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howto restart the network with a wireless interface including wpa_supplicant on FreeBSD 7.2 without reboot?

Previously I admin a website that uses IP.Board as a forum. It was on a FreeBSD server but there were some issues with some other people on the server so the whole server has been resetup. It is has been set up as a Unix Jail and I was given root access. Apache has been installed I’ve been told but I’m not sure how to configure it so that it points to the domain but I’m waiting to hear back from him on that.

Right now I’m trying to install mySQL. However the base commands like groupadd and useradd that I would use to set up my mysql user aren’t working. I’m not sure if that is because of the Unix Jail or something else.

Can anyone direct me on what I need to do to set up mySQL?

Howto rebuild the whole portsystem on FreeBSD?

THX

Something I have always wondered is what the option msdosfs stands for and more importantly, why it is necessary.

Howto force shutdown on the notebook with FreeBSD before battery is empty?

I’d like to backup my FreeBSD 7.0 using Backup Exec 12.0
Where to download the Backup Exec Agent for Linux/Unix?

I’m a FreeBSD noob who has generated an error, searched everywhere for solutions, and has just joined this forum (and searched it) hoping you can help.

I really need to get mysql server installed again ASAP, and preferably with Sphinx as a storage engine, or my web app in dev is delayed.

The error, is:

aclocal.m4:16: warning: this file was generated for autoconf 2.63.
You have another version of autoconf… use the procedure documented by the package, typically ‘autoreconf’.

This is Automake 1.9.6, but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from Automake 1.10.2.
You should recreate aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again. client/Makefile.am: required file ‘./compile’ not found.
Error code 63

I get this when trying to reinstall mysql50- server (or 51) after applying a patch to enable Sphinx as a storage engine in mysql server, as per the instructions on this page:

Enabling the Sphinx Storage Engine in MySQL via FreeBSD Ports

Specifically, here’s what I did to get the error.

1. ‘make deinstall clean’ in the /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-server to wipe the previously installed version.
2. applied the patch, as per the instructions on the above page, which was successful.
3. ‘make install clean’ mysql50-server.

If it helps at all, FreeBSD is version 6.1 and I had previously done a portsnap fetch/update/extract.

I have found an online book on autotools -http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/ , and some unanswered posts on related topics on this forum, but nothing that hints at how I would fix this problem. The book is probably great – but I don’t have long enough to learn it.

I hope I have provided enough information, but please post any and all necessary questions.

Thanks

I was wondering if there are any https servers available for FreeBSD
portsnap ? I would like to use portsnap behind my companies proxy servers.

But alas they will not allow large compressed files through the proxy, which have alot of small files contained within the file. Obviously they download the file and then decompress it to scan it for virus/malware/bad stuff etc.

Except for obviously for ssl connections they are passed straight through.

Are there any portsnap servers that are accessible by https ?
I do a similar thing for gentoo when using portage.