Re: qmail revisited

2004-03-03 Thread Peter Schuller
owns the mailbox, so it has to be able to access it. *AND*, permissions may not be too wide wither, or qmail will refuse to deliver mail for security reasons (this is true for at least the .qmail files; not sure about the maildir). -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID

Re: backup

2004-02-24 Thread Peter Schuller
to work with 'restore' on another system if it is not running the exact same version of FreeBSD? Or having the same file system size? I had always assumed - given that it's a backup tool - that the format of the dump was portable. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID

Re: dropping dhclient lease

2004-02-19 Thread Peter Schuller
this feature, at least in their newer incarnations. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: FreeBSD 5-stable

2004-02-19 Thread Peter Schuller
looks like 5.2.1 will be out soon, does it mean that the STABLE branch cycle is going to start also for 5.x ? AFAIK the current goal is to create 5-STABLE in conjunction with 5.3-RELEASE. But I may have outdated information. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID

Re: mplayer

2004-02-18 Thread Peter Schuller
personally rather see the GTK usage being skipped rather than having it marked as broken manually.) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http

Re: mail client question...

2004-02-18 Thread Peter Schuller
it working - just install the port and let it activate it (or do it yourself). Fix the statup scripts to run it at boot and you should be all set. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL

Re: What OS should I use?

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Schuller
with two Knoppix is no indication on the speed of Linux - and the same goes for any other livecd system. Performance is greatly hampered by the slow seeking and reading of the CD. Especially given the (by today's standards) low amount of RAM we are talking about. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne

Re: 'There are suspended jobs.'

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Schuller
How do I find out which jobs are suspended, and how to un-suspend them? jobs (list), bg X (background job X), fg (foreground job X). Jobs are suspended by pressing Ctrl-Z while it's running. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL

Re: ACL:s are disabled upon reboot into multi-user

2004-01-27 Thread Peter Schuller
of the setting. So even if this ends up working I don't get why it didn't work in the first place. As is mentioned in the handbook, a filesystem which might be mounted with/without ACLs by accident is not very attractive from a security stand-point. Thanks a lot! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne

Unexpected soft update inconsistency

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Schuller
they not, algorithmically guarantee filesystem meta-data consistency in the event of a crash? or to put it another way: Was this an implementation bug or a fact of life with soft updates? Thanks, -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL

5.2 RC2: Semi-deterministic gcc segfault during buildworld

2003-12-31 Thread Peter Schuller
/md5sum tests on the disk used for 5.2 to try to determine if there are random read errors on the drive (which has happened to me before on one disk). Has anyone seen this? Could it be a hardware problem in spite of the above? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D

Re: 5.2 RC2: Semi-deterministic gcc segfault during buildworld

2003-12-31 Thread Peter Schuller
not contain any modifications to gcc optimization parameters, and indeed gcc is invoked with only '-O' when compiling. It's more or less a fresh install; I haven't touched make.conf. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key

File system checks on boot in spite of soft updates/ufs2

2003-12-08 Thread Peter Schuller
soft updates. Is there anything else that is needed in order to get fsck-less boots? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http

Re: Trouble mounting USB device

2003-11-30 Thread Peter Schuller
ehci to the kernel configuration. I believe that is required for typical USB 2 mass storage devices. Whether or not it's possible for such a device to not work at all - even in USB 1 mode - without ehci support I don't know. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D

Re: 100 MHz pentium: can that play avi-file movies?

2003-11-30 Thread Peter Schuller
in the 500-1500 range with, I would say no... mplayer is fast, but not that fast. At least I do not believe so. I could be wrong. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: DHCP

2003-11-15 Thread Peter Schuller
and any devices, including the laptop, should get an IP address from the pool. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: packages

2003-10-11 Thread Peter Schuller
. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: nVidia nForse2

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Schuller
to send him an E-Mail. Also, there is some possibly positive news on this front: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg09257.html -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrival: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

IBM T40p: em0/ath0 failure and PCMCIA difficulties

2003-07-16 Thread Peter Schuller
not present. Current process = 0 (swapper) and stupped at = ithread_add_handler+0x143: movl %ebx,0(%eax) Any thoughs/comments are highly appreciated! Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrival: Send an E-Mail

Re: IBM T40p: em0/ath0 failure and PCMCIA difficulties

2003-07-16 Thread Peter Schuller
the Bluetooth card is on the USB bus. Apparantly I can enable/disable the bluetooth card AFTER boot, and it will be successfully detected on the USB bus; and no crashing occurs. (Whether it actually works for use I have not yet tested.) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID

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