Re: perl question

2004-08-14 Thread jason
Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Aug 13, 2004, at 1:10 AM, AlanSung wrote: IMHO, bsdpan-* means install via cpan directory (not via ports), p5-* means installed from ports.. Okay. Nuts. That's what I was afraid of. I guess I was a little thrown because the bsdpan modules are showing up with

Re: IBM x306 with Serial ATA Drives

2004-08-14 Thread jason
eric wrote: I have an IBM x306 with two serial ATA drives. Unfortunately the installer for 5.2.1 comes up with No disks found. Is there any magic to get this machine to work? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

No sound from Avance Logic ALC655 onboard nForce2 sound card

2004-08-14 Thread Andrew J Caines
[Please follow up to Multimedia] 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 with pcm in kernel identifies onboard nForce2 card (K7 Triton GA-7N400-L mobo, enabled in BIOS), creates devices and behaves correctly in every way except for producing any sound. No errors. The /dev/{audio*,dsp*} devices appear to read sound

Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download POP3 mail from my ISP. Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address

Re: Best way to keep large ports uptodate

2004-08-14 Thread Johan Pettersson
Only thing I can think of is that I have CPUTYPE as I686 in my custom kernel and as p3 in /etc/make.conf. Should I try changing /etc/make.conf to I686? The computer is a 600MHz p3. No. The settings you got is exactly right for your CPU. :) ___

Re: Updating Emacs without installing X?

2004-08-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-08-13 23:49, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your Name wrote: First i want to upgrade Emacs from an older version, but when i try to do this from ports it starts trying to install a whole bunch of X stuff. Emacs requires XFree libraries, and I think imake,

USB scanner

2004-08-14 Thread Fractal
Does uscanner driver on FreeBSD 4.8-stable support USB 2.0 interface? It seems that my scanner (EPSON Perfection 2400) does not work at maximum speed. Besides this, it becomes inaccessible via scanimage (sane-find-scanner also cannot find it) in several time interval after system startup if it

Re: OT: Dead hard drive

2004-08-14 Thread Henrik W Lund
Paul wrote: Henrik W Lund wrote: Has anyone got any clue as to what may have happened, and how one can go about accessing the drive? Take the electronics board from a similar drive and use it to run your bad drive. Does the drive at least spin up? Yes, the drive spins up perfectly. Sadly, it's

Re: USB scanner

2004-08-14 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:32:17PM +0400, Fractal wrote: Does uscanner driver on FreeBSD 4.8-stable support USB 2.0 interface? It seems that my scanner (EPSON Perfection 2400) does not work at maximum speed. Besides this, it becomes inaccessible via scanimage (sane-find-scanner also cannot

Re: Dead hard drive

2004-08-14 Thread Henrik W Lund
Kurt wrote: You might try the freezer trick. Bag the drive securely against moisture, put it in the freezer for several hours, then put it back in the machine while still very cold, and see if it responds. If it does, get the data you need from it quickly. You may require several attempts to get

Re: Laptop overheating problem.

2004-08-14 Thread Henrik W Lund
Laszlo Antal wrote: Hi, So my laptop was working just fine but after a whole day of usage everything slowed down, my physical memory was 89% full, and the openoffice did not want to start at all.As soon as it happend I knew the problem is I did not hear the cooling fan. After shutdown about a hour

Re: Problems connecting a digital camera

2004-08-14 Thread Norbert Koch
* v dot velox at vvelox dot net: | I find this second one works nicely. Turn on user mount and install | wmmount and it works nicely :) Hmm, still no onions. Using a card reader, I get umass0: SMSC 223 USB97C223, rev 2.00/1.95, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: SMSC 223 U

Re: mozilla and courier-imap

2004-08-14 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:47:55PM +0200, Radek Kozlowski wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:50:22PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: I'm using the most recent ports for mozilla and courier-imap on an up-to-date FreeBSD-stable. Very often I will not see new messages in a folder until I

propolice patch on 4.10

2004-08-14 Thread Siddhartha Jain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I wanted the propolice protection for my 4.10 FreeBSD install. So I downloaded the latest available propolice patch (for 4.8) and patched the source (seemed to go ok). Now after going thru the entire rebuild process, how do I verify that the

security run output

2004-08-14 Thread Chris
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* First time I've ever seen this: server.tcslea.org kernel log messages: ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE (one long line - sorry

Re: /etc and /usr/local/etc directories

2004-08-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:20:38AM -0400, Jim Trigg wrote: But most of what's in /usr/local/etc is machine-specific. Not if you have a lab/office with a hundred workstations all running the same set of third-party apps, it isn't. Cheers, Scott --

cd and dvd burning program K3b and permissions for non-root users.

2004-08-14 Thread edwinculp
I've installed K3b and it works great for the root user but I can't get it to work for any non-privileged user even though I have put the user in the wheel group and have set sysctl vfs.usermount=1, cd0 has permissions set to 666, the same in devfs.conf (That solves the problem for xmms but not

Re: /etc/make.conf

2004-08-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Roberto Nunnari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As announced yesterday.. ..today I finished the upgrade process and all went just fine. ...have you had the chance to find out whether perl is needed at all in 5.2.1? I'm sorry, but I haven't. [I just moved to a new house this week and I can't

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:40:58PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download POP3 mail from my ISP. Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: security run output

2004-08-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 07:57:58AM -0500, Chris wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* First time I've ever seen this: server.tcslea.org kernel log messages:

Re: portupgrade/ports question

2004-08-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:14:23PM -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Situation: I set up a portal server as per the instructions at their site; it involved installing some PERL modules from CPAN, which I have since learned on FreeBSD appears to be a no no... Now I have some updates to do,

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:40:58PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. Fetchmail (nor getmail) will do this for you. Specifically, see the SPAM FILTERING section of the fetchmail(1) manual, and

Re: Security log question

2004-08-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:46:47PM -0500, James A. Coulter wrote: This message has been showing up in /var/log/security: Aug 6 01:56:44 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 6 16:40:05 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 7 13:25:23 sara /kernel:

Re: Running Mozilla FireBird 6.1.6 Under Linux Emulation On FreeBSD 4.10

2004-08-14 Thread Jud
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 07:50:17 +, Rob DeMarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 15:55, Paul Mather wrote: You should be able to use portupgrade to upgrade your linux_base-6.1_6 to a more recent version. This does assume you have the ports tree installed (and preferably up to

Re: Running Mozilla FireBird 6.1.6 Under Linux Emulation On FreeBSD 4.10

2004-08-14 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 03:50, Rob DeMarco wrote: While I have some familiarity with the ports tree, I didn't install it this time because of limited disk space (though I suppose I could do a partial port-tree install). Also, my P150 makes compiles long and painful :) To avoid all that,

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Saturday 14 August 2004 23:37, Chuck Swiger wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: [ ... ] I am quite happy to have these rejected but it seems they don't get deleted at the ISP end and clog up the mail box, I think eventually confusing fetchmail. You ought to convince your ISP to apply better

IS freebsd.org working

2004-08-14 Thread JJB
Trying to get to FreeBSD handbook and www.freebsd.org is coming up as not reachable. Any body else having same problem ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Problem: changing IP address

2004-08-14 Thread Parahat Melayev
Hi list, When I change my IP Address (fxp0) from sysinstall, system does not activate new settings. It is activated only when I reboot system. what may be the problem? do I need restart something? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: IS freebsd.org working

2004-08-14 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:38:23PM -0400, JJB wrote: Trying to get to FreeBSD handbook and www.freebsd.org is coming up as not reachable. Any body else having same problem The machine serving www.FreeBSD.org is down. Please use a mirror, for example www.CC.FreeBSD.org where CC is a

Re: Problem: changing IP address (solved)

2004-08-14 Thread Parahat Melayev
Sorry, I just figured out that I need to refresh network interfaces to activate new settings # /etc/netstart Parahat Melayev wrote: Hi list, When I change my IP Address (fxp0) from sysinstall, system does not activate new settings. It is activated only when I reboot system. what may be the

Re: IS freebsd.org working

2004-08-14 Thread Tim Hawkins
On Saturday 14 August 2004 18:38, JJB wrote: Yes its down for me too, I have been trying to register a PR all day. Trying to get to FreeBSD handbook and www.freebsd.org is coming up as not reachable. Any body else having same problem ___

Re: Problem: changing IP address

2004-08-14 Thread George V. Neville-Neil
At Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:35:54 +0300, Parahat Melayev wrote: Hi list, When I change my IP Address (fxp0) from sysinstall, system does not activate new settings. It is activated only when I reboot system. Yes you have to reboot or use the ifconfig(8) program. Later, George

Broadcast radio station over internet.

2004-08-14 Thread JJB
Looking for port that has web application for changing radio stations on Radio tuner card and them stream broadcast over internet. Anybody know of such port or combo of ports to achieve this? Any suggestions on how to do this? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cd and dvd burning program K3b and permissions for non-root users.

2004-08-14 Thread edwinculp
Chuck Swiger wrote: Edwin Culp wrote: I've installed K3b and it works great for the root user but I can't get it to work for any non-privileged user even though I have put the user in the wheel group and have set sysctl vfs.usermount=1, cd0 has permissions set to 666, the same in

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread SD
On Saturday 14 August 2004 09:10, Malcolm Kay wrote: I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download POP3 mail from my ISP. Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=localhost.home

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Shantanoo
Malcolm Kay wrote: I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download POP3 mail from my ISP. Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of

Fwd: Re[2]: sysinstall doesn't detect my harddrive

2004-08-14 Thread Iuliu Pascaru
Hello JJB, Saturday, August 14, 2004, 9:08:34 PM, you wrote: J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J This is an known bug in 5.0 thats why there is now 5.2.1. The 5.x J branch is an development version no intended for regular use. 5.3 J development is scheduled for Aug 20. Try using 4.10 stable instead J

Re: mozilla and courier-imap

2004-08-14 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:50:22PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: I'm using the most recent ports for mozilla and courier-imap on an up-to-date FreeBSD-stable. Very often I will not see new messages in a folder until I restart mozilla. I was convinced it was mozilla that was What do you

freebsd's galery

2004-08-14 Thread Paulo Roberto
What happened to it? I couldn't find it... __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: IS freebsd.org working

2004-08-14 Thread John Murphy
JJB wrote: Trying to get to FreeBSD handbook and www.freebsd.org is coming up as not reachable. Any body else having same problem Me too. I browse this list via http://docs.freebsd.org and it's been down all day. http://www.uk.freebsd.org/ is still working though :) -- John.

Re: IS freebsd.org working

2004-08-14 Thread Tim Hawkins
On Saturday 14 August 2004 23:29, John Murphy wrote: JJB wrote: Trying to get to FreeBSD handbook and www.freebsd.org is coming up as not reachable. Any body else having same problem Me too. I browse this list via http://docs.freebsd.org and it's been down all day.

FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-14 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Please, if any of you has confident experience with any of the following scanners under FreeBSD, please let me know. I must find something available for buying and it must work smoothly in FreeBSD (otherwise there's no point of buying a new scanner, as I already have one which is not working in

find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, I'm in the process of cleaning a Maildir full of spam. It has somewhere in the vicinity of 400K files in it. I started running this yesterday: find . -atime +1 -exec mv {} /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ \; It's been running for well over 12 hours. It certainly is working---the spams are

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 15 August 2004 at 1:46:17 +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: Please, if any of you has confident experience with any of the following scanners under FreeBSD, please let me know. I must find something available for buying and it must work smoothly in FreeBSD (otherwise there's no point

Re: IS freebsd.org working

2004-08-14 Thread John Murphy
Tim Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 14 August 2004 23:29, John Murphy wrote: JJB wrote: Trying to get to FreeBSD handbook and www.freebsd.org is coming up as not reachable. Any body else having same problem Me too. I browse this list via http://docs.freebsd.org and it's

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 08:31:43AM +0930, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: Hello, I'm in the process of cleaning a Maildir full of spam. It has somewhere in the vicinity of 400K files in it. I started running this yesterday: find . -atime +1 -exec mv {} /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ \; It's been

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 08:31:43AM +0930, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: Hello, I'm in the process of cleaning a Maildir full of spam. It has somewhere in the vicinity of 400K files in it. I started running this yesterday: find . -atime +1 -exec mv {} /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ \; It's been

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: EPSON perfection 1670 http://www.sane-project.org says it has good support for the 1670. There's an entry for the printer in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/uscanner.c (FreeBSD 4.10), so FreeBSD should detect it as a uscanner device. (Assuming you'll be using

Re: propolice patch on 4.10

2004-08-14 Thread horio shoichi
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:10:15 +0530 Siddhartha Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I wanted the propolice protection for my 4.10 FreeBSD install. So I downloaded the latest available propolice patch (for 4.8) and patched the source (seemed to

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 15 August 2004 04:34, you wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download POP3 mail from my ISP. Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re[2]: security run output

2004-08-14 Thread Chris
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* ... MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE No -- that's entirely harmless. If you look at /var/run/dmesg.boot, you see that it's just part of the normal kernel output during boot.

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:31 AM +0930 8/15/04, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: Hello, I'm in the process of cleaning a Maildir full of spam. It has somewhere in the vicinity of 400K files in it. I started running this yesterday: find . -atime +1 -exec mv {} /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ \; It's been running for well over 12

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 15 August 2004 00:12, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:40:58PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. Fetchmail (nor getmail) will do this for you. Specifically, see the

sgi_fam/tcp server

2004-08-14 Thread Tim Kellers
Console message: Aug 14 20:10:25 www inetd[645]: sgi_fam/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated Anyone know what this message means? I tried searching on www.freebsd.org, but the site is down. This is on a FBSD-CURRENT i386 box, but I wanted to ask here before I asked on the

trouble with sysinstall

2004-08-14 Thread Edward Carmody
Hi, When trying to do anything from sysinstall, I get the following error: Can't find the `5.2.1-RELEASE-p8' distribution on this x x FTP server. You may need to visit a different server forx x the release you are trying to

Re: sgi_fam/tcp server

2004-08-14 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 20:28, Tim Kellers wrote: Console message: Aug 14 20:10:25 www inetd[645]: sgi_fam/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated Anyone know what this message means? I tried searching on www.freebsd.org, but the site is down. This is on a FBSD-CURRENT i386

Re: sgi_fam/tcp server

2004-08-14 Thread Tim Kellers
On Saturday 14 August 2004 08:30 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 20:28, Tim Kellers wrote: Console message: Aug 14 20:10:25 www inetd[645]: sgi_fam/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated Anyone know what this message means? I tried searching on

new NVIDIA driver is released

2004-08-14 Thread Ara Avvali
Hi There is a new version on NVIDIA site for those who are interested --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.737 / Virus Database: 491 - Release Date: 11/08/2004 ___ [EMAIL

Re: new NVIDIA driver is released

2004-08-14 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 01:36, Ara Avvali wrote: Hi There is a new version on NVIDIA site for those who are interested --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.737 / Virus Database: 491 - Release Date: 11/08/2004

Re: sgi_fam/tcp server

2004-08-14 Thread Tim Kellers
On Saturday 14 August 2004 08:30 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 20:28, Tim Kellers wrote: Console message: Aug 14 20:10:25 www inetd[645]: sgi_fam/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated Anyone know what this message means? I tried searching on

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Malcolm Kay wrote: [ ... ] Thanks guys for the responses -- this really looks the way to go. Does anyone know how sendmail distinguishes between: reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address does not resolve reject=553 5.1.8 .. Domain of sender address .. does

Re: Problems with Firefox Package

2004-08-14 Thread jason
Will wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jason wrote: | I had no problem recompiling firefox on my machince, I'm running | current. What command did you use? It sounds like you might have | version conflicts due to not cleaning before recompiling. Try make | clean make

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 01:32:35AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: You seem to have missed the fact that operations on very large directories (which a directory with 400K files in it certainly qualifies as) simply are slow. Good point. I had overlooked that. Reducing the number of processes

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:39:33AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: find . -atime +1 -print0 | xargs -0 -J % mv % /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ xargs defaults to taking up to 5,000 arguments from it's stdin to generate the mv commands (or up to ARG_MAX - 4096 = 61440 bytes), so that would have

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 08:11:54PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: Where is '.' in the above `find .' command? Is it is on the same partition as /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ ? You may find it much faster to do something like: mkdir usermail.new chown user:group usermail.new mv

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 15 August 2004 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: [ ... ] Thanks guys for the responses -- this really looks the way to go. Does anyone know how sendmail distinguishes between: reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address does not resolve reject=553

Re: Security log question

2004-08-14 Thread James A. Coulter
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 04:39:58PM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:46:47PM -0500, James A. Coulter wrote: This message has been showing up in /var/log/security: Aug 6 01:56:44 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 6 16:40:05 sara /kernel:

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 15), Malcolm Kay said: This sort of takes us back one more level -- how does the DNS service decide between responding with NXDOMAIN and a timeout/TRY_AGAIN? And does the difference have any real significance? NXDOMAIN means that a server replied this domain does not

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 15 August 2004 11:26, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2004 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: [ ... ] Thanks guys for the responses -- this really looks the way to go. Does anyone know how sendmail distinguishes between: reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of

Re[2]: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Gary
Hi Paul, On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:09:55 +0930 UTC (8/14/2004, 8:39 PM -0500 UTC my time), Paul A. Hoadley trunco scripsit: Reducing the number of processes spawned will certainly help some, but a better idea is to not have so many files in a single directory - that is just asking for trouble.

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2004 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] Sendmail pays attention to the return value from doing DNS queries. If sendmail receives an NXDOMAIN response, it treats that as a permanent, 5xx failure code. If sendmail gets a timeout/TRY_AGAIN, it will return a

Re: Re[2]: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Bill Moran
Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul, On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:09:55 +0930 UTC (8/14/2004, 8:39 PM -0500 UTC my time), Paul A. Hoadley trunco scripsit: Reducing the number of processes spawned will certainly help some, but a better idea is to not have so many files in a single directory

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:13:32PM -0500, Gary wrote: P I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams P sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by P .qmail-default. Question... why do you have a .qmail-default file to begin with? If you

[OT] Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by .qmail-default. What I am going to do is clear out the Maildir daily instead of monthly, though. Collecting them has become a significant drain on disk

Re: Re[2]: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 10:27:29PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: I have to second this. You should never accept email destin for users that don't exist, you should bounce it with a 5xx error prior to even accepting the data portion of the SMTP transmission. I agree completely. I can't see how to

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Bill Moran
Paul A. Hoadley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:13:32PM -0500, Gary wrote: P I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams P sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by P .qmail-default. Question... why do you

Re: [OT] Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 08:01:47PM -0700, stheg olloydson wrote: What I would do is avoid the problem in the first place by not having a .qmail-default. Without a .qmail-default, qmail's default behaviour is to _accept_ the message and then _bounce_ it. IMHO, this is _worse_ than (a)

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Gary
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:30:01PM +0930 or thereabouts, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: Hello, On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:13:32PM -0500, Gary wrote: P I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams P sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by P

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: The original problem was that _bouncing_ these messages is fruitless---they almost invariably have a forged From address. I'm getting on average about 10,000 of them per day, so there were constantly several thousand messages in my queue, as well as several thousand bounced bounces

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Gary
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:30:01PM +0930 or thereabouts, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: Techniques for qmail? Without patching it? I thought I had RTFMd pretty thoroughly, but I am willing to be enlightened. forgot to add, there are also challange/auth mechanisms that one can use too.. I have used

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hi Gary, On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 10:25:46PM -0500, Gary wrote: Most are patches, and very good. I use Eben Pratt's goodrcptto personally on my own server, and some that I have built for others (gives me control for accepting mail from lists only for those lists that do not subscribe via

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Gary
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 01:06:42PM +0930 or thereabouts, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 10:25:46PM -0500, Gary wrote: http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#smtp-reject which will lead you here.. http://netdevice.com/qmail/rcptck/ Thanks. I was fairly sure it couldn't

NAT / ipfw / GW - FreeBSD 4.10 to Linux Private Network???

2004-08-14 Thread Hakim Z. Singhji
Hello All, So with the help of all of you I have configure my FreeBSD 4.10 gateway. I am able to ping, tracerout, ssh and call webpages with a fully functioning DHCP client. I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart, those of you that helped me out... its been hardwork and late nights (or

Dual Homing Networks with DSL and Cable

2004-08-14 Thread Eric Crist
Hey all, I'm thinking about getting both DSL and Cable at home. I've currently got DSL with static Ips and I host servers. I would like to setup a dual-homed system, so I could utilize both download bandwidths. How should I best go about this, and does my desired setup make sense? Thanks,

kdm refuses to allow non-root login to kde

2004-08-14 Thread Tim Kellers
I've been battling this on and off (mostly off) since April. If I put exec startkde in .xesession in a non-root folder and I enable xdm in /etc/ttys, I can log into xorg's xdm and kde starts just fine -- even as a non-root user. If I enable kdm in /etc/ttys, I get the kdm login screen, and if

kdm refuses to allow non-root login to kde

2004-08-14 Thread Tim Kellers
[If this gets posted twice, I apologize for the noise] I've been battling this on and off (mostly off) since April. If I put exec startkde in .xesession in a non-root folder and I enable xdm in /etc/ttys, I can log into xorg's xdm and kde starts just fine -- even as a non-root user. If I

The switch to X.org

2004-08-14 Thread Clinton MacKinnon
Hello all, Does anyone know where I can find, or what exactly needs to be done to switch a 5.2.1 system from XFree86 to X.org. Due to the lists currently being down I'm unable to find the official HEADS UP articles I was looking for. Thank you in advance -- As a wise man once said,

Re: mozilla and courier-imap

2004-08-14 Thread Reza Muhammad
I have some problem too with mozilla mail and courier imap. When i'm using imap with mozilla mail, everytime i sent email, mozilla mail idle with progrees tool bar Copy message to sent item is there any idea ? regards reza --- Uwe Laverenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at

Re: The switch to X.org

2004-08-14 Thread Tim Kellers
On Sunday 15 August 2004 12:51 am, Clinton MacKinnon wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know where I can find, or what exactly needs to be done to switch a 5.2.1 system from XFree86 to X.org. Due to the lists currently being down I'm unable to find the official HEADS UP articles I was looking

Any external USB cdrw recommended for FreeBSD[4,5]* ?

2004-08-14 Thread Unix Forever
Hello, I was looking for some ideas on an external USB burner for my laptop. I'm running 5.2.1 but would go back to 4.10 if needed to make a recommended model work. TIA __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish.

Re: The switch to X.org

2004-08-14 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: Hello, I don't personally have an answer, but from the archives comes this one from Matthew Seaman: On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:45:08PM -0400, Jim Trigg wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:22:32PM -0500,

RE: Dual Homing Networks with DSL and Cable

2004-08-14 Thread Lucas Holt
You will have difficulty with this setup. Most large providers require that you register your multihomed capacity on a list. Otherwise traffic won't know to come in on a particular interface or that it can go either way. I must admit I'm going from memory here. I used to work at an ISP about 5

cd and dvd burning program K3b and permissions for non-root users.

2004-08-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Message: 4 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:47:09 -0500 From: edwinculp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [..] I've installed K3b and it works great for the root user but I can't get it to work for any non-privileged user even though I have put the user in