Re: FreeBSD Stable Image

2012-03-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
GES/9.0/ Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: need info builing ports properly

2012-03-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
etting CLFAGS would be sensible. There's plenty of other stuff you can fiddle with in /etc/make.conf or /etc/src.conf if that's what interests you. OTOH, the default settings are pretty good and leaving well alone will help you get a put together a stable and reliable system without

Re: Remote System Builds

2012-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
the system into a chroot. You should then be able to edit files under that chroot. Then just 'make release.iso' or 'make memstick' to create an installer image. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GSOC 2012 interest

2012-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
probably get a better response if you ask on soc-adm...@freebsd.org, or try the #freebsd-soc IRC channel on Efnet. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Availability of freebsd-stable snapshot releases

2012-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
e. As an alternative, allbsd.org carries snapshots: ftp://ftp.allbsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-snapshots/ If you're concerned about downloading OS images from random sites on the net (and you should be), this site is run by a leading FreeBSD developer h...@freebsd.org and I think it's trustworthy

Re: Problem gnome2-2.32.1_4 not work libgcrypt-1.5.0 (freebsd 8.2 release)

2012-03-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
The standard approach to dealing with this is to recompile every port that contains applications linking against that shared library. The detailed instructions on how best to do that are in the 20110705 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Se

Re: Find run-time dependancies recursively for FreeBSD port

2012-03-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/03/2012 19:10, Rick Miller wrote: > Thanks Matthew... > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Matthew Seaman > wrote: >> On 21/03/2012 16:51, Rick Miller wrote: >>> I can get run-time depends by executing make run-depends-list or all >>> dependancies b

Re: Find run-time dependancies recursively for FreeBSD port

2012-03-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
ur INDEX is up to date: % cd /usr/ports % make search name=packagename-1.2.3 display=rdeps or % make search path=devel/foo display=rdeps Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: GIMP(1) don't run

2012-03-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
ump happened.) I suspect it may be more useful in hindsight now, but see the /usr/ports/UPDATING entry for 20120214 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: satisfying package dependencies from installation DVD when building a port -- HOW?

2012-03-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
not foolproof. The whole package handling thing in FreeBSD is not as good as it should be. Work is underway to improve that, but it is still quite a way away from finished. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Inquiry from University student

2012-03-14 Thread Matthew Story
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Mar 14 12:47:15 2012 > > Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:36:28 +0800 > > From: Kuan Ming Tan > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Cc: > > Subject: Inquiry from University student > > > > Hi, > >

Re: start at boot, run as non-root

2012-03-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/03/2012 10:29, Da Rock wrote: > On 03/14/12 18:12, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 14/03/2012 07:30, n dhert wrote: >>> I have FreeBSD8.2. >>> Sedna, an XML database server, had no port in th FreeBSD ports >>> collection >>> but has a binary

Re: start at boot, run as non-root

2012-03-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
s using your selected username. There's also ${name}_group but that works a bit differently. I'm intrigued that this software should be supported on FreeBSD upstream, but not appear in ports. Are there some onerous license terms or other obstacles[*]? If not, would you consider submitt

Re: 9.0 spontaneously reboots

2012-03-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 13/03/2012 10:28, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 13/03/2012 08:59, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: >>> The only other weird thing about this server is: >>> >>> dev.cpu.0.temperature: 37,0C >>> dev.cpu.1.temperature: 37,0C &

Re: 9.0 spontaneously reboots

2012-03-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
of the traces or a dry-soldered joint that breaks electrical connection because of the effects of thermal expansion, or even the extra vibration when the fans go to full power or even when there is a lot of disk IO activity. Cheers,

Re: 9.0 spontaneously reboots

2012-03-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
erent CPU sockets. If you swap the CPU package in that socket with one of the other ones, you'll find the hot spot stays put. You might be able to even things out by rerouteing cables, but really it's not worth the hassle and won't make any perceptible difference to perform

Re: 9.0 spontaneously reboots

2012-03-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
tely infallible. Swapping out memory sticks for an equivalent specification from a different manufacturer should give good results. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Which compiler compiled system?

2012-03-12 Thread Matthew Story
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Da Rock < freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: > On 03/13/12 06:49, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > >> If Java is broken, then you know FreeBSD was compiled with clang... >> > I wouldn't say that is categorical. > > >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:45 PM, wr

Re: 9.0 spontaneously reboots

2012-03-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
though I've heard of people being able to solder in replacements successfully.) Other than that, try disconnecting and reconnecting peripherals like disks or DVDs and so forth in various combinations to test if that improves system stability. One faulty component can knock the whole machine o

Re: question about SMTP-authentication (2nd )

2012-03-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
It won't help anything. You need to follow my instructions correctly. Specifically this line needs to be in /etc/make.conf in order to pick up the SASL header files: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 Where, you will note, this does *not* say /usr/local/include/sasl, which is what appears in your compiler output. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: What happened to FreeBSD.org DNS earlier today?

2012-03-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
time others were reporting another site (not > fbsd, which I could access easily) was broken. So maybe a dark cloud > passed over? ;) No -- you were not imagining things. The DNS for freebsd.org was temporarily broken. It was that most impossible to remove of causes: human error.

Re: question about SMTP-authentication

2012-03-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
etty much a drop-in replacement for the system one, and you can use all the config bits in /etc/mail in exactly the same way as normal. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Port installation problem

2012-03-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
mirrorservice.org is on the MASTER_SITE_XORG list, as you can see, it doesn't have '.uk' in its URL. The obvious substitution to get mirrorservice.org to sort first is left as an exercise... Cheers, Matthew [*] Assuming you're in the UK, as you're using pl

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Matthew Story
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Andrew Gould wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Benjamin Tovar wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:57:46PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: > >> > >> So it seems like a happy compromise here. You will get what you need > >> and us newbies and other users who rea

Re: Network interface aliasing?

2012-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
configuring a daemon to listen using a specific IP is all that is needed for almost all purposes. What exactly is it you are trying to achieve and why isn't it suitable to use aliases as above? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J

Why you have to install a port to create a package (was Re: port to package amd64 to i386)

2012-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
andom shared libraries it finds around the system -- or indeed to accidentally use header files from a completely different piece of software. Converting ports to build in a chroot is one of those ideas that is constantly bubbling up, but that never quite seems to get implemented. Cheers

Re: port to package amd64 to i386

2012-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
to cross-build ports is to set up a 32-bit jail on a 64-bit host. I believe that is do-able, but I could be delusional. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http:

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/03/2012 12:10, Jerry wrote: > Matthew, is this the URL for iXsystems <http://www.ixsystems.com/> > that you are referring to? Yep. That's the company. > I was examining their company page: > <http://www.ixsystems.com/ix/about/our-company> and they seem

Re: on purpose or forgotten ? hardcoded compiler in basesystem-makefiles

2012-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
tentional and quite legitimate. I suggest that you repost your question on freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org, as that will bring it to the attention of the people both interested in and capable of addressing this sort of problem. Submitting a PR wouldn't go amiss either. Cheers, Matt

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Support' link of the PC-BSD menu on the pcbsd.org site, and you will see who it is that provides the paid-for support. Hmmm... actually they might want to look at that, as it returns a 404 page. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA,

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
choose one of the following two exciting command lines, according to taste: # csup -h cvsup.fr.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile (Choose a cvsup server near you if you don't happen to be anywhere near France) --or-- # portsnap f

Re: openssl from ports

2012-03-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/03/2012 12:19, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:43:32 + > Matthew Seaman articulated: > >> Stable/9, but this hasn't changed in 9.0-RELEASE: >> >> worm:~:# /usr/bin/openssl version >> OpenSSL 0.9.8q 2 Dec 2010 > > Matthew, why does

Re: openssl from ports

2012-03-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
ks against openssl shlibs to emit rude messages. Also, beware of any apache modules that might link against openssl in their own right which should also be rebuild to use the ports version -- the classic example here is php5-openssl loaded via mod_php -- but there are many ways of doing this. Trying

Re: openssl from ports

2012-03-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
.8q 2 Dec 2010 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW

Re: request a quote

2012-02-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
t much more easily.) If there's anybody out there that knows how to do this -- take an idea and turn it into a working business -- but doesn't have the right idea yet: look over here! Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courty

Re: request a quote

2012-02-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
he sort of technical expertise the FreeBSD project (unconciously) selects for. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: request a quote

2012-02-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
ant in terms of FreeBSD support? What the purpose of the system is to be, what applications you want to run, expectations of what you want the support person to provide? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey sig

Re: zpool not grabbing hot spare

2012-02-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
pretty odd setup there: 41 drives all in one big RAIDZ2 vdev? Standard practice would be to create something like 5 RAIDZ2 vdevs of 8 drives each (Or maybe 6 vdevs of 7 drives apiece: 6--9 drives is about the sweet spot for a RAIDZ2) and then stripe those vdevs together to create your zpool.

Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ?

2012-02-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/02/2012 13:14, Stas Verberkt wrote: > Just wondering: is there any difference between an even and an uneven > branch? No. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat

Re: FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
uite frustrating before you learn the ropes, and your productivity will nosedive as you do that... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www

Re: "find" not traversing all directories on a single zfs file system

2012-02-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
is. Let me see if I can reproduce the problem. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: "find" not traversing all directories on a single zfs file system

2012-02-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
leads to dissapointment. If you installed onto ZFS, what procedure did you follow, given that bsdinstall doesn't have that capability yet? Was it by following one of the well-known recipes like http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot ?

Re: mount options display (detailed)

2012-02-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
suggest reading the mount(8) man page (for the generic options, and those relating to UFS) and the filesystem specific versions such as mount_cd9660, mount_nfs, mount_nullfs etc. To see what mount related man pages are available: man -k mount_ Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Mat

Re: phpMyAdmin

2012-02-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
dflib just use a standard opensource license that eveyone knows how to deal with? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpk

Re: mount options display (detailed)

2012-02-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
ng as you knew what 'fstab format' meant. Perhaps that page could do with a little editing so that it doesn't assume so much prior knowledge of its readers. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: negative group permissions?

2012-02-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
not lock %s\n", progname, buf); >> > exit(1); >> > } >> > >> > It remains a mystery why these files are created with mode 0661. Mode > Isn't .seq above has mode 641? > > % chmod 641 z > % l

Re: negative group permissions?

2012-02-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
octal whether you include the leading zero or not: the same is not true if you use umask(2) to set the mask programatically. Ditto for other places you can set permissions like open(2) with O_CREAT or mkdir(2). > Should I be worried? No more than a normal level of paranoia is indicated he

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/02/2012 07:32, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 24 February 2012 14:14:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 24/02/2012 06:59, Erich Dollansky wrote: >>> I live in Asia and they really have these things here. Just without the >>> horns. >> >>

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/02/2012 06:59, Erich Dollansky wrote: > I live in Asia and they really have these things here. Just without the horns. That would be what most people call a "ball." They have them in the west too... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: CPAN hanging on ExtUtils::MakeMaker even if installed

2012-02-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
-time when going up such a jump in versions -- the simple moving things around trick using perl-after-upgrade is not sufficient here. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: CPAN hanging on ExtUtils::MakeMaker even if installed

2012-02-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=162151 The remaining port (lang/perl5.8) hasn't been modified in 7 months, and I believe it may well be deprecated and removed fairly soon. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: CPAN hanging on ExtUtils::MakeMaker even if installed

2012-02-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
e cpan shell. It won't bother you again for the whole > CPAN session. > Actually, the problem as highlighted in that Perlmonks article was with BSDPAN::ExtUtils::Packlist. A fix has been applied to the perl5.10, perl5.12 and perl5.14 ports. Anyone still using pe

Re: CPAN hanging on ExtUtils::MakeMaker even if installed

2012-02-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/02/2012 12:48, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> Speaking as the rt40 port maintainer, I feel you may be making your life >> unnecessarily difficult here. The port won't touch your data: it does >> precisely nothing

Re: apache22 + php5 (package not ports) ~ spawn-fcgi ?

2012-02-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
ise, but they are lot simpler and much smaller applications so not quite as capable of doing everything apache can. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http

Re: CPAN hanging on ExtUtils::MakeMaker even if installed

2012-02-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
;= 1.20 ...found Text::WikiFormat >= 0.76 ...found XML::RSS >= 1.05 ...found HTML::Mason >= 1.43 ...found Digest::MD5 >= 2.27 ...found JSON ...found PSGI dependencies: CGI::Emulate::PSGI ...found CGI >= 3.38 ...found CGI::PSGI

Re: New iso format on 9.0

2012-02-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
dy done all the partitioning and creating filesystems and installing boot-blocks stuff required, of course.] Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http:/

Re: deleting an alias from interface cause the static route to be deleted

2012-02-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
weren't logically connected to the local system? Given that they have seen traffic, perhaps this was connected to a different change that the deletion of 10.1.26.1 that you highlighted? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory C

Re: deleting an alias from interface cause the static route to be deleted

2012-02-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/02/2012 08:14, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > I don't know if it's a bug or intended, but I do know you should use > /32 aliases for additional IPs, not your original netmask. Actually, it's optional nowadays. Either way works. Cheers, Matthew -- D

Re: netmap support in default kernel

2012-02-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
nowledgeable answer if you ask on freebsd-hackers@... or freebsd-net@... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsg

Re: newsyslog-local.conf

2012-02-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
logs a lot more than the output of one application. Even if the machine is intended to run squid as its only core function, there's still a lot of other data of interest from other parts of the system. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: newsyslog-local.conf

2012-02-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
ile is generated by syslogd unless configured otherwise -- ie. to signal the pid of a different process. You'll get errors like you've seen if syslogd isn't running, but they should be innocuous. Mind you, not running syslogd is a pretty unusual management decision; I'd turn it on

Re: newsyslog-local.conf

2012-02-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
20 16:29 cache.log > s# > > nothing gets rotated:( what am I doing wrong? > Hmmm... nothing leaps out at me as obviously wrong. What does running 'newsyslog -n -v' tell you? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew

Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

2012-02-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
sure) about this confusion with patch > level reported and if I remember correctly the conclusion was in > agreement with what Matthew wrote above. Um... it's not really surprising that the two posts are in agreement. I certainly read that other thread, and I may even have written

Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

2012-02-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
compat8x you can /run/ programs built for 8.x on 9.0, but you can't[*] upgrade or install a lot of programs that use shlibs from ports. Ultimately it is less hassle just to rebuild everything and be done with it. Cheers, Matthew [*] Well, unless you are a Unix guru

Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

2012-02-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
owever, as this was not a security fix, it was not applied to the freebsd-update distribution channel. As none of the updates since then have touched the kernel, it will still show -p3 even though you are in fact fully patched against all known security problems. Cheers, Matthew --

Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

2012-02-18 Thread Matthew Story
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > man hier > man 7 hier makes no mention of /home or /usr/home at all ... ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsub

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
RAIDZn device happens, or the compression/decompression actions. Yes, it works like file system journalling too. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
oney on SSDs. It may well be good enough, but if it isn't then adding SSDs and making ZFS use them for ZIL or cache is pretty simple (and doesn't require any downtime.) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Cou

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
ace available on the entire zpool. Looked at that way, you can see it as essentially one big partition spanning the entire zpool. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP:

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
p well before the space does run out. Yes, I know there are disaster scenarios where the disk fills up in minutes; you're screwed whatever partitioning scheme you use in those cases, just a few seconds slower than in the multiple partitions case. Cheers Matthew [*] Mostly

Re: [OT] Build deps caching

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
ll portmaster to install explicitly will not be removed. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracan

Re: Help! Drive failing in zpool

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
# zpool replace files ad1 You should see instant disk activity, and zpool status will show the drive being resilvered. Eventually status will change to ONLINE. That's it. All done. > Btw, rebooting this server is not a problem if needed. That shouldn't be necessary, assumi

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
use that cache preferentially to reinstall anything (which is also really handy if you've got a bunch of machines that can all share the same cache): MAKE_PACKAGE=gopt PM_PACKAGES=first LOCAL_PACKAGEDIR=/usr/ports/packages PM_PACKAGES_LOCAL=pmp_local Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Ma

Re: Processor question

2012-02-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
is an obsolete bodge. A sticking plaster for people stuck with 32-bit processors but who needed lots of RAM. Just be glad you have 64-bit capable processors nowadays so you don't ever need to use it. The sooner it fades into history, the better. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr

Re: Processor question

2012-02-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
iB RAM. Be aware that most 32bit apps can be run on a 64bit system. The converse is not true. Also, it's a lot easier to pop in some extra RAM sticks, than it is to convert from i386 to amd64 and then pop in some extra RAM sticks... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman

Re: Using sendmail as a client with auth

2012-02-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
of ldd /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail If there's no mention of sasl2 there, then your modifications to the build process would seem to have failed. Otherwise, it's a configuration problem and you need to double check /etc/mail/$(hostname).mc and your client auth data. Cheer

Re: Using sendmail as a client with auth

2012-02-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/02/2012 05:12, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Is that rebuild as in cd /usr/src && make buildworld or > cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail && make Either of those should do it. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Installing Gnome and Xorg from installation DVD

2012-02-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
. http://wiki.freebsd.org/SubversionPrimer > 4. I'm a old linux user, this is infact my first bsd installation but > i'm loving the "way of bsd". Its a wonderful Yuo. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courty

Re: Using sendmail as a client with auth

2012-02-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
n with a knee-jerk reaction about using sendmail: there are other MTAs that can provide this functionality. As an alternative, either postfix or exim could do what you want too. Sendmail works just fine for me though. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J

Re: Linux compatibility

2012-02-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
gt; >> > > Don't you have to install/load a module for Linux binary compatability to > work in F'BSD? I seem to remember that being mentioned during a recent > 8.something install. Yes, you do. The module is called linux.ko and as you can see in the OP's kl

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/02/2012 15:33, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >>>>> ls -1 | xargs rm >> >>>> but be aware that that wont work for filenames with spaces. >> >> True. Can't do that using ls to generate the list of filenames as

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 10/02/2012 16:04, Matthew Story wrote: > find . -type f -depth 1 -print0 | xargs -n99 -0 -s8192 -c5 rm -- > > or some such, depending on your needs, I believe in most situations this > particular invocation will also out-perform find ... -delete. Why would you believe that? find

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
going to call rm repeatedly with only one arg, then xargs is pretty pointless. You might as well do: find . -type f -depth 1 -exec rm -f '{}' ';' but let's not leave people in any doubt that this is not the best option. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-10 Thread Matthew Story
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Matthew Story wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Da Rock < > freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: > >> On 02/11/12 01:34, Henry Olyer wrote: >> >>> So what do I change if I want to increase the shell&#x

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-10 Thread Matthew Story
lay on andrew's earlier example: find . -type f -depth 1 -print0 | xargs -n99 -0 -s8192 -c5 rm -- or some such, depending on your needs, I believe in most situations this particular invocation will also out-perform find ... -delete. > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, andrew clarke wrot

Re: How to create 2 versions of a port

2012-02-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
you can have two different ports, and just use a test on ${OSVERSION} to say if the port is appropriate on that version: .if ${OSVERSION} >= 90 BROKEN= only supported for FreeBSD 8.x or below .endif and in the other port: .if ${OSVERSION} < 90 BROKEN= only supported for FreeBSD 9.x o

Re: lost network connections

2012-02-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
vant here. Hmmm... how about showing us your rc.conf to see if we can spot any problems? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
e many ways around this, but one of the best ones is to use xargs(1). eg: % ls -1 | xargs rm Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninoph

Re: Clang and ports

2012-02-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
e would care if it laid down and died. I am planning on upgrading my primary machine to 9.0 sometime soon, and while still undecided whether to build the system with clang or not, I certainly won't be enabling it for ports just yet. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matt

Re: freebsd-update; What did I do?

2012-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
ing to proceed any further. > > # > > What is the next step, here? That's a known problem and fixable by first updating your 8.2-RELEASE machine to the latest patch level before trying the update to 9.0 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-12:01.freebsd-update.

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
gital signatures on packages would go a long way to removing that uncertainty. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
t version of the new next-generation binary packaging system on the freebsd-ports@... list earlier today. Don't get too excited though -- it will be months at the very least before pkgng goes into anything like production. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Setting up a syslog server in a jail

2012-01-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
y adding syslogd_flags="-ss" in the host environment. That prevents syslogd from listening via a network port at all, although it will still happily log messages from the local machine. Use sockstat(1) to diagnose what addresses syslogd(8)s have bound to. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr M

Re: problem installing Firefox using pkg_add -r

2012-01-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 30/01/2012 14:43, hvn wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:25:42 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> On 30/01/2012 13:57, hvn wrote: >>> Using v.FreeBSD 8.2, I'm trying to install Firefox 9 by pkg_add -r >>> firefox. According to the docs, this should work. How

Re: problem installing Firefox using pkg_add -r

2012-01-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
../All/firefox-9.0.1,1.tbz 226 Transfer complete. Packages compiled for FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE should work perfectly well on 8.2-RELEASE-pX with the possible exception of a few things like lsof that go poking directly into kernel memory structures. Read about the PACKAGESITE environment variable in pk

Re: OT: perl mail problems

2012-01-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
t, etc. you already have deployed. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: OT: perl mail problems

2012-01-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
cursory reading of Mail::Box::IMAP4 is that it seems to assume things about the behaviour of the IMAP message store which aren't necessarily true for all different IMAP servers. (ICBW -- it was a /very/ cursory reading.) Usernames of the form 'n...@example.com' are one of those thing

Re: Applying local patches after updating FreeBSD source

2012-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
while automatically applying custom patches in between? Check the system sources out of svn? This way, you can apply your patches and the result is automatically merged when you update the sources by 'svn up' -- unless there has been a conflicting commit to the same file, when you m

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-23 Thread Matthew Story
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:01 PM, wrote: > kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > > > Lattice C > > Later bought out by Microsoft IIRC > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe,

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/01/2012 22:53, Da Rock wrote: > What part is that? I thought it had to be all c... Not at all. clang and llvm are themselves written in C++. However, it's groff that Roland mentioned as the canonical example of C++ in base. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J S

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