Re: "Support for 80386 processors (the I386_CPU kernel configuration option)"

2006-01-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
on an 80486, if it has an hardware FPU - either built in or external.) -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ports security branch

2005-12-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
when upgrading your ports. > Debian GNU/Linux > has its security package updates, OpenBSD has a separately maintained > "errata" ports branch (you still get to download a newer release of the > software, though (IIRC)). -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: make targets, was: Running qmail

2005-12-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
in ports documented? I'd like to know all > of the options available in ports. I usually just cd /usr/ports && ls > -d */*daemontools* Most of the make targets available are documented in the ports(7) manpage. > > A target that tells me what a port has in the way of op

Re: Duplicate `automake' & `autoconf' files

2005-11-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
if you build some new ports. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Unknown Program

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
o start one or more services running - in this case the slpd daemon. It only actually starts slpd if you have the line spld_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf For more information about the etc/rc.d directory and its contents you could read the r

Re: recursive port configuration

2005-11-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
ns. > > > > - Giorgos > > aah.. thanks :-) .. is there any way to get information on the make targets > of > the portssystem?.. I seem to find out only at random.. and I'm not all that > good at reading make-files :-/ The ports(7) manpage is a good place to start.

Re: RELENG_6 cvsup returns 6.0-RC1

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Trulsson
8.us.freebsd.org) and does indeed hand out old files, as if it hasn't been updated in quite a while. To the OP: Use another cvsup server. The one you have been using seem to have problems. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

Re: Upgrading 4.11-STABLE to 5.4-STABLE

2005-11-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: kqueue and polling ... are they related?

2005-10-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
ibed in the polling(4) manpage. The only connection between poll(2) and polling(4) is that they have similar names. So, to answer your question: No, you do not need to have polling enabled in order to use kqueue. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: How do I name my network interface?

2005-10-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
n't sound much like the name of a network device. I guess > > it does confirm that there exists such a thing. It says nothing about > > Realtek, like the docs, though. > > The "none" only means it's not bound to a driver. You might try the > vr(

Re: How do I name my network interface?

2005-10-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:00:55PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > >On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:30:35PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > >> > >>Hi! > >> > >>I have realized that my new motherboard has a bui

Re: How do I name my network interface?

2005-10-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
up in the dmesg(8) output it might not be supported, or the correct driver might not be included in the kernel. What does 'pciconf -lv' say? -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Imap-uw and openssl certificate

2005-10-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
quite possible to do it. > > You must put the exact name of your server, as it is known by DNS and > reverse DNS. He probably did exactly that. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: BGL

2005-10-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
covers some parts of the > > kernel (less in 6), so if can be more precise about a specific > > "locking issue" then perhaps we can give a more precise answer. > > > > Kris > > ___

Re: Freebsd 4.11 - More than 1GB of ram

2005-09-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
he extra memory (option PAE to be specific, and possibly some other as well), but below that it should work fine out of the box. (The above applies for x86. For Alpha there is apparently a limit of 1 or 2 GB of RAM for some reason.) -- Erik Trulsson [

Re: How similar are Xorg and XF86 config files

2005-09-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
#x27;s > based upon Debian). > > So, how much of that file should I be able to copy into the Xorg config > file? The config files are very similar. You should be able to use almost all of that file in Xorg as well. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: which mutt??

2005-09-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
rimental for my taste while mail/mutt is a bit too old and lacks some features I like. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Printing MAN pages

2005-09-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:50:29PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 9/8/05, Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:55:19PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:36:46PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > > > On T

Re: Printing MAN pages

2005-09-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
e... It does if you know that postscript is the default output format of groff. If one doesn't know what format groff outputs by default, it is easily learned by reading the groff(1) manpage. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How do I reset a port's options

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
ptions again (with your old choices as default values) or 'make rmconfig' to delete the old selections. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: shell usage (syntax) question

2005-08-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
27;cpio' redirected to /tmp/test (instead of to the tty as is the normal case.) The shell reads and takes care of all the redirection stuff before starting the program. In the example above 'cpio' will not see the "< /dev/ad0h 2>/tmp/test" part of the co

Re: Any thing better then portupgrade?

2005-08-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
I will just note that I certainly did not have any problems at all updating Perl from 5.8.6 to 5.8.7, but then I almost never have any problems updating ports on my systems. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: Question

2005-08-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
The SCSI controller chips supported by the mpt driver can be found onboard on many systems including: · Dell PowerEdge 1750 · IBM eServer xSeries 335 ==== It seems fairly clear to me that the LSI 53c1030 SCSI controller is supposed to work. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL

Re: man malloc

2005-08-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
y anway. > I have no pointer before malloc() returns. Then where do you store the value returned by malloc? You almost certainly do have some pointer even before malloc returns, but that pointer might not contain any useful value. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: pdftotext binary

2005-08-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
.8.2 > WWW: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ 'pdftotext' is part of xpdf, so installing graphics/xpdf either as a package or as a ports will get you a pdftotext binary. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Adding NNTP Support to Mutt

2005-08-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
t so I don't know how well it works, but using that seems like the easiest solution. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: old pc

2005-07-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
needed to install. I think the newest version of FreeBSD that could be installed in only 8MB RAM was 3.3. You can run 4.x (and probably 5.x) with 8MB RAM but not install it, but it will be slow. I strongly recommend getting more memory. The CPU and harddisk should be adequate though.

Re: Continuation of support for FreeBSD 4.x ?

2005-07-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
tions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: -DNOPROFILE with make buildworld...

2005-06-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
g or > not? No. > Would I have had to explicitly set an option to compile ports to > link against profiling libraries? Yes. > Is it therefore a reasonable > assumption that if I didn't specifically make any binaries profiling, > then they'll be not-profiling? Ye

Re: ethernet driver underruns

2005-06-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
s had been tried, so the driver programmed the chip for store and forward mode. In this mode, the NIC will not begin transmis- sion until the entire packet has been transfered into its FIFO memory. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Does Xorg use another keymap than XFree86?

2005-06-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
ng.html>. Note that that document was originally written for Xfree86, so it is not something specific to Xorg. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: Securelevel 2 VS OpenNTPd

2005-06-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
the securelevel is raised. In short, there shouldn't be any problems. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD's MPlayer not using GTK2

2005-05-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
our help. If you read the Makefile for multimedia/mplayer, where WITH_GTK2 is described, it says: "At the moment there is no current gtk2 patch available, so defining this knob has no effect right now." So, no, you didnät do anything wrong - it is just that GTK2 is not working for t

Re: Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD

2005-05-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
e on an IDE channel it should be configured as master, not as slave. Having it configured as slave is supposed to work, but often does not work and is therefore not recommended. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Default Kernel Font and Resolution

2005-05-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
ying special attention to the SC_DFLT_FONT kernel option, to find out how to change the default font. There does not seem to be any option to change the default resolution, so you are probably stuck with using vidcontrol for that. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 3.3

2005-05-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
d a mirror still carrying it (or any other release.) -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Did 5.4-RC4 become 5.4-RELEASE?

2005-05-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
ant of those are probably patches for the security advisories that were released during that short period of time. (The 5.4 errata file mentions all three of those advisories.) > > Just curious. If it is, I'll stick with what I have. If not, I'll > cvsup to 5.4-RELEASE.

Re: Shared /usr/ports directories

2005-05-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 06:13:09PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > >On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:39:54PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote: > > > >>Hi all, > >> > >>I have several machines running FBSD now. At the moment I have a >

Re: Shared /usr/ports directories

2005-05-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
x27;t know. For me the only things stored in /usr/ports are the port skeletons themselves. (/usr/ports/distfiles is just a symlink on my system to a directory on another filesystem.) > > Tony > > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > >On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:39:54PM +

Re: Shared /usr/ports directories

2005-05-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
t one on another. You should even be able to export /usr/ports as read-only. (Changing WKRDIRPREFIX also makes it a lot easier and faster to clean up after building ports. Instead of having to issue a 'make clean' for each port built, you can just do a 'rm -fr /var/workdir/*'

Re: Can't delete a file

2005-05-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
wheel18K Mar 26 06:58 rcp* > > i can't even delete it as root: > > # rm -rf rcp > rm: rcp: Operation not permitted > > can anyone tell me how to get rid of it? chflags noschg rcp rm -rf rcp Do a 'man chflags' for more information

Re: Strange kernel messages

2005-05-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
27;s how I'm reading it, but of course I'm guessing. If that > *is* so, what mechanism is doing this? > > FreeBSD 4.11 STABLE See the FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/networking.html#ICMP-RESPONSE-BW-LIMIT -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Sound card support

2005-05-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
on to 'device sound' Try using kldload to load each of the snd_* kernel modules and see which one recognises your sound card - then you can add that device to your kernel config. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: about freebsd 5.4

2005-05-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
o the fact that it was released *after* the 5.x branch had been officially labeled as the new -STABLE branch. 4.11 is therefore not primarily intended or recommended new installations, but mostly for those who have existing installations and wish to stay with what they know works.)

Re: NFS mounting

2005-04-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
Read the mount_nfs(8) manpage for the details. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Audit tools?

2005-04-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
ot. 'uname -a' will show which version of FreeBSD is installed, but after that you will have to check manually to see if all components are installed or not. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: fsck in securelevel 2?

2005-04-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
normally not a problem. I hope the root partition had not been mounted as read/write when you ran fsck, because if you run fsck on partition which is mounted r/w fsck will often (incorrectly) report errors even if there are no problems, and then one can really mess things up. --

Re: non-official support for 5.2.1

2005-04-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
write a small sentence on a web-site! It > should be announced in [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I can not find > anything in the archives! The next time they should annouce the > interrupt of supporting a security branch!!! Considering that 5.2.1 was

Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

2005-04-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
can start or stop, regulate download speed, > etc.: > http://www.FreeDownloadManager.org/features.htm I would assume that like most other countries they are charged per minute for the dialup connection (by the phone company, not the ISP) even if they don't get charged per meg

Re: Debug tags in FreeBSD

2005-04-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
ode. Even if you do compile with '-g' it will not slow down the code at all. The only drawback will be that the extra debug info will take up extra space on the disk. > > I'm not a development thug, so if this question sound stupid, I would > regret bothering you. Hope someone

Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386

2005-04-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:47:32PM +0400, Michael Lednev wrote: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:34:01 +0400, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >>I have an old old pentium, scsi HDD + floppy + CDROM, 16 MB of somewhat > >>dubious ram... > > > >

Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386

2005-04-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
lation option... then reboots back to floppy... > > > I do not seem to have a way of getting to sysinstall!!! > > -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: downgrade 4.11-stable to 4.11R

2005-03-31 Thread Erik Trulsson
eing said, in terms of security there is probably no difference whatsoever between RELENG_4 and RELENG_4_11 and going back to RELENG_4_11 from RELENG_4 for security reasons is mostly just a waste of time and energy. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 4.11-STABLE

2005-03-31 Thread Erik Trulsson
fined as '486 or slower and 32MB RAM or less.)) -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: cvsup, portupgrade, installing ports, and firewalls

2005-03-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
ling the firewall? The cvsup(1) manpage describes exactly what ports need to be opened for cvsup to work. (Normally just outgoing TCP connections to port 5999 on the server.) Fetching distfiles for ports is usually done via either HTTP or FTP, so if you allow those out everyting should work. -

Re: .cshrc

2005-03-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
and the a user a sh > shell. Historical reasons mainly. > What brings me to the following question , What is the best > shell to use :) Whichever one you prefer is obviously the best one for you. Personally I prefer zsh. Other people have

Re: .cshrc

2005-03-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
512 Mar 19 22:44 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 gert wheel802 Mar 25 13:12 .cshrc > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: looking for a shell editor

2005-03-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
the page.) Full-screen programs (like man) seem to get a bit confused when running inside joe, probably because joe does *not* supply a full terminal-emulator. I would recommend that you don't run such programs inside joe - just use a normal shell instead. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL

Re: looking for a shell editor

2005-03-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
k K stands for anything really - I think it was chosen mainly because it was placed in a convenient position on the keyboard. The WordStar keybindings might not seem very logical at first glance, but ones fingers very quickly learn them. (Unlike e.g. the default keybindings in Emacs which are quite l

Re: Acroread7

2005-03-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
s. :-) I did not have any problems when I installed either of them on a fairly clean system a few days ago. (I originally installed print/acroread when it was a version 7, and the deinstalled it and installed version 5 when the port was changed back.) For me teh linux-librar

Re: Make buildworld and UPDATING

2005-03-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
U you are actually using, but it is not necessary other than for a real 80386. > or do all > x86's need to set this value? > > It seems to me that only 386 should need to set it but before I start > updating I want to be sure.. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this a function or a structure???(once again, a mind-boggling example from Kernighan)

2005-03-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
point { int x; int y; }; Such a definition would at least be reasonable, and consistent wwith the usage of 'struct point' in the function 'makepoint') -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Installed new kernel and then make buildworld and now no internet?

2005-03-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
is? > > Thanks > > /Brian > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Erik Trulsson

Re: daemon??

2005-02-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
See http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html and http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/mainpage/copyright.html for more information. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: script "echo on" like MS-DOS?

2005-02-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
bin/sh, bash, and zsh is to invoke the shell with the -x flag. Then the shell will echo each command before executing it. For other shells there may, or may not be an equivalent. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Removal of item from archive

2005-02-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:22:35PM -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Tuesday 22 February 2005 11:52 am, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:54:57AM -0800, Beth Gibbs wrote: > > > I request information on how to remove a message from the list. > > &

Re: Removal of item from archive

2005-02-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
r the world. Removing a message from all those archives is essentially impossible.) -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
t true for Windows NT/2000/XP all of which are "real" operating systems, with a kernel that is actually fairly decent (unlike all the stuff that is layered on top of it.) -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: make world: HOW CLEAN IS IT?

2005-02-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
, but there are normally very few (if any) such files. > > i am *VERY* conscious on cleanliness; > > does freebsd keep track of absolutely EVERY file > it creates? Nope, it mostly doesn't keep track of them at all. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Inactive memory

2005-02-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:55:26PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:44:39PM -0700, Pat Maddox wrote: > >Memory normally moves along the following path: > > > >Wired -> Active -> Inactive -> Cached -> Free >

Re: Inactive memory

2005-02-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
graph, don't worry. It is not really important to understand. For most purposes you should just consider all of "Free", "Cached", and "Inactive" to be free memory that is available for allocation. > > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:36:12 +0100, Erik Tru

Re: Inactive memory

2005-02-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
t; OS use the inactive memory before dipping into swap? Or is that > memory off limits now? If so, is there any way to free it up? I've > got 1GB total on the machine. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM --

Re: Electricity bill [was: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?]

2005-02-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
entral heating, such that the heating is included in teh rent, and does not show up on the electricity bill (and I don't think the heating uses electricity anyway.) Power used by the computer is relevant for me, and shows up directly on the electricity bill (while heating does not.) -- Er

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
cess patterns of single-user desktop machines the performance advantage of SCSI is quite small, and generally not worth the higher cost. It is for busy multi-user servers that SCSI really shines, which is a relatively small market. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Where do all the passwd get saved ?

2005-02-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
7;t know that for sure :) Hopefully somebody else can clarify this. > > > > > On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:45:09 +0100, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought it was /etc/passwd but that seemed not to be where i was > > looking for :) RTFM, the passwd(

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
l the time it will show up on your electricity bill, so if you wish to save power you should shut down your computer over night. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Question about filesystem and limits

2005-02-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
directory tree a file may reside, just on how long pathnames one can pass to syscalls/library functions. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 3.2

2005-02-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
appens to be located in Taiwan doesn't mean the software is any different from that on mirrors in other countries. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: FreeBSD 3.2

2005-02-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:39:11PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where am I going to find a 3.2 to install, looked on the net and linuxcentral > for it with no luck. Check http://mirrorlist.FreeBSD.org/ to find a mirror-site carrying some given older release. -- Erik Trulsson

Re: upgrading FreeBSD

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
ke a fresh install of 5.3 restore data from backup will almost certainly be quicker, simpler, and less prone to catastrophic failure. (Making a backup of all important data is a *very* good idea anyway.) -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:03:12AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > > >On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:11:36AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > > >>Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Eri

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:11:36AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > >Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > >> > >>But remember that several parts of FreeBSD are covered by the GNU > >>GPL which has somewhat more restrictions (mainly

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:00:57AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > > >On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:29:08AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > > >>faisal gillani wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Is i

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
more restrictions (mainly in that (slightly simplified) you need to include the sourcecode for anything you distribute.) In either case it is certainly allowed to sell FreeBSD and charge whatever you want. You just can't prevent anybody making further copies once they have recieved one. --

Re: suidperl missing?

2005-01-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
erl you should go to the port and do a 'make ENABLE_SUIDPERL=yes install' (after having deinstalled any existing installation of course.) If you are using packages rather than compiling from ports, you are out of luck. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Strange question about the logo?...

2005-01-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
t strange to use software with a > sign of a devil.??? I know,.. maybe a bit strange, but it is just > a feeling. > > Can you tell me why FreeBSD choosed a devil as logo? It is not a devil, it is a daemon. See http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.htm

Re: message for port developers

2005-01-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
y, no. > > So you know there will not be any screens until its done and you can > spend the time doing something els ? > > Cant be that hart to do or am i mistaken ? It has already been implemented, but not yet commited to the ports tree. See PR 76254 for a patch. --

Re: perl and ports

2005-01-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
ty-print-build-depends-list' depending on if you want the run-time dependencies or the build dependencies. If you had read the ports(7) manpage you would already have known this. Read it before you ask any more questions that are answered in there. --

Re: fragmentation

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
Is > this a bad thing? Is this unusual? I guess you mean it prints something like the following: /dev/ad4s1a: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad4s1a: clean, 118393 free (633 frags, 14720 blocks, 0.4% fragmentation) That is perfectly normal, and nothing to worry about. -- Er

Re: RELENG_4 vs RELENG_4_11

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
ENG_3 and it is a long time since the last 3.x release was made. The amount of new stuff that makes it into RELENG_4 will of course dwindle as time goes on, but there will probably be some. > Or > will RELENG_4 become the same as RELENG_4_11? No. -- Erik Tr

Re: Error installing print/latex

2005-01-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:52:27AM -0700, Aaron Dalton wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:14:57AM -0700, Aaron Dalton wrote: > > > >>When doing a make on print/latex I get the following error: > >> > >>===>

Re: Error installing print/latex

2005-01-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
t use print/latex ? If there is not I would suggest that you use print/teTeX instead. It is probably more up to date and is what most people use for TeX-related stuff. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Slow directory access with lots of files

2005-01-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
are confused. UFS_DIRHASH does not affect the layout on disk at all as far as I can tell. You are probably confusing it with the dirpref changes that were made back in 2001 at approximately the same time as UFS_DIRHASH was added. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How long will 4.x be supported?

2005-01-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
here probably will be too few changes applied to 4.x to warrant a 4.12 release anytime soon. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: Sil 3114 RAID controller issues with FreeBSD 5.3 Release AMD-64

2005-01-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
l the RAID stuff for that controller is done in software anyway, but FreeBSD needs to know what format the BIOS uses for a RAID setup, and it doesn't. I guess you could set up a pure software RAID-1 solution using vinum, but not having done that myself I can't say for sure. See ht

Re: 4.8 - / out of space

2005-01-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
n /tmp are shadowed by the /tmp partition and not seen be ls or du. They do still use space on / though. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: News from several NNTP Servers

2005-01-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
to do what you want, but since that is a commercial program (with a free download and a free trial period) you might not want it. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: ssh protocol in 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread Erik Trulsson
g the sshd(8) and sshd_config(5) manpages carefully might prove helpful. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Xorg 6.8.1/6.8.0 in ports?

2004-12-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
rts tree on Dec. 23. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Support for Adaptec Ultra 320 (29320)

2004-12-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
FreeBSD 5.3 ? Yes, it is supported. See http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#DISK for more information on what controllers are supported. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

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