Re: if anyone needs OOo 3.0.1 i386 package

2009-03-29 Thread Ghirai
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:45:43 -0600 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Seeing as good-day.net only has packages for amd64, i figured i'd make one; it only took about 9 hours or so :P

[OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes

2009-03-29 Thread Glen Barber
Hello, list. Before I pose my question, I am not intending to start a flame-war of any sort -- I'm just searching for different ways of doing things. With so many different version control systems available (aside from the traditional keep current backups solution), I am curious: Q: What is

Re: [OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes

2009-03-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:37:27 -0400, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, list. Before I pose my question, I am not intending to start a flame-war of any sort -- I'm just searching for different ways of doing things. With so many different version control systems available (aside

Re: [OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes

2009-03-29 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Roger On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Roger Olofsson 240olofs...@telia.com wrote: For local configuration files there's a tool called rcs that can be used for tracking changes and rollback. It's a part of the FreeBSD base system. Check the man pages for rcs(1) ci(1) co(1) rcsdiff(1) and

Re: [OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes

2009-03-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 07:37:27AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: Hello, list. Before I pose my question, I am not intending to start a flame-war of any sort -- I'm just searching for different ways of doing things. With so many different version control systems available (aside from the

Re: [OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes

2009-03-29 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Roland. On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: My configuration files are kept in git managed directories under ~/setup/hostname.  Every hostname directory is its own repository. The reason that I'm using git is because it does what I need, is small and

Re: Can't upgrade to 7.1-RELEASE

2009-03-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 02:41:23AM +0200, Reinis Ivanovs wrote: Hello, I'm trying to upgrade a 7.0 system to 7.1-RELEASE, and it isn't working. I switch to the superuser, do freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE, and then when I try running freebsd-update install, I get this: .chflags:

Re: [OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes

2009-03-29 Thread Roger Olofsson
Glen Barber skrev: Hello, list. Before I pose my question, I am not intending to start a flame-war of any sort -- I'm just searching for different ways of doing things. With so many different version control systems available (aside from the traditional keep current backups solution), I am

Re: Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)

2009-03-29 Thread Barnaby Scott
Mel Flynn wrote: On Saturday 28 March 2009 13:06:44 Robert Huff wrote: Mel Flynn writes: Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible for one reason oranother, place to download application source to? Most

Re: Can't upgrade to 7.1-RELEASE

2009-03-29 Thread Reinis Ivanovs
Thanks, that did the trick. I commented out the chflags and the script finished successfuly. That makes sense, since the kernel security level was -1, so chflags shouldn't matter. R. http://dabas.untu.ms/ On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 16:04, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Sun, Mar 29,

Re: Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)

2009-03-29 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On March 29, 2009 11:03:03 AM -0500 Barnaby Scott b...@waywood.co.uk wrote: Many thanks to all who have helped on this one. I managed to get wine installed without X and it works :) However my application doesn't :( Most of the errors are concerned with MS Visual C++ libraries, which I have

Re: analyzing httpd-error.log

2009-03-29 Thread Charles Howse
On Mar 28, 2009, at 11:51 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Webalizer is doing what it's supposed to with httpd-access.log, but when I give it the error log to process is coughs, spits and spills out errors with no data processed. My research hasn't turned up a good solution for webalizer and

init panic in freebsd 7.1

2009-03-29 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I was having a little trouble with my computer, first thought was that the mboard was fried, but later found out it was the power supply and replaced it. The computer started but failed to boot, here is what it's been complaining, exec /sbin/init error 8 exec /sbin/init.bak error 8 exec

Re: Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)

2009-03-29 Thread User Wblock
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Barnaby Scott wrote: Thanks for all the ideas about where to download/install custom apps - the one that appeals most at this stage is a jail, partly because I have never played with them, and I think I should progress my learning in that direction. However I find the other

Re: init panic in freebsd 7.1

2009-03-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:23:13 -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng tfch...@gmail.com wrote: init: not found in path /sbin/ (a lot of paths) panic: no init what is that?? The init process is the root of the FreeBSD startup, and the last part of the OS loader cannot find it, so the OS cannot start.

Re: analyzing httpd-error.log

2009-03-29 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: On Mar 28, 2009, at 11:51 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Webalizer is doing what it's supposed to with httpd-access.log, but when I give it the error log to process is coughs, spits and spills out errors with no data

Webcam support in FreeBSD?

2009-03-29 Thread Yuri
There are three Linux drivers supported under emulation code: devel/linux-kmod-compat http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/linux-kmod-compat/, multimedia/linux-gspca-kmod http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/linux-gspca-kmod/, multimedia/linux-ov511-kmod

Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?

2009-03-29 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:05:12 +0100, Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org wrote: I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Just to follow up on my quest here.. The upgrade went fine. Most ports were broken as expected. I gave up trying

Re: analyzing httpd-error.log

2009-03-29 Thread Charles Howse
On Mar 29, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: On Mar 28, 2009, at 11:51 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Webalizer is doing what it's supposed to with httpd-access.log, but when I give it the error log to process is

Newsyslog mode on /var/log/security?

2009-03-29 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, I seem to have forgotten something about /var/log/security and newsyslog.conf. I get wrong mode after the trim. Excerpt from /etc/newsyslog.conf: /var/log/security 644 7 5000 * JC Output from newsyslog -vn: chmod 600 /var/log/security.0.bz2

6.x - 7.1

2009-03-29 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, We have (finally) made the decision to move our server (10 -Dell) from Toronto to a newer data center closer to our office in London. Before I ask this question, I would like to ensure everyone I will be reading all the docs I can find, but since the upgrade will be much work, I

Re: 6.x - 7.1

2009-03-29 Thread fquest
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, We have (finally) made the decision to move our server (10 -Dell) from Toronto to a newer data center closer to our office in London. Before I ask this question, I would like to ensure everyone I will be reading all the docs I can find, but since the upgrade will be

Where is the Perl XML::Parser port

2009-03-29 Thread af300wsm
Hi, I'm installing the latest gimp and get to a point in the install where it says: checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool So, I've done some searches at freshports.org and I cannot find the

RE: Webcam support in FreeBSD?

2009-03-29 Thread Ramiro Caso
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:09:42 -0700 From: y...@rawbw.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Webcam support in FreeBSD? There are three Linux drivers supported under emulation code: devel/linux-kmod-compat http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/linux-kmod-compat/,

Re: Where is the Perl XML::Parser port

2009-03-29 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 3/29/09, af300...@gmail.com af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm installing the latest gimp and get to a point in the install where it says: checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool So, I've done

Re: Where is the Perl XML::Parser port

2009-03-29 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:07:42 +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: awgc So, I've done some searches at freshports.org and I cannot find the awgc XML::Parser perl module anywhere in the ports tree. What is it under? /usr/ports/textproc/p5-XML-Parser/ -- Anton Yuzhaninov

Re: Newsyslog mode on /var/log/security?

2009-03-29 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:48 PM +0200 3/29/09, Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, I seem to have forgotten something about /var/log/security and newsyslog.conf. I get wrong mode after the trim. Excerpt from /etc/newsyslog.conf: /var/log/security 644 7 5000 * JC Are you

Cleaning up multiplicates in elf ldconfig path

2009-03-29 Thread Parv
I am on FreeBSD/i386 6.4-STABLE (around Mar 1, 2009). I failed to find a solution to the (cosmetic) problem of ldconfig path having duplicate directories (dmesg output wrapped for this email) ... ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat \ /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib \

configuring the freebsd boot manager

2009-03-29 Thread Brett Wigins
Hi everyone, I am having some problems understanding how the freebsd boot manager works. I have installed FreeBSD and Linux on the same laptop HD and want to be able to select which one to boot when the computer starts. I installed the bootmanager to to the MBR during installation and when I

RE: configuring the freebsd boot manager

2009-03-29 Thread Ramiro Caso
Hi everyone, I am having some problems understanding how the freebsd boot manager works. I have installed FreeBSD and Linux on the same laptop HD and want to be able to select which one to boot when the computer starts. I installed the bootmanager to to the MBR during installation and

WireLess USB modem not detected .

2009-03-29 Thread dhaneshk k
List; when I attach a USB modem , I am seeing this message in dmesg output on FreeBSD6.2 ugen0: Qualcomm, Incorporated Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2 But it not showing /dev/ in dmesg why ? If it detected what will be the entry in /dev/? Question1)