Re: version/revision control software for things mostly not source
Hello, On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: I've looked at SVN and it looks reasonably easy to grok, but reading the Version Control with Subversion book... it seems there is no actual way to truly erase/delete/destoy/purge a part of an existing repository? This sounds rather weird and annoying. What if I decide that project XYZ is beyond redemption and abandon it, I delete the working copy of it, but all history is still in there, gigabytes upon gigabytes of data. With no way to remove it, it sounds like a really big limitation. You can filter data out of a repository using svnadmin dump command. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ 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: Problems with Xorg after portupgrade
Hello Manolis, On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Browsing your xorg.conf, you forgot to add the keyword Option in front of AllowEmptyInput. And actually this should also go the ServerFlags section. I corrected this error but the screen is still blank and black. A ServerFlags section is optional; those entries can also go in the ServerLayout section. That simplifies xorg.conf a little. I also followed this advice - still no luck. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA Good to know, thanks. The Xorg upgrade was bumpy for me too - too many changes at once. I even tried with Manolis's xorg.conf - same results. I use startx as a non-root user and I invoke startkde from .xinitrc, but kde does not appear. The screen just blinks once or twice. I also tried to enable xdm from /etc/ttys - same result. Indeed, I think the xorg.conf is OK and no errors appear in the log, but still I can not get it running. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ 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
Problems with Xorg after portupgrade
Hello, This week upgraded my Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop from FreeBSD 7.0 to FreeBSD 7.1 and also csup'ed my ports and portupgraded them and I am not able to start X correctly. When I invoke startx, it tries to start it and then the screen goes blank and black, nothing is seen on it and I am no able to kill X using ctrl-alt-backspace or swtich to another terminal and I have to cold reboot my machine. uname -r shows 7.1-RELEASE-p4 The version of xorg metaport is 7.4_1, the version of xorg-server is 1.6.0,1. After I did the portupgrade I rebooted my machine and the KDE display manager failed to appear, so I disabled it from /etc/ttys for easier debugging. After I logged in to a shell, I called startx and the screen went blank and black. After I rebooted the machine I invoked X -configure as root and run X -config /root/xorg.conf.new and again the same problem. I then tried to make ctrl-alt-backspace work and I added the following section at the end of /root/xorg.conf.new Section ServerFlags Option DontZap off EndSection and called X -config /root/xorg.conf.new again - same results and still could not kill ther server. I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING, entry from 20090123 and disabled moused and added Option AllowEmptyInput off in the ServerLayout section. Again X refuses to start appropriately. I would be very grateful if you help me in resolving this issue. I am attaching my xorg.conf file and the logs from /var/log/Xorg.0.log and I will happily provide more information if needed. Thank you very much in advance. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com xorg.conf.new Description: Binary data Xorg.0.log Description: Binary data ___ 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: Compiling everything myself?
Hello On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Daniel annonymejens+...@runbox.no wrote: Hi list This may be a basic question, but a question non the less. I have been using Debian for some years and have gotten tired by system freezes, having a slow system, and having a package system that requires that I install every skin of KDE to get KDE up and running. I hope FreeBSD will be better! :-) What I want to know is the following: Do I get the option of fetching sources and running through a guided compilation; or do I get binaries (like Debian) only? You can get the system's sources using csup or cvsup, please check the handbook at [1]. The system consist of the kernel and the world. You can rebuild the kernel and the world following [2]. For applications such as KDE you can use the ports tree or install the as packages. These options are described at [3]. Regards Rambius P.S. I do not understand what you mean with getting binaries like Debian only. As far as I remember in (but I may be wrong) Debian using its package management system you can build pretty much everything and it treats even the linux kernel as a package. This is different in FreeBSD - you do not install the kernel as a package or port. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html [2] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html [3] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ 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: Free Pascal
Hello, On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Ian Fitzgerald i...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: Hello, On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Ian Fitzgerald i...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: cd /usr/ports/lang/fpc pkg_add -r fpc You should do # cd /usr/ports/lang/fpc # make install Please read Chapter 4 of the hadbook at [1] for more information on how to use FreeBSD ports. Regards Rambius [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html Hi. Thanks for your help. make install demands a distribution, and without broadband at present, I used what I could get. Unfortunately the downloaded tarball was 2.2.2, and the make file was set up for 2.2.0, and complained. I don't know whether simply changing the references in the makefile to 2.2.2 is a fix or complication, so I may have to wait for the broadband to cut in (new plan). If you are not connected to internet all the time you can use # make fetch or # make fetch-recursive for the port you want to install. fetch will download the distfiles for the port and fetch-recursive will download the distfiles for the port and its dependencies. Then you can disconnect and proceed with 'make install' Regards Rambius P.S. Please remember to put freebsd-questions@freebsd.org in CC and not only me. -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ 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: kindle2
Hello, On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Pat Lackie lack...@cs.com wrote: Do you allow reformatting the hand book into kindle2 Please check the copyright notice of the FreeBSD Handbook at [1]. Regards Rambius [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/LEGALNOTICE.html -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ 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: How do I determine the FreeBSD world revision/version?
Hello, On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Ian Bonnycastle ibo...@gmail.com wrote: If I have a particular FreeBSD system, and know its a modified kernel, how can I tell what base was originally on it? Actually, why would you want to know this and how do you define base? I have a laptop on which I installed years ago FreeBSD 5.5. Then I upgraded the sources using cvsup to 6.0 and rebuilt it, than again to 6.1, 6.2 and up to 7.1. So what is the base in this case? Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ 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: Ports Options
Hello, On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: At the first install of a package via the ports collection (cd /usr/ports/../..; make install clean), if the package provides configuration options, you can check these on a menu screen, or accept all the defaults. If later on, you want to know what the set of the options were when you installed a port, how to find that out? I tried # cd /usr/ports/categoryname/portname # make hoping to see the menu again, but it doesn't show any menu, but says: === Found saved configuration for portname-version Where is that saved configuration kept ?? How to get a menu displayed again so you can see and check the options you want? make config will show you the menu with the port's options again. make showconfig will show you the previously saved configuration. make rmconfig will delete the saved configuration. Please refer to [1] for more information on how to use ports. Regards Rambius [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ 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: How to generate password hashes for vipw and chpass
Hello Adam, On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Adam Zaleski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Rambius Ivanov pisze: # /sbin/md5 -s newpassword and then I passed the output to chpass. I tried to use the new password for the next login but it failed - so I believe this is wrong. Can you please show me how to generate the password hashes? You can add new account with one command like this: echo user_password |pw user add new_user -h0 Also if you only want to generate valid password hash you can use 'openssl passwd -1 new_password' Thank you, this is the command I was looking for. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to generate password hashes for vipw and chpass
Hello, According to man pages of chpass(1) and vipw(1) I can create and modify users by supplying a user database entry in passwd(5) format. The only problem I face is that I do not know how to generate the password hashes for the password field. Following section 14.4 [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/crypt.html] from the handbook I found out that my system is using md5 to encrypt the passwords. I tried to use /sbin/md5 to generate the hash: # /sbin/md5 -s newpassword and then I passed the output to chpass. I tried to use the new password for the next login but it failed - so I believe this is wrong. Can you please show me how to generate the password hashes? Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forwarding all mail to a local user
Hello list, I have the following questions. How can I forward all mail sent to anyone@localhost to a [EMAIL PROTECTED], where rambius is my own user account in my FreeBSD system and anyone can be anything including a user name that does not exist on the local machine? The reason I want this is the following: I am researching a CMS system called e107. When users register in it with their email addresses they are sent an activation email in which they have to click in order to activate their accounts in e107. Right now I have e107 installed on my laptop and I am registering some user accounts for testing purposes. I do not want to create a local system account (with adduser) for each different user - I just want the activation message sent to the email address anything@localhost to be forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that I can rd iead from my mailbox and activate the test users. I have default sendmail installation as provided by the base system with no modifications of my own. This is my first time dealing with sendmail and I will be grateful to any advice and hints. Thank you in advance. Regards Rambius P.S. I am using 7.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD if this matters. -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Forwarding all mail to a local user
Hello Jeffrey, On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should edit /etc/mail/virtusertable to include a line like @localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a sample virtusertable you can look at. After you have edited the virtusertable file, you should run make maps in that directory. I followed your advice but I still cannot forward the local email to my account. The full contents of my /etc/mail/virtusertable is: # cat /etc/mail/virtusertable # $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/virtusertable.sample,v 1.3 2000/11/02 23:32:31 dirk Exp $ # # Map one or all usernames at a source hostname to a specific (or the same) # username at another target hostname. Remember to add the source hostname # to /etc/mail/local-host-names so that sendmail will accept mail for the # source hostname. # @localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] I run make maps and I tested if my account can receive email: $ echo Test email 1 | mail -s Test Email 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I successfully got this email in my mbox. Next I tried to send an email to an non-existing user: $ echo Test email 1 | mail -s Test Email 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got an error saying /home/rambius/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/rambius/dead.letter and did not receive the email in my mailbox. Maybe emails to nonexisting users cannot be forwarded at all? Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Formatting dates to a specific pattern
Hello, I need to format the current date (as returned by date(1) ) to the pattern m-d-, where m is the month in one or digits, d is the day in one or two digits, and is the year in four digits. The problem for me is the day and the month, for example August should be 8, and not 08, and 5th of September should be 9-5-2008 and not 09-05-2008. I read the man page of date(1) but date(1) seems to always put leading zeros. I appreciate any help on how to format the date the way I want. In case you wonder why I need such a format: I am using a hosting company to run a web site. They are backing up my files in a .tar.gz archive and I can download it. The name of the backup archive contains the date formatted as I explained. I want to write a daily cron job script that will download the backup for me. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting dates to a specific pattern
Hello, Thank you for all of your responses. I received earlier a private answer from another member of list. He told me to use the '-' sign after '%' in the date pattern of date(1) command: $ date +%-m%-d%Y This one seems to not include leading zeros and I reworked it to $ date +%-m-%-d-%Y to fit my needs :) Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Networking issues
Hello, On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have, for some time, been able to ssh into my father's FreeBSD machine in the Road Runner network in Central New York. Last night, I tried so that I could fix a problem for him and ssh timed out. No problem I thought, his modem has a different IP than the one I have in my /etc/hosts file, but this turned to not be the case. This may be off-topic, but... I am using cable internet Time Warner/Road Runner/Earthlink in New York. However, I have a wireless router behind the cable modem and the router is registered with dyndns.org. When I registered with them, I chose a dns name from them for the router and every time my IP changes the router sends a request and their database is updated with the new IP - this is roughly how they work. So I can access machines in my home network usind a DNS name instead of an IP address. You and your dad may find this setup useful. Regards Rambius Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SVN Advice
Hello Montag, On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm seeking to set up an SVN repository on my home machine. I've come across the following two guides: http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/misc/subversion.php http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/09/27/subversion-for-bsd-with-all-the-bells-and-whistles.html For a quick start on Subversion you can see Dru Lavigne's articles Setting up a Secure Subversion Server [1] and Accessing Secure Subversion Servers [2]. They discuss how to use Subversion over ssh, that is svn+ssh:// scheme. I myself prefer subversion over http(s) and I have written a tutorial here [3] and more concretely here. The second one is certainly overkill for what I need (I just want to use it to manage my personal projects, since I work remotely a lot). I'd definitely like a password protected web interface though. You have two options then. -) use subversion over http(s) and you can access your repository both with a svn client and from a browser. -) use whatever access scheme you want and install viewvc [5]. My issue is the following. In both guides (and in all the other ones I've come across) Apache is compiled with options that I did not select when I installed Apache a while ago. I'd rather not have to redo everything I've set up with my web server. Is there any way I get include those modules (namely WITH_BERKELEYDB) without having to recompile? As far as I remember you do not need berkleydb option. Subversion supports two backends for its repositories - BDB and FSFS. FSFS is a file format developed by Subversion and when you create the repository it is used by default. For a comparison between the two formats see [6]. So you may compile Subversion with Berkley DB - you should provide WITHOUT_BDB option or similar when you install the Subversion port. Also, any advice relating to setting up Subversion on FreeBSD in general. Well, the Subversion Book contains everything you need to set it up and use it. And the link below should help you as well. Regards Rambius [1] http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/12/FreeBSD_Basics.html [2] http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/08/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html [3] http://vania.sourceforge.net/svnnotes-en/ [4] http://vania.sourceforge.net/svnnotes-en/node10.html [5] http://www.viewvc.org/ [6] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.reposadmin.planning.html#svn.reposadmin.basics.backends -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which jdk port should I use?
Hello, On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Steven Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two installed: diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_9 jdk-1.5.0.14p8,1 I looked at the freebsd java pages, but I still don't know... It seems that you have diablo jdk and sun jdk installed on your machine. Diablo JDK is available from the FreeBSD Foundation; Sun JDK is available, of course from Sun. From the point of view of the end user or even the Java programmer there is no differences - both jdk's offer the same public APIs, compilers, runtime environments, etc. The Java packages available from the FreeBSD Foundation are based on the same codebase as any other 1.5 JDK or JRE from Sun. And the Java binary packages from FreeBSD Foundation are certified. See http://freebsdfoundation.org/press/20060405-PRrelease.shtml. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade
Hello, On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get the portupgrade to just accept all of the defaults for the configurations of the individual ports. I tried # env BATCH=yes, but it still just goes on hanging on the port configuration menus. It seems as though these time out (though I'm not sure). Try with portupgarde -y or portupgarde --yes Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to backup the users
Hello, I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall FreeBSD on it, but I want to preserve the users' credentials. Can you please advise me how to back them up? Thank you in advance. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ 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 backup the users
On Jan 27, 2008 6:58 PM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: Hello, I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall FreeBSD on it, but I want to preserve the users' credentials. Can you please advise me how to back them up? /home/* /etc/master.passwd /var/cron/tabs/* /var/mail/* possibly other files. but format+reinstall is when you have windows, with unix there is no need to. You might as well save the whole /etc, you will probably need other conf files and surely you would like to have /etc/passwd and /etc/group In fact, I would also backup the whole /usr/local/etc to get all the configuration settings for my services and so on. A good, general rule of thumb for backing up a system is: /etc /usr/local/etc /home /var /var is the wildcard here ... /etc and /usr/local/etc are generally very small. /home can be huge, but if it is, it's probably because there is a lot of important data there. But /var can be large with a lot of stuff that you may not want to back up. Do you need /var/log, for example? Frankly, if you have enough space to back up, I recommend you back up the entire system and restore selectively. Do you have, for example, a database in /usr/local/pgsql? If you're asking this question, you're probably better off safe than sorry. I do not have any databases servers on the machine. In fact, it hosts only a cvs repository and a web server and I have already backed them up. I was only unsure how to proceed with the users backup. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile
Hello, I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell command from it and assign its output to a variable. The command in question is # make -f /usr/ports/lang/fpc/Makefile -V PORTVERSION and I have verified that it works on the command line. I try to use it in my port's Makefile in the following way: FPCVERSION= `make -f /usr/ports/lang/fpc/Makefile -V PORTVERSION` but it fails with the following error Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution I also tried FPCVERSION= `make -f /usr/ports/lang/fpc/Makefile -V PORTVERSION` but it fails on the same error. Can you please advise me how to call this command? Thank you in advance. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile
Hello Alphons,
On Jan 28, 2008 1:07 AM, Alphons Fonz van Werven
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote:
I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell
command from it and assign its output to a variable.
If you're using GNU make (called gmake on BSD systems), you can do
VAR := $(shell command)
or, as a concrete example,
CFILES := $(shell ls *.c)
Not that I recommend using that example, it just goes to illustrate.
If you're using BSD make, I wouldn't know though. I'm just not familiar
with that. And if you wish to do it in a portable way such that it works
with BSD make, GNU make or whatever, then all I can say is good luck...
I do use BSD make and not GNU make, but your examples gave me a hint
what I should search on google and I found the exact syntax:
FPCVERSION!=make -f ${PORTSDIR}/lang/fpc/Makefile -V PORTVERSION
The assignment is done by the bang equals sign != and I found it
explained here http://www.khmere.com/freebsd_book/html/ch01.html
Thank you for your quick response.
Regards
Rambius
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Re: Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile
Hello Georgious,
On Jan 28, 2008 2:59 AM, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2008-01-28 00:48, Ivan Rambius Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell
command from it and assign its output to a variable. The command in
question is
# make -f /usr/ports/lang/fpc/Makefile -V PORTVERSION
and I have verified that it works on the command line.
I try to use it in my port's Makefile in the following way:
FPCVERSION= `make -f /usr/ports/lang/fpc/Makefile -V
PORTVERSION`
but it fails with the following error
Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution
Try the BSD-specific syntax which uses bang-equal assignment to grab the
output of a shell command and assign it to a make variable:
FPCVERSION!= shell cmd here
i.e. something like:
FPCVERSION!= make -f ${PORTSDIR}/lang/fpc/Makefile -V PORTVERSION
Yes, I found this out after some searching in google.
I'm curious though. Why do you have to find the value of the
{PORTVERSION} from a Ports makefile?
Perhaps there is already a `standard' feature of the Ports which can do
something similar. Have you asked around in freebsd-ports?
The port I am developing builds and installs a software called nbc
[1], [2]. It is written in Pascal and uses the freepascal compiler [3]
coming from lang/fpc port and some other pascal libraries called units
coming from devel/fpc-fcl-base. These units are installed into
/usr/local/lib/fpc/portversion_of_fpc, where portversion of_fpc is
the version of the freepascal compiler as defined in PORTVERSION
variable in fpc's Makefile. Currently it is 2.2.0. I do not want to
hardcode that number in nbc port's Makefile - I want to extract it on
the fly from fpc port's Makefile, this is why I am doing this trick.
Regards
Rambius
[1] http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nbc/
[2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/116274
[3] http://www.freepascal.org/
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Re: /usr/local/rc.d/apache22 start doesn't start Apache
Hello Yuri, On Dec 14, 2007 5:03 PM, Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Apache port. But when I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start nothing happens. 'ps ax | grep httpd' returns nothing. So server wasn't started. Why nothing is printed and server not started with the first command? What is the right way to start the server? I think you should add the line apache2_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf. The starting script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 checks if the rcvar in rc.conf is set to YES and if so it starts the server. You can see the exact name of the rc variable by executing /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 rcvar. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ 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 make a patch
Hello, First, do you have the latest ports tree? If not, it maybe a good idea to update your ports tree and verify that the bug is still there. Second, since it concerns the ports be sure to checkThe FreeBSD Porters Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ and especially Testing Your Port chapter: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/testing.html On 10/16/07, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found and fixed a bug in one of the ports how do I make a patch file (I only changed one line in one file) I would copy the original unmodified file to a backup copy, fix the file and then diff the modified file and the backup copy. and who do I send it to? You should submit a Problem Report as described here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-submitting.html Every port has its maintainer and they are specified in the port's Makefile. Regards Rambius ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a beginner
Hello, On 10/12/07, Connie Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. It is not clear from your email what do you want to do and what you have done up to know. If you do not have FreeBSD already installed you can start from Installing FreeBSD chapter in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html. I had to repeat the installation two or three times because I was not satisfied with my partition layout or with the initial packages I had installed and just because I wanted to play with it and get comfortable. If you have FreeBSD already installed then proceed with the next chapters of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Live?
Hello, On 10/11/07, Timothy Klaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any BSD version that provides a LiveCD Yes, it is called Freesbie: http://www.freesbie.org/ Regards Rabius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.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 Tomcat
Hello, On 9/28/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not correct. The Java packages available from the FreeBSD Foundation are based on the same codebase as any other 1.5 JDK or JRE from Sun. Thank you for correcting me. I was not (fully) aware of this fact. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.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 Tomcat
Hello On 9/28/07, Yance Kowara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you mind explaining the difference between sun-jdk and diablo jdk? From the point of view of the end user or even the Java programmer there is no differences - both jdk's offer the same public APIs, compilers, runtime environments, etc. The differences are in the internal implementaions. Sun JDK is developed by Sun Microsystem. They officially offer binary downloads for Windows, Solaris and Linux, as well the source code (for their JDK). A FreeBSD port for Sun JDK does exists, but it is not made by Sun. Take a look at that page: http://www.freebsd.org/java/ Diablo JDK (I think) is another implementation of JDK - see http://freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.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 Tomcat
Hello, On 9/28/07, Byung-Hee HWANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case I think you are better to use Linux than to use FreeBSD because still it's difficult to operate Java stuff on FreeBSD. So I recommend that you should move to Linux. Actually nowadays it is easy to use java and tomcat on freebsd. First one has to install a JDK. I myself prefer diablo-jdk. Go to /usr/ports/java/diablo-jdk15, type make install and follow the instructions. Due to java licenses you have to manually fetch some files from internet and put them in /usr/ports/distfiles. If you are required to use sun jdk, you can install it from java/jdk15. Note that it will need an existing jdk to bootstrap. By default it uses linux-sun-jdk and I had problems with it in the past. In this case I used diablo-jdk and sun jdk15 installed correctly. From my experinece, however, I can tell that tomcat runs fine with diablo-jdk. Next go to /usr/ports/www/tomcat55/ and install it and you have java and tomcat. I/You/He/She/We love FreeBSD, though;; Oh yes, we loves FreeBSD, don't we, my precious? Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?
Hello, I am using Acer TravelMate 4060 and I am very satisfied. The wireless card works very well and I had no problems with the video card. Regards Rambius ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable
In Sofia, Bulgaria as well. Regards Rambius On 9/14/07, Pablo Mora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/07, Caio Figueiredo Abecia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The website isn't working here too. (Brazil) In Chile neither -- PGP KeyID: 0xC730A079 Key fingerprint = F626 3C47 02F5 E43C 6620 8A1B E7A8 533B C730 A079 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys C730A079 ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML e-mail Microsoft Attachments FreeBSD Since 4.x unixbsd.blogspot.com maintainer ... ¿Dónde están aquéllos tres que en Babilonia prefirieron ser quemados a ceder?, ¿Dónde está aquél Daniel que me adoraba?, ¿Dónde está la santidad de aquél José?, ¿Dónde está ese niño que mató al Gigante?, ¿Dónde están los sucesores de Josué?, ¿Dónde están esas mujeres entregadas como Ester? ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring OpenLDAP on FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Problems.
Hello, On 8/23/07, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I am pretty new with LDAP too :) I have no documentation beside the one I found from Googling around. Hi Olivier, There are a few good books about LDAP out there, but most of them are quite old unfortunately. Anyhow, I found that reading LDAP System Administration by Gerald Carter from O'Reilly was a good help in understanding LDAP, deploying OpenLDAP and configuring applications to fetch data from the LDAP directory (i.e. sendmail, replace NIS, PAM, FTP, Apache, DNS, etc). Get more info at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ldapsa/index.html I really recommend this book. Its initial chapters helped me get openldap up and running just for a couple of hours. Since I am also interested in programming and scripting with ldap I also found helpful Deploying OpenLDAP by Tom Jackiewicz http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594134/105-1483603-1926857. It contains a chapter discussing the LDAP APIs for a couple of languages. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jdk15
Hello On 6/29/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I did was to install the native freebsd jdk, that is diablo-jdk (port java/diablo-jdk) and then I installed java/jdk-15 port. i'll try that. thanks... will report how it went... didn't do much. it installed very quickly I do not know how you installed diablo-jdk it but it definitely takes time when installed from ports. First it asks you to download the sources for diablo-jdk from http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml. Due to licensing issues you have to manually download it to /usr/ports/distfiles after you accept the license agreement and rerun 'make install' for diablo-jdk port. I myself have been using diablo-jdk on my developement laptop and it is fully-operational JDK. If you require some JDK, diablo-jdk will do fine. If you require specifically Sun JDK, there are more steps. but after i run the make in the jdk15 port again i got the same errors. I was able to roughly recall my memories on how I installed sun-jdk. First, I started java/jdk-15 port (sun jdk) and it asked me to manually download to /usr/ports/distfiles java sources from sun's site. After I fetched them and rerun the installation for java/jdk-15, it installed some of its dependencies and failed at installing java/linux-sun-jdk-15, again asking me to fetch some file from sun's site. This time the file was the java precompiled binaries for linux and after I fetched it, the installation process for java/jdk-15 was able to start the installation for java/linux-sun-jdk-15. I did not monitor the process closely from now on but it failed again. Then I simply installed java/diablo-jdk-15 and it went fine. Then I returned to java/jdk-15, cleaned the port, repeated the installation and it succeeded. not really sure about those arguments calls/methods If you can, please paste them here. I am curious about them. -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com wasn't tangra a rock band in the 80's?! Yes, it was. Then there as a Bulagrian radio with the same name, which now an Internet radio and broadcats at the address above. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jdk15
On 6/29/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yea... i did all that stuff for both ports too. all the downloads, etc. i've been using freebsd as main os on my laptops for 5 years now - have never used windows. and java has historically been a pain in the ass to set up on freebsd. Well, except the problems with linux-sun-jdk, i found diablo-jdk easy to install. right now i just wanted it to use it for openoffice. the thing is after i did diablo there is a java vm installed So you installed diablo-jdk successfully, right? but the openoffice i got on this install using the pkg_add is complaining about it. the setup script crashes and hangs. of course there is a large log on it but i also have a day job... I installed openoffice from ports as well, it compiled for 12 hours :) If you have diablo-jdk just try to install it from ports as well. I myself prefer ports to packages. one thing i did forget about is to clean the jdk15 port. stupid. anyway it's doing it now again how long did it take to build on your machine? I do not remember :) not really sure about those arguments calls/methods If you can, please paste them here. I am curious about them. if it happens again i'll send you the whole output... wasn't tangra a rock band in the 80's?! Yes, it was. Then there as a Bulagrian radio with the same name, which now an Internet radio and broadcats at the address above. yea... i saw that. interesting. is the radio out of bulgaria? Yes, it is, I am listening to it from US. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unable to login using KDE
Hello, I am debugging a (seemingly) KDE-related problem on a FreeBSD laptop. The version of FreeBSD is 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #0. I am starting in in debug mode. It is using kdm as a login screen. The corresponding line in /etc/ttys is ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure The problem is: when I type the username and password and try to login it returns me to the login screen again. I am 100% sure that I use correct passwords since I changed them for a couple of accounts. I am able to login from the text terminals. There are two suspicious messages when the machine is booted. The first one is: Information: reading old kdmrc /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc (from kde = 2.2.x) Information: old kdmrc is from kde = 3.1 (config version 2.3) The second one is: kdm_config[543]: Host some gibberish text not found and it is repeated four times with a different gibberish text. I googled for these errors but found nothing. I would be very grateful for any advice or pointers. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hi ;
Hello, On 3/14/07, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/03/07, Halil Guven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sırs I want to open in FreeBSD program 21,443,11905,11907,12341 15501 ports.How can i do these. Please inform me and thanks in advance of your help. Wait of your kind replay. Pardon me - but what are you trying to do? Sounds to me as if you're trying to install some applications from ports. In my opinion, the original requestor wants to open the corresponding TCP ports :) With so little information, I assume that either the network applications listening to those ports are not running or the ports are blocks by a firewall. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: odule php5_module is already loaded, skipping ?
Hello, On 3/5/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Guys, I have apache 2.2.4 and PHP 5.2.1 installed this what I get when I restart the apache. # apachectl restart [Mon Mar 05 03:29:45 2007] [warn] module php5_module is already loaded, skipping Obviously there are two LoadModule directives for php5_module in your httpd.conf file. Remove one of them and the message will disappear. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Restoring FreeBSD grub loader
Hello, Thank you for your response. On 10/1/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on one machine with grub boot loader. In the beginning there was only one entry in grub - namely FreeBSD. Later, I had to install Windows XP on the machine and of course, it destroyed grub and now I cannot boot FreeBSD. I tried with booting from the FreeBSD installation disk choosing Fixit option, but I could not use successfully grub-install command. My question is: how can I restore the FreeBSD grub loader? Could you please give me any hints or advance. Thank you very much in advance. Regards Ivan -- I would suggest you make a grub booting floppy disk then you can escape to command mode once the disk loades and install grub with root (hd0,0,a) # or wherever it is setup (hd0 # again wherever it is assuming you have already placed the grub bootfiles on your hard drive and configured menu.lst you should be all set. I have only encountered one computer this method failed. In fact, I am using a laptop that does not have a floppy drive, so I could not use booting floppy disks. you could alternatively flip the kernel tunable that allows raw writes to the boot sectors of the disks. I don't recall what it is but I think the grub docs talk about it in the man or info pages. I'm supprised XP messed it up, 2000 seemed to respect existing bootloaders... I fixed the problem in the following way: I have another FreeBSD laptop, so I copied its boot sector using the command # dd if=/dev/ad0s1a of=/mnt/bootsect.bsd bs=512 count=1 Then I used bootsect.bsd to to boot in FreeBSD via the NT loader (I found this link useful: http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/09.10.shtml). After I boot to FreeBSD I installed the grub loader. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Restoring FreeBSD grub loader
Hello, I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on one machine with grub boot loader. In the beginning there was only one entry in grub - namely FreeBSD. Later, I had to install Windows XP on the machine and of course, it destroyed grub and now I cannot boot FreeBSD. I tried with booting from the FreeBSD installation disk choosing Fixit option, but I could not use successfully grub-install command. My question is: how can I restore the FreeBSD grub loader? Could you please give me any hints or advance. Thank you very much in advance. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE and libflashplayer - help?
Hello, On 9/26/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've followed the instructions at http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php. libmap.conf contains: [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2 libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash7.so libz.so.1 libz.so.3 libm.so.6 libm.so.4 libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash7.so And (having looked through this list's archives) ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/flashplayer.xpt /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplayer.xpt But konqueror doesn't see a plugin either in the /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/ or /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/ folders. Firefox does nothing. And there I am stuck. What am I doing wrong? I also tried the same steps and had the same problem: konqueror does not find the flash plugin. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to load iwi firmware at boot time
Hello, I have an Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 running on it. I have Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless network card which I use successfully. I have the following iwi related entries in rc.conf: ## Intel Wireless Adapter settings iwi_enable=YES iwi_interfaces=iwi0 iwi_mode=bss ifconfig_iwi0=ssid DHCP This used to bring up my iwi0 interface at boot time and I had a working internet connection after the machine had booted. However, this morning I did make world (attaching cvsup files for the kernel and ports for completeness). The iwi firmware was not loaded at boot time and the following messages are given: $ dmesg | grep iwi iwi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG mem 0xb0101000-0xb0101fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci6 iwi0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xb0101000 iwi0: bpf attached iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:13:ce:0c:45:a1 iwi0: bpf attached iwi0: bpf attached iwi0: [MPSAFE] iwi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps iwi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps iwi0: Please load firmware I have to manually load the firmrare invoking the following commands as root: # iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss # ifconfig iwi0 up Could you please advise me how I can load automatically the firmware during boot time? Regards Ivan P.S. Here is the output of uname -a: FreeBSD . 6.1-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Sep 26 13:13:00 EEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com cvsupfile Description: Binary data portsupfile Description: Binary data ___ 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 load iwi firmware at boot time
Hello, On 9/26/06, Ivan Rambius Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have an Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 running on it. I have Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless network card which I use successfully. I have the following iwi related entries in rc.conf: ## Intel Wireless Adapter settings iwi_enable=YES iwi_interfaces=iwi0 iwi_mode=bss ifconfig_iwi0=ssid DHCP This used to bring up my iwi0 interface at boot time and I had a working internet connection after the machine had booted. However, this morning I did make world (attaching cvsup files for the kernel and ports for completeness). The iwi firmware was not loaded at boot time and the following messages are given: $ dmesg | grep iwi iwi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG mem 0xb0101000-0xb0101fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci6 iwi0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xb0101000 iwi0: bpf attached iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:13:ce:0c:45:a1 iwi0: bpf attached iwi0: bpf attached iwi0: [MPSAFE] iwi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps iwi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps iwi0: Please load firmware I have to manually load the firmrare invoking the following commands as root: # iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss # ifconfig iwi0 up Could you please advise me how I can load automatically the firmware during boot time? Regards Ivan P.S. Here is the output of uname -a: FreeBSD . 6.1-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Sep 26 13:13:00 EEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I was able to fix it. I created an executable script located at /etc/start_if.iwi0. It contains the following line: iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss This script is executed at boot time and it loads the firmware. Thank you for the nice docs althought scattered in the Web. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with X mouse pointer
Hello, After an year of successful using of FreeBSD, a friend of mine asked me to install it on her laptop. The laptop is Pestigio Visconte 120 with Intel 855 chipset. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and run X with only one problem. The mouse pointer in X is not a normal arrow, but a white big square. I can use the mouse - the pointer, although a square, responds to moves and clicks. I googled and I found some threads about redglass and whiteglass themes and I have them in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons. Could you please help me in adjusting the pointer in the X environment? I also enabled the mouse in the text terminals and it works fine - the pointer is an arrow. I am attaching /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/rc.conf (with network information masked) for completeness and uname -a gives: FreeBSD . 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 Thank you very much for your help in advance. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com xorg.conf Description: Binary data rc.conf Description: Binary data ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with X mouse pointer
On 9/24/06, Ivan Rambius Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, After an year of successful using of FreeBSD, a friend of mine asked me to install it on her laptop. The laptop is Pestigio Visconte 120 with Intel 855 chipset. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and run X with only one problem. The mouse pointer in X is not a normal arrow, but a white big square. I can use the mouse - the pointer, although a square, responds to moves and clicks. I googled and I found some threads about redglass and whiteglass themes and I have them in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons. Could you please help me in adjusting the pointer in the X environment? I also enabled the mouse in the text terminals and it works fine - the pointer is an arrow. I am attaching /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/rc.conf (with network information masked) for completeness and uname -a gives: FreeBSD . 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 Thank you very much for your help in advance. Regards Ivan Hello, I found the solution by accident. I enabled the following option Option SWcursor True in Section Device in xorg.conf, then I restarted X and the mouse pointer was fine. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Calling setxkbmap when starting X
Hello, Thank you for your response. I think what you're looking for is xinit(1). My own: $ cat ~/.xinitrc #!/bin/sh xmodmap .xmodmaprc xsetroot -solid dimgray xgamma -gamma 0.8 exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session I forgot to explain that I do not start X manually with startx command. It is started on boot time by adding the following line in /etc/ttys: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure I think that in this case ~/.xinitrc is not called. Note also you can also define keyboard settings in rc.conf: $ grep keymap /etc/rc.conf keymap=us.iso.kbd.custom My own custom keymap is a quick hack to swap the Caps_Lock key with Escape for non-X uses (something that only vi users would appreciate). Alternatively, KDE, like Gnome, etc. most likely offers a mechanism to execute scripts at startup, but I'd advise against that approach. I googled a little bit about localizing FreeBSD and found that one can configure it in xorg.conf. In my case I add the following setting in the Keyboard section: Option XkbLayoutus,bg Option XkbOptions grp:alt_shift_toggle Option XkbVariant ,phonetic Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Calling setxkbmap when starting X
Hello, I am from Bulgaria and I use Bulgarian language on my FreeBSD machine. I use the following command $ setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us,bg -variant ,phonetic -option grp:alt_shift_toggle to enable both Bulgarian and English. However, I call this command every time I log in KDE. Is it possible to invoke it automatically when X is started? Thank you in advance for your answers. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 6.1 laptop with wireless internet
Dear Colleagues, I have a laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 on it and it is working fine. I recently received a card for wireless internet; it is in fact a Verizon Wireless PC5740 card and I am wondering if I can set it up on my FreeBSD laptop. I googled about it and I found [1] mentioning about some configuration in the kernel. I also checked the wireless network section in the Handbook, but I did not make any progress. Could you give me some hints and advice about this? Thank you in advance for your help. Regards Rambius P.S. I verified that the card is really working on a Windows laptop. [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/077555.html -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting up Sound Blaster Pro card
Dear Colleagues, I am trying to set up my sound card and I am finding some difficulties. First, here is the description of the hardware. I use Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop with 512 MB RAM with Intel Chipset 915GM. The Audio Section taken directly from the laptop's user guide is: Audio system with two built-in speakers Built-in microphone Sound Blaster Pro and MS Sound compatible. Second, the FreeBSD version is $ uname -a FreeBSD petya.myhome.westell.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 27 03:08:18 EET 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM20060127 i386 The only difference of my custom kernel and the generic one is that I added device atapicam to configure my CD burner. Next, here are my attempts of configuring the sound card. I read [1] and I checked /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES to find some clues which driver should be loaded. I also googled about Sound Blaster Pro + FreeBSD and found [2] and I concluded that I have to use snd_sbc, snd_sb8 and possibly snd_sb16. I added the following three lines to /boot/loader.conf snd_sbc_load=YES snd_sb8_load=YES snd_sb16_load=YES I then rebooted my machine and when it started I ran dmesg: $ dmesg | grep sound Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/sound.ko at 0xc0ab82d8. $ dmesg | grep snd Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/snd_sb16.ko at 0xc0ab8228. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/snd_sbc.ko at 0xc0ab8384. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/snd_sb8.ko at 0xc0ab8430. kldstat shows Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 13 0xc040 632618 kernel 21 0xc0a33000 4fc0 snd_sb16.ko 34 0xc0a38000 1d408sound.ko 43 0xc0a56000 4934 snd_sbc.ko 51 0xc0a5b000 49ec snd_sb8.ko 6 16 0xc0a6 568dcacpi.ko 71 0xc1e7a000 2000 blank_saver.ko 81 0xc1e9 15000linux.ko I also started pciconv -lv and the relevant section about audio is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:27:0:class=0x040300 card=0x008f1025 chip=0x26688086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High DefiNition Audio Controller' class= multimedia This makes me think that no driver is attached to the sound card. cat /dev/sndstat shows FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: Also when I enter kde, it says that device /dev/dsp cannot be found and when I try to play an mp3 file with xmms, it shows a dialog titled Cannot open video. I also tried with no success to build a custom kernel with by adding device sound device snd_sb8 device snd_sb16 Could you please help in finding the right configuration? If you need more information I will be happy to provide it. Thank you very much in advance Regards Ivan [1]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html [2]http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2005-February/005866.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'?
Hello, baring this, is there a better tool to use then rpm? I am a newbie in freebsd with ambitions to become a master :) and up to now I have installed tons of software using freebsd ports collection and freebsd packages and I found them better than rpm. Anyway, FreeBSD can run rpm as well (if rpm is installed of course :) ). On 1/17/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the subject asks, is there an equivalent? I'm trying to install linux apache2 on a FreeBSD box, and would like have rpm do as much as possible as far as getting the dependencies and downloading them ... Well, when I installed my FreeBSD on my laptop, I was questioned whether I would like to run a Web Server and I answered yes, so I had apache2 installed. You can compile and install httpd from ports collection with the following command (as root): cd /usr/ports/apache20 make install clean Or you can install from a prebuilt binary package with the command pkg_add -r apache2. Regards Rambius ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
