Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 24 May 2012 23:55:17 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: 5. It looks like the options which show up using sysinstall are from the OPTIONS variable in the Makefile. Excuse me, where exactly do you see compile-time options in the sysinstall program? I know it can select and install packages,

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 24 May 2012 23:56:02 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: Is there a way to find out what options a package is built with? I don't think so. A package is just an archive containing truncated subtrees such as bin/, lib/ or man/ of the compiled programs, ready for install into the /usr/local

FreeBSD and Diablo III (partial solved)

2012-05-25 Thread David Naylor
Hi All, The following instructions allows one to play Diablo III under either i386 or amd64 FreeBSD 9. Unfortunately actually installing the game does not work due to problems with Agent.exe however once installed (from a Windows instance) the game runs well, with 48 hours reported as error

Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I'm searching for a cloud software :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Personnal PC, Mac, smartphones and tablets ... etc )

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote: Hello I'm searching for a cloud software :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a cloud software :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Personnal PC, Mac, smartphones

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/05/2012 10:11, Frank Bonnet wrote: a kind of private cloud Uh... Isn't 'private' essentially the antithesis of 'cloud'? Unless you have quite a lot of hardware to play with. I believe what you are looking for is what we old codgers would describe as a Web Site... Cheers,

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a cloud software :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ...

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 05/25/2012 12:10 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a cloud software :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Staals
Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr writes: Hello I'm searching for a cloud software :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Personnal PC,

Re: Extend Error Handling

2012-05-25 Thread Venkat Duvvuru
Folks - Any inputs on this? for reference http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt /Venkat On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Venkat Duvvuru venkatduvvuru...@gmail.comwrote: Linux has a feature called EEH (extended error handling) which is introduced to handle

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 25 May 2012 12:59:19 +0200 Frank Staals articulated: As others have also already hinted at, I think you should be more specific about what you want your ``cloud software'' to do. Without that you will get K answers suggesting some software system that try to solve K completely different

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm searching for a cloud software :-) look at clouds. More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Personnal PC, Mac, smartphones and tablets

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i think most people talking about cloud solutions have really CLOUDY idea of what they want. Far too much marketing, far too little (if any) description of the needs. On Fri, 25 May 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/05/2012 10:11, Frank Bonnet wrote: a kind of private cloud Uh... Isn't

question about milter software

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Does anyone know milter software (or maybe anything else) to add to sendmail that can rewrite outgoing mail and add HTML footer automatically? Please do not tell me about how stupid HTML mail is at all - i know it, it is not my idea. thanks ___

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the antithesis of 'cloud'? I would never invest a dime or a single bit of data to a cloud venture. how one can invest of something that isn't even defined clearly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 05/25/12 14:16, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm searching for a cloud software :-) look at clouds. More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... (

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds, at all. Well, someone had to say it. :-) It summarises the marketing hype perfectly. fashion is quite often deciding

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds, at all. Well, someone had to say it. :-) It summarises the marketing hype

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Frank, Am 2012-05-25 10:11:21, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: Hello I'm searching for a cloud software :-) LOL :-P :-D More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 05/25/12 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds, at all. Well, someone had to say

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 05/25/2012 04:49 PM, Arthur Chance wrote: On 05/25/12 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't

compatibility

2012-05-25 Thread Philippe Combier
Hello ! I have a Samsung portable with an Intel Atom cpu N450 . In http://www.freebsd.org/fr/where.html , you specify “versions platform “ and I cannot locate the type of processor of my Samsung .What choice do I do ? Thank you very much for the answer

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote: On 05/25/2012 04:49 PM, Arthur Chance wrote: On 05/25/12 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up

ghostscript build problem

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
My build of gnome2-lite failed building ghostscript. Went to ports/ghostscript and did make clean make install and I still get the same error. After make install attempt, work/ghostscript-9.05/epag-3.09 exists and has files with original dates, except ert.c gdevpag.c were freshly

Somewhat OT: CVS Question

2012-05-25 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Forgive the OT nature of this, but FBSD tends to be a big CVS user, so I am hoping someone has an answer for this. Feel free to reply privately if you do not wish to inflict your answer up on the whole list... Is there a way to checkout a project from a CVS repo *into the current directory*?

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi! On 25.05.2012 17:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 04:49 PM, Arthur Chance wrote: On 05/25/12 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow,

portupgrade ... doesn't

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
Has to be something stupid: 347 /usr/ports#pkg_version -v | grep updating p5-XML-Twig-3.39 needs updating (port has 3.40) 348 /usr/ports#portupgrade -Rv P5-XML-Twig --- Session started at: Fri, 25 May 2012 10:03:54 -0600 [Exclude up-to-date packages done] ** None has

Re: compatibility

2012-05-25 Thread doug
On Fri, 25 May 2012, Philippe Combier wrote: Hello ! I have a Samsung portable with an Intel Atom cpu N450 . In http://www.freebsd.org/fr/where.html , you specify ?versions platform ? and I cannot locate the type of processor of my Samsung .What choice do I do ? Thank you very much for

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 05/25/12 16:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: [big snip] Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Wojciech Puchar on Friday, 25 May 2012: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds, at all. Well, someone had to say it. :-) It summarises the marketing

Re: Somewhat OT: CVS Question

2012-05-25 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/25/12 11:59 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Forgive the OT nature of this, but FBSD tends to be a big CVS user, so I am hoping someone has an answer for this. Feel free to reply privately if you do not wish to inflict your answer up on the whole

Re: question about milter software

2012-05-25 Thread Patrick
I think you'll find Postfix to be much more modern and easy to work with for that kind of message rewriting. But what you're looking for is pretty complicated when you start having to deal with multipart messages; the messages have to be completely processed and separated into respective parts,

Ports-Related Commands Hanging After 9.0 Upgrade

2012-05-25 Thread Sam Jones
Hi all, Forgive me if this is a repeat topic. I'd appreciate it if somebody could point me to the answer. I recently upgraded to 9.0 on my server, but since then a lot of ports-related commands (portupgrade, pkg_version, portsnap, etc.) just hang when I try to execute them. I'm not even really

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 25 May 2012, Frank Bonnet wrote: Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not my

ports build and synchronization issues

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
I've had a number of failures attempting to build things, but on several occasions builds have failed with what looks like may be threading / subprocess synchronization issues. I'm running 9.0-RELEASE on a 4-processor amd64 system w/ 16GB. For example, an attempt to build openoffice-3 failed

re0 take 100% CPU

2012-05-25 Thread Eugen Konkov
How to look what re0 is doing?? And how to debug that? last pid: 74164; load averages: 17.97, 13.81, 14.40 up 47+09:31:54 21:50:58 110 processes: 9 running, 87 sleeping, 14 waiting CPU: 0.5% user, 0.0% nice, 1.6% system, 97.9% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 194M

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 May 2012 12:11:43 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012, Frank Bonnet wrote: Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) The access must be easy and possible from as much

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 May 2012 09:47:24 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: $ man -k cloud http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-05-25 Very nice, but please compare: http://xkcd.com/908/ :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Kernel Panic any help?

2012-05-25 Thread Jens Jahnke
Hi, as a happy freebsd user since about 2 years I have experienced my first kernel panic and have no idea what to do. My main machine crashed an hour ago and since then I can't get it to boot. The panic message: panic: ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch cpuid = 0 KDB: stack backtrace #0

Re: Kernel Panic any help?

2012-05-25 Thread John Levine
panic: ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch Something's fairly badly screwed up on your disk. My advice would be to boot from a CD or USB key and run fsck to try to repair it. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
something I'm not seeing I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. What's the key to removing /var/empty? 280 /hd1/var#sysctl kern.securelevel kern.securelevel: -1 281 /hd1/var#ls -l total 4 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 3 00:55 empty 282 /hd1/var#chflags noschg

Re: compatibility

2012-05-25 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri May 25 10:25:21 2012 From: Philippe Combier phxant...@wanadoo.fr To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 17:22:52 +0200 Cc: Subject: compatibility Hello ! I have a Samsung portable with an Intel Atom cpu N450 . In

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: something I'm not seeing I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. What's the key to removing /var/empty? 280 /hd1/var#sysctl kern.securelevel kern.securelevel: -1 281 /hd1/var#ls -l total 4 dr-xr-xr-x

Re: question about milter software

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think you'll find Postfix to be much more modern and easy to work with for that kind of message rewriting. you are actually wrong in that statement. In spite of hype that postscript started with, i am still using sendmail because it is actually easiest if you learn it. But what you're

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well ... My goal was NOT to start a flame war around the cloud term ... you didn't. You just started a flame of requests to be more precise and go down from the clouds to earth. So finally write down what you need, and we most probably can help you. But... if you want to just sell some

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not my native language ...) yes NOW IT IS CLEAR.

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html 30.3 Network File System (NFS) Use NFS : Define each computer as both Server to serve to other users(s) and Client .to see the other server(s) . If there are Windows computers , you may also use SAMBA :

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:11 AM 5/25/2012, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a cloud software :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Personnal PC,

Re: question about milter software

2012-05-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:21 AM 5/25/2012, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Does anyone know milter software (or maybe anything else) to add to sendmail that can rewrite outgoing mail and add HTML footer automatically? Please do not tell me about how stupid HTML mail is at all - i know it, it is not my idea. thanks I

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/05/2012 22:04, Gary Aitken wrote: I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. What's the key to removing /var/empty? # chflags 0 /var/empty # rm -rf /var/empty is the usual idiom. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP:

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not my native language ...) Well, this should reduce the cloud to an sftp-server or - if their stuff isn't security sensitive to an ftp-server. depends on connectivity. If you just

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As he said in his post, NFS is the first place to start. It's available on FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS, other Unix derived systems, and Windows 7. The one thing to be careful of is that it works best when you have all home directories on central servers and all access is on client machines. It is

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not my native language ...) Access is still a bit vague, but security/openvpn may be part of the answer: http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source.html for windows users i would recommend mpd - it provides VPN in windows standard, just use windows add

Re: re0 take 100% CPU

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
broken device or motherboard, or conflict. check if irq is not shared. re0 are not great network cards but really not that bad. something is badly broken with hardware On Fri, 25 May 2012, Eugen Konkov wrote: How to look what re0 is doing?? And how to debug that? last pid: 74164; load

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
chflags noschg is your friend. On Fri, 25 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: something I'm not seeing I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. What's the key to removing /var/empty? 280 /hd1/var#sysctl kern.securelevel kern.securelevel: -1 281 /hd1/var#ls -l total 4

Re: question about milter software

2012-05-25 Thread Patrick
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I think you'll find Postfix to be much more modern and easy to work with for that kind of message rewriting. you are actually wrong in that statement. In spite of hype that postscript started with, i am

Re: question about milter software

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I guess it's pretty subjective, which is how I should have originally prefaced my statement. I used sendmail for a long time, and always hated working with m4 or direct sendmail configuration files. well i just used README file and sometimes google. For me, Postfix is so much easier, but to

xorg crashes after ports-wide update, fontconfig the culprit?

2012-05-25 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
Having done a portmaster -a rendered my system virtually unusable, Xorg kept crashing when opening claws-mail, firefox and thunderbird, opera kept chrashing in a random fashion, too. Quod googelet x11 crash site:freebsd.org and narrowing down the results for to the last week, I found two

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/25/12 14:21, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: something I'm not seeing I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. What's the key to removing /var/empty? 280 /hd1/var#sysctl kern.securelevel kern.securelevel: -1 281

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/25/12 14:38, Wojciech Puchar wrote: chflags noschg is your friend. Not in this case. If you look at the commands attempted, that was already tried (line 282) Topmost login had to be as root. On Fri, 25 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: something I'm not seeing I've got a disk previously

Re: Ports-Related Commands Hanging After 9.0 Upgrade

2012-05-25 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Fri, 25 May 2012 13:33:29 -0400 Sam Jones samjones1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Forgive me if this is a repeat topic. I'd appreciate it if somebody could point me to the answer. I recently upgraded to 9.0 on my server, but since then a lot of ports-related commands (portupgrade,

Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/25/12 14:21, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: something I'm not seeing I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. What's the key to removing /var/empty?

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:15 AM 5/25/2012, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 12:10 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a cloud software :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to

why I am upset

2012-05-25 Thread ajtiM
Why I am upset but not just me? I am running KDE 4.8 from January on my Linux computer. Now is almost June and we got KDE 4.8 on FreeBSD too. 5 months testing and it works? No. The modern OS for the desktop computer doesn;t works. O.K. OS works but installatoon of 5 months testing of KDE

Re: ports build and synchronization issues

2012-05-25 Thread Gary Aitken
This was the result of a conflict with building another port at the same time, and is a known issue. See: http://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#Parallelization_in_the_Ports_Collection On 05/25/12 12:16, Gary Aitken wrote: I've had a number of failures attempting to build things, but on several