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I'm aware of portmaster. It doesn't do everything I need it to do.

I guess they're getting caught by the first line of a default /etc/syslog.conf. I suggest you add this to /etc/rc.conf: syslogd_flags="-vv" And then restart. You'll now see the facility and log level of each message syslog generates, which will help you to modify /etc/syslog.conf...

I suggest you try add the following to /boot/loader.conf: hint.p4tcc.0.disabled="1" hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1" I've seen more than one FreeBSD dev saying (more kindly than me) that P4TCC is useless, and I for one have seen one of my systems use more energy with it enabled. YMMV

I wrote a script a while ago to help me do what you describe, but it sadly unearthed one annoying bug in the current package system that required too much hackery to work around for me to feel comfy publishing it. I'm hoping pkgng will change things. It's a script that creates a chroot build...

However, the ports system is, relative to other package installation systems, very accessible and well documented. In many cases it's trivial for a system administrator to make customisations to a port.

That should hopefully change in the near future. FreeBSD's 802.11n support is undergoing a lot of development at the moment. Thanks for the good report!

Not exactly what you had in mind, but you can try this: cat /var/run/devd.pipe And then connect/disconnect one of the ethernet cards to/from its uplink. The link change event will be shown in your cat output along with the device name.

Maybe you just need to install the right set of fonts? Personally I'm happy with x11-fonts/webfonts and x11-fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf.

This doesn't look like a very typical FreeBSD setup. What happened to the admin that set it up, and if he's unavailable, why don't you hire one?

Many BIOSes these days give you the ability to choose the boot device on-the-fly at boot time. Or if your primary boot disk is MBR partitioned while your secondary disk is GPT, you could try load boot0 onto your primary disk and it might let you boot the GPT disk with F5...

Set one default route in rc.conf, and use an ipfw fwd rule with a 0.5 match probability to your other gateway.

It's not really an email address. It's derived during kernel compile time from the user performing the compilation (root) and the host upon which the compile is performed (fqdn). You can change it by recompiling your kernel.

Sounds like your BIOS has an ACPI bug. Check for BIOS updates...

Which sound cards do you have? Some sound cards only have mixers for certain inputs/outputs.

You also have to rebuild the user databases with pwd_mkdb.

Sounds like a hardware issue. Perhaps power related? Does the keyboard have a long, thin/cheap cable?

The FreeBSD boot manager (boot0) does not work with GPT partitioned disks. You have to stick with MBR if you want to use it. Perhaps you should do your 4k alignment with MBR and/or a BSD label?

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I suspect this will be better considered in one of the mailing lists...

Or this: :>/dev/da0