Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-17 Thread RW
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:51:40 -0600 Programmer in Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: Quoting Polytropon free...@edvax.de: That's all within transition. Currently, big video portals are moving to HTML5, often including the wish to also use free and open standards for their videos so

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-16 Thread RW
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:04:00 +0200 C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it would be nice to know I won't be the only one. I'm actually

Re: * wildcard in.sh script

2010-06-15 Thread RW
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:06:11 +0800 Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Here is the test and out put # admin cell* admin: No match. try ./admin cell* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: * wildcard in.sh script

2010-06-15 Thread RW
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:20:14 +0100 RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:06:11 +0800 Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Here is the test and out put # admin cell* admin: No match. try ./admin cell* Sorry that would be not found, not No match

sh ++/-- operators

2010-06-10 Thread RW
FreeBSD's sh (in 8.0) doesn't seem to support the ++ or -- arithmetic operators $ echo $((n++)) arithmetic expression: syntax error: n++ Am I wrong in thinking these are POSIX operators? It seems odd if they were simply left-out.. ___

Re: spamd exits on line 2585 unexpectedly... .

2010-06-08 Thread RW
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:51:28 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: anybody know why /usr/local/bin/spamd bailed on me like this? child process [2377] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 25 at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 2585. This was discussed on

Re: portsnap refuse

2010-06-06 Thread RW
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:55:22 +0800 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: The postsnap says adding refuse statements to select the parts of the port tree you have use for will shorten the download process and conserve disk space on your host. That only the port categories not REFUSED will be

Re: hmm [???]

2010-05-28 Thread RW
On Fri, 28 May 2010 01:35:09 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: ok,here is what i'm seeing via ``portmanager -a -B -d'' both here on tao [desktop and my Server. i'm not clear on exactly what's wht except that the sourcefile to build this qt4-* is HUGE. I can probably build ti on my

Re: top memory usage question

2010-05-27 Thread RW
On Thu, 27 May 2010 11:52:15 +0200 Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, Just a question, on Linux the output of top's memory usage looks like this: Mem: 2075424k total, 1760848k used, 314576k free, 151872k buffers Swap: 4192924k total,0k used, 4192924k free,

Re: rookie question about PACKAGESITE

2010-05-11 Thread RW
On Tue, 11 May 2010 13:42:52 +0200 Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, I started using FreeBSD about a week ago, and I really like the system. Have been using Linux for the last few years. One noob question though, according to the Handbook on Packages and Ports, I can use

Re: help

2010-05-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 3 May 2010 16:29:19 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 3 May 2010, o...@aloha.com wrote: Hi, I am having problems connecting to my ISP. I am running a freebsd 7.2 box using a thompson speedtouch usb modem to connect to an adsl telephone line. However when

Re: setting ccache path

2010-04-29 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:58:37 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I tested by timing make(1) in a port but I can see it is working anyway because /root/.ccache gets created and populated. You probably want to move that unless /root/ is on a big partition. Am I failing to follow

Re: nvidia module startup

2010-04-28 Thread RW
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:43:35 -0400 sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: On 04/28/10 13:31, Alexandre L. wrote: Have you added the following line to /etc/rc.conf ? linux_enable=YES Yes, it is. rc.conf isn't relevant because your problem occur long before rc.conf is read. Try putting:

Re: Portsnap metadata is correctly signed, but contains at least one line which appears bogus.

2010-04-22 Thread RW
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:32:23 +0300 Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: I've been getting the following message a lot lately. Portsnap metadata is correctly signed, but contains at least one line which appears bogus. I've used the following command in the past to fix the error but

Re: spamd update

2010-04-21 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:22:53 -0700 Jim Pazarena fqu...@paz.bz wrote: I recently upgraded p5-Mail-SpamAssassin on FreeBSD 8.0, and now exim generates the following error message in its logs: spam acl condition: cannot parse spamd output spamd and exim ran fine until I performed this update.

Re: Questions about port revision numbers, portsnap, csup

2010-04-19 Thread RW
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:04:05 +0100 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: You could change to using csup rather than portsnap, but be aware that this pretty much means scrubbing all of your portsnap state. Indeed, for best results with csup, starting with an empty /usr/ports

Re: Why is Qemu not in Handbook

2010-04-14 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:24:11 -0400 Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote: Why is Qemu not mentioned in the Handbook? I don't know if this is the actual reason, but from the ports UPDATING file: Also note the 0.11 stable branch is the last qemu branch that still supports kqemu, so if you

Re: Auto update

2010-04-11 Thread RW
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:32:27 +0200 Jos Chrispijn ker...@webrz.net wrote: On 11-4-2010 9:41, Doug Hardie wrote: A cheesy way to do that is to use a popen (tail -f /var/log/auth.log, r) and then read that. It will give you every login regardless of ssh, telnet etc. You could then

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-08 Thread RW
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:15:05 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:09:54PM +0100, RW wrote: On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:07:17 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:20:49PM +0100, RW wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:55:44

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-07 Thread RW
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:07:17 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:20:49PM +0100, RW wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:55:44 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:36:32PM +0100, RW wrote: There are more things in heav'n

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread RW
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:55:44 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:36:32PM +0100, RW wrote: IMO this is a bad mistake that other languages were quite right not to copy - a test shouldn't come after a block of code unless it's evaluated after the block

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-05 Thread RW
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:57:17 +0100 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've always found that 'unless' makes a great deal of sense when used in the alternate syntax: do_foo() unless $condition ; As far as I know,

Re: ftp giving url but i want the IP address

2010-04-05 Thread RW
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:10:37 -0500 Walter walte...@earthlink.net wrote: On 4/5/10 10:08 AM -0500, Walter wrote: If, by host-specific url you mean the name associated with the IP address, you should be able to get the IP address by using the host command. host xxx does the trick.

Re: creating a socket for use with nc

2010-03-25 Thread RW
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:41:30 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: and the detach program from the ports collection. Is there a reason for preferring that over daemon(8) in the base system? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: /etc/rc.conf and NFS

2010-03-16 Thread RW
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:38:39 -0400 Joe Auty j...@netmusician.org wrote: Hello, I have my /usr/local partition hosted on an NFS share which is mounted at boot. Do you have any theories as to why my various services (Apache, Postfix, MySQL) listed in /etc/rc.conf do not start up

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-13 Thread RW
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:03:42 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2010 14:47:31, Антон Клесс wrote: I saw that more than year ago on my teacher's server, when I was deal with my first FreeBSD, so it's just a

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-12 Thread RW
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:22:07 -0500 Nathan Vidican nat...@vidican.com wrote: or more specifically, if you don't want to leave ntpd running, read-up on 'ntpd -q' which mimmicks the behavior of ntpdate but allows you to use multiple ntp servers. ntpdate supports multiple servers too, you just

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-12 Thread RW
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:06:45 +0300 Антон Клесс antoniok@gmail.com wrote: So, while ru.pool.ntp.org is pool of several servers, I have to run it as 5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate ru.pool.ntp.org ru.pool.ntp.org ru.pool.ntp.org /dev/null to check 3 servers from pool? You can different

Re: problems w/ touching all files?

2010-03-12 Thread RW
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:33:02 -0600 Richard DeLaurell richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tested it, but it may be that the error occurs only when upgrading a port; make complains that the new port is older than the existing. In port building the terms older and newer usually refer

Re: Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread RW
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:07:34 +0700 Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folk, Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list, I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch. I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ... # freebsd-update fetch Lookin up

Re: Squid reporting incorrect time

2010-02-27 Thread RW
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:07:27 +1030 Ty John (sand_man) ty...@eye-of-odin.com wrote: Hi guys, I've had my squid proxy running fine for quite some time now but just one thing bothers me. When a page cannot be displayed, the date and time showing on that page is incorrect even the the system

Re: no new/current f10 emulator?!

2010-02-26 Thread RW
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:58:49 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I'm trying to ge t stuff to stream as on my ubuntu laptop. Following the Handbook, the f10 emulator fails:: r...@tao:/usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f10# ki === linux_base-f10-10_2 compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 is

Re: Using march=native in /etc/make.conf

2010-02-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:41:04 -0500 Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I just acquired an older Gateway GT5220 with an AMD 62 Athlon-x2 dual processor. I want to set it up as a sort of test machine. There does not seem to be a specific setting for 'cpu-type' or 'march' for this machine. I

Re: Is there a command to load all swap into the memory?

2010-02-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:59:28 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:24:15PM -0800, Yuri wrote: I am asking out of curiosity. 'top' describes the memory state on my machine like this: Mem: 1085M Active, 196M Inact, 301M Wired, 36M Cache, 112M Buf, 1366M Free

Re: /usr/src/UPDATING

2010-02-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:35:27 + Jamie Griffin j...@mythic-beasts.com wrote: I have a really simple question about updating my system. Does /usr/src/UPDATING say when I need to update the kernel and world (obviously after updating the sources using csup/cvsup). I've been assuming it does

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread RW
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:12:22 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be

Re: Migrating from ipfw and natd to pf

2010-02-09 Thread RW
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:59:07 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: Is there a good guide somewhere for migrating from ipfw and natd rules to pf? I had pretty much gotten used to ipfw, and now pf seems very different to use and understand. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html

Re: Migrating from ipfw and natd to pf

2010-02-09 Thread RW
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:54:45 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:31:34PM +, RW wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:59:07 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: Is there a good guide somewhere for migrating from ipfw and natd rules to pf? I had pretty much

Re: how to control upload data in bittorrent clients

2010-02-07 Thread RW
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:51:20 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: RW wrote: On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:14:45 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: 1) in the transmission web it showing downloading is 10 kbps to 30 kbps

Re: how to control upload data in bittorrent clients

2010-02-07 Thread RW
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:31:11 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: RW wrote: On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:51:20 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: RW wrote: On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:14:45 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz

Re: Clarification Of In Place Upgrade Process

2010-02-06 Thread RW
On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:00:23 -0600 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: When migrating from 6.x to 7.x and to do system refreshes within a given release branch, I did/do this: - Get sources - mergemaster -i - make buildworld buildkernel I'm pretty sure you are

Re: how to control upload data in bittorrent clients

2010-02-06 Thread RW
On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:14:45 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: 1) in the transmission web it showing downloading is 10 kbps to 30 kbpsbut uploading it shows 50 to 92 kbps my question is is it possible to limit the uploading data rate , how can I do

Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

2010-02-04 Thread RW
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:29:57 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of firefox35? Currently the best way of using BBC iplayer is a perl script called get_iplayer which

Re: portsnap - broken metadata

2010-02-03 Thread RW
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:20:53 + Angelin Lalev lalev.ange...@gmail.com wrote: I have proxy server that requires username and password and I have set the HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY environment variables accordingly. (HTTP_PROXY = FTP_PROXY = USERNAME:passw...@proxy.uni-svishtov.bg:8080)

Re: portsnap - broken metadata

2010-02-03 Thread RW
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:22:59 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:20:53 + Angelin Lalev lalev.ange...@gmail.com wrote: I have proxy server that requires username and password and I have set the HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY environment variables accordingly

Re: Does geli metadata contain sensitive information?

2010-01-27 Thread RW
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:13:42 -0700 Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: Does a geli metadata backup contain any sensitive information? Like... should apply the same precations as I do the key and password? If you change the keyfile the metadata is changed and the old keyfile becomes useless; but

Re: How to use an older version of gcc?

2010-01-27 Thread RW
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:35:02 -0800 (PST) gfot giorgo...@yahoo.gr wrote: Hi i'm trying to compile a toochain for mips and i'm having some problems with gcc 4.2.1 that my Freebsd 8.0 (64-bit) system came with. So i decided (it was proposed by the README of the toolchain) to use gcc 3.4 but i

Re: FreeBSD sources from svn repos

2010-01-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:51:26 + Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, I am confused about FreeBSD versions maintained in svn repos 1. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.0/ 2. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/8.0.0/ 3. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/ (2)

Re: Upgrade from i386-8.0 to amd64-8.0 possible?

2010-01-22 Thread RW
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:16:53 -0600 LoH lordofhyph...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a system currently running FreeBSD-i386-8.0, and was wondering whether or not it's possible to move the system to FreeBSD-amd64-8.0 without bringing it down for more than a reboot or two (and avoid reinstalling all

Re: Periodic maintenaince

2010-01-22 Thread RW
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:54:33 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: What you could do is prepend the find(1) commands with the nice(1) command, to give the find commands lower priority. E.g. 'find -bla' then becomes '/usr/bin/nice -n 19 find -bla'. Unless there's something under

Re: GELI file systems unusable after glabel label operations

2010-01-22 Thread RW
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:34:31 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:08:00AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: Why is that stored in the last sector of the device, rather than in the key file? What is the purpose of the key file if not to hold that type of

Re: 8.0-RELEASE Hanging on boot-up/Harvesting

2010-01-19 Thread RW
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:34:19 + (GMT) Andy Hiscock andyjhisc...@yahoo.com wrote: Thought Id give Version 8.0-RELEASE A go on a server Im building for someone. All went well except when it comes to boot-up. Works though the config until it gets to some sort of networking

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread RW
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:01:47 -0500 b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Wait a minute; rewind. Isn't that what make -DDISABLE_CONFLICTS does? I believe that he is talking about changing _when_ the check for conflicts is made; whereas DISABLE_CONFLICTS ignores the check, regardless of when

Re: changing place of .core files

2010-01-16 Thread RW
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:23:52 +0100 (CET) Marco Beishuizen mb...@xs4all.nl wrote: Normally when a program crashes, it places a .core file in the homefilesystem. Is there a way of changing the filesystem where FreeBSD places it's core dumps? cd to another directory before starting the program.

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread RW
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:08:30 -0600 Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com wrote: On 01/16/2010 02:26 PM, Pav Lucistnik wrote: What is the particular scenario that the new conflicts handling broke for you? Often you really want to ignore locally installed packages and then it's better to override

Re: /etc/rc.d/program nice value

2010-01-15 Thread RW
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:50:23 -0500 Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: Nerius Landys wrote: I'm running some programs using the /etc/rc.d/ and /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ startup scripts. I am wondering if there is some standard way to run these programs at a higher nice value. Hi Nerius,

Re: Regular Expression Editor

2010-01-14 Thread RW
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:24:49 -0500 Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:38:41 -0800 Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com replied: You need to be specific about the kind of regex. While most regexp engines have common things like . and * and ^ and $, the meanings

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread RW
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:51:00 -0800 Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net wrote: I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are bi-endian and the OS

Re: must /compat/linux stay in root-fs?

2010-01-10 Thread RW
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:21:02 +0100 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Can I safely move the /compat tu /usr/local/compat and do a symlink to let point /compat -- /usr/local/compat or is there some reason that linux-f10 ports put all into /compat in root-fs? For me /compat was a symlink

Re: i've questions sure this e-mail for questions

2010-01-09 Thread RW
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:28:24 +0200 libyan linux libyan@gmail.com wrote: so my questions is bsd is not free software mean i cant make distributor on bsd is what i do now on my pc not distributor for business just for my own small work like manged my network with me friend's and play

Re: Can't figure out recursion problem in bash/freebsd - reply/solution to all helpers

2010-01-08 Thread RW
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:23:33 +0100 Bernard T. Higonnet b...@higonnet.net wrote: #! /bin/sh ... I shall be bold: this strikes me as a bug in bash. Am I off my nut here? If it is a bug, it's a bug in /bin/sh, not bash. ___

Re: rc.d script not working for Xmms2 :-(

2010-01-08 Thread RW
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:23:40 +0200 Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote: So far I have modified the script to look like this: #!/bin/sh You may need a PROVIDE LINE e.g. # PROVIDE:xmms2launcher . /etc/rc.subr name=xmms2-launcher You can't use - in shell variable names, so you

Re: rc.d script not working for Xmms2 :-(

2010-01-08 Thread RW
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:00:11 +0200 Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote: name=xmms2launcher rcvar=`set_rcvar` command=/usr/local/bin/${name} -u kaya ... So if I can't add the - does this mean that I have to create a link to xmms2-launcher with name xmms2launcher?? no just avoid using

Re: spamassassin - Y2K10 bug

2010-01-03 Thread RW
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 06:19:55 -0500 Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: There is an apparent bug in 'spamassassin' regarding 2010 e-mails. The full story is available here: http://spamassassin.apache.org/. There is also a discussion of it on SlashDot:

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-03 Thread RW
On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:10:19 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Comments, critique are welcome. Unless there are any killer bugs, I'll send-pr(1) in a week or so. You have: : ${daily_sa_compile=YES} sa-compile is installed by the SA port, but it requires

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-02 Thread RW
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:15:25 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: However, neither of these have been accepted by the p5-Mail-SpamAssassin port maintainer. It's not really a one-size fits all problem - it depends on which channels you use and whether you want sa-compile

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-01 Thread RW
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:05:54 -0600 Jeffrey Goldberg jeff...@goldmark.org wrote: There is discussion on the SA mailing list, and it is likely that some fix will be in with the next batch of rule updates for those who use sa-update. It's already available in sa-update.

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-01 Thread RW
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 18:05:59 -0600 Jeffrey Goldberg jeff...@goldmark.org wrote: How do I know if I am running sa-update? When installing SpamAssassin from ports I was prompted as to whether I wanted to do this (I said yes), but I don't see anything about it in any crontab I can find nor in

Re: fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-29 Thread RW
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:21:30 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: In other words, a proper IMAP server does not permit plaintext passwords. No, it MUST be implemented, but only SHOULD be used. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-29 Thread RW
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 + Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I might be wrong, but that's my understanding. So programs like fetchmail that actually connect to their imap server and download mail to local boxes are probably not very welcome. You probably are wrong, it's

Re: Blacklisting a SourceForge mirror from ports?

2009-12-23 Thread RW
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:38:01 -0600 Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com wrote: In my /etc/make.conf, I have: MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE=http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/%SUBDIR%/ I set MASTER_SORT_REGEX instead That *usually* works, but will often return a redirect, in which case the fetch goes

Re: Blacklisting a SourceForge mirror from ports?

2009-12-23 Thread RW
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:32:20 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:38:01 -0600 Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com wrote: MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE=http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/%SUBDIR%/ That *usually* works, but will often return a redirect, in which case

Re: ntpq command output and unreachable state?

2009-12-19 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:10:40 +0200 Omer Faruk Sen omerf...@gmail.com wrote: # ntpq -c peers remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == +194.27.110.130 131.188.3.2202 u 27h

Re: How to build VLC port

2009-12-12 Thread RW
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:49:06 +0100 Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Richard Mace: === vlc-1.0.3_4,3 is marked as broken: doesn't build with dirac. *** Error code 1 I tried a # make config Try make rmconfig You also need to remove the dirac package if it's already

Re: Temporarily halt boot process to enter encryption keys?

2009-12-10 Thread RW
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:31:47 -0600 Corey J. Bukolt 0...@mail.ru wrote: Hello list, I have a FreeNAS box with a CF card for root, and 3 drives (soon to be 4) set up with encryption and raidz on top of them. A less than excellent detailed report of what I did is here: http://bit.ly/5BeZq8

Re: Dangerously Dedicated (was: How do I create large ...)

2009-12-09 Thread RW
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:42:31 -0800 (PST) James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca wrote: I sort of followed the discussion as well. There was some disagreement about what dangreously dedicated means. Does it mean getting rid of the DOS partition table (slices?) Or, does it mean creating a

Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread RW
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:59:51 -0800 Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Hi-- On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Peter Steele wrote: Add my name to the list--we get tons of these messages since upgrading to 8.0 This isn't new with 8.x; it's been around since 4.0, if not earlier. Something

Re: keeping system base update and problems with CPUTYPE

2009-12-08 Thread RW
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:23:51 +0100 ocean ocean_i...@yahoo.it wrote: i think i've also found an unexpected behaviour in make buildworld, i've put src.conf and makefile.conf in /etc/ CPUTYPE?=pentium-m CFLAGS= -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe You don't normally set CFLAGS in FreeBSD, it's

Re: WINE on 6.3

2009-12-05 Thread RW
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:47:00 +0100 Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Hello. Is WINE usable on 6.3/i386? I cannot seem to start any win32 program and before I spend time into it, I thought I just ask. My interest is almost limited to running a simple console app that does very

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread RW
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:07:41 +0100 Frank Wissmann frank.wissman...@web.de wrote: Achilleas Mantzios schrieb: Hi! Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new

Re: Why there are so many binary packages missing?

2009-12-01 Thread RW
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:47:35 -0800 Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I am seeing this for a long time. If I use 'portupgrade -aPP' (packages only) there is a very large percentage of packages missing. Upgrading becomes many times faster when binary packages available are available. Presumably it's

Re: portupgrade for binaries fails miserably, but not completely

2009-11-29 Thread RW
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:16:15 -0800 Paul Hoffman phoff...@proper.com wrote: At 12:50 AM + 11/29/09, Frank Shute wrote: You don't mention what command you are using to upgrade your ports/packages. Sorry: portupgrade -aPPR Packages for a release are built against the ports tree that's

Re: amd64: building lib32 with ccache ?

2009-11-28 Thread RW
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:57:17 +0100 Frank Staals franksta...@gmx.net wrote: Hey everyone, Yesterday I wanted to update my system currently running 8.0-RC1 amd64 to the latest 8-STABLE release. However buildworld failed. I found out the problem seems to pop up when trying to build the lib32

Re: upgrading firefox

2009-11-23 Thread RW
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:58:00 + (GMT) Steven Seipel sseipel...@yahoo.es wrote: I tried pkg_add -r firefox3 last night. This is what it said: # pkg_add -r firefox3 Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-7.2-release/Latest/firefox3.tbz... Done. === Building Chrome's

Re: spamassassin question

2009-11-23 Thread RW
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:30:47 + Marwan Sultan dead_l...@hotmail.com wrote: Gary, Its an old problem with /root/.spamassassin I dunt know why spamassassin still have it by default :( I spent a day or so to figure it out.. however, If you run spamd as root it will

Re: upgrading firefox

2009-11-22 Thread RW
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:13:01 + (GMT) Steven Seipel sseipel...@yahoo.es wrote: I have freebsd 7.2 with gnome. It has firefox 2.0.0.20. What will I need to do to upgrade to firefox 3.anything? I have tried pkg_add -r with  all the versions listed on the ports page but it is always unable to

Re: sending mail with attachments always fail (FreeBSD/pf)

2009-11-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:27:20 +0100 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Saturday, November 21, 2009 a las 08:59:12PM +0600, Victor Lyapunov escribió: Hi all, I have production network with FreeBSD box acting as firewall. The problem emerge as soon as users send mail with

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:06:13 -0500 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: usleepl...@gmail.com writes: as far as i know there have been Nvidia maintained/improved drivers for FreeBSD for ages ( ls /usr/ports/x11 | grep -i nvid ) And see this from the Makefile:

Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-16 Thread RW
discovered by accident that the system won't boot with an fstab entry for a device that doesn't exist. So if I was to record an entry in fstab, I couldn't use /dev/ad1e.eli /home/david/private ufs rw 0 0 geli partitions can exist at mount time, but you either have to be present

Re: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread RW
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:39 -0600 Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: When a system has a USB drive present, the system typically names it /dev/da0. However, if the system has SATA drives hooked to an LSI controller, or if the system has SCSI drives, the same drive prefix is used as is

Re: Salvage files from harddrive

2009-11-03 Thread RW
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:50:39 -0400 jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: If you can mount this disk in single user mode your best bet to be safe is just glabel it to something else that your second system is not before you take the disk out of the machine. Even though I don't think it should/would

Re: math/arpack patch.tar.gz timestamp differs between ports and freebsd.org

2009-10-29 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:29:12 -0500 (CDT) Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: The build of math/octave dies when the build for math/arpack dies due to a timestamp mismatch between local ports tree information and ftp.freebsd.org. It's a mismatch between the timestamps on the local

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

2009-10-29 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:08:24 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: What is nice about Sendmail today is that with minimal changes to a base FreeBSD installation (the rc.conf(5) variable called sendmail_enable and a SMART_HOST value in sendmail.mc) one can quickly get up and

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

2009-10-29 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:39:49 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:34:35 +, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:08:24 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: What is nice about Sendmail today

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread RW
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:04:24 + Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: I must admit I gave up ever getting Flash to work RELIABLY on FreeBSD a long time ago. It's just too hard, too much work, and not worth the misery of installing heaps of crud just to get a flipping browser plugin

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-27 Thread RW
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:29:13 +0100 (CET) Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: i'm not using a webserver or anything. i'm just a regular user. the point is: i often forget to specify https://... for that specific address in apps like lynx or firefox. that's why the non-ssl

Re: PPPoE client+pf+nat

2009-10-27 Thread RW
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:51:26 -0700 (PDT) Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I am looking to configure my FreeBSD 8.0 machine for the purpose specified in the subject. Let's say I have two NICs in my PC: ext_if (for wan/pppoe connection) and int_if for my LAN. How

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread RW
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:33:07 -0700 xSAPPYx xsap...@gmail.com wrote: Also, MX needs to resolve to an A, not a CNAME.. If you are using mail on all these domains, use A records You can use the domains for mail provided that that they share MX servers, if example.com has a CNAME pointing to

Re: how to build from ports without downloading ports

2009-10-20 Thread RW
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:35:54 -0700 Noah noah-l...@enabled.com wrote: Hi there, I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build from ports without downloading ports or only downloading what is needed for the build and then it is removed? There's a howto here:

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:49:52 -0400 Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:34:40AM +, Mark wrote: Actually, this has got very little to do with being a native English speaker or not. It's ere a matter of intonation (which, in writing, can only be conveyed to a

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