Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

On 06/10/2013 04:51, Eric Feldhusen wrote: > I figured I'd walk through those steps from start to finish and just > correct my main problem and any other little glitches I might have. > > I'm on step 6 and when I run mergemaster -p, I get the following error. > > *** Creating the temporary root e

Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

On 05/10/2013 21:41, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 16:00:25 -0400, Eric Feldhusen wrote: >> I see my /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC is a 9.2 kernel, so I should just >> be able to do a >> >> cd /usr/src >> make buildworld >> make installworld >> reboot >> >> and I'll be running up on the

Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

On 05/10/2013 20:11, Eric Feldhusen wrote: > I have a server that was/is running 9.1 release that I tried to upgrade to > 9.2 release. I missed the step of updating to the latest 9.1 patches by > doing > > freebsd-update fetch > freebsd-update install > > I went right to > > freebsd-update upgr

Re: zfs over geli over zfs

On 03/10/2013 17:20, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > I am after a really specific use-case and the last minute transactions > are important. Using a zpool over geli over a zvol. I'd like to know if > during shutdown the kernel flushes all zfs files caches in order so > these last minutes transactions wo

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

On 02/10/2013 21:07, Winston wrote: > Summary: > > Where is the (U.S.) pkg(ng) repository for amd64 9.2-RELEASE (i.e., > what's the right URI for PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf)? > > > Things I tried that didn't work: > > * pkg_add -r pkg didn't create /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf > > * pkg.conf.sample s

Re: zfs flag denoting unclean shutdown?

On 02/10/2013 16:34, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Is there a way to know if a zfs pool had an unclean shutdown? > An attribute or maybe something during mount time similar to what ufs > does (WARNING: / was not properly dismounted)? Other than looking at the system logs for evidence of an abnormal s

Re: after pkgng update, daily run still using pkg_info

On 30/09/2013 06:09, Gary Aitken wrote: >>> On 09/28/13 10:52, Gary Aitken wrote: >>> After switching to pkgng, I noticed that my daily run output constantly >>> complains about the installed packages being corrupt, e.g.: >>> "pkg_info: the package info for package 'asciidoc-8.6.8_1' is corrupt"

Re: Gnome green screen of death

On 27/09/2013 04:34, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: > Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I have installed X11 and Gnome on > my computer equipped with FreeBSD 9.1. The X11 > and Gnome packages were taken from the d.v.d.-r.o.m. that > contained the operating system. The computer

Re: PKGNG

On 09/20/13 10:59, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > The following links are not accessible ( at least from Turkey ) : > > http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/ > http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-amd64/ > http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-i386/ > pkg-test.freebsd.org is a SRV record, not an A record[

Re: PKGNG

On 09/20/13 05:05, Ethan W. House wrote: > What is the status of pkgng. The handbook says to use it but else were it > says that the repos are empty due to a security incident last November. > > Are there beta repos hidden somewhere that can be used? The reason I ask is > I want to install package

Re: how to log sshd access in a single file

On 16/09/2013 14:36, aurikus grande wrote: > I try to add a line in /etc/hosts.allow which would allow and log all > attempts using SSH (sshd). Actually, by default all logins via ssh are already logged to /var/log/auth.log Verb. Sap. tcpwrappers are mostly a lot less useful than they appear to

Re: howto kill x if x is running?

On 15/09/2013 07:20, Gary Kline wrote: > I've evidently had too many pain meds; this shelll script should > be easy. say that I have a utility xxx running sometimes. xxx is > soaking up a chunk of my load. I have to use top to find if > xxx is running, then kill -9 to k

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

On 12/09/2013 05:53, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Because I build a lot of embedded devices with serial consoles, I was in > the habit of hacking /boot/loader by commenting out a line in a Makefile > that enables terminal emulation > > /sys/boot/i386/libi386/Makefile: > > #CFLAGS+= -DTERM_EMU > > a

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

On 11/09/2013 21:03, Antonio Olivares wrote: > [Info 19:57:22] Updating 'freebsd_texlive' source ports tree with method > 'svn'. > Shared object "libaprutil-1.so.4" not found, required by "libserf-1.so.0" > [Error 19:57:22] Subversion update failed. > [Error 19:57:22] Failed to update the 'freebs

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

On 09/09/13 13:21, Unga wrote: > This is FreeBSD 9.1 on i386. > > My program works well without any issue when all libraries are dynamically > linked. > > But when some libraries are statically link and run it develops: > Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) > > How I compile and link: > cc myprog.c -Wa

Re: CURDIR-relative paths in ports' Makefiles

On 27/08/2013 13:04, Koslov Sergey wrote: > Hello > > I've noticed that many ports are using ${.CURDIR}/../../some/port > construction in their Makefiles. > > But if you copy on of these ports elsewhere it won't work as expected > because of the relative path. > Shouldn't they use ${PORTSDIR}/som

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

On 22/08/2013 21:07, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. After doing a freebsd-update, my system is starting > up differently than it was before. I want to figure out why before I > come here and say "it's broken". > > Is there a way to say "show me all of the commands you are running > during

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

On 21/08/2013 08:10, dgmm wrote: > On Wednesday 21 August 2013 07:54:06 Antonio Kless wrote: >> Is there any way to be noticed, when security updates or new releases are >> available? >> >> https://twitter.com/freebsd nearly would be a solution, if it did not >> repostquestions from its >> subscrib

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

On 17/08/2013 05:41, Yuri wrote: > I installed 9.1 from iso image. > Then 'pkg' command brought pkg-1.0.11 package. > Now commands like 'pkg install gnome2' always say: > pkg: Package 'gnome2' was not found in the repositories. > > Am I missing something? This is vanilla 9.1 from DVD image. Nothin

Re: pkgng problem

On 16/08/2013 16:02, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > Thanks, Matt. > > # pkg -vv | sed -ne '/Repositories/,$p' > Repositories: > packagesite: > url: http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-freebsd:9:x86:32/latest > key: > enabled: yes > mirror_type: SRV > > Als

Re: pkgng problem

On 16/08/2013 13:43, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sure someone has had this before, but I can't find any reference > to it. > > # pkg upgrade > Updating repository catalogue > digests.txz 100% 997KB 997.1KB/s 997.1KB/s 00:00 > packagesite.txz

Re: High availability on remote site

On 15/08/2013 12:19, Olivier Nicole wrote: > I have been assigned to offer HA on a 3 tiers architecture. > > Data storage tier will be MySQL, so replication is easy. > > HA should be implemented only on the Data storage tier, Active/Active, > but one of the sites is remote! > > When everything i

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

On 06/08/2013 19:23, dweimer wrote: > Of course I have WITH_PKGNG="YES" in the make.conf, and I believe that > has been there ever since the server was built. Is my best option to > get the correct list from pkg info use rm -r /var/db/pkg/* to clear > everything out and then reinstall all of the p

Re: Update /usr/src with subversion

On 05/08/2013 14:22, Warren Block wrote: >> Your solution looks a bit cleaner than the one proposed there: "rm -r >> /usr/src/.svn, and then check out the new branch". >> >> I'll check out the man for svn switch. > > The new form is just 'svn relocate': > http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=2

Re: deleting managed content using svn

On 05/08/2013 13:18, Robert Huff wrote: > > I have a system that uses svn to track src+ports+doc. > For reasons I won't get into, I want to scrub all svn-managed > material under src in preparation for grabbing a completely clean > copy. In principle SVN will be able to tell you if yo

Re: Update /usr/src with subversion

On 05/08/2013 09:00, David Noel wrote: > Does anyone know how a workaround for having to rm -rf /usr/src every > time the source URL changes? I'm updating from 8.3 to 8.4 with > subversion and got a message along the lines of "Error: /usr/src/ > contains files from a different URL". -David You nee

Re: learn

On 01/08/2013 14:12, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> From: "Teymur.Rahimzade" >> To: >> Subject: learn >> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:35:57 +0500 > >> Hi. >> Please help me to learn freebsd unix. >> Many thanks. > > RTFM: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Readi

Re: Fwd: Glen Peterson from Wisconsin. Some questions

On 31/07/2013 03:56, peterso...@aol.com wrote: > I have been thinking about installing your FreeBSD onto some of my > extra PC's that I have laying around, just to see what that Unix OS > can do on my PC. I have a few questions, though, before I order your > Install Disk to do that. I spoke to your

Re: 2 lines

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://www.inf

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

On 28/07/2013 06:38, David Noel wrote: > Ok folks, thanks again for all the help. Using the feedback I > submitted a PR (#180894) -- > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=180894. I also submitted a > follow-up to it with Frank's code and notes. What next? I don't really > know what happens f

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: > I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious > how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am > looking for a functionality/port that works like 490.status- > pkg-changes for my host. > > Question: is there any func

Re: textproc/hunspell and readline?

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 o

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

On 18/07/2013 13:42, Paul Mather wrote: > I am using pkgng 1.1.4_1 on RELENG_9 (r252725), operating on a local repo I > maintain using poudriere 3.0.4. > > Recently, I wanted to upgrade all packages on a client except two whose > update I want to defer for now as they potentially impact locally-

Re: textproc/hunspell and readline?

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 > it is, but at any rate it isn't recorded as a dependency or a shlib). > > 9.1-RELEASE-p4 amd64 with pkgng

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

On 13/07/2013 11:17, Leslie Jensen wrote: > 2013-07-12 13:25, Leslie Jensen skrev: >> >> When I run >> >> portsnap fetch update >> >> pkg version -vIL= >> >> >> It returns >> >> pkg: Unable to open ports directory /usr/ports: No such file or directory >> >> >> The directory is there and I can list

Re: Cannot Update Source Tree After Move To Subversion 1.8

On 24/06/2013 20:28, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > After the update to svn 1.8, I did a new svn co of the FBSD 9-STABLE > source branch. When I try to do an update to it, I see this now: > >svn: E155005: Working copy not locked at /usr/scr >svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src > >

Re: What is the correct CPUTYPE for this machine?

On 08/06/2013 17:02, Michael Gass wrote: > On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 10:10:10AM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 8 June 2013 09:34, Michael Gass wrote: >> >>> I have an old laptop: >>> >>> FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243826: Tue Dec 4 06:55:39 UTC 2012 >>> r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/s

Re: pkgng dependencies change / update

On 31/05/2013 16:26, b...@todoo.biz wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to figure out how to change / update the dependencies on a > package. > > I have a postfix package which comes from a server where mysql-client is in > version 5.1 > And I would like to install the same package on a server wher

Re: BSD sleep

On 29/05/2013 05:59, Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Isom wrote: > > >> You think it's trivial until you read this: >> >> http://infiniteundo.com/post/**25326999628/falsehoods-** >> programmers-believe-about-time

Re: pkg_version says my ports need to be updated?

On 27/05/2013 19:00, Ed Flecko wrote: > Clearly, I'm doing something wrong. > > :-) > > I thought I was using svn to keep my ports, src and docs up to date, but > pkg_version seems to disagree. > > I'm running 9.1 and I've installed ports, src, and docs as part of my > install. After that, I use

Re: "swap" partition leads to instability?

On 26/05/2013 09:58, M. V. wrote: > hi everyone, > > I have a 24/7 network server/gateway with FreeBSD-8.2 on a SSD drive. it's > partitioned as normal (/ , /tmp, /var , /usr and swap) for a long time now. > But recently I heard from a FreeBSD expert that I shouldn't have swap > partition for m

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

On 14/05/2013 14:31, dweimer wrote: > I can confirm that PostgreSQL will not run in a jail without sysvipc > enabled, I just setup a jail running PostgreSQL a few weeks ago and had > to do that as well. PostgreSQL will not start without it enabled, > though perhaps there is some setting change in

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

On 10/05/2013 21:04, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Anyway, at the moment, and for me at least, my results remain entirely > perplexing. I cannot imagine what might possibly be the explanation for > the results attached below. If anyone can offer a theory, I'm all ears. > Meanwhile, I'll be cleanin

Re: Downgrading a port

On 10/05/2013 07:32, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2013 18:03:22 +0200, b...@todoo.biz wrote: >> > I wanted to know if there is a way to simply downgrade a package >> > I have installed with pkgng ? > There is no such thing as a "simple downgrade". :-) All too true. > The primary goal of the

Re: X11 screen grabber from cmd line

On 10/05/2013 07:09, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2013 20:41:45 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: >> Do we have something in the ports which could do a screen shoot of $DISPLAY, >> but >> from the cmd line of an alpha console, and save it as PNG or JPEG? > > % xwd -out screen.xwd > %

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

On 05/05/2013 07:12, takCoder wrote: >> > Furthermore, file system corruption due to an abrupt >> > cut of power should be avoided. Whenever the system comes >> > up in a non-clean state, fsck should be run first, _then_ >> > the boot process should continue. Still it's possible that >> > this proc

Re: pkg question

On 03/05/2013 21:26, Walter Hurry wrote: > Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING: > > 20130502: > AFFECTS: users of ports-mgmt/pkg, ports-mgmt/poudriere, ports-mgmt/ > tinderbox > AUTHOR: bdrew...@freebsd.org > > This only affects

Re: update from apache22 to apache24

On 03/05/2013 15:47, Jerry wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone had updated from apache22 to apache24. > Specifically, are there any problems to be overcome? Does the existing > httpd.conf file work with the apache24 branch. httpd.conf might or might not work -- there are some incompatible chan

Re: Updating package from www.freshports.org

On 29/04/2013 19:33, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm a longtime Debian user who is trying out FreeBSD, so very much a > newbie here. > > I wanted to get spectrwm-2.2.0 which I found on www.freshports.org. > After a lot of googling I tried first cvsup and then svn, using the > command > > svn co svn

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

On 27/04/2013 17:43, doug wrote: >>> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=587, Addr= 111.222.333.444, Name=MSA, M=E') > If sendmail is listening on port 587, it will relay for any valid sender > who can reach that port. You see where it says 'M=E' in that DAEMON_OPTIONS line? That should probably be changed to

Re: Why is "pkg_glob" no longer working for me?

On 27/04/2013 14:43, Robert Huff wrote: > I use portupgrade for two features: portsclean (for which there > is probably a pkgng replacement, I just haven't bothered to check) > and pkg_sort (for which there is no alternative) which is necessary > for certain scripts. Well, given that pkgng i

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

On 26/04/2013 16:51, jflowers wrote: > All I want to do is have the MTA listen on 127.0.0.1 port 1025 and have no > sendmail process listen on the server interface. That's being done by assp > which proxies messages to 127.0.0.1:1025. Unfortunately, I haven't been able > to figure out how to turn

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

On 21/04/2013 10:24, Matthias Petermann wrote: > root@compaq:/usr/ports/finance/trytond # portlint -AC > [...] > FATAL: Package conflicts with itself. You should remove "trytond-*" from > CONFLICTS. > 1 fatal error and 4 warnings found. > root@compaq:/usr/ports/finance/trytond # > > So it looks li

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

On 12/04/2013 09:19, Melanie Schulte wrote: > [I wasn't sure what the most appropriate list for this issue is...] > > Hello! > > Recently (after the latest OpenSSL security issue) I have updated my > FreeBSD install from source. i.e., I have updated my source tree > (under /usr/src) with svn and

Re: Moving to pkg

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. PG

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

On 30/03/2013 10:14, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > The university IT support page: > http://www.bristol.ac.uk/it-services/applications/email/gmail/manual-config-gmail.html > > actually says that port 465 SSL should be used, > so I also tried: > > $ openssl s_client -connect smtp.gmail.com:465 -star

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

On 30/03/2013 08:17, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > Today my system crashed twice while I was doing "portupgrade -a". > > I'm not sure but I suspect the new cards I have installed recently may > just be a bit too much for the old power supply I have. (When the thing > crashed, the machine jus

Re: Moving to pkg

On 30/03/2013 06:30, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > I've done pkg2ng and added WITH_PKGNG=yes to /etc/make.conf > > When I do > > portsnap fetch update > and > pkg_version -vIL= > > To check which ports needs updating, I now get a message for all > installed ports that the info are corrupt. > > Like

Re: EOL

On 29/03/2013 15:19, David Thurber wrote: > I have 5 XP machines on my node that are used to crunch data 24/7. So, > I'm looking for an OS platform that has a 10 year EOL to replace XP/3. > > What I got from your website appears to be a year or two at most on > freebsd 8.3, and we really don't wan

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

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/loc

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

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 > > > > Should have mentio

Re: software support

On 26/03/2013 14:10, Oblitey, Edmund wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD on a E7520/6300ESB chipset. Program > freezes during probing devices. It always restart when it gets to the > atkbd0. Want to know if u can help me on it. Sounds like there's something on-board that either isn't supported

Re: "Leaking" disk space

On 20/03/2013 15:23, Dan Thomas wrote: > Hi Guys, > > We're seeing a problem with some of our FreeBSD/PostgreSQL servers > "leaking" quite significant amounts of disk space: > > > df -h /usr/local/pgsql/ > Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/mfid1s1d1

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

On 19/03/2013 07:54, Rob Navarro wrote: > Hi Chaps, > > I typed "make deinstall" within the /usr/ports/lang directory of a > FreeBSD 9.0 and mistakenly lost Perl, Python, Ruby and a whole host of > default compiled languages. > > How can I get back to the default FreeBSD default installed languag

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

On 11/03/2013 16:59, Jeff Tipton wrote: > I'm trying to set up security/maia, and this is the error message I get: > > Error: shared library "mysqlclient.18" does not exist > > Of course, the library does exist :( > > # ls /usr/local/lib/mysql/ > libmysqlclient.a libmysqlclient_r.a lib

Re: "make package" vs "pkg create"

On 24/02/2013 16:33, Joshua Isom wrote: > I tried making a build jail, not with pourdriere or tinderbox. I just > went to the ports and ran `make -DBATCH package-recursive clean` to get > packages created. I ran `pkg add *` in the packages/All directory, but > all failed because of MANIFEST missi

Re: PERL problem installing SQLgrey

On 20/02/2013 21:22, lcon...@go2france.com wrote: > ===> p5-Date-Calc-6.3 depends on package: p5-Bit-Vector>=7.1 - not found > ===>Verifying install for p5-Bit-Vector>=7.1 in > /usr/ports/math/p5-Bit-Vector > ===> Extracting for p5-Bit-Vector-7.2_2 > => SHA256 Checksum mismatch for Bit-Vecto

Re: Cannot resolve localhost

On 14/02/2013 22:35, Martin Pola wrote: > I'm trying to get my FreeBSD system to resolve localhost into > 127.0.0.1, but unfortunately it doesn't work. It appears the resolver is > never reading from /etc/hosts, where I have this line: > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > Here's a sample output of what I get

Re: pkg -c/pkg -j question

On 13/02/2013 15:58, Arthur Chance wrote: > A question for pkgng gurus. When using pkg -c or pkg -j to work within > chroots or jails, how much of the pkg infrastructure needs to be present > in the chroot/jail? > > The reason I ask is because I'm thinking of building a server which has > all serv

Re: pkgng

On 12/02/2013 17:43, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:54:00 +0000, 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 ex

Re: packages listing

On 10/02/2013 06:52, Dánielisz László wrote: > Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages that are not > required by any other? If you're using pkgng: pkg query -e "%#r==0" "%n-%v" There isn't (as far as I know) a way of doing this directly with pkg_tools alone, so either

Re: where is 1GB of RAM

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/pgpke

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

s have been promptly resolved 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 alm

Re: sh & export

On 29/01/2013 01:11, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 07:41:35PM -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: >> This is what I am looking at in a sh script >> >> echo export jail_${jailname}_hostname=\"${jailname}\" >> puts it into the env >> and this brings it back out >> eval jailname=\"\$jail_${jailnam

Re: Cronjob Cvsup -> What?

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: Cronjob Cvsup -> What?

On 27/01/2013 08:35, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: > Last 10 years I am using cvsup. Any good guide for the transition to > subversion ? Most of the guides around freebsd.org are aimed at developers who will be using SVN read-write. For simple read-only use (ie. not checking anything into the reposito

Re: Cronjob Cvsup -> What?

On 27/01/2013 00:11, W. D. wrote: > What would be the best Cron command to keep ports updated on a daily > basis? Try this as a crontab entry: 0 3 * * * * /usr/sbin/portsnap cron update Two points to note: 1) The 'cron' verb is important for anyone setting up an automated job like this.

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

On 27/01/2013 02:57, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: > On 01/26/13 15:52, Jimmy Olgeni wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: >> >>> The pkg repo's are down. I'm not sure how you got it to work (if you >>> did). It will not work on this end, thanks though. >> >> It seems

Re: creating new user account password.

On 23/01/2013 20:06, Fbsd8 wrote: > I know I can create a new user account having a password same as the > user name. After logging in the first time using the user account name > as the password, I want to force the user to create a new password. > Is there a way to do that? You can set the passw

Re: SSH on FreeBSD

On 15/01/2013 10:10, Mannase Nyathi wrote: > I have just configured FreeBSD on my server. I would like to find out > how can I be able to login to it via ssh? Start by editing /etc/rc.conf and add the line: sshd_enable="YES" (anywhere in the file -- order doesn't matter) Then as root: /etc/

Re: pkgng package repository tracking security updates

On 14/01/2013 22:44, n j wrote: > One thing to think about would be the option of port maintainers uploading > the pre-compiled package of the updated port (or if the size of the upload > is an issue then just the hash signature of the valid package archive so > other people with more bandwidth can

Re: pkgng package repository tracking security updates

On 14/01/2013 14:36, n j wrote: > The point of my question was exactly if it was possible to elaborate on the > "pre-compiled packages from FreeBSD official repositories" part. Would it > be possible to have a (security-wise) up-to-date pre-compiled packages in > the official repositories? Note, I

Re: pkgng package repository tracking security updates

On 14/01/2013 13:10, Andrei Brezan wrote: > I thing that it's good to wait for ports to compile and to be able to > chose your configure options for the packages you install. It's good to > know what options you need and what options you don't and why, that's > one of the reasons why i'm using Free

Re: pkgng - Symlinks created by portupgrade?

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

Re: make install package?

On 10/01/2013 21:21, Fbsd8 wrote: > Is the upcoming pkgng going to have any effect on this? No. The layout of /usr/ports/packages is controlled at a rather lower level by the Makefiles in /usr/ports/Mk. pkgng doesn't really care about this layout in any case since pkgng repositories don't need a

Re: Unable to install xorg using pkg_add

On 10/01/2013 16:30, Scott Eberl wrote: > Hello, I just installed FreeBSD last night using the bootonly image for > 9.0-RELEASE. I then updated to 9.1-RELEASE using freebsd-update. Everything > seems to have gone smoothly but now I'm getting the below error when trying > to isntall xorg. > > Error

Re: pkgng - Symlinks created by portupgrade?

On 09/01/2013 18:31, Walter Hurry wrote: > I am using pkgng. > > When I issue 'portupgrade -p', after build and installation, it > builds a new package, as advertised. This (by default) is put into /usr/ > ports/packages/All. > > At the same time, it installs a set of symlinks; one for each rel

Re: Unreferenced Libraries?

On 07/01/2013 14:27, Walter Hurry wrote: > 9.1-RELEASE on amd64. > > libchk reports the following libraries (among others) as unreferenced: > > /usr/lib/libBlocksRuntime.so.0 > /usr/lib/libform.so.5 > /usr/lib/libformw.so.5 > /usr/lib/libgpib.so.3 > /usr/lib/libgssapi_ntlm.so.10 > /usr/lib/libgss

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

On 06/01/2013 12:09, jb wrote: > A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation env (VB > here) ? > If so, would it make sense to sanitize it to avoid offering install options > that > are irrelevant/inappropriate ? This is FreeBSD. It doesn't hold your hand and wipe the

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

On 06/01/2013 11:52, jb wrote: > Matthew Seaman 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 t

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: > Next problem: > when I am logged out from FB, and I do (I tested it repeatedly) > > Machine-Close-Power off the machine > to cloce VM with FB, then on subsequent VM Start and FB reboot I get error > msgs: > ... > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ada0s1a [rw]... >

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: > Next problem: > I selected powerd service during install, but after boot, there was error msg: > starting powerd > powerd lookup freq: No such file or directory > /etc/rc: WARNING failed to start powerd Again -- standard for VirtualBox hosts: powerd doesn't work --

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

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 NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI > Express, which is bge0 driver in FB. >

Re: pkgng - Obsolete Dependencies?

On 03/01/2013 20:59, Walter Hurry wrote: > On several of my boxes (set up with pkgng), libcheck was recorded as a > dependency of a number of (wxPython etc.) packages. However, I noticed > that on a fresh install, libcheck did not get pulled in. > > So I returned to the older boxes and reinstall

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE - does not install package

On 03/01/2013 17:56, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: > On 01/03/13 11:50, Celso Viana wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I can not install the package "subversion" with "pkg_add -r" >> >> pkg_add: unable to fetch >> 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.1-release/Latest/subversion.tbz' >> >> by

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

On 02/01/2013 20:55, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I wasn't thinking when I wrote this. Freebsd-update pulls *binary* > copies of files, so you're not ever going to get the src files to > rebuild your kernel from freebsd-update. You need to pull those in > using svn. Not so. Take a look at /etc/freebsd

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

On 02/01/2013 14:42, Fbsd8 wrote: > what is the status of > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-current/Latest/ > which is on the ftp servers? The latest packages there are what was compiled before the security incident. It hasn't been updated since. Cheers, M

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

On 02/01/2013 08:00, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: > In this case for a new Nas4free machine, will you recommend to base it > on 9.0 or 9.1 ? Either. Whichever one works best for you, and if you can't distinguish them on performance or bug-fixes, choose 9.1. However, don't fall into the trap of thinki

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

On 02/01/2013 05:20, doug wrote: > Is this command being phased out? pkg_add -r uses a default environment > of > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.1-release/Latest/ In fact, yes, pkg_add and the other pkg_tools commands are being phased out in favour of pkgng. However it i

Re: http://localhost/phpmyadmin

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

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