deleted /var/db/pkg, now what?

2006-08-04 Thread Gobbledegeek
I rebuilt the pkgdb.db but all the other files are gone... Now portupgrade thinks no packages are installed. gnome-upgrade.sh aborts because it cannot handle 'nilclass' string. Any tips to get back my list of installed packages? -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook..

ftpd configuration

2006-08-04 Thread Andriy Babiy
I wanted to set the user default directory chroot'ed for ftp-session. So, I created user/group: user1/group1, and wrote the following lines to the configuration fles: - /etc/ftpusers: user1:group1 allow chroot - /etc/ftpchroot user1:group1 allow - /etc/ftpd.conf chroot allow

Re: conundrum: _C99_SOURCE vs. sigset

2006-08-04 Thread Stefan Farfeleder
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:47:34PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Hello! I'm trying to compile a program, which uses threads and has its own daemon global variable. The variable's declaration results in an error: recsnap.C:50: error: `RTRString daemon' redeclared as different kind of

mod_rewrite does not work with apache13-modssl and enabled modaccel

2006-08-04 Thread Thomas
Hello I compiled apache13-modssl with WITH_APACHE_MODACCEL=YES. With enabled MODACCEL my mod_rewrite does not work as expected. I get this error message: [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] attempt to make remote request from mod_rewrite without proxy enabled: proxy:http://mysite/foobar/traffic

Re: IP broadcasts

2006-08-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Benjamin Lutz wrote: Specifically, I've been sending IP packets to broadcast addresses, once to 10.0.0.255, which is the local subnet's broadcast address, and once to 255.255.255.255, which as I understand it, is a general broadcast address. The first broadcast (to 10.0.0.255) works, the

Re: Can you install packages from STABLE in RELEASE?

2006-08-04 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 04.08.2006 um 01:19 schrieb Henry Lenzi: Hi -- I'm currently running 6.0-SECURITY My portsnap tells me of a bunch of ports that have updates that, when I head directly for an ftp site, I find on a STABLE tree (like kde-3.5.3 - actually 3.5.2 until yesterday) For instance,

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Olivier Nicole wrote: Why not doing the parsing on the server? Is there a limit on the size of an HTTP GET request? Yes. Something like 4k springs to mind. That's what POST is for and would be easy in Perl, but then we can't use that :-( --Alex

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Olivier Nicole wrote: pciconf -lv needs to be parsed, this being the hard step, into a string that can be sent via HTTP ... this is the hard part because it has to be done as/in a shell script ... anyone out there *really* good at shell programming? Why not doing the parsing on the

Questions inregards to NATD

2006-08-04 Thread Tyler Brincheski
Hello, I apologize for taking your time, howevr I was unable to find an answer to my question inside the online documentation. I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on P1 Super Socket 7 system (533 mhz.) I have installed 2 Adaptec Ana-6944 cards, these cards have 4 ports on each. I have a

strange behavior webpages

2006-08-04 Thread Guido Demmenie
Hello, I have a very strange problem with my served webpages. When I open the webpages from my server with my ibook, while connected to my wireless network, everything goes fine. But when I refresh a website or when Safari is not grabbing it from its cache the page returns corrupted. The

Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Renat S. Nurgaliyev
Hello! Please, please, please, include Midnight Commander into the future releases of FreeBSD! It is extremely time-safing and lightweight tool. It can be installed from ports, but what about disconnected PC's? Thanks a lot. With Best Regards, Renat S. Nurgaliyev Data Network Engineer

Fwd: deleted /var/db/pkg, now what?

2006-08-04 Thread Ivan Levchenko
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ivan Levchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Aug 4, 2006 2:58 PM Subject: Re: deleted /var/db/pkg, now what? To: Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] pkgdb -u (look for more info in man pkgdb) On 8/4/06, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I rebuilt the

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Igor Robul
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:41:54PM +0600, Renat S. Nurgaliyev wrote: Hello! Please, please, please, include Midnight Commander into the future releases of FreeBSD! It is extremely time-safing and lightweight tool. It can be installed from ports, but what about disconnected PC's? Thanks a

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:41:54PM +0600, Renat S. Nurgaliyev wrote: Hello! Please, please, please, include Midnight Commander into the future releases of FreeBSD! It is extremely time-safing and lightweight tool. It can be installed from ports, but what about disconnected PC's? Thanks a

Re: Questions inregards to NATD

2006-08-04 Thread Fabian Keil
Tyler Brincheski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on P1 Super Socket 7 system (533 mhz.) I have installed 2 Adaptec Ana-6944 cards, these cards have 4 ports on each. I have a seperate D Link card, that is supported. My question is, all the online documentation has

pflog0 question

2006-08-04 Thread Beni
Hi all, Does pflog0 need to get an ip-address from dhcp ? From what I can see in dmesg, pflog0 can't get one (vr0 does) but pflog0 seems to be up and running (same for pf and pflogd). So how do I get an address for pflog0 (if needed) ? I'm using 6.1-STABLE. From dmesg : [...] DHCPREQUEST on

Re: pflog0 question

2006-08-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Beni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Does pflog0 need to get an ip-address from dhcp ? From what I can see in dmesg, pflog0 can't get one (vr0 does) but pflog0 seems to be up and running (same for pf and pflogd). So how do I get an address for pflog0 (if needed) ? I'm using

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Bryan Bonifacio
The ports and packages are also available from the CD-ROMs (either the first or the second). -- Bryan Renat S. Nurgaliyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Please, please, please, include Midnight Commander into the future releases of FreeBSD! It is extremely time-safing and lightweight tool. It

Re: pflog0 question

2006-08-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Beni wrote: Hi all, Does pflog0 need to get an ip-address from dhcp ? From what I can see in dmesg, pflog0 can't get one (vr0 does) but pflog0 seems to be up and running (same for pf and pflogd). So how do I get an address for pflog0 (if needed) ? I'm using 6.1-STABLE. From dmesg : [...]

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs are in the system or even how many there are. It doesn't tell you exactly what sort of memory or disk drives the system uses

FreeBSD from Scratch

2006-08-04 Thread Rich Mayo
Is anyone on the list familiar with the Linux from Scratch project? More to the point, is anybody aware if there is anything like a FreeBSD from Scratch project?? Rich Mayo SRI International 732-389-1003 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread Antony Mawer
On 4/08/2006 3:17 AM, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs are in the system or even how many there are. It doesn't tell you exactly what

Re: FreeBSD from Scratch

2006-08-04 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/4/06, Rich Mayo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone on the list familiar with the Linux from Scratch project? More to the point, is anybody aware if there is anything like a FreeBSD from Scratch project?? It depends on which aspect of Linux from Scratch is of interest to you. Building

Re: FreeBSD from Scratch

2006-08-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Rich Mayo wrote: Is anyone on the list familiar with the Linux from Scratch project? More to the point, is anybody aware if there is anything like a FreeBSD from Scratch project?? As I understand it, Linux from Scratch is all about building a Linux box without using the packaging etc. provided

amarok lyrics: proxy and ruby?

2006-08-04 Thread Javier Echaiz
I have amarok-1.4.1 and works great... but i'm not able to fetch lyrics, I tried various ruby scripts but I got same results: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `initialize': Invalid argument - connect(2) (Errno::EINVAL) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `connect'

Re: pflog0 question

2006-08-04 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:26:49PM +0200, Beni wrote: Hi all, Does pflog0 need to get an ip-address from dhcp ? From what I can see in dmesg, pflog0 can't get one (vr0 does) but pflog0 seems to be up and running (same for pf and pflogd). So how do I get an address for pflog0 (if needed)

Re: Fwd: deleted /var/db/pkg, now what?

2006-08-04 Thread Bryan Bonifacio
From man portupgrade... if you are rebuilding the package database, do a pkgdb -fu -- Bryan Ivan Levchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Ivan Levchenko Date: Aug 4, 2006 2:58 PM Subject: Re: deleted /var/db/pkg, now what? To: Gobbledegeek pkgdb -u

nppdf.so: undefined symbol __ctype_b_loc

2006-08-04 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
Hi all, after upgrading firefox and acroread, I got this when I tried to use the plugin, LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so [/usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so: Undefined symbol __ctype_b_loc] I

adjkerntz in a jail

2006-08-04 Thread Joshua Groboski
Hello, I found your question on freebsd.org: Hello, I'm running apache in a jail on 6.0. Cron is sending me output like: adjkerntz[33405]: sysctl(put_wallclock): Operation not permitted Is this entry needed in a jail's crontab to run adjkerntz and if so what setting do i have to alter on

Re: FreeBSD from Scratch

2006-08-04 Thread Jona Joachim
Rich Mayo wrote: Is anyone on the list familiar with the Linux from Scratch project? More to the point, is anybody aware if there is anything like a FreeBSD from Scratch project?? You may find this interesting: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/index.html

Re: nppdf.so: undefined symbol __ctype_b_loc

2006-08-04 Thread Kees Plonsz
On Friday 04 August 2006 16:45, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Hi all, after upgrading firefox and acroread, I got this when I tried to use the plugin, LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Scott Oertel
Bryan Bonifacio wrote: The ports and packages are also available from the CD-ROMs (either the first or the second). -- Bryan Renat S. Nurgaliyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Please, please, please, include Midnight Commander into the future releases of FreeBSD! It is extremely time-safing

RE: FreeBSD from Scratch

2006-08-04 Thread fbsd
The install guide at www.a1poweruser.com may be what you are looking for. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rich Mayo Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 9:24 AM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: FreeBSD from Scratch Is anyone on the list familiar

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gould
--- Scott Oertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Bonifacio wrote: The ports and packages are also available from the CD-ROMs (either the first or the second). -- Bryan Renat S. Nurgaliyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Please, please, please, include Midnight Commander into

Your confirmation is needed (ok 1123525)

2006-08-04 Thread Lyris ListManager
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Re: Please Help

2006-08-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Igor Treyger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have burned 3 iso images on CDs: FreeBSB 6.1 disk1 FreeBSB 6.1 disk2 FreeBSB 6.1 Boot All of them i386 I have Compaq workstation that is currently running Windows2000 Problem: Desktop would not boot with FreeBSB 6.1Boot. I have tried

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: On 4/08/2006 3:17 AM, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs are in the system or even how many there

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 04), Andrew Gould said: --- Scott Oertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use midnight commander on a daily basis, can anyone recommend a better, more lightweight tool then mc? I would also like to hear recommendations for alternatives to mc that are light weight, work

Re: Squeak Smalltalk upgrading problems

2006-08-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Henry Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Squeak version 3.8 is out, but ports have 3.6. Does anyone know why? Presumably because the maintainer hasn't had time to update it yet. If you provide patches, that would probably help him get it faster... ___

RE: adjkerntz in a jail

2006-08-04 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
Just remove it from the crontab. You don't need it in the jail. Regards, Ruben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Groboski Sent: August 04, 2006 3:51 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: adjkerntz in a jail Hello, I found

.bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

2006-08-04 Thread DW
Hi all, Have a bit of an issue here: Just started using a .bash_logout script to handle doing my unison commands whenever I logout at end of day so I don't forget to sync my local homedir to my server before I head home. Works fine as long as I just do a # exit when I'm done. But more

Re: piperd in top

2006-08-04 Thread DAve
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 02), DAve said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 01), DAve said: We are in the process of getting a good hammering of spam. I've been watching my mail gateways and they are keeping up well enough. But

Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gould
--- DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Have a bit of an issue here: Just started using a .bash_logout script to handle doing my unison commands whenever I logout at end of day so I don't forget to sync my local homedir to my server before I head home. Works fine as long as I just

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2006-08-04 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2006-08-04 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

2006-08-04 Thread DW
Andrew Gould wrote: --- DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Have a bit of an issue here: Just started using a .bash_logout script to handle doing my unison commands whenever I logout at end of day so I don't forget to sync my local homedir to my server before I head home. Works fine

Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gould
--- DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Gould wrote: --- DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Have a bit of an issue here: Just started using a .bash_logout script to handle doing my unison commands whenever I logout at end of day so I don't forget to sync my local

Re: FreeBSD from Scratch

2006-08-04 Thread RW
On Friday 04 August 2006 15:59, Jona Joachim wrote: Rich Mayo wrote: Is anyone on the list familiar with the Linux from Scratch project? More to the point, is anybody aware if there is anything like a FreeBSD from Scratch project?? You may find this interesting:

Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

2006-08-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
DW wrote: Just started using a .bash_logout script to handle doing my unison : The problem with that though, is that the shutdown process runs as root, and just drops the system, and I'm never actually getting logged out as much as booted out. So my .bash_logout doesn't run, and thus no unison

S.M.A.R.T. HDD Protocal

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, Does anyone know where I can get the protocol used in SMART HDD diagnostics. My 3ware card puts out the following information and I am trying to write a program to decipher it into something more sensible. Cheers Richard Output from 3dm2 S.M.A.R.T. (Controller ID 1 - Port 0) 0A

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Joseph Le-Phan
Actually, I don't think he was questioning mc's size. He was merely looking for alternatives that were _as_lightweight_as_ mc. :) Personally, it'd be fantastic if mc was slated for inclusion. It's an absolute necessary install once I get a system up and running. -- Joseph Le-Phan five0.oss at

Re: nppdf.so: undefined symbol __ctype_b_loc

2006-08-04 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
Kees Plonsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 04 August 2006 16:45, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Hi all, after upgrading firefox and acroread, I got this when I tried to use the plugin, LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last episode (Aug 04), Andrew Gould said: --- Scott Oertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use midnight commander on a daily basis, can anyone recommend a better, more lightweight tool then mc? I would also like to hear recommendations for

Re: S.M.A.R.T. HDD Protocal

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 8/4/06, Richard Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Does anyone know where I can get the protocol used in SMART HDD diagnostics. My 3ware card puts out the following information and I am trying to write a program to decipher it into something more sensible. Have you tried

cups problems

2006-08-04 Thread David Johnson
Like millions of other users, my printing capabilities came to an abrupt end when I upgraded cups to version 1.2. After weeks of wasting time on the problem, I'm still not printing. I've seen lots of hints and tips on this list and elsewhere, but they just don't work for me. I also get the

SmartCard user authentication

2006-08-04 Thread knowtree
Is anyone working on SmartCard user authentication in conjunction with Gnome? The company I work for wants to use SmartCards exclusively to logon to workstations, and has pretty much done so with Windows XP. My FreeBSD workstation is a Dell, with a SK-3106 USB keyboard with built-in SmartCard

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:11:20PM -0400, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last episode (Aug 04), Andrew Gould said: --- Scott Oertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use midnight commander on a daily basis, can anyone recommend a better, more lightweight

Re: cups problems

2006-08-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 04 August 2006 14:34, David Johnson wrote: Like millions of other users, my printing capabilities came to an abrupt end when I upgraded cups to version 1.2. After weeks of wasting time on the problem, I'm still not printing. I've seen lots of hints and tips on this list and

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: On 4/08/2006 3:17 AM, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:11:20PM -0400, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last episode (Aug 04), Andrew Gould said: --- Scott Oertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use midnight commander on a daily basis, can anyone

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Freminlins
On 04/08/06, Joseph Le-Phan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, it'd be fantastic if mc was slated for inclusion. It's an absolute necessary install once I get a system up and running. The thing is, once you go down this route it won't stop. Other people regard bash, or lsof, or vim, or

Re: Portmanger getting stuck in loop

2006-08-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
pete wright wrote: Hi all, I've got a portmanager question. I've been using it for quite some time on various systems with great success - until today when i ctl+c'd in the wrong terminal and broke an upgrade that was going on. Now when i try to re-run portmanger to get a list of out of date

portmanager man page online?

2006-08-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi, Searching for portmanager in the online man pages doesn't get anything. Should it? Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: cups problems

2006-08-04 Thread David Johnson
On Friday 04 August 2006 11:47, John Nielsen wrote: You have the permissions fixed, which was half the solution for me when I made the upgrade. The other half was to abandon cups' usb back-end for the time being, since it doesn't work (as well as it used to). The workaround suggested in an

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:38:58 -0700 Scott Oertel wrote: I use midnight commander on a daily basis, can anyone recommend a better, more lightweight tool then mc? I can't say if it's better (I've never used mc) but definitely it's more lightweight: misc/deco. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam)

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 04/08/06, Joseph Le-Phan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, it'd be fantastic if mc was slated for inclusion. It's an absolute necessary install once I get a system up and running. The thing is, once you go down this route it won't stop. Other

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:21:06PM -0400, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: This is more lightweight than mc, and does things that mc doesn't: http://invisible-island.net/ded/ Interesting. You can try to make it into the ports tree. I could - but generally am too busy working on development to

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gould
--- Xiao-Yong Jin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last episode (Aug 04), Andrew Gould said: --- Scott Oertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use midnight commander on a daily basis, can anyone recommend a better, more lightweight tool then mc? I

Re: portmanager man page online?

2006-08-04 Thread RW
On Friday 04 August 2006 20:33, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, Searching for portmanager in the online man pages doesn't get anything. Should it? portmanager isn't part of the freebsd base system ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

DNS Blacklist Script?

2006-08-04 Thread Chris Maness
Does anyone know of a script (or application) to automagically add a host to a dns blacklist? It would be very convenient to blacklist all the e-mails sent from a spammer to a honeypot address, or to blacklist all senders that thunderbird moves into the spam sub-folder. Thanks, Chris Maness

NIS and Kerberos 5 : is it possible / smart?

2006-08-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hi all, Just wondering if it's possible for NIS and Kerberos 5 to work in tandem with one another, such that NIS would handle groups and configuration file management and Kerberos would handle authentication only. Also, is this sort of overkill perhaps, where NIS is not really needed? I

Re: DNS Blacklist Script?

2006-08-04 Thread Derek Ragona
Your best is to report them to spamcop. I believe there is a plug-in for thunderbird to do that. -Derek At 03:24 PM 8/4/2006, Chris Maness wrote: Does anyone know of a script (or application) to automagically add a host to a dns blacklist? It would be very convenient to blacklist

Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-08-04 Thread John-Mark Gurney
User Freebsd wrote this message on Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 22:44 -0300: For those that haven't been following the discussion on this, the iir(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x appears to have a deadlock issue under medium to heavy load, where the 'blocked' state just continues to rise until file

Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, John-Mark Gurney wrote: User Freebsd wrote this message on Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 22:44 -0300: For those that haven't been following the discussion on this, the iir(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x appears to have a deadlock issue under medium to heavy load, where the 'blocked' state

(no subject)

2006-08-04 Thread Ron Clark
OK, I have rebuilt the box again and this time installed Mysql Server 4.1 from the packages. No errors during the install. When I try and start mysql, I get the following error: test2# /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe [1] 781 test2# Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/db/mysql STOPPING

Re: Portmanger getting stuck in loop

2006-08-04 Thread pete wright
On 8/4/06, Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pete wright wrote: Hi all, I've got a portmanager question. I've been using it for quite some time on various systems with great success - until today when i ctl+c'd in the wrong terminal and broke an upgrade that was going on. Now when

Sendmail Question; unable to send mail as normal user

2006-08-04 Thread Frank Staals
I tried to setup my own mail and smtp-server with help from this webpage: http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html . I sucessfully installed imap-uw and I got it up successfully. Allthough the stmp-part doesn't work for 100% yet: I can send mail as root : # mail [EMAIL

Re: Portmanger getting stuck in loop

2006-08-04 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday 04 August 2006 15:28, Chris Whitehouse wrote: pete wright wrote: Hi all, I've got a portmanager question. I've been using it for quite some time on various systems with great success - until today when i ctl+c'd in the wrong terminal and broke an upgrade that was going on.

Re: iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-04 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Scott Long wrote this message on Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:35 -0600: FreeBSD. Making big statements in public that they don't, or that it's not up to ones' standards or hopes, isn't terribly useful or productive. I'd hate for FreeBSD to turn into That Other BSD that publically abuses and

Re: (no subject)

2006-08-04 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday 04 August 2006 17:27, Ron Clark wrote: OK, I have rebuilt the box again and this time installed Mysql Server 4.1 from the packages. No errors during the install. When I try and start mysql, I get the following error: test2# /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe [1] 781 test2# Starting

CUPS 1.2.0 setup problem

2006-08-04 Thread andy
I reinstalled FBSD6.1 release on a machine that had been previously running 6.0 release. I had been using CUPS 1.1x and printing was working fine. However, I just reinstalled CUPS 1.2.0 and now printing is broken. The problem I have is the following: I can get to the main admin page, but

Re: Squeak Smalltalk upgrading problems

2006-08-04 Thread Henry Lenzi
Presumably because the maintainer hasn't had time to update it yet. If you provide patches, that would probably help him get it faster... Yes, I can infer that is one possibility. However, I was asking for specifics. And specifically, I wasn't asking for a knee-jerk answer with no real

hi

2006-08-04 Thread tony sanabria
Hi, I have a sony vaio that used to run windows me. the system no longer wants to recognize the restoration cd. I am not a microsoft lover so i decided to use something else. my cdrom didnt want to read any of the iso's i downloaded before like ubuntu, dream

Re: How to build azureus port with diablo-1.5.0-b00 jdk

2006-08-04 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 17:39 -0700, Micah wrote: Gautham Ganapathy wrote: Hi I have installed the diablo jdk package downloaded from the freebsd foundation page. Now, when I try to build the azureus port, it also tries to build jdk1.4.2 because log4j depends on that port. How can I

Re: hi

2006-08-04 Thread albi
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:08:02 -0700 (PDT) tony sanabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a sony vaio that used to run windows me. the system no longer wants to recognize the restoration cd. I am not a microsoft lover so i decided to use something else. get yourself a 6.1 FreeBSD-cdrom,

Re: CUPS 1.2.0 setup problem

2006-08-04 Thread David Johnson
On Friday 04 August 2006 15:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I reinstalled FBSD6.1 release on a machine that had been previously running 6.0 release. I had been using CUPS 1.1x and printing was working fine. However, I just reinstalled CUPS 1.2.0 and now printing is broken. The problem I have is

Asus a8n-vm csm/nbp motherboard broken acpi workaround

2006-08-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi all A bit of googling suggested that the a8n-vm csm (without the nbp suffix) was an ok board, supported with FreeBSD after an acpi repair by Adriaan de Groot (http://people.fruitsalad.org/adridg/development.freebsd.php#a8nvm ), and on special in a local shop so I bought one. It turned out

Re: hi

2006-08-04 Thread Ralph Ellis
On Friday 04 August 2006 4:08 pm, tony sanabria wrote: Hi, I have a sony vaio that used to run windows me. the system no longer wants to recognize the restoration cd. I am not a microsoft lover so i decided to use something else. my cdrom didnt want to read any of the iso's i downloaded

Re: CUPS 1.2.0 setup problem

2006-08-04 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I reinstalled FBSD6.1 release on a machine that had been previously running 6.0 release. I had been using CUPS 1.1x and printing was working fine. However, I just reinstalled CUPS 1.2.0 and now printing is broken. The problem I have is the following: I can get to

Re: How to build azureus port with diablo-1.5.0-b00 jdk

2006-08-04 Thread Micah
Gautham Ganapathy wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 17:39 -0700, Micah wrote: Gautham Ganapathy wrote: Hi I have installed the diablo jdk package downloaded from the freebsd foundation page. Now, when I try to build the azureus port, it also tries to build jdk1.4.2 because log4j depends on that

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Bryan Bonifacio
This article could be helpful: http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/23/2226202tid=13tid=49 The author reviewed FDClone and Vifm along with Midnight Commander. Both FDClone and Vifm seem fast and lightweight to the author. -- Bryan Scott Oertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use

portsnap oddities

2006-08-04 Thread Gary Newcombe
Hello all, I'm getting the following error when I use portsnap lately on one of my servers: [mesh:/home/gary]# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from

Re: portsnap oddities

2006-08-04 Thread Colin Percival
Gary Newcombe wrote: I'm getting the following error when I use portsnap lately on one of my servers: [snip] Fetching 2 new ports or files... gunzip: stdin: not in gzip format snapshot is corrupt. I have now removed /var/db/portsnap and started from scratch 3 times. This fixes the

RE: portsnap oddities

2006-08-04 Thread Gary Newcombe
Sure, the /var slice is 2Gb and has plenty of room. [mesh:/home/gary]# portsnap --debug fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... latest.ssl100% of 256 B 512 kBps done. Fetching

Re: S.M.A.R.T. HDD Protocal

2006-08-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:54:38 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: Hello, Does anyone know where I can get the protocol used in SMART HDD diagnostics. Hi, There are existing tools you can use to read and monitor the SMART info in /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools e..g driver 0 on

Re: portsnap oddities

2006-08-04 Thread Colin Percival
Gary Newcombe wrote: Fetching 2 new ports or files... /usr/libexec/phttpget portsnap1.FreeBSD.org f/ad06d1f7b82db9ebcb496e7d48a754932622f1c8d6166564e61666d059f1b8fd.gz f/ad3d51001a264245eab5894cece6c902d073841143e9ffc7ee8379948a44aae3.gz

BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
'k folks ... the quick and dirty .. actually, not too dirty ... The attached script goes into /etc/periodic/monthly (and can be run from the command line) and is the *very* barebones ... it reports operating system and architecture ... it will return a unique id at the same time which will

Re: nppdf.so: undefined symbol __ctype_b_loc

2006-08-04 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Hi all, after upgrading firefox and acroread, I got this when I tried to use the plugin, LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so

RE: portsnap oddities

2006-08-04 Thread Gary Newcombe
Yes, nail on the head methinks. This server is behind a proxy and portsnap works fine with it disabled. With combination of advproxy, havp and privoxy: [mesh:/var/db/portsnap]# l *[3d].gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel64B 5 Aug 12:51

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-04 Thread Colin Percival
User Freebsd wrote: 'k folks ... the quick and dirty .. actually, not too dirty ... The attached script [...] Can you make this into a port which users can install? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

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