Re: File manager for Xfce
A long time KDE3 user but now thinking of Xfce instead as KDE4 is not really my way of doing it. I prefer Fluxbox and have since I found it. Xfce is rather heavy these days, not surprised you're considering it as a replacement to KDE. But Xfce breaks rather badly at times, I no longer trust it. One of the things I've found productive in KDE is the Konqerour file manager, is there anything similar available as a separate app to run under Xfce? Hmmm not sure about that since I haven't used KDE in ages but have a look at ROX-Filer it is just super. I always install it on all my Linux and BSD desktop machines. In particular, it should accept URI's like sftp://, smb:// etcetra and looking at Thunar it does not seem to have this capability? tsk tsk oh well if you need that sort of thing I'm not sure ROX will work for you. for file management it's super, beyond that the filer doesn't go. Not sure if some of the other ROX bits would work as I haven't used them. I suppose I could run Konqerour as an app but that would require buiding a lot of KDE3 as well. Yes that's the problem with package management. The installation bloat can be significant if you want something and only that thing whilst the port dev decided the entire world was a prereq ___ 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: T2000 Sparc FreeBSD8.2 installation failed
You wrote: On 01/26/2012 02:05 PM, Anonymous wrote: NetBSD Not recommended, sorry to say Why? Net has support for less sparc64 platforms than OpenBSD or FreeBSD and NetBSD reliability has gone downhill. I am sad to say it but I think Net's best days are behind us. I hope I have to eat my words some day. It used to be my favorite OS and pkgsrc is fantastic. ___ 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: zpool detach pool device
All DBAN does is write {whatever-source-you-choose} to the drive
basically with dd (it's actually a separate wrapper program but it
behaves identically to dd).
Just use dd and avoid the hassle of downloading and burning a cd that does
dd. dban is nice if you have to do a garage full of machines or are a
Windows victim but if you know your way around UNIX why bother with dban?
I recently had some drives fail and I did dd from /dev/urandom
4) If you ever plan on re-using this drive in a system, please do not
use the PRNG method or similar methods (write random jibberish all over
the drive). This is almost guaranteed to confuse a system (ANY system)
the next time you insert the disk; data is written to the MBR and
partition table regions which is gobbledegook, resulting in the
underlying BIOS, OS, or anything else trying to parse that data, and
thus begins behaving weirdly/oddly (what do you mean I can't partition
this disk? Yeah, there's an HP/UX partition on this thing,
right...). I speak from personal experience on this matter. As such,
I always advocate people zero their drives and not to pick the defaults.
Interesting. I have never had this happen but I always partition the drives
or label them before trying to do anything after a spring cleaning.
If this is your only objection to nonzero values it still is a good
compromise to dd the whole drive with /dev/urandom and then just blast the
MBR from /dev/zero its only 512 bytes.
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Re: Which Common Lisp port for FreeBSD/sparc64?
is anyone running a Common Lisp port on FreeBSD/sparc64? I can't remember but I believe I had sbcl on sparc64, just don't remember what OS... I'm asking because none of our Common Lisp ports lang/clisp, lang/ccl, lang/cmucl, lang/sbcl compile on sparc64. I believe sbcl has binaries for sparc64. maybe that was Solaris? oh damn, it is. Well I guess you could run Solaris? If not, as a guest? On Debian Linux 6.0.1a for SPARC, at least sbcl is available. But Debian blows chunks and is not comparable to FreeBSD! ___ 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: How to destroy a zombie zpool
I've got a weird problem... I was working on installing 9.0 w/zfs on my
laptop, messed up, rebooted, *formatted the drives* and restarted. Got
much further the next time, however...
There is a zombie copy of the old zpool sitting around interfering with
things. 'zpool import' lists it, but it can't import it because the disks
don't actually exist. 'zpool destroy' can't delete it, because it's not
imported. ('No such pool') Any ideas on how to get rid of it?
zfs is famous for fucking itself like this. the only totally safe way is to
dd the drive since nailing the label doesn't clear out stuff at the far end
of the filesystem that can really ruin your day. don't ask me how i know..
it will take a few hours dd'ing from /dev/zero to your devices but it is
well worth it when you do any major surgery on drives that had zfs at one
point and you want to use them over again with zfs
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Re: problem in changing serial console speed!
1- change /boot.config: add -S*speed *2- change /boot/loader.conf: add following lines boot_multicons=YES boot_serial=YES comconsole_speed=115200 console=comconsole,vidconsole 3- change /etc/ttys as follows: ttyu0/usr/libexec/getty std.115200vt100on secure none of the above methods worked and only changing /etc/makefile had an effect on serial console speed which is not appropriate. Is there anything else should be take in to consideration in any of the ways? What am I missing? I don't know but I do know a real VT100 won't run at 115,200 unless you drop it out of an airplane. Are you using a physical terminal or an emulator? If an emulator you often have to match up the emulator speed and parity settings etc. to the host settings. Alas my Sun boxes only run at 9,800 over serial even though minicom itself could do alot more. ___ 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] but concerns all of us
Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: Only those who break laws have a reason to fear them. That is a catastrophically incorrect view. Ask an attorney how much is spent by corporations and private citizens defending themselves against both wrongful lawsuits and wrongful prosecution. It's enough money to run a few other small countries. ___ 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
