Ports overlay

2010-03-07 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Hi! By necessity and convenience, I have developed a series of additions and changes to the ports tree. These changes are probably not worthy of inclusion into the official tree, so I'm looking to maintain an overlay, of sorts, in the spirit of Gentoo's overlay capability. Is there an official

Re: Ports overlay

2010-03-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 02:45:41AM -0600, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Hi! By necessity and convenience, I have developed a series of additions and changes to the ports tree. These changes are probably not worthy of inclusion into the official tree, so I'm looking to maintain an overlay, of

Re: Ports overlay

2010-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/03/2010 08:45:41, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: By necessity and convenience, I have developed a series of additions and changes to the ports tree. These changes are probably not worthy of inclusion into the official tree, so I'm looking to

Introduction

2010-03-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm an Austrian sysadmin living in Montpezat (South France). I'm 100% GNU/Linux since 2001, I started out with Slackware 7.1, then after a few years of using Slackware and Debian, I moved to CentOS in 2006, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I'm running a one-man computer company

Configure X: multiple keyboard layouts ?

2010-03-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'd like to configure X for multiple keyboard layouts, e. g.: - french - swiss french - german On my Linux box (running CentOS 5.4 and a dated version of X.org), the configuration for this looks like this : Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:07 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:03:58 +0100, Sabine Baer bae...@t-online.de wrote: Well, it is, indeed. Me I am very glad beeing able to do eg linux-opera -display :0

Re: mailing list archive as mbox

2010-03-07 Thread Alexander Best
Dan Nelson schrieb am 2010-03-07: In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said: hi there, what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire mailingslist archive of lets say freebsd-current@ in mbox format? Go to

Re: Updating ports was Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-07 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:29:57 +0700 Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com articulated: Programs like portmaster can be really helpful here. Yes, it is what I am expecting. Thank you. I read the handbook. There are 2 choices i.e. portmanager and portmaster. I am now thinking which one is

freebsd-update on a 8.0 rootzfs system

2010-03-07 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello folks I have a 8.0 system that uses zfsroot and gptzfsboot. It uses the GENERIC kernel and the only thing that had to be manually recompiled is obviously the bootloader, to enable zfs boot support, other then that, the system is using stock 8.0 binaries. Since fully rebuilding world and

Re: freebsd-update on a 8.0 rootzfs system

2010-03-07 Thread krad
On 7 March 2010 11:57, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello folks I have a 8.0 system that uses zfsroot and gptzfsboot. It uses the GENERIC kernel and the only thing that had to be manually recompiled is obviously the bootloader, to enable zfs boot support, other then that, the

Re: mailing list archive as mbox

2010-03-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:08:32 +0100 (CET), Alexander Best alexbes...@wwu.de wrote: Dan Nelson schrieb am 2010-03-07: In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said: hi there, what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire mailingslist archive of lets say

HTML5 under FreeBSD Desktop

2010-03-07 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Is it possible? I really want to see YouTube Video in FreeBSD Desktop. So HTML5 support of YouTube [1] is good news to me. Currently i'm on FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE ;; Sincerely, [1] http://www.youtube.com/html5/ -- 소여물 황병희(黃炳熙) | .. 출항 15분전.. Then why do you come to me? How have I deserved

Re: freebsd-update on a 8.0 rootzfs system

2010-03-07 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello folks I have a 8.0 system that uses zfsroot and gptzfsboot. It uses the GENERIC kernel and the only thing that had to be manually recompiled is obviously the bootloader, to enable zfs boot support, other then that,

KDE firefox integration

2010-03-07 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I noticed that in PC-BSD 8 firefox is nicely integrated into KDE. Anybody knows how to achieve this on FreeBSD 8? Anselm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Updating ports was Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-07 Thread Robert Huff
Polytropon writes: I am now thinking which one is better. I have used portupgrade / portinstall in the past, but I think portmaster really is the way to go, at least for me, As far as I can tell, for 90-95% of tasks they're indistinguishable. If (generic) you have special

Re: KDE firefox integration

2010-03-07 Thread Elias Chrysoheris
On Sunday 07 of March 2010 15:56:15 Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, I noticed that in PC-BSD 8 firefox is nicely integrated into KDE. Anybody knows how to achieve this on FreeBSD 8? Anselm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

EVOLUTION a, slow start, SOLVED

2010-03-07 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Hello all.. Finallly I got the problem with evolution on FreeBSD solved. Happens that evolution is very slow, on startup, and consumes an HUGE amount of CPU (system), on startup, making it almost unuseable for multi user systems... The problem is that some plugins did not offer the startup

Re: KDE firefox integration

2010-03-07 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Sunday 07 March 2010 08:13:53 Elias Chrysoheris wrote: On Sunday 07 of March 2010 15:56:15 Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, I noticed that in PC-BSD 8 firefox is nicely integrated into KDE. Anybody knows how to achieve this on FreeBSD 8? Anselm

Re: EVOLUTION a, slow start, SOLVED

2010-03-07 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi lenzi.ser...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all.. Finallly I got the problem with evolution  on FreeBSD solved. Happens that evolution is very slow, on startup, and consumes an HUGE amount of CPU (system), on startup, making it almost

Re: HTML5 under FreeBSD Desktop

2010-03-07 Thread Alexander Best
recent chromium builds on http://chromium.jaggeri.com/ and http://code.google.com/p/chromium-freebsd8/ support html5. don't know if the firefox and opera ports support html5 yet. alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: KDE firefox integration

2010-03-07 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Sunday 07 March 2010 15:52:30 Josh Paetzel wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 08:13:53 Elias Chrysoheris wrote: On Sunday 07 of March 2010 15:56:15 Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, I noticed that in PC-BSD 8 firefox is nicely integrated into KDE. Anybody knows how to achieve this on FreeBSD

Re: Lockups with USB disks on FreeBSD

2010-03-07 Thread David Jackson
Aiza wrote: David Jackson wrote: David Jackson wrote: David Jackson wrote: I am currently using FreeBSD 8.0. I have been, for a long time, been having problems with lockups of FreeBSD 8.0 when using USB hard disks. Sometimes certain applications lock up for several minutes, when they use

Re: HTML5 under FreeBSD Desktop

2010-03-07 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Alexander Best alexbes...@wwu.de writes: recent chromium builds on http://chromium.jaggeri.com/ and http://code.google.com/p/chromium-freebsd8/ support html5. Great news, thank you very much!! don't know if the firefox and opera ports support html5 yet. alex -- 소여물 황병희(黃炳熙) | .. 출항

Re: KDE firefox integration

2010-03-07 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Sunday 07 March 2010 10:53:29 Anselm Strauss wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 15:52:30 Josh Paetzel wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 08:13:53 Elias Chrysoheris wrote: On Sunday 07 of March 2010 15:56:15 Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, I noticed that in PC-BSD 8 firefox is nicely

Re: KDE firefox integration

2010-03-07 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I noticed that in PC-BSD 8 firefox is nicely integrated into KDE. Anybody knows how to achieve this on FreeBSD 8? Anselm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: HTML5 under FreeBSD Desktop

2010-03-07 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Good bye adobe lame Flash player which never wanted to support FreeBSD and *BSD. HTML5, welcome abroad :) Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

make make install accept defaults

2010-03-07 Thread n dhert
When installing gnome from the ports # make install clean installs a few hundred packages and displays dozens and dozens times a configuration window which I always answer by hitting TAB key to move to OK button and then enter. Now this installation is already busy for 7 hours (when will it end?)

Re: HTML5 under FreeBSD Desktop

2010-03-07 Thread Robert Huff
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri writes: Good bye adobe lame Flash player which never wanted to support FreeBSD and *BSD. HTML5, welcome abroad :) Unless you know something we don't, don't bet the rent money just yet. Robert Huff

RE: make make install accept defaults

2010-03-07 Thread Dan Naumov
Portmaster (ports-mgmt/portmaster) will help you do that. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: make make install accept defaults

2010-03-07 Thread korszca
You may also want to try make BATCH=yes install clean ~Brian Callahan --Original Message-- From: n dhert Sender: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: make make install accept defaults Sent: Mar 7, 2010 2:08 PM When installing gnome from the ports

Re: EVOLUTION a, slow start, SOLVED

2010-03-07 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 11:55 -0300, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Hello all.. Finallly I got the problem with evolution on FreeBSD solved. Happens that evolution is very slow, on startup, and consumes an HUGE amount of CPU (system), on startup, making it almost unuseable for multi

Re: make make install accept defaults

2010-03-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
n == n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com writes: n When installing gnome from the ports n # make install clean n installs a few hundred packages and displays dozens and dozens times a n configuration window n which I always answer by hitting TAB key to move to OK button and then n enter. n Now this

Re: KDE firefox integration

2010-03-07 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:53:29 +0100, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com a écrit : Another trick that PC-BSD useswhich might be more of what you are asking about is the installation of a port called x11-themes/gtk-qt4-engine This port allows gtk applications to be displayed using qt,

Re: Configure X: multiple keyboard layouts ?

2010-03-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:09:16AM +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I'd like to configure X for multiple keyboard layouts, e. g.: - french - swiss french - german On my Linux box (running CentOS 5.4 and a dated version of X.org), the configuration for this looks like this : Section

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-07 Thread dacoder
+++ Erik Norgaard [06/03/10 02:44 +0100]: On 05/03/10 13:54, John wrote: My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually feel it in my network performance. Other than changing ssh to a non-standard port - is

[OT] ssh security

2010-03-07 Thread Angelin Lalev
Greetings, I'm doing some research into ssh and its underlying cryptographic methods and I have questions. I don't know whom else to ask and humbly ask for forgiveness if I'm way OT. So, SSH uses algorithms like ssh-dss or ssh-rsa to do key exchange. These algorithms can defeat any attempts on

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-07 Thread Angelin Lalev
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Angelin Lalev lalev.ange...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I'm doing some research into ssh and its underlying cryptographic methods and I have questions. I don't know whom else to ask and humbly ask for forgiveness if I'm way OT. So, SSH uses algorithms like

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-07 Thread Walt Pawley
At 1:28 PM -0500 3/6/10, Chuck Swiger wrote: While I think floppy drives are still useful for BIOS updates and the like, it's not just Apple that isn't selling machines with floppy drives any more. Go to HP or Dell and try to buy a new machine with a floppy drive-- they don't sell them anymore,

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-07 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 07/03/10 21:41, dacoder wrote: has anybody suggested having sshd listen on a high port? Any number will do, think about it: a. The attacker doesn't really care which host is compromised any will do, and better yet someones home box as it is more difficult to trace him. In that case he

Re: ports/144357: emulators/wine build failure

2010-03-07 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
Hi Eitan, On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Eitan Adler wrote: Which version of flex are you using (you can find out running /usr/local/bin/flex --version)? %flex --version flex version 2.5.4 that is the system version of flex; I was specifically asking for the one in /usr/local/bin/flex which is used by

[Full-disclosure] FreeBSD and OpenBSD ftpd bug (not exploitable?)

2010-03-07 Thread Zamri Besar
Dear all, Found this in full-disclosure mailing list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kingcope kco...@googlemail.com Date: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:19 PM Subject: [Full-disclosure] FreeBSD and OpenBSD ftpd bug (not exploitable?) To: full-disclos...@lists.grok.org.uk,

Re: mailing list archive as mbox

2010-03-07 Thread Alexander Best
Giorgos Keramidas schrieb am 2010-03-07: On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:08:32 +0100 (CET), Alexander Best alexbes...@wwu.de wrote: Dan Nelson schrieb am 2010-03-07: In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said: hi there, what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire

Re: Introduction

2010-03-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I'm 100% GNU/Linux since 2001 No, not migrate all my machines to FreeBSD. The way I would do is, when I have to put up a new machine, I install FreeBSD, but the existing ones, I keep them with the existing OS, untill they need replacement. Best regards, Olivier

gnome install: stuck

2010-03-07 Thread n dhert
Laptop with Freebsd 8.0, with gnome installed and gdm_enable=YES gnome_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf, no changes to /etc/ttys (that is: ttyv8 ... xdm off) After reboot, system starts in gnome, gives a greenish background, a taskbar at the bottom, with only date/time, a button for 'Universal access

Re: gnome install: stuck

2010-03-07 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:46 AM, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote: Laptop with Freebsd 8.0, with gnome installed and gdm_enable=YES gnome_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf, no changes to /etc/ttys (that is: ttyv8 ... xdm off) After reboot, system starts in gnome, gives a greenish background, a

Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

2010-03-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 06 March 2010 15:02:20 Martin McCormick wrote: Fbsd1 writes: just dd the image to what ever drive you want That is the goal. The challenge is to launch a script that detects when the boot device has been unmounted as dd will not work on an active file system. Martin it

Re: ports/144357: emulators/wine build failure

2010-03-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Eitan Adler wrote: Which version of flex are you using (you can find out running /usr/local/bin/flex --version)? %flex --version flex version 2.5.4 that is the system version of flex; I was specifically asking for the one in /usr/local/bin/flex which is used by the wine