Re: texlive and package updating

2013-08-10 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On 09/08/13 18:40, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I've given up on all OS distribution-based TexLive drops. I install texlive manually from their installer and then run tlmgr under cron control nightly to keep it up-to-date. I do this on FreeBSD (my primary dev and server platform) as well as all

Re: Commercial Licensing

2013-08-10 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On 10/08/13 03:41, Someth San wrote: Hello, I'm interested in installing FreeBSD into a small form factor PC for commercial use and was wondering whether there is a EULA in place for that purpose. I would like to avoid the open source requirement of disclosing my codes to a public

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-28 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:09:33PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Nikola Pavlović n...@riseup.net wrote: Hi, Last night during a massive (~1 year worth :| ) portsnap fetch the server went unresponsive and ssh eventually disconnected. I decided

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-28 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:06:45AM -0700, Charles Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jun 27, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Charles Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: If you haven't rebuilt the mirror already, running a full disk read scan

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-28 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:36:59AM +0200, Nikola Pavlović wrote: I'm still a bit reluctant to run the ports tree update again, but I'll ask on -ports@ for further assistance with that. Actually, no need. I retried it and it worked without any problem. -- Fantasies are free

Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-26 Thread Nikola Pavlović
Hi, Last night during a massive (~1 year worth :| ) portsnap fetch the server went unresponsive and ssh eventually disconnected. I decided to leave it during the night, and, sure enough, the situation was the same in the morning, so I had to do a hard reset. It came back up, but one of the two

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:04:35PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:05:37 -0500, David Jackson wrote: Many of your issues are non-issues, as your suggestions were implemented in some form long ago.

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-03 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 06:37:07AM +1030, David Walker wrote: So I installed amd64 9.0 tonight and decided against installing ports. I'm at a point now where I'm thinking about adding it and I see sysinstall: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html Looks easy. For some unknown

Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

2012-02-19 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 05:17:59AM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Here is the thing I alluded to under option (1).  The security patch for the unix domain socket problem came out in two chunks.  There was

Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

2012-02-19 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 06:00:50PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 19/02/2012 17:49, Nikola Pavlović wrote: If it will feel you more confident that everything is OK, I too have -p3 reported from the kernel, but -p6 in newvers.sh. I remember a discussion shortly after FreeBSD-SA-11:05-unix

Re: [OT] Build deps caching (was: How to prevent gam_server from running?)

2012-02-16 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 08:00:28AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 16/02/2012 02:44, Nikola Pavlović wrote: (Yes some of the stuff in that list can be weeded out with pkg_cutleaves but they end coming back as build dependencies of other stuff that I do need). You know that portmaster(8

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-15 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:57:38PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them seem to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and once this thing is

Re: Using sendmail as a client with auth

2012-02-14 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 06:49:52AM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-02-13 17:35, Nikola Pavlović skrev: There are lightweight MTAs just for this purpose, I use mail/msmtp and it works great with multiple accounts. Usually, this is much simpler to set up than using a real MTA like Sendmail

Re: Using sendmail as a client with auth

2012-02-13 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 03:28:45PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 13/02/2012 15:08, Bernt Hansson wrote: Is this is OT then i'm sorry. Trying to get sendmail act as a mua, following this tutorial http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html Scroll down a bit to Using send

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-07 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:06:49PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 07:36:46PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: However, from personal experience, I know that Larry Wall understands Object Oriented Programming, and Guido definitely doesn't get it. Obviously, other people

Re: Support Issue 164620

2012-01-31 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:28:25PM -0600, Morris Allen wrote: To whom it may concern: My question is? So is this problem in the process of being looked at? Or am I being directed to a different group in the BSD support staff? It's an automatic notice to let you know

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-10 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 03:56:39PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: And that's just the way it is now. Try replicating the wealth of information you get in various config files in FreeBSD in a GUI. Just how hard it is to open a simple text file in an editor and just fracking do what it tells

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-02 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 03:32:17PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: An OS should strive to be a better platform for many people, including techies and non-techies. A good software design philosophy is that good software works out of the box without configuration using reasonable defaults, but,

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-02 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 02:59:20PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: FreeBSD is very well documented! I guess a lot of people can't cope with how structured and professional it is. They are used to chaos, fear, uncertainty and doubt and feel comfortable that way. My experience is that

Re: FreeBSD on Amazon AWS EC2 for production servers?

2011-12-17 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:42:01PM -0500, firm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Amazon AWS offers a free tier service for the first year, for one running instance of FreeBSD (and other OS's) It's a great place to experiment for free if you don't have any spare hardware. I have installed a few

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-03 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:47:11PM -0400, Louis Marrero wrote: Here are some questions that can help my understanding: 1. I know that Windows is an OS, and Linux/Unix as well as FreeBSD are other Operating System. My very basic question is this: Is it even possible to install a

Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 02:00:37PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: This is not a technical question. Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. You could say that I'd like to judge Apple's moral