Re: Reinstall without reformat

be a reasonable approach. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Reinstall without reformat

that work here too? Probably yes (never tried that myself). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Reinstall without reformat

On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:01:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk? Yes. The installer supports not formatting existing

Re: what kind of freeBSD to download for my pc?

software you're going to run on that machine). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: what kind of freeBSD to download for my pc?

system.) I suggest you make yourself familiar with FreeBSD by using the resources from http://www.freebsd.org/ and you _might_ also want to check out PC-BSD (might be perfect for what you want) and VirtualBSD (easy way to try it out without installing it). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: what kind of freeBSD to download for my pc?

Typo warning! On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 03:26:45 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:50:32 -0700 (PDT), cikitaluzza wrote: can i run exe files on freeBSD? Depends. VMX EXE files may work via the SimH emulator. For ^^^ DOS EXE and Windows EXE files, there are dosbox

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

be wrong... :-) Note that my (locally installed) ports tree is not up to date anymore so you should consider performing a search on a recent tree to make sure I didn't miss anything. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:45:58 -0500, W. D. wrote: Thanks, Polytropon. I couldn't get FrieSBIE to work. It's a rather old project, and as far as I know, it isn't being continued anymore. It should still support at least the CLI mode for most computers... (I have to admit that I'm still using

Re: mounting a .iso image? ... missing man page

, change whatever you want, and use mkisofs afterwards to rebuild the (new) image, in case you want to modify its content. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: mounting a .iso image? ... missing man page

mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -f cdimage.iso` /mnt as an interesting construction in the EXAMPLES section. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

/src.txz -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: How do I ring a bell?

the advantage of being permanent because the drive will stay open when the sound of its motor has finished. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How do I ring a bell?

On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 21:09:44 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 07/10/2013 13:36, Polytropon wrote: Is there any way to make a noise through the built in bell speaker found on an IBM PC compatible server box? Writing 007 to the BIOS cout routine might do it, but I've realised I haven't got

Re: Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

:1 copy of the disk (or partition) and work with that. Check the mailing list archives for further inspiration. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 08:08:42 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/10/2013 21:41, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 16:00:25 -0400, Eric Feldhusen wrote: I see my /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC is a 9.2 kernel, so I should just be able to do a cd /usr/src make buildworld make

Re: Failure to build FreeBSD 9.2

debug.acpi.disabled=hostres to /boot/loader.conf and reboot. Source: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/errata.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

world, you should drop to single-user mode to avoid interferences with a full-featured system running in the background. This procedure (or parts of it) will also work when you have been using freebsd-update to modify your kernel, world, and sources. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: gptid's in fstab while installing FreeBSD using ISO

. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:42:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 October 2013, at 19:08, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 18:58:52 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: The exact sequence was: Step 1: freebsd-update from 9.1 to 9.2 Have you verified in /etc/freebsd

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 21:49:18 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 October 2013, at 20:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:42:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 October 2013, at 19:08, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 18:58:52 -0700, Doug

Re: cause of reboot

. It sounded just like the horizontal output on a television right before destruction. :-) I have heared something comparable from a graphics card when developing some OpenGL demo stuff. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

one of the most powerful shells. So it's a wise move to use it, because it combines the _good_ things of both worlds (and not the bad things, as the csh is a terrible scripting shell, just as plain sh is an awful dialog shell). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: Voice Mail required QuickTime

data via web pages without QT for decades. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

) to the precmd alias could not be trivial, at least regarding the C shell, because lots of quoting and escaping would be needed; maybe zsh does not behave like a madman in this regards (unmatched this, unmatched that, sytax error, cannot expand, missing argument, blah ...). :-) -- Polytropon

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:58:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:05:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: I also assume the zsh has some settings on how

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

refer to command lines where @: would repeat the last command (started with :)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:21:04 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:23:27AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:27:41 -0700, Gary Kline

Re: dangerously dedicated physical disks.

the advantages of being easy stuff known from dedicated layout by using the GPT tools, plus you gain more compatibility if this matters. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: history

in a comparable manner. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: FreeBSD stuck during the boot process.

to the mode with ACPI disabled, right? In this case, it _could_ be an ACPI problem (a really wild guess, as you have provided no information about the system you are trying to boot FreeBSD on). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: test if script called by cron

/bin/date +%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S /tmp/scriptrun # ... your script content here ... Of course you would have to manually remove that file after you have verified its existence and content. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: persistence in freeBSD

the -r or -w option. The -u flag is referenced in other sections of the manpage. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX -- TeXlive

On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:33:15 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:57:51AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:00:22 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: Personally I don't think TeX is a good fit for the ports tree (because of duplication of effort). I have to add

Re: test if script called by cron

On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:28:17 -0400, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:05:04PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:26:59 +0100, Paul Macdonald wrote: Is there a simple way of testing whether a given script was called via cron, I'd rather find a solution

Re: howto kill x if x is running?

. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX -- TeXlive

it is spelled. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: cant mount CD

ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x26 ascq=0x00 Proper cabling? Drive and media not covered with dust? ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:13:11 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 09/12/13 15:51, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:39:26 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. I need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

tool. There is no need to deal with Windows for this task. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: mount: /dev/ada0p1: Device busy Busy with what?

? Also check mount -v if the disk is really unmounted. Make sure any running fsck has been finished and try again. In worst case, manually initiate a file system check. Then try mounting the disk again. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: question

device, you need to configure this accordingly. You can find more information about this topic in the following manual pages: man 2 sigaction, man 8 crash, and man 5 core. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: ufs recovery

. Success does. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: lpd(8) sending email to the wrong address

use an alias for those specific cases (via /var/mail/aliases). Because sendmail and lpr should match archaic-wise... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: ufs recovery

! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync

line 330 (8-STABLE/i386 here). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Setup HP Laserjet 1120m over network with LPD

, let it run through the filter, and send its output directly to the printer (with netcat if networked, with to /dev/lpt or /dev/ulpt if local). If _that_ part is working, integrate it with the LPD subsystem or CUPS. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

! Mount it -o ro if needed. Make an 1:1 copy (using dd_rescue from ports), work with that copy. Everything that slips through fat fingers could reduce the chance of a successful recovery session. I know it. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

. And local options, because you have to trust your online backup provider (except it's _yourself_ who provides and maintains the systems). As always. Test restores periodically. A backup that cannot be restored is _not_ a backup. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

tool to undelete the files, as there are some for M$? /usr/ports/sysutils/testdisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk That one is also on my famous list, and if I remember correctly, also part of the UBCD for OS-less use. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: freebsd 9.2 via svn

updates. 9.2-RELEASE hasn't been released yet. :-) http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/schedule.html If you don't use a custom kernel, why not use freebsd-update and follow the 9.2-RELEASE path with the security updates? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: freebsd 9.2 via svn

for building the system. If this makes me old, I should deserve several birthday parties per year. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Mouse Trails?

remember correctly, LXDE does not offer this. Additional software like Compiz could help you here: There seems to be a plugin that adds a mouse trail. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Mouse Trails?

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 03:08:16 +0200, cpghost wrote: On 08/17/13 18:14, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:31:26 +0200, Polytropon wrote: If LXDE uses an ugly white mouse cursor, try changing it to black (the normal color for mouse cursors on all serious GUI systems

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

is associated to which key (or key combination, if this creates a new unique key event). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:07:25 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: What keyboard / laptop has the key code '150' map to 'go to sleep' ? My Sun Type 7 USB keyboard has the Copy key at code 150... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: 9.2-RC1: Problem with Kernel

as the acd interface for optical media has been trans- formed into SCSI over ATA (ex device atapicam). So the disk drive has not been recognized by the kernel, therefore: No soup for you (i. e., no boot device). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: New to Free-BSD with questions.

/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html for The FreeBSD Handbook, but it might be unhandy for printing. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 9.2-RC1: Problem with Kernel

be a significant difference regarding the config file's content. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: .sh script code to determine IPv4 or IPv6

collection? I have not checked if this specific subroutine file is part of the port... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: .sh script code to determine IPv4 or IPv6

think it should be relatively unproblematic to fetch the port and only use the subroutines as is, even if it's just for educational purposes. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Setup HP Laserjet 1120m over network with LPD

with the already mentioned CUPS, as well as the normal system's printer subsystem. However, I also have not tested if it works for the M1120, because I prefer to use printers that work, that's why I don't own such a thing. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: Assign program call to a key

On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 14:43:14 + (UTC), jb wrote: Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de writes: Is there a way to assign a predefined program call to a key in X, _independently_ from the window manager or desktop environment in use? ... https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php

Re: hardware monitor

), mbmon and xmbmon (in the ports collection). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Assign program call to a key

. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: xcdroast cannot locate cdda2wav

as a build time and a runtime dependency... I have not been able to locate cdda2wav on the system or in a port. The cdda2wav program is part of the cdrtools port. Try updating that one. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: xcdroast cannot locate cdda2wav

On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:36:37 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:37:38 +0200 Polytropon articulated: The cdda2wav program is part of the cdrtools port. Try updating that one. Been there, done that, doesn't work. I am considering doing a forced update of the xcdroast port and its

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:34:10 +0930, Shane Ambler wrote: On 29/07/2013 08:23, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:23:38 +, Teske, Devin wrote: In this case, sade is (or was) a direct by-product of the death of sysinstall(8). It only exists in 9 or higher. % which sade /usr

Re: Unusual file: /bin/[

/test are usually installed as hardlinks (two file names for one / for _the same_ file), as seen in the corresponding Makefile: LINKS= ${BINDIR}/test ${BINDIR}/[ So it's not _that_ unusual. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

version resides on what slice. You then simply do mount /dev/ufs/root83 /mnt; vi /mnt/etc/fstab and you _immediately_ know which installation you're currently dealing with. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:18:39 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: A very important question is if sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager detects that I have a FreeBSD 8.3

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

of FreeBSD. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

, but on the other hand, one would assume that there is a _reason_ for this behaviour. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

manually. Make sure that you actually understand that _what_ you are doing there is creating severe file system inconsistency errors. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Creating freebsd usb boot

can easily dd onto the USB stick. But maybe this will help you will the file you already have: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=30136 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Theft in the Clouds

refers to): http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448.pdf Source: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Fresh installation 9.1

mode terminal). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: hey some questions

/showthread.php?t=19940 Does this provide some help for you? If not, you might need to be less un-bro-like and instead more specific in regards of your problem description. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 with xterm - still French accented characters are corrupted

-character support === Use 'make config' to modify these settings I assume you have all neccessary _fonts_ installed? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Help to secure my FreeBSD/Apache installation

your handbrake light isn't working when in fact your handbrake is broken. :-) Bottom line: Directory correct, folder plain wrong. You don't call files sheets of paper either. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: rsyslog

thereof. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: UEFI Secure Boot

feel offended. I would like to see a way UEFI hardware, with or without Restricted Boot, can be used with FreeBSD _without_ involving the good will of MICROS~1. But as they have already gotten their fingers everywhere, this doesn't seem to happen all too soon... :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: install on external hdd

it probably won't work. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: install on external hdd

, and it is already connected to a second usb port. Also check the USB cable. Sometimes a partially defective cable causes this kind of trouble. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

settings that might suggest you do not have or want X11. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: X client without X server

-2.0.1_2 freetype2-2.4.12_1 pkgconf-0.9.2_1 pcre-8.33 libpthread-stubs-0.3_3 Obviously xterm does not depend on xorg-server. But one of its dependencies might. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: X client without X server

On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 18:07:11 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:47:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: [...] Obviously xterm does not depend on xorg-server. But one of its dependencies might

Re: any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup

autoboot process and escape to the loader prompt, set to NO to disable autobooting I'm using autoboot_delay=1 to limit the time which the system is waiting before continuing the boot process. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup

) before loader(8) is invoked. Booting will also be attempted at stage two, if the third stage cannot be loaded. It's always good to know where thine documentation is. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: question, following error Shared object libc.so.6 not found, required by fortune

:/usr/local/tomcat5.5 # su -c 'killall -9 java' That command doesn't make sense. The prompt indicates that you are already root. The -c parameter for the su command is missing an argument, the class. See man su for details, no programming knowledge required. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: ALT key problem with Virtual Box?

for a windowing operation (usually moving the window without requiring dragging it by the title bar). Check if you can unconfigure this setting in Gnome's window management preferences. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

programs or daemons should attention be paid at, especially? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Retrieving a FreeBSD installation

. This substitutes learning and trying yourself by impressive amounts of money. ;-) Good luck! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

not be public). There are few things that touch /root content. System updating might be one of them, but as it is typically run as root (and even in SUM), restrictive permissions above the default are no problem. To summarize the answer for your question: It's just the default. :-) -- Polytropon

Re: logging during loader

On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:40:07 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Polytropon writes: During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. It is my

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