On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:09:52 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
Guys, this is what I see both here on my desktop, and on a remote
server, magnesium.net. Using lynx:
Looking up www.thought.org
Unable to locate remote host www.thought.org.
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:21:15 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:01:47AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:09:52 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
Using lynx:
Looking up www.thought.org
Unable to locate remote host
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:25:43 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:29:30AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
You have some serious DNS issues with your current setup. I think you
should start by:
1) *Removing* from the NS records of your domain the name
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:25:43 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
I just generated new keys using the method specified the the article
recommended by Giorgos, and I get the same result.
Oops. I was hoping that would help, but it was only a wild guess by
looking at the error message and
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:42:27 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
When I start sendmail, this:
STARTTLS=server, error:
SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(/etc/mail/CA/private/cakey.pem) failed
appears in the log. The file exists and has permissions 0600. What
am I probably looking at,
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:26:45 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:49:57PM +0900, Ben Bullock wrote:
I am trying to install Mercurial on FreeBSD in order to install Go
(programming language). I am running into a problem with Mercurial
which looks like this:
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:48:18 -0600, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend a quick and dirty way to sort a device list? For
example, if I do this:
ls /dev/ad* | sort
I get something like this:
/dev/ad10
/dev/ad4
/dev/ad6
/dev/ad8
Just use `sort -n':
ls -d1
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:30:48 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote:
acheron wrote:
I just got the news of someone who build binaries of TeXlive 2009.
http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html
This is great news, thanks for sharing. I was looking forward to get
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:39:35 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
PS: is there any one-liner to add back one newline between paragraphs?
Not an accurate one.
You can *guess* when a line ends with a punctuation character
*and* it is shorter than some configurable wrapping column that
it is
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:01:07 -0800 (PST), jaymax jayma...@gmail.com wrote:
I think my reply went to the previous post, but here is
The syntax here is confusing, should it be
[ignoring other options]
tar -c -W one-file-system -f tarfile2Becreated.tar /
{
From the man pages
-W
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:43:21 -0500, David Jackson norsta...@gmail.com wrote:
I am having great difficulty running a very simple assembler program
on FreeBSD on x86 in my efforts to learn some assembly programming on
FreeBSD. I have tried to compile the following with nasm, however i
get
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:58:16 +0100, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote:
subsequent make configure simply uses the original menu choices with
no re-display of the menu to change the options
There is a subtle but important difference between 'make config' and
'make configure' for ports:
*
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:34:48 +, David Chanters
david.chant...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am wondering
if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep /home from
my Debian installation. /home on Debian is currently
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:50:06 -0700 (PDT), Aflatoon Aflatooni
aaflato...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way that I could configure sendmail so that I could control
the rate of outgoing emails?
For example if there are 2 outbound emails destined for Yahoo.com
server then they would be sent
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:49:40 +0100, Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote:
But, do we actually need an MTA in the base? The only arguments
I have seen in this thread are:
- because it's been there since the beginning of history - because cron
requires it to send the daily reports
For
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:38:56 -0500, Martin McCormick
mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote:
This is probably going to be a hashing exercise but I am checking to see
if any of the building blocks needed are already out there.
The problem is simple to describe in that there are 2 tables. One is a
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:34:35 +, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:08:24 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote:
What is nice about Sendmail today is that with minimal changes to a
base FreeBSD installation (the rc.conf(5) variable called
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:37:09 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas
keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote:
You should use a Perl or Python script, and a hash...
...
Running this script should produce something like:
: keram...@kobe:/tmp$ python martin.py input-file
: {'kobe': [('A', '127.0.0.1'), ('TXT
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:46:07 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner
luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner
luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote:
Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:49:15 -0700 (PDT), Aflatoon Aflatooni
aaflato...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
I have a Freebsd 7.2 installation and using Sendmail for the SMTP
service. This server has two public interfaces and different IP
addresses.
I need to have sendmail configured so that the outbound
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:00:57 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:44:42PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/
Yes! but i bought the *Intel* 2-duo-core or whatever; not the AMD
(aDvanced micro Devices) chip.
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:43:39 -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 7:32:14 am b. f. wrote:
It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail.
How many people actually use it? Very few. Why isn't it moved to
ports?
Obviously, not everyone wants or needs sendmail in the base system.
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:47:12 -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 4:00:07 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
- Import your MTA of choice in a local branch.
- Integrate the $NEWMTA with the base system of FreeBSD.
- Update the manpages and documentation
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner
luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote:
Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting
language to configure it. Other than personal profit I cannot see why
people are clinging like grim death to something this fubar. Really,
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:33:03 -0700 (PDT), George Sanders gosand1...@yahoo.com
wrote:
I've been doing this dance:
../configure ; make ; make install
for about ten years now. Sometimes there are some little issues, but nothing
too crazy.
I tried to build 'git' from source today, however,
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:29:27 -0700, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote:
It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail.
How many people actually use it? Very few.
Why isn't it moved to ports?
This questions comes up very often. You can find lots of reasons in one
of the older threads about Sendmail, e.g. at:
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:20:38 -0400, Christopher Hilton ch...@vindaloo.com
wrote:
Reading the list yesterday I came across a little controversy about swap
backed /tmp filesystems. I've been using this in my /etc/rc.conf
tmpmfs=YES# Set to YES to always create an mfs /tmp, NO to
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:07:25 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Just a note: I find it strange that nobody looked into the problem of
the confusion... I thought I had pointed out where the co;nfusion
arises... and no one seems to have either understood the
inconsistencies or bothere to
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:40:32 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
But allow me a follow-up question: Is 8.0-RC1 already recommendable
for a home desktop, or would 7.2 be the version of choice? I'm asking
this because of the many improvements especially the USB subsystem has
gotten in 8
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:08:42 +0200, Ross Cameron abal...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Marwan Sultan dead_l...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello Gurus,
Im planing to move out of my FreeBSD 4.8-R! which served me like a
charm for many years.
But not sure if I should go for 6.3 or 7.2
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:48:09 -0500, Don Wilde dwil...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, folks -
I am setting up the sendmail on my 7.2-STABLE system, and I cannot get
it to listen to my live server address besides the localhost.
I've added
CLIENT_OPTIONS(`Family=inet,
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
Assuming nobody uses tape drives anymore, you need to specify
another file, which is the standard output in this case, which
may not be obvious, but it is if we reorder the command line:
# dump -0 -L - a
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote:
Greetings,
Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla.
Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone and
restore. Of course, the key is fast.
Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's other than
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:29:38 -0700, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote:
I noticed many times that configure files of various projects fail to
find headers of third party packages under /usr/local/include.
They run command line like this:
gcc -c conftest.c
and it doesn't find them without
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:43:57 -0600, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe I'm just not that bright, but I have a question regarding the following:
man 3 getenv
snip
Successive calls to setenv() or putenv() assigning a differently sized
value to the same name will result in a memory leak.
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:37:27 -0500, Phusion phusio...@gmail.com wrote:
I recompiled sendmail and now get the following when running sendmail -d0.1
-bv.
I now have added the following to sendmail.mc.
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)
FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:15:15 -0400, mfv mrk...@acm.org wrote:
Hello,
After rebuilding FreeBSD for many years I am not able to build a
GENERIC kernel for the last few days. It always stops when compiling
acpi.
The source code is up to date for 7 -STABLE for i386 on a amd64 cpu.
I have
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:10:00 +0200, Christer Solskogen
christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
# rm -fr /usr/obj/usr
# cd /usr/src
# make cleandir ; make cleandir
I've seen serveral placeses that make cleandir should be run twice. I
dont understand why
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:46:13 +0200, Mel Flynn
mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Sunday 20 September 2009 23:26:58 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:10:00 +0200, Christer Solskogen
christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
# rm -fr
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:31 +0200, Przemyslaw Frasunek
przemys...@frasunek.com wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Przemyslaw should email security-officer with any details he thinks are
relevant. Then the security team will make sure to fix the bug for all
affected releases of FreeBSD, release
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:59:51 -0700, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
I notice that for both The Gimp and graphviz, and probably for others
as well, marking them or their dependencies as able to render SVG
invokes installation of FF 2.x.
This fails, as the port is marked as forbidden, and
Hi Dan,
The right place to report security problems with FreeBSD is to the
Security Officer team. A PGP signed email to the email address of the
security team at security-offi...@freebsd.org is enough to get the
attention of the FreeBSD Project.
Przemyslaw should email security-officer with any
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:17:24 -0700, Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com
wrote:
I came across a page that explained all the different ways setuid
scripts could screw up - one would have to be a rocket scientist to
avoid all the potential pitfalls.
Hi Michael,
It would be a very useful
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:35 +0100, Jeronimo Calvo
jeronimocal...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi folks!
Im trying to set up a reaaallly basic scrip to allow one user to shutdown my
machine without root permisions, seting up SUID as follows:
-rwsrwxr-- 1 root wheel 38 Aug 27 23:12 apagar.sh
$
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:24:31 +0100, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:54:19 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas
keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:35 +0100, Jeronimo Calvo
jeronimocal...@googlemail.com wrote:
As far as i know, using SUID, script must runs
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:17 -0400, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote:
Look, use Joe.
You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about
meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the
while wishing you had three hands.
That's not a very good way of
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:22:37 +1000, Danny Carroll f...@dannysplace.net wrote:
I've added the following to the default sendmail mc file:
MASQUERADE_AS(`mypublicdomain.com')dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(beasie.lan)dnl
Recompiled the cf files and restarted sendmail.
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:11:28 +1000, Danny Carroll f...@dannysplace.net wrote:
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
I found the answer to your problem here:
http://www.grok.org.uk/docs/smroot.html
The file that is being included which has the
EXPOSED_USER(`root')
line lives at
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote:
Forgive the verbosity.
Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually
read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified
persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:21:04 +0100, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:18:37 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote:
There's a catch here that may go unnoticed for a while...
rc.conf may be sourced by /etc/rc *long* before filesystems are
mounted
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:29:20 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:46:47 +0100, chris scott kra...@googlemail.com wrote:
can i use backticks in rc.conf?
Basically, yes. The /etc/rc.conf file is run through sh, it is
a shell script that assigns values to variables,
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:24:09 +0100, chris scott kra...@googlemail.com wrote:
a=`echo $ifconfig_bge0 | /usr/bin/awk '{ for ( i=1 ; i = NF; i++) { if ( $i
~ /[iI][nN][eE][tT]/ ) { sub(/\/.*/,, $(i+1)); print $(i+1) } } }'`
rsyncd_flags=--config=/etc/rsyncd.conf --address=$a
This is far too
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:15:52 +0200, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote:
El día Friday, July 17, 2009 a las 08:17:22PM +0200, Decofinder escribió:
Cliquez-ici pour visualiser ce message au format HTML
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On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:51:57 -0700 (PDT), Zohreh zohreh...@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam
i have a question about free bsd and squid that was installed on it.
i insatlled squid 2.6 stabled 20 on freebsd 7. and i enabled firewall
on freebsd . now i brows http sites on internet but i
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:59:43 +, dhaneshk k dhanes...@hotmail.com wrote:
Fellow BSDians,
I need an advice from FreeBSD users. I would like to buy a
refurbished notebook from IBM.
Model IBM T60I heard T60 series are excellent ?
I'm using FreeBSD/GNOME as my main environment on a
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:02:13 +0300, Ott Köstner o...@zzz.ee wrote:
On Sunday 05 July 2009 11:10:18 am Ott Köstner wrote:
On Sunday 05 July 2009 8:32:35 am Unga wrote:
I have installed firefox 3.5,1 port (make install clean) on FreeBSD
7.2 i386. Firefox crashes when it try to display Theora
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 01:31:31 +0200, Kalle Møller kalle.mol...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm used to the client that follow devel/subversion - Is it possible
to only install the client on a server. (I got 4 servers and only 1
needs the subversion backend etc.. but the 3 others need the client)
What do
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:07:08 +0200, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote:
I was wondering if there were any other Slackers out there!
Of course we are still `out there'.
I started using a UNIX-like clone on my 386 SX with Slackware, by
fetching the floppy disk images. I've abandoned Linux
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:40:00 +0100, Alexandre Vieira nul...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm having a little problem.
For exambe in ksh:
$ z=0
$ y=1
$ x=
$ eval `echo MACHINE_DISK$z[$y]`=$x
$ echo ${MACHINE_DISK0[1]}
My problem is getting back the value of the variable using
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:02:48 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
Using an interactive language like Python you can actually *test* the
code as you are writing it. This is a major win most of the time.
could you explain what you mean? You can and you have to
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com
wrote:
QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
prefer? and why?
I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux
distributions from FreeBSD fans.
Debian is the one I can almost
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:39:24 -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman
aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote:
See subject
Please don't do that. Subject is for a short summary, and in this case
the summary is so short that the question may be misunderstood.
* Do you want to append more information to an _existing_
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:20:19 +0800, Erich Dollansky er...@apsara.com.sg wrote:
On 25 June 2009 pm 19:13:14 Konrad Heuer wrote:
Maybe you're right, maybe not.
20 years ago, I've written and edited voluminous fortran code
on a silly rs232 terminal using ed. So, it is possible, and one
I do not
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:50:31 +0800, Erich Dollansky er...@apsara.com.sg wrote:
On 26 June 2009 am 09:06:49 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
As far as 16 years back, VT220/VT320 terminals were in wide use
in universities. Some of us learned our first regexp stuff by
not only there, but ed
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:37:44 +0300, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote:
Sure. I am making a list of what people would like to see included,
and will add most of them in the next iteration. Small utilities like
this are not a problem.
Until someone jumps in and asks for Emacs, I guess
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:55:28 -0700 (PDT), chloe K chloekcy2...@yahoo.ca wrote:
Hi
I have a file. list.txt (two columns)
column1 column2
name address
I need to put in the letter file letter.txt eg:
Dear: Chloe
Address: CA
Can I use this
for i `cat list.txt` | sed
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:46:45 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
the main reason i don't use vim is because of its [u]ndo command. as
most of you can understand, there are a whole slew of times when i
need to undo something. too often in vim, hitting 'u' --- sometimes
once
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:39:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
people, i finally heard back from a writer of world renoun who couldn't
put down my 150+K word manuscript. she loves it.
Good. Very good. Congratulations :)
___
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:09:43 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote:
As you may recall from a recent post I've been trying to get nTop
compiled and working on Solaris 10 x86. After 40 - 60 hours (I loose
track) I *THINK* it's actually working for the most part.
Before certain people
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:23:31 -0500, Peter Clark cla...@mtmary.edu wrote:
Hello,
I have inherited an old FreeBSD 5.1 machine(5.1-RELEASE-p18). I realize
that the short answer to my question is more than likely to upgrade the
OS to a current release and I would if I had that option right now,
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:38:23 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm basically a novice at the whole configure/make process. I've
hacked my way through some errors in the past, but I can't get past
this one. It used the GNU auto tools and the configure script has a
bunch of
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:12:57 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
so this could be a reference to all of them.
I know (and agree) that everybody should RTFM but there are times
when the fine manual is just not enough and real world examples
provide a thorough
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:47:49 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
just few months and this will be general unix support list for
everybody. how about name change?
Stop the whining already, will you? If you have no useful content to
contribute to a thread,
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:36:56 +0100, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk
wrote:
I'm getting recursive dependency problems following a recent
portupgrade -a.
I've deinstalled cups-base as advised in UPDATING and somehow
ghostscript8 has also ended up being removed. Now when I attempt to
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:54:04 +0200, Mel Flynn
mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Thursday 04 June 2009 18:27:00 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
PORTNAME= ghostscript8
PORTVERSION= 8.64
PORTREVISION= 5
^^
\o/ Thanks for also respecting
On Fri, 29 May 2009 15:14:20 +0200 (CEST),
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
Not necessarily.
There were 'rules' in Nazi Germany too, and there usually exist at
least some 'rules' in oppressive regimes, but they do not
necessarily, by virtue of their mere existence, lead
On Fri, 29 May 2009 09:36:07 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
It's just my opinion, time will show if i am right if they will not
do this, and this list turn to 1% on topic.
The only problem with that sort of reasoning is that the FreeBSD mailing
list
On Fri, 29 May 2009 10:00:23 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
nothing that prevent me from having an opinion about moderation and
trying to explain to others that it make sense.
While a change like this is possible, it is going to be very very hard.
To
On Fri, 29 May 2009 13:01:04 +0200 (CEST),
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
Because we already _have_ a list `for general FreeBSD questions', and it
is open. Adding even more lists to the mix will --at least initially--
only serve as a source of mild confusion. Imagine
On Fri, 29 May 2009 13:55:56 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
FreeBSD. for sure i will ask here if i will need help with FreeBSD.
This includes at least two hypothetical scenarios:
a) That the current list is an off-topic 'mess'.
it is and will be.
b)
On Thu, 28 May 2009 11:12:16 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
FreeBSD developers know enough to avoid speaking 'on behalf' of
anyone, unless they are explicitly asked to do so and it makes sense.
We usually just point the users gently towards an appropriate
On Thu, 28 May 2009 12:36:10 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
Dunno, I saw too many messages in the thread to remember if there
*was* anything wrong. I'm not saying that there was something wrong
with what
so look back, as there wasn't.
I think you just
On Thu, 28 May 2009 23:00:09 +0200 (CEST),
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
How about it? Only STRICT RULES keep things healthy and long lived.
I wonder what makes you think you have the right to decide for all?
Why you think so? I don't mean
On Wed, 27 May 2009 12:29:24 -0500, Kevin Monceaux ke...@rawfeddogs.net wrote:
What I can gather from this thread is that he, as a developer, might
possibly have the right to speak on behalf of FreeBSD in regards to a
sponsorship offer. On the other hand, you, who are neither a
developer nor
On Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:23 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
- post ONLY about FreeBSD. FreeBSD == what is created by FreeBSD
fundation and contributors.
But you're the troublemaker that needs shutting up.
i don't see the matureness of comments like this.
On Tue, 26 May 2009 19:01:46 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
here it is:
divert(0)dnl
VERSIONID(`$FreeBSD: src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.submit.mc,v 1.1
2003/10/19 00:03:13 gshapiro Exp $')
define(`confCF_VERSION', `Submit')dnl
define(`__OSTYPE__',`')dnl
On Wed, 20 May 2009 14:45:59 -0300, francis keyes fke...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm... the date program looks pretty simple but I don't understand the
Makfile:
#@(#)Makefile8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
# $FreeBSD: src/bin/date/Makefile,v 1.11.30.1 2009/04/15 03:14:26 kensmith
Exp $
PROG=
#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign
On Thu, 14 May 2009 23:34:34 +0300, Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com
wrote:
http://freebsd.dev-urandom.com/iso/i386/xfce-desktop/
This is just short of 1GB and contains the following:
- FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE base system (standard bootable / installable
On Mon, 11 May 2009 01:07:10 +0200 (CEST), Marco Beishuizen mb...@xs4all.nl
wrote:
When I use GDM for logging in, the only possible users I can choose
from are the logcheck system account and other, but not my regular
user account. Why is that?
FWIW, the gdm user list applet seems to be
On Thu, 7 May 2009 17:19:47 -0700, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the most recommended IRC client that runs in a terminal?
rtorrent is to bit torrent what is to IRC.
If you are into Emacs, there are a few clients that run inside Emacs,
both in GUI/X11 frames and console
On Mon, 4 May 2009 21:09:34 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com
wrote:
How do I install emacs-ess. I don't see it in the ports.
You can probably just download the emacs-ess sources and extract them in
a personal directory for testing, i.e.:
% mkdir ~/elisp
% cd ~/elisp
%
On Mon, 4 May 2009 22:45:42 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com
wrote:
Giorgos, thanks a bunch--that was easy! Your suggestions worked perfectly.
When I originally tried to install ess, i downloaded the tarball and
tried to build it's contents from source. I did this because I
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:06:49 -0400, Steven Friedrich
stevenfriedr...@insightbb.com wrote:
It's trying to install zh locale stuff.
In make.conf, I set DOC to en_something, so why is it doing other languages?
This has been occurring for a short while and I've been getting around
it with make
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:23:32 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote:
On Saturday 25 April 2009 09:12:50 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:35:34 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net
wrote:
I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the
FreeBSD src
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:03:30 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote:
I installed the subversion-freebsd port and pulled in src from head.
This lets me do e.g. svn log -g --xml locally and get an XML list of
commits along the main (head/current) development line going back to
1993.
For
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:18:55 +0200, Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se
wrote:
Better would be to check (somehow) for the presence of a keyboard and
a screen. If those are not present forget about X. If they are
present then the user at least has a possibility of using X.
Deferring to the
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:44:10 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:28:55 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas
keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote:
I think this is a reasonable approach to the problem of which
installation mode to launch. The default is `user friendly
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:52:56 -0400, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote:
Last week I have installed Solaris 10 ( 2008-10 ) on a PC ( x86 )
having an Intel main board . It did not recognize Philips 220WS LCD (
1680 x 1050 ) monitor and selected itself a text-mode install and
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:35:34 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote:
I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the
FreeBSD src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a
resource-friendly way for me to download some or all of it? Format
isn't too big an issue.
I
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:54:25 -0700 (PDT), Annelise Anderson
and...@andrsn.stanford.edu wrote:
I'm running mergemaster as root (-v -i -c) on an upgrade to
stable (I rebooted with the new kernel but have not done
the install) and can't run mergemaster, with result as follows:
Default is to
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