> Certainly with computers that never have hardware faults and assuming ZFS
> doesn't have any software bugs you may be right.
That was part of their assumption. It's based on server grade hardware and
ECC RAM, and lots of redundancy.
They missed the part about their code not being perfect.
>
> At this stage, your options appear to be: illumos/OpenIndiana
Not being developed on SPARC
> Linux,
AFAIK Gentoo, Funtoo, Debian are the only supporting distros and you will
need to check if sun4v and your machine are supported
> NetBSD
Not recommended, sorry to say
> or OpenBSD.
Highly re
Alexander Best writes:
> hi there,
>
> does anybody if there's an alternative for libm in the ports dir? i need it,
> because the newest snapshots of mplayer require log2() and log2f(), which the
> base libm doesn't support.
for mplayer I'd suggest using code from x264 because both projects use
Yuri writes:
> TIME column is supposed to show time of the process (according to its
> man page).
> But it seems like it only shows the time of its main thread.
>
> Why? Bug in documentation?
Wasn't this fixed in r182966?
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"O. Hartmann" writes:
> Hello.
> I just upgraded openoffice-3.2.1 to openoffice-org-3.3.0 and found
> myself in a serious issue. Opening openoffice works only sporadically,
> in most cases I get the error:
>
> XDM authorization key matches an existing
> client!/usr/local/openoffice.org-3.3.0/open
David Demelier writes:
> Hello,
>
> The SDL's pkg-message says we can use video driver in tty terminal.
>
> To do this you have to load the vesa kernel module or enable it in your
> kernel, and set environment variable "SDL_VIDEODRIVER=vgl".
>
> I tried it with mplayer :
>
> $ SDL_VIDEODRIVER=v
David Demelier writes:
> On 10/02/2011 15:37, Anonymous wrote:
>> David Demelier writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The SDL's pkg-message says we can use video driver in tty terminal.
>>>
>>> To do this you have to load the vesa ker
We, the users of FreeBSD, *do hereby challenge* the FreeBSD project
to meet its future release dates.
Why: Because the FreeBSD project has not met a significant number
of its release dates. It's an apalling state of affairs and makes
you, the project, look silly. Business and personal users plan
e
lltime since at at least 10 years, it's
that good.
Off topic...
> No we don't.
Really? Nothing wrong with this being a survey thread.
> Go back to posting your pictures of kiddie porn
I prefer adults, exclusively. Sorry to disappoint the prurient
interests that are clearly on
I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 and I have a Lucent
WinModem.
Are there any detailed instructions on installing the
LTModem port for FreeBSD?
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Using disklabel -A /dev/da0s1 I would like to see the sizes in G or M
format, how can I do this?
Also, googling arround i found output showing the cylinder space occupied
by a partition (like :
# cyl* X - Y ). How do I see that ?
PS: i did man disklabel and bsdlabel but i didnt find th
Giorgos Keramidas writes:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:19:53 +0200, Thomas Keusch
> wrote:
>> t...@eternity:~$ b=5
>> t...@eternity:~$ case "$b" in
>>> [0-9] )
>>> echo numeric
>>> ;;
>>> * )
>>> echo alpha
>>> ;;
>>> esac
>> numeric
>> t...@eternity:~$
>>
>> Works f
Aiza writes:
> I have a file containing this
>
> drwxrwxr-x 14 89987 546 512 Jun 6 2009 7.2-RELEASE
> drwxrwxr-x 14 89987 546 512 Mar 23 04:59 7.3-RELEASE
> drwxrwxr-x 13 89987 546 512 Nov 23 2009 8.0-RELEASE
> drwxrwxr-x 13 89987 546 512 Jul 1 04:56 8.1-RC2
>
> I want to strip of
Dmitry Lunts writes:
> Hello,All!
> There is debugfs program dealing with ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems.
> Is there some tool in FreeBSD with functionality analogous to debugfs
> which can operate on UFS2?
Not sure but fsdb(8) may help.
> Could anyone give me a hint?
> The thing is that recently I
Warren Block writes:
> The FreeBSD livefs ISO filesystem hides hard links, so they can't be
> accurately copied.
Use `tar cf - | tar xf -' to copy them.
>
> Is relinking nearly everything in /rescue enough, or are there other
> former hard links waiting to pop up?
There are some hardlinks in /
Warren Block writes:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Anonymous wrote:
>
>> Warren Block writes:
>>
>>> The FreeBSD livefs ISO filesystem hides hard links, so they can't be
>>> accurately copied.
>>
>> Use `tar cf - | tar xf -' to copy them.
>
&
Aiza writes:
> Have a .sh script that accepts an -s sparse file size.
> Only 2 suffix's are valid m and g.
>
> Been trying to get this line of code to strip out just the single
> letter. But it strips the letter and every thing to the right of it.
>
> Timagesize=`echo-n "${imagesize}" | sed 's/g.
Jim writes:
> I was working on an application I've been developing, and I closed the
> last instance a bit over 12 hours ago, but some of the sockets are
> still stuck in use:
> [s...@elrond ~/dev/pipe/scripts]$ netstat | grep -e 'tcp' | grep 9612
> tcp4 0 0 192.168.1.80.42464 192.
jimbob palmer writes:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to run a bash script but to log output and exit codes.
> Essentially I would like to run the script with bash -x, but for that
> output to the log to go to a file, and the normal output as from
> running a normal script to go to the terminal.
Dunno
Frank Shute writes:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 06:18:22PM -0700, zaxis wrote:
>>
>>
>> that's great ! I will use /etc/mergemaster.rc to upgrade my FB 8.0.
>>
>
> You might also want to put this line in mergemaster.rc:
>
> DIFF_OPTIONS='-I$FreeBSD:.*[$]'
I think it's already done by FREEBSD_ID (
Carl Johnson writes:
> I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I
> can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a
> working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the
> system. Gnus will start up, but it just reports that there is no
> m
(resending, previous mail didn't show up in the list archive)
Jerry writes:
> I have been having problems with several different programs lately.
> Would there be any serious drawback to simply setting: "WITH_DEBUG= "
You'd lose `-O2' compiler-specific optimization. If you want to retain
it use
Robert Bonomi writes:
>> I have been having problems with several different programs lately.
>> Would there be any serious drawback to simply setting: "WITH_DEBUG= "
>> in the /etc/make.conf file to force everything I build/rebuild to be
>> built with debug symbols? I am assuming that I can simpl
Chris Telting writes:
> Just wondering if anyone else has played with this?
>
> I compiled it into the kernel but the terms are still cons25.
I think you need to change `cons25' to `xterm' in /etc/ttys, too.
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I want to receive updates to a few PRs that are submitted by someone
else. When such PR is assigned to a maillist (e.g. freebsd-ports-bugs@)
I can subscribe to it and filter messages based on PR number. But what
I'm supposed to do when it's assigned to a person with @FreeBSD.org
address?
Is queryi
Chip Camden writes:
> Quoth Roland Smith on Friday, 06 August 2010:
>> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote:
>> >
>> > I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome
>> > libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are
>> > nice)
>> >
Roland Smith writes:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 05:22:47PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On 9 August 2010 14:00, Alexander Best wrote:
>> > hi there,
>> >
>> > chflags(1) mentions that a few utilities including pax(1) aren't chflags
>> > aware yet. is there a list of all those utilties availa
"Jack L. Stone" writes:
> Kindly appreciate help with how to grep (or similar) a list of words to
> determine if any of them are in a file rather than grepping one word at a
> time.
Perhaps, `-e' option?
$ printf 'foo\nbar\n' | fgrep -e foo -e bar
foo
bar
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Oliver Fromme writes:
> John Levine wrote:
> > > > % egrep 'word1|word2|word3|...|wordn' filename.txt
> >
> > > Thanks for the replies. This suggestion won't do the job as the list of
> > > words is very long, maybe 50-60. This is why I asked how to place them
> all
> > > in a file. One r
"Len Conrad" writes:
> awk 'FS="." { print $(NF-1)"."$NF }'
>
> rm90.steampick.info.rm90.steampick.info
> lanejive.info
> govdelivery.com
> orangetalon.info
> carespecial.info
Hmm, I can't reproduce it on /head. What FreeBSD version you're using?
Can you try with lang/nawk port? nawk is from the
Yuri writes:
> I need to build 32 bit apps the same way as they would be built on i386.
>
> When I run 64-bit gcc I get this:
> gcc -m32 -o m m.c
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libgcc.a when searching
> for -lgcc
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libgcc.a when searching
mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
> Len> awk 'FS="." { print $(NF-1)"."$NF }'
>
> Len> rm90.steampick.info.rm90.steampick.info
> Len> lanejive.info
> Len> govdelivery.com
> Len> orangetalon.info
> Len> carespecial.info
>
> Yes, that would be the expected behavior.
>
> You need to
Yuri writes:
> --- output of 64 bit executable (gcc -o m m.c) ---
> match: off=0 so=3 eo=4
> match: off=4 so=3 eo=4
>
> --- output of 32 bit executable built on 64 bit system with flags (gcc
> -B/usr/lib32 -m32 -o m m.c) ---
> match: off=0 so=3 eo=0
I guess machine-dependent headers are involved
Drew Tomlinson writes:
> It finally occurred to me that I needed the shell to see a new line as
> the delimiter and not whitespace. Then a simple search revealed my
> answer:
>
> O=$IFS
> IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
>
> IFS=$O
Old IFS value can be preserved by using `local' keyword or (...) braces,
Leonardo M. Ramé writes:
> Hi, while trying to compile Firebird 2.1.x from sources I got this error:
>
> **Error**: You must have autoconf 2.63 or later installed.
>
> My first reaction was looking at /usr/ports/devel, but found that the
> highest version of autoconf available is 2.62. How can I
Leonardo M. Ramé writes:
> Thanks, but I did a "portsnap fetch update" and the autotools wasn't updated.
>
> How can I get the correct port?
The PR is not vetted by exp-run yet. If you're not gonna test the patch
then better just wait for it to hit the ports tree.
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Chuck Swiger writes:
> Hi--
>
> On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Carl Johnson wrote:
>> The following are the ports if anybody has any ideas, but I would also like
>> to know how to trace them down myself:
>>
>> tcp4 0 0 *.876 *.*LISTEN
>> tcp6
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This doesn't answer your question but let me be the first to congratulate
you on your wisdom of not posting this to m...@openbsd.org ;-)
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Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>
> On 6 Jun 2012, at 21:52, Dave U. Random
> wrote:
>
> > Polytropon wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> >>> Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference: the
> >>> point is why should I have to pay anything
> > Isn't there a lot of needless handwaving going on when the spec is
> > pretty clear that installing your own complete PKI tree will all
> > boil down to what is effectively a jumper on the motherboard?
No, considering 99.99% of of current Windows victims can't even install a
fresh copy of Win
> GPL protects the freedom of the programmer who licensed his
> code under those licenses: He wants it to be free for use,
> but not to be turned into closed source products.
What a lying sonofabitch. That is not called freedom. That is called
"forcible, viral open source". I think we can all see
> Besides, NetBSD and OpenBSD has already selected and using pcc now. And
> they are fine with that one.
I wish that or something like that were true, but pcc is dead even in
OpenBSD packages/ports. There was just some discussion on misc@
I am hoping for the day gcc is only used on Linux and ma
> I recall having some trouble finding a decent ISO burner for Windows that
> didn't require paying but came across ActiveISO Burner.
If Freeburner is still available it works pretty well on
Winbloze. Alternatively have a friend burn it for you or boot a Linux live
CD like Knoppix or Slax and us
> The "invite everyone in your address book" feature is evil, yes?
Don't blame the invite feature, *google* is evil. "Don't be evil?"
Your ass! Fuck you google!
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> >> I think that XFS & JFS are more mature filesystems than ZFS
This is not up for discussion.
> but the feature set of ZFS i ahead in the future.
Too many iPads, iPhones, etc?
> For a NFS server first I'll go with ZFS because the consistence in disk
If not spelling, or grammar...
> and sp
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