regular portsdb maintanence

2007-03-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
anyway? Beyond reading the source, is there a document that tells me how pkgdb works? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposit

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 27/03/07 Derek Ragona said: > Which FreeBSD version are you running? In 6.X the devs are created > automatically on bootup. In earlier versions you may need to make > it. Look at the Makefile in /dev for the correct make option. I'm running 5-STABLE. I don't see a Makefile in /dev. Mike

Re: regular portsdb maintanence

2007-03-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
> bit of a ports revamp going on). So, maybe once every two weeks for now? Thanks, I'll try that. I think I'll run portsclean now and then too, and whatever other regular cleaning I can do. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make thi

Re: Does freebsd have the equivelent command to linux mii-tool or ethtool?

2007-03-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
oking to override autoneg. ie. sudo ifconfig xl0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgpHSfKa0cpwn.pgp Description: PGP signature

the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ng system is for, isn't it? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgp8MyUeIp4ep.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: regular portsdb maintanence

2007-03-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 27/03/07 David J Brooks said: > Have you looked at 'man pkgdb'? Yes. I'm looking for how it works, not how to use it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - an

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
gested in the handbook. As -R upgrades only those packages that require those supplied, and not those that it requires, would that cause it? I'm wondering how my port dependencies became broken in the first place. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool ca

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
e, you can end-up with not > much more than the base-system working. Wow. You would think that such tools would prevent you from getting into that situation. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a to

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
so if it was gone, how could it be rebuilt? Obviously there is installed package metadata elsewhere. Just not sure where. > If you just want to correct a single port, try this: > > portmanager /port/name-of-port -p -l Thanks. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 28/03/07 Derek Ragona said: > I still have one server running 5.X release. 5.X also should automatically > generate the devs. Do you have support for usb in your kernel? If you do > have usb compiled in your kernel, check your dmesg that the usb devices are > properly being identified. I

Re: regular portsdb maintanence

2007-04-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
p, and not the packages that I currently have installed. So, unless I've done a full portupgrade, pkgdb -L just breaks the dependencies and I must then fix them via pkgdb -F. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-04-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
use portupgrade -R to upgrade a port, that's what BSD newbies like me are going to use. I'm just glad that portupgrade has a -n switch. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of

upgrade of portupgrade fails

2006-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
nks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgpslScfnxpX3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: upgrade of portupgrade fails

2006-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
lding the ruby rdocs, so I removed that option for now. I upgraded portupgrade on its own, and then upgraded ruby, and that seems to have worked. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius -

mailman upgrade problem

2006-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "nobody", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'. ) I guess I need to rebuild it... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger an

Re: mailman upgrade problem

2006-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 16/12/06 Michael P. Soulier said: > I just did a portupgrade on mailman, and now it's doing this. > > Dec 16 22:05:27 kanga Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman > expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "nobody", but the > sys

Re: mailman upgrade problem

2006-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 16/12/06 Michael P. Soulier said: > This is odd though, considering the wrapper program is group ownership > mailman, with the sgid bit set. > > Plus, if I change the group ownership to nobody, it complains about the > opposite. I had to build it this way to fix the issue. M

openssh security issues

2006-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
d try again. ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! security/openssh (openssh-3.6.1_5)(unknown build error) ---> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed So, before bothering the port maintainer, is there a standard place to look for a status

Re: upgrade of portupgrade fails

2006-12-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 16/12/06 Michael P. Soulier said: > Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ruby18. > ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade12405.0 > make PORT_UPGRADE=yes reinstall > egrep: /var/db/pkg/ruby-1.8.4_9,1/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory > ---> Restori

Re: mailman upgrade problem

2006-12-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
group >'mail/mailman' => 'MAIL_GID=mailman' > } Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direct

Re: openssh security issues

2006-12-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 17/12/06 Eric said: > why not install the portable version? its much newer than the one you have. I don't know what you mean by the portable version. Can I assume that the answer to my original question then, is no? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any i

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I installed FF 2.0 from the ports. I noticed that FF 2.0 uses alot of CPU power every time I open a new page in the tabs, or refresh an opened page, it's not app startup issue, beside I don't know if Linux has the same issue too.

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 (1596.01-MHz 686-class CPU) Dual CPU. RAM: 1.5 GB DDR2 533 MHz. Certainly adequate. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lo

not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
t;, it comes up perfectly, using my settings in /etc/rc.conf. So, why wouldn't it come up at boot? I thought that every initscript was passed a start argument. I can't find a log of an attempt at all. Help appreciated. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
network, otherwise NO ppp_profile="storm" It still doesn't come up at boot. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - an

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
il . /etc/rc.subr name="ppp" rcvar="ppp_enable" start_cmd="ppp_start" stop_cmd=":" Now, I do notice that the stock script comes with a REQUIRE isdnd as well as netif. As I'm not running isdn, would that stop rc from bringing the script up, or are

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I forgot to mention, as a workaround if you can't get the rc.d script working you can start it from cron. Just replace the time/day/month variables with "@reboot" and the path to the exicutable. I use it for a couple of things that don't have

Re: not everything coming up on a reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/23/06, Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It does not appear that rcorder is invoked when you run the script from the command line ... thus it will start when you invoke it manually as long as /etc/rc.conf agrees. Do this: rcorder -s nostart /etc/rc.d/* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rcorder -s nos

where are /usr/local/etc/rc.d init scripts run from?

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
; do run_rc_script ${_rc_elem} ${_boot} done So rcorder is run over /etc/rc.d/*. When is the same done for /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius

Re: where are /usr/local/etc/rc.d init scripts run from?

2006-12-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ound in /etc/rc as well. You may want to look at the find_local_scripts_new() function in /etc/rc.subr to see how some of this functions. There is some trickery here because we have to do this in more than one step. Since /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ may not be on a mounted filesystem until we run thro

Re: where are /usr/local/etc/rc.d init scripts run from?

2006-12-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
style. I should have mentioned that I'm running 5.4. I suspect you're talking about 6.X code, as some of what you're mentioning, I don't see on my system. Something to look forward to when I upgrade then. Thanks for the detail explanation. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL

Re: where to get the iso c90 compiler?

2006-12-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so, where? (also for linux?) Can you not use gcc in pedantic mode? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a

Re: Routing

2007-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
essful"? Details are important. Cheers, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein __

Re: How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER

2007-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ing in the adduser or adduser.conf man pages that explains how to manipulate (or, in my case, simply stop) the creation of this file. I do the same. I don't really care about the file, as it's not hurting anything. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fo

Re: How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER

2007-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
eating it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-qu

Re: Multiple port versions

2007-01-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 1/3/07, Vizion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the safest way to remove the earlier versions? I think if you portupgrade the apps that require those, like portupgrade -R then it'll upgrade both the app and the required port, removing the duplication. Mike -- Michael

Re: How do I install ports hands-off?

2007-01-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
03694.html Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-questio

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 1/5/07, Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems is unanimousPF it isremember u have to compile the Kernel to activate this, i´ve done it for the first time, yesterday and its very simplealso checkout the ALTQ for QoS, good luck Does PF and/or ipfilter have ipv6 support? I'm curr

tracking port requires

2007-01-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
e rpm -q --whatrequires? Reverse-dependencies of package If anyone has compiled this, it would help me out. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courag

Re: tracking port requires

2007-01-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
me" command, and the packages that require a package with "pkg_info -R packagename". Great, thanks. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move

ipmon group and rule

2007-01-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
the tun0 interface, and it matches group @0, rule 5? Looking at the output of "ipfstat -ni", there is no group zero. So, it's a rule without a group, such as this one? block in quick all I'm trying to understand why this is being blocked. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soul

debugging ipnat

2007-01-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ng wrong? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein ___ freeb

Re: debugging ipnat

2007-01-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 1/6/07, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a simple port-forwarding rule that I want to work from my gateway to a box on my LAN, but it doesn't seem to be working. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo ipnat -l Password: List of active MAP/Redirect filters: rdr tun0 0.0.

Re: Use of CVS

2007-01-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
these approaches will be appreciated. Thanks, This is really a basic stream management question, not specific to freebsd, or CVS for that matter. Perhaps you should reference one of numerous texts on stream management, and find a development model that is most comfortable for you. Mike -- Michael P. S

man page synopsis syntax reference

2007-01-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hello, Is there an authoritative reference of what manpage syntax should look like? ie. foo [optional arg] ... I can't seem to find a reference that explains this syntax. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger

who's using that port?

2007-01-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
's no -p argument to track the pid of the process using the port. How do you track that on BSD? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in t

Re: Launching a telnet session from a process

2007-01-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
onally I'd use expect around the telnet, and then send the output to any file desired. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite directi

looking for ethernet errors, collisions

2007-05-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
reason, etc. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgpajkPuVfkJL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: looking for ethernet errors, collisions

2007-05-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 17/05/07 Ted Mittelstaedt said: > Note that error counters are often bogus because so > many cards today filter errors out in hardware, long before > the OS driver gets them. Well, there are plenty there on my sis0 interface (internal). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ netstat -i NameMtu Network

debugging pppoe

2007-05-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
#x27;m surprised at how little BSD's ppp tells me when logging is turned right up. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move

Re: debugging pppoe

2007-06-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
before it filled /var. :) If I could get it to log like that to the console, then I could supervise it with runit, logging via svlogd. I guess there's no way to force that log level to stdout? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can ma

running portupgrade -a

2007-06-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
is running portupgrade -a a good idea, as you likely haven't checked for issues for your system? Otherwise, the ports change so fast that if you don't regularly update, when you do go to upgrade you may find yourself in a difficult position to do so. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
no shell functions. I also found the shell redirection awkward. It's ok otherwise, but I've since become addicted to bash. Mind you, I'm sure some tcsh users could point out some features that bash doesn't have. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "An

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
, Tcl, Ruby, etc. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ow me a simple way to redirect them to different files in csh. foo 1>stdout.log 2>stderr.log Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: batch rename

2008-01-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 05/01/08 Aryeh M. Friedman said: > This assumes tcsh: > > foreach i (`ls [A-Z][a-z]*`) > mv $i `echo $i|tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'` > end sh version: for i in * do mv $i `echo $i | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'` done Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAI

Re: Python threading - some ports depend on it, others break with it

2008-01-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
re if I > can adequately explain after. I think it has to do with the GIL. > > I suggest to ask at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Threading in Python works fine in my experience, even using native threads. It is not very efficient on multi-core systems though, due to the GIL (global interpre

Re: portupgrade says nothing to do but portversion disagrees

2009-07-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 03/07/09 Michael P. Soulier said: > For weeks now my usual portupgrade test has returned the same thing. Actually, I'm not sure cvsup is updating my ports tree properly... Connected to cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org Updating collection ports-all/cvs Finished successfully Normally there'

portupgrade says nothing to do but portversion disagrees

2009-07-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
sqlite3-3.6.13 < needs updating (port has 3.6.14.2) tcl-8.4.19_2,1 < needs updating (port has 8.4.19_3,1) vim-7.2.171 < needs updating (port has 7.2.209) weechat-0.2.6.2 < needs updating (port has 0.2.6.3) xcb-proto-1.4

Re: portupgrade says nothing to do but portversion disagrees

2009-07-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Actually, I'm not sure cvsup is updating my ports tree properly... > > Connected to cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org > Updating collection ports-all/cvs > Finished successfully I just changed to cvsup1.freebsd.org and the diff

Re: Podcast Software?

2006-04-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ions? bashpodder is simple and portable. :) juice is coming to Linux and FreeBSD soon... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposit

Re: nubie question - Ports - Ruby 1.8.4

2006-05-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ndbook for how to do this. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein _

installing multiple kernels

2006-05-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
People, Coming from Linux, I'm used to being able to build multiple kernels and install them all, configuring the bootloader to pick one of them at boot time. I can't find anything on doing this on FreeBSD. Is this possible? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PRO

setting up pppoe

2006-05-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
assigned yet. What is ifaddr for? This is also surprising [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ man ppp.conf No manual entry for ppp.conf Seems to be in ppp(8) though. I'm just looking to use a PPPoE connection with my ISP. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any int

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 08/05/06 albi said: > sometimes i use mutt, this is the part in my .muttrc to get the > from-address right : > > set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -oi -oem" That's not really required. set use_from set from="Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL P

Re: setting up pppoe

2006-05-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
part of the address. > > Hence the /0, which specifies that nothing is network-part and you > take whatever IP address you get assigned. Well, if it works, it'll be one of the simplest pppoe setups I've seen yet on a *nix box. Looks pretty simple. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[

setting up a NAT gateway with PPPoE

2006-05-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
out how to tell natd which local networks to NAT. Also, why is NAT capability in both PPP and natd? If you hadn't noticed, I'm confused. :) Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a

tcpdump on 'any' device

2006-05-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
on FreeBSD? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein ___ f

ppp nat not working for some udp traffic

2006-05-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
re size 96 bytes ^C 0 packets captured Any ideas? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein __

pppoe reliability

2006-05-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
hat it would return so that I could script the client such that it would always retry, via supervise or runit. Any ideas? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courag

Re: setting up a NAT gateway with PPPoE

2006-05-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
te.ko* ipfw.ko*ipl.ko* ips.ko* [EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel]# pwd /boot/kernel Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite di

Re: pppoe reliability

2006-05-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
pppctl(8). Also, the handbook doesn't mention pppctl in the pppoe section. I just followed the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html I'll read up on pppctl. Thanks. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool

Re: pppoe reliability

2006-05-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
oticed that when I drop ppp, the tun0 seems to hang on a bit. If I restart too quickly, I get a tun1. The ifconfig command will not permit me to destroy tun0 either, so I wait for a little while before bringing it back up again. Any idea why? Thanks, Mike P.S. The help from this list makes all of t

Re: pppoe reliability

2006-05-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
e it's my first reference. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein

kernel module for ipf

2006-05-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
so could someone point me to the correct module? I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 with the GENERIC kernel. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of coura

Re: kernel module for ipf

2006-05-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 5/18/06, Scott Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You want the ipl.ko module. No, I have no idea why it's called ipl not ipf either... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls /boot/kernel/ipl* /boot/kernel/ipl.ko* Ah. Cool. Thanks. Yes, this should be in the handbook. Mike -- Michael

Re: kernel module for ipf

2006-05-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 5/18/06, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, this should be in the handbook. I'll try to add it :) Let me know if you want a hand. I'm happy to help with that. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make

Re: Python port problems

2006-05-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
n interpreter this is, /usr/local/bin/python most likely, and make sure that mailman is using this python. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposi

upgrading mysql-server

2006-06-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
lem: MySQL -- SQL-injection security vulnerability. Reference: <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/7f8cecea-f199-11da-8422-00123ffe8333.htm l> Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a tou

Re: upgrading mysql-server

2006-06-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 09/06/06 Riemer Palstra said: > > I'm assuming mysql41-server, since it's version 4.1.15. > > Your assumption is right. Ok. Upgrading now. If the port is mysql41-server, maybe the package name should be similar? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PRO

Re: upgrading mysql-server

2006-06-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 09/06/06 Michael P. Soulier said: > Ok. Upgrading now. And it shuts down my mysql server, but does not start it again. That's not very nice. Should the upgrade not handle this? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigg

Re: upgrading mysql-server

2006-06-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
gt; was having the same problem with MySQL. After configuring 'portmanager' > to properly handle MySQL, I never had another problem with it. I'll take a look at these options, thanks. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things

Re: Python port problems

2006-06-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ilman builds against it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgpmBk3l2Aaxd.pgp Description: PGP signature

problems building Parse::RecDescent

2009-02-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
/usr/ports/audio/p5-Ogg-Vorbis-Header. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/p5-Apache-MP3. Any suggestions? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite d

portupgrade failing on perl modules

2009-02-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
upgrade would take the right action to uninstall/reinstall if required. I mean, it upgrades ports, right? :) Some guidance would be appreciated. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage

Re: portupgrade failing on perl modules

2009-02-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
"make install" command line. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/p5-XML-Parser. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/p5-XML-RSS. So now what? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and

Re: portupgrade failing on perl modules

2009-02-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
nd so on... I have no hair left to pull out, or it would be gone. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgpatVvbcWgvo.pg

getty on /dev/ttypN

2009-02-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
etty std.9600" dialup off secure dcons "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 off secure I think I ran mergemaster correctly on the upgrade. I'm not sure why init is trying to talk to these ports, which are obviously pseudo terminals... Advice appreciated. Mike -- Mich

Re: portupgrade failing on perl modules

2009-02-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ase read the UPDATING entry for 20090113, strike yourself upon the > forehead whilst crying "D'oh!" in a loud voice and then run > 'perl-after-upgrade -f' as instructed. All of the above worked, except striking myself on the forehead, which just hurt. Mike -- Michael P.

Re: getty on /dev/ttypN

2009-02-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I'd look for getty lines in /etc/inittab, but that's not where things are configured here. Is init configured anywhere on BSD? > The ttypN files in /dev are, if I see this correctly, only > generated when needed. Hmm. Must go read... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intellig

bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
bstitution: line 39: `}")' It would see that bash no longer likes the $() command substitution syntax. Does that mean that it's defaulting to some sort of posix compatibility mode now? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
. I'm rebuilding it now. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-quest

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Ok, that's what I have. I'm rebuilding it now. And, confirmed. The rebuilt bash is fine now. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of

showing dependency information in ports

2009-04-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
on forward dependencies? I suppose I could write one but it seems like this must have been done already. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.&quo

Re: Backspace Key Not Working

2008-08-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
of > deleting. Is there a way to fix this? Does it work in the terminal? Lets see stty -a in the shell. Also see :h fixdel in Vim. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of geniu

broken autoconf upgrade

2008-09-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
known command `'. autoconf-2.62.texi:4001: Unknown command `'. autoconf-2.62.texi:4019: Unknown command `'. autoconf-2.62.texi:4027: Unknown command `'. So, this won't upgrade. Anyone else see that? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent foo

core manpages

2008-09-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
, ls, cd, etc? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein _

Re: broken autoconf upgrade

2008-09-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
5.5. I hadn't upgraded since everything was working fine, and new releases sometimes leave old hardware behind. But, I'll try upgrading anyway. 5.5 -> 6.3 -> 7.0 seems to be the right route... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make t

upgrade path from 5.5

2008-09-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
nothing is lost. Would the correct path be 5.5 -> 6.3 -> 7.0? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposi

alternatives to mergemaster

2008-09-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
, and it's also tremendously good at merging. This makes me kick around ideas for how to integrate it into a freebsd upgrade. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot

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