Re: Problem upgrading

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 02:14:10PM -0700, Timothy Snowberger wrote: On 10/17/2012 7:27 AM, Jim Trigg wrote: Any suggestions on how to fix this? --- argent(1) /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster# freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y ... Fetching

Problem upgrading

Any suggestions on how to fix this? --- argent(1) /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster# freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done.

Re: Installation problem on AMD64

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Jim Trigg jtr...@spamcop.net wrote: I do an installation from DVD on AMD64, and when I reboot it hangs before displaying anything from the standard boot loader.  How can I debug this? I found my problem by accident -- I had a badly formatted USB stick connected

Installation problem on AMD64

I do an installation from DVD on AMD64, and when I reboot it hangs before displaying anything from the standard boot loader. How can I debug this? Thanks, Jim Trigg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: pkg_info question

On Wed, June 22, 2005 2:13 pm, Björn König said: Thus I can search a file with cat /path/to/somewhere | xargs grep 'pattern' You can avoid wasting a process by using the following instead: xargs grep 'pattern' /path/to/somewhere Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O

Re: Postfix on BSD

for the wildcard to apply to. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website\ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Verger and System Administrator,XHELP CURE HTML MAIL All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel

Re: Postfix Problem (urgent)

Raciel Perez Hernandez wrote: Helo list I have postfix installed and working, it only have a problem, I connect to internet trougth a leased line of 144Kbs but this line sometimes gets unstable and goes down, so if the connection is down and somebody try to send a message, postfix tells me

Re: Spam Problems

Kevin Pang wrote: Hello All, I'm a newbie and manage a FreeBSD server, which only hosts my own websites, also only me have shell accounts on this server. Someone sent out lots of spams from my server today. I have stopped postfix and disabled mail command to make sure no any emails will be sent to

Re: dovecot is broken in ports

with no problems, and do use sasl but not ldap. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website\ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Verger and System Administrator,XHELP CURE HTML MAIL All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel

Re: postfix on FreeBSD

you understand what should be in your smtpd_*_restrictions. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website\ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Verger and System Administrator,XHELP CURE HTML MAIL All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel

Re: postfix on FreeBSD

On Wed, March 9, 2005 3:39 pm, Bart Silverstrim said: I saw the errors and googled for it, but it just led to the man pages and site web pages for the postfix project (which I read); what was throwing me was the fact that it wasn't an open relay before and it didn't have the directive

Re: how to get it online

. BTW, I'm using Cox as a ISP. Not if you haven't reconfigured the router; the default is http://192.168.0.1. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website

Re: flash

or ix86, not mixed. So you'd need a mozilla (and any needed shared libraries) built for ix86. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family websiteXHELP CURE

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

-party applications and /usr/local only for locally-developed applications. /opt/etc will be a symbolic link to /etc/opt as well.) Note that I'm using a symbolic link; this is because /etc is on the root filesystem while /usr and /opt will be separate filesystems. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High

Re: Guide to x.org update?

to be a real way to tell the ports system that you want X ports to depend on xorg instead of xfree. Every X port appears to have xfree hardcoded. Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster

Re: Guide to x.org update?

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:17:56 -0400 Jim Trigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAICT, this won't really do anything -- there does not appear to be a real way to tell the ports system that you want X ports to depend on xorg instead

Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-05-30 - 2004-06-19

--On Sunday, June 20, 2004 12:10 AM -0700 Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are the articles posted during this period: 15-Jun : IBM ThinkPad T41 Installing and configuring FreeBSD and XFree86 http://freebsddiary.org/ibm-thinkpad-t41.php?2 'Tain't there, McGee... Jim Trigg

Re: Mail

advisories for either on the CERT website; that actually covers their entire lifecycles. Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family websiteXHELP CURE HTML

Re: blacklist(s)

blacklist is somewhat controversial; some people find it too prone to false positives. I personally won't use it to bounce mail, just to mark mail as suspected spam. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON

Re: dot.bashrc, where is it?

have the bash2 shell pkg/port installed and in my mind, this is the only port where the dot.bashrc file could be installed, but this isn't obviously the case. instant-workstation is a meta-port that causes other ports, including bash2, to be installed. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else

Re: how do i invoke the command ee or vi when system fails to load

is to install the editors/e3 port, and copy the executable (which is entirely statically linked) into /bin. That gives you an editor available in recovery mode (only / mounted) that can use vi, emacs, or wordstar/pico key bindings as you want. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O

Looking for mail server tool recommendations

that I'm failing to consider? Thanks, Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family websiteXHELP CURE HTML MAIL Verger, All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel

Re: 4.7 Upgrade issue - Daniel Bye

, if mergemaster can be run just before booting into single-user mode, the operator needs to type one command (upgrade, a shell script in /root/bin which runs the fsck, mount, swapon, cd, make installworld, and fastboot commands). Thanks, Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O

Re: ftp users - question

that shouldn't be able to be logged in through ftp either can still have the shell /sbin/nologin. Users that should only be able to access the system through FTP get the shell /sbin/ftponly. It also make the passwd file more understandable. Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O

Re: Cvsup Handbook Example

problems on this list. I help admin a few freebsd servers and so this of extra interest to me. -rw-rw-rw-: The file protection of the Beast. ;- Pax Christi, Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON

Re: slow telnet login over (lan and wan)

would help. It probably has to do with reverse DNS resolution for the client IP address failing. (The telnet daemon attempts to get a hostname for the telnet client before prompting for login.) Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O

Re: Postfix (fwd)

. Note that it is written for Postfix 1.1.11; Postfix 2.x changes some of it, but the ports handle that fairly well. Also note that cyrus-sasl2 won't build with support for FreeBSD's base Kerberos 5 implementation -- you need to modify aclocal.m4 and rebuild configure to do that. Jim -- Jim

Re: bash

, and there is no point to having both .bash_profile and .bash_login as only .bash_profile will get used. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family websiteXHELP CURE HTML

Re: Procmail site-wide recipe's

? Change the local delivery agent in sendmail to procmail. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family websiteXHELP CURE HTML MAIL Verger, All Saints Church

Re: 5.25 Floppy

it was 15-sector...) Only the last two appear to be supported by FreeBSD 4.7, at least by default. Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ Verger, All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Novice, OSMX

Re: vi permissions

set up 5.0-RELEASE box. Permissions must be messed up somewhere. I can't believe that I neet to be root in order to create a . file. What ID are you su'ed as, and which directory are you in? (Do they match?) Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O

Re: suggested reinstall of KDE when original was from CD-Rom

, portupgrade to take care of both parts at once. Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family websiteXHELP CURE HTML MAIL Verger, All Saints Church - Sharon

Re: HELP! root partition full!

21683244 0%/var /dev/vinum/public 29776085 116 27393883 0%/public How do I determine what's going on? This is really strange. First guess is that something large was put into /tmp by a root-owned process. Clean out /tmp and see what df looks like then. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord

Re: IMAP2

inetd after changing inetd.conf, right? (killall -HUP inetd) Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family websiteXHELP CURE HTML MAIL Verger, All Saints Church

Re: Problems building cyrus-sasl2 on FREEBSD-4.7-RELEASE

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:06:11AM -0500, Jim Trigg wrote: (Note: the first two tries at sending this apparently got eaten by the ether... in case they show up, please know that I am now subscribed to the list.) I am having problems building the cyrus-sasl2 port on 4.7-RELEASE; no matter

Problems building cyrus-sasl2 on FREEBSD-4.7-RELEASE

Heimdal-style libraries in /usr/lib? Thanks, Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin Family websiteX HELP CURE HTML MAIL Verger, All Saints - Sharon Chapel