Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread ASV
Hi Julian, you played Devil's advocate well actually as I don't know which idea would be more audacious, letting httpd access files from your root dir or exporting /root via nfs. :) Both of them sound more like a lab scenario than a real one. I understand that launching a chmod 700 /root it's a

MAC and Xorg on FBSD 9.1-p4 (re-sending)

2013-06-28 Thread ASV
Hi all, as you can see from the footer I've already posted this on the list trustedbsd-disc...@freebsd.org but because that one seems to be dead to me I apologise if I'm trying to get some hint here. Briefly, I'm trying to run X on my FreeBSD 9.1 with the following MAC modules enabled: mac_biba

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013, ASV wrote: Hi Julian, you played Devil's advocate well actually as I don't know which idea would be more audacious, letting httpd access files from your root dir or exporting /root via nfs. :) Both of them sound more like a lab scenario than a real one. A diskless

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: ASV a...@inhio.eu Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:10:02 +0200 [ I jhs@ reverted asv@'s top post to bottom post ] On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 01:47 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From: ASV a...@inhio.eu Date: Thu, 27

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:25:44 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Before we might ask (via send-pr) for it to be commited, we should various of us run chmod 750 /root;chown root:wheel /root give it a couple of months to see if problems. Done years ago: drwxr-x--- 7 root wheel 512

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:25:44 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: ( I'd guess OpenBSD might go for a tighter /root though, as they're supposedly keen on security. ) Currently I've got no OpenBSD installation at hand to verify, but I _assume_ they still have

pure-ftpd Ldap

2013-06-28 Thread maral ff
hey! I installed Pure-ftpd + Ldap and add a user in Ldap but Pure-ftpd don't recognize that user how can i fix this issue? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: pure-ftpd Ldap

2013-06-28 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:37:12 -0500, maral ff ffma...@gmail.com wrote: I installed Pure-ftpd + Ldap and add a user in Ldap but Pure-ftpd don't recognize that user how can i fix this issue? We're going to need some sort of confirmation that you actually configured pure-ftpd to bind to your

Resolving conflict with libcrypto

2013-06-28 Thread Odhiambo Washington
I am stuck with the following and cannot figure out the resolution /usr/bin/ld: warning: libcrypto.so.6, needed by /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so, may conflict with libcrypto.so.8 ../../lib/dns/libdns.a(gssapictx.o)(.text+0xabf): In function `dst_gssapi_initctx': : undefined reference to

Re: Retrieving a FreeBSD installation

2013-06-28 Thread KK CHN
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:28:49 +, KK CHN wrote: List, I accidentally installed a Linux variant(mint OS) on my Harddisk where FreeBSD is installed( which contains my data). Is there a possibility to retrieve

Re: FFMpeg and FreeBSD

2013-06-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:25:19 +0930, Shane Ambler free...@shaneware.biz wrote: On 27/06/2013 09:57, Simon wrote: Hello Everyone, Does anyone use the latest FFMpeg version 1.2 and FreeBSD? How did you compile it? did you run into any issues? The FFMpeg port is 6+ months behind and I feel

Firefox 21 not proceeding to URL

2013-06-28 Thread Jerry
Using Firefox 21, if I enter this URL: http://www.nclawreview.org/documents/91/1/wegner.pdf nothing happens. The PDF is not displayed nor is there any evidence that Firefox did anything at all. Now, entering the same URL using the same version of Firefox on a Windows machine, it works

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread jb
Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com writes: jb.1234abcd at gmail.com 's ref to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578470 relates to Linux upgrade procedures /root I don't see it affects how we should perceive an idealised Unix. The upgrade was a canary that told the user

Re: Firefox 21 not proceeding to URL

2013-06-28 Thread Boris Samorodov
28.06.2013 21:07, Jerry пишет: Using Firefox 21, if I enter this URL: http://www.nclawreview.org/documents/91/1/wegner.pdf nothing happens. The PDF is not displayed nor is there any evidence that Firefox did anything at all. Now, entering the same URL using the same version of Firefox

Re: Firefox 21 not proceeding to URL

2013-06-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:46:43 +0400 Boris Samorodov articulated: This works for me: Edit - Prefernces - Applications - PDF: preview in Firefox. As well as other viewer (mupdf tested). My current Firefox version is 22.0 though. But I recall it working at previous firefox versions. I have tried

Compile a port without its dependencies?

2013-06-28 Thread Walter Hurry
Is there a way to compile a port without its dependencies? I ask because recently I wanted two shlibs: wnck.so and rsvg.so (they are provided by x11-toolkits/py-gnome-desktop). I didn't need all the accompanying baggage (half of GNOME it seems), but it dragged in over 80 other packages. In

Re: Compile a port without its dependencies?

2013-06-28 Thread Mark Felder
Sometimes build dependencies are just that -- You might benefit from using the poudriere tool to build these things in a clean environment and then you can just install the package/runtime dependencies. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Firefox 21 not proceeding to URL

2013-06-28 Thread Bernt Hansson
On 2013-06-28 19:07, Jerry wrote: Using Firefox 21, if I enter this URL: http://www.nclawreview.org/documents/91/1/wegner.pdf nothing happens. The PDF is not displayed nor is there any evidence that Firefox did anything at all. Now, entering the same URL using the same version of Firefox on a

FreeBSD Appliance Questions

2013-06-28 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I am working on an NAS appliance built on FreeSBD. Several questions: - The vendor has rebranded everything so uname isn't helping me determine what exact branch of FreeBSD they used. Is there another canonical way to figure this out? - For any reasonably recent version of FBSD, is it

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-28 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:09:33PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Nikola Pavlović n...@riseup.net wrote: Hi, Last night during a massive (~1 year worth :| ) portsnap fetch the server went unresponsive and ssh eventually disconnected. I decided to

Re: FreeBSD Appliance Questions

2013-06-28 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 06/28/2013 05:27 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am working on an NAS appliance built on FreeSBD. Several questions: - The vendor has rebranded everything so uname isn't helping me determine what exact branch of FreeBSD they used. Is there another canonical way to figure this out? - For

Re: FreeBSD Appliance Questions

2013-06-28 Thread Outback Dingo
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 06/28/2013 05:27 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am working on an NAS appliance built on FreeSBD. Several questions: - The vendor has rebranded everything so uname isn't helping me determine what exact branch of

Re: FreeBSD Appliance Questions

2013-06-28 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 06/28/2013 05:31 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com mailto:tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 06/28/2013 05:27 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am working on an NAS appliance built on FreeSBD. Several questions: - The

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-28 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:06:45AM -0700, Charles Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jun 27, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Charles Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: If you haven't rebuilt the mirror already, running a full disk read scan

Re: FreeBSD Appliance Questions

2013-06-28 Thread Outback Dingo
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 06/28/2013 05:31 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.commailto: tun...@tundraware.com** wrote: On 06/28/2013 05:27 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am

Re: FreeBSD Appliance Questions

2013-06-28 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 06/28/2013 05:46 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: research shows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneFS_distributed_file_system D'oh. I looked it up under Isolon but not OneFS. -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-28 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:36:59AM +0200, Nikola Pavlović wrote: I'm still a bit reluctant to run the ports tree update again, but I'll ask on -ports@ for further assistance with that. Actually, no need. I retried it and it worked without any problem. -- Fantasies are free.

Re: FreeBSD Appliance Questions

2013-06-28 Thread iamatt
Hi. Have some experience with isilon NL and ssd iseries. Onefs 6.5 . Dont go mucking around like you are on a normal bsd system. It doesnt work that way. They have a system which is similar to cfengine which overwrites changes so you need to do things their way not the bsd way. Their support

Re: FFMpeg and FreeBSD

2013-06-28 Thread Shane Ambler
On 29/06/2013 02:07, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I have had no problems using ffmpeg1 with my version of blender for several months now. It has a cmake option for lib names and then I added include/ffmpeg1 to C/CXXFLAGS and lib/ffmpeg1 to LDFLAGS. Hi Shane, This should probably be in the

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Nikola Pavlović n...@riseup.net wrote: About AHCI, it didn't attach after setting ahci_load=YES in loader.conf so I assumed it wasn't enabled in BIOS. As I don't have physical access to the machine I asked the support to enable it, and presumably they did

Re: Firefox 21 not proceeding to URL

2013-06-28 Thread Leslie Jensen
2013-06-28 19:07, Jerry skrev: Using Firefox 21, if I enter this URL: http://www.nclawreview.org/documents/91/1/wegner.pdf nothing happens. The PDF is not displayed nor is there any evidence that Firefox did anything at all. Now, entering the same URL using the same version of Firefox on a