fb9 - dmesg - bluetooth and netgraph warnings

2012-02-17 Thread jb
Hi, I have these warnings. Any known cause and solution ? FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0 $ dmesg ... ubt0: Broadcom Corp BCM2045B, class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on usbus0 WARNING: attempt to domain_add(bluetooth) after domainfinalize() WARNING: attempt to domain_add(netgraph) after domainfinalize()

Google+ install Hangout Voice and Video Plug-in

2012-02-17 Thread The Todds
Hi, I was wondering whether it would possible to get Google+ Hangout running on Freebsd. I am running firefox-10.0,1 installed from the ports on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0:amd64 Trying to install the plugin from the Google+ page and I get an almost finished message, but that is as far as it goes. I

FreeBSD on Dell R210 II With PERC H200 Controllers

2012-02-17 Thread Traiano Welcome
Hi List Is there a version of freebsd (preferably 8 upwards) that supports the PERC H200 controller on Dell R210 II servers ? I've followed the thread at: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.stable/74192 But it seems somewhat inconclusive. Thanks in Advance, Traiano

Re: Google+ install Hangout Voice and Video Plug-in

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 17:59, The Todds wrote: Hi, I was wondering whether it would possible to get Google+ Hangout running on Freebsd. I am running firefox-10.0,1 installed from the ports on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0:amd64 Trying to install the plugin from the Google+ page and I get an almost finished

Re: fb9 - dmesg - bluetooth and netgraph warnings

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 18:19, jb wrote: Hi, I have these warnings. Any known cause and solution ? FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0 $ dmesg ... ubt0:Broadcom Corp BCM2045B, class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on usbus0 WARNING: attempt to domain_add(bluetooth) after domainfinalize() WARNING: attempt to

Re: FreeBSD on Dell R210 II With PERC H200 Controllers

2012-02-17 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Sorry top post, posting from phone. 8.2-stable, 9.0-release, will post a link with a tutorial when I hit my desk On 17 Feb 2012, at 09:11, Traiano Welcome traiano.welc...@mtnbusiness.co.za wrote: Hi List Is there a version of freebsd (preferably 8 upwards) that supports the PERC H200

Re: Technical Support Question

2012-02-17 Thread perryh
Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com wrote: Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. If you don't mind losing everything currently on the drive, overwriting the MBR -- and the backup GPT at the

Re: FreeBSD on Dell R210 II With PERC H200 Controllers

2012-02-17 Thread Traiano Welcome
On 17/02/2012 11:14, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Sorry top post, posting from phone. 8.2-stable, 9.0-release, will post a link with a tutorial when I hit my desk Thanks, Damien! Much appreciated! On 17 Feb 2012, at 09:11, Traiano Welcome traiano.welc...@mtnbusiness.co.za wrote:

Re: Technical Support Question

2012-02-17 Thread Chip Oakley
Thanks interesting possibilities. One thought I had is creating an operating system independent BIOS where the appropriate machine code is inserted into the events that lead to an override of the processes that is forcing into windows. Maybe burned to a CD or USB, from another computer and tie

Re: FreeBSD on Dell R210 II With PERC H200 Controllers

2012-02-17 Thread Traiano Welcome
Hi Damien Additional question: On 17/02/2012 11:14, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Sorry top post, posting from phone. 8.2-stable, 9.0-release, will post a link with a tutorial when I hit my desk A lot of these Dell R210 II's ship with the S300 PERC. Does FreeBSD have support for this

sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya I seem to have this problem with sysinstall, whereby I cant seem to download the kernel source. I tried following this example http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/ I use Install from an FTP server The error message I get is Unable to transfer the sbase

Re: Technical Support Question

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 19:58, Chip Oakley wrote: Thanks interesting possibilities. One thought I had is creating an operating system independent BIOS where the appropriate machine code is inserted into the events that lead to an override of the processes that is forcing into windows. Maybe burned to a CD

Re: sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 19:31, Brent Clark wrote: Hiya I seem to have this problem with sysinstall, whereby I cant seem to download the kernel source. I tried following this example http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/ I use Install from an FTP server The error message I

Re: FreeBSD on Dell R210 II With PERC H200 Controllers

2012-02-17 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/17/12 11:02 AM, Traiano Welcome wrote: Hi Damien Additional question: On 17/02/2012 11:14, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Sorry top post, posting from phone. 8.2-stable, 9.0-release, will post a link with a tutorial when I hit my desk A lot of these Dell R210 II's

Re: sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:31:39 +0200 Brent Clark wrote: I use Install from an FTP server The error message I get is Unable to transfer the sbase distribution from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org.; Does anyone know of another way to get the kernel source. Get it with csup and be sure to set the

Re: /lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libpcre.so.0 not found, required by libxfsm-4.6.so.0 amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

2012-02-17 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Ryan Frederick ryanrfreder...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like others have run into this problem with avahi-app as well:

program / Project Consultant.

2012-02-17 Thread Thierry Sconetti
Dear, First, please accept my apologies for the disturbance. I am a Senior Consultant Infrastructure Program Manager with 20 years experience in IMT. I started my career with Digital in Sophia Antipolis in 1988 and over time, made my primary focus in IT Program/Project management. Here are

Re: /lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libpcre.so.0 not found, required by libxfsm-4.6.so.0 amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

2012-02-17 Thread RW
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:08:54 -0600 Antonio Olivares wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Ryan Frederick ryanrfreder...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like others have run into this problem with avahi-app as well: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2011-July/068658.html A

program / Project Consultant.

2012-02-17 Thread Thierry Sconetti
Dear, First, please accept my apologies for the disturbance. I am a Senior Consultant Infrastructure Program Manager with 20 years experience in IMT. I started my career with Digital in Sophia Antipolis in 1988 and over time, made my primary focus in IT Program/Project management. Here are

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:00:38 -0500, Jerry wrote: It appears that ps is no-longer the format of choice but is being replaced by PDF, a format that is natively supported by many printers. Jerry, I wanted to point out that PS still seems to be the format that _applications_ use as output format

Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools?

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:32:07 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: w can i move a file from my home filesystem to my one disc drive without using a GUI? i don't have a graphic interface on my FBSD system and want to save a 600MB file to my cdrom? thanks for tips on what i have Long forgotten! I hope

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 23:14, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:00:38 -0500, Jerry wrote: It appears that ps is no-longer the format of choice but is being replaced by PDF, a format that is natively supported by many printers. Jerry, I wanted to point out that PS still seems to be the format that

DNS - slaving the root zone

2012-02-17 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Hello list, Jeremy, Doug, We're currently having a discussion on the FRnOG mailing list regarding the laughable announcement of an attack on the DNS root servers by Anonymous. I've kinda hijacked the thread to ask whether people slave the root zone or not, and why if not. Active poster,

Re: note on my messed up 2003 dell

2012-02-17 Thread J65nko
Replacing the old battery with a new one usually solves this kind of problem. I just did this yesterday ;) On 2/17/12, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: guys, this is just a FWIW, but it's worth bearing in mind. i just tried to change the bios settings so that the old computer would boot

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:33:33 +1000, Da Rock wrote: PDF is not exactly PS, but it does use a subset of the instructions. That's correct, but both formats share essential parts of functionality. Conversion between them is relatively easy. The other thing you will notice is that its mostly on

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 23:33, Da Rock wrote: On 02/17/12 23:14, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:00:38 -0500, Jerry wrote: It appears that ps is no-longer the format of choice but is being replaced by PDF, a format that is natively supported by many printers. Jerry, I wanted to point out that PS

Re: Is the list down?

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 17 February 2012 08:49:37 Da Rock wrote: On 02/17/12 11:21, Al Plant wrote: I have not seen any action in 2 days. There's been plenty of action in the last 2 days. Maybe check your mail server logs for errors? I noticed the same thing. The missing mails arrived all meanwhile

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:14:47 +0100 Polytropon articulated: Think about that: % netcat 192.168.123.456 /tmp/printing.pdf I can do either: nc 192.168.1.100 9100 /tmp/print.pdf or nc 192.168.1.100 9100 /tmp/print.ps right now without any problems. If you looked at the

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 23:57, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:33:33 +1000, Da Rock wrote: PDF is not exactly PS, but it does use a subset of the instructions. That's correct, but both formats share essential parts of functionality. Conversion between them is relatively easy. The other thing

Re: Processor question

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thursday 16 February 2012 17:20:23 krad wrote: On 14 February 2012 20:28, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 02:47:08PM -0500, Mike Dockery wrote: Greetings, Aloha, I have been a user of Linux since 1994, but most of the linux distros

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 00:22, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:14:47 +0100 Polytropon articulated: Think about that: % netcat 192.168.123.456 /tmp/printing.pdf I can do either: nc 192.168.1.100 9100 /tmp/print.pdf or nc 192.168.1.100 9100 /tmp/print.ps right now without

Re: sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Brent Clark wrote: I seem to have this problem with sysinstall, whereby I cant seem to download the kernel source. I tried following this example http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/ I use Install from an FTP server The error message I get

Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread APseudoUtopia
Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go with the Maildir. I'm running everything on ZFS, so many small files shouldn't be a

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Daniel Staal
On Fri, February 17, 2012 12:16 pm, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go with the Maildir.

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:16:29 -0500 Message-id: CAKOHg=PpeqZjEN8Romfn=by2yrtjfjnj7-jqvogorrt+ygv...@mail.gmail.com APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 17/02/2012 17:16, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go with the Maildir. I'm running

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go with the Maildir. I'm running everything

Cryopid for FreeBSD?

2012-02-17 Thread C. P. Ghost
Hello, is there an equivalent to Linux' cryopid for FreeBSD? http://code.google.com/p/cryopid/ Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:06:01 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: Mutt would be my choice. I have been using it for over a decade, and it handles Maildir as well as other common mailbox formats. Also pine should be able to handle it (even though it could be called overcomplex in relation to

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/17/2012 11:16 AM, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go with the Maildir. I'm running

Re: DNS - slaving the root zone

2012-02-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:41:57PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Hello list, Jeremy, Doug, We're currently having a discussion on the FRnOG mailing list regarding the laughable announcement of an attack on the DNS root servers by Anonymous. I've kinda hijacked the thread to ask whether

Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools?

2012-02-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:27:07PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:27:07 +0100 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Subject: Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools? To: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
Hiya, A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD. It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap as such: / /tmp /var /usr swap The recent changes in 9.x with bsdinstall use a

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the old style default with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and swap. For a user/desktop machine, I prefer one root partition. For other roles like a server, I

Re: Adobe Linux Flash

2012-02-17 Thread sean
On Feb 16, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Da Rock wrote: Problem, I think lies, in the symlink. You don't need it, kill it and run nspluginwrapper - the only flash file in your browser plugins directory should be prefixed with npwrapper. There may be an issue with nspluginwrapper (currently being

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Jerome Herman
On 17/02/2012 18:16, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go with the Maildir. I'm running

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:18 PM To: david.robi...@fisglobal.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? On Feb 17,

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Robison, Dave david.robi...@fisglobal.com wrote: Hiya, A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD. It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
Four? There should be five! :-) Read on to find out why. On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:05:23 -0800, Robison, Dave wrote: We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the old style default with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and swap. In my case, preference

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:05:23PM -0800, Robison, Dave wrote: Hiya, A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD. It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap as such:

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. Why not add a selection to the installer, something like this: Partition scheme [ ] all in one + swap Create one partition containing all subtrees plus one

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Douglas Carmichael
I would prefer having the option of four partitions for fault tolerance reasons if needed. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 08:40, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Robison, Dave david.robi...@fisglobal.com wrote: Hiya, A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD. It has always been FreeBSD's

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Douglas Carmichael
I like this because it gives the user a choice, and it clearly lays out the choices based on partition schemes instead of a less-specific 'machine use' choice. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Four? There should be five! :-) Read on to

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:53 PM To: Polytropon Cc: david.robi...@fisglobal.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four?

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the old style default with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and swap. I've been doing Unix 30+ years, so there's a tendency to respond Multiple, 'cos seeing a single 1 partition on a system normaly meant it had

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:11:52 -0800, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:53 PM To: Polytropon Cc:

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/17/2012 15:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. No. Bad idea. Not on questions@, the list of the least clued up, the list raw beginners are referred to subscribe to. At least get a majority on hackers@ or current@ or arch@.

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 09:24, Robison, Dave wrote: On 02/17/2012 15:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. No. Bad idea. Not on questions@, the list of the least clued up, the list raw beginners are referred to subscribe to. At least get a

swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Jim Pazarena
is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? A df seems to avoid the swap area. This would be on a live production server. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: a. A security issue /tmp is by-default out-of-the-box world-writable (perms 1777). Yes. It works as intended even when /tmp is part of a single root partition; although mounting /tmp as a RAM- or swap-based tmpfs filesystem might be better

Re: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 2/17/2012 6:54 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? % pstat -T 438/12328 files 98M/10240M swap space ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet

Re: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? A df seems to avoid the swap area. You're looking for swapinfo Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: DNS - slaving the root zone

2012-02-17 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/17/2012 05:41, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Hello list, Jeremy, Doug, We're currently having a discussion on the FRnOG mailing list regarding the laughable announcement of an attack on the DNS root servers by Anonymous. Given their success

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:cswi...@mac.com] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:56 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: FreeBSD - Subject: Re: One or Four? On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: a. A security issue /tmp is by-default out-of-the-box

Re: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On Feb 17, 2012 6:55 PM, Jim Pazarena fqu...@paz.bz wrote: is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? A df seems to avoid the swap area. This would be on a live production server. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/17/2012 15:55, Chuck Swiger wrote: Yes. It works as intended even when /tmp is part of a single root partition; although mounting /tmp as a RAM- or swap-based tmpfs filesystem might be better for many situations. Sure it has its uses, but now you're jumping into new territory where

Re: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/17/2012 15:58, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? A df seems to avoid the swap area. You're looking for swapinfo Regards, Chuck beat me to it. swapinfo or top are the two ways I

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:cswi...@mac.com] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:56 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: FreeBSD - Subject: Re: One or Four? On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: [snip] I'd argue that there should never be a single-/ unless you

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Polytropon wrote: Why not add a selection to the installer, something like this: Partition scheme [ ] all in one + swap Create one partition containing all subtrees plus one swap partition. [ ]

RE: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robison, Dave Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 4:11 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap space On 02/17/2012 15:58, Chuck Swiger wrote: On

Re: Adobe Linux Flash

2012-02-17 Thread sean
Well I deleted the symlinks, swfdec, and stepped through the instructions in the handbook again. Now when I run nspluginwrapper -v -a -i as a user I get the following, Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Auto-install

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: However, for whatever reasons, the overwhelming majority of folks using MacOS X don't have problems using a single root partition, and while they sometimes do fill up their disks, that's a situation which they should be able to recover from

Re: Adobe Linux Flash (Success)

2012-02-17 Thread sean
On 02/17/12 19:27, sean wrote: Now when I run nspluginwrapper -v -a -i as a user I get the following, Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin Looking for

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:cswi...@mac.com] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 4:41 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: 'FreeBSD -' Subject: Re: One or Four? On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: However, for whatever reasons, the overwhelming majority of folks

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: However, for whatever reasons, the overwhelming majority of folks using MacOS X don't have problems using a single root partition, and while they sometimes do fill up their disks, that's a situation which

Re: Adobe Linux Flash (Success)

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 10:48, sean wrote: On 02/17/12 19:27, sean wrote: Now when I run nspluginwrapper -v -a -i as a user I get the following, Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Auto-install plugins from

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 10:55, Da Rock wrote: On 02/18/12 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Devin Teske wrote: However, for whatever reasons, the overwhelming majority of folks using MacOS X don't have problems using a single root partition, and while they sometimes do fill up their

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Da Rock Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 4:55 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? On 02/18/12 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 17,

RE: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Da Rock Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 5:00 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? On 02/18/12 10:55, Da Rock wrote: On 02/18/12

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: On 02/17/2012 15:55, Chuck Swiger wrote: Yes. It works as intended even when /tmp is part of a single root partition; although mounting /tmp as a RAM- or swap-based tmpfs filesystem might be better for many situations. Sure it has its

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: Why not add a selection to the installer, something like this:        Partition scheme                [ ] all in one + swap            Create one partition containing all subtrees            plus one

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 11:17, David Brodbeck wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Chris Hillch...@monochrome.org wrote: Why not add a selection to the installer, something like this: Partition scheme [ ] all in one + swap Create one partition

Re: Adobe Linux Flash (Success)

2012-02-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:48:31PM -0500, sean wrote: On 02/17/12 19:27, sean wrote: Now when I run nspluginwrapper -v -a -i as a user I get the following, Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Auto-install

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the old style default with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and swap. I only run servers and set them up with /, /usr, and swap. Other partitions are placed on

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread John Levine
Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use? Pine is dead, replaced by alpine. The FreeBSD port has a config option to support maildirs. I've used it, it works. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 18 February 2012 05:05:23 Robison, Dave wrote: It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap as such: / /tmp /var /usr swap it really makes sense to keep it this way. The recent changes in 9.x with bsdinstall use a default behavior which

/usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

2012-02-17 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to have said: Well, to be honest, I never liked the old style default with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_ default style for separated partitions include: / swap /tmp /var

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/18/12 12:16, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to have said: Well, to be honest, I never liked the old style default with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_ default style for separated partitions include: /

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-02-17 23:46, Polytropon skrev: Four? There should be five! :-) Read on to find out why. On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:05:23 -0800, Robison, Dave wrote: We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the old style default with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition

Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

2012-02-17 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to have said: Well, to be honest, I never liked the old style default with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_ default style for separated partitions include:

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 16:20:48 2012 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:05:23 -0800 From: Robison, Dave david.robi...@fisglobal.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: One or Four? Hiya, A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as

Re: Adobe Linux Flash

2012-02-17 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 16:25:49 2012 From: sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:20:26 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adobe Linux Flash On Feb 16, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Da Rock wrote: Problem, I think lies, in the

Re: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 17:59:50 2012 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:54:18 -0800 From: Jim Pazarena fqu...@paz.bz To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: swap space is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? A df

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 19:56:00 2012 From: Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:50:44 -0800 To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: We'd like a show of

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Doug Hardie
On 17 February 2012, at 23:21, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 19:56:00 2012 From: Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:50:44 -0800 To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? On Feb 17,