Re: sudo -K/-k ineffective

2010-07-31 Thread Chris Rees
... I'm no longer going to answer questions past 11 o'clock GMT. Sorry! Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 31 Jul 2010 03:05, Michael Toth freebsd.mt...@queldor.net wrote: On 07/30/2010 06:00 PM, Chris Rees wrote: It's by

Installing 8.1-RELEASE from the memstick

2010-07-31 Thread perryh
When installing from the 8.1-RELEASE memstick, what is the correct selection for Installation Media? I'm not finding any mention of memstick in the Handbook. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Installing a system to use both gjournal and gmirror

2010-07-31 Thread perryh
I've read the Handbook sections on gmirror and gjournal, and the gjournal-desktop article, and I'm still unclear on how to go about setting up a configuration that uses both. * Since I haven't started the installation -- thus the partitions haven't even been created yet -- it seems as if it

Re: Installing a system to use both gjournal and gmirror

2010-07-31 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 4:38 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've read the Handbook sections on gmirror and gjournal, and the gjournal-desktop article, and I'm still unclear on how to go about setting up a configuration that uses both. * Since I haven't started the installation -- thus the

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-31 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:08:20PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS ago. cannot find. it had a

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-31 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 05:07:26PM +, Mario Lobo wrote: On Thursday 29 July 2010 19:45:02 Antonio Olivares wrote: I am sorry but I am now confused, the BSD Logo : http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/logo-red.png is the sex toy right? Because Beastie just has his pitchfork

Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Unga
Hi all I have installed KDE 4.4.5 from ports (ie. with full compilation) on FreeBSD 8.1 on i386. Once HAL and DBUS is enabled in /etc/rc.conf, behaviour of KDE is surprisingly poor: 1. None of the desktop icons works to launch programs. Eg. Click or double click on Firefox icon does not

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Unga wrote: Hi all I have installed KDE 4.4.5 from ports (ie. with full compilation) on FreeBSD 8.1 on i386. Once HAL and DBUS is enabled in /etc/rc.conf, behaviour of KDE is surprisingly poor: 2. Once type firefox on the Run Command it doesn't appear until I shake

Re: Installing a system to use both gjournal and gmirror

2010-07-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 31/07/2010 14:54:40, Adam Vande More wrote: While you are correct there isn't much point in mirroring swap and tmp, Well, apart from the small point of being resilient to disk failure... You'ld probably survive /tmp going AWOL with no more than flesh wounds, a little screaming and some

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Unga
--- On Sat, 7/31/10, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Subject: Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad? To: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 11:53 PM On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Unga wrote: Hi

Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

2010-07-31 Thread Carl Johnson
Anonymous swel...@gmail.com writes: Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the system. Gnus will

Unable to kldload linux

2010-07-31 Thread William Vining
Hi, I have just upgraded my system to 8.1-RELEASE $ uname -a FreeBSD makalu.abqhomenet 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #10: Thu Jul 29 08:12:40 MDT 2010 r...@makalu.abqhomenet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRAGMENT amd64 only to find that I cannot load linux.ko # kldload linux kldload: can't load

Re: Unable to kldload linux

2010-07-31 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 6:19 PM, William Vining wfvin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have just upgraded my system to 8.1-RELEASE $ uname -a FreeBSD makalu.abqhomenet 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #10: Thu Jul 29 08:12:40 MDT 2010 r...@makalu.abqhomenet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRAGMENT  amd64

FreeBSD, snd_uaudio(4) and external DAC

2010-07-31 Thread Unga
Hi all Does anybody use the FreeBSD (especially 8.1), snd_uaudio(4) to feed digital music into an external DAC? Does snd_uaudio(4) work well to playback music? I use Amarok and OSS (Open Sound System). Could you also share your configuration info for me to understand how to setup this. Many

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 03:40:00PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:08:20PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 31 July 2010: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 03:40:00PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:08:20PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: guys,

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Michel Talon
Unga complained: behaviour of KDE is surprisingly poor I have installed a fresh FreeBSD-8.1 and a fresh kde4 from the 8.1 cdrom, and i see none of your problems. For me KDE4 works perfectly OK, i am even surprised. Of course making X to run was an exercise in pain, i had to enable HAL and

Re: Installing a system to use both gjournal and gmirror

2010-07-31 Thread krad
On 31 July 2010 17:16, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.ukwrote: On 31/07/2010 14:54:40, Adam Vande More wrote: While you are correct there isn't much point in mirroring swap and tmp, Well, apart from the small point of being resilient to disk failure... You'ld probably survive

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 01 August 2010, Michel Talon wrote: Firefox3 also chokes on Google maps while seamonkey and konqueror work ok. There are obviously javascript problems. Finally i have installed flash10 with the pluginwrapper, and it works wonderfully fine in seamonkey and firefox3, including sound,

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Michel Talon
Mike Clarke wrote: Are you by any chance using the flashblock extension with firefox? This extension has a problem with streetview and you need to add maps.google.com to the flashblock whitelist. I don't use any firefox extension, and all programs are freshly installed from

How to install Etoile?

2010-07-31 Thread Caleb Stein
I want to install Etoile. I tried doing this: cd /usr/ports/x11/etoile sudo make install It exits with an error that etoile-languagekit requires llvm 2.6 or lower, but I have llvm 2.7 installed. Is there any way to go back to 2.6, and if I can, will it break anything else that's

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-31 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
Hello What ever you ppl, say does it really depend on some logo? I` am sick an tired of downld that kind of mails from this list. I mean there are more trouble in the world then discuss `bout some logo of and Underground OS. That`s my opinion so please don`t feed the troll thx Daniel --

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:30:01PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 31 July 2010: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 03:40:00PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:08:20PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On

Re: possible NFS lockups

2010-07-31 Thread Rick Macklem
From: krad kra...@googlemail.com To: freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:29:20 AM Subject: possible NFS lockups I have a production mail system with an nfs backend. Every now and again we see the nfs die on a

Clear and FBSD

2010-07-31 Thread Lars Eighner
Does Clear: 1) Work with FreeBSD --- you just plug it in. 2) Works with FreeBSD --- you need a custom kernel and you sacrifice a goat. 3) Doesn't work with FreeBSD. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: Installing a system to use both gjournal and gmirror

2010-07-31 Thread perryh
krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: have a play with the latest pc-bsd disk if you are having issues. It will install a native freebsd, and supports gmirror and gjournal. You can do it via a script type install or GUI. I'm not to the point of having issues yet :) I haven't found any

Re: Installing a system to use both gjournal and gmirror

2010-07-31 Thread perryh
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: * Since I can't mirror or journal a FAT32 slice AFAIK, You can do both to it, it just won't be able to handle the journal. Mirroring is just fine. GEOM stuff works at the block level making it filesystem independant. Wouldn't journalling a FS

Re: IPFW with MAC address configuration

2010-07-31 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 321, Issue 12, Message: 31 On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:18:40 -0400 Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I am trying to set up a rule using IPFW that utilizes a MAC address rather than an IP one. ipfw -q allow log tcp from MAC 00-14-A4-43-8E-BA to me 137 in via