Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

Hello. On 07/02/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:48:05PM +0100, cpghost wrote: > > since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, > > it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD > > system (userland, including all third

Re: boot up notification

Jim Pazarena wrote: > I would like one of my servers to send me an email when > it boots. I envision a script in rc.conf to do this. > > Is there an easier way, or an automatic system which can do this? You could set up a cronjob to run at '@reboot': $ crontab -l @reboot echo | mail -s "The eag

Re: Booting FreeBSD-5.3 from NTLDR

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:47:41 +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any issues in booting FreeBSD using NTLDR? My machine has > Windows XP, Fedora Core 3, and FreeBSD-5.3, and while I know I can use > GRUB to boot FreeBSD, I want to try booting it using NTLDR. Just for > k

Re: Using unix mail with maildir format

On 04/07/05, Vince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mave a look at the nail port "mail/nail" > It can/does have a mail type interface and reads maildir. Thanks, that's the MUA I was looking for for a long while. :] -- (nil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: SSH and gigabit NICs

On 08/07/05, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately there seems to be no way to turn off the encryption for > SSH, which would be the easiest test. Well, looking at /usr/src/crypto/openssh/cipher.c, there is a "none" in struct Cipher. But specifying 'none' in Ciphers in sshd_confi

Re: SSH and gigabit NICs

On 07/07/05, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a clue what might be going on? Dunno, but you might take a look at /usr/ports/security/hpn-ssh/: --- pkg-descr --- High Performance Enabled SSH/SCP from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center hpn-ssh is a version of OpenSSH mo

Re: why CDROM operations cause system to be slow and HD operations do not

On 13/07/05, Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I read something from CDROM my system gets visibly slow and HD > reads/writes do not have the same effect. By default: hw.ata.ata_dma: 1<--- affects HD hw.ata.atapi_dma: 0 <--- affects CD So: # atacontrol mode 0 Master = UDMA100 <

Re: DNS service with a SQL backend

On 20/07/05, Bruno Gallant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked around the ports to find powerdns, but I don't know if it's > good or not. There is also dns/bind9-dlz (). Supports many database backends. (I never used it, though.) > Is there a port or something

Re: ssh-copy-id

On 13/07/07, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since FreeBSD does not have ssh-copy-id as part of the OpenSSH package, what is the best way to copy a public key to an account on another host? Some Linuxes (Debian and Ubuntu) have a ssh-copy-id script for this in their OpenSSH packages. Well

gconcat on existing filesystem

Hello. Is it expected that 'gconcat create ...' on an existing device with populated filesystem keeps all existing data? That is, is it expected behavior that something like 'umount /dev/ad0s3', 'gconcat create data /dev/ad0s3', 'mount /dev/concat/data /mnt' works, or is it just luck? -- (nil) _

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

Hi. 2005/4/26, edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to read > PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as "broken" in the > notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best > alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh

Re: Pine

2005/5/19, Charles Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > What is a good alternative to Pine? It would seem it is nolonger > available for freebsd? There's Cone (/usr/ports/mail/cone/). I found it similar to Pine. Much easier to use than Mutt. ___ freebsd-quest

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009/5/24 GT : > Late entry to this thread, but... > > I thought I had found an answer to this; at present I think I might have > been mistaken. > > My crontab has about a dozen jobs that need to run in > TZ=America/New_York, and another dozen that ideally want > TZ=Australia/Sydney... the server d

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

On 24 August 2010 06:53, Thomas Mueller wrote: > What is the best choice for a file system that can be read, and safely > written to, by Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD? I've been trying NTFS(-3g). It's been going well, with even occasional Windows thrown in the mix. But it is very slow, mostly, I bel

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

On 24 August 2010 20:48, Gustavo De Nardin wrote: > On 24 August 2010 06:53, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> What is the best choice for a file system that can be read, and safely >> written to, by Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD? > > I've been trying NTFS(-3g). It's been g