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

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-

Exim has stopped using SpamAssassin

2013-07-16 Thread Mike Clarke
e-installed Exim 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 shou

[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

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

2013-07-12 Thread Mike Clarke
r code 1 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-ques

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

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Clarke
Notifications 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 app

Re: Problems Printing

2013-03-05 Thread Mike Clarke
/lp, /usr/bin/lpq and /usr/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
/usr/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 C

Re: Starting with ZFS on fresh install

2013-01-28 Thread Mike Clarke
le's ZFS Administration Guide - http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/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: KDE Mouse Themes

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Clarke
a "themes" setting according to the KDE > documentation; 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 __

Re: Cronjob Cvsup -> What?

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Clarke
is may be complicated if any of /usr/ports, > /usr/ports/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 __

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

2013-01-18 Thread Mike Clarke
me I tried it out about a year ago. 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 __

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

2012-11-30 Thread Mike Clarke
Nov 09:32 /usr/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

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-27 Thread Mike Clarke
way # script /path/to/usbstick/logfile # gpart show ada0 # gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0 # gpart show ada0 # 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 p

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

2012-11-26 Thread Mike Clarke
uot; should only be used interactively; for non-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 c

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 neate

Re: Mounting SD card.

2012-11-14 Thread Mike Clarke
/dev/da0 count=0 That's what works here. See 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/mail

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-28 Thread Mike Clarke
keep doing even more firefighting in the future. -- 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
looking at different 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 ___

Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-10-27 Thread Mike Clarke
ct 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"

Re: Gimp - problem opening images using URI's

2012-10-23 Thread Mike Clarke
me/mike/.local/share/recently-used.xbel FAMPending(fd = 7) Checking data available on 7 GIMP-Error: Opening 'http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/beastie.png' failed: Could not open 'http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/beastie.png' for reading: No such file or directory --- -- 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"

Gimp - problem opening images using URI's

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Clarke
00 got rid of the "wrong permissions" message but still failed to cure the problem. Google 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 resolvin

Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2)

2012-10-14 Thread Mike Clarke
S then there are other possibilities like 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 lis

Re: editing pdf files

2012-10-14 Thread Mike Clarke
lected 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 "freebs

Re: stop and start X server in FreeBSD 9.0

2012-10-02 Thread Mike Clarke
conf. Just make your desired changes to xorg.conf, then log out of kde and switch to a console as root and killall kdm-bin. 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

Re: older version of programs in freebsd

2012-09-30 Thread Mike Clarke
(like the xzgv image viewer 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

Re: Questions about ZFS Tuning

2012-09-17 Thread Mike Clarke
ICE: Prefetch 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 _

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 ___

Re: Webpage screenshot

2012-08-05 Thread Mike Clarke
the Pixlr Grabber 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 ___

Re: How to mirror the FreeBSD OS on two disks

2012-07-12 Thread Mike Clarke
zpool export zroot zpool import -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-que

Re: USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-14 Thread Mike Clarke
reading single byte file so perhaps 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@f

Re: USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-14 Thread Mike Clarke
ne here which does appear to only blink while data is being transferred but one thing I have 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

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

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Clarke
re it could 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: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-11 Thread Mike Clarke
Dumping with the -L 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.ht

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

2012-06-10 Thread Mike Clarke
t be worth the effort. Creating ZFS 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-questi

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

2012-06-01 Thread Mike Clarke
things are happening there. I was able 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.fr

Re: Filesystem dump incremental?

2012-05-17 Thread Mike Clarke
"u", but "L" 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 o

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread Mike Clarke
ugh the manpage several times and had 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 a

Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread Mike Clarke
tmaster 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: FTP oddness, over SSH session.

2012-04-11 Thread Mike Clarke
han tunnelling ftp 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
gt; version of the port. Version 4.1.8_1 seems to be working OK for me so I'll probably stick with that for the time being unless a fix turns up before I upgrade to 9.0-RELEASE which I'm planning to do shortly. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-

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 wrote: > > 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 im

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

2012-03-20 Thread Mike Clarke
8.1-RELEASE-p8 #0: Tue Mar 20 19:00:39 GMT 2012 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"

Problem compiling emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod 4.1.8_2

2012-03-13 Thread Mike Clarke
tmaster so my ports 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"

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

2012-02-11 Thread Mike Clarke
completed on the second pass. -- 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
/xargs < HTML.manifest) sed: rename(): No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/tidy -wrap 90 -m -raw -preserve -f /dev/null -asxml $(/usr/bin/xargs < HTML.manifest) *** Error code 1 /usr/local/bin/tidy: not found 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error

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" > 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 i

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-04 Thread Mike Clarke
when the USB memory stick 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 _

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-14 Thread Mike Clarke
ch you suspect might go pear shaped 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,

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-14 Thread Mike Clarke
worth the effort. I installed 9.0-RC2 from 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 ___

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Mike Clarke
ll he has to do is write a simple link to sh/bash, 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

9.0RC2 IPV6 warnings from ntpd

2011-12-09 Thread Mike Clarke
/ntp.conf contains just a single line: server ntp.plus.net maxpoll 9 The boot messages appear to be just warnings because ntpd is working fine over IPV4 but I feel that I should try to fix this in case it leads to problems later. I certainly don'

Re: umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-07 Thread Mike Clarke
t boot. It will also require you to specify which to use in > "/etc/rc.conf" as this file can contain multiple rule sets. But can I use that to dynamically set up my link to the new device when the memory stick is inserted? -- Mike Clarke ___ fre

Re: umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-07 Thread Mike Clarke
n has to do is mount /dev/usbstick on his mount point. 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/

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 +0000, 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 >

umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-05 Thread Mike Clarke
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: upcoming 9.0 release

2011-12-02 Thread Mike Clarke
etween major 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 unsubscri

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 opt

Installing ZFS on 9.0-RC2

2011-11-22 Thread Mike Clarke
. I was able to get 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-ques

Re: poppler-qt-0.16.7

2011-11-14 Thread Mike Clarke
ed to continue with the rest of the upgrade until I'd 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
ded by other packages. 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_ad

Re: video acceleration on vbox

2011-10-25 Thread Mike Clarke
t; at the bottom of the Virtualbox "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
r portmaster or portupgrade from ports, both of these can be forced to use 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/

Re: Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-26 Thread Mike Clarke
--r--r--  1 root  wheel  90328 Sep 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 l

Re: Help with devd.conf

2011-09-24 Thread Mike Clarke
ld be appreciated, thanks. 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 ht

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-22 Thread Mike Clarke
you can no longer be sure that the source or installation scripts 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

Odd behaviour with "portmaster -r gnutls"

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Clarke
ter -a" there will be a considerable number of ports depending on gnutls which will not have 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
ss. test 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-que

Re: Follow a port of a specific major verion

2011-02-08 Thread Mike Clarke
backup package 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/

Re: Using Multiple -prune directives in a find command

2011-02-07 Thread Mike Clarke
or whatever you wanted find to do, 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

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 +0000, 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&

Re: wine questions

2011-01-27 Thread Mike Clarke
e to shell out 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

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 A

Re: Upgrade path from STABLE to RELEASE

2011-01-10 Thread Mike Clarke
ked and should I recompile from source to be safe? -- 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"

Which network driver for RTL8211 or 8201 NIC's?

2010-12-22 Thread Mike Clarke
uilt from rgephy.c. Am I going 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

Re: Clean up / filesystem

2010-10-10 Thread Mike Clarke
periodic.conf. If you prefer a different retention 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

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Mike Clarke
eeded the entire package to be downloaded. Switching 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

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 28 September 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Mike Clarke 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

Re: apropos returning same item twice

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Clarke
e here - until I realised that I still had /usr/X11R6/bin in $PATH, left over from the days before /usr/X11R6 was a link to /usr/local. Removing /usr/X11R6/bin from $PATH fixed it for me. According to the man page for manpath it "tries to determine the user's manpath from a set of syst

Re: port upgrading

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Clarke
s out. There is a good description 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,

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Clarke
e resultant bag of worms can take quite a lot of sorting out. 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/m

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Clarke
me /home partition. KMail seems to use different 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.or

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Clarke
rebuild gnupg-2.0.9_3 2) kaffeine-1.0_1 now depends 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 sinc

Re: freebsd-update newbie

2010-08-31 Thread Mike Clarke
FreeBSD Security Advisories mailing list and only running freebsd-update after any updates have been announced. <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security-notifications> -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Mike Clarke
hidden dotfiles and everything else could 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
extension has a problem with streetview 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 t

Problems with first attempts to use ZFS

2010-07-29 Thread Mike Clarke
n restore any files which might be needed. -- 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: I donot like using mergemaster ?

2010-07-26 Thread Mike Clarke
he following 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

Re: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Clarke
have to rebuild 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 unsubscr

/usr/sbin/periodic security check changing date format

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Clarke
164937 -r-sr-xr-x 1 rootwheel 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 t

Re: Convert all packages to ports

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Clarke
not ask me any questions > > Be prepared 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 pa

Updating ports - KDE3.5 and phonon

2010-06-20 Thread Mike Clarke
ng 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 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"

Which CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Clarke
far without any problems but I don't 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/listin

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

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Clarke
ook <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html>. The PAE config file provides an example of this approach. This way your kernel file shows only the changes you've made to the "standard" kernel and should make it easier to ident

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 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 syste

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 u

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Mike Clarke
le to copy your Windows partition with DriveImage XML, free 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 T

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 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 mirror

Copying mirrored partitions - will this work?

2010-03-20 Thread Mike Clarke
ething that would lead me into deep trouble? I don't mind unduly if I 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

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 +0000, Mike Clarke 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 messa

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