What is the macports user doing?

2011-08-05 Thread kevin beckford
macports2258 0.0 0.0 2448048 1148 ?? S12:01pm 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/distnoted agent What is this process and why is the macports user running it? DISTNOTED(8) BSD System Manager's Manual DISTNOTED(8) NAME distnoted -- distributed notification serv

Re: MacPorts is hijacking account on MacOSXServer

2011-07-28 Thread kevin beckford
> I am not familiar with "mobile accounts". > You should familiarize yourself with the operating system you are tasked with writing software on in that case. Or, say "We did not bother to do our homework, don't use our stuff." You said the same thing about git. Ignorance is hardly becoming. > >

odd problem with port command

2011-05-17 Thread kevin beckford
Ordinarily, I pull down the git repo into my home directory, sync from there and install with sudo: git fetch port sync port outdated sudo port -u upgrade outdated I can tweak a few things, such as adding lua support to vim, simple upgrades of ports, etc. Works. Foolishly I decided to try to upd

Re: Xcode 4

2011-03-19 Thread kevin beckford
>> Apple (rights to disseminate personal data, rights to examine disk >> content) Ugh. There can be no antitrust issue with bundling XCode, Apple laptops are 15% of the market. I am already writing this mail from > a Debian-powered ThinkPad... You won't be alone, although I might use the hardw

Re: openvpn (how configure the client)

2011-03-12 Thread kevin beckford
>> link http://linode.com/library leads to a 404 when I click it.. Arrgh, very sorry about that, Ryan's link is correct. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users

Re: openvpn (how configure the client)

2011-03-10 Thread kevin beckford
go to linode.com/library, find the excellent openvpn tutorial. Everything you need. On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks :-) > > I installed openvpn client (I have cert, key and config client). > > Where I have to put these files and run openvpn client? > > thanks! > > Pol

Re: Questions about code signing

2011-02-05 Thread kevin beckford
>> and the mechanism is in >> place to disable unsigned binaries. > > Huh? man taskgated. Code signing would be a great idea, if I was a full partner in what was running. NPAPI plugins run as the logged in user, a quite alarming piece of information, so I'm quite happy to see things such as the

Re: Questions about code signing

2011-02-04 Thread kevin beckford
> Is there a simple introduction to security on Mac Os that actually > deals with this? I found the "How logins work / brief description of > Linux Pam on Mac OS" intro, but nothing for this. If you find one please share ;) I've given up and am starting at Darwin and working my way up to Cocoa. _

Re: Questions about code signing

2011-02-04 Thread kevin beckford
> Key:  Don't do it as root. Your ID is under your name. I tend to run a > lot using sudo zsh (root) .  Foolish of me. I see I already said this. Foolish of me(2) ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforg

Re: Questions about code signing

2011-02-04 Thread kevin beckford
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: > Here's a quick question on task_for_pid() (it seems to be at the heart of > this): > By the way, I fixed that code signing problem, was actually pretty easy: I got a safari dev membership, and setup a cert + key ( an "identi

Re: Questions about code signing

2011-01-30 Thread kevin beckford
> and codesign can be used to sign things.  That certainly explains your > taskgated issue. Now to save you this shame, apparently sudo zsh turns me all the way into root. This is important because I actually have a bunch of certificates in my keychain that should work. In fact: codesign -s 'ha

Re: Questions about code signing

2011-01-30 Thread kevin beckford
> https://gist.github.com/803660 > Man taskgated /usr/libexec/AppFirewall/socketfilterfw -h #That's it man. Every macport binary that tries to use task_for_pid sets that off. Hardly promising sign for the future, inexplicably, both socketfilterfw ( the "app firewall" trojan highway ) and co

Re: Questions about code signing

2011-01-30 Thread kevin beckford
> I have no idea how code signing works. > You must have read the docs. It was a simple idea until I did that :\ > What errors and warnings are you seeing from taskgated? https://gist.github.com/803660 ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@li

Questions about code signing

2011-01-30 Thread kevin beckford
I'd like to sign my macport binaries to get rid of the errors and warnings from taskgated. How would I go about doing this? ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-user

Re: Thanking the MacPorts team

2011-01-18 Thread kevin beckford
> Me too. Great team and great support. +1 I've been using macports forever it seems, and I'll gladly take this opportunity to express my thanks at the hard work that goes into this project! ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforg

Possible to default +python26 to +python27 globally?

2010-12-10 Thread kevin beckford
i have python_select has python27 selected as default. installing git-core, it's built with python26 , as is a bunch of the xorg stuff which got pulled in from somewhere. Not a problem but i'm not using python26. Is this at all possible to address by a setting? If not so be it, but I felt I shou

Re: mac port Uninstall -- Unable to uninstall/deactive

2010-12-10 Thread kevin beckford
> > Mac OS X's bzip2 is not a "BSD version". There's no such thing. There's only > one version of >bzip2, which is the one available at http://bzip.org/ Fair enough.  Still, it comes with the os, and it's in the default path set by path_helper. Anyway, before I recommended to someone "erase all

Re: mac port Uninstall -- Unable to uninstall/deactive

2010-12-09 Thread kevin beckford
Did you remove the references to /opt/local/* in your .profile, .bashrc, .zshrc or whatever? > ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users

Re: mac port Uninstall -- Unable to uninstall/deactive

2010-12-09 Thread kevin beckford
> > > Warning: It appears you have MacPorts or Fink installed. > Software installed with MacPorts and Fink are known to cause problems. > If you experience issues try uninstalling these tools. > Error: No available formula for bzip2 > I'd be quite interested in what gave that error. That's a pret

Patch problems w/python27

2010-12-06 Thread kevin beckford
port upgrade python27---> Computing dependencies for python27 ---> Fetching python27 ---> Attempting to fetch Python-2.7.1.tar.bz2 from http://distfiles.macports.org/python27 ---> Verifying checksum(s) for python27 ---> Extracting python27 ---> Applying patches to python27Error: Target org.m

Fwd: OSX 10.6.5 , Terminal.app, iTerm.app pbpaste, pbcopy do not work under tmux

2010-11-28 Thread kevin beckford
Investigating this patch to make tmux work with pbcopy/pbpaste, felt that I should let macports know about this issue... -- Forwarded message -- From: Nicholas Riley Date: Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 8:09 AM Subject: Re: OSX 10.6.5 , Terminal.app, iTerm.app pbpaste, pbcopy do not work u

variants

2010-11-19 Thread kevin beckford
is there a slightly more interactive way of using the port system, so that I could jump in and say "no wait, don't build python with stinking Tk, I have life to live and ladies to love, and they'll not wait for Tk to build..." ?

Support for llvm compiling?

2010-11-19 Thread kevin beckford
Just checking, is there any support for using llvm-gcc for my day to day compiler? -- ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users

Re: Autossh defaults to using system ssh

2010-11-10 Thread kevin beckford
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2010-11-10 22:20 , Daniel J. Luke wrote: >> However - I think it's reasonable to use the ssh client installed by the OS >> rather than require the macports one to be installed. > > If I remember correctly, the MacPorts openssh does not o

Re: OT: "find" command with branch/pipe

2010-11-10 Thread kevin beckford
>> I am struggling with the find command, trying to find all files ending >> with .h or .cpp in a certain directory. On OS X? Why use find when you have spotlight? man mdfind mdfind -name filename -onlyin some_directory man mdls mdls some_file.cpp # this will show you what the attributes ar

Autossh defaults to using system ssh

2010-11-10 Thread kevin beckford
Autossh uses the system ssh when creating it's tunnels, I have noticed today. Being built from macports, it should be looking for /opt/local/bin/ssh instead of /usr/bin/ssh. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists

OpenSSH

2010-11-07 Thread kevin beckford
How does the openssh from macports interact with the openssh from Apple? I am running openssh from macports, along with openssl. Is there anything I need to be aware of, such as issues with keychain? Versions? Should keychain be saving my ssh key? --

Re: want to upgrade py26-traits @3.4.0 to 3.5.0

2010-10-26 Thread kevin beckford
> You will want to start by reading the guide: > > http://guide.macports.org/ > > And the MacPorts Development section of the wiki: > > http://trac.macports.org/wiki#MacPortsDevelopment Question, I modify my macports myself, using the git repositories. Is there any way to use git in this process?

Re: Problems w/ MacFUSE & SSHFS

2010-10-23 Thread kevin beckford
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3770 > > It doesn't list any MacBook. > > http://www.osxbook.com/blog/2009/08/31/is-your-machine-good-enough-for-snow-leopard-k64/ These are the steps to enable this feature on my hardware. Since the result would be to disable sshfs, which I love, my journey stops

Re: Problems w/ MacFUSE & SSHFS

2010-10-23 Thread kevin beckford
> No I am not.  Thanks for the info. I see however that I could be running a 64bit kernel. Would this require recompilation of all my ports? ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Problems w/ MacFUSE & SSHFS

2010-10-23 Thread kevin beckford
> Well, first of all, it's only incompatible with a 64-bit *kernel* -- > are you running one? No I am not. Thanks for the info. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports

Re: Problems w/ MacFUSE & SSHFS

2010-10-22 Thread kevin beckford
> MacFUSE doesn't support 64-bit kernels. The problem is that 64-bit > filesystems need to be thread-safe, and MacFUSE isn't. http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/09/macfuse-updated-to-2-0-now-includes-64-bit-and-snow-leopard-supp/ Since the statement above horrified, me, since I am making a point of usin

Re: Messed up Perl

2010-10-04 Thread kevin beckford
> I'm under the impression that what Hal was asking for was a > "perl_select" command like python and gcc has. > Anyway by now he has already solved his issues with perl executables. This is an excellent thing to discuss, since contrib has the *select code already. What's involved in going all th