Re: Using svn to checkout a deprecated port.

2013-02-23 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:23:09PM -0500, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:43:03AM +1030, Shane Ambler wrote: On 19/02/2013 05:53, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: Hi, I need to use svn to checkout the old security/cfs port so I can do a one-time transfer

Using svn to checkout a deprecated port.

2013-02-18 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
Hi, I need to use svn to checkout the old security/cfs port so I can do a one-time transfer of some data off of a USB drive. At the end of the day, I just need the one port so if the cvs repository is available I could also get it that way. In either case, I'm trying to do the equivalent of:

Re: Using svn to checkout a deprecated port.

2013-02-18 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:43:03AM +1030, Shane Ambler wrote: On 19/02/2013 05:53, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: Hi, I need to use svn to checkout the old security/cfs port so I can do a one-time transfer of some data off of a USB drive. At the end of the day, I just need the one port

ath0 + wpa/wpa2 + apple airport extreme = no joy.

2012-12-19 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I posted on a similar subject last year but in the end it turned out to be irrelevant. I'm trying to get the combination of: a Soekris Net4511, FreeBSD 8-STABLE from Dec 2011, an Atheros AR5BMB-44 wifi interface (identified as AR5212 in dmesg), an Apple Airport Extreme (about

Atheros, AirPort Extreme, WPA issues

2012-12-19 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I'm having issues using an ath(4) AR5212 card to connect FreeBSD 8.2 to the Internet via an Apple AirPort Extreme with WPA protection. Basically the ath/wlan combo associates to the network and can send packets fine but receiving fails. The is seen when you try to negotiate a DHCP lease. I have

Re: Problem with pkgconf and glib.

2012-07-30 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 08:21:21PM +0300, Jeff Tipton wrote: On 07/30/2012 19:46, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 07/30/12 18:21, Michael Powell wrote: Jeff Tipton wrote: On 07/30/2012 17:19, Christopher Hilton wrote: I'm trying to build emacs with gtk2 on my build box and I'm running into

Ports/packages: PKGNAMESUFFIX variable

2010-03-08 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
Is is considered okay for end users of the ports system to use the PKGNAMESUFFIX variable? I need to label the python 2.6 port that I've build as not having threads. Python with threads interferes with the mod_python and apache in the default configuration. I did the following: # cd

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-19 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:06:08PM -0400, PJ wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:19:16 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: [snip...] Anyway, I found the solution on the web... couldn't belive it was that simple: just ignore the crap spewed out on the screen and just

Re: Autofs howto

2009-05-08 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On May 8, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, May 07, 2009 22:16:01 -0500 Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote: While cryptic, It has worked well for me with multiple FreeBSD and Linux hosts on my network. Hopefully it will work well for me too. However, I am

Re: Installing multiple ports quietly and efficiently

2008-10-06 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Oct 6, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Mel wrote: On Monday 06 October 2008 21:28:25 Kelly Jones wrote: Here's one way to install multiple FreeBSD ports unattended on a machine: cd /usr/port/foo/prog1; make install; cd/usr/ports/foo/prog2; make install and so on (perhaps even in a shell script).

Re: port: security/cfs

2008-09-18 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Sep 17, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Edwin Groothuis wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:38:56PM -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: The port security/cfs, Matt Blaze's userland Cryptographic filesystem, is marked as broken because it does not compile under FreeBSD-7.0 or later. ports/127457

port: security/cfs

2008-09-17 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
The port security/cfs, Matt Blaze's userland Cryptographic filesystem, is marked as broken because it does not compile under FreeBSD-7.0 or later. I've managed to get it to compile through some simple changes but I don't know enough about RPC to know if I am on the right track. I'm

Re: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-06 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jul 6, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: John Almberg wrote: [snip] In the second case, it's really just about competition for resources. I suspect that you could have achieved a pretty good speed-up simply by adding another hard drive to your server and moving all of the

Re: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-06 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jul 6, 2008, at 5:10 PM, John Almberg wrote: Since MySQL is clearly the bottleneck of the sites, I'd investigate why in the world apache2 needs 150M per process. Now that was a darn good question. I ran httpd -M and got a list of 60 loaded modules... duh. I said before I'm just a

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jun 17, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote: Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this 480Mbit/s is USB isn't real, but half of it is. I agree. Want to take this private and help figure out what's wrong? :-)

USB support for Galaxy Metal Gear 3538UEP

2008-06-16 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I'm looking to put together a suitable for home use disk based backup to replace a broken Tape Changer. My thought is to buy the Galaxy Metal Gear 3538UEP which is a JBOD/RAID 1 USB disk enclosure. Does anyone have any experience using this USB Disk enclosure with FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE or

Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-16 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I run FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE on a file server and until recently used a Tape Changer for backups. I'm considering my options for a new backup solution. I'm actually thinking of ditching tape and using an externally attached USB or Firewire disk drive. My experimentation isn't giving me good

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-16 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:34 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jun 16, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: External drives make nice, fast external hot-standby backups. They are lousy for making long-term backups that you can take offsite, though. I can and have restored decade old

Intel Dual PRO/1000 Nic - Setup of shared code failed

2008-06-12 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I just got an Intel Dual gigabit nic that I planned to use with FreeBSD 7-STABLE. On startup neither of the Nics attach to the kernel. They give up with an error message of: Setup of shared code failed I hunted around on Google for this last night and found something about the cards

Asus A7V-E and ACPI.

2008-06-12 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I'm running a Fileserver on a now ancient Asus A7V-E box. Until last week this box ran FreeBSD 6.2 and it worked okay. Now it runs 7.0- STABLE. Before last night I had a pair of PCI Dec Tulip Nics in it. I've since replaced that with a Dual Intel Pro/100 (yes, 100, not 1000 if you saw my

Re: Intel Dual PRO/1000 Nic - Setup of shared code failed

2008-06-12 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jun 12, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Christopher Sean Hilton writes: I just got an Intel Dual gigabit nic that I planned to use with FreeBSD 7-STABLE. I'm using this on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Apr 19 23:17:00 EDT 2008 i386 with no problems. Sounds cool

Re: Intel Dual PRO/1000 Nic - Setup of shared code failed

2008-06-12 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jun 12, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Christopher Sean Hilton writes: I just got an Intel Dual gigabit nic that I planned to use with FreeBSD 7-STABLE. I'm using this on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Apr 19 23:17:00 EDT 2008 i386 with no problems. Sounds cool

Re: Intel Dual PRO/1000 Nic - Setup of shared code failed

2008-06-12 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jun 12, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Christopher Sean Hilton writes: I can try that later but given that the em driver is already in the kernel I don't expect it to bear fruit. However, can you do a kldstat on your machine with the em card? It will tell me if there is some

md, mount_mfs and swap

2008-06-03 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I've recently started playing with NetBSD and notice that by default it mounts /tmp as an MFS backed by swap. A quick read of the md, mount_mfs man page would lead me to believe that md /tmp rw,async,-s1024m 0 0 will move my /tmp dir to a swap backed 1G space. This would make me feel

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-03 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jun 2, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Color laser is what you want. There are some really good inexpensive units out there. I recall reading the inexpensieve Samsung color laser even speaks Postscript. while i don't use color printers, usually this postscript is

Re: A general purpose LDAP solution?

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mar 24, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: I asked this on freebsd-net@ but got no replies. So now I ask the same question here. Hi list! I have speculated a lot about implementation of (Open)LDAP on my sever. By I haven't yet found the right (and logical) way to do it. I'm

Re: A general purpose LDAP solution?

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mar 25, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: GOSA is another nice feature full LDAP manager in PHP, does samba, dns, mail, web, asterisk etc etc etc Is Gosa in the ports collection? -- Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Mysql 51 Server port patch

2008-03-24 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I submitted a PR on this. In short the problem that I'm having is that mysqld becomes a daemon and returns control the rcorder subsystem before it has established it unix domain listening socket. On my system the next daemon to run is jabberd. Jabberd (from the jabberd2 port) has a

Re: Does softupdate help squid ?

2008-03-17 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:51 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm setting up a squid cache (3.0.2) machine FreeBSD 7.0 based and I wonder if softupdates could help (make it faster ) or not the cache partition ? I can't imagine that it would hurt. Last I looked though squid may not be the

Re: Does softupdate help squid ?

2008-03-17 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mar 17, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Johan Hendriks wrote: Squid is a forward proxy whereas varnish is just a reverse proxy So you can not use it for for lan to wan proxy! Thanks for the enlightenment. My understanding is that Squid can do both forward and reverse proxy. At least it it would

Re: Urgent: filesystem full, though space is available

2008-03-17 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mar 17, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, Ive got a big problem now on a production server. When i do various things, i am getting write failed, file system full messages all over the place. Ive gone through and deleted things i can, and i should have the space now,

Re: Does softupdate help squid ?

2008-03-17 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Daniel Bye wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:34:04PM +, Pollywog wrote: On Monday 17 March 2008 19:17:58 Wojciech Puchar wrote: i would say it's absolutely needed. anyway - any reason to not use soft updates on every filesystem? What exactly is a soft

Re: interactive stop on boot

2008-03-14 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mar 14, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Jason Barnes wrote: Hi -- I'm running a Tombstone machine that's functioning as a server. The machine is located somewhere with a fast connection, and not somewhere that I have easy access to. As such, I want this machine to do its best to boot up and get onto

OpenLDAP missing symbols from pthreads...

2008-03-07 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
Good morning, I'm having a problem with openldap 2.3.41 compiled from the openldap23-server port. My box is a long running FreeBSD server recently upgraded from FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE to FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE via cvsup/make buildworld $ uname -a FreeBSD natasha.lhr-its.com 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD

Re: what kind of UPS will work best?

2007-10-10 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
that is USB or if you choose to go the SNMP route. -- Chris -- __o All I was doing was trying to get home from work. _`\,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*)___ Christopher Sean Hiltonchris

Re: named and nfs mounts at boot time

2007-07-24 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
___(*)/_(*)___ Christopher Sean Hiltonchris | at | vindaloo.com pgp key: D0957A2D/f5 30 0a e1 55 76 9b 1f 47 0b 07 e9 75 0e 14 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Flashplugin problem after xorg 7.2 upgrade

2007-06-02 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
that DefaultDepth 32 may also work. -- Chris -- __o All I was doing was trying to get home from work. _`\,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*)___ Christopher Sean Hiltonchris | at | vindaloo.com

Re: Easiest method to install a DVD writer

2007-05-04 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
was doing was trying to get home from work. _`\,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*)___ Christopher Sean Hiltonchris | at | vindaloo.com pgp key: D0957A2D/f5 30 0a e1 55 76 9b 1f 47 0b 07 e9 75 0e 14

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-04-26 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
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Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-13 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:00 -0400, Marcelo Maraboli wrote: I agree. callbacks are not enough, you can reach a false conclusion, that´s why I use SPF along with callbacks... on the same message, my MX concludes: you are sending email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], but shire.net says YOUR

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-13 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:00 -0400, Marcelo Maraboli wrote: I agree. callbacks are not enough, you can reach a false conclusion, that´s why I use SPF along with callbacks... on the same

iwi + 802.11b

2007-01-12 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I'm having problems getting a good connection from my laptop to my 802.11b network via the iwi interface. The ath interface does this well and the iwi interface works great with my 802.11g network but it's unhappy with 802.11b. -- Chris ___

Re: External USB drive kernel problems

2006-11-22 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 12:38 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Please reply directly to me, as I am not subscribed) I just bought a VIA external USB enclosure with a Hitachi 200GB ATA drive to use for disk-based backups. I put it on my test box here, which I just upgraded to 6.2-Prerelease.

Re: Kismet and wi0

2006-06-16 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:16:32AM -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: I'm wondering if anyone else is having trouble with the combination between Kismet and the Orinoco Gold card. This setup worked flawlessly for me under FreeBSD 5.4 (I retested it last night) but I get no joy with FreeBSD

Kismet and wi0

2006-06-14 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I'm wondering if anyone else is having trouble with the combination between Kismet and the Orinoco Gold card. This setup worked flawlessly for me under FreeBSD 5.4 (I retested it last night) but I get no joy with FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE. Here's what I see: # ifconfig wi0 list ap Doesn't list

Wireless card for kismet

2006-06-14 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
Well, it's looking like my venerable Orinoco card (wi0) is getting a little long in the tooth for kismet. Per my earlier post I can't seem to get it working with FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE. Can anyone recommend a better wifi card? I prefer something that will: Work with Kismet, Take an external Antenna,

ucom/uvisor questions.

2006-06-14 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
Hi, I have a Handspring Treo 600 and a program called Wmodem which allows you to access the wireless modem on the phone and establish a ppp connection. I've used this since FreeBSD 4.x with serial cable. With 5 I was able to use this with the USB cable. On 6.0 I'm back to using just the serial

Re: unmounting a filesystem safely that doesn't exist anymore

2006-06-14 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 04:44:48PM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On 6/12/06, Ulrich Spoerlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Björn König wrote: I did a mistake: I unplugged my digital camera accidentally before I unmounted the filesystem. *doh* This happens very often, because I'm very

IPSec tcp session stalling

2006-06-05 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I'm having a problem with aFreeBSD workstation that tried to connect to a remote VPN via an IPSec tunnel. Here's my setup: A FreeBSD workstation: W An OpenBSD router: LR And another OpenBSD router: RR A remote FreeBSD server: S LR and RR are connected via an IPSec tunnel. W shares the local

Re: Removable drives

2006-03-29 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 08:43 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Christopher Sean Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] First Question: Which filesystem are people using on usb flash drives and removable hard drives? I'm using a mixture of ufs2, ext2, and msdos. I'm using ufs2 because I'm also

File backed, rather than device backed, UFS filesystem Was - Re: Removable drives

2006-03-29 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 08:43 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: [snip] Another option is to use the raw device. For things like backups, this works well, because you can just direct the output of tar directly to the device. Or pass it through compression and encryption filters on the way. I

Removable drives

2006-03-28 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
Hi, I have a question to the community about removable drives, pendrives and usb and firewire attached hard drives. I'm just wondering how people are dealing with them in FreeBSD. I don't have any operational problems with them. I'm just wondering if I'm doing things the hard way. First

Cups startup problem on NFS client (w/resolution)

2006-03-24 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
This afternoon I had an interesting problem. Cups failed to startup on my machine and threw the error: cupsd: Child exited with status 48 or somesuch. The short story is that rpc.statd had grabbed port 631 on my machine and that blocked cups from working. Normally this would be harmless

Gnome port

2006-02-05 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
Is there a reason that the gnome 2 ports don't use the conflicts mechanism to avoid completely hosing an existing gnome 2 install? On Friday I came across a gimp script-fu which would slice an image into pieces and output html that rendered the complete image as a table. But it was written in

Re: Gnome port

2006-02-05 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:54:07PM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote: On 05-Feb-2006 Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: Is there a reason that the gnome 2 ports don't use the conflicts mechanism to avoid completely hosing an existing gnome 2 install? On [snip] Let me be more clear because I'm