Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-09 Thread Mike Brown
Eduardo Morras wrote: [...] uname -a should give the correct answer. Has uname other utility than show information about the operating system implementation? No, and it must be accurate. That's what I thought, but when I asked about it here last year, I was told that this is the way things

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-08 Thread Mike Brown
alexus wrote: ok, I just did fetch install and got bumped from p5 to p9 # uname -a FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11 19:47:58 UTC 2012 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # can I take it all the way to -p12?

Re: How to ask a DNS resolver listening on a different port than the tcp/udp 53

2013-09-28 Thread Mike.
On 9/28/2013 at 7:16 PM Laurent SALIN wrote: |Le 28.09.2013 18:32, Terje Elde a écrit : | Not sure if I misunderstood what you're trying to do, but the way I |recall it, you have two boxes, one running with one recursive and one |authoritative nameserver, and you wanted a second box to quey the

Re: Just wanted to say Thanks to Polytropon

2013-09-26 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:42:15 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: A few weeks ago I asked about mouse trails. Polytropon suggested xeyes. I have found it excellent, and have had no trouble whatsoever with it. It has made my life so much easier. Thanks, Polytropon!

Re: dangerously dedicated physical disks.

2013-09-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 16:16:17 - atar atar.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there!! During the reading of the FreeBSD handbook, I've encountered at the term 'dangerously dedicated' regarding physical disks and the author of this chapter in the FreeBSD handbook didn't think this term need

Re: Unable to access http://sane-project.org/

2013-08-01 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 01 Aug 2013 11:58:01 Jerry wrote: Not really a FreeBSD problem; however, I was wondering if anyone else had been unable to access http://sane-project.org/ in the last 24 hours? http://www.isup.me/ is a useful site for instantly checking this sort of thing. -- Mike Clarke

Re: learn

2013-08-01 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:21:34 +0100 (BST) Anton Shterenlikht me...@bris.ac.uk wrote: Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:29:25 +0200 From: herbert langhans w...@langhans.com.pl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: learn The handbook is a monster, even technically interested people get lost

Re: Saving scanned document

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 23 Jul 2013 23:37:45 Jerry wrote: . There is a application that controls printing, scanning, faxing and copying but that is only available on a Windows or Mac machine. Might it work with wine? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions

Exim has stopped using SpamAssassin

2013-07-16 Thread Mike Clarke
and SpamAssassin using the same make options as before to see if that had any effect but still no joy. I've set SAEximDebug to 1 in sa-exim.conf but there's still nothing in the logs to help. Any suggestions where I should look next? -- Mike Clarke

Re: resolvconf.conf in 9.1

2013-07-15 Thread Mike.
On 7/14/2013 at 11:45 AM Mike. wrote: |I am trying to figure out and understand the config file |resolvconf.conf. The man page is a bit on the sketchy side, and I see |no reference for resolvconf.conf in the Handbook. Most of what google |finds looks like it is Linux-oriented, and that seems

resolvconf.conf in 9.1

2013-07-14 Thread Mike.
I am trying to figure out and understand the config file resolvconf.conf. The man page is a bit on the sketchy side, and I see no reference for resolvconf.conf in the Handbook. Most of what google finds looks like it is Linux-oriented, and that seems to be an entirely different config structure

[Solved] Error upgrading sysutils/nepomuk-core - Could not find parser plugin for encoding trig

2013-07-13 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 12 Jul 2013 18:15:18 Mike Clarke wrote: Could anyone advise how to get round this problem? [ 3%] Generating nie.h, nie.cpp cd /usr/ports/sysutils/nepomuk-core/work/.build/libnepomukcore /usr/local/bin/onto2vocabularyclass --name NIE --encoding trig --namespace Nepomuk2

Error upgrading sysutils/nepomuk-core - Could not find parser plugin for encoding trig

2013-07-12 Thread Mike Clarke
Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/nepomuk-core/work/.build. *** [do-build] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/nepomuk-core. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: UEFI Secure Boot

2013-07-08 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 02:31:40 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:21:28 + (UTC), jb wrote: I hope FreeBSD (and other OSs) luminaries, devs and users will find a way not to harm themselves. A massive problem I (personally) have is that with Restricted Boot

Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!

2013-07-06 Thread Mike C.
On 07/03/13 01:30, Mike C. wrote: On 06/23/13 23:57, CeDeROM wrote: Hey :-) For my Dell laptop the backlight is controlled by hardware, unlike sound keys where you can assign them to use xf86audiovolumeup/down (or similar) to interact with mixer. I would search for automatic backlight hothey

Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!

2013-07-02 Thread Mike C.
On 06/23/13 23:57, CeDeROM wrote: Hey :-) For my Dell laptop the backlight is controlled by hardware, unlike sound keys where you can assign them to use xf86audiovolumeup/down (or similar) to interact with mixer. I would search for automatic backlight hothey that would block manual control,

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-26 Thread Mike Brown
I wrote: The main problem this time is that I'm not so lucky with the password files, because for 8.4, freebsd-update has fetched new, stock .db files to put in /etc. Whoa, sorry, I misspoke here. freebsd-update asked me, after the merges, to approve unspecified differences in pwd.db and

Re: freebsd-update percentage indicators - what are they, why are they so random?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
Fetching 1 metadata files... 70.5% done. 70.5% 70.5% 74.2% 74.2% 81.7% 81.7% 70.5% I think this is a result of having -v in my GZIP environment variable. I always forget about my GZIP and BZIP2 variables. I should've known. So, never mind about that.

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to the latest minor version (from 8.3-RELEASE to 8.4-RELEASE). I'm surprised that the merge handling system isn't more robust. When upgrading the old way, from source, I was used to using mergemaster to handle any merges that couldn't be

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 15:29, Eugene wrote: I do not quite understand. Is the freebsd-update upgrade process completely broken? IMHO it is partially broken; I'm not doing anything special. How broken it is depends on what's getting changed. Most of what the system is designed to do, it

Re: Hello

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:56:59 +1000 julius juliuscmontes...@gmail.com wrote: Which BSD for a user desktop ??!. I all ready have Linux mint but I like to try again, in the past I have use it but no luck in dual booting system with windows and I have try to follow youtube BSD users that gave

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:23:10 -0400 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. It is my understanding

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Mike.
On 6/24/2013 at 4:05 PM Arthur Chance wrote: |On 06/24/13 14:23, Robert Huff wrote: | | During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed | that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently | modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. | It is my

freebsd-update percentage indicators - what are they, why are they so random?

2013-06-22 Thread Mike Brown
I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to the latest minor release. At a couple points in the process, I get weird status indicators (percentages) showing me that something is happening: Fetching 1 metadata files... 70.5% done. 70.5% 70.5% 74.2% 74.2% 81.7% 81.7% 70.5%

Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-22 Thread Mike Brown
I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to the latest minor version (from 8.3-RELEASE to 8.4-RELEASE). I'm surprised that the merge handling system isn't more robust. When upgrading the old way, from source, I was used to using mergemaster to handle any merges that couldn't be done

Re: Setting a locale globally

2013-06-15 Thread Mike.
On 6/14/2013 at 3:46 PM staticsafe wrote: |On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0400, Mike. wrote: | | | I would like to set the locale of my 9.1 server to | |LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 | | | globally, i.e., put the locale entry in one file, and then have the | locale propagate as I go

Setting a lcoale globally

2013-06-14 Thread Mike.
I would like to set the locale of my 9.1 server to LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 globally, i.e., put the locale entry in one file, and then have the locale propagate as I go into other shells and run various scripts. I have spent some quality time with google, and the best I have been about to

Re: Setting a locale globally

2013-06-14 Thread Mike.
On 6/14/2013 at 9:12 PM Polytropon wrote: |On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:13:34 -0400, Mike. wrote: | I would like to set the locale of my 9.1 server to | |LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 | | | globally, i.e., put the locale entry in one file, and then have the | locale propagate as I go into other shells

New LGA1150 / C222, C224 Xeons

2013-06-02 Thread mike miskulin
Hi - I am trying to replace an aging workstation on its last legs and have been waiting on the release of the new Intel hardware. They did so this weekend and I am leaning towards the E3-1245V3 over the vanilla i7s because of the extended page support for virutualization. So.. before I get

Sound cards

2013-06-02 Thread mike miskulin
Hi all - I may be building a system which does not have any onboard sounds thus need to find either a pci-e or usb solution which will work with FreeBSD. I've combed newegg and have to say I never realized how crappy the sound cards have become - that used to be a big thing back in the day!

Re: Keeping my system up to date with CTM or subversion?

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Clarke
mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security-notifications you'll get email notifications when security parches are available. These give details of the background and impact of the vulnerability along with instructions of how to obtain and apply the patches. -- Mike

9.1 - new install questions

2013-05-19 Thread Mike.
I just installed 9.1 on a clean disk. The dmesg is at the end of this message. For the network configuration, I selected DHCP for IPv4 and SLAAC for IPv6. When I boot the PC, it appears that dhclient tries to load twice. Why does it try to load the second time? From the console log: May

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Mike Brown
Da Rock wrote: sysctl kern.version For me, that's the same info as in uname -a. Try this: grep -v # /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh | head -4 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Mike.
On 4/24/2013 at 5:07 PM Mike Brown wrote: |Da Rock wrote: | sysctl kern.version | |For me, that's the same info as in uname -a. | |Try this: | |grep -v # /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh | head -4 = If uname -r [-a] does not give the proper version of the OS, then it is either a bug

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Mike.
On 4/25/2013 at 4:47 AM Polytropon wrote: |On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:32:17 -0400, Mike. wrote: | If uname -r [-a] does not give the proper version of the OS, then it is | either a bug, or the documentation for uname should be changed. | Currently, the man page for uname gives the following option

perl-after-upgrade mistakenly thinks nothing needs to be done

2013-04-11 Thread Mike Brown
and are not getting moved over to the 5.16.2 one. This naturally breaks everything depending on those modules. What's going wrong? Sorry if this is a novice question. Please let me know what I need to check. Thanks, Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: perl-after-upgrade mistakenly thinks nothing needs to be done

2013-04-11 Thread Mike Brown
Thanks for the replies; I really appreciate it. Alexandre wrote: Have you followed steps described in perl-after-upgrade man page? $ man perl-after-upgrade Yes, except for the last step (deleting old CONTENTS backups), since the previous steps didn't seem to do what they should. As I said,

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Mike.
On 4/10/2013 at 11:39 AM Brett Glass wrote: |For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long |waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating |small systems. But even though the development server security |breach is now long past, there are no published

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Mike.
On 4/10/2013 at 3:39 PM Michael Powell wrote: |Mike. wrote: | |[snip] | | | Additionally, for me, building from ports for me has tended to pull in | many, many X-windows support files when they are not needed. | | Specifically, I run a non-windowing system using command line tools. | When I

Re: [Bulk] Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:42:52 -0400 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: The next test is to check the clock in GMT. I expect it to be off, which means that the timezone rules are not the problem. If this is not the case, the diagnosis gets more interesting.

Re: Problems Printing

2013-03-05 Thread Mike Clarke
/bin/lprm -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: mpd5 vs lt2pd vs sl2tps

2013-02-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
of traffic. We use FreeRADIUS for backend authentication. The config and CLI are not my favorite, but generally I dont find myself making many changes. ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994

split-logfile

2013-02-11 Thread Mike.
I've made the switch from apache to nginx for all the web servers I run. One thing that was missing from the nginx installs was the perl script that is used in apache-land to split a single server access file into separate files for each virtual host - split-logfile. While I could have continued

Portmaster runs make config three times for some ports

2013-02-09 Thread Mike Clarke
/local/etc/portmaster.rc # Never search for stale distfiles to delete (-D) DONT_SCRUB_DISTFILES=Dopt # # Do not prompt the user for failed backup package creation PM_IGNORE_FAILED_BACKUP_PACKAGE=pm_ignore_failed_backup_package Any ideas how I can avoid this happening. -- Mike Clarke

Re: zoneedit.com

2013-02-04 Thread Mike.
On 2/3/2013 at 3:04 PM Fbsd8 wrote: | [snip] | |After reviewing zoneedit new website looks like they are no longer free |and there now in the domain register business = Zoneedit was purchased by Dotster a while ago (few months? couple of years?) If you look at an legacy

Re: zoneedit.com

2013-02-04 Thread Mike.
On 2/4/2013 at 9:48 AM Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: |Hi, | |I had a similar issue about my emails not getting forwarded by Zoneedit. |Now I am using the Google SMTP server to collect the emails for my domain. |Maybe I should also switch the DNS to another service. I need my router to |be able to

Re: Starting with ZFS on fresh install

2013-01-28 Thread Mike Clarke
/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/zfsadmin.pdf -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Clarke
/distfiles or /usr/ports/packages are on a separate partition or ZFS. I suppose the best approach with ZFS would be to make a snapshot immediately prior to running portsnap. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: KDE Mouse Themes

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Clarke
; however, there is none. I have checked under every item setting in system settings for one. Try System Settings - Workspace Appearance - Cursor Theme -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: [Bulk] Re: sh script ?

2013-01-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:16:54 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jan 24 12:11:42 2013 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:07:40 -0500 From: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com To: FreeBSD questions questi...@freebsd.org Subject: sh

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-18 Thread Mike Clarke
. The most noticeable deterioration in performance is that it's much slower to start up than 3.5 was and kmail takes much longer to open a mail folder than it used to. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: [Bulk] FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT) Georg Reilinger georgreilin...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi everybody, My issue is the following: As far as I know, FreeBSD has completely dropped support for KDE 3.5. Whether it's the ports, or the pkg_add precompiled binaries. Am I right in

Re: 9.1 won't install - GEOM/GRAID issues

2013-01-08 Thread Mike.
On 1/2/2013 at 12:11 PM Fbsd8 wrote: |Michael Powell wrote: | Mike. wrote: | [snip] | Thanks for the reply. The disk in question has never been used for | RAID, so if there is RAID metadata on the disk, I do not know how it | got there. The disk is (I believe --- it's been a while since I have

Re: 9.1 won't install - GEOM/GRAID issues

2013-01-08 Thread Mike.
On 1/8/2013 at 7:51 AM Warren Block wrote: |On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Mike. wrote: | | On 1/2/2013 at 12:11 PM Fbsd8 wrote: | | I tried to run the dd commands... | | Using the LiveFS disc for FreeBSD 9.1, I got some manner of permission | error, indicating that something would not let the dd commands

Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread Mike Woods
Quoting herbert langhans w...@langhans.com.pl: All I use is Adblock Plus. With the automatic updates I havent seen any ad for month.. I'll second this endorsement, i've been using it for a good few years now and I just works :) Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism

Re: 9.1 won't install - GEOM/GRAID issues

2013-01-02 Thread Mike.
On 1/2/2013 at 2:38 PM Fabian Keil wrote: |Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote: | | My FreeBSD server had been running fine, no issues. This evening I | tried to update it to 9.1. I don't update in place, I update by | wiping the prior version and letting the new version have its way

9.1 won't install - GEOM/GRAID issues

2013-01-01 Thread Mike.
My FreeBSD server had been running fine, no issues. This evening I tried to update it to 9.1. I don't update in place, I update by wiping the prior version and letting the new version have its way with the disk. Well, 9.1 has issues with my system (dmesg is at the end of this message). When

Re: static ip address and ifconfig

2012-12-29 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:13:32 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I don't have static ip address so I can not find out for myself. Lets say I am a company that my ISP has assigned us 25 static ip address. When I issue the ifconfig command what will it show me? Just the single primary

ixgbe ALTQ support on 9.1-RELEASE

2012-12-27 Thread Mike Hix
) lists ixgbe under the SUPPORTED DEVICES secction. Is there some alternative to altq, or is there some other knob/sysctl/step I'm missing? -- Mike Hix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Gnome

2012-12-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 18:36:23 + ren_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I was wondering if you can use Gnome to run your FreeBSD server, instead of using let's say Direct Admin ? If so, is there any literature on it ? Thank you, Sam Fasciano Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Re: what replaces javaws? using icedtea-web and openjdk6.

2012-11-30 Thread Mike Clarke
/local/bin/javaws@ - /usr/local/bin/javavm curlew:/tmp% pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/javavm /usr/local/bin/javavm was installed by package javavmwrapper-2.4_2 -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread mike miskulin
About to build a replacement system for an older i386 setup. A few years ago I had tried the amd64 port on it and found it was frustrating as things that just worked on i386 did not on amd64. IIRC ports were large annoyance too. Now I have a new system with 8GB, etc,etc and wonder if I am best

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread mike miskulin
What port was that ? I've never had a *single* problem due to using amd64 over i386. Well I have to apologize, I've reached senility! My past bad experience was with netbsd amd64 afterwhich I bailed and went to FreeBSD i386 (thanks google). But I guess the basic question remains - are

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-27 Thread Mike Clarke
Then /path/to/usbstick/logfile will contain a full log of your commands and output showing the partition information for ada0 before and after creating the new partition. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Mike Clarke
-interactive use, you should use portsnap cron portsnap extract is only needed for initialising your portsnap-maintained ports tree. So, after your initial portsnap run, what you need in your cron file is just portsnap fetch update -- Mike Clarke

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-20 Thread Mike Meyer
Zach Leslie xaque...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.fossil-scm.org/ l I'm not fossil user, but it's BSD licensed in written in C. Also, this particular tool bails out on the unix philosophy, with its web gui, ticket tracker etc. Do one thing. Do it well. I would argue that git bails on that

packge options

2012-11-17 Thread Mike.
How do I find out what options were used when the pre-built packages were built? For example, say I want to install the Postfix package, how can I find out if TLS support is included in the package? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Mounting SD card.

2012-11-15 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 15 November 2012 02:06:02 Warren Block wrote: true /dev/da0 is a little shorter and safer.  The search keywords for this are GEOM retaste or retasting. Thanks Warren. I wasn't aware of that option, it's certainly much neater and less prone to typing errors. -- Mike Clarke

Re: Mounting SD card.

2012-11-14 Thread Mike Clarke
the thread starting with http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-February/212109.html -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: GELI Swap password on boot

2012-11-08 Thread Mike Barnard
, creating the boot loader partition first, then swap next (ada0p2) then the boot partition after, ada0p3, all works well. I have no idea why that would be a problem though. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time

Re: GELI Swap password on boot

2012-11-07 Thread Mike Barnard
On 8 November 2012 03:30, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Mike Barnard mike.barna...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE and I am experiencing some strange behaviour with GELI. Every time I boot up my computer, I get

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-28 Thread Mike Clarke
. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

9.1-RC2: clang can no longer build a kernel that boots

2012-10-28 Thread Mike Cui
I'm seeing that on 9.1-RC2 (i386), clang can no longer build a kernel that boots. Any kernel I build would get stuck at Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec. However, building the same kernel with gcc has no problems. Also, if I build the kernel with clang from 9.0-RELEASE, it also works fine. I

Re: 9.1-RC2: clang can no longer build a kernel that boots

2012-10-28 Thread Mike Cui
Let me clarify. If I build the 9.1-RC2 kernel using the clang binary from 9.0-RELEASE, it boots fine. On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Mike Cui cui...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seeing that on 9.1-RC2 (i386), clang can no longer build a kernel that boots. Any kernel I build would get stuck

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-27 Thread Mike Clarke
the mapping to apply for only specified executables. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

freebsd-update IDS

2012-10-27 Thread Mike Clarke
versions of the system or do I have a problem? Considering the very short time interval between installing the system and checking IDS I'm quite confident my system hasn't been hacked from outside. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Gimp - problem opening images using URI's

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Clarke
Gimp has recently become unable to open images using URI's, e.g.- -- curlew:/home/mike% gimp -c http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/beastie.png; Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-mike/fam

Re: editing pdf files

2012-10-14 Thread Mike Clarke
pages. You might then be able to extract the text with some OCR software. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2)

2012-10-14 Thread Mike Clarke
using sysutils/beadm from ports http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=175325 to manage multiple boot environments in a single partition. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-10-04 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:36:19 +0400 Австин Ким avs...@mail.ru wrote: Hi, all, Paul Kraus paul at kraus-haus.org writes: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:18 PM, kpneal at pobox.com wrote: It's a real shame Unix doesn't have a really good tool for comparing two directory trees. You can

Re: stop and start X server in FreeBSD 9.0

2012-10-02 Thread Mike Clarke
. This will stop and start X as well as kdm. You can do all this from a terminal window in your kde session but I prefer to logout cleanly instead of having the rug pulled from under my feet which has sometimes corruptedf my kdmrc file. -- Mike Clarke

Re: older version of programs in freebsd

2012-09-30 Thread Mike Clarke
where the last usable version has been xzgv-0.8_9). Thank you. I will try it. If you use portsnap to keep your ports up to date then you can add a REFUSE line in /etc/portsnap.conf to stop new versions of the port being downloaded in the future. -- Mike Clarke

Re: LSI 9750-4i (tws based cards)

2012-09-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 9/12/2012 3:30 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: Does anyone have any experience with these cards ? We are looking for a controller that has a little more gas than the twa based cards which have been very reliable and stable for us on FreeBSD. I dont have any experience with 3ware/LSI's cards

PC-BSD 9.0 in VirtualBox

2012-09-27 Thread Mike Jeays
I have been running PC-BSD 9.0 with the KDE interface in a VirtualBox VM, and notice that it uses CPU resources when idle, driving up my CPU temperature about 15 degrees on an otherwise idle machine. (It is an Intel i5 quad four). Is this to be expected?

Re: Questions about ZFS Tuning

2012-09-17 Thread Mike Clarke
is disabled by default if less than 4GB of RAM is present; to enable, add vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0 to /boot/loader.conf. Since you have 2GB RAM then it's best to leave things as they are with prefetch disabled. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:55:57 -0700 Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 12/09/2012 00:14, Polytropon wrote: % cksum directory and

LSI 9750-4i (tws based cards)

2012-09-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
? ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: RFC 2385 TCP MD5 support on FreeBSD8.3

2012-09-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
/ports/net/quagga and make install in your bgp config, the peer needs a line like neighbor 192.168.134.29 password HelloMD5 ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net

Re: what is the best kind of KVM Switch?

2012-08-12 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 12 August 2012 02:41:57 Bob Hall wrote: I'm currently on my third year with an Aten and have had no problems. I've been using a cheap Aten CS-64A 4 Port Mini KVM for nearly 6 years now with no problems. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd

Re: what is the best kind of KVM Switch?

2012-08-11 Thread Mike.
On 8/11/2012 at 12:18 PM Gary Kline wrote: |guys, | | can any of you with hardware background tell me which are | the better KVM makes? about three weeks ago my Belkin | soho 4-port kvm switch started going flakey on port #1. | | I ordered a new one, same make//model

Re: Webpage screenshot

2012-08-05 Thread Mike Clarke
extension for Firefox. You can specify the entire page, an area defined with the mouse or just the visible area and save the result to a .PNG file or copy it to the clipboard to paste directly into the Gimp. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Nasty reference loop in login.conf

2012-07-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Jakub Lach jakub_l...@mailplus.pl wrote: Initially dropped to single user mode, but when I saw ED(1) I reconsidered and dusted off trusty LiveCD :) Thanks. -- View this message in context:

Re: How to mirror the FreeBSD OS on two disks

2012-07-12 Thread Mike Clarke
-o cachefile=/var/tmp/zpool.cache zroot And then step 10 after running zfs receive cp /var/tmp/zpool.cache /mnt/boot/zfs/zpool.cache Are these steps needed when restoring from a snapshot? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ppp connection goes down - requires reboot

2012-07-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
ISP will assign you the static IP out of RADIUS and you dont need to specify it. ---Mike I shutdown ppp and restart it with no luck. I shutoff modem and reboot it and wait for connection light to go solid - still no go. my ppp.conf follows; default

Re: 32 bit to 64 bit

2012-06-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
, and then migrate the customer data over. Even if the box is remote, it might be easier to ship the drive there and have someone change it out for you. ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994

Re: changing md5 hashed for sha

2012-06-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
, this will only work on relatively recent versions of FreeBSD. ---Mike - -- - --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ -BEGIN

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:13:00 -0500 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to new media. I have a problem with getting

Re: (Free 7.2) su -l didnt prompt password.Is it possbile?

2012-06-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 6/18/2012 9:31 AM, Budnev Vladimir wrote: And It looked such way: %su -l Before you enter this command, post the output of id ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994

Re: (Free 7.2) su -l didnt prompt password.Is it possbile?

2012-06-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 6/18/2012 10:24 AM, Budnev Vladimir wrote: But mb you can point in what case there is possibility to make su -l without any prompt. If the uid is 0, you wont need to enter a passwd ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m

Re: USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-14 Thread Mike Clarke
noticed is that the light continues to blink for a few seconds after the umount command completes. Presumably syncing is not compled until a few seconds after umount. Perhaps it's always safer to wait a few seconds after umounting before removing any USB storage device? -- Mike Clarke

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