Re: mailman upgrade problem

On 16/12/06 Michael P. Soulier said: I just did a portupgrade on mailman, and now it's doing this. Dec 16 22:05:27 kanga Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group nobody, but the system's mail server executed the mail

Re: mailman upgrade problem

On 16/12/06 Michael P. Soulier said: This is odd though, considering the wrapper program is group ownership mailman, with the sgid bit set. Plus, if I change the group ownership to nobody, it complains about the opposite. I had to build it this way to fix the issue. MAIL_GID=mailman make

openssh security issues

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make config

Hello, When I type make config for a port and set some options, where are they stored? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

Re: make config

Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, When I type make config for a port and set some options, where are they stored? /var/db/ports/portname/options Ok, great. For some reason building irssi without ipv6 support results in it using ipv6 anyway. Not sure why. Mike

irssi portupgrade broken

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traffic analysis tools

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Re: traffic analysis tools

On 21/10/06 Joao Barros said: I have two for you: NetMRG and Cacti You can set them up to read values from pf for example :) Hmm. I have cacti installed. How do you get it to read from, say, ipfilter? I guess it has to read ipstat output, or parse ipmon logs. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier

error in building a fortune-mod port, where is fortune?

/fortune-mod-futurama. [EMAIL PROTECTED] fortune-mod-futurama]$ pwd /usr/ports/misc/fortune-mod-futurama Presumably I need the base fortune-mod program, which would include strfile. But, I don't see it in the ports tree. Any pointers? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent

Re: error in building a fortune-mod port, where is fortune?

On 06/10/06 Josh Paetzel said: Fortune is in the 'games' distribution of the base system. Not built by default? How would I add that, post installation? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius

Re: error in building a fortune-mod port, where is fortune?

On 06/10/06 Michael P. Soulier said: Not built by default? How would I add that, post installation? ah, found it via /stand/sysinstall. I'll see if I can find a list of what's in there, since I only want one thing out of there. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any

Re: php4 no longer has apache module?

... Actually, the make config saved my preferences, and then a forced rebuild via portupgrade built it with apache support. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move

php4 no longer has apache module?

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Re: php4 no longer has apache module?

On 17/09/06 Michael P. Soulier said: So, I upgrade lang/php4. php4-4.4.4 PHP Scripting Language (Apache Module and CLI) And yet, it doesn't seem to contain the apache module. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ pkg_info -L php4-4.4.4 | grep '\.so' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ So now my apache

Re: Poutupgrade unsafe

be to grok UPDATING, and present you with any such notes before the upgrade occurs. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: RSSreader: Recommendations Sought

On 10/09/06 Andrew Pantyukhin said: Google Reader is evil, but works. Google Reader blows. Bloglines is much better. That said, I'd rather use Liferea on *nix. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch

portupgrade upgrade procedure

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managing gems, ports or gem update?

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building squirrelmail

The session shared extension for php php4-tokenizer-4.4.1 The tokenizer shared extension for php php4-xml-4.4.1 The xml shared extension for php php4-zlib-4.4.1 The zlib shared extension for php So, this would seem to be in error. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent

Re: portupgrade ruby vulnerability

On 03/08/06 Dave said: Hello, I'm getting an error from ruby whenever i run a portupgrade. Checking portaudit i see this is a vulnerability. Is there a fiix for it? I believe that the vulnerability is ruby itself, is it not? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent

Re: What FreeBSD users really want

debates in the Linux community about the supposed user-friendly behaviour of Gnome and KDE, and whether it's truly friendly. Personally, I'd be happy with a button to mount my devices, instead of automounting. Be careful whenever you say that it should work like Windows. Mike -- Michael P

fsck in the background

intervention, how does it tell me if it's running in the background? I like that it runs in the background, it's a 200M drive. Still, I'm curious about this difference from Linux where I have to wait while fsck runs. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make

Re: fsck in the background

. It prompted my desire to try FreeBSD, and thus far I have not been disappointed. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: Boot hangs at /bin/sh?, can't see USB keyboard

find out in case it breaks. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpHXzTYqdV8U.pgp Description: PGP signature

cannot upgrade

/portupgrade:209:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:1951 Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: cannot upgrade

On 02/07/06 Michael P. Soulier said: Cannot update the pkgdb!]: Cannot update the pkgdb!] /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:444:in `__system': Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -aFQ (CommandFailedError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb

Re: cannot upgrade

--- Updating the pkgdb [Rebuilding the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the pkgdb!] I guess I'll have to delete the existing one. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make

Re: cannot upgrade

On 02/07/06 Michael P. Soulier said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pkgdb -fu --- Updating the pkgdb [Rebuilding the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the pkgdb!] I guess I'll have to delete

Re: cannot upgrade

On 02/07/06 Michael P. Soulier said: Ok, I moved the existing one to .corrupt, and ran pkgdb -fu. Seems to have worked. [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports ... - 15088 port entries found /usr/ports/INDEX-6.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update

Re: cannot upgrade

On 02/07/06 Michael P. Soulier said: [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports ... - 15088 port entries found /usr/ports/INDEX-6.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the portsdb! (/usr/ports/INDEX-6.db)] database file error ^C Interrupted. I

batching port builds

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Re: batching port builds

dependencies. See 'man ports' for more information. To use those with 'portupgrade -a' will probably take some custom scripting. Ah, so there's no make.conf option for this? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex

problems building 6-stable

. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. I'm using *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 in my supfile. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more

problems with portupgrade -a

) ! (libtool-1.3.5_2)(port directory error) --- Packages processed: 0 done, 81 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed What should I make of this? How do I migrate from something that is apparently unsupported upstream? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things

Re: migrating to 64-bit

looking for: CPUTYPE?=pentium2 CFLAGS+= -mtune=nocona COPTFLAGS+= -mtune=nocona Put that in /etc/make.conf and recompile ports/kern/world. Cool, thanks. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius

Re: ppp not starting at boot

that on FreeBSD 6.x the script ppp-user has changed to ppp, maybe updated without using mergemaster? Well, I'm using 5.4. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move

Re: ppp not starting at boot

On 20/06/06 Michael P. Soulier said: Hey people, I had a power failure today (there goes my uptime) that lasted longer than my UPS, and when the box came back up, my PPPoE connection did not. # Enable PPPoE ppp_enable=YES ppp_mode=ddial ppp_nat=YES ppp_profile=storm

Re: migrating to 64-bit

that myself. I'd like to do comparisons with and without 64-bit support. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

ppp not starting at boot

, using the storm profile, at boot? I had to do it manually via ppp -ddial storm Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

migrating to 64-bit

Hello, I recently got an ia64 box at work, and I threw my i386 freebsd 5.4 on it. Now, is there a way to rebuild world with 64-bit support from there? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius

smp kernel

Hello, Is SMP enabled in the GENERIC kernel? I have a hyperthreading box, and on Linux it shows up with two cpus. When I do a top on the box in FreeBSD I still see only one CPU. Also, sysctl -a | grep cpu only shows a dev.cpu.0. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent

Re: migrating to 64-bit

On 20/06/06 Andy Reitz said: I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD? It's a 64-bit P4. My i386 5.4 install works fine. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL

Re: Python port problems

this message. I'm still getting the same error message when I go to start Mailman via its rc script: What order did you install them in? Mailman has some compiled C code for security and performance reasons. Your Python install needs to be stable when Mailman builds against it. Mike -- Michael P

Re: upgrading mysql-server

. After configuring 'portmanager' to properly handle MySQL, I never had another problem with it. I'll take a look at these options, thanks. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage

Re: upgrading mysql-server

On 09/06/06 Riemer Palstra said: I'm assuming mysql41-server, since it's version 4.1.15. Your assumption is right. Ok. Upgrading now. If the port is mysql41-server, maybe the package name should be similar? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can

Re: upgrading mysql-server

On 09/06/06 Michael P. Soulier said: Ok. Upgrading now. And it shuts down my mysql server, but does not start it again. That's not very nice. Should the upgrade not handle this? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex

upgrading mysql-server

-- SQL-injection security vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/7f8cecea-f199-11da-8422-00123ffe8333.htm l Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage

Re: Python port problems

this is, /usr/local/bin/python most likely, and make sure that mailman is using this python. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: kernel module for ipf

On 5/18/06, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this should be in the handbook. I'll try to add it :) Let me know if you want a hand. I'm happy to help with that. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex

Re: pppoe reliability

). Also, the handbook doesn't mention pppctl in the pppoe section. I just followed the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html I'll read up on pppctl. Thanks. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more

Re: pppoe reliability

restart too quickly, I get a tun1. The ifconfig command will not permit me to destroy tun0 either, so I wait for a little while before bringing it back up again. Any idea why? Thanks, Mike P.S. The help from this list makes all of the difference when deciding which OS to use. -- Michael P. Soulier

Re: pppoe reliability

first reference. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-questions

kernel module for ipf

module? I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 with the GENERIC kernel. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: kernel module for ipf

On 5/18/06, Scott Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want the ipl.ko module. No, I have no idea why it's called ipl not ipf either... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls /boot/kernel/ipl* /boot/kernel/ipl.ko* Ah. Cool. Thanks. Yes, this should be in the handbook. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL

pppoe reliability

the client such that it would always retry, via supervise or runit. Any ideas? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: setting up a NAT gateway with PPPoE

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ppp nat not working for some udp traffic

packets captured Any ideas? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein ___ freebsd

setting up a NAT gateway with PPPoE

to tell natd which local networks to NAT. Also, why is NAT capability in both PPP and natd? If you hadn't noticed, I'm confused. :) Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage

tcpdump on 'any' device

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setting up pppoe

is ifaddr for? This is also surprising [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ man ppp.conf No manual entry for ppp.conf Seems to be in ppp(8) though. I'm just looking to use a PPPoE connection with my ISP. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

On 08/05/06 albi said: sometimes i use mutt, this is the part in my .muttrc to get the from-address right : set sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -oi -oem That's not really required. set use_from set from=Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] set envelope_from Mike

Re: setting up pppoe

. Hence the /0, which specifies that nothing is network-part and you take whatever IP address you get assigned. Well, if it works, it'll be one of the simplest pppoe setups I've seen yet on a *nix box. Looks pretty simple. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can

installing multiple kernels

People, Coming from Linux, I'm used to being able to build multiple kernels and install them all, configuring the bootloader to pick one of them at boot time. I can't find anything on doing this on FreeBSD. Is this possible? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent

Re: nubie question - Ports - Ruby 1.8.4

for how to do this. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Podcast Software?

and portable. :) juice is coming to Linux and FreeBSD soon... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein signature.asc

freebsd rocks

. I could go on but I'm sure you know well already. On FreeBSD, my NIC driver has a manpage. Astonishing, and helpful. Not everything is a dream, but the community is helping make me comfortable. This is what Unix felt like when I first touched it. Kudos. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL

Re: freebsd rocks

for is in manpages, then I'm happy. Too many people presume X being installed, and I hate info pages. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

Re: cat /proc/cpuinfo ?

, stathz = 128 } hw.clockrate: 997 As it's ~1GHz, I guess that 997 is in MHz? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: spamassassin build failure

On 27/03/06 Lowell Gilbert said: Even among scripting languages, perl is unique in its pathological lack of backward compatibility. The FreeBSD maintainers do a nice job of limiting the pain, but you *do* have to follow their directions. Python's worse. :( Mike -- Michael P. Soulier

Re: spamassassin build failure

it's in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.X with X != 8. Nope, I didn't do that. How would I know to do that? :) Forcing a reinstall of p5-Test-Harness would also work. Ok, great. Thanks. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more

Re: spamassassin build failure

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spamassassin build failure

at: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:16:15 -0500 (consumed 00:00:02) Whoops. Apparently it doesn't need to upgrade. Should I make deinstall? And if so, why, since it doesn't need to upgrade? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex

running ports openssh instead of the base

Hi there, If I want to use the openssh from ports to replace the one from the base, after building and installing it, so I need to do anything special in rc.conf to specify that I'd like that one run instead of sshd from the base? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any

Re: running ports openssh instead of the base

On 25/03/06 Mark Kane said: Hi. From /usr/ports/security/openssh/pkg-message Doh! Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert

Re: running ports openssh instead of the base

, or do I rename the sshd.sh.sample provided by the port? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpOH1idYLUgI.pgp Description

Re: running ports openssh instead of the base

this helps. Thanks, I'll look at that too. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpJZ0duDqGWq.pgp Description: PGP signature

php dependency hell

-mysql-4.4.1 php4-overload-4.4.1 php4-pcre-4.4.1 php4-posix-4.4.1 php4-session-4.4.1 php4-tokenizer-4.4.1 php4-xml-4.4.1 php4-zlib-4.4.1 pkg_delete: 1 package deletion(s) failed How do I resolve this? This looks like a huge mess. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool

Re: php dependency hell

well to test on a scratch system first. Luckily it was reliable, as I don't have a test system. :) portupgrade rocks. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move

Re: Can't telnet to freebsd box

Chris Maness wrote: telnet is not enabled by default. Uncomment the telnet line in inetd.conf and /etc/rc.d/inetd restart Better yet, install a free ssh client on the PC like Putty, and use ssh. Telnet is deprecated because it's insecure. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any

packaging foreign tarballs

/local without a way to uninstall cleanly later. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpGzYSZaE8bg.pgp

limiting brute force attacks

-in-depth. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpCrjVKfbqcO.pgp Description: PGP signature

release in cvsup supfile

Hey people, I notice that in my supfile, I have this: *default release=cvs tag=. I'm using FreeBSD 5.4. Should I change the tag to 5.4-RELEASE? I don't want ports that aren't going to work on 5.4. Is that a concern? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool

index update

Hey people, Reading the manpage for portsdb, and looking at some examples where this is run /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu I'm wondering what the difference between this and cd /usr/ports make index is. Don't they both rebuild the index? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED

status of daemon news mag

Hey people, I got my hands on a few issues of Daemon News magazine, and I like it. I'm wondering if the magazine is still published, since daemonnews.org doesn't seem to mention it. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more

Re: getline function

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Re: Replacing cron with mcron

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Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

you'll get to FreeBSD in Linux land. Their portage system is basically a ports ripoff. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: SSH Tunneling Configureation

files. If you like you can bind the key to the appropriate command so they can't use it to login. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

Re: Java without Motif/X?

On 02/02/06 Nikolas Britton said: Is it possible to replace Motif with QT, GTK, etc? Not with the swing bindings, I don't think so. But, there are GTK bindings for Java separately. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex

Re: serial console for dummies?

On 29/01/06 Scott I. Remick said: Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). Can't you just run xconsole? Mike -- Michael P

can't build Apache::MP3

Java- and XML-based build tool, conceptually similar to mak [EMAIL PROTECTED] p5-Apache-MP3]# pkg_info | grep mod_perl mod_perl2-2.0.2,2 Embeds a Perl interpreter in the Apache2 server How can I tell this package that I want mod_perl2, not mod_perl? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL

Re: understanding virtual memory

On 23/01/06 Lowell Gilbert said: Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sysctl -a | grep Memory Virtual Memory: (Total: 724K, Active 545156K) Real Memory:(Total: 232508K Active 124272K) Shared Virtual Memory: (Total: 24684K Active

make index

After running CVSup, I've seen people build their index via cd /usr/ports make index # wait a frickin' long time What is the index, and does it really require rebuilding after each CVSup? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more

ntop segfault

). Segmentation fault It worked initially. I love the output, but I clicked on Hosts, and it died. Anyone else seeing this? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite

Re: make index

using 5.4. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpI1gtRBWFLo.pgp Description: PGP signature

thread hijacking, was: auth.log intruder prevention

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out of swap?

I'm assuming that there's a memory leak in jdk 1.4.2, and it slowly used up all my memory. Sound right? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

Re: out of swap?

while sshing into the box in the last few days. If the jdk does have a leak, that would explain it. I think I'll keep an eye on the size of the java process. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ top -b -d1 | grep java 1988 www 200 219M 34264K kserel 1:31 0.00% 0.00% java Mike -- Michael P

understanding virtual memory

How can I have 724K of virtual memory with 545156K active? Am I reading this wrong? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

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