Re: why I am upset
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:02 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: There can be a tremendous investment of time in using software, whether free or not. Money too, often. Those who work to write, port, and support free software also spend a tremendous amount of time in doing that. Money too, often. So both parties have a large investment, and it's easy but counterproductive to get emotional about it. Take a deep breath, be polite, and try to appreciate the other guy's problems. Otherwise it just ends up creating more problems, and there are already enough. Warren makes a great point. In years past Greg Lehey used to post, How to ask a question, or something similar. Its worth resurrecting that. As I recall, the major points were: Nobody here is getting paid to do this; there are a great number of people with a wealth of information willing to help; and, its up to the one asking the question to do it in such a way as to peak someones interest. Just to add to this: even though the original question was asked with frustration and vitriol, people on the list shouldn't respond in such juvenile and inappropriate ways as people did earlier in this thread. The level of discourse on all the other lists is very high. Unfortunately, the level of discourse on this list when someone approaches the list poorly is also just as poor. The type of people who gave nasty or derisive responses in this thread are the ones that give the FreeBSD community a bad name. I'm sure all your mothers told you at one time or another: If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. Also, pique, from French: to prick or stimulate. From an earlier post: On 05/26/2012 05:40 PM, Franci Nabalanci wrote: I did use portmaster for KDE 4.8 update and it stopped: The devel/kdebindings4-python port has been deleted: kdebindings ports have been refactored. Update aborted. And I don't know how to save a problem. If it is repeatable, re-do the operation with: script error.log the-original-command I use [and love] FreeBSD as a workstation because: I get better performance with hardware that I would otherwise throw away. I am sure of this because no charity will take anything I am done with. I assume all on this list use FreeBSD for similar or their own reasons. Hence the 'captain obvious statement', the FreeBSD sucks threads tend to degrade in direct proportion to their length. When things go wrong with upgrading a workstation port tree they can [often??] go really badly. A couple of tools and/or techniques can help: pkg_cleanup, pkg_tree, the pkg port to revert a port to a previous level. Check out anything named pkg_ in the port collection. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?
Does anyone know if the irc/inspircd port for FreeBSD works?I have tried it on an FBSD 9 server, as well as an older version of the FreeBSD with the same results. If I try and run make the build the port, I get the following error: # make === Building for inspircd-2.0.5 make: cannot open BSDmakefile. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/irc/inspircd. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/irc/inspircd. # I figure maybe someone has gotten this to build, so figured I would toss it out here as using my googlefu I found years ago someone posting the same problem, but never found any resolution. Any ideas, as I would like to check out this software... --- Howard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?
On Mon, 28 May 2012 04:30:14 -0400, Howard Leadmon wrote: Does anyone know if the irc/inspircd port for FreeBSD works?I have tried it on an FBSD 9 server, as well as an older version of the FreeBSD with the same results. If I try and run make the build the port, I get the following error: # make === Building for inspircd-2.0.5 make: cannot open BSDmakefile. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/irc/inspircd. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/irc/inspircd. # I figure maybe someone has gotten this to build, so figured I would toss it out here as using my googlefu I found years ago someone posting the same problem, but never found any resolution. Just tried very carefully, all steps seem to work fine (OS 8.2-STABLE/x86 of August 2011 here, ports tree not fully up to date, so port version is just 2.0.2): # make config # make fetch # make extract # make I interrupted the make stage as everything seemed to compile normally. As I said, the installation here is already a bit old, but I hesitate to update anything because, you know, never touch a running system. :-) Make sure your ports tree is okay. The file mentioned in the error message should be extracted intowork/: /usr/ports/irc/inspircd/work/InspIRCd-2.0.2/BSDmakefile. Do a make clean before you try again. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cloud software ?
On Fri, 25 May 2012 10:11:21 +0200 Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote: More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Personnal PC, Mac, smartphones and tablets ... etc ) Unless you are telling us what in detail you like to offer to you people, a ssh-account at a server will allow all this. Cheers, Frank -- Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de pgpXeuq5W9CTN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [ports] why no libXXX after make install of libXXX?
2012-05-27 01:17, Gary Aitken skrev: On 05/26/12 14:03, Gary Aitken wrote: I'm trying to install audacious, which depends on libmowgli. The port fails to build because of a missing library. Shouldn't the build of a library result in the library being placed in /usr/local/lib? I notice that /var/db/pkg/libmowgli-1.0.0/+CONTENTS and similar files for a few other packages shows files which don't exist: @comment PKG_FORMAT_REVISION:1.1 @name libmowgli-1.0.0 @comment ORIGIN:devel/libmowgli @cwd /usr/local ... lib/libmowgli.so It's a link. lib/libmowgli.so.2 So is this one. lib/libmowgli.so.2.0.0 Links to this file. I had no problems building devel/libmowgli lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel18 28 Maj 12:38 libmowgli.so - libmowgli.so.2.0.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel18 28 Maj 12:38 libmowgli.so.2 - libmowgli.so.2.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 88546 28 Maj 12:38 libmowgli.so.2.0.0 I think this is a screwed up situation; there are no libmowgli files in /usr/local/lib What's the best way to recover from it if so? Try pkg_add -r libmowgli ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
sendmail, masquerading, exposed root?
I've a problem with sendmail setup, for which I have no satisfactory solution. I've several hosts, all on the university network. I'd like to forward all root's mail from all these hosts to my personal email. The problem seems to be with the From field. If I leave the root exposed, the From field looks e.g. r...@mech-anton240.men.bris.ac.uk, which is rejected by the university mailer, because it has no knowledge of this address. The only solution I've found is not to expose root, and then masquerade all From to @bris.ac.uk, which is acceptable, but then I get root mail from all my hosts always originating at r...@bris.ac.uk, so I have trouble distinguishing between individual hosts. I solve this by setting the hostname in the subject like. But I'm mostly worried about not exposing root. Plus the network people hate to see r...@bris.ac.uk anywhere on the network. Can anybody suggest a better solution? Thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?
I just took a look and granted I was on version 2.0.5 (I am also on amd64, so not x86) and there is no /usr/ports/irc/inspircd/work/InspIRCd-2.0.2/BSDmakefile present at that path. So I then went to the inspircd.org site and downloaded both the 2.0.5 and 2.0.2 archives, and again I see no BSDmakefile. Is there some command that is called, or something performed that creates this BSDmakefile?? If so, maybe on amd64 this isn't working. --- Howard -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 4:46 AM To: Howard Leadmon Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues? On Mon, 28 May 2012 04:30:14 -0400, Howard Leadmon wrote: Does anyone know if the irc/inspircd port for FreeBSD works?I have tried it on an FBSD 9 server, as well as an older version of the FreeBSD with the same results. If I try and run make the build the port, I get the following error: # make === Building for inspircd-2.0.5 make: cannot open BSDmakefile. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/irc/inspircd. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/irc/inspircd. # I figure maybe someone has gotten this to build, so figured I would toss it out here as using my googlefu I found years ago someone posting the same problem, but never found any resolution. Just tried very carefully, all steps seem to work fine (OS 8.2-STABLE/x86 of August 2011 here, ports tree not fully up to date, so port version is just 2.0.2): # make config # make fetch # make extract # make I interrupted the make stage as everything seemed to compile normally. As I said, the installation here is already a bit old, but I hesitate to update anything because, you know, never touch a running system. :-) Make sure your ports tree is okay. The file mentioned in the error message should be extracted intowork/: /usr/ports/irc/inspircd/work/InspIRCd-2.0.2/BSDmakefile. Do a make clean before you try again. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Working and Supported SCSI Controller
I haven't looked into that topic for a long time, but in the past, I've had _no_ problems using Ataptec's 2940 type of controllers (either W or U, and UW). The ahc driver worked well with them. Polytropon LSI 53C1010-66 (Ultra160, sym(4)) or 53C1030 (Ultra320, mpt(4)) based ones. Marius I'm using an Adaptec 29160N (Ultra 160) with the ahc driver. It has internal and external 69 pin LVD connectors, a 68 pin internal single-ended connector and a 50 pin internal single-ended connector. Don Lewis I haven't looked into that topic for a long time, but in the past, I've had _no_ problems using Ataptec's 2940 type of controllers (either W or U, and UW). The ahc driver worked well with them. Agreed. Adaptec has the reputation of being expensive but robust and well-supported; my experience confirms all three. Robert Huff Thank You gentleman, gonna try 'Ataptec AHA-2940UW' this time and share the results. Regards, vermaden ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format
Dear folks, Two of three machines updated to xfce4.10 successfully. Now only one refuses to work. I encounter the error above. I have tried numerous approaches already, but none have seemed to work. Error message is as follows: Creating user `messagebus' with uid `556' pwd_mkdb: olivares gid is incorrect pwd_mkdb: at line #25 pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format pw: passwd file update: No such file or directory *** Error code 74 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/dbus. === Installation of dbus-1.4.12_2 (devel/dbus) failed === Aborting update I have looked into http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-22791.html http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/How-can-I-rescue-my-passwd-file-after-corrupting-it-and-why-does-it-still-work-td3778319.html I have copied the file master.passwd.bak from /var/backups/ into /etc/ and it still does not work. I cannot get around this error. I cleaned up the stuff that I did not remove, now I have no working desktop. Is there a way to fix it via livecd/livedvd, or can I copy it from another machine and resync it? Or do I just flat install FreeBSD again and be done with it? Advice/Comments/Suggestions are appreciated and hopefully I can get back this machine one way or another. Best Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
library search path
To install tmux under $HOME/bin, I have installed libevent library under $HOME/lib (I do not have root privilege). Then set the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $HOME/lib in .cshrc. But ./configure --prefix=$HOME in src/tmux returns configure: error: libevent not found. What am I doing wrong? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10
On Sun, 27 May 2012, Antonio Olivares wrote: I believe that I have found a way to fix the issue. The problem was the DPI, the fonts are the same size. Now everything seems to be normal :) When Settings/Appearance/Custom DPI is unchecked, it should get the actual monitor DPI value from X, which in turn gets it from the monitor via DDC. Some monitors fail at this, but most work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012, Antonio Olivares wrote: I believe that I have found a way to fix the issue. The problem was the DPI, the fonts are the same size. Now everything seems to be normal :) When Settings/Appearance/Custom DPI is unchecked, it should get the actual monitor DPI value from X, which in turn gets it from the monitor via DDC. Some monitors fail at this, but most work. This is exactly what I did :) Although I did not state it correctly :( Best Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine
On Sun, 27 May 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hi, I've been running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT for some months, last time i rebuilt the system was April 20th. I've rebooted my machine many times and started X and Xfce4 without any trouble, however today I'm out of town on the road and when I startx my machine reboots. If I log in as root and startx i can run xorg without xfce4. but if i try startxfce4 the machine reboots. If I try to startx without xfce4 from my non-root account it locks up. It's pretty quick and nothing I can see in the logs... Anyone have any ideas about troubleshooting??? It seems like it's out of the blue with no changes to the system that I recall. :) First, make sure you have cairo-1.10 instead of 1.12. After that, run pkg_libchk from sysutils/bsdadminscripts. Rebuild anything that says it is missing libxfce4-utils. After that, well, I still see some unsteadiness from xfce-4.10. There's a long delay on start, like a DNS timeout (but I have working DNS). Switching to console works, switching back usually does not, rebooting the machine. Leaving X and starting again reboots the machine. These last two could be due to the recent X upgrade, except I'm pretty sure they did not happen until xfce-4.10. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cloud software ?
Hi, You could try sprakleshare, it's something like dropbox in your own server. Marcelo. El vie, 25-05-2012 a las 18:41 -0500, Derek Ragona escribió: At 06:15 AM 5/25/2012, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 12:10 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a cloud software :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Personnal PC, Mac, smartphones and tablets ... etc ) There is a couple of cheap ways of doing this. First, download the free version of VMWare ESXi and partition your hardware. Another is to install VirtualBox, a Type-2 HyperVisor. Depending on what you consider a cloud, take a look at Hadoop. Hadoop isn't partitioning hardware but Hadoop and the applications that run on top of Hadoop can give you an interesting view of these technologies and how they can be applied to cloudy data. As for how to get data into/out-of the cloud, let me know how that works. :) Hi Dennis Thank you for that info ! gonna investigate the hadoop way. I have built and managed a couple large hadoop clusters. Contact me directly for more information. -Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?
On Mon, 28 May 2012 08:41:44 -0400, Howard Leadmon wrote: I just took a look and granted I was on version 2.0.5 (I am also on amd64, so not x86) and there is no /usr/ports/irc/inspircd/work/InspIRCd-2.0.2/BSDmakefile present at that path. So I then went to the inspircd.org site and downloaded both the 2.0.5 and 2.0.2 archives, and again I see no BSDmakefile. I don't see any FreeBSD sources on their download page, https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/downloads. I think it's the usual Linux source packages (haven't looked in detail, I admit). Is there some command that is called, or something performed that creates this BSDmakefile?? If so, maybe on amd64 this isn't working. Erm... just to get that right: You are _not_ using the sources obtained via ports collection, instead you try to compile Linux source code? That won't work. FreeBSD != Linux. Linux sources typically don't compile. That's why applications need to be ported, that's what is in the ports collection. You should _never_ need to download stuff from the web. First check your /usr/ports/irc/inspircd/Makefile. It should indicate version 2.0.5. Then do # make clean to make sure there's nothing unusual left. Then go step by step. First check if the sources will be obtained correctly: # make fetch Then extract the sources: # make extract The sources will also be checked for a checksum match, this makes sure the obtained sources are good. The file /usr/ports/irc/inspircd/work/InspIRCd-2.0.5/BSDmakefile should now be present. As a next step, set your options: # make config And if this has worked, you can actually start to build from that sources: # make If done, install it: # make install By the way, using a port management tool would have the same effect, it's just more comfortable, but offers less step by step diagnostics. A command like # portmaster irc/inspircd would install from source. Note that the port management tool would call all the required steps automatically. I suggested the step by step method only to see where the problem occurs (because there are more than one point that can go wrong). If everything fails, just try to install from a precompiled binary package: # pkg_add -r inspircd Maybe such a package is present (haven't checked). I hope I didn't misunderstand you, but allow me to repeat: You cannot use Linux sources with the ports collection. The ports collection has automated fetching, extracting, configuring and building mechanisms. You should use them. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format
On Mon, 28 May 2012 08:44:46 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: I have copied the file master.passwd.bak from /var/backups/ into /etc/ and it still does not work. I cannot get around this error. You have to make sure /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd have the same content (just that they differ in passwords and in file permissions). The database files /etc/(s)pwd.db will be created from those files by the pwd_mkdb command. This of course requires root access (which I assume you have made sure). Is there a way to fix it via livecd/livedvd, or can I copy it from another machine and resync it? You can use the files (_both_ files!) from before starting the dbus installation. Regenerate the databases with the pwd_mkdb command. Or do I just flat install FreeBSD again and be done with it? That is possible, but should be your last option. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: library search path
On Mon, 28 May 2012 23:11:26 +0900, fake fake wrote: To install tmux under $HOME/bin, I have installed libevent library under $HOME/lib (I do not have root privilege). Then set the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $HOME/lib in .cshrc. But ./configure --prefix=$HOME in src/tmux returns configure: error: libevent not found. What am I doing wrong? Note that you need to _add_ $HOME/lib to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH (and check that it's expanded correctly). Do you have access to the ports tree (reading)? Then you could simply redefine $WRKDIRPREFIX to where you can compile, and $PREFIX to where you can install to. See man 7 ports for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: library search path
Hello, just a guess: On 28.05.2012 16:11, fake fake wrote: To install tmux under $HOME/bin, I have installed libevent library under $HOME/lib (I do not have root privilege). Then set the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $HOME/lib in .cshrc. LD_LIBRARY_PATH only affects the dynamic linker and its search path when executing a program. You will need this when you execude tmux afterwards. But ./configure --prefix=$HOME in src/tmux returns configure: With --prefix=... you tell the configure script where you wanna install the files. Now you have to tell the gcc where to search for the library/includes. So try to set CFLAGS=-I $HOME/include -L $HOME/lib Best regards, Martin Laabs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?
I'm currently the maintainer and it works on the machines I run it on. I also pushed it through redports to prove it can compile on 7.4, 8.x, 9, CLANG, etc. It looks like BSDMakefile is generated during the build process. I'm guessing something on your system is screwed up if it can't generate it. Things to try: -delete /usr/src -delete /var/db/sub/ports-all -re-fetch ports via csup -install sysutils/bsdadminscripts, run pkg_libchk and fix any issues there -try building again -perhaps its an issue with your shell? have any strange aliases or configuration? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: sendmail, masquerading, exposed root?
On Mon, 28 May 2012 12:49:43 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: If I leave the root exposed, the From field looks e.g. r...@mech-anton240.men.bris.ac.uk, which is rejected by the university mailer, because it has no knowledge of this address. You should be able to use sendmail's masquerading features. For example to be configured in the correct .mc file: FEATURE(always_add_domain) FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain') FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') FEATURE(`allmasquerade') MASQUERADE_AS(`bris.ac.uk') MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`bris.ac.uk.') MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(localhost) MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(localhost.localdomain) That should turn r...@mech-anton240.men.bris.ac.uk into r...@bris.ac.uk if that's okay for you. If you change root's name field in the passwd database (use chsh), you could add a specific machine name so you'll easily see from which root account you're receiving messages, e. g. From: mech-anton240.men root r...@bris.ac.uk To: You where.you.wanna@your.root.mail.to Subject: mech-anton240.men.bris.ac.uk security run output ... and so on ... That's no big problem as you're not going to reply to that address. (If you had to, setting Reply-To: would surely help.) Or you could use /etc/mail/aliases to redirect root to a different mail address. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 28 May 2012 08:44:46 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: I have copied the file master.passwd.bak from /var/backups/ into /etc/ and it still does not work. I cannot get around this error. You have to make sure /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd have the same content (just that they differ in passwords and in file permissions). The database files /etc/(s)pwd.db will be created from those files by the pwd_mkdb command. This of course requires root access (which I assume you have made sure). Is there a way to fix it via livecd/livedvd, or can I copy it from another machine and resync it? You can use the files (_both_ files!) from before starting the dbus installation. Regenerate the databases with the pwd_mkdb command. Or do I just flat install FreeBSD again and be done with it? That is possible, but should be your last option. -- I have run the command as root user # pwd_mkdb -d /etc/master.passwd but it fails with a pam_auth() or I can't remember exact error message, I will need to run command and post the exact error message here :( Either do this, or install a desktop which does not depend on devel/dbus package(s). Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format
On Mon, 28 May 2012 11:51:23 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: I have run the command as root user # pwd_mkdb -d /etc/master.passwd Looks wrong; the parameter -d is -d directory, explained as Store databases into specified destination directory instead of /etc. The coorect command should be # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd See man pwd_mkdb for details. but it fails with a pam_auth() or I can't remember exact error message, I will need to run command and post the exact error message here :( Some file access error would be possible. Either do this, or install a desktop which does not depend on devel/dbus package(s). The dbus port is often used to enhance functionality, but it's not entirely required to run KDE, Gnome or Xfce (to name the big three). Just make sure X is compiled without it. Maybe some functionality might be missing, but if you don't depend on it... as for just automount, FreeBSD has a native solution that worked even before HAL and DBUS. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hi, I've been running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT for some months, last time i rebuilt the system was April 20th. I've rebooted my machine many times and started X and Xfce4 without any trouble, however today I'm out of town on the road and when I startx my machine reboots. If I log in as root and startx i can run xorg without xfce4. but if i try startxfce4 the machine reboots. If I try to startx without xfce4 from my non-root account it locks up. It's pretty quick and nothing I can see in the logs... Anyone have any ideas about troubleshooting??? It seems like it's out of the blue with no changes to the system that I recall. :) First, make sure you have cairo-1.10 instead of 1.12. After that, run pkg_libchk from sysutils/bsdadminscripts. Rebuild anything that says it is missing libxfce4-utils. After that, well, I still see some unsteadiness from xfce-4.10. There's a long delay on start, like a DNS timeout (but I have working DNS). Switching to console works, switching back usually does not, rebooting the machine. Leaving X and starting again reboots the machine. These last two could be due to the recent X upgrade, except I'm pretty sure they did not happen until xfce-4.10. thanks. i'll check it out.. Waitman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: library search path
On 28 May 2012 08:54, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 28 May 2012 23:11:26 +0900, fake fake wrote: To install tmux under $HOME/bin, I have installed libevent library under $HOME/lib (I do not have root privilege). Then set the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $HOME/lib in .cshrc. But ./configure --prefix=$HOME in src/tmux returns configure: error: libevent not found. What am I doing wrong? Note that you need to _add_ $HOME/lib to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH (and check that it's expanded correctly). Do you have access to the ports tree (reading)? Then you could simply redefine $WRKDIRPREFIX to where you can compile, and $PREFIX to where you can install to. See man 7 ports for details. You can also try -DINSTALL_AS_USER though it may not work as advertised. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk
On 5/25/2012 4:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/25/12 14:21, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: something I'm not seeing I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. What's the key to removing /var/empty? 280 /hd1/var#sysctl kern.securelevel kern.securelevel: -1 281 /hd1/var#ls -l total 4 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 3 00:55 empty 282 /hd1/var#chflags noschg empty 283 /hd1/var#chmod 777 empty chmod: empty: Operation not permitted 284 /hd1/var#rmdir empty rmdir: empty: Operation not permitted Interesting, I just tried this on my home system (FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE) and it worked as intended. I did use the exact commands, same securelevel. Use the -o option for ls (ls -lo) to check on the effect of chflags and chmod. Just found it, something I forgot about a long time ago... I was running under su logged in as my normal user. Had to back all the way out and log in as root. I should have mentioned that I did the (successful) test logging in as root (real console login). If you use su - or su root, the effect should be the same. You can always check the success of your operation with the ls -lo command. Nope. That was the problem. I had logged in on the vty as normal user and done su root. Had to back all the way out and log in on the vty as root to make it work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pam_start(): system error
Le Fri, 25 May 2012 22:36:01 -0400, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello, My freebsd 8.2 box has a new, interesting error. When I go to change any user password I see the message passwd: pam_start(): system error as in : [root@LBSD2:/etc/pam.d] #passwd Changing local password for root passwd: pam_start(): system error passwd is able to see it's libraries: you can try to reinstall the world and merge the pam configuration (/etc/pam.d). You can check the pam modules (.so) also (in /usr/lib/pam_*.so) Good luck, regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cloud software ?
Thanks Marcelo seems useful for me let's try tomorrow Le 28/05/2012 16:51, Marcelo Celleri a écrit : Hi, You could try sprakleshare, it's something like dropbox in your own server. Marcelo. El vie, 25-05-2012 a las 18:41 -0500, Derek Ragona escribió: At 06:15 AM 5/25/2012, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 12:10 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a cloud software :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Personnal PC, Mac, smartphones and tablets ... etc ) There is a couple of cheap ways of doing this. First, download the free version of VMWare ESXi and partition your hardware. Another is to install VirtualBox, a Type-2 HyperVisor. Depending on what you consider a cloud, take a look at Hadoop. Hadoop isn't partitioning hardware but Hadoop and the applications that run on top of Hadoop can give you an interesting view of these technologies and how they can be applied to cloudy data. As for how to get data into/out-of the cloud, let me know how that works. :) Hi Dennis Thank you for that info ! gonna investigate the hadoop way. I have built and managed a couple large hadoop clusters. Contact me directly for more information. -Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
mount refused, no journal
I mounted a previous system disk, cleaned everything off it using rm, then stuck a bunch of files on it. Used it for a day or so, including at least one shutdown -r then halted the system to swap a CD. Upon reboot, the system refuses to mount the drive: mount -o rw -t ufs /dev/ada0p2 /hd1 Failed to find journal. Use newfs to create one Failed to start journal: 2 mount: /dev/ada0p2 : No such file or directory Doing mount -o ro -t ufs /dev/ada0p2 /hd1 succeeds. tunefs -p /hd1 shows soft updates enabled soft update journaling enabled gjournal disabled tunefs -p / shows the same The error looks like it's expecting gjournal to be enabled, but the tunefs output shows it should not be. Any hints? Thanks, Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk
h From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 28 14:10:55 2012 Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 13:05:45 -0600 From: Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org.r-bonomi.com To: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk On 5/25/2012 4:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: I should have mentioned that I did the (successful) test logging in as root (real console login). If you use su - or su root, the effect should be the same. You can always check the success of your operation with the ls -lo command. Nope. That was the problem. I had logged in on the vty as normal user and done su root. Had to back all the way out and log in on the vty as root to make it work. I'm going to guess that you did 'su root', not 'su - root'. The two commands are *NOT* identical. 'su root' does not run the root 'login' scripts; thus environment variables (including path, user, logname etc.) are *not* set as they are on root login -- this causes some 'am i root' tests to fail. OTOH, 'su - root' should be equivalent to a root login in all respects. NOTE; there will be issues if the 'working directory' of a parent process is the directory you are trying to delete. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Portmaster Fetch
Hello, is there a chance that portmaster can be only fetch all Source which need update? I mean make fetch-recursiv has helped in the ports collection, when i think right, but can portmaster that with all packages they need update? Thanks for help. Regards Silvio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk
On 5/28/2012 3:08 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: On 5/25/2012 4:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: I should have mentioned that I did the (successful) test logging in as root (real console login). If you use su - or su root, the effect should be the same. You can always check the success of your operation with the ls -lo command. Nope. That was the problem. I had logged in on the vty as normal user and done su root. Had to back all the way out and log in on the vty as root to make it work. I'm going to guess that you did 'su root', not 'su - root'. The two commands are *NOT* identical. 'su root' does not run the root 'login' scripts; thus environment variables (including path, user, logname etc.) are *not* set as they are on root login -- this causes some 'am i root' tests to fail. OTOH, 'su - root' should be equivalent to a root login in all respects. ahhh.. Thank you. That explains a number of things. Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
nanoBSD Driver Build
I need to build a (for me) complicated driver for nanoBSD running on an Elan SC520, an i386 system. I have nanoBSD running, just need the driver. I mount a disk from an i386 system and can build userland applications OK. I installed usr/share/mk. To build the driver, I need the source tree. How much of that do I need? I have /usr/obj/nanobsd.TS5700/i386.i386/usr/src/sys and its subtree. Is this what I need? Tom Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format
Looks wrong; the parameter -d is -d directory, explained as Store databases into specified destination directory instead of /etc. The coorect command should be # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd See man pwd_mkdb for details. but it fails with a pam_auth() or I can't remember exact error message, I will need to run command and post the exact error message here :( Some file access error would be possible. Either do this, or install a desktop which does not depend on devel/dbus package(s). The dbus port is often used to enhance functionality, but it's not entirely required to run KDE, Gnome or Xfce (to name the big three). Just make sure X is compiled without it. Maybe some functionality might be missing, but if you don't depend on it... as for just automount, FreeBSD has a native solution that worked even before HAL and DBUS. -- Polytropon all, I have run # vipw /etc/master.passwd and removed the offending line #25. Then I ran the command # pwd_mkdb -d /etc/master.passwd and it succeeded! :) Then I readded the user with adduser command and all is well. I got back my xfce desktop and it is working. Thanks to special folks like you and others who are very helpful. I was getting desperate and was about to throw the towel and reinstall FreeBSD on this machine. I had old backups from last year, but all the new changes would have been a waste to get back from those. Best Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mount refused, no journal (solved)
Not sure why it happened in the first place, but the failure to re-establish the journal using tunefs was a result of su root and not su - root On 05/28/12 14:34, Gary Aitken wrote: I mounted a previous system disk, cleaned everything off it using rm, then stuck a bunch of files on it. Used it for a day or so, including at least one shutdown -r then halted the system to swap a CD. Upon reboot, the system refuses to mount the drive: mount -o rw -t ufs /dev/ada0p2 /hd1 Failed to find journal. Use newfs to create one Failed to start journal: 2 mount: /dev/ada0p2 : No such file or directory Doing mount -o ro -t ufs /dev/ada0p2 /hd1 succeeds. tunefs -p /hd1 shows soft updates enabled soft update journaling enabled gjournal disabled tunefs -p / shows the same The error looks like it's expecting gjournal to be enabled, but the tunefs output shows it should not be. Any hints? Thanks, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk
On 05/28/12 15:08, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 28 14:10:55 2012 Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 13:05:45 -0600 From: Gary Aitkenfree...@dreamchaser.org.r-bonomi.com To: Polytroponfree...@edvax.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk On 5/25/2012 4:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: I should have mentioned that I did the (successful) test logging in as root (real console login). If you use su - or su root, the effect should be the same. You can always check the success of your operation with the ls -lo command. Nope. That was the problem. I had logged in on the vty as normal user and done su root. Had to back all the way out and log in on the vty as root to make it work. I'm going to guess that you did 'su root', not 'su - root'. The two commands are *NOT* identical. 'su root' does not run the root 'login' scripts; thus environment variables (including path, user, logname etc.) are *not* set as they are on root login -- this causes some 'am i root' tests to fail. OTOH, 'su - root' should be equivalent to a root login in all respects. Thank you. That explains a number of problems I've been having. doh. NOTE; there will be issues if the 'working directory' of a parent process is the directory you are trying to delete. knew about that part ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: why I am upset
On Saturday, 22 January 2005 at 9:53:53 +, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: There can be a tremendous investment of time in using software, whether free or not. Money too, often. Those who work to write, port, and support free software also spend a tremendous amount of time in doing that. Money too, often. So both parties have a large investment, and it's easy but counterproductive to get emotional about it. Take a deep breath, be polite, and try to appreciate the other guy's problems. Otherwise it just ends up creating more problems, and there are already enough. Warren makes a great point. In years past Greg Lehey used to post, How to ask a question, or something similar. How to get best results from FreeBSD questions. Its worth resurrecting that. It's still there in the FreeBSD web site: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/ If people are getting upset, maybe it's worth reading it again. As I recall, the major points were: Nobody here is getting paid to do this; there are a great number of people with a wealth of information willing to help; and, its up to the one asking the question to do it in such a way as to peak someones interest. Yes, that's a good paraphrase. FWIW I think that Mitja has a point, even if in his frustration he put it badly. It's a pity that nobody here tried to get him to calm down and say what went wrong or enter a PR. While it's true that we're all volunteers, that doesn't mean we shouldn't be proud of our product and want to fix it if things go wrong. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer Finger g...@freebsd.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua pgpDR3Bd6XYke.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Portmaster Fetch
On Mon, 28 May 2012 23:12:31 +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, is there a chance that portmaster can be only fetch all Source which need update? I mean make fetch-recursiv has helped in the ports collection, when i think right, but can portmaster that with all packages they need update? Is portmaster -n (run through all steps, but do not make or install any ports) what you need? Maybe see man portmaster for more details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Portmaster Fetch
On 28 May 2012 14:12, Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, is there a chance that portmaster can be only fetch all Source which need update? I mean make fetch-recursiv has helped in the ports collection, when i think right, but can portmaster that with all packages they need update? portmaster -F -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: library search path
Thank you. ./configure --prefix=$HOME CFLAGS=-L $HOME/lib worked perfectly. further info: I should have set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to absolute path. tmux didn't work with libevent 2.* but did with libevent 1.4.* On 29 May 2012 00:57, Martin Laabs i...@martinlaabs.de wrote: Hello, just a guess: On 28.05.2012 16:11, fake fake wrote: To install tmux under $HOME/bin, I have installed libevent library under $HOME/lib (I do not have root privilege). Then set the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $HOME/lib in .cshrc. LD_LIBRARY_PATH only affects the dynamic linker and its search path when executing a program. You will need this when you execude tmux afterwards. But ./configure --prefix=$HOME in src/tmux returns configure: With --prefix=... you tell the configure script where you wanna install the files. Now you have to tell the gcc where to search for the library/includes. So try to set CFLAGS=-I $HOME/include -L $HOME/lib Best regards, Martin Laabs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
