Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

2013-10-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/10/2013 21:41, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 16:00:25 -0400, Eric Feldhusen wrote: I see my /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC is a 9.2 kernel, so I should just be able to do a cd /usr/src make buildworld make installworld reboot and I'll be running up on the 9.2 kernel and

Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

2013-10-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/10/2013 04:51, Eric Feldhusen wrote: I figured I'd walk through those steps from start to finish and just correct my main problem and any other little glitches I might have. I'm on step 6 and when I run mergemaster -p, I get the following error. *** Creating the temporary root

Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

2013-10-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/10/2013 20:11, Eric Feldhusen wrote: I have a server that was/is running 9.1 release that I tried to upgrade to 9.2 release. I missed the step of updating to the latest 9.1 patches by doing freebsd-update fetch freebsd-update install I went right to freebsd-update upgrade -r

Re: zfs over geli over zfs

2013-10-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/10/2013 17:20, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: I am after a really specific use-case and the last minute transactions are important. Using a zpool over geli over a zvol. I'd like to know if during shutdown the kernel flushes all zfs files caches in order so these last minutes transactions won't

Re: zfs flag denoting unclean shutdown?

2013-10-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 02/10/2013 16:34, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Is there a way to know if a zfs pool had an unclean shutdown? An attribute or maybe something during mount time similar to what ufs does (WARNING: / was not properly dismounted)? Other than looking at the system logs for evidence of an abnormal

Re: Where is pkg repository for 9.2-RELEASE (amd64)?

2013-10-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 02/10/2013 21:07, Winston wrote: Summary: Where is the (U.S.) pkg(ng) repository for amd64 9.2-RELEASE (i.e., what's the right URI for PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf)? Things I tried that didn't work: * pkg_add -r pkg didn't create /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf * pkg.conf.sample suggests

Re: after pkgng update, daily run still using pkg_info

2013-09-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 30/09/2013 06:09, Gary Aitken wrote: On 09/28/13 10:52, Gary Aitken wrote: After switching to pkgng, I noticed that my daily run output constantly complains about the installed packages being corrupt, e.g.: pkg_info: the package info for package 'asciidoc-8.6.8_1' is corrupt The problem

Re: Gnome green screen of death

2013-09-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/09/2013 04:34, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I have installed X11 and Gnome on my computer equipped with FreeBSD 9.1. The X11 and Gnome packages were taken from the d.v.d.-r.o.m. that contained the operating system. The computer is

Re: PKGNG

2013-09-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 09/20/13 05:05, Ethan W. House wrote: What is the status of pkgng. The handbook says to use it but else were it says that the repos are empty due to a security incident last November. Are there beta repos hidden somewhere that can be used? The reason I ask is I want to install packages

Re: PKGNG

2013-09-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 09/20/13 10:59, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: The following links are not accessible ( at least from Turkey ) : http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/ http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-amd64/ http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-i386/ pkg-test.freebsd.org is a SRV record, not an A record[*].

Re: how to log sshd access in a single file

2013-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 16/09/2013 14:36, aurikus grande wrote: I try to add a line in /etc/hosts.allow which would allow and log all attempts using SSH (sshd). Actually, by default all logins via ssh are already logged to /var/log/auth.log Verb. Sap. tcpwrappers are mostly a lot less useful than they appear to

Re: howto kill x if x is running?

2013-09-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 15/09/2013 07:20, Gary Kline wrote: I've evidently had too many pain meds; this shelll script should be easy. say that I have a utility xxx running sometimes. xxx is soaking up a chunk of my load. I have to use top to find if xxx is running, then kill -9 to kill

Re: Shared object libaprutil-1.so.4 not found, required by libserf-1.so.0

2013-09-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/09/2013 21:03, Antonio Olivares wrote: [Info 19:57:22] Updating 'freebsd_texlive' source ports tree with method 'svn'. Shared object libaprutil-1.so.4 not found, required by libserf-1.so.0 [Error 19:57:22] Subversion update failed. [Error 19:57:22] Failed to update the

Re: Disappointing dependency introduced in 9.1 (from 8-STABLE)

2013-09-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/09/2013 05:53, Michael Sierchio wrote: Because I build a lot of embedded devices with serial consoles, I was in the habit of hacking /boot/loader by commenting out a line in a Makefile that enables terminal emulation /sys/boot/i386/libi386/Makefile: #CFLAGS+= -DTERM_EMU and then

Re: When statically linked Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)

2013-09-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 09/09/13 13:21, Unga wrote: This is FreeBSD 9.1 on i386. My program works well without any issue when all libraries are dynamically linked. But when some libraries are statically link and run it develops: Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) How I compile and link: cc myprog.c -Wall -O \

Re: CURDIR-relative paths in ports' Makefiles

2013-08-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/08/2013 13:04, Koslov Sergey wrote: Hello I've noticed that many ports are using ${.CURDIR}/../../some/port construction in their Makefiles. But if you copy on of these ports elsewhere it won't work as expected because of the relative path. Shouldn't they use ${PORTSDIR}/some/port

Re: Finding exactly which commands, and in which order, rc is running at startup

2013-08-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/08/2013 21:07, Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. After doing a freebsd-update, my system is starting up differently than it was before. I want to figure out why before I come here and say it's broken. Is there a way to say show me all of the commands you are running during startup?

Re: Way to be announced about security updates and new releases

2013-08-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/08/2013 08:10, dgmm wrote: On Wednesday 21 August 2013 07:54:06 Antonio Kless wrote: Is there any way to be noticed, when security updates or new releases are available? https://twitter.com/freebsd nearly would be a solution, if it did not repostquestions from its subscribers and

Re: pkgng problem

2013-08-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 16/08/2013 13:43, Michael W. Lucas wrote: Hi, I'm sure someone has had this before, but I can't find any reference to it. # pkg upgrade Updating repository catalogue digests.txz 100% 997KB 997.1KB/s 997.1KB/s 00:00 packagesite.txz 100%

Re: pkgng problem

2013-08-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 16/08/2013 16:02, Michael W. Lucas wrote: Thanks, Matt. # pkg -vv | sed -ne '/Repositories/,$p' Repositories: packagesite: url: http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-freebsd:9:x86:32/latest key: enabled: yes mirror_type: SRV Also: #

Re: pkg install on freshly installed 9.1 doesn't find any packages

2013-08-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 17/08/2013 05:41, Yuri wrote: I installed 9.1 from iso image. Then 'pkg' command brought pkg-1.0.11 package. Now commands like 'pkg install gnome2' always say: pkg: Package 'gnome2' was not found in the repositories. Am I missing something? This is vanilla 9.1 from DVD image. Nothing

Re: High availability on remote site

2013-08-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 15/08/2013 12:19, Olivier Nicole wrote: I have been assigned to offer HA on a 3 tiers architecture. Data storage tier will be MySQL, so replication is easy. HA should be implemented only on the Data storage tier, Active/Active, but one of the sites is remote! When everything is

Re: How to Fix Port Audit showing ports not installed on a system

2013-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/08/2013 19:23, dweimer wrote: Of course I have WITH_PKGNG=YES in the make.conf, and I believe that has been there ever since the server was built. Is my best option to get the correct list from pkg info use rm -r /var/db/pkg/* to clear everything out and then reinstall all of the ports?

Re: Update /usr/src with subversion

2013-08-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/08/2013 09:00, David Noel wrote: Does anyone know how a workaround for having to rm -rf /usr/src every time the source URL changes? I'm updating from 8.3 to 8.4 with subversion and got a message along the lines of Error: /usr/src/ contains files from a different URL. -David You need

Re: deleting managed content using svn

2013-08-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/08/2013 13:18, Robert Huff wrote: I have a system that uses svn to track src+ports+doc. For reasons I won't get into, I want to scrub all svn-managed material under src in preparation for grabbing a completely clean copy. In principle SVN will be able to tell you if your

Re: Update /usr/src with subversion

2013-08-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/08/2013 14:22, Warren Block wrote: Your solution looks a bit cleaner than the one proposed there: rm -r /usr/src/.svn, and then check out the new branch. I'll check out the man for svn switch. The new form is just 'svn relocate':

Re: learn

2013-08-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/08/2013 14:12, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From: Teymur.Rahimzade teymur.rahimz...@gmail.com To: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: learn Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:35:57 +0500 Hi. Please help me to learn freebsd unix. Many thanks. RTFM:

Re: Fwd: Glen Peterson from Wisconsin. Some questions

2013-07-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 31/07/2013 03:56, peterso...@aol.com wrote: I have been thinking about installing your FreeBSD onto some of my extra PC's that I have laying around, just to see what that Unix OS can do on my PC. I have a few questions, though, before I order your Install Disk to do that. I spoke to your

Re: 2 lines

2013-07-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/07/2013 17:38, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: Not sure what is the best way nowadays to get own /24 or at least /26 ? I wonder if there is second hand ip market :-) Get a /64 or a /48 and subnet it...? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP:

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/07/2013 06:38, David Noel wrote: Ok folks, thanks again for all the help. Using the feedback I submitted a PR (#180894) -- http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=180894. I also submitted a follow-up to it with Frank's code and notes. What next? I don't really know what happens from

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am looking for a functionality/port that works like 490.status- pkg-changes for my host. Question: is there any

Re: textproc/hunspell and readline?

2013-07-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/07/2013 09:30, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:58:59 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 18/07/2013 10:42, Walter Hurry wrote: I note that the Makefile for textproc/hunspell has '--with-readline' in the CONFIGURE_ARGS, but on 9.1 it doesn't seem to be honoured (or maybe

Re: textproc/hunspell and readline?

2013-07-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 18/07/2013 10:42, Walter Hurry wrote: I note that the Makefile for textproc/hunspell has '--with-readline' in the CONFIGURE_ARGS, but on 9.1 it doesn't seem to be honoured (or maybe it is, but at any rate it isn't recorded as a dependency or a shlib). 9.1-RELEASE-p4 amd64 with pkgng.

Re: Is pkgng supposed to upgrade a dependency of a locked package?

2013-07-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 18/07/2013 13:42, Paul Mather wrote: I am using pkgng 1.1.4_1 on RELENG_9 (r252725), operating on a local repo I maintain using poudriere 3.0.4. Recently, I wanted to upgrade all packages on a client except two whose update I want to defer for now as they potentially impact

Re: pkg: Unable to open ports directory /usr/ports: No such file or directory

2013-07-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 13/07/2013 11:17, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2013-07-12 13:25, Leslie Jensen skrev: When I run portsnap fetch update pkg version -vIL= It returns pkg: Unable to open ports directory /usr/ports: No such file or directory The directory is there and I can list the contents. What's

Re: Cannot Update Source Tree After Move To Subversion 1.8

2013-06-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/06/2013 20:28, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the update to svn 1.8, I did a new svn co of the FBSD 9-STABLE source branch. When I try to do an update to it, I see this now: svn: E155005: Working copy not locked at /usr/scr svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src

Re: What is the correct CPUTYPE for this machine?

2013-06-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/06/2013 17:02, Michael Gass wrote: On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 10:10:10AM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 June 2013 09:34, Michael Gass mg...@csbsju.edu wrote: I have an old laptop: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243826: Tue Dec 4 06:55:39 UTC 2012

Re: pkgng dependencies change / update

2013-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 31/05/2013 16:26, b...@todoo.biz wrote: Hi, I am trying to figure out how to change / update the dependencies on a package. I have a postfix package which comes from a server where mysql-client is in version 5.1 And I would like to install the same package on a server where

Re: BSD sleep

2013-05-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/05/2013 05:59, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: You think it's trivial until you read this: http://infiniteundo.com/post/**25326999628/falsehoods-**

Re: pkg_version says my ports need to be updated?

2013-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/05/2013 19:00, Ed Flecko wrote: Clearly, I'm doing something wrong. :-) I thought I was using svn to keep my ports, src and docs up to date, but pkg_version seems to disagree. I'm running 9.1 and I've installed ports, src, and docs as part of my install. After that, I use

Re: swap partition leads to instability?

2013-05-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/05/2013 09:58, M. V. wrote: hi everyone, I have a 24/7 network server/gateway with FreeBSD-8.2 on a SSD drive. it's partitioned as normal (/ , /tmp, /var , /usr and swap) for a long time now. But recently I heard from a FreeBSD expert that I shouldn't have swap partition for my

Re: /etc/jail.conf for automatically started jails listed in /etc/rc.conf

2013-05-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/05/2013 14:31, dweimer wrote: I can confirm that PostgreSQL will not run in a jail without sysvipc enabled, I just setup a jail running PostgreSQL a few weeks ago and had to do that as well. PostgreSQL will not start without it enabled, though perhaps there is some setting change in

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 10/05/2013 21:04, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Anyway, at the moment, and for me at least, my results remain entirely perplexing. I cannot imagine what might possibly be the explanation for the results attached below. If anyone can offer a theory, I'm all ears. Meanwhile, I'll be cleaning

Re: X11 screen grabber from cmd line

2013-05-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 10/05/2013 07:09, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 9 May 2013 20:41:45 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: Do we have something in the ports which could do a screen shoot of $DISPLAY, but from the cmd line of an alpha console, and save it as PNG or JPEG? % xwd -out screen.xwd % convert

Re: pwd.db/spwd.db file corupption when having unsafe system poweroff

2013-05-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/05/2013 07:12, takCoder wrote: Furthermore, file system corruption due to an abrupt cut of power should be avoided. Whenever the system comes up in a non-clean state, fsck should be run first, _then_ the boot process should continue. Still it's possible that this process leaves

Re: update from apache22 to apache24

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/05/2013 15:47, Jerry wrote: I was just wondering if anyone had updated from apache22 to apache24. Specifically, are there any problems to be overcome? Does the existing httpd.conf file work with the apache24 branch. httpd.conf might or might not work -- there are some incompatible

Re: pkg question

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/05/2013 21:26, Walter Hurry wrote: Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING: 20130502: AFFECTS: users of ports-mgmt/pkg, ports-mgmt/poudriere, ports-mgmt/ tinderbox AUTHOR: bdrew...@freebsd.org This only affects people

Re: Updating package from www.freshports.org

2013-04-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/04/2013 19:33, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm a longtime Debian user who is trying out FreeBSD, so very much a newbie here. I wanted to get spectrwm-2.2.0 which I found on www.freshports.org. After a lot of googling I tried first cvsup and then svn, using the command svn co

Re: Sendmail 8.14.5/8.14.5 on fbsd-9.1R (EC2)

2013-04-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/04/2013 16:51, jflowers wrote: All I want to do is have the MTA listen on 127.0.0.1 port 1025 and have no sendmail process listen on the server interface. That's being done by assp which proxies messages to 127.0.0.1:1025. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out how to turn

Re: Why is pkg_glob no longer working for me?

2013-04-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/04/2013 14:43, Robert Huff wrote: I use portupgrade for two features: portsclean (for which there is probably a pkgng replacement, I just haven't bothered to check) and pkg_sort (for which there is no alternative) which is necessary for certain scripts. Well, given that pkgng is a

Re: Sendmail 8.14.5/8.14.5 on fbsd-9.1R (EC2)

2013-04-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/04/2013 17:43, doug wrote: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=587, Addr= 111.222.333.444, Name=MSA, M=E') If sendmail is listening on port 587, it will relay for any valid sender who can reach that port. You see where it says 'M=E' in that DAEMON_OPTIONS line? That should probably be changed to

Re: Managing conflicts between ports (same package with multiple maintained versions)

2013-04-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/04/2013 10:24, Matthias Petermann wrote: root@compaq:/usr/ports/finance/trytond # portlint -AC [...] FATAL: Package conflicts with itself. You should remove trytond-* from CONFLICTS. 1 fatal error and 4 warnings found. root@compaq:/usr/ports/finance/trytond # So it looks like I need

Re: Keeping FreeBSD uptodate with svn, freebsd-update complaining

2013-04-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/04/2013 09:19, Melanie Schulte wrote: [I wasn't sure what the most appropriate list for this issue is...] Hello! Recently (after the latest OpenSSL security issue) I have updated my FreeBSD install from source. i.e., I have updated my source tree (under /usr/src) with svn and did

Re: Moving to pkg

2013-04-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/04/2013 06:37, Leslie Jensen wrote: Are pkg dependent on FreeBSD Version? I've moved two 9.1 machines and I have one 8.2 that I would like to move to pkg. So can I move the 8.2 machine also? Yes, you can. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP:

Re: Moving to pkg

2013-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 30/03/2013 06:30, Leslie Jensen wrote: I've done pkg2ng and added WITH_PKGNG=yes to /etc/make.conf When I do portsnap fetch update and pkg_version -vIL= To check which ports needs updating, I now get a message for all installed ports that the info are corrupt. Like this

Re: Ah crap! pkg_version: the package info for package '...' is corrupt

2013-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 30/03/2013 08:17, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Today my system crashed twice while I was doing portupgrade -a. I'm not sure but I suspect the new cards I have installed recently may just be a bit too much for the old power supply I have. (When the thing crashed, the machine just simply

Re: Operation timed out with smtp.gmail.com - please help

2013-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 30/03/2013 10:14, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: The university IT support page: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/it-services/applications/email/gmail/manual-config-gmail.html actually says that port 465 SSL should be used, so I also tried: $ openssl s_client -connect smtp.gmail.com:465 -starttls

Re: EOL

2013-03-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/03/2013 15:19, David Thurber wrote: I have 5 XP machines on my node that are used to crunch data 24/7. So, I'm looking for an OS platform that has a 10 year EOL to replace XP/3. What I got from your website appears to be a year or two at most on freebsd 8.3, and we really don't want to

Re: software support

2013-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/03/2013 14:10, Oblitey, Edmund wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD on a E7520/6300ESB chipset. Program freezes during probing devices. It always restart when it gets to the atkbd0. Want to know if u can help me on it. Sounds like there's something on-board that either isn't supported

Re: Still a problem with 'pkg check -Ba'

2013-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/03/2013 19:18, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:13:04 +, Walter Hurry wrote: I hope Matthew Seaman sees this: All the files are of course present and correct in /usr/local/lib/ virtualbox snip code Should have mentioned: This is pkg-1.0.9_2 I see

Re: Still a problem with 'pkg check -Ba'

2013-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/03/2013 21:36, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 26/03/2013 19:18, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:13:04 +, Walter Hurry wrote: I hope Matthew Seaman sees this: All the files are of course present and correct in /usr/local/lib/ virtualbox snip code Should have mentioned

Re: Leaking disk space

2013-03-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/03/2013 15:23, Dan Thomas wrote: Hi Guys, We're seeing a problem with some of our FreeBSD/PostgreSQL servers leaking quite significant amounts of disk space: df -h /usr/local/pgsql/ Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mfid1s1d1.1T

Re: make deinstall within /usr/ports/lang - need to recover default language installs

2013-03-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/03/2013 07:54, Rob Navarro wrote: Hi Chaps, I typed make deinstall within the /usr/ports/lang directory of a FreeBSD 9.0 and mistakenly lost Perl, Python, Ruby and a whole host of default compiled languages. How can I get back to the default FreeBSD default installed language state

Re: Error: shared library mysqlclient.18 does not exist

2013-03-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/03/2013 16:59, Jeff Tipton wrote: I'm trying to set up security/maia, and this is the error message I get: Error: shared library mysqlclient.18 does not exist Of course, the library does exist :( # ls /usr/local/lib/mysql/ libmysqlclient.a libmysqlclient_r.a libmysqld.a

Re: make package vs pkg create

2013-02-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/02/2013 16:33, Joshua Isom wrote: I tried making a build jail, not with pourdriere or tinderbox. I just went to the ports and ran `make -DBATCH package-recursive clean` to get packages created. I ran `pkg add *` in the packages/All directory, but all failed because of MANIFEST missing.

Re: PERL problem installing SQLgrey

2013-02-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/02/2013 21:22, lcon...@go2france.com wrote: === p5-Date-Calc-6.3 depends on package: p5-Bit-Vector=7.1 - not found ===Verifying install for p5-Bit-Vector=7.1 in /usr/ports/math/p5-Bit-Vector === Extracting for p5-Bit-Vector-7.2_2 = SHA256 Checksum mismatch for

Re: Cannot resolve localhost

2013-02-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/02/2013 22:35, Martin Pola wrote: I'm trying to get my FreeBSD system to resolve localhost into 127.0.0.1, but unfortunately it doesn't work. It appears the resolver is never reading from /etc/hosts, where I have this line: 127.0.0.1 localhost Here's a sample output of what I get when

Re: pkg -c/pkg -j question

2013-02-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 13/02/2013 15:58, Arthur Chance wrote: A question for pkgng gurus. When using pkg -c or pkg -j to work within chroots or jails, how much of the pkg infrastructure needs to be present in the chroot/jail? The reason I ask is because I'm thinking of building a server which has all services

Re: pkgng

2013-02-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/02/2013 17:43, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:54:00 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 15/12/2012 18:23, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:31:03 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: 'm slowly collecting examples of applications where the shlib analysis doesn't work properly

Re: where is 1GB of RAM

2013-02-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/02/2013 19:44, Wojciech Puchar wrote: real memory = 34359738368 (32768 MB) avail memory = 33167446016 (31630 MB) where did 1GB of memory go? Used by the kernel. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: Delete /var/db/pkg.bak?

2013-01-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
with the kind and able assistance of Matthew Seaman). I have no intention of trying to 'go back', so my question is this: Is it safe now to clear out the pkg.bak file which was created by pkg2ng at the time of conversion? I'm almost sure it is, but just want to make certain. Um... it's

Re: sh export

2013-01-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/01/2013 01:11, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 07:41:35PM -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: This is what I am looking at in a sh script echo export jail_${jailname}_hostname=\${jailname}\ puts it into the env and this brings it back out eval jailname=\\$jail_${jailname}_hostname\

Re: [OT-ish] Need a Binary for lang/sml-nj

2013-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/01/2013 02:57, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: On 01/26/13 15:52, Jimmy Olgeni wrote: Hello, On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: The pkg repo's are down. I'm not sure how you got it to work (if you did). It will not work on this end, thanks though. It seems to work from here.

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/01/2013 00:11, W. D. wrote: What would be the best Cron command to keep ports updated on a daily basis? Try this as a crontab entry: 0 3 * * * * /usr/sbin/portsnap cron update Two points to note: 1) The 'cron' verb is important for anyone setting up an automated job like this.

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/01/2013 08:35, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: Last 10 years I am using cvsup. Any good guide for the transition to subversion ? Most of the guides around freebsd.org are aimed at developers who will be using SVN read-write. For simple read-only use (ie. not checking anything into the

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/01/2013 10:07, Mike Clarke wrote: I suppose the best approach with ZFS would be to make a snapshot immediately prior to running portsnap. Yes. That would do the trick quite neatly. In fact, snapshot before each time you run portsnap. Cheers Matthew -- Dr Matthew J

Re: creating new user account password.

2013-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/01/2013 20:06, Fbsd8 wrote: I know I can create a new user account having a password same as the user name. After logging in the first time using the user account name as the password, I want to force the user to create a new password. Is there a way to do that? You can set the password

Re: pkgng package repository tracking security updates

2013-01-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/01/2013 22:44, n j wrote: One thing to think about would be the option of port maintainers uploading the pre-compiled package of the updated port (or if the size of the upload is an issue then just the hash signature of the valid package archive so other people with more bandwidth can

Re: SSH on FreeBSD

2013-01-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 15/01/2013 10:10, Mannase Nyathi wrote: I have just configured FreeBSD on my server. I would like to find out how can I be able to login to it via ssh? Start by editing /etc/rc.conf and add the line: sshd_enable=YES (anywhere in the file -- order doesn't matter) Then as root:

Re: pkgng package repository tracking security updates

2013-01-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/01/2013 13:10, Andrei Brezan wrote: I thing that it's good to wait for ports to compile and to be able to chose your configure options for the packages you install. It's good to know what options you need and what options you don't and why, that's one of the reasons why i'm using

Re: pkgng package repository tracking security updates

2013-01-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/01/2013 14:36, n j wrote: The point of my question was exactly if it was possible to elaborate on the pre-compiled packages from FreeBSD official repositories part. Would it be possible to have a (security-wise) up-to-date pre-compiled packages in the official repositories? Note, I don't

Re: pkgng - Symlinks created by portupgrade?

2013-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/01/2013 15:18, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:50:34 +, Walter Hurry wrote: Thank you yet again, Matthew. As always, you are a fount of knowledge. The guidance on LATEST_LINK has helped a great deal. I still have a further question or two though; I shall follow up

Re: Unable to install xorg using pkg_add

2013-01-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 10/01/2013 16:30, Scott Eberl wrote: Hello, I just installed FreeBSD last night using the bootonly image for 9.0-RELEASE. I then updated to 9.1-RELEASE using freebsd-update. Everything seems to have gone smoothly but now I'm getting the below error when trying to isntall xorg. Error:

Re: make install package?

2013-01-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 10/01/2013 21:21, Fbsd8 wrote: Is the upcoming pkgng going to have any effect on this? No. The layout of /usr/ports/packages is controlled at a rather lower level by the Makefiles in /usr/ports/Mk. pkgng doesn't really care about this layout in any case since pkgng repositories don't need

Re: pkgng - Symlinks created by portupgrade?

2013-01-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 09/01/2013 18:31, Walter Hurry wrote: I am using pkgng. When I issue 'portupgrade package -p', after build and installation, it builds a new package, as advertised. This (by default) is put into /usr/ ports/packages/All. At the same time, it installs a set of symlinks; one for each

Re: Unreferenced Libraries?

2013-01-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 07/01/2013 14:27, Walter Hurry wrote: 9.1-RELEASE on amd64. libchk reports the following libraries (among others) as unreferenced: /usr/lib/libBlocksRuntime.so.0 /usr/lib/libform.so.5 /usr/lib/libformw.so.5 /usr/lib/libgpib.so.3 /usr/lib/libgssapi_ntlm.so.10

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and this is how install offers to configure the network; but my host has Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express, which is bge0 driver in FB. How

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: I selected powerd service during install, but after boot, there was error msg: starting powerd powerd lookup freq: No such file or directory /etc/rc: WARNING failed to start powerd Again -- standard for VirtualBox hosts: powerd doesn't work -- the

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: when I am logged out from FB, and I do (I tested it repeatedly) Machine-Close-Power off the machine to cloce VM with FB, then on subsequent VM Start and FB reboot I get error msgs: ... Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ada0s1a [rw]...

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:52, jb wrote: Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org writes: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and this is how install offers to configure the network; but my host has Broadcom Corporation

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 12:09, jb wrote: A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation env (VB here) ? If so, would it make sense to sanitize it to avoid offering install options that are irrelevant/inappropriate ? This is FreeBSD. It doesn't hold your hand and wipe the

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE - does not install package

2013-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/01/2013 17:56, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: On 01/03/13 11:50, Celso Viana wrote: Hi all, I can not install the package subversion with pkg_add -r pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.1-release/Latest/subversion.tbz' by URL I observed

Re: pkgng - Obsolete Dependencies?

2013-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/01/2013 20:59, Walter Hurry wrote: On several of my boxes (set up with pkgng), libcheck was recorded as a dependency of a number of (wxPython etc.) packages. However, I noticed that on a fresh install, libcheck did not get pulled in. So I returned to the older boxes and reinstalled

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 02/01/2013 08:00, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: In this case for a new Nas4free machine, will you recommend to base it on 9.0 or 9.1 ? Either. Whichever one works best for you, and if you can't distinguish them on performance or bug-fixes, choose 9.1. However, don't fall into the trap of

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 02/01/2013 14:42, Fbsd8 wrote: what is the status of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-current/Latest/ which is on the ftp servers? The latest packages there are what was compiled before the security incident. It hasn't been updated since. Cheers,

Re: freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 02/01/2013 20:55, Paul Schmehl wrote: I wasn't thinking when I wrote this. Freebsd-update pulls *binary* copies of files, so you're not ever going to get the src files to rebuild your kernel from freebsd-update. You need to pull those in using svn. Not so. Take a look at

Re: http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2013-01-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/01/2013 13:01, Bekim's Mac wrote: It's traditional to actually ask a question... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

2013-01-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 02/01/2013 05:20, doug wrote: Is this command being phased out? pkg_add -r uses a default environment of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.1-release/Latest/ In fact, yes, pkg_add and the other pkg_tools commands are being phased out in favour of pkgng. However it is

Re: Optimus VGA support in new release 9.1

2012-12-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 31/12/2012 10:15, Ashkan Rahmani wrote: I really want to migrate to FreeBSD for daily usages, Bu my main issue is my vga card on my notebook, this is optimus. any body knows is it supported in this new release? That's an nVidia card. The FreeBSD version is pretty much irrelevant here.

Re: utility to compare 2 dir trees

2012-12-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/01/2013 01:23, Fbsd8 wrote: I want to compare 2 different directory trees to each other to locate any differences in directories and files contained there in. Any suggestions? diff -ru directory1 directory2 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP:

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