Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down time. im wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far. thats way too long for our machines to be down. the biggest slow down is the downloading of files. just sitting watching things i would say 70% of the time

Re: openoffice.org-2.4.0_2 hanging

2008-04-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, April 05, 2008 a las 01:41:36AM +0200, Volker Glatz escribió: ... It doesn't worked for me. Instead of en-US I use de-DE. Thanks! Volker box# pkg_info | grep openoffice de-openoffice.org-2.4.0_2 Office-Suite mit Textverarbeitung, Tabellenkalkulation, Dat

Source upgrade from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7-STABLE

2008-04-05 Thread Joshua Isom
I've looked back at a lot of the emails about upgrading a system from 6 to 7, but all seem to contain some caveat or other, generally ports. I want a clean system, but don't want to deal with backing up, reformatting, and installing, not to mention reconfiguring everything. Since by now many

Re: cfg-update equivalent?

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Andy Christianson wrote: In Gentoo, there is a program called cfg-update that will help to merge new configuration options that come with a new version of software when you do a system update from portage. Does FreeBSD have any equivalent to this that ensures that configuration files work

Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: the biggest slow down is the downloading of files. just sitting watching things i would say 70% of the time is downloading files. is there a way where i can build a distribution server that has everything i could possibly make fetch-recursive in every port you

Re: Source upgrade from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7-STABLE

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Joshua Isom wrote: I've looked back at a lot of the emails about upgrading a system from 6 to 7, but all seem to contain some caveat or other, generally ports. I want a clean system, but don't want to deal with backing up, reformatting, and installing, not to mention reconfiguring everything.

Re: openoffice.org-2.4.0_2 hanging

2008-04-05 Thread Volker Glatz
Am Samstag, 5. April 2008 07:40:53 schrieb Jeremy Gransden: On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Volker Glatz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I compiled openoffice with WITHOUT_MOZILLA=yes WITH_KDE=yes LOCALIZED_LANG=de WITH_CUPS=yes WITHOUT_GNOMEVFS=yes WITH_TTF_BYTECODE_ENABLED=yes

Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:23:24PM -0400, Steel City Phantom wrote: i have about 10 production servers that i want to upgrade to bsd 7 and update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down time. im wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far. thats way too

Obtaining FreeBSD

2008-04-05 Thread LinuxCD.ro Webmaster
Hi everybody! I want to ask you how ca I get my site (linuxcd.ro) on the Obtaining FreeBSD page of the documentation. Thanks for doing a great job! Best regards, Ionut Visan LinuxCD.ro Owner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problem with lid on Dell D400

2008-04-05 Thread Spil Oss
Thanks Christian That would be something that I can try, if only I had X running. Any other utilities to send a dpms signal that don't require X? Kind regards, Spil. On 04/04/2008, Christian Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spil Oss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a Dell D400 notebook

Re: trying atausb instead of umass, part 2

2008-04-05 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 10:53 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Friday 04 April 2008 09:03:33 am Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 08:16 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2008 04:38:27 am Dieter wrote: [ no replies from -drivers, so added -questions ] I looked

Re: Bootloader not working on Compaq Proliant ML330 G2

2008-04-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 12:09:55AM +0200, Ján ?ebo?ík wrote: I`ve tried to install FreeBSD 7 on Compaq Proliant ML330 G2 server, but it won`t boot. FreeBSD boot0 beeps after pressing F1, or F2 (got 2 partitions) key. So i`ve installed grub on another machine, but than it says Error 5 only

Re: Error fatal_tls

2008-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ruel Luchavez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can anyone help me whats the meaning of this error? I always have this every minute mail pop: fatal_error: tls_start_servertls() failed How to get rid of this error? PLEase Thanks in advanced This is coming from your POP server. Without knowing

Re: Local package mirror

2008-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to get a Network install working on my local network. I have been able to successfully create a NFS export of the installation disk and perform a install from there. The target machines boot over PXE and fetch stuff from the NFS. However I am

Re: Obtaining FreeBSD

2008-04-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:41:27 +0300, LinuxCD.ro Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody! I want to ask you how ca I get my site (linuxcd.ro) on the Obtaining FreeBSD page of the documentation. That's probably ok. Can you send me a short description for the site, and we will get it

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-05 Thread Vince
Paul Schmehl wrote: Has anyone done this? I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it will work. I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing this successfully and would like to share their cmdline. We do this for ~100 linux (centos)

Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 05 April 2008 04:23, Steel City Phantom wrote: i have about 10 production servers that i want to upgrade to bsd 7 and update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down time. im wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far. thats way too long for

Re: Obtaining FreeBSD

2008-04-05 Thread LinuxCD.ro Webmaster
Hi Giorgos! Thanks for your reply. LinuxCD.ro is online since 2002 and provides CD and DVD distributions to the romanian Open Source enthusiasts. Here they can find the latest versions of their favourite distributions and ocasionaly suport if they need it. Best regards, Ionut -

Re: Local package mirror

2008-04-05 Thread Subhro
Hello Lowell, Thank you so much for the reply. I am trying to do the build once and use prebuilt packages for the target boxes. However the problem I am facing is a bit crude. Lets assume I am trying to build pkgA which has dependencies of pkgB and pkgC. The process I am following is cd

pkg_version error

2008-04-05 Thread Ghirai
Hey, Running pkg_version -vL =, when it reaches postfix is says: -- 1 open conditional: at line 1115 (evaluated to true) make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue pkg_version: Failed to get PKGNAME from /usr/ports/mail/postfix/Makefile! 1 open conditional: at line

Re: pkg_version error

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Ghirai wrote: Hey, Running pkg_version -vL =, when it reaches postfix is says: -- 1 open conditional: at line 1115 (evaluated to true) make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue pkg_version: Failed to get PKGNAME from /usr/ports/mail/postfix/Makefile! 1 open conditional:

Re: Local package mirror

2008-04-05 Thread freebsd
Hello Lowell, Thank you so much for the reply. I am trying to do the build once and use prebuilt packages for the target boxes. However the problem I am facing is a bit crude. Lets assume I am trying to build pkgA which has dependencies of pkgB and pkgC. The process I am following is cd

Documentation for port config options?

2008-04-05 Thread Steven Friedrich
cups-base has several options: [X] GNUTLSBuild with GNUTLS library [ ] PHP Build PHP support [ ] PYTHONBuild PYTHON support [ ] LIBPAPER Build with libpaper support [ ] DNSSD Build with DNS_SD (avahi) support [ ] PAM Build with PAM support [ ] LDAP Build with

Re: Documentation for port config options?

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Steven Friedrich wrote: cups-base has several options: [X] GNUTLSBuild with GNUTLS library [ ] PHP Build PHP support [ ] PYTHONBuild PYTHON support [ ] LIBPAPER Build with libpaper support [ ] DNSSD Build with DNS_SD (avahi) support [ ] PAM Build with PAM support

Re: Documentation for port config options?

2008-04-05 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Steven Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cups-base has several options: [X] GNUTLSBuild with GNUTLS library [ ] PHP Build PHP support [ ] PYTHONBuild PYTHON support [ ] LIBPAPER Build with libpaper support [ ] DNSSD Build with

Re: Fatal Trap 19 on initial install

2008-04-05 Thread Frank Solensky
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:08 +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: Frank Solensky wrote: I'm attempting to add FreeBSD 7.0 onto a free disk partition on my Sony Vaio (VGN-FZ340E; Intel Core 2 Duo processor; 3 GB memory) and am running into a Fatal Trap 19 while running the installation disks.

Anyone using cups with an epson printer?

2008-04-05 Thread Steven Friedrich
I'd like to see if you have an epson backend in /usr/local/libexec/cups/backend ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I'd like some help

2008-04-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:18:11PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 19:51 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:10:04AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 14:58 -0700, Matthew Woodson wrote: I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i

Online shell programming training for novices

2008-04-05 Thread Gaspar Chilingarov
Hi there ! I'm going to start soon (10-14 apr) free online training for novices in unixes and especially FreeBSD. If you would like to participate - join us. Please check more details on http://community.livejournal.com/bin_sh_en/348.html I will post announce also to Linux communities,

filesystem full after many mmap/munmap cycles

2008-04-05 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 on AMD 64, dual Opteron with h/w raid1 (scsi). I have an app server that uses mmap a lot. After running a long batch (four hours, 5,100+ transactions), I got the message filesystem full (/usr--ufs, local, soft-updates). df -i says plenty of space. I restarted

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-03-16 - 2008-04-05

2008-04-05 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the