Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

2013-10-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
from /usr/src/UPDATING here (so they are completely correct in that sense) these are the instructions to do something rather different to what the OP intended. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc

Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

2013-10-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
' error for /usr/local/etc/libmap.d thing is a false problem: /usr/local/etc/libmap.d is an optional directory -- all you are seeing is install(1) trying to open it and discovering that it doesn't exist. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http

Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

2013-10-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
or interrupt the boot sequence and type things directly at the loader if so. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: zfs over geli over zfs

2013-10-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
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Re: zfs flag denoting unclean shutdown?

2013-10-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
to be spent cleaning and repairing filesystems: with ZFS, reboot after crash is as fast as a normal reboot. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Where is pkg repository for 9.2-RELEASE (amd64)?

2013-10-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
+http://, pkg+https://, pkg+ssh:// etc. but these are still under development) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: after pkgng update, daily run still using pkg_info

2013-09-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
requests -- are welcome. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Gnome green screen of death

2013-09-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: PKGNG

2013-09-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
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Re: PKGNG

2013-09-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
[*]. pkg(8) will be able to find the repo given the information I showed. Also ${ABI} in pkg.conf expands to a string like freebsd:9:x86:64 which includes more than just the CPU architecture. Cheers, Matthew [*] This usage is not in compliance with RFC 2616 so the URL will need

Re: how to log sshd access in a single file

2013-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
with tcpwrappers support. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: howto kill x if x is running?

2013-09-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
run when the system is otherwise idle. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Shared object libaprutil-1.so.4 not found, required by libserf-1.so.0

2013-09-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
portmaster devel/subversion It might be useful to run portmaster --force-config -f devel/subversion so you can recheck all the options settings of dependencies, but this will rebuild portmaster and everything it depends on. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA

Re: Disappointing dependency introduced in 9.1 (from 8-STABLE)

2013-09-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
in src.conf(5). Did you raise a PR about this? Requesting a means to have a loader that only works via a serial console sounds like something that should be supported. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt

Re: When statically linked Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)

2013-09-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
are by no means omniscient. How about getting a back trace from the core file your program has produced? Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: CURDIR-relative paths in ports' Makefiles

2013-08-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
such changes. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Finding exactly which commands, and in which order, rc is running at startup

2013-08-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
chmod 600 /var/log/console.log /etc/rc.d/syslogd restart Obviously, that won't help you see what happened on the previous reboot, but on the next reboot you should see a transcript of the console output. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http

Re: Way to be announced about security updates and new releases

2013-08-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
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Re: pkgng problem

2013-08-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
a mapping ( a sequence of key : value pairs ) when the YAML parser was expecting an array or whatever. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: pkgng problem

2013-08-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
: # pkg -v 1.1.4 Well, looks like both of those are up-to-date versions. I wonder if the pkg-test build system threw a wobbly at all on it's i386 builder? Bapt is on holiday or I'd ask him. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions

Re: pkg install on freshly installed 9.1 doesn't find any packages

2013-08-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/latest or there are some other publicly availble repos: Exonetric has one, as does PC-BSD. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk signature.asc Description

Re: High availability on remote site

2013-08-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
string. The server names will be tried in order until a successful connection is made. Other languages may provide a similar facility, or it should be pretty easy to code up with minimal intervention in your codebase required. Cheers, Matthew

Re: How to Fix Port Audit showing ports not installed on a system

2013-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
to use a repo with all the appropriate packages available. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Update /usr/src with subversion

2013-08-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
servers you have the tree checked out from or the protocol (svn://, https:// etc) used. See the output of 'svn help switch' for details. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: deleting managed content using svn

2013-08-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
to trust or login details if you needed a password for access. You probably don't need to worry about doing anything to those. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Update /usr/src with subversion

2013-08-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
. It's just 'svn switch --relocate' which is deprecated. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: learn

2013-08-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
nebulous, especially for people on this mailing list who are volunteering their time and expertise for free. Questions like 'How do I do some particular task' will get you a lot further. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Fwd: Glen Peterson from Wisconsin. Some questions

2013-07-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
of other web browsers certainly are available either as native FreeBSD applications, or by running the Linux applications under emulation. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: 2 lines

2013-07-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/07/2013 17:38, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: Not sure what is the best way nowadays to get own /24 or at least /26 ? I wonder if there is second hand ip market :-) Get a /64 or a /48 and subnet it...? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html (especially section 10.1 about obtaining a kernel core dump, and 10.2 about using kgdb.) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
/daily_status_pkg_changes2/g' \ 490.status-pkg-changes 490.status-pkg-changes2 Then add appropriate daily_status_pkg_changes2_flags='-j otherjail' settings to periodic.conf Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt

Re: textproc/hunspell and readline?

2013-07-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/07/2013 09:30, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:58:59 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 18/07/2013 10:42, Walter Hurry wrote: I note that the Makefile for textproc/hunspell has '--with-readline' in the CONFIGURE_ARGS, but on 9.1 it doesn't seem to be honoured (or maybe

Re: textproc/hunspell and readline?

2013-07-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Is there a reason for this? libreadline.so is in base Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Is pkgng supposed to upgrade a dependency of a locked package?

2013-07-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
of locking is what should happen -- nothing a locked package depends on should be modified by pkg without some extra input from the administrator to allow the change to happen. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: pkg: Unable to open ports directory /usr/ports: No such file or directory

2013-07-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
was to delete the files portsnap was using by 'rm -Rf /var/db/portsnap/files' and then re-run 'portsnap fetch' and 'portsnap extract' -- warning: this will wipe out everything you have in /usr/ports and download a complete set of replacements. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA

Re: Cannot Update Source Tree After Move To Subversion 1.8

2013-06-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
/src is a symlink to another directory in a separate filesystem, but this historically worked, so I'm guess that is not the problem. Ideas? svn upgrade Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc

Re: What is the correct CPUTYPE for this machine?

2013-06-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Which should I use? CPUTYPE?= native Why fret when the computer can work it out for itself? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: pkgng dependencies change / update

2013-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
different mysqlXX versions simultaneously, which would make your postfix problem fairly trivial to solve. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: BSD sleep

2013-05-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
majority of purposes. Cheers, Matthew [*] I haven't checked on GNU sleep, but (for example) this is exactly what dnssec-keygen(8) does. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pkg_version says my ports need to be updated?

2013-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Try installing ports-mgmt/portmaster and then running portmaster -a Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: swap partition leads to instability?

2013-05-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
over as many disk spindles as possible. You can create numerous swap areas and the system will automatically stripe any IO across them. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: /etc/jail.conf for automatically started jails listed in /etc/rc.conf

2013-05-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
of the key new features is switching largely away from sysvipc to mmap for shared memory. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/release-9-3.html Unfortunately I don't think it's entirely sysV IPC free yet. But postgresql93 is available in ports. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
updates. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: X11 screen grabber from cmd line

2013-05-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
and so forth. Don't give out such access except to people you trust. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: pwd.db/spwd.db file corupption when having unsafe system poweroff

2013-05-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
or pressing and holding the power button is a bad thing(tm).[*] Cheers, Matthew [*] Some might suggest that this re-education is best achieved by a form of Pavlovian conditioning using severe negative reinforcement involving blunt force trauma. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: update from apache22 to apache24

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
and keep configtest'ing and fixing your conf until you have something that works, and that you can put on your live system when you upgrade. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: pkg question

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
of packages as you'ld normally find in a repo, it's cleanest to just tell poudriere or tinderbox to build everything again from scratch. Timeconsuming, but you end up with a consistent repository fully populated with all the SHLIBS info you could want. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J

Re: Updating package from www.freshports.org

2013-04-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
at the moment. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Sendmail 8.14.5/8.14.5 on fbsd-9.1R (EC2)

2013-04-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
sendmail only listening on port 587. This should not prevent sendmail from sending outgoing messages, but will prevent any incoming. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: Why is pkg_glob no longer working for me?

2013-04-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
is a binary package management system, it achieves the required aim of keeping the ports tree nice and clean by the simple expedient of not downloading distfiles or using the ports to compile them. No mess created means none to be cleared up. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman

Re: Sendmail 8.14.5/8.14.5 on fbsd-9.1R (EC2)

2013-04-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
=Ea' meaning 'require authentication'. That's usually the right thing to do for a message submission agent, and the use of authentication will allow senders to relay through the daemon without the usual anti-relaying checks. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP

Re: Managing conflicts between ports (same package with multiple maintained versions)

2013-04-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
well be the case that updating the CONFLICTS setting in all the ports for the different streams whenerver a new stream is released really is the most effective solution. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: Keeping FreeBSD uptodate with svn, freebsd-update complaining

2013-04-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
from freebsd-update, not what you compiled yourself. The list of files it shows are specifically the files that were changed between FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p1 and 9.1-RELEASE-p2. freebsd-update is fast largely because it only installs the changed bits onto your system. Cheers, Matthew

Re: Moving to pkg

2013-04-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/04/2013 06:37, Leslie Jensen wrote: Are pkg dependent on FreeBSD Version? I've moved two 9.1 machines and I have one 8.2 that I would like to move to pkg. So can I move the 8.2 machine also? Yes, you can. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP

Re: Moving to pkg

2013-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
this pkg_version: the package info for package 'zip-3.0' is corrupt Have I missed something? Yes. In a pkgng-ized world, 'pkg_version' is redundant. Instead use: pkg version -vIL= (note: no underscore character) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http

Re: Ah crap! pkg_version: the package info for package '...' is corrupt

2013-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
will fixup the /var/db/pkg entries for them. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Operation timed out with smtp.gmail.com - please help

2013-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
define(`confSERVER_CERT', `CERT_DIR/cert.pem')dnl define(`confSERVER_KEY', `CERT_DIR/key.pem')dnl define(`confCLIENT_CERT', `CERT_DIR/cert.pem')dnl define(`confCLIENT_KEY', `CERT_DIR/key.pem')dnl which allows me to put all the keys and certs in /etc/mail/certs/ Cheers, Matthew

Re: EOL

2013-03-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Of course, there can't be any guarantees that your project running on FreeBSD 9.2 now could be supported in compat9x mode on FreeBSD 15.x in 2023. But I'd suggest the FreeBSD is probably one of your best bets for achieving that. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: software support

2013-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
if that allows FreeBSD to boot? Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Still a problem with 'pkg check -Ba'

2013-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/03/2013 19:18, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:13:04 +, Walter Hurry wrote: I hope Matthew Seaman sees this: All the files are of course present and correct in /usr/local/lib/ virtualbox snip code Should have mentioned: This is pkg-1.0.9_2 I see

Re: Still a problem with 'pkg check -Ba'

2013-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/03/2013 21:36, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 26/03/2013 19:18, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:13:04 +, Walter Hurry wrote: I hope Matthew Seaman sees this: All the files are of course present and correct in /usr/local/lib/ virtualbox snip code Should have mentioned

Re: Leaking disk space

2013-03-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
on different volume on the freebsd...@freebsd.org mailing list. Kirk McKusick was investigating the original report: CC'd. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: make deinstall within /usr/ports/lang - need to recover default language installs

2013-03-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
software, just try re-installing the packages in question. This should work, but you might end up doing a lot of strictly unnecessary recompiling. Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Error: shared library mysqlclient.18 does not exist

2013-03-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
do that automatically. How did you install mysql-client? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: make package vs pkg create

2013-02-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
as dependencies of packages you no longer want. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: PERL problem installing SQLgrey

2013-02-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
, in which case the port maintainer would have to update the distinfo to match. In any case, if you're still having problems, please ask again on freebsd-po...@freebsd.org Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Cannot resolve localhost

2013-02-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
-x ::1 % dig +short @8.8.8.8 -x 127.0.0.1 % dig +short @8.8.8.8 localhost % dig +short @8.8.8.8 IN localhost Just a peculiarity of the Google DNS service. Cheers, Matthew [*] BTW. nslookup is *so* 20th Century. All the cool kids are using dig(1) or drill(1) nowadays

Re: pkg -c/pkg -j question

2013-02-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
) That's basically it. You might run into problems running some package scripts if you're trying to manage a chroot designed for a very different CPU arch / OS version than your system is running: this is something we haven't really put much thought into yet. Cheers, Matthew PS

Re: pkgng

2013-02-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/02/2013 17:43, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:54:00 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 15/12/2012 18:23, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:31:03 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: 'm slowly collecting examples of applications where the shlib analysis doesn't work properly

Re: where is 1GB of RAM

2013-02-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/02/2013 19:44, Wojciech Puchar wrote: real memory = 34359738368 (32768 MB) avail memory = 33167446016 (31630 MB) where did 1GB of memory go? Used by the kernel. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: Delete /var/db/pkg.bak?

2013-01-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
with the kind and able assistance of Matthew Seaman). I have no intention of trying to 'go back', so my question is this: Is it safe now to clear out the pkg.bak file which was created by pkg2ng at the time of conversion? I'm almost sure it is, but just want to make certain. Um... it's

Re: sh export

2013-01-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
the environment will easily overflow the console width that ps(1) uses by default, it's best to combine it with a couple of 'w's. Thus: ps -wwwe ${pid_of_process} Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc

Re: [OT-ish] Need a Binary for lang/sml-nj

2013-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
/smlnj-110.0.7_3.tbz Trying to install a pkg_tools style package with pkgng is not going to work. At least, not with pkg-1.0.6. pkgng-1.1 will have the capability of converting from pkg_tools to pkgng format. And vice-versa. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
-west.FreeBSD.org -- switch to a different mirror To see what setting are currently in force: svn info Working out how to apply these instructions to /usr/ports or /usr/doc is left as an exercise. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/01/2013 10:07, Mike Clarke wrote: I suppose the best approach with ZFS would be to make a snapshot immediately prior to running portsnap. Yes. That would do the trick quite neatly. In fact, snapshot before each time you run portsnap. Cheers Matthew -- Dr Matthew J

Re: creating new user account password.

2013-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pkgng package repository tracking security updates

2013-01-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
package building like this is never going to be acceptable. Too much scope for anyone to introduce trojans into packages. Building packages securely is a very big deal, and as recent events have shown, you can't take any chances. Cheers, Matthew

Re: SSH on FreeBSD

2013-01-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
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Re: pkgng package repository tracking security updates

2013-01-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
, or to create their own private repositories to serve their own networks with their custom configured packages. And, ideally, people will be able to use a *mix* of the above as best suits their needs. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd

Re: pkgng package repository tracking security updates

2013-01-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
construction (and construction plans have been heavily revised in the light of the earlier security compromise) I have no good idea of what sort of turn-around will be possible. I expect at least as good as the old pkg build cluster managed and probably better. Cheers, Matthew

freebsd-update won't update 8.2-R-p9 to p10

2013-01-13 Thread Matthew Pounsett
I can't seem to get freebsd-update to do the jump from 9.2-RELEASE-p9 to p10. This is what I'm getting. sudo freebsd-update fetch Password: Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done.

Re: pkgng - Symlinks created by portupgrade?

2013-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/01/2013 15:18, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:50:34 +, Walter Hurry wrote: Thank you yet again, Matthew. As always, you are a fount of knowledge. The guidance on LATEST_LINK has helped a great deal. I still have a further question or two though; I shall follow up

Re: Unable to install xorg using pkg_add

2013-01-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
them on the FTP servers (although these will be at least about 2 months old by now) or you can grab the ports (use of portsnap recommended) and build your own. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: make install package?

2013-01-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
anything like it. Instead, they have repository catalogues which can fulfil all your package finding needs. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pkgng - Symlinks created by portupgrade?

2013-01-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
to be unique per-port, but falls somewhat short. Various ports have NO_LATEST_LINK set which suppresses creating that link. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk signature.asc

Re: Unreferenced Libraries?

2013-01-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
. There are instances of things that look at first sight like a shared library, but that don't have an ABI version no. In general, these are not in fact shared libraries, but loadable modules used by various specific programs. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
to force it to discover the right net device during install, and/or after install ? This is normal for VirtualBox -- it doesn't matter what NIC the host has, VB always presents it as an em(4) interface to the guest. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
-- the guest OS can't control the frequency of the host CPU, which is what you'ld expect thinking about it. Just disable powerd in /etc/rc.conf to get rid of the error message. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
by typing: shutdown -p now 'Machine-Close-Send shutdown' is what you want to use routinely. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:52, jb wrote: Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org writes: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and this is how install offers to configure the network; but my host has Broadcom Corporation

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
cases, but you may need to go in and twiddle a few knobs and generally tune things up a bit to get the very best results. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE - does not install package

2013-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
or stable/9 pretty successfully on 9.1-RELEASE. For pkgng unfortunately your only choices are to wait patiently or to compile your own. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: pkgng - Obsolete Dependencies?

2013-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
be correct and the expected outcome. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
* OS versions available. So your best recourse is to pull down a copy of the ports tree and build what packages you need for yourself. This is time consuming, but not particularly difficult. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
SVN. Outside that particular audience, however, svn rules. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2013-01-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/01/2013 13:01, Bekim's Mac wrote: It's traditional to actually ask a question... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

2013-01-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
to go with 9.1-RELEASE. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Optimus VGA support in new release 9.1

2012-12-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
-x86-310.19-driver.html If your video card isn't there, or you can't recognise it from the part number, then I'm afraid you're out of luck[*]. Your best resource there is to ask on one of the nVidia forums. Cheers, Matthew [*] There are other drivers available for various legacy

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