Re: Why no MovableType port?

2008-05-22 Thread Walter Venable
Jeremy Messenger wrote: Interesting.. Wondering why not rename it as www/movabletype? A lot of people have no idea what 'MT' is and the 'movabletype' will get hit in search engine a lot faster. I second this motion! Write a patch ;) ___ freebsd-ports

linux_base-f8 giving me guff

2008-04-28 Thread Walter Venable
/usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f8 $ sudo make ===> linux_base-f8-8_3 compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 is not supported. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f8. Ok -- I get it, linux kernel 2.4.2 isn't supported. How do I get around this issue? I'm running 6.3-RELEASE-p2...

Re: Building new port, don't want to run as root

2008-04-28 Thread Walter Venable
Matthew Seaman wrote: I take it you're talking about a daemon process and you want to have the rc.subr scripts start it as another user than root? That's fairly simple. To make rc.subr start a process using a different UserID, all you need to do is define variables name = foo

Building new port, don't want to run as root

2008-04-26 Thread Walter Venable
Hi all, I'm working on a patch to upgrade a port I maintain, however the new version (smartly) refuses to be run by root. I fished through the Porter's Handbook a bit but was unable to find anything in particular on running the port as another user. Can anyone point me in the right direction?