Re: Firebird client fails port install

2008-12-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
installed by ports run as special-purpose users. What is the reason you're trying to install ports as a different user? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 rl0 watchdog timeout with custom kernel

2008-12-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
rl0: watchdog timeout rl0: watchdog timeout Any mistake? The rl driver supports some really terrible hardware, so I'm far from convinced that your custom kernel is causing the problems. Perhaps you could check by switching back to a GENERIC kernel for a while. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded

Re: Firebird client fails port install

2008-12-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au writes: On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 14:29 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au writes: I'm trying to install php5-extensions (which includes firebird), but its failing with an error code 1 on firebird20-client. It does mention

Re: Firebird client fails port install

2008-12-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au writes: On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 15:49 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au writes: On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 14:29 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au writes: I'm trying to install php5

Re: Centralized DB of system users

2008-12-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, was developed by Sun Microsystems to centralize administration of UNIX (originally SunOS) systems. It has now essentially become an industry standard; all major UNIX like systems (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX(R), Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, etc) support NIS. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded

Re: Centralized DB of system users

2008-12-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to get running with VMS or Windows, but Samba should clean bridge that gap for you. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: USB Flash Drives

2008-12-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
these drives. But if FreeBSD does, I need instructions on how-to-use. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help. Rather than mounting the disks, I find it easier to use the mtools port (emulators/mtools). The commands look like the old ms-dos commands, and include a copy command. -- Lowell

Re: USB Keyboard is not working with a custom kernel

2008-12-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
/ukbd0). Since kbdmux has been introduced, focus is on all keybpards that are plugged into the system, so it doesn't matter where you type something. Maybe you could check the presence of kbdmux or use an AT keyboard to check via kbdcontrol. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: printer not found... printing with LPRng and foomatic

2008-11-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
in openprinting section lpd and I chmoded 0755 lprng.sh How about lpq -P ip2200_usb_ps? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: SNMPD Consuming Swap Space

2008-11-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
like this are often caused by wraparound bugs or infinite loops in my experience, although there are lots of other possibilities. If you can get a stack traceback when it crashes, that will is quite likely to give a solid clue. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: gd-2.0.35 won't install on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

2008-11-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
FuLLBLaSTstorm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GD-2.0.35 fails to install on my production server saying that GD_FONTS not found. How can I solve this problem? How were you trying to install gd? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: gcc cross-compiler for linux

2008-11-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nov 2008 15:04:27 -0500 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xavier Otazu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to compile a C++ code to be executed within the linux emulator. http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-xdev Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer

Re: KDM stopping

2008-11-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org

Re: Update a package

2008-11-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
). Can ports be fetched remotely? Sure. pkg_add(1) has a '-r' option for fetching remotely, and portupgrade(1) has a '-P' option to specify using packages (it will fetch from FreeBSD servers if possible). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
monitoring the traffic on the network as well. I don't put many limits on what my kid can do on the network, but he knows I'm looking over his shoulder. Virtually speaking. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: cvsup: local

2008-11-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
a number of questions so that it can configure cvsupd properly, and you won't need to worry about it. Use whichever one you want; I don't see any reason to prefer one or the other. Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: Kernel crash before dumpon

2008-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
want to go to the freebsd-hackers list, or look at the cvs logs for whoever's modified the dump code in the last year or so. Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: gcc cross-compiler for linux

2008-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Xavier Otazu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to compile a C++ code to be executed within the linux emulator. http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-xdev -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: `Serial connectivity' with something other than sio*?

2008-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to in the handbook is: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html . There's dcons(4). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: cvsup: local

2008-11-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
fire jotawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fire jotawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have my small box, 10.3.1.25 ip, that cvsup-ed files from repository into it. it use cvs-supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup

Re: compat libs in FreeBSD 7.0

2008-11-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mats Lindberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi What happened to the compatibility libraries in FreeBSD 7.0 release Need to run some FreeBSD-5.4 binaries on a 7.0 System. Can't find the libs any longer Try ports: misc/compat5x -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston

Re: Creating a CUPS printer instance from web interface?

2008-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
printer options' but it does not allow me to create instances. The base page for CUPS has a button labeled Add Printer. On *my* setup, anyway. What it really does is add a queue, so you can do it any number of times for the same physical printer. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: do we have any grammar checkers for FBSD?

2008-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
working for me. The dictionaries are no longer installed with OpenOffice by default -- as I understand it, this is because there are now so many different languages that would need to be included. The documentation I used was at: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: do we have any grammar checkers for FBSD?

2008-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
mistakes that a spell checker will always miss. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

boot-time daemon startup (was Re: Newbie question)

2008-11-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. Rc.d anyone? On FreeBSD? Everyone, pretty much. My assumption is that FBSD is using inetd for starting services correct? No. inetd isn't even started these days unless you override FreeBSD's defaults on purpose. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to a printer on a recent Mac. I haven't, even though I've got one in my house. I know that the Mac's printer shows up more or less automagically on the FreeBSD (CUPS) machines on the LAN, but I don't think I've tried actually printing to it. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer

Re: 7.1

2008-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
* problems with what you installed. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: net-snmp port upgrade build error

2008-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
failed The port is trying to be upgraded with the same version as installed or? The version in ports is 5.4.2.1, and that's the one you want to have. I'm not sure why you didn't get it by using portsnap, but it's been in the tree for a couple of days already. Have you tried again? -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: cvsup first time - connection refused

2008-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
work, check that your firewall or router aren't blocking things. That's almost certainly the problem. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: make doesn't know how to make KERNCONF

2008-11-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
makefiles weren't installed. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: make doesn't know how to make KERNCONF

2008-11-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to exercise my psychic technical support powers, I might guess that the system makefiles weren't installed. Question to the original poster: how did you install the sources? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: port upgrade problem: libncurses.so.5.6 not found

2008-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what would happen if I don't compile ports all over again? will my system crash? No, but any new program linked to some old libraries will. If you've rebuilt *any* ports, then (in practice) you really want to rebuild all of them. -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: trouble getting x11 xdm to work

2008-11-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My /etc/ttys looks like this ttyv6 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv7 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure #ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure #ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm on

Re: trouble getting x11 xdm to work

2008-11-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
turned that off all ready before running xdm from root command line. Since you're still getting that error message, you obviously didn't succeed at turning off the getty. If you're not getting that message any more, what symptoms *do* you see? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning

2008-11-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
and dictionary files. I had the same experience. Note that to install the dictionaries for all users, I needed write access to /usr/local/openoffice.org-3.0.0/openoffice.org/basis3.0/share/dict/ooo and to some of the files inside of it. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer

Re: Wireless Nic rtl8187se

2008-11-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wilson Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi people, i recently bought a MSI Wind U100x and couldnt configure my wireless nic because it was not identified, how can i identify my wireless nic? Was it probed on boot at all? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston

Re: cvsup: local

2008-11-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
by a protected network, a better approach (easier, anyway) would probably be to cvsup the changes to just one machine, then NFS-mount that machine's ports tree from the other machine. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: CVSup update nagios-3.0.4_1

2008-11-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
therefrom) is what portversion is looking at to determine what's out of date. Check the ports-mgmt/nagios/Makefile to be sure it is in fact showing the new version. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Unable to mount / in read - write mode

2008-11-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Error trying to fetch kdebase-workspace-4.1.3.tar.bz2

2008-11-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=portname=kdebase4-workspacewildcard= but that's obviously missing real data, because I found the package in my local package mirror: ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/All/kdebase-workspace-4.1.1.tbz -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded

Re: libexpat is missing

2008-10-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Firewalls in FreeBSD?

2008-10-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
triggering in the residential router world. I don't know how to do this on FreeBSD. Stateful rules are the only way to do it. In fact, this is the main purpose of stateful rules. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Firewalls in FreeBSD?

2008-10-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:05:28PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:34:31PM -0500, Jack Barnett wrote: Ok, I had some progress with this last night. Basically what I do

Re: Firewalls in FreeBSD?

2008-10-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:35:30PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Okay, I guess I'm a little confused by the line about ONLY allow data back on these ports IF the windows box has established the connection out first then deny everything else. I read

Re: Seg Fault Action!

2008-10-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, but at the moment my machines with the ports collection installed are powered down... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Seg Fault Action!

2008-10-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
a somewhat different concept, on a different OS, that I am dealing with at work. Sorry. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: kqemu runs 2x faster on i386 than amd64!?

2008-10-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
16TB. It also gets picked up by the geom framework. I'm not sure about booting, although there are tantalizing hints in the manual pages. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
-WHEEL-GROUP -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
that there was more going on than we were told. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: what else is needed to make ftp passive work

2008-10-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the switch to Extended Passive Mode to run quickly? I'd recommend looking at the traffic being seen on the wire (e.g., with tcpdump(1) on the interface on the sending side). I'll guess, though, that you'll find that the data channel is being blocked from getting into the server. -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: Auto Backup Data and Delete for Account Expired

2008-10-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
help, but I'm sure a more thorough search would bring up more possibilities. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: KDE 4 Cannot run as regular user

2008-10-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
/usr/src/sys/xxx i386 I'm sure this is a very little issue but I appreciate your patience and help in resolving this issue. I'll guess the problem isn't related to KDE, but to X in general. Can you start twm as your local user? With a minimal .xinitrc file? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
filesystems use 64-bit times, so the data is good to go on 64-bit systems. And in theory it should be possible to change time_t to unsigned, and get another two-thirds of a century out of it... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: daily/weekly/monthly periodic output

2008-10-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
variables are exactly what you want, and there are example values listed. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: detecting monitor's sync and refresh rate?

2008-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
: are the settings written on the back of the monitor? You can always try Google... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Can't get soundcard to work

2008-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' class = multimedia I think you will need a somewhat recent FreeBSD to support that controller. What version are you running? What drivers have you loaded? snd_driver? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: Help With [seemingly] Simple Problem

2008-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
sizes. Is there a way to do the same from command line? Many. I would recommend using rsync, which is available from ports. Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Securing system with kern.securelevel

2008-10-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
and kern_securelevel variables. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Using global environment variables inside a subshell

2008-10-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
limited to the variables that are listed in the crontab(5) manual. You need to get the value into your script another way. In this case, I would use hostname(1). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: dmesg smart error

2008-09-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
? For a knowledgeable opinion, you'd need to ask someone who knows the SMART spec. Just guessing from the message, though, I'd be more prone to blame the cable first. Run the smart tools' disk test, and it will tell you whether you have anything to worry about. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking

Re: Flooded with emails to root -- URGG

2008-09-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
far!!) As far as you know. ;-) -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: dovecot, maildir, UFS 2 performance

2008-09-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
: dump(8) works on a filesystem basis, so organizing the data for backup (with dump) means organizing according to filesystem. The same applies to snapshots. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: using /dev/random

2008-09-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
on my server, which helps with performance in some cases... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: using /dev/random

2008-09-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
on my server, which helps with performance in some cases... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Problem report not showing up?

2008-09-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
mailing list. Can I assume it's in a review queue to determine whether or not it's legit, or should I assume it is lost and resubmit it? If you're sure it hasn't shown up (search on subject as well as sender), then resubmit. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston

Re: configure NAT with demand dial interface?

2008-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp [see the -auto and -nat options] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD CVS tag

2008-09-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 2008-09-16T14:40:15-04:00, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The CVSROOT/config file supports LocalKeyword. Is it supported in the version of CVS that comes with the base system? It didn't work for me with the system CVS. According to the CVS CVS repo

Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang

2008-09-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to break to the kernel debugger (details in developers' handbook). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD CVS tag

2008-09-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
(!) the CVS compatibility (no s/Header/Foobar/). The CVSROOT/config file supports LocalKeyword. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: InstallJammer on Fbsd 7.0 ?

2008-09-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. It would get you that library, at least. To be honest, I wouldn't trust an install package that I didn't have the source for... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: /etc/hosts not working

2008-09-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
`hosts: files dns' and host.conf has `hosts\n dns' Any idea why the system calls are not honouring /etc/hosts? Since ping works, I'm sure that they are. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Local patches to ports?

2008-09-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
in a Makefile.local in the directory, which will get included by the ports makefiles. The latter is usually easier. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd

Re: ssh

2008-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. Still a desirable goal. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: joomla15-1.5.3 has known vulnerabilities:

2008-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
tethys ocean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all one of the co-locatin customer want to use joomla(lestest version 15) i want to install from port but i ve taken this error [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/www/joomla15]# make install clean === joomla15-1.5.3 has known vulnerabilities: = joomla

Re: Compiling Issue

2008-09-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, even if software tests have been passing. Heat-related issues would be a good guess; perhaps you can monitor some motherboard temperature values. Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: upgrade path from 5.5

2008-09-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
files are both updated, and that nothing is lost. Would the correct path be 5.5 - 6.3 - 7.0? That should be fine. RELENG_6 instead of 6.3 would also work, and so on... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: broken autoconf upgrade

2008-09-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Problems building port, missing library(?)

2008-09-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
-2.0 any ideas why this happened and how can i fix it? Looks like portupgrade itself might be the thing having the problem. Try rebuilding it. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Logo

2008-09-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Albert Cervin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm just wondering if it is okay to use your logo (the one at the top of your homepage) on our webpage. We use FreeBSD on our server and are very happy with it so we wanted to put Powered by: and then the logo at the bottom of our admin page. Is that

Re: keeping clocks synced on a dual boot machine

2008-08-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to agree? Create /etc/wall_cmos_clock, as covered in the manuals for tzsetup(8) and adjkerntz(8). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Help changing the prompt

2008-08-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the user's shell (e.g., with chsh). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Auto Mount USB

2008-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Brian Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not a big deal. I will be sure to just mount and dismount the USB drives manually. They are just there to store a config and log backup on the firewall. I am doing this so that if I have a failure or attack or some other type of crash. I will be able to

Re: Fetching precompiled packages for external install

2008-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to know if somebody could point me to a command which allows me to solve the following task: I have a machine that is not connected to the Internet. If it was, I would use # pkg_add -r package to install the software I want. I have

Re: Memory requirement for fsck_ffs in recovery session

2008-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to lose by trying... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Could not find bsd.port.options.mk

2008-07-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I run portupgrade I get the following make error: Makefile, line 55: Could not find bsd.port.options.mk However, this file is located at: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.options.mk What's going wrong? Do you have the one in /usr/share/mk? -- Lowell

Re: Problem building openssh-portable with KERBEROS, GSSAPI, KERB_GSSAPI.

2008-07-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
of days old. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: tex, teTex, LaTeX help

2008-07-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
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Re: tex, teTex, LaTeX help

2008-07-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:05:59 +0100, Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joey Mingrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fonts, but it seems they are in the teTex port, but that port conflicts with the tex port

Re: Building modules distributed with Apache, using ports

2008-07-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
mod_auth_ldap and mod_ldap from the Apache 2.0 distribution. Is it possible to use the www/apache20 port to build these, or additional modules generally, without rebuilding/reinstalling Apache itself? Not really, no. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. And, not only that, but it's about 4.4BSD (1993?), so the exact OS described is quite old*; Not quite correct. The more recent edition was retitled to more accurately denote the fact that it covers FreeBSD (5). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: Has anyone used libusb for accessing usb devices here?

2008-07-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to know if anyone here on the list has ever used libusb (http://libusb.sourceforge.net) for accessing usb devices. I successfully compiled and installed it on my FreeBSD 7 laptop but when I run a test program no USB HUBs are found. The same

Re: Problem running 'top' when ldap is around

2008-07-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
didn't spend enough time looking to be sure). I'm not sure I answered your question; if you are still wondering, can you please reword the question? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Reading from USB devices

2008-07-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the device? Start with usb(4). HID devices tend to be easier to deal with than others, but I doubt your instruments are in that category. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: dump and restore

2008-07-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
that next time then. The actual partition size was ~200GB, but around 74Gb data. If you can, it's always *much* preferable to dump an unmounted partition. I suspect your problems here had more to do with the bad disk, though. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: (un)mounting usb disk as non root user

2008-07-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
This is a Frequently Asked Question. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd

Re: ports

2008-07-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: wordpress package install failure

2008-07-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
is just out of date. Try building from the port, or wait for the package set to get rebuilt (and hope nothign else changes first). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: PPS and thunderbird

2008-07-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
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Re: autoconf problem when trying to portupgrade

2008-07-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # pkgdb -F --- Checking the package registry database Stale origin: 'devel/autoconf262': perhaps moved or obsoleted. Have you tried pkg_deinstall devel/autoconf262? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

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