Re: is this for OO-2 for FBSD?

2007-10-30 Thread RW
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:21:25 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'm in the middle of upgrading some platforms and just caught OOo_OOG680_m6_source.tar.bz2 (278MB) being downloaded. The port says that this is OO-2.3, but the build says Ishould have

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-10-30 Thread RW
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:50:40 + Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been drawn to my attention not to use bash from the ports collection, because if one of it's dependencies (gettext or libiconv) fails or is updated significantly, it could break, and prevent login. It's only

Re: telnet mydomain.ild 465 : connection closed

2007-10-30 Thread RW
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:18:17 + dhaneshk k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to use TELNET machine ip 465 from another machine : then I checke d the maillog this is the O/P this is the o/p : telnet mydomain.tld 465 Trying 63.19.25.1... Connected to mydomain.net (63.19.25.1).

Re: Harddisk encryption with geli: key's block size

2007-10-27 Thread RW
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:40:00 +0200 Thomas Hobbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to encrypt my mobile computer's data-partition with a passphrase, 128 bit AES and HMAC/MD5. A lot of people use different block sizes to generate keys with dd. There are examples with block sizes of 64,

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread RW
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:38:39 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:49 -0400 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade

Re: Name resolution

2007-10-27 Thread RW
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:42:02 -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have been trying to tame the use of the ports mechanisms. I set up a system with a static ip connection to the internet and when I run: pkg_add -r csup-without-gui (verbatim from the freebsd handbook I

Re: portmaster question

2007-10-25 Thread RW
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:50:10 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 10:11 -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, i been using portmaster for a while when upgrading my ports, often times when there are some problems in certain ports, e.g. jdk, i will use -x jdk so i can

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-25 Thread RW
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:32:35 -0700 Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johan Andersson wrote: On 10/25/2007 11:47 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Any good oneliner for rebuild all the ports that you recommend? portupgrade -afO Personally I prefer portupgrade -f '2007-10-25 11:00' since

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-25 Thread RW
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:59:01 -0700 Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:32:35 -0700 Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johan Andersson wrote: On 10/25/2007 11:47 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Any good oneliner for rebuild all the ports that you

Can't overwrite a particular swap partition

2007-10-24 Thread RW
I have two swap partitions, ad4s1b is part of my main slice, and ad6s1b is on a second drive. The permissions are the same, but I can't overwrite the second one. The same thing happens whether I use swapoff or reboot into single user mode. What's the difference? # dd if=/dev/random

Re: forcing compilation/run time linking of lib32 on amd64

2007-10-24 Thread RW
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:49:24 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing some demo code (for teaching C) ... showing that int's are always word length s/always/typically/ C has been around for a long time and there is always a counter-example to any sweeping generalisation

Re: Can't overwrite a particular swap partition

2007-10-24 Thread RW
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:39:20 +0100 Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: I have two swap partitions, ad4s1b is part of my main slice, and ad6s1b is on a second drive. The permissions are the same, but I can't overwrite the second one. The same thing happens whether I use swapoff

Re: forcing compilation/run time linking of lib32 on amd64

2007-10-24 Thread RW
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:56:50 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:49:24 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing some demo code (for teaching C) ... showing that int's are always word length s/always

Re: user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-23 Thread RW
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:50:15 -0600 Gary Aitken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to change a DSL link from using PPPoE in the DSL modem to doing PPPoE on 6.1, with the modem in bridging mode. I've put the DSL modem in bridging mode, and it brings up the link properly -- or at least it

Re: oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

2007-10-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:42:46 +0330 Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-22 Juri Mianovich wrote: I am used to using this command in Linux, using GNU dd: dd if=/blah of=/bleh oflag=append conv=notrunc The problem is, FreeBSD 'dd' does not understand the oflag argument.

Re: OT: UltraDNS and dor org domains.

2007-10-22 Thread RW
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:43:06 -0500 DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We just put our replacement DNS servers online, djbdns replacing Bind. In testing with the few domains we have moved to the new servers we began getting intermittent failures for some clients. It is only dot org domains,

Re: ports and dependencies

2007-10-20 Thread RW
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:30:18 +0200 Roberth Sjonøy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was compiling and installing mplayer plugin from ports, but I noticed something strange, this port depended on firefox, I'm not an firefox user, so I wonder, how do I make mplayer-plugin not depend firefox?

Re: Updating Ports

2007-10-19 Thread RW
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:22:03 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW writes: You don't have to set anything globally in make.conf, you can do it like this: .if ${.CURDIR:M*/net-mgmt/net-snmp} WITH_TKMIB=yes .endif That looks good. and that can

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-19 Thread RW
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:02:29 + Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64) machine without rebooting what is better wine or... AFAIK Wine can't run any Windows OS, it runs individual applications.

Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box.

2007-10-19 Thread RW
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:07:55 +0200 J65nko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the section Compatibility problems of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_window_scale_option TCP Window Scaling is widely implemented in the Windows Vista operating system. Because many routers do not properly implement

Re: Updating Ports

2007-10-19 Thread RW
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:46:55 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) It is possible to put port-related settings in /etc/make.conf. I discourage this, as that file gets used for /every/ make session and I consider it asking for trouble to clutter it with items that may

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-18 Thread RW
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:51:33 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends what state the ports were in at the time of the accident. If you haven't run a leaf-cutting program recently you may have old dependencies and tools that have become leaves - they may take years to show-up.

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-13 Thread RW
On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:05:10 +0200 Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 October 2007 02:13:49 RW wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:13:58 +0200 Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 October 2007 22:19:41 RW wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:26:19 -0600 James [EMAIL

Re: PPPoE dialer CPU usage

2007-10-13 Thread RW
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:57:25 -0500 Dave Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I was wondering if anyone had any idea what might be causing excessive CPU usage by the rp-pppoe dialer. What I've been running into is since the 5th, the message Unexpected packet code 9 has been showing up every 10

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-12 Thread RW
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:26:19 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it whatever you want (and I imagine I'll hear a few different ones), but I just did an rm -r /var/lib/pkg. Before I type anything to damage things further,

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-12 Thread RW
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:13:58 +0200 Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 October 2007 22:19:41 RW wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:26:19 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it whatever you want (and I imagine I'll

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread RW
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:53:00 +0100 James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im using Borland C++ compiler on XP and was wondering what compilers there are for FreeBSD that would allow me to compile and execute some of the examples i will practise from the book. gcc, the system C compiler, is a

Re: Can't get pf to work

2007-10-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:05:57 +0200 Peo Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list. I'm trying to configure pf on FreeBSD 6.2-release with no success. Is there anyone that has time and can give me a clue for what I'm doing wrong? If you do: /etc/rc.d/pf restart do you see any errors? Is

Re: BASH as root shell (static linking)

2007-10-05 Thread RW
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 04:54:26 +1000 Jerahmy Pocott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm wanting to use BASH as my root shell, so I compiled a statically linked I would suggest using bash as your toor shell instead. toor exist precisely for this purpose.

Re: Netcraft do not display uptime graph, why?

2007-10-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:19:53 -0300 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That URL states that we 'default to 1000Hz' ... is it lowerable, and what are the ramifications of doing so? My first thought is that 1000Hz is giving us higher

Re: BASH as root shell (static linking)

2007-10-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:29:36 -0700 (PDT) Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/10/2007, at 5:45 AM, RW wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 04:54:26 +1000 Jerahmy Pocott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm wanting to use BASH as my root shell, so I compiled a statically linked

Re: BASH as root shell (static linking)

2007-10-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:09:46 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:32:22AM +0100, RW wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:29:36 -0700 (PDT) Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/10/2007, at 5:45 AM, RW wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 04:54:26

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread RW
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:00:10 -0400 Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NetOpsCenter wrote: I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use when all else fails. Is there a way to copy that and have it work on 7 CURRENT? no -- huge library mismatches Why? Isn't

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread RW
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 01:11:04 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:00:10 -0400 Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NetOpsCenter wrote: I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use when all else fails. Is there a way to copy

Re: How to check applications vs. libraries

2007-10-03 Thread RW
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 14:25:18 +0200 Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 October 2007 22:53:20 RW wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:23:29 +0200 Daniel Tourde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am used to install FreeBSD applications by using the port collection. I also update regularly (twice

Re: How to check applications vs. libraries

2007-10-02 Thread RW
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:23:29 +0200 Daniel Tourde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am used to install FreeBSD applications by using the port collection. I also update regularly (twice a month or something) the apps, using 'portupgrade -a -N' on a refreshed port collection. Here are my questions: -

Re: Where do I find the PERL compatible functions for php

2007-10-02 Thread RW
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:36:32 -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Installed PHP 5 using the ports collection in preparation for installing phpWebSite (a CMS system). When trying to run the setup program (an index.php) file on the server I get, *Fatal error*: Call to undefined

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-30 Thread RW
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:55:15 + Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second of all in many peoples minds (including mine) we are used to there being subtle diffs between AMD and intel for the same class of processor thus would naturally think if it was lableb amd64 it is for Advanced

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread RW
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:17:30 -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 30, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: ntpdate is deprecated, you should use ntpd -q instead if you want ntpd to set the time once then exit. From ntpdate(8): Note: The functionality of this program is now

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread RW
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:03:05 + Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have more then 4gb and was wondering why it didn't all show up is there anyway to do a in place upgrade (I have a lot of user data)... also someone should think about changing the naming on the iso/cpu types

Re: Deny access from localhost to internet.....

2007-09-29 Thread RW
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:22:42 +0200 Sten Daniel Soersdal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agus wrote: Hi guys, How are you today? The question is this..I want to restrict external access, that is from my BSD to the internet, to some groups of users. Other groups i want to access internet

Re: Software Lojack

2007-09-26 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:34:15 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:56PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: I know all about various precautions to be taken. I also know I could write something. I just wanted to know if something like that is already

Re: USB 2.0 PCI card for FreeBSD 5.4?

2007-09-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:36:14 -0700 Roger B.A. Klorese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know one or two PCI USB cards that are compatible with FreeBSD 5.4? (Please let's hold off on the upgrade, you fool messages -- the cycle is: - install USB 2.0 card - back up to USB drive -

Re: PF: block out port 80 so that not allow clients in LAN to browse Internet via port 80

2007-09-25 Thread RW
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:52:16 +0700 vuthecuong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I used squid for cache proxy configured to go internet through port 3128. But internet browser in LAN still connect to Internet through port 80 if in conenction option of Internet browser is chose to connect

Re: PF: block out port 80 so that not allow clients in LAN to browse Internet via port 80

2007-09-25 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:15:36 +0200 Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, he could block, but transparently doing it without annoying users is better(tm). It depends. If they are doing a lot of ftp downloading, you may want to force it to go though squid, so it can be cached. And you can't

Re: The best way to keep the system clean?

2007-09-24 Thread RW
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:25:01 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:17 +0800, ronggui wrote: My problem, many times I install some software from ports, it install the dependency software. Then after some time, I find that software isn't what I want, and

Re: Questions on the scheduler

2007-09-24 Thread RW
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:23:40 -0400 Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard a lot of winging about the FreeBSD scheduler from Linux people, and even saw that is the reason for one fork off of FreeBSD. In my experience, I've gotten better performance out of FreeBSD on single or

Re: Silly IPFW question.

2007-09-24 Thread RW
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:33:05 -0400 Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am sorry if this is a no-brainer Is there anyway to make a rule in IPFW that will match MAC addresses instead of IP or port numnbers (and no, I didnt see anything in the docs :-)) man ipfw and search

Re: Silly IPFW question.

2007-09-24 Thread RW
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:47:31 -0400 Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jeff, I have a client to wants access to mysql on port 3306, but none (4) of his computers have static IPs. So, answer your question, he wants to access from several hops down the (internet) pipe. And I just DID

Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?

2007-09-22 Thread RW
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:26:40 +0200 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the default MTA were changed many existing users would be quite upset when their working configurations suddenly stopped working - so one should not change the default MTA without a very good reason. Although

Re: QEMU and tap problems

2007-09-21 Thread RW
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:08:41 -0500 (CDT) Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, September 20, 2007 20:47, RW wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:21:20 -0500 Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been following the various instructions I've found on the web in an attempt to get tap

Re: Are you guys using xcdroast?

2007-09-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:17:24 -0400 Lisandro Grullon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Erich and thank youf rot the reply, I do understand that this is an X aplication, I am trying to run it in 6.2_release using Xorg 7.2 and Gnome2, still giving me that strange error when I try to execute from the

Re: Hard drive RPM

2007-09-20 Thread RW
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:22:00 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not a case of misrepresentations that I have found on network attached hard disk storage devices and Firewire drives. I have one that was expressly advertised on the package to be 120 Gb capacity, and in

Re: QEMU and tap problems

2007-09-20 Thread RW
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:21:20 -0500 Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been following the various instructions I've found on the web in an attempt to get tap networking with qemu-devel-0.9.0s.20070802 and Are you actually sure that you actually need tap? A lot of the

Re: downgrading to an earlier version of the same port

2007-09-20 Thread RW
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:27:10 -0500 Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 September 2007 19:37:10 Aryeh Friedman wrote: On my machine it appears that jdk-1.5.0.12,1 is broken and I want to downgrade to a previous cvsup of the same port (I don't know the exact tag but it is

Re: Cron not working till 28/08/07

2007-09-19 Thread RW
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:36:07 - (GMT) DSA - JCR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all !! I had several crontab jobs in order to make backups. All worked fine till the 28-Aug-2007 when it seems to be stopped for some reason, I don't know why. I had a reporting in my mail box (external) also

Re: Software

2007-09-19 Thread RW
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:17:51 -0700 Kellen Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I need to be able to run iTunes for my iPod. Are really sure? Amarok, and probably other software, has ipod support. It's worth dual-booting for a few weeks to find out what you actually need. You do need to make

Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg

2007-09-18 Thread RW
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:03 +0400 Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:01:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Suppose you deleted /var/db/pkg by accident :( What would you do to get it back?? I'd go one of these ways: - rm -rf

Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-17 Thread RW
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:10:30 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of RW Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 7:24 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/random question

Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-17 Thread RW
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:20:17 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of RW Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 1:56 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/random question

Re: cron jobs not done during sleep

2007-09-17 Thread RW
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:22:45 -0700 Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tool or setting to implement this functionality? I want something to happen weekly, I don't care when. One way is to install a crontab replacement like fcron, but the easiest way to handle this is to install

Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-16 Thread RW
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:21:38 +0200 Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007 03:01:26 RW wrote: Essentially what has happened is that /dev/random has been abandoned in favour of a better /dev/urandom, and that seems to be a bit high-handed to me. Not high-handed

Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-16 Thread RW
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:51:56 +0200 Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007 22:55:50 RW wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:21:38 +0200 An applicatation using /dev/random doesn't see the difference. It was necessary at the time, because systems couldn't produce enough entropy

Re: Telnet smtp

2007-09-16 Thread RW
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:55:02 -0400 Bill Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cant do telnet sarah.ourweb.net 25 try it from your $ telnet sarah.ourweb.net 25 Trying 216.236.255.132... Connected to sarah.ourweb.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 sarah.ourweb.net ESMTP helo xxx.example.com 250

Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-15 Thread RW
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:44:10 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since FreeBSD tries to be close to perfect ;-) it uses a better random driver that can produce random numbers as fast as you want them. The symlink is there only as a crutch for older UNIX code that was written when

Re: multiple flash movies on same page fail

2007-09-14 Thread RW
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:36:41 + Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hav linux-flashplugin9 installed with firefox 2.0.0.6 on FreeBSD 7.0-Current when I view a page that has a single flash file on it there is no problem but if there aer multiple flash movies I get grayed out windows.

Re: multiple flash movies on same page fail

2007-09-14 Thread RW
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:41:06 + Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had flash 7 working reasonablely well under fb 6.2 but it is marked as broken under 7.0 It's nothing to do with 7.0, the binary has critical vulnerabilities. ___

Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-13 Thread RW
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:36:30 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:56:26PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Could someone on the list point me to a document that explains the functionality of /dev/random in FreeBSD in a little more depth than the

Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-09-12 Thread RW
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:33:24 + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in my hosts file, I have a line that looks like this: ::1localhost localhost.mydomain.com Is this line for IPv6 or is there some other reason for its presence? It causes occasional problems, so I

Re: Hunks failed, is this bad?

2007-09-12 Thread RW
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:23:52 +0200 cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, it's portmanager that patches bsd.port.mk on the fly (and backs the change out when it is done). Or it did so a while ago; I don't know if it still does today. Try to update portmanager, or use something else like

Re: chmod / files and directories

2007-09-10 Thread RW
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:59:31 -0400 Garance A Drosihn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 1:38 PM -0400 9/10/07, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:01:35PM +0530, Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: # find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type f -exec chmod 644 '{}' \; # find

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-09 Thread RW
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 23:16:35 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... However, the thing that most people (who don't work at telcos) do not understand is that the telcos found very quickly that they cannot put contention into an ATM network comprised of a DSL atm circuits for a

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread RW
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:27:38 -0500 Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amitabh Kant wrote: On 9/8/07, Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tested the connection by downloading 2~3 files simultaneously and used 'bmon' as Mel suggested in another reply (thanks to him). As I'd already

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread RW
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 15:30:57 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Amitabh Kant Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 12:25 PM To: Bahman M. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread RW
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:16:32 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, the OS versions are managed so that anything that will run in one version of a main branch will run in another. eg, if it will run in 6.1, it should run in 6.2 and 6.3. But it may well not work in 7.xx

Re: portupgrade / arguments for make

2007-09-07 Thread RW
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 18:10:13 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When using portupgrade -fr I need to specify an argument that I do not want X11 binaries installed during the upgrade process. Now from man I read it is the -m switch. But how do I pass the argument:

Re: Linuxulator and SSE

2007-09-06 Thread RW
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:53:14 +0200 Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, list! I'm trying to get Bibble to run under the Linuxulator on FreeBSD, but it keeps complaining about missing SSE support. I'm seeing the same sort of thing with an AMD64 (i386). dmesg shows SSE,

Re: ports collection background-fetch

2007-09-05 Thread RW
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:39:06 +0330 Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the background while other parts are being compiled? Just login on multiple consoles or use multiple x terminals (if running X) and

Re: Pine - Duplicate Messages

2007-08-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:36:48 + (UTC) Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 at 18:24 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:38:59 + (UTC) Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Periodically I get duplicated messages in email folders I

Re: Pine - Duplicate Messages

2007-08-17 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:38:59 + (UTC) Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Periodically I get duplicated messages in email folders I have defined and have rules set up for. ... If I remove ALL rules from Pine, I have absolutely no issues with duplicate messages. Are they perhaps

Re: portupgrade question

2007-08-15 Thread RW
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:56:52 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikola Lecic wrote: So the /etc/make.conf option is better. It is definitively the most universal and IMHO it should appear in the Handbook. I try to avoid setting things in make.conf that do not need

Re: how to use an upgraded gcc compiler

2007-08-14 Thread RW
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:32:46 -0700 Charlie Caroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running FreeBSD 6.2 Stable. The gcc version that was compiled in is 3.4.6. I installed gcc 4.04. I'm trying to install libxml-ruby, and I need to use gcc 4.0x, apparently. Are you sure about that? The

Re: Upgrading Xorg from 6 to 7

2007-08-14 Thread RW
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:13:57 +0200 (CEST) Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just read the UPDATING file and realized that this is something that have so many possibilities of going horribly wrong that it most certanly will. Thus I want another option. Would it be possible to

Re: using mouse wheel

2007-08-05 Thread RW
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 21:19:08 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just bought some cheap PS/2 mouse (A4 tech) 3-keys while middle key is a wheel that can be both pressed and rolled no rolling works both in text and xorg moused_enable=YES in rc.conf and Section

How does Sendmail know how it was invoked?

2007-08-04 Thread RW
mailwrapper checks to see how it was invoked and then looks up the appropriate command in mailer.conf. All of the entries in mailer.conf point to /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail, so how does that binary know what it's supposed to do. I'm just curious.

Re: How does Sendmail know how it was invoked?

2007-08-04 Thread RW
On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 13:23:07 -0500 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Aug 04), RW said: mailwrapper checks to see how it was invoked and then looks up the appropriate command in mailer.conf. All of the entries in mailer.conf point to /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail, so

Re: How does Sendmail know how it was invoked?

2007-08-04 Thread RW
On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:48:11 -0500 Don Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 04 August 2007 15:13:34 RW wrote: On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 13:23:07 -0500 What I didn't get was that when a binary is executed from execve(), it's the parent program that sets the argv[0] seen by the child

Re: Nano issue

2007-08-02 Thread RW
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:15:35 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:25 AM 8/2/2007, Roberth Sjonøy wrote: Hello, Ive just installed my prefered text editor, nano, but when im going to run nano, this just appears: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libncursesw.so.6 not found , required by

Re: Firewall rules / Proper directory

2007-08-02 Thread RW
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:36:51 -0400 (EDT) Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm developing firewall rules for a machine, and I'm wondering what the standard is for putting my version of an ipfw firewall_script? I'd normally drop it onto /usr/local/etc somewhere,

Re: Nano issue

2007-08-02 Thread RW
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:11:04 -0500 Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by RW on 08/02/07 11:27 On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:15:35 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:25 AM 8/2/2007, Roberth Sjonøy wrote: Hello, Ive just installed my prefered text editor, nano, but when im

Re: Forcing a port to install?

2007-08-02 Thread RW
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:27:05 -0700 Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Panos P. wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:35:52PM -0700, Chris Maness wrote: If a port has been black listed by portaudit, how do you install it anyway? try adding DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes to

Re: portupgrade 'upgrades' ports that are not installed

2007-08-02 Thread RW
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:43:37 +0200 User Nocturnal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi First of all i just went through the UPDATING instructions to upgrade my xorg to 7.2. It did not go very well because i can't finish the upgrade process. When i try to pkg_delete xorg-manpages it says they're

Re: xf86 madness - stop installing drivers

2007-07-31 Thread RW
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:55:00 -0500 Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: honestly tho, it *does* seem like there should be a configuration where you can choose as many or as few of the available ones as you need. if they were going to go to the trouble of making each one a seperare entity,

Re: SOCKS V5 proxy for http_proxy Environmental variable

2007-07-31 Thread RW
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:08:36 -0400 Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attempting to set the http_proxy environmental variable to a SOCKS 5 proxy server that is really an SSH tunnel to a server outside the network. When I execute the fetch command it is failing with this error message;

Re: relaying mail

2007-07-31 Thread RW
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:03:50 +0200 Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In one of my domains, I have the MX record for it set up to my server. But for one of the users within that domain, their mail needs to be shuffled off to a different server at google. But I can't just forward it

FQDN Hostnames, Sendmail and Spamassassin.

2007-07-30 Thread RW
I have my hostname in rc.conf defined as a FQDN - ending in a dot. IIRC it's needed to prevent sendmail waiting a long time for DNS if the network is unavailable at boot-time. I recently noticed that when I send myself email through sendmail I'm hitting this spamassassin test at my email service:

Re: Upgrade xorg 6.9 to 72

2007-07-26 Thread RW
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:25:16 +0200 Martin Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello RW Am Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:23:14PM +0100 RW schrieb: I read UPDATING and did all the steps described there. No, you didn't because /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries/Makefile contains

Re: fsck to fix HD problem

2007-07-25 Thread RW
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:50:38 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, so I decided to use fsck to check my HD. I ran it in the foreground mode with the -y flag. It gives me the below information. My question is - should I worry (it is more a home machine than a real

Re: Problems for running Xorg 7.2 from scratch

2007-07-23 Thread RW
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:54:36 +0200 Antonio Évora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I also ask you... when I installed XFCE and GDM, Shouldnt have their dependencies already installed the basics of xorg so I could run the X? I'm not sure that they should, you might be building an application server,

Re: MPlayer Makefile Question

2007-07-23 Thread RW
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:09:51 +0100 (BST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Mplayers makefile it says 'Wants Gnome' - does this mean that making it would drag in all the gnome libs etc ? No it doesn't. It's more a matter co-ordinating with gnome. ___

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