Re: p5 ports don't respect LOCALBASE

Rich Winkel wrote: According to Lowell Gilbert: Rich Winkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The p5 ports seem especially bad about this. I understand the need for perl to be able to find its local packages, so after I There are ways to find perl packages without expecting them in LOCALBASE. --- Sem

Re: mSyslog port and FreeBSD

Matt Edwards wrote: (wow, big surprise for me;) I have a few questions, but the one I must ask is, has anyone on a FreeBSD box got this to work WITH mysql? Have you tried to contact with a port maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])? --- Sem. ___ [EMAIL PROTECT

the Donations Liaison Officer

Hello. Who is the Donations Liaison Officer? It's not clear from http://www.freebsd.org/donations/index.html -- Sem. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL

Re: the Donations Liaison Officer

Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-07-04 06:25, Sergey Matveychuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Who is the Donations Liaison Officer? It's not clear from http://www.freebsd.org/donations/index.html Originally, it was Michael Lucas who was the DLO, if my memory doesn't fail me. Unl

route entries after ICMP redirect

I've got some problem with route entries that was created after ICMP redirect messages. They are never expired. Our default gateway (it's a HP switch) send ICMP redirect messages if it see a short path to destination. It's makes it not so overloaded. But pathes sometime changed. There is no pro

Re: route entries after ICMP redirect

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to handle this in a more clever way than a cron job you could write a small daemon which reads routing messages and does "the right thing" for whatever your situation is. I've explore a code and found I can do quite easy addition for dynamic routes - fill an ex

Re: route entries after ICMP redirect

Uwe Doering wrote: This has been fixed in CVS in MAIN (rev. 1.52) and MFC'ed to RELENG_4 (rev. 1.37.2.5) and RELENG_5 (rev. 1.51.4.2) a couple of weeks ago: Oh, thank you! And thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

diff: memory exhausted

How can I compare two big text files? -- Sem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: diff: memory exhausted

Chuck Swiger wrote: Sergey Matveychuk wrote: How can I compare two big text files? Does the -H option help any? (How big is big?) -H does not help. With the same message. It an output of mysqldump. 12Mb. -- Sem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: diff: memory exhausted

Dan Nelson wrote: or you can try installing the textproc/2bsd-diff port which apparently doesn't try to load the files into RAM, so it can work on large files more easily. Yes! That's it. Thanks! -- Sem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

/etc/exports - a strange restriction

I'd like to share some directories hierarchy under /usr file system, but I don't want to share all /usr at all. On these lines in /etc/exports: /usr/tinderbox -ro -alldirs -maproot=0:0 localhost i get an error message: mountd[347]: -alldirs requested but /usr/tinderbox is not a filesystem m

Re: /etc/exports - a strange restriction

Norbert Koch wrote: /usr/tinderbox -ro -alldirs -maproot=0:0 localhost As far as I know, it is a restriction of the nfs specification. If you only want to export a single directory, you could e.g. use mount_null/mount_nullfs(8). Well, in my example remote host is localhost. But if I need to s

passwords in /etc/group

Hello. How can I use password in /etc/group? If I can't, why man groups keep silence about it? Sem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

man malloc

I know it may be stupid, but I can't understand this sentence from malloc(3) man page: " The allocated space is suitably aligned (after possible pointer coercion) for storage of any type of object. " What does "suitable aligned for storage of *any* type of object" means? What is pointer coerc

Re: man malloc

Chuck Swiger wrote: What does "suitable aligned for storage of *any* type of object" means? On some platforms, it is either desirable or required that, say, a 8-byte double is stored at a memory location which is is also aligned to 8-bytes: Oh, it was told for different architectures. It'

bind9: dir for files with dynamic updates

Hi. As I can see there is a directory for dynamic updates: /var/named/etc/namedb/dynamic. But files with dynamic updates still placed next to zones files (/var/named/etc/namedb/master). I've looked for an option for it in documentation but failed. So, how can I use /var/named/etc/namedb/dyn

Re: p7zip 4.20 -> 4.29

Andrew P. wrote: Last update was 4 months ago, wake up already :-) Yes, it's my mistake. I remember I've checked the port update but forget I still not commit it because of problems with build. -- Sem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: portupgrade across NFS

Michael Collette wrote: > This problem only occurs when using portupgrade. Both pkg_delete and > pkg_deinstall work without error. Also, everything else in the process > that portupgrade goes through appears to work properly. Just that > /var/db/pkg directory won't delete when NFS mounted. Have

Re: portupgrade confusing '-P' and '-p'?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the middle of configuring a repeatable jail installation with some > ports - in a nutshell, I want to install from locally built packages, but > if not available locally I want to build the port myself _and_ create a > package for future repetition. To pre