Re: Common Desktop Environment broken when compiling from ports tree on FreeBSD 12 RC3 (May also apply to the final build)

2018-12-17 Thread Chris Rees
Hi people, (and thanks Alan for copying me in) On 2018-12-17 01:42, Mark Linimon wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 04:35:32PM -0500, Alex McKeever wrote: I ran into problems compiling the CDE in FreeBSD 12.0 RC3 (PowerPC) on my eMac. I don't know of anyone else who has tried to run it. The

Re: pkg issue after FreeBSD 11 upgrade

2017-08-30 Thread Chris Rees
Cassiano Peixoto wrote: Ok I know about HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS, it's a good approach. But how to deal with when I need to restart a service without upgrading? Reaper functionnality is a trouble for many administrators who made meta ports to manage their servers. I really think it could be a option to

Re: named fails two weeks ago unexpectedly

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Rees
On 27 January 2013 20:25, jmore...@jmorenov.com.co wrote: Hi I was used FreeBSD 9.1 Release since December 2012, I usually use portsnap fetch update and portmaster-a to keep my system updated. Two weeks ago unexpectedly named not worked. this is my case: Problem: root@server:/etc #

Re: wireless mouse on 9.1

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 Apr 2013 17:19, Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs wrote: I had usb switch to share keyboard and mouse for two nodes, of which freebsd worked flawlessly, but openbsd disconnected quite often and made a lot of antics in X. After all, I dismembered the configuration and now I have 2 kb-s and 2

Re: Ghosted logins in w/who

2013-04-11 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 April 2013 15:59, damon...@mac.hush.com wrote: Got it. I'll double check to make sure everything was recompiled correctly. Thanks! Damon While you're at it, I'll echo Ronald's concern-- make sure /usr/include/utmp.h does NOT exist for you. If it does, you must run make delete-old in

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Rees
On 17 Mar 2013 12:07, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I needed to add the following.. Section ServerFlags Option

Re: lang/ruby19: ruby-1.9.3.392,1 is vulnerable: ** [check-vulnerable] Error code 1

2013-03-09 Thread Chris Rees
On 9 March 2013 09:37, Hartmann, O. ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: I try to compile port lang/ruby19 and I always get on a FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE box the following error message, which is obviously triggered by some port auditing - but I do not find the knob to switch it off. Can someone give

Re: rc.d/sysctl fails to parse sysctl.conf

2013-02-27 Thread Chris Rees
On 27 February 2013 21:19, Andreas Nilsson andrn...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I tried to get my sound working, and long story short: rc.d/sysctl parses sysctl.conf wrongly if there are sysctls of the form mib=val1=val2 which is what you need for sound. For reference I needed/wanted

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 Feb 2013 02:23, Greg Miller greglmil...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/20/13, Matthias Andree matthias.and...@gmx.de wrote: What is your point, besides getting software from the museum to build stuff from the relative future? I can't speak for the OP, but I tried it because clang, gcc46, and

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Rees
On 19 Feb 2013 14:23, Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com wrote: 18.02.2013 15:26, Chris Rees написав(ла): I'm sure you understand that our compiler in base is rather elderly, and that a project as insanely huge as Libreoffice is going to be highly sensitive to minute changes. No, Chris

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Rees
Somehow attribution has been screwed here-- I will perhaps blame the appalling Android Gmail app that I used to reply to an earlier message. On 19 February 2013 18:54, Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com wrote: snip These were, indeed, complaints, but not about the port not working after I

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-18 Thread Chris Rees
On 14 February 2013 13:57, Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com wrote: Hello! I just finished building editors/libreoffice with gcc-4.2.1 -- had to edit the port's Makefile to prevent it from picking a different compiler. Everything built and installed, but libreoffice dies on start-up

Re: some issues with /usr/sbin/service

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Rees
On 16 Feb 2013 09:21, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: I do not know who maintains the rc(8) and rc.subr(8) framework, but they've got their work cut out for them. That's an interesting comment Care to guess at the obvious answer? :) No-one actively maintains the infrastructure,

Re: some issues with /usr/sbin/service

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Rees
On 16 February 2013 17:05, Paul Mather p...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu wrote: On Feb 16, 2013, at 4:21 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:23:33PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: 16.02.2013 01:32, Jeremy Chadwick ??: Follow up -- I read Alfred's most recent mail. Lo and

Re: some issues with /usr/sbin/service

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Rees
On 16 February 2013 18:08, Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 05:38:56PM +, Chris Rees wrote: On 16 February 2013 17:05, Paul Mather p...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu wrote: On Feb 16, 2013, at 4:21 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:23:33PM +0400

Re: setfacl man page states d=delete_child and D=delete

2013-02-08 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 February 2013 20:42, Edward Tomasz Napierała tr...@freebsd.org wrote: Wiadomość napisana przez Eitan Adler w dniu 8 lut 2013, o godz. 20:05: On 8 February 2013 13:46, Edward Tomasz Napierała tr...@freebsd.org wrote: Wiadomość napisana przez Harald Schmalzbauer w dniu 8 lut 2013, o godz.

Re: CLANG 3.2 breaks security/pam_ssh_agent_auth on stable/9

2013-02-03 Thread Chris Rees
On 3 February 2013 03:55, Kimmo Paasiala kpaas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Mark Linimon lini...@lonesome.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 11:53:03AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: I'm not sure why I'm being jumped on in this weeks old report of a now-fixed problem. I'm

Re: CLANG 3.2 breaks security/pam_ssh_agent_auth on stable/9

2013-02-03 Thread Chris Rees
On 3 February 2013 17:15, Stefan Bethke s...@lassitu.de wrote: Am 03.02.2013 um 10:57 schrieb Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org: On 3 February 2013 03:55, Kimmo Paasiala kpaas...@gmail.com wrote: There is no PR yet with my fix and therefor no commit to ports tree that would fix the problem. I'll

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 Jan 2013 13:39, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:57:17 -0800, 'Jeremy Chadwick' wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 06:34:33PM +1100, Dewayne wrote: The objective is to return to a base build of FreeBSD that performs the expected task of being able to

Re: Spontaneous reboots on Intel i5 and FreeBSD 9.0

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 Jan 2013 10:27, Marin Atanasov Nikolov dna...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Bob Bishop r...@gid.co.uk wrote: Hi, On 25 Jan 2013, at 09:29, Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: Hello again :) Here's my update on these spontaneous reboots after less than a

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 Jan 2013 18:28, Dimitry Andric d...@freebsd.org wrote: On 2013-01-25 16:41, Chris Rees wrote: ... I've just created devel/subversion-static that will be available by pkg_add once the package builds are back. Thanks, but the port does not link on head, due to a problem in apr: /usr

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Rees
On 24 Jan 2013 14:33, John Mehr j...@visi.com wrote: For testing against svn.freebsd.org -- this is pull only? So you only need read permissions on svn.freebsd.org? That's fine: the SVN repository is open to public access and you can just use it without asking permission. Although I'd use

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 Jan 2013 21:55, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: (Please keep me CC'd as I'm not subscribed to the list) Great idea; http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/svn-static.diff Lev, do you mind if I commit this? I haven't touched the subversion port, but it'll have you as

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 Jan 2013 15:37, Oliver Brandmueller o...@e-gitt.net wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 04:12:22PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: This type of question has been asked quite a few times recently. At this point there is no svn version of csup, however there were people working on it (or at

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 January 2013 20:41, Isaac (.ike) Levy i...@blackskyresearch.net wrote: On Jan 23, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Emanuel Haupt wrote: Oliver Brandmueller o...@e-gitt.net wrote: Hi, in ancient times there was cvsup. cvsup was a PITA if you wanted (or needed) to install it via ports, the only

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 January 2013 19:17, Emanuel Haupt eha...@freebsd.org wrote: devel/subversion already has an option to build a static version. A solution could be to create a stub port (devel/subversion-static) similar to: shells/bash-devel shells/bash-static-devel dns/ldns dns/py-ldns Great idea;

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 Jan 2013 21:45, Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org wrote: Hello, Chris. You wrote 24 января 2013 г., 1:25:44: CR Great idea; CR http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/svn-static.diff I think, adding SERF or NEON (what is smaller) is good idea, or this build will lack http support, and

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Rees
On 4 Jan 2013 09:25, Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:38:05 +0100 Patrick M. Hausen hau...@punkt.de wrote: Am 03.01.2013 um 19:21 schrieb Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk: On 03/01/2013 17:48, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: I'm a

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-02 Thread Chris Rees
On 2 Jan 2013 11:08, Thomas Mueller muelle...@insightbb.com wrote: There has been some discussion about removing CVS from the base system now it is no longer used. No concensus was reached, so it's not going away immediately (and would not be removed from 9.x or earlier branches in any

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-02 Thread Chris Rees
On 2 January 2013 16:05, Derek Kulinski tak...@takeda.tk wrote: Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: On 2 January 2013 06:26, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: To clarify, no-one wants to remove CVS completely, the suggestion was to move it out of the base system. As the developer

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 31 Dec 2012 19:52, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote: Greetings, The following is hijacked from another thread, which prompts me to post this question: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:49:06AM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: (Not sure if this is the right mailing list, but here

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 31 Dec 2012 20:40, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote: Greetings Chris, and thank you for your reply. On 31 Dec 2012 19:52, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote: Greetings, The following is hijacked from another thread, which prompts me to post this question: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012

Re: Post 9.1 stable file system problems

2012-12-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 1 Jan 2013 00:01, Dominic Fandrey kamik...@bsdforen.de wrote: I have a Tinderbox that I just updated to the current RELENG_9. Following the update build times for packages have increased by a factor between 5 and 20. I.e. I have packages that used to build in 5 minutes and now take an

Re: 9.1 minimal ram requirements

2012-12-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 Dec 2012 06:40, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi guys, Would someone please file a PR for this? This is a huge unused allocation of memory for something that honestly likely shouldn't have been included by default in GENERIC. I've cc'ed ken on a reply to this. Hopefully

Re: What is negative group permissions? (Re: narawntapu security run output)

2012-12-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 December 2012 16:23, Barney Wolff bar...@databus.com wrote: [moving Barney's top post down] On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:51:24AM -0500, Mikhail T. wrote: On 23.12.2012 03:05, Charlie Root wrote: Checking negative group permissions: 8903027 -rw--w-r-- 1 miwww794277 Oct 23

Re: No more torrents.....

2012-12-19 Thread Chris Rees
On 19 Dec 2012 09:47, Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com wrote: 19.12.2012 01:22, Peter Wemm: I would be very much be willing to assist with seeding if we make dht torrent files available from my nodes located in downtown Los Angeles for west-coast and APAC network presence. as an aside:

Re: No more torrents.....

2012-12-18 Thread Chris Rees
On 18 Dec 2012 19:44, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: On 18 December 2012 03:59, Willem Jan Withagen w...@digiware.nl wrote: So what is the reason for this? The software used to seed the torrents was horribly insecure. This was found *prior* to the security incident. What

Re: confirm that csup is still usable fos the new 9.1

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Rees
On 26 Nov 2012 08:12, Perry Hutchison per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: ... don't bet that csup and cvs will be around long ... It's really time to get away from CVS and I suspect it will be going away sooner than had been planned. Once csup goes away,

Re: confirm that csup is still usable fos the new 9.1

2012-11-18 Thread Chris Rees
On 18 Nov 2012 09:49, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: On 11/17/12 21:04, Kevin Oberman wrote: Looks like everything is back up again. Thanks for the good work. Yes, but don't bet that csup and cvs will be around long. I'm aware of this and I'm (adimttedly slowly) moving away

Re: nomenclature for conf files

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 12 Nov 2012 05:20, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs wrote: It might sound stupid, but I'd like to know if there's any difference. Are those 3 line the same? WITH_KMS=YES WITH_KMS=YES WITH_KMS=yes With regard to their

Re: nomenclature for conf files

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 12 Nov 2012 08:55, Paul Schenkeveld free...@psconsult.nl wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 08:29:27AM +, Chris Rees wrote: On 12 Nov 2012 05:20, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs wrote: It might sound stupid, but I'd

Re: nomenclature for conf files

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 12 Nov 2012 15:35, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 Nov 2012 05:20, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs wrote: It might sound stupid, but I'd

Re: [releng_9_1 tinderbox] failure on powerpc64/powerpc

2012-11-04 Thread Chris Rees
On 4 Nov 2012 20:12, George Mitchell george+free...@m5p.com wrote: On 11/04/12 14:59, FreeBSD Tinderbox wrote: TB --- 2012-11-04 19:53:34 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2012-11-04 19:53:34 - FreeBSD freebsd-stable.sentex.ca 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #0: Tue Oct

Re: Tinderbox spam

2012-09-24 Thread Chris Rees
On 24 Sep 2012 10:23, Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no wrote: I recently switched the machine that builds 7 and 8 from csup to svn. Unfortunately, it seems to have trouble maintaining a stable connection to svn.freebsd.org. I'm testing a patch that makes it retry up to three times before

Re: Tinderbox spam

2012-09-24 Thread Chris Rees
On 24 Sep 2012 12:26, Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no wrote: Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com writes: Have you tried using http:// ? Both should work, but svn is significantly faster. Yes, that's why I tried it instead, but my point is that you may need to sleep a bit between tries; if svn

Re: Clang as default compiler

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 12 Sep 2012 07:19, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Mark Linimon lini...@lonesome.com wrote: For most of the failures, we are already aware of them, as a result of our periodic runs. So, just filing a PR to say broken on clang

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 28/08/2012, Arno J. Klaassen a...@heho.snv.jussieu.fr wrote: Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org writes: On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote: I found two good primers:

Re: ports /databases/postgresql92-server beta 3

2012-08-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 August 2012 12:28, Marcelo Gondim gon...@bsdinfo.com.br wrote: Em 10/08/2012 08:10, Denis Granato escreveu: Good morning guys. I installed sucessfully a postgresql 9.2 beta 2 last month in databases/postgresql92-server But yesterday in another server ai update my ports tree and this

Re: lsof needs update

2012-07-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 July 2012 10:36, Daniel Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: hi, lsof on freebsd 9.1: COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME ntpd1707 root cwd unknown file system type: newnfs ntpd1707 root rtd

Re: lsof needs update

2012-07-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 July 2012 18:04, Daniel Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: On 21 July 2012 10:36, Daniel Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: hi, lsof on freebsd 9.1: COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME ntpd1707 root cwd

Re: FreeBSD not so free anymore ? Long live FreeBSD...

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 June 2012 18:53, Etienne Robillard animelo...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/15/2012 01:08 PM, Jerry wrote: Skype 4.0 for Linux is now available. Is there any possibility of getting it ported to FreeBSD? The latest version in ports is only 2.x. Why not? Thinking FreeBSD could become immune

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-12 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 12, 2012 10:48 AM, H h...@hm.net.br wrote: On Monday 11 June 2012 20:59 Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Dave-- On Jun 11, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Dave Hayes wrote: [ ... ] Do I have this wrong? Anyone see a problem with this picture? What can we do to just upgrade in a safe fashion when

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 June 2012 11:12, Martin Sugioarto mar...@sugioarto.com wrote: Am Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:09:09 +0700 schrieb Adam Strohl adams-free...@ateamsystems.com: I get the feeling people are updating their ports tree and then recompiling/reinstalling everything just because and then are complaining

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 June 2012 11:51, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 06/10/12 12:37, Chris Rees wrote: On 10 June 2012 11:12, Martin Sugioarto mar...@sugioarto.com wrote: Am Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:09:09 +0700 schrieb Adam Strohl adams-free...@ateamsystems.com: I get the feeling people

Re: WAS: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? New: port annoyance LibreOffice

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 June 2012 18:10, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 06/10/12 17:43, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: On 06/10/12 09:54, Martin Sugioarto wrote: Am Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:37:09 +0100 schrieb Chris Reescr...@freebsd.org: Er... people always test their commits.  Sometimes edge

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 6, 2012 3:38 AM, Erich erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On 05 June 2012 7:13:47 Mark Linimon wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 03:23:01PM +0700, Erich wrote: But is this true for apache only or for the whole ports tree? Entire tree. my problem with this is that the

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Rees
On 6 June 2012 14:12, Erich erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On 06 June 2012 8:48:10 Chris Rees wrote: On Jun 6, 2012 3:38 AM, Erich erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: No it doesn't. It states clearly that you shouldn't use tags unless you know what you are doing, as several of us

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 5, 2012 3:07 AM, Erich erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On 05 June 2012 11:24:25 Mark Andrews wrote: Version tagging is just a convient way to get a snapshot at a particular point in time unless you create branches that are them we do not ask for more. There should be

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-04 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 4, 2012 9:50 AM, Dave Hayes d...@jetcafe.org wrote: Mark Linimon lini...@lonesome.com writes: On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 07:24:11PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: I see features and pkgng and things being offered up as solutions... these are all well and good, but in my opinion more

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-04 Thread Chris Rees
On 3 June 2012 21:55, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 06/03/12 15:29, Erich wrote: Hi, On 03 June 2012 PM 5:14:10 Adam Strohl wrote: On 6/3/2012 11:14, Erich wrote: What I really do not understand in this whole discussion is very simple. Is it just a few people who run

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 3, 2012 4:39 AM, Erich erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On 02 June 2012 PM 4:07:23 Alexander Yerenkow wrote: I'll try to be short. I'm using FreeBSD both at servers and as a desktop, but I see struggling of my friends with it in some things. 1. Ports mess. You can very

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 3, 2012 5:26 AM, Erich erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On 02 June 2012 PM 2:56:01 Chris Nehren wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 14:11:06 -0400 , Paul Mather wrote: I'm not sure what the solution is for the end user. I know I get somewhat leery of updating my ports if I

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: Hi, On 30 May 2012 PM 7:20:31 David Chisnall wrote: This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. I am

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 2, 2012 3:19 PM, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 06/02/12 14:47, Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 02.06.12 15:32, Erich wrote: I know that the ports tree is a moving target. But it stops moving during the release period. This could be used to give a fall back

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Rees
On 2 June 2012 10:42, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: Hi, On 02 June 2012 AM 9:14:28 Chris Rees wrote: On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: But I have to mention one disadvantage. The ports are in no way linked

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-01 Thread Chris Rees
On 1 June 2012 16:20, Nomen Nescio nob...@dizum.com wrote: Dear All , There is a thread Why Are You Using FreeBSD ? I think another thread with the specified subject   'Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? may be useful : If you are NOT using FreeBSD for any area or some areas , would you

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Rees
On 30 May 2012 19:20, David Chisnall thera...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi Everyone, This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

2012-02-26 Thread Chris Rees
On 24 February 2012 01:35, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 01:25:01 Damien Fleuriot wrote: This is NOT a troll. This is NOT a flame. Do NOT hijack this thread to troll/flame. allow them some fun too. Now, I find the number of problem

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

2012-02-26 Thread Chris Rees
On 26 February 2012 11:32, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On Sunday 26 February 2012 18:16:53 Chris Rees wrote: On 24 February 2012 01:35, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: On Friday 24 February 2012 01:25:01 Damien Fleuriot wrote

Re: libutempter

2012-01-14 Thread Chris Rees
On 14 Jan 2012 08:48, Andre Goree an...@drenet.info wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:58:13 -0600, Andre Goree an...@drenet.info wrote: I recently csup'd 9-STABLE and was able to get it working along with my custom kernel. I'm now in the process of rebuilding all my ports, and I've come across

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

2011-12-24 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 Dec 2011 18:56, George Kontostanos gkontos.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 23/12/2011 18:05, George Kontostanos wrote: Are all cvs mirror servers updated regarding these changes ? ANYBODY

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 December 2011 17:58, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Since ZFS in Linux can only be achieved via FUSE (ad far as I know), it is legitimate to compare ZFS and ext4. It would be much more competetive to compare Linux BTRFS and FreeBSD ZFS. Er... does ext4 guarantee data

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 Dec 2011 21:25, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 15 December 2011 17:58, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Since ZFS in Linux can only be achieved via FUSE (ad far as I know), it is legitimate

Re: WITHOUT_SYSINSTALL (stable-9)

2011-10-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 31 October 2011 04:03, Andrew Lankford lankfordand...@charter.net wrote: I was able to buildworld, buildkernel to 9.0-RC1 from 8-stable without incident.  Yay.  However, I noticed a new sysinstall executable  in /usr/sbin even though I included WITHOUT_SYSINSTALL=yes  in /etc/src.conf.  My

Re: /usr/bin/script eating 100% cpu with portupgrade and xargs

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 14 Oct 2011 21:50, Stefan Bethke s...@lassitu.de wrote: Am 14.10.2011 um 14:03 schrieb Jilles Tjoelker: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:25:35PM +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 01:27:07AM +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote: I won't be in a position to create a simpler test

Re: bsdinstall partitioning

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Rees
On 9 October 2011 22:30, Gabor Kovesdan ga...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, I just had my first encounter with the new installer. I chose manual partitioning, created a BSD disk (not GPT) with one swap and the rest for /. Rest of the installation went fine but then my system didn't boot. I repeated

Re: BETA3 not buildable

2011-10-08 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 October 2011 03:25, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 02:36:25PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Just a quick note the repo was synced about 15 mins before this On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.comwrote: I have a

Fwd: Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze starts soon

2011-10-08 Thread Chris Rees
Just on case anyone's not on ports@: -- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org Date: 8 Oct 2011 10:30 Subject: Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze starts soon To: Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net Cc: freebsd-po...@freebsd.org, Erwin Lansing er

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...

2011-10-04 Thread Chris Rees
What is your Wiki name? On 4 Oct 2011 16:26, Arnaud Lacombe lacom...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Arnaud Lacombe lacom...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ken Smith kensm...@buffalo.edu wrote: The third BETA build of the 9.0-RELEASE release

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...

2011-10-04 Thread Chris Rees
On 4 October 2011 16:35, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 Oct 2011 16:26, Arnaud Lacombe lacom...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Arnaud Lacombe lacom...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ken Smith kensm...@buffalo.edu wrote: The third BETA build

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...

2011-10-04 Thread Chris Rees
On 4 October 2011 19:36, Arnaud Lacombe lacom...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: What is your Wiki name? ArnaudLacombe created this morning, with the same email address as the one I'm sending this email with. Sorry Arnaud

Re: ports/sysutils/diskcheckd (Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD)

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 August 2011 18:54, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 August 2011 16:14,  per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: When the specified or calculated rate exceeds 64KB/sec, the required sleep interval between 64KB chunks is less than one second.  Since diskcheckd calculates the interval

Re: ports/sysutils/diskcheckd (Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD)

2011-08-25 Thread Chris Rees
the changes. Thanks for rescuing the port :) Chris -- Chris Rees          | FreeBSD Developer cr...@freebsd.org   | http://people.freebsd.org/~crees ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: The FreeBSD 7.4-BETA1 CD wont boot properly on this machine

2010-12-19 Thread Chris Rees
On 19 December 2010 19:55, Torfinn Ingolfsen torfinn.ingolf...@broadpark.no wrote: Hi, I am trying to install FreeBSD 7.4-BETA1 / amd64 on this[1] machine. The machine doesn't have a CD drive built-in, so I am using a Plextor PX-608CU external DVD writer which connects via usb as the CD drive

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 February 2010 07:10, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Rohit Grover rgrov...@gmail.com wrote: Initially start FreeBSD and dump all of the related circuit register values . This may require a key board . Problem is to override this

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-09 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 February 2010 11:47, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:19:06PM +0530, Rohit Grover wrote: I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the machine fine once

Re: bootless!

2009-10-17 Thread Chris Rees
2009/10/17 Clifford, Ken ken.cliff...@mirror-image.com: Take me off this fucking list!@ From the bottom of the email you just sent: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: I need to add commands that starts every time at system boot.

2009-06-08 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/7 Clifton Royston clift...@lava.net: On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 04:12:41PM -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Chris Reesutis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/6/7 Clifton Royston clift...@lava.net:  If you feel you just *can't* do it via a script in

Re: I need to add commands that starts every time at system boot.

2009-06-07 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/7 Clifton Royston clift...@lava.net:  If you feel you just *can't* do it via a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, which is the better way, add a script called /etc/rc.local and that will be run after all the other start-up steps. What's wrong with rc.local? Chris -- A: Because it messes

Recommended wireless card (or is there a chance to get either iwi or ath fixed)?

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Rees
2009/2/25 Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: On 2/24/09, SDH Support ad...@stardothosting.com wrote: I tried using my ath based D-Link DWL G650, which still seems to have some issues in regard to interrupt handling: I've been able to get /most/ wireless cards working with ndiswrapper. *BSD

Re: Recommended wireless card (or is there a chance to get either iwi or ath fixed)?

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Rees
2009/2/25 Christian Walther cptsa...@gmail.com: 2009/2/24 SDH Support ad...@stardothosting.com: I tried using my ath based D-Link DWL G650, which still seems to have some issues in regard to interrupt handling: I've been able to get /most/ wireless cards working with ndiswrapper. This is

Re: Test

2008-12-18 Thread Chris Rees
2008/12/17 test1...@cogeco.ca: This is a test message from Cogeco Cable. No reply is necessary. What's wrong with http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-test ? -- R $h ! $- ! $+ $@ $2 @ $1 .UUCP. (sendmail.cf) ___

Re: Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook?

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Rees
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:00:48 +0200 From: Eirik Wix?e Svela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook? To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I have an Apple MacBook with an Intel Core 2 Duo

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-16 Thread Chris Rees
2008/8/11 Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Which Belkin wireless card do you have? Which arch are you running (i386/amd64)? I had horrific trouble with a Belkin on the Realtek chipset, played up with Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Fedora, even Windows! Trouble with Belkin is, you never know what you're

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-11 Thread Chris Rees
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:33:54 +1000 From: Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I downloaded the drivers for the chipset my belkin wireless card has, used ndisgen to create the kernel module, which all went aok .. however when trying to load the module it hard hangs the machine to the point of

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-04 Thread Chris Rees
Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:55:53 +0200 Torfinn Ingolfsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to be sure: also if the first command you try on the interface is 'ifconfig up'? Hello Torfinn, good point, no. The problem appears when the first thing called on this

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-04 Thread Chris Rees
2008/8/4 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:00:16AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:55:53 +0200 Torfinn Ingolfsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to be sure: also if the first command you try on the interface

Re: Failure building apache22 and mysql51

2008-07-16 Thread Chris Rees
2008/7/14 Sorin Pânca [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm sorry for my late response, I was on vacation. I think this was the case (although I thought we have only amd64 machines). Is there a way to recover from this situation by ssh access only? Thank you! Sorin. Chris Rees wrote: Date: Mon, 23 Jun

RE: MCP55 SATA data corruption in FreeBSD 7

2008-07-02 Thread Chris Rees
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:55:07 +0200 Daniel Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Can the OP get some non-Samsung disks for testing? I've got a 750 GB Western Digital that I've been planning to use to verify if it's a SATA-150 / SATA-300 problem (it can be jumpered to

Re: MCP55 SATA data corruption in FreeBSD 7

2008-07-02 Thread Chris Rees
On 02/07/2008, Chris Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:55:07 +0200 Daniel Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Can the OP get some non-Samsung disks for testing? I've got a 750 GB Western Digital that I've been planning to use

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