Re: 8.3-R cannot mount non-BSD burned DVD

2012-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:44:24 -0700 (PDT), Jin Guojun wrote: > This problem seems having been there for a while, but was not pay > attention to it till now. > > Most DVDs burned under Windows machine cannot be mounted on FreeBSD > 8.3-R. It gives following error: > > # mount /cdrom > mount_cd9660

system hangs during dump + compress > usb2-drive

2012-09-29 Thread Jin Guojun
In FreeBSD 8.3 release (possibly in earlier release), dump a file system has 2-3GB or more content can cause system hang in a specific case (pipe to compression): dump FS-on-SATA-drive > usb-drive OK dump FS-on-SATA-drive | anyCompress > sata-drive OK mv a-large-dump-file fr

Re: 8.3-R cannot mount non-BSD burned DVD

2012-09-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Jin Guojun wrote: > Searched bug report, but did not find related report. > Does anyone have seen this problem? If so, is any working around for > this problem? I ran 8.3 but did not have this problem. But I must admit that the number of media coming

8.3-R cannot mount non-BSD burned DVD

2012-09-29 Thread Jin Guojun
This problem seems having been there for a while, but was not pay attention to it till now. Most DVDs burned under Windows machine cannot be mounted on FreeBSD 8.3-R. It gives following error: # mount /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument Some of those DVD can be mount, but no conte

Re: File permissions - how to "lock" a directory

2012-09-29 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On September 29, 2012 4:59:50 PM -0500 Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: I have a particularly thorny problem I'm trying to solve, but I'll bet FreeBSD has a solution. I'm running a webserver using suphp.  It's very picky about permissions. It wa

Re: File permissions - how to "lock" a directory

2012-09-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I have a particularly thorny problem I'm trying to solve, but I'll bet > FreeBSD has a solution. > > I'm running a webserver using suphp. It's very picky about permissions. > It wants the web server user (www) to be the owner of all directori

File permissions - how to "lock" a directory

2012-09-29 Thread Paul Schmehl
I have a particularly thorny problem I'm trying to solve, but I'll bet FreeBSD has a solution. I'm running a webserver using suphp. It's very picky about permissions. It wants the web server user (www) to be the owner of all directories and files. Meanwhile, the site owners want to be able

Re: find slot number and number of ports for each card

2012-09-29 Thread Devin Teske
On Sep 29, 2012, at 7:37 AM, saeedeh motlagh wrote: > hello all > > i want to have statistics about my hardware specially the type of card > that are installed on my system, Card characteristics are provided by "pciconf -l". ("pciconf -lv" for verbose listing). Two important notes about "pcico

Re: find slot number and number of ports for each card

2012-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:07:56 +0330, saeedeh motlagh wrote: > hello all > > i want to have statistics about my hardware specially the type of card > that are installed on my system, the number of ports that each card > has and the slot number which cards are installed. i can find the > slot number

Re: find slot number and number of ports for each card

2012-09-29 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:07:56 +0330 > From: saeedeh motlagh > Subject: find slot number and number of ports for each card > > hello all > > i want to have statistics about my hardware specially the type of card > that are installed on my system, the number of ports that each card > has and th

find slot number and number of ports for each card

2012-09-29 Thread saeedeh motlagh
hello all i want to have statistics about my hardware specially the type of card that are installed on my system, the number of ports that each card has and the slot number which cards are installed. i can find the slot number by tracing the output of dmesg but it's time consuming job. more over,

Re: Considering purchase off SSD!

2012-09-29 Thread Leslie Jensen
Warren Block skrev 2012-09-29 15:48: On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm considering to purchase a SSD. The one I have in mind for the moment is this one. Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC512D 512GB I'm not going for a top of the line disk but I would like to ask if anyone has experience

Re: Considering purchase off SSD!

2012-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm considering to purchase a SSD. The one I have in mind for the moment is this one. Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC512D 512GB I'm not going for a top of the line disk but I would like to ask if anyone has experience with SSD's and FreeBSD (9.1 is my plan

Re: how restore an unencrypted dump on an encrypted file system?

2012-09-29 Thread s m
thanks Fabian for your answer. i don't know what exactly information is needed but i tell what i did up to now. i have two partition, one is encrypted and the other one is not. the unencrypted partition has boot folder. when i copy FreeBSD base system files, FreeBSD start up correctly but when i r

Considering purchase off SSD!

2012-09-29 Thread Leslie Jensen
Hello list. I'm considering to purchase a SSD. The one I have in mind for the moment is this one. Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC512D 512GB I'm not going for a top of the line disk but I would like to ask if anyone has experience with SSD's and FreeBSD (9.1 is my plan). Just to complicate thing

Re: how restore an unencrypted dump on an encrypted file system?

2012-09-29 Thread Fabian Keil
s m wrote: > I backed up my freeBSD 8.2 box by dump command and now want to restore > this dump file on an encrypted file system (i used geli to encrypt my > file system) but do not know how to do that. > > is there any way or command to restore an unencrypted dump on an > encrypted file system?

Re: svn checkout "head" or "stable"

2012-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, David Noel wrote: Apologies for the spam and the hastily written closing paragraph. I was hoping to end with a heartwarming anecdote that would leave the reader with no choice but to agree that anonymous ssh+svn access would benefit us all. AnonCVS is still of course an opt

Re: older version of programs in freebsd

2012-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:48:49 +0200, Istvan Gabor wrote: > Hello: > > I am a freebsd beginner. > > As I understood correctly there is only one ports tree which contains > the most up to date (and stable) versions of programs. > And there are compiled packages for the different releases, which > r

older version of programs in freebsd

2012-09-29 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I am a freebsd beginner. As I understood correctly there is only one ports tree which contains the most up to date (and stable) versions of programs. And there are compiled packages for the different releases, which reflect the version at the time of the release. For example the ports tr

Re: Kernel asks only for the first GELI passphrase

2012-09-29 Thread Fabian Keil
Martin Laabs wrote: > I have two partitions encrypted with GELI: ada0s2 and ada0s3. The loader > (located at an unencrypted part of the harddisk) loads the kernel and the > kernel asks me for the passphrase for ada0s2 to attach it afterwards. > However - my root file system is not at ada0s2.eli

how restore an unencrypted dump on an encrypted file system?

2012-09-29 Thread s m
hello guys, I backed up my freeBSD 8.2 box by dump command and now want to restore this dump file on an encrypted file system (i used geli to encrypt my file system) but do not know how to do that. is there any way or command to restore an unencrypted dump on an encrypted file system? i tried to