Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-14 Thread Anders Gulden Olstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beech Rintoul wrote: I'm getting a ton of spam every day that comes from China, Japan and Korea. Spam Assassin completely ignores it because it has all non-english characters and slows kmail to a crawl loading. Is there a way to filter on

Re: Openssl 0.9.8c woes

2006-10-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I keep using my old certs, btw (the ones I paid good money for). Geez, I really hope I don't need to upgrade those. Still, that's no reason for Apache to core dump, right? Anyway, I appreciate your input. STFA Apache and ssh will go mad if the openssl symbols dont resolve... You don't have

Re: ports adding users

2006-10-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 13 October 2006 21:54, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The convention is, indeed, that users get UIDs from 1000 up. This doesn't seem to be explicitly described anywhere I can find at the moment, but it is implemented in adduser(8) -- and the porter's handbook requires hard-coded UIDs and

skype/webcam

2006-10-14 Thread Andriy Babiy
Hello all, If you have a webcam installed, the Skype in Windows environment allows for a video session. Does the Skype, ported to UNIX environment, have a feature to enable the video session? If not, what port with similar capabilities should I use? Currently, I use Skype for audio session

Re: Perl's GetOpt::Std -- Where is it?

2006-10-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Carroll wrote: Actually, it looks like you're trying to: use GetOpt::Std; But it should be: use Getopt::Std; Note the non-capital o there :) Josh On 10/13/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote:

Re: skype/webcam

2006-10-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:15:58 -0700 Andriy Babiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have a webcam installed, the Skype in Windows environment allows for a video session. Does the Skype, ported to UNIX environment, have a feature to enable the video session? If not, what port with similar

Removing Giant from a driver

2006-10-14 Thread usleepless
Hi All, i have been tweaking the pvr250 driver to support pvr150s/500s. now i want to remove Giant from the code. problem is, i am not sure what to do. i have created a mutex which replaces the spltty and splx calls. but this crashes my box :-) the original code looks like this: /*

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
Beech Rintoul wrote: I'm getting a ton of spam every day that comes from China, Japan and Korea. Spam Assassin completely ignores it because it has all non-english characters and slows kmail to a crawl loading. Is there a way to filter on non-english either using Spam Assassin or procmail?

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-14 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Friday 13 October 2006 19:09, Matthew Seaman wrote: Beech Rintoul wrote: I'm getting a ton of spam every day that comes from China, Japan and Korea. Spam Assassin completely ignores it because it has all non-english characters and slows kmail to a crawl loading. Is there a way to filter

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread Danial Thom
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 01:34:36PM -0700, Danial Thom wrote: Yeah, bury your head in the sand as always. Its been proven over and over. Robert Watson has admitted many times that 6.x is not as fast as 4.x uniprocessor FOR CERTAIN

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-14 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 14 October 2006 05:12, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Saturday 14 October 2006 09:04, Beech Rintoul wrote: Thank you. Your suggestion appears to be working. I was getting 75 or more of non-english spam daily and It was becoming a real pain in the backside to deal with. Now

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-14 Thread Robert Huff
In checking this out, I came across this in man spamassassin: ok_locales xx [ yy zz ... ](default: all) This option is used to specify which locales are considered OK for incoming mail. Mail using the character sets that are allowed by this

Re: startkde: cannot start kdeinit. Check your installation

2006-10-14 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 13 October 2006 21:17, Karl Agee wrote: --- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 20:11, Karl Agee wrote: 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT 2006 I cannot start kde. Installed kde 3.5.4 from pkg_add

asus mb with freebsd

2006-10-14 Thread Tadas
Hi, I kave asus p5b delux mb. This mb has inbuilt wifi adapter - wifi-ap solo (chip realtek 8187). Has anyone success to bring this wifi up? I tried to use windows drivers but with no luck :(. And also this MB has dual gigabit lan controllers. However i can see only one functioning.. Has anyone

Xorg -configure results a black screen

2006-10-14 Thread Bjoern Thomsen
Hi there, I am new to FreeBSD. I am trying to configure Xorg but when I fire up the command Xorg -configure I get back a black screen. When I try to start X it is telling me a failure message: Can't open display . Any helping hand out there ? Boern

Boot2 loading process

2006-10-14 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi all, I was reading through the architecture handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/book.html) about the boot process, and something strange caught my attention. According to the docs boot0 loads only the first record of the partition, that is 512bytes.

Re: startkde: cannot start kdeinit. Check your installation

2006-10-14 Thread Karl Agee
--- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 21:17, Karl Agee wrote: --- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 20:11, Karl Agee wrote: 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT 2006

Re: Xorg -configure results a black screen

2006-10-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 14, 2006 6:02:38 PM +0200 Bjoern Thomsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to FreeBSD. I am trying to configure Xorg but when I fire up the command Xorg -configure I get back a black screen. What do you mean by this? Do you mean that you don't see any text on the console

freebsd-update Reboot?

2006-10-14 Thread Chris Maness
If freebsd-update installs new kernel modules, will the system have to be re-booted? If the system does need to be re-booted, will freebsd-update do it? If I have to manually reboot, when do I know a particular update calls for re-booting? Sorry for the 20 questions. ** -- Chris Maness

Panic lanuching dosbox

2006-10-14 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm running 6.1p10/i386 on an Athlon XP box. Each time I run dosbox or any other apps that goes fullscreen from X11 my system reboots. I tried running dosbox in single user mode and I got the following dump. However I'm not so expert in kernel to make something useful out of it. Can

canary mismatch on efree()

2006-10-14 Thread Mark
Hello, I'm running Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) and PHP/4.4.4 with Suhosin-Patch. All of a sudden I get this in my log: [Sat Oct 14 19:54:32 2006] [error] ALERT - canary mismatch on efree() - heap overflow or double efree detected (attacker '192.168.1.4', file

Re: Boot2 loading process

2006-10-14 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:41:01, jan.pfeifer wrote about Boot2 loading process: I was reading through the architecture handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/book.html) about the boot process, and something strange caught my attention. According to the

Removing Giant from a driver

2006-10-14 Thread usleepless
Hi All, i have been tweaking the pvr250 driver to support pvr150s/500s. now i want to remove Giant from the code. problem is, i am not sure what to do. i have created a mutex which replaces the spltty and splx calls. but this crashes my box :-) the original code looks like this: /*

USB Mass Storage stopped working, help requested

2006-10-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
It used to work on this machine, the kernel/world has not been recompiled/reinstalled since then. However, A USB drive that used to work (and still works in windows) no longer works in FreeBSD. When I plug in the drive, the /dev/da* devices do not show up. The system is running 6.1. The handbook

Re: Removing Giant from a driver

2006-10-14 Thread Bill Moran
You might do better by subscribing to hackers@ and posting there. This question is a little more technical than this list usually deals with. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, i have been tweaking the pvr250 driver to support pvr150s/500s. now i want to remove Giant from the code.

how to connect a modem to the PS2 port?

2006-10-14 Thread ches
I am using a laptop as a server, and need a second serial port on it. I'd love to use the psm0 port (I know it is an RS232C serial port) connected to a modem, but I am guessing the the psm driver is getting in the way. It is hard to ask the right question in Google. Anyone know how to use the

Re: how to connect a modem to the PS2 port?

2006-10-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
The PS/2 port is not a RS232 serial port. It is a serial port, but it is specifically designed for a PS/2 mouse serial protocol, that has nothing to do with RS232. Your going to have to do what the rest of us do and use a USB to serial port adapter. Ted - Original Message - From: ches

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 5:38 AM Subject: Re: Non English Spam I have noted however, that some subscribers to this list write english encoded in

Re: Boot2 loading process

2006-10-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:30:53PM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:41:01, jan.pfeifer wrote about Boot2 loading process: I was reading through the architecture handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/book.html) about the boot

Re: Boot2 loading process

2006-10-14 Thread Jan Pfeifer
Thanks for the reference Jerry, you are right, from the docs: boot0: saved into MBR, loads boot2 (the boot1 being the floppy version of it) But still, according to the docs, boot0 loads only 512 bytes of it. So thanks for the note Valentin, I understand then that boot0 loads 15 records, that

AAARRRGH: cgi-bin.. Not Increment Counter

2006-10-14 Thread Gary Kline
Folks, I hope there are still a few of you still using cgi-bin. I jujst checked after a week or so of auto rsyncng my www files around. One of my cgi-bin scripts outputs: [TextCounter Fatal Error: Could Not Increment Counter] at every hit.

Re: startkde: cannot start kdeinit. Check your installation

2006-10-14 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 14 October 2006 11:44, Karl Agee wrote: Don: ls -la /usr/local/bin/kdeinit -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 39876 Oct 6 01:18 /usr/local/bin/kdeinit ls -la /usr/local/bin/startkde -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11828 Oct 13 17:04 /usr/local/bin/startkde ls -la .xinitrc -rw-r--r--