Building kernel outside of /usr/src (with an unprivileged user)

Hello, while trying to build a patched CURRENT src on a STABLE FreeBSD 9 I was wondering if it would be possible to have the source directory (src) in a different place from /usr (e.g. in /home/myuser/src) where it can be built with an unprivileged user and without interference with the STABLE

Filesystem dump incremental?

Hello, currently I am experiencing something confusing. Some hours ago I did a level 0 dump with the following command: dump -a -0 -f /mnt/da0/backup-compaq.0.dump / This results in a quite big dump file. After changing a couple of files, I tried to do another dump. This time as level 1.

Re: Filesystem dump incremental?

Thanks Mike and Matthew, the -u switch was what I missed. It now works fine. Regards, Matthias On 17.05.2012 13:52, Mike Clarke wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2012, Matthias Petermann wrote: dump -a -1 -f /mnt/da0/backup-compaq.1.dump / Try a new full backup with dump -0aLuf /mnt/da0

Re: libreoffice package and port troubles

Hi, a couple of days ago I had the same issue. Install via pkg_add -r did result in the same error you reported. But building LIbreOffice from the ports worked well. The pkg_add issue only appeared on i386 system for me, it worked on amd64 so I guess the i386 packages are corrupt

Jailed slapd process not visible with ps within a jail

il, it doesn't show me the slapd process but doing the same in the Host system, I can see it. [matthias@netti2 /usr/home/matthias]$ ps ax|grep slap 6255 ?? IsJ0:00,06 /usr/local/libexec/slapd -h ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fop What I am doing wrong? Did I miss some

Re: Jailed slapd process not visible with ps within a jail

-p switch does apply a filter by process id, I guess the process should have been visible also without? Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

How to achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?

base system which I would prefer. Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-uns

Jailed process listening to broadcast address of host system - possible?

08:00:27:b3:64:f2 inet 192.168.2.127 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT ) status: active lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 options=63 pflog0: flags=141 metric 0 mtu 33152 -- Matthias Pete

Re: backups using rsync

e in the last year? (I guess my experience is from the time around 9.0 release). Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, sen

Re: Jailed process listening to broadcast address of host system - possible?

. More details I can provide tonight. Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-uns

Managing conflicts between ports (same package with multiple maintained versions)

Hello, I am the maintainer of most of the Tryton ports. Tryton is a python based application framework where you can easily build your own business modules on top. It also provides some default modules for common uses. Currently Tryton 2.4 series is in the ports. From upstream the successor

Re: Managing conflicts between ports (same package with multiple maintained versions)

Thanks Matthew, your recommendation works for me. As I expect from time to time also an older version getting EOL'd, the amount of versions to look ahead can be estimated quite well. Kind regards, Matthias On 04/21/13 17:57, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 21/04/2013 10:24, Matthias Pete

Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

Hello, I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop. Beside other issues[1] there is a strange behavior of Gnome-Desktop (and GDM too). When I press "Fn" without any additional key, the device immediately goes to sleep. As the X121e cannot resume properly from sleep, th

Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

Hello, I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop. Beside other issues[1] there is a strange behavior of Gnome-Desktop (and GDM too). When I press "Fn" without any additional key, the device immediately goes to sleep. As the X121e cannot resume properly from sleep, th

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

esume will also work on the newer Lenovo models (I would be curious if the wakeup problem is Intel/KMS only or if also the NVidia models e.g. T430 NVS are affected). Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

Hi, Am 16.08.2013 13:58, schrieb Polytropon: I have tested a Lenovo R61i running Xfce, and I don't experience the strange behaviour desribed. However, using the "xev" event tester, the keycode for the Fn key is being displayed as 227, and the KeyPress event is held (!) until the key is release

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

't happen. .. and bah, I wish the resume worked for you. It works fine for me on T42i, T60, T400. -adrian On 15 August 2013 23:32, Matthias Petermann <mailto:matth...@d2ux.org>> wrote: Hello, I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop. Besi

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

Am 17.08.2013 03:22, schrieb Polytropon: On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:07:25 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: What keyboard / laptop has the key code '150' map to 'go to sleep' ? My Sun Type 7 USB keyboard has the "Copy" key at code 150... :-) In my case it is a Lenovo X121e. Regards, Matthias _

Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

gards, Matthias Zitat von Adrian Chadd : Right, but this sounds like some bug to send upstream. Or at least patch in our port(s) for this stuff. What keyboard / laptop has the key code '150' map to 'go to sleep' ? -adiran On 16 August 2013 17:09, Matthias Petermann wrote:

Re: Since SquirrelMail Looks Like It Will Never Be Supported Again...

Hi Tim, Am 30.08.2013 23:20, schrieb Tim Daneliuk: SquirrelMail seems to be forever on hold because of an incompatibility with PHP 5. So I am going to have to replace it as our Webmail interface. So, I'm looking for recommendation from the tribe here on what I should use instead: 1) Easy to u

Re: Intel graphics card brightness control issue

uery-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/181357 [2] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html -- Matthias Petermann Ihr Partner für anspruchsvolle IT-Lösungen www.petermann-it.de - lösungsorientiert, innovativ und erfolgreich ___ freebsd-que

Joystick for FreeBSD/Flightgear

han others. Can anyone give a recommendation what to buy to be confident it works? Kind regards, Matthias [1] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=18454 -- Matthias Petermann Ihr Partner für anspruchsvolle IT-Lösungen www.petermann-it.de - lösungsorientiert, innovativ und e

bsdinstall to jail aborted (9.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64)

-p3 which appears different on amd64 and i386 systems? It would be great if anyone could validate this. Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: bsdinstall to jail aborted (9.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64)

efault (using uname -r which makes sense for the installation media). Should I file a PR or did you already? Thanks, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: bsdinstall to jail aborted (9.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64)

.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=170264 Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Introducing new ports - best practises

, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Scalable Opengroupware (SOGo) in FreeBSD ports tree

Hello, I am thinking about creating a port for SOGo[1]. Is there already someone working on it? Kind regards, Matthias [1] http://www.sogo.nu/english.html -- Matthias Petermann ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

upcoming releases? Are there any? Thanks & kind regards Matthias -- Matthias Petermann ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

n. Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to upgrade from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

limit updates to stay in a main release (9.0, 9.0-p1, 9.0-p., 9.0-p12) but don't upgrade to 9.1. Kind regards, Matthias Am Freitag, 16. November 2012 00:25 CET, Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> schrieb: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:53 +0100 Mat

"last" not showing recent login activity

Hello, on one of my systems I just found out that "last" only shows some old login / logout activity, but not the recent actvities. The strange thing... everytime I log into the system, /var/log/utx.log gets update to the current timestamp (and also grows by some bytes). But "last" only s

Re: "last" not showing recent login activity

Hi Matthew, Zitat von Matthew Seaman : Errr... OK. Yours is a different issue with utx.log. It is not syslog that updates utx.log but the various programs like login(1) or sshd(8) that actually handle the authentication when you try and log in. Most applications achieve that via the pam_last

How to handle parallel versions of maintained port?

Hello, Tryton is a three tier business application framework, consisting of a common server component (finance/trytond), a client (finance/tryton) and a large number of modules (finance/trytond_*) which add support for specific business cases to it. At the time it was introduced to the po