Re: shooting oneself in the foot with "ldconfig -v"

> > The previously configured directory list was fully populated, so > > effectively there should have been no change as the previously > > configured directories were untouched and I specified no > > additional pathnames. > > ... > > Are you saying that by specifying "-v" I no longer satisfied the

How to set up a network-attached printer

Where would I find a specific method for setting up a Samsung ML-2571N network-attached PostScript printer in FreeBSD 6.1? I'm hoping for something less generic than what I've found in the handbook. It "just works" from MacOS X, as did the old LaserWriter IIf that the Samsung replaced, so I suppos

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 on J7F4 locks up

> I've now also experienced lock ups when building world in in > single user mode, without using the nics. So the problem might > not only be the nics. Cany anyone confirm this? > > ACPI, SATA, AC97 and USB were disabled when the lock up occurred. The canonical suspect would be flakey memory.

Re: add application names to the drop-down menu??

> > Can anybodytell me how to add apps to the Gnome "drop-down" > > menu beneath the string "Applications"? (Upper-left-hand corner) > > Try using deskutils/alacarte ... x11-wm/wmconfig is another possibility. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: hidden disk geometry on Compaq Presario V2000

Lorin Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Compaq Presario Notebook in the V2000 series. > I just replaced the hard drive because the original was getting > disk errors. > > I have a WD Scorpio 120 GB. When I try to load FreeBSD I get an > error message when I get to the partition the disk

Re: K3b

> BTW: I really gets annoyed when people say by the way > it works in Linux, Windows, Solaris or whatever. > What is that suppose to mean? When someone describes a problem getting a certain hardware setup to work as desired in FreeBSD, and reports that it works in some other OS, I would take it to

Re: FreeBSD for Sony Playstation3?

> > ... will FreeBSD.org consider porting FreeBSD to Sony > > Playstation3? > > ... NetBSD works like a charm on Sony Playstation2 > http://www.netbsd.org/ports/playstation2/. > > and my guess will be that NetBSD 4.0 which is supposed to > be released about the same time as FreeBSD 7.0 will work >

Re: rss-glx screen saver compilation fails?

> spirographx.o(.text+0x30f): In function `getAll': > : undefined reference to `sincosf' Per Google, it's a gnu-ism: http://linux.die.net/man/3/sincosf void sincosf(float x, float *sin, float *cos); Several applications need sine and cosine of the same angle x. This function computes

Re: Capturing tar output

> > redirect stderr with "2>" operator > > > Using the following command, > # /usr/local/gtar/bin/tar -cvf - /home/hallja 2 > /var/log/test.txt | > /usr/local/bin/gpg --encrypt "recipient" | dd of=/dev/nsa0 obs=128k > > I receive an error meesage stating, "Ambiguous output redirect." Wojtek correc

Re: server is crashing constantly

Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a new web server [which] is crashing 2-3 times a day ... > > That is what im getting in the /var/log/messages. > > Sep 13 20:09:25 rps savecore: reboot after panic: page fault > Sep 13 20:09:25 rps savecore: writing core to vmcore.0 ... > Any idea

Re: Realtek 8111C?

> ... I thought I'd try copying the driver from 7.1. The module > (if_re.ko) appears to load successfully at boot time, however > the NIC is still not shown in dmesg and unavailable as re0. > I admit I don't know if this should even work (7.1-compiled > module on 6.3 kernel) ... That would indeed

Re: My unqualified host name

> > "nyana sm-mta[803]: My unqualified host name (nyana) unknown; > > sleeping for retry" > > ... sendmail expects your machine to have working DNS and for > the machine to have a valid FQDN. Either set that up, or add > sendmail_enable="NONE" to /etc/rc.conf to disable sendmail ... There is

Re: My unqualified host name

> > > > "nyana sm-mta[803]: My unqualified host name (nyana) unknown; > > > > sleeping for retry" > > > > > > ... sendmail expects your machine to have working DNS and for > > > the machine to have a valid FQDN. Either set that up, or add > > > sendmail_enable="NONE" to /etc/rc.conf to d

Re: My unqualified host name

> If you look for "My unqualified host name" "unknown; sleeping for > retry" you will get a lot of possible answers; some suggesting to > add your unqualified host name in /etc/hosts. That line is already in /etc/hosts, both with and without a trailing period. I still get the ~3 messages about a

cc-mail file format

Is anyone aware of a program that can read cc-mail mailboxes, similar to readpst from mail/libpst for Outlook? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EM

Re: Inode numbering

Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's assume we have a directory D with an inode number i(D). > It contains a file F with its inode number i(F). > > May I state that i(D) < i(F)? In general, no. It might work in the special case where nothing on the filesystem is ever moved or removed, a

Re: Inode numbering

Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... It will force me to > do what I originally intended to do: Iterate from 2 up > to the maximal number and then check the availability, > and, if given, "trace back" the ".. chain" to an existing > directory entry point - or re-create one, if it is missing

Re: sudo multiple commands at once without shell script

> How do I run multiple sudo commands at once? This fails > because the semicolon ends the whole sudo command: > > > sudo whoami; whoami > root > user > > This confuses tcsh: > > monica:~> sudo ( whoami ; whoami ) > Badly placed ()'s. Supposing sudo spawns a shell, something like ~> sudo whoami

Re: Problems with FreeBSD

> I have some problem with my FreeBSD server. I have this: > > #### # > # Linux1 # -> ASA -> Internet -> # FreeBSD # -> # Linux2 # > #### # > > If I run a ssh for

Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk

> On Thursday 06 November 2008 22:01:39 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a > > > hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, > > > > what is "RAID5 of RAID6"??? > > 'of' is 'or' in dutch, common typo for dutch or flemish people.

Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?

> >> Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? > >> I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. > > > > You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating > > vector images, try either inkscape or xaralx. They're all in ports. > > i have a friend th

Re: Desktop image of Beastie

> I picked up this jpg of Beastie over 10 years ago. Tried using > it for a gdm logon screen background, but it's really light. > >http://www.a1poweruser.com/beastie.JPG > > Does any one know where i can get a darker version of this image? You're right, that's extremely faint, more lik

Re: root /etc/csh

> > > > ... Why doesn't FreeBSD ship bash and other shells besides > > > > the `sh' linked statically is beyond me. It wouldn't break > > > > ports, would it? > > > > > > It does break ports. Very, very badly. I know because I've > > > personally attempted replacing /bin/sh with bash as a "I hav

Re: [OT] printing question

> So the bottom line is: "Get a postscript printer." They're > rather expensive ... I got a Samsung ML-2571N for well under $100 at Fry's something like a year ago; granted that was a sale price, dunno regular. It speaks PostScript and lpd, so no need to bother with drivers or CUPS; all it need

Re: shell scripting problems

> In the shell script, i have a > pkg_info -qLx "^$PKG-[0-9,._]+$" > also tried (-X)tended regex instead of the standard rege(-x). > > sh keeps erroring out saying various $" isn't a valid variable > name ... Both sh and csh will try to treat $ inside of "" as a variable reference. Does it work

Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms...

> ... I'm trying to remember why I did not like pkg_add -r. IIRC, one issue with pkg_add -r is that it insists on doing everything from the remote repository, and will not bother looking for any packages (incl. dependencies) locally first. This makes sense for a brand-new installation where you k

Re: X - after some time can't lauch new windows, Error: Can't open display

Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > After some time I cannot open any new windows in X, > I get > No protocol specified > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 > > This is on i386 9.0-current with ... xorg-7.4_2, > xorg-server-1.6.1,1, xf86-video-intel-2.7.1 ... > After logging into X via xdm I can

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

Oliver Fromme wrote: > Chris Stankevitz wrote: > ... > > Q1: Is 26M free space on / after installing FreeBSD normal? > > It depends on the FreeBSD version, and whether you installed > the kernel with debug symbols. 430 MB space used in the > root file system isn't completely uncommon. > > Nowa

Re: WD External Disc Drive

> > > ... If you are refering to a kind of > > > hard disk, use "disk" with k. Think like "diskette". If you > > > are refering to optical media, use "disc" with c. Think like > > > "CD = compact disc". > > > > An arbitrary convention adopted by you and a few other people > > does not invalidate th

Re: stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ]

Gary Kline wrote: > the keybd isn't the problem ... problem is that on my KVM > switch are only ps2 plugs. on the back of the dell are USB > jacks. i need something to convert from the PS2 plug to > fit into the USB Such things do exist: http://www.amazon.com/Adesso-Adapter-connects-con

Re: Problems with FreeBSD assembly

Mihai Don??u wrote: > I don't think the kernel is the one that initializes the > 0, 1 and 2 file descriptors (stdin, stdout and stderr). Correct so far. > I think you have to open them yourself ... No, the shell does it. That's how it is able to set up pipes and redirection. __

Re: BTX Loader crashes -- Help wanted

"Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: > If one can't even install from the distribution CDs/DVDs > on perfectly good hardware ... it's not like the whole SATA > interface standard is exactly ``new'' or anything anymore.) > > ... Should I stick my neck out and label this PR > either severity==critical or pr

Re: Sorting a device list

Oliver Mahmoudi wrote: > you can try to delete the /dev/ad10 entry with sed and then just > append it to the end manually using the printf(1) utility like so: > > # ls /dev/ad* | sed s/"\/dev\/ad10"// | grep "/dev/ad" && printf > "/dev/ad10\n" Or strip the non-numerics from the beginning of each

Re: editing a binary file

Greg Larkin wrote: > ... > > truncate -4 myfile should get rid of the last four bytes. Maybe > > there's a similar efficient way to truncate the start of a file. > > This should do it: > > dd if=oldfile of=newfile bs=1 skip=4 Or, perhaps marginally more efficient: dd if=oldfile of=newfile bs=4

Re: "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

Victor Sudakov wrote: > ... [svn] needs python26, perl and tcl - all the three of them ... It seems you may have discovered the significance of the name: it subverts the sysadmin's sanity. Maybe it can find practical use as a meta-port for scripting languages, if someone cares to add ruby to the

Re: List replies

> There is a touching concern for newbies in all this, which is out > of step with the somewhat edgy aspect of FreeBSD that most of you > seem to embrace in other connections. And the bottom line is that > most newbies end up elsewhere. If making FreeBSD more popular is > a priority, there is lon

Re: Mac osX drivers

> I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I > understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would the > drivers be portable? Last I heard, MacOs X userland was based on FreeBSD but the MacOS X kernel was Mach. The part of a driver that deals with the hardware mig

pkg_add goofiness in 7.0

The first time I tried to add linuxdoc-1.1_1.tbz to a new-from-CD 7.0 installation, it complained about a missing dependency that was on the other CD. OK, I switched CDs and installed that, then switched back and retried linuxdoc-1.1_1.tbz, and it gave me some sort of error about an unbalanced add

Re: pkg_add goofiness in 7.0

> > [trying to install linuxdoc-1.1_1.tbz] it gave me some > > sort of error about an unbalanced add operation. (I didn't try > > to copy down all the details, figuring instead to retry with a > > script(1) active so as to capture them.) Upon that retry, it now > > tells me that the package is al

Re: pkg_add goofiness in 7.0

> What you showed does not indicate a failure. If you are saying > that the package wasn't actually installed completely, then > pkg_delete it and retry. I am not saying that the package was installed incompletely, incorrectly, or something else because I don't know which of those applies. *The

Re: pkg_add goofiness in 7.0

I believe this is the same as the error message I saw originally (when I had not specified -v, so it wasn't buried among a pile of other stuff): xmlcatmgr: unbalanced arguments for `add' action # pkg_add -Kv linuxdoc* Requested space: 36624 bytes, free space: 774946816 bytes in /var/tmp/instmp.C

Re: pkg_add goofiness in 7.0

... > > extract: execute '/usr/local/bin/xmlcatmgr -sc > > /usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports add linuxdoc/catalog' > > xmlcatmgr: unbalanced arguments for `add' action > > pkg_add: command '/usr/local/bin/xmlcatmgr -sc > > /usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports add linuxdoc/catalog' failed ... >

Re: Adobe Flash Player Petition

> > Where do such articles go for FreeBSD? ... I can make > > a website on my server for it, but it seems to be a > > kind of overkill, for just such installing sequence.. > > If you have things working for Flash 9, enough people > /will/ be interested this is not overkill. > My sugg

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

> > I have installed wine-0.9.20 from ports, and > > there's a Win98 FAT32 slice mounted on /windoze > > > > > How do I fix this? > > I would start by upgrading and re-installing wine. You have > 0.9.20; the current version is 0.9.55 and I believe there have been > substantial i

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

> > ... If you want to run applications under Wine either install > > them under Wine or (with simple applications) copy them over > > from a Windows install into ~/.wine/drive_c. > > And specifically I'd populate ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts > from a real windows installation. Which raises the

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

sion of Visio is old enough that it installs from floppies, rather than from CD :) and I've set it up in .wine/dosdevices according to the manpage: $ ls -la .wine/dosdevices total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 perryh staff 512 Apr 21 00:17 . drwxr-xr-x 4 perryh staff 512 Apr 22 21:07 .. lrwxr-x

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

> >$ ls -la .wine/dosdevices > >total 4 > >drwxr-xr-x 2 perryh staff 512 Apr 21 00:17 . > >drwxr-xr-x 4 perryh staff 512 Apr 22 21:07 .. > >lrwxr-xr-x 1 perryh staff8 Apr 21 00:17 a:: -> /dev/fd0 > > Is the second colon

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

> It's really easier to try to install an app under Wine ... With, it seems, at least two exceptions: * Some apps -- such as Wordpad and Write -- are packaged and installed with Windows, rather than on separate media. Are there instructions somewhere for "installing" such an app under wine

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

> Wine has its own simple version of Wordpad though. > Just run "wine wordpad". This version has its own notepad, but it doesn't appear to have wordpad. (There's no "wordpad.exe" that I can find, but there are two identical copies of "notepad.exe" -- one in .../windows and the other in .../window

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

> You have to mount the floppy and then link a: to the mount point. > So if you mount it under /mnt you'd need this: > > mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt > ln -s /mnt ~/.wine/dosdevices/a: That got only a little bit farther. It did find the setup program, and the option dialogs seemed to work prope

wine: app won't install from floppy

What is the correct way of installing something into wine from floppy? The obvious approach: $ wine 'a:\setup.exe' did not work with a (fairly old version of) Visio: the option dialogs seemed to work properly, but very shortly after starting the actual install I got an error box:

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

> > ... very shortly after starting the actual install I got an error > > box: > > > > > > VISIO Setup > > > >! Tried to create an invalid path using 'A:\' and 'clipart.vs_' > > > > > > and it locked up the display so that CtrlAltF1 would not switch > > to a te

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

> >> Wine has its own simple version of Wordpad though. > >> Just run "wine wordpad". > > > > This version has its own notepad, but it doesn't appear to have > > wordpad. (There's no "wordpad.exe" that I can find, but there > > are two identical copies of "notepad.exe" -- one in .../windows > > a

Re: time drift

> FreeBSD 6.2 running on X86 hardware (FSC) shows a remarkable time > drift > > running ntpdate every half hour shows that the system looses about > 10-14 sec each time. > 15 May 10:06:48 ntpdate[7200]: step time ... offset -13.799602 sec > 15 May 10:36:48 ntpdate[7515]: step time ... offset -12.81

Re: Belkin F5D9050 ver 4000

> I checked the FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Hardware Notes before I bought > this USB Ethernet device. > It should be supported by the rum driver, but it gets picked up > by ugen instead. > The Hardware Notes mentions version 3 and the box says ver 4000, > but I think it's probably actually ver 4. ... > Wh

Re: Belkin F5D9050 ver 4000

> > Doing a descriptor dump, and posting the results to freebsd-usb@, > > might find someone who knows how to get that particular device to > > work. > > > Ok, I'll bite. How do you do a descriptor dump? One way is to use sysutils/udesc_dump, from ports, as recommended here: http://lists.freebsd

non-RAID SATA

I am looking for a cost-effective way to add a SATA drive to an existing 7.0 system whose on-board controller is PATA, and am not getting very far at all in identifying an inexpensive controller which would be expected to work well. (I'd prefer PCI, since the USB in this box is probably 1.0 and no

Re: Duplex printer advice

> my own requirements list includes (color duplex printer scanner). > I don't need it to be a laser, but I do need both color, multifunc, > and duplex printing ... I begin to wonder if I could find one with > the same specs ESCEPTING it was the cheaper technology of inkjet. > ... please don't spen

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

David Brodbeck wrote: > TWiki is a nightmare to update ... TWiki was replaced with Foswiki (which is also in ports) at $WORK a while back. Dunno why, or how much of a job the changeover was for the admins, but there must have been some expected benefit to justify the effort. The change was lar

Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror

Janos Dohanics wrote: > 1. The Guided partitioning doesn't suggest any more to > create /var, /tmp, /usr, etc. file systems. Is it really > the recommendation to go with just / ? Depends on who you ask :) and on your intended usage. > 2. Is there a way to use the old sysinstall to install FreeB

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:34:20AM -0500, Henry Olyer wrote: > > I use bash 4. > > OK. So?? If you had read the thread before posting, you would have known that someone asked which shell Henry was using (and he answered). ___

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

Matthew Seaman wrote: > >>> ls -1 | xargs rm > > >> but be aware that that wont work for filenames with spaces. > > True. Can't do that using ls to generate the list of filenames as > there is no option to generate a null-separated list amongst ls's > multitudinous collection. It can, however,

Re: Printing directly to IP address

Jerry wrote: > I know it is possible; however, I cannot find any actual > documentation under the "printing" section in the FreeBSD > manual. If anyone could provide a link to such documentation, > it would be appreciated. Provided the printer supports lpd protocol, i.e. it looks like a remote

Re: Technical Support Question

Chip Oakley wrote: > Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as > there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong > with it. If you don't mind losing everything currently on the drive, overwriting the MBR -- and the backup GPT at the end of the drive, if the

Re: /usr/home vs /home

Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:53:10 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > > The RK05 had one removable platter in a plastic housing. > > Please compare the images of the drive and the media. > Does it look similar? > > Removable platters types EC 5269 in plastic cartridge: > > http://www.robot

Converting C++ to C

Some early implementations of C++ operated as preprocessors that emitted C code. Is there any current tool that will do that? I didn't recognize any such option in the g++ manpage, although I suppose it's possible that one of the -fdump-tree- options would come close enough. Reason: I want to m

Re: Brother Printer

Michel Talon wrote: > If you want to avoid such problems the only solution is to buy > a printer with postscript or pdf support and direct network > connection, that is an expensive one ... I've been using a Samsung ML-2571N for something like a couple of years now. It has a direct net connecti

Re: XFCE - how to edit menu ?

jb wrote: > How can I edit the menus ? > Also, how to rename Applications Menu to e.g. just Menu as > it would better reflect applications and system (utilities) > components ? > > FB9-release, XFCE 4.8 Dunno how FreeBSD's XFCE port does this since I don't use XFCE, but it could be using x11-wm/

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

Tim Daneliuk wrote: > ... we're talking about almost 1000 systems > here. That's a whole bunch of configuration... Had you considered using something along the lines of sysutils/puppet? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

Jerry wrote: > When it comes to "speech recognition", the only two applications > that seem to work reliably at all levels are "Siri on iPhone 4S" > and "Dragon NaturallySpeaking", neither of which are obviously > available on FreeBSD. I don't believe that there is even a > *nix/BSD version of "D

Re: Printer recommendation please

Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:38:36 +0200, Karel Miklav wrote: > > Could you please recommend me a home printer that works nicely > > with FreeBSD? > > > > HP inkjets aren't that bad, FreeBSD drivers are allright, but > > I'd like to shift towards some kind of PostScript laser. Xero

Re: Printer recommendation please

Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:01:43 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > I personally don't trust wireless, because it's well nigh > > impossible to truly secure it. > > In that case, one should also pay attention to secure the > printer. Wait - secure the printer? What am I talki

Re: Printer recommendation please

Jerry wrote: > Obviously you are not aware of the latest trend towards the > movement to standardize PDF as the standard print format. I would > recommend you start by reading the documentation located at: > > and continue on fr

Re: Questions about Jail

Fbsd8 wrote: > In most cases your jail environment will function ok as long as > its the same base release level. Example, host=8.0 jail1=8.1 and > jail2=8.2 IIUC, a better example would be host=8.2, jail1=8.1 and jail2=8.0. A point release is not supposed to make any incompatible changes to the

Re: Printer recommendation please

Jerry wrote: > > > Furthermore, there are means of encrypting print data ... > > > > Utterly irrelevant to the topic under discussion, which is > > the additional malware exposure that a PDF-accepting printer > > has relative to a printer that accepts only PCL and/or PS. > > FROM YOUR ORIGINAL P

Re: current pids per tty

"ill...@gmail.com" wrote: > (there is an executable named /usr/bin/jobs, but . . . > well run "cat /usr/bin/jobs" & see for yourself). Whoa! Does /usr/bin/jobs even work? $ cat /usr/bin/jobs #!/bin/sh # $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/alias/generic.sh,v 1.2.10.1.4.1 2010/06/14 02:09:06 kensmith E

Re: Music production on FreeBSD

"Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: > And lately, even some of the timidity++ stuff isn't working > right. The Xaw interface refuses to build/install properly, > ever since the removal of X11BASE from the ports infrastructure. That "should" only require replacing X11BASE with LOCALBASE in the 3 port fi

Re: Token Ring (really)

"Jay West" wrote: > this is for a historical re-creation project ... > > I guess I'll have to see how tough it would be to yank > the TR code from 7x and get it running under 9x. Might it not be both more historically accurate, and a great deal easier, to just use the version of FreeBSD that cor

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

Mark Felder wrote: > Python on Planes is the future, mn. Shouldn't that be spelled "plains", as in the places where the snake-containing grass grows? :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:29:42 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > On 04/10/12 21:32, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > Mark Felder wrote: > > > > > >> Python on Planes is the future, mn. > > > Shouldn't that be spelled "plains", as in the places where the > > > snake-containing gra

Re: System initialization

Brett Glass wrote: > I have several nearly identical servers in my network, and would > like to control their configurations entirely from one file ... You might find sysutils/puppet useful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: mounting ext2fs

"Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > what does lsvfs show ? > > Maybe try: dd if=/dev/da0s1 count=20 of=/tmp/t ; file /tmp/t > (it show interesting stuff on my /xp anyway ). Easier: file -s /dev/da0s1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: mounting ext2fs

Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > the problem with (this) cardreader seems to be that the card must > > already inserted at boot time; a later switch to another card, for > > example from a card with 'msdosfs' to a card with 'ext2fs', gives the > > problem in my

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

Alejandro Imass wrote: > 3) the directories were moved at reboot by journal recovery, > fsck or something else I think it's *extremely* unlikely that fsck was involved, because it just doesn't do things like that. It might move an orphaned directory (or file) to lost+found, but nowhere else. T

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

Edward M wrote: > That reply was not meant for you, so why do you care? If it wasn't meant for everyone on the list, why was it sent to the list? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: OT: Linux EXT4 dump/restore equivalent?

"Peter A. Giessel" wrote: > What I have been completely unable to find is a linux boot disk > that has a version of restore that supports ext4. It's unclear to me how "a version of restore that supports ext4" would differ from "a version of restore that supports UFS". AFAIK restore (unlike dump

anoncvs password

What is one supposed to enter when anoncvs prompts for a password? I have tried: * my email address, as I would use for anon FTP * "ftp", as was once conventionally used for anon FTP * "cvs" (same idea, but mentioning the transport in use) * nothing -- just hit return None of these works. I get

Re: anoncvs password

Matthias Apitz wrote: > ... one should use today better svn, not cvs; Does svn work for (parts of) the ports collection, and is there a writeup somewhere on how to use it? It doesn't seem to have found its way into http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html

Re: Backtick versus $()

Thorsten Glaser wrote: > tcsh is not a shell ... > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ If you are _that_ strongly opposed to (t)csh, sir, I submit that you are wasting your time reading and posting to a FreeBSD mailing list. ___ freebsd

Re: Bit order == byte order??

Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:26:12AM -0500, Frank Solensky wrote: > > In sys/netinet/ip.h, the first octet of the ip header structure > > tests the byte ordering to determine the ordering of the header > > length (ip_hl) and version (ip_v) fields. > > > > My question: that al

Re: grep: write error: Broken pipe

?? wrote: > ... how best can I repay you all? IMO, by "paying it forward": as you become more familiar with/ knowledgeable of FreeBSD, continue to read freebsd-questions@ and assist when able. Everyone here was new to Unix and/or to FreeBSD at one time. Some of us still ar

Re: Firefox printing

ste...@mailer3.nospam.homeip.net wrote: > With FreeBSD 8.2R and Firefox 3.6.13: > > When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too), > the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good. > When I do the same on Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get clear > output.

Re: Server not booting

Doug Hardie wrote: > The motherboard doesn't recognize a USB stick for booting > unfortunately. The motherboard manual is dated 2006 so > I think its just too old for that. This http://www.plop.at/ can be loaded off just about any device the system _can_ boot from, and stands a good chance of

Re: Unable to umount

John Levine wrote: > >> [robert@dell64] ~> umount Flash > >> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy > > ... The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully > has the device open just in case you might want to ask questions > about it. I that case, shouldn't lsof(

Re: Unable to umount

Warren Block wrote: > lsof reports nothing open on either the mountpoint or the device. > > fstat blames gam_server: > > % fstat /home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage/ > USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W NAME > wblock gam_server 1409 776 /usr/home/wblock/D

logging to dmesg from userland

I am looking for a way to write into the kernel message buffer -- the one that dmesg prints out -- from a userland program, to help in relating kernel printf messages to the userland operations which provoked them. (Yes, I am aware of the potential DoS implications: the capability should be restri

Re: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes

Maxim Khitrov wrote: > ... these deviations should be noted in the man page to > help eliminate such surprises. A single sentence would > have sufficed in this case. As always, I'm sure patches would be welcome :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: FreeBSD mirror server on a Debian operating system?

Chris Brennan wrote: > ... the list does not 'mail-back' your e-mail ... > i.e. you do not see your own post until someone replies to it. ... unless you go to the subscription page and select the option to be sent your own posts :) ___ freebsd-question

Re: Port dependencies

Chris Rees wrote: > On 2 April 2011 00:58, Chris Telting wrote: > > One of my biggest gripes with the ports system is dependency hell. > > I think you've misunderstood the term dependency hell [1]. Anyone > who has spent hours struggling with rpm ... would never dare to > even think of such terms

Re: graphical representation of `du`

Chris Rees wrote: > Maybe I should port it... +1 ___ 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"

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