Re: console in UEFI boot

[Dmitrij D. Czarkoff]

Bernard Mentink  wrote:

> No, the original OS was 64bits Windoze,  it's the usual Microsoft
> madness ...

That's weird:  64-bit Windows can't boot off 32-bit UEFI.

Re: UTF-8

[Dmitrij D. Czarkoff]

Pierre Abbat said:
> There are now no occurrences of "lang=en-US.UTF-8" in /etc/login.conf .

  | default:\
  |  :passwd_format=sha512:\
  |  :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
  |  :welcome=/etc/motd:\
  |  :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\
  |  :path=/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin 
  | /usr/loc$
  |  :nologin=/var/run/nologin:\
  |  :lang=en_US.UTF-8:\
  |  :cputime=unlimited:\
  |  :datasize=unlimited:\
  |  :stacksize=unlimited:\
  |  :memorylocked=unlimited:\
  |  :memoryuse=unlimited:\
  |  :filesize=unlimited:\
  |  :coredumpsize=unlimited:\
  |  :openfiles=unlimited:\
  |  :maxproc=unlimited:\
  |  :posixlocks=unlimited:\
  |  :sbsize=unlimited:\
  |  :vmemoryuse=unlimited:\
=>|  :lang=en-US.UTF-8:\
  |  :priority=0:\
  |  :ignoretime@:\
  |  :umask=022:

> Should I also remove the "lang=ru_RU.KOI8-R" line?

Pick one lang per class.

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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: UTF-8

[Dmitrij D. Czarkoff]

Pierre Abbat said:
> Should I put something in /etc/profile, or what?

Could you paste output of "locale" command?

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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: UTF-8

[Dmitrij D. Czarkoff]

Lars Schotte said:
> Well. Isn't there login.conf?

Other users may want different locales.

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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: UTF-8

[Dmitrij D. Czarkoff]

Pierre Abbat said:
> How can I set up DragonFly so that for all users, all files, the shell, and
> processes come up in UTF-8 by default? I have files written in English and
> Russian, files with Hebrew names, and the like.

It should work with 

  LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

in ~/.profile.

I'd rather advise against non-ASCII filenames.  At some point they will
cause problems.

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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: NTFS mount R/W

[Dmitrij D. Czarkoff]

Mohammad BadieZadegan said:
 I want to read and specially write on the NTFS and I installed fuse by pkg
 install fuse but still I can not read and write on the NTFS!

Which is not unexpected.

 How can I resolve this?

The same way you were supposed to resolve your problem on OpenBSD
mailing list: act according to documentation, and if it fails, describe
your issues in more detail.

In this particular case you might notice that there is no ntfs-3g
package for DragonFly BSD, so fuse won't help you with NTFS.  There is
experimental NTFS write support in native driver, so you may try
mounting the volume with mount_ntfs(8) and try copying some files that
are not present on your NTFS partition.

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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: NTFS mount R/W

[Dmitrij D. Czarkoff]

mbzade...@gmail.com said:
 Does it means that mounting NTFS (write enable) in DragonflyBSD is impossible?

No, it means exactly what it says: there is experimental limited support
for writing to NTFS.  Contributions are welcome.

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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: DragonFly 3.8 released!

[Dmitrij D. Czarkoff]

Justin Sherrill said:
 It would be worthwhile- it hasn't been a regular part of the process so
 far, but if you want to set up a tracker or whatever the procedure is, for
 3.8, that will get it started.  Assuming I'm doing the next release, I'll
 try to formalize it as part of the process.

I would have already done it, but I don't have appropriate server for
doing so.

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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: will Firefox adapting DRM (digital rights management) bring issues

[Dmitrij D. Czarkoff]

Yann Sionneau said:
 I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
[...]
 You can just say No to whatever popup and you don't execute any

I mean that most likely you can't say Yes.  At least not before you
install linux emulation dependencies.  And even then it is yet to be
seen whether running the binary blob via linux emulation is viable.

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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: will Firefox adapting DRM (digital rights management) bring issues

[Dmitrij D. Czarkoff]

Zachary Crownover said:
 We don't have working Linux emulation anymore.

Then optional bit is completely irrelevant - DragonFly won't have DRM
in Firefox.

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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: Opinions on SMF

[Dmitrij D. Czarkoff]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 08:18:13AM +1000, Petr Janda wrote:
 Using the same argument, we should replace everything, including Bourne
 shell(often hard to read syntax), awk (it's short for awkward yeah?),
 the user might have hard time understanding.

Flawed analogy: unlike awk and Bourne shell XMLish syntax doesn't help
accomplish any task - it just clutters text. Its lack of readability is not a
trade off.

Put otherwise: I can do quite a lot of things using awk alone. What can I do
with XML alone?

 Just how often does anyone admin need to write/change the start scripts?

I don't see how the fact that I don't have to deal with SMF too often does
make its syntax better.

It doesn't matter. What matters is how easy it is to write/change the start
scripts if/when needed, what it takes to analyze the scripts and how reliable
is the result. Obviously, adding XML to otherwise present command language of
the init and daemon configuration syntax doesn't add in either of these
regards.

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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: Opinions on SMF

[Dmitrij D. Czarkoff]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 09:42:48AM +0200, John Marino wrote:
 Service recovery.  I shouldn't have to manually restart web servers, php
 spawn, mail, etc., etc. for whatever reason. If it can be recovered
 automatically, it should happen.

Everyone would agree. The question here is: what prevents a shell script to do
the same thing? I doubt that SMF employs any magic to get the status of daemon
- most likely it detects it using the same mechanisms as a shell script could.

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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff