Re: recommendations
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], SweeTLeaF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes -Original Message- From: Steve Sapovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] SweeTLeaF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the os is freebsd-5.1 sylpheed-claws is v.0.9.0 d/l from their website. On 5.0 it built with no intervention from ports. The ports version there is 0.8.6 ... slightly older, but maybe that's why your build is failing. ports is the way to go most of the time. I tried that one, it did not have a spell checker. Erm, Sylpheed-claws has been at version 0.8.10 for nearly two months now and it contains the flag WITH_ASPELL which might help. # make -DWITH_ASPELL install Looking at the port's Makefile suggests there are quite a few options that might be of interest. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No subject was specified.
Someone, quite probably Bill Moran, once wrote: I'm really hoping that he replies with a link to the page in questions, if it's poorly done, I may email the ISP and recommend that some additional information be posted. My guess is it's http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hhorse/ which does indeed 403 and it also has the Powered by FreeBSD image linking to http://www.freebsd.org/, but nothing else. It really does need contact info for Global Internet http://www.globalnet.co.uk/ Having a quick look around their site suggests a few broken links and a slightly strange collection of support pages. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Why is there no JFS?
Someone, quite probably Daxbert, once wrote: The inspiration for this email was from a thread in -questions: Re: fsck takes very long after crash/reset Is anybody currently working on or does there exist a JFS for FreeBSD? http://jfs4bsd.sourceforge.net/ Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: SquirrelMail port problems
Someone, quite probably Jim Durham, once wrote: I installed the squirrelmail port from /usr/ports/mail. Squirrelmail fails. It claims it can't find the include files in /usr/local/lib/php. Looking at /usr/local/etc/php.ini, the include path is empty. Fixing this by put /usr/local/lig/php for the path breaks our current web mail using TWIG. Now it can't find the path. Something is very strange here! ANyone else had this problem? You probably need to make sure you include the current directory: include_path = .:/usr/local/lib/php That way you include the current directory which is what a lot of apps expect. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: installworld fails
Someone, quite probably Daniela, once wrote: I'm upgrading from 4.7-STABLE to 5.0-RELEASE. I get the following: # make installworld Running test variables PASS: Test variables detected no regression, output matches. Running test targets PASS: Test targets detected no regression. Running test sysvmatch PASS: Test sysvmatch detected no regression. Running test lhs_expn PASS: Test lhs_expn detected no regression. Running test notdef PASS: Test notdef detected no regression. Running test modifiers PASS: Test modifiers detected no regression. Running test funny_targets PASS: Test funny_targets detected no regression. Checking to see if your booted kernel is fresh enough.. /usr/obj/usr/src/bin/sh/sh -c 'echo Testing installed kernel for new sigaction(2) syscall' Bad system call (core dumped) *** Error code 140 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. What's wrong? You need to reboot properly so the 5.0 kernel is used. Check /usr/src/UPDATING and a fair way down is a step-by-step guide to avoiding further hiccups. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: download port packages
Someone, quite probably Didier Wiroth, once wrote: Is it possible to download the all the packages of the meta port /usr/ports/x11/kde? I tried make fetch, that doesn't work or partially, because it only fetches qt! I would like to download all the packages and their dependencies to burn it on a cd, and install it on a PC which is not connected to any network! # make fetch-recursive This downloads the distfiles for the port and any listed dependencies. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Missing file - Help!
Someone, quite probably Steven Lake, once wrote:
Someone mentioned to me that this is supposed to come with the
app gettext. But I'm not sure.
Well the ports Makefile for apcupsd contains the line:
LIB_DEPENDS=intl.4:${PORTSDIR}/devel/gettext
But the pkg-plist for gettext doesn't mention intl.4, the closest is
lib/libintl.so.4
It looks like the port for apcupsd may need updating.
Kevin
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Gregory Carvalho wrote:
I know you didn't ask, but you might consider using NUT (Network UPS
Tools) which has extensive architecture and device support (including
USB UPSes).
BTW, I used:
find / -name int*4
on FreeBSD 3.2, FreeBSD 4.6, and FreeBSD 4.7 Release, but the results
did not contain your indicated file.
Steven Lake wrote:
Hi all. I was trying to build and install apcupsd and during the
build I get this error: shared library intl.4 does not exist
Anybody know how to fix this? I've never seen this error before
and have no idea what this file is or does. Thanks for the help.
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Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter.
Someone, quite probably Harry Tabak, once wrote: From: Chuck Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's not much you can do but what you already are doing. Complain. You complain to the people using the software, and if they can't configure it, they will probably stop using it if they care. I know only one user, that is how I discovered the problem. I have no way of identifying other users. That frightens me. What about this especially frightens you? Many people have many filters for various mail systems around the globe. This is just one that someone has bundled up. I'd also be very surprised if it's the only set of filters out there that block your IP address. If your provider has upset someone enough to get blocked then there has to be a fair chance that they've upset others similarly. Whilst getting spambouncer changed will solve this issue a long term solution would be to make sure your ISP doesn't do the kind of things that people blacklist over. You can try to complain to FreeBSD Ports, but removing this goes against the very nature of Open Source Good or bad, there's not much to convince people not to distribute a piece of software that's free and open. There is a significant difference between this port and the others. My other ports at worst only harm the intended user when things go wrong. This port harms random and anonymous individuals. I don't believe that FreeBSD redistributes spamming software or list managers that don't provide the proper opt-in safeguards by default. Well technically FreeBSD (ports) provides only helper software to make other people's software easier to manage, and since Sendmail is part of the base system and it can be (mis-)configured to act as an open relay it could be used by spammers. But I understand what you're trying to say and I'm just being a little pedantic about the wording. Everyone knows when they install these softwares that you do so at your own risk. If your ISP is spending money to support problems caused by it's use and they have control over it, they will probably stop using it. Most ISP's care about expenses, so you can bet if it's not worth using, they will eventually stop. If you have any capacity, you can attempt to fix the program, and submit it to the author for distribution. This is how Open Source works. I will be happy to fix it, the author may not like my philosophy. I believe in Free Speech and a working internet mail system. Surely part of a working Internet mail system means that I have the right to filter mail? Free Speech should also allow me the freedom to not listen after all. I would attempt to minimize false positives, and require testing. But as I said earlier, the author doesn't respond. Even if the software is adjusted, it will be impossible to recall all the older versions. Have you looked at the port itself? Maybe if your fixes are simple enough you could convince the maintainer to accept them in the port until such time as the author is able to respond? Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Now portupgrade -R ruby_static-1.6.7.2002.09.12_1 to ruby_static-1.6.8.p2 fails as well!
Someone, quite probably Stacey Roberts, once wrote: Just an update to this here. I thought I might as well not bother with trying to upgrade this port, but to simply deinstall it and reinstall - hoping that the newer version would get fetched: n# make deinstall clean === Cleaning for ruby-shim-ruby18-1.7.3.2002.09.20 This is you deleting /usr/ports/lang/ruby16-shim-ruby18/work/* # make find: /usr/ports/lang/ruby16-shim-ruby18/work/shim/ruby16: No such file or directory This is the port wondering where /usr/ports/lang/ruby16-shim- ruby18/work/shim/ruby16 is. Try something like: # cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby16-shim-ruby18 # make # cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby_static # make # make install # make clean Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: phpMyAdmin directory (newbie question)
Someone, quite probably Grant Cooper, once wrote: You should send this to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' mailing list. You will get a better answer. You can do one of two things. Copy the files structure, /phpMyAdmin to /usr/local/www/data-dist or create a symbolic link. I would re-read the instructions, it tells you what to do. The symbolic link may get you into trouble for security reasons. The easiest way is probably to just install it from ports using the PREFIX variable: # make PREFIX=/usr/local/www/data-dist install clean That puts phpMyAdmin in /usr/local/www/data-dist right from the start. No copying, no linking, no hassle. - Original Message - From: Richard Biffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm setting up a FreeBSD server for the first time. When I installed Apache, it created a /usr/local/www/data-dist directory, with www/data as an alias (symlink?). I then installed PHP, then phpMyAdmin, and it installed in /usr/local/www/data.default/phpMyAdmin. I understand that the phpMyAdmin directory should be below www/data. Should I change www/data so it points to www/data.default instead of www/data-dist, or break the link from www/data to www/data-dist and/or copy www/data.default/phpMyAdmin into www/data? I don't want to stray too far from the vanilla installation, but I must be missing a step here. You could also create aliases in /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf like this: Alias /phpMyAdmin//usr/local/www/data.default/ That leaves all the ports installed in very much their default locations, you're just telling apache where to look. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
re: what is cvsup
Someone, quite probably Bryan Cassidy, once wrote: I was just wondering something. I know this updates the ports but what I want to know is what EXACTLY does this command do in a little more detailed answers but simple enough to understand. The command is this cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup2.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile cvsup is the name of a binary than does the updating. Basically it looks at the files you have in ports and sees what if anything you need to download so it is up to date. -g tells the binary to run in non-graphical mode -L 2 says what kind of messages you'll see scrolling by the screen -h cvsup2.freebsd.org this says what server to get the information from /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile is a default skeleton for downloading the most recent ports collection. This page explains it better: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html If you want more technical details then try here: http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/ Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: PHP 4.2.3 install
Someone, quite probably Darryl Hoar, once wrote: Greetings, I have a box running 4.3-release which I had installed PHP from ports. This was quite a while ago. I need to be running PHP 4.2.3 on this box. How do I de-install the php version I have and install 4.2.3? thanks for ideas or pointers to the applicable FM. # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade # make install clean # rehash # portupgrade mod_php4 The man pages for portupgrade will tell you handy little hints like if you use: # portupgrade -rR mod_php4 it will actually upgrade all of the dependencies for PHP (and anything that depended on it too.) Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: CDs Won't Continue from song to song.
Someone, quite probably Matthias Trevarthan, once wrote: No matter what CD Player I use (XMMS, Command Line, KsCD), my CDs stop after one track. You're selecting Play File instead of Play Directory/Playlist/Similar? Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How do i install the Kdevelop?
Someone, quite probably Thomas T. Veldhouse, once wrote: Uhm -- the ports tree. # (cd /usr/ports/devel/kdevelop make all install clean) Copy the tar.gz into /usr/ports/distfiles first else you'll have to download it again. - Original Message - From: alireza mahini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:07 PM Subject: How do i install the Kdevelop? I am downloading Kdevelop pakage from it's website as a GZ file and I am extract it into my root directory but i don't know how to install and run it; Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to get audio CDs working?
Someone, quite probably David Gerard, once wrote: Warren Block ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020930 05:14]: On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, David Gerard wrote: I have FreeBSD 4.6.2 installed on this box (Compaq AP400). Works fine, except the CD drive, which appears invisible to the system. This strikes me as odd since it's the drive 4.6.2 was installed from ... Neither dagrab or cdda2wav can spot /dev/acd0a either. What do to? Try /dev/acd0c? Tried that too :-) But the system can see the drive - mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0a /cdrom worked just fine to mount a CD-ROM. So the question becomes ... how do I get the system to see an audio CD? Have you double-checked the permissions? I remember puzzling why I couldn't play audio CDs until I stumbled upon the fact that only root had read access for some reason. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Question on Multi OSes
Someone, quite probably SweeTLeaF, once wrote: What i would like to find out is how to have xp on its own drive and freebsd on its own drive and be able to boot either such as i do now. I saw a device that connected to each drive and jumps over the drive to make it primary, sec.etc... to boot the drive you wanted but i don't have the money for it now so i need to find out how to achieve this with the freebsd boot manager. Just install XP on the first drive and FreeBSD on the second. During FreeBSD's FDISK stage select the first drive, then don't change any settings but how w to exit and write the MBR. Select FreeBSD's bootmanager and carry on installing FreeBSD normally. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Can you relate to my Tour of Despair?
Someone, quite probably Peter Leftwich, once wrote: On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: [snip] % cd /usr/ports make update % cd ./audio/agbrowser make install clean What does the do? Is it similar to the usage of ; but instead issues the command after the at the result of the cd? That is, does the double ampersand cause your shell (which is..?) to not execute the make command in the current working dir (cwd)? means the second command will only run if the first was successful whereas ; will run the second command no matter what. You can also use || which will only run the second command if the first fails. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Checking the Version?
Someone, quite probably MET, once wrote: Is there a command to check which version of FreeBSD your running? uname -a Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails - How do I tell pkg_add to look somewhere else for target?
Someone, quite probably , once wrote: Sorry Kevin, I didn't quite understand your reply. If you can't get a file from ftp.freebsd.org then it's worth trying for it on ftp2.freebsd.org, or ftp3.freebsd.org Locality works to, ftp.uk.freebsd.org for example. You'll probably do best if you browse the ftp server before trying to download it, that way you'll be able to see the binaries they have and you'll know whether or not it's worth trying to download or just moving on to another mirror. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails - How do I tell pkg_add to look somewhere else for target?
Someone, quite probably , once wrote: I want to install the latest version of XFree86-4. I've already tried going via the ports an hour ago, which failed with lots of syntax errors. I do not want to bother with the port, and would like to install via a package. However, pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails with File not available whilst attempting to fetch the package from some FreeBSD mirror. How do I tell pkg_add to try somewhere else? You can give it an actual location if you like: # pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/x11/ XFree86-4 Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails - How do I tell pkg_add to look somewhere else for target?
Someone, quite probably , once wrote: However, I think that the address you included is indeed the address from which pkg_add is failing to fetch XFree86-4. # pkg_add ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/x11 /XFree86-4 ? Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: MySQL Installation
Someone, quite probably MET, once wrote: I was wondering if someone could be so kind as to write up directions for installing MySQL that makes sense. I've read all of the documentation from their site that I can handle, and can take no more. Simply put I'm a Unix newbie, and their directions are definitely for someone with more knowledge than I. I've just installed FreeBSD 4.6, clean install, without any GUI interface, CLI strictly. The purpose of MySQL is for nothing more than a mere web database (I've been doing PHP + MySQL for years and figured I'd give server technology a try). # cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server # make # make install # make clean Congratulations :-) You may want to read the following section of the handbook as it will make so much of your life easier: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports.html Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Installing gnome2 with XFree86-4 - Why is this so difficilt?????
Someone, quite probably , once wrote: I'm actually running the re-install of XFree86-4 at the moment wihtout having done a make distclean. Is this the reason why for each component, it fails with error: XFree86-4component already installed, perhaps an older version..,? Would it be in my interest then to stop this and restart from the beginning? It sounds like everything wasn't quite removed when you deinstalled. ls /var/db/pkg | grep -i xfree That should show up a few things that might need removing. Else make sure your ports tree is fully up to date and then run: portversion -L = That may show up a few out of date things that could be worth upgrading. portupgrade -rR XFree86-4 The above might resolve a few issues if you are out of date. Else it might be worth thinking about packages this time: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 Will get the latest binary and hopefully get you back to a working state. Then you could probably track X using portupgrade to reduce hassle. Kevin Quoting Kevin Golding [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Someone, quite probably Stacey Roberts, once wrote: 1] From the *one* reply I've had to my earlier post concerning the gnome2 install failure, it appear that I have to re-install XFree86-4.2.0. Why is that after running pkg_delete on XFree86-4.0.2, make doesn't go out and get a fresh set of files for the re-install? Am I missing something about the make process here? Presumably there was something wrong with the XFree86-4 sources I got yesterday when I installed it, so I would have thought it logical that I should be obtaining a fresh set of source files for the new install. To fetch new sources you need to remove the old ones from /usr/ports/distfiles. You can either manually rm each tarball or just run make distclean before make. It can also be worth running make fetch as your first step to install a port as that simply downloads any files you are missing for that port (although not dependencies). 2] To do the install of XFree86-4 anyways, what I did was pkg_delete of XFree86- 3 in /var/db/pkg; rm -rf /usr/X11R6/*, then editing /etc/make.conf to reflect that the XFree version is now 4 Since 4.6 I believe the default X has been 4 making such a config redundant. It might be worth running through /etc/defaults/make.conf and seeing if you need to change anything else. If you're not using 4.6 then don't worry about it. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: cvsup: to gui or not to gui?
Someone, quite probably Jim McLoughlin, once wrote: Am about to install cvsup, and am wondering whether I should use the GUI or not. I'm just wondering if the gui version provides any useful functionality that I will not get command line. If not, I'm thinking of using the terminal version so that I will have more options should my X config become uncooperative at some point. If you have the space then install the GUI a) if you use -g when you start cvsup it doesn't run the GUI b) you can delete it afterwards if you feel *really* opposed to it c) everyone should see the pink screen of cvsup once in their life :-) Seriously though, I've always run without the GUI and I probably prefer it like that. I ran with the GUI once and it was great fun, but then I am easily amused by simple novelty things. I couldn't say which is better as they're just a little different. Horses for courses and all that; you won't know which is more suited to your style/preferences until you try both. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
