The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-04-22 - 2007-05-12

2007-05-12 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the maili

Re: How to recompile the VIM port for GUI

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/11/07, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't do that. I'm wondering if this is due to the prefix change. Look at the output of: pkg_info -px "^gtk-" If you don't see CWD to /usr/local for your GTK ports, you'll need the rebuild some stuff: pkgdb -Ff portupgrade -rf pkg-co

Re: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?

2007-05-12 Thread NetOpsCenter
jekillen wrote: Hello again; Is there software for ups auto shutdown and restart for use with a ups system that has the capacity; I.E. a serial connection and references in the manual to software (for Windows mostly) download? Currently I have a Vesta Pro 600 unit. I had one made by Minuteman th

Re: STABLE + KEXI 1.1.2 (koffice 1.6.2) + KDE 3.5.6 = no sql?

2007-05-12 Thread Jarosław Staniek
On 12 Maj, 02:41, Danny Pansters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > yields an empty result. Does anyone have any pointers on what it might > > > take to get this working again? I have about 30 saved queries, none of > > > them work any more. > > > What kind of database? Native (SQLite), MySQL, Post

Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?

2007-05-12 Thread jekillen
Hello again; Is there software for ups auto shutdown and restart for use with a ups system that has the capacity; I.E. a serial connection and references in the manual to software (for Windows mostly) download? Currently I have a Vesta Pro 600 unit. I had one made by Minuteman that crapped out on

Re: Why is portupgrade not logging?

2007-05-12 Thread mal content
On 13/05/07, mal content <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running the command like this: DATE_YEAR=`date +%Y` DATE_MONTH=`date +%m` DATE_DAY=`date +%d` LOG_BASE="$HOME/var/log/portupgrade" LOG="${LOG_BASE}/${DATE_YEAR}/${DATE_MONTH}/${DATE_DAY}_%s:%s.log" portupgrade \ -aRrv \ --batch \ -L

Why is portupgrade not logging?

2007-05-12 Thread mal content
I am running the command like this: DATE_YEAR=`date +%Y` DATE_MONTH=`date +%m` DATE_DAY=`date +%d` LOG_BASE="$HOME/var/log/portupgrade" LOG="${LOG_BASE}/${DATE_YEAR}/${DATE_MONTH}/${DATE_DAY}_%s:%s.log" portupgrade \ -aRrv \ --batch \ -L "${LOG}" No files are ever created in ~/var/log/portup

Re: Sendmail mail.local Failure

2007-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:48 AM 5/12/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, my local mailer is failing. I can send and receive to remote servers just fine, but I can't transfer mail locally. /var/log/maillog says: sm-mta[31955]: starting daemon (8.14.1): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 sm-mta[31955]: started as:

Re: Mail Sending delay to HOTMAIL and Yahoo on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-05-12 Thread L33T Networks
DeadMan: This is an issue with Yahoo and Hotmail, on how they process e-mails coming into their system. I too, am running a FreeBSD 6.2 machine, running QMAIL as my MTA - the same issue exists. You may need to ensure that you have the proper SPF records for your domains, as they have started chec

Re: freebsd-update and locally modfied files

2007-05-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lowell Gilbert pisze: > >>> Now, I do not recall ever playing with jail. Anyway, how do I update the >>> system (and keep changes to /etc/rc.d/jail (if any))? >> >> I suggest looking at the differences, and hand-updating to the latest >> version of th

Mail Sending delay to HOTMAIL and Yahoo on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-05-12 Thread DeadMan Xia ....
Hi everybody well i have installed FreeBSD 6.2 on my Dell Power Edge 2850. I have installed QMAIL as mailing agent with POP3 and IMAP. now when i send email to hotmail or yahoo, the mail delivered with big delay time. Howevr when i send it to gmail or any other domain its works quickly. i

Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks?

2007-05-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 11:21:23AM +0100, Tom Judge wrote: > Philippe Laquet wrote: > > > >Dear All, > > > >I a trying to get HAVP (it works almost well, great software!) but I > >also need to use the streaming option and it needs a FS mounted with > >mandatory locks. I did not found any option w

Wierd Network problem

2007-05-12 Thread Craig Russell
I have a dell poweredge 6650 installed with freebsd 6.1 and on the local router, everything works great (ie, a computer on a different subnet off the same router can access it fine) but coming from outside of the network access is incredibly slow. My first thought was that it must be a routing iss

Re: Is there any already-existing method for removing empty dirs through periodic?

2007-05-12 Thread Josh Tolbert
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 04:02:00PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2007 00:05:58 -0500 > Josh Tolbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ... > > This setup eats disk space fast. I've been using the clean-tmps daily > > periodic to remove all files older than seven days from the video > > location,

usb wireless keyboard not working at boot menu

2007-05-12 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Hi, I have a usb wireless keyboard/mouse combo which doesnt work at beastie. It works before and after the boot menu perfectly fine. But not in beastie so I am not able to enter to single user/safe mode etc. unless I plug in a ps2 keyboard. Do you know a workaround for this? Thanks, Evren __

Sendmail mail.local Failure

2007-05-12 Thread KingFoobar
For some reason, my local mailer is failing. I can send and receive to remote servers just fine, but I can't transfer mail locally. /var/log/maillog says: sm-mta[31955]: starting daemon (8.14.1): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 sm-mta[31955]: started as: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m sm-msp-que

Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks?

2007-05-12 Thread Philippe Laquet
Michel Talon a écrit : Philippe Laquet wrote: OK - Thanks Tom, I will take a look on it, I think that HAVP was first developped on and for GNU/Linux, that may explain the need of a Mandatory (derived from SysV?) locks... I am currently looking on the source code of HAVP and check is a Free

Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks?

2007-05-12 Thread Michel Talon
Philippe Laquet wrote: > OK - Thanks Tom, I will take a look on it, I think that HAVP was first > developped on and for GNU/Linux, that may explain the need of a > Mandatory (derived from SysV?) locks... I am currently looking on the > source code of HAVP and check is a FreeBSD Patch could be d

Re: Is there any already-existing method for removing empty dirs through periodic?

2007-05-12 Thread RW
On Sat, 12 May 2007 00:05:58 -0500 Josh Tolbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > This setup eats disk space fast. I've been using the clean-tmps daily > periodic to remove all files older than seven days from the video > location, which takes care of the space issue, but there's one more > littl

Re: Missing perl module is messing everything up

2007-05-12 Thread David LeCount
--- Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it's in the wrong place. There's a port for > XML::Parser: > > /usr/ports/textproc/p5-XML-Parser > > Install that and see if it solves the problem. > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA I looked for such a port and couldn't find o

rebuilding the ipmi driver

2007-05-12 Thread Dhananjaya hiremath
Hello sir, Here we did the following command to build the ipmi. # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/i2c/smbus && make && make install # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ipmi && make && make install # kldload smbus # kldload ipmi Then how we come to know that the driver is installed.And how to ensure that driver r

php5-interbase dependancy on firebird2-client

2007-05-12 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hi people, I have installed (by luck) firebird-{server|client} on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. Now I want to install php5-interbase, but it seems dependent on firebird2-client, but I have installed firebird1-client! How can I make it depend on firebird-client instead of firebird2-client? My webdev insis

Re: Skipping "F1 FreeBSD" prompt on boot

2007-05-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Landgren wrote: > I have a disk that has only FreeBSD on it, and so I would like to skip > the initial F1/FreeBSD prompt. boot0cfg -v ad0 says: > > options=nopacket,update,nosetdrv > default_selection=F1 (Slice 1) > > ... what do I have to d

Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks?

2007-05-12 Thread Philippe Laquet
Tom Judge a écrit : Philippe Laquet wrote: Dear All, I a trying to get HAVP (it works almost well, great software!) but I also need to use the streaming option and it needs a FS mounted with mandatory locks. I did not found any option with UFS(2) and also tried with ext2fs loaded but the mo

Re: Problem updating Freebsd ver 6.2

2007-05-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Simon Castillo wrote: Hi all: I installed Freebsd ver 6.2 couple months ago in a Pentium III computer. I configured samba, gnome and couple other applications. Couple days ago I decided to update the ports. For this I use portmanager -u -l (after updating the port list). Up to know, I w

Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks?

2007-05-12 Thread Tom Judge
Philippe Laquet wrote: Dear All, I a trying to get HAVP (it works almost well, great software!) but I also need to use the streaming option and it needs a FS mounted with mandatory locks. I did not found any option with UFS(2) and also tried with ext2fs loaded but the mount_ext2fs does not s

Skipping "F1 FreeBSD" prompt on boot

2007-05-12 Thread David Landgren
List, I have a disk that has only FreeBSD on it, and so I would like to skip the initial F1/FreeBSD prompt. boot0cfg -v ad0 says: options=nopacket,update,nosetdrv default_selection=F1 (Slice 1) ... what do I have to do to say JFDI instead of prompting? This is not the sort of thing I want to

Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks?

2007-05-12 Thread Philippe Laquet
Kris Kennaway a écrit : On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:10:09AM +0200, Philippe Laquet wrote: Dear All, I a trying to get HAVP (it works almost well, great software!) but I also need to use the streaming option and it needs a FS mounted with mandatory locks. I did not found any option with U

Re: temp

2007-05-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Jack Barnett wrote: > Is there any program that'll monitor the temperate of my motherboard? > > There are some windows program that'll give me status on my fans, CPU > temps, motherboard temps, etc - is there anything like that in the > ports collection? > > (basically I think my CPUs are overheati