Re: Safe way to repair corrupted GPT partition table?

2013-01-20 Thread Bob Willcox
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 05:19:03PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2013, Bob Willcox wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 07:25:09AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:08:25 -0600 Bob Willcox b...@immure.com wrote: Is there a way to repair a GPT partition

Re: Safe way to repair corrupted GPT partition table?

2013-01-19 Thread Bob Willcox
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 07:25:09AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:08:25 -0600 Bob Willcox b...@immure.com wrote: Is there a way to repair a GPT partition table that has gotten corrupted (following a system hang during heavy I/O to a ZFS filesystem)? I

Re: Safe way to repair corrupted GPT partition table?

2013-01-19 Thread Bob Willcox
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 07:40:59PM -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 January 2013 15:08, Bob Willcox b...@immure.com wrote: Is there a way to repair a GPT partition table that has gotten corrupted (following a system hang during heavy I/O to a ZFS filesystem)? I now get these errors

Safe way to repair corrupted GPT partition table?

2013-01-18 Thread Bob Willcox
amd64 Any help would be much appreciated. -- Bob Willcox| LIVING YOUR LIFE: b...@immure.com |A task so difficult, it has never been attempted before. Austin, TX | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

FreeBSD, Wine and Borderlands 2

2012-09-23 Thread Bob Silver
Hi, I was wondering if there were any gamers out there and if anyone of you had tried and had any luck with the game Borderlands 2 on Wine. I've been trying all day with informations from there: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=versioniId=26674iTestingId=73988 But nothing seems

Repeaters [off topic]

2012-08-21 Thread Bob Hall
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Re: what is the best kind of KVM Switch?

2012-08-11 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:18:59PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: guys, can any of you with hardware background tell me which are the better KVM makes? about three weeks ago my Belkin soho 4-port kvm switch started going flakey on port #1. I ordered a new one,

Product Inquiry!.8

2012-05-22 Thread Bob Sup LLC
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Product Inquiry!6

2012-05-22 Thread Bob Sup LLC
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Product Inquiry!

2012-05-22 Thread Bob Sup LLC
Hello Sales, 1 I will like to have your newly updated site,so that i can give you the list of what i really want from your website. Also i need you to confirm if you accept credit card orders and you can use FedEx or Ups to ship within United State Kindly reply back asap today. Thanks

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-29 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:54:06AM +0100, RW wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:17:41 -0400 Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:10:10AM +0100, RW wrote: I'm not saying that anonymous mappings used by malloc aren't zero-filled, just that it's not mentioned anywhere

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-28 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:10:10AM +0100, RW wrote: I'm not saying that anonymous mappings used by malloc aren't zero-filled, just that it's not mentioned anywhere in the mmap man page. I think it's just taken as read. I just got what you're trying to say. Unfortunately, your quotes mislead me

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-27 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: The above quote states that the memory not occupied by the remapped object is zero filled. Which is to say that memory allocated by mmap() is either filled with new data or filled with zeros. In context it says:     If

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-25 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:18:46PM +0100, RW wrote: I don't believe the heap is allocated zeroed pages. The kernel does allocate such pages to the BSS segment, but that's because it holds zeroed data such as C static variables. According to McKusick and Neville-Neil's book on FreeBSD, sbrk

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-25 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:46:33PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:18:46PM +0100, RW wrote: I don't believe the heap is allocated zeroed pages.  The kernel does allocate such pages to the BSS segment

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-25 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:29:08PM +0100, RW wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:54:20 -0400 Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:46:33PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:18:46PM

Re: Image activator

2011-04-20 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:48:38AM +0530, akash kumar wrote: Hi, Can someone throw light on what ELF image activators is all about and point me to some good articles on it. You mean the thingy that starts execution of a file by setting up process memory and remapping the text and initialized

statclock vs softclock

2011-01-19 Thread Bob Hall
I hope this is the correct forum. I'm reading The Design Implementation of the FreeBSD OS by McKusick Neville-Neil, I'm a little confused about statclock( ) and softclock( ). According to the book, statclock( ) ticks 128 times per second, and recalculates the priority of the current process

Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?

2011-01-12 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 08:21:45PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:17:10 +0900, Ryuichiro Hara r...@kibug.org wrote: Hello, It might be all right to remove all normal file logs, though you may want to retain all subdirectories. find /var/log -type f -exec rm {} \;

Portupgrade status [Was Re: Portmaster general questions and problems]

2010-12-26 Thread Bob Hall
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:39:58AM -0800, Ron (Lists) wrote: But, due to portupgrade no longer being maintained and failing to work anymore, I'm a bit confused about this. I did a quick google search and saw that someone had stopped maintaining portupgrade, but I also saw things that suggested

Bluray Driver support

2010-11-01 Thread Brower, Bob
but not specifically DVD or Bluray. Best Regards, Bob Brower AMD Hardware Test Engineering 90 Central Street Boxboro, MA 01719 P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ---BeginMessage--- Your mail to 'freebsd-questions' with the subject Driver Query Is being held

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 10/20/2010 11:55 AM, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline

Re: Little question about device driver name

2010-09-24 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:04:06PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Hi folks, I just wonder why if_bridge(4) is prefixed by if_ for device name. Every other device name like lagg(4), gif(4) are not prefixed with this same one. if_bridge was based on bridge. I assume that when the updated

Re: Is this bunk.

2010-08-22 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:25:34AM +0100, Garry wrote: Mac OS X is basically BSD that's been appleised (serious vendor lock-in), they do give a little back to BSDs, but have made sure that BSDs can't get much off of them, but they can get a lot out of BSD. If the kernel is the basis of an OS,

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 09:52:07AM +0200, ?? wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:55:04 -0600 Dale Scott dalesc...@shaw.ca wrote: Personally, I enjoy our mascot Beastie, as well as the Beastie-influenced official logo. I also smile when I see Casper, Wendy andHotStuff. However, I also

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:03:07AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:15:27AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: Beastie is the mascot, and the sex toy is the logo. It is only the mascot that the OP objected to. He didn't mention any objections to the logo. Actually, the OP

Re: Directory Passwords

2010-06-12 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 02:52:59PM -0400, Mike Robins wrote: Hi there, I currently am running a FreeBSD/Samba server for my company with public shares for all of the employees to keep their work related documents in. I'm wondering if it is possible for me to keep these shares public and add a

Bob Falanga wants to chat

2010-06-01 Thread Bob Falanga
--- Bob Falanga wants to stay in better touch using some of Google's coolest new products. If you already have Gmail or Google Talk, visit: http://mail.google.com/mail/b-57cb37aca1-9b1131bce3-X-GTz_KWexz0X-oykVWNas5Ui74 You'll

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:53:39PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2010 05:18:07 pm Bob Hall wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:36:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: ps: antiword same as catdoc. back to my per substitutions. that works, along with vi's Builtin subs. Have

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:45:38AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: Another possibility, if you haven't considered it, is using sed to convert everything. If you know all the characters that need to be Never mind. I just remembered about the garbage at the beginning of doc files. I had forgotten that I

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-27 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:36:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: ps: antiword same as catdoc. back to my per substitutions. that works, along with vi's Builtin subs. Have you considered using whatever replaces the most special characters, and fixing the few characters that remain with

Re: Autoresponders [pa...@magi.magidesign.com: [#24508600] Re: Need advise.]

2010-05-20 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:37:22PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: Headers attached, so we can stop this nonsense in the future. I've gotten the same thing, and I'm a bit confused. What exactly is going on? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Question not found in FAQs or other documentation

2010-05-15 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:57:35PM -0400, jon wrote: To whom it concerns, I am a relatively basic/amateur computer user and I just noticed today that my recent servers lists Free BSD. I do not knowingly connect to any outside servers and am concerned that any server has been connected

Why is Qemu not in Handbook

2010-04-14 Thread Bob Johnson
to http://wiki.freebsd.org/qemu would be helpful. Thanks, -- -- Bob Johnson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Setting firewall symbolic constants

2010-03-30 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:52:57AM -0500, Walter wrote: Can these be set by the system automatically? Specifically $firewall_simple_onet? I use onet=`ifconfig if | grep inet | awk '{print $6}'` where if is rl0 or em0 or whatever the outward facing interface is for your system.

Re: Setting firewall symbolic constants

2010-03-30 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 04:17:22PM -0500, Walter wrote: Can these be set by the system automatically? Specifically $firewall_simple_onet? My first response never showed up. Second try. I use onet=`ifconfig rl0 | grep inet | awk '{print $6}'` where rl0 is the outward facing NIC on

Re: tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending and solving the issue of ZFS writes choking read IO

2010-03-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
written per TXG. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending and solving the issue of ZFS writes choking read IO

2010-03-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
. The fix required adding a scheduling class which allowed the kernel thread doing the compression to be less than the priority of normal user processes (such as the X11 server). Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick

fdisk fails with Class not found

2010-02-17 Thread Bob Willcox
the output from an fdisk attempt below. Thanks, Bob r...@tavion:10 /usr/home/bob fdisk -uv *** Working on device /dev/ad4 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=969021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturallynot the administrator root

2010-02-13 Thread Bob Johnson
to a shell as the last field on the line. The root account should provide a good example, or look at the line for your own user account. /bin/csh should work for recent versions of FreeBSD. - Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Johnson
, the PAM subsystem can allow remote root logins when you think they are disabled. You have to be careful to configure SSH (and anything else that uses PAM) correctly in that situation. - Bob Johnson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 2/11/10, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:58:07PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On 2/11/10, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? Yes, use vipw to edit the password file. Add another

Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

2010-02-04 Thread Bob Johnson
to the correct make.conf settings for the Linux kernel stuff. -- -- Bob Johnson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Swap Partition First?

2010-01-27 Thread Bob Johnson
://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- -- Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
of 124,347KB/second. The drives themselves are capable of 100MB/second range performance. Similar to yourself, I see 1/2 the write performance due to bandwidth limitations. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer

NDIS panics (Was: Can I rescan for new PCI devices? Or should hotplugging Expresscards work?)

2010-01-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/9/10, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/16/09, Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using an ExpressCard for wireless networking because there seems to be no driver for the internal card in my laptop (and NDIS panics the system). The Expresscard shows up as a PCI device

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread Bob Johnson
of=disk.img bs=512 conv=sync,noerror will replace the unreadable blocks with blocks of NULs. -- -- Bob Johnson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

2010-01-05 Thread Bob Johnson
is popular). -- -- Bob Johnson ___ 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: snd_hda blues

2010-01-04 Thread Bob Johnson
at it. - Bob On 1/4/10, Sandra Kachelmann s.kachelm...@googlemail.com wrote: I am trying to get my HDA based soundcard work on both output jacks (back by the card and on the jack on top of the tower). With earlier FreeBSD versions I was able to have my speakers plugged in on the back of my

Can I rescan for new PCI devices? Or should hotplugging Expresscards work?

2009-12-16 Thread Bob Johnson
found on the topic, it appears that automated hotplugging of PCI devices is probably still work in progress, but is there a way to manually have the system rescan for PCI devices so I don't have to reboot when I insert the network card? I'm using 8.0 RELEASE amd64. Thanks! -- -- Bob Johnson

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread Bob Johnson
and gets confused without it. It appears that it has happened again. Thanks for helping to clear up my confusion... I hope I helped. -- -- Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Support for Hauppauge 950Q USB tuner

2009-11-02 Thread Bob McIsaac
mobo which has Intel ION and Nvidia chipsets. Mplayer must have vdpau enabled. I am not fond of MythTv, in case anyone is wondering. =Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Disk vs Disc (was: WD External Disc Drive)

2009-10-26 Thread Bob Johnson
. - Bob -- -- Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com ___ 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 hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-19 Thread Bob Hall
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:48:55AM -0400, PJ wrote: Bob Hall wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 05:36:43PM -0400, PJ wrote: Bob Hall wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:34:40AM +, Mark wrote: Actually, this has got very little to do with being a native English

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 05:36:43PM -0400, PJ wrote: Bob Hall wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:34:40AM +, Mark wrote: Actually, this has got very little to do with being a native English speaker or not. It's ere a matter of intonation (which, in writing, can only be conveyed

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:27:42PM -0400, PJ wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:54:23 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: but from man tunefs: BUGS This utility should work on active file systems. What in hades does this mean--just above it says cannot be run on active

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:34:40AM +, Mark wrote: Actually, this has got very little to do with being a native English speaker or not. It's ere a matter of intonation (which, in writing, can only be conveyed to a certain degree, of course). 'Should' can certainly mean Don't try that. As

Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy

2009-09-09 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: http://site1/dir/; http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; http://site4/dir/; I'm want to match http:* and stop

Re: Restarting hal

2009-07-25 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:41:38AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:02:39 -0400, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: Aside from the ctrl-alt-bksp bug, this has been the easiest X setup I've ever done. I've tried it with and without hal and both are easy to set up. Given my level

Re: Restarting hal

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 08:57:43AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:43:50 -0400, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to get hal to reload its configuration withou rebooting? I've tried sending a HUP signal and I've tried rc.d/hal restart, but so far rebooting

Re: vim port have a lot of broken links ??

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:13:43PM +0200, Kalle Mller wrote: When I try to install vim from ports it tries 4-5 sites which all have to time out... and with a 200 files.. thats a lot of timeouts.. Who should I poke to, so the mirrors would be updated ?? -- Med Venlig Hilsen Hi Kalle, If

Restarting hal

2009-07-23 Thread Bob Hall
Thanks to Manolis Kiagias's suggestion, I was able to get ctrl+alt+bksp working in xorg again. However, I've noticed that just restarting hal leaves me with no mouse or keyboard in X. I have to reboot the system to get a mouse keyboard in X. Is there a way to get hal to reload its configuration

Re: Using ctorrent or other program to seed a torrent

2009-06-30 Thread Bob Johnson
, ctorrent automatically seeds for 72 hours after it finishes the download, and you can adjust that. -- Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Problem with burncd

2009-06-09 Thread Bob Johnson
by your post (no filesystem, other software) have been addressed by others, but fwiw I use mkisofs to build the filesystem, and then burncd to burn it to the cd. For storing data on DVDs, growisofs is much more convenient, install it as part of sysutils/dvd+rw-tools. -- Bob Johnson fbsdli

Re: something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Bob Johnson
86.754 ms 86.816 ms - Bob ___ 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: Inspiron 15 (aka 1545)

2009-05-26 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/16/09, Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote: This question has sort of been asked before, but I never saw a clear answer, so here it is, in the hope that someone can save me some time: I need a cheap, simple, reasonably light laptop, but not a tiny display, and I'm looking at the Best

Re: Inspiron 15 (aka 1545)

2009-05-19 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/17/09, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: Bob Johnson skrev: [...] I need a cheap, simple, reasonably light laptop, but not a tiny display, and I'm looking at the Best Buy pre-configured Inspiron 15 (i.e. Inspiron 1545). Anyone have direct experience with FreeBSD amd64 on one

Inspiron 15 (aka 1545)

2009-05-16 Thread Bob Johnson
802.11b/g. Will I be able to build an NDIS driver (presumably on 7.2-RELEASE amd64)? Is the ExpressCard 34 slot supported? Best Buy's description is at http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9149414type=productid=1218036213682 Thanks, -- Bob

Re: Assign IP address and hostname via kernel parameter

2009-05-06 Thread Bob Bishop
boot.netif.ip=192.168.198.8 boot.netif.netmask=255.255.255.0 to values obtained from BOOTP or DHCP, and the right things happen. I guess you could just set these in loader.conf or at the loader prompt. -- Bob Bishop r...@gid.co.uk ___ freebsd

Re: where do I find libthr

2009-05-01 Thread Bob Falanga
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:36 PM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/1 Bob Falanga rfalang@gmail.com: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:30 AM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: (please include the list in your email) This is Andy replying for my father. Sorry about

where do I find libthr

2009-04-30 Thread Bob Falanga
I am using pcbsd 6.3 When I try to use apache22 or kdesvn I get an error message (Shared object libthr.so.3 not found, required by libapr-1.so.2) Can anyone help me? Bob Falanga ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: MailScanner sendmail

2009-04-17 Thread Bob Willcox
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 06:27:19AM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 03:15 PM 4/15/2009, Bob Willcox wrote: I asked this question in freebsd-ports (in a different way as I thought maybe I could clarify the situation some by rewording it) the other day and didn't receive any reply so I thought I

MailScanner sendmail

2009-04-15 Thread Bob Willcox
or that may have changed between 6.4 and 7.2, but don't really know where to look. Any help or tips on things to do/check would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bob -- Bob Willcox The trouble with doing something right the first b...@immure.com time is that nobody appreciates

CUPS

2009-04-13 Thread Bob Falanga
I have installed cups on freebsd. The printer configures OK. When I try a test print in localhost:631 I get an error message: /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failedI need help with this one. Thank you, Bob Falanga ___ freebsd-questions

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-08 Thread Bob Johnson
On 4/8/09, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Tuesday 07 April 2009 23:35:03 Bob Johnson wrote: On 4/4/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi all [...] My suggestion is to start with a ports tree that is fixed in time. Make that ports tree available as part

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-07 Thread Bob Johnson
for Flash 9), and to figure out how to get the Gnome-related stuff to update smoothly without the constant need for manual interference (I get tired of running gnomeloganalyzer). But that's a discussion for a different thread. -- -- Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com

GELI full disk, booting from thumb drive - can't get to /usr?

2009-03-14 Thread bob
I've been trying to set up a system (7.0 Release) with full-disk encryption, using GELI, and booting from a thumb drive. When booting, it gets as far as asking me for the passphrases of the various encrypted disks; when I give them, GELI indicates that it successfully attached to each, but after

Re: GELI full disk, booting from thumb drive - can't get to /usr?

2009-03-14 Thread bob
Whoops - two mistakes in my original email: First, the following fstab line is a typo (in my original email, not in my actual fstab): /dev/ad11.elif /disk2 ufs rw 2 0 It actually ends in a 2, not a 0. Second, when I typed the following: Here is my fstab, which is the same in

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:04:05PM +, RW wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:38:13 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: set up tor and use it as socks proxy with your browser and python script. You don't need privoxy for that. but isn't the point of of

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 246, Issue 51

2009-01-25 Thread Bob Falanga
-- Message: 10 Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:42:24 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org Subject: Re: Start-up of freeBSD need help with one question. To: Bob Falanga rfalang@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 44iqo4vn0f@lowell

Start-up of freeBSD need help with one question.

2009-01-23 Thread Bob Falanga
When I try to configure a printer, CUPS requires a user id, my own or root. But it will not accept either. Interestingly, at boot up time I saw CUPS started three times but cannot find where all the requests for start is. I added a line in rd.conf to start CUPS but that is the only place. Bob

HELP running cups won't accept password

2009-01-15 Thread Bob Falanga
During start cupsd starts 3 times. when configuring a printer, cups will not accept root and it's password for userid and password. Thank you, Bob Falanga ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Printing - standard? CUPS? ...??

2009-01-12 Thread Bob Johnson
I prefer print/apsfilter from ports. To get color postscript printing and duplex printing you may need to change the default configuration, which will probably end up somewhere under /usr/local/etc/apsfilter - Bob On 1/12/09, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: Hi, For a system set up from

RE: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-02 Thread Bob McConnell
On Behalf Of Chad Perrin On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:25:24PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Chad Perrin On the other hand, both Unix and Linux have a long way to go before they can match Microsoft's ease of use on the GUI. I believe the best way to attack that problem is to find

RE: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-01 Thread Bob McConnell
to begin with. Bob McConnell If a messy desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk the sign of? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

RE: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Bob McConnell
to be significantly less than a DeskJet with all of the refills it would eat. I suspect we will have covered the difference in the printer prices before we burn through the 700 pages the original cartridges should provide. Plus the pages don't smear when we handle them with damp fingers. HTH, Bob

RE: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Bob McConnell
or consortium just to maintain various portions of the system. But until that day comes, we have to allow the maintainers some slack in this and other issues. Patience is a virtue, Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: Server Freezing Solid

2008-11-12 Thread Bob McConnell
, they wouldn't last so long and she wouldn't complain so loudly (B^). Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-11 Thread Bob McConnell
for FM radio. I haven't played with that one. My only significant complaint is that it requires MySQL. I would prefer PostgreSQL, since that is less proprietary and one of the systems I deal with at work. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

RE: Unable to mount / in read - write mode

2008-11-05 Thread Bob McConnell
and install? Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: garmin forerunner 305

2008-11-04 Thread Bob McConnell
. All of that will help them improve the quality of future releases. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)

2008-11-03 Thread Bob McConnell
, it is a major pain. I really do prefer Thunderbird. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-03 Thread Bob McConnell
it, with MS-Windows running in a VM. But it can only be run on overpriced hardware available from a single supplier. Until there are multiple sources, I don't consider it worth evaluating. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Bob McConnell
DNS/DHCP server that works well on small private networks. I don't know if it runs on BSD. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Bob Johnson
kernels, but apparently not in i386. The logged error message in AMD64 mentions the sysctl, at least in 7.0-R. -- Bob Johnson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

RE: DHCP server

2008-10-24 Thread Bob McConnell
a successful assignment with the unsuccessful variations. See which side stops responding in each conversation and troubleshoot that end. There may be some clues in the event log on MS-Windows or the syslog files on OS-X. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions

RE: man -t odd page size

2008-10-23 Thread Bob McConnell
. Sure, my printers can handle A4, but where can I buy a couple reams of it? Bob McConnell Ithaca, NY ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: man -t odd page size

2008-10-23 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Jon Radel Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Al Plant Valentin Bud wrote: hello, what do you know about this site: http://www.metricamerica.com/. i don't remember where i have read that America is going to apply the SI (ess eye) unit system. so things are going to change maybe even

RE: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

2008-10-13 Thread Bob McConnell
? Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries...

2008-10-13 Thread Bob Johnson
to explain what was going on. Thanks again, - Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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