The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-09-18 - 2005-10-08

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make release

hi sirs, am trying to make my own release by `make release -DNOGAME' at /usr/src/release with 5.4 notebook. i want to have packages that have been built included into disc1.iso too but i get only 198mb of src and ports and some others instead. would you please give me some hints on doing this ?

Re: chm file conversion?

Colin, On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 you wrote: > Vizion wrote: >> As per subject - does anyone know of any utils for converting microsofts >> compiled help files for use on freebsd? > I've found converters/chmview to be useful in the past. Anything available for converting chm to pdf or ps? I beli

Re: chm file conversion?

On 10/9/05, Sandy Rutherford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colin, > > On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 you wrote: > > > Vizion wrote: > >> As per subject - does anyone know of any utils for converting microsofts > >> compiled help files for use on freebsd? > > > I've found converters/chmview to be useful in

Cheap Hardware for Home Network

I'm building a new box specifically do take care of a lot of things on my home network; dns, qmail, apache, sftp, printer server, a fileserver, etc. Some of the services, like apache, will also be exposed to the internet, but only for the use of friends and family. And most important, I'm doing

Re: Samba or something more lightweight ...

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:39:33PM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: > Do I need to install Samba or is there another more lightweight > alternative? There still is /usr/ports/net/sharity-light, but I'm not sure if it still works, it seems to be quite outdated. More Information: http://www.obdev.at/prod

Re: changing boot splash screen

On Saturday 08 October 2005 21:11, you wrote: > FreeBsdBeni wrote: > >Hi list, > > > >System : 5.4-RELEASE-p7 > > > >I'm trying to change the default boot splash screen from beastie to > > bmp-file. > > > >Here's my /boot/loader.rc : > >\ Loader.rc > >\ $FreeBSD: src/sys/boot/i386/loader/loader.rc

Re: Cheap Hardware for Home Network

On 10/9/05, Live-Wire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm building a new box specifically do take care of a lot of things on > my home network; dns, qmail, > apache, sftp, printer server, a fileserver, etc. Some of the services, > like apache, will also be exposed to > the internet, but only for the u

Documentation altq

I want to read many about altq, but i don't found tehnical documentation or tutorials. Can u suggest something!? -- Any help would be greatly appreciated. regards, Carstea Catalin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

request for information

does bsd supports applications developed in jsp (java server page) or dot net ? - Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Téléchargez le ici ! ___ freebsd-questions@f

rt "client denied by server configuration"

I'm trying to install rt on FreeBSD 5.4 with Apache 2. I have installed the port, and configured it. I have also setup Apache like this: # Tell FastCGI to put its temporary files somewhere sane. FastCgiIpcDir /tmp # Number of processes is tunable, but you need at least 3 or 4 # "FastCgiServer"

Re[2]: bruteforceblocker + PF

Hi Enrique, Friday, October 7, 2005, 4:44:31 PM, you thoughtfully wrote the following: > El Viernes, 7 de Octubre de 2005 13:08, Daniel Gerzo escribió: >> 1) Update your OpenSSH to 4.2, you can find the port in the >> security/openssh-portable (you can use -DOPENSSH_OVERWRITE_BASE >> option) Note

Proxy and make install

Hi list, I´m using transparent proxy with squid When I command make install some softwares aren´t downloading the packages How can I fix it ? Aguiar ___ Promoção Yahoo! Acesso Grátis: a cada hora naveg

Re: Cheap Hardware for Home Network

On Sunday 09 October 2005 10:18, Live-Wire wrote: > I'm building a new box specifically do take care of a lot of things on > my home network; dns, qmail, > apache, sftp, printer server, a fileserver, etc. Some of the services, > like apache, will also be exposed to > the internet, but only for the

Re: Cheap Hardware for Home Network

RW wrote: > On Sunday 09 October 2005 10:18, Live-Wire wrote: > >>I'm building a new box specifically do take care of a lot of things on >>my home network; dns, qmail, >>apache, sftp, printer server, a fileserver, etc. Some of the services, >>like apache, will also be exposed to >>the internet, bu

make.conf need --disable-nls or NO_LOCALE settings ?

Hi all, running FreeBSD-5.4-RELENG-p7 with a custom kernel on a laptop, I would like to disable "ALL" non english building language on the system incl. for all the installed ports. I can not find any article about settings for the "/etc/make.conf" file, is there some thing like "NO_LOCALE", "W

Java w/ Firefox

Suggestion on some sorta plugin for Firefox so Java and js website allow me access? -- Best regards, Chris If you fool around with a thing for very long you will screw it up. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

portmanager

Hello, freebsd-questions. anyone tried to run portmanager from crontab? as for me it just coredumps, what am i doing wrong? its simply 0 0 * * * portmanager -s -- Best regards, Michael mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ free

Re: portmanager

Michael Lednev wrote: > Hello, freebsd-questions. > > anyone tried to run portmanager from crontab? as for me it just > coredumps, what am i doing wrong? its simply 0 0 * * * portmanager -s > Try this: 0 0 * * * /usr/local/bin/portmanager -s -- Best regards, Chris The lagging activit

Re: portmanager

Hello, Chris. On 9 îêòÿáðÿ 2005 ã., 19:01:10 you wrote: C> Michael Lednev wrote: >> Hello, freebsd-questions. >> >> anyone tried to run portmanager from crontab? as for me it just >> coredumps, what am i doing wrong? its simply 0 0 * * * portmanager -s >> C> Try this: C> 0 0 * * * /usr

port version

Hello I have done some searching but not really found my answer. I was wondering if there is a way to check port version? I cvsup'd my ports and id like to check version of some ports before I install them... I know many have the version in the dir like mysql. But for example / usr/ports/X11/

Re: port version

eoghan wrote: Hello I have done some searching but not really found my answer. I was wondering if there is a way to check port version? I cvsup'd my ports and id like to check version of some ports before I install them... I know many have the version in the dir like mysql. But for example /

Patching to FreeBSD 5.4-p7

Hi, I want to know ow to upgarde or patch my FreeBSD 5.4 version to FreeBSD 5.4-p7 Cheers, Deepak Naidu. - How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos _

Re: fxp0 problem with 6Beta?

Be sure to CC: the list on these responses. Someone else may have ideas. Your results below are indeed of concern. What you need to do is have two terminals open on either machine. One for ping'ing, one for watching tcpdump(8) on. You want to look for ARP "who-as" and "is at" packets on either

Re: Patching to FreeBSD 5.4-p7

On 10/9/05, Deepak Naidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I want to know ow to upgarde or patch my FreeBSD 5.4 version to FreeBSD > 5.4-p7 > > Cheers, > Deepak Naidu. The common response to this is that it's in the handbook. I'm trying to find it there, though, and am having a lot of troub

Re: port version

On 10/9/05, eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > I have done some searching but not really found my answer. I was > wondering if there is a way to check port version? I cvsup'd my ports > and id like to check version of some ports before I install them... > I know many have the version in th

Wine 20050930 on FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5

I posted this earlier to ports@ but got no response. Has anyone got the subj running? It seems to work for me, but every time I try to run any program it rebuilds font metrics spitting out some fixme's about unknown encodings and registries, which is truly annoying. I found those missing registr

Re: Patching to FreeBSD 5.4-p7

David Kirchner wrote: On 10/9/05, Deepak Naidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I want to know ow to upgarde or patch my FreeBSD 5.4 version to FreeBSD 5.4-p7 Cheers, Deepak Naidu. The common response to this is that it's in the handbook. I'm trying to find it there, though, and am havin

Re: Cheap Hardware for Home Network

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 01:56:52PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Sunday 09 October 2005 10:18, Live-Wire wrote: > > I'm building a new box specifically do take care of a lot of things on > > my home network; dns, qmail, > > apache, sftp, printer server, a fileserver, etc. Some of the services, > > like apa

Re: rt "client denied by server configuration"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 at 14:17 (+0200), John Oxley wrote: I'm trying to install rt on FreeBSD 5.4 with Apache 2. I have installed the port, and configured it. I have also setup Apache like this: ... Apache starts okay, but when I go to http://rt.y

Re: portmanager

On 09/10/05, Michael Lednev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Chris. > > On 9 îêòÿáðÿ 2005 ã., 19:01:10 you wrote: > > C> Michael Lednev wrote: > >> Hello, freebsd-questions. > >> > >> anyone tried to run portmanager from crontab? as for me it just > >> coredumps, what am i doing wrong? it

Re: Newbie Questions

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 20:00 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > makisupa wrote: > > >Been using Linux awhile...recently migrated a laptop to FreeBSD. Its a > >bit old and BSD runs nicely on the deprecated hardware. I am using > >6.0-BETA 5 despite warning to the contrary because my atheros based wifi >

Re: request for information

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:00:14AM +0200, khaled guenaoui wrote: > does bsd supports applications developed in jsp (java server page) or dot net > ? > JSP will work if you've installed java & tomcat. .NET support is questionable, even with Mono. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

bad superblock question

I had an ide cable go bad, the harddrive was unable to mount. I have since replaced the ide cable. when I fsck I use the alternative superblock at 32 I believe. How do I copy the alternative to the non-existant main? -Darren __ Yahoo!

mmap versus malloc

If I want to write an assembly language program without using libc, is it ok to use mmap and a file descriptor of -1 to allocate memory? jm -- What's good for the goose is good for the gander. What the hell is a gander, anyway? ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: CDROM Unknown Transfer Error crashes system

On 10/9/05, Wayne Witzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've just installed FreeBSD on my laptop (decided I wanted a more > developer-friendly computer). Aside from what appear to be the standard > newbie problems, every thing's gone remarkably well, except for this: > > I have

Re: port version

On 9 Oct 2005, at 17:02, David Kirchner wrote: On 10/9/05, eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello I have done some searching but not really found my answer. I was wondering if there is a way to check port version? I cvsup'd my ports and id like to check version of some ports before I install

Re: fxp0 problem with 6Beta?

On Sun Oct 9 16:58 , 'Brian A. Seklecki' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >Process of elimination: > >Q: On the same hardware this problem doesn't occur with an older >version, correct? Installed 5.3 on 0.7, problem remains. 0.5 runs 5.4 incidentally. Changed the router identification protocol direction

Re: portmanager

Hello, Alistair. On 9 îêòÿáðÿ 2005 ã., 21:35:27 you wrote: AS> What version of FreeBSD are you running? AS> At the moment, portmanager dumps core on FreeBSD 6 (and presumably AS> -CURRENT), the author is aware of it and AFAIK is currently trying to AS> track down why and where. AS> Installing p

Re: portmanager

On 09/10/05, Michael Lednev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Alistair. > > that's another issue, currently portmanager from ports runs fine on > 6.0-current in interactive environment, but coredumps from cron or > something similar. the same behaviour on on 5.4-stable. Ah, my bad. I forgot tha

Re: mmap versus malloc

Jonathon McKitrick wrote: If I want to write an assembly language program without using libc, is it ok to use mmap and a file descriptor of -1 to allocate memory? How about sbrk()? jm -- What's good for the goose is good for the gander. What the hell is a gander, anyway? A male goose... :-)

FireFox/Mozilla and CUPS/LPD weirdness

Hello. I reported problems with printing from Firefox and Mozilla in the past. Faulty DNS configurations were suspected in the first line but I can confess that our network is setup right way. I figured out that bot Mozilla and Firefox try to print via CUPS (via sockstat, firefox process trys

Issues compiling latest xorg-x11 release

Hi, It appears that I'm having serious trouble compiling the latest xorg release. I tried installing something Xaw related (XawPlus and libXaw), but both failed to install for me. Any ideas? Thanks! -Garrett Arch/release info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a FreeBSD sprsd 5.4-RELEASE Free

Re: Issues compiling latest xorg-x11 release

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 13:55:34 -0700, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Issues compiling latest xorg-x11 release Wrote these words of wisdom: > Hi, > It appears that I'm having serious trouble compiling the latest > xorg release. I tried installing something Xaw related (XawPlus and

Re: Cheap Hardware for Home Network

On 10/10/05, Live-Wire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew P. wrote: > > >On 10/9/05, Live-Wire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I'm building a new box specifically do take care of a lot of things on > >>my home network; dns, qmail, > >>apache, sftp, printer server, a fileserver, etc. Some of

Re: FireFox/Mozilla and CUPS/LPD weirdness

On 10/9/05, O. Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > I reported problems with printing from Firefox and Mozilla in the past. > Faulty DNS configurations were suspected in the first line but I can > confess that our network is setup right way. > > I figured out that bot Mozilla and Firefox

Happy Hacking keyboard, Emacs, and meta

I have an older PS2 Happy Hacking Lite Keyboard (love it!), but I'm getting reacquainted with Emacs and one aspect of the keyboard is driving me nuts: I can't seem to get the diamond keys (like "Windows keys") to send only Meta to Emacs. I use KDE on FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5 and have it set to run "se

I am having problem with network

Hi, Most of the freebsd servers which have is showing the below in /var/log/messages. It filing the message log Please guide me on what the issue is. Oct 9 16:31:50 server005 kernel: arplookup 206.123.104.1failed: host is not on local network Oct 9 16:32:21 server005 last m

booting original kernel

Hi I am using 4.1 BSD. Made few changes to the kernel and compiled it. When trying to reboot using the modified kernel, it throwed some page faults. So, i booted using the older config namely kernel.old. I again made few changes and recompiled the kernel with a new config. Now, trying to boot the

Re: Cheap Hardware for Home Network

On 10/9/2005 2:18 AM Live-Wire wrote: I'm building a new box specifically do take care of a lot of things on my home network; dns, qmail, apache, sftp, printer server, a fileserver, etc. Some of the services, like apache, will also be exposed to the internet, but only for the use of friends and

ports tree problem

I was forced to cvs the ports tree and now whenever i try to run bpm (it's a graphical tools for ports install and so on) it core dumps while reading the ports tree/index. Not even these commands have solved my nightmares portsdb -Uu pkgdb -Ffuv I'm considering to portupgrade -PaRr my system, but

RE: booting original kernel

This page from the handbook will hopefully help you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-troub le.html Good luck! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sudheer Gupta Sent: 09 October 2005 22:51 To: freebsd-quest

Re: port version

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 08:30:26 -0700 Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eoghan wrote: > > Hello > > I have done some searching but not really found my answer. I was > > wondering if there is a way to check port version? I cvsup'd my ports > > and id like to check version of some ports before I i

Re: booting original kernel

Siriphan Brigder wrote: This page from the handbook will hopefully help you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-troub le.html Good luck! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sudheer Gupta Sent: 09 October 200

Re: booting original kernel

Micah wrote: Siriphan Brigder wrote: This page from the handbook will hopefully help you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-troub le.html Good luck! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sudheer Gupta Se

Re: booting original kernel

Mark Cullen wrote: Micah wrote: Siriphan Brigder wrote: This page from the handbook will hopefully help you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-troub le.html Good luck! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behal

unexplained system hangs - possible smbfs issue ??

Hi all, I have a system using smbfs that locks up every few hours. The system is running a cron job every minute, that opens a directory that is actually a smbfs mounted directory on a Windows Server 2003 machine. The program reads the directory looking for a particular file pattern, opens and pr

Best Way to Mount a File-Backed Memory Disk at Boot-Time?

Hi, I've got a system with a file-backed memory disk that needs to be run through mdconfig and then mounted at boot-time? What's the best way to do this? Is putting a script into /usr/local/etc/rc.d the best? TIA! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: Issues compiling latest xorg-x11 release

On Oct 9, 2005, at 2:27 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 13:55:34 -0700, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Issues compiling latest xorg-x11 release Wrote these words of wisdom: Hi, It appears that I'm having serious trouble compiling the latest xorg release. I tri

Re: unexplained system hangs - possible smbfs issue ??

On Oct 9, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, I have a system using smbfs that locks up every few hours. The system is running a cron job every minute, that opens a directory that is actually a smbfs mounted directory on a Windows Server 2003 machine. The program reads the directory

Re: Best Way to Mount a File-Backed Memory Disk at Boot-Time?

At 06:16 PM 10/9/2005, David Marshall wrote: Hi, I've got a system with a file-backed memory disk that needs to be run through mdconfig and then mounted at boot-time? What's the best way to do this? Is putting a script into /usr/local/etc/rc.d the best? make an entry in fstab that looks some

Re: CDROM Unknown transfer [phase reboots] system

Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 10/9/05, Wayne Witzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello everybody, I've just installed FreeBSD on my laptop (decided I wanted a more developer-friendly computer). Aside from what appear to be the standard newbie problems, every thing's gone remarkably well, except for

RE: unexplained system hangs - possible smbfs issue ??

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very lightweight samba installation needed ... help ?

I have a freebsd 5.4-RELEASE system running on a 256 megabyte flash card. This system does not have the ports tree installed on it. On another 5.4-RELEASE system I went to /usr/ports/net/samba and ran "make package" ... the idea was that I would just copy over this package file and run pkg_add o

yp/nis in jails

Is it possible to run yp/nis inside of a jail? Is is possible to run the automounter (amd) inside of a jail? -Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Re: Happy Hacking keyboard, Emacs, and meta

Kirk Strauser wrote: > I have an older PS2 Happy Hacking Lite Keyboard (love it!), but I'm getting > reacquainted with Emacs and one aspect of the keyboard is driving me nuts: I > can't seem to get the diamond keys (like "Windows keys") to send only Meta to > Emacs. > > I use KDE on FreeBSD 6.0

freebsd 5.4 and ipnat startup problem...?

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Re: bad superblock question

I know, however it isn't fixing the first sector, it uses the backup(already repaired it), and never at any point does it fix the original. As a result, I can't mount it and get it to boot up.. my /var is on this drive. and is rather important. repeatedly running fsck, it just asks to use the b

freebsd 5.4 and ipnat startup problem...?

Hi people. I was using freebsd 4.11 like gateway with ipfilter enable and ipnat. It was working very good, but after some years start giving me problems, it was the time to try with 5.4, them i made a fresh freebsd 5.4 installation. Them i update my source and made the buildworld process and no

Re: bad superblock question

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Mr. Darren wrote: I know, however it isn't fixing the first sector, it uses the backup(already repaired it), and never at any point does it fix the original. As a result, I can't mount it and get it to boot up.. my /var is on this drive. and is rather important. repeatedl

Re: bad superblock question

It would be nice if I could do that, it only says bad super block. Because there currently is no super block at the begining of the drive. The rest of the drive seems intact because fsck can run off the superblock at sector 32 and finish's. At no point does it make a new superblock where I shoul

Re: very lightweight samba installation needed ... help ?

On Oct 9, 2005, at 7:51 PM, user wrote: I have a freebsd 5.4-RELEASE system running on a 256 megabyte flash card. This system does not have the ports tree installed on it. On another 5.4-RELEASE system I went to /usr/ports/net/samba and ran "make package" ... the idea was that I would ju

Re: Wine 20050930 on FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5

On 10/10/05, Frank Jahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Wine 20050930 running on 6.0-Beta4. I don't see the issues you > describe, and it does seem to work a bit better than the previous > version. I did use an existing .wine directory, and I used portupgrade > to build the newer version.

Re: portmanager

On Sunday 09 October 2005 12:27, Alistair Sutton wrote: > On 09/10/05, Michael Lednev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, Alistair. > > > > that's another issue, currently portmanager from ports runs fine on > > 6.0-current in interactive environment, but coredumps from cron or > > something simi

Re: unexplained system hangs - possible smbfs issue ??

Murray, Have you thought of looking into filing a bug report with the Samba people (http://www.samba.org/)? This may be an issue with either your client program, or the SMB implementation in Win2k3, which can be solved by getting the ball rolling with SMB and/or possibly MS. Either

"dump -L " not working as expected?

Colleagues, I dump an active filesystem on a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 with the -L option. dump says: "Dumping snapshot of /dev/mirror/gm1s1h (/home) to ..." However when I later "restore -r" the filesystem, I keep getting messages like ./www/data/ASN/bay_3.log: (inode 805993) not found on tape e

RE: unexplained system hangs - possible smbfs issue ??

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Re: Wine 20050930 on FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5

you can put some fonts into your windows/fonts folders, at least make a link in that folder to refer your existent font. Hope this can help. On Monday 10 October 2005 00:12, Andrew P. wrote: > I posted this earlier to ports@ but got no > response. > > Has anyone got the subj running? > > It seems