Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

2012-02-18 Thread Daniel Staal
their question. Thanks to everyone who has answered. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes

Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 - 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

2012-02-18 Thread Daniel Shahaf
supposedly generated by the same 'make' command some time apart). Thanks again for the suggestions, all. Daniel George Kontostanos wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 20:03:14 +0200: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Daniel Shahaf danie...@apache.org wrote: So far we've tried: - 'gpart bootcode -b

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Daniel Staal
of off the top of my head is mutt. I've never had much use, and thus experience, with unix MUAs. Thank you. Honestly, for one or two pure-text emails a day, I find 'less' on the most recent files in the Maildir folder works fairly well, especially for just a couple of days... Daniel T. Staal

/usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

2012-02-17 Thread Daniel Staal
a symlink to /home.) Just a question that's been bugging me, as I read through different FreeBSD docs. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise

Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 - 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

2012-02-16 Thread Daniel Shahaf
George -- thanks for the reply -- I've been a bit busy with other things so I haven't got around to testing it yet. I'll update this list once I've done so. Thanks again. Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 - 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Shahaf
George Kontostanos wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:56:33 +0200: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM, George Kontostanos gkontos.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Daniel Shahaf danie...@apache.org wrote: Daniel Staal wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 21:39:40 -0500

Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 - 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Shahaf
George Kontostanos wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 17:35:35 +0200: Try loading geom_part_gpt.ko to see if it helps. Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried: unload load /boot/testkernel/kernel load /boot/testkernel/geom_part_gpt.ko load /boot/testkernel/zfs.ko load /boot/testkernel/accf_data.ko

Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 - 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Shahaf
/boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 mfid$i done from the RC2 environment. RC2 still boots; the 9.0-RELEASE /boot/testkernel still doesn't. Thanks for the suggestsions. Joshua Isom wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:08:52 -0600: On 2/14/2012 6:31 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: One of our amd64 servers

Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 - 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Shahaf
]p3.) Any further ideas, please? Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Daniel Shahaf wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 02:31:10 +0200: One of our amd64 servers runs 9.0-RC2 (releng/9.0@r228325) with a zfs root. It fails to boot the 9.0-RELEASE (releng/9.0@r229305) GENERIC kernel (self compiled

Fwd: [Daniel Shahaf: Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 - 9.0-RELEASE upgrade]

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Shahaf
. - Forwarded message from Daniel Shahaf danie...@apache.org - Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:48:11 +0200 From: Daniel Shahaf danie...@apache.org To: questi...@freebsd.org Cc: Philip M. Gollucci pgollu...@p6m7g8.com, infrastructure-priv...@apache.org Subject: Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2

Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 - 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

2012-02-14 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 15, 2012 2:31:10 AM +0200, Daniel Shahaf is alleged to have said: One of our amd64 servers runs 9.0-RC2 (releng/9.0@r228325) with a zfs root. It fails to boot the 9.0-RELEASE (releng/9.0@r229305) GENERIC kernel (self compiled) with a mountfrom error: http

Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 - 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

2012-02-14 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Daniel Staal wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 21:39:40 -0500: --As of February 15, 2012 2:31:10 AM +0200, Daniel Shahaf is alleged to have said: One of our amd64 servers runs 9.0-RC2 (releng/9.0@r228325) with a zfs root. It fails to boot the 9.0-RELEASE (releng/9.0@r229305) GENERIC kernel

Re: vdevs in zpool spereated, unable to import

2012-02-13 Thread Daniel Staal
- a mirror in this situation would be directly usable. In theory a two-disk raidz should be recoverable from one disk, I think, but it may not have been well-tested.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise

Re: vdevs in zpool spereated, unable to import

2012-02-13 Thread Daniel Staal
On Mon, February 13, 2012 2:25 pm, Daniel Staal wrote: On Mon, February 13, 2012 11:31 am, Adam Coates wrote: More insight into my tomfoolery: I think the different hostnames issue may be because of my ignorance. If you can't tell I'm fairly new to zfs, and even newer to the revelation

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-11 Thread Daniel Staal
make a difference, but they are likely to be few for something like this.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non

Re: Removal Attempt of Directory under ZFS causes Kernel Panic

2012-02-10 Thread Daniel Staal
. Nothing sounds familiar, but as a first step in debugging most ZFS issues, what does a `zpool scrub`, `zpool status -v` output? (Expect the scrub to take a while; depending on speed/size of your disks and system, it could be several hours, and it will run in the background.) Daniel T. Staal

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Staal
up, and an active developer community. However, the 'update' procedure hasn't changed. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-07 Thread Daniel Staal
the loss of some of the former, if it's done well. You can always jail the webserver as well. User's choice at that point. ;) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed

Re: Portmanager Status Report Gone - Fixed.

2012-01-22 Thread Daniel Staal
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Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-21 Thread Daniel Feenberg
need to be established during setup, and I regret that no installer (for FreeBSD or Linux) notices that I have two empty drives, and defaults to a RAID 1. Daniel Feenberg Last but not least I find your calling the new installer a pos highly disrespectful towards the people that invested time

Re: How to destroy a zombie zpool

2012-01-21 Thread Daniel Staal
with this box again, and that did the trick. Took less than 2 hours, to do two drives. ;) (Simultainously, and one's a SSD.) (Well, I still can't figure out why I can't *boot* into ZFS, but at least I've eliminated one variable.) Daniel T. Staal

apache

2012-01-16 Thread Daniel Lewis
Hey I install apache on free bsd 8.2 but accidentially didnt include the perl threads. Now when I try to re-install it says perl file required for apache..How do i fix this problem? Thanks, Daniel Lewis 561-676-1073 ___ freebsd-questions

How to destroy a zombie zpool

2012-01-16 Thread Daniel Staal
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? Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author

Portmanager Status Report Gone

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel Staal
, and stops. Any ideas on what I may have messed up? I'd like to upgrade my ports to the latest versions before upgrading to 9.0 (and I'd want portmanager working afterwards to help me fix any port-related problems that come up.) I'm on 8.2. Daniel T. Staal

Re: SSD for ZIL suggestions?

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel Staal
for this, but I can't recall which one it was... For a ZIL, write/IOP speed and endurance are primary considerations. Size is not: The ZIL will never need more space than 1/2 the RAM of the box, IIRC. Anything more than that is just wasted space. Daniel T. Staal

Re: Portmanager Status Report Gone

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel Staal
wouldn't have to sit and watch the screen as much. Unfortunatly, they appear to have more annoying behaviors. (portmaster tended to die on the smallest problem, where portmanager would have just logged a failure and gone on.) I'm mostly happy with portmanager. I just want it *back.* Daniel T

Re: Portmanager Status Report Gone

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel Staal
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Re: Portmanager Status Report Gone

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel Staal
don't want to reinstall from scratch over this (If nothing else, it's my main fileserver. I've got backups, but that would take ages.), but I'm thinking rebuilding my ports database from bare bones sounds like it might be a good idea. Daniel T. Staal

Re: ZFS Root Won't Mount - Unknown Filesystem

2012-01-07 Thread Daniel Staal
.x, not 9.) That's not the problem. ;) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes

Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Daniel Lewis
Im running Free BSD 8.2 and was wondering whats a good web browser for version 8.2? Where and how would we install it? ( Im really new to unix) Thanks, Daniel Lewis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-03 Thread Daniel Feenberg
in FreeBSD form? Daniel Feenberg ___ 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: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-03 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 01/04/12 02:10, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 01/03/12 22:10, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:44:30 +1000 Da Rock articulated: On 01/03/12 11:15, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: Don't ndis(4) ndiscvt and ndisgen(8

Re: Help Recovering FBSD 8 ZFS System

2012-01-02 Thread Daniel Staal
mentioned updating the zpool to v15. Did you update the boot block at the same time? (Just checking the basics.) It'd need to be able to read the updated zpool. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted

Re: Help Recovering FBSD 8 ZFS System

2012-01-02 Thread Daniel Staal
can see the other two drives, a SATA card should mean you'll get all your data back.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use

Fwd: DNS

2012-01-01 Thread Daniel Lewis
-- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Lewis innervisionnetw...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:50 PM Subject: DNS To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Im new to freebsd 8.2 and the unix world. How do i setup dns to support my domain www.innervisionnetworks.com??? Registar

Re: Need to know the compatibility

2011-12-29 Thread Daniel Feenberg
for FreeBSD or Ubuntu. Does anyone have that working? Daniel Feenberg NBER ___ 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: [Spam] Fw: Merry Christmas from the FreeBSD Security Team

2011-12-23 Thread Daniel Staal
. ;) However, the above does worry me a bit: Is that same library change likely to affect ports? Any way to tell which, if so? (Or should I just start reinstalling everything...) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author

Re: high load system do not take all CPU time

2011-12-18 Thread Daniel Staal
problem; if you need more performance, you need to tune the I/O. (And possibly get better I/O cards, if available.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit

Enabling FTP and Telnet access for root and users

2011-12-15 Thread Daniel Lewis
How do I enable Telnet and ftp access for root and users? I turned on ftp and telnet in inetd but when at telenet or ftp prompt access is denied. Im using free bsd 8.2 Thanks, Daniel lewis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Enabling FTP and Telnet access for root and users

2011-12-15 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 06:26:09AM -0600, Daniel Lewis wrote: How do I enable Telnet and ftp access for root and users? I turned on ftp and telnet in inetd but when at telenet or ftp prompt access is denied. Can we see the error message? Are you sure inetd is running? Using the right username

Installing free bsd

2011-12-12 Thread Daniel Lewis
Im new to FreeBSD and did a FTP of 8.2 and unzipped to a cd rom. It was an ISO Version. I then FTP the CDROM BOOT file and un zipped it. Unfortunately It wont auto start when i put disk in computer startup. Need support.. Is the windows format on disk causing problems?

Re: I am FreeBSD user.

2011-12-05 Thread Daniel Feenberg
=html The source html on that page for what appears in your browser as ssuuddoo is: bs/bbsu/bbud/bbdo/bbo/b which is weird enough that I wouldn't blame the browser for the odd appearance. Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Setting up ZFS - Filesystem Properties and Installing on Root

2011-11-21 Thread Daniel Staal
in the box, I'd recommend gzip for just about everywhere. In most cases it'll actually speed up I/O. Oh, and if you are thinking of using dedup, you'll need sha256 for the checksum. But I think it'll do that automatically if you turn on dedup. Daniel T. Staal

Re: Setting up ZFS - Filesystem Properties and Installing on Root

2011-11-21 Thread Daniel Staal
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Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-19 Thread Daniel Staal
, or compressed and usually never touched again, it's worth thinking about what's the best balance of resources. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit

Re: Shouldn't GNU tar be ignoring /proc with --one-file-system?

2011-11-18 Thread Daniel Staal
is a file on /. /proc/* are files on /proc. The former is still on the root filesystem (if only as a directory stub to be used as a mountpoint), so reading it isn't leaving that filesystem. Reading anything *in* it would be. Just a thought. Daniel T. Staal

Re: Webmail for local system mail

2011-11-18 Thread Daniel Staal
On Fri, November 18, 2011 2:30 pm, Errol Sayre wrote: Are you sure SquirrelMail will do this? I was under the impression (from their requirements page) that it needs an IMAP backend. In which case you'll want an IMAP server that can serve the local system accounts. Not hard to set up. Daniel

Re: Shouldn't GNU tar be ignoring /proc with --one-file-system?

2011-11-18 Thread Daniel Feenberg
, so I wouldn't think it a good candidate for special casing as non-mounted. Daniel Feenberg NBER ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Unprintable 8-bit characters

2011-11-08 Thread Daniel Staal
ls to using it by default. ;) All this is of course if you *must* go beyond 7-bit ASCII. (Which all forms of Unicode is designed to be a strict superset of.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Daniel Feenberg
or may not emerge. I haven't tried it, as we have been able to make CUPS work (barely), but I am sympathetic to the sentiments expressed. Other than Windows-specific printers, FreeBSD printing problems are home-grown, and not caused by vendor misbehavior. Daniel Feenberg

Re: somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue

2011-10-12 Thread Daniel Feenberg
, only the number of bits in the key. Daniel Feenberg ___ 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: User tasks in ~/.logout

2011-10-11 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Polytropon wrote: I have some users who I want to schedule a specific job for which gets executed on their user account. For some of them, it will be twice a day, for others just once a month. It should happen at logout time. The intended mechanism to do so is ~/.logout,

Re: ZFS Write Lockup

2011-10-05 Thread Daniel Staal
the filesystems list. They may have better thoughts. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes

Re: ZFS Write Lockup

2011-10-05 Thread Daniel Staal
snapshots. (Only one volume, though.)) And that definitely sounds like a bug. Gradual slowdowns would be expected if you were just reaching performance limits, but sudden stops sound like there's a condition that doesn't work someplace, or some loop the system can get into. Daniel T. Staal

Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 23/09/2011, at 23:03, Fbsd8 wrote: The binary is installed by default, but there it isn't run at startup. If it is being run then I would expect you are booting off your install media again by accident. -- Daniel O'Connor You did not read my post correctly. I dont say bsdinstall

Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel Staal
use cases for it, and there are some slight costs to removing it. It doesn't have to be everything to everybody: It can be itself, nothing more and nothing less. I guess I just don't see the problem with keeping it. Daniel T. Staal

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Daniel Staal
DNS features. I just pay the ISP for a static.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes

Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage

2011-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and guarantees no one can exec it by accident and kill there running system. The binary is installed by default, but there it isn't run at startup. If it is being run then I would expect you are booting off your install media again by accident. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

RE: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-16 Thread Daniel Staal
, and make it significantly harder to move the cursor around inside the text with any accuracy. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-14 Thread Daniel Staal
of the BIOS are each of you running? Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

2011-09-11 Thread Daniel Feenberg
haven't tested the mouse in FreeBSD. Since any USB KVM would be fairly recent, you might just want to take a chance. Solaris Sparc systems had worse problems. Daniel Feenberg Robert Huff ___ freebsd

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

2011-09-11 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Carmel wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:28:42 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Feenberg articulated: The problem I have heard of relates to what happens if the machine boots with the KVM switched to another machine? The KVM may need to pretend there is a keyboard connected at that point

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

2011-09-11 Thread Daniel Staal
usually doesn't have this problem (although it might), and I haven't needed to use a small KVM for a while. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote

Re: fetchmail in system-wide mode

2011-09-07 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:25:50AM +0200, Xavier FreeBSD questions wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 03:19:36PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: I paste the fetchmail_startup in: http://pastebin.com/vFqdhwfg For you, the answer of why don't worked for me fetchmail is lines 502 and 503 ? Looks like

Re: fetchmail in system-wide mode

2011-09-07 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:17:15PM +0200, Xavier FreeBSD questions wrote: 2011/9/7 Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org Hi Daniel, On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:25:50AM +0200, Xavier FreeBSD questions wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 03:19:36PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: I paste

Re: fetchmail in system-wide mode

2011-09-06 Thread Daniel Bye
script did as it executed, which may or may not prove informative. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X

Re: Help Finding ZFS snapshots

2011-09-05 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of September 5, 2011 10:23:32 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have said: On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:48:22 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote --As of September 5, 2011 8:13:52 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have said: Using FreeBSD 8.1, amd64 - I wanted to recover files from a snapshot of usr/home

Re: Hi

2011-08-29 Thread Daniel Staal
by the standard distribution, FreeBSD may not be for you at this time. If you are in that case, you'll find yourself working with untested and non-finalized software. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-28 Thread Daniel Staal
in question, the type of issue addressed, what type of response he was given, or anything else actually pertaining to his situation is totally irrelevant. As is the fact that the survey won't be read by anyone. ;) Daniel T. Staal

Re: Support for AR8151

2011-08-28 Thread Daniel Henschel
at FreeNAS if they intend to update or include it. - Daniel pgpXMcdMvJohp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: First World (Was: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?)

2011-08-22 Thread Daniel Staal
at half that or less.) ;) Daniel T. Staal (How is Kenya these days? I haven't been there in 10 years or so...) --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use

RE: First World

2011-08-22 Thread Daniel Staal
, and does a surprisingly good job. ;) It's no major insight, and wouldn't really help make any policy decisions, but it's something I'll check given the chance in a new country: What the selection is, and what the price is. It will tell you a surprising amount about the country. Daniel T

Re: ZFS and NFS or CIFS

2011-08-21 Thread Daniel Staal
for the share. See `man zfs` for more detail, plus the docs for the type of share you decide to set up for the options. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Daniel Staal
knowledge base... I'll admit there are flaws in the Handbook. But the knowledge base shows the distinct impressions of being run through marketing. There's quite a lot of 'And then you can use this shiny feature!' without any 'To configure, read the following:'.) Daniel T. Staal

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Daniel Staal
the upgrade, just because it's safer to be upgrading to the tested kernel, but it shouldn't be required. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise

RE: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Daniel Staal
a proprietary window manager and UI on top of the rest. So the largest single source of code is probably FreeBSD, but neither the kernel or the part most people interact with isn't. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author

Re: Poll on server attacks

2011-08-14 Thread Daniel Feenberg
. The problem with using country lists for blocking is that individual sources can't get off them by behaving better. With no incentive to improve behavior, they are likely to continue the bad behavior forever, and the entire country is likely to remain tolerant of bad behavior. Daniel Feenberg

Re: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel Staal
of support for a branch.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5

Re: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-10 Thread Daniel Staal
that there necessarily won't be some at some future time. (I actually can't think of _any_ OS that has support for an 'automated' check of this sort, besides possibly scraping a web page, which you could do with FreeBSD if you wanted.) Daniel T. Staal

Re: will have 4th FreeBSD Edition handbook?

2011-08-05 Thread Daniel Feenberg
obsolete. Daniel Feenberg ___ 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: MC and snapshots

2011-07-29 Thread Daniel Staal
help, but it'd be worth trying. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright

Re: Hi installing on windows dual boot

2011-07-27 Thread Daniel Staal
be a high priority for Ubuntu (as it makes installing the OS much easier for a newbie), it's not the top of the list for FreeBSD. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed

Re: zpool remove locks up ZFS under amd64 RELENG_8

2011-07-27 Thread Daniel Staal
trying to remove the ZIL? Are you just pulling the drive or are you running a 'remove' first? (Just checking...) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote

Re: Question about regular expressions

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Staal
way to 'process' the config file would be to execute it in your main program, and then just use the variables assigned in it as regular variables.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Staal
. Install sudo, and (as long as your permissions are set correctly) the ports system can do everything except the install and configure from a user in the 'wheel' group. Daniel Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Feenberg
and Linux. While it is inferior to open source drivers, it would attract users, and with users manufacturers would feel pressure to have better support, which would best be achieved with open-source drivers. Daniel Feenberg -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Staal
relevant place in that, as a high-performance and high-reliability server platform.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Staal
On Thu, July 21, 2011 11:30 am, Peter Vereshagin wrote: You'll never silence the voice of the voiceless, freebsd-questions! 2011/07/21 11:04:57 -0400 Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : DS I'd like to build my ports from not a root user. DS How can I tell

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Staal
On Thu, July 21, 2011 1:54 pm, Peter Vereshagin wrote: Oh Daniel want you buy me a mersedes benz? 2011/07/21 13:19:40 -0400 Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : DS DS On Thu, July 21, 2011 11:30 am, Peter Vereshagin wrote: DS You'll never silence the voice

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Staal
' is a tablet in a case with a bluetooth keyboard. He uses this _at his desk in the office, next to a desktop computer._ (Because he can then take the work home with him, or bring it to a meeting.) Whether of not it's sane, it's being done. ;) Daniel T. Staal

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Staal
On Thu, July 21, 2011 2:26 pm, Peter Vereshagin wrote: Oh Daniel want you buy me a mersedes benz? 2011/07/21 14:01:04 -0400 Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : DS Ok, then I've already answered your question several emails ago. The DS ports system will do

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-20 Thread Daniel Staal
a certain version of the OS, unless that OS is a major source for their customers. So while they *can* make better drivers than the core team, they often *don't.* Best is an open driver by the manufacturer. Second is open docs, third is binary blob. My opinion. Daniel T. Staal

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-20 Thread Daniel Staal
the battery life. It's also a little too big and not quite mobile enough. Several of those constraints can be worked around with a docking station/case. Smartphones have the mobility and Internet access, and nearly the charging/battery life, but are even more constrained on other issues. Daniel T

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-17 Thread Daniel Feenberg
/remote-reboot.html that we use on a (non-FreeBSD) server that hangs from time to time. WOL also works. Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-17 Thread Daniel Staal
your admins to support a server if they can have a working development desktop that matches the server's OS and config. (Apart from their interface and development software, which would only be on the dev box.) Just a thought. ;) Daniel T. Staal

Re: Mouse problem on ThinkPad X61

2011-07-03 Thread Daniel Staal
settings as well: You can turn them off independently there, and the OS would never see it. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use

Re: Question about NIC link state initialization

2011-06-30 Thread Daniel Feenberg
can do everything you might need through the OS interface. Can I ask what is the brand of this so-called LOM? Is there any documentation implying something more useful? Do they describe doing a bare metal install of an OS? Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd

Re: Looking to build a router box, seeking some general advice

2011-06-30 Thread Daniel Staal
configuration through the web interface yet. Of course, you can still ssh in.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non

Re: SAS controller for FreeBSD

2011-06-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Leon Meßner wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:51:37PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: ... There are some SAS RAID controllers that claim to support FreeBSD but I can't tell if their JBOD mode is a true pass-through, or leaves some undesirable junk on the disk. So does

SAS controller for FreeBSD

2011-06-24 Thread Daniel Feenberg
controller? We aren't looking for anything fancy at this point. Daniel Feenberg NBER ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

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