2011-01-05 02:42, ja...@gnix.co.uk skrev:
Do you have PERL_VERSION= set correctly in /etc/make.conf?
This was set automatically when i first installed perl5.12. This line was later
over-written when perl5.10 was installed. Since i used portupgrade to change
back to perl5.12 this line has
Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de writes:
I am trying to implement the feature to set a random password like in
BSD pw usermod -W in the Solaris passwd. Regrettably, I have not
found or perhaps not understood the PAM API documentation on how to
_inject a given string_ into the
I have seen it posted here and on the Dovecot forum that upgrading to
mysql-5.5.8 on FreeBSD breaks both Postfix and Dovecot. Apparently
reverting to the mysql-client-5.5.7 corrects this problem.
Can any one else confirm this or is this simply an isolated incident?
If this is correct, is there a
I'm updating to teTeX-base-3.0_21. I can build the
port, but trying to install it gives me this error:
*snip*
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./mktex.opt
/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.opt
install -o root -g wheel -m 555 ./mktexdir
/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/mktexdir
install -o root -g
TIME column is supposed to show time of the process (according to its
man page).
But it seems like it only shows the time of its main thread.
Why? Bug in documentation?
Yuri
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 03:04:44PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 27/12/2010 14:11, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
On 9.0-CURRENT r216732 ia64 I get this message:
% grep getty /var/log/messages | tail
Dec 27 13:26:57 mech-cluster241 init: getty repeating too quickly on port
/dev/ttyv8,
Check so you not have perl-threaded. If you have you must type
portupgrade -fr perl-treaded. Othervise it just do nothing.
wow that was easy. this was the problem and it's now rebuilding everything.
thanks to everyone for their advice.
jamie
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote:
I have seen it posted here and on the Dovecot forum that upgrading to
mysql-5.5.8 on FreeBSD breaks both Postfix and Dovecot. Apparently
reverting to the mysql-client-5.5.7 corrects this problem.
Can any one else confirm
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 344, Issue 4, Message: 14
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:24:01 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:33:03AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Patrick == Patrick Bihan-Faou patrick.bihan-f...@teambox.fr
writes:
Patrick cat
Hello,
I can't write these characters '€' 'œ' using ISO-8859-15 locales, in
fact the 'œ' character is replaced with '½'.
As you can see here http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-15 the œ
character should be replaced with ½, so i'm guessing if the locales are
really using ISO-8859-15 and
Le Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:49:31 +0100,
David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com a écrit :
Hello,
Hello,
I can't write these characters '€' 'œ' using ISO-8859-15 locales, in
fact the 'œ' character is replaced with '½'.
As you can see here http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-15 the œ
On 05/01/2011 15:07, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
Le Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:49:31 +0100,
David Demelierdemelier.da...@gmail.com a écrit :
Hello,
Hello,
I can't write these characters '€' 'œ' using ISO-8859-15 locales, in
fact the 'œ' character is replaced with '½'.
As you can see here
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.comwrote:
I'm trying to set up a virtual vsftpd-ssl-2.3.2 server (FreeBSD
Keep getting calls from our provider at one location that our FreeBSD
8.0-RELEASE server is sending bursts of 1000 spam messages to 70K
recipients. Since the first call a few weeks ago, I have MRTG and Mail
Statistics graphs setup and see no spikes in traffic. Their last
sighting was over the
It's unlikely that the bot would relay outbound spam through your MTA -
that would be inconvenient, slow and raise some suspicion. If the
provider is right, you most likely have a bit of code running on the
server that is directly connecting to external mail servers. There
could be reasons
El dÃa Wednesday, January 05, 2011 a las 10:41:29AM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick
escribió:
Keep getting calls from our provider at one location that our FreeBSD
8.0-RELEASE server is sending bursts of 1000 spam messages to 70K
recipients. Since the first call a few weeks ago, I have MRTG and
Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 04 January 2011:
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:33:03AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Patrick == Patrick Bihan-Faou patrick.bihan-f...@teambox.fr
writes:
Patrick cat asdf.txt | grep -v XYZ | grep -v bla
And yet, you still have the Useless Use of Cat.
Quoth Ian Smith on Thursday, 06 January 2011:
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 344, Issue 4, Message: 14
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:24:01 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:33:03AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Patrick == Patrick Bihan-Faou
On 5 January 2011 10:47, Jerry Bell je...@nrdx.com wrote:
There could be reasons you
aren't seeing a spike, such as you're only looking at traffic processed by
the MTA, or it simply doesn't show as a material increase on a graph of
traffic on the network interface if the server is busy.
by the way xev outputs this :
KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1c1,
root 0x12c, subw 0x0, time 1519140, (917,798), root:(919,814),
state 0x90, keycode 13 (keysym 0x20ac, EuroSign), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (a4) ¤
XmbLookupString gives 1
Hi All:
I'm just upgraded from FBSD 8.0 (amd64) to 8.1, I currently run with the ZFS
file system containing root. I understand that in the past, after rebuilding
world and kernel and upgrading the pool to version 14, there have been some
issues concerning bootcode not being able to read the
Le Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:20:02 +0100,
David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com a écrit :
by the way xev outputs this :
The keysym is good.
IMO the problem is in the display. How do you see this text in
iso-8859-15 (download and cat test.txt)?
http://user.lamaiziere.net/patrick/test.txt
You
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:56:33AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I'm updating to teTeX-base-3.0_21. I can build the
port, but trying to install it gives me this error:
*snip*
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./mktex.opt
/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.opt
install -o root -g wheel
teTeX is ancient and my advice would be to install TeXLive. It's not
in ports but instructions for installing it can be found on the
forums:
I think TeXLive 2010 has been released and this has binaries for
FreeBSD. You can get this from http://www.tug.org/ and installation
should consist
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:07:13AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
Do you know of any 'less useless' or more economical way to do such as:
% cat /boot/boot1 /boot/boot2 | diff - /boot/boot
%
Actually, that looks like a useful use of cat, whose original purpose it
is to concatenate the contents
On 05/01/2011 18:39, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
Le Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:20:02 +0100,
David Demelierdemelier.da...@gmail.com a écrit :
by the way xev outputs this :
The keysym is good.
IMO the problem is in the display. How do you see this text in
iso-8859-15 (download and cat test.txt)?
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Wilcox kevin.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 January 2011 10:47, Jerry Bell je...@nrdx.com wrote:
There could be reasons you
aren't seeing a spike, such as you're only looking at traffic processed by
the MTA, or it simply doesn't show as a material increase
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:
Saw Chris' later message that -F isn't there for him, but here's what
should be, on the data, the sure-fire way to clobber that last sector:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 oseek=1465149167
which command SHOULD report just
I agree on this point.
That said, I once thought my employer's server was hacked and I ran local
utilities and dug through months of logs only to discover that an install of
either phpBB or phpMyAdmin had a slice of bad code that allowed someone to
install software remotely and run its own p2p
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:45:08 +0100
Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no wrote:
Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de writes:
I am trying to implement the feature to set a random password like
in BSD pw usermod -W in the Solaris passwd. Regrettably, I have
not found or perhaps not understood the PAM
On 5 January 2011 13:25, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Wilcox kevin.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
To really see what your machine is doing, consider taking a look at
the network flows. pfflowd, netflowd, ipaudit and a host of others can
get you flow data
On 05/01/2011 12:12, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I'd still like to start xdm automatically on reboot.
If I can't do it via /etc/ttys,
what would be the alternative way?
Well, you'ld have to start it as a daemon using some sort of rc.d file.
There doesn't seem to be one supplied with the
On 05/01/2011 16:06, Gene wrote:
I'm just upgraded from FBSD 8.0 (amd64) to 8.1, I currently run with the ZFS
file system containing root. I understand that in the past, after rebuilding
world and kernel and upgrading the pool to version 14, there have been some
issues concerning bootcode
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:37:38 +0300
Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com articulated:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net
wrote:
I have seen it posted here and on the Dovecot forum that upgrading
to mysql-5.5.8 on FreeBSD breaks both Postfix and Dovecot.
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:54:58PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 05/01/2011 12:12, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I'd still like to start xdm automatically on reboot.
If I can't do it via /etc/ttys,
what would be the alternative way?
Well, you'ld have to start it as a daemon using some
On Tue Sep 21 10, David DEMELIER wrote:
2010/9/21 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org:
On Fri Sep 17 10, David DEMELIER wrote:
2010/9/17 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org:
On Thu Sep 16 10, David DEMELIER wrote:
Hi there,
I can't understand why this part of make buildkernel is so
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:04:03 -0500, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 04/01/2011 00:51, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
No, the -R flag in portmaster tells it to not rebuild
ports taht have already been built on this run (I
believe from reading man
On 05/01/2011 19:09, David Demelier wrote:
On 05/01/2011 18:39, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
Le Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:20:02 +0100,
David Demelierdemelier.da...@gmail.com a écrit :
by the way xev outputs this :
The keysym is good.
IMO the problem is in the display. How do you see this text in
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:10:02 +
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
On 30/12/2010 01:21, n j wrote:
Thanks for the input, I'll look into the suggested options:
http://arpnetworks.com/vps
http://www.rootbsd.net/virtual-hosting/
On 05-Jan-11 1:44 PM, Kevin Wilcox wrote:
On 5 January 2011 13:25, David Brodbeckg...@gull.us wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Wilcoxkevin.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
To really see what your machine is doing, consider taking a look at
the network flows. pfflowd, netflowd, ipaudit
Yes and no. You want to leave ftp open, too, just in case for port
upgrading/downloading, plus you would want to do monitoring across the wire
(Nagios or something, maybe?). You could, though, do a dual-NIC setup and have
one be a private network LAN for the servers if you aren't already
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:37:38 +0300
Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com articulated:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net
wrote:
I have seen it posted here and on the Dovecot forum
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Mark Moellering m...@msen.com wrote:
That's an excellent point. A span port from the upstream switch/router
Since I am going to be setting up a mail server sometime next week and have
to keep things like this in mind;
would it make sense to run pf and block
hi all:
i set up the freeradius 21.100.1 on freebsd 8.1. it uses local authentication
database of /etc/passwd (thanks to the previous discussions alan did with
others). the problem is: it only works with the condition of the server id
running as root instead of freeradius due to the one way
(don't see why this was on -current)
In response to gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com:
hi all:
i set up the freeradius 21.100.1 on freebsd 8.1. it uses local authentication
database of /etc/passwd (thanks to the previous discussions alan did with
others). the problem is: it only works with the
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 07:46:53PM +, Bruce Cran wrote:
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:10:02 +
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
On 30/12/2010 01:21, n j wrote:
Thanks for the input, I'll look into the suggested options:
http://arpnetworks.com/vps
http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html
I just rented a jail from exonetric.net - seems ok.
FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT is on aws now ( on EU instances too yay!)
still a bit slow as hell (if you're building stuff) on t1.micros tho..
--
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Paul Macdonald
IFDNRG Ltd
Web
Hi all,
FYI (and ours ;-) ) the company I work with is __planning__ on
expanding our server usage at M5 hosting (which BTW provide
outstanding support and have really great infrastructure).
Anyway, in our new servers we are going to be migrating existing
customers to Jails, and we will probably
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:02:58AM +0100, n j wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for inexpensive but reliable FreeBSD VPS hosting. Any
input coming from a positive personal experience will be most
appreciated.
So far the most likely candidate seems to be
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:05:14 -0800
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote:
Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 04 January 2011:
The weirdest thing about most useless uses of cat is that not using
cat would actually be a little clearer and involve fewer keystrokes
-- as in this case.
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:15:38PM +, RW wrote:
For example it's easier to edit
cat file | foo
into
cat file | bar | foo
or cat file? | foo
than editing
foo file
into
bar file | foo
or cat file? | foo
In this case, example was:
Can someone enlighten me as to why the GIMP package would require
libsmbclient? This strikes me as the very height of software bloat
absurdity. Maybe I'm missing something.
--
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:19:39 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
Can someone enlighten me as to why the GIMP package would require
libsmbclient? This strikes me as the very height of software bloat
absurdity. Maybe I'm missing something.
Welcome to the glory of rapid application
There's prolly a 10 line function the developer didn't want to write. I've seen
some case where it takes more code to link to other packages than just write
what's needed. Drives me crazy to have to install apps that have nothing to
do with the app I really need...
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chad Perrin wrote:
Can someone enlighten me as to why the GIMP package would require
libsmbclient? This strikes me as the very height of software bloat
absurdity. Maybe I'm missing something.
package = pre-built, off-the-rack, one-size-fits-all.
I don't know where the
I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON
processors and 6GB RAM.
What is the recommended swap space?
I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM,
others say stay with 2 x RAM.
Thank you
Quoth Warren Block on Wednesday, 05 January 2011:
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chad Perrin wrote:
Can someone enlighten me as to why the GIMP package would require
libsmbclient? This strikes me as the very height of software bloat
absurdity. Maybe I'm missing something.
package = pre-built,
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:03:02 -0800, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com
wrote:
Gutenprint support is an OPTION in gimp -- perhaps turning that off
relieves you of the dependency?
Or maybe it's an option to gnomevfs... or something
related to Gtk 2 in general...
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg,
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Jeff Whitman jwhit...@jwnetsource.comwrote:
I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON
processors and 6GB RAM.
What is the recommended swap space?
I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM,
others
I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON
processors and 6GB RAM.
What is the recommended swap space?
I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM,
others say stay with 2 x RAM.
Definitely not 0, but 2x would probably be way too
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:03:02 -0800, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com
wrote:
Gutenprint support is an OPTION in gimp -- perhaps turning that off
relieves you of the dependency?
Or maybe it's an option to gnomevfs... or something
related to Gtk 2 in
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:20:48 -0600
Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if necessary one could add (and
activate) a secondary / additional swap file if necessary without
rebooting. So maybe start with a few gig and add an additional swap
file if necessary?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if necessary one could add (and
activate) a secondary / additional swap file if necessary without
rebooting. So maybe start with a few gig and add an additional swap
file if necessary?
Swapping to a file is really slow and should only be done if absolutely
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if necessary one could add (and
activate) a secondary / additional swap file if necessary without
rebooting. So maybe start with a few gig and add an additional swap
file if necessary?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if necessary one could add (and
activate) a secondary / additional swap file if necessary without
rebooting. So maybe start with a few gig and add an additional swap
file if necessary?
Swapping to a file is really slow and should only be done if absolutely
Adam Vande More writes:
I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON
processors and 6GB RAM.
What is the recommended swap space?
I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM,
others say stay with 2 x RAM.
Definitely
On 01/05/11 15:20, Gary Gatten wrote:
I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON
processors and 6GB RAM.
What is the recommended swap space?
I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM,
others say stay with 2 x RAM.
Definitely not 0,
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:13:02 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
In this case, example was:
cat file | foo arg
. . . where it could have been:
foo arg file
That's just kind of absurd. I mean, that sort of usage (foo arg
file) is exactly the purpose for which grep
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On 06/01/2011, at 07:02, Bill Moran wrote:
(don't see why this was on -current)
In response to gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com:
hi all:
i set up the freeradius 21.100.1 on freebsd 8.1. it uses local
authentication database of /etc/passwd (thanks
Guys,
If there are any people who are into maintaining web logs/blog, this
might be _the_ place to ask. O/wise, type 'd' now.
One thing I've heard several times is that blogging is a good way of
promoting one's own books. (I've got at least three books either
published or to-be-published. [[
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
Guys,
If there are any people who are into maintaining web logs/blog, this
might be _the_ place to ask. O/wise, type 'd' now.
One thing I've heard several times is that blogging is a good way of
promoting one's own
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