Re: smb network browsing

2003-08-14 Thread Simon Barner
> However, the more I use mount_smbfs or fstab, > the more I long for a GUI utility that I can > use to browse the "Network Neighborhood" and > mount any shares I desire under /smb or similar. I think LinNeighbourhood is what you want. You can browse your windows network with it, and mount shares

Re: What ports need to be open on a firewall to allow cvsup?

2003-08-14 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, > The company I work for is implementing a new firewall, and there is some > posibilty I might be able to get the apropriate ports to cvsup my FreeBSD > machines open. > > Assuming pasive mode cvsup, what ports would I need open? I think that the multiplexed mode is more appropriate for your

Re: Accepting new commiters

2003-08-18 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, > I am writing a master thesis about open source development processes and > one of my analysis objects are processes of the FreeBSD project. The > FreeBSD documentation (handbook, articles) is a great source of > information, but there are some points missing in the documentation I > cons

Re: Where is a mirror of FreeBSD-4.6 (snap-shot) (was: Problems)

2003-08-19 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, > Hey there... > I having some problems whit connection to > ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/freebsd/snapshots/i386/4.6-release > What is my problem... and who canĀ“t i fixes it..? Well, the directory does not exist... Depending on what you want to do, you can find FreeBSD mirrors with FreeBSD

FreeBSD on a Win2000 partition (was: Re: Please answer back)

2003-08-19 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, > Could you install FreeBSD on an existing version of Windows 2000 > Professional and still have the option of choosing which OS to run > on your computer? Not directly, but if you have some space on your hard drive left, you can shrink your Windows 2000 and install FreeBSD then. They will ha

Re: g++ vs. g++33: conflicts with qt 3.1.2 on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-20 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, > FreeBSD 4.8 and Qt 3.1.2 compiled "as is" from the portscollection. > I have a brief Qt code: [...] > Where CC is either "/usr/bin/g++" or "/usr/local/bin/g++33" > With g++ this compiles fine. > > But with g++33, I get an error, that says: [...] This is due to the ABI changes that were

Re: help transistiong to Gnome 2

2003-08-20 Thread Simon Barner
> However, i have a few questions. > > 1. How can I set up an icon on the panel to start an X term? > 2. Is there no weather aplet? > 3. How can I set up an icon to start Galeon? Although these are not FreeBSD specific questions, here is what you want to know: To set up an icon in the panel, rig

Re: 4.8-STABLE compilation error

2003-08-21 Thread Simon Barner
> /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/lib/libm.a: could not read > symbols: Malformed archive Seems, that this library is broken. Does it work, if you erase /usr/obj and re-CVSup? Simon signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: orphaned port?

2003-08-24 Thread Simon Barner
> ===> Deinstalling for devel/libtool13 > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13. > > When I run pkg_version -v it tells me this port is orphaned: > > libtool-1.3.4_2 ? orphaned: devel/libtool Hi, just a wild guess: Did you try and fix your package datab

Re: manage mbox files...

2003-08-24 Thread Simon Barner
Hi Chuck, > Does anyone know of a utility similar to newsyslog that will handle mbox > format files? [...] A a look at ports/mail/archivemail. It archives (or deletes) old mail from mbox-files. It does not a size-trigger, but it will process mail that is older than N days. I run it as a cron jo

Re: Server spontaneously rebooting

2003-08-24 Thread Simon Barner
> We recently have been having a problem with our server rebooting > spontaneously. It seems to happen about every day or two. Never had the > problem before.. started happening about a week ago when we rebooted to > change IPs on the machine and since we were rebooting anyway, we upgraded to > t

Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-08-26 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, > please forgive me if this is a FAQ, but just what is the meaning of the > RELENG_4 branch? Is it more current then RELENG_4_7 or RELENG_4_8 ? > What should i use if i want to get security patches for my 4.7-RELEASE-p4 > installation? RELENG_4_7 > What would happen if i use RELENG_4 ? Thi

Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Barner
> Is RELENG_4 to be considered stable? I.e. can i use it for production? Well, that depends. At the moment, -stable has (or had) some stability problems since some enhancements for huge memory systems (> 4gb) where merged from -current). I think the best for production system is the latest securi

Re: Ports

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, > I have a question concerning the ports : For my Base System I have decided > to stick with RELENG_5_1 as tag for my cvsup-supfile. Should there be any > problems if I use "." for the Ports-Collection ? I know what is the > difference between these tags when applied to the base system but wha

Re: Sending bug reports

2003-09-06 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, > I have tried to install FreeBSD 5.0 (non-stable release) and have > experienced some problems. I would like to know where I can post these > bugs and problems, so you can figure out what's going wrong. > It would be a great pleasure for me to contribute to your problem. [...] FreeBSD uses

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-07 Thread Simon Barner
> I got it running in Linux all I need to is to compile the following: > > openquicktime-1.0-src.tar > win32codecs.tar > MPlayer-0.91.tar.bz2 > mplayerplug-in-0.80.tar.gz > mini.tar.bz2 > Blue-1.0.tar > qt6dlls.tar.bz2 > > Those too are the same files that freebsd looks for, but all I get is

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-07 Thread Simon Barner
Sorry for all those spelling errors (in the non-quoted part of my mail). Here is an error that needs to be corrected: > #!/bin/sh > http_proxy=http://your.proxy:1234 > export http_proxy > /usr/local/bin/mplayer.bin The wrapper script should look like this: #!/bin/sh http_proxy=http://your.proxy:

Re: RE: IBM 120 G IDE -- problems

2003-09-08 Thread Simon Barner
[ top posting corrected ] > > I have that problem with an ASUS P4S533 motherboard. I add > > these sysctl > > values to /boot/loader.conf: > > > > hw.ata.ata_dma="0" > > hw.ata.atapi_dma="0" > OH MAN.. You don't know how many hours you just saved me!!! It boots > up beautifully with 3 drive

Re: JAVA and MOZILLA

2003-09-08 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, I am using mozilla 1.4 and Java 1.3.1 quite happily here (both compiled from the ports collection). If you don't want to use the ports but pre-compiled binaries, then you should not mix Linux and FreeBSD binaries and those from different gcc versions. Simon signature.asc Description: Digit

Re: Has anyone succeeded in compiling crm114 & Mailfilter

2004-02-27 Thread Simon Barner
Gunnar Flygt wrote: > I tried to compile the spam catcher CRM114. It bails out fairly quickly. > Has anyone tweeked the src to work with FreeBSD? > > Please cc me, I'm not on the list. You should post the full error message, otherwise it's very difficult to help you. Simon pgp0.pgp Descri

Re: phpnuke forbidden, how to install?

2004-03-03 Thread Simon Barner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i wanted to install phpnuke for content but after cvsuping i found out that > > ===> phpnuke-6.9 is forbidden: SQL injection vulnerability in Php-Nuke <= > 7.1.0. Hi, I have created a patch that contains the security fixes from the web site. It's available here: htt

Re: phpnuke forbidden, how to install?

2004-03-03 Thread Simon Barner
> http://home.leo.org/~barner/phpnuke-sec-fixes.patch.bz2 I just noticed that the patches I used were for phpnuke 6.0, and it seems that there are no fixes for v. 6.9 available. The above patch is no longer online, so please consider the vulnerability _NOT_ to be fixed. Sorry for the noise! Sim

Re: phpnuke forbidden, how to install?

2004-03-03 Thread Simon Barner
Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >i wanted to install phpnuke for content but after cvsuping i found out that > > > >===> phpnuke-6.9 is forbidden: SQL injection vulnerability in Php-Nuke <= > >7.1.0. > > > >and i checked the phpnuke website, they have a patched version of p

Re: Update utility

2004-03-08 Thread Simon Barner
Bart Silverstrim wrote: > On Mar 8, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > >Is there any utility in FreeBSD 4.9 to check for possible updates/bug > >fixes > >via internet? > > > > I *think* have have kind of a handle on this on the server I just > installed... > > I usually do a cvsup to up

Re: Update utility

2004-03-09 Thread Simon Barner
Chris wrote: > > However, once you use a source based update method, the port will not work > > any longer, since your installation will consist of custom binaries that do > > not match the recorded checksums. > I like the idea of the bin-updates. Most of the end users of FBSD really > don't have

Re: How do I add a local patch to a port?

2004-03-09 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, although your question has already been answered: I have attached a script that will create the patches for you (yes, it's very bad perl code, I know, but it creates nice patches of the from patch-dir1::dir2::filename ;-) Simply remember to copy the source files to filename.orig before editin

Re: How do I add a local patch to a port?

2004-03-09 Thread Simon Barner
Argh the mailing list software stripped the attachment, so here it is: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $origfile; my $file; my $patch; my @files = `find . -name "*.orig"`; foreach $origfile (@files) { chomp ($origfile); $origfile =~ s/^\.\///; $file = $origfile;

ATAPI cdrom not found during installation (was: Re: Please, can you

2004-03-22 Thread Simon Barner
help) Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jason, > the problem is that when it come to install the rest of the bsd i > try to install from the cd/dvd and it tells me that "no CDROM is found" > and i have a "ATAPI CDROM" set to master on my sec ide controller with > no slave divice, please

Re: gaim error

2004-03-24 Thread Simon Barner
Hi Adam, > I am trying to get the gaim port to work. If I build with: > > make WITHOUT_NSS=1 > > everything is fine, but I can't connect to msn. If I don't send any > arguments to make, when I run gaim, I get: > > Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file > /mnt/s10/

Re: gaim error

2004-03-25 Thread Simon Barner
> > - gaim version > > /usr/ports/net/gaim/distinfo says: > > gaim-0.75.tar.bz2 The output of something like pkg_info | grep gaim is usually more helpful, since it also shows the version of the FreeBSD port you are using. > > - output of ldd -a /usr/X11R6/bin/gaim Hmm, nothing suspicious

Re: gaim error

2004-03-26 Thread Simon Barner
> Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file > /mnt/s10/BSD/usr_src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0) Hmm, as I thought, there's something wrong with your threads. Unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with FreeBSD 5 (yet ;-), but the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

Re: Problems upgrading pango

2004-03-29 Thread Simon Barner
stan wrote: > My portupgrade on one machine is failing in pango, with: > > configure: error: Xrender.h not found. > ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. > > And a sugested search for xrender.pc turns up nothing. > > What can I do to fix this problem? That file is part of the XFree libr

Re: dircmp?

2004-03-29 Thread Simon Barner
Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't, or I'd lift a copy. :) Why not ask Google? ;-) http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=dircmp.sh&sa=N&tab=gw Simon signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE in make.conf

2004-04-04 Thread Simon Barner
Robert Downes wrote: > Where should I be looking for the definitive description of this > configuration setting, or has it been removed from recent versions of > FreeBSD? To some extend, ports(7) describes the available options for the ports collection. The ultimate reference, however, are the m

Re: Samba Question

2004-04-04 Thread Simon Barner
Darryl Hoar wrote: > I have Samba installed on a Freebsd 5.1 server. > I am trying to map a share from a windows machine > so that I can copy the data. I can not change the > windows share name. It has a space in it. How > do I specify the share name in fstab. > > share name: PSR COMPLETE > >

Re: NIC question...

2004-04-04 Thread Simon Barner
> device pcn # AMD Am79C79x PCI 10/100 NICs > > In the new DNS server I'm building, is the following ifconfig > line correct for the first AMD NIC: > > ifconfig_pcn0="inet 216.231.43.140 netmask 255.255.255.0" Yes, that looks good (if the ip address

Re: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-04 Thread Simon Barner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running 5.2.1 Release with Gnome 2.4. I have cvsuped my ports > collection today to the latest update. What is the procedure to upgrade > to Gnome2.6? Hi, as far as I can see, Gnome 2.6 is not part of the ports collection yet. However, you can try Gnome 2.6-rc1 b

Re: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-05 Thread Simon Barner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running 5.2.1 Release with Gnome 2.4. I have cvsuped my ports > collection today to the latest update. What is the procedure to upgrade > to Gnome2.6? Hi, it's been released today! See here for more information. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questio

Re: gnome long startup

2004-04-05 Thread Simon Barner
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > I have problems when starting gnome if I enable the esd sound server, > it takes forever for gnome to launch itself. > In my logs, I can see a connexion attempt to 127.0.0.1:16001. > > Anyone knows how I could speed up gnome start ? Hi, do you have a firewall, and if so

Re: Kernel panic when machine runs for a few hours

2004-04-05 Thread Simon Barner
Jorn Argelo wrote: [ kernel messages snipped ... ] > I've always had the above mentioned problems (the smb_maperror and the pid > warnings), but I never experienced any problems with it, so I figured it > wasn't really a bad thing. Yes, these are only warnings. > I'm playing my MP3's from my

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