This is easy to fix by creating symbolic link to correct place.
Please find this by locate command :

root@server01 ~]# locate sftp-server
/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server


and them make link:

ln -s /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server /usr/libexec/sftp-server


#cd /usr/ports/www/redmine
===> redmine-1.2.1_1 is marked as broken: Does not work with RubyGems 1.8.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/redmine.

Sure. You wouldn’t read this post if process had been done successfully
Maintainer of this port marked this port as broken because of bug in Gem 1.8.

As result we have to install it manually. Hopefully we have official installation guide.

I came across with some problems during installation. So, this post will be a guide adapted for FreeBSD with some errors and solutions.
Hope it will be useful. It seems as long process, but really easy. Let’s start.

1) Get Redmine (I used svn for it):

#svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/1.2-stable redmine-1.2

2) Create database:
mysql -uuser -ppasword
mysql> create database redmine character set utf8;
mysql> create user 'redmine'@'localhost' identified by 'passforuser';
mysql> grant all privileges on redmine.* to 'redmine'@'localhost';
mysql>exit;

3) Database configuration (copy from config/database.yml.example). config/database.yml:
production:
adapter: mysql
database: redmine
host: localhost
username: redmine
password: passforuser

4)Generate a session store secret.
#rake generate_session_store
Missing the i18n 0.4.2 gem. Please `gem install -v=0.4.2 i18n`

At this place started problems. Don’t worry. Just do thing redmine suggests.

#gem install -v=0.4.2 i18n
Fetching: i18n-0.4.2.gem (100%)
Successfully installed i18n-0.4.2
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for i18n-0.4.2...
Installing RDoc documentation for i18n-0.4.2...

trying again:

#rake generate_session_store
Missing the Rails 2.3.11 gem. Please `gem install -v=2.3.11 rails`, update your RAILS_GEM_VERSION setting in config/environment.rb for the Rails version you do have installed, or comment out RAILS_GEM_VERSION to use the latest version installed.

I tried update RAILS_GEM_VERSION (on 3.0.5) but Redmine doesn’t work with 3.0.5 yet, so:

# gem install -v=2.3.11 rails

then again:
# rake generate_session_store
rake/rdoctask is deprecated. Use rdoc/task instead (in RDoc 2.4.2+)
WARNING: 'task :t, arg, :needs => [deps]' is deprecated. Please use 'task :t, [args] => [deps]' instead.
at /vol1/www/www.slim/httdocs/redmine/redmine-1.2/lib/tasks/email.rake:170

Googled the problem and found out it connected with rake version (need to downgrade):

# gem install -v=0.8.7 rake
Fetching: rake-0.8.7.gem (100%)
Successfully installed rake-0.8.7
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for rake-0.8.7...
Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.8.7...

# gem uninstall -v=0.9.2 rake
Successfully uninstalled rake-0.9.2

finally it done:
# rake generate_session_store
(in /vol1/www/www.slim/httdocs/redmine/redmine-1.2)

5) Database migration:
# rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
(in /vol1/www/www.slim/httdocs/redmine/redmine-1.2)
rake aborted!
syntax error on line 8, col 2: ` encoding: utf8'

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Problem was – I missed space in config/database.yml before the password.

# rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
(in /vol1/www/www.slim/httdocs/redmine/redmine-1.2)
!!! The bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2. Please install the mysql gem and try again: gem install mysql.
rake aborted!
no such file to load -- mysql

installing gem mysql:
howtobsd# gem install mysql

and then:
howtobsd# rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production

db migration done!

6) Load default data (recommended):
# rake redmine:load_default_data RAILS_ENV=production
(in /vol1/www/www.slim/httdocs/redmine/redmine-1.2)

Select language: bg, bs, ca, cs, da, de, el, en, en-GB, es, eu, fa, fi, fr, gl, he, hr, hu, id, it, ja, ko, lt, lv, mk, mn, nl, no, pl, pt, pt-BR, ro, ru, sk, sl, sr, sr-YU, sv, th, tr, uk, vi, zh, zh-TW [en]

Choose language and moving ahead.

7)According to manual set permissions (create required folders if it doesn’t exist):

chown -R username:username files log tmp public/plugin_assets
chmod -R 755 files log tmp public/plugin_assets

8) Test installation:
#ruby script/server webrick -e production
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 2.3.11 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000

now you can enter in your browser http://localhost:3000

* login: admin
* password: admin

Great! It is works!

9) We only need to configure Apache for redmine.
It is described in my article “Installing Ruby on Rails on FreeBSD” with differences in httpd.conf for new versions.
Now for me it:
LoadModule passenger_module /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.5/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.5
PassengerRuby /usr/local/bin/ruby18

10)My example of virtual host for redmine:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName my-projects.com
DocumentRoot /vol1/www/www.slim/httdocs/redmine/redmine-1.2/public/
RailsEnv production
ErrorLog /vol1/www/www.slim/httdocs/redmine/redmine-1.2/log/httpd.log
</VirtualHost>

That’s all!

Firstly we need to make virtual device for our iso image (use mdconfig for it):
howtobsd# mdconfig -a -f /path_to_iso/Mac_OS_X.iso
md0

md0 (command return) – it is name of virtual device (should appear in /dev/md0).
you can check if it appeared in /dev:
howtobsd# ls /dev/ | grep md0
md0

And now we just need to mount virtual device:

howtobsd# mount_cd9660 /dev/md0 /cdrom

That’s all, your iso image available in /cdrom directory.

If you need to unmount and delete virtual device, do following commands:
howtobsd# umount /cdrom
mdconfig -d -u md0

Create dump of mysql base:

# mysqldump -uDBUSER -pPASSWORD DBNAME > filename.sql

or
# mysqldump --user=username --password=password DBNAME > filename.sql

if you need to make dump of a few databases you can use parametr -B (or –databases):

mysqldump -uDBUSER -pPASSWORD -B DBNAME1 DBNAME2 > filename.sql

Make dump of the all Databases on host:
mysqldump -uDBUSER -pPASSWORD -A > filename.sql

If you need only dump structure of database (without data):

mysqldump -uDBUSER -pPASSWORD --no-data DBNAME > filename.sql

If you want to make limited by records mysqldump, next command especially for you (It was really cool command when I need dump and then move test copy of project with enormous mysql database):

mysqldump -uDBUSER -pPASSWORD --where="true limit 100" DBNAME > filename.sql

this command will dump your database with defined amount records in each table.

• ssh authentication without password
• ssh login from shell scripts
• security

There are just two steps to use ssh key authentication:
1. Generate SSH Keys on client.
2. Add public key to server.

1.Generating keys.

From user (which will run script or login on server) do command:

#ssh-keygen -t rsa
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/slim/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/slim/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/slim/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
6c:62:f7:11:93:2d:47:90:66:80:88:43:c4:e3:95:7e slim@slim
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
| +o. o ....o. |
| = + . ++ |
| . = o= o |
| . . E. = |
| .o S . |
| . + . . |
| . |
| |
| |
+-----------------+

As result – 2 files in a ~/.ssh directory:
id_rsa – private key
id_rsa.pub – public key

2. Add public key on server.

By default public keys located in /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys file.
So, you need to load id_rsa.pub file on server and concatenate(on server) it to authorized_keys file:

#cat id_rsa.pub >> /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys

This will create authorized_keys if it does not exist.

That is all! Now you can try from client:

#ssh username@servername

How to use several keys for different servers read in next post.

Install:

#cd /usr/ports/devel/rapidsvn
#make install clean

after that checkout your work copy from repository and enjoy.
I very need the suitable diff in svn client. RapidSVN doesn’t include diff tool but we can choose external program.
install diff tool for FreeBSD – dirdiff:
#cd /usr/ports/sysutils/dirdiff
#make install clean

and put location in settings of Rapidsvn(Settings->Programs->Diff Tool ):
/usr/local/bin/dirdiff

If you know any better svn client for FreeBSD I will glad to learn it of from yours comments.

/usr/ports/net/skype12/ – installing, but doesn’t work.

/usr/ports/net/skype/ - doesn’t installing:

#cd  /usr/ports/net/skype/
#make install clean
===> skype-2.0.0.72,1 is marked as broken: This is the last version of skype that works on FreeBSD, but the distfile is no longer available from the vendor, and won't be in the future. We are working on alternative solutions..
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/net/skype.

Solution:

Download file skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2 into /usr/ports/distrfiles

comment string 26 in the /usr/ports/net/skype/Makefile:

“BROKEN= This is the last version of skype that works on FreeBSD, but the distfile is no longer available from the vendor, and won’t be in the future. We are working on alternative solutions.”

after that try make it again:

#cd  /usr/ports/net/skype/
#make install clean
#rehash
#skype

Congratulations!

Requirements:

• Openoffice 3.0 or latest
• Mysql-Server5 (or PostgreSQL)
• jdk16 (openjdk6, diablo-jdk1.6.0)
• swftools
• ImageMagick

I hadn’t had swftools and OpenOffice (and i was really upset the fact that I had to install OpenOffice on FreeBSD server) I couldn’t install it from packages because many ports had been installed before was later than many dependencies from latest OpenOffices package. Installing OpenOffice from a ports tree(/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3) caused a lot of problem, because until that moment all ports had been installed with option WITHOUT_X11=yes. But it’s a lyrical digression. I suppose you’ve been already installed required ports.

At first download  latest Openmeetings
At moment when I wrote this notes the latest was openmeetings_1_5_rc1_r3393.zip

#fetch http://openmeetings.googlecode.com/files/openmeetings_1_5_rc1_r3393.zip
#unzip openmeetings_1_5_rc1_r3393.zip

run the OpenOffice in a headless mode:
#/usr/local/openoffice.org-3.2.1/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin \
-headless -nofirststartwizard \
-accept="socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.Service"

checking:
# ps -aux | grep openoffice
howtobsd 96549 0.6 0.6 157740 52268 p0 S+ 4:58PM 0:00.33 /usr/local/openoffice.org-3.2.1/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -headless -nofirststartwizard -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;

back to the folder red5 and edit configuration file:
#vim red5/webapps/openmeetings/conf/hibernate.cfg.xml

<!– User / Password –>
<property name=”connection.username”>mysqluser</property>
<property name=”connection.password”>userpassword</property>

<!– Database Settings –>
<property name=”connection.driver_class”>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
<!– for performance reasons changed to MyISAM from org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect –>
<property name=”dialect”>org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLMyISAMDialect</property>
<property name=”connection.url”>jdbc:mysql://localhost/openmeetings autoReconnect=true&amp; useUnicode=true&amp;createDatabaseIfNotExist=true&amp; characterEncoding=utf-8</property>

<property name=”hibernate.connection.CharSet”>utf8</property>
<property name=”hibernate.connection.characterEncoding”>utf8</property>
<property name=”hibernate.connection.useUnicode”>true</property>

Create database openmeetings with utf8_general_ci encoding and Let’s start:
#cd red5
#sh red5.sh

Wait some time until appear
[Launcher:/openmeetings] - ##### loadEmot completed
And using 5080 ports connect with your video conferencing server by url:
http://192.168.1.150:5080 (change 192.168.1.150 to your servers IP-adress or domain name)

You will be redirected to installation page.

1. Before installing you have to update ports tree:
2. Installing X.org:

#cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg
#make install clean

create a X.org configuration file by command:
#Xorg -configure

and copy this file:
#cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

for testing Xorg:
#Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro

if installation have been completed is correct – the result of this command must be a X mouse cursor on black and gray grid.

3.Installing KDE4:
#cd /usr/ports/x11/kde4
#make install clean

(ATTENTION! For compilation kde from the port will be need enough time and a lot of free disk space and in virtual part /usr – I have been used near 20Gb)
In depends from your computer it it requires much time. I have been make it about one and a half days, because I decided party to installation and from time to time I have been choosing dependences. You can disable it in /etc/make.conf by string “BATCH=YES”. With this string ports will be build with default dependences.

When installing of KDE finish:
#echo “exec /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde4” > /home/username/.xinitrc for running kde from command startx by user-name

and give command by user:
#startx

In my first run keyboard and mouse are didn’t works. Handbook said than I can use HAL to autodetect keyboards and mouse:
#echo "hald_enable=”YES”" >> /etc/rc.conf
#reboot

In the next article I will tell howto enable sound cart support.

PS: for making Xorg and kde from the ports you need to a lot of space and time. You can install xorg and kde4 from packages:
pkg_add -r or pkg_add ftp://url-package. For example :

#pkg_add ftp://ftp.ua.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.1-release/x11/xorg-7.5.tbz

or you can define environment variable PACKAGEROOT nearest mirror:

#setenv PACKAGEROOT=ftp://ftp3.ua.freebsd.org
#pkg_add -r xorg-7.5.tbz

same for kde:
#pkg_add ftp://ftp.ua.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ia64/packages-8-stable/x11/kde4-4.4.5_1.tbz
or
# pkg_add -r kde4-4.4.5_1.tbz

#cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui/
#make install clean

Copy and edit supfile (I describe only ports tree upfating process. Src updating is looks same):
#cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile /etc/ports-supfile
#vim /etc/ports-supfile

Choose nearest mirror for you:
*default host=cvsup3.ua.FreeBSD.org

My ports-supfile looks like:

*default host=cvsup.ua.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
ports-all

Save file and give command updating:
#cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/ports-supfile

It is can updating a long time (specially if you have slow internet connection).
When process is finish – you will can calm install soft from the ports.