On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:56:25PM -0700, Modulok wrote:
> I get the feeling Conky 1.4.8 (the sysutil), or one of the libs it
> links against, has a memory leak. I do not have any hard evidence yet
> (like a patch to fix it), but the memory consumption slowly climbs to
> what appears to be excessiv
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:47:34PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > I installed the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator because it's a lot
> > lighter then xterm, although both should handle UTF-8. You should use a
> > unicode font though. I put the following in my ~/.Xresources:
>
>
> I had somethi
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:16:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > Because it is a hiddeous waste for most readers and writers of
> > English and other European languages.
> I also argured that utf-8 was a waste of a whole byte per char
> for most of us.
That's not true. UTF-8 is a varia
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 04:08:40PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:39:41AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:16:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > Because it is a hiddeous waste for most readers and writers of
> > >
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:09:23AM +, dhaneshk k wrote:
>
>
> HI all ;
>
> Can anyone recommend a working screencapturing tool such as XvidCap
> for FreeBSD-7.0 ,
>
> I installed XvidCap but its not working any other tools OR Solutions
> for doing screen Capturing ..
>
> It will be useful
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 02:49:04PM -0700, zill wrote:
>
> Moused recognizes my mouse and the Xorg -configure test also recognizes my
> mouse, but when I run startx it does not recognize my mouse.
>
> I have a Microsoft wireless optical mouse that plugs into a USB port.
>
> Does anyone know how t
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:18:32PM +0300, EforeZZ wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Is it possible to mount the samba share //pc/share/folder?
It should be.
> I have troubles in FreeBSD:
> I'm able to mount only //pc/share (not //pc/share/folder) and I do not have
> read access to read contents of "//pc/s
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:43:01PM +0300, EforeZZ wrote:
> > > I'm able to mount only //pc/share (not //pc/share/folder) and I do not
> > have
> > > read access to read contents of "//pc/share" and FreeBSD does not let me
> > to
> > > change the directory to "//pc/share/folder".
> > > Windows allow
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:28:29PM +0300, John Vliouras wrote:
> I wonder if this is the right place to ask a question regarding FreeBsd7
> and the Handbook.
> The problem is my scanner a Canon Lide 60. Running #scanimage -L I get
> "device `genesys:libusb:/dev/usb1:/dev/ugen0' is a Canon Lide 60
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:15:20PM -0400, Grant Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have heard people chattering occasionally about /etc/make.conf.
>
> In a few days, I will be updating from 6.2, and 6.3, to RELENGE_6_3 and am
> curious how I can use / modufy /etc/make.conf so that I dont need to instal
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:46:29PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote:
>
> I've just installed a Canon Pixma iP4500 on a 6.3 system using CUPS and
> gutenprint. Black printing is fine but I've got problems with colours.
> The colour wheel on the CUPS test page comes out as a psychedelic
> collection of b
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:59:04AM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Roland Smith wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:46:29PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote:
> > > I've just installed a Canon Pixma iP4500 on a 6.3 system using CUPS
> > >
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 04:04:47PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Thursday 02 October 2008, Roland Smith wrote:
>
> > Gimp uses Gutenprint doesn't it? So you could try using the
> > gutenprint driver?
>
> That's the odd thing, CUPS is (supposed to be) using
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for
> FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything.
I don't think so. The closest thing I know of is rsnapshot
(http://www.rsnapshot.org/).
My
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:21:01PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> is it possible on FreeBSD
No, I think.
> i run asterisk with realtime priority. it works perfectly no matter how
> much CPU is loaded by other non-telephony tasks.
>
> but with lots of VM pressure it starts to so... like like t
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 03:31:42PM -0700, jaymax wrote:
>
> I am attempting to relocate /var to avoid files system full issues.
> Using a -
> mkdir /usr/var
> cd /var
> tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - )
> cd /
> rm -rf /var
> ln -s /usr/var /var
> approach
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:32:37AM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> can anyone tell me how to mount an MP3 player (usb)?
> I seem to be too stupid to figure it out by myself.
> I thought it would be as easy as mounting a usb memory stick
> which I can mount with a device fil
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:18:47PM +0200, Benoit wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i don't know if it's the good section to talk about it...
>
> Yesterday, i want to "cross-compile" an old windows program, so i
> installed mingw32-bin-msvcrt-r3.12.a3.9 but i can't compile because the
> compiler and others to
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 06:37:50AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:51:20PM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > > Message: 3
> > > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:57:43 +0100
> > > From: dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Subject: Re: mounting an MP3 pla
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:05:24PM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Roland Smith wrote:
> > > $ file -s /dev/da*
> > > /dev/da1: writable, no read permission
> > > /dev/da2: writable, no read permission
> > > /dev/da3: writable,
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 08:48:58AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in
> 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options
> for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are quite minimal,
>
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:13:17PM +0800, FBSD1 wrote:
> How do it configure FreeBSD to restrict users to their home directory?
You can give the users rbash as their shell. This will restrict them to their
home directory. But this can be easily broken out of if the user starts
another shell! So yo
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:19:51PM +0800, joeb wrote:
>> > I don't want them to be able see any system directories or other users?
>>
>> User directories are by default both owned by the user and belong to the
>> user's group. So you can set the umask for every user so that their
>> files are not
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:10:19AM +0100, Valentin Bud wrote:
> Hello list,
> I want your opinion about migrating a freebsd server to amd64.
> I have the following configuration:
>
> Motherboard: Intel S5000VSA
> CPU: Intel Xeon E5335 @ 2Ghz
> RAM: 2 x 1Gb DDR2 FB-DIMM 667Mhz
> HDD: 2 x 320 Gb SA
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:45:10AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Any ideas *why* my load is so high when my desktop wasn't touched for
> 9, 10 hours? I was running mostly KDE3 konsoles, and had a few other
> processes going, the apps iconisized. The server is still running;
> I've
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:10:41AM +0800, Foo JH wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Earlier I was asking for some help getting XSP/ mod_mono on FreeBSD. I
> may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono
> on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea.
As a re-implementation of microsof
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0800, Mike Price wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?
> I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible.
You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating
vector images, try either inks
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 09:33:36AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0800, Mike Price wrote:
> >> Hello guys,
> >>
> >> Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?
> >> I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible.
> >
> > You could t
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:47:11AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:35:21 +0100, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Note that this does not limit the number of files you can have in a single
> > directory, since normal files do not contain hardlinks to the parent
> > direc
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:44:58PM -0600, Trevor Hearn wrote:
> Anyone that can help, I would appreciate it a lot.
>
> I have a Dell 1950 1U server running FreeBSD 6.3. It's connected to 2.5tb
> of RAID 6 storage via Fibre Channel. I have setup some 2 tb slices on this
How does one fit more than
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:53:38PM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I have a SNAP 4100 appliance that lost 2 directories, no backup , I sent it
> out to a DR service and they have told me that all they can do is file
> harvest, where I would get a list of files such as file0001.x
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 06:42:39AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote:
> I am having a new problem. I have been running FreeBSD for years with
> no crashing. All of a sudden my server starts crashing with no panic
> messages. I am suspecting hardware because there are no messages, but
> the CPU temp is f
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:59:58AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> Since I cannot ssh into the snap, can I mount it to my BSD box and run some
> of those utilities?
It seems that SnapOS uses a modified UFS. See
http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/category/file-systems-explained/snap-server-f
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:04:13PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2008 5:39:02 pm Pieter Donche wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:25:51PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote:
> > >> If I insert a USB memory stick in my laptop with F
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:13:47PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2008 14:01:47 Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> > > I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:44:14PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2008 9:17:36 pm Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:04:13PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 11 November 2008 5:39:02 pm Pieter Donche wrote:
> > > &g
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer
> any help or useful suggestions, but here goes...
>
> What on earth is going on with release scheduling?
Two words: volunteer project
I would propose
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46:03AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on
> my
> computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Zero. I watched the
> *original* in the theater (I think); then have watched the tap
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:47:14PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:37:26 +0100, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46:03AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > >
> > > Do any of you guys know why the DV
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:01:53PM +0200, Ott Köstner wrote:
> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
> > I don't think it is a matter of days, we have not even reached RC
> > status yet on 7.1
> > On a production server you will probably wish to go with
> > 7.0-RELEASE-p5. It would be trivial to upgrade to
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:49:04PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with all kinds of host names
> from this list:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvsup.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-MIRRORS-IL-CVSUP
>
> I get a Connection refused error.
>
>
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:53:02PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:49:04PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm running cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with all kinds
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:49:44AM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote:
> Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need
> occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The
> Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux
> printing
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 01:43:14PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> is there a push button way of turning an odt file or plain ascii file
> into HTML using openoffice?
For converting plain text you could use this: http://txt2html.sourceforge.net/
Roland
--
R.F.Smith
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:37:25AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote:
> Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >> Since a Xeon Quad Core is a 64bit processor, would it work ok with
> >> FreeBSD? Or would the adm64 release be better for that chip?
> >
> > don't be suggested by "amd" in port name. it's for AMD64-compatib
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:49:37PM -0800, Chris Maness wrote:
> >> Would there be a major performance gain with amd64 over that of the i386
> >> build on a Xeon Quad Core?
> >>
> >
> > It will depend on your workload. If your machines were strapped fo
> > address space on i386, switching to a
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:11:56PM -0800, Rommel Tan wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dear Sir/Madam:
> Pleasant day!
> First of all, sorry if this enquiry shouldn’t be directed to you,
> please help me direct to the right person.
The questions mailing list is OK.
> Few months ago
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:26:51PM -0800, Yuri wrote:
> I am trying to copy an audio CD.
>
> First I've ran:
> dd if=/dev/acd0tN of=track-N.cdr bs=2352
> for every track. This gets raw track files.
It is better to use cdparanoia (from the audio/cdparanoia port), since
it outputs WAV files. It als
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 03:14:43PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> pdftotext fail on the large [32MB] file I've got. Is there any
> other way I can translate this huge textfile to ascii or html or
> text?
Please define "fail" in this context? I've used pdftotxt on documents
exceeding
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:23:09PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Roland Smith writes:
>
> > > pdftotext fail on the large [32MB] file I've got. Is there any
> > > other way I can translate this huge textfile to ascii or html or
> > > text?
&
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:24:09PM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> FreeBSD Fans,
>
> I think I've just about talked myself into coming back for another try.
> First, to ZFS or not to ZFS, that is the question. While I like some of
> the features ZFS has to offer, I realize it may be overkill fo
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:17:31PM -0700, jaymax wrote:
>
> Thanks Roland,
> smartctl showed disk to be fine!
> fls requires a disk image, is there one created by default in FreeBSD 6.0 .
No, you have to create one.
> Running fls in directory of deleted files/dir produced
>
> > #fls -adr 2
>
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:06:28PM +0200, Anselm Strauss wrote:
> Hi,
>
> anybody knows if it's possible to set BIOS wake up time in FreeBSD. I
> have a machine I would like to regularly shutdown and wake up at
> different times depending the on the day of week.
The easy and cheap way to acco
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:12:48PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote:
>
> Presently, I have Samba set up on my FreeBSD machines. Windows can
> access the shared directories without any problems. I also have Putty
> installed on the Windows machines so I can directly access the FreeBSD
> boxes when required.
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:39:53PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote:
> Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two
> or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately,
> I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD
> machines. I can get
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:35:44PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote:
> > Typically I would be doing this sitting behind one of those machines
> > with the X window system running and a local terminal and a terminal
> > running ssh to the other machine open.
>
> I have not experimented with that yet. If need
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:44:12AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> herbs wrote:
> > Hi Daemons,
> > I wonder whats wrong there:
> >
> > I need to change the permissions from
> > /dev/speaker 600 to /dev/speaker 666
> > --all works ok.
> >
> > Then I reboot the computer and the permissions of the f
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 10:04:20AM -0400, Vince Sabio wrote:
> I need to install zlib (not zlibc), and AFACT it is not included in
> ports. When I look at the zlib web site, I see that there are several
> (not a lot, but several) dependencies for the installation -- and I
> think, "OH NO, NOT DE
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 03:15:05PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote:
> I just compiled a nice, slim kernel on my laptop, but I dont want to carry
> all the kernel sources around there.
Keep in mind that some ports (those that contain kernel modules) require the
kernel sources.
On my 7.2-RELEASE-p4 m
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:25:12PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Since certain currently unused devices are not created in /dev
> (specifically in my case /dev/fuse*) how do I tell what ever (I can't
> tell it is devfs or what) to always make /dev/fuse* (when needed) with
> 777 perms (the se
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:18:46AM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:25:12PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> >
> >> Since certain currently unused devices are not created in /dev
> >> (specifically in my ca
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:34:21PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> > Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> > > Den 9. okt. 2009 kl. 05.25 skrev "Aryeh M. Friedman"
> > > :
> > >
> > > > Since certain currently unused devices are not created in /dev
> > > > (specifically in my
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 05:01:34AM -0400, PJ wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a time with the calendar.sh script I found on the
> Net; it doesn't display quite correctly.
> It should have brackets around the current date, but I can't figure out
> what is not functioning correctly:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> cal
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 06:33:40AM -0700, Greg Morell wrote:
> Since TrueCrypt doesn't work on FreeBSD, I'm wondering what you'd recommend
> for this:
>
> I like to keep all of my sensitive stuff in a few encrypted mountable files.
>
> Something where I can copy the file to a USB key for backup,
Yes.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:48:26PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote:
> the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows:
>
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1
>
> Features=0xbfebfbff
> Features2=0x659d>
You should be lookin
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:35:54PM -0700, Noah wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build from
> ports without downloading ports
Not directly.
But you can install pre-built packages instead. The only downside in that
case is that you cannot choose
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:59:51PM -0400, Henry Olyer wrote:
> I have a fix for gnuplot;
> How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice, I
> am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least FBSD
> 6.1. Earlier than that I don't know.
Gnuplot builds
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:47:47PM -0400, PJ wrote:
> I have posted to Xorg, but I find this list most reassuring and
> competent ;-)
> I have searched the web, followed the instructions in the manual, the
> man pages and suggestions on the web.
> Nothing, nada. And I see there is a lot of frustrat
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 04:21:18PM -0400, PJ wrote:
> I also have tried with the monitor in digital mode as well as in
> analog... neither works.
Do you mean with a VGA and DVI connector?
> It seems to me that the options for flatpanel must be activated... bin
> there, done that...
Why?
> And t
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 02:34:55PM -0700, Reed Loefgren wrote:
> Did you ever run X with hal installed?
No. X always worked fine for me without hal, so I don't see a compelling
reason to use it. I'll keep disabling it as long as I can.
> But these days digikam can't talk worth a damn to
> my
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:16:54AM +, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Please respond also to my eMail address, since I'm not subscriber of
> these lists! Thanks.
>
> Since I utilise a MSI Radeon R4670/512 RV730-based graphics card, I'im
> incapable of using either
Support for this chip is
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:06:55PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
> In one of my systems, I've got a Seagate SATA 500GB drive (ST3500320AS)
> which is actually not very old... purchased 12/11/2008.
> same single block. Here's the relevant lines from /var/log/messages:
>
> Nov 15 15:24:17 c
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 07:11:14PM +0100, Sabine Baer wrote:
> Well my problem is mounting my digital camera. If I remember correctly
> I did it with
> mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /lumix
> I think that was under FreeBSD 6.n
> But now, upgraded to 7.2, there ist no /dev/da0.
> Attached to an iBook wit
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:43:31PM +, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:23:58 +0100
> Roland Smith wrote:
>
> > Install the smartmontools port, and check the drive with
> > 'smartctl -a /dev/ad4'. If you see a non-zero Reallocated_Sector_Ct,
> &g
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:43:04AM -0800, Dánielisz László wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My computer get starts to reboot all the time I do a higher hdd use (like:
> fsck, copying more GB of data). I was sure that my power supply its not
> enough so I changed it (300W->450W), now it does the same. I'm looki
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 06:39:15PM -0500, David Jackson wrote:
> I have a USB hard drive. Whenever I open two programs which utilise the
> USB hard drive simultaneously, these programs, i assume when they
> attempt to write to the hard drive lock up due to what i suspect must be
This particul
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:14:10PM -0800, Dánielisz László wrote:
> Roland,
>
> I installed mbmon, it looks like its a great application, but I have a
> question, I google it and I
> found no answers yet.
> With mbmon -r what values do you get? I figured out some but the rest I
> have no id
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:04:03PM +0100, n dhert wrote:
> I want to move the contents of a freebsd72 system entirely to different
> hardware (also Intel 64-bit), using dump/restore
If you are running a custom kernel, check that all the drivers for the new
hardware are in there! Or switch to the G
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:57:27PM +0100, Olivier GARNIER wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an usb weather station (oregon wmr100).
> It's an usb device only.
> I want to be able to get data from it (T°, H°, wind, ...)
This machine probably only comes with windoze software? If you don't know the
protocol f
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:41:31PM +0100, Olivier GARNIER wrote:
> Roland Smith a écrit :
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:57:27PM +0100, Olivier GARNIER wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have an usb weather station (oregon wmr100).
> >> It'
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:43:15PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > But as you mentioned they do not come with optical drive bays, but with
> > with 4/8/16 gig flash drives no one really cares-
>
> do you mean what i know as "thumb drives"? stick-like thing
> you just plug in? i've ne
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:40:25PM +, John wrote:
>
> Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main
> machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will
> be easier to make portmanager rebuild everything in pristine mode. It
> will take a long tim
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:46:01PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Andreas Rudisch wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:35:55 +0100
> > herbert langhans wrote:
> >
> >> Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous MS-thing,
> >> there is a simple window. It shows
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:49:32AM +, John wrote:
>
> Looks like I had to learn the hard way. portmanager won't fix it all.
Been there, done that. :-)
I think this problem is just too complex when updating between major versions,
for several reasons. First of all being that the port managem
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:43:07PM +0100, Philipp Lengemann wrote:
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> Am Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:05:47 -0800
> schrieb Gary Kline :
>
> >
> > How do I build tarballs of packages that usually wind up in
> > /usr/ports/packages?
> >
> >
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:40:58PM -0600, Richard Kolkovich wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 08:42:30AM +0100, n dhert wrote:
> > In my nightly portupgrade I got, while upgrading print/cups-client :
> > ...
> > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/crt1.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when
> > making
>
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:05:47PM +, Ricardo Jesus wrote:
> Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
> >
> > I am just trying to find out if theres an easier way to do this.
> >
> >
> > currently to get wireless to work on my system, i have to clone the
> > wireless interface to a wlan0 interface to actuall
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:39:59PM -0500, APseudoUtopia wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working on editing the kernel configuration file for a custom
> kernel. The system will be running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1. I'm
> wondering about the use of the COMPAT options in the kernel config.
> COMPAT_43
Well, CO
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:09:48PM -0800, Robert wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:56:53 +0100
> Roland Smith wrote:
>
> > Now that my desktop and laptop are both running 8.0, I build ports on
> > my (faster) desktop, and then rsync /usr/local to the laptop. Works
> > fi
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 04:25:46PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Is there any way to mount webdav into the file system (like on OS-x
> or fuse-dav)?
Have a look at the sysutils/fusefs-wdfs port. :-)
Roland
--
R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:50:04PM -0800, Doug Sampson wrote:
> Does anyone have had positive or negative experience using these USB-based
> DAT tape drives? Specifically, I am looking at the HP (Hewlett-Packard)
> StorageWorks Q1581SB DAT 160 Tape Drive. If there are other branded USB
> 2.0-based
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:39:03AM +0200, David Naylor wrote:
> Also, is there anyway to detect if there are hardware without drivers (such
> as
> a sound card without any snd_ loaded) and to detect the type of device (e.g.
> network, usb, sound, graphics)?
pciconf -lv|less
Every device name
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:51:28AM -0500, stan wrote:
> I need to support 5 RS-232 streams with my FreeBSD 7.2 machine. I just
> purchased UTS-408A-S1 8 port adapter. When I plug it in, I get the
> following in dmesg:
>
> uhub3: on
> uhub1
> uhub3: single transaction translator
> uhub3: 4 ports w
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:03:50AM +0100, n dhert wrote:
> I want to clone a FreeBSD system on another system.
> Say, Mondaymorning I use the dump(8) to make dumpfiles of all filesystems
> (dumpofroot.dmp, dumpofvar.dmp, ...tmp.dmp, ...usr.dmp, ...home.dmp ) on an
> external USB disk.
Dumping /tm
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:35:29PM +, Mike Woods wrote:
> Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:51:28AM -0500, stan wrote:
> >> I need to support 5 RS-232 streams with my FreeBSD 7.2 machine. I just
> >> purchased UTS-408A-S1 8 port adapter. W
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:29:54PM +0100, bsd wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been provided with a 1To backup space by my hosting company…
> unfortunately It is only accessible by FTP which does not allow me to do the
> regular backup / restore I use to do using RSYNC.
>
>
> What are the options I h
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:00:26PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote:
>
> DNS config is flaud:
>
> # host thought.org
> thought.org mail is handled by 10 aristotle.thought.org.
> # host aristotle.thought.org
> Host aristotle.thought.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
I get something else;
# host thought.org
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:55:54PM +0100, bsd wrote:
> Are there any specific scripting tools that I could use in order to achieve
> that ?
Well, /bin/sh and 'man sh' spring to mind. :-) Or use another scripting
language if you are more familiar with that, e.g. perl or python. But since
you are m
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 04:13:09PM +, Jamie Griffin wrote:
> The handbook suggests the command:
>
> # pciconf -lv
>
> On my system, this command does print out information for quite a few
> components, I just wondered if this information is all I need to work
> from or is it not an accurate
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 01:22:50PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I seem to have a very slow network connection at work.
> All local switches are supposed to be gigabit, and my
> network card is gigabit as well. But download speed
> seems to be much lower.
Are we talking download from the inte
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