Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Doug Hardie
On 17 February 2012, at 23:21, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 19:56:00 2012 >> From: Doug Hardie >> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:50:44 -0800 >> To: FreeBSD Mailing List >> Subject: Re: One or Four? >> >> >> On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 19:56:00 2012 > From: Doug Hardie > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:50:44 -0800 > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: Re: One or Four? > > > On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: > > We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the

Re: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 17:59:50 2012 > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:54:18 -0800 > From: Jim Pazarena > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: swap space > > is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? > > A "df" seems to avoid the swap area. That

Re: Adobe Linux Flash

2012-02-17 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 16:25:49 2012 > From: sean > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:20:26 -0500 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Adobe Linux Flash > > > On Feb 16, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Da Rock wrote: > > > > > > Problem, I think lies, in the symlink. You

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 16:20:48 2012 > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:05:23 -0800 > From: "Robison, Dave" > To: > Subject: One or Four? > > Hiya, > > A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as > opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versi

Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

2012-02-17 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to have said: Well, to be honest, I never liked the "old style" default with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_ default style for separated partitions include:

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-02-17 23:46, Polytropon skrev: Four? There should be five! :-) Read on to find out why. On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:05:23 -0800, Robison, Dave wrote: We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 12:16, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to have said: Well, to be honest, I never liked the "old style" default with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_ default style for separated partitions include: /

/usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

2012-02-17 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to have said: Well, to be honest, I never liked the "old style" default with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_ default style for separated partitions include: / swap /tmp /var

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 18 February 2012 05:05:23 Robison, Dave wrote: > > It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap > as such: > > / > /tmp > /var > /usr > swap > it really makes sense to keep it this way. > The recent changes in 9.x with bsdinstall use a default behavi

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread John Levine
>Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use? Pine is dead, replaced by alpine. The FreeBSD port has a config option to support maildirs. I've used it, it works. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: > We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default with > 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and swap. I only run servers and set them up with /, /usr, and swap. Other partitions are placed o

Re: Adobe Linux Flash (Success)

2012-02-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:48:31PM -0500, sean wrote: > > On 02/17/12 19:27, sean wrote: > > > > > >Now when I run nspluginwrapper -v -a -i as a user I get the following, > > > >Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins > >Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins > >Auto

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 11:17, David Brodbeck wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Chris Hill wrote: Why not add a selection to the installer, something like this: Partition scheme [ ] all in one + swap Create one partition containing all subtrees

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Chris Hill wrote: >> Why not add a selection to the installer, something like >> this: >> >>        Partition scheme >>         >> >>        [ ] all in one + swap >>            Create one partition containing all subtrees >>            plus one swap

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: > On 02/17/2012 15:55, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> >> Yes. It works as intended even when /tmp is part of a single root >> partition; although mounting /tmp as a RAM- or swap-based tmpfs filesystem >> might be better for many situations. > > Sure it

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Da Rock > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 5:00 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: One or Four? > > On 02/18/12 10:55, Da Rock wrote: > > On 02/

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Da Rock > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 4:55 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: One or Four? > > On 02/18/12 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > O

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 10:55, Da Rock wrote: On 02/18/12 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: However, for whatever reasons, the overwhelming majority of folks using MacOS X don't have problems using a single root partition, and while they sometimes do fill up their

Re: Adobe Linux Flash (Success)

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 10:48, sean wrote: On 02/17/12 19:27, sean wrote: Now when I run nspluginwrapper -v -a -i as a user I get the following, Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/npapi/li

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: However, for whatever reasons, the overwhelming majority of folks using MacOS X don't have problems using a single root partition, and while they sometimes do fill up their disks, that's a situation which they

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:cswi...@mac.com] > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 4:41 PM > To: Devin Teske > Cc: 'FreeBSD -' > Subject: Re: One or Four? > > On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > >> However, for whatever reasons, the overwhelming majority o

Re: Adobe Linux Flash (Success)

2012-02-17 Thread sean
On 02/17/12 19:27, sean wrote: Now when I run nspluginwrapper -v -a -i as a user I get the following, Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin Looking for

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: >> However, for whatever reasons, the overwhelming majority of folks using MacOS >> X don't have problems using a single root partition, and while they >> sometimes do >> fill up their disks, that's a situation which they should be able to recover >

Re: Adobe Linux Flash

2012-02-17 Thread sean
Well I deleted the symlinks, swfdec, and stepped through the instructions in the handbook again. Now when I run nspluginwrapper -v -a -i as a user I get the following, Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Auto-install plu

RE: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robison, Dave > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 4:11 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: swap space > > On 02/17/2012 15:58, Chuck Swiger wrote:

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Polytropon wrote: Why not add a selection to the installer, something like this: Partition scheme [ ] all in one + swap Create one partition containing all subtrees plus one swap partition. [ ] separ

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:cswi...@mac.com] > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:56 PM > To: Devin Teske > Cc: FreeBSD - > Subject: Re: One or Four? > > On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > [snip] > > I'd argue that there should never be a single-"/"

Re: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/17/2012 15:58, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? A "df" seems to avoid the swap area. You're looking for "swapinfo" Regards, Chuck beat me to it. "swapinfo" or top are the two wa

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/17/2012 15:55, Chuck Swiger wrote: Yes. It works as intended even when /tmp is part of a single root partition; although mounting /tmp as a RAM- or swap-based tmpfs filesystem might be better for many situations. Sure it has its uses, but now you're jumping into new territory where t

Re: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On Feb 17, 2012 6:55 PM, "Jim Pazarena" wrote: > > is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? > > A "df" seems to avoid the swap area. > > This would be on a live production server. > Thanks. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:cswi...@mac.com] > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:56 PM > To: Devin Teske > Cc: FreeBSD - > Subject: Re: One or Four? > > On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > > a. A security issue > > > > /tmp is by-default out-of-the-box

Re: DNS - slaving the root zone

2012-02-17 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/17/2012 05:41, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Hello list, Jeremy, Doug, > > > We're currently having a discussion on the FRnOG mailing list regarding > the laughable announcement of an attack on the DNS root servers by > Anonymous. Given their suc

Re: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: > is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? > > A "df" seems to avoid the swap area. You're looking for "swapinfo" Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 2/17/2012 6:54 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: > is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? > % pstat -T 438/12328 files 98M/10240M swap space ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet se

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > a. A security issue > > /tmp is by-default out-of-the-box world-writable (perms 1777). Yes. It works as intended even when /tmp is part of a single root partition; although mounting /tmp as a RAM- or swap-based tmpfs filesystem might be better

swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Jim Pazarena
is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? A "df" seems to avoid the swap area. This would be on a live production server. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 09:24, Robison, Dave wrote: On 02/17/2012 15:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. No. Bad idea. Not on questions@, the list of the least clued up, the list raw beginners are referred to subscribe to. At least get a majori

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/17/2012 15:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. No. Bad idea. Not on questions@, the list of the least clued up, the list raw beginners are referred to subscribe to. At least get a majority on hackers@ or current@ or arch@. Som

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:11:52 -0800, Devin Teske wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jerry McAllister > > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:53 PM > > To: Polytropon > > Cc: david.robi

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default > with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and > swap. I've been doing Unix 30+ years, so there's a tendency to respond "Multiple", 'cos seeing a single 1 partition on a system normaly meant it

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jerry McAllister > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:53 PM > To: Polytropon > Cc: david.robi...@fisglobal.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: One or

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Douglas Carmichael
I like this because it gives the user a choice, and it clearly lays out the choices based on partition schemes instead of a less-specific 'machine use' choice. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Polytropon wrote: > Four? There should be five! :-) > > Read on to find out why. >

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 08:40, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: Hiya, A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD. It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partiti

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Douglas Carmichael
I would prefer having the option of four partitions for fault tolerance reasons if needed. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- >> questi...@freebsd.org] On Be

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. > > Why not add a selection to the installer, something like > this: > > Partition scheme > > > [ ] all in one + swap > Create one partition containing all subtrees >

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:05:23PM -0800, Robison, Dave wrote: > Hiya, > > A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as > opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD. > > It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap > as suc

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
Four? There should be five! :-) Read on to find out why. On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:05:23 -0800, Robison, Dave wrote: > We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default > with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and > swap. In my case, preferenc

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: > Hiya, > > A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as > opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD. > > It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap as > such: > > / > /t

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:18 PM > To: david.robi...@fisglobal.com > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: One or Four? > > On Fe

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Jerome Herman
On 17/02/2012 18:16, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go with the Maildir. I'm running everything

Re: Adobe Linux Flash

2012-02-17 Thread sean
On Feb 16, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Da Rock wrote: > > > Problem, I think lies, in the symlink. You don't need it, kill it and run > nspluginwrapper - the only flash file in your browser plugins directory > should be prefixed with npwrapper. > > There may be an issue with nspluginwrapper (currently

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: > We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default with > 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and swap. For a user/desktop machine, I prefer one root partition. For other roles like a server, I

One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
Hiya, A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD. It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap as such: / /tmp /var /usr swap The recent changes in 9.x with bsdinstall use a

Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools?

2012-02-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:27:07PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:27:07 +0100 > From: Polytropon > Subject: Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools? > To: Gary Kline > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List > X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2)

Re: DNS - slaving the root zone

2012-02-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:41:57PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Hello list, Jeremy, Doug, > > > We're currently having a discussion on the FRnOG mailing list regarding > the laughable announcement of an attack on the DNS root servers by > Anonymous. > > I've kinda hijacked the thread to ask w

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/17/2012 11:16 AM, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go with the Maildir. I'm running everythi

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:06:01 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > Mutt would be my choice. I have been using it for over a decade, > and it handles Maildir as well as other common mailbox formats. Also pine should be able to handle it (even though it could be called "overcomplex" in relation to /usr/bin

Cryopid for FreeBSD?

2012-02-17 Thread C. P. Ghost
Hello, is there an equivalent to Linux' cryopid for FreeBSD? http://code.google.com/p/cryopid/ Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012, APseudoUtopia wrote: >Hello, > >I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail >and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched >the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go >with the Maildir. I'm running every

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 17/02/2012 17:16, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go with the Maildir. I'm running everything

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: APseudoUtopia > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:16:29 -0500 > Message-id: > APseudoUtopia wrote: > Hello, > > I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail > and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched > the

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Daniel Staal
On Fri, February 17, 2012 12:16 pm, APseudoUtopia wrote: > Hello, > > I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail > and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched > the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go > with the Maildi

Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread APseudoUtopia
Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go with the Maildir. I'm running everything on ZFS, so many small files shouldn't be a

Re: sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Brent Clark wrote: I seem to have this problem with sysinstall, whereby I cant seem to download the kernel source. I tried following this example http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/ I use "Install from an FTP server" The error message I get

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 00:22, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:14:47 +0100 Polytropon articulated: Think about that: % netcat 192.168.123.456< /tmp/printing.pdf I can do either: nc 192.168.1.100 9100< /tmp/print.pdf or nc 192.168.1.100 9100< /tmp/print.ps right now without

Re: Processor question

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thursday 16 February 2012 17:20:23 krad wrote: > On 14 February 2012 20:28, Frank Shute wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 02:47:08PM -0500, Mike Dockery wrote: > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > Aloha, > > > > > > > > I have been a user of Linux since 1994, but most of the linux distros >

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 23:57, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:33:33 +1000, Da Rock wrote: PDF is not exactly PS, but it does use a subset of the instructions. That's correct, but both formats share essential parts of functionality. Conversion between them is relatively easy. The other thing y

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:14:47 +0100 Polytropon articulated: > Think about that: > > % netcat 192.168.123.456 < /tmp/printing.pdf I can do either: nc 192.168.1.100 9100 < /tmp/print.pdf or nc 192.168.1.100 9100 < /tmp/print.ps right now without any problems. If you looked at

Re: Is the list down?

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 17 February 2012 08:49:37 Da Rock wrote: > On 02/17/12 11:21, Al Plant wrote: > > I have not seen any action in 2 days. > There's been plenty of action in the last 2 days. Maybe check your mail > server logs for errors? I noticed the same thing. The missing mails arrived all meanwh

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 23:33, Da Rock wrote: On 02/17/12 23:14, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:00:38 -0500, Jerry wrote: It appears that "ps" is no-longer the format of choice but is being replaced by PDF, a format that is natively supported by many printers. Jerry, I wanted to point out that P

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:33:33 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > PDF is not exactly PS, but it does use a subset of the instructions. That's correct, but both formats share essential parts of functionality. Conversion between them is relatively easy. > The other thing you will notice is that its mostly on

Re: note on my messed up 2003 dell

2012-02-17 Thread J65nko
Replacing the old battery with a new one usually solves this kind of problem. I just did this yesterday ;) On 2/17/12, Gary Kline wrote: > > guys, this is just a FWIW, but it's worth bearing in mind. i just > tried to change the bios settings so that the old computer would > boot from CD first.

DNS - slaving the root zone

2012-02-17 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Hello list, Jeremy, Doug, We're currently having a discussion on the FRnOG mailing list regarding the laughable announcement of an attack on the DNS root servers by Anonymous. I've kinda hijacked the thread to ask whether people slave the root zone or not, and why if not. Active poster, renown

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 23:14, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:00:38 -0500, Jerry wrote: It appears that "ps" is no-longer the format of choice but is being replaced by PDF, a format that is natively supported by many printers. Jerry, I wanted to point out that PS still seems to be the format that

Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools?

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:32:07 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > w can i move a file from my home filesystem to my one disc drive > without using a GUI? i don't have a graphic interface on my FBSD > system and want to save a 600MB file to my cdrom? > > thanks for tips on what i have Long forgotten! I

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:00:38 -0500, Jerry wrote: > It appears that "ps" is no-longer the format of choice but is being > replaced by PDF, a format that is natively supported by many printers. Jerry, I wanted to point out that PS still seems to be the format that _applications_ use as output format

program / Project Consultant.

2012-02-17 Thread Thierry Sconetti
Dear, First, please accept my apologies for the disturbance. I am a Senior Consultant Infrastructure Program Manager with 20 years experience in IM&T. I started my career with Digital in Sophia Antipolis in 1988 and over time, made my primary focus in IT Program/Project management. Here are compa

Re: /lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpcre.so.0" not found, required by "libxfsm-4.6.so.0" amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

2012-02-17 Thread RW
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:08:54 -0600 Antonio Olivares wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Ryan Frederick > wrote: > > It looks like others have run into this problem with avahi-app as > > well: > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2011-July/068658.html > > > > A cursory se

program / Project Consultant.

2012-02-17 Thread Thierry Sconetti
Dear, First, please accept my apologies for the disturbance. I am a Senior Consultant Infrastructure Program Manager with 20 years experience in IM&T. I started my career with Digital in Sophia Antipolis in 1988 and over time, made my primary focus in IT Program/Project management. Here are compa

Re: /lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpcre.so.0" not found, required by "libxfsm-4.6.so.0" amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

2012-02-17 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Ryan Frederick > wrote: >> It looks like others have run into this problem with avahi-app as well: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2011-July/068658.html >> >> A cursory search shows

Re: sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:31:39 +0200 Brent Clark wrote: > I use "Install from an FTP server" > > The error message I get is "Unable to transfer the sbase distribution > from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org."; > > Does anyone know of another way to get the kernel source. Get it with csup and be sure to set

Re: FreeBSD on Dell R210 II With PERC H200 Controllers

2012-02-17 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/17/12 11:02 AM, Traiano Welcome wrote: > Hi Damien > > Additional question: > > > On 17/02/2012 11:14, "Damien Fleuriot" wrote: > >> Sorry top post, posting from phone. >> >> 8.2-stable, 9.0-release, will post a link with a tutorial when I hit my >> desk > > > > A lot of these Dell

Re: sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 19:31, Brent Clark wrote: Hiya I seem to have this problem with sysinstall, whereby I cant seem to download the kernel source. I tried following this example http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/ I use "Install from an FTP server" The error message I

Re: Technical Support Question

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 19:58, Chip Oakley wrote: Thanks interesting possibilities. One thought I had is creating an operating system independent BIOS where the appropriate machine code is inserted into the events that lead to an override of the processes that is forcing into windows. Maybe burned to a CD o

sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya I seem to have this problem with sysinstall, whereby I cant seem to download the kernel source. I tried following this example http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/ I use "Install from an FTP server" The error message I get is "Unable to transfer the sbase dis

Re: FreeBSD on Dell R210 II With PERC H200 Controllers

2012-02-17 Thread Traiano Welcome
Hi Damien Additional question: On 17/02/2012 11:14, "Damien Fleuriot" wrote: >Sorry top post, posting from phone. > >8.2-stable, 9.0-release, will post a link with a tutorial when I hit my >desk A lot of these Dell R210 II's ship with the S300 PERC. Does FreeBSD have support for this contr

Re: Technical Support Question

2012-02-17 Thread Chip Oakley
Thanks interesting possibilities. One thought I had is creating an operating system independent BIOS where the appropriate machine code is inserted into the events that lead to an override of the processes that is forcing into windows. Maybe burned to a CD or USB, from another computer and tie th

Re: FreeBSD on Dell R210 II With PERC H200 Controllers

2012-02-17 Thread Traiano Welcome
On 17/02/2012 11:14, "Damien Fleuriot" wrote: >Sorry top post, posting from phone. > >8.2-stable, 9.0-release, will post a link with a tutorial when I hit my >desk Thanks, Damien! Much appreciated! > > >On 17 Feb 2012, at 09:11, Traiano Welcome > wrote: > >> Hi List >> >> Is there a vers

Re: Technical Support Question

2012-02-17 Thread perryh
Chip Oakley wrote: > Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as > there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong > with it. If you don't mind losing everything currently on the drive, overwriting the MBR -- and the backup GPT at the end of the drive, if the

Re: FreeBSD on Dell R210 II With PERC H200 Controllers

2012-02-17 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Sorry top post, posting from phone. 8.2-stable, 9.0-release, will post a link with a tutorial when I hit my desk On 17 Feb 2012, at 09:11, Traiano Welcome wrote: > Hi List > > Is there a version of freebsd (preferably 8 upwards) that supports the PERC > H200 controller on Dell R210 II serve

Re: fb9 - dmesg - bluetooth and netgraph warnings

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 18:19, jb wrote: Hi, I have these warnings. Any known cause and solution ? FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0 $ dmesg ... ubt0: on usbus0 WARNING: attempt to domain_add(bluetooth) after domainfinalize() WARNING: attempt to domain_add(netgraph) after domainfinalize() They should be fine, they're

Re: Google+ install Hangout Voice and Video Plug-in

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 17:59, The Todds wrote: Hi, I was wondering whether it would possible to get Google+ Hangout running on Freebsd. I am running firefox-10.0,1 installed from the ports on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0:amd64 Trying to install the plugin from the Google+ page and I get an almost finished messa

FreeBSD on Dell R210 II With PERC H200 Controllers

2012-02-17 Thread Traiano Welcome
Hi List Is there a version of freebsd (preferably 8 upwards) that supports the PERC H200 controller on Dell R210 II servers ? I've followed the thread at: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.stable/74192 But it seems somewhat inconclusive. Thanks in Advance, Traiano

Google+ install Hangout Voice and Video Plug-in

2012-02-17 Thread The Todds
Hi, I was wondering whether it would possible to get Google+ Hangout running on Freebsd. I am running firefox-10.0,1 installed from the ports on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0:amd64 Trying to install the plugin from the Google+ page and I get an almost finished message, but that is as far as it goes. I

fb9 - dmesg - bluetooth and netgraph warnings

2012-02-17 Thread jb
Hi, I have these warnings. Any known cause and solution ? FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0 $ dmesg ... ubt0: on usbus0 WARNING: attempt to domain_add(bluetooth) after domainfinalize() WARNING: attempt to domain_add(netgraph) after domainfinalize() ... jb ___ f