Re: recovery FreeBSD

2008-01-13 Thread swell k.
mahdieh Saeed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question about recovery. I removed one directory with rm -r . Is there any way to restore information that removed with rm -r. You might want to look at photorec(1) in sysutils/testdisk. ___

Re: ps2pdf problem

2008-01-13 Thread Predrag Punosevac
John Levine wrote: However, when I pass the .ps file through the ghostcript with ps2pdf slides gets trimmed. Is there some more advanced option for ps2pdfwr which will enable me to conserve the proper width of slides? It sounds like your pages are formatted as landscape and are being

Re: installing linux after freebsd (multi-boot)

2008-01-13 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष श ुक्ल
अनुज == अनुज Anuj Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: अनुज hi, अनुज Today I removed partitions from Fedora 7 installation , (kept /home अनुज partition from FC7). Again went threw installation I faced no problem अनुज this time. Fedora 7 was installed without using LVM. on free space

clamav under 6.2-RELEASE/SPARC64

2008-01-13 Thread Daniel Bye
Hi all, I have found that under 6.2-RELEASE/SPARC64, security/clamav is not building correctly - specifically, clamd and clamdscan are not getting compiled. Everything else is built and installed as expected, just not these two rather key components... The same is true of the development

Secure update of /usr/src

2008-01-13 Thread 文鳥
Hello all, is there any way to securely follow the STABLE branch of FreeBSD, e.g. a cryptographically signed distribution method like portsnap? Afaik, the usual update methods (CVSup, etc.) do not include any authentication / integrity checking. Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance

(bez temata)

2008-01-13 Thread Matiss
Hey all Hope this is more or less right place to ask. What I noticed on my FreeBSD 6.2 installation, that pkg_add -r ImageMagick results in a file not found error. DTG864# pkg_add -r ImageMagick Error: FTP Unable to get

Re: Secure update of /usr/src

2008-01-13 Thread 文鳥
2008/1/13, Erik Cederstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 文鳥 wrote: Hello all, is there any way to securely follow the STABLE branch of FreeBSD, e.g. a cryptographically signed distribution method like portsnap? Afaik, the usual update methods (CVSup, etc.) do not include any authentication /

Problem with rsync to smbfs over vpn

2008-01-13 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello all, I'm getting a lot of time out problems using rsync between a local filesystem and a remote smb filesystem that is mounted with mount_smbfs over an encrypted wan tunnel. The following are the most common error messages: rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat somefile: Operation timed

Re: recovery FreeBSD

2008-01-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 11:07:16PM -0800, mahdieh Saeed wrote: Hi, I have a question about recovery. I removed one directory with rm -r .Is there any way to restore information that removed with rm -r. In short, everything that is part of the base system or ports can be restored with some

Re: Secure update of /usr/src

2008-01-13 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello ??, Sunday, January 13, 2008, 11:17:13 AM, you wrote: Hello all, is there any way to securely follow the STABLE branch of FreeBSD, e.g. I am afraid that this isn't currently possible with -STABLE branches. -- Best regards, Danielmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: ImageMagick problem

2008-01-13 Thread Matiss
So sorry, didn't noticed I don't have a subject in original mail. Hey all Hope this is more or less right place to ask. What I noticed on my FreeBSD 6.2 installation, that pkg_add -r ImageMagick results in a file not found error. DTG864# pkg_add -r ImageMagick Error: FTP Unable to get

Re: ImageMagick problem

2008-01-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So sorry, didn't noticed I don't have a subject in original mail. Hey all Hope this is more or less right place to ask. What I noticed on my FreeBSD 6.2 installation, that pkg_add -r ImageMagick results in a file not found error. DTG864# pkg_add -r

Switching username using SFTP

2008-01-13 Thread takhoos
When I ssh into a system which has different login name from the system I'm on I use this syntax: ssh -l host.domain.com. How does one do this with SFTP on the command line? The -l switch doesn't work. The man pages on SFTP makes no mention of this. -- Joe

Re: Another question based on: Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working!

2008-01-13 Thread Gerard
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:25:15 -0600 eculp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Flash is becoming more dominate daily and there are many sites that are basically unusable without it. Some banking, telco, etc. sites, etc. That are difficult if not impossible too use for account access without

Re: Switching username using SFTP

2008-01-13 Thread Marc Silver
Hi there, You can simply enter a command such as: $ sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Marc On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:38:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I ssh into a system which has different login name from the system I'm on I use this syntax: ssh -l host.domain.com. How

Re: Switching username using SFTP

2008-01-13 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:38:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I ssh into a system which has different login name from the system I'm on I use this syntax: ssh -l host.domain.com. How does one do this with SFTP on the command line? The -l switch doesn't work. The man pages

BUGGY growfs

2008-01-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
anyone can fix it completely? i patched it so it DO works when sectorsize!=512 bytes. but when growing to 1.3TB it prints negative values due to overflow but it works. but would it work on larger partitions? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

ports download speed!

2008-01-13 Thread Dead Line
Hello People.. I recently have noticed something! Im installing FreeBSD 6.2R fresh install, When im downloading anything using the ports, The download speed appear as it is 33 K or 32 K! In fact im on DSL 512 K. Im a missing something silly here? is it the actual download

Re: Another question based on: Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working!

2008-01-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:53:41AM -0500, Gerard wrote: snip I belong to a state 'Officials Association' that deals with officiating High School sports. Their site is written in such a way that Flash with either Windows Media Player or QuickTime are required to properly view the site. So

Re: ImageMagick problem

2008-01-13 Thread Matiss
Thanks! I guess I should just wait then, and compile from ports for now. Thanks :) Quoting Lowell Gilbert : The current state of the port: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=graphicsportname=ImageMagick Links: -- [1] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

pccard problem - old toshiba 440cdx

2008-01-13 Thread Taras Kopets
Hi list! I'm trying to make my PCMCIA ethernet card (3C589D-TP) to work, but with no luck. At boot time I get: CIS is too long -- truncating pccard1: Card has no functions! cbb1: PC Card card activation failed I've tried to google this problem on the web, but no solutions found, so I've decided

using restore to recover a freebsd system

2008-01-13 Thread Jonathan Horne
ive been practicing using dump and restore. the dumping is easy... i think. my dump command is as such: dump -0uLaf /opt/backups/athena-root-0 / /opt is an NFS mounted share from another server. the dump completed without errors. however, when i restore, i do this: 1) install a new drive

Re: Secure update of /usr/src

2008-01-13 Thread 文鳥
08/01/13 に Erik Cederstrand[EMAIL PROTECTED] さんは書きました: 文鳥 wrote: 2008/1/13, Erik Cederstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 文鳥 wrote: Hello all, is there any way to securely follow the STABLE branch of FreeBSD, e.g. a cryptographically signed distribution method like portsnap? Afaik, the usual

Re: Secure update of /usr/src

2008-01-13 Thread Vince
Hi, 文鳥 wrote: 08/01/13 に Erik Cederstrand[EMAIL PROTECTED] さんは書きました: 文鳥 wrote: 2008/1/13, Erik Cederstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 文鳥 wrote: Hello all, is there any way to securely follow the STABLE branch of FreeBSD, e.g. a cryptographically signed distribution method like portsnap? Afaik,

Re: Secure update of /usr/src

2008-01-13 Thread RW
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:17:13 +0100 文鳥 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, is there any way to securely follow the STABLE branch of FreeBSD, e.g. a cryptographically signed distribution method like portsnap? Afaik, the usual update methods (CVSup, etc.) do not include any authentication /

Re: Another question based on: Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working!

2008-01-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Unfortunately, the poor support for Flash, as well as other common web features under FBSD, is a prime reason that I continue to keep my WinXP flash is a proprietary feature, which doesn't run FreeBSD. you may try to use linux browsers under emulation, you may use windows or do whatever

Re: recovery FreeBSD

2008-01-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi, I have a question about recovery. I removed one directory with rm -r .Is there any way to restore information that removed with rm -r. simply use your backups, or if it was system data - reread it from install CD/DVD/FTP Please help me, Regards, Saeed

Re: ps2pdf problem

2008-01-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
For those unfamiliar with the package one needs to go through .tex -- .dvi -- .ps -- .pdf for graphics to display properly (pdflatex is not an option nor it is dvipdfm) are you sure about .ps stage? there is pdflatex, makes perfect pdfs ___

Re: ps2pdf problem

2008-01-13 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Wojciech Puchar wrote: For those unfamiliar with the package one needs to go through .tex -- .dvi -- .ps -- .pdf for graphics to display properly (pdflatex is not an option nor it is dvipdfm) are you sure about .ps stage? there is pdflatex, makes perfect pdfs

Re: ports download speed!

2008-01-13 Thread RW
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:59:04 + Dead Line [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello People.. I recently have noticed something! Im installing FreeBSD 6.2R fresh install, When im downloading anything using the ports, The download speed appear as it is 33 K or 32 K! In fact im on DSL 512

Realtek RTL8139 Family Fast Eithernet Adapter Plugin

2008-01-13 Thread Alden Pease
Can you release a pack sometime in the future, like in version 8.0, with a Realtek RTL8139 Family Fast Eithernet Adapter plugin? Please email me back. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Realtek RTL8139 Family Fast Eithernet Adapter Plugin

2008-01-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 05:10:32PM -0500, Alden Pease wrote: Can you release a pack sometime in the future, like in version 8.0, with a Realtek RTL8139 Family Fast Eithernet Adapter plugin? This chip is already supported by the re(4) driver. See

Re: ps2pdf problem

2008-01-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I am sure:-). Powerdot class of presentations is designed to use PS tricks and can not be compiled with pdflatex or should I say you can

Re: Realtek RTL8139 Family Fast Eithernet Adapter Plugin

2008-01-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
adapter plugin? what do you mean. rtl8139 driver works fine in 6.* and 7.* On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Alden Pease wrote: Can you release a pack sometime in the future, like in version 8.0, with a Realtek RTL8139 Family Fast Eithernet Adapter plugin? Please email me back.

Changing the output of uname -m or -p

2008-01-13 Thread Christian Baer
Hello Folks! This may be a bit of a hacker's question, but I'll just go for it in here - at least for starters. I want to play a prank on a friend of mine. He does a csup at least once a day and also makes a new world at least once a day. He is pretty nutty about that which is ok for some

Re: Changing the output of uname -m or -p

2008-01-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
Christian Baer wrote: Hello Folks! This may be a bit of a hacker's question, but I'll just go for it in here - at least for starters. I want to play a prank on a friend of mine. He does a csup at least once a day and also makes a new world at least once a day. He is pretty nutty about that

Re: Changing the output of uname -m or -p

2008-01-13 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:03:42 +0100 Kris Kennaway wrote: Can this even be done and if so how? See the manpage, and the UNAME_* variables. I already did that once and it didn't work out. I just found the reason: I'm too thick. :-/ I though all the letters had to be capitals, so I set UNAME_M

RAID mirror really worked

2008-01-13 Thread Luke Dean
This isn't really a question, just a testimonial and a thank you to the people who make this work. I've got a Promise TX2300 SATA Raid controller that I use on my FreeBSD fileserver at home. It uses ataraid. I've set up a simple two-drive mirror. One of the drives has been sending me

Missing /dev entries on SCSI drive

2008-01-13 Thread Oscar Delay
Hi, I've a disk partition on an old system which I cannot mount because the device entry under /dev is missing. This is a mostly unused machine that hasn't been backed up in a while but I'd like to recover the partition if possible. The SCSI adaptor is an Adaptec 2940U2W, the only device

Re: Another question based on: Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working!

2008-01-13 Thread Modulok
Unfortunately, the poor support for Flash, as well as other common web features under FBSD, is a prime reason that I continue to keep my WinXP or - like me, you may simply don't use it. ... if others require flash7, java or other craps, they just don't want me to be their client. ... I

Re: Missing /dev entries on SCSI drive

2008-01-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 13), Oscar Delay said: I've a disk partition on an old system which I cannot mount because the device entry under /dev is missing. This is a mostly unused machine that hasn't been backed up in a while but I'd like to recover the partition if possible. The SCSI adaptor

AFS ... or equivalent ...

2008-01-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi ... I recently started working for a company that is using AFS to mirror their data between various data centers, in the US, Asia and the EU ... the idea is that the several thousand servers that are being run have access to identical

Re: ports download speed!

2008-01-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:26:45 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:59:04 + Dead Line [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello People.. I recently have noticed something! Im installing FreeBSD 6.2R fresh install, When im downloading anything using

Re: Realtek RTL8139 Family Fast Eithernet Adapter Plugin

2008-01-13 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar wrote: adapter plugin? what do you mean. rtl8139 driver works fine in 6.* and 7.* If he is on 6.2 and talking about random dropouts/hangs all he needs to do is add -txcsum (and -rxcsum is paranoid) the ifconfig args... if he is

Re: RAID mirror really worked

2008-01-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've got a Promise TX2300 SATA Raid controller that I use on my FreeBSD fileserver at home. It uses ataraid. I've set up a simple two-drive mirror. One of the drives has been sending me intermittent failure messages in the nightly emails for nearly a year - no more than one or two a month.

Re: AFS ... or equivalent ...

2008-01-13 Thread Gergely CZUCZY
Hello, Check out coda, it's also a distributed filesystem, and has an updated kernel module in 7-STABLE. The bits in 6.x are out-of-date, but it will be back in business from 7. On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:34:24AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Which environment variable?

2008-01-13 Thread Matiss
Is there such environment variable, which changes window title for putty? I mean, MC is able to change it to working dir I think.. How do I change that title to let's say server name for my shell? Thanks :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Reinterpret gamepad input as keyboeard input

2008-01-13 Thread Christopher Illies
I have a gamepad and would like to make certain gamepad actions to be seen as regular keyboard input. Is this possible? I tried out usbhidaction with something like: Generic_Desktop:Game_Pad.Button:Button_1 1 1 /bin/echo -n ls Obviously, this approach does not work as I hoped. ls is echoed in a