Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:21:27 +, RW wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:59:59 +0100 > Polytropon wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:32:11 -0600, ajtiM wrote: > > > On Sunday 15 January 2012 23:54:52 Chip Camden wrote: > > > > Quoth Polytropon on Monday, 16 Ja

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:32:11 -0600, ajtiM wrote: > On Sunday 15 January 2012 23:54:52 Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Polytropon on Monday, 16 January 2012: > > > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:40:20 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: > > > > Is it permissible to delete the do

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-15 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:03:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 01/14/12 22:06, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:37:14 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > >> On 01/14/12 19:54, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >>>>From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 14 02:32:15 2

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-15 Thread Polytropon
7;', its group should be ``operator'', and its mode should be ``0770''. *** So unless you're currently running a dump -L session, you can delete that directory. Maybe you need to be member of "operator" or be "root" in order to do it due to acces

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:37:14 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 01/14/12 19:54, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 14 02:32:15 2012 > >> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:28:21 +0100 > >> From: Polytropon > >> To: Robert Bonomi

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:12:48 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-01-14 09:22, Polytropon skrev: > > How many subdirectories are there? > > ls | wc -l > 32765 Seems that you have reached LINK_MAX of 32767 (according to /usr/src/sys/sys/syslimits.h). The difference of 2, I

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:22:36 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > The mkdir() function can be found (for UFS2) in the > file /usr/src/sys/gnu/fs/ext2fs/ext2_vnops.c at > line (sources of 8.2-STABLE i386 here). If > you examine what mkdir() does, you'll see that > the "too

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
environment. Especially when interpreting the content of the manual is debatable (as it is at least for me in this specific case), a simple test would reveal the truth of what will actually happen. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
links" is true when LINK_MAX is exceeded. Per /usr/src/sys/gnu/fs/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h we can determine that #define EXT2_LINK_MAX 32000 is defined. Can you check if 32000 is the amount of directories created? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andr

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-13 Thread Polytropon
located relative to the directory associated with the file descriptor fd instead of the current working directory. If faccessat() is passed the special value AT_FDCWD in the fd parameter, the current working directory is used and the behavior is i

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-13 Thread Polytropon
o follow in this matter? I'd like to get some > pointers if possible. Sure. See "man portmaster", section EXAMPLES, where you'll find "Using portmaster to do a complete reinstallation of all your ports" with a complete procedure. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, German

Re: BSD equivalent of GNU/Linux cp -rpu ?

2012-01-11 Thread Polytropon
> Would I use something like rsync or pax ? Yes, rsync also sounds promising. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: starting firefox3 with defined geometry

2012-01-10 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:56:21 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Tuesday, January 10, 2012 a las 09:25:54AM +0100, Polytropon escribió: > > > Answer: Yes, but it's not as easy as it could have been. > > > > Unlike nearly every other X11 program, notably the

Re: starting firefox3 with defined geometry

2012-01-10 Thread Polytropon
users expect working for 30 years. > UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) PDP-11 or K1600? Oh, and EC1056 here (OS/ES SVM OP1). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Polytropon
the default options from wich the package has been built. Also may apply to X.org (HAL and DBUS dependencies, if they're not desired or basically useless). Otherwise, no objections. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra m

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Polytropon
on for hours. Consensus: Use a port management tool (such as portmaster or even portupgrade) if you don't want to deal with "bare ports". Furthermore, consult the mailing list archives for more elaborate answers and discussions. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Ha

Re: How To Enable ls Color?

2012-01-08 Thread Polytropon
sh's initialisation file (typically ~/.cshrc for local use, /etc/csh.cshrc for global effect) and maybe setup an alias: alias ls 'ls -FG' alias ll 'ls -laFG' However, ls should provide colored output even if you don't set the $LSCOLORS variable. It sho

Re: OpenBSD disk on FreeBSD.

2012-01-08 Thread Polytropon
t; fsck_ufs: /dev/da0s4a: can't read disk label > > $ > > so maybe the partition names are wrong. Can you obtain partitioning information via bsdlabel (disklabel) for the s4 slice to check if FreeBSD can identify the other partitions properly. If you visit the mailing l

Re: OpenBSD disk on FreeBSD.

2012-01-08 Thread Polytropon
of the partitions, you can use its content to avoid guessing. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

2012-01-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 01:11:30 +0100 (CET), Marco Beishuizen wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, the wise Polytropon wrote: > > > If this is depending on the name "[BOOT]", there are > > two ways to deal with special characters in file names, > > if you need to specify t

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread Polytropon
ook "Absolute FreeBSD" by Urban and Tiemann, > I found a two line command to cause the bash prompt to > display the file path and current directory. Unfortunately, > the text is quite unclear as to the name of the file to > which these line are to be

Re: creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

2012-01-07 Thread Polytropon
-G instead of -b? > Strange thing also is the fact that the original iso has the size of > ~17MB, but the created iso by me is ~10MB. So it seems I'm missing some > files. You can mount the ISO you've generated and look inside to find out which files may be missing, or if there a

Re: FreeBSD on kvm

2012-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:49:41 +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > On 01/06/2012 06:24 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:50:41 +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > >> Leaving delay boot to 10 sec, always block. Set delay boot to 1, it give > >> me some "crash&

Re: FreeBSD on kvm

2012-01-06 Thread Polytropon
you don't want user to be allowed to interrupt autoboot process and escape to the loader prompt, set to "NO" to disable autobooting That means ="0" would mean to boot immediately _with_ the option to get to the boot prompt - you just need to be

Re: Browser

2012-01-05 Thread Polytropon
ons more carefully. But anyway, you type "make" and the intended web browser wants to access X? >From within a UID=0 session? Hmmm... On the other hand, installing google's Chromium browser went through without that kind of anno

Re: Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

2012-01-04 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:01:32 +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi, > Devin Teske wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon > > > Sent:

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Polytropon
st a little bit better suited, that's all. If you have concerns regarding web browsers spying at your browsing habits and reporting them to the authorities, maybe you re-consider using Opera. Keep in mind that even if it's free, it's not really open, if I r

Re: Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

2012-01-03 Thread Polytropon
_exactly_ looks like what I'm searching for. It doesn't need to be a "human-readable" date representation. by the way, I'm running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE/x86 of late August 2011 here, file system used is UFS2. -- Po

Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

2012-01-03 Thread Polytropon
(which is the facility stat's -t parameter addresses), but found nothing that is more precise than seconds. Does anyone have a suggestion how to precisely determine the order files have been created? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Polytropon
FreeBSD anymore. If you consider such devices "niche devices", think again: You'll find them near any Internet-connected computer and among the bowels of the whole Internet. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
; problem to operate on the device files associated with a _mounted_ partition. The more I think about it... /var is a really bad choice. Use /scratch, or at least /home. AGAIN: NOT TESTED! MAY BLOWENFUSEN & CORKENPOPPEN! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Single user mode exits unexpectedly

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
> However, I can cold boot this machine into single user mode with > nothing unusual. > > This is FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64, rebuilt on 12/26/2011 > > I guess I may have unintentionally changed a config file? Where should > I look? Review your installation steps and _m

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
"file does not exit." I realize > that I may be missing something o > b! > vious. It seems that you're missing X. :-) You need to install the xorg port (or package via pkg_add -r) along with the driver for your graphics card. If you have successfully accomplished that,

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
hardware (GPU and display) to initiate certain resolutions and color settings, which could make the booting process colorful and entertaining, providing an appealing "first sight effect". Switching between X and not-X should be easier. Doing such settings in the kernel could also benefi

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
. In some teams, you'll find code writers and doc writers separated, but working together. This approach isn't free of problems, but also seems to work. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:59:14 -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:22:30 +0100 > Polytropon articulated: > > > >From "man iwn": > > > > Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/1000/5000/5150/5300/6000/6050 > > IEEE 802.11n driver > >

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:14:35 +, RW wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:53:25 +0100 > Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > > > I really appreciate that you all, Jerry, Polytropon and Chuck, > > took your time to answer me. But I think some of you understood > > paragraph

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
friendly list. > > > > For reference Polytropon has been rather helpful many times on this > > list regardless of how many faux pas maybe made; I'm sure you're not > > without fault either. > > The fact is that Poly has taken "negativity bias"

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:15:00 -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:39:58 +0100 > Polytropon articulated: > > > However, there are differences in how you judge documentation > > to be _good_. Talk to a mainframer, and he will tell you a > > different story. Then

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
ment their code when they > upload it, and document their hardware support additions, are just good > software practices that should be highly recommended and encouraged I fully agree with that statement. If you could, for example, point to documentation you judge _good_, or point at some F

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:15:45 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > Damien Fleuriot writes: > > > On 12/29/11 10:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: > >>> For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
, this approach might not fit - maybe you want to keep all things binary there, or from source only. > It will be enough for me if someone just point me to documentation. The FreeBSD Handbook. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:23:31 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 12/29/11 10:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: > >> Obviously, I must comply. At the same time, I cannot continue be > >> accountable for those servers. > &

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
TRACT: _you_ are not responsible if he does "sudo rm -rf /" or something similar. I'd give the customer only that much access as he actually needs. "Role based models" such as they can be done without root passwords (tools: sudo, super) can help here. -- Polytropon Mag

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-26 Thread Polytropon
ly upgrades everything, no need to mess around, That's basically what "man portmaster" says, even though the options are different and allow more flexibility. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Clearing Login Screen on Console

2011-12-25 Thread Polytropon
27;s login and logout files (globally /etc/csh.login and /etc/csh.logout, local to the respective user ~/.login and ~/.logout)? You can also test those two commands interactively. I think they are connected to the ^L key, just to make sure if something's wrong with the /etc/gettytab file. --

Re: Archived FreeBSD versions

2011-12-25 Thread Polytropon
x27;ll also find ISO-IMAGES/ in there. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-22 Thread Polytropon
I had set it... I'm also unsure if NFS mounts are "fixed" or "removable" in PK terminology. Regarding your second question, I can't provide any further information. I just assume it's a means to turn a safe multi-user system into an insecure single-user

Re: LOCALE issue: Pysycache errors on run

2011-12-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:57:28 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 12/22/11 23:20, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:13:53 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > >> %env LANG=en_EN.ISO8859-1 pysycache.py > > ^^ > > Isn't that supposed to be en_US or en_GB? >

Re: 7.4 -> 8.2

2011-12-22 Thread Polytropon
03000.201008_1 port or package has been installed. However, kernel and world should match each other. After an upgrade from one major version to the next one, it's the best solution to update _all_ installed ports. The "man portmaster" manpage contains a nice example for this situa

Re: LOCALE issue: Pysycache errors on run

2011-12-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:13:53 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > %env LANG=en_EN.ISO8859-1 pysycache.py ^^ Isn't that supposed to be en_US or en_GB? I'm not sure if there's also en_AU... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Polytropon
The EXAMPLES section of the manpages have some ideas on how to do "full updates". Unless you're using a custom kernel and want to follow the RELEASE branch, including the security patches, also consider using freebsd-update. This tool updates the OS (the base system) in a binary way, al

Re: .config

2011-12-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > >> A dirty workaround might be to link /.config > >> to something innocuous.  One could obvio- &

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:05:05 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:38:59 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: > >> It's still not malware, it's bloatware. Why would you > >> not go to the de

Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?

2011-12-09 Thread Polytropon
aptops come with keys (or key combinations, usually Fn + Cursor or Fn + PF key) to adjust brightness and contrast, or has this lowest-level functionality finally moved into the world of software, i. e. drivers? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user sinc

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Polytropon
the authors of the original software, not the distributor. This could do damage to F/O products, at least in "Windows" land. Luckily, those who build from source or use precompiled packages from a trustworthy vendor don't have to care for that stuff. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg,

Re: Playing .ASX files via/within Firefox ?

2011-12-06 Thread Polytropon
ov/d3-whitmore-grade-80"; After the cache has been filled, IT WORKED! It can even run in fullscreen (or you can do all the tricks mplayer and mencoder is capable of). I'm not sure how to integrate that with Firefox (as I am an Opera person), sorry. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: drivin' me nuts: permissions and cdda2wav

2011-12-06 Thread Polytropon
tor permpass0 0660 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &qu

Re: umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-05 Thread Polytropon
tly accessing. As the USB IDs stay the same for at least the card reader, it should be easy to conclude. :-) USB devices are usually "enumerated" in the order they appear to the system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: I am FreeBSD user.

2011-12-04 Thread Polytropon
n apply it there. Also note that there are manuals for OpenBSD, SunOS, ULTRIX or HP-UX which are definitely not related to the Linux emulation (which is an alternative binary interface - ABI - on FreeBSD). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra m

Re: sudo log messages

2011-12-04 Thread Polytropon
are/doc/sudo/sample.sudoers contains an example. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: sudo log messages

2011-12-04 Thread Polytropon
ich you can create your own sudo.conf file from. Also see the notes in "man sudo", section "SECURITY NOTES". Maybe you'll find something useful in the provided documentation at /usr/local/share/doc/sudo/. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy Fre

Re: upcoming 9.0 release

2011-12-03 Thread Polytropon
" of using the compatibility layers of FreeBSD n for n-1. This refers to the compat-* ports and the COMPAT_* kernel configuration items. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: upcoming 9.0 release

2011-12-02 Thread Polytropon
om the system prior to updating. Then install the ports on your list, as they will pull in any dependencies they need. This makes sure you don't carry "cruft and bloat" from your prior installation that you _maybe_ don't have any actual use for. Needless to say, you sho

Re: make buildworld powers down system

2011-12-02 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:28:09 -0500, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 02:06:26 -0500 (EST), d...@safeport.com wrote: > > > The screen does go into standby and I am not > > > sure what is cont

Re: make buildworld powers down system

2011-12-02 Thread Polytropon
. You can override it in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf by setting Option "DPMS" "false" in the section "Monitor" where you define the values for your monitor. I had a similar experience with an 21" CRT Eizo F980 going to sleep unintendedly. :-) -- Polytropon Mag

Re: Installing an older version of a port

2011-12-01 Thread Polytropon
nt versions (e. g. of other programs it depends on, or libraries). Typically, they are "downward compatible", for example if the port requires libfoobar-1.4, but 1.5 is the current version in ports, install it, and it will still work. In worst case you have to manually add a symlink for t

Re: Xfce and session lock (xlock)

2011-12-01 Thread Polytropon
sually lock the session by pressing ("slapping") the "Help" key (which is the double-width key on the top left on a Sun keyboard, quite handy). I'm not sure if xlock has an option for setting a timeout value... -- Polytropon

Re: problem formating disk with gpart

2011-12-01 Thread Polytropon
s here, but there are the following commands: atacontrol attach channel atacontrol detach channel atacontrol reinit channel atacontrol spindown device [seconds] atacontrol list It seems as they are intended to support &

Re: Re[2]: Problem with jail network

2011-11-30 Thread Polytropon
;> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> This last command seems to have frozen my system. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Confirm that the MISSING SPACE between your "inet" and "xxx.216..." > >>>

Re: Failed make buildworld on 8.2-RELEASE

2011-11-30 Thread Polytropon
s ZFS or dtrace). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: .config

2011-11-30 Thread Polytropon
completely okay. But in / it simply sounds WRONG. Sorry. JUST PLAIN WRONG! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: HDD formatted in FreeBSD/386 on Win XP

2011-11-26 Thread Polytropon
;: http://ufs2tools.sourceforge.net/ Also try some googling, maybe like this: http://www.google.com/search?q=read+ufs+freebsd+windows+xp Sorry for not being more specific, as I'm not a "Windows" person. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi e

Re: .config

2011-11-23 Thread Polytropon
autostart/ gsmartcontrol/ gtk-2.0/ menus/ Okay, seems that other toolkits also use it. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Compiler

2011-11-20 Thread Polytropon
y. > Is there any online tool ? I'm not aware of one, but you could use scp to transfer the source files to the server, then use ssh to call the compiler needed (e. g. cc), and then put the results into the proper locations. You could automate this process by a Makefile. -- Polyt

Re: The results of your email commands

2011-11-20 Thread Polytropon
1 /mnt/usb There is a section in the FreeBSD Handbook discussing the topic of how to access MS-DOS formatted media per USB. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Build options built by dialog(1)

2011-11-15 Thread Polytropon
27;s directory. Also note that /etc/make.conf as well as the configuration files of port management tools may contain options. > Once again, this old 650-704-7070-PDP4-KA/KI/KL/KS-CTSS- > Convex-IBMPC-3B1 warrior needs help :-} Impressive path! =^_^= -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: apps to display cpu temp

2011-11-14 Thread Polytropon
rnel configuration notes. The OS in question was 7-STABLE. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: apps to display cpu temp

2011-11-12 Thread Polytropon
-cmtcpu CS -cltcpu cyan \ -cmtcs SYS -cltcs green \ -vmin 2.0 -vmax 3.0 -cmvc V -clvc red & Depending on the sensor installation of your particular system, check if the different values do match the hardware. Maybe check from within your CMOS setup for reference values.

Re: What are the technical differences between Linux and BSD?

2011-11-12 Thread Polytropon
" and also > the DVD "25 Years of Berkeley Unix", and a few others mentioned already. For more details about SysV and explaination of historical contexts I may append: The magic garden explained. The internals of UNIX System 5 release 4. by Benny Goodheart & James Cox. --

Re: No usb keyboard in single user mode

2011-11-11 Thread Polytropon
to identify ukbd0, it could be used as intended for local logins. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: FreeBSD make buildworld fail: cc: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1)

2011-11-11 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:45:15 +, Traiano Welcome wrote: > And I don't seem to have a src.conf anywhere on my filesystem ... Hmmm. You'll have to create it yourself (just like /etc/make.conf). See "man src.conf" for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeB

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
orks fine on FreeBSD, including proper device identification. My assumption still is: Not _every_ keyboard manufacturer does code the layout into the USB identification. If you tell me I'm wrong with this assumption, I'll be happy. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD u

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
; HAL. Those servers are not yet available on FreeBSD but presumably it > > would be possible to use devd for the same purpose. > I'm referring to what Polytropon said about all the "new" stuff required > by X. As I understood him he was talking about the XML-files

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
Alt-F1 (doesn't respond) > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (doesn't respond) Do you have ``Option "DontVTSwitch" "false"'' in xorg.conf? > Any clue why? Is my command "X :0 vt4" wrong or not supposed to work? What is the correct notation for the

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
entification numbers... This makes me assume the following: It's not possible to determine the localized layout of a keyboard. Just imagine I pop the german keycaps from my IBM model M keyboard and put a set of swedish caps on, would the system notice that change? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: operapluginwraper

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
ollowing set of packages and wrappers: opera-11.50 opera-linuxplugins-11.50 nspluginwrapper-1.4.4 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5 This was mainly because of following the handbook. So I think the dependency to the Linux /proc comes from the "Flash"

Re: "Unprintable" 8-bit characters

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
e are only few "sz" that are "real 'sz'", typically in word gaps, e. g. Reiszange. :-) The "funny" things start when diacritic marks and other non-US-ASCII representable elements change the meaning of a word. In such cases, it's often justified to use the p

Re: "Unprintable" 8-bit characters

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
̣ĸ»¢.mp3, but they can cause trouble you can't predict. You _never_ know... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: "Unprintable" 8-bit characters

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
no real consensus about what the different codings should mean. They were meant to unify the representation of a very large set of characters, but basically there are many inter- pretations now, and how they show up to the user depends on the font in use, _if_ it has this mapping or that, or non

Re: operapluginwraper

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
ions COMPAT_LINUX options LINPROCFS options LINSYSFS in your kernel config, or load the corresponding kernel modules. The line linux_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf should do that. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:33:55 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Warren Block wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Polytropon wrote: > > > >> And according to the handbook, this does _not_ remove the > >> need for a X configuration file (usuall

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
drivers (x11/nvidia-driver*) are supposed to work quite > well. I'm using nvidia-driver here which works better than nouveau and nv (the one that comes with X.org); I haven't tested VESA as in most cases, it's _not_ what one wants. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Burning CD

2011-11-07 Thread Polytropon
re recorded the CD properly. > Do you have any free software suggestions for burning a CD > in Windows XP if this is the issue? Sorry, I'm not a "Windows" person and I don't use 10 years old software, so I can't give you any suggestion here. :-) -

Re: Get list of ethernet devices

2011-11-06 Thread Polytropon
But I'm kind of hoping anybody can point me to a readymade solution yet > unknown to me. You could look at how FreeSBIE does it - it contains "autodetect magic" also for graphics and sound. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, M

Re: Problem with X

2011-11-06 Thread Polytropon
ad: http://wiki.freebsd.org/SynapticsTouchpad The (missing) presence of the X authority file has nothing to do with keyboard or mouse problems. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questio

Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf

2011-11-06 Thread Polytropon
y called directories. ;-) PS. Please wrap your lines < 72. Some MUAs don't do that automatically. Thanks! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-06 Thread Polytropon
be greatly appreciated, since I'm pretty much out of them > at this point. The articles should help you to deal with the problem, as they present properly working solutions. Good luck! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Problem with mergemaster-p

2011-11-04 Thread Polytropon
F). 10. `reboot' 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) Make sure you also do step 1 when calling mergemaster and make: # cd /usr/src # mergemaster -p # make installworld # make delete-old # mergemaster Then re

Re: Problem with mergemaster-p

2011-11-04 Thread Polytropon
should be mounted rw. You can check this using the "mount -v" command. (Of course this depends on the partitioning scheme you're using.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-

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