Re: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ certificate error

2013-03-09 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On 2 March 2013 07:48, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: (Please keep me CC'd as I'm not subscribed to -questions) (I'm CC'ing Simon Nielsen who maintains the FreeBSD webserver cluster, as this obviously needs to be looked at.) [...] NOW BACK TO THE ACTUAL PROBLEM REPORTED

Re: Old releases support

2013-03-02 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On 2 Mar 2013 09:47, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Just a quick question on EOL dates. According to http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup, 7.4R support should have ended two days ago. Did it? Is Feb 28 2013 date confirmed? Next, 9.0 should reach EOL at the end of this

Problems with php5-pdo_pgsql, libpq etc. after upgrading postgresql

2011-10-23 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
php5-pdo_sqlite-5.3.8 I will appreciate any help, since I really need this calendar server. -- *Jon Theil Nielsen* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Help Finding ZFS snapshots

2011-09-05 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-09-05 17:23, Gene skrev: On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:48:22 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote --As of September 5, 2011 8:13:52 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have said: Using FreeBSD 8.1, amd64 - I wanted to recover files from a snapshot of usr/home. Everything I've found via googling refers to a link

Re: Unbootable memory stick snapshot?

2011-08-29 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2011-08-29 19:07, Neil Cafferkey skrev: Hi, I can't boot the FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201107-ia64-memstick.img snapshot. From a hexdump, it doesn't appear to have a boot block. Regards, Neil ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: MFP recommendations

2011-08-11 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2011/8/10 Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com Hi list, I want to buy another printer to use mainly with Windows. Even though I have no good feelings about those devises, that claims to be able to do everything I need. Even though, I need a better scanner with ADF and duplex printing

Re: MFP recommendations

2011-08-11 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2011/8/11 Michael cada...@tucu.net On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:51 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: 2011/8/10 Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com Since my main goal is to be able to print over the network via my FreeBSD station, I could put in another way: Can I expect that printers known

Re: find and remove ?

2011-05-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-15 19:41, Jack L. Stone skrev: At 12:19 PM 5/15/2011 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: The comamnd: #find /path/to/start/deleting -type d -name _vti_\* worked fine to give the listing of what to delete, but when just adding the -delete at the end didn't delete, just ran the listing again. I

Re: find and remove ?

2011-05-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-15 19:50, Rolf Nielsen skrev: 2011-05-15 19:41, Jack L. Stone skrev: At 12:19 PM 5/15/2011 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: The comamnd: #find /path/to/start/deleting -type d -name _vti_\* worked fine to give the listing of what to delete, but when just adding the -delete at the end didn't

Re: Comparing two lists [SOLVED (at least it looks like that)]

2011-05-07 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-07 05:11, Yuri Pankov skrev: On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 04:23:40AM +0200, Rolf Nielsen wrote: 2011-05-07 02:09, Rolf Nielsen skrev: Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do

Re: Comparing two lists [SOLVED (at least it looks like that)]

2011-05-07 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-07 05:16, b. f. skrev: 2011-05-07 02:09, Rolf Nielsen skrev: Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do exist in both files are not necessarily in the same location. Now I need

Re: Comparing two lists

2011-05-07 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-07 07:28, Robert Bonomi skrev: From listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com Fri May 6 20:14:09 2011 Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 03:13:39 +0200 From: Rolf Nielsenlistrea...@lazlarlyricon.com To: Robert Bonomibon...@mail.r-bonomi.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comparing two lists

Comparing two lists

2011-05-06 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do exist in both files are not necessarily in the same location. Now I need to compare the files and output a list of lines that exist in both

Re: Comparing two lists

2011-05-06 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-07 02:33, Polytropon skrev: On Sat, 07 May 2011 02:09:26 +0200, Rolf Nielsenlistrea...@lazlarlyricon.com wrote: Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do exist in both files

Re: Comparing two lists

2011-05-06 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-07 02:54, Robert Bonomi skrev: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri May 6 19:27:54 2011 Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 02:09:26 +0200 From: Rolf Nielsenlistrea...@lazlarlyricon.com To: FreeBSDfreebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Comparing two lists Hello all, I have two text

Re: Comparing two lists [SOLVED (at least it looks like that)]

2011-05-06 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-05-07 02:09, Rolf Nielsen skrev: Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do exist in both files are not necessarily in the same location. Now I need to compare the files and output

Re: source code

2011-04-21 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2011-04-21 14:58, philippe joffre skrev: Hi , May you help me I'm looking for the code-source FREEBSD please it's possible to send me the links . Thank you in advance . Best regards Philippe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-02-22 17:40, Alokat skrev: Hi, I have changed my shell from csh to bash ... Why? Do you use root as your regular login? But after that I have to call reboot like /sbin/reboot. How can I change that without changing the shell. :) my /root/.profile:

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2011-02-22 17:47, Alokat skrev: On 02/22/11 17:44, Rolf Nielsen wrote: 2011-02-22 17:40, Alokat skrev: Hi, I have changed my shell from csh to bash ... Why? Do you use root as your regular login? But after that I have to call reboot like /sbin/reboot. How can I change that without

Status of UDF driver on FreeBSD?

2011-02-03 Thread Rolf Nielsen
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Re: Status of UDF driver on FreeBSD?

2011-02-03 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-02-03 22:38, Alexander Best skrev: On Thu Feb 3 11, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Hello, I've never given this any thought, until I recently bought a Blu-ray drive, and realised that I can neither mount commercial Blu-ray discs or watch the films with mplayer. As I understand the problem

Re: HPLIP 3.10.9 problems on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-01-26 Thread Rolf Nielsen
config file, and it does include ulpt, at least for 8.2-PRERELEASE amd64. So, you may actually have it. But that's still the first thing I'd look for if I were you. Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: How to label a GELI device

2011-01-25 Thread Rolf Nielsen
and mount. Unfortunately, since you already encrypted da0s1d, you may have to back it up, and restore the data after you've redone it. I had this problem a few years ago, and I had to back up and restore, but perhaps it's been made simpler now? Though I doubt it. Rolf Nielsen

Re: How to label a GELI device

2011-01-25 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-25 19:13, J. Porter Clark skrev: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:29:37PM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong anyone. You need to first label da0s1d e.g. like so glabel label data da0s1d then geli init the labeled device e.g. like so geli init -l 256 -s 4096 label/data

Re: How to label a GELI device

2011-01-25 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2011-01-25 19:37, J. Porter Clark skrev: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:28:25PM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: X-Spam-Level: 2011-01-25 19:13, J. Porter Clark skrev: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:29:37PM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong anyone. You need to first label da0s1d e.g

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-18 23:56, Keith Seyffarth skrev: OK. This is still being a problem. I've removed Firefox 3.6 from my system and installed Firefox 3.5. Use of menus doesn't cause 3.5 to crash, but it sill has problems. On some web sites, the browser dumps core. For example trying to log in, create an

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-19 00:42, Keith Seyffarth skrev: Rolf, Thanks for the info. Are you by any chance overriding CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf? Or perhaps No, /etc/make.conf is just three lines: WITH_CUPS=yes # added by use.perl 2010-12-22 15:53:20 PERL_VERSION=5.10.1 even compiling using a gcc version

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems [SOLVED]

2011-01-17 Thread Rolf Nielsen
not being run as the correct user (yes, I did try with the -d option). If someone knows how to fix that, I'd be greatful, but it's not that important, at least not for the time being, so don't lose any sleep over it for me. Anyway, thanks again for the input, Rolf Nielsen

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems [SOLVED]

2011-01-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-08 13:26, Rolf Nielsen skrev: Hello, I have several e-mail addresses, and to make it easier to read them all, I use fetchmail to get the messages from the servers and deliver them to one local account. And I have a POP3 server running so I can read that local account's mail from e.g

[Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread Rolf Nielsen
or I need to clarify anything, please let me know. I'll do what I can to help you help me. :) Thanks in advance, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-08 16:01, Matthew Seaman skrev: On 08/01/2011 12:26, Rolf Nielsen wrote: So here's what I want to do. 1. Have fetchmail get the messages. Should not be a problem. 2. Have an MTA (is that the right name, I always confuse them) deliver them locally to a maildir. While you can use

Re: SD/CF card reader

2010-12-27 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2010-12-28 01:26, Polytropon skrev: ... Still the method of issuing something like # true /dev/da1 Try # mount /dev/da1 /mnt That makes GEOM taste the card, thus creating the device node(s) for the partition(s) on the card. And as long as you don't reboot, the device node(s)

Re: Sorry state of the rsync based CVS,replication

2010-11-14 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
it) we can probably rather easily set up rsync access via cvsup-master. That said, I think rsync access is likely not too interesting for most master mirrors as they likely provide access to the repo via CVSup already, so they have cvsup installed already. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD.org

Re: Can't remove or move file

2010-08-20 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2010-08-20 18:00, Rem P Roberti skrev: This is a new one for me. I converted a YouTube selection using youtube_dl and the file that was created was named -elDeJaPWGg.flv. When I try to rename it, or delete it, I get an error message thus: root@ ~: rm -elDeJaPWGg.flv rm: illegal option -- e

Re: mrtg-2.16.2_6,1 does not run with perl-5.12.1_1

2010-08-02 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/8/2 Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com Hi list After upgrading perl according to UPDATING, I cannot use mrtg anymore. The error message is: Bareword P_DETACH not allowed while strict subs in use at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.1/MRTG_lib.pm line 1172. Compilation failed

Re: mrtg-2.16.2_6,1 does not run with perl-5.12.1_1

2010-08-02 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/8/2 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz On 2010-08-02 10:49, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: 2010/8/2 Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com Hi list After upgrading perl according to UPDATING, I cannot use mrtg anymore. The error message is: Bareword P_DETACH not allowed

mrtg-2.16.2_6,1 does not run with perl-5.12.1_1

2010-08-01 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
it myself? Cheers, Jon -- Jon Theil Nielsen ___ 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: Digital camera for FreeBSD

2010-07-18 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2010-07-18 19:06, Polytropon skrev: On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:21:42 -0400, Robert Amesroberta...@hotmail.com wrote: If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images

Re: resize freebsd slice

2010-06-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2010-06-12 15:50, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas skrev: i have a problem while i am trying to restore the dump files.. i followed your instructions but when i give restore -rf /backup/root.dump i receive the following error: expected next file 188417,got 4 and the output of ls in the /mnt directory

Re: resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2010-06-11 15:30, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas skrev: hello, in my machine i have gentoo and freebsd installed. i was using gentoo until i installed successfully FBSD,now i want to make my FBSD slice bigger.. i have 4 slices: ad0s1-gentoo ad0s2-linux swap ad0s3-free space (no type) ad0s4-FBSD

Re: resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2010-06-11 19:17, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas skrev: ok,but if i delete this 2 slices then i will delete my entire system.. then should i have to install it from the beggining,but i don't want to do that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: diablo-jdk-1.6 firefox plugin... doesn't work

2010-05-26 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2010-05-26 17:02, Neil Short skrev: New installation. having some problems. diablo-jdk-1.6 plugin isn't working in firefox. Some pertinent output: carmen# java -version java version 1.6.0_07 Diablo Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b02) Diablo Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-12 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/2 Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: 2010/5/1 Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-12 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/12 A. Wright and...@qemg.org On 2010/5/2, Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk wrote: frhed. Next write the data back to the disk: dd if=/tmp/hdr of=/dev/da0s2 On 2010/5/12, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: obviously this is not the case. So I'll dd the existing partitions to another

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev

More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs,

Fwd: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com Date: 2010/4/30 Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions To: Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com 2010/4/30 Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com

Fwd: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 19:44 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? Just a matter of interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 Polytropon free...@edvax.de On Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 which at least tells me that is has been

Re: What`s mistake in MYKERNEL?

2010-04-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-04-12 17:24, oleg wrote: Hi all users of Free BSD! I am really hopeing that someone can assist me here. Got some mistake in the course of assemblage kernel. Can`t understand myself, what`s wrong? My system is: FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE-201002 #0: Tue Feb 16 21:05:59 UTC 2010 That tree of src

Re: What`s mistake in MYKERNEL?

2010-04-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-04-12 17:24, oleg wrote: Hi all users of Free BSD! I am really hopeing that someone can assist me here. Got some mistake in the course of assemblage kernel. Can`t understand myself, what`s wrong? My system is: FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE-201002 #0: Tue Feb 16 21:05:59 UTC 2010 That tree of src

Re: Tool to produce A5 booklet from A4 pages PS / PDF

2010-04-01 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-04-02 02:27, Polytropon wrote: In order NOT to try to reinvent the wheel, I'd like to ask if anyone knows a tool that does helps to produce a printable and foldable booklet from A4 pages. I'm searching for a tool that scales down and reorders A4 pages (from a document, usually PS or

Re: Automatic Way to Tell if a FreeBSD system is 64 or 32-bit?

2010-03-16 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-03-16 18:02, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there a FreeBSD command similar to the Linux arch command? I have built a fairly decent Bourne shell script to run just after installing mfsbsd on a target system. It figures out the likely boot drive, formats it and then begins to

kmem_size / arc_max ratio

2010-02-02 Thread Rolf Nielsen
with larger arc size, so I would like to set it as high as possible without causing problems for or degradation of other kernel tasks and/or user applications. Please let me know if you need any further information about my system. Cheers, Rolf Nielsen

Re: Generating normally distributed random numbers.

2010-01-31 Thread Rolf Nielsen
it comes to math, but strangely I've never programmed computers for it. Thank you for your suggestions. I haven't yet looked too carefully into them, so I haven't decided which approach to use. But your suggestions have given me ideas to work on. Thanks, Rolf Nielsen

Generating normally distributed random numbers.

2010-01-30 Thread Rolf Nielsen
, but strangely I've never programmed computers for it. Any help will greatly appreciated. Cheers, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-01-16 02:42, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:37 PM,davidowe...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I will be deleting the Window's stuff on the machine How would i SSH to the Linux pc and what software should i install one of the first things you should understand is FreeBSD is Not

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
, as it is basically a reply to my post, and my post was OT as it was simply a reaction to the original poster's mistake of saying Linux and meaning FreeBSD. Cheers, Rolf Nielsen P.S. No, I'm not trying to be a smart arse. ;) ___ freebsd-questions

Correcting misconceptions? (was Re: Server set up)

2010-01-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-01-16 04:53, Jon Radel wrote: Rolf Nielsen wrote: Secondly (also just for clarity, I guess), most of your post is OT, as it is basically a reply to my post, and my post was OT as it was simply a reaction to the original poster's mistake of saying Linux and meaning FreeBSD. Which

Re: Crontab not working logwatch.pl [FreeBSD 8 stable]

2010-01-13 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-01-13 21:43, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Hi folks, Im having probs when a root crontab located on /var/cron/tabs/root with this content # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.DUtgfVoBT0 installed on Wed Jan 13 20:08:29 2010) # (Cron version -- $FreeBSD:

Re: Crontab not working logwatch.pl [FreeBSD 8 stable]

2010-01-13 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-01-13 22:04, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: did a crontab -r, a a new crontab -e, using: * * * * * $HOME/.profile ; /bin/bash /var/log/auto_auth.sh * * * * * $HOME/.profile ; /usr/bin/perl /local/sbin/logwatch.pl tailing the /var/log/cron I can see that is being executed every minute... but no

zpool upgrade - is it safe?

2010-01-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
and/or booting into singleuser? Rolf Nielsen ___ 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: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
On 2010-01-12 22:04, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are

Re: zpool upgrade - is it safe?

2010-01-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-01-12 22:57, krad wrote: 2010/1/12 Rolf Nielsen listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com mailto:listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com Hi all, I just upgraded to a more recent version of 8.0-STABLE, and I noticed during boot that zfs had changed from version 13 to version 14. Is it safe

Re: Burning an audio CD

2009-12-30 Thread Rolf Nielsen
, install and reboot or kldload atapicam as root in the console or an xterm. To automate it, add atapicam_load=YES to your /boot/loader.conf. Good luck, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Burning an audio CD

2009-12-30 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2009-12-30 23:50, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:23:40PM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: On 2009-12-30 23:08, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Today I tried to burn an audio CD. This may actually be the first time I ever did this. I'm sure there are all kinds of GUIey tools, but I

Re: setlocale command is missing

2009-12-25 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Daniel Dvořák wrote: Hi, I updated a mc port to the last one, version 4.7.0pre4 and wanted to run mc, but mc display a warning message that the selected display charset or source codeset does not match one set via locale. I have never seen this message since I am a user of mc. Propably it is

Re: build 7.x kernel without zfs

2009-12-24 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
, and add the listed modules to the MODULES_OVERRIDE. You can also specify that you don't want debug symbols built by removing or commenting out the makeoptions DEBUG=-g line. Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD boot invalid partition

2009-12-23 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Michel Le Cocq wrote: I just dump a real host and try to restore it on a virtual host under kvm. When booting under KVM i see this : Booting From hard Disk... Invalid partition Invalid partition No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386/Boot Default:

Supressing dd output

2009-12-23 Thread Rolf Nielsen
not to have to. Has anyone got any ideas? Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas to all of you, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Supressing dd output

2009-12-23 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Noel Jones wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Rolf Nielsen listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com wrote: Hello everyone, I'm wondering if there's a way to supress the summary output from dd. I'm working on a backup script, that encrypts the backups, and after encrypting overwrites the unencrypted

Re: [NOT SOLVED]Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Leslie Jensen wrote: You where right! One of them loaded the other so problem solved :-) Thank you! You where right, but it's the wrong order They must be loaded in the reverse order. Sorry This is purely empirical knowledge, and I can't back it up by documentation. If module

Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/ I found the answer here:

Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

2009-12-21 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Leslie Jensen wrote: On 2009-12-21 17:35, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Leslie Jensen wrote: Following the suggestion here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664postcount=5 To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/ Produces the following: WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup

Re: Any chance ZFS becoming default?

2009-12-19 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Reko Turja wrote: under Other Kernel: ZFS as default So anyone running 32bit or under 2Gb of memory don't need to bother with FreeBSD anymore after 9.0 RELEASE? Since when does changing the default action imply making the previous default impossible or even difficult? And since when does

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-17 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm creating binary files in fortran. Fortran adds 4 byte record delimiters at the beginning and the end of each record, which, in the case of a binary file, is just at the beginning and at the end of the file. I need to delete these record delimiters, because the

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-17 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 02:09:58AM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm creating binary files in fortran. Fortran adds 4 byte record delimiters at the beginning and the end of each record, which, in the case of a binary file, is just

Native PDF viewer

2009-12-16 Thread Rolf Nielsen
ideas or can tell me what the pros and cons are for some of those apps, I'd greatly appreciate it. Cheers, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Native PDF viewer

2009-12-16 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Ed Jobs wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009 05:04, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Hi all, Since I don't have Linux compat layer activated, and I have no need for it, I'd like to ask if anyone can suggest a native PDF viewer (I'm not fond of the idea of installing a compat layer for just one application

Re: Nvidia amd64 driver (WAS: Root exploit for FreeBSD )

2009-12-13 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 12 December 2009 22:44:54 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 12 December 2009 21:23:00 Rolf Nielsen wrote: Where's that? The Nvidia site says nothing about it yet, and the makefile for x11/nvidia-driver still says ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386. I'm eagerly

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: Are you sure that OpenBSD has a better record? I found this for loose reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#Security_and_code_auditing I will say that even though on the surface OpenBSD appears to have a better track record security wise I tend to use FreeBSD

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 12 December 2009 21:23:00 Rolf Nielsen wrote: Where's that? The Nvidia site says nothing about it yet, and the makefile for x11/nvidia-driver still says ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386. I'm eagerly waiting for it, but I can't find anything other than a forum post (I don't have

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2009-12-09 Thread Rolf Nielsen
RW wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:42:31 -0800 (PST) James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca wrote: I sort of followed the discussion as well. There was some disagreement about what dangreously dedicated means. Does it mean getting rid of the DOS partition table (slices?) Or, does it mean

Re: make delete-old question

2009-12-09 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Frank Shute wrote: Hi, Successfully upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0 but had my usual problem when jumping major versions with the make delete-old target. The problem being that it asks me to confirm deletion of each lib/file with a y and a return. I've found that I never say n to any deletion and it

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-05 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Charlie Kester wrote: On Fri 04 Dec 2009 at 22:38:22 PST Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Michael Powell wrote: Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? Does the less need to be patched in

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-04 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
, or shouldn't they work at all? Sincerely, Rolf Nielsen ___ 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

ZFS pools of consisting of several mirrors

2009-12-01 Thread Rolf Nielsen
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Re: ZFS pools of consisting of several mirrors

2009-12-01 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 01), Rolf Nielsen said: In experimenting a bit with ZFS, I, among other things, tried something like this zpool create -R /test test mirror file[01]0 mirror file[01]1 mirror file[01]2 mirror file[01]3 mirror file[01]4 mirror file[01]5

Re: bash script question

2009-12-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
the difference between $* and $@ and an explanation as to why I quote the $@). #!/bin/sh mkdir $@ Cheers, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: bash script question

2009-12-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 10:42:10PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:06:34 +0100, Rolf G Nielsen laz...@lazlarlyricon.com wrote: Why are you using bash? To make a shell script as portable as possible, use /bin/sh. Bash is a third party shell, that isn't

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
approach too, and both have worked well for me. The latter approach is more time consuming, but ensures you have all your ports after the upgrade, while the former approach takes less time and may help get rid of ports you no longer need. Good luck. :) Rolf Nielsen

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
-DBATCH or -M -DBATCH to portupgrade to append or prepend the -DBATCH to the make commandline). Cheers, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: NFS and crossmount

2009-11-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 16 November 2009 06:10:23 Patrik Usher wrote: I'm chaning fileserver to a FreeBSD 7.2 from my old linux and can't find how to define the option crossmnt (crossmount) for NFS. Does anyone know if it's supported under FreeBSD 7 and if so, how to define it ? I don't believe a similar

Re: Loader does not load after reinstall with previous mirrored disk attached

2009-11-18 Thread Rolf Nielsen
my clam, neither by documentation nor reports from others, so I would still recommend backing your data up before issuing gmirror clear. Cheers, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Failure to do netinstall

2009-10-30 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 30 October 2009 03:12:29 Vadim Maksimenko wrote: I have faced an unpleasant fact that your netinstall ability of 7.2 RELEASE and 8.0-RC2 are dead. My network card is being identified and initialized properly (an old 3com980), it gets DHCP setup (IP, gateway, DNS info is ok), but...

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/30 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Where's your config files, your errors logs, your stats? I am not going to reply to you after this because you are blinkered. I'm not going to

PAM and xdm woes

2009-10-27 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
in the kernel?) Any help appreciated. Sincerely, Rolf Nielsen ___ 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: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-02 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Where do I vote to have them continue forever not creating a FreeBSD version of that crap? -- Rolf Nielsen

Re: Wake up time

2009-09-21 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
is that timers usually require a time to switch on and a time to switch off. So if you need the time that the machine is awake variable, it won't be as easy. Roland There are such timers, that run over a week rather than just 24 hours, and they can have different times each day. -- Rolf Nielsen

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