Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:51 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote: [...] > That did the job, but made `man -k`, which my fingers find familiar, > unusable. I remembered you were running a CURRENT snapshot, so figured > I'd check the difference between man in HEAD and 8.1-RELEASE... WOW! > The man in HEA

statclock vs softclock

I hope this is the correct forum. I'm reading The Design & Implementation of the FreeBSD OS by McKusick & Neville-Neil, & I'm a little confused about statclock( ) and softclock( ). According to the book, statclock( ) ticks 128 times per second, and recalculates the priority of the current process e

Re: How to adjust man page line length

* David Kelly [2011-01-18 07:05 -0500]: > As for the request not to be CC'ed in reply, put the list address in > the Reply-To: header as I have done here. I started to last night, and realized I couldn't devise a simple way to do so automatically for all lists I subscribe to without keeping a lis

Re: How to adjust man page line length

* Polytropon [2011-01-18 13:44 -0500]: > man2pdf.sh: > > #!/bin/sh > [ "$1" != "" ] && zcat `man -w $1` | \ > groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc | ps2pdf - $1.pdf > > This would cause groff to format for A4 paper width. It's fully > possible that a similar approach can be us

Re: FreeBSD cups printing server

> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jan 19 21:14:59 2011 > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:39:01 -0600 > From: "Sam Fourman Jr." > To: FreeBSD Questions > Cc: > Subject: FreeBSD cups printing server > > Hello list, > > I have a freshly installed FreeBSD 8.2 print server using the latest cu

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

* Giorgos Keramidas [2011-01-19 02:57 -0500]: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> Set the 'columns' attribute of your tty: > >> stty columns 60 > >> man xxx > > > > *Should*? You posted withou

Re: FreeBSD cups printing server

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:39:01 -0600, "Sam Fourman Jr." wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a freshly installed FreeBSD 8.2 print server using the latest > cups from ports. > > I have a Brother 9440CN printer and a Virtual pdf printer installed > with cups-pdf > > both work great... > > my problem

Re: The book of pf...

On 1/19/11, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Modulok writes: > >> This book comes in two editions. The first was published in December >> 2007, the second, November, 2010. Does anyone have this? And if so >> would I be correct to get the first edition instead? I know FreeBSD's >> pf lags being openB

Re: devel/libsoup-2.32.2 Compile error _md5 problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/19/11 12:04 PM, David Southwell wrote: > > Thanks in advance for help with this one: > > File "/usr/local/bin/g-ir-scanner", line 43, in > from giscanner.scannermain import scanner_main [...] > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py",

FreeBSD cups printing server

Hello list, I have a freshly installed FreeBSD 8.2 print server using the latest cups from ports. I have a Brother 9440CN printer and a Virtual pdf printer installed with cups-pdf both work great... my problem is I want to create a pdf for everything I send to the brother printer (for archival

Re: Which network driver for RTL8211 or 8201 NIC's?

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:54:54PM +, b. f. wrote: > Mike Clarke wrote: > > I need to replace a failing motherboard. I'm aiming to keep the existing > > Athlon CPU so I'm tied down to to a socket AM2(+) board and the > > majority of those available seem to have nForce 630a chipsets and > > RTL8

Re: named/bind problems....

HEy:: I quit out of portupgrade when it tried to pull over 200MB of stuff, did a pkgdb -Fv; then found the the new xdm actually works! So I am back with two or more xterms/Konsoles and able to type for legibally. Dunno what happened but aint asking no questions

Coldfusion

Hello List, I am trying to get FreeBSD to serve up coldfusion based pages, from what I have managed to find on google I need Apache tomcat, which I have managed to install ok. I am doing this on a VM first so I don't mess up my current servers. This is not for a production environment, I just w

Re: named/bind problems....

okay, lets start from the beginning here... 1) Do you have your own IP address and IP address block that you are hosting DMS for or is it local only? 2) from talking with you last night I want to make sure you are aware of two things... A) resolv.conf is used for name resolution on EV

Re: named/bind problems....

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 06:11:23PM -0500, Robert Boyer wrote: > Sorry to see you are still having issues. I thought you were set when we > fixed your resolv last night. > > Okay - let's start from scratch here > > Are you sure you need a named? Are you actually serving dns for your own IP >

Re: Which network driver for RTL8211 or 8201 NIC's?

Mike Clarke wrote: > I need to replace a failing motherboard. I'm aiming to keep the existing > Athlon CPU so I'm tied down to to a socket AM2(+) board and the > majority of those available seem to have nForce 630a chipsets and > RTL8211CL or 8201EL NIC's which aren't explicitly mentioned in the >

Re: named/bind problems....

Sorry to see you are still having issues. I thought you were set when we fixed your resolv last night. Okay - let's start from scratch here Are you sure you need a named? Are you actually serving dns for your own IP addresses or are you using it as a caching server. Getting a new named wor

named/bind problems....

Yesterday noon my time I rebooted my server. Things seemed to be slow. Several streams were hanging or stopping, and because ethic.thought.org had been up for 61 days I figured it wouldn't hurt to reinitialize stuff. Well, nutshell, disaster. For hours it wasn't clear whether the server would su

Re: FreeBSD Thinkpad t41

On Wednesday 19 of January 2011 23:28:18, Alokat wrote: > It's DHCP ... dont know why ... but it is working now ...:-) > > Here is the putput from pciconf -lv > ... > none3@pci0:2:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x25518086 chip=0x10438086 rev=0x04 > hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > d

Re: harddrive encryption

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:15:50PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > What do you folks think of the relative merits of AES vs Blowfish for > > disk encryption? > > Neither have been broken with their complete number of rounds. Versions of > both can be broken with a reduced number of rounds. See > ht

Re: FreeBSD Thinkpad t41

On 01/19/2011 11:13 PM, Maciej Milewski wrote: On Wednesday 19 of January 2011 21:40:23, Alokat wrote: > Hi, > > I have successfully installed FreeBSD on my T41. > > But I have some Questions: > > em0 doesn't start automatically. Is it DHCP or static IP? > Only when I use /etc/rc.d/rout

Re: FreeBSD Thinkpad t41

On Wednesday 19 of January 2011 21:40:23, Alokat wrote: > Hi, > > I have successfully installed FreeBSD on my T41. > > But I have some Questions: > > em0 doesn't start automatically. Is it DHCP or static IP? > Only when I use /etc/rc.d/routing restart it works. > > And the next Point is: how ca

Re: FreeBSD Thinkpad t41

On 01/19/2011 09:52 PM, Brian Callahan wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Alokat > wrote: Hi, I have successfully installed FreeBSD on my T41. But I have some Questions: em0 doesn't start automatically. Only when I use /etc/rc.d/routing r

ldap with GSSAPI using security/cyrus-sasl2 with security/heimdal?

Earlier I tried GSSAPI authentication for ldap against heimdal in 8.1-RELEASE base and failed. Now I tried again with security/heimdal. I got: security/heimdal security/cyrus-sasl2 with HEIMDAL_HOME=/usr/local/ net/openldap24-server with WITH_SASL When I first tried "ldapmodify -Z -Y GSSAPI -I

FreeBSD Thinkpad t41

Hi, I have successfully installed FreeBSD on my T41. But I have some Questions: em0 doesn't start automatically. Only when I use /etc/rc.d/routing restart it works. And the next Point is: how can I get access to my Wlan card? I have tried if_ath_load="YES" and if_wi_load="YES" in /boot/lo

Re: The book of pf...

Modulok writes: > This book comes in two editions. The first was published in December > 2007, the second, November, 2010. Does anyone have this? And if so > would I be correct to get the first edition instead? I know FreeBSD's > pf lags being openBSD's, so I'm not sure which version of the book

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

Hi-- On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: >> Enter "run", or "c" for continue. If and when Firefox crashes, you >> will be able to gain more useful information > > That does provide a bunch more information. Thank you. [ ... ] > Program received signal SIGSYS, Bad system call.

devel/libsoup-2.32.2 Compile error _md5 problem

Thanks in advance for help with this one: File "/usr/local/bin/g-ir-scanner", line 43, in from giscanner.scannermain import scanner_main File "/usr/local/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/scannermain.py", line 34, in from giscanner.dumper import compile_introspection_binary File

Re: vm ware

Hello! I run FreeBSD in vmware workstation with no problem ! On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:41 PM, rafay awan wrote: > Hi, >     I want to inquire if its possible to install freeBSD on vm ware? >     is there any live cd iso available? > > -- > regards, > Abdul Rafay > > > > > > +=

Re: chromium producing constant hdd access

I wrote > I suggest for follow up: > Issue: List name: > Get Maintainer To Fix Make po...@freebsd.org > Disc Access ? questi...@freebsd.org > > --- > From owner-freebsd-po...@freebsd.org Mon Jan 17 21:06:00 2011 > To: po..

FreeBSD 8.1 and Intel Atom System Panic

Hello, I am having a system panic issue with the Intel D510MO motherboard. It uses an Intel D510 Atom CPU, that is a hyperthreaded, dual core CPU that supports Intel 64 Technology. I am using FreeBSD 8.1_RELEASE AMD64 with the GENERIC kernel, and the system crashes with the following error o

Re: chromium producing constant hdd access

Hi questions@ Chad Perrin wrote: > > --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:51:43AM +, Alexander Best wrote: > > hi there, > >=20 > > i noticed chromium is prod

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

> It's not going to help you but I just want to confirm that I'm > experiencing the same problem on 8.1-R amd64. It's not happening all the > time i.e. everything works fine and then it bites me say only once in a > week. FreeBSD janet.weif.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #1: Sat Oct 31 16

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

Chuck Swiger writes: > Enter "run", or "c" for continue. If and when Firefox crashes, you > will be able to gain more useful information That does provide a bunch more information. Thank you. Here is the output when Firefox crashed when trying to load a web page. I can definitely get anoth

Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

On Wednesday 19 January 2011 15:51:41 Steve Polyack wrote: > On 01/19/11 08:48, Steve Polyack wrote: > > On 1/18/2011 5:56 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 04:40:13PM -0500, Steve Polyack wrote: > >>> We've recently upgraded a few desktop workstations from Dell > >>> Optiplex

Re: vm ware

=>Hi, > I want to inquire if its possible to install freeBSD on vm ware? > is there any live cd iso available? I've had no problems installing FreeBSD 6,7,8 as VM into ESXi 4.1 hypervisor. Latest success was using the VMWare cold converter .iso to virtualize a FreeBSD 6.2 physical machin

Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

On 01/19/11 08:48, Steve Polyack wrote: On 1/18/2011 5:56 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 04:40:13PM -0500, Steve Polyack wrote: We've recently upgraded a few desktop workstations from Dell Optiplex 960s to Optiplex 980s. We were running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. The migration w

Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

On 01/19/11 09:35, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, Steve Polyack wrote: On 1/18/2011 5:56 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 04:40:13PM -0500, Steve Polyack wrote: We've recently upgraded a few desktop workstations from Dell Optiplex 960s to Optiplex 980s. W

Re: Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, Steve Polyack wrote: On 1/18/2011 5:56 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 04:40:13PM -0500, Steve Polyack wrote: We've recently upgraded a few desktop workstations from Dell Optiplex 960s to Optiplex 980s. We were running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. The migratio

Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

On 1/18/2011 5:56 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 04:40:13PM -0500, Steve Polyack wrote: We've recently upgraded a few desktop workstations from Dell Optiplex 960s to Optiplex 980s. We were running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. The migration was performed by simply swapping the drive

Re: The book of pf...

> > Because Peter made mention on misc@ that the second edition was geared > towards OpenBSD 4.8 and the version of pf that's in FreeBSD is quite a > bit older. > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=128938065524891&w=2 > Hi In the second edition there are also reference and syntax of previous ver

Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

On 01/19/11 08:48, Steve Polyack wrote: On 1/18/2011 5:56 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 04:40:13PM -0500, Steve Polyack wrote: We've recently upgraded a few desktop workstations from Dell Optiplex 960s to Optiplex 980s. We were running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. The migration w

Re: Bluetooth mouse does not work after reboot

On 18/01/2011 09:31, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I bought a Logitech V470 bluetooth mouse for my laptop. I followed this website to configure mine : http://astralblue.livejournal.com/357664.html It had worked correctly yesterday (when I setup everything) now nothing happens, after the reboot

Re: The book of pf...

On 19 January 2011 02:28, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Kevin Wilcox wrote: >> 1) Definitely get the first version > Oh, why? Because Peter made mention on misc@ that the second edition was geared towards OpenBSD 4.8 and the version of pf that's in FreeBSD is qu

Re: vm ware

On 1/19/11 3:41 AM, rafay awan wrote: Hi, I want to inquire if its possible to install freeBSD on vm ware? is there any live cd iso available? See http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=software Yes, though I suspect you mean to ask a more specific

Re: vm ware

On 19.01.2011 09:41, rafay awan wrote: > Hi, > I want to inquire if its possible to install freeBSD on vm ware? > is there any live cd iso available? I suspect you are talking about VMWare ESXi (the hypervisor). If so, I'm running a dozen or so FreeBSD VMs here. Absolutely un-problematic

vm ware

Hi, I want to inquire if its possible to install freeBSD on vm ware? is there any live cd iso available? -- regards, Abdul Rafay +=+ This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addre

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

On 18/01/2011 22:56, Keith Seyffarth wrote: In firefox 3.6, anything that generates a menu will also crash the browser. It's not going to help you but I just want to confirm that I'm experiencing the same problem on 8.1-R amd64. It's not happening all the time i.e. everything works fine and

Re: How to adjust man page line length

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, "David J. Weller-Fahy" >> wrote: >>> To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` >>> not to automatically format