Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Joshua Isom
On 8/4/2013 6:29 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/04/13 17:22, Gary Aitken wrote: Ok, so now I see that my cpu temperature shoots up pretty dang fast when a build is going on. I'm running an AMD Phenom II X4 with the AMD-supplied fan in an ASUS M4A89TD PRO / USB3 motherboard. The system works

Re: mail from Charlie

2013-06-13 Thread Joshua Isom
The name Charlie is for Charlie Root, i.e. root. Generally it will just be cron messages, unless you get hacked and someone's nice. On 6/13/2013 11:36 AM, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi all :-) I use 9.1... I don't known why, from yesterday I didn't received any mail from Charlie :-/ postfix runs

Re: Max top end computer for Freebsd to run on

2013-06-02 Thread Joshua Isom
You mean like a high end rack mount server that's FreeBSD's primary use? One catch about ram, the faster ram comes in smaller sticks. I have four 8Gb sticks for 32Gb, but it's not the fastest ram. The fastest ram tends to be 2Gb sticks. At the moment, FreeBSD's set to a max of 64 cores on

Re: Where to get source for 10?

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Isom
On 5/31/2013 6:27 PM, Ayan George wrote: On 05/31/2013 07:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: For 9.1 I can checkout http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ But where can I get the source for FreeBSD10? I assume it'd be the head branch: http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/ Yes, it's the head

Re: BSD sleep

2013-05-28 Thread Joshua Isom
On 5/28/2013 6:01 PM, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: Hi. Is there no built-in way of making sleep sleep in increments of minutes, hours, etc? The GNU sleep can be invoked like sleep 1h for an hour. The FreeBSD one's manpage leads me to believe we can only use seconds, which is kind of annoying. Is there

Re: file corruption solution (soft-update or ZFS)

2013-05-23 Thread Joshua Isom
On 5/23/2013 7:14 AM, saeedeh motlagh wrote: thanks for your reply. you know i have a sensitive server and unfortunately it is located some where that power outage happens much. so i want guarantee my data and avoid data lost and file corruption in my server. Get a good reliable UPS. Test it

Re: Unkillable processes

2013-05-22 Thread Joshua Isom
On 5/22/2013 1:47 AM, David Demelier wrote: 2013/5/19 Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com: A process can be unkillable if it's holding a lock, like reading from disk. Eventually, the lock will release and it should die. You can use limits to change how much CPU and memory a process can use. My

Re: More than 32 CPUs under 8.4-P

2013-05-19 Thread Joshua Isom
On 5/19/2013 10:51 AM, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 11:48 +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On 2013-05-18 19:13, Dennis Glatting wrote: I have a 4x16=64 core server running FreeBSD 8.4-P but only two of the CPUs (2x16=32) are enabled. Enabling the other 32 isn't as simple as

Re: Unkillable processes

2013-05-19 Thread Joshua Isom
On 5/19/2013 3:00 PM, David Demelier wrote: Hello there, I've had a process on state pfault and it was just unkillable, kill -9 had no effects and because the script was doing an infinite loop the machine was slower and slower so the only way to fix that was a reboot. Why kill -9 has still no

Re: ZFS install on a partition

2013-05-17 Thread Joshua Isom
Your hardware raid should be faster than ZFS raid. Don't use zfs raid because there will be no benefit. You'll get the performance of software raid using CPU time, along with lost space for already backed up data. ZFS should work fine. A lot of the tuning on the wiki page isn't needed

Re: ZFS partitioning

2013-05-12 Thread Joshua Isom
You may not want to mirror the boot block. That way you can update one boot block, test it before copying the other. If the new boot block fails to boot, the BIOS should go to the next hard drive and boot the mirror. I don't know if it's possible to detect which drive you're actually

Re: Cdorked.A

2013-05-09 Thread Joshua Isom
On 5/9/2013 12:19 PM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Is Apache on FreeBSD affected? Thanks, Technically, Apache isn't the problem. The hole's in cPanel probably, not Apache. The attackers replace Apache, probably patching the source code and replacing the host's with a trojaned copy. If

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-08 Thread Joshua Isom
Most of the spam I've seen get through is actually obvious from the subject line. I've seen more posts by people who weren't subscribed and asked to be cc'd than I've seen spam. Making the list subscribers only would only hinder the the lucky spammers, and stop more people genuinely asking

Re: Dummynet on 64 bit systems

2013-05-07 Thread Joshua Isom
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/#58be I wanted to do http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dummynet first, but it'll still help for other issues that might come up when using it on windows. On 5/7/2013 4:17 PM, Rama Varma wrote: Hello, I was interested in knowing if Dummynet is supported on Windows

Re: script or c prog to record live audio?

2013-05-06 Thread Joshua Isom
On 5/6/2013 6:19 PM, Gary Kline wrote: guys, I've been meaning to ask one of the Nix lists if there is a script that will record something from kuow.org while I watch one of my favorite tv broadcasts. most of the time, nothing is on tv, but this one radio broadcast, AR co-insides with NOVA

Re: ZFS on MBR does not boot at all

2013-05-05 Thread Joshua Isom
On 5/5/2013 3:20 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hi David, Thanks for following up with what the real problem was. I updated the Wiki to include this: Note that partition order is important. It seems that zfsboot requires the freebsd-zfs partition to be the first, so make sure you

Re: sshd - time out idle connections

2013-05-03 Thread Joshua Isom
On 5/3/2013 10:05 AM, Fleuriot Damien wrote: Thanks for your response Markham, I'm afraid labor law is much too protective here for us to be able to educate users in this way;) Your idea to run a cron job every X minutes has merit though, I'll try and check into that ! If labor law's

Re: Firefox is so slow

2013-04-29 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/29/2013 5:06 AM, Mikhail Krutov wrote: ~ 5 seconds on kinda sligthly better machine; ~ 0.1 seconds if I move ~/.mozilla to tmpfs (which is a kludge and which sucks) What if you make it a gmirror with a ramdisk, with the mirror syncing on boot and preferring the ramdisk? It's still a

Re: enter single user mode from boot menu

2013-04-28 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/28/2013 7:50 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: On Apr 28, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: mount -u -o rw / or mount -u -rw / (just thought I'd save you 2 keystrokes, nyuk nyuk) Or mount -ua

Re: FreeBSD as Samba Server and Windows as Client

2013-04-16 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/16/2013 2:20 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Dear All , I could be able to connect a FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 computer as client to a Windows XP ( 32 bits ) by using information supplied by the mail http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-April/250500.html and I sent a mail

Re: 9-STABLE doesn't boot: can't load 'kernel'

2013-04-16 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/16/2013 1:36 AM, J David wrote: loader.conf was empty and there's no 4k gnops, geli, anything like that. This is a 100% normal install. Although, since you mentioned 4k blocks, I did leave a gap between ada0p1 and ada0p2 to start the root partition on a 4k boundary. (It's an SSD that

Re: 9-STABLE doesn't boot: can't load 'kernel'

2013-04-15 Thread Joshua Isom
I can't recall, does the cd come with the btx loader? Is it able to see the hard drive partitions and boot that way? Did you put anything in loader.conf? I'm guessing that if you're getting to /boot/loader but not any further, it's something wrong with the conf file. If you're booting UFS,

Re: none

2013-04-12 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/12/2013 1:43 PM, Jerry wrote: Really off-topic, but HAL is now deprecated on many modern systems. Why is FreeBSD continuing to use it? It is being replaced by udev. You would think that FreeBSD-10 would be a perfect time to put HAL to bed and take a more modern approach. It's not the gnu

Re: Install TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 wireless network interface card

2013-04-10 Thread Joshua Isom
You'll need to run -CURRENT instead of 9.1, and all the caveats that apply. You'll also need the special HAL that hasn't yet been commited to -CURRENT. There are instructions on the freebsd-wireless mailing list. I'm using that exact card right now. Run `pciconf -lv` and you should see it,

Re: 9.1 panics on a daily basis

2013-04-08 Thread Joshua Isom
What happens when it panics? Does it drop into a debugger or reboot automatically? If it goes to the debugger, type dump, let it dump, then type reboot. You'll need to add `dumpdev=AUTO` to your rc.conf and have a swap partition to use, a few gigs will suffice. You don't need it to be

Re: portsnap

2013-04-07 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/7/2013 5:57 AM, ajtiM wrote: Thank you for the answer but I never waited more than eight(8) hours for update exceot if it was something wrong and I am user more than three (3) years. Mitja It's possible it's just your mirror was a little slower getting the update from the master. I

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/5/2013 7:51 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:57:57 -0400, doug wrote: My questions: Does/will pkgng work? Are 9.1 packages on the ISO images? I am in the progess of answering that one for myself but had some time on my hands during the download :) Prebuilt packages are on

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/6/2013 7:56 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: Agreed; that's why I haven't attempted to do so. Also, I only build packages for the 600 or so packages in which I am interested, and only for the FreeBSD version in use, and only for the specific CPU architecture. Maybe Joshua is overlooking something.

Re: portsnap

2013-04-06 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/6/2013 5:01 PM, ajtiM wrote: Hi! Are there problems with portsnap servers, please? I saw on fresports.org Opera update long eight or more hours ago but my portsnap fetch update shows: portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag

Debian/kFreeBSD vs linux jail?

2013-04-04 Thread Joshua Isom
Considering Debian's ported the standard Linux userland to the FreeBSD kernel, I'm wondering if it's possible/practical to use Debian inside of a jail instead of a Linux CentOS jail, which has been documented. I know some applications are linux specific, but are they really linux specific or

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-02 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/1/2013 10:02 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [[ Mostly, this posting is just a story. But it does include one question, towards the end. See below. ]] Well, I accidentally found what I believe is most likely the reason for the system halts I have been having recently, so I just

Re: use of the kernel and licensing

2013-04-01 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/1/2013 11:41 AM, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: Copyright covers expressions of ideas. It does not cover the ideas themselves. You can't copyright a concept, you can't copyright filesystems, and I believe in the past few years a high court in the EU ruled that you can't copyright a programming

Re: gpart

2013-03-31 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/31/2013 8:54 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: I have had only one problem with this description. I could not boot from a GPT setup on my machine done as described there. But I have a disk done with PCBSD based on 9.0 which booted well. I cannot tell you if this is a problem caused by a later

Re: gpart

2013-03-31 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/31/2013 8:28 PM, Grant Peel wrote: I was wondering in anyone sees any issues creating the drive geometry using this method, with the intent of restoring dumped filesystems to to, including the root filesystem. Geometry or partition size? If it's geometry, and you need to worry about it,

Re: OT: The future of USENET?

2013-03-27 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/27/2013 3:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400, grarpamp wrote: Now there are very few, if any, free servers There are still free news servers available. My ISP bundles usenet, nevertheless I prefer the free one as it's faster and more reliable. The last ISP

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/3/2013 6:36 PM, Polytropon wrote: Due to a fsck file system repair I lost the content of a file I consider important, but it hasn't been backed up yet. The file name is still present, but no blocks are associated (file size is zero). I hope the data blocks (which are now probably marked

Re: rm -R

2013-03-02 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/2/2013 2:43 PM, David Tilbrook wrote: The problem (and its solution) have been raised for at least 39 years. But google and other search engines treats words([A-Za-z0-9]) starting with - as meaning exclude results with this, even when obvious it's about unix commands. It can be rather

Re: rm -R

2013-03-02 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/2/2013 8:27 PM, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 07:43:50PM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: On 3/2/2013 2:43 PM, David Tilbrook wrote: The problem (and its solution) have been raised for at least 39 years. But google and other search engines treats words([A-Za-z0-9]) starting

Re: Performance Related Question

2013-02-27 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/27/2013 4:53 PM, Michael Ross wrote: On a multi-CPU machine using an SMP configured kernel, try values between 6 and 10 and see how they speed things up. But you also do need to consider memory usage. On the areas of buildworld that are CPU intensive, they can also be memory

make package vs pkg create

2013-02-24 Thread Joshua Isom
I tried making a build jail, not with pourdriere or tinderbox. I just went to the ports and ran `make -DBATCH package-recursive clean` to get packages created. I ran `pkg add *` in the packages/All directory, but all failed because of MANIFEST missing. I'm guessing this is a bug in the .mk

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/23/2013 1:10 PM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: On 02/23/13 12:32, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:11:50 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:47:10 +0100, vermaden wrote: Why not simplify that: | Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project. |

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/23/2013 4:23 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:56:46 -0600 Joseph A. Nagy, Jr jnagyjr1...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/23/13 15:33, Joshua Isom wrote: On 2/23/2013 1:10 PM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: snip It seems the regents copyright claims end in 1994. Perhaps some

Re: I made a mess. libc

2013-02-21 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/21/2013 11:22 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2013-02-21 18:01, Teske, Devin skrev: Is it the base machine that won't boot? I got this ... That is correct. So no cd burning no nothing...Well it want to drop in to a single shell bla bla bla press enter for /bin/sh enter libexec* libc.so.7:

Re: FreeBSD on Motorola Droid RAZR i ... Intel Atom ... workable ?

2013-02-12 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/12/2013 11:31 AM, Mm Bsd wrote: The Motorola Droid RAZR i (a variant of the RAZR m) has an intel atom z2460 processor in it. Unless I am mistaken, this is an amd64 compatible chip that mainline FreeBSD could run on, yes ? Without getting into the specifics of loading the system (and

Linux's magic sysrq

2013-02-08 Thread Joshua Isom
I was reading the comments on a slashdot article about moving kernel console to userland. One thing that came up with Linux's sysrq support, documented at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key to see the abilities. I'd never heard of this, and I doubt FreeBSD has anything similar, but

Re: which pkg repository with 9.1

2013-02-04 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/4/2013 8:34 PM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: I really think a message needs to go out on the announce list (as well as ports@ and questions@, others as appropriate) about the fact there is no official pkg repo at the moment. I'm constantly seeing emails about this on this list. I changed to

Re: tmux and konsole characters

2013-02-02 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/2/2013 11:05 AM, Andre Goree wrote: Thanks, I'm actually using bash as a shell, probably should've mentioned that. Anywho: [agoree@desktop ~]$ grep TERM .* .bash_history:echo $TERM .profile:# Setting TERM is normally done through /etc/ttys. Do only override .profile:# TERM=cons25;

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/29/2013 10:25 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: What is the system you are using? What external devices does it have built-in support for? In the absence of any data - how about trying an external hard drive? Why not remove the hard drive, use another system to put FreeBSD on the drive, and

Re: Viewing processes hierarchically

2013-01-29 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/29/2013 3:52 PM, Patrick wrote: Is there any way in FreeBSD to view all running processes hierarchically, like Activity Monitor in Mac OS X can do? e.g. http://f.cl.ly/items/37310J17273X3F1E1l0G/Image%202013.01.29%2013:50:36%20.png I believe I have a masked process spawned from an Apache

Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world build from ports?

2013-01-28 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/28/2013 7:56 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Still not perfect, I guess I need something similar to ls -RAl for some directories :S and I didn't test what awk will do with names including a space. Try `find /dir -ls`. You can pipe it into sed like this `find /dir -ls| sed -e 's%/dir%%g'` and

Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world build from ports?

2013-01-28 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/28/2013 8:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:41:34 +0100, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/28/2013 7:56 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Still not perfect, I guess I need something similar to ls -RAl for some directories :S and I didn't test what awk will do with names

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/25/2013 9:12 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:26:23 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:04:14 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: % ls -lR / | grep -v /home | grep rocketmouse It's better I umount at least Arch Linux. True. :-) There anyway

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/25/2013 3:25 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: It still does list directories in /home :(. This file definitively only is in /home: $ grep find_ find_1000.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root rocketmouse 81920 Jan 25 20:52 find_1000.txt $ ls -ld find_1000.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root rocketmouse 513434

Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-25 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/25/2013 5:36 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: 9.1 on x86_64. No doubt this question has been asked before, but how do I mount logical partitions (e2fs) under FreeBSD? I have checked the handbook, and DuckDuckGo'ed, but without finding anything useful. The third slice on my first disk is a physical

Re: Fwd: Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/24/2013 3:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I was surpriesed, when Evolution from Linux had no permissions anymore to access the mail folder, after drwxrwx--- rocketmouse wheel was stable for FreeBSD I wasn't aware, that even between Linux only, the folders for mount points share the same

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-22 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/21/2013 5:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) I'm sharing the same directory for Evolution emails, by several Linux installs. For e.g. Ubuntu Precise it's Evolution 3.2.3 and for e.g. Ubuntu Quantal it's Evolution 3.6.0. I'm doing it by a link: It looks like to me you're asking for long

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-22 Thread Joshua Isom
...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:16:42 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: On 1/21/2013 5:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) I'm sharing the same directory for Evolution emails, by several Linux installs. For e.g. Ubuntu Precise it's Evolution 3.2.3 and for e.g. Ubuntu Quantal it's

Upgrading from 9.0-STABLE to 9.1-RELEASE with freebsd-update?

2013-01-02 Thread Joshua Isom
I've used STABLE for years, but with csup going away, I don't want to deal with adding extra packages, and keeping them unbroken, just to stay up date. Running freebsd-update doesn't work for people running STABLE, and I'm not sure freebsd-update will work properly anyway if I compile world

Re: Sony ebook reader with FreeBSD

2012-05-13 Thread Joshua Isom
Almost every tablet runs ARM, and the chipset isn't standardized as much as x86. I haven't heard of a tablet running FreeBSD, but it would likely require corporate support just to access the documents for the chips. Even Android uses closed binaries for a lot of the core features. On

Best mail setup for home server?

2012-05-05 Thread Joshua Isom
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 to handle my gmail account. I've never set up outgoing mail which makes

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-10 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/9/2012 10:27 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: As always there are some experts that controls everything and do not let you change anything because is their kingdom. What do they control? The network infrastructure? One of the managers asked me for help to block some web sites were some

Re: Upgrade to 9.0 - Mount to root failed..

2012-04-08 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/8/2012 8:51 AM, Airosoβicz fb. wrote: Hi Matthew, Thanx for the quick reply.. Can't get it to work though.. On 08/04/2012 09:53, Airosoβicz fb. wrote: So I've upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0 now the system can't mount in single user mode to go through the final step of installing the world..

Re: Spare disk

2012-03-18 Thread Joshua Isom
What are you using to manage your raid? On 3/18/2012 12:38 PM, Marek černocký wrote: Hi, how can I add spare disk to RAID1 on FreeBSD 9? atacontrol has command addspare, but new camcontrol misses it. Regards Marv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

2012-03-13 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/12/2012 5:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:19:51 -0700, Edward M. wrote: On 03/12/2012 03:10 PM, Polytropon wrote: /etc/shells to work, but a passwd entry like bob:*:1234:1234:Two-loop-Bob:/home/bob:/usr/local/bin/joe I think this would not let the user to

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

2012-03-13 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/13/2012 10:43 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 03/13/2012 01:39 AM, Joshua Isom wrote: On 3/12/2012 5:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:19:51 -0700, Edward M. wrote: On 03/12/2012 03:10 PM, Polytropon wrote: /etc/shells to work, but a passwd entry like bob:*:1234:1234:Two-loop

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-11 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/11/2012 3:28 PM, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i made the mistake that conrad did when replying. i could make e excuse liked only getting five hours sleep, etc, bujt i wont. here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? or is that illegal,

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/9/2012 7:07 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: you can see on this how difficult it is to be 100% compatible with Windows. Especially the Virus layer of Windows is hard to redo. It is a masterpiece on its own. Erich Wine got some of the security issues to match, and they were found in wine

Re: Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]

2012-02-25 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/25/2012 7:11 AM, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Feenbergfeenb...@nber.org wrote: An email address can be hidden from bots without violating section 508, for instance: feenberg is at nber dot org or some variant won't be picked up by a robot. Most bots

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-23 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/23/2012 11:27 AM, Andrey Chernov wrote: there is no sense mocking you. You got us. We are Shaitan worshippers. Our Symbol intentionally looks so childish to bring innocent souls to the Evil side. Never underestimate the power of the Shaitan or seitan? To the original poster, because of

Re: ps output

2012-02-19 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/19/2012 6:44 AM, RW wrote: On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:28:29 + (UTC) jb wrote: Hi, It's fb9-release. Why the other ps entries do not display cron ? $ top ... PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 1897 root 1 200 9644K 1208K nanslp

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/17/2012 11:16 AM, 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. I'm running

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

2012-02-15 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/14/2012 6:31 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: 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: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 - 9.0-RELEASE upgrade

2012-02-15 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/15/2012 12:03 PM, George Kontostanos wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Daniel Shahafdanie...@apache.org wrote: So far we've tried: - 'gpart bootcode -b' - load geom_part_gpt.ko - using zpool.cache from the 9.0-RELEASE CD And none of that seems to have had any effect. Additional

Re: Linux compatibility

2012-02-13 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/13/2012 11:52 AM, sie...@email.de wrote: Hello, On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:22:15 - Dave wrote: Don't you have to install/load a module for Linux binary compatability to work in F'BSD? I seem to remember that being mentioned during a recent 8.something install. I have load the kernel

Re: Resetting RAID1 drive as Non-RAID

2012-02-10 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/10/2012 7:15 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have a FreeBSD 9.0 server with an Intel RAID card that has two array mirrors of which one has failed. The remote host was not responding and had it reset to find in the RAID utility one of the drives had failed one of the RAID 1 arrays. Perhaps

Re: Fixating boot drive

2012-02-01 Thread Joshua Isom
Why do you need it at a fixed point? I think glabel should do the trick. On 2/2/2012 12:42 AM, bsali...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm sure this has been asked before. I'm booting a freebsd system from a USB stick. It is currently at da0 but if I add physical SATA drives, it moves to da2 and

Clang and ports

2012-02-01 Thread Joshua Isom
I know that build cluster lists some ports that have problems with clang, but it doesn't say if they're tested or not. I set up a clang jail to test out things before switching to clang for general use. When I try running mencoder to encode a file to x264, it seg faults. Changing options

Re: FreeBSD license vs /usr/bin/true license

2012-01-31 Thread Joshua Isom
You might have to re-write it from scratch. It's still copyrighted by the university. I'd say write it in c++ to dispel all doubt that you didn't copy. Then true and groff will be c++. There's still software in the tree that uses the four clause license. But because of the advertising

Re: Using non-gcc linker?

2012-01-23 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/23/2012 3:47 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, I just made world and kernel using clang, but I noticed that ld is still using the GNU ld. The page http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClangmentions using a different linker that supports LTO optimisation. Is that non-GNU linker part of

Re: 9.0 buildworld problems

2012-01-14 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/14/2012 3:02 PM, Dean E. Weimer wrote: I am trying to build a test system to verify everything works on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, I started with a standard install on a VMware virtual machine. I used portsnap fetch extract to install the ports tree, copied the /etc/make.conf and /etc/src.conf

Re: apps to display cpu temp

2011-11-13 Thread Joshua Isom
On 11/12/2011 8:02 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:19:57 -0800, Edward Martinez wrote: Hi, I have a Pentium 4 and i have been trying to get coretemp and sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature to display my Cpu temperture , however i have not had any luck using them Are

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Joshua Isom
On 7/18/2011 8:05 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Joshua Isomjri...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/17/2011 6:16 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: On Sunday 17 July 2011 10:13:13 C. Bergstr??m wrote: I hope gnome does [go Linux-only].. Maybe then more people would forget about it and focus on making KDE better

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-17 Thread Joshua Isom
On 7/17/2011 6:16 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: On Sunday 17 July 2011 10:13:13 C. Bergström wrote: In the specific case about Gnome - really if you care so much then you can submit patches and contribute. If nobody is willing to do the work (scratch the itch) then ultimately it really doesn't matter.

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Joshua Isom
On 7/16/2011 9:40 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Isom
On 7/15/2011 10:20 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 07:38:19AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: But firefox -help doesn't show parameters for positioning, and also by pressing PF11 for interactively entered fullscreen mode, the navigational elements keep being present. But maybe there's

Re: ZFS on root backup

2011-07-11 Thread Joshua Isom
On 7/11/2011 5:59 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 11/07/2011 11:20, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: OK, so now my ZFS on root FreeBSD-8.2 system runs smoothly and I'm very happy being able to have ZFS (coming from solaris11), but.. what is the best strategy to back this fbsd system up. do I create various

Re: Color Spills Over From SSH Session

2011-07-09 Thread Joshua Isom
On 7/8/2011 11:07 PM, David Krauser wrote: Hello everybody, I've tried to setup a kind of 'dedicated ssh client' using FreeBSD, and I'm having some issues with the terminal colors. I have a basic install of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE (I only had kernel-dev packages checked at installation) and I

Re: Color Spills Over From SSH Session

2011-07-09 Thread Joshua Isom
? On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Joshua Isom wrote: On 7/8/2011 11:07 PM, David Krauser wrote: Hello everybody, I've tried to setup a kind of 'dedicated ssh client' using FreeBSD, and I'm having some issues with the terminal colors. I have a basic install of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE (I only had kernel-dev packages

Making an mbr boot usb on 8.2-stable

2011-07-03 Thread Joshua Isom
I recently changed my raid0 into two raid1's so I can have redundancy. Getting a disk to boot was harder than I ever remember. Part of the problem, my gigabyte bios locks up hard if there's a gpt usb drive plugged in, not even scanning the memory. It seems to be a little known problem. Some

Performance of a USB ZIL for ZFS

2011-06-25 Thread Joshua Isom
I was wondering if anyone had tried using a decent USB flash drive for the ZIL. I know it'd be hard finding one fast enough, but some from patriot seem like they might be suitable for home use. Part of the idea is to just minimize hard drive thrashing and the wear and tear associated with

Re: Performance of a USB ZIL for ZFS

2011-06-25 Thread Joshua Isom
On 6/25/2011 9:32 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 25 Jun 2011, at 19:17, Joshua Isomjri...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if anyone had tried using a decent USB flash drive for the ZIL. I know it'd be hard finding one fast enough, but some from patriot seem like they might be suitable for

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-23 Thread Joshua Isom
On 6/21/2011 7:47 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: * Peter Tothfree...@snap.net.nz [2011-06-22 12:16:11 +1200]: Did you set the bootfs property on your root pool? Example: zpool set bootfs=tank/root tank OK, I booted back to the livefs memostick, imported my zpool (tank) and zpool promptly tells me

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Joshua Isom
On 6/23/2011 8:08 AM, Admin Cyanide wrote: The major difference is that when updating Microsoft's OS from a major version to another you have to pay. I'm not flaming, I just want to focus on the fact that this products have not the same constraints. What is surprising is why it is not a 4.1

Re: Problems compiling 8-STABLE/amd64 system on Intel Core2 4300

2011-06-18 Thread Joshua Isom
On 6/18/2011 9:38 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:52:06 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Polytroponfree...@edvax.de wrote: Seems that neither core and core2 are fully supported. Which CPUTYPE should be used for Intel Core2 4300 then, or can it be

Hardware sensors on FreeBSD

2011-06-03 Thread Joshua Isom
I was wondering if anyone knew of better software for FreeBSD for monitoring hardware sensors like CPU temp and fan speeds. I'm using an athlon II x4 and the amdtemp driver seems like it's 20C below what it really is but does change. I've tried using mbmon and it detects the it87 chip but it

Re: Prevent symbolic links in pure-ftp!

2010-09-27 Thread Joshua Isom
On 9/27/2010 12:00 PM, Phan Quoc Hien wrote: hi! How to prevent symbolic links in pure-ftp for security issuse? User can access outsite chroot by create symlink: ln -s / abc = and user can change dir to / Anyone can solve this problem? Thanks. man 8 jail Jails limit file system

Re: Plextor PX-870A drives

2010-09-17 Thread Joshua Isom
On 9/17/2010 7:24 AM, Robert Ames wrote: It claims to be able to play audio CDs. There's two things I can think of. With cdcontrol on a cd-rw drive I have, it needs the cd audio cable hooked up from the drive to the motherboard or else it's silent. My dvd-rw drive doesn't have that port

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-15 Thread Joshua Isom
On 9/14/2010 4:21 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Jules == Jules Gilbertjules.sto...@gmail.com writes: Jules Now, if Oracle won't adjust their thinking, I intend to look at Java Jules sub-systems that are supplied and built by other people than Oracle. Jules (It's called Open Source.) And

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-11 Thread Joshua Isom
On 9/11/2010 1:10 AM, Polytropon wrote: Let me add another field: There are applicances like all-in-one DSL modem telephone splitter router DHCP server NAT firewall boxes that are very common in german households. Those usually use Java to present their control elements to the user; Applet

Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Joshua Isom
On 9/9/2010 12:24 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I want to make it so every file is a seperate symlink in dir2 if and only if it is a regular file (not a dir) in dir1... the reason is if the file is unchanged then use symlink but I can rm the symlink and replace it with a non-symlink: To show the

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