Re: Problem upgrading

2012-10-18 Thread Jim Trigg
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 02:14:10PM -0700, Timothy Snowberger wrote: > On 10/17/2012 7:27 AM, Jim Trigg wrote: > > Any suggestions on how to fix this? > > > > --- > > argent(1) /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster# freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE > > upgrade >

Problem upgrading

2012-10-17 Thread Jim Trigg
Any suggestions on how to fix this? --- argent(1) /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster# freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetchi

Re: Installation problem on AMD64

2011-02-22 Thread Jim Trigg
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Jim Trigg wrote: > I do an installation from DVD on AMD64, and when I reboot it hangs > before displaying anything from the standard boot loader.  How can I > debug this? I found my problem by accident -- I had a badly formatted USB stick connected. (I

Installation problem on AMD64

2011-02-21 Thread Jim Trigg
I do an installation from DVD on AMD64, and when I reboot it hangs before displaying anything from the standard boot loader. How can I debug this? Thanks, Jim Trigg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: pkg_info question

2005-06-22 Thread Jim Trigg
On Wed, June 22, 2005 2:13 pm, Björn König said: > Thus I can search a file with > >cat /path/to/somewhere | xargs grep 'pattern' You can avoid wasting a process by using the following instead: xargs grep 'pattern' < /path/to/somewhere Jim -- Jim Tri

Re: Postfix on BSD

2005-06-16 Thread Jim Trigg
d to match the asterisk, since it's in the original message. Without the backslash, you have an improperly formed regular expression since there is no character for the wildcard to apply to. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ Hostmaster, Huie Kin family w

Re: Postfix Problem (urgent)

2005-06-04 Thread Jim Trigg
Raciel Perez Hernandez wrote: Helo list I have postfix installed and working, it only have a problem, I connect to internet trougth a leased line of 144Kbs but this line sometimes gets unstable and goes down, so if the connection is down and somebody try to send a message, postfix tells me (Serv

Re: Spam Problems

2005-05-15 Thread Jim Trigg
Kevin Pang wrote: Hello All, I'm a newbie and manage a FreeBSD server, which only hosts my own websites, also only me have shell accounts on this server. Someone sent out lots of spams from my server today. I have stopped postfix and disabled mail command to make sure no any emails will be sent to

Re: dovecot is broken in ports

2005-03-15 Thread Jim Trigg
e ldap integration; I just upgraded my copy last night with no problems, and do use sasl but not ldap. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website\ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Verger and System Administrator,X

Re: postfix on FreeBSD

2005-03-09 Thread Jim Trigg
On Wed, March 9, 2005 3:39 pm, Bart Silverstrim said: > I saw the errors and googled for it, but it just led to the man pages > and site web pages for the postfix project (which I read); what was > throwing me was the fact that it wasn't an open relay before and it > didn't have the directive previ

Re: postfix on FreeBSD

2005-03-09 Thread Jim Trigg
tp://jimsun.linxnet.com/misc/postfix-anti-UCE.txt -- they will help you understand what should be in your smtpd_*_restrictions. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website\ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Verger and System Administrator,

Re: how to get it online

2004-12-22 Thread Jim Trigg
;> That's supposed to be http://192.168.1.1, isn't it? I can't access that >> even >> from my pc. Any advice there would be helpful. BTW, I'm using Cox as a >> ISP. Not if you haven't reconfigured the router; the default is http://192.168.0.1. Jim -- Ji

Re: flash

2004-10-26 Thread Jim Trigg
rogram (for example, mozilla plus plugins) must be entirely either native AMD64 or ix86, not mixed. So you'd need a mozilla (and any needed shared libraries) built for ix86. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\

Re: /etc and /usr/local/etc directories

2004-08-13 Thread Jim Trigg
/usr/local/etc a symbolic link to /etc/local. (Then again, I plan to use /opt for third-party applications and /usr/local only for locally-developed applications. /opt/etc will be a symbolic link to /etc/opt as well.) Note that I'm using a symbolic link; this is because /etc is on the root

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Jim Trigg
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:17:56 -0400 > Jim Trigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > AFAICT, this won't really do anything -- there does not appear to be > > a real way to tell the ports system tha

Re: Guide to x.org update?

2004-06-28 Thread Jim Trigg
xlibs and don't > try to reinstall xfree86... > > pkgdb is part of portupgrade AFAICT, this won't really do anything -- there does not appear to be a real way to tell the ports system that you want X ports to depend

Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-05-30 - 2004-06-19

2004-06-20 Thread Jim Trigg
--On Sunday, June 20, 2004 12:10 AM -0700 Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: These are the articles posted during this period: 15-Jun : IBM ThinkPad T41 Installing and configuring FreeBSD and XFree86 http://freebsddiary.org/ibm-thinkpad-t41.php?2 'Tain't there, Mc

Re: Mail

2004-06-16 Thread Jim Trigg
posed to things in the base system, like BIND.) Postfix and Exim. I found no security advisories for either on the CERT website; that actually covers their entire lifecycles. Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\

Re: blacklist(s)

2004-05-14 Thread Jim Trigg
op.net blacklist is somewhat controversial; some people find it too prone to false positives. I personally won't use it to bounce mail, just to mark mail as suspected spam. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ \

Re: dot.bashrc, where is it?

2003-06-04 Thread Jim Trigg
gure out where or how this file (dot.bashrc) could have been > installed from this port?! I have the bash2 shell pkg/port installed and in > my mind, this is the only port where the dot.bashrc file could be installed, > but this isn't obviously the case. instant-workstation is a me

Re: #!sh grep and move files

2003-04-03 Thread Jim Trigg
a one liner somehow but I need it to be executed > from cron. find is actually a bit of overkill; this can be done as follows: #!/usr/bin/sh mv `grep -lr '1~TA' /dir` /newdir If you're using it from cron, make sure to use full paths for mv and grep (and find, if you kee

Re: Courier-IMAP over SSL

2003-04-02 Thread Jim Trigg
imapd-ssl.rc to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/courier-imap-imapd-ssl.sh and make it executable. Then execute it with the argument "start". That'll get things going for you. (Do the same for pop3d as well if you want POP3/SSL.) Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\

Re: how do i invoke the command "ee" or "vi" when system fails to load

2003-03-12 Thread Jim Trigg
install the editors/e3 port, and copy the executable (which is entirely statically linked) into /bin. That gives you an editor available in recovery mode (only / mounted) that can use vi, emacs, or wordstar/pico key bindings as you want. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /&q

Looking for mail server tool recommendations

2003-03-01 Thread Jim Trigg
nother MTA that I'm failing to consider? Thanks, Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family websiteXHELP CURE HTML MAIL Verger, All Saints Ch

Re: 4.7 Upgrade issue - Daniel Bye

2003-02-26 Thread Jim Trigg
ntion during single-user mode. Currently, if mergemaster can be run just before booting into single-user mode, the operator needs to type one command ("upgrade", a shell script in /root/bin which runs the fsck, mount, swapon, cd, make installworld, and fastboot commands). Thanks, Jim Trigg --

Re: Cvsup Handbook Example

2003-02-21 Thread Jim Trigg
ectly if > you feel this may cause problems on this list. I help admin a few > freebsd servers and so this of extra interest to me. -rw-rw-rw-: The file protection of the Beast. ;-> Pax Christi, Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\

Re: ftp users - question

2003-02-21 Thread Jim Trigg
#x27;d advise making a link of /sbin/nologin called /sbin/ftponly and adding that to /etc/shells instead of nologin. That way, system accounts that shouldn't be able to be logged in through ftp either can still have the shell /sbin/nologin. Users that should only be able to access the system t

Re: usernames and aliases etc.

2003-02-20 Thread Jim Trigg
ix which supports it natively without jumping through hoops. (I also find postfix a lot easier to configure.) Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website

Re: slow telnet login over (lan and wan)

2003-02-18 Thread Jim Trigg
ut how to resolve this problem. any hints > would help. It probably has to do with reverse DNS resolution for the client IP address failing. (The telnet daemon attempts to get a hostname for the telnet client before prompting for login.) Jim -- J

Re: pear-HTML_Select

2003-02-16 Thread Jim Trigg
ake care of this, it > would be nice since it gives a broken dependency with horde2. It's not just that there's a new version out, they've renamed it. It's now HTML_Select_Common, and they deleted all references to HTML_Select from the pear.php.net site. Jim Trigg -- Jim Tr

Re: Postfix (fwd)

2003-02-13 Thread Jim Trigg
penBSD that is even better -- http://www.securitysage.com/guides/postfix_sasltls.html . Note that it is written for Postfix 1.1.11; Postfix 2.x changes some of it, but the ports handle that fairly well. Also note that cyrus-sasl2 won't build with support for FreeBSD's base Kerberos

Re: bash

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Trigg
only run one of the three, so if you have a .bash_login (for example), putting the command in .profile will have no effect, and there is no point to having both .bash_profile and .bash_login as only .bash_profile will get used. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\

Re: Procmail site-wide recipe's

2003-02-10 Thread Jim Trigg
the mail server? Change the local delivery agent in sendmail to procmail. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family websiteXHELP CURE HTML MAI

Re: 5.25" Floppy

2003-02-07 Thread Jim Trigg
60K This was the default starting with MS-DOS 2.1, IIRC. DSHD 15-sector: 1.2G (At least I think it was 15-sector...) Only the last two appear to be supported by FreeBSD 4.7, at least by default. Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ Verger, All

Re: vi permissions

2003-02-03 Thread Jim Trigg
> I am working on configuring a newly set up 5.0-RELEASE box. Permissions > must be messed up somewhere. I can't believe that I neet to be root in > order to create a . file. What ID are you su'ed as, and which directory are you in? (Do they match?

Re: suggested reinstall of KDE when original was from CD-Rom

2003-01-31 Thread Jim Trigg
place. > > Any advice appreciated. Even better, "portupgrade" to take care of both parts at once. Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family websi

Re: HELP! root partition full!

2003-01-30 Thread Jim Trigg
> /dev/vinum/var 235792039623 21683244 0%/var > /dev/vinum/public 29776085 116 27393883 0%/public > > How do I determine what's going on? This is really strange. First guess is that something large was put into /tmp by a root-owned process. Clean out /tm

Re: IMAP2

2003-01-28 Thread Jim Trigg
it (IIRC it's an option you need to set in rc.conf, but should > be enabled in /etc/defaults/rc.conf) As an additional question, you did restart/reload inetd after changing inetd.conf, right? (killall -HUP inetd) Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\

Re: Problems building cyrus-sasl2 on FREEBSD-4.7-RELEASE

2003-01-24 Thread Jim Trigg
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:06:11AM -0500, Jim Trigg wrote: > (Note: the first two tries at sending this apparently got eaten by the > ether... in case they show up, please know that I am now subscribed to > the list.) > > I am having problems building the cyrus-sasl2 port on

Problems building cyrus-sasl2 on FREEBSD-4.7-RELEASE

2003-01-10 Thread Jim Trigg
Heimdal-style libraries in /usr/lib? Thanks, Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin Family websiteX HELP CURE HTML MAIL Verger, All Saints - Sharon C