Re: Signing up for an email account?
Hello my name is Andy and Im looking for a web-based email that is powered by FreeBSD servers. Is there a way to signup for an email address like [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something like that so I could access it from all over the world? Im looking for something thats similar to Hotmail account. Thanks andy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vinum.
Hi all, I was wondering what Vinum configurations others are using and what is a good balance between performance/redundancy? I've gone with RAID10 (2 striped plexes with 3 subdisks each. The plexes are mirrored to each other). vinum.conf: drive a device /dev/da1s1e drive b device /dev/da2s1e drive c device /dev/da3s1e drive d device /dev/da4s1e drive e device /dev/da5s1e drive f device /dev/da6s1e volume raid10 plex org striped 512k sd length 0 drive a sd length 0 drive b sd length 0 drive c plex org striped 512k sd length 0 drive d sd length 0 drive e sd length 0 drive f I havent done any profiling but it feels a little slow to me. Thought i'd talk to others to see what their using and see if i should restructure my volume. Thanks, Chris. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Signing up for an email account?
Hello, I don't see how this relates to the list but I know yahoo runs on freebsd and so does hotmail, as for webmail look on google. On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:33:03 -0700, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello my name is Andy and Im looking for a web-based email that is powered by FreeBSD servers. Is there a way to signup for an email address like [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something like that so I could access it from all over the world? Im looking for something thats similar to Hotmail account. Thanks andy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to send attached files on sendmail with mail tool?
On Friday 23 July 2004 01:07 am, Murray Taylor wrote: man uuencode uuencode [-m] [-o output_file] [file] name he uuencode utility reads file (or by default the standard input) and writes an encoded version to the standard output, or output_file if one has been specified. The encoding uses only printing ASCII characters and includes the mode of the file and the operand name for use by uudecode. This works with winblows - I use it in production here If it works, use it :-) It's straightforward, and easy enough to test. Jay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vinum.
On Saturday, 24 July 2004 at 17:03:41 +1000, Chris Keladis wrote: Hi all, I was wondering what Vinum configurations others are using and what is a good balance between performance/redundancy? I've gone with RAID10 (2 striped plexes with 3 subdisks each. The plexes are mirrored to each other). vinum.conf: drive a device /dev/da1s1e drive b device /dev/da2s1e drive c device /dev/da3s1e drive d device /dev/da4s1e drive e device /dev/da5s1e drive f device /dev/da6s1e volume raid10 plex org striped 512k sd length 0 drive a sd length 0 drive b sd length 0 drive c plex org striped 512k sd length 0 drive d sd length 0 drive e sd length 0 drive f Looks like a good configuration, assuming that the drives are all the same size. I havent done any profiling but it feels a little slow to me. Thought i'd talk to others to see what their using and see if i should restructure my volume. About the only comment is the power-of-two stripe size. That will slow things down on multiple inode operations, such as creating or deleting a lot of files. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgprABohgLZIU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SSH Client - (newbie need help)
On Friday 23 July 2004 07:58 am, Ralph Hempel wrote: Im a newbie to FreeBSD and I need to run an SSH client to connect to the Solaris server at my University. I was previously using Putty on WinXP, however there appears to be a bug in the current putty port which causes it to crash before exchanging keys if the servers key is not cached. Is there a bug, or just a warning message that says the new key is not cached? I'm using PuTTY 0.54 right now and it works great. Ditto - PuTTY has been rock-solid for me. I use it currently on Win2K WinXP. If you're having problems using PuTTY the problem is likely elsewhere. But as this is the FreeBSD mailing list, you can most certainly use the ssh client here as well: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] One diff I've noticed: In the case of a changed key, PuTTY's default is to issue a warning, and allow the user to decide whether or not to continue the connection; the OpenSSH client's default is to abort the connection. Jay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vinum.
drive e device /dev/da5s1e drive f device /dev/da6s1e volume raid10 plex org striped 512k sd length 0 drive a sd length 0 drive b sd length 0 drive c plex org striped 512k sd length 0 drive d sd length 0 drive e sd length 0 drive f I havent done any profiling but it feels a little slow to me. Thought i'd talk to others to see what their using and see if i should restructure my volume. with linear read it will get speed of one drive, linear write - a bit slower (2 writes must be done but in parallel). BUT: with 100 processes reading different things from it it could be up to 6 times faster (actually bit less as it will never get spread evenly) than single drive. writes near 3 times faster. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best virtual server solution?
I've been struggling to find the best virtual server solution based on a FreeBSD 5.2.1 system. I was hoping some members of the list could help me take this decision. I have questions/thoughts regarding vmware/bsd jails: - Vmware - Does it run 5.2.1 nicely ? i think yes. it emulates real PC so it should - Does a Guest OS (FreeBSD) support multiple IPs? it's guest os feature not vmware's. yes. - Does vmware support Xeon CPUs? (not listen in their site) - Is a xual xeon 2.8ghz + 4GB ram enough to run, say, 40 virtual machines using vmware? depends what this machines will do. - Vmware *really* needs a X session to be working? AFAIK yes. not sure vnc may be a fix vmware is bad idea. it's slow and memory consuming (much more that virtual machine memory). jails are right solution. or even better - think well if you REALLY need separated servers. in 99% of cases the answer is no. - Jails - Is there any patch working for multiple jail IPs under 5.2.1-p9 ? AFAIK no. but it will change - What jail management tool do you use? I'm are of jailutils and jailadmin. I'm using jailutils now mainly because of jps, altough I could use jailadmin and create a quick jail ... ps link that would do the same.Plus, jailadmin uses a centralized configuration file which is easier to keep track of. - syslogd will die on the jail startup (using jstart), but if i run it manually it will stay running; same for cron. - Outside mounts are visible inside jails, any way to change this behaviour ? Best Regards, Hugo -- www.6s-gaming.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing php4
Hi all I have been trying to install php4 (On FreeBSD 5.2.1, cvsuped ports tree, php4-4.3.8_1, I have tried both the mod_php4 and lang/php4) and the full menu options seem to have disappeared. When I run make install I get a 3 line menu offering to allow me to install for apache2 instead of apache 1.3.x, to enable debugging and use IPv6. I have no options to configure the build process. If I allow the build to continue Apache grumbles that it can't find variable session( ), which would suggest PHP is not compiled with session support. What am I doing wrong? What has changed? Thanks for your help Drew -- In line with our policy, this message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. www.themarshalls.co.uk/policy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VOIP
Stanford .T. Mings Jr. wrote: Is anyone doing any work in VOIP in FreeBSD ? Did you have a look at Skype ( /usr/ports/net/skype ), www.skype.com or do you mean something else? -- Gustaaf ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I type cyrillic with FreeBSD?
Hello Rob, On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:21:58 +0900 Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There is an article on using cyrillic/burgarian fonts: http://www.freebsd-bg.ringlet.net/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bulgarian/article.html but as far as I understand, this is only about how to display the cyrillic font. Is there also a way that I can *type* cyrillic/bulgarian with FreeBSD? Did you read chapter 3.3 Bulgarian keymaps for the FreeBSD virtual console I'm runing FreeBSD Stable. Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing php4
Drew Marshall wrote: Hi all I have been trying to install php4 (On FreeBSD 5.2.1, cvsuped ports tree, php4-4.3.8_1, I have tried both the mod_php4 and lang/php4) and the full menu options seem to have disappeared. When I run make install I get a 3 line menu offering to allow me to install for apache2 instead of apache 1.3.x, to enable debugging and use IPv6. I have no options to configure the build process. If I allow the build to continue Apache grumbles that it can't find variable session( ), which would suggest PHP is not compiled with session support. What am I doing wrong? What has changed? Major revision to the port, for reasons that I don't find very obvious. However, you need lang/php4-extensions or the mod_php equivalent. Peter. Thanks for your help Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make buildkernal KERNKONF ( etc etc )
Hi I have looked extensdively in the manual aespecially around pages 200-210... I have also read any old mailing lists, but i cant finsd the problem that i have come accross. I am trying to turn a p2 - 233 with 128mb RAM into a FW / router . and need to run natd I am running freeBSD 5.2.1 My incoming internet access is from wi0 can ping etc - DHCP - gives me IP etc etc I have copied the GENERIC kernal to 'STUDIO' and edited in options IPFIREWALL and options IPDIVERT as needed for natd to run. when i go to compile in the new way as per page 207 i :- cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNCONF=STUDIO - it then gives me the error that doesn't know buildkernel. I have done these installs many times on similar machines using the same procedure and never come accross this. Thanks in advance Chris (Love freeBSD! - what is that 'L' word?? ) Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize and backup partitions?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Do I have to have system running or can i do it from livecd too? Because I guess system has to be offline for recovering from an image which was built Thank you I imagine it would work from the livecd too (not knowing, though, having never used it). This is, of course, provided you can access the image you built previously. The easiest thing, of course, would be to have an extra harddisk and dump(8) all of your filesystems to it. Then, fdisk(8) to your hearts content on the first drive, boot the livecd, mount the second hard drive (with your images on) somewhere and restore(8). If you have only one hard drive, where did you put your images? Did you burn them to cd? If so, all is well and good if you have two CD readers. If you have only one, you may or may not be in trouble, I don't know if the livecd allows for unmounting of itself. And as for restore(8)ing to a running system, I don't know if you can. I do suppose stuff like /usr can be restore(8)d without too much fuss, but as for /, /var and /tmp, I don't know (this is all assuming you used the default layout during installation. Your mount points may, obviously, differ). Maybe someone more experienced can elaborate on this? -Henrik W Lund P.S.: Always reply to the list as well, either directly or by (b)cc:. That way, others can benefit from the information exchanged as well. :-D ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: 801.Q VLAN questions (potential bug?)
I don't know if this is more of a -hackers question or not, but I've come across something weird when trying to resolve the problem stated below; There's actually one single frame being sent across the network with a valid dot1q vlan tag, and that is being transmitted when a client signs on to the WLAN. Then all following traffic shows up as without any vlan tags. Is this a bug with IOS/FreeBSD 5.2.1 or just some other weirdness? regards /emil -- Forwarded message -- From: emil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:47:39 +0200 Subject: 801.Q VLAN questions To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I'm currently in the middle of setting up a couple of Cisco Aironet 1100 802.11b/g access points. I've configured the APs so that they tag ethernet frames depending on what SSID is being used by the WLAN users. (One public and one private SSID). Behind the APs I've set up a FreeBSD 5.2.1p9 box with pf (/usr/ports/security/pf) installed. The FBSD machine currently has 3 intel (fxp) ethernet interfaces: fxp0, management interface. fxp1 interface connected to a small dumb switch which the APs are hooked up to, currently no IP adress configured. fxp2 interface connected to the net, currently no IP adress configured. Then I also have 2 vlan interfaces with the respective VLAN ID's set, they use fxp1 as their parent interface. What I want to do is to bridge fxp1 and fxp2 and then have pf filter the traffic on the vlans. However, the FBSD machine seems to completely ignore the 802.1Q tags, and not separate the traffic coming to fxp1. So does the hive mind have any ideas of what to do? TIA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing php4
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 10:35:10AM +0100, Peter Risdon wrote: Drew Marshall wrote: I have been trying to install php4 (On FreeBSD 5.2.1, cvsuped ports tree, php4-4.3.8_1, I have tried both the mod_php4 and lang/php4) and the full menu options seem to have disappeared. When I run make install I get a 3 line menu offering to allow me to install for apache2 instead of apache 1.3.x, to enable debugging and use IPv6. I have no options to configure the build process. If I allow the build to continue Apache grumbles that it can't find variable session( ), which would suggest PHP is not compiled with session support. What am I doing wrong? What has changed? Major revision to the port, for reasons that I don't find very obvious. However, you need lang/php4-extensions or the mod_php equivalent. Actually, php4-extensions works with any of the 'main' PHP ports -- lang/php4, lang/php4-cli, www/php4-cgi or www/mod_php4. The fact that there are 4 different variations on a plain 'php4' port in the tree is the reason why all of the module support was moved out into a separate extensions port. While this move to specifying all of the PHP modules as loadable extensions makes a great deal of sense from one point of view -- ports that use PHP can now explicitly list all of the extensions they require to operate, rather than having to have their own private PHP slave ports -- the implementation has run into a number of problems. For php4 there are some extensions where the same functionality is not available when used as a loadable module as when compiled in. The security/php4-openssl extension is a case in point: unless OpenSSL support is compiled-in, the fsockopen() function won't let you open 'tls://' or 'ssl://' style URLs. (As a practical result, that means that eg. Squirrelmail can't communicate with a secure IMAP server on port 993. The only alternative in that case is to communicate to an unencrypted IMAP server on port 143, which quite probably involves sending passwords over the net in plaintext.) Beyond that, not all of the PHP consuming ports have yet been updated to depend on the appropriate PHP extensions, so installing those ports de novo doesn't immediately get you a workable system. A common symptom of this is a run-time error where one of the perl compatible regular expression (pcre_*()) functions doesn't work. The answer pretty much is just to install the required extension modules by hand, and tweak the value of the 'extension_dir' directive in /usr/local/etc/php.ini Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgpDMYixTvITk.pgp Description: PGP signature
mini-itx (ME6000), buildworld fails
Hi all, I'm trying to setup a Via Epia ME6000 with FreeBSD 4.10 after several attempts (cvsup, make buildworld, even fresh install from CD), I get _consistent_ failures. The same source-tree compiles without problems on a - Via Epia CL1 - Intel Pent.4 / Asus The ME6000 is supposed to run headless as embedded server. So I cross-compile on the fast(er) machines. Attempting to boot ME6000 results in: - show menu F1 to boot FreeBSD - BTX starts - and almost immediately crashes (illegal instruction - same as during buidlworld) with register dump Latest attempts: - Setup full FreeBSD on ME6000, make buildworld ... (The only package installed is cvsup-without-gui) I suspect settings in /etc/make.conf, but I have no idea where to start! (CPUTYPE=i686 commented out - but didn't help) Somewhere (in the depth of the forgotten in my brain ), I think, there was something about 4.10 and Compiler ... could this be a reason? And if so, what could I do? ME6000 dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Tue May 25 22:47:12 GMT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (599.90-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 Features=0x803035FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,MMX real memory = 117374976 (114624K bytes) avail memory = 108744704 (106196K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel kernel at 0xc0551000. md0: Malloc disk ME6000 cvsup-file: *default host=cvsup.at.freebsd.org #*default host=cvsup4.de.freebsd.org # *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr # The following line is for 4-stable. If you want 3-stable or 2.2-stable, # change RELENG_4 to RELENG_3 or RELENG_2_2 respectively. *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_10 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ME6000 /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE=i586 CPUTYPE=i686 ... BOOTWAIT=0 ... USA_RESIDENT=NO IPFW2=true ... (plus some settings for PACKAGESITE and similar) ME6000 from script make buildworld: cc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I. -static -DIN_GCC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPREFIX=\/usr\ -I/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/../cc_tools -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/../cc_tools -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/../../../../contrib/gcc -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools /../../../../contrib/gcc/config-D__FBSDID=__RCSID -c /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/../../../../contrib/gcc/genconfig.c^M cc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I. -static -DIN_GCC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPREFIX=\/usr\ -I/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/../cc_tools -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/../cc_tools -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/../../../../contrib/gcc -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools /../../../../contrib/gcc/config-D__FBSDID=__RCSID -o genconfig genconfig.o rtl.o print-rtl.o obstack.o bitmap.o^M ./genattr /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/../../../../contrib/gcc/config/i386/i386.md insn-attr.h^M Illegal instruction (core dumped)^M *** Error code 132^M ^M Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools.^M *** Error code 1^M ^M Stop in /usr/src.^M *** Error code 1^M ^M Stop in /usr/src.^M *** Error code 1^M ^M Stop in /usr/src.^M ep1(root) src ^D^H^Hexit^M Script done on Sat Jul 24 01:27:20 2004 -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Richard Kästner EDV-Beratung Woerthgasse 17 2500 Baden Austria ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?
Hi, This email is going to any Linux house whom has pitched themselves via their websites and reviews, from my research as being possible alternatives to XP at this stage. Depends on your Google hit and thereafter (if found within 2 pages) site FAQ's I suppose. As a currently dedicated M$ house (apart from Oracle Databases), we question the move to a XP desktop amid the Linux hype in recent times. Any IT department trying to save company money is only doing the right thing and ask the question, what can Linux do for us? I've flipped through your FAQ's and over forums but result in no answer for Active Directory 2K3 and Exchange 2K3 server client connectivity, integration and functionality? Note that we have not moved to these product versions yet. Hence this email. I ask because I cannot see a server based centralised authentication and administrative option in Linux. If there were, say a centralised server option for Linux, this would be seriously considered. Is there a User Manager equivalent (NT4 domain for example) or Exchange Administrator equivalent (Exchange 5.5) functional alternative? More importantly, 2K3 Server and Exchange integration? Failing that, connecting clients as above to M$ servers would be sufficient. Stay with M$ in servers, go with Linux in desktops. I've seen enough glossy brochures and want to know the facts. The cost difference is obvious. The functional difference is not. I've still no reason to choose your Linux over Windows XP Pro at this stage. Cost is not enough. Any sane IT department doesn't need screaming users due to lack of pure functionality. Experience suggests most find it difficult enough getting around the OS to even perform basic functions, let alone usability. Assuming aforementioned functionality, where does your Linux stand with converting between M$ Office 97/2K/2K3? Will our accounts department be able to work with their previous 40Mb Excel files full of VLookups and Formulas straightup, or is it going to be bigger than a Lotus 4.1 to Excel 5 conversion debacle? Of course Word,PowerPoint,Publisher and Access are questioned also. I'm talking up to 500 user desktops to be upgraded. Upgraded need not be a literal word. Installing Linux from scratch would be expected. Anything upgrade wise extra would be a bonus. Outside of M$ Office, current application functionality would have to be trialed. This is expected. A list of currently supported M$ applications would be helpful. Your detailed reply appreciated regards, Aaron Benson Network, Security, Server Administrator Strathfield Group Ltd Sydney Australia ph: +61 2 9747 7677 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mini-itx (ME6000), buildworld fails
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 02:15:41PM +0200, Richard Kaestner wrote: I suspect settings in /etc/make.conf, but I have no idea where to start! (CPUTYPE=i686 commented out - but didn't help) The VIA CPUs are not completely i686 compatible, so in your Kernel-Config you should have an I586_CPU entry: machine i386 cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU ident ME6000 ... ME6000 /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE=i586 CPUTYPE=i686 The second entry overwrites the first one. I wouldn't set this variable at all on a VIA Epia/Eden, but it should work if you delete the i686 and keep the i586. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?
Sir: 1. FreeBSD is NOT linux. Had you taken any time to read the FAQ and peruse the website at freebsd.org you would know this; 2. I've yet to read anyone in-the-know suggest that Freebsd is an appropriate desktop replacement OS for (typically) non tech-savvy Windows users. Internet servers are another matter altogether and I know in my mind from working with both Windows and *BSD in various capacities that the latter family beats the former in terms of reliability, perfomance and security hands down; 3. You seem to be confused regarding the roles played by an operating system and user applications. As such, your questions are largely tangential to the purpose and functionality of this mailing list. However, there are folks here much kinder and more patient than myself who will probably point you in the right direction, regardless of your troll-like demeanor. Just my personal opinion as a happy FBSD user and (of course) in no way reflective of the position of anyone but myself. Have a great day! EB ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mini-itx (ME6000), buildworld fails
On Saturday 24 July 2004 15:06, Uwe Laverenz wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 02:15:41PM +0200, Richard Kaestner wrote: I suspect settings in /etc/make.conf, but I have no idea where to start! (CPUTYPE=i686 commented out - but didn't help) The VIA CPUs are not completely i686 compatible, so in your Kernel-Config you should have an I586_CPU entry: machine i386 cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU ident ME6000 ... ME6000 /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE=i586 CPUTYPE=i686 The second entry overwrites the first one. I wouldn't set this variable at all on a VIA Epia/Eden, but it should work if you delete the i686 and keep the i586. cu, Uwe Danke fuer die Info! Thanks for the Info - english list ;=) already giving it another try - wait and see what comes out -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Richard Kästner EDV-Beratung Woerthgasse 17 2500 Baden Austria ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Gateway???
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: | | 10/100? There are less Gigabit types that are supported, yet, | but then the reason for that should be pretty obvious. | | Anyway, you generally can't go wrong with 3Com. That said, | I've never had trouble with 3Com, SiS, DEC/Intel, even RealTek | and the onboard VIA/Rhine stuff (drivers, respectively: xl, sis, dc, | rl, vr). | | That covers quite a few chipsets. There are plenty more. The | only problem I have answering your post is that I don't know what's | *not* supported. Also, some users have reported issues with watchdog | timeout errors using 5.X FBSD and one of the drivers mentioned above. | You could probably spot which one on Google ... Hi! Well, I personally prefer the Intel Etherexpress in 100MBit Scenarios. (fxp) You also could look at ebay, sometimes they show up in bundles of 5 or so, and then are below those 30$ list price... Or you could have a look at a Znyx or Adaptec or Intel dual/Quad card, I also noticed some Adaptec quad ones on german ebay recently. In Gigabit world, well, Intel or Broadcom (em or bge) cards are nice, but given the scenario you have, they are overkill and quite costly compared to some fxp or xl. Do _not_ go for Realtek or Via, they impose a far heavier load on the CPU than Intel or 3COM. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?
Aaron Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip As a currently dedicated M$ house (apart from Oracle Databases), we question the move to a XP desktop amid the Linux hype in recent times. Any IT department trying to save company money is only doing the right thing and ask the question, what can Linux do for us? As pointed out earlier, FreeBSD is not Linux. You have a lot more research to do. FreeBSD is, however, a viable Unix-like system. I've flipped through your FAQ's and over forums but result in no answer for Active Directory 2K3 and Exchange 2K3 server client connectivity, integration and functionality? Note that we have not moved to these product versions yet. Hence this email. You obviously haven't looked too hard. First off, Active Directory is pretty useless for non-Windows machines, as the settings it controls are mostly Windows-specific. However, Samba has a high level of integration with Windows security providers, and can act like a domain controller. Additionally, AD is based on Kerberos and LDAP. If you take some time to look, you'll find that both these technologies are well supported in the FreeNIX world. I've even seen articles on how to put together an Open Source AD server by properly integrating a Kerberos and LDAP server. Can't speak to how well it works, though, as I've never tried it. I ask because I cannot see a server based centralised authentication and administrative option in Linux. LDAP. Is there a User Manager equivalent (NT4 domain for example) You're looking for a GUI tool, I assume, and there are multiple available for LDAP. Failing that, connecting clients as above to M$ servers would be sufficient. Stay with M$ in servers, go with Linux in desktops. I've seen enough glossy brochures and want to know the facts. That's kind of putting the cart before the horse. You'd be better off putting up FreeBSD servers with Windows clients, which I've done many times. The expense of Windows servers is far too high. The cost difference is obvious. The functional difference is not. I've still no reason to choose your Linux over Windows XP Pro at this stage. Cost is not enough. Any sane IT department doesn't need screaming users due to lack of pure functionality. Experience suggests most find it difficult enough getting around the OS to even perform basic functions, let alone usability. Assuming aforementioned functionality, where does your Linux stand with converting between M$ Office 97/2K/2K3? Will our accounts department be able to work with their previous 40Mb Excel files full of VLookups and Formulas straightup, or is it going to be bigger than a Lotus 4.1 to Excel 5 conversion debacle? Of course Word,PowerPoint,Publisher and Access are questioned also. I'm talking up to 500 user desktops to be upgraded. Upgraded need not be a literal word. Installing Linux from scratch would be expected. Anything upgrade wise extra would be a bonus. Outside of M$ Office, current application functionality would have to be trialed. This is expected. A list of currently supported M$ applications would be helpful. Your detailed reply appreciated I've got to tell you, you're looking for a lot of detailed advice for free. I know you _say_ you did a lot of research, but the level of knowledge you display in your questions does not demonstrate that you did _any_ research. If you're looking for someone to take on the responsibility of figuring this out for you, I've been doing it for business for six years now. Feel free to contact me directly and I'll be happy to put a consulting package together. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Third and (maybe) last try: GEOM fails to create ad0
Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subject: GEOM fails to create ad0 Date: Thu July 22 2004 05:58 pm From: Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I successfully built a kernel for FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1 on my 8Gig ad2 but when I boot it my 30Gig ad0 does not appear in /dev/ I boot 4.10-STABLE on my 30 Gig ad0 and am able to mount ad2, but not vice versa. Does anyone have information on how to trouble-shoot GEOM? There are certainly people who do; the authors. Also, you may want to try the -CURRENT mailing list. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Gateway???
Hakim Z. Singhji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: | Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Hi Everyone, | | I am building a gateway/router from a i386 300Mhz, 32MB RAM, 5GB hda and | ~ I need to buy the NIC cards. I wanted to have three interface | connection points to my gateway/router. Does anyone have any suggestions | on the type of NIC I should use? I would appreciate some help. | | In addition, I'm new to BSD. I hail from the Redhat world, but I | anticipate FreeBSD to be a great addition to my network. | | HZS | | | | 10/100? There are less Gigabit types that are supported, yet, | but then the reason for that should be pretty obvious. | | Anyway, you generally can't go wrong with 3Com. That said, | I've never had trouble with 3Com, SiS, DEC/Intel, even RealTek | and the onboard VIA/Rhine stuff (drivers, respectively: xl, sis, dc, | rl, vr). | | That covers quite a few chipsets. There are plenty more. The | only problem I have answering your post is that I don't know what's | *not* supported. Also, some users have reported issues with watchdog | timeout errors using 5.X FBSD and one of the drivers mentioned above. | You could probably spot which one on Google ... | | HTH, | | Kevin Kinsey Well Kevin, Do you know where I can get a 3COM or Intel card for a good price??? I tried pricewatch.com however they all seem to be around the same between 29 - 35 dollars. That looks like a good price to me. You pay a little more for the better cards, but if you need the performance, it's worth it. If you're looking for low-cost, I've always had good success with the Realtek cards. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Third and (maybe) last try: GEOM fails to create ad0
On Sat July 24 2004 08:29 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subject: GEOM fails to create ad0 Date: Thu July 22 2004 05:58 pm From: Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I successfully built a kernel for FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1 on my 8Gig ad2 but when I boot it my 30Gig ad0 does not appear in /dev/ I boot 4.10-STABLE on my 30 Gig ad0 and am able to mount ad2, but not vice versa. Does anyone have information on how to trouble-shoot GEOM? There are certainly people who do; the authors. Also, you may want to try the -CURRENT mailing list. Thanks, Lowell. I didn't even realize there was a current maillist. I'll find it and check it out. lane ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?
On Friday 23 July 2004 10:10 pm, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just cvsup'd my system for the weekend and found three additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES file. They referenced a replacement of the XFREE86_VERSION variable by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable, a big update to PHP ports and bsd.php.mk to add more flexibility plus an announcement that OpenLDAP version 2.2 is now the default... I'm still learning FreeBSD and deal with issues as they come up. I remember reading postings regarding the XFree86 issue but thought I had the option to leave well enough alone. Maybe not. I don't know about the other two, but as for the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable, it looks to me like it's related to this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-July/032267.html It only applies to -CURRENT right now, but it's as easy as adding a line to rc.conf if you want to stay with XFree86. - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?
On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:36 am, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 23 July 2004 10:10 pm, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just cvsup'd my system for the weekend and found three additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES file. They referenced a replacement of the XFREE86_VERSION variable by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable, a big update to PHP ports and bsd.php.mk to add more flexibility plus an announcement that OpenLDAP version 2.2 is now the default... I'm still learning FreeBSD and deal with issues as they come up. I remember reading postings regarding the XFree86 issue but thought I had the option to leave well enough alone. Maybe not. I don't know about the other two, but as for the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable, it looks to me like it's related to this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-July/032267.html It only applies to -CURRENT right now, but it's as easy as adding a line to rc.conf if you want to stay with XFree86. Sorry, that should have been make.conf. It's too early ... - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:36 am, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 23 July 2004 10:10 pm, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just cvsup'd my system for the weekend and found three additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES file. They referenced a replacement of the XFREE86_VERSION variable by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable, a big update to PHP ports and bsd.php.mk to add more flexibility plus an announcement that OpenLDAP version 2.2 is now the default... I'm still learning FreeBSD and deal with issues as they come up. I remember reading postings regarding the XFree86 issue but thought I had the option to leave well enough alone. Maybe not. I don't know about the other two, but as for the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable, it looks to me like it's related to this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-July/032267.html It only applies to -CURRENT right now, but it's as easy as adding a line to rc.conf if you want to stay with XFree86. Sorry, that should have been make.conf. It's too early ... JT, Thanks for the update. Just read all of the related messages and I think I can handle this. Need to pause for a moment and give myself a FreeBSD pep talk. Thanks again. Bob Perry -- I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?
On Saturday 24 July 2004 08:36 am, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joshua Tinnin wrote:
On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:36 am, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Friday 23 July 2004 10:10 pm, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just cvsup'd my system for the weekend and found three additions
to the /usr/ports/CHANGES file. They referenced a replacement of
the XFREE86_VERSION variable by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable,
a big update to PHP ports and bsd.php.mk to add more flexibility plus
an announcement that OpenLDAP version 2.2 is now the default...
I'm still learning FreeBSD and deal with issues as they come up. I
remember reading postings regarding the XFree86 issue but thought
I had the option to leave well enough alone. Maybe not.
I don't know about the other two, but as for the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM
variable, it looks to me like it's related to this:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-July/032267.html
It only applies to -CURRENT right now, but it's as easy as adding a line
to rc.conf if you want to stay with XFree86.
Sorry, that should have been make.conf. It's too early ...
JT,
Thanks for the update. Just read all of the related messages and I think I
can handle this.
Need to pause for a moment and give myself a FreeBSD pep talk.
Thanks again.
Well, that being said, I did just encounter a problem when trying to update
the ports database after a cvsup (running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 with XOrg):
smogmonster# portsdb -uU
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..Makefile,
line 34: Malformed conditional (${XFREE86_VERSION} == 3
!defined(WITHOUT_X))
Makefile, line 36: if-less endif
Makefile, line 36: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
=== chinese/arphicttf failed
*** Error code 1
1 error
My /etc/make.conf is:
# Created: Fri Apr 16 06:11:06 2004
# Setting to use base perl from ports:
PERL_VER=5.6.1
PERL_VERSION=5.6.1
PERL_ARCH=mach
NOPERL=yo
NO_PERL=yo
NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp
CFLAGS= -O -pipe
COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe
#X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg
I commented the line with the new X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable to see if that were
the problem, but it didn't change anything.
- jt
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Re: Make buildkernal KERNKONF ( etc etc )
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Chris Ryan wrote: I am trying to turn a p2 - 233 with 128mb RAM into a FW / router . and need to run natd I found that I had to go to more RAM, or use sysctl to set the maximum files open, with 4.10-STABLE on a PII/300 with 128MB of RAM doing what you describe, plus snort (memory hog) and sendmail for my mail gateway. I'm running make buildkernel KERNCONF=NAME;make installkernel KERNCONF=NAME right now under 5.2-CURRENT and 4.10-STABLE; I wonder if you have all the source tree installed on that system, and you have a kernel configuration file of the specified name in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. Mike Squires ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Annoying 5.2.1 problem (em0 goes down)
Hi folks, I have a Dual Xeon 2.8ghz w/ 4GB ram, 2x80GB hdd + 200GB hdd running FreeBSD 5.2.1-p9 on a em0 network card.Every once in awhile, em0 will simply die. These are the longs from the last time: Jul 22 18:15:15 rhea kernel: em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex Jul 22 18:22:33 rhea kernel: em0: Link is Down I find it weird, 'link is up 100mbps full duplex' @ 18:15, because the system was up long ago before that message. As for the link is down message, that is self explanatory. It never came back again. I bet this is what happened this time too, will be sure when I get the datacenter to reboot the server. This always happens when I leave a ssh session idling for a long time. It would be normal for the ssh session to timeout because the dynamic rules on the firewall expire (assuming I didnt have keep alives), but the em0 interface goes down.. I am using the pf port instead of ipfw/ipfilter. I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Any ideas on what's causing this? Regards, Hugo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?
--- Aaron Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This email is going to any Linux house whom has.. chomp This is FreeBSD's mailing list... NOT Linux. Hope you get this one. As I believe is the summary of all that you are trying to say: what can Linux do for us? As I've said above, this is FreeBSD's list, not Linux.. But anyway, let's just say you're trying to speak of Unix and all of its flavors such as that of Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX etc.. Well, I can assure you these things: First, if you will use Linux or FreeBSD or any other free variants of Unix let's say for your company's server or desktops' operating system, you can save your company a lot of money in liscensing coz' most of these operating systems are totally free!! Second, if ever you are wondering if you can still do your office works, such as that of MS Office applications in Unix.. well, if you can't find the software MS Word in applications that were ported to them... chances are you will find yourself a better counter part of it. This includes any other software that you are using in Windows(media player, Excel, Outlook etc.) Third, mind you.. these operating systems are engineered perfectly for server computers and so, if you are planning to establish an internet server, database server, mail server, isp server, dns server, or any other server that you may think of.. these free Unix flavors are what you should be considering. Finally.. those three things I've mentioned above can only be possible if you have the technical knowledge and some willingness to invest on it. Because you are not just installing on your home pc but that whole company of yours, you will be facing a very tough decision and perhaps a huge amount of careful considerations. Anyway, good luck to you then. Hope you find this one helpful. -Mark Jayson Alvarez Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Polytechnic University of the Philippines 2000-2004 __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?
Joshua Tinnin wrote:
On Saturday 24 July 2004 08:36 am, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joshua Tinnin wrote:
On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:36 am, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Friday 23 July 2004 10:10 pm, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just cvsup'd my system for the weekend and found three additions
to the /usr/ports/CHANGES file. They referenced a replacement of
the XFREE86_VERSION variable by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable,
a big update to PHP ports and bsd.php.mk to add more flexibility plus
an announcement that OpenLDAP version 2.2 is now the default...
I'm still learning FreeBSD and deal with issues as they come up. I
remember reading postings regarding the XFree86 issue but thought
I had the option to leave well enough alone. Maybe not.
I don't know about the other two, but as for the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM
variable, it looks to me like it's related to this:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-July/032267.html
It only applies to -CURRENT right now, but it's as easy as adding a line
to rc.conf if you want to stay with XFree86.
Sorry, that should have been make.conf. It's too early ...
JT,
Thanks for the update. Just read all of the related messages and I think I
can handle this.
Need to pause for a moment and give myself a FreeBSD pep talk.
Thanks again.
Well, that being said, I did just encounter a problem when trying to update
the ports database after a cvsup (running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 with XOrg):
smogmonster# portsdb -uU
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..Makefile,
line 34: Malformed conditional (${XFREE86_VERSION} == 3
!defined(WITHOUT_X))
Makefile, line 36: if-less endif
Makefile, line 36: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
=== chinese/arphicttf failed
*** Error code 1
1 error
My /etc/make.conf is:
# Created: Fri Apr 16 06:11:06 2004
# Setting to use base perl from ports:
PERL_VER=5.6.1
PERL_VERSION=5.6.1
PERL_ARCH=mach
NOPERL=yo
NO_PERL=yo
NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp
CFLAGS= -O -pipe
COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe
#X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg
I commented the line with the new X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable to see if that were
the problem, but it didn't change anything.
- jt
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This is what I found in the CHANGE file. I'm sure you already read it
but maybe
there's something that could help by taking a second look. This is the
best that I
can offer:
20040723:
AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The XFREE86_VERSION variable is replaced by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable.
XFREE86_VERSION may no longer be used by ports Makefiles.
X_WINDOW_SYSTEM may
currently be set to xorg, xfree86-4, and xfree86-3 (please use :L in
checking
it). Several X_*_PORT variables are provided by bsd.port.mk which map
to the
appropriate port for the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM chosen.
Bob Perry
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distributed.
FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0
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Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:12:47AM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
smogmonster# portsdb -uU
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..Makefile,
line 34: Malformed conditional (${XFREE86_VERSION} == 3
!defined(WITHOUT_X))
Makefile, line 36: if-less endif
Makefile, line 36: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
=== chinese/arphicttf failed
*** Error code 1
1 error
Run cvsup(1) again -- looks like you managed to cvsup in the middle of
all of the commits being made to add the xorg capability to the ports
tree. It's been fixed now.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?
On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:00 am, Matthew Seaman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:12:47AM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
smogmonster# portsdb -uU
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
wait..Makefile, line 34: Malformed conditional (${XFREE86_VERSION} == 3
!defined(WITHOUT_X))
Makefile, line 36: if-less endif
Makefile, line 36: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
=== chinese/arphicttf failed
*** Error code 1
1 error
Run cvsup(1) again -- looks like you managed to cvsup in the middle of
all of the commits being made to add the xorg capability to the ports
tree. It's been fixed now.
I hate to tell you this, but I tried it again and it's still getting this
error. BTW, I'm updating ports-all.
- jt
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Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?
Hi, This email is going to any Linux house whom has pitched themselves via their websites and reviews, from my research as being possible alternatives to XP at this stage. Depends on your Google hit and thereafter (if found within 2 pages) site FAQ's I suppose. As a currently dedicated M$ house (apart from Oracle Databases), we question the move to a XP desktop amid the Linux hype in recent times. Any IT department trying to save company money is only doing the right thing and ask the question, what can Linux do for us? As mentioned before, FreeBSD is NOT Linux. Keep that in mind. I've flipped through your FAQ's and over forums but result in no answer for Active Directory 2K3 and Exchange 2K3 server client connectivity, integration and functionality? Note that we have not moved to these product versions yet. Hence this email. KDE's Kmail can connect to Exchange servers, I believe. As for logging into active directory ... That doesn't exist AFAIK. Perhaps there are programs that allow such things, but I wouldn't count on that. Windows is an excellent OS for integration with Active Directory. I ask because I cannot see a server based centralised authentication and administrative option in Linux. If there were, say a centralised server option for Linux, this would be seriously considered. Is there a User Manager equivalent (NT4 domain for example) or Exchange Administrator equivalent (Exchange 5.5) functional alternative? More importantly, 2K3 Server and Exchange integration? Not AFAIK. Failing that, connecting clients as above to M$ servers would be sufficient. Stay with M$ in servers, go with Linux in desktops. I've seen enough glossy brochures and want to know the facts. Again, you can't do this when you want centralised server option. The cost difference is obvious. The functional difference is not. I've still no reason to choose your Linux over Windows XP Pro at this stage. Cost is not enough. Any sane IT department doesn't need screaming users due to lack of pure functionality. Experience suggests most find it difficult enough getting around the OS to even perform basic functions, let alone usability. Assuming aforementioned functionality, where does your Linux stand with converting between M$ Office 97/2K/2K3? Will our accounts department be able to work with their previous 40Mb Excel files full of VLookups and Formulas straightup, or is it going to be bigger than a Lotus 4.1 to Excel 5 conversion debacle? Of course Word,PowerPoint,Publisher and Access are questioned also. OpenOffice.org can do the job there, but a file created with OOo will be rather misshapen when opened with Excel and vica versa. So it's not advicable. I'm talking up to 500 user desktops to be upgraded. Upgraded need not be a literal word. Installing Linux from scratch would be expected. Anything upgrade wise extra would be a bonus. Outside of M$ Office, current application functionality would have to be trialed. This is expected. A list of currently supported M$ applications would be helpful. Your detailed reply appreciated So, for your needs, upgrading to Linux or BSD or whatever is a BAD idea, IMHO. Your employees and your desktops simply don't have any use of it, with the desires mentioned above. As long as you wish for integration with Active Directory, then an Microsoft OS is still the best for you. Cheers, Jorn. BTW, why don't you just write MS instead of M$? Most people here aren't extremely anti-MS like the Linux folks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unrecognized database type (bdb) after openldap 21 upgrade to 22
After running 'portupgrade -rfo net/openldap22-sasl-client openldap--sasl- client', it seems to have taken care of the server upgrade as well, but my slapd.conf file complains of the bdb database type. Can someone tell me what it is looking for? esmtp# ls /var/db/pkg | grep openldap openldap-sasl-client-2.2.14 openldap-sasl-server-2.2.14 esmtp# /etc/rc.d/slapd start Starting slapd. Unrecognized database type (bdb) esmtp# ls /var/db/pkg | grep db4 db4-4.0.14_1,1 db41-4.1.25_2 db42-4.2.52_3 -- Robert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
f-prot on 5.2.1
Anyone successfully install the 'free' home version of f-prot for freebsd? It installs fine. It updates fine. But it doesnt run: # f-prot -verno Bad system call (core dumped) ..I tried older versions (4.4.1 and 4.4.2) and the newest 4.4.3 and they all do this. How can I troubleshoot this? Any ideas? thanks- -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Information Services // Milwaukee, WI USA Office: 414.978.8282 // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Pager: 414.314.8282 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
no subject (file transmission)
1. I am running freeBSd ssd 5.2.1 on ~ntel motherboard (D865GBL) with a intel 3.2 GHZ pentium 4 cpu (BX80546GP320). Intel tells me that the motherboard follows Intel MP specification version 1.4. The rerelease notes in HARDWARWE.TXT on the installation cdrom says the kernel automatically detects hperthreading capability and enables option smp. When I logon, I have the option of enabling or disabling acpi. There is no way I can get the system to function in a hyperthreading mode. I can only operate the computer by disabling hyperthreading on the BIOS and by not enabling acpi when I logon. This seems paradoxical since the literature says that freeBSD 5.2.1 supports hyperthreading, since I have all the appropriate hardware, and since I am enabling the proper option during logon. Do you have a solution? 2. My full email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are 4 IPFW rules enough?
Kevin Curran wrote: I have a cable modem and I'm using 4.9 as a NAT router for my home network. I have 4 rules in my ipfw config. The first enables NAT and the last is 65000 allow any to any. In between I ha 2 rules to deny access to ports 53 and 110 on the Internet side. That's all. Here's my thinking: I use inetd.conf to enable only the services I want, therefore the ports on which those services are listening I would want open. The two other ports I want to filter on the WAN side are filtered by the rules above. All the other ports are closed, anyway, so why spend time debugging an elaborate rule set? What has to be so elaborate? ipfw add rulenum deny ip from any to me in via oif setup And it's generally a good idea to think about egress as well. It's the strategy you're using for inetd, it should probably be the way you do your firewall. Build the wall with the gates where you want them instead of the other way 'round. My $0.02, Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VPN with multiple offices
Hello I know this is a popular and probably discussed many times before. My problem is I am finding to much information and having trouble weeding through it all. I am an facilities engineer (not a network administrator) for a small firm that is in located multiple offices. We also work with many other small companies who will need temporary access to the network while working on larger projects. In addition to this we would like to give remote access for our road warriors from anonymous networks. For the our offices I believe a tunnel with esp that seems to be the is documented in the handbook and many other sites. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html http://www.daemonnews.org/200101/ipsec-howto.html http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon02/full_papers/schadow/schadow_html/ Does anyone have anyone have any suggestions on how to provide outside companies access to the network? Most of these companies do not have computer administrators and have minimal computer skills. I am thinking of using PPTP to provide access to the outside offices and the road warriors. Then secure the network using a server certificate (I am not sure what to call it). The reference for this configuration was found at the site bellow. http://www.sigsegv.cx/FreeBSD-WIN2K-IPSEC-HOWTO.html I writing this in hope to hear other people experiences with seting up and managing simular configurations. I would like to know if I am on the right track or there better tools for creating this configurations. Thank you for your time Aaron Siegel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X: bad display name
Hello I'm installing FreeBSD. With XFree 86, and than at the end of X session I have always: xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority xauth: (argv):1: bad display name :0 in remove command xauth: (argv):1: bad display name :0 in remove command Something here isn't right. How (where) can I correct this problem. Can (must) I edit this .Xauthority file? Thanks in advance. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: no subject (file transmission)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Chan Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: no subject (file transmission) 1. I am running freeBSd ssd 5.2.1 on ~ntel motherboard (D865GBL) with a intel 3.2 GHZ pentium 4 cpu (BX80546GP320). Intel tells me that the motherboard follows Intel MP specification version 1.4. The rerelease notes in HARDWARWE.TXT on the installation cdrom says the kernel automatically detects hperthreading capability and enables option smp. When I logon, I have the option of enabling or disabling acpi. There is no way I can get the system to function in a hyperthreading mode. I can only operate the computer by disabling hyperthreading on the BIOS and by not enabling acpi when I logon. This seems paradoxical since the literature says that freeBSD 5.2.1 supports hyperthreading, since I have all the appropriate hardware, and since I am enabling the proper option during logon. Do you have a solution? 2. My full email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I had some grief with the similar Intel 865 Perl board with p4 3.0 prescott cpu... I used 5.2.1, hyperthreading mode was working but if ACPI was enabled the system just crash at reboot.. Workaround was to disable acpi or upgrade to 5.2 current... Luckily I could replace this motherboard to an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Andras ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?
This email is going to any Linux house whom has pitched themselves via their websites and reviews, from my research as being possible 1) FreeBSD is (fortunately) not Linux. it's different things 2) FreeBSD doesn't try to be (fortunately) windows alternative in strict sense. I mean giving same style of computing, similar functionality but with smaller costs. It's alternative way of computing, like other unices. For me - much better alternative but that's my choice. 3) Your mail looks like hidden commercial advertisement. Bad place for it in that mailing list ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:25:16AM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:00 am, Matthew Seaman
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On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:12:47AM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
smogmonster# portsdb -uU
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
wait..Makefile, line 34: Malformed conditional (${XFREE86_VERSION} == 3
!defined(WITHOUT_X))
Makefile, line 36: if-less endif
Makefile, line 36: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
=== chinese/arphicttf failed
*** Error code 1
1 error
Run cvsup(1) again -- looks like you managed to cvsup in the middle of
all of the commits being made to add the xorg capability to the ports
tree. It's been fixed now.
I hate to tell you this, but I tried it again and it's still getting this
error. BTW, I'm updating ports-all.
Then take 'chinese' out of your refuse file. In fact, if you want to
be able to build an INDEX yourself, you have to take all of the
language categories out of the refuse file.
Otherwise, just download a recently built INDEX by:
# make fetchindex
and forget all about running portsdb before running portupgrade.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?
OpenOffice.org can do the job there, but a file created with OOo will be rather misshapen when opened with Excel and vica versa. So it's not advicable. OpenOffice reads excel and word documents - so vice versa is not true. OpenOffice can export excel documents too ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?
Your detailed reply appreciated I've got to tell you, you're looking for a lot of detailed advice for free. I know you _say_ you did a lot of research, but the level of knowledge you display in your questions does not demonstrate that you did _any_ research. If research is defined by reading adverts and publications in popular computer magazines he probably did really a lot of research, and didn't understand this is a bit worthless. out for you, I've been doing it for business for six years now. Feel free to contact me directly and I'll be happy to put a consulting package together. possibly it's what he need i'm sure you will help him. But for sure it's bad mailing list for that topic. if any of FreeBSD mailing lists - maybe freebsd-advocacy, but for sure not freebsd-questions ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing php4
Matthew Seaman wrote: snipped Actually, php4-extensions works with any of the 'main' PHP ports -- lang/php4, lang/php4-cli, www/php4-cgi or www/mod_php4. The fact that there are 4 different variations on a plain 'php4' port in the tree is the reason why all of the module support was moved out into a separate extensions port. While this move to specifying all of the PHP modules as loadable extensions makes a great deal of sense from one point of view -- ports that use PHP can now explicitly list all of the extensions they require to operate, rather than having to have their own private PHP slave ports -- the implementation has run into a number of problems. For php4 there are some extensions where the same functionality is not available when used as a loadable module as when compiled in. The security/php4-openssl extension is a case in point: unless OpenSSL support is compiled-in, the fsockopen() function won't let you open 'tls://' or 'ssl://' style URLs. (As a practical result, that means that eg. Squirrelmail can't communicate with a secure IMAP server on port 993. The only alternative in that case is to communicate to an unencrypted IMAP server on port 143, which quite probably involves sending passwords over the net in plaintext.) Beyond that, not all of the PHP consuming ports have yet been updated to depend on the appropriate PHP extensions, so installing those ports de novo doesn't immediately get you a workable system. A common symptom of this is a run-time error where one of the perl compatible regular expression (pcre_*()) functions doesn't work. The answer pretty much is just to install the required extension modules by hand, and tweak the value of the 'extension_dir' directive in /usr/local/etc/php.ini I understand the logic but I would have thought a line somewhere in Makefile or the README just to give poor stupid people like me a clue as to where to start looking. Ons further question that has come from my compilation of the php4-extension is that once you have made your selection the first time these options seem to be saved somewhere (The build process states found previous configuration or similar) where is this? I missed an option in my hurry this morning and now can't get back to the menu options (No matter how many make cleans, pkg_deletes etc I do) to re-set or add the options. Many thanks for being so helpful Drew -- In line with our policy, this message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. www.themarshalls.co.uk/policy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VPN with multiple offices
companies who will need temporary access to the network while working on larger projects. In addition to this we would like to give remote access for our road warriors from anonymous networks. For the our offices I believe a tunnel with esp that seems to be the is documented in the handbook and many other sites. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html http://www.daemonnews.org/200101/ipsec-howto.html http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon02/full_papers/schadow/schadow_html/ contrary to what you pointed i will recommend you vtun (ports/net/vtun). i use it for really many things, works excellent and will have all needed functionality including compression, encryption and is bandwidth efficient. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing php4
Matthew Seaman wrote: snipped Actually, php4-extensions works with any of the 'main' PHP ports -- lang/php4, lang/php4-cli, www/php4-cgi or www/mod_php4. The fact that there are 4 different variations on a plain 'php4' port in the tree is the reason why all of the module support was moved out into a separate extensions port. While this move to specifying all of the PHP modules as loadable extensions makes a great deal of sense from one point of view -- ports that use PHP can now explicitly list all of the extensions they require to operate, rather than having to have their own private PHP slave ports -- the implementation has run into a number of problems. For php4 there are some extensions where the same functionality is not available when used as a loadable module as when compiled in. The security/php4-openssl extension is a case in point: unless OpenSSL support is compiled-in, the fsockopen() function won't let you open 'tls://' or 'ssl://' style URLs. (As a practical result, that means that eg. Squirrelmail can't communicate with a secure IMAP server on port 993. The only alternative in that case is to communicate to an unencrypted IMAP server on port 143, which quite probably involves sending passwords over the net in plaintext.) Beyond that, not all of the PHP consuming ports have yet been updated to depend on the appropriate PHP extensions, so installing those ports de novo doesn't immediately get you a workable system. A common symptom of this is a run-time error where one of the perl compatible regular expression (pcre_*()) functions doesn't work. The answer pretty much is just to install the required extension modules by hand, and tweak the value of the 'extension_dir' directive in /usr/local/etc/php.ini I understand the logic but I would have thought a line somewhere in Makefile or the README just to give poor stupid people like me a clue as to where to start looking. Ons further question that has come from my compilation of the php4-extension is that once you have made your selection the first time these options seem to be saved somewhere (The build process states found previous configuration or similar) where is this? I missed an option in my hurry this morning and now can't get back to the menu options (No matter how many make cleans, pkg_deletes etc I do) to re-set or add the options. Many thanks for being so helpful Drew -- In line with our policy, this message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. www.themarshalls.co.uk/policy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing php4
On Saturday 24 July 2004 21.58, Drew Marshall wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: snipped Actually, php4-extensions works with any of the 'main' PHP ports -- lang/php4, lang/php4-cli, www/php4-cgi or www/mod_php4. The fact that there are 4 different variations on a plain 'php4' port in the tree is the reason why all of the module support was moved out into a separate extensions port. While this move to specifying all of the PHP modules as loadable extensions makes a great deal of sense from one point of view -- ports that use PHP can now explicitly list all of the extensions they require to operate, rather than having to have their own private PHP slave ports -- the implementation has run into a number of problems. For php4 there are some extensions where the same functionality is not available when used as a loadable module as when compiled in. The security/php4-openssl extension is a case in point: unless OpenSSL support is compiled-in, the fsockopen() function won't let you open 'tls://' or 'ssl://' style URLs. (As a practical result, that means that eg. Squirrelmail can't communicate with a secure IMAP server on port 993. The only alternative in that case is to communicate to an unencrypted IMAP server on port 143, which quite probably involves sending passwords over the net in plaintext.) Beyond that, not all of the PHP consuming ports have yet been updated to depend on the appropriate PHP extensions, so installing those ports de novo doesn't immediately get you a workable system. A common symptom of this is a run-time error where one of the perl compatible regular expression (pcre_*()) functions doesn't work. The answer pretty much is just to install the required extension modules by hand, and tweak the value of the 'extension_dir' directive in /usr/local/etc/php.ini I understand the logic but I would have thought a line somewhere in Makefile or the README just to give poor stupid people like me a clue as to where to start looking. Ons further question that has come from my compilation of the php4-extension is that once you have made your selection the first time these options seem to be saved somewhere (The build process states found previous configuration or similar) where is this? I missed an option in my hurry this morning and now can't get back to the menu options (No matter how many make cleans, pkg_deletes etc I do) to re-set or add the options. Many thanks for being so helpful Drew --- Hi. I had a hard time after a upgrade too. Had to comment out 'extension_dir' directive in /usr/local/etc/php.ini just to get it to work at all. ( Running a PhpNuke site :-) What I understand, from the mailinglist, the 'extension_dir' are allready hardcoded in the php-source. So if you override it in php.ini, you have to give it the correct location. I also had to deinstall the allready installed packages from my previous attempt. ( I made a bad choice ) pkg_delete -r php4\* You might try looking for the options in /var/db/ports/php4-extensions/options Hope this helped. /Hasse. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing php4
- Original Message - From: Drew Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:16 PM Subject: Re: Installing php4 Matthew Seaman wrote: snipped Actually, php4-extensions works with any of the 'main' PHP ports -- lang/php4, lang/php4-cli, www/php4-cgi or www/mod_php4. The fact that there are 4 different variations on a plain 'php4' port in the tree is the reason why all of the module support was moved out into a separate extensions port. While this move to specifying all of the PHP modules as loadable extensions makes a great deal of sense from one point of view -- ports that use PHP can now explicitly list all of the extensions they require to operate, rather than having to have their own private PHP slave ports -- the implementation has run into a number of problems. For php4 there are some extensions where the same functionality is not available when used as a loadable module as when compiled in. The security/php4-openssl extension is a case in point: unless OpenSSL support is compiled-in, the fsockopen() function won't let you open 'tls://' or 'ssl://' style URLs. (As a practical result, that means that eg. Squirrelmail can't communicate with a secure IMAP server on port 993. The only alternative in that case is to communicate to an unencrypted IMAP server on port 143, which quite probably involves sending passwords over the net in plaintext.) Beyond that, not all of the PHP consuming ports have yet been updated to depend on the appropriate PHP extensions, so installing those ports de novo doesn't immediately get you a workable system. A common symptom of this is a run-time error where one of the perl compatible regular expression (pcre_*()) functions doesn't work. The answer pretty much is just to install the required extension modules by hand, and tweak the value of the 'extension_dir' directive in /usr/local/etc/php.ini I understand the logic but I would have thought a line somewhere in Makefile or the README just to give poor stupid people like me a clue as to where to start looking. Ons further question that has come from my compilation of the php4-extension is that once you have made your selection the first time these options seem to be saved somewhere (The build process states found previous configuration or similar) where is this? I missed an option in my hurry this morning and now can't get back to the menu options (No matter how many make cleans, pkg_deletes etc I do) to re-set or add the options. Many thanks for being so helpful Drew Look at /var/db/ports/* and then delete any option files that pertain to php4. That will allow the menu to come up again on a fresh make. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing php4
antenneX wrote: - Original Message - From: Drew Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:16 PM Subject: Re: Installing php4 Matthew Seaman wrote: snipped Actually, php4-extensions works with any of the 'main' PHP ports -- lang/php4, lang/php4-cli, www/php4-cgi or www/mod_php4. The fact that there are 4 different variations on a plain 'php4' port in the tree is the reason why all of the module support was moved out into a separate extensions port. While this move to specifying all of the PHP modules as loadable extensions makes a great deal of sense from one point of view -- ports that use PHP can now explicitly list all of the extensions they require to operate, rather than having to have their own private PHP slave ports -- the implementation has run into a number of problems. For php4 there are some extensions where the same functionality is not available when used as a loadable module as when compiled in. The security/php4-openssl extension is a case in point: unless OpenSSL support is compiled-in, the fsockopen() function won't let you open 'tls://' or 'ssl://' style URLs. (As a practical result, that means that eg. Squirrelmail can't communicate with a secure IMAP server on port 993. The only alternative in that case is to communicate to an unencrypted IMAP server on port 143, which quite probably involves sending passwords over the net in plaintext.) Beyond that, not all of the PHP consuming ports have yet been updated to depend on the appropriate PHP extensions, so installing those ports de novo doesn't immediately get you a workable system. A common symptom of this is a run-time error where one of the perl compatible regular expression (pcre_*()) functions doesn't work. The answer pretty much is just to install the required extension modules by hand, and tweak the value of the 'extension_dir' directive in /usr/local/etc/php.ini I understand the logic but I would have thought a line somewhere in Makefile or the README just to give poor stupid people like me a clue as to where to start looking. Ons further question that has come from my compilation of the php4-extension is that once you have made your selection the first time these options seem to be saved somewhere (The build process states found previous configuration or similar) where is this? I missed an option in my hurry this morning and now can't get back to the menu options (No matter how many make cleans, pkg_deletes etc I do) to re-set or add the options. Many thanks for being so helpful Drew Look at /var/db/ports/* and then delete any option files that pertain to php4. That will allow the menu to come up again on a fresh make. Smart. That works, as does make config that Grant posted. Very happy bunny :-) Thanks all!! Drew -- In line with our policy, this message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. www.themarshalls.co.uk/policy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
APC Back-UPS Pro1000 vs apcupsd
Hello, Has anyone gotten an APC Back-UPS Pro1000 ups system working with FreeBSD (4.x / 5.x), using the supplied cable: 940-0020B? I've just attempted to install this on one of my systems, but can't seem to get this to do anything but (supposedly) start, with the corresonding message in /var/log/messages: apcupsd 3.10.13 (16 April 2004) freebsd startup succeeded. The test (from the online manual) that suggests that pulling the serial cable from the back of either the server or ups unit will cause a message to be written to messages after two seconds fails - well, nothing gets written to messages, actually, waited about 10 minutes and still nothing. What I'm really confused about is the fact that this ups is supposed to somewhat of the cleverer line, but given the serial cable's product code, apcupsd docs say that I'm not going to get much out of this unit. Using this same model under Solaris 9 and RH Linux / Fedora Core2 with the PowerChute software included, provides quite a lot of capability with this APC model, that I hoped would be available with apcupsd running under FreeBSD. Is there a FreeBSD-ish specific howto somewhere that I can check out to see if I'm barking up the wrong tree here to begin with? Any pointers to any information would be appreciated. Thanks for the time. Regards, Stacey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nagmin on 4.9
is there somebody on the list that installed and configured nagmin on fbsd 4.9, that i can ask a few questions ? thanx -- Steve Rieger ICQ # 5956607 yahoo IM riegersteve ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X: bad display name
Hello Maksym: You need to have the proper hostnames in /etc/hosts: ::1 localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net where notebook is my hostname. On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:24:21 +0200, Maksym Marchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm installing FreeBSD. With XFree 86, and than at the end of X session I have always: xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority xauth: (argv):1: bad display name :0 in remove command xauth: (argv):1: bad display name :0 in remove command Something here isn't right. How (where) can I correct this problem. Can (must) I edit this .Xauthority file? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD v4.10 - Newbie Needs Help - KDE Really Slow !!
Hi all, I just installed FreeBSD v4.10. All installed OK I choose KDE as the Desktop Problem: KDE v3 is reallly SLOW!! - Takes 2 minutes to start/load !! - Just opening a simple Console takes almost a minute !! - Resolution looks really grainy - as if its 256 colors - Don't know how to change this ??? My System: Pentium 200Mhz 128MB RAM 16MB PCI Creative Graphics Blaster Riva TNT I have Windows 2000 installed on the Primary Boot partition that runs very fast. I thought that FreeBSD with KDE would run just as fast if not faster than Windows 2000 ??? If it helps, the only thing I can think of is whether the system loaded the correct Graphics Card ?? - BUT I don't know how to check this ?? - Cannot find a Display Properties like windows that lists the Graphics Card ?? Any suggestions/help is greatly appreciated :)) BTW: I searched Google Groups freebsd Digest before posting but not much help :( Regards, DK __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD v4.10 - Newbie Needs Help - KDE Really Slow !!
DK wrote: Hi all, I just installed FreeBSD v4.10. All installed OK I choose KDE as the Desktop Problem: KDE v3 is reallly SLOW!! Probably true. - Takes 2 minutes to start/load !! 2 minutes --- After the system grabs the tty? How long from the power button until you have a desktop? - Just opening a simple Console takes almost a minute !! This might be KDE, might be other bad configuration. - Resolution looks really grainy - as if its 256 colors - Don't know how to change this ??? Read the FreeBSD handbook (IIRC, Chapter 5 is the one ... whichever is The X Window System). It's a process that's not easily described in a short email such as this... My System: Pentium 200Mhz 128MB RAM 16MB PCI Creative Graphics Blaster Riva TNT I'm running GNOME2 on an AMD 475 for one of my workers. It suffers from similar issues ... quite slow in starting new apps, etc. GNOME's a big environment, with lots of stuff running in the background. So is KDE. If I felt this worker could handle it, I'd give them something a tad less weighty like black/fluxbox or fvwm. I personally would not consider ever running a new GNOME or KDE on a Pentium I...unless I had no other choice. And, if it were me, I'd probably still pick fluxbox instead of trying to deal with modern, full blown environments on old hardware I have Windows 2000 installed on the Primary Boot partition that runs very fast. I thought that FreeBSD with KDE would run just as fast if not faster than Windows 2000 ??? That I find interesting. Have you tried booting the system to a regular CLI? There could easily be things holding up the boot process. Sendmail looking for a hostname is often one of them One thing I can tell you, adding RAM to FBSD does a lot more for the system than it does for Windows, in my experience. If you've another chip, don't spare the horses If it helps, the only thing I can think of is whether the system loaded the correct Graphics Card ?? - BUT I don't know how to check this ?? - Cannot find a Display Properties like windows that lists the Graphics Card ?? KDE, and any other wm/environment, runs on top of XFree86. XFree86 reads from configuration files ... mine is /etc/X11/XF868Config. Like I said above, you need to read up a bit before you get it going. Any suggestions/help is greatly appreciated :)) BTW: I searched Google Groups freebsd Digest before posting but not much help :( Umm, yeah. You'd have to have a better idea what to look for, I guess. I know when I was a newb, I didn't even install a GUI for like 2 years. Regards, DK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Portupgrade Stale dependency: specify -O to force
Hi, When I use commands from the portupgrade port, I get this message: Stale dependency: kde-3.2.3 -- autoconf-2.57_1 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. I wanted to use the '-O' option, but that does not seem to exist. I've tried 'pkgdb -O' or 'pkgdb -FO' Is this '-O' suggestion mistake in the portupgrade port? How can I use the force option? Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade Stale dependency: specify -O to force
Rob wrote: Hi, When I use commands from the portupgrade port, I get this message: Stale dependency: kde-3.2.3 -- autoconf-2.57_1 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. I wanted to use the '-O' option, but that does not seem to exist. I've tried 'pkgdb -O' or 'pkgdb -FO' Is this '-O' suggestion mistake in the portupgrade port? How can I use the force option? Rob. Hmm, pretty sure that should be a little o. At least that's what the help screen and the manpage seem to indicate... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/ports] [23:16] % pkgdb --help pkgdb rev.1.69 usage: pkgdb [-hafFQQquv] [-c pkgname] [-o pkgname] [-s /old_pkgname/new_pkgname/] [file ...] -h, --help Show this message snip -o, --origin=PKGNAME[=ORIGIN] Look up or change the origin of the given package snip The help seems to indicate you would type something like: $pkgdb -o correctdependancy I usually just do it with -F HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?
Aaron Benson wrote: Hi, For me, yes. YMMV. If you've 500 machines to switch over, I'd sure as heck buy one more and stick something else on it. You'll never learn as much from reading and not doing and you will from trying to do and reading Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Make buildkernal KERNKONF ( etc etc )
--- Michael L. Squires [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Chris Ryan wrote: I am trying to turn a p2 - 233 with 128mb RAM into a FW / router . and need to run natd I found that I had to go to more RAM, or use sysctl to set the maximum files open, with 4.10-STABLE on a PII/300 with 128MB of RAM doing what you describe, plus snort (memory hog) and sendmail for my mail gateway. hmm ok... I'm running make buildkernel KERNCONF=NAME;make installkernel KERNCONF=NAME right now under 5.2-CURRENT and 4.10-STABLE; I wonder if you have all the source tree installed on that system, and you have a kernel configuration file of the specified name in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. ok thanks will try a complete new install - nuke it and start again... ( saves me throwing the box out the second storey window ) will let you know how i go thanks again Chris Mike Squires Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
