Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-14 Thread Bruce Cran
data and metadata into a consistent state. This mode is the slowest except when data needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time where it outperforms all other modes. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-14 Thread Bruce Cran
on a development system the only ways to improve the situation would be to mount with the 'sync' option, disable write caching on the disk or to switch to a different filesystem like ZFS. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread Bruce Cran
. All that the present system does is act as an enabler for Spam merchants and Trolls. Yes, seriously. Have you seen the number of people who post messages PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST!!, apparently not understanding how to manage their subscription? -- Bruce Cran

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-16 Thread Bruce Cran
posting to it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Bruce Cran
assignment agreements so all the code is under a single owner. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: SSH on FreeBSD

2013-01-15 Thread Bruce Cran
. You can change that by editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: SSH on FreeBSD

2013-01-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On 15/01/2013 12:51, Matthias Apitz wrote: Why it is more secure via inetd.conf? You can centralise access control via TCP Wrappers - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/tcpwrappers.html . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Boot of 9.1 under qemu-kvm 1.3 hangs at pci probing

2012-12-16 Thread Bruce Cran
=0, slot=2, func=0 class=03-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0 cmdreg=0x0103, statreg=0x, cachelnsz=0 (dwords) lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0ns), maxlat=0x00 (0ns) [hang] Has anyone come across this before and know of any workarounds? -- Bruce Cran

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Bruce Cran
expecting (e. g. will you want to save kernel dumps to the swap partition?). You probably want to stop following that rule some time before you get to 8 TB RAM (http://semiaccurate.com/2010/09/29/inphi-imbs-can-stuff-8tb-ram-system/) :) -- Bruce Cran

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Bruce Cran
, including Goscomb. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-17 Thread Bruce Cran
On 18/11/2012 05:21, Robert Simmons wrote: Yup: https://github.com/freebsd/ There's also git.freebsd.org. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-10-25 Thread Bruce Cran
is trivial on ia64. Perhaps what you are describing is not about the EFI specification iteself, but what different manufacturers add on top of it? It's in the latest UEFI spec - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Secure_boot . -- Bruce Cran

Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-10-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:40, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: So this means I might not be able to boot freebsd at all on future ia64 boxes.. Ignore the FUD - there will be an option to disable it in the firmware/BIOS settings. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Is there anything like strace for 64-bit Systems?

2012-09-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On 08/09/2012 18:14, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there anything like strace for AMD64 FreeBSD? See truss(1) - trace system calls. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: doc

2012-08-18 Thread Bruce Cran
, but you'll need 2 steps - the first time you run extract you'll get a tar file. Then run extract on *that* file to get the documentation. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: fsck recoveries, configuration

2012-08-18 Thread Bruce Cran
functionality during boot time or in the case of major system failure. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On 09/08/2012 16:09, Matthias Gamsjager wrote: Beside in production one should run with ECC memory to eliminate the possibility of incorrect data from memory ECC doesn't detect all memory errors. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-22 Thread Bruce Cran
forgot the say that in this example Windows is booted from \\.\PhysicalDrive1 :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-19 Thread Bruce Cran
(https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase) may clear all that data too, but without any guarantees it's better to destroy the disk than risk leaving classified data on it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On 15/07/2012 09:56, Wojciech Puchar wrote: but, in spite of some fanatics here my get worried, i do recommend use windoze scandisk. I'd forgotten about scandisk - for modern Windows (XP and newer) you'll want to use chkdsk ( e.g. 'chkdsk /F C:' ). -- Bruce Cran

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On 15/07/2012 19:43, Wojciech Puchar wrote: both do the same 'scandisk' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On 08/07/2012 13:10, Warren Block wrote: bsdinstall(8) has a curses partition editor. There is probably a trick needed to use that outside of an install context. Just run bsdinstall partedit. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Bruce Cran
'. A partition table supports up to 4096 entries (gpart creates one supporting 128 by default) so there's no need for the freebsd container any more - you just create freebsd-boot, freebsd-ufs, freebsd-zfs, freebsd-swap entries e.g. 'gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 64g da0'. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Bruce Cran
would be more ready for there to be data on the disk without a partition table. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On 09/07/2012 13:29, Wojciech Puchar wrote: only your fault, not FreeBSD. Why you connected your data disk at first place. I didn't say it was FreeBSD's fault. If I thought it was, I would have fixed it! -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions

Re: YASSDQ

2012-07-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On 09/07/2012 11:31, Wojciech Puchar wrote: All use 4K as it is NTFS default block size and most are sold to be used with windoze. Apparently the Intel 320 SSDs use an 8KB page/block size. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Using smartctl to detect scan errors (like google tells me to do ...)

2012-07-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On 09/07/2012 16:12, Jason Usher wrote: What is a scan error, and which metric should I tell smartctl to check ? I think they mean a SMART scan, as in a self-test - http://www.twopenguins.it/2011/12/test-an-hard-disk-with-smartctl/ has details of how to run it. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Cran
most likely more efficient to just use the GUI. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On 08/07/2012 16:06, Ian Smith wrote: In general they're not distinct in usage from any other type of disk. The more expensive disks of course support TRIM so you'd want to pass -t to newfs to enable it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On 08/07/2012 21:51, Wojciech Puchar wrote: can you give me an example of pendrive that supports TRIM? LaCie FastKey (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/usb-3.0-thumb-drive-flash-drive,review-32174-5.html). -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions

Re: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On 07/07/2012 23:04, Thomas Mueller wrote: I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, replacing the older gpt still used in NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD. No. gpart is the tool - it supports both mbr and gpt partitioning schemes. -- Bruce Cran

Re: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On 07/07/2012 23:08, Bruce Cran wrote: On 07/07/2012 23:04, Thomas Mueller wrote: I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, replacing the older gpt still used in NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD. No. gpart is the tool - it supports both mbr and gpt partitioning schemes

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-10 Thread Bruce Cran
of AMD machines in major stores and they come with Windows too. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Configuration problem with IPv6 router (cannot forward src)

2012-06-08 Thread Bruce Cran
sure the problem is on the router. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Configuration problem with IPv6 router (cannot forward src)

2012-06-08 Thread Bruce Cran
... line fixed it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Configuration problem with IPv6 router (cannot forward src)

2012-06-07 Thread Bruce Cran
on the router (strangely, despite hisaddr being fe80::205:... in ppp.log, the kernel logs the address as fe80:f::205:...). Is there some extra configuration I've likely missed that's needed when using IPv6 via PPP? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Cran
project, the logical consequence is that FreeBSD source should come with a signing key for anyone to use. It just means that anyone wishing to run their own kernels would either need to disable secure boot, or purchase/create their own certificate and install it. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Cran
that it's Verisign (actually Symantec, since they bought Verisign) that you deal with. Whereas Globalsign accept applications from individuals, Verisign require company documents before they'll generate a certificate. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On 06/06/2012 11:38, Bruce Cran wrote: It's not the $99 that'll be the problem, but the fact that it's Verisign (actually Symantec, since they bought Verisign) that you deal with. Whereas Globalsign accept applications from individuals, Verisign require company documents before they'll

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Cran
for a lawsuit. To me it would be perfectly reasonable to revoke the key as soon as you signed the first piece of malware. And then anyone who has used the service is left with broken binaries, so the model fails. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Bruce Cran
, but UEFI. I think secure boot actually makes sense, but preventing users disabling it or installing their own keys on ARM platforms is totally wrong. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Bruce Cran
secure boot will be enabled by default and users won't have any option of disabling it or adding their own keys. On x86 secure boot will be enabled by default too, but with the option of disabling it or adding custom keys. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd

9.0 and bsdinstall - avoiding updating the MBR

2011-11-20 Thread Bruce Cran
? I don't seem to remember seeing any option to avoid writing out the new boot code. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf

2011-11-06 Thread Bruce Cran
contents. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Cran
on? I suspect that these sorts of attacks are fairly normal if you're running ssh on the standard port. I used to have lots of 'break-in attempts' before I moved the ssh server to a different port. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On 22 Oct 2011, at 15:12, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:08:50 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: I suspect that these sorts of attacks are fairly normal if you're running ssh on the standard port. I used to have lots of 'break-in attempts' before I moved the ssh server to a different port

Re: Turn off hyperthreading on dual core Atom?

2011-08-29 Thread Bruce Cran
of such CPUs. I don't know what it does with the information, but it probably works to optimize cache usage etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On 05/08/2011 20:12, Christian Barthel wrote: Are there any other window manager worth looking? What is your window manager? When I'm not running KDE I like using Window Maker. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-23 Thread Bruce Cran
. %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc contains several BSD configuration files for DNS settings, protocols etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
, since you have a different ABI between different builds of the same kernel. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
, for example. However, they do seem rather good at supporting older technologies such as TDI, and I suspect those drivers that fail aren't very well written. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
/sudo which it uses whenever it needs to elevate to root. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: ghghg

2011-07-15 Thread Bruce Cran
: not available The last email in the freebsd-test archives is from May 2010, so I think it's broken - which is rather unfortunate. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: {SPAM} New games for you

2011-06-19 Thread Bruce Cran
it before it marked it as OK. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: finding kernel 'r' number

2011-06-16 Thread Bruce Cran
not sure you can: the revision only shows up if you have svn installed (devel/subversion-freebsd) and have built the kernel from code checked out from the svn server. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

2011-05-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 03 May 2011 20:48:55 -0400 Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: Basically, as far as I can tell, 9 and/or 8.3 will come out when they come out. No sooner and no later. I think the plan for 9.0 is some time this summer. -- Bruce Cran

Re: disk problem: suggestion on how to handle...

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Cran
of the disk? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: gpart questions

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Cran
Or, if you want to specify a size, you can use -s 512m -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Cran
once for each byte, so realloc() and reallocf() calls do not zero memory that was previously allocated. This is intended for debugging and will impact performance negatively. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-23 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:52:44 -0700 Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: Looks like `--hline' is not supported anymore. Thinking this should either be patched or documented in ERRATA/UPGRADING. I think you mean UPDATING :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:41:46 + Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT amd64 A new version of dialog was imported a few days ago - maybe something broke? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Bruce Cran
know about anyone else, but personally I like getting replies CC'd to me because they end up in my INBOX - otherwise I often don't notice someone's replied since there are so many new messages to the mailing list each day. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd

Re: 8-CURRENT: where is my memory?

2011-04-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thursday 07 Apr 2011 11:58:50 Matthias Apitz wrote: VMware memory control driver initialized Could this have removed a block of memory for its own use outside of the normal VM subsystem? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: GEOM warning in dmesg

2011-04-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wednesday 06 Apr 2011 17:58:21 Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: i'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense at all. could you explain a solution more clearly please? There's no problem. Maybe MS-DOS or Windows 95 would have problems with such a layout, but modern operating systems don't. -- Bruce

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-04 Thread Bruce Cran
and it doesn't appear to have been fixed yet. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-04-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:53:59 +0200 Ross Cameron ross.came...@unix.net wrote: works just fine here (im in south africa) so maybe a routing issue ??? It seems to have been fixed in the time between the original message and your reply :) -- Bruce Cran

Re: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-04-04 Thread Bruce Cran
. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: console based sound control

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On 03/04/2011 14:59, Alokat wrote: I'm looking for a sound control tool (like alsamixer) but for oss. Does someone know one? Have you tried mixer(8)? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mixerapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASEformat=html -- Bruce Cran

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On 02/04/2011 21:54, David Chanters wrote: You could have just sent yourself an email. But yes, here you are. I was going to suggest Gary should have used the freebsd-test mailing list but then I realised it's been broken since May last year. -- Bruce Cran

Re: searching for a good IDE

2011-03-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:41:28 +0200 Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: I'm searching for a good IDE for my development stuff - c, c++, python, rails, php Can someone advise one? And I don't wanna use eclipse. :-) KDevelop (http://www.kdevelop.org/) 4 is quite good. -- Bruce Cran

Re: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-03-25 Thread Bruce Cran
:0:1 -- 2001:2f0:104:e001::34 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=0 hlim=48 time=269.213 ms 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=1 hlim=48 time=268.705 ms 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=2 -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd

Re: spam?

2011-03-13 Thread Bruce Cran
details. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Quick question about sound drivers (esp. snd_hda)

2011-03-12 Thread Bruce Cran
be created automatically when something tries to access it (e.g. cat /dev/random /dev/dsp). -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Is it safe to run tcpdump?

2011-03-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 11:47:19 -0700 Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: What do you mean by 'safe'? As in secure? http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:06.tcpdump.asc -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread Bruce Cran
in a couple of seconds - but that was without any network card, USB support etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: portmaster -afv -no-confirm --clean-distfiles-all command - too much automation???

2011-03-02 Thread Bruce Cran
the man page for details. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread Bruce Cran
) driver which sends a spindown command when it expires. You'll need to keep using ataidle to fix the APM value. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:47 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: I'm wondering why you would prefere atacontrol? I think everyone's been looking for an official solution. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: using gpart(8) to slice a disk

2011-02-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:52:44 +0100 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I've read the man page of gpart(8) but do not see clearly what I did wrong with the above sequence and esp. what would have set the missing boot flag? gpart set -a active -i 1 ad4 -- Bruce Cran

Re: android

2011-02-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:45:47 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:39 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: You can check the partitioning of the da4 device with # fdisk da4 gpart show da4 is the modern way of doing

Re: delay in boot: ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0

2011-02-15 Thread Bruce Cran
wrapper. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: android

2011-02-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:39 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: You can check the partitioning of the da4 device with # fdisk da4 gpart show da4 is the modern way of doing this. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Bruce Cran
in its infancy. There is no way it can be compared to a full blown MS Office 10 suite. For some, Office is unusable due to the new Ribbon interface and libreoffice is the usable office suite due to its familiar menus. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Bruce Cran
the mouse outside the menu and it disappears. The Ribbon solves this problem. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Bruce Cran
window to load the Group Policy Editor and navigate to the settings. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:56:42 +0100 Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: The list strips non-text attachments so there isn't much to see at the moment though... It wasn't supposed to be attached - try http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt :) -- Bruce Cran

Re: Bad hard driver [SOLVED]

2011-02-10 Thread Bruce Cran
is 3 of that mystery good? Look at the first 3 results from http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Multi+Zone+Error+Rate -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-08 Thread Bruce Cran
://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:18:21 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: tmpfs is nominally experimental, but it seems to be very stable, and it's much more memory efficient than md devices. But it doesn't work well with ZFS. -- Bruce Cran

Re: putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:09:05 -0500 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: I had not heard about that. What problems does its use exhibit when used in conjunction with ZFS? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-January/060867.html -- Bruce Cran

Re: putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Cran
getting one chance to make a good first impression would seem to be apropos to the situation. From what I can ascertain and having actually used it, ZFS has great support on FreeBSD. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: documentation OF FreeBSD

2011-01-18 Thread Bruce Cran
... You mean something like http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mail-agents.html ? :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: harddrive encryption

2011-01-18 Thread Bruce Cran
plain UFS but PCBSD's (pc-sysinstall) supports encryption, ZFS etc. - and it can do a plain FreeBSD installation as well as PCBSD. You can get it from http://www.pcbsd.org . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem

2011-01-16 Thread Bruce Cran
. These have a short default timeout after which they park the heads. I think you'd need to run the wdidle3.exe application to disable the internal timer, but it may just be a default APM setting that can be changed from within FreeBSD using sysutils/ataidle and the -P switch. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Resume from suspend

2011-01-13 Thread Bruce Cran
pressing the power button? (or opening the lid) Suspend/resume generally doesn't work - apparently there's lots of work that needs done before it'll be reliable. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: error while compile port

2011-01-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:43:22 +0200 Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: cd /usr/ports/any/port make -j 16 install Don't do that then :) Ports which are marked MAKE_JOBS_SAFE will automatically be built using -j as far as I know. -- Bruce Cran

Re: error while compile port

2011-01-08 Thread Bruce Cran
the ports system itself. So MAKE_JOBS_SAFE applies to the code, make -j 16 applies to the ports infrastructure - both of which could be using BSD make :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
. I've not fixed anything related to that. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
(e.g. glabel, gsched) that libdisk doesn't know about - so it gets confused. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:13:08 +0300 Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: So, how do I fix/manoeuvre around that problem? Unfortunately you'd need to use a different tool to partition/label the disk, such as gpart. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd

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