Re: Power failure during portsnap fetch update

, but that has been inteneded. Side note: You can use the program fsdb to investigate inode information in detail. See man fsdb and man clri for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Power failure during portsnap fetch update

altogether). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: X server already running on display :0

install Xfce 4 in one of the usual ways. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: xdm and gdm

? (except: just use gdm please) Just use... computer. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: xdm and gdm

possibly relevant preparations should be done by those scripts. I can't check those as I haven't got Gnome installed here. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: find USB v2.0 physical ports on the computer

documentation, take a USB 2.0 device (where you are _sure_ it's USB 2.0) and try it on all the ports. Check the dmesg output informing you about how the device has been initialized (e. g. transfer speed mentioned). You can also use usbconfig to obtain this information. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

. On a server actually running, using a malformed configuration and many altered settings (where you can't even properly tell _what_ has been altered!), testing will be quite hard. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

-fashioned hammer session, executed on the disk platters? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

fsck for -n, -v and maybe -d). Addendum: For dealing with non-standard file systems (such as FAT/msdosfs), the use of the _native tools_ seems to be the best solution in most times. In exceptions, it makes things worse. Still in most situations it just does the right thing. -- Polytropon

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

/linux/ddrescue/ http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

boot images stored in some arbitrary (but addressable) manner on the CD. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: NTFS data recovery

back. I hope the files are worth it. The absence of a backup seems to imply the opposite. :-) Anyway, good luck! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

. I'd like to recommend reading for details: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-glabel.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

, you will be fine every time. If you practice them regularly, you will remember them, and if you do so, you'll surely write a script that allows you to automate the task so you can forget the commands again. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

flexibility, which is especially useful in the discussed case: initializing a USB flash drive that might need different options than what you could default to for a regular disk drive. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:27:05 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On 08/07/2012 13:30, Polytropon wrote: With few routine, tasks are performed more natural using the desired CLI tools. You don't go Now I have to remember which command to format the disk, you just format the disk, which means spaking

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

as i don't use installer As far as I know, the installer dropped dedicated mode some time ago. So if you intendedly want to use it, you need to bypass the installer and do the few simple steps using the CLI. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

it... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: GUI for gpart

with that system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

and partitions 'n stuff. :-) # newfs /dev/da0 This is all you need (see man newfs and man tunefs for options you might need to optimize utilization, and check best fitting options for /etc/fstab, e. g. noatime if you are not going to need it). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

. Mister Coffee was my first FreeBSD workstation. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

the screen... :-) And I still have the machine I described. Mister Coffee is currently installed with FreeBSD 8.2, expecting to be used for experimental projects as an internal file / IRC / maybe OA server. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

the slice and just create two partitions (one for FS and one for swap), FreeBSD will use this fine. Just make sure to set the boot parameters properly. Or simply use the GPT-related tools, so you don't have to deal with the question at all. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Understanding XDM

manager and it designed to work well with WindowMaker, but it's a very nice replacement for xdm if you need that specific functionality. It's quite lightweight (compared to gdm or kdm) and easily configurable. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Understanding XDM

On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:40:05 +0200, uki wrote: 2012/7/4 Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 23:27:21 -0700 (PDT), sw2wolf wrote: I am using slim to login which can choose Window Manager by pressing F1 key. Can XDM choose Window Manager when loginning ? No, xdm cannot do

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:54:05 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: from Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:59:44 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: How does one, when building the kernel, prevent building one or more modules? Use the new means of /etc/src.conf (see man src.conf

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

explicitely specity, and src.conf to avoid building of modules you're intendedly not going to need. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: video buffer location

/monsieurvideo/get-flash-videos for details. HOWTO find the video buffer location if it is not /tmp ? I would assume there's some temporary storage either in ~/.opera or ~/.macromedia (for the Flash plugin). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: OT: Linux EXT4 dump/restore equivalent?

impression: Use what's there and see if it works, as it _should_ work (given fundamental UNIX basics). (Sorry, my Linux knowledge is a bit outdated as I don't use it anymore on a regular basis.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: fetch error

properly: % env /usr/bin/fetch usage: fetch [-146AadFlMmnPpqRrsUv] It seems that env is used here to set environment and execute command; see man env for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: files need

-IMAGES/8.3/ -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Building 9.0 failure

chflags noschg for that directory and maybe try again? Should be something like this (on 8.2-STABLE/i386 here): % ll -do /var/empty dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel schg 512 2012-05-27 06:15:34 /var/empty/ Probably noschg? -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: Understanding XDM

, Xfce means version 4). Works great. I prefer XDM, most secure and easy to use. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: backup tools

appear inside a network with non-trusted participants, or across the Internet). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: fsck_ufs running too often

power supply, bad PSU and the like). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: How can i disable cups, docbook, gutenprint and other ports?

and their dependencies. You know, by accident, you could even install LaTeX (teTeX) as a dependency! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: fsck_ufs running too often

your file systems, do mount -o ro / and then perform the fsck run on all file systems. It's typically adviced to perform file system checks on unmounted (or at least read-only mounted) file systems. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

, low-power ready-made hardware for such a purpose which is supported by FreeBSD. Everything that contains standard-compliant components will do. Dell servers are known to work very well. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

, no real benefit). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Why Clang

knowledge I know for sure that what's written in the law and how law is practiced in reality does very much differ, in unpredictable and volatile. So I don't make any claims here. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Add second hard drive multi-boot

not seem to help. You need to apply boot0cfg to install the initial boot blocks. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Why Clang

. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Why Clang

), and that fork could keep the old license. Now there are two independent projects. BUT - as everyone is free to obtain, modify and re-issue GPL source code, I'm not sure such a consensus could be reached. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Why Clang

are the creator, copyright is yours. Even if it sounds strange, it still can apply in an employment setting. But as I said, contracts and local law may have some regulations that applies. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Why Clang

. WP has a nice comparison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open_source_software_licenses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License All those licenses do _not_ allow to steal copyright! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Why Clang

, not law) to have a polite and normal discussion on this list, you're not any better than the communists you hate that much. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Why Clang

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:09:11 +0400, Евгений Лактанов wrote: 20.06.2012 00:50, Polytropon пишет: On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:06:49 +0200 (CEST), Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: GPL protects the freedom of the programmer who licensed his code under those licenses: He wants it to be free

Re: `ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:40:27 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/06/2012 07:11, Polytropon wrote: Even school taught that in the 80's: When dealing with computers, 1 kB != 1000 B, but 1 kB = 1024 B. That is considered basic knowledge. Schools teach a lot of things that are so glossed over

Re: USB device activity when not mounted

that _inside_ the USB stick there is still an action that needs to be performed and therefore requires power. But I doubt this takes several seconds to complete... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: text format

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:32:40 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, pwnedomina wrote: On 12-06-2012 08:22, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:06:07 +0100, i pwn wrote: on groff i've used this cmd to format the text groff -Tascii normal.txt | sed 's/^//'$1

Re: P5-FuzzyOcr port

-stable/All/ or whatever matches your platform and OS version). But the ports p5-FuzzyOcr and p5-FuzzyOcr-devel are still present (at least in my not up-to-date ports tree) - have you tried installing from a port instead? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: text format

. But you need to test this yourself with your input text format. See man nroff for details. For using roff macros, man 7 mdoc has a nice summary. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

columns. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: possbility of a port for older versions of libintl?

compatverx-arch-x.y (which has the required lib version you need) in combination with the ld.so library mapping (see man libmap.conf) will work? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade?

builds in a somewhat clean environment, that's why it sometimes really helps to delete files of a previous build. Are you using a port management tool (e. g. portmaster) or do you operate on bare ports)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: text format

text editor. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: note

: FreeBSD _is_ free to download and to use. You don't need to buy it (even though you _may_ do so; refer to the FreeBSD website for details). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: altfn going to X

combination Ctrl+Alt+Fx should work without alteration in any window manager; at least it does in the few I've tried. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: prune ports tree?

with an incomplete ports tree is not supported and may cause unexpected results. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 06:06:49 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-05-22 10:44, Polytropon skrev: On Tue, 22 May 2012 10:17:16 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: There is a second way of doing this stunt. Start X When X is up and running press CTRL+ALT+F3 or any F* frpm F3 up to F8 then you

Re: find date of last boot

`date`. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: find date of last boot

/var/log/thisboot.log and then just look at the file. Requires at least one reboot to take effect. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

of this model. You may live in the flat, but by paying a rent you don't own it. What you may do is limited. Another valid interpretation of this problem is of course defective by design and planned obsolescense. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

a permission by its concurrent to make his product work. It would also show a security feature being an aspect of defective by design regarding computer hardware and its manufacturers. Compiling from source? You don't even get that far! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: (no subject)

and bloat, have been successfully added. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: (no subject)

it. Additionally, it allows the user to use his favourite media player (e. g. mplayer) with all its support (still, rew, ff, brightness/contrast adjust, keyboard support) except to have dealing with it in a web browser window with its very limited means of user friendlyness. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: umount device busy

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 01:56:49 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/03/12 21:05, Polytropon wrote: Maybe the ganim lock is regarding a device file? Not sure about that, I'm not using it here. I'm not sure what the deal is here, but exiting X does solve the problem. I didn't try just killing

Re: bsdlabel geometry params

options to newfs if needed, and also apply tunefs afterwards. But dealing with slices (which are DOS primary partitions) is not needed if what you're creating will be a data disk as described. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: umount device busy

/~veillard/gamin/config.html Of course you need to conclude to use either ~/.gaminrc for your user, or something different than /etc/gamin/mandatory_gaminrc for system-wide use. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: (no subject)

On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:31:43 -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Monday 04 June 2012 11:12:01 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 06:54:37 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: youtube is not a problem, use youtube-dl from ports and do download videos to disk drive, then watch instead of having

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

can enable USB keyboard legacy so it will also work at the lower levels of interactivity. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:01:07 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/02/12 18:35, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:08:55 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: I've deinstalled cups and its dependencies and rebuilt only hpijs. You could have kept it installed (maybe some ports will want

Re: umount device busy

the answer to at least one of those but I'm coming up short. You could use umount -f to force it, but that may result in files missing. Anyway, I've never actually used NTFS with FreeBSD so this could also be a source of the problem. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 10:17:28 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote: By the way, have you tried using your filter directly for testing? As mentioned before, prepare a printable PS file, then do: # cat test.ps | /var/spool/lpd/hp8500/diff.2 | nc

Re: umount device busy

' commands. Thanks. There's also a traditional way: xman. You can use it like % xman -bothshown then select Manual Page and then select a command from the directory on top. It's quite simple, but renders fast. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

, except my GPU is broken and occassionally freezes the whole system in an unpredictable manner. :-) Previously I've been using an ATI Radeon 9200 (RV250) with less trouble, using XFree86's (and later on X.org's) stock ati driver. Any not-too-recent card should work fine. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

(such as paper feeds, duplexer, paper sizes and so on). ideas? Some of your code (scripts and commands) would help (at least me) to understand your current state better. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

to using ZFS. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

the file system and re-run fsck. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise

functionality has been lost during that way? It's not the first time it's being discussed on list... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

On Thu, 31 May 2012 12:26:21 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/31/12 05:54, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2012 00:38:46 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: The cd mounts a regular file system ok and audio generally works ok -- playing from a file works. You're sure it's a normal audio CD? How

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:43:27 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/31/12 12:56, Polytropon wrote: Still, there _is_ a way of a workaround which is so ugly and partially stupid that I fear to mention it. You need a cable, 2 x 3.5mm stereo jack, which you connect from the front connector

Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

mentioned in the error message should be extracted intowork/: /usr/ports/irc/inspircd/work/InspIRCd-2.0.2/BSDmakefile. Do a make clean before you try again. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

me to repeat: You cannot use Linux sources with the ports collection. The ports collection has automated fetching, extracting, configuring and building mechanisms. You should use them. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format

and resync it? You can use the files (_both_ files!) from before starting the dbus installation. Regenerate the databases with the pwd_mkdb command. Or do I just flat install FreeBSD again and be done with it? That is possible, but should be your last option. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: library search path

install to. See man 7 ports for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: sendmail, masquerading, exposed root?

not going to reply to that address. (If you had to, setting Reply-To: would surely help.) Or you could use /etc/mail/aliases to redirect root to a different mail address. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format

on it... as for just automount, FreeBSD has a native solution that worked even before HAL and DBUS. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Portmaster Fetch

? Is portmaster -n (run through all steps, but do not make or install any ports) what you need? Maybe see man portmaster for more details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10

in a different user configuration in the ~/.xfce4 directory. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10

on the application finder, appearance, then clicked on DPI and raised the number to 96 did not see what it was though. Thanks Polytropon for your valuable help and suggestions. I actually had a similar problem with the fonts in many Gtk and Gtk+ applications, so I changed the DPI value for the whole X

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

some examples which belong to the base system, see /usr/share/examples/dialog, and of course see man dialog. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

adjusted) would create such a directory and file, but I assume it does not, as it seems obvious that those are handled by the port building mechanisms (which aren't in use when you pkg_add something). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Cloud software ?

), but isn't that what people believe in? Don't disturb their circles, just give them what they pray for, a cloud... a shiny foggy cloud... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Cloud software ?

On Fri, 25 May 2012 09:47:24 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: $ man -k cloud http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-05-25 Very nice, but please compare: http://xkcd.com/908/ :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/25/12 14:21, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: something I'm not seeing I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. What's the key to removing /var/empty

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting Option DontVTSwitch false in Section ServerFlags or /etc/X11/xorg.conf helps? -- Polytropon

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