Re: Debug still in kernel

2010-03-06 Thread Frank Steinborn
Tim Judd wrote: makeoptions DEBUG=-g# Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption why are these still in GENERIC after release? I can confirm debug symbols is still in the kernel, but that is most

remote syslog(3)ging behaving strangely?

2010-02-25 Thread Frank Steinborn
Hi, i have several jails that push their syslog to the syslogd on the host. This is on FreeBSD 7.2. The only line for syslog.conf in the jails is: *.* @haydn.nognu.de On the host I have a standard syslog.conf but all.log is enabled. The problem now

Re: How to restore Base_Bind on amd64 7.2 p3

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Steinborn
David Southwell wrote: By base-bind I mean the version of bind that is included in freebsd 7.2 operating system which is a version earlier than the latest Bind96. When installing bind96 and I did not keep base-bind. Now multiple ports give the following type of problem -this is just one

Re: mutt with muttprofile and GnuPG-Support

2009-07-30 Thread Frank Steinborn
Andrew Gould wrote: IMAP support is AT LEAST in mutt-devel and probably in mutt as well, and has been since the 1.3 days (2003 or so).  As for SMTP support, that appeared around 1.5.17 I think (about a year ago); you might have to use mutt-devel for it.  That said, I find mutt-devel to be

Re: mutt with muttprofile and GnuPG-Support

2009-07-30 Thread Frank Steinborn
Christian Grube wrote: Hi, I was wondering, why there is no IMAP/SMTP-Support in mutt or mutt-devel. I have had mutt-ng and muttprofile on my debianbox and it works like a charm. Is there a small hint for me to provide the same functionality under FreeBSD 8? Greetings Chris For IMAP you

Re: mutt with muttprofile and GnuPG-Support

2009-07-30 Thread Frank Steinborn
Christian Grube wrote: It is possible for me to spend my time without the file_charset, but the other ones gives me some problems. Now I've to find out, what patches mutt in debian lenny is using to provide them in FreeBSD. Mutt is much important for me, I dislike any GUI-click-MUAs. At

Re: Binary nVidia-driver with GeForce2 Integrated GPU

2009-07-19 Thread Frank Steinborn
Rafal Grodzinski wrote: Frank Steinborn wrote: Hi list, I have a box with a GeForce2 MX/MX400 onboard on an nForce-chipset and want to use the binary nVidia-driver with it. I have to use the legacy driver (96.43.13). It installs without problems, and the GPU gets detected properly

Binary nVidia-driver with GeForce2 Integrated GPU

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Hi list, I have a box with a GeForce2 MX/MX400 onboard on an nForce-chipset and want to use the binary nVidia-driver with it. I have to use the legacy driver (96.43.13). It installs without problems, and the GPU gets detected properly: nvidia0: GeForce2 Integrated GPU on vgapci0 vgapci0: child

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:57:57AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I suspect the real concern is not that the upgrade itself will wreck something, but that the upgraded FF may do something odd the first time it is fired up :( That's a pretty good guess.

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:02:01PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: Unfortunately, I haven't gotten far enough to see if anything was lost, because now Firefox 3.5.x won't start: Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.' at line 986

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:17:53PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: Okay -- where do I get the sem kernel module? It is included in FreeBSD, just type 'kldload sem' to load it. If you want to have loaded it automatically on boot, add

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:28:41PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: # kldload sem kldload: can't load sem: No such file or directory # locate sem.ko /boot/kernel/sysvsem.ko /boot/kernel.GENERIC/sysvsem.ko /boot

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:48:27PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Now this is strange... it should be available. See the sem(4) manpage. No idea how to help from this point except to advice you to rebuild your kernel and see if the module becomes available

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:53:58PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:48:27PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Now this is strange... it should be available. See the sem(4) manpage. No idea how to help from this point

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: I seem to have unsubscribed from freebsd-ports@ a while ago, so I can't just respond in-thread to the www/firefox35 coredumps discussion there. Would it be better for me to start a new thread on freebsd-ports@ rather than continue discussing it here? I would recommend

Re: Matlab running on linux wrapper

2009-07-10 Thread Frank Steinborn
Daniel Underwood wrote: Will binaries running on the linux binaries wrapper run slower due to having to be run on the linux layer? It depends. In most cases, it will just run as fine as on Linux, sometimes it is even faster. The Linux compatibility is no emulation, it just translates syscalls,

FreeBSD on Cobalt RaQ 4

2009-07-01 Thread Frank Steinborn
Hi! I got a new toy here, a RaQ 4. As this thing has no real BIOS, it was even hard to get a custom Linux distro installed. For long time it was not even possible to use it with a Linux 2.6 kernel. This is resolved in the meantime, so I'm running Gentoo with an unmodified 2.6 at the moment.

Problem with ezjail: Manually restarted jails don't come up again

2009-01-28 Thread Frank Steinborn
Hi folks, I have a strange problem on my 7.1-RELEASE with ezjail here. I have 5 jails configured with ezjail, and they run flawlessy - they come up on boot without problems. However, if i stop a jail (via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ezjail.sh stop jail) and then want to restart it via the rc-script, it

Re: Problem with ezjail: Manually restarted jails don't come up again

2009-01-28 Thread Frank Steinborn
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:02:35PM +, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: if it's network services hanging on startup, check firewall and resolve.conf inside the jail or wait a few minutes to let possible dns queries timeout. Also tpcdumping on the nase system for the jail IP might give a clue in that

Re: Problem with ezjail: Manually restarted jails don't come up again

2009-01-28 Thread Frank Steinborn
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:50:40PM -0900, Mel wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009 11:25:56 Frank Steinborn wrote: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ezjail.sh start mldonkey.local Configuring jails:. Starting jails: If I check with jls and 'pgrep -lfj jid', i see that there are processes inside

Re: Problem with ezjail: Manually restarted jails don't come up again

2009-01-28 Thread Frank Steinborn
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:23:33PM -0900, Mel wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009 12:24:31 Frank Steinborn wrote: I guess i found a possible answer to my problem: The jail is running mldonkey, which is started via /etc/rc.conf. If I don't start it, the jail comes up as expected

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Frank Steinborn
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:38:53PM +0100, cpghost wrote: IMHO there should be a way to archive forum posts in some way, and make them available in near real-time to users whose workflow is much more geared towards mailing lists. One might miss an interesting forum thread, because not everyone

Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)

2008-11-03 Thread Frank Steinborn
That's wrong. Am 03.11.2008 um 15:59 schrieb Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote: [Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions] I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting is hideously broken. Please fix it.

Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)

2008-11-03 Thread Frank Steinborn
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Frank Steinborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's wrong. Am 03.11.2008 um 15:59 schrieb Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote: [Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions] I don't know whether it's you

Re: how to connect kde4 to my mail server...??

2008-10-08 Thread Frank Steinborn
2008/10/8 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't set up my LAN and the guy who did, didn't explain enough to help me get too far with things-kde3 in /usr/local/bin to everything-kde4 in /usr/local/kde4/bin/* I just got kde4 kmail set up, but it does not see mail

Re: Apparent IP configuration change . . .

2007-06-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
John Williams wrote: FreeBSD users: Until recently I've been running a very low-maintenance FreeBSD router with FBSD 6.2. The IP setup was a dynamic IP configuration with Verizon as my DSL provider in NJ. The connection was virtually trouble-free. I switched to a static IP about 10

Re: Upgrade a binary package

2006-12-16 Thread Frank Steinborn
Rob Hurle wrote: But, how to do this using portupgrade? I have: #uname -a FreeBSD freebsd.connect-a.com.au 6.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p5A and in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf we see: OS_PKGBRANCH=6-stable but when I try portupgrade, this is what happens: ++ Will try the

Re: Getting GELI Keys from Floppy

2006-09-07 Thread Frank Steinborn
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Are you sure you want to trust a floppy disk for your keys?? It's not the most safe medium these days... I'll backup the keys on CD. It's just that I don't want to waste a CD-ROM drive in this server. There is a problem here, because GELI initializes _before_

Getting GELI Keys from Floppy

2006-09-06 Thread Frank Steinborn
Hello, i want to encrypt my HDD's with GELI (not the root-fs, though). I want to do the encryption without password, just with a key. The key should be stored in a floppy disk, and the read should be read automatically on boot, from the floppy. There is a problem here, because GELI initializes

Re: BSD-style init, networking mandatory? was: (no subject)

2006-08-24 Thread Frank Steinborn
Joseph Markarian wrote: Hi, Hi Joseph, I have been reading on FreeBSD 6.1 with a view of installing in our 10 user shop. The book is: FreeBSD 6 Unleashed, by Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann (SAMS). On Page 93: BSD VS SYS 5 RUN CONTROL , I quote There is no multiuser mode without

Re: lang/php4 defaults to cgi build?

2006-08-17 Thread Frank Steinborn
Nikolas Britton wrote: lang/php4 defaults to cgi build. When did we decide this? AFAIK it always built the apache module in the past... isn't that standard procedure for building a LAMP stack? Did you try 'make config' in /usr/ports/lang/php4? I don't get your point. HTH, Frank

Re: Skype?

2006-08-16 Thread Frank Steinborn
Luchezar Petkov wrote: Hi, list. I've installed Skype via ports in the normal way, but it now says this: $skype_bin skype_bin: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/libdrm.so.2: ELF file OS ABI invalid Its the same when I run skype instead of skype_bin. Any ideas? You

Re: bootonly iso for what

2006-07-23 Thread Frank Steinborn
Romain Jalbert wrote: I am new on FreeBSD, I just want to know what is the purpose of the bootonly iso file.. (we may download iso cd1 and cd2 for the setup of 6.1, but what is the use for 6.1-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso

ACPI isn't loaded anymore on boot

2006-07-22 Thread Frank Steinborn
Hello, after rebuilding a new kernel (though I'm in doubt it has to do with that), the ACPI module isn't loaded any longer automatically on boot. If I boot the old GENERIC, it won't load the module either. I have no clue at the moment, any hints? :-) Thanks in advance, Frank

Re: linux_base-fc4

2006-06-19 Thread Frank Steinborn
Jeff Molofee wrote: After upgrading to linux_base-fc4, I've noticed a lot of applications and games that will no longer run. One of the games is HoH. I receive the following error when trying to run it... does anyone know how to fix this? ./HoH: error while loading shared libraries:

Correct CPUTYPE= for Intel Celeron 2.50GHz (2500.10-MHz 686-class CPU)

2006-06-09 Thread Frank Steinborn
Hello, can someone tell what the right choice for CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf is for that CPU? And, is it safe to build kernel and world with --march= too? Thanks, Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Correct CPUTYPE= for Intel Celeron 2.50GHz (2500.10-MHz 686-class CPU)

2006-06-09 Thread Frank Steinborn
John Nielsen wrote: You probably want: CPUTYPE?=pentium4 If I put a ? after CPUTYPE, buildworld won't use CPUTYPE, correct? Is it better to do so, or is it safe to use CPUTYPE=pentium4? Thanks, Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: difference between mbox and maildir?

2006-05-28 Thread Frank Steinborn
Noah wrote: might somebody send me to a website that explains the differnce between mbox and maildir? Or maybe you can just explain the differences in a response. http://www.google.com/search?hl=deq=maildir+mboxbtnG=Google-Suchemeta= ___

Re: kernel panic on kldload in 6.1

2006-05-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Kris Kennaway wrote: It sounds like you have an old (6.0) module you're still trying to load. Things like the nvidia driver and other ports are prime candidates. Kris Does that mean that all the panic-issues with kld(un)load are fixed in 6.1? I crashed an important 6.0-STABLE box several

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-16 Thread Frank Steinborn
Maan Jee wrote: Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev

Re: limit bandwidth 'make fetch'

2006-05-11 Thread Frank Steinborn
Pablo Mora wrote: how i can limit bandwidth when i using 'make fetch' (make install in Ports)? thanks in advance. You could use the following in your make.conf to use wget (which is capable of limiting bandwith) in your make.conf: FETCH_CMD=/usr/local/bin/wget --limit-rate=20k # Limits

Mirroring GNATS locally - /usr/ports/databases/gnats marked as forbidden

2006-05-09 Thread Frank Steinborn
Hello, I want to mirror the FreeBSD-GNATS db at home, as shown in the Committers Guide. However, gnats in Ports is marked as forbidden. Can I safely use GNATS4 instead? Is it compatible to GNATS3 databases? Thanks! Frank ___

Re: kern.randompid: jot generation senseful?

2006-05-09 Thread Frank Steinborn
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Isn't kern.randompid a boolean? TRUE or FALSE? No. It is just on or off. 1 means PIDs are random. 0 means PIDs are sequential. to be exact, everything not being 0, is TRUE. That is not true. Peter Pentchev once wrote: The kern.randompid sysctl is not a boolean

Re: N00b: shutting down freebsd server

2006-05-07 Thread Frank Steinborn
dharam paul wrote: Hello Seniors, I think it supports ACPI. When I press the power button it sends signal 15, then it stops the processes. Then it shuts down the system. It's absolutely okay to use the power button to shutdown the system then. Frank

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-07 Thread Frank Steinborn
eoghan wrote: Once installed, whats the script called to start claws? /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-claws (Make sure you typed rehash in your shell just after installing) Hint: See pkg-plist in the directory of the port to find out what files will be installed, and where.

Re: interrupt storm

2006-05-05 Thread Frank Steinborn
Mark Busby wrote: Checking /var/log/messages after loading snd_emu10k1, I see the following. muz kernel: pcm1: Creative EMU10K1 port 0xd800-0xd81f irq 4 at device 9.0 on pci0 muz kernel: Interrupt storm detected on irq4: atapci0; throttling interrupt source muz kernel: pcm1: SigmaTel

Re: help me

2006-05-05 Thread Frank Steinborn
astalus razvan wrote: hy everyone.I am an FreeBSD user ,i use it every day ,but a few days ago a problem came up.I have tryed to install Firewalk 5.0.2 ,but told me that I must install libnet 1.1.2.1,1.OK i have installed libnet 1.1.2.1,1 ,but Firewalk stiil tolds that I do not have installed

Re: quick question regarding security advisories

2006-05-04 Thread Frank Steinborn
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, Those security advisories posted in www.freebsd.org... will they be applied once I rebuild my entire system?? My default /usr/share/example/cvsup/stable-supfile contains this line: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 Are those security patches constantly

Re: question about linprocfs

2006-05-02 Thread Frank Steinborn
Alex Ballantine wrote: We have a apache server with most of the latest programs on it except java, so when I tried to install it everything went fine until it came up with === Building for jdk-1.5.0p3 ERROR: You must have LINPROCFS mounted beforenprocfs linprocfs

Re: N00b: shutting down freebsd server

2006-05-02 Thread Frank Steinborn
dharam paul wrote: Hello Seniors, Is it ok to shutdown a freebsd server from atx power button? regards If your server supports ACPI and it's shutting down clean, it's OK. But if your power-button switches your system off immediatly, use shutdown -p now.

Re: Hacked? How can I tell what process is sending packets from a particular port (udp/55613)?

2006-04-30 Thread Frank Steinborn
boink wrote: Dear FreeBSD, I see outbound packets from udp/55613, one every 5 seconds, to a single non-routable (10) IP, with destination port increasing by 1 with each packet, with expected ICMP Destination net unreachables from an upstream router. AFAIK, there's no reason for this

Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)

2006-04-19 Thread Frank Steinborn
Enigma wrote: My problem is this: I am installing onto a small partition (roughly 2.5 gig) with the add_pkg -r gnome2 command to download the packets. By about what seems 3/4 the way through, my hdd is full and theres no way this option is open to me. You have to know that the gnome2 package

Re: Problem with shoutcast port

2006-03-17 Thread Frank Steinborn
Paulino Calderon wrote: I was trying to set up a shoutcast server on my freebsd 5.3 machine, for my surprise there was alredy a port to it, so my only job was to cd to the shoutcast port directory and make install, after that I wrote the configuration file, chmoded it to the proper

Re: Problem with shoutcast port

2006-03-17 Thread Frank Steinborn
Kövesdán Gábor wrote: I'm the maintainer of the shoutcast port. As you probably know, it's a binary port, since shoutcast is a closed-source application, so the port do just some simple tasks: patching config file, creating a user for shoutcast and installing the binary and the rcNG

Re: No Shell User

2006-01-31 Thread Frank Steinborn
Sean Murphy wrote: I need to create a user with no login or home directory abilities. It just needs to own a few directories and files and be able to run a daemon. would I use pw or adduser and what would be the options for that command? Just set the users shell to /sbin/nologin and his

Re: apache+ httpd

2006-01-30 Thread Frank Steinborn
serge wrote: Hi. Help to adjust please apache-1.3.33 or apache-2 and a file httpd.conf. I change some parameters in this file but I can not start apache. Look please, that I do not so. What it is necessary to make changes in files srm.conf ?nd access.conf ? # apachectl start #

Re: Desktop Note on FreeBSD?

2005-12-26 Thread Frank Steinborn
martinko wrote: what are the main differences/pros/cons between gdesklets and superkaramba please ? The main difference is that Gdesklets uses gtk (GNOME) and Superkaramba uses Qt (KDE). You should decide after what of both you are running, because loading the gtk-stuff on KDE will take more

Re: Compacting the pf -v -s rules output similar to ipfstat -ionh

2005-12-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Parv wrote: I am currently trying pf instead of ipf; rules were brought over easily besides the user errors. I am still in the process of to be at ease w/ pf logging statistics. Before i write it myself, has anybody got a already prepared way to compact the pfctl -v -s rules output ...

Re: Problems rebuilding world

2005-12-17 Thread Frank Steinborn
Justin Pessa wrote: === share/termcap (all) gzip -cn /usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.5 termcap.5.gz TERM=dumb TERMCAP=dumb: ex - /usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.src /usr/src/share/termcap/reorder cap_mkdb -l termcap cap_mkdb: illegal option -- l usage: cap_mkdb [-v] [-f outfile] file [file

Re: Locale problems with perl

2005-12-14 Thread Frank Steinborn
Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi, I recently (two weeks ago) upgraded my system and all ports. But since then, whenever I install some perl module I get something like this: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset),

Re: IMAP-UW Security question

2005-12-13 Thread Frank Steinborn
Jose Borquez wrote: SECURITY REPORT: This port has installed the following binaries which execute with increased privileges. /usr/local/libexec/mlock What can I do to minimize this security risk? Do I create an mlock user? In fact, every port that installs a suid-binary will

Re: Using pppoe : nameserver not provided?

2005-07-17 Thread Frank Steinborn
Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Configuration was a breeze, and I have complete functionality. However, I can't determine what nameserver the pppoe connection is directing FreeBSD to use. With the netgear router, the ISP nameserver was shown on the configuration screen, so I had assumed

Re: Cannot use cvsup

2005-07-14 Thread Frank Steinborn
Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: And if I try to re-add cvsup, it says this: su-2.05b# cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup/ su-2.05b# make install make: don't know how to make install. Stop Try to get a binary package from cvsup using pkg_add -r cvsup and if it succeeds, cvsup a new portstree

Re: Cannot use cvsup

2005-07-14 Thread Frank Steinborn
Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: If I do pkg_add -r cvsup it says this: su-2.05b# pkg_add -r cvsup Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Latest/cvsup.tbz... Done. pkg_add: package 'cvsup-16.1h_2' or its older version already installed Deinstall

Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSdD4.7

2005-07-13 Thread Frank Steinborn
Amandeep [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi all, Is there a way to reset the root passwd without reinstalling FreeBSD 4.7. Thanks in advance Hi, from the loader prompt, boot FreeBSD in single-user mode using boot -s, then do passwd root. Greetings, steini