Re: recommendation instead of portmanager

2013-01-11 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 11, 2013 11:07:58 PM +0100, Artifex Maximus is alleged to have said: I am using portmanager for updating my ports. I love its -p switch. Is there any similar program with such option? I am asking because portmanager is gone from ports tree. --As for the rest, it is mine. As

Gamin/IMAP issue

2013-01-10 Thread Daniel Staal
Since upgrading to 9.1 I've been getting errors retrieving my email via IMAP. They don't appear to actually prevent anything, but they are annoying at least. (And while I haven't noticed anything else that is having the same errors that doesn't mean it's not happening...) The errors I'm

Re: Gamin/IMAP issue

2013-01-10 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 10, 2013 10:48:41 AM -0500, Michael Powell is alleged to have said: Not exactly sure where the problem stems from, but one thing you may wish to consider: do make config on the courier-imap port and deselect the 'with gamin' option and rebuild/make reinstall. I ran

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-10 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 10, 2013 12:37:06 PM -0600, Scott Eberl is alleged to have said: I went ahead and installed the FreeBSD handbook onto my system and I was able to find it on disk per the motd notes but I'm wondering if there is a preferred method for reading these since they are in html format.

Re: 9.0 vs 9.1

2013-01-10 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 10, 2013 8:02:01 PM -0600, Scott Eberl is alleged to have said: OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading all the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after upgrading to 9.1 I have to compile from source to install stuff now. It

Re: GELI+ZFS failed disk issue

2012-10-04 Thread Daniel Staal
On 2012-10-04 11:45, Andre Goree wrote: Hello all. Wondering I can pick your brains regarding a situation I've run into. I've followed this article on setting up my FreeBSD 9 install on ZFS w/GELI encyrption -- sans the part about having 'bootdir' on a mirror, which, sadly, likely

Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel Staal
On 2012-08-29 11:42, Chris wrote: Hi, I've tried to search the lists but can't find anything, but please point me to an existing resource if available. I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and would like to get the Wifi card running (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install), but I'm

Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-05 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 5, 2012 10:29:16 AM -0600, Chad Perrin is alleged to have said: I think that XFS JFS are more mature filesystems than ZFS, but the feature set of ZFS i ahead in the future. For a NFS server first I'll go with ZFS because the consistence in disk and speed will gonna be the

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread Daniel Staal
On 2012-06-25 11:47, John Levine wrote: You would think there's an option to portupgrade that says don't upgrade every single package I've got, but if somewhere in the dependency chain I need a newer version of a thing, then do it. The problem is that the versioning in the ports system

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-21 Thread Daniel Staal
On 2012-06-21 08:12, Евгений Лактанов wrote: 21.06.2012 15:52, Wojciech Puchar пишет: stick with UFS. It JUST WORKS(R), and is trusty. And it works fast. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

2012-06-07 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of June 7, 2012 3:30:52 PM -0700, David Christensen is alleged to have said: For a new computer, I wouldn't go with anything earlier than FreeBSD 9.0, and in my case, upgrading to 9.0-STABLE proved stabler than the 9.0 release. STFW:

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Daniel Staal
On 2012-06-05 17:20, Jerry wrote: The question that I have not seen answered in this thread is what FreeBSD intents to do. From what I have seen, most FreeBSD users do not use the latest versions of most hardware, so it may be a while before its user base is even effected. I don't believe

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Daniel Staal
On 2012-06-06 15:05, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:49:53 -0400 Daniel Staal articulated: I don't believe at this point FreeBSD has any intent one way or another, really. It's not an immediate problem for any platform supported by the FreeBSD project, at least for a technically-inclined

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-02 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of June 2, 2012 6:32:39 PM -0400, Simon is alleged to have said: This thread confused me. Is the conclusion of this thread that ZFS is slow and breaks beyond recovery? I keep seeing two sides to this coin. I can't decide whether to use ZFS or hardware RAID. Why does EMC use hardware RAID?

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 31, 2012 11:24:41 AM -0700, Dennis Glatting is alleged to have said: 2) Under heavy I/O my systems freeze for a few seconds. I haven't looked into why but they are completely unresponsive. Note I am also using compressed volumes (gzip), which puts a substantual load on the kernel.

Re: FreeBSD X?

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 17, 2012 8:36:38 PM -0400, Vance Siemens is alleged to have said: http://www.trollaxor.com/2012/05/freebsd-x-berkeley-unix-apple-quality.ht Um, wasn't April 1st *last* month? Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright

Re: Best mail setup for home server?

2012-05-06 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 5, 2012 10:21:10 AM -0500, Joshua Isom is alleged to have said: I currently use my FreeBSD system as my generic unix server and some coding, along with occasional multimedia. I'd installed postfix years ago and kept using it. Right now, I use getmail with cron, dspam, and dovecot

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Daniel Staal
On 2012-05-04 10:45, Polytropon wrote: Allow me to extent the approach: For -STABLE versions (e. g. if updated per CVS), those files could contain the build number and the date of the currently installed -STABLE snapshot. A separation of a kernel version file and a world version file is useful

bsdpan-* ports, portmanager, and @comment ORIGIN:

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Staal
I'm working on developing some stuff in Perl on my box, which works fairly well unless I go to update my system. Anytime I do, I get the following error from portmanager: `rCreateInstalledDbVerifyContentsFile 0.4.1_9 error: @comment ORIGIN: not found in /var/db/pkg/bsdpan-$MODULE_NAME`

Re: bsdpan-* ports, portmanager, and @comment ORIGIN:

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of April 29, 2012 12:46:52 PM -0400, Jerry is alleged to have said: Which would be fine, if annoying, if everything actually was available in Ports. But it's not: I'm using several modules that aren't available from Ports, and of course the modules I'm *developing* aren't available from

Re: bsdpan-* ports, portmanager, and @comment ORIGIN:

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of April 29, 2012 1:36:55 PM -0400, Jerry is alleged to have said: UNTESTED: In the /usr/local/etc/portmanager/pm-020.conf file, add the specific port(s) you are trying to bypass. EXAMPLE: IGNORE|www/tidy| Again, this is untested, but I have used it for other ports that I needed

Re: bsdpan-* ports, portmanager, and @comment ORIGIN:

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of April 29, 2012 1:36:55 PM -0400, Jerry is alleged to have said: I will have a look at the CPAN module: CGI::Application::Plugin::CompressGzip later today or tomorrow and see if I can make a port of it for you. --As for the rest, it is mine. Sorry, I should have put this in the other

Re: bsdpan-* ports, portmanager, and @comment ORIGIN:

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of April 29, 2012 8:11:19 PM +0100, RW is alleged to have said: So, is there any way to *avoid* getting that error? Some way where I can actually use the ports system to keep my stuff up to date? (Even if it doesn't include the manually-installed software?) It think you should be able

Re: how often to update ports?

2012-04-06 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of March 30, 2012 4:31:49 PM -0400, Aleksandr Miroslav is alleged to have said: So I'm curious, how often do you keep your ports update, and what are the reasons for doing so? --As for the rest, it is mine. I do my home server on a monthly schedule, unless I see something come up in

Re: imap server performance benchmarks

2012-03-08 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of March 9, 2012 12:44:55 PM +1000, Da Rock is alleged to have said: I'm reconsidering my current setup (postfix/courier) for imap and I was doing some research on performance comparisons between imap server setups. I stumbled on this article just just about fell of my chair laughing when

Re: Email issues, relay failure, perhaps Jails is causing it.

2012-02-26 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 26, 2012 8:20:14 AM +0100, Bernt Hansson is alleged to have said: http://www.uk.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails.html Have you tried to telnet into the other jailed hostnames and ip-addresses, like telnet rt3.* 25 What does it say? Can you connect? There

Re: SMTP error: 552 5.6.0 Headers too large (32768 max)

2012-02-23 Thread Daniel Staal
On Thu, February 23, 2012 2:01 pm, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Those 388 probably explain why I just saw on a FreeBSD-6.4 host: ] fetchmail: SMTP error: 552 5.6.0 Headers too large (32768 max) ] fetchmail: mail from MAILER-DAEMON@ bounced to owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org ]

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-19 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 19, 2012 3:30:15 PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey is alleged to have said: Beside the point: the Wrong list was posted to. questions@ list was created to help beginners, not to debate invite votes to determine future design. FreeBSD lists have remits so people can read write

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

2012-02-18 Thread Daniel Staal
--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

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Daniel Staal
On Fri, February 17, 2012 12:16 pm, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go with the Maildir.

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

2012-02-17 Thread Daniel Staal
--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 partitions include: / swap /tmp /var

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:

Re: vdevs in zpool spereated, unable to import

2012-02-13 Thread Daniel Staal
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 of zpools (I've been using one for over a year but had no

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
--As of February 10, 2012 4:24:58 PM +, Matthew Seaman is alleged to have said: On 10/02/2012 16:04, Matthew Story wrote: find . -type f -depth 1 -print0 | xargs -n99 -0 -s8192 -c5 rm -- or some such, depending on your needs, I believe in most situations this particular invocation will

Re: Removal Attempt of Directory under ZFS causes Kernel Panic

2012-02-10 Thread Daniel Staal
On Fri, February 10, 2012 11:43 am, Martin McCormick wrote: Does this sound familiar to anybody? This is the first zfs installation I have used and I am not real wild about trying it again if we can't solve this mystery. We can't seem to duplicate the problem. Any ideas are

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 9, 2012 6:36:00 AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com is alleged to have said: TWiki is a nightmare to update ... TWiki was replaced with Foswiki (which is also in ports) at $WORK a while back. Dunno why, or how much of a job the changeover was for the admins, but there must have

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-07 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 7, 2012 5:59:27 PM -0500, mikel king is alleged to have said: On Feb 7, 2012, at 5:15 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:37 AM, dick d...@nagual.nl wrote: I'm a bit confused. I always believed FreeBSD is a very safe system. That may be true for the core

Re: Portmanager Status Report Gone - Fixed.

2012-01-22 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 15, 2012 10:09:06 AM -0500, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org is alleged to have said: I was trying out portmaster to see if it worked better than my current tool of choice for keeping my ports up to date (portmanager) and when I went back to portmanager I can no longer get it to

Re: How to destroy a zombie zpool

2012-01-21 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 17, 2012 5:19:15 AM +0100, Fritz Wuehler is alleged to have said: 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

How to destroy a zombie zpool

2012-01-16 Thread Daniel Staal
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,

Portmanager Status Report Gone

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel Staal
I was trying out portmaster to see if it worked better than my current tool of choice for keeping my ports up to date (portmanager) and when I went back to portmanager I can no longer get it to give me a 'Port Status Report', or to update anything. It just collects the installed port data,

Re: SSD for ZIL suggestions?

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 13, 2012 9:40:58 PM -0600, Rob is alleged to have said: I'm looking at getting a couple of SSDs to act as ZIL drives on FreeBSD 8/9 systems. Are there any recommended drives? Rob --As for the rest, it is mine. I remember that Intel released a line of SSDs that looked ideal

Re: Portmanager Status Report Gone

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 15, 2012 10:33:32 AM -0500, Jerry is alleged to have said: Exactly how are you invoking portmanager? Usually, just give it it the -s flag will get you a list of port and there status as you probably know. Yep. I have that in a weekly cron command, so I know what's out of

Re: Portmanager Status Report Gone

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 15, 2012 12:25:47 PM -0500, Jerry is alleged to have said: Well, you might try and deinstall and then reinstall portmanager. Perhaps something got corrupted, although I don't know why that might have happened. No joy. Worth a try though. ;) My suspicion is that it's a

Re: Portmanager Status Report Gone

2012-01-15 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 15, 2012 3:35:20 PM -0500, Jerry is alleged to have said: You don't have to manually erase the tree. I believe that: portsnap fetch extract is all you need to do to replace the ports tree with a fresh copy. It won't hurt anything since it doesn't touch the

Re: ZFS Root Won't Mount - Unknown Filesystem

2012-01-07 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 7, 2012 10:14:00 AM -0600, Mark Felder is alleged to have said: Hi Drew, I'm pretty sure you can't run a RAIDZ as your root pool. That's likely the problem. Kind of sucks, I know :-( --As for the rest, it is mine. I've been running RAIDZ as a root pool for months. (Under

Re: Help Recovering FBSD 8 ZFS System

2012-01-02 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of December 31, 2011 1:40:59 PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson is alleged to have said: Thus it appears I am missing ad16 that I used to have. My data zpool was the bulk of my system with over 600 gig of files and things I'd like to have back. I thought that by creating a raidz1 I could avoid

Re: Help Recovering FBSD 8 ZFS System

2012-01-02 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 2, 2012 2:14:55 PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson is alleged to have said: Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. However in this case, the controller is a SATA that's integrated into the motherboard. Since two of 4 are working, that would mean the controller is OK, right? I guess I could

Re: [Spam] Fw: Merry Christmas from the FreeBSD Security Team

2011-12-23 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of December 23, 2011 5:45:42 PM +0100, Bas Smeelen is alleged to have said: While I'm writing, a note to freebsd-update users: FreeBSD-SA-11:07.chroot has a rather messy fix involving adding a new interface to libc; this has the awkward side effect of causing the sizes of some symbols

Re: high load system do not take all CPU time

2011-12-18 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of December 17, 2011 10:29:42 AM +0200, Коньков Евгений is alleged to have said: How to debug why system do not use free CPU resouces? On this pictures you can see that CPU can not exceed 400tics http://piccy.info/view3/2368839/c9022754d5fcd64aff04482dd360b5b2/

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

2011-11-21 Thread Daniel Staal
On Sun, November 20, 2011 10:34 pm, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'll be setting up a server with ZFS on 9.0-RELEASE (when it's released...). I've never used ZFS before, and although I've been reading quite a bit about it, I have some questions. My plan is to use RAID-Z1 across 4 disks.

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

2011-11-21 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of November 21, 2011 9:09:45 PM -0500, APseudoUtopia is alleged to have said: Ok, thank you for the advice. It's on a quad-core xeon, so, in reference to your suggestion, I'll turn on compression for the entire pool. I did read that having swap in zfs may cause problems, so I'll be

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-19 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of November 19, 2011 8:14:56 AM +, Matthew Seaman is alleged to have said: On 19/11/2011 00:53, Edward Martinez wrote: As the progress bar moved to the right toward 100% completion, a window popped up telling me that it (bsdinstall) could not handle the base.txz (BTW, what does the

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

2011-11-18 Thread Daniel Staal
On Fri, November 18, 2011 10:34 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: I use Amanda to make nightly backups of a bunch of servers using GNU tar. However, gtar doesn't seem to respect its --one-file-system flag with /proc. Amanda runs a variation of this command: # /usr/local/bin/gtar --create --file -

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: Unprintable 8-bit characters

2011-11-08 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of November 8, 2011 7:58:04 PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier is alleged to have said: So, what would be the safest bet as far as the most universal representation for these characters? Something I've long wondered about when I've e-mailed people and copied/pasted these characters (are they

Re: ZFS Write Lockup

2011-10-05 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of October 4, 2011 2:43:45 AM -0400, Dave Cundiff is alleged to have said: I don't know what triggers the problem but I know how to fix it. If I perform a couple snapshot deletes the IO will come back in line every single time. Fortunately I have LOTS of snapshots to delete. [root@san2

Re: ZFS Write Lockup

2011-10-05 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of October 5, 2011 6:37:17 PM -0400, Dave Cundiff is alleged to have said: Its for a backup service I've been working on. It takes a snapshot hourly of all 17 zvols. I was planning on keeping them for a month. I had the same thought about the snapshots and deleted them all yesterday.

Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel Staal
On Fri, September 23, 2011 9:23 am, Fbsd8 wrote: These 2 statements should be added at the end of bsdinstall/auto to complete the clean up of the install process. rm /usr/sbin/bsdinstall rm -rf /usr/libexec/bsdinstall Another benefit of doing this is it will no longer be necessary to

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of September 22, 2011 6:31:19 PM -0700, Gary Kline is alleged to have said: i'm to the point where letting somebody else handle the dns-and-outward side sounds better by the day. i'v got more question if you care to answer them. i've been using gkg.net

RE: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-16 Thread Daniel Staal
On Fri, September 16, 2011 2:03 pm, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Demelier Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 10:38 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-14 Thread Daniel Staal
On Wed, September 14, 2011 9:44 am, William Bulley wrote: A friend of mine has an IBM T500 Thinkpad which is nearly identical to the one I have. We both have interesting audio issues. Any ideas as to why the problems explained below exist would be greatly appreciated. My T500 shows two

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

2011-09-11 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of September 11, 2011 9:03:17 AM -0400, Carmel is alleged to have said: I am thinking of using a TRENDnet 2-Port DVI USB KVM Switch Kit with Audio TK-214i with a FreeBSD-8.2 amd64 PC and a Windows 7 machine. I presently have a Samsung 24 digital monitor and a Logitech S510 cordless

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
--As of August 28, 2011 2:09:30 PM -0700, Spencer Thompson is alleged to have said: Dear FreeBSD.org, I would like to order a CD with FreeBSD for an IBM Thinkpad. What is the best package to get? Will it work perfectly? I want a package with the manual, man-pages and how to use FreeBSD

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-28 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 28, 2011 9:10:34 AM -0600, Chad Perrin is alleged to have said: On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 09:04:28PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Saturday, 27 August 2011: I've decided to provide the professional response Evan claims to crave: Dear Evan, We

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

2011-08-22 Thread Daniel Staal
On Mon, August 22, 2011 7:19 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I live in some 3rd world country (BTW, how does one become 1st world?) Back in the day, you'd have needed to join NATO... (2nd world, of course, required joining the Warsaw Pact.) These days, I subscribe to the 'soda theory'. At the

RE: First World

2011-08-22 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 22, 2011 2:15:24 PM -0500, Gary Gatten is alleged to have said: Interesting analogy. Osama - er, I mean Obama could really use people like you to explain things better to him, 'cause obviously he has NO idea what his various and numerous Czars and advisors are saying. Or maybe

Re: ZFS and NFS or CIFS

2011-08-21 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 19, 2011 1:43:23 AM -0400, Chris Brennan is alleged to have said: I have several ZFS volumes set up on my FreeBSD 8.2 (32-bit) server at home and I am trying to figure out how to set up a NFS and/or CIFS share of the various volumes I have created and for the life of me, I can't

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 20, 2011 12:12:00 PM -0500, Dave Pooser is alleged to have said: 3) Updates are a mess. It's cool that I *can* compile a new kernel, but that I *have* to is ridiculous. Updating a server should not be more difficult than yum update -- full stop. --As for the rest, it is mine.

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 20, 2011 4:22:45 PM -0400, Jerry is alleged to have said: I have never wasted my time with it personally; however, I thought I read somewhere that it did not work if the user had built a custom kernel. From what I have seen written regarding it, you have to move the custom kernel

RE: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 20, 2011 7:01:07 PM -0700, Carl G Smith is alleged to have said: I have heard that the OS X OS is based on FreeBSD. Is this true? --As for the rest, it is mine. Partially. It combines a mostly Mach kernel with some FreeBSD-derived userland and interfaces, then adds a

Re: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 10, 2011 6:42:58 PM -0700, Michael Sierchio is alleged to have said: man freebsd-update --As for the rest, it is mine. That doesn't help with the question being asked. The question is 'Will there be updates (as necessary) for this version of the OS in the future?'.

Re: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-10 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 10, 2011 1:26:10 PM -1000, Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA USARPAC is alleged to have said: How do I know as an admin of my FreeBSD server that the version I am running is supported via automated fashion? I'm trying to find a way to do this through a script of sorts so that when

Re: MC and snapshots

2011-07-29 Thread Daniel Staal
On Fri, July 29, 2011 2:26 pm, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Can one of you tell me why it is not possible to browse .zfs directories (from snapshots) with midnight commander? I'm running FreeBSD-8.2 w/ mc from ports. Manually switching to .zfs and it's subdirectories does show the snapshotted

Re: Hi installing on windows dual boot

2011-07-27 Thread Daniel Staal
On Wed, July 27, 2011 7:58 am, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:06:57 +, Ganesh Khedkar wrote: Hi all, I am new to FreeBSD , just wanted to give one suggestion that , Ubuntu linux have given one Nice facility to user that they can easily install Ubuntu in windows and any

Re: zpool remove locks up ZFS under amd64 RELENG_8

2011-07-27 Thread Daniel Staal
On Wed, July 27, 2011 1:03 am, Dennis Glatting wrote: I attached a SSD as a ZIL to a RAIDz pool, which is a fairly useless thing to do but I am testing. If I try to remove the SSD ZIL the zpool command does not return and in another window a zpool status also doesn't return or print

Re: Question about regular expressions

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Staal
On Wed, July 20, 2011 10:33 pm, dave jones wrote: Hi, I have a config file below: $user= 'root'; // This is the username if $user is found, I want to display root. Anyone knows how to programming in C or some other language? thank you. I'm not quite sure what you are

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 Staal
On Thu, July 21, 2011 12:13 pm, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: Adding a variety of devices to a tablet still wouldn't make it an attractive option for me. I can't imagine doing my CS degree course-work on one of them, it would be a nightmare. I even found working on a laptop frustrating given the

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
On Thu, July 21, 2011 1:11 pm, Chad Perrin wrote: If all they want is a toy with a Web browser and an email client, I guess that works for them. I don't know if they really count for purposes of discussing the possible replacement of desktops and laptops, though, because what they really

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
On Wed, July 20, 2011 1:52 pm, David Jackson wrote: I do not believe that these phones or tablets will replace desktop but there is a lot of room for these two types of devices basically to communicate, giving people access to their data and environment from both. The reason I dont see the

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

2011-07-20 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of July 20, 2011 5:45:49 PM -0400, David Jackson is alleged to have said: but you also have scanners, cameras, joysticks, capture devices for video, and so on that many common users love to use. A lot of people use computers for writing, home and office business work, and gaming, and

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-17 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of July 17, 2011 8:13:13 PM +0700, C. Bergström is alleged to have said: 1) Why care about *BSD as a desktop? 2) Why care about *BSD as a workstation? (Which I see as a next level in stability/usability beyond a toy desktop) --As for the rest, it is mine. Because it is easier to get

Re: Mouse problem on ThinkPad X61

2011-07-03 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of July 2, 2011 9:56:33 PM -0600, Warren Block is alleged to have said: The T61 has both a touchpad and a trackpoint. Seems like on my T42, only one works. Possibly there are settings for psm(4) or the synaptics touchpad driver is needed. --As for the rest, it is mine. Check your BIOS

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

2011-06-30 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of June 30, 2011 6:34:52 PM -0400, Chris Brennan is alleged to have said: While trying to learn IPv6 as best as I can and messing with my Linksys WRT54Gv3 router running DD-WRT, I realized that it cannot properly do IPv6 yet. This leaves me rather limited. More then once some people on

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

2011-06-23 Thread Daniel Staal
On Wed, June 22, 2011 9:26 pm, Damien Fleuriot wrote: You will lose your main ZFS pool if you lose: - more than 1 of your full ZFS pools or - your ZIL (need confirmation on that) From my reading, on the ZIL: Under 8.2, true. If you have patched your ZFS install, or are running -CURRENT,

Re: FreeBSD paid support

2011-06-20 Thread Daniel Staal
On Mon, June 20, 2011 3:35 am, Dennis Perisa wrote: Hi guys, Are there paid support services available for FreeBSD? If provided by a 3rd party, can you name or even recommend a few? I haven't tried any, so I can't make recommendations, but the FreeBSD website has a listing:

Re: ZFS and cp -x

2011-06-19 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of June 19, 2011 10:49:58 AM +0400, Eir Nym is alleged to have said: zfs mount contains: zpoo/usr/ports /usr/ports zpool/usr/ports/distfiles /usr/ports/distfiles when I try to cp -Rx, distfiles will be copied too. --As for the rest, it is mine. The distfiles directory, or the distfiles

Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail

2011-06-18 Thread Daniel Staal
On Saturday, June 18, 2011 11:53:57 AM Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: I have a problem with my mail-server configuration so that mail sent will not reach any freebsd adresses. The solutions offered in similar mails already accessible via various archives did not help :-( I usually send mail from

Re: ZFS and cp -x

2011-06-18 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of June 16, 2011 5:31:26 PM +0400, Eir Nym is alleged to have said: Does `cp -x` works correctly on ZFS? --As for the rest, it is mine. Yes, it does. Sorry, I meant to test this for you earlier, but forgot... Daniel T. Staal

Re: ZFS and cp -x

2011-06-18 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of June 18, 2011 5:46:54 PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz is alleged to have said: Is cp -x new? Not in my 8.1 manpages. --As for the rest, it is mine. The online man page viewer shows it in 8.1, but not 8.0. So, it looks like a gnu-ism that got brought over for 8.1, according to the

Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail

2011-06-18 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of June 19, 2011 12:29:02 AM +0200, Christopher J. Ruwe is alleged to have said: (The server is a rented virtual machine.) Am I right that I need to set the rDNS of 188.40.164.98 to mail.cruwe.de to make the freebsd.org servers accept my mail or that, should I set the rDNS to cruwe.de, I

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of June 17, 2011 5:02:09 PM -0500, Robert Bonomi is alleged to have said: 4) In the U.S., one can officially register copyright on something up to SIX MONTHS _after_ first 'publication'. --As for the rest, it is mine. Actually, you can register it at any time after it has been

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Daniel Staal
On Thu, June 16, 2011 12:20 pm, Peter Vereshagin wrote: You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions! 2011/06/16 11:54:05 -0400 Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : RS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright RS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of June 16, 2011 11:21:34 PM +0400, Peter Vereshagin is alleged to have said: CP UNIX, the name, is a trademark. We can use it all we like here, speaking Do we need a license to use it? ;-) According to what I recall of my 'business law for managers' classes: As long as we don't

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