Re: Building packages without installing them?

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 19 March 2009 22:48:47 Ross wrote: I want to use my home server to build Xorg and KDE packages for a desktop. man ports says make package will install the port. I don't need Xorg on the server and I would like to tweak make.conf to build for a different architecture. Is there a way

Re: KDE4 port hangs, archives - handbook no help.

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 19 March 2009 15:50:22 Gene wrote: Morning All: I've searched the archives and googled and generally applied what I found to no good effect. While installing the kde4 port, I got to libspectre. The libspectre port insists that I must have libgs to compile it. What pulls in this

Re: KDE4 port hangs, archives - handbook no help.

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 20 March 2009 05:21:20 Gene wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:01:29 -0800, Mel Flynn wrote On Thursday 19 March 2009 15:50:22 Gene wrote: Morning All: I've searched the archives and googled and generally applied what I found to no good effect. While installing the kde4

Re: MySQL 5.0 on FreeBSD 7

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 20 March 2009 09:38:27 Matt Juszczak wrote: I decided to install a 64 bit version of FreeBSD 7.x (to address the 8 GB RAM in the box) and attempt to build with pthreads enabled, as well as a static build and optimized compiler options. Once again, got the error/warning in ports that

Re: Temporary unsubscribe

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 20 March 2009 12:38:22 Al Plant wrote: I need to unsubscribe for a month. I keep getting rejected from the server at unscribe. Any known issues with that? Since I changed email address just yesterday, I have seen no issues. I used the webinterface. -- Mel

Re: MySQL 5.0 on FreeBSD 7

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 20 March 2009 10:46:20 Matt Juszczak wrote: You're confusing linux-threads with pthreads. The performance boosts mentioned are done using the FreeBSD Posix threads (pthreads) library, in FreeBSD 7.x they are implemented using libthr(3). The benchmarks also assume you are using

Re: speed in extracting rar files - unrar vs. 7z

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 20 March 2009 17:55:49 RW wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:53:16 +0200 Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: The shareware WinRAR on windows seems to be better implemented (?), as it uses both cores to the fullest, and as such the time needed to extract stuff is a lot shorter. IIRC the

Re: installing ports xorg

2009-03-23 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 22 March 2009 07:04:14 Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting ZERO feedback when I install the xorg metaport, updated ports tree today. # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg # make install # So what am i missing? If

Re: utility that scans lan for client?

2009-03-23 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 23 March 2009 19:59:36 John Almberg wrote: I've tried googling for this, but I guess I don't know the name of a utility such as this... What I'm looking for is a utility that can scan a LAN for attached clients... i.e., computers that are attached to the LAN. I have one box (an

Re: non-interactive passwd

2009-03-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 14:06:57 Wojciech Puchar wrote: how to change password for account non-interactively from commandline/shell script? pw usermod uname -h fd or -H fd, see manpage. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Support for parallel building hits ports tree

2009-03-24 Thread Mel Flynn
Hi, I remember people on this list being interested in parallel builds, so here's the link to my forum post that explains the details of the support that's been added to the ports tree last Sunday: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=17604#post17604 -- Mel

Re: mod_php5 and apache22

2009-03-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:13:33 Christoph Kukulies wrote: I moved a site from some FreeBSD 5.2 or something (with apache2 and mod_php5 at that time, about 3 years old) to 7.1 (Beta though) and apache22. Now I don't find something that looks like mod_php5 in /usr/ports/www. Has that

Re: phpBB3, php5 and mysql

2009-03-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 18:35:56 Christoph Kukulies wrote: Only I can't get the hell out of the phpBB3 forum. When I invoke the index.php I get a blank page with an incomplete xml header. I have no idea were to look at the moment. It looks a bit like php5 is not accessing the database

Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 26 March 2009 22:20:45 Tobias Rehbein wrote: Hi all. I have a perl script which seems to work fine under Linux but fails on FreeBSD. The Problem is the line: sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) After this line the following evaluates to true: $! eq No

Re: [pkg_add] PACKAGESITE weirdness - URL not correct for dependencies?

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 26 March 2009 21:46:07 L Campbell wrote: Okay, so apparently there's some serious weirdness in the logic in src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/url.c, in fileGetURL. This function takes two parameters, base and spec, and has the following behavior -- snip behavior and patch Yes, it is a

Re: most signals not being delivered to processes

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 26 March 2009 21:50:36 Ian Rose wrote: However, hopefully the problem has gone away. Another member of our team thinks that somehow the issue is related to some system services (sshd and dhcpd) failing to completely detach from their controlling terminal due to a setuid wrapper

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 27 March 2009 15:42:27 Barnaby Scott wrote: 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 or another, place to download application source to? Most systems I use or inherited use a variation of

Re: WINE installation problem

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 26 March 2009 14:10:48 RW wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:20:38 +0100 Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.net wrote: Hi, My WINE was running fine, but while performing a portupgrade I got an error message. So I decided to remove WINE and reinstall. Now I can't install it

Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
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 systems I use

Re: nvidia-drivers crash computer on X start

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 28 March 2009 13:53:43 Anders Holmström wrote: The current xorg.conf I'm using is listed below. It was generated with X -configure. I've used many different xorg.confs, but they've all more or less been using the same settings as below, except when I tried NvAGP which didn't seem

Re: How to list all the installed packages...

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 27 March 2009 10:12:57 Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Is there anything about build dependencies in cutleaves? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves/files/ pkg_cutleaves?rev=1.2 I do not see it at a quick glance. No. Typically one knows the leaves that

Re: nmap as user works, root doesn't

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 26 March 2009 03:39:15 Jimmie James wrote: Can anyone make sense of this? Straight DSL connection, no router. using -e [any interface] results in the same errors nmap-4.76 As root: #nmap -v -v google.ca Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-25 22:35 EDT Warning:

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 26 March 2009 16:39:18 Frank Shute wrote: ~/.xinitrc is only run when you use startx and ~/.xsession is used when you run the display manager xdm(1). I believe kdm also uses xsession. This is all IIRC. I haven't used a display manager for sometime and I've never used kdm.

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

2009-03-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 30 March 2009 08:48:34 Garance A Drosehn wrote: Well, I should probably change newsyslog to do something different (he says vaguely) when the same file is specified multiple times. warnx() would be nice ;). -- Mel ___

Re: non-root user able to burn CD

2009-03-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 30 March 2009 20:21:08 Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Long story short, I am trying to set up Brasero to burn CDs. It will not let anyone other than root even see the blank CD-R as a destination option since non-root users do not have access to burn from the drive. Gnome Does see the blank

Re: init panic in freebsd 7.1

2009-03-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 30 March 2009 14:46:08 Polytropon wrote: Note that this change of the device name usually requires changes in /etc/fstab, e. g. ad4 - ad10 to make the system start on this hardware. fstab problem can be solved by using glabel sensibly. Also, isn't ATA_STATIC_ID supposed to solve

Re: Cleaning up multiplicates in elf ldconfig path

2009-03-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 29 March 2009 16:39:15 Parv wrote: 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) ... I've been running without /usr/X11R6 symlink for a

Re: analyzing httpd-error.log

2009-03-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 29 March 2009 22:25:55 Charles Howse wrote: 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

Re: mod_php5 and apache22

2009-03-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 05:36:26 Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:46:16 +0100 Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:20:26PM +0100, Mel Flynn typed: On Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:13:33 Christoph Kukulies wrote: I moved a site from some FreeBSD 5.2

Re: analyzing httpd-error.log

2009-03-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 30 March 2009 22:55:35 Charles Howse wrote: grep $date httpd-error.log | grep -v 192.168.254.254 | grep -v 192.168.254.3 /root/err.log Using pcregrep, installed by devel/pcre, typically available on apache systems: pcregrep $date.* \[client (?!192\.168\.254)

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-03-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 06:52:29 Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Is there a way to start jobs with cron using different a time-zone different from local time zone? I am in a TZ that has no Daylight Savings Time, and would like to start a job (reccording of a web cast) in a TZ that has DST (so

Re: Trouble building NanoBSD image for Soekris 5501 (sio.c error)

2009-03-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 30 March 2009 23:44:24 Dave Pascoe wrote: Hi- I am trying to build a NanoBSD image for a Soekris net5501 from FreeBSD-7.1 stable. Build world finishes but the kernel build fails trying to compile sio.c (see error below) I don't see a note in UPDATING about tty in -STABLE, but

Re: The easiest way to install Pound on FreeBSD

2009-03-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 05:02:50 Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Here is the easiest way i found to install Pound on FreeBSD (6.4 amd64). - install OpenSSL from /usr/ports/security/openssl - in /usr/local/openssl add a link to /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib - modify

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-03-31 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 08:05:11 manish jain wrote: I am migrating from Linux and am still learning the basics of FreeBSD. One thing that I would to carry over from my Linux days is to force an fsck on all filesystems at system startup. On Linux, this was simply a matter of editing

Re: guile-1.8.6 build core dumps (autoconf issue ?)

2009-03-31 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 08:15:56 manish jain wrote: Hi, I portsnapped the lastest tarball a couple of days back. Doing a build in lang/guile (1.8.6) core dumps with the following message : Making all in libguile gmake[2]: Entering directory

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-03-31 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 09:56:14 Olivier Nicole wrote: Is there a way to start jobs with cron using different a time-zone different from local time zone? I am in a TZ that has no Daylight Savings Time, and would like to start a job (reccording of a web cast) in a TZ that has DST

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-03-31 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 14:24:11 RW wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:15:54 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Tuesday 31 March 2009 08:05:11 manish jain wrote: I am migrating from Linux and am still learning the basics of FreeBSD. One thing that I

Re: UTF-8 file + console

2009-03-31 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 12:48:19 Maciej Milewski wrote: Tuesday 31 March 2009 12:15:33 Paul B. Mahol napisał(a): On 3/31/09, Thomas Dickey dic...@radix.net wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:36:32AM +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 3/31/09, Arek Czereszewski a...@wup-katowice.pl wrote:

Re: guile-1.8.6 build core dumps (autoconf issue ?)

2009-03-31 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 19:02:56 manish jain wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 31 March 2009 08:15:56 manish jain wrote: Hi, I portsnapped the lastest tarball a couple of days back. Doing a build in lang/guile (1.8.6) core dumps with the following message : Making all in libguile

Re: guile-1.8.6 build core dumps (autoconf issue ?)

2009-03-31 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 19:30:59 manish jain wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 31 March 2009 19:02:56 manish jain wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 31 March 2009 08:15:56 manish jain wrote: Hi, I portsnapped the lastest tarball a couple of days back. Doing a build in lang/guile

Re: mod_php5 and apache22

2009-04-01 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 05:41:06 Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 05:36:26 Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:46:16 +0100 Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:20:26PM +0100, Mel Flynn typed

Re: guile-1.8.6 build core dumps (autoconf issue ?)

2009-04-01 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 02 April 2009 03:01:53 manish jain wrote: Hi Mel, Sorry, I was away for work. Here is what I think you want : /usr/ports/lang/guile # make -C /usr/ports/lang/guile -V CONFIGURE_ENV -V CONFIGURE_ARGS CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SHELL=/bin/sh

Re: Mysql make question

2009-04-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 02:30:03 Lars Eighner wrote: On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Dave Stegner wrote: I am venturing into Mysql. I am trying to install it from the port, 5.1.33. Simple question: Immediately after the start of make, you are presented with a list of options. Are those

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 01:31:18 Steve Bertrand wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On Apr 7, 2009, at 16:13, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all, To copy data from one server, I normally (always) use scp. I'm looking for a method to perform this copy task without the overhead of encryption for

Re: make, list and M pattern

2009-04-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 21:54:13 Boris Samorodov wrote: Hello List, I need to create a list with some valid values and check an input value. Should this makefile work? - LIST=f8 f9 all: @echo USE_LINUX=${USE_LINUX}, LIST=${LIST} .if empty(LIST:M${USE_LINUX}) @echo The

Re: SQLgrey not happy

2009-04-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 16:05:53 Len Conrad wrote: Trying to install everything via pkgs, but it messed up. fbsd 7.1 SQLgrey 1.7.6 installed as pkg_add p5-DBD-mysql installed as: pkg_add -r ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-current/All/p5-DBD -mysql-4.010.tbz

Re: Multiple instances of MySQL

2009-04-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 14:55:26 DAve wrote: However, I would suggest that you provide, as you suggest, a separate instance of mysql just for this client as well. If they screw up the instance they won't affect other customers. To run a separate instance, I would suggest using

Re: Multiple instances of MySQL

2009-04-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 09 April 2009 21:43:36 Brent Bloxam wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: Any reason a jail can't be used? This would allow sharing the binary using null or union fs, little overhead, yet seperated from host install and no maintenance of port installed files, like rc.d/mysql-server. Unionfs

Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003? what to do?

2009-04-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 14:11:02 VeeJay wrote: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) From man 7 tuning: The kern.maxfiles sysctl determines how many open files the system sup- ports. The default

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 13 April 2009 03:56:15 Tim Judd wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Hi Is there a make target which will give a list of _all_ dependencies recursively not just next level up? Or a port? I tried ports-mgmt/pkg_tree but it only seems

Re: [OT] C programming question: reopen stdin

2009-04-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 20:13:00 Tobias Rehbein wrote: I'm having a little trouble solving a specific problem in C. I want to write a filter which reads data from stdin. After reading the user should be able to interact with the program via stdin. Just open(2) /dev/tty. If tty is invalid,

Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 16 April 2009 07:15:05 Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49:43AM +0400, Eugene L. wrote: I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading freebsd-current for some time, apparently some ports require rebuilding as they are kernel specific, like hal, so I wonder how

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 15 April 2009 01:14:23 Chris Whitehouse wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 13 April 2009 03:56:15 Tim Judd wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Hi Is there a make target which will give a list of _all_ dependencies recursively

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 15 April 2009 09:26:11 Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Tuesday 14 April 2009 21:02:08 Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 13 April 2009 03:56:15 Tim Judd wrote: make all-depends-list Two things: 1) It surpresses config target and if a port has OPTIONS set, then you may get surprised

Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 16 April 2009 18:27:32 Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:17:08PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 16 April 2009 07:15:05 Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49:43AM +0400, Eugene L. wrote: I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading freebsd

Re: Can't log-in anymore

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 15 April 2009 18:50:10 Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/15 Ruel Luchavez ruel.free...@gmail.com: Hey.. Thanks for your reply..lucky for me I have solve my problem...:-) How did you solve it? It's always best to say what you did, in case someone stumbles on this thread using

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 16 April 2009 14:52:34 Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 16 April 2009 12:27:04 Mel Flynn wrote: But yes, all-depends-list is exactly that, with the provision that it does not take changed OPTIONS into account. That's what I suspected you were saying yesterday, and it seems

Re: Saving configuration files (was Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding)

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 16 April 2009 21:18:01 Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:59:30PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: snip I guess I'm just anti-redoing-configuration, since there's so many formats out there. One can of course backup ${LOCALBASE}/etc --exclude rc.d, but the number

Re: [OT] C programming question: reopen stdin

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 16 April 2009 21:03:52 Tobias Rehbein wrote: Am Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:07:26PM +0200 schrieb Mel Flynn: On Tuesday 14 April 2009 20:13:00 Tobias Rehbein wrote: I'm having a little trouble solving a specific problem in C. I want to write a filter which reads data from stdin

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-17 Thread Mel Flynn
Sorry to jump in late. On Saturday 04 April 2009 16:13:22 Chris Whitehouse wrote: pkg_add somewhat addresses this but it doesn't work quite as well as ports because of possible version mismatches. The suggestion below is not aimed at servers because they have completely different

Re: Add options to a port.

2009-04-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 17 April 2009 08:01:00 Dave Hardman wrote: Following a recent ports updating gnucash crashes with a segmentation fault. I've been advised to enable debugging to track down the problem. This is done by enabling the option --enable-debug to the config. My problem is that I don't

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 15 April 2009 21:03:50 Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:33:46 -0400, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: Problem is not to select an operating system to use but it is easiness of usability of FreeBSD especially for the new beginners . The thing with

Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

2009-04-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 17 April 2009 13:47:45 lyd mc wrote: hi, I don't know how to run it in debug mode I already try this one. #/usr/bin/vacation -d alydio.mc but nothing happened... no logs in /var/log/message and /var/log/maillog pertaining to vacation. And /var/log/debug.log? -- Mel

Re: Console mode scrolling

2009-04-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 17 April 2009 16:55:16 Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi, Is there a way to scroll the screen in console mode? Something like I do in Linux with Ctrl + Page Up? I find it specially useful, but I don't know how to do it in FreeBSD. I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #12 Scroll-lock.

Re: Console mode scrolling

2009-04-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 17 April 2009 19:09:00 Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:13:08 +0200, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: Scroll-lock. Might be a problem with recent keyboards, where the key is removed. Not neccessarily - if the Pause / Break key is still

Re: Problems watching video with the Radeon HD 3850

2009-04-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 17 April 2009 18:53:50 Aniruddha wrote: First of all I must say I'm impressed by the latest stable freebsd release (7.1). A lot of hardware which didn't work before now works out of the box :) I only have problems watching video, it feels sluggish and there frequently runs a stripe

Re: Struggling to remove package.

2009-04-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 17 April 2009 20:34:14 Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 17 April 2009 04:50:22 am Brent Clark wrote: Hiya I seem to be struggling with removing a perl bsdpan package. I tried: # pkg_delete bsdpan-IO-stringy-2.110 But I get pkg_delete: package 'bsdpan-IO-stringy-2.110'

Re: Problems watching video with the Radeon HD 3850

2009-04-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 17 April 2009 21:30:09 Aniruddha wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: -cache 20480 for a ~20MB cache which should be sufficient to rule this out. If this resolves the problem, it's not in your video card (or driver), but rather in storage media. If using mplayer, can you try if specifying

Re: snd-hda no sound whatsoever

2009-04-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 17 April 2009 19:34:34 Eitan Adler wrote: I have no sound whatsoever. Speakers are plugged in and turned on. I'm not sure what debugging information I need. $kldstat |grep snd 51 0xc5985000 19000snd_hda.ko $cat /bin/sh /dev/dsp Produces no sound $sysctl -a|grep hda

Re: portupgrade, xfce4 problems

2009-04-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 18 April 2009 00:27:29 Sniper wrote: --$ sudo pkgdb -F --- Checking the package registry database Stale origin: 'x11/libxfce4mcs': perhaps moved or obsoleted. - The port 'x11/libxfce4mcs' was removed on 2009-03-02 because: got obsolete by xfce 4.6 update - Hint:

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 18 April 2009 08:19:46 Andrew wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any suggestions for a lightweight webserver that will run php? Apache is too bulky for what I need and thttpd won't allow me to run php. nginx + php over cgi. lighttpd seems popular too, personally find nginx more

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:34:52 Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: As a fastcgi not cgi, there is a differenceimportant one. for cgi request a new php process is started for a request. fastcgi is php listening for network requests and process can be reused. And the more important difference with

Re: Fan Speed

2009-04-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 19 April 2009 03:06:07 Christopher Chambers wrote: My laptop runs a little hot. Is it possible to increase the default fan speed? I'm running version 7.1 on an acer. Active cooling is under control of ACPI, typically not exposed to non-windows operating systems:

Re: About fetchmail

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 12:20:15 张臻 wrote: Today when I used fetchmail to get my mails, it suddenly said that if failed to connect to localhost:25 and failed to send the mail to myself, does anyone know why? The information that fetch out put reading message x...@xxx.xx:1 of 3 (2223 octets)

Re: How to create a livecd without compiling everything.

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 08:23:42 Peter Wang wrote: I want to create a customized freebsd livecd, and i have read quite a lot guides about how to do that. but the problem is: most of these need make buildworld, make buildkernel ... I think it's hard for my notebook do that. so is there a

Re: Fetchmail problem

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 09:12:32 Annelise Anderson wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: Annelise Anderson wrote: I am trying to use fetchmail on FreeBSD but get the message: fetchmail: SMTP 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org does not resolve The question isn't

Re: Upgrading from 6.3 to 7.1 -- how dangerous?

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 19 April 2009 19:06:55 John Almberg wrote: I've thought about setting up a dummy server, just to practice on. Is this a good idea? If this is to get a feel for the upgrade process, sure. But if the hardware is different, you won't be much wiser for the production box in question.

Re: Upgrading from 6.3 to 7.1 -- how dangerous?

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 19 April 2009 19:42:39 Doug Hardie wrote: While most of the update process is waiting for things to complete, mergemaster requires a lot of responses to a ton of questions about updates to configuration files. The vast majority of those will be to install the new version. However,

Re: snd-hda no sound whatsoever

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 03:11:08 Eitan Adler wrote: If it still doesn't work put a verbose boot dmesg of snd_hda and pcm somewhere (see the man page of snd_hda) and ask on the freebsd-multimedia@ mailing list. #sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=0 Works - thanks. Now - to make this change stick

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 14:59:55 cpghost wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:46:05PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: use rsh not ssh unless you really need encryption. Sure, you *could* do that, but be sure to encrypt *and* sign the backup stream beforehand, e.g. using openssl or gnupg... And

Re: mount_cd9660 - /dev/md0: Invalid Arguement

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 18:32:58 Евгений Л wrote: Hello everyone, I am trying to mount an ISO image (which was converted with with help from ccd2iso tool) Tried that too, I think that tool is broken, cause known working ISOs work with mdconfig as you described :/ -- Mel

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 23:48:47 Tim Judd wrote: I include the following ldd output in case it's helpful. What could possibly be the issue here? Mark ### # ldd /usr/sbin/named /usr/sbin/named: libcrypto.so.4 = /lib/libcrypto.so.4 (0x281ff000) libxml2.so.5

Re: Compiling FreeBSD with GCC 4.3+

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
Hi David, On Monday 20 April 2009 21:48:39 David Naylor wrote: There has been an article recently published by phoronix (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=pcbsd_vs_kubuntunum=1) that compares PC-BSD to Kubuntu. Kubuntu uses GCC 4.3.3 compared to FreeBSD's GCC 4.2.2. There

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 01:38:26 Tom Worster wrote: portmaster -a -x mysql-server portmaster mysql-server reboot No no no. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start. Reboot is for kernel upgrades. And never use reboot unless in single user mode, cause reboot is really fast reboot: it doesn't

Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
Hi, Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the skew operation, but really change the time. Backwards is my primary concern but if it can be turned off completely it's fine with me.

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:39:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the skew operation, but really change the time. Backwards

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 14:21:12 Manolis Kiagias wrote: Mark Stosberg wrote: We had problem with named starting on boot on a FreeBSD 6.1 server, managed by /etc/rc.conf. The startup script failed with errors about shared library libm.so.2 failing to load because of something

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:17:40 Mister Olli wrote: hi, I have the same problem on some fileservers I do the administration for. But in my case the users send the files via SSH to the server. A solution for this, based on some OS mechanism would be really great :-) umask(1). -- Mel

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote: The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the problem entirely, since the real problem is not the step, but the fact that it happens in the background, and after a delay. Care to expand on that? Dovecot won't stop if root issues a

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:11:52 Tim Judd wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 15:13:47 Mister Olli wrote: no does not work, since using SSH / SFTP does not involve starting a shell. so umask settings don't work. Then you're using the wrong system for the task. The OS can't make assumptions about what the ownership/modes of a file should really

Re: Compiling FreeBSD with GCC 4.3+

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 17:37:50 David Naylor wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:32:04 Mel Flynn wrote: Hi David, On Monday 20 April 2009 21:48:39 David Naylor wrote: There has been an article recently published by phoronix (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:31:33 RW wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:32 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote: The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the problem entirely, since the real

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by errors

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:33:37 Agus wrote: 2009/4/14 Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:40:51PM -0300, Agus typed: Hi guys, Yesterday i suddenly start receiving this errors... first i noticed it cause i couldnt login and bash threw it.. then su...

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 20:29:18 Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Now I'm also wondering how ntpd handles securelevel 2. man init suggests that stepping the clock by more than a second is disallowed: yes, so does it bail or retry till skew wins over

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:43:30 Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Mel-- On Apr 21, 2009, at 2:06 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the skew operation

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 21:07:34 Chuck Swiger wrote: Try contacting your ISP for nearby NTP sources, Anchorage, AK, is special that way. I'll check with ACS if they have one, but if they don't, even traffic to the local competitor (GCI) goes through Seattle. -- Mel

Re: libc or OpenSSL patches break ssh?

2009-04-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 20:11:09 Jake Evans wrote: Am running 6.4-PRERELEASE. Received FreeBSD-SA-09:07.libc / FreeBSD-SA-09:08.openssl notifications today, applied applicable patches correctly. However, now when anyone attempts to connect to my server via SSH, the connection is closed

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 17:37:06 Tom Worster wrote: by the by, on my test machine i ended up with python installed. seems to be because i needed php5-gd which now depends on python. all for some simple freetype2 calls. Wrong assumption. php-gd doesn't depend on python at all. devel/apr

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-26 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 26 April 2009 01:12:48 Tom Worster wrote: thanks for the tip, mel. i got rid of the ports involved and reinstalled with WITHOUT_X11=yes and the install was faster and things are a lot tidier. i had no idea that i ought to be configuring port builds with env vars. is there

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