Re: DHCP release/renew lease - elegant solution?

2008-10-17 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:24:00 -0700 Nerius Landys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The -r flag explicitly releases the current lease, and once the lease has been released, the client exits. I could put this into a crontab and run it every 12 hours. However, this does not seem like a

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread RW
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Luke Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote: Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these rules[*], use of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely prevent the

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread RW
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:58:44 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi__: Many people recommend SPF for backscatter, but I've yet to hear a cogent argument for why it helps beyond the very optimistic hope that spammers will check that their spam is spf compliant. I

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-16 Thread RW
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:43:48 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What Michael's describing is a feature many DSL modems offer. There is no official term for what it is, They are commonly referred to as half-bridge modems. The reason this feature is HIGHLY desired is because not

Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread RW
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:18:10 +0200 Michal Kulczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7. I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with it.

Re: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

2008-10-10 Thread RW
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:51:16 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:45:04PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I just set up a new server with a very restricted PF configuration. One problem: I can no longer install software with ports (i.e, the / usr/ports

Re: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

2008-10-10 Thread RW
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:41:40 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:54:32PM +0100, RW wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:51:16 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: passive ftp has been the default for long time, fetch is called with the -p option

Re: Fwd: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

2008-10-10 Thread RW
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:16:29 -0400 John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: See the fetch(1) man page. Try this first: sh/bash: export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=true csh: setenv FTP_PASSIVE_MODE true First off, this did solve the problem.

Re: Update System from 6.1 to last 6 Release with NOT generic Kernel...

2008-10-09 Thread RW
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:08:42 -0300 Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys... Just wanted to check a few things before crapping my system..hehehe I am planning on updating the system from 6.1 to the last 6.3-RELEASE p5 i think it isaccording to the freebsd-update.sh... I am plannin on

Re: daily/weekly/monthly periodic output

2008-10-09 Thread RW
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:52:14 -0400 Corey Dulecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is this: How can I make it so that these periodic processes simply log their messages instead of sending emails that get stuck in clientmqueue? Take a look at the *_output variables in

Re: update.FreeBSD.org / No mirrors remaining, giving up

2008-10-07 Thread RW
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:55:24 +1100 Edwin Groothuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ freebsd-update fetch Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. I've heard this before and it is caused by resolvers (most likely your

Re: From konsole, konq:

2008-10-07 Thread RW
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:13:33 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I get con my knosole: p8 1:20 tao [5112] konqueror konqueror: WARNING: Can't open /usr/home/kline/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype not

Re: From konsole, konq:

2008-10-07 Thread RW
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:17:37 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is getting stranger and stranger. I did a pkg_delete -f kde, but/ p8 13:08 tao [5146] which konqueror /usr/local/bin/konqueror That's normal, the kde3 port is just

Re: how to break portsnap

2008-10-07 Thread RW
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:56:37 -0700 Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've googled high low but I cannot find much other that this cannot happen replies. I've got a dual boot to amd64 and i386. The amd64 hasn't been able to portsnap fetch or cron since march. The i386 I just installed,

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-03 Thread RW
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:58:54 -0500 Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an AMD system with 6GB of RAM. From dmesg: usable memory = 6428237824 (6130 MB) avail memory = 6203797504 (5916 MB) However, most of it is just sitting there when it looks like it could be used for

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-03 Thread RW
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:14:35 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never been 100% clear on the exact differences, but it basically has to do with where the data in RAM came from. Depending on whether it was a VM page, or a disk page will determine what bucket it goes into when it

Re: port marked as IGNORE ?

2008-10-03 Thread RW
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:26:04 -0400 Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I portupgrade, I see this [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# portupgrade -a [Updating the pkgdb format:dbm_hash in /var/db/pkg ... - 369 packages found (-2 +1) (...). done] ** Port marked as IGNORE: misc/ldconfig_compat:

Re: The consequences of turning off sendmail

2008-09-28 Thread RW
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:20:40 -0400 Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can turn off the Sendmail daemon so that it does not actually listen for incoming connections or act as an MTA in the conventional sense. But local utilities like cron can

Re: sound card and freebsd v7.0

2008-09-27 Thread RW
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:44:07 +1000 jonathan michaels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i do not understand this .. i mean i do not understant how freebsd can take a drive with the cylinders/heads/sectors that produces xxx million sectors that muitiplied by 512 bytes producs 120 gb (real gb) solaris

Re: using /dev/random

2008-09-26 Thread RW
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:33:34 +0100 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:52:07 -0400 kern.random.sys.seeded is just a flag that gets set to 1 on each reseed. IIRC it's also initialized to 1 so it doesn't actually do anything very useful. Except tell

Re: ccache on amd64

2008-09-24 Thread RW
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:00:07 +0200 Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since it fails on the link, I wonder if the wrong linker is called by ccache. I'll see what I can find out when it quiets down, right now machine is under heavy load. (It might just be the path you set in /etc/profile. I use

Re: using /dev/random

2008-09-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:51:02 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The canonical way is to use the functions random(), or srandom() or srandomdev() or arc4random() depending on what you need the random data for. /dev/random is really only useful for seeding these functions (some

Re: using /dev/random

2008-09-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:39:35 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:51:02 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you really want to roll-your-own and not use these functions then you could read blocks from /dev/random and run a Chi-square and Monte Carlo

Re: blocksize when using dd to copy disks? bigger = better?

2008-09-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:37:00 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:04:13AM -0400, Joachim Rosenfeld wrote: When mirroring a disk with dd, I notice that a blocksize of 512 runs awfully slow, but with bs=1MB (2^10bytes), it runs fairly quickly. Can

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:17:21 +0200 (CEST) Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've bought a usb connected disk to use as backup, and I've been thinking about trying to make the data as available as possible. Do anyone here have any suggestion about what kind of filesystem would be

Re: using /dev/random

2008-09-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:52:07 -0400 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the canonical way to get data from /dev/random? Specifically: having opened the file, how do I read the stream? I'm currently using union { float f;

Re: quick slice question..

2008-09-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:33:41 -0400 B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have slices a, d, e, f, g, and h.. I wouldn't be able to get one more would I? I've never tried it myself, but I've heard that it's possible to nest FreeBSD partitions indefinitely - leading to an unlimited number of

Re: FSJ clone

2008-09-22 Thread RW
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:53:06 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: something.___a, something__b... I'd try joining with cat, and then unraring or unzipping. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-21 Thread RW
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Nash Nipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but even if you kill -SEGV `pgrep this` (Segmentation fault (core dumped) the memory is getting freed anyway (presumably by the glorious kernel). which you can see dynamicly by typing top in the console. The idea

Re: FSJ clone

2008-09-21 Thread RW
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:07:48 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i try cat, but it doesn't seem right, The files i download are components of a movie, but after I cat them, mplayer can't read them. also the original post showed password is required when putting files together.

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA and update to RELEASE

2008-09-17 Thread RW
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:29:55 -0400 Michael Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Beta installs and runs successfully you won't have any problem updating the system when 7.1-Release makes it out the door. It should be very straightforward if you later upgrade to RELENG_7_1 by from source, I

Re: kde4 build time

2008-09-12 Thread RW
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:29:28 + Desmond Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally have kde4 building. How long will the process take? It's been two days thus far and it isn't finished. Impossible to say based on the information provided, but it is huge. Keep an eye on /usr if it's a

Re: automagically share knoqueror with ff3-- bookmarks?

2008-09-12 Thread RW
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:48:03 +0200 Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:57:40 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way, short of writing my own program, to use the tens of bookmarks i've set up under konq and drop them into firefox3? Because I'm

Re: setup cronjob

2008-09-11 Thread RW
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:12:35 -0400 Darrell Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have wrote a small script put it in my home directory. I am trying to setup a cronjob to run it every six hours. When it runs the job I receive the error message /usr/home/test/cronjobs/test.sh: not found I

Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

2008-09-09 Thread RW
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:43:14 -0400 Sean Cavanaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never fully trusted portsnap. I do run portsnap fetch before every portupgrade but I always follow it up with CVSUP and I usually find some more files that get changed anyway. portsnap fetch doesn't affect your

Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

2008-09-09 Thread RW
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:57:16 -0700 perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Michael Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Please don't top-post. Unless you have a specific overriding reason to do -Uu you might want to try -uF instead. It's what I use and it's always

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-07 Thread RW
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:28:28 -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we've got it

Re: portsnap in cron and firewall

2008-09-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:14:02 +0200 Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I've some servers for internal use. On those servers I have some pf (or ipfw) rule to deny any connection from inside to outside. Long time ago when ports tree is update with cvs, I'm using something like

Re: portsnap in cron and firewall

2008-09-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:49:26 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:14:02 +0200 Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But now with portsnap cron (that's mean random sleep) I don't known when the system try to connect outside. You can do this sleep `jot -r 1 0 3599

Re: KDE4 and plasma icons

2008-09-04 Thread RW
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:12:38 -0400 Eduardo Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just installed kde4 on FBSD 7-stable and I start it I get the plasma with some icons like the trash icon but all of them are a simple file icon with a question mark on them. I try to change them and tells me that I

Re: upgrading kdeartwork to version 4.1.1 fetch error in ports

2008-09-04 Thread RW
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Dino Vliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi peeps,I want to upgrade my kde41 installation and the kdeartwork port gives me troubles. I can't seem to fetch the files due to some checksum mismatch. Delete the file and start again. If that fails, update your

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread RW
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:16:08 -0800 Peter Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And Safari is based on KDE's Konquerer (which already runs on FreeBSD), so with a FreeBSD version of Chrome, you would essentially have Konquerer ported to Apple, ported to Microsoft, ported to Linux, ported back to

Re: Setting an environment var at boot

2008-09-03 Thread RW
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 11:28:14 +0200 Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:49:25 +0200, Nicolas Letellier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What file do you advice? Unclean, but maybe early enough in the boot process: /etc/rc.local. This file won't be touched at port's or system's

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread RW
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:59:28 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyway what a point of using google software having other alternatives. do you really like to everything be controlled by one company? google mail, google news, google browser, even google documents.

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread RW
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:39:01 -0500 David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:13:35PM +0100, RW wrote: For most people that's already happened, except that it's Adobe-Flash WWW. Google's approach of open-source software, and open-extensions, leading to new standards

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread RW
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:47:34 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For most people that's already happened, except that it's Adobe-Flash WWW. Google's approach of open-source software, and open-extensions, leading to new standards, sounds a lot better to me. except it

Re: SYSCTL error message upon bootup

2008-09-02 Thread RW
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:11:20 -0400 Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For no apparent reason, the following error message has suddenly started showing up when I reboot the machine: sysctl: unknown oid 'net.fibs' I am running FBSD-6.3 presently. Is this error important and if so, what can I

Re: Cron Question

2008-09-02 Thread RW
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:40:37 -0500 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the lockfile command ( from the procmail port ) to ensure that recurring cron jobs don't overlap if one run takes too long. For example, to run mrtg on a 1-minute cycle but prevent multiple mrtgs from running if one

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread RW
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:53:36 -0500 J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - ) One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The default in sysinstall is to enable it

Re: OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-29 Thread RW
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:21:40 -0500 Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:17 PM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is also NTFS through ntfs-3g ,which is available for all of the above (sysutils/fusefs-ntfs on FreeBSD). Having a native Windows filesystem

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread RW
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:13:40 +0200 Eduardo Morras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, if you check a NTFS disk after some work, it's heavily fragmented. As you fill it and work with it, it becomes more and more fragmented. How did you measure it? AFAIK the percentage fragmentation figures

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread RW
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:43:40 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you will get block arranged like this (where 1 is file 1's data,2 is data from file 2 and 3 from file 3): 123123123123123123123123213213 This is just untrue. I don't much like Microsoft, but I don't

Re: defrag

2008-08-27 Thread RW
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:08:47 -0400 Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's true about FAT. What I have never understood is why Microsoft didn't fix the problem when they designed NTFS. UFS and EXT2 both existed at that time, and neither needs periodic defragmentation. I think they

Re: I can't make world without the games group?

2008-08-26 Thread RW
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:20:31 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have wondered if it might be reasonable to put a bunch of (more) of that sort of stuff in a select list during installation so a user can choose right then if certain things will be retained or dropped on the

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:49:56 +0100 Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Receiving mail directly will be more possible, but tricky. You will need to use a dynamic DNS system. Also do consider uptime and reliability. In the old days, if one MTA couldn't

Re: space char shell script problem

2008-08-23 Thread RW
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:19:42 -0400 David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running into a problem with the space character in filenames. For instance, If I want to run the script; for x in `ls` do echo $x done for x in * ___

Re: OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-22 Thread RW
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:13:29 -0500 Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't help myself. During lunch, I found a 3.5 1TB SATA internal HD **and** a USB2 HD enclosure for SATA drives on sale at large % discounts. It was more than I could resist. The operating systems in my home

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-19 Thread RW
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:57:32 +0200 Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the good old times, you could update your applications and they ran faster on the same hardware. That's what I've loved FreeBSD for. Today, the applications run slower after every update, so I have to update my

Re: Fetching precompiled packages for external install

2008-08-19 Thread RW
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:50:51 +0200 Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:39:48 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see anything direct, but the *-depends-list targets will probably get you close enough to work it out. Sorry, I don't know what

Re: How to use dig with an ip list

2008-08-18 Thread RW
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:03:36 -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I'm missing the obvious. I want to use an IP list to generate an ip+hostname list. IOW, I want to go from this: x.x.x.x y.y.y.y to this; x.x.x.x foo.domain.tld y.y..y.y bar.domain.tld What's the

Re: megaupload download script

2008-08-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:27:04 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use service from megaupload, i wonder if there is a script that can automatically download each file, one after the other without me clicking myself? thank you!! There's a Java application called JDownloader.

Re: Working ccache configuration for buildworld on amd64?

2008-08-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:22:01 -0400 Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what's happening is that there is a collision in hash values generated by ccache. That's the only thing I can think of, because crt1.c is compiled twice; once from /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c, and a second

Re: rc.d ?

2008-08-15 Thread RW
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:01:26 -0400 kalin m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all... i used to be able to put startup scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. now on a new 7 install i have the scripts there but after restart nothing happens What kind of scripts are they? Are they old-style simple

Re: Working ccache configuration for buildworld on amd64?

2008-08-15 Thread RW
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:04:52 -0400 Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an old problem, but so far I haven't been able to find a solution. When ccache is used to build world on amd64, the process fails when /usr/src/lib/csu/i386-elf/crt1.c is compiled. If WITHOUT_LIB32 is added to

Re: Add CONFIGURE_ARGS option for port in make.conf

2008-08-07 Thread RW
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:04:23 +0200 Matthias Kellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I want to compile a port with an option that is not controllable through the FreeBSD Makefile or with make config. ... So I added an option to make.conf(5): .if ${.CURDIR:M*/lang/php4}

Re: Periodic scripts running twice

2008-08-04 Thread RW
On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:21:36 -0500 CyberLeo Kitsana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! For a while, I've noticed odd behavior with periodic scripts installed by certain ports (portaudit) as well as ones I've penned myself (corescan), in that they appear to be run twice in succession every time.

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-03 Thread RW
On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 05:57:00 -0300 Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 August 2008 05:41:19 you wrote: Well, yes. `portsnap cron update` if running from cron. My point was that you can do fetch and update in one operation :) Oh sure ! But check this out, this is

Re: get periodic to not scan a partition

2008-08-02 Thread RW
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 06:22:17 -0400 B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all, I have a machine doing backups with backuppc (excellent program btw) and I have them being stored in /exports /dev/ad4s1h 57G 31G 21G60%/exports /dev/ad4s1h on /exports (ufs, local,

Re: get periodic to not scan a partition

2008-08-02 Thread RW
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 08:30:20 -0400 B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 2, 2008, at 8:19 AM, RW wrote: On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 06:22:17 -0400 B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all, I have a machine doing backups with backuppc (excellent program btw) and I have them being

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-02 Thread RW
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 15:50:48 +0200 mcassar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: firstly - i have installed kde3 and xfce4 from packages (like most of it - xorg,etc) and have tried updates before with different results. i don't mind messing things up, as long as i can somehow surf or check mails - but

Re: I can't make world without the games group?

2008-08-02 Thread RW
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 18:48:27 +0200 Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adding WITHOUT_GAMES=YES to /etc/src.conf most certainly didn't work. Why does FreeBSD pack so much, pardon my language, bullshit anyway? It's largely a consequence of having a coherent OS, rather than a kernel and

Re: I can't make world without the games group?

2008-08-01 Thread RW
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:31:22 +0200 Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Why can't I make world without the games group? I run a serious server, not a kindergarten ;) I don't want the games group there, I just don't need it! Games is a bit of a misnomer, Most of the old FreeBSD

Re: Bypassing Transparent Proxy

2008-07-31 Thread RW
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:57:26 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Jay Hall wrote: Is there an easy way to bypass the proxy server when accessing this one address? Instead of in the firewall, you can do that with squid:

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-29 Thread RW
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:12:16 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that encrypting the partitions where the OS lives is not particularly usefull; there is nothing secret there. On the contrary, it would potentially make the encrypted partition vulnerable to a known plaintext

Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies

2008-07-27 Thread RW
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:52:56 +0200 bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS server. I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X___ This has been useless!! I am now ending up with 250 apps in the

Re: disk encryption; hidden containers

2008-07-22 Thread RW
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:47:42 +0200 cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:56:24AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: My preliminary searches on the subject suggest that neither GBDE nor GELI encryption offers hidden volume/container capabilities. Are there any plans for

Re: Default config for claws-mail

2008-07-21 Thread RW
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:31:58 -0400 David Gurvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like to use claws-mail with the bogofilter plugin as it is fast and simple. The package is built without bogofilter and I wondered why that is so. Does having claws-mail built with bogofilter conflict with something

Re: Very Beginning CVSup Questions

2008-07-21 Thread RW
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:08:37 -0400 J.C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a beginner with FreeBSD and somewhat intermediate with Unix-like operating systems in general, so please bear the nature of my questions. I have some questions about CVSup that seem unclear from the handbook. Right now I'm

Re: Very Beginning CVSup Questions

2008-07-21 Thread RW
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:08:03 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:08:37 -0400, J.C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Using the Ports Collection page in the handbook says to make sure /usr/ports is empty before running csup because otherwise csup will not

Re: Video Card Info

2008-07-19 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Liddell writes: im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within FreeBSD with this particular video card ? I use an

Re: How to prevent certain gnome apps from being installed ...

2008-07-19 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:26:42 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time gnome desktop is upgraded via portupgrade it reinstalls a bunch of applications that I had previously removed using pkg_delete. For example, since I only use firefox as my browser there's no need to also have epiphany

Re: Kernel mode PPPoE or User mode PPPoE

2008-07-19 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:14:40 +0530 ___ Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I wanted to know if I'm using user-mode PPPoE or kernel-mode PPPoE. I'm following the handbook[1] to setup my PPPoE interface. Is there any way I can figure out this ? If you are

Re: disk encryption; hidden containers

2008-07-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:56:24 -0600 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My preliminary searches on the subject suggest that neither GBDE nor GELI encryption offers hidden volume/container capabilities. Are you talking about steganography? ___

Re: disk encryption; hidden containers

2008-07-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:06:57 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:56:24 -0600 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My preliminary searches on the subject suggest that neither GBDE nor GELI encryption offers hidden volume/container capabilities. Are you talking

Re: why is this script failing?

2008-07-17 Thread RW
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:03:32 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:42:13PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: You might consider adding something like setenv TMPDIR /home/dkelly/tmp setenv TMP /home/dkelly/tmp There are also KDEVARTMP and KDETMP which are

Re: why is this script failing?

2008-07-16 Thread RW
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:52:59 +0930 Wayne Sierke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:42 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: you can always do find /tmp/kde-*/ -iname *wav -print0 | xargs -0 rm -vf the advantage over doing using rm * or for * in ... is that if you have LOTS

Re: why is this script failing?

2008-07-16 Thread RW
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:08:56 +0930 Wayne Sierke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except that the -delete primary of find is not the equivalent of rm -vf, or even of just rm -f. Obviously, but the -vf options weren't in the original script, they were added as an illustration by an intermediate post.

Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2

2008-07-14 Thread RW
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:35:42 -0700 Mark Boolootian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which leads me to conclude I've got -p3, including the BIND update. However 'uname -a' says something else: FreeBSD mumble.ucsc.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed I don't use freebsd-update myself,

Re: why is this script failing?

2008-07-14 Thread RW
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:56:27 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right of course, and for the most bothersome hundreds of wav and log files this works: You might also consider adding clear_tmp_enable=yes to rc.conf, and daily_clean_tmps_enable=yes to periodic.conf, to delete

Re: Windows Firefox in Wine: Ugly Fonts

2008-07-14 Thread RW
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:00:49 +0300 Razmig K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross Cameron a __crit : You have two options to resolve this issue: Copy the fonts folder over from a WinXP/Vista install to the relevant wine bottle.or Install the winetricks tool and let it install all

Re: upgrading a 6.3 box using portsnap and freebsd-update

2008-07-12 Thread RW
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:25:34 -0700 David Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: === The textproc/p5-Text-ParseWords port has been deleted: Module included in core perl === Aborting update Running pkg_delete reveals dependencies: pkg_delete: package 'p5-Text-ParseWords-3.1' is required by

Re: Linux for freebsd admins

2008-07-11 Thread RW
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:29:35 -0400 Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to install a linux machine and don't know which distribution to take. I tried debian ubuntu and fedora and didn't like them. I want: - A basic install (not 900 packages installed by default - No gui, I like

Re: Locate command

2008-07-10 Thread RW
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:48:02 -0500 Paul Procacci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rem P Roberti wrote: Whenever I do a locate command on a new installation I get this message: locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database Can someone give me a heads up on how to fix this? Run this

Re: Which VIA CPUs have hardware RNG support?

2008-07-10 Thread RW
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:31:36 -0400 Joseph Gleason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to figure out which VIA CPUs support hardware RNG under recent FreeBSD. I've been looking at things on 7.0-RELEASE-p2. If there is something that else I should be looking at, please let me know. Based

Re: mail not work

2008-07-10 Thread RW
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:06:01 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Did you do anything to enable Sendmail (the default mail transfer agent)? It's enabled by default on localhost. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-02 Thread RW
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:26:16 -0700 Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I'll look up the diskd docs for squid, and see what that's all about. I'm not sure that diskd is still preferred for FreeBSD. The three cache types: ufs,aufs and diskd are all the same on disk. diskd is ufs with

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-02 Thread RW
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:15:58 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure that diskd is still preferred for FreeBSD. i don't know what is preferred. i know what works. only ufs and diskd is reliable, The squid developers recommend aufs:

Re: Upgrade and change distro?

2008-07-02 Thread RW
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:13:11 -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On July 2, 2008 5:51:06 PM -0400 Sean Cavanaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AMD64 is for 64-bit chips from AMD and Intel. whether it is multi-core is beside. run i386 still if you want/need 32-bit operating system.

Re: 7.0 No Sound: emu10k1

2008-06-30 Thread RW
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:28:37 -0400 David Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the hint. snd_emu10kx instead of snd_emu10k1 (doh!) I knew it had to be something simple. Everything is working great now. For future reference there's an easy way to find the correct driver. You kldload

Re: Unable to fetch source files using FTP for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2

2008-06-27 Thread RW
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:50:14 -0400 David Gurvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, You just need to change the release name to 7.0-RELEASE. Use sysinstall and change it in Options or a source supfile with that release name. Does that actually work? I'd always assumed that that would give you

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