Re: Other browsers show the same behaviour (Firefox crashes on yahoo.com)

2009-06-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 27 June 2009 06:41:43 Manish Jain wrote: > The problem is not restricted to firefox or yahoo.com. There are other > sites too where this happens. I built Galeon from ports, and it shows > exactly the same behaviour as firefox2/firefox3 for those sites. So does > Epiphany (installed from

Re: xfburn fails with 'Undefined symbol "__malloc_lock"'

2009-06-25 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 25 June 2009 14:55:37 Markus Hoenicka wrote: > I've upgraded my laptop from 6.4 to 7.2-RELEASE. Essentially > everything went fine, except that for some reason xfburn no longer > works. If I install a package using "portupgrade -f -PP" -PP will fail if for some reason the package is n

Re: Isolating high cpu load at function level

2009-06-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 07:42:06 Gary Gatten wrote: > I have a process with several threads - the main "worker" threads > typically use < 20% CPU - but after upgrading to a new version they're > now using > 90% cpu. I'm trying to determine what function these > threads are performing that's req

Re: cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mfdpic"

2009-06-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 18:09:36 Jin Guojun wrote: > This option "-mfdpic" is shown in manual page for gcc 4.1 or later > >-mfdpic >Select the FDPIC ABI, that uses function descriptors to > represent pointers to functions. Without any PIC/PIE-related options, it > implies -fP

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 21 June 2009 09:11:51 Francisco Cabrita wrote: > s/rc.cond/rc.conf :) > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Francisco Cabrita < > > francisco.cabr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I had the same problem here. > > > > Just install those ports and add them to rc.cond or rc.conf.local >

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 21 June 2009 10:38:39 danny wrote: > At the moment I am focuing the attention to the '/usr/ports/UPDATING' file. > The question that arose is the following: is there any automated way to > check if any of the port to be upgraded has specific upgrading notes > written in that file ? /usr

Re: kern.securelevel

2009-06-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 21 June 2009 12:30:26 Tim Judd wrote: > On 6/21/09, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Tim Judd writes: > >> Something dawned on me. FreeBSD/Open/Net are all well secured > >> systems. On an Internet-facing router, would applying a higher > >> kern.securelevel provide any better, tighter, high

Re: PACKAGESITE Directory Structure

2009-06-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 18:31:02 Glen Barber wrote: > Hello, list. > > After trying to figure out the incorrect directory structure for some > of the packages hosted on my site, I am at a loss. > > After reading through /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/main.c from > HEAD, lines 337-340 seems to s

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 13:51:32 Tim Judd wrote: > Replies inline > > On 6/18/09, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Thursday 18 June 2009 10:27:44 Tim Judd wrote: > >> Long ago in 2007, I saw a M$ article that describes that Vista has an > >> extremely short delay period

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 14:30:21 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jun 18, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > >> A broadcast of 255.255.255.255 is misconfigured (not saying it's not > >> gonna work, I'm saying for your network, it's not configured right). > >> you need broadcast-address 192.168.2.255 >

Re: Problem authenticating with sasl in jail

2009-06-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 11:21:51 Erik Norgaard wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 21:51:03 Erik Norgaard wrote: > >>>> Jun 17 23:39:17 jail imap[8412]: badlogin: jail.example.com > >>>> [172.16.0.2] plaintext cy...@example.com SASL

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 10:27:44 Tim Judd wrote: > Long ago in 2007, I saw a M$ article that describes that Vista has an > extremely short delay period to get an IP. If it doesn't get it > within 1 second, it gives up (and maybe tries again). Common DHCP > servers ping an IP address, wait 1 seco

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 09:56:29 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Jun 18, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: > > Does anyone have a how-to or pitfall summary on how to get a vista > > computer > > to: > > - accept DHCP offers from isc-dhcp30-server-3.0.7_4 &g

The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Mel Flynn
Does anyone have a how-to or pitfall summary on how to get a vista computer to: - accept DHCP offers from isc-dhcp30-server-3.0.7_4 - connect to WPA-PSK using *any* scheme supported by FreeBSD's hostapd - give debugging information that makes sense to someone not speaking "if !not_working throw g

Re: Problem authenticating with sasl in jail

2009-06-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 21:51:03 Erik Norgaard wrote: > >> Jun 17 23:39:17 jail imap[8412]: badlogin: jail.example.com [172.16.0.2] > >> plaintext cy...@example.com SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed > >> > Jun 18 07:46:28 alpha imap[14244]: badlogin: > jail.example.com [172.16.0.2] p

Re: Problem authenticating with sasl in jail

2009-06-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 13:58:22 Erik Norgaard wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 03:43:58 Erik Norgaard wrote: > >> I am migrating my imap server to a jail, I got the jail up and > >> cyrus-imapd starts. I have copied configuration files f

Re: Updating linux-pango

2009-06-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 11:53:59 Jerry wrote: > That does not supply an answer. And that was a lot of quoting for a post that only shows you are running in pedantic mode. But let me clarify for the joyful moment that the next poor soul bitten by this issue searches the list archive: - there i

Re: Problem authenticating with sasl in jail

2009-06-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 03:43:58 Erik Norgaard wrote: > I am migrating my imap server to a jail, I got the jail up and > cyrus-imapd starts. I have copied configuration files from the current > server, cyrus.conf, imapd.conf and passwd and group files. saslauthd is > running, yet when I try to l

Re: startx does not work, startxfce4 does!

2009-06-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 08:27:41 Leslie Jensen wrote: > On a newly installed 7.2-RELEASE system with all ports upgraded and > cvsup'ed I have a problem. > > Both root and user has > > .xsession linked to .xinitrc > > and contains > > #!/bin/sh Remove the she-bang and make sure .xinitrc is in $HO

Re: Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 23:19:15 Matthias Apitz wrote: > (II) LoadModule: "freetype" > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype > (II) UnloadModule: "freetype" > (EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0) > > and there are posts in Google that this is not needed anymore bec

Re: Problem with bash script

2009-06-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 06:03:33 Daniel Underwood wrote: > > $ find ./ -name "*.pem" -exec cp {} /usr/home/tmp/something \; > > I'm a novice with shell scripting myself, but what's the difference > between that code and some variant thereof using a pipe and "xargs"? > Are they simply two different

Re: Why obsoleted if_watchdog interface ?

2009-06-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 07:40:36 Michael Gass wrote: > I installed an old 3Com network card in my machine (Pavilion 4455) > and it works fine, but I get the following warning in dmesg > > ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO EtherLink III> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0 > ep0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watch

Re: feedback, comments on this php-delimiter scrubbing program?

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 17:21:16 Gary Kline wrote: > Encl: dephp.c, test case '?': ch = getchar(); while (1) { if (ch == '?' && (ch = getchar()) == '>') { break; } else

Re: `sched_clock' changed from 144 in sched_4bsd.o to 258 in sched_ule.o

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 10:26:26 Neil Short wrote: > --- On Fri, 6/12/09, Mel Flynn wrote: > > From: Mel Flynn > > Subject: Re: `sched_clock' changed from 144 in sched_4bsd.o to 258 in > > sched_ule.o To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Cc: "Neil Short&qu

Re: vim question...

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 12:45:54 Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:12:01PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > In vim, with "set compatible" enabled", typing 'u' repeatedly toggles > > between the last two states of the buffer. In "compatible" mode I am > > not sure of how to undo mul

Re: Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 12:56:29 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:34:19PM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Monday 15 June 2009 12:00:52 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:41:14AM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: > > > > On Monday 15 June

Re: Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 12:00:52 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:41:14AM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Monday 15 June 2009 11:18:42 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:07:05PM +0200, Alexander Best wrote: > > > > hi the

Re: Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 11:18:42 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:07:05PM +0200, Alexander Best wrote: > > hi there, > > > > when i try printing certain website the font looks very pixelated and i > > can't read anything. the same happens if i tell firefox to redirect the > > pri

Re: path for user www

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 06:29:13 Paul Schmehl wrote: > Why would you want to? You'd open yourself up to all sorts of potential > compromise paths. There's a reason why root's path is different from > normal users. Without forcing a PATH for apache, you open yourself up to exactly the things you

Re: path for user www

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 06:15:11 Pieter Donche wrote: > Now I see from reading the apache start-up script /usr/local/sbin/apachectl > that one can create a file with instructions to be executed at > startup of Apache: any file in /usr/local/etc/apache22/envvars.d is > sourced into the start up envi

Re: The freebsd-questions Archives

2009-06-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 22:21:08 Leslie Jensen wrote: > No matches were found for ... htdung is a failed project. > How should I search the list ? http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: `sched_clock' changed from 144 in sched_4bsd.o to 258 in sched_ule.o

2009-06-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 06:44:50 Neil Short wrote: > I'm taking a crack at the port win4bsd. The port informs me that I need to > add options SCHED_4BSD > to my kernel. It's an either/or thing. Remove SCHED_ULE. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 04:43:46 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > > # cp GENERIC MYKERNEL > > (or use any other descriptive name instead of MYKERNEL). > > edit MYKERNEL and add > > device sound > > device snd_hda > > # cd /usr/src >

Re: py25-tkinter-2.5.4_3 / 2.6.2_3

2009-06-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 21:33:14 Pieter Donche wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 June 2009 23:21:58 Pieter Donche wrote: > >> portupgrade advertizes since 3 days: > >> ... > >> py25-tkinter-2.5.4_3<

Re: XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 05:42:52 Carmel wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:40:49 +0200 > > Polytropon wrote: > >On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:27:54 -0400, Carmel > > > >wrote: > >> I tried a trick I found while Googling to place 'xrandr - 1024x768 -r > >> 85' in the '.xinitrc' file; however, that did not wo

Re: reference for beginner on configure/make/compile/linking/etc.

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 14:09:43 Gary Gatten wrote: > It seems > COMPLETELY overly complex to me - maybe cause the developer tries to > make it as portable as possible, but with every *nix like things putting > files wherever they want, different cc's / ld's, etc. - I can see where > it can get h

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 12:22:04 Bernt Hansson wrote: > Mel Flynn skrev: > > On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:36:16 Bernt Hansson wrote: > >> Roland Smith skrev: > >>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:48:32PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > >>>> Roland Smith sk

Re: rc.conf when ssid has spaces in it: missing documentation or missing feature?

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 12:03:56 Yuri wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > So escape use and escape the quotes with a backslash. You may need more > > then one backslash, depending on the level of evaluation in /etc/rc.subr > > and /etc/rc.d/netif. > > I believe documentation

Re: rc.conf when ssid has spaces in it: missing documentation or missing feature?

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:55:15 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:29:25 Yuri wrote: > > I can't find any references in rc.conf(5) on how to set up ifconfig line > > if SSID has spaces which is very typical situation. > > ifconfig(8) doesn't mention th

Re: rc.conf when ssid has spaces in it: missing documentation or missing feature?

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:29:25 Yuri wrote: > I can't find any references in rc.conf(5) on how to set up ifconfig line > if SSID has spaces which is very typical situation. > ifconfig(8) doesn't mention this either but it works if I put quotes > around it. So escape use and escape the quotes wit

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:11:46 Polytropon wrote: > Of course, it won't show up in kldstat then It will if you add -v to kldstat. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:36:16 Bernt Hansson wrote: > Roland Smith skrev: > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:48:32PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > >> Roland Smith skrev: > >> That doesn't help me. snd_hda driver won't load either way. I always > >> have to load it manualy. > > > > Wh

Re: Help With rc.d Script -- SOLVED

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 05:45:59 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: > > --On June 10, 2009 7:09:17 PM -0700 Drew Tomlinson > > > > wrote: > All I want to do is create a script within the rc.d framework that > runs > "/usr/local/urchin/bin/urchinctl start" when the system b

Re: py25-tkinter-2.5.4_3 / 2.6.2_3

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 23:21:58 Pieter Donche wrote: > portupgrade advertizes since 3 days: > ... > py25-tkinter-2.5.4_3< needs updating (index has 2.6.2_3) > > using portupgrade -a > upgrades all other ports that need upgrading, but never py25-tkinter > > what's wrong here? I

Re: Help With rc.d Script

2009-06-10 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 17:12:23 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I installed a software named "urchin" on my FBSD 7.2 box. > Unfortunately, it didn't come with an rc.d script to automate startup > and shutdown. And even more unfortunately, I can't seem to get my head > around the concepts in "Practical

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-10 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 13:33:19 Martin McCormick wrote: > We use both bind and the ISC DHCP server and are very > satisfied customers. When you use omshell to add a bootP entry, > it inserts it as a clause in the dhcpd.leases file but you still > must specify all the parameters yourself.

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-10 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 08:28:14 Martin McCormick wrote: > Mel Flynn writes: > > Agreed. You're solving the wrong problem by mapping CTRL-Z to CTRL-C. The > > questions you should be asking are: > > 1) Why are stale locks bad for the app? > > Because if there is o

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-10 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 08:19:56 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > The other possibility is that the CD isn't closed (fixated). UDF is a > > superset > > no it is not. Well, the 1.02 version ("DVD-video") is, but I see the UDF format has let go of ISO9660 support in later versions. Pity. -- Mel _

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-10 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 11:58:11 Leslie Jensen wrote: > It says > > :file -s /dev/acd0 > > /dev/acd0: data The other possibility is that the CD isn't closed (fixated). UDF is a superset of CD9660 anyway, so even UDF formatted should be mountable with cd9660. -- Mel _

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-10 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 00:49:16 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Martin McCormick wrote: > > Thanks to all. In this case, I made SIGTSTP have the > > same effect in the program that CTRL-C does (SIGINT) so now > > either signal makes the application remove the lock and quit > > gracefully. >

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 08 June 2009 18:36:39 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Jun 8, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Tim Judd wrote: > > If that's related to 'world', all world-related build options should > > be placed in src.conf now. What make.conf was to world+ports, is now > > src.conf = world, make.conf = ports > > What

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 08 June 2009 08:59:30 Tim Judd wrote: > What make.conf was to world+ports, is now > src.conf = world, make.conf = ports Nope. src.conf = world, make.conf = world+ports. Important distinction, which you'll notice when putting shared variables in make.conf (WITH_DEBUG, WITH_OPENLDAP f.e.

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 04:18:10 Grünewald Michaël wrote: > Le 8 juin 09 à 23:20, Polytropon a écrit : > > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:12:17 +0200, Roland Smith > > > > wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > >>> What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that d

Re: issue with dhcp and dns

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 07 June 2009 13:42:36 Dave wrote: > I'm trying to get dhcp and dns going ddns on FreeBSD 7.2. In my > dhcpd.leases file i see the forward and reverse information given on the > lease. A host fqdn and a host IP address both return correct dns > information on this host. My issue is

Re: burncd

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 07 June 2009 20:40:44 David M. Patronis wrote: > I suspect, unlike cdrecord and > growisofs, that burncd is no longer a modern utility, and is in serious > need of an overhaul. And sos@ retired :/ -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: What is the equivalent of Linux command 'ps --forest'?

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 05 June 2009 09:12:08 Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 6/5/09, Yuri wrote: > > How can I see processes in a hierarchical way? > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2009-May/006912.html > > or pstree from ports. And if in a jail, you can use the patch below to add jail support via

Re: 7.2-RELEASE panics with snd_ds1 loaded.

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 21:14:14 Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently installed 7.2-RELEASE few weeks ago and noticed that it > panics after few minutes of loading snd_ds1 (driver for Yamaha PCI sound > card), and playing music on it. I've not added snd_ds1 to my loader.conf > so as so

Re: Lighttpd wedged and ignoring SIGKILL

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 18:25:30 L Campbell wrote: > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > 85542 www1 510 102M 85360K CPU6 6 16:34 100.00% lighttpd > > 1) Should this be possible? What is going on here? Change the write-backend. Look in go

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 07 June 2009 23:49:48 Ian Smith wrote: > Thanks, but please humour my ignorance - would one install linux libusb > in /compat/linux for linux apps, as well as the freebsd port for native? If there's source, one would use native libusb. I'd go test with -current though. The libusb in th

Re: /etc/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 06 June 2009 20:44:38 Tim Judd wrote: > On 6/4/09, Peter wrote: > > I do not think /etc/hosts does round robin, I always assumed first match > > wins...DNS/bind I would understand... It's the same library call: gethostbyname(3) and friends. > > Why does ping always return the 172.20.

Re: [off-list] Re: Open_Source

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 22:05:55 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 19:26:00 Glen Barber wrote: > > Hi, Mel > > > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Mel Flynn > > > > wrote: > > > On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:12:28 madunix wrote: > > >

Re: [off-list] Re: Open_Source

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 19:26:00 Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, Mel > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Mel Flynn > > wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:12:28 madunix wrote: > >> 3- General experience with Open Source technology? > > > > Kinda getting fed

Re: cups and ghostscript recursive dependency problem

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 18:27:00 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > PORTNAME= ghostscript8 > PORTVERSION= 8.64 > PORTREVISION= 5 > ^^ \o/ Thanks for also respecting WITHOUT_CUPS since rev 3. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions

Re: repeating error message from ssh

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:59:57 Dave wrote: > Hi, > Thanks everyone for the information on this. I'm not running > anything ipv6, i'd like to turn this off completely. The dns for my network > unfortunately due to lack of computers is being provided by a 2wire gateway > 2701, if anyone has

Re: /etc/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:48:21 Peter wrote: > iH, > This all started with NFS not mounting at bootso, testing in VMs: > Why is ping using one IP, and ssh/mount_nfs/showmount using another IP > from /etc/hosts? Q: Where is described that name resolution for A or PTR records should be r

Re: Forgotten password

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 13:32:27 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Good day am a new user of of freebsd Os and i forgot my login password, i > > will need an assitance on how to get it changed. > > boot, press 4 at boot loader prompt to get single user. > > after seeing a guestion what to run as a shell

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 14:07:53 Ghirai wrote: > Is there any (native) FreeBSD supoprt for Phidgets > (http://www.phidgets.com? I think you have the question backwards - it should be "does Phidgets support FreeBSD" and that you can answer. There seems to be "linux source", how far did you get

Re: cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:34:28 Erik Norgaard wrote: > Of course, some condition that causes a proces to exit unexpectedly > ought to give a clearer log message, and it shouldn't keep retrying, for > that you might consider sending a bug report to the developers. That's exactly what I meant. E

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:12:28 madunix wrote: > 3- General experience with Open Source technology? Kinda getting fed up with the amount of trolling lately and loving Sieve. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 12:41:31 Jeff Laine wrote: > Thanks for your reply, Eric. > Running master in debugging mode helped to find out that I had 640 > permissions on libdb* files. Doh. I'd file a bugreport upstream, this is not a "debug level message" but critical error condition, in fact wi

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:48:48 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> possible reasons > >> - your firewall rules are the cause - check it. > >> - your network card produce problems (REALLY i have that case) > >> - the network/LAN named tries to sent UDP packet is somehow flooded. > > > > - the network c

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 00:46:20 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > named[69750]: client *ip removed*: error sending response: not > > enough free resources > > quite misleading message, but the problem is that named want to send UDP > packet and get's error from kernel. > > > possible reasons > - y

Re: Set task priority

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 01:05:13 Steve Bertrand wrote: > What is the best way to set priority on my task in order to ensure it > completes as quickly as possible, but does not cause a situation where > other programs and their children can't respond? You may want to consider the fact that prior

Re: [FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE] Audio going silent after wakeup.

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 31 May 2009 22:06:53 LoH wrote: > Unloading the module, letting it suspend on its own, then waking it up > and reloading the module does not cause the symptoms to appear. > > Wish I knew offhand what was being called to let it suspend, and which > state it was. See man acpiconf. Basicall

Re: migrating berkeley DBs (4.3 to 4.6)

2009-06-02 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 31 May 2009 15:23:34 Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi: > > I have cyrus-imapd 2.3 with Berkeley DB 4.3 and openldap also compiled > with BDB 4.3. > > Now, openldap won't build with 4.3 and defaults to 4.6 so I need to > migrate my data, and I would like to migrate my cyrus-imapd also to a > newe

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-06-02 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 21:09:45 Chuck Robey wrote: > Probably, the only thing that really might need > another word or two is to make the services offered by FreeBSD-test list > better advertised (it does still exist, right?) People can post all the > test mail they want to that list. Nice stor

Re: problem on a MX sendmail machine

2009-06-02 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 01 June 2009 11:33:59 RJ45 wrote: > hello I have a FreeBSD machine > > FreeBSD infngw.infn.it 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD > > being a MX record with high loads. > I often ahve this message on logs right before the machien locks up. > any hints ? > thank you > > swap_pager: indefinite wait buff

Re: top view different screens

2009-06-02 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 07:50:34 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Momchil Ivanov wrote: > > how can I view the second and third screens in top? Is it possible? > > Ah, now for that you'ld have to use middle(1) and bottom(1), Unfortunately > no one has written them yet... > > Seriously though: you can run t

Re: Best practices in finding out a trojan

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 19:40:55 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > I know this has practically no connection with FreeBSD but I have a site > on a shared hosting and it appears the site got a trojan called > JS:Cruzer-D. I cannot find anything about it as it appears to be > relatively new (28 May). Anyway

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 18:05:12 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Depends on your usage. I'd say for SMTP table lookups, MySQL can out > > perform PostgreSQL, unless one uses persistent connections (postfix > > proxy-map to be on topic). The reason for this is that the connection > > start up for MySQL h

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 18:14:49 RW wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:12:50 +0200 > > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:56:22 Valentin Bud wrote: > > > 2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot > > > > > > You can use egrep -r * (grep -e) to search for sp

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
the exec primitive emulates xargs behavior: On Saturday 30 May 2009 14:12:50 Mel Flynn wrote: > I use + rather then ; so that one >invocation for grep is done whenever maxarglen is hit (like if you used >xargs(1)), rather then one grep per file. -- Mel __

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 17:31:35 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>> It's a detailed how-to but consider the following: > >>> a) With Oracle acquiring Sun, one should move to PostgreSQL where ever > >>> possible. > > is this a reason, or that simply mysql is just slow and inefficient > compared to postgre

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 17:01:17 Prokofyev Vladislav wrote: > > The named running chrooted has no clue about /var/named. You can either > > use ducttape: > > cd /var/named/var && sudo ln -s .. named > > > > or just strip /var/named from your config file, hence use > > /var/log/xfer.log. > > > > --

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 14:50:31 Prokofyev Vladislav wrote: > Bind9 started in chroot: > > root 7880.0 0.1 3156 1004 ?? Ss Fri01AM 0:02.10 > /usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/run/log -s > bind30792 0.0 1.2 16212 12864 ?? Is4:10PM 0:00.23 > /usr/sbi

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:56:22 Valentin Bud wrote: > 2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot > > > >> Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific > > >> text within files? > > > > > > Generally, you don't - find(1) does not examine the contents of files > > > by itself, just their

Re: pfsync in GENERIC?

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 05:13:27 Steven Schlansker wrote: > On May 29, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Michael Powell wrote: > > Steven Schlansker wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > A custom kernel can free up a little RAM, and maybe boot a little > > sooner, > > but it won't produce any earth shattering differences.

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 10:20:06 Erik Norgaard wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > Is it possible to: > > a) Put a big-red-blink-popup-attentiongrabbing monster text into the > > subscription page about first posts being delayed with a link to > > greylisting? b) Hash the bo

Greylisting and new posters

2009-05-29 Thread Mel Flynn
All (including David with his kick-ass postmaster hat), while off-topic, flames and other non sense covered by Freedom of Speech are an annoyance to many, I'm more bothered by some newcomers to the list that are being greylisted on first post and instantly hit the resend button. Especially sinc

Re: pfsync in GENERIC?

2009-05-29 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 29 May 2009 20:38:54 Steven Schlansker wrote: > And not to be argumentative, but sys/conf/NOTES does not really > provide any information. The only comment explains what the device > does, not why it wouldn't be enabled in GENERIC. Is there any reason > it could not be? (For those of

Re: sys/sched.h: present but cannot be compiled

2009-05-29 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 29 May 2009 22:04:57 Gary Gatten wrote: > On 6.0 RELEASE I keep getting this error. I've read a bunch of links > and tried tweaking some source to no avail. Any help resolving this > would be appreciated. It sounds kinda bad to me, but things are working > *OK* I don't like warnin

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-29 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 29 May 2009 09:21:36 Johan Hendriks wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> > Hello all , I want to install a Mail Server with Webmail, > >> > > >> > Anybody to know a good Stable Mail Server and Web Mail > >> > >> I recommend the following step-by-step instructions: > >> http://www.purplehat.org

Re: pfsync in GENERIC?

2009-05-29 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 29 May 2009 18:19:52 Steven Schlansker wrote: > [ste...@gateway2:~]% sudo /etc/rc.d/pfsync start > /etc/rc.d/pfsync: WARNING: pfsync(4) must be statically compiled in > the kernel. > Is pfsync not in GENERIC? I checked the amd64 config file and indeed > it does not show up, however pf

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 28 May 2009 13:24:30 RW wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009 07:49:12 +0200 > > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Thursday 28 May 2009 03:13:46 RW wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200 > > > > > > Roland Smith wrote: > > > > Using e.g.

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 28 May 2009 03:13:46 RW wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200 > > Roland Smith wrote: > > Using e.g. 'portmaster --clean-distfiles-all' only removes those > > distfiles that do not belong to installed ports. > > I've not used it myself, but there is also a shell script called > d

Re: Help logging kernel messages after failed resume

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 28 May 2009 00:43:56 Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > Note: I can ssh into the notebook, then "su -" and issue "acpiconf -s > 3", but I can't get the notebook to WOL .. so .. I have to press the > power button on the notebook to get it to resume and as a consecuence, > those messages are sent to

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:34:36 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > I don't see what static content has got to do with it. OP wants a > > different delivery method. Just like you can download the static FreeBSD > > DVD via ftp/http or torrent. > > i said "exaggeration", not "wrong way". > > if there is a

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:59:58 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> but is it for video? seems like sound broadcast > > > > It doesn't care what's inside the ogg container: > > http://www.theora.org/benefits/ > > good. i was suggested by /usr/ports/audio/ > > anyway for just playing static video/audio fi

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 25 May 2009 13:53:40 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > > Hello all , I want to install a Mail Server with Webmail, > > > > Anybody to know a good Stable Mail Server and Web Mail > > I recommend the following step-by-step instructions: > http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=4 It's a de

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:38:32 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> stream service/server into FreeBDS 7.2? > > > > Err, this thread is very long...can we blame our snuggle Pole or did no > > one mention "convert to ogg-theora and install > > audio/ices2+audio/icecast2". > > but is it for video? seems li

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