Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Although I haven't looked much into any FreeBSD book, I wouldn't be surprised at all if FreeBSD's documentation combined with freebsd-questions would outweigh it. By definition they would since the amount of collective knowledge is always

ruby-postgresql driver seems broken?

2007-12-14 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, after installing a fresh copy of FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 on a new box I also tried installing rubygem-postgres/ruby-dbd_pg (ports/database). But I get this error: === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = postgres-0.7.1.2006.04.06.gem is not in

RE: Promise SuperTrak EX12350 don't get detected under FreeBSD 6.2

2007-12-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html ...The GPT partitioning scheme was introduced with the ia64 architecture as an MBR replacement. It provides 64 bit offsets and allows for an arbitrary number of partitions... ...For secondary storage, GPT can be used by any architecture

RE: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Isom Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:46 PM To: Chad Perrin Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Absolute FreeBSD On Dec 14, 2007, at 1:12 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: For the record . . .

Netgear WG111T Wireless USB support?

2007-12-14 Thread C Thala
Does FreeBSD support the Netgear WG111T Wireless USB device? I purchased it based on the fact that it uses an Atheros chipset, which according to the 6.2R hardware notes: The ath(4) driver supports all Atheros Cardbus or PCI cards, I guess that excludes USB? Thomas

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread cpghost
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:48:19 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Isom Although I haven't looked much into any FreeBSD book, I wouldn't be surprised at all if FreeBSD's documentation combined with freebsd-questions would outweigh it.

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Sam I Am
cpghost wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:48:19 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Isom Although I haven't looked much into any FreeBSD book, I wouldn't be surprised at all if FreeBSD's documentation combined with freebsd-questions would

Re: Webmail

2007-12-14 Thread Lisa Casey
- Original Message - From: Satria Bramana To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:44 PM Subject: Webmail 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

Re: will freebsd run on apple intel xserve

2007-12-14 Thread George Hartzell
Jason Joines writes: George Hartzell wrote: Jason Joines writes: I'm a Linux guy who has inherited some apple xserve boxes. Surprisingly I've discovered that I really hate os x. For the intel xserve boxes, Linux isn't an option. The CPUs are amd64 architecture.

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread RW
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:09:41 -0700 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm -- fair answer. I was kind of thinking that on FreeBSD I should maybe do such work in csh as the standard shell, but it occurs to me that I'd probably be pretty hard-pressed to find a FreeBSD system without sh on it.

Networking card not install on freebsd

2007-12-14 Thread Jefferson
Hi all, I have a question and a problem, i installed freebsd v. 6.1 on my desktop and my networking card doesn't work with freebsd... I have a Onboard Intel Nineveh 82566DM (10/100/1000 Mbit). Somebody please could help me, how can i install this network card and make work well... Tks a lot,

Re: How do I use my USB microphone and motherboard audio out?

2007-12-14 Thread Watanabe Kazuhiro
At Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:16:45 -0800, Rudy wrote: Watanabe Kazuhiro wrote: Hi. At Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:16:58 -0800, Rudy wrote: After reading some more man pages, I am still stumped but can better phrase my question: how do I set dsp0.0 as the default OUPUT and dsp1.1 as the default

Re: Networking card not install on freebsd

2007-12-14 Thread Jay Chandler
Jefferson wrote: Hi all, I have a question and a problem, i installed freebsd v. 6.1 on my desktop and my networking card doesn't work with freebsd... I have a Onboard Intel Nineveh 82566DM (10/100/1000 Mbit). Somebody please could help me, how can i install this network card and make work

Re: mailing lists

2007-12-14 Thread RW
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:04:24 -0800 Jason C. Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Brian wrote: The fact that each mailing list exists as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes me need to make 2 filters for each list I subscribe to. Can I suggest that if this is

Re: Networking card not install on freebsd

2007-12-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:53:13AM -0200, Jefferson wrote: Hi all, I have a question and a problem, i installed freebsd v. 6.1 on my desktop and my networking card doesn't work with freebsd... I have a Onboard Intel Nineveh 82566DM (10/100/1000 Mbit). Somebody please could help me, how

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-14 Thread RW
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:06:25 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider also that the majority of webinterfaces to mailservers are written using the uw-c-client imap libraries. So you go ahead and install dovecot - then watch when you install a webinterface the port manager

Re: Networking card not install on freebsd

2007-12-14 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:53:13AM -0200, Jefferson wrote: Hi all, I have a question and a problem, i installed freebsd v. 6.1 on my desktop and my networking card doesn't work with freebsd... I have a Onboard Intel Nineveh 82566DM (10/100/1000 Mbit). Somebody please could help me, how

Re: will freebsd run on apple intel xserve

2007-12-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:24:02AM +0100, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: George Hartzell wrote: Jason Joines writes: I'm a Linux guy who has inherited some apple xserve boxes. Surprisingly I've discovered that I really hate os x. For the intel xserve boxes, Linux isn't an option.

Re: will freebsd run on apple intel xserve

2007-12-14 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
George Hartzell wrote: Jason Joines writes: I'm a Linux guy who has inherited some apple xserve boxes. Surprisingly I've discovered that I really hate os x. For the intel xserve boxes, Linux isn't an option. The CPUs are amd64 architecture. AMD64on an Intel X-Serve box?

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Matt LaPlante wrote: On Dec 13, 2007 9:59 PM, Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-14 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007 16:27:42 schrieb RW: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:06:25 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider also that the majority of webinterfaces to mailservers are written using the uw-c-client imap libraries. So you go ahead and install dovecot - then

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Barnaby Scott
cpghost wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:48:19 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Isom Although I haven't looked much into any FreeBSD book, I wouldn't be surprised at all if FreeBSD's documentation combined with freebsd-questions would

Re: will freebsd run on apple intel xserve

2007-12-14 Thread Jason Joines
George Hartzell wrote: Jason Joines writes: George Hartzell wrote: Jason Joines writes: I'm a Linux guy who has inherited some apple xserve boxes. Surprisingly I've discovered that I really hate os x. For the intel xserve boxes, Linux isn't an option. The CPUs are

Re: will freebsd run on apple intel xserve

2007-12-14 Thread Jason Joines
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: George Hartzell wrote: Jason Joines writes: I'm a Linux guy who has inherited some apple xserve boxes. Surprisingly I've discovered that I really hate os x. For the intel xserve boxes, Linux isn't an option. The CPUs are amd64 architecture.

Passwd and pam?

2007-12-14 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all, In looking through some pam stuff I find that there's a pam_passwdqc module to do password quality control. However, in reading the passwd man page, NO mention is made of either pam, or /etc/pam.d/passwd Is passwd a legacy tool which doesn't support this pam feature? -Dan --

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
isn't /usr/share/doc good? On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Michael S wrote: Good evening all, I was wondering if anyone bought M. Lucas' new FreeBSD book. How would you rate it? I already have the first edition, is it worth the money buying the second one? Thanks in advance, Michael Michael Sherman

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Michael S
Here's the toc: http://www.tinker.tv/download/afreebsd2_toc.pdf --- Sam I Am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cpghost wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:48:19 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Isom Although I haven't looked much into

Problem With PoEdit

2007-12-14 Thread Victor Subervi
Hi; I installed poedit from the port on 5.5. I didn't have X11 before, so it took a very_long_time. Once installed, I tried to fire it up: # poedit Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly? What do? TIA, Victor ___

Re: Webmail

2007-12-14 Thread Philip Hallstrom
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.. Roundcube is pretty slick... acts more like

RE: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Michael S
The authors never fail to mention that their book is useful to new and experienced users alike. :) It does have some new topics in there. http://www.tinker.tv/download/afreebsd2_toc.pdf But I think I will hold off the purchase, at least for some time. Thanks for your reply. Michael --- Ted

Pour recruter en 2008...

2007-12-14 Thread Stepstone France
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How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2007-12-14 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2,1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...

2007-12-14 Thread W. D.
At 09:50 12/12/2007, Remko Lodder wrote: W. D. wrote: At 02:01 12/12/2007, Remko Lodder wrote: W. D. wrote: ...Vulnerability - CVE-2007-6015 http://www.freshports.org/net/samba3/ *samba3 3.0.26a_2,1* net

Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Procacci
Well, it's been 2 days now. When will the code be updated in the FreeBSD ports? The version on the Samba website is 3.0.28. (http://www.Samba.org/) Why is the FreeBSD ports version stuck at 3.0.26a_2,1? If there are fixes available already on the Samba websites, why can't they be

csh programing book

2007-12-14 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
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, Zbigniew ___

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2007-12-14 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: Installation CD

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 14, 2007 12:41:50 -0500 Zeeshan Ahmad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to ask which iso image i have to download from this link: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/ that will install FreeBSD from CD ROM direclty because there are

Re: [Samba] Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...

2007-12-14 Thread Charles Marcus
On 12/14/2007, W. D. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When is it going to be fixed? Does soon mean this century? This year? When? Wow... someone needs to think before they speak. This is free software. You are in no position to make demands or whine about things like this. Besides - you're

Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...

2007-12-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:37:10AM -0600, W. D. wrote: At 09:50 12/12/2007, Remko Lodder wrote: W. D. wrote: Dang! When will this be fixed? Soon, there are patches available, we just need to make sure that it doesn't bite anything while we are in a ports-slush, hence the FORBIDDEN

Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...

2007-12-14 Thread Remko Lodder
On Fri, December 14, 2007 5:37 pm, W. D. wrote: At 09:50 12/12/2007, Remko Lodder wrote: W. D. wrote: Well, it's been 2 days now. When will the code be updated in the FreeBSD ports? The version on the Samba website is 3.0.28. (http://www.Samba.org/) Why is the FreeBSD ports version

Installation CD

2007-12-14 Thread Zeeshan Ahmad
Hi, I want to ask which iso image i have to download from this link: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/ that will install FreeBSD from CD ROM direclty because there are bootonly iso, disc1 and disc2 iso's as well. So which iso i have to download and then i only

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: 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

Re: Problem With PoEdit

2007-12-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Victor Subervi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi; I installed poedit from the port on 5.5. I didn't have X11 before, so it took a very_long_time. Once installed, I tried to fire it up: # poedit Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly? What do? I don't know the program, but it

Changing /var/mail to a symlink

2007-12-14 Thread V.I.Victor
Because of /var size considerations, I'd like to use a symlinked /usr directory for email instead of /var/mail. Based on today's research, I think the following will work. With mail delivery off, I 'su' and: mkdir /usr/var.mail cd /var cp -p mail/* /usr/var.mail/ mv mail

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:46:17AM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: On Dec 14, 2007, at 1:12 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: For the record . . . title changes for new editions like that annoy me. It can make it pretty difficult at times trying to determine whether or not I'm about to buy a duplicate. The

Re: Webmail

2007-12-14 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
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.. IMP from the Horde

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 07:01:20AM -0500, Sam I Am wrote: The book announcement says that the book is completely revised. (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781593271510/#top) I am interested if this book covers mostly FreeBSD 6 or 7. I also would like to see the table of contents

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:26:28PM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:09:41 -0700 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm -- fair answer. I was kind of thinking that on FreeBSD I should maybe do such work in csh as the standard shell, but it occurs to me that I'd probably be

cannot open br: no such file error

2007-12-14 Thread Simon Gao
Hi, I am seeing many errors in htpd-erro.log file like: cannot open br: no such file cannot open br: no such file cannot open br: no such file cannot open br: no such file cannot open br: no such file Does this mean there is something wrong with file system? or disk? Has anyone else seen

drm locking up the desktop?

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
I recently upgraded to 6.2 release (i386) on my desktop workstation, and I'm experiencing occasional lockups that require restarting X to resolve. I can ssh in to the box and kill the process and force a restart, but the desktop is completely unusable - both mouse and keyboard don't function -

devel/boost -- where is tools/build/v2?

2007-12-14 Thread cpghost
Hello, I'm trying to walk through the tutorial of Boost.Python (the devel/boost-python port)... and unless I'm running out of coffe right now, it seems as if the boost port is not fully installed/specified! Isn't boost supposed to come with a tools/build/v2 directory? Where is it? Thanks for

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Chris
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:26:19 -0700 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 07:01:20AM -0500, Sam I Am wrote: The book announcement says that the book is completely revised. (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781593271510/#top) I am interested if this book covers

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread Frank Shute
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 get here, and

Kernel compile problems

2007-12-14 Thread O-ren-ishi-i
Hi all, I use this kernel config file (follows below): syntactical the configuration appears ok.I get no errors here. When compiling the kernel I get errors as soon as the modules are being build. I then tried /etc/make.conf (adding this line as zlib.ko is the first module that makes problems)

Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?

2007-12-14 Thread Preston Hagar
I have found spam assassin with nightly updates of the helpful (there are other people developing new regexs daily). 48 5 * * * /usr/local/bin/sa-update --channel updates.spamassassin.org /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd restart There are other channels you can subscribe to.

RE: Netgear WG111T Wireless USB support?

2007-12-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Sorry, If you have to use wireless USB you want to buy one of the ones listed here: http://ralink.rapla.net/ They use the ural driver. Take it back and exchange it before the 30 day period runs out. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /usr/local/rc.d/apache22 start doesn't start Apache

2007-12-14 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Yuri wrote: I installed Apache port. But when I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start nothing happens. 'ps ax | grep httpd' returns nothing. So server wasn't started. Why nothing is printed and server not started with the first command? What is the right way to start the server?

Re: /usr/local/rc.d/apache22 start doesn't start Apache

2007-12-14 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Friday 14 December 2007, Yuri said: I installed Apache port. But when I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start nothing happens. 'ps ax | grep httpd' returns nothing. So server wasn't started. Why nothing is printed and server not started with the first command? What is the right way to

Re: How do I use my USB microphone and motherboard audio out?

2007-12-14 Thread Rudy
Watanabe Kazuhiro wrote: At Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:16:45 -0800, Rudy wrote: Watanabe Kazuhiro wrote: Hi. At Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:16:58 -0800, Rudy wrote: After reading some more man pages, I am still stumped but can better phrase my question: how do I set dsp0.0 as the default OUPUT and dsp1.1

RE: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...

2007-12-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of W. D. Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Remko Lodder; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2,1 is forbidden: Remote

/usr/local/rc.d/apache22 start doesn't start Apache

2007-12-14 Thread Yuri
I installed Apache port. But when I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start nothing happens. 'ps ax | grep httpd' returns nothing. So server wasn't started. Why nothing is printed and server not started with the first command? What is the right way to start the server? Thanks, Yuri

ugidfw can prevent /tmp access?

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
If you used ugidfw to prevent temp access to only the range of uid's you presently have, I'm thinking this should prevent an attacker from using /tmp to get around permissions restrictions. The question is, is there any kind of succint guide or list of what daemons need access to /tmp in order

Re: /usr/local/rc.d/apache22 start doesn't start Apache

2007-12-14 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello Yuri, On Dec 14, 2007 5:03 PM, Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Apache port. But when I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start nothing happens. 'ps ax | grep httpd' returns nothing. So server wasn't started. Why nothing is printed and server not started with the first

RE: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Barnaby Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:22 AM To: cpghost Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Absolute FreeBSD It is aimed pretty squarely at budding sysadmins, not desktop users (X is hardly even

GOOD boook!

2007-12-14 Thread Gary Kline
Many thank to whomever recommended SED AND AWK a few weeks ago. WAs it you, Giorgos? I have hundreds of thoussand of words to grep thru, and sed (and awk) have saved my shoulder from just falling off and lying there on the floor. just remember while

Re: Kernel compile problems

2007-12-14 Thread John Murphy
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:23:41 -0500 (EST) O-ren-ishi-i [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I use this kernel config file (follows below): syntactical the configuration appears ok.I get no errors here. When compiling the kernel I get errors as soon as the modules are being build. I then

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-14 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007 23:14:32 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: As I said I did a survey of all known web clients earlier this year that did not require a specific server - I might have even posted it to the list. But I guess that's a challenge to some people to prove I don't know what I'm

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On December 14, 2007 at 04:10PM Frank Shute wrote: [ snip ] I'm happy with sh as the system shell though; it's light weight: $ ls -l /bin/sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 111028 Nov 30 00:10 /bin/sh $ ls -l /bin/ksh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 681584 Oct 6 12:33 /bin/ksh How about

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Barnaby Scott
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Barnaby Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:22 AM To: cpghost Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Absolute FreeBSD It is aimed pretty squarely at budding sysadmins, not desktop users (X

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: On December 14, 2007 at 04:10PM Frank Shute wrote: [ snip ] I'm happy with sh as the system shell though; it's light weight: $ ls -l /bin/sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 111028 Nov 30 00:10 /bin/sh $ ls -l /bin/ksh

re Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread jekillen
Hi: I have the book and am reading it. It suits me, in that docs and man pages can be intimidating and hard to translate into some thing useful (for me). The one thing about books like this is that there are a lot more in the way of theory and tutorial practice. I could not expect anyone to give

Where does this belong?

2007-12-14 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi all, Since quite a while I have had problems with {CURRENT|RELENG_7} SMP machines that lock up when accessed from a remote location over a vpn (ipsec) link and sees a ICMP_REDIRECT. A message, kernel: rtfree: hex adress has 1 refs, will be present in logs. Stefan Lambrev opened a PR

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-14 15:22, Barnaby Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just finished it and I would say it does exactly what what Ted and cpghost suggests it should - there are plenty of sections where the author introduces what can be done with a particular tool or part of the OS, and suggests to

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

2007-12-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-14 21:10, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used bash for an interactive shell for about 5 years until I discovered the goodness of pdksh. About half the size, statically linked, not full of bugs and better editing features. Plus it's not GPL. Hi Frank, Now that you mention

Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...

2007-12-14 Thread Modulok
On 12/14/07, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This happens from time to time with the FreeBSD ports system, and there isn't any way to avoid it. Most open source software today is written to depend on other open source software packages. People don't like spending programming time

Re: GOOD boook!

2007-12-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-14 14:44, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thank to whomever recommended SED AND AWK a few weeks ago. Was it you, Giorgos? Not really, no. At least, my `sent-mail' folder didn't come up with any matches. But it's a jewel of a book, you're right about that...

FreeBSD Wacom driver

2007-12-14 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
Currently, only serial tablets are officially supported under FreeBSD. However, I have written a driver for the Cintiq 21UX a couple of months ago and am slowly extending it to cover other models. If you are interested in testing the driver with your tablet, let me know: * The exact tablet

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Dec 13, 2007 10:06 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The developer is very adamant about writing dovecot strictly to the letter of the IMAP specification. He's also discovered many of the popular clients have bugs, and are unable to work (or at least have issues) with an

RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Heiko Wundram (Beenic) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 2:57 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007 23:14:32

RE: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...

2007-12-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Modulok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 5:29 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is

RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Falanga Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:35 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Rob; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use On Dec 13, 2007 10:06 PM,

RE: re Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of jekillen Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 4:33 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: re Absolute FreeBSD Hi: I have the book and am reading it. It suits me, in that docs and man pages can be

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread David J Brooks
On Thursday 13 December 2007 11:36:35 pm Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: If you bought and grokked the first book and have been using FreeBSD ever since, do you really need a book of any kind at this point? Don't you have enough experience under your belt to get by without a book? The operating

Bash script to find out the summary of user memory usage [not working]

2007-12-14 Thread Patrick Dung
Hello, any idea about why below script is not working? The final sum is empty.. #!/usr/local/bin/bash for user in `ps -A -o user | sort | uniq | tail +2` do echo user: $user ps aux -U $user | tail +2 | while read line do mem=`echo $line | awk {'print $4'}` echo mem:

Is it safe yet!

2007-12-14 Thread Gary Kline
People, I'd like to do a complete upgrade to see if I can fix whatever is broken with evolution. I'm considerned about the MGA driver NOT having been backed up to what worked. My xf86-video-mga is back-patched to v 1.4.7, IIRC Everything works