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Ah, look at /usr/src/usr.bin/su/su.c, especially the lines with "errx" in them.

You can't change much of anything if the root password is wrong. To fix a forgotten or mistyped root password see here.

Hrustevich playing Vivaldi.

Yeah, the autoconf/automake stuff is just a byzantine build complicating system. I generally just deinstall all of it and let the ports that want it install the arbitrary version of their choice. > pkg_info -r autoconf-2.67 Information for autoconf-2.67: Depends on: Dependency...

There's also this thread. I like the idea of dynamically resizeable filesystems without the overhead of ZFS, but I suppose in the distant future of Moore's Law I'll get over that.

Well, I can pick up a WRT54G for around $25, so it's kinda hard to justify a full-on router unless I actually need one. But who knows, maybe one day I'll want some $45000 monster that can embroider every packet in real time with little hanging sheep in gold thread.

You might look at gvinum since most everything disk related is being gradually obsoleted by your friend and mine geom. The man pages seem to have plenty of examples (even vinum), so was there a specific problem you were having?

Well, I can create it on a normal file system. # mknod bpf40 c 0 0 # ls -l crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0, 0 Sep 16 10:26 bpf40 # mknod /dev/bpf40 c 0 0 mknod: /dev/bpf40: No such file or directory # It seems it doesn't want to work inside of a devfs. Maybe /usr/src/sbin/mknod/mknod.c...

Consult relevant documentation, such as: make.conf rc.conf /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES xorg.conf sendmail pf HTH

Well, using old WEP junk at the house, here is the relevant portions of my own /etc/rc.confwlans_ath0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" & /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf network={ ssid="Quit Stealing" key_mgmt=NONE wep_key0=80BEEFBEEF priority=99 } network={ ssid="linksys"...

Yeah, I blame inertia. Back in the 4.x days of gcc 2.95, setting good CFLAGS actually made the system faster, but that was a while ago. As to the OP's query about make.conf: the big things that I have set are KERNCONF= CPUTYPE?= MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER= WRKDIRPREFIX= & you don't really need any of...

It's not a FreeBSD or linux problem per se but that windows already contains an automatic "workaround" as you so gracefully put it. The HDD manufacturers set the drives up with these unrealistic load/unload timeouts, I suppose at least somewhat to help with being certified "green" or some other...

Hmm, 8.1 amd64 gives > cc -o chvt chvt.c > ./chvt 5 > ./chvt 1 which takes me to the equivalent of punching ctl-alt-F1. I'd say it works.

Not having KDE installed myself, can you pkg_info -W kdm then find said package on one of the ftp sites, download it, un-tar* it in a safe place, and copy the wanted file manually? *Something like tar -jxf filename.tbz --include=*kdmrc*

See also su & pam_group for ways to use groups other than wheel.

I'm pretty sure that you are correct in that you do not need to set it both places. But, then, if you use linprocfs or linsysfs for anything, they'll automagically load linux.ko too.

Hwæt! Not enough abuse here?

Meh, an Apple ][e* is more than enough for the vast majority of word processing & spreadsheet done these days. The escapingly small number of actually useful things produced that might require more "stuff" (if I'm not bodging my German idioms) would be pretty simple to shout down and their...

Sometimes it really is just a lot simpler to backup* & blow away /usr/local/ and start over clean. * 'specially /usr/local/etc/. & ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves isn't the worst solution for coming up with a list for when you get to the "install anew" step.

pw usershow username is probably the best way to find out what the system thinks it's trying to do with a given user name.