On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 02:38:38PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote:
> Quoth Chuck Swiger on Monday, 17 January 2011:
> > On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Alokat wrote:
> > > is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a
> > > freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the i
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alokat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a
> freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the installation
> manually?
Currently you have to do it manually afterwards.
Personally, I would not
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:42:37PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> >> Something I'm missing here? A fix would be nice, I should be used to it
> >> though- ImageMagick _always_ has issues for me. I just thought it'd be
> >> nice to get it updated for once- it looked so close :)
> >>
> > I'm
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:06:31AM -0200, itpr0 wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> We are using postfix with system user authentication, I have to completely
> remove an user for the system so he couldn't auth to send e-mails.
>
> Some coworkers told to just remove the lines from /etc/passwd and
> /etc/master
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 08:32:12AM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a description on how to make the switching between
> monitors work. In my case it's the key combination Fn + F8 on a Dell
> Latitude E6500.
Try xrandr(1) instead. That should work even if you're not booting with
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:51:41PM +, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:03:02 -0600
> Ryan Coleman wrote:
>
> > It's FAT32, so I'd try...
> >
> > mount_msdosfs /dev/ugen2.2
>
> You can't mount ugen devices! It seems umass hasn't attached so I guess
> the camera might use the Pictur
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:44:29PM +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:08:33PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
> > wrote:
> >> But it's still not capable of true forward-error-correct
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:08:33PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote:
> >>> The GEOM_ELI class provides optional authentication/checksumming. See
> >>> geli(8),
> >>> especially the -a option.
> >> im not sure on whether that you be a viable replacement, as it has to be
> >> a fairly go
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:30:16PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > Having said all that it really depends on whether you need the extra
> > features of zfs. Personally I cant see how anyone with any important data
> > can do without checksuming.
>
> I guess that depends on what you're doing with the
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 11:47:16PM +1100, David N wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have multiple jails using ezjails, approx 20.
> Does anyone have any other ways to quickly upgrade multiple jails or
> even multiple boxes?
If you don't mind that all 20 boxes have the same software installed;
1) Use one box
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:30:20PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:59:24PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:38:20 -0700, Liontaur wrote:
> > > Related but slightly OT, I've never had much luck getting it the other way
> > > around, HTML to PDF. It's often o
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:30:01AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
>
> One thing that Linux misses--or seems to--is all the conversion
> programs that go from one format to another. I _was_ able to use
> abiread to get a PDF text into an obscure HTML, but hundreds of
> paragraphs get broken up. So:
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:19:25PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> >> >> >> >> What can I try for the multimedia keys ?
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Try using usbhidctl(1) to see if the multimedia keys generate
> >> >> >> > data. In the file
> >> >> >> > /usr/share/misc/usb_hid_usages you can find som
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:01:25PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> 2010/10/24 Roland Smith :
> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:36:49PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> >> 2010/10/24 Roland Smith :
> >> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:12:34PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
>
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:36:49PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> 2010/10/24 Roland Smith :
> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:12:34PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> >> >> What can I try for the multimedia keys ?
> >> >
> >> > Try using usbhidctl(1)
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:12:34PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> >> What can I try for the multimedia keys ?
> >
> > Try using usbhidctl(1) to see if the multimedia keys generate data. In the
> > file
> > /usr/share/misc/usb_hid_usages you can find some possible actions.
> >
> > If you have found
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 05:14:57PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> The geli(8) man page suggests initializing a geli provider with a
> random keyfile (geli init -K). It also asks for a passphrase by default.
>
> What happens if a provider is initialized without the -K option, just
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:36:16AM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> Hello folks;
>
> I have a USB remote
> (http://www.ortek.com/upimg/200732111364392163.jpg). It's an auvisio
> VRC-1100 Ro, there is no much information on it. It's recognized as a
> simple keyboard and mouse.
>
> The buttons sends
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:24:35PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> I don't think this is OS-specific, but this morning I *wasted* a few
> hours trying to watch a DVD of "Dr. Strangelove." I tried to dd the
> iso into /usr/tmp, but that errored out too.
Try "mplayer dvd://1 -v -dumpstream -dumpfile
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:20:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:00:17AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:30:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > I tried my first minor build of an unusual program [that only a
> > >
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:30:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> I tried my first minor build of an unusual program [that only a
> CLI geek like me would use]. But can't find the mkmf that I've
> used for years. I haven't found anything comparable in the
> Linux world. Has a
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:39:59AM -0400, Jud wrote:
> > Here's an excellent place to start your research:
> >
> > http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook
> I've got a 13" MacBook Pro, version 5,5 specifically, with an Intel Core
> 2 Duo CPU and 4GB RAM (and a 256GB SSD, though I'm reasonably sure
>
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 03:04:45PM -0800, David Allen wrote:
> Multiple Machines
>
> This is sort of a "best practices" kind of question so all comments are
> welcome. I'm wondering what folks are doing when setting up multiple
> (more than 1, but less than 10) machines.
>
> Consider, for exampl
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 06:29:17PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> Question: what is best used to have an up2date ports collection nowadays?
> This system is FreeBSD8/amd64.
IMO if you don't mind compiling your own ports, use portsnap and
portmaster. The sequence is like this;
1) Run `portsnap fe
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:10:56PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:45:54AM +0100, Chabane HEMDANI wrote:
> >
> > I'm computer science teacher at university of Tizi-ouzou in Algeria. I'm
> > using FreeBSD since 2007 when I "discover" it by chance when searching in
> > the Web
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:45:48AM +0100, David Southwell wrote:
> Hi
> One of our freebsd systems is a user terminal with desktop. We have constant
> difficulties with web browsing on that platform. Here is the data
>
> 1. INFO:
> System:
> freebsd 7.2-RELEASE-p3 - GENERIC amd64
> Desktop:
> kd
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 05:09:20PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be
> able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find
> that there, but no luck. Before I spend hours sifting through, still
> without knowing whe
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:40:01PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> Sorry I made a mistake while I was writing. In fact there is the
> permissions in the jail :
>
> mark...@orange ~ $ sudo jexec 1 tcsh
> # su -
> People# ls -l /dev/pts/*
> crw--w 1 zazak tty0, 118 3 Sep 20:39 /dev/pts/0
>
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 04:55:52PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
> Hello list.
>
> I've upgraded a system from 8.0 to 8.1 and it went well :-)
>
> Followed the portmaster manpage on how to reinstall my ports.
Why?
You only have to re-install all ports when changing between major releases
e.g. 7.x
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 09:10:10AM +0200, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote:
> On 27.08.2010 20:52, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:02:18PM +0200, Matias wrote:
> >> Thanks for replying!
> >>
> >> I've tried everything you mention he
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:02:18PM +0200, Matias wrote:
> Thanks for replying!
>
> I've tried everything you mention here with no success:
>
> The BIOS is pretty basic, just allows to select boot order, set the
> date, and not much more than that. No sysctls also.
Some desktop machines have a
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:56:57AM +0200, Matias wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just bought a Giada i20 mini-pc for my home server. I've managed to
> slow down the cpu speed with powerd, but the fan keeps running at a
> (what seems to me) too high speed.
> Do you know if there is anything I can do on fr
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:20:35AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote:
> One of the common discussions of different OSes are their own
> implementations of the TCP/IP stack. Most of the authors seem to agree
> that while different OSes have their pros and cons, most seem to agree
> that in terms of pure, netwo
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:25:34AM +0100, Garry wrote:
> This is a conversation held on a UK group page, can you confirm or deny this
> as twaddle.
> Mac OS X is basically BSD that's been appleised (serious vendor lock-in),
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X#History and
http://en.wikipedia.o
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:29:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> no X11, but i do need it.
>
> is there a way of getting, say, [c]twm configured remotely?
I don't think you have to. You just have to tell the X programs you want to
run on the server to connect to the X server on the mach
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:14:58PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:17:00 +0200
> Roland Smith wrote:
>
> > For future reference; you should never edit files in /etc/ directly.
> > If you want ot edit files in /etc or /usr/local/etc, first copy them
>
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On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 04:13:17PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 06:37:36AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 8/20/2010 7:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > >On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 06:45:11PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
> > >>On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Gary Kline
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:48:50PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:35:57 +0200
> Svein Skogen wrote:
>
> > Anybody else seem to get these header-falsified messages lately:
>
> I think anyone who posts to freebsd-questions is probably getting them.
> I contacted parklogic and go
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 07:32:38PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:08:41 +0200
> Roland Smith articulated:
>
> > > Also anything special I need to do to uninstall or get rid of
> > > sendmail on my system?
> >
> > Put the following in /et
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote:
>
> I have a local box that downloads all my mail (~8 accounts) via fetchmail.
> It's processed by sendmail/procmail and sorted into Maildir folder.
> From there I retrieved via courier-imap (ssl) in Thunderbird.
>
> This has worked w
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:07:51PM +0300, EforeZZ wrote:
> I edited my 50Kb /etc/rc.conf, loaded a driver and got a kernel panic!!
> After reboot my /etc/rc.conf is 0 bytes (after automatic background fsck).
> Which tool should I try now to restore any version of my rc.conf?..
The programs fro
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:54:53AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> i am not planning on watching a movie that is on a DVD-RW but
> via [say] kmplayer via video stream. and rather than the std
> 'movie-length' of 120 minutes, an hour or less streamed by PBS.
>
> with my 2.4g
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 01:01:08AM -0400, Derek Schwartz wrote:
> Hey, I'm trying to install the latest release of FreeBSD on my Dell
> Desktop, the computer originally had windows XP, but then the hard
> drive was wiped clean.
> I tried reconfiguring the geometry of the hard drive by using my Linu
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:24:27PM +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am unable to control my laptop's lid. Whenever I close the lid the
> system enters a weird state and I have to reboot.
Are you sure you need to? My laptop automatically switches of the screen when
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:06:12AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> On 16-8-2010 20:14, Roland Smith wrote:
> > It could be that newfs is overwriting the partition table.
> > Can you post the output of 'gpart show' and 'bsdlabels1'?
> westmark# gpart show
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:09:23AM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> > Does /dev/pts/0 actually exist in the jail's devfs instance, and are its
> > permissions correct?
> >
>
> (In jail) :
>
> # ls -l /dev/pts/*
> crw--w 1 markand tty0, 94 17 Aug 00:06 /people/dev/pts/0
> crw--w 1 ma
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 08:22:50AM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote:
> Am using an ASUS MB which contains the subject driver, more specifically
> "rlphy."
>
> Haven't found any support for this driver in FBSD-7.3. Has anyone else
> solved this issue?
Read the rl(4) manual page. For this chip you need t
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:23:00AM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I enabled `device snp' in my kernel config file and with this I can
> use the command watch(8) to see any tty device attached. For example :
>
> # watch ttyv0
>
> Give me the output of the console.
>
> But in jails, it's
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35:58AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 04:49 AM, Adam Vande More wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> > > My 500Gb drives won't however. they keep on giving cg); bad magic number.
> > > Sysinstall won't newfs the dr
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 04:44:19PM -0500, ajtiM wrote:
> GNASH doesn't works for me anymore (FreeBSD 8.0, KDE 4.4.5, Firefox, Opera,
> Konqueror).
Shouldn't you then investigate why not? It works fine here [FreeBSD
8.1-RELEASE amd64, firefox] (at least for youtube).
Try deleting the gnash port a
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:35:11PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> My 1Tb sata2 drives work very well with FreeBSD. They can be sliced,
> partitioned and newfs can be run.
> However, no matter what I try (sysinstall, gpart) when I slice my 500Gb
> drive and create a partition in it (1 block sma
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:58:01PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:57, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:59:20PM +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Now that OpenSolaris is dead [1] I was wondering what t
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:59:20PM +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Now that OpenSolaris is dead [1] I was wondering what the status of Java
> is in FreeBSD.
> [1] http://sstallion.blogspot.com/2010/08/opensolaris-is-dead.html
IMO the "status" of Java is "best to avoid it". Just ask Go
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 03:38:03PM -0700, Chris Maness wrote:
> I have had two spontaneous reboots since I have began using
> virtualbox. I have never had the issue before. I just upgraded to
> 8.1 yesterday, so I will see if it happens again.
>
> Has anyone else had crashes/reboots running thes
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:59:50AM +0400, Anonymous wrote:
> >> AFIK, pax is a POSIX thing, and as such working
> >> correctly or sanely would violate its posix nature.
> >> (POSIX is an anagram of "Pox? Si!")
> >>
> >> Is cpio chflags-aware?
> >
> > To the best of my knowledge the _only_ way to
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 05:22:47PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 9 August 2010 14:00, Alexander Best wrote:
> > hi there,
> >
> > chflags(1) mentions that a few utilities including pax(1) aren't chflags
> > aware yet. is there a list of all those utilties available somewhere?
> > in fact th
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 03:23:29PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
> If you're in single user mode "mount -uw /" will make / (and thus
> /etc/fstab) writable, although your choice of editors is restricted to
> /bin/ed and /rescue/{ex,vi}.
Of course I tried that, and it did _not_ work! I'm not sure w
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:37:42PM +0200, Victor Ophof wrote:
>
> Its better to enable,
>
> but AD4 can get renamed to ada0
I think you should change "can" to "will". :-)
> but it's easy to fix
> you just need to edit the /etc/fstab to point to the newly named drives ..
Do this _before_ reb
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:01:24AM +, Brice ERRANDONEA wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've just created my first FreeBSD jail in order to install a web server
> inside. But I don't know how to connect it to the web. When I try pinging a
> http website, it doesn't work. Of course, it works when I do it f
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:06:37PM +0200, thc wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a concern with the deployment of FreeBSD 8.1.
> I usually compile on a server and deploy the result by NFS.
> It works fine with FreeBSD 6 and 7, but curiously,
> I just can not get the same result with FreeBSD 8.1 (or with 8.
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote:
>
> I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome
> libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are
> nice)
>
> xterm does display some things correctly (like sysinstall type command
> line GUIs).
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 08:40:52AM -0700, Joshua Coats wrote:
> I've been experimenting with a FreeBSD 8.1 build, booting with a root in
> zfs, but I've found a problem with the kernel: using the generic kernel
> works fine, but this particular server needs ipsec enabled, and the
> kernel I bui
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:26:23AM +0200, Kenny du Toit wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I would like to install FReebsd with a raid controller card. Can you tell me
> if these two cards are supported:
>
> 1. Intel RAID Controller SRCSASRB
This should work with the mfi(4) driver, since it uses a 'LSI Logi
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 06:03:03PM -0700, Bill Tillman wrote:
> I will give the drivers on the CD the once over as you suggest. I'm curious
> about the touch command you recommend. By that do you mean I should
>
> # touch /dev/da0s1
This one, I think.
Doing a 'camcontrol rescan' might also hel
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:18:46AM -0700, Bill Tillman wrote:
> I just purchased a setup which will allow me to access IDE and/or SATA
> drives through a USB port. Of course I was hoping for it to work with
> FreeBSD and in spite of the reviews which said it needed no Windows drivers
> as soon as
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:36:58PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> Firefox 3.6.8,1 coredumps on print preview or print. Can anyone else
> confirm this? (8.1-stable using lpd.)
I'm using firefox-3.6.8,1 linked with cups-client-1.4.4 on 8.1-RELEASE amd64
using CUPS, and I can preview without problem
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 03:07:40PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > The old Broadcom card had 2 connectors, this
> > > Intel card has 3, so I connected only terminals
> > > 1 and 2 to the laptop - there are no other wires.
> >
> > Wires on a built-in wireless? I don't follow you.
>
> sorry
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:36:06PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> well.. I get nothing:
>
> % pciconf -lv|grep iwn
> %
And if you grep for Intel?
> The old Broadcom card had 2 connectors, this
> Intel card has 3, so I connected only terminals
> 1 and 2 to the laptop - there are no other wir
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 07:28:24AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> I have been having problems with several different programs lately.
> Would there be any serious drawback to simply setting: "WITH_DEBUG= "
> in the /etc/make.conf file to force everything I build/rebuild to be
> built with debug symbols?
N
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:23:49AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've HP Compaq 6715s laptop. I'm trying
> to get wireless working. The laptop has
> Intel 4965 4965AGN wireless WiFi PCI-E card 802.11N AGN
> which is supported by iwn(4). I compiled iwn support
> into the kernel as sugge
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:12:36AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote:
> Thank you Roland; I didn't know portsnap is part of the base install.
>
> :-)
>
> >From a book that I have (Absolute FreeBSD - 2nd Edition), it says"
>
> PORTSNAP VS. CSUP
> Use either portsnap(8) or csup(1) to update the Ports Collect
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:20:57AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I'm trying to learn how to keep my FreeBSD 8.0 updated (patched with
> security updates) the "correct" (I know that's subjective) way.
> To keep my "ports" up to date, do I simply need to add:
>
> ports-all tag=.
>
> to thi
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:29:37PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> The Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L has an ICH7, one PATA port, and four SATA
> ports. This one now has the latest BIOS, F10.
>
> Is it possible to run AHCI on this motherboard and chipset?
Only some ICH7 chipsets are able to run with AHCI.
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:26:19PM +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
> With dm_crypt&lvm, i can install a Debian [in sraid1], that has only the
> mbr & the "/boot" unencrypted.
>
> So if someone steals the server/hdds, it can't do anything to them.
> That's ok.
They can wipe the harddrive and re-sell t
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:39:14PM +0700, John Francis Lee wrote:
> Thanks. I thought I had in knocked with lame, but the recorder I'm
> using, a java applet called nonogong from Hong Kong university, uses an
> imaADPCM, 4-bit format for its .wav files that lame chokes on. ffmpeg
> has no problem!
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:50:12AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> I'm trying to solve a chicken-egg problem.
> Is there a reasonable way to build the proper boot/loader file for
> an 8.1 boot floppy using a 6.x or 7.x system?
Install 8.1 in an emulator like qemu or virtualbox to create the
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:43:27PM +0700, John Francis Lee wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to make an internet language lab for kids here in Chiangrai.
> The tool I've found to record their voices over the wire (nanogong)
> creates .wav files, but flash and the rest of the world want .mp3 files
> to
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:26:48AM +, J. Altman wrote:
> > I would advise you to use portmaster;
> >
> > 1) portmaster -o lang/perl5.12 lang/perl5.10
> > 2) portmaster p5-
> >
> > That worked for me.
>
> Hmm...well, I've used portupgrade since 4.3, and have only wondered
> if switching i
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:20:27PM +, J. Altman wrote:
> Greetings...
>
> I am looking at upgrading to 8.1 from 8.0 on an AMD64.
In case you're upgrading from source, do not forget to delete the archivers/xz
port before doing a buildworld, else buildworld will fail.
> As you know, Perl is n
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:08:12PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote:
> Anh Ky Huynh wrote:
> > Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry to ask about this since this has been beaten to death many
> > > times, but I *wonder* why FreeBSD does not have TeXLive as default
> > > tex installation?
> >
> > As T
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 07:51:55PM +, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> Sorry to ask about this since this has been beaten to death many
> times, but I *wonder* why FreeBSD does not have TeXLive as default tex
> installation?
TeXLive has a _huge_ list of options, and its own configura
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 07:50:26AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD 8.0 server to run Apache that will be
> facing the nasty and unforgiving WWW.
>
> I have several good books on Apache that describe how to set up the
> jail, when I came across several websites that referen
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
> How can I slow down dd?
Play with the block size parameter (bs). Smaller block sizes means more
reads. The default is 512 bytes, which is very small.
> I don't want to slow down the pc, when generating a big file [~40
> GByte].
>
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:31:42PM -0400, Ashwin karanth wrote:
> hello..
> i have slackware installed on my system, and i have freebsd 8
> source code downloaded from subversion. i want to port freebsd to the
> s3c2410, so please help me the steps which should i follow, i am totally
> new
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:03:38PM -1000, Gary Dunn wrote:
> Is there a file that associates drivers with USB device information?
> More specifically, how does a USB mouse get assigned to the ums driver?
> This is for FreeBSD 8.0, if it matters.
When queried on connection the mouse identifies itse
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:12:13PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote:
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>
> Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have to store a bunch of PDFs of orders. I'd like to be able to
> > "tag" these by customer, date, and a couple of other characteristics,
>
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:38:26PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:34:16 -0700, Chip Camden
> wrote:
> > This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap
> > me over to the right one.
> >
> > Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office s
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:08:34PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > The TeX in ports is outdated and abandoned upstream. Install TeXLive
> > instead.
>
> yup, there is a tkxmlive port in ports/textproc. more to the
> point, i found a slew of texlive stuff hosts on google.
>
The t
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 11:17:37PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> guys,
>
> esp'ly tex wizards, is there a tex version of georgia? [[i know,
> i know, somebody created this typefae for microwit.copr,
> everybody favorite company. company, corp, or human being.]]
> notwithstanding, i like it for p
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 08:02:34AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
>
> It seems that building mutt with the devel/ncurses port installed creates
> the problem I was experiencing: most colors do not show up in mutt, and
> the line-drawing characters are borked. Deinstalling devel/ncurses and
> rebuildin
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:32:20PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Gary Kline writes:
>
> > guys, i just found a truckload of Just Outstanding fonts. at the
> > CTAN .org site there must be hundreds of these superb serif
> > typefaces. in my /home/kline/ directory, i have a ~/.fonts
> > director
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:16:50PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote:
> Is this a
> a) PEBKAC
Maybe. I don't know how many ports have actually been tested with gcc 4.6. I'm
guessing the ports build cluster uses the base system compiler or the required
version.
> b) freeBSD ports error
Don't think so. It
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 03:42:59PM +0800, Aiza wrote:
> Is there a command to rename a directory in place.
> Like mv does for a file name.
It works for directories as well.
Roland
--
R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:47:53AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I've built a system to digitize content from VHS video tapes.
> The setting consists of a 2 GHz P4 with a BrookTree based
> video grabber card (supported by bktr driver) and a C-Media
> sound card (supported by cmi driver
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:59:56PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> i just tried using portmaster -a -B -d on my server that has many
> fewer ports than anywhere else. both here [on "tao"] and on the
> server, portmaster Aborts suddenly after complaining about my
> have defined or set "WITH_KDE_PHONO
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 01:46:16PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> i hope i'm not stealing this thread but here goes.
>
> i can no longer get my freebsd to play my cd's.
> audio-cd. k3b does regonize it in my second optical. i am
> trying to transfer it from cd to ~/Music. [[
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