Re: make install fails for /usr/ports/security/sudo after downgrade from 9.0-R to 8-STABLE

2012-03-03 Thread FreeBSD Mailing Lists
On 03/03/12 12:31, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Stale header files in /usr/include maybe? Hi, Yes that's it. It seems utmp.h got changed to utmpx.h between 8.2 and 9.0. Fixed by csup of 9.0-R and doing the buildworld buildkernel etc. thanks, -- freebsd at growveg dot net

make install fails for /usr/ports/security/sudo after downgrade from 9.0-R to 8-STABLE

2012-03-02 Thread FreeBSD Mailing Lists
Hello list, I had to downgrade from 9-R to 8-STABLE. To do this, I did the following: 1. rm -rf /usr/obj 2. pkg_delete -a 3. rm -rf /usr/ports 4. mkdir -p /usr/ports/distfiles 5. rm -rf /usr/src 6. rm -rf /usr/local/* 6. csup 8-STABLE sources 7. csup ports 8. cd /usr/src make cleandir make

Re: odd SDcard behaviour in freebsd-9.0-R

2012-02-27 Thread FreeBSD Mailing Lists
On 27/02/2012 17:55, Michael Sierchio wrote: Forgive the naive question, but on one of my Nikons, it is possible to present the device itself, or the SD card as a USD drive. Which are you doing? No doubt there is no driver for the D50 in the kernel, but the generic umass driver should handle

Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-02-28 Thread mailing-lists
Hi, Sorry this question is a little off-topic... We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running freebsd. The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor commercial support :( We are running in a situation where a customer needs Zend platform 3

SOLVED: package contains missing libgmodule

2005-11-13 Thread My mailing Lists
Thanks for your reply, Michael. Of course, you are right. I should have been more specific. I had reinstalled glib version 2, but that did not solve my problem. Just to be double sure, after I read your email, I reinstalled glibc-2.8.3 AGAIN, but still got the error. Your email got me

Re: Jail cloning problem

2005-11-10 Thread Glenn's mailing lists
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, patrick wrote: I built a jail, and then I tar'd it up after some setup so that I could create new jails quickly. When I start up a cloned jail, everything works except SSH. If I try to ssh outside of the jail, I just get: Host key verification failed.. I know from past

Re: Sed Help.....

2004-11-10 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Rod, Take a look at what the shell replacement is actually doing. If you were to write the line manually it would look like this: sed -e 's/\/usr\X11R6\/bin\/xdm/\/usr\/local\/bin\/kdm/g' ... Right? But the shell doesn't escape the path separators (slashes). You need to escape them yourself in

dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
I've come across a ton of DNS tutorials on the web. Everything I've found so far is very lengthy. I need to setup a simple small office/home office network with DNS so that it resolves my inside network among the machines and hides it from the greater internet. I'm open to suggestions of a

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Steve, Thanks a bunch! This is a great help. I'm not clear on the use of allow-transfer. Reading the manpage for named.conf(5), I'm tempted to leave it out. But, I'm not fully understanding the use of it. The manpage says, allow-transfer Specifies which hosts are allowed to receive zone

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Thanks to everyone who responded to this. I'm working on synthesizing everything. I'm one step closer now. Alex On Sep 24, 2004, at 9:14 AM, mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: I've come across a ton of DNS tutorials on the web. Everything I've found so far is very lengthy. I need to setup

Re: Ssh connection

2004-09-19 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Are you running a firewall? On Sep 19, 2004, at 8:28 AM, Pota Kalima wrote: I am having trouble connecting TO my base machine which runs release 5.2.1 from 2 other machines (Mac OS X, and Windoz). I can connect to the OS X machine FROM this base machine as well as from the windoz machine. When

Re: how to make an executable run as another user

2004-09-17 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Rich, Someone else had responded to your post explaining that setuid does not work with shell scripts. Nor does it work with any interpreted input. The following article might help explain this (and others): http://www.evolt.org/article/UNIX_File_Permissions_and_Setuid_Part_2/ 18/263/

Re: Apache Installation

2004-09-17 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
This is valid advice. However, since you say your are new to FreeBSD (and, perhaps, *nix?), I would break the process down like this. Use a terminal (xterm) to do run these commands. Otherwise, excuse the simplicity. I'll assume you're using sudo for root privilege. 1. It's easiest to use the

Re: what are the pros and cons of running in single user?

2004-09-16 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
, hopefully, look up. thanks, alex On Sep 16, 2004, at 9:56 AM, Jan Grant wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Ed Budd wrote: mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: I have a machine running 4.10-STABLE that will be a dedicated gateway with a router/firewall combo and web server plus mysql server (maybe). What would

Re: what are the pros and cons of running in single user?

2004-09-16 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Now might be a good time for me to point out that I'm learning some subtle and useful things about system startup that is helping me think about how I might customize system start up if I go that route. Thanks to everyone who's responding. alex On Sep 16, 2004, at 1:31 PM, Sergey Zaharchenko

Re: AudioCD not playing

2004-09-15 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Q: Are you compiling for the correct processor in your kernel configuration? For example, if you have a i586 you don't want to compile for an i686. abs On Sep 15, 2004, at 7:14 AM, Konstantin wrote: Hello! When I try to play AudioCD with cdplay 0.92 I receive the following message: #cdplay -d

what are the pros and cons of running in single user?

2004-09-15 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
I have a machine running 4.10-STABLE that will be a dedicated gateway with a router/firewall combo and web server plus mysql server (maybe). What would be the pros and cons of running this system single user? Processes that run under their own uid, would they be able to run? Just curious. Any

Burning OS X .dmg disk images...

2004-09-12 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Does anyone know of how to burn Mac OS X .dmg images under FBSD? I have .dmg files from an OSX system (10.3.x) that I want to convert to ISO images (if necessary) for burning to cd/dvd. I can't find anything in the list archives about this. Thanks, Alex - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Enabling Serial Console

2004-09-03 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Marc, Try putting either '-h' or '-D' in /boot.config. I found '-D' worked for me. Personally, I'm wondering if I can put together a serial multiplexer to USB device and write a C or Perl script that will tee the output to respective files that I can 'tail -f' on. For a more thorough treatment

Re: parts of ports

2004-09-01 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Checkout /usr/ports/misc/porteasy It might be just what you're looking for. Alex On Sep 1, 2004, at 9:32 AM, messmate wrote: Hi, is there a way to install only parts of the ports tree to set them up ? The ports tree takes 237M up :( Have only 600M hd space available included swap. The purpose is

Re: Hardware Recommendations (UK)

2004-09-01 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
I recently built a system using a VIA EPIA PD1 motherboard with a VIA C3 (1GHz) processor on it. I've successfully compiled the entire system (buildworld and buildkernel) for 4.10-STABLE and a number of ports. Everything appears to work fine. If you want to build your own kernel, be aware

Re: KDE 3.2.1

2004-03-20 Thread Rob (Mailing Lists)
On Saturday 20 March 2004 01:55, Chris wrote: Is it me? Or does KDE 3.2.1 seem to run much faster then 3.2.0? I've noticed this ass well, and even more so since qt33 has been put into ports. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Howto change from RELEASE to STABLE

2003-10-20 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 15:50, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: I am running 5.1-RELEASE and would like to update to 5.1-STABLE. How can I go about it? I just want to install the software and not the kernel itself. Is that possible? Also, where is the information for pkg_add kept? I mean when I say

Re: mplayer + xmms issue!

2003-10-20 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
Are you getting any sounds at all? Check in /dev to see if you even have a sound device. My guess is no. All sound drivers (I believe) are disabled initially. Check out /boot/defaults/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf. Also the Handbook has a sound card section. Most PCs have a cable

Re: info on FreeBSD

2003-10-20 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
everything you wanted to know is on http://www.freebsd.org In particular check out: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html Then before you attempt an install besure to read through the handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/index.html and the faq a:

Re: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS

2003-10-20 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
There is no port for 5.x that I can find so updating your ports tree wont do much good. You can try downloading the package for 4-stable or wait for it to appear for 5.x. I am not certain what would happen if you downloaded the package for 4-stable and tried pgk_adddo this at your own risk.

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 can't recognize /dev/psm0

2003-10-16 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
On some of my systems I have found USB or other hardware being disabled in BIOS. Check to be sure its enabled before you spend too much time digging in FBSD as I did once. Also might want to have a look at how your emailer is addressing the from block for you. I would think that some spam

Re: Cable or Dead Hard Disk

2003-10-16 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
Why not try changing out the cable and see if the problem persists? Also Maxtor has a nice drive testing utility that runs from a bootable floppy. And they work for all drive types...I use them on my WD and IBM drives when I suspect trouble or before I bring an old HD out of retirement. Jason

Re: /tmp suddenly full - possible DOS hack?

2003-10-16 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
It looks like your messages.0 didn't properly compress when newsyslog rolled the file. Probably due to the fact that your /tmp isn't big enough to bzip a 196MB file. In any case your /var is now full which will make anything that uses /var for storage not happy...my dhcp server suffered this

Re: XFree86 woes

2003-10-16 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
This might not be related to your problem but on my Radeon 7000 VE I had to disable DRI in the Modules section of the XF86Config to allow it to work above 15bit Although my error messages where slightly different and my X would lockup rather than error out. Also noted you are using th ati

Re: seperating user timezones from system timezones

2003-10-05 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 14:02, Chuck Swiger wrote: Mailing Lists Catcher wrote: How to I allow users access to their own timezone without affecting the system processes? All of my systems regardless of location have always been set to UTC so logs and cron are in sync across timezones

seperating user timezones from system timezones

2003-10-04 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
How to I allow users access to their own timezone without affecting the system processes? All of my systems regardless of location have always been set to UTC so logs and cron are in sync across timezones. Recently I have had need to allow users to set their own timezone in the .cshrc using:

Re: Mail format problems

2003-10-04 Thread Mailing Lists Catcher
If you don't mind me budding in to this threadI am trying out a new email client for Gnome and am not certain how the messages are going to look. It was the only Gnome port I could find that had SMTP Auth so I decided to use it since my email server now requires I send a password to send

MySQL or Postgresql on FreeBSD, have I just started a holy war?

2002-10-02 Thread Mailing Lists
Hi all, I've just been getting ready to start serious MySQL development on a Dual Processor FreeBSD box and I stumbled across the following blog entry on the web today which has me thinking: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000203.html#000203 The coles notes version is that the