On 17/02/2012 22:17, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote:
We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the old style
default with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1
partition and swap.
For a user/desktop machine, I prefer one root
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:16:39 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On 02/18/12 12:16, Daniel Staal wrote:
--As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to
have said:
Well, to be honest, I never liked the old style default
with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:05:49 -0600 (CST), Lars Eighner wrote:
It seems to me that partition and mount point are being confused to a
degree. There is no reason what is mounted at /usr/home cannot be a
separate partition as well as if it were mounted at root.
I thought of this fact as such an
On 02/18/12 20:22, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:05:49 -0600 (CST), Lars Eighner wrote:
It seems to me that partition and mount point are being confused to a
degree. There is no reason what is mounted at /usr/home cannot be a
separate partition as well as if it were mounted at root.
Good morning,
On a small system using FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, ZFS is reporting an issue
on a pool, that I am not certain is really an issue, but I don't know
how to investgate...
Here is the situation: I have created a ZFS pool on an external 1TB
Maxstor USB drive.
The ZFS pool sees little
On 2/17/12 11:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote:
Hiya,
[snip]
We realize that one can use bsdinstall to create as many partitions as
one wants. However, the new default is for one partition and swap. We
want to know if people would prefer the older style default with four
partitions and swap when
On 2/17/12 11:40 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Robison, Dave
david.robi...@fisglobal.com wrote:
Hiya,
A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as
opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD.
It has always been
On 2/18/12 12:57 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
To clarify, almost universally the opposition to the idea centers around
the problems of users who enable this method, and then don't notice if
something changes/breaks, resulting in a stale zone (or zones, depending
on what you choose to slave). I
On 18/02/2012 10:44, Da Rock wrote:
I have yet to try ZFS (lack of resources really), but when I can I will
setup a SAN and it will be interesting to see how this works and I
probably will use a single partition. But for the general filesystem I
doubt a single partition will cut it (I could be
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:44:13 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
BTW I was intending to put across the concept of /usr being user related
- anything a user may need or use; as opposed to / for the system
related stuff that keeps it running. Maybe I wasn't as clear as I had
thought... :)
There's lots of
On 02/18/12 21:23, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 18/02/2012 10:44, Da Rock wrote:
I have yet to try ZFS (lack of resources really), but when I can I will
setup a SAN and it will be interesting to see how this works and I
probably will use a single partition. But for the general filesystem I
doubt a
On 02/18/12 21:39, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:44:13 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
BTW I was intending to put across the concept of /usr being user related
- anything a user may need or use; as opposed to / for the system
related stuff that keeps it running. Maybe I wasn't as clear as I
Hi,
I developed an encryption algorithm for freeBsd crypto module.
I want to add this algorithm to racoon ipsec-tools for freebsd that
it can recognize it
In it's config file and use it for encryption connections.
I use the 'des' algorithm as a sample and
Hi,
On Saturday 18 February 2012 13:05:49 Lars Eighner wrote:
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Daniel Staal wrote:
I've never seen anything listing the main reasons for having /home under
/usr
though. I figure there must be a decent reason why. Would anyone care to
enlighten me? What are the
On 02/17/12 20:24, Frank Shute wrote:
I'd recommend www/xpi-flashblock. You can whitelist sites such as
Youtube and the bbc whilst blocking the crappy flash adverts that are
a feature of too many sites on the web. Especially useful if you're on
a narrowband connection or metered. Regards,
On 02/18/12 01:44, Robert Bonomi wrote:
Try: find / -name 'ld-linux.so*' -print (including the single-quotes)
If you do _NOT_ get a listing from that, you didn't just delete the symlink,
you wiped out the actual shared library, and will have to re-install it.
I do get a listing.
I wrote in
On 28 January 2012 19:54, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been using FBSD since 2000 and a Macsyma user since 1976.
And done my own FBSD installs since 5.1, I think, maybe a few before. For
those early years I was content to install a lisp and then do my own FTP's,
getting
On 02/18/12 23:03, sean wrote:
On 02/17/12 20:24, Frank Shute wrote:
I'd recommend www/xpi-flashblock. You can whitelist sites such as
Youtube and the bbc whilst blocking the crappy flash adverts that are
a feature of too many sites on the web. Especially useful if you're
on a narrowband
On 18/02/2012 11:36, Da Rock wrote:
If I may, can I ask a quick question: My main misgivings about ZFS have
been speed, ram use, and up till about a year ago or so relative 'youth'
(at least on FreeBSD). What would be the minimum ram you would use for a
high disk use? And what would be
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 18 01:59:53 2012
From: Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:54:36 -0800
To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: One or Four?
On 17 February 2012, at 23:21, Robert Bonomi
Hi all,
Apologies if this has come up before but I can't see anything with a quick
google.
What I want to do is setup a bridge between my wireless network and a wired
one. Hostap I hear everyone cry but I don't think that will work because I
don't want to create a wireless network - I want
I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there are
SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different
opinion of what should be included and what should not be included.
Let me give you a scenario of my setup, and hopefully someone can help
me out.
My
On Feb 18, 2012 8:53 AM, Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.com wrote:
I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there are
SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different
opinion of what should be included and what should not be included.
Let me give you a
On 2/18/2012 12:18 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote:
On Feb 18, 2012 8:53 AM, Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.com
mailto:juvi...@gmail.com wrote:
I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there
are SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different
opinion of
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:34:09 -0500
Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
teamwarfare.com. IN TXT v=spf1 a mx a:mail.teamwarfare.com
a:mail2.teamwarfare.com ip4:66.90.73.80 ip4:216.250.250.148 ~all
I wouldn't need an include: or ptr statement in this right? I
would told include: was to include OTHER
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:16:34PM -0500, Daniel Staal wrote:
--As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to have
said:
Well, to be honest, I never liked the old style default
with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_
default style for separated
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
On 2/17/12 11:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote:
Hiya,
[snip]
We realize that one can use bsdinstall to create as many partitions as
one wants. However, the new default is for one partition and swap. We
want to know if people
man hier
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Denis Fortin for...@acm.org wrote:
Good morning,
On a small system using FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, ZFS is reporting an issue on a
pool, that I am not certain is really an issue, but I don't know how to
investgate...
Here is the situation: I have created a ZFS
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.comwrote:
man hier
man 7 hier makes no mention of /home or /usr/home at all ...
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--As of February 18, 2012 2:46:32 PM -0800, Michael Sierchio is alleged to
have said:
man hier
--As for the rest, it is mine.
...Doesn't mention /home (or /usr/home) once. ;)
Pointing people to the docs which answers their question is good. But
please make sure it actually answers their
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote:
--As of February 18, 2012 2:46:32 PM -0800, Michael Sierchio is alleged to
have said:
man hier
True, but /usr/... was a typical place to find users' home
directories, since /usr is mounted when the system goes to
On 02/18/2012 03:23, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
On 2/18/12 12:57 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
To clarify, almost universally the opposition to the idea centers around
the problems of users who enable this method, and then don't notice if
something changes/breaks, resulting in a stale zone (or zones,
Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
On Friday 17 February 2012 08:49:37 Da Rock wrote:
On 02/17/12 11:21, Al Plant wrote:
I have not seen any action in 2 days.
There's been plenty of action in the last 2 days. Maybe check your mail
server logs for errors?
I noticed the same thing. The missing mails
I'm just installing a 9.0-RELEASE instance in Virtual Box to check
things out. I ran into something odd. With 8.x I install certain
things into a geli encrypted partition. To do this I have to use a
fixit shell and a manual install. Now, I'm trying to do the same
thing in 9.0, but when I get
Robert Simmons wrote:
I'm just installing a 9.0-RELEASE instance in Virtual Box to check
things out. I ran into something odd. With 8.x I install certain
things into a geli encrypted partition. To do this I have to use a
fixit shell and a manual install. Now, I'm trying to do the same
Hi Al,
On Sunday 19 February 2012 07:15:00 Al Plant wrote:
Erich Dollansky wrote:
Aloha Eric,
My missing mail finally come down the pipe over night too. Strange but
it has happened before.
Thanks for your support. Where are you located? Here in Hawaii we have
military installations
Dear kind folks,
I am getting more and more as to what is needed to keeping a system
running in optimum conditions(updating ports userland too). I was
just updating ports, but neglecting the new userland tools kernels.
I have successfully run make buildworld make installworld, and the
steps
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
Antonio,
The 'upgrade' from _P5_ to P6 did not touch the kernel, hence the kernel ID
did not change.
Going from P3 you should have seen a kernel update.
what do you see if you do strings /boot/kernel/kernel
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:03:39AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even
suggest just two
I've been struggling with this on my own for ages now, and I was
determined to try and sort it myself. But I'll now eat my humble pie and
ask for some help :)
I have (I believe I have mentioned this before) 5 dvb tuners in a
FreeBSD server (8.2): 1 cx88, 2 DiVico dual tuners (that totals 4
Hi,
On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even
suggest just two choices.
yes, three options is ok.
[ ] all in one + swap
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Da Rock
freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:
I've been struggling with this on my own for ages now, and I was
determined to try and sort it myself. But I'll now eat my humble pie and
ask for some help :)
I have (I believe I have mentioned this
Hi,
On Sunday 19 February 2012 09:30:55 Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:03:39AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
So, Polytropon's
On 02/19/12 13:16, Robert Bonomi wrote:
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 18 20:42:50 2012
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:32:42 +1000
From: Da Rockfreebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au
To: FreeBSD Questionsfreebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: webcamd and device numbering
Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com writes:
Hi,
On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even
suggest just two choices.
To follow-up, testkernel mounted fine using the procedure from
loader.4th(8):
set kernel=testkernel
unload
boot-conf
And the OS upgrade is now done, after a few more tweaks have been ironed
out (the most interesting of them is a difference between /boot/testkernel
and /boot/kernel, which were
Hi,
On Sunday 19 February 2012 11:40:22 Carl Johnson wrote:
Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com writes:
Hi,
On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
So, Polytropon's three choice
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Da Rock
freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:
On 02/19/12 13:16, Robert Bonomi wrote:
From
owner-freebsd-questions@**freebsd.orgowner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
Sat Feb 18 20:42:50 2012
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:32:42 +1000
From: Da
On 2/18/2012 8:03 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even
suggest just two choices.
A normal user will use the first
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