Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:31:41 -0700 (PDT), Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Sat, 9/20/08, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You are probably calling free() multiple times for the same buffer. >> >> Try tracing the malloc and free calls, u

Re: Segmentation fault when free [SOLVED]

2008-09-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:04:03 -0700 (PDT), Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 9/20/08, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> : free(0xbfbfc9c9) >>> >>> 1. This clearly shows my program is trying to free a memory that >>> has not be

Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:57:06 -0700 (PDT), Nash Nipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for making it even more clear to me. > actually what i meant was this: > > void function(void){ > char *p; > p = malloc(1); > } > int main(void){ > while (1){ > function(); > /* in the end of t

Re: Segmentation fault when free

2008-09-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:31:57 +0100, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Nash Nipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> char * >>> function(void) >>> { >>> char buffer[100]; >>> >>>

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 02:07:04 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> This is incredibly draconian. :-) I was trying my best to remain >>> realistic. >> >> It's no such thing. This is the recommended standard practice when >> designing firewalls: always start from the premise that al

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 04:51:01 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I run my laptop with a `pf.conf' that (putting most of the comments and >> other disabled rules for one-off tests aside) looks pretty much like: >> >> set block-policy drop >> set require-order yes

Re: stupid xfce clock question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:39:20 -0400, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I work remotely with a company that is across the international date > line from me and I can do the math in my head but want to know if it > is possible to add a clock to my xfce panel that shows the time their >

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 00:26:11 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:19:09AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> block drop all >> >> looks fairly magical to me. Stick that at the top of your ruleset as >> your default policy, add more specific rules beneath it to

Re: stupid xfce clock question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:28:12 -0400, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If you are using XFCE4 then you are reaping all the benefits of the >>> freely available work of others. This style of subject is offensive >>> to their efforts to provide a light-weight, beautiful, functional

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:44:54 +0100, "James Seward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've never gotten a definite answer as to what happens if you use "flags >> S/SA" on a rule that is for UDP, since UDP is a non-negotiated pr

Re: bash script on FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:11:40 +0700, Kalpin Erlangga Silaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am going to extract field username and UID from /etc/passwd and > passed into some scripts. Let say I got line > > admin 100 > admin2 200 > admin3 300 > admin4 400 > > and then I want to echoin

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:35:31 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Adding a few options in `loader.conf' should preload IPFW and DIVERT in >> the running kernel: >> >> ipfw_load="YES" >> i

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:40:01 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Inspired by this discussion (and just replying to a random post) I > tried for the first time to get a test machine as a gateway. I tried > the handbook's instructions, here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO88

Re: Status line for text mode console

2008-10-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:30:15 +0100, Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:10:02 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sounds like something screen(1) offers. See sysutils/screen. > > Much too complicated. :-) I'm using screen on a daily basis to manage > mul

Re: source for dict?

2008-11-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:39:26 -0800, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the source file/database for dict in ports? I *thought* I had it > at one time. tia, Maybe. There are a few '*dict*' matches, but without more context it is a bit hard to really know which dict program you are looking

Re: Problems with FreeBSD

2008-11-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:10:25 -0200, "J MPZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > When my connections freeze, I open the tcpdump in other terminal. If I type > something, type "Enter", on the terminal frozen, the tcpdump show packets, > like that: > > 11:18:45.526256 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 51, id 651

Re: help with MY Book external drive

2008-11-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:13:21 + (GMT), AN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just purchased a WD MY Book external USB disk, I reformatted in UFS > and created a filesystem with sysinstall. I was able to put data on > it successfully, however overnite I had a power failure. Now I am > unable to moun

Re: irc & usenet clients for xfce

2008-11-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 22:38:03 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What irc, pop mail, and usenet clients from gmone or kde or x would > you recommend to use on xfce? My setup is a bit `unusual' for those who like holistic approaches to the desktop, like GNOME and KDE, but I use GNU Emacs for email, ne

Re: spell check - how to?

2008-11-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:42:52 -0500, Eitan Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [cc to -questions as it might be a general question] Hi Eitan :-) > I'm looking to do a full spell check/fix on the handbook. I found > "make spellcheck-txt" which apparently removed certain items that > would not go we

Re: scripting text replacement

2008-11-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 19:43:52 +0100, bsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for this cross posting, but I can not find a good "bash" mailing > list… > I am certain FreeBSD gurus will provide me with a fast and reliable > answer to this little question. > > Here is the deal: > - > > I

Re: how to create tbz package in freebsd

2008-11-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:19:32 -0800 (PST), w_anup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello All, > > i am newbie to freebsd , i want to create customize tbz package for > free bsd , can anybody provide the procedure to create packages in > free bsd, or any tutor will be helpful. The ``FreeBSD Ports'' fram

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:58:39 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce >> the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. >> It is our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channe

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:29:42 +, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> * Having five gazillion posts that say "me too", is not exactly a >> productive answer to a problem. Alas, this is often what you get >>

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:27:08 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> _large_ number of inexperienced people may result in a significantly >> lower signal/noise ratio. I can definitely agree to that. > > with 100:1 signal/noise ratio experienced people will start to leave the >

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:01:03 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> those who are not just less experienced but so brainless that they >>> can't even sent a subscribing mail to mailing list >>> >>> they will not become experienced unix users ever. >> >> We can help as much

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:55:35 +0100, Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I would like to buy a PCMCIA card for my new laptop (because FreeBSD > do not recognise my internal wifi AND RJ45 ethernet cardsh** > windows say it's Broadcom netXtreme 57xx gigabit ). Hi Albert, If you c

Re: Apology

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:10:13 -0500, "Gary Hartl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry group I just realized I've been sending HTML emails to the > group. Plain text now set. > > Stupid Outlook. It's not a *huge* deal, but _thanks_ for fixing that :D ___

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:40:09 +0100, Manfred Usselmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a small example, how limited Windows really is: Even today it is > not possible to configure the standard interface of Windows XP (Luna) > in any other color than blue, olive green and silver. LOL. Not to menti

Re: Free usenet nntp servers

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:33:48 +0800, Fbsd1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the past (alt.binaries.warez) contained monthly posts of a list of > Free usenet nntp servers. I dont have access to a nntp server so I > can't search foe the list. Does any one here know of a Free usenet > nntp server I can

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:43:29 +0100, Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First thanks you for you help > In fact I make the wifi run by using wpi driver. That's nice, yes. The wpi(4) driver seems to support the chipset of your wlan adapter :) > Running wihtout problem: > >

Re: ascii text format

2008-11-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:49:16 +, pwn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > algouth this is not a freebsd specific text, i need to format some texts > under freebsd for they appear in the center of the page when opened in a > browser, but i dont want to use HTML for format them, i just want to add > tabul

Re: ascii text format

2008-11-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:53:09 +, pwn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes, i want that the text appears displayed such as manpages like, how > can i accomplish this task? The manpages are written in groff. More specifically, they are written in a format that may be formatted by the `mdoc' macros o

Re: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

2008-11-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:53:02 +0200, "tethys ocean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have no idea since any other people doing something but i dont know > exactly according to their claim he doing some stuff with python for > web and i suppose he want to restart apache Maybe it's a good idea to avoid

Re: FreeBSD-STABLE: How do I change my Local IP Address statically?

2008-11-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:16:35 -0800, "Mike Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My IP Address on my FreeBSD Server 4.11-STABLE keeps changing. What I > need to do is find the file or command to change it statically. Network configuration is saved in `/etc/rc.conf' in FreeBSD. Before you make any ch

Re: offline upgrade

2008-11-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:03:33 -0800 (PST), gahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, All: > > I have two boxes running 6.3. For certain reasons that I can't upgrade > them online with "freebsd-update" utility; the ftp sessions are > blocked. Are there any other way to upgrade the system offline, both >

Re: bootselector - lame question

2008-11-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:19:13 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry but while i use FreeBSD for a long time i need dual boot for the > first time. > > i already have installed DOS in dospartition 1 (/dev/ad0s1) and FreeBSD > on dospartition 2 slice a (/dev/ad0s2a) > > i ca

Re: for awk experts only.

2008-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:59:51 -0800, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wordnet/wn prints the string "noun" out whereas I'd rather it simply > printed "n." Is there a way of making this substitution using awk? > (I've never used awk except as a cmdline filter.) > > The

Re: for awk experts only.

2008-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:15:15 -0800, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:47:29AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Don't do this with a long stream of if/else/.../else blocks. AWK is >> a pattern based rule-language. You can apply diff

Re: Regular Expression Help

2008-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:14:53 -0800, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm attempting to take an ldiff file and flip first/last name order. > However I can not figure out how to match hyphenated last names. In > vim, my current search/replace string is: > > %s/cn=\(\w\+\-*\) \(\w\+\),/cn=

Re: documentation problem for times(3) man page

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 +0100, "Viktor Štujber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/172448.html. > The subject was a documentation issue where a man page mismatched the > actual syste

Re: documentation problem for times(3) man page

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:17:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 +0100, "Viktor Štujber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/fre

Re: Why process memory starts so high up in virtual space with FreeBSD malloc?

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:28:48 -0800, Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am compiling the following program: > > #include > main() { printf("0x%x\n", malloc(1)); } You should probably use printf("%p", ptr) to print pointers :) > in 32-bit 7.1-PRERELEASE and get 0x28201100 which is ~673MB of 4GB >

Re: Why process memory starts so high up in virtual space with FreeBSD malloc?

2008-12-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:57:23 -0800, Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> The FreeBSD malloc(3) implementation can use either mmap() or sbrk() to >> obtain memory from the system. It does not 'waste a high percentage of >> memory' b

Re: open multiple xterms with script

2008-12-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:58:52 +0200, "Aggelidis Nikos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for your help! > > some additional questions: > > 1) is there any way to give the root password once? i tried this: > #!/bin/sh > > su root -c "\ > xterm -geometry 80x25 -title 'App 1' -e 'app1' & > xterm -g

Re: Returning User With Filesystem/Memory Tuning Questions

2008-12-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:24:48 -0600 (CST), Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Roland Smith wrote: > >> Application crashed can also be due to bad hardware, especially >> memory. Make sure that you rule out hardware troubles before diving >> into the software. > > I don't

Re: Returning User With Filesystem/Memory Tuning Questions

2008-12-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:44:29 -0600 (CST), Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> For what it's worth, I've been reading newsgroups with more than 5000 >> messages in Gnus, a newsreader that runs inside GNU

Re: Returning User With Filesystem/Memory Tuning Questions

2008-12-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:35:21 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rink Spinger has posted an excellent blog post about running with a > small /boot partition and ZFS on the root filesystem (and everything > else). His blog post is what I used to guide me thro

Re: what script is whacking root's files

2008-12-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:30:13 -0600, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /root is on /dev/da0s1a > > This particular server is running in a VM on a vmware esx 3.5 server. > The server runs fine, but every so often the dot files disappear for > root. I have not found the behavior to follow a r

Re: Not able to compile GENERIC kernel

2009-09-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:15:15 -0400, mfv wrote: > Hello, > > After rebuilding FreeBSD for many years I am not able to build a > GENERIC kernel for the last few days. It always stops when compiling > acpi. > > The source code is up to date for 7 -STABLE for i386 on a amd64 cpu. > I have always been

Re: Not able to compile GENERIC kernel

2009-09-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:10:00 +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> # rm -fr /usr/obj/usr >> # cd /usr/src >> # make cleandir ; make cleandir >> > > I've seen serveral placeses that "make cleandir" should be

Re: Not able to compile GENERIC kernel

2009-09-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:46:13 +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Sunday 20 September 2009 23:26:58 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:10:00 +0200, Christer Solskogen >> wrote: >> > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> >> # rm -fr /usr/obj/usr >

Re: Why configure files don't find /usr/local based headers?

2009-09-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:29:38 -0700, Yuri wrote: > I noticed many times that configure files of various projects fail to > find headers of third party packages under /usr/local/include. > They run command line like this: > gcc -c conftest.c > and it doesn't find them without -I/usr/local/include. >

Re: Is this a kernel memory leak or a process memory leak?

2009-09-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:43:57 -0600, Modulok wrote: > Maybe I'm just not that bright, but I have a question regarding the following: > > man 3 getenv > > "Successive calls to setenv() or putenv() assigning a differently sized > value to the same name will result in a memory leak. The FreeBSD sema

Re: Help configuring sendmail to send only using authorization to smart host

2009-09-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:37:27 -0500, Phusion wrote: > I recompiled sendmail and now get the following when running sendmail -d0.1 > -bv. > I now have added the following to sendmail.mc. > > FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) > FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable') > GENERICS_DOMAIN_F

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris wrote: > Greetings, > > Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. > > Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone and > restore. Of course, the key is fast. > > Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's other than *BSD (It uses

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ wrote: > Polytropon wrote: >> Assuming nobody uses tape drives anymore, you need to specify >> another file, which is the standard output in this case, which >> may not be obvious, but it is if we reorder the command line: >> >> # dump -0 -L - a -u -f - /dev/

Re: sendmail CLIENT_OPTIONS

2009-10-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:48:09 -0500, Don Wilde wrote: > Hello, folks - > > I am setting up the sendmail on my 7.2-STABLE system, and I cannot get > it to listen to my live server address besides the localhost. > > I've added >CLIENT_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, > Addr=64.156.192

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:40:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > But allow me a follow-up question: Is 8.0-RC1 already recommendable > for a home desktop, or would 7.2 be the version of choice? I'm asking > this because of the many improvements especially the USB subsystem has > gotten in 8 which would be i

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:08:42 +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: >On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Marwan Sultan wrote: >> Hello Gurus, >> Im planing to move out of my FreeBSD 4.8-R! which served me like a >> charm for many years. >> >> But not sure if I should go for 6.3 or 7.2 >> >> This server will be a

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:07:25 -0400, PJ wrote: > Just a note: I find it strange that nobody looked into the problem of > the confusion... I thought I had pointed out where the co;nfusion > arises... and no one seems to have either understood the > inconsistencies or bothere to read the explanation.

Re: /tmp on mfs

2009-10-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:20:38 -0400, Christopher Hilton wrote: > Reading the list yesterday I came across a little controversy about swap > backed /tmp filesystems. I've been using this in my /etc/rc.conf > > tmpmfs="YES"# Set to YES to always create an mfs /tmp, NO to never > tmpsize=

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

2009-10-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:29:27 -0700, Yuri wrote: > It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > How many people actually use it? Very few. > Why isn't it moved to ports? This questions comes up very often. You can find lots of reasons in one of the older threads about Sendmail, e.g. at: http://groups.googl

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

2009-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:43:39 -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: >On Tuesday 27 October 2009 7:32:14 am b. f. wrote: >>>It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. >>> >>>How many people actually use it? Very few. Why isn't it moved to >>>ports? >> >> Obviously, not everyone wants or needs sendmail in the base system. >

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

2009-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:47:12 -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > On Tuesday 27 October 2009 4:00:07 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> - Import your MTA of choice in a local branch. >> - Integrate the $NEWMTA with the base system of FreeBSD. >> - Update the manpages and docu

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

2009-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: > Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting > language to configure it. Other than personal profit I cannot see why > people are clinging like grim death to something this fubar. Really, > let's go past this one

Re: what is special about the 'git' Makefile ?

2009-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:33:03 -0700 (PDT), George Sanders wrote: > I've been doing this dance: > > ../configure ; make ; make install > > for about ten years now. Sometimes there are some little issues, but nothing > too crazy. > > I tried to build 'git' from source today, however, and it doesn'

Two versions of m4

2009-10-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:46:07 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: >On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner >> wrote: >>> Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting >>> language to c

Re: Bind Sendmail to an IP address

2009-10-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:49:15 -0700 (PDT), Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: > Hi, > I have a Freebsd 7.2 installation and using Sendmail for the SMTP > service. This server has two public interfaces and different IP > addresses. > > I need to have sendmail configured so that the outbound emails are > sen

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:00:57 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:44:42PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ > > Yes! but i bought the *Intel* 2-duo-core or whatever; not the AMD > (aDvanced micro Devices) chip. Are these b

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

2009-10-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:49:40 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > But, do we actually need an MTA in the base? The only arguments > I have seen in this thread are: > > - because it's been there since the beginning of history - because cron > requires it to send the daily reports > > For the first, that m

Re: Merging Related Information from 2 Tables

2009-10-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:38:56 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > This is probably going to be a hashing exercise but I am checking to see > if any of the building blocks needed are already out there. > > The problem is simple to describe in that there are 2 tables. One is a > DNS zone transfer table

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

2009-10-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:34:35 +, RW wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:08:24 +0200 > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> What is nice about Sendmail today is that with minimal changes to a >> base FreeBSD installation (the rc.conf(5) variable called >> "sendmail_enab

Re: Merging Related Information from 2 Tables

2009-10-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:37:09 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > You should use a Perl or Python script, and a hash... > ... > Running this script should produce something like: > > : keram...@kobe:/tmp$ python martin.py < input-file > : {'kobe': [('A'

Re: Sendmail SMTP server outgoing email rate

2009-10-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:50:06 -0700 (PDT), Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: > Hi, > Is there a way that I could configure sendmail so that I could control > the rate of outgoing emails? > > For example if there are 2 outbound emails destined for Yahoo.com > server then they would be sent one connection a

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:34:48 +, David Chanters wrote: > Hi all, > > I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am wondering > if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep "/home" from > my Debian installation. "/home" on Debian is currently a separate > partitio

Re: how to show "make configure" menu after initial make

2009-11-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:58:16 +0100, "Len Conrad" wrote: > subsequent "make configure" simply uses the original menu choices with > no re-display of the menu to change the options There is a subtle but important difference between 'make config' and 'make configure' for ports: * 'make configure'

Re: Problems with FreeBSD assembly

2009-11-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:43:21 -0500, David Jackson wrote: > I am having great difficulty running a very simple assembler program > on FreeBSD on x86 in my efforts to learn some assembly programming on > FreeBSD. I have tried to compile the following with nasm, however i > get nothing in response w

Re: Restricting tar or pax to a single file system

2009-11-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:01:07 -0800 (PST), jaymax wrote: > I think my reply went to the previous post, but here is > > The syntax here is confusing, should it be > > [ignoring other options] > > tar -c -W one-file-system -f tarfile2Becreated.tar / > > { > From the man pages > -W longopt=value > Lon

Re: need a newline between paragraphs....

2009-11-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:39:35 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > PS: is there any one-liner to add back one newline between paragraphs? Not an accurate one. You can *guess* when a line ends with a punctuation character *and* it is shorter than some configurable wrapping column that it is probably the end

Re: TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64)

2009-11-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:30:48 +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > acheron wrote: >> I just got the news of someone who build binaries of TeXlive 2009. >> >> http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html > > This is great news, thanks for sharing. I was looking forward to get > TexLive 200

Re: What port to use for python / https?

2009-11-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:26:45 +, Frank Shute wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:49:57PM +0900, Ben Bullock wrote: >> >> I am trying to install Mercurial on FreeBSD in order to install Go >> (programming language). I am running into a problem with Mercurial >> which looks like this: >> >> $ hg

Re: Sorting a device list

2009-11-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:48:18 -0600, Peter Steele wrote: > Can anyone recommend a quick and dirty way to sort a device list? For > example, if I do this: > > ls /dev/ad* | sort > > I get something like this: > > /dev/ad10 > /dev/ad4 > /dev/ad6 > /dev/ad8 Just use `sort -n': ls -d1 /dev/ad* |

Re: semi-problem starting sendmail

2009-12-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:42:27 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > When I start sendmail, this: > > STARTTLS=server, error: > SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(/etc/mail/CA/private/cakey.pem) failed > > appears in the log. The file exists and has permissions 0600. What > am I probably looking at, and how do I f

Re: semi-problem starting sendmail

2009-12-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:25:43 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > I just generated new keys using the method specified the the article > recommended by Giorgos, and I get the same result. Oops. I was hoping that would help, but it was only a wild guess by looking at the error message and the Google hits I

Re: lynx failure....

2009-12-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:09:52 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, this is what I see both here on my desktop, and on a remote > server, magnesium.net. Using lynx: > > Looking up www.thought.org > Unable to locate remote host www.thought.org. > Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. > > lyn

DNS problems at thought.org [was: Re: lynx failure....]

2009-12-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:21:15 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: >On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:01:47AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:09:52 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: >>> Using lynx: >>> >>> Looking up www.thought.org >>> Unable to lo

Re: DNS problems at thought.org

2009-12-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:25:43 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:29:30AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> You have some serious DNS issues with your current setup. I think you >> should start by: >> >> 1) *Removing* from the NS records of your d

Re: Have not received emails for a few days now....

2009-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:28:41 -0500, jw011235 wrote: > Interesting. I assumed it was a gmail issue because my openvpn mailing > list on the same gmail account disappeared at the same time. Clearly > bad to assume... There was indeed a problem with mailman's handling of posts directed at freebsd-q

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:49:10 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > But aristotle is halted and I am back into learn mode. This sentence probably belongs in a fortune cookie collection somewhere. Hah! :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:29:18 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> My bet would be /usr/ports/editors/hexedit. Been a while since I've >> used it, but AFAIR, it has a curses or a curses like interface, and >> it's fairly simple to use, yet sufficiently powerful for most normal >> binary editing. If

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:13 -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: >On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: >>On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: >>> Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. >>> Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. Th

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:11:12 -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Wed 23 Dec 2009 at 22:33:20 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> I can still login as regular user, and when I run 'pwd -P' the output is >>> / and then it goes back to the prompt. Output of 'ls -ld

Re: Best practice: sendmail and SMTP auth

2008-03-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-03-12 14:19, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Not sure if this is the most appropriate place for this > question, but since all my servers are FreeBSD 6.x/7.x, I'll > give it a go... > > I am considering setting up SMTP auth on a number of sendmail > instances that I contro

Re: Vim insert mode requires 'i' three times

2008-03-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-03-13 23:22, Troy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if anyone has seen this but it started a few months ago. > When I startup vim I have to hit 'i' three times to get it to go into > insert mode. I started troubleshooting my .vimrc file and figured out > that as long as I have a .v

Re: Network identity for sending mail.

2008-03-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-03-16 18:17, Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The send-pr appears to assume that mail can and will be sent > directly through sendmail or equivalent rather than inderctly through > an ISP mail service. I can certainly successfully send mail directly > via sendmail but as I don't hav

Re: Network identity for sending mail.

2008-03-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-03-17 00:26, Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:46 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:17:47PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > > The send-pr appears to assume that mail can and will be sent > > > directly through sendmail or equivalent rather t

Re: Network identity for sending mail.

2008-03-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
file. > > Read the Makefile there for information on how to rebuild things and which > > files are used. > > > > Googling for 'freebsd sendmail smart_host' should also provide useful > > information. > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:59 am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote

CURRENT vs. STABLE vs. RELEASE, tags and branches [was: Re: That age old question again]

2008-03-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-03-17 09:18, Robert Chalmers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not quite but close. > On the front page of FreeBSD.org, is the download links for > LATEST RELEASES > a.. Production Release 7.0 > Which I'm assuming is the latest, and commercially useable version. > > Now I still find the situat

Re: Various X errors (difficult to see)

2008-03-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:18:45 +0100, "Luca Presotto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a freebsd 7.0 release with xorg 7.3 installed on a i386 with a > NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 Official nvidia drivers installed and > apparently no problems. In the xorg.0.log file there aren't any > errors, gl

Re: List replies

2008-03-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
ussions on this topic. In February 2007, Jeffrey Goldberg asked the same thing too. It comes up every few months, and the explanation I had written below seemed to be satisfactory for him. Perhaps it can help in this re-occurence of the old thread? % On 2007-02-19 10:27, Jeffrey Goldberg <

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