Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-16 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri,05-08-2011 [21:12:14], Christian Barthel wrote: Hello, I read on slashdot that Linus Torvalds moved from Gnome 2.3x to Xfce. It seems that he isn't thrilled by xfce, but it's far better than Gnome3. As a Gnome 2.3x user too, I am also a bit nervouse. Gnome 3 is a big mistake. And

freebsd.org maillist mx discard policy

2010-08-19 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello list, My question is regarding official maillist smtp servers. I'm trying to subscribe on security-notifications, but (for some reasons) our outgoing MX has no PTR record and mx1.freebsd.org rejects my message: Reporting-MTA: dns; xxx Arrival-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:18:39 +0400

Re: how to run task periodically

2010-08-18 Thread Jeff Laine
On 08/18/2010 10:58, Mark Stapper wrote: Hi, I have a system that doesn't run 24/7/365. I would like to make sure that some tasks (like updating the ports tree) run weekly/monthly etc. As the system isn't on 24/7 the cron job I usually run for these tasks doesn't work as the machine isn't

Re: Flash sometimes freezes firefox, also many npviewer.bin processes left running around

2010-03-23 Thread Jeff Laine
On Mon,22-03-2010 [17:41:16], Steve Franks wrote: /usr/ports/www/xpi-noscript is another option, not without caveats... Steve On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Sometimes after some flash object is displayed firefox gets frozen for many few seconds,maybe

fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e. I'd like to put the following line: /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 Any ideas? -- Best

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sat,30-01-2010 [19:33:37], krad wrote: On 30 January 2010 19:05, Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e

Re: FreeBSD vs Russian's laws

2009-10-31 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sat,31-10-2009 [17:56:22], Vagner wrote: Good day! I wanted to share with you the situation in Russia and hear advice. In Russia introduced a law On personal data and the corresponding standarts. In accordance with these standarts process personal data (ie 80% of all data in the enterprise)

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-15 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed,14-10-2009 [23:48:26], Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:55:05 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: All of my cards are ATI and I don't know of the mtrr problem you're talking about. This X1650 works fine on i386 with both 7-STABLE and 8-STABLE. I had an

Re: How can I get 100 connections in FIN_WAIT_2 state from the same IP?

2009-10-13 Thread Jeff Laine
On Tue,13-10-2009 [17:50:00], Michael Powell wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Martin Turgeon wrote: I would like to know if anyone knows the reason why I get a lot of connections (more than 100) from the same IP in FIN_WAIT_2 state. That IP is probably running

Re: Tcpwrappers, sendmail, and unknown hosts...

2009-10-10 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sat,10-10-2009 [12:31:01], Kevin Kinsey wrote: Seems like a lot of the spam we fight comes from hosts with no DNS entries. What about using this? -- $grep sendmail /etc/hosts.allow sendmail : KNOWN : allow sendmail : UNKNOWN : deny

Re: Opera 10.00 (native) flash

2009-09-07 Thread Jeff Laine
On Mon,07-09-2009 [18:44:54], Tom Mende wrote: Running on 7.2-RELEASE, Opera 10.00 build 4585 (native) and would like to view flash enabled websites. Anyone with a howto? Have googled extensively and followed a variety of methods all unsuccessful to date. Like to here from someone who has

linux_base installation - missing rpm binary

2009-08-28 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, I've just installed the emulators/linux_base-f10 port in order to run some rpm-based applications. Various online manuals told me that one should not use the native freebsd rpm binary (archivers/rpm), but instead use the /compat/linux/bin/rpm. But there's no such rpm binary under

Re: linux_base installation - missing rpm binary

2009-08-28 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri,28-08-2009 [14:57:04], Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:06:28 +0400 Jeff Laine wrote: I've just installed the emulators/linux_base-f10 port in order to run some rpm-based applications. Various online manuals told me that one should not use the native freebsd rpm

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-10 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri,08/07/09 [09:32:38], Daniel Underwood wrote: I'd really love to see chromium ported over. ditto. But now I'm pretty happy with that new firefox-3.5 which seems pretty faster than previous version and still light enough for my old 1.6G celeron-powered laptop. -- Best regards, Jeff |

Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync

2009-07-06 Thread Jeff Laine
Hi, I'm used to migrate GNU/Linux system from one box to another by booting the second box with a liveCD (like systemrescueCD for example) and by copying the / filesystem (using the ssh transport) with rsync. I would like to do the same for BSD system but i have two issues: - as the UFS

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-23 Thread Jeff Laine
On Mon,06/22/09 [21:16:35], Daniel Underwood wrote: On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't set pf rules to filter by IP). I

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-20 Thread Jeff Laine
A vote for C-net devices. Pretty cheap and I can't recall any troubles caused by 'em. -- Best regards, Jeff | Nobody wants to say how this works. | | Maybe nobody knows ... | | Xorg.conf(5)| ___

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-19 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri,06/19/09 [17:31:49], Olivier Nicole wrote: Nikos, My list of priorities, with 1 being the most important. 1. Price 2. Stability As the price is the most important for you, buy any cheap switch. Now I have had satisfaction with Dlink and Compex, maybe not among the cheapest,

Re: Named ignoring forward-only zones?

2009-06-05 Thread Jeff Laine
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:53:38AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: For some reason, BIND 9 (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE) isn't properly forwarding queries. A snippet of named.conf: acl clients { localnets; localhost; ::1; 10.45.12/19; };

Re: cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes

2009-06-03 Thread Jeff Laine
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:19:01PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: Jeff Laine wrote: The troublemaker is the cyrus. It starts and opens it's sockets, but whenever I try to establish a connection to pop3 or imap ports (i.e. via telnet or cyradm) cyrus goes nuts and spawns child processes

Re: How to reset a connection stuck in CLOSE_WAIT state

2009-06-03 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:38:24PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I am runnig FlexNet license manager on FreeBSD (6.4), this is alinux application, but it is running smoothly. The problem occurs sometime at stop time, it will not stop cleanly and leave a connection in CLOSE_WAIT state.

cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes

2009-06-02 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, list. I'm trying to set up cyrus-imapd on my host running FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. The troublemaker is the cyrus. It starts and opens it's sockets, but whenever I try to establish a connection to pop3 or imap ports (i.e. via telnet or cyradm) cyrus goes nuts and spawns child processes in

6.0 to 6.4 upgrade - buildkernel fails

2009-05-08 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, everybody. I'm trying to source upgrade from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.4. I really need to update this system, because 6.0 has too many holes now. I cvsup'ed to RELENG_6_4 and buildworld went ok, but buildkernel fails ait this stage: [skipped]

Re: firefox3 with high latencies when acting with mouse or keyboard and graphics refresh

2009-04-08 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:42:56PM +, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, got a problem since yesterday after having done a lot of updates (ports): on all of my FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 boxes firefox does have enormous high latencies when typing in or moving the mouse or popping up the window

Re: UTF-8 file + console

2009-03-31 Thread Jeff Laine
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 07:47:56AM +0200, Arek Czereszewski wrote: Hi, I have php application in UTF-8 on server (in files are 4 languages: PL, SK, CZ and EN). Is there any chance to edit this files on console? Or should I edit files in Linux/Mac/Win editor with UTF support and upload

Re: UTF-8 file + console

2009-03-31 Thread Jeff Laine
Sorry, I missed that you need a console editor. bluefish requires X -- Best regards, Jeff | Nobody wants to say how this works. | | Maybe nobody knows ... | | Xorg.conf(5)| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Jeff Laine
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:12:17PM +, Barnaby Scott wrote: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Barnaby Scott b...@waywood.co.uk: I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I have tried elsewhere and go no response. I want to install wine, but without X on the system. Why would

Re: Really strange resolution problems on xorg with a laptop

2008-12-25 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 04:22:40PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:16:49 -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have a HP Pavilion dv5000 and any standard xorg app like xterm or anything else that comes with xorg seems to

Cpu and memory clock tool

2008-12-22 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello everybody. I've been fiddling with some memory modules on my laptop and realized that I had no idea what frequency memory was running. So is there any tool to measure such things like FSB and memory clocks under FreeBSD? TIA. -- Best regards, Jeff () X-mas ribbon campaign /\

Re: Cpu and memory clock tool

2008-12-22 Thread Jeff Laine
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:20:59PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody. I've been fiddling with some memory modules on my laptop and realized that I had no idea what frequency memory was running. So

Re: Cpu and memory clock tool

2008-12-22 Thread Jeff Laine
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:10:28PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 22), Jeff Laine said: Hello everybody. I've been fiddling with some memory modules on my laptop and realized that I had no idea what frequency memory was running. So is there any tool to measure

Re: recover data from damaged msdos fat32 partition

2008-12-20 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 04:16:38PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: I know i can mount fat32 partition using mount_msdos command. But my msdos fat32 partition is a bad disk with corrupted fat table. Question is can i use freebsd to recover data from this msdos fAT32 disk What tools do you suggest

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:59:56PM -0500, Gary Hartl wrote: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, Cheers, Gary Just

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:32:51PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich I can't tell about nessus but nmap does so after

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:41:46PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: yes,but i dpn't know how... it looks to me that all ports are closed On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:38 PM, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can

Re: bridge ipfw also protect set

2008-12-18 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:08:10AM +0800, KHOO Guan Chen wrote: Hi I want to give internet connectivity to a pc behind my Freebsd, which is connected to an aDSL. I know I can add another card to my set and use bridge+IPFW so that the behind pc is firewalled. But will this setup also

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Jeff Laine
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:34:20AM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Monday 15 December 2008 11:14:08 Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:53:39PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: and exactly is needed on that group. it would be enough that moderator's job will be just removing posts

Re: Canonical way for DHCP-IP-/etc/hosts

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:00:12PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, I am sorry if this question has been asked over and over again - however the htdig search interface for the lists is somewhat shaky and gives referrer errors for me. Pre-conditions. Dualhomed firewalled

Re: USB Flash Drives

2008-12-13 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:39:50PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: fixer ord...@fixer.com writes: FreeBSD localhost 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 localhost# I just discovered flash drives.

Re: (no subject)

2008-12-12 Thread Jeff Laine
2008/12/12 abedini abedini.erics...@gmail.com: Hi all dear I have laptop acer 4220 and I need to install FreeBSD. This laptop have sata HDD how can install FreeBSD in this system. Hello. If you need a desktop environment you can try PC-BSD (http://www.pcbsd.org/), it's easy and fast to

Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-15 Thread Jeff Laine
Agreed with t-u-t. I tried new pc-bsd7 on my old laptop (Celeron 1,6GHz/1.5G RAM/15GB dedicated on HDD/Intel GME video) and it runs rather good (with almost all desctop effects disabled). Not so blazing fast of course, but still enough for doing everyday stuff. -- Best regards, Jeff

Sound troubles with high res modes in console

2008-10-07 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, everybody! The system is ASUS A3500L, old laptop on Intel Montara platform, running 7.1-PRERELEASE I have one trouble while listening music with console players. Sound became crippled when I have output to STDOUT or whenever I use text-scrolling in editors or switching between

Re: Dealing with portscans

2008-09-22 Thread Jeff Laine
2008/9/22 David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Over the last few weeks I've been getting numerous ports scans, each from unique hosts. The situation is more of an annoyance than anything else, but I would prefer not seeing or having to deal with an extra 20-30K entries in my logs as was the case

release or rc?

2008-01-17 Thread Jeff Laine
Hi to all. Stupid question here ) I've cvsup'ed recently from 6.1 to RELENG_6_3. All seems to works pretty well right now. There are plenty of new drivers and fixes that I needed so much! Many thanks to developers! But now uname -a says it's 6.3-RELEASE. I thought it would be 6.3-RC2 . Is it

batch rename

2008-01-04 Thread Jeff Laine
Hi to all. My goal is to rename several files in such a way as to decapitalize starting letters in their names. The solution seems to be simple but I'm stuck. What should I use? awk/sed or write some shell-script? TIA -- --Jeff-- ___

Re: batch rename

2008-01-04 Thread Jeff Laine
On 05/01/2008, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Laine wrote: Hi to all. My goal is to rename several files in such a way as to decapitalize starting letters in their names. The solution seems to be simple but I'm stuck

keep track of a text file

2007-09-30 Thread Jeff Laine
Hi to all. --- I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p17 Just wonder about one catch: is it possible to keep track of any text file's contents in a real time? For example, I open ttyv1 and via some magic command :) I get my file's contents updating in real time if any modifications

Re: keep track of a text file

2007-09-30 Thread Jeff Laine
On 30/09/2007, N.J. Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Laine wrote: Just wonder about one catch: is it possible to keep track of any text file's contents in a real time? For example, I open ttyv1 and via some magic command :) I get my file's contents