Re: brand-new DVD drives less reliable than crappy old player - fix?

2008-02-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
it tank. I can't even cp or rsync data off them, and these are only minor scratches. Is there anything tunable, or ways to keep rsync or cp going after an error? Maybe try using dd conv=noerror to get a copy onto a hard drive or another disk? -- -

Re: cp -p

2008-02-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
ntics? If it does, I would expect this to work; if it doesn't, then no, I wouldn't expect it to work. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Re: cp -p

2008-02-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
, not setgid! If you do a "chmod g+s www" you'll get "drwxr-sr-x" permissions. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/privacy.html -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Help on freeBSD 4.10

2008-02-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
ote access like ssh(1). Have you actually tried setting these? They make the system add a pause if the wrong password is entered several times, but they will not actually lock the account. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Help on freeBSD 4.10

2008-02-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
and logouts? This should be enabled by default already; examine /var/log/auth.log -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [FreeBSD] 6.3-R diskhandling

2008-01-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
x27;d be happier getting the clone working than having to merge changes in from a failing drive. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: why am i sending mutt mail with my FQDN??

2008-01-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
d DNS hostnames. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: why am i sending mutt mail with my FQDN??

2008-01-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
reached me at magnesium.net. Can anybody clue me in? Sure. If you want to masquerade a local machine's FQDN to just your domain name, follow the happy instructions from the FAQ: http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html -- -Chuck ___ fr

Re: Bizarre TIME_WAIT socket buildup problem

2008-01-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
6.x releases; please try upgrading to 6.3. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD Stable

2008-01-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
/where.html ...right now, the following is the 32-bit x86 version of 6-STABLE that is probably going to become 6.3-RELEASE shortly: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.3/ Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: some help please

2008-01-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norman Maurer wrote: > Hi, > > please reread the handbook I think all you need is explained there > in detail > > bye > Norman > > Am Mittwoch, den 16.01.2008, 09:46 +0200 schrieb Moazzar Battah: >> Dear Sir, >> >> I need some help , I am a new

Re: Pls help: regarding gdb internals

2008-01-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling_convention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: OT: Greylisting and Yahoo Mailinglists

2008-01-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:23 PM, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Dienstag, 15. Januar 2008 19:08:39 schrieb Chuck Swiger: You didn't mention which mailserver or greylist software you are using, but the postgrey implementation (for use with Postfix) has this in postgrey_whitelist_cl

Re: Limit on number of groups a user can join

2008-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
el, I believe -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 php5 cli core dumped

2008-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
module is listed in your extensions.ini file. Try moving it to the last position, for example.... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: sysinstall and bsdlabel/boot

2008-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
used to perform command substitution and are a synonym for "$(command)" syntax; something like "echo `ls`" would be a simple example. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: OT: Greylisting and Yahoo Mailinglists

2008-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
and you could choose to whitelist all of yahoo.com just as easily. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Frequent DHCP requests from Wii

2008-01-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
nvince the Wii to keep hold of its lease for a longer period of time without continuously renewing it every few minutes. Otherwise, talk to Sega or whoever about their DHCP client... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Sendmail: "exposed" root, why?

2008-01-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
than using generic.m4, or simply remove the line "C{E}root" from your sendmail.cf. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: OSX NFS-Server && FreeBSD NFS Client

2008-01-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
local filesystem. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: OSX NFS-Server && FreeBSD NFS Client

2008-01-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
want to export a filesystem which itself is being mounted remotely. If you want to provide SMB filesharing for these files, run Samba on the OS X machine(s) directly. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: disabling boot output

2008-01-07 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tilman Linneweh wrote: > > > * Omer Faruk Sen [ Jan 4, 2008 (15:20 )]: >> How can I disable boot messages so user can't see any boot message. >> I think there is 4 part for that and each of them requires a different >> configuration file to be edited

Howcome mail deletion time varies?

2008-01-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use, for my imap-based mail, a combination of postfix, dovecot, thunderbird, enigmail (for gnupg), and openssl for browser security. When I delete mail messages, the majority of them delete (what seems to me to be) instantaneously, but a small minor

Re: AAARRRGH: network foul-ups.

2007-12-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile) wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 18:38 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: >> The trouble is that two of my machines report the identical >> private IP: 10.0.0.250. Previously "tao" was 10.0.0.247 and > > > Be sure to flush o

Re: lost X11 input from kybd-SOLVED!

2007-12-27 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: > ,--[ On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:41:18PM -0500, chuckr wrote: > | I'm running FreeBSD-current. I updated about 30 hours ago, did a > | rebuild of world and the kernel (without changing my kernel config file > | at all.

Re: which cputype for Althon 64 X2 Dual Core

2007-12-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
ER is that the best (only) choice? Yes, as far as AMD64 code goes. You could always switch down to running in 32-bit mode, though. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
em in question is desperately short on memory and a ~1MB RSS process is a burden. If you ask me, the -B option is available for people who want to totally hose timekeeping on their system. Somewhat. :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: tail does not exit

2007-12-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 20, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Mikhail Teterin wrote: On середа 19 грудень 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: = A quick test suggests that "tail -f" will close when it gets a SIGPIPE. SIGPIPE? How is that relevant? Does tail get a SIGPIPE, when awk disappears in my example? If it does n

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:34:24AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Even though it will take quite a bit longer you should just do a "make distclean" in /usr/ports that way anything you hand modified will be retained

Re: Does 6.2 Support VIA EPIA M10000G Nehemiah Mini-ITX?

2007-12-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
de of Crucial RAM. Dig up a memtest86 floppy or test CD to do more exhaustive checking Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: tail does not exit

2007-12-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
trl-c happens. IT HAS A DEATH GRIP! This seems like a bug to me... It should hold on to its input file(s), but exit peacefully, when its stdout closes. No? A quick test suggests that "tail -f" will close when it gets a SIGPIPE. -- -Chuck

Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?

2007-12-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
93% of the incoming traffic gets rejected permanently (via policy-weightd) or temporarily via greylisting; of the remainder, about 40% is tagged as spam and about 3% is tagged as viral. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Jurjen Middendorp wrote: If you're familiar with pdksh, are you also familiar with ksh93, which is (I believe) Mr. Korn's own shell? If you are, I would be interessted in your opinion of the two, any comparisons you might give. I've never used ksh93 so I really can't say. There is a NOTES

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Michaël Grünewald wrote: Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: As long as folks don't stop me from running whatever I want, I don't care if you use bash, but it really irks me, that most Linux systems are broken in that respect: Most of them break badly in random ways, if yo

Re: csh programing book

2007-12-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 02:57:12PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Actually, I like ksh better, if you are really going all out for a programming shell, but if you're really after a scripting language, why restrict yourself to shells? things like Python & Ruby knock hel

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-16 Thread Chuck Robey
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 16/12/07 Chuck Robey said: There;s one item that is much more easily done in csh/tcsh than in the sh based ones that's redirecting the stderr along with the stdout. with tcsh, when I do a make, I commonly do a: make |& tee makeout which causes

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-16 Thread Chuck Robey
Tom McLaughlin wrote: Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)? I've installed it and successfully run moderately large ksh scripts (like the webrev(1) utility of OpenSolaris), and it is about an order of magnitude smaller than pdksh here: % [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/bi

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-16 Thread Chuck Robey
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 14/12/07 Giorgos Keramidas said: Tcsh is a fine shell. I'm using it all the time (that's how I found out that a buglet reported by Kris Kennaway a few months ago was indeed a bug which I could reproduce too). I always found csh/tcsh aliases annoying, since there

Re: csh programing book

2007-12-16 Thread Chuck Robey
Konstantinos Pachnis wrote: Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: Hello! Is there a good programming book for csh as for example for bash (free available) ? For bash is here: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ Is such book for csh on the net (free available) ? Thank you for any hints. Best regards, Zbign

Re: Webmail

2007-12-14 Thread Chuck Robey
Satria Bramana wrote: Can anyone who had experience running a web-based e-mail give suggestion what package to use? I will only use it for study purpose, so I need one that easy to configure and help me understand the big picture about mailserver.. Thank you very much.. I use postfix and do

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread Chuck Robey
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:12:32PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: On December 13, 2007 08:05:42 pm Chad Perrin wrote: I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful I wonder what responses I might

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Chuck Robey
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful That was written sometime last millenium, I mean, it's REALLY old. The question is

Re: results of ports re-engineering survey

2007-12-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *PLEASE ONLY REPLY TO ME OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Omigod!! For Gods sake, could you PLEASE not have folks reply to the list! We have been sufficiently bombarded with this already. If you must have the replies public, then

Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?

2007-12-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
g up a lot of memory or resources, and remove a lot of workload, so that the Amavisd+ClamAV+SA combination only has to do virus-scanning and SpamAssassin's expensive Bayesian word-mangling on emails which seem to be legit. Regards, -- -Chuck

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
sendmail.mc config: define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `2100')dnl ...which will set a maximum message size that your SMTP server is willing to accept. The recommended max size in the RFCs was something like 10 MB, but season to taste.

Re: DVD's and FreeBSD

2007-12-10 Thread Chuck Robey
Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:05:23PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Update: Well, totem chokes when trying to play a DVD, Totem is not good DVD player and that has to do nothing with the FreeBSD, OpenBSD or whatever Linux you want to use. You

Re: smart_host on sendmail min config

2007-12-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
between the freebsd6.m4 file and a freebsd7.m4...nothing has changed which would affect sendmail. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: mail problem, using postfix & dovecot

2007-12-03 Thread Chuck Robey
Erik Cederstrand wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: I have my mail system running on my FreeBSD server. It uses postfix outgoing, and dovecot to manage the Imap server, and finally Seamonkey either locally or from one of my other machines, to read/write my mail, it makes for a very portable mail

mail problem, using postfix & dovecot

2007-12-03 Thread Chuck Robey
I have my mail system running on my FreeBSD server. It uses postfix outgoing, and dovecot to manage the Imap server, and finally Seamonkey either locally or from one of my other machines, to read/write my mail, it makes for a very portable mail system, but I am now convinced I have one major b

Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux

2007-12-03 Thread Chuck Robey
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:15:22AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-30 16:06, "Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am trying to build all of FreeBSD from a Linux Machine and seem to be running into problems. We have farm of build

Re: Using brandelf

2007-12-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: Can you use brandelf to read the elf type of a binary? The man page shows a usage that might possibly do this, but doesn't bother to say what that usage does. To be honest, I need to do some work

Re: how to compile and install a new driver

2007-11-27 Thread Chuck Robey
Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Steve Franks wrote: I found this thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-August/027445.html to a driver I need for my system. (1) The file extension (http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/ucp-0.01.diff.gz) is .diff, not .c, so what exactl

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-27 Thread Chuck Robey
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Beastie's Law: Any demand of a modification of FreeBSD or it's website using political incorrectness as the justification is automatically wrong. Political Incorrectness is very subjective though. It doesen't matter. What constitutes a Nazi

Re: Desktop printing, a request for your experiences

2007-11-27 Thread Chuck Robey
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Dominic Marks wrote: List, Can anyone give me their experiences of desktop printing (OpenOffice/KDE/Gnome/Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, etc) recently? I haven't tried for a while but it was a pain to setup and maintain the last time I looked at it. If you are using thi

Using brandelf

2007-11-20 Thread Chuck Robey
Can you use brandelf to read the elf type of a binary? The man page shows a usage that might possibly do this, but doesn't bother to say what that usage does. To be honest, I need to do some work with the linux stuff, and the usage of /compat/linux and /usr/compat/linux, well, I don't underst

Re: arbitrary build can't find libs - right way to do this?

2007-11-20 Thread Chuck Robey
Steve Franks wrote: On Nov 20, 2007 4:16 PM, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:34:29PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I'm trying to compile a non-port application for the first time ever. The associated library built and installed just fine - I can see them right in

Re: What's "unknown" about i386-unknown?

2007-11-20 Thread Chuck Robey
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Tino Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Bill Moran schrieb: In response to "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hey all. I see i386-unknown as a build target all the time. So my (possibly silly) question is: what's the unknown variable here? And wh

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-19 Thread Chuck Robey
Gee, I thought that this had gone away. PLEASE send this off to FreeBSD-chat, it has no business on FreeBSD-questions whatever. Jonathan McKeown wrote: [Ted Mittelstaedt's words, heavily edited for brevity. Ted, please shout if I haven't caught the sense of what you're saying]

Re: How to know PID responsible for network connection/listen?

2007-11-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Tino Engel wrote: Matthias Apitz schrieb: El día Thursday, November 15, 2007 a las 11:20:30AM -0800, Yuri escribió: 'netstat -a' gives me the listing of network connection/listening records. But there's no link to the process id that opened it. With lots of processes this can be a significa

Re: What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?

2007-11-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 16, 2007, at 10:56 PM, Yeef wrote: this is work for me freebsd 6.2-RELEASE /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 you should use root mount it. Or set vfs.usermount to 1, if I remember right. I can't recall what's the proper m

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-16 Thread Chuck Robey
st. Tell me if you've heard enough of this . Read below for my comments. On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:56:12PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:34:26PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:23:23PM -0500, Chuck Robey

Re: unimpressive buildworld time

2007-11-15 Thread Chuck Robey
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Wednesday 14 November 2007 03:45:07 pm Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Impressive ;-) My main machine (with an Athlon XP @ 2GHz) takes ~2 hours to build kernel and world (I use a script to do that). My other box is running -CURRENT and takes ~11 hours to build kernel and world

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-15 Thread Chuck Robey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:34:26PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:23:23PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: This makes a little file of descriptor words, but it's not set so a regular editor can manipulate it; the special ports progr

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-15 Thread Chuck Robey
RW wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:00:55 -0500 Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've already deleted the message that kicked me off, but it looked to me that you were talking about the 10,000 ports I was talking about, and that meant you were referring to new installs, n

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-15 Thread Chuck Robey
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Upgrading has no bearing whatever on this. Why do you bring that up? We're talking about a suggested shell script that calls config-recursive for outdated ports. I did not bring that up. I'm out of this. It's a bikeshed after all. OK, I can agree with that. I let my

Re: Where is pkgdb?

2007-11-15 Thread Chuck Robey
Tino Engel wrote: Which port do I have to install to get pkgdb? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" it's already there in /var

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-15 Thread Chuck Robey
RW wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:55:02 -0500 Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you seriously saying that a decision regarding what ports are to be installed should be made after they are installed? If you have 10,000 ports installed, you obviously have no need whatever to ma

Re: Where is pkgdb?

2007-11-15 Thread Chuck Robey
Christopher Cowart wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:39:10PM +0100, Tino Engel wrote: Which port do I have to install to get pkgdb? $ pkg_info -W `which pkgdb` /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb was installed by package portupgrade-2.2.2_4,2 I recommend installing ports-mgmt/port-maintenance-tools when bu

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-15 Thread Chuck Robey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:23:23PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: This makes a little file of descriptor words, but it's not set so a regular editor can manipulate it; the special ports program is needed to set or reset this list. All ports query this list in makin

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-15 Thread Chuck Robey
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:54:33 +0100 Tino Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RW schrieb: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:10:29 -0500 Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I hope not. We really need to move this out of being a ports bui

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-15 Thread Chuck Robey
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: USE flags are a pain in the ass (former Gentoo user of 3 years). Introducing that type of complexity into a ports system isn't necessary and does unexpected things at times fo

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
RW wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:54:33 +0100 Tino Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RW schrieb: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:10:29 -0500 Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I hope not. We really need to move this out of being a ports buildtime thing. Currently, to build po

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
RW wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:10:29 -0500 Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I hope not. We really need to move this out of being a ports buildtime thing. Currently, to build ports in batch either requires someone to be chained to the computer, so as to intercept all those scree

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Gerard wrote: On November 12, 2007 at 03:14PM RW wrote: [ ... ] Yes, but that doesn't work if you are doing a portupgrade -a, you then need to wrap the makes in a simple script, which is what I was referring to. Portmaster has something like this built-in. From man PORTUPGRADE(1): and my (

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Garrett Cooper wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: USE flags are a pain in the ass (former Gentoo user of 3 years). Introducing that type of complexity into a ports system isn't necessary and does unexpected things at times for end-users when developers change variable names or

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Garrett Cooper wrote: If you want to see what it is, go look at recent postings on ports list. It'll probably get changed, as I get something for folks to look at and discuss. USE flags are a pain in the ass (former Gentoo user of 3 years). Introducing that type of complexity into a port

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Pollywog wrote: On Monday 12 November 2007 19:06:28 Chuck Robey wrote: I wish it wasn't this way. Maybe it's just in the schools I visited? If so, anyone have a better experience? Until I hear of some, I won't contribute to any "computers for kids" deal, because it o

Re: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
iling. Running smartmonutils or a manufacturer's test utility is recommended -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
RW wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:14:02 -0800 "Mark D. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vince wrote: Ashley Moran wrote: Hi I was just wondering, what is the motivation behind the GUI configuration for some ports? Simply put, they drive me up the wall. I've lost count of the number of t

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Olivier Nicole wrote: I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV http://xogiving.org/ That is a difficult issue, while this

Re: make configure vs first make

2007-11-11 Thread Chuck Robey
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Le Cocq Michel wrote: Matthew Seaman a écrit : That's because you need to do: make config which has a very different effect to 'make configure.' Matthew can you explain the != ? thanks Michel make configure runs the configure build stage if the port has

Re: ps options

2007-11-11 Thread Chuck Robey
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 10), Chuck Robey said: I have spent all the time I can stand, going over the ps man page, but I can't see any option to get a hierarchical listing. I mean, where the listings are sorted to where parents come before children, and the children

Re: ' Openssl.cnf ' and ' .rand ' file

2007-11-10 Thread Chuck Robey
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On 11:22:10 Nov 10, White Hat wrote: openssl 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 I have not been able to find an answer to this question on Google, so I figured I had better ask it here. In the '/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf' file, there is an entry for: RANDFILE= $dir/private

Re: cups-base problem

2007-11-10 Thread Chuck Robey
Reko Turja wrote: Dear all, Today I saw a security notice: ..snip... cat distinfo MD5 (cups-1.3.3-source.tar.bz2) = d4911e68b6979d16bc7a55f68d16cc53 SHA256 (cups-1.3.3-source.tar.bz2) = 5e9e5670777055293e309cb0cbb2758df9c1275bf648df70478b7389c2d804de SIZE (cups-1.3.3-source.tar.bz2) = 40

Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

2007-11-10 Thread Chuck Robey
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:08:12 -0500 Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper

ps options

2007-11-10 Thread Chuck Robey
I have spent all the time I can stand, going over the ps man page, but I can't see any option to get a hierarchical listing. I mean, where the listings are sorted to where parents come before children, and the children get indentation, so you can see at a glance what's running more easily. It

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Chuck Robey
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-09 18:55, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've been using the following for some time: keramida> su - Password: root# exec env SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash bash

Re: Ports problem

2007-11-09 Thread Chuck Robey
Adam J Richardson wrote: RW wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:39:28 + Adam J Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Desmond Chapman wrote: /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. In the current version, /

Re: Determine FreeBSD version of binary

2007-11-08 Thread Chuck Robey
John Smith wrote: I was wondering if it was possible to determine for what version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled, purely by examining the binary? As a suggestion, use the 'ldd' command to see what version of the libc is linked in with the binary. You didn['t mention if the binary was lin

Re: Best way to measure disk bandwidth usage

2007-11-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
ion of the manpage. :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: OT: UltraDNS and dor org domains.

2007-10-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
e involved...? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: su: not running setuid

2007-10-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
ed to do a buildworld/installworld cycle or a reinstall to get this fixed. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How do I enable IP forwarding?

2007-10-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Erik Osterholm wrote: Shouldn't that be "YES" instead of "NO"? Um, yes-- quite right. I just copied the default value from /etc/ defaults/rc.conf and forgot to change it. :-0 -- -Chuck

Re: How do I enable IP forwarding?

2007-10-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Ivan-- On Oct 19, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Ivan Dimitrov wrote: How do I enable IP forwarding? (on freeBSD 6.2) On a temporary basis: sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 ...or if you want to make that config permanent: echo 'gateway_enable="NO"' >&g

Re: [stupid question] setting env variables globally

2007-10-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
mmand line, script, GUI, IPC trigger, etc.) if it checks the value of the var it gets the same value (and I want to do this system wide) Setting variables in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc (respectively) will do it for the common shells; or perhaps you might look at /etc/ login.conf...

Re: freebsd-net: ether alias

2007-10-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
create a ``published (proxy only)'' entry. This type of entry is created automatically if arp detects that a routing table entry for hostname already exists. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: More Postfix Woes

2007-10-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
rt of scripted utility which is trying to stop and restart Postfix via cron or some such? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: postgresql and initdb

2007-10-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
hat sounds like the port wasn't installed properly. What does: pkg_info | grep postgres ...show? And "pkg_info -Lx postgres"...? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: postgresql and initdb

2007-10-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
n/ipcclean bin/pg_controldata bin/pg_ctl bin/pg_id bin/pg_resetxlog bin/postgres bin/postmaster etc/periodic/daily/502.pgsql ...suggests it will be put in /usr/local/bin/initdb (modulo $ {LOCALBASE}, if changed)-- try doing a rehash if needed. :-)

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