Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy?
Timothy Luoma wrote: I cannot get high speed internet access at home. In fact, I can't get more than about 26400 on my dialup. That sux Yup, especially after several years of having cable access @ our previous house/apartment. Anything else I could do to speed things up? ISDN? Direct TV? Cable? DSL? DSL = too far from the local hub ISDN = doubtful Cable = possibly this fall. Our cable company was bought by a new company which says that it is dedicated to expanding rural coverage (it ends about a mile from our house, I think). DirecTV = Had DirecWay installed for less than a month. They wanted $60/month, a Windows OS, no wireless (I understand that they have since come out with a way to overcome those two limitations).. but the bottom line is that it was really not much faster than dialup for regular browsing. For downloading a file, yes; but when you went somewhere like Amazon.com with a lot of images and other external files, it really slowed down (this was 2 way satellite, no phone line. We had it uninstalled before 30 days so we could get our money back ... except the $180 installation fee :-/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Creating your own FreeBSD install CD-ROM
List, how does one go about creating a FreeBSD install CD-ROM? I'd like to be able to build my own CD-ROM with as much as possible of the install process done automatically. For instance, what parts of FreeBSD to install: X or not, games or not, etc. etc. And which ports to install straight away. I could also set up cfengine so that as soon as the machine came to life it could go and connect to my cfengine repository and download all the latest configurations to move into operational status. E.g., I'd like to just have to specify the partition layout, the name and IP of the machine, and its role(s): (web, dns, squid, mta, samba...) This would make rebuilding so much faster if a machine was catastrophically trashed. And it would make my computing installation much less dependent on me. Thanks for any pointers to documentation on the subject, I'm sure people have done this before, but I can't coax the results out from my web searches. Thanks, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gvinum start
dear all, how to start gvinum automaticallly on boot ? /etc/default/rc.conf only contain start_vinum= thanks ! -dikshie- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend
On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:50, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Hi, I need to consider if my friend can migrate from windows. Do you know of a good user friendly alternatives (may be not as powerful)? I might be able to answer most of the items, but I'd like to make sure that I know about the options: Alternatives for: This is what I use, it all came from the ports collection and installed without fuss. - MS Office XP. I don't think he has very complex documents. The office collection that comes with KDE - ACDSE 5.0, Photoshop. I am not convinced that he edits or creates images. - WinRAR and WinZIP - WinAMP Xmms (only under FeeSBIE), it even looks and feels like WinAMP - Virtual CD - Some kind of CD Burner I use burncd and mkisofs from the command line. Can't be bothered with getting a GUI one at the moment - Some DVD Player Ogle, tho I need to set OGLE_OSS_RESET_BUG environment variable, cos there's something up with the sound drivers for my machine (FreeBSD 5.3R and onboard sound on a A7V600-X motherboard). Now that's worked around Ogle is extreamly good, it does DVD menus as well. - AC3filter - Decoding DVD to AVI (I have no idea why anybody would need this) -- /Xian Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend
Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Hi, I need to consider if my friend can migrate from windows. Do you know of a good user friendly alternatives (may be not as powerful)? I might be able to answer most of the items, but I'd like to make sure that I know about the options: Hello Sergei, Here's short list what I use / would use: Alternatives for: - MS Office XP. I don't think he has very complex documents. OpenOffice - ACDSE 5.0, Photoshop. I am not convinced that he edits or creates images. GIMP (to create/modify images) - WinRAR and WinZIP There are several command line tools in /usr/ports/archivers. As for GUI: If you're using KDE there's ARK in kdeutils. Gnome should have something similar. - WinAMP XMMS - Virtual CD don't know this software - Some kind of CD Burner burncd with mkisofs works great if you don't mind command line. K3b (/usr/ports/sysutils/k3b) is great if you like GUI . - Some DVD Player - AC3filter mplayer (all you need is in there already) - Decoding DVD to AVI (I have no idea why anybody would need this) I cannot comment on this but mplayer is supposed to do that. Regards, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: phpMyAdmin installation troubles...
On Jan 14 at 16:17, Eric F Crist reported: I'm trying to install phpmyadmin from ports. I keep getting an error about PDF-Lite-6.0.0p1.tar.gz. The only files available now are 6.0.1. I've done a cvsup, but to no avail. Several days ago I encountered the same situation. FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE Same error exactly Same steps followed, same outcome The difference is I didn't post it - mainly because I thought I was kind of over my help quota with MySQL, php etc etc. Regards, -Colin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt [followup]
On Jan 14 at 10:22, Duo made this excellent suggestion: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: I noticed something extremely odd this morning in my http access log. There's the usual activity, then suddenly this (about a hundred lines are snipped) Is there anything within...say httpd.conf..that I could do to prevent this..or curtail it before it grows to such an enormous size. Why, yes there is! For the low low price of FREE, here is something you can do for fun and giggles. IfModule mod_rewrite.c RedirectMatch permanent (.*)cmd.exe(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com RedirectMatch permanent (.*)root.exe(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/_vti_bin\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/scripts\/\.\.(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/_mem_bin\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/msadc\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/MSADC\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/c\/winnt\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/d\/winnt\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/x90\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com /IfModule I've googled extensively on conditional logging, but the syntax makes my head spin. Following Duo posting this gem yesterday, I planted the whole lot in my httpd.conf. This morning I had a similar occurrence of a WebDAV exploit which again porked out the logfile. As a followup question to this outstanding contribution, can anyone suggest a way of conditional logging which does any or all of the following: a) logs [simply] that a redirect in any of the above categories has happened b) Supresses the verbose output normally associated with one of the above conditions happening In other words you know it happened, but just in a non-verbose way, and you know the redirect worked. Regards TIA, -Colin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache2 Conditional Logging help
I'm trying to supress logging of such things as favicon.ico, gifs and jpegs. In a home server environment (right now anyway) I just don't think it's necessary to log serving of those items. Accordingly, some googling seemed to point me towards doing something like this: SetEnvIf Request_URI \.gif$ dontlog SetEnvIf Request_URI \.jpg$ dontlog SetEnvIf Request_URI \.jpeg$ dontlog But this doesn't work - at all. Images are still being logged My images are in /path/to/web_data/images, so perhaps that has something to do with it. I can't figure out the syntax to accomplish calling the path proerly though. Various kinds of fiddling with the syntax and restarting httpd hasn't worked. Part of the problem is that apachectl configtest doesn't complain about syntax no matter how I fiddle with any of these. It just reports Syntax OK and when I restart there are no logfile errors. # This one shuts down *all* (access) logging, which is truly puzzling: # SetEnvIf Request_URI \.gif$ object_is_image=gif dontlog # SetEnvIf Request_URI \.jpg$ object_is_image=jpg dontlog Some help would definitely be appreciated!! Regards TIA, -Colin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: - Virtual CD don't know this software Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( just like alcohol or deamontools ) you can just mount .iso files with FreeBSD : man mount_cd9660 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache2 Conditional Logging help [Followup]
On Jan 15 at 12:26, I said: I'm trying to supress logging of such things as favicon.ico, gifs and jpegs. In a home server environment (right now anyway) I just don't think it's necessary to log serving of those items. Accordingly, some googling seemed to point me towards doing something like this: SetEnvIf Request_URI \.gif$ dontlog SetEnvIf Request_URI \.jpg$ dontlog SetEnvIf Request_URI \.jpeg$ dontlog But this doesn't work - at all. Images are still being logged My images are in /path/to/web_data/images, so perhaps that has something to do with it. I can't figure out the syntax to accomplish calling the path proerly though. Various kinds of fiddling with the syntax and restarting httpd hasn't worked. Part of the problem is that apachectl configtest doesn't complain about syntax no matter how I fiddle with any of these. It just reports Syntax OK and when I restart there are no logfile errors. FOLLOWUP I found this gem at: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/env.html#examples SetEnvIf Request_URI \.gif image-request SetEnvIf Request_URI \.jpg image-request SetEnvIf Request_URI \.png image-request CustomLog /var/log/httpd-access.log combined env=!image-request Restarted httpd and no more images (of the kind described above anyway) were logged. Still outstanding is the other task of conditionally logging attempted exploits, (but not the output) and confirming URL-rewriting is working as per my other post this morning. Regards to all, -Colin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel panic on umass drive
I have small USB flash drive that has worked quite well up until now with FreeBSD. I've found I have to boot with it plugged in as when I don't will give a line in dmesg: umass0: Generic USB Flash Disk, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 5 but it only give the lines umass0: Generic USB Flash Disk, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 5 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Generic USB Flash Disk 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 31MB (63904 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 31C) I found that when I didn't have the da0 lines (It wasn't in the machine on boot) and I pulled the drive out it the kernel panicked about a page fault. The instruction pointer was 0xc0489e5b, and current process was 31 (irq21: uhci0 uhci1*). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] %nm -n /boot/kernel/kernel | grep c0489e5 c0489e50 t uhci_check_intr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] %uname -a FreeBSD hercules.codepad.net 5.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p4 #6: Fri Jan 14 23:59:29 GMT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HERCULES i386 Also a yesterday I compiled in device ehci and the kernel panicked on boot when just after it had detected umass when the drive was plugged in. So I compiled it out again. I have had other USB Flash drives work properly on earlier version(s) of either 5.2.1R or 5.3R, I can't remember. I'm not sure how to get round this, or who this information would help. Any help will be very much appreciated, or who to send this info to. -- /Xian Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gvinum start
On Saturday 15 January 2005 10:37, Dikshie wrote: dear all, how to start gvinum automaticallly on boot ? /etc/default/rc.conf only contain start_vinum= thanks ! -dikshie- You could try start_vinum=YES a lot of things start like that. -- /Xian Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud. After a while, you realize the pig is enjoying it. Unknown Author ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel panic on umass drive
On Saturday 15 January 2005 11:52, Xian wrote: I have small USB flash drive that has worked quite well up until now with FreeBSD. I've found I have to boot with it plugged in as when I don't will give a line in dmesg: umass0: Generic USB Flash Disk, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 5 but it only give the lines Sorry, I meant it only gives the following when it is plugged in on boot umass0: Generic USB Flash Disk, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 5 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Generic USB Flash Disk 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 31MB (63904 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 31C) I found that when I didn't have the da0 lines (It wasn't in the machine on boot) and I pulled the drive out it the kernel panicked about a page fault. The instruction pointer was 0xc0489e5b, and current process was 31 (irq21: uhci0 uhci1*). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] %nm -n /boot/kernel/kernel | grep c0489e5 c0489e50 t uhci_check_intr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] %uname -a FreeBSD hercules.codepad.net 5.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p4 #6: Fri Jan 14 23:59:29 GMT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HERCULES i386 Also a yesterday I compiled in device ehci and the kernel panicked on boot when just after it had detected umass when the drive was plugged in. So I compiled it out again. I have had other USB Flash drives work properly on earlier version(s) of either 5.2.1R or 5.3R, I can't remember. I'm not sure how to get round this, or who this information would help. Any help will be very much appreciated, or who to send this info to. -- /Xian INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY unknown author ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gstreamer error
Hi i istalled rhythmbox and get this error Failed to create the player: Coldn't initialize scheduler. Did you run gst-register? then i run gst-register and this is the error . .. Added plugin dvdreadsrc with 1 feature. Added plugin cdparanoia with 1 feature. Added plugin artsdsink with 1 feature. Added plugin aasink with 1 feature. Added plugin cdplayer with 1 feature. Bus error (core dumped) I can't use rhythmbox :-( what can i do thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dump performance
Hello! I'm following the procedure in the NEW-HUGE-DISK FAQ entry to move my system to bigger disks. In a nutshell, the dump/restore combo recommended there seems painfully slow. For example, I have newfs-ed the partition which is to become /usr with the newfs default parameters and mounted it as /mnt/usr. Then I do: # cd /mnt/usr # dump 0af - /usr | restore xf - The procedure starts, and after running for 5 minutes it informs me that dumping is 8.35 % done and should be complete in 54 minutes. This is a total of 1 hour for a partition that holds approximately 2.2 GB of data, making the speed somewhere about 40 MB/minute. Maybe it's just me but it seems way too slow. I tried adding -b 64 and -C 32 switches to dump, and -b 64 to restore. This speeds up the process ca 50 %, but it still means 40 minutes for this partition. 40 minutes is maybe not so bad, but at this speed my /home partition which is 65 GB full would take approximately 18 hours! Tar, on the other hand, did the entire /usr partition in 15 minutes: # cd /mnt # tar cf - -C / usr | tar xf - The source partition is on ATA RAID1 array, consisting of two ATA133 disks attached to Promise TX2 controller. The disks are recognized as ATA133 in dmesg. The destination partition is on an ATA100 disk, attached to ICH4 controller. This disk is recognized as ATA100 in dmesg. Are these speeds normal for dump, or am I missing something? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dump performance
Toomas Aas wrote: I'm following the procedure in the NEW-HUGE-DISK FAQ entry to move my system to bigger disks. How lame of me. I forgot to mention my OS version. It is 4.10-RELEASE-p5. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dump performance
Toomas Aas wrote: # cd /mnt/usr # dump 0af - /usr | restore xf - Are these speeds normal for dump, or am I missing something? I would think not, but let's find out. When you are running the above series of commands, can you instead do this: # cd /mnt/usr # mount # dump 0af - /usr | restore xf - # iostat -c10 Give us the output of mount, and first 10 samples from iostat to see what kind of throughput you are getting, and how the filesystems are mounted. I don't know how many recommendations I'll be able to suggest after that, but it will show us more what's going on. Cheers, Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dump performance
Derek wrote: I would think not, but let's find out. When you are running the above series of commands, can you instead do this: # cd /mnt/usr # mount # dump 0af - /usr | restore xf - # iostat -c10 Ooooh! And: sysctl hw.ata ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CLARIFICATION] portupgrade -a
Hello, recently I did update my package tree using the portupgrade command. I was allways in doubt whether my ports will be build with the same WITH_FOO=yes options during an update, as I did built them manually before. After a successfull update of the Gimp, I did notice that the Gimp wasn't built with the ... WITH_PYTHON=yes ... option. How can I ensure that each of the WITH_XYZ knobs that I did specify during a manual installation of a port, will be recognized during an update as well? Should I, for example, specify those knobs in /etc/make.conf? -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Daniel S. Haischt Wan't a complete signature??? Type at a shell prompt: $ finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Will my friend's computer work with FreeBSD?
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Motherboard: Asus A7V8x-x, chipset VIA-KT400, with onboard sound, LAN, ATA133, USB Doubt that's much of an issue. And, in regard to your assertation about sound, I've never had much trouble with sound and FreeBSD, regardless of the card or onboard chipset, except for a few cards that weren't listed as supported on the web site. YMMV. Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce4 MX440SE with TV-out i've recently put FreeBSD 5.3 on a machine with such a motherboard, with a Nvidia GeForce4 MX4000, made Xorg + nvidia-drivers work by using xorgcfg and manually editing xorg.conf afterwards, works fine, although i haven't tried sound at all (that machine became a server, and the videocard went into another machine) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CLARIFICATION] portupgrade -a
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:07:36 +0100
Daniel S. Haischt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
recently I did update my package tree using the
portupgrade command. I was allways in doubt whether
my ports will be build with the same WITH_FOO=yes
options during an update, as I did built them
manually before.
After a successfull update of the Gimp, I did
notice that the Gimp wasn't built with the ...
WITH_PYTHON=yes
... option. How can I ensure that each of the
WITH_XYZ knobs that I did specify during a manual
installation of a port, will be recognized during
an update as well?
Have a look at the MAKE_ARGS section of /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
For instance:
: MAKE_ARGS = {
:'graphics/gimp' = 'WITH_PYTHON=1',
: }
Downside to this is it only works with portupgrade so if you ever have
to upgrade a port without portupgrade (it happens), then you might just
forget to specify the make args manually. Not a good thing to realise
half way through a upgrade of kde :(
Should I, for example, specify those knobs in
/etc/make.conf?
You could do I guess.
The (possible) downside to this approach is that since a lot of ports
share the same make args. All ports that have optional python support,
not just gimp, would be built with the python bits which may be
undesired. Python's just an example of course, some ports do have unique
make args but a lot of them are generally shared by a bunch of ports.
For instance I usally have WITHOUT_X11=yes in my make.conf on servers to
stop anything X related being built.
freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards
Daniel S. Haischt
-- Mark Magiera
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Re: [CLARIFICATION] portupgrade -a
Daniel S. Haischt wrote: Hello, recently I did update my package tree using the portupgrade command. I was allways in doubt whether my ports will be build with the same WITH_FOO=yes options during an update, as I did built them manually before. After a successfull update of the Gimp, I did notice that the Gimp wasn't built with the ... WITH_PYTHON=yes ... option. How can I ensure that each of the WITH_XYZ knobs that I did specify during a manual installation of a port, will be recognized during an update as well? Should I, for example, specify those knobs in /etc/make.conf? Unfortunately this is not supported by all ports, but some ports opens an interactive menu for enabling/disabling build options and the configuration is then stored in /var/db/ports for future builds. This should replace setting options on the command line. AFAIK the idea is that all ports should/will support this in future++. Till then, the above problem will remain :-( It's not documented in the porters handbook, but it doesn't seem too difficult to add, but I'm not into the magic. If you have time, create an update of the Makefile and submit to the maintainer. You may take a look at eg. the mplayer-skins port to see how it works. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CLARIFICATION] portupgrade -a
The downside of the whole thing is, that I did
not make notes about all the WITH_FOO_BAR knobs
that I did used while installing a port.
So adding options to /etc/make.conf or
/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf at the time is a
bit late.
There are some ports, like Samba, which will
remember the options that you did specify after
executing 'make config'. I would appreciate
if any port would have such a facility.
Mark Magiera schrieb:
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:07:36 +0100
Daniel S. Haischt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
recently I did update my package tree using the
portupgrade command. I was allways in doubt whether
my ports will be build with the same WITH_FOO=yes
options during an update, as I did built them
manually before.
After a successfull update of the Gimp, I did
notice that the Gimp wasn't built with the ...
WITH_PYTHON=yes
... option. How can I ensure that each of the
WITH_XYZ knobs that I did specify during a manual
installation of a port, will be recognized during
an update as well?
Have a look at the MAKE_ARGS section of /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
For instance:
: MAKE_ARGS = {
:'graphics/gimp' = 'WITH_PYTHON=1',
: }
Downside to this is it only works with portupgrade so if you ever have
to upgrade a port without portupgrade (it happens), then you might just
forget to specify the make args manually. Not a good thing to realise
half way through a upgrade of kde :(
Should I, for example, specify those knobs in
/etc/make.conf?
You could do I guess.
The (possible) downside to this approach is that since a lot of ports
share the same make args. All ports that have optional python support,
not just gimp, would be built with the python bits which may be
undesired. Python's just an example of course, some ports do have unique
make args but a lot of them are generally shared by a bunch of ports.
For instance I usally have WITHOUT_X11=yes in my make.conf on servers to
stop anything X related being built.
freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards
Daniel S. Haischt
-- Mark Magiera
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Re: [CLARIFICATION] portupgrade -a
Yea, I know what you mean. Basically there are some ports supporting the 'make config' commands. My current situation is that I did install dozens of ports which are not supporting the 'make config' command and unfortunatly I do not remember all the WITH_BLAH_BLUBBER knobs that I specify while installing a port. So there is a great chance that a portupgrade will install a port with missing knobs :( Erik Norgaard schrieb: Daniel S. Haischt wrote: Hello, recently I did update my package tree using the portupgrade command. I was allways in doubt whether my ports will be build with the same WITH_FOO=yes options during an update, as I did built them manually before. After a successfull update of the Gimp, I did notice that the Gimp wasn't built with the ... WITH_PYTHON=yes ... option. How can I ensure that each of the WITH_XYZ knobs that I did specify during a manual installation of a port, will be recognized during an update as well? Should I, for example, specify those knobs in /etc/make.conf? Unfortunately this is not supported by all ports, but some ports opens an interactive menu for enabling/disabling build options and the configuration is then stored in /var/db/ports for future builds. This should replace setting options on the command line. AFAIK the idea is that all ports should/will support this in future++. Till then, the above problem will remain :-( It's not documented in the porters handbook, but it doesn't seem too difficult to add, but I'm not into the magic. If you have time, create an update of the Makefile and submit to the maintainer. You may take a look at eg. the mplayer-skins port to see how it works. Cheers, Erik -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Daniel S. Haischt Wan't a complete signature??? Type at a shell prompt: $ finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Java plugin
I'm having trouble in getting the java plugin to work with mozilla on FreeBSD 5.3, here what I did: Install jdk13 using the port and then I linksysed /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin.so but unfortunately it still doesn't work. Any ideas as to why? ___ Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Instale o discador do Yahoo! agora. http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/ - Internet rápida e grátis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bimap instead of public ip and servers
freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, i have a following problem, probably someone was through this before and can offer advice. Now i'm using DSL with static ip address and on my home FreeBSD server there is group of servers serving my family and friends. Servers are qmail, djbdns and apache. I'm doing dns for my domain, mail server and http is also under my full control. Now i found cheaper option, but... Instead of public static ip i'll have only bimap. Provider don't want to route my public address into his LAN, because he don't want to waste additional public ip's. Now i have a problem. I'm not sure, if it will be possible to run DNS server, mail server and web server in this enviroment. Just now i found, that qmail first checks if his ip is resolved MX record for domain it's serving and refuses to start, if it's not. And i'm bimapped, so it's not ;-). I'll play with this during a weekend, but if someone can help, i'd be gratefull. Maybe this is not exactly FreeBSD problem, hope you don't mind ;-). I don't know anything about qmail particularly, but if you're running your own DNS, you should be able to report anything you want to the DNS queries of your own mail daemon... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Logitech access keyboard
Pieter Hustinx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to adjust my keymap, I need to know the scancode of that keys. How can I get the scancode of that keys. xev(1), perhaps? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?
sp0ng3b0b wrote: I am getting a quote for a new server. I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Opterons and FreeBSD 5.3? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am running dual Opteron 246s with 1G of memory on a Tyan Thunder K8W S2885ANRF. I want to double my memory when I get the chance. I am running 6.0-Current however. So far so good. Things have been solid, finally. Had some growing pains at first but things have settled the past few days. It has been a combination of my playing, and dealing with the AMD64 platform versus i386, and I am running in 64 bit mode, not 32 bit. Good points. Real fast, no delays on anything. Compile times for ports or even kernel builds is very quick, in fact impressive. Bad points. Compatibility. Many ports, such as openoffice and java are currently not working on this platform, and I am sure there are others. Currently trying out Koffice for the first time in a very long while and it runs great. Note, Abiword having intermittent problems running on this platform, at least for me. I am using KDE as my desktop. Tried pulling out my Linux version of Railroad Tycoon 2 from Loki software just a short time ago. So far not much luck, but to be fair I have not had much time to troubleshoot. Time is always a problem for me. But all I can think of is an i386 game designed for Linux and trying to run it on an amd64 FreeBSD 6.0 system. Sounds like a hurdle. Have fun, Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bimap instead of public ip and servers
Hi, --On Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:40 AM -0500 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in part, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about his question: freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now i'm using DSL with static ip address and on my home FreeBSD server there is group of servers serving my family and friends. Servers are qmail, djbdns and apache. okay. I'm doing dns for my domain, mail server and http is also under my full control. okay Instead of public static ip i'll have only bimap. Provider don't want to route my public address into his LAN, because he don't want to waste additional public ip's. Now i have a problem. I'm not sure, if it will be possible to run DNS server, mail server and web server in this enviroment. Just now i found, that qmail first checks if his ip is resolved MX record for domain it's serving and refuses to start, if it's not. And i'm bimapped, so it's not ;-). qmail does not... it checks for any valid MX record for a domain. You have to publish your MX records for your domain publicly using tinydns, part of the djbdns package, or some other DNS service. You will never receive mail, or get hits on Apache if you do not have published you DNS records somehow. There are some free services that will allow you to sign on and they will update your IP addresses on their DNS if they are dynamic. I don't know anything about qmail particularly, but if you're running your own DNS, you should be able to report anything you want to the DNS queries of your own mail daemon... exactly... -- Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?
I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about 8 servers in 3 offices across the US and soon to be more. Freebsd-questions is wonderful and I find a lot of answers there, but the signal-to-noise is low when you are just looking for IT-oriented information regarding FreeBSD. Especially regarding systems implemented for an office/LAN environment. I was wondering if there is any mailing list or newsgroup devoted to IT on FreeBSD? Google is not returning any hits on this, nor the listing on freebsd.org. If such a list or newsgroup does not exist, would there be any interest in starting one or both? -- -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unable to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a SMP box
Hi there I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a dual p3 box: asus cuv4x-d mobo adaptec AHA-2940 uw and 29160 I'm using the lastest bios when I try to boot I get a lot of hexadecimal codes and the I get BTX HALTED I dont think there is any hardware problem because GNU/Linux installs without a single problem Jorge Mario G. Mazo _ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?
Jim Durham wrote: I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about 8 servers in 3 offices across the US and soon to be more. OK. Freebsd-questions is wonderful and I find a lot of answers there, but the signal-to-noise is low when you are just looking for IT-oriented information regarding FreeBSD. Especially regarding systems implemented for an office/LAN environment. I was wondering if there is any mailing list or newsgroup devoted to IT on FreeBSD? Google is not returning any hits on this, nor the listing on freebsd.org. Your question parses, but it is not clear what specific thing you have in mind that would seperate an IT-oriented list from a non-IT oriented list. Can you either give an example question or two, or can you say why freebsd-questions is *not* IT-oriented? Or does your question mean you looking for a list whose members are mostly sysadmins and network managers, rather than end-users? FreeBSD doesn't really make much distinction between an end-user and a sysadmin [1], but you might find freebsd-stable or freebsd-isp to come closer to what you are looking for. -- -Chuck [1]: Which can be benefit sometimes, or it can be a problem, especially for novice users, but that's another topic. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: make make quieter?
Someone broke the silence: On Jan 15, 2005, at 1:05 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: You've tried -s? And that was still too chatty? -s looks promising (d'oh, checked make.conf settings but not man page... far too late, must sleep) Actually the redirect works well, esp. now that someone explained the redirect (new to 'sudo' too) If you are on a dialup connection like I am. I just use screen (ports/misc/screen). Create a new screen instance then do make install clean then hold down ctrl and hit D. I would be deattached and it'll be compiling in the background. When I want to check the status of it, I would resume the screen. Fairly simple. Chris Thanks TjL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: make make quieter?
Someone broke the silence: Someone broke the silence: On Jan 15, 2005, at 1:05 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: You've tried -s? And that was still too chatty? -s looks promising (d'oh, checked make.conf settings but not man page... far too late, must sleep) Actually the redirect works well, esp. now that someone explained the redirect (new to 'sudo' too) If you are on a dialup connection like I am. I just use screen (ports/misc/screen). Create a new screen instance then do make install clean then hold down ctrl and hit D. Excuse me, Hold down Ctrl then hit A key then let go of the Ctrl key and hit D key. Now back to the grilling of my BBQ ribs. Chris I would be deattached and it'll be compiling in the background. When I want to check the status of it, I would resume the screen. Fairly simple. Chris Thanks TjL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Will my friend's computer work with FreeBSD?
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:35:53 -0600, you wrote: Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Scanner: mustec1200CP Possibly an issue. You'd need to decide what software you intend to use, and check the site for that, I think. SANE is the software of choice, I gather (could be wrong). Last I recall looking at their site, there *might* have been support for Mustek, but I wasn't too hopeful for the scanners I have in the pile. I can't remember, but I think one was a Mustek. YMMV. I can confirm the mustec1200CP (aka Bearpaw1200) as working with sane under FreeBSD. Dave -- Any speling misteaks are the reult of a bad insallation of mod_spelink. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to install a different sub-release from the port
Want to install Apache and already have a copy on my LAN of apache_1.3.29.tar.gz; when going to /usr/ports/ # cd www/apache13 # make install apache_1.3.27.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. How can I get make to look for apache_1.3.29 instead of 1.3.27? Or is it possible for me to install manually instead of going through the ports collection? Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to install samba with outdated port
I'm running a fresh install of 4.8 from the mini-iso and would like to install samba. Have d/l'd samba-3.0.10 which is the uncompressed samba-latest.tar.gz and copied this into my /usr/ports/distfiles. When I go to /usr/ports/net/samba and make build I get: # make build samba-2.2.8.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/./. fetch: http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/./samba-2.2.8.tar.bz2: Operation timed out Attempting to fetch from http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/old-versions/. fetch: http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.8.tar.bz2: Operation timed out I gather that my samba port is too old. How can I do the make build make install using the latest version. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cut and paste in Emacs
Kris Maglione wrote: I, personally, still don't completely understand the entire unix/X cut buffer system. First, there is more than one cut buffer, but I doubt that that's your problem. Second, there is select-to-copy and select+right click.../ctrl+c/... to copy. These use two different X11 cutpaste is a mess.. the OP might try to use xclipboard as an intermediate target. It often works, when two programs use different mechanisms for selections. mkb. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install samba with outdated port
Did you update your ports collection? For example did you update them using CVSup? Take a look at ... - http://tinyurl.com/2t4vg ... for more infos. Marty Landman schrieb: I'm running a fresh install of 4.8 from the mini-iso and would like to install samba. Have d/l'd samba-3.0.10 which is the uncompressed samba-latest.tar.gz and copied this into my /usr/ports/distfiles. When I go to /usr/ports/net/samba and make build I get: # make build samba-2.2.8.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/./. fetch: http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/./samba-2.2.8.tar.bz2: Operation timed out Attempting to fetch from http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/old-versions/. fetch: http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.8.tar.bz2: Operation timed out I gather that my samba port is too old. How can I do the make build make install using the latest version. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:41e96e1a134362258173384! -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Daniel S. Haischt Wan't a complete signature??? Type at a shell prompt: $ finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apologies for the duplicate postings
Sorry my two postings got sent twice... had a problem with postings bouncing and my ctrl-e got the better of me just before. -- Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install a different sub-release from the port
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 02:24:19PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Want to install Apache and already have a copy on my LAN of apache_1.3.29.tar.gz; when going to /usr/ports/ # cd www/apache13 # make install apache_1.3.27.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. How can I get make to look for apache_1.3.29 instead of 1.3.27? Or is it possible for me to install manually instead of going through the ports collection? You need to cvsup update your ports collection. The current port is up to apache-1.3.33_1. Details on how to keep your ports collection up to date can be found in the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html with an example file on your local file-system at: /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I don't want to achive immortality through my works.. I want to achieve it through not dying - Woody Allen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install samba with outdated port
Marty Landman wrote: I'm running a fresh install of 4.8 from the mini-iso and would like to install samba. Have d/l'd samba-3.0.10 which is the uncompressed samba-latest.tar.gz and copied this into my /usr/ports/distfiles. When I go to /usr/ports/net/samba and make build I get: # make build samba-2.2.8.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/./. fetch: http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/./samba-2.2.8.tar.bz2: Operation timed out Attempting to fetch from http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/old-versions/. fetch: http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.8.tar.bz2: Operation timed out I gather that my samba port is too old. How can I do the make build make install using the latest version. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have to use cvsup to get the latest ports, therefor you need /net/cvsup then you need to use a cvsup file to download the ports here's mine: / *default tag=. *default host=cvsup.nl.freebsd.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/var/db *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress ports-all release=cv/ than just run: cvsup -l 2 -g path_to_supfile for more info: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html and when it's done just run a make install clean again. An other option is using net/portupgrade but I'm not a fan of that ... Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install a different sub-release from the port
Marty Landman wrote: Want to install Apache and already have a copy on my LAN of apache_1.3.29.tar.gz; when going to /usr/ports/ # cd www/apache13 # make install apache_1.3.27.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. How can I get make to look for apache_1.3.29 instead of 1.3.27? Or is it possible for me to install manually instead of going through the ports collection? Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can install a newer release of apache by upgrading your portstree and than compiling it again ( use cvsup for the upgrading part: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html ) if you want to compile the exact version without the ports ( the linux way ) than you have to download the sourcecode from www.apache.org extract it, run a ./configure make make install to install ( see docs apache for exact install ) btw. why don't you use apache-2 ? Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a SMP box
Hi there I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a dual p3 box: asus cuv4x-d mobo adaptec AHA-2940 uw and 29160 I'm using the lastest bios when I try to boot I get a lot of hexadecimal codes and the I get BTX HALTED I dont think there is any hardware problem because GNU/Linux installs without a single problem Why don't you donate your hardware to FreeBSD team? Ted will arrange. Boris Jorge Mario G. Mazo __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kris' World
On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:05 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Welcome back to my killfile (although I doubt you'll stay there long because of your desperate need to hear your own voice). Kris Now, I understand his/her/it's words are harsh, but is killing them really a fair alternative? Well, I guess I can see your point. :grabs pitchfork:: Kris is a loser. He ridicules and blocks people because he doesn't have the technical knowledge to address the questions. Im sure he doesn't understand anyway, so who cares if he reads my messages or not? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend
Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Alternatives for: - MS Office XP. I don't think he has very complex documents. OpenOffice.org (works with windows too), KOffice - ACDSE 5.0, Photoshop. I am not convinced that he edits or creates images. GIMP 2.0 - WinRAR and WinZIP KDE's Ark/command line utils - WinAMP XMMS is popular, but there are lots of other great ones. Most of them are good. I like Xinf, but I don't use it anymore. - Virtual CD mdconfig -a -t vnode -f file.iso -u 1 mount_cd9660 /dev/md0 /cdrom1 - Some kind of CD Burner xcdroast, gnome has support too - Some DVD Player Xine, Ogle, Mplayer. All good, Mplayer sucks for DVDs, though - AC3filter some command line tool and a few gui apps - Decoding DVD to AVI (I have no idea why anybody would need this) There is a good GUI app for this, but I forget what it's called. Check ports. As a note, though. This friend may be better off with a linux distro. FreeBSD is not newbie friendly and lacks certain hardware/software support that linux has. Not having ALSA precludes certain apps from working/working well. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Java plugin
E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm having trouble in getting the java plugin to work with mozilla on FreeBSD 5.3, here what I did: Install jdk13 using the port and then I linksysed /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin.so but unfortunately it still doesn't work. Any ideas as to why? Run mozilla from an xterm and see what output you get. It should tell you why it won't work. Is it listed in about:plugins? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:09:30 +0100, you wrote: - Decoding DVD to AVI (I have no idea why anybody would need this) I cannot comment on this but mplayer is supposed to do that. His friend should try out FreesBie (live, bootable FreeBSD CD, no HDD install required). It has all of the required equivilents as well as avidemux2 which can do the DVD to AVI from a pointy/clicky window. Dave -- Dave Please address email replies to: [our favourite OS] AT dgmm DOT net For offlist replies please put FreeBSD in the subject line. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Durham Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 8:48 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup? I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about 8 servers in 3 offices across the US and soon to be more. Freebsd-questions is wonderful and I find a lot of answers there, but the signal-to-noise is low when you are just looking for IT-oriented information regarding FreeBSD. Especially regarding systems implemented for an office/LAN environment. I was wondering if there is any mailing list or newsgroup devoted to IT on FreeBSD? Google is not returning any hits on this, nor the listing on freebsd.org. Have you seen my book and website? http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com It is out of print now but still available on Amazon. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kris' World
You know, I've never even seen anyone come close to this absurd display of self-proclaimed godliness. If you have so much clue, please go *FIX* something instead of ranting about it. I also don't know how you manage to change your email adresses, but I'd really like you to get out of my sight. Just like the last four times you've gotten in my killfile, where people that are clearly only posting unconstructively end up. If you don't care whether people do or do not read your messages, please refrain from changing email adresses again. You may be able to *save* some people some grief, instead of causing it. This might appeal to you. I honestly don't know if it does though. --Stijn On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 02:54:53PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:05 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Welcome back to my killfile (although I doubt you'll stay there long because of your desperate need to hear your own voice). Kris Now, I understand his/her/it's words are harsh, but is killing them really a fair alternative? Well, I guess I can see your point. :grabs pitchfork:: Kris is a loser. He ridicules and blocks people because he doesn't have the technical knowledge to address the questions. Im sure he doesn't understand anyway, so who cares if he reads my messages or not? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) pgpAmqu1y6jT4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?
Jim Durham wrote: I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about 8 servers in 3 offices across the US and soon to be more. ... I was wondering if there is any mailing list or newsgroup devoted to IT on FreeBSD? Google is not returning any hits on this, nor the listing on freebsd.org. I'm not really understanding the distinction that you're looking for. For FreeBSD-specific technical discussions, this is the place. Applications of course have their own lists, which are obviously more appropriate for application-specific questions. For broader discussions, perhaps regarding best practices in system administration, commercial backup recommendations, etc, I find SAGE (the System Administrators Guild) to be an extremely valuable resource. The community seems roughly split between the educational and corporate sectors, with a very high level of signal. The topics covered on the SAGE mailing list are of high relevance to the profession and practices of system administrators, especially for someone with a network such as yours. http://www.sage.org Cheers, Sebastian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java plugin
--- Kris Maglione [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm having trouble in getting the java plugin to work with mozilla on FreeBSD 5.3, here what I did: Install jdk13 using the port and then I linksysed /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin.so but unfortunately it still doesn't work. Any ideas as to why? Run mozilla from an xterm and see what output you get. It should tell you why it won't work. Is it listed in about:plugins? No it's not listed there, here's what I get when I run from terminal: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so: Undefined symbol _ZTV16nsQueryInterface] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so: Undefined symbol _ZTV16nsQueryInterface] __ Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem compiling OpenOffice-2.0
I tried compiling openoffice 2.0, everything is going fine until this point: = Building project cli_ure = deliver -- version: 1.77 Statistics: Files copied: 0 Files unchanged/not matching: 7 = Building project bridges = /home/oo.o/work/bridges/unotypes - /home/oo.o/work/bridges/source/cpp_uno/gcc3_freebsd_intel dmake: Error -- `../../../unxfbsd.pro/slb/cpp_uno_shared.lib' not found, and can't be made '---* tg_merge.mk *---' ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /home/oo.o/work/bridges/source/cpp_uno/gcc3_freebsd_intel dmake: Error code 1, while making 'instsetoo_native/prj/build_all' *** Error code 255 Stop in /home/oo.o. PC1# '---* tg_merge.mk *---' I copied /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-2.0-devel/ to /home because of a lack of free hard disk space on / by the way. anyone an Idea what I should do to fix this ? Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Growing out a second head
Hello folks, I am running FBSD 5.3-R amd64 on a AMD 3000+ with a nVidia GeForce Fx 5700LE (256M) card plugged into the AGP slot. Two monitors are fixed to the card. One goes in the normal VGA slot, the other goes into the DVI slot via a VGA-DVI converter. I have been trying to get Xorg running on this setup. However I have not been successful so far. The nvidia driver supports dual headed setups. But it is only limited to the i386 platform. Anyone would please help me out by suggesting how to setup Twinview with the nv driver? Any pointers would be welcome. Thanks and best Regards, S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: Growing out a second head
Hi, On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:06:30AM +0530, Subhro wrote: I am running FBSD 5.3-R amd64 on a AMD 3000+ with a nVidia GeForce Fx 5700LE (256M) card plugged into the AGP slot. Two monitors are fixed to the card. One goes in the normal VGA slot, the other goes into the DVI slot via a VGA-DVI converter. I have been trying to get Xorg running on this setup. However I have not been successful so far. The nvidia driver supports dual headed setups. But it is only limited to the i386 platform. Anyone would please help me out by suggesting how to setup Twinview with the nv driver? Any pointers would be welcome. My experience with setting up a dual-head nVidia FX 5200 last week was that I really needed the binary driver -- the open source 'nv' one just gave me messed up blinking colors on the second head. I don't know if that's really all that is available, just relating my experience here. --Stijn -- If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what the hell was yesterday? pgpry3sTW7drr.pgp Description: PGP signature
FreeBSD 4.9 Still available?
Anyone know where I can grab an iso of 4.9? I need that particular distro for a project that I'm working on. All I see on the mirror sites is 4.10 and up. Help? Thanks! -Jordan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Growing out a second head
-Original Message- From: Stijn Hoop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 2:10 To: Subhro Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Growing out a second head Hi, On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:06:30AM +0530, Subhro wrote: I am running FBSD 5.3-R amd64 on a AMD 3000+ with a nVidia GeForce Fx 5700LE (256M) card plugged into the AGP slot. Two monitors are fixed to the card. One goes in the normal VGA slot, the other goes into the DVI slot via a VGA-DVI converter. I have been trying to get Xorg running on this setup. However I have not been successful so far. The nvidia driver supports dual headed setups. But it is only limited to the i386 platform. Anyone would please help me out by suggesting how to setup Twinview with the nv driver? Any pointers would be welcome. My experience with setting up a dual-head nVidia FX 5200 last week was that I really needed the binary driver -- the open source 'nv' one just gave me messed up blinking colors on the second head. That's precisely the problem a messed up blinking second head :-S. If only nvdia driver team is fast enough to get on with the amd64 edition of nvidia for FreeBSD. They already have the linux editions for both amd64 and IA64 on their page. *sigh* Regards S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: Growing out a second head
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:18:21AM +0530, Subhro wrote: Is your box amd64? Whoops, sorry -- no it's i386 and I planned to put that information in my previous mail also... --Stijn -- From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx pgp2U1gE7DDxV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Cross Compiling
I have compiled a FreeBSD custom kernel for a pc98 arch laptop on my i686 box. I was wondering how I could actually transfer the kernel to floppy so I can load it into my laptop. I tried to copy the kernel folder but it's full of symlinks and doesn't produce an actual kernel for me. is there anyone here who has experience with cross compiling kernels that can help me? I already did make and make depend...of course I can't install it on my i386 box because the architecture is totally different. How do I migrate the kernel ?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
makefile args overrule
Is it possible to *overrule* the arguments from a Makefile in the ports? I know you can add some options in the pkgtools.conf (portupgrade), but I want to disable a lot of options in the Makefile of apache13 because I want to disable a lot of modules. Can I add the options I want to the pkgtools.conf to *overrule* the Makefile? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.10 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilya ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mod_ph4
I just recompiled mod_php4 (4.3.10) for Apache 1.3.x on FreeBSD 4.10R. But all options are gone from the Makefile! It used to be I got this nice menu, giving me every option to compile extra stuff in; but that is completely gone now! How do I get it back?? Thanks, - Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 4.9 Still available?
Okay, nevermind. LinuxISO.org still has 4.9 listed. Jordan Michaels wrote: Anyone know where I can grab an iso of 4.9? I need that particular distro for a project that I'm working on. All I see on the mirror sites is 4.10 and up. Help? Thanks! -Jordan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:50:03 -0800 Sergei Gnezdov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to consider if my friend can migrate from windows. Do you know of a good user friendly alternatives (may be not as powerful)? I might be able to answer most of the items, but I'd like to make sure that I know about the options: Alternatives for: - MS Office XP. I don't think he has very complex documents. Texmacs, OpenOffice, KOffice, or AbiWord should all work nicely. - ACDSE 5.0, Photoshop. I am not convinced that he edits or creates images. GIMP. - WinRAR and WinZIP Several choices under ports/archivers. - WinAMP XMMS or one of the many one in the ports. - Virtual CD - Some kind of CD Burner I suggest a combo of burncd, mkisofs, and mc. It is not really intuitive or whatever at first, but it works rather nice after reading the related mans. If you want something with a more traditional GUI, there are a few in the ports. - Some DVD Player - AC3filter Both MPlayer and Xine should handle AC3 with out problems. - Decoding DVD to AVI (I have no idea why anybody would need this) MPlayer is great for this and there are a few DVD ripping programs in the portstree. Now if there only a nice front end to the win32 port. ^_^ http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:58:41 + Xian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:50, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: snip - WinAMP Xmms (only under FeeSBIE), it even looks and feels like WinAMP I am confused by this comment, I thought it looked like winamp and worked a lot like it under any system it ran on? snip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:32:00 + Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: - Virtual CD don't know this software Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( just like alcohol or deamontools ) you can just mount .iso files with FreeBSD : man mount_cd9660 Last I checked, it required a bit more... you have to use mdconfig to create a device entry in /dev for the file so you can point mount at it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java plugin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 January 2005 21:21, E. J. Cerejo wrote: --- Kris Maglione [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm having trouble in getting the java plugin to work with mozilla on FreeBSD 5.3, here what I did: Install jdk13 using the port and then I linksysed /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin.so but unfortunately it still doesn't work. Any ideas as to why? Run mozilla from an xterm and see what output you get. It should tell you why it won't work. Is it listed in about:plugins? No it's not listed there, here's what I get when I run from terminal: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so: Undefined symbol _ZTV16nsQueryInterface] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so: Undefined symbol _ZTV16nsQueryInterface] This is a known issue. Install jdk-1.4.2 instead of jdk-1.3.1. http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7/known-issues.html#java Cheers, ch - -- Christian Hiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB6Yn109WjGjvKU74RAoCGAJ4tkMR6gwCCvMz6eJNxxCQ8qdy6NACeJ9k2 tdJVL2SxpvFJuvOyXg2xOdY= =wK8t -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make make quieter?
On Jan 15, 2005, at 1:55 AM, Timothy Luoma wrote: -s looks promising (d'oh, checked make.conf settings but not man page... far too late, must sleep) it's still too chatty. Configure makes a lot of noise. Actually the redirect works well, esp. now that someone explained the redirect (new to 'sudo' too) spoke too soon. it didn't work. I think it has something to do with zsh. Anyway, I decided that what I really wanted was a lot of the installs anyway, in some organized fashion, so I made a shell script, which works fine under 'sudo' Here it is in case anyone is curious TjL #!/bin/sh # # the purpose of this script is to suppress the output of # 'make install clean' and to log it to a file # NAME=`basename $0` LOG_DIR=/var/db/installs if [ ! -d $LOG_DIR ] then mkdir -p $LOG_DIR ||\ (echo $NAME: FATAL cannot find or create $LOG_DIR exit 1) fi PWD_SAFE=`echo $PWD | sed 's#/#.#g; s#^.##g'` INSTALL_LOG=$LOG_DIR/$PWD_SAFE # we touch the log. if it already exists, we don't care, we'll just append to it touch $INSTALL_LOG echo --- $NAME: BEGINNING log of make install clean from $PWD which started at `date` $INSTALL_LOG (make install clean 21) $INSTALL_LOG EXITCODE=$? echo $NAME: END log of make install clean from $PWD which finished at `date` $INSTALL_LOG if [ $EXITCODE = 0 ] then echo $0: make install clean done from $PWD, logged to $INSTALL_LOG else echo -n NOTE: 'make install clean' finished in $PWD Logged to $INSTALL_LOG DID NOT EXIT CLEANLY: $EXITCODE fi exit 0 # EOF ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 4.9 Still available?
At 14:45 1/15/2005, Jordan Michaels wrote: Anyone know where I can grab an iso of 4.9? I need that particular distro for a project that I'm working on. All I see on the mirror sites is 4.10 and up. Help? ftp://ftp4.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE OR: http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php More info: http://www.US-Webmasters.com/FreeBSD/Install/ Start Here to Find It Fast! - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 4.9 Still available?
On Jan 15, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Jordan Michaels wrote: Anyone know where I can grab an iso of 4.9? I need that particular distro for a project that I'm working on. All I see on the mirror sites is 4.10 and up. Help? Google + freebsd 4.9 iso gave me http://mirror.lnnu.edu.cn/01.ISO/08.bsd/0.FreeBSD/4.9/ about 3 hits from the top TjL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDM, KDE 3.3 and xmodmap
Does anyone know how to configure KDM or KDE so that is uses xmodmap? The configuration is pretty much out of the box, 5.3. For some reason using custom from the KDM menu with .xsession: #!/bin/sh xmodmap -e 'keycode 203=F13' exec startkde Does start kde but ignores the xmodmap entry. If i do 'sh .xsession' after login xmodmap is processed and I get a message KDE is already running :-) Thanks, Maarten ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmirror problem on 5.3-R i386
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 03:40:40PM -0500, dave wrote: Hi, Wondering if you ever got a fix for this issue? I'm doing an identical action. Yes, I did fix it. My detailed explaination was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check it out: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/5a74c8f3573d7b9f/27e9c8b078e4755a?q=gmirror+i386_done=%2Fgroup%2Fmailing.freebsd.questions%2Fsearch%3Fgroup%3Dmailing.freebsd.questions%26q%3Dgmirror+i386%26qt_g%3D1%26searchnow%3DSearch+this+group%26_doneTitle=Back+to+Searchd#27e9c8b078e4755a Good luck, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: mod_ph4
-Original Message- From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zaterdag 15 januari 2005 22:12 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mod_ph4 I just recompiled mod_php4 (4.3.10) for Apache 1.3.x on FreeBSD 4.10R. But all options are gone from the Makefile! It used to be I got this nice menu, giving me every option to compile extra stuff in; but that is completely gone now! How do I get it back?? Ok, I found /ports/lang/php4-extensions. Great! Except, it will not compile anything! How do I get this meta thingy to compile at all? Sigh. The old php4 install was working just fine; now it is all messed up. :( - Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mod_ph4
did you type 'make config' just within the /ports/lang/php4-extensions directory? You should get a menu where you can select/deselect various compile options ... Mark schrieb: -Original Message- From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zaterdag 15 januari 2005 22:12 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mod_ph4 I just recompiled mod_php4 (4.3.10) for Apache 1.3.x on FreeBSD 4.10R. But all options are gone from the Makefile! It used to be I got this nice menu, giving me every option to compile extra stuff in; but that is completely gone now! How do I get it back?? Ok, I found /ports/lang/php4-extensions. Great! Except, it will not compile anything! How do I get this meta thingy to compile at all? Sigh. The old php4 install was working just fine; now it is all messed up. :( - Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:41e995ae41286937921216! -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Daniel S. Haischt Wan't a complete signature??? Type at a shell prompt: $ finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend
Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( just like alcohol or deamontools ) you can just mount .iso files with FreeBSD : man mount_cd9660 You can't directly mount iso files, you need to vn/mdconfig them first. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: mod_ph4
-Original Message- From: Daniel S. Haischt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zaterdag 15 januari 2005 23:27 To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mod_ph4 did you type 'make config' just within the /ports/lang/php4-extensions directory? You should get a menu where you can select/deselect various compile options ... Yes, I did that. After I selected the options, the make just exits, but does not start a compile. :( - Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mod_ph4
This is the complete sequence: make config make install (dist)clean Did you type make install etc. after make config? I did install php5 the same way and it should work. Mark schrieb: -Original Message- From: Daniel S. Haischt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zaterdag 15 januari 2005 23:27 To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mod_ph4 did you type 'make config' just within the /ports/lang/php4-extensions directory? You should get a menu where you can select/deselect various compile options ... Yes, I did that. After I selected the options, the make just exits, but does not start a compile. :( - Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:41e99d22196103295897930! -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Daniel S. Haischt Wan't a complete signature??? Type at a shell prompt: $ finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: mod_ph4
-Original Message- From: Daniel S. Haischt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zaterdag 15 januari 2005 23:48 To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mod_ph4 This is the complete sequence: make config make install (dist)clean Did you type make install etc. after make config? Yes, I did all those things; but I get errors all over the place: - % make install === Installing for php4-extensions-1.0 === php4-extensions-1.0 depends on file: /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h - found === php4-extensions-1.0 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/bz2.so - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/bz2.so in /usr/ports/archivers/php4-bz2 === Vulnerability check disabled === Extracting for php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 Checksum OK for php-4.3.10.tar.bz2. === Patching for php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on executable: phpize - found === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/automake - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/automake in /usr/ports/devel/automake No directory for /usr/local/bin/automake. Skipping.. === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/autoconf in /usr/ports/devel/autoconf No directory for /usr/local/bin/autoconf. Skipping.. === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on file: /usr/local/libexec/libtool13/libtool - found === PHPizing for php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 aclocal15: not found *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/php4-bz2. *** Error code 1 - Thanks, - Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mod_ph4
First of all check whether automake/autoconf are in your PATH. e.g. # which automake # which automake If you are getting no results check whether autoconf/automake are installed: # pkg_info | grep autoconf # pkg_info | grep automake Also check your PATH variable ... # env | grep PATH /usr/local/bin should contained in your PATH variable. Mark schrieb: -Original Message- From: Daniel S. Haischt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zaterdag 15 januari 2005 23:48 To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mod_ph4 This is the complete sequence: make config make install (dist)clean Did you type make install etc. after make config? Yes, I did all those things; but I get errors all over the place: - % make install === Installing for php4-extensions-1.0 === php4-extensions-1.0 depends on file: /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h - found === php4-extensions-1.0 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/bz2.so - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/bz2.so in /usr/ports/archivers/php4-bz2 === Vulnerability check disabled === Extracting for php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 Checksum OK for php-4.3.10.tar.bz2. === Patching for php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on executable: phpize - found === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/automake - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/automake in /usr/ports/devel/automake No directory for /usr/local/bin/automake. Skipping.. === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/autoconf in /usr/ports/devel/autoconf No directory for /usr/local/bin/autoconf. Skipping.. === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on file: /usr/local/libexec/libtool13/libtool - found === PHPizing for php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 aclocal15: not found *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/php4-bz2. *** Error code 1 - Thanks, - Mark !DSPAM:41e9a042259954368969750! -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Daniel S. Haischt Wan't a complete signature??? Type at a shell prompt: $ finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mod_ph4
btw, try to install the autoconf/automake ports first before php4. Is this your first port that you are installing on your system? I am wondering because the auto tools are missing ... Daniel S. Haischt schrieb: First of all check whether automake/autoconf are in your PATH. e.g. # which automake # which automake If you are getting no results check whether autoconf/automake are installed: # pkg_info | grep autoconf # pkg_info | grep automake Also check your PATH variable ... # env | grep PATH /usr/local/bin should contained in your PATH variable. Mark schrieb: -Original Message- From: Daniel S. Haischt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zaterdag 15 januari 2005 23:48 To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mod_ph4 This is the complete sequence: make config make install (dist)clean Did you type make install etc. after make config? Yes, I did all those things; but I get errors all over the place: - % make install === Installing for php4-extensions-1.0 === php4-extensions-1.0 depends on file: /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h - found === php4-extensions-1.0 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/bz2.so - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/bz2.so in /usr/ports/archivers/php4-bz2 === Vulnerability check disabled === Extracting for php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 Checksum OK for php-4.3.10.tar.bz2. === Patching for php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on executable: phpize - found === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/automake - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/automake in /usr/ports/devel/automake No directory for /usr/local/bin/automake. Skipping.. === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/autoconf in /usr/ports/devel/autoconf No directory for /usr/local/bin/autoconf. Skipping.. === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on file: /usr/local/libexec/libtool13/libtool - found === PHPizing for php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 aclocal15: not found *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/php4-bz2. *** Error code 1 - Thanks, - Mark -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Daniel S. Haischt Wan't a complete signature??? Type at a shell prompt: $ finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: mod_ph4
-Original Message- From: Daniel S. Haischt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zondag 16 januari 2005 0:10 To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mod_ph4 btw, try to install the autoconf/automake ports first before php4. Is this your first port that you are installing on your system? I am wondering because the auto tools are missing ... Nope, installed zillion of packages. :) automake + autoconf indeed seem to be missing. Or rather, they are in different locations (like /usr/local/libexec/autoconf259/autoconf). Ok, so I made a few symlinks, and now I get this: % make install === Vulnerability check disabled === Found saved configuration for php4-extensions-1.0 === Extracting for php4-extensions-1.0 === Patching for php4-extensions-1.0 === Configuring for php4-extensions-1.0 === Installing for php4-extensions-1.0 === php4-extensions-1.0 depends on file: /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h - found === php4-extensions-1.0 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/bz2.so - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/bz2.so in /usr/ports/archivers/php4-bz2 === Vulnerability check disabled === Extracting for php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 Checksum OK for php-4.3.10.tar.bz2. === Patching for php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on executable: phpize - found === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/automake - found === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf - found === php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 depends on file: /usr/local/libexec/libtool13/libtool - found === PHPizing for php4-bz2-4.3.10_1 aclocal15: not found *** Error code 1 Stop in /backup/ports/archivers/php4-bz2. *** Error code 1 Stop in /backup/ports/lang/php4-extensions. Thanks, - Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS file locking
Bryce Kahle wrote: I've been researching NFS and its file locking capabilities on FreeBSD and I can't seem to find the answer to my question, so I thought I would ask it here. In this document http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.h tml#NETWORK-CONFIGURATION-CONT It mentions this: The next option listed here is the rpc.lockd option, which, when selected, will provide file locking services. This is usually used with rpc.statd to monitor what hosts are requesting locks and how frequently they request them. While these last two options are marvelous for debugging, they are not required for NFS servers and clients to operate correctly. Is rpc.lockd required for fcntl() style locking to work correctly? NFS in it self does not provide any filelocking mechanisms. Your only option is to rely on lockd. lockd needs statd to start correctly. I think that lockd makes filelocking work among other nfs clients but I don't know if the server will respect this kind of filelocking or if it is interpreted as fcntl style locking. I hope this answers half your question :-) cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network monitoring software
Try: systat -if for a start, regards, Alex. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya folks, I'm looking for some network monitoring software. I've tried zabbix and jffnms but neither of them functioned after being configured or installing. If anybody has any success stories I would like to hear about any of them so I can look at other packages in ports net and net-mgmt. Thanks. ~Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: this IMAP stuff is kicking my @$$...
On Jan 15, 2005, at 7:06 PM, albi wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: hi, afair squirrelmail depends on Maildir-format mailboxes if you really want to use the UW-imap (i don't, i'm happily using courier-imap and squirrelmail since years), then try a webmail solution that works with mbox-format, i think neomail and openwebmail are some alternatives Actually, I believe squirrelmail just depends on an imap server. first i thought you were right, and i though i'm some years behind (i read that squirrelmail depended on imap some years ago), maybe squirrelmail has changed, i looked up the requirements on the squirrelmail-page and saw that you were right, uw-imap is in the list of required imap-servers, however, i just read that uw-imap can do imap, and ... i know that converting mbox to maildir can be a lot of work, but if i were you i would test with a mbox-based webmail-solution, or... simply try the imap directly with a mailclient which supports imap and/or imap-ssl I don't think it cares what (imap-uw is supported). My issue resides with the plain-text password issue. As per instructions, I've recompiled imap-uw to allow plain-text, or so I thought, and I still get the errors. I followed these instructions: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/UWLoginDisabled and I'm concerned with these messages in /var/log/auth.log: Jan 14 20:15:20 grog imapd[19134]: Login disabled user=user auth=user host=localhost [127.0.0.1] i have no idea, but i know one thing for sure, the error-message is -not - always showing the exact error error-messages are limited to what the programmer(s) made it to act like for example, i'm setting up a ftp-server, and in a bootup-script i had chmod 700 /home/ and i set /home/ftp to be the ftp-server base-dir from the log-files i could not find out that the permissions where wrong, it simply showed login-errors, and gave time-outs do you get my point ? i'm trying to say that perhaps squirrelmail still demands a maildir-based imap-server (i don't know whether that's true, google could not give me an answer to that within a reasonable time) anyway, i hope you get it working soonish! good luck! ciao, albi Actually, I know the error is correct. Actually, I know what I need to do to fix this problem, it's just not working for me... I've posted a couple links that direct me in various ways regarding this error, but my server won't accept plain-text logins. Can't figure out how to get it to do so. thanks for your help ___ Eric F Crist I am so smart, S.M.R.T! Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Network monitoring software
On Jan 15, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Nagilum wrote: Try: systat -if for a start, regards, Alex. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya folks, I'm looking for some network monitoring software. I've tried zabbix and jffnms but neither of them functioned after being configured or installing. If anybody has any success stories I would like to hear about any of them so I can look at other packages in ports net and net-mgmt. Thanks. ~Kris Kris, You aren't being very specific as to what type of monitoring you want to do. There are utilities out there such as portsentry which monitor for specific types of activity, and utilities like ethereal that sniff network packets. Perhaps more information from you would be beneficial. ___ Eric F Crist I am so smart, S.M.R.T! Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
I need a cuppa...
OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ, and looked in the Handbook, and I've gone through my copy of the latest edition of _The Complete FreeBSD_, but I simply do NOT get how to get Java support for FreeBSD. I don't need the JDK, unless that's the only way to get a viable JRE. Can someone point me in the right direction??? -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED (was RE: mod_ph4)
-Original Message- From: Daniel S. Haischt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zondag 16 januari 2005 0:10 To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mod_ph4 btw, try to install the autoconf/automake ports first before php4. All is well again. :) For some bizarre reason my bsd.port.mk had become corrupted. No wonder nothing worked. Now everything compiled smoothly again. :) Thanks for the help, - Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Out of the frying pan...
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:34:26PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 14 January 2005 02:12 pm, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:32:03PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 14 January 2005 12:23 pm, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: Hello, Andrew L. Gould wrote: 3. Definitely go with a clean installation of FreeBSD 5.3 rather than 5.2.1. Just a sidenote, I did a source upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3, which basically worked okay. Switching from XFree to X.org was really troublesome, on the other hand... Yes, I would say that the source upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3-STABLE was fine, it was the xorg/XFree86 and kde issues that made me insane. It's possible that I should have just done a pkg_delete -a and started over with the packages from that point, but I also need to learn to use pkg_upgrade. I would not hesitate to do the source upgrade again for a system which is NOT running X. I have now reinstalled 5.3, just to get around the Xorg-XFree86 issue, and I have kde installed, and I have room to spare. So, I'm much farther than I was when I ran out of room, and I still have room. This is a good thing! Yes it is! (...and speaking as someone who is typing with 2 fractured wrists, all good news is welcome!) Oh, no! I'd ask what happened, but I'll wait until you're healed up... Indoor soccer injury -- the floor is concrete. I hope you have lots of fun and joy with your system before the next challenge (which we will gladly participate in) ! OK, well, it seems I spoke just a little bit too soon. Or, maybe I'm OK, but just worried. I downloaded and burned an ISO 5.3 CD. I did a minimal install, NFS mounted all the 5-stable packages I kept from the last time around (I'm not a COMPLETE idiot!) and simply did a pkg_add kde-lite*. That got me a long, long ways. I also needed to do a pkg_add xorg-server* but I think nearly everything else got loaded up. I was in great shape in terms of disk footprint and everything else I can tell from here. Now, at this point, I'm running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, but I've installed packages from FreeBSD 5-STABLE, but if my understanding is correct, that should be OK. This is the point at which things got interesting. I did the pkg_add for OOo - and found that I was missing four dependent packages. As luck would have it, all four of them have been updated since I started this process, so I downloaded and installed the newer revv'ed ones, but I got an error message that something (I wished I'd trapped the output) wanted libm.so.2. When I look around, I find that I have libm.so.3. The four packages were atk, pango, shared-mime-info, and gtk-2. I think one of the post-install scripts complained that it couldn't run something, Am I preparing trouble, or am I OK? Despite the warning, everything seems to be installing. Obviously, I wasn't able to install the newer packages as dependencies, but after installing them by hand, the things on which they depended seem to be installing OK, though with warnings. Anyway, I have everything installed, (except maybe a JDK - any suggestions?) and I'm at 80% in my combined root /usr partition, which feels a little tighter than I would like, but I do still have 270Mb free, so that's not too bad - that's larger than my first FreeBSD hard drive! :) OO just finished. Other than 16 packages that are newer than expected, it seems to have installed. I'm not actually with the machine, so I can't start X and kde and try it. Am I OK, or should I start over and redo something? If the package finished installing, everything may be okay (no guarantees). Create a list of frequent tasks in OpenOffice; and run OpenOffice through its paces. YIPPEE!!! Two more hurdles cleared, and I'm up and running! I learned two lessons: 1) Don't depend on dependencies 2) startx is still your friend With the first one, I was having X mess up my screen completely, and not having it be restored when I tried to return to my virtual terminal on doing an X -configure xorg.config.new. Checking the log files revealed that the there mkfontdir wasn't loaded. I had done a pkg_add kde-lite* and expected it to take care of all the dependencies. That was not the case. Parts of x.org were loaded, but not all of it. That was quickly corrected by doing a pkg_add xord-6.8* of the meta package to get the rest of the pieces. The next one was really strange. kde would start, but in the middle of initializing, it would simply go away. Using startx to get things rolling, I captured the error message. Somehow, /tmp/.ICE was owned by my personal uid rather than root, which kde found unacceptable. Not sure how that happened. I certainly didn't create it by hand. I may have installed the package
Hardware assembly
hi everyone, i need low level hardware control over some devices (kbd, sound, display) in an assembly soft, and 'd like to know where i can find a list of ioctl_syscall supported parameters for each device. Furthermore, if someone knows some good (more complete than developpers-handbook) gas doc/sources, it would be a great help for me. Thanks a lot. _ MSN Messenger : discutez en direct avec vos amis ! http://www.msn.fr/msger/default.asp ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware assembly
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 03:28:18AM +, Street Chaman wrote: hi everyone, i need low level hardware control over some devices (kbd, sound, display) in an assembly soft, and 'd like to know where i can find a list of ioctl_syscall supported parameters for each device. Furthermore, if someone knows some good (more complete than developpers-handbook) gas doc/sources, it would be a great help for me. Well, Street, some may call this cheating, but it is probably worth your while to try it this way. Create empty routines in C to get your calling sequences down, then use the compiler to create the linkages for you (see the -S option). Then you can concentrate on your functionality, rather than trying to do the stack work that you need. If you are actually making ioctl or syscalls, then write the C for the ioctl into your framework and, again, let the compiler generate the linkages. If you actually want to make the syscalls directly, you should dig out the assembler source from the system sources of the libraries and use them as a template - just beware, the syscalls can CHANGE, which is one reason we always rebuild the world with the kernel. Part of the reason for using the standard libraries is to put a layer of abstraction between you and the basic OS calling sequence. Just my $0.02. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install samba with outdated port
Marty Landman wrote: I gather that my samba port is too old. How can I do the make build make install using the latest version. You have three decent options: 1: CVSup your entire ports tree 2: CVS checkout just that port 3: Download that port as a tarball For three, you can find if at http://www.freebsd.org/ports Search for Samba and click the download link. Then, unzip in place of the previous samba directory. You can also try to cheat by editing the distinfo file and renaming the file to the version that you have, and editing the Makefile to that version too, but that's a bad idea, since any patches to the port are for the previous version. Sometimes, though, things like this are necessary for certain abandoned ports. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: makefile args overrule
dick hoogendijk wrote: Is it possible to *overrule* the arguments from a Makefile in the ports? I know you can add some options in the pkgtools.conf (portupgrade), but I want to disable a lot of options in the Makefile of apache13 because I want to disable a lot of modules. Can I add the options I want to the pkgtools.conf to *overrule* the Makefile? When you get a menu prompt to select options, all that it does is set make variables. You can see them in the /var/db/port/options file, or you can see what they are in the Makefile. Either way, you can specify them on the command line as var=value (usually YES/NO) or in pkgtools.conf the same way. You're probably better off editing the options file or removing it and running make config on the port. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Printer fails to work after upgrade to 5.3
I have a Cannon S520 printer that I had working under 5.2.1 using cups with KDE as a graphical interface. After upgrading I have not been able to get it to print. I get no error messages when I send a document to print. Even test prints bring back a message stating the test print was successfull, however the printer does not respond. I double checked my packages in case I deleted any. Ghostscrip-gnu-nox11 is still installed as well as cups. I still have a symbolic link from cups.sh.sample to cups.sh in the ~/etc/rc.d directory. The /etc/make.conf file still has CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes and NO_LPR=yes in it. The corresponding lp commands in /usr/bin are symbolicly linked to their counterparts in /usr/local/bin/lp. Is there something basic that I have missed or a change which needs to be added? I have created the libmap.conf file to adjust the different threading libraries. What would I need to do to try to get an error message via the command line? I'm a newbie, when I first set up the printer under 5.2.1, I followed some basic set up instructions and the KDE graphical interface took right off without problems. So I never really learned anything. :-) Any assistance will be appreciated! Ned ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printer fails to work after upgrade to 5.3
Fo you have cups-pstoraster? Also, have you tried gimp-print? The drivers are excellent and work extremely well with cups, especially when you use something like kprinter --stdin instead of lpr. That way, you have a ton of configuration options that you can easily change for each file that you print. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: I need a cuppa...
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote: OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ, and looked in the Handbook, and I've gone through my copy of the latest edition of _The Complete FreeBSD_, but I simply do NOT get how to get Java support for FreeBSD. I don't need the JDK, unless that's the only way to get a viable JRE. You can't get a separate 1.4+ JRE for FreeBSD, you need to install the JDK; the JDK is available as a port in java/jdk14. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need a cuppa...
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote: OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ, and looked in the Handbook, and I've gone through my copy of the latest edition of _The Complete FreeBSD_, but I simply do NOT get how to get Java support for FreeBSD. I don't need the JDK, unless that's the only way to get a viable JRE. You can't get a separate 1.4+ JRE for FreeBSD, you need to install the JDK; the JDK is available as a port in java/jdk14. Cheers. But make sure you have linprocfs mounted before you try to build it (and obviously linux emulation). PS- Linux emulation is for bootstrapping purposes. java/jdk14 requires java/linux-sun-jdk14 to compile, afterwards java/linux-sun-jdk14 can be safely removed. -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need a cuppa...
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote: OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ, and looked in the Handbook, and I've gone through my copy of the latest edition of _The Complete FreeBSD_, but I simply do NOT get how to get Java support for FreeBSD. I don't need the JDK, unless that's the only way to get a viable JRE. You can't get a separate 1.4+ JRE for FreeBSD, you need to install the JDK; the JDK is available as a port in java/jdk14. Cheers. But make sure you have linprocfs mounted before you try to build it (and obviously linux emulation). PS- Linux emulation is for bootstrapping purposes. java/jdk14 requires java/linux-sun-jdk14 to compile, afterwards java/linux-sun-jdk14 can be safely removed. Oh, my word! They don't make this easy, do they??? -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Out of the frying pan...
On Saturday 15 January 2005 07:23 pm, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and figure out WHAT is going on with Konqueror. On some web sites, it is just fine and dandy, but on other web sites, it just is GLACIAL. I'm talking about MINUTES to render a page. The CPU isn't busy, there's no IO going on - I have NO IDEA what it is waiting for. It's so bad, it stretches credibility. Then, as I said, on other web sites, it's just fine. Sometimes is stops with 94% loaded and just waits a couple minutes - sometimes it pauses with like 12 out of 19 image loaded, and sometimes it pauses just as soon as it resolves the new URL and connects to the server. VERY odd. Well, it just told you what's happening. It's waiting to load some images and the page won't render until it happens. IIRC, this happens because of image tags without size parameters, though I'm not entirely sure about that, but the upshot is that the browser doesn't know what the whole page will look like until an image downloads, as there are often page elements which depend on the placement of other elements to determine their own placement. However, AFAIK this is also considered a bug, because Konqueror doesn't handle this issue gracefully, so (again AFAIR) this is something that the KDE project is working to correct. I seem to remember something about this waiting until KDE version 4, however. I don't speak for them, so apologies if this isn't entirely correct. So - now back to where things were before my fatal load of Win 98. 1) Figure out Sound FreeBSD 2) Figure out browers and Plugins for FreeBSD 3) Try to get some of apm/acpi working 4) Figure out WHY the system won't recognize (not even IDENTIFY) a CD in my laptop multi-bay Have you tried mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom You've probably been through that, but can't hurt to mention it. BTW, most of this stuff is covered extensively in the handbook, but unfortunately I've never had much luck with ACPI, mostly due to my hardware. Those were all issues before my switch to 5.3. I have a functional laptop again! YAY! Thanks to all, especially you, Andrew, typing with your poor wrists! It sounds like so far so good. I know the feeling. - jt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Out of the frying pan...
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:47:13PM -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 07:23 pm, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and figure out WHAT is going on with Konqueror. On some web sites, it is just fine and dandy, but on other web sites, it just is GLACIAL. I'm talking about MINUTES to render a page. The CPU isn't busy, there's no IO going on - I have NO IDEA what it is waiting for. It's so bad, it stretches credibility. Then, as I said, on other web sites, it's just fine. Sometimes is stops with 94% loaded and just waits a couple minutes - sometimes it pauses with like 12 out of 19 image loaded, and sometimes it pauses just as soon as it resolves the new URL and connects to the server. VERY odd. Well, it just told you what's happening. It's waiting to load some images and the page won't render until it happens. IIRC, this happens because of image tags without size parameters, though I'm not entirely Thanks for your response, Joshua! Well, your answer is very reasonable given the information I supplied, but it is not what's happening. I can have my Windoze work-owned laptop next to it on the table, and it will load up these pages in a snap. Konqueror isn't getting any data - it sits there with nothing happening - no data coming across the network. sure about that, but the upshot is that the browser doesn't know what the whole page will look like until an image downloads, as there are often page elements which depend on the placement of other elements to determine their own placement. However, AFAIK this is also considered a bug, because Konqueror doesn't handle this issue gracefully, so (again AFAIR) this is something that the KDE project is working to correct. I seem to remember something about this waiting until KDE version 4, however. I don't speak for them, so apologies if this isn't entirely correct. So - now back to where things were before my fatal load of Win 98. 1) Figure out Sound FreeBSD 2) Figure out browers and Plugins for FreeBSD 3) Try to get some of apm/acpi working 4) Figure out WHY the system won't recognize (not even IDENTIFY) a CD in my laptop multi-bay Have you tried mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom Oh, yeah - it's not in dmesgs. 4.x used to at least have an atapi-slave ID timeout, but this doesn't even do that - the kernel just pauses and goes on without any message. It's pretty bizarre - 4.x would boot and actually INSTALL from the CD, but when you booted from the hard drive, I'd get the ID timeout message. 5.x boots from the CD, but then can't even install from it. I boot the CD, then eject it, bring it to another system, and NFS mount it to complete the installation. Kludgy, but it works. OK when I'm at home with the other systems, but not much good when I'm traveling with the laptop... ;) You've probably been through that, but can't hurt to mention it. I appreciate thoroughness. BTW, most of this stuff is covered extensively in the handbook, but unfortunately I've never had much luck with ACPI, mostly due to my hardware. Yup - I was just making a little to do list, in case anyone had any caveats to yell out. I've already heard from the folks on the ACPI list - I have some to do's to try. Those were all issues before my switch to 5.3. I have a functional laptop again! YAY! Thanks to all, especially you, Andrew, typing with your poor wrists! It sounds like so far so good. I know the feeling. - jt -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DEVICE_POLLING vs. SMP kernels
I am contemplating using the DEVICE_POLLING kernel option with an fxp NIC on FreeBSD 5.3 using an SMP kernel. /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_poll.c clearly states that DEVICE_POLLING is incompatible with SNP kernels: #ifdef SMP #ifndef COMPILING_LINT #error DEVICE_POLLING is not compatible with SMP #endif #endif Yet there are various performance tuning FAQs floating around the Net stating that DEVICE_POLLING will work just fine with SMP kernels and that the user can safely delete the above section from kern_poll.c This may well be the case, but if this is true, why wouldn't that section have been removed from kern_poll.c by now? What are the corner cases, if any, that an admin should be aware of that keep this error message in the code? TIA, -- Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP encrypted email preferred. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need a cuppa...
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:34:04PM -0600, John wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote: OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ, and looked in the Handbook, and I've gone through my copy of the latest edition of _The Complete FreeBSD_, but I simply do NOT get how to get Java support for FreeBSD. I don't need the JDK, unless that's the only way to get a viable JRE. You can't get a separate 1.4+ JRE for FreeBSD, you need to install the JDK; the JDK is available as a port in java/jdk14. Cheers. But make sure you have linprocfs mounted before you try to build it (and obviously linux emulation). PS- Linux emulation is for bootstrapping purposes. java/jdk14 requires java/linux-sun-jdk14 to compile, afterwards java/linux-sun-jdk14 can be safely removed. Oh, my word! They don't make this easy, do they??? Blame Sun; they don't make it easy for organizations like FreeBSD to release a binary version of Java. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I don't want to achive immortality through my works.. I want to achieve it through not dying - Woody Allen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
