Kevin Wilcox wrote:
> If you're just using the 192.168.4.129 - 254 addresses
> I would change it to
>
> subnet 192.168.4.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
Shouldn't that be netmask 255.255.255.128?
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Jerry wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:01:28 -0500
> Martin McCormick articulated:
> > ... our entire network is on the blacklist ...
>
> Why are you blacklisted? It seems correcting that problem
> would be my first priority.
Being a university, okstate.edu has students, most of whom are
not in
Jerry wrote:
> > > Actually yes. Ignoring for a moment the reply you sent me
> > > directly, conveniently bypassing the group forum,
> >
> > perry's message, like this one, was likely posted to you, cc the
> > list. That's long been customary on freebsd lists, even this
> > 'kindergarten' one;
Ian Smith wrote:
> Apologies for assuming you must have cc'd Jerry. I should have
> checked your original post in freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 359,
> Issue 4, which shows any ccs, but not headers such as Reply-To:
> per message ..
That wasn't aimed at you, Ian, but at Jerry's threat to report
Robert Bonomi wrote:
> ... it was the _initials_ of the name 'isual interace"
> to ed(1).
To ed(1), or to ex(1)? (ed(1) being the older -- and by a
considerable margin the lighter, which is why we even now keep
it in /bin where it does not depend on /usr being mounted.)
I remember "horsing aro
Chris Telting wrote:
> Seemed like I read that historically unix ran the #! command
> as the suid when it executed the file. Did Freebsd delete
> that functionality? (Otherwise how did suid scripts get the
> bad reputation if they could never execute suid.)
There have indeed been Unix (or Unix
Chris Telting wrote:
> let me ask you.. is "sudo ping" acceptable? Please explain the
> logical reason why not. It would be the preferred method if suid
> didn't exist and sudo was part of the base system.
Without suid there would be no sudo ;)
Part of the reason for ping being suid is historic
Polytropon wrote:
> Do _NOT_ hotplug the PS/2 port! It's not capable of that!
>
> I've seen myself in the past that trying so caused a mainboard
> to fly into the garbage can - as hotplugging the keyboard
> seemed to have damaged the PS/2 port (it didn't work anymore,
> with no keyboard).
This i
Daniel Staal wrote:
> --As of May 15, 2011 8:03:29 PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com is
> alleged to have said:
>
> > The AT and PS/2 keyboard interfaces are electrically identical
> > -- only the physical connector is different.
>
> --As for the rest, it is mine.
>
> The physical connector is all
Erik N?rgaard wrote:
> ... what is Serial Presence Detect RAM?
SPD refers to an I2C device mounted on (most) DIMMS, which provides
the BIOS with the DIMM's size and speed properties.
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Gary Kline wrote:
> how to i get, say
> hello, \t how are \t you
> to translate to
> hello, how are you
> [?]
> in other words, tab -> 1 space rather than the defaul of 4.
You only need something like "expand" or "tab.c" if you want
to convert each tab to a variable number of spaces depending o
pepe wrote:
> I didn't mention earlier that I have some users on server A
> that are not in server B and other way around. Does those
> (nis and kerberos5) still work so only users on both server
> will be effected and other users will work unaffected?
For NIS, yes, if correctly configured. Eac
Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 23:43:51 +0200, Patrick Lamaiziere
> wrote:
> > We need a kernel module to see some pdf with acrobat now?
>
> I was thinking exactly the same (without further investigation).
I suspect it's because FreeBSD uses Linux Acroread, so we need the
Linuxulator, p
Kaya Saman wrote:
> I have an ancient pre-HT PIV machine with <500MB RAM.
> ...
> Everything was running fine until round about 2 days
> ago when the system started locking up on me?
>
> ... is there anyway to fix the kernel error quickly?
Did you apply any updates shortly before it started to f
Kaya Saman wrote:
> > Did you apply any updates shortly before it started to fail?
>
> No updates! I did however, install unrar through ports.
Intuitively, that seems unlikely to have triggered the problem.
> I remember on other boards that went on me in the past with
> capacitor issues, a bunc
Robert Simmons wrote:
> > How do I wipe the whole thing in one go so that I can start
> > afresh?
> >
> > gpart destroy ad4 ??
>
> Yes, but first you must delete all of the slices/partitions.
> Think of it this way: you must go backwards down the path you
> just came with a delete for each add, t
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 11/06/2011 08:18, Bret Busby wrote:
> > the current FreeBSD Handbook ... states
> > "FreeBSD must be installed into a primary partition."
> >
> > However, in the last couple of days, I have been advised that
> > FreeBSD can be installed in, and, quite happily runs in,
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Sun's OpenWin (X11+Motif+DPS extension, IIRC) ...
I'm fairly sure OpenWin did not include Motif, at least initially
(although it may have been added later -- my experience with OpenWin
ended with SunOS 4). olwm had a look and feel all its own.
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Frederic Perrin wrote:
> ... I don't know what MCA, DRD, SNOOP and {D,G}CACHE stand for...
MCA = Machine Check Architecture.
DRD here probably refers to a data read cycle.
SNOOP has to do with hardware-maintained cache coherency.
DCACHE = data cache.
Google and/or Wikipedia may help with the de
After booting 8.1-RELEASE single-user, what must I do to upgrade
the root FS mount from read-only to read-write? I have tried:
# mount -u -o rw /
# mount -u /
# mount -u -w /
and even
# mount -u -w /dev/mirror/gm0a.journal /
I don't get any error messages, but the FS remains read-only.
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Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
>
> > After booting 8.1-RELEASE single-user, what must I do to upgrade
> > the root FS mount from read-only to read-write? I have tried:
> >
> > # mount -u /
>
> That's what I use. Try running fsck on it first.
I didn't tr
No answer on ports@, maybe someone here knows.
Suppose I start to install some packages using "pkg_add -K -r" and
something goes wrong partway through. When trying again, AFAICT
there is no way to tell pkg_add to first look for any package that
it needs (e.g. dependencies) in the local repository
Chris Brennan wrote:
> 1) 1x150GB PATA/EIDE drive
> 2) 2x80GB Drives (1 SATA, 1 PATA/EIDE)
> 3) 1x60GB PATA/EIDE drive
> 4) 2x40GB PATA/EIDE drives
>
> The machine is a P4 Prescott, 2.6Ghz Machine (32-bit CPU) ...
First, decide whether you're going to use ZFS. Memory size is one
"Dieter BSD" wrote:
> Machine has been running FreeBSD/amd64 with 2 GiB of memory.
> I just installed a 2nd 2 GiB of memory for 4 GiB total.
> FreeBSD thinks it now has 32 GiB ???
>
> FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #22: Tue Jun ??7 12:37:21 PDT 2011
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (1808.34-MHz K8-c
RW wrote:
> If building isn't an option then it's better to stick to one
> release trees at a time.
Unfortunately, it seems that pkg_add(1) does not make that as easy
as one might prefer. I discovered recently that, even though I am
running 8.1-RELEASE (and not 8-STABLE), "pkg_add -r" fetches f
d...@safeport.com wrote:
> If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition,
> that would be a very useful howto.
_Installing_ it in an "extended partition" is easy enough.
geom(8) understands "extended partitions" (although sysinstall
does not, so you need to install using Fixit# as for othe
Gyrd Thane Lange wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700
> per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
>
> > ... The code in i386/boot2 and
> > lib/libstand is written to find the / (or /boot) FS on a
> > BSD partition of an fdisk "primary partition" (aka slice),
> > or in a GPT partition, and would need ad
Steve Polyack wrote:
> ... An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to
> end up in single-user mode ... some of these systems have a LOM
> (lights-out management) controller which shares the system's
> on-board NICs ... when the system drops out of init(8) and into
> single-user mode
Steve Polyack wrote:
> I was able to "fix" the single-user mode behavior (which I agree,
> isn't necessarily broken) and get it to bring up the links by
> simply patching init(8) to call system("/sbin/ifconfig") before
> prompting for the single-user shell. It works, but I feel dirty.
I see no
Steve Kargl wrote:
> Let's face, ULE is not a silver bullet.
Or perhaps it is, but this particular problem is so heavily armored
as to demand depleted uranium :)
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DISPLAY is not getting set in a remote shell started by "ssh -X".
$ echo $DISPLAY
:0.0
$ ssh -X [server] 'echo DISPLAY=%$DISPLAY%'
DISPLAY=%%
How would I go about debugging this?
DISPLAY _is_ set correctly on the ssh client -- I am running in
an xterm there, and can successfully start an
Mark Felder wrote:
> This sounds silly, but what happens if you try ssh -Y
Exactly the same thing as with -X, in either direction.
It still fails with the 6.1 system as the ssh client,
and works with the 6.1 system as the ssh server
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Eitan Adler wrote:
> > It still fails with the 6.1 system as the ssh client,
> > and works with the 6.1 system as the ssh server
>
> Is X11Forwarding yes set in the server config of the failing
> direction?
Both seem to be defaulted.
On 6.1:
$ egrep -C 2 X11Forwarding /etc/ssh/sshd_config
ot installed on
the 8.1 system) on the ssh server -- although not on the ssh client.
After installing it:
$ ssh -Y fbsd81 'echo DISPLAY=%$DISPLAY%'
/usr/local/bin/xauth: creating new authority file /home/perryh/.Xauthority
DISPLAY=%localhost:10.0%
and -X also works :) so thi
Frank Shute wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:18:07AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> >
> > DISPLAY is not getting set in a remote shell started by "ssh -X".
...
> Have you tried putting:
>
> DISPLAY=:0.0
>
> in ~/.ssh/environment on the machine that's not setting DISPLAY
> properly?
Wou
Philipp wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've installed DOSBox 0.74 from Ports on FreeBSD 8.2 STABLE. After
> starting DOSBox I get some weird graphical errors on the screen:
> short horizontal lines appear for less than a second, scattered
> on the whole screen. About 5 to 20 seconds later the screen turns
>
Adding emulation@ in hopes someone there will have an idea.
emulation@ folks, please keep Philipp in the To: or Cc: since he may
not be subscribed to emulation@. The original question is here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-July/231716.html
Philipp wrote:
> On Wed, 1
Frank Shute wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 05:54:26PM +, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > ... For regular things, TeTeX is fine, but for bigger projects
> > one can't do without texlive. I encountered the same problems
> > with default tetex, but installed TeXLive from DVD and I no
> > longer h
Joshua Isom wrote:
> On 7/17/2011 6:16 PM, Mario Lobo wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 July 2011 10:13:13 C. Bergstr??m wrote:
> >> I hope gnome does [go Linux-only].. Maybe then more
> >> people would forget about it and focus on making KDE better ;)
...
> What about enlightenment?
For us old-timers :)
Outback Dingo wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Outback Dingo
> > wrote:
> >> ... Name one cloud provider providing FreeBSD 8x or 9X to run
> >> as instances. I know of one coming... question is are there
> >> others
> >
Robert Bonomi wrote:
All well and good for locating files of a certain format and/or
with particular content, but it doesn't address the question of
whether a specific copy is "legal", i.e. did the user who put it
there have the legal right to put it there?
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Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> We are pleased to announce a call for project proposals.
> We will accept proposals until February 15th. Please
> read Project Proposal Procedures to find out what
> needs to be included in your proposal.
> *end quote*
>
> Is this not what you want?
This seems to be a
Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:01:53 -0700
> > From: per...@pluto.rain.com
> > Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )
> >
> > Robert Bonomi wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > All well and good for locating files of a certain format and/or
> > with particular co
mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
> >>>>> "perryh" == perryh writes:
> perryh> xxx it doesn't address the question of whether a
> perryh> specific copy is "legal", i.e. did the user who
> perryh> put it there have the
Daniel Staal wrote:
> The perfect computing device would fit in a pocket, have a screen
> the size of your wall, have a full (and full-sized) keyboard, and
> your choice of pointing devices. It would be able to play any
> game you wanted to play, hold every movie and song ever recorded
> along w
Gary Kline wrote:
> I'm looking for a script that takes on arg and lets me vi/vim
> into the r esults. Let's say that I'm looking for the string
> 201107 in a slew of files. the script find it with grep---not
> grep -w, just grep. collect es the filenames and lines (grep -n)
> and saves the
Eduardo Morras wrote:
> If it's not connected at 1 gigabit or not full duplex you can
> force it with ifconfig. If there are too much errors check the
> cable.
Last I heard, this does _not_ work with gigabit unless you can
force-configure both ends of the link. The negotiation protocol is
such
Gary Gatten wrote:
> ... can a HAL be developed that runs on BSD that "emulates"
> Winblow$ such that any driver written for Winblow$ will "work"
> on *BSD?
> ...
> Something in the back of my head says there was / is something
> along this line already available or in the works, but I can't
> re
Lars Eighner wrote:
> I've come to the conclusion that I need sio to be able to use 8.x.
>
> Can it be as simple as just dropping the code from 7.x into the
> source for 8.x and adding a line to the kernel configuration?
>
> Or would this be fraught with all kinds of deep traps?
sio(4) was repla
Chad Perrin wrote:
> If Android actually exposed more of the Linux underpinnings
> it might be somewhat useful to me ...
There _is_ a development kit. I have no idea what-all is involved
in setting it up, but if someone were sufficiently motivated it
would presumably be possible to develop an a
Jerome Herman wrote:
> >> Jul 24 23:48:36 mydavid kernel: ad6: FAILURE - READ_DMA48
> >> status=51 error=40 LBA=1671887488
> >> Jul 24 23:48:36 mydavid kernel:
> >> g_vfs_done():stripe/backup[READ(offset=1712012836864,
> >> length=131072)]error = 5
> ... since they are ATA drives make sure you
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> On 07/25/11 16:03, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > I fixed a similar problem -- involving a VIA 6421 controller --
> > a while back, by using atacontrol(8) to reduce the DMA speed
> > from UDMA133 to UDMA100.
> ...
> I don't know if this is really effective with SATA...
Ryan Coleman wrote:
> A heads up about your footer: This email goes onto a mailing
> list that is available via an online archive... your "terms"
> are violated just by sending an email to this mailing list.
Not necessarily. It says [emphasis added]:
> > The contents of this eMail ... should n
"C. P. Ghost" wrote:
> ... when mplayer plays some (rare) video files.
>
> Xorg then stays at 100% CPU, and it is impossible to kill it,
> neither from the inside, nor from the outside (logged in via
> ssh) with SIGKILL. Only a reboot helps here.
An unkillable process is almost certainly hung in
Chad Perrin wrote:
> Do I get a cookie?
Only if you visit a web site that uses them,
and have them enabled in your browser :)
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Jon Theil Nielsen wrote:
> 2011/8/11 Michael
> > On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:51 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote:
> > > 2011/8/10 Jon Theil Nielsen
> > > ... my main goal is to be able to print over the network
> > > via my FreeBSD station ...
> > If you buy something like an Lexmark X543, you'll get all
Michael Sierchio wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Yuri wrote:
> > User john is a member of both webcamd and vboxusers:
> > # grep john /etc/group
> > webcamd:*:145:john
> > vboxusers:*:920:john
> >
> > When the file /tmp/my-test is owned by webcamd, user john can
> > touch it ok:
> > $ l
"Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote:
> Is there any way to enable gjournal on an already existing
> filesystem without destroying it?
Yes, provided the existing filesystem is not using the last block
of its provider (partition), but you'll have to put the journal on
a separate provider from the data. Se
Lars Eighner wrote:
> You might, for example, still have your copy of WP 5 -- I do.
> But printers that work with the printer drivers are now museum
> pieces ...
With the notable exception of PostScript printers. WP5 probably had
a driver for the Apple LaserWriter, and -- while actual LaserWrit
Dennis Glatting wrote:
> Does FreeBSD support this chipset?
>
> http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/assets/Company/Media-Center/Datasheets/Final-Killer-E2100-Datasheet.pdf
That has got to be the most pathetic excuse for a "Datasheet"
I have ever seen. (Any of the major suppliers would have called
it
Paul Beard wrote:
> After some more head scratching, it sounds like what I want is a
> bridge. Reading if_bridge(4), the first example looks a lot like
> what I am trying to do.
> ...
> Did I misread this? Does sending packets between two physical
> interfaces require a bridge?
It requires eith
Forwarding to ports@, which seems more likely to yield an answer to
this particular inquiry than questions@
Please keep the OP, who is probably not subscribed to ports@, in the
Cc: list.
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:52:12 +0100
Fr
Ross wrote:
> Aug 31 05:13:24 da kernel: ad6: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error
> (retrying request) LBA=107491647
That message is reporting a problem in communication between the
drive and the controller (or, perhaps, between the controller and
main memory), not a problem reading the media, so
Ross wrote:
> >> Aug 31 05:13:24 da kernel: ad6: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC
> >> error (retrying request) LBA=107491647
> > ...
> > What does
> >
> > ??egrep 'ad[0-9]|ata' /var/run/dmesg.boot
> >
> > report?
>
> atapci0: port
> 0x20b8-0x20bf,0x20cc-0x20cf,0x20b0-0x20b7,0x20c8-0x20cb,0x20a0-0x2
Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > Aug 31 05:13:24 da kernel: ad6: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC
> > error (retrying request) LBA=107491647
> > ... I looked at bsdlabel a it's partition f, /home. But what
> > is the file name?
>
> There's *no* easy way to find out. You'll have to grovel through
> all the
free...@top-consulting.net wrote:
> C. TEST3 ( sequential writing ): bonnie++ -d /data -c 10 -s 8088 -n 0 -u 0
>
> 1. UFS + gjournal crashed the box
This _might_ have been caused by a too-small journal provider.
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Dennis Glatting wrote:
> This is a proof-of-concept project ...
> I am doing it on the cheap ...
>
> I have committed to the project five machines. Three run over
> clocked Phenom II x6 processors with 16GB of RAM, 1TB disk for
> the OS, 1TB disk for Junk, and a 3-2TB disk RAIDz array ...
> These
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> '32/' is not any sort of syntax I've ever seen before to
> indicate hexadecimal.
I suspect it's a typo, intending '32.' My fingers are forever
mixing up slashes and periods, since the keys are adjacent
(on a US/English keyboard, dunno about other arrangements).
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Martin Schweizer wrote:
> I'v got a notebook (HP Elite 2560p) which can boot from an exteral
> eSATA drive. Can FreeBSD boot from there? Is it supported?
It seems as if it should work.
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Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> Why would you post about freebsd on opensolaris' list is beyond me.
Presumably because opensolaris is the ZFS upstream.
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Mike Tancsa wrote:
> if there are a lot of files, restore needs quite a bit of RAM.
It might need less to "extract" (restore -x) than to "restore"
(restore -r) -- but that only works if there's no need to load
an incremental afterwards.
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Polytropon wrote:
> Companies that develop printers want money.
> They need to continuously sell printers ...
This seems to be becoming less and less accurate.
It has long been the case that consumer-grade ink-blot printers are
sold below cost -- the money being made by selling ink cartridges.
Warren Block wrote:
> A better example would be a web browser or word processor. The
> program stops responding to further input until the printer has
> received the entire print job. This bothered people enough that
> they came up with lpd/lpr ...
Back when lpr/lpd were first written, it was
Michael Powell wrote:
> I have always suspected that unknowingly utilizing the already
> out-of-date tree from the initial install is probably what causes
> most newcomers' problems with ports.
My experience is exactly the opposite. The biggest problem I've
had with ports came from trying to fo
Jason Helfman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 08:11:57PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey thus spake:
> >Suggestion: use send-pr to submit a diff to add
> > SEE ALSO ports/sysutils/doinkd
> >to man login.conf
>
> I don't believe it is the correct place in a base man page for
> mentioning a port in the
Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> On 11/01/11 21:48, Al Plant wrote:
> > I havent recieve any FreeBSD questions Sunday Monday tuesday.
> > No nov reminder either. Is the service broken?
>
> Works like charm here. Did you try to subscribe again just to
> check your account was not accidentaly unsubscribe
Bill Tillman wrote:
> the protocol used by OpenVPN would not work whatsoever with
> Cisco equipment ...
That's what security/vpnc is for :)
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Robert Bonomi wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:59:23 -0800 (PST), C Horman wrote:
> > Pentium 4, with 400MB of RAM and 2G harddrive. There is no
> > other operating system on the computer. When I put the CD
> > in to boot I get the message Non System disk - disk error ...
>
> The _first_ thing t
Vincent Hoffman wrote:
> bsd sed (correctly according to SUS at least, I believe[1])
> appends a newline when writing to standard out, gnu sed doesnt.
The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to
choose from -- Tanenbaum
> is there any easy way to make our sed do the same a
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > My assumption still is: Not _every_ keyboard manufacturer does
> > code the layout into the USB identification. If you tell me I'm
> > wrong with this assumption, I'll be happy. :-)
>
> Folks are supposed to use a different product ID for different
> devices, so you can un
"C. P. Ghost" wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Allen wrote:
> > ...
> > Linux uses System V style Init. It's BASED on SunOS. Linus
> > Torvalds said that when he started working on Linux, his reason
> > for doing so, was that he wanted to run on HIS computer, the
> > same thing he had be
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> If you can rely on your user to follow instructions, then you
> can just tell them to 'ssh jailhost' immediately they login to
> the host ...
Might it work equally well, and avoid the dependency on following
instructions, to put
exec ssh jailhost
in this user's .login
Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
> > See the output of 'mount(8)' for the names of all the mounted
> > filesystems on your machine.
>
> $ mount | grep proc
> procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
>
> > *NOTE*WELL* that '/proc' is *not* a separate filesystem.
Errol Sayre wrote:
> Does anyone know of a webmail product that can provide access
> to local system accounts? Even if it's just a script that runs
> /usr/bin/mail on behalf of the user.
>
> I'd like a simple way to access local system emails without
> having to forward them to an actual mailbox
Mm Bsd wrote:
> Let's say I'd like to add a small amount of extra security to my
> SSH login process.
>
> Let's say I decide the way I want to do this is by requiring
> BOTH a password and an RSA key ... So to log in, I would be
> required to enter a normal unix password, but I would ALSO be
> r
Martin McCormick wrote:
> Rsync is a great utility, but is there a way to preserve
> ownership and permissions if rsync remotely logs in to a backup
> server as a normal user?
AFAIK, no, because only root may change the ownership of a file --
see chown(2).
> Any ideas are greatly ap
CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
> You cannot combine GPT with glabel (or any other geom class
> that writes data to the first or last 34 sectors of a disk,
> like gmirror) due to layout conflicts.
This is overstated. Since a GPT ordinarily is intended to be booted
from, and so must be recognized by the
Hugh wrote:
> A question i've got is where i can find the default PACKAGESITE value?
It seems to be hardcoded in usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/main.c
(line 318 in the 8.1 version).
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Dan Nelson wrote:
> dd with a bs= option tells dd to use read() syscalls with a 10mb
> size, but ssh is going to feed it data in much smaller chunks ...
> Try using a smaller blocksize (8k or 4k), or use a buffering
> program like ports/misc/team or misc/buffer just in front of your
> dd command,
"Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote:
> I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation
> webcams using Firefox on FreeBSD and so far it simply ain't workin'.
> ...
> http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist3/departments/traffic/cameras/
Works for me on 8.1-RELEASE with FF 3.5.10 and these packages:
OR
Chris Hill wrote:
> ... that's a still image, a screenshot. Above that is a link
> labeled "go to live camera" - when you click on that, do you
> see live motion video?
I don't even see that link.
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"Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote:
> At least this gives me confidence that it can be done. I am still
> somewhat at a loss to know exactly _how_ it can be done however.
For me, it "just works". I installed 8.1-RELEASE (not all that
long after it was released), installed FF and some other ports
(usi
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 7.2 is out of support now, see:
> http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html
>
> Inter-alia this means that there won't be packages available
> on the FTP servers specifically for that version ...
What, exactly, _is_ the policy on retention of the -release package
sets? 8.
CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
> On 12/14/2011 03:18 PM, Rob wrote:
> > Case in point. I have a system with 15 drives in it. I decided
> > I wanted to install on the 2nd device instead of the 1st, but
> > I partitioned all the other 14 drives. I completed installation
> > and when to boot the system a
mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
> > "Jeff" == Jeff Tipton writes:
> Jeff> It is the default behavior of sshd to reject root ...
> Jeff> Just access your server with
> Jeff> "ssh @,
> Jeff> and then issue "su" command to become root ...
>
> Or better yet, install sudo, which d
Polytropon wrote:
> # cd /var
> # dump -0 -L -a -u -f - /dev/ad0s1a | restore -r -f -
>
> Make sure /var does _not_ contain directory
> names identical to those found on the / partition!
> As I said, maybe use /scratch. :-)
Unless using a freshly newfs-ed partition, it will likely be
Forwarding to emulation@, which is where the linuxulator gurus hang
out (AFAIK). Please keep Da Rock in the Cc:
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:59:57 +1000
From: Da Rock
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: nss_ldap and the li
Al Plant wrote:
> I accessed the sshd from the new install screen as an option when
> I loaded it on the test box. I had to set up the lan manually to
> first get it up. Then you should be able to use ssh.
I take it you either arranged for ssh to accept a direct root login,
or added a non-root u
Bill Tillman wrote:
> ... no matter which computer I chose, and no matter how I setup
> the Slave/Master drive, as long as this drive which I had
> installed FreeBSD-9.0-amd64 was in the loop, the computer would
> lockup at the bios screen. I could not get anything to boot if
> this drive was in
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> For a nice backup system that works using rsync and that preserves
> filesystem history in a space efficient way by cunning use of hard
> links, take a look at rsnapshot -- http://rsnapshot.org/
Also in ports: sysutils/rsnapshot
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