Re: why does /etc/namedb link to /var?

2012-08-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Gary Aitken wrote on Wed 22.Aug'12 at 23:39:16 -0600 ] > Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to > /var/named/etc/namedb? > > It seems to me this is general configuration stuff which should be in > /etc/namedb on the root partition, not on /var. I thought /var was used for

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
> So this statement in the WikiP is false? > systemd is Linux-only by design, as it relies upon features such as > cgroups and fanotify.[6] Debian is avoiding the adoption of systemd due > to this issue.[7] > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. I read an a

[OT:] tools/methods for automated cross-platform packaging?

2012-08-23 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
Currently, I am looking into the problem of providing software packages for different platforms via native packages in a Continuous Integration Environment. The software in question is pure Java, so binary compatibility and/or cross-compilation issue resolves to having a conforming JRE installed on

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-23 Thread Andy Wodfer
Can't seem to figure out the problem with MAXPATHLEN. locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029 In my /etc/locate.rc I have pruned several directories (even the most obvious) - still the locate DB exeeds well over 1GB before outputting this error message. I have moved the tmp dir for loc

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-23 Thread Andy Wodfer
Btw, is /etc/locate.rc being read at all? /Andy On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Andy Wodfer wrote: > Can't seem to figure out the problem with MAXPATHLEN. > > > locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029 > > > In my /etc/locate.rc I have pruned several directories (even the most > obvio

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-23 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:24:47 -0700 Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW > wrote: > > > tmpfs and "swap" md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen > > any advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp. > > Then you don't understand. ;-) The advantage

Re: EXIF inspector

2012-08-23 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-08-23 08:00, Gary Aitken skrev: For the photo folks -- What do you use for inspecting EXIF data? I've tried exif exiftags exifprobe and none of them show the full compliment of tags present on my oly pen-ep3. In particular, they omit most of the vendor specific stuff, and they seem

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
antonin tessier writes: > I have a problem when I try to build my own kernel. I had never got such a > one; here is my kernel configuration file and the building errors that it > makes. You left out some devices that are required by other devices in your configuration. for a start, it looks li

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Lowell Gilbert wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 9:23:14 -0400 ] > antonin tessier writes: > > > I have a problem when I try to build my own kernel. I had never got such a > > one; here is my kernel configuration file and the building errors that it > > makes. > Or just stay with GENERIC; most co

Re: EXIF inspector

2012-08-23 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: For the photo folks -- What do you use for inspecting EXIF data? I've tried exif exiftags exifprobe and none of them show the full compliment of tags present on my oly pen-ep3. In particular, they omit most of the vendor specific stuff, and they seem t

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jamie Paul Griffin writes: > [ Lowell Gilbert wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 9:23:14 -0400 ] > >> antonin tessier writes: >> >> > I have a problem when I try to build my own kernel. I had never >> > got such a one; here is my kernel configuration file and the >> > building errors that it makes. >

Re: EXIF inspector

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:08 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > For the photo folks -- > > What do you use for inspecting EXIF data? > I've tried > exif > exiftags > exifprobe > and none of them show the full compliment of tags present on my oly pen-ep3. > In particular, they omit most of the vend

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:54:08 -0400, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:04:02AM +0200, Andy Wodfer wrote: > > Can't seem to figure out the problem with MAXPATHLEN. > > > > locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029 > > > > > > In my /etc/locate.rc I have pruned several dir

implications of adding root to a group

2012-08-23 Thread Krims G
Hello, I've been looking at the /etc/group and have noticed that some groups have root included in them, for example "operator". Is it not implied that root has access to all things and groups? What is the purpose of adding root to a group? If I add root to some new arbitrary group, what does it re

Re: implications of adding root to a group

2012-08-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:51:10 -0700 Krims G wrote: > Hello, I've been looking at the /etc/group and have noticed that some > groups have root included in them, for example "operator". Is it not > implied that root has access to all things and groups? What is the purpose > of adding root to a group

freebsd-update question.

2012-08-23 Thread doug
I wanted to see if I could get an 8.1 system updated to 9.0 (mostly) with freebsd-update. I did this with a source update to RELENG_8_3 and then did the standard stuff to get to 9.0 perl and xdm both gave errors that libutil.so.9 was missing. scanning google and questions suggested this module

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Lowell Gilbert wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 10:28:47 -0400 ] > Jamie Paul Griffin writes: > > > [ Lowell Gilbert wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 9:23:14 -0400 ] > > > >> antonin tessier writes: > >> > >> > I have a problem when I try to build my own kernel. I had never > >> > got such a one; here is

/tmp filesystem full

2012-08-23 Thread J B
Andy Wodfer wodfer at gmail.com Thu Aug 23 09:04:08 UTC 2012 > Can't seem to figure out the problem with MAXPATHLEN. > locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029 Your database may be corrupted. I would suggest you delete it and recreate. jb ___ fr

Re: firefox & png

2012-08-23 Thread david coder
+++ Jamie Paul Griffin [23/08/12 07:54 +0100]: [ Polytropon wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 2:00:15 +0200 ] On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:43:55 -0400, david coder wrote: > thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. > > unfortunately, though i've got the png port installed w/ > > OPTIONS=

Re: freebsd-update question.

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:36:51 -0400 (EDT), d...@safeport.com wrote: > I wanted to see if I could get an 8.1 system updated to 9.0 (mostly) with > freebsd-update. I did this with a source update to RELENG_8_3 and then did > the > standard stuff to get to 9.0 > > perl and xdm both gave errors that

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:23:59 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > [ Lowell Gilbert wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 10:28:47 -0400 ] > > > Jamie Paul Griffin writes: > > > > > [ Lowell Gilbert wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 9:23:14 -0400 ] > > > > > >> antonin tessier writes: > > >> > > >> > I have a probl

port configuration data [was re: firefox & png]

2012-08-23 Thread david coder
+++ david coder [23/08/12 12:26 -0400]: +++ Jamie Paul Griffin [23/08/12 07:54 +0100]: [ Polytropon wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 2:00:15 +0200 ] On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:43:55 -0400, david coder wrote: > thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. > > unfortunately, though i've got the png

Re: firefox & png

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:26:18 -0400, david coder wrote: > +++ Jamie Paul Griffin [23/08/12 07:54 +0100]: > >[ Polytropon wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 2:00:15 +0200 ] > > > >> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:43:55 -0400, david coder wrote: > >> > thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. > >> > > >>

Re: EXIF inspector

2012-08-23 Thread Gary Aitken
several responses combined to save bandwidth... On 08/23/12 08:38, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:08 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >> For the photo folks -- >> >> What do you use for inspecting EXIF data? >> I've tried >>exif >>exiftags >>exifprobe >> and none of them show t

Re: port configuration data [was re: firefox & png]

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:41:41 -0400, david coder wrote: > it's happened already: in another post here, polytropon gives a more central > role to /var/db/ports/png/options. if i understand him correctly, "make > showconfig" executed in /usr/ports/graphics/png reads from that file. > changes made th

Re: port configuration data [was re: firefox & png]

2012-08-23 Thread david coder
+++ Polytropon [23/08/12 19:17 +0200]: On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:41:41 -0400, david coder wrote: it's happened already: in another post here, polytropon gives a more central role to /var/db/ports/png/options. if i understand him correctly, "make showconfig" executed in /usr/ports/graphics/png rea

Re: freebsd-update question.

2012-08-23 Thread doug
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:36:51 -0400 (EDT), d...@safeport.com wrote: I wanted to see if I could get an 8.1 system updated to 9.0 (mostly) with freebsd-update. I did this with a source update to RELENG_8_3 and then did the standard stuff to get to 9.0 perl a

Re: "Twitter.com is loading slowly" after updating to Firefox 13.0.1

2012-08-23 Thread lokada...@gmx.de
On 08/21/12 22:48, Toomas Aas wrote: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 kirjutas Lars Eighner : On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! I'm having this problem on two different computers, one running 8.3-STABLE and the other running 9.0-STABLE. After updating Firefox from 12.0 to 13.0.1, whenever I ac

Re: freebsd-update question.

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:49:18 -0400 (EDT), d...@safeport.com wrote: > After seeing if xorg and twm would just work, I did remove all packages with > pkg_delete. That did not clear out all of /usr/local. You can do a manual cleanup of /usr/local, entirely removing it and then reconstructing its str

py-sqlalchemy install fails

2012-08-23 Thread Len Conrad
fbsd 9.0 py 2.7.3 cd /usr/ports/databases/py-sqlalchemy make ends with: creating build/bdist.freebsd-9.0-RELEASE-i386/egg/EGG-INFO copying lib/SQLAlchemy.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> build/bdist.freebsd-9.0-RELEASE-i386/egg/EGG-INFO copying lib/SQLAlchemy.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> build/bdist.freebsd-

Re: implications of adding root to a group

2012-08-23 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 23 Aug 2012, at 17:26, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:51:10 -0700 > Krims G wrote: > >> Hello, I've been looking at the /etc/group and have noticed that some >> groups have root included in them, for example "operator". Is it not >> implied that root has access to all th

Re: implications of adding root to a group

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:07:04 +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > On 23 Aug 2012, at 17:26, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:51:10 -0700 > > Krims G wrote: > > > >> Hello, I've been looking at the /etc/group and have noticed that some > >> groups have root included in them,

small script help

2012-08-23 Thread Jack Stone
Running freebsd-7.0 I use a small script in a jail to check if Apache is running and if not, restart it. #!/bin/sh #if ps -ax | grep -v grep | grep -i httpd #then #echo "Apache is alive.." #else #echo "Apache is dead, but will be launched." #/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start Howe

Re: small script help

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Reppin
On 24.08.2012 00:57, Jack Stone wrote: [...] How can I modify my script to see only the host based on the bottom line above? pgrep(1) has an option (-j jid) to either include jails by given id or to exclude them (-j none). HTH, Frank Reppin -- 43rd Law of Computing: Anything that can g

Re: small script help

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Reppin
On 24.08.2012 02:14, Jack Stone wrote: Thanks, I tried that but pgrep only displayed the PIDs. I guess I wasn't using proper switches. Yes - and this should be enough. If pgrep returns PIDs - then this is the same as 'true' in your 'if' condition - if it returns nothing, the 'else' part is execu

Re: small script help

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Reppin
There's an errorneous extra ^ in line 6 - please remove this character. Fixed version should look like: #!/bin/sh PROCESS_PATTERN="^/usr/local/sbin/saslauthd" PGREP="/bin/pgrep" if ${PGREP} -q -j none -f ${PROCESS_PATTERN}; then echo -e "OK" else echo -e "FAIL" fi frank\ -- 43rd Law of C

harware compatibility queustion

2012-08-23 Thread Robert Bonomi
I need to add "more than two' internal SATA _ports_ to a box that will be running FreeBSD 9. When I look at inexpensive SATA controllers, they all seem to be using chipsets thar are _not_ explicitly mentioned in the 'supported hardware' list. Can anyone say, authoritatively, that, say, a 'SiL

sending fax from commandline/or via appliance

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Reppin
Hi all, is someone aware of a solution which can do the following: 1) given a freebsd host which hosts an application xxABxx 2) this application xxABxx sends an ordinary email with a .ps attachment to another host by mailing it to 3) this attachment is then fax'ed to the recipient phone n

Re: harware compatibility queustion

2012-08-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 23), Robert Bonomi said: > I need to add "more than two' internal SATA _ports_ to a box that will be > running FreeBSD 9. > > When I look at inexpensive SATA controllers, they all seem to be using > chipsets thar are _not_ explicitly mentioned in the 'supported hardware' >

Re: implications of adding root to a group

2012-08-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:07:04 +0200 Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > On 23 Aug 2012, at 17:26, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:51:10 -0700 > > Krims G wrote: > > > >> Hello, I've been looking at the /etc/group and have noticed that some > >> groups have root included in them,

Re: sending fax from commandline/or via appliance

2012-08-23 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 24, 2012 a las 05:01:34AM +0200, Frank Reppin escribió: > Hi all, > > is someone aware of a solution which can do > the following: > > 1) given a freebsd host which hosts an application xxABxx > 2) this application xxABxx sends an ordinary email with a .ps > attachment

Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-23 Thread Lars Eighner
Does 9.0 honor TERM settings? It appears to me it does not. Although I set TERM=cons25l1 in .profile (running bash) and have verified that it is set to that value with SET, it appears to me that the function keys are mapped to weird xterm-like strings instead of their ANSI values (example: F7 =