Re: OT: The future of USENET?
On 3/27/2013 6:55, Quartz wrote: Younger generations In my experience, few people under the age of 30 have used usenet, and no one under the age of 20 has even heard of it. 19 year old usenet subscriber reporting in! I subscribe to ASR and c.p.t.ntp which are the only decent newsgroups that I have found, I've tried a few others but they seem to be dead and filled with spam. Anyone got any recommendations for newsgroups to subscribe to? :) -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating package from www.freshports.org
On 4/29/2013 14:33, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm a longtime Debian user who is trying out FreeBSD, so very much a newbie here. I wanted to get spectrwm-2.2.0 which I found on www.freshports.org. After a lot of googling I tried first cvsup and then svn, using the command svn co svn://svn.freshports.org/x11-wm/spectrwm but it keeps timing out wo I think I must have misunderstood something. Any advice please? Is there some other way to get ports from freshports.org? AC Please read: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: cannot use ftp utility throught proxy
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 07:08:12AM +0300, vad...@libre.lv wrote: Hello! Can someone help me, please? Have no luck seting up ftp utility for using proxy. Already have set environment variables: FTP_PROXY=http://proxyserver:8080 HTTP_PROXY=http://proxyserver:8080 When try to connect: root# root@zerver:/root # ftp -a ftp2.FreeBSD.org root# ftp: Can't connect to `128.205.32.24:21': Operation timed out root# ftp: Can't connect to `ftp2.FreeBSD.org:ftp' Used tcpdump to check where it connects: root# tcpdump -n -ttt -i em0 port ftp I can see, that ftp is trying to connect directly to 128.205.32.24.21. Tried to use this env variable, but without acceptable results: FETCH_CMD=/usr/bin/fetch -ARrvp -T 10 uname -a 9.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Mon Apr 29 18:27:25 UTC 2013 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Excuses my language, not native English. Have a lucky day! VS. According to the ftp manpage, the variables for proxying are: ftp_proxy URL of FTP proxy to use when making FTP URL requests (if not defined, use the standard FTP protocol). See http_proxy for further notes about proxy use. http_proxy URL of HTTP proxy to use when making HTTP URL requests. If proxy authentication is required and there is a user- name and password in this URL, they will automatically be used in the first attempt to authenticate to the proxy. If ``unsafe'' URL characters are required in the username or password (for example `@' or `/'), encode them with RFC3986 `%XX' encoding. Note that the use of a username and password in ftp_proxy and http_proxy may be incompatible with other programs that use it (such as lynx(1)). NOTE: this is not used for interactive sessions, only for command-line fetches. Notice the capitalization, ftp_proxy as opposed to FTP_PROXY. Not sure why environment variables are not all caps, seems inconsistent. -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: System Calls that do DNS
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 07:57:07PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I have an unusual situation. A program is doing a DNS lookup and often the IP address has no reverse DNS entries. As a result the program hangs for several timeouts. The call is not being made directly in its code, but is occurring in a system call. There are no specific calls to DNS, its something else doing it. I have been trying to track down which system call is doing it, but without success so far. I have tried syslog calls around each of the system calls I thought might be the culprit, but my guessing is not very good. How can I identify the system call that is calling DNS? If I can find it, I hopefully can find another way to do whatever it does that does not involve a reverse DNS lookup. Use truss: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss The truss utility traces the system calls called by the specified process or program. -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Setting a lcoale globally
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0400, Mike. wrote: I would like to set the locale of my 9.1 server to LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 globally, i.e., put the locale entry in one file, and then have the locale propagate as I go into other shells and run various scripts. I have spent some quality time with google, and the best I have been about to ascertain is that I need to sprinkle the LANG setting throughout the various ENV variables and .profile, .cshrc, .bashrc, and whatever files spread across my directory tree. That really seems counter-intuitive to me. Is it at all possible for me to specify in once place *somewhere that the entire server is to use the locale setting LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 ? I need a clue... thanks. 24.3.3.1.1. Login Classes Method This method allows environment variables needed for locale name and MIME character sets to be assigned once for every possible shell instead of adding specific shell assignments to each shell's startup file. User Level Setup can be performed by each user while Administrator Level Setup requires superuser privileges. Source: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/using-localization.html#login-class -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post. Please don't CC! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: routing issues to freebsd.org
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 09:57:59AM +0100, Paul Macdonald wrote: On doing some updates this morning, am seeing a routing issue beyond bgp1-ext.ysv.freebsd.org... Updating Index fetch: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX-9.bz2: No route to host www.freebsd.org.513 IN CNAME wfe0.ysv.freebsd.org. wfe0.ysv.freebsd.org. 1690IN A 8.8.178.110 Perhaps an issue on your end (probably on the reverse route)? Traces look fine from multiple networks: http://sprunge.us/JFeS -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post. Please don't CC! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Update /usr/src with subversion
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:16:43AM -0500, David Noel wrote: Ooops. Top-posted. I always forget. Does anyone know how to change the default reply behavior of gmail? Last I searched the only way to do it was with a greasemonkey script... You can try using Gmail with a MUA, like mutt or Thunderbird. Gmail supports IMAP and SMTP access. -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post. Please don't CC! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: where to start with PGP/GPG?
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 01:16:09PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I never needed to use pgp till now. So I'm not sure where to start. Is security/gnupg the way to go? Any other advice? Thanks Anton https://we.riseup.net/riseuplabs+paow/openpgp-best-practices is a good place to get started. You want the gnupg port, yes. -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post. Please don't CC! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Excessive bounces
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:03:46PM +0200, Harald Weis wrote: Hi All, My membership to this list has been disabled due to excessive bounces. Could somebody please tell me how to stop these bounces in the future ? What is their operating mode ? What can I do if they do not require to break my (inclusive) firewall which seems to work fine and which is in place since ages ? Thank you in advance for any advice. -- Harald Weis Consult your e-mail provider, if that is yourself, check your logs. -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post. Please don't CC! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Vulnerability
On 9/30/2013 10:05, Jerry wrote: Has this been rectified: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-5710 Yes. http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:13.nullfs.asc http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revisionrevision=255442 -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post. It is not logical. Please don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE stability?
On 9/30/2013 15:01, Brett Glass wrote: How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The improvements are welcome, but there have been a few troubling messages about kernel panics and VM issues on the various mailing lists. It's never clear until the release drops whether these are actual problems with the software or hardware defects in individual systems, so I am eager to hear how the new release is working for everyone. --Brett Glass Just upgraded a system running in KVM, working like a charm. -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post. It is not logical. Please don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
