Re: need example of ftp command

2003-12-21 Thread Sean Ellis
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:20:05PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: > ftp -a 'ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/$path/qpopper-4.0.5_1' > > using native interactive ftp, I can drill down to this > directory and get the file, so I know it's there and that's > the correct nam ftp> ls qpop* 150 Opening ASCII mode data

Re: compiling a kernel on a different machine

2003-12-23 Thread Sean Ellis
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:31:38PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Rowdy told a big fish story including the following on 12/23/2003 1:31 PM: > > > >My attempts to compile a (5.1-RELEASE) kernel on a very old PC take > >around 5 hours (of compile time), while a much faster machine sits by > >idle.

Re: compiling a kernel on a different machine

2003-12-23 Thread Sean Ellis
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:04:09PM -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:31:38PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > OK, hang on. Here it is in an older handbook I have. Appearing as: > "19.4.15.5. Can I use one machine as a master to upgrade lots of machines > (NFS)

recover from var deletion; mysql apache

2004-12-18 Thread Sean Ellis
Hello, 4.10-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE #0: Mon May 3 16:59:48 PDT 2004 I am working to recover a computer whose /var filesystem, a separate mount point, was entirely deleted. I've put in a new /var using mergemaster, and I'm now trying to restore the mysql databases from dumps. With the

Re: recover from var deletion; mysql apache

2004-12-18 Thread Sean Ellis
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:20:27PM -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: > > I am working to recover a computer whose /var filesystem, a separate > mount point, was entirely deleted. > sudo mysql mysql < mySQL.mysql.dump > > I get an error of > > ERROR 1049: Unknown database &#

Re: recover from var deletion; mysql apache

2004-12-18 Thread Sean Ellis
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 01:26:13PM -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:20:27PM -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: > > > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libmm.so.13" not found > > mysql is now cooperating after running mysql_install_db and then b

upgrade software with no package db

2005-01-23 Thread Sean Ellis
Hello, I'm looking moving to a newer Mysql version on a machine where the database of installed packages has been trashed. I'm expecting that after examining /usr/ports/UPGRADING, whatever READMEs accompany the source, and manually checking for dependencies, that I can extract and patch the port,

Re: upgrade software with no package db

2005-01-23 Thread Sean Ellis
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 04:52:29PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Sunday 23 January 2005 04:36 pm, Sean Ellis wrote: > > I'm looking moving to a newer Mysql version on a machine where the > > database of installed packages has been trashed. > > > If

Re: upgrade software with no package db

2005-01-23 Thread Sean Ellis
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:50:51AM +0300, bitHawk wrote: Hey, > > 1. run the cvsup to update your port collection. > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html) > The updated port should already contain patching information and will take no problems here > ca

alternate compiler

2004-04-13 Thread Sean Ellis
Hello, When a build that I was attempting failed the author suggested that I use gcc; now it goes much further, but still fails. /usr/local/bin/g++34 -c -pipe -Wall -W -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\" -DTARGET=\"streamtuned\" -DSUBPATH=\"streamtuned\"

web write-up

2003-01-08 Thread Sean Ellis
Hello freebsd-questions, I wonder if anyone has any comment on this web article. The results of the benchmarking seem to portray FreeBSD in a less than favourable light. http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1148/sam0107a/0107a.htm Please CC any replies as I am not currently subscribed. --

Re[2]: web write-up

2003-01-08 Thread Sean Ellis
Hello, Wednesday, January 8, 2003, 5:09:49 PM, you wrote: >> >> I wonder if anyone has any comment on this web article. The results >> of the benchmarking seem to portray FreeBSD in a less than >> favourable light. >> >I'd say they have little > to no experiance tuning FreeBSD/*BSD for per

can't `make index` on 4.11-STABLE

2007-09-06 Thread Sean Ellis
e 419: if-less endif "/usr/ports/audio/gstreamer-plugins-esound/../../multimedia/gstreamer-plugins/Makefile.common", line 419: Need an operator make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue ===> audio/gstreamer-plugins-esound failed *** Error code 1 Sean Ellis __

Re: can't `make index` on 4.11-STABLE

2007-09-06 Thread Sean Ellis
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:18:43PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Sean Ellis wrote: > > > I have a problem trying to `make index` on a machine running 4.11-STABLE > > after cvsup-ing the ports tree. > > 4.x has been dropped from support by the ports tree. Several mo

Re: can't `make index` on 4.11-STABLE

2007-09-17 Thread Sean Ellis
and was able to run the `make index` command successfully. Being able to continue with this machine as is, without a makeover to freebsd 6, is ok for the role that it has. For now anyway. So far so good, Sean Ellis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

promise TX2 ata raid utilities?

2004-11-30 Thread Sean Ellis
Hello, I'm taking care of a computer now with a promise tx2 controller card and two 40G hard drives as a raid1 array. The machine is running 4.10-PRERELEASE freebsd. I'm wondering if anyone knows if there are utilities to monitor the 'health' of such a raid array? I'm also wondering if there are

Re: Building Packages - Links to Tutorials?

2004-03-06 Thread Sean Ellis
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:34:20PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I have a "faster" machine that I'd like to use to build packages and > then install those packages on my "slower" machine. I'm looking for > links to info describing this process and some best practices. I'm > familiar with usin

pkgdb inconsistency

2004-03-06 Thread Sean Ellis
Hello, After removing kde, I think that I used pkg_delete, there are still lingering kde* instances in my package database. ie [1:28pm] [/home/sellis]portversion -l "<" kdeaddons < kdeadmin< kdeartwork < kdebase < kdeedu

Re: pkgdb inconsistency

2004-03-06 Thread Sean Ellis
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:46:15PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Saturday 06 March 2004 01:38 pm, Sean Ellis wrote: > > > > After removing kde, I think that I used pkg_delete, there are still > > [1:31pm] [/home/sellis]sudo pkg_delete kdeaddons > > Password: >

vinum list anomaly

2004-03-26 Thread Sean Ellis
Hello, after adding too drives as a concatenated vinum volume I see a line in the `vinum list` output which doesn't look right to me. Specifically, the line that refers to spanned_log.p0.s0. Is there a typical explanation for something like this? 2 drives: D a State: up

Re: vinum list anomaly

2004-03-26 Thread Sean Ellis
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 10:00:18AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 26 March 2004 at 11:12:45 -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: > > after adding too drives as a concatenated vinum volume I see a line in > > the `vinum list` output which doesn't look right to

Re: vinum list anomaly

2004-03-26 Thread Sean Ellis
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 10:53:42AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 26 March 2004 at 16:10:13 -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 10:00:18AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 26 March 2004 at 11:12:45 -0800, Se