Re: ipfw question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Giorgos, Thanks so much for the quick response on my question :). I more or less took your rules that you posted, and tacked on a few more. I belive that what I have is correct, and everything seems to be working well, with a few exceptions

Re: ipfw question

Hi Reuben, Sorry for taking so long to reply. My workstation at work which still runs Fedora Core RC3 and not a real OS, like FreeBSD, decided to throw away all outgoing email this morning. Here's a repost extracted from my =posted mailbox in Mutt [...] On 2004-06-16 17:04, "Reuben A. Popp" <[E

LED proggy question

hey, I've been trying to find a program on the ports that allows me to change the state of the keyboard LEDs. I want to put the keyboard on the room wall and make a script to call a program which makes leds blink according to the kind of traffic being blocked on the firewall. I want a program like

removal of question

Hello! Please remove my this question from FreeBSD mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/034758.html Thanks. -Rammal - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers

[FreeBSD] Silly Question

Ok gang don't be to rough. I am a long time windows user, and am used to running disk maintenance. Scandisk, defrag, etc Do I need to run something similar on FreeBSD? or not? I let my machine run 24/7 and have received the weekend reports (which I found fascinating.) If I need to run such apps, w

ping command question

Hi all Do you know why the command "ping" in unix and window is different? I start from one ISP to ping other ISP 1/ If the following result from window, it is good or not? lost = 7 within 3 thousand packets 2/ how do I kow the average ms is good or not? 3/ Which one (unix or window) is best f

ping command question

Hi all Do you know why the command "ping" in unix and window is different? I start from one ISP to ping other ISP 1/ If the following result from window, it is good or not? lost = 7 within 3 thousand packets 2/ how do I kow the average ms is good or not? 3/ Which one (unix or window) is best f

ping command question

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:56:32 +0800 (CST) adrian kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > Do you know why the command "ping" in unix and window > is different? > Not if and how they are different. Perhaps someone else can help out here... > I start from one ISP to ping other ISP > > 1/ If

Boot0 configuration question...

Greetings, list! I have a question regarding my boot0 setup. First, let me lay out my harddrive topology: Onboard Serial ATA RAID controller --> 1 HDD, 120 GB all in one slice. FreeBSD resides on this. Onboard Secondary IDE controller --> 1 HDD, 20 GB all in one slice. Home of WinXP.

Re: fetchmail question

Bikrant wrote: Hi... I am trying to retrive mails using fetchmail and then deleiver it locally using sendmail. I found that fetchmail adds the following header in every messages that it retrives from the pop server. Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhos

Re: fetchmail question

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Bikrant wrote: > Hi... I am trying to retrive mails using fetchmail and then deleiver it > locally using sendmail. I found that fetchmail adds the following header in > every messages that it retrives from the pop server. > > Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain

Re: fetchmail question

Sorry.. I mentioned the wrong header :( Indeed the hearder was added by sendmail. This is the one added by fetchmail Received: from pop2.wlink.com.np [202.79.32.43] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.0) for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (single-drop); Sun, 27 Jun 2004 00:32:39 +0545 (NPT)

Re: fetchmail question

Sorry.. I mentioned the wrong header :( Indeed the hearder was added by sendmail. This is the one added by fetchmail Received: from pop2.wlink.com.np [202.79.32.43] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.0) for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (single-drop); Sun, 27 Jun 2004 00:32:39 +0545 (NPT)

Re: fetchmail question

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:02:57 +0545, Bikrant Neupane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry.. I mentioned the wrong header :( > Indeed the hearder was added by sendmail. > > This is the one added by fetchmail > > Received: from pop2.wlink.com.np [202.79.32.43] > by localhost with POP3 (f

Re: fetchmail question

I have put following content in my fetchmailrc. poll pop.wlink.com.np localdomains wlink.com.np:                protocol pop3 user bikrant with pass xxx to samit xyz test bikrant here Now it is working fine :) regards, Bikrant On Sunday 27 June 2004 19:45, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > On

Re: Snapshot question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I do my compare of my tape against my snapshot, it's not uncommon for > one or two files (always the same files) to be different. The most usual > culprit being my winbindd_cache.tdb file for Samba. I thought the snapshot > would not change over time as the files o

Re: Snapshot question

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 04:56:54PM +0200, Cordula's Web wrote: > Are you sure you are comparing against the correct snapshot? If you use > dump -L, the snapshot is created, opened, and immediately unlinked, > then the open file is saved. After dump exits, the snapshot file is > pysically released.

Re: Snapshot question

[Does a snapshot change between backup and verify?] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040629135105.GB27491 Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: > cd / > mksnap_ffs /var /var/.snap/backup.snap > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /var/.snap/backup.snap -u 6 > mount -r /dev/md6 /mnt/backup/root.var > tar -cvf ${BACKU

USB Question/Concern

Hello All, I've been using FreeBSD at work to develop some USB hardware. I'm using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a 550MHz PIII with a UHCI USB controller. While I was in the lab a couple of weeks ago I was getting slow performance with FreeBSD. I tried changing many things in my device's firmware to

Re: a question

Am Dienstag, 10. Mai 2005 01:54 schrieb Ricardo: > Hi everyone, my name is Ricardo and i'm new to FreeBSD and a novice in > the world of Unix-like OS's. My question is: do i have to download the 3 > .iso images to install the system(for exemple: do i have to dowload the > b

Re: a question

Ricardo wrote: Hi everyone, my name is Ricardo and i'm new to FreeBSD and a novice in the world of Unix-like OS's. My question is: do i have to download the 3 .iso images to install the system(for exemple: do i have to dowload the bootonlydisk iso)? Thanks for your patience and for re

RE: SU Question

HI Dan, I am getting this error message when I try to logon using "su" command through Telnet remotely. All this started when I accidentally changed permissions, since then all permissions have been restored, yet the same error. % su Password: su: setting user context: Operation not permitted

RE: SU Question

Final question, I notice the rights of "su" on another system were like this "-r-sr-xr-x". What's the rule of setting the option "s" in the permissions. Thanks! VJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: SU Question

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:19:31AM -0700, Dixit, Viraj wrote: > Final question, I notice the rights of "su" on another system were > like this "-r-sr-xr-x". What's the rule of setting the option "s" in > the permissions. Thanks! You can set this bi

Re: SU Question

In the last episode (May 12), Dixit, Viraj said: > I am getting this error message when I try to logon using "su" > command through Telnet remotely. All this started when I accidentally > changed permissions, since then all permissions have been restored, > yet the same error. > % su > Password: >

Dual Boot question

I have a new machine with two drives. The primary drive came with Windows XP installed, so I installed FreeBSD (5.4. RELEASE) on the slave. I want to dual boot using the Windows boot manager. I found instructions in the faq:

Boot Manager question

I have a duel boot system setup with the Freebsd Boot Manager in the MBR. Is there anyway to change the default boot selection from with in the FreeBSD environment? What I mean is, if I am remotely accessing my dual boot FreeBSD box, and I want it to boot into the other OS, is there a command that

BSD legal question

I have a rather strange legal question that I'm not sure who to ask of; it is about GPL vs. BSD but not about the FreeBSD project directly. Asking someone at the university is the last thing I want to do. Do you have someone who answers legal questions? It is rather pro-BSD so I didn'

Re: stupid question

On Thu, 19 May 2005 13:25:25 -0400 "Charles Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses? take a look at /etc/resolv.conf and : man resolv.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: stupid question

On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:25 am, Charles Lamb wrote: > How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses? > I have a static setup. I just add them to /etc/resolv.conf. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html _

Re: stupid question

Charles Lamb wrote the following on 05/19/2005 07:25 PM: How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses? the most stupid question is that one which was not asked :) anyway: vi /etc/resolv.conf clem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: stupid question

You're breaking my heart here. :) emacs /etc/resolv.conf *ducks* On Fri, 20 May 2005, Clement Twine wrote: Charles Lamb wrote the following on 05/19/2005 07:25 PM: How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses? the most stupid question is that one which was not asked :) anywa

Re: newbie question

> > last year i downloaded the miniinst iso disc 3 from the official ftp > mirror, now i cant find it > does 5.4 miniinst disc will be available only in the official 5.4 > release announcement? or it has been permanently removed This has been well documented in the installation instruction. The

Mysql startup question

Hi When i run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start i get the following error : touch /var/db/mysql/mail.int.diesel-electric.com err: Permission denied chown /var/db/mysql/mail.int.diesel-electric.com cannot create /var/db/mysql/mail.int.diesel-electric.com Permission denied Running free

ssh autehntication question

Configured sshd for publickeyauth,port 22 and protocol 2 connections. When ever a ssh connection is attempted it says : fatal : timeout before authentication. Server on local network. sshd pid is running also. Any ideas ? ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: postgrey question

Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been looking into ways of improving our spam filtering. Currently > I'm running postfix with amavisd-new (spamassassin and clamav), and saw > an article on greylisting using postgrey. Turns out there's a port for > it already in FreeBSD. > >

Re: postgrey question

On Jun 1, 2005, at 10:22 AM, Bill Moran wrote: Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been looking into ways of improving our spam filtering. Currently I'm running postfix with amavisd-new (spamassassin and clamav), and saw an article on greylisting using postgrey. Turns out ther

Re: postgrey question

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 09:07, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > Anyone else running postgrey with amavis on postfix, on FreeBSD? I'd > appreciate any feedback/experiences people have to offer. I had an article published on exactly that. See if this helps you: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/fre

Re: postgrey question

Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2005, at 10:22 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I've been looking into ways of improving our spam filtering. > >> Currently > >> I'm running postfix with amavisd-new (spamassassin and clama

Re: postgrey question

On Jun 1, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are there instructions you know of for the installation to get postgrey to integrate with postfix from ports on FreeBSD? (Huh?) Um...let's rephrase. Is there a reference of what needs to be done after

Re: postgrey question

Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Are there instructions you know of for the installation to get > >> postgrey > >> to integrate with postfix from ports on FreeBSD? (Huh?) > >> >

Re: postgrey question

On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: I've been looking into ways of improving our spam filtering. Currently I'm running postfix with amavisd-new (spamassassin and clamav), and saw an article on greylisting using postgrey. Turns out there's a port for it already in FreeBSD.

Re: postgrey question

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: I've been looking into ways of improving our spam filtering. Currently I'm running postfix with amavisd-new (spamassassin and clamav), and saw an article on greylisting using postgrey. Turns out ther

Re: postgrey question

On Jun 1, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Jorn Argelo wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: I've been looking into ways of improving our spam filtering. Currently I'm running postfix with amavisd-new (spamassassin and clamav), and saw an ar

Re: postgrey question

[description of postgrey snipped] The main advantage of this is that spammers and viruses have massive amount of email lists and just try to send it to as many people as possible. They are not going to wait and try to send the e-mail again, thus you effectively block many amount of spam and vi

Re: postgrey question

Philip Hallstrom said: > [description of postgrey snipped] > >> The main advantage of this is that spammers and viruses have massive >> amount >> of email lists and just try to send it to as many people as possible. >> They >> are not going to wait and try to send the e-mail again, thus you >> effe

Re: postgrey question

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC said: > > On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > >> I've been looking into ways of improving our spam filtering. >> Currently I'm running postfix with amavisd-new (spamassassin and >> clamav), and saw an article on greylisting using postgrey. Turns >> out

Re: postgrey question

On Jun 1, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC said: On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: I've been looking into ways of improving our spam filtering. Currently I'm running postfix with amavisd-new (spamassassin and clamav), and saw an article on

Re: postgrey question

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 12:44 pm, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > That's where I was a little confused (kirk? Insight, clarification?) > because I thought that line would have it pass the message to another > queue on port 10023 of the localhost, like the way Amavis runs. That's correct. > I didn't

Re: postgrey question

On Jun 1, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 1, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Jorn Argelo wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: I've been looking into ways of improving our spam filtering. Currently I'm running pos

Re: postgrey question

On Jun 1, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: [description of postgrey snipped] The main advantage of this is that spammers and viruses have massive amount of email lists and just try to send it to as many people as possible. They are not going to wait and try to send the e-mail again

Re: postgrey question

On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:54, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > If people keep accepting broken implementation as the status quo, we're > going to keep getting people who leave broken implementations in place. I have to agree with you on that one. Greylisting is no more non-standard than saying "I'm

Re: postgrey question

On 6/1/05, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 01 June 2005 12:44 pm, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > > That's where I was a little confused (kirk? Insight, clarification?) > > because I thought that line would have it pass the message to another > > queue on port 10023 of the loc

Re: postgrey question

On Jun 2, 2005, at 8:49 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:54, Bart Silverstrim wrote: If people keep accepting broken implementation as the status quo, we're going to keep getting people who leave broken implementations in place. I have to agree with you on that one

Re: postgrey question

have to think...they want their ISP or sysadmins or techies to do the thinking for them. This is a question of tradeoffs. The problem with spam and abuse and malware has gotten to the point where I (and I suspect many others) no longer have the time or energy to keep chasing ways to make things

Re: postgrey question

On Thursday 02 June 2005 12:27, the author Bart Silverstrim contributed to the dialogue on- Re: postgrey question: >On Jun 2, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >> On Jun 2, 2005, at 8:49 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: >>> On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:54, Bart

Re: postgrey question

their own junk mail problem. It is not a listserver's job to fix it. It is up to the user/isp combination to fix. nobody was talking about the list or siggesting changing this or any other list. This was a how to get postfix to do greylisting with postgrey on freebsd question. I

Re: postgrey question

On Thursday 02 June 2005 13:10, the author Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC contributed to the dialogue on- Re: postgrey question: >On Jun 2, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Vizion wrote: >> I do not know I buy that argument. The way I see it as a user of >> this list - >> it ain&#x

Re: vinum question

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 14:14:43 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm reading about vinum disk manager, did some test, works fine. > > but the question - could root partition be vinum volume? (i have compiled > kernel with vinum built in, not as mod

pf block question

So, at the very top of my pf "filter" rules, I have these rules: block drop in quick on fxp0 inet proto icmp from 1.3.3.7 to any block drop in quick on fxp0 inet proto tcp from 1.3.3.7 to any 1.3.3.7 is a made up IP address ;-). Even with this rule present, pf allows traffic from the IP through.

Re: Backup Question

"Cody Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I'm trying to do a simple tar+gzip backup for my file system. I can > do this no problem. The backup is a little less than 2Gb. What I would > like to do is chop this up into 650Mb pieces that I can ftp over to a > server with a cd-r and burn the

Re: Backup Question

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 11:02:28 -0500 "Cody Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I'm trying to do a simple tar+gzip backup for my file system. I > can do this no problem. The backup is a little less than 2Gb. What I > would like to do is chop this up into 650Mb pieces that I can ftp over > to

Re: Backup Question

--On 07 June 2005 11:02 -0500 Cody Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, I'm trying to do a simple tar+gzip backup for my file system. I can do this no problem. The backup is a little less than 2Gb. What I would like to do is chop this up into 650Mb pieces that I can ftp over to a server

Re: Backup Question

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:02:28AM -0500, Cody Holland wrote: > Ok, I'm trying to do a simple tar+gzip backup for my file system. I can > do this no problem. The backup is a little less than 2Gb. What I would > like to do is chop this up into 650Mb pieces that I can ftp over to a > server with a

Re: cvs question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Denny White wrote: | | | I know before asking this has been | covered profusely, and I have read | a lot in the handbook, man pages, | fbsd web site & mailing list archives. | But, there are some things I just do | not understand. My main questio

Re: cvs question

ite wrote: | | | I know before asking this has been | covered profusely, and I have read | a lot in the handbook, man pages, | fbsd web site & mailing list archives. | But, there are some things I just do | not understand. My main question is, | is it okay to change | /home/ncvs | to | /usr/ncvs | I

Re: cvs question

ves. |> | But, there are some things I just do |> | not understand. My main question is, |> | is it okay to change |> | /home/ncvs |> | to |> | /usr/ncvs |> | I ask because of the repository size |> | compared to what I have on this box |> | on /home & /usr. |> | |

Re: cvs question

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Re: cvs question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 8 23:33:11 2005 Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:31:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Denny White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bob Bomar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cvs question On Wed, 8 Jun 200

Re: cvs question

On 2005-06-09 18:13, Denny White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bob, > I have no idea how that happened. I think there was a glitch or > operator error in pine's gpg filters. Thanks for replying again. I > got to thinking, after reading some of the stuff in the cvs & stable > mailing list, that t

Re: cvs question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-06-09 18:13, Denny White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Bob, I have no idea how that happened. I think there was a glitch or operator error in pine's gpg filters. Thanks for replying again. I

Re: cvs question

On 2005-06-09 19:26, Denny White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >Is there any particular reason why you are trying to build the web > >site? > > > >More importantly, why do you have to build the web site as root? > > > >The files are installed in ${DEST

Re: cvs question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 10 13:54:17 2005 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:46:39 +0400 From: Alexey Chuprinin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Denny White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re[2]: cvs question Hello, Thursday, June 9, 2005

Re: NFS question

The only things that come to mind here are to make sure rcp/portmapper is running, make sure you have all of the appropriate _enable="YES" messages in rc.conf, and to reboot. That last isn't required, you can -HUP all of the processes involved, but this way you see what happens upon reboot too

Re: Makefile question

In the last episode (Jun 13), Gábor Kövesdán said: > I'm trying to make a new port, but the software I'm porting has an > awkward configure script, and when I run ./configure --prefix=/usr/local > then every file goes to directly to /usr/local not to /usr/local/bin, > /usr/local/etc, ... Maybe

Re: NFS question

munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to NFS connect to a server machine using mount_nfs. I get > the following message > > RPCPROG_NFS: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive. An > 'identical' machine connects without a message and the mount works. > > Does anybody know wh

Re: Makefile question

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 07:24:37PM +0200, Kvesdn Gbor wrote: ... > then every file goes to directly to /usr/local not to /usr/local/bin, > /usr/local/etc, ... > Thus I would like to install it into /usr/local/appname. ... Who will find executables located in /usr/local/appname/bin/ ?

Re: Makefile question

Oh, I didn't mean that. Both the configure script and the application Makefile are working. What I mean is, that the configure script doesn't let me to specify --libdir, --bindir, ... Thus a lot of files would be installed directly under the default ${PREFIX}, which is /usr/local, that's why I

Re: Makefile question

You misunderstood what I want. As I mentioned the configure script is awkward and I can't specify --bindir, --libdir, everything goes to the specified --prefix. Thus I won't have any subdirectories in /usr/local/appname, just an executable and some sample config and doc. Vasil Dimov wrote:

Re: Makefile question

In the last episode (Jun 13): > Oh, I didn't mean that. Both the configure script and the application > Makefile are working. What I mean is, > that the configure script doesn't let me to specify --libdir, --bindir, ... > Thus a lot of files would be installed directly under the default > ${PREFI

Re: Makefile question

In the last episode (Jun 13), Dan Nelson said: > In the last episode (Jun 13): > > Oh, I didn't mean that. Both the configure script and the application > > Makefile are working. What I mean is, > > that the configure script doesn't let me to specify --libdir, --bindir, ... > > Thus a lot of files

Re: Makefile question

Yes, it worked when I specified it by hand. But Johnny has found out what was the problem. The bsd.port.mk file overrides the prefix, thus I had to specify my CONFIGURE_ARGS after the include line. Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán Dan Nelson wrote: Yes, that should have worked. Does it do what you w

Re: Makefile question

If somebody is interested in this topic, I've found a good workaround: redefining do-comfigure in such way: do-configure: cd ${WRKSRC} && ./configure --prefix=${PREFIX}/appname And it works fine now. Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: NFS question

Bingo! Lowell Gilbert wrote: munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am trying to NFS connect to a server machine using mount_nfs. I get the following message RPCPROG_NFS: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive. An 'identical' machine connects without a message and the mount works

Re: ./configure question

Denny White wrote: Question is, why I can't get it to work anymore, when I go to a port dir, do a make extract cd work ./configure --arguments I used it before for setting extra arguments on several ports I added. Most ports feed additional options to ./configure, check the port's M

Re: ./configure question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: Denny White wrote: Question is, why I can't get it to work anymore, when I go to a port dir, do a make extract cd work ./configure --arguments I used it before for setting extra arguments on several

Re: ./configure question

Denny White wrote: [ ... ] Okay, I messed up again. I described it wrong before. I should've said, if I do /usr/src/contrib/binutils/./configure -args It works okay. I found that with locate. Are you trying to build src/contrib/binutils? What for? Could I have messed up scripts in /usr/por

Re: ./configure question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: Denny White wrote: [ ... ] Okay, I messed up again. I described it wrong before. I should've said, if I do /usr/src/contrib/binutils/./configure -args It works okay. I found that with locate. Are you t

Re: ./configure question

Would it be "./configure --help" ? You can run it to see what configuration is possible with the src you are building, but that's what port does, it's a frontend to it (correct me with wrong). If you want to build manually the src you need to run "./configure --args" like "./configure --with-mysql

Re: ./configure question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna wrote: Would it be "./configure --help" ? You can run it to see what configuration is possible with the src you are building, but that's what port does, it's a frontend to it (correct me with wrong).

Re: ./configure question

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:33:37PM -0500, Denny White wrote: [...] > Okay, I see I'm in such a confused state that I appear > to be confusing others. I had read somewhere that you > can go into a port dir you want to install, and do > make extract & then cd into the work dir just created, > you co

Re: pkg_info question

In the last episode (Jun 22), Casey Scott said: > Is it possible to get pkg_info, or some other command, to show what > package contains a file? > > E.g. find what package has /usr/local/bin/convert pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/convert Or if you have portupgrade installed, "pkg_which /usr/local/

Re: pkg_info question

Sorry, I meant I need to know what package a file belongs to that does not exist in the file system already. I need to know where to get something, not where it came from. > In the last episode (Jun 22), Casey Scott said: >> Is it possible to get pkg_info, or some other command, to show what >> pa

Re: pkg_info question

Casey Scott wrote: Sorry, I meant I need to know what package a file belongs to that does not exist in the file system already. I need to know where to get something, not where it came from. My CVSup script executes find /usr/ports -name "pkg-plist*" > /path/to/somewhere after an update of

Re: pkg_info question

Thanks. Good idea. How about this, its a little easier. #find ./ -name 'pkg-plist*' | xargs grep 'bin/convert' Casey > Casey Scott wrote: > >> Sorry, I meant I need to know what package a file belongs to that does >> not >> exist in the file system already. I need to know where to get something,

Re: pkg_info question

On Wed, June 22, 2005 2:13 pm, Björn König said: > Thus I can search a file with > >cat /path/to/somewhere | xargs grep 'pattern' You can avoid wasting a process by using the following instead: xargs grep 'pattern' < /path/to/somewhere Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"

Re: pkg_info question

Casey Scott wrote: Thanks. Good idea. How about this, its a little easier. #find ./ -name 'pkg-plist*' | xargs grep 'bin/convert' Yes, it is easier if you do this only once. I do it several times and I want to benefit from a previous search. What is faster: to find more than 10.000 pkg-plis

Re: pkg_info question

Jim Trigg wrote: On Wed, June 22, 2005 2:13 pm, Björn König said: Thus I can search a file with cat /path/to/somewhere | xargs grep 'pattern' You can avoid wasting a process by using the following instead: xargs grep 'pattern' < /path/to/somewhere Thanks. Where is my UUOC award? ;-)

ndis0 dhcp question

Hello all! :-D I have a Linksys WPC11 ver.4 wireless NIC. I got it setup using ndisgen (very cool tool by the way). Now when kldload /root/rtl8180_sys.ko (the location of my wireless kernel object) dmesg shows this: ndis0: port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0x88 00-0x880001ff irq 11 at device 0.0 on car

Re: PartitionMagic question

Iavor Raytchev wrote: When I run PartitionMagic it reported 3 errors - different LBA and CHS values - the errors are on the first sector of the FreeBSD partitions and on the first sectors of the next two partitions (seeing from the LBA). PartitionMagic says in all 3 cases that the LBA and CHS

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