FreeBSD

How to change device name on FreeBSD 7.2?
Hi, Is there a way to change device name? I'm looking for something like Linux udev rules. Regards ... 18 Mar 2010 09:19

NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 17 March 2010 NYLUG: Forest Mars and Jingsheng Wang on Drupal
<blockquote what="official NYLUG announcement" edits=""> From: NYLUG Announcements <info(a)nylug.org> To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce(a)nylug.org> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:30:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nylug-announce] TOMORROW! NYLUG Presents: 3/17 @ 6:30PM Forest Mars and Jingsheng Wang on Drupal ma... 17 Mar 2010 02:30

Question on Dependent Ports
When the Ports Collection listing tells you that some particular port "requires" dozens of others...does that mean you have to go install each of those,or that the makefile for that port will install the others in the course of installing it? -=-=- The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again, at least as tall... 4 Apr 2010 00:42

i need my squeezeboxserver back!
FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE / ports-8-stable... oops... did a portupgrade of xorg/firefox... now squeezeboxserver built from the current source tree doesnt work... (builds and installs, but invocation complains about CPAN problems (wants a CPAN build, but CPAN doesn't build...) perl-5.8.9 vs perl-5-10.1 problem ? ... 13 Mar 2010 15:21

FreeBSD LPD printing doc
Finally got around to writing up a short document on setting up lpd printing on FreeBSD. Parallel, USB, and network printers are included, along with some simple filtering. http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/lpdprinting.pdf -- Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA ... 13 Mar 2010 21:59

FreeBSD 8.0, Xorg 7.4 and Intel core i3 cpu with integrated graphics- which driver?
I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0-stable on a new machine. The machine has a Intel Core i3-540 cpu, with a "integrated crahics controller" of some sort. pciconf output: root(a)kg-v7# pciconf -lv | grep -A 3 vga vgapci0(a)pci0:0:2:0: class=0x030000 card=0x83831043 chip=0x00428086 rev=0x12 hdr=0x00 vendor =... 10 Mar 2010 07:28

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 9 March 2010 Lisp NYC: Meeting for Google Summer of Code 2010
<blockquote what="official Lisp NYC announcement" more="http://lispnyc.org" edits=""> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:24:12 -0500 From: heow <lists(a)alphageeksinc.com> To: LISP NYC <lisp(a)lispnyc.org> Subject: [Lisp] Lisp Meeting, March 9th at P&Gs Join us Tuesday, March 9th from 7:00 to 9:00 at P&G's. ... 8 Mar 2010 04:14

Localization problem with kde4 in Freebsd 8 release 2
OS FreeBSD 8 release 2 perfectly updated using portmaster. No other issue but the kdm4 localization. ------ I start that program using rc.conf My system is well localized to it_IT and it work fine. Then the only app still appearing in english language is kdm4 and just if I start it via rc.conf If I s... 6 Mar 2010 12:57

What is the maximum number of files possible in a single directory?
We have a FreeBSD 6.4 system running a certain server. There is one particular directory currently containing about 3 million separate files. I was worried because I know in the past that it was considered unwise to have too many files in one directory. I've approached the network administrator about this who re... 4 Mar 2010 11:11

NYC LOCAL: Friday 5 March 2010 Movie Night with Kembrew McLeod and Steve Steinski Stein
<blockquote what="official Computers and Society announcement" master-of-ceremonies="Evan Korth" guests="Kembrew McLeod, Steve Steinski Stein" more="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kembrew_McLeod [page was last modified on 9 December 2009 at 02:59] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doub... 4 Mar 2010 02:20