Re: why I am upset

2012-05-28 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:02 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: There can be a tremendous investment of time in using software, whether free or not.  Money too, often. Those who work to write, port, and support free software also spend a tremendous amount

Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

2012-05-28 Thread Howard Leadmon
Does anyone know if the irc/inspircd port for FreeBSD works?I have tried it on an FBSD 9 server, as well as an older version of the FreeBSD with the same results. If I try and run make the build the port, I get the following error: # make === Building for inspircd-2.0.5 make: cannot

Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 May 2012 04:30:14 -0400, Howard Leadmon wrote: Does anyone know if the irc/inspircd port for FreeBSD works?I have tried it on an FBSD 9 server, as well as an older version of the FreeBSD with the same results. If I try and run make the build the port, I get the following

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-28 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Fri, 25 May 2012 10:11:21 +0200 Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote: More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Personnal PC, Mac,

Re: [ports] why no libXXX after make install of libXXX?

2012-05-28 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-05-27 01:17, Gary Aitken skrev: On 05/26/12 14:03, Gary Aitken wrote: I'm trying to install audacious, which depends on libmowgli. The port fails to build because of a missing library. Shouldn't the build of a library result in the library being placed in /usr/local/lib? I notice that

sendmail, masquerading, exposed root?

2012-05-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I've a problem with sendmail setup, for which I have no satisfactory solution. I've several hosts, all on the university network. I'd like to forward all root's mail from all these hosts to my personal email. The problem seems to be with the From field. If I leave the root exposed, the From

RE: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

2012-05-28 Thread Howard Leadmon
I just took a look and granted I was on version 2.0.5 (I am also on amd64, so not x86) and there is no /usr/ports/irc/inspircd/work/InspIRCd-2.0.2/BSDmakefile present at that path. So I then went to the inspircd.org site and downloaded both the 2.0.5 and 2.0.2 archives, and again I see no

Re: Working and Supported SCSI Controller

2012-05-28 Thread vermaden
I haven't looked into that topic for a long time, but in the past, I've had _no_ problems using Ataptec's 2940 type of controllers (either W or U, and UW). The ahc driver worked well with them. Polytropon LSI 53C1010-66 (Ultra160, sym(4)) or 53C1030 (Ultra320, mpt(4)) based ones.

pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format

2012-05-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, Two of three machines updated to xfce4.10 successfully. Now only one refuses to work. I encounter the error above. I have tried numerous approaches already, but none have seemed to work. Error message is as follows: Creating user

library search path

2012-05-28 Thread fake fake
To install tmux under $HOME/bin, I have installed libevent library under $HOME/lib (I do not have root privilege). Then set the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $HOME/lib in .cshrc. But ./configure --prefix=$HOME in src/tmux returns configure: error: libevent not found. What am I doing wrong?

Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10

2012-05-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 27 May 2012, Antonio Olivares wrote: I believe that I have found a way to fix the issue. The problem was the DPI, the fonts are the same size. Now everything seems to be normal :) When Settings/Appearance/Custom DPI is unchecked, it should get the actual monitor DPI value from X,

Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10

2012-05-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012, Antonio Olivares wrote: I believe that I have found a way to fix the issue. The problem was the DPI, the fonts are the same size.  Now everything seems to be normal :) When

Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine

2012-05-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 27 May 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hi, I've been running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT for some months, last time i rebuilt the system was April 20th. I've rebooted my machine many times and started X and Xfce4 without any trouble, however today I'm out of town on the road and when I startx my

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-28 Thread Marcelo Celleri
Hi, You could try sprakleshare, it's something like dropbox in your own server. Marcelo. El vie, 25-05-2012 a las 18:41 -0500, Derek Ragona escribió: At 06:15 AM 5/25/2012, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 12:10 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Frank Bonnet

Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 May 2012 08:41:44 -0400, Howard Leadmon wrote: I just took a look and granted I was on version 2.0.5 (I am also on amd64, so not x86) and there is no /usr/ports/irc/inspircd/work/InspIRCd-2.0.2/BSDmakefile present at that path. So I then went to the inspircd.org site and

Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 May 2012 08:44:46 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: I have copied the file master.passwd.bak from /var/backups/ into /etc/ and it still does not work. I cannot get around this error. You have to make sure /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd have the same content (just that they differ

Re: library search path

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 May 2012 23:11:26 +0900, fake fake wrote: To install tmux under $HOME/bin, I have installed libevent library under $HOME/lib (I do not have root privilege). Then set the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $HOME/lib in .cshrc. But ./configure --prefix=$HOME in src/tmux returns configure:

Re: library search path

2012-05-28 Thread Martin Laabs
Hello, just a guess: On 28.05.2012 16:11, fake fake wrote: To install tmux under $HOME/bin, I have installed libevent library under $HOME/lib (I do not have root privilege). Then set the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $HOME/lib in .cshrc. LD_LIBRARY_PATH only affects the dynamic linker and its

Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

2012-05-28 Thread Mark Felder
I'm currently the maintainer and it works on the machines I run it on. I also pushed it through redports to prove it can compile on 7.4, 8.x, 9, CLANG, etc. It looks like BSDMakefile is generated during the build process. I'm guessing something on your system is screwed up if it can't

Re: sendmail, masquerading, exposed root?

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 May 2012 12:49:43 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: If I leave the root exposed, the From field looks e.g. r...@mech-anton240.men.bris.ac.uk, which is rejected by the university mailer, because it has no knowledge of this address. You should be able to use sendmail's masquerading

Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format

2012-05-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 28 May 2012 08:44:46 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: I have copied the file master.passwd.bak from /var/backups/ into /etc/ and it still does not work.  I cannot get around this error. You have to make sure

Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 May 2012 11:51:23 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: I have run the command as root user # pwd_mkdb -d /etc/master.passwd Looks wrong; the parameter -d is -d directory, explained as Store databases into specified destination directory instead of /etc. The coorect command should be

Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine

2012-05-28 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hi, I've been running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT for some months, last time i rebuilt the system was April 20th. I've rebooted my machine many times and started X and Xfce4

Re: library search path

2012-05-28 Thread Eitan Adler
On 28 May 2012 08:54, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 28 May 2012 23:11:26 +0900, fake fake wrote: To install tmux under $HOME/bin, I have installed libevent library under $HOME/lib (I do not have root privilege). Then set the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $HOME/lib in .cshrc. But

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-28 Thread Gary Aitken
On 5/25/2012 4:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/25/12 14:21, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: something I'm not seeing I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. What's the

Re: pam_start(): system error

2012-05-28 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Fri, 25 May 2012 22:36:01 -0400, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello, My freebsd 8.2 box has a new, interesting error. When I go to change any user password I see the message passwd: pam_start(): system error as in : [root@LBSD2:/etc/pam.d] #passwd Changing local password

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-28 Thread Frank Bonnet
Thanks Marcelo seems useful for me let's try tomorrow Le 28/05/2012 16:51, Marcelo Celleri a écrit : Hi, You could try sprakleshare, it's something like dropbox in your own server. Marcelo. El vie, 25-05-2012 a las 18:41 -0500, Derek Ragona escribió: At 06:15 AM 5/25/2012, Frank Bonnet

mount refused, no journal

2012-05-28 Thread Gary Aitken
I mounted a previous system disk, cleaned everything off it using rm, then stuck a bunch of files on it. Used it for a day or so, including at least one shutdown -r then halted the system to swap a CD. Upon reboot, the system refuses to mount the drive: mount -o rw -t ufs /dev/ada0p2 /hd1

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
h From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 28 14:10:55 2012 Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 13:05:45 -0600 From: Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org.r-bonomi.com To: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk On

Portmaster Fetch

2012-05-28 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, is there a chance that portmaster can be only fetch all Source which need update? I mean make fetch-recursiv has helped in the ports collection, when i think right, but can portmaster that with all packages they need update? Thanks for help. Regards Silvio

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-28 Thread Gary Aitken
On 5/28/2012 3:08 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: On 5/25/2012 4:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: I should have mentioned that I did the (successful) test logging in as root (real console login). If you use su - or su root, the effect should be the same. You can always check the success of your operation

nanoBSD Driver Build

2012-05-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I need to build a (for me) complicated driver for nanoBSD running on an Elan SC520, an i386 system. I have nanoBSD running, just need the driver. I mount a disk from an i386 system and can build userland applications OK. I installed usr/share/mk. To build the driver, I need the source tree.

Re: pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format

2012-05-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
Looks wrong; the parameter -d is -d directory, explained as Store databases into specified destination directory instead of /etc. The coorect command should be        # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd See man pwd_mkdb for details. but it fails with a pam_auth() or I can't remember exact

Re: mount refused, no journal (solved)

2012-05-28 Thread Gary Aitken
Not sure why it happened in the first place, but the failure to re-establish the journal using tunefs was a result of su root and not su - root On 05/28/12 14:34, Gary Aitken wrote: I mounted a previous system disk, cleaned everything off it using rm, then stuck a bunch of files on it. Used

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-28 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/28/12 15:08, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 28 14:10:55 2012 Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 13:05:45 -0600 From: Gary Aitkenfree...@dreamchaser.org.r-bonomi.com To: Polytroponfree...@edvax.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing

Re: why I am upset

2012-05-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 22 January 2005 at 9:53:53 +, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: There can be a tremendous investment of time in using software, whether free or not. Money too, often. Those who work to write, port, and support free software also spend a

Re: Portmaster Fetch

2012-05-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 May 2012 23:12:31 +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, is there a chance that portmaster can be only fetch all Source which need update? I mean make fetch-recursiv has helped in the ports collection, when i think right, but can portmaster that with all packages they need

Re: Portmaster Fetch

2012-05-28 Thread Eitan Adler
On 28 May 2012 14:12, Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, is there a chance that portmaster can be only fetch all Source which need update? I mean make fetch-recursiv has helped in the ports collection, when i think right, but can portmaster that with all packages they need

Re: library search path

2012-05-28 Thread fake fake
Thank you. ./configure --prefix=$HOME CFLAGS=-L $HOME/lib worked perfectly. further info: I should have set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to absolute path. tmux didn't work with libevent 2.* but did with libevent 1.4.* On 29 May 2012 00:57, Martin Laabs i...@martinlaabs.de wrote: Hello, just a guess: