Re: Mouse Trails?

2013-08-18 Thread cpghost
On 08/18/13 16:48, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 08/17/13 19:08, cpghost wrote: >> On 08/17/13 18:14, Walter Hurry wrote: >>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:31:26 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > >> Good ole Xeyes... ;-) But beware, xeyes crashes X server right now! Using >> >&g

Re: Mouse Trails?

2013-08-17 Thread cpghost
#0 r253323 Sat Jul 13 21:00:32 CEST 2013 amd64 I'm not the only one who's got X server crashes with xeyes: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-May/011833.html @Polytropon: what version of xeyes/xorg-server are you usi

Re: where to start with PGP/GPG?

2013-08-15 Thread cpghost
using thunderbird with the enigmail add-on. Works great. -cpghost. > Thanks > Anton -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Tablet PCs and FreeBSD?

2013-08-07 Thread cpghost
On 08/05/13 23:07, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Adam Vande More <mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:44 PM, cpghost <mailto:cpgh...@cordula.ws>> wrote: > > Hello list, > >

Tablet PCs and FreeBSD?

2013-08-05 Thread cpghost
for a Tablet PC that runs Linux/arm (not just Android), and it would be nice if that model was also able to run FreeBSD; and if not now, so in the foreseeable future. Any suggestions w.r.t. models? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: Unusual file: /bin/[

2013-07-29 Thread cpghost
used in (bourne) shell programming. It has been part of BSD Unix for ages. And I really mean AGES! > just checking thats all ok, and i've not been rooted! Don't worry about it. It's perfectly legitimate. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-28 Thread cpghost
On 07/27/13 21:12, cpghost wrote: > A more robust file system would halt all processes, and perform > an in-kernel fsck on the filesystem and its internal (in-memory) > structures to repair the damage... and THEN resume the processes. > > However, this is a major project, and we do

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread cpghost
rm an in-kernel fsck on the filesystem and its internal (in-memory) structures to repair the damage... and THEN resume the processes. However, this is a major project, and we don't have a self-healing filesystem / kernel (... yet). ;-) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread cpghost
stem is corrupt? Have you tried to fsck(8) it manually? Even if the filesystem is corrupt, ufs_rmdir() shouldn't panic(), IMHO, but fail gracefully. Hmmm... -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: devel/poco-ssl BROKEN. Can I use TRYBROKEN?

2010-02-01 Thread cpghost
ou could take the > time to fix the plist and offer an option to install the docs? I'll have a look as soon as I grok the ports system and find out how to do that. ;-) Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

devel/poco-ssl BROKEN. Can I use TRYBROKEN?

2010-01-31 Thread cpghost
o-ssl} TRYBROKEN=yes .endif in /etc/make.conf. Is it okay, until devel/poco-ssl is fixed? Oh, btw, I'm still missing the poco-doc port which pulls in the POCO documentation. :-( Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Printing via ulpt0 extremely slow

2010-01-31 Thread cpghost
cpu0: timer 6227448 2018 > irq256: hdac0 92 0 > cpu1: timer 6219346 2015 > Total 13031023 4223 > > Anyone seen something similar? What else can I try to debug this > p

Re: Problem viewing DVDs

2010-01-17 Thread cpghost
s should take care of that though. You may still see acd failures in dmesg using vobcopy (no idea why), but the copied VOBs should still be okay. I have no problems viewing them with mplayer. > Regards, > > Jens > -- > Jen

Re: GELI file systems unusable after "glabel label" operations

2010-01-15 Thread cpghost
artitions, but not as much as you). There should really be a big obvious warning in the glabel(8) and geli(8) man pages, because that's a big trap waiting to spring on unsuspecting users (POLA violation). :-( -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _

Re: OT: XML newbie

2009-12-11 Thread cpghost
though I guess it could be automated at the XML (DTD?) level too. Regards, -cpghost -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-22 Thread cpghost
y idle. Perhaps disk and net subsystems concurrently using a non-locked resource and killing each other? Have you tried to run rtorrent and the router on two different FreeBSD machines? Does it lock the router, or does it crash the rtorrent box only, or both? -cpghost. -

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread cpghost
... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague Sorry, couldn't resist. ;-) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-10-23 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 03:20:20PM -0800, Henrik Hudson wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, cpghost wrote: > > I'm experiencing frequent crashes on my soekris net4801 home router > > for some months now, and I'm wondering if it could be some kind of > > pf-related

rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-10-21 Thread cpghost
doesn't recover automatically even after many hours. Any ideas? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread cpghost
annoying, that if X crashes (or you have to stop it for some reason), you only get DRI support again after rebooting. :-( Having said this, IMHO ATI will probably be better supported in the long run on FreeBSD, because they have released the specs of rather recent chipsets, while nVidia has not (A

Re: mplayer: X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

2009-09-30 Thread cpghost
Mech Eng Dept > Bristol University > University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK > Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 > Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: java/jdk16 vulnerability?

2009-09-30 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 08:48:37PM -0700, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:10:48PM +0200, cpghost wrote: > > Freenet (http://www.freenetproject.org/) on my FreeBSD/amd64 system > > complains about an old and vulnerable Java version: > > > > Your i

java/jdk16 vulnerability?

2009-09-28 Thread cpghost
:26 CEST 2009 r...@phenom.cordula.ws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Is that version of Java really vulnerable? If yes, why doesn't # portaudit -Fda report it as such, and could you please update the java/jdk16 port? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula

Re: How to get pf to wait for ng0

2009-09-20 Thread cpghost
IRE: SERVERS cleanvar NETWORKING This setup will effectively run mpd5 *before* pf, and will also wait (hopefully) long enough for mpd5 to set up ng0. Then, when pf runs, ng0 will be already there. Of course, there is more than one way to do it. It just happens to work here. > Sam Fourman Jr.

java/jdk16 vulnerability?

2009-09-20 Thread cpghost
src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Is that version of Java really vulnerable? If yes, why doesn't # portaudit -Fda report it as such, and could you please update the java/jdk16 port? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-ques

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread cpghost
sectors are usually protected by some kind of ECC. Simply ignoring the ECC and reading raw magnetic data will all too often result in corrupt sectors. Of course, if you have out-of-band error correction or at least error detection mechanisms (like .PAR or md5/sha1 checksums), raw magnetic reco

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread cpghost
he right way, I wrote a little batch script that gets invoked at link-up, and that simply restarts all other processes in the order: pf, named, ntpd, postfix, etc... That's not ideal, but as a kludge, it works for me. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-17 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 06:18:45PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > On 17 August 2009 pm 18:09:06 cpghost wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:25:29AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > By the way, where did I read that #define macro names have to > > > be unique withi

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-17 Thread cpghost
s like variables, functions etc... Everybody familiar with FORTRAN libraries like BLAS [1] will remember that cramped namespace. ;-) [1]: http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lug/node145.html -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebs

Re: Boot failure

2009-08-07 Thread cpghost
/usr/src/sys/$ARCH/conf/GENERIC and /usr/src/sys/$ARCH/conf/INET_ON (with ARCH being one of i386, amd64, etc...) GENERIC and INET_ON may be equal; then you're running GENERIC. If not, they you're running a customized kernel. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws

Re: Boot failure

2009-08-07 Thread cpghost
: # strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep ':/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/' # strings /boot/kernel.old/kernel | grep ':/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/' -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-06 Thread cpghost
near key spaces first. Depending on the symmetric cipher, not all keys are equally strong; and if you're unlucky, you may catch one of those "bad keys" through /dev/random. However, this is a fairly advanced crypto topic. > Thanks guys! > -M

Re: A port for FireGPG?

2009-07-30 Thread cpghost
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 04:53:53PM +0200, cpghost wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:31:29AM +0200, cpghost wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to use GnuPG with Webmail (e.g. with gmail or other > > webmails). AFAICS, the following Firefox add-on would help: >

Re: ATI Radeon X600: no DRI upon X restart :-(

2009-06-27 Thread cpghost
00 2e530sound.ko 51 0x80e67000 5a7cdradeon.ko 61 0x80ec2000 115c4drm.ko > Any suggestions? No idea. Perhaps asking radeonhd's or drm maintainer directly to have a look? Did you find a work around besides rebooting? > TIA, > Vladimir Thanks, -

Re: Versioning File System for FreeBSD?

2009-06-25 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:59:45AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:57:34PM +0200, cpghost wrote: > > Quite true! > > > > I see even more ambiguity here: What about a versioned file pointed > > to by hard links from two versioned directories? >

Re: Versioning File System for FreeBSD?

2009-06-25 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:33:23AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:57:34 +0200, cpghost wrote: > > Yep, you're right. I thought about a way to extend the API in a > > backwards compatible way, but that's not as easy or straight > > forward as it s

Re: Versioning File System for FreeBSD?

2009-06-24 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:26:50PM +0200, Morten Grunnet Buhl wrote: > * cpghost [2009-06-24 17:04 +0200]: > > Hi, > > > > is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD > > right now? > > - I don't know how fare along hammerfs is in being

Re: Versioning File System for FreeBSD?

2009-06-24 Thread cpghost
(yet), but on Linux, there are some experimental > > versioning file systems like: > > http://www.ext3cow.com/Welcome.html > > http://tux3.org/ > > > > and there's a (unmaintained?) FUSE file system at: > > http://wayback.sourceforge.net/ > > > >

Re: Versioning File System for FreeBSD?

2009-06-24 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:59:18PM +0200, cpghost wrote: > open(2) could open a file at an earlier revision: > > FILE *filep; s/FILE */int /; -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: Versioning File System for FreeBSD?

2009-06-24 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:37:55PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:04:22PM +0200, cpghost wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD > > right now? > > > I don't care if it is native o

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-24 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 04:50:01PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 03:53:15PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: > > But port knocking can be useful and provide more security *if* you > > modify the kocking sequence algorithmically and make it

Versioning File System for FreeBSD?

2009-06-24 Thread cpghost
ackend, as long as it provides some kind of transparent versioning. Anything like that in the works? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-24 Thread cpghost
y useful in batch/script mode, as there are some multi-line text processing problems that you can't tackle with sed(1) alone, and where awk(1) or even perl, python etc.. are overkill. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-24 Thread cpghost
course, you can modify the keys/passwords algorithmically and make them a function of time, source IP etc. as well... ;-) And while we're at it: how about real OPIE? Or combining SSH keys, OPIE, and port knocking? > Erik N?rgaard > Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://w

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-04 Thread cpghost
we have the great collecton of /usr/ports/emulators/simh plus images, but nothing BS2000-ish (yet). Or do we? TIA, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-04 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:06:18PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: > Whatever happened to BeOS? http://www.haiku-os.org/ -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread cpghost
; > vncserver creater new X server. Can't monitor yours unless you have > special module for X server installed and loaded (it is in ports) Okay, okay, how about this? * http://www.keyfrog.org/ * http://www.randombit.net/code/logger.c * /usr/ports/security/xspy * /usr/ports/s

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread cpghost
w, but that was also a good reminder to be careful and use common sense. > Glen Barber > http://www.dev-urandom.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/glenjbarber -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread cpghost
that those LEDs were blinking at the exact rate of the transmitted data, bit-for-bit, and that anyone with a telescope and an optical sensor could have picked that pattern up, and reconstructed the data stream. Scary, uh? > Are you sure the employees in your company doesn't do that? :) I

Re: How to reset a connection stuck in CLOSE_WAIT state

2009-06-03 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:38:24PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I am runnig FlexNet license manager on FreeBSD (6.4), this is alinux > application, but it is running smoothly. > > The problem occurs sometime at stop time, it will not stop cleanly and > leave a connection in CLOSE_WAIT s

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread cpghost
have more resources, including time, to conduct targeted penetration attempts into your secure environment. You see, security is more than just protecting the normal desktop user from vanilla attacks. ;-) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ __

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread cpghost
from a security point of view. Surely, not everyone has the same security requirements, and YMMV. ;-) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-06-01 Thread cpghost
t; 65205 Wiesbaden > Germany Tel. +49 (0) 6122 70 70 7 -111 > Fax. +49 (0) 6122 70 70 7 -199 > Mobil: +49 (0) 177 38 191 09 > > e-Mail: kian.go...@aoemedia.de > Web: http://www.aoemedia.de/ Kind regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _

Re: Strange text from kernel then detaching USB drive: "sldoosstf sd/e v irceemo"

2009-06-01 Thread cpghost
creesmsa i`nsiynngc.e.r.' to3 stop...0 0 done Sep 5 00:34:38 test kernel: All buffers synced. <... snip ...> Workaround (partial): Use options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=256 in your kernel configuration. This will decrease the amount of interspersed output, but does not so

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread cpghost
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:35:35PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > You can even keep it out of /usr employing the /opt "Linuxism". :-) /opt is actually a Solarism... ;-) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread cpghost
oxes around: http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=322 hooked on old HP DeskJets for moderate to heavy office use, but knowing about alternatives is always good. > and go. Of course add postscript filters if you like Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread cpghost
well under RELENG_7? > As they are advertised as mostly for windows, i actually found configuring > it under unix very simple exactly as you said (/etc/printcap), while > incredibly complex under windows ;) TIA, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-28 Thread cpghost
ork, although ARM and other platforms would still be left out in the cold. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: superpages?

2009-05-28 Thread cpghost
application changes and virtual memory inflexibility. This is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting a loader tunable vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled to 1. > if it's true i would be enough reason to upgrade to 7.2 on 2 computers. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cord

Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread cpghost
6GB of RAM, and it looks very promising. I wouldn't put it on production servers yet, but will eventually, once FreeBSD's ZFS integration matures and stabilizes. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questi

Re: rtmpdump (was: Re: Streaming server)

2009-05-26 Thread cpghost
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:21:26PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2009 15:11:41 +0200, cpghost wrote: > > While we're talking about streaming protocols: how comes we don't > > have rtmpdump in the ports? > > Maybe because of mplayer -streamdump rtsp://

rtmpdump (was: Re: Streaming server)

2009-05-26 Thread cpghost
While we're talking about streaming protocols: how comes we don't have rtmpdump in the ports? http://lkcl.net/rtmp/ Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-26 Thread cpghost
ink there would be non-sensical. This may not apply to the control channels, where latency is not so important, as opposed to data integrity, but for the voice traffic itself, it makes perfect sense. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-25 Thread cpghost
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:06:57PM +0200, cpghost wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 09:30:30PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > > > make search key="streaming" > > > > > > in the ports directory. IMHO, streaming versus downloading is more >

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-25 Thread cpghost
7;t "hang" (e.g. due to retransmissions). Here, UDP- based protocols are often a better choice. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread cpghost
kback. If you need at least 8-10 hours (or even more) of continuous autonomy, that's pretty important, IMHO. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: A port for FireGPG?

2009-05-23 Thread cpghost
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:31:29AM +0200, cpghost wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to use GnuPG with Webmail (e.g. with gmail or other > webmails). AFAICS, the following Firefox add-on would help: > > http://www.getfiregpg.org/ > > Unfortunately, according to http://ww

A port for FireGPG?

2009-05-22 Thread cpghost
like this: http://blog.getfiregpg.org/2008/10/17/how-to-compile-the-ipc-library/ Is there a port to automate this task, or could someone with the necessary skills please create such a port? That would be great! Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.

Re: kb problem.

2009-05-22 Thread cpghost
/usr/share/syscons/keymaps, and modify it according to your layout. Then use kbdcontrol(1) to activate it. Of course, this doesn't apply to Xorg: that's another can of worms. Check out setxkbmap(1) and /usr/local/share/X11/xkb for that. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www

Re: 7.2 = no sound

2009-05-07 Thread cpghost
specified in application settings. That's the most common cause for sound problems after the snd_hda upgrade. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread cpghost
ither with C++ or indirectly using Perl, Python, ... bindings) would be much more portable... ;-) > And for the weekend: > 10 GOTO KNEIPE > 20 INPUT BIER You forgot the most important step: 30 GOTO 20 -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread cpghost
ions of files. If you don't like the (small) downtime during newfs, you could also play with two or more dedicated filesystems, and rotate between them (though that would be a waste of disk space). I can't recall how many times I've used a fresh newfs-ed filesystem instead of remov

MAKE_JOBS_SAFE et al. missing in documentation?

2009-05-05 Thread cpghost
ll not yet marked as such. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FOR MARK

2009-05-05 Thread cpghost
owisofs -dvd-video -Z /dev/cd1 dvd.iso 1. you probably meant -dvd-compat instead of -dvd-video 2. for premastered isos, use this syntax: -Z /dev/cd1=dvd1.iso (don't forget the = sign) > What am i missing//not doing correctly ? -cpghost. -- Cordula

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-25 Thread cpghost
o OpenBSD or another OS for purely practical reasons. So, no, I don't see text-based sysinstall disappear anytime soon. ;-) > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group -cp

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-23 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:10:50AM +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 4/23/09, cpghost wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:50:46AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: > >> The partitioner will allow you to create more partitions than the > >> FreeBSD partition tab

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-23 Thread cpghost
(including the root partition) on the bootable slice. That's clearly not enough, esp. on big disks, and with complex setups. :-( > Mike > -- > Michael David Crawford > m...@prgmr.com -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread cpghost
d backup host and using ssh(1) is not hard. Really not. ;-) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mai

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread cpghost
GI and FastCGI: http://redmine.lighttpd.net/wiki/lighttpd/Docs:ModCGI http://redmine.lighttpd.net/wiki/lighttpd/Docs:ModFastCGI Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?

2009-04-17 Thread cpghost
) > Suggestions? > -Modulok- -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Block device to regular file?

2009-04-14 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:36:22PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:48:16PM +0200, cpghost wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:18:43PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:17:24 +0200, cpghost wrote: > > > > I'm trying t

Re: Block device to regular file?

2009-04-14 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:18:43PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:17:24 +0200, cpghost wrote: > > I'm trying to recover some deleted files from a UFS2 file > > system with the sleuthkit. > > > Unfortunatly, most sleuthkit > > utilities e

Block device to regular file?

2009-04-14 Thread cpghost
take an image. Now, is there an easy way to turn a block device into something that would behave like a regular file? Something like "mdconfig -t vnode", but in reverse? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ fr

Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-10 Thread cpghost
via this account If you're just getting 4xx error codes, but the mails are accepted after a while, it's simply greylisting. That's normal behaviour of the FreeBSD mail server(s). -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: First time user problems

2009-03-20 Thread cpghost
sensitive. Perhaps you had CAPS LOCK engaged when asked during installation? > Alhaji I Barrie > > Network Security Analyst -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

2009-03-20 Thread cpghost
x27;s also a C++ class library that emulates Borland's Turbo Vision's SAA interface. Two implementations are in ports: devel/rhtvision devel/tvision -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread cpghost
omatic cleaners. But that's up to every single program and not OS'es business. Thanks again for all the insight. > Kris -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:24:51AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:01:41 +0100 cpghost wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:27:53AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > Not sure what's really going on there, but apparently, the process > > &

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:48:49AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 15), cpghost said: > > I've noticed that when a huge, partially or totally swapped out process > > exits, there is a lot of disk activity going on, before the process truly > > dies. T

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:09:00AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> > >> is it your program and you are sure it's on exit? > > > > Every memory hungry program is concerned; and yes: it happens exactly > > on exit. > > strange. > i just wrote a test program > > #include > int test[1024*1024*128

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread cpghost
els of vm amd pmap, and that's the place where the pages are paged in again (I think). > not exit(2) itself -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread cpghost
directories etc.)? -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: who broke snd_hda? SOLVED

2009-03-15 Thread cpghost
pcm1 (in your case, that would be the first analog output unit ). -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: USENET?

2009-03-09 Thread cpghost
s which have enough customers to justify the expenses. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: OT: what is the X11 equiv of /dev/null

2009-03-03 Thread cpghost
hide its windows, you could also try to configure your favorite window manager to automatically hide all windows from a particular application (if your wm allows it and if your X11 app tells its name in an X11 resource (check out RESOURCES in X(7), and -xrm)). -cpghost. -

Re: How to repeat playing mp3 with mpg123

2009-03-02 Thread cpghost
one mpg123 process and the start of the next one (when the shell is in the foreground) is pretty tiny. Try adding a 'sleep 1' or something like that after mpg123, and it will be easier. > Could anyone provide more ideas. > thank you. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://ww

Re: xorg-fbserver / xorg-server fails upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread cpghost
Any ideas what can be wrong here and how to overcome this problem? No idea. I'm stuck here. Any hint? > Thanks much in advance for any clue, > -ewald > > PS: FreeBSD 7.1, AMD64 platform, kernel/system up2date as per Feb 5. Same here on FreeBSD 7.1-S

Re: hi

2009-02-22 Thread cpghost
ever been. The main driving force is to attract good developers who like technical challenges and who love to tinker. It's nice to have a solid and large user base, but IMHO, that's not the main priority. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's We

Re: Please Help Me ...

2009-02-16 Thread cpghost
l Apparently, they also support FreeBSD, since many FreeBSD web hosters do provide cPanel to their customers. Just have a look at their website and ask there. ;-) > My Blog > > http://weblog.teamnet.ir Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula&

Re: OT: SVN checkout checksumming

2009-02-06 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:14:14PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:58:00 +0100, cpghost wrote: > >> Let's assume for a moment that you install a post-commit hook that > >> generates a SHA-256 checksum of all the files in the latest repo >

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