Problem with GPA after updating

[Gerard]

FreeBSD-8.3 STABLE
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.19
libgcrypt 1.5.0
gpa 0.9.3

When attempting to run 'gpa', I am greeted with an error message. The
message can be viewed here: http://www.seibercom.net/logs/gpa_error.png

It seems to indicate that there is a problem with the GPG library
returning an unexpected value.

I have tried rebuilding 'gnupg', 'gpgme' and 'gpa'. Is there something
else I should be looking into?

Thanks!

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Re: CARP on 9.0 (was no subject)

[Gerard van Essen]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Johan Hendriks  wrote:

> SOLVED!
>
> Was a typo in /etc/sysctl.conf
> Sorry for the noise
>
> and thanks for your time.
>
> regards
> Johan
> 
> Van: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org]
> namens Johan Hendriks [jo...@double-l.nl]
> Verzonden: vrijdag 26 augustus 2011 20:22
> Aan: Brian Seklecki (Mobile); freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> CC: freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org
> Onderwerp: RE: CARP on 9.0 (was no subject)
>
> >How about:
>
> >%sudo netstat -s carp
>
> >...on both machines.
>
> >A few years ago I submitted (or maybe it was Steve Polyack) a patch to add
> >debugging to CARP, not sure if it ever got commited.
>
> >Need-more-Cisco'sih-Debugging.
>
> >~BAS
>
>
> >On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
>
> >> Le Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:26:28 +,
> >> Johan Hendriks  a ?crit :
> >>
> >>> I am trying to set up CARP under 9.0
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >>> Also with a higer value like advskew 200 or 254 the role of the
> >>> servers stays the same.
> >>
> >> Ok, there is something wrong so.
> >>
> >> Did you check that the sysctl net.inet.carp.suppress_preempt is equal
> >> to zero ? If yes, I don't have any more idea.
> >>
> >> Regards.
>
> Hello
> first off all thanks for your time.
>
> sysctl -a | grep carp on both machines give me the following output
>
> sysctl -a | grep carp
> device  carp
> net.inet.ip.same_prefix_carp_only: 0
> net.inet.carp.allow: 1
> net.inet.carp.preempt: 0
> net.inet.carp.log: 2
> net.inet.carp.arpbalance: 0
> net.inet.carp.suppress_preempt: 0
>
>
> netstat -s on the master
>
> carp:
>260 packets received (IPv4)
>0 packets received (IPv6)
>0 packets discarded for wrong TTL
>0 packets shorter than header
>0 discarded for bad checksums
>0 discarded packets with a bad version
>0 discarded because packet too short
>0 discarded for bad authentication
>0 discarded for bad vhid
>0 discarded because of a bad address list
>11430 packets sent (IPv4)
>0 packets sent (IPv6)
>0 send failed due to mbuf memory error
>
> netstat -s on the slave
>
> carp:
>11735 packets received (IPv4)
>0 packets received (IPv6)
>0 packets discarded for wrong TTL
>0 packets shorter than header
>0 discarded for bad checksums
>0 discarded packets with a bad version
>0 discarded because packet too short
>0 discarded for bad authentication
>0 discarded for bad vhid
>0 discarded because of a bad address list
>448 packets sent (IPv4)
>0 packets sent (IPv6)
>0 send failed due to mbuf memory error
>
> tcpdump -i bge0 on slave
>
> 20:10:48.868200 IP 192.168.50.40 > vrrp.mcast.net: VRRPv2, Advertisement,
> vrid 1, prio 50, authtype none, intvl 1s, length 36
>
> Here the advskew is set to 50, on the slave it is 20.
> So the slave should be the master.
> if i raise the advskew to 254, i see the change in the capture.
>
> Both machines are fresh install with nothing changed on them so far just a
> fresh build from a csup this morning.
> And installed bash as the shell..
>
> for freebsd-current@ the /etc/rc.conf file again
> Master
> ifconfig_bge0="inet 192.168.50.40 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> defaultrouter="192.168.50.150"
> # CARP
> cloned_interfaces="carp0"
> ifconfig_carp0="vhid 1 advskew 10 pass letmepass 192.168.50.45 netmask
> 255.255.255.0"
>
> On the slave i have the following in /etc/rc.conf
> ifconfig_bge0="inet 192.168.50.41 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> defaultrouter="192.168.50.150"
> # CARP
> cloned_interfaces="carp0"
> ifconfig_carp0="vhid 1 advskew 20 pass letmepass 192.168.50.45 netmask
> 255.255.255.0"
>
> regards,
> Johan
>
>
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Openssl error

[Gerard Seibert]

Port:   openssl-1.0.0_1

uname output:
FreeBSD scorpio.seibercom.net 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Wed
May  5 18:00:51 EDT 2010  amd64

When attempting to use 'openssl', this error message is produced:

34373207208:error:0E079065:configuration file
routines:DEF_LOAD_BIO:missing equal sign:conf_def.c:366:line 1

At this point, openssl exits.

I have tried deinstalling and reinstalling the port without success.
This is a fresh installation of FreeBSD-8/amd64. I did update/rebuild
World & Kernel when I first installed this version a few days ago.

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Continued use of "HAL" in FreeBSD

[Gerard]

I have read that 'HAL' is now considered depreciated and that it is no
longer being actively maintained. I have read many articles describing
its short comings, etc. I even came across this URL:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy, while not directly connected to
FreeBSD, it is interesting.

I was just wondering what the FreeBSD community is doing in regards to
"HAL"? Is there any work being done to replace it?

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Re: postfix + cyrus sasl: no go

[Gerard]

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:05:24 -0500
Jarrod Slick  wrote:

> use dovecot . . . I spent days trying to get postfix configured with
> cyrus sasl, tweaking everything I could think of multiple times, and
> I still couldn't get it to work.  Tried dovecot and had everything
> working in 10 minutes.

Please don't top post. If you don't know what that means, Google for it.

If the OP has 'dovecot' all ready installed, that might be a viable
option. Otherwise, he would be better off to simply configure SASL2
correctly.

I would strongly recommend that the OP reads the Postfix documentation
on SASL as well as visiting:
<http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/> and
downloading and running the 'saslfinger' utility. He can then post the
output preferably the Postfix forum, or else here.

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Updating linux-pango

[Gerard]

Affected package: linux-pango-1.10.2_3
Type of problem: pango -- integer overflow.
Reference: 


This problem has existed for awhile now. Unless: 

DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes

is used, linux-pango and any port that depends on it will refuse to
build. Is there any information on when this problem will be resolved?
I really do not like intentionally installing a program with a
potential security problem; however, in this case I have no choice.

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Re: confirm 99789d88ebe8d000d683289a0bd080f631f0eeae

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Re: portmanager errors

[Gerard]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:05:47 -0700 (PDT)
gahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> --- On Wed, 9/10/08, Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > From: Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: portmanager errors
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 4:15 AM
> > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:04 PM, gahn
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > > I run into errors when i run "portmanager
> > -u":
> > >
> > > 00344 luit-1.0.2_2 /x11/luit
> > > "Makefile", line 85: Could not find
> > /usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients/../../x11-servers/xorg-server/Makefile.inc
> > > "Makefile", line 92: Malformed conditional
> > (${X_WINDOW_SYSTEM:L} != xorg)
> > > "Makefile", line 96: if-less endif
> > > make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> > > MGdbAdd error: attempt to place null data into record
> > halted
> > > Assertion failed: (0), function MGdbAdd, file
> > MGdbAdd.c, line 78.
> > > Abort (core dumped)
> > >
> > > could the portmanager bypass the failed
> > "luit" and continue the next one?
> > 
> > First, what version of 'portmanger' are you using?
> > If not "0.4.1_9",
> > then update. Did you insure that you updated your ports
> > tree just
> > prior to running portmanager?
> > 
> > After checking the above, try running portmanager like
> > this:
> > 
> >  portmanager -u -l -p -y
> > 
> > See if that corrects the problem.
> 
> yes:
> 
> lab2# portmanager -v
> 
> rParseCommandLine 0.4.1_9

[Reformatted]

Please don't top post. If you don't know what that means, Google for
it.

So, what happened after running 'portmanager' as I asked you to? Did
it complete successfully or not?  


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Re: portmanager errors

[Gerard]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:04 PM, gahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I run into errors when i run "portmanager -u":
>
> 00344 luit-1.0.2_2 /x11/luit
> "Makefile", line 85: Could not find 
> /usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients/../../x11-servers/xorg-server/Makefile.inc
> "Makefile", line 92: Malformed conditional (${X_WINDOW_SYSTEM:L} != xorg)
> "Makefile", line 96: if-less endif
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> MGdbAdd error: attempt to place null data into record halted
> Assertion failed: (0), function MGdbAdd, file MGdbAdd.c, line 78.
> Abort (core dumped)
>
> could the portmanager bypass the failed "luit" and continue the next one?

First, what version of 'portmanger' are you using? If not "0.4.1_9",
then update. Did you insure that you updated your ports tree just
prior to running portmanager?

After checking the above, try running portmanager like this:

 portmanager -u -l -p -y

See if that corrects the problem.


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Re: Postfix issue

[Gerard]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 05:35:14 -0700
David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I agree and they do BUT they need a warrant to do so!! That is the
> safeguard.
> 
> With the internet no warrant is needed. There is no protection for
> civil liberties as applies with pohysical mail.

First of all, this is not a civil liberties issue. Are you so naive
that you honestly believe that by using a dynamic IP rather than
securing a static one or using your hosts mail service that you have
made the interception and viewing of your mail by someone other than
its intended recipient impossible? Furthermore, what are you
transmitting that makes you so paranoid? Why not just use some
form of encryption if you are so paranoid?

Your claim of civil liberties is bogus. Consider the rights of other
users, in this case the Postfix mailing list, that does not want to be
inundated with SPAM and accordingly blocks mail from sites that fail
authentication tests. In your case, reverse DNS.

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Portsnap: No Update Available

[Gerard]

Since last evening (2008-09-03), portsnap has been reporting this when
I run it:

Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... done.
Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have.
No updates needed.
Ports tree is already up to date.


Although the mirror changes, that rest of the message is the same.
Except doing a ports freeze, I do not remember FBSD going 24 hours
without some port being updated. I was just wondering if this is
correct or if something is wrong with the mirrors.

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Re: Google Chrome

[Gerard]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:26:46 -0700
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> I must have missed something, how would running the Chrome
> browser collect our valuable data?
> 
> Obviously, keying in data into a search engine to find
> things is giving the search engine data on what people
> are searching for.  Is there any requirement to do this
> if your running Chrome?  And, how else would you find
> something?
> 
> I think I'm missing something here in this argument.

Please don't top post. It makes reading a thread a lot harder than it
needs to be.

I think I posted this yesterday. In any case, you might want to to take
a look at it and its implications.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/03/0247205&from=rss

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Re: Google Chrome

[Gerard]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:03:51 +0100
RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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, sounds a lot better to
> > > me.  
> > 
> > What about this?
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/  
> 
> 
> That's for the binary. AFAIK the source is BSD licensed, with
> some third-party components under other open-source licences. 

Well, it did not take Google long to get on noticed:

http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#google_chrome_vulnerability

I think I will pass on the whole Google 'browser' concept.

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Segmentation fault & Apache-2.2.9

[Gerard]

I continue to see varying amounts of chatter in the 'httpd-error.log'
file. This is a snipped of what is being written to the file.


**

[Wed Sep 03 06:59:31 2008] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest 
authentication ...
[Wed Sep 03 06:59:31 2008] [notice] Digest: done
[Wed Sep 03 06:59:32 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.9 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.9 
OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1 DAV/2 PHP/5.2.6 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming 
normal operations
[Wed Sep 03 08:28:11 2008] [notice] child pid 1039 exit signal Segmentation 
fault (11)
[Wed Sep 03 08:56:01 2008] [notice] child pid 989 exit signal Segmentation 
fault (11)
[Wed Sep 03 09:29:00 2008] [notice] child pid 1692 exit signal Segmentation 
fault (11)
[Wed Sep 03 09:29:31 2008] [notice] child pid 990 exit signal Segmentation 
fault (11)


**

Some days there may be twenty or more 'segmentation fault' messages. How
can I debug this to see what is crashing and why? Everything appears to
be operating correctly.


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Re: Google Chrome

[Gerard]

On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:55:39 +0200
Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> I think it would be in beta for decades :) There's just so much thing
> they said they'll do that would be very complicated to implement -
> their multiprocessing model instead of multithreading for example. To
> me it looks like they will soon find out that there's a reason todays
> browsers behave like they to - the platform (HTML, CSS, JS, Flash...)
> is very complex.

Google has had this "Beta-4-Ever" frame of mind for years now. They
virtually never release a final product; thus effectively covering
their 'ass' with the word "BETA" when something goes wrong or doesn't
work as expected or required by RFC's, etc.

In any case, this little tidbit looks rather interesting.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/03/0247205&from=rss

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Re: "SYSCTL" error message upon bootup

[Gerard]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:15:18 +0100
RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Do you have apache?
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.ports-bugs/browse_thread/thread/b8f17e78869e738f

Yes, and come to think about it, this problem just started happening
after I updated it. I assume that the patch listed above will be
incorporated into the port shortly.

Thanks!

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Re: "SYSCTL" error message upon bootup

[Gerard]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:36:36 +0200
Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> On FreeBSD 7, net.fibs is a valid oid. Can you determine when
> (in the booting process) this message is shown? Maybe you have
> a setting of net.fibs in /etc/sysctl.conf, or maybe this is a
> value set by some software package?
> 
>   % sysctl net.fibs
>   net.fibs: 1
> 
> In /usr/include/net/route.h, something regarding FIBS is mentioned...

I could not find any mention of it in the 'route.h' file, nor is there
anything in the 'sysctl.conf' file. The message is displayed just
before the 'login' prompt.

How can I determine what program is causing this to occur?

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"SYSCTL" error message upon bootup

[Gerard]

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 do to correct it?

Thanks!

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Re: defrag

[Gerard]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:44:20 +1000 (EST)
Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:33:35 +0200 (CEST)
> Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>  > CP/M was single-user and was used on floppies up to 360kB AFAIK, 
> 
> And MP/M was multi-user, using the same filesystem.  From memory,
> there was perhaps one byte that indicated which user owned a file :)
> 
>  > NTFS is a theft of OS/2 HPFS. they didn't even bothered to use
>  > other partition ID :), but they managed to f..k^H^H^H^Hextend it's 
>  > functionality, so it's actually even slower than FAT, and too -
>  > does nothing to prevent fragmentation.
> 
> It wasn't (straight-up) theft; MS cut a deal with IBM to use HPFS and 
> OS/2, more or less in exchange for letting IBM licence Windows 3.1 as 
> WINOS/2
> 
> When things went sour - google provides days of happy reading if
> you're interested - MS morphed it into NTFS for NT, cruelled the deal
> with IBM so OS/2 couldn't run NT/Win95 apps (signing OS/2's death
> warrant, though it took a long time to die) and stopped distributing
> OS/2 themselves.

It might be worth mentioning that things deteriorated swiftly when IBM
insisted that Microsoft, who was writing OS/2 for IBM, write the code
specifically for the 286 processor. Bill Gates personally invaded the
Armonk IBM headquarters and basically told the IBM execs that they were
making a colossal mistake. When IBM refused to back down, Gates gave
them what they wanted. The rest is history. IBM signed their own 'death
warrant'. Remember, Gates once offered to sell DOS to IBM for $10,000
dollars, and IBM turned him down.

> 
>  > This is normal, as Microsoft make a problems to be able to "fix"
>  > it (creating 3 times more others) in new releases, so idiots
>  > continue to buy new versions of windoze and new hardware, just to
>  > do as simple task as writing a few-paged document or view a webpage

First of all , I would be careful who I called an idiot. Secondly, you
obviously have no business knowledge. Products, whether they are cars,
drugs, etc. are improved and reissued to the general public. That is
just the name of the game.

> 
> Yeah, yeah :)  I'd be surprised if NTFS isn't as defrag-proof as
> HPFS, which as I recall had self-defragging garbage-collecting
> features built in; certainly I never felt the need to defrag any HPFS
> volumes, and I used it for quite a few years to run BBS and Fidonet
> stuff, not once losing any data .. HPFS was a very resiliant and
> reliable filesystem.
> 
> If you compare:
> % find /usr/src -name "*hpfs*
> with
> % find /usr/src -name "*ntfs*
> 
> you'll go 'hmmm ..' and if you look through the sources you'll see
> whole large slabs of code that are shared between those two
> implementations, by the same author.
> 
> I've never tried writing to HPFS volumes, but I did recover many
> years of work and play from a number of HPFS disks and still hope to
> do some more someday, so I was glad to see the code is still there in
> 7.0 ..
> 
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Re: Postfix & pop-before-smtp

[Gerard]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:38:04 +0200
"Marcel Grandemange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I don't know if anyone will be able to assist me with this one, but
> two days ago I decided to redo our mail server.

> All went well except for one components..

> Pop-before-smtp, it seems no matter what I did it would simply cause
> postfix hassles.

> Now I know pop-before-smtp is confed correctly as old working config
> was used...

> I also know that it DOES create the pop-before-smtp.db file on start
> if I delete it manually as test.

> I can also check if there are any ip's in db by doing pop-before-smtp
> -list. (IT OBVIOUSLY RETURNED NOTHIN)

> However postfix keeps throwing errors to the following..

> Aug 25 15:31:21 thavinci postfix/smtpd[77983]: fatal: open database
> /usr/local/etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp.db: Invalid argument

> Aug 25 11:14:49 thavinci postfix/smtpd[88389]: fatal: open database
> /usr/local/etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp.db: Inappropriate file type or
> format

> Aug 25 12:17:11 thavinci postfix/smtpd[40445]: fatal: open database
> /usr/local/etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp.db: Bad file descriptor

> And that is the correct location and postfix was compile directly
> from ports with option BDB which I understand is required to read
> this file.

> Ive been trying for a day straight trying to resolve this and had to
> continue without this feature for now to allow mail to run..

> At this stage I would worship the ground of anyone that could help me
> solve this!!!

You would probably be better off asking your question on the Postfix
forum. The mailing list is available here:

http://www.postfix.org/lists.html

You could also start here and search for an answer:

http://www.postfix.org/start.html

This link might also help you:

http://popbsmtp.sourceforge.net/

If you do post on the Postfix forum, be sure to include the output of:
'postconf -n' along with the relevant portions of your log file.

By the way, "pop-before-smtp" is rather deprecated. Why not use
SASL/TLS instead? It is much more secure and is readily becoming a
requirement with many ISPs.

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Re: Is the list getting my e-mails?

[Gerard]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:20:22 -0300 (ART)
Mario Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: Mario Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Is the list getting my e-mails?
> 
> 
>Hi;
>Forgive for this test.
>Recently I changed my domain to another ISP.
>Since then, I have been unable to post to the lists I'm subscribed
> to. I created a gmail account, switched to it and nothing. Now I
> switched back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and nothing.
>I can get into the management page, I marked to receive my own
> posts and nothing.
>I get all the posts to all the lists except mine.
>Am i being blocked?
>Could anyone just simply reply this post?

You will never receive a message you send to a list via 'GMail' back.
It is one of many serious 'GMail' deficiencies. They are aware of it;
however, they also refuse to correct the problem.

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It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

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OT: Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl

[Gerard]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:49:17 +0200 (CEST)
Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > To put it plainly, can anyone, if it's possible, provide a single
> > line sed/awk pipeline that can:
> > 
> > - read email addresses from a file in the format:
> > 
> > user.name TAB domain.tld
> > 
> > - convert it to:
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
>
>With awk(1):
>
>awk '{sub(/\./, "_", $1); print $1 "@example.com"}'
>
>With sed(1) (you have to replace "^T" with a real tab!):
>
>sed 's/^\(.*\)\.\(.*\)^T.*/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/'
>
>With tr(1) + sed(1):
>
>tr '.\t' '_@' | sed 's/@.*/@example.com/'
>
>Personally I like the last solution best, because it's
>short and easy to understand.
>
>BTW, all of the above command read from stdin and write
>to stdout, so you can use shell redirection to read from
>a file and/or write to a file.  There is no need to use
>cat(1).

It seems like we have all had fun picking on the use of 'cat'. I would
like to close this discussion with something I learned in school long
ago.

A big cat is a Lion, and a Lion is a dangerous animal. However, a
little cat is a pussy, and a little pussy never hurt anyone.

-- 
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Re: needs drivers for the gadgets in freebsd

[Gerard]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:31:44 +0545
"Prakash Poudyal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Here I want to install some gadgets like webcam wireless ethernet USB
>card and also Wireless PC card in laptop contents  freebsd OS. But
>when I join these gadgets in the notebook it does not show any sign of
>connected in the Notebook. I do have driver for windows version. But
>I donot use windows as my OS. So here I have a probelm any body give
>me the suggestion

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for or not.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ndisgen&sektion=8


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Re: When gcc43 is expected to be in base?

[Gerard]

On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:46:35 +0200
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Isn't possible to add GPLv3 code in the base system?
>> (By possible I mean the license part, not the technical part;)
>>   
>
>There is a strong preference not to do this.

Doing a totally unscientific investigation reveals that the trend seems
to be towards the use of GPLv3 license. As a 'claws-mail' user myself,
I know that, that caused a problem with the 'ClamAV' plug-in that was
formerly used by 'claws-mail'

Since it appears to be apparent that newer software might very well be
released under the GPLv3 license, it might behoove the FreeBSD team to
rethink its ideas or beliefs regarding the inclusion of such software
into the base system. At the very least, it might very well make life
easier for end users who need the support that programs using that
license are now offering.

Then again, I could be wrong. Just my 2¢.

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points.

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Re: [Fwd: Re: connecting to a secured Windows 2003 terminal server]

[Gerard]

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:06:46 +
FreeBSD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I am posting this question again since so far I have not been able to 
>find any solution. But I do believe there is one -- which I cannot
>find and hopefully someone will be able to share her/his effective
>solution with me.

If you cannot get an answer here, you might try the Microsoft site.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb430837.aspx

From time to time I have gotten some useful information there myself.

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Re: PCI Gigabit Ethernet network interface card (NIC) recommendations

[Gerard]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:28:17 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>
>> re0 in here
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x81361019 chip=0x813610ec
>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>>
>> "re -- RealTek 8139C+/8169/816xS/811xS/8101E PCI/PCIe Ethernet
>> adapter driver"
>>
>> Works like a charm.
>> No complains :)
>>
>lots of versions of this chip are buggy.

What versions?


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Re: Imposible to update/upgrade ports....

[Gerard]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:53:21 -0300
Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>I'v been delaying the installed ports upgrade cause i was testing my
>server and now that it it in production i wanted to upgrade them and
>find it impossible...
>
>I am running
> uname -a
>FreeBSD everest.himalaya.network 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0:
>Mon May 21 19:48:05 ART 2007
>
>I did a cvsup to update all ports which did it successfully...then
>installed portmanager and portsaudit
>
>did a pkg_version -v and find the outdated ports, like sec, mysql and
>more
>
>Now while trying to update with
>
>portmanager sysutils/rsync -l -ui -f
>#Then also tried without the f
>
>get this errors:
>-
>
>portmanager 0.4.1_9
>
> perl-5.8.8_1/lang/perl5.8
>make Strike 2
>
>it gets like its looping while updating perl
>For what i saw, portmanager seems to try to update all dependencies
>too..and is failing in that
>
>Something similar happened while trying to update apache22
>
>Its my first try updating/upgrading ports...and it was hard to find a
>doc explaining thisi mean..there are lots of docs but each with
>different methods...
>
>Well, hope you can give me a jhand..

I use portmanager myself occasionally. They this:

1) Update your ports tree
2) Run: portmanager -u -l -y -p

If it fails again, look in the log file (/var/log/portmanager.log) and
see what it says. You can post the error message back here.


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Missing 'libnpp.so'

[Gerard]

Using FreeBSD-6.3, I have attempted several times to install
'opera-linuxplugins', but without success. In each instance an error
message stating:

/usr/local/share/opera/plugins/libnpp.so: No such file or directory.

I cannot seem to locate this file anywhere on my system. I have removed
Opera from the system and reinstalled it to no avail. How can I correct
the problem?

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Re: Default config for claws-mail

[Gerard]

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 else?  Or is this a legacy of the time when the plugin
> was a separate port?

Did you run: 'make config' in the claws-mail directory before
attempting to built it? Bogofilter is an option. I don't remember if it
is turned on by default or not.

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Re: AUTO: Torben Jakobsen is out of the office. (returning 2008-08-10)

[Gerard]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:10:09 +0200
Torben Jakobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[...]

> This is the only notification you will receive while this person is
> away.

Wonderful. Now if the OP had learned how to program his "vacation
program / auto responder" correctly, I would not have even received
this useless notice.

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Re: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?

[Gerard]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:40:20 -0600
Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The US Dollar hasn't really been worth anything since 1975 at the
> latest. People just haven't figured that out yet.

In that case, would you be so kind as to forward all of those worthless
US Dollars to me. I will be more than glad to relieve you of the burden
of domiciling them.

Interestingly enough, the price of oil is still tied to the US Dollar.

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Re: general question - php5 extensions

[Gerard]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:47:50 -0400
Brad Mettee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> You're portmanager line has been very helpful, everything that I was
> trying to get installed is actually working! I only had one problem
> and that's because Mail-Toaster defines itself as a package without
> defining an ORIGIN line in it's +CONTENTS pkg file. Once I added that
> I stopped getting portmanager upgrade errors and everything got
> properly upgraded and compiled.

Glad to hear it worked for you. Regarding the problem with toaster, did
you file a PR or report it to the maintainer? It might help to avoid
problems for other users.

-- 
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Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog.
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Re: general question - php5 extensions

[Gerard]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:30:21 -0400
Brad Mettee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've been banging my head for 2 days trying to get php5 compiled with 
> extensions OR a way to find the .so files so it could dynamically
> link them. I've finally stumbled on the php5-* directories in the
> ports tree and it's compiling extensions right now, except that I
> keep having to deinstall an extension then restart the php5-extension
> make again so it can continue.
> 
> Why isn't there a single folder under the lang/php5 directory that
> would put all of the extensions in the same place? Having them broken
> up into all of the varying places in the tree makes it extremely
> difficult to find them. Or maybe at least have sym links to them in
> one place.
> 
> This is just for discussion, I don't expect an actual answer..

Are you referring to 'php5-extensions-1.1' in the ports tree? Assuming
you have installed php5 via ports, why couldn't you just run:

portupgrade -NRryv php5-extensions

You will probably want to run 'make config' in that directory before
running portupgrade.

You could also use portmanager:

portmanager lang/php5-extensions -p -y -l

HTH

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Re: mail not work

[Gerard]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:21:35 +0800
EdwardKing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >   * Did you do anything to enable Sendmail (the default mail
> > transfer agent)?
> 
> >>It's enabled by default on localhost.
> 
> How to make FreeBSD mail to work?
> 
> From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:30:18 +0800, EdwardKing
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I use mailx command,such as Tom to Kate,I like following command:
> >> $mail Kate
> >> Subject:Hello
> >> Hello world
> >> (press Ctrl+D)
> >> EOT
> >>
> >> Then I use user Kate to login,and check mail,
> >> $mail
> >> No mail for Kate
> >>
> >> Why I can't receive letter? where is wrong?
> > 
> > mailx depends on a correctly configured `mail transfer agent', and
> > it expects the *login* name of a user, not their real name.
> > 
> >  * Do you have a local user whose login name is `Kate'?
> > 
> >  * Did you do anything to enable Sendmail (the default mail transfer
> >agent)?
> > 
> >  * What does the `/var/log/maillog' file contain?

Please don't top post. If you don't know what that means, Google for it.

Regarding your 'sendmail' problem, might I suggest that you start by
reading the material available at the following URLs.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html
http://www.technoids.org/freebsdsendmailfaqs.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/sendmail.html

There is a wealth of information available on this subject. Try reading
and then posting if there is something that you do not fully understand.


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Error Message When Mounting Share

[Gerard]

I have XFCE-4 installed. I usually access this from my WinXP box via
TightVNC. No problem there. From within XFCE-4, I usually mount a share
on my WinXP box. Although I do not experience any apparent problems with
that share, this error message is printed ad infinitum on the screen of
the FreeBSD PC.

+netsmb_dev: loaded
+smb_maperror: Unmapped error 1:158
+smb_maperror: Unmapped error 1:158
+smb_maperror: Unmapped error 1:158

{message continues until I disconnect the share}

How can I go about finding out what is causing this problem?

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Re: Install Microsoft Root Certificates into FreeBSD

[Gerard]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:20:55 -0400
Kevin Kobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> I think you could accomplish what you are after more easily by 
> installing the ca_root_nss port.

I have it installed. It appears that the Microsoft version contains
more certificates and apparently is updated more often. It seems that I
get a new update for the root certificates every two months or so on
Windows. I honestly do not remember the last time 'ca_root_nss' was
updated.

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Install Microsoft Root Certificates into FreeBSD

[Gerard]

FreeBSD-6.3

I wanted to import the root certificates from my WinXP machine into my
FreeBSD server. I found a site:

http://safari.ibmpressbooks.com/9781593271459/configure-id11

that supplied information on how to accomplish this. This is an
excerpt from that page.


In order to avoid errors when visiting SSL-encrypted websites, a file
named cert.pem containing public certificates of Trusted Root
Certification Authorities needs to be present in
the /usr/local/openssl/certs directory. This file can be constructed by
exporting an existing collection of trusted root certificates from
another operating system, namely Microsoft Windows XP or Macintosh OS
X. 12.6.1. Microsoft Windows XP

To export trusted root certificates from a Windows XP system:

Click the Start menu and open the Control Panel.

Double-click the Internet Options icon.

Click the Content tab then click the Certificates... button.

Click the Trusted Root Certification Authorities tab.

Click the first entry in the list and then scroll down to the end of
the list. While holding the [shift] key, click the last entry in the
list. This will select all of the listed certificates.

Click the Export button and then click Next > at the wizard Welcome
screen.

Click the Browse... button and save the file as cert.p7b in a location
of your choice.

Click Next > when you are returned to the File Name prompt.

Click Finish to complete the export.

Copy the file cert.p7b to the /usr/local/openssl/certs directory on
your FreeBSD system using SFTP or a similar file transfer utility (see
"OpenSSH Server 4.7p1" for details on SFTP).

Once the cert.p7b file is in the proper location, run the following
command to convert it into the required PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail)
format: # cd /usr/local/openssl/certs # openssl pkcs7 -inform DER -in
cert.p7b -print_certs -text -out cert.pem

You should now be able to securely connect to websites "trusted" by
Microsoft without Lynx SSL errors.


The problem is that I do not have a: /usr/local/openssl/certs
directory. I do have a: /usr/local/share/certs directory though. Could
I use that directory instead, or do I have to create the specified one?
I also read about creating an /etc/ssl/certs directory somewhere.

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Re: Simple Text Mail Setup

[Gerard]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:13:50 -0400
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In response to Rem Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > 
> > > No.  What you really want to do is set smart_host to the outgoing
> > > mail server provided by your ISP.
> > 
> > Please forgive my ignorance here, but how does one accomplish that?
> 
> Oops, I misread your message to be "why" and not "what".
> 
> Steps (as root):
> 1) cd /etc/mail
> 2) make
> 3) Edit [hostname].mc to uncomment the smart_host setting and add your
>ISP's server
> 4) make install
> 5) /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart
> 
> At least, I believe those steps are correct.

I believe step four is:

make all install restart

You then skip step 5.


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Re: Flashplugin

[Gerard]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:53:05 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >> flash, so don't use it.
> >>
> > i don't use flash - don't need to see all those advertizements. and
> > quite frankly, i generally find flash sites irritating anyway.
> 
> i don't use it because sites that RELY on flash rarely (almost never)
> have any useful contents.

However, there are many banking institutions that use Flash. I also
belong to several 'Officials Associations' that require the use of
Flash. They are using Flash, not just to make my life easier, but to
simplify theirs.

All this nonsense about using third party programs to download content
from sites such as, but not limited to YouTube, is just unacceptable.
If I navigate to a URL, I fully expect to be able to view all of that
site's content as easily using FreeBSD as I can using Window's with IE.
or even Firefox. Anything less is just not acceptable.


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Perl 5.10.0

[Gerard]

Just before FBSD-7 was released, I asked if Perl 5.10.0 would be
included in the new version. I was informed that it would not be;
however, it would be released shortly after FBSD-7 was released.

Well, FBSD-7 has been out for a while now; however, I still do not see
the updated version of Perl. Is there any specific reason that it has
not been released?

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Re: Duplex printer advice

[Gerard]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:01:09 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > isn't all that hard but for some reason the printer manufacturers
> > ship these machines with very low RAM.  
> 
> the reason is to force you then buy high-priced RAMs for them.

The market for printers is a very competitive one. Any manufacturer has
to factor in the cost of the base machine, plus addition components, so
as to compute a selling price that will be competitive with his
competition. A manufacturer could easily load up his product will all
the RAM he wanted; however, if he could not sell the product, or at
least a sufficient number of them to turn a profit, then that effort
would be for naught.

Personally, I have not found the secondary RAM market to be all that
expensive anyway. If there is no need to spit out 24 sheets per minute,
then why waste the resources on it?

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Re: gnash leave a blank page when visit youtube

[Gerard]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:06:04 -0700
"Tobias Hoellrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> Got to add that to my book of funny rumours :) Show me one true
> cross-platform product from Microsoft that has been updated in sync
> with the Windows versions over the years. If you find that, I guess
> we have an answer; if you don't find one, I guess we have an answer
> as well ;-)

The same thing can be said for virtually any software publisher. They
all tend to complete and rush out the door the version written for the
OS they are primarily interested in. Then, and all too often, complete a
substandard version for other operating systems. Try getting an
up-to-date version of claws-mail for Windows for instance. It doesn't
exist. The same can be said about a lot of other software as well. It
is just the nature of the beast.

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Re: gnash leave a blank page when visit youtube

[Gerard]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:30:03 -0500
Derek Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> Fun so Flash7 is "obsolete", Gnash is half and half, and flash9 is a
> lost cause :p should be interesting what happens when silverlight
> comes out and all websites start using it :(

Silverlight is all ready out. I don't know how wide spread its use is
though. I did see something about Microsoft tweaking it so that it was
compatible with Firefox.

OT; however, there is a notice from CERTS regarding Microsoft and
Apple's Safari:

http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#microsoft_releases_security_advisory1

and

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/953818.mspx

Lately Apple has been getting hit rather hard with security problems.

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PHP crashing on FBSD-6.3

[Gerard]

I am continuing to have a problem with PHP crashing. It will not even
print out its version number without a dump. This is an example of the
crash:

~ $ php -v
PHP 5.2.6 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: May 24 2008 13:55:49)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies
Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)


Due to this problem, I cannot update 'pear' or any of the other PHP
related ports. I have tried removing PHP completely and reinstalling
it; however, that has not alleviated the problem. I am now unable to
access phpMyAdmin or other utilities that utilize PHP. I am using the
default port config file with apache support.

I am hoping that someone has an idea of what I could do to correct the
situation.

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Re: Problem Sending Mail With Postfix

[Gerard]

On Tue, 20 May 2008 12:59:08 -0400
"Tandon, Sahil \(IM\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> 
> > Because of the way "mx1.free.bsd.org" was used (indicating 
> > that someone is trying to describe an error rather than 
> > actually copy it verbatim), I gathered that 
> > "my.mywebsite.com" was redacted along the lines of 
> > "host.example.com", rather than the actual hostname in question
> 
> My thoughts exactly.  I am almost certain he is just trying to hide 
> the actual hostname.

The constant mangling of information is definitely making it much
harder to diagnose his problem. He would probably be better of posting
the unedited output of: 'postconf -n' along with any pertinent log
entries, error messages, etc. He probably should just move the entire
thread to the Postfix forum anyway. They are really more adept at
handling this since it does, at least partially, pertain to Postfix.


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Re: Does FBSD 7 support 802.11N cards? G suggestions?

[Gerard]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 11:39:08 -0500
Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Gerard wrote:
> 
> >I have done something similar to that myself. Go to the linksys site
> >and download the latest available driver for your card. Then visit:
> >
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html
> >
> >and follow the directions there.
> >  
> >
> 
> I found the direction at 11.8.1 helpful, and was able to use /ndisgen/
> and /kldload/ to bring up the card. (Yea!)
> 
> Now I need to configure it - I'm printing out 29.3 now.  But I can't
> get the interface to be brought up at boot, a la:
> 
> 
> 
> You can configure the system to load the NDIS modules at boot time in 
> the same way as with any other module. First, copy the generated
> module, W32DRIVER.ko, to the /boot/modules directory. Then, add the
> following line to /boot/loader.conf:
> 
> W32DRIVER_load="YES"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> but I can bring it up manually from the modules directory.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what's wrong?

Have you checked user/group ownership? I think it has to be root/wheel.
It should also be executable, 0755 if I remember correctly.

Are there any warning or error messages displayed at boot-up that might
indicate what is happening?


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Re: Configuring Bash

[Gerard]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:46:27 -0500
Reid Linnemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Written by Montag on 05/14/08 19:20>>
> > This should be a fairly simple process, I don't really know what I
> > am missing.
> > 
> > I've got the following in the .bash_profile of a basic user account:
> > 
> > # set prompt [EMAIL PROTECTED]/dir] $ (# for root)
> > PS1 = ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' 
> > case `id -u` in
> >   0) PS1='${PS1} # ';; # root
> >   *) PS1='${PS1} $ ';; # everyone else
> > 
> > When I log in, I am greeted with:
> > ${PS1} $ $
> > 
> > However, if I su to root, I get:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/user]# 
> > 
> > That is what I wanted, but for some reason it is not working for a
> > normal user.  I thought perhaps the problem could be
> > that .bash_profile is only loaded when a non-login shell is
> > spawned, but a quick consultation of man bash revealed that bash
> > reads ~/.bash_profile when it is invoked as a login shell.  
> > 
> > My next thought was that it was a permissions issue, but:
> > su
> > chmod 777 .bash_profile
> > exit
> > logout
> > login
> > 
> > That did not change the results, the output was still the same as
> > above. This is all being done at the console, by the way.
> > 
> > Appreciate any advice,
> > 
> > montag
> > --
> > "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more
> > popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa
> > grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them
> > so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely
> > 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking,
> > they'll get a sense of motion without moving."
> 
> There are a few problems with what you are attempting here.
> 
> Your ~/.bash_profile is executed once, only when you log in. When you
> su to root, a shell is started for root (according to root's shell
> set in /etc/passwd) and that shell will do whatever it wants to do as
> far as dotfile processing is concerned. Your ordinary
> user's .bash_profile is ignored.
> 
> Since the ordinary user's .bash_profile is only executed once, when
> the user's shell starts, the *) condition is always met in the case
> statement, so that expression is executed:
> 
> PS1='${PS1} $ ';;
> 
> This will always result in PS1 being the literal '${PS1} $ ' for that
> user. Why? Because if you read your bash manual you'll see that
> variable expansion does not happen in single quoted strings.
> 
> PS1="${PS1} \$ ";;
> 
> The above string will do what you intend, it will set PS1 to whatever
> ${PS1} is expanded to, plus the extra ' $ ' (you have to escape a
> literal $ in a double quoted string).
> 
> As has been mentioned before, what you really want is to use the '\$'
> literal to clue in the sh/bash to use a # for root and $ for all other
> users.
> 
> PS1="${PS1} \\$ ";;
> 
> That is the PS1 that will do it.
> 
> But again, because su invokes a new shell, if root's shell is not a sh
> variant that uses $PS1, like the default csh, your prompt will not
> carry over. csh will uses its own internal prompt variable and ignore
> sh's PS1 environment variable.

I placed the following in my ~/.bash_profile file.

# This is the .bash_profile file
# Read on bash login and similar to .profile
# This file passes control to the '.bashrc' file if it is present

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

Then in my ~/.bashrc file, I created an alias:

alias su='su -m'

Now, whenever I go to root, the environment is not modified and I still
have bash as my shell. I don't know if this will work for you or not.
It should not hurt to try it.



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Re: Does FBSD 7 support 802.11N cards? G suggestions?

[Gerard]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 06:54:53 -0500
Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> (Sorry Roland; re-sending after I noticed my reply went directly
> to you rather than the List.)
> 
> Roland Smith wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:23:44PM -0500, Walter wrote:
> >  
> >
> >> <>I'm trying to get a Broadcom-based wireless-N card running
> >> under FBSD 7. ...
> >
>  > See Chapter 20 of the FreeBSD handbook, especially §20.2.
> 
> 20 is The Vinum Volume Manager 
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html>.
> Did you mean 29 Advanced Networking 
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking.html>,
>  
> and 29.3 Wireless Networking 
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html>?
> Or http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html#ETHERNET
> 
> >>If "N" isn't supported, is there any problem anyone knows about
> >>with the LevelOne WNC0301 or with LinkSys WMP54G cards?
> >>CircuitCity has the LevelOne for $25 and the WMP54G for $39.
> >>Can someone advise me?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >The problem is that a lot of wireless manufacturers have the habit of
> >changing wireless chipsets without changing model numbers. So a
> >revision X might work while revision Y won't.
> >
> >Try and look at the card. Sometimes the chipset is visible and you
> >can look for it in the manual pages. But often it is enclosed in a
> >metal cover.
> >
> >In my experience, asking shop clerks which chipset a card uses only
> >produces puzzled looks.
> >
> >Second best thing is to download the driver for the revision of the
> >card that you want to buy. Unpack the driver and read the .inf
> >files. That will probably yield the chipset type. If not, use
> >strings(1) on the drivers themselves.
> >
> >Roland
> >  
> >
> It's a crap shoot?  Yikes.  I guess I'll just pick one and take
> my chances, but - no fault to FBSD - it appears to be a sorry
> state of affairs in the computer driver arena.  I can guess
> the latest rev listed on the support web site is what I'll get
> when I buy the box?? (Maybe not, as I got a rev A router
> last December when the latest was rev B.)  Later I'll work
> on getting the driver downloaded and unpacked on my
> Windows machine (as my Mac won't process those .exe
> files).
> 
> Did I read that there's a way to use Windows drivers in FBSD 7?
> There are places I can download those for XP/Vista, so if I could
> use those - even if they're not the optimal solution - it'll get me
> going.

I have done something similar to that myself. Go to the linksys site
and download the latest available driver for your card. Then visit:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html

and follow the directions there.


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Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

[Gerard]

On Fri, 9 May 2008 16:40:01 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> smbclient connects to any SMB server (be it Windows or unix or
> whatever) and perform fetch, upload and other operations from command
> line.
> 
> it's good to:
> 
> testing your samba setup (if you need)
> fetching/uploading files to windoze from unix, if windoze has folder 
> sharing enabled.
> 
> 
> if you need file server for use with windoze - configure smb.conf
> properly and run samba with
> 
> smbd_enable="YES"
> nmbd_enable="YES"
> 
> 
> in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> and then by
> 
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba start (or stop/restart)

You only need: samba_enable="YES" in the /etc/rc.conf file to make
samba start automatically upon reboot, or even if it is started
manually for that matter.

If you need 'windbindd, that is enabled separately.

If you need shares mounted automatically, you can put them in
the /etc/fstab file. See the Samba documentation or subscribe to the
Samba list.

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Re: Portmanager loop when trying to upgrade perl

[Gerard]

On Sat, 3 May 2008 13:35:10 -0400
Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi.  I'm running FreeBSD 6.1.  I have never had a problem with
> portmanager until today.  I was trying to update amavisd-new.  When I
> issued the upgrade command, portmanager started to update perl5.8.
> Everything was going fine until I realized it was looping.  After the
> "3rd strike," I was told to look at the log.  I am not able to glean
> much in the way of solutions, so hoping someone with a similar
> experience can help.  I did see prior threads about the looping
> problem but I am still unable to update perl.


What version of portmanager are you running? The last one is '0.4.1.9' I
believe. It might have been nice if you had also posted any pertinent
portions of the log file also. There was a looping problem in a very
old version of portmanager; however, supposedly it had been corrected.
Portmanager will not update itself if I remember correctly. I believe
you have to do it manually.

I might suggest the following.

Assuming you have the latest version of portmanager:

1) Update your ports tree
2) Clean out '/usr/ports/distfiles'
   Not really necessary; however, it cannot hurt.
3) If available, run: portsclean -CDLP
4) Run: portmanager -u -p -y -l

Good Luck!


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Re: Crontab @reboot directive

[Gerard]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:18:26 +1000
andrew clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue 2008-04-22 12:34:12 UTC+0200, Zbigniew Szalbot
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> > If I want to start a program at every system reboot and the program
> > should not be started by root, is it enough for me to edit a users
> > crontab with the following directive?
> > 
> > @reboot /path/to/file.sh
> 
> Yes.  This is how I start fetchmail after a reboot:
> 
> @reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 120

Is there a specific reason that you choose to do that rather than
starting it by adding: fetchmail_enable="YES" to the /etc/rc.conf file?


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Re: ClamAV 0.93 on FreeBSD 4.11

[Gerard]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:34:16 -0400
"Juergen Fiedler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> Maybe it's really time for 7.0.

I would think so. At the very least, there are no doubt several
security fixes in place now that were/are not readily available for 4.x
versions. Besides, it will give you an opportunity to discard useless
crud that has no doubt been accumulating on your system.

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Re: port gnome-applets won't upgrade properly

[Gerard]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:29:47 -0500
"Jeremy Messenger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > ** Fix the problem and try again.
> > ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
> > - graphics/ImageMagick (marked as IGNORE)
> > - java/diablo-jdk15 (marked as IGNORE)
> > - japanese/lynx (marked as IGNORE)
> > - java/jdk15 (marked as IGNORE)
> > - textproc/p5-Text-ParseWords (port directory error)
> > - x11-servers/xorg-printserver (marked as IGNORE)
> > ! devel/ccrtp (ccrtp-1.5.2) (unknown build error)
> > * devel/libzrtpcpp (libzrtpcpp-0.9.2)
> > * net/twinkle (twinkle-1.0_4)
> > * multimedia/libxine (libxine-1.1.7_3)
> > ! x11/yelp (yelp-2.18.1_1)  (linker error)
> > * finance/gnucash-docs (gnucash-docs-2.2.0)
> > * finance/gnucash (gnucash-2.2.0)
> > ! security/seahorse (gnome-keyring-manager-2.20.0)   
> > (configure error)
> >
> > What is next?  
> 
> It doesn't show anything. You need to do it again to get actually
> error. The portupgrade has option to save build log or you can go to
> each port and do it by hand to get build error log. As for the
> seahorse part, are you sure you have complete ports tree up to date?
> The portupgrade is supposed to delete gnome-keyring-manager. If you
> still have it, remove it by manual and redo it.

I am showing newer versions for several of the ports listed. Update
your ports tree, then make sure you are in fact using the latest version
of 'portupgrade' before attempting to build the port again.

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Re: Adobe Flash Player Petition

[Gerard]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:15:50 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > PLEASE CONTACT ADOBE. TELL THEM TO RELEASE A FLASH PLUGIN FOR
> > FREEBSD.
> >There are more and more websites you cannot even enter without a
> >running Flash Player.
> 
> so don't watch them. their author definitely are not interested in 
> providing real information, as it can't go without flash.
> 
> while there is a lot of pages that are unreadable without flash, non
> of them contain useful informations.

I find that assumption grossly inaccurate. I have experienced
difficulties numerous times trying to access financial institutions
without a working flash plug-in. I just had another bad experience with
a linksys site using Opera:

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_CASupport_C1&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1175238286492&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=8649286492H30&displaypage=download

The lack of an easy to install and maintain flash program is one of the
main reasons I maintain a WinXP machine. Not the only reason perhaps,
but nevertheless an important one.

> > If many of the BSD community ask for it, they probably will 
> >release a BSD Version..
> 
> they should do it alone, not be asked for it. they know that FreeBSD 
> exist, and they know that it's just matter of recompiling. But they
> don't release FreeBSD version. so they don't willingly.
> 
> They are not idiots, and they already calculated well if providing
> FreeBSD version will be good for them of not.
> 
> 
> don't be anyone's slave and simply don't use this crap at all.
> whatever you use freebsd or not


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Re: freebsd 7 stable, which tag??

[Gerard]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:24:46 -0400
Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:11:59PM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:

> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Matthew Seaman
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:

> > > > sorry, I just read some articles in the mailing list, it's
> > > > RELENG_7 for stable, 7_0 is for current.

> > >  Nope.

> > >  RELENG_7_0 is for 7.0-RELEASE

> > >  RELENG_7 is for 7.0-STABLE (at the moment)

> > >  . is for 8-CURRENT

> > so in a sense, 7.0-release is for developers, and 7.0-stable for end
> > users, right?

> No.7.0-release is the final snapshot of 7.0.Current is
> for developers and stable is a more cleaned up version of current.

> Current is the bleeding edge.
> Stable is sort of like a beta
> and release is the final, cleaned up and built and tested release.
> 
> The confusing thing is there can be more than one branch being
> worked on.   At the moment there is  7.xxx and 8.xxx.   There can
> be stable and release for each.The head is where current is
> made which is 8.xxx now.   

> If something is built in to current that is wanted more immediately, 
> it gets merged in to the less bleeding edge tracks.   The process for 
> that is called 'Merge From Current' usually called MFC - as in 'that 
> feature (or fix) was MFCed this morning'.

It is amazing how often this question arises. I guess the manual does
not explain the different 'tags' and branches thoroughly enough.

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Re: Network setup

[Gerard]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:48:08 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > I have the WRT150N myself; however, the setup is virtually the
> > same. By the way, are you sure that you want to invest the time is
> > using a 'G' protocol router? The 'N' version is readily available,
> > much faster and has a greater range.  
> 
> even better - use cables. cheapest and fastest;)

The OP stated, or at least I assumed that he meant that the network was
rather extensive. Using cables, while it might provide a faster data
transfer, could easily cost more to implement. If the OP can get the
wireless network up and running easily enough, he might very well save
a considerable amount of time. Since he did not provide a schematic of
his network, that is just a guess.

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Re: Network setup

[Gerard]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:52:22 +0800
"Ruel Luchavez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have a Linksys wireless-g broadband router model WRT54G here and I
> tried to configure it..but still i could not connect to Internet.
> I don't know if I've configured it wrong..could some one help me how
> to do it step by step?

I have the WRT150N myself; however, the setup is virtually the same. By
the way, are you sure that you want to invest the time is using a 'G'
protocol router? The 'N' version is readily available, much faster and
has a greater range.

Anyway, I used a Windows box to do the initial
configuration/installation of the router. Visit the linksys site and get
the latest installer package:

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_CASupport_C1&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1166859678292&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=7829237314L06

Obviously, that should be all one line. After downloading and running
the installed, download and run the updater program. It works on your
router and might very well have an updated firmware for you.

Now that the router is working, you can start configuring it for your
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US-CERT Warning

[Gerard]

I seems that US-Cert has issued a 'High Vulnerability' warning regarding
FreeBSD. This is the URL:

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB08-091.html

A snippet of the warning:

Multiple integer overflows in libc in NetBSD 4.x, FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x,
and probably other BSD and Apple Mac OS platforms allow
context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via large values
of certain integer fields in the format argument to (1) the strfmon
function in lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c, related to the GET_NUMBER macro;
and (2) the printf function, related to left_prec and right_prec.

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Re: I'd like some help

[Gerard]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:18:11 +1000
Da Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 19:51 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:10:04AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 14:58 -0700, Matthew Woodson wrote:
> > > > I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i want to
> > > > try Free BSD, but i can't figure out how to download it and the
> > > > instructions don't make sense. I am running Windows XP OS- can
> > > > you tell me how to download Free BSD with it?
> > > 
> > > Go to the download section of the site and download the iso
> > > files. Once you have those, double click on them and burn them to
> > > disk.

> > Last I checked, the MS Windows built-in CD burning software didn't
> > do burning from an image -- you'd need third-party software.
> > Burning an ISO without such software would just result in a copy of
> > the ISO on the CD, rather than a CD that would boot up an installer.

> Which software were you using and how long ago? I've used Roxio, Nero,
> and Easy CD Creator- all of which did that. Most bundled burning
> software will do it automatically. They offer burn from cd/dvd  image,
> as well as data cd creation, so when you double click on an iso file
> it sets up to burn the image for you.
> 
> If you haven't got the bundled software installed I agree with you
> though. Fairly uncommon though.

You can get some free utilities here:

http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm


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Re: [Fwd: Re: List replies]

[Gerard]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:25:54 -0400
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:30:28 -0400
> > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Da Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Fair enough, but is it necessary on all the lists for freebsd?
> > > 
> > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> >  
> > That is one man's point of view. There are several others though.
> 
> a) What was your point in saying that?

Because I believe it, why else?
 
> b) Not really.  It's a list of reasons and the reasons are factual,
>not opinion.  While the overall conclusion is opinion, the article
>is factual and informative in nature.

Check out the URL below. Another man's opinion. (One that I generally
agree with).

http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml


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Re: samba

[Gerard]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:52:22 +0800
Julius Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mar 22, 2008, at 02:02 , MD Keith wrote:

> > Greetings, I have a FreeBSD box i set up long ago as a file server
> >
> > has worked great till I had to get a better laptop with gfx card
> > to keep up with my SecondLife Addiction.  and now can't get the installed
> > Vista Os to connect to it.

> Try change LmCompatibilityLevel to '0' or '1' on Vista using regedt32.
> 
> It is under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa".
> 
> Works for me.

Check out this URL for further information:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/76052.mspx?mfr=true


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Re: [Fwd: Re: List replies]

[Gerard]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:30:28 -0400
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Da Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Fair enough, but is it necessary on all the lists for freebsd?
> 
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
 
That is one man's point of view. There are several others though.

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Re: Anyone have Comcast for an ISP?

[Gerard Seibert]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:33:13 -0400
Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Does anyone on here have comcast for an ISP? I use them and today I
> was messing around on a machine I use for FTP service over my LAN (Not
> accessible from the net so I'm not worried about using it for back
> ups) and anyway, I wanted to set up one of my comcast accounts on it
> so I could do as I've done for years, and use SSH to log into that
> machine and use fetchmail to grab my email off comcast, and then use
> Mutt to check it since I really like Mutt.
> 
> Well, I got sendmail up ad tested that ti was working and it was
> working fine. After that I tried sending a test email with Mutt.
> 
> For some reason ti failed even though it was the backed up copy of my
> Muttrc that I used to use on EVERY machine I used mutt on. I always
> backed it up because I had it looking really nice with colors and also
> my email address was in there and I built in a mini addy book for my
> friends and mailing lists I'm on so I didn't have to worry about an
> address book being deleted by accident.
> 
> Well, it failed horribly. I can't send an email because it's blocked,
> and also, using fetchmail isn't exactly working either and I can't
> stand how getmailrc works
> 
> So does anyone here use Comcast and Mutt for an email client that
> could maybe reply and let me know how they do it? Id' like to use
> Mutt and also I do like how simple fetchmail is to use, so fi you use
> these and have Comcast for internet please reply with how you did it.
> I'm googling right now but everything I find isn't exactly helpful,
> so if anyone here uses Mutt and has Comcast please let me know how
> you did it.
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> -Allen

I am presently using Comcast in New York. They are actively blocking
outgoing port 25. You need to use port 587 with authentication to get
mail working correctly. I have a web server and FTP server all working
on the standard ports however. Even fetchmail works OK. In any case, on
July 1, I hope to be switching to FIOS and getting rid of this outdated
and slow cable system.

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Re: some problems after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE

[Gerard Seibert]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:46:34 -0500
Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I followed all the UPDATING instructions, and still had many issues
> because of old libraries.  So the:
> portupgrade -faP
> 
> didn't work well for me.  I ended up rebuilding all the ports, which
> of course fixed everything.

You could have used: "portmanager -u -f -y" to achieve the same goal,
assuming that you had it installed.

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Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

[Gerard]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:15:34 +0100
Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 02:55:20PM +, LtCdData wrote:
> > 
> > So what's the deal with Flash? Occasionally, I will get a link on
> > YouTube/Google Video that looks interesting, but for the most part,
> > I've ignored them. Over the years, I have occasionally tried the
> > mozilla flash plugin, but that has always crashed my browser within
> > the first 10 minutes of use.
> > 
> > So for those of you using FreeBSD 7, what is the current state of
> > Flash? Can it be used regularly? Is it ready for the BSD desktop?
> > Caveats? Comments? Advice?
> 
> For youtube, you can use the www/youtube-dl port to download them, and
> mplayer to play them.
> 
> Alternatively, you can use the DownloadHelper add-on to download
> videos from several sites.

That kind of sucks. The idea is to  simply click on a link and have it
work. Adding extra software to accomplish what is already being done on
other operating systems is regression not progress.

> > I see flash popping on this list over and over, and as yet I have
> > not seen a solution that fully works. Yes I tried the wrappers,
> > gnash etc. on native firefox and opera with limited success,
> > however as others have also noted flash is now required, and as for
> > myself, fully working flash 9 is also.
> 
> I for one am very glad to _not_ see all the annoying flash-based ads.

The simple fact that a site or precess requires 'flash' to display
correctly does not insinuate that the object is an advertisement. There
are several browser based add-ons that can handle to various degrees
pop-up advertisements, etc.

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Re: USB printer

[Gerard]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:14:20 -0400
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You know, while there are printing utils that actually work on
> FreeBSD, I can't personally recommend CUPS.  I keep on trying to get
> it to work on FreeBSD efvery year or so, then I need to go over to
> one of my other systems.  Last one I tried was an Epson Stylus C84,
> but I've also tried HP officejets, and I just can't get locally
> attached printers to work with cups.  I can get them to work with
> things like apsfilter very well, but either someone is going to have
> to fix the Cups port (it builds, but nothing locally runs) or stop
> recommending it.
> 
> Or, does anyone else have it working on FreeBSD?  Sure would like to
> hear about it, but I've been trying for a long time now, with no
> success.

I have HPLIP working with CUPs perfectly. I even got it to FAX. The
printer is accessed via a wireless network too.

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Error message with hp-toolbox

[Gerard]

I am getting an error message when using the hp-toolbox (print/hplip)
version 2.7.12 on a FreeBSD-6.3 machine. When I start the program, this
is displayed:

Mar 10 16:49:57 scorpio python: hp-toolbox[35348]: error: Invalid
locale: C.utf8

Next, when I click on the 'Send FAX' button, this is displayed:

Mar 10 16:50:51 scorpio python: hp-fab[35369]: error: Invalid locale:
C.utf8
Mar 10 16:51:10 scorpio python: hp-fab[35371]: error: Invalid
locale: C.utf8

In any case, the message is faxed correctly, so I assume that the error
message is really just a warning. Is there anything that I can do to
correct this problem or should I just ignore it?

Thanks!


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Re: mail server from Windows to FreeBSD

[Gerard]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:33:30 +0100
Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:22:39PM +0200, Ivailo Bonev wrote:
> > I have a Windows machine that get all e-mails, from few accounts,
> > from different Internet providers. I want to setup FreeBSD machine
> > that get all mails from accounts and remote and local users get
> > their mails from that FreeBSD mail storage server. I don't own a
> > domain or MX records.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> > I read many docs in Intrernet, and now I have installed FreeBSD 7.0 
> > RELEASE, with installed fetchmail port (to get mail from various
> > accounts), 
> 
> Fetchmail is the right tool for the job.
> 
> > sendmail-sasl port, and dovecot for IMAP server. But now I'm lost,
> > from where to start configuring FreeBSD mail server?
> 
> IMHO postfix is easier to set up than sendmail, but the principles are
> the same.
> 
> I would make users on the FreeBSD machine for everyone that needs to
> download mail from the machine. Use a non-existent home-directory and
> /usr/bin/nologin as the shell for these accounts.
> 
> Use the virtual hosts feature to deliver mail for different addresses
> to local users. See e.g.
> http://mathforum.org/~sasha/tech/sendmailvhosts.html

Use 'virtual' for all users, local or not if Postfix is employed. It
makes setting up the system a whole lot easier and potentially more
secure.
 
> I haven't used dovecot, so I can't help you much with that. If your
> FreeBSD server and the windows clients are on a trusted private
> subnet, I would probably just use plain text authentication.

Setting up SSL/TLS on Postfix is really trivial. I use it myself.
Again, it increases the security factor.

> > And one last thing, how can deliver all mail messages from Outlook
> > Express client from Windows machine to FreeBSD mail server machine?
> 
> You can set the FreeBSD machine as the outgoing mail server in
> Outlook. But this might not work, depending on your set-up. If you
> relay the mail to your ISP's mailserver, it probably won't handle
> incoming mail from addresses outside his domain.

Unless there is some weird firewall, I don't see what the problem would
be.
 
> Roland


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Re: gsnapshot Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_color_parse: assertion `spec != NULL'

[Gerard]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 19:22:03 +0100
Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Well, that's kinda bogus coding on gsnapshot's part.
> Do a send-pr(1) and report that this port requires LANG to be set in
> the environment in order to run and/or apply the patch inlined below
> my sig.
> 
> Btw, this isn't the same error as earlier.

Thanks! PR has been submitted. BTW, I have no idea why the OP had so
many flags set in the 'make.conf' file. Seems like a case of over
thinking the situation.

Just my 2¢.

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Re: gsnapshot Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_color_parse: assertion `spec != NULL'

[Gerard]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:35:35 -0500
Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I just built the port using a plain vanilla 'make.conf' file; i.e.,
> the system defaults. It built fine, however, it crashed as soon as I
> attempted to start it. GDB is useless since I built it without debug
> symbols. I will try building with debug and see what happens.

OK, further update. Building with debug produces this:

Script started on Fri Mar  7 12:46:47 2008
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and
you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under
certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
details. This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...
(gdb) rruunn
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/gsnapshot 
[New LWP 100124]
[New Thread 0x808 (LWP 100124)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x808 (LWP 100124)]
0x08050dee in _L (label=LABEL_APPLY) at language.c:338
338 if (strcmp(lang, "de") == 0 || strcmp(lang, "de_DE") ==
0) (gdb) bbtt  ffuu
#0  0x08050dee in _L (label=LABEL_APPLY) at language.c:338
lang = 0x0
#1  0x0804c22e in construct_viewer (layout=0x80a2080, window=0x80bb000)
at gsnapshot.c:243 button = (GtkWidget *) 0x80a20d0
hbox = (GtkWidget *) 0x80a20d0
vbox = (GtkWidget *) 0x80a2120
box = (GtkWidget *) 0x80a4050
#2  0x0804caaf in interface (window=0x80bb000) at gsnapshot.c:414
layout = (GtkWidget *) 0x80a2080
#3  0x0804cb68 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbfe9b0) at gsnapshot.c:452
window = (GtkWidget *) 0x80bb000
memory = {window = 0x80bb000, layout = 0xbfbfea6c, browser =
0xbfbfea74, viewer = 0x80a4050, image = 0x0, decorations = 0, hide = 1,
delay = 0, mode = 0, print = 0x2807ab88, save = 0xbfbfe978} (gdb)
qquuiitt The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y

Script done on Fri Mar  7 12:47:37 2008



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Re: gsnapshot Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_color_parse: assertion `spec != NULL'

[Gerard]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:23:43 +0100
Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Friday 07 March 2008 17:35:17 Pedro de Sousa Alves wrote:
> 
> > (gsnapshot:4695): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_color_parse: assertion
> > `spec != NULL'
> >  failed
> > -:2: Invalid color constant '(null)'
> > -:2: error: invalid string constant "#eee1b3", expected valid string
> > constant
> >
> > [1]+  Segmentation fault: 11  gsnapshot
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/graphics/gsnapshot]$
> >
> > --
> >
> > Here is my /etc/make.conf:
> >
> > CPUTYPE=pentium2
> > CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -ffast-math -malign-double
> > -mtune=pentium2 -march=pentium2 -fomit-frame-pointer
> 
> -O2 without -fno-strict-aliasing is NOT supported.

I just built the port using a plain vanilla 'make.conf' file; i.e., the
system defaults. It built fine, however, it crashed as soon as I
attempted to start it. GDB is useless since I built it without debug
symbols. I will try building with debug and see what happens.


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Re: Uname borked on ??-Release...

[Gerard]

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:40:56 -0600
Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Being as named is now crapping out ("bad system call"), I'm thinking
> I'll try a Windows solution (not that I'd consider using a Winbox
> here, but I may backup the data, wipe the disk, and try again)
> unless lightning strikes and I figure it out pretty soon.
> Fortunately, this isn't a mission-critical BIND server.  I do need to
> get httpd/PHP back up, tho, because it's hard to print HTML invoices
> for February when you can't serve HTML ;-)  The system's so unstable
> I'm not sure I wanna waste any more time fighting with it at this
> point.

I concur; when the time to diagnose and correct a problem exceeds the
amount of time to simply start over, I would definitely choose to
start over fresh. Besides getting a potentially more stable system, you
will also effectively remove a lot of debris that you probably no
longer need.

I have been in the same situation a few times and it just seemed like a
more logical action to take.

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Re: portupgrade

[Gerard]

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:17:14 -0500
"E. J. Cerejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Just add BATCH=yes to your /etc/make.conf file

Caveat lector: this will effect every build you do. I prefer to set it
on a per-build instance.

Just my 2¢.

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Re: FTPD and IExplore

[Gerard]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:15:13 +0200
"klerfe [Bodegas]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi. My problem is i cannot connect to my ftp server (started from
> inetd) via IExplore or any other web browser. I've added user ftp to
> enable anonymous logins on my ftp server and it works when connecting
> via ftp client such as Total Commander. But it doesn't work via any
> web browser. My OS is FreeBSD 6.2. I had 5.4 before, and i didn't had
> this problem on previous machine. The problem appeared when i freshly
> reinstalled the operating system. Any suggestions?

I run pure-ftpd for my FTP server, and it has no problems with IE or
Firefox. Then again, it is not started from 'inetd' so that might
have something to to with it. Since you stated that no web browser can
make a connection, that kind of rules out IE as the culprit.

Do you receive any type of error message? What does it say? I just
tried accessing ftp.stereo.lt, I hope that is your FTP site, and it
asked for log-in credentials.

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Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

[Gerard]

Interestingly enough, I just did a quick perusal of the URLs I frequent,
and virtually all of them, in one form or another, asked for 'Flash'.
Even 'sourceforge.net' greeted me with this friendly message:


You need to install the Macromedia Flash Player plug-in to view all
content on this page. Do you want to download this plug-in now?


IMHO, for an individual to state that Flash is not a relevant issue
simply because they choose not to employ it, is similar to patient
claiming that cancer research is a waste of time simply because they
are not afflicted with the condition.

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Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

[Gerard]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:55:45 +
Da Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hah! Good luck... I never got it work either, There are wrappers all
> other barriers to stop you. And even then it may only work
> intermittently. Correct me if I'm wrong guys

I hear you. I have used both Firefox and Opera and have never gotten
flash to work as easily and consistently as it does under Windows. When
the added burden of having to use wrappers, etc, it is just not worth
the hassle. I have seen references to system linking files to make
flash work; however, I have better things to do than invest huge
amounts of time attempting to get something to work when it is already
technologically possible to do so without all that individual
intervention.

It does seem rather ironic that we claim that FreeBSD is a superior OS
to Microsoft's Windows; however, we are unable to get even a common web
add-on like flash to work reliably, consistently. Finger pointing does
not alleviate the situation.

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Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by "evolution"

[Gerard]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:22:05 -0500
"E. J. Cerejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> This what happens when running portmanager:
> 
> ecerejo# portmanager -s
> MGrStrlen error: NULL marker not found in string
> Assertion failed: (0), function MGrStrlen, file MGrStrlen.c, line 54.
> Abort (core dumped)

What version of 'portmanager' are you attempting to run?

portmanager --version

The current version is '0.4.1_9'. If you haven't got that, then do a
deinstall and reinstall of the program. In fact, you might need to do
that anyway.

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Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by "evolution"

[Gerard]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:37:54 +
Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> portmanager -s only lists what needs to be done, it doesn't change 
> anything. It shows which packages are up to date, which are out of
> date, which are current but have been built with out of date
> dependencies, which are missing etc.

There is a slight problem with that however. It only displays what it
believes to be correct at the time it is run. In real life, if
portmanager is run and actually starts to update files, it may
occasionally create a new situation in which other, previously
undisclosed files are now required to be updated to complete the
process correctly. This is where I believe portupgrade fails. I may be
wrong on this; however, I believe that portmanager recalculates
dependencies, etc. after each build. Portupgrade, as far as I can tell,
simply does one pass and that is it. I usually run portupgrade, since
it is quicker; however, when I want to be absolutely sure that
everything is up-to-date, correct dependencies, etc, I run portmanager.

Just my 2¢.

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Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by "evolution"

[Gerard]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:47:10 -0500
"E. J. Cerejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> My system was updated yesterday and I'm trying to resolve the issues 
> that arose from the updating.  I can't update my system everyday I
> just don't have time for it.

Obviously, it was not fully or correctly updated. What occurred, or
apparently transpired, was a partial updating of only a very specific
category of files. What I was proposing was a complete updating of the
the files that require it. This would eliminate the problem that you
now are experiencing and possibly make further updates easier and more
reliable.

If you choose not to go that route, you risk the real possibility of
continual problems that might escalate into a real deal breaker at
some future point in time.

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Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by "evolution"

[Gerard]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:23:36 -0500
"E. J. Cerejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]
  
> Can portmanager work in conjection with portupgrade?

Yes, I use it all the time.

> Why has the ports tree be up to date?

What conceivable reason would you have for using an outdated ports tree?

> Will portmanager download anything from the cvsup repos?

It will only fetch programs that need updating, just like portupgrade.

Would you be so kind as to explain your reluctance to update your
system? The number of potential programs that need updating seems
rather immaterial when compared to the potential system wide
improvement in its overall performance. You could simply start the
upgrade in the evening when you are through using the PC. Depending on
the speed of your machine, it might very well be done by the next
morning, if not sooner.

From my own experience, portmanager finds lots of outdated dependencies
that portupgrade seems to miss. At least it use to. I have not compared
the latest version of portupgrade to pormanager.

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Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by "evolution"

[Gerard]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:18:45 +
Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> portmanager -s piped to a file might tell you what's missing

Just running:

portmanager -u -l -p -y

should correct the problem as well. Make sure the ports tree is up to
date prior to running that command however.

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Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

[Gerard]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:26:20 -0500
"Jeremy Gransden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I was prompted by a comment in another thread about gmail; and other
> than the absolutely annoying way it quotes,  what is wrong with gmail?

There are several glaring deficiencies with gmail. Just for starters,
unless it has been changed in the past month or so, there is no way to
'forward as attachment' email.

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Re: Libnet in FreeBSD

[Gerard]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:30:47 -0500
"Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> On Feb 4, 2008 2:41 PM, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 04 February 2008 19:36:17 Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote:
> >
> > > well actually, even the sample applications seem to have the same
> > problem,
> > > So I'm guessing its some installation issue:
> > >
> > > # cc dns.c
> > > /var/tmp//ccImyVt1.o(.text+0x88) : In function 'main' : :
> > > undefined reference to 'libnet_init'
> > >
> > > This is how my compilation result reads for the dns.c sample
> > application.
> > > Says the same for all libnet calls.
> >
> > Linking 101. If you used the port (/usr/ports/net/libnet) then:
> >
> > cc -L/usr/local/lib/libnet11 -lnet dns.c
> >
> > or:
> > cat <BSDmakefile
> > PROG=dns
> > LDADD=-lnet
> > LDFLAGS+=-L/usr/local/lib/libnet11
> >
> > .include 
> > EOF
> >
> > then type make :)
> > --
> > Mel

> Sorry I'm not getting this...
> 
> what did u want me to try ?
> I'm not using the ports collection and have installed libnet 1.1.2.1
> in root.
> Did u say I had to add these lines to the make-file of my app.c
> sample file or to the BSD make-file in usr/share/mk or is it
> something else ? .also my /usr/local/lib doesnt have any
> lib11 file like that. Just wanted to understand it before I tried it.

Please don't "top post". If you don't know what that means, Google for
it.

Is there any specific reason you choose not to use the ports system to
install 'libnet'? It is available!


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Re: buildworld failed

[Gerard]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:00:36 +0530
"Venkatesh K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I did try that too! Still same problem.

From the FreeBSD manual:

23.4.14.6. What do I do if something goes wrong?

Make absolutely sure your environment has no extraneous cruft from
earlier builds. This is simple enough.
# chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/usr
# rm -rf /usr/obj/usr
# cd /usr/src
# make cleandir
# make cleandir

Yes, make cleandir really should be run twice.

I would then run cvsup again to make sure you have the latest available
files and then rerun the entire process again.

BTW, lose the 'top-posting' habit.

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Re: Removing FreeBSD

[Gerard]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:55:59 -0800 (PST)
Bnw CmpRpr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi. I recently purchased a HDD from a man that runs a data center,
> and on this HDD is FreeBSD. My problem is I want it off, and for some
> ungodly reason, it keeps coming back. I cant format the drive with
> Windows, and I cant load it as a slave to format, either. Any help
> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I am sure that you will receive several suggestion on how to achieve
your goal. You might want to visit http://www.freedos.org/ and download
a copy of FreeDos. Install it on a floppy disk and use it to nuke your
HD. You can even repartition it, format it, etc. It works well as a
simple utility program. The documentation sort of sucks; however, it
really isn't that difficult to figure out.

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Building kernel with DEBUG

[Gerard]

Near the top of the /usr/src/sys/i386/GENERIC file, is the line:

makeoptions DEBUG=-g  # Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols

Is this line really necessary? If I don't intend to ever debug a
kernel, why should I leave it? It would seem like I could
save some time compiling a kernel if I just remove or commented out
that line.


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Re: CVSup update or upgrade

[Gerard]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:14:59 +0100
Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

{snip]

> Going to single user mode is the less important part of rebooting.
> The other part is that after the reboot you will be running the *new*
> kernel which might possibly be needed for a successful installworld.
> It is also a good test that the new kernel actually work.  If the new
> kernel should fail to work it is fairly easy to use the old kernel
> instead.  If you have already overwritten all userland programs with
> ones which require the new (non-working) kernel it can be difficult
> to recover from.
> 
> Just going to single user mode without rebooting misses the point.
> The important thing is not to go into single user mode, it is to
> *reboot* into single user mode (or even into multi-user mode if you
> want to, but there are fewer things that can go wrong when going to
> single user mode.) 

From:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html

23.4.5 Drop to Single User Mode

You may want to compile the system in single user mode. Apart from the
obvious benefit of making things go slightly faster, reinstalling the
system will touch a lot of important system files, all the standard
system binaries, libraries, include files and so on. Changing these on
a running system (particularly if you have active users on the system
at the time) is asking for trouble.

Another method is to compile the system in multi-user mode, and then
drop into single user mode for the installation. If you would like to
do it this way, simply hold off on the following steps until the build
has completed. You can postpone dropping to single user mode until you
have to installkernel or installworld.

As the superuser, you can execute:
# shutdown now

from a running system, which will drop it to single user mode.

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Re: CVSup update or upgrade

[Gerard]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:57:49 -0600
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Assuming you went from 6.3-RELEASE to 6.3-STABLE and also assuming you
> do not have customization in /etc - here's what I do...
> 
> After a cvsup of the src tree (ensuring I want the STABLE branch
> (*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6) 
> 
> # cd /usr/src
> # make buildworld
> # make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC (Assuming you use GENERIC)
> # make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC (Assuming you use GENERIC)
> # shutdown -r now (no need for Single-User Mode if YOU are the only
> user)

You can just type: "shutdown now" to go into single user mode. It
avoids the reboot sequence.

> # cd /usr/src
> # make installworld

I prefer to use the following after "make installworld"

mergemaster -i -v -U

Read the man pages for mergemaster for further details.

> # shutdown -r now

After rebooting, you might want to cd to the /usr/src directory and
run:"make delete-old-libs" to clear out any garbage. It is not
actually required however.

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Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

[Gerard]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:15:01 -0500
"Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> 1. With fdisk write down the exact parameters of your FreeBSD and
> vista parition s(start/end/size)
> 2. Nuke all your partitions (vista insists on it)
> 3. Install vista (set the size equal to your vista partion [note it
> *MUST* be the first partition on the first boot device])
> 4. Download and install ezbcd on vista
> 5. Use the rescue CD to create the freebsd partition again
> 6. Reboot in vista and use ezbcd to create the correct boot records.

#3 is not technically correct in regards to Vista; however, it cannot
hurt to follow that advice anyway. There are several papers written on
it. Google for them if you need further assistance.

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Re: www/flock port fails to install

[Gerard]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:57:07 +0100
Pieter Baele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 02:48 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > 
> > I'm on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE for i386 on this machine.  Thanks in
> > advance
> > for your time.
> 
> When there are (security) vulnerabilities, ports won't install.
> You can override this, but I don't remember how.
> (and I don't want to know it as I trust FreeBSD package
> maintainers ;-)

Place this in the /etc/make.conf file:

DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes

Use at your own peril.

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Re: [FreeBSD] 6.3-R diskhandling

[Gerard]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:22:21 +
"Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[ snip ]

> I believe that in Redmond you'll find some people who disagree with
> you... I can't re-install Vista here without it wiping the entire
> disk. Older versions of DOS/Windows merely overwrote the MBR,
> something that wasn't right either, but at least it could be fixed.
> Vista doesn't seem willing to share at all.

There have been several articles written describing how to install Vista
after installing another OS. You could start with this one, or Google
for others.

http://apcmag.com/5045/how_to_dual_boot_vista_with_linux

I ran across a Microsoft KB article describing how to accomplish it
also; but for the life of me, I cannot find it again. If I feel
ambitious at some future point, I might re-investigate it.

BTW, from what I have read, Vista does not have to be on the primary
partition any longer. It simply needs to be on the active one to boot.
I have not investigated that however.

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Re: [FreeBSD] 6.3-R diskhandling

[Gerard]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:07:59 +
"Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 
> [Bootloader overwrites Vista's "UID" in the MBR]
> 
> > This has been informative-- perhaps someone ought to file a PR
> > about having the installer try to preserve this UID in the MBR...?
> 
> Or perhaps send a message to -hackers.
> 
> I have been using FreeBSD for a long time so I wanted to have this
> fixed somehow (and it has been). But I can imagine it might scare away
> people who are new to FreeBSD: "What a bonehead system, it hosed my
> Windows. I'll never use that crap again!"
> 
> Come to think of it, does sysinstall keep a copy of the MBR as it was
> before the installation? That way, at least people can get their
> precious little Windows (yuck) back without having to reinstall it.
> If it doesn't, I think it would be a very desirable feature.

No OS, irregardless of whether it is a *.nix *.BSD or Microsoft Windows 
should overwrite or disable another OS or it's files, period, unless
the user so configures the new installation to do so.

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Re: Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

[Gerard]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:19:29 +0100
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Gerard wrote:
> > I have not been able to find any information in regards to the
> > latest version of Perl, version 5.10.0, released in December.
> > 
> > 1) When will this version be available in the ports system?
> 
> After 7.0 is released.
> 
> > 2) Will FreeBSD-7.0 use this as the default Perl version?
> 
> Not as it will be shipped, but users can upgrade to it later.  I was 
> going to say "easily upgrade", but that might turn out to be a lie :)
> 
> Historically, new versions of perl are a recipe for large amounts of 
> pain because of all the old perl code that stops working.  It would
> be completely irresponsible to attempt that update prior to the
> release (and moreover, the packages are already finalized for 7.0
> anyway, modulo security updates).

IMHO, updating to a new OS is like buying a new car. I certainly would
not purchase a new vehicle if it contained an old motor. Yes, I could
swap out the old motor for a new one once I purchase it; however,
wouldn't it have been wiser for the dealer to have done so and spared
me the problem. Perhaps this is not the ideal analogy; however, I think
you get the idea.

I just hope this decision does not cause the fiasco that the updating
of Xorg caused and still, from reading the postings on this forum,
still continue to cause for some users.

Thanks for your response.

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Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

[Gerard]

I have not been able to find any information in regards to the latest
version of Perl, version 5.10.0, released in December.

1) When will this version be available in the ports system?

2) Will FreeBSD-7.0 use this as the default Perl version?

It seems rather silly to use the older version as the default in
FBSD-7.0 since a newer version is available.

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Re: are we CRIMINALS?

[Gerard]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:44:37 +
"Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Gerard wrote:
> 
> > It is not the 'tool' that is being addressed here; but rather, what
> > the individual did with it.
> 
> CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
> 
> 1. Ritz's behavior in conducting a zone transfer was unauthorized
> within the meaning of the North Dakota Computer Crime Law.

That is precisely what I am referring to.

Bill Moran makes a rather pointed comment:



As far as the cracker, I hope he gets the chair.



While that may seem slightly harsh, at least for a first offense, it
does point up the fact that people like Ritz are a blight upon the
legitimate computer users community.

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Re: are we CRIMINALS?

[Gerard]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:03:27 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> http://www.spamsuite.com/node/351
> 
> jest first step to criminalize unix at all

No really. This case involved an individual who was accessing and
acquiring information using falsified credentials for an apparent
nefarious purpose.

If you have a key making machine, does that give you the right to make
a key to my home and then enter it without my permission? It is not the
'tool' that is being addressed here; but rather, what the individual
did with it. If this individual believed what he was purported to by
doing was legal and above board, then why did he openly commit perjury
and use falsified credentials? Quite frankly, it is criminals like him
who cause other lawful individuals problems.

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Re: Mail server questions

[Gerard]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:42:21 -0500
"Zachary Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built. 
> 
> I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some
> snags:
> 
> First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work
> when testing) and cyrus-sasl2, I opted for the Maildir/ config option
> in my main.cf but no ~/user/Maildir/ was every created. I also
> installed Dovecot IMAP and Procmail as I continued in the process
> thinking they might pick up the slack. Still no generated Maildir/.
> When I try to check /var/spool/mail, there are also no user folders
> present. Was there a step in the process I missed? Everything was
> installed from a freshly cvsup'd and portsnap'd ports tree with no
> compile errors to speak of.

You might be better served posting your questions regarding Postfix and
Dovecot on their respective forums. You supply no configuration
documentation and since my crystal ball is out for repairs,
assisting you is mostly guesswork. You should start off by supplying
the output of:

postconf -n
dovecot -n

I would hold off on using Procmail until you get the rest of the system
up and running. In fact, IMHO, I would hold off on using Procmail
totally.

Tip: Use Postfix as your delivery agent for starters. Once the mail is
getting delivered properly, integrate Dovecot into the mix.


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Re: Another question based on: Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working!

[Gerard]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:25:15 -0600
eculp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]
 
> Flash is becoming more dominate daily and there are many sites that  
> are basically unusable without it.  Some banking, telco, etc. sites,  
> etc.  That are difficult if not impossible too use for account
> access without flash and don't pay much attention to end user
> requests based on the installed base of Flash[89].  That brings up
> another detail, many sites now require Flash[89] even though they
> don't actually need it probably to impress their customers with their
> being on the technological, bleeding edge.

Unfortunately, the poor support for Flash, as well as other common web
features under FBSD, is a prime reason that I continue to keep my WinXP
PC operational. At least Window's Internet Explorer, despite its real
or alleged problems, can correctly access virtually any site I want or
need to visit. As the above poster stated, being able to correctly and
expeditiously navigate through a banking site is an important criteria.

I belong to a state 'Officials Association' that deals with officiating
High School sports. Their site is written in such a way that Flash with
either Windows Media Player or QuickTime are required to properly view
the site. Try as I might, I have never gotten either Opera or Firefox
using FBSD to correctly view that site. I basically just gave up on it.
The same problem exists with many sites sponsored by Google for
instance.

If this was 1990, perhaps I could understand it. However, considering
the present state of computing, the fact that plug-ins like Flash are
not simple drop-in applets, similar to the way Internet Explorer
handles them, is simply not acceptable.

Just my 2¢.

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Re: Postfix with Cyrus SASL

[Gerard]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:46:33 -0600
Shawn Barnhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Paul Schmehl wrote:
> > It should, because it calls this:
> >
> > .if defined(WITH_SASL2)
> > LIB_DEPENDS+=   sasl2.2:${PORTSDIR}/security/cyrus-sasl2
> > POSTFIX_CCARGS+=-DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL 
> > -I${LOCALBASE}/include -I${LOCALBASE}/include/sasl
> > POSTFIX_AUXLIBS+=   -L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lsasl2 -lpam -lcrypt
> > .endif
> >
> > Yes, you need to install saslauthd, however, if you checked the
> > OPTION when you installed Postfix, it's most likely already
> > installed.  You *also* need to enable saslauthd in /etc/rc.conf:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/mail/postfix]# grep sasl /etc/rc.conf
> > saslauthd_enable="YES"
> > saslauthd_flags=" -a pam -n 2"
> >
> > (This uses /etc/passwd through pam, btw.)
> >
> > Look at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd.sh for the options and flags 
> > available or read man (8) saslauthd.
> >
> 
> Either I'm totally fubar, or the ports snapshot I have is braindead
> as I did select the SASL option when I built postfix and I have sasl
> libs in /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/lib/sasl2 but none of the other
> sasl components are installed.  No saslauthd in /usr/local/etc/rc.d,
> no manpage, just libraries mentioned above, and my postfix smtpd does 
> appear to have a sasl library run-time dependency per ldd.
> 
> Is the better fix to manually re-install the same Cyrus sasl port or 
> deinstall both it and postfix and rebuild postfix with the sasl
> option and hope I get a complete build?

It has been awhile; however, if I remember correctly, the 'saslauthd'
daemon is not installed by Postfix. I think you are confusing this with
SASL in general. You might want to read the 'Complete Book of Postfix"
for further information on getting SASL up and running. BTW, unless it
has changes, 'saslauthd' only handles plain text authentication.


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Re: [HOW-TO] cvsup for ports -- Re: compact portsnap db

[Gerard]

On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:41:35 -0500
"Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> 1. Csup is in the base system thus obvious preferred to either cvsup
> or portsnap

Correct me if I am wrong; however, I thought that 'portsnap' was part
of the base system.

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