Re: Right way to build package from non-port software

2008-03-11 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Catalin Miclaus wrote: Hello guys, What is the right way of building packages for non-ports applications? AFAIK 'make package' and ' pkg_create -b name' are based on ports installed packages. Is there any way of using same commands or additional scripts to achieve similar results? If it

Interested in FreeBSD project developement

2008-03-11 Thread venkata kiran madhabhaktula
Hello team, I am a software engineer, having an experience of above 2 years in programming with C, C++ on UNIX platform. I have the strong programming skills in C and C++. I have seen the list of projects that are available. I am interested to involve in the project developement of FreeBSD

Re: Right way to build package from non-port software

2008-03-11 Thread Christopher Cowart
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:38:40AM +0100, Catalin Miclaus wrote: What is the right way of building packages for non-ports applications? AFAIK 'make package' and ' pkg_create -b name' are based on ports installed packages. Is there any way of using same commands or additional scripts to

Re: traceroute problems

2008-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to prevent you from learning about their routing paths. In these cases, you get back the 1 * * * type of output from traceroute. Also, by default traceroute attempts to do a reverse DNS on the IP address, so you can speed things up by doing a 'traceroute -n' to avoid this look-up. many

Re: kernel error when upgrading to 7.0

2008-03-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a 6.2 or 3 box that i'm wanting to update to 7.0. I've cvsupped my source, made world, and built a kernel, all went successfully. This is the GENERIC kernel. When i do a make installkernel i am getting the error kldxref: file isn't dynamically linked Is

Re: [Wireless] Can't connect to wlan

2008-03-11 Thread Benjamin Close
Mel, Do the recent patches by Andrew make a difference? http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/wpi_head.diff http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/wpi_releng7.diff Mel wrote: Redirect - freebsd-mobile, cc Ben Ref: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-November/080653.html

Re: Trouble Rescuing a System

2008-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
/dev/da0s1a /mnt/root ufs ro 0 /dev/da0s1d /mnt/var ufs rw 0 Fixit# mount /mnt/root Fixit# mount -u -w /mnt/root mount: /dev/da0s1a: Operation not permitted. fsck it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Strange apache logs [SOLVED]

2008-03-11 Thread Dragan Jovelic
Last month I posted a question to this list, about strange entires in httpd access log, which were connections from localhost, looking like this: ::1 - - [06/Feb/2008:13:43:58 -0500] OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 200 - After some investigation I found out what is the cause of this. When I turned on in

Re: Upgrade 4.11 to 7.0, possible?

2008-03-11 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message From: Simon Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: User Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:14:02 AM Subject: Upgrade 4.11 to 7.0, possible? Hi, I am trying to see if it's possible to upgrade 4.11 to 7.0 by using cvsup. When I run

How specify an other mail directory for users?

2008-03-11 Thread Nicolas Letellier
Hello, In my FreeBSD 7.0 (with postfix), when a user receive an email, it is stocked in /var/mail$/USER. How change this? I would like mails be stocked in /var/mail/users/$USER. I don't find a file to change this. Is it a system conf, or a SMTP conf? Thanks. - Nicolas.

Re: How specify an other mail directory for users?

2008-03-11 Thread Nicolas Letellier
Nicolas Letellier a écrit : Hello, In my FreeBSD 7.0 (with postfix), when a user receive an email, it is stocked in /var/mail$/USER. How change this? I would like mails be stocked in /var/mail/users/$USER. I don't find a file to change this. Is it a system conf, or a SMTP conf? Thanks.

Re: re subscribing to the list

2008-03-11 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 05:18:37 jekillen wrote: I have it shut down now incase that is the situation (someone was able to change or corrupt the root password) But it appears that it somehow has just gotten corrupted so it won't work. Is that possible. The long and short is I want to avoid

Re: Solution

2008-03-11 Thread Mel
On Monday 10 March 2008 22:19:12 Alex Hanson wrote: I was trying to install FreeBSD and kept getting an Umass error. The problem was that i had a thumb drive pluged in, you may want to put that in the manual Because? Install failed? Because you had 'boot from usb' set in BIOS before boot

RE: Enquiry For Quotation.

2008-03-11 Thread Hameed Faizal
Attention: The Managing Director, RE: Enquiry For Quotation. Can your company quote for an urgent project for both Iraq and Afghanistan Governments under a Joint Contracting Command program? If it is in your jurisdiction, then kindly respond and send a presentational information on your

SMTP Autentication and sendmail-sasl

2008-03-11 Thread Ivailo Bonev
Is sendmail-sasl port doing everything from what is written in SMTP Autentication section in Handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

xorg 7.3 i810 screen frozen

2008-03-11 Thread Liang Zhang
My graphics chipsets is i810. I updated to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE via freebsd-update and installed xorg 7.3 from Ports. I tried starting xorg, my screen is frozen. I can start xorg with the 'vesa' driver. However, any config in xorg.conf with the 'i810' or 'intel' driver causes a freeze. I use

Re: Interested in FreeBSD project developement

2008-03-11 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
venkata kiran madhabhaktula wrote: Hello team, I am a software engineer, having an experience of above 2 years in programming with C, C++ on UNIX platform. I have the strong programming skills in C and C++. I have seen the list of projects that are available. I am interested to involve in the

Re: Interested in FreeBSD project developement

2008-03-11 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
There seems to be no official way to do it but must people seem to start by looking through the PR database and selecting PR's they think they can solve and do it. You should read the developers handbook, porters guide and the internals of FreeBSD before you do anything too heavy though.

Re: Upgrade 4.11 to 7.0, possible?

2008-03-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:14 PM 3/10/2008, Simon Gao wrote: Hi, I am trying to see if it's possible to upgrade 4.11 to 7.0 by using cvsup. When I run make buildworld, I got these errors. Are there packages missing? -- Building an up-to-date make(1)

Re: Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

2008-03-11 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 16:48:32 Michaël Grünewald wrote: I need this to publish a web site on a space allocated to me by my ISP, I am writing a script that automates publication, and at the very end, I noticed the key-piece was missing! If you use KDEwebdev (formerly Quanta), define a

Re: Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

2008-03-11 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:10:23AM +0800, Luke Jee top-posted: Try rsync [...] I am looking for a program able to make a remote FTP site look like a copy of a local dir. I feel as if I were dunce-cap-awards(R) nominated, but I really did not find one! rsync isn't going to work unless

Re: Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

2008-03-11 Thread Michael Ross
Michaël Grünewald schrieb: Hi, I am looking for a program able to make a remote FTP site look like a copy of a local dir. I feel as if I were dunce-cap-awards(R) nominated, but I really did not find one! In ports/ftp many programs say they do the reverse, and a few say they ``mirror''

Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

2008-03-11 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Hi, I am looking for a program able to make a remote FTP site look like a copy of a local dir. I feel as if I were dunce-cap-awards(R) nominated, but I really did not find one! In ports/ftp many programs say they do the reverse, and a few say they ``mirror'' without more explanation. I gave

Re: Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

2008-03-11 Thread Luke Jee
Try rsync Luke Jee Prevantage Inc. On 2008-3-11, at 下午11:48, Michaël Grünewald [EMAIL PROTECTED] te.net wrote: Hi, I am looking for a program able to make a remote FTP site look like a copy of a local dir. I feel as if I were dunce-cap-awards(R) nominated, but I really did not find

Re: atacontrol mode D PIO4 persist across reboots

2008-03-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 10 March 2008, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: This sets it for all controllers I only want to set it for ata1 which contains ad2. Thanks for the tip though. Globally disable it on boot, then write a script named /etc/rc.local that selectively re-enables it for certain drives. Here's

Re: Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

2008-03-11 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Michael Ross a écrit : Michaël Grünewald schrieb: Hi, I am looking for a program able to make a remote FTP site look like a copy of a local dir. I feel as if I were dunce-cap-awards(R) nominated, but I really did not find one! In ports/ftp many programs say they do the reverse, and a few

Re: Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

2008-03-11 Thread Kelvin Woods
On Tue, March 11, 2008 16:27, Michael Ross wrote: Michaël Grünewald schrieb: Hi, I am looking for a program able to make a remote FTP site look like a copy of a local dir. I feel as if I were dunce-cap-awards(R) nominated, but I really did not find one! In ports/ftp many programs say

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2008-03-11 Thread Abbey National Bank
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Re: Space needed on device

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:59:35PM +0100, bsd wrote: Hello, After an update I have little space left on the / device Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0s1a3.8G3.1G414M88%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ar0s1d

Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: how do i start a program at boot time? simplest to add to rc.local or as a user - add @reboot command in crontab Not really. The more proper way is to add a startup script in /usr/local/rc.d/ There are notes and

Re: Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

2008-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am looking for a program able to make a remote FTP site look like a copy of a local dir. I feel as if I were dunce-cap-awards(R) nominated, but I really mirror -R in lftp did not find one! In ports/ftp many programs say they do the reverse, and a few say they ``mirror'' without more

ipfw, if_bridge and diverting for snort

2008-03-11 Thread Chris
Hello, I read Nick Rogness' helpful article on using snort-inline with ipfw. It mentions that diverting to a snort process can't be done with bridging because of interaction of DIVERT sockets and bridging in the kernel. The article is not dated and it made me wonder if this is referring to the

Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-11 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: how do i start a program at boot time? simplest to add to rc.local or as a user - add @reboot command in crontab Not really. The more proper way is

Re: Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

2008-03-11 Thread doug
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Kelvin Woods wrote: On Tue, March 11, 2008 16:27, Michael Ross wrote: Michaël Grünewald schrieb: Hi, I am looking for a program able to make a remote FTP site look like a copy of a local dir. I feel as if I were dunce-cap-awards(R) nominated, but I really did not find

Re: Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

2008-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
all the man pages every so often. If the ISP supports ssh, putting a key on the server allows easy update for a few files: scp [-r] [path-to-file/]newfile.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path-to-html/ for more use rsync -e ssh -C ___

Re: RAID

2008-03-11 Thread kalin m
thanks i did install the system now on ar0. the dmesg output below didn't change. the df does show only one drive - ar0 - with a few slices... assuming now that i have RAID1 working is there any way to monitor disks individually? or as an array? how can i be sure that the RAID is actually

Re: Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

2008-03-11 Thread doug
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: all the man pages every so often. If the ISP supports ssh, putting a key on the server allows easy update for a few files: scp [-r] [path-to-file/]newfile.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path-to-html/ for more use rsync -e ssh -C As pointed out

Re: portupgrade can't fetch packages

2008-03-11 Thread Mel
On Monday 10 March 2008 15:38:17 Colin Brace wrote: Hi all, Earlier today I ran portupgrade -aP to update my system. Alas, everytime it tried to download a package, it failed and resorted to downloading and compiling the source. For example: [...] --- Checking for the latest package of

Re: Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

2008-03-11 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Kelvin Woods a écrit : On Tue, March 11, 2008 16:27, Michael Ross wrote: Michaël Grünewald schrieb: Hi, I am looking for a program able to make a remote FTP site look like a copy of a local dir. I feel as if I were dunce-cap-awards(R) nominated, but I really did not find one! In ports/ftp

Re: SATA Tape drive

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:22:09AM -1000, Kent Hauser wrote: Hi, I need to replace a failed DAT72 drive. My current one is SCSI, but I'd like to use a SATA replacement. Will this work? I have never seen a DAT drive on a SATA controller. Do they make them? jerry Thanks. Kent

Re: Trouble Rescuing a System

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 07:25:35PM -0400, Brian Minard wrote: I am trying to use the Fixit shell from FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE to rescue a system running 7.0 STABLE. The problem is that I can't make the root partition (i.e., /) for the hard disk writable. I can mount other partitions on the hard

Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:21:25PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: how do i start a program at boot time? simplest to add to rc.local or as a user - add

Re: SATA Tape drive

2008-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to use a SATA replacement. Will this work? I have never seen a DAT drive on a SATA controller. Do they make them? i found only SCSI and USB in Poland. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: SATA Tape drive

2008-03-11 Thread Kent Hauser
On the quantum web site, the internal DAT72 drives are choice of SATA, USB, or SCSI. SATA listed first. The SATA drive part # is CD72SH-SB. I'd love to not have to use the internal SCSI cabling for replacement. But of course, I'd also like it to work. Hence the query. Kent

newbie internet connection question

2008-03-11 Thread Andy Watts
Hi People l downloaded FreeBSD 6.3 the other day out of curiosity.. The installation started ok but it all went wrong when it came to connecting to the internet through my wired router http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html l'm really not sure what

Re: newbie internet connection question

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 19:25:31 + Andy Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi People l downloaded FreeBSD 6.3 the other day out of curiosity.. The installation started ok but it all went wrong when it came to connecting to the internet through my wired router

Fidelity Investments International

2008-03-11 Thread Mr M Shadol
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Re: newbie internet connection question

2008-03-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 07:25:31PM +, Andy Watts wrote: l downloaded FreeBSD 6.3 the other day out of curiosity.. The installation started ok but it all went wrong when it came to connecting to the internet through my wired router

Re: RAID

2008-03-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 11), kalin m said: thanks i did install the system now on ar0. the dmesg output below didn't change. the df does show only one drive - ar0 - with a few slices... assuming now that i have RAID1 working is there any way to monitor disks individually? or as an

EVOLUTION SLOW START , a workaround

2008-03-11 Thread sergio lenzi
Hello all This week I have time to trace the problem with evolution that lasts too much time to start. The problem is that glib on function g_module_load, searchs for a symbol g_module_check_init, g_module_unload... by default. It occurs that the evolution code, that will be loaded, does not

Tyan Motherboard

2008-03-11 Thread Mark Busby
Looking to build a new server, looking for a dual amd 940 board with sata II support. I have googled, but still looking for a firm success before spending the money. Anyone have success with this Tyan board. Model S2892GNR North Bridge AMD 8131, South Bridge Nvidia nForce Prof. 2200

security/openssh-portable

2008-03-11 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Hi, I'm setting up a 'chrooted' SFTP only set of users: /etc/make.conf: .if ${.CURDIR:M*/usr/ports/security/openssh-portable*} WITH_SUID_SSH =yes WITH_OPENSSH_CHROOT =yes WITH_HPN =yes WITH_OVERWRITE_BASE =yes .endif /etc/rc.conf: sshd_enable=NO

Re: security/openssh-portable

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 06:08:44PM -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Hi, I'm setting up a 'chrooted' SFTP only set of users: /etc/make.conf: .if ${.CURDIR:M*/usr/ports/security/openssh-portable*} WITH_SUID_SSH =yes WITH_OPENSSH_CHROOT =yes WITH_HPN =yes

Re: security/openssh-portable

2008-03-11 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
user:*:3000:3000::0:0:F L:/foo/./user:/bin/sh The usual thing is make the shell /bin/nologin Hi Jerry, Thanks -- but Changed to /usr/sbin/nologin So thats not in the 'chroot' aka /foo/user/usr/sbin/nologin $ sftp -v -v -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSSH_4.5p1 FreeBSD-20061110, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23

Apache -- Analyzing core dump?

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Maness
I used to analyze core dumps with tnos to debug. It has been a coon's age since I've done such. I am having apache crash and core dump. There isn't any error info in the log files. Where is the core dumped to (the main log tells me the core has been dumped)? How do I analyze this dump

Re: Apache -- Analyzing core dump?

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Maness
Chris Maness wrote: I used to analyze core dumps with tnos to debug. It has been a coon's age since I've done such. I am having apache crash and core dump. There isn't any error info in the log files. Where is the core dumped to (the main log tells me the core has been dumped)? How do I

Re: RAID

2008-03-11 Thread kalin m
thanks i read the atacontrol man. there is a part in there that says: .. A quick and dirty way to create such a mirrored array (RAID1) on a new system is to boot off the FreeBSD install CD, do a minimal scratch install, abort out of the post install questions, and at

Re: security/openssh-portable

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 06:26:51PM -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: user:*:3000:3000::0:0:F L:/foo/./user:/bin/sh The usual thing is make the shell /bin/nologin Hi Jerry, Thanks -- but Changed to /usr/sbin/nologin So thats not in the 'chroot' aka /foo/user/usr/sbin/nologin Well, you can

Re: EVOLUTION SLOW START , a workaround

2008-03-11 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:45:05 -0300 sergio lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all This week I have time to trace the problem with evolution that lasts too much time to start. The problem is that glib on function g_module_load, searchs for a symbol g_module_check_init, g_module_unload...

OT: how to get make to run a script before each build

2008-03-11 Thread Steve Franks
I'd like to keep track of how many times I've run make for a given source. I'm sure someone knows how to get make to run a script before doing anything else, but using the regular build rules (aka. only if a source file has changed). Of course typing any permutation of this question into google

Re: OT: how to get make to run a script before each build

2008-03-11 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 01:15:52 Steve Franks wrote: I'd like to keep track of how many times I've run make for a given source. I'm sure someone knows how to get make to run a script before doing anything else, but using the regular build rules (aka. only if a source file has changed). Of

Re: newbie internet connection question

2008-03-11 Thread Patrick Mahan
Paul Schmehl presented these words - circa 3/11/08 1:02 PM- --On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 19:25:31 + Andy Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi People l downloaded FreeBSD 6.3 the other day out of curiosity.. The installation started ok but it all went wrong when it came to connecting to

Re: Tyan Motherboard

2008-03-11 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:43:26 -0700 (PDT) Mark Busby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking to build a new server, looking for a dual amd 940 board with sata II support. I have googled, but still looking for a firm success before spending the money.

Re: newbie internet connection question

2008-03-11 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 01:46:40 Patrick Mahan wrote: Paul Schmehl presented these words - circa 3/11/08 1:02 PM- --On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 19:25:31 + Andy Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My router's address is 192.168.1.1 and running ifconfig on my linux machine gives the

FreeBSD 7 and SATA DVD Drives

2008-03-11 Thread Mike Garrett
Hello, does FreeBSD 7 support booting from SATA DVD drives? When I tried 6.2, it didn't work, and I was hoping it has been fixed by now. Thanks for any info, Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 7 and SATA DVD Drives

2008-03-11 Thread George Fazio
Mike Garrett wrote: Hello, does FreeBSD 7 support booting from SATA DVD drives? When I tried 6.2, it didn't work, and I was hoping it has been fixed by now. Thanks for any info, Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: newbie internet connection question

2008-03-11 Thread Patrick Mahan
Mel presented these words - circa 3/11/08 6:10 PM- On Wednesday 12 March 2008 01:46:40 Patrick Mahan wrote: Paul Schmehl presented these words - circa 3/11/08 1:02 PM- --On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 19:25:31 + Andy Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My router's address is 192.168.1.1 and