Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-14 Thread Matthias Buelow
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Jon Dama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> however, journaling fairs no better, and request barriers do nothing to >> solve the problem. > >I had assumed that the sequence of operations in a journal would be >idempotent. Is that a reasonable design criteri

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-14 Thread Matthias Buelow
Jon Dama wrote: >Request Barriers under linux exist to prevent the low level kernel block >device layer from reordering write operations from the upper file system >layers. Request Barriers consist of nothing more than tagging internal >queues within the Linux kernel itself. They do nothing to r

Re: Gqview permantly frozen

2005-07-12 Thread Matthias Buelow
Lawrence Petrykanyn wrote: >I am unable to navigate the directory tree as simply nothing happens >when I click on File, View, etc. or any of the icons. I was able to use >it fine in 5.3, but have done a clean install of 5.4 since. Have you tried to rm -rf ~/.gqview and possibly .thumbnails? m

Re: Make Image of Hard Drive

2005-07-10 Thread Matthias Buelow
Phusion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I recently built a FreeBSD server, and was wondering how I can make an >image of the hard drive. I am going to build an another FeeBSD server >using identical hardware. How can I make an image of the hard drive of >the original server I built and copy/install i

Re: FreeBSD Serial ATA hard drives support

2005-07-10 Thread Matthias Buelow
DMVN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Q: Does the FreeBSD 5.4 support SerialATA hard drives? >I tried to install previous version (5.3) on the machine >with 160GB Seagate Barracuda (8mb cache) drive (ST3160023AS). >It said something like "no hard drive found". ad4: 152627MB [310101/16/63] at ata2-ma

Re: procmail kill problems in dmesg?

2005-07-07 Thread Matthias Buelow
Matt Juszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Procmail is the only one segfaulting with signal 11. POP3 has exiting >with signal 6 a few times, but only a few, and its been sporadic. I assume that you've checked that you're running the latest version (or ports version) of procmail? mkb. _

Re: disk write barriers

2005-07-07 Thread Matthias Buelow
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Do you have a background in OS design? It affects the answer, because >you seem to be referring to access barriers and disk cache flushes >interchangeably, which doesn't make sense, especially on >multiprocessor systems. >From what I understand from so

Re: Account password expiration

2005-07-06 Thread Matthias Buelow
Mike Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Is there a way in 5.x to have account passwords expire every 180 days? Or I >should say N days really. I think this was once tunable in /etc/login.conf >but thats has been repalced with PAM. man pw pw.conf mkb. _

Re: Weird "nice" behavior

2005-07-06 Thread Matthias Buelow
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE >> >> I'm trying to do a large local rsync in the background, while listening to >> streaming audio via RealPlayer and do other stuff. I have the rsync >> running at nice level 20 ("nice -20") which I've confirmed via ps: Please t

disk write barriers

2005-07-06 Thread Matthias Buelow
Hi folks, I'd like to know something about the (possible) existence of disk write-barriers in FreeBSD. I often read the advice that one should disable write-back caching on modern disks in order to make softupdates actually work. Unfortunately, disabling the write-back cache on typical ATA/SATA co

Re: Can't mount partitions with soft-updates enabled with asyncoption

2005-06-18 Thread Matthias Buelow
"Darren Pilgrim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >No. With softupdates, file writes are asynchronous, but writes to >filesystem structures (metadata) are synchronous to prevent filesystem >corruption if the machine crashes. The async mount option writes both That's wrong. mkb.

Re: Can't mount partitions with soft-updates enabled with async option

2005-06-18 Thread Matthias Buelow
Lefteris Tsintjelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I am not sure if I do something wrong here or it is suppose to work that >way but the async option doesn't seem to work for partitions that have >soft-updates turned on. Can someone please clarify the difference and if >the speed difference (if any)

Re: How to identify xterm font

2005-03-10 Thread Matthias Buelow
Sergei Gnezdov wrote: I like the size of the xterm window. It is small and it uses very easy to read font. Unfortunately, it does not play very well with emacs. For these reasons I use Gnome terminal. Gnome font is bigger, thus it takes more space on the screen. How do I identify which font is

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-14 Thread Matthias Buelow
Chris wrote: I will agree on this point - A server does not NEED to a WM (none of mine do). However, I am speaking from a desktop point of view. Can you please move that discussion to a newsgroup, or to private mail? Thanks. mkb. ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Matthias Buelow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope. Beastie is a way of life. I'd be quite upset if it were dropped for whatever reason. It is so intimately tied to FreeBSD that it would be a PR disaster if it were to be changed. NetBSD never had a real The BSD daemon image stems from around 4.3BSD, or an even earlier

Re: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-12 Thread Matthias Buelow
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Or the city administration of Munich, which intends to move its Windows desktops to a Linux/KDE-based installation. Why not just burn taxpayer euro in a bonfire? It would have the same end result and it would be faster. Well, if you just run a set of 1-3 applications, and

Re: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-12 Thread Matthias Buelow
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: (Nevertheless, it is not time to advertise FreeBSD as a "desktop" alternative.) This is not so much about FreeBSD, as the Unix+X11 combination in general. It does not provide the fully integrated system the typical end-user, coming from a Windows or Mac perspective, expects

Re: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-11 Thread Matthias Buelow
Robert Marella wrote: MacOS X is the "Desktop BSD". It is available today, and it works better than anything else at being a "desktop". Does it work on my intel hardware? And your point is..? mkb. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-11 Thread Matthias Buelow
Johnson David wrote: Currently Windows rules the desktop world, even for diehard Unix shops. But that will not last forever. We need to start thinking about the desktop today. We need to stop the official discouragement of desktop FreeBSD. MacOS X is the "Desktop BSD". It is available today, and i

Re: mx2.freebsd.org in dnsbl.sorbs.net

2005-02-03 Thread Matthias Buelow
Erik Norgaard wrote: How on earth did it end up there? are someone mad at us? mx1 is not listed, but it appears that most list mail comes from mx2... JFYI, from Matthew Sullivan, SORBS operator: > Listed in Error - removed. > Regards, > Mat mkb. ___ free

Re: ee editor rules :)

2005-02-03 Thread Matthias Buelow
Ruben de Groot wrote: Does anyone have an "Idiots guide to VI"? There isn't. vi was never meant to be used by idiots ;-) au contraire.. read the shocking truth about vi.. the story the CIA doesn't want you to know about.. the story of Vince Idiot: http://www.sbernard.ee/vince.html mkb. __

Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10

2005-01-29 Thread Matthias Buelow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the output of my ulimit: #ulimit -a | grep data data seg size (kbytes, -d) 524288 # So what is next? Is it possible to embed that information in the kernel? Or, how is this information set by default? Is there any specific .conf file I should edit? the ulim

Re: Graphviz fonts

2005-01-29 Thread Matthias Buelow
Kirk Strauser wrote: I've tried adding every Truetype font path on my system to its "fontpath" variable, but I get the same error but with a much longer list of directories. Any ideas? have you tried running fc-cache? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10

2005-01-29 Thread Matthias Buelow
John wrote: what's the output of ulimit -d? You must be using a csh-derivative. It is a built-in for the Bourne- shell family of shells. the csh correspondent is "limit". it only affects the shell and its children (so put a setting in /etc/profile, /etc/csh.login, or configure the limit via /etc/

Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10

2005-01-29 Thread Matthias Buelow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an AMD Athlon-XP with 1.5GB RAM. Unfortunately my FreeBSD 4.10 throws a memory allocation error when in a simple C++ program I try to allocate with new 512MB of RAM or more. Until 511MB it goes fine! what's the output of ulimit -d? _

Re: uhexen, doom, heretic, etc...

2005-01-28 Thread Matthias Buelow
Mike Hauber wrote: I've built/installed these games from the ports tree, and they start fine. However, the sound is terrible. The sound card seems to be echoing each sound at least 5 times. This, in turn, slows the games down. the sound server of the doom-derived games has always been terribl

Re: BSD

2005-01-28 Thread Matthias Buelow
Gert Cuykens wrote: Come on guy's admit it, it all started with making a Free Boobies Search Device for the internet :P crap.. he found out about it... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: does freebsd has a bit torrent client ?

2005-01-28 Thread Matthias Buelow
Gert Cuykens wrote: please dont tell me bittorent just installed mozilla and all that phyton ... to go to the internet and show the face of the developer when you do this : ( bittorrent is written in python, so you probably can't do without it. the thing about mozilla, well. freebsd ports are inf

Re: does freebsd has a bit torrent client ?

2005-01-28 Thread Matthias Buelow
Gert Cuykens wrote: find / -name "*torrent*" or just "locate torrent|grep ports", when weekly/310.locate has run at least once (that is, it won't work right after installation, unless you've run the script manually). /usr/ports is not normally exempt from updatedb. mkb. ___

Re: Java Runtime Environment (JRE)?

2005-01-27 Thread Matthias Buelow
Gert Cuykens wrote: So is the linux emulation a bad thing or a good thing, i dont understand very well what we need to do here to have java 1.5 in firefox on my amd 64 ? sorry :) Linux emulation is both a good, and a bad thing. Good, because software that is available only for Linux (usually bina

Re: Java Runtime Environment (JRE)?

2005-01-27 Thread Matthias Buelow
I wrote: pkgsrc/lang/sun-jre15 err.. wrong list, wrong OS (although pkgsrc also supports freebsd). you may want to look at ports/java/jdk15, or one of the linux-*-jdk15 in the same directory. mkb. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Java Runtime Environment (JRE)?

2005-01-27 Thread Matthias Buelow
Clint Olsen wrote: I was cruising around the ports system, looking for JRE-1.5 or an equivalent, so I can get Java applets to run in Firefox. Is there a Linux port of this since Sun does binary releases of this? pkgsrc/lang/sun-jre15 (requires linux emulation) _

Re: OpenGL hardware acceleration with FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-27 Thread Matthias Buelow
Jorn Argelo wrote: Of course. You want to use Linux drivers, so you need Linux compatibility. he doesn't need linux drivers. the g400 has been supported by XFree for many years, including DRI. I can't quite see a problem with his xorg config, maybe he has installed some mesa port, which overwro

Re: X11 / keyboard emacs?

2005-01-27 Thread Matthias Buelow
I wrote: maybe gtk-theme-name = "Emacs" will already work. That didn't work but one apparently can include files. The following line appended to ~/.gtkrc-2.0 enabled "emacs" keybindings for me in the text entry widgets: include "/usr/X11R6/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc" Don't know if that'

Re: X11 / keyboard emacs?

2005-01-27 Thread Matthias Buelow
Tom Vilot wrote: have you tried to include the above bindings in your $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 file? maybe then it will get read by all applications using the gtk 2.x toolkit. Thank you thank you thank you ... This has been driving me bonkers! It's not a systemwide setting .. but that's okay. In my

Re: X11 / keyboard emacs?

2005-01-26 Thread Matthias Buelow
Tom Vilot wrote: What I don't understand is how to make that global. That is, applied to all Window Managers. If I run AfterStep or WindowMaker, these keyboard bindings do not apply and I can't figure out how to make them apply irrespective of the window manager currently running. have you tried

Re: No disklabel, but it still boots

2005-01-26 Thread Matthias Buelow
Pete Yandell wrote: $ disklabel -r ad6 ~ disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) The disklabel is on ad6s1, not on ad6. The kernel does automatically generate "fictitious" labels for unlabeled disks, no matter if i

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
Jerry McAllister wrote: This 'rest of the disk' should be divided up into chunks that can be dump(8)ed to one backup media if possible. Otherwise you will get sloppy and not do backups because it is harder. Since there is a What kind of nonsense is this? I've never heard about such an advise,

Re: Remote FreeBSD Installation

2005-01-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
Jacob S wrote: http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ The penguin shall fall ;) Looks nice. Thanks! But make sure first how much a re-setup costs you. Or how much they charge for "remote hands". Or at best, get some eRic II or DRAC remote management card option. I think it's safer to assume

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
Petri Helenius wrote: Are you sure you aren't comparing filesystems with different mount options? Async comes to mind first. a) ext3 and xfs are logging filesystems, so the problem with asynchronous metadata updates possibly corrupting the filesystem on a crash doesn't arise. b) asynchronous met

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-24 Thread Matthias Buelow
Oliver Fuchs wrote: Maybe there is a performance problem with FreeBSD - but again that was not his question. I don't know why people are so obsessed with performance.. after all, you can't really load stock Unix systems properly anyways (like, say, an IBM mainframe, which you can keep at 90+% loa

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-24 Thread Matthias Buelow
Chris wrote: In addition, was on OS running a window manager and the other not? Was I seriously doubt that raw disk performance of such a test is noticably affected by the existence of a window manager, or sshd... mkb. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-21 Thread Matthias Buelow
David Gerard wrote: My experience is that with a 500Mhz Pentium 3 (512K cache, 512mb RAM, Matrox G450 AGP graphics), Gnome (2.6 tested) is unbearably slow. A I have read that pango is grossly CPU-hungry, but that the project is keenly aware of the problem. (But refuses to do the easy thing of sp

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
David Gerard wrote: So something around 500MHz will happily run Pango and the other cutting-edge internationalisation stuff if you fill it with memory. My experience is that with a 500Mhz Pentium 3 (512K cache, 512mb RAM, Matrox G450 AGP graphics), Gnome (2.6 tested) is unbearably slow. A large

Re: sensitive data on disks (was: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU)

2005-01-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
John wrote: What do you folks have on your hard drives that is worth thousands of dollars and weeks of time for someone to recover? Err.. I'd guess that most people who use their machine for business have sensitive data on it that can easily be at least a couple thousand dollars worth... for comp

Re: PDF file editor

2005-01-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
E. J. Cerejo wrote: Is there a port that allows you to edit a pdf file or fill it in? acroread (/usr/ports/print). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
Colin J. Raven wrote: Eh? Surely you don't meant trashed - physically annihilated? Phew! I believe in radical solutions certainly, but..umm..isn't that going just a little bit too far? :-) I'm assuming you mean destructively formatted... Surely that depends on what was on them. The disks from Int

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
Scott Bennett wrote: And so your preference would be that the machines should go to a landfill rather than to someone who can't afford a computer at all? Here in the Civilized World, we recycle the materials used in computers (well, most of them), we don't throw them into the sea. You s

Re: My 'ls' is all messed up?!

2005-01-19 Thread Matthias Buelow
Happens sometimes to me when some characters from a binary file are displayed on the screen as is. Or, some other stty(1) setting. Typing reset/tset(1) or closing-and-/opening another xterm(1) works for me. Xterm i say for that i use most than console. or ctrl+ in xterm, which pops up a menu, fr

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-19 Thread Matthias Buelow
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Indeed, someone in the Third World without the means to buy a new PC and an expensive Windows license could find a junk PC and install FreeBSD on And where do you think would they "find" this "junk PC"? Don't you think that's a bit condescending? Like, "let's give those neg

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-01-16 Thread Matthias Buelow
Chuck Swiger wrote: If you choose not to see any distinction between software which is freely available and comes with source code, and between other forms of software which neither comes with source nor is free, fine. No. "Open" has for a long time referred to "industry standard", before it was

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-01-16 Thread Matthias Buelow
Chuck Swiger wrote: Even Apple doesn't show up in their radar... what do you expect. This is untrue. The Mac Runtime for Java is a high-priority environment for both Apple When I go to java.sun.com, I can download the jdk for: Linux, Windows, Solaris. That's what I meant. Java is as proprietary

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-01-15 Thread Matthias Buelow
Jonathan Chen wrote: Blame Sun; they don't make it easy for organizations like FreeBSD to release a binary version of Java. Even Apple doesn't show up in their radar... what do you expect. Java is as proprietary as it gets. (Unfortunately many of us need it.) mkb. _

Re: Cut and paste in Emacs

2005-01-15 Thread Matthias Buelow
Kris Maglione wrote: I, personally, still don't completely understand the entire unix/X cut buffer system. First, there is more than one cut buffer, but I doubt that that's your problem. Second, there is select-to-copy and select+right click.../ctrl+c/... to copy. These use two different X11 cu

apm on 5.3

2005-01-14 Thread Matthias Buelow
I'm trying to get APM to work (ACPI makes the kernel crap itself when I insert or remove a pcmcia card into my Armada m700 notebook) and load the apm.ko from loader.conf. However, it doesn't seem to create the necessary device entry /dev/apm, and apmd and apm(8) complain about that. What's th

Re: del key in bash or tcsh

2005-01-14 Thread Matthias Buelow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know how to change this annoying default behaviour of bash or sh in FreeBSD when somebody presses the del key? When I press the del key I want this to work as it works on any editor or in Linux bash! Anyway to achieve this? as we cannot guess what the behavio

Re: Serial communication, terminal

2005-01-12 Thread Matthias Buelow
Florian Hengstberger wrote: I have a microcontroller with an uart interface. I want to communicate with my computer through the serial port of my FreeBSD box. Is it somehow possible to connect the serial io to a xterm? Case it is not: I don't want to write a program myself - is there an existing pr

Re: file roo large !!

2005-01-10 Thread Matthias Buelow
Malcolm Kay wrote: Is it really possible to have a ext3fs mount under FBSD 5.3? I know you can mount an ext2fs file system and an existing linux ext3fs will probably mount successfully (without journaling) as an ext2fs; but is this what are you trying to do? I've last mounted ext2 on 5.2.1 (it wa

Re: xorg and xfree86

2005-01-08 Thread Matthias Buelow
Vulpes Velox wrote: Xorg beat XFree86 out in regards of features in the newest release. And in regards of bugs. I've never seen so many random BadWindow errors when doing remote X than I have with X.org. Not even old DEC and HP R5 servers were so bugged. But of course stability is for bean cou

Re: ghostscript install error on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-08 Thread Matthias Buelow
Chandler May wrote: Never mind, I just deleted work and the ghostscript folder from distfiles... the installation is working now. So far so good - it has gotten farther than before, I think. You might want to file a PR that the port is broken with certain options (with sendpr, or via the web form

Re: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20

2005-01-07 Thread Matthias Buelow
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Also, with a Sparc 20 try to load a copy of Solaris 2.6 rather than a later copy, it will run faster and Sun still releases patches for it. Hmm, I don't know if that's worth it. I run Solaris 9 on an SS20 (2x 60MHz SM61, 224MB RAM) and am very satisfied with its performanc

Re: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20

2005-01-06 Thread Matthias Buelow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a Sun SPARC 20 collecting dust, and I was wondering if any version of FreeBSD would run on my Sun SPARC 20? From what I can gather FreeBSD only works on UltraSPARC. Maybe not FreeBSD but both NetBSD and Solaris work very well on the Sparc 20, and they're available

Re: how do I permit ordinary users to mound SCSI devices ?

2005-01-06 Thread Matthias Buelow
Kevin Smith wrote: How do I permit ordinary users to mound SCSI devices ? As suggested in the FAQ, section 9, I am able to allow members of operator group mount the cdrom by setting sysctl -w vfs.usrmount=1 This does not appear to work with SCSI devices. (ex: /dev/da0s2) I get the error: > mount

Re: BASIC WEB SERVER HELP

2005-01-06 Thread Matthias Buelow
Satori Seal - Dale T. McGrosky wrote: The web server program will be PARADOX as this computer will access data through a Sonic wall firewall to our file server. Will FreeBSD 5.3 be a good operating system for us that will provide excellent security? From what I gathered from the web, it appears as

Re: SpamAssassin-Milter accuracy...

2005-01-04 Thread Matthias Buelow
Louis LeBlanc wrote: Use with care. Some spam rbls are overly zealous, and often block out whole netblocks just because one IP has been reported as an offender. And all dialup networks. Which can lead to the bizarre situation that if you're relaying through your mail server from a dialup IP, and

Re: kern.maxfiles formula?

2005-01-02 Thread Matthias Buelow
Kris Kennaway wrote: Having a hard limit is by design, or users could run your machine out of memory and cause it to panic. # sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=2 kern.maxfiles: 12328 -> 2 Ok, I agree. Must've confused something here. I was under the impression that it was fixed at boot. The user iss

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Matthias Buelow
Bill Moran wrote: I've been using Dovecot for quite some time now. It's not even a 1.0 product yet, and I still find it excellent for both POP and IMAP. It includes support for both POP3S and IMAPS, which I find very important in this day and age. I've had bad experience so far with dovecot, incl

Re: kern.maxfiles formula?

2005-01-02 Thread Matthias Buelow
Kris Kennaway wrote: A truly enormous number :-) You just need to increase the value of kern.maxfiles in /boot/loader.conf as appropriate for your workload. would it be possible to make this dynamically allocated in the future? imho, such limits are a bit anachronistic. mkb. _

Re: named exits on SIGHUP?

2005-01-02 Thread Matthias Buelow
Joerg Pulz wrote: i tried 'rndc reload' and it's working and did not cause the named process to exit. maybe '/etc/rc.d/named' should be changed to use this as reload command. Yes, this works here also. In the long run, it would probably be a good idea to make newsyslog understand arbitrary comma

named exits on SIGHUP?

2005-01-02 Thread Matthias Buelow
Hi folks, when I kill -HUP named on 5.3 (BIND 9), it exits, instead of reloading, as stated in the manpage. Is this normal? I think it's rather impractical, since it prevents proper log rotation through newsyslog.conf (when using "file" logging in named.conf). It doesn't seem to matter if it

Re: migrating from thunderbird to mutt?

2004-12-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
Joshua Lokken wrote: Message filtering, for example I have all the different freebsd mailing lists automatically put into different folders, and junk mail sorting? No. You have to setup procmail (or a similar program) to do that for you. Wrong. Mutt'll do it just fine. Just wondering; have you ev

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Matthias Buelow
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: This is a particularly tenacious rumour. I've been using bash as my root shell on many different UNIX platforms for nearly 14 years, and I've never had any problems. I've also never seen any substantiated problems reported anywhere. Besides, when your favourite shell is

Re: Simple, graphic, desktop calculator

2004-12-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
RW wrote: kcalc can be a simple calculator, or a more complex programmer's/scientific calculator according to what options are checked on it's settings menu. And if all fails, there's still the good old xcalc, which is available on every X11 installation. -- Matthias Buelow; [

Re: migrating from thunderbird to mutt?

2004-12-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
h mutt, your mail is probably gone. -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc.

2004-12-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
cross-platform knowledge and testing than if you were hardcoding the stuff in Makefiles. -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: migrating from thunderbird to mutt?

2004-12-19 Thread Matthias Buelow
l the different freebsd mailing lists automatically put into different folders, and junk mail sorting? No. You have to setup procmail (or a similar program) to do that for you. Speell check? No. You have to setup your editor for running ispell or similar. -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROT

Re: Linux kernel on FreeBSD

2004-12-11 Thread Matthias Buelow
lized BSD userland on top of a Linux kernel. It is for sure possible but of rather questionable merit and most likely a lot more work than you'd want to invest. -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD

2004-12-11 Thread Matthias Buelow
h, but NetBSD won't even boot on another machine on which FreeBSD runs very well. I guess issues like that hold for OpenBSD aswell.) -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://

Re: i386 & amd64

2004-12-10 Thread Matthias Buelow
lacks cvsup. That begs the question: can't one run i386 executables on amd64? I assumed that was not a problem? -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-08 Thread Matthias Buelow
and replaced drive. I've triggered rebuilds on a few so far, including h/w RAID, RAIDFrame and the Linux raid* thing, and it has always worked nicely while there was heavy load on the volume (with reduced performance during the rebuild, of course.) -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: "Designed for FreeBSD" stickers

2004-12-07 Thread Matthias Buelow
Richard Bradley wrote: ScotGold seems reasonably priced, but once you've bought their minimum order of 10, you're again paying almost £5. Is there a gap in the market? the question is if that would be economical. do you also buy paper clips one at a time? :) -- Matthias Buel

Re: "Designed for FreeBSD" stickers

2004-12-07 Thread Matthias Buelow
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Re: Dell Precision Workstation 470n

2004-12-06 Thread Matthias Buelow
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Re: How to edit file in single user mode

2004-12-02 Thread Matthias Buelow
ke a look?) I suppose i could/should save a copy just in case. That's pretty heavy, considering that without REs it would be roughly equivalent to the dreaded EDLIN.COM, which came in at around 7K. ;) -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuer

Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-11-28 Thread Matthias Buelow
Davis Doherty wrote: The wireless card uses the Prism 2 chipset, and was recognized when I plugged it in. I did 'wicontrol -n "my network SSID"' and 'wicontrol -p try setting the ssid with ifconfig, and see if that makes a difference. -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL

Re: Copyright Issues

2004-11-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
d as a logo for that shop (I won't tell which one, 'cause I'm not a copyright prosecutor.) So it seems to be quite popular indeed (maybe people also like it because it's cute.) -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de _

Re: what is the bsd fs called outside the bsd sphere?

2004-11-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
Richard Williamson wrote: Ok, I'll recreate the original flash image to ensure it is -O 1, and then try again. in order to mount ufs1 on linux, you also have to specify the ufstype=44bsd option to mount. otherwise the mount might succeed, but you won't see any files. -- Matth

Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc.

2004-11-18 Thread Matthias Buelow
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: This is exactly what I needed. I wanted to experiment with building, installing, linking, and the same with my own test 'libraries.' It looks like this is much easier than autoconf. Why do you want to use autoconf at all, if you want to build on only one system? Autoco

Re: Matrox Millenium MGA-2064W

2004-11-16 Thread Matthias Buelow
Igor Zbirka wrote: when I do kldload mga.ko, it doesn't change anything (possibly it isn't for this graphic card:) the kernel module is only useful for agp cards. mkb. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: ScreenShots

2004-11-12 Thread Matthias Buelow
Sean Murphy writes: >How does one take screen shots of the FreeBSD Install and Terminal? I >would like to make a guide specific to our location. The most straightforward way is maybe to do an installation inside emulators like VMware, Bochs or Virtual PC. -- Matthias Buelow;

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-08 Thread Matthias Buelow
This is a technical forum? Yikes! Is it, Mr./Ms. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-08 Thread Matthias Buelow
ing you the bandwidth for altruistic reasons either, you pay them money for it. -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-08 Thread Matthias Buelow
gal purposes. If my ISP would block it or noticably slow it down, I would consider changing to a different ISP. And I think there's still a difference in quality compared to things like edonkey, which are used exclusively for "illegal" filesharing. -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL

Re: About FREEBSD

2004-11-08 Thread Matthias Buelow
k, Neville-Neil, "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System", Addison-Wesley, 2004. I haven't read yet it but I have the predecessor book (about 4.4BSD) and I guess it's written in the same style. -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROT

Re: re bittorrent

2004-11-08 Thread Matthias Buelow
bittorrant for getting a release. Surely you can elaborate? Bittorrent was explicitly designed for the very purpose it has been used with the FreeBSD ISOs (and other organizations are using it aswell, for example RedHat for Fedora Core, and it works very well.) -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: error installing 5.3-stable - WRITE_DMA

2004-11-08 Thread Matthias Buelow
I'd first check the UDMA cable (is it a proper 80-conductor one?) and the disk's power cable (loose contact?) -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: ``Resource temporarily unavailable'' in vi

2003-07-14 Thread Matthias Buelow
influenced the terminal settings or whatever is beyond my current understanding.) -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de} ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: A question about kernel modules

2003-03-07 Thread Matthias Buelow
a microkernel generally uses message passing between mostly independent server processes, which is not what the BSD kernel does. -- Matthias Buelow To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Looking for POSIX programming resources

2003-03-06 Thread Matthias Buelow
nt" is the book you definitely want to buy. -- Matthias Buelow Read up against idiocy: http://www.counterpunch.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: recover /etc/passwd from pwd.db

2003-03-01 Thread Matthias Buelow
there was a proper backup of master.passwd in /var/backups; and on that file pwd_mkdb worked. The question remains, however, what to do in the case when only the databases are left and all textual files are trashed. Surely there must be a way to create the text files from the db? -- Matthias Buelow

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