Re: had sound working, updated machine now lost sound

2013-08-26 Thread Carl Johnson
-> 0 > > Got the sound working like it was. > How do I get it to stick across reboots? > > Which would be the preferred way? Since you can set it with sysctl then sysctl.conf is the logical place, although loader.conf might also work. I use sysctl.conf so I know that wo

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Carl Johnson
e this does not work. Unless I hack the Makefile and force it to > enable gui mode it just isn't compiled in. Try running 'make show-options' and see what you get. Mine shows that virtually everything is disabled. If I run 'make showconfig' then it shows n

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-02 Thread Carl Johnson
4.2BSD0 0 0 t:2097055 398458884.2BSD0 0 0 I also tried newfs on all the ufs partitions without problems. I just tried this on a FreeBSD 8.2 system and it works there as well. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org _

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Carl Johnson
l will handle these, so you definitely should experiment first. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ 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: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-03 Thread Carl Johnson
non-OS components. You can use > it as a basis to build a program that will send you system messages > in an audible way in morse code... :-) Have you looked at the morse man page lately, specifically the -p option? :-) Just try 'morse -p sos' to test it. -- Carl Johnsonca..

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Carl Johnson
Warren Block writes: > On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk, >> but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use >> partitions on a disk that any other partitions

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Carl Johnson
ing that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk, but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use partitions on a disk that any other partitions are being used by anything else, including FreeBSD itself. Am I wrong about this? I use VirtualBox using vdmk f

Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Carl Johnson
Paul Macdonald writes: > On 01/02/2013 22:50, Carl Johnson wrote: >> Gökşin Akdeniz writes: >> >>> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:51:41 -0800 tarihinde >>> Carl Johnson yazmış: >>>> Does anybody have any suggestions on what might have happened and what >&g

Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > Kevin Kinsey writes: > >> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 11:51:41AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: >>> I ran freebsd-update to update my 8.1-RELEASE system to 8.3-RELEASE >>> (freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade). It downloaded a bunch of &g

Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Carl Johnson
Gökşin Akdeniz writes: > Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:51:41 -0800 tarihinde > Carl Johnson yazmış: >> >> Does anybody have any suggestions on what might have happened and what >> can be done? >> > > Hello Carl, > > What does "# uname -a" or "

Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Carl Johnson
Kevin Kinsey writes: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 11:51:41AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: >> I ran freebsd-update to update my 8.1-RELEASE system to 8.3-RELEASE >> (freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade). It downloaded a bunch of >> files, asked me to edit some configuration

freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Carl Johnson
ded. Does anybody have any suggestions on what might have happened and what can be done? -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-26 Thread Carl Johnson
ps://github.com/gerard/ext4fuse/ I haven't tried it so I don't know how well it works. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Walter Hurry writes: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:07:59 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> There is a package called 'linuxfdisk' that is just a FreeBSD >> implementation of the linux fdisk and will show you what the FreeBSD >> partitions/slices are. You can also u

Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-25 Thread Carl Johnson
ions, and the command 'gpart list ada0s4' should show the logical partitions inside of the extended partition. You can also use 'file -s' and possibly do read-only mounts to see exactly what they contain. The names will probably map out like linux, but the 'sda

Re: How to see all labels?

2013-01-24 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > I recently installed 9.1 on a system and labels don't seem to work as > I would expect. I can get them to work in /etc/fstab, but only the > ones referenced there show up in /dev/ufs and /dev/gpt. I have seen > this in previous versions, and in those cas

Re: ext3 file system

2013-01-20 Thread Carl Johnson
age. My experience is that labels in /etc/fstab work fine, but they may or may not be visible in /dev or with glabel if they are not in fstab. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ 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: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-10 Thread Carl Johnson
ay I'd say I prefer links for interactive text mode >> browsing. Still "lynx -dump" is a welcome tool in some >> of my scripts, and never change a running system. :-) >> > > Ok, the reason I ask is actually because I have this insane (?) idea of > shoving > one of the aforementioned solutions onto the installation media so that (gasp) > we can have that functionality back like we had in the days of sysinstall. > > So naturally, my first question is "which one?" > > Thoughts? I just looked at the DVD install disk and it has firefox, links1, links, and w3m. That should take care of most needs, but I don't know about the CD disks. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ 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"

How to see all labels?

2013-01-10 Thread Carl Johnson
idn't show any of them. Does anybody have any ideas about how to get the system to recognize all labels? A command after boot would be acceptable since I could just put it in /etc/rc.local. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd

Re: somewhat OT ... in parts

2013-01-05 Thread Carl Johnson
vi in FreeBSD is already nvi. The name nvi is a link to vi in /usr/bin and the source includes nvi at /usr/src/contrib/nvi/. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-28 Thread Carl Johnson
e FreeBSD, sda3 (oak) chainloader root(hd1,2) chainloader +1 boot title FreeBSD, sda3 (oak) /boot/loader root(hd1,2,a) kernel /boot/loader boot -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-q

Re: ata controller problem

2012-10-27 Thread Carl Johnson
1 1 /dev/label/OakSwap none swapsw 0 0 I think any of the other label schemes will also work. If you don't remember which label is which device id, then 'glabel status' will show that, but you shouldn't need to. -- C

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-24 Thread Carl Johnson
lei yang writes: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Carl Johnson wrote: >> lei yang writes: >> >>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Polytropon wrote: >>>> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:41:57 +0800, lei yang wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>>

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-23 Thread Carl Johnson
bsd: TCP/IP swiss army knife netcat-traditional: TCP/IP swiss army knife netcat6: TCP/IP swiss army knife with IPv6 support -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Carl Johnson
Fbsd8 writes: > dmesg command does not show date of last boot. > > Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? In addition to the other responses: sysctl kern.boottime -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-

Re: libc regex word-boundary support fallen-off?

2012-03-08 Thread Carl Johnson
> I switched from i386 to amd64 last year so it might be something to do > with that. I'm currently using 8.2p6. The only way I have found to do it is [[:<:]] and [[:>:]]. That is very awkward, so I't love to hear of a shorter way. I found them in the re_format(7) manpage. --

Re: VBox network boot

2012-02-29 Thread Carl Johnson
Warren Block writes: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> Warren Block writes: >> >>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: >>> >>>> I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, >>>> bloated, and ful

Re: VBox network boot

2012-02-28 Thread Carl Johnson
n noticed your page and tried the PCnet-PCI II card and it started working. I would guess that means their Intel card emulation is incomplete. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-18 Thread Carl Johnson
t happens, and I have been running unix and linux for about 20 years. I have always had multiple partitions in the past, but for 9.0 I went with the single partition. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ 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 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-26 Thread Carl Johnson
g >>kldload umodem >> > > Done, although kldload u3g tells me that file already exists! Perhaps > because I booted up with my Huawei dongle plugged in. > kldstat | grep u3g shows me nothing though. The command 'kldstat -v' shows tha

Re: kgzip(8) regression in RELENG_9 GENERIC

2012-01-23 Thread Carl Johnson
edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > push900# which kgzip > /usr/sbin/kgzip On my system: $ uname -a FreeBSD birch.localnet 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 $ whereis kgzip kgzip: /usr/src/u

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread Carl Johnson
;kenv' command seems to have the board name available as 'smbios.system.product'. The 'kenv' command without arguments will show all values, so you can make sure that is the proper variable. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ 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: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Carl Johnson
mmands "with root >> privileges". >> > > "sudo su -" or "sudo sh" and the customer gets a native root shell which > does *not* log commands ! The sudoers manpage mention the noexec option which is designed to help with the first problem. They a

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-25 Thread Carl Johnson
such a hassle I can't help directly with your problem, but both portupgrade and portmaster support packages. In both cases you can just supply the -P or -PP options to specify how to handle packages. I think they both require that the ports tree be present for the /usr/ports/INDEX file, but othe

Re: sudo log messages

2011-12-04 Thread Carl Johnson
authpriv The sample file that was mentioned earlier is one source for information, but the best source is the sudoers(5) man page. Just search it for syslog and you will find several settings. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found

2011-11-23 Thread Carl Johnson
of that somewhere, so I grep'ed the man pages. I found hints on geom(4) and boot0cfg(8), but they certainly aren't obvious. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Carl Johnson
x... It's all explained in > crontab(5). Just be aware that 'Run once, at startup', means when 'cron' starts, not just when the system boots, unless they have changed it recently. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org _

Re: How to get /dev/smb* ?

2011-11-02 Thread Carl Johnson
C dev.cpu.1.temperature: 29.2C for your system? I have an AMD cpu and the amdtemp kernel module provides that information. I am not familiar with the Intel cpus, but the coretemp module is supposed to provide the same information for them. I use gkrellm for various thing,

Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Carl Johnson
tem requires that you already have the 'ufs2_stage1_5' file in your grub directory. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ 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: nice man pages?

2011-10-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > Patrick Lamaiziere writes: > >> Hello, >> >> I use sysutils/most to have nice manual pages in color, that's cool but >> is there a way to do this with the base system (ie without adding port)? > > I use a colorized termcap with les

Re: nice man pages?

2011-10-26 Thread Carl Johnson
hat might have been just because I hadn't been using enough colors. I put it in but there is no change for my applications. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: nice man pages?

2011-10-25 Thread Carl Johnson
't tried 9.0, but this works on 8.1-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE. You can decide for yourself if that does what you want. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working

2011-10-23 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > "Ronald F. Guilmette" writes: > >> I've been bringing up a new amd64 box with 8.2-RELEASE. So far I've managed >> to get everything installed OK, including a boatload of freshly-built ports. >> I've even gotten flash10 wo

Re: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working

2011-10-21 Thread Carl Johnson
aying from audio. My system uses a Gigabyte GA-MA785GPM-US2H, and the sndstat output is: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: (play) pcm1: (play/rec) default pcm2: (play/rec) pcm3: (play/rec) Let me know if you want further information. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ 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, Virtual OSs and GUI

2011-10-12 Thread Carl Johnson
f the OP is going to run a 64-bit OS, then hardware vitualization assist is *required* for VirtualBox to handle it. It is not required when VirtualBox is running a 32-bit OS. Just another minor detail to consider. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___

Re: Timeline for 9.0-RELEASE?

2011-10-05 Thread Carl Johnson
partially updated. That will at least give you some idea about the schedule. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

Re: snd_hda: how to configure line-in passthrough to line-out?

2011-10-05 Thread Carl Johnson
x27; and 'mix' settings in mixer(8). I also must have the 'igain' set to something above 0, but the volume isn't directly controlled by it. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: cpio command and schg flags

2011-09-05 Thread Carl Johnson
Flags are explicitely mentioned here. Maybe you can give > this program a try? I think that tar will also work (but not gnu tar), and it is part of the base system. The manpage does show an example of how to do this, but calls it moving the file heirarchy. -- Carl Johnson

Re: Help Finding ZFS snapshots

2011-09-05 Thread Carl Johnson
see 'em with > "zfs list -t snapshot". The .zfs directory is hidden by default so you have to specifically ls or go into them. Do a 'ls' on the base directory of any zfs file system, and then add .zfs to the end and you should see the .snapshots directory. -- C

Re: Is there way to get filename for specific LBA?

2011-08-31 Thread Carl Johnson
eport which inode was using a > particular block. It looks like the best bet would be fsdb, assuming that it is a UFS file system. That does have a 'findblk' command to find a file containing a block, but you would need to calculate the

RE: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Carl G Smith
ons but in a friendly way not like you did. 10) Have a nice day and enjoy your OS of choice be it whatever it is. Regards, Antonio Happy FreeBSD user. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: new to os

2011-08-19 Thread Carl Johnson
ect-Linux-FAQ/downloadwp8.html. Most of the links are dead or changed, but a couple of them do have files to download. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ 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: mountroot

2011-06-29 Thread Carl Chave
2011/6/29 Warren Block > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > Op 29-6-2011 21:19, Trond Endrestøl schreef: >> >>> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:18+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >>> >>> Op 29-6-2011 21:15, Trond Endrestøl schreef: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wro

Squeezebox Server 7.6 failed to load: YAML::Syck

2011-06-12 Thread Carl Chave
install gives me: YAML::Syck is up to date (1.17) I'm not really sure what else to check. Can someone point me in the right direction? Carl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

FTP server at freebsd.isc.org is broken

2011-06-01 Thread Carl
.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/gd-2.0.35.tar.bz2: Syntax error, command unrecognized => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles// and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gd. What is the recommende

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-24 Thread Carl
On 2011-04-22 4:13 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 04/22/2011 10:33 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote: This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory and will use the specified make file with name your_own_make_file_name . make -f

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-22 Thread Carl
make file. If I'm correct, that doesn't seem to me to be a good idea from a maintenance perspective. I was hoping for something like the -f option that somehow inserted rather than replaced. Carl / K0802647 __

building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-21 Thread Carl
solution? Given that I do not want to customize the port's Makefile, I was hoping 'make' would support a command line option that would let me simply point to a separate file containing the list of variables to add, one per line. It'

Re: glabel causes "GEOM: ada1: media size does not match label" messages

2011-03-20 Thread Carl Johnson
el: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard > system utilities > partition h: partition extends past end of unit > > I don't care about partition 'h'; it is there only to stop the > preceding partition from covering the last sector. Are there any real &

Re: Purchased Binaries

2011-03-06 Thread Carl Johnson
sion if > required to make this stuff run. One addition to the points that others have made is that the Linux compatibility layer appears to be 32 bits only, even for 64 bit versions of FreeBSD. At least that is true for Release 8.1. If the software is 64 bit linux, then it won't

Re: ROOT on ZFS with MBR partitions

2011-02-26 Thread Carl Chave
How long are you waiting? What are you booting from? On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Slawomir Wojtczak wrote: > > Anything interesting happening during your install? > > I would say no, everything seems smooth until I try to boot it. > > ___ > freebs

Re: Redux

2011-02-14 Thread Carl Johnson
r fstab entry for that was: > > /dev/ad1s1 /c ntfsrw 1 0 > > But now with labels active I really don't know how to proceed. You can tell what the current labels are with the command 'glabel status', or 'glabel list

Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-13 Thread Carl Johnson
quivalent of the binary packages for the entire FreeBSD ports tree. You don't need them if you install over the net. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: Bridge Interface Members

2011-01-31 Thread Carl Chave
t; ipv4_addrs_bridge0="10.0.1.2/24" > Doh! Of course, thanks. Rookie mistake. Carl ___ 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"

Bridge Interface Members

2011-01-30 Thread Carl Chave
Trying to configure a bridge interface with two member interfaces, fxp0 and re0. Configuring the interface from scratch manually works fine but when I add config entries to rc.conf the two member interfaces aren't added at boot. Bridge0 is created it just doesn't have any members. From the seria

Re: troubles rebuilding extensions.ini

2011-01-22 Thread Carl Johnson
t have any non-ASCII characters, or at least not properly displayable ones. That probably means that you have the wrong locale set for whatever your display is. If you just want to see only ASCII, then try 'LANG=C man ports'. If that doesn't work then try setting LC_ALL=C instead of LAN

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread Carl Johnson
nk that is default, so somebody had to have manually set the flag on those files. Whoever did that should have noted that, or didn't understand what the operation meant. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-14 Thread Carl Johnson
Chip Camden writes: > Quoth Carl Chave on Friday, 14 January 2011: >> > I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories >> > >> > stat -f "%SB %N" /* >> >> Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the >&g

Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Johnson
but others not. The newsyslog.conf(5) manpage mentions a 'C' flag that can be specified. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Chave
> I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories > > stat -f "%SB %N" /* Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the remaining top level directories sodserve# stat -f "%SB %N" /* Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /COPYRIGHT Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /bin Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /boot

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Johnson
Chip Camden writes: > Quoth Carl Johnson on Thursday, 13 January 2011: >> Polytropon writes: >> >> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:50:27 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> >> On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote: >> >> > This is nearly alw

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Johnson
t/defaults/loader.conf > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 19426 Aug 24 2008 /boot/defaults/loader.conf > > No, forget about that, also nonsense, looks to new... How about /var/empty: % ls -ldo /var/empty/ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel schg 512 Jul 18 19:16 /var/empty/ It can be changed, but doesn&#x

Re: ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives

2011-01-10 Thread Carl Chave
> echo -en "\n\nNow run these two commands to make the changes live, and > reboot >  zfs set mountpoint=legacy $zpool/be/$nroot >  zpool set bootfs=$zpool/be/$nroot $zpool\n\n" Thanks for the input krad. It would be nice to easily switch back and forth but aren't you still stuck if everything bl

ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives

2011-01-09 Thread Carl Chave
Posting the below for input. The bulk of this is from a guide that Morgan Wesström posted to this list. Some of it is taken from the root on ZFS wiki entries on freebsd.org. Some from a pjd post here: http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pjd/2010/08/06/from-sysinstall-to-zfs-only-configuration/ And then

Re: cpio misunderstanding?

2010-12-26 Thread Carl Johnson
e testing for flag support out of curiosity, and found that only cp -p, bsdtar and dump support them. Cpio, afio, gnutar, gnucp and pax do not support them. I also tested extended attributes (used for ACLs?), and only bsdtar and dump worked for them. Those results were for usf, and generally did

Re: GPT/ZFS/USB mountroot prompt

2010-11-30 Thread Carl Chave
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Carl Chave wrote: > I followed a gpt/zfs on USB stick guide for putting a base 8.1-RELEASE > amd64 onto a 4GB sandisk USB memory stick.  All went fairly well and > the system will boot but fails to mount the root file system and dumps > me a the mount

GPT/ZFS/USB mountroot prompt

2010-11-30 Thread Carl Chave
tem finishes booting. In /boot/loader.conf I've got: zfs_load="YES" vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zrootusb" zrootusb mountpoint is set to legacy and /etc/fstab exists but is empty, per the guide. Any ideas? Thanks, Carl ___ freebsd-q

Bridging Gigabit and Fast Ethernet Interfaces

2010-11-28 Thread Carl Chave
or doing backups but also still have internet access via the server's bridge interface right? Is there a reason I wouldn't want to do it this way? Thanks, Carl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread Carl Johnson
advice on the net with so far isn't working to start >> it: >> echo "startkde" > ~/.xinitrc >> I have attempted startx but the system doesn't know about it. >> may I have a suggestion to proceed? Do you have

Re: No Sound FBSD 8.1

2010-10-09 Thread Carl Johnson
efault_unit=1) controls the back panel jacks, and /dev/mixer2 controls the front panel headphone jack. You will probably have to just experiment with the different mixer controls to see which controls which on your system. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___

Re: extra open ports in rkhunter

2010-09-20 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > I am running rkhunter and it keeps reporting a port inconsistency > between sockstat and netstat -a. Netstat shows an extra 5 ports open, > but netstat doesn't show what is holding ports open, so I don't know > what they are. Does anybody know ho

Re: extra open ports in rkhunter

2010-09-19 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > Anonymous writes: >> Do you have some networking FS enabled (NFS, AFS, Coda, etc)? Perhaps, >> one of them listens for connections from kernel and is not associated >> with userland process. But it's just a guess. > > I have NFS enabled,

Re: extra open ports in rkhunter

2010-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
Anonymous writes: > Chuck Swiger writes: > >> Hi-- >> >> On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: >>> The following are the ports if anybody has any ideas, but I would also like >>> to know how to trace them down

Re: extra open ports in rkhunter

2010-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
Chuck Swiger writes: > Hi-- > > On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: >> The following are the ports if anybody has any ideas, but I would also like >> to know how to trace them down myself: >> >> tcp4 0 0 *.876 *.*

extra open ports in rkhunter

2010-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
0 *.876 *.*LISTEN tcp6 0 0 *.921 *.*LISTEN udp4 0 0 *.608 *.* udp6 0 0 *.952 *.* udp6 0 0 *.804 *.* -- Carl Johnsonca..

Re: fetchmail ssl certificate verification problem in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-08-30 Thread Carl Johnson
a FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, so they might not work exactly for other versions. This also assumes that you trust the certificates in the ca_root_nss package, so you will have to decide that for yourself. I have seen several questions and problems about ssl certificates, so hopefully others will fin

Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

2010-08-08 Thread Carl Johnson
ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: > Carl Johnson writes: >> Anonymous writes: ... > >>> Try without ~/.newsrc.eld. BTW, what backend do you use for reading mail? >>> nnmaildir? > >> I just tried it, but there was no difference. I use nnml for the

Re: Gnus issue in FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Carl Johnson
ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: > Carl Johnson writes: > ... > > I use following sh script to synchronize my mailbox stuff which includes > Maildirs, Gnus configuration, procmail configuration, mairix db, etc. > ... Thanks, I'll have to think about that. -- Car

Re: Gnus issue in FreeBSD (was: Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?)

2010-08-08 Thread Carl Johnson
ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: > Carl Johnson writes: > > [...] > > >> Now if I could just figure out why gnus doesn't work right under emacs >> I could finish migrating from Linux to FreeBSD. > > I use same .gnus in both GNU/Linux and FreeBSD an

Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

2010-08-04 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I > can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a > working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the > system. Gnus will start up, but it just re

Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?

2010-08-01 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > I have running versions of 7.3 and 8.0, so I tried experimenting with > 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I ran into a couple of problems. I have an 8.0 > system that is running a IPv6 tunnel to sixxs.net, and it is running > rtadvd to act as the gatway for my network.

Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

2010-07-31 Thread Carl Johnson
Anonymous writes: > Carl Johnson writes: > >> I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I >> can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a >> working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the >>

Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

2010-07-30 Thread Carl Johnson
Byung-Hee HWANG writes: > Carl Johnson writes: > >> I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I >> can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a >> working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the >

Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?

2010-07-30 Thread Carl Johnson
Vincent Hoffman writes: > On 30/07/2010 18:48, Carl Johnson wrote: >> I have running versions of 7.3 and 8.0, so I tried experimenting with >> 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I ran into a couple of problems. I have an 8.0 >> system that is running a IPv6 tunnel to sixxs.net, and it

IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?

2010-07-30 Thread Carl Johnson
lobal address assigned automatically. Thanks for any advice. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &qu

Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

2010-07-30 Thread Carl Johnson
to another mail program. Thanks for any ideas. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ 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: Very low sound volume on Lenovo X200

2010-07-11 Thread Carl Johnson
ly muted to too loud and was distorting, so I had to reduce some of the settings. You can use sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1' to set the default mixer device to 1 or whichever you want to use. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ 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: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-04 Thread Carl Chave
> With grub4dos >  title FreeBSD >  pxe keep >  chainloader --raw (pd)/images/freebsd/boot/pxeboot > > it loads pxeboot, but then: > > netboot: couldn't probe pxenet0 > pxe_open: netif_open() failed > ... > can't load 'kernel' > OK > > So it loads pxeboot, but then pxeboot can't use the pxenet0 dev

Re: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-04 Thread Carl Chave
> Linux systems with netboot can boot off http (using wget) and it's much > better.  Twice as fast for the Clonezilla load, but System Rescue went from > three minutes to only 18 seconds. > Etherboot/gPXE is interesting also. It will boot from http. One of my grub4dos menu entries is a gPXE flop

Re: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-03 Thread Carl Chave
> After a very cursory setup, it works!  I took notes and will write it up in > a bit. > > The only complaint I have so far is the speed of download via tftp.  A 236M > ISO took two minutes to load, or about 2M per second.  A full CD takes a > long, long time.  Is that typical, or maybe just the po

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