Upgrading glib
I've just done a cvsup on the following release: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4 and one of the packages due for an update is glib, which has gone from version 2.8.3 to 2.8.4. Given that I've built almost everything on my system from source using ports, do I need to rebuild things once I've upgraded glib? I've had problems before when updating Perl and having to rebuild all the p5-* modules, so I'm not sure with glib being a library of sorts whether or not I'll need to rebuild things. Thanks in advance. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Better laptop support in 6.0?
A while back I spent a lot of time trying to get FreeBSD 5.3 working on my Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 laptop with no success. I was wondering if version 6 adds anything that would be more likely to make it possible to install FreeBSD on my laptop? I currently use it on a server system with no problems and it would be nice to have it on another system as well. I've found the hardware support for desktop machines to be good, but when it comes to laptops it seems to be a pain to get even the CDs to boot sometimes - though NetBSD and various Linux distributions work. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Better laptop support in 6.0?
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:51:15AM -0800, Peter Clutton wrote: I can't comment on your previous problems, as I've got FreeBSD 5.4 running on a state of the art Sony vaio laptop, I use it for everything. Not sure what could be causing the CDs not to work, without error messages, but by that description it may not have been OS related. As far as I remember, the CDs wouldn't even boot into the install process at one point. They worked fine on another machine, and other installation CDs for things like NetBSD worked, so I think it probably was OS related. Perhaps FreeBSD is just missing support for my laptop's hardware, but I'm surprised that other things worked. One of the focuses was on Wireless support aswell, if you had any trouble with that. Wireless support would be useful, but I'm generally plugged into a wired ethernet network so it's not of huge importance. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: build ports without X -- make.conf
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:16:27PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: In BSD 4.x, there was a section in the make.conf manpage that said you could define WITHOUT_X11 and ports would build without it (for things like ghostscript, cvsup, etc, which have distinctly different ports) For some reason this is gone in 5.x -- what's the appropriate way to do this now (since WITHOUT_X11 still worked on a couple ports I've tried.) Who told you it had gone? I've been using WITHOUT_X11=yes ever since I started using FreeBSD as a server operating system, and it's always had the intended result, even up until now as I'm ready to go from 5.4-6.0. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk ___ 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 setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 11:38:59AM -0800, Edwin D. Vinas wrote: 1) Is it correct that I only need to register or pay for the main domain? Yes, provided you choose a registrar who will allow you to change the namservers on the daomin - i.e. they don't force you to use their nameservers in conjunction with a web hosting package or something (123-reg.co.uk will definitely work as I use them for a similar setup to the one you describe). 2) Is it correct that through my local DNS server, I can add sub hosts (sub1 to sub3) without anymore registering those sub domains and pay for them in my main domain provider? That's correct. Adding a subdomain is generally a case of adding one line to the zone file for that particular domain (assuming you're just adding a simple subdomain that isn't going to be delegated or receive mail or anything comlicated like that) and telling Bind to reload the zone file (/etc/rc.d/named reload will usually work, although I find I often have to use restart instead of reload for some reason). 3) Provided that I already have successfully setup my local DNS server, Apache virtual hosting and main domain activated, is it straightforward that I can already access the sub domains (i.e., websites) from the Internet? Assuming you're not behind a firewall of any type (or you setup the relevant rules), then it should be fairly simple to make everything accessible from the rest of the Internet. If your main domain works, then any subdomains on the same machine should do as well. 4) Do I need to register sub1, sub2 and sub3 in any external domain provider? No, you'd just tell your registrar to change the nameservers to whatever your local DNS servers are. Most will have a control panel allowing you to do this easily. 5) Can you provide some sample configs if you are already doing this setup? Thank you in advance! What kind of sample config? If you're not doing anything special, any tutorial on DNS/Bind will show you how to setup subdomains. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk ___ 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 setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 02:01:00PM -0600, Chris wrote: Your fisrt and hardest roadblock will be getting your provider to allow YOU to be authoritive for the IP or IP's you use. That's not necessary - I host the DNS, web sites and mail for a dozen different domains off an IP address for which I don't control the DNS (in fact it doesn't even have a DNS record). Reverse DNS control is always useful, but not a requirement for what he wants to do. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk ___ 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 setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 04:41:06PM -0600, Chris wrote: It may not be necessary - but to do it right... I for one like to have mu IP's resolve both forward and reverse. It's just professional looking as a whole. I like to have my IPs resolve both ways too, but try finding an ISP who will either give you that sort of control through delegation or is willing to setup the required reverse DNS records on their side. If you're lucky you'll get customer114324.myisp.net to play with. I don't know of any residential ISPs, at least not in the UK, who will do that sort of thing. Having said that, there's nothing particularly wrong about not having reverse DNS records for IPs, or having ones that don't match. It only really matters if you're sending out email to people with overly aggressive spam filters that check for that sort of thing. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk ___ 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 setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 06:22:58PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Actually, my ISP, ipHouse.net is one who's willing to configure reverse DNS for you. Qwest Communications is another one who'll setup DNS for you, and they're HUGE. If you choose to go with ipHouse, tell them I sent you -- then I get free DSL for a month! If you read my post, you'll see I said at least not in the UK. Neither Qwest nor ipHouse have operations outside the USA as far as I can tell. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BIND and NAT
On 5/15/05, Joe Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a small question regarding a DNS issue I am having. I have a bsd box setup for a domain I am hosting..it has FBSD 5.3 and Bind 9.3. It sits behind a NAT device and is in a DMZ. The problem is when I setup the domain I told it to point to the public ip which is translated to the private IP on which DNS listens. Now when I try to go to the site it keeps trying to connect to the private IP the site is on instead of the correct public ip. Is this an issue with the DNS files being setup for the private network or should it matter? If your DNS server is giving out the private IP address to machines on the other side of the NAT device then yes, that does matter because they won't be able to connect to it. If you want to run your DNS from behind a NAT device (using port forwarding from a public IP perhaps - that's what I do) then you might want to look into the concepts of views in Bind, which will allow you to give out the private IP for the domain to any machine on the same subnet (e.g. 192.168.0.x) and the public IP address to any machine on the other side of the NAT device. This is what I do when running my DNS from behind a router on a private IP range and it works very well. It's a bit fiddly to setup as each zone you have needs to be in both views (internal and external) but otherwise it's fairly simple to setup. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cvsup problems
On 4/19/05, Cody Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having cvsup update issues right now. When I try to update I get: Cannot connect to cvsupxx.us.freebsd.org: Connection refused Will retry at xx:xx:xx No matter which server I try. I had this problem a couple of days ago with the UK cvsup mirrors, the only two things I could think of were: 1. I'd tried to cvsup once too often (e.g. two or three times in 24 hours) - don't think this was the case but I wouldn't be surprised if the mirror maintainers impose temporary bans on IPs that try to connect more than X times in a given period. 2. Some sort of update was pushed out that caused things to break on the mirrors. The problem seemed to go away for a couple of days but it's back for me at the moment. Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing portupgrade without X.org
I'm currently trying to get portupgrade onto my new FreeBSD system by running make install clean from /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade (after doing a recent cvsup). Everything seems to go along fine, it starts fetching all the packages it requires and then suddenly I see a download for X.org. This is a server system and there's no monitor attached so installing X is a bit pointless and a waste of time for me, but I don't know how to say install this port *without* X dependancies as this is the first time I've come across this problem (when I installed cvsup I used the -without-gui port so it wasn't a problem). I've searched around but the only relevant material I've managed to find is something about installing the JDK without X.org which seems to be specific to that case and all the other results seem to be about problems installing X which I don't want to do. I'm fairly new to BSD and I've never got this far setting up a system from scratch before (every other time I've stumbled somewhere on the way) so any advice/pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing portupgrade without X.org
On Apr 9, 2005 5:23 PM, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: adding WITHOUT_X11=yes to /etc/make.conf will keep all your ports from trying to pull in X as a dependency. I use that on all my server systems for exactly that reason. Cheers Glenn, that solved the problem (I was having the same issue with vim so I was glad to hear of a way to disable it globally). Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade failing on firefox and thunderbird
On Apr 4, 2005 4:31 PM, Richard Danter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to update my installations of firefox and thunderbird. I have done this several times in the past with no problems but lately I get the following errors (see below). Anyone else seeing this? I can update other ports just fine... I had this problem last night with upgrading python, I found running: cvsup /usr/ports/supfile again and then running portupgrade python fixed things. No idea why, best idea I can think of is that one of the files got corrupted during transfer or there was network timeout on my end. Obviously substitute /usr/ports/supfile for the location of your supfile. :) Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which shell irc client do you like ?
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:11:27 +, Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious if you folks have tried the mozilla application, available only from mozilla (not firefox) called chatzilla? I have tried nearly all of the other IRC clients, it's not a minimal one, but it's very very nice. I've tried it, and the last time I did it crashed repeatedly and brought firefox down with it. Plus I had to set it up on every machine I connected from and tell it which channels to join, whereas with irssi I can leave it running 24/7 and so never miss any messages or have to mess about rejoining a load of different channels/networks. Seeing as I'm typing in commands like /join and /msg anyway, I don't see much point in an IRC client with a GUI - where's the extra functionality? Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which shell irc client do you like ?
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 01:56:50 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am looking for a very simple colored one, in the style of me 19:10# bla bla you 19:10# bla bla no menus or borders I don't know what you mean by no menus or borders, but irssi is pretty stripped down and can be run from the console: http://www.irssi.org/ I run it from a screen session all the time and it works well once you get the hang of it. I think you can make it beep when new messages come in but because I run it on a remote server I've never bothered to look into/activate this feature. Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which shell irc client do you like ?
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:28:29 + (UTC), Christopher Nehren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely you have screen(1) set up to show terminal beeps to you *somehow*, right? I personally prefer having it use esdplay because I usually have rhythmbox going, but you should be able to use a good ol' terminal bell. No I don't, because it's not a feature that I see any need for. I'm sure there is a way to do it but if I don't want that particular feature I'm not going to spend time looking for how to enable it. Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: irc msn yahoo shell chat
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:21:17 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything better then centericq ? I would like a very simple IRC style shell chat ? I've not used it myself, but several people I know swear by BitlBee: http://www.bitlbee.org/ Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.3 install hangs part way through booting
I've been trying to get FreeBSD installed on my laptop for some time now, but I've always ended up running into the same problem of the system hanging at boot. At the moment I'm using the 5.3 release CDs (tried both the boot-only and minimal ones) and I can get to the Welcome to BSD! screen fine. However, when I choose the default option from there I get some messages scrolling up about it booting the kernel and detecting some ACPI stuff, but after a few seconds it gets to this message and then hangs: uhci0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB Controller USB-A port 0xefe0-0xefff irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] I've had a look around on Google but not found anything to do with this issue or with my laptop (Toshiba Satellite M10 Pro, 1.3Ghz Centrino with 256Mb RAM). One of the BSD people I know suggested booting with ACPI disabled, which I tried but this time it hung on the following message: pcib1: PCIBIOS PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 which is actually less into the booting process than it gets with ACPI enabled so I don't think this helped very much. Booting in safe mode also hangs at this point. I've not been able to find any information elsewhere that sheds light on this (allthough I could be looking in the wrong places - since I don't have a clue what is actually wrong I'm probably not using the right search terms). Windows 2000/XP both work fine, as does every version of Linux I've tried (the machine dual boots 2000/Ubuntu at the moment) but I really want to get FreeBSD on it. Does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong, or what I should try to get around the problem? Thanks in advance. Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
