Search results

My girlfriend drinks coffee, I drink tea. In the morning when we wake up, we talk a little bit, and start our day together. Sometimes we also like to see what is new in the world of science, find a few interesting articles, and then share it with each other and discuss them. I don't check the...

As @fonz suggested, it seems that those functions are there, but only on 10-CURRENT. Thanks for the info, I'll mark this thread as "solved".

There is a very good program called jail(8). The man page says it all. Basically, it's another FreeBSD system, that has its on IP, its own devices, its own userland/ports and the only thing it shares with the parent OS is the kernel. This video on youtube is very informative. But if you mean to...

I don't use sudo, because I hate the idea that anyone, rather than the root user has the power to do administrative tasks. However, I am not dealing with a server, I am using FreeBSD on my home desktop machine, and I only use the root account for administration. Anything related to...

Apart from trying @SirDice's advice and asking on the ARM mailing list, you can perhaps also ask on the FreeBSD 10-CURRENT mailing list. More information on ARM on FreeBSD can be obtained here. You can also try to improve your network connection with a USB wireless card, and get better hardware...

As many have already said, I also think (and hope) that Flash will be replaced by HTML5, because Flash in itself is "spyware" and is sending your information to others.

Exactly, as @laurentis suggests it's because anything that isn't ALSA doesn't work well with firefoxf. I think sound latency is fixed with the use of WEBRTC option, which can only be selected with ALSA. I fixed my problem by switching to www/opera, which is very fast, consumes less RAM and...

I also remembered another program, which you can use to find information about binaries: objdump(1). It's a very good program which very thoroughly dissects the binary file, and with the -S flag also gives you quite a lot of information about the sources, which were used to construct the binary.

If your source code compiles, perhaps you can use the gdb(1) to see which pointers are linked with which variables. To use it properly, compile your code with -g flag. gdb will work regardless of gcc vs. clang, and both support -g flag. If you don't have the source available, and you need just...

As @ta0kira suggested you have to use hexadecimal view. You can use vi (or vim) to do this, with %!xxd, and then exit from it using the %!xxd -r.

Wow, this is great news for the Open Source community!

Hello everyone! I have a question that would maybe fit more on the mailing list, but nevertheless I'll ask here. I noticed that complex(3) doesn't include some of the functions that are implemented in the GNU libc. Recently I tried moving some of my simulations from Linux to FreeBSD to...

I am very happy to hear that you managed to find the solution! Happy BSD-ing! :beergrin

Since you don't have any programs that require /usr/sbin/sendmail anymore, you should be fine with both keeping and deleting that symlink. I have decided to keep it anyway, and not fiddle too much with the system. And no, rebuilding world doesn't delete that symlink. I have it for months, and I...

Oh, thanks @kpa! That's what was puzzling me, I thought that it was saving compilation results.

Well, first check your /etc/make.conf for a typo. Secondly, I have WITHOUT_MAIL enabled, and according to src.conf(5) this option means both WITHOUT_MAILWRAPPER and WITHOUT_SENDMAIL are set. Since you won't be using the base system sendmail either, you can try perhaps with this option, and maybe...

See this segment of the /usr/ports/editors/libreoffice/Makefile: .if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MMERGELIBS} BROKEN= mergelibs causes runtime problems CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-mergelibs .else CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --disable-mergelibs So the Makefile states that the port will be marked...

Because portupgrade doesn't read perl as portmaster does. You have to manually specify which port your perl installation is. You can see which version you use with grep PERL /etc/make.conf. I use 5.14.4, so I ran perl -rf lang/perl5.14.

As @wblock@ suggested, read the UPDATING. And no, upgrading ~100 ports isn't risky, if you take care and nurture your ports. If some of them break, you have a broken system already, and it means you were playing with custom patches, and unsafe options under make.conf, so you're sitting on a time...

Apart from other valuable pieces of advice, you can consider creating a snapshot of your filesystem, and then using the dd command to write it somewhere else. It is a bit tricky though. Fist read through this how-to. As you can see, you cannot create a snapshot of the root (/) partition, but...