On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:03:04 -0700 (PDT)
Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> I would like to learn more about how rc operates. I want to know
> where on the hard drive the instructions are located that activate
> when I say gnome_enable="YES". I naively thought I would find a file
> called "/usr/local/et
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:28:52 +0100
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> Anyone else having problems with bsdstats?
I seem to getting quite a lot of errors going back to the last
reinstall.
(I think the "System disabled" messages are probably a side effect of
running periodic monthly from anacron)
[Sat
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:37:14 +0200
Antonio Vieiro wrote:
> I'm eager to try out 8.1,
Personally, I don't ever recall seeing a noticeable difference after a
minor base-system update. Most user visible change comes from ports.
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:36:13 -0700 (PDT)
zaxis wrote:
> The /dev/ad4s8 is an empty partition. Now i want to move /var
> and /usr to it. Do i need to format /dev/ad4s8 to UFS ?
I would, there are FreeBSD specific file flags, that I don't think are
supported by ext2fs. UFS with soft-updates is g
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:50:14 +0200
Thomas Keusch wrote:
> "10" is not valid input according to the problem/pseudocode (in the
> forum) that the above code was posted as a solution for.
And if you were answering in that forum that would be a good point.
> Spoonfeeding solutions to trivial (and
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:19:53 +0200
Thomas Keusch wrote:
> t...@eternity:~$ b=5
> t...@eternity:~$ case "$b" in
> > [0-9] )
> > echo numeric
> > ;;
> > * )
> > echo alpha
> > ;;
> > esac
> numeric
> t...@eternity:~$
>
> Works for me.
Now try it with 10.
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:37:55 +0200
Thomas wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:24:39AM +0800, Aiza wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> > Receiving a variable from the command line that is suppose
> > to contain numeric values.
> >
> > How do I code a test to verify the content is numeric?
>
> http://www.go
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:19:22 -0500
"J. Porter Clark" wrote:
> 1. I'd like to be able to expand the list of choices in the
> boot menu (the menu with single user mode, safe mode, etc.) to
> include booting in any of several different environments, e.g.,
> home wired, home wireless, work wired, wor
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:20:00 +0800
Aiza wrote:
> >test "$name" = "${path}/${group}*" && continue
> >[ -z "${found_list}" ] && found_list="${name}" ||
> I had not known about the 'test' command.
> You have taught me something new.
In case you're not aware, [ -z "${found_list}" ] is als
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:28:44 -0400
Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> I currently am using mail/thunderbird as my mail reader and it is just
> doing the job very well (even with heavy use of filters) I use
> xfce4 on 8.1-PRERELEASE (updated and portmaster -Rafd'ed about 3 weeks
> ago) I am looking f
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:11:48 +0200
Morgan Wesström wrote:
> On 2010-06-16 02:51, Modulok wrote:
> > Yo,
> >
> > I have a FreeBSD box acting as a router between me and the Internet.
> > Whenever someone on the local network downloads something, the other
> > connections have a really high latency
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:51:40 -0600
Programmer in Training wrote:
> Quoting Polytropon :
> >
> > That's all within transition. Currently, big video portals are
> > moving to HTML5, often including the wish to also use free and
> > open standards for their videos so they can access a bigger
>
> T
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:04:00 +0200
"C. P. Ghost" wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training
> wrote:
> > I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it
> > would be nice to know I won't be the only one. I'm actually going
> > right now to do so.
>
> Good
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:20:14 +0100
RW wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:06:11 +0800
> Aiza wrote:
>
>
> > Here is the test and out put
> > # >admin cell*
> > admin: No match.
>
> try ./admin cell*
Sorry t
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:06:11 +0800
Aiza wrote:
> Here is the test and out put
> # >admin cell*
> admin: No match.
try ./admin cell*
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FreeBSD's sh (in 8.0) doesn't seem to support the ++ or -- arithmetic
operators
$ echo "$((n++))"
arithmetic expression: syntax error: "n++"
Am I wrong in thinking these are POSIX operators? It seems odd if they
were simply left-out..
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On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:51:28 -0700
Gary Kline wrote:
>
> anybody know why /usr/local/bin/spamd bailed on me like this?
>
> child process [2377] exited or timed out without signaling
> production of a PID file: exit 25 at /usr/local/bin/spamd line
> 2585.
This was discussed on the ports l
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:55:22 +0800
Fbsd1 wrote:
> The postsnap says adding refuse statements to select the parts of the
> port tree you have use for will shorten the download process and
> conserve disk space on your host. That only the port categories not
> REFUSED will be selected and compre
On Fri, 28 May 2010 01:35:09 -0700
Gary Kline wrote:
> ok,here is what i'm seeing via ``portmanager -a -B -d'' both here
> on tao [desktop and my Server. i'm not clear on exactly what's
> wht except that the sourcefile to build this qt4-* is HUGE. I
> can probably build ti on my server and use
On Thu, 27 May 2010 11:52:15 +0200
Coert wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Just a question, on Linux the output of top's memory usage looks like
> this:
>
> Mem: 2075424k total, 1760848k used, 314576k free, 151872k
> buffers Swap: 4192924k total,0k used, 4192924k free,
> 1214052k cached
On Tue, 11 May 2010 13:42:52 +0200
Coert wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I started using FreeBSD about a week ago, and I really like the
> system. Have been using Linux for the last few years.
>
> One noob question though, according to the Handbook on Packages and
> Ports, I can use packages for eithe
On Mon, 3 May 2010 16:29:19 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block wrote:
> On Mon, 3 May 2010, o...@aloha.com wrote:
>
> >> Hi, I am having problems connecting to my ISP. I am running a
> >> freebsd 7.2 box using a thompson speedtouch usb modem to connect
> >> to an adsl telephone line. However when I try to
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:58:37 +0100
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I tested by timing
> make(1) in a port but I can see it is working anyway
> because /root/.ccache gets created and populated.
You probably want to move that unless /root/ is on a big partition.
> Am I failing to follow ccache-howto-fre
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:43:35 -0400
sean wrote:
> On 04/28/10 13:31, Alexandre L. wrote:
> > Have you added the following line to /etc/rc.conf ?
> > linux_enable="YES"
> >
>
> Yes, it is.
rc.conf isn't relevant because your problem occur long before rc.conf is
read.
Try putting:
linux_load="Y
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:32:23 +0300
Eitan Adler wrote:
> I've been getting the following message a lot lately.
>
> Portsnap metadata is correctly signed, but contains
> at least one line which appears bogus.
>
> I've used the following command in the past to fix the error but it
> didn't work th
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:22:53 -0700
Jim Pazarena wrote:
> I recently upgraded p5-Mail-SpamAssassin on FreeBSD 8.0,
> and now exim generates the following error message in
> its logs:
> spam acl condition: cannot parse spamd output
>
> spamd and exim ran fine until I performed this update.
> can a
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:04:05 +0100
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> You could change to using csup rather than portsnap, but be aware that
> this pretty much means scrubbing all of your portsnap state. Indeed,
> for best results with csup, starting with an empty /usr/ports might be
> an idea -- I don't
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:24:11 -0400
Bob Johnson wrote:
> Why is Qemu not mentioned in the Handbook?
I don't know if this is the actual reason, but from the ports UPDATING
file:
Also note the 0.11 stable branch is the last
qemu branch that still supports kqemu, so if you depend on reasonably
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:32:27 +0200
Jos Chrispijn wrote:
>
> On 11-4-2010 9:41, Doug Hardie wrote:
> > A cheesy way to do that is to use a popen ("tail -f
> > /var/log/auth.log", "r") and then read that. It will give you every
> > login regardless of ssh, telnet etc. You could then generate the
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:15:05 -0600
Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:09:54PM +0100, RW wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:07:17 -0600
> > Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:20:49PM +0100, RW wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 5 A
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:07:17 -0600
Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:20:49PM +0100, RW wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:55:44 -0600
> > Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:36:32PM +0100, RW wrote:
> > > There are more th
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:55:44 -0600
Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:36:32PM +0100, RW wrote:
> >
> > IMO this is a bad mistake that other languages were quite right not
> > to copy - a test shouldn't come after a block of code unless it's
>
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:10:37 -0500
Walter wrote:
> On 4/5/10 10:08 AM -0500, Walter wrote:
> >If, by "host-specific url" you mean the name associated with
> >the IP address, you should be able to get the IP address by
> >using the "host" command.
> >
> >
> "host xxx" does the trick.
FWIW
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:57:17 +0100
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>
> I've always found that 'unless' makes a great deal of sense when used
> in the alternate syntax:
>
> do_foo()
> unless $condition ;
>
> As far as I know, perl and its descendant
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:41:30 +0100
Polytropon wrote:
> and the detach program from the ports collection.
Is there a reason for preferring that over daemon(8) in the base system?
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:38:39 -0400
Joe Auty wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have my /usr/local partition hosted on an NFS share which is mounted
> at boot. Do you have any theories as to why my various services
> (Apache, Postfix, MySQL) listed in /etc/rc.conf do not start up
> automatically at boot, and
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:03:42 +
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>
> On 13/03/2010 14:47:31, Антон Клесс wrote:
> > I saw that more than year ago on my teacher's server, when I was
> > deal with my first FreeBSD, so it's just a kind of habit.
>
> It's a
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:33:02 -0600
Richard DeLaurell wrote:
> I haven't tested it, but it may be that the error occurs only when
> upgrading a port; make complains that the "new" port is older than
> the existing.
In port building the terms older and newer usually refer to
versions rather than
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:06:45 +0300
Антон Клесс wrote:
> So, while ru.pool.ntp.org is pool of several servers, I have to run
> it as
>
> 5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate ru.pool.ntp.org ru.pool.ntp.org
> ru.pool.ntp.org> /dev/null
>
> to check 3 servers from pool?
>
You can different servers like t
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:22:07 -0500
Nathan Vidican wrote:
> or more specifically, if you don't want to leave ntpd running,
> read-up on 'ntpd -q' which mimmicks the behavior of ntpdate but
> allows you to use multiple ntp servers.
ntpdate supports multiple servers too, you just list them as extra
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:07:34 +0700
Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote:
> Hi Folk,
>
> Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list,
> I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch.
>
> I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ...
> # freebsd-update fetch
> Lookin up update.Free
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:07:27 +1030
Ty John (sand_man) wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I've had my squid proxy running fine for quite some time now but just
> one thing bothers me. When a page cannot be displayed, the date and
> time showing on that page is incorrect even the the system date and
> time
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:58:49 -0800
Gary Kline wrote:
>
> I'm trying to ge t stuff to stream as on my ubuntu laptop.
> Following the Handbook, the f10 emulator fails::
>
>
> r...@tao:/usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f10# ki
> ===> linux_base-f10-10_2 compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 is not
> suppo
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:59:28 -0600
John wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:24:15PM -0800, Yuri wrote:
> > I am asking out of curiosity.
> > 'top' describes the memory state on my machine like this:
> > Mem: 1085M Active, 196M Inact, 301M Wired, 36M Cache, 112M Buf,
> > 1366M Free Swap: 16G Total
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:41:04 -0500
Carmel wrote:
> I just acquired an older Gateway GT5220 with an AMD 62 Athlon-x2
> dual processor. I want to set it up as a sort of test machine. There
> does not seem to be a specific setting for 'cpu-type' or 'march' for
> this machine. I have notices on some
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:35:27 +
Jamie Griffin wrote:
>
> I have a really simple question about updating my system.
> Does /usr/src/UPDATING say when I need to update the kernel and world
> (obviously after updating the sources using csup/cvsup). I've been
> assuming it does but i'm not sure i
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:12:22 +
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>
> On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
>
> > I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to
> > create a memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:54:45 -0600
John wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:31:34PM +0000, RW wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:59:07 -0600
> > John wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a good guide somewhere for migrating from ipfw and natd
> > > rules to pf? I h
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:59:07 -0600
John wrote:
> Is there a good guide somewhere for migrating from ipfw and natd rules
> to pf? I had pretty much gotten used to ipfw, and now pf seems very
> different to use and understand.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html
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On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:31:11 +0100
Morgan Wesström wrote:
> RW wrote:
> > On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:51:20 +0100
> > Morgan Wesström wrote:
> >
> >> RW wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:14:45 +0100
> >>> Morgan Wesström wrote:
> &
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:51:20 +0100
Morgan Wesström wrote:
> RW wrote:
> > On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:14:45 +0100
> > Morgan Wesström wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> 1) in the transmission web it showing downloading is 10 kbps
> >>> to 30 kbps
On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:14:45 +0100
Morgan Wesström wrote:
> > 1) in the transmission web it showing downloading is 10 kbps
> > to 30 kbpsbut uploading it shows 50 to 92 kbps my question
> > is is it possible to limit the uploading data rate , how can I do
> > this ?
>
> Check out
On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:00:23 -0600
Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> When migrating from 6.x to 7.x and to do system refreshes within a
> given release branch, I did/do this:
>
> - Get sources
> - mergemaster -i
> - make buildworld buildkernel
I'm pretty sure you are supposed to install
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:29:57 -0800
Gary Kline wrote:
>
>
> Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the
> bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of
> firefox35?
Currently the best way of using BBC iplayer is a perl script called
get_iplayer which downloads DRM
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:22:59 +
RW wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:20:53 +
> Angelin Lalev wrote:
>
>
> > I have proxy server that requires username and password and I have
> > set the HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY environment variables accordingly.
>
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:20:53 +
Angelin Lalev wrote:
> I have proxy server that requires username and password and I have set
> the HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY environment variables accordingly.
> (HTTP_PROXY = FTP_PROXY =
> USERNAME:passw...@proxy.uni-svishtov.bg:8080)
>
> portsnap --debug show
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:35:02 -0800 (PST)
gfot wrote:
>
> Hi i'm trying to compile a toochain for mips and i'm having some
> problems with gcc 4.2.1 that my Freebsd 8.0 (64-bit) system came
> with. So i decided (it was proposed by the README of the toolchain)
> to use gcc 3.4 but i installed gcc
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:13:42 -0700
Modulok wrote:
> Does a geli metadata backup contain any sensitive information? Like...
> should apply the same precations as I do the key and password?
If you change the keyfile the metadata is changed and the old keyfile
becomes useless; but if the attacker a
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:51:26 +
Masoom Shaikh wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I am confused about FreeBSD versions maintained in svn repos
>
> 1. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.0/
> 2. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/8.0.0/
> 3. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/
>
> (2) is easy, most pr
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:34:31 +0100
Roland Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:08:00AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
> >
> > Why is that stored in the last sector of the device, rather
> > than in the key file? What is the purpose of the key file if not
> > to hold that type of informati
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:54:33 +0100
Roland Smith wrote:
> What you could do is prepend the find(1) commands with the nice(1)
> command, to give the find commands lower priority. E.g. 'find -bla'
> then becomes '/usr/bin/nice -n 19 find -bla'.
Unless there's something under periodic that really
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:16:53 -0600
LoH wrote:
> I've got a system currently running FreeBSD-i386-8.0, and was
> wondering whether or not it's possible to move the system to
> FreeBSD-amd64-8.0 without bringing it down for more than a reboot or
> two (and avoid reinstalling all of the client softw
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:34:19 + (GMT)
Andy Hiscock wrote:
> Thought Id give Version 8.0-RELEASE A go on a server Im building for
> someone. All went well except when it comes to boot-up. Works
> though the config until it gets to some sort of networking
> routine/initiating. The line said
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:08:30 -0600
Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On 01/16/2010 02:26 PM, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > What is the particular scenario that the new conflicts handling
> > broke for you? Often you really want to ignore locally installed
> > packages and then it's better to override LOCALBASE t
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:23:52 +0100 (CET)
Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> Normally when a program crashes, it places a .core file in the
> homefilesystem. Is there a way of changing the filesystem where
> FreeBSD places it's core dumps?
cd to another directory before starting the program.
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:01:47 -0500
"b. f." wrote:
> >Wait a minute; rewind. Isn't that what "make -DDISABLE_CONFLICTS"
> >does?
>
> I believe that he is talking about changing _when_ the check for
> conflicts is made; whereas DISABLE_CONFLICTS ignores the check,
> regardless of when it is made.
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:50:23 -0500
Greg Larkin wrote:
> Nerius Landys wrote:
> > I'm running some programs using the /etc/rc.d/ and
> > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ startup scripts. I am wondering if there is
> > some standard way to run these programs at a higher nice value.
>
> Hi Nerius,
>
> Check
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:24:49 -0500
Carmel wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:38:41 -0800
> Randal L. Schwartz replied:
>
> >You need to be specific about the kind of regex. While most regexp
> >engines have common things like . and * and ^ and $, the meanings may
> >vary a bit, and the more exoti
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:51:00 -0800
Rob Farmer wrote:
> I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on
> little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set
> ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are bi-endian
> and the OS chooses the mode. I'm not
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:21:02 +0100
Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Can I safely move the /compat tu /usr/local/compat and do a symlink to
> let point /compat --> /usr/local/compat or is there some reason that
> linux-f10 ports put all into /compat in root-fs?
For me /compat was a symlink to /usr/compa
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:28:24 +0200
libyan linux wrote:
> so my questions is bsd is not free software mean i cant make
> distributor on bsd is what i do now on my pc not distributor for
> business just for my own small work like manged my network with me
> friend's and play costuming every thing
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:00:11 +0200
Kaya Saman wrote:
> name="xmms2launcher"
> rcvar=`set_rcvar`
> command="/usr/local/bin/${name} -u kaya"
> ...
> So if I can't add the - does this mean that I have to create a link
> to xmms2-launcher with name xmms2launcher??
no just avoid using ${name} in the
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:23:40 +0200
Kaya Saman wrote:
> So far I have modified the script to look like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
You may need a PROVIDE LINE e.g.
# PROVIDE:xmms2launcher
> . /etc/rc.subr
>
> name="xmms2-launcher"
You can't use "-" in shell variable names, so you shouldn't use
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:23:33 +0100
"Bernard T. Higonnet" wrote:
> #! /bin/sh
>...
> I shall be bold: this strikes me as a bug in bash. Am I off my nut
> here?
If it is a bug, it's a bug in /bin/sh, not bash.
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On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:10:19 +
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Comments, critique are welcome. Unless there are any killer bugs,
> I'll send-pr(1) in a week or so.
You have:
: ${daily_sa_compile="YES"}
sa-compile is installed by the SA port, but it requires devel/re2c,
which is an optional depen
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 06:19:55 -0500
Jerry wrote:
> There is an apparent bug in 'spamassassin' regarding 2010 e-mails. The
> full story is available here:
>
> http://spamassassin.apache.org/.
>
> There is also a discussion of it on SlashDot:
>
> http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/01/02/0027207/SpamA
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:15:25 +
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> However, neither of these have been accepted by the
> p5-Mail-SpamAssassin port maintainer.
It's not really a one-size fits all problem - it depends on which
channels you use and whether you want sa-compile (which isn't
supported by eit
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 18:05:59 -0600
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> How do I know if I am running sa-update? When installing
> SpamAssassin from ports I was prompted as to whether I wanted to do
> this (I said "yes"), but I don't see anything about it in any crontab
> I can find nor in /etc/periodic or
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:05:54 -0600
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> There is discussion on the SA mailing list, and it is likely that
> some fix will be in with the next batch of rule updates for those who
> use sa-update.
It's already available in sa-update.
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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 +
Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I might be wrong, but that's my understanding.
> So programs like fetchmail that actually connect to their
> imap server and download mail to local boxes are probably
> not very welcome.
You probably are wrong, it's more a case of you
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:21:30 +0100
Roland Smith wrote:
> In other words, a proper IMAP server does not permit plaintext
> passwords.
No, it MUST be implemented, but only SHOULD be used.
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On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:32:20 +
RW wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:38:01 -0600
> Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE=http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/%SUBDIR%/
> > That *usually* works, but will often return a redirect, in which
> > case the fetch goes b
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:38:01 -0600
Kirk Strauser wrote:
> In my /etc/make.conf, I have:
>
> MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE=http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/%SUBDIR%/
I set MASTER_SORT_REGEX instead
> That *usually* works, but will often return a redirect, in which case
> the fetch goes back to using
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:10:40 +0200
Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
> # ntpq -c peers
> remote refid st t when poll reach delay
> offset jitter
> ==
> +194.27.110.130 131.188.3.2202 u 27h 10240 67
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:49:06 +0100
Bernt Hansson wrote:
> Richard Mace:
> > ===> vlc-1.0.3_4,3 is marked as broken: doesn't build with dirac.
> > *** Error code 1
>
>
> > I tried a
> >
> > # make config
>
> Try make rmconfig
You also need to remove the dirac package if it's already instal
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:31:47 -0600
"Corey J. Bukolt" <0...@mail.ru> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have a FreeNAS box with a CF card for root, and 3 drives (soon to be
> 4) set up with encryption and raidz on top of them.
> A less than excellent detailed report of what I did is here:
> http://bit.ly/
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:59:51 -0800
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Hi--
>
> On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Peter Steele wrote:
> > Add my name to the list--we get tons of these messages since
> > upgrading to 8.0
>
> This isn't new with 8.x; it's been around since 4.0, if not earlier.
Something has ch
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:42:31 -0800 (PST)
James Phillips wrote:
> I sort of followed the discussion as well. There was some
> disagreement about what "dangreously dedicated" means. Does it mean
> getting rid of the DOS partition table (slices?) Or, does it mean
> creating a slice or disks with
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:23:51 +0100
ocean wrote:
>
> i think i've also found an "unexpected behaviour" in make buildworld,
> i've put src.conf and makefile.conf in /etc/
>
> CPUTYPE?=pentium-m
> CFLAGS= -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
You don't normally set CFLAGS in FreeBSD, it's set automatic
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:47:00 +0100
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Hello.
> Is WINE usable on 6.3/i386?
> I cannot seem to start any win32 program and before I spend time into
> it, I thought I just ask.
>
> My interest is almost limited to running a simple console app that
> does very litte beyond r
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:07:41 +0100
Frank Wissmann wrote:
> Achilleas Mantzios schrieb:
>
> Hi!
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386
> > system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:47:35 -0800
Yuri wrote:
> I am seeing this for a long time. If I use 'portupgrade
> -aPP' (packages only) there is a very large percentage of packages
> missing. Upgrading becomes many times faster when binary packages
> available are available.
Presumably it's due to vers
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:16:15 -0800
Paul Hoffman wrote:
> At 12:50 AM + 11/29/09, Frank Shute wrote:
> >You don't mention what command you are using to upgrade your
> >ports/packages.
>
> Sorry: portupgrade -aPPR
Packages for a release are built against the ports tree that's
distributed with
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:57:17 +0100
Frank Staals wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Yesterday I wanted to update my system currently running 8.0-RC1
> amd64 to the latest 8-STABLE release. However buildworld failed. I
> found out the problem seems to pop up when trying to build the lib32
> libraries. If
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:30:47 +
Marwan Sultan wrote:
>
> Gary,
>
>
>
> Its an old problem with /root/.spamassassin
>
> I dunt know why spamassassin still have it by default :(
>
> I spent a day or so to figure it out.. however,
>
>
If you run spamd as root it will setuid to the
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:58:00 + (GMT)
Steven Seipel wrote:
> I tried pkg_add -r firefox3 last night. This is what it said:
> # pkg_add -r firefox3
> Fetching
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-7.2-release/Latest/firefox3.tbz...
> Done. ===> Building Chrome's registry...
>
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:13:01 + (GMT)
Steven Seipel wrote:
> I have freebsd 7.2 with gnome. It has firefox 2.0.0.20. What will I
> need to do to upgrade to firefox 3.anything? I have tried pkg_add -r
> with all the versions listed on the ports page but it is always
> "unable to fetch" them. W
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:06:13 -0500
Robert Huff wrote:
>
> usleepl...@gmail.com writes:
>
> > > > as far as i know there have been Nvidia maintained/improved
> > > > drivers for FreeBSD for ages ( ls /usr/ports/x11 | grep -i
> > > > nvid )
> > >
> > > And see this from the Makefil
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:27:20 +0100
Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Saturday, November 21, 2009 a las 08:59:12PM +0600, Victor
> Lyapunov escribió:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have production network with FreeBSD box acting as firewall. The
> > problem emerge as soon as users send mail with attachmen
iscovered by accident that the system
> won't boot with an fstab entry for a device that doesn't exist. So
> if I was to record an entry in fstab, I couldn't use
>
> /dev/ad1e.eli /home/david/private ufs rw 0 0
>
geli partitions can exist at mount time, but
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