Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Nang wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have two computers, both running FreeBSD, accessing the >> web via DHCP from the router. The setup looks like this: >> >> >>Int

Re: What's wrong here? Can't reinstall graphics/lcms2

2013-08-20 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > $ sudo portupgrade -f graphics/lcms2 > => Please update your ports tree and try again. > *** [check-vulnerable] Error code 1 > > I have of course updated the ports tree but it made no difference. Try updating ports again. I was successful i

Re: pkg_version says my ports need to be updated?

2013-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
Read the relevant portions of the handbook Chapter 5: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html Chapter 25: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html Then also: man portmaster man freebsd-update On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:49 AM,

Re: Re-sending selected e-mail messages

2013-02-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Polytropon wrote: > I need a way to automatically re-sent stored e-mail messages > according to some criteria and like to ask for advice or > suggestions for an already existing solution before I start > reinventing the wheel. :-) > > The messages in question are s

Re: Error upgrading Chromium

2013-01-21 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 08:30 -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: >> I worked around this by reconfiguring the port so that it doesn't use >> pulseadio, recompiled, and it finished OK. > > IIUC Google doesn't like to add pul

Re: Error upgrading Chromium

2013-01-21 Thread Kurt Buff
I worked around this by reconfiguring the port so that it doesn't use pulseadio, recompiled, and it finished OK. Kurt On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > Just updated from 8.3 to FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3, and am reinstalling ports. > Chromium is giving me two errors

Error upgrading Chromium

2013-01-17 Thread Kurt Buff
Just updated from 8.3 to FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3, and am reinstalling ports. Chromium is giving me two errors and bombing out. The errors are: media/audio/pulst/pulse_output.cc:89L28: error: use of undeclared identifier 'kChannelOrderings'; did you mean 'ChannelOrder'? int channel_position =

Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-06 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should > use. > > firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick. > > thanks for some tips, > > gary For firefox I use the following: Adblock

Fwd: Somewhat OT: Is Full Command Logging Possible?

2012-12-06 Thread Kurt Buff
Sorry, forgot to replay all... Kurt -- Forwarded message -- From: Kurt Buff Date: Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: Is Full Command Logging Possible? To: Fleuriot Damien On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Fleuriot Damien wrote: > > On Dec 6, 2012, a

Re: Somewhat OT: Is Full Command Logging Possible?

2012-12-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 12/05/2012 05:44 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Tim Daneliuk >> wrote: >>> >>> I am working with an institution that today provides limited privilege >>> escala

Re: Somewhat OT: Is Full Command Logging Possible?

2012-12-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I am working with an institution that today provides limited privilege > escalation > on their servers via very specific sudo rules. The problem is that the > administrators can do 'sudo su -'. sudo is misconfigured. man 5 sudoers and man

Re: Bring You Own Device(BYOD)

2012-10-04 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > In this age of BYOD, I am trying to see what we have out there in the FOSS > world. > > Is there someone with a recommendation for a solution for implementing a > BYOD for a team of about 50 or so? > > I have seen SAP Afaria demo video a

Re: Tape drive recommendations

2012-09-20 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this is a bit off-topic, but I'm looking for suggestions. > > In one of my corporate sites, I've got a Tandberg Magnum 2x24 dual 10-slot > tape backup device that I feel is on its way out. > > The storage amount for this s

Re: Problems with ssl certs

2012-09-17 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > --On September 17, 2012 5:31:25 PM -0700 Kurt Buff > wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Paul Schmehl >> wrote: >>> >>> I'm setting up a new server and plan on migrating a Wordpres

Re: Problems with ssl certs

2012-09-17 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm setting up a new server and plan on migrating a Wordpress blog to it. > Right now the server does not resolve with DNS, because the server I'm > migrating from is still up and running. (I'm in the setup and configure > stage.) > > I've go

Re: Re[2]: vlan tagging in releng/8.3 not working

2012-08-15 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Eugen Konkov wrote: > > RM> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Rick Miller > RM> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I am running the latest releng/8.3 on a HP DL360 with an Intel 82599 >>> 10G NIC using the ixgbe driver. Without vlan tagging, tcpdump sees >>> traffic on t

Re: what is the best kind of KVM Switch?

2012-08-11 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > guys, > > can any of you with hardware background tell me which are > the better KVM makes? about three weeks ago my "Belkin > soho" 4-port kvm switch started going flakey on port #1. > > I ordered

Re: Webpage screenshot

2012-08-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Polytropon wrote: > I'm searching for a simple way to create a screenshot from > a web page, i. e. convert the rendered page into a PNG (or > something similar) graphic format. This is intended to be > used for usability and design visualization where different > c

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-06 Thread Kurt Buff
Thank you for this. I didn't realize that a simple (somewhat technical) question asked in all innocence would generate so much flammage. Kurt On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:13 PM, grarpamp wrote: > Isn't there a lot of needless handwaving going on when the spec is > pretty clear that installing your

Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Kurt Buff
UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ This would seem to make compiling from source difficult. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: which FF ad blocker?

2012-02-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 17:06, Jason Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 18:57, Gary Kline wrote: > >> which of the many adblockers should i try? >> >> thanks in advance for your insights! >> > imho Add Block Plus is the best Agreed, and for further security, I also use NoScript and Request

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:49, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >>> You can do either.  However, it's probably easier to just download and burn >>> the 7.4 or 8.2 image, and do an upgrade directly than it would be do >>> up

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:03, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, >> and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if >> necessary, but would

Re: My tribute to Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
A fitting tribute, except for one line... On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 08:07, Paul Schmehl wrote: > # grep -ir Ritchie /usr/src/* > /usr/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music:04/14        Ritchie > Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) is born, 1945 I don't know if Dennis Ritchie was a fan of Dee

Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if necessary, but would prefer to have it down as little as possible. What are my options for getting it to a supported release - looking at the handbook it doesn't

Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:32, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >> In the Makefile I see the line >> >>     MASTER_SITES=   ${MASTER_SITE_GNUPG} >> >> which I'd bet controls how it finds what sites to v

Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 18:45, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> All, >> >> I've just spun up a new 8.2-RELEASE VM, and gotten a fresh ports tree. >> I tried to install XFCE4, but it has ended with an error: >> >>

libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-28 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've just spun up a new 8.2-RELEASE VM, and gotten a fresh ports tree. I tried to install XFCE4, but it has ended with an error: ===>Verifying install for gcrypt.18 in /usr/ports/security/libgcrypt ===> License GPLv2 LGPL21 accepted by the user ===> Extracting for libgcrypt-1.5.0 => SH

zend.to and FreeBSD

2011-08-16 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I'm not seeing the app from http://zend.to in ports, and my google search reveals nobody working with it in FreeBSD. Still, it's promising enough that I thought I'd ask about it here, and see if anyone has tried it. If not, does anyone know of similar functionality running in FreeBSD? Than

Re: Best soloution(s) for handling all the varied media content on the web?

2011-08-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 19:14, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > I'm just wondering what practical solutions people have arrived at for > handling all the varied types of media on the web in their browser. > I'd really like to be able to view sites like YouTube, etc. and > Flash-enabled sites, with a mi

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:44, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Warren Block wrote: >> >> I'd never seen it with portupgrade, either.  Don't know the cause, but it >> can be a problem.  portmaster --check-depends might fix it.  A more >> brute-force way is to figure out w

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:15, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> This seems fairly benign so far, but I find it happening on several >> machines after switching from portupgrade to portmaster. Don't know if >> that switch is actually par

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:17, John Webster wrote: > > > --On August 12, 2011 11:08:01 AM -0700 Kurt Buff wrote: > >> All, >> >> This seems fairly benign so far, but I find it happening on several >> machines after switching from portupgrade to portmas

pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
All, This seems fairly benign so far, but I find it happening on several machines after switching from portupgrade to portmaster. Don't know if that switch is actually part of the issue or not, though I'm really liking portmaster. Anyone have a thought on this? Thanks, Kurt # pkg_info | grep p

Re: extracting text from docx files

2011-08-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 06:36, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I often receive information in *.docx format > from my MS using colleagues. Sometimes I can > ask for a pdf (or similar) instead, but not always. > > Usually I unzip a docx and then search > through all *xml  files to find the > useful data

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-07-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 15:30, Dr. A. Haakh wrote: > Kurt Buff schrieb: >> >> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:31, Kurt Buff  wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh  wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Polytropon schri

Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers?

2011-07-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:37, Yuri wrote: > Hi, > > I hit this problem periodically when a lot of disk space is gone and it's > hard to tell where did it go. Once it was thunderbird writing huge index > file as a consequence of some bug, on another occasion it was the bug in KDE > writing some hug

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-07-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:31, Kurt Buff wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh wrote: >> Polytropon schrieb: >>> >>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Your advice sounds reasonable, bu

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh wrote: > Polytropon schrieb: >> >> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >>> >>> Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs >>> bootables. >>

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh wrote: > Polytropon schrieb: >> >> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >>> >>> Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs >>> bootables. >>

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 20:24, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. >> >> I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... > > Check if you can download

Fwd: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
One more that should have made it to the list... Kurt On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 08:21, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 6/27/11 3:40 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:03, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >>> On 6/27/11 8:17 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >>>> I&#

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 20:24, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. >> >> I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... > > Check if you can download

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:21, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 06:40, Warren Block wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: >>> >>>> Sitrep: Lenovo T61, dual booting WinXP an

Fwd: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-27 Thread Kurt Buff
This should have gone to the list - sorry. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kurt Buff Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 07:17 Subject: Re: fubar'ed it good this time... To: Warren Block On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 06:40, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Kurt Bu

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:03, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 6/27/11 8:17 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> I've even downloaded and burned the 8.2 live boot iso, but it says it >> can't find a hard drive from sysinstall - both the Fdisk and Label >> options say >>    

fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-26 Thread Kurt Buff
Sitrep: Lenovo T61, dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD (amd64 8.1-RELEASE) on a 500gb drive. Just did a freebsd-update from 8.1 to 8.2, just doing the second boot to do 'freebsd-update install' for the second time, and got dumped into the mountroot prompt. AFAICT, I managed somehow to write something

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 15:02, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:44:29 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> Per the handbook, I added >> >>      SHELL=/bin/sh >> >> to crontab, and I also added >> >>      #!/bin/sh >> >> as the first li

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
I'm sure > many others have as well! > > G > > > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of pete wright > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 3:25 PM > To: Kurt Buff > Cc: FreeBSD

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 13:25, pete wright wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> All, >> >> I've googled a bunch, read some freebsd.org docs, and just can't >> figure this out. >> >> I have a script that should read the

Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've googled a bunch, read some freebsd.org docs, and just can't figure this out. I have a script that should read the current date into a variable, append the time/date stamp at the beginning of the file created with the date in the variable, do a bunch of cURL stuff, then append a time/dat

Re: Remote access to Freebsd server

2011-04-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:40, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 13/04/2011 16:37, afiddler10 wrote: > Edit the file /etc/rc.conf and add the line: > > sshd_enable="YES" > > Then run this command as root: > > # /etc/rc.d/sshd start > > (you only need to do that as a one-off -- adding the line to rc.co

Re: mountroot prompt in the middle of updating - can't get past it

2010-12-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:50, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >> That worked... >> >> I think I'll try the update process again. >> >> Anything else you can recommend? >> >> Thanks, >> >

Re: mountroot prompt in the middle of updating - can't get past it

2010-12-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 22:50, Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:49:41 -0800 Kurt Buff wrote: > >> All, > >> I have a Lenovo T61 with a 100g HD that I dual boot with FreeBSD >> 8.0-STABLE amd64 and Windows XP. > >> FBSD is on ad0s2a, w

mountroot prompt in the middle of updating - can't get past it

2010-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I have a Lenovo T61 with a 100g HD that I dual boot with FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE amd64 and Windows XP. FBSD is on ad0s2a, with ad0s2b as swap, and XP on ad0s1a. Yesterday I booted up FBSD, started xfce4, started a terminal session, su'ed to root and did the following - running a generic kernel:

Re: Problem building netdisco 1.0 from ports on FreeBSD

2010-12-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 14:33, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 14:27:48 -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:01, Brandon Gooch >> wrote: >> > It seems that the header files can't be found. Have you checked >> > /usr/local

Re: Problem building netdisco 1.0 from ports on FreeBSD

2010-12-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:01, Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> Working on 7.1 Release. Ports tree up to date, and a portupgrade -a >> done yesterday was successful. >> >> I did the following: >> >> # cd  /usr/po

Problem building netdisco 1.0 from ports on FreeBSD

2010-12-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Working on 7.1 Release. Ports tree up to date, and a portupgrade -a done yesterday was successful. I did the following: # cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/netdisco # make install It bombs out with the below errors - I think it's an error in libXaw, but can't quite be sure. Any thoughts? Kurt ===>Ve

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 06:53, Chris Brennan wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Dave wrote: > > >   Yes, I found that, good info.  I'm relying on the freebsd.org site man > > pages and documentation among others, as I'm finding it too inconvenient > > (bad short term memory) using the ma

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 13:18, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:53:51 -0500, Chris Brennan > wrote: >> There are two options that I know of that could make this part easier for >> you >> >> 1) screen (tried and true) can do split windows/multiple windows although >> I've never been abl

Re: Freebsd-update not working for me

2010-10-04 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 22:25, Jason wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:45:46PM -0700, Kurt Buff thus spake: >> >> Weird little problem here... >> >> I've got a 7.1-RELEASE box I'm trying to get to 8.1-RELEASE. I was >> able to do 'freebsd-update -

Freebsd-update not working for me

2010-10-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Weird little problem here... I've got a 7.1-RELEASE box I'm trying to get to 8.1-RELEASE. I was able to do 'freebsd-update -install' and get the security patches and all, but 'freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade' fails - see output below. Can anyone point me in the right direction to start trou

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 06:46, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Jules" == Jules Gilbert writes: > > Jules> Look, I'm just a user.  I'm not a Java developer, not a language > Jules> developer, not a run-time specialist.  But folks, we got problems!  I > Jules> say this because it's becoming reall

Re: Moving from one port to another

2010-08-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 21:51, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> Portupgrade won't, AFAIK, cross branches, though I could be wrong about that. >> >> There's a 3.0 branch in /usr/ports/www/squid30 and a 3.1 branch in >&g

Re: Moving from one port to another

2010-08-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 14:33, RW wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:56:09 -0700 > Kurt Buff wrote: > >> Right now I've got an installation of squid 3.0.24, and want to move >> to the 3.1 branch. >> >> I could just do a 'make deinstall' on the curre

Re: Moving from one port to another

2010-08-28 Thread Kurt Buff
t; > portupgrade, perhaps? > > > On Aug 28, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> Right now I've got an installation of squid 3.0.24, and want to move >> to the 3.1 branch. >> >> I could just do a 'make deinstall' on the current version, the

Moving from one port to another

2010-08-28 Thread Kurt Buff
Right now I've got an installation of squid 3.0.24, and want to move to the 3.1 branch. I could just do a 'make deinstall' on the current version, then do 'make install' in the 3.1 port, but I'm wondering if there's a smarter way to do this. Kurt ___ fr

Re: Status of Java in FreeBSD? (OpenSolaris is dead)

2010-08-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:57, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:59:20PM +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Now that OpenSolaris is dead [1] I was wondering what the status of Java >> is in FreeBSD. >> [1] http://sstallion.blogspot.com/2010/08/opensolaris-is-dead.html > >

Re: Installing wget

2010-08-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:20, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Hi All, > > I started an instal of wget from ports - /usr/ports/ftp/wget > > It comes up with some selections and I mistakenly selected GNUTLS. > > Now I constantly get >  "GNUTLS and OPENSSL are mutually exclusive, enable at most one of them

Re: Upgrading Apache fails - Solved

2010-07-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 16:14, Morgan Wesström wrote: > On 2010-07-27 23:47, Kurt Buff wrote: >> Trying to do the following on a couple of machines: >> >>      # portupgrade apache-2.2.14_5 >> > >> >> I've grepped through the port and haven't f

Re: Upgrading Apache fails - I don't understand why, exactly

2010-07-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 16:14, Morgan Wesström wrote: > On 2010-07-27 23:47, Kurt Buff wrote: >> Trying to do the following on a couple of machines: >> >>      # portupgrade apache-2.2.14_5 >> > >> >> I've grepped through the port and haven't f

Upgrading Apache fails - I don't understand why, exactly

2010-07-27 Thread Kurt Buff
Trying to do the following on a couple of machines: # portupgrade apache-2.2.14_5 I get a lot of churning, then this: find: /usr/local/include/apr-1/apr.h: No such file or directory find: /usr/local/include/apr-1/apr_allocator.h: No such file or directory find: /usr/local/incl

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 13:34, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Sun Jun  6 23:47:34 2010 >> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 00:44:45 -0400 >> From: Alejandro Imass >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: office apps >> >> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Charlie

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:58, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:47:24 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> No, Denial of Service would be DoS. He's talking about Disk Operating >> System. Funny, though. > > Well, and "Disk Operating System" is a language then?

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:02, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:39:46 +, Jean-Paul Natola > wrote: >> >> As for directions: >> >> >Use your choice of programming language to write a program that will >> >call file(1) to determine filesystem, mount the device, virus scan, and >> >un

Re: Routers, switches, and networking hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 15:52, Nick Evans wrote: > On Mar 26, 2010, at 18:05, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 14:46, Lee Shackelford >> wrote: >>> >>> Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast.  Is anyone aware of any brand >>> name >&

Re: Routers, switches, and networking hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 14:46, Lee Shackelford wrote: > > Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast.  Is anyone aware of any brand name > of router, switch, or other similar networking hardware that is based on > any variant of the BSD operating system?  Any comments are appreciated. > Yours truly,

Re: is there a tool for estimating loss rates

2010-02-18 Thread Kurt Buff
2010/2/18 Yavuz Maşlak : > I have 2 leasedlines for internet. the one is in a country. other one is in > a another country. > I am looking for a tool for estimating loss packets between 2 lines. > is there a tool for it? > for instance , while searching, I found badabing tool for that. But I > coul

Re: curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-10 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:03, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 10), Kurt Buff said: >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 21:05, Dan Nelson wrote: >> > In the last episode (Feb 09), Kurt Buff said: >> >> Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it&

Re: curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-10 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 21:05, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 09), Kurt Buff said: >> Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it's a "curl and squid" >> question. >> >> I'm trying to determine the cause of a major slowdown in web

curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-09 Thread Kurt Buff
Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it's a "curl and squid" question. I'm trying to determine the cause of a major slowdown in web browsing on our network, so I've put curl on the squid box, and am using the following incantations to see if I can determine the cause of the slowdown: c

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:48, Joe Springer wrote: > Hi. > > I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After > installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For > example, samba. > > I found that > >   pkg_add -r samba > > fails. I need to know s

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 16:23, Kaya Saman wrote: So, given what you've written below, you probably know more about this stuff than I do. Cool. I will echo the advice already given, however: add dbus_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf. That will most likely clear your problem.

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 15:29, Kaya Saman wrote: > >> I can't speak to the rest, but WRT the GUI, I suspect you'll find it a >> lot easier if you install a Window Manager to handle a lot of this. I >> have found xfce4 to be a good one for me - gnome and kde were a bit >> much. Once I installed /us

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 14:42, Kaya Saman wrote: > >> >> Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal >> are started at boot.  Follow the handbook for best results. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html > > I'm sure I started them as this doc

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 03:33, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used > to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very > vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is > say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, > per

Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?

2009-12-21 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:17, Eric Le Goff wrote: >> Have a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr > > I had a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr > I am quite new in FreeBsd but in my case it does not work , ie : > > I start a xfce4 session for a (non-root) user > open the wifimgr from  the 'network' menu >

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-11 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:53, J Sisson wrote: > 2009/12/11 Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) > >> The easiest way of brute-forcing access to a FreeBSD server includes >> locating the sysadmin and applying the common desk drawer. It's that >> simple. >> > > http://xkcd.com/538/ > > indeed. Well, y

Re: OTish: Alternative to MS Live?

2009-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 15:03, Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > On Tuesday 08 December 2009 5:50:46 pm Kurt Buff > wrote: >> All, >> >> Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the >> firewall and install the MS client on a number >> of desktops to facilitate IM/video

OTish: Alternative to MS Live?

2009-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
All, Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the firewall and install the MS client on a number of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing for this. That makes me vaguely nauseous, for several security reasons (the client is historically vulnerable, poking holes in firewalls is risky, and inter

Re: 7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

2009-12-02 Thread Kurt Buff
ox > done > > But maybe this could be managed into firefox3 package? > > > Samuel Martín Moro > CamTrace > {EPITECH.} tek4 > > "Nobody wants to say how this works. > Maybe nobody knows ..." >                      Xorg.conf(5) > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 a

Re: 7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

2009-12-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 01:16, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Sunday 29 November 2009 22:47:56 Kurt Buff wrote: >> I've gotten Flash and Java going with Firefox, as root, using the >> directions here: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/des

7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

2009-11-29 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've gotten Flash and Java going with Firefox, as root, using the directions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html However, I can't get it going as a standard user. When I run 'nspluginwrapper -v -a -i' I get the following: Auto-i

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 16:08, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: >> >     so: what is the URL to download the 8.0-PRE freebsd? >> >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGE

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 00:16, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Monday 26 October 2009 21:29:27 Yuri wrote: >> It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. >> >> How many people actually use it? Very few. >> Why isn't it moved to ports? > > What is this anti-sendmail obsession people have? > > Almost everyone I've eve

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:32, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Yuri : > Besides, if it's not there, how are you going to send mail from things > like cron? Postfix. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Approx. restore time estimate

2009-09-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 16:36, jaymax wrote: > > Thanks! > > That might explain. Is there an alternate process you would recommend with > at least equal reliability. > BTW I should have mentioned that I was restoring from a disk file rather > than from a tape > > Thanks again. IME, restoring from

Re: SVG and dependence on Firefox2.x?

2009-09-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:55, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:59:51 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> I notice that for both The Gimp and graphviz, and probably for others >> as well, marking them or their dependencies as able to render SVG >> invokes i

wpi0 went away, though a reboot cures it.

2009-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
Today, after leaving my Lenovo T61 on overnight to do some compiles, I lost my wireless. I tried a few other things that what I've listed below, but none of it worked. This is a dual boot machine - I also run Windows XP, and don't have any issues with wireless on that OS. Any clues would be appreci

Re: SVG and dependence on Firefox2.x?

2009-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 15:15, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:59:51 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> I notice that for both The Gimp and graphviz, and probably for others >> as well, marking them or their dependencies as able to render SVG >> invokes installation

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