On Sunday 09 October 2005 16:41, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I have an older PS2 Happy Hacking Lite Keyboard (love it!), but I'm
> getting reacquainted with Emacs and one aspect of the keyboard is driving
> me nuts: I can't seem to get the diamond keys (like "Windows keys&
. It only builds the one package. Also, consider
editing /etc/make.conf and settings CFLAGS="-Os" to build the smallest
binaries possible. That may save you a few KB.
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uot; as though the
keyboard is sending Hyper-Meta-shift(?)-a instead.
I'd like to get this fixed ASAP, as using ESC for Meta for the rest of my life
doesn't seem too appealing.
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gally
able to close-source any code they didn't write.
Much ado was made at one point about some scammer or another offering to
"buy" Linux. The general concensus is that this would be legally
impossible without the permission of everyone who'd ever submitted a patch,
u
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 10:43 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I like the idea, but the rendering is lacking in some browsers. This
> screenshot comes from Konqueror 3.4.2 on a FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 machine:
I think I found the problem. I sit a few feet away from a 19" monitor, and
have
painful at this point.
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ances. It
only makes your legitimate users (deservedly) hate you. Are you sure that's
what your company really wants?
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ing, well, Ted.
However, there *have* been people claiming that their Christian
sensibilities were offended by Beastie. On-topic or not, Ted's patch was
still a darn funny response to those people.
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all the fuss is about.
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P card, and is listed in the
README.txt for version 1.0-7676. It works, sort of: GLX is present and
OpenGL apps run with the expected quickness. It's the broken 2D
acceleration that's really putting a crimp in my usage.
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On Friday 23 September 2005 01:04, Christopher Illies wrote:
> Since I disabled AGP, I had no more crashes with my card, even with
> RenderAccel enabled.
No kidding? Is that configuration actually faster on your system? I may
have to give that a shot.
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recent kernels. That's the main reason I'm shopping for replacements - my
hardware isn't as usable as it was six months ago.
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> since they aren't overclocked 4000 series cards =).
Thanks. Do you know of any FreeBSD-specific gotchas, and in particular
whether RenderAccel works (or is still needed for tolerable performance)?
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able to use X.org's Composite extension as well so simple downgrading
probably won't help.
Any suggestions for a cheap, well-supported card?
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...and the problem is solved. Do people actually type their username for a
particular host more than once?
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On Tuesday 23 August 2005 12:40, artifex maximus wrote:
> I think much better to leave GENERIC as is and making new config file
> like this:
> include GENERIC
>
> ident NEWKERNEL
>
> nomakeoption DEBUG
> nooptions KDB
Slick! So, how does one "nocpu
eboot the
server (for other reasons, of course :) ) and let the rc.d script start it.
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HCE,
MSCE, etc.?", which is a perfectly legitimate question. Don't be so quick
to anger.
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e "$CATOP" variable to point
to /usr/local/etc/mypersonalCA, then edited /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf to refer
to the same directory. That way, I don't have to deal with it wanting to
use the relative directory "./demoCA" during its operations.
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the Internet and my LAN see mostly the same data, except for a few
records that get answered with different values.
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> issue, though I strongly suspect it isn't. Can someone suggest a common
> 100 MB NIC that has proven to be very stable in 5.x?
Intel EtherExpress PROs (fxp driver) are pretty much universally respected.
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reinstlal" process.
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assure you that it's much, much faster to selectively upgrade
a few of them rather than starting over from scratch.
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md5 to compare before
and after versions of split-and-rejoined files.
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mes and address extensions (user+foo).
I set mine to "+" and use it all the time whenever I give out my address
(although I subscribed to this mailing list before I migrated to Postfix so
you won't see it on my messages here). For example, my listed address on
Slashdot
; know why MacOS X Server is using postfix instead of qmail?
All technical debates aside, Qmail isn't F/OSS software. They couldn't ship
it without getting a custom license.
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On Tuesday 14 June 2005 12:07, JM wrote:
> i've written an rcNG script but i'm having some issues.
Step one: set rc_debug="YES" in /etc/rc.conf to see what's actually
happening when you attempt to run your script. That seems to uncover about
95% of the problems
andle
it will get fixed rather quickly.
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x27;s correct.
> I didn't know if that meant it would be running three postfix queues now
> or if it is just a misunderstanding on my part.
Sort of, in a way, except that in theory any MTA (or other process) could use
the amavis or postgrey ports, so they're not exactly
agazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/focus_spam_postfix
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urable size. Would
this be a reasonable option for the FreeBSD lists? I'd hate to reject all
large messages just because we can't imagine a need for it at the moment, but
I certainly understand the need to limit them as much as possible.
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re Magazine; it's available
online at
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/focus_spam_postfix/ .
An associate and I are considering building little FreeBSD anti-spam
appliances to sell to local businesses.
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ith software mirroring and striping, but those really don't put a lot
of demand on the CPU. If you're also doing database, mail, and PHP on the
same system then you'd probably want a bit of external acceleration.
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ards have people had good
luck with in practice?
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On Tuesday 24 May 2005 12:13, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote:
> Where did you actually set that, in /etc/sysctl.conf?
Yep.
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n't affect
me, next message"...
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On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:59, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Read the security advisories issued for FreeBSD.
I thought that I had. I missed the "we're now disabling HTT by default
unless you set a new sysctl" part. :-)
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long this has been going on. top used to show both 0 and 1 in the C column
and I'm not exactly sure when it stopped. Any ideas?
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(unless you're buying the
official disks as a sort of donation or out of convenience), but it
certainly *is* possible to buy it.
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x27;s only useful for logging in locally.
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in your email signature
instead of punishing the rest of us by putting it in your username?
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On Thursday 12 May 2005 12:47, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> Nagios.
>
> http://www.nagios.org/
Me, too
I have a Nagios server monitor several friendly networks. I get emails,
pages, or Jabber popups as appropriate whenever problems start.
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On Friday 06 May 2005 05:52, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> DMCA
So, how's that working out for you with non-US third-party mirrors that
aren't subject to American law in any way?
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ework the
system before it grows much more.
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The built-in amd automounter may work great for NFS, but I increasingly find
myself mounting Windows shares and amd doesn't seem to support them. Any
suggestions?
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On Saturday 19 March 2005 02:22 pm, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> The ksu from the mit-krb5 port works the way you expect it to.
Thanks for the info. Any idea why the one in the base system wouldn't,
though? I'm loathe to replace the working installation if I don't have to.
d ksu's man page or other documentation on my
system.
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bully
others. The rest of us hate that our religion is drawn through the mud by
loudmouths who claim to speak for us.
I'm about as conservative as you can get, but I have a Beastie logo on my
server (next to the EFF sticker). Can we drop this now?
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t *business owner*. Even if 100% of the
messages were blocked, he'd still get his pay for performing the "service".
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rce license. As I said, though,
whether that's good, bad, or irrelevant is up to the administrator. It's
just something that many people aren't aware of but would be interested in.
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this subject. It's
available online at
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/focus_spam_postfix .
While it's largely aimed at Postfix users, every method I use is available
in other MTAs.
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thers consider it
kind of important.
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or example, if
you create a file named "-", then "rm -- -" will get rid of it.
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DO
list for 5.4 is at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/todo.html . We
look forward to your contributions!
> Designed Spell-checker
[...]
> Worked with 8*8 and 16*16 RAM to implement sate machine and GCD
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On Saturday 26 February 2005 01:50 pm, Tim Traver wrote:
> for some reason, I cannot get php to compile a shared object to work
> with apache 1.3.33...
Is there a reason you're not using the port?
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On Thursday 24 February 2005 05:56, kalin mintchev wrote:
> is there something like http://www.newsfirerss.com/ for freebsd?
I like www/akregator. It's a KDE program, and optionally integrates well
with Kontact if you like such things.
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On Tuesday 01 February 2005 07:27 pm, John wrote:
> I should have been clearer - I meant my NFS clients, my own local
> machines in my lab - not clients as in "customers."
NFS clients implies peered Unix machines. Has anyone tried building jdk14
with distcc?
-
rewriting that dependency on
openldap-client-2.2.19 to openldap-sasl-client-2.2.19 automatically but it
never does. Has anyone made this work, or should I file a PR?
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le, but I get the same error but with a much longer list of
directories. Any ideas?
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it off. tunefs only affects a filesystem's attributes but not the underlying
hardware.
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Linux users have a tool, hdparm, that lets them adjust all sorts of drive
characteristics (read look-ahead, 32-bit I/O, multi-sector I/O, and so on)
beyond the normal things seen in the hw.ata tree. Is there an equivalent for
FreeBSD?
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always seemed too duanting a task.
I've updated ports via slow connections many times without too much trouble.
The first update may take a while, sure, but keeping it current should be
pretty easy. You could even download a tarball of the ports collection to
get started with a reasona
eros to authenticate to that jail server from inside
my LAN, but not from outside (especially when I can connect to its parent
machine from the outside world)?
2) Where on earth did that "krbtgt/[EMAIL PROTECTED]" request
come from?
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run portupgrade anyway. If removing X.org isn't a high priority,
then you can always check back every month or so to see when the list of
packages that need X11 is small enough that you can force-upgrade them in a
reasonably short amount of time.
Also note that this general approach wo
he same problem when I was writing JailAdmin (sysutils/jailadmin),
and eventually solved it by using jexec to execute ps from within a jail.
This is actually a lot faster than opening and reading a lot of files from
within /proc, *and* allows you to run a system without a mounted proc
filesystem
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 20:54, sasha.roxie wrote:
> I'm trying to locate Teddy's son, so googled your name.
I hate to say it, but your relative's been hanging out with a pack of merry
daemons.
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On Tuesday 14 December 2004 12:20, Andy Clements wrote:
> Did I forget some small tid-bit that needs to change for this to work?
Cron requires a newline at the end of the file. I'll bet that your crontab
ends with "cvs-sup.sh" and not "cvs-sup.sh".
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ild it
again when the required patch becomes available.
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works by ssh'ing to a shell on your
system and running cd, ls, cat, and so on to get directory listings and the
contents of files. If there is a problem with one of these commands, then
there you go.
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m not ready to completely blame vinum for destabilizing my ATA system - I
wouldn't testify in court that I didn't inadvertently change any seemingly
minor but actually important setting - but the circumstantial evidence seems
pretty strong for me.
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that hasn't made it into OpenBSD's
ports tree.
3) I value security above all else, including performance and easy access to
lots of software.
I can certainly imagine scenarios where I'd make that choice (credit card
databases, domain controllers, etc.) but for the stuff
described in detail there. Some of the settings could
potentially make your card quite a bit faster, but they're not universally
compatible so they're off by default.
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On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:49, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> Are you using xorg or XFree86?
xorg.
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rivers support
my KT133 chipset at all, so I'm not terribly surprised that agp.ko wouldn't
work on my system. I'm pretty disappointed that nvidia's own drivers don't
seem to be working, either.
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On Monday 29 November 2004 04:35 pm, Raul Zighelboim wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sysctl -a | grep -i agp
> [...]
> hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled
What exactly did you do? Did you do anything special to your kernel or
loader.conf other than disabling agp.ko?
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uccessfully used an NVidia card with the most recent
x11/nvidia-driver port in AGP (as opposed to PCI) mode?
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On Monday 29 November 2004 03:21 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> One of the computers I'm having this problem with is a P4 with an Intel
> chipset
Which reminds me: I forgot to mention that my system has a 1.4GHz Thunderbird
on an Asus A7V (KT133) motherboard.
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tensive.
I'm running out of things to check. Any idea what combination of settings
would result in a system where the display seems to run correctly, but is
much slower than expected?
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nd then nothing more. I don't know what else to try. Any thoughts?
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as well as a new rc.d/mountnoncritremote that took
advantage of it. I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen,
though.
> BTW, this obviously won't work if you plan to re-export remote nfs-shares
Right. That's not important to me, but I can see why that wouldn't be a
good default.
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in `mountcritremote'? Is there any reason
not to? Would this make sense as a patch for FreeBSD in general?
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pretty well now, so I'm content with the current setup. I'm
not a gamer so I don't know if it would run GL apps well, but the 2D is
fast enough that it's perfectly usable forr me.
> But enough of that. I'm not finding any docs on the RenderAccel option.
> Can
On Monday 08 November 2004 15:36, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> So, any idea why my text rendering and GLX are so painfully slow?
Text rendering:
Disregard the warnings and add this to the NVidia card's "Device" section in
xorg.conf:
Option "RenderAccel" &
}
but they don't seem to have the desired effect. Am I doing something wrong,
or is ALT_PKGDEP not the appropriate way to solve this?
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ng the nvidia-driver port, glxgears reports a
framerate between 2 and 3. I've tried using both Nvidia's AGPGART and
FreeBSD's own (following the instructions that came with the port and
rebooting between trials to unload the agp.ko kernel module).
So, any idea why my text rendering
On Saturday 06 November 2004 11:27, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> [...] moused only seems to pass the first 5 through to X.
I don't know what else to say - I must've been smoking too much crack that
morning. After a reboot to install new hardware, moused seems in fact to
have started
pointers?
For those interested, this page includes a picture of the trackball that may
make more sense than my description:
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=012
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ort 0xecc0-0xecff mem
0xfe10-0xfe11 irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
em0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:9f:34:70:b8
em0: Speed:N/A Duplex:N/A
em0: Link is up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
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u can link to whatever you chose without asking, so
sayeth the courts.
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For example, the www/apache2 port recently disabled the
various mod_proxy modules by default. Since my company's site depends on
those, I would have been in a mess if I hadn't planned to handle that
change before running the portupgrade.
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HP LaserJet 1200 with an additional 64MB of generic memory, being
fed PostScript via USB by CUPS on my FreeBSD server. Setup took all of about
5 minutes, and the print quality is flawless.
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On Wednesday 01 September 2004 08:32, messmate wrote:
> Have only 600M hd space available included swap.
Be sure to install some method of securely backing up your firewall, such as
rsync-over-SSH. A 600MB drive is ancient and probably nearing death.
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ithin the last 6 months) replaced my old NIS setup with one
based on OpenLDAP. It works perfectly across my FreeBSD, Linux, and Mac OS
X machines. NIS did the job, but I won't be rolling it out on new systems
ever again.
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holding my
breath.
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emails and 50 spams per day. Afterward, I'm receiving about 600 emails and
1 spam (yes, one) per day. In other words, I don't seem to be having any
false positives at all.
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opment is moving toward X.org
and the XFree86 seems slated for stagnation and obsolescence. Political
issues aside, I think that X.org is where all of the action is.
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var/tmp/foo would always exist and point to a valid destination.
You'd have your "hot" directory while being able to move the old version
out of the way for deletion at your leisure.
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;s real password, then I become root exactly as if I'd
used su instead of ksu. I'm kind of stuck at this point. I have
everything configured correctly from what I can tell, and this should
certainly be a lot easier than, say, configuring OpenLDAP and SASL. Any
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o upgrade to the X.org distribution.
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