Re: Tuning /etc/sysctl.conf

2013-10-14 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
to apply to your PC. Most changes you can make will benefit some workflows at the cost of making others less efficient. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-10-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:17:20 +1000, yudi v wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 486, Issue 7, Message: 5 On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:25:33 +0200 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:37:55PM

Re: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)

2013-10-11 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
else who may want it. 3. Something else? Wait for someone else to do it. FreeBSD is a volunteer project and the best way to make it better is to scratch your itches and contribute the result. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
card and so on, and an IBM-PC had a beep routine in the BIOS. Try this: echo ^G /dev/console You'll have to type ^V^G to get a real ^G in the command line (^ means control of course). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:53 +0100 Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: Then there's the issue of writing it to the console rather than a virtual terminal, but I have a few hacks that'll achieve that part. /dev/console is your friend. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: cause of reboot

2013-09-30 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
/periodic.conf for details) until you get through a night without a reboot. Then the next step is to figure out why whatever is crashing the system does so, but first let's find out what. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-09-29 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 486, Issue 7, Message: 5 On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:25:33 +0200 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:37:55PM +1000, yudi v wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to suspend to disk (hibernate) when using geli for full disk encryption

Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-09-28 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 486, Issue 5, Message: 18 On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:37:55 +1000 yudi v yudi@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to suspend to disk (hibernate) when using geli for full disk encryption. My set-up is listed below. So I am going to have an encrypted

Re: Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-09-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:37:55PM +1000, yudi v wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to suspend to disk (hibernate) when using geli for full disk encryption. As far as I can tell, FreeBSD doesn't support suspend to disk on all architectures. On amd64 the necessary infrastructure doesn't exist,

Re: Voice Mail required QuickTime

2013-09-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 01:54:34PM -0400, Carmel wrote: I have a voice mail account with Time Warner Cable. I can access the account from my home telephone, Windows PC, etcetera, but not from my FreeBSD machine. This error message pops up when I try to play the recording on the web site: To

Re: persistence in freeBSD

2013-09-17 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:29:26 -0400 Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com wrote: mount -o rw / That would need to be mount -u -o rw / -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Getting tlmgr working

2013-09-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 06:04:03PM -0400, Jerry wrote: Has there been any movement on getting tlmgr working on FreeBSD? The inability to get and install updates is annoying. Basically there are two ways of dealing with TeXLive; 1) Install it from ports. This also means using ports to update

Re: persistence in freeBSD

2013-09-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:20:00 - atar atar.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to enable persistence between reboots when using FreeBSD from a USB stick? What exactly do you mean by enable persistence between reboots ? -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: Getting tlmgr working

2013-09-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 07:59:32AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:26:09 +0200 Roland Smith articulated: On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 06:04:03PM -0400, Jerry wrote: Has there been any movement on getting tlmgr working on FreeBSD? The inability to get and install updates

Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX -- TeXlive

2013-09-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:57:51AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:00:22 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: Personally I don't think TeX is a good fit for the ports tree (because of duplication of effort). I have to add that I think that the chosen strategy (provide a full port

Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX -- TeXlive

2013-09-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 02:22:12PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use for my day to day work teTeX, but I run more and more into several limitations due to the fact, teTeX isn't any more (and regretably) maintained/developed by Th. Esser (that is what I know). Upstream teTeX has indeed been

Re: Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

2013-09-10 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins.|licences available see You lose and Bill collects. |http://www.sohara.org

Re: ttys file question

2013-09-09 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
the details are there. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins.|licences available see You lose and Bill collects. |http

Re: Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

2013-09-09 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ 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: ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
in detail. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ 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: ufs recovery

2013-09-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 10:46:35AM +0200, Laszlo Danielisz wrote: Hi, By mistake I forgot to edit my crontab on my FreeBSD 8.3 after I took out one of the hard drives. I had a little rsync script which I used to synchronise a directory between those two hard drives, because one of the hard

Re: Potential Vulnerabilities list on US Cert

2013-09-03 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 483, Issue 2, Message: 1 On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 10:41:44 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: I usually check the US Cert listing every week to see if anything interesting is listed. https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/bulletins/SB13-245 I discovered that there

Re: FreeBSD on ThinkPad W530

2013-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:40:58 +0200, vermaden wrote: Hi and thanks for reply ;) Yay another FreeBSD laptop user! I use FreeBSD for dekstop/workstation for I do not remember how long: http://vermaden.deviantart.com/art/CorporateBSD-FreeBSD-at-Work-190680188 Please do this: *

Re: Tex Live vs. print/texlive-full (was Re: texlive and package updating)

2013-08-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 08:43:13AM +0200, Aymeric Mansoux wrote: Hello, On Sat, August 10, 2013 6:03 pm, Nikola Pavlović wrote: On 09/08/13 18:40, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I've given up on all OS distribution-based TexLive drops. I install texlive manually from their installer Same here. I

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

2013-08-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 09:28:03PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:00:39 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: After a nice day in the fields, my wife deleted accidently the pictures in her cam; the microSD mounts fine in FreeBSD as -t msdosfs; do we have some FreeBSD 10-CUR tool to

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:13:25AM -0700, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS? Can you log into your NAS with ssh or telnet? It so I would suggest using tar(1) and nc(1). It has been a while since I measured it, but IIRC the combination of tar (without

Re: SolarFlare 10GB card

2013-08-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:47:27AM -0700, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, We've a brand spanking new SolarFlare 10GB nic for use with our beast of a server. However the vendor support page says the driver is in beta. If you look in the download[1], you'll see that the driver is named sfxge. It

Re: 9.2-RC1: Problem with Kernel

2013-08-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 479, Issue 8, Message: 10 On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 09:43:57 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:29:10 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:04:29 + (UTC), Walter Hurry wrote: This is 9.2-RC1 on amd64

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 01:04:04 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: Hi Devin, Apropos sade (sysadmins disk editor). I have it at /usr/sbin/sade and I am running a FreeBSD 8.3. I also mounted FreeBSD 8.1 and FreeBSD 8.2 and found sade at /usr/sbin/ even in these older FreeBSDs. I can't

Re: Unusual file: /bin/[

2013-07-29 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
users. An amazing number of things stopped working. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 477, Issue 8, Message: 10 On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST) Conny Andersson atar...@telia.com wrote: Hi, I have a workstation with two factory installed hard disks. The first disk, ada0, is occupied by a Windows 7 Pro OS (mainly kept for the

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:13:39 +0930 Shane Ambler free...@shaneware.biz wrote: On 21/07/2013 04:42, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: It's a pity there are now only two manufacturers of spinning rust. I thought there was three left - Seagate WD and Toshiba I assumed Toshiba were out

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:27:01 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote: Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: It's a pity there are now only two manufacturers of spinning rust. I didn't think there were _any_! Haven't oxide-coated platters gone the way of the dodo bird

Re: Convert flat PDF to interactive PDF

2013-07-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 03:18:19PM -0400, Jerry wrote: I am looking for an application that can convert a standard flat PDF file into an interactive PDF. I can locate several that work under MS Windows, including Acrobat XI; however, I was trying to find one that will work under KDE on

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
the same supplier tends to add to the probability that more than one drive is on the edge when one goes. It's a pity there are now only two manufacturers of spinning rust. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

ab failing with Operation not permitted

2013-07-12 Thread Chris Smith
requests completed # I suspect this is a sysctl that needs poking somewhere or a limit somewhere. Any help appreciated on this one. -- Chris Smith http://pointyhat.org.uk/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:41:11PM +0200, Raphael Ahrens wrote: Ahh, thank you. ke...@kpa.biglobe.ne.jp wrote on Sat, 06.Jul.13 00:03: Hi, On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 14:11:41 +0200 Raphael Ahrens tant.sinnis...@googlemail.com wrote: When I execute cd /usr/ports/editors/vim; make config I

Re: ZFS install on a partition

2013-05-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
be to give both boxes the same kind of drives. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: filesystem advice

2013-05-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 06:43:25PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi all and sorry for this (newbie) question. I study FreeBSD (I come from linux) and I'm not sure which filesystem use. My situation: install a fileserver (samba) for 3 clients and put it as gateway/server on internet (ssh, and

Re: can't compile lang/gcc port

2013-05-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 03:59:26PM +0200, Xavier wrote: Hi to all, I can't compile lang/gcc port. The last lines of error: Unfortunately the real error happens _above_ the lines that you showed. else \ exit 1; \ fi; \ else true; \ fi; \ fi;

Re: can't compile lang/gcc port

2013-05-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:07:59PM +0200, Xavier wrote: There is probably a compiler error somewhere before the lines that you posted. Can you show a little bit more? I don't show more lines because the log is very long for paste here. I can send directly to your private email the

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-12 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sat, 11 May 2013 19:44:46 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: 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

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-11 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
a convention for a *long* time, at least since FreeBSD 1.1 was shiny and new in 1993. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Firefox is so slow

2013-04-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:18:57AM +0200, David Demelier wrote: Hi, I used to love firefox in the early days, when I started using Linux around 2003-2004. It was so fast. Now it's just amazing how long does it take to start. On my machine : intel i3 540, 2G of RAM and FreeBSD 9.1 it takes

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
to use sudo or su rather than logging in as root, although for a single user system this doesn't really make much difference. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
in the update/version reporting process but I wouldn't hold my breath for a fix, as things stand the version reported only changes when the kernel is updated, or if you recompile it after the update. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500 Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: You have updated to 9.1-RELEASE-p2 - but since there have been no kernel changes since 9.1-RELEASE the kernel version message hasn't

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:43:59 +1000 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 04/25/13 06:31, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500 Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
of these data bits should be fixed here first. Anything else would be a 'feature' :) That would be nice - one way to achieve that would be to add a writable oid for patch level and not bump newvers.sh for patches. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
a repository, it's hard to build a secure public repository. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 461, Issue 6, Message: 1 (sorry about the threading) On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:12:17 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:10:59 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: See how the entire ioctl() interface for these device types is completely

Re: qjail fork attribution was Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique (fwd)

2013-04-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 01:00:44 -0400, Stephen Cook wrote: On 4/1/2013 5:23 AM, Ian Smith wrote: Actually, I forwarded a message that Joe fb...@a1poweruser.com posted to -jail and -ports. Proper attribution is what this issue's all about. It's been pointed out to me privately that cross-posting

Re: qjail fork attribution was Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique (fwd)

2013-04-01 Thread Ian Smith
Posted so people following -questions can gather what Joe Barbish is fishing for in the present thread regarding copyright and licensing. cheers, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:26:16 -0400 From: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com To: Dirk Engling

Re: use of the kernel and licensing

2013-04-01 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
with no reference to the original code then it's a rewrite. I suppose there are edge cases where a rewrite may include a portion taken from the original (assuming compatible licensing), or where a fork has been so heavily modified that little of the original remains. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive

2013-03-28 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
they don't help much once you pass the device/controller max write block size. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique

2013-03-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:21:29 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:53:30 +0100, Dirk Engling wrote: [.. also chopping mercilessly ..] # Copyright 2010, Qjail project. All rights reserved

Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique (fwd)

2013-03-22 Thread Ian Smith
Joe, your mailer dropped -questions from the ccs on your response. Fixed, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:12:18 -0400 From: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com To: freebsd-j...@freebsd.org Cc: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au, Dirk Engling erdge...@erdgeist.org

Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique

2013-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:53:30 +0100, Dirk Engling wrote: On 18.03.13 20:16, s...@tormail.org wrote: to configure things themselves. In my experience, ezjail is a much better solution. I also see that you are the maintainer/author of qjail and like to shovel your opinion as the only

Re: svn new pkg system

2013-03-10 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
, with a ton of dependencies which translates to a lot of work to keep it up to date in the base system, and all sorts of fun and games when other things using those dependencies need a newer version. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example

2013-03-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
an incremental dump. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ 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: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
nicer to use powers of 2 bs=64k count=(n*16) skip=(n*16 - 1) -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: make package vs pkg create

2013-02-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
the affected ports poudriere ports -u poudriere bulk -f /root/packages -j build build is my build jail, and /root/packages is a file listing the packages I want. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
of the license conditions is retaining their copyright notice - altering it would probably be a license violation. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
whatever is left over be removed? Just a thought, not a concern. I can't think why anyone would want to, and I expect there's a *lot* left over, certainly their copyright notice appears in many files in /usr/src. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: I made a mess. libc

2013-02-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
a copy of it where you can read it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ 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: FreeBSD 9.1 Update?

2013-02-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ 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: FreeBSD 9.1 Update?

2013-02-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ 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: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:41:31 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From: paranormal paranor...@isgroup.com.ua Subject: Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:23:40 +0200 I have t61p with mentioned

Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:28:30 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From smi...@nimnet.asn.au Mon Feb 11 13:49:38 2013 On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:41:31 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From: paranormal paranor...@isgroup.com.ua Subject: Re: which X driver for NVIDIA

Re: zoneedit.com

2013-02-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 452, Issue 11, Message: 9 On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 11:45:05 -0500 Nick K sur...@gmail.com wrote: I am posting here hoping that a Dan from ZoneEdit.com still monitors this mailing list. I am in a very bad situation and my mail forwarding has been down for over a

Re: [kde-freebsd] tmux and konsole characters

2013-02-03 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ 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: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?

2013-01-28 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:40:53 +0200 Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com wrote: 28.01.2013 09:03, Steve O'Hara-Smith: On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:05:05 -0800 Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Shane Ambler free...@shaneware.biz wrote: I recall

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:51:12 -0500 MFV mrk...@acm.org wrote: The only downside with svn seems to be the 728 MB footprint. With hard disc space running at around 10c per gigabyte it's a minor issue. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?

2013-01-27 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
enough to use in the mirror when it arrives. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Best approach to jails + zfs

2013-01-25 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
this as a backup server. You might like the sysutils/ezjail port - I use it for a very similar purpose and find it works well. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Best approach to jails + zfs

2013-01-25 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:14:45 +0100 bsd b...@todoo.biz wrote: Le 25 janv. 2013 à 18:41, Steve O'Hara-Smith a écrit : On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:25:06 +0100 bsd b...@todoo.biz wrote: Hi, I wanted to have the point of view of the community on the best approach in order to handle

Re: FreeBSD and snd_hdspe last-ditch attempt

2013-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Cc: FreeBSD quest freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hi :) Hi Ralf, I've been following this saga for a while, with interest but no specific knowledge of your gear nor how you intend to use it. All I can comment on is the way you're going about

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 449, Issue 9, Message: 25 [ pardon loss of threading ] On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:56:24 -0800 dte...@freebsd.org wrote: From: Polytropon [mailto:free...@edvax.de] [..] There is no text mode web browser in the base system. Installing one is easy: As the

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

2013-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 448, Issue 3, Message: 24 - please pardon the loss of threading - On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:47:41 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 02/01/2013 05:20, doug wrote: Is this command being phased out? pkg_add -r

correct way for installing python extensions for 3.3?

2012-12-28 Thread Roland Smith
Currently I'm using python 2.7.3 because numpy required it. It seems that numpy some other extensions can now be installed for python3. Numpy for python 2.7.3 is already installed, and now I want to install it for python 3.3 as well. I'm just not sure how to do that? Reading

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-24 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 447, Issue 1, Message: 13 On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:48:12 +0100 Dh?nin Jean-Jacques dhe...@gmail.com 2012/12/23 Polytropon free...@edvax.de #!/bin/sh cat foo.txt | while read LINE1 do cat bar.txt | while read LINE2 do

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
files have to be sorted. For which purpose the sort program is most useful. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: exclude directories from find command

2012-12-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 06:22:44AM -0800, Jack Mc Lauren wrote: Hi fellas How can I exclude specific directories from my find command ? I want to look for all files in the whole system except for those in e.g /extra directory.  I use this command to find all files, but how can I exclude

Re: Obsolete Shared Libraries?

2012-12-18 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
and work areas. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ 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: serial connection

2012-12-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
to this vpn over ssh setup with different device configuration http://www.semicomplete.com/articles/ppp-over-ssh// -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
work fine for both openGL and the vdpau stuff. Virtualbox worked fine too, but this Atom doesn't have hardware virtualisation support so it's a bit sluggish. I've not tried (or wanted) Wine in years. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd

Re: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 445, Issue 5, Message: 25 On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:52:53 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:56:51 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: On 12/12/12 23:51, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:27:16 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: Can

Re: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-13 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 445, Issue 4, Message: 12 On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:27:16 -0700 Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org wrote: Can anyone suggest an audio playback application that allows you to vary the tempo? I've used audacity on win systems, but I don't see that in ports.

Re: Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running

2012-12-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
} else if (ESRCH == errno) { // Process does not exist } else { // Something weird and undocumented went wrong } -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: root filesystem and soft-update

2012-12-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
, just incomplete - but if it's /bin/sh that's gone it could be tricky recovering). The other reason is that softupdates is about optimising write performace, and the root filesystem shouldn't be getting many writes in normal use so softupdates is of no benefit. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith

Re: set connection to a modem

2012-12-02 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
and 28 PPP and SLIP. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ 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: Re[2]: How to allow httpd to run 'ipfw table 7 add ... '

2012-11-30 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
: /my/script/add_table.pl apache host=(root) NOPASSWD: /my/script/del_table.pl this will restrict apache to run only add/del tasks with table. what do you think? That also works. I have a slight preference for queue based approaches but that's just me really. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st

Re: How do you manage jails?

2012-11-29 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
or ezjail? ezjail here - my fileserver runs a bunch of jails for various services as well as a build jail. I find it convenient and it hasn't annoyed me yet. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ---BeginMessage--- On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:05:30 -0500 Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote

Re: portsnap

2012-11-22 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
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Re: Home Server

2012-11-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ZFS mirror for storage and put just about everything on it. You might have some data that doesn't need to be mirrored but I'll bet there's not much that wouldn't be a PITA to lose. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: csup to svn

2012-11-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
it. This will probably become intolerably clumsy for more than a handful of ports. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
dependant meaning. Stop masturbating over a dictionary and work on your problem or take it elsewhere - please. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
a thing or two about it. However that is not relevant, the sad thing is that you have destroyed any chance of getting whatever help you wanted by deciding to argue about what you think words should mean instead of understanding how they are being used. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-18 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
images and definition files to create VMs on the fly in response to a simple command. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Question about svn

2012-11-18 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I was looking at http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ What are csrg and socsvn? Please CC on the answer, as I am not subscribed to this mailing list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

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