Re: The freebsd-questions Archives

2009-06-13 Thread membrana
ecent postings. --- How should I search the list ? /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-uns

Re: The freebsd-questions Archives

2009-06-13 Thread Bruce Cran
is usally done once every 24 hours for this > list. You can use a "View by date" link below to access more recent > postings. > > --- > > How should I search the list ? The easiest way is probably to use Google -

The freebsd-questions Archives

2009-06-12 Thread Leslie Jensen
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Re: kernel compiling questions

2009-06-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
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Re: ISP questions

2009-06-10 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:33:05AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:13:47 -0600 > Chad Perrin wrote: > > >If 0.111% of customers are unfortunate enough to end up with something > >entirely beyond their control causing something to happen that can be > >imagined to be a violation of GoD

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Every time you get in a car, you risk your life. Does that mean you Everything is dangerous, life itself being the most - always ends with death. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-10 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:13:47 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: >If 0.111% of customers are unfortunate enough to end up with something >entirely beyond their control causing something to happen that can be >imagined to be a violation of GoDaddy's partially undisclosed policies, >and 0.1% of GoDaddy custome

Re: kernel compiling questions

2009-06-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
every time you do config on the same build directory. ___ 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"

kernel compiling questions

2009-06-09 Thread Jason Helfman
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Re: ISP questions

2009-06-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:31:12PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:55:49 -0600 > Chad Perrin wrote: > > >I try to learn from others' mistakes to reduce the likelihood that I > >will be forced to learn from my own. If you really want to learn from > >your own mistakes, though, go ahea

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Don Read
neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ 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: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
pages :) ___ 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: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
to produce LaTeX documents. I even `published' my > collection of makefiles at https://gna.org/projects/bsdmakepscripts/ And I'm using a heavily customized version of this CA setup: http://sial.org/howto/openssl/ca/ -- Mel ___ 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: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Grünewald Michaël
t, Michaël ___ 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: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Ruben de Groot
table file exists and is newer. Ruben ___ 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: ISP questions

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:55:49 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: >I try to learn from others' mistakes to reduce the likelihood that I >will be forced to learn from my own. If you really want to learn from >your own mistakes, though, go ahead and ignore the instances where >GoDaddy has screwed over other cu

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-08 Thread Polytropon
hich I do with - you already guessed it - with "make install" (uses ftp -u then), and "make deinstall" deletes stuff from the webserver. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:45:43AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > I have used GoDaddy for 7 years now without a single problem. Maybe I > am just lucky. I have only contacted them twice; however, I received > a quick and courteous response to my inquiry. I try to learn from others' mistakes to reduce th

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > > What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is > being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why > make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with implicit C >

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-08 Thread Chuck Robey
that complex, so it's actually frightening everyone based upon it's reputation. Well, that, and the one truly poor makefile I've ever seen, that one defaulted to by all of the autoconf tools (the gcc Makefile is an example of this, it's too bad to be described without using foul l

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 262, Issue 2

2009-06-08 Thread DA Forsyth
> Message: 22 > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:10:50 -0300 > From: Friedrich Locke > Subject: SAN FreeBSD Server > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear gentleman, > > i would like to

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 19:46:29 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: >On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:50:35PM -0400, itsemu wrote: >> if your dealing with a isp such as a cable/dsl company, remember the >> requirements to work there, they arent trained on anything besides >> windows.. probably dont really know what a

General and specific make questions

2009-06-07 Thread Lars Eighner
make should not be perplexed over how to create them. How do I express that kind of relationship? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 06:23:56PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >The tech support people do what they are told to do. If you've ever had > >a job in which every single incoming call is someone who is frustrated, > >angry and is going to take it out on *you*, it might be understandable > >why

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:50:35PM -0400, itsemu wrote: > if your dealing with a isp such as a cable/dsl company, remember the > requirements to work there, they arent trained on anything besides windows.. > probably dont really know what a static ip is or have any idea what hardware > each differe

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
rite a program to kill me." just read polish article about whole US army having to switch to windows vista because someone decided so - no i fully understand you :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Karl Vogel
ves me a migraine.--snotty media haiku ___ 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: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ive in normal system. ___ 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: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ll clients the truth. It's the users who scream and bitch and claim "it hasn't worked for a month!", Simply answer "why didn't you call month ago? As you called now, i count this as problem started today". ___ fr

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
some DVD-bootable linux distro with web browser and show that all is fine :) ___ 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: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Reid Linnemann
nted someone to be mad at, and I was it. > I've been in the industry quite a while, and I would hazard a guess that > about 85% of tech support calls incoming would be user error. > > Unless it's a relatively small ISP, you can't expect the tech support > people to be

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Steve Bertrand : > > [snip] > >> Disclaimer: I work as a network engineer at a small ISP. From time to >> time, I still have to answer the phone every once in a while >> (unfortunately). >> >> I do not like dealing directly with users. Most of them complain, bit

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Bill Moran
that management or the higher level tech screwed something up and the tech support folks are supposed to be covering it up, there's not much you can really say or do, and that's _really_ frustrating. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmora

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
keep anyone longer than a few months. I've been in the industry quite a while, and I would hazard a guess that about 85% of tech support calls incoming would be user error. Unless it's a relatively small ISP, you can't expect the tech support people to be able to answer questions

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
itsemu wrote: > if your dealing with a isp such as a cable/dsl company, remember the > requirements to work there, they arent trained on anything besides windows.. Excuse me, unless you have ever worked at an ISP, might I kindly ask you to have some respect. (if you have, the call centre you likel

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
in the service to know the meaning of your questions and the answers. Man, you're with the wrong ISP. Or maybe it's best ISP available there? :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My isp have up to 1Gbyte/s costs 1000SEK a month 1Gbyte/s? Yes. it's 10Gbit/s No. So 1Gbyte or Gbit/s? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Reid Linnemann wrote: Written by Mark Hartkemeyer on 06/04/09 11:23>> I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and was reading part of Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition. I found the section on ISPs in chapter 18 really interesting. I put some of his recommended questions to my

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread itsemu
, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Modulok wrote: > On 6/4/09, Mark Hartkemeyer wrote: > > I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and was reading part of Greg Lehey's The > > Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition. I found the section on ISPs in chapter > > 18 really interesting. I put some of

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Modulok
On 6/4/09, Mark Hartkemeyer wrote: > I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and was reading part of Greg Lehey's The > Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition. I found the section on ISPs in chapter > 18 really interesting. I put some of his recommended questions to my > ISP, Cincinnati Bell&

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Bernt Hansson
you use to connect? server on my connection. Outgoing port 25, 137-139 closed. Incoming port 137-139, 445 closed So it's not full internet service unless it can unblock it on request. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Bernt Hansson
lock the ports. ___ 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: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
So it's not full internet service unless it can unblock it on request. ___ 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: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Bernt Hansson
Mark Hartkemeyer said the following on 2009-06-04 18:23: I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and was reading part of Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition. I found the section on ISPs in chapter 18 really interesting. I put some of his recommended questions to my ISP, Cincinnati Bell&

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
any difference and it's closest to lowest offer. But people like to hear this so they hear, and at least here marketing people know perfectly what to answer about "internet speed" as they call it :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
problems here". I asked few their other clients then - they heard exactly the same. ___ 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: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Mark Hartkemeyer on 06/04/09 11:23>> > I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and was reading part of Greg Lehey's The > Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition. I found the section on ISPs in chapter > 18 really interesting. I put some of his recommended questions to my > ISP, Ci

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Mark Busby
--- On Thu, 6/4/09, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > From: Wojciech Puchar > Subject: Re: ISP questions > To: "Bill Moran" > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009, 12:56 PM > >> 4. What kind of hardware and > software are you runni

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Steve Bertrand
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> 4. What kind of hardware and software are you running? >>> "Can't provide this, due to security reasons." >> >> That's the stupidest answer I've heard today. > > It isn't that stupid. As many ISPs admins aren't very good, they simply > fear. Based on the answers pro

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
vested millions of dollars each for hardware, but not employees. ___ 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: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:10:17 -0400 Bill Moran wrote: >In response to Mark Hartkemeyer : >> 4. What kind of hardware and software are you running? >> "Can't provide this, due to security reasons." > >That's the stupidest answer I've heard today. Actually, I had a Comcast representative give b

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Mark Hartkemeyer : > I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and was reading part of Greg Lehey's The > Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition. I found the section on ISPs in chapter > 18 really interesting. I put some of his recommended questions to my > ISP, Cincinnati Bell&

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mark Hartkemeyer wrote: > I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and was reading part of Greg Lehey's The > Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition.  I found the section on ISPs in chapter > 18 really interesting.  I put some of his recommended questions to my >

ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Mark Hartkemeyer
I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and was reading part of Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition. I found the section on ISPs in chapter 18 really interesting. I put some of his recommended questions to my ISP, Cincinnati Bell's Zoomtown. I think I talked to three or four peopl

Re: vmstat questions

2009-06-01 Thread Dan Nelson
you increased MAXCOMLEN to 40, but you can try bumping it and see what breaks :) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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"

vmstat questions

2009-06-01 Thread Morgan Wesström
0xe400-0xe403,0xe080-0xe08f,0xe000-0xe00f irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 atapci3: port 0xd080-0xd087,0xd000-0xd003,0xcc00-0xcc07,0xc880-0xc883,0xc800-0xc80f,0xc480-0xc48f irq 19 at device 31.5 on pci0 Regards Morgan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
utomated manner. it's not possible to automatize this unfortunately. ___ 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: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
that's why i opt for moderation. because it's completely stupid as there are no rules and no enforcement. On Fri, 29 May 2009, gabe wrote: This is stupid, I'm unsubscribing. jeez -Original Message- From: Chad Perrin Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 1:41 PM To: fr

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
something else. ___ 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: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
gh unreasonable hoops whenever their personality is slightly different from the 'permitted' forms of straight-jacket. >>> already told you i will >> >> Thank you! I'll be watching for interesting updates :) > > OK no later than tomorrow morning There a

RE: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread gabe
This is stupid, I'm unsubscribing. jeez -Original Message- From: Chad Perrin Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 1:41 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On the need for moderated questions lists On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 07:13:49PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >so

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 07:13:49PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >software that runs on multiple OSes (and not *just* FreeBSD) to run an > >extra system, running some other OS. > > no. i expect them to ask THAT program support. > > In really rare cases when they got an answer like > "You did al

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:00:49AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > So . . . you have the same choice in a dictatorship that you have in a > benign dictatorship: leave. That should have said: So . . . you have the same choice in a moderated mailing list that you have in a benign dictatorship: l

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
gave excellent example. ___ 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: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
laris/whatever OS and it works fine" They it's place to ask because certainly there's something wrong with the port. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
>> - questions about purely FreeBSD-specific and FreeBSD-dependend things >> of >> ported programs. For example: >> >> --- >> I start program X, configure it the same way as in linux, installed all >> the same modules, but here it crashes/behave differe

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 03:14:20PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >Not necessarily. > > > >There were 'rules' in Nazi Germany too, and there usually exist at least > >some 'rules' in oppressive regimes, but they do not necessarily, by > >virtue of their mere existence, lead to satisfying resul

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Chad Perrin
programs, BUT NOT THE PROGRAMS > itself. > > - questions about purely FreeBSD-specific and FreeBSD-dependend things of > ported programs. For example: > > --- > I start program X, configure it the same way as in linux, installed all > the same modules, but here

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ving in Nazi Germany (and Poland) that times didn't. already told you i will Thank you! I'll be watching for interesting updates :) OK no later than tomorrow morning ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
es there *is* a problem. > > already told you i will Thank you! I'll be watching for interesting updates :) ___ 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: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
imes when i will have free time and good humour to have lots of fun, explain to KDE/Gnome/windows fans what unix is, talk about politics, global warming and nice girls etc. etc. Or maybe sometimes even get help or be helpful, for example with questions like "do you know a program that do t

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 29 May 2009 13:01:04 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Because we already _have_ a list `for general FreeBSD questions', and it >> is open. Adding even more lists to the mix will --at least initially-- >> only serve as a source of mild confusion. Imagin

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Because we already _have_ a list `for general FreeBSD questions', and it is open. Adding even more lists to the mix will --at least initially-- only serve as a source of mild confusion. Imagine you are a new FreeBSD user. Try to imagine it now. i see the webpage, the mailing lists, an

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
ard. >> To change something so deeply ingrained into the whole `culture' of > > why adding extra moderated list is a change of deeply ingrained culture? > Once again i'm not for shutting down that list. Because we already _have_ a list `for general FreeBSD questions',

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ed to compete with say - windows - hard, it's still so good OS, based of real idea of unix, and still well optimized for performance. Actually it gets better every release. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
dvantage is, on the other hand, quite more often a good thing :) ___ 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: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
there is nothing that prevent me from having an opinion about moderation and trying to explain to others that it make sense. There is a reason why freebsd-questions is open to everyone, including people who want to discuss things like ``How do I make my Windows boot loader launch FreeBSD?'

On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
problem with that sort of reasoning is that the FreeBSD mailing list charters *have* been decided. There is a reason why freebsd-questions is open to everyone, including people who want to discuss things like ``How do I make my Windows boot loader launch FreeBSD?''. This way people wh

freebsd-update questions

2009-05-19 Thread Pieter Donche
actually detect that there is not a generic kernel in /boot/kernel? If after freebsd-update install, you would do a shutdown -r now (before building a new custom kernel, will this be desastreous? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009-05-14 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/14 Saifi Khan : > On Wed, 13 May 2009, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > >> -- >> From: "Saifi Khan" >> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:04 PM >> To: "Sean Cavanaugh" >> Cc: ; ; >> &

RE: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009-05-14 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
ver made Linux if the litigation around BSD 4.4 had ended earlier. But why he feels like he can take over the GNU OS just because he made the kernel never made sense to me. I'm glad the GNU project finally got Hurd going though, even though they too almost went with a BSD 4.4 based kernel b

Re: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009-05-13 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 13 May 2009, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > -- > From: "Saifi Khan" > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:04 PM > To: "Sean Cavanaugh" > Cc: ; ; > Subject: RE: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions&quo

Re: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009-05-13 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
-- From: "Saifi Khan" Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:04 PM To: "Sean Cavanaugh" Cc: ; ; Subject: RE: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list On Wed, 13 May 2009, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: (The true

RE: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009-05-13 Thread Saifi Khan
dia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy thanks Saifi. ___ 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: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009-05-13 Thread Duane
ad carefully the section on CVSup: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html You can grab whatever source you want with this method. 5. RTFM! -- Duane _______ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

RE: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009-05-13 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
> Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:55:52 -0400 > From: jerr...@msu.edu > To: korikov...@gmail.com > CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list > > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:33:44PM +0530, Shakil Khan wrote: >

Re: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009-05-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
eBSD than in Linux. Although there is a kernel, it is intimately part of the whole operating system, not a kernel which someone grabs makes up a separate distribution with. jerry > Regards > ~Korikov > _______ > freebsd-questions@f

Re: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009-05-13 Thread Tim Judd
the permissions/paths correctly. --TJ ___ 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: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009-05-13 Thread Neal Hogan
articles/4608/ > > Regards > ~Korikov > ___ > 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" > -- www.nealhogan.net www.

Re: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009-05-13 Thread Glen Barber
oad tar ball of > FreeBSD kernek source code. > You can install using sysinstall, but that will be out of date. -- Glen Barber _______ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

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2009-05-13 Thread Shakil Khan
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Re: watchdog questions

2009-05-05 Thread mike
llall -9 watchdogd ... As as way to ensure the device will reboot. Note, we have everything mounted ro so we dont have to worry about file system issues. Does the platform you are using support hardware watchdogs ? ---Mike ___ freebsd-quest

watchdog questions

2009-05-05 Thread Brad Waite
ystem. 'watchdog -t ' starts a watchdog for n seconds. Runing watchdog(8) again in http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Polytropon [2009-05-04 21:02:29 +0200]: > > [...] and of > > course 'wheel'. > > Why "of course"? :-) > Umm, linuxism habit :-) > There are several groups that you can add your user to, but because > you're already in wheel, you don't have to (such as the "dialer" > group for ppp). > >

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread Old Crankbuster
* ill...@gmail.com [2009-05-04 14:39:34 -0400]: > > Various methods apply (for instance /dev/dspN.n is world > writable), man 5 devfs.conf is a good start for some of that. > Ah. Thanks. -- Cheers signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread Polytropon
f it detects new devices while it's already running. See the manpages for these files. Yes, they do exist. :-) -- Polytropon >From 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 "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread ill...@gmail.com
ant packages > to them? > Various methods apply (for instance /dev/dspN.n is world writable), man 5 devfs.conf is a good start for some of that. Best of luck. -- -- ___ 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"

Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread Old Crankbuster
Coming from Gnu/Linux, I see differences in group generation on regular user generation, and there's a group I'm not familiar with - 'operator'. What does that one do? I'm familiar with 'staff' and I've added my normal user to that, and of course 'wheel'. I intend to use the system on a laptop

Re: questions about Fatal Trap 12

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Powell
sing a known good. Probably 70%+ of the time it has turned out to save lots of time. Rather than try every thing else first I have learned to eliminate the power supply first, rather than the other way around. But I also have a 100MHz dual trace 'scope too. -Mike

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