Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 24, 2007, at 2:20 AM, Erik Cederstrand wrote: I know this is not an answer, but why not just upgrade to 7.0 if you need the C7 support? I'm on 7B3, but when I look at /usr/src/share/examples/etc/make.conf, I just see this # Currently the following CPU types are recognized: #

Re: ok... what did i miss?

2007-11-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Nov 4, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Jonathan Horne wrote: all my 6.2 computers say the correct time, but my 7.0 BETA-2 says an hour ahead (as in, it didnt make the DST change last night on its own). My 7.0 BETA1 machine switched to winter time just fine. -j

Re: ok... what did i miss?

2007-11-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Nov 4, 2007, at 4:02 PM, icantthinkofone wrote: I have the correct time but it says CST for Central Standard. Why doesn't it say CDST? Standard time is what we have in the winter. Daylight Savings time is what we have in the summer. I know this is counter-intuitive since we are on

pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format

2007-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
Yesterday I moved from 6.2-RELENG to 7-RELENG and everything worked fine (though I do have a few questions about mergemaster that I'll ask later). As suggested on this list, I started to rebuild all of my ports. I started with portupgrade -f '2007-11-01 12:00' and all seemed to go well

Re: pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format

2007-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Nov 2, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: $ sudo pkgdb -v -F --- Checking the package registry database /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument $ sudo file /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash

Re: Error -mailman installation through ports

2007-10-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
installation. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Virtual email server

2007-10-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 17, 2007, at 10:46 PM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 22:40 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: Postfix, cyrus courier imap/pop and squirrelmail - use mysql to tie it all together. http://howtoforge.org/virtual_postfix_mysql_quota_courier +1 ;; Me, too. -j

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Robin Becker wrote: At present I have reduced the email to a textual format with an embedded textual link. So the email looks like Your Document, Thank you for your inquiry. below is a link to the brochures as requested, in Adobe Acrobat format. It

Re: OpenEXR linking error

2007-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Robin Becker wrote: these all sound very reasonable. However, we use the same IP for several virtual hosts ie we have more than one domain name so the reverse DNS is not clear to me. Is the from address inspected for comparison with the RDNS ie if I claim to be

Different DNS responses depending on query source

2007-10-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
on different IPs (possibly using jails). But I don't have an IP address to spare on the DMZ. So is there a way to have bind listening on the only interface and IP address the host can have give different answers depending on where the query comes from? Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: Different DNS responses depending on query source

2007-10-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Yuri Pankov wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: So is there a way to have bind listening on the only interface and IP address the host can have give different answers depending on where the query comes from? You can use BIND's view statement: http://www.isc.org

Re: cups-1.3.3 not compiling anymore in FreeBSD 7.0

2007-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
deinstall make clean make reinstall in the cups-base port directory. I don't know if this will work for others. I don't know why it worked for me. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd

Re: Telnet smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
be listening for SMTP traffic. As an aside, since you are already running sshd, there really is no need to run telnetd. I would recommend turning that off if there isn't a compelling need to run it. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card?

2007-09-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 14, 2007, at 1:25 AM, Subhro Kar wrote: No offence meant, but why would you like to upgrade a home network to Gbit? Is it required at all? I've been slowly undertaking the same kind of upgrade and so would like to know whether my reasons are sound. As of six months ago all of the

Re: Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card?

2007-09-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 14, 2007, at 9:56 AM, David Kelly wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:55:33AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: As of six months ago all of the daily used desktops (three) in my house are gigabit, but none of the servers are. For the past year or so any time I bought a new switch, I've

Re: fbsd sendmail as MTA

2007-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
what their kids are up to. I've used the mime-defang milter for this. I was already using MIME- Defang for other things, and I wouldn't recommend going with it if your only need is to add blind recipients to various messages. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 13, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: I think I may have a better solution. The file I'm trying to massage has a predecessor - the non-unique lines are the result of a concatenation of two files. Silly me, it's better to 'grep -v' with the one file vs. the second rather than trying to

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
for other things. Maybe I haven't understood what you are after. If you want to get lines that exist in either file1 or file2 but not both (and if the files are already sorted) then comm -3 file1 file2 will do that. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

snapshot is corrupt

2007-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
I just got the following when trying a portsnap. Any ideas? I really don't understand how portsnap works, so for me the error message isn't that useful. $ sudo portsnap fetch update Password: Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from

Re: snapshot is corrupt

2007-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
that, you only need to do 'portsnap update' when you want to update the ports and it should not take too long if you have updated them recently. Ah. I somehow over looked the update portsnap command. Thank you. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: snapshot is corrupt

2007-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 8, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Steve Bernacki wrote: This happens to me from time to time on a few older (6.1) systems. Typically, re-running portsnap fetch clears the issue. I did another fetch and that did seem to solve the problem. So I didn't have to go to the more drastic solution of

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
address it might have. There may be several of these if the machine had multiple IP addresses. And three are role names for all of the services it runs. This way, if I want to move a service to a different host, that is relatively easy. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: performance hints (6.2)

2007-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
UW-IMAP, but on this performance and scalability issue, UW-IMAP has had an unfair rap. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

stty: unknown mode: doofus

2007-08-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
, on this would be appreciated Jeffrey (doofus) Goldberg -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: stty: unknown mode: doofus

2007-08-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 4, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Bill Moran wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And was prompted for my password. I entered it (probably miskeyed it as I was leaning over the keyboard from a strange position and got a response back of stty: unknown mode: doofus Did you select

Re: Waiting for BIND security announcement

2007-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. (Big shouting reminder comments at both ends of the zone files seem to do the trick) Also, while I'm extremely happy with dnspark.net, having one instance of the authoritative zone data fully under my control makes me feel better. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: Waiting for BIND security announcement

2007-08-01 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
of thing doesn't get patched in the latest RELEASE. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Waiting for BIND security announcement

2007-08-01 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
with patches) I'll use bind from ports. Are there other things in /usr/src/contrib that follow this pattern? hth, Yes, it helps a great deal. Thank you very much for your work on this and your patience with me. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Waiting for BIND security announcement

2007-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
servers aren't publicly queryable, but I am curios about how things like security problems in src/contrib get handled in FreeBSD. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

Re: Transparent email proxy

2007-07-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
, but it appears that ISPs aren't doing enough to get their users to do things that way. Good luck with this. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: IMAP Sent Folder and Address Book Question

2007-07-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jul 16, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 16, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Does the IMAP protocol support storing the sent folder from thunderbird and the local addressbook on the IMAP server? In case a computer fails? I want to use dovecot or UW-IMAP instead of POP

postfix + spamassassin via milter

2007-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. Is that the recommended way to go with this? I see that there is a mail/spamass- milter port. I anyone using that with postfix 2.4.3? Thanks. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: postfix + spamassassin via milter

2007-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
won't go this route. But thanks for the suggestion. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: postfix + spamassassin via milter

2007-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jul 15, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I running postfix from ports. I would like to block as much spam as possible during the SMTP session. [...] I see that postfix now does sendmail style milters. Is that the recommended way to go with this? I see that there is a mail

Re: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing)

2007-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jul 12, 2007, at 1:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why, despite sending multiple e-mails to the unsubscribe address, am I continued to be subscribed to this list?? Any help would be grand. My guess is that you are subscribed using a different address than the one that you think you are.

Re: parental control with squid and dansguardian

2007-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. That is block all outbound traffic to ports 80 and 443 unless they come from the machine running squid. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Adding a new command

2007-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
and /usr/bin are as fully part of FreeBSD as the kernel itself, while on Linux distributions, those things are bundled with Linux as part of a distribution. So this is one reason why it is best to put tools like you describe in /usr/local/sbin Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: freebsd / gateway / parental control

2007-06-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 28, 2007, at 3:40 PM, zigniew szalbot wrote: On the software side I am also looking for some kind of parental control utility. I guess I can use pf. But would that be enough? I think it would have to be something that would allow me to define keywords based on which sites containing

Re: reconfiguring a port

2007-06-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
the correct the setting for this to mailman configure script. It really is best to let the port configuration do its job. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: UPS enabled Shutdown

2007-06-24 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
though. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD Mailing List

2007-06-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
that will be needed to unsubscribe you whether done by you or by the list administrators). Also, could you let us know when you first started getting mail to the list? That might also help pinpoint the problem. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

Coordinating dhcpd and bind

2007-06-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
to FreeBSD over time). -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how secure is a VPN

2007-06-06 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
, I'm just guessing at what might be behind the seemingly contradictory claims that you've heard. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-06-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
In retrospect, I suspect that I'd typed ld where I'd meant to type ls. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: exim PORT -- when to use? when to 'go manual'?

2007-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
a script that patches your port tree after you do such an update. Of course you should submit your patch to the port to the port maintainer. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Registering installation for...

2007-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
of cleaning for FOO. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: How to find disk slice layout

2007-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 28, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:34:52PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Is there some command I can use to remind me of how I sliced that partition? I am guessing that you have your terminology scrambled, You guessed correctly. I should have

How to find disk slice layout

2007-05-27 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
the sizes of my non-swap slices. There must be a simple way to do this. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: How to find disk slice layout

2007-05-27 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
had slice and partition backwards. It's very clear in the handbook, but I hadn't read that part since I originally partitioned the device and some how got it backwards. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Another error when trying to install a package

2007-05-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
if you are blocking things that lead to ftp failures. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: sendmail init error: Can't assign requested address

2007-05-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
to your laptop (you can do this by associating an IP with the hardware ethernet (or wireless) MAC address. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Add a file to all outgoing mails

2007-05-09 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
disclaimer, you need to think through things very carefully. Cheers, - -j - -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) iD8DBQFGQjfebFEGZwmQvW4RAkruAJ0Sgki22YoP1UDMXB6gL1sWPLMlpACghvn6 +hqL1WzoD+YNDm

Re: CyberPower UPS and PowerPanel Linux daemon on FreeBSD

2007-05-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
-shutdown for Linux (and Mac OS X). I am fairly confident that apcupsd (in ports) will support many cyberpower UPSes, but I haven't found a definitive statement. You may wish to ask on the apcupsd-users mailing list. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers

2007-05-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
one query every few hours and still keep very good time. Also, if you have a server facing the Internet, you may wish to run a public NTP service on it and contribute it to pool.ntp.org, see http://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html for info. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers

2007-05-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
but consistent drift is better than low but inconsistent drift. Anyway, jdow obviously knows much more about this than I do. So I will defer to her. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: sending email with perl

2007-05-06 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
, but if it sets up an SMTP daemon on localhost then you can use the perl module Mail:Mailer to set up the mailer with something like $mailer = new Mail::Mailer 'smtp', Server = 'localhost' ; -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

CVS release tag for current patched release

2007-05-06 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
RELENG came from. Things like RELEASE, CURRENT and STABLE all make sense, but RELENG doesn't seem to have some human meaning (well, not to this human at least). Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: List of UPCs that can auto-shutdown FreeBSD

2007-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
that one ran out of battery before the main UPS even though during my tests just a few weeks ago it outlasted the main one. It also appears (I haven't fully confirmed yet) that my ISP started having problems about 10 minutes after I lost power at my location. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers

2007-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
properly with the rest of us. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: kernel compiling problem

2007-05-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
, Vedd ki a ural-t a konfiguraciodbol. Comment out ural in your kernel configuration. It's listed as a USB device, but it depends on the wireless stuff. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: kernel compiling problem

2007-05-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 2, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:19:36PM -0700, Kantor Zsolt wrote: Hi,I'm using FreeBsd 6.2 Release i386,If I remove from the configuiration file some wireless NIC devices I get the folowing error at the compilation: . . . . Because you

Where to maintain local patches to /usr/src

2007-05-01 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
or recommended to anyone else). Unless someone tells me of a better scheme, I'm going to put my patches in /usr/local/patches and process them with patch -d /usr/src Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: music-generator for FreeBSD?

2007-04-30 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
short background slices of music? There is almost certainly better options that what I will mention, but lilypond, which is primarily for music typesetting (engraving) can produce midi files from your scores. lilypond is in ports. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: testing for directory

2007-04-29 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 29, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Robert Huff wrote: In C code, is there a quick and dirty way to tell if a path points to a directory? man 2 stat Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Response Fwd: failure notice

2007-04-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
the list. A more common problem is the list subscriber who has a badly configured auto responder set up. I have a rant about those at http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/auto-resp/ Cheers, -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
into particular folders as the business of the IMAP server (not the client) while something like display properties for messages meeting particular criteria as something to do in the MUA. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Digital signed mail- certificate issuing

2007-04-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
system instead of a web based one? For the latter users can authenticate with a simple username and password. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD machine instead of wireless hotspot device

2007-04-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 21, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Angelin Lalev wrote: I have wireless hotspot device (Handlink WG-601) which I need to replace with FreeBSD machine. The device has following functionality I need to replicate: 1. It has dhcp server (that's easy) 2. It makes NAT between it's internal interfaces

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
a second judgment about whether the message should be posted. Unless I am specifically asked something, I'll try to make this my last post to this thread. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd

Re: dhcpd assign duplicated IP address

2007-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. No, it doesn't mean that. You have configured dhcpd to have two ways of assigning the address 218.193.55.196. One is through the dynamic mechanism and the other is through the fixed address. You should set your fixed address to be outside of your dynamic pool range. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey

Re: lost password caused by drunk admin

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
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Re: Identifying cause of crash

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 17, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Robert Huff wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg writes: I had a complete system crash this morning sometime shortly after 17/Apr/2007:08:51:22 -0500. (from my most active apache log). I can't seem to find any information whatsoever about the crash

Identifying cause of crash

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
needed for USB memory devices). Where should I look next? -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Identifying cause of crash

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 17, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Is there some setting I should set so that in future crashes will be dumped there [/var/crash]? Never mind, I've just found what I needed in man rc.conf, I've now set dumpdev and dumpdir in rc.conf and am rebuilding the kernel

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
to use it for. What do you want to use it for? -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Proper list server? (was Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?)

2007-04-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 11, 2007, at 2:14 PM, L Goodwin wrote: Well, Jonathan, since you asked, here are the things I've found cumbersome about freebsd-questions, some/all of which may be due to my own ignorance: It's not so much your ignorance (well ultimately it is), but that you are using a webmail

Re: command to inentify the process that is listening in a port.

2007-04-10 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
simply wouldn't have known better. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

Re: Any Way to Plug This Hole in Local Sendmail Delivery?

2007-04-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
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Re: advice on anti-spam tools

2007-04-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
the most information during an SMTP session. With HTTP it is the other way around. But think instead of doing uploading with FTP. The client sends most of the information. I hope this helps. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Should sudo be used?

2007-04-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. Of course I have the root password nicely stored away somewhere in a password management system, it is one less password that I actually have to use. I became a fan of sudo from my experience with Apple's OS X. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Any Way to Plug This Hole in Local Sendmail Delivery?

2007-04-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 5, 2007, at 8:14 PM, RW wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:18:33 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second is that the spammer could be forging in the sender address (envelope FROM) MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The third type of forgery is in the header From address

Re: Saved Email - Spamassassin

2007-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
that you get your mail delivery and access sorted out before you try to set up sa-learn. Otherwise, you will find yourself pulling the ground out from underneath the Bayes filtering. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: advice on anti-spam tools

2007-04-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. But on the whole, spam is an unsolved problem. And is well beyond the topic of this discussion list. I'd recommend that you look at something like a spamassassin mailing list. Sorry I can't be more helpful. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Josh Carroll wrote: Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 - p5-GSSAPI-0.24 (security/ p5-GSSAPI): p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] Well this one is pretty obvious. Look at what the stale dependency is, and what it's suggesting? :)

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. [...] Any hints on setting this up? If nut-ups isn't the right software, I'm open to suggestions. I'm not familiar with nut-ups, but I've been very happy with apcupsd (in ports/sysutils). I am using an APC Back-UPS XS 1200. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

log rotation recommendations

2007-03-24 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
like newsyslog(8) only knows about HUPping syslogd. If there is no conventional BSD way of doing this, I'll just install logrotate and go with what I know, but I thought I would check here first. Thanks, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Why is sendmail giving me this 550 error?

2007-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
is not. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
As far as I can tell this and many other configuration options are not documented anywhere outside of the .mk files themselves. Is that really how things should be? /Rant Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone for their help and patience. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 21, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 05:29:03PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Rant As far as I can tell this and many other configuration options are not documented anywhere outside of the .mk files themselves. Is that really how things should

Re: recommend console email client?

2007-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 18, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: alpine = said to support charset conversion but cannot find any link for downloading it. The link for downloading alpine is deliberately not made public. That is because alpine is considered alpha and UW seems to want everyone who is

Re: Simple sendmail.cf question

2007-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
files from the .mc files using m4. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: recommend console email client?

2007-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
are released under a very non- restrictive license. So really it's just Pine that's been under their peculiar license. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
tell portupgrade to not use active mode FTP. (Or maybe fetch itself when it fails with active mode ftp should try again with passive). -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Optimizationn questions?

2007-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 16, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:19:25AM +0100, Danny Pansters wrote: On Friday 16 March 2007 01:04:51 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: me, too. Of course it will speed up booting but then again how much time does one spend booting, compared

SUMMARY: CPUTYPE for VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX

2007-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[mailed, posted and bcc'ed to off list respondents] First let me quote my original query: I have one of these CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (999.52-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x691 Stepping = 1 Features=0x380b035FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,MMX,FXSR,SSE

Re: Optimizationn questions?

2007-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 15, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Jorn Argelo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Danny Pansters wrote: I know that this has been discussed a few times before, but IMO running a slightly stripped down kernel (i.e. custom, not GENERIC) actually proves to be helpful in

CPUTYPE for VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX

2007-03-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
advantage of that by compiling for my system. Does anyone have a similar system? And what CPUTYPE or local tuning do you recommend? A dmesg for the system is available at http://ntp0.goldmark.org/temp/dmesg Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: How to reinstall gcc

2007-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 13, 2007, at 4:37 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: My question is without a functioning gcc, how do a install a functioning gcc? It seems to me that the easiest way would be to do a binary install/upgrade from the distribution CD. You might even get away with copying

Re: Exim 4.66 Causing Kernel Panics?

2007-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 13, 2007, at 5:39 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: Anyone aware of a reason why a fresh build/install of exim 4.66 would cause kernel panics and reboots on my FreeBSD 6.1 machine? My machine, just out of the blue this morning, started rebooting every 3 minutes I narrowed it down to exim I

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