Re: Unable to access http://sane-project.org/

2013-08-01 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 01 Aug 2013 11:58:01 Jerry wrote: Not really a FreeBSD problem; however, I was wondering if anyone else had been unable to access http://sane-project.org/ in the last 24 hours? http://www.isup.me/ is a useful site for instantly checking this sort of thing. -- Mike Clarke

Re: Saving scanned document

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 23 Jul 2013 23:37:45 Jerry wrote: . There is a application that controls printing, scanning, faxing and copying but that is only available on a Windows or Mac machine. Might it work with wine? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions

Exim has stopped using SpamAssassin

2013-07-16 Thread Mike Clarke
and SpamAssassin using the same make options as before to see if that had any effect but still no joy. I've set SAEximDebug to 1 in sa-exim.conf but there's still nothing in the logs to help. Any suggestions where I should look next? -- Mike Clarke

[Solved] Error upgrading sysutils/nepomuk-core - Could not find parser plugin for encoding trig

2013-07-13 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 12 Jul 2013 18:15:18 Mike Clarke wrote: Could anyone advise how to get round this problem? [ 3%] Generating nie.h, nie.cpp cd /usr/ports/sysutils/nepomuk-core/work/.build/libnepomukcore /usr/local/bin/onto2vocabularyclass --name NIE --encoding trig --namespace Nepomuk2

Error upgrading sysutils/nepomuk-core - Could not find parser plugin for encoding trig

2013-07-12 Thread Mike Clarke
Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/nepomuk-core/work/.build. *** [do-build] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/nepomuk-core. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Keeping my system up to date with CTM or subversion?

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Clarke
mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security-notifications you'll get email notifications when security parches are available. These give details of the background and impact of the vulnerability along with instructions of how to obtain and apply the patches. -- Mike

Re: Problems Printing

2013-03-05 Thread Mike Clarke
/bin/lprm -- Mike Clarke ___ 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

Portmaster runs make config three times for some ports

2013-02-09 Thread Mike Clarke
/local/etc/portmaster.rc # Never search for stale distfiles to delete (-D) DONT_SCRUB_DISTFILES=Dopt # # Do not prompt the user for failed backup package creation PM_IGNORE_FAILED_BACKUP_PACKAGE=pm_ignore_failed_backup_package Any ideas how I can avoid this happening. -- Mike Clarke

Re: Starting with ZFS on fresh install

2013-01-28 Thread Mike Clarke
/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/zfsadmin.pdf -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Clarke
/distfiles or /usr/ports/packages are on a separate partition or ZFS. I suppose the best approach with ZFS would be to make a snapshot immediately prior to running portsnap. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: KDE Mouse Themes

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Clarke
; however, there is none. I have checked under every item setting in system settings for one. Try System Settings - Workspace Appearance - Cursor Theme -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-18 Thread Mike Clarke
. The most noticeable deterioration in performance is that it's much slower to start up than 3.5 was and kmail takes much longer to open a mail folder than it used to. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: what replaces javaws? using icedtea-web and openjdk6.

2012-11-30 Thread Mike Clarke
/local/bin/javaws@ - /usr/local/bin/javavm curlew:/tmp% pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/javavm /usr/local/bin/javavm was installed by package javavmwrapper-2.4_2 -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-27 Thread Mike Clarke
Then /path/to/usbstick/logfile will contain a full log of your commands and output showing the partition information for ada0 before and after creating the new partition. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Mike Clarke
-interactive use, you should use portsnap cron portsnap extract is only needed for initialising your portsnap-maintained ports tree. So, after your initial portsnap run, what you need in your cron file is just portsnap fetch update -- Mike Clarke

Re: Mounting SD card.

2012-11-15 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 15 November 2012 02:06:02 Warren Block wrote: true /dev/da0 is a little shorter and safer.  The search keywords for this are GEOM retaste or retasting. Thanks Warren. I wasn't aware of that option, it's certainly much neater and less prone to typing errors. -- Mike Clarke

Re: Mounting SD card.

2012-11-14 Thread Mike Clarke
the thread starting with http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-February/212109.html -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-28 Thread Mike Clarke
. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-27 Thread Mike Clarke
the mapping to apply for only specified executables. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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

freebsd-update IDS

2012-10-27 Thread Mike Clarke
versions of the system or do I have a problem? Considering the very short time interval between installing the system and checking IDS I'm quite confident my system hasn't been hacked from outside. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Gimp - problem opening images using URI's

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Clarke
searches haven't come up with anything directly relevant to my problem but do imply that the problem could be related to devel/gamin. Could anyone offer any suggestions on how to go about resolving this? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions

Re: editing pdf files

2012-10-14 Thread Mike Clarke
pages. You might then be able to extract the text with some OCR software. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2)

2012-10-14 Thread Mike Clarke
using sysutils/beadm from ports http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=175325 to manage multiple boot environments in a single partition. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: stop and start X server in FreeBSD 9.0

2012-10-02 Thread Mike Clarke
. This will stop and start X as well as kdm. You can do all this from a terminal window in your kde session but I prefer to logout cleanly instead of having the rug pulled from under my feet which has sometimes corruptedf my kdmrc file. -- Mike Clarke

Re: older version of programs in freebsd

2012-09-30 Thread Mike Clarke
where the last usable version has been xzgv-0.8_9). Thank you. I will try it. If you use portsnap to keep your ports up to date then you can add a REFUSE line in /etc/portsnap.conf to stop new versions of the port being downloaded in the future. -- Mike Clarke

Re: Questions about ZFS Tuning

2012-09-17 Thread Mike Clarke
is disabled by default if less than 4GB of RAM is present; to enable, add vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0 to /boot/loader.conf. Since you have 2GB RAM then it's best to leave things as they are with prefetch disabled. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions

Re: what is the best kind of KVM Switch?

2012-08-12 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 12 August 2012 02:41:57 Bob Hall wrote: I'm currently on my third year with an Aten and have had no problems. I've been using a cheap Aten CS-64A 4 Port Mini KVM for nearly 6 years now with no problems. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd

Re: Webpage screenshot

2012-08-05 Thread Mike Clarke
extension for Firefox. You can specify the entire page, an area defined with the mouse or just the visible area and save the result to a .PNG file or copy it to the clipboard to paste directly into the Gimp. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions

Re: How to mirror the FreeBSD OS on two disks

2012-07-12 Thread Mike Clarke
-o cachefile=/var/tmp/zpool.cache zroot And then step 10 after running zfs receive cp /var/tmp/zpool.cache /mnt/boot/zfs/zpool.cache Are these steps needed when restoring from a snapshot? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-14 Thread Mike Clarke
noticed is that the light continues to blink for a few seconds after the umount command completes. Presumably syncing is not compled until a few seconds after umount. Perhaps it's always safer to wait a few seconds after umounting before removing any USB storage device? -- Mike Clarke

Re: USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-14 Thread Mike Clarke
the blinkenlight is configured with a minimum activation time. Being cautious however, I always wait a few seconds before removing any USB stick from any computer. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Clarke
followed by one or more incrementals then you will restore ALL files which were present when each dump was made - including any files which have been intentionally deleted since the dump was created. This isn't normally a problem but there might be some obscure situations where it could be. -- Mike

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-11 Thread Mike Clarke
option creates a temporary read only snapshot which is used as the source for the backup. This enables you to safely backup a live filesystem, More background on snapshots at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/snapshots.html -- Mike Clarke

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Mike Clarke
snapshots and backing them up incrementally with zfs send | zfs receive should be very quick. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-06-01 Thread Mike Clarke
to stop the bounces by adding freebsd.org to the whitelist on my ISP account - but with the downside of seeing more spam on the list. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Filesystem dump incremental?

2012-05-17 Thread Mike Clarke
is worth using as well when you're backing up a mounted filesystem. You could hack the contents of /etc/dumpdates to avoid having to repeat the level zero dump if you know the date and time when the original one was started. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd

Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread Mike Clarke
to never use packages for certain specified ports? -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread Mike Clarke
a total blind spot for that paragraph - sorry for looking so dumb. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: FTP oddness, over SSH session.

2012-04-11 Thread Mike Clarke
through ssh? -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: Problem compiling emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod 4.1.8_2

2012-03-21 Thread Mike Clarke
unless a fix turns up before I upgrade to 9.0-RELEASE which I'm planning to do shortly. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Problem compiling emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod 4.1.8_2

2012-03-20 Thread Mike Clarke
r...@curlew.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: Problem compiling emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod 4.1.8_2

2012-03-20 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 16 March 2012, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.ukwrote: in /data1/tmp/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod/work/VirtualBox- 4.1.8_OSE/out/freebsd.x86/release/bin/src/vboxdrv. I ran portsnap immediately before

Problem compiling emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod 4.1.8_2

2012-03-13 Thread Mike Clarke
are up to date. Any suggestions? -- Mike Clarke ___ 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

Can't build en-freebsd-doc-20120205

2012-02-11 Thread Mike Clarke
/tidy: not found 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Can't build en-freebsd-doc-20120205

2012-02-11 Thread Mike Clarke
. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-04 Thread Mike Clarke
is inserted it comes up as da4. If the USB stick is present on booting then it appears as da0 and the card reader is da[1-4]. So it looks like occupied slots are given priority when numbers are assigned at boot time. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-04 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 04 February 2012, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: On Feb 4, 2012 4:54 AM, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: ? Sounds similar to my experience. Normally my internal 4 slot memory card reader is assigned devices da[0-3] and when the USB memory stick is inserted it comes up

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-14 Thread Mike Clarke
the ISO onto a spare drive so I haven't done an 8 to 9 binary upgrade but I have used freebsd-update to upgrade from 9.0-RC2 to 9.0-RELEASE and that went through without any problems. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-14 Thread Mike Clarke
then you can do it in a new BE without upsetting your working system: chroot /tank/ROOT/newBE mount -t devfs devfs /dev chroot /tank/ROOT/newBE portmaster -a chroot /tank/ROOT/newBE umount /dev ... then, if all went well, activate the new BE and reboot. -- Mike Clarke

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Mike Clarke
, and sudo it. But if it's possible to determine exactly what commands the customer needs to run as root then putting suitable incantations into /usr/local/etc/sudoers should prevent the customer from being able to use tricks like that. -- Mike Clarke

9.0RC2 IPV6 warnings from ntpd

2011-12-09 Thread Mike Clarke
any way of disabling it. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-07 Thread Mike Clarke
. Following the earlier tip from Polytropon I now have a working script which does exactly what I need. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-07 Thread Mike Clarke
. But can I use that to dynamically set up my link to the new device when the memory stick is inserted? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-05 Thread Mike Clarke
and the card reader is da[1-4] on umass1 so the script fails. Is there any convenient way for my script to determine which da* devices correspond to the umass device name? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-05 Thread Mike Clarke
On Monday 05 December 2011, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 17:08:15 +, Mike Clarke wrote: [snip] Is there any convenient way for my script to determine which da* devices correspond to the umass device name? Maybe you could use a matching against match bus 0x

Re: upcoming 9.0 release

2011-12-02 Thread Mike Clarke
revisions. The final example on the portmaster man page provides a good checklist of what you need to do. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Installing ZFS on 9.0-RC2

2011-11-22 Thread Mike Clarke
as far as creating a zpool but the first zfs create comand produced an error saying that it was unable to mount zroot/tmp. What's the correct approach to go about this with the 9.0-RC2 installer? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Installing ZFS on 9.0-RC2 - Solved

2011-11-22 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 22 November 2011, Mike Clarke wrote: I started off following the procedure in http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot but hit a problem in that the the new installer doesn't appear to provide a Fixit option. I've tried the shell and live cd options in the installer and also

Re: poppler-qt-0.16.7

2011-11-14 Thread Mike Clarke
deleted poppler-qt. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: update packages by pkg_add

2011-10-29 Thread Mike Clarke
. The above pkg_add command will install a package from a file that you've already downloaded. If you don't have the package file then you can fetch and install the package from an FTP site with the command: pkg_add -r name-of-package -- Mike Clarke

Re: video acceleration on vbox

2011-10-25 Thread Mike Clarke
Devices menu. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: pkg_upgrade seems to try server that isn't right

2011-10-09 Thread Mike Clarke
packages instead of building from source by using the -P or -PP options. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-26 Thread Mike Clarke
26 05:46 /lib/libz.so.6 I see from the download page that the package is for FreeBSD 8.x which uses libz.so.5 so you might have compatibility problems with 9-beta2. As a workaround you could try putting the following line in /etc/libmap.conf libz.so.5 libz.so -- Mike Clarke

Re: Help with devd.conf

2011-09-24 Thread Mike Clarke
. This works for me: attach 10 { match device-name umass[0-9]; action logger you plugged in some usb device; }; -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-22 Thread Mike Clarke
have not been tampered with by a non-privileged user. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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

Odd behaviour with portmaster -r gnutls

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Clarke
been updated. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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

Upgrading ImageMagick fails 2 of 48 tests

2011-02-14 Thread Mike Clarke
293: JPEG/Undefined/Bilevel/1-bits... pass. test 2Segmentation fault -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Follow a port of a specific major verion

2011-02-08 Thread Mike Clarke
first with pkg_create -b pkg-name. That would give you a fair chance of rolling back to the previous version if things went pear-shaped. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Using Multiple -prune directives in a find command

2011-02-07 Thread Mike Clarke
, but that does not work or I wouldn't be asking. Find appears to get confused and thinks dir1 is a command. find . -type d -name dir1 -prune -o -name dir2 -prune -o -name \* ... should list all files except those in dir1 or dir2 -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd

Re: wine questions

2011-01-28 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 27 January 2011, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:50:31PM +, Mike Clarke wrote: [snip] But VirtualBox OSE doesn't support USB. VirtualBox 4 *seems* to support USB (I have the option in the GUI, haven't tried it though). It's available for testing from http

Re: wine questions

2011-01-27 Thread Mike Clarke
for a Windows license, but at least the Gates virus will be contained securely on your computer. For me, Virtual Box + FreeBSD has been running better than VMWare + OS X. Once again, free software, more than worth the price. But VirtualBox OSE doesn't support USB. -- Mike Clarke

Re: Which network driver for RTL8211 or 8201 NIC's?

2011-01-20 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 20 January 2011, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:54:54PM +, b. f. wrote: Mike Clarke wrote: I need to replace a failing motherboard. I'm aiming to keep the existing Athlon CPU so I'm tied down to to a socket AM2(+) board and the majority of those

Re: Upgrade path from STABLE to RELEASE

2011-01-10 Thread Mike Clarke
and 8.1-RELEASE. I've been using freebsd-update to keep 8.1-RELEASE up to date with the latest security patches. I didn't see any error messages when I ran freebsd-update so I assumed that everything went fine. Is there something I've overlooked and should I recompile from source to be safe? -- Mike

Which network driver for RTL8211 or 8201 NIC's?

2010-12-22 Thread Mike Clarke
to have problems if I get a motherboard with one of these NIC's? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Clean up / filesystem

2010-10-10 Thread Mike Clarke
period you can set it by adding a line setting daily_clean_tmps_days to the desired value. You can also modify the default list of files to ignore with the variable daily_clean_tmps_ignore -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 28 September 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: [snip] The problem is if/when you need to update a port as a result of a security advisory. If your ports tree is very much out of date then it's likely that updating that one port

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Mike Clarke
to building the ports instead means that I usually only need to download a relatively small number of distfiles with the remaining ports being recompiled from my existing collection of distfiles using the new makefiles in the updated ports tree. -- Mike Clarke

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Clarke
. The little and often approach of keeping the ports tree up to date could be less traumatic. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: port upgrading

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Clarke
of this in the final example near the bottom of the portmaster man page. -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: apropos returning same item twice

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Clarke
it tries to determine the user's manpath from a set of system defaults and the user's PATH. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Clarke
on some KDE4 libraries, I suspect other apps will follow in due course with the result that I'll start to see more bloat and potential conflicts. When I first tried KDE4 it was much slower than KDE3, have things improved sufficiently since then for me to think about upgrading? -- Mike Clarke

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Clarke
directories for storing mail for versions 3 and 4 so how do I go about being able to access all my mail from both systems? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: freebsd-update newbie

2010-08-31 Thread Mike Clarke
freebsd-update after any updates have been announced. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security-notifications -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Mike Clarke
be .[^.]* * -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Mike Clarke
and you need to add maps.google.com to the flashblock whitelist. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Problems with first attempts to use ZFS

2010-07-29 Thread Mike Clarke
rebuilds on rebooting. How do I clear up this mess either by fixing the existing test ZFS pool or just getting rid of it so that zpool list returns the no pools available message instead of crashing the system. And, yes, I do have backups so I can restore any files which might be needed. -- Mike

Re: I donot like using mergemaster ?

2010-07-26 Thread Mike Clarke
options have no command line overrides ## # # Files to always avoid comparing IGNORE_FILES='/etc/motd /etc/printcap' # # Additional options for diff. This will get unset when using -s. DIFF_OPTIONS='-Bb' # Ignore changes in whitespace -- Mike

Re: Convert all packages to ports

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Clarke
to answer hundreds of options questions.  To take the default option you must press TAB, ENTER to each query.  Have fun! Would portmaster -Gfa help ? From the man page: -G prevents the recursive 'make config' (overrides --force-config) -- Mike Clarke

/usr/sbin/periodic security check changing date format

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Clarke
wheel 18560 1 Jun 18:34:35 2010 /bin/rcp [snip] + 164937 -r-sr-xr-x 1 rootwheel 18560 Jun 1 18:34:35 2010 /bin/rcp And I'm sure I haven't made any changes to the system in the last few days which might cause this format change. -- Mike Clarke

Re: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Clarke
the whole base system each time, though some of the patches will require the kernel to be rebuilt. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Updating ports - KDE3.5 and phonon

2010-06-20 Thread Mike Clarke
portmaster -o multimedia/phonon-gstreamer multimedia/qt4-phonon-gst I'm using KDE but it's version 3.5 which isn't mentioned above so am I right in assuming that in my case I put WITH_QT_PHONON=yes in /etc/make.conf because I'm not using KDE 4.4, even though I'm using KDE? -- Mike

Re: no more possible to use any usb storage device/usb flash drive, when pluged or unpluged

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Clarke
kernel and should make it easier to identify the cause of problems. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Which CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Clarke
know if it's the most appropriate choice or if there's even any significant difference between them. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Copying mirrored partitions - will this work?

2010-03-31 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 20 March 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: I'm currently running 8.0-RELEASE and am considering experimenting with 8.0-STABLE. I'd like to preserve my existing system in case things go pear-shaped so I'll copy the entire system onto a spare slice and then use csup to upgrade the copy

Re: Copying mirrored partitions - will this work?

2010-03-31 Thread Mike Clarke
On Wednesday 31 March 2010, krad wrote: On 31 March 2010 10:22, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: [snip] I have two 500GB disks, /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad8, each partitioned into 4 slices of 88, 88, 42 and 259GB. My system

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Mike Clarke
for private use from http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: Copying mirrored partitions - will this work?

2010-03-21 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 21 March 2010, Modulok wrote: On 3/20/10, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: [snip] I have two 500GB disks, /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad8, each partitioned into 4 slices of 88, 88, 42 and 259GB. My system is installed on the first slices (ad4s1 and ad8s1) which are mirrored

Copying mirrored partitions - will this work?

2010-03-20 Thread Mike Clarke
make a mess of the second slice and have to start again but I don't want to lose the contents of my original system on slice 1. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: dump warning msgs??

2010-02-22 Thread Mike Clarke
file should have been 1319089. I was anticipating the message to be expected next file 4, got 1319089 -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: dump warning msgs??

2010-02-22 Thread Mike Clarke
On Monday 22 February 2010, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:37:59 +, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: I see the expected xxx, got yyy type of message every time I do a restore from a snapshot dump but it's never caused any problems. The message is issued

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