Re: FreeBSD routing problem

2013-10-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
From: hrkesh sahu hrisikeshs...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:09:02 +0530 To: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com Cc: Polytropon free...@edvax.de, FreeBSD questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hi, No idea why it was To: me. Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252

Re: General questions regarding FreeBSD 10

2013-09-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Nikolas Britton nikolas.brit...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:47:08 -0500 Nikolas Britton wrote: General questions regarding FreeBSD 10: 1. Did virtualization containers (VPS) make it into FreeBSD 10? The documentation I’ve read implies that you

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Good points in Brett Michael's posts, but for brevity not copied. Best avoid having code written reviewed just in USA as it would get less trust globaly, NSA is a known alien mega spy, USA even coerces non USA citizens outside USA, eg

Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted

2013-09-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Greg questions@ etc That's massively out of date. Mike left Adelaide in 1998, and has been working for Apple in Cupertino for about 10 years. OK deleted. Greg Lehey in Echunga +61 8 83888286 That's out of date too. I left Adelaide over 6 years ago. Up-to-date information at

Re: Unban my second address from the mailing list

2013-09-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
David Demelier wrote: Hi, A long time ago, my domain malikania.fr has been banned because of lot bounces, now the server is working and running. I sometime send some PR directly from my server using this domain, thus I would like to be unbanned (the mail wasn't sent and postfix was saying

Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted

2013-09-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Danny Beger da...@beger.com.au Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:30:57 +0930 Danny Beger wrote: I have a small law firm in Adelaide and I am looking to engage someone to build / purchase a new server to replace my current server which runs v6 freebsd. Can

Re: Diskless question

2013-09-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:36:58 +0200 Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list! I have a setup with a diskless machine and working, but I can not log in as root on the diskless. How to proceed? Log in as non root see what

Re: Fresh installation 9.1

2013-07-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:13:07 +0530, hrkesh sahu wrote: Hi All, after using freebsd for 10 to 20 mins, Key board is getting locked. Apart from Polytopon's good questions observations, such as Is that inside X? I'd also add 1 more question: Is that A) a PS2 [or older] direct

Re: Help to secure my FreeBSD/Apache installation

2013-07-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:11:27 +0200 Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi everybody! I'm running a server on FreeBSD 8.1 STABLE (apache 2.2.16, mysql 5.1.50, To quote front page of http://www.freebsd.org: * Production: 9.1 *

Re: Help to secure my FreeBSD/Apache installation

2013-07-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:38:51 +0200 Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From: Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:11:27 +0200 Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi everybody

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 13:51:08 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: El 05/07/2013 13:20, Jens Jahnke jan0...@gmx.net escribió: Hi, On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 12:56:32 +0200 CeDeROM cede...@tlen.pl wrote: C Hey Raphael :-) Go to /usr/ports/editors/vim and make deinstall

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: ASV a...@inhio.eu Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:10:02 +0200 [ I jhs@ reverted asv@'s top post to bottom post ] On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 01:47 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From: ASV a...@inhio.eu Date: Thu, 27

Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0

2013-06-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Warren Block wrote: Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here: http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/ emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdinstal directory, but reports no cdrom found. I managed to

Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0

2013-06-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Warren Block wrote: Decided to ignore the CD and just copy the files to a simulated MS-DOS drive. Got to the point of copying distributions, process documented here: http://wonkity.com/~wblock/freebsd-1.0/freebsd1.txt I had a quick scan BTW here's another URL for the same image:

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: ASV a...@inhio.eu Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:39:20 +0200 ASV wrote: Thanks for your reply Polytropon, I'm using FreeBSD since few years already and I'm kind of aware of the dynamics related to permissions, many of them are common to many Unices. I

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
As you need max syntax checking from OCR, throw it at as many different basic interpreters/ compilers as you can, inspect where each bleats, some error messages may be more less usefull for different errors. A friend of mine wrote a basic decades back, its in /usr/ports/lang/pbasic/ PS

Re: Avoid sharing interrupts in FreeBSD under ESXi

2013-06-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
C. L. Martinez wrote: HI all, I have installed a FreeBSD 8.4 vm under an ESXi 5.1 U1 server. All works ok, except for interrupt usage between mpt and nic interfaces: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org is for beginners questions for newbies, as this question is deeper, I suggest try asking on

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:52:47 -0700 Chris Maness wrote: Here is a link to the USNO article that the BASIC program originated from: USNO171s.pdf http://www.chrismaness.com/backend/USNO171s.pdf Thanks, Chris Maness

Re: FreeBSD10: lock order reversal with portsnap extract

2013-06-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 13:43:47 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: I'm installing FreeBSD10 (head; snapshot from 30 May 2013) into a VM. One of the first things I do is a 'portsnap fetch extract'. As soon as the extract

Re: How can I unload/load modules that complied inside the kernel?

2013-05-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 17:54:59 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole wrote: [root@h-qa-033 ~]# uname -a FreeBSD h-qa-033 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0: Tue May 28 11:26:45 IDT 2013

Re: a copy of ASL dump for acer aspire laptops models

2013-05-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 14:21:04 +0200 Xavier wrote: Hi everyone, I need a copy of ACPI Source Language (ASL), '# acpidump-dt copy_model_laptop.asl' of any version of FreeBSD you have the option ACPI always

Re: a copy of ASL dump for acer aspire laptops models

2013-05-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Xavier cc questions@ acpi@ I wrote: acpidump -dt produces 15,840 lines, so I'll not append to list but private mail you. I put it here so others on acpi@ questions@ can look too if they want. http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/acer/aspire/5741/ Cheers, Julian --

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Bruce Cran wrote: On 11/05/2013 02:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Good question. I don't know why. I wish all were, it would keep spam out. There have been some discussions about this in the past. freebsd-questions doesn't require subscribing to avoid people who may be unfamiliar

Re: compatibility SCO (fwd)

2013-05-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, cc questions@ was dropped so restoring Forwarded from: Julian Stacey j...@berklix.com http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/ --- Forwarded Message From gri...@goldnet.it Sun May 12 09:15:13 2013 Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 09:12:53 +0200 From: grillo gri...@goldnet.it To: Julian H. Stacey j

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: - List could silently discard such spam. - Postmaster@ ( webmaster@ weeding web archives) would have less work. - Less

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I'm curious how much spam you get through this list. Just counted, and I have about 2 Spams per week for the last month, that's more than usual. Personaly I'm on ~ 47 freebsd lists or so my MH dirs + procmail filter boxes suggest, so when someone spams multiple lists with the same spam it

Re: compatibility SCO

2013-05-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
grillo wrote: I need use Microsoft Cobol Compiler and runtime developed for Xenix/Unix system V SCO using NETBSD or FreeBSD, it is possible? have binary compatibility ? environment compatibility ? thank you A long time since I looked at this, but as no one else answered yet, hints to look

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: The subject line pretty much says it all. Additional to other ideas so far, You could also make a chroot, install normal bins from src, install all your ports, ^D to exit chroot, then do a compare strip with eg: cd chroot ; find . -type f -exec cmpd -d {} / \;

Re: making photoalbums for web pages

2013-05-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Friday, May 10, 2013 a las 10:25:06AM +0200, Matthias Fechner escribió: Am 10.05.2013 09:41, schrieb Matthias Apitz: clicking them) and the application puts them together, with thumbnails, to a tree which just goes per SCP -rp to our webserver; the rest

Re: making photoalbums for web pages

2013-05-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Apologies my last post was multipart/mixed, (maybe my mouse skidded to some un-intended option). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with . Send plain text. No

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, From: Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 08:33:47 +0700 Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: some lists

List Spam Filtering

2013-05-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi questions@ ( spammer not cc'd ) Reference: From: Aaron Seligman aselig...@altitudedigitalpartners.com Reply-to: aselig...@altitudedigitalpartners.com Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 18:59:07 + (UTC) Subject: Re: Display Video Campaigns-Inventory Needed Message-id:

Re: ls(1), rm(1) - No such file or directory even though they are there.

2013-05-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Reference: From: Michael Bird michael_b...@yahoo.com Reply-to: Michael Bird michael_b...@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 10:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Michael Bird wrote: Hi List, There is a rather curious problem that I have, which I haven't encountered before. I make

Re: Procmail Decoding Mime Messages

2013-04-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:07:35 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there a filter that one can run in procmail in which base64 encoded data go in and text comes out so one can allow procmailrc to do its work? Good question, I havent tried that yet, (but should), but I

Re: Problem creating user account

2013-04-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: Den 23.04.2013 13:17, skrev AMS_MDF_operations: LS, What is going ewrong? Problem : Creating user account -bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD us-syslog01.dcn.versatel.net 4.9-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p10 #1: Thu Jun 24 10:04:37 GMT 2004

Re: Problem creating user account

2013-04-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Outback Dingo wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: Den 23.04.2013 13:17, skrev AMS_MDF_operations: LS, What is going ewrong? Problem : Creating user account -bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD us

Re: Hi BSD -

2013-04-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Since A.W.O.L bill is against that sort of thing I wonder why Lord Jesus is not working with all his might to do so. Is this emailing tongues? Rod Don't feed troll quiet.rainbows@gmail.com Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Polytropon cc questions@ Any suggestion is welcome! Ideas: A themed list: freebsd...@freebsd.org There's a bunch of fs tools in /usr/ports/sysutils/ My http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/slice/ slices large images such as tapes disks (also the slice names would give

Re: rm -R

2013-03-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Jos Chrispijn ker...@webrz.net Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:44:22 +0100 Message-id: 51323a76.2040...@webrz.net Jos Chrispijn wrote: Teske, Devin: rm -R -- -S The -- tells it here's the end of the options, here come the file/directories

Re: buildowrld fails in sendmail

2013-03-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:46:17 -0500 Message-id: 20785.8617.401737.814...@jerusalem.litteratus.org Robert Huff wrote: On a system running: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Dec 30 12:52:09 EST 2012 amd64

Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs

2012-12-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
From: Anonymous anonym...@foto.ro1.torservers.net On topic... More off remit noise (**) Questions@ is for questions, Not an opinion dump. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.1TODO (** wiki web could benefit from greater synch., But www

Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$

2012-12-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:10:16 -0700 (MST) Message-id: alpine.bsf.2.00.1212112008090.8...@wonkity.com Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox

Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs

2012-12-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
anonym...@foto.nl1.torservers.net wrote: We, the users of FreeBSD, *do hereby challenge* the FreeBSD project Troll Detected ? - List remit requires a question. Poster gave no question, just criticised. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions - There are better

Re: CTM status

2012-12-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Fbsd8 wrote: With cvs having support ending next year and svn becoming the main work horse, Just what is the status of CTM? I would think its more out dated than cvs. You havent grasped what CTM is: A method of distributing trees man ctm:source code mirror

Re: Testing for false email freebsd.org

2012-11-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Al Plant n...@hdk5.net Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:17:17 -1000 Message-id: 5094547d.5030...@hdk5.net To: freebsd-t...@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions questi...@freebsd.org Al Plant wrote: Test Read list mandates. Cross posting is deprecated Send test

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com Reply-to: Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:45:23 -0500 Message-id: D97788AE24B7FFB0C79AA6FB@localhost Paul Schmehl wrote: Now that we're switching to svn, is there a utility

Re: NFS Install

2012-09-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Gardner Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:29:47 -0400, Gardner Bell wrote: What I'm wanting to do is build/installworld from my workstation to a remote machine but both have different /etc/src.conf and kernel configuration files. Is there a way to define seperate files so I can

Re: ftp2.ca.freebsd.org out of date?

2012-09-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:13:27 -0400 Message-id: cant0rcsx6ndmf4zgd8g8ldnzwa+mg3rfofjcan_qjpze-ar...@mail.gmail.com Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, it seems that the ftp2.ca.freebsd.org mirror has not been

Re: Patch into kernel sources

2012-09-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Venkat Duvvuru wrote: Does this procedure hold good for a device driver module's patch as well? Yes On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Venkat Duvvuru wrote: Hi, Could somebody please point me to a procedure to apply a patch to the sources

Re: Patch into kernel sources

2012-09-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Venkat Duvvuru wrote: Hi, Could somebody please point me to a procedure to apply a patch to the sources? I have a driver patch that I would like to commit. If you want to send from local mail client man send-pr If you want to send via web

Re: Tangental And OT: Commercial Support For 'sudo'

2012-08-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Please forgive the OTishness of this, but I'm hoping some of my fellows in the large data center space may have a hint or two here ... I am working with a firm that needs to run sudo in a variety of OS environments. A few of these - noteably IBM AIX - do not provide

Re: start kernel

2012-08-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: blank blank gangl...@asia.com Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:11:35 -0400 Message-id: 20120821061135.210...@gmx.com blank blank wrote: i am beginning to question how computers work. i am using darwin 10.0.0. is there a place or way that i can get a

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
If you have a system you want to try you can also check out http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html. That is a great resource for laptops, too bad it isn't mentioned in the Handbook compatibility chapter. Suggestion: send-pr Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C

Re: Listing in http://www.ro.freebsd.org/gallery/pgallery.html

2012-08-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Michael Bedin michael.be...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:16:56 +0400 Message-id: cagjtwazatmv3ssqhcg8ymewfkdhdes1_48dhvy0jqcrfo7u...@mail.gmail.com Michael Bedin wrote: Hello, I would like to ask you to remove link to 'niga.ru' web site

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
This is the reason software patents comprise such a blight on the world of software development. Yes, agreed, not just software. The european patent office system pressures examiners towards granting if they can't quickly find prove the application is already known.

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Robert, cc questions@ cc postmaster@ (***) What I am is an information systems professional with 45 years experience. Interesting reading that your prior post. 'Edge of the track, turn up the op. amps' has been an interesting technique for decades, I

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Carsten Mattner wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi, Reference: From: Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:28:32 +0200 Message-id: cacy+hvpb08w4bjgucjb1ghvf-jgpzs0869qvxfryrtxef91

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:41:27 +0200 Message-id: cacy+hvoojrfi642bzd8ijoscgn1edv2m7w2+hm9v8i+a7ct...@mail.gmail.com Carsten Mattner wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:28:32 +0200 Message-id: cacy+hvpb08w4bjgucjb1ghvf-jgpzs0869qvxfryrtxef91...@mail.gmail.com Carsten Mattner wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Wojciech Puchar

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Thomas Mueller muelle...@insightbb.com Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:09:17 -0400 Message-id: 53.21.06836.dac26...@smtp02.insight.synacor.com Thomas Mueller wrote: from Ivan Ivanov hel...@abv.bg: Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: IamTrying iamtrying.t...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 05:47:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: 1341406026965-5724143.p...@n5.nabble.com IamTrying wrote: http://pastehtml.com/view/c3kw80dyq.html - Does anyone know if FreeBSD core developers left FreeBSD to

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Carsten Mattner wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: the major difference between Hurd and FreeBSD is that FreeBSD actually work. http://pastehtml.com/view/c3kw80dyq.html - Does anyone know if FreeBSD core developers left

Re: fsck_ufs running too often

2012-06-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
My suggestion: Set background_fsck=YES in /etc/rc.conf and let the system boot up that way. _If_ you have a faulty disk or other data corruption, you'll notice this _before_ going multi-user and maybe making things worse. Yes, it might take some time, but it's time well invested in your data

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:06:12PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i already proposed (but not publically) to turn FreeBSD into commercial system. REALLY i would not see a problem to pay say 100$ per server licence. I would see a problem with that -- not because I

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Agreed. Wojciech Puchar is in my 'probable troll' file at this point, Here too, http://berklix.com/~jhs/dots/.procmailrc.lists Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with

Re: A bash scripting question

2012-06-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
CyberLeo Kitsana wrote Odhiambo Washington: By the way, what's gammu, /usr/ports/comms/gammu presumably ( for mobile phone connection ) and why is it in /usr/bin ? Pass. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above,

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Polytropon wrote: I assume it's just an aspect of still being too young in regards of missing the difference between freedom and anarchy: the right to extend one's freedom is limited as soon as it limits the freedom of others. Maybe another aspect is the lack of discussion culture and the

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Polytropon, cc questions@ (No CC Wojciech P. as my local filters drop text from him ) To translate this to a programmer's job: You're being paid to write a program for a customer. You deliver the program. That's what you are paid for. Still the source code is yours (as _you_ are the

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Wojciech Puchar wrote: If you cannot see this - i cannot help you any more. sorry. Your noise is no help. Use appropriate lists. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
GNU communist licence for C compiler is not bad at all (contrary to other ..^ ..^ software). I many others _Know_ what BSD FSF licenses are. Don't wwant repeated nonsense about 'communism'. If you didn't subscribe

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Sorry, my last header wrongly to Mark Felder, could give the wrong impression. I would like Wojciech Puchar (not Mark F.) to stop banging on about 'GNU communist licence' etc. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Cordula, Good points you made. The sooner it's blocked the easier to block. *BSD, + *Linux, Solaris etc people could start contacting their local anti monopoly / anti free trade, government departments to give them time to look into the issues. If eg EU commision found it a monopolist

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

2012-06-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:51:46 +0200 Message-id: CADGWnjW2LnrtOiXFzWFk9btMaeJhmOTxdZ7ScymY=qgme_c...@mail.gmail.com C. P. Ghost wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: UEFI

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Maybe I'm contacting wrong mailling list, I can't seem to get ahold of ISP/hosting guys on this list. Truly amazing that for a server OS, there is so little input for something like MySQL server. Perhaps everyone else is still using text files, does 10TPS, or runs linux, don't know what

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Those only using questions@ _Please_ realise there are other lists. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo Read the remits of the other lists subscribe /or post those lists that match your topic. PS All credit thanks to a few highly skilled informed people on questions@ who

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Simon Thanks Julian. The reason for freebsd-questions is because when I looked thru isp, database, and performance, and few others, they had one or two threads a month with barely much input. Yup, isp@ is quiet, some other lists too, doesn't necessarily mean there'snot good people

Re: freebsd-update Not Recognizing Updated Custom Kernel for 9.0-RELEASE-p3

2012-06-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Resend as I lost cc questions@ by mistake Ryan Frederick wrote: I have several FreeBSD 9 systems with custom compiled kernels. After using freebsd-update to go from 9.0-RELEASE-p2 to 9.0-RELEASE-p3 this morning I rebuilt the kernels. However after recompiling, installing, and

Re: FreeBSD 10/9: Lexar 64GB JumpDrive USB 2.0 isn't recognized anymore!

2012-06-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I have a Lexar 64GB USB 2.0 JumpDrive which worked in its pristine or virgine state very well. I used it yesterday, brand new, to fill it up with data. Some 30GB data got stored, I shut down the system (FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64) and this morning, I put the USB drive out of the USB port

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Bill Yuan byc...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:09:01 +0800 Message-id: CAC+JH2ySQVCSXY+3Grh+Qe=li3wzsyu8czq3sa1w3azgpjp...@mail.gmail.com Bill Yuan wrote: come on , someone help please, On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Bill Yuan

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Julian H. Stacey wrote: Bill Yuan wrote: come on , someone help please, On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Bill Yuan byc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, how to allow by MAC in ipfw currently i set the rule like below 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any to MAC Address 1

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

2012-06-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Too much hot air preaching to the choir is counter productive would die away after internal argument. Better be active Externaly. Defend our future by alerting governments there is an upcoming issue. (eg EU has mega fined MS before for monopoly abuse, EU etc could warn off MS if we alert

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

2012-06-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Jerry wrote It is posts like this that basically turn my stomach Never argue with a drunk. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML,

Re: USB 3.0 delay in 'detecting' attached drive

2012-06-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Waitman Gobble wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Waitman Gobble wrote: Hi, I have a new machine with 2 USB 3.0 ports and 2 USB 2.0 ports. When I plug a USB 3.0 drive / cable into the USB 3.0 port it takes about 70 seconds

Re: prune ports tree?

2012-06-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Gary Aitken wrote: Is it possible to specify that parts of the ports tree should never be used? Yes. Although as others pointed out it depend quite what you mean by that :-) Example setenv DUDS SomeEndPortToSkip_eg_ghostview One could also do setenv DUDS `printenv DUDS`

Re: Question about FreeBSD for IA-64 software

2012-06-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Denis Guzanov guzanov...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 15:45:54 +0400 Message-id: CAMUH=P1HGivtRUsgSz9_XYt-wLBh-8cFvq=i5fs6hn1ittk...@mail.gmail.com Denis Guzanov wrote: Dear FreeBSD Team, Firstly I would like to say you Big thanks for your

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
grarpamp wrote: Isn't there a lot of needless handwaving going on when the spec is pretty clear that installing your own complete PKI tree will all boil down to what is effectively a jumper on the motherboard? The hope for a jumper is insufficient. Cracking open laptops is no fun. It's not

Re: How do I determine support for $xx?

2012-06-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Devin There were some great tips in your last post. Would be great if they couldfo in FreeBSD handbook somewhere. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format:

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

2012-06-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Quoting Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com: UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ This would seem to make compiling from source difficult. I don't see how this MS

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

2012-06-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing key have to keep it secret? Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? Otherwise one of us would purchase a key for $99, then publish the key so we could all forever more compile boot our own kernels. But that would

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

2012-06-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? A limited-liability company with no assets is judgement-proof. There's set up running costs (time money), other exposure http://berklix.com/~jhs/mecc/ltd_gmbh.html Easiest done by those who have done it before, One would

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

2012-06-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
(cf. EULA) that you accept those licensing of hardware. Also, I think you'll find that such actions are already illegal certainly in the UK, and I believe EU wide. Yes illegal for English law (England Scotland have different contract laws). Contract terms given after money changes hands

Re: bug in /usr/bin/calendar: Thu+1 doesn't match on 7th or December

2012-06-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Please report bugs with send-pr (cos bug reports to mail list get lost) See man send-pr If you can attach a patch to fix it, so much the better Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a

Re: Why am I, Still subscribed and reading this list ?

2012-06-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Jason Hellenthal wrote: Because... at some point it may return to normal without all the bikeshedding and, I run because, I don't run because. Agreed ! Many replies were sent to Wrong lists. Original poster respondents abused stable@ questions@ Cross posting 2 lists un-necessarily,

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-05-30 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 30/05/2012 14:09, Julian H. Stacey wrote: If you log into mailman at eg. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions you can see your current score. I'm logged in there, A page with 2nd line=20 Julian H. Stacey's subscription status

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) NFS + AMD The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Aim for device drivers servers that can interact as client server pairs

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a cloud software :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Personnal PC, Mac, smartphones

Re: Can FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE mount Ext3 file system ?

2012-04-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 22:25:28 +0200 Message-id: CALe6D=vpy0rk1=-9rvtv46xp8zd4xvzngb1cbwwacdazwtq...@mail.gmail.com Xavier wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 04:15:41PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On

Re: mounting ext2fs

2012-04-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
# kldload ext2fs kldload: can't load ext2fs: File exists what does lsvfs show ? Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML,

Re: mounting ext2fs

2012-04-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
what does lsvfs show ? Maybe try: dd if=/dev/da0s1 count=20 of=/tmp/t ; file /tmp/t (it show interesting stuff on my /xp anyway ). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent

Re: mounting ext2fs

2012-04-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
what does lsvfs show ? Maybe try: dd if=/dev/da0s1 count=20 of=/tmp/t ; file /tmp/t (it show interesting stuff on my /xp anyway ). kldstat # I guess that shows you have the module linked in too ? or else already compiled in config -x /boot/kernel/kernel | grep ext so a puzzle if all that

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