Building kernel outside of /usr/src (with an unprivileged user)

Hello, while trying to build a patched CURRENT src on a STABLE FreeBSD 9 I was wondering if it would be possible to have the source directory (src) in a different place from /usr (e.g. in /home/myuser/src) where it can be built with an unprivileged user and without interference with the

Filesystem dump incremental?

Hello, currently I am experiencing something confusing. Some hours ago I did a level 0 dump with the following command: dump -a -0 -f /mnt/da0/backup-compaq.0.dump / This results in a quite big dump file. After changing a couple of files, I tried to do another dump. This time as level

Re: Filesystem dump incremental?

Thanks Mike and Matthew, the -u switch was what I missed. It now works fine. Regards, Matthias On 17.05.2012 13:52, Mike Clarke wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2012, Matthias Petermann wrote: dump -a -1 -f /mnt/da0/backup-compaq.1.dump / Try a new full backup with dump -0aLuf /mnt/da0

Re: libreoffice package and port troubles

Hi, a couple of days ago I had the same issue. Install via pkg_add -r did result in the same error you reported. But building LIbreOffice from the ports worked well. The pkg_add issue only appeared on i386 system for me, it worked on amd64 so I guess the i386 packages are

Jailed slapd process not visible with ps within a jail

system, I can see it. [matthias@netti2 /usr/home/matthias]$ ps ax|grep slap 6255 ?? IsJ0:00,06 /usr/local/libexec/slapd -h ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fop What I am doing wrong? Did I miss some important fact? Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.net

Re: Jailed slapd process not visible with ps within a jail

does apply a filter by process id, I guess the process should have been visible also without? Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

bsdinstall to jail aborted (9.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64)

systems? It would be great if anyone could validate this. Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: bsdinstall to jail aborted (9.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64)

to the default (using uname -r which makes sense for the installation media). Should I file a PR or did you already? Thanks, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: bsdinstall to jail aborted (9.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64)

://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=170264 Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Introducing new ports - best practises

, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Scalable Opengroupware (SOGo) in FreeBSD ports tree

Hello, I am thinking about creating a port for SOGo[1]. Is there already someone working on it? Kind regards, Matthias [1] http://www.sogo.nu/english.html -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

and upcoming releases? Are there any? Thanks kind regards Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to upgrade from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

. to limit updates to stay in a main release (9.0, 9.0-p1, 9.0-p., 9.0-p12) but don't upgrade to 9.1. Kind regards, Matthias Am Freitag, 16. November 2012 00:25 CET, Andreas Rudisch cyb.@gmx.net schrieb: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:53 +0100 Matthias Petermann wrote: Thanks

last not showing recent login activity

Hello, on one of my systems I just found out that last only shows some old login / logout activity, but not the recent actvities. The strange thing... everytime I log into the system, /var/log/utx.log gets update to the current timestamp (and also grows by some bytes). But last only

Re: last not showing recent login activity

Hi Matthew, Zitat von Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk: Errr... OK. Yours is a different issue with utx.log. It is not syslog that updates utx.log but the various programs like login(1) or sshd(8) that actually handle the authentication when you try and log in. Most

How to achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?

but this is not in the base system which I would prefer. Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Jailed process listening to broadcast address of host system - possible?

0 mtu 16384 options=63RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6 pflog0: flags=141UP,RUNNING,PROMISC metric 0 mtu 33152 -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: backups using rsync

this improve in the last year? (I guess my experience is from the time around 9.0 release). Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Jailed process listening to broadcast address of host system - possible?

to the same IP as the Host. More details I can provide tonight. Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

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

Hello, I am the maintainer of most of the Tryton ports. Tryton is a python based application framework where you can easily build your own business modules on top. It also provides some default modules for common uses. Currently Tryton 2.4 series is in the ports. From upstream the successor

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

Thanks Matthew, your recommendation works for me. As I expect from time to time also an older version getting EOL'd, the amount of versions to look ahead can be estimated quite well. Kind regards, Matthias On 04/21/13 17:57, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 21/04/2013 10:24, Matthias Petermann

Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

Hello, I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop. Beside other issues[1] there is a strange behavior of Gnome-Desktop (and GDM too). When I press Fn without any additional key, the device immediately goes to sleep. As the X121e cannot resume properly from sleep,

Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

Hello, I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop. Beside other issues[1] there is a strange behavior of Gnome-Desktop (and GDM too). When I press Fn without any additional key, the device immediately goes to sleep. As the X121e cannot resume properly from sleep,

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

suspend/resume will also work on the newer Lenovo models (I would be curious if the wakeup problem is Intel/KMS only or if also the NVidia models e.g. T430 NVS are affected). Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org ___ freebsd

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

Hi, Am 16.08.2013 13:58, schrieb Polytropon: I have tested a Lenovo R61i running Xfce, and I don't experience the strange behaviour desribed. However, using the xev event tester, the keycode for the Fn key is being displayed as 227, and the KeyPress event is held (!) until the key is

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

worked for you. It works fine for me on T42i, T60, T400. -adrian On 15 August 2013 23:32, Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org mailto:matth...@d2ux.org wrote: Hello, I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop. Beside other issues[1] there is a strange

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

Am 17.08.2013 03:22, schrieb Polytropon: On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:07:25 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: What keyboard / laptop has the key code '150' map to 'go to sleep' ? My Sun Type 7 USB keyboard has the Copy key at code 150... :-) In my case it is a Lenovo X121e. Regards, Matthias

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

, Matthias Zitat von Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org: Right, but this sounds like some bug to send upstream. Or at least patch in our port(s) for this stuff. What keyboard / laptop has the key code '150' map to 'go to sleep' ? -adiran On 16 August 2013 17:09, Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org

Re: Since SquirrelMail Looks Like It Will Never Be Supported Again...

Hi Tim, Am 30.08.2013 23:20, schrieb Tim Daneliuk: SquirrelMail seems to be forever on hold because of an incompatibility with PHP 5. So I am going to have to replace it as our Webmail interface. So, I'm looking for recommendation from the tribe here on what I should use instead: 1) Easy to

Re: Intel graphics card brightness control issue

/181357 [2] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html -- Matthias Petermann matth...@petermann-it.de Ihr Partner für anspruchsvolle IT-Lösungen www.petermann-it.de - lösungsorientiert, innovativ und erfolgreich ___ freebsd

Joystick for FreeBSD/Flightgear

. Can anyone give a recommendation what to buy to be confident it works? Kind regards, Matthias [1] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=18454 -- Matthias Petermann matth...@petermann-it.de Ihr Partner für anspruchsvolle IT-Lösungen www.petermann-it.de - lösungsorientiert, innovativ und