Re: Obtaining / downloading latest release of freeBSD

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/06/2010 02:53:25, cipher crypted wrote: > I am a bit slow when it comes to downloads, and I have been consumed > by this slowness in trying to download/obtain your latest release of > FreeBSD (8.0, I think). I visited your "get FreeBSD page and

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

2010-06-17 Thread Charlie Kester
On Thu 17 Jun 2010 at 19:57:03 PDT Polytropon wrote: Maybe my answer will sound "low level", but it works - REALLY works - and works with mostly every kind of data. It's good to see someone recommending a true Unix-style solution. :) ___ freebsd-que

Re: Obtaining / downloading latest release of freeBSD

2010-06-17 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:53:25 -0700 (PDT), cipher crypted wrote: > Hi, > > I am a bit slow when it comes to downloads, and I have been > consumed by this slowness in trying to download/obtain your > latest release of FreeBSD (8.0, I think). I visited your "get > FreeBSD page and clicked on your "

Obtaining / downloading latest release of freeBSD

2010-06-17 Thread cipher crypted
Hi, I am a bit slow when it comes to downloads, and I have been consumed by this slowness in trying to download/obtain your latest release of FreeBSD (8.0, I think). I visited your "get FreeBSD page and clicked on your "amd64 distribution" link, and couldn't figure out what or how to download a

Problem Creating GroupOffice Database (FreeBSD Group Office port)

2010-06-17 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
Hi, Has anyone had any luck getting the www/groupoffice-2.18.s.21 port working on FreeBSD? I'm running FreeBSD 7.3, the Apache Webserver 2.2.15_9 with PHP 5.2.13_2 and MySQL 5.5.4. I'm attempting to get group office up and running, but without success. Basically, i've opened http://<>/grou

X11 stopped working

2010-06-17 Thread Caleb Stein
I was updating some ports (glib, png, jpeg, atk), and I did it incorrectly, by doing "make deinstall" and then "make install". After I rebooted X11 won't run at all. I tried to run "portupgrade -Rr xorg" but I didn't help. I have KDE4 configured to run at startup, and it tries to run, an

Need help with SATA disk timing out in 8.1 Beta

2010-06-17 Thread Jerry Bell
I am having all sorts of problems with drives in a new server. I have a 450G sata drive that hold my root partition, works great, no issues. I have a second, 1TB drive that has been all sorts of trouble. When writing to this disk, I occasionally see errors like this: Jun 17 07:40:36 www3 kern

Re: mountroot error with memory based rootfs

2010-06-17 Thread akash kumar
Hi, The root file system was built commenting out compact flash and enabling md0 as below in the config file for my target arch. #device cf #optionsROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:cf0s1\" # Use the following for RFS in mem-device options MD_ROOT options ROOTDEVNAME = \

Xorg fails to start after upgrading to 8 stable

2010-06-17 Thread Xihong Yin
I upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0. Xorg can't start. I got the following message when I type 'startx'. I already upgraded Xorg, hal and libusb to the latest. Anybody can help? Script started on Fri Jun 18 00:20:21 2010 c...@router1:~> startx xauth: creating new authority file /home/c512/.serverauth.6

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

2010-06-17 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:22:37 -0400, "Michael W. Lucas" wrote: > Hi, > > I have to store a bunch of PDFs of orders. I'd like to be able to > "tag" these by customer, date, and a couple of other characteristics, > and then search and/or sort by these tags. > > I'm certain that we have something

Re: FreeBSD router (IPFW-based): how to block an URL (all IPs of an A-like HOSTNAME)

2010-06-17 Thread Chris
On Jun 17, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Valerian Galeru wrote: Ok, very simple put: To do this without shell scripting, but this could avoid filter future IP addresses: 1. DIG HOSTNAMEs and add ipfw block rules for those IPs 2. DIG HOSTNAMEs and add a null rule To block all *.hostname and future IP a

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

2010-06-17 Thread Dale Scott
> I'm certain that we have something in ports that will do this, but > danged if I can find a good candidate.  While I'm sure I > could build a > database/PHP app that would work, surely someone's already done this? > Any recommendations? I'm experimenting with OpenDocMan (PHP/MySQL, http://www.o

Re: FreeBSD router (IPFW-based): how to block an URL (all IPs of an A-like HOSTNAME)

2010-06-17 Thread Valerian Galeru
The idea with the DNS server is wonderful, but the problem is, that in my network the DNS server is the one in Internet [i dont run a DNS server and all local/LAN computers are configured manually to use a public DNS server ]. --- On Fri, 6/18/10, Gary Gatten wrote: From: Gary Gatten Subject:

Re: FreeBSD router (IPFW-based): how to block an URL (all IPs of an A-like HOSTNAME)

2010-06-17 Thread Gary Gatten
What about an entry in your local DNS (what your hosts use) that gives a bogus ip (127.0.0.1?) for *.badhost.com? Then users can never connect to badhost.com. I don't know too many FW's that allow you to use a URL in a rule. IIRC, CheckPoint-FW1 did/does, but they recommend against it due to

Re: FreeBSD router (IPFW-based): how to block an URL (all IPs of an A-like HOSTNAME)

2010-06-17 Thread Valerian Galeru
Ok, very simple put: To do this without shell scripting, but this could avoid filter future IP addresses: 1. DIG HOSTNAMEs and add ipfw block rules for those IPs 2. DIG HOSTNAMEs and add a null rule To block all *.hostname and future IP addresses of any of *.hostname, there must be written a sh

Re: FreeBSD router (IPFW-based): how to block an URL (all IPs of an A-like HOSTNAME)

2010-06-17 Thread Bernt Hansson
Valerian Galeru said the following on 2010-06-17 22:01: Hello, Does anyone have any ideas how to block all requests using an IPFW-based router > (FreeBSD 6.4) to and from a HOSTNAME (which has more DNS A entries) or better, from any *.HOSTNAME.COM Do a whois hostname.com taking note of t

Re: FreeBSD router (IPFW-based): how to block an URL (all IPs of an A-like HOSTNAME)

2010-06-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 17, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Valerian Galeru wrote: > Does anyone have any ideas how to block all requests using an IPFW-based > router (FreeBSD 6.4) to and from a HOSTNAME (which has more DNS A entries) or > better, from any *.HOSTNAME.COM Start by blocking all traffic, add permit rules to

RE: FreeBSD router (IPFW-based): how to block an URL (all IPs of an A-like HOSTNAME)

2010-06-17 Thread Gary Gatten
I don't know how to do it with IPFW, but I like using null / bogus routes to blackhole bad hosts - assuming of course the host in question isn't using dynamic IP's. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Val

FreeBSD router (IPFW-based): how to block an URL (all IPs of an A-like HOSTNAME)

2010-06-17 Thread Valerian Galeru
Hello, Does anyone have any ideas how to block all requests using an IPFW-based router (FreeBSD 6.4) to and from a HOSTNAME (which has more DNS A entries) or better, from any *.HOSTNAME.COM Thank you in advance ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Problem filtering port between host and jail.

2010-06-17 Thread David DEMELIER
Hi, Because I don't want to enable jail_sysvipc, I installed PostgreSQL on my host and it works fine. The problem is accessing a database within a jail. The jails are nat'ed and they can connect to the Internet. However trying psql -h 192.168.1.23 -U markand markanddb time out and said : psql: co

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

2010-06-17 Thread Elliot Finley
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=open+source+document+management+system&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Michael W. Lucas < mwlu...@blackhelicopters.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:12:13PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

2010-06-17 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 17.06.2010 20:55, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > We get orders for services via PDF. We need to keep them, and call > them up months or years later. We'd need to find things like "all of > the PDFs for Customer X" or "all of the PDFs for circuit ID > such-and-such." Surely other people have had th

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

2010-06-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:12:13PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have to store a bunch of PDFs of orders. I'd like to be able to > > "tag" these by customer, date, and a couple of other characteristics, >

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread Martin McCormick
Matthew Seaman writes: > Furthermore, the default setup *is* for named to run as an unprivileged > process. The setup is very carefully designed so that named doesn't > have write permission on the directory where its configuration files are > stored, or on directories that contain static zone fil

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

2010-06-17 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:12:13PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have to store a bunch of PDFs of orders. I'd like to be able to > > "tag" these by customer, date, and a couple of other characteristics, >

RE:pkg_version strange output

2010-06-17 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
thank you for your answers. the problem is solved with "portmaster --check-depends". P.S.: i didn't mean the symbols (<>=) :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

change kde4 (pkg) to kde4 (ports)

2010-06-17 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
hello, i have installed kde4 via the package system. how can i install the kde4 via ports system without deleting the packages and then compiling them? thank you for answering :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: pkg_version strange output

2010-06-17 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: > hello, > > when i give the command "pkg_version" the following output comes up.. > > libxkbfile = [...] >> xvinfo < >> xwd < >> xwinin

Re: pkg_version strange output

2010-06-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 17/06/2010 6:27 μ.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: > hello, > > when i give the command "pkg_version" the following output comes up.. > > libxkbfile = > Long list of packages snipped >> OpenSP = >> pkg_version: corrupted record (pkgdep line

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

2010-06-17 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael W. Lucas wrote: > Hi, > > I have to store a bunch of PDFs of orders. I'd like to be able to > "tag" these by customer, date, and a couple of other characteristics, > and then search and/or sort by these tags. > > I'm certain that we have som

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 16:04:20, Warren Block wrote: This is not generally true for shlibs installed from ports, mostly due to the prevalence of linuxisms like ABI version numbers that aren't simple integers. Even

mountroot error with memory based rootfs

2010-06-17 Thread akash kumar
Hi, I was trying to build root filesystem in to the kernel (i.e using /dev/md0) for Mips based target boards. In the process i built tool chain and kernel successfully. But when i boot the kernel on the target, it fails to mount the md0 and drops to mountroot prompt. mountroot> ufs:/dev/md0 R

Re: Hardware monitoring with iDRAC6

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Polyack
On 06/17/10 12:02, Martin Turgeon wrote: Hi again everyone, I just realized after posting my question on optimal RAID config that the best solution for hardware monitoring would be to use the integrated iDRAC6. I have the Express version (no dedicated port). I have never worked with DRAC card

Re: Problem installing Backula-bat

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.17 07:38, Cato Myhrhagen wrote: > when i go into the Xorg window and > types bat (is this the correct way to start BAT by the way), I get the > message that the command is not found. I am now thinking that the > installation did not succeed and that I have to do somthing else to fix the

Hardware monitoring with iDRAC6

2010-06-17 Thread Martin Turgeon
Hi again everyone, I just realized after posting my question on optimal RAID config that the best solution for hardware monitoring would be to use the integrated iDRAC6. I have the Express version (no dedicated port). I have never worked with DRAC cards and I would like to know your opinions a

Optimal RAID10 config on PERC6 (cache question)

2010-06-17 Thread Martin Turgeon
Hi everyone, I got 2 brand new Dell R510 with 4x146 SAS 10K RPM connected to the PERC6 RAID adapter in a RAID10 configuration. Those servers are mostly going to be used for a master/master MySQL replication. Both are running 8.0-REL amd64. When I took a look at the 'mfiutil' command to make a

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 16:04:20, Warren Block wrote: >> This is not generally true for shlibs installed from ports, mostly due >> to the prevalence of linuxisms like ABI version numbers that aren't >> simple integers. Even so, applying a little intelligent scr

pkg_version strange output

2010-06-17 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
hello, when i give the command "pkg_version" the following output comes up.. libxkbfile = > libxkbui= > libxklavier < > libxml2 = > libxslt = > libzip

PDF storage software recommendations?

2010-06-17 Thread Michael W. Lucas
Hi, I have to store a bunch of PDFs of orders. I'd like to be able to "tag" these by customer, date, and a couple of other characteristics, and then search and/or sort by these tags. I'm certain that we have something in ports that will do this, but danged if I can find a good candidate. While

x11-toolkits/qt33 error

2010-06-17 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
hello, i was trying to install k3b when an error about the port x11-toolkits/qt33 shown up qmake -spec /usr/local/share/qt/mkspecs/freebsd-g++ -o > /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.8/./tools/designer/uic > /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.8/tools/designer/uic/ >

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 01:59:04, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Warren Block wrote: "ln -s libintl.so.9 libintl.so.8" has been misused a lot lately. Are there any programs that will detect these links

Re: Burning CDs on FreeBSD 7.2

2010-06-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 07:24:46AM -0700, Mark Terribile wrote: > > Polytropon, > > > > I'm using the atapicam/cdrecord solution.  But > > > when I do a dd read to verify the write, the > > > read ends on an I/O error rather > > > than an EOF.  (I'm not sure that this problem is > > > new.)  ...

Re: Burning CDs on FreeBSD 7.2

2010-06-17 Thread Mark Terribile
Polytropon, > > I'm using the atapicam/cdrecord solution.  But > > when I do a dd read to verify the write, the > > read ends on an I/O error rather > > than an EOF.  (I'm not sure that this problem is > > new.)  ...  There are plenty of console > > messages, including READ_BIG retrying, READ_BIG

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-17 Thread Programmer in Training
Quoting Chris Whitehouse : Programmer in Training wrote: Quoting Polytropon : On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training wrote: That's a no-go, I have it on good authority that h.264 was chosen over Theora. That along with mpeg-la having put out a press release say

Re: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE?

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 13:41:43, Tom Worster wrote: > On 6/16/10 1:06 PM, "Matthew Seaman" > would the order to do things be: update ports with portsnap, install > misc/compat7x, upgrade with freebsd-update and reboot? You need to be running 8.0 or above bef

Kolab server ports ?

2010-06-17 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Does anyone has ported "kolabd" to FreeBSD ? I don't find it in the ports tree Thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questio

Theora vs h.264 [Was Re: concerning flash under freebsd]

2010-06-17 Thread Programmer in Training
Quoting RW : On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:51:40 -0600 Programmer in Training wrote: Quoting Polytropon : > > That's all within transition. Currently, big video portals are > moving to HTML5, often including the wish to also use free and > open standards for their videos so they can access a bigg

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Powell
RW wrote: [snip] > > As I understand it, originally Ogg Theora was going to be the standard, > but it's now been left open instead due to uncertainty about Theora > infringing patents. Some sites are using Theora, but most seem to be > going with h.264. I presume that this is due to IE support for

Re: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE?

2010-06-17 Thread Tom Worster
On 6/16/10 1:06 PM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: > On 16/06/2010 17:48:03, Tom Worster wrote: >> as usual i let things slip until the servers are a couple of versions behind >> and then i face the worries of upgrading. >> >> will freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade work on a 7.1-RELEASE system or >

Problem installing Backula-bat

2010-06-17 Thread Cato Myhrhagen
Hello First let me say that i am new to FreeBSD and Bacula, so my question might be a bit trivial. Newertheless, I am having big problems installing Bacula BAT on my FreeBSD server. Let me explain what i have done so far: 1. Installed FreeBSD 8.0 rel 2. From the ports catalogue i have installed X

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-17 Thread RW
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:51:40 -0600 Programmer in Training wrote: > Quoting Polytropon : > > > > That's all within transition. Currently, big video portals are > > moving to HTML5, often including the wish to also use free and > > open standards for their videos so they can access a bigger > > T

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Programmer in Training wrote: Quoting Polytropon : On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training wrote: Almost all Internet video has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons on sermons.net which my church uses). That's all within transition. Currently, big video portal

Re: compiler flag -Werror

2010-06-17 Thread akash kumar
Thanks Mark/kitsana for your help. Its working for me now. Thanks, Akash. From: Mark Tinguely To: CyberLeo Kitsana Cc: akash kumar Sent: Thu, 17 June, 2010 1:21:53 AM Subject: Re: compiler flag -Werror CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > On 06/16/2010 08:02 AM, akash

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 09:37:03, krad wrote: > so the logical extension to this is by changing the ownership of the > directory to bind, you are making the configuration directory writeable, and > therefore you are actually lowering security. Correct.

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-17 Thread Programmer in Training
Quoting Polytropon : As much as I am now a no-user of "Flash", allow me the following comments. On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training wrote: Almost all Internet video has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons on sermons.net which my church uses). That's all

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 09:16:33, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:39:37 Matthew Seaman wrote: >> >> "But what about hard links?" I hear you ask. Simple: >> >> find /usr/lib /lib -name '*.so.*' -links +2 > > +1 surely? + modifier in find

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread krad
On 17 June 2010 08:47, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 17/06/2010 04:21:34, Peter Boosten wrote: > > On 17-6-2010 4:58, Robert Huff wrote: > >> > >> Martin McCormick writes: > >> > >>> Is there a way to keep /var/named owned by bind across > >>>

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:39:37 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > "But what about hard links?" I hear you ask. Simple: > > find /usr/lib /lib -name '*.so.*' -links +2 +1 surely? + modifier in find(1) means ``more than'', not ``at least''. Jonathan ___ free

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 04:21:34, Peter Boosten wrote: > On 17-6-2010 4:58, Robert Huff wrote: >> >> Martin McCormick writes: >> >>> Is there a way to keep /var/named owned by bind across >>> reboots? >> >> Yes. I had this happen for a long time. >>

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 08:34:52, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 17/06/2010 01:59:04, Warren Block wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Warren Block wrote: > >>> "ln -s libintl.so.9 libintl.so.8" has been misused a lot lately. >>> >>> Are there any programs that will det

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 01:59:04, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Warren Block wrote: > >> "ln -s libintl.so.9 libintl.so.8" has been misused a lot lately. >> >> Are there any programs that will detect these links and remind the >> user that they hav

Re: i cannot login as root

2010-06-17 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:18 pm, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > On my release 8.0 system I find 'portmaster' in the ports > > but not in the base system! > > csh is base system > portmaster is a port Yes of course! Sorry, I must have read Glen's post rather carelessly. With apology, Malcolm > > portmast

Re: CUPS between systems

2010-06-17 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
William Bulley writes: > When the CUPS server (cupsd) is built with GSSAPI support, the CUPS > "Administration" tab (localhost:631/admin) contains this checkbox > under the "Server Settings:" section: >(x) Use Kerberos authentication (FAQ) > Unfortunately for me on FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE running

Re: Burning CDs on FreeBSD 7.2

2010-06-17 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:28 am, Mark Terribile wrote: > Hi, > > I have several systems, one on 5.4 and two on 7.2 . I keep > the 5.4 system because every time I upgrade something breaks > and cannot be fixed without (apparently) weeks of effort. I > *am* trying to get off it. > > Now: my 5.4 system