Re: portupgrade freezing

2006-01-04 Thread Tom Grove
Dave wrote: Hello, Last portupgrade i did showed portupgrade itself was in need of updating. I ran portupgrade -arR and i got portupgrade v2.01,1, now when i run a portupgrade command the system just sits there. I don't get any output at all. I have uninstalled portupgrade and reinstalled

Re: uninstall httpd + others to get a base system only

2006-02-01 Thread Tom Grove
Igor Robul wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:57:59PM -0600, luke wrote: all packages installed _should_ be in /var/db/pkg(i think) i'm in windows now. so if you pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/* that should clean it all up. :-) It will only delete information about packages, not packages self.

Re: Default browser

2006-02-08 Thread Tom Grove
Guido Van Hoecke wrote: Beto, I took your advice and solved the mess as you suggested. I just deinstalled both mozilla and firefox and symlinked /usr/X11R6/bin/linux-opera to /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla and to /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox. Thanks, Guido _

Re: SDR GEM312P

2006-02-09 Thread Tom Grove
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I'm building a new server and stumbled upon this: > ses0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 8 lun 0 > ses0: Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device > ses0: 3.300MB/s transfers > ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device I guess it has something to do with a SCSI hot-swap device, but I didn't find

Re: SDR GEM312P

2006-02-10 Thread Tom Grove
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Tom Grove wrote: Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I'm building a new server and stumbled upon this: > ses0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 8 lun 0 > ses0: Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device > ses0: 3.300MB/s transfers > ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device I guess it ha

Undefined Symbol "resVgaShared" after upgrade to xorg 6.9

2006-02-13 Thread Tom Grove
I did a portupgrade this weekend and today my screen res went to 1024x768...that's not my normal resolution. I did some tinkering and found that no drivers showed up in xorgcfg when I try to setup my card. I looked at some logs and found this error message: Undefined symbol "resVgaShared"

getline function

2006-02-17 Thread Tom Grove
Is there anyone who can compile a program using the getline() function? Here is a really simple program to recreate the following error: ##Error## /var/tmp//ccvYIi4C.o(.text+0x26): In function `main': : undefined reference to `getline' ##Error## ##Source File## #include int main() { c

Re: getline function

2006-02-18 Thread Tom Grove
Mike Jeays wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 21:54 -0500, Tom Grove wrote: Is there anyone who can compile a program using the getline() function? Here is a really simple program to recreate the following error: ##Error## /var/tmp//ccvYIi4C.o(.text+0x26): In function `main': : unde

Re: getline function

2006-02-18 Thread Tom Grove
Chuck Swiger wrote: Tom Grove wrote: Mike Jeays wrote: [ ... ] That works and I had looked into that earlier...it seems like it does a lot more than just one function from the man page. I guess I can use that for now but I wonder why getline() is broken in gcc on FreeBSD

Re: getline function

2006-02-18 Thread Tom Grove
Mike Jeays wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 21:54 -0500, Tom Grove wrote: Is there anyone who can compile a program using the getline() function? Here is a really simple program to recreate the following error: ##Error## /var/tmp//ccvYIi4C.o(.text+0x26): In function `main': : unde

Re: getline function

2006-02-18 Thread Tom Grove
Chuck Swiger wrote: Tom Grove wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] getline() is not part of the standard C library. What makes you think gcc is broken...? Yeah...I see that after some more research. So, now I guess my question is being that it's not standard and gets

GTK/Glade autogen issues

2006-02-21 Thread Tom Grove
I'm trying to build a simple hello world using glade. I've actually built this code on this system before and now after a few months and several ports tree updates it doesn't work. When I run autogen.sh within the glade built directory I receive the following error: syntax error near unexpec

4.11 Server Locks Up

2006-03-28 Thread Tom Grove
ad similar problems with boxes just becoming unresponsive under high load? Two, is there any reason this would occur? -Tom Grove ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?

2006-03-28 Thread Tom Grove
Joseph Vella wrote: I notice a lot of references to version 4.x. Is there any overwhelming reason why its use seems to be still popular. I'm wanting to set up a server (just for play) on my home network using a PII machine. Am I better off using an older version for such old equipment? If

Re: How to load CAM subsystem

2006-03-29 Thread Tom Grove
Lee Shackelford wrote: Good morning dear FreeBSD enthusiast, I am trying to install a FreeBSD system for the first time. I wish to support a SCSI DVD-RAM. I have found a bash program that provides a user interface to use this device for backup, kindly posted by a programmer in Norway. It depe

Python import not working after update

2006-03-31 Thread Tom Grove
I updated to 6.0-p6 and for some reason I can't run any python scripts that use import? For example: ImportError: Shared object "libmysqlclient_r.so.14" not found, required by "_mysql.so" It seems like the python module for mysql can't find libraries it needs. Any help would be much apprec

Sasl Help

2005-12-15 Thread Tom Grove
has anyone ever seen this error? why would this be happening? "unknown authentication mechanism: sasldb" -tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Something Like Beagle

2006-10-09 Thread Tom Grove
Is there something like beagle that runs on FreeBSD? If not is it something that people would like to see ported? -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Something Like Beagle

2006-10-10 Thread Tom Grove
backyard wrote: --- Tom Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there something like beagle that runs on FreeBSD? If not is it something that people would like to see ported? -Tom Beagle the personal data indexer, or open beagle the evolutionary computation system? The pe

Sunbird 0.3

2006-10-20 Thread Tom Grove
Has anyone installed Sunbird 0.3 and had it seg fault? Is the port broken? -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Sendmail Smarthost Auth

2006-11-09 Thread Tom Grove
I just got a new Internet connection through Verizon and need to be able to use a smarthost to send mail. All servers that I can use required SMTP auth and I need to figure out a way to have Sendmail authenticate with the smarthost. Is this possible and could someone lead me in the right dire

Re: cups installation

2007-07-12 Thread Tom Grove
pj wrote: Try as you may, CUPS does not seem to be installable. When installing the cups (metaport) on FBSD6.2 I get the error message: "===> cups-1.2.10_1 depends on executable: espgs - not found ===>Verifying install for espgs in /usr/ports/print/cups-pstoraster ===> Installing for cup

Re: Sharing Outlook calendars via FreeBSD?

2007-07-16 Thread Tom Grove
Nejc Skoberne wrote: Hello, I am using a FreeBSD 5.3 server in a company with approx. 30 users. There is also a Samba server as a PDC and a mail server. The users would like to share their Outlook calendars. What are my options regarding having FreeBSD as a platform to do this? OpenGroupware is

Re: FreeBSD systems

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Grove
Peter Clark wrote: Hello all, Does anyone have any experience dealing with www.freebsdsystems.com ? I am looking to purchase some servers that will work a with a minimum of hardware challenges. Thanks in advance, Pete ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: Root access loggin

2007-07-24 Thread Tom Grove
Ian Lord wrote: Hi, A Zend technician asked me to have a root access on one of my box to troubleshoot something wrong in Zend Platform installation that doesn't work on Freebsd. He will need root access naturally to install and debug remotely. Is there a way to log all the commands

Re: Root access loggin

2007-07-24 Thread Tom Grove
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Tom Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You could even go so far as to limit what he can use sudo on. $>man sudo Giving him full root access is probably not a good idea. In practice, this approach *is* effectively giving him full root access. Once yo

Re: /stand/sysconfig does't work

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Grove
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just purchased Freebsd-6.1 RELEASE and /stand/sysinstall doesn't work. I have been using freebsd since the version 2.1. When installing, I always use /stand/sysinstall. Now I have freebsd's 6.1 version. /stand/sysinstall no longer works. Now I think /someword/sy

Re: Creating an ext2 file system on FreeBSD?

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Grove
Paul Hoffman wrote: Hi again. Is there a FreeBSD equivalent of Linux's 'mke2fs'? I want to create a disk image that is in ext2 format. On Linux, I would do: dd if=/dev/zero of=some.img bs=1M count=1 seek=1024 /sbin/mke2fs -F -j some.img Can I do something similar on FreeBSD? --Paul Hoffman

Re: FreeBSD Embedded in 3rd Party Applications and Appliances?

2007-08-14 Thread Tom Grove
Pervaiz Choudhry wrote: Well put. Thanks, cheers, ~ pervaiz 415-215-6530 On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:25 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Pervaiz Choudhry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: We are trying determine cost and benefits of supporting FreeBSD platform for OEM market. Does any one have data on t

hald/polkitd/dbus XFCE Auto-Mount Problems

2007-02-14 Thread Tom Grove
When I plug in an external USB drive, unplug it without unmounting and then plug it back in the system reboots! I know that this is the wrong way to do things but I am surprised that the system totally blows up rather than spitting out an error or corrupting the external drive. Any ideas why

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-19 Thread Tom Grove
Bill Moran wrote: "Kevin Downey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do a bit of web dev stuff so it would be nice to be able to see the page in IE. A website I use for work uses ActiveX. I hate dual booting. What is the best(easiest) way to run ie on freebsd? In addition to everything else t

Re: Flash with Firefox 2

2007-03-16 Thread Tom Grove
Albert Shih wrote: Le 16/03/2007 à 09:31:57+0100, Nagy László Zsolt a écrit Jay Chandler írta: I can't be the first person to ask this, but a Google and a cursory search of the archives don't lend me much in the way of hints. Anyone have a link or an explanation of how to get the Fla

rc.d scripts

2007-03-23 Thread Tom Grove
Does anyone know how to make a script in /etc/rc.d run last? For instance I want dhclient to be the last script in /etc/rc.d/ to run. Any help is much appreciated. -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

WWW Proxy/Traffic Analyzer

2007-01-10 Thread Tom Grove
We have an employee who spends quite a bit of time on the net and currently have no way of analyzing where they go. Are there any decent proxy servers that I can put them on to see where they are going? -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Flash 9

2007-01-18 Thread Tom Grove
Bachilo Dmitry wrote: В сообщении от Четверг 18 января 2007 09:15 Naim написал(a): On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:17:21 -0500 "Chad Gross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I see it in linux compat layer http://www.freshports.org/www/linux-flashplugin9/ ;) -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri A

Sendmail Weirdness on 6.2 (Duplicate Emails)

2007-01-30 Thread Tom Grove
It seems as though something in my setup or in Sendmail 8.13.8 is causing certain domains, namely Hotmail, to keep sending messages over and over up to 15 times. Each message is accepted and sent to the user. The MX is just a machine that has 6.2, spamassassin, clamav, milter-regex and some d

Mail Switcher

2007-04-23 Thread Tom Grove
Does anyone have any ideas on how I would solve the following problem? I have two mail servers. One is running cyrus imap and the other courier. I am in the process of moving users over one at a time and would like to put some kind of proxy box in front of the mail servers. I would like to

Re: Mail Switcher

2007-04-23 Thread Tom Grove
Philip Hallstrom wrote: Does anyone have any ideas on how I would solve the following problem? I have two mail servers. One is running cyrus imap and the other courier. I am in the process of moving users over one at a time and would like to put some kind of proxy box in front of the mail s

Re: Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-23 Thread Tom Grove
PeterPluta wrote: >From what I heard from most BSD'ers it's not really feasible to re-compile or customize the kernel much these days. If you truly need to compile/optimize the kernel you're already overworking your hardware. With that being said I’m curious myself, I'm always interested in squee

Java on the BSD Desktop?

2007-05-28 Thread Tom Grove
I am wanting to write a gui frontend to pkg_cutleaves. I see that it is just a simple perl script so, it would be quite simple to just put a gtk frontend on it and call it a day. However, I am starting to write a good amount of code in java and was wondering what others think about java as th

XGL/Beryl/Compiz with Xorg 7.2

2007-05-28 Thread Tom Grove
Has anyone tried installing and using any of the above after 7.2 was committed? I tried all weekend and just get poor results. In XFCE and Gnome performance is unusably slow. I have a dual-core cpu with 1GB of memory and a 256MB NVidia video card. It certainly shouldn't be slow because of h

ZFS in 6.3

2007-06-07 Thread Tom Grove
Any chance that ZFS will make it into 6.3 or is this a 7.0 only feature? -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Release Schedules

2007-06-07 Thread Tom Grove
Are there release schedules for 6.3 and 7.0 up on the web somewhere? Something like: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/schedule.html -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

PyGTK Slowness

2007-06-07 Thread Tom Grove
I have a program that I wrote that uses a multitude of modules but the main ones are MySQLdb and PyGTK. I hadn't used the program in awhile but the last time I used it it was very responsive. Now, after a few upgrades from 6.0 to 6.2 and plenty of port upgrades including moving to X 7.2 I hav

PyGTK Slowness

2007-06-07 Thread Tom Grove
I have a program that I wrote that uses a multitude of modules but the main ones are MySQLdb and PyGTK. I hadn't used the program in awhile but the last time I used it it was very responsive. Now, after a few upgrades from 6.0 to 6.2 and plenty of port upgrades including moving to X 7.2 I hav

Re: Anyone has migrated Xorg from 6.9 to 7.2 with success ?

2007-07-02 Thread Tom Grove
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I tried twice starting from a fresh 6.2-R installed machine and followed intructions of the updating file but it failed twice ... Once Xorg has been upgraded I've never been able to start X server again , I use KDE so I start X server with the kdm command. Thanks a lot

Re: flash

2007-07-03 Thread Tom Grove
RW wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:21:38 -0400 Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On July 02, 2007 at 11:57PM Richard Lynch wrote: ... And there isn't any content I've felt deprived to not get. Obviously, folks who spend their free time (or work-time :-)) watching youtube would feel di

OSS in 6.2

2007-07-05 Thread Tom Grove
Has anyone successfully used the OSS in 6.2? I have an Intel HDA card that I would like to be able to record on but when I use the OSS program and modules I get nothing but garbled tones coming from the speakers. The osstest utility also reports errors of timeouts. -Tom _

Re: Upgrade Failure-

2007-07-05 Thread Tom Grove
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm once again trying to upgrade from 5.5 to 6.2 So in sysinstall I went to options - changed the release to 6.2-RELEASE Started the upgrade and I keep getting this error │Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) │ ├─

Re: OSS in 6.2

2007-07-06 Thread Tom Grove
Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: On Thursday 05 July 2007 14:16:42 Tom Grove wrote: Has anyone successfully used the OSS in 6.2? I have an Intel HDA card that I would like to be able to record on but when I use the OSS program and modules I get nothing but garbled tones coming from the speakers

IPW3945 in 6.2

2007-07-10 Thread Tom Grove
What are the chances that IPW3945 will work in 6.2? Has anyone accomplished this? Also, is it likely that the wpi drivers will be ready for 7.0? -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: new file format for log files in 5x tree ??

2006-05-02 Thread Tom Grove
Brent wrote: Hello, I just upgraded a server of mine to the 5.4 release & noticed that maillogs & cron logs are now being zipped into bz2 compressed files. I know this is a stupid question but what do use on the system to unpack these files ? so i cn look at logs ... thank you -- Brent ___

Soekris NET4801 Hang Ups

2006-05-03 Thread Tom Grove
d Security Association Processing. ipfw2 (+ipv6) initialized, divert loadable, rule-based forwarding disabled, default to accept, logging disabled ad0: 976MB at ata0-master PIO4 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted ###### ##

Re: how get "/var/db/pkg"?

2006-05-03 Thread Tom Grove
artial (maybe a full) listing of everything you have installed. From there you could do a script that does something like: for $program in pkg_delete $program pkg_add $program Just a thought -Tom Grove ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Jed Tab Problems

2006-05-12 Thread Tom Grove
I updated my system to 6.1 and portupgraded all of my packages. Most things went well but now when I open old files with Jed my tabs are displayed as ^I. Does anyone know how to fix this? -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: cdrecord

2006-08-17 Thread Tom Grove
dick hoogendijk wrote: Installed cdrecord from ports. This version does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code. Cdrecord-porDVD is needed. I want to burn DVD-R's. Can this be done with FreeBSD? Do I need cdrecord-devel for this? You need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools. This wil

Memory leak in PHP on FreeBSD

2006-08-30 Thread Tom Grove
I was reading http://www.bsdnews.com and ran across an article about a memory leak in php and mysql on FreeBSD. This is fairly concerning considering I run quite a few servers with this setup. I haven't been able to find much documentation regarding this subject. It has been reported as a "p