KDE4 package
Hello, yesterday, I was happily installing kde4 from packages with: pkg_add -r kde4 with $PACKAGESITE set to: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/Latest/ I had to kill the install at the end of the work day, and when I attempt to finish installing this morning, I get (and can verify via FTP) 'file not found or no access'. So, the kde4 package(s) was/were moved during the night? Any help is welcome, thanks. JRL ___ 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
sparc64 nfs client locking: Operation not supported
Hello, I'm booting an UltraSparc machine with tftp over NFS. The boot server is i386 running 5.4-PRERELEASE, the UltraSparc nfs root is 5.3-RELEASE. On the server, I'm running: mountd (-r) nfsd (-u -t -n 4) rpcbind rpc.statd rpc.lockd The Ultra will boot fine, however, whenever I attempt to create an account, set a passwd, etc (anything that requires a file lock), I get an error telling me Operation not supported. Thus, I have only a root account with a null password 80 rpcinfo(8) shows: program version(s) netid(s) service owner 10 2,3,4 local,udp,tcprpcbind superuser 15 3,1 tcp,udp mountd superuser 13 3,2 tcp,udp nfs superuser 100024 1 tcp,udp status superuser 100021 4,3,1,0 tcp,udp nlockmgrsuperuser and the Ultra kernel is built with: options BOOTP# User bootp to obtain IP address/hostname options BOOTP_NFSROOT# NFS mount root filesystem w/ bootp info options BOOTP_NFSV3 # NFSv3 for mount root options BOOTP_COMPAT # Workaround for broken bootp daemons options BOOTP_WIRED_TO=hme0 # Use interface hme0 for BOOTP I didn't find anything recent on the web to suggest that this shouldn't work; I may have missed something in configuring the setup. Any advice is welcome. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Sound not working
Miguel Mendez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 11:55:00 -0300 (ART) E. J. Cerejo wrote: Hi, I upgraded to FreeBSD 5.3 with a clean install and now I can't get the sound to work on my machine, I have Creative AudioPCI (ES1371, ES1373), this card under 4.x stable use to work fine with ^^ device sound device snd_emu10k1 That's not the driver for the es137x, you need device snd_es137x Do I still need the device sound in the kernel file? From the FreeBSD Handbook, 7.2 Setting Up the Sound Card: The first thing to do is adding the generic audio driver sound(4) to the kernel, for that you will need to add the following line to the kernel configuration file: device sound [snip] Then we have to add the support for our sound card. Which is where 'device snd_es137x' comes in, so yes, you do still need to add that line to your kernel conf _if_ you want sound support built in to the kernel. If not, you can add the appropriate line to /boot/loader.conf to load the module at boot time. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade failure
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 18:29:51 +0100 (CET), Marco Beishuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried to upgrade firefox with portupgrade, but it fails with the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]# portupgrade firefox Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..^Cfailed to generate INDEX! index generation error /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:482:in `open_db': database file error (PortsDB::DBError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:634:in `port' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:822:in `all_depends_list' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:915:in `tsort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:907:in `each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:907:in `tsort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:929:in `sort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:933:in `sort_build!' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:674:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `initialize' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `new' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:1845 Does anyone know what the problem is? You may be able to make this problem go away by doing: # cd /usr/ports # make fetchindex -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:31:37 -0600 (CST), Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu Jan 6 09:58:55 2005 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:55:10 -0700 Danny MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:35:43PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:37:41 -0700 Danny MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not intuitive, but you do not want to use the make a bootable CD function of Sonic RecordNow! to make a bootable CD. On what basis is the above statement made if you haven't used Sonic RecordNow! ? It certainly looks to me as though the green button is the *only* way to burn an image (not counting making an exact copy of On the basis of your characterizing the little green button as being for making a bootable CD, and my understanding of that function in alternative software. In short: I misunderstood. I apologize for the misdirection. Oh. That was because, if one places the cursor over the green button, a box appears temporarily bearing a line that says, Click here to make this CD/DVD bootable. And, as noted in a different posting in this thread, that button brings up a browser panel for choosing an image file (but not displaying .iso files among the choices) to burn in making the bootable disk. Just an additional note for clarity: If I understand - and I don't have the rest of the thread so I may be missing something - you want to make a bootable CD of one of the ISO images. In that case, you do NOT want to use any of the options on your local machine to create a bootable CD because the ISO image is already a bootable image. It needs merely to be written raw to the media. When your utility asks if you want to create a bootable CD, it is asking if you want it to add a boot record for it and the other pointers to the file to make it bootable. Since the FreeeBSD ISO already has that stuff in it, you don't want it done again. So, choose the options that just write the data image directly to the CD with no additions. No, no. This is wrong. You missed the explanation I posted regarding Sonic RecordNow!, as well as an earlier one by Robin Becker. The green button is the only way to tell the application that the file(s) it is to burn is/are image file(s), and it doesn't know that .iso files are a type of image file, so it doesn't list them in its browser unless you tell it to display *all* files in the chosen directory. Obviously, this Sonic RecordNow? software isn't working well for you. Have you considered any of the alternatives that burn isos without problems; Nero, Alcohol, Fireburner ? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clearing space
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:05:42 +, Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 07:53 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Let's say I want to mv /sbin /usr/sbin mv /root /usr/root How problematic can this become? I can anticipate at least having to revise perl scripts that reference the sendmail path, although ln -s /usr/sbin/sendmail /sbin/sendmail will avoid having to 'fix' source code, right? How about: #mv /sbin /usr/sbin #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin #mv /root /usr/root #ln -s /usr/root /root Or just stop logging in as root, setup a user account for admin tasks, and learn to use sudo ;) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: slow sendmail starting on a lan
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:50:39 -0600, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here I am running into is this... sendmail is taking for ever to start on a box. My main server has no problem, but this box takes a long time starting sendmail. Here are the related config files and ect for the box it is slow on. The only difference is a this one has a few less services enabled on it than server and the server has actual nameservers configured. This box uses a dns proxy/cache on the server for dns. Any ideas? /etc/hosts ::1 localhost localhost. 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost. /etc/nsswitch.conf group: nis files hosts: nis files dns networks: files passwd: nis [unavail=continue] files shells: nis files ypcat of hosts 192.168.0.3 fennec fennec. 192.168.0.2 vixen42 vixen42. /etc/resolve.conf nameserver 192.168.0.2 /etc/rc.conf defaultrouter=192.168.0.1 hostname=fennec ifconfig_xl0=inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 inetd_enable=YES linux_enable=YES moused_enable=YES nfs_client_enable=YES nfs_server_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES usbd_enable=NO nis_client_enable=YES rpcbind_enable=YES nisdomainname=Vulpes inetd_enable=YES #lpd_enable=YES This may be completely irrelevant, but I don't see sendmail_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make sudo failed
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:48:42 -0500, Marty Landman # make build make install rehash which sudo /usr/sbin/sysctl: not found /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 797: warning: /usr/sbin/sysctl -n kern.osreldate returned non-zero status sudo-1.6.6.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/. fetch: http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/sudo-1.6.6.tar.gz: Not Found Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/sysadmin/sudo/. fetch: ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/sysadmin/sudo/sudo-1.6.6.tar.gz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.stikman.com/pub/sudo/. Receiving sudo-1.6.6.tar.gz (333074 bytes): 100% (ETA 00:00) 333074 bytes transferred in 112.4 seconds (2.89 kBps) === Extracting for sudo-1.6.6_1 md5: not found *** Error code 127 Stop in /usr/ports/security/sudo. Marty, did you move /sbin back to its original place in the file tree? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:58:22 -0500, Duane Winner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gustaaf wijnands wrote: Just a couple more questions: If I keep my ports tree cvsup'd every day, I'm going to have: openoffice-1.1.3 needs updating (port has 1.1.3_1) We generally do a portupgrade -a to upgrade ports unless /usr/ports/UPDATING affects us. How can I get around the openoffice discrepency since a portupgrade -a will always try build it again and end up failing? portupgrade -a -x openoffice-1.1.3 ?? I must be losing it. I looked at the man page twice and didn't see that -x switch. Must be Friday or something. Thanks -- that does it. -DW However, please note the response that mentions using HOLD_PKG in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf; that'll save you from having to use -x at all. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD trashed after installing Win98SE in lower partition - what to do?
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:42:37 -0600, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My questions have to do with the mess I have left after trying to do a dual-boot system with Win98SE and FreeBSD 4.9+. After running the FreeBSD system for nearly a year, and loving it, I finally got around to digging up the media I needed to do the Win98SE install, and my FreeBSD partition is now unbootable. This, obviously, is very disturbing. You can install the GAG boot manager: http://gag.sourceforge.net/ and then tell it to boot into either Win98SE or FreeBSD. It'll work fine with whatever state your existing MBR is in, within reason. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free BSD
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:27:29 -0700, Tom Vilot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duane Winner wrote: No way, Beavis, that's golf balls you're thinking of. They put people's heads in bowling balls, dumbass. Beavis! Your balls are filthy. Too the ball washer *now* . But you just keep on responding :( -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 4.10 and finding dependant packages
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:59:24 -0800, Jordan Michaels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my questions is simple: What do I need to do to figure out what packages require apache to be installed? I've worked with SuSE's YAST tool and RPM's (and tools that manage RPM's... like YAST), but what's the BSD way to go about this? You can manage software quite well with the ports collection. This is a good place to get an idea of how packages and ports differ, and how to use them. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html Then you can use portupgrade to keep your installed ports and dependencies up-to-date. It'll save you some headache. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install.cfg disklabel customization question
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:23:05 -0600, Curtis Almond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to be able to do the following 1. Create a / partition of x size 2. Create a swap partition of x size 3. Create a /usr partition of x size 4. Create a ufs partition of the rest of the disk but it is not mounted at boot. What I have thus far is: # label disk 1 # IDE ad0s2-1=ufs 3969000 / ad0s2-2=swap 3969000 none ad0s2-3=ufs 3969000 /usr ad0s2-4=ufs 0 /usr100 Anyone know how to make /usr100 not mounted at boot time? Don't put it in /etc/fstab. Then you can use mount(8) to mount it when you need to. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:01:22 -0800, Paul Krill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was doing some browsing on the Web, looking for something else, and bumped into this. It seems like a lot of people already know. Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/05/2005 10:59 AM To: Paul Krill [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:53:07 -0800, Paul Krill wrote This is Paul Krill of Infoworld magazine. I would like to speak with someone at FreeBSD regarding issues with Sun. I am at 415-978-3228 or email me with a number where I can call you. Thanks. Where did you get this information? What information? This post is very lacking in details. What is it? If you're the poster, what's your point? Why -questions? If it's just something I don't get, please clue me in. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:08:44 -0800, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:05:03PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:01:22 -0800, Paul Krill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was doing some browsing on the Web, looking for something else, and bumped into this. It seems like a lot of people already know. Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/05/2005 10:59 AM To: Paul Krill [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:53:07 -0800, Paul Krill wrote This is Paul Krill of Infoworld magazine. I would like to speak with someone at FreeBSD regarding issues with Sun. I am at 415-978-3228 or email me with a number where I can call you. Thanks. Where did you get this information? What information? This post is very lacking in details. What is it? If you're the poster, what's your point? Why -questions? If it's just something I don't get, please clue me in. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/20041221-newsletter.shtml Thank you. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:41:30 -0800, Remington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone seen this or know to fix it. CVSup last night cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1 make install 10 hours later Local Script Particel Zip (c) 2000 Sun Microsystems mkdir -p ../unxfbsd.pro/01/normal rm -f ../unxfbsd.pro/01/normal/* rm: No match. lzip -p . -e ../unxfbsd.pro/misc/lzip.log -l 01 -f openoffice.lst -d ../unxfbsd.pro/01 -n OfficeOSL -e ../unxfbsd.pro/01/Logfile.txt -C ../unxfbsd.pro/01/checksums.txt Local Script Particel Zip (c) 2000 Sun Microsystems WARNING! Project(s): gtk not found and couldn't be built. Correct build.lsts. - === Installing for openoffice-1.1.3_1 === openoffice-1.1.3_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.5 - found === openoffice-1.1.3_1 depends on executable: pkg-config - found === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if editors/openoffice-1.1 already installed ./install: not found *** Error code 127 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1. There's a thread on this list from yesterday that states plainly that OpenOffice does not build on FreeBSD 5.3: Not on 5-STABLE it doesn't. The lzip build tool crashes a couple of times during the build and the make install fails with: /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb :1001 -screen 0 800x600x24 /dev/null 21 echo $! /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/.Xvfb.pid ./install: not found *** Error code 127 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1. However, it does build on 4.11-STABLE. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:52:16 +, Simon Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:58:24 -0600, Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a thread on this list from yesterday that states plainly that OpenOffice does not build on FreeBSD 5.3: However, it does build on 4.11-STABLE. I have OpenOffice 1.1.3 running on 5.3. All that i neded to get it to build from ports was to install jdk14 before, as it tires to use the linux java which doesnt work. Unless things have changed in the past month or so?? -- Theres no place like ::1 Not sure; I don't run 5.3; It was mentioned yesterday that, specifically, OpenOffice from the ports will not build on 5.3-STABLE. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:58:47 -0700, Tom Vilot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides ... with a name like hardcodeharry, I would expect a little more intelligence; a little more willingness to dig into things. A slight tendency to ask the question: how can I hack this code to work, and how would I contribute those modifications to the BSD team? But I see none of that. In short: troll. Anyone with a reasonable desire to use any of the *nixes would have enough smarts to know: 1. check the hardware compatibility lists to determine whether or not the hardware you want to run is going to work with the particular *nix you want to use. This is no different between BSD and Linux, Solaris, etc. 2. Don't expect every damn piece of hardware out there to work out of the box with an older version of the kernel for the given *nix. This is NOT WINDOWS (thank god) and just because you have a particular piece of hardware doesn't mean it's going to work. It is your responsibility to know this and to work with it. 3. Ask questions politely in the appropriate forums, and be civil. Failing to do so is probably not going to get your question answered. I for one was drafting a post for this list thanking *everyone* on it for being the kind of terrific help they are when Boris' post appeared. The kind of discourse I see on this list (and on other BSD oriented lists) is a huge and welcome contrast to the childish banter I see on most of the Linux (and MacOS and Windows) discussion lists out there. It is like the kind of professional enthusiasm I remember on the BeOS lists. As a result ... please pardon me if I am intolerant of behavior and attitudes that sound to me like that which I left behind when I put FreeBSD on my laptop and two servers Very well said, Tom, and accurate. Thank you. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MySQL
From: Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:16:40 -0600 Subject: Re: MySQL To: Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:03:08 -0500, Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a 5.3 version of FreeBSD. I want to install MySQL Can you please tell me what version of MySQL I should install? And where can I get installation and configuration instruction? Thanks, Leon. While I certainly don't mind being mailed off-list, I'll assume that you intended to submit this question to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. I have forwarded it appropriately. I would recommend you use the ports collection to install MySQL and any other software that you need. In order to ensure that you have the most recent ports collection, you should learn to use cvsup. There is excellent information on this in the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html I believe that versions 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, and even a version of 5 of MySQL exist in the ports collection. I have experience only with 4.1, so I can't attest to which you _should_ use, also I don't know what your intended use is, but 4.1 should be just fine. Once you have the ports collection up-to-date, you can install MySQL by doing: # cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql41-server # make install clean HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make installworld - permission denied
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:14:13 -0800, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Urgh, it was all going so well. I suppose it had to happen: I did as the hallowed handbook commanded: #make buildworld #make buildkernel KERNCONF=L004 #make installkernel I rebooted into single user mode: #mount -a #cd /usr/src #mergemaster -p #make installworld (setting of variables omitted, i'm typing from the screen!) /tmp/install. make -f Makefile.inc1 reinstall make: Permission denied ***Error code 126 Stop in /usr/src ***Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src After you boot into single-user mode, you should do: # fsck -p # mount -u / ^^^ to remount / read-write # mount -a -tufs ... ... HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?
On 04 Jan 2005 07:40:23 +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, it's in the ports tree. I don't think we've ever included a linux openoffice port - are you perhaps thinking of staroffice, for which a freebsd binary is not produced by sun? There's been quite a few reports of people having trouble getting past the java tools install which is needed to build the port. Unless that challence is interesting in itself, it's probably more convenient to download and install a binary package from somewhere in the general direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html Java is a beast in that you need to download the necessary files manually and that it takes awhile to build, however, it's not as daunting as some would have you believe. If you follow the instructions, it'll build just fine. I installed jdk14 and openoffice- 1.1.3 Sunday on a 4.11-STABLE machine in four hours. It works well so far, and I did not encounter any unforseen headaches. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Troubles with your OS on my hardware
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:20:44 +0300 (MSK), Arseny Solokha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I'm ArsenyI bought FreeBSD 5.2.1 on 2 CD from your distributor - www.linuxcenter.ru. And I have troubles with this system. 1. I have videocard Sapphire RADEON 9200 SE and I cannot start X-server with my videocard. X-server returns a messages such as 'Cannot connect with device', 'Missing device' or 'Missing driver'. 2. I have optical mouse A4Tech WOP-35 and X-server don't work with this mouse. But it's work with classical mechanic mouse. Laser mouses also doesn't support, does it? 3. When I install this OS can I install on this HDD other OSes (e.g. Windows)? 4. I have try to install this OS on virtual machine managed by VMware Workstation 4.0.2 build 5592 under WinXP. Firstly, when I checked packs for installation, installer tryed to copy 'expat'. It copyed 1024 KB @ 1kbps and installer was down. I reply this operation few times then loader return me a message like this: 'Primary master failed'. Of course, OS doesn't loading now. I bought my money for this CDs because I need to work and develop programs in this OS but I cannot do it! I need a workable system there and now, ON MY HARDWARE!!! Please solve this problem! 5.2.1-RELEASE has met with the end of its life: The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect recent EoL (end-of-life) events. The new list is below and at URL: http://www.freebsd.org/security/ . FreeBSD 5.2.1 has `expired' and is no longer supported effective January 1, 2005. Also note that FreeBSD 4.9 ceased to be supported on November 1, 2004, while FreeBSD 4.8 will continue to be supported until March 31, 2005. As another poster recommended, you should check for any conflicts regarding VMWare. Also, you may want to try installing the OS on its own partition on the hard disk, rather than complicating your situation with VMWare. You are not likely to get help by demanding that someone fix your problem. This is 'our' OS (including you); we all do our part, and the software comes with absolutely no guarantees. If you did some Googling, you would find that many, many people have had problems similar to yours. The answers to your questions are out there, but you may need to do some homework. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:04:24 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:17:13AM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: Dave Horsfall wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html And if you follow the ports route instead, just how many more bloody hoops do we have to jump through? I did it, and it wasn't hard, just confusing. It is confusing because you need to know that: 1. You need the linprocfs mounted to make java/linux-sun-jdk14 2. You need to install java/jdk14 before you try to build OpenOffice (even though this is not listed as a dependency). Note: this is from my memory, which is not always 100% what it should be. Installing native jdk14 isn't that hard, as long as you follow the instructions to the letter. I've tried to compile openoffice from scratch using the port (it worked before), but this time it bombed near the end with a program 'lzip' dumping core because it was fed a wrong package list (?). I tried to track the problem down, but it was too deeply hidden within the OO build process, so I finally gave up and fetched the binary package which works perfectly. This was 2 weeks ago; perhaps OO compiles perfectly now? It does; at least, it did on Sunday afternoon ;) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make install clean question
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:53:06 +0100, Olof Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm a newbie with a problem. I tried to install phpmyadmin from the ports. When I ran the make install clean for the first time I got a screen where I could make a couple of choices. I chose to install with something called mysqli. The make install process stopped and I got this message: anderssons1# make install clean You may use the following additional build option: WITH_SUPHP=yes Install appropriately for use with the www/suphp port [default: no] Unknown extension mysqli. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/phpmyadmin. I tried to run the make install clean again to be able to not select the mysqli but I only get the same message again. I tried to find information on how to reset the install but did not succeed. I have FreeBSD 5.3. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance. Both of these should do that: # make rmconfig or, # rm /var/db/ports/portname/options -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Please
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:09:39 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ANYONE: I have a huge problem. Our systems admin at my work went nuts and locked us out of our BSD 5.0 server. He has disabled anyone's su privs. Did he have good reason for the above action? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hostname lookups? (tcpdump output)
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:23:49 +0100, Florian Hengstberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Active Internet connections Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state) tcp4 0 0 lazarus.49201 hpat989.external.http TIME_WAIT tcp4 0 0 lazarus.49199 66.102.9.104.http ESTABLISHED tcp4 0 0 localhost.smtp *.*LISTEN udp4 0 0 localhost.49158localhost.ntp udp4 0 0 localhost.ntp *.* udp4 0 0 lazarus.ntp*.* Secondly: I'm only running ntp and ssh (and mozilla), why is a socket listening on the smtp port? Sendmail is part of the base system, and will listen on the smtp port unless instructed not to in /etc/rc.conf: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO That will completely disable sendmail. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is mplayer port broken ?
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:44:33 +0100, Xinizul Xinizul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all: I'm trying to make the port mplayer using make install clean mechanism in my FreeBSD 5.3 I get the following message: --- Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/. fetch: ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2: size mismatch: expected 221757, actual 221736 Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/. fetch: ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2: Operation timed out Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mplayer/. fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mplayer/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2: size mismatch: expected 221757, actual 221736 Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/mplayer and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer-skins. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer. --- Could someone help me to workaround this or to notify to the maintainer about this issue ? Feel free to let the maintainer of the port know; the email address is in the Makefile. You can build it without the skins by doing: # make -DWITHOUT_SKINS install clean HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is mplayer port broken ?
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:44:09 +0100, Xinizul Xinizul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will use this solution. Downloading the tar from the URL posted above gives me the same bad result. I'll let the port mantainer it know then. Please note the response from Kent Stewart about updating your ports collection. While the solution I proposed will 'get you where you want to go', Kent's advice will likely make things easier for you in the long run. It's always important to keep the ports tree and your INDEX up-to-date. For more information on how to use cvsup, see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Apache 2.0
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:23:15 -0600, Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 29 December 2004 09:55 am, Fernando Matzdorf wrote: Help!! I recently downloaded version 2.0 of the Apache server from their website, and I tried to install it to my system using pkg_add but was unsuccessful (maybe it's not a package but I can't tell). I downloaded it on a Windows XP computer, burned it to a cd, then tried to install it on my FreeBSD computer, because configuring my WinModem on FreeBSD is practically impossible. You should become familiar with the online handbood and with FreeBSD's ports system, which makes the installation of thousands of applications quite easy. You will find that Apache2 is included in the ports. The section of the handbook regarding the installation of applications can be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html You may also want to spend the time and money to pick up a modem that will work with FreeBSD, as you will need an internet connection to effectively use the ports collection. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd on 2nd drive?
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:15:11 +0200, Cezar Fistik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ice, Yes you certainly can do as you planned, although I'm not sure if GAG works when run from a floppy. GAG *is* a floppy, and will work from the floppy just fine. You can (optionally) choose to run it from the hard disk. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:17:29 -0600, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is one of main point I'm trying to make in all of these talks. How are they ever going to know it's out there and when they do make first contact don't you think we should greet them in a professional manner? Sorry if I mangled the message a bit when I cut out all the fluff. I was under the impression that cross-posting to multiple lists was discouraged. Can we just pick one? It's not uninteresting, just so redundant... -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
less -f
Hello, # uname -a FreeBSD voyager.swabbies.local 5.2.1-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p13 #0: Sat Dec 11 19:35:53 PST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/home/src/sys/VOYAGER i386 I was reading a reply to the thread, Pop-up or plugin or script for folder change that said: Just like everything else, a directory *is* just a file. Go ahead, use vi or most[1] to look inside! and [1]: I think less (more is really less here) is less willing to cooperate on directories than most. So, I did man less(1), and found this: -f or --force Forces non-regular files to be opened. (A non-regular file is a directory or a device special file.) Also suppresses the warn- ing message when a binary file is opened. By default, less will refuse to open non-regular files. However,: ls -l ~netmin | grep mydir drwxr-xr-x 2 netmin netmin 512 Dec 29 10:45 mydir less -f ~netmin/mydir /home/netmin/mydir is a directory Can someone explain this behavior to me? I admit that I may not understand the -f flag wholly, however, this seems in direct contradiction with the man page. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd on 2nd drive?
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:40:53 -0500, Haulmark, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone broke the silence: it...n00bish. They would completely freak out at the sight of turning on the computer and not seeing the XP startup screen. I just use the BIOS to change back and forth with the hard drives. Just have to go into the habit of switching back to the first hard drive after a shutdown or reboot for your family. In order to make it absolutely transparent to the parents, it sounds like leaving the BIOS set to: 1) FDD 2) HDD0 then booting from the GAG floppy when you want to use FreeBSD would be the simplest. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: local ports (Mozilla Calendar)
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:06:30 -0700, Tom Vilot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to quickly make a local port or a local package that I can then use to do things like: make package make uninstall pkg_delete I don't know if there's a 'quick' way, but you can do # cd /usr/ports/category/portname And, if the port is not installed on your system, you can do: # make package and it'll build and install the port on your machine, and put a binary package in /usr/ports/packages/All. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd and NAT
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:33:28 +0300, Igor Pokrovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:07:32PM +0300, Igor Pokrovsky wrote: Does anyone knows if it's possible to do NAT with pppd. I know it's possible with ppp, but pppd didn't reveal me any clue. Sorry for replying to my own message. I found the solution - it is possible to use natd and ipfw to do the job. If anyone is interested I can send complete solution. Also, from man ppp(8): The -nat flag does the equivalent of a ``nat enable yes'', enabling ppp's network address translation features. This allows ppp to act as a NAT or masquerading engine for all machines on an internal LAN. Refer to libalias(3) for details on the technical side of the NAT engine. Refer to the NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION (PACKET ALIASING) section of this manual page for details on how to configure NAT in ppp. [snip] and... Supports NAT or packet aliasing. Packet aliasing (a.k.a. IP masquerad- ing) allows computers on a private, unregistered network to access the Internet. The PPP host acts as a masquerading gateway. IP addresses as well as TCP and UDP port numbers are NAT'd for outgoing packets and de-NAT'd for returning packets. [snip] and... NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION (PACKET ALIASING) The -nat command line option enables network address translation (a.k.a. packet aliasing). This allows the ppp host to act as a masquerading gateway for other computers over a local area network. Outgoing IP pack- ets are NAT'd so that they appear to come from the ppp host, and incoming packets are de-NAT'd so that they are routed to the correct machine on the local area network. NAT allows computers on private, unregistered subnets to have Internet access, although they are invisible from the outside world So, you can do NAT with ppp, as well ;) HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting Apache 2.0.52 in rc.conf under FreeBSD 5.3
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:30:13 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran writes: BM http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcng.html BM BM Unfortunatly, this document doesn't fully explain how /usr/local/etc/rc.d BM has changed, but it's a good start nonetheless. More can be gleaned BM by following the links to other man pages, and reading the various BM /etc/rc scripts themselves. I've looked at this and lots of other stuff, and I've tried lots of things, and I still can't get it to work. Any chance that someone who has a working rc configuration for starting Apache 2.x automatically could show me what to place in which files, so I can build them myself? Supposedly the ports version of the product sets up these files. I have apache2 working fine on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p13. In /etc/rc.conf I have a line that reads: apache2_enable=YES and in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I have: -rwxr-x--x 1 root wheel 183 Dec 28 13:55 000.apache2libs.sh -rwxr-x--x 1 root wheel 2047 Dec 28 13:55 apache2.sh Apache2 starts normally at boot time. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for 'ideal' web-server partitions
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:33:04 +0100, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to create a web server for a few personal web sites (virtual named hosts) using Apache, Perl, PHP and MySQL. Maybe later using mod_perl and ssl. No mail servers or other complicated stuff, just a plain-vanilla web server for the general public and an average visitor traffic of below 1000 per day. I have 40G to use up on an AMD Sempron 1300+ with 512MB and was just wondering what would be a good way to divvy up the partitions. I was thinking something like this: SWAP1024M / 1057M /db 6.3G /usr24G /var4.2G /www42G I've heard arguments for and against a separate /db and/or /tmp partition as well as using a /home. Also I see that there is a /usr/local/www directory already so perhaps the /www partition is not required. Is a separate /db partition really needed? I'm pretty confused and would like to setup my web server the right way once and for all. Are there any standard recipes and/or guides to figuring this out or is it just a bunch of guess work? How does this look? A root partition of 128M ought to be just fine, though you may want to put /tmp on a slice of its own. It looks like you plan to put databases and htdocs on slices of their own as well, so /var can be much smaller; I generally use a 256M /var slice, and have had no problems with space for logging. 24GB is a nice, fat /usr slice. You could easily trim that back, since again, it appears you plan to store db and www on unique slices. Maybe something like: SWAP 1024M / 128M /tmp 256M /var256M /usr10G (?) /dbwhatever size you like /www whatever size you like HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting Apache 2.0.52 in rc.conf under FreeBSD 5.3
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:43:08 +0100, Anthony Atkielski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks ... but what exactly do these two .sh files contain?
# cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/000.apache2libs.sh
case $1 in
start)
/sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/apache2
;;
stop)
;;
*)
echo
echo Usage: `basename $0` { start | stop }
echo
exit 64
;;
esac
# cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh
#
# $FreeBSD: ports/www/apache2/files/apache.sh,v 1.10 2004/11/13
18:23:34 clement Exp $
#
# PROVIDE: apache2
# REQUIRE: NETWORKING SERVERS
# BEFORE: DAEMON
# KEYWORD: FreeBSD shutdown
#
# Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf to enable apache2:
# apache2_enable (bool): Set to NO by default.
# Set it to YES to enable apache2
# apache2ssl_enable (bool): Set to NO by default.
# Set it to YES to start apache with SSL
# (if IfDefined SSL exists in httpd.conf)
# apache2limits_enable (bool):Set to NO by default.
# Set it to yes to run `limits $limits_args`
# just before apache starts.
# apache2_flags (str):Set to by default.
# Extra flags passed to start command.
# apache2limits_args (str): Default to -e -C daemon
# Arguments of pre-start limits run.
#
. /etc/rc.subr
name=apache2
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
start_precmd=apache2_precmd
restart_precmd=apache2_checkconfig
reload_precmd=apache2_checkconfig
command=/usr/local/sbin/httpd
pidfile=/var/run/httpd.pid
required_files=/usr/local/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
[ -z $apache2_enable ]apache2_enable=NO
[ -z $apache2ssl_enable ] apache2ssl_enable=NO
[ -z $apache2_flags ] apache2_flags=
[ -z $apache2limits_enable ] apache2limits_enable=NO
[ -z $apache2limits_args ]apache2limits_args=-e -C daemon
load_rc_config $name
checkyesno apache2ssl_enable \
apache2_flags=-DSSL $apache2_flags
apache2_checkconfig()
{
echo Performing sanity check on apache2 configuration:
${command} -t
}
apache2_precmd()
{
if test -f /usr/local/sbin/envvars
then
. /usr/local/sbin/envvars
fi
if checkyesno apache2limits_enable
then
eval `/usr/bin/limits ${apache2limits_args}` 2/dev/null
else
return 0
fi
}
sig_reload=SIGUSR1
extra_commands=reload
run_rc_command $1
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Re: x86 files
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:25:31 -0500, Julian Sy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, my names Julian and I seem to be having a problem on your site. I see all the other platforms but I can't find the freebsd files for x86 platforms. In supported platforms it says, with the exception of x86, since most of the information on the remainder of the site already pertains to that platform However, I can't find anywhere on the site for the files to x86 platforms. I'm just stupid, can you just send me a link to the file through this email. You can install over ftp or fetch the isos from a number of ftp sites: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
Great suggestions, everyone! Now, can we PLEASE move this thread off of -questions. It doesn't belong here. Thank you. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 03:26:15 -0700, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Use: sendmail_enable=none This will disable all sendmail processes. Please don't top-post. Also, the above is deprecated, and the pertinent documentation shows the following: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd?
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:42:32 +0530, Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jayson Alvarez Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 20:27 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd? Good day, I currently have this setup at home and its working fine with FreeBSD 4.10. Motherboard: Jetway 830CH Hard Drive: 10 Gb Samsung Video Card: SiS on-board Processor:AMD Athlon 1200 Mhz (this is not an Athlon XP) Memory: 256 mb PC100 SDRAM I bought a new 80 Gb Seagate 7200 rpm Hard Drive and installed it on the primary master my pc. The access mode for my hard drive Primary Master: ST380011A in BIOS which shows these choices is set to Auto: CHS LBA Large Auto I boot into FreeBSD 5.3 cd and proceed with the installation. Some time after choosing the X-User in the installation method, it ended up failing to install some packages(perl and xorg). Still, it says, Congratulations... FreeBSD is now installed... (and I'm really hoping that nothing went wrong with the base system, and thinking to just install perl and xorg later). I removed the cd, and boot the pc. The kernel boots silently until this error message showed up: ad0 Warning_Read_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=1518639 ad0: Failure_Read_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84 ICRC, ABORTED LBA=1518639 spec_getpages:(ad0s1a) I/O read failure:(error=5) bp0xc65fe2ec vp0xc16f7d68 size: 32768,resid:32768,a_count:37268, valid: 0x0 nread:0, reqpage:7, pindex:61, pcount:8 vm_fault:pager read error, pid 55(sh) pid 55(sh),uid 0:exited on signal 11 Dec 24 17:28:39 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: I suspect a bad Drive Cable. Could you tell us about how you have installed the drives? I mean master slave-configuration,etc Or it could be a problem with the broken DMA on 5.3 that countless others have posted to this list about? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3
On 24 Dec 2004 11:33:53 +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated document. In my experience, it should be pretty straightforward. There are a couple of things which are not done automagically by the port, IIRC - * adding the lines exim_enable=YES sendmail_enable=NONE to /etc/rc.conf Although this is deprecated. Please use the following rather than sendmail_enable=NONE: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:02:30 -0800, Jay O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Friday 24 December 2004 07:38, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:16 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup. Following the Dru Lavigne article on portupgrade at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page =1 I installed portupgrade and then ran portsdb -Uu. It errored out, telling me that I shouldn't use my refuse file that stopped the non- english docs and ports from being loaded on my HD. In trying to understand this issue, I found portmanager, and it looks like it would perform the same function as portupgrade. My questions: Is there a way around the refuse file prohibition, perhaps with portmanager? Does portmanager replace portupgrade? portmanager doesn't require the INDEX files to keep ports up to date, so the refuse file is a non issue with it. -Mike Sounds good. What's the downside, if any, to using portmanager instead of portupgrade? All of your ports will be built with the correct dependencies, they will work better leaving you less to complain about in the mail lists and so you will become bored. Because everything is working exactly as it should you may begin to think you are a Maytag repair man, nothing much to do, just always setting around waiting for something to break. I don't use portmanager myself, but isn't it the case that portmanager rebuilds not just ports that have newer versions in the ports tree, but also all ports that recursively depend on those ports. I just updated kdehier with portupgrade in about a minute. The whole of KDE depends on kdehier, so presumably portmanager would have taken several days, and kdehier isn't particularly unusual. I would see that as a major downside. When it's necessary UPDATING will suggest running portupgrade -rf to force rebuilding. That kind of UPDATING entry is in a small minority, which suggests to me that most of the problems with ports don't stem from the sequence of their updating, so I can't see how portmanager is any kind of magic-bullet. So portmanager rebuilds whether it needs it or not, and portupgrade only rebuilds when there is a later distribution of the software? The distinction between the two is not clear to me. I believe that what the responder was trying to get across is that portmanager handles the dependencies for you, where portupgrade will only handle dependencies if you spcify the appropriate flags on the command line, such as: # portupgrade -rR This is my first try to update ports, and I want to set up a procedure for updating that I can follow in the future. I've used portupgrade much more than portmanager. Portupgrade has never steered my wrong, when I have read /usr/src/UPDATING and followed the proper procedures. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: does FreeBSD support nvidia ethernet?
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:38:51 +0300, alexei kozlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Gurus. I have EPOX 8rda3 motherboard based on nvidia2 chipset with 2 ethernet interfaces. One is well known -- rtl8139. It works (great). The other is based on nvidia chipset. And I do not know what to do to activate it in FreeBSD. What driver support this ethernet interface. I believe the appropriate driver lives in: /usr/ports/net/nvnet -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated document. snip Although this is deprecated. Please use the following rather than sendmail_enable=NONE: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO Where do you see this: sendmail_enable=NONE labelled as deprecated? That doesn't appear to be the case, in the documentation I have accessed. I 'see this' in man rc.sendmail(8): sendmail_enable (str) If set to ``YES'', run the sendmail(8) daemon at system boot time. If set to ``NO'', do not run a sendmail(8) daemon to listen for incoming network mail. This does not preclude a sendmail(8) daemon listening on the SMTP port of the loopback interface. The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be used. It will be removed in a future release. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:05:30 -0500, Joe Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:31:37PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated document. snip Although this is deprecated. Please use the following rather than sendmail_enable=NONE: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO Where do you see this: sendmail_enable=NONE labelled as deprecated? That doesn't appear to be the case, in the documentation I have accessed. I 'see this' in man rc.sendmail(8): sendmail_enable (str) If set to ``YES'', run the sendmail(8) daemon at system boot time. If set to ``NO'', do not run a sendmail(8) daemon to listen for incoming network mail. This does not preclude a sendmail(8) daemon listening on the SMTP port of the loopback interface. The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be used. It will be removed in a future release. You mean this man rc.sendmail? RC.SENDMAIL(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual Yes, man rc.sendmail(8). I guess I'm really not sure what your malfunction is, Joe. What do you not understand about 'deprecated' and 'will be removed in a future release'? BTW, I really don't care to discuss it any further; if you have any additional information for the OP, by all means, give it. Otherwise, have a happy holiday, and drop it. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mkfifo: No such file or directory
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:08:19 +, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running 5.3 Stable, how can I configure FreeBSD that I can use the printer on the windows pc Please read the official documentation: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.html -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Switching FreeBSD machines
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:50:12 -0500, RL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a P4 2.8GHZ, 256MB RAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard-drive. I might just start from scratch. I just got a bad feeling I will run into problems. The biggest pain in the ass was getting Java to work on my old system. Besides that, I don't have any critical on my old system that I wouldn't mind starting from scratch again. Yes, apparently folks have had alot of trouble with java. Just to give you a confidence boost, I very recently built jdk14 on a 5.3-RELEASE machine *by the instructions*, and it built without problems, and apps were able to find it afterwards. If that's all that's keeping from starting from scratch, don't worry about java; it's not that bad. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with installing Java
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:03:05 -0500, Zachary Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still trying to install Java (to FreeBSD 4.8), which is needed for Tomcat. Are the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/x60.html outdated? If you follow the instructions, you cannot find the file j2sdk-1_3_1_10-linux-i386.bin at sun.com. so 1). where can I find this file? or 2). are there other instructions on the web to go a different route? thanks. Is there any reason you can't use jdk14 ? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfw - a detailed howto
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:30:50 +0100, Florian Hengstberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi! Can anybody recommend an in deep guide to ipfw? Yes. 'man ipfw(8)' If that's not in-depth enough for you, I don't know what would be ;) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Desperate for Help
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 02:47:19 +0100, J65nko BSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:24:02 -0500, alfredo perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heloo list I have been trying to set up my FreeBSD 5.3 to get my emails with no results. I have installed and set up Mutt, Ssmtp and Fetchmail. None of them are working properly. I have no idea where to start first. I have already read the man pages and followed several how-tos I found on the internet but no results. I was wondering if any of you know of a web site with steps that I can follow to sep up my Mutt, fetchmail and ssmtp. I dont want to give up on this!!! THANKS Start with fetchmail. You need a .fetchmailrc file in your home directory. Some examples poll pop.domain2.com protocol POP3 timeout 60 no dns user loginname password 'poppassword' is homedirowner here, options fetchall fetchlimit 0 poll pop3.domain.com protocol POP3 user [EMAIL PROTECTED] password poppasswd is homedirowner here, options fetchall As you can see some ISP's require only your login name, others require [EMAIL PROTECTED]. You can run fetchmail -v to see where you get stuck. This is an example for googles gmail, using SSL poll pop.gmail.com protocol POP3 timeout 60 no dns user gmailname password gmailpassword ssl is homdirowner here, options fetchall fetchlimit 0 If you are new to all this MTA, MUA and SMTP thing, you could consider to use Pine. mutt is nice but as a beginner Pine is probably easier to understand and configure than mutt. Ah! If you want to learn to use Mutt, learn to use Mutt. Now that you've got an idea of how to setup fetchmail, you'll want to create a ~/.muttrc file. There are many, many sample .muttrc files online; Google is your friend. This is the example I worked from when I first setup Mutt: http://www.hserus.net/muttrc.html All I had to do to get Mutt working with ssmtp was to tell Mutt to use ssmtp in ~/.muttrc set sendmail=/path/to/ssmtp HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what can i delete from /usr
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:31:43 UT, goose bla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello,, please. i have not big hdd,, and i need to make free place. what can i remove from /usr and system will be OK ? example: /usr/ports/distfiles/ - i can remove all files. in /usr/ports i can do rm -rf \*/work/ i can remove /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/*after reboot with new kernel. can i remove /usr/src/sys/amd64 or /alpha if a have i386 platform ? Yes. In fact, if you have tuned your kernel to your liking, you can just as well do: # rm -r /usr/src/sys And if you don't plan to rebuild the system anytime soon, you could remove even more: # rm -r /usr/src/* Other candidates for removal on my /usr partition are: /usr/games - this server don't need no stinking games! /usr/sup- I keep my cvsup stuff elsewhere And, you can remove old cruft from /usr/obj, like: # chflags -R noschg /usr/obj # rm -rf /usr/obj/* HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what can i delete from /usr
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:42:58 +, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: goose bla wrote: hello,, please. i have not big hdd,, and i need to make free place. what can i remove from /usr and system will be OK ? example: /usr/ports/distfiles/ - i can remove all files. in /usr/ports i can do rm -rf \*/work/ I bet you install your ports by doing a 'make install', if you do, you can probably better make an 'make install distclean' with the distclean option turned on, it automatically removes the ~/work/ directory's and the distfiles in /usr/ports/distfiles/. If you want to keep your distfiles you can just do 'make install distclean' ^^^ Ack! If you want to keep your distfiles, you can just do: # make install clean -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VIM
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:56:18 -0500, Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have installed a VIM editor. When I create a new file with this editor, I can't type anything. What is wrong. Probably nothing. If you are, indeed, new to the vi editor, then you have a steep learning curve ahead of you, and you'll want to do some reading and use one of the many vi tutorials online to get your head around how this editor works, because it is absolutely not intuitive. Some good starting points are: 'man vi(1)' http://www.unb.ca/documentation/UNIX/tips/vim/ http://www.apmaths.uwo.ca/~xli/vim/vim_tutorial.html http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/vi.html -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best newsgroup?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:21:46 -0500, Pervert Files [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, What is the best newsgroup to read freebsd question. muc.lists.freebsd.questions doesn't seem to be updating with anything on my news provider. Well, a google search on 'freebsd questions archives' shows: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-September/059184.html http://archive.pilgerer.org/mharc/html/freebsd-questions/ -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ 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 get it online
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:20:21 -0600, Bagus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I hope this mailing list can help. I just installed freebsd 5.3-Release onto a new hard drive and I can't seem to get it online with my dhcp cable modem thru a linksys hub. Later it will be moving to a static ip, so any help with that transition now would be helpful too, but for now I have the machine at home and need to install software on it. If I give a ifconfig fxp0: flags =8802 bradcast, simplex, multicast mtu 1500 options =8VLAN_MTU ether 00:a0:c9:e6:11:b1 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status:active there'splip0 and lo0 as well... ping freebsd.org ping: cannot resolve freebsd.org: Host name lookup failure. As an aside, I'm stunned this isn't a FAQ or part of the freebsd manual: How to get your computer online. Really I'd rather not be posting this question to a mailing list. It seems so basic, yet I can't find an answer out there. If anyone has any references, I'd appreciate it. Hostname lookup failure sounds like a dns problem to me. Is there anything in /etc/resolv.conf ? How is fxp0 assigned an IP? DHCP? If so, do you have a line like the following in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_fxp0=DHCP How did you setup the Linksys? Default (out-of-the-box) settings? Is the DHCP server turned on at the router? What does the status page of the router settings show? The FreeBSD Handbook is a great reference: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:20:40 +0200, P. B. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I do that? explore2fs is for ext2/3 only. I want to copy files from my FreeBSD filesystem (UFS2, I think?) using Windows. http://us1.samba.org/samba/ # cd /usr/ports/net/samba3 # make install clean Then you can share your FreeBSD files over Samba, and have access to them from your Winboxen. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with IPFILTER
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:41:30 +0100, Dott. Surricani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: each time I restart the server the rules are cleared and It leave all packets enter and exit an I have to type in the shell ipf -Fa -f /etc/ipf.rules and ipnat -CF -f /etc/ipnat.rules In /etc/rc.conf 'man rc.conf(5)' -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ 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 get it online
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:00:32 -0600, Bagus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ping freebsd.org ping: cannot resolve freebsd.org: Host name lookup failure. Hostname lookup failure sounds like a dns problem to me. Is there anything in /etc/resolv.conf ? No, there is not even a /etc/resolve.conf. What should go in there? How is fxp0 assigned an IP? DHCP? I think so. That's the way it should be. If so, do you have a line like the following in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_fxp0=DHCP That line was not in there. I added it and rebooted. The boot process now started the dhcp client, but still no actual ip address is reported in the ifconfig. How did you setup the Linksys? Default (out-of-the-box) settings? plugged it in, plugged cable modem into uplink, plugged this pc into one outlet, the freebsd box into another. PC works fine. Lights indicate connectivity to bsd box. Is the DHCP server turned on at the router? What does the status page of the router settings show? That's supposed to be http://192.168.1.1, isn't it? I can't access that even from my pc. Any advice there would be helpful. BTW, I'm using Cox as a ISP. You can set fxp0 to use a static IP until you get the router working. # ifconfig fxp0 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 # route add default 192.168.1.1 In /etc/rc.conf, you should have: ifconfig_fxp0=DHCP defaultrouter=192.168.1.1 You should be able to login to the Linksys admin page: http://192.168.1.1AFAIK, most of the Linksys home networking devices use a blank username and password 'admin' by default. Make sure that the DHCP server is enabled, and restart. HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best newsgroup?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:28:58 -0600, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes that worked, cool, now I can search every newsgroup with the word freebsd in it: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=*.freebsd.* http://www.google.com/bsd -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:02:42 -0500, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 22, 2004, at 12:29 PM, P. B. S. wrote: I'm talking about 1 (one) computer! The FreeBSD partition is on the same hard disk; the 2 operating systems are not working at the same time. Samba, ftp, scp, etc. are not applicable here. That's why I mentioned explore2fs... I wanted to be clear. What about mounting the Windows partition under FBSD? Yeah, is writing to NTFS implemented now? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSH into FBSD after Minimal Install?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:13:07 -0600, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm re-installing FreeBSD on a machine that currently has FreeBSD on it. I'm doing all this remotely over SSH. If I install with Minimal distribution set with sysinstall will I be able to enable SSH and add a user before the system goes down? You can do about any administrative task from sysinstall, including drop into a shell, so yes, I would think you will be able to do that. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia wireless
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:54:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i am using the 5.0 dist, and i cant get it to read my pcmcia ethernet card. it is rather old card with a cat-5 connector on it for plugging into my router. it is called ositech trumpcard and it is the jack of dimonds model the card works because i tried it on the same computer before loading freebsd and i could surf the net with it. is there a driver avaliable for this card or should i go get a wirless one? (i cant find any cabled ones) if i need to get a wireless one, what brand do you recomend? i do have a wirless g router here. I don't know much about wireless technology or setting it up on FreeBSD, however, you're likely to be asked Why 5.0? It is no longer supported, and is quite old. Have you got specific reasons for not going with 5.3, which is the production release? So I'll just get that out of the way ;) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ 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 get it online
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:42:43 -0500 (EST), Jim Trigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, December 22, 2004 1:30 pm, Joshua Lokken said: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:00:32 -0600, Bagus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How did you setup the Linksys? Default (out-of-the-box) settings? plugged it in, plugged cable modem into uplink, plugged this pc into one outlet, the freebsd box into another. PC works fine. Lights indicate connectivity to bsd box. Is the DHCP server turned on at the router? What does the status page of the router settings show? That's supposed to be http://192.168.1.1, isn't it? I can't access that even from my pc. Any advice there would be helpful. BTW, I'm using Cox as a ISP. Not if you haven't reconfigured the router; the default is http://192.168.0.1. [I wish I could site the exact model number] I just setup two Linksys 4-port 10/100 routers with wireless, and they were both set to 192.168.1.1 out of the box. In fact, that what's Linksys' website says, too: When the browser window opens, go to the Address bar and type in the router's IP Address and click on the Go button (192.168.1.1 is the default IP address of Linksys Routers). It's all in TFM ;) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:18:58 +, Irvin Piraman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, is writing to NTFS implemented now? From the manpages: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_ntfsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html WRITING There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed files are also not supported. The file name must not contain multibyte charac- ters. Very nice! I hadn't looked into it for awhile... Thank you, Irvin :) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating from thunderbird to mutt?
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 02:13:57 +0100, Matthias Buelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Can mutt handle um like 5+ email address and have them all separated and be able to send from diffrent email accounts? No. Yes. How does it handle hyperlinks, if I select something will it open up in firefox or whatever? No. Yes. Message filtering, for example I have all the different freebsd mailing lists automatically put into different folders, and junk mail sorting? No. You have to setup procmail (or a similar program) to do that for you. Wrong. Mutt'll do it just fine. Just wondering; have you ever used or seen Mutt? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do I have to rebuild my jails too when I rebuild the server?
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:33:33 +0100, Daniel Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, thank you but that page didn't help very much. I know how to rebuild and update the server, and I've done it many times but what I need to know is if I must rebuild my jails to when I rebuild the server. Maby the hostsystem and the jail gets out of sync? On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:31:04 -0600, Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:23:26 +0100, Daniel Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a big fan of jails and use three on my server. I also try to keep my server up to date and I rebuild it frequently but when I rebuild my server, update to the latest version, do I also have to rebuild my jails? Apparently you missed the link and the line Some tips for updating your jails can be found at ;) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php5.0.3_1 doesn't run after update
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:59:40 +0100 (CET), Joerg Pulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, bob wrote: ... portupgrade -v php5 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library /usr/local/lib/php/20041030/session.so In /usr/local/lib/php I have: drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1536 Dec 20 13:58 20040412 hi, i don't know what was going wrong during your update, but if you take a closer look at the above lines you will see the cause of your problem. the directory which contains the extensions is different to the one you have configured in php.ini. try to set extension_dir = /usr/local/lib/php/20040412 in php.ini and try again. yesterday, i made a fresh php5 install and my extensions are in /usr/local/lib/php/20041030. don't know why this is not the case for you after upgrading from a previous version. Yes, you'll definitely want to update your ports collection before attempting to 'update' any ports. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apparent change in php4 port build procedure...
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:46:54 -0500, Bruce Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm upgrading to mod_php4-4.3.10
In the past, the make procedure presented me with a detailed
menu of options. Now, it appears to just ask me these questions 3:
- apache 1 vs 2
- debug
- ipv6
and not all the other stuff like mysql, imap, and so forth.
I can easily add the configure args I want to /usr/ports/lang/php4/Makefile,
like
this:
--with-mysql=/usr/local \
--with-layout=GNU \
--with-config-file-scan-dir=${PREFIX}/etc/php \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr \
--with-regex=php \
--enable-ftp \
But I liked the old menu system, as it saved me figuring out
the configure args. Was there a reason to move away from that,
or is there a new mechanism I am not aware of ?
from /usr/ports/UPDATING:
20040719:
AFFECTS: users of PHP
AUTHOR: ale at FreeBSD.org
The old lang/php4 and lang/php5 ports have been split
into 'base' PHP, PEAR, and shared extensions to allow
more flexibility and add new features.
Upgrading your current PHP installation will result in a
'base' PHP installation (no PEAR and no extensions).
PEAR can be found in the new devel/php4-pear and
devel/php5-pear ports, while the set of PHP extensions
to install can be choosen via the meta-ports
lang/php4-extensions and lang/php5-extensions, or installing
singular extensions individually.
The syntax may not be verbatim, as I pulled the snippet
from another posting, but there lies your answer ;)
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Re: (cvsup newbie questions)
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:09:00 -0600, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Tinnin wrote: Well, if you build a port with make options once, then it will remember your make options. Otherwise, you can enter make arguments in /etc/pkgtools.conf, although this only helps if you know what arguments the ports you're installing might need. What do you mean it remembers what make options I used... if I do a portupgrade it without setting MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf it will remember my make options from the last time I built it? Also how to I make it unremember make options I don't want anymore? I don't know about that. If I want portupgrade to use custom make flags, I specify them in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. To remove options from a previous build, you can do: # rm /var/db/ports/portname/options Also, semi related, whats this Generating INDEX-5 - please wait.. thing and why does it take an hour for it to generate? The machine is building the ports collection INDEX-5 file from the make describe output of all of the ports. You can simplify this process by doing 'make fetchindex' after you cvsup each time. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (cvsup newbie questions)
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:13:05 -0800, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] IIRC, pkgtools.conf only works with the pkgtools apps, like portupgrade. I don't think it works with making the port from the tree itself (like if you cd to the folder and make install clean), but options you use in building it from the ports tree will be stored in /var/db/ports/portname/options, as mentioned above. This is what I meant by remembered. Yes, correct. Also, semi related, whats this Generating INDEX-5 - please wait.. thing and why does it take an hour for it to generate? The machine is building the ports collection INDEX-5 file from the make describe output of all of the ports. You can simplify this process by doing 'make fetchindex' after you cvsup each time. Yes, although you should cd /usr/ports before you do that. I guess the way people are doing this now is cvsup ports, cd /usr/ports make fetchindex portsdb -u (this last step will be done automatically when it needs to be done, but you can do it anyway after a ports tree update). You can also use /usr/ports/sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex , which speeds up the process of making a new INDEX locally. Ah, yes, it does help to be in /usr/ports when one runs 'make fetchindex'. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash - superuser
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:29:37 +0100, David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote: Hi, I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2. I have installed bash from ports. How is possible to use bash in root account ? Thanks a lot Don't. Leave /bin/sh as your shell. 'Leave' /bin/sh as your shell makes it sound like /bin/sh is the default root shell. Did this change in FreeBSD 5.x? It appears that in 4.x, the root shell is /bin/csh by default, which [I believe] is linked to /bin/tcsh. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do I have to rebuild my jails too when I rebuild the server?
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:23:26 +0100, Daniel Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a big fan of jails and use three on my server. I also try to keep my server up to date and I rebuild it frequently but when I rebuild my server, update to the latest version, do I also have to rebuild my jails? Can I have a jail built with 4.10 and use it without problems in 4.11 and so on? I do not have a specific answer to that question, however, this doc may help you determine what you need to do: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-August/055091.html -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make buildworld dies
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:49:53 -0500, Zachary Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for so many questions. On yet another FreeBSD (4.2), I first did a sysinstall to upgrade to 5.10, Wha? 4.2 is very old. and 5.3 is the latest production release. I'll assume the above is a typo for 4.10. I'm not certain that you can directly upgrade from 4.2 to 4.10, but in any case, you want to read /usr/src/UPGRADING. it messed up everything because the source (/usr/src) did not match all the config files, so sendmail complains a lot and cannot ssh or telnet to the system. I then did a cvsup (without specify which release, simply cvs) successfully (took like 10 hrs) I don't believe this is what you wanted to do. If you're going to track a particular release, let's say 4.10, then you want to use the appropriate cvs tag for that src tree, which for 4.10 release will be RELENG_4_10. cd /usr/src make buildworld after about 8 min, it stopped with the following error: cc -O -pipe -DSHELL -I .I/usr/src/bin/sh -Wall -Wfont (? cannot see my own writing) -c /usr/src/bin/sh /usr/src/bin/sh/mknodes.c:101. initializer element is not constant ***error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/bin/sh *** error code 1 stop in /usr/src. That seems reasonable. now I am sort of stuck. I made a new kernel the day before the sysinstall, but now I cannot even try compile a new kernel because it compains the config file is newer than what it wants. It sounds like your src tree needs to be cleaned up (# rm -rf /usr/src/*) and that you should read the Handbook chapter on using cvsup, write yourself a src-supfile, or use one of the examples, and then follow the well-documented procedure for upgrading your system from source. is my system totally messed up? Probably, but the handbook is a great resource, and will help you to prevent it from happening again. right now apache still works, but I can telnet or ssh out but to the host Wow, I'm surprised that Apache is still able to run ;) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup newbie questions
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:11:18 -0800, Kevin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in upgrading to gnome 2.8 (and possibly the newer releases of other applications)...I'm running the following version of freebsd: 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 In starting to learn cvsup, I'm trying to figure out what I need. The src-all collection seems like it is more than I want to update. Freebsd seems to be working fine on my system and I don't think that I want to upgrade any kernel or OS-related programs unless any applications that I would want depend on it. So, if I am just interested in the latest fixes/version for applications running on 5.3-Release, should I just upgrade the ports collection ? There is an example supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile. Would this be the best configuration to use ? Also, when I do upgrade the ports tree, I'm assuming it will just upgrade the skeleton tree, correct ? Even if I do upgrade src-all, its not going to down load the .tar files for all the source code ? The src tree, which gets updated if you cvsup src-all is the source code to rebuild the operating system. The ports tree is, you're correct, the skeletons for building third party software, which includes gnome. If you want to install the latest version of gnome, you should cvsup the ports tree (ports-all), then cd into the directory for the gnome meta-port (it builds gnome and alot of associated apps) and build it, like so: # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 # make install clean Go away on a vacation for the holidays, and when you get back, you _should_ have gnome built and installed, along with alot of goodies. As you're running 5.3-RELEASE, I don't believe most applications will require a system update, however, if you want to track security and critical patches to the OS, then you will want to cvsup the src tree (src-all) and use the RELENG_5_3 tag in your src-supfile. You should read: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pure-Ftpd
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:22:34 -0500, alfredo perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know a web site where I can get the steps to follow in order to set up a FTP server using Pure-Ftpd on Freebsd 5.3 release? thanks Yes. http://www.pureftpd.org/documentation.shtml -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: updating pkgdb results invalid argument
On Dec 15, 2004, at 10:21 PM, Noah wrote: FreeBSD-4.9 any clues why this is happening? the update of the package DB ends off with invalid argument. --- snip # pkgdb -Fu --- Updating the pkgdb Invalid argument On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:38:54 -0800, Lapo Nustrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure you don't mean to do: # pkgdb -fu Lapo Lapo, please don't top post. from man pkgdb(1): -F --fix Interactively fix the package registry database. -u --update Update or create the package database file pkgdb.db in $PKG_DBDIR, which is /var/db/pkg by default. Note: if the ports database files are stale, pkgdb will automatically update them before proceding, so manual updating is not mandatory. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel configuration
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:42:02 -0500, Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm installing a BSD, and by documentation what provided, on the beginning of installation I should see Kernel Configuration screen. But after the system buts from my CD, it bring me to the Sysinstall Main Menu. It skip Kernel Conf. Should I configurate a Kernel? If yes, how can a get to this screen? You can [generally] wait until after the system is installed to configure a custom kernel. If you don't have any wonky hardware, the GENERIC kernel, installed by default, should get your system installed and running. When you do get to the point where you want to make changes to the kernel, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Config Script for Webserver
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:45:05 -0600, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a config script for setting up a web server? I need to get my own server up and running ASAP. Well, probably yes. However, you would benefit much more from reading the available docs at http://httpd.apache.org/ and getting an understanding for what you're doing when you put up a webserver. You should be able to find many, many how-tos by using your friend, Google. http://www.google.com/bsd On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:57:05 -0600, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading and playing with my server for a week, plus reading the Handbook and The Complete FreeBSD. But I really need to get the server up tonight and I really don't want to worry that I missed anything that will compromise security. Post your config and detailed info on whatever problem you're having; someone will be able to help you. You may also want to try the folks at the apache mailing lists. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Config Script for Webserver
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:45:05 -0600, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a config script for setting up a web server? I need to get my own server up and running ASAP. Well, probably yes. However, you would benefit much more from reading the available docs at http://httpd.apache.org/ and getting an understanding for what you're doing when you put up a webserver. You should be able to find many, many how-tos by using your friend, Google. http://www.google.com/bsd -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hylafax Help
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:26:15 -0500, Alvaro Rosales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys is there any hylafax hpwto for freebsd?. It looks like there are some hints in this thread (however sparse): http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/2004-02/1531.html And Google says that there may be pertinent info on FreeBSD-specific Hylafax config in the FreeBSD Corporate Network's Guide: http://www.bsdmall.com/freebcornetg.html -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rl0: watchdog timeout
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:08:24 +0300, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day! I know, this question is famous, but i can't handle it myself. The problem is: After some time my realtek card becomes unresponsible. It happens because of buffer overflow. I tried ping -f xxx. 15 seconds later, the kernel says that rl0: watchdog timeout. I can't send files more then 100MB via network. This problem is because of my PC configuration - Motherboard GB K8N, chipset nforce 3. Unfortunately, even FreeBSD 5.3 can't handle it (but it's better then 5.2.1). Maybe someone has already met this problem? Looking around Google a bit, it looks like many people have been able to get the timeouts to go away by disabling PnP OS in the BIOS. Do you have that set to Yes? If so, try disabling it, and see if it helps any. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php4 install has conflicts
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:15:58 -0800, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay thank you, do you know of a command that can show me all the ports that are installed on my machine? % ls /var/db/pkg | more is there a nice tutorial that explains how to use the ports efficiently and safetly? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html and % man portupgrade(1) after you've installed portupgrade, of course ;) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: refuse
On 14 Dec 2004 09:36:35 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can somebody change the cvsup program so the refuse file can contain #comments please ? Why not just run it through cpp(1) and use the output? I used to do that with my sendmail configuration... Hello Lowell, would you mind elaborating on this? How would one 'run it through cpp'? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange startup behavior on 5.3-release
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:04:24 +0100 (CET), Gelsema, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 December, 2004 23:56, Mike Meyer said: I'm running 5.3-release, and seeing *very* strange behavior on startup. If I reboot the system, I get the following errors in /var/log/console.log: Dec 13 17:38:59 guru kernel: Starting sshd. Dec 13 17:39:00 guru kernel: sendmail: illegal option -- L Dec 13 17:39:00 guru kernel: sendmail: usage: sendmail [ -t ] [ -fsender ] [ -Fname ] [ -bp ] [ -bs ] [ arg ... ] I'm getting those errors because sendmail is set to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. Since I'm running qmail, sendmail should be run *at all* at startup. The really strange thing is that if I shutdown and then restart the system, without a reboot, I don't see these error messages. I've traced this down to the sendmail_msp_queue_enable variable in /etc/rc.conf. If set to yes, that invokes sendmail with the -L option. There don't appear to be any currently filed bugs related to this issue, and google didn't turn up anything relevant. I'm running the GENERIC kernel. I've attached my /etc/rc.conf in case something there is pertinent. After you installed qmail (from ports?) were there any instructions on how you should modify /etc/rc.conf? I use Postfix, and after I installed that from the ports tree, it told me to add the following entries to rc.conf dj : ~ cat /etc/rc.conf | grep -i sendmail sendmail_enable=YES sendmail_flags=-bd sendmail_pidfile=/var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO Maybe that's some help? Cheers, David Sometime ago I installed qmail and what I remember is that in /etc/rc.conf the following line needs to be added; SENDMAIL=NONE #check sendmail documentation for proper line However, this is deprecated, and it is recommended that you use: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: web-based password checking tool?
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:41:07 -0300 (ART), Fernando Gleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a FreeBSD box with more then 400 accounts. the users are non-technical, administrative kind of persons. The box is working as a mail server, with sendmail as MTA and cyrus IMAPd, authenticating against the system files (/etc/master.passwd) not using SASL. I need a web based tool to let the users change their passwords, since they don't have shell access, a web-based solution seems like the only way to let them do it without bothering the admins. Usermin should do what you're wanting. It's similar to Webmin, which another poster recommended, but is meant for end-users rather than admins. /usr/ports/sysutils/usermin HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 83, Issue 4
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:44:28 +0800, microkernel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 1 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:23:07 -0500 From: Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cleaning port config options To: Miguel Mendez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 11:00, Miguel Mendez wrote: I was installing the mail/dspam port and the selection of options appeared for configuration, then after selecting, the configuration stopped with an error that I had selected too many back-end options. I did 'make distclean' and 'make clean', but the options list will not appear again for me to alter the configuration options. How do I do this? # rm /var/db/ports/portname/options -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: refuse
On 14 Dec 2004 13:26:03 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 14 Dec 2004 09:36:35 -0500, Lowell Gilbert Why not just run it through cpp(1) and use the output? I used to do that with my sendmail configuration... Hello Lowell, would you mind elaborating on this? How would one 'run it through cpp'? cpp -P input_file output_file Thank you, Lowell. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Having trouble locating driver for the embedded ethernet controller on Epox 8RD+ Pro with Nforce2 Ultra Chipset
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:23:00 +0200, Bozhidar Batsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you help me with a solution for my problem? I'm pretty sure there are no native drivers for that ethernet adapter and I should use the windows compatibility layer. But I cannot find the ethernet driver distributed stand-alone apart from the entire nforce 2 driver package . Any suggestions? Install the entire nforce 2 driver package. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cleaning port config options
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:38:17 -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was installing the mail/dspam port and the selection of options appeared for configuration, then after selecting, the configuration stopped with an error that I had selected too many back-end options. I did 'make distclean' and 'make clean', but the options list will not appear again for me to alter the configuration options. How do I do this? # rm /var/db/ports/portname/options -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Having trouble locating driver for the embedded ethernet controller on Epox 8RD+ Pro with Nforce2 Ultra Chipset
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:22:03 -0600, Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:23:00 +0200, Bozhidar Batsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you help me with a solution for my problem? I'm pretty sure there are no native drivers for that ethernet adapter and I should use the windows compatibility layer. But I cannot find the ethernet driver distributed stand-alone apart from the entire nforce 2 driver package . Any suggestions? Install the entire nforce 2 driver package. /usr/ports/net/nvnet -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: web-based password checking tool?
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:04:44 -0500, Alexander Chamandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that case, check out something like: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~bvi/utils/webpass/ Web Pass is a CGI script which allows users on a system to change their passwords via the web. This is useful for users with no shell access to the machine, but who still have 'real' accounts for things such as web space, ftp Samba and the like. I hope this helps! On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:02:46 -0300 (ART), Fernando Gleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Alexander Chamandy wrote: The solution I've seen people use in the past is Webmin (http://www.webmin.com/), but I haven't heard great things about its security. I would use it cautiously if you are looking for that functionality. Webmin is a different thing. it allows for web-based administration, it isn't useful as a tool for users to change their passwords. In order to use webmin for that, I'd have to add a webmin user for every mail user and restrict the module set. It is just not worth it. I'm looking for something like some ISPs do: a form where you enter your username, your old password and your new one (twice, for confirmation). I think I can hack a quick CGI script which does that, then checks the parameters, and if everything is OK, hashes the new passwd and calls something like echo ecnryptedpass | sudo pw usermod user -H 1 or something like that. But I prefer to use already made and tested solutions. The problem I'd note is that in order to attain convenience in the traditional sense, one must generally sacrifice layers of security. In this case, allowing a web interface to change users' authentication credentials provides risks (compromise, information leakage, etc.) and rewards (enhanced usability for novice users, added convenience). Exactly. But I think in this case is justified. We're talking about people who are not technical. It's the only way. Alexander, please do not top-post. http://www.html-faq.com/etiquette/?toppost -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Typo in: cache-update (portindex) - hangs(?)
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 13:24:31 +0100, Christopher Illies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem I have is now that cache-init seems to hang: ^^ Sorry, this was a typo: I meant cache-update, not cache-init. It took a couple of hours for cache-init to complete on my K-6/2 450 / 128MB machine at home. You may just want to give it some time. Thanks for your reply and sorry for the typo. Yes cache-init also took a couple of hours on my computer, but when it finished i got the command-promt back. But I am having problems with cache-update. I include the last paragraphs of my original post with the typo corrected: for upating the portstree I do: # cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile # cache-update # portindex -o /usr/ports/INDEX-5 (I am using 5-stable) # portsdb -u (I am also using portupgrade) # portupgrade -arR (or whatever) What happens if you add # make fetchindex immediately after the cvsup? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP5-extensions menu - where is it ?
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:40:50 +0300, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20041211 04:22]: wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:35:21 +, Mário Gamito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've installed PHP5-extensions. At the begining of the process, a menu appears to one can choose what he wants PHP to suppport. I want to rebuild, but i can't get that menu anymore. It just rebuilds with the same options i've choose the first time in that menu. How can i make that menu reapear ? # rm /var/db/ports/portname/options I don't believe that! ;) I think the right thing to do is cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions make rmconfig make config It's less ambiguous than the Lokken option ;) It returns the desired result quickly and easily. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cache-update (portindex) - hangs(?)
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:57:21 +0100, Christopher Illies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to figure out the correct way to use sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex. From how I understand it, the procedure for updating the ports system would be: to initialise cache, afterwards occasionally : # cache-init [snip] The problem I have is now that cache-init seems to hang: It took a couple of hours for cache-init to complete on my K-6/2 450 / 128MB machine at home. You may just want to give it some time. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: When to use 'portupgrade -R'
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:37:40 +, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:32:33PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: : from 'man portupgrade(1)': : : -r : --recursive Act on all those packages depending on the : given packages as well. : : -R : --upward-recursive Act on all those packages required :by the given packages as well. [snip] : : It sounds like you are / were not sure of what those options : actually do. Have a read of the manpage; it'll do you worlds : of good. Actually, it WAS what I was trying to do. I wanted to upgrade gnome2-lite and all the packages it required, because gnome2-lite is a meta-port. If you're trying to upgrade a large bunch of ports like gnome, you may want to start by running portupgrade on the required libraries. For example, although I usually install XFree86-4 via the meta-port, when I want to upgrade it, I generally run 'portupgrade -r XFree86-4-libraries', which first upgrades the libs, then all the ports (including the rest of the XFree86 stuff) that require XFree86-4-libraries. YMMV. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP5-extensions menu - where is it ?
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:35:21 +, Mário Gamito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've installed PHP5-extensions. At the begining of the process, a menu appears to one can choose what he wants PHP to suppport. I want to rebuild, but i can't get that menu anymore. It just rebuilds with the same options i've choose the first time in that menu. How can i make that menu reapear ? # rm /var/db/ports/portname/options -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File System Descriptions
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:48:37 +0300, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear people, Does anyone know of a place where they describe the differences between the commonly known filesystem types - UFS, UFS2, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, REISERFS, FAT32 (spit!) .. well, mostly the ones related to Unix I hope. I would like to know why one type is preferred over the others, or something like that. http://www.parkautomat.net/fs-comp.html http://www.allunix.org/_Filesystems_-_again-9309072-5726-a.html Those look like they may contain some or most of the filesystems you're inquiring about. HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: When to use 'portupgrade -R'
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:39:32 +, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 05:08:44PM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: : Hmm, I am afraid your question is a bit general ... I've tried the '-R' option before, and ended up with portupgrade telling me I had stale dependencies, and I never can get those fixed right. Maybe I should just stop using that option. : Anyway: : /usr/ports/UPDATING will inform you about problematic or : necessary upgrades. : I guess reading this before portupgrade will usually keep you out : of trouble. from 'man portupgrade(1)': -r --recursive Act on all those packages depending on the given packages as well. -R --upward-recursive Act on all those packages required by the given packages as well. [snip] It sounds like you are / were not sure of what those options actually do. Have a read of the manpage; it'll do you worlds of good. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
