Daniela said the following on 6/11/2004 6:39 PM:
On Friday 11 June 2004 20:36, LW Ellis wrote:
OK thanx to all the help, I think I'm getting close.
I have a config file that works fineonly as long as I am signed in as
root.
KDE-Lite loads and works fine...
However
If I sign in as a user, I
In my /etc/make.conf I have:
FETCH_CMD = /usr/local/bin/wget
When I go to build a port (in this case, kde3), it goes to fetch gettext
(for example), then I get:
wget: illegal option --
Then it stops. I've updated wget to 1.8.2, with the same result. So now
I've #'d out that line in make.conf
Jonathan Chen wrote:
The recent updates to the ports/Mk/* files restricts the FETCH_CMD to
/usr/bin/fetch. Why would you use wget instead of the base-system's
fetch to build the ports anyway?
Because fetch used to break horribly under our stateful ipf firewall at
the office.
Because wget
Heya Noah!
Noah said the following on 4/18/2004 7:19 PM:
-rw-r- 1 username username 21 Apr 18 16:09
/usr/home/username/.htpasswd
Unless you're running Apache as username, then the .htaccess file
needs to be world-readable..
Best,
Glenn
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Noah said the following on 4/18/2004 9:15 PM:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:27:04 -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote
Heya Noah!
Noah said the following on 4/18/2004 7:19 PM:
-rw-r- 1 username username 21 Apr 18 16:09
/usr/home/username/.htpasswd
Unless you're running Apache as username
Noah said the following on 4/19/2004 12:18 AM:
thanks for your response but there are two files that I am using .htaccess and
.htpasswd . Might you be getting the .htaccess and .htpasswd file permissions
mixed up?
Not at all. Both need to be world readable, or at least readable by the
user
Noah said the following on 4/19/2004 12:39 AM:
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile htpasswd.file.location.and.name.here
AuthName Something to make sense
require valid-user
thanks glen - looks like this is still not working. No password Prompt
here is what I did:
cat of
Olivier Certner said the following on 1/28/2005 4:00 AM:
Thanks for these 2 answers. I didn't have seen this file mentioned in the
portupgrade manpage, so I could have been searching for a while before
finding...
Quite welcome..hope it helped! :)
Best,
G.
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Dikshie said the following on 1/31/2005 12:03 AM:
sorry for newbie question:
No prob.. you may, however, prefer the mailman-users list for this as
it's not a FreeBSD issue.. :)
cd /usr/ports/mail/mailman
make MAIL_GID=mail install clean
httpd.conf:
Options ExecCGI
ScriptAlias /mailman
Dikshie said the following on 1/31/2005 12:39 AM:
Glenn Sieb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Go to the mailman directory (/usr/local/mailman) and issue bin/check_perms
If it complains, do check_perms -f
box# bin/check_perms -f
No problems found
Did you restart Apache? Do any other web sites
Or any other USB-to-Serial adapters? Do they work well in FreeBSD
5.3-RELASE?
http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/USA19W/
We're looking to set up a console server in our colo, and these looked
like a good way of doing multiple serial ports fairly cheaply.
Thanks in advance! :)
Best,
--Glenn
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Kris Kennaway said the following on 2/2/2005 9:14 PM:
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:59:11PM -0800, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote:
on WEDS 2-2-05, Glenn Sieb wrote (paraphrased):
(quoting the error):
error in Makefile.inc1, cannot continue...
I ran into this problem last July doing a 5.1 5.2.1
upgrade
Kris Kennaway said the following on 2/3/2005 12:29 AM:
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:25:38PM -0500, Glenn Sieb wrote:
Stop in /usr/src.
#
So, should this upgrade be this painful? 5.1-RELEASE-p17 isn't _that_
old.. I kind of wonder now what's going to happen when I upgrade one of
my boxes from
Some friends and I found a couple Equinox SST 8 port cards on eBay.. has
anyone gotten these working on FBSD 5.3?
So far, all we've found on their website:
http://www.equinox.com/drivers/superserial/bsdi.html
Considering the 'age' of that driver... we figured maybe.. just
possibly.. these
John DeStefano said the following on 9/14/2004 10:15 PM:
I've noticed a few posts over the past week or so regarding users'
servers being probed by remote ssh attempts. Coincidentally (or
perhaps not so), around that time, I began getting quite a few records
of such attempts to my server, at the
Tim Aslat said the following on 9/14/2004 10:51 PM:
In the immortal words of Glenn Sieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I've been getting this for weeks. They're all under APNIC, and emails
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] involved networks has gone unanswered.
I've been getting these as well, but from
John DeStefano said the following on 9/16/2004 10:40 AM:
The easiest way to protect this is to check your sshd_config and
set:
PermitRootLogin no
Interestingly, this option did not exist in my config file (I added
it), but all other options were commented out. Is this the
Hey list!
I'm a BSD guy for servers such. My own server (wingfoot) runs
4.10-STABLE, and my last job was 95% FreeBSD in the data center.
I'm getting sick of Windows on my desktop at home. (No kidding, right?!)
I'd really really really love to move my desktop to FBSD. One thing is
really
Vulpes Velox said the following on 9/19/2004 1:48 AM:
I'm pretty sure I can find AVI/MPEG editing packages for BSD easy
enough.
avidemux, mplayer, ffmpeg should take care of nearly all of your
needs
Yup--as I said... :)
But I'm having a dickens of a time finding something that will let
me
Richard Lynch said the following on 9/19/2004 4:41 PM:
But I'm having a dickens of a time finding something that will let me
author DVDs. Any pointing in directions or help would be greatly
appreciated!
By 'author' you mean 'burn', right?...
No. I said 'author' I meant 'author' not 'burn'
Paul Mather said the following on 9/20/2004 1:53 PM:
You might want to try these ports:
multimedia/dvdauthor
multimedia/dvdstyler
(The latter is a front-end to the former.)
Thanks, Paul...
Oddly enough, the styler package seems to imply that author has more
features available
Emanuel Strobl said the following on 9/22/2004 10:28 PM:
Am Donnerstag, 23. September 2004 04:20 schrieb Alex de Kruijff:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:14:09PM +0200, Julien Gabel wrote:
The flame detail around the daemon (can't remember his name...)
is excellent.
IIRC, that's
Andy Smith said the following on 10/11/2004 10:29 AM:
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 01:38:56PM -0400, Alan Curtis wrote:
I am looking for an easy to install wiki that an
apache/perl/php/whatever novice like me can install without getting a
migrane. Any suggestions?
I use MediaWiki on
Richard Marriner said the following on 10/1/2004 6:25 PM:
Dear list,
Just wondering if there is anyway (preferably simple.) to have two ip
addresses on the same NIC that are different networks.
First, I would test things out by adding an ifconfig alias (man
ifconfig) and adding a new route
bsdfsse said the following on 10/3/2004 3:12 AM:
Ironically, I'm switching to FreeBSD because I'm already tired. My
bones are aching from years of abuse. I'm tired of..
MuchSnippage
Hear Hear!!
..of Linux distributions with fatal flaws. I went on a giant search
to pick the perfect Linux
Alan Curtis said the following on 10/6/2004 3:14 PM:
I installed php4-mysql. Is there more I have to do? ?php phpinfo();
? does not indicate any mysql stuff and phpwiki still does not work.
There is probably some option I have to set when compiling php?
Did you restart Apache?
Best,
G.
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Sheets, Jason (OZ CEEDR) said the following on 10/6/2004 3:50 PM:
Restart apache and make sure that the mysql extension is being loaded in
the php.ini file (phpinfo() gives you the path to php.ini, use the
extension directive to tell php to load a module).
Actually--if you're using a new php
I'd like to update a server from 5.1-RELEASE-p10 to 5.3-STABLE...
What I'm wondering is: Are there any caveats to this upgrade?
One of my compadres asked me:
How stable is stable?
Isn't this the release where they change some value from an int16 to
an int32 and upgrading needs to be done with
Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 5:38 PM:
The anwser to this question is to long for me to write and its written
down in the handbook. Please follow the instuctions in this chapter.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html
Danke, Alex--since
Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 9:01 PM:
Gerely speeking, STABLE doesn't mean things never gets broken. Most
reliable are the RELEASE plus fixes. So don't follow 5-STABLE but
5-RELENG
To help ease frustration and such.. you mean:
Follow RELENG_5_2 not RELENG_5 (from:
Andy said the following on 8/21/2004 3:14 PM:
not sure if you got this problem solved yet, but the reason the ath driver didnt work is because the WG511 uses the Prism Duette chipset (it is the WG511T that uses the ath)
You can get it up and running under linux, (http://www.prism54.org) but i do
Hey Brad!
(I redirected this to -questions.. IIRC that's more the proper venue..)
Brad said the following on 10/22/2004 9:32 PM:
I just completed install of 5.2.1 and am trying to logon remotely via SSH and keep
getting access
denied.
My password is correct, because I can log onto the box
Chris said the following on 10/22/2004 11:08 PM:
I prefer NetGear - woiks well for me...
Any luck with the WG511's? (802.11g 54mpbs cards)
I can't seem to get it to load a driver.. I think (from what I've
googled) that it's using a Prism54 driver, but I have no idea where to
begin on that..
mohammed arab said the following on 10/23/2004 3:25 AM:
hi,
But i need startup freeBSD with KDE or GNOME.HOW?
Substitute kdm for xdm (do a 'which kdm' on the command line to give you
the right path). Other than that, it's the same procedure for startup
with kdm as it is for xdm.
Best,
Glenn Sieb said the following on 10/22/2004 12:38 AM:
I, too, have recently purchased a WG511--and since I am interested in
getting this working (5.3-STABLE). I'd also like to know if there's a
way to get it to work in FBSD...Googling didn't help much :-/ I found
some reference to an ndis
Glenn Sieb said the following on 10/23/2004 4:49 PM:
After some digging, and some emails back forth to Matt Juszczak, I
found this driver: http://green.homeunix.org/~green/prism54-driver/pff/
Compiled it, installed it and *puf* my card came up! :)
Now... I installed KWirelessMonitor
aaron said the following on 11/01/04 15:15:
Using FreeBSD 4.10 release and confused about what to do with the startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh when installing the port. The package on another machine works fine b/c it just has options to start and stop in
(oops--I sent this to ports@ should have been here...sorry 'bout that!)
Ok.. I'm getting used to the new modular php#-* packages.
I would like to streamline this even further by including the proper
entries in pkgtools.conf for portupgrade.
So, for instance.. when it's upgrading, say
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Matthew Seaman said the following on 10/16/2004 4:11 PM:
| Close. What you need is actually something more like:
|
| 'databases/php4-dba' = [ 'WITH_CDB=true', 'WITHOUT_DB4=true',
| 'WITHOUT_GDBM=true', 'WITH_INIFILE=true', 'WITH_FLATFILE=true', ],
|
|
Nelis Lamprecht said the following on 7/21/2005 5:13 AM:
On 7/21/05, Xu Qiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, all:
I mis-deleted /usr/local/bin directory in my FreeBSD. How can I restore it?
There isn't a way to restore unless you have a backup. However, most
of the binary files in
Mehul Ved said the following on 1/1/09 3:14 PM:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:31 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote:
I's like to set up my MP3's so that I can access them from the web server
on my Free-BSD 7.1 machine. Is there a port, that provides a nice interface
to this? I'd like something
herbert langhans said the following on 2/20/09 6:19 AM:
/usr/games/strfile
..not there. Checked with locate, no strfile anywhere on 7.1!
Maybe it came with a port download of a game? Did they forget it on 7.1?
/usr/src/games/fortune/strfile seems to be where the source lives. And
it gets
Hello!
I'm running FreeBSD-7.0 (athlon64, 4G RAM), with jabberd-2.2.7.1, and
expat-2.0.1. I'm trying to install mu-conference, and getting the
below-listed error. Any ideas? :-/
Thanks so much in advance!
Best,
--Glenn
=== Building for mu-conference-0.7_3
cd src/ ; make
cd jabberd ; make
cc -O
Panos said the following on 4/2/09 6:30 PM:
Hello I'm new to Freebsd and I would like to know if there is anything
like apt-get for upgrating everything in my Freebsd. If not Could you
tell me how I can do it.
Some of my packages are from ports and some using the sysinstall and I
install
On 3/1/11 3:53 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
Any clues why I get a one-liner from wordpress that my database
extention is missing? I re-installed everything; it is running.
The wordpress db is there when I check 'show database'. What
else?
Check and make sure the MySQL
On 5/3/11 2:32 PM, Janos Dohanics wrote:
Denyhosts has to be informed that the logfile has changed, so that
it can close and re-open the logfile. It may be possible by
sending it a 'signal', or you may have to kill/restart it. See
the documentation for denyhosts.
Newsyslog itself does
Since I tend to build my own boxes, I'd like to make sure my choice of
CPU/MB is good fro FBSD before I buy :-)
I'm looking at an AMD X2 64 5400 and an Abit AN9 32X.
The AN9 has:
NVIDIA nForce SPP 190/nForce 590 SLI MCP
Dual NV Gigabit LAN
6x SATA 3gb/s ports with RAID 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD support
Jonathan Horne said the following on 1/26/2007 8:45 PM:
well, unfortunately, that didnt work.
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Mon Jan 22 15:32:44 2007
# Created: Mon Jan 22 15:32:44 2007
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to
I said...
Since I tend to build my own boxes, I'd like to make sure my choice of
CPU/MB is good fro FBSD before I buy :-)
I'm looking at an AMD X2 64 5400 and an Abit AN9 32X.
The AN9 has:
NVIDIA nForce SPP 190/nForce 590 SLI MCP
Dual NV Gigabit LAN
6x SATA 3gb/s ports with RAID
Roland Smith wrote:
[Much Good Info snipped..]
Looks like you'd better stick with a KN9 (nForce4) for now.
Asus has the M2V-MX with VIA chipset that looks OK. Not sure about the
Realtek RTL8100C ethernet chip though. Same goes for the MSI K9VGM-V. It has
a RTL8201 ethernet chip.
I've never had
Hey everyone..
I bought an Abit KN9, with a 200MB Maxtor IDE drive on the main IDE0
channel. I also have RAID set up on the SATA devices.
I'm trying to install 6.2-RELEASE on the system, and it installs, I
created the partitions and sliced them appropriately (/, swap, /tmp,
/var, /usr). If
Glenn Sieb wrote:
Hey everyone..
I bought an Abit KN9, with a 200MB Maxtor IDE drive on the main IDE0
channel. I also have RAID set up on the SATA devices.
I'm trying to install 6.2-RELEASE on the system, and it installs, I
created the partitions and sliced them appropriately (/, swap, /tmp
Don Munyak wrote:
I am having problems installing perl5.8.8 on a up-to-date FreeBSD-6.2.
After running...
web# cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
web# make
scripts install perl...
web# make test
(8) tests fail with the following message
Hmm.. 'make' by itself only prepares the source to be
I've recently reclaimed a Gentoo server and turned it into a FreeBSD
6.2-RELEASE system (::sounds of cheering::).
This is our file server, using NFS, and I had a question about /etc/exports:
We have two subnets we export to--let's call them 127.0.1.0/255 and
10.0.5.0/255:
# /etc/exports: NFS
Hi Jonathan!
Jonathan Horne wrote:
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 13:16:54 Glenn Sieb wrote:
/u2 -alldirs...
first up, that line negates the need for:
/u2/opt/portage -alldirs
alldirs, is all dirs! anything underneath is then redundant.
Understood. Fixed that.
/u2 -alldirs -maproot
Parv wrote:
I do not think that test would run on perl install unless things have
changes since May 2006 (from build log on May 16 2006) ...
Ah.. good catch :)
Sorry about that, Don...
Best,
--G.
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*Puts on dunce cap*
When I turned on the onboard RAID, and created the RAID arrays, the BIOS
decided Well you simply must want to boot off the RAID, right? So,
that being fixed, I popped in the amd64 distro and proceeded to do the
install.
System is installed, up and running.. I couldn't
Rudi Kramer - MWEB wrote:
Hey Robert,
This error indicates that you are having some sort of connection issues,
I for instance get it when I forget to use our work proxy, here are
some steps you can try to remedy the problem:
1) Can you resolve update1.FreeBSD.org?
2) Can you ping
Sergey Daemonic said the following on 8/18/08 10:27 AM:
Hello!
There is a problem with supporting NIC broadcom 59xx!
When it's gonna be resolved?
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Good luck!
Best,
--Glenn
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Tom Marchand said the following on 9/1/08 7:52 PM:
Hi,
I've got an issue where hosts defined in my /etc/hosts are not being
resolved. I've looked at resolv.conf, host.conf and nsswitch.conf and
everything looks ok. It's my understanding that with the below
configurations, /etc/hosts should
Dave Woodruff wrote:
Dear Mr. Questions: I have just spent about one-half hour browsing
the website, looking for the list of package distributions,
unsuccessfully.
Perhaps the most dismaying was the page:
http://www.freebsd.org/applications.html
which contains a link self-described as
Greetings!
Running:
7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #27: Thu Apr 10 02:51:13 EDT 2008 amd64
DenyHosts 2.6_1
The suggested setup of using this stanza in /etc/hosts.allow does not
seem to work:
# Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you
# need to do it, here's how
#sshd :
Nevermind :) I think I solved the issue.
Thanks anywho :)
Best,
--Glenn
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Drew Tomlinson said the following on 10/14/2005 2:53 PM:
I want to recursively search a directory and return files that end in
.jpg or .gif but I can't seem to get the find syntax right. My
basic command lines are:
find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.gif -print
OR
find
Drew Tomlinson said the following on 10/14/2005 3:13 PM:
OK, duh. I get it now. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
Quite welcome! Enjoy!!
Best,
--Glenn
--
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Chris Hickey said the following on 9/17/09 6:29 PM:
A friend installed this program and I don't know how to use it. Everything
was fine until the power went out and when it booted back up it said
/dev/amrd0s1d: unexpected soft update inconsistency: run fsck manually .
the following file system
I've been trying to update an old server from 5.4-RELEASE-p2 to 7.2-RELEASE.
So, I figured the best way would be to do this in steps. 5.4 to 6.0 then
6.0 to 6.4 then to 7.0 then finally 7.2.
So, I have ftp'd the src directory for 6.0-RELEASE from
ftp-archive.freebsd.org. Then I wiped /usr/src,
krad said the following on 10/22/09 6:43 AM:
the best way i have found is not doing a build world like this
take a backup of the /etc dir
(SNIP)
Mm. While I don't disagree with the method, per se, I'd rather not make
the trek to the data center unless I absolutely have to. I'd just
Running: FreeBSD caduceus.wingfoot.org 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD
8.0-RELEASE-p2 #42: Fri May 7 19:22:48 EDT 2010
r...@caduceus.wingfoot.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDALS amd64
I'm getting a route added upon reboot with the hostname of the box,
going to lo0.
It's preventing things like, pinging
On 6/11/10 6:56 PM, Doug Sampson wrote:
Right. My issue is, there isn't a path of /usr/ports/security/php5-mhash
-- only /usr/ports/security/php52-mhash. How can I remove the
security/php5-mhash with a missing directory? I am unable to deinstall.
How does one remove?
pkg_del php5-mhash-*
On 7/23/10 10:01 PM, Victor Skovorodnikov wrote:
This may sound strange but I have a question about logo. Why such a logo for
BSD? What is the
meaning of that logo?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon
--Glenn
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On 7/26/10 8:01 PM, Polytropon wrote:
,ggg, nd spotteth twice they the system before
dP8I the fifth version, and so, the Programmers
dP 88 went Forth to RAM Gilead in Kernel Bilgemath,
dP88 by Shell Ethra Joygalion, to the house of
On 7/28/10 10:04 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS
ago. cannot find.
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
Would it be Remind?
Best,
--Glenn
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On 2/18/13 4:21 PM, Fbsd8 wrote:
The handbook does not cover how to add zfs support.
How is it done?
Does this help you?
https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS
Best,
--Glenn
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On 9/19/13 3:36 PM, william benton wrote:
when I log into free bsd I am in the sh shell. i type history at the
command line and the machine says history not found. If I type h at
the command line it works like i expect the history command to work.
In the csh or tcsh shells history works as
On 10/11/13 5:38 PM, Walter Hurry wrote:
FreeBSD 9.1
I want ONE shared lib; i.e. rsvg.so, which is provided by
x11-toolkits/py-gnome-desktop.
Unfortunately, it seems that going the normal route I shall have to
install 80! ports to get it. Is there an easier way?
Actually I think you
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