Re: Recursive mutex safe on FreeBSD 6.2

2008-02-25 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 25. Februar 2008 11:28:36 schrieb navneet Upadhyay: can we use recursive mutex on 6.2 freebsd ?? Why not? FreeBSD is POSIX-compliant (unless otherwise specified; see pthread.h for details), and AFAIK it is for recursive mutexes (at least I haven't found anything else so far while

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008 15:58:51 schrieb James Harrison: 8. Most extensive collection of third party software (over 18000 ) only second to Debian. Looking back at it, I'm surprised I didn't mention that. Gentoo has over 24 thousand ebuilds, where an ebuild is their equivalent

Re: 32 bit FreeBSD compiled binary coredumps on 64 bit(amd) FreeBSD

2008-02-20 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2008 07:17:30 schrieb navneet Upadhyay: I am compiling the binary on 32 bit FreeBSD and running it on 64 (amd64)bit FreeBSD . FreeBSD says it is possible to do so. But my application core dumps . I investigated the reason which is as follows : The

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-19 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 19. Februar 2008 15:08:12 schrieb Wojciech Puchar: Can anyone tell how do we handle this situation??? Is there any way or i have to compile my code on 64 bit machine?? what's a problem to compile on 64-bit machine? Ugh, there can be lots of problems, at least if the original

Re: Get the empty space on a file system

2008-02-18 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 18. Februar 2008 11:25:39 schrieb Olivier Nicole: How to: 1) knowing the name of the directory, how toknow the file system it belongs to (not considering symbolic links, I can decide that the directory is always a real path); 2) knowing the file system from 1), how to check

Re: make not working gmake works

2008-02-18 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 18. Februar 2008 16:02:34 schrieb navneet Upadhyay: I have a Makefile . It works well with Linux versions when i use make command.The make command fails on FreeBSD but gmake works fine. Any clues on this behavior? make != gmake on *BSD. BSD-make (i.e., make) is a completely

Re: FW: failure notice

2008-02-12 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 09:03:10 schrieb Da Rock: Anybody know why this would be happening to me? Every time I post I get this back, yet my post shows up on the list. You're sending from a hotmail.com address, without using a hotmail.com server as outgoing mail relay. Someone who's

Re: FW: failure notice

2008-02-12 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 09:40:55 schrieb Heiko Wundram (Beenic): Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 09:03:10 schrieb Da Rock: Anybody know why this would be happening to me? Every time I post I get this back, yet my post shows up on the list. You're sending from a hotmail.com address

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-11 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 11. Februar 2008 15:32:26 schrieb Erich Dollansky: Hi, Reid Linnemann wrote: Written by James on 02/10/08 21:59 I just tried a portupgrade out and it failed on linux flashplugin. Apparently, none of the file exist in the ftp repositories anymore. Any idea what happened

Re: How do I get unicode support in python?

2008-02-08 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Freitag, 8. Februar 2008 15:26:48 schrieb Eric Mesa: I'm running a web server with FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and python 2.4.3. I'm unable to print any characters outside of ascii. I have tried this code on my Linux computer, which has python 2.5.x and it works - so the code is solid. What do

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-08 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Freitag, 8. Februar 2008 17:54:03 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, actually, these are file backed swap devices. You can do both file and memory backed devices. this allows you to have a swap file on the hard disk and mount it. As I already wrote in another part of this thread: please

Re: Strange apache logs

2008-02-07 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 13:39:04 schrieb Dragan Jovelic: Couple of days ago I moved one web (PHP) application to new server running FreeBSD 6.2, with apache 2.2.8 installed. Everything is fine, except I have in httpd access_log lot of requests like this: ::1 - - [06/Feb/2008:13:43:58

Re: Strange apache logs

2008-02-07 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 15:45:39 schrieb Dragan Jovelic: Thanks for quick answer. I understand it is from localhost, but can't figure out what it is. Only things running there are apache and mysql server. In processes I see nothing strange, sockstat gives that all opened sockets belong

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-06 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 07:32:16 schrieb Jason C. Wells: Norberto Meijome wrote: But I agree with Wojciech..do you really want to use swap files? One could mount an md filesystem and then use that as swap. That way you wouldn't need to use any disc space. As a plus, the performance

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-06 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 08:26:07 schrieb Dominic Fandrey: Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 07:32:16 schrieb Jason C. Wells: Norberto Meijome wrote: But I agree with Wojciech..do you really want to use swap files? One could mount an md filesystem

Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-05 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 5. Februar 2008 15:28:26 schrieb Zane C.B.: snip As far as I understand the code you've written, that won't work, because you're tying to send/receive the ancilliary messages as socket data, and not as a separate message. Additionally, I don't program any Perl (left that for good

Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-05 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 5. Februar 2008 15:28:26 schrieb Zane C.B.: snip And, on another note, you might be interested in /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getpeereid.c which implements a function that (internally) uses a socket option (no need to mess with ancilliary messages) to retrieve the value you're looking

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 13:03:25 schrieb navneet Upadhyay: 1. Is FreeBSD little Endian like windows? FreeBSD endianness depends on the hardware architecture it runs on (as endianness is a hardware characterization). (Very) generally, anything that's related to an Intel CPU is little-endian,

Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 15:21:52 schrieb Zane C.B.: I've come across that mentioned in unix(4). There is no support for it in regards to Perl. Another problem is it requires support for that on both ends. More and more it looks like getting either PID and/or user info about the other

Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 11:30:21 schrieb Zane C.B.: Been starting to look into writing some stuff that uses unix domain sockets, but I've been running into the problem of figuring out what the calling PID is on the other end. Any suggestions on where I should begin to look? As it

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 14:30:12 schrieb Wojciech Puchar: the Windows NT days, which ran on Alpha workstations which were big-endian. Alpha is little endian. i had alpha 21066 running linux. Not true. Alpha is big- or little-endian (so, it's bi-endian), depending on how it's booted, and

Re: changing bzip2 in default distribution?

2008-02-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 23:04:57 schrieb Wojciech Puchar: why bzip2 is still used. grzip from ports (archivers/grzip) is much faster and compresses much better and it's not GNU licenced bzip2 isn't GNU licensed, just to get things straight (straight from www.bzip.org): ...because it's

Re: C interpreters

2008-01-31 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008 14:48:15 schrieb Jim Stapleton: as a secondary (probably stupid) question: how hard is it to write a library in C++ and allow C programs to use it? To write a library in C++ to which C programs have access, you'll have to write a set of wrapper functions for

Re: help

2008-01-21 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 10:16:40 schrieb Enovation Technologies: my question is how to configure 2 nics with different ip on same box in the same subnet. You know that this makes no sense? At least not in 99.99% of the cases? Maybe you can describe a little more clearly _why_ you want to

OT: Greylisting and Yahoo Mailinglists

2008-01-15 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Hey all! A colleague of mine tracks a Yahoo mailing list, but always gets mails from them with a large delay (or not at all) due to our mailserver doing greylisting. This comes from the fact that the triplet that represents a message sent from a Yahoo mailing list changes with every message

Re: OT: Greylisting and Yahoo Mailinglists

2008-01-15 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 15. Januar 2008 19:08:39 schrieb Chuck Swiger: You didn't mention which mailserver or greylist software you are using, but the postgrey implementation (for use with Postfix) has this in postgrey_whitelist_clients: # greylisting.org: Yahoo Groups servers (no retry) scd.yahoo.com

Re: system programming

2008-01-10 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2008 16:38:47 schrieb Michael S: I am a computer science student taking the operating systems course. All of our assignments are supposed run on Linux and I don't have a Linux machine. I was wondering mostly if FreeBSD uses the same functions for process / thread

Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 1. Januar 2008 14:15:40 schrieb O. Hartmann: I use OpenOffice 2.3.1 on several hardwareplatforms running FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64 and since I upgraded OpenOffice from OO 2.3.0 to 2.3.1 I have massive problems, rendering OO unusuable! Before doing a PR I would like to aks whethere

Re: 4GB memory and more

2007-12-24 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 24. Dezember 2007 23:21:32 schrieb Robert Fitzpatrick: I have a couple of Supermicro servers and upgraded both with more memory. I upgraded our ESMTP server from 1GB to 4GB and our MX server from 2GB to 5GB. Below are the dmesg memory findings and, yes, I get the memory over 4GB

Re: threading and dlopen()

2007-12-18 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007 21:34:33 schrieb Markus Hoenicka: My (limited) analysis makes me think this is some sort of a threading issue aggravated by the fact that the code is dlopen()ed (remember the same code works ok if compiled into a standalone app). BTW the firebird client library

Re: Dependencies. (was: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...)

2007-12-17 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2007 11:29:01 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: For you to ask that question shows without a doubt that it has been too long since you have sat back, put on Pink Floyd, taken a few bong hits, and contemplated the Universe. Thanks for cheering up my workday! ;-) -- Heiko

Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?

2007-12-16 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Samstag, 15. Dezember 2007 14:48:35 schrieb Jorn Argelo: snip Also I believe that rejecting e-mail is a big point of discussion. We had an internet e-mail environment built about 3 years ago, and there the users were terrorized by spam. We had some users getting 30 spam mails a day at

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

2007-12-14 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007 16:27:42 schrieb RW: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:06:25 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider also that the majority of webinterfaces to mailservers are written using the uw-c-client imap libraries. So you go ahead and install dovecot - then

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

2007-12-14 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007 23:14:32 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: As I said I did a survey of all known web clients earlier this year that did not require a specific server - I might have even posted it to the list. But I guess that's a challenge to some people to prove I don't know what I'm

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-12 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007 13:01:14 schrieb Alex Zbyslaw: snip explanation I don't see how a firewall is appropriate for this (hosts.allow, likewise). The point of the exercise is to never even contact the ad host. Transparent proxy with squid on the firewall? There's even plugins to

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-12 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007 13:38:59 schrieben Sie: I want to do precisely the opposite. It should affect only a single machine. It would even be better if it would affect only a single account on that machine. Affecting only a single machine/a single account has nothing to do with the

Re: RELENG_7 and diablo-jdk

2007-12-12 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007 11:06:13 schrieb Daniel Molina Wegener: ¿Is there any problem if I run diablo-jdk-1.5_07 under RELENG_7? I mean, ¿is the diablo-jdk binary compatible with RELENG_7? Yes, there are/were quite some problems (which may not become immediately apparent with standard

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-12 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007 06:52:41 schrieb Gary Kline: well, thi sounded great until I read squid. Isn't that something to do with FBSD and Windows? If not, how hard is squid to install; what does it do? You're probably thinking of samba, which is an implementation

Re: RELENG_7 and diablo-jdk

2007-12-12 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007 22:15:00 schrieb Tino Engel: for me, java apps always segfault under releng_7. They never did under releng_6. Have not found out yet why.. The JDK's hotspot compiler digs pretty deep into the system to compile Java code to machine code and run that dynamically.

Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?

2007-12-12 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007 03:12:53 schrieb Chuck Swiger: Install the following: /usr/ports/mail/postfix-policyd-weight /usr/ports/mail/postgrey Just as an added suggestion: these two (very!) lightweight packages suffice to keep SPAM out of our company pretty much completely. Both are

Re: FreeBSD GSM Bluetooth Phone

2007-12-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2007 08:34:11 schrieb Cy Schubert: Could anyone point me in the direction of documentation outlining how to setup a Bluetooth phone for wireless Internet access (when WiFi is unavailable). Thanks. Depends on the protocol your phone uses to access the net. For PAN

Re: ECCN# of the freeBSD V6.1

2007-12-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2007 15:30:09 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We would like to export a personal computer which FreeBSD Ver6.1 was installed in from Japan. Could you tell me the ECCN# of this software? Uh, FreeBSD has an ECCN? I'd wonder. -- Heiko Wundram Product Application Development

Re: Broadcom

2007-11-29 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2007 18:52:06 schrieb Miguel Alcántara: Grettings to this list. Well, I have a doubt about Broadcom HOT_TOPIC and FBSD 6.2 Good for you. What's the question? -- Heiko Wundram Product Application Development ___

Re: 2nd try : tap SIOCIFCREATE failure

2007-11-28 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2007 15:00:35 schrieb Alain G. Fabry: FreeBSD# uname -a FreeBSD FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 11 0xc040 6f7554 kernel 21 0xc0af8000 140c0snd_hda.ko 32 0xc0b0d000 479a8sound.ko 41 0xc0b55000

OpenOffice.org 2.3.0_1 on 7.0 - unable to load/save to files

2007-11-23 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Hey all! I've come across a situation with my installation of openoffice.org-2.3.0, which basically makes the package/program unusable for me. Because it probably is a problem with my installation, and not with the package itself, I thought I'd post here first before opening a PR for it, as I

Re: python25 core dumps

2007-11-15 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 15. November 2007 04:07:26 schrieb David J Brooks: Ok. Here's what gdb shows for a crash from Gramps (built with py-Gtk2): (gdb) back #0 0x29ea37fd in delete_aspell_speller () from /usr/local/lib/libaspell.so.16 #1 0x29e03b3d in gtkspell_set_language_internal () from

ffmpeg demuxer library currently broken?

2007-11-15 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Hey all! Does anyone else have problems with the latest ffmpeg port (from Oct 20)? It crashes reliably for me transcoding any input to any output (I tested with avi and mp3 files). The backtrace in the core-dump is corrupt, but it seems that the problem lies somewhere in libavformat's demuxer

RT256x PCMCIA card under 7.0-BETA2 (repost from [EMAIL PROTECTED], to get a broader audience)

2007-11-14 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Hi all! I just recently bought a RT2561C based (at least I think so) wireless card, which is also happily recognized by the ral-driver: ral0: Ralink Technology RT2561 mem 0x8800-0x88007fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT2527 ral0: Ethernet address:

Re: FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-14 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2007 17:04:37 schrieb icantthinkofone: Ivan Voras wrote: icantthinkofone wrote: Someone I can't stand said this about FreeBSD. Though I know C, I don't know anything about it and would love to respond. [QUOTE]The kernel is really lacking some features. They need

Re: Socket programming question

2007-11-14 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2007 23:21:43 schrieb Andrew Falanga: My question has to do with how someone would find out if a call to socket(2) actually produced a socket. I know that the API works, I've programmed with it many times, but is there a way to find out if 's' returned by socket(2)

Re: python25 core dumps

2007-11-14 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2007 23:15:36 schrieb David J Brooks: Since upgrading to 7.0-BETA2 most of my python based programs fail with Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped). It seems to be limited to gui based programs using Gtk or Qt. Any idea what's going on there? Hints on how to analyze

Re: install

2007-11-08 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 8. November 2007 17:09:06 schrieb Leonard Lilla: snip lots of whining Sorry if my reply seems elitist, but if you really think the installation is that bad, now is the perfect chance and time for you to become involved with FreeBSD by making it better. If you can't or won't do

Re: install

2007-11-08 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 8. November 2007 20:11:14 schrieben Sie: Wow, yeah sorry man... I did not even realize you guys were having a funding drive. Ouch, that sucks, probably not the support you were looking for. Just for the reference, do you actually know what Open Source really is? What its

Totally OT math question about projections

2007-11-06 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Hi all! I can't think straight anymore (it's a little too late), that's why I decided to post here, and maybe someone knows the answer before I'll dig my way through my uni maths books tomorrow. Just think of it as a brainteaser if you feel compelled to answer. ;-) Anyway, here we go: I have

Re: Totally OT math question about projections

2007-11-06 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 6. November 2007 21:15:04 schrieb Heiko Wundram (Beenic): snip Forget my question; I solved it myself just now. I just had to remember how integral substitution worked. Thanks anyway if you already got busy on this! -- Heiko Wundram Product Application Development

Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-25 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2007 08:42:31 schrieb Andreas Widerøe Andersen: Does any of these streaming solutions (encoders or servers) require me to run a GUI on my FreeBSD boxes or can I simply run them like I always do: command line only? Apple's Darwin runs perfectly just with command-line

Re: rename file based on file's timestamp

2007-10-24 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 14:45:08 schrieb andrew clarke: Now I want to rename these so the new filenames are based on the file's timestamp, like so: -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 28 2006 2006-07-28.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 31 2006

Re: Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-24 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 14:47:56 schrieb icantthinkofone: Does that in any way answer the question? Yes, because gnash is an open-source (re)implementation of Flash Player, compatible with a large part of the Flash7 specification, so that you don't need Adobe's player to play Flash

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 23:24:09 schrieb Harald Schmalzbauer: #include stdio.h void main() { short nnote; // Numerischen Notenwert einlesen printf(Bitte numerischen Schulnotenwert eingeben: ); scanf(%d,nnote); man 3 scanf (most important thing to look at with any such

Re: BASH as root shell (static linking)

2007-10-06 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Samstag 06 Oktober 2007 07:25:39 schrieb Old Ranger: BASH is not a UNIX shell. BASH occurred with Linux then carried over into FreeBSD. Get your history straight and read up on the heritage of the bash on gnu.org, please. BEFORE you start making absurd comments like these. (as if the bash

Re: Python24 problem

2007-10-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag 04 Oktober 2007 08:20:37 schrieb dhaneshk k: Hi , I have a FreeBSD6.2 server machine. Here I tried to install python2.4 as follows #cd /usr/ports/lang/python24 #make install clean It seems you're using the tcsh; try rehash after the install to be able to start python

Re: Managing very large files

2007-10-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag 04 Oktober 2007 14:43:31 schrieb Steve Bertrand: Is there any way to accomplish this, preferably with the ability to incrementally name each newly created file? man 1 split (esp. -l) -- Heiko Wundram Product Application Development

Re: What is affected by FreeBSD-SA-07:08.openssl ?

2007-10-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag 04 Oktober 2007 15:53:28 schrieb Alexandre Biancalana: snip Doesn't revel much about what is affected by this bug Have someone made some deeper analysis about what is affected ? Apache (i.e. mod_ssl) is affected by this. That's what makes the patch important. -- Heiko

Re: ffmpeg not installing

2007-10-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag 04 Oktober 2007 21:01:26 schrieb James: Do you folks have any ideas on this one? I was attempting a make deinstall make reinstall to see if that would overcome it at the time. Have you tried a make clean in between? i.e., are you still using the broken work-directory? That'd be

Re: Managing very large files

2007-10-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag 04 Oktober 2007 22:16:29 schrieb Steve Bertrand: This is what I am afraid of. Just out of curiosity, if I did try to read the entire file into a Perl variable all at once, would the box panic, or as the saying goes 'what could possibly go wrong'? Perl most certainly wouldn't make

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-24 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag 24 September 2007 15:24:09 schrieb David Benfell: And not that this is the first file system issue I've heard about with qmail, but what is an MTA doing that should be file system dependent in any way? I *am* a happy qmail user, but this is something I just don't get. It is

Re: How to convert ASCII to Hexadecimal format?

2007-09-22 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Samstag 22 September 2007 09:19:02 schrieb ronggui: for example: ASCII: a test HEX : 61 20 74 65 73 74 A small Python script to do the same (in case you need more control, adapt it as it suits you). --- #!/usr/bin/python from sys import argv for c in .join(argv[1:]).decode(ascii):

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-22 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Samstag 22 September 2007 15:48:55 schrieb Christian Baer: snip The qmail-configuration can be read an evaluated *without* a parcer. Sorry, but that's BS (IMHO). Any program interpreting some form of input is called a parser, and the only distinction is the algorithm you need, i.e. whether

Re: switching between WAPs

2007-09-20 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag 20 September 2007 04:47:03 schrieb C Thala: That OS from the NorthWestern US seems to keep a list of WAPs and will detect whenever you are in the vicinity of one and use the available one. How can I get FreeBSD to do the same? Try setting up a wpa_supplicant configuration (and

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch 05 September 2007 21:14:17 schrieb Predrag Punosevac: We have a exim at the University of Arizona and works really well (but I am just a user not a sysadmin). Me, personally, I can only swear by Postfix. I've set up numerous Postfix mail servers over the last two years, and I've

Re: ip address location database

2007-08-23 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag 23 August 2007 11:42:00 schrieb David Banning: I am looking towards setting up something which will let me know what part of the world a specific ip address is from. Anyone know an easy process for this? Check out: http://www.maxmind.com/ Their free database is slightly less

Ports patches? Where should I send them to?

2007-08-14 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
I started hacking away at Python 2.5.1 in the ports distribution to implement HCI bluetooth socket handling for FreeBSD. As I've had my fair share of experience with the Python patching process, I'd rather see this patch go into the ports tree than to directly post it to upstream. Is there

Re: server was hacked

2007-08-11 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Samstag 11 August 2007 13:20:31 schrieb Brent: Im running FBSD 5.4 as a web server the server is behind a cisco firewall /router and the server has alot of CMS jumila / mambo sites on it. I noticed that when i ran sockstat i was seeing multiple IPs connected to high ports on the server with

Re: X + WM != GUI? (Re: Convince me, please! - too much about GUI)

2007-08-10 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Freitag 10 August 2007 10:57:38 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i don't use GUI. it takes a lot and gives nothing. i use both text and graphic (X) based apps and no gui. i use fvwm2 with my config, there are plenty of nice other wm's good for that. I

www.freebsd.org down?

2007-08-07 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Is anybody else experiencing www.freebsd.org to be down? I just wanted to have a look at the online handbook, but couldn't get at it... -- Heiko Wundram Product Application Development ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: www.freebsd.org down?

2007-08-07 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag 07 August 2007 15:00:09 schrieb Heiko Wundram (Beenic): Is anybody else experiencing www.freebsd.org to be down? I just wanted to have a look at the online handbook, but couldn't get at it... Forget this. It's back up for me. -- Heiko Wundram Product Application Development

Re: semi OT: sh scripting problem

2007-08-01 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch 01 August 2007 16:35:44 schrieb Robert Huff: Is there a way within the script - or, failing that, by modifying FILE - to not break at the whitespace? If you're using bash, set IFS to the newline only before looping. I guess the tcsh also has a similar setting, but I wouldn't

Re: make buildworld fails on 6.2-STABLE

2007-07-26 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag 26 Juli 2007 15:54:36 schrieb J.D. Bronson: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault: 11 Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html for instructions. Most probably a (physical) memory error. As the message

Re: looking for a good mailing list manager

2007-07-24 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag 24 Juli 2007 10:04:47 schrieb Steven: Hi I am looking for a good Open source mailing list manager. Mailman? I can only recommend that. http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html -- Heiko Wundram Product Application Development - Office

Re: bonnie++ aborts on NFS volume

2007-07-17 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 08:09:48 Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote: Anyone an idea why it aborts and how to fix? An idea why it aborts _could_ be the fact that the Linux (kernel) NFS-server (there's also a userland NFS server, but that's not widely used, so I presume this isn't the case for

Re: Transparent email proxy

2007-07-16 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
On Monday 16 July 2007 09:05:56 Daniel Marsh wrote: I've never come across anyone using TLS+SMTP, in most cases I've found that SMTP is accepted as insecure (esp. over the Internet). If we were talking intra-company SMTP over the Internet, different story altogether due to the company needing

Re: Transparent email proxy

2007-07-13 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
On Friday 13 July 2007 09:30:06 Olivier Nicole wrote: As an ISP, or the person in charge of a large organisation, have you ever set-up a transparent email redirection: all outgoing email would be proceeded to an outgoing server in order to check for virus, spam, whatever. Don't do this

Re: Some hosting weirdness...

2007-07-11 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 14:19:09 Eric F Crist wrote: snip What should I look for? Is there possibly some weird caching issues at their ISPs? How can I fix this? Do a tcpdump when someone connects from their network and check for TCP-MSS issues, which would be my first guess when small

Re: Some hosting weirdness...

2007-07-11 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 20:14:59 Eric F Crist wrote: Well, I performed a tcpdump as you suggested, and my mss is exactly 1460, not the 1452 you suggest. What does this mean? As your servers uplink is (most probably) an Ethernet cable, your MSS is correct at 1460 (= 1500 bytes MTU for