FreeBSD

cp1250 and mounting windows volumes
Hello world! :-) Is it possible to mount windows encoded files (codepage CP1250) under FreeBSD? Is the CP1250 locale/encoding supported? I have some troubles reading files created under windows because of the filename encoding (unfortunately a lot of people here create polish name file with spaces in the middle)... 24 Jan 2010 08:57

make delete-old-libs, now missing
I foolishly ran make delete-old-libs in /usr/src now I get messages like: Shared object "libm.so.4" not found, required by "joe" whenever I run software. I tried makeworld and installworld but they didn't restore these libraries. How do I remake them? Erick ... 23 Jan 2010 15:26

wget example script
Here is an example script to download NetBSD 5.0.1 Unfortunately it has wrapped in the news post. The shell doesn't care about long lines. You may want to change the mirror. It checks the MD5 sums, and you should see no output from the diff. I ran this from Linux with bash, wget, and mkisofs, so you will need the... 23 Jan 2010 08:44

FreeBSD Rel 8.0 build failure
I know this has been discussed before (not necessarily here), but here is the error from make buildworld: cc -O2 -pipe -I. -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/config -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include -static -L/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/lib -o config config.o main.o lang.o mkmakefile.o mkheaders.o mkoptio... 23 Jan 2010 00:08

NYC LOCAL: Thursday 21 January 2010 UNIGROUP: Eric Hombo on Active Directory Integration with Unix and Linux Systems
<blockquote what="official UNIGROUP announcement" rsvp="registration requested, see below" entrance-fee="yes, see http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-fees.html" location="The Cooper Union School of Engineering, see below" info="http://www.unigroup.org" edits="some paragraphs removed so notice fits in mai... 20 Jan 2010 00:45

FBSD7.2+gmirror+gjournal: spontaneous reboots on excessive diskaccess?
Hi -- I'm running a gmirror raid1 plus gjournal for a year now. This is a 7.2-RELEASE-p6 right now. Both disks are regular ATA and healthy according smartctl. Whenever I beat my disks heavily, e.g. by ... dd if=/dev/null of=/some/file bs=1M count=4k plus parallel disk accesses by mail and http server. ... 16 Jan 2010 19:26

No internet access
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:55:45 -0500, Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet(a)be-well.ilk.org> wrote: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd is not widely propagated, so you won't necessarily get much help here (in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd). See http://www.freebsd.org/support.html for better ideas... [followups redirected accordingly] ... 15 Jan 2010 18:19

cdrkit vs. dvd+rw-tools and the dvd iso 4gb max filesize problem
Hello world! Simple and tricky question - who can burn a 4.4GB file to a DVD+/-R disk on his FreeBSD? ;-) I am wondering why FreeBSD still uses obsolete dvd+rw-tools package by default instead of cdrkit. The main disadvantage of the dvd+rw-tools is that it is based on a mkisofs and so it cannot write files lar... 17 Jan 2010 13:55

9,000 ZFS mount points
Hi, My team is looking at upgrading our FreeBSD fileserver, we've been extrememly happy with FreeBSD, the fileserver serves: umpteen NFS clients (all FreeBSD) 2,000 CIFS clients with Samba 9,000 homedirectories on about 4 TB of RAID disks on InforTrend RAID chassies, 2GB battery backed up RAM on ... 25 Jan 2010 06:08

Point-to-point link without PPP on freebsd? Is it possible?
Is it possible to implement a point-to-point link on FreeBSD without using PPP? I'm trying to create a "tappable" link between a fbsd firewall and router that can be used to monitor multiple networks (connected to the router) using Snort. I realize that I could just as easily use a /30, but I'm just curious if it c... 3 Jan 2010 12:43