On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:28:47 -0500
David Jackson wrote:
> One faulty argument I heard was that it is often not a good idea to
> upgrade to new software release.
This is an argument that you appear to have completely misunderstood.
The point of suggesting that you use release package is that it's
I've noticed for some time that claws-mail and less (which I think use
libc's regex(3)) don't support word boundaries in searches. I might be
delusional, but I think I've used \b in the past in both of those
applications in FreeBSD.
According to regex(3) it's an implementation POSIX.2, so the f
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:14:20 -0400
Mike Jeays wrote:
> I strongly recommend a laser printer over an inkjet even for home
> use. The reduced running costs and better reliability are easily
> worth the lack of colour, IMO.
How do they compare for light and occasional use? I'm thinking in
terms of
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:52:26 -0400
Fbsd8 wrote:
> Da Rock wrote:
> > On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote:
> >> Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable
> >> system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their
> >> dhcp server has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is no
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:35:41 +0100
RW wrote:
> The difference here is that the DHCP server is in a different address
> block to the DHCP server,
That should be: "the temporary address is in a different address
block to the DHCP server"
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On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:18:19 +0100
Dave wrote:
> fbsd8
>
> How do you connect to your TW ISP? Just a Cable modem of some sort,
> or is there a Router involved somewhere? It makes a whole world of
> difference
If you read the rest of the thread you'll see that that the problem
was solve
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 14:40:12 +0200
Tony wrote:
> Tony
> http://siegelgale.com/
The FreeBSD site isn't great, but this site is worse.
Has no-one ever pointed-out the irony that the top 20% of the page
bangs-on about simplifying, and has a "fight bloat on your website"
link, but the other 80% is a
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 01:25:54 +0200
Mikkel Bang wrote:
> Den 23:44 8. april 2012 skrev RW
> følgende:
>
> >
> > The FreeBSD site isn't great, but this site is worse.
> >
> > Has no-one ever pointed-out the irony that the top 20% of the page
> > bangs-
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:52:56 -0700
Cstdenis wrote:
> Portupgrade man page says "By default, portupgrade preserves shared
> libraries on uninstallation for safety."
>
> I ran i in the form of: portupgrade -b pcre
>
> Now /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 does not exist anymore, only the new
> /usr/lo
What's the explanation for this:
$ ldd /usr/compat/linux/bin/pwd
/usr/compat/linux/bin/pwd:
/tmp
$ LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 /usr/compat/linux/bin/pwd
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x28076000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x2805)
From what I've read ldd works through set
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:12:41 +0200
Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> No mention of ext3 there, nor from find (above).
>
> .. so you May be out of luck ..
ext3 is ext2+journalling. If fsck supports ext3, then it can sync the
journal and the partition can be safely mounted as ext2.
It's a long time sinc
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:28:43 -0500 (CDT)
Lars Eighner wrote:
> The old library should have been moved to a compatibility library so
> that things that still depended on it could find it. This did not
> happen for some reason.
Only portupgrade does that by default. It's an option on portmaster,
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:32:39 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
> Adam Vande More gmail.com> writes:
>
> > ...
> > http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/19036310553/two-things-that-really-helped-
> > speed-up-my-mac-and
> > http://dywypi.org/2012/02/back-on-linux.html
> >
>
> "2) Inactive memory (which is memo
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:25:39 -0400
Daniel Staal wrote:
> So, is there any way to *avoid* getting that error? Some way where I
> can actually use the ports system to keep my stuff up to date? (Even
> if it doesn't include the manually-installed software?)
It think you should be able to preven
On Tue, 8 May 2012 15:09:26 -0400
Carmel wrote:
> I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content
> was not view-able.
>
> Example:
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
>
>
> The
On Tue, 8 May 2012 16:51:06 -0400
Carmel wrote:
> On Tue, 8 May 2012 21:14:23 +0100
> RW articulated:
> >It's a bit anecdotal, but I've had fewer problems with flash video
> >since upgrading to modern hardware a year ago.
>
> Define "modern hardware"
On Thu, 17 May 2012 13:37:49 +0200
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 17/05/2012 08:27, Peter Barnes wrote:
> > I would like to use BSD but I use KPPP to connect to my ISP. Is
> > anyone working on KPPP to include it with BSD? According to
> > Distrowatch no BSD O/S's have KPPP
>
> KPPP is just a KDE-bas
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT)
Beastie-Boy wrote:
> Ok, many thanks for your replies.
> I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE.
> That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk.
When you cross a major OS release boundary, you need to fo
On Tue, 22 May 2012 13:50:10 +0200
Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> I have this issue with running commands from a script:
>
> In my crontab I define script 'do_daily.run':
> 30 23 * * * root
> /root/cronjobs/do_daily.run
>
> The content of this script (amongst othe
On Tue, 22 May 2012 21:30:44 -0400 (EDT)
Thomas Mueller wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: Gary Aitken
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Sent: Tue, 22 May 2012 19:02:30 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: portsnap update won't update original /usr/ports
>
> According to the handbook, one can d
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:47:47 +0100
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
>
> c400# uname -a
> FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25
> UTC 2012
> r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>
> Following the handbook:
>
> c400# freebsd-update -r 9-STABLE upgra
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:47:29 +0200
Rada alive wrote:
> I was hoping to test dns/unbound as a lighter-weight DNS cache
> service to replace BIND. A few hours into "make install" i decided to
> abort and have a look at the dependencies.
> Can someone tell me why a DNS server needs packages like
> "gr
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 07:36:24 -0400
Jerry wrote:
> In any event, it won't belong before some hacker comes up with a way
> to circumvent the entire process anyway,
It sounds like Fedora already have. They say that they are only going to
sign a thin shim that loads grub.
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:06:48 -0700 (PDT)
Dánielisz László wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Let say my computer is connected to the internet with a cable modem
> and has a dynamic IP address via DHCP. This address is refreshed
> after every random days. I want to know the new address even when I'm
> not
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 07:22:50 -0600
Gary Aitken wrote:
> I reconfigured my ssd filesystem with the /var partition of size
> 512M. Unfortunately, something in portsnap or the ports tree in
> general uses a boatload of small files, and i ran out of inodes. Can
> anyone recommend an appropriate size
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:17:20 + (UTC)
jb wrote:
> William Orr worrbase.com> writes:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing
> > /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've
> > been backing it up, I know, I was actually doi
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:22:37 +0300
mbsd wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> Now I'm using FreeBSD 9 without swap, and without additional swap -
> related configurations.
>..
> And the question is:
> Does it correct to use freebsd like this? Or I need specific setup?
>
> Option NO_SWAPPING if I understand ri
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:48:13 +0100
RW wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:22:37 +0300
> mbsd wrote:
>
> > Hi there.
> >
> > Now I'm using FreeBSD 9 without swap, and without additional swap -
> > related configurations.
> >..
> > And the questio
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:45:07 +0100
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Persuade vboxheadless to start before samba.
>
> # PROVIDE: precedence
> # REQUIRE: vboxheadless
> # BEFORE: samba
>
> :
>
> Make it executable. Note -- the ':' does seem to be necessary.
Why? None of the dummy scrip
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:02:48 -0400
Jerry wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:47:29 +0100
> RW articulated:
>
> > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:45:07 +0100
> > Matthew Seaman wrote:
> >
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > #
> > > # Persuade vboxheadless to
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:56:39 -0700 (PDT)
Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
> Hi, since a few of days ago, I noticed my home server turns very slow
> more than once a day, so every time I run "top" to see what's
> processes are running, I can see fsck_ufs at the very top, and the
> hard drive working like ma
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:21:18 -0500
Zane C. B-H. wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> Any one have any idea what is going on below?
>
> [root@shiela]/root# uname -a
> FreeBSD shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
> 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 25 04:55:35 CST 2012
> kits...@shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net:/usr/o
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:53:45 -0500
Zane C. B-H. wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100
> RW wrote:
>
> > freebsd-update doesn't support development branches, you have to go
> > from security branch to security branch.
>
> I know it can't be u
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:53:50 -0700 (PDT)
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from
> rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump.
>
> Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI changes, such
>
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 22:34:21 +0200
Harald Weis wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:46:00PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
> > I would recommend you to remove flash at all. It actually improves
> > web browsing experience, removing problems with constant CPU load
> > because you have few tabs w
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:52:50 +0200
Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> hello, world\n
>
> is anybody else seeing this? On a fresh 9-STABLE/amd64 as of July 7,
> with all ports compiled from scratch. Qbittorrent (2.9.11) freezes
> after about 10 to 20 seconds, reacts to mouse clicks only after a
> minute or
I found a recipe for converting flac to mp3:
flac -cd in.flac | lame -h - out.mp3
and I thought I might be able to able to combine multiple flac files
into a single mp3 file with something like the following:
( flac -cd file1.flac ; flac -cd file2.flac ) | lame -h - both.mp3
but in practic
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:09:04 -0800
Ed Flecko wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I have squid installed and working fine using its default settings; if
> I set my browser proxy to the server address:3128 , everything works
> fine.
>
...
> and I've added:
>
> listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118
>
> and
>
> forwar
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:01:10 -0500
"John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" wrote:
> Hi. I'm a BSD idiot I use [Debian] linux.
>
> rc.d question
>
> I'm trying to release a project (just below) to the widest possible
> unix audience. I need a line in "/etc/inittab" and to have a
> start/stop in
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:37:32 +
Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 03/04/11 17:36, Ed Flecko wrote:
> > Thanks Aurthur.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > It's funny...I DID what it asks and it still didn't work (make
> > deinstall, etc.).
> ...
> > Apparently, I installed it from a package, so I did a pkg_delete
> >
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:27:27 +0100
Leslie Jensen wrote:
> Hello list.
>
> I'm installing squid on a new 8.2-RELEASE machine.
> ...
> When Googling this problem I see both the use of /var/squid and
> /usr/local/squid.
>...
> I find what I consider conflicting information, often it's quite
> dat
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:44:57 -0700
Devin Teske wrote:
> At least two variations to the rule that { ... } is a block of
> commands executed in the current shell are:
>
> 1. When the block appears as a function
Is that correct? I'd assumed that functions do execute in the current
shell since yo
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:34:32 -0400
Jerry wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:22:35 -0700
> per...@pluto.rain.com articulated:
>
> > Jerry wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:01:28 -0500
> > > Martin McCormick articulated:
> > > > ... our entire network is on the blacklist ...
> > >
> > > Why
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:05:29 -0400
Steven Friedrich wrote:
> On Friday April 22 2011 5:46:19 PM Jimmie James wrote:
> > It's a youtube video, so it's flash.
> >
> > >I'm running the latest port of Firefox 4.0
>
> I have Sockwave Flash 10.2 r153 plugin in Firefox.
>
> I have been playing flash
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:53:41 +0200
"C. P. Ghost" wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Modulok wrote:
> > I don't know if this is a problem on FreeBSD...
> >
> > Process A requests memory.
> > Process A Stores a plaintext password in memory or other sensitive
> > data. Process A terminates a
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:54:20 -0400
Bob Hall wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:46:33PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bob Hall wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:18:46PM +0100, RW wrote:
> > >> I don't believe the heap is
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:56:14 -0400
Bob Hall wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:29:08PM +0100, RW wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:54:20 -0400
> > Bob Hall wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:46:33PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> > > >
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:48:53 +0100
Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:29:08 +0100
> RW wrote:
>
> > The reason I thought that heap memory isn't zeroed is from the
> > discussion of pre-zeroed pages in this article:
>
> There's an idlezero
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:23:11 +0200
"C. P. Ghost" wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM, RW
> wrote:
> >> The above quote states that the memory not occupied by the remapped
> >> object is zero filled. Which is to say that memory allocated by
> >&g
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:14:02 -0400
Bob Hall wrote:
> malloc() uses either sbrk or mmap to extend the heap. As far as I
> know, sbrk extends the heap with zero filled memory. According to the
> man page, mmap extends it either with remapped data, or with remapped
> data plus additional zero fille
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:17:41 -0400
Bob Hall wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:10:10AM +0100, RW wrote:
> > I'm not saying that anonymous mappings used by malloc aren't
> > zero-filled, just that it's not mentioned anywhere in the mmap man
> > page. I think
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:00:00 -0400
Bob Hall wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:54:06AM +0100, RW wrote:
> > but they aren't the same - that's what the quotes were about.
>
> Looking back, I don't see anything in your quotes that raises the
> issue of anonymo
On Sun, 1 May 2011 10:01:46 -0700
Arthur Barlow wrote:
> Sorry. I should have mentioned that I'm using a GeForce FX 5200 card.
> Because of it's "age", NVIDIA says that it need the the
> "nvidia-driver-173...", but NVIDIA also says they do not have a
> version that works for FreeBSD 8.x. I wa
On Sun, 8 May 2011 22:13:16 -0400
Alejandro Imass wrote:
> The first need to change is your Windoze vocabulary, so the "command
> line" is called a "shell". Next you will need to eventually master a
> text editor. The are literally hundreds of text-editor in the Unix
> world but there are two pr
On Mon, 16 May 2011 17:38:21 -0700
Alexander Lardner wrote:
> Hello,
> Is it possible to do something like this:
>
> shutdown -p now /root/somefile
>
> How would I do that, or is it even possible?
According to the man page it is.
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freebsd-question
On 17 May 2011 01:24:56 -
"John Levine" wrote:
> In article <20110517021633.26b47...@gumby.homeunix.com> you write:
> >On Mon, 16 May 2011 17:38:21 -0700
> >Alexander Lardner wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> Is it possible to do something like this:
> >>
> >> shutdown -p now /root/somefile
>
>
On Thu, 26 May 2011 15:40:09 -0700
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On May 26, 2011, at 3:01 PM, David Banning wrote:
> > I have an old FreeBSD 4.9 installation that I cannot upgrade.
>
> You've also got a FreeBSD installation which the ports tree does not
> support.
>
> > I wanted to install something fr
On Mon, 30 May 2011 20:15:53 -0300
Mario Lobo wrote:
> On Monday 30 May 2011 01:20:42 Robert Simmons wrote:
> > Sorry, I didn't mention why. You need use -DD if you don't want
> > that to happen, and you want it to follow installed packages as
> > well. __
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 10:48:12 +0200
Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:31:18 +0200, Erik Nørgaard
> wrote:
> > The first problem is that I have no idea how my disk will be
> > recognized, now the root partition is on /dev/ad6s1a.
>
> A good approach is to apply a label or use the UFSID of
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:34:34 +0400
Peter Vereshagin wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions!
> 2011/06/14 17:17:39 -0700 Chuck Swiger => To Peter
> Vereshagin :
> CS> > Does it keep them? Does portsnap keep snapshots fetche
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:44:30 +0400
Peter Vereshagin wrote:
> You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions!
> 2011/06/15 08:51:22 +0100 RW => To
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org :
> R> > - From what I see in /var/db/portsnap/files/ it keeps every file
> R> &g
_
> From: Chuck Swiger
> To: Gary Kline
> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List
> Sent: Wed, June 15, 2011 4:04:23 PM
> Subject: Re: how do i fsck my server?
> You can set fsck_y_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, but it shouldn't be
> necessary. The system can figure out for itself w
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:45:27 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
> Environment is FreeBSD 7.2 i386
>
> I have a Berkeley FFS filesystem that is mounted ro at boot time.
>
> If I do a 'mount -u' to make it writable, it _is_ made writable, but
> "soft-updates' is also set. Incidentally, does an
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:54:53 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi wrote:
> That's a large part of why I want to make it 'go away'. It _is_ a
> "lie" on a RO system. Meaningless, and 'misleading' if you don't see
> the RO option as well.
>
> When th
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:20:46 -0400
Michael Powell wrote:
> Read /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.perl.mk. I think mostly many of the variables
> contained within may be set in /etc/make.conf and can be picked up at
> build time by make. Particularly interesting were PERL_VERSION,
> PERL_PORT, and USE_PERL, for
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:52:09 -0600 (MDT)
Dennis Glatting wrote:
I need is a method to embed into make.conf a proxy specification
> for fetch. Setting the environment variable HTTP_PROXY from the login
> shell /is not/ preferred because the account is used by different
> administrators, I don't wh
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:17:09 +0100
wayne mitchell wrote:
> hey,
> i have just cvsup'ed for first time (newbie)
> RELENG_8_1_RELEASE
You probably want to use RELENG_8_1 which is the security branch for
the 8.1 release. RELENG_8_1_RELEASE is the version on the CD, without
any security fixes.
> r
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:07:41 +0200
Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:40, Peter Vereshagin
> wrote:
> > Cool. Tried it but couldn't make it to update the only one port,
> > and not to update its dependencies.
> >
>
> That's kinda the point of portupgrade, takes care of the deps for
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:15:23 +0200
Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> I want a plain console version of emacs installed on my freebsd-8.2
> system. So I chose the editors/emacs-nox11 port, but I get an option
> screen with a lot of options set to 'on' for which I get the feeling
> they are X related. I.e
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:36:12 +0100
マンロークリストファ wrote:
> The crypt program to hash passwords uses md5 /DES/blowfish for
> password hashing as I have read in the handbook. DES and md5 are
> widely regarded to be broken (certainly DES). I would prefer password
> hashing to be done using salted SHA1 / S
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:35:35 -0500
Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> Having been away from FreeBSD for a while, I'm still catching up with
> all the changes that took place while I was on hiatus, so bear with me
> here. :-)
>
> Trying to construct the ports' README.html files with:
>
> cd /usr/ports
>
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:38:27 -0700
Yuri wrote:
> Someone told me that ZFS is a memory hog and it should be avoided as
> such. Is this true?
I wonder if this might be a mix-up between virtual and physical
memory. It's use of address space can be prohibitive on i386.
___
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:48:30 +0200
Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> I was reading I think it was nebsd-us...@betbsd.org a few days back,
> quite an interesting thread about para-virtualization support,
> it seems NetBSD may have more support support there &/or with Xen.
IIRC the Xen project itself pro
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:15:02 -0600
Brett Glass wrote:
> At 01:55 PM 8/29/2011, Bruce Cran wrote:
>
> >Actually, the ULE scheduler does know about HyperThreading and the
> >topology of such CPUs. I don't know what it does with the
> >information, but it probably works to optimize cache usage etc
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:01:03 -0600
Brett Glass wrote:
> I'd like to see if I can set up
> local delivery of mail without invoking the memory- and cpu-hungry
> program that is sendmail.
I have the default settings and have 2 sendmail process with 3MB of
resident memory each, and I've never noti
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 15:08:11 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:
> I might suggest installing qmail, and running qmail-send only. This
> involves moving /usr/sbin/sendmail out of the way, and
>
> ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
>
> which satisfies every invocation of sendmail I've see
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 16:38:28 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:
> >
> > See mailer.conf(5) and mailwrapper(8)
> >
> Doesn't work in practice, since there are programs that don't honor
> this and invoke sendmail directly.
They're supposed to, /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink to mailwrapper. The
real send
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:55:53 +0100
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 14/09/2011 13:34, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
> > Either from the FreeBSD docs, or based on personal experiences,
> > what is the recommended swap space for a 8GB system? Your opinions
> > are greatly appreciated
>
> The old rule of thumb
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:57:04 +0700
Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > You can use videolan / vlc. It allows you to multicast video too.
> > In September 2011 BSD Magazine you have some examples about that.
>
> I like vlc on Linux/Windows machines. But installing it to a streaming
> server is a pain. Even
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:28:18 +0100
Richard Collyer wrote:
> On 20/09/2011 21:34, Jason Usher wrote:
> > FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE system with two physical CPUs, each of which
> > are HT capable. From dmesg:
> >
> > cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
> > cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1
> > cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6
> > cpu3 (AP)
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:41:08 +0100
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 21/09/2011 10:48, Ross wrote:
> > My question is: if I have 4 or 8 GB of RAM should I create 8 or even
> > 16 GB journals?.. This seems huge especially if the fs size without
> > journal is only 10 gigs. Or the recommended minimum is f
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:04:17 -0500
Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> I looked briefly one night at SDF.org.
>
> http://sdf.org/?join
>
> For a contribution of, like, $1.00, you get full access, and I suspect
> that they're running FreeBSD (I haven't actually paid to see, but
> among the list of comma
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:56:12 -0400
Carmel wrote:
> I am attempting to set up a firewall using IPFW with a stateful
> behavior.
>
> While I have investigated how to set up these rules, I have run into
> conflicting opinions as to whether to all or deny "established"
> behavior.
>
> EXAMPLE: (prec
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 07:28:18 +0100
Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:08:42 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > My experience is exactly the opposite. The biggest problem I've
> > had with ports came from trying to follow the recommended approach
> > of updating the tree after installi
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 12:20:46 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Nov 3 12:10:08 2011
> > From: =?koi8-r?B?4c7Uz84g68zF09M=?=
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:10:19 +0400
> > Subject: Is it safe to interrupt (Ctrl +
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:20:12 +1100
David Morton wrote:
> I'm very new to BSD, and had a career that left me mostly doing
> commercial IT help desk in Windows, but am hoping to finally learn
> and do something of interest to me: get deep knowledge of one
> platform.
>
> A local magazine, Silicon
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:57:28 +0200
Коньков Евгений wrote:
> hi
>
> Is it possible to create journaled FS which is crypted with geli?
>
> I can create crypted or journaled FS, but it is complicated to me to
> create both in time, can you help me clue?
You have to encrypt first and then create th
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:06:00 +0200
Коньков Евгений wrote:
>catch idea, but some question:
> in this situation .eli.journal journal device will not be encrypted?
> can you describe how data flow will be?
The journal is encrypted unless you choose to put it on a separate
non-encrypted device.
I
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:33:21 +0200
Коньков Евгений wrote:
> Are there differences between .eli.journal or .journal.eli?
AFAIK it only works one way round
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On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:29:40 +0800
Denise H. G. wrote:
>
> On 2011/11/19 at 20:09, ajtiM wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> > One more question before I start installing FreeBSD 9.0 RC-2.
> > Now we have a new bsdinstall and as I red and if I understood
> > correct there is also SU journaling file sistem. I
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:11:10 -0500
Greg Larkin wrote:
> Reading through /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, the "check permissions"
> message is emitted when certain directories cannot be created.
>
The actual error is:
===> Cannot create , check permissions
Note the space before the comma. I suspect
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:06:29 +0100
Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> Why do I get a warning if I use freebsd-update about a renewal of my
> FreeBSD installation within the next two months because after that
> time it will nog be supported anymore?
> I run FreeBSD-release-p4. Freebsd-update 'sees' p3. Is t
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:40:53 +
Frank Shute wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 07:51:50PM +1000, R Skinner wrote:
> > possibly could, but it escaped me as to how. And before I do- I
> > looked up journaling on 9. I couldn't quite get to the bottom of
> > whether it is or isn't available/standard
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:17:41 +1000
Da Rock wrote:
> > SUJ speeds up the check a lot, seconds as opposed to minutes. If
> > something happens to the journal, it falls back to a standard fsck.
> But fsck needs to be run manually- I have users that can't do that,
> and the filesystem corrupts. Erg
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:42:52 +1000
Da Rock wrote:
> On 12/11/11 10:23, RW wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:17:41 +1000
> > Da Rock wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> SUJ speeds up the check a lot, seconds as opposed to minutes. If
> >>> something happens to
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:51:39 -0500
Maxim Khitrov wrote:
> I've read everything I could find on the topic of configuring hfsc
> altq in pf (4.5, FreeBSD 9), but I still have no clear idea of how it
> is actually implemented. I even started looking through the source
> code, but that might take a wh
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:57:52 +0700
Dmitriy Kryuk wrote:
> I'm running Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com/), а
> BitTorrent client on my FreeBSD 7.2 box. It requests large recieve
> buffers for its network connections. This leaves my system with
> absolutely no free memory. If some process
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:52:15 -0500
Maxim Khitrov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:15 AM, RW
> wrote:
> > It's about latency, realtime has priority over non-realtime.
>
> I sort of understand this, but I can't figure out how that would apply
> to my example:
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On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:14:24 -0500
David Jackson wrote:
> I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many
> users do prefer to use packages due to speed and convenience and do
> not prefer to build it all. it shouldnt be such a hassle
If you want to use packages I would suggest
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:56:45 -0500
David Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM, RW
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:14:24 -0500
> > David Jackson wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many
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