how to add OpenOffice binaries in FreebSD7.2

[dhaneshk k]

I need to install  openoffice   in my FreeBSD7.2  laptop (IBMT60 coreduo) , 
without doing 
a port installation how can I do  it with package addition

 pkg_add  -r what_the_name_of_openoffice_package

  I need to supply in # pkg_add -r   ?


   Is there an official  FreeBSD package for   OOo  ?   I done   3rd party 
binary installations for open office  from  lamrelle.net .  but all the time it 
crashed  some of my gnome  applications ..such as firefox,  evolution etc..

any hints much appreciated..

dhanesh
  
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Re: OOo3.1 binary addition makes firefox,evolution unlaunchable from desktop

[Polytropon]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:07:15 +, dhaneshk k  wrote:
>   I deinstalled gnutls & jpeg ports and installed  again them.  after
> this OOo got installed  and working fine.  
> 
> But after I rebooted the machinebut issues 
> 
> 1)   firefox browser can't launch , what I made wrong how to fix it?

It's possible that Firefox had been linked against the jpeg
library you had installed before the upgrade. Upgrading
Firefox now should fix this.



> 2) Ekiga softphone , Epiphany webbrowser can't launch.  how to fix ?

Maybe the same reason. Can you start it from a terminal session
and show the error message? Please do the same with Firefox to
check missing library dependencies.



>3)in Sound&Video Movie player , swfdec Flash player etch can't launch  
>4) Evolution Mail & calender also can't launced.

See above.



>5) I can't change  Desktop background with  .jpeg files ,
>  but .png  wall papers worked for desktop backgroud. ?  

Yes, really seems to be the jpeg library.



> what I made wrong,  how can I fix  these issues,   I really need
>  a FreeBSD7.2  Desktop in my  this notebook, 

As it looks to me, you upgraded the jpeg library to a newer
version (to fulfill a requirement of OpenOffice), but the
applications you have installed still require the older
library that doesn't exist anymore on your system.

To fix this, either re-install the older library version
(this is what you surely do NOT want because of OpenOffice),
or upgrade all applications that depend on the jpeg library.
Tools like portmaster or portupgrade can help you with this,
so you don't need to upgrade everything manually.





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Re: HTT on Atom (Was: FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset)

[Manolis Kiagias]

Brett Glass wrote:
> At 04:33 PM 11/26/2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>> Though it seems hyperthreading is improved on the Atom and there is no
>> penalty for leaving it on.
>
> Is there really no penalty? With HZ=1000 there are double the clock
> interrupts to be serviced at least. And as I understand it the Atom
> has less redundant hardware, so there are less likely to be unused
> resources available to the second thread. I am seeing substantially
> faster compiles with the SMP option commented out of the kernel.
>
> --Brett
>
My tests involved building a custom kernel - I never tried without SMP,
just without hyperthreading and there was no appreciable difference.
Using -j3 in make kernel, the kernel is built in just about 40 minutes.
Without -j same procedure lasts 55 minutes. (I am using an Atom 330
which is dual core)

On a Pentium 4 with HTT, -j actually results in a somewhat slower build.


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OOo3.1 binary addition makes firefox,evolution unlaunchable from desktop

[dhaneshk k]

fellow FreeBSDians,


  I am  facinggnome2  issues in freebsd7.2

I installed freebsd7.2  in an IBMT60 lenova notebook,(  coreduoe 2.16 Ghz, IGB 
ram, ATI graphics)

   I  done  pkg_add  -r xorg, fine created xorg.conf  and tested   with  -retro 
option,  then got  mouse detected with blank screen.  I used hald and dbus in  
rc.conf.


Then I installed gnome   bypkg_add -r gnome2 ,  fine   enabled  gdm in 
rc.conf  and able to login and can use  Desktop .  I can chage Desktop 
background with  .jpeg files
everything fine.

 But when Idownloaded  OOo3.1 binaries for 7.2 release from 

http://lamarelle.lautre.net/OOo/   and   pkg_add locally

, then it failed , asking me to   install python26.x , jbigkit,latest   
gnutls  & jpeg from ports  instead of what I have in this box, then  cups-base, 
cups-image, cups-client etc  .

I installed python26, jbigkit, cups-base, cups-image, cups-client.   I 
deinstalled gnutls & jpeg ports and installed  again them.  after this OOo 
got installed  and working fine.  

But after I rebooted the machinebut issues 

1)   firefox browser can't launch , what I made wrong how to fix it?
2) Ekiga softphone , Epiphany webbrowser can't launch.  how to fix ?
   3)in Sound&Video Movie player , swfdec Flash player etch can't launch  
   4) Evolution Mail & calender also can't launced.
   5) I can't change  Desktop background with  .jpeg files ,  but .png  wall 
papers worked for desktop backgroud. ?  

what I made wrong,  how can I fix  these issues,   I really need  a FreeBSD7.2  
Desktop in my  this notebook, 

Please help me with your suggestions & expertise,  All help much appreciated.

Thanks in advance 
Dhanesh



  
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Re: How to print using cups on FreeBSD?

[Unga]

--- On Fri, 11/27/09, Patrick Lamaiziere  wrote:

> From: Patrick Lamaiziere 
> Subject: Re: How to print using cups on FreeBSD?
> To: "Unga" 
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Friday, November 27, 2009, 8:19 AM
> Le Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:15:07 -0800
> (PST),
> Unga 
> a écrit :
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'm trying to print using cups 1.3.10 on FreeBSD 7.2
> on a Epson
> > Stylus Photo R800 printer. It prints garbage! That is,
> it print some
> > series of characters.
> > 
> > My first question is, does cups work on FreeBSD to
> print?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> ...
> 
> > pkg_info | grep foomatic
> > foomatic-db-20090530 Foomatic database
> > foomatic-db-engine-4.0.1,2 Foomatic database engine
> > gutenprint-foomatic-5.1.7_2 GutenPrint Printer Driver
> 
> Looks good, according to linuxprinting.org the Gutenprint
> driver should
> work for your printer.
> 
> 
> > I have followed this for cups configuration:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/cups/printing-cups-configuring-server.html
> > 
> > ls -l /dev/unlpt0
> > crw-rw  1 root  cups    0, 155
> Nov 26 12:23 /dev/unlpt0
> > 
> > ls -l /dev/ulpt0
> > crw-rw  1 root  cups    0, 154
> Nov 26 12:23 /dev/ulpt0
> > 
> > I don't have /dev/lpt* .
> > 
> > I'm a member of cups group.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> How did you configure the printer under cups? Did you try
> the option
> usb / usb no reset for the usb port used by cups?
> Also check the cups logs (/var/log/cups/*)
> 
> HTH, regards.
>  
Hi

Thank you very much for the reply.

Here is what shows on error_log:

Listening to ::1:631 on fd 1...
Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 3...
Listening to /var/run/cups.sock on fd 4...
Resuming new connection processing...
[Job ???] Request file type is application/postscript.
[Job 14] Adding start banner page "none".
[Job 14] Adding end banner page "none".
[Job 14] File of type application/postscript queued by "unga".
[Job 14] Queued on "EPSON-R800" by "unga".
[Job 14] Started filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 1467)
[Job 14] Started filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 1468)
[Job 14] Started filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.1 
(PID 1469)
[Job 14] Started backend /usr/local/libexec/cups/backend/usb (PID 1470)
[Job 14] Canceled by "unga".


Only error is on access_log:
"POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1" 200 112 CUPS-Get-Default client-error-not-found

As for your question, the printer is connected to a USB port and configured 
using the KDE 3.5 printer configuration utility.

The same printer prints very well on a older Linux system with a older 
Gutenprint driver!

What am I still missing?

Regards
Unga





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Gnome Terminal

[Rem P Roberti]

There was a time when I ran gnome-terminal from within Fluxbox. On my
new 7.2 installation I have installed gnome-terminal, but can't get it
to work. When I try to bring it up from the command line from within
Fluxbox I get this error message: "Failed to contact the GConf daemon;
exiting"

As usual, all help much appreciated.

Rem
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black-friday ads --> ASUS-EEE's

[Gary Kline]

Folks,

IF any/everone would keep an eye out for national Black FRiday
adds that offer a 9-10" ASUS-EEE, I'd appreciate it.   (I've been
poking around for much of today, but zip.)  The stores that are
open obv'ly want to build suspense; this is a win re that
notebook.  For me anyway:-)

tia, y'all

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2 processes reproducible read same file with different speed

[cronfy]

Hello.

I've noticed a very weird behavior of 2 Apache processes that shold read 
the same file to process a request (they configured to read it on every 
request). One spends about 6ms to read the file, and second spends about 
114ms (I used ktrace to find this out). Every time, on every request, 
the problem is reproducible. Apaches are the same, the only difference 
between them that they are working from different users to serve 
different sites. Same binary, same config.


First Apache used to work in the same way some time ago - it spent 
~120ms to read the file. But once it changed and now it is working fast.


Restarts of Apache do not look to affect on anything.

The file that Apache should read is 315k long. Apache reads it by small 
blocks of 4096 bytes each. May be FreeBSD has some memory about how 
process is working with files and after some time enables some 
optimization or caching? I just do not have any clue... :(


Can anyone explain this please?


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HTT on Atom (Was: FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset)

[Brett Glass]

At 04:33 PM 11/26/2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:


Though it seems hyperthreading is improved on the Atom and there is no
penalty for leaving it on.


Is there really no penalty? With HZ=1000 there are double the clock 
interrupts to be serviced at least. And as I understand it the Atom 
has less redundant hardware, so there are less likely to be unused 
resources available to the second thread. I am seeing substantially 
faster compiles with the SMP option commented out of the kernel.


--Brett



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8.0-R.. does arp not sort correctly anymore?

[B. Cook]

How strange..

arp is not printed in the order it used to be..

FreeBSD milenko.homelan 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 25 
13:33:49 EST 2009 
r...@milenko.homelan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERICplus  amd64


r...@milenko [~]# 17 > arp -an
? (192.168.1.9) at 00:12:3f:7e:b8:10 on bge0 [ethernet]
? (192.168.1.11) at 00:01:e6:4b:e3:2e on bge0 [ethernet]
? (192.168.1.10) at 00:1e:c9:40:a1:29 on bge0 permanent [ethernet]
? (192.168.1.1) at 00:1f:90:35:4f:a8 on bge0 [ethernet]
? (192.168.1.2) at 00:10:18:30:38:83 on bge0 [ethernet]
? (192.168.1.5) at 00:17:f2:c7:c4:4a on bge0 [ethernet]
? (192.168.1.6) at 00:24:36:a1:18:ec on bge0 [ethernet]
? (192.168.1.255) at (incomplete) on bge0 [ethernet]

r...@milenko [~]# 18 > cat /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERICplus

include GENERIC
ident   BSD

# Commented out debug in GENERIC

options  DEVICE_POLLING
options  HZ=1000

options  SW_WATCHDOG


chlorine [~]$ 3 > uname -a
FreeBSD chlorine.domain.com 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: 
Sun Oct  4 18:31:01 EDT 2009 
r...@chlorine.domain.com:/exports/obj/exports/src/sys/GENERICplus  amd64


chlorine [~]$ 4 > arp -an
? (a.b.c.1) at 00:0b:db:6b:b4:8f on bge0 [ethernet]
? (a.b.c.2) at 00:1e:c9:44:32:3f on bge0 permanent [ethernet]
? (a.b.c.3) at 00:1e:c9:44:32:3f on bge0 permanent [ethernet]
? (a.b.c.4) at 00:22:19:25:2b:65 on bge0 [ethernet]
? (a.b.c.5) at 00:22:19:25:2b:65 on bge0 [ethernet]
? (a.b.c.10) at 00:1d:09:24:27:3f on bge0 [ethernet]
? (a.b.c.12) at 00:1d:09:24:27:3f on bge0 [ethernet]
? (a.b.c.15) at 00:1e:c9:44:32:3f on bge0 permanent [ethernet]
? (a.b.c.18) at 00:1e:c9:44:32:3f on bge0 permanent [ethernet]
? (a.b.c.19) at 00:22:19:25:2b:65 on bge0 [ethernet]
? (a.b.c.36) at 00:1a:a0:3c:88:79 on bge0 [ethernet]


I don't see anything in the notes about that..
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Re: TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64)

[Jamie Griffin]

> You can build your own binaries by tweaking an svn checkout of the
> TeXlive sources.  I've done this on my laptop, because I run CURRENT
> and the old TeXlive 2008 binaries failed to run:

 

> I think I kept notes while building the binaries.  If I manage to find
> them soon-ish I will post a followup of how you can build a TeXlive 2009
> distribution from source.

If you could post back with that, it would be great.




> Notes for builders
> ==
> 
> If you try building TeXlive 2009 on FreeBSD 8.X it may be useful to set
> the following in your shell environment:
> 
> export TL_MAKE='gmake'
> export TL_CONF_BANNER='--with-tex-banner="TeX Live 2009/FreeBSD"'
> export TL_CONFIGURE_ARGS='--without-graphite'
> 
> You can get a source snapshot of TeXlive 2009 following the instructions
> at .  I used rsync to grab a snapshot of
> the sources, as described in .  Then I
> followed the instructions at  to
> build my own snapshot on FreeBSD 9.X.

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Re: How to print using cups on FreeBSD?

[Patrick Lamaiziere]

Le Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:15:07 -0800 (PST),
Unga  a écrit :

> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to print using cups 1.3.10 on FreeBSD 7.2 on a Epson
> Stylus Photo R800 printer. It prints garbage! That is, it print some
> series of characters.
> 
> My first question is, does cups work on FreeBSD to print?

Yes.

...

> pkg_info | grep foomatic
> foomatic-db-20090530 Foomatic database
> foomatic-db-engine-4.0.1,2 Foomatic database engine
> gutenprint-foomatic-5.1.7_2 GutenPrint Printer Driver

Looks good, according to linuxprinting.org the Gutenprint driver should
work for your printer.


> I have followed this for cups configuration:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/cups/printing-cups-configuring-server.html
> 
> ls -l /dev/unlpt0
> crw-rw  1 root  cups0, 155 Nov 26 12:23 /dev/unlpt0
> 
> ls -l /dev/ulpt0
> crw-rw  1 root  cups0, 154 Nov 26 12:23 /dev/ulpt0
> 
> I don't have /dev/lpt* .
> 
> I'm a member of cups group.

Ok.

How did you configure the printer under cups? Did you try the option
usb / usb no reset for the usb port used by cups?
Also check the cups logs (/var/log/cups/*)

HTH, regards.
 
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Re: TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64)

[Jamie Griffin]

> > Hi,
> >
> > I just got the news of someone who build binaries of TeXlive 2009.
> >
> > http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html
 
> This is great news, thanks for sharing. I was looking forward to get
> TexLive 2009 running on FreeBSD.

Absolutely, have either of you tried it out yet? any problems with it?

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Re: FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset

[Manolis Kiagias]

Brett Glass wrote:
>
> However, the machine still boots. And hyperthreading is enabled,
> because the Atom has HTT. (I have been thinking of disabling it,
> because hyperthreading may not work very well on the Atom. Does anyone
> know how to do this properly? I tried setting machdep.hlt_logical_cpus
> to 1 in /boot/loader.conf and was rewarded with a system crash at boot
> time.)
>

In /boot/loader.conf try:

machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=0

Though it seems hyperthreading is improved on the Atom and there is no
penalty for leaving it on.
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Re: TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64)

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:30:48 +0200, Manolis Kiagias  wrote:
> acheron wrote:
>> I just got the news of someone who build binaries of TeXlive 2009.
>>
>> http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html
>
> This is great news, thanks for sharing. I was looking forward to get
> TexLive 2009 running on FreeBSD.

You can build your own binaries by tweaking an svn checkout of the
TeXlive sources.  I've done this on my laptop, because I run CURRENT
and the old TeXlive 2008 binaries failed to run:

keram...@kobe:/tmp$ tex
This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009/FreeBSD)
**\relax

*\bye
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.
keram...@kobe:/tmp$

I think I kept notes while building the binaries.  If I manage to find
them soon-ish I will post a followup of how you can build a TeXlive 2009
distribution from source.

Note that the TeXlive sources are more than 1.7 GB of compressed data:

keram...@kobe:/home/texlive$ ls -la
total 1793074
drwxrwxr-x  2 root  wheel  -  4 Oct 26 04:02 .
drwxr-xr-x  9 root  wheel  -  9 Nov 10 22:35 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 keramida  wheel  -244 Oct 24 05:10 makeiso.sh
-rw-rw-r--  1 keramida  wheel  - 1834745550 Oct 23 04:33 tldevsrc.tar.bz2
keram...@kobe:/home/texlive$

and will expand to at least 2 GB:

keram...@kobe:/opt/texlive$ du -sh .
2.1G.
keram...@kobe:/opt/texlive$

The FreeBSD binaries themselves are really _very_ small:

keram...@kobe:/opt/texlive$ du -sh bin/i386-freebsd
 34Mbin/i386-freebsd
keram...@kobe:/opt/texlive$

But you would have to build TL-2009 on FreeBSD 8.X to be able to use it
in non-CURRENT snapshots.

Notes for builders
==

If you try building TeXlive 2009 on FreeBSD 8.X it may be useful to set
the following in your shell environment:

export TL_MAKE='gmake'
export TL_CONF_BANNER='--with-tex-banner="TeX Live 2009/FreeBSD"'
export TL_CONFIGURE_ARGS='--without-graphite'

You can get a source snapshot of TeXlive 2009 following the instructions
at .  I used rsync to grab a snapshot of
the sources, as described in .  Then I
followed the instructions at  to
build my own snapshot on FreeBSD 9.X.

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Re: FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset

[Brett Glass]

At 08:28 AM 11/26/2009, Warren Block wrote:


Hard to tell.  Is it possible it's just disabled?


There's no switch to disable the wireless on the Eee Box. Also, the 
wireless did work with Linux just before I installed FreeBSD. So, I 
do not think the problem is that the wireless is disabled. I think 
that no FreeBSD driver is recognizing the card. (More below.)


Only the Asus Eee laptops, not the desktops, are listed in the Wiki 
(Why?). But the two lines are very similar and in some cases use 
the same motherboards, just populated differently. The LAN 
interface is identified by the kernel as one of the Realtek gigabit 
chips. The PCI chip ID is 0x816810EC, which sure enough is listed 
in the PCI database at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/10ec as a 
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller. The re(4) 
driver runs it correctly.


There's something funny, though not fatal, going on with ACPI, 
though. At boot time, I get a warning from the FreeBSD acpi driver:


ACPI Warning: Option field Pm2ControlBlock has zero address or length...

However, the machine still boots. And hyperthreading is enabled, 
because the Atom has HTT. (I have been thinking of disabling it, 
because hyperthreading may not work very well on the Atom. Does 
anyone know how to do this properly? I tried setting 
machdep.hlt_logical_cpus to 1 in /boot/loader.conf and was rewarded 
with a system crash at boot time.)


I thought the wireless on/off switches were soft switches, but 
maybe not on that model.  If you can get Linux to identify the 
exact model of card, along with the model of computer, that would be helpful.


I wiped Linux off the box when I installed FreeBSD. But the model 
number of the computer is B202 -- a desktop micro-workstation. It 
uses the Atom N270 CPU and comes with a 160 GB hard drive and 1 GB 
of RAM. The FCC label on the outside of the box mentions two 
AzureWave mini-PCI wireless cards: the AW-NE766 (FCC ID: 
VQF-RT2700E; IC: 7542A-RT2700E) and the AW-NE771 (FCC ID: 
PPD-AR5891; IC: 4104A-AR5891). The second one clearly uses an 
Atheros chipset, but the first incorporates what looks like a 
Ralink part number. And sure enough, the pciconf -l command lists 
the wireless interface's PCI chip ID as 0x07811814. According to 
the PCI database at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1814 this makes 
it a Ralink RT2860 chip. The card ID is 0x27901814, which has the 
same least significant word so it would again be a Ralink (probably 
just rebranded by AzureWave).


FreeBSD has a driver that says it works on the Ralink 2560 and 2661 
but not later chips. So, what we probably have here is a recent 
model Ralink b/g/n wireless card that's too new for the driver to 
recognize. Linux is ahead of us.


A brief Web search indicates that Ralink has apparently released 
firmware for the RT28xx chips under a BSD-like license. However, I 
don't know if the ral(4) driver would handle the interface properly 
if I got a copy of that firmware, hacked /sys/dev/ral/if_ral_pci.c 
to upload it, and then told it to treat the chip as if it were a 
2661. Does anyone know if this has a chance of working?


--Brett

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Re: TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64)

[Manolis Kiagias]

acheron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just got the news of someone who build binaries of TeXlive 2009.
>
> http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html
>
>   

This is great news, thanks for sharing. I was looking forward to get
TexLive 2009 running on FreeBSD.
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TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64)

[acheron]

Hi,

I just got the news of someone who build binaries of TeXlive 2009.

http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html

>Dear TeXLive team,

>I created 6 sets of FreeBSD binaries of TeXLive2009, for FreeBSD 6, 7
>and 8, each for i386 and amd64:

>  http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/TeXLive-2009/bin/

>As an active FreeBSD contributor/porter -- and a user of TeXLive on
>FreeBSD myself -- I offer to maintain all these sets and do test
>builds
>from now on. This maintenance might include producing new sets of
>binaries if significant changes occur in software provided by ports
>system that TL binaries are linked to.

>Besides, I will be glad to cover more FreeBSD versions for these two
>archs if a need arises, although this in unlikely at the moment.

>I am aware that you received offers for FreeBSD maintainership
>earlier,
>but I hope that my offer will suit you better because of "all-in-one"
>approach.


Cheers Oliver
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Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:46:01PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Andreas Rudisch wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:35:55 +0100
> > herbert langhans  wrote:
> >
> >> Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous MS-thing, 
> >> there is a simple window. It shows all the ssid, you click on one (maybe 
> >> the password is already assigned) and you get the certain wifi net.
> >>
> >> I use the laptop in different networks, often its auto selecting the wrong 
> >> one. It would be great to point and click and get the connection..
> >
> > Hence the link and the keyword wpa_supplicant. Any way, here is another 
> > link:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant.conf&sektion=5
> >
> > Take a look at the example section. You can define multiple networks.
> 
> Yes, but wpa_supplicant wants to autoselect.  Is there a way to make it 
> choose a specific network?
> 
> As far as GUI goes, there's good news and bad news.  The good news is 
> that a couple GUI network managers are around:

Have a look at net-mgmt/wifimgr; http://opal.com/freebsd/ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr/

Maybe that is what you're looking for?

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Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

[Charlie Kester]

On Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 13:29:44 PST Rolf G Nielsen wrote:

Charlie Kester wrote:

Can someone remind me once again, when rebuilding all of my ports,
what is the trick for avoiding the options dialogs?  I'd like to have
this run largely unattended. I seem to recall someone describing a
method to go through all of them upfront, rather than having the build
process interrupted each time a port wants that input.

I know that portupgrade has a batch build option, but unless I'm
mistaken, that skips any ports that need interaction to build.
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With portupgrade give -C to run make "make config" or -c to run "make 
config-conditional" for all tasks before everything else.


To skip the config dialogs altogether, specify -DBATCH on the make 
commandline (-m "-DBATCH" or -M "-DBATCH" to portupgrade to append or

prepend the -DBATCH to the make commandline).


Thanks for your replies!

To do the complete reinstall of my ports after upgrading to 8.0, I've
elected to use the method documented on the manpage for portmaster.
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Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Andreas Rudisch wrote:


On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:35:55 +0100
herbert langhans  wrote:


Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous MS-thing, there is 
a simple window. It shows all the ssid, you click on one (maybe the password is 
already assigned) and you get the certain wifi net.

I use the laptop in different networks, often its auto selecting the wrong one. 
It would be great to point and click and get the connection..


Hence the link and the keyword wpa_supplicant. Any way, here is another link:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant.conf&sektion=5

Take a look at the example section. You can define multiple networks.


Yes, but wpa_supplicant wants to autoselect.  Is there a way to make it 
choose a specific network?


As far as GUI goes, there's good news and bad news.  The good news is 
that a couple GUI network managers are around:


http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/
http://wicd.sourceforge.net/screenshot.php

The bad news is that neither seem to have been ported to FreeBSD.

This Debian page suggests using logical interface names for each network 
which could probably be used with FreeBSD.  It also mentions ifscheme 
(which also doesn't seem to have been ported):


http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#SwitchingConnections

And then my memory suggests there is or was some type of network profile 
setting through /etc/rc.conf, but I can't find more details.


Finally, there's this:

http://www.kts.org/hm/download/setnetparm/

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Re : freebsd-update with MYKERNEL kernel configuration

[Alexandre L.]

Hi,

I paste this link where Colin Percival explain who to use the tool 
freebsd-update with custom kernel. But I think that same thing as been written 
in the handbook. 
http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=30920&postcount=9

--- En date de : Jeu 26.11.09, S4mmael  a écrit :

> De: S4mmael 
> Objet: freebsd-update with MYKERNEL kernel configuration
> À: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Jeudi 26 Novembre 2009, 13h32
> Hi all!
> 
> I've got a problem while upgrading FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3
> -> FreeBSD
> 8.0-RELESE with freebsd-update(8).
> 
> First of all I made a copy of the most configuration files.
> Then I made:
> # freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade
> All went good, except the message, that because of MYKERNEL
> kernel
> configuration I should upgrade my kernel before
> "freebsd-upgrade
> install". Then I was looking for the way of kernel upgrade,
> but found
> nothing. How could I build 8.0 kernel in FreeBSD 7.2? Of
> course, there
> were 7.2 sources in /usr/src and I didn't find any sources
> in
> /var/db/freebsd-update/. It's the first my question.
> 
> Thus I decided to upgrade all except the kernel and then
> rebuild the
> kernel (that worked good while upgrading 7.1 -> 7.2). I
> made as
> mentioned in hanbook:
> # freebsd-upgrade install
> # shutdown -r now
> # freebsd-upgrade install
> There were many errors "bad sistem call" on th last
> command. After all
> I discovered that much files from / were lost (I didn't
> find any grep,
> bzcat and so on). On boot kernel can't find fsck_ufs, so
> automatic
> mounting fails. If mounted by hand, there is no way to
> login because
> of some init error. Single user mode works. "freebsd-update
> roolback"
> can't find any backup. Shell scripts can't find "test" (it
> really
> doesn't exists in /bin/[ ) and fails.
> 
> How can I restore the system? I've FreeBSD 7.1 CD.
> 
> Thank's in advance for your help.
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Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?

[Jerry]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:11:38 +0100
Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> replied:

>On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:35:55 +0100
>herbert langhans  wrote:
>
>> Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous
>> MS-thing, there is a simple window. It shows all the ssid, you click
>> on one (maybe the password is already assigned) and you get the
>> certain wifi net. 
>> 
>> I use the laptop in different networks, often its auto selecting the
>> wrong one. It would be great to point and click and get the
>> connection..
>
>Hence the link and the keyword wpa_supplicant. Any way, here is
>another link:
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant.conf&sektion=5
>
>Take a look at the example section. You can define multiple networks.
>

I think it is pretty obvious that the OP is searching for a GUI to
facilitate configuration of his device. I had actually thought about
attempting to write one. At some future date, assuming I have the time
and can assimilate all the info I need, I might attempt to do so.


Personally, I have always felt that one of the major stumbling blocks
to getting users to switch to a non-Windows based system is the degree
of difficulty in configuring devices. The majority of users do not have
the time or inclination to read through "how-to" documentation,
assuming it even exists, gather scads of information, and then attempt,
usually unsuccessful on the first attempt, to get a simple wireless
device working when they can accomplish the same feat with little or no
user intervention on a Windows machine. Even OSX greatly simplifies the
installation process. Virtually every device that cannot be configured
and activated by Windows comes with its own installation program. I
really believe that it is fundamentally possible to accomplish the
same feat in a non-Windows environment.

Just my own 2¢.
<\rant>

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Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?

[Jonathan Chen]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:09:26PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote:
> Hi Daemons,
> I use my laptop in different wifi networks. To choose the ssid, passwords and 
> such necessities I have to use the all-knowing and confusing 'ifconfig'.
> 
> Question: Is there a GUI replacement for ifconfig? Where I can scan, choose 
> the ssid and do other basic things? I havent found anything in the ports 
> collection..
> 

There's no GUI for ifconfig that I know of, but there *is* a GUI for
managing wi-fi networks in the ports:

http://www.freshports.org/net-mgmt/wifimgr/

See if it helps.
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Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?

[Andreas Rudisch]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:35:55 +0100
herbert langhans  wrote:

> Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous MS-thing, there 
> is a simple window. It shows all the ssid, you click on one (maybe the 
> password is already assigned) and you get the certain wifi net. 
> 
> I use the laptop in different networks, often its auto selecting the wrong 
> one. It would be great to point and click and get the connection..

Hence the link and the keyword wpa_supplicant. Any way, here is another link:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant.conf&sektion=5

Take a look at the example section. You can define multiple networks.

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[Dominic Fandrey]

Should the CVS/SVN mirrors really require authentication?



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Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?

[herbert langhans]

Hi Andreas,
yes - I have studied the handbook, it was necessary to set all up.

Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous MS-thing, there is 
a simple window. It shows all the ssid, you click on one (maybe the password is 
already assigned) and you get the certain wifi net. 

I use the laptop in different networks, often its auto selecting the wrong one. 
It would be great to point and click and get the connection..

Cheers
herb langhans


On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:14:23PM +0100, Andreas Rudisch wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:09:26 +0100
> herbert langhans  wrote:
> 
> > Hi Daemons,
> > I use my laptop in different wifi networks. To choose the ssid, passwords 
> > and such necessities I have to use the all-knowing and confusing 'ifconfig'.
> > 
> > Question: Is there a GUI replacement for ifconfig? Where I can scan, choose 
> > the ssid and do other basic things? I havent found anything in the ports 
> > collection..
> 
> No idea, but what about using wpa_supplicant.
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
> 
> Andreas
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Re: FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Brett Glass wrote:


Dead as in doesn't show in dmesg/pciconf


Yep, that's correct. The only hint of it is the following message:

pci3:  at device 0.0 (no driver attached)


Hard to tell.  Is it possible it's just disabled?  I thought the 
wireless on/off switches were soft switches, but maybe not on that 
model.  If you can get Linux to identify the exact model of card, along 
with the model of computer, that would be helpful.


http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee

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Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?

[Andreas Rudisch]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:09:26 +0100
herbert langhans  wrote:

> Hi Daemons,
> I use my laptop in different wifi networks. To choose the ssid, passwords and 
> such necessities I have to use the all-knowing and confusing 'ifconfig'.
> 
> Question: Is there a GUI replacement for ifconfig? Where I can scan, choose 
> the ssid and do other basic things? I havent found anything in the ports 
> collection..

No idea, but what about using wpa_supplicant.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

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ifconfig - GUI interface available?

[herbert langhans]

Hi Daemons,
I use my laptop in different wifi networks. To choose the ssid, passwords and 
such necessities I have to use the all-knowing and confusing 'ifconfig'.

Question: Is there a GUI replacement for ifconfig? Where I can scan, choose the 
ssid and do other basic things? I havent found anything in the ports 
collection..

Thanks
herb langhans

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Re: Spammer data mining and www.freebsd.org

[Bill Moran]

"Ronald F. Guilmette"  wrote:
> 
> I just got a spam from some numbnuts spammer who said (in the spam), and I
> quote:
> 
> 
> >Why would anyone still pay recruitment agency fees? Wouldn't you prefer to
> >RECRUIT AS MANY PEOPLE per campaign for $499?
> >
> >Your contact details were on
> > 'http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributors/article.html#STAFF-COMMITTERS'
> >and we thought you should know that, during Nove>mber, you can RECRUIT
> >AS MANY PEOPLE per campaign...
> 
> 
> Jeezze Louise!
> 
> In the first place, I didn't even know that my name or e-mail address were
> listed on that page, and I was really rather surprised to find that they
> were.  Why the bleep am _I_ on there?  Yea, I've hacked free software
> from time to time in my career... more than just a little... but I really
> can't recall having ever ``contributed'' to FreeBSD in any significant or
> meaningful way.  I mean I'm honored to be listed in with such illustrious
> company, but in all modesty, I don't deserve to be.
> 
> But anyway, regardless of that, I have to ask: (1) Why the bleep are so
> many e-mail addresses listed on that page in plain text, and without any
> sort of spammer harvesting protection whatsoever?  And (2) who should I
> gripe to about this sorry state of affairs?  webmaster(at)freebsd.org?
> 
> I don't expect the email addresses to be protected by captchas or anything
> that convoluted, but the webmaster certainly could have at least replaced
> `@' with `(at)' or some such thing.

You do realize that this email is being archived on any number of online
archives that the FreeBSD project has no control over, and that any of
them may list your email address unobfuscated.

While I can't speak for the project, I feel that obfuscating email
addresses is a weak and obsolete protection from harvesting.  It's trivial
to make a screen-scraper translate "at" to "@", and even if the method
of obfuscating is more clever than that, if it's consistent and a larger
number of email addresses are available after breaking it, well ... you
get the idea.

Far better to complain to the ISP where the email originated.  That's
someone who can actually do something about the problem.

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Re: freebsd-update with MYKERNEL kernel configuration

[Pieter de Goeje]

On Thursday 26 November 2009 14:32:01 S4mmael wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I've got a problem while upgrading FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 -> FreeBSD
> 8.0-RELESE with freebsd-update(8).
> 
> First of all I made a copy of the most configuration files. Then I made:
> # freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade
> All went good, except the message, that because of MYKERNEL kernel
> configuration I should upgrade my kernel before "freebsd-upgrade
> install". 

That message should probably be more strongly worded. It is absolutely 
*imperative* that the custom kernel is upgraded before continuing with 
freebsd-upgrade install.

For more information about how to upgrade to freebsd 8 see
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-
freebsdupdate.html

> Then I was looking for the way of kernel upgrade, but found
> nothing. How could I build 8.0 kernel in FreeBSD 7.2? Of course, there
> were 7.2 sources in /usr/src and I didn't find any sources in
> /var/db/freebsd-update/. It's the first my question.

Use csup(1) to upgrade the sources to RELENG_8_0.

> 
> Thus I decided to upgrade all except the kernel and then rebuild the
> kernel (that worked good while upgrading 7.1 -> 7.2). 

As you found out, you should never do that. Always make sure the kernel is the 
same or newer as world (userland) especially when upgrading to a new major 
version.

> I made as
> mentioned in hanbook:
> # freebsd-upgrade install
> # shutdown -r now
> # freebsd-upgrade install

At this point most userland utilities (because they all use libc.so) depend on 
features only available in the 8.0 kernel, while the installed kernel is still 
at 7.1. Essentially the system is bricked.

> There were many errors "bad sistem call" on th last command. After all
> I discovered that much files from / were lost (I didn't find any grep,
> bzcat and so on). On boot kernel can't find fsck_ufs, so automatic
> mounting fails. If mounted by hand, there is no way to login because
> of some init error. Single user mode works. "freebsd-update roolback"
> can't find any backup. Shell scripts can't find "test" (it really
> doesn't exists in /bin/[ ) and fails.
> 
> How can I restore the system? I've FreeBSD 7.1 CD.

You can try reinstalling 7.1 taking care not to repartition the HDD. If all 
went well the system runs a GENERIC kernel, which is upgradeable by freebsd-
upgrade. You can then retry the upgrade process. This process (the reinstall 
from cdrom) will revert any changes to /etc, so you will need to restore that 
from backup. Perhaps others know a better/easier way.

> 
> Thank's in advance for your help.

Good luck!

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freebsd-update with MYKERNEL kernel configuration

[S4mmael]

Hi all!

I've got a problem while upgrading FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 -> FreeBSD
8.0-RELESE with freebsd-update(8).

First of all I made a copy of the most configuration files. Then I made:
# freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade
All went good, except the message, that because of MYKERNEL kernel
configuration I should upgrade my kernel before "freebsd-upgrade
install". Then I was looking for the way of kernel upgrade, but found
nothing. How could I build 8.0 kernel in FreeBSD 7.2? Of course, there
were 7.2 sources in /usr/src and I didn't find any sources in
/var/db/freebsd-update/. It's the first my question.

Thus I decided to upgrade all except the kernel and then rebuild the
kernel (that worked good while upgrading 7.1 -> 7.2). I made as
mentioned in hanbook:
# freebsd-upgrade install
# shutdown -r now
# freebsd-upgrade install
There were many errors "bad sistem call" on th last command. After all
I discovered that much files from / were lost (I didn't find any grep,
bzcat and so on). On boot kernel can't find fsck_ufs, so automatic
mounting fails. If mounted by hand, there is no way to login because
of some init error. Single user mode works. "freebsd-update roolback"
can't find any backup. Shell scripts can't find "test" (it really
doesn't exists in /bin/[ ) and fails.

How can I restore the system? I've FreeBSD 7.1 CD.

Thank's in advance for your help.
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Re: mod_security & apache port

[Frank Shute]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:05:44PM +0100, Alex Huth wrote:
>
> Hello!
> 
> When i use the ports to install mod_security on a fresh installed 8.0 system,
> it is installing apache 2.0.63_3. Are there any known problems why 2.2 isn't
> used together with mod_security?
> 
> Thx
> 

I think that 2.0 is just the default.

To build 2.2 instead put:

APACHE_VERSION=22

in /etc/make.conf or install 2.2 first and then mod_security.


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Re: mod_security & apache port

[krad]

2009/11/26 Alex Huth 

> Hello!
>
> When i use the ports to install mod_security on a fresh installed 8.0
> system,
> it is installing apache 2.0.63_3. Are there any known problems why 2.2
> isn't
> used together with mod_security?
>
> Thx
>
>
> Alex
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have you csup your ports?
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Re: mysql60-server??

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:41:06 -0500, Jerry  wrote:
> BTW, I totally disagree with your statement regarding "commercial
> product' vs "open source" and quality.

I beg to differ. Bad software exists everywhere - in open
source world as well as in the commercial sector.



> If that were really true then
> Open Office would be equal to or superior to MS Office. In actuality,
> it is at best equal to Office 97, and that is even stretching the
> point.

I've worked for a long time in a cross-platform (Mac, Linux,
BSD, Solaris, "Windows") environment where OpenOffice has
been used successfully. A MICROS~1 product couldn't work
that good when it's about interoperability.

There are many things "modern" MICROS~1 office products
lag behind open software, be it interface design, conforming
to standards, useful (!) functionality or operation speed.

On the other hand, I admit that there are often problems
in quality with open source programs, but not as you may
think: I'm talking about the lack of proper documentation
(try "man opera" and "man firefox" for a comparison) and
insufficient attention paid to internationalisation. KDE's
german language version is a good example. Sometimes, I
think it's just "quick quick, add more features, quick
quick, and release the whole thing" instead of having a
result that is acceptable in every way it claims to serve.

(Sidenote: I'm running all my programs in their native
language, which is english, with OpenOffice being the
only exception, simply because using the german variants
is so unpleasant.)



> Commercial software is written with the end-user in mind.

Haha! Very funny. :-)

You meant to say, and I may correct your statement: Commercial
software is written with the end-user's MONEY in mind. In order
to make him buy incompatible, slow and outdated software,
aggressive advertisement is used. This advertisement has taken
the place of good coding, or: The worse your program is, the
more money you put in advertising it's "greatness". This is
the way software is sold.

Free software, on the other hand, isn't sold per se. It
is used, and so it is created with the end-user in mind,
because he doesn't give money anyway.

That's quite generic, I know, but it can be summarized that
way without contradicting to reality.



> Commercial software that does not sell will not be around very long.

That's true, and a logical implication of what I said just
before.



> On
> the other hand, open-source software tends to be written with the
> developer as the focal point with the hope that others will share their
> point of view.

Maybe that has been the case, but it's not anymore. Maybe
you're true in regards of operating systems, their interfaces
and APIs, but that's logical again, because the end-user isn't
interested in how to program for a certain OS, but the application
developers who write the software for the end-users are - and
need to be. The change of this attitude isn't new.



> Neither philosophy is inherently superior.

Yes, I agree.



> In the final
> determination the end user has to determine which meets their
> "suitability to task" requirements; whether that be "cost",
> "suitability" or both.

That's the problem: The tasks are adjusted to fit the software
currently in use (or promised to to come out soon). Educated
judgement, sadly, isn't one of the strengths of the average
PC user. "PC on, brain off" is a setting you find more often
than you'd like to.

In the past, I have mostly used free software, but some
commercial products, too, e. g. Solaris and IRIX (and HP-UX
for some special cases), and they served well in the places
they were intended to use.

I would not claim that free software serves better than
commercial software in general, because this often depends
on supporting various hardware, and we all know that the
hardware vendors still are focused on a monopoly of "Windows"
and don't care for other operating systems because they
don't exist.


-- 
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Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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Re: mysql60-server??

[Jerry]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:59:39 -0800
Gary Kline  replied:

>   I took a class in the Ingres db suite from one of the guys who
>   wrote it.  Think that Postgress is a follow-on.   It strikes
>   me as almost a *certainty* that any commerical project could
>   be done better by the open-source community.  ---If it's got
>   your *NAME* on it, you're going to be certain it's superior,
>   whereas if you're coding just for a paycheck, sure, you'll do
>   a good job.  But not as outstanding as an open-source suite.

The determining factor is "suitability to task." Once that is
determined, then cost to implement comes into play.

BTW, I totally disagree with your statement regarding "commercial
product' vs "open source" and quality. If that were really true then
Open Office would be equal to or superior to MS Office. In actuality,
it is at best equal to Office 97, and that is even stretching the
point. Commercial software is written with the end-user in mind.
Commercial software that does not sell will not be around very long. On
the other hand, open-source software tends to be written with the
developer as the focal point with the hope that others will share their
point of view.

Neither philosophy is inherently superior. In the final
determination the end user has to determine which meets their
"suitability to task" requirements; whether that be "cost",
"suitability" or both.

BTW, I am running mysql-server-6.0.11 on one of my PCs. It handles
tables for my mail system and several other sundries. It is only under a
light load; however, I have never had a single problem with it.

-- 
Jerry
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mod_security & apache port

[Alex Huth]

Hello!

When i use the ports to install mod_security on a fresh installed 8.0 system,
it is installing apache 2.0.63_3. Are there any known problems why 2.2 isn't
used together with mod_security?

Thx


Alex
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Re: 8.0 release serial mouse not working

[Fbsd1]

Polytropon wrote:

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:57:32 +0800, Fbsd1  wrote:

 From the 8.0 release notes is the following
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html

[amd64, i386] The uart(4) is now the default driver for serial port 
devices in favor of the sio(4) driver. Note that the device nodes have 
been renamed with /dev/cuauN and /dev/ttyuN.


tested these rc.conf statements

moused_port="/dev/cuau0"
moused_type="intellimouse"
moused_enable="YES"

serial mouse works again


Can confirm.



This means sysinstall mouse config needs to be changed to reflect the 
new dev names.


That's correct. The handbook sec. 2.10.10 and fig. 2-44 would
need an update, too.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-post.html





submitted PR
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140887
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Re: ZFS pools gone?

[krad]

2009/11/25 cali clarke 

> Thanks for the replies, all.
>
> An import and upgrade was all that was needed.
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yep if you have no zpool.cache file under /boot/zfs/ then no pools will be
imported
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Re: pf nuttyness

[krad]

2009/11/25 Vincent Hoffman 

> krad wrote:
> > 2009/11/24 Brian McCann 
> >
> >
> >> I'm at the end of my rope here with PF.  I have a ruleset loaded, that
> >> is long and complicated...but I've shortened to to a "pass all" rule.
> >> The box has 4 interfaces, one for pfsync, one for me to connect to it,
> >> and two bridged interfaces.  The only traffic on the bridged
> >> interfaces is STP and IP multicast traffic from my EIGRP routers.
> >> When I run "pfctl -s rules -v", the EIGRP multicast traffic never hits
> >> any rules...yet it's allowed.
> >>
> >> I'm on FreeBSD 7.1.
> >>
> >> Has anyone else come across this before?  I'm ready to throw out
> >> FreeBSD 7.1 and try OpenBSD for pf use...which would be a shame since
> >> I use FreeBSD for all my other servers, and having 2 OpenBSD boxes
> >> would just be... weird...
> >>
> >> --Brian
> >>
>
> Have you read the if_bridge(4) manpage? I'd reccommend starting at the
> heading "PACKET FILTERING" and checking you have the correct sysctl
> settings.
> pf certainly can filter bridge interfaces according to the manpage. That
> said I've never tried it.
>
>
> Vince
> >> --
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> >> Brian McCann
> >>
> >> "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of
> >> people waiting to abuse me."
> >>-- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters"
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> > pf works at layer3 (ip) bridging works at layer 2 (ethernet/datalink)
> > therefore the traffic probably never get to the upper layer of the ip
> stack
> > where pf works.
> >
> > You can do l2 filtering with ipfw if you enable the sysctl variable
> > net.link.bridge.ipfw=1. However im not sure if you can do it with pf on
> > freebsd. I had a quick scout through the man pages and cant see anything.
> > However im fairly sure you can to l2 stuff with pf in openbsd.
> >
> > As your traffic is multicast you could always configure you bsd box as a
> > multicast router rather than bridging the traffic. pf should see the
> traffic
> > then as your working at l3 and above
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i think this is the one you want

echo net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge=1 >> /etc/sysctl.conf
/etc/rc.d/sysctl restart
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Re: need help; cacti fails to build on 7.2-R, p4....

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:26:42AM +0530, Vaibhav Gavane wrote:
> Upgrade x11/libxcb


YEs, exactly right.  (ALong with portupgrade and other
build/fix tools.)

thanks much,

gary
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