/usr/X11R6 before /usr/local in ldconfig?

2007-10-10 Thread Joshua Isom
I noticed the other that that in -STABLE that /usr/X11R6 was in front of /usr/local for libraries. This results in any port that uses a library from another port to look for /usr/X11R6 first, and then /usr/local. I don't know if this would cause any real problems other than confusion for

unable to install XFree86

2007-10-10 Thread williamkow
# cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 # make install. == XFree86-3.3.6_11 is marked as broken: Does not build on FreeBSD =6.x. *** Error code 1 Is that means, the XFree86 should not install and run on my newly installed FreeBSD 6.2-Release ? ___

Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition

2007-10-10 Thread nodje
I couldn't find any answer to the question.The problem is that the installer shows up all the disks instead of proposing to install somewhere on the RAID5 partition, in other words, it just doesn't recognize the RAID5. Is it possible at all to install freeBSD on one of those RAID?? I've found out

Re: unable to install XFree86

2007-10-10 Thread Akshay Kawale
No. Instead of XFree86, you should use the X.org X server. The meta-port for it is available at: /usr/ports/x11/xorg. - Akshay - Original Message From: williamkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Re: unable to install XFree86

2007-10-10 Thread John Murphy
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:23:26 +0800 williamkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 # make install. == XFree86-3.3.6_11 is marked as broken: Does not build on FreeBSD =6.x. *** Error code 1 Is that means, the XFree86 should not install and run on my newly installed

Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition

2007-10-10 Thread Vince
Sounds like you have one of those 'fake' raid controllers (http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html ), where its software raid with a hook into the bios so its bootable, while the work is done in software. This isnt supported by Freebsd (the fake raid 1 is supported by the ataraid driver for many

offline installation of Xorg - Re: unable to install XFree86

2007-10-10 Thread williamkow
How can I install Xorg, if there is no internet connection ? I means offline installation of Xorg ? I got a lot error codes, relating to accessing the http sites. Please advise. Thank you. __ John Murphy

NVidia 100.14.19 for FreeBSD i386 released

2007-10-10 Thread usleepless
Hi, see: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=100077 is it working for anybody? regards, usleep ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: offline installation of Xorg - Re: unable to install XFree86

2007-10-10 Thread John Murphy
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:37:26 +0800 williamkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I install Xorg, if there is no internet connection ? I means offline installation of Xorg ? I got a lot error codes, relating to accessing the http sites. Please advise. Thank you. Presuming you have

NVidia 100.14.19 for FreeBSD i386 released

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Not on amd64 but no nvidia kernel module ever has On 10/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, see: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=100077 is it working for anybody? regards, usleep ___

Re: X (xorg 7.3) consumes all the CPU

2007-10-10 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 05:01:50 Paul Schmehl wrote: Is there a way to start a process so that memory and CPU usage can be tracked closely enough to determine what the cause of 100% CPU use would be? I've got a box, recently installed 6.2 RELEASE with xorg 7.3 installed, and when X is

Re: X (xorg 7.3) consumes all the CPU

2007-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-09 22:01, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to start a process so that memory and CPU usage can be tracked closely enough to determine what the cause of 100% CPU use would be? I've got a box, recently installed 6.2 RELEASE with xorg 7.3 installed, and when X is

Nedit after xorg 7.3

2007-10-10 Thread nikolaj . thygesen
Hi list, After upgrading xorg to 7.3, nedit has started scrolling funnily on my system. It used to work just fine, but after the upgrade scrolling down (that is moving the text cursor up) one line at a time using the arrow keys replicates the same line on each text line in view. Scrolling

Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. All of my searches lead to the same problem...GELI passphrase can not be entered correctly upon boot. I have tried everything I have found on the web (including disabling

Re: amd64_set_gsbase()

2007-10-10 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 02:48:51 Mihai Donțu wrote: I have *one* more question: maybe I don't fully understand the hole BASE thing, but since the FreeBSD kernel does not preserve %gs and %fs, what is the purpose of amd64_set_XXbase()? The %fs, %gs registers and fsbase and gsbase MSRs are

Samba and Swat are not restarting the daemons.

2007-10-10 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Dear all, I have install samba version:3.0.26a from ports, the daemons appear to be working fine by enabling the apropiate parameters in rc.conf, yet I am speriencing the issue where SWAT is showing as the smbd and nmbd are not running nor will they restart. Can someone point me in the right

Re: amd64_set_gsbase()

2007-10-10 Thread Mihai Donțu
On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Tuesday 09 October 2007 02:48:51 Mihai Donțu wrote: I have *one* more question: maybe I don't fully understand the hole BASE thing, but since the FreeBSD kernel does not preserve %gs and %fs, what is the purpose of amd64_set_XXbase()?

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 10/10/07, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. All of my searches lead to the same problem...GELI passphrase can not be entered correctly upon boot. I have

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
Daniel Marsh wrote: On 10/10/07, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. All of my searches lead to the same problem...GELI passphrase can not be entered correctly

RE: Bind configuration in FreeBSD

2007-10-10 Thread Narek Gharibyan
Hi, I as know default version (without port upgrading) is Bind 9.3.3 in Freebsd 6.2. You can see the version, executing named -v command. Do a ps -ax | grep named and see whether named is running or not. Also you can find the Bind logs in /var/named/var/log directory (chrooted directory), if it

Push/Stream Data TO a Server

2007-10-10 Thread tonylabarbara
Hi; I have a client that has video cameras (D-Link) and wants to stream video on his Web site. The problem is that his Internet connection is such that the IP address is dynamic. Can I push the data to my server? How? I don't need to store it; I just need to make it available for viewing.

Re: courier-authlib problems.

2007-10-10 Thread Tankko
yea ran into a similar issue yesterday myself. i had to make this modification in /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd-ssl: TLS_PROTOCOL=SSL23 believe old default value was: TLS_PROTOCOL=SSL3 HTH -pete Thanks! This solved my problem as well! Tankko

Re: Problem compiling kdegraphics (exr problem?)

2007-10-10 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 18:04:53 John Nielsen wrote: Quoting John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Will Wainwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm having some trouble getting kdegraphics to update. I use portmanager to keep my ports updated. Usually this works well, but the past couple of

Re: sudo doesn't log anything

2007-10-10 Thread Nicolas Letellier
Pieter de Goeje a écrit : Sudo by default logs with facility 'local2' and priority 'notice'. Neither one is specified in your syslog.conf. Yes, it fix my problem ! Thanks very much ! Nicolas -- Nicolas Letellier, administrateur systèmes Site personnel : http://nicoelro.net

Re: sudo doesn't log anything

2007-10-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 18:38 +0200, Nicolas Letellier wrote: Pieter de Goeje a écrit : Sudo by default logs with facility 'local2' and priority 'notice'. Neither one is specified in your syslog.conf. To set the facility in sudoer(5): Defaultssyslog=auth Or local0-7 if

Re: what kind of UPS will work best?

2007-10-10 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:36 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ray wrote: On Monday 08 October 2007 8:36:39 pm Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Rob wrote: think. Most the draw in a residence is the HVAC. what is this? HVAC? Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning move the machine

Re: Push/Stream Data TO a Server

2007-10-10 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 16:56:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client that has video cameras (D-Link) and wants to stream video on his Web site. The problem is that his Internet connection is such that the IP address is dynamic. Can I push the data to my server? How? I don't need to

Portupgrade prompts

2007-10-10 Thread Rem P Roberti
This has no doubt been covered before, but for some reason I am unable to get to the archives. Anyway, is there a way to accept the default prompts that occasionally occur while doing a ports upgrade? If I've been a way for a while and there are numerous ports that need upgrading there might be

Re: Bind configuration in FreeBSD

2007-10-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:29:39PM +0500, Narek Gharibyan wrote: Hi, Please don't top-post. I as know default version (without port upgrading) is Bind 9.3.3 in Freebsd 6.2. You can see the version, executing named -v command. Do a ps -ax | grep named snip -Original Message-

Re: Portupgrade prompts

2007-10-10 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 19:25:24 Rem P Roberti wrote: This has no doubt been covered before, but for some reason I am unable to get to the archives. Anyway, is there a way to accept the default prompts that occasionally occur while doing a ports upgrade? If I've been a way for a while

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all, I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. You don't need to encrypt the whole harddisk. You can encrypt separate slices. There is no need to

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Fabian Keil
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. You don't need to encrypt the whole harddisk. You can encrypt

Re: how to setup internet access via GPRS/EDGE network using Nokia 6230 mobile phone

2007-10-10 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
Hi, On Wednesday 10 October 2007, williamkow wrote: Could anybody advise me on how to enable internet access (GPRS/EDGE) in GSM network, using Nokia mobile phone (USB cable connect to computer). Please provide me the exact PORT name to install to FreeBSD 6.2 system, also please assist me on

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
Put all the data that really needs to be encrypted on a separate slice, and encrypt that. Leave the rest unencrypted, especially /boot. As a rule of thumb; don't bother encrypting anything that you can just download from the internet. :-) Fair enough, this makes sense. Thank you. As you can

Re: Push/Stream Data TO a Server

2007-10-10 Thread tonylabarbara
Perfect! Thanks! Tony dyndns.com -Original Message- From: Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:58 pm Subject: Re: Push/Stream Data TO a Server On Wednesday 10 October 2007 16:56:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client that has

iSCSI and multi-terabyte support?

2007-10-10 Thread Kurt Buff
At my place of work, we're looking at implementing a SAN, most likely with iSCSI, some time next year, and likely about 5-10TBytes. I was wondering if FreeBSD could provide this on COTS hardware, but my googling hasn't been successful. From my reading of this list over the past couple of years,

system admin question...

2007-10-10 Thread Gary Kline
This is for the system admins out there; I brought up this question last weekend, (re xsysstats, an *old* app), but got no answers, so again: What are the best tools, graphical or otherwise, that I can use on a dedicated Gnome [or CWTM, KDE, Whatever]

Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition

2007-10-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:35:54PM +0800, nodje wrote: I couldn't find any answer to the question.The problem is that the installer shows up all the disks instead of proposing to install somewhere on the RAID5 partition, in other words, it just doesn't recognize the RAID5. Is it possible at

Re: system admin question...

2007-10-10 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Gary Kline wrote: This is for the system admins out there; I brought up this question last weekend, (re xsysstats, an *old* app), but got no answers, so again: What are the best tools, graphical or otherwise, that I can use on a dedicated Gnome [or

Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition

2007-10-10 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:35:54PM +0800, nodje wrote: I couldn't find any answer to the question.The problem is that the installer shows up all the disks instead of proposing to install somewhere on the RAID5 partition, in other words, it just doesn't recognize the

Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition

2007-10-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:19:02PM -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:35:54PM +0800, nodje wrote: I couldn't find any answer to the question.The problem is that the installer shows up all the disks instead of proposing to install

Re: system admin question...

2007-10-10 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 21:57:59 Gary Kline wrote: What are the best tools, graphical or otherwise, that I can use on a dedicated Gnome [or CWTM, KDE, Whatever] workspace that will help me track each of my four or five computers? (((Is xosview broken? I have it

Re: system admin question...

2007-10-10 Thread DAve
Gary Kline wrote: This is for the system admins out there; I brought up this question last weekend, (re xsysstats, an *old* app), but got no answers, so again: What are the best tools, graphical or otherwise, that I can use on a dedicated Gnome [or CWTM, KDE, Whatever] workspace

Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition

2007-10-10 Thread Jeff Mohler
Did you know that most oh my god RAID failures happen during the reconstruction of a failed drive? .Especially on SATA as the non-recoverable-bit-error math is so much easier to run into. I think..that on a 500G drive, there are enough bits to read/write that mathematically you could run into a

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:34:16PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Put all the data that really needs to be encrypted on a separate slice, and encrypt that. Leave the rest unencrypted, especially /boot. As a rule of thumb; don't bother encrypting anything that you can just download from the

TPM could not be initialized - bge0 has disappeared ... WTF ?

2007-10-10 Thread Gore Jarold
I own a Dell Latitude X1. I installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on it. All is well. No problems. Have a nice day. However, suddenly, when I boot the system, I get a message: WARNING: The TPM could not be initialized I didn't know what TPM was, I didn't care, and I just booted up. Not my

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:18:38PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems.

FTP CRON Script

2007-10-10 Thread White Hat
This is driving me crazy. I have a small script that I run from CRON. It is run as a regular user and not as ROOT, although I have tried it both ways. It uploads SPAM to the 'knujon.com' site'. I have created a ~/.netrc file that looks like this: machine knujon.com login user

Re: TPM could not be initialized - bge0 has disappeared ... WTF ?

2007-10-10 Thread James
It's possible it's a hardware issue. Have you got a means to verify the hardware, such as a knoppix, sitting around? James On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 13:47 -0700, Gore Jarold wrote: I own a Dell Latitude X1. I installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on it. All is well. No problems. Have a nice day.

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 23:17:01 Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:18:38PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a

Re: system admin question...

2007-10-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:57 PM 10/10/2007, Gary Kline wrote: This is for the system admins out there; I brought up this question last weekend, (re xsysstats, an *old* app), but got no answers, so again: What are the best tools, graphical or otherwise, that I can use on a

Re: TPM could not be initialized - bge0 has disappeared ... WTF ?

2007-10-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 10, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Gore Jarold wrote: I own a Dell Latitude X1. [ ... ] However, suddenly, when I boot the system, I get a message: WARNING: The TPM could not be initialized I didn't know what TPM was, I didn't care, and I just booted up. Not my problem. Except suddenly I have no

Re: FTP CRON Script

2007-10-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:31 PM 10/10/2007, White Hat wrote: This is driving me crazy. I have a small script that I run from CRON. It is run as a regular user and not as ROOT, although I have tried it both ways. It uploads SPAM to the 'knujon.com' site'. I have created a ~/.netrc file that looks like this:

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:37:55PM +0200, Mel wrote: Encryption isn't only useful for private data, it also reduces the risk of third parties replacing your binaries with Trojans while your away. If that someone can replace binaries on a running system, you're box has been

shooting oneself in the foot with ldconfig -v

2007-10-10 Thread Jonathan Noack
Hey folks, I'm running 6.2-p8 and was trying to clean up my portsclean -L output today. It was reporting tons of duplicate libraries in /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local even though X11R6 is an alias to /usr/local. I tracked the problem to portclean's use of `ldconfig -elf -r` which was reporting

Re: shooting oneself in the foot with ldconfig -v

2007-10-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:41:29PM -0400, Jonathan Noack wrote: Hey folks, I'm running 6.2-p8 and was trying to clean up my portsclean -L output today. It was reporting tons of duplicate libraries in /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local even though X11R6 is an alias to /usr/local. I tracked the

Re: X on ThinkPad crashes after sleeping (zzz'ing)

2007-10-10 Thread C Thala
Sleeping still works fine, but when I bring it back from sleep, X Windows seems to have crashed. I suspect it's a problem similar to one I've been having, and am investigating. I upgraded to X.org 7.3, and have since then had problems with ACPI events screwing up my X session (to the

Re: Xorg 7.2 and FreeBSD 6.2-p5 VMWARE vmmouse problem

2007-10-10 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 10/07/2007, at 11:53 AM, Webster, Andrew wrote: Howdy, I was successfully able to get Xorg upgraded to 7.2 by just installing them from scratch as opposed to trying to upgrading an existing system, BUT I’ve run into a problem… While running VMWare Server 1.0.3 with FreeBSD 6.2-p5

Re: kernel configuration failure

2007-10-10 Thread coriolinus
Actually, that's not the problem. The file which is not found is the compiler itself: gcc34:No such file or directory Maybe you've installed gcc 4.3 from ports, linked /usr/bin/cc to /usr/local/bin/gcc43 and then upgrade gcc? That doesn't seem right: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src]$ which

Re: kernel configuration failure

2007-10-10 Thread Yuri Pankov
coriolinus wrote: Actually, that's not the problem. The file which is not found is the compiler itself: gcc34:No such file or directory Maybe you've installed gcc 4.3 from ports, linked /usr/bin/cc to /usr/local/bin/gcc43 and then upgrade gcc? That doesn't seem right: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Confusion on SSH and PAM

2007-10-10 Thread Vinny
Replying to myself to fix my error. Vinny wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: [snip] Here's another oddity I encountered today. If PermitRootLogin is set to forced-commands-only, my understanding is the SSHD will permit root logins if a command to be executed is given. But that doesn't

Re: iSCSI and multi-terabyte support?

2007-10-10 Thread pete wright
On 10/10/07, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At my place of work, we're looking at implementing a SAN, most likely with iSCSI, some time next year, and likely about 5-10TBytes. I was wondering if FreeBSD could provide this on COTS hardware, but my googling hasn't been successful. From my

Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition

2007-10-10 Thread Nodje
well, you mean on RAID5 then, coz there's probably no math in reconstructing a RAID1. Why would the math on SATA be less reliable than on SCSI??? Where d'you read that anyway?? Jeff Mohler wrote: Did you know that most oh my god RAID failures happen during the reconstruction of a

Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition

2007-10-10 Thread Jeff Mohler
SATA drives just aint built with the same resiliency as SCSI, hence the massive difference in cost. So..as an example, the Hitachi 500G 7K500 drive has a non recoverable bitrate of 1 in 10^14th. The 10K300 FCAL (basically scsi) drive is 1 in 10^16th. Those two zeros mean a _lot_. I removed a

Re: iSCSI and multi-terabyte support?

2007-10-10 Thread Kurt Buff
On 10/10/07, pete wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/07, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At my place of work, we're looking at implementing a SAN, most likely with iSCSI, some time next year, and likely about 5-10TBytes. I was wondering if FreeBSD could provide this on COTS

Re: shooting oneself in the foot with ldconfig -v

2007-10-10 Thread Jonathan Noack
On Wed, October 10, 2007 18:34, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:41:29PM -0400, Jonathan Noack wrote: Hey folks, I'm running 6.2-p8 and was trying to clean up my portsclean -L output today. It was reporting tons of duplicate libraries in /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local even though

Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition

2007-10-10 Thread Nodje
hum let's keep practical here please. The question is whether you can use SATA RAID as a reasonable HD failure protection system or not. Can a Raid1 on two HD, say less than 500Gb, be consider as a good protection against HD failure? It still seems to be for me. (I consider

Re: sudo doesn't log anything

2007-10-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (among other verbiage) It logs it's (sic) messages in /var/log/messages. Is this mentioned in the man page ? If nort, it should be! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: shooting oneself in the foot with ldconfig -v

2007-10-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:27:49AM -0400, Jonathan Noack wrote: On Wed, October 10, 2007 18:34, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:41:29PM -0400, Jonathan Noack wrote: Hey folks, I'm running 6.2-p8 and was trying to clean up my portsclean -L output today. It was reporting

rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf-i386-32 and amd64 wants it branded elf-amd64-64. This file comes from them as a precompiled object

best way to update ports

2007-10-10 Thread Bill Stwalley
Hi, I need your advice on how to update security patches for ports on a dozen servers with minimal efforts. As I gathered, I should run portaudit in cron jobs and then manually update the ports with vulnerabilities after reading UPDATING. Is this the best way? Is this manual way feasible for

Re: best way to update ports

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Bill Stwalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need your advice on how to update security patches for ports on a dozen servers with minimal efforts. If the servers are homogenious why not have a single /usr/local and nfs mount it? ___

Re: best way to update ports

2007-10-10 Thread Bill Stwalley
On 10/11/07, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/07, Bill Stwalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need your advice on how to update security patches for ports on a dozen servers with minimal efforts. If the servers are homogenious why not have a single /usr/local and nfs