Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Kurt Buff
of itself, so scales fairly well. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: What's wrong here? Can't reinstall graphics/lcms2

2013-08-20 Thread Kurt Buff
. I was successful in updating lcms2 this morning on a couple of boxes, after failures yesterday. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: pkg_version says my ports need to be updated?

2013-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
Read the relevant portions of the handbook Chapter 5: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html Chapter 25: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html Then also: man portmaster man freebsd-update On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:49

Re: Re-sending selected e-mail messages

2013-02-13 Thread Kurt Buff
is possible. The message should already be properly pre-composed. What is the easiest way to do this without reinventing the wheel, or should I? :-) Perhaps mini_sendmail? Seems fairly capable, and scriptable. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Error upgrading Chromium

2013-01-21 Thread Kurt Buff
I worked around this by reconfiguring the port so that it doesn't use pulseadio, recompiled, and it finished OK. Kurt On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Just updated from 8.3 to FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3, and am reinstalling ports. Chromium is giving me two

Re: Error upgrading Chromium

2013-01-21 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 08:30 -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: I worked around this by reconfiguring the port so that it doesn't use pulseadio, recompiled, and it finished OK. IIUC Google doesn't like to add pulseaudio

Error upgrading Chromium

2013-01-17 Thread Kurt Buff
.0] Error 1 I've googled trying to see what if anyting this might be, and see nothing... Anyone have thoughts on this? Thanks, Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-06 Thread Kurt Buff
: Adblock Plus Better Privacy Ghostery NoScript RequestPolicy I have few problems with ads. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Fwd: Somewhat OT: Is Full Command Logging Possible?

2012-12-06 Thread Kurt Buff
Sorry, forgot to replay all... Kurt -- Forwarded message -- From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: Is Full Command Logging Possible? To: Fleuriot Damien m...@my.gd On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Fleuriot Damien m

Re: Bring You Own Device(BYOD)

2012-10-04 Thread Kurt Buff
as Afaria or any of the other offerings, but it's possible that the Prey Project or another like it might fit at least some of your needs. http://www.preyproject.com Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Tape drive recommendations

2012-09-20 Thread Kurt Buff
replies if you don't feel comfortable specifying vendors publicly are welcome. Steve We've had good luck with our Spectralogic T50 with DLT3 drives, and mediocre luck with our Dell 124T with a DLT4 drive that replaced the Spectralogic. If I had to choose, I'd stick with the Spectralogic.. Kurt

Re: Problems with ssl certs

2012-09-17 Thread Kurt Buff
to buy a cert? I could be off base here, and you may already have thought of this, but is the cert tied to the IP address or the name of the server? If it's tied to the name, and you're accessing it via the IP address, it's been my experience that the cert will throw an error. Vice versa, too. Kurt

Re: Problems with ssl certs

2012-09-17 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On September 17, 2012 5:31:25 PM -0700 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: I'm setting up a new server and plan on migrating

Re: Re[2]: vlan tagging in releng/8.3 not working

2012-08-15 Thread Kurt Buff
NIC. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: what is the best kind of KVM Switch?

2012-08-11 Thread Kurt Buff
between kvm switch? and if there is, which should I be looking for? tia, gary Here I issue the obligatory admonition: Define Best. However, I have used IO-Gear KVMs, and they're serviceable. OTOH, I really prefer Avocent, if you can afford them. Kurt

Re: Webpage screenshot

2012-08-05 Thread Kurt Buff
utilities are welcome - the less interaction, the better. It doesn't matter if the result is a 800x1 px image with 300 px white margin left and right. :-) If you're using Firefox, the Fireshot addin does exactly this kind of thing. Kurt ___ freebsd

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-06 Thread Kurt Buff
Thank you for this. I didn't realize that a simple (somewhat technical) question asked in all innocence would generate so much flammage. Kurt On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:13 PM, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't there a lot of needless handwaving going on when the spec is pretty clear

Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Kurt Buff
UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ This would seem to make compiling from source difficult. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: which FF ad blocker?

2012-02-29 Thread Kurt Buff
also use NoScript and Request Policy. Many folks won't like the latter two, as they tend to block an awful lot until you get them tuned, but they make me happ(y|ier) while browsing. If you do use them, you will at least begin to see how complex web browsing has become... Kurt

Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
appear the the freebsd-update utility will work in this case, as it's not 6.3? Can I, for instance, boot from a CD of a supported version and do an upgrade, or am I stuck doing a download of sorce for 7.0-RELEASE, compiling that, and then an freebsd-update to 7.4? Thanks, Kurt

Re: My tribute to Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
A fitting tribute, except for one line... On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 08:07, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: # grep -ir Ritchie /usr/src/* snip /usr/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music:04/14        Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) is born, 1945 I don't know if

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:03, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if necessary, but would prefer to have it down

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:49, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: You can do either.  However, it's probably easier to just download and burn the 7.4 or 8.2 image, and do an upgrade directly than it would be do upgrade via source to 7.0-RELEASE

Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 18:45, Lars Eighner portsu...@larseighner.com wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've just spun up a new 8.2-RELEASE VM, and gotten a fresh ports tree. I tried to install XFCE4, but it has ended with an error: ===    Verifying install for gcrypt.18

Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:32, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: In the Makefile I see the line     MASTER_SITES=   ${MASTER_SITE_GNUPG} which I'd bet controls how it finds what sites to visit, but don't know

libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-28 Thread Kurt Buff
to override this check, type make NO_CHECKSUM=yes [other args]. Anyone else run into this? Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

zend.to and FreeBSD

2011-08-16 Thread Kurt Buff
? Thanks, Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Best soloution(s) for handling all the varied media content on the web?

2011-08-14 Thread Kurt Buff
good luck with VLC - it's in ports. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
All, This seems fairly benign so far, but I find it happening on several machines after switching from portupgrade to portmaster. Don't know if that switch is actually part of the issue or not, though I'm really liking portmaster. Anyone have a thought on this? Thanks, Kurt # pkg_info | grep

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:17, John Webster jwebs...@es.net wrote: --On August 12, 2011 11:08:01 AM -0700 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: All, This seems fairly benign so far, but I find it happening on several machines after switching from portupgrade to portmaster. Don't know

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:15, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: This seems fairly benign so far, but I find it happening on several machines after switching from portupgrade to portmaster. Don't know if that switch is actually part of the issue

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
done that, but memory dims as I grow older Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: extracting text from docx files

2011-08-09 Thread Kurt Buff
a Winword 2010 .docx file. I'm guessing it will do the same on FreeBSD, but I don't have an install with a GUI running at the moment. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers?

2011-07-05 Thread Kurt Buff
might prove useful, if it's run periodically. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-07-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 15:30, Dr. A. Haakh bugrepor...@haakh.de wrote: Kurt Buff schrieb: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:31, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com  wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakhbugrepor...@haakh.de  wrote: Polytropon schrieb: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-07-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:31, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh bugrepor...@haakh.de wrote: Polytropon schrieb: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh bugrepor...@haakh.de wrote: Polytropon schrieb: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... Check if you

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 20:24, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... Check if you can download FreeSBIE somewhere

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh bugrepor...@haakh.de wrote: Polytropon schrieb: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... Check if you

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:21, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 06:40, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: Sitrep: Lenovo T61, dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD (amd64 8.1-RELEASE

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 20:24, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... Check if you can download FreeSBIE somewhere

Fwd: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
One more that should have made it to the list... Kurt On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 08:21, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 6/27/11 3:40 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:03, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 6/27/11 8:17 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: snip I've even downloaded

fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-27 Thread Kurt Buff
myself silly on this, and am getting nowhere. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:03, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 6/27/11 8:17 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: snip I've even downloaded and burned the 8.2 live boot iso, but it says it can't find a hard drive from sysinstall - both the Fdisk and Label options say      No disks found! Please verify

Fwd: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-27 Thread Kurt Buff
This should have gone to the list - sorry. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 07:17 Subject: Re: fubar'ed it good this time... To: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 06:40, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com

Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
variations on the first line of the script, but I'm getting nowhere, though I'm sure it's something stupidly simple that I'm missing. What am I missing? Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 13:25, pete wright nomadlo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: All, I've googled a bunch, read some freebsd.org docs, and just can't figure this out. I have a script that should read the current date

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
Indeed. Brain fade comes with age - and long weekends with the 2 year old boy... Kurt On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 14:14, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Yeah Pete, kinda need that huh.  Kurt, If that turns out to be the only issue, don't feel bad - I've forgotten it myself several times

Re: Remote access to Freebsd server

2011-04-13 Thread Kurt Buff
. This is not the end of the world, but until you figure it out, it can induce feelings of fear, nausea, helplessness and acute embarrassment. However, about the third time you've done it, and recovered from it by your own efforts, it's no longer a big thing. Kurt

Re: mountroot prompt in the middle of updating - can't get past it

2010-12-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 22:50, Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:49:41 -0800 Kurt Buff wrote: All, I have a Lenovo T61 with a 100g HD that I dual boot with FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE amd64 and Windows XP. FBSD is on ad0s2a, with ad0s2b as swap, and XP on ad0s1a. Yesterday I

Re: mountroot prompt in the middle of updating - can't get past it

2010-12-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:50, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: That worked... I think I'll try the update process again. Anything else you can recommend? Thanks, Did you read /usr/src/UPDATING ? Why, yes I

mountroot prompt in the middle of updating - can't get past it

2010-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
tried entering the following at the mountroot prompt, with no success: ufs:/dev/ad0s2a ufs:/ad0s2a ufs:ad0s2a ffs:/dev/ad0s2a and several other variations that I've found while googling, but no success anywhere. Does anyone have thoughts on how to remedy this? Thanks, Kurt

Problem building netdisco 1.0 from ports on FreeBSD

2010-12-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Working on 7.1 Release. Ports tree up to date, and a portupgrade -a done yesterday was successful. I did the following: # cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/netdisco # make install It bombs out with the below errors - I think it's an error in libXaw, but can't quite be sure. Any thoughts? Kurt

Re: Problem building netdisco 1.0 from ports on FreeBSD

2010-12-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:01, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Working on 7.1 Release. Ports tree up to date, and a portupgrade -a done yesterday was successful. I did the following: # cd  /usr/ports/net

Re: Problem building netdisco 1.0 from ports on FreeBSD

2010-12-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 14:33, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 14:27:48 -0800, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:01, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that the header files can't be found. Have you checked /usr/local

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Kurt Buff
. Other means of accessibility are provided by the window manager you're using. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! :-) That's what I get for waiting a week to look at email... Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Kurt Buff
while I work at other consoles. Or, for that matter, multiple ssh sessions. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Freebsd-update not working for me

2010-10-04 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 22:25, Jason jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:45:46PM -0700, Kurt Buff thus spake: Weird little problem here... I've got a 7.1-RELEASE box I'm trying to get to 8.1-RELEASE. I was able to do 'freebsd-update -install' and get the security patches

Freebsd-update not working for me

2010-10-01 Thread Kurt Buff
troubleshooting this? I don't see anything in /var/log/messages. Kurt netmon/root 23:47 2010-09-30 root 0# freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Kurt Buff
written in Java - including Data Crow, which is a pretty decent cataloging utility for my books and movies and such, and I haven't seen anything nearly as good as that written in a cross-platform language, so that I can move it between my FreeBSD machine and my family's Windows machines. Kurt

Moving from one port to another

2010-08-28 Thread Kurt Buff
Right now I've got an installation of squid 3.0.24, and want to move to the 3.1 branch. I could just do a 'make deinstall' on the current version, then do 'make install' in the 3.1 port, but I'm wondering if there's a smarter way to do this. Kurt

Re: Moving from one port to another

2010-08-28 Thread Kurt Buff
Portupgrade won't, AFAIK, cross branches, though I could be wrong about that. There's a 3.0 branch in /usr/ports/www/squid30 and a 3.1 branch in /usr/ports/www/squid31, and I want to make the switch to pick up a feature. Kurt On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 14:06, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz

Re: Moving from one port to another

2010-08-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 14:33, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:56:09 -0700 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I've got an installation of squid 3.0.24, and want to move to the 3.1 branch. I could just do a 'make deinstall' on the current version

Re: Moving from one port to another

2010-08-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 21:51, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Portupgrade won't, AFAIK, cross branches, though I could be wrong about that. There's a 3.0 branch in /usr/ports/www/squid30 and a 3.1 branch in /usr

Re: Status of Java in FreeBSD? (OpenSolaris is dead)

2010-08-13 Thread Kurt Buff
the most interesting one to me, but OOo also relies on Java for some functionality (thought that's somewhat a Sun/Oracle effort too, and one wonders about its fate also) and there are other applications for which Java is a critical component. Kurt ___ freebsd

Re: Installing wget

2010-08-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:20, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Hi All, I started an instal of wget from ports - /usr/ports/ftp/wget It comes up with some selections and I mistakenly selected GNUTLS. Now I constantly get  GNUTLS and OPENSSL are mutually exclusive, enable at most one

Upgrading Apache fails - I don't understand why, exactly

2010-07-27 Thread Kurt Buff
-1.4.2.1.3.9_1 Apache Portability Library so it looks to me as if I have it. I've grepped through the port and haven't found anything that mentions this. Anyone got a clue for me? Thanks, Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Upgrading Apache fails - I don't understand why, exactly

2010-07-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 16:14, Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: On 2010-07-27 23:47, Kurt Buff wrote: Trying to do the following on a couple of machines:      # portupgrade apache-2.2.14_5 snip I've grepped through the port and haven't found anything that mentions

Re: Upgrading Apache fails - Solved

2010-07-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 16:14, Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: On 2010-07-27 23:47, Kurt Buff wrote: Trying to do the following on a couple of machines:      # portupgrade apache-2.2.14_5 snip I've grepped through the port and haven't found anything that mentions

quasselcore rc.d

2010-06-18 Thread Kurt Hindenburg
Does anyone have a rc.d script to start quasselcore? A search of the web didn't produce any hits that I saw. If not, do I understand that using tje daemon command is the way to go? Thanks Kurt Hindenburg kurt.hindenb...@gmail.com ___ freebsd

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Kurt Buff
very unhappy about the pun - because you came up with it a-hood of me! Heh. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:02, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:39:46 +, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: As for directions: Use your choice of programming language to write a program that will call file(1) to determine filesystem, mount the

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:58, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:47:24 -0700, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: No, Denial of Service would be DoS. He's talking about Disk Operating System. Funny, though. Well, and Disk Operating System is a language

Re: Routers, switches, and networking hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Kurt Buff
are appreciated. Yours truly, L e e _ S h a c k e l f o r d    AT   d o t   dot   c a    dot g o v Unless memory fails me, F5, Juniper, and for sure Sidewinder (now McAfee) firewalls, among others. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Routers, switches, and networking hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 15:52, Nick Evans nev...@talkpoint.com wrote: On Mar 26, 2010, at 18:05, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 14:46, Lee Shackelford lee_shackelf...@dot.ca.gov wrote: Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast.  Is anyone aware of any brand name

Re: is there a tool for estimating loss rates

2010-02-18 Thread Kurt Buff
tool for that. But I couldn't understand how it estimates loss packets. could you give me an example? Thanks smokeping or iperf perhaps? I'm not terribly familiar with either, but they seem worth investigating. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-10 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 21:05, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Feb 09), Kurt Buff said: Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it's a curl and squid question. I'm trying to determine the cause of a major slowdown in web browsing on our network, so I've put

Re: curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-10 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:03, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Feb 10), Kurt Buff said: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 21:05, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Feb 09), Kurt Buff said: Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it's a curl

curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-09 Thread Kurt Buff
the times, which is exactly what I want. However, when I use the -x parameter, to use the proxy, I get html returned as well as the times, which is a pain to separate out. Can someone point me on the road to suppressing the unwanted output? Kurt ___ freebsd

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Kurt Buff
or cd /usr/ports make search key=samba | less Then browse that list to see what most particularly applies to your needs. HTH, Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
, then 'make install', the GUI fired up just fine, and all of the hal/dbus stuff was handled for me. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
installed /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 with a 'make config-recursive' then chose my options, then 'make install', the GUI fired up just fine, and all of the hal/dbus stuff was handled for me. Kurt I thought Gnome already came with Nautilus as Window manager??? Or in FreeBSD is it extra? I see I

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
and keeps out of my way - xfce seems to do that just fine. For me, 'cool' is the apps and what I can do with them. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 03:33, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical

Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?

2009-12-21 Thread Kurt Buff
with xfce4. It's just the wpi0 interface itself I'm having problems with at the moment. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-11 Thread Kurt Buff
://xkcd.com/538/ indeed. Well, yes, except this assumes one has access to the sysadmin... Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

OTish: Alternative to MS Live?

2009-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
, and internal corporate communications should stay internal - that'll do for a start...) I'm looking to stick an IM/Videoconference system in a DMZ instead. Does anyone know of a good alternative - preferably with a web interface, though that's not absolutely required? Thanks, Kurt

Re: OTish: Alternative to MS Live?

2009-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 15:03, Dimitri Yioulos dyiou...@firstbhph.com wrote: On Tuesday 08 December 2009 5:50:46 pm Kurt Buff wrote: All, Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the firewall and install the MS client on a number of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing

Re: 7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

2009-12-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 01:16, Tijl Coosemans t...@coosemans.org wrote: On Sunday 29 November 2009 22:47:56 Kurt Buff wrote: I've gotten Flash and Java going with Firefox, as root, using the directions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html

Re: 7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

2009-12-02 Thread Kurt Buff
/plugins total 24 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22808 Sep 12 22:05 libnullplugin.so So, should I link the files in browser_plugins to the plugins directory? Kurt On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 06:53, Samuel Martín Moro faus...@gmail.com wrote: I had this problem too. I didn't have browser_plugins

7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

2009-11-29 Thread Kurt Buff
-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so ... already installed system-wide, skipping Auto-install plugins from /home/kurt/.mozilla/plugins Looking for plugins in /home/kurt/.mozilla/plugins and 'about:plugins' only shows libnullplugin.so as enabled for all MIME types. 'nspluginwrapper -l

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 16:08, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:     so: what is the URL to download the 8.0-PRE freebsd?

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:32, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Yuri y...@rawbw.com: Besides, if it's not there, how are you going to send mail from things like cron? Postfix. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Kurt Buff
suggesting the system ship with no way to handle mail? I tried sendmail about 8 years ago. Don't know what the version was. Found it opaque and obscure. Went to Postfix, and have never looked back. Can't comment on sendmail's current state or practice, but postfix Just Works(tm) for me. Kurt

Re: SVG and dependence on Firefox2.x?

2009-09-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:55, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:59:51 -0700, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I notice that for both The Gimp and graphviz, and probably for others as well, marking them or their dependencies as able to render SVG

Re: Approx. restore time estimate

2009-09-14 Thread Kurt Buff
, restoring from disk or tape makes little difference, if you're doing a full restore, and once the restore process is up and running. The bigger bottleneck is the write speed of the disk(s) you're restoring to - it's always slower to write than to read, often by a very large margin. Kurt

SVG and dependence on Firefox2.x?

2009-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
, but any way to work around it? Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: SVG and dependence on Firefox2.x?

2009-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 15:15, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:59:51 -0700, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I notice that for both The Gimp and graphviz, and probably for others as well, marking them or their dependencies as able to render SVG invokes

wpi0 went away, though a reboot cures it.

2009-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
. Sep 13 16:07:38 grimsqueaker kernel: Uptime: 6h53m12s Sep 13 16:07:38 grimsqueaker kernel: interrupt storm detected on irq16:; throttling interrupt source Thanks, Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Daily security report oddity...

2009-09-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 00:23, Mark Stapperst...@mapper.nl wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: I got a daily security run email from one of my machines on Monday morning, with the following entry:      zmx1.zetron.com login failures:      Aug 30 06:57:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp2

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