[FreeBSD-Q] Creating .so libraries on FreeBSD?

Beastie People, I'm working with some ruby software called scrAPI. I got scrAPI working on my Mac so that's good. FreeBSD is different story. My beastie box is tripping over tidy. I think it wants a tidy.so library. When I installed scrAPI on my Mac; it came with the Mac shared library bolte

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-10-01 - 2006-10-21

The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the maili

Re: Question

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all dear in freebsd project > > Default FreeBSD kernel not support any ability and > compile kernel take any time. I need some help for > make freeBSD boot CD whit my custom KERNEL. how make > own FreeBSD bootabel cd ? You could try using an ISO editing progra

secure dynamic DNS

Hi there, I had to rebuild my gateway router which is now an ubuntu server. I am trying to figure out why secure dynamic DNS is not working all that well. Nothing was changed on the DNS server side, but i will include the configuration just in case. Please help me figure out what I have mi

"RRIP without PX field?" when mounting DVD+RW

Hi list, I am using FreeBSD 6.1 and bacula with DVD-writing for a short time now. Today bacula refused to write to the DVD anymore. When I manually mount the DVD I get the abve mentioned message in dmesg, in /var/log/messages I get Oct 22 09:32:53 epia kernel: RRIP without PX field? Oct 22 0

Re: binary blobs in freebsd

I think it's only device drivers, I've not heard of anything else in anywhere, other than 3rd party programs that might be in the ports, that do this. Ted - Original Message - From: "Antonios Anastasiadis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 2:30 PM

Re: Problems booting on a Compaq DL360 (P21 version)

It happens, most common is using non-compaq disk drives in these systems. Pull the disk set in the running system and put it in the non-running system and see if it boots, if it does, try putting the disks that came out of the non-running system into the running system and seeing if you can instal

Re: [FreeBSD-Q] Creating .so libraries on FreeBSD?

Hi again, I got scrAPI working on my beastie box. It turns out the tidy I was using was from my /usr/ports directory rather than from sourceforge. I had to struggle a bit with the sourceforge tidy. My beastie box was missing a bunch of the gnu tools like libtoolize, autoconf, automake... Once

Re: increasing transmit speeds in WAN setting?

- Original Message - From: "Moses Leslie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:35 AM Subject: Re: increasing transmit speeds in WAN setting? > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > Until you do what I told you

Re: Dualboot Ntloader "invalid slice"

Kent Stewart schreef: Well "copy" will sometimes copy as asci instead of binary. You have /a and /b to force one type or the other. Xcopy, I think, always copies binary. I think a drag and drop does will also prefer to copy as binary. Kent I tried the following: "bsdlabel -B ad0s3" acc

problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

Hello, I have a bit of grey hair, but I've been blessed with working with FreeBSD gurus so much that I am struggling to run my own domain and webserver. That is I have have been co-dependant upon FreeBSD gurus in the past, so I was lazy. I'm now on my own and finding that administering a UNIX

Re: Postfix + clamav-milter

On Saturday October 21, 2006 at 08:10:02 (PM) Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > > FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE > > Clamav-milter 0.88.5 > > Postfix-2.4-20061006 > > > > I have been trying to get postfix to work with clamav-milter. I added > > this to my main.cf file: > >

Re: portupgrade question

On Saturday October 21, 2006 at 08:29:05 (PM) Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > Hi people, >I just did the "portupgrade -rf pkg-config\*" to upgrade the apps, but i > think some of the upgrades went wrong so there are a whole bunch ports > skipped. I noticed glib20 has some compilation error, and probab

Re: Sound a bit garbled after awhile

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:11:53 +0200 (CEST) Bobby Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I have this problem that after awhile, sometimes a rather long > while, the sound starts to suck. It is noticeable by the base which > gets that typical broken sound. The sound gets restored after I > rel

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

Added to my original problem description the full list of WARNING messages from boot: BTW, my FreeBSD 5.5 is running on a Pentium 4/2.4 GHz, 512 M RAM, Asus mother board, oodles of disk Matthew Pope wrote: Hello, I have a bit of grey hair, but I've been blessed with working with FreeBSD guru

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

On 10/22/06, Matthew Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a bit of grey hair, but I've been blessed with working with FreeBSD gurus so much that I am struggling to run my own domain and webserver. -- cut -- My rc.conf includes: routed_enable="YES" router="/sbin/routed" defaultrouter="10.1.1.

Re: Postfix + clamav-milter

On Saturday October 21, 2006 at 08:17:51 (PM) Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: > >FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE > >Clamav-milter 0.88.5 > >Postfix-2.4-20061006 > > > >I have been trying to get postfix to work with clamav-milter. I added > >this to my main.cf file: > > Any

Re: Postfix + clamav-milter

On 10/22/06, Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any reason you're not using postfix/amavisd-new/clamav? It works > quite nicely. Yes actually. Reading the Postfix forum, it seems that people are having problems with it everyday. I just want to keep it as simple as possible, Amavisd re

Re: setfacl(1) Recursively?

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Atom Powers wrote: On 10/21/06, David Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm simply trying to set ACLs on a few directories but don't see an option to recursively apply this to the whole directory's contents. Does applying the ACL to a directory inherently apply it to al

Re: Wireless Inspiron 6400 anyone?

On Sunday 22 October 2006 01:21, Scott Bennett wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:06:36 -0500 Patrick Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >Lane wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I've a new inspiron 6400 running FreeBSD 6.1 and I can't get Wireless to > >> work. It works on WXP using the Dell WLAN d

Re: binary blobs in freebsd

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I think it's only device drivers, I've not heard of anything else in anywhere, other than 3rd party programs that might be in the ports, that do this. In the base system, binary parts definitely only for device drivers. A quick find for .uu file

Re: Dualboot Ntloader "invalid slice"

On Sunday 22 October 2006 01:41, Laurens Timmermans wrote: > Kent Stewart schreef: > > Well "copy" will sometimes copy as asci instead of binary. You have > > /a and /b to force one type or the other. > > > > Xcopy, I think, always copies binary. I think a drag and drop does > > will also prefer to

Re: binary blobs in freebsd

Thanks. The reason I asked is that I want to avoid accidentally buying hardware that runs through a binary blob, plus I want to be able to use it without installing extra ports and/or firmwares. You've been most helpful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: BTX Halted on 6.1 but not 5.4

My question is, is there a good probability that if I install 5.4 and cvsup to RELENG_6 that it will work. I didn't see anything that actually gave a clear definition of the BTX Halted error and am wondering if I put in 5 or 6 hours on this box, does the BTX Halted error provide any indicat

Re: Dualboot Ntloader "invalid slice"

On Sunday 22 October 2006 05:45, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 22 October 2006 01:41, Laurens Timmermans wrote: > > Kent Stewart schreef: > > > Well "copy" will sometimes copy as asci instead of binary. You > > > have /a and /b to force one type or the other. > > > > > > Xcopy, I think, always co

Re: Flash player 9 Beta is Live

On Thursday 19 October 2006 13:34, Mark Kane wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006, at 13:08:50 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:32:14PM +0300, Dimiter Ivanov wrote: > > > http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/beta_is_live.html > > > > > > I have downloaded the stand alone

Re: Postfix + clamav-milter

On Sunday October 22, 2006 at 08:09:50 (AM) albi albinootje wrote: > On 10/22/06, Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Any reason you're not using postfix/amavisd-new/clamav? It works > > > quite nicely. > > > > Yes actually. Reading the Postfix forum, it seems that people are havi

FreeBSD 6.0/AMD64 server crash

Sleeping thread (tid 100168, pid 56693) owns a non-sleepable lock panic: sleeping thread Uptime: 23h56m57s Sleeping thread (tid 100168, pid 56693) owns a non-sleepable lock panic: sleeping thread Uptime: 23h56m57s kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel

icu

hi, got a icu compilation problem, it's icu3.6. ... Errors in total: 1. TestOtherAPI NewResourceBundleTest utility any idea?? thanks!! p.s. icu2 is good TFC _

Re: Howto recompile libgnome-keyring with -fPIC

Klaus Friis Østergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get this error when trying to install Firefox: > > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgnome-keyring.a(gnome-keyring.o): relocation > R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libgnome-keyri

Re: non-ATA66 cable?

On Oct 21, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Josh Paetzel wrote: Lite-On says "Supported transfer mode : PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 and Ultra DMA mode 2", so is there something I should do to my FreeBSD to make this device happier? Try a different cable? It's not going to come up faster than UDMA33and eve

Re: where to set SSL compile time cipher string ?

martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure I understood this correctly but at > I've read something > about cipher list and defaults etc. And I would like to tell my system > to build SSL with ``high'' encryption cipher suites. Where can I

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

Matthew Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > for temp file for many of the prompts. Now my 5.5 kernel boots, but > there are a number of messages of the form: > source_rc_confs: not found > $ipnat_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5) > $ipfs_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5)

Backing up SOHO server

All, I have freebsd 6.1 installed running Samba authenticating my home users and pc's and home shares for each user. This also serves as a web development box for my internal network. Because there is a login script that runs to map drives on the remote pc's all users are accustomed to dumping

YAVSQ (yet another vmware server question)

well its been discuessed many times that vmware server will likely not work in freebsd any time soon. what about just the management console (linux client)? im considering migrating my dual xeon 2.66/3GB of ram box from windowsXP/VS 2005 to suse/vmware server, and having access to the console

mixer strangeness?

Hi. I have a (crappy) old Soundblaster Live PCI card in this machine, using the snd_emu10k driver. I'm trying to work out whether this is the fault of the driver or some strange userland mixer settings. Essentially mixer shows: Mixer vol is currently set to 0:0 Mixer pcm is currentl

Re: Flash player 9 Beta is Live

On Sun, Oct 22, 2006, at 09:46:45 -0400, Derrick Edwards wrote: > I am not able to get this to work. I downloaded, unpacked, changed > the permissions of the flash player and executed it. All I get is > the adobe flashplayer dialog box. I tried to input an URL in the > dialog box and it does not

Re: Flash player 9 Beta is Live

On 10/19/06, Dimiter Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/beta_is_live.html I have downloaded the stand alone player and it works out of the box. Anyone having expirience with the browser plugin ? i download the plugin and put in ~/.mozilla/plugins. it

Re: Backing up SOHO server

Hmm, not familiar with "dump" or "restore", but what I would suggest, is when you can get some down time, boot from a live cd, and using a dd/bzip2/split combo (or any other method of your choice), make a backup image of the drive as well, If you get a new drive with the same size/etc, it'll massi

Re: mixer strangeness?

Sorry, let me try that one again. I've just re-read it and it's totally incoherent. I believe it can be reduced to: How do I set the volume of my Creative Soundblaster Live card using mixer(8)? The output of mixer shows all zeroes and yet I'm still getting a full signal: Mixer vol is curre

IBM DB2 on FreeBSD 6.1

Hi, I want to use FreeBSD on Server Production My goal is to use IBM DB2 database server (C-Express is give in tgz, with a java installer ... so) Does any one can report a success on this product under freebsd ? It's as fast as on linux box ? __

Re: IBM DB2 on FreeBSD 6.1

> Hi, > >I want to use FreeBSD on Server Production > >My goal is to use IBM DB2 database server (C-Express is give in tgz, with a java installer ... so) > >Does any one can report a success on this product under freebsd ? > >It's as fast as on linux box ? DB2 on Linux makes extensive use of Linux

Re: IBM DB2 on FreeBSD 6.1

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:01:20 -0400 "Matt Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > >I want to use FreeBSD on Server Production > > > >My goal is to use IBM DB2 database server (C-Express is give in tgz, > >with a > java installer ... so) > > > >Does any one can report a success on this pr

Re: PCI Wireless Card?

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:48:17 -0400 "E. J. Cerejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking to buy a PCI Wireless Card for my computer, I'm running FBSD 6.1 > release, from what I understand there are only two drivers ath and wi what about ralink ? man 4 ral i'm sure there are other wireless driv

PCI Wireless Card?

Hello, I'm looking to buy a PCI Wireless Card for my computer, I'm running FBSD 6.1 release, from what I understand there are only two drivers ath and wi. The list is very limited on the man page for ath. I'm looking to spend up to $30.00 on this card. Are there any other choices than those

Re: Backing up SOHO server

Just plan to do complete dumps with the script below once a week which is good for me due to the fact of how the box is used. If a total drive crash happens I will just reinstall from cd then use restore to recover the dump. I am backing up to a usb drive connected to the server. I have printe

Re: Backing up SOHO server

Hmm, not familiar with "dump" or "restore", but what I would suggest, i am. very good tools, maybe except restore slowly processes directory listings when >10 millions file are in backup. but restores fine anyway :) dump is always fast, -L is very useful things, but manual mksnap+dump may be

Re: Postfix + clamav-milter

On 10/22/06, NetOpsCenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: clamsmtp sounds like what I need. What do you use for a spam rejector? I have this same issue as Gerard that I want to resolv on a new mail server. "Keep it simple and as spam free as virus free as possible." i like the keep-it-simple ap

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

Matthew Pope wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] for temp file for many of the prompts. Now my 5.5 kernel boots, but there are a number of messages of the form: source_rc_confs: not found $ipnat_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5) $ipfs_enabl

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] for temp file for many of the prompts. Now my 5.5 kernel boots, but there are a number of messages of the form: source_rc_confs: not found $ipnat_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5) $ipfs_enable is not set properl

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: mr mapserver maintainer..]

hey folks, im trying to install this from ports on a 4.11 box and get the dreaded message about configure: error: !!! You PHP was compiled with PHP's bundled regex library. !!! !!! In this case MapServer and PHP MapScript must also be compiled !!! !!! using the same copy of re

Re: Postfix + clamav-milter

On 10/22/06, Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday October 21, 2006 at 08:17:51 (PM) Bill Campbell wrote: Yes actually. Reading the Postfix forum, it seems that people are having problems with it everyday. I just want to keep it as simple as possible, Amavisd requires mucking

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

Matthew Pope wrote: Matthew Pope wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] for temp file for many of the prompts. Now my 5.5 kernel boots, but there are a number of messages of the form: source_rc_confs: not found $ipnat_enable is not set properly - see

pkg_add/delete questions

Hi, I have several questions: 1. If I install a particular package, its dependencies will be installed as well. Now if I remove it later using pkg_delete, only that package will be removed and not the dependencies. The reason I guess is because some other packages may be dependent on those depen

Re: pkg_add/delete questions

On Sunday 22 October 2006 20:52, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Hi, > > I have several questions: > > 1. If I install a particular package, its dependencies will be > installed as well. Now if I remove it later using pkg_delete, only > that package will be removed and not the dependencies. The reason

Re: Backing up SOHO server

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:44:13 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > incremental dumps are most important to me, nothing else really works that > way, while gtar is said to ;) Other alternatives: - use Bacula for a full fledged backup solution, - taking the image of the drives

Re: non-ATA66 cable?

At 9:15 PM -0500 10/21/06, David Kelly wrote: Dell PowerEdge 400SC, 6.2-PRERELEASE (altho this is an old issue) dmesg says: acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable acd0: DVDR at ata1-master UDMA33 cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers The controller is properly probed as,

Re: non-ATA66 cable?

Assuming you have the right cable, make sure you have it connected correctly. I had a problem like this once, and it turned out that I had put the cable on backwards. I had connected the end of the cable meant for the motherboard to the device (a disk, iirc), and visa-versa. I switched the cabl

Re: traffic analysis tools

Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey people, I'd like something to look at traffic use through my gateway, so I know how much of my upload bandwidth and download bandwidth is in use at any time. Ideally it'll tell me from where, so I can look at internal abusers, or get an idea of where hits are coming

general VM / KMEM tunables question

Trying to tune a new system (FreeBSD 6.1) for the best performance (moderately busy webserver, but nothing over the top). However, I'm having a lot of trouble finding documentation on VM sysctl tunables. I have run into the (somewhat common) issue before of running out of PV_Entries due to Apac

Re : IBM DB2 on FreeBSD 6.1

Oh ok I will send my request to emulation mailing list I hope one day db2 will make a freebsd version ... so it could be excellent I'm really interest of doing it work well on freebsd but with no bug, or nothing due to a mistake in emulation ... And by the way it's an emulation, I'm feared that

Re: Re : IBM DB2 on FreeBSD 6.1

[ top-posting sucks, content reordered logically ] On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:01:22 + (GMT) GeistTeufel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Message d'origine > De : Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > À : Matt Emmerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc : GeistTeufel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; free

Updating OpenSSL in FreeBSD 4.11

Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 and I updated OpenSSL from the source (using ./config --prefix=/usr --openssldir=/usr/include/openssl -- not sure if these paths are correct) and then updated Apache and PHP, which brought me errors. I had to recompile both removing the --use-ssl directives. It als

Re: pfspamd greylisting stuttering at everything

> I'm set up just like the man page, but every incoming connection is > being stuttered at. This plays havoc with incoming legit mail, of > course, and I've been forced to fall back on older antispam tools. Are you sure you are actually seeing stuttering, not just the greylisting database getting

Re: log rotation, one process doesn't know about it

Hello, On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Do one of the following: 1) Configure both exim and dovecot to log through syslog with the same facility. Then configure syslogd to put that facility in the file you want. What I had to do to make it work was to remove log_path = /var/l