On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:41:47PM -0500, Jack Schneider wrote:
Hi, Anyone.
My /Usr directory/slice is now over 5.2 GB for a basic workstation 6.2
install. thats 90%+ of the slice. I need help with a procedure to clean
it up. The machine is:
FreeBSD Growler.maplebend.net 6.2-RELEASE-p3
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:42:43PM -0500, Jack Schneider wrote:
As sugested by Roland Smith, I looked at /usr/obj as follows:
Growler# cd /usr/obj ; ls -al
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Mar 30 12:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 512 May 29 14:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:15:19PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
I share Roland's concern about the reliability of any new code designed
to accomplish the 'full rollback' desired, but of course anything would
have to undergo incredibly rigorous testing before it would be allowed
anywhere near even
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:38:41AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b'
and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to
describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition.
You can probably skip backing
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:08:31PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
I don't think he is talking about that. From what I understand about
the snapshot system (correct me if I'm wrong) is that a snapshot
creates it's own file system by remembering, for example, what the
superblock was at the time
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:01:53AM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
The process of undoing the snapshot can't be O(1). Because the time
needed to create the shapshot isn't either.
Wait a sec, when you mount a snapshot as a memory disk, does that
memory disk contain the snapshot as well?
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:24:43AM -0700, Ofloo wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to jails, but from what I understand is that a jail allows one
to have multiple virtual systems on one system, now I was wondering if
this could be done through IPv6, I would want to setup multiple IPv6
only systems, does
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 01:51:42PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote:
Hi I have a problem while compiling my kernel. When I go to /usr/src then
make buildkernel ...
it says that make doesnt know what to do because buildkernel is invalid
option.
I downloaded the latest source and still the
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 12:32:08PM -0400, Dave wrote:
Hi,
I do have windows clients, and i do not have any fax client software for
them. I thought i could just go through a cups printserver that i've got but
haven't seen anything to get that going. I am open to suggestions.
Maybe
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 06:48:52PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
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Hello list!
Is it possible to rollback a file system snapshot, i.e. restore the
file system to the state it was in at the time a mksnap_ffs command
was issued?
You can
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 09:05:07PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
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Roland Smith wrote:
Is it possible to rollback a file system snapshot, i.e. restore the
file system to the state it was in at the time a mksnap_ffs command
was issued
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:30:13PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
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Roland Smith wrote:
You can mount the snapshot, and then copy the files back to the original
fs.
Note that cp can preserve flags, but not ACLs AFAIK.
Yes, I know
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:59:13PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
You could use rsync instead of tar. That would save time.
I'm not talking about saving time. But saving CPU time and HDD
stress. However, the disk space issue is a bigger one:
rsync would do much
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:30:06AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote:
so nobody on this list knows anything about raid?
wrong list?
hi all..
i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has
two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:27:05PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
So I feel a need to start backing up my servers. To that end, I've decided
that it's easier for me to grab an external USB drive instead of a tape. It
Buy at least two, and keep one off-site.
would seem dump/restore are the
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:55:40PM +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
Hello,
might be a bit off here, but I'm sure some of you have experiences with
laser printers. I would like to buy a (relatively) cheap laser printer with
the following requirements:
- quality (I mean here, that I want
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:40:19PM -0700, PeterPluta wrote:
I see this quite regularly. What exactly is the http process doing? I'm
guessing this is the master process stopping and restarting when I rotate
logs or something. Can anyone confirm? There is usally more processes, 10-15
or more.
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:42:17PM -0700, PeterPluta wrote:
Ivan Carey wrote:
Hello,
What would be the best Kernel options to run a file server?
I will be using an Intel server mother board with one Xeon quad core CPU
installed (this mother board has 2 CPU sockets) 2GB RAM and dual
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 03:31:27PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
I discovered that the file utility works for some
accounts on a new FreeBSD system but not others. When it
doesn't work, the response is:
file: could not find any magic files!
If I am su'd to root, me, or any
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:19:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I would want to buy a color laser printer. The HP laserjet 2605 works
well on Linux with CUPS.
On FreBSD it is the same?
It is listed as a postscript printer on openprinting.org. It should work
fine.
Roland
--
R.F.Smith
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:52:34PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
On 5/21/07, Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maxim Khitrov wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have what I hope is a rather simple question. I'm not very familiar
with this area of system administration, so hopefully
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:59:33AM -0700, PeterPluta wrote:
snip
Looks like you were portupgrading around with postfix, screen and xterm.
The output is diff(1). See the man page for details, but it's basically
showing you the difference between last night's directory listing, and
that
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:56:08AM +0300, Ghirai wrote:
Hello list,
I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, SMP, on a
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v3205 (Core Duo).
Everything works fine, except the cpu throttling,
which makes the fan start quite often.
Is there any way to fix this?
You
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 01:23:02AM +0300, Ghirai wrote:
That's a lot. Are you doing anything to make it work hard? Such a
constantly high CPU usage is not normal, IMHO. Unless you're doing
something wacky like running xearth or xlock on your root window.
You can try to renice(8) the X
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:03:25AM -0500, Edward Ruggeri wrote:
Hi,
My system randomly reboots, usually in the evening. It is definitely not a
soft reboot, since the filesystems don't get properly dismounted. My
suspicion is that it is a heat related issue -- I do leave the computer
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:49:01PM -0500, Edward Ruggeri wrote:
Athlon X2 4200+ proc (2.2GHz, maybe?)
DFI nF4 infinity SLI motheboard
G.Skill RAM (2GB)
Antec True Power II (550W)
I'll use MemTest or somesuch to test my RAM latter today for errors.
The drives sit right infront of
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:49:49PM +0200, * ** wrote:
Hello.
First of all, try to make a better subject line next time.
im trying to install freebsd on my computer, but when the installation
is finish and i should login. i type in my account name and password.
byt then i only get to
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:53:39PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote:
Yes, because escputil belongs to the 'usb' group. It should belong to the
same group as /dev/ulpt0, which should be 'cups'.
A 'chown :cups escputil' should fix that.
Thanks a lot it worked.
to check the ink level
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:40:24PM +0200, Nino Ivanov wrote:
I am still a newbie in some respects, so maybe this idea is a moot point
or done already, but in case it is not, I'd like to suggest it:
One nice thing about unix is this piping, like programX | programY |
programZ...
Well, I
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:38:13PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive
located elsewhere by using rsync over ssh (all three are FreeBSD boxes.)
After the recent discussion about dump, I'm wondering if I would gain
anything
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:40:04PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Has Anyone successfully installed this printer on a FBSD machine?
I tried it using CUPS, it works but some times it sends some garbage to
printer (basically when printing from a Windows machine).
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:27:35PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:38:13PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive
located elsewhere by using rsync over ssh (all three are FreeBSD boxes.)
After the recent
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:47:25AM +0200, Runner on the Road wrote:
Hi
i have an asus a8js with a 7700 Go gefroce in it
i ve tryed seveal times to confi my xorg.conf but still not working
Try the nv(4) driver in your device section:
Section Device
Identifier Card0
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:58:48AM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install textproc/libxslt on a 6.1 machine.
The issue is, is that it needs libxml2 - 2.6.27 . I've installed this
version but everytime I try to install libxslt it complains saying it
can only find
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:51:53PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote:
Hi
I tried to install my epson stylus cx4700 printer, I installed cups, then
gutenprint.
When configuring the printer in kde control center it detected the driver
for stylus cx4700 and a device was /dev/ulpt0 (its has a usb
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:03:42PM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
Well, I'm replying to all here, tho I'm not sure where to ofically report it
there is a file xml2-config that exists in both /usr/bin by default
and ports installs it in /usr/local/bin
/usr/bin is set in my path first. So
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:53:47PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote:
I have my /etc/devfs.conf file set to make some of my files
mountable/readable directly for normal users (specifically CD/DVD
devices). However, the original permissions are being retained. Am I
doing something wrong in the
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote:
I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was
worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I
looked into the matter and discovered the utility fsck. I ran this as
root and I got the
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 02:56:25PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 01:44:17 pm Roland Smith wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:51:53PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote:
Hi
I tried to install my epson stylus cx4700 printer, I installed cups,
then gutenprint.
When
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:06:07PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote:
Thanks Roland, I put what you have said to /etc/devfs.rules and it printed
the test page well =)
The only problem now is Epson Inkjet Tool that shows ink levels, cleans
heads, etc when I click on Show ink level it tells:
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:25:40PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote:
Well, I did this and now the permissions look like this:
-r-xr-sr-x 1 root usb 72504 May 15 13:01 escputil
and if I execute the program being in my user it tells permission denied.
Yes, because escputil belongs to the
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:27:01PM -0500, Phusion wrote:
I need some advice on how to backup a UNIX server. The server has
multiple large partitions ranging from 200 to 400 GB. Also, the server
doesn't have a tape drive. We recently got a large NAS device that has
2 TB of storage space.
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:36:52PM +, AN wrote:
Install the cdrtools-devel port instead of cdrtools. That should give
you 2.01.01a11.
Or you can install dvd+rw-tools, which can burn DVDs.
snip
4 installed 2.01.01a11 from ports with make install clean
installed successfully
Now
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:33:49PM +, AN wrote:
I am having a problem, and I hope someone can help me. I use a program
called Xcdroast to burn DVDs. I can no longer burn DVDs because I do not
have the correct version of cdrtools. This is what I have installed on my
system running
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:10:53PM -0700, L Goodwin wrote:
Here's another round of dumb questions for ya:
Can USB jump drives be used to back-up a Samba share?
If so, what do I need to do to prepare the USB drive
to accept files?
Since I don't really need to compress or encrypt, I
was
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:24:42AM +0200, Michele wrote:
Hi, I'm thinking to change my OS from windows to freeBSD and I would some
information about:
If you download the FreeSBIE live-CD from http://www.freesbie.org/, burn
it and boot from it you can check if all your hardware works.
-
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:29:32AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
Hi,
I have a machine in the midst of taking a dirt nap. I bought a
replacement and want to start loading all my ports on it. I have
a few questions.
Is there a way to get a report of what my first level ports
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:40:46AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have a desktop Compaq computer running the latest stable version of
FreeBSD. I want to install a DVD writer to use for backups (either internal
or USB). Can someone recommend the easiest method to do this by? Is
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:31:54PM +1200, Mark Mumby wrote:
Hello,
I am currently running 5.4 release and i have problems with a usb serial
converter (a FDTI version).
When i do a usbdev -v i get -
Controller /dev/usb2:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, OHCI root hub(0x),
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 04:39:42PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
In C code, is there a quick and dirty way to tell if a path
points to a directory? Or do I have to open the parent directory and
check the entry for that name?
Try opening the path in question for writing with open(2). If it
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:20:27PM -0400, james thompson wrote:
How difficult is FreeBSD to use in place of MS windows, say compared to
Apple OSX?
Setup is difficult to compare, since OSX always comes pre-installed, and
has a limited range of hardware to contend with.
FreeBSD is more
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:56:04PM +0100, mukul choudhuri wrote:
Would U Plz. tell me about MAX amount of RAM freeBSD supports per
processor in SMP systems?
Depends on the architecture. A 32 bit x86 chip can address 4GB, unless
you have the PAE extension in the kernel. In that case it is 64
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:01:17PM -0700, L Goodwin wrote:
I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file
server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1
Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows
Vista Home Premium users as a
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:03:34PM -0700, L Goodwin wrote:
Forgot to mention that off site storage is a priority.
Please don't top-post.
The USB drive option is interesting. I know thumb drives are not
considered a good long-term storage solution, but for daily backups, I
could rotate a
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:50:28PM +0300, Ghirai wrote:
Hello,
Even though this is not necessarily a pure FreeBSD question,
i'd like to know if there are any mspaint-like applications
in the ports collection?
I don't need anything as complex as gimp,
i just want to make quick edits,
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:41:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or
tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with
the reliable x86 or try the AMD64 port.
Any performance penalties when
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most all of the data is readable and complete
if I mount the filesystem read-only. It just panics the box when mounted
read/write, and fsck can't fix the damage.
That might
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:12:31AM +0200, Michael Grant wrote:
Is there some sort of automated way to keep freebsd and all the
installed ports/packages up to date automatically?
I don't mean just the source, that part is easy. I mean something
that actually reinstalls the things ad needed,
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:02:25PM +0300, Ido Admon wrote:
Hello list,
I couldn't find any way to execute an arbitrary command upon network
interface initialization. My situations is that I have and ethernet card
that takes DHCP from a cables provider (not a fixed IP address) and I
need to
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:11:48AM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
I have a 1.2TB UFS2 filesystem with irrecoverable corruption. As such, I
must move all 500GB or so of data off of it and re-newfs it.
If the corruption is due to hardware failure, your data is probably lost.
Ditto if the
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:14:35PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:11:48AM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
I have a 1.2TB UFS2 filesystem with irrecoverable corruption. As such, I
must move all 500GB or so of data off of it and re-newfs
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 07:40:08PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Hi,
I've written a program that generates images. Currently
it writes them in PPM format, and I would like to add
support for GIF. So I've looked at the ports collection
for a GIF library and found -- nothing. The only thing
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:43:27PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Claude Menski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why is freebsd better then ubuntu?
I like Ubuntu too. If you want a desktop OS that Just Works and
doesn't require a lot of time to configure and keep up-to-date, it's a
good
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:09:46PM +0200, Tun Eler wrote:
Hello,
i was trying to mount an external HDD in my machine running FBSD 6.2 RELEASE.
I configured the kernel according to the Handbook and pluged the exernal HD.
Then i typed (starting with # are my commands, otherwise output):
#
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:22:19AM +0200, Nagy László Zsolt wrote:
L33T Networks wrote:
Using the SSHD server, how can I lock users SSH'ing into a box into their
home directory, without having access to the /usr/home directory as a
whole?
You could set them up with a restricted shell.
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:37:00AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
Hi, question of the day:
Why does the wine port complain that it will not build on my 6.2/amd64
machine? A quick search around winehq.com seems to indicate that the linux
(kubuntu, debian) guys compile wine on their 64-bit
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 05:09:51AM +0800, Tun Eler wrote:
Hi all,
i have to mount a Solaris HD on my FBSD 6.2 machine in order
to extract some data. It is recognized at boot time as
ad1: 76319MB SAMSUNG SP0842N BH100-35 at ata0-slave UDMA66
I tried
mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad1 /mnt
and
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:52:13PM +0100, Jonathan Smith wrote:
Hello,
Is there a live or single cd basic boot version of freebsd available?
Yes, there is: http://www.freesbie.org/
Roland
--
R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 07:06:20PM -0300, freenity wrote:
Hi.
My mouse has some strange behaviour with kde and gnome, I think its some
problem with xorg. Anyway the problem is this: when I click left button and
drag it then when I realease it the mouse pointer appears in another
position. It
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:06:44PM -0700, Vlad Skvortsov wrote:
Robert Huff wrote:
I'm looking for an external backup solution for my FreeBSD file
server. I want it to be pluggable via USB interface (I'd share
it with a couple of servers). I'd also like to be able to move
backups to an
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:56:13PM -0400, David Banning wrote:
I have a someone who wants to have a remote printer without using a
server at the printing location. Is it possible to do;
DSL Line-Modem - router - printer
|
-
|
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:51:28AM +0200, Ivan Zenzerović wrote:
Hi,
I just put instead of sk0 nve0 (wich is my ethernet card). But, on boot i
see that it searches for ALTQ and I saw that it can be turned on only by
configuring the kernel. Is there maybe any other way?
Like this?:
No ALTQ
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:37:26PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear,
I am having a spontaneous reboot issue and I really dunno what to
do.. here is which message I get from logs .. any hints what it might
be ??
These aren't spontaneous reboots. They're kernel panics.
Apr 3
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:29:36PM +0200, Firas Kraiem wrote:
Greetings
I get this message when booting my FBSD home webserver :
Apr 3 22:23:55 alice sm-mta[509]: My unqualified host name (alice)
unknown; sleeping for retry
From what I've understood after a bit of searching,
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:11:01PM +0200, Ivan Zenzerović wrote:
I have a problem with my firewall. When booting freebsd i get the message
that pf is enabling, but there are syntax errors in the /etc/pf.conf file
and that no IP adresses were found for sk0 network. What should i change
here?
I
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 04:51:24AM -0700, Stan Cooper wrote:
So, in other words, wait for the developers to work out this bug? Or
is there a way to work around it?
Check the mailing list archives. A while ago, someone had the same
problem and managed to solve it, IIRC.
Also, is it possible
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:02:10PM +, Tee Nor wrote:
Booting:
FreeBSD/sparc64 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0
([EMAIL PROTECTED], Wed Nov 2 09:45:36 UTC 2005)
bootpath=/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED],880/[EMAIL
PROTECTED],0:a
After boot:
# mount /dev/fd/0 /mnt
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:02:11PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:09:51AM +0200, Ivan Zenzerovi? wrote:
Hello, here I am again with another problem.
Thanks for your answers, I managed to setup my system, and now almost
everything works. Still, I must
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 07:21:32PM +0200, Ivan Zenzerović wrote:
Try xvidtune.
Thanks, I'll try. I knew of that program, but with time I forgot it's name.
I must say that freebsd works very well as a workstation, there are no
viruses (am I right?),
As good as right. There have been
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:46:31AM -0700, Andriy Babiy wrote:
On March 28, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today I see Staples has a HP OfficeJet OJ5610 Colour 4-in-1 printer on
at a reasonable price. It's all I need. Since I am soon due to replace
both of my print cartridges in the Lexmark,
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 06:02:57AM -0700, Stan Cooper wrote:
Hi;
I have a windoze drive set up in my fstab that I can access and read, but I
can't write to it! The permissions are set rw...doesn't that mean read
*and* write? I'm confused.
How is the drive mounted? If you type mount does it
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:43:43PM -0700, Stan Cooper wrote:
Eric writes:
what kind of file system? fat or NTFS? I dont think you can write to
NTFS drives from BSD can you, at least not without a port?
see if this port helps:
ntfsprogs
Try /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:49:29PM +, Reginaldo Tavares wrote:
Hello,
somebody knows how an ordinary user can mount a floppy or cd ?
1) vfs.usermount must be set to 1 (/etc/sysctl.conf)
2) The user in question must be a member of a group that has read/write
access to the device (set
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:13:21AM +, RW wrote:
snip
i need both encrypted partition and encrypted copies/DVDs.
I'd be interested if anyone has a method for creating encrypted DVDs
that still works.
You can use a UFS filesystem on a DVD. In short:
- create an file with
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:45:54AM -0500, Eric wrote:
n j wrote:
snip
first off, I'm looking for a ports upgrading solution on my box, not
trying to start a religious debate over which one is better. I'm
interested in hearing what other FreeBSD admins are using and, if
possible, why they
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:33:19PM +, RW wrote:
How do you attach the dvd content?
# geli attach /dev/cd0
Cannot read metadata from /dev/cd0: Invalid argument.
geli attach -r /dev/cd0
Cannot read metadata from /dev/cd0: Invalid argument.
I get the same error. Odd. I thought I used
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:36:19PM +, RW wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:06:28 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what they are. both works, both works right.
geli has more options.
why there are both? what should i use to have better chance i will be
able to
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:18:25AM +0100, Alexander Schlichting wrote:
On a server I have a package installed using ports and now I have to install
the package with exactly the same make arguments on another server. I just
don't find a way to see what arguments where used to install it the
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:35:57AM -0500, Chris Slothouber wrote:
Mike Jakubik wrote:
Daniel Mouritsen wrote:
You don't need the developer packages to compile or use the ports. I
would recommend you choose the basic user option instead.
Also, i was wondering, i tried playing around with
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:25:34PM +0100, Milan Knizek wrote:
A search on google revealed that it is possible to switch the port mode
to extended polling by command lptcontrol -e -d /dev/lpt0. Then, the
printer worked normally.
ltpcontrol supports only connected (and powered on) printers,
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:58:22AM -0800, Don O'Neil wrote:
Are there any special naming requirements for scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
for 6.1?
Someone is telling me they need to have a .sh suffix to startup correctly,
but in past versions of FreeBSD anything you put in there would run as
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:37:54AM -0500, Jean-Philippe Daigle wrote:
Hello,
I'm attempting to add a new program to the list of services starting at
boot time on FreeBSD 6.1. Unfortunately, although running the script
directly as root starts it up just fine, it's not starting at boot time.
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 10:04:45PM +, AN wrote:
I am having a problem printing from CUPS. I did a fresh install on 6.2
release and cups-1.2.7. I am trying to configure for an HP1022. The
install was successful, and I can manage the printer from the web
interface. But, when I try to
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:02:14PM +0400, Gaspar Chilingarov wrote:
Please look on post in my blog
http://unixtipsandtricks.blogspot.com/
I've just created post with detailed instruction,
how to setup automounter on FreeBSD to mount USB and CDROM devices.
Your setup will work fine for the
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:38:54PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Friday 02 February 2007 17:35, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said:
[snip]
Upgrading to 5.5 or 6.2 will get you the new tables as a
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
Hi freebsd ers
I am looking for any suggestion on using the right tool that I can use to
perform the encryption/decryption for flat files.
You can encrypt files with AES using ccrypt. http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:38:14PM +1000, Bob wrote:
Hello
I recently purchased a Hewlett Packard Color LaserJet 2600n printer.
It works perfectly under Windows XP but I cannot get it to work under
FreeBSD 6.2.
According to the HP pages, it only supports host-based printer
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:53:28PM +0100, Paul Eskello wrote:
Hi all,
looking for any recommendations regarding wireless lan pci cards and
freebsd, please.
It is impossible to give a general recommendation like buy brand X,
model Y. Manufacturers sometimes switch chipsets on their cards
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:02:33PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
This worked great but on mergemaster -cv in single user , at one point it
asked me these questions , I got nervous and puzzled
Use 'd' to delete the temporary .x
Use 'i' to install the temporary
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:14:49PM +0100, Vittorio wrote:
I updated my pentium 3 PC Compaq Desktop 450 from freebsd 5.3 (which
was working like a charme indeed!) to the new 6.2 installing from a CD.
It happens that the boot
1) runs smoothly as usual till after the
probing of the CDs,
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