Ports woes.
Could anybody explain to me what is up with ports? I am using FreeBSD 5.x-p2 and I am using ports and am having one hell of a time installing things. Here's what is happeng. I go to install ports and if it needs to get a dependency it goes and fetches it and becomes the usual compile process. Except that the dependency might already be installed with the exact version required and so most of the time the ports error out telling me I need to make deinstall on some dependency then make reinstall on it. And don't even get me started on installing Apache. I tried installing mod_php4 but before hand installed apache+ssl and so then mod_php4 doesn't even see that apache is already installed and then fetches the version it wants thus blowing out the apache+ssl and I have to then reinstall that package to get ssl and apache. If I do things with /stand/sysinstall it errors out on a dependency if it is already installed instead of ignoring the fact that it is already there and errors out. This particular behavour started around 4.8 or so. Maybe earlier but I don't seem to recall exactly when this started to happen. I tried using the portupgrade stuffs but that just seems to make things worse overall. Anybody got any hints as to why it seems ports is having these sorts of problems? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Ports woes.
> > I'm obviously getting into this very late, but I'll hazard a couple of > suggestions. Apologies if they've already been discussed/discarded. > > 1. If you haven't already, run portsdb -uU and pkgdb -F. > > 2. If it isn't among the "portupgrade stuff" you've already tried, the > -fRN options in combination may work. > > Jud Thanks to all who offered assistance and guidance. I'll give these offerings a try and if all else fails, uninstal and try again. :) TTFN ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Where to find pam_unix documentation?
- Original Message - From: "twig les" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 1:06 PM Subject: Where to find pam_unix documentation? > Hey *, I'm trying to do something fairly simple. On a 4.6 > Release box I would like to force all users to choose passwords > over a certain length and of a certain complexity. Now before > anyone jumps and says to edit /etc/login.conf, please note that > I tried that and it did not work. I don't want to get into too > much detail there because my req's that management handed down > go beyond the stated abilities there anyway; I need PAM. > > So basically from the docs here: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pam/pam-freebsd-modules.html > I gather that the module I need is pam_unix, but when I look for > the man page...nothing. I've spent about an hour on google now > also and found plenty of developers and admins talking about > using it, but nothing resembling a man page or even a how-to. > > Specifically I need to enforce the use of a mix of alphanumeric > and special chars, a minimum length, passwd expiration (with > forewarning preferably), passwd history, and account lockouts. > Note: I will gladly RTFM. Muchas thnx. According to man -w pam_unix it is located in /usr/share/man/man8/pam_unix.8.gz. I am using freeBSD 5.1.x Didja check freeBSD's site? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pam/pam-freebsd-modules.html Or go here (Once you get there be sure to change the OS version to match yours) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pam_unix&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.8-RELEASE&format=html For a (I found one on google) How to (or so the article claims) http://www.wlug.org.nz/HowToUserAuthenticationHOWTO Here's a How To for Apache and mod_auth_pam http://www.linuxvalley.it/encyclopedia/ldp/howto/HOWTO/User-Authentication-HOWTO/x302.html Here's some simple stuff from Red Hat http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-pam-samples.html Dunno what you were searching on but hope this helps. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Interested but am i compatible?
- Original Message - From: "William Labbett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 4:41 AM Subject: Interested but am i compatible? > hi all, > > i like to try out FreeBSD for various reasons > i've got a few questions; > > are there HP Printer drivers available and > also Artec scanner drivers? > > is there a freeware C/C++ compiler available > and (less importantly) a freeware > text editor or C/C++ project IDE ?? > > will it work on on a BrillianX motherboard? > > what kind of modem will i need. > > i think i've got a WinModem - Conextant or > something.. > > plz help me out... > > thx for any help, For hardware information you can find it at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-supported-hardware.html and it just depends on what release of freeBSD you are shooting for. To find out what known software packages (called ports on freebsd) are available you can go here: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ If you can't find it there then go to groups.google.com and search by "group:*freebsd* " and see what you can find there. HTH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
