Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Nang daniel.nan...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I have two computers, both running FreeBSD, accessing the web via DHCP from the router. The setup looks like this:

Re: What's wrong here? Can't reinstall graphics/lcms2

2013-08-20 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: $ sudo portupgrade -f graphics/lcms2 snip = Please update your ports tree and try again. *** [check-vulnerable] Error code 1 I have of course updated the ports tree but it made no difference. Try updating ports

Re: pkg_version says my ports need to be updated?

2013-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
Read the relevant portions of the handbook Chapter 5: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html Chapter 25: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html Then also: man portmaster man freebsd-update On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:49

Re: Re-sending selected e-mail messages

2013-02-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I need a way to automatically re-sent stored e-mail messages according to some criteria and like to ask for advice or suggestions for an already existing solution before I start reinventing the wheel. :-) The messages in

Re: Error upgrading Chromium

2013-01-21 Thread Kurt Buff
I worked around this by reconfiguring the port so that it doesn't use pulseadio, recompiled, and it finished OK. Kurt On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Just updated from 8.3 to FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3, and am reinstalling ports. Chromium is giving me two

Re: Error upgrading Chromium

2013-01-21 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 08:30 -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: I worked around this by reconfiguring the port so that it doesn't use pulseadio, recompiled, and it finished OK. IIUC Google doesn't like to add pulseaudio

Error upgrading Chromium

2013-01-17 Thread Kurt Buff
Just updated from 8.3 to FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3, and am reinstalling ports. Chromium is giving me two errors and bombing out. The errors are: media/audio/pulst/pulse_output.cc:89L28: error: use of undeclared identifier 'kChannelOrderings'; did you mean 'ChannelOrder'? int channel_position =

Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-06 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should use. firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick. thanks for some tips, gary For firefox I use the following:

Fwd: Somewhat OT: Is Full Command Logging Possible?

2012-12-06 Thread Kurt Buff
Sorry, forgot to replay all... Kurt -- Forwarded message -- From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: Is Full Command Logging Possible? To: Fleuriot Damien m...@my.gd On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Fleuriot Damien m

Re: Bring You Own Device(BYOD)

2012-10-04 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: In this age of BYOD, I am trying to see what we have out there in the FOSS world. Is there someone with a recommendation for a solution for implementing a BYOD for a team of about 50 or so? I have seen SAP Afaria

Re: Tape drive recommendations

2012-09-20 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Steve Bertrand steve.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I know this is a bit off-topic, but I'm looking for suggestions. In one of my corporate sites, I've got a Tandberg Magnum 2x24 dual 10-slot tape backup device that I feel is on its way out. The storage

Re: Problems with ssl certs

2012-09-17 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: I'm setting up a new server and plan on migrating a Wordpress blog to it. Right now the server does not resolve with DNS, because the server I'm migrating from is still up and running. (I'm in the setup and configure

Re: Problems with ssl certs

2012-09-17 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On September 17, 2012 5:31:25 PM -0700 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: I'm setting up a new server and plan on migrating

Re: Re[2]: vlan tagging in releng/8.3 not working

2012-08-15 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Eugen Konkov kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: RM On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Rick Miller RM vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi All, I am running the latest releng/8.3 on a HP DL360 with an Intel 82599 10G NIC using the ixgbe driver. Without vlan tagging,

Re: what is the best kind of KVM Switch?

2012-08-11 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: guys, can any of you with hardware background tell me which are the better KVM makes? about three weeks ago my Belkin soho 4-port kvm switch started going flakey on port #1. I

Re: Webpage screenshot

2012-08-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I'm searching for a simple way to create a screenshot from a web page, i. e. convert the rendered page into a PNG (or something similar) graphic format. This is intended to be used for usability and design visualization where

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-06 Thread Kurt Buff
Thank you for this. I didn't realize that a simple (somewhat technical) question asked in all innocence would generate so much flammage. Kurt On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:13 PM, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't there a lot of needless handwaving going on when the spec is pretty clear that

Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Kurt Buff
UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ This would seem to make compiling from source difficult. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: which FF ad blocker?

2012-02-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 17:06, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 18:57, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: which of the many adblockers should i try? thanks in advance for your insights! imho Add Block Plus is the best Agreed, and for further security, I

Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if necessary, but would prefer to have it down as little as possible. What are my options for getting it to a supported release - looking at the handbook it doesn't

Re: My tribute to Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
A fitting tribute, except for one line... On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 08:07, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: # grep -ir Ritchie /usr/src/* snip /usr/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music:04/14        Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) is born, 1945 I don't know if

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:03, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if necessary, but would prefer to have it down

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:49, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: You can do either.  However, it's probably easier to just download and burn the 7.4 or 8.2 image, and do an upgrade directly than it would be do upgrade via source to 7.0-RELEASE

Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 18:45, Lars Eighner portsu...@larseighner.com wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've just spun up a new 8.2-RELEASE VM, and gotten a fresh ports tree. I tried to install XFCE4, but it has ended with an error: ===    Verifying install for gcrypt.18

Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:32, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: In the Makefile I see the line     MASTER_SITES=   ${MASTER_SITE_GNUPG} which I'd bet controls how it finds what sites to visit, but don't know

libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-28 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've just spun up a new 8.2-RELEASE VM, and gotten a fresh ports tree. I tried to install XFCE4, but it has ended with an error: ===Verifying install for gcrypt.18 in /usr/ports/security/libgcrypt === License GPLv2 LGPL21 accepted by the user === Extracting for libgcrypt-1.5.0 =

zend.to and FreeBSD

2011-08-16 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I'm not seeing the app from http://zend.to in ports, and my google search reveals nobody working with it in FreeBSD. Still, it's promising enough that I thought I'd ask about it here, and see if anyone has tried it. If not, does anyone know of similar functionality running in FreeBSD?

Re: Best soloution(s) for handling all the varied media content on the web?

2011-08-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 19:14, Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: I'm just wondering what practical solutions people have arrived at for handling all the varied types of media on the web in their browser. I'd really like to be able to view sites like YouTube, etc. and Flash-enabled

pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
All, This seems fairly benign so far, but I find it happening on several machines after switching from portupgrade to portmaster. Don't know if that switch is actually part of the issue or not, though I'm really liking portmaster. Anyone have a thought on this? Thanks, Kurt # pkg_info | grep

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:17, John Webster jwebs...@es.net wrote: --On August 12, 2011 11:08:01 AM -0700 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: All, This seems fairly benign so far, but I find it happening on several machines after switching from portupgrade to portmaster. Don't know

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:15, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: This seems fairly benign so far, but I find it happening on several machines after switching from portupgrade to portmaster. Don't know if that switch is actually part of the issue

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:44, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: I'd never seen it with portupgrade, either.  Don't know the cause, but it can be a problem.  portmaster --check-depends might fix it.  A more

Re: extracting text from docx files

2011-08-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 06:36, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I often receive information in *.docx format from my MS using colleagues. Sometimes I can ask for a pdf (or similar) instead, but not always. Usually I unzip a docx and then search through all *xml  files to find the

Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers?

2011-07-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:37, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Hi, I hit this problem periodically when a lot of disk space is gone and it's hard to tell where did it go. Once it was thunderbird writing huge index file as a consequence of some bug, on another occasion it was the bug in KDE writing

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-07-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 15:30, Dr. A. Haakh bugrepor...@haakh.de wrote: Kurt Buff schrieb: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:31, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com  wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakhbugrepor...@haakh.de  wrote: Polytropon schrieb: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-07-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:31, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh bugrepor...@haakh.de wrote: Polytropon schrieb: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh bugrepor...@haakh.de wrote: Polytropon schrieb: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... Check if you

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 20:24, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... Check if you can download FreeSBIE somewhere

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh bugrepor...@haakh.de wrote: Polytropon schrieb: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... Check if you

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:21, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 06:40, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: Sitrep: Lenovo T61, dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD (amd64 8.1-RELEASE

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 20:24, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... Check if you can download FreeSBIE somewhere

Fwd: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
One more that should have made it to the list... Kurt On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 08:21, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 6/27/11 3:40 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:03, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 6/27/11 8:17 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: snip I've even downloaded

fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-27 Thread Kurt Buff
Sitrep: Lenovo T61, dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD (amd64 8.1-RELEASE) on a 500gb drive. Just did a freebsd-update from 8.1 to 8.2, just doing the second boot to do 'freebsd-update install' for the second time, and got dumped into the mountroot prompt. AFAICT, I managed somehow to write something

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:03, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 6/27/11 8:17 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: snip I've even downloaded and burned the 8.2 live boot iso, but it says it can't find a hard drive from sysinstall - both the Fdisk and Label options say      No disks found! Please verify

Fwd: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-27 Thread Kurt Buff
This should have gone to the list - sorry. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 07:17 Subject: Re: fubar'ed it good this time... To: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 06:40, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com

Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've googled a bunch, read some freebsd.org docs, and just can't figure this out. I have a script that should read the current date into a variable, append the time/date stamp at the beginning of the file created with the date in the variable, do a bunch of cURL stuff, then append a

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 13:25, pete wright nomadlo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: All, I've googled a bunch, read some freebsd.org docs, and just can't figure this out. I have a script that should read the current date

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
!  I'm sure many others have as well! G -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of pete wright Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 3:25 PM To: Kurt Buff Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Probably working too hard

Re: Remote access to Freebsd server

2011-04-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:40, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 13/04/2011 16:37, afiddler10 wrote: snip problem description and sage advice Edit the file /etc/rc.conf and add the line: sshd_enable=YES Then run this command as root: # /etc/rc.d/sshd start (you

Re: mountroot prompt in the middle of updating - can't get past it

2010-12-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 22:50, Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:49:41 -0800 Kurt Buff wrote: All, I have a Lenovo T61 with a 100g HD that I dual boot with FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE amd64 and Windows XP. FBSD is on ad0s2a, with ad0s2b as swap, and XP on ad0s1a. Yesterday I

Re: mountroot prompt in the middle of updating - can't get past it

2010-12-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:50, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: That worked... I think I'll try the update process again. Anything else you can recommend? Thanks, Did you read /usr/src/UPDATING ? Why, yes I

mountroot prompt in the middle of updating - can't get past it

2010-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I have a Lenovo T61 with a 100g HD that I dual boot with FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE amd64 and Windows XP. FBSD is on ad0s2a, with ad0s2b as swap, and XP on ad0s1a. Yesterday I booted up FBSD, started xfce4, started a terminal session, su'ed to root and did the following - running a generic kernel:

Problem building netdisco 1.0 from ports on FreeBSD

2010-12-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Working on 7.1 Release. Ports tree up to date, and a portupgrade -a done yesterday was successful. I did the following: # cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/netdisco # make install It bombs out with the below errors - I think it's an error in libXaw, but can't quite be sure. Any thoughts? Kurt ===

Re: Problem building netdisco 1.0 from ports on FreeBSD

2010-12-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:01, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Working on 7.1 Release. Ports tree up to date, and a portupgrade -a done yesterday was successful. I did the following: # cd  /usr/ports/net

Re: Problem building netdisco 1.0 from ports on FreeBSD

2010-12-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 14:33, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 14:27:48 -0800, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:01, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that the header files can't be found. Have you checked /usr/local

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 13:18, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:53:51 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: There are two options that I know of that could make this part easier for you 1) screen (tried and true) can do split windows/multiple windows

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 06:53, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote:   Yes, I found that, good info.  I'm relying on the freebsd.org site man pages and documentation among others, as I'm finding it too inconvenient

Re: Freebsd-update not working for me

2010-10-04 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 22:25, Jason jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:45:46PM -0700, Kurt Buff thus spake: Weird little problem here... I've got a 7.1-RELEASE box I'm trying to get to 8.1-RELEASE. I was able to do 'freebsd-update -install' and get the security patches

Freebsd-update not working for me

2010-10-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Weird little problem here... I've got a 7.1-RELEASE box I'm trying to get to 8.1-RELEASE. I was able to do 'freebsd-update -install' and get the security patches and all, but 'freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade' fails - see output below. Can anyone point me in the right direction to start

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 06:46, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Jules == Jules Gilbert jules.sto...@gmail.com writes: Jules Look, I'm just a user.  I'm not a Java developer, not a language Jules developer, not a run-time specialist.  But folks, we got problems!  I Jules say

Moving from one port to another

2010-08-28 Thread Kurt Buff
Right now I've got an installation of squid 3.0.24, and want to move to the 3.1 branch. I could just do a 'make deinstall' on the current version, then do 'make install' in the 3.1 port, but I'm wondering if there's a smarter way to do this. Kurt ___

Re: Moving from one port to another

2010-08-28 Thread Kurt Buff
wrote: portupgrade, perhaps? On Aug 28, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: Right now I've got an installation of squid 3.0.24, and want to move to the 3.1 branch. I could just do a 'make deinstall' on the current version, then do 'make install' in the 3.1 port, but I'm wondering if there's

Re: Moving from one port to another

2010-08-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 14:33, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:56:09 -0700 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I've got an installation of squid 3.0.24, and want to move to the 3.1 branch. I could just do a 'make deinstall' on the current version

Re: Moving from one port to another

2010-08-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 21:51, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Portupgrade won't, AFAIK, cross branches, though I could be wrong about that. There's a 3.0 branch in /usr/ports/www/squid30 and a 3.1 branch in /usr

Re: Status of Java in FreeBSD? (OpenSolaris is dead)

2010-08-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:57, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:59:20PM +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote: Hi all, Now that OpenSolaris is dead [1] I was wondering what the status of Java is in FreeBSD. [1]

Re: Installing wget

2010-08-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:20, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Hi All, I started an instal of wget from ports - /usr/ports/ftp/wget It comes up with some selections and I mistakenly selected GNUTLS. Now I constantly get  GNUTLS and OPENSSL are mutually exclusive, enable at most one

Upgrading Apache fails - I don't understand why, exactly

2010-07-27 Thread Kurt Buff
Trying to do the following on a couple of machines: # portupgrade apache-2.2.14_5 I get a lot of churning, then this: find: /usr/local/include/apr-1/apr.h: No such file or directory find: /usr/local/include/apr-1/apr_allocator.h: No such file or directory find:

Re: Upgrading Apache fails - I don't understand why, exactly

2010-07-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 16:14, Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: On 2010-07-27 23:47, Kurt Buff wrote: Trying to do the following on a couple of machines:      # portupgrade apache-2.2.14_5 snip I've grepped through the port and haven't found anything that mentions

Re: Upgrading Apache fails - Solved

2010-07-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 16:14, Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: On 2010-07-27 23:47, Kurt Buff wrote: Trying to do the following on a couple of machines:      # portupgrade apache-2.2.14_5 snip I've grepped through the port and haven't found anything that mentions

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 13:34, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Sun Jun  6 23:47:34 2010 Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 00:44:45 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: office apps On Mon, Jun 7,

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:02, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:39:46 +, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: As for directions: Use your choice of programming language to write a program that will call file(1) to determine filesystem, mount the

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:58, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:47:24 -0700, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: No, Denial of Service would be DoS. He's talking about Disk Operating System. Funny, though. Well, and Disk Operating System is a language

Re: Routers, switches, and networking hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 14:46, Lee Shackelford lee_shackelf...@dot.ca.gov wrote: Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast.  Is anyone aware of any brand name of router, switch, or other similar networking hardware that is based on any variant of the BSD operating system?  Any comments are

Re: Routers, switches, and networking hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 15:52, Nick Evans nev...@talkpoint.com wrote: On Mar 26, 2010, at 18:05, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 14:46, Lee Shackelford lee_shackelf...@dot.ca.gov wrote: Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast.  Is anyone aware of any brand name

Re: is there a tool for estimating loss rates

2010-02-18 Thread Kurt Buff
2010/2/18 Yavuz Maşlak yavuz.mas...@netiletisim.net: I have 2 leasedlines for internet. the one is in a country. other one is in a another country. I am looking for a tool for estimating loss packets between 2 lines. is there a tool for it? for instance , while searching, I found badabing

Re: curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-10 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 21:05, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Feb 09), Kurt Buff said: Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it's a curl and squid question. I'm trying to determine the cause of a major slowdown in web browsing on our network, so I've put

Re: curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-10 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:03, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Feb 10), Kurt Buff said: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 21:05, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Feb 09), Kurt Buff said: Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it's a curl

curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-09 Thread Kurt Buff
Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it's a curl and squid question. I'm trying to determine the cause of a major slowdown in web browsing on our network, so I've put curl on the squid box, and am using the following incantations to see if I can determine the cause of the slowdown:

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:48, Joe Springer joe...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For example, samba. I found that   pkg_add -r samba fails. I need to

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 14:42, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote: Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal are started at boot.  Follow the handbook for best results. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html I'm sure I started them

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 15:29, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote: I can't speak to the rest, but WRT the GUI, I suspect you'll find it a lot easier if you install a Window Manager to handle a lot of this. I have found xfce4 to be a good one for me - gnome and kde were a bit much. Once I

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 16:23, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote: snip So, given what you've written below, you probably know more about this stuff than I do. Cool. I will echo the advice already given, however: add dbus_enable=YES hald_enable=YES to your /etc/rc.conf. That will most

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 03:33, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical

Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?

2009-12-21 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:17, Eric Le Goff eleg...@gmail.com wrote: Have a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr I had a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr I am quite new in FreeBsd but in my case it does not work , ie : I start a xfce4 session for a (non-root) user open the wifimgr from  the

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-11 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:53, J Sisson sisso...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/11 Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) svein-listm...@stillbilde.net The easiest way of brute-forcing access to a FreeBSD server includes locating the sysadmin and applying the common desk drawer. It's that simple.

OTish: Alternative to MS Live?

2009-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
All, Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the firewall and install the MS client on a number of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing for this. That makes me vaguely nauseous, for several security reasons (the client is historically vulnerable, poking holes in firewalls is risky, and

Re: OTish: Alternative to MS Live?

2009-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 15:03, Dimitri Yioulos dyiou...@firstbhph.com wrote: On Tuesday 08 December 2009 5:50:46 pm Kurt Buff wrote: All, Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the firewall and install the MS client on a number of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing

Re: 7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

2009-12-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 01:16, Tijl Coosemans t...@coosemans.org wrote: On Sunday 29 November 2009 22:47:56 Kurt Buff wrote: I've gotten Flash and Java going with Firefox, as root, using the directions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html

Re: 7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

2009-12-02 Thread Kurt Buff
Martín Moro CamTrace {EPITECH.} tek4 Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ...                      Xorg.conf(5) On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 01:16, Tijl Coosemans t...@coosemans.org wrote: On Sunday 29

7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

2009-11-29 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've gotten Flash and Java going with Firefox, as root, using the directions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html However, I can't get it going as a standard user. When I run 'nspluginwrapper -v -a -i' I get the following:

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 16:08, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:     so: what is the URL to download the 8.0-PRE freebsd?

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:32, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Yuri y...@rawbw.com: Besides, if it's not there, how are you going to send mail from things like cron? Postfix. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 00:16, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Monday 26 October 2009 21:29:27 Yuri wrote: It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. How many people actually use it? Very few. Why isn't it moved to ports? What is this anti-sendmail obsession people have? Almost everyone

Re: SVG and dependence on Firefox2.x?

2009-09-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:55, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: 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

Re: Approx. restore time estimate

2009-09-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 16:36, jaymax jayma...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks! That might explain. Is there an alternate process you would recommend with at least equal reliability. BTW I should have mentioned that I was restoring from a disk file rather than from a tape Thanks again. IME,

SVG and dependence on Firefox2.x?

2009-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
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 then the installation of these graphics programs fails. Not a huge deal, but

Re: SVG and dependence on Firefox2.x?

2009-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 15:15, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: 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

wpi0 went away, though a reboot cures it.

2009-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
Today, after leaving my Lenovo T61 on overnight to do some compiles, I lost my wireless. I tried a few other things that what I've listed below, but none of it worked. This is a dual boot machine - I also run Windows XP, and don't have any issues with wireless on that OS. Any clues would be

Re: Daily security report oddity...

2009-09-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 00:23, Mark Stapperst...@mapper.nl wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: I got a daily security run email from one of my machines on Monday morning, with the following entry:      zmx1.zetron.com login failures:      Aug 30 06:57:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp2

Re: Daily security report oddity...

2009-09-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:03, Dan Nelsondnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Sep 02), Kurt Buff said: snip Heh. Well, for me a very long time is more than a year, because security patches for the OS will at some point mandate a reboot - and usually in less than a year. I

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