6.0 on Apple's Intel Developer Platform?

2006-01-09 Thread JK
I can get the 6.0 CD1 to boot ok on Apple's Intel Developers Platform 
but the usb keyboard is not recognized.  Do I have to do something 
special to use a USB keyboard? There is no PS/2 keyboard or mouse port 
on that platform.


I'd like to try installing 6.0 on this box

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Re: New Users unable to SU

2006-01-07 Thread JK

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:24:29 +1300
 Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:07:32PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:

I seem to have developed a problem on my system. I can add new users
either via the adduser script or using 'sysinstall'. The problem is 
that
none of them can become root. They are all in the 'wheel' group, so 
it
should be working. I am the only user that can access the root. They 
can

use 'sudo' but that doesn't fix the problem.


The users need to be listed in /etc/group as belonging to `wheel'. 
The

login group-id isn't consulted by su(1).


And, rather than just have then su and then run tons of commands you 
really should list them in sudoers so they ( and you ) can do  ''sudo 
command ... .   You might find that that is safer than just su'ing 
and staying in a shell as root.


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Re: Programs don't free memory

2006-01-07 Thread JK

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:51:09 +0200
 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 2006-01-07 20:51, Nguyen Danh Hieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Hi everybody
  Sorry for my bad English but I have a question.I have 512Mb memory 
on my
PC but as I realize at starting my system have about 100Mb active 
memory,
but when the system have worked for a while there is no free memory 
on my
system ( about 350Mb inactive) As I understand this means some 
programs (
like kdeinit) don't want to free memory after workes. Is this true? 
How can

I fix th??s problem out?


free memory is memory wasted.

For a better, more lengthy and more detailed explanation of this, 
please
see the excellent article of Matt Dillon that describes ``virtual 
memory''

and how it works in FreeBSD:


LOL

I've we've always said

''virtual memory is free memory!''   ;-)


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Minimal 6.0 installed - need your recommendation to get services installed and up

2006-01-05 Thread JK Scheinberg
I want to setup, in the easiest and quickest possible way, a server  
for apache-ssl, php, mysql, and postfix/courier-imap.


I've installed FreeBSD 6.0.  A minimal install.   I don't care about  
anything else but those applications and services ( well, ssh so I  
can attach to the machine, but I have that working already )


I don't feel the need to work from sources, binaries would probably  
be fine. I connect via ssh and don't want X.  I'd rather not even  
install the development tools ( they are not on there yet)


I'd like to be able to keep the system up to date as patches etc come  
out


There are tons of references on how to do this on the net but I've  
tried a bunch of them and either they are not complete or they  
require hours of cvsup'ing and building from source etc.


I just want to get this up and working and not have to spend tons of  
time doing that or maintaining it


So,  how do you recommend I do this?

Thanks

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Re: Compiling Ports...

2006-01-05 Thread JK

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:41:50 -0500
 Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 1/5/06, Crispy Beef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am trying to get my head around the ports system, specifically 
custom options
when compiling.  For example I would like to install apache 2.2 
under it's own
dir in /usr/local, say /usr/local/apache22.  If I was rolling my own 
version

using the configure script I would do:

./configure prefix=/usr/local/apache22


I believe the default prefix can be changed, but I'm unclear as to 
why
you would want to change it. The port installs a package that you 
can
then remove easily with the pkg tools. Why would you want to do 
this?


But wait! I thought the pkg system maintained track of where things 
were installed even if directed somewhere else and a pkg_delete etc 
would still work.  No?

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Re: FreeBSD 6 - Do i need both CD1 and CD2 ?

2006-01-03 Thread JK

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 05:18:59 -0800 (PST)
 Adam Nealis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

--- FlashWebHost.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi,

I am using FreeBSD 5.2 on my local computer.

I want to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.0

Do i need to download both files ?


No. CD1 will give you as much as the OS plus X11 plus all sources. 
Plus

the complete ports tree as of 6.0-RELEASE.

CD2 contains several hundred binary packages, but are not required 
for the

OS upgrade.


I've always wondered this.  I'm running 5.1.  Can I upgrade to 6.x in 
place, i.e. without having to full install and wipe my filesystem etc?


If so, how do I do that?  I couldn't find anything in the Handbook or 
anywhere that says one can do this.


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pkg or version conflict problems

2005-12-31 Thread JK
I'm afraid that through my moronic attempts over the last few months I 
have gotten my 5.1 system into bad shape.  While trying to clean it up 
and make some sense out of it I've been trying to build mysql.  I'm 
getting this error message and no matter what I try I cannot get past 
it.


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/databases/mysql50-server# make WITH_OPENSSL=yes
===  mysql-server-5.0.17 is marked as broken: MySQL versions 
mismatch: mysql41-client is installed and wanted version is 
mysql50-client.


pkg_info doesn't show any mysql's installed.  I've tried pkg_delete 
and pkg_deinstall's. I've gone into all the 
/usr/ports/databases/mysql* directories and done make deinstall


Can someone please tell me what's wrong and how to fix it ( and maybe 
how I got into this state so I can understand what's going on)?


There must be another database or more involved that I'm not 
understanding.


Thank you

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Re: Recursive FTP upload tool?

2005-12-30 Thread JK

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:10:07 +0100 (CET)
 Alexander Pohoyda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi folks,

I'm looking for a command-line tool to recursively upload all 
changed

files/directories to my homepage server via FTP.  Is there anything
better than wput for this task?


'rsync' is perfectly suited for this and much much better than ftp.

''man rsync''
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Re: Recursive FTP upload tool?

2005-12-30 Thread JK

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:13:21 -0500
 Joe Auty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Dec 30, 2005, at 1:03 PM, JK wrote:


On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:10:07 +0100 (CET)
 Alexander Pohoyda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi folks,
I'm looking for a command-line tool to recursively upload all 
changed

files/directories to my homepage server via FTP.  Is there anything
better than wput for this task?


'rsync' is perfectly suited for this and much much better than ftp.

''man rsync''




It is, but I believe it only works over SSH. Perhaps it can be 
configured to work over FTP, I've never tried (no reason to).




Can you use ssh?  I personally never use nor enable FTP anymore these 
days given the massive number of script kiddies and serious hackers 
out there.  Regular FTP is just too insecure ( I don't know about more 
recent ''secure'' FTP ).  Just use ssh and if it's not available on 
the other end beg/tell/require them to enable it


I get easily over 1000 attempts per day from hackers trying to break 
into my poor little colo'd server...


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