On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:48:18 -0700
Charles Swiger wrote:
> fsck_y_enable="YES"
One of the most annoying things about SU+J is that fsck asks if you
want to use the journal. So fsck -y wont do a proper check unless the
journal replay fails.
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:48:18 -0700
Charles Swiger wrote:
> Yes. Without journalling, you'd normally perform the full
> timeconsuming fsck in the foreground.
Journalling removes the need for the background fsck which only recovers
lost space.
> With journalling, it should be
> able to do a j
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:34:36 +0200
David Demelier wrote:
> On 14.10.2013 14:39, RW wrote:
> > If you are having problems with data integrity you might try
> > gjournal or zfs instead.
>
> Why? SU+J is enabled by default. Isn't the purpose of a journaled file
>
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 05:02:22 -0400
Michael Powell wrote:
> David Demelier wrote:
>
> > Hello there,
> >
> > I'm writing because after a power failure I was unable to log in on
> > my FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE. The SU+J journal were executed correctly
> > but some files disappeared, including /etc/pwd.
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:53 +0100
Frank Leonhardt wrote:
> Alas, not. The console driver won't ring the BIOS bell on anything
> I've tried. It might on a desktop with a built-in sound card and
> speakers, but it won't do anything with the "beep" speaker.
Are you sure you have one? The last two
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:22:30 -0400
Andre Goree wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> I have a disk that was at one time part of a GPT/GELI configuration
> and thus, had a passphrase attached to it.
>
> I've since reformatted that disk and am using it for another purpose,
> but the system still appears to thin
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:33:55 +0400
Eugene wrote:
> Hello Gary,
>
> Also make sure there is no packed dirt on the heatsink -- I don't
> know about AMDs, but older Intel heatsinks often tend to accumulate a
> paper-like layer of dirt on the 'top' of heatsink grid, blocking the
> airflow. I once had
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:25:08 +0100
Paul Macdonald wrote:
>
> Hi, I spotted what i'd call an unusual file in the basejail on a jail
> install, and have since seen this on other non jailed boxes.
>
> -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 11488 Jun 10 12:19 [
>
> man [ reveals
>
> test, [ -- co
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:24:38 -0300
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
> I could not find only a one user that wants to use FreeBSD and/or
> LInux AND windows
Some people don't want to delete a preinstalled copy of Windows so they
can buy another and install it in a virtual server.
There are also fa
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:52:48 +
Teske, Devin wrote:
>
> On Jun 17, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:25:54 -0500, Teske, Devin
> > wrote:
> >
> >> The default in FreeBSD is MD5
> >
> > MD5 is no longer the default.
> >
> >
> > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ba
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 11:35:58 +0430
s m wrote:
> thanks guys,
>
> i understand another solution is GPT partitioning. but i prefer to
> have more partitions in traditional freebsd (with MBR table i think).
> using GPT is the last solution for me.
>
> i should create more than 8 partitions with gpar
On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:48:18 -0500
Adam Vande More wrote:
> Um, that is wrong. It is in fact the basically the point of TRIM.
> And SSD's typically use the best form of wear leveling and it's
> usually advisable to leave a bit of the drive unpartitioned/unused to
> ensure the wear leveling works
On Wed, 29 May 2013 19:52:02 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
> RW googlemail.com> writes:
>
> >
> > BTW you mean paging, or swap use, rather that swapping. Linux
> > supports only paging, so it can be taken as read that swapping
> > means paging, but FreeBSD suppo
On Wed, 29 May 2013 10:01:53 -0400
Paul Kraus wrote:
> Agreed. When I first started dealing with Unix professionally (1995,
> I started playing with Unix-like OSes almost 10 years earlier) I was
> taught that each Unix command does one thing and does it well.
It would still just be doing one thi
On Wed, 29 May 2013 12:04:47 +0100
Chris Rees wrote:
> On 29 May 2013 07:13, "Matthew Seaman" wrote:
> > Right. The fact that on very rare occasions a minute may not have
> > 60 seconds in it plus many other corner cases in calculating the
> > current wall-clock time is an amusing irrelevance.
On Wed, 29 May 2013 13:57:22 +0200
Fred Morcos wrote:
> Linux has a sysctl variable vm.swappiness which you can set to 0 or 1
> out of 100. Not sure how to achieve the same on FreeBSD, maybe one or
> more combinations of the following?
You'll probably make things worse.
> vm.stats.vm.v_swappgso
On Sun, 26 May 2013 12:36:42 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
> But, swapping is also a symptom, not a problem.
> It is never a good idea to let it get to that point.
No, there are thing that are better on disk than in memory. The most
common example is tmpfs. It's much better that files left on tmpfs can
On Tue, 28 May 2013 09:17:55 +0200
O. Hartmann wrote:
> I tried mail/claws-mail for now and I'm surprised how "cryptic" and
> fast an email client can be, but I also have serious struggles with
> this email client.
>
> When fetch and filtering Emails from the account of our computer
> center's I
On Mon, 27 May 2013 11:00:52 -0700
Ed Flecko wrote:
> Clearly, I'm doing something wrong.
>
> :-)
>
> I thought I was using svn to keep my ports, src and docs up to date,
> but pkg_version seems to disagree.
>
> I'm running 9.1 and I've installed ports, src, and docs as part of my
> install. Af
On Thu, 23 May 2013 09:57:50 +0430
s m wrote:
> my problem is, i can not run gjournal command for root partition in
> fixit mode nor single user mode.
Just to check, you did boot into single user mode rather than shut-down
into single user mode?
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On Fri, 17 May 2013 09:15:35 -0400
Jerry wrote:
> On Fri, 17 May 2013 14:03:01 +0100
> RW articulated:
>
> > On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:45:29 -0400
> > Jerry wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100
> > > RW articulated:
> > >
&g
On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:45:29 -0400
Jerry wrote:
> On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100
> RW articulated:
>
> > On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:29 +0100
> > Bruce Cran wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, seriously. Have you seen the number of people who post
> > > mess
On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:29 +0100
Bruce Cran wrote:
> On 17/05/2013 11:42, Jerry wrote:
> > Seriously? If some potential poster were so brain dead that he/she
> > could not comprehend how to subscribe to the mailing list then I
> > would seriously doubt that they would possess the necessary skil
On Tue, 14 May 2013 07:45:21 -0400
Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
>
> > 3) Assuming that I want to do this stuff, what BIOS options
> > should I be setting or unsetting on the motherboard?
>
> I am unable to check the BIOS settings on that MB (which may
> be ASrock a
I see that if you run fsck on a filesystem with SU+J turned-on, fsck
asks whether you want to use the journal.
This causes a problem when running fsck -y. The traditional meaning of
this command was: do a thorough, unconditional, non-interactive check;
but now SU+J filesystems only get a journal s
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:16:32 -0400
Michael Powell wrote:
> Alejandro Imass wrote:
>
> [snip]
> >>> Most consider the answer to use WPA2, which I do use too. Many
> >>> think it is 'virtually' unbreakable, but this really is not true;
> >>> it just takes longer. I've done WPA2 keys in as little as
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:25:30 -0400
Michael Powell wrote:
> Most consider the answer to use WPA2, which I do use too. Many think
> it is 'virtually' unbreakable, but this really is not true; it just
> takes longer. I've done WPA2 keys in as little as 2-3 hours before.
Are you saying that any WPA
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 22:25:33 +0100
mhca12 wrote:
> Does skipping authentication also remove the requirement of
> zeroing the whole eli disk for the checksums?
It's not needed from that perspective, but it makes it a bit more
secure if you do that or fill the device from /dev/random before the
ini
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:51:12 -0500
MFV wrote:
> Hello Matthew,
>
> Thanks for an outstanding piece of documentation. It resolves a
> number of concerns I had and convinced me to move from portsnap where
> I discovered an apparent bug that gave me security concerns. More
> specifically I manual
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT)
Georg Reilinger wrote:
> As a consequence, I can see myself do two possible things, to have a
> system
>
> running with KDE 3.5 once again:
>
> 1. Go back to an older release of FreeBSD and install KDE 3.5 from
> the
>
that's pointless
> 2. To be hon
I'm looking for a replacement for kget from KDE3 which I use
with Konqueror on easynews.com. As the site has download accounting
and I have a slow dsl line I have hundreds of files queued-up - often
for months.
Ideally what I after is something similar
- Browser integration
- The ability to queu
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:23:08 -0800
David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Artifex Maximus
> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I am using portmanager for updating my ports. I love its -p switch.
> > Is there any similar program with such option? I am asking because
> > portmanager is g
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:32:35 +0100
Polytropon wrote:
> Today I don't need to deal with this question anymore. I've
> been using a "two browsers approach": Firefox with "Flash"
> installed, everything works as intended, and Opera as my
> main browser, with "Flash" deactivated, and quite picky
> abo
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:19:55 +0200
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
> 03.01.2013 11:54, David Demelier:
> > subversion is not in base and will probably never? So this is not a
> > real problem :)
>
> Nope, importing svnsup would suffice.
>
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/des/svnsup/
Even that is
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:34:51 +0100
David Demelier wrote:
> I think a good idea would be to store the key directly in the
> bootloader, but that needs a large enough partition scheme that can
> store the bootloader (boot0 or boot1) plus the encryption key.
> However this needs to add support for
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:43:29 +0100
Martin Laabs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >> Are there any plans or is there already support for full
> >> disk encryption without the need for a boot partition?
>
> Well - what would be your benefit? OK - you might not create another
> partition but I think this is not th
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 06:22:44 -0800 (PST)
Jack Mc Lauren wrote:
> Hi fellas
> How can I exclude specific directories from my find command ? I want
> to look for all files in the whole system except for those in
> e.g /extra directory. I use this command to find all files, but how
> can I exclude /e
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:53:29 +0100
Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:32:50 +0000, RW wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:01:33 + (UTC)
> > Walter Hurry wrote:
> >
> > > $ sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
> > > >>> WARNING
> > &
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:01:33 + (UTC)
Walter Hurry wrote:
> $ sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
> >>> WARNING
> >>> Executing updatedb as root. This WILL reveal all filenames
> >>> on your machine to all login users, which is a security risk.
> $
>
> Why is it a "security risk"? Security thro
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:16:26 -0800
Devin Teske wrote:
>
> On Dec 17, 2012, at 3:39 AM, Jack Mc Lauren wrote:
>
> > Hi guys
> >
> > How can I read a file which contains a number and assign that
> > number to a variable via awk programming? By the way, I want to use
> > this awk program in a shel
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:00:51 -0500
Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if
> switching to amd64 ... nvidia-kmod are the minimal ones I need]) the
> main reason for asking is PAE seems to be broken now
The last I heard the nvidia driver wasn't c
On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:13:40 +0100
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
##enable dns # request DNS info (for resolv.conf)
You probably need this if you haven't set resolv.conf manually
> set dial
> set login
I don't think you need these.
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:13:50 +
Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 11/27/12 05:50, Dale Scott wrote:
> > Hi, I was running "portsnap fetch" on a remote terminal when my
> > connection failed. After connecting running portsnap again, it
> > appeared to complete correctly. However, when I run "portsnap
>
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:51:51 +1100
andrew clarke wrote:
> On Tue 2012-11-20 11:49:38 UTC+1100, andrew clarke
> (m...@ozzmosis.com) wrote:
>
> > In the meantime I've switched to using mpd5 (/usr/ports/net/mpd5)
> > and /sbin/ipnat. So far, so good:
> >
> > # ifconfig ng0
> > ng0: flags=88d1
> > m
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:10:48 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
> > You gave portsnap two commands - one succeeded and the other failed.
> >
> > "fetch" downloads and applies patches to the compressed
> > snapshot. "update" uses the compressed snapshot to update a
> > pre-existing ports tree created by an "
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:21:19 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
> Hi,
> have i caught portsnap with its pants down ?
>
> # rm -rf /usr/ports
> # portsnap fetch update
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
> Fetchi
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:58:02 -0600 (CST)
Robert Bonomi wrote:
> In 'classic' English (as taught in the 60s and earlier), a comma was
> _required_ before a trailing 'and' in a list of 3 or more items, and
> forbidden if there were only two items.
Not really:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/w
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:04:39 -0700
Gary Aitken wrote:
> Something pretty basic somewhere that I'm missing...
>
> "man ports" indicates the target "deinstall-all" will remove all
> installed ports.
That's not what the man page says.
> yet the target doesn't seem to exist:
>
> #cd /usr/ports
>
for mfsBSD: http://mfsbsd.vx.sk
> >
> Hmm, I think you have to make a trip or get some kind of remote
> console over ip.
> I tried it remote on a 9.1-RC2 system that has / /tmp /var and /usr
> as seperate partions
> For / i can do a mount -o ro / and tunefs -j disable /dev/
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:20:35 +0700 (ICT)
Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The network card on my HP 4300 is definitely dead. I don't want to
> invest in a new network card though, while I have a bunchg of old
> systems lying around.
Have you considered the cost of powering an additional compute
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:42:31 +0530
Jack wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> This time I disabled DHCP on my fxp0 interface and
> in my adsl modem too.
> But the problem still exists.
>
> This time I tried both approaches:
> assigned an IP address explicitly to fxp0, and
> then no explicit assignment to fxp0
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:38:47 +0530
Jack wrote:
> My network schematic is:
>
> PC <---> ADSL modem <-> Internet
> 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.1
>
...
> /etc/resolv.conf
>
> # Generated by resolvconf
> nameserver 192.168.1.1
If 192.168.1.1 is the modem, how can it be a prox
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:43 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
> Hi,
> what is the diff between
> --index
> and
> --index-only
>From a *very* quick look, it appears that --index-only means don't use
the the port-directory at all, so that the index file is downloaded
into /tmp, and some checks and optimizatio
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:47:04 -0700
Gary Kline wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:55:57AM -0700, Waitman Gobble wrote:
> > are you sure it's not 'md5sum' ? ... that seems to be on all my
> > GNU/Linux machines.
> >
> > Waitman Gobble
> > San Jose California USA
> >
>
> yup, you be right
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:24:47 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW
> wrote:
>
> > tmpfs and "swap" md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen
> > any advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp.
>
>
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:35:29 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, RW
> wrote:
>
> > Sorry I misread the previous post which *was* referring to an md
> > device, but the rest is right.
>
> Not really. ;-) The one compelling reason to use
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:21:12 +0100
RW wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:14:17 -0700
> Michael Sierchio wrote:
>
> > This will happen automatically if you go to multiuser without a
> > writeable /tmp. See /etc/rc.d/tmp
>
> It doesn't, the default is an old-fashione
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:14:17 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:
> This will happen automatically if you go to multiuser without a
> writeable /tmp. See /etc/rc.d/tmp
It doesn't, the default is an old-fashioned md device, not tmpfs.
> I have a problem with the semantics of the rc scripts for this an
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200
Andy Wodfer wrote:
> Hi,
> I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
> periodic LOCATE script runs every week.
>
> What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply
> remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /us
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:09:15 +0200
Polytropon wrote:
> I'm not sure if wine can run those native DOS games, but
> the "big" virtualisation software (VirtualBox, VMWare)
> should be able to emulate a PC, t
You don't need to go that far, dosbox will run most dos games.
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> > > To: Chris Hill
> > > Cc: RW , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > > Subject: Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?
> > >
> > > >> That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC
> > > >
> > > > Jason: It
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:53:04 -0700 (PDT)
Jason Usher wrote:
> I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's
> an i686 CPU.
>
> By default, GENERIC has "HAMMER" as the cpu, and that isn't working.
> So I tried both:
That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC
On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:20:52 +0200
kaltheat wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I tried to replace three letters with three letters by awk using the
> sub-routine. I assumed that my regular expression does mean the
> following:
>
> match if three letters of any letter of alphabet occurs anywhere in
> input
>
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:22:11 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > The read-cache idea is very sound, mainly because by using it this
> > way Seagate would not have to create a special set of instructions
> > for installing and using the HDD.
>
> I don't think that this drive cache is smart eno
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:47:10 +0200
Ivan Voras wrote:
> On 26/07/2012 04:14, RW wrote:
>
> > I asked a similar questions to the OPs in the geom list and didn't
> > get an answer. Geli doesn't need or isn't using any advantages of
> > XTS. And CBC in geli i
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:49:00 +0200
Fabian Keil wrote:
> RW wrote:
> > In the end I went with 128 bit aes-cbc since it's the fastest
> > setting and Bruce Schneier recommends 128 over 256 AES as being
> > more secure.
>
> Can you provide the source for the &q
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:52:39 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jul 25 14:00:27 2012
> > Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:57:30 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: Wojciech Puchar
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: geli - selecting cipher
> >
> > i need
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:45:35 -0700 (PDT)
Mr U wrote:
> hi all
>
> I want to install openbox from ports collection.
> freebsd attempting to download libxml2 from fr.rpmfind.net but
> I don't know why connection speed slow down after a while and finally
> failed.
>
> is it possible to change down
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:26:10 -0700 (PDT)
Jakub Lach wrote:
> Or vi in place.
>
> Really, it always surprises me there's
> no vi available in single user mode.
>
There is /rescue/vi
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:52:50 +0200
Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> hello, world\n
>
> is anybody else seeing this? On a fresh 9-STABLE/amd64 as of July 7,
> with all ports compiled from scratch. Qbittorrent (2.9.11) freezes
> after about 10 to 20 seconds, reacts to mouse clicks only after a
> minute or
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 22:34:21 +0200
Harald Weis wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:46:00PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
> > I would recommend you to remove flash at all. It actually improves
> > web browsing experience, removing problems with constant CPU load
> > because you have few tabs w
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:53:50 -0700 (PDT)
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from
> rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump.
>
> Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI changes, such
>
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:53:45 -0500
Zane C. B-H. wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100
> RW wrote:
>
> > freebsd-update doesn't support development branches, you have to go
> > from security branch to security branch.
>
> I know it can't be u
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:21:18 -0500
Zane C. B-H. wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> Any one have any idea what is going on below?
>
> [root@shiela]/root# uname -a
> FreeBSD shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
> 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 25 04:55:35 CST 2012
> kits...@shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net:/usr/o
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:56:39 -0700 (PDT)
Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
> Hi, since a few of days ago, I noticed my home server turns very slow
> more than once a day, so every time I run "top" to see what's
> processes are running, I can see fsck_ufs at the very top, and the
> hard drive working like ma
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:02:48 -0400
Jerry wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:47:29 +0100
> RW articulated:
>
> > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:45:07 +0100
> > Matthew Seaman wrote:
> >
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > #
> > > # Persuade vboxheadless to
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:45:07 +0100
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Persuade vboxheadless to start before samba.
>
> # PROVIDE: precedence
> # REQUIRE: vboxheadless
> # BEFORE: samba
>
> :
>
> Make it executable. Note -- the ':' does seem to be necessary.
Why? None of the dummy scrip
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:48:13 +0100
RW wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:22:37 +0300
> mbsd wrote:
>
> > Hi there.
> >
> > Now I'm using FreeBSD 9 without swap, and without additional swap -
> > related configurations.
> >..
> > And the questio
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:22:37 +0300
mbsd wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> Now I'm using FreeBSD 9 without swap, and without additional swap -
> related configurations.
>..
> And the question is:
> Does it correct to use freebsd like this? Or I need specific setup?
>
> Option NO_SWAPPING if I understand ri
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:17:20 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
> William Orr worrbase.com> writes:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing
> > /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've
> > been backing it up, I know, I was actually doi
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 07:22:50 -0600
Gary Aitken wrote:
> I reconfigured my ssd filesystem with the /var partition of size
> 512M. Unfortunately, something in portsnap or the ports tree in
> general uses a boatload of small files, and i ran out of inodes. Can
> anyone recommend an appropriate size
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:06:48 -0700 (PDT)
Dánielisz László wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Let say my computer is connected to the internet with a cable modem
> and has a dynamic IP address via DHCP. This address is refreshed
> after every random days. I want to know the new address even when I'm
> not
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 07:36:24 -0400
Jerry wrote:
> In any event, it won't belong before some hacker comes up with a way
> to circumvent the entire process anyway,
It sounds like Fedora already have. They say that they are only going to
sign a thin shim that loads grub.
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:47:29 +0200
Rada alive wrote:
> I was hoping to test dns/unbound as a lighter-weight DNS cache
> service to replace BIND. A few hours into "make install" i decided to
> abort and have a look at the dependencies.
> Can someone tell me why a DNS server needs packages like
> "gr
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:47:47 +0100
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
>
> c400# uname -a
> FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25
> UTC 2012
> r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>
> Following the handbook:
>
> c400# freebsd-update -r 9-STABLE upgra
On Tue, 22 May 2012 21:30:44 -0400 (EDT)
Thomas Mueller wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: Gary Aitken
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Sent: Tue, 22 May 2012 19:02:30 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: portsnap update won't update original /usr/ports
>
> According to the handbook, one can d
On Tue, 22 May 2012 13:50:10 +0200
Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> I have this issue with running commands from a script:
>
> In my crontab I define script 'do_daily.run':
> 30 23 * * * root
> /root/cronjobs/do_daily.run
>
> The content of this script (amongst othe
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT)
Beastie-Boy wrote:
> Ok, many thanks for your replies.
> I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE.
> That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk.
When you cross a major OS release boundary, you need to fo
On Thu, 17 May 2012 13:37:49 +0200
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 17/05/2012 08:27, Peter Barnes wrote:
> > I would like to use BSD but I use KPPP to connect to my ISP. Is
> > anyone working on KPPP to include it with BSD? According to
> > Distrowatch no BSD O/S's have KPPP
>
> KPPP is just a KDE-bas
On Tue, 8 May 2012 16:51:06 -0400
Carmel wrote:
> On Tue, 8 May 2012 21:14:23 +0100
> RW articulated:
> >It's a bit anecdotal, but I've had fewer problems with flash video
> >since upgrading to modern hardware a year ago.
>
> Define "modern hardware"
On Tue, 8 May 2012 15:09:26 -0400
Carmel wrote:
> I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content
> was not view-able.
>
> Example:
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
>
>
> The
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:25:39 -0400
Daniel Staal wrote:
> So, is there any way to *avoid* getting that error? Some way where I
> can actually use the ports system to keep my stuff up to date? (Even
> if it doesn't include the manually-installed software?)
It think you should be able to preven
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:32:39 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
> Adam Vande More gmail.com> writes:
>
> > ...
> > http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/19036310553/two-things-that-really-helped-
> > speed-up-my-mac-and
> > http://dywypi.org/2012/02/back-on-linux.html
> >
>
> "2) Inactive memory (which is memo
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:28:43 -0500 (CDT)
Lars Eighner wrote:
> The old library should have been moved to a compatibility library so
> that things that still depended on it could find it. This did not
> happen for some reason.
Only portupgrade does that by default. It's an option on portmaster,
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:12:41 +0200
Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> No mention of ext3 there, nor from find (above).
>
> .. so you May be out of luck ..
ext3 is ext2+journalling. If fsck supports ext3, then it can sync the
journal and the partition can be safely mounted as ext2.
It's a long time sinc
What's the explanation for this:
$ ldd /usr/compat/linux/bin/pwd
/usr/compat/linux/bin/pwd:
/tmp
$ LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 /usr/compat/linux/bin/pwd
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x28076000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x2805)
From what I've read ldd works through set
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:52:56 -0700
Cstdenis wrote:
> Portupgrade man page says "By default, portupgrade preserves shared
> libraries on uninstallation for safety."
>
> I ran i in the form of: portupgrade -b pcre
>
> Now /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 does not exist anymore, only the new
> /usr/lo
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 01:25:54 +0200
Mikkel Bang wrote:
> Den 23:44 8. april 2012 skrev RW
> følgende:
>
> >
> > The FreeBSD site isn't great, but this site is worse.
> >
> > Has no-one ever pointed-out the irony that the top 20% of the page
> > bangs-
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 14:40:12 +0200
Tony wrote:
> Tony
> http://siegelgale.com/
The FreeBSD site isn't great, but this site is worse.
Has no-one ever pointed-out the irony that the top 20% of the page
bangs-on about simplifying, and has a "fight bloat on your website"
link, but the other 80% is a
On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:18:19 +0100
Dave wrote:
> fbsd8
>
> How do you connect to your TW ISP? Just a Cable modem of some sort,
> or is there a Router involved somewhere? It makes a whole world of
> difference
If you read the rest of the thread you'll see that that the problem
was solve
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