Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Da Rock
On 03/10/12 11:07, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 07:57:59 Graeme Dargie wrote: I try not to reply to these things, but I have to say this bloke is having a proper tin bath (laugh) in development since 1996 their website proudly claims, and here we are in 2012 and it

Re: Capturing Information About PANIC

2012-03-08 Thread Da Rock
On 03/09/12 01:45, Dean E. Weimer wrote: I am having problems with my system panicking and crashing during Bacula backups. Is there any way short of enabling full memory dumps to log the output of the crash? After a reboot there is no information in the messages log, and dmesg generally only

imap server performance benchmarks

2012-03-08 Thread Da Rock
I'm reconsidering my current setup (postfix/courier) for imap and I was doing some research on performance comparisons between imap server setups. I stumbled on this article just just about fell of my chair laughing when I read the last article on future benchmarking tests to perform:

Re: XFCE - how to edit menu ?

2012-03-07 Thread Da Rock
On 03/08/12 12:41, Shane Ambler wrote: On 04/03/2012 17:37, jb wrote: Hi, I find it annoying having same items listed in multiple menus, e.g. - Accessories - Bulk Rename Orage Globaltime Terminal Thunar File Manager Help -

Re: port to package amd64 to i386

2012-03-06 Thread Da Rock
On 03/07/12 04:13, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Bernt Hanssonb...@bananmonarki.se wrote: Again, a problem is that packages can only be generated if the port has been installed Why is that. I hope you can educate me on that. Because a package is the result of

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-06 Thread Da Rock
On 03/07/12 01:01, David Walker wrote: Da Rock freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au What tv card? Mine work fine Thread here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-drivers/2012-February/001370.html May have to do with the cx88 port available, especially as its from 2006

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Da Rock
On 03/05/12 19:52, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/03/2012 22:56, Da Rock wrote: That's also an obligation to test it. PC-BSD is a product, by a private company. The burden of proof is on them. PC-BSD is an organisation or group; I wouldn't go as far as calling them a private company

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-05 Thread Da Rock
On 03/06/12 05:23, David Walker wrote: Nikola Pavlović nzp at riseup.net OK, here goes: (in Nelson Muntz's voice) Haha, you clown, that's what you get for believing what documentation says. Use a magnetized needle and a steady hand you buffoon! There. I respect! :) Well played. It's a

Re: USB Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision (mic problem SOLVED)

2012-03-05 Thread Da Rock
On 03/06/12 11:46, sean wrote: I just managed to get the mic working built into the camera. I followed the Sound steps below that are included in pkg-message and that did the trick. Hopefully these notes will help others having mic problems with the Logitech camera. NOTE: Just before I

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-04 Thread Da Rock
On 03/05/12 07:23, jb wrote: Chuck Swigercswigerat mac.com writes: ... There are lots of people who are looking for turnkey / no docs needed systems, with give me simplified choices but handle obvious errors with a nice dialog window or fix-it 'wizard', instead of requiring CLI sysadmin

Re: openssl from ports

2012-03-03 Thread Da Rock
On 03/04/12 08:50, Robert Simmons wrote: On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jerryje...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 16:41:13 -0500 Robert Simmons articulated: Oops. Sorry, my mail reader must have recently changed the behavior of the reply button to always reply all. I meant that

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread Da Rock
On 03/02/12 21:25, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, i use a Brother MFC-7320 printer at a vodafone Box. The printer can used with the adress lpd://192.168.0.2/MFC7320. I copied the Linux driver and adapted, but unfortunately, the printer would not work on FreeBSD. On Windows and Gentoo,

Re: USB Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision

2012-03-02 Thread Da Rock
On 03/02/12 22:18, sean wrote: On 03/01/12 19:26, Da Rock wrote: Which mixer? Check `ls /dev/mixer*`, and use `mixer -f /dev/mixerwhatever numbers show up in previous cmd`. I did not realize there was more than one mixer. Anyway, here are my results to the commands above. tardis# ls /dev

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread Da Rock
On 03/02/12 22:15, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 06:52:20 -0500 Jerry wrote: I have an MFC-9560CDW that works (somewhat) but it needs CUPS installed. Even then it doesn't work with a program that does not offer an LPR print option. I installed cups. The printer is

Re: USB Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision

2012-03-02 Thread Da Rock
On 03/02/12 22:31, sean wrote: On 03/02/12 01:04, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Friday, March 02, 2012 a las 05:48:11AM +0100, Daniel C. Dowse escribió: Hi, usbconfig -d ugenX.Y do_request 0x22 0x01 0x100 0x86 0x03 0x80 0xBB 0x00 usbconfig -d ugenX.Y reset usbconfig -d ugenX.Y do_request

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread Da Rock
On 03/02/12 23:13, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:40:21 +1000 Da Rock wrote: Are you sure its just a script? Any clue as to what shell it is using? Bash? I do believe there should be some binaries there somewhere as well. Yes im sure. I have a ppd File, they linked

Re: VBox network boot

2012-03-01 Thread Da Rock
On 03/01/12 08:31, Andrei Brezan wrote: On 29/02/2012 01:08, Da Rock wrote: On 02/29/12 03:04, Carl Johnson wrote: Warren Blockwbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms

Re: USB Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision

2012-03-01 Thread Da Rock
On 03/02/12 06:25, sean wrote: Hello All, I am unable to get the built in mic of a Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision to capture sound. I have been testing it using Skype. -lsusb shows the logitech device. -Device sound and snd_ich is complied into my custom kernel. -running FreeBSD

Re: Help compiling ffmpeg from source

2012-02-29 Thread Da Rock
On 02/29/12 23:48, Andy Wodfer wrote: I'm on FreeBSD 8.2 STABLE (AMD64). I need to install the latest ffmpeg 0.10, but it fails when compiling. I must admit I very rarely do it this way. Normally all software is installed from ports, but I couldn't find this version of ffmpeg there. Heres what

Re: posix compliance

2012-02-28 Thread Da Rock
On 02/28/12 19:17, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm putting together a small presentation about FreeBSD for our IT support staff. Is fbsd POSIX compliant? Fully? Partially? The info here is a bit out of date: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html Looking at the doc its not that out of

Re: posix compliance

2012-02-28 Thread Da Rock
On 02/28/12 21:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 06:25:37AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:03:23 + Anton Shterenlikht articulated: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:46:51PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 02/28/12 19:17, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm putting together

VBox network boot

2012-02-28 Thread Da Rock
I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network booting in VBox on FBSD host? I _was_ considering it for some tests I was running... :( ___

Re: VBox network boot

2012-02-28 Thread Da Rock
On 02/29/12 03:04, Carl Johnson wrote: Warren Blockwbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network booting in VBox on FBSD host? To PXE

Re: Webcam Selection

2012-02-28 Thread Da Rock
On 02/29/12 06:46, Cy Schubert wrote: Hi all, After a number of years just lying in desk drawer my old Logitech spherical webcam died. So, I'm looking for a new one. It's not that I use it a lot. My wife will be heading out of province to our son's place next month to be there for the birth of

Re: Custom Kernel Target Ignored

2012-02-26 Thread Da Rock
On 02/26/12 18:10, Carolyn Longfoot wrote: When I start cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNELCONF=MYKERNEL then the process start and gives -- Kernel build for GENERIC started on Sat Feb 25 10:59:25 EST 2012

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-25 Thread Da Rock
On 02/26/12 08:14, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:07:36 +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Polytroponfree...@edvax.de wrote: I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631 web-based configuration,

Re: Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]

2012-02-24 Thread Da Rock
On 02/24/12 20:42, Dave wrote: On 24 Feb 2012 at 17:28, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 17:10:21 Dave wrote: Can I please request, you all check your mail client reply to settings. I think, some - like me too - reply here always to all. Many of the replies to this

Re: SMTP error: 552 5.6.0 Headers too large (32768 max)

2012-02-24 Thread Da Rock
On 02/24/12 21:08, Arthur Chance wrote: On 02/23/12 22:55, Da Rock wrote: On 02/24/12 05:01, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Arthur Chance wrote: DO NOT FEED THE TROLL! Well spotted said :-) [snip] However misguided they are, they may believe strongly in this; so I'm not sure there is a troll

Re: Converting C++ to C

2012-02-24 Thread Da Rock
On 02/24/12 22:07, Julian H. Stacey wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Some early implementations of C++ operated as preprocessors that emitted C code. Is there any current tool that will do that? I didn't recognize any such option in the g++ manpage, although I suppose it's possible that

Re: 9.0, Samba and two NICs

2012-02-24 Thread Da Rock
On 02/24/12 21:39, Ronny Mandal wrote: Hi! I have been running Samba on FreeBSD 9.0 with a wireless card. A share is connected to my W7 computer. To get more speed between the computers, I decided to activate the 1GBit- Ethernet on the FreeBSD and establish a direct connection (cross-link) to

Re: Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]

2012-02-24 Thread Da Rock
On 02/25/12 12:03, David Brodbeck wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Daved...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Those address links need changing to graphic's, so that most address harvesting bots won't get anything usable. Mk1 eyeball can still see what's what, but if you have to use the info,

Re: Installation troubles

2012-02-22 Thread Da Rock
On 02/23/12 00:04, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 9 on my 'new' laptop - an IBM X31. Since this model has no CD or floppy drive I copied the memstick-file to such an USB-thing and tried to boot. The laptop freezes when the kernel scans for the

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-22 Thread Da Rock
On 02/23/12 08:33, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:31:10 +1000 Da Rock articulated: The most annoying for me was when they're running Win7 (blah!) and I was trying to burn a cd _and_ keep the kids from interrupting by playing on the keyboard. I closed the lid like I do with FBSD

Re: Info and questions about Brother[tm] multifunction machine

2012-02-22 Thread Da Rock
On 02/23/12 06:23, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message 4f44e576.5000...@ifdnrg.com, Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote: On 21/02/2012 22:33, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Port 25 is apparently implementing _something_ that sort-of vaguely acts like

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-22 Thread Da Rock
On 02/23/12 11:57, Da Rock wrote: On 02/23/12 08:33, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:31:10 +1000 Da Rock articulated: The most annoying for me was when they're running Win7 (blah!) and I was trying to burn a cd _and_ keep the kids from interrupting by playing on the keyboard. I closed

Re: Info and questions about Brother[tm] multifunction machine

2012-02-21 Thread Da Rock
On 02/22/12 08:33, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: So, um, I just came into possession of a brand spankin' new Brother MFC-7860DW all-in-one multifunction machine, and 'me having some fun exploring it. Unlike the multifunction machine this is replacing (which had only an old centronics/parallel port

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-20 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Saturday 18 February 2012 13:05:49 Lars Eighner wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Daniel Staal wrote: I've never seen anything listing the main reasons for having /home under /usr though. I figure there must be a decent reason why. Would anyone

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-20 Thread Da Rock
On 02/21/12 05:35, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:35:43 +0100, Riccardo Garzelli wrote: I was thinking of purchasing a new laptop and I wanted to go for FreeBSD OS. Unfortunately I'm no brainer in Unix so I'd like to find a PC that can run FreeBSD 9.0 out of the box. Could you either

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-18 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 20:22, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:05:49 -0600 (CST), Lars Eighner wrote: It seems to me that partition and mount point are being confused to a degree. There is no reason what is mounted at /usr/home cannot be a separate partition as well as if it were mounted at root.

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-18 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 21:23, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 18/02/2012 10:44, Da Rock wrote: I have yet to try ZFS (lack of resources really), but when I can I will setup a SAN and it will be interesting to see how this works and I probably will use a single partition. But for the general filesystem I doubt

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-18 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 21:39, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:44:13 +1000, Da Rock wrote: BTW I was intending to put across the concept of /usr being user related - anything a user may need or use; as opposed to / for the system related stuff that keeps it running. Maybe I wasn't as clear as I

Re: Adobe Linux Flash (Success)

2012-02-18 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 23:03, sean wrote: On 02/17/12 20:24, Frank Shute wrote: I'd recommend www/xpi-flashblock. You can whitelist sites such as Youtube and the bbc whilst blocking the crappy flash adverts that are a feature of too many sites on the web. Especially useful if you're on a narrowband

webcamd and device numbering

2012-02-18 Thread Da Rock
I've been struggling with this on my own for ages now, and I was determined to try and sort it myself. But I'll now eat my humble pie and ask for some help :) I have (I believe I have mentioned this before) 5 dvb tuners in a FreeBSD server (8.2): 1 cx88, 2 DiVico dual tuners (that totals 4

Re: webcamd and device numbering

2012-02-18 Thread Da Rock
On 02/19/12 13:16, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 18 20:42:50 2012 Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:32:42 +1000 From: Da Rockfreebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au To: FreeBSD Questionsfreebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: webcamd and device numbering

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

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:Broadcom Corp BCM2045B, class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on usbus0 WARNING: attempt to domain_add(bluetooth) after domainfinalize() WARNING: attempt to

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

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: 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: 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 PS

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

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: 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 david.robi...@fisglobal.com 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

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

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

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

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

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 Hillch...@monochrome.org wrote: Why not add a selection to the installer, something like this: Partition scheme [ ] all in one + swap Create one 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: /

Re: Technical Support Question

2012-02-16 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 05:11, Chip Oakley wrote: Thanks for your reply. The boot CD will boot on the other machine, but not on the computer for my intended install of BSD. I set the boot order to boot first from CD ROM in phoenix BIOS. It is a Samsung Laptop it is windows 7 home edition I called Samsung

Re: Technical Support Question

2012-02-16 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 05:11, Chip Oakley wrote: Thanks for your reply. The boot CD will boot on the other machine, but not on the computer for my intended install of BSD. I set the boot order to boot first from CD ROM in phoenix BIOS. It is a Samsung Laptop it is windows 7 home edition I called Samsung

Re: Adobe Linux Flash

2012-02-16 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 11:03, sean wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 7:01 PM, Warren Block wrote: Deinstall swfdec, two flash players will probably keep either from working. The Linux flash version was what I had installed first and was not present. I installed swfdec afterwards afterwards to see if it would

Re: Is the list down?

2012-02-16 Thread Da Rock
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? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen

2012-02-15 Thread Da Rock
On 02/15/12 19:25, Fbsd8 wrote: I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the handbook about this so I am asking here. How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop screen? You are talking about a

Re: laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen

2012-02-15 Thread Da Rock
On 02/15/12 20:12, Da Rock wrote: On 02/15/12 19:25, Fbsd8 wrote: I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the handbook about this so I am asking here. How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop

Re: File manager for Xfce

2012-02-15 Thread Da Rock
On 02/16/12 08:41, Rares Aioanei wrote: On 02/15/2012 07:57 PM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: A long time KDE3 user but now thinking of Xfce instead as KDE4 is not really my way of doing it. One of the things I've found productive in KDE is the Konqerour file manager, is there anything similar

Re: Technical Support Question

2012-02-15 Thread Da Rock
On 02/16/12 06:14, Chip Oakley wrote: Hello, I am upgrading to BSD from windows. I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot remember. I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail. Is

Re: Technical Support Question

2012-02-15 Thread Da Rock
On 02/16/12 10:07, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: If you try a memstick, make sure its big enough. Most of the smallest usb sticks you can buy are about 4G anyway, so it will work. You need about 1.5G. And I believe you can use SD or other memory cards as well

Re: fixit disc for 7.3 #1?

2012-02-14 Thread Da Rock
On 02/15/12 12:01, Gary Kline wrote: On 02/14/2012 05:40 PM, Da Rock wrote: On 02/15/12 10:08, Gary Kline wrote: guys, is there still a way of fixing something i did to my existing installation? it does nothing but continually cycle e and try to reboot into the old release i had from feb

Re: fixit disc for 7.3 #1?

2012-02-14 Thread Da Rock
On 02/15/12 14:03, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:51:37PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:51:37 +1000 From: Da Rockfreebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au Subject: Re: fixit disc for 7.3 #1? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On 02/15/12 12:01, Gary Kline wrote

Re: Linux compatibility

2012-02-13 Thread Da Rock
On 02/13/12 20:08, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get Linux running various applications to the. Brandelf was applied to the binaries. But any Linux application crashes at startup. freebsd-desk# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 21 0xc040 8c6d08 kernel 2

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-12 Thread Da Rock
On 02/12/12 23:33, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:29 +0100 Polytropon articulated: On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:59 +0100, Ouyang Xueyu wrote: Hello, I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address,

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-12 Thread Da Rock
On 02/13/12 01:00, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:25:06 +1000 Da Rock articulated: The biggest problem comes with using many interpreters of a single language. Thankfully pcl works on the majority of printers (network), and is practically a standard in the enterprise world, so you're

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-10 Thread Da Rock
On 02/11/12 01:34, Henry Olyer wrote: So what do I change if I want to increase the shell's file limit? I don't think you can. It's not a shell limit. It's a limit to the number of arguments the command itself will take. As said, the shell expands '*' to a list of files as the argument, and rm

Re: Debug Brother MFC-9560CDW failure to print

2012-02-08 Thread Da Rock
On 02/08/12 17:37, Da Rock wrote: On 02/08/12 17:30, Da Rock wrote: On 02/08/12 17:24, Robert Bonomi wrote: Cc: Subject: Re: Debug Brother MFC-9560CDW failure to print On 02/08/12 03:33, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:57:26 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Just noticed something: have you

Re: Debug Brother MFC-9560CDW failure to print

2012-02-08 Thread Da Rock
On 02/08/12 17:30, Da Rock wrote: On 02/08/12 17:24, Robert Bonomi wrote: Cc: Subject: Re: Debug Brother MFC-9560CDW failure to print On 02/08/12 03:33, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:57:26 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Just noticed something: have you specifically got a postscript module

Re: print/cups: CUPS-1.5.0 IPP protocoll issues - no printing possible on IPP capable network printers

2012-02-07 Thread Da Rock
On 02/07/12 18:40, O. Hartmann wrote: We use a bunch of HP and Xerox printers across our network, all capable of being accessed via network over IPP protocoall (so they claim). Printing worked for me flawless on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE, 9.0-CURRENT, now 9.0-STABLE on all boxes in question. Since

Re: Usage of '@cwd' and '@srcdir' in a package list

2012-02-07 Thread Da Rock
On 02/08/12 06:22, Patrick Mahan wrote: All, Need a little direction on package creation. This issue is hitting me on both 8.0, 8.2 and 9.0 FreeBSD (amd64) releases. I'm trying to create a package using pkg_create with the intention of installing under /usr/local. However, my build

Re: Debug Brother MFC-9560CDW failure to print

2012-02-07 Thread Da Rock
On 02/08/12 03:33, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:57:26 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Just noticed something: have you specifically got a postscript module in your printer? Because that is what it is sending your printer... I only just found that in the logs :) I have used every PPD file I

Re: Debug Brother MFC-9560CDW failure to print

2012-02-07 Thread Da Rock
On 02/08/12 17:24, Robert Bonomi wrote: Cc: Subject: Re: Debug Brother MFC-9560CDW failure to print On 02/08/12 03:33, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:57:26 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Just noticed something: have you specifically got a postscript module in your printer? Because

Re: Debug Brother MFC-9560CDW failure to print

2012-02-07 Thread Da Rock
On 02/08/12 17:30, Da Rock wrote: On 02/08/12 17:24, Robert Bonomi wrote: Cc: Subject: Re: Debug Brother MFC-9560CDW failure to print On 02/08/12 03:33, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:57:26 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Just noticed something: have you specifically got a postscript module

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-06 Thread Da Rock
On 02/06/12 22:21, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:59 +0100 Ouyang Xueyu articulated: Hello, I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address, is configured in CUPS but everytime I only get blank

Re: Debug Brother MFC-9560CDW failure to print

2012-02-06 Thread Da Rock
On 02/07/12 07:32, Jerry wrote: OK Rock, if you think you can debug what is happening here, be my guest. As shown in the subject line, this is a Brother MFC-9560CDW printer. It works perfectly from Windows. Under FreeBSD, no so much. When configured via CUPS 1.5.0, it will print a perfect test

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-06 Thread Da Rock
On 02/07/12 08:37, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. This is kind of off topic. My apologies in advance. I am helping a non profit organization and giving some classes to prepare students so they can be prepared and try to get a job (they are students also and have the basics concepts already)

Re: Debug Brother MFC-9560CDW failure to print

2012-02-06 Thread Da Rock
On 02/07/12 11:44, Da Rock wrote: On 02/07/12 07:32, Jerry wrote: OK Rock, if you think you can debug what is happening here, be my guest. As shown in the subject line, this is a Brother MFC-9560CDW printer. It works perfectly from Windows. Under FreeBSD, no so much. When configured via CUPS

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-06 Thread Da Rock
On 02/07/12 14:06, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 07:36:46PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: DDa == Da Rock writes: Would you do that with Python or something else? DDa Depending on what you really need to solve decides your DDa language. Others have offered advice here

impossible? postfix filter partial virtual domain mailboxes

2012-02-06 Thread Da Rock
I have a postfix mta (beauty mate!) and I've managed to twist its panties into a real tight knot by using a filter (smtpd), and through using it to put my isp mail into a local box thanks to fetchmail. The problem I'm facing is that it now won't send mail to any other users on my isp's

Re: Kernel stalling at pci0: ACPI bus on pcib0

2012-02-06 Thread Da Rock
On 02/07/12 15:48, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 07 February 2012 12:40:09 Will McCutcheon wrote: Hello all, I recently got a HP t5700 thin client that I wanted to turn into a firewall using pfSense. For reference, this system uses a Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 CPU with a VIA chipset that

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-05 Thread Da Rock
On 02/06/12 06:21, Ouyang Xueyu wrote: Hello, I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address, is configured in CUPS but everytime I only get blank pages when I'm trying to print. Does anybody know a

Re: Mailing list recommend

2012-02-05 Thread Da Rock
On 02/06/12 07:59, Graham Bentley wrote: Default Mail SignatureHi All - can anyone recommend an easy / simple mailing list software? All I need is to subscribe/ un-subscribe and a little maintainance of users. MySQL if its worth it, or a just php? Any pointers appreciated! This one is run by

Re: OT: perl mail problems

2012-01-29 Thread Da Rock
On 01/29/12 02:13, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 28/01/2012 13:39, Da Rock wrote: I know this is not exactly FreeBSD related, but I'm in need of a monk that can enlighten me on a sacred incantation to connect perl to an imap server using Mail::Box modules :) If it helps people sleep, its all running

Re: OT: perl mail problems

2012-01-29 Thread Da Rock
On 01/29/12 18:56, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 29/01/2012 08:11, Da Rock wrote: Thanks for the help guys. I've stepped away from php for security reasons; and the fact that I can integrate perl right into apache with mod_perl. Verb. Sap. Checkout PSGI if you're doing web-based perl things. See

OT: perl mail problems

2012-01-28 Thread Da Rock
I know this is not exactly FreeBSD related, but I'm in need of a monk that can enlighten me on a sacred incantation to connect perl to an imap server using Mail::Box modules :) If it helps people sleep, its all running only on FreeBSD systems... I have googled and searched, and googled some

Re: USB 3.0 with FreeBSD 8.1

2012-01-27 Thread Da Rock
On 01/28/12 11:22, Henry Olyer wrote: What's the plan? Anything I can do? I'm not 100% sure, but I believe I heard whispers of support in 9.x... I think you won't get much for 8.1 specifically, as 8.2 was the latest 8.x; that said you could try compiling it for your own purposes (if there

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 05:39, robert perry wrote: I intend to purchase a multifunction printer (including fax, scanner, copier) and return to utilizing the BSD operating systems. Early research indicates that few printer manufacturers formally support the FreeBSD or Unix operating systems but imply

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 08:08, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm trying port some shell scripts to FreeBSD that were originally written on Darwin (OS X). The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and the code contains

Re: FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works?

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 11:50, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, I discovered this thread: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=25539 and am wondering what will and won't work on my Lenovo X220 I'm currently in the process in deciding between FreeBSD 9 and Fedora 15/16. I love FreeBSD on servers but

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 12:55, Doug Poland wrote: On Jan 25, 2012, at 18:04 , Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 25, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Doug Poland wrote: The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and the code contains some

Re: MySQL Localhost install - Was: Hello

2012-01-23 Thread Da Rock
On 01/24/12 07:06, Crow wrote: I want to create MySQL localhost. Can you provide some more information? Like which version of FreeBSD you are using (or other OS if you happen to be needing other support), what you have completed so far, other parameters that you are able to tell us which may

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-23 Thread Da Rock
On 01/24/12 11:33, gore wrote: On Monday 23 January 2012 12:17:33 pm Mark Felder wrote: I've recently been presented with new information: namely that RC3 had sysinstall as an option (I did not know this, and I've been reading the lists) and that it was taken away for -RELEASE even though it

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