mount problems

2009-10-11 Thread Desmond da Peoples
How's it going? I'm having probelms mounting media within the gnome environment. The drive will grab the media but not read it nor unmount it. I've edited policykit so that root:operator and perm 0660 are enabled. Fstab has /dev/acd0 has been commented out. Rc.conf has hal,dbus, and gnome enabled

Disk label inconsistencies

2009-10-11 Thread jaymax
I have a rather bizarre problem. I have been trying to upgrade forever w/ endless problems, but may have found the cause of some of the problems. Running O/S 6.0. My system disk is displayed in df etc as /dev/ad0 with slice & partitions as ad0s1a, ad0s1b, ad0s1e, .. , etc. It is similarly displ

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-11 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Nerius Landys wrote: My 2 cents, as far as I know 7.1 will be maintained longer than 7.2 according to the freebsd.org website. That is, security fixes will be rolled out for 7.1 a while after 7.2 reaches End Of Life. That made me decide to go with 7.1 when I had to make the switch from 7.0 a fe

Re: error output redirection

2009-10-11 Thread George Davidovich
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:36:52PM +0200, Stefan Miklosovic wrote: > if error output of some program appear on screen, it is possible to > print it also to some file simultaneously? Depends on the program, but generally, yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_streams http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: error output redirection

2009-10-11 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:36:52 +0200, Stefan Miklosovic wrote: > hi list, > > if error output of some program appear on screen, > it is possible to print it also to some file simultaneously ? > > e.g > if I "cat" file which do not exist, error is on screen, > I want to add that error to some file

Re: music file in /tmp/XXX/

2009-10-11 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:31:48 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > is there a freebsd app that will take my music file, 18 of them in /tmp/XXX, > all named ogg files, and burn them to a CD? > [...] > all are names so i figure they have the internet-title/siong-named > database tags. not sure. i cant figure

Re: using own ntp server

2009-10-11 Thread Artis Caune
2009/10/11 kenneth hatteland : > If I have understand ntp right it is possible to hook up my machines to the > machine running the ntp server. nevertheless I am not able to find anywhere > helping me with configuring these machines to connect to my server and I am > still not bright enough to figur

error output redirection

2009-10-11 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
hi list, if error output of some program appear on screen, it is possible to print it also to some file simultaneously ? e.g if I "cat" file which do not exist, error is on screen, I want to add that error to some file (errors.txt) thank you ___ freebs

Re: using own ntp server

2009-10-11 Thread Jon Radel
kenneth hatteland wrote: If I have understand ntp right it is possible to hook up my machines to the machine running the ntp server. nevertheless I am not able to find anywhere helping me with configuring these machines to connect to my server and I am still not bright enough to figure out th

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Alexander Best wrote: Seriously?!?!?! All the problems with sysinstall, and your idea is to change the color? Are you trying to start a bikeshed? If so, I prefer pink. -- randi I'm painting the little girl's room next week and might have some leftover interior latex, if that will do. Oh, b

using own ntp server

2009-10-11 Thread kenneth hatteland
If I have understand ntp right it is possible to hook up my machines to the machine running the ntp server. nevertheless I am not able to find anywhere helping me with configuring these machines to connect to my server and I am still not bright enough to figure out the syntax myself. Does anyon

music file in /tmp/XXX/

2009-10-11 Thread Gary Kline
guys, is there a freebsd app that will take my music file, 18 of them in /tmp/XXX, all named ogg files, and burn them to a CD? i've got like /tmp/XXX/one.ogg /tmp/XXX/two.ogg . . . /tmp/XXX/eighteen.ogg all are names so i figure they have the internet-title/siong-named database tags. not sure.

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-11 Thread krad
2009/10/10 Jerry > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:06:39 -0400 > jhell wrote: > > [snip] > > > I will agree with that. And raise that its not a good idea to be part > > of the early adopter club for commercial use. > > Somebody has got to go first. As so aptly stated by Robert Crandell, > chairman of Ame

FreeBSD Status Reports April - September, 2009

2009-10-11 Thread Daniel Gerzo
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report Introduction This report covers FreeBSD related projects between April and September 2009. During that time a lot of work has been done on wide variety of projects, including the Google Summer of Code projects. The BSDCan conference was held in Ottawa,

Re: ASUS M4A78T-E Motherboard

2009-10-11 Thread Mario Lobo
On Saturday 10 October 2009 22:51:49 Bryan Cassidy wrote: > Hi, I am in the process of building a new PC and I am building this > machine (one of three... second will be OpenBSD Firewall for FreeBSD and a > third one for Windows.. you know games and all that stuff) and I am > wondering if I will h

Re: cdrecord returning inappropriate ioctl

2009-10-11 Thread David LeCount
> Maybe - just maybe - it's neccessary to recompile > cdrecord? I knew it would be something simple I missed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mai

Re: cdrecord returning inappropriate ioctl

2009-10-11 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Polytropon wrote: The first thing that I've seen, allthough it may be completely unrelated, is this: On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:18:42 -0700 (PDT), David LeCount wrote: So I'm guessing it started when I upgraded to 8.0 RC1 from 7 stable.

Re: cdrecord returning inappropriate ioctl

2009-10-11 Thread Polytropon
The first thing that I've seen, allthough it may be completely unrelated, is this: On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:18:42 -0700 (PDT), David LeCount wrote: > So I'm guessing it started when I upgraded to 8.0 RC1 from 7 stable. ^^^ and then

cdrecord returning inappropriate ioctl

2009-10-11 Thread David LeCount
I'm not sure when this started. I thought it might have started when I added my RAID controller which has SCSI emulation too, but the error still occurs when I remove it. So I'm guessing it started when I upgraded to 8.0 RC1 from 7 stable. I have a Pioneer DVD-RW. Burncd doesn't support it so I'

Re: gpart mbr scheme

2009-10-11 Thread Anselm Strauss
Aha, GEOM_PART_MBR is not enabled by default in the 7.2 kernel. That changes with 8.0: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS.diff?r1=1.10.8%3ARELENG_7_2&tr1=1.10.8.1&r2=1.19.2%3ARELENG_8&tr2=1.19.2.1 I recompiled my kernel, now it works! On Oct 10, 2009, at 22:08

Miro - BSD 8.X

2009-10-11 Thread Jeff Molofee
Has anyone had luck getting Miro to run in BSD 8.X... I can see up to "checking movies folder"... no error... nothing... it just stops... and drops back to the prompt... don't see any errors in the logs. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: for perl wizards.

2009-10-11 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:26:25PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a > > text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be > > used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script t