Re: linux cp -u question

2010-05-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 May 2010 18:41:21 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, Is there a FreeBSD equivalent for the linux cp -u ? http://linux.die.net/man/1/cp (-u, --update) Check out cpdup (available via ports or packages). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

portsnap and portupgrade question

2010-05-27 Thread Coert
decided what to make PACKAGESITE I picked 8.0-RELEASE (not STABLE or CURRENT). I also mirrored the entire 20GB i386 8.0-RELEASE package set. I live in South-Africa and my ADSL is slow and expensive, so having the whole collection locally 'helps' :) Now here is my question. After I ran portsnap fetch

Re: Cloning question

2010-05-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 26 May 2010 22:33:16 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ipv6canada.com wrote: I've written a few howto's on backup/restore/cloning in the past, but now I have a question that I hope to have quickly answered. I'm not looking for criticism on my approach, only on whether it will work

Re: portsnap and portupgrade question

2010-05-27 Thread Polytropon
, 2 and 3 in the proper manner. When I decided what to make PACKAGESITE I picked 8.0-RELEASE (not STABLE or CURRENT). As you updated your system with freebsd-update to follow the -RELEASE-p- branch, this is valid. Now here is my question. After I ran portsnap fetch extract, I ran

Re: portsnap and portupgrade question

2010-05-27 Thread Coert
system, perform steps 1, 2 and 3 in the proper manner. When I decided what to make PACKAGESITE I picked 8.0-RELEASE (not STABLE or CURRENT). As you updated your system with freebsd-update to follow the -RELEASE-p- branch, this is valid. Now here is my question. After I ran portsnap fetch

top memory usage question

2010-05-27 Thread Coert
Hello all, Just a question, on Linux the output of top's memory usage looks like this: Mem: 2075424k total, 1760848k used, 314576k free, 151872k buffers Swap: 4192924k total,0k used, 4192924k free, 1214052k cached on FreeBSD: Mem: 48M Active, 945M Inact, 190M Wired, 112M

Re: portsnap and portupgrade question

2010-05-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:26:49 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: I checked the man page, and the -PP option is indeed what I am looking for. The -PP option forces packages. Keep in mind that it *may* happen that there isn't a package for a specific port, or a package uses the default

Re: top memory usage question

2010-05-27 Thread RW
On Thu, 27 May 2010 11:52:15 +0200 Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, Just a question, on Linux the output of top's memory usage looks like this: Mem: 2075424k total, 1760848k used, 314576k free, 151872k buffers Swap: 4192924k total,0k used, 4192924k free

Re: portsnap and portupgrade question

2010-05-27 Thread Coert
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:26:49 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: I checked the man page, and the -PP option is indeed what I am looking for. The -PP option forces packages. Keep in mind that it *may* happen that there isn't a package for a specific port, or a

linux cp -u question

2010-05-27 Thread Coert
Hello all, Is there a FreeBSD equivalent for the linux cp -u ? http://linux.die.net/man/1/cp (-u, --update) Rgds, Coert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: linux cp -u question

2010-05-27 Thread Lord Of Hyphens
rsync is almost certainly a better solution. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, Is there a FreeBSD equivalent for the linux cp -u ? http://linux.die.net/man/1/cp (-u, --update) Rgds, Coert ___

Cloning question

2010-05-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
I've written a few howto's on backup/restore/cloning in the past, but now I have a question that I hope to have quickly answered. I'm not looking for criticism on my approach, only on whether it will work. With that said, I'll lay out my scenario and my questions. Scenario: - live web server

bash-static question..

2010-05-23 Thread B. Cook
I was compiling and saw this message.. cc -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='amd64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='freebsd8.0' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0' -DCONF_VENDOR='portbld' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/local/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib

tricky perl question - ascending order

2010-05-23 Thread Jozsi Vadkan
or maybe in bash.. script/one liner e.g.: input: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=pMZPEsMZ i want to make this output from it: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=kH8VxT0A So from the input, i want to make an ascendant order, how many things are under a SOMETHING-XX Does anyone has any perl magic in

Re: tricky perl question - ascending order

2010-05-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Jozsi == Jozsi Vadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.com writes: Jozsi So from the input, i want to make an ascendant order, how many things Jozsi are under a SOMETHING-XX So you just want paragraphs ordered by line count? Something like this, untested: perl -00 'print map $_-[0], sort { $a-[1] = $b-[1]

Re: tricky perl question - ascending order

2010-05-23 Thread Jozsi Vadkan
The solution [i asked Randal L. Schwartz, because i didn't worked, and he said he just forgot the -e, now it works!!]: perl -00 -e 'print map $_-[0], sort { $a-[1] = $b-[1] } map [$_, tr/\n//], ' before.txt after.txt Thank you!! Jozsi == Jozsi Vadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.com writes:

question regarding FTP_PROXY

2010-05-22 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi freebsd folks, I'm having troubles installing some ports because I'm behind a restrictive pf firewall. I've heard that this could be circumvented if I use a ftp_proxy. I have this debian server that can access ftp sites and I installed vsftp on that and checked I can get to that box with

Re: question regarding FTP_PROXY

2010-05-22 Thread Alberto Mijares
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi freebsd folks, I'm having troubles installing some ports because I'm behind a restrictive pf firewall. I've heard that this could be circumvented if I use a ftp_proxy. I have this debian server that can access ftp

ipfilter rules question

2010-05-18 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm using ipfilter on -current. Here's a fragment of the outgoing rules: # ipfstat -on *skip* @14 pass out quick on bge0 proto udp from any to any port = 8649 keep state *skip* @18 pass out log first quick on bge0 all And I see these ipmon entries in /var/log/ipfilter.log: ipmon[765]:

Question not found in FAQs or other documentation

2010-05-15 Thread jon
To whom it concerns, I am a relatively basic/amateur computer user and I just noticed today that my recent servers lists Free BSD. I do not knowingly connect to any outside servers and am concerned that any server has been connected to my computer. My question is: how can I prevent

Re: Question not found in FAQs or other documentation

2010-05-15 Thread Jon Radel
). My question is: how can I prevent this server from ever connecting to my computer again? And anything else I can do to delete this server, this connection I've seen nothing in your description to indicate that there is a current connection of any type. If it bugs you, what about hitting

Re: Question not found in FAQs or other documentation

2010-05-15 Thread Bob Hall
to my computer. My question is: how can I prevent this server from ever connecting to my computer again? And anything else I can do to delete this server, this connection Out of curiosity, I looked in the Recent Servers list in a couple of Macs that I have, and the only thing I could

rookie question about PACKAGESITE

2010-05-11 Thread Coert
Hello all, I started using FreeBSD about a week ago, and I really like the system. Have been using Linux for the last few years. One noob question though, according to the Handbook on Packages and Ports, I can use packages for either RELEASE, STABLE, or CURRENT. How exactly would

Re: rookie question about PACKAGESITE

2010-05-11 Thread Ross Cameron
Hey hey Coert Nice to see another GLUG member on here. The link below will answer you're question. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html In general give the FreeBSD Handbook a read, in my concerted little opinion it is the gold standard in how any

Re: rookie question about PACKAGESITE

2010-05-11 Thread RW
On Tue, 11 May 2010 13:42:52 +0200 Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, I started using FreeBSD about a week ago, and I really like the system. Have been using Linux for the last few years. One noob question though, according to the Handbook on Packages and Ports, I can use

RE: bash while read question

2010-05-06 Thread Evuraan
2010/5/5 CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net: On 05/05/2010 08:25 PM, Evuraan wrote: I cant figure out why the variable in in loop2 does not hike to +1? (its a friday, i am dazed, I admit. but this should not be a mystery!) any help would be much appreciated. snip $ cat loop2 #!

bash while read question

2010-05-05 Thread Evuraan
I cant figure out why the variable in in loop2 does not hike to +1? (its a friday, i am dazed, I admit. but this should not be a mystery!) any help would be much appreciated. $ cat loop1 #! /bin/bash date /tmp/somefile b=1 while read blah; do let b=(b+1) done /tmp/somefile echo variable is

Re: bash while read question

2010-05-05 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 05/05/2010 08:25 PM, Evuraan wrote: I cant figure out why the variable in in loop2 does not hike to +1? (its a friday, i am dazed, I admit. but this should not be a mystery!) any help would be much appreciated. snip $ cat loop2 #! /bin/bash date /tmp/somefile b=1 cat /tmp/somefile |

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? Well... erm... in fact... I didn't measure anything, I just utilized the numbers. :-) Modern PCs come with a 700 W power supply (and more), and the

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Gary Kline
yo; it's late here [even i've wimped out:: no-ooo-ooo!] so i'll reply come morning. ('sall ready 'tomorrow':) -g On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 05:20:55AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, May 01,

Solved - Atheros AR9285 on FreeBSD-8 [WAS: Re: Wireless networking question]

2010-05-01 Thread S Roberts
Hello Chip, On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:03:21 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 30 2010 13:39, S Roberts wrote: Hello Chip, Good to hear from you.., On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:52:13 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 26 2010

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? Well... erm... in fact... I didn't measure anything, I just utilized the numbers. :-) Modern PCs come with a 700 W power supply (and more), and the specs for my AS/400e

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 03:55:43PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? Well... erm... in fact... I didn't measure anything, I just utilized the numbers. :-) Modern PCs come

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread David Rawling
the losses due to the PSU itself. To go back to Gary's question, however, I would suggest that the new Core i3 series of processors, along with a new board, will use substantially less power than is marked on the PSU, especially if he is not continually encoding video, rendering animation

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? Well... erm... in fact... I didn't measure anything, I just utilized the numbers. :-) Modern PCs come with a 700 W power supply

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:58:36AM +1000, David Rawling wrote: Servers tend to be worse - I have a matched pair of Acer servers with single 3GHz P4 class Xeons, 2GB of RAM, 3 x 7200rpm disks and dual NICs. Those systems pull 220W and they're the next ones I'm ditching for something that

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 05:20:55AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Gary Kline
(using the Australian version of the Kill-A-Watt) so include the losses due to the PSU itself. To go back to Gary's question, however, I would suggest that the new Core i3 series of processors, along with a new board, will use substantially less power than is marked on the PSU, especially

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:32:49PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:58:36AM +1000, David Rawling wrote: Servers tend to be worse - I have a matched pair of Acer servers with single 3GHz P4 class Xeons, 2GB of RAM, 3 x 7200rpm disks and dual NICs. Those systems pull

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 03:33:29PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: hmm. a year++ ago i bought a hidef tv for around $1K. (remember, guys, your wives are going to want [[order you]] to buy a $zillion wood enclousure. whatever it's called. 20' long stand, cabinet+shelves.

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-30 Thread S Roberts
Hello Chip, Good to hear from you.., On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:52:13 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 26 2010 22:00, Carl Chave wrote: More info:  I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl: no...@pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-30 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 30 2010 13:39, S Roberts wrote: Hello Chip, Good to hear from you.., On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:52:13 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 26 2010 22:00, Carl Chave wrote: More info:  I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl:

ziz a dumb question?

2010-04-30 Thread Gary Kline
i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would be more efficient than what came before. still, getting-real, i checked out the power stats for the various chipsets. right now, everybody is racing for efficiency. not here yet. i'm

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-04-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would be more efficient than what came before. Oh, you mean that a modern desktop PC consumes as much power as my old

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-04-30 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would be more efficient than what came before. Oh, you

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-04-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-29 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 26 2010 22:00, Carl Chave wrote: More info:  I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl: no...@pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'    class      = network From here:

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-27 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 26 2010 22:00, Carl Chave wrote: More info:  I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl: no...@pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'    class      = network From here:

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-26 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 25 2010 22:15, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Let me preface my commentary with I'm way out of my league, so #include disclaimer.h and all that ... For starters, in re: above, didn't someone suggest libpciaccess as the source for scanpci? I can't tell if you are misunderstanding what S

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-26 Thread Carl Chave
More info:  I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl: no...@pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'    class      = network From here: http://www.pcidatabase.com/vendor_details.php?id=174

Re: Question. Multi Boot

2010-04-25 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 11:10 -0500, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I have read archives and do gogled searches but would like , if possible, to hear comments based on experience. I have a machine, pentium D 2.4mhz 2gb RAM, 160DD HD XP Pro

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 24 2010 23:51, S Roberts wrote: I believe its been bundled into the libpciaccess port: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/libpciaccess/ Doesn't seem to be there, and google isn't being helpful. A search of freshports.org didn't turn up anything either. Searching

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chip Camden wrote: On Apr 24 2010 23:51, S Roberts wrote: I believe its been bundled into the libpciaccess port: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/libpciaccess/ Doesn't seem to be there, and google isn't being helpful. A search of freshports.org didn't turn up anything

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread S Roberts
Hello Chip, On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:10:40 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 24 2010 23:51, S Roberts wrote: I believe its been bundled into the libpciaccess port: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/libpciaccess/ Doesn't seem to be there, and

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 25 2010 21:26, S Roberts wrote: Hmmm.., you sure your ports system is installed / up-to-date there? Do you have any of the docs that would have shipped with the notebook? If not, I searched ASUS, and found a link to the English version manual here:

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 25 2010 16:18, Chip Camden wrote: On Apr 25 2010 21:26, S Roberts wrote: Hmmm.., you sure your ports system is installed / up-to-date there? Do you have any of the docs that would have shipped with the notebook? If not, I searched ASUS, and found a link to the English version

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chip Camden wrote: On Apr 25 2010 16:18, Chip Camden wrote: On Apr 25 2010 21:26, S Roberts wrote: Hmmm.., you sure your ports system is installed / up-to-date there? Do you have any of the docs that would have shipped with the notebook? If not, I searched ASUS, and found a link to the

Wireless networking question

2010-04-24 Thread Chip Camden
A new notebook (ASUS K72F) has integrated wireles networking. The technical specifications are sadly lacking, so I don't know what chipset. The wired ethernet appears to use uath, but that's not working as a wlandev. Since most everything else is Intel, I figured it could be an Intel chipset,

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-24 Thread S Roberts
Hello Chip, On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:39:47 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: A new notebook (ASUS K72F) has integrated wireles networking. The technical specifications are sadly lacking, so I don't know what chipset. The wired ethernet appears to use uath, but that's

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-24 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 24 2010 13:39, Chip Camden wrote: A new notebook (ASUS K72F) has integrated wireles networking. The technical specifications are sadly lacking, so I don't know what chipset. The wired ethernet appears to use uath, but that's not working as a wlandev. Since most everything else is

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-24 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 24 2010 21:55, S Roberts wrote: snip Easiest option would be to run a livecd of another more populous *nix flavour and see what it makes of the hardware. Needless to say, if you're so bold, you **can** always load windows and let window tell you what it is ;-) Regards, S Roberts

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-24 Thread S Roberts
Hello Chip, On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:00:29 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 24 2010 13:39, Chip Camden wrote: A new notebook (ASUS K72F) has integrated wireles networking. The technical specifications are sadly lacking, so I don't know what chipset. The wired

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-24 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 24 2010 22:07, S Roberts wrote: Not a whole lot there.., Does scanpci -v tell you any more details about the hardware? Regards, S Roberts I don't seem to have scanpci on my system, nor do I see it in the ports tree -- where would I find it? Thanks -- Sterling (Chip) Camden

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-24 Thread S Roberts
Hello Chip, On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:00:34 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 24 2010 22:07, S Roberts wrote: Not a whole lot there.., Does scanpci -v tell you any more details about the hardware? Regards, S Roberts I don't seem to have scanpci

pf icmp6 question

2010-04-23 Thread Baginski Darren
Hi! Could please someone explain me the difference between pass quick inet6 proto icmp6 all keep state - IPv6 works only within switch collision domain AND pass quick proto icmp6 all keep state - IPv6 works globaly for whole internet IPv6 is staticaly set everywhere, none of

question about FreeBSD installing

2010-04-21 Thread 王跃辉
hi I have a problem when I try to install FreeBSD as client OS on a Linux OS. following the instruction I find that I can't open the website of www.fsmware.com to finish some download work. it seems that the dns server don't support the address in China Mainland. do you have any way to solve

Re: question about FreeBSD installing

2010-04-21 Thread Michael Powell
王跃辉 wrote: hi I have a problem when I try to install FreeBSD as client OS on a Linux OS. Sorry, but this does not make any sense to me. How are you trying to install FreeBSD on Linux? FreeBSD is an operating system, not an application. following the instruction I find that I can't

Re: question about FreeBSD installing

2010-04-21 Thread Don Brearley
Hello! I presume you are talking about running FreeBSD as a guest OS in Xen or the like. Let me point you to this URL, it contains a lot of useful information on what you're seeking. The fsmware.com website seems down, and has been for awhile. The documentation is just out of date.

Re: question about FreeBSD installing

2010-04-21 Thread Don Brearley
王跃辉 wyh1...@gmail.com 04/21/10 10:21 AM hi I have a problem when I try to install FreeBSD as client OS on a Linux OS. following the instruction I find that I can't open the website of www.fsmware.com to finish some download work. it seems that the dns server don't support the address in China

Re: question about FreeBSD installing

2010-04-21 Thread Ross Cameron
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: 王跃辉 wrote: hi     I have a problem when I try to install FreeBSD as client OS on a Linux OS. Sorry, but this does not make any sense to me. How are you trying to install FreeBSD on Linux? FreeBSD is an operating

Re: question about FreeBSD installing

2010-04-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 16:50:20 Ross Cameron wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: 王跃辉 wrote: hi I have a problem when I try to install FreeBSD as client OS on a Linux OS. Sorry, but this does not make any sense to me. How are

Re: Question. Multi Boot

2010-04-20 Thread Dánielisz László
on it. From: Kruppa, Peter Ulrich pukru...@googlemail.com To: Jorge Biquez jbiq...@icsmx.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sun, April 18, 2010 6:50:04 PM Subject: Re: Question. Multi Boot Am 18.04.2010 18:10, schrieb Jorge Biquez: Hello all. I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I

Question. Multi Boot

2010-04-18 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I have read archives and do gogled searches but would like , if possible, to hear comments based on experience. I have a machine, pentium D 2.4mhz 2gb RAM, 160DD HD XP Pro. As I mentuioned in other post I installed FreeBSD 7.3 under

Question. Multi Boot

2010-04-18 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I have read archives and do gogled searches but would like , if possible, to hear comments based on experience. I have a machine, pentium D 2.4mhz 2gb RAM, 160DD HD XP Pro. As I mentuioned in other post I installed FreeBSD 7.3 under

Re: Question. Multi Boot

2010-04-18 Thread Kruppa, Peter Ulrich
Am 18.04.2010 18:10, schrieb Jorge Biquez: Hello all. I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I have read archives and do gogled searches but would like , if possible, to hear comments based on experience. I have a machine, pentium D 2.4mhz 2gb RAM, 160DD HD XP Pro. As I mentuioned

Re: Question. Multi Boot

2010-04-18 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I have read archives and do gogled searches but would like , if possible, to hear comments based on experience. I have a machine, pentium D 2.4mhz 2gb RAM, 160DD HD XP Pro. As I mentuioned

Re: Question. Multi Boot

2010-04-18 Thread Jon Radel
On 4/18/10 12:50 PM, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich wrote: Since Windows isn't very cooperative with other operating systems, leave it where it is, buy a second hard disk and install FreeBSD (and Linux) on it. The FreeBSD bootmanager will be able to boot Windows but Windows will not boot any FreeBSD or

Re: Question. Multi Boot

2010-04-18 Thread Jorge Biquez
At 05:04 p.m. 18/04/2010, you wrote: On 4/18/10 12:50 PM, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich wrote: Since Windows isn't very cooperative with other operating systems, leave it where it is, buy a second hard disk and install FreeBSD (and Linux) on it. The FreeBSD bootmanager will be able to boot Windows

crypt question/server hotel

2010-04-17 Thread Jozsi Vadkan
I want to put my server in a server hotel. But: I don't trust my server hotel owner. What can I do? I can crypt my partition/hdd's that contains the data. Ok. But: then my operating system will not be encrypted. Not Ok. If I crypt my operating system too, then when a reboot comes, I have to

Re: crypt question/server hotel

2010-04-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 17, 2010, at 1:49 AM, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: I want to put my server in a server hotel. But: I don't trust my server hotel owner. What can I do? Find a different hotel owner. There is no good protection against someone with physical access to the machine. Even using disk encryption

licence question

2010-04-14 Thread M. Aschhoff
hey there, hope everythings all right? i´m using your devil image on my website. www.little-devil.de someone tould me that this image is not under bsd licence. am i allowed to use this image? i´ll would be pleased to use it. this is my private website i´m providing free software. thank you very

RE: licence question

2010-04-14 Thread Terrence Koeman
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of M. Aschhoff Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 4:22 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: licence question hey there, hope everythings all right? i´m

Re: licence question

2010-04-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:22:26 +0200, M. Aschhoff knex...@googlemail.com wrote: hey there, hope everythings all right? i´m using your devil image on my website. www.little-devil.de someone tould me that this image is not under bsd licence. am i allowed to use this image? i´ll would be

Question about fstab

2010-04-14 Thread Дмитрий Бехтерев
Hello all! I want use redundant scheme for booting my OS. For instance I have two ufs slices and each of them keep /boot folder. For example, I want use fstab like that: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad6s1b noneswapsw

Re: Question about fstab

2010-04-14 Thread Adam Vande More
2010/4/14 Дмитрий Бехтерев dbehte...@gmail.com Hello all! I want use redundant scheme for booting my OS. Most would use gmirror, zfs mirror, or a hardware based solution instead of your approach. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html -- Adam Vande More

Re: dovecot/jail question

2010-04-13 Thread perikillo
...@gmail.com wrote: First, Thanks all for the help with my previous sendmail question. I rebuilt the jail without postfix and that at least seems happy. So does this mean that you can NOT run postfix in a FreeBSD 8 Jail? I didn't know this, I just assumed postfix in a Jail would work

Re: make delete-old question (removing old binaries)

2010-04-04 Thread Bruce Cran
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 28240 Apr 3 08:54 traceroute Is this simply a cosmetic issue and I can just remove those binaries manually or if not so, is there a special configs needed to remove them. Apologize if this question has been asked before. You should be using WITHOUT_ versions

make delete-old question (removing old binaries)

2010-04-03 Thread Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
a cosmetic issue and I can just remove those binaries manually or if not so, is there a special configs needed to remove them. Apologize if this question has been asked before. -- Thank you for your time, Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim ___ freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD Instalation question

2010-03-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:48:54PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:41:53 -0300 (CLST), pvida...@uc.cl wrote: Hello. I am interested in installing FreeBSD OS on my Notebook, which has at this time Windows 7 with a hard disk partitioned into 2 primary partition (C: and

FreeBSD Instalation question

2010-03-30 Thread pvidales
Hola. Estoy interesado en instalar el SO FreeBSD en mi Notebook, el cual tiene en este momento Windows 7 con un disco duro particionado en 2 (C: y D:). Leí las instrucciones de instalación, pero no me quedó claro lo siguiente: Como puedo instalar FreeBSD en la particion D: sin borrar el contenido

Re: FreeBSD Instalation question

2010-03-30 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:41:53 -0300 (CLST), pvida...@uc.cl wrote: Hello. I am interested in installing FreeBSD OS on my Notebook, which has at this time Windows 7 with a hard disk partitioned into 2 primary partition (C: and D:). I read the installation instructions, but I was clear: How can I

Re: FreeBSD Instalation question

2010-03-30 Thread Dima Panov
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 08:48:54 Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:41:53 -0300 (CLST), pvida...@uc.cl wrote: Hello. I am interested in installing FreeBSD OS on my Notebook, which has at this time Windows 7 with a hard disk partitioned into 2 primary partition (C: and D:). I read

Question about expr

2010-03-27 Thread Manish Jain
Hello all, I am used to the normal GNU-version of expr (also available on Solaris) and much prefer it over the FreeBSD version. The GNU version allows internal commands like length, substring and others which make it much easier to work with. Is there any way I can replace FreeBSD's native

Re: Question about expr

2010-03-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 27), Manish Jain said: I am used to the normal GNU-version of expr (also available on Solaris) and much prefer it over the FreeBSD version. The GNU version allows internal commands like length, substring and others which make it much easier to work with. Is there any

Re: Question about expr

2010-03-27 Thread Manish Jain
actually leads me to second question : When you execute a script, it will automatically pick up the exports in .bash_profile. But even if you manually source bash's profile at the start of your script, only the exports get picked up and the aliases are ignored. Is there some way to fix this so

Re: Question about expr

2010-03-27 Thread perryh
Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: When you execute a script ... the aliases are ignored. Is there some way to fix this ... Search for expand_aliases in the bash manpage. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

multicore processing question

2010-03-17 Thread Zepeda, Herbey
Hi, I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and have had a hard time get to the right information relating multicore processing. I hope someone can give me some pointers. I have a two core processor and FreeBSD (latest stable release). Question: If I have a c program that creates child processes

Re: multicore processing question

2010-03-17 Thread Adam Vande More
stable release). Question: If I have a c program that creates child processes with fork and exec (in a non blocking way), will the child processes be executed by FreeBSD in parallel using the different cores without me having to do special synchronization arrangements to my program? Well

RE: multicore processing question

2010-03-17 Thread Gary Gatten
-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multicore processing question On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Zepeda, Herbey herbey.zep...@atg.in.govwrote: Hi, I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and have had a hard time get to the right information relating multicore processing. I hope someone can give me some

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