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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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 >

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

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

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

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

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: 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: 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: 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

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/ >

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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: 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: 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

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 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

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: 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 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: 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 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- >

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

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

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

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 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 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 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
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: 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 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 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

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: 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 = \

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

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

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

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

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 "

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 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