Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R

2004-02-16 Thread Graham North
Mathew: You must know your way around network cards!? Unfortunately this one is part of a docking station (which I would like to use) for the XPI, and you are correct it is ep0. I do have a second option in the form of a more recent linksys pcmcia card which can be stuck into a side slot - but

Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Graham North wrote: Mathew: You must know your way around network cards!? A mixed blessing at the very least. I get a lot of old stuff. never new. Unfortunately this one is part of a docking station (which I would like to use) for the XPI, and you are correct it is

spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Olga Zenkova
Hi! Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I think it is not very effective at all. May be other mail daemon or some additional tools for sendmail? Thanks, Olga

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Olga Zenkova wrote: Hi! Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I think it is not very effective at all. May be other mail daemon or some additional tools

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:13:16AM -0800, Olga Zenkova wrote: Hi! Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I think it is not very effective at all. May be other mail daemon or some

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:13:16AM -0800, Olga Zenkova wrote: Hi! Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I think it is not very

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:44:25AM -0500, matthew wrote: On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:13:16AM -0800, Olga Zenkova wrote: Hi! Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have sendmail

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:44:25AM -0500, matthew wrote: I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is also highly recommended for site use. I tend to dislike DNS-based filtering because it has a high rate of false positives, and it causes your users to lose legitimate

Re: Firefox Process Not Exiting

2004-02-16 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:12:56 -0500 Daniel R. Curran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if anyone else has this issue and if there is a fix for it. When I run firefox and then exit the program the process remains resident, and it starts eating up the CPU. Does anyone know of a fix for

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:33:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is also highly recommended for site use. I'll second both. SpamAssassin worked well for me for several years, but I recently changed from SA to bogofilter because SA

Compiling Linux sources

2004-02-16 Thread Kyryll A Mirnenko
Does anuyone know how to build linuxsources into linux binaries under FreeBSD (to run them under compat-linux) -- - . http://www.ukrpost.net/ IMAP POP3 NNTP RSSNews Unicode. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Firefox Process Not Exiting

2004-02-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:15:43PM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:12:56 -0500 Daniel R. Curran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if anyone else has this issue and if there is a fix for it. When I run firefox and then exit the program the process remains

if_tun failed to register (long)

2004-02-16 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) I've been having the same error for months now under FreeBSD-5.x (5.1, 5.2, 5.2.1-RC2, 5-CURRENT). It works anyway, but I'm concerned about this error anyway. When I boot, ppp is started automatically with rc.conf and I get the following error on the console: kernel: module_register:

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Mike Woods
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:18:39 -0500 (EST) matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also check spamassassin, razor2, dcc. procmail too. or maildrop. amavisd and the uvscan binary. I'll second spamassassin, dcc and amavisd (which also does virus scanning), i've just setup spamassassin via amavisd

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:44:25AM -0500, matthew wrote: I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is also highly recommended for site use. I tend to dislike DNS-based filtering because it has a high rate of false

Re: 5.x stable cvsup

2004-02-16 Thread Spades
Thanks, but /usr/src/UPDATING doesn't exist spank# ls /usr/src crypto kerberos5 secure spank# uname -a FreeBSD spank 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Hmm? - Original Message - From:

vinum raid5 subdisks keep changing length?

2004-02-16 Thread Tony Frank
Hi all, Running vinum on RELENG_4. No changes to source, vinum loaded as a KLD as per instructions in handbook man pages. As per the subject I am having what appears to be strange behaviour with vinum. After a number of teething problems I eventually setup a vinum root for my system which

Re: if_tun failed to register (long)

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Hi :) I've been having the same error for months now under FreeBSD-5.x (5.1, 5.2, 5.2.1-RC2, 5-CURRENT). It works anyway, but I'm concerned about this error anyway. When I boot, ppp is started automatically with rc.conf and I get the following

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:13:16 -0800 (PST) Olga Zenkova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I think it is not very effective at all. May be other

Re: 5.x stable cvsup

2004-02-16 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 16 February 2004 03:03 am, Spades wrote: Thanks, but /usr/src/UPDATING doesn't exist spank# ls /usr/src crypto kerberos5 secure spank# uname -a FreeBSD spank 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT 2003 [EMAIL

Re: 5.x stable cvsup

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Spades wrote: Thanks, but /usr/src/UPDATING doesn't exist spank# ls /usr/src crypto kerberos5 secure spank# uname -a FreeBSD spank 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

OT: Dansguardian with AV patch

2004-02-16 Thread Jason Taylor
Is anyone successfully running Dansguardian 2.7.1-4 with the 4.2 anti-virus patch? If so, what version of FreeBSD, Perl, etc. are you running? I've been trying for a few days on 5.2-RELEASE with Perl 5.8.2_4. I've gotten to a point where (I think) it's scanning, but then seg faults before

nautilus CD burning issues (after devfs.conf editing)

2004-02-16 Thread Joan Picanyol
Hi, Nautilus' CD creator only lets me create images, not recording to my ATAPI CD-Writer. I've edited devfs.conf as per http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q15 and now I have: 524,p0,0$ camcontrol devlist HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4520B 1.00 at scbus1 target 1 lun 0 (cd0,pass0) 525,p0,0$ ls

Epson C63/C64 setup ?

2004-02-16 Thread Thomas Graham
does anyone try to make Epson C63/C64 USB working on freebsd 5.x ? Thanks. -- HK Celtic Orchestra leader and coordanator: Thomas Graham Lau Phone number: 852-93239670(24hours a day, 7days a week non-stop phone) Web site: http://sml.dyndns.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celtic Newage

Re: if_tun failed to register (long)

2004-02-16 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Monday 16 February 2004 12:05, you wrote: check /boot/loader.conf for if_tun_load=YES if so, comment it out. it will not load the module anymore. you will rely on the one compiled into kernel. if this is not the answer to your problem email back. No, this is not it. I never added

XFree86 debugging

2004-02-16 Thread Joan Picanyol
[please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] Hi, I've installed XFree86-Server-snap hoping to get DRI for my Radeon 9200. In the process, I've found that X get SIGABRT after (somewhat) long inactivity periods. I recompiled with USE_DEBUG=1 hoping to get a backtrace, but I can't find the

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:51:35PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:33:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is also highly recommended for site use. I'll second both. SpamAssassin worked well for me for

Re: Compiling Linux sources

2004-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:31:35PM +0200, Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote: Does anuyone know how to build linuxsources into linux binaries under FreeBSD (to run them under compat-linux) Install the appropriate linux_devtools port, chroot into /compat/linux and compile as normal. Kris pgp0.pgp

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:57:29AM -0500, matthew wrote: So Alice knows the email was not lost. She is now aware of why, hence the http://url in the error mesg. And now Alice can contact her admin, and figure out why that ip/block is spewing spam at me/us/blacklist users. To repeat, most

Re: 5.x stable cvsup

2004-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 07:03:22PM +0800, Spades wrote: Thanks, but /usr/src/UPDATING doesn't exist spank# ls /usr/src crypto kerberos5 secure spank# uname -a FreeBSD spank 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT 2003 [EMAIL

Re: PXE Booting 5.2.1-RC2 on Thinkpad X31

2004-02-16 Thread Dan Pelleg
John Morgan Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, I've got 4.9-RELEASE running on my Thinkpad, and am trying to netboot 5.2.1-RC2. The laptop has no floppy or cdrom; I'd previously managed to install a pre-release 5.2 on a separate hard drive, but it's pretty unstable, doesn't like

Re: cdrom

2004-02-16 Thread Mardoc Inc.
Thankyou to each of you for your comments re mounting the CDROM. I have now got it working. As for the age of the OS - newer is not always better, I am afraid. Of course this depends on both hardware and software, but there is no doubt that the newer hardware (disks etc) are far less

Re: cdrom

2004-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 06:54:52AM -0800, Mardoc Inc. wrote: Thankyou to each of you for your comments re mounting the CDROM. I have now got it working. As for the age of the OS - newer is not always better, I am afraid. Of course this depends on both hardware and software, but there is

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:57:29AM -0500, matthew wrote: On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:44:25AM -0500, matthew wrote: I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is also highly recommended for site use. I tend to dislike

Re: Internet connection sharing

2004-02-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Lance Earl wrote: I am new to FreeBSD. I am evaluating it as a possible replacement for my in house desktops and ultimately a replacement for my redhat Internet server. I installed 4.9 without a hitch and decided to go ahead and install 5.2 in order to avoid potential upgrade issues mentioned on

KDE Access

2004-02-16 Thread chaucer
Hi, I am new to BSD and have installed everything, I think, and am trying to get into KDE. When I type:startkde I get the message: cannot connect to X server When I type: kcontrol I get the message: can't determine display Have I left something undone? How do I get into KDE? Thanks, Jerry

good sound card and video card for a FreeBSD setup

2004-02-16 Thread somatic
Hi, I'm in the process of buying a new pc and was wondering what would be a good sound card and a video card that i could use with FreeBSD.Do the RivaTNT or GEForce chipsets work well with freebsd.I ask this question 'cos i want both the cards to be as compatible and as easy to install as

Re: abcde build loops endlessly

2004-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been trying to compile abcde in FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE from the ports tree (/usr/ports/audio/abcde). When I type make all install clean it nicely fetches everything and compiles, but I noticed it wasn't finished after 3 hours. I took a peek and I

Re: need help on CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf please

2004-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Richard Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless there is evidence of more recent gcc bugs, that part of the handbook should really be removed. There's plenty of such evidence. In fact, reports of FreeBSD bugs should be pretty much ignored unless they can be reproduced with -O.

Re: KDE Access

2004-02-16 Thread Michael Hollmann
hi have you done echo exec startkde /home/homedirectory/.xinitrc after this you can start your kde with startx regards michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, I am new to BSD and have installed everything, I think, and am trying to get into KDE. When I type:startkde I get the message:

Re: Firefox Process Not Exiting

2004-02-16 Thread Daniel R. Curran
Seeing as the problem would now seem to be in the linuxpluginwrapper or linux-flashplugin port is there a way to fix this problem? Is there any work being done on it? is it a known bug? What would the process be for one to get the ball rolling towards a fix? Thanks, Dan Matthew Seaman wrote:

Re: How to view BIOS settings on a running system?

2004-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A few times I have seen answers to problems like: Verify this-and-this in your BIOS setting The only way to do this, that I know of, is to shutdown the system and hit the DEL-key at boot up etc. But this is a bit silly, for just checking a particular

Install Troubles on IBM x searie 345 and ServeRaid 6i

2004-02-16 Thread Michel Schwab
Hi We have here in the office two new server maschines. IBM x Server 345 with a Raid Controller: ServeRaid 6i I have download the latest FreeBSD Version 5.2.1 RC2 12.2.04 But the Kernel doen't find the Raid Controller, it's say: No driver attached When i read the doc's it must be compiled in

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Jorge Biquez
At 04:18 a.m. 16/02/04 -0500, you wrote: On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Olga Zenkova wrote: Hi! Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I think it is not very effective at all. May be

Re: How to view BIOS settings on a running system?

2004-02-16 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On 16 Feb 2004 09:10:38 -0500 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A few times I have seen answers to problems like: Verify this-and-this in your BIOS setting The only way to do this, that I know of, is to shutdown the system and hit

Error 127 During Makeinstall of 4.8 to 4.9 Upgrade

2004-02-16 Thread Bob Perry
Hello, I have/had FreeBSD 4.8 and was running the make installworld phase of the upgrade to 4.9. uname -a shows that I currently have FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2. I came across the following error that stopped the process. ==gnu/usr.bin/groff/font/devascii Making R expr: not found ***Error code 127

Re: Install Troubles on IBM x searie 345 and ServeRaid 6i

2004-02-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi We have here in the office two new server maschines. IBM x Server 345 with a Raid Controller: ServeRaid 6i I have download the latest FreeBSD Version 5.2.1 RC2 12.2.04 But the Kernel doen't find the Raid Controller, it's say: No driver attached When i read the doc's it must be

Re: abcde build loops endlessly

2004-02-16 Thread Jorn Argelo
There is hardly anything in my /etc/make.conf, just some perl things: # -- use.perl generated deltas -- # # Created: Sun Feb 8 15:23:40 2004 # Setting to use base perl from ports: PERL_VER=5.6.1 PERL_VERSION=5.6.1 PERL_ARCH=mach NOPERL=yo NO_PERL=yo NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo Perhaps that is the

TV card

2004-02-16 Thread Edd Barrett
Can anyone suggest a decent tv card that will work under freebsd in the uk? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

is vlc incompatible with atapicam?

2004-02-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I've just noticed that I can't watch dvd movies anymore using vlc. I think the last time I watched a dvd was prior to recompiling my kernel with atapicam to burn dvd's. Is vlc incompatible with atapicam? If any of you are watching dvd movies on a computer that's configured with atapicam,

Re: passing disk geometry parameters to the kernel at boot time

2004-02-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi I'm having problems with FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE getting the proper disk geometry. When I was installing I passed the correct info and installed, but once I rebooted the info is wiped off and again it has the wrong geometry what makes my system very crashy Time for you to do some

Lookout password? FILTER_TAG

2004-02-16 Thread Ronny Hippler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am running 4.9 release using csh as my shell. I have set set autologout = (60 10) in .cshrc and it behaves as expected locking me out after 10 minutes. the problem is that it fails to accept my password when I type it in, eventually

Re: Install Troubles on IBM x searie 345 and ServeRaid 6i

2004-02-16 Thread Michel Schwab
tnx i know the stable version it's 4.9, but the Raid Driver are only in the new Version 5.x... :( http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/dev/ips/ips.c thx for helping! - Original Message - From: JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michel Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 3:41

Re: Small FreeBSD Image?

2004-02-16 Thread Dan Rue
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:54:36PM -0500, stan wrote: I'm setting up Nagios, and I want to show the OS that's on a given machine using it's map graphics. Anyone know where I can find a small FreeBSD image? (PNG preferred). Nagios has image packs, go here

Re: OpenOffice ports build...

2004-02-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello list, How would I install/obtain a compatible binary for OpenOffice 1.1. I don't= =20 have 4+GB for a ports build of it. Either that, or how would I go about=20 merging my /usr and /home partitions so that they're one and the same (like= I=20 should have done from install).

Re: Install Troubles on IBM x searie 345 and ServeRaid 6i

2004-02-16 Thread Michel Schwab
Hi Jerry Yes, the ips driver are only in the 5.x Version No when i read the specs right then it must be buildet in the Boot Install Kernel of the 5.x Version. I think this IBM Server Motherboard an ServeRaid 6i are the big problem :( last chance...:) Is it possible a 5.xx to install on a

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-02-16T09:13:16Z, Olga Zenkova [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What tools can anybody advice to stop it? My writeup on the subject starts at: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/FilterSpam and includes information on DNS

Apsfilter and margins...

2004-02-16 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello list, Does anyone here use apsfilter? If so, can you tell me how to fix the margins. There is NO bottom margin (text runs off bottom of the page) and the top margin is about 2 inches. Any idea on how to change this? Thanks. -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612)

Re: OpenOffice ports build... proceedure for FreeBSD 4.9

2004-02-16 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Eric (and list), I finally got it working this morning under the following conditions: Fresh install of FreeBSD 4.9 from the mini-ISO cd. Install X from the sysinstall via FTP Install Gnome from the sysinstall via FTP cd /usr/ports/distfiles (as root) make sure openoffice-1.1.0_1.tgz is in the

Scripts

2004-02-16 Thread Eric Toll
Hello FreeBSD people. Perhaps this is the wrong place to ask such an elemental question... I'm trying to feed a text file into a script. Script is suppose to take relevant parts and output them to a new file... Script is marked executable... less textfile | script.pl script.pl:

Re: TV card

2004-02-16 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:15:15 - Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest a decent tv card that will work under freebsd in the uk? I don't know if this has got anything to do with where you live, but I (living in Germany) have been using a Brooktree 878-based card (Hauppauge

Re: Scripts

2004-02-16 Thread jan . muenther
less textfile | script.pl script.pl: Command not found. Try: cat textfile | ./script.pl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Upgrade Linux Base 7 to 8

2004-02-16 Thread Daniel R. Curran
How does one go about updating from linux base 7 to linux base 8? I have 7.1_7 installed and I want to install Linux Devtools which requires 8-8.0_4 but version 8 conflicts with version 7 is there an easy way to perform this upgrade? Thanks, -Dan-

Re: Scripts

2004-02-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 11:40:56AM -0500, Eric Toll wrote: I'm trying to feed a text file into a script. Script is suppose to take relevant parts and output them to a new file... Script is marked executable... less textfile | script.pl Usually you would do that by: % script.pl

Re: Upgrade Linux Base 7 to 8

2004-02-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 16), Daniel R. Curran said: How does one go about updating from linux base 7 to linux base 8? I have 7.1_7 installed and I want to install Linux Devtools which requires 8-8.0_4 but version 8 conflicts with version 7 is there an easy way to perform this upgrade?

[SOLVED] Re: OpenOffice ports build... proceedure for FreeBSD 4.9

2004-02-16 Thread Eric F Crist
On Monday 16 February 2004 10:26 am, Steven N. Fettig wrote: Eric (and list), I finally got it working this morning under the following conditions: Fresh install of FreeBSD 4.9 from the mini-ISO cd. Install X from the sysinstall via FTP Install Gnome from the sysinstall via FTP cd

Fw: Error 127 During Makeinstall of 4.8 to 4.9 Upgrade

2004-02-16 Thread Bob Perry
Hello, Not sure if the original messge was delievered as planned last night so I am resending. Also understand that this is my third attempt at upgrading with only one success so I am equally interested in the debugging/trouble-shooting process. Thank, Bob Perry - Original Message -

Re: Scripts

2004-02-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello FreeBSD people. Perhaps this is the wrong place to ask such an elemental question... I'm trying to feed a text file into a script. Script is suppose to take relevant parts and output them to a new file... Script is marked executable... less textfile | script.pl

Re: Scripts

2004-02-16 Thread jan . muenther
Firstly, the abuse of 'cat' as I suggested is quite wonky, indeed. I still sometimes do it like that though, for no reason other than typing quicker than I think at times. Sounds like you don't have . in your path or haven't rehashed since you created the file 'script.pl'. I just

Re: Scripts

2004-02-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
Firstly, the abuse of 'cat' as I suggested is quite wonky, indeed. I still sometimes do it like that though, for no reason other than typing quicker than I think at times. Sounds like you don't have . in your path or haven't rehashed since you created the file 'script.pl'.

Re: Scripts

2004-02-16 Thread Marty Landman
At 11:59 AM 2/16/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 11:40:56AM -0500, Eric Toll wrote: less textfile | script.pl Usually you would do that by: % script.pl textfile If the shebang is ng or missing you could do % perl script.pl textfile assuming that 'which perl' gives

newbie: no route to host

2004-02-16 Thread Marty Landman
Sorry, I have looked around and also am going to d/l http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/ later today so once I run htdig on my local doc site these sorts of things may be easier for me look up. Meantime I reinstalled fbsd 4.8 rel last week and don't know how to fix my internet connection. %ping

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread David Brinegar
Paul A. Hoadley wrote: Let's imagine that Charles gets a bounce notification, but it doesn't reach his threshold for doing anything more about it. Bob loses legitimate mail. Bounce messages are typically not good enough to avoid this. The other day a client tried to send an e-mail that

ls -l total bug?

2004-02-16 Thread Feodor Trubetskoy
Good day, ls man reads: -l skip *If the output is to a terminal, a total sum for all the file sizes is output on a line before the long listing.* But I have found that ls consistently put total in a first line even if output is piped or redirected. As an example: ls -l | cat Is it

Re: newbie: no route to host

2004-02-16 Thread jan . muenther
My lan has dialup through 192.168.0.1 [delliver] which shares using ics on xp. Works fine for my rh9, debian woody, and w98 boxes and used to work fine on this too till I started over again. Try route add default 192.168.0.1 Looks you don't have a default route set, so your packets never

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Gary
Hi David, On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:53:40 -0800 UTC (2/16/2004, 11:53 AM -0600 UTC my time), David Brinegar wrote: D Bounce messages are typically not good enough to avoid this. The D other day a client tried to send an e-mail that exceeded my ISP's D limit and was told something like mailbox is

Re: newbie: no route to host

2004-02-16 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:53:09PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Sorry, I have looked around and also am going to d/l http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/ later today so once I run htdig on my local doc site these sorts of things may be easier for me look up. Meantime I reinstalled fbsd 4.8 rel

Re: newbie: no route to host

2004-02-16 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:01 PM 2/16/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: route add default 192.168.0.1 Looks you don't have a default route set, so your packets never get routed outside. Thanks Jan. That worked and the worst part is that the cmd rings a bell iow I did this before but didn't find it in browsing the

Re: reliable tape units

2004-02-16 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:57:48PM -0700, David Bear wrote: I wanted to ask this group what their experience was regarding tape units, what your experience has been regarding reliability and longevity. I am faced with replacing an AIT tape unit thats just over 3 years old. Its based on a sony

newbie problem building fetchmail from ports

2004-02-16 Thread Marty Landman
Any advice on what to do here? # cd ../../mail/fetchmail # make build make install rehash which fetchmail fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/. Receiving fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz (1089936 bytes):

phpMyAdmin not loading MySQL extensions

2004-02-16 Thread Tweax Daemon
Hey all, I'm having trouble configuring phpMyAdmin. I guess from when I try to view it in a browser I get the message unable to load mysql extensions the msql link re-directs me to the phpmyadmin site where its states about it can't load mysql.so which is on my system I tried placing it in

Re: Scripts

2004-02-16 Thread Dan Rue
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 06:27:52PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to say quickly that I'd recommend *not* ever taking '.' into your path - when someone wants you to execute something and places it into a directory where both have write rights and names it like the binary you're

Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports

2004-02-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Marty Landman wrote: Any advice on what to do here? # cd ../../mail/fetchmail # make build make install rehash which fetchmail fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/. Receiving

Re: Firefox Process Not Exiting

2004-02-16 Thread J. Seth Henry
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:17:46 -0500 From: Daniel R. Curran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Firefox Process Not Exiting To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Seeing as the problem would now seem to be in the

How-to get anonymous FTP to use port 6021

2004-02-16 Thread JJB
How can I tell the inetd anonymous ftp server to listen on an different port other that 21. I tried adding port 6021 in the /etc/services file but that did not work. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: hostname and dhcp

2004-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Evan Dower [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm... That is what I expected it to do, but when I tried it, I ended up with an empty hostname. Of course, I don't remember now if I commented out that line or just set it to empty. Actually, looking at

FreeBSD on Dell PowerEdge 2500

2004-02-16 Thread moliveri
Anyone have any experience installing FreeBSD on a Dell PowerEdge server? 2500 or any other? I'm looking at having to do so and, having not done it before, I'm just wondering if there are any gotchas I should be aware of or if I have to use their OpenManage CDs or something. Take care, Mike

Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports

2004-02-16 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 16 February 2004 11:10 am, Marty Landman wrote: Any advice on what to do here? # cd ../../mail/fetchmail # make build make install rehash which fetchmail fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from

Re: phpMyAdmin not loading MySQL extensions

2004-02-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:31:28PM -0600, Tweax Daemon wrote: I'm having trouble configuring phpMyAdmin. I guess from when I try to view it in a browser I get the message unable to load mysql extensions the msql link re-directs me to the phpmyadmin site where its states about it can't

Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports

2004-02-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 16 February 2004 01:39 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Marty Landman wrote: Any advice on what to do here? # cd ../../mail/fetchmail # make build make install rehash which fetchmail fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.

Re: ls -l total bug?

2004-02-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 16), Feodor Trubetskoy said: ls man reads: -l skip *If the output is to a terminal, a total sum for all the file sizes is output on a line before the long listing.* But I have found that ls consistently put total in a first line even if output is piped or

Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports

2004-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any advice on what to do here? # cd ../../mail/fetchmail # make build make install rehash which fetchmail fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/.

Re: How-to get anonymous FTP to use port 6021

2004-02-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 16 February 2004 01:56 pm, JJB wrote: How can I tell the inetd anonymous ftp server to listen on an different port other that 21. I tried adding port 6021 in the /etc/services file but that did not work. Did you restart inetd? I don't know if that's necessary; but it may be worth

Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports

2004-02-16 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:05 PM 2/16/2004, Kent Stewart wrote: The interface to the gettext library has changed and you have to update everything that uses it. You may not be able to do it without upgrading to one of the current system releases. I would think that it is obvious that you haven't updated your port

Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports

2004-02-16 Thread Marty Landman
At 02:39 PM 2/16/2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: 1. You should just try to install gettext first,and you will get more insight into the issue. I did (sorry for not posting that) and the results looked identical. 2. You could re-cvsup the ports tree and try again and it

kernel config

2004-02-16 Thread Brian H
Greetings: Are there any kernel boot parameters that I can pass to get the kernel to ignore the ata1 device? When I try disable ata1 I get an error saying the device does not exist. Thanks, Brian boot -c #prompt config config help config disable ata1 config quit

Re: How-to get anonymous FTP to use port 6021

2004-02-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:56:34PM -0500, JJB wrote: How can I tell the inetd anonymous ftp server to listen on an different port other that 21. I tried adding port 6021 in the /etc/services file but that did not work. Don't change the default ftp port number in /etc/services -- instead add

Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports

2004-02-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Marty Landman wrote: At 02:39 PM 2/16/2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: 3. You could issue #touch /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info as root and see what happens next ;-) if we wait around a while, somebody smarter will likely pipe up

Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports

2004-02-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:10:11PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Any advice on what to do here? === Configuring for gettext-0.11.5_1 That's an ancient version of gettext -- are you using a copy of the ports tree you got from the installation CDs? At a guess, you're running FreeBSD 4.7...

Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports

2004-02-16 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 16 February 2004 12:39 pm, Marty Landman wrote: At 03:05 PM 2/16/2004, Kent Stewart wrote: The interface to the gettext library has changed and you have to update everything that uses it. You may not be able to do it without upgrading to one of the current system releases. I would

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