Re: evince paper size

ttings, but Gnome has. -- 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: Error linking MYKERNEL

e various drivers, for example "requires so and so". -- 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/f

Re: some issues with 9-CURRENT

In order to perform fsck with the ability of file system modifications, umount the file system and run fsck (maybe with options you desire) again. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebs

Re: some issues with 9-CURRENT

u usually don't mount anything. Running fsck on rw-mounted partitions can cause damage to the file systems and should be avoided.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

d note that FreeBSD needs a "DOS primary partition" which is different from a "logical volume inside an extended partition". -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-qu

Re: Disk Cloning

h > other OS's using CloneZ takes about 12 minutes with a simple boot from > CD. > > The restored/imaged drive is 400 meg sata. Well, dump + restore isn't known for ultimate performance, but its results are good; dd, on the other hand, is another possible way to go. The adva

Re: Disk Cloning

g to to it many times, scripting should give a good solution to automate it. > You can then use rsync which is fast. If partitions do already exist, rsync is an excellent tool, too, I agree. Another tool that comes into mind is cpdup which works fine with locally available and NFS mounted d

Re: Disk Cloning

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:32:33 +0100, RW wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > > > doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will > > keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately > > with bs=512 and count=1 from

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

x27;s sufficient for FreeBSD to require a primary DOS partition, i. e. its own slice, to be installed into. Honestly, I've never seen the need for extended DOS partitions. Let's say you intendedly want to run a multi-OS system, then you can install four systems, each one in its own slic

Re: backups & cloning

| restore -r -f - Stage 4: Umount disks and shut down the system # cd / # umount /mnt/home # umount /mnt/usr # umount /mnt/var # umount /mnt/tmp # umount /mnt # sync # shutdown -p now Now you can take out the disk and use it in another computer.

Re: Disk Cloning

is quite useful, this is when some MICROS~1 system messed up the MBR and you just want to restore it as it was - when it was completely fine. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-

Re: backups & cloning

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:09:51 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: > >> So far, I have been unable to dump the / slice, not even with the -L > >> option. > > > > Always keep in mind: Use dump only on unmounted partitions.

Re: backups & cloning

pying from another disk and ended up with the disk > all screwed up... How that? > yet the Seagate Seatools for Dos doesnt find any > errors on it; There's smartmontools (program: smartctl) for FreeBSD in the ports. It can check various errors of modern hard disks. > Partiti

Re: backups & cloning

f you don't umount the partitions and want to use -L as described above, don't fsck the partitions. The fsck should be run on unmounted partitions only. It's just to make sure that the partitions you want to dump are in good condition. SUMMARY:

Re: backups & cloning

e, the partitions need to be copied after another. In each case, the entire system will be copied. For this purpose, even the long lasting # dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/da0 bs=1m # dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=1 method can be used. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy F

Re: backups & cloning

> I'm under pressure to lear Flash and have to set up a reliable server to > test a site I am designing and setting up. Have to do it myself... can't > afford about anything today. :-( You're learning things this way, and that's what makes "our" service so

Re: backups & cloning

t; /dev/da0s1e = /var (different partition names for same subtree). -- 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/fre

Re: backups & cloning

dump files created earlier, over the running > system. First /usr, then /var, then /. On reboot, it's a clone. This means you bring up the minimal (installed) system first, then do the restore? Why not do it right after the basic steps of preparation right from the install CD? -- Pol

Re: backups & cloning

> size and sector addressing. dd cannot do that. That's true. This is the point where tools like cpdup and rsync come into mind (according to creating backups or clones). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: how to play *.evo animations (EnSight proprietary format)?

leeding obvious", mplayer? :-) -- 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: dump_snapshot file

s for? Maybe this file came from a background fsck? I noticed this on one of my former systems that had background_fsck_enable="YES" and it ran once, but I changed the setting to ="NO". The file in question was present on the file systems checked. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germa

Re: Daily run reports

root: myuser Note that "recompiling" sendmail's files is neccessary, and sendmail needs to be restarted. It is explained at the top of Makefile in the /etc/mail directory. It's quite easy. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:39:52 +0100, krad wrote: > if only we had zfs root as standard and none of this would be an issue. 8) You can create one big / partition even on UFS. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mo

Re: Daily run reports

ias database. which says nothing about sendmail being restarted. Good to know! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

version of choice? I'm asking this because of the many improvements especially the USB subsystem has gotten in 8 which would be important for the "plug and play experience" for USB devices... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy Fr

Automated login, X and xdm

ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure But this interferes with the autologin, right? What is the usual way to go? Is there something more elegant? How about "exec startx"? Thanks for your ideas and time! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happ

Re: text2html ?

lain text as HTML Result of % cd /usr/ports % make search name=html | less then "/text" and some "/". :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-quest

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

g /" setting. One advantage of /home as a separate partition is that you can easily use dump to create a backup - you simply backup the whole partition. You could have a directory, let's say /home/settings, where you keep duplicates of /etc, /usr/local/etc and other files that contain s

Re: binutils

update which relies on several default settings (e. g. GENERIC kernel)... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

hen 1 so I can easily continue entering "g" and have 1g with 2 keystrokes. The backspace and navigation keys should work as they do now. Maybe Meta-Backspace (Esc, then Backspace) would be available to erase the whole content of the input field as you suggested in

Re: cdrecord returning inappropriate ioctl

and then > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd7.0) [...] ^^^ Maybe - just maybe - it's neccessary to recompile cdrecord? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 An

Re: music file in /tmp/XXX/

grams: ogg123, madplay, sox, as well as burncd, cdrecord or cdrdao for the burning (and atapicam for the last two). Just try it, it solves your problem. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... mp3ogg2acd Description: Binary data _

Re: error output redirection

; I want to add that error to some file (errors.txt) See "man sh" (or "man bash" if you use it): The redirection could be this: $ cat nonexist.txt > error.txt 2>&1 The C shell has a different syntax: % cat nonexist.txt >& error.txt I hope that&#x

Re: Mountable encrypted file? What to use?

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:18:24 -0600, Geoff Fritz wrote: > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /tmp/secret -u 1984 Heheh... You plusgood coder. Continue scriptwrite fulwise! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi enn

Re: Relocating ~/.xsession-errors

e, or if everything > else fails how to silence it? Symlink to /dev/null? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Graphics card recommendation

past, ATI always was my first choice, but today, I would triple-check anything. -- 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: clone-dump-restore

is used for file system snapshot. As far as I remember, newfs creates this directory, or maybe it's fsck at its first run? Don't mind, it's not important (until you need it for data recovery). > I will try again... and try to document more clearly... :-( Yes, please. Goo

Re: Unknown devices

especially /var/db/pkg, the installed packages database, and /var/ports. When /var is a memory disk with 30 MB, it may be too small for such a process. Furthermore, if I see this correctly, you're loosing the content of the package database on reboot; is this intended? --

Re: clone-dump-restore

he backup server and let restore take the dump files from there. This process can even be scripted, so you simply put a CD or an USB stick into a new computer and let it rock automatically. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: booting from wrong disk

obviously do when scripting automated processes). -- 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 uns

Re: booting from wrong disk

If you have two disks ad4 and ad12, both marked "active", and you exchange them physically, boot order will change, too. A similar setting could involve things like a mix of ATA, SCSI and SATA disks. Again, who comes first will be booted - but as I said, only if the device is marked "

Re: booting from wrong disk

; should be ok, OK? Have I got it? Why not just remove the "active" marking from the disk you do not want to be booted from? Furthermore, I'm not sure if the desired operation can be performed UFS-file-wise... The easiest way really is to use sysinstall. It's the lazy man&#x

Re: torrentflux

rentflux.com (the homepage of the project) have some information? -- 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/freeb

Re: booting from wrong disk

s very important to have a look at when cloning disks that will have a different "signature" in the target than in the source. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: booting from wrong disk

if, for example, a / partition is ad4s1a or ad12s1a. There's a section in the handbook that illustrates how to get rid of device names in /etc/fstab. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

this running system, perform the cloning. If everything is done, check references for ad12 and change them to ad4 (even *that* can be scripted); eyes on /etc/fstab. After you've done everything, shut down the running system, unplug ad12 and let the system boot from ad4. Everything should be

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

at fist place. :-) The use of sysinstall is just a suggestion when you're booting from a FreeBSD live file system, so you end up in sysinstall anyway. On a system already running, sade definitely is the better tool. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andr

Re: usb key problem

; while (some weeks) ago but now, no go... It did function, and now no more? I would say that if you didn't change anything on your system, the SanDisk stick is broken. Could you try the stick in another system for reference? > I did look on the web, but... > Did you see a

Re: booting from wrong disk

rtition (/backups) which were > not present in the original ad4 disk. But that was easiily fixed by > simply removing the fstab entry for that /backups partition. Now it > works fine. Excellent! And you have learned something new. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: usb key problem

x27;t read it, but will force you to use old-fashioned MS-DOS-like file systems. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: usb key problem

ng labels is the more elegant way here. -- 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 unsubscrib

Re: usb key problem

the files are only read. > I think I'll be able to float by myself... for a while at least. We all float down here. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

Good. Next one. Computer displays rroor reading /dev/nsa0: Tape is defect, cannot read. Operator: Do you have other set of tapes? This #2 is defective. Customer: Yes! Tape #3! Operator: I need a working tape #2. Customer: BUT I *HAVE* BACKUPS!!! Testing the backups may take some time, I agree,

Re: Unknown devices

ctory element won't be too long. Keep in mind that if /root/.cshrc exists and contains different settings, it will override the global defaults. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freeb

Re: usb key problem

ut of the box. This way would be interesting if your machine that holds the backup files is a "Windows" PC. As far as I know, there's a fuse module (ntfs3g?) in the ports. But I have to admit that I've never tried it. -- Polytropon

Re: GEOM label clarification

# umount /home /usr /var /tmp # mount -r / # glabel label rootfs /dev/ad0s1a # glabel label tmp /dev/ad0s1d # glabel label var /dev/ad0s1e # glabel label usr /dev/ad0s1f # glabel label home /dev/ad0s1g For example like this? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

ms that there are too many /s in it... > Do people who write this stuff ever read it? Tell me that its clear and > simple and to the point... so far, I have been running back and forth > between half a dozen web pages trying to understand what is going on... > and doing things through a

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

oult it? > [...] I tried that and continued through with > the boot and changed the fstab entries and rebooted and the boot failed. Of course. Obviously, the label has NOT being written, so the reference in /etc/fstab leads to failure. -- Polytropon Magdeburg,

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

nslations should be left to experts... an by that I > mean the final version should always, and I mean always, be by a native > speaking person. It's still possible that non-native speakers misunderstand. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

's changing - usually producing a defective dump file that cannot be properly restored. For completeness: If a program does not work, the manual should not say "it should work", but "it does not work" regarding a given situation. --

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

r little problem > sorted out... shortly or tomorrow. Sorry. Would be interesting. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

gt; without glabeling partitions... it just would save some work if it could > be implemented... then, if I were to look at it as a businessman... why > am I wasting so much time, energy and mental suffering when just > changing a few files will do the same thing and take less effort... > oh

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

n such a setting, da3 would refer to a SCSI disk, and "home" is the label. It can - CAN! - be mounted on the /home directory. # mount /dev/label/home /home But of course, any other mountpoint is fine as well. The setting in /etc/fstab will do the correct thing - if setup correct

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

label, if you mount/use the device by is raw > node, the label disapears. > [...] > This used to confuse me greatly :) Why make a label available for something to mount that is already mounted and cannot be accessed through this label while being mounted? :-) The kernel messages show such

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

s) as well; they were introduced as da0 to the device directory. No need for slices because the whole disc should be used as one volume. A final note: You can, however, create multiple partitions on a device with no underlying slice, such as da0a, da0b, da0d, da0e etc. And FreeBSD can boot from it

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

quot;should work on / even if / is mounted ro". :-) -- 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-que

Re: using split, can i break up a huge txt file using a regex

Or maybe just "Chapter " ? Maybe FreeBSD's csplit program is the right tool for this job. It supports splitting files based on context; you can use regex to express where a new file should be opened. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy Fre

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

char *bla; ... skipTags(bla); Instead of pointer arithmethics, which is one of the ultimate skills in C, you could use an iterator from 0 to strlen(s). I think the code above is just part of a bigger mechanism. Looks like you want to "shift" the character pointer

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

ot; l-functions for strings, e. g. strlcat() and strlcpy(), do. char *skiptags(char *s, int l); You can even double-check for l begin != 0. Or you employ a test with strlen() function-internally. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andr

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

.. */ it worked. Maybe that's not an issue anymore, but I've been told by a long-time C programmer that // should be kept out of C code for maximum compatibility. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

IBM Thinkpad 755C and FreeBSD's minimal hardware requirements - still usable?

ould buy one of those modern "Netbooks" to have the same effect, but why buy when the stuff I have arund anywill will work, too? I know, I'm just plain mean, and I diskike the Netbook's nearly unusable keyboards as well as the absence of a proper pointing de

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:58:05 -0500, David Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:43:44AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > to make sure s is not NULL, or testing for it explicitely like > > > > if(!s) > > ... error handling here ... > > You are mis

Re: glabel clarification

ot;ad0s1e". In different settngs, functional file system entry points may refer to different device nodes, depending on the current disk layout. > Sometimes the disk numbers change when removing raid controllers or > other hardware. That's true. -- Polytropon

Re: glabel clarification

UFSID class labels. They should be unique, even if glabel labels are identical. -- 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: glabel clarification

artitions where the labels are identical? -- 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 unsubscrib

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

am not to work properly. The student could not find this endless loop because it was coded in the manner as given above. It was not the polite form of for(;;); :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Mouse and keyboard don't work in Xorg 7.4

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:52:24 +0400, Andrey Zhidenkov wrote: > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AutoAddDevises" "off" ^ AutoAddDevices? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD us

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

t; or more > tags on one line such as: > > A solution could be to move "artsy" HTML stuff (e. g. colors, font parameters and margins) to CSS in an external file, which would not be taken into context when investigating markup. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germa

Re: Mouse and keyboard don't work in Xorg 7.4

file? > This solved all such problems on my laptop. I hope it will solve them for me, too, when I revive my laptop. Seems that I have to do much compiling, bit I will do that on a different machine (laptop is AMD 500 MHt with 256 MB RAM). -- Polytropon Magd

Re: IBM Thinkpad 755C and FreeBSD's minimal hardware requirements - still usable?

7;m just curious if the audio capabilites of the Thinkpad can be made working... -- 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: glabel clarification

label doesn't need to be changed when the disk in question is placed into another system. Labels work independent from the different settings you might find in different computers, such as different device names (due to different position on the controller). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, German

Re: (no subject) Gnome

ution, it maintains its own "base operating system", and as far as I see, there's no problem with it on your system. Please, don't make things more complicated than they are, and don't waste your time with such nonsense. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germa

Re: ad0 mountable after sysinstall, but invalid from boot mgr / mbr (7.2-R)

I mentioned before, make sure that the booting partition / is a, not d. -- 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: installation

reebsd ? You should ask ATI for this, not FreeBSD. The developers don't have X-ray eyes and therefore cannot look into the devices ATI sells. :-) Seriously: If you are interested for improved hardware support, write to the hardware manufacturers. They are the responsible par

Re: freebsd forgets root password

t the driver is loaded successfully. Is your particular card listed in the manual's section "HARDWARE"? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: freebsd forgets root password

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:41:31 -0700 (PDT), James Phillips wrote: > With how flimsy the entry-level keyboards are these days, > it may be *almost* as likely ;) Entry level? Ha! All "modern" keyboards... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra m

Re: Freebsd 8rc1 & Puc driver

why the second PCI interface is flagged > "disabled" ? How can I solve this ? I think the strings you see are identification strings obtained either from the device itself, or from a file (of FreeBSD) that transforms vendor/device 0x information into character strings. -- Poly

Re: Help me configure Apache

es not know how to handle HTTP requests from 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/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: incorrect info in mysql docs

#x27;s ones. :-) -- 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 "f

Re: WD External Disc Drive

correct terminology is very important if you want to be understood correctly. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: WD External Disc Drive

uot; - in FreeBSD: msdosfs - is sufficient for transfer tasks. It doesn't require fuse, you have r/w by kernel means (refer to "man mount_msdosfs"). Of course, this would require new initialising of the disk. -- Polytropon Magdeburg,

Re: WD External Disc Drive

"Windows", and r/w support is fine on FreeBSD. Mac OS X should be able to use it, too. > Rob Hurle > ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific > School of Culture, History and Language That explains everything. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germa

Re: WD External Disc Drive

. g. "floppy disk" or "hard disk". > See also: program v. programme, colour v. color, etc. :-) I see that you are working in a computor centre. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: WD External Disc Drive

, each to his/her own > usage but please do not be critical of those of us not > conforming to your arbirary conventions. Malcolm, I will keep this in mind. As soon as someone asks questions about "/etc folders" and "IDE controllers", I will be back. :-) --

Re: WD External Disc Drive

on > CDs and DVDs) > So there is no consistency here! Again, you're correct, there seems to be some preferred, but not generally standardized use of "disk" and "disc". Maybe we need "fdisc" someday. :-) -- Polytrop

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

ll your important data off the 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

Re: PPPoE client+pf+nat

e file. I'm sure this is not needed anymore, because there are modules for this. Of course, you can include the options for NETGRAPH here, too. IMPORTANT NOTE: I'm not using such a setting anymore, so I'm not sure if this is still recommended or even working on v8. -- Po

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

faulty disk ASAP. Best choice, especially because you don't need to run the hard disk in order to get the data back. Oh backups are such a fine thing, I wish I had some. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: flashplugin

; up from other programs like gimp or ImageMagic or gstreamers or some > such stuff... Yes, there seems to be a defective library dependency, mostly due to incomplete updates. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: flashplugin

ially from this list, as well as much practice. Recognizing and resolving library requirements can surely be such a step into the right direction. It's not a state, it's a process. In the future, PJ will not only know that things work, but additionally understand *how* and *why* they work,

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