Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Dave
On 7 Jun 2011 at 21:03, Jack Raats wrote: - Original Message - Hi All. Total frustration here. Before I incinerate the luckless box and get my coat. For whatever reason, I can't get my head round how Exactly to create and use a jail, for a small webserver (Hiawatha) on

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Dave
On 7 Jun 2011 at 12:10, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Dave wrote: For whatever reason, I can't get my head round how Exactly to create and use a jail, for a small webserver (Hiawatha) on FreeBSD V8.x Did you start with the Handbook?

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Dave
On 7 Jun 2011 at 15:23, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:53:13 +0100 Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk articulated: There is at the same time, not enough detailed info as to how to, and way too much detail of what there is. The Man pages are good references, but lousy how to's...

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Dave
On 8 Jun 2011 at 0:53, Julian H. Stacey wrote: and AFIK have downloaded all the sys and ports sources.. How do I confirm that, cd /usr/src make clean ; make cleandir ; make clean # gets rid of obj du -s -k 547684 . cant cd to /usr/src/share/info *** Error code 2 Stop in

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/06/2011 13:53, Dave wrote: As Andy and Kaya pointed out, I was missing the Base sources. As at some point, while fighting with the sysinstall menu system, the Base selection got un-selected. The best way to get along with sysinstall is not to use it. Or use it as little as possible.

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Dave wrote: For whatever reason, I can't get my head round how Exactly to create and use a jail, for a small webserver (Hiawatha) on FreeBSD V8.x Did you start with the Handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:53:13 +0100 Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk articulated: There is at the same time, not enough detailed info as to how to, and way too much detail of what there is. The Man pages are good references, but lousy how to's... (Sorry.) Many knowledgeable people consider man

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Jack Raats
- Original Message - From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 8:53 PM Subject: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help? Hi All. Total frustration here. Before I incinerate the luckless box and get my coat. For whatever

RE: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread a . smith
Hi Dave, I didn't find it total plain sailing myself when I did this for the first time a few months back. Ok, so I think you are sitting in /usr/src trying to run the make buildworld right? If you are getting the error you mentioned then I think it means you are missing the Makefile?

RE: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Silva, Thiago Alexandre Vitorino Da
...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of a.sm...@ukgrid.net Sent: terça-feira, 7 de junho de 2011 18:05 To: d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help? Hi Dave, I didn't find it total plain sailing myself when I did this for the first time

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi guys, just as I've been helping out already I did actually have this lot in my Wiki: http://wiki.optiplex-networks.com/xwiki/bin/view/FreeBSD/Installing_FreeBSD [quote] Please take note however that the *Buildworld* environment needs to have *all sources* installed into the system in

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
and AFIK have downloaded all the sys and ports sources.. How do I confirm that, cd /usr/src make clean ; make cleandir ; make clean # gets rid of obj du -s -k 547684 . find . -type d -print | wc 47344734 119623 cd /usr/ports du -s -k 477244 . find .

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Edward
On 6/8/11 2:53 AM, Dave wrote: Hi All. [snip] What I have learnt so far, is that (for the most part) all the BSD's behave and work much the same. Unlike the hoards of different Linux's, all with their different ways of doing things. Spleen vented, anyone want a challenge? I promise not

Re: Sorry state of the rsync based CVS,replication

2010-11-15 Thread Ken Smith
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 12:13 +0100, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: There is nothing which prevents mirror sites from providing access to the CVS repo via rsync, even if they get it via CVSup... I went ahead with adding this to ftp2.freebsd.org: % rsync ftp2.freebsd.org::FreeBSD-CVS/ drwxr-xr-x

Re: Sorry state of the rsync based CVS,replication

2010-11-14 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On 12 Nov 2010, at 09:47, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: Don't take this as flamebait, because I have no intention in starting a war on this particular issue, but as good as cvsup is, this is unfortunately a fairly isolated tool that, from my prospective (which is necessarily biaised and

Re: Sorry state of the rsync based CVS,replication

2010-11-12 Thread Patrick Bihan-Faou
Hi, [...] Regarding the permission of the Attic subdirs in place The development/ section of the FTP site is something I hadn't looked at before so it took me a little time to find what populates it and investigate a little. I *think* the issue with the Attic directories not including

Re: Sorry state of the rsync based CVS,replication

2010-11-11 Thread Ken Smith
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 14:45 +0200, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: We use FreeBSD extensively and keep a local mirror of the CVS repository. Up until recently things where working properly with the various servers listed in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors-rsync.html, but sometime

Re: sorry, email program ate my subject: Can't compile MySQL 5.0 server on 7.2

2010-03-01 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Len Conrad wrote: -- Original Message -- From: Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com Reply-To: lcon...@go2france.com Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:04:58 +0100 FreeBSD 7.2 as ESXi virtual machine after portsnap

Re: sorry, email program ate my subject: Can't compile MySQL 5.0server on 7.2

2010-03-01 Thread Len Conrad
-- Original Message -- From: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org Reply-To: glar...@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:46:54 -0500 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Len Conrad wrote: -- Original Message

Re: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

2009-04-16 Thread Mehul Ved
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Re: Sorry - plaintext this time - Disk geometry and two OSes.

2008-08-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Slick Bo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I let sysinstall change the disk geometry, will it create problems for the files on 0 and the WinXP installation? NO. You can safely do it. And if you don't like the fbsd bootloader you can always change to another

Re: Sorry - plaintext this time - Disk geometry and two OSes.

2008-08-05 Thread Edward Ruggeri
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Slick Bo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen a few people on this mailing list say that disk geometry really doesn't matter that much, and the OS usually works fine despite apparent errors. But I'd prefer to be able to keep my windows installation. If I let

Re: Sorry for the old emails to this list

2006-05-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-05-30 19:09, Aaron Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just fixed my mail server, and it looks like it was waiting to push those forward :) Heh! That's ok, I guess. It means you really fixed it :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: sorry for the idiot question, but....

2005-08-11 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:07:47PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:07:20 +0200 Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a way to start gnome using the 'startx' method but I don't know it. echo gnome-session ~/.xinitrc Hm! I was doing exec

Re: sorry for the idiot question, but....

2005-08-11 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:04:43PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-10 09:07, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a way to start gnome using the 'startx' method but I don't know it. 1. Copy over /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc and make sure it's

Vs: Re: sorry for the idiot question, bu

2005-08-11 Thread juha . vaskisuo
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Re: sorry for the idiot question, but....

2005-08-10 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:29:20PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, *Which* ports do I need to install to get Gnome and KDE working? On my laptop (w/ omly 12G of disk) I may not have nough room; but on my main server I should have plenty. I have installed

Re: sorry for the idiot question, but....

2005-08-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:07:20 +0200 Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a way to start gnome using the 'startx' method but I don't know it. echo gnome-session ~/.xinitrc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: sorry for the idiot question, but....

2005-08-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/10/05, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, *Which* ports do I need to install to get Gnome and KDE working? On my laptop (w/ omly 12G of disk) I may not have nough room; but on my main server I should have plenty. I have installed the

Re: sorry for the idiot question, but....

2005-08-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-10 09:07, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a way to start gnome using the 'startx' method but I don't know it. 1. Copy over /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc and make sure it's executable by at least you, the owner of the file. 2. Replace the final

Re: sorry for the idiot question, but....

2005-08-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:29:20PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, *Which* ports do I need to install to get Gnome and KDE working? On my laptop (w/ omly 12G of disk) I may not have nough room; but on my

Re: sorry for the idiot question, but....

2005-08-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-10 13:06, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:04:43PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-10 09:07, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a way to start gnome using the 'startx' method but I don't know it. 1. Copy over

Re: sorry for the idiot question, but....

2005-08-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:30:55PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-10 13:06, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:04:43PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-10 09:07, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a way to start gnome using the

Re: Sorry... newbie

2005-07-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 03:20 pm, Armando Richard wrote: Hope find at least 1 patient person to answer this... I'm used to operate well systems in Linux and Rwindows and trying from 2 days FreeBSD.. I've very very very novice questions and couldn't find any help in literature i've been read

Re: Sorry... newbie

2005-07-19 Thread Danny Pansters
I'd like to add that though it takes (quite) long to build and install the jdk (and maybe if you're on a modem also downloading can take a while), it does work very well. I use it primarily with konqueror for applets and well it just works (with all the usual quirks as on linux -- say cut and

Re: Sorry... newbie

2005-07-19 Thread Danny Pansters
Certainly, but complain to our friendly solarian friends over at Sun about all this :) Hi Bill. I'm sure they don't mean bad towards us, but, yeah, this is how it works out right now. Regards, Dan On Wednesday 20 July 2005 02:10, you wrote: in time.. 1,1Mb + 47Mb + 40Mb ... build a

Re: Sorry for the newbie questions :(

2004-12-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:30:27AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: I read a lot about cvsup and other stuff, but it seems very confusing to me. I cannot understand the whole picture. My question is: how can i import a *single* port ? You cannot do this safely, because

Re: Sorry to bother you ,but...

2004-12-08 Thread CHris Rich
Peter has managed to get it compiled on FreeBSd5.3, however when run a yabasic demo program that uses GTK-Server, I get an error message that library nss_dns.so.1 is missing. I have searched the ports tree and found references to this in files in these locations... eshop1# grep -r -i

Re: Sorry to bother you ,but...

2004-12-08 Thread pete wright
Peter has managed to get it compiled on FreeBSd5.3, however when run a yabasic demo program that uses GTK-Server, I get an error message that library nss_dns.so.1 is missing. I have searched the ports tree and found references to this in files in these locations... eshop1# grep -r -i

Re: Sorry for the newbie questions :(

2004-12-08 Thread Eric Schuele
Kris Kennaway wrote: I read a lot about cvsup and other stuff, but it seems very confusing to me. I cannot understand the whole picture. My question is: how can i import a *single* port ? You cannot do this safely, because how do you know which other single ports must also be updated along with

Re: Sorry for the newbie questions :(

2004-12-07 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of Mário Gamito on 2004-12-07 23:59:33 +: 1. I've instaled FreeBSD 5.3 and compiled portaudit as the first port. Portaudit didn't allow me to install apache13-modssl because there is a security problem with the port that comes in the CD. How can i then install

Re: Sorry for the newbie questions :(

2004-12-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:59:33PM +, M?rio Gamito wrote: Hi, I swear i did my home work before addressing to you, but i didn't understood well what i want. 1. I've instaled FreeBSD 5.3 and compiled portaudit as the first port. Portaudit didn't allow me to install apache13-modssl

Re: Sorry for the newbie questions :(

2004-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I swear i did my home work before addressing to you, but i didn't understood well what i want. 2. I want to install PostgreSQL 8. The port version that is on the CD is 8 beta2, but i see in www.freebsd.org that there is already a port for 8 beta4. How can i import this new port

Re: Sorry

2004-10-29 Thread Subhro
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:24:39 +0200, Jaime Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hee hee, one is a devil armed with a big pitchfork, and the other a helpless penguin. Its not a devil, its a daemon :D Regards S. -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091

RE: Sorry

2004-10-28 Thread Jaime Moss
] Subject: Re: Sorry Jaime Moss wrote: I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? I will also be looking at Linux. What is the differnce between FreeBSD and Linux? Kind regards Jaime Moss Hee hee, one is a devil armed with a big pitchfork

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Mark Frasa
On 2004.10.27 12:18:03 +, Jaime Moss wrote: I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? I will also be looking at Linux. What is the differnce between FreeBSD and Linux? Kind regards Jaime Moss Freebsd has one: Sendmail, and

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Henry Miller
On 10/27/2004 at 12:18 Jaime Moss wrote: I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? sendmail is included, though mostly because it always has been included, not because we feel it is any good. Postfix, exim, and qmail are in ports in case you

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jaime Moss wrote: What is the differnce between FreeBSD and Linux? The differences really only matters if you are using one system and want to change, they are mostly neuances in everyday use. You can run all the mentioned mailservers equally well on both FreeBSD and Linux, same configuration

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:18:03PM +0200, Jaime Moss wrote: I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? Yes, sendmail. There are also dozens of other mail servers in the ports collection. I will also be looking at Linux. What is the differnce

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? Yes, FreeBSd has about everything you would want and several alternatives for each. Sendmail is the long time workhorse of the Email agents. It gets some abuse because of its arcane configuration

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread W. D.
At 04:18 10/27/2004, Jaime Moss wrote: I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? Yes. I use qmail--it's very good with high volume. I will also be looking at Linux. What is the differnce between FreeBSD and Linux? They are both good operating

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jaime Moss wrote: I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? I will also be looking at Linux. What is the differnce between FreeBSD and Linux? Kind regards Jaime Moss Hee hee, one is a devil armed with a big pitchfork, and the other a helpless

Re: Sorry--I'm Newbie - Best way to add php4

2004-07-31 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bob Kukla wrote: Previous message had no subject,,, sorry for that We are all newbies ... some are older newbies ... Even the oldies know that they're just newbies with experience ... ;-) Hi, I am very new to BSD and web servers and have just recently installed the latest 5.2 version. I have

Re: Sorry: HP Omnibook 4150 hangs on boot 4.6.2

2003-09-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
I've had problems with a different Omnibook model hanging while probing AGP. The AGP support was added around then, so this might be your problem too. The way I got around it was by loading on an earlier release and updating from source (but not including 'device agp' in my kernel config,

Re: Sorry for HTML

2002-07-21 Thread John Mills
Kevin - On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: I'm going to have to put together a box hefty enough to run FBSD with X My low-end box was unusable when XFree installed contemporary window managers (KDE in this case), but became quite responsive and usable when I dropped