Re: ports/144357: emulators/wine build failure
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Eitan Adler wrote:
Interesting - I just used whatever flex was in my path. Is wine making
the same mistake?
% /usr/local/bin/flex --version
flex 2.5.35
The following in wine/Makefile
CONFIGURE_ENV= ... FLEX=${LOCALBASE}/bin/flex
takes care of using the ports version instead of the base one.
Gerald
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Re: freebsd install from floppy
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 13:58:07 -0800, Walt Pawley w...@wump.org wrote: At 1:28 PM -0500 3/6/10, Chuck Swiger wrote: While I think floppy drives are still useful for BIOS updates and the like, it's not just Apple that isn't selling machines with floppy drives any more. Go to HP or Dell and try to buy a new machine with a floppy drive-- they don't sell them anymore, either... I certainly can't argue that modern machines typically have floppy drives ... even if the motherboard supports one. So what? I think he wanted to point out that even if motherboards today still support floppy disk drives, the computer itself often does omit one. Instead, a blank cover is used for the intended slot, or a SD + CF + who knows what reader comes built-in. This, of course, doesn't stop you from building one (or two) into your box. But manufacturers seem to have agreed that - especially in the home consumer market, which is their most important playing field - floppies aren't used anymore. But soon, the ability to connect a floppy will disappear. First, the connectors will vanish, followed by the functionality within the hardware (e. g. BIOS) to access them. You find such a situation in notebooks. They don't have floppy drives for many years now, and the only way to access floppies with them is to buy (!) an external drive, usually USB based. (I had such a situation with a customer who needs floppy support, but had to buy a new notebook. Imagine his surprise! While home customers already have accepted that there are no floppies anymore, corporate customers that work in a specific field still rely on their presence.) Not everyone in the world throws their three year old computer in the trash so they can stay up to date. Average home consumers do. In fields where it is important to have access to data and programs for much longer time, you often don't find PCs, e. g. in the (still alive) mainframe area, notably IBM's. I, for one, find it very annoying that new versions of software which once worked just fine on equipment I still use every day no longer work in their current incarnations. That's a feeling I had, too, when upgrading my home system from a perfectly working (until the total crash) 5.4 to 7.0, from XFree86 to X.org. Lots of things had to be done, and the observation that if you update things on FreeBSD, they get better and faster, doesn't seem to be confirmed this time (except for the OS) - speed down, usability down, overhead up. But that, what we mostly call bloat, be it in hardware or in software, seems to be a needed motor for development, at least I have been told that. :-) It's a bit scary that the 300 MHz P2 (FreeBSD 5 and apps) works much faster than my 2000 MHz P4 (FreeBSD 7 and apps). Delving into several such cases, I've found comments to the effect that functions are removed because no one uses the old stuff (ie. three years old) any more. THere are still situations where you depend on three (or thirteen) years old stuff, especially in data analytics and forensics. The common situation, especially with home users, is to constantly migrate data from one format to another (again, this may mean file format as well as storage media), to keep them accessible. By the way, I have floppies older than twenty (20!) years that work perfectly - that's much longer as a modern DVD driver works. :-) This leads me to my conclusion again: The older something is, the longer it lasts. Mostly. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: video cam with room view for FreeBSD Skype
El día Friday, March 05, 2010 a las 04:33:43PM +0100, Bas v.d. Wiel escribió: I would like to have a bigger model to do the same with a group of colleagues on my side, i.e. put the cam 3-4 meter away from the table. Does someone knows a good model for doing that, wall or table mounted and with a long USB cable, and supported in FreeBSD 8-CURRENT? Thx matthias In the past I've had reasonable succes using a standard camcorder over firewire to do things like this. It's been a few years though. If using firewire isn't an issue for you, I'd be happy to delve into my pile of notes and see if I can find you something of a howto. The advantage of a firewire camera is in the much more standardized protocol between PC and camera. Hello Bas, Thanks for you kind reply to my quest. I've never used any device via firewire; I see that there are man pages firewire(4) and fwe(4), but I have no clue, how this connection of a cam is physically made; can I connect such cam to my laptop or do I need a special PCI card, for example (i.e. build up some PC for my purpose, which could be an option too)? and: will the result work with Skype? I'd be happy to read your howto about; thanks in advance matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the imperialistic Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con el imperialismo de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?
Hello Is powerd finally considered stable and safe to use on 8.0? At least on 7.2, it consistently caused panics when used on Atom systems with Hyper-Threading enabled, but I recall that Attilio Rao was looking into it. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
md5 of /dev/acd0
I was trying to determine a md5sum from a DVD I had inserted into a FreeBSD 8.0 on my Dell Inspiron 9400 notebook. I thought dd if=/dev/acd0 | md5 would work but I got Invalid argument. Trying dd if=/dev/acd0 bs=1048k | md5 worked in so far that it didn't yield an error but after the DVD stopped spinning the command hung and I only could bail out using ^C. Any clues? -- Christoph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?
Okay, now I am baffled. Up until this point, I wasn't using powerd on this new Atom D510 system. I ran sysctl and noticed that dev.cpu.0.freq: is actually 1249 and doesn't change no matter what kind of load the system is under. If I boot to BIOS, under BIOS CPU is shown as 1,66 Ghz. Okayy... I guess this explains why my buildworld and buildkernel took over 5 hours if by default, it gets stuck at 1249 Mhz for no obvious reason. I enabled powerd and now according to dev.cpu.0.freq:, the system is permanently stuck at 1666 Mhz, regardless of whether the system is under load or not. atombsd# uname -a FreeBSD atombsd.localdomain 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Jan 5 21:11:58 UTC 2010 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 atombsd# kenv | grep smbios.planar.product smbios.planar.product=X7SPA-H atombsd# sysctl dev.cpu dev.est dev.cpufreq dev.p4tcc debug.cpufreq kern.timecounter dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.P001 dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.0.freq: 1666 dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1666/-1 1457/-1 1249/-1 1041/-1 833/-1 624/-1 416/-1 208/-1 dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/0 dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% last 500us dev.cpu.1.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.1.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.1.%location: handle=\_PR_.P002 dev.cpu.1.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 dev.cpu.1.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/0 dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 100.00% last 500us dev.cpu.2.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.2.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.2.%location: handle=\_PR_.P003 dev.cpu.2.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 dev.cpu.2.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.2.cx_supported: C1/0 dev.cpu.2.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.2.cx_usage: 100.00% last 500us dev.cpu.3.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.3.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.3.%location: handle=\_PR_.P004 dev.cpu.3.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 dev.cpu.3.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.3.cx_supported: C1/0 dev.cpu.3.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.3.cx_usage: 100.00% last 500us sysctl: unknown oid 'dev.est' Right. So how do I investigate why does the CPU get stuck at 1249 Mhz after boot by default when not using powerd and why it gets stuck at 1666 Mhz with powerd enabled and doesn't scale back down when IDLE? Out of curiosity, I stopped powerd but the CPU remained at 1666 Mhz. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
mysql,postgresql,client,server
MySQL and Postgresql appear in the freebsd with many different versions. Normally ports have only one version (the latest) and you upgrade with portupgrade. Sometimes a mysql-client or postgresql-client is installed as a dependency of another port, (e.g. a Davical install today installed postgresql-client-8.2.15_1 as a dependency whereas postgresql-server already has a 8.3 and 8.4 version in the ports now) Is it save to install the newest server version? or should one install the same version as the client one already has ? Both for mysql and postgresq server, the corresponding client is a dependendy. I e.g. you already have mysql-client-5.0.90 but no mysql server yet, and you install mysql-server-5.5.2., will it install mysql-client-5.5.2 alongside the existing mysql-client-5.0.90 or upgrade it ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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Hi, i have a acer aspire one with no oprating system it has no cd drive would i be possible to download a redy top use version of software so i could boot form a memory stick? (i have no other computer to unlock to iso file) Google is your friend: http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2009/06/freebsd-80-install-with-a-usb-stick/ next time, do that yourself. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: mysql,postgresql,client,server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/03/2010 12:23:04, n dhert wrote: MySQL and Postgresql appear in the freebsd with many different versions. Normally ports have only one version (the latest) and you upgrade with portupgrade. Sometimes a mysql-client or postgresql-client is installed as a dependency of another port, (e.g. a Davical install today installed postgresql-client-8.2.15_1 as a dependency whereas postgresql-server already has a 8.3 and 8.4 version in the ports now) Is it save to install the newest server version? or should one install the same version as the client one already has ? Yes, in general you can install whichever versions of the DB client you prefer. The ports generally defaults to a conservatively chosen version - sometimes this can be an older version than what the upstream project itself recommends. Unless you are going to be exploring less frequently used or novel functionality and if you're not concerned with getting the absolute maximum performance, then the newest versions are generally OK. Both for mysql and postgresq server, the corresponding client is a dependendy. I e.g. you already have mysql-client-5.0.90 but no mysql server yet, and you install mysql-server-5.5.2., will it install mysql-client-5.5.2 alongside the existing mysql-client-5.0.90 or upgrade it ? The -server ports link against shared libraries provided by the -client ports: this means that you have to have matching server and client ports installed on a server. As mysql-client-5.0.90 conflicts with mysql-client-5.5.2 you'll find simply trying to install mysql- server-5.5.2 will fail. Instead, try something like this: # portupgrade -m DISABLE_CONFLICTS=yes -o databases/mysql55-client -f mysql-client-5.0.90 # portupgrade -x mysql-client-5.5.2 -fr mysql-client-5.5.2 # portinstall databases/mysql55-server Note: if you have mysql50-scripts installed, you'll need to insert this as the 2nd step: # portupgrade -m DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes -o databases/mysql55-scripts -f mysql-scripts-5.0.90 Once you've got mysql-5.5.2 installed, any other ports you install which depend on MySQL will automatically link against that version. Well, with the possibility there might be a few ports known not to work with that specific version. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuU9J0ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIw3JACfTJOHLS7KQ6Qk81Pj8JNrph3G EmYAoIeL0iDomMXeVnBeAULRN6SjQmS+ =Rm4i -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
NFS version
Hello, I'm just wondering if only specified version of NFS can be started. (For instance, can I start only NFS version 3 while remaining NFS version 2 stopped?) Is it possible to do it by just adding some parameters in the config file such as rc.conf? Regards, Yuya _ 【BBが安い】ネット接続、乗り換えるなら今！ http://campaign.live.jp/eaccess/Top/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ports/144357: emulators/wine build failure
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Gerald Pfeifer ger...@pfeifer.com wrote:
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Eitan Adler wrote:
Interesting - I just used whatever flex was in my path. Is wine making
the same mistake?
% /usr/local/bin/flex --version
flex 2.5.35
The following in wine/Makefile
CONFIGURE_ENV= ... FLEX=${LOCALBASE}/bin/flex
takes care of using the ports version instead of the base one.
Gerald
rebuilding wine without any make.conf changed nothing
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ACLs, umask and shared directories
Hi Folks, I need to give a group of users write access to a shared directory. The problem is, when one user creates a file, www1$ touch file1 www1$ ll total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 root domain_users 512 Mar 8 03:11 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Mar 8 03:10 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 www1 domain_users0 Mar 8 03:11 file1 other users can't edit it. Solution 1 -- Change everyone's umask to 002. Unfortunately, these users are defined in Active Directory and they're all in the same primary group - 002 is not secure in this scenario. Solution 2 -- Set a default ACL on the parent directory, www1$ getfacl -d . # file: . # owner: root # group: domain_users user::rwx group::rwx mask::rwx other::r-x but it doesn't have the desired effect, www1$ touch file1 www1$ getfacl file1 # file: file1 # owner: www1 # group: domain_users user::rw- group::rwx# effective: r-- mask::r-- other::r-- as the umask seems to override it - this was confirmed by Robert Watson[1] in 2005. So does anyone have a better idea? Thanks Rob. [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2005-October/001382.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: HTML5 under FreeBSD Desktop
Alexander Best alexbes...@wwu.de writes: recent chromium builds on http://chromium.jaggeri.com/ and http://code.google.com/p/chromium-freebsd8/ support html5. don't know if the firefox and opera ports support html5 yet. If you use the latest version of firefox , check this link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/video/?video=personas It played flawless on my system and I don't remember me having configured some option/port knob to enable the functionality. However, there is an ongoing battle regarding which codecs would be supported. Google/Apple support h264 while Mozilla/Opera prefer/advocate the Ogg theora one. I think this is a pretty thin picture of the situation but I guess you can google it around. So, don't expect all html5/video sites to work. alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mysql,postgresql,client,server
# pkg_db -F - that will auto-fix versions collisions between dependencies - it may help you. 2010/3/8 n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com MySQL and Postgresql appear in the freebsd with many different versions. Normally ports have only one version (the latest) and you upgrade with portupgrade. Sometimes a mysql-client or postgresql-client is installed as a dependency of another port, (e.g. a Davical install today installed postgresql-client-8.2.15_1 as a dependency whereas postgresql-server already has a 8.3 and 8.4 version in the ports now) Is it save to install the newest server version? or should one install the same version as the client one already has ? Both for mysql and postgresq server, the corresponding client is a dependendy. I e.g. you already have mysql-client-5.0.90 but no mysql server yet, and you install mysql-server-5.5.2., will it install mysql-client-5.5.2 alongside the existing mysql-client-5.0.90 or upgrade it ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- С уважением, Антон Клесс, http://kless.spb.ru/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
connecting a FreeBSD-4.10 to Internet using DSL with static ip address
i found the link on connecting bsd gnome to dsl internet darn helpful.i connected to dsl using the code written by mr doug i believe to work correctly inside a freebsd guest os inside vmware player using which i connected gnome to dsl internet .in between i had the tryst with vi typing code into rc.conf file had good fun there .typing this email from gnome bsd 8 internet email as a result .odes of gratitude ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?
snip all I've been running powerd for a while. Been running it on an ASUS B202. It brought my freq down to 100mhz when I checked on it. Stopping powerd brought the freq up to 1600, and restarting powerd brought it back to 100mhz eventually. You might need to load an ACPI module for your system. Mine would be acpi_asus.ko if I choose to run it. I've never seen powerd to cause panics. I'm sure it's possible, but I've never seen it. Mark +1 for the success here on this side. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mysql,postgresql,client,server
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:52:29 +0300, Антон Клесс antoniok@gmail.com wrote: # pkg_db -F - that will auto-fix versions collisions between dependencies - it may help you. I'm sure you need the command pkgdb -F (without underscore) here; for automated run, use pkgdb -aF. Note that pkgdb program is part of the portupgrade port. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
syslogd looks up dns only once
Hi, migrating a syslogd server to another box this morning and updated the dns zonefile, all syslog clients continue to use the old box. Is this 'I only resolve at boot' syslogd behaviour intentional ? Now I manually need to HUP them all... quite silly. Regards, Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD Support Cycle
I'm possibly considering building a FreeBSD based NAS to provide NFS storage for vSphere in a production environment. I would use FreeBSD-8, amd64 variety. What is the expected EOS EOL dates (end of support/end of life) for FreeBSD 8? I'm not sure if the EOL question matters for an open source OS, but basically I'm just asking at what point in time would there no longer be security updates and bug fixes made to the OS?___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Support Cycle
mailinglist wrote: I'm possibly considering building a FreeBSD based NAS to provide NFS storage for vSphere in a production environment. I would use FreeBSD-8, amd64 variety. What is the expected EOS EOL dates (end of support/end of life) for FreeBSD 8? I'm not sure if the EOL question matters for an open source OS, but basically I'm just asking at what point in time would there no longer be security updates and bug fixes made to the OS? http://security.freebsd.org/#sup Of course, possibly subject to change or update. Usually any new additions of changes are reported in various @announce mailing lists. The security announce list will report on specifically the secure patch support question. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Support Cycle
On 08/03/2010 15:39, mailinglist wrote: I'm possibly considering building a FreeBSD based NAS to provide NFS storage for vSphere in a production environment. I would use FreeBSD-8, amd64 variety. What is the expected EOS EOL dates (end of support/end of life) for FreeBSD 8? I'm not sure if the EOL question matters for an open source OS, but basically I'm just asking at what point in time would there no longer be security updates and bug fixes made to the OS?___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Have a look at http://security.freebsd.org/#sup. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Ports/packages: PKGNAMESUFFIX variable
Is is considered okay for end users of the ports system to use the PKGNAMESUFFIX variable? I need to label the python 2.6 port that I've build as not having threads. Python with threads interferes with the mod_python and apache in the default configuration. I did the following: # cd /usr/ports/lang/python2.6; make ... # env PKGNAMESUFFIX=-nothreads make install package clean Everything seemed to work ok but I want to make sure I'm not creating problems for myself in the future. -- Chris There will be an answer, Let it be. ch...@vindaloo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Lars Hartmann l...@chaotika.org wrote: Hi, i have a acer aspire one with no oprating system it has no cd drive would i be possible to download a redy top use version of software so i could boot form a memory stick? (i have no other computer to unlock to iso file) Google is your friend: http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2009/06/freebsd-80-install-with-a-usb-stick/ next time, do that yourself. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=freebsd+8.0+install+with+usb+stick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?
OK, now I feel a bit stupid. The second half of my PR at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=144551 (anything related to powerd behaviour) can be ignored. For testing purposes, I started powerd in the foreground and observed it's behaviour. It works exactly as advertised and apparently the very act of issuing a sysctl -a | grep dev.cpu.0.freq command uses up a high % of CPU time for a fraction of a second, resulting in confusing output, I was always getting the highest cpu frequency state as the output. Testing powerd in foreground however, shows correct behaviour, CPU is downclocked both before and after issuing that command :) Still doesn't explain why the system boots up at 1249 Mhz, but that's not that big of an issue at this point now I see that powerd is behaving correctly. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Severe instabilities and system lockups
I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system lockup often for minutes. Performance with accessing USB disks is horrendous,. it took 7 hours to copy a directory that was 200 MB. Any program that accesses the USB disk tend to freeze for minutes, and often the entire system becomes unresponsive for minutes. Overall FreeBSD here is characterized by severe instabilities, ive had better performance from Windows 98 systems. The fact that the entire system freezes up, this should not happen, a well designed system will not lock up the entire OS when accessing disk. Are there any diagnostic tools uch as getting a log of tranmissions on USB and probe it, ,or finmd out what code it is lockilng up on ?Has anyone else seen these problems with USB disks? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mysql,postgresql,client,server
surely, pkgdb. not pkg_db. I have misspelled. 2010/3/8 Polytropon free...@edvax.de On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:52:29 +0300, Антон Клесс antoniok@gmail.com wrote: # pkg_db -F - that will auto-fix versions collisions between dependencies - it may help you. I'm sure you need the command pkgdb -F (without underscore) here; for automated run, use pkgdb -aF. Note that pkgdb program is part of the portupgrade port. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- С уважением, Антон Клесс, http://kless.spb.ru/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Thousands of ssh probes
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 16:48, Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: On 07/03/10 21:41, dacoder wrote: has anybody suggested having sshd listen on a high port? Any number will do, think about it: a. The attacker doesn't really care which host is compromised any will do, and better yet someones home box as it is more difficult to trace him. In that case he will scan large ip-ranges for hosts listening on port 22. b. The attacker wants to gain control of a particular server. In that case he will scan all ports to see what services are running and determine which services are running on each port. In that case running ssh on a non-standard port is futile. However, I'm not really a fan of using non-standard ports for ssh, I don't believe it's the right solution to the problem: You have ssh access to the outside because people travel and need remote access. In that case they might find themselves under other security policies which block access to services deemed unnecessary. Running ssh on a non-standard port is likely to be blocked on the client network - unless you run on, say, port 80. The more uses you have, the more problems you will have running ssh on a non-standard port, the time you save checking your logs may easily be spent on end user support. OP referred to significant impact on bandwidth which I find difficult to believe. In case connections come from a single ip at a time then you should tweak LoginGraceTime, MaxAuthTries, MaxSessions to reduce the number of concurrent un-authenticate connections and slow down brute force attacks. Much better, restrict the client access to certain ranges of IPs. The different registries publish ip ranges assigned per country and you can create a list blocking countries you are certain not to visit, you can use my script: http://www.locolomo.org/pub/src/toolbox/inet.pl Great script! Just one question. Where do you put the list of denied ip ranges? BR, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups
Hi-- On Mar 8, 2010, at 8:52 AM, David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system lockup often for minutes. Performance with accessing USB disks is horrendous,. it took 7 hours to copy a directory that was 200 MB. Any program that accesses the USB disk tend to freeze for minutes, and often the entire system becomes unresponsive for minutes. Overall FreeBSD here is characterized by severe instabilities, ive had better performance from Windows 98 systems. The fact that the entire system freezes up, this should not happen, a well designed system will not lock up the entire OS when accessing disk. Are there any diagnostic tools uch as getting a log of tranmissions on USB and probe it, ,or finmd out what code it is lockilng up on ?Has anyone else seen these problems with USB disks? You've asked the same question multiple times, but there is sufficient lack of details that you're not going to get good feedback. Put a dmesg from a clean boot, output of usbdevs -v, and maybe minimal testing with diskinfo -t /dev/DISK or dd if=/dev/DISK of=/dev/null bs=64k to see your effective transfer rates onto the web somewhere, and email links to this information. Also note that if you are unhappy with FreeBSD, by all means, feel free to use something else. You may also feel free to spare the list your opinions WRT a comparision to Win98. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups
On Monday 08 March 2010 16:52:08 David Jackson wrote: Are there any diagnostic tools uch as getting a log of tranmissions on USB and probe it, ,or finmd out what code it is lockilng up on ?Has anyone else seen these problems with USB disks? You'll probably get a better response by asking on the freebsd-usb mailing list. The following debug nodes for USB in 8.0 are present: sysctl hw.usb | grep debug hw.usb.ehci.debug: 0 hw.usb.ohci.debug: 0 hw.usb.uhci.debug: 0 hw.usb.ctrl.debug: 0 hw.usb.umass.debug: 0 hw.usb.debug: 0 hw.usb.dev.debug: 0 hw.usb.ugen.debug: 0 hw.usb.uhub.debug: 0 hw.usb.proc.debug: 0 hw.usb.ulpt.debug: 0 hw.usb.ucom.debug: 0 hw.usb.uhid.debug: 0 hw.usb.ukbd.debug: 0 hw.usb.ums.debug: 0 Your first step should probably be to get a verbose boot log (boot -v) - one of the USB developers will likely know better than I do which sysctl debug nodes to set to get more details. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [OT] ssh security
Angelin Lalev lalev.ange...@gmail.com writes: ;2~ On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Angelin Lalev lalev.ange...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I'm doing some research into ssh and its underlying cryptographic methods and I have questions. I don't know whom else to ask and humbly ask for forgiveness if I'm way OT. So, SSH uses algorithms like ssh-dss or ssh-rsa to do key exchange. These algorithms can defeat any attempts on eavesdropping, but cannot defeat man-in-the-middle attacks. To defeat them, some pre-shared information is needed - key fingerprint. If hypothetically someone uses instead of the plain text authentication some challenge-response scheme, based on user's password or even a hash of user's password would ssh be able to avoid the need the user to have key fingerprints of the server prior the first connection? To clarify, we as users anyway do have shared secret with the server and that's the authentication password why we could not use that instead of or in addition to a key fingerprint? Because we don't want to give an attacker access to a shared secret if we can verify host identity with a public key first. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports overlay
On 03/07/2010 03:47 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 07/03/2010 08:45:41, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: By necessity and convenience, I have developed a series of additions and changes to the ports tree. These changes are probably not worthy of inclusion into the official tree, so I'm looking to maintain an overlay, of sorts, in the spirit of Gentoo's overlay capability. Is there an official method of hooking changes into a ports tree, while maintaining the ability to csup or portsnap the unmodified version? How do others tackle this particular problem? Yes, you can add your own local ports or even whole categories of local ports without too much difficulty. You can even add some tweaks to an existing port -- you don't have complete freedom to do anything there, but you can do quite a lot. If you create a Makefile.local at any level in the ports tree it will be included alongside the usual Makefile. This means you can override a lot of the available settings at will. So, if you create /usr/ports/Makefile.local with the contents: SUBDIR+=myports then you can create a directory /usr/ports/myports and put your own ports inside it -- you'll need a /usr/ports/myports/Makefile just like the other category directories. This is an excellent idea, and one I ultimately ended up using. However, I've found that the ports infrastructure really doesn't tolerate creating arbitrary categories, so I had to put a VALID_CATEGORIES+= bit at the top of each of my ports' makefiles to get it to work without patching any tracked files. snip If you want to modify an existing port, probably the best approach is to create your own slave port -- see the docco on MASTERDIR in the Porter's Handbook and look at eg. games/freeciv-nox11 for about the simplest possible example. It's not fool proof -- some modifications will always need support in the master port's Makefile, but there's a lot you can do without that. Another good suggestion. I find annoyance in that devel/glib20 (among others) requires all of Perl and Python at runtime just to service two script files that appear to be used only for certain compilation options. It tends to bloat the embedded images that I build. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net cyber...@cyberleo.net Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ZFS hot spares
ZFS in FreeBSD lacks at least one major feature from the Solaris version: hot spares. There is a PR open at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=134491, but there hasn't been any motion/thoughts posted on it since its creation almost one year ago. I'm aware that on Solaris, hot spare replacement is handled by a few Solaris-specific daemons, zfs-retire and zfs-diagnose, which both plug into the Solaris FMA (Fault Management Architecture). Have there been any thoughts on porting these over or getting something similar running within FreeBSD? With all of the recent SATA/SAS CAM hotplug work now committed, it would be nice to have automatic replacement of hot spares with a future hot-replacement of the failed drive. On the other side, I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has had success in rolling their own scripted solution: i.e. something which polls 'zpool status' looking for failed drives and performing hot-spare replacements automatically. Thanks, Steve Polyack ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: (No subject header)
doug schmidt wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Lars Hartmann l...@chaotika.org wrote: Hi, i have a acer aspire one with no oprating system it has no cd drive would i be possible to download a redy top use version of software so i could boot form a memory stick? (i have no other computer to unlock to iso file) Google is your friend: http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2009/06/freebsd-80-install-with-a-usb-stick/ next time, do that yourself. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=freebsd+8.0+install+with+usb+stick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org If you mean a bootable usb image that you can use to install FreeBSD to your machine here are some things that might interest you: You can get a usb stick installation image from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img but you'll probably need to do some reading in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ PCBSD is a ready to go desktop configuration of FreeBSD, you can download a USB complete install from http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/152/11/ There are also some threads about running FreeBSD on the aspire one, eg http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=449 regards Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [OT] ssh security
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Angelin Lalev lalev.ange...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I'm doing some research into ssh and its underlying cryptographic methods and I have questions. I don't know whom else to ask and humbly ask for forgiveness if I'm way OT. So, SSH uses algorithms like ssh-dss or ssh-rsa to do key exchange. These algorithms can defeat any attempts on eavesdropping, but cannot defeat man-in-the-middle attacks. To defeat them, some pre-shared information is needed - key fingerprint. If hypothetically someone uses instead of the plain text authentication some challenge-response scheme, based on user's password or even a hash of user's password would ssh be able to avoid the need the user to have key fingerprints of the server prior the first connection? Hypothetically, SSH could use a zero-knowledge authentication method such as SRP[1]. Until new code is written for ssh to take advantage of something like this, we're stuck with what's available. -- Noel Jones [1] http://srp.stanford.edu/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups
David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system lockup often for minutes. Performance with accessing USB disks is horrendous,. it took 7 hours to copy a directory that was 200 MB. Any program that accesses the USB disk tend to freeze for minutes, and often the entire system becomes unresponsive for minutes. Overall FreeBSD here is characterized by severe instabilities, ive had better performance from Windows 98 systems. The fact that the entire system freezes up, this should not happen, a well designed system will not lock up the entire OS when accessing disk. Are there any diagnostic tools uch as getting a log of tranmissions on USB and probe it, ,or finmd out what code it is lockilng up on ?Has anyone else seen these problems with USB disks? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Don't ask me to fix anything because I have no idea, but I have seen this occasionally on one usb port and/or using a usb extender cable (I haven't tested properly yet) on my home desktop system. So I put it down to a hardware issue. All other ports work as expected. Is it an external hard drive, as opposed to pen drive etc? Have you tested with the supplied cable plugged directly into a usb port (no extender cable) including with the secondary power cable if it has one? Have you tested all your usb ports? Have you tested on other machines running FreeBSD? Finally, given your remark about windows 98, does your motherboard actually have USB 2? FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 regards Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Thousands of ssh probes
On 08/03/10 18:56, Jason Garrett wrote: Much better, restrict the client access to certain ranges of IPs. The different registries publish ip ranges assigned per country and you can create a list blocking countries you are certain not to visit, you can use my script: http://www.locolomo.org/pub/src/toolbox/inet.pl Great script! Just one question. Where do you put the list of denied ip ranges? The output is written to be used with packet filter, if you use some other firewall you may need edit the script. If you use packet filter, then you can dump the list into a file and create tables like this: table blacklist persist file /etc/blacklist block in quick from blacklist I use blacklisting for mail while I use whitelisting for ssh. You should know the limits of the script, the problem is that some ranges have been assigned directly by IANA, particularly for US. These are not included. The list is limited as these are all /8 chunks, you can find it here: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml These ranges are managed by private organisations and assigned as they see fit. There is another thing I'd like to filter by: I'd like to eliminate dynamic ranges, particularly for mail. It's been recommended that reverse lookup resolves to something like dyn.example.com or dynamic.example.com, but there is no registry where you can simply look it up. BR, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Thousands of ssh probes
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 16:11, Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: On 08/03/10 18:56, Jason Garrett wrote: Much better, restrict the client access to certain ranges of IPs. The different registries publish ip ranges assigned per country and you can create a list blocking countries you are certain not to visit, you can use my script: http://www.locolomo.org/pub/src/toolbox/inet.pl Great script! Just one question. Where do you put the list of denied ip ranges? The output is written to be used with packet filter, if you use some other firewall you may need edit the script. If you use packet filter, then you can dump the list into a file and create tables like this: table blacklist persist file /etc/blacklist block in quick from blacklist I use blacklisting for mail while I use whitelisting for ssh. You should know the limits of the script, the problem is that some ranges have been assigned directly by IANA, particularly for US. These are not included. The list is limited as these are all /8 chunks, you can find it here: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml These ranges are managed by private organisations and assigned as they see fit. There is another thing I'd like to filter by: I'd like to eliminate dynamic ranges, particularly for mail. It's been recommended that reverse lookup resolves to something like dyn.example.com or dynamic.example.com, but there is no registry where you can simply look it up. Thanks! I'm not sure what ranges the OP is looking for, but I only want to allow from US ip's for now, since I never travel outside the country. BR, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
sendmail mail of .txt or .odt directly from OOo?
Guys, cAn anybody tell me if it is possible, using OOo-320 to simply sent a file directly from the swriter module? I've found some mailmerge plugin that forces me to fill out tables of into on each person, then click endless buttons. It works, but is there any way i can import my mail addresses from evo or kmail or mutt and mail the test or wordprocssor file that way? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: md5 of /dev/acd0
On Monday 08 March 2010 11:25:20 Christoph Kukulies wrote: I was trying to determine a md5sum from a DVD I had inserted into a FreeBSD 8.0 on my Dell Inspiron 9400 notebook. I thought dd if=/dev/acd0 | md5 would work but I got Invalid argument. Trying dd if=/dev/acd0 bs=1048k | md5 worked in so far that it didn't yield an error but after the DVD stopped spinning the command hung and I only could bail out using ^C. Try using bs=2048 . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups
Bruce Cran wrote: On Monday 08 March 2010 16:52:08 David Jackson wrote: Are there any diagnostic tools uch as getting a log of tranmissions on USB and probe it, ,or finmd out what code it is lockilng up on ?Has anyone else seen these problems with USB disks? You'll probably get a better response by asking on the freebsd-usb mailing list. The following debug nodes for USB in 8.0 are present: sysctl hw.usb | grep debug hw.usb.ehci.debug: 0 hw.usb.ohci.debug: 0 hw.usb.uhci.debug: 0 hw.usb.ctrl.debug: 0 hw.usb.umass.debug: 0 hw.usb.debug: 0 hw.usb.dev.debug: 0 hw.usb.ugen.debug: 0 hw.usb.uhub.debug: 0 hw.usb.proc.debug: 0 hw.usb.ulpt.debug: 0 hw.usb.ucom.debug: 0 hw.usb.uhid.debug: 0 hw.usb.ukbd.debug: 0 hw.usb.ums.debug: 0 Your first step should probably be to get a verbose boot log (boot -v) - one of the USB developers will likely know better than I do which sysctl debug nodes to set to get more details. Aloha, If the node is disappearing for the USB device and it is connected by a cable to the box try replace the cable. We had one here that would not stay listed on the hardware and it was the cable connector gone bad. I have never had a USB device lock up the box though. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports overlay
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 02:01:22PM -0600, CyberLeo Kitsana thus spake: On 03/07/2010 03:47 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 07/03/2010 08:45:41, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: By necessity and convenience, I have developed a series of additions and changes to the ports tree. These changes are probably not worthy of inclusion into the official tree, so I'm looking to maintain an overlay, of sorts, in the spirit of Gentoo's overlay capability. Is there an official method of hooking changes into a ports tree, while maintaining the ability to csup or portsnap the unmodified version? How do others tackle this particular problem? Yes, you can add your own local ports or even whole categories of local ports without too much difficulty. You can even add some tweaks to an existing port -- you don't have complete freedom to do anything there, but you can do quite a lot. If you create a Makefile.local at any level in the ports tree it will be included alongside the usual Makefile. This means you can override a lot of the available settings at will. So, if you create /usr/ports/Makefile.local with the contents: SUBDIR+=myports It works with local, but you still need the VALID_CATEGORIES bit. then you can create a directory /usr/ports/myports and put your own ports inside it -- you'll need a /usr/ports/myports/Makefile just like the other category directories. This is an excellent idea, and one I ultimately ended up using. However, I've found that the ports infrastructure really doesn't tolerate creating arbitrary categories, so I had to put a VALID_CATEGORIES+= bit at the top of each of my ports' makefiles to get it to work without patching any tracked files. If you use local Mk files, you wouldn't have to worry about putting it in every port. snip If you want to modify an existing port, probably the best approach is to create your own slave port -- see the docco on MASTERDIR in the Porter's Handbook and look at eg. games/freeciv-nox11 for about the simplest possible example. It's not fool proof -- some modifications will always need support in the master port's Makefile, but there's a lot you can do without that. Another good suggestion. I find annoyance in that devel/glib20 (among others) requires all of Perl and Python at runtime just to service two script files that appear to be used only for certain compilation options. It tends to bloat the embedded images that I build. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net cyber...@cyberleo.net Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Twitter On FreeBSD
Yes, I'm still having issues. qwit is a joke. I can post just fine but it will not retrieve my feeds for local display. Kind of makes it useless. Twitux won't connect. The others seem to be command line clients (the Pidgin Twitter plugin doesn't work, either) which I am not looking for. Does anyone have a good, GUI (preferably GTK based but that is flexible) client they use on a regular basis? I'd use Tweetdeck but AIR chokes because the libxml2 version it needs isn't found (though I do believe I have it installed, couldn't find AIR in ports so this is a Linux binary downloaded from Adobe's site (figured I'd give it a whirl), they do not provide Linux support): ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Error loading the runtime (libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) Please help. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Twitter On FreeBSD
Hi, Programmer In Training wrote: [snip] ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Error loading the runtime (libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) Have you tried the textproc/linux-libxml2 port? Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
nit on installation
SysInstall refers to VTY1 and VTY4. There's nothing I saw in the README that explained what that meant. I had to ask on the IRC just now. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Twitter On FreeBSD
On 03/08/10 21:31, Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Programmer In Training wrote: [snip] ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Error loading the runtime (libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) Have you tried the textproc/linux-libxml2 port? Regards, To be honest I never even thought to look. I really should look for Linux ports (something I'm very much not used to). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Twitter On FreeBSD
Now it's not detecting gnome-keyring (it's a requirement, and it is installed). Seriously, does anyone have a good Twitter client they use? I have very simple requirements (GUI, must be able to pull my feeds for local display, easy to compile (e.g. doesn't require anything from KDE)). If not, does anyone know anything about Pino? I've found it in one of my many searches of the web for something I can use that actually works. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?
I'm using FreeBSD 6.4 + windowmaker in IBM notebook. I edited /etc/rc.conf to use LAN other ip address is different from my home address in my school. I got error message from this [ /etc/rc.conf: 131: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: ] so that I returned, I decided to edit /etc/rc.conf using vi. But freebsd didn't find vi, less any other application. I can't modify even if read /etc/rc.conf. fortunately I can use cat so I found my fault sting from /etc/rc.conf but I can't modify any files cause the system changed into read only file system. How can I repair /etc/rc.conf file with fault statements using any editor? Thanks in advanced. Oscar ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:45 PM, oscar Seo oscar...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 6.4 + windowmaker in IBM notebook. I edited /etc/rc.conf to use LAN other ip address is different from my home address in my school. I got error message from this [ /etc/rc.conf: 131: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: ] so that I returned, I decided to edit /etc/rc.conf using vi. But freebsd didn't find vi, less any other application. I can't modify even if read /etc/rc.conf. fortunately I can use cat so I found my fault sting from /etc/rc.conf but I can't modify any files cause the system changed into read only file system. How can I repair /etc/rc.conf file with fault statements using any editor? Thanks in advanced. Oscar The are multiple ways to do this, easiest is to type in at the sh prompt: mount -a You would then have access to /usr, vi is in /usr/bin/vi -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?
oscar Seo oscar...@gmail.com writes: I'm using FreeBSD 6.4 + windowmaker in IBM notebook. I edited /etc/rc.conf to use LAN other ip address is different from my home address in my school. I got error message from this [ /etc/rc.conf: 131: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: ] so that I returned, I decided to edit /etc/rc.conf using vi. But freebsd didn't find vi, less any other application. I can't modify even if read /etc/rc.conf. fortunately I can use cat so I found my fault sting from /etc/rc.conf but I can't modify any files cause the system changed into read only file system. How can I repair /etc/rc.conf file with fault statements using any editor? Thanks in advanced. Oscar There is an entry in the FreeBSD FAQ titled I made a mistake in rc.conf, or another startup file, and now I cannot edit it because the file system is read-only. What should I do? It's exactly what you need. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Twitter On FreeBSD
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: Now it's not detecting gnome-keyring (it's a requirement, and it is installed). Seriously, does anyone have a good Twitter client they use? I have very simple requirements (GUI, must be able to pull my feeds for local display, easy to compile (e.g. doesn't require anything from KDE)). If not, does anyone know anything about Pino? I've found it in one of my many searches of the web for something I can use that actually works. I wonder if this can be done in FreeBSD? http://www.technixupdate.com/install-tweetdeck-on-ubuntu-linux/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
