Re: Common Desktop Environment broken when compiling from ports tree on FreeBSD 12 RC3 (May also apply to the final build)

2018-12-17 Thread Chris Rees
Hi people, (and thanks Alan for copying me in) On 2018-12-17 01:42, Mark Linimon wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 04:35:32PM -0500, Alex McKeever wrote: I ran into problems compiling the CDE in FreeBSD 12.0 RC3 (PowerPC) on my eMac. I don't know of anyone else who has tried to run it. The serv

Re: pkg issue after FreeBSD 11 upgrade

2017-08-30 Thread Chris Rees
Cassiano Peixoto wrote: Ok I know about HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS, it's a good approach. But how to deal with when I need to restart a service without upgrading? Reaper functionnality is a trouble for many administrators who made meta ports to manage their servers. I really think it could be a option to

Re: named fails two weeks ago unexpectedly

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Rees
On 27 January 2013 20:25, wrote: > Hi > > I was used FreeBSD 9.1 Release since December 2012, I usually use > "portsnap fetch && update" and "portmaster-a" to keep my system updated. > Two weeks ago unexpectedly "named" not worked. this is my case: > > "Problem: > root@server:/etc # /etc/rc.d/nam

Re: wireless mouse on 9.1

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 Apr 2013 17:19, "Zoran Kolic" wrote: > > I had usb switch to share keyboard and mouse for two nodes, of > which freebsd worked flawlessly, but openbsd disconnected quite > often and made a lot of antics in X. After all, I dismembered > the configuration and now I have 2 kb-s and 2 mice. A lo

Re: Ghosted logins in w/who

2013-04-11 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 April 2013 15:59, wrote: > Got it. I'll double check to make sure everything was recompiled > correctly. Thanks! > Damon While you're at it, I'll echo Ronald's concern-- make sure /usr/include/utmp.h does NOT exist for you. If it does, you must run make delete-old in /usr/src. Chris > O

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Rees
On 17 Mar 2013 12:07, "Daniel O'Connor" wrote: > > Hi, > I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). > > I found that I needed to add the following.. > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "Fal

Re: lang/ruby19: ruby-1.9.3.392,1 is vulnerable: ** [check-vulnerable] Error code 1

2013-03-09 Thread Chris Rees
On 9 March 2013 09:37, Hartmann, O. wrote: > I try to compile port lang/ruby19 and I always get on a FreeBSD > 9.1-STABLE box the following error message, which is obviously triggered > by some port auditing - but I do not find the "knob" to switch it off. > > Can someone give a hint, please? I g

Re: rc.d/sysctl fails to parse sysctl.conf

2013-02-27 Thread Chris Rees
On 27 February 2013 21:19, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to get my sound working, and long story short: rc.d/sysctl parses > sysctl.conf wrongly if there are sysctls of the form > > mib=val1=val2 > > which is what you need for sound. For reference I needed/wanted > > dev.hdaa.4.nid25

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 Feb 2013 02:23, "Greg Miller" wrote: > > On 2/20/13, Matthias Andree wrote: > > What is your point, besides getting software from the museum to build > > stuff from the relative future? > > I can't speak for the OP, but I tried it because clang, gcc46, and > gcc47 wouldn't produce a working

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Rees
Somehow attribution has been screwed here-- I will perhaps blame the appalling Android Gmail app that I used to reply to an earlier message. On 19 February 2013 18:54, Mikhail T. wrote: > These were, indeed, complaints, but not about the port "not working after I > broke it". My complaint is th

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Rees
On 19 Feb 2013 14:23, "Mikhail T." wrote: > > 18.02.2013 15:26, Chris Rees написав(ла): >> >> I'm sure you understand that our compiler in base is rather elderly, >> and that a project as insanely huge as Libreoffice is going to be >> highly sensitive

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-18 Thread Chris Rees
On 14 February 2013 13:57, Mikhail T. wrote: > Hello! > > I just finished building editors/libreoffice with gcc-4.2.1 -- had to > edit the port's Makefile to prevent it from picking a different > compiler. Everything built and installed, but libreoffice dies on > start-up (right after flashing the

Re: some issues with /usr/sbin/service

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Rees
On 16 February 2013 18:08, Gary Palmer wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 05:38:56PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote: >> On 16 February 2013 17:05, Paul Mather wrote: >> > On Feb 16, 2013, at 4:21 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> > >> >> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at

Re: some issues with /usr/sbin/service

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Rees
On 16 February 2013 17:05, Paul Mather wrote: > On Feb 16, 2013, at 4:21 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:23:33PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: >>> 16.02.2013 01:32, Jeremy Chadwick ??: >>> Follow up -- I read Alfred's most recent mail. Lo and behold, I find

Re: some issues with /usr/sbin/service

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Rees
On 16 Feb 2013 09:21, "Jeremy Chadwick" wrote: > I do not know who maintains the rc(8) and rc.subr(8) framework, but > they've got their work cut out for them. That's an interesting comment Care to guess at the obvious answer? :) No-one actively maintains the infrastructure, though there are

Re: setfacl man page states "d=delete_child" and "D=delete"

2013-02-08 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 February 2013 20:42, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: > Wiadomość napisana przez Eitan Adler w dniu 8 lut 2013, o godz. 20:05: >> On 8 February 2013 13:46, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: >>> Wiadomość napisana przez Harald Schmalzbauer w dniu 8 lut 2013, o godz. >>> 16:08: Hello, >>

Re: CLANG 3.2 breaks security/pam_ssh_agent_auth on stable/9

2013-02-03 Thread Chris Rees
On 3 February 2013 17:15, Stefan Bethke wrote: > > Am 03.02.2013 um 10:57 schrieb Chris Rees : > >> On 3 February 2013 03:55, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >>> >>> There is no PR yet with my fix and therefor no commit to ports tree >>> that would fix the pr

Re: CLANG 3.2 breaks security/pam_ssh_agent_auth on stable/9

2013-02-03 Thread Chris Rees
On 3 February 2013 03:55, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Mark Linimon wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 11:53:03AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: >>> I'm not sure why I'm being jumped on in this weeks old report of a >>> now-fixed problem. >> >> I'm sorry, I'm that far behind

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 Jan 2013 18:28, "Dimitry Andric" wrote: > > On 2013-01-25 16:41, Chris Rees wrote: > ... > >> I've just created devel/subversion-static that will be available by pkg_add >> once the package builds are back. > > > Thanks, but the port does not

Re: Spontaneous reboots on Intel i5 and FreeBSD 9.0

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 Jan 2013 10:27, "Marin Atanasov Nikolov" wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Bob Bishop wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On 25 Jan 2013, at 09:29, Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: > > > > > Hello again :) > > > > > > Here's my update on these spontaneous reboots after less than a week > > sin

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 Jan 2013 13:39, "Ian Smith" wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:57:17 -0800, 'Jeremy Chadwick' wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 06:34:33PM +1100, Dewayne wrote: > > > The objective is to return to a base build of FreeBSD that performs > > > the expected task of being able to pull source

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 Jan 2013 21:55, "Jeremy Chadwick" wrote: > > (Please keep me CC'd as I'm not subscribed to the list) > > > Great idea; > > > > http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/svn-static.diff > > > > Lev, do you mind if I commit this? I haven't touched the subversion > > port, but it'll have you as m

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Rees
On 24 Jan 2013 14:33, "John Mehr" wrote: >> >> For testing against svn.freebsd.org -- this is pull only? So you only >> need read permissions on svn.freebsd.org? That's fine: the SVN >> repository is open to public access and you can just use it without >> asking permission. Although I'd use one

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 Jan 2013 21:45, "Lev Serebryakov" wrote: > > Hello, Chris. > You wrote 24 января 2013 г., 1:25:44: > > CR> Great idea; > CR> http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/svn-static.diff > I think, adding SERF or NEON (what is smaller) is good idea, or this > build will lack http support, and it c

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 January 2013 19:17, Emanuel Haupt wrote: > devel/subversion already has an option to build a static version. A > solution could be to create a stub port (devel/subversion-static) > similar to: > > shells/bash-devel > shells/bash-static-devel > > dns/ldns > dns/py-ldns Great idea; http://ww

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 January 2013 20:41, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote: > On Jan 23, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Emanuel Haupt wrote: >> Oliver Brandmueller wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> in ancient times there was cvsup. cvsup was a PITA if you wanted (or >>> needed) to install it via ports, the only reasonable way was to use >>> pkg

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 Jan 2013 15:37, "Oliver Brandmueller" wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 04:12:22PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > > This type of question has been asked quite a few times recently. At this > > point there is no svn version of csup, however there were people working > > on it (or at least: the

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Rees
On 4 Jan 2013 09:25, "Erich Dollansky" wrote: > > Hi, > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:38:05 +0100 > "Patrick M. Hausen" wrote: > > > Am 03.01.2013 um 19:21 schrieb Matthew Seaman > > : > > > On 03/01/2013 17:48, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > >> I'm a bit reluctant to installing svn on every system that

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-02 Thread Chris Rees
On 2 January 2013 16:05, Derek Kulinski wrote: > Eitan Adler wrote: > >>On 2 January 2013 06:26, Chris Rees wrote: >>> To clarify, no-one wants to remove CVS completely, the suggestion was >>to >>> move it out of the base system. >> >>As the

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-02 Thread Chris Rees
On 2 Jan 2013 11:08, "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > > > There has been some discussion about removing CVS from the base system > > now it is no longer used. No concensus was reached, so it's not going > > away immediately (and would not be removed from 9.x or earlier branches > > in any case). > > > C

Re: Post 9.1 stable file system problems

2012-12-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 1 Jan 2013 00:01, "Dominic Fandrey" wrote: > > I have a Tinderbox that I just updated to the current RELENG_9. > Following the update build times for packages have increased by a > factor between 5 and 20. I.e. I have packages that used to build in > 5 minutes and now take an hour. > > I'm susp

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 31 Dec 2012 20:40, "Chris H" wrote: > > Greetings Chris, and thank you for your reply. > > On 31 Dec 2012 19:52, "Chris H" wrote: > >> > >> Greetings, > >> The following is hijacked from another thread, which prompts me to > >> post this question: > >> > >> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:49:06A

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 31 Dec 2012 19:52, "Chris H" wrote: > > Greetings, > The following is hijacked from another thread, which prompts me to > post this question: > > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:49:06AM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >> (Not sure if this is the right mailing list, but here goes.) > >> >

Re: What is "negative group permissions"? (Re: narawntapu security run output)

2012-12-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 December 2012 16:23, Barney Wolff wrote: [moving Barney's top post down] > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:51:24AM -0500, Mikhail T. wrote: >> On 23.12.2012 03:05, Charlie Root wrote: >> > Checking negative group permissions: >> > 8903027 -rw--w-r-- 1 miwww794277 Oct 23 07:47:45 2007

Re: 9.1 minimal ram requirements

2012-12-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 Dec 2012 06:40, "Adrian Chadd" wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Would someone please file a PR for this? This is a huge unused > allocation of memory for something that honestly likely shouldn't have > been included by default in GENERIC. > > I've cc'ed ken on a reply to this. Hopefully after the hol

Re: No more torrents.....

2012-12-19 Thread Chris Rees
On 19 Dec 2012 09:47, "Volodymyr Kostyrko" wrote: > > 19.12.2012 01:22, Peter Wemm: > >>> I would be very much be willing to assist with seeding if we make dht >>> torrent files available from my nodes located in downtown Los Angeles >>> for west-coast and APAC network presence. >>> >>> as an asid

Re: No more torrents.....

2012-12-18 Thread Chris Rees
On 18 Dec 2012 19:44, "Eitan Adler" wrote: > > On 18 December 2012 03:59, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > > > So what is the reason for this? > > The software used to seed the torrents was horribly insecure. This > was found *prior* to the security incident. What software? Chris

Re: confirm that csup is still usable fos the new 9.1

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Rees
On 26 Nov 2012 08:12, "Perry Hutchison" wrote: > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > ... don't bet that csup and cvs will be around long ... > > It's really time to get away from CVS and I suspect > > it will be going away sooner than had been planned. > > Once csup goes away, how will a base-only syste

Re: confirm that csup is still usable fos the new 9.1

2012-11-18 Thread Chris Rees
On 18 Nov 2012 09:49, "Andrea Venturoli" wrote: > > On 11/17/12 21:04, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >>> Looks like everything is back up again. >>> Thanks for the good work. >> >> >> Yes, but don't bet that csup and cvs will be around long. > > > I'm aware of this and I'm (adimttedly slowly) moving away

Re: nomenclature for conf files

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 12 Nov 2012 15:35, "Kurt Buff" wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > > > > On 12 Nov 2012 05:20, "Kurt Buff" wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Zoran Kolic wrote: > >> > It might

Re: nomenclature for conf files

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 12 Nov 2012 08:55, "Paul Schenkeveld" wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 08:29:27AM +, Chris Rees wrote: > > On 12 Nov 2012 05:20, "Kurt Buff" wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > > > It m

Re: nomenclature for conf files

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 12 Nov 2012 05:20, "Kurt Buff" wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > It might sound stupid, but I'd like to know if there's > > any difference. Are those 3 line the same? > > > > WITH_KMS=YES > > WITH_KMS="YES" > > WITH_KMS=yes > > With regard to their use in /etc/

Re: [releng_9_1 tinderbox] failure on powerpc64/powerpc

2012-11-04 Thread Chris Rees
On 4 Nov 2012 20:12, "George Mitchell" wrote: > > On 11/04/12 14:59, FreeBSD Tinderbox wrote: >> >> TB --- 2012-11-04 19:53:34 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca >> TB --- 2012-11-04 19:53:34 - FreeBSD freebsd-stable.sentex.ca 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #0: Tue Oct 16 17:37:58

Re: Tinderbox spam

2012-09-24 Thread Chris Rees
On 24 Sep 2012 12:26, "Dag-Erling Smørgrav" wrote: > > Chris Rees writes: > > Have you tried using http:// ? > > Both should work, but svn is significantly faster. Yes, that's why I tried it instead, but my point is that you may need to sleep a bit between tri

Re: Tinderbox spam

2012-09-24 Thread Chris Rees
On 24 Sep 2012 10:23, "Dag-Erling Smørgrav" wrote: > > I recently switched the machine that builds 7 and 8 from csup to svn. > Unfortunately, it seems to have trouble maintaining a stable connection > to svn.freebsd.org. I'm testing a patch that makes it retry up to three > times before giving up

Re: Clang as default compiler

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 12 Sep 2012 07:19, "Christer Solskogen" wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Mark Linimon wrote: > > > For most of the failures, we are already aware of them, as a result of > > our periodic runs. So, just filing a PR to say "broken on clang" doesn't > > really help us all that much. >

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 28/08/2012, Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > Jim Pingle writes: > >> On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: >>> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote: I found two good primers: http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.ht

Re: ports /databases/postgresql92-server beta 3

2012-08-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 August 2012 12:28, Marcelo Gondim wrote: > Em 10/08/2012 08:10, Denis Granato escreveu: > >> Good morning guys. >> >> I installed sucessfully a postgresql 9.2 beta 2 last month in >> databases/postgresql92-server >> >> But yesterday in another server ai update my ports tree and this change t

Re: lsof needs update

2012-07-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 July 2012 18:04, Daniel Braniss wrote: >> On 21 July 2012 10:36, Daniel Braniss wrote: >> > hi, lsof on freebsd 9.1: >> > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME >> > ntpd1707 root cwd unknown file >> > system type: ne

Re: lsof needs update

2012-07-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 July 2012 10:36, Daniel Braniss wrote: > hi, lsof on freebsd 9.1: > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME > ntpd1707 root cwd unknown file > system type: newnfs > ntpd1707 root rtd

Re: FreeBSD not so free anymore ? Long live FreeBSD...

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 June 2012 18:53, Etienne Robillard wrote: > On 06/15/2012 01:08 PM, Jerry wrote: >> >> Skype 4.0 for Linux is now available. Is there any possibility of >> getting it ported to FreeBSD? The latest version in ports is only >> 2.x. > > > > Why not? Thinking FreeBSD could become immune to remot

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-12 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 12, 2012 10:48 AM, "H" wrote: > > On Monday 11 June 2012 20:59 Chuck Swiger wrote: > > Hi, Dave-- > > > > On Jun 11, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Dave Hayes wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > > Do I have this wrong? Anyone see a problem with this picture? > > > What can we do to "just upgrade" in a safe fashi

Re: WAS: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? New: port annoyance LibreOffice

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 June 2012 18:10, O. Hartmann wrote: > On 06/10/12 17:43, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: >> On 06/10/12 09:54, Martin Sugioarto wrote: >>> Am Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:37:09 +0100 >>> schrieb Chris Rees: >>> >>>> Er... people always test their c

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 June 2012 11:51, O. Hartmann wrote: > On 06/10/12 12:37, Chris Rees wrote: >> On 10 June 2012 11:12, Martin Sugioarto wrote: >>> Am Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:09:09 +0700 >>> schrieb Adam Strohl : >>> >>>> I get the feeling people are upd

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 June 2012 11:12, Martin Sugioarto wrote: > Am Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:09:09 +0700 > schrieb Adam Strohl : > >> I get the feeling people are updating their ports tree and then >> recompiling/reinstalling everything "just because" and then are >> complaining when one thing breaks (its the only thi

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Rees
On 6 June 2012 14:12, Erich wrote: > Hi, > > On 06 June 2012 8:48:10 Chris Rees wrote: >> On Jun 6, 2012 3:38 AM, "Erich" wrote: >> > > >> No it doesn't. It states clearly that you shouldn't use tags unless you >> know what you are doi

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 6, 2012 3:38 AM, "Erich" wrote: > > Hi, > > On 05 June 2012 7:13:47 Mark Linimon wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 03:23:01PM +0700, Erich wrote: > > > But is this true for apache only or for the whole ports tree? > > > > Entire tree. > > my problem with this is that the documentation stat

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 5, 2012 3:07 AM, "Erich" wrote: > > Hi, > > On 05 June 2012 11:24:25 Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > > Version tagging is just a convient way to get a snapshot at a > > particular point in time unless you create branches that are them > > we do not ask for more. There should be only one differe

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-04 Thread Chris Rees
On 3 June 2012 21:55, O. Hartmann wrote: > On 06/03/12 15:29, Erich wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 03 June 2012 PM 5:14:10 Adam Strohl wrote: >>> On 6/3/2012 11:14, Erich wrote: What I really do not understand in this whole discussion is very simple. Is it just a few people who run into problem

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-04 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 4, 2012 9:50 AM, "Dave Hayes" wrote: > > Mark Linimon writes: > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 07:24:11PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: > >> I see features and pkgng and things being offered up as solutions... > >> these are all well and good, but in my opinion more comprehensive > >> documentation

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 3, 2012 5:26 AM, "Erich" wrote: > > Hi, > > On 02 June 2012 PM 2:56:01 Chris Nehren wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 14:11:06 -0400 , Paul Mather wrote: > > > I'm not sure what the solution is for the end user. I know I get > > > somewhat leery of updating my ports if I see a large numbe

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 3, 2012 4:39 AM, "Erich" wrote: > > Hi, > > On 02 June 2012 PM 4:07:23 Alexander Yerenkow wrote: > > I'll try to be short. > > I'm using FreeBSD both at servers and as a desktop, but I see > > struggling of my friends with it in some things. > > > > 1. Ports mess. You can very easily render

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Rees
On 2 June 2012 10:42, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On 02 June 2012 AM 9:14:28 Chris Rees wrote: >> On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, "Erich Dollansky" >> wrote: >> > >> > But I have to mention one disadvantage. The ports are in no way linked to >

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 2, 2012 3:19 PM, "O. Hartmann" wrote: > > On 06/02/12 14:47, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > > > > > > On 02.06.12 15:32, Erich wrote: > >> I know that the ports tree is a moving target. But it stops moving > >> during the release period. This could be used to give a fall back > >> solution. > >> >

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, "Erich Dollansky" wrote: > > Hi, > > On 30 May 2012 PM 7:20:31 David Chisnall wrote: > > > > This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. > > > > I am currently looking at u

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-01 Thread Chris Rees
On 1 June 2012 16:20, Nomen Nescio wrote: >> Dear All , >> >> There is a thread >> >> "Why Are You Using FreeBSD ?" >> >> >> I think another thread with the specified subject   '"Why Are You NOT Using >> FreeBSD ?" may be useful : >> >> >> If you are NOT using FreeBSD for any area or some areas ,

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Rees
On 30 May 2012 19:20, David Chisnall wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it to > this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. > > I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which > adverti

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

2012-02-26 Thread Chris Rees
On 26 February 2012 11:32, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 26 February 2012 18:16:53 Chris Rees wrote: >> On 24 February 2012 01:35, Erich Dollansky >> wrote: >> > >> > On Friday 24 February 2012 01:25:01 Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> >

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

2012-02-26 Thread Chris Rees
On 24 February 2012 01:35, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 24 February 2012 01:25:01 Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> >> This is NOT a troll. >> This is NOT a flame. >> Do NOT hijack this thread to troll/flame. >> > allow them some fun too. >> >> >> Now, I find the number of problem reports re

Re: libutempter

2012-01-14 Thread Chris Rees
On 14 Jan 2012 08:48, "Andre Goree" wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:58:13 -0600, Andre Goree wrote: > >> I recently csup'd 9-STABLE and was able to get it working along with my >> custom kernel. I'm now in the process of rebuilding all my ports, and I've >> come across something when running '

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

2011-12-24 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 Dec 2011 18:56, "George Kontostanos" wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Matthew Seaman > wrote: > > On 23/12/2011 18:05, George Kontostanos wrote: > >> Are all cvs mirror servers updated regarding these changes ? > >> > >> ANYBODY > > > > Should have by now. Commits usually t

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 Dec 2011 21:25, "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > > On 15 December 2011 17:58, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> Since ZFS in Linux can only be achieved via FUSE (ad far as I know), it > >> is legitimate to com

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 December 2011 17:58, O. Hartmann wrote: > Since ZFS in Linux can only be achieved via FUSE (ad far as I know), it > is legitimate to compare ZFS and ext4. It would be much more competetive > to compare Linux BTRFS and FreeBSD ZFS. > Er... does ext4 guarantee data integrity? You're not com

Re: WITHOUT_SYSINSTALL (stable-9)

2011-10-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 31 October 2011 04:03, Andrew Lankford wrote: > I was able to buildworld, buildkernel to 9.0-RC1 from 8-stable without > incident.  Yay.  However, I noticed a new sysinstall executable  in > /usr/sbin even though I included WITHOUT_SYSINSTALL="yes"  in > /etc/src.conf.  My src.conf  looks like

Re: /usr/bin/script eating 100% cpu with portupgrade and xargs

2011-10-22 Thread Chris Rees
On 14 Oct 2011 21:50, "Stefan Bethke" wrote: > > > Am 14.10.2011 um 14:03 schrieb Jilles Tjoelker: > > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:25:35PM +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 01:27:07AM +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote: > >>> I won't be in a position to create a simpler test ca

Re: bsdinstall partitioning

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Rees
On 9 October 2011 22:30, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Hi, > > I just had my first encounter with the new installer. I chose manual > partitioning, created a BSD disk (not GPT) with one swap and the rest for /. > Rest of the installation went fine but then my system didn't boot. I > repeated everything

Fwd: Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze starts soon

2011-10-08 Thread Chris Rees
Just on case anyone's not on ports@: -- Forwarded message -- From: "Chris Rees" Date: 8 Oct 2011 10:30 Subject: Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze starts soon To: "Thomas Mueller" Cc: , "Erwin Lansing" On 8 October 2011 10:22, Thomas M

Re: BETA3 not buildable

2011-10-08 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 October 2011 03:25, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 02:36:25PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> Just a quick note the repo was synced about 15 mins before this >> >> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Aryeh Friedman >> wrote: >> >> > I have a local cvs repo and after checking sr

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...

2011-10-04 Thread Chris Rees
On 4 October 2011 19:36, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Chris Rees wrote: >> What is your Wiki name? >> > "ArnaudLacombe" > > created this morning, with the same email address as the one I'm > sending this email

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...

2011-10-04 Thread Chris Rees
On 4 October 2011 16:35, Chris Rees wrote: > On 4 Oct 2011 16:26, "Arnaud Lacombe" wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ken Smith wrote: >>>> >>>> The third BETA build of the 9.0

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...

2011-10-04 Thread Chris Rees
What is your Wiki name? On 4 Oct 2011 16:26, "Arnaud Lacombe" wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ken Smith wrote: >>> >>> The third BETA build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now >>> available. Since this is t

Re: ports/sysutils/diskcheckd (Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD)

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 August 2011 18:54, Chris Rees wrote: > On 24 August 2011 16:14,   wrote: >>> When the specified or calculated rate exceeds 64KB/sec, the >>> required sleep interval between 64KB chunks is less than one >>> second.  Since diskcheckd calculates the interval in w

Re: ports/sysutils/diskcheckd (Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD)

2011-08-25 Thread Chris Rees
mment and manpage improvememts. > Hi Perry, The changes look good, so if there's no response for a few days I'll commit the changes. Thanks for rescuing the port :) Chris -- Chris Rees          | FreeBSD Developer cr...@freebsd.org   | http://people.freebsd.org/~crees ___

Re: The FreeBSD 7.4-BETA1 CD wont boot properly on this machine

2010-12-19 Thread Chris Rees
On 19 December 2010 19:55, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to install FreeBSD 7.4-BETA1 / amd64 on this[1] machine. > The machine doesn't have a CD drive built-in, so I am using a Plextor > PX-608CU external DVD writer which connects via usb as the CD drive to > install from. I use th

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 February 2010 07:10, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Rohit Grover wrote: > Initially start FreeBSD and dump all of the related circuit register values > . This may require a key board . Problem is to override this requirement . > If in the system there is

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-09 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 February 2010 11:47, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:19:06PM +0530, Rohit Grover wrote: >> I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my >> sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the >> machine fine once or twice after tha

Re: bootless!

2009-10-17 Thread Chris Rees
2009/10/17 Clifford, Ken : > Take me off this fucking list!@ >From the bottom of the email you just sent: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" You're welcome. C

Re: Open Vs Free BSD

2009-06-22 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/22 Eric Furman : > BWAAAHAHAHAHAH, what a bunch of  retards > Please stop sending this crap to OBSD lists. > Oh yeah, OpenBSD people also tend to be *very* direct with conversations, demonstrated by Eric here. Not entirely a criticism, it's just that you can expect the climate in mailing l

Re: I need to add commands that starts every time at system boot.

2009-06-08 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/7 Clifton Royston : > On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 04:12:41PM -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Chris Rees wrote: >> > 2009/6/7 Clifton Royston : >> > >> >> If you feel you just *can't* do it via a script in >> >

Re: I need to add commands that starts every time at system boot.

2009-06-07 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/7 Clifton Royston : > If you feel you just *can't* do it via a script in > /usr/local/etc/rc.d, which is the better way, add a script called > /etc/rc.local and that will be run after all the other start-up steps. What's wrong with rc.local? Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order i

Re: Recommended wireless card (or is there a chance to get either iwi or ath fixed)?

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Rees
2009/2/25 Christian Walther : > 2009/2/24 SDH Support : >> >>> I tried using my ath based D-Link DWL G650, which still seems to have >>> some issues in regard to interrupt handling: >> >> >> I've been able to get /most/ wireless cards working with ndiswrapper. >> > This is just my personal opinion,

Recommended wireless card (or is there a chance to get either iwi or ath fixed)?

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Rees
2009/2/25 Paul B. Mahol : > On 2/24/09, SDH Support wrote: >> >>> I tried using my ath based D-Link DWL G650, which still seems to have >>> some issues in regard to interrupt handling: >> >> >> I've been able to get /most/ wireless cards working with ndiswrapper. > > *BSD doesnt have ndiswrapper.

Re: Test

2008-12-18 Thread Chris Rees
2008/12/17 : > This is a test message from Cogeco Cable. No reply is necessary. What's wrong with http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-test ? -- R< $&h ! > $- ! $+ $@ $2 < @ $1 .UUCP. > (sendmail.cf) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ma

Re: Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook?

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Rees
> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:00:48 +0200 > From: Eirik Wix?e Svela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook? > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I have an Apple MacBook with an Intel Co

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-16 Thread Chris Rees
2008/8/11 Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Which Belkin wireless card do you have? Which arch are you running >> (i386/amd64)? >> >> I had horrific trouble with a Belkin on the Realtek chipset, played up >> with Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Fedora, even Windows! >> >> Trouble with Belkin is, you never kn

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-11 Thread Chris Rees
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:33:54 +1000 > From: Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I downloaded the drivers for the chipset my belkin wireless card has, used > ndisgen to create the kernel module, which all went aok .. however when > trying to load the module it hard hangs the machine to the poi

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-04 Thread Chris Rees
2008/8/4 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:00:16AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: >> Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:55:53 +0200 >> > Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >&g

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-04 Thread Chris Rees
Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:55:53 +0200 > Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just to be sure: also if the first command you try on the interface is >> 'ifconfig up'? > > Hello Torfinn, > > good point, no. The problem appears when the first thing called

Re: Failure building apache22 and mysql51

2008-07-16 Thread Chris Rees
2008/7/14 Sorin Pânca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm sorry for my late response, I was on vacation. > I think this was the case (although I thought we have only amd64 machines). > Is there a way to recover from this situation by ssh access only? > > Thank you! >

Re: MCP55 SATA data corruption in FreeBSD 7

2008-07-02 Thread Chris Rees
On 02/07/2008, Chris Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:55:07 +0200 > > "Daniel Eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > >> Can the OP get some non-Samsung disks for testing? >

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