RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle
To "fbsd": Man,stop the trolling shit for good. You have /usr/ports/misc/porteasy,use it and leave us alone. You are just too much. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: New FreeBSD logo
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Hayers >Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 10:14 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: New FreeBSD logo > > >Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>> No, the majority of people who have posted do not like it, >>> thats not the >>> whole community. Maybe you should do your research better. >>> >> >> It's probably a revelation to you but you do not have to poll >> the entire community to find out if the majority of them don't >> like something. This is called "sampling" The people who >> have posted are a sample of the community. The vast majority >> of this sample don't like it. Thus the majority of the community >> doesen't like it. (those who hold opinions one way or another, >> that is, and the opinion holders are the only ones that matter >> in this particular issue) >> >> Ted > >I am well aware of what sampling means, your argument if >flawed, you may >have the sample of the community that does not like it, the people who >do like it may not find it important enough to post about. So then as others have said, let's open it to a vote of the community as to whether or not it needed to be changed in the first place. That wasn't done because the people pushing this knew they would lose. >Quite frankly >it is of no importance as the community were not the ones with a say >about it, the FreeBSD management were and they did. > That is nothing more than the might-makes-right argument and it is as flawed here as it ever was. FreeBSD isn't a commercial product in case you missed it, it's the sum total of everyone who contributes to it and supports it. The only part of FreeBSD that is under any kind of management is the source repository itself and website, and the source code is much like the tip of the iceberg, it is only the obvious embodiment of this contribution. Without the many users of that source, FreeBSD is nothing. And you wouldn't have those users without the gargantum amount of advocacy and support that goes on with that source. If the "FreeBSD management" was soley responsible for all tech support then FreeBSD would not work. If that management was solely responsible for all promotion and all expenditures on promoting FreeBSD they would go bankrupt in seconds. Who are you to denegrate the emormous amount of invisible work that occurs to keep FreeBSD viable, with your ignorant comment "the community were not the ones with a say about it" Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
At 20:28 13.05.2006, fbsd wrote: To all question list readers; Now with 14576 ports in the collection where do you draw the line that its too large to be downloading the whole collection when you just use 10 or 20 of them? The port collection is growing at a ever increasing rate per month. The mass majority of the ports are so special purpose that only a very few people have need of them. Sure there are ways to limit the categories you select to download, but still the size of the most used categories is too large and loaded with ports not commonly used by the general user. So people them use the packages. But the problem with the packages is they are not updated every time changes are made to the port they were created from. Also packages that have dependants like php4/php5 or mysql4/mysql5 are not being updated to use the newer versions of those dependants as they come out. I for one think the port/package collection has already grown to large to handle in it's present state. Users are consuming massive bandwidth to download and it consumes a very large chunk of disk space. Saying nothing about the wasted resources consumed to back it up repeatedly. I have gone to using the package version for everything and only downloading the ports config files for packages that I need to compile from scratch to change some add on function. This methodology has worked fine since FreeBSD version 3.0 as I used each new release of FreeBSD up to 6.1. Now in 6.1 there is problems with packages that have not been recreated using the new system make file. This problem is caused by there being no mandatory requirement on the ports maintainers to recreate the packages any time one of the dependants change or when changes are made to the canned make process or when dependants show up as broken. Yes I know what a large task this is and that it requires a lot of run time to accomplish. So my question is how do we users make our needs known to the ports maintainer group so that will seriously address the problem of the packages being outdated? Are there other people on this list who are dissatisfied with the packages and the problems associated with using packages and ports mixed together? What are your thoughts about requesting the ports group to create a new category containing just the ports most commonly used including their dependents and making this general category the default used to download. This would be a much smaller sized download containing everything necessary to build the most used ports. Many of the dependents are used over and over by many different port applications. This new category would them be given priority in keeping their packages up to date. Could even take this idea one step further and say that only ports in this category will have packages built and keep up to date. All ports not in this special category will not have packages built at all. I think this would help the port group to better manager their people resources and serve the needs of the user community better. Another idea I would like to throw out to the list is how about requesting the ports group to add a function to packages so the installer of the package can select what version of the dependent components should be included in the install. Much like "make config" does in the ports system? The packages system already automatically launches the download of dependent packages so why not give the installer the option to select which version of the dependent to fetch. Like in php4/5 or mysql4/5 or apache 13/20. This way the package is more flexible and the port maintainer does not have to build a different version of the parent package for each version of the dependant which is available. The whole idea behind this post is to give the general users who reads this questions list an opportunity to brainstorm about ways to make the ports/package collection better and easier to use. This may help the ports group in understanding the needs and direction we the users would like to see the management of the collection to take. If we don't speak up they will just think things are ok as they are now. FreeBSD is a public project. The ports group are not the only users who can give input about the direction and policies concerning the future of the ports/package collection. All feedback welcome. Hello! I would just like to direct you to one of my previous threads: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-March/115402.html It was not warmly welcomed though. All the best, Kyrre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Help: Virtual Hosts and Email
Hi Guys I am trying to host couple of virtual hosts on my FreeBSD box... 1. How can I make Virtual Hosts, I mean what would be best structure and strategy? 2. What is the basic procedure in few lines? 3. How can I setup Email Server for example Qpopper? and is it better than Sendmail or what? 4. How can I setup Virtual Emai for my virtual hosts? Thanks for your help! maanjee ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
Chris wrote: On 15/05/06, fbsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Keep the ports tree how it is, as others have said the size is small on modern hard drives and bandwidth trivial, once the initial ports tree is in place keeping it up to date needs very little bandwidth and its only distfiles that tend to be large, but you only download distfiles for ports you install so this is a very good system. If at least one person uses a port it is justified and I very much like that most tiny apps I search for in the ports tree do indeed exist. How would you define commonly used ports? we would end up with a favouritism system in place and many arguments about which ports would be included in the commonly used group, you also forget that many ports that may look meaningless from where you sit are necessary as dependants to other ports. There would be not arguments as stats dont lie. Please read the entire thread there are some good ideas in there which would speed up day to day use of ports for everyone. Where you get the idea that ports is quick to maintain is beyond me it takes a good 30mins to sync up if your a few months out of date now a days. 30mins is not much if you have 1 machine but add it all up for a large number of machines and its a significant amount of time which we all could better spend doing other things instead of waiting for a cvsup to complete. Is php4 out of date? no its still been maintained and is more suitable for many people, likewise with mysql 4.1. Openssl 0.9.7 all are older branches but not out of date. The ports system is very clever in how it is so adaptive eg. Ruby needs openssl and if you have 0.9.7 it sets that as the dependency rather then 0.9.8. No hacking of makefiles needed. No ones saying they are, we use mysql 4.0 here but as what's being suggested would: 1. use real world usage stats 2. provide a much faster way of obtaining just the ports you want Then there are now down falls that I can see, only the benefit of being able to update from ports much much quicker than is currently possible. Steve This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the event of misdirection, the recipient is prohibited from using, copying, printing or otherwise disseminating it or any information contained in it. In the event of misdirection, illegible or incomplete transmission please telephone (023) 8024 3137 or return the E.mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: New FreeBSD logo
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Birrell >Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 11:29 PM >To: Gary Hayers >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: New FreeBSD logo > > >Those people who want to influence decisions like the selection of a new >logo really only have _one_ way to have a say. Ranting on a mailing list >is *not* that way. > Wrong. I think you have this idea that the committers think that all they have to do is wave their wands and every FreeBSD user will instantly march in lockstep to what they want. This is only true for the FreeBSD source code. If the committers in FreeBSD change the source to FreeBSD then the users all pretty much have little choice but to accept it. Oh sure they can patch the system if they want, but the changes are usually good so why would they? And when the changes are bad and break things, then if a proper PR is filed that documents everything, then the committers change it back, or fix the bug. But not so with the logo change. Logos only have value when they are used. Yes the committers can delete Beastie from FreeBSD's main website and replace it with the sex toy - although in view of the multiple and varied statements by many committers that the sex toy logo is merely an addition and not displacing Beastie I don't see how they will be able to do this in the future without losing a lot of public face for going back on their promises. But the committers have zero control over what the users use for their preferred logo. Most people are going to use the logo they feel best represents FreeBSD, only a few misguided people will just blindly use the logo that the committers tell them to use. Since most of the userbase preferrs Beastie they will continue to use Beastie. The people making castings of Beastie aren't going to see sales of a casting of the sex toy displace Beaste, if they even offer it, the people making stuffed Beasties aren't going to see sales of a stuffed sex toy outselling Beastie, etc. etc. etc. The -only- way the committers can get a lot of people to use the new logo is to put out a new logo that is better than Beastie. >If you contribute to FreeBSD and earn the right to a commit >bit, then you >get a chance to vote on who becomes a member of the core group >and things >like the selection of a new logo. > No, you get to vote on the selection of various bits of code changes. But no amount of your voting is going to instantly change the recognized logo of FreeBSD from Beastie to the sex-toy. Ranting on questions has far more ability to make or break use of the sex-toy logo by the FreeBSD userbase than voting on current. > >So people can "huff and puff and try to blow the house down" in this >thread, but the only thing that makes any difference is what the people >who have earned a vote think. > No, the only thing that makes a difference when it comes to the logo is what the people choose to use who are normally using the FreeBSD logo in their work every day. And those folks are what you would term the sales and marketing arm of FreeBSD, not the developers. And they are paying attention to what people are saying about the new sex-toy logo. The sex-toy logo has very little recognition and association with FreeBSD. The few places that you might -want- to use it is someplace like the cover of a magazine, because if you use a recognized logo like Beastie then prospective purchasers of that magazine are going to think "ho hum another article about FreeBSD" and pass it by, whereas since they don't know what the sex-toy represents, they might pick up the mag and read it. But, in that case your selling a magazine, not an operating system. In instances like the cover of a CD or a business card or a website where your wanting to use a very instantly recognizable logo denoting FreeBSD, your going to use Beastie. And this reason is what is the reason for most of the areas that have a need for a FreeBSD logo. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
Spadge wrote: fbsd wrote: fbsd wrote: * so working with in that same procedure the maintainer passes the packages to the audit people and they pass it on. No problem with this at all. Thus removing any kind of streamlining to speed up releases of new versions? the port make method will still be there for all ports with limited usage history, it will just not have a package for it because it has limited usage. And this is the crux of the matter. Would phpmyadmin have a php5/mysql4 version? Or do the majority of users use php4 still? And are there more test boxes than there are production servers? Is it fair to say the most commonly used ports are not the most commonly used packages? I would imagine that something like KDE would be a hugely popular package, on account of the sheer size of the beast, but that it wouldn't be the most popular port due to the number of people who don't run a GUI on their system. There is also the fact that you could fairly easily abuse this system if you wanted your software to be included in the 'most commonly used' list, by just hammering the server. There is no privacy issues. Passing cookies is normal and done as matter of fact by most commercial websites and any website that uses php session control makes cookies by default. This is a no-issue issue. Every browser on the planet has the option to disable cookies (in the same way that email clients have the option of indenting quoted text - it's a standard required feature). This is because it is a privacy issue. Different people have different views on what privacy is or isn't, and that's nine tenths of the entire point: we don't get to decide what their privacy levels are, they do. I can totally understand why you think this system would be better for you. I just hope you can understand why it wouldn't be better for everyone, nor even for the majority of people. Now, Marc G. Fournier's dynamic personalised ports tree suggestion ... that's a *real* idea. Agreed in full. Cookies and similar are, in my opinion, invasive, and this is why I have my browser set to ask me each time, and get rid of anf I accept when I close the browser. But other people love the benefits of cookies. Choice is the only real power. And, Marc G. Fournier definitely had something with his description of how the port system should work, when I read his post I was thinking that is exactly how I would have designed it as well (admittedly, when it was designed, it wasn't the size it is now). Regards, Adrian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Help: Mounting USB Mass Storage
Hi Guys I have few questions? 1. How can I mount a Mass Storage USB drive on my FreeBSD Box? 2. Which I could also be able to plug to a Windows machine? 3. Which type of formating I should do, i.e. NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16? 4. How can I make it automatic mounted on a reboot? Thanks for your help! maanjee ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
Mark Linimon wrote: On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 02:04:55PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: I believe that one solution to the scalability problem of creating and maintaining updated packages, would be to decentralize it more. Each time I submit an update for one of the ports I maintain, I've already build the relevant packages, as a QA measure. There should be no need to wait for the ports cluster to build the official version, instead of using my own, modulo perhaps the higher quality assurance you'd get from Kris's build infrastructure. You have built the package for one build environment (buildenv). There are 12. See http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portsoverall.py. Quite right. But I think that would still be helpful to the majority of users (of packages). If a maintainer can't build a package for a particular build environment due to lack of resources, we can always use the regular cluster builds for these architectures. We just gained a more timely release of the most wanted package(s), no? Frankly, the availability of up-to-date packages is the only issue from this thread I really care about. I've been contemplating about graphical package installers for FreeBSD for some time and most ideas fall short since there would not be much point in using a package installer without... er... packages :-) Regards, Panagiotis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: makeworld FAILURE on 5.4-STABLE
At 18:16 14.05.2006, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Sunday 14 May 2006 07:31, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > >I believe it should be: > > > >chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/usr > >rm -rf /usr/obj/usr > >cd /usr/src > > > > > >Yes, the 'make cleandir' statement is run twice. > > > >-- > >Gerard Seibert > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Once or twice, it is still irrelevant. > > Thank you so much though. > > -- Kyrre > Ah, Kristian, I see you're back. And you still can't get past 'buildworld'. And you're still giving kind of flip answers, although with a thank you at the end. What processor are you using? You know, your best bet might be to blow off the 5.4 and do a new install with a 6.1-RELEASE disk. At least then you could get upgraded. Ok, I saw an error in your beginning procedure: cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile cd /usr/obj chflags -R noschg It's right here. You need to use this: chflags -R noschg * rm -rf * cd /usr/src make clean Also, Instead of 'make clean' , run 'make cleandir', twice, as was suggested. Try that and be sure to keep it out of a script. Don Hello Don, good old friend :) Yes I am back. I had to change my alias because too many people were after me. And also I'm still stuck on the same problem. I did make a clean 6.1-RELEASE blow at my Pentium 120mhz firewall which needed the buildworld the most. Now it's my Pentium III 3,2ghz workstation that needs it, however it's got too much data on it that I'm currently in no position to back up, not even temporarily, so I'm not sure what to do other than this buildworld. Any suggestions? Oh yeah, I accidentally left the `*' out in chflags -R noschg. Take care, K* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
Steven Hartland wrote: Chris wrote: On 15/05/06, fbsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Keep the ports tree how it is, as others have said the size is small on modern hard drives and bandwidth trivial, once the initial ports tree is in place keeping it up to date needs very little bandwidth and its only distfiles that tend to be large, but you only download distfiles for ports you install so this is a very good system. If at least one person uses a port it is justified and I very much like that most tiny apps I search for in the ports tree do indeed exist. How would you define commonly used ports? we would end up with a favouritism system in place and many arguments about which ports would be included in the commonly used group, you also forget that many ports that may look meaningless from where you sit are necessary as dependants to other ports. There would be not arguments as stats dont lie. Please read the entire thread there are some good ideas in there which would speed up day to day use of ports for everyone. Where you get the idea that ports is quick to maintain is beyond me it takes a good 30mins to sync up if your a few months out of date now a days. 30mins is not much if you have 1 machine but add it all up for a large number of machines and its a significant amount of time which we all could better spend doing other things instead of waiting for a cvsup to complete. This is why there are options in place that would allow you to download the cvsup to one of you computers, likely a server of some sort, and your other computers all retrieve the CVSup from this local server, significantly speeding up the retrieval time and decreasing the load on the primary servers, a win for everyone. If you have computers of varying architectures or in seperated geographical locations this would not work as worded, but from your wording it sounded like you had a local LAN of computers. Ohh, and for your informations, statistics do lie, that is the point of statistical analysis, which I spent 1 1/2 years of my life studying before changing into my current Software Engineering/Computer Security degree. And, the arguements would arise from the "common" ports/packages directory, a suggestion of fbsd's I believe, whereby common ports that would not be built often primarily due to their size, and so wouldn't show up in statistics (such as Gnome, KDE, OpenOffice, and a number of others), would be placed into a common directory of the ports/packages tree, and would be exempt from these statistics. The arguements would arise over what should be placed into this "common" directory. And what about the case of a port that would be built many times over its lifetime, mainly due to program version changes? The first one that springs to mind would be Firefox. Firefox has had a number of version changes in the same space of time that Exim, a very commonly used mail server application, has been updated, and assuming an even distribution of mail servers and desktop users with firefox, firefox would appear to be 10-20 times more active over it's lifetime. It is also common for people with a desktop computer to format their HDD every 3 months or so, and every time this occured, the desktop PC ports (Xorg, Firefox, KDE/XFCE/GNOME, OpenOffice.org, etc.) would get a rebuild/redownload, again throwing the stastics out of whack. Just my $0.02. Regards, Adrian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: asda
Ben Haysom wrote: read the attached ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I see no attached, and more importantly, there are only certain documents which you can attach. As it is something you want us to read, it is much more appropriate to paste it into an email document ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: strange on 'man' command...
Tang Ho Yim wrote: Hi everyone, I am running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p7. When I type "man xxx" command..it will show the manual twiceis it strange ? I remember that it will show only once before So anyone can help ? Thanks ! - Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Could you be a little more specific about "it will show the manual twice'? Does it show the manual once and once you close that it shows it again? Or does it split it horizontally/vertically on your screen? Or does it run, one after the other, so that you have the "See also" and similar right before a new manual page at the bottom? Or something else that I have not described? Regards, Adrian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Linux distro with ports/package type system?
I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't like, I don't want to run windows on this box... so I'm looking for a Linux distro that has a ports like system. I need KDE, X.org, and a 2.6 kernel installed by default... dammit... I don't want to #$%! with Linux, maybe I'll give FreeBSD another try first, anyways, thanks for the suggestions guys. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
pptpd with mpd
Hi! I have a running mpd on my freebsd-5.2.1 linux fw but whenever I connect my windows client it says "port is closed" my mpd.conf default: load pptp pptp: new -i ng0 pptp pptp set iface disable on-demand set iface enable proxy-arp set bundle disable multilink set bundle authname traxx set bundle enable encryption set link yes acfcomp protocomp set link disable pap set link enable chap set link keep-alive 10 60 set ipcp enable vjcomp set ipcp ranges 192.168.3.30/32 192.168.3.33/32 set ipcp dns 192.168.3.2 set bundle enable compression set ccp enable mppc set ccp enable mpp-e40 set ccp enable mpp-e128 set ccp yes mpp-stateless set bundle enable crypt-reqd mpd.links pptp: set link type pptp set pptp self 192.168.3.1 set pptp enable incoming set pptp enable originate on my /var/log/messages, I can't see any mpd logs on it but mpd is running: ps -fax|grep mpd 42496 ?? Is 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/mpd -b Did I missed something? -- Oliver A. Rojo __ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?
> Linux distro that has a ports like system. I heard that gentoo has a port like system. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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Please explain make -j to my little brain
Hi I've read the following snippet out of the handbook hundreds of times and still don't understand it. I even asked one of the developers I work with and he was baffled too. > It is now possible to specify a -j option to make which will cause it to > spawn several simultaneous processes. This is most useful on multi-CPU > machines. However, since much of the compiling process is IO bound rather > than CPU bound it is also useful on single CPU machines. What I want to know is, if compiling is IO bound, and you increase the number of simultaneous processes compiling your world, where do the extra processes get data from if the IO bandwidth is all used. Have I misunderstood the term IO bound? Please help, I feel like a right tool. Just as a side line... does anybody know the best -j value to build world on a 4-core box? Ashley -- "If you do it the stupid way, you will have to do it again" - Gregory Chudnovsky ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Please explain make -j to my little brain
Ashley Moran wrote: Hi I've read the following snippet out of the handbook hundreds of times and still don't understand it. I even asked one of the developers I work with and he was baffled too. It is now possible to specify a -j option to make which will cause it to spawn several simultaneous processes. This is most useful on multi-CPU machines. However, since much of the compiling process is IO bound rather than CPU bound it is also useful on single CPU machines. What I want to know is, if compiling is IO bound, and you increase the number of simultaneous processes compiling your world, where do the extra processes get data from if the IO bandwidth is all used. Have I misunderstood the term IO bound? Please help, I feel like a right tool. Just as a side line... does anybody know the best -j value to build world on a 4-core box? The way I understand it is that 1 core would do this... compile read disk compile read disk ... compile It wont be reading when it is compiling and cant compile when its reading so if you do -j 2 even on a single core machine it could do: compile read disk complile read disk ... compile read disk complile read disk ... compile read disk Which means neither the CPU or the disks are idle resulting in faster performance. Cheers Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: pptpd with mpd
On Monday 15 May 2006 12:17, Oliver A. Rojo wrote: > Hi! > > I have a running mpd on my freebsd-5.2.1 linux fw but whenever I connect > my windows client it says "port is closed" > > my mpd.conf > > default: > load pptp > pptp: > new -i ng0 pptp pptp > set iface disable on-demand > set iface enable proxy-arp > set bundle disable multilink > set bundle authname traxx > set bundle enable encryption > set link yes acfcomp protocomp > set link disable pap > set link enable chap > set link keep-alive 10 60 > set ipcp enable vjcomp > set ipcp ranges 192.168.3.30/32 192.168.3.33/32 > set ipcp dns 192.168.3.2 > set bundle enable compression > set ccp enable mppc > set ccp enable mpp-e40 > set ccp enable mpp-e128 > set ccp yes mpp-stateless > set bundle enable crypt-reqd > > mpd.links > > pptp: > set link type pptp > set pptp self 192.168.3.1 > set pptp enable incoming > set pptp enable originate > > on my /var/log/messages, I can't see any mpd logs on it but mpd is running: > > ps -fax|grep mpd > > 42496 ?? Is 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/mpd -b you can use "mpd -a 127.0.0.1 -b" and "telnet 127.0.0.1 5005" to see what's going on or you can use "mpd -s syslog_ident" to enable logging. > > Did I missed something? mpd does not use syslog by default. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
Keep the ports tree how it is, as others have said the size is small on modern hard drives and bandwidth trivial, once the initial ports tree is in place keeping it up to date needs very little bandwidth and its only distfiles that tend to be large, but you only download distfiles for ports you install so this is a very good system. If at least one person uses a port it is justified and I very much like that most tiny apps I search for in the ports tree do indeed exist. How would you define commonly used ports? we would end up with a favouritism system in place and many arguments about which ports would be included in the commonly used group, you also forget that many ports that may look meaningless from where you sit are necessary as dependants to other ports. Is php4 out of date? no its still been maintained and is more suitable for many people, likewise with mysql 4.1. Openssl 0.9.7 all are older branches but not out of date. The ports system is very clever in how it is so adaptive eg. Ruby needs openssl and if you have 0.9.7 it sets that as the dependency rather then 0.9.8. No hacking of makefiles needed. Chris ** The point being made by the OP is the packages are not being kept up to date and the usage of packages & ports don't work together because of the overall size of the collection. How does what you posted address the packages? *** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: pptpd with mpd
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Monday 15 May 2006 12:17, Oliver A. Rojo wrote: Hi! I have a running mpd on my freebsd-5.2.1 linux fw but whenever I connect my windows client it says "port is closed" my mpd.conf default: load pptp pptp: new -i ng0 pptp pptp set iface disable on-demand set iface enable proxy-arp set bundle disable multilink set bundle authname traxx set bundle enable encryption set link yes acfcomp protocomp set link disable pap set link enable chap set link keep-alive 10 60 set ipcp enable vjcomp set ipcp ranges 192.168.3.30/32 192.168.3.33/32 set ipcp dns 192.168.3.2 set bundle enable compression set ccp enable mppc set ccp enable mpp-e40 set ccp enable mpp-e128 set ccp yes mpp-stateless set bundle enable crypt-reqd have you try to change the "enable" to "yes" for this option? maybe it will work set ccp yes mppc set ccp yes mpp-e40 set ccp yes mpp-e128 set ccp yes mpp-stateless ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Problem with media(CDROM and FTP), 6.1, IBM Netfinity 5000
Hi I am trying to install 6.1 on a IBM Netfinity 5000. It is willingly booting up I on the cdrom, but when I select the minimal install and media CDROM, it says that it can't find cdrom drive. The I tried to do both ftp and passive ftp to both the primary and secondary danish ftp sites, both with the standard ftp and anonymous logon, both with and email and with out an email as password, every time it says name ok but missing password. The I tried burning a copy of the disk and mount it in my laptop, setup ftp, I can only from the lap top it self check that it responds to ftp connection. I can see in the xferlog that a connection is made from the Netfinity server, but it still says that password is missing When a connection fails on the second screen "alt+f2" I can se the rl0 (the network interface is downed, and second time I try to connect I get no route to host, the I have to restart the server. What have I missed. /Klaus ps. I have disabled the original build in network card, as it seems not supported, I have added a Realtek pci card. -- Klaus, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: a
sai shu wrote: > a b -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken." Anonymous ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Rebuilding Man database
Disturbingly, some of my man pages are not working, i.e. man man comes up with nothing is there a way to rebuild the man database to fix this? Andrew - Get amazing travel prices for air and hotel in one click on Yahoo! FareChase ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Link not giving Access
Dear Sir, I wanted to download Unix Free BSD Hand book from http://www.bestebooksworld.com/showeBook.asp?link=1273 thorough you link given This, and other documents, can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/. But it is giving me no access message can you please kindly help me how can I download this doc. Best Regards Abdul Basit Afzal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
Adrian Pavone wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: This is why there are options in place that would allow you to download the cvsup to one of you computers, likely a server of some sort, and your other computers all retrieve the CVSup from this local server, significantly speeding up the retrieval time and decreasing the load on the primary servers, a win for everyone. If you have computers of varying architectures or in seperated geographical locations this would not work as worded, but from your wording it sounded like you had a local LAN of computers. You couldnt be more wrong there even though the cvsup source might as well be on the local LAN we have such a quick connection to it. The shear volume of files that have to be checked adds a significant amount of time to any method to syncing them, from cvsup local rsync to tar I've tried them all. Ohh, and for your informations, statistics do lie, that is the point of statistical analysis, which I spent 1 1/2 years of my life studying before changing into my current Software Engineering/Computer Security degree. Your just being pedantic, you know quite well what was ment. And, the arguements would arise from the "common" ports/packages directory, a suggestion of fbsd's I believe, whereby common ports that would not be built often primarily due to their size, and so wouldn't show up in statistics (such as Gnome, KDE, OpenOffice, and a number of others), would be placed into a common directory of the ports/packages tree, and would be exempt from these statistics. The arguements would arise over what should be placed into this "common" directory. The suggestion was capable of registering either when installed by ports or packages so a mute point. And what about the case of a port that would be built many times over its lifetime, mainly due to program version changes? The first one that springs to mind would be Firefox. Firefox has had a number of version changes in the same space of time that Exim, a very commonly used mail server application, has been updated, and assuming an even distribution of mail servers and desktop users with firefox, firefox would appear to be 10-20 times more active over it's lifetime. And your point being? It is also common for people with a desktop computer to format their HDD every 3 months or so, and every time this occured, the desktop PC ports (Xorg, Firefox, KDE/XFCE/GNOME, OpenOffice.org, etc.) would get a rebuild/redownload, again throwing the stastics out of whack. No its still being used isnt it which is what we are interested in. This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the event of misdirection, the recipient is prohibited from using, copying, printing or otherwise disseminating it or any information contained in it. In the event of misdirection, illegible or incomplete transmission please telephone (023) 8024 3137 or return the E.mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: panic: userret: Returning with 1 locks held.
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:35:01PM -0700, Malachi de ?lfweald wrote: > Has anyone found a solution to the problem reported here: > http://marc2.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-amd64&m=111219607318603&w=2 > > >From what I can tell, unionfs is compiled into my kernel (said YES in the > kernel config file)... > > I can consistently cause this to happen within a couple seconds if I use the > man pages from within a jail that is on unionfs. Don't do that then (see the manpage). The patches floating around may help you, but maybe not. Kris pgpw38CFrQ3ec.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: makeworld FAILURE on 5.4-STABLE
On Monday 15 May 2006 04:03, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > Hello Don, good old friend :) > > Yes I am back. I had to change my alias because too many people > were after me. And also I'm still stuck on the same problem. I did > make a clean 6.1-RELEASE blow at my Pentium 120mhz firewall which > needed the buildworld the most. Now it's my Pentium III 3,2ghz > workstation that needs it, however it's got too much data on it that > I'm currently in no position to back up, not even temporarily, so I'm > not sure what to do other than this buildworld. Any suggestions? > > Oh yeah, I accidentally left the `*' out in chflags -R noschg. > > Take care, > K* I was hoping it be as simple as a missing '*', but I would think there would be error messages showing up about that. Oh, well. Ok, you're stuck in the same place as before, and by that I mean you are failing the 'make buildworld' part of the sequence, correct?. That means that there's something you're either doing or not doing, prior to starting the buildworld that's causing a problem. What's in your /etc/make.conf? Try doing 'make buildworld' with the GENERIC conf file rather than your NINJA one. The problem may be there. If you can get through the upgrade using the GENERIC you've got the upgrade in place and you can find out what's wrong with NINJA. That's the best I can suggest for now. And do the 'make cleandir' twice, as Gerard suggested. It's not irrelevant. Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
print-cdrom-packages.sh??
Moving on with my automated installs, I want to build some additional packages into the FTP area of my install server, which was seeded from the 6.1-RELEASE ISOs. The "FreeBSD Release Engineering for Third Party Software Packages" document on the FreeBSD website says that the release-building process uses a script called print-cdrom-packages.sh to produce the list of packages to build. However, my source tree doesn't have this script, and a look in CVS suggests that it's no longer in use, and hasn't been since March 2005 (Revision 1.71, Mon Mar 21 19:19:24 2005 UTC - Retire print-cdrom-packages.sh as it has been replaced.). Is there any current documentation for how the package building process is done? Or am I looking at the wrong URL? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/article.html Ultimately, I'll want to rebuild all the packages, so just getting the few extras I need right now doesn't really help. I intend to use 'make release' to keep a 6_RELENG install with fairly current packages available for new servers, so I don't need to do so much rebuilding immediately after a fresh install. Thanks in advance for any pointers, or even any "don't do that, do this instead"-type advice. Howie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Overwite problem
Hej I have installed ProFTP on my computer. And have following settings in the proftpd.conf file. But I am unable to overwrite on a file? What is the wrong? # Normally, we want files to be overwriteable. AllowOverwrite on AllowAll AllowAll ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD-Update and 6.1
A couple of questions regarding FreeBSD-Update: 1. How do I update from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.1-RELEASE or 6-STABLE using FreeBSD-Update? I've tried downloading the ISO and doing it that way but 'uname' remains unchanged. 2. How does FreeBSD-Update know which branch to follow (STABLE, CURRENT or RELEASE)? 3. I tried upgrading to 6.1 using the ISO method, and am getting this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]freebsd-update fetch Fetching updates signature... Fetching hash list signature... Examining local system... The following files are affected by security fixes, but have not been updated because they have been modified locally: /bin/rmail /usr/bin/edit /usr/bin/ee /usr/bin/ree /usr/bin/vacation /usr/lib/libmilter.a /usr/lib/libmilter.so.3 /usr/libexec/mail.local /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail /usr/libexec/smrsh /usr/sbin/editmap /usr/sbin/mailstats /usr/sbin/makemap /usr/sbin/praliases No updates available ...AFAIK I haven't altered these files. How can I force the update? I have a feeling this is related to the above questions ;) Many thanks, Matt Bostock ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Rebuilding Man database
On 2006-05-14 23:30, Andrew Carton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Disturbingly, some of my man pages are not working, i.e. man man comes > up with nothing is there a way to rebuild the man database to fix > this? Try to remove any stale "cat pages" (preformatted manpage files): # /usr/share/man # find cat* -type f | xargs rm -f Repeat the same for any other directories in your MANPATH, and see if that fixes the problems you are seeing... - Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mail Replication
Vampire D wrote: Any advice / suggestions would be great. We are trying to build a completely automated fail over solution for two servers using Apache, mySQL, PHP, and Postfix within a small monthly budget. If your budget is less than $10K, don't even bother to try to set up a fault-tolerant cluster; you're better off spending more on a high-quality single machine with RAID-1 or -10 disk config, hot spare drive, and dual power supplies...and tape backup, most importantly. Trying to implement a highly reliable cluster on cheap hardware is almost certainly going to prove futile or even counterproductive. How are you going to handle a split-horizon condition? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
And what about the case of a port that would be built many times over its lifetime, mainly due to program version changes? The first one that springs to mind would be Firefox. Firefox has had a number of version changes in the same space of time that Exim, a very commonly used mail server application, has been updated, and assuming an even distribution of mail servers and desktop users with firefox, firefox would appear to be 10-20 times more active over it's lifetime. And your point being? It is also common for people with a desktop computer to format their HDD every 3 months or so, and every time this occured, the desktop PC ports (Xorg, Firefox, KDE/XFCE/GNOME, OpenOffice.org, etc.) would get a rebuild/redownload, again throwing the stastics out of whack. No its still being used isnt it which is what we are interested in. I'm sorry, but when I read the continual posts on this topic, all stated that the count would occur while installing, not in usage. If the suggestion was that the FreeBSD system would report what packages where being used on a regular basis (the only way to properly record what ports/packages were being used), then that is an entirely seperate discussion, and one that I have not addressed to this point. However, If that was your suggestion, then I am extremely glad that is not how the ports system currently operates, for the same reason I am glad that spyware is not installed on my computer. If you do not have a regular reporting to home base mechanism in place, then how would you be able to monitor what is "still being used .. which is what we are interested in"? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
maybe this is a bit off target, but it seems to me the ports tree is not too large: I've found stuff I've wanted that wasn't on the ports tree. I think it's too small. Unless you are on a 56k, but then everything ports related will be painful. However a reoganization could be in order... Currently we have: portbase/category/port/ Each category could have hundreds of ports that are related in the category, but clutter a search, especially in categories with over 100 ports... My suggestion, why not add another level: portbase/category/subcategory/port/ As well as some "virtual" categories, such as all "perl", "python", "php", and "c_c++" will be put under lang as sub-categories, with _all_ modules for these languages, and then if you are thinking "mysql access for python" while doing your ports search, you'll go to the databases/mysql/ subcategory, and see a symlink to the python module to access mysql. And then there would be a dependancy translation table: it if a dependancy isn't found, it'll look on the table, which will convert from the current structure to the new structure within the port make system, and hopefully prevent most/all change issues. Sorry if this suggestion is too farr off the topic (or already been posted, I got about half way through, and found I need to get to work...) Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Please explain make -j to my little brain
On Mon, 15 May 2006 11:12:33 +0100 Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I've read the following snippet out of the handbook hundreds of times and > still don't understand it. I even asked one of the developers I work with > and he was baffled too. > > > It is now possible to specify a -j option to make which will cause it to > > spawn several simultaneous processes. This is most useful on multi-CPU > > machines. However, since much of the compiling process is IO bound rather > > than CPU bound it is also useful on single CPU machines. > > What I want to know is, if compiling is IO bound, and you increase the number > of simultaneous processes compiling your world, where do the extra processes > get data from if the IO bandwidth is all used. > > Have I misunderstood the term IO bound? Please help, I feel like a right > tool. The key to that quote is the placement of the term "much". As in "much of the compiling process" ... not all of it. Generally, while one process is waiting on disk IO, another can be using the CPU. As a result, you can get closer to 100% usage of the machine, which won't happen if you batch the whole thing. > Just as a side line... does anybody know the best -j value to build world on > a > 4-core box? I generally quadruple the # of cores, so I'd use -j16. I couldn't tell you authoritatively what is _best_, though. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Overwite problem
On Mon, 15 May 2006 14:21:24 +0200 "Maan Jee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hej > > I have installed ProFTP on my computer. And have following settings in the > proftpd.conf file. But I am unable to overwrite on a file? What is the > wrong? > > # Normally, we want files to be overwriteable. > > AllowOverwrite on > > > > > AllowAll > > > AllowAll > > I think if you research the following questions, you'll discover your own answer. If not, feel free to post again, but provide more details: 1) Is there anything in the FTP server's logs about this? (look in /var/log) 2) Will the actual file permissions allow this (ls -l) 3) If #1 isn't helpful, increase ProFTP's logging verbosity and try again. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: strange on 'man' command...
For example: man ipf, it runs normal. ipf(8) Name .. SYNOPSIS BUGS and then it jump to the first ipf man page again, then space bar until last page, it quit to the shell. So why ? Thanks ! Adrian Pavone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tang Ho Yim wrote: >Hi everyone, > > I am running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p7. When I type "man xxx" command..it > will show the manual twiceis it strange ? > I remember that it will show only once before > > So anyone can help ? Thanks ! > > >- >Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ >countries) for 2?min or less. >___ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > Could you be a little more specific about "it will show the manual twice'? Does it show the manual once and once you close that it shows it again? Or does it split it horizontally/vertically on your screen? Or does it run, one after the other, so that you have the "See also" and similar right before a new manual page at the bottom? Or something else that I have not described? Regards, Adrian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
auth error squirrelmail
Hello, I have squirrel mail installed only i can not log in. The error message i recieve is like this: Bad request: The IMAP server is reporting that plain text logins are disabled. Using CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 authentication instead may work. Also, the use of TLS may allow SquirrelMail to login. Please contact your system administrator and report this error. I`m using imap-uw server and i have no idee where to change these options. Maybe someone can help me where to look. Thanks, Justin. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: auth error squirrelmail
On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:21:12 +0200 (CEST) justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have squirrel mail installed only i can not log in. > The error message i recieve is like this: > > Bad request: The IMAP server is reporting that plain text logins are > disabled. Using CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 authentication instead may > work. Also, the use of TLS may allow SquirrelMail to login. Please > contact your system administrator and report this error. > > I`m using imap-uw server and i have no idee where to change these > options. Maybe someone can help me where to look. if your imap-server is supporting SSL or TLS, then you can re-run the configure-script for squirrelmail and enable that for squirrelmail (there's also an option in the config-script to choose the specific imap-server you're using, that might be useful to use anyway if you didn't do that already) -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
How to make sound (Realtek Alc260) working?
Hello everybody, I'm kindly new to FreeBSD (6.1) and want to configure sound. I already tried every driver, but if I "cat /dev/sndstat" its still empty. Is there anybody who already made a Realtek Alc260 working under FreeBSD 6.x or is there anybody who can help me with an advice? I'm very thankful for your attention. Yours, Andreas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Please explain make -j to my little brain
On Monday 15 May 2006 11:23, Richard Collyer wrote: > The way I understand it is that 1 core would do this... > > compile read disk compile read disk ... compile > > It wont be reading when it is compiling and cant compile when its > reading so if you do -j 2 even on a single core machine it could do: > > compile read disk complile read disk ... compile > read disk complile read disk ... compile read disk > > Which means neither the CPU or the disks are idle resulting in faster > performance. Thanks Richard + Bill I get it now. Presumably with faster disks, the lower the number of make processes you require. Ashley -- "If you do it the stupid way, you will have to do it again" - Gregory Chudnovsky ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
Just remember it has to be a /better/ mousetrap. wouldn't it be a peopletrap in this case, since it's for people? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?
On May 15, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't like, I don't want to run windows on this box... so I'm looking for a Linux distro that has a ports like system. I need KDE, X.org, and a 2.6 kernel installed by default... dammit... I don't want to #$%! with Linux, maybe I'll give FreeBSD another try first, anyways, thanks for the suggestions guys. I've heard that Gentoo's package management system "Portage" is inspired by FreeBSDs ports, but I believe it's a bit of work to install and compile a working system. I've been using Debian based Kubuntu on my laptop, and find the package management excellent. The installation and maintenance is easy. It's my choice when I want to install and go. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: fetch, pkg_fetch, wget from behind firewall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Koerber) writes: > For FreeBSD 5.x through 6.1 (the limit of my experiance w/ FreeBSD) > FETCH'ing from behind our fire wall only works most of the time. > > The problem, when it occurs, is at the end of the file transfer when > fetch hangs forever (i.e., 30 minutes to 24+hours when I finally kill > the process). The site for which this always happens is > ftp.belnet.be. > > I have tried > setting FTP_PASSAVE=YES > setting FTP_TIMEOUT=5 > setting HTTP_TIMEOUT=5 > > and none have worked...any ideas Well, the first of those has two different spelling errors, but I'll just assume you didn't cut-and-paste it. If that one host is the only one that has problems, then don't use it; I'm pretty sure everything that's there is available elsewhere too... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
I do use the ports mechanism on my FreeBSD systems exclusively due the possibility of making the system components meshing and working in unison instead of version and "dll-hell". And now and then I find some obscure port that fits the current needs - And again the ports system makes the whole process painless. As such I see and feel very little need making the ports system smaller or more lightweight as there are other way to make downloading and using the ports in larger setups minor bindwidth or resource eater. However a reoganization could be in order... Currently we have: portbase/category/port/ Some kind of reorganization could be in order, if a good way doing it could be found. At one point I tended to drop the language and some other catergories from cvsup fetch, but it made building the INDEX next to impossible causing me reverting to full ports fetch again. I dont know if indexing in separate categories or some such solution would be feasible, but of course fetchindex target makes the indexing of partial port trees feasible. Then of course there has to be good reasons for creating separate trees for non-english ports, but one thing I've thought is that if those could be put into main port build directory and enabled with a build knob or maybe making them some kind of metaports without needing their own directory hierarchy. All in all the ports sytem, even as it is nowadays, in its present size is one of the reasons which make FreeBSD for me a unixish OS of choice. An all packaging solution would be a major pain to maintain. I'm running Apache, PHP, Postgres etc. in my web server setups these days and there is no way I'd go to MySQL. There are just too many combinations of different "components" used in similar setups to make packages only solution feasible *without* limiting the choice the present system gives us in building the machines to suit our needs. -Reko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
how to enble bootverbose in freebsd
hello ,everyone i need to get the trace of the booting kernel in detail ,but i found i cannot turn the trigger== bootverbose== on to 1 ,even when i " define bootverbose 1 " in dev/bktr/bktr_reg.h any kind-hearted would help me out -- we who r about to die,salute u! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Newbie File system
Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e507630 12 467008 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f 34336100 1564298 30024914 5%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 150619024892 1360804 2%/var thanks/mj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to enble bootverbose in freebsd
william wallace wrote: hello ,everyone i need to get the trace of the booting kernel in detail ,but i found i cannot turn the trigger== bootverbose== on to 1 ,even when i " definebootverbose 1 " in dev/bktr/bktr_reg.h any kind-hearted would help me out From /boot/defaults/loader.conf: verbose_loading="NO"# Set to YES for verbose loader output HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: [freebsd-questions] Newbie File system
Maan Jee wrote: Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e507630 12 467008 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f 34336100 1564298 30024914 5%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 150619024892 1360804 2%/var cd /home df -h . I believe the default is that /home is a symbolic link to /usr/home, so it's on /usr. Best Regards, Howie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Newbie File system
On my system at least, /home is a symlink to /usr/home. I belive this is the default. On 5/15/06, Maan Jee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e507630 12 467008 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f 34336100 1564298 30024914 5%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 150619024892 1360804 2%/var thanks/mj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Newbie File system
On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:33 +0200 "Maan Jee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory > located? > > > Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ > devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev > /dev/ad0s1e507630 12 467008 0%/tmp > /dev/ad0s1f 34336100 1564298 30024914 5%/usr > /dev/ad0s1d 150619024892 1360804 2%/var Not reliably. Folks could guess. Post again and include the output of "ls -l /" this time. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Newbie File system
On 2006-05-15 17:20, Maan Jee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory > located? > > > Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ > devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev > /dev/ad0s1e507630 12 467008 0%/tmp > /dev/ad0s1f 34336100 1564298 30024914 5%/usr > /dev/ad0s1d 150619024892 1360804 2%/var You can find for yourself: # ls -ld /home ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Newbie File system
"Maan Jee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory > located? > Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ > devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev > /dev/ad0s1e507630 12 467008 0%/tmp > /dev/ad0s1f 34336100 1564298 30024914 5%/usr > /dev/ad0s1d 150619024892 1360804 2%/var It most likely is part of /usr. Try: ls -l /home Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
NDISulator vs Linksys WMP54G BCM4306
Hi, I was trying NDISulator for the first time and it didn't go well, I can't get the driver to detect the card. pciconf -l -v : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8:0: class=0x028000 card=0x00131737 chip=0x432014e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller' class= network from the .inf file: [BROADCOM] %BCM430G.DeviceDesc% = BCM43XG, PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4320&SUBSYS_041714E4 %BCM430G.DeviceDesc% = BCM43XG, PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4320&SUBSYS_041814E4 %BCM430G.DeviceDesc% = BCM43XG, PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4320&SUBSYS_00131737 %BCM430G.DeviceDesc% = BCM43XG, <<< I take it it's this one PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4320&SUBSYS_00141737 When I load if_ndis nothing happens When downloading the drivers from Linksys site I noticed there are 3 versions of the WMP54G (v1,v2,v4) so I tried all three drivers with no luck. This is all on 6.1-RELEASE Any advice is very appreciated :-) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD-multi-boot
Vlad GURDIGA wrote: > Hello all, > > I have these slices on my HDD: > - /dev/ad0s1 - Windows XP > - /dev/ad0s2 - FreeBSD/i386 > - /dev/ad0s3 - FreeBSD/amd64 > > and I want them all in my boot.ini. > > Till now I succeeded with FreeBSD/i386 (first did "dd if=/dev/ad0s2 > of=boot.bsd bs=512 count=1" from FreeBSD/i386, then copied the > resulted "boot.bsd" file to Windows C:\) > > I did the same trick with FreeBSD/amd64 (first did "dd if=/dev/ad0s3 > of=boot64.bsd bs=512 count=1" from FreeBSD/amd64, then copied the > resulted "boot64.bsd" file to Windows C:\) so, my boot.ini looks like > this: > > ---cut here-- > [boot loader] > timeout=3 > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS > [operating systems] > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP > Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect > C:\boot.bsd="UNIX FreeBSD/i386" > C:\boot64.bsd="UNIX FreeBSD/amd64" > ---cut here-- > > > Now, the problem is that when I choose "UNIX FreeBSD/amd64" from the > boot menu, it boots "UNIX FreeBSD/i386"!!! > > What did I missed? this page may help:- http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/howtos/grub-freebsd-windowsxp.html Cheers Danny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Newbie File system
On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:33 +0200 "Maan Jee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory > located? > > > Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ > devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev > /dev/ad0s1e507630 12 467008 0%/tmp > /dev/ad0s1f 34336100 1564298 30024914 5%/usr > /dev/ad0s1d 150619024892 1360804 2%/var in FreeBSD /home is normally a symbolic link to the real /usr/home so your real /home should be on /dev/ad0s1f mounted as /usr -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
6.1RC2 regression and a BIG question.
Hello. This is first time I write to you, so I beg you pardon if something goes wrong. We bought HP Proliant DL 320 G4. I tried to install FreeBSD and all the attempts failed. 5.4 cannot see my SATA Raid controller and says that I have no hard disks. 6.1RC2 told me the same. But 6.0i386 && 6.0amd64 was installed successfully but server hang up on loggin in (when i see a login message I cannot type anything my keyboard doesn`t respond at all (except Num, Scroll and Caps Lock)) but I see that if I push the power button I get a lot of messages shutting down the system (as if I typed CTRL+ALT+DEL) acpi is surelly on. Safe Mode and so on didn help except single user mode. But I don`t know what to do in single mode to bring the whole system up. If you can suggest anything I will humbly thank you. Brief: 6.0 recognizes Intel 82808FR SATA controller with 2 Maxtor SATA drives, 6.1RC2 didn do that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Newbie File system
On 5/15/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:33 +0200 "Maan Jee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory > located? > Not reliably. Folks could guess. Post again and include the output of "ls -l /" this time. It's so much easier than that. cd ~ pwd -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Newbie File system
Look in /usr/home -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Maan Jee Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie File system Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1e507630 12 467008 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f 34336100 1564298 30024914 5%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 150619024892 1360804 2%/var thanks/mj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: NDISulator vs Linksys WMP54G BCM4306
"Joao Barros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was trying NDISulator for the first time and it didn't go well, I > can't get the driver to detect the card. > > pciconf -l -v : > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8:0: class=0x028000 card=0x00131737 chip=0x432014e4 > rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > device = 'BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller' > class= network > > from the .inf file: > [BROADCOM] > > %BCM430G.DeviceDesc% = BCM43XG, PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4320&SUBSYS_041714E4 > %BCM430G.DeviceDesc% = BCM43XG, PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4320&SUBSYS_041814E4 > %BCM430G.DeviceDesc% = BCM43XG, PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4320&SUBSYS_00131737 > %BCM430G.DeviceDesc% = BCM43XG, <<< I take it it's this one > PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4320&SUBSYS_00141737 > > When I load if_ndis nothing happens > When downloading the drivers from Linksys site I noticed there are 3 > versions of the WMP54G (v1,v2,v4) so I tried all three drivers with no > luck. > > This is all on 6.1-RELEASE > > Any advice is very appreciated :-) > You didn't use ndisgen, did you? Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Smile in the terminal prompt
Hi, my terminal (bash) prompt is: PS1='\e[0;31m\]\e[7m[\h - \u] [\w]\e[m\]\e[27m\n[\!]$ ' After upgrading to freebsd 6.1, the prompt looks different: - it shows two smiles at both end of the first line and the red background is white. Does that happens to you too if you set the prompt above? I know that the prompt is wrong (it lacks the start invisible chars \[; a better version could be PS1='\[\e[1;37m\]\[\e[41m\][\h - \u] [\w]\[\e[0m\]\n[\!]$ '), but WHY before the upgrade it looked right and now it shows these smiles? At first, I worried that some hackers have made me a joke... (I hope not!) bye Salvatore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Newbie File system
Maan Jee wrote: > Hi > > Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory > located? > > > Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ > devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev > /dev/ad0s1e507630 12 467008 0%/tmp > /dev/ad0s1f 34336100 1564298 30024914 5%/usr > /dev/ad0s1d 150619024892 1360804 2%/var > > thanks/mj Your 'home' directory is usually located under '/usr'. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Because it reverses the natural flow of a dialog. Q: Why is top posting undesirable when replying? TOPIC: Posting Etiquette ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Smile in the terminal prompt
On 5/15/06, Salvatore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, my terminal (bash) prompt is: PS1='\e[0;31m\]\e[7m[\h - \u] [\w]\e[m\]\e[27m\n[\!]$ ' After upgrading to freebsd 6.1, the prompt looks different: - it shows two smiles at both end of the first line and the red background is white. The smile face is the graphical representation of one of the special ascii characters (characters #00 through #30); I don't remember exactly which one. So it seems your prompt is printing the the graphic of the special character instead of printing the character's function. Does that happens to you too if you set the prompt above? I know that the prompt is wrong (it lacks the start invisible chars \[; a better version could be PS1='\[\e[1;37m\]\[\e[41m\][\h - \u] [\w]\[\e[0m\]\n[\!]$ '), but WHY before the upgrade it looked right and now it shows these smiles? Maybe your shell changed, or your term setting, or your font? My first guess would be the term setting. For some reason or another your teminal is reading a special character from your PS1 setting and printing the graphic of that character. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Cvsup verses Portsnap
> The FreeBSD ports system + portsnap + portupgrade is a truly awesome > combination, much better than any other package management system I've > ever > used on other systems. > > I'm currently working on a little port configuration tool to make tweaking > all > the port Make knobs more convenient. > Portmanager already has this I believe. You can add config options to the portmanager config file and it will use them when building things. For example: # # custom settings # # remove "#" to use # # #textproc/docproj|JADETEX=no| #java/jdk14|-DMINIMAL| #textproc/libxml2|THREADS=off SCHEMA=on MEM_DEBUG=off XMLLINT_HIST=off THREAD_ALLOC=off| # # ## ##do not let portmanager update the following ports #IGNORE|editors/openoffice-1.1| #IGNORE|java/jdk14| www/horde|WITHOUT_WV=yes WITHOUT_XL=yes WITHOUT_X11=yes WITH_MAGICK=yes| mail/imp|WITHOUT_LDAP=yes WITHOUT_SMIME=yes WITH_DOVECOT=yes| graphics/ImageMagick|WITHOUT_X11=yes| print/ghostscript-gnu|WITHOUT_X11=yes| works well for me so far. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: NDISulator vs Linksys WMP54G BCM4306
"Joao Barros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/15/06, Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Joao Barros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was trying NDISulator for the first time and it didn't go well, I > > > can't get the driver to detect the card. > > > When I load if_ndis nothing happens > > > When downloading the drivers from Linksys site I noticed there are 3 > > > versions of the WMP54G (v1,v2,v4) so I tried all three drivers with no > > > luck. > > You didn't use ndisgen, did you? > No I didn't, I used the instructions from here: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html > Basically I just used ndiscvt. > When I tried ndisgen per your recomendation it worked! :-) > ndis0: mem 0xe691-0xe6911fff irq 10 at > device 8.0 on pci0 > ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0 > ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:41:12:ab:c4 > > With ndiscvt: > 48813 May 15 14:35 /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/if_ndis.ko > > With ndisgen: > 313921 May 15 16:57 bcmwl5_sys.ko > > So something went wrong with ndiscvt as the file is way smaller. > > I'm going to try and find out what went wrong (or I did wrong) and if > someone can shed light on this... There was a change in ndis a while ago, and the documentation isn't up to date. You no longer just have ndis.ko and if_ndis.ko, the windows driver is now built into an additional module. > Either way, many thanks for the hint :-) You're welcome. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Newbie File system
Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory located? at / Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e507630 12 467008 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f 34336100 1564298 30024914 5%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 150619024892 1360804 2%/var thanks/mj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Newbie File system
or even easier... cd pwd On 5/15/06, Atom Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/15/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:33 +0200 > "Maan Jee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory > > located? > > > > Not reliably. Folks could guess. > > Post again and include the output of "ls -l /" this time. > It's so much easier than that. cd ~ pwd -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: after upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1
> If you followed those instructions, you used the wrong cvsup tag. Set the > tag to: > *default release=cvs delete tag=RELENG_6_1 > > in your cvsupfile, and rebuild everything again. > > -Derek > Hi, You used my page (mikestammer.com) to upgrade. =) Notice the comment in the standard-supfile says: # use 'RELENG_6' for STABLE or 'RELENG_6_0' for RELEASE As others have mentioned, you would use: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_1 To get FreeBSD 6.1. I added a note to make it a little clearer: NOTE: Change the cvs tag as appropriate for what you are trying to do! IE if you want FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE, use *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_1 and so on. The good news is the instructions worked =) Sorry for the confusion Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Newbie File system
> > Maan Jee wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory > > located? > > > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ > > devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev > > /dev/ad0s1e507630 12 467008 0%/tmp > > /dev/ad0s1f 34336100 1564298 30024914 5%/usr > > /dev/ad0s1d 150619024892 1360804 2%/var > > > > thanks/mj > > Your 'home' directory is usually located under '/usr'. Not necessarily, in fact, no, not at all. Your home directory is where-ever you put it. >From the 'df' information you show, it is impossible to tell where it's data actually resides. Technically "/home" is in root (eg '/') because that specifically is what you asked for. But, it is possible for you to have some data that looks like it is in /home, but have that living somewhere else and have a link in root that is named 'home' pointing to it. Now, if you mean your login home directory, that is where-ever your passwd file entry says it is. As the system administrator creating the account, you can specify that. Note: as far as namimg goes, that really depends on the mountpoint you create and use for the filesystem. On many of our systems I create a file system and mounted is as /home and use it to hold users' home directories. On my desktop running FreeBSD, I name the mountpoint for that filesystem '/hom' just to be lazy by one character. So, to answer your own question for yourself, do two things. First, do:ls -l / That will tell you if there is something named '/home' or not and if it is symlinked anythere. Then do:grep yourid /etc/passwd or finger yourid Of course, put your own login id in for 'yourid' In the first, the next to last field is your login home directory In the second it tells your home directory and just called it 'Directory:' jerry > > -- > Gerard Seibert > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Newbie File system
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Hi >> >> Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory >> located? > > at / > > >> >> >> Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on >> /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ >> devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev >> /dev/ad0s1e507630 12 467008 0%/tmp >> /dev/ad0s1f 34336100 1564298 30024914 5%/usr >> /dev/ad0s1d 150619024892 1360804 2%/var >> >> thanks/mj Plenty of answers in this thread, not at all bad ones either, but none of them actually give you a definitive answer. Try this: df -k ~ Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?
vayu wrote: On May 15, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't like, I don't want to run windows on this box... so I'm looking for a Linux distro that has a ports like system. I need KDE, X.org, and a 2.6 kernel installed by default... dammit... I don't want to #$%! with Linux, maybe I'll give FreeBSD another try first, anyways, thanks for the suggestions guys. I've heard that Gentoo's package management system "Portage" is inspired by FreeBSDs ports, but I believe it's a bit of work to install and compile a working system. I've been using Debian based Kubuntu on my laptop, and find the package management excellent. The installation and maintenance is easy. It's my choice when I want to install and go. That would be in fact Gentoo Linux. It's the only Linux distro I know that has a collection of files which describe the packages to install, sources, etc like FreeBSD's ports makefiles (they call them ebuilds), and compiles programs based on a local distfiles repository, like FreeBSD. The thing that's different about Gentoo than most OSes though is that it is a Linux distro where EVERYTHING (unless you specify a location to find binary packages) compiles and installs from scratch. So I'm not sure if you want to go that route, and I'm not saying it's a perfect system by any means, but in the event that Windows breaks (or I get tired of Windows (;..) I always have something to go back to, Unix wise, that has a lot of software functionality and is pretty stable. The best piece of advice regarding Gentoo that I can give is don't go for the hype, but rather for the options (software options that is), because you have the ability to greater customize your OS-for better or for worse-depending on what compile options you choose and the software you install. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mail Replication
In response to the subject, check out the cyrus-imapd23 port ... it support master->slave replication ... On Mon, 15 May 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: Vampire D wrote: Any advice / suggestions would be great. We are trying to build a completely automated fail over solution for two servers using Apache, mySQL, PHP, and Postfix within a small monthly budget. If your budget is less than $10K, don't even bother to try to set up a fault-tolerant cluster; you're better off spending more on a high-quality single machine with RAID-1 or -10 disk config, hot spare drive, and dual power supplies...and tape backup, most importantly. Trying to implement a highly reliable cluster on cheap hardware is almost certainly going to prove futile or even counterproductive. How are you going to handle a split-horizon condition? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Connecting to CISCO Devices
Hello FreeBSDiers, What kind of tools are there to connect to CISCO devices' console on FreeBSD using the COM port? I'm sure there are a lot of you on the list managing CISCO devices! -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Connecting to CISCO Devices
On 5/15/06, Yousef Raffah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello FreeBSDiers, What kind of tools are there to connect to CISCO devices' console on FreeBSD using the COM port? I'm sure there are a lot of you on the list managing CISCO devices! -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator I use minicom: http://www.freshports.org/comms/minicom/ -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Connecting to CISCO Devices
I would try the "screen" port: 'sysutils/screen' Tony > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Yousef Raffah > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:28 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Connecting to CISCO Devices > > Hello FreeBSDiers, > > What kind of tools are there to connect to CISCO devices' console on > FreeBSD using the COM port? I'm sure there are a lot of you > on the list > managing CISCO devices! > > > -- > Sincerely, > Yousef Raffah > Senior Systems Administrator > -- > > Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com > > > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Connecting to CISCO Devices
On May 15, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Yousef Raffah wrote: What kind of tools are there to connect to CISCO devices' console on FreeBSD using the COM port? I'm sure there are a lot of you on the list managing CISCO devices! tip and cu come with the base system, I believe, otherwise look for something such as Kermit, perhaps...? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Ethernet cnet ProG-2000s problem
Hello, I just installed freeBSD 6.1 on a HP Compaq dc5100 MT and I added a Ethernet adapter Cnet ProG-2000s to the system but when I connect the UTP cable to the ethernet card its status says no carrier. I know the ethernet adapter is fine, I even tried with another adapter of the same brand and model, but the result is always the same: no carrier. could some body help me, please? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Connecting to CISCO Devices
On 5/15/06, Yousef Raffah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello FreeBSDiers, What kind of tools are there to connect to CISCO devices' console on FreeBSD using the COM port? I'm sure there are a lot of you on the list managing CISCO devices! I just "cu"; but on my Mac laptop I had to install kermit. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: New FreeBSD logo
It was, I am sorry to say. The core developer that pushed for all this said he was tired of when presenting FreeBSD to have to field a bunch of questions by people hung up over the devil image, it distracted from the presentation of the operating system's features. Ted You're kidding, right? Say you're kidding. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mpd4 does not want to work at all
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 08:49:57AM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 5/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have istalled mpd4 Version 4.0b4 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. > >I have mpd.conf, mpd.link, mpd.secret. > >When I run a mpd4, the next is printed: > > > >Multi-link PPP for FreeBSD, by Archie L. Cobbs. > >Based on iij-ppp, by Toshiharu OHNO. > >mpd: pid 1773, version 4.0b4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED] 13:49 14-May-2006) > >[ukrtelecom] ppp node is "mpd1773-ukrtelecom" > >tcpmss node is "mpd1773-mss" > >[ukrtelecom] using interface ng0 > > Write in shorter lines, mutt can help. > > mpd4 is not suitable for production use yet. mpd3 works > fine, read the manual carefully and/or google for correct > configurations Thank you for advice. I have searched the google and found that this is not the problem in my configurations, but a bug in mpd. (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2004-October/016617.html) Will be it corrected? Elisej Babenko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: New FreeBSD logo
On May 15, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Henry Lenzi wrote: It was, I am sorry to say. The core developer that pushed for all this said he was tired of when presenting FreeBSD to have to field a bunch of questions by people hung up over the devil image, it distracted from the presentation of the operating system's features. Ted You're kidding, right? Say you're kidding. Ted says lots of things. --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: New FreeBSD logo
Henry Lenzi wrote: It was, I am sorry to say. The core developer that pushed for all this said he was tired of when presenting FreeBSD to have to field a bunch of questions by people hung up over the devil image, it distracted from the presentation of the operating system's features. Ted You're kidding, right? Say you're kidding. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" If only he was. I say don't be ashamed of Beastie, and if anyone asks, tell them "Hey, it's our logo. Deal with that how you want to." If anyone still keeps asking, tell them they are ignorant and kick them out. Should shut up the rest. Altough I have been known for being rather blunt with my techniques ... Blunt but effective though ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mpd4 does not want to work at all
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 08:49:57AM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 5/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have istalled mpd4 Version 4.0b4 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. I have mpd.conf, mpd.link, mpd.secret. When I run a mpd4, the next is printed: Multi-link PPP for FreeBSD, by Archie L. Cobbs. Based on iij-ppp, by Toshiharu OHNO. mpd: pid 1773, version 4.0b4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED] 13:49 14-May-2006) [ukrtelecom] ppp node is "mpd1773-ukrtelecom" tcpmss node is "mpd1773-mss" [ukrtelecom] using interface ng0 Write in shorter lines, mutt can help. mpd4 is not suitable for production use yet. mpd3 works fine, read the manual carefully and/or google for correct configurations Thank you for advice. I have searched the google and found that this is not the problem in my configurations, but a bug in mpd. (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2004-October/016617.html) Will be it corrected? Elisej Babenko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" As the issue was that it was not yet suitable for production, I would say that issues are currently being corrected. If the bug that you are stating has been brought to the attention of the publisher (which it likely has if it is a known bug), then they will fix it before release. Otherwise, they will fix it after release when someone complains ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Write kernel modules
Hi. I am thinking about begin learn to write FreeBSD kernel modules. I know this Architecture HandBook chapter: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/devicedrivers.html but, do you know other "places" or documents where a beginner can start learn this stuff?. My system is 6.1-RC1. Thanks very much, in advance. Regards. Jose. -- http://www.lordofunix.org/ Not Registered GNU/Hurd User. Registered BSD User 51101. Registered Linux User #213309. Memories. You are talking about memories. Rick Deckard. Blade Runner. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
The best indicator that the ports collection has become to large is that it took me 2 hours to download the complete port-all collection using A DSL internet connection. To compile the ports I use took another 11 hours. This is the reason I went to using packages in the first place. Downloading the complete port collection when I had a dial up connection would go maybe 35 min and them get suspended by the cvs site. I would rerun the job over and over again sometimes taking a week or better to finally get it completed. This makes the download of the complete port collect almost impossible for dial up users. On 6.0 I installed all the ports I use by the package method in less than 10 min. In 6.1 release changes were made that no longer allow packages to work with ports as dependents. Packages have to have the ability to give the installer the ability to select the dependents versions for such primary applications as php3/4/5 mysql3/4/5. Also the ports and packages have to return to being able to work together like in FreeBSD versions older than 6.1. Or more versions of certain ports that interface with other primary application have to be carried in the collection. The design of the working collection needs to be made more user friendly for everybody including the dial up users. Some very good ideas have been put forth and should get serious attention by the FreeBSD foundation management. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Write kernel modules
On 5/15/06, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. I am thinking about begin learn to write FreeBSD kernel modules. I know this Architecture HandBook chapter: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/devicedrivers.html but, do you know other "places" or documents where a beginner can start learn this stuff?. My system is 6.1-RC1. Thanks very much, in advance. Regards. Jose. I asked myself the same question some time back. Beside the link you already got you can take a look at /usr/src/share/examples/drivers But I think best of all is looking at real drivers. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
php5 port error
After a complete port-all download on fresh 6.1 system the distro size and md5 specified in the php5 make config files does not match any of the download sites the port looks at. Is this a error in the php5 port??? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
fbsd wrote: The best indicator that the ports collection has become to large is that it took me 2 hours to download the complete port-all collection using A DSL internet connection. To compile the ports I use took another 11 hours. This is the reason I went to using packages in the first place. And installing it from the same CD that you installed the OS from would take about 1 minute. If you choose a method to install the ports that take several hours, should the FreeBSD folks take the blame for your choice? A 33.bKbps dialup connection should download the entire ports collection in under 3 hours. And DSL connection should do it in significantly less time. Even a 270Kbps down DSL connection should be able to snatch the whole thing in just over 20 minutes. If I had a dialup connection or the uncredibly slow DSL connection you mention, I don't think I'd make the same choice that you made. I'd install from the CD. Updating through cvs might take 45 minutes then. Downloading the complete port collection when I had a dial up connection would go maybe 35 min and them get suspended by the cvs site. I would rerun the job over and over again sometimes taking a week or better to finally get it completed. This makes the download of the complete port collect almost impossible for dial up users. And yet, not once did you ever try to install from the CD? Why would you beat your head against the wall like that? -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: New FreeBSD logo
BTW, I entirely apologize for singling out a religious group. Perhaps I've should've phrased it as "I hope this didn't have to do with any concern or discomfort related to religious groups". Maybe I'm reading much too many polls... Anyways, I still find it hard to believe it...Although I mentioned this because I sem to remember having read something a long time ago about a FreeBSD developer that ran into some trouble because of the "Devil t-shirt." So, you know, I apologize but try to see where I was coming from, if I offended anyone. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
jwchat.
Can anybody offer some insights about an IM suite (ports/net-im) called jwchat? It looks like a useable way to chat, but I'm having lots of troubles wiht getting it set up correctly. My test setup is on sage.thought.org. An immediate problem is that when I point mozilla at "sage.thought.org/jwchat/ it takes quite awhile to load, then all that shows is an empty page. Anybody?? gary PS: From looking at the apache logs, it looks like things are going nuts FWIW. -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD-Update and 6.1
On 5/15/06, Matt Bostock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A couple of questions regarding FreeBSD-Update: 1. How do I update from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.1-RELEASE or 6-STABLE using FreeBSD-Update? I've tried downloading the ISO and doing it that way but 'uname' remains unchanged. You just didn't get the point. freebsd-update is not aimed to upgrade a box from one version to another, but to apply security updates to a release. Make sure you read and understand the following: - http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ - man freebsd-update 2. How does FreeBSD-Update know which branch to follow (STABLE, CURRENT or RELEASE)? freebsd-update works only on RELEASEs 3. I tried upgrading to 6.1 using the ISO method, and am getting this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]freebsd-update fetch Fetching updates signature... Fetching hash list signature... Examining local system... The following files are affected by security fixes, but have not been updated because they have been modified locally: /bin/rmail /usr/bin/edit /usr/bin/ee /usr/bin/ree /usr/bin/vacation /usr/lib/libmilter.a /usr/lib/libmilter.so.3 /usr/libexec/mail.local /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail /usr/libexec/smrsh /usr/sbin/editmap /usr/sbin/mailstats /usr/sbin/makemap /usr/sbin/praliases No updates available ...AFAIK I haven't altered these files. How can I force the update? I have a feeling this is related to the above questions ;) Yes, it is. Many thanks, Things will get pretty clear once you read the above mentioned... Matt Bostock -- Pietro Cerutti ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Cvsup verses Portsnap
> Portmanager already has this I believe. You can add config options to > the portmanager config file and it will use them when building things. > For example: > > # > # custom settings # > # remove "#" to use # > # > #textproc/docproj|JADETEX=no| > #java/jdk14|-DMINIMAL| > #textproc/libxml2|THREADS=off SCHEMA=on MEM_DEBUG=off XMLLINT_HIST=off > THREAD_ALLOC=off| > # > # > ## > ##do not let portmanager update the following ports > #IGNORE|editors/openoffice-1.1| > #IGNORE|java/jdk14| But does it dynamically generate an editable list of all available configuration knobs for all ports that can be set? If it doesn't, it doesn't have what I am ideally looking for, since you still have to manually poke around in the appropriate Makefile[s] to determine what (if any) knobs you want to set in the first place. The general concept was discussed on one of the other lists (freebsd-ports I think), but basically it consisted of having a tool that would generate a set of dynamically created configuration files that list _all_ available knobs for all ports and make it very easy to set/unset them by simply editing the appropriate config file. When you update your ports tree, there would be a way to get the tool to dynamically update (whilst preserving your settings where they are still applicable) all the configuration files to reflect any changes. I want a tool that will very easily allow me to see what knobs are available for many different ports, without having to manually grep around in the Makefiles. So, for example, you might have a master configuration file: # ports.master.conf # Global ports configuration file # Define global build options: all { IPVG = no X11 = no } accessibility { file->ports.accessibility.conf } graphics { file->ports.graphics.conf } foobar { file->ports.foo.conf } Then, under the particular port category config file - say ports.graphics.conf - you would have the configuration knobs for all those ports in that category. gimp { WITH_DEBUG = no WITH_PYTHON = no WITHOUT_PRINT = no WITH_MP = no WITH_HTML_HELP_BROWSER = yes GNOME_ENABLED = no } Selecting a knob then becomes as simple as setting the knob = yes in the config file. You would then simply use the tool to install the port (it would probably call another tool, such as portupgrade or portmaster to actually do the install), and it would automagically set the appropriate -DKNOB settings . My intention is to write such a tool entirely in /bin/sh so that no extra dependencies are required. I'm still currently deciding how best to design it, but I'm inclined towards integrating it with portmaster since that it a very nice well designed sh tool for port management tasks. So far I've only just started, at the moment it just generates a basic config file. And if it turns out that portmanager can do something similar to the above, I will probably still create the tool as an interesting shell programming exercise :) Aren. pgp0hiefY7X11.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: php5 port error
fbsd wrote: > After a complete port-all download on fresh 6.1 system the > distro size and md5 specified in the php5 make config files > does not match any of the download sites the port looks at. > > Is this a error in the php5 port??? > ___ I had that exact same problem this morning when I did a fresh install of PHP5. However, after trying what seemed like a dozen or so sites, it finally found one that it liked. I have the log file of the build if it is of any use to anyone. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem with media(CDROM and FTP), 6.1, IBM Netfinity 5000
On 5/15/06, Klaus Friis Østergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to install 6.1 on a IBM Netfinity 5000. It is willingly booting up I on the cdrom, but when I select the minimal install and media CDROM, it says that it can't find cdrom drive. I managed to install 6.0 on this server, but not via cdrom, only ftp. Is this a bug in the install script with 6.1? -- Klaus F. Østergaard, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?
I have built both Gentoo and FreeBSD on an old laptop (Pentium II 400MHz with 384MB of RAM). The down side of both Gentoo and Ports, especially if you want to build a desktop env like Gnome plan on a week or more of build time. My latest experience with the ports was 2 weeks for the total build. It built 330 packages, skipped 200 and 77 failed. I had originally installed 6.0 binaries and after the build gdm is broken, wireless networking is broken. Haven't had time to troubleshoot yet. On 5/15/06, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That would be in fact Gentoo Linux. It's the only Linux distro I know that has a collection of files which describe the packages to install, sources, etc like FreeBSD's ports makefiles (they call them ebuilds), and compiles programs based on a local distfiles repository, like FreeBSD. The thing that's different about Gentoo than most OSes though is that it is a Linux distro where EVERYTHING (unless you specify a location to find binary packages) compiles and installs from scratch. So I'm not sure if you want to go that route, and I'm not saying it's a perfect system by any means, but in the event that Windows breaks (or I get tired of Windows (;..) I always have something to go back to, Unix wise, that has a lot of software functionality and is pretty stable. The best piece of advice regarding Gentoo that I can give is don't go for the hype, but rather for the options (software options that is), because you have the ability to greater customize your OS-for better or for worse-depending on what compile options you choose and the software you install. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
See the beauty of http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf -- I have found a problem. I find the design / typesetting to be very unprofessional. It looks like a teenager wrote it, in Microsoft Word, but no offense. You just used the wrong typesetting system. Please check out the LaTeX Project as well as the Memoir class. It will do the typesetting for you, and your book will become a lot more comfortable for all of us to read. Let us know what you think! Good luck, Kyrre At 19:02 05.05.2006, Greg Lehey wrote: The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. "The Complete FreeBSD" has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor "Installing and Running FreeBSD". Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Note also that the book has now been released for free download in PDF form. Instead of downloading the changed pages, you may prefer to download the entire book. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ for more information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm no longer constantly updating it, but I may be able to help Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
newly installed apps not in path?
I've noticed this behavior since 4.3, but it's just now starting to get really annoying. Whan I install a new application (from ports) I have to execute it with the full path until I start a new shell. (in sh, tcsh, and bash) What causes this behavior, and how can I fix it (cause newly installed apps to be executable without a full path)? DIT793# which sudo sudo: Command not found. DIT793# portinstall sudo ... DIT793# ll /usr/local/bin/sudo ---s--x--x 2 root wheel 89020 May 15 13:31 /usr/local/bin/sudo DIT793# which sudo sudo: Command not found. DIT793# tcsh DIT793# which sudo /usr/local/bin/sudo DIT793# exit exit DIT793# which sudo sudo: Command not found. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"