Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

2011-02-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com writes: The only problem with this is that unlike 10 years ago, today almost all ISP's block anything coming down port 25 unless you have an account that allows your e-mail server to work. And they of course charge for this. I used to enjoy my own

Re: mergemaster -U ask for a lot non-user modified files

2011-02-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com writes: Hello, Each time I run mergemaster -UiF, it asks for a lot of file that I do not have modified such as /dev/rc.d/* and /etc/defaults/* == Use 'd' to delete the temporary

Re: script help

2011-02-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com writes: --On February 15, 2011 12:57:12 PM +0300 Peter Andreev andreev.pe...@gmail.com wrote: Use of xargs on many files will be much faster than find...exec construction find / -type f -name copyright.htm | xargs sed -i .bak -e 's/2010/2011/g' I

Re: Run your own portsnap mirror?

2011-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
patrick gibblert...@gmail.com writes: Is there any official way to run a private portsnap mirror? ie. Have one, external server fetch from the official portsnap sources, and then internal servers pulling from the private mirror? It runs over pipelined HTTP, so all you need to do is set up a

Re: Follow a port of a specific major verion

2011-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mikael Bak m...@inbox.lv writes: I was not aware I could just install the same software over the other without first removing it. Shouldn't I do that? I would not want to end up with a broken software or a broken ports database. No, you want to remove the old port before installing the new

Re: Follow a port of a specific major verion

2011-02-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mikael Bak m...@inbox.lv writes: Hi list, I searched for this in the handbook, but without any hits. Google gave me nada too. I have a machine running FreeBSD 7.3 and Postfix 2.7.2 installed from ports. Unfortunately when I installed Postfix I did this: cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix make

Re: top: where to find process state descriptions (i.e. STATE usem)?

2011-02-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de writes: Try to find docs about the process states shown in top, but I can't find any hint for explanations what the abbrev. do mean. ps(1) I have a problem with a scientific program using OpenMP showing STATE usem' in top. Problem: the small

Re: Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

2011-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
William Bulley w...@umich.edu writes: Everything up to this point builds okay. Then this happens: Making all in common gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/graphics/gimp-app/work/gimp-2.6.11/plug-ins/common' cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../.. -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTRANT

Re: rc.d and environment variables

2010-12-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: I'm not sure this will work. The initial question was about how to obtain an environmental variable. If the rc.d script of svnserve sources /etc/rc.conf and/or /etc/rc.conf.local, it is okay, They do. rc.d scripts all start by sucking in rc.subr, which in

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com writes: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:49:46AM -0500, Chris Brennan thus spake: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Sysinstall alows you to select and enable

Re: Ports: How do dependent ports upgrade when dependency shared lib version is bumped?

2010-12-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Yuri y...@rawbw.com writes: I recently updates the system. libatkmm-1.6.so.1 got bumped to libatkmm-1.6.so.2, now inkscape fails: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libatkmm-1.6.so.1 not found, required by inkscape What is the right behavior in such situation? Should all depending

Re: devel/gobject-introspection throws up because of python

2010-12-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
On Dec 7, 2010 10:28 AM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net writes: While trying to compile audio/tagtool on a FreeBSD7.3 (x86) machine devel/gobject-introspection decides to throw up and I got this: (the install was via

Re: devel/gobject-introspection throws up because of python

2010-12-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net writes: While trying to compile audio/tagtool on a FreeBSD7.3 (x86) machine devel/gobject-introspection decides to throw up and I got this: (the install was via portmaster -d) Looks like your python installation is broken. Try rebuilding that first.

Re: portupgrade causes kernel message: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0

2010-12-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Yuri y...@rawbw.com writes: Beginning at some time less than 1 month ago I started getting such message. Increasing maxproc doesn't help. Current values are like this: kern.maxproc: 6164 kern.maxprocperuid: 5547 What may be causing such condition? limits(1), perhaps?

Re: Digital camera (Canon)

2010-11-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org writes: I have a Canon Powershot S5IS that behaves similarly. I have found that it can't be mounted like a disk drive, even though you would think it should work that way. Instead, I have to use gtkam to get the pictures off of it - /usr/ports/graphics/gtkam I

Re: Console Messages

2010-11-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com writes: I am using FreeBSD 8.0 and am getting lots of these: negative sbsize for uid = 0 +negative sbsize for uid = 0 +negative sbsize for uid = 0 +negative sbsize for uid = 0 +negative sbsize for uid = 0 any ideas what it means or how to cure it? Hmm.

Re: Escaping from shell-scripts

2010-11-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
doug d...@fledge.watson.org writes: If you make a program a shell AFAIK to escape is to logff. Bash has a chroot like facility that might work. However if you write a simple C program as a wrapper for your shell script and make that program a shell, I would think that is pretty secure. As

Re: installing a window manager

2010-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl writes: Up 'till now I had a server without X. I've a need however to be able to graphically work on that server so I thought: I install x11-servers/xorg.server and after that I build windowmaker (nice and light). However, this does not seem to be enough to get

Re: mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
dan gl...@live.com writes: On 10/29/10 01:00, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Dan-- On Oct 28, 2010, at 3:45 PM, dan wrote: 'mount_msdosfs -L en_US.UTF-8 /dev/da0 local/mnt/' executed by a non root-user prints out the following mount_msdosfs: msdosfs_iconv: Operation not permitted and then

Re: Shotwell 0.7 on FreeBSD

2010-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com writes: I was wondering if there are any plans when shotwell in version 0.7 will come on ports. Currently it is on 0.6.1, the new version would make it possible to import a f-spot library. But it also requires an update of vala from 0.8 to 0.9. Are there any

Re: ghostscript install problem

2010-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fred f...@blakemfg.com writes: Hello, I am trying to install ghostscript8 from ports on 8.0-RELEASE-p4. The build stops when /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8/work/ghostscript-8.64/epag-3.09/ert is to be installed in /usr/local/bin. The error is file not found. Error code 71. I tried going

Re: start slapd automatically

2010-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com writes: I have a quick one for ya.. I am running openLDAP 2.4 server on my freebsd box and it's coming along nicely. But whenever I reboot the box it doesn't start automatically. What's the best way to accomplish this? My

Re: ghostscript install problem

2010-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fred f...@blakemfg.com writes: Ghostscript8 compiled and installed ok. It was probably the rmconfig that fixed it. I had unset a lot of options that were of no value to me. Maybe one or more of them are not really optional. Or more likely, optional but other options depend on them.

Re: ruby18-rmagick not rebuild (portupgrade)

2010-10-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthias Fechner ide...@fechner.net writes: I have a small question to portupgrade. I use it to upgrade my ports to the new versions with: portupgrade -Rrav If an upgrade of ImageMagick-nox11 is included it always forgets to rebuild ruby18-rmagick. Is this maybe a bug of portupgrade?

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Brodbeck g...@gull.us writes: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: The plug isn't the issue.  Drivers are. Fortunately, USB mass storage devices are highly standardized. One of the things they got right. ATAPI devices passed

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:32:01AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:        Sure, the optical uses [I think] a USB connector.  Pretty sure        that all these tiny toys are made at one

Re: How is CPU usage calculated?

2010-10-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Martin Turgeon free...@optiksecurite.com writes: Le 2010-10-18 15:12, Adam Vande More a écrit : On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Martin Turgeon free...@optiksecurite.comwrote: I didn't knew about -H to show individual threads, but my problem isn't there. My problem is that the summary

Re: gzip tries to unpack/pack 1st the filename of $GZIP

2010-10-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de writes: Hello, I was facing a problem in some Makefile/shell-scripting and finally I could nail it down: when you set the environment variable GZIP to something, for example to let it point to gzip itself, it tries 1st to unpack this file: $

Re: gzip tries to unpack/pack 1st the filename of $GZIP

2010-10-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de writes: Why? $ FIX=foo export FIX $ env | fgrep FIX FIX=foo Sorry; I'm not sure how I fooled myself on that -- I didn't keep the example I tested on.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: vlc install problems

2010-10-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com writes: I'm trying to install vlc player on my FreeBSD 8.1 and I always got the following error: gmake[3]: *** [gvloadimage_gd.lo] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/graphics/graphviz/work/graphviz-2.26.3/plugin/gd' gmake[2]: ***

Re: Can not install ZendOptimizer

2010-10-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Phan Quoc Hien phanquoch...@gmail.com writes: Maybe no solution forever for ZendOptimizer with =php 5.3 on FreeBSD...so said...!!:( As far as I can see, ZendOptimizer doesn't support PHP 5.3 on *any* OS. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: newsyslog.conf and Apache log files

2010-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Auty j...@netmusician.org writes: Hello, I have the following entry for dealing with my Apache log files: /var/log/httpd/* 644 2 * $M1D0 GBJ /var/run/httpd.pid 30 Unfortunately, this has created these big long log files such as the following:

Re: Can not install ZendOptimizer

2010-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: Phan, The solution looks like install PHP 5.2 (/usr/ports/lang/php52) and then install /usr/ports/devel/ZendOptimizer. Phan Quoc Hien phanquoch...@gmail.com writes: Yes, Thank Ryan. But it's not clearly solution.

Re: newsyslog.conf and Apache log files

2010-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Auty j...@netmusician.org writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Joe Auty j...@netmusician.org writes: Hello, I have the following entry for dealing with my Apache log files: /var/log/httpd/* 644 2 * $M1D0 GBJ /var/run/httpd.pid 30 Unfortunately, this has created these big long log files

Re: newsyslog.conf and Apache log files

2010-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com writes: Joe Auty writes: I have the following entry for dealing with my Apache log files: /var/log/httpd/* 644 2 * $M1D0 GBJ /var/run/httpd.pid 30 Unfortunately, this has created these big long log files such as the following:

Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com writes: On 10/02/10 16:39, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Saturday 02 October 2010 14:44:07 Anselm Strauss wrote: On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote: Maybe sending it to just the USB list

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

2010-10-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net writes: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:05:33 -0500 Doug Poland d...@polands.org articulated: If I understand the OPs question correctly, I believe setting the environment variable BATCH=yes will give desired results with portupgrade. This will cause port compile

Re: Unable to access CDROM device to play music

2010-09-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com writes: I am using FreeBSD 8.1 / amd64 with Platform Version 4.5.1 (KDE 4.5.1) if that matters.Before updating my system to FreeBSD 8.1 / amd64, I had the 7.3 /32 bit version installed. I completely erased the HD prior to installed the newer version so as to

Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com writes: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, vrwmil...@gmail.com wrote:  Is it possible to take a port, make a package of it and put it in the packages directory of my own media?

Re: man.cgi

2010-09-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ben GUILLER freax.g...@gmail.com writes: I am making an online man, and I would like to know where could I find the man.cgi script, in order to use it. Could you help me to find it ? Try: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/www/en/cgi/man.cgi

Re: Plextor PX-870A drives

2010-09-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz writes: On Sep 17, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Joshua Isom wrote: On 9/17/2010 7:24 AM, Robert Ames wrote: It claims to be able to play audio CDs. There's two things I can think of. With cdcontrol on a cd-rw drive I have, it needs the cd audio cable hooked

Re: two ata-related problems

2010-09-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
per...@pluto.rain.com writes: Two questions about installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a Dell Precision 420 (yes, I know it's old): I have a similar machine running as a lab tool. 1. Should FreeBSD 8.1 be able to recognize a 100MB ATAPI Zip drive? I'm not finding it in the dmesg, although BIOS

Re: error - ad2: FAILURE

2010-09-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Xihong Yin x...@gmx.com writes: Thanks for the info. Now I am getting more such error messages and the disk fails at boot when trying to mount on /usr. On the chance the disk can be saved, you may want to try the manufacturer's diagnostics. ___

Re: error - ad2: FAILURE

2010-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com writes: On September 1, 2010 10:29:42 pm Xihong Yin wrote: Hi, I received the following error when I try to access files in some of the directories in /usr and when the computer boots. ad2s1f is mounted on /usr. ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA

Re: What's up with cvsup.freebsd.org?

2010-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dennis Glatting free...@penx.com writes: This has been happening for several days. Is cvsup dead vs SVN? Cvsup is still listed in the handbook. cvsup is still fine. Please (as recommended in the handbook) use a mirror closer to you. ___

Re: Which specific version will be installed via pkg_add or via the port?

2010-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com writes: When you're installing software via the pkg_add command or building from source, how do you what specific version you'll be installing BEFORE you actually install it? By reading the port's Makefile, in my case. Other common options are make packagename

Re: What's up with cvsup.freebsd.org?

2010-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dennis Glatting free...@penx.com writes: On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Dennis Glatting free...@penx.com writes: This has been happening for several days. Is cvsup dead vs SVN? Cvsup is still listed in the handbook. cvsup is still fine. Please (as recommended in the handbook

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: Just to make =sure= about this: can using tar/gtar as root [or sudo] make sure that all the permissions are correct? It =may= save me keystrokes, :_) Permissions, yes. If you want flags, you'll need the base system tar.

Re: Interactive Port

2010-08-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net writes: In attempting to install /usr/ports/print/dvips I got the error message that dvips is an interactive port, and I can't remember how to handle that. Could I please get a heads up there. Thank you. Just install it without BATCH.

Re: ghostscript-8.71 update

2010-08-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.net writes: Trying to update ghostscript, but seems to fail. Can somebody provide me with info on how to solve this? It seems to build fine on the build cluster. Make sure you clean the work directories and update any dependencies before trying again.

Re: help for elf_load_section: truncated ELF file

2010-08-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
赵建凯 zhaojiankai2558...@gmail.com writes: Deal All: When I am compiling the kernel of FreeBSD-8.1RC2, I meet a problem. In detail: stage 2.3: build tools -- cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL;

Re: How to install Etoile?

2010-08-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Caleb Stein caleb.st...@me.com writes: I want to install Etoile. I tried doing this: cd /usr/ports/x11/etoile sudo make install It exits with an error that etoile-languagekit requires llvm 2.6 or lower, but I have llvm 2.7 installed. Is there any way to go back to 2.6, and if I can,

Re: make installworld fails

2010-08-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Caleb Stein caleb.st...@me.com writes: I am trying to update my FreeBSD 8.0 to FreeBSD 8.1. Here is the order I ran the commands in (all as root): cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel shutdown now make installkernel shutdown -r now adjkerntz -i mount -a -t ufs mergemaster -p

Re: sudo -K/-k ineffective

2010-08-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
me gurpreet...@gmail.com writes: Hi, Upon doing sudo some-command as a normal user (non-root), sudo asks for password only once, subsequent invocations of sudo doesn't ask for password - even though I do sudo -k or sudo -K in between. Although sudo starts asking for password after the time

Re: Correct syntax of supfile to keep ports upgraded?

2010-07-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com writes: To keep my ports up to date, do I simply need to add: ports-all tag=. to this file before running csup or cvsup? Yes. Or just use /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: What's the meaning of this warn?

2010-07-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jason lisen1...@gmail.com writes: HI,ALL: My freebsd server offer service to thousands of clients. I found lots of warning in the /var/log/message like this :Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max tunable My

Re: ports INDEX file layout?

2010-07-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aiza aiz...@comclark.com writes: Where can I find the description of the /usr/ports/INDEX-8 file? Try bsd.ports.mk. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Port upgrade problem

2010-07-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Petre Bandac pe...@kgb.ro writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Petre Bandac pe...@kgb.ro writes: While upgrading port, I have the following problems: - some cfg files are overwritten (authdaemon's authmysqlrc) I can't figure out what port that comes from, so I can't help. courier-authlib

Re: Port upgrade problem

2010-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Petre Bandac pe...@kgb.ro writes: While upgrading port, I have the following problems: - some cfg files are overwritten (authdaemon's authmysqlrc) I can't figure out what port that comes from, so I can't help. - some make install options are not kept (maildrop - not compiled against mysql

Re: popt-1.50 or better??

2010-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: hey y'all, there is a program called libots [or ots] that acts to summarize text that i'd like to port to freebsd. i grabbed the src from scourceforge days ago and found that i need a later version of popt than we have. we've got v 1.14 of popt and the

Re: popt-1.50 or better??

2010-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:06:12PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/07/2010 21:29:43, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:21:12PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: hey y'all, there is a program called

Re: Is software update in a working state yet?

2010-07-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. Jeff Molofee n...@telus.net writes: packagekit... moreso gnome-packagekit I see. I don't know much about it, but I see that there's a pkmon tool for debugging it. On 7/22/2010 1:23 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jeff Molofeen...@telus.net writes: I've noticed

Re: Eclipse build fails

2010-07-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Caleb Stein caleb.st...@me.com writes: the last lines of the output can be found here: http://pastebin.com/8VAdvEjH How should I fix this? That's pretty weird; I can't make any sense out of it. If it were me, I would start by making sure that the dependencies are all up to date, and start

Re: Is software update in a working state yet?

2010-07-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jeff Molofee n...@telus.net writes: I've noticed software update pop up on the screen quite a bit lately. Initially it popped up and did nothing. Now in 8.1-RC2 it pops up and shows me that I actually have updates. When I click update, it seems like it's actually attempting to upgrade the

Re: How can i know if the freebsd kernel need to be updated ?

2010-07-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
zaxis z_a...@163.com writes: Now i use the following commands to maintain my freebsd box. portsnap fetch update pkg_version -vIL= portupgrade -R xxx It works great for software installed through ports. However, how can i know if the kernel needs to be updated ? That procedure *only* updates

Re: /usr/local empty after upgrade

2010-07-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mike Barnard mike.barna...@gmail.com writes: 100% sure... I have tried to rebuild world but I still end up with an empty /usr/local.. Prior to upgrading from 8.0-RELEASE, the directory has the usual files and directories, but after the upgrade, its empty. Good thing is that I had not

Re: /usr/local empty after upgrade

2010-07-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mike Barnard mike.barna...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: (I thought buildworld did that for you, but apparently it doesn't. Probably because you can't put it somewhere else if you like.) I thought so too

Re: /usr/local empty after upgrade

2010-07-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mike Barnard mike.barna...@gmail.com writes: mtree -p /usr/local /etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist This is the command I have been looking for hmmm... this give me no joy... mtree complains about the paths all missing, but does not create them. I can create files and directories in

Re: /usr/local empty after upgrade

2010-07-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mike Barnard mike.barna...@gmail.com writes: sorry... RTFM -eU flags sorted me out... but I only get the directories an no files created now may be rebuilding world will work :-/ There are no files described in the mtree file. I can't think of any that should be there before you install

Re: pxe LiveCD setup

2010-07-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: The only complaint I have so far is the speed of download via tftp. A 236M ISO took two minutes to load, or about 2M per second. A full CD takes a long, long time. Is that typical, or maybe just the poor Ethernet on this Aspire One D250? The stock

Re: Running a script after a device's been plugged

2010-07-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Samuel Martín Moro faus...@gmail.com writes: 3) Last but not least, how to link a device once it's plugged in, and unlink it once it's unplugged? We're still providing 5.4 and 6.2 releases based versions. And I do not like hal. So I thought I could use /etc/devd.conf, with attach/detach

Re: Getting kernel trap 12 During Boot Of 8.1-PRERELEASE

2010-07-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: I've seen this twice now - once last Sunday, and once again today when I tried to do a build/installworld/kernel with daily sources from the master tree: http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=qmhizdtnhyothumb=4 That asked me to jump

Re: Get access to csh (default freebsd shell) for root to solve login problem.

2010-07-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Luca Renaud renaud.l...@gmail.com writes: The root shell is now bash,but I was unaware that bash was not self-contained(it depends at least of libintl.so.8), and doing some upgrades with ports I erased libintl.so.8,now I cannot access the root account because bash is not operational and I

Re: Getting kernel trap 12 During Boot Of 8.1-PRERELEASE

2010-07-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: On 7/4/2010 10:32 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: I've seen this twice now - once last Sunday, and once again today when I tried to do a build/installworld/kernel with daily sources from the master tree

Re: 'file' Command Giving False Positives

2010-07-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: I have a data file with the content: LZasdadqjwjqwjqwjeqwe 'file' (incorrectly) reports this as an MS-DOS executable. Why is it incorrect? LZ as the first two bytes in a file is (unless my memory is badly mistaken) exactly what the old

Re: 'file' Command Giving False Positives

2010-07-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:25:20 -0400, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Why is it incorrect? LZ as the first two bytes in a file is (unless my memory is badly mistaken) exactly what the old command.com looked for as the flag

Re: 'file' Command Giving False Positives

2010-07-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: At this point, I'm inclined to believe that 'file' alone is insufficient to do this and, at best - even with more tools - it's going to be a probabilities game - i.e. What percentage of false positives is acceptable? file(1) is only intended to be a

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: I've experienced the same thing on amd64 -- the default partition size for root is too small. Rather than going to the trouble of correcting it, I just 'rm -r /boot/kernel.old' when it fails and then redo 'make installkernel', and all seems OK.

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: On Jul 01 15:10, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: I've experienced the same thing on amd64 -- the default partition size for root is too small. Rather than going to the trouble of correcting it, I just

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: On Jul 01 12:07, Ed Flecko wrote: Thanks guys. :-) Doesn't that seem odd that the default partition size for root (512M) isn't quite big enough? Should I make the partition size slightly larger (on future installs) to eliminate this

Re: sshd / tcp packet corruption ?

2010-06-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Martin Minkus martin.min...@punz.co.nz writes: It seems this issue I reported below may actually be related to some kind of TCP packet corruption ? Possible. Or memory errors. Hard to say much at this point, when you don't even know which side is actually causing the errors. Still same

Re: error with linux-f10-flashplugin10

2010-06-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Giorgos Tsiapaliokas terie...@gmail.com writes: while i am trying to install the port flashplugin i came up with this error. fetch: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz: size mismatch: expected 4050435, actual 4760657 fetch:

Re: Switched to Bash and Comparison of Shells

2010-06-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dan D Niles d...@more.net writes: The which command functions differently between bash and tcsh. For example, I have ls aliased to do color output and add some other options that I like. With tcsh, 'which ls' returns ls: aliased to \ls -GFB; with bash it returns /bin/ls. The tcsh

Re: kernel: calcru: runtime went backwards

2010-06-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr writes: OK thank you Antonio :-) Also, see the FAQ entry if you haven't already. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: hal-0.5.14_7 to _8 upgrade problem

2010-06-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com writes: USB_GET_REPORT_ID should be getting picked up from /usr/include/dev/usb/usb_ioctl.h these days. Have you still got libusb (or some of its includes) installed on a system recent enough to have it in the base system? On my system, I do have : ]$ ls -la

Re: hal-0.5.14_7 to _8 upgrade problem

2010-06-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com writes: But is there a workarround somehow in case I DO need to specify options different from the default ?? I'd really want to know that, for in case ... cd /usr/ports/x11/kdebase4 make config This is covered in man ports.

Re: portsnap refuse

2010-06-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: The postsnap says adding refuse statements to select the parts of the port tree you have use for will shorten the download process and conserve disk space on your host. That only the port categories not REFUSED will be selected and compressed for download.

Re: hal-0.5.14_7 to _8 upgrade problem

2010-06-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com writes: I have a problem with upgrading hal-0.5.14_7 to hal-0.5.14_8 how to solve this? --- cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../.. -DPACKAGE_SYSCONF_DIR=\/usr/local/etc\ -D PACKAGE_DATA_DIR=\/usr/local/share\ -DPACKAGE_BIN_DIR=\/usr/local/bin\ -

Re: two questions....

2010-06-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: guys, i just found a truckload of Just Outstanding fonts. at the CTAN .org site there must be hundreds of these superb serif typefaces. in my /home/kline/ directory, i have a ~/.fonts directory. but it's been awhile since i've added to it. what's the

Re: getty repeating too quickly port /dev/ttyv8

2010-05-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com writes: I upgraded a FreebSD 7.2 to 8.0. That system had KDE and KDM as window manager. Now, after rebooting I get two messages on the console init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs. I can login at the console in text mode

Re: How to get more descriptive errors from auto-mount daemon?

2010-05-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Richard Morse remo...@partners.org writes: Hi! I'm using the auto-mount daemon to access another server via NFS, and I keep getting error messages in `/var/log/messages`: May 27 01:03:26 hedwig amd[9851]: mountd rpc failed: RPC: Can't decode result May 27 01:03:26 hedwig last

Re: kernel build fails - .depend, line 27905: Need an operator

2010-05-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Cornelius p...@gmx.net writes: Re. do the makebuildworld first. That's odd - I even *installed* world without any issue? You installed world without a new kernel? That would be a good way to make unnecessary trouble for yourself. Will try now anyways, though. Life's a mystery.

Re: Problem compiling lsof

2010-05-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.com writes: Sorry about the false start. Fat fingers. I'm trying to compile the lsof program in FreeBSD 8.0 on an i686 machine. There is a error referencing dlsof.h and it looks like there is an ugly hack in the header file. Any suggestions, besides playing

Re: ftp passive mode

2010-05-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com writes: I am behind firewall and only pass ftp sessions are allowed. With that, most ftp sessions of portupgrade would not be able to connect to remote FreeBSD sites. Could I reconfigure the my FreeBSD 7.3 in a way so that it would only start ftp sessions in PASV

Re: ftp passive mode

2010-05-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com writes: I am behind firewall and only pass ftp sessions are allowed. With that, most ftp sessions of portupgrade would not be able to connect to remote FreeBSD sites. Could I reconfigure the my FreeBSD

Re: 7.2 to 8.0 upgrade issues

2010-05-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
o...@aloha.com writes: Note that the handbook does not show -a and -R being used together. My thinking is that without the -R a new version of an existing port that requires something new -- that you do not already have -- will fail. Rather unlikely, to start with portupgrade -a --batch and

Re: 7.3-RELEASE: unable to compile custom kernel

2010-05-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Antonio Kless antoniok@gmail.com writes: if_rum.o(.text+0x3868):/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/if_rum.c:2324: undefined reference to `ieee80211_free_node' At a guess, you've got the rum device without wlan. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: Received signal 15; terminating.

2010-05-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
with this symptoms, if I sure that nobody could just type shutdown or halt in root console? Signal 15 is SIGTERM. That's the signal normally used by kill(1). In practice, you really only see it coming from user actions of some sort. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston

Re: Using different IP config than what DHCP provides

2010-05-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
way for the system to recognize where it is programatically. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: compile error kdelibs4

2010-05-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
customized your compiler usage? Do you have any settings in make.conf or other relevant /etc files? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

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