Problem with pkgconf and glib.

2012-07-30 Thread Christopher Hilton
I'm trying to build emacs with gtk2 on my build box and I'm running into trouble with pkgconf from /usr/ports/devel/pkgconf. The build process dies in devel/gobject-introspection and complains that it cannot find header files for gio-unix-2.0. From what I can see the problem looks like the fact

Re: Problem with pkgconf and glib.

2012-07-30 Thread Christopher Hilton
On Jul 30, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Michael Powell wrote: Jeff Tipton wrote: On 07/30/2012 17:19, Christopher Hilton wrote: I'm trying to build emacs with gtk2 on my build box and I'm running into trouble with pkgconf from /usr/ports/devel/pkgconf. The build process [snip] When I first saw

Re: Problem with pkgconf and glib.

2012-07-30 Thread Christopher Hilton
On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Jeff Tipton wrote: On 07/30/2012 19:46, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 07/30/12 18:21, Michael Powell wrote: Jeff Tipton wrote: On 07/30/2012 17:19, Christopher Hilton wrote: [snip] Yes, but try now to rebuild X, or emacs (as Christopher). For me, it dies

ath0 + wlan0 + spa + Apple Airport Extreme = No Joy

2011-12-11 Thread Christopher Hilton
Good day, I'm trying to get FreeBSD going on a soekris box with an atheros based D-Link PCI wifi card. I intend to use this combination to bridge a difficult network back to ethernet but right now I'm just trying to get the soekris associated to the network. The network is managed by an Apple

Re: how to use cfs (cryptographic file system) ?

2011-05-17 Thread Christopher Hilton
No problem: I looked up my solution to the problem because I submitted a patch to fix things. It's here (ports pr #155788): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/155788 After this you should be able to create an encrypted filesystem with cmkdir and attach it with cattach and

gmirror and normal users?

2011-04-08 Thread Christopher Hilton
Should a normal user be able to successfully: $ gmirror remove /dev/mirror/gm0 /dev/ad6 Or is this something that's just unlocked because I haven't mounted the drive yet? $ uname -a FreeBSD deathstar.example.com 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #1: Wed Apr 6 13:09:37 EDT 2011

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-08 Thread Christopher Hilton
On Apr 8, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Sascha Vieweg wrote: As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on a MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on the normal (startup) console: (1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scroll through console output (2) have a

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-08 Thread Christopher Hilton
On Apr 8, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Sascha Vieweg wrote: As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on a MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on the normal (startup) console: (1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scroll through console output The Apple

VMware fusion / USB 2.0 issues.

2011-03-21 Thread Christopher Hilton
Good afternoon, I'm having a problem with a FreeBSD virtual machine on VMware fusion v3.1.2. Basically I get no USB 2.0 functionality. When I plug in a USB 2.0 mass storage device I get: uhub_reattach_port: port 1 reset failed, error=USB_ERR_TIMEOUT uhub_reattach_port: device problem

Ports: Can I share the port options in /var/db/ports?

2010-03-04 Thread Christopher Hilton
I'm sharing my /usr/ports directory via NFS among several machines. One problem that I have is with port options set in /var/db/ports. Is there a ports environment variable that I could set in /etc/make.conf which would force these to be somewhere in /usr/ports/vindaloo-port-options so that

Re: Solved - Was: Ports: Can I share the port options in /var/db/ports?

2010-03-04 Thread Christopher Hilton
On Mar 4, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Christopher Hilton wrote: I'm sharing my /usr/ports directory via NFS among several machines. One problem that I have is with port options set in /var/db/ports. Is there a ports environment variable that I could set in /etc/make.conf which would force

/tmp on mfs

2009-10-20 Thread Christopher Hilton
Reading the list yesterday I came across a little controversy about swap backed /tmp filesystems. I've been using this in my /etc/rc.conf tmpmfs=YES# Set to YES to always create an mfs /tmp, NO to never tmpsize=1g# Size of mfs /tmp if created tmpmfs_flags=-S -o

Re: Backspace

2007-08-17 Thread Christopher Hilton
d.Z. wrote: Thanks for helping everybody. But actually I'm using Bourne shell on FreeBSD 6.1 just like the Solaris in lab, and the FreeBSD is freshly installed, I have checked .shrc and .profile, but nothing related to key bindings or stty's there, so what I thought it should be is: after I

Re: IPv6 Tunnel Brokers?

2007-08-01 Thread Christopher Hilton
Javier Henderson wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:52:45 -0500, Eric Crist wrote: Hey list, While my ISP is rather geeky and more than willing to give me an IPv6 tunnel to the internet, there seems to be a large number of routing problems upstream from them that prevent us from accessing the

Re: TMPFS, is it available on FreeBSD 6 or 7?

2007-08-01 Thread Christopher Hilton
Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: Is TMPFS available on FreeBSD 6 or 7? Or do i have to settle for mfs? [venting frustration] The reason i ask is i need something very flexible when it comes to memory usage as a poor-mans shared-memory feature for a closed source data conversion app, used only

Re: Php5 port and Apache Module

2007-06-10 Thread Christopher Hilton
Miroslav Lachman wrote: I guess that mod_php5 depends on Apache and maintainer don't want this big dependency. The second is - if it will depends on Apache of some version (eg. 1.3) it will be broken with another version (2.0 and 2.2). It apply for binary packages. If somebody is compiling

Re: Spamassassin RBL's

2007-06-10 Thread Christopher Hilton
Peter Pluta wrote: Mikhail Goriachev-2 wrote: Peter Pluta wrote: How can I enable spamassasssin RBL's. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1, postfix, amavisd-new, and spamassassin with razor. I'm getting many spams that shouldn't be getting thru with RBL's. I havent been able to find anything useful on

Php5 port and Apache Module

2007-06-09 Thread Christopher Hilton
I can see that if I build the php5 port it defaults to CLI and CGI mode but the Apache module is not built. Am I wrong when I assume that the Apache Module will have the best performance? I guess that I'd just like to understand the engineering decisions behind the default in the port's

Re: Php5 port and Apache Module

2007-06-09 Thread Christopher Hilton
Bob wrote: The php4 php5 port apache module used to be default before FBSD 6.0. Many people before you on this list have wanted the php4/5 apache module turned back on as default but so far the port maintainer has not done anything in any way of justifying removing the apache module from the

Re: Php5 port and Apache Module

2007-06-09 Thread Christopher Hilton
Jonathan Horne wrote: Bob wrote: The php4 php5 port apache module used to be default before FBSD 6.0. Many people before you on this list have wanted the php4/5 apache module turned back on as default but so far the port maintainer has not done anything in any way of justifying removing the

Isakmpd setup question.

2007-06-05 Thread Christopher Hilton
Hi, I would like to set up isakmpd so I can connect my roaming laptop to my NATed LAN behind an OpenBSD firewall on a cable modem. I have an ISAKMPD configuration which allows me to do this but to build it I have setup the Phase 1 Identifiers to be the IP Addresses that I get. While the

Re: deleting old mails

2007-06-03 Thread Christopher Hilton
Thierry Lacoste wrote: I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail. I tried mail/archivemail but it cannot create it's lock file in /var/mail because it runs as the user owning the mailbox on which it operates. I

Re: Flashplugin problem after xorg 7.2 upgrade

2007-06-02 Thread Christopher Hilton
Ozan Enginoglu wrote: After i upgrated to xorg 7.2 i had firefox core-dump problem. It used to crast when i enter a site with a lot of flash plugin. And it uses a lot of CPU power! I removed flash plugin libs from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins and plugins directory of firefox. Now i can surf

Re: 10/100/1000 Ethernet hardware recommendation

2007-06-02 Thread Christopher Hilton
chloe K wrote: intel desktop GigE (32 bits) around 380M intel server GigE (64 bits) around 800M - 900M While this may seem obvious I'm gonna ask it anyway. I'm being pedantic here and assuming: The performance numbers are best case MBytes per second; That the 64bit card is

Re: 10/100/1000 Ethernet hardware recommendation

2007-06-02 Thread Christopher Hilton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:16 AM 6/2/2007, Christopher Hilton wrote: .My experience with Gigabit Ethernet leads me to like the Intel Pro/1000 cards which I believe use the em(4) driver in FreeBSD. Go for it! I just upgraded several servers and desktops with Intel 1000 series NICs

Re: How to disable command prompt history?

2007-06-02 Thread Christopher Hilton
VeeJay wrote: Hello there Could someone would like to describe that how we can disable to show last executed commands by pressing Up Arrow? That would depend on which shell you are running. Can you run the following command and post the results here? echo $SHELL -- Chris --

10/100/1000 Ethernet hardware recommendation

2007-06-01 Thread Christopher Hilton
I'm about to build a Gigabit backend network for a few machines. This network will provide file and database services to a dedicated set of web application servers. My experience with Gigabit Ethernet leads me to like the Intel Pro/1000 cards which I believe use the em(4) driver in FreeBSD. Is

Re: NFS tuning on FreeBSD

2007-05-30 Thread Christopher Hilton
Devin Heckman wrote: [snip] Specifically, I want to know what version of NFS the connection is running over, whether or not it's using TCP or UDP, and other information of that nature. I haven't quite found a utility or file that contains this information yet. That's a good question.

Re: NFS and apache...

2007-05-30 Thread Christopher Hilton
Erik Norgaard wrote: How can i do this? I am trying but im getting permission denied...while trying to create a file... NFS is insecure (No File Security) since there is no authentication. You get access with the user id of your current user. I didn't want to touch the security problems

Re: FreeBSD 6.2-REL burncd

2007-05-29 Thread Christopher Hilton
Matthias Apitz wrote: [ snip ] In 6.2-REL I now get the error: # burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s max data cdimage.raw fixate next writeable LBA 0 This was discussed here a month or two or three ago. I believe that the problem was not with burncd but with the ide cd driver. I believe that it's

Re: NFS tuning on FreeBSD

2007-05-29 Thread Christopher Hilton
Devin Heckman wrote: [snip] Does anyone have any experience tuning NFS mounts on FreeBSD machines? Not sure if you have tried this but the first thing that I try when dealing with NFS is using tcp mounts rather than udp. Most of the black magic of NFS tuning seems to center around

Re: FreeBSD Java and Openoffice.org 2.0.3

2007-05-08 Thread Christopher Hilton
Robert Huff wrote: I've never tried OO 2.*+JDK 1.4; however, OO 2.*+JDK 1.5 and OO 1.1+JDK 1.4 have both worked for me. YOu might get better information on the openoffice@ list. Thanks for the tip. The 1.4 build wasn't that tough. I'll try the 1.5 build and see how it goes.

FreeBSD Java and Openoffice.org 2.0.3

2007-05-07 Thread Christopher Hilton
Has anyone got Openoffice.org working with the native FreeBSD jdk14 port? I just built the jdk port and was hoping that Openoffice would find the jdk but it doesn't seem to work. I'm hoping that I'm just missing some trick but I get: javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-05-04 Thread Christopher Hilton
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Bart Silverstrim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] Like I said...if it taxes their resources even one tenth of one percent, I'm for it. It's not their resources, it's the resources they have stolen from other people by breaking

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-04-27 Thread Christopher Hilton
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [snip] When I scan my maillogs I find that 22% of the hosts that generate a greylisting entry retry the mail delivery and thus get whitelisted. The other 78% don't attempt redelivery within the greylisting window. That's probably par. However, the reason your putting

Sharing a USB drive with Mac OS X

2007-04-26 Thread Christopher Hilton
Has anyone setup (fdisk/newfs) a drive to work on both Mac OS X and FreeBSD? I'd like to be able to transfer larger datasets between my Mac and my FreeBSD laptop without using my network. Thanks in advance -- Chris -- __o All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-04-25 Thread Christopher Hilton
Just my $0.02. Have you considered adding greylisting. I find the combination of greylisting and Spamassassin with the SA's bayes filter completely handles my spam problem. On my primary MX I use spamd on OpenBSD and on my secondary MX I use spamd on FreeBSD. As a very informal method of

Re: Defending against SSH attacks with pf

2007-04-24 Thread Christopher Hilton
Erik Osterholm wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:02:55PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: There was some discussion on this list not too long ago, and someone asked if I was willing to make my pf config and the associated scripts I wrote for it public. I would have posted on the original thread, but I

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-14 Thread Christopher Hilton
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Address verification callbacks take various forms, but the way exim does it by default is to attempt to start a DSN delivery to the address and if the RCPT TO is accepted it is affirmative. It is not usually