Openssl error

2010-05-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
Port:   openssl-1.0.0_1

uname output:
FreeBSD scorpio.seibercom.net 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Wed
May  5 18:00:51 EDT 2010  amd64

When attempting to use 'openssl', this error message is produced:

34373207208:error:0E079065:configuration file
routines:DEF_LOAD_BIO:missing equal sign:conf_def.c:366:line 1

At this point, openssl exits.

I have tried deinstalling and reinstalling the port without success.
This is a fresh installation of FreeBSD-8/amd64. I did update/rebuild
World  Kernel when I first installed this version a few days ago.

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Re: Anyone have Comcast for an ISP?

2008-03-22 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:33:13 -0400
Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Does anyone on here have comcast for an ISP? I use them and today I
 was messing around on a machine I use for FTP service over my LAN (Not
 accessible from the net so I'm not worried about using it for back
 ups) and anyway, I wanted to set up one of my comcast accounts on it
 so I could do as I've done for years, and use SSH to log into that
 machine and use fetchmail to grab my email off comcast, and then use
 Mutt to check it since I really like Mutt.
 
 Well, I got sendmail up ad tested that ti was working and it was
 working fine. After that I tried sending a test email with Mutt.
 
 For some reason ti failed even though it was the backed up copy of my
 Muttrc that I used to use on EVERY machine I used mutt on. I always
 backed it up because I had it looking really nice with colors and also
 my email address was in there and I built in a mini addy book for my
 friends and mailing lists I'm on so I didn't have to worry about an
 address book being deleted by accident.
 
 Well, it failed horribly. I can't send an email because it's blocked,
 and also, using fetchmail isn't exactly working either and I can't
 stand how getmailrc works
 
 So does anyone here use Comcast and Mutt for an email client that
 could maybe reply and let me know how they do it? Id' like to use
 Mutt and also I do like how simple fetchmail is to use, so fi you use
 these and have Comcast for internet please reply with how you did it.
 I'm googling right now but everything I find isn't exactly helpful,
 so if anyone here uses Mutt and has Comcast please let me know how
 you did it.
 
 Thanks much,
 
 -Allen

I am presently using Comcast in New York. They are actively blocking
outgoing port 25. You need to use port 587 with authentication to get
mail working correctly. I have a web server and FTP server all working
on the standard ports however. Even fetchmail works OK. In any case, on
July 1, I hope to be switching to FIOS and getting rid of this outdated
and slow cable system.

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Re: some problems after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE

2008-03-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:46:34 -0500
Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I followed all the UPDATING instructions, and still had many issues
 because of old libraries.  So the:
 portupgrade -faP
 
 didn't work well for me.  I ended up rebuilding all the ports, which
 of course fixed everything.

You could have used: portmanager -u -f -y to achieve the same goal,
assuming that you had it installed.

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Re: SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On December 18, 2007 at 12:47AM sham khalil wrote:

 On Dec 18, 2007 12:08 PM, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  On Mon, Dec 17, 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote:
  Hi,
  
  I'm having a difficult time working with my father to get the port
  forwarding working on his Linksys router to forward SSH requests to his
  FreeBSD machine at home.  As near as we can figure, it's setup correctly.
  In case anyone here uses this router it is WRT54G and details (including
  a
  users manual) can be found at,
  
  http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2childpagename=US%2FLayoutpagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrappercid=1149562300349
  .
  
  Now, I'm in Idaho and he's in NY (which does make things difficult).  Is
  there any special tricks to setting up port forwarding for SSH?  Probably
  should have checked this first, but I'm going to go look on the handbook
  too, just to see.
 
  It should Just Work(tm).  I don't have one of those handy, but
  port forwarding is generally under the Advanced tab Linksys
  routers.  It may be called Games or something like that.  Forward
  port 22, ssh, to the internal IP and save the settings.
 
  Generally one should have a fixed internal IP for forwarding as
  DHCP assigned IP addresses may change.
 
 
 once you open port 22 to public ip, you'll get people try to bruteforce your
 machine.
 if you don't want that set sshd to listen to a higher number like 5522
 then forward port 5522 from the router to the internal machines.
 
 unfortunately for wrt54g, you can't forward port 5522 to 22 for internal
 machine.

Security through obscurity is a poor substitute for security. Port scanners
will eventually find that port also.

Have you checked to see if a firewall is set up that could be blocking the
port?


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Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-15 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On December 14, 2007 at 08:03PM Frank Shute wrote:

 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/sh
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  111788 Oct  5 13:55 /bin/sh*


   $ ls -l /bin/ksh
   -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  681584 Oct  6 12:33 /bin/ksh
   
   How about giving us all a laugh and posting the results for bash ;)
  
  ~ $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/bash
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  643984 Sep 12 15:51 /usr/local/bin/bash*
  
 
 pdksh has put on weight. Used to be ~300k in the 4.* days and bash
 about 500k IIRC. On my machine bash is bigger than yours (newer version?):

~ $ bash --version
bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.25(0)-release (i386-portbld-freebsd6.2)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 
 $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/bash
 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  676752 Nov  9 11:57 /usr/local/bin/bash
 
 Don't know why bash is writable by root but sh  ksh aren't. 
 
 Seems like I've ended up with bash installed whether I like it or not:
 
 $ pkg_info -R bash-3.2.25
 Information for bash-3.2.25:
 
 Required by:
 gnome-doc-utils-0.12.0
 libgnome-2.20.1.1_1
 rarian-0.6.0_1

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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 giving us all a laugh and posting the results for bash ;)

~ $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  643984 Sep 12 15:51 /usr/local/bin/bash*


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

2007-12-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On December 13, 2007 at 11:40AM Andrew Falanga wrote:

[ snip ]

 Second, how do programs like dovecot manage users?  Does each user of the
 e-mail system need to be a user of the FreeBSD system (installed locally)?

No, Dovecot can handle virtual users just fine. I use it in conjunction with
Postfix. You might want to read up on how to use virtual users with Dovecot
and Postfix. Both sites offer extensive help and the both of their respective
forums will be glad to assist you.


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Re: Error message with denyhosts

2007-12-09 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On December 09, 2007 at 12:14PM Andy Dills wrote:

 Not sure where that random /sshd came from, but the line 1 bit is a 
 pretty big hint as to where the problem is ;)
 
 Andy

I wondered about that to; however, until today, I have never even opened that
file. I have no idea where if came from.  I am assuming that you do not have a
similar line in your file.

I am going to comment it out and see if anything new transpires.

Thanks!


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Re: jabberd will not start on reboot, only starts manually

2007-12-04 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On December 04, 2007 at 10:11AM Daniel Bye wrote:

 On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:04:16PM +, Pollywog wrote:
  I am running FreeBSD 6.2 with Jabberd installed from ports:
  jabberd-2.1.18
  
  
  When I reboot the machine, jabberd will not start, but it will start if I 
  manually restart it with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jabberd restart
  
  /var/log/messages shows:
  
  jabberd/c2s[989]: mysql: connection to database failed: Can't connect to 
  local 
  MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
  jabberd/c2s[989]: failed to initialize auth module 'mysql'
  
  I added 'mysql' to the REQUIRED line in the startup script for jabberd but 
  this did not solve the problem.  It still appears as though jabberd 
  attempts 
  to connect to mysql before mysql is ready for the connection.
  
  Can anyone assist with this problem?
 
 Try removing the # BEFORE: LOGIN line from the jabberd control script.
 I haven't tested it, but from a cursory glance at the respective control
 scripts, it feels like a sane first guess...

I had a somewhat similar problem with Postfix+saslauthd+mysql awhile ago. I
fixed it by putting a 'sleep 2' statement in the rc.d file of postfix even
though I had a REQUIRED statement for 'saslauthd' in postfix. It seemed that
saslauthd was not always starting up fast enough for postfix to see it.
Perhaps you might try something like that with 'jabberd'.  I placed the
statement immediately after 'KEYWORD'.


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Re: short Q

2007-11-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On November 26, 2007 at 07:53PM jekillen wrote:

  Did you install this from ports? If so. the script would have been 
  placed
  there all ready.
 Yes, that is what provoked the original question. I had built and 
 installed
 from source tarball in the past. But one machine was always a problem.
 Once I did install from ports I was lacking info. The startup script 
 was not
 in /etc/rc.d (although I have subsequently got into on 
 /usr/local/etc/rc.d)

That is where it belongs!

 I had followed instructions from MySQL documentation and put the script
 they supplied in /etc/rc.d; mysql.server, but for some reason the script
 did not actually start MyQSL. But the systems seems to look for some
 thing with mysql in the name and runs it if it is in /etc/rc.d. That is 
 how
 I figured out what to do. (or maybe the system will try to run anything
 that is in /etc/rc.d if there is a corresponding enable line in rc.conf 
 it
 understands). The academic question is, is the program that runs the
 startup routine, itself a script or is it a binary?
 Thanks

If you are referring to the script in '/usr/local/etc/rc.d', it is just a
plain script. You can edit it.

Is there a specific reason you installed from a tarball rather than use the
ports system? I have always installed MySQL from ports without any problems.


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Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On November 25, 2007 at 09:49PM Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

[ snip ]

 The footnote was easy to understand after a quick Wikipedia search:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting
 
 Quoting the text (so list members don't have to actually repeat the
 search):
 
 Some maintain that top-posting is _never_ appropriate, and refer to
 it jokingly as the TOFU method (from the German text oben,
 fullquote unten, sometimes translated text over, fullquote
 under) [...]
 
 Nice one.  I had not heard of TOFU posting before :)

There are some more interesting meaning here:


http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=tofuFind=findstring=exact


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Re: short Q

2007-11-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On November 25, 2007 at 09:51PM jekillen wrote:

[ snip ]

 Thank you all for responses.
 I did get this straightened out:
 It is mysql_enable=YES
 and putting a script named mysql
 in the /etc/rc.d directory with the
 lines;
 #! /bin/sh
 /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql 
 did the trick. This is what the mysql docs
 prescribe for starting the server. Perhaps
 that is not the best way to go about it at
 system start, but it works.
 Thanks again;
 Jeff K

Did you install this from ports? If so. the script would have been placed
there all ready. 


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Re: HP Deskjet 9800 with hpijs driver

2007-11-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On November 26, 2007 at 01:23AM Erin McNew wrote:

 I've been trying to get my photo printer working recently, and seem to have
 run into a bit of a snag.  I just tried to print out a picture as a test,
 and instead of a picture, I got: PCL commands across the top of one page of
 photo paper, and the printer spewed the rest of my paper out empty (taught
 me an important lesson about testing without having large quantities of
 photo paper in the printer...)
 Anyway, I was looking on google, and I don't seem to see other people having
 this problem, but I'm not sure what I could've done wrong.  I'm using the
 hpijs driver, which is supposed to work perfectly under linux, and works
 perfectly for my other hp printer.  Is this printer just not supported by
 FreeBSD?  I couldn't find anything that stated directly either way in my
 quick googling, so I was hoping somebody here might have some ideas for
 things to check, etc.

Do you have the 'hplip' port installed (/print/hplip)? You can find
information regarding it here: http://hplip.sourceforge.net/.

I am presently using it with a C6180 and it works fine. It was the first time
I got that machine to work right under anything but Windows.

According to the web site, your printer is supported. You will need cups
installed to make it all work correctly however, or at least I did.


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Re: Getting around ISP SMTP firewall settings (Re: Submitting a new port if send-pr is broken)

2007-11-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On November 26, 2007 at 04:00AM Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:

  You should be able to set up a local mailer/MTA (sendmail, postfix,
  etc.) and tell it to use your ISP's mail server on TCP port 25, and it
  all should just magically work unless they require SMTP AUTH (not many
  do from what I've seen; they base authentication on the source IP of
  customers).
 
  sendmail refers to this feature as SMART_HOST, while postfix refers to
  it as a transport destination (see transport(5)).
 
 I have not set the MTA up yet for it but I did test it with
 thunderbird... an other question how can I set it up that I can
 receive mail (dynamic IP and 25 inbound is blocked)?

If you attempt to send mail using a dynamic IP, it is going to be blocked by
most MTAs since it fails reverse DNS checking. I am assuming that you are
attempting to bypass your ISP. You have to get a static IP from your provider.
With port 25 presently blocked, you might consider using something like mail
relaying/forwarding from a service like DYNDNS: http://www.dyndns.com/.


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Re: RELENG_6_1 to RELENG_6_2 upgrade question

2007-11-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On November 26, 2007 at 06:20AM Bob Richards wrote:

[ snip ]

 I do NOT need to portupgrade -a since this is a minor version upgrade
 right?

I think you are confusing '-a' with '-f'. The former updates all out of date
files. The latter forces the rebuilding of a port. I have never tried it;
however, I believe that 'portupgrade -af' would force the updating and
rebuilding of all installed ports.


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Re: short Q

2007-11-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On November 24, 2007 at 12:04AM jekillen wrote:

 Hello:
 Is this the way to start mysqld in rc.conf?
 mysqld_enable=YES
   ^
mysql_enable=YES

 
 I ask because I have not found the specifics.
 I copied the mysql.server script to the rc.d dir.
 but the documentation only deals specifically
 with Linux where startup scripts are concerned.
 Thank you in advance;
 Jeff K

Chmod the rc.d script to 0755 and it should start just fine.


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Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: Website

2007-11-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On November 18, 2007 at 11:53AM Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:

  On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:34:56 +
  Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 09:41:51AM -0600, Chris wrote:
   
... seems to be going bonkers?!

-- 
Best regards,
Chris
   
   
   Your post is a little short of information.
   
   http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
   
   HTH
   
  
  Not at all. I assume most on this list are intelligent enough to click
  on a browser and head to the FBSD site to see it's not functioning.
  
  Now as to the cause - who knows.

The shadow knows!

 See http://www.mysterynet.com/shadow/ if you don't understand 

  
   In the mean time you might be able to get to what you want
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Re: Website

2007-11-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
 On November 18, 2007 at 01:18PM Tino Engel wrote:

[ snip ]

Seriously overusing smileys and color and fonts will make you come off
like a giggly teenage girl, which is not generally a good idea unless
you are more interested in sex than answers.

Sex is the answer; the question is not important.


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GCC43 - Increase datasize limit

2007-06-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
This is a fresh installation of FreeBSD-6.2. I am attempting to
install gcc43. When I type make, I receive the following error
message:

Making GCC 4.3.0 fir FreeBSD 6.2 target=i386-portbid-freebsd6.2
You need to increase the datasize to at least 70 (and set
kern.maxdsiz=734003200 in /boot/loader.conf) to build with Java
Support.
*** Error code 1

I made the entry in the /boot/loader.conf  file and rebooted the
system but the build still fails. How do I change the datasize value?

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Xorg crashes while loading XFCE4

2007-06-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
FreeBSD-6.2
Xorg-7.2

I had 'xfce4' working perfectly under Xorg-6.9; however, after
updating to version 7.2, I cannot get the windows manager loaded.

I moved the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and build a new one using Xorg
--configure. I was then able to at least begin loading the program
before it crashed. I reinstalled the entire 'xorg' meta port as well
as the 'xfce4' meta port. I used an updated ports tree for this task.
Unfortunately, I still cannot get this to load.

I have posted a copy of the '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' file at:

   http://seibercom.net/logs/Xorg-log.txt

I also have a copy of the script I created when typing in 'startx'
available at:

   http://seibercom.net/logs/startx.txt

There is one interesting point however. I noticed this error message:


** (xfce-mcs-manager:82803): WARNING **: display_plugin: Unable to configure 
display resolution
Failed to run gnome-keyring-daemon: Failed to execute child process 
gnome-keyring-daemon (No such file or directory)

** (xfwm4:82807): WARNING **: The display does not support the XComposite 
extension.

** (xfwm4:82807): WARNING **: Compositing manager disabled.

(xfwm4:82807): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 12 (Cannot allocate memory)

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 10.  Server aborting

xinit:  connection to X server lost.
The application 'xfwm4' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.


I cannot find out what the 'gnome-keyring-daemon' is or how to get it
installed. I am not even sure if that is the problem.


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Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 - 6.2

2007-05-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 18 May 2007 13:31:52 + (UTC)
Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 What about:
 
portupgrade -afR
 
 Wouldn't that force everything including ports that depend on the one 
 being reinstalled?

If you wanted, you could use:

portmanager -u -l -f

That will update and rebuild your entire existing ports system. Be
prepared, it could take awhile depending upon what you have installed.


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Re: Problem updating Freebsd ver 6.2

2007-05-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 11 May 2007 01:45:47 -0500
WizLayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I could be wrong as I haven't used portmanager in a while (and that
 was only a short time)...  I believe that by default, portmanager
 doesn't update dependencies more than a depth of 1 (maybe two?)
 unless you use the -p flag. Then it updates dependencies all the way
 back?  A quick 'man portmanager' should verify this as I don't have
 it installed anymore.

Yes, update your ports tree and then run:

portmanager -u -l -p

You can substitute the 'f' flag for the 'p' one if you want to redo the
system.


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Re: Problem updating Freebsd ver 6.2

2007-05-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 11 May 2007 11:23:11 -0500 (CDT)
Simon Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I tried your suggestion and I still have the same result.  It updated
 couple more files, but the error (missing library) is still there.

Assuming your ports tree is up to date, try running:

pkgdb -Ffv

See if that does anything unusual.


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Re: test

2007-04-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:28:29 +1200
Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 4/14/07, Hangmn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING LIST  
 
 No, no, this is the FreeBSD Questions list. The Fucking List is down
 the hall, third door to your right. Just ignore the funny noises
 there.
 
 If you don't want to receive mail from the FreeBSD list in question,
 try this which is found at the end of every message to it:
 
 To unsubscribe, send any mail to
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Has anyone but me noticed that the morons who request to be removed
from a list are inevitably 'TOP POSTERS'. They never read to the end of
a post and therefore are not likely to see the easy to follow
directions plainly stated there for their perusal.

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Re: buildworld - Stop in /usr/src/lib/ncurses/ncurses (6.2)

2007-04-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:41:58 +0200
Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I've got a problem doing a make builworld on a new machine: When I
 start make buildworld in /usr/src I end up with the errors below.
 
 Sure enough I've set up a corresponding supfile for stable, sources
 are cvsup-ed (cvsup -g -L 2 ./stable-supfile in root's home-dir) to
 /usr/src correctly. Then I start the build process, which runs up to a
 certain point then dies.
 
 Please note that I've repeatedly cvsup-ed the sources with the full
 cleanup-cycle between the build-attempts as per the handbook:
 
 # chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/usr
 # rm -rf /usr/obj/usr
 # cd /usr/src
 # make cleandir
 # make cleandir
 
 To no extent - the error remains.
 
 Any idea what could be wrong here?

Are you by any chance using a custom 'stable-supfile' rather than using
one of the preconfigured ones?

/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
/usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile

If so, you might try one of those. If nothing else works, it is worth a
shot.


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Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:35:00 -0400
Steven Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello,
 I am receiving your email because of a screw-up in Gmail. I have no
 recourse but to mark your email as spam and delete it.
 Gmail has been unresponsive in correcting the problem.
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

1) Don't top post. If you don't know what that means, Google for it.

2) Have you noticed this notice at the bottom of every mailing from
this list:

freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

When I worked for the bureau, we use to call that 'a clue'.

3) Out of morbid curiosity, how is GMail, as pathetic as they are,
responsible for your being improperly subscribed to and lacking the
ability to remove yourself from this list? Are you implying that the
Google gremlins added you to this list in the dark of the night? You'll
have a hard time selling that excuse to anyone.

Simply go to the web site, as explained in the disclaimer, or send an
email as described. Even an AOL'er should be able to handle that. I
guess it is true that AOL'ers are smarter than Googlers.


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Re: What am I not understanding about /etc/exports?

2007-04-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:03:47 -0400
Jason Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Can you please take me off of your mailing list.

It appears that we are having an epidemic of Googlers who lack the
ability to remove themselves from the mail list.

Have you ever actually read all the way to the bottom of a posting?
There are directions prominently posted there.

OK, just follow these directions:

freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

So easy a Googler could do it (hopefully)!

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Re: What am I not understanding about /etc/exports?

2007-04-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:47:29 -0400
Jason Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Gerard,  I have unsubscribed three times and this is what I've been
 receiving in return:
 
 
 
 The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your
 original message.
 
 - Results:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is not a member of the freebsd-questions
 mailing list
 
 - Unprocessed:
unsubscribe
unsubscribe
 
 - Done.
 
 I received this three times but still getting tons of emails. I also
 did it from the website!

You must be using an incorrect email address to un-subscribe yourself.
Send me via forward as attachment a copy of an email from the
'freebsd' list, or if that is not possible, and I don't believe it is
easily done via the GMail web interface, a complete copy of the headers
from same such email.


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Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:36:59 -0400
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 28/03/07 RW said:
 
  The gettext upgrade is actually a good example of what portupgrade
  offers. With portupgrade the -rf option is advisable, but not
  essential, with portmaster, it's essential that the -r option is
  used, If it's not, or the upgrade fails to complete, you can end-up
  with not much more than the base-system working.  
 
 Wow. You would think that such tools would prevent you from getting
 into that situation.

That is the beauty of portmanager. Just using the -p flag will guarantee
that all dependencies are updated, no matter how far down the
dependency's tree. Using the -u -p combination will get everything
working correctly, although in the case of the 'gettext' update, it can
involve a large number of applications being updated.


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Re: samba and vista computers

2007-03-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:30:40 -0400
Gerald Freymann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Now that I have my nice new HP OfficeJet 5610 printer here, I'm
 trying to print to it remotely (it's connected to my Vista Home
 Premium computer).
 
 smbclient doesn't seen to want to co-operate.
 
 smbclient in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense
 Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)
 
 I've got
 
 samba-3.0.23c_2,1
 samba-libsmbclient-3.0.23c
 
 installed. Trying to use CUPS and APSFILTER. Not having any luck :-(

Check the output of 'smbclient'. Make sure that samba can see your
shared printer. See 'man smbclient' for further information.

I am really surprised that apsfilter does not work. I have never had a
problem with it printing to a remote printer on a Windows based machine.


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Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:40:05 +0100
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Portmanager is really no better, the dependencies recorded in the
 package database are also recursive. The big problem with gettext
 was that a lot of port failed to build afterwards, leaving them with a
 missing library.

I have had problems in the past getting 'portupgrade' to properly
update all of the dependencies required when doing a major update;
i.e., 'gettext'. 

On the other hand, I have never had a problem using 'portmanager'
provided I used the '-p -f' flags.

Portmanager can update its list of ports that need updating on the fly.
I do not believe that either portupdate or portmaster have that ability.
I noticed that when doing the 'gettext' update, it twice recalculated
the number of ports that needed to have their dependencies updated.

It would probably behoove anyone prior to doing a massive update to
clean out the '/usr/ports/distfiles' directory and possibly running
'portsclean -C -D -l -PP' to insure that any old crud was not laying
around. It certainly couldn't hurt.

Just my 2 cents.



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Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:41:06 -0400
Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On the other hand, I have never had a problem using 'portmanager'
 provided I used the '-p -f' flags.

OPPS, should have been '-p -u' flags.

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Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:17:13 -0400
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm looking at
 
 http://www.freebsddiary.org/pkgdb.php
 
 while I run it myself. I'm finding wonderful questions like
 
 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] 
 
 I must ask. How the hell am I supposed to know?? I build that as a
 dependency of something that I built months ago. There's a good
 chance that I'll be simply guessing at all of the answers. 
 
 Is it really useful to run this if you can't remember? And why am I
 remembering anyway? That's what a packaging system is for, isn't it?

You can run:

portmanager -u -p -l

That will rebuild all broken and or missing dependencies for all of
your ports.

If you just want to correct a single port, try this:

portmanager /port/name-of-port -p -l

HTH


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Re: Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD

2007-03-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:19:53 +0200
Nagy László Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I need to copy,move and delete files across two machines. They are 
 located far away from each other. I have other FreeBSD machines and
 we were using SSH2 for this kind of task. Under windows, I could not
 find the right software. This is an automated task, and it is not 
 complicated: copy/move all files from one computer to another. I was 
 using putty and plink/pscp but it is not reliable. I could not start 
 them from a win32 service. I could run them from a scheduled program
 but sometimes they freeze and then I have to kill and restart the
 whole thing. I'm looking for a more reliable tool that can do SCP in
 batch mode. Do you have any suggestions?

Have you tried: SyncToy v1.4 available at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E0FC1154-C975-4814-9649-CCE41AF06EB7displaylang=en

I have used it with success on Windows machines connected to FreeBSD.


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Re: Postgres Startup Error Message

2007-03-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:02:27 -0500
Rick Apichairuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I occasionally receive this error message when booting up:
  
  Mar 25 08:28:24 scorpio postgres[756]: [1-1] FATAL:  the database
  system is starting up
  
  Since it is an intermittent error message, I am unable to track
  down what is causing it or how to fix it.
  
  Any suggestions?  
 
 I had a similar problem before with an older version of PostgreSQL.
 The problem was that the rc script was waiting for input from the
 user. It was waiting for a password. Depending on how you set up your
 PostgreSQL, it might ask for a password on startup.
 
 It might help to post the versions of PostgreSQL and FreeBSD you are
 using.

I checked on the postgresql forum and received a reply. It appears that
a program is attempting to query postgresql before it is started. I
think it was dovecot. In any case, I reconfigured the rc.d file for
postgresql to start sooner in the boot process. That eliminated the
problem, or at least it appears to have done so.


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Re: auto-removal of earlier package??

2007-03-25 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:37:58 -0800
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Can anybody suggest ascript means to rm -i a whole slew of
 packages I am collection in /usr/ports/packages/All/?

Maybe I am misreading this; however, why not just use:

rm -ri /usr/ports/packages/ALL/*

You might also try:

portsclean -C -D -L -PP

While you are at it, clean out the 'ports/distfiles' directory too.

rm -ri /usr/ports/distfiles/*

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Re: GTK filedialog crashes Firefox/Thunderbird

2007-03-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:39:19 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Frank Staals wrote:
 
  Hmm I wondered if I should have added what WM I was running but I
  guess so: Running xfce-4.4.0 on xorg-7.2rc3.
 
  Fixed by recompiling all my ports seems a lot of work to fix
  something with GTK :S but well I'm planning on reinstalling FreeBSD
  not that long from now ( want to switch disc setup ) hope that will
  fix the problem then. Allthough there ougth to be an better/more
  specific solution then just recompiling everything   
 
 After the recent gettext rebuild-everything episode (you've done
 that, right?), I had a problem like I'd had before with GTK: slow
 xfce4.4 startup, slow Terminal startup.  Rebuilding GTK fixed it:
 
 portupgrade -f gtk-2.10.11
 
 It was already at that version, but it seems to depend on order.
 
 Anyway, before you rebuild everything, try rebuilding just GTK.

You also use: portmanager -u -p -l

It will update your ports, as well as rebuild dependencies in their
correct order if required if required. Make sure to update your ports
prior to running it if you go that route.

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Shared object libintl.so.6 not found

2007-03-19 Thread Gerard Seibert
FreeBSD-6.2

After booting up my system, I receive an error message:

Shared object libintl.so.6 not found

This file should be in /usr/local/lib, but it isn't. I have no idea why.
I can now only log in as root. Since I am not sure where this file even
came from, I don't know how to replace it.

I assume I don't have to reinstall the OS (I hope) so where do I go from
here?

Thanks!

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Re: Error Compile Kernel

2007-03-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:35:47 +0700
Toan. Bach Quang Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have compile kernel:
 
  cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
 
  mkdir /root/kernels
 
  cp GENERIC /root/kernels/MYKERNEL   
 
  ln -s /root/kernels/MYKERNEL
 
  /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL
 
  cd ../compile/MYKERNEL
 
  make depend
 
  make
 
  make install
 
 But when I make it have error:
 
 # make
 
 linking kernel.debug
 
 ip_input.o(.text+0x200): In function `ip_init':
 
 ../../../netinet/ip_input.c:312: undefined reference to
 `nf_sockopt_init'
 
 *** Error code 1

You failed to mention what version of FBSD you are employing. However,
it appears that you are using an antiquated method of building a new
kernel.

You should probably check out these URLS for further information.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html


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Re: Wrong dependencies..

2007-03-16 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:27:10 -0800
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   How can I convinced portmanager that some/most of these
   dependencies are incorrect?  E.G.: both playmidi and 
   ghostscript-aafpl have been pkg_deleted!  WWhat utility do 
   I need to run to update the ports/packages list?  I have the
   regular ghostscript-gnu that I've had for 12 years...  Any 
   clues will be greatly appreciated!!

Run 'make config' in the directory and uncheck:

IMAGEMAGICK_GSLIB

That should do it. Personally, I run the ghostscript-afpl version
myself. On my system, the majority of programs that I use prefer that
version.

As far as 'bison' goes, what program is requiring it? I had the same
problem once, forget what program it was, and I had to configure it to
use the older version of 'bison'. I don't know of any graceful way
around it.

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Re: sendmail not working?

2007-03-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:23:32 +0100
Nagy László Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Derek Ragona wrote
  You need to make sure sendmail is starting and running.  Check your 
  rc.conf and any variables that might need to be set.  
 Thanks!
 
 In my rc.conf:
 
 sendmail_enable=NO
 
 However, as I wrote, I was using postfix. I'm not a big guru but I 
 believe that postfix has its own daemon and it has a sendmail binary 
 that is compatible with the system default sendmail.
 
 Anyway, your comment helped me a lot! I upgraded to 6.2 some weeks
 ago and probably I did not reactivate postfix
 in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. Additionally, probably I forgot to merge
 the old mailer.conf with the new one. I changed my rc.conf to this:
 
 sendmail_enable=NO
 postfix_enable=YES
 
 Then I started postfix:

You haven't configured it correctly.

To enable postfix startup script please add postfix_enable=YES in
your rc.conf

If you not need Sendmail anymore, please add in your rc.conf:

sendmail_enable=NO
sendmail_submit_enable=NO
sendmail_outbound_enable=NO
sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO

And you can disable some sendmail specific daily maintenance routines
in your /etc/periodic.conf file:

daily_clean_hoststat_enable=NO
daily_status_mail_rejects_enable=NO
daily_status_include_submit_mailq=NO
daily_submit_queuerun=NO

You also need to modify the /etc/mail/mailer.conf file. This is done
automatically by postfix. If your version is not current, you might
want to update it. That will insure that the mailer.conf file is
properly updated. Be sure to get a fresh copy of the ports tree
before updating. Guessing and putting in the wrong information can get
you into trouble. You should also probably reboot after making all of
the changes to insure that everything starts correctly and that
'Sendmail' is totally shut down.

Ciao!

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Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:10:11 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I have used XFCE 3.* on all my free BSD boxes for years. It is a
  Simple GUI which I use on any Desktops I build.  The video is clear
  and is simple.  ( XFCE4* I did not like the concept.) Emails etc
  all work and install easily from ports.

 one of the best choices for those who want desktop. but is it
 needed at all?

It is for someone who wants to work in that environment.

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Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:28:15 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  It is for someone who wants to work in that environment.
 
 
 exactly, but it would be handy to define what desktop is.
 
 could someone provide me a definition?
 
 is X server alone a desktop? i think no.
 is KDE a desktop? i think yes from what i heard.
 
 is XFCE a desktop? i think too.
 
 so is my X server+fvwm2 having no visible icons, windows, frames etc.
 (but having a menu under keypress) a desktop or not?
 
 if yes - then we can define desktop as any software able to run
 graphics mode programs on graphics capable machine. like bash or csh
 for text mode.
 
 if no - what part of say KDE make it a desktop?
 
 
 
 i'm not trying to start any war, just want to hear a definition of so 
 commonly used term today.
   Wojtek

Before you ask so many questions, why don't you invest a little time in
RTFM, or perhaps STFW.

Check out this URL for starters:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html


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Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:17:38 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  Check out this URL for starters:
 
  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html
 
 A desktop environment can mean anything ranging from a simple
 window manager to a complete suite of desktop applications, such as
 KDE or GNOME.
 
 
 can mean is very far from definition.
 
 further reading shows that desktop is where data and applications
 can be placed.
 
 i always though that data and application are on disk.
 
 still no definition of desktop, but looks like desktop=ability to
 display icon symbols of files and programs (which are files too) and
 ability to provide panel for starting programs and doing some other
 maintenance.
 
 
 do i say right?

Every time I reply to one of your posts, you reply directly back to me.
That is incorrect. You should be directing your reply back to the
FreeBSD mail forum. Others might be in a position to assist you if they
viewed your post.

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Re: what port* string can I crontab that will *work*?

2007-03-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:41:00 -0800
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Anybody have an automatic (/etc/crontab) method of keeping 
   ports current?  I'm almost done upgrading my 5 systems to
   6.2  (to be able to grab valid packages) and tried portupgrade
   with several variants of flags/switches.  portuprade with 
   -rpfP wound up  recycling my packages most of the time.  [?]
   I've starting to think that there may be no way of doing this
   automatically.  portmanager -b -u -l may be better:: dunno.
 
   thanks for some insights here,

Actually, I use something like that. I created a script that runs both
portsnap and portmanager.


#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/portsnap cron update
/usr/local/bin/portmanager -u -l -p

I call this script from CRON once a week. It seems to work quite well.
If you have a MAILTO in CRON, it will even give you a print out of what
transpired. You can just send output to /dev/null of course.

Do make sure you have the latest version of 'portmanager' installed. It
was recently updated. You cannot update it using itself. You must use
the 'make install  make clean' method. If you are not familiar with
'portsnap', just read the manual.

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Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:20:03 +
Hugo Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[...]

 Oh well, your server, your password. Just don't say you were not
 warned.

I believe the following sums up my feeling on the matter.

It is not the OS's job to stop you from shooting yourself in the foot.
Rather, if you so choose to do so, then it is the OS's job to deliver
Mr. Bullet to Mr. Foot in the most efficient manner possible.


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in a secret location ... and I'm not even too sure about
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Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:46:50 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I believe the following sums up my feeling on the matter.
 
  It is not the OS's job to stop you from shooting yourself in the
  foot.  
 
 boom... i'm dead..
 at least for 4 years :)

Sorry to hear that!

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Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
I am trying to get gpg-agent to start at boot time. If I place this in
the ~/.bash_profile file, the program starts correctly.


GPG_TTY=`tty`
export GPG_TTY

#
## Start Agent
## 
if test -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info \
 kill -0 `cut -d: -f 2 $HOME/.gpg-agent-info` 2/dev/null; then
GPG_AGENT_INFO=`cat $HOME/.gpg-agent-info`
export GPG_AGENT_INFO
else
eval `gpg-agent --daemon`
echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO $HOME/.gpg-agent-info
fi


The problem is, if I log in again from a remote location, the
.bash_login  is read again and another copy of gpg-agent is started.
Obviously, I do not want that behavior.

I tried starting it from CRON; however, the variables:

GPG_AGENT_INFO
GPG_TTY

 are not set..

I then tried to create a script and run it from /usr/local/etc/rc.d;
however, that forces the script to run as root, which I do not want.

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Re: Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:52:20 -0600
Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 You need a first line in your script to choose what shell to run it:
 #!/usr/local/bin/bash

That is all ready in the script. Sorry, I inadvertently failed to
disclose that.
 
 You should add a line:
 /usr/bin/su [to your username]

OK, I'll try that.

 Then try it at bootup as an rc script.

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Re: mplayer (gmplayer) with xfce4.4.0

2007-03-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:51:47 -0600
Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[snip]

 What is your mplayer/gmplayer version? `pkg_info | grep mplayer` will 
 probably tell you.
 
 Is the underlying menu entry the same command that you run in the
 terminal?

mplayer-0.99.10_5

I have tried running mplayer and gmplayer via the 'run' command, but
that fails also with the same error message.

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Re: MySQL Startup Script

2007-03-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:24:39 +1030
Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Monday,  5 March 2007 at 23:28:53 -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote:
  I built MySQL 5.1 from port on FBSD 6.2. But it doesn't start up on
  boot. There's a mysql-server script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ but if I
  try and fire that up from the command line it doesn't start. What do
  I need to do?  
 
 You could start by saying how you invoked the script and what happened
 when you tried.  You should see:
 
   # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start
   Starting mysql.

Have you bothered to place the proper directive in the '/etc/rc,conf'
file; i.e., 

MYSQL_ENABLE=yes

Otherwise, if you want to start it from the command line sans that
statement, you will have to use:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server force

Check out the mysql script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for further details.


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Re: ftp set up

2007-03-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 4:48:25 -0800
Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I wonder if someone could point me to a reliable detailed resource
 for configuring an ftp server on freebsd 6.1 for both incoming and
 outgoing files (including anonymous ftp).
 
 I do not want anonymous uploaders to view existing file names in
 ftp/incoming or be able to download from incoming. I want the server
 as secure as is reasonably practicable. The notes in the freebsd
 handbook are not really comprehensive enough for me.

You might want to read up on some of the FTP servers that are available
in the ports system. Find one that meets your needs and then if you are
still having problems or questions, either check on the FTP server's
mailing list, if one is available, or post your question here.

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Re: portmanager and use.perl port

2007-03-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:41:55 -0800
Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 So at times I run portmanager on many of my servers but I want to
 make sure that the perl installed is the port and not the system
 version.
 
 The only option I new about was to IGNORE building it.
 
 # grep perl /usr/local/etc/portmanager/pm-020.conf
 IGNORE|lang/perl*|
 
 But I am wondering if there are proper settings that I can put in
 placed to make sure that if perl is reinstalled that the port version
 is the chosen version.

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for.

Syntax is:

Usage:
  ./use.perl port   - /usr/bin/perl is the perl5 port
  ./use.perl system - /usr/bin/perl is the system perl



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Forcing correct version of Clamav to be installed

2007-02-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
I recently contacted the maintainer of 'claws-mail' -- Alexander
Leidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- regarding a problem with that port.
It wants to install 'clamav' even though I have 'clamav-devel'
installed. Since these ports conflict, the install fails.

After talking to Alexander, he informs me that it is a generic problem
with the ports system and that it should be fixed there. I haven't got
the knowledge of how to accomplish this however. Instead, I modified
the claws-mail Makefile to have it install clamav-devel rather than
clamav. The problem is that portsnap will over write that change if and
when it updates the port requiring me to manually re-edit the Makefile.

My question is how would I proceed to force any port that wants to
install clamav to rather install clamav-devel? I have this problem with
other ports and having to manually edit each Makefile is an annoyance,
especially if I forget to make the changes.

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xscreensaver problem

2007-02-17 Thread Gerard Seibert
I got the following information from:

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#root-lock

% xhost +localhost
localhost being added to access control list
% su
% Password: 
# gnorpm
...
# exit
% xhost -localhost
localhost being removed from access control list


When I attempt to run the above, I receive this error message:

xhost: unable to open display 

Also, there is no 'gnorpm' on this system.

This is on a FreeBSD-6.2 machine. What is causing this problem?


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Using newer version of pgp by default

2007-02-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
Freebsd-6.2

I have both  GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) and versions 2.0.2 installed. I
wanted to remove the older version; however, it seems that some
programs depend on it.

Both 'sylpheed',  'pine'  and KMail insist on using the older version
for pgp. How can I get them, and any other program that uses pgp to use
the newer version by default?

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Re: phpMyAdmin httpd segmentation fault

2007-02-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday February 13, 2007 at 06:13:41 (AM) Terry Todd wrote:


 I completed steps 1 through 6 that you suggested below.  Step 6 took
 two whole days to complete.  I had to babysit the blue screens of config.
 
 Sorry to say it still does the exact same thing.  httpd seg faults
 with no core file whenever the phpMyAdmin/index.php web page is browsed.

Strange! It works perfectly here. Assuming you have nothing strange in
your /etc/make.conf file, I am at a lose as to what the problem is.

Sorry!

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Re: GMail [and other free email] and these lists?

2007-02-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday February 12, 2007 at 02:50:24 (PM) Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:


 Does this list automatically reject subscribers free email addresses?  
 I would like to move over to Gmail to avoid all the spam coming in from 
 the years of using this address, but I am not getting any response from 
 the subscription request.

Besides the fact that GMail sucks is the added benefit that it will not
relay messages that you send to a mailing list back to you. That is not
a problem if you do not want to receive a copy of your posting. However,
it would be nice if Google left that decision up to you and not their
discretion.

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involve actually humping a mirror.

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Re: Onpening and Closing ports

2007-02-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday February 12, 2007 at 04:27:53 (PM) Chuck Swiger wrote:


 On Feb 10, 2007, at 11:37 PM, Dave Carrera wrote:
  Had a little nasty person trying to break my sshd on port 22.
 
  I need to change and open a new port for sshd but i do not know how.
 
  Can one of you kind people help me with this please
 
 If you use good passwords, the SSH dictionary attacks are not a great  
 concern.  However, you can pass sshd the -p  flag to change the  
 port from the default of 22 to (for example) .  To make this  
 change permanent, add:
 
 sshd_flags=-p 
 
 ..to /etc/rc.conf.

Why not just use SSH certificates and forget about worrying about
password attacks. The OP could also limit the addresses that could logon
as well as the actual users. Combined, that would secure a sever far
better than the Security Through Obscurity approach.

Just my 2¢.

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Re: GMail [and other free email] and these lists?

2007-02-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday February 12, 2007 at 04:45:44 (PM) Jeff Rollin wrote:


 In what way does Gmail suck?

1) No White Listing
2) No configurable SPAM Filtering
3) Bcc doesn't work
4) 500 message a day limit.
5) No PGP or S/MIME support
6) No able to 'Forward as Attachment'
7) Doesn't handle 'sig delimiter'
8) No ability to create or sort to folders.
9) No IMAP support
10. Is routinely blacklisted by SORBS, among other blacklisting services.

The list just goes on and on. Get on the GMail discussion list and see
what some of it's users have to say about it. It is good enough for
someone who's greatest need is writing to Grandma, but that is about it.

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Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 07:43:01 (PM) Noah wrote:


 I dont think this is an adequate solution. 
 
 /tmp is filling up during the portmanager run.  in other words - while I 
 am running /tmp fills up.  so it needs to be erased periodically while 
 portmanager is running or else no other packages can be downloaded

Please don't top post. If you don't know what that means, Google for it.

Exactly how much space are these files taking up? I run portmanager
weekly and have never, ever seen this phenomena. Yes, it does produce
some temporary files to keep track of what it is doing, files to be
excluded, etc., but they are relatively small. I would certainly not
recommend that you delete them while portmanager is actually running
though.

What are you referring to by: while portmanager is running or else no
other packages can be downloaded. I can log in as a different user, or
simply run portmanager in the background and then proceed to download
files or do virtually anything else I desire, with the possible
exception of running another instance of portmanager. Exactly how are
you being affected?

Have you tried cleaning out the /usr/ports/distfiles directory after
doing an update? Those files are not needed any more. They can take up a
considerable amount of space.

Perhaps you could be a little more specific about what you are
attempting to do. Also, would you include the output of:

df -h

I would be interested in what your drive looks like.


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Re: Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf

2007-02-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 12:12:21 (PM) Noah wrote:


 Any clues on what is happening here.  Is there a way to fix the 
 complaint below?
 
 # portmanager -u -y
 ** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
 undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass
 ** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
 undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass
 
 portmanager 0.4.1_8: Collecting installed port data
 

It is a harmless error from what I can tell. It has been doing it for
quite awhile now. I submitted a PR on it sometime ago. As far as I can
tell, the problem has not been corrected.

You might want to contact the port maintainer and see what they have to
say regarding the matter.

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Re: portmanager behaviour

2007-02-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 12:44:30 (PM) pete wright wrote:


 hi all, i was wondering if anyone else ran into a problem recently
 when portmanager was moved to /usr/ports/ports-mgt/portmanger.  i have
 a nightly cron which runs a portmanager -s to give me a status
 report in the morning on outdated ports.  i believe when the move
 occurred that portmanager removed itself from the system.  anyone else
 see this?

If you did not do so already, update your ports tree, then update
'portmanager'. You need to use 'make install' since portmanager cannot
update itself.

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Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 06:43:15 (PM) Noah wrote:


 /tmp is filling from portmanager is placing .db information and build 
 details during its run.
 
 what options to I have to alleviate the troubles this creates?

Erase them. Besides how much trouble can they be causing?

Honestly, portmanager only uses those files when it runs. Each time it
is restarted, except with the '--resume' flag, it erases them and
creates new one.

By the way, do you have:

clear_tmp_enabled=YES

in your /etc/rc.conf file? If not, you might want to add it if you feel
that you /tmp directory is getting clogged with garbage. I believe there
is a setting in periodic daily to clean out tmp files only.

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Re: Portmanager - not working after ports change

2007-02-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday February 06, 2007 at 08:19:27 (AM) RW wrote:


 Probably it's just that someone need to patch it to change
 sysutils/portmanager to ports-mgmt/portmanager in the source.
 
 As a workaround try linking portmanager's new port directory to where
 its old one was. As there will be a MOVED entry it's probably best to
 use it with the new origin, but make sure portmanager is up-to-date
 before running it on multiple ports, it wont be able to detect a
 self-update, and it doesn't like to do that as part of a general ports'
 update.

I reported this problem around 10 am. yesterday. Sometime around 2 pm. a
patch was submitted. An updated version of 'portmanager' was in the
port's system by 4 pm. Personally, I consider that a rather quick fix.

Yes, you will have to do a regular 'make install' to get the newer
version installed. You have to do a 'make deinstall' to remove the older
version first though.

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Re: Unable to locate Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01 perl module in ports

2007-02-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday February 06, 2007 at 12:32:50 (PM) Justin Meyer wrote:


 Is this what you were looking for?
 
 ttyp1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports
 0 09:30:21 545 # make search name=p5-net-smtp
 ..
 Port:   p5-Net-SMTP-TLS-0.12
 Path:   /usr/ports/mail/p5-Net-SMTP-TLS
 Info:   An SMTP client supporting TLS and AUTH
 Maint:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 B-deps: p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 p5-Digest-SHA1-2.11 p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.02
 p5-MIME-Base64-3.07 p5-Net-SSLeay-1.30_1 perl-5.8.8
 R-deps: perl-5.8.8
 WWW:http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-SMTP-TLS/
 
 TLS = SSLv3, IIRC.

No, it is not the module I am looking for. There is a Net::SMTP::SSL
perl module available from CPAN. I guess that nobody has ever ported it
to FBSD. If I knew how, I would; however that isn't going to happen
anytime in the near future. I will just use CPAN to install it.

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Unable to locate Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01 perl module in ports

2007-02-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
I am looking for the Net-SMTP-SSL perl module in the ports system. So
far I have not been able to locate it.. If I cannot locate it, I will
have to use CPAN to install it; which is something I would rather not do.

Does anyone know if it exists under a different name perhaps?

Thanks!

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Re: Portmanager - not working after ports change

2007-02-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday February 05, 2007 at 01:33:25 (PM) Eric wrote:


 i recommend switching to portmaster. its actively maintained and a lot 
 better than portmanager

I tried portmaster once, and found it slower and not as through as
portmanager at fully updating a system.

I just discovered the same problem as the OP reported. I filled a PR on
it immediately as well as notifying the port maintainer.

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Re: Problem updating proftpd

2007-01-30 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday January 30, 2007 at 09:48:38 (AM) Greg Groth wrote:


 I've tried to download the file manually, but have only been able to 
 connect to ftp://ftp.fastorama.com/mirrors/ftp.proftpd.org.  When I 
 download the file from that site, I get a checksum mismatch.  Attempts 
 to FTP to proftpd.org from multiple locations, using different ftp 
 clients (including the command line), from different machines, in 
 passive and active mode, all return an FTP error.  Anyone else having 
 these issues?

I just downloaded the file without problem from:

ftp://ftp.proftpd.org/distrib/source/proftpd-1.3.1rc2.tar.bz2

If you cannot procure it yourself, contact me and I'll send it to you.

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Re: cron problem

2007-01-30 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday January 30, 2007 at 02:13:45 (PM) Charlie McElfresh wrote:


 I wrote a perl script to get a news show I like.  When I run it, it deletes
 yesterday's copy of the show, and downloads the new copy.  The script works
 fine.  I run the script as myself (charlie), charlie owns it, and it's
 chmod'd 0755.  Works fine.
 
 I can't get cron to run it, though.  Here's the cron process running on my
 machine:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps auxwww | grep cron
 root  413  0.0  0.1  1364   892  ??  Ss5Jan07   0:06.57/usr/sbin/cron 
 -s
 
 And here's charlie's crontab, to run at 7:17 mon - fri
 
 17 7 * * 1-5 /media/democracy_now/get_new_show.pl

Do you have a MAILTO= in your cron. If not, I would suggest you put one
there that points to you, i.e., if charlie is your logon name, have it
point to charlie. Now, when your script either works or fails, you will
receive a report of what transpired.

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Release of updated 'XORG' port

2007-01-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
Does anyone have any information regarding when the 'xorg' port will be
updated from 6.9.0 to what I believe now is version  X11R7.1 being
release by 'x.org'?

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Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 won't run with ATI RADEON

2007-01-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday January 27, 2007 at 09:11:06 (PM) BrendaBPowers wrote:


 I am new to Unix and purchased a copy of FreeBSD 5.2.1 from Fry's to begin 
 learning. FreeBSD is used at my work and I wish to learn the OS myself. 
 Hoping 
 that an integrated package would be easier to install and have all the 
 packages 
 I needed, I bought this version.
 
 My system is thus:
- Compaq Presario with Pentium D
- 512 MB ram
- 200GB drive
- ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 graphics card
- NEC 1740CX multisync monitor
 
 After installation the 'startx' command will not start the GUI KDE. I get an 
 error message ' no screens found'.
 
 I have tried all the combinations of horizontal-vertical sync that are within 
 the range of my monitor but all fail. I have tried every one of the different 
 resolutions that are within the horizontal-vertical sync range of my monitor 
 but all fail. Here are additional problems:
- The XFree86 installer has no entry for the ATI RADEON device
- The XFree86 installer has no entry for the NEC 1740CX monitor
 
 Since I am completely new to Unix I do not know how to send you the log file. 
 I am using a different system to install Unix than my Internet connected 
 system.
 
 I am sure others have seen problems with the graphics portion of 
 installation. This must be a common problem. I had exactly the same problem 
 installing 
 Suse Linux before trying to use FreeBSD. I found that with Suse, if I 
 installed 
 at the lowest resolution the OS would resolve the problem during the first 
 boot 
 and reset the resolution to the max. size. FreeBSD does not do this.

You might be able to gleam some useful information from this URL:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html

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Which version of Opera to use?

2007-01-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
I have been thinking of trying Opera in KDE to see if it works better
than Firefox. I have been having nothing but problems with Firefox and
Flash.

Would I be better off trying Opera or Linux-Opera? Both are offered in
the ports.

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Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term)

2007-01-19 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday January 19, 2007 at 10:21:24 (AM) Ceri Davies wrote:


 On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:42:54AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
 
  I think the biggest problem with Microsoft MUAs is not where they
  position the cursor, but the difficulty they cause in editing the
  text.  My editor also positions the cursor at the very top when I
  reply to a message.  But it also makes it possible to tidy things up.
 
 To be fair to Microsoft (or perhaps this makes it even worse), their Mac
 development team clearly understand this, as Entourage (the Mac
 equivalent of Outlook) doesn't do any of the tens of stupid things that
 Outlook does.

Actually, the MS Live Beta version can be configured to place the cursor
at the end when replying. 

  Top posting is only one issue.  Others of great importance are
  trimming your posts, not breaking the lines into tiny fragments, and
  not writing one-line paragraphs.  Your .sig is a good example of
  things that people should remove from replies.

No one needs a 10+ line signature. Perhaps they are compromising for
other shortcomings.
 
 When they are correctly formatted (line-feed,hyphen,hyphen,space), good
 MUAs can do this automatically.

I think the problem can be more readily attributed to the theory of
PEBKC.

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Re: fortune

2007-01-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday January 12, 2007 at 08:33:08 (AM) Tim Nilimaa wrote:


 Im not able to run fortune on my freeBSD 5.3 installation, and I know
 why - since its not installed and thats where I step into trouble. Im
 not able to install it. I've searched the portscollection and asked Mr.
 Google but none of them knows it (in other words I don't know how to ask
 the question right since Mr. Google and the (holy) handbook knows it all).

OK, I think I can assist you. First, I assume you have tried
which fortune
to insure that it is not actually installed. It is usually in
'/usr/games/fortune'.

I thought that the files were installed it with the base system. The
files are located in
/usr/src/games/fortune


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AC_PACKAGE_NAME

2007-01-12 Thread Gerard Seibert

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- From time to time while compiling a program an error message will display 
regarding Present But Cannot Be Compiled with a notation to report this 
to the 'AC_PACKAGE_NAME'.


First, is this really necessary since the package does compile and 
secondly, who or what is this 'AC_PACKAGE_NAME'?


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Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday January 12, 2007 at 04:54:37 (PM) Reko Turja wrote:


 I am reading many hundred lines similar to below mentioned?
 
  Could you please advise me what to do and how can I make my box more 
  secure?
 
  Jan  9 17:54:42 localhost sshd[5130]: reverse mapping checking 
  getaddrinfo
  for bbs-83-179.189.218.on-nets.com [218.189.179.83] failed - 
  POSSIBLE
  BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
  Jan  9 17:54:42 localhost sshd[5130]: Invalid user sysadmin from
  218.189.179.83
 
 It's basically just script kiddies trying to get in using some ready 
 made user/password pairs.
 
 Lots of info covering this has been posted in these newsgroups 
 previously, but some things you might consider
 
 Moving your sshd port somewhere else than 22 - the prepackaged 
 cracking programs don't scan ports, just blindly try out the default 
 port - with determined/skilled attacker it's different matter entirely 
 though.

Security through Obscurity is not true security at all. You are simply
assuming that other ports are not being scanned.
 
 Use some kind of portblocker (lots in ports tree) which closes the 
 port after predetermined number of attempts - or as an alternative, 
 use PF to close the port for IP's in question after predetermined 
 number of connection attempts in given time.
 
 Use key based authentication and stop using passwords altogether.

A very secure method. I would recommend this along with making sure your
firewall is properly configured and all unnecessary ports closed, etc.
 
 Remember to keep ssh1 disabled as well as direct root access into ssh 
 from the ssh config file.



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Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday January 10, 2007 at 07:24:22 (AM) VeeJay wrote:


 How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

Well, with a BFH and a sufficient supply of C-4 
(cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine),
he/she could be quite dangerous.

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gnupg: discarding older version

2006-12-31 Thread Gerard Seibert

Running:
/usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL=
produces this output:

gnupg-1.4.6_2  needs updating (index has 2.0.1)


Running:
pkgdb -Fv
produces this output:

Checking for origin duplicates
Duplicated origin: security/gnupg - gnupg-1.4.6_2 gnupg-2.0.1
Unregister any of them? [no]

This is from the /usr/ports/UPDATING file:

20061221:
   AFFECTS: users of security/gnupg
   AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

   The security/gnupg port was upgraded to 2.0.1 (with security fix)
   and good-old gnupg-1.4.6 was repocopied to security/gnupg1.

   Both of security/gnupg (2.x) and security/gnupg1 (1.4.x) are
   designed not to conflict with each other.  So you can use
   security/gnupg1 for gpg(1), and use security/gnupg for gpg2(1)
   commands.

   All directly dependents are $PORTREVISION bumped, so portupgrade -R
   gnupg will works fine.  After portupgrade, you will have both of
   gnupg-2.0.1 and gnupg-1.4.6.

Obviously, I now have both versions installed on my PC. My question is 
should I simply answer (YES) and unregister the older version of this 
program, or simply leave both versions installed. If I unregister the 
older version, will it cause any problems?


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Re: find port install options

2006-12-20 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday December 20, 2006 at 11:50:10 (AM) Warren Block wrote:


 On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Warren Block wrote:
 
  I suppose its safest to assume that I need to reinstall perl, but how 
  easy 
  is it to do that? I think it was installed by default.
 
  Easy, as long as you've updated ports with cvsup or portsnap.  As root:
 
 [corrected by adding make deinstall]
 
 cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
 make deinstall
 make -DWITH_THREADS install
 make clean

You could also place the necessary flags in the /etc/make.conf file.

1)  /etc/make.conf
2)  .if $(.CURDIR:M*/lang/perl5.8)
3)  WITH_THREADS=yes
4)  .endif

Now any program that you use to install Perl with will use those
settings.

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Re: Unable to build jackit-0.102.20

2006-12-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday December 14, 2006 at 10:59:27 (AM) Kay Abendroth wrote:


 Gerard Seibert wrote:
  On Friday December 08, 2006 at 08:50:36 (AM) Kay Abendroth wrote:
  
  
  Could you comment all compiler flags you set in /etc/make.conf and rerun
  the build? Please post your build-log again after that if sth. changes.
  
  The only global setting in the /etc/make.conf file is:
  
  NO_PROFILE=true
  CFLAGS=-pipe
  
  I do have a couple of other settings, but they are nested
  
  .if
  mumble
  .endif
  
  I fail to see how that might effect it. Besides, they were present when
  I first installed my system.
  
  Anyway, I will give it a try tomorrow. I don't have time this evening.
  
 
 
 I saw this in your build log:
 [...]
 creating jackd
 echo #define JACKD_MD5_SUM \`md5sum .libs/jackd | awk '{print $1}'`\
  jack_md5.h
 md5sum: not found
 make  all-am
 [...]
 
 I've check that on my machine I don't get this error and I have a md5sum
 command installed (comes with the base system I guess).

Someone, the maintainer I think, supplied me with a patch that corrected
the problem. Simply place the patch in the ../jack/files directory and
the problem is gone. Apparently, this had something to do with the fact
that I did not have a: CFLAGS=0 setting in the /etc/make.conf file.


--- drivers/dummy/dummy_driver.c.orig   Sun Dec 10 16:31:55 2006
+++ drivers/dummy/dummy_driver.cSun Dec 10 16:32:27 2006
@@ -41,10 +41,11 @@
 /* this is used for calculate what counts as an xrun */
 #define PRETEND_BUFFER_SIZE 4096
 
+#define VIDEO_SYNC_PERIOD 48000 / 30
+
 void
 FakeVideoSync( dummy_driver_t *driver )
 {
-static const int VIDEO_SYNC_PERIOD = 48000 / 30;
 static int vidCounter = VIDEO_SYNC_PERIOD;
 
 int period = driver-period_size;


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Re: Upgrade a binary package

2006-12-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday December 14, 2006 at 03:11:30 (PM) Kris Kennaway wrote:


  I've been searching the manual and the man pages, but I can't seem to 
  find a command to update an installed package to a newer version.  I 
  always get a message like this:
  
  pkg_add: package 'expect-5.43.0_1' or its older version already installed
  
  I only find info on pkg_add and pkg_delete for binary packages, the 
  only references to updating a package give directions on how to use the 
  ports tree.
  
  Is there a way to update an installed package with a newer version?
 
 sysutils/portupgrade is the usual tool.  I think portmaster can do this too.

portmanager lang/expect -l

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Re: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?

2006-12-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday December 13, 2006 at 06:26:58 (PM) Chad Gross wrote:


 On 12/13/06, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  On Wednesday 13 December 2006 16:36, Tuareg wrote:
   On 12/13/06, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tuareg,
   
Post /etc/rc.conf from one of the servers that does what you want and
that should lead us to what mta is handling email.
  
   cat /etc/rc.conf
  
   ### Network daemon (miscellaneous)  NFS options: ###
   sendmail_enable=NONE  # Run the sendmail daemon (or NO).
   cron_enable=YES   # Run the periodic job daemon.
   portmap_enable=NO # Run the portmapper service (or NO).
   usbd_enable=NO
   sshd_enable=YES
   tcp_drop_synfin=YES
   tcp_restrict_rst=YES
   syslogd_enable=YES# Run syslog daemon (or NO).
   syslogd_flags=-s -s   # Flags to syslogd (if enabled).
  
Also, please post a copy of
   
ls -al /usr/local/etc/rc.d
   
from that same working server, just in case there is a custom script
starting
the mta.
   
lane
  
ls -al /usr/local/etc/rc.d
   total 10
   drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Jan 23  2003 .
   drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 18:06 ..
   -rwxr--r--  1 root  wheel  624 Jan 14  2003 squid.sh
  
   And that's all.
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  Tuareg,
 
  Yours is a mystery.
 
  Let's see the output of
 
  tail -200 /var/log/maillog
 
  from the working machine.
 
  Clearly there is no mta being started on boot.  But I'm not familiar
  enough
  with squid to say for sure that it is not the daemon in question.  It may
  be
  that squid is configurable so that it could be delivering the log
  messages.
 
  I'll make it and see what I can see.
 
  In the mean time, if anyone else has some ready experience to say for
  certain
  that this is probably what's happening, then jump right in.
 
  lane
  ___
 
 
 
 You need something to be able to send emails to mail servers. Either a MUA
 which is capable of doing so (of which mail(8) is not) or an MTA locally.
 
 Are you sure you didn't follow these instructions on the other servers:
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/outgoing-only.html

You need to check out this URL:


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html

Also, Sendmail is invoked from the /etc/defaults/rc.conf file. You over
ride it in the /etc/rc.conf file. In FreeBSD 5.0, 

SENDMAIL_ENABLE=NONE

is not the proper way to disable Sendmail. Check out the above URL for
further information.

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Re: trying to install jre

2006-12-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday December 11, 2006 at 09:32:36 (AM) Karl Sinn wrote:

 I try to install jre.
 
 pkg_add -r jre
 
 does not find the file
 
 /usr/port/java/jre/make
 
 gives an error message like:
 shared library c.3 not found
 compat3x-i386-5... is forbidden

I am assuming the the path:  /usr/port/java/jre/make is a typo.

It appears that you are attempting to install from a package. Have you
tried installing it via the ports?

You also might want to try creating a more complete log file. Something
along these lines might do.

script -ak ~/jre.log pkg_add -rv jre


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Re: trying to install jre

2006-12-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday December 11, 2006 at 12:35:21 (PM) Karl Sinn wrote:


 Hi,
 
 Am Montag, 11. Dezember 2006 16:16 schrieb Andrew Pantyukhin:
  Try this one:
  /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15
 
 In the ports collection is only diablo-jre13 which does not install.
 
 Error message like:
 diablo-jre-1.3.1.0_2 is forbidden. Vulnerabilities in the browser plugin
 
 What now?
 
 Karl

I have /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15 in my ports collection. When was the
last time you updated the ports?

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Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x

2006-12-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday December 11, 2006 at 05:09:01 (PM) James Long wrote:


 By the way, that is why it is customary to Cc: both the person and
 and the list when replying.  It doesn't do any good to send a response
 to the list if the person who asked the question isn't subscribed.

Maybe it is just me, but I hate that Cc crap. I always end up with two
copies of the same message. Unless the individual specifically requests
to be Cc'd, I never utilize it. Besides, how hard is it to subscribe to
a list, post your question and hopefully receive a satisfactory
response and then terminate your association with the list if you are so
inclined. I joined the 'Apache' forum just to get one simple answer,
then exited. Not a big deal at all.

Just my 2¢.

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Re: Unable to build jackit-0.102.20

2006-12-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday December 07, 2006 at 04:57:31 (PM) Kay Abendroth wrote:


 Gerard Seibert wrote:
  On Thursday December 07, 2006 at 03:39:59 (PM) Robert Huff wrote:
  
  
  Gerard Seibert writes:
 
   I have tried for two days now to update 'jacket' but without
   success.
 Built for me six hours ago under -Current.
  
  It doesn't seem to be working here.
  
  FreeBSD scorpio.seibercom.net 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #0:
 
 I build jackit some hours ago without problems on a recent RELENG_6_2.
 Does every build attempt stop at the same position?

Yes, the build log is identical.

I did the following:

1) Deleted everything from /usr/ports/distfiles
2) portsclean -C -L
3) Pkgdb -Fu(no problems detected)
4) portsnap
5) Cleared out the /tmp and /var/tmp directories
6) Rebooted

The exact same problem happens when I attempt to build the port.

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Re: Unable to build jackit-0.102.20

2006-12-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday December 08, 2006 at 08:50:36 (AM) Kay Abendroth wrote:


 Could you comment all compiler flags you set in /etc/make.conf and rerun
 the build? Please post your build-log again after that if sth. changes.

The only global setting in the /etc/make.conf file is:

NO_PROFILE=true
CFLAGS=-pipe

I do have a couple of other settings, but they are nested

.if
mumble
.endif

I fail to see how that might effect it. Besides, they were present when
I first installed my system.

Anyway, I will give it a try tomorrow. I don't have time this evening.

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Unable to build jackit-0.102.20

2006-12-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
I have tried for two days now to update 'jacket' but without success.

This is the log file from the build attempt:

Script started on Wed Dec  6 20:08:51 2006
===  Found saved configuration for jackit-0.102.20
===  Extracting for jackit-0.102.20
= MD5 Checksum OK for jack-audio-connection-kit-0.102.20.tar.gz.
= SHA256 Checksum OK for jack-audio-connection-kit-0.102.20.tar.gz.
===  Patching for jackit-0.102.20
===  Applying FreeBSD patches for jackit-0.102.20
===   jackit-0.102.20 depends on executable in : pkg-config - found
===   jackit-0.102.20 depends on shared library: portaudio.0 - found
===   jackit-0.102.20 depends on shared library: sndfile.1 - found
===   jackit-0.102.20 depends on shared library: FLAC.7 - found
===  Configuring for jackit-0.102.20
checking build system type... i386-portbld-freebsd6.1
checking host system type... i386-portbld-freebsd6.1
checking target system type... i386-portbld-freebsd6.1
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... cc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of cc... gcc3
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of c++... gcc3
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ld used by cc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... c++ -E
checking for g77... no
checking for f77... f77
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes
checking whether f77 accepts -g... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... (cached) 262144
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from cc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if cc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for cc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if cc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if cc static flag -static works... yes
checking if cc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the cc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... freebsd6.1 ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag CXX to libtool
checking for ld used by c++... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the c++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking for c++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if c++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if c++ static flag -static works... yes
checking if c++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the c++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... freebsd6.1 ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
appending configuration tag F77 to libtool
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
checking for f77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if f77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if f77 static flag -static works... yes
checking if f77 supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the f77 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... freebsd6.1 ld.so

Re: Unable to build jackit-0.102.20

2006-12-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday December 07, 2006 at 03:39:59 (PM) Robert Huff wrote:


 Gerard Seibert writes:
 
   I have tried for two days now to update 'jacket' but without
   success.
 
   Built for me six hours ago under -Current.

It doesn't seem to be working here.

FreeBSD scorpio.seibercom.net 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #0:


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Re: python 2.3 binary package bug

2006-12-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday December 06, 2006 at 07:40:57 (AM) Robin Becker wrote:


 I installed this binary package
 
 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/python23-2.3.5_1.tbz
 
 on my freebsd 6.1 system and while testing had a problem related to 
 /usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/_socket.so (it didn't appear to be 
 there).
 
 When I build from the source of the package it seems OK. Is this a bug? The 
 binary install mentioned certain bits might be missing, but socket wasn't one 
 of 
 them. If it is a bug what's the reporting mechanism?

man send-pr

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Re: python 2.3 binary package bug

2006-12-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday December 06, 2006 at 11:34:40 (AM) Alex Zbyslaw wrote:


 Robin Becker wrote:
 
  Gerard Seibert wrote:
  ..
 
  them. If it is a bug what's the reporting mechanism?
 
 
  man send-pr
 
  what an awful interface that was ;( made me grumpy using it. Perhaps 
  I've grown too used to these new fangled web applications :)
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html

You are right Alex. I had forgotten about that never having used it
personally. I have a question though. The PC based send-pr captures
certain system attributes. Does the web based one function similarly? I
don't believe it does. 

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Re: Please HELP!

2006-12-03 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sunday December 03, 2006 at 03:32:10 (AM) VeeJay wrote:


 Hi
 
 Thanks you. But it does not work?
 
 I have spend whole night to solve this problem... but still haven't had it
 work

Please don't top post. If you don't know what that means, Google for it.

Now, do you have the following:

1)  /etc/rc.conf
2)  [...]
3)  apache22_enable=YES

This is assuming apache22 is installed. As you were previously
instructed, go to the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory and check out the
apache* module for the correct version.

When you reboot the system, there is a print out of apache doing a
sanity check. Apparently it is failing. Capture that message and print it
here.

You can also try this as root:

httpd -k  -E {path-2-file} start

Substitute the {path-2-file} for the actual path and file you want to
use to store the debug output.

That should output any error messages to the console.

Check the /var/log/httpd-error.log for any messages as well as the
/var/log/messages file. Post them here also.


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pkgtools.conf error with portmanager

2006-12-02 Thread Gerard Seibert


I know this was reported the other day; however, I have just encountered 
it myself. Evidently, the last 'portupgrade' update is now causing 
'portmanager' to issue this error message:



** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass
** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass

It doesn't appear to be fatal, although I have not allowed it to run to 
completion. Renaming the 'pkgtools.conf' file alleviates the problem.


Perhaps someone might have a suggestion.


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Re: Western Australian Daylight Savings changes

2006-12-01 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday December 01, 2006 at 06:03:12 (AM) Dean Hollister wrote:


 To confuse things even more, Western Australia is starting daylight saving 
 for a 3 year trial. The start/stop dates are not uniform, just to make 
 life harder. The dates are as follows:
 
 First on: 2:00am Dec 3
 2007-2008:2:00am Oct lastSun (ON)
 2007-2009:2:00am Mar lastSun (OFF)
 
 If I've got the zoneinfo rules right, they go something like (sorry if 
 field formatting doesn't come out properly):
 
 
 # Western Australia
 Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 -  LMT 1895 Dec
   8:00   Aus WST 1943 Jul
   8:00   -   WST 1974 Oct lastSun 2:00s
   8:00   1:00WST 1975 Mar Sun=1 2:00s
   8:00   -   WST 1983 Oct lastSun 2:00s
   8:00   1:00WST 1984 Mar Sun=1 2:00s
   8:00   -   WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00s
   8:00   1:00WST 1992 Mar Sun=1 2:00s
   8:00   -   WST 2006 Dec 2
   8:00   AW  WST 2009 Mar lastSun 2:00s
   8:00   -   WST
 
 # Rule  NAMEFROMTO  TYPEIN  ON  AT  SAVE 
 LETTER/S
 RuleAW  2006only-   Dec 3   2:00s   1:00-
 RuleAW  20072008-   Oct lastSun 2:00s   1:00-
 RuleAW  20072009-   Mar lastSun 2:00s   0   -
 
 Has anything at this stage been committed to the -STABLE branches for 
 these changes, or will most need to do them manually?
 
 The gazetted changes/references are at:
 
 http://wa.gov.au/daylightsaving/

I Don't know if this will help you or not, but I have used this shell
script to facilitate updating this system.

*
#!/usr/local/bin/bash

mkdir tz
cd tz
wget 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz'
gzip -dc tzcode*.tar.gz | tar -xf -
gzip -dc tzdata*.tar.gz | tar -xf -
*
Be sure to read the documentation obviously.

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Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon

2006-11-30 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday November 30, 2006 at 07:25:32 (AM) Graham Bentley wrote:


 And ... how to remove a package and all the packages
 it sucked in ?
 
 All I get from pkg_delete that it isnt even installed when 
 I know it is because that was the previous command I
 just ran !!!

Are you sure you are feedin it the correct information? Try this:

pkg_info -Ix PROGRAM_NAME (- gives you the exact installed
version of PROGRAM_NAME installed.)

Now feed that to:

pkg_delete -vdfr PROGRAM_NAME

That should do it.

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Re: Using Screen

2006-11-30 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday November 30, 2006 at 09:12:10 (AM) RW wrote:


 On Thursday 30 November 2006 01:27, Nadow wrote:
  Content-Type: text/plain;  charset=iso-8859-1
 
  On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:22, Dan Sikorsky wrote:
   Hey, I have a good question for you guys.
  
   Lets say, I started a job on a computer, if you must know, portmanager -u
   , and then left... but I know its sitting there stuck on a config window
   waiting for someone to press enter...
 
  Even easier, use portmaster. The first thing that do when installs a
  port is making recursive all the make config windows of the port and
  dependencies. After you have chosen the options of the last config
  menu, it will install all the stuff till the end without interruption
  (except error of course).
 
 Portmanager doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, and it's by far the 
 slowest upgrade tool around. People who use it do so because it's the most 
 thorough tool around. By contrast portmaster uses a fairly minimalist 
 approach.
 
 Portmaster is a clear alternative to portupgrade, it's not really a 
 replacement for portmanager.

I think I missed something on this thread, but I am still not clean
about the 'stuck on config window' thing. Personally, I have
preconfigured all of the ports I have installed on my system. Now I just
have:

/etc/make.com
[...]
BATCH=yes

and everything build just fine. Obviously, you can place the 'BATCH'
directive in the environment also.  Actually, the only problem I use to
experience was with Apsfiler. I wrote the maintainer and I believe that
they corrected the problem.

Yes, I definitely prefer 'portmanager' over portmaster although that is
a nice light weight program.

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Re: Spam prevention

2006-11-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday November 29, 2006 at 06:53:36 (PM) Ian Lord wrote:


 I would like to setup a mail server with postfix and sendmail...
 
 To fight spam, is spamassassin the best choice or should I look into
 something else ?

I use Postfix with MailScanner along with Clamav and SpamAssassin. There
are more exotic configurations available to you though.

BTW, you only need either Postfix or Sendmail. I definitely vote for
Postfix.

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Re: Getting SHTML to work

2006-11-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday November 27, 2006 at 09:20:24 (PM) Olivier Nicole wrote:


 I run a site full of SSI, files are mode 644 and it is working
 fine. Do you have suexec configured?Then you may have to consider the
 configuration of suexec.

No it isn't configured. The site will be rather small so I doubt that it
is worth the effort.

The test configuration works fine so I will just leave it as is. The
axiom, If it ain't isn't broken don't fix it. would seem applicable
here.

Thanks!

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Fixing OpenOffice

2006-11-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
Using: 

/usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL=

produces this:

openoffice.org-2.0.3!   Comparison failed

I was told this is because OpenOffice has moved in the 'ports tree'. My
question is other than reinstalling it, how do I proceed to correct it?


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