Re: FreeBSD ports problem

2013-08-29 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Harpreet Singh Chawla preet10101...@gmail.com wrote: I have been trying to install virtualbox support for my FreeBSD 9.1. A package named v4l_compat-1.0.20120501.tar.gz is causing problems in the installation. The package was downloaded automatically and it

Re: FreeBSD ports problem

2013-08-29 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Harpreet Singh Chawla preet10101...@gmail.com wrote: yup...did it...and downloaded manually... But its giving a checksum matching error. *Harpreet Singh Chawla* On 29 August 2013 22:48, Amitabh Kant amitabhk...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013

Re: Make Release

2013-08-01 Thread Amitabh Kant
; http://www.amitabhkant.com/custom_iso_with_bsdinstall_in_freebsd/ Does not cover all points, but hopefully should give you a starting point. My link is only applicable for bsdinstall (9.0 9.1) based installers. Amitabh Kant On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com

Re: Make Release

2013-08-01 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Amitabh Kant amitabhk...@gmail.com wrote: Devin Teske Rick Miller have a fairly extensive explanation on their blogs on how to create your own modified iso's. Search the archives for links. Hopefully they can chime in with their respective links. I

Re: Make Release

2013-08-01 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Teske, Devin devin.te...@fisglobal.comwrote: I'm hoping that my very open development documentation on customizing the release(7) process for producing DruidBSD releases can help you out here. I've documented much of the internals of the release(7) process

Re: databases/postgresql: simple mirroring of a database or a whole server

2013-01-15 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:24 PM, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.dewrote: Hello list. First, please set me CC, i do not subscribe this list. I'd like to ask for a mirroring solution of an important databse on my installations across at least three boxes. The setup is as follows.

Re: about unattended installation

2012-12-19 Thread Amitabh Kant
Won't be able to help you much, but bsdinstall seems to be using gpart rather than fdisk. This page has a nice explanation on how to use gpart: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html As for sysinstall, it's not being mainitned officially, but http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/ is

Re: about unattended installation

2012-12-19 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.comwrote: On Dec 19, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre wrote: Good afternoon, One little question… I'm trying to have ready our new unattended FreeBSD installation system. Until now, I have been using

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-23 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Most people testing pkgng at the moment are building their own package sets -- poudriere is a popular choice for doing that -- and setting up their own private repositories. There should have been

Re: How to handle postgresql82-client vulnerability

2012-04-13 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: On 13/04/2012 12:23, Carmel wrote: I am working on an older machine that has postgresql-client-8.2.23 installed. I have the following information regarding the program: $ pkg_info -R postgresql-client-8.2.23

Re: FreeBSD custom CD and extra files to be included in the iso

2012-02-05 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.comwrote: On Feb 4, 2012, at 1:37 AM, Amitabh Kant wrote: On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Amitabh Kant amitabhk...@gmail.com wrote: I have been able to use the make release command to create a custom iso for FreeBSD which

FreeBSD custom CD and extra files to be included in the iso

2012-02-04 Thread Amitabh Kant
I have been able to use the make release command to create a custom iso for FreeBSD which includes some changes to the various bsdinstall scripts. It all works well as the iso / memory stick images / ftp files are generated and usable. What I would now like to do is try adding couple of files,

Re: FreeBSD custom CD and extra files to be included in the iso

2012-02-04 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Amitabh Kant amitabhk...@gmail.com wrote: I have been able to use the make release command to create a custom iso for FreeBSD which includes some changes to the various bsdinstall scripts. It all works well as the iso / memory stick images / ftp files

Re: mkisofs increasing iso size by 100 MB

2012-01-12 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, Amitabh Kant wrote: I am trying to customise the bsdinstall auto script. I can mount the iso (amd64 arch / 9.0 RELEASE) and change the shell script as per my requirement. Once I try to re-create

Re: mkisofs increasing iso size by 100 MB

2012-01-12 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Amitabh Kant amitabhk...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, Amitabh Kant wrote: I am trying to customise the bsdinstall auto script. I can mount the iso (amd64 arch / 9.0 RELEASE

mkisofs increasing iso size by 100 MB

2012-01-11 Thread Amitabh Kant
I am trying to customise the bsdinstall auto script. I can mount the iso (amd64 arch / 9.0 RELEASE) and change the shell script as per my requirement. Once I try to re-create the iso file using mkisofs utility, the size of the final iso increases by 100 MB if -J (joliet) mode is used. If I remove

Re: FBSD-9.0-RC3 Disk 1 ISO Bootable?

2012-01-04 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.netwrote: I downloaded FreeBSD-9.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.**iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ **FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/**ISO-IMAGES/9.0/FreeBSD-9.0-**

Scritping sysinstall and custom iso

2011-08-28 Thread Amitabh Kant
of them towards PXE boot. c) Is it necessary to define every step in install.cfg? I would like to keep disk partition / label and network configuration dialogs available (root password if necessary), while setting values for all other user dialogs and screens. Amitabh Kant

Re: problem booting a new server on FreeBSD

2011-01-11 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:03 AM, FRLinux frli...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Try booting _with_ a disk in the CD drive. Well, I was at least for the first install since I booted from CD, time was the same about 1m to 1m30

Re: FBSD 8 php 52 extensions dependency on X11 ???

2010-11-20 Thread Amitabh Kant
, -- Alejandro Imass Either use WITHOUT_X11=yes in your make line, or have WITHOUT_X11=yes in your /etc/make.conf file beofre you run the make command. Can't help you with generating correct dependency list though. Regards Amitabh Kant ___ freebsd

Re: Squirrel Mail Time Zone Errors

2010-07-10 Thread Amitabh Kant
zone either in php.ini file or set the same on the script page at the top using date_default_timezone_set(' America/Los_Angeles'); Amitabh Kant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Simulate CRON

2010-06-14 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I saw a posting here months ago regarding a way to simulate running a script under CRON. I wrote it down and now cannot find it. Googling has not proved very useful either. I just cannot remember the program name. I hope I

Re: class.phpmailer.php Warning: date() [function.date]:

2010-05-22 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Running Apache-1.3.41_1 PHP5-5.2.12 I did not get this message, which I now get running Apache/2.2.15 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.3.2 Is their way to stop this? Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's

Re: pgp5-filter-5.3.2, php5-imap-5.3.2, php-extensions-1.4

2010-04-12 Thread Amitabh Kant
' undeclared (first use in this function) *** Error code 1 1 error *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/security/php5-filter. If I am not wrong, php5-filter has been removed as it now forms part of the code PHP. You can confirm by checking /usr/ports/Updating file. With regards Amitabh Kant

Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it?

2010-03-17 Thread Amitabh Kant
be present in RC version too. If not, there should be a port version for freebsd-update. Amitabh Kant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Where is mkisofs

2010-03-13 Thread Amitabh Kant
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Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-30 Thread Amitabh Kant
://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-freebsdupdate.html). Amitabh Kant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: freebsd 8.0 slow boot

2010-01-20 Thread Amitabh Kant
this is related with that. Is there any option to use old TTY subsystem on 8.0 or how can I speed up that boot wait process. Regards. I am having the same problem with a dual processor Intel board. Would be interested if any setting can speed up the boot process. Amitabh Kant

Re: Postgresql download site

2009-11-21 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: What's the best place to pick up the latest 7.0 and 8.0 packages for postgresql client and server? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: php4 + php5

2009-05-07 Thread Amitabh Kant
Add WITHOUT_X11=yes in /etc/make.conf file before running make command. Amitabh On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Mark ad...@asarian-host.net wrote: -Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk] Sent: donderdag 7 mei 2009 8:29 To: Mark Cc:

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Amitabh Kant
install the options from lang/php5-extensions . Gives you tons of options for php5. Amitabh On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long

Re: does hardware upgrade requires reconfiguration?

2008-10-24 Thread Amitabh Kant
Amitabh Kant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23.10.2008 06:52 To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc Subject does hardware upgrade requires reconfiguration? Hi I currently have a single processor/4gb ram machine with me which I am thinking to upgrade to dual proc and 8gb

does hardware upgrade requires reconfiguration?

2008-10-22 Thread Amitabh Kant
Hi I currently have a single processor/4gb ram machine with me which I am thinking to upgrade to dual proc and 8gb ram. Does installing extra processor requires re-configuration or re-installation of the os? The extra processor will be mounted on the same motherboard. With regards Amitabh

Re: security updates

2008-08-15 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:39 PM, jdd sur free [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello :-) so then, my question: what about security updates? with openSUSE I have an automatic update. For freeBSD, I didn't find anything on this archive list and the google search sent me to old doc (2003)

Unable to fetch source files using FTP for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2

2008-06-27 Thread Amitabh Kant
Hello I have a remote FreeBSD server with a freshly installed FreeBSD 7.0 Release (amd64 arch). I used the freebsd-update tool to apply binary security updates. This upgraded my system to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2. Since I wanted the ULE scheduler, I tried downloading the source files using

Re: Unable to fetch source files using FTP for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2

2008-06-27 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:49 PM, David Gurvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have an install cd it works faster than csup to get the sources, then use csup to update the sources. Thanks. I don't have access to a CD-ROM. It's a leased server at a remote location. I won't be doing buildworld

Re: F11 in Firefox

2007-09-12 Thread Amitabh Kant
On 9/12/07, David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It moves the window partially off screen such that the window controls are inaccessible. As I said, I NEVER EVER want this function. It is, in my view, a damnable bug. The only way I can get control back is to exit Firefox. How do I

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Amitabh Kant
On 9/8/07, Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tested the connection by downloading 2~3 files simultaneously and used 'bmon' as Mel suggested in another reply (thanks to him). As I'd already guessed the RX don't get bigger than 30~40% of the expected bandwidth. I performed the test with

Re: without SSL

2007-07-11 Thread Amitabh Kant
On 7/11/07, pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On top of this, when I try to stop apache with apachectl stop, apache stops. But apachectl start gives : [warn] (2) No such file or directory: Failed to enable the 'httpready' Accept Filter Phil Either load the kernel module using kldload accf_http

Re: without SSL

2007-07-11 Thread Amitabh Kant
Sorry, the file is /boot/loader.conf Regards Amitabh ___ 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 retrieve installed version ?

2007-03-29 Thread Amitabh Kant
Try uname -a Amitabh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?)

2007-02-03 Thread Amitabh Kant
On 2/3/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. Now what happens to the other 9 GBs? Is it the formatting/fat? Not sure of it, but I would assume that is the case. Amitabh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Fwd: 305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?)

2007-02-02 Thread Amitabh Kant
-- Forwarded message -- From: Amitabh Kant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 3, 2007 11:11 AM Subject: Re: 305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?) To: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2/3/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Vendredi 2 Février 2007 19:41, Peter A. Giessel a écrit

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Amitabh Kant
On 7/29/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And my point is that those not supporting FreeBSD already don't care, since as far as they are concerned, their is no market for them to be losing not buying their products isn't telling them anything they didn't already believe ... The

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-27 Thread Amitabh Kant
And this is what I always do. As a person responsible for recommending/approving/buying harware related stuff for few different companies, I make it a point that I *prefer* only those brands that have support for FreeBSD. For me, this is more so in case of RAID cards. On 7/27/06, Nikolas Britton

Problems with mysqld running from /etc/rc.local in FreeBSD6

2006-03-04 Thread Amitabh Kant
Hi Please excuse me for my ignorance, as I am fairly new to FreeBSD. I have a FreeBSD 6.0 running on a test system. I successfully installed mysql5 server from the ports collection. Now to make it start during the boot process, I created a file /etc/rc.local and entered the complete path of the

Re: Problems with mysqld running from /etc/rc.local in FreeBSD6

2006-03-04 Thread Amitabh Kant
software Raid1 setup. Thanks Amitabh On 3/5/06, Amitabh Kant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Please excuse me for my ignorance, as I am fairly new to FreeBSD. I have a FreeBSD 6.0 running on a test system. I successfully installed mysql5 server from the ports collection. Now to make it start during