to Fixit and used fdisk. The output is below. It looks like, if I want to use ataraid, I install to ad4 and leave ad6 alone. Correct? I think I will try ataraid and see what happens. To use gmirror, I do the same, correct? tomdean Fixit# fdisk ad4 *** Working on device /

Re: Fwd: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:31 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Umm, please don't inflict autoresponders upon people who answer your > questions... > I don't know where this came from... tomdean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Fwd: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

Umm, please don't inflict autoresponders upon people who answer your questions... Begin forwarded message: > From: tomd...@speakeasy.org > Date: July 19, 2011 11:27:28 AM PDT > To: Chuck Swiger > Subject: Re: Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0 > > I'm out of office, please click

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:26 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > sysinstall shows 3 choices for disk drives. ad4(600G), ad6(600G), > > ar0(RAID0) > > > > I want to use RAID0 and use the entire disk, partitioned by 'A'. > > > > Which disk

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

Hi-- On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > sysinstall shows 3 choices for disk drives. ad4(600G), ad6(600G), > ar0(RAID0) > > I want to use RAID0 and use the entire disk, partitioned by 'A'. > > Which disk do I select for installation? ar0 is the RAID-0 volume. However, I woul

Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

I have not used RAID before. I have a laptop (new to me) with windows 7 and RAID0. I want to install 8.2-Release and retain the Raid0. I booted the 8.2-Release AMD64 DVD and exited to Fixit. pciconf -lv shows atapci0@pci0:0:31:2: class=0x010400 card=0x159b103c chip=0x282a8086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

IMHO what has helped Linux is the existence of commercial distributions with support - Red Hat, SUSE, etc. The only attempts to do this for BSD have been undercapitalized and/or half-hearted. But I find the general premise of the discussion to be - how to say this politely? - stupid. Things that

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On 7/17/2011 05:10, Jerry wrote: While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of juveniles ranting against Microsoft; however, I did find this rather interesting post this morning. "Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore"

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On 19 Jul 2011, at 18:25, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:45:50 +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> You claim that OP may lawfully open his users' private files. >> Under your jurisdiction he might, under ours he shan't. > > A way around such a situation is to PROHIBIT the users > (e.

Re: groff && UTF-8

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:54:29PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > If you want to produce postscript output from groff, you will have to deal > > with postscript fonts. The usual Type 1 fonts are single-byte fonts. Groff > > only deals with Latin-1 characters (see groff_char(7)). > > What is La

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:03:58 -0700 > From: ssgriffonuser > Subject: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25 > > Hi all, > > I'm having difficulty getting sendmail set up on my server. I can send > and receive to localhost and I can send to external networks but I can > not receive f

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:03:58 -0700, ssgriffonuser wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having difficulty getting sendmail set up on my server. I can send > and receive to localhost and I can send to external networks but I can > not receive from external networks (I receive a 550: Address rejected). > Ne

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:45:50 +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > You claim that OP may lawfully open his users' private files. > Under your jurisdiction he might, under ours he shan't. A way around such a situation is to PROHIBIT the users (e. g. the employees of a company) to store private files on c

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Jul 19 09:05:02 2011 > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:03:55 +0200 > From: Damien Fleuriot > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) > > On 7/19/11 3:49 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Do you mean

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On 7/19/11 5:20 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Jul 19 08:55:07 2011 >> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:54:32 +0200 >> From: Damien Fleuriot >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) >> >> >> >> O

Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

Hi all, I'm having difficulty getting sendmail set up on my server. I can send and receive to localhost and I can send to external networks but I can not receive from external networks (I receive a 550: Address rejected). Netstat says sendmail is listening on port 25 but I cannot telnet to i

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Jul 19 08:55:07 2011 > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:54:32 +0200 > From: Damien Fleuriot > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) > > > > On 7/19/11 1:57 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> From ow

Re: Newbbie Issue (JP) - installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a HP Notebook

On 2011-Jul-19 02:44:13 -0700, Mygamejw wrote: >>> init: not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/ >>> d/sysinstall > >THIS IS CORRECT OUTPUT! No need to shout. In that case, your boot media would appear to be corrupt. >I saw in the manuals that you want to disable the APCI if the system >you have

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

At 11:20 19/07/2011, Jerome Herman wrote: A FreeBSD distro with LDAP, ACL and MAC management would be nice though. You could create a port that brings all this functionality in one rush. Remember that the ports collection is more than just about installing software - it can be used to even bring

Re: groff && UTF-8

El día Tuesday, July 19, 2011 a las 01:54:29PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey escribió: > > If you want to produce postscript output from groff, you will have to deal > > with postscript fonts. The usual Type 1 fonts are single-byte fonts. Groff > > only deals with Latin-1 characters (see groff_char(7)).

Re: Problems with the Asus P8h61 -m pro motherboard

Matevž Markovič writes: > I just installed the FreeBSD 8.2 on my computer, but unfortunately my > integrated network card was not recognised. Only the loopback and plip (or > something like that) interfaces are present in the sysinstall / ifconfig -a. > I have the Asus P8h61 -m pro motherboard. I

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On 7/19/11 3:49 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > Do you mean to suggest that an employee _cannot_ give permission to *anyone* > (whether it is the employer, or just a friend) to look at any file that is > categorized as 'private' ?? > > If they can give permission for 'someone' to look at a particular

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On Jul 19, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Hey look, all your points were moot and easily rebuked. And he just burped... don't feed the the trolls by calling them trolls. Instead, call them "Ecky Ecky Ecky F'tang F'tang Olé Biscuitbarrel". -r-

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On 7/19/11 1:57 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Jul 19 05:54:52 2011 >> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:54:38 +0200 >> From: Damien Fleuriot >> To: "C. P. Ghost" >> Cc: Frank Bonnet , >> "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" >> Subject: Re: Tools to find "

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

> From cpgh...@cordula.ws Tue Jul 19 07:26:51 2011 > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:27:01 +0200 > Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) > From: "C. P. Ghost" > To: Robert Bonomi > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Robert Bonomi > wrot

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:50:25 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi articulated: > > > Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:01:20 -0400 > > From: Jerry > > Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore > > > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:31:41 +0200 > > Polytropon articulated: > > > > > Your TV example is very

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:33:01 -0300 Mario Lobo articulated: > First of all, forgive me for top posting but I don't want to > "disturb" the debate between Jerry and Polytropon. In fact, I enjoyed > it so much that I saved it in separate folder. It is just plain good > reading, not only because of th

Re: Newbbie Issue (JP) - installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a HP Notebook

On Jul 19, 2011, at 5:10, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2011-Jul-19 02:44:13 -0700, Mygamejw wrote: init: not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/ d/sysinstall THIS IS CORRECT OUTPUT! No need to shout. In that case, your boot media would appear to be corrupt. Sorry about the shout. The boo

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:21:31 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: > This is where we find a dividing line between users who want different > things. Yes, you turn on your Win7 laptop (or wake it up) in a coffee > shop, and it connects automagically -- in fact, you probably don't > even realize it has c

How to fix bad superblock on UFS2?

Hi all I had a drive let out smoke, it was part of a 4 drive RAID5 array on an intel Matrix motherboard controller (device ar). Having fought various battles just to get the machine to boot again (had to upgrade to 7.4 from 7.2 to do it because of a panic in ataraid.c) I now have some partiti

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> The poorly written IT TOS of a company can never bypass the law, >> regardless of anything you agreed to in your company's TOS. > > "male bovine excrement" applies. > > For example, if it is part of the _terms_of_emplyment_ -- which one > *a

Re: how to fix bad superblock

On Monday 18 July 2011 16:49:25 DA Forsyth wrote: > After a hardrive let the smoke out last week, part of a 4 drive RAID > array, I am now battling to get back into the array. > I have replaced the bad drive and it has been rebuilt (Intel Matrix > Raid on the motherboard). > > some partitions ar

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Jerome Herman wrote: > The best way to block illegal download before they happen. I found that > closing most ports and requiring a login and password before giving access > to unknown websites works wonder. (The access to the website is not blocked > in any way, b

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Jul 19 05:54:52 2011 > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:54:38 +0200 > From: Damien Fleuriot > To: "C. P. Ghost" > Cc: Frank Bonnet , > "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" > Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) > > > > On

Re: groff && UTF-8

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

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On 19/07/2011 12:54, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 7/19/11 11:06 AM, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 19 Jul 2011, at 08:15, Frank Bonnet wrote: In France it's illegal and I have my boss's instruction : - find and delete the files that's all. Bon c

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:54:38 +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Delete the files from your file server, next they'll swap them on > external drives and USB keys. The only _working_ solution to get rid of the problem is to get rid of the files in question. :-) Maybe it's possible to change the terms

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 7/19/11 11:06 AM, C. P. Ghost wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >>> On 19 Jul 2011, at 08:15, Frank Bonnet wrote: In France it's illegal and I have my boss's instruction : - find and dele

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On 7/19/11 11:06 AM, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> On 19 Jul 2011, at 08:15, Frank Bonnet wrote: >>> In France it's illegal and I have my boss's instruction : >>> >>> - find and delete the files that's all. >> >> Bon courage then... >> >> A file

Re: compat directory

Op 19-7-2011 12:21 schreef Polytropon: So it should be there when you've been using sysinstall for system installation. If you've used a different tool (or "no tool"), it may be the reason why it is missing. I installed a ZFS on root system using the known scripts. So the symlink is not created

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

Frank Bonnet writes: Hi, > We'll see who will win ;-) Check this : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_de_l'informatique_en_France The fact you can do something doesn't mean you're allowed to... -- Moi je trouve qu'il est debile de vouloir detruir kekel ke chose MG> Ta touche k est coincée

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On 7/19/11 12:08 PM, C. P. Ghost wrote: > To check the magic numbers, you don't need a hash. Just check the > magic numbers (where legally allowable). However, a magic number would > merely say: this is an MP3, this is a MPEG file etc...: it is just a > hint (and a very weak one at that) as to the

Re: compat directory

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:04:45 +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > It may be a stupid question but my FreeBSD-8.2 system lacks a /compat > directory. Is this normal? does it get installed through some kind of > software package? The compat directory entry in root usually is a symlink to /usr/compat. I

Re: compat directory

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: It may be a stupid question but my FreeBSD-8.2 system lacks a /compat directory. Is this normal? does it get installed through some kind of software package? check /usr/ports/misc/ for the various compat?x ports. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larse

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, C. P. Ghost wrote: > >> Speaking with my university sysadmin hat on: you're NOT allowed to >> peek inside personal files of your users, UNLESS the user has waived >> his/her rights to privacy by explicitly agreeing to the

How to add sio to 8.2 ?

I've come to the conclusion that I need sio to be able to use 8.x. Can it be as simple as just dropping the code from 7.x into the source for 8.x and adding a line to the kernel configuration? Or would this be fraught with all kinds of deep traps? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/inde

compat directory

It may be a stupid question but my FreeBSD-8.2 system lacks a /compat directory. Is this normal? does it get installed through some kind of software package? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: Newbbie Issue (JP) - installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a HP Notebook

hint.uart.0.flags=0x10 hint.uart.0.irq=4 hint.uart.0.port=0x3F8 Would this be a concern for the BIOS/apm? On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:44, Mygamejw wrote: On Jul 18, 2011, at 13:43, Peter Jeremy wrote: This belongs in freebsd-questions unless you have reasonable grounds to believe the probl

Re: Newbbie Issue (JP) - installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a HP Notebook

On Jul 18, 2011, at 13:43, Peter Jeremy wrote: This belongs in freebsd-questions unless you have reasonable grounds to believe the problem is ACPI related. On 2011-Jul-15 17:49:17 -0700, Mygamejw wrote: I recently got FreeBSD 8.1 for a present Note that FreeBSD 8.1 has been superceded

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:20:29 +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: > On 19/07/2011 08:11, Polytropon wrote: > > Arguing... what is easier at manually locating software using > > a web browser, manually downloading it and interactively > > holding the installer's hand while installing software? :-) > Well, of

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, C. P. Ghost wrote: Speaking with my university sysadmin hat on: you're NOT allowed to peek inside personal files of your users, UNLESS the user has waived his/her rights to privacy by explicitly agreeing to the TOS and there's legal language in the TOS that allows staff to i

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On 07/19/2011 11:06 AM, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 19 Jul 2011, at 08:15, Frank Bonnet wrote: In France it's illegal and I have my boss's instruction : - find and delete the files that's all. Bon courage then... A file can not be illegal p

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:18:41 +0200 (CEST), Konrad Heuer wrote: >> The >> number of installations is not the most important figure. Functionality is >> important -- ZFS, HAST, CARP, jails, as already mentioned -- would be nice >> to see a distrib

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On 19/07/2011 08:11, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:39:02 +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: On 19/07/2011 01:21, Gary Gatten wrote: This may get me flamed (probably will) but I'm wondering what the relationship is between FreeBSD and PC-BSD? PERHAPS if they were to somehow join forces, s

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 19 Jul 2011, at 08:15, Frank Bonnet wrote: >> In France it's illegal and I have my boss's instruction : >> >> - find and delete the files that's all. > > Bon courage then... > > A file can not be illegal per se, so you won't be able to

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Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > > "perryh" == perryh writes: > perryh> xxx it doesn't address the question of whether a > perryh> specific copy is "legal", i.e. did the user who > perryh> put it there have the legal right to put it there? > > There's no tool that can do t

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:01:53 -0700 > > From: per...@pluto.rain.com > > Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) > > > > Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > > > > > All well and good for locating files of a certain format and/or > > with particular co

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Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

On 07/19/2011 08:55 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 19 Jul 2011, at 08:15, Frank Bonnet wrote: Wow wow !!! I did not want to start a flame war with my post ... Things for me are clear : In France it's illegal and I have my boss's instruction : - find and delete the files that's all. Bon co