Re: perl-after-upgrade

2005-07-07 Thread RW
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 20:10, Bob Hall wrote: > I don't know squat about perl. I recently ran portupgrade, which > upgraded perl. Goose stopped working, because the location for Curses.pm > was no longer in @INC. I tried to run perl-after-upgrade, but I couldn't > get it to run. I've got a book

Re: flash plugin on freebsd amd64

2005-07-17 Thread RW
On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:48, Emil Khatib wrote: > Hi, I can't get flash movies to play in freebsd 5.4 amd64. The movies > play too fast. I've tried the flashplugin-mozilla plugin in the ports. > I also tried another one. Is there any way to solution this? The normal answer is that the only port

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-17 Thread RW
On Friday 15 July 2005 20:27, George Ruch wrote: > Q3: Partitioning >Yes, I know you've seen several million questions on partitioning > schemes. I've read up on it, and I'd like to get some feedback on this > plan. All slices would be p/o ad1a, which has approx. 14,704MB free. > > /

What is KDM Console Login?

2005-07-18 Thread RW
On the KDM menu there is an option "Console Login". When I select this, nothing happens. What's it supposed to do, and how can I make it do it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Possible problem with periodic daily processing

2005-07-22 Thread RW
On Friday 22 July 2005 16:24, Mike Friedman wrote: > Because of clock drift on my system, I decided to run ntpdate daily, > instead of just at boot time. So, what I did was create a symlink in > /etc/periodic/daily: 600.ntpdate -> /etc/rc.d/ntpdate, thus leveraging > the existing ntpdate script t

Re: Possible problem with periodic daily processing

2005-07-22 Thread RW
On Friday 22 July 2005 17:58, Mike Friedman wrote: > Yes, I suppose I should run ntpd as well. Though I'm not sure what you > mean by 'normally', considering that 'ntpd_enable="NO"' is the default set > in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. I mean it's the normal solution to the problem of long-term clock in

Re: First post

2005-07-22 Thread RW
On Friday 22 July 2005 18:22, Halldór Rúnar Hafliðason wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 10:36 -0700, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > > Dears, > > I'm newbie.I believe that "BSD as server & Linux as desktop". > > Now,I have a machine that i wanna install FreeBSD5.4,Slackware10.1,Debian > > Sarge & windo

Re: First post

2005-07-22 Thread RW
On Friday 22 July 2005 21:05, nawcom wrote (in reverse order): > RW wrote: > > > >VMWare costs $189 > > are you using raid or just plain ide? the reason i ask is so i can > understand the geometry of your hard disk's partitions (4 primary > partitions max per ide hd

Re: mplayer

2005-07-23 Thread RW
On Saturday 23 July 2005 06:32, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > # cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer > # make install > > It's a pig to use, unfortunately. See > http://www.lemis.com/grog/videorecorder/packages.html for some > observations. If you find something there with which you disagree, or

Re: Power cut during portupgrade -NRP kde

2005-07-28 Thread RW
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 07:58, Gareth Bailey wrote: > Hi all, > > I believe that a kde install using packages where possible is the quickest > route. I started the kde install using "portupgrade -NRP kde", but had a > power cut half way through :-( How might i continue where I left off? Just run

Re: need some advice

2005-07-29 Thread RW
On Friday 29 July 2005 09:35, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Windows just for gaming to me means w98se. It's faster, smoother and > smaller. One problem problem with w98 is that it has problems with modern amounts of memory. I have a similar w98/freebsd dual-boot with AMD64 2.8G and 1.5 GB of ram, an

Re: what to do? amd64 - i386

2005-07-31 Thread RW
On Sunday 31 July 2005 18:12, dick hoogendijk wrote: > I know the OS itself will be faster, but how about > ports. The benchmarks I've seen have been a mixed bag. There's one in the AMD64 list where a webserver ran twice as fast on i384 than on amd64. _

Re: 5.x separate /boot slice?

2005-08-04 Thread RW
On Thursday 04 August 2005 09:49, Michael Dexter wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to try a separate /boot slice as permitted by FreeBSD 5.x... > > (http://www.khmere.com/freebsd_book/html/ch08.html) > > But alas it does not appear to be as simple as simply specifying a > /boot during setup. This ca

Re: getting messages from remote mail box

2005-08-04 Thread RW
On Thursday 04 August 2005 22:27, Leonard Zettel wrote: > All my incoming mail goes to a unix box which > I access over the internet using kmail. > > I also occasionally get at it using pine. > > Here is my problem: after I use pine > kmail will no longer recognize the presence > of any message tha

Re: getting messages from remote mail box

2005-08-04 Thread RW
On Thursday 04 August 2005 23:32, RW wrote: If you can't resist the urge to use mutt then > there is a way turn it off in pine, but I can't remember how offhand. I just remembered. Go to the pine config screen (M S C), and read the help for the option disable-

Re: how to deinstall the gnome2-lite port from my system completely?

2005-08-06 Thread RW
On Saturday 06 August 2005 15:38, richard cinema wrote: > at first, i try to do a " make deinstall" under > /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite . no error occured > except i found all the gnome stuff stay there when i run "pkg_info" > then. it seems the port did nothing with my "make deinstall" > command.

Re: AMD64 vs. i386

2005-08-06 Thread RW
On Saturday 06 August 2005 21:37, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Joseph Sniderman wrote: > >Can I install the i386 version of FreeBSD on an AMD64(athelon64) based > > computer? > > Yes, but what what libs and programs you may install that are i386 > based as opposed to 64-bit. You can seriously 'screw

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 install problem. Newbee needs help.

2005-08-10 Thread RW
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 02:11, William Manley wrote: > I am a new FreeBSD user and I have an installation that has gone bad. My > problems started when I enabled XDM for a graphical logon into Gnome. > When I logged in as root the system just looped back to the logon > screen. I then assumed I

Re: xmms, stupid question

2005-08-10 Thread RW
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 10:46, slack _usr wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm new to FreeBSD, so I'm using DesktopBSD. But I think, it uses > FreeBSD ports collection. So, question is, where I can find only xmms > (plain player). I can find MANY MANY plugins and etc, but I can't find > simple xmms. P

xorg crashing with kde

2005-08-10 Thread RW
Since the kde update went into ports about a week ago, I've been having a problem with xorg crashing. The problem occurs when a kde session is left in the "background" by a switch to either another x-server or to a virtual terminal, and it's left there long enough for the monitor standby timer

Re: [Fwd: Re: port config questions]

2005-10-19 Thread RW
On Thursday 20 October 2005 00:14, Chris wrote: > Sorry, sent to respondent instead of list, resending to list > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > Setting BATCH=YES in /etc/make.conf will prevent those blue screens from > > popping up. I'm not sure if this is risky or not but BATCH=YES is a > > permame

Re: [Fwd: Re: port config questions]

2005-10-20 Thread RW
On Thursday 20 October 2005 03:52, Parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote RW thusly... > > > The blue menu screens are a useful way of spotting new port > > options, and you lose that if you set BATCH. > > OPTIONS are right there in the Makef

Re: A simple ports question...

2005-10-20 Thread RW
On Thursday 20 October 2005 15:25, makisupa wrote: > How would you install a port that had dependencies that were older than > identical items on your system? > > For example, you install portx that requires depend1.1 -- you have > depend1.2 on your system. This will happen if you have an out-of

Re: A simple ports question...

2005-10-20 Thread RW
On Thursday 20 October 2005 16:35, makisupa wrote: > Thanks for the reply... > > My ports tree is up to date -- i believe the "problem" (if you want to > call it that) is that I installed gnome 2.12 from package at marcuscom > (on a 6.0 RC1 system -- i needed 6.0 for some HW issues). I therefore >

Problem with groups

2005-10-21 Thread RW
From a KDE Root console, I changed a directory's permissions to 770 and added my account to it's group with pw. In another console, under my own account, I tried to cd into the directory and failed, no gui application could access the directory either. pw showed I was a member of the group. I

Re: newbie

2005-10-24 Thread RW
On Monday 24 October 2005 06:51, Eyad Salah wrote: > I'm kinda new to Linux, How can I start FreeBSD GUI (Like windows)? FreeBSD is not Linux. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Disc space

2005-10-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 16:08, Igor Robul wrote: > 2) you can buy more memory and use memory backed md (4) /tmp And you can create a 100 MB memory-backed /tmp simply by adding the following to rc.conf tmpmfs="YES" tmpsize="100m" tmpmfs_flags="-SM" If you omit the tmpmfs_flags line,

Re: KDE

2005-11-01 Thread RW
On Monday 31 October 2005 07:38, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Sunday 30 October 2005 22:15, Jack Thompson wrote: > > Hello, and Please ,,,Somebody nudge me in the right direction, > > I have a successful install of 6.0 RC1, and when I startx it comes up > > with three boxes , of xterminals > >

Re: Installing wine on 6.0 RC

2005-11-03 Thread RW
On Thursday 03 November 2005 14:29, paul thodiyil wrote: > On 11/4/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/3/05, paul thodiyil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am having > > > > great > > > > > trouble installing WINE and indeed

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread RW
On Thursday 03 November 2005 04:27, Moffatt, Chris wrote: > It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like "prn") Now that is funny - prn is where the texting generation will expect to store their porn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Updating from 5.4-STABLE to 6.0-STABLE

2005-11-05 Thread RW
On Saturday 05 November 2005 13:48, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: > will updating from 5.4 to 6.0 give me these changes or > will I have to reformat the drives with the updated UFS2? This was asked and answer yesterday - only 11 threads ago. ___ freebs

Re: update kde

2005-11-05 Thread RW
On Saturday 05 November 2005 16:16, eoghan wrote: > Hello > Im just looking for some advice. Ive updated my ports since kde has > gone to 3.4.3. Im currently using 3.4.2. I want to upgrade. But Im > not sure if I do this will I loose all my current settings - like > desktop items etc. Also, do I do

Re: update kde

2005-11-05 Thread RW
On Saturday 05 November 2005 17:27, eoghan wrote: > On 5 Nov 2005, at 17:13, RW wrote: > > On Saturday 05 November 2005 16:16, eoghan wrote: > >> Hello > >> Im just looking for some advice. Ive updated my ports since kde has > >> gone to 3.4.3. Im currently us

Re: FreeBSD platform for "AMD Sempron 64 2600 (socket 754, Palermo) Box" ?

2005-11-07 Thread RW
On Monday 07 November 2005 12:37, Petr Karasek wrote: > Dear ..., > I would like to ask you > to which platform belong this processor "AMD Sempron 64 2600 (socket 754, > Palermo) Box" ? > > Is this the > FreeBSD/amd64 Platform > or > FreeBSD/i386 Platform Any Sem

Re: problem with linuxpluginwrapper

2005-11-16 Thread RW
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 04:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have just installed Gnome 2.12 on 6.0stable, and then installed > linuxpluginwrapper from the port. After installation I copied > libmap.conf-FreeBSD6 to /etc/libmap.conf. However, when I start Mozilla > and goto the plugins page,

Re: Release engineering confusion

2005-11-16 Thread RW
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 23:38, Steve Bertrand wrote: > In production (at an ISP), what is the best to follow...RELENGX_X or > RELENG_X? I have 4.x, 5.x boxes in production, and this 6.x box is being > prepared for the same. See the Handbook: 20.2.2.2 Who Needs FreeBSD-STABLE? _

Re: EM64T supported?

2005-11-17 Thread RW
On Thursday 17 November 2005 19:14, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > EM64T is Intel's 64-bit processor architecture. It uses 64 bit registers > so it gets around the 4GB limit. It is very similar to AMD64 > architecture ... IA-64 was Intel's 64-bit architecture. EM64T is Intel's attempt to make AMD64 co

Re: portssystem stale dependencies

2005-11-19 Thread RW
On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:37, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: > .. does anyone know why the problem of stale dependencies in the package > system occurs?.. it's just.. the system won't let you install any given > port/package without having met all the dependencies.. That's not entirely true, i

Re: Showing Beastie at boot?

2005-11-22 Thread RW
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 23:44, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 5.4 showed an ASCII Beastie at boot, 6.0 shows "FreeBSD" in awful > > ASCII-art text. As a Beastie traditionalist, what's the option to > > display Beastie again? > > > > man load

Re: args to `make` within the ports tree

2005-11-24 Thread RW
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 20:57, Russell Meek wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > > >Try /usr/ports/KNOBS for the most common ones, and the Makefile of each > >port for specific ones. > > > >Roland > > Many ports fail if you try to use extravagant make flags like what you > would use with Gentoo. I

Re: dvd-ripping to iso on freebsd ...

2005-11-25 Thread RW
On Friday 25 November 2005 03:26, user wrote: > Hello, > > What is a tool I can use on FreeBSD to rip dvd movies to _iso_ ? > > Every document I see refers to vobcopy, which is not what I want, as I > want single-file iso dumps of the dvd. The port sysutils/dvdbackup will backup a dvd to your hard

Cleaning-up stale PID files on reboot

2005-11-25 Thread RW
I start mlnet, the daemon part of mldonkey, from it's local rc.d script on bootup. If mlnet isn't shutdown properly, it leaves behind a pid file that prevents the daemon running until I notice and manually delete the file. What's the best way to deal with this? I was wondering if there is some

Re: so much clock interrupts?!

2005-11-25 Thread RW
On Friday 25 November 2005 06:45, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > 2000 interrupts per second per core for the timer is a > ridiculous high number and I reduce it simply for aesthetic reasons. > This may be a religious issue and everyone should use what he or she > seems fitting. If you think in a w

Re: about /usr/src/etc

2005-11-26 Thread RW
On Saturday 26 November 2005 12:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am unable to locate this folder (/usr/src/etc). I mean, it does not > exist. I only have sys under /usr/src You only have the kernel source, not the world source. Try updating with cvsup as described in the handbook. __

Re: about /usr/src/etc

2005-11-26 Thread RW
On Saturday 26 November 2005 13:41, RW wrote: > On Saturday 26 November 2005 12:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am unable to locate this folder (/usr/src/etc). I mean, it does not > > exist. I only have sys under /usr/src > > You only have the ke

Re: WARNING /usr was not properly dismounted ...

2005-11-26 Thread RW
On Saturday 26 November 2005 13:36, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 5.4 at the moment, so does it take care of itself also? I guess it will take care of itself on any version of FreeBSD. I think it's just the case that more modern versions (5.0 onwards?) will check the non-root partition

Re: WARNING /usr was not properly dismounted ...

2005-11-26 Thread RW
On Saturday 26 November 2005 13:13, Alistair Sutton wrote: > On 26/11/05, Kiffin Gish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I restarted by machine, I get the warning messages: > > > > WARNING /usr was not properly dismounted > > WARNING /tmp was not properly dismounted > > ... > > > > and for a numbe

Re: KDE and PAM

2005-11-26 Thread RW
On Saturday 26 November 2005 16:48, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > I've got a problem. > I'm using KDE 3.4.3 on a 5.4p8 system: simply it does not check for > password!!! > At login (using kdm) I just enter my username and can leave the password > field blank or type whatever I want. The same h

Re: System upgrade questions

2005-11-26 Thread RW
On Saturday 26 November 2005 17:38, Chris wrote: > Miguel Saturnino wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have a FreeBSD 5.3 release system which was upgraded with CVSup to > > RELENG_5. I have recently built a new kernel, but *have not* rebuilt > > "world". The computer now says it's a "FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE" sys

Re: Compressed filesystem

2005-11-26 Thread RW
On Saturday 26 November 2005 18:45, Nils Vogels wrote: > Hi! > > I'm looking for a way to have an on-the-fly compressed filesystem, to > use as an archive under FreeBSD. So far, I've only been able to find > solutions for Linux, are there any for FreeBSD as well ? There's mkuzip, but it's read onl

Re: Instructions for upgrading?

2005-11-26 Thread RW
On Saturday 26 November 2005 20:16, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > where can i find simple instructions for upgrading to > a new major > version? im running 4.10 right now and want to change > to 6.0--why not? heh--but the installation page in the > handbook just talks about doing it from > scratch

Re: Yesterday's -STABLE kernel corrupts LAN

2005-11-26 Thread RW
On Saturday 26 November 2005 18:34, Derrick MacPherson wrote: > Wow, if I could use that sarcasm to fuel my car I'd be happy. I guess we > would be the only people to run current or stable on a production > machine, and everyone else is using RELEASE? I guess I should have stuck > with 4.1x consid

Re: linux partitions

2005-11-29 Thread RW
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:05, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I want to duel boot BSD with Slackware whats the best Linux file system > > to use for reading and write to I would normally use ReiserFS would this > > be ok ? > > reiserfs support in FreeBSD is read-o

Re: Upgrading to 60 question.

2005-11-29 Thread RW
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:01, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > The ports will continue to work, but you should update them when you > get a chance so that they link against the 6.0 libraries instead of > the old ones. One exception is nvidia-driver, you must remove the driver from loader.conf and reb

Re: system time "slowing down" ?

2005-11-29 Thread RW
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 12:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Pick any of them and add it/tem to /etc/ntp.conf, then set up things so > that ntpd is started at boot time and you're set You really need ntpdate as well, which performs a gross correction during boot. If you already have ntp configu

Re: XVideo-support gone

2005-11-29 Thread RW
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:43, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > I'm not sure when this happened, but I'm not able to use the XVideo > extension enymore. I'm 100% positive that I was able to before, but now > MPlayer wont let me use it. xvinfo also says "no adaptors present". > > I imagine this m

Re: Upgrading to 60 question.

2005-11-29 Thread RW
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 18:53, Vizion wrote: > On Tuesday 29 November 2005 07:16, the author RW contributed to the > dialogue on- > > Re: Upgrading to 60 question.: > >On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:01, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> The ports will continue to work,

Re: Upgrading to 60 question.

2005-12-01 Thread RW
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 20:52, Vizion wrote: > On Tuesday 29 November 2005 12:02, the author RW contributed to the > dialogue on- > > Re: Upgrading to 60 question.: > >On Tuesday 29 November 2005 18:53, Vizion wrote: > >> On Tuesday 29 November 2005 07:16, the a

Re: Update 5.4 -> 6.0

2005-12-01 Thread RW
On Thursday 01 December 2005 08:16, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > It's my suspicion that updating 5.4 to 6.0 via CVSup leaves alot of old > > libraries in place. Is this anywhere near correct? > >... > > Is there an easy way to fix them? >... > Software compiled under 5.x w

Re: Questions about make arguments for ports

2005-12-01 Thread RW
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 13:00, Ashley Moran wrote: > Hello, > > When upgrading a machine from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0 I came across the problem > of how to re-compile all the ports to use FreeBSD 6 libraries so I can > ditch the compat5x port. Actually you can ditch it anyway, all of the library

Re: pkg_add of CVSup errors when looking for dependencies

2005-12-02 Thread RW
On Friday 02 December 2005 09:06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:05:11AM -0800, Jose Borquez wrote: > > I am attempting to install the cvsup package I downloaded using pkg_add > > -r cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2.tbz, but I keep getting the following error: > > > > Error: FTP Unable

Re: How to upgrade gnome/glib/gt on 4.11

2005-12-02 Thread RW
On Friday 02 December 2005 19:28, Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking to upgrade using the : > > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade212.sh > > but it tells me that 4.11-STABLE isn't supported. Is there a > procedure to do the upgrade? If the new version of

Re: How to upgrade gnome/glib/gt on 4.11

2005-12-02 Thread RW
On Saturday 03 December 2005 03:12, RW wrote: > On Friday 02 December 2005 19:28, Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was looking to upgrade using the : > > > > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade212.sh > > > > but it tells

Re: How often portupgrades?

2005-12-03 Thread RW
On Saturday 03 December 2005 19:56, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: > Everybody has to figure out that one for himself, so, here is my > rule of thumb: > > Upgrade your ports only when you need to. > > If all installed ports work fine and a new version doesn't introduce > some functionality you simply

Re: how to track 6.0 increments ?

2005-12-05 Thread RW
On Monday 05 December 2005 10:56, Ashley Moran wrote: > On Sunday 04 December 2005 17:20, ke.han wrote: > > I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't think).  I just want > > security fixes and other changes that might be termed 6.01 if there were > > such a thing. > > I've always wondered

Re: 64bit

2005-12-06 Thread RW
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 05:33, K P wrote: > hello, > i just got AMD Athlon 64bit but i want to know that FreeBSD for AMD64 port > will work at 64bit mode or it is 32bit and just will work in 64bit arch? i386 works in 32-bit mode, AMD64 works in 64 bit mode. If it's going to be a desktop, be

Re: two questions

2005-12-06 Thread RW
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 20:15, Efren Bravo wrote: > Hi, > > -Is there a client to access to Informix Server > on freeBSD via PHP? > > -Where can I find information about rcNG scripts > because I need to set priority on deamons' loads. It's all based on PROVIDE, REQUIRE and BEFORE, see rcorder

Re: thunderbird file locations

2005-12-07 Thread RW
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 11:36, eoghan wrote: > On 7 Dec 2005, at 11:24, Erik Norgaard wrote: > > Have you looked in ~/.thunderbird? > > > ... > this is in /root/.thunderbird I can't think of any good reason to run thunderbird as root. ___ freebsd

Re: kde hangs at first start...

2005-12-07 Thread RW
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 21:04, Javier Matos wrote: > Hi, I install FreeBSD 6.0 in my box and create the file xorg.conf.new with > rights values. Then I try it with Xorg -config ... (and it works fine)... > but when I try to start kde (writing "kdm" in the console as root) the > screen change

Re: postfix help

2005-12-08 Thread RW
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 23:01, Michael Sherman wrote: > Hello all. > > I am trying to get postfix to relay mail through my ISP, without much > luck though. > >... > relayhost = smtp.broadband.rogers.com > smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes > smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous > smtp_sasl_passw

Re: postfix help

2005-12-08 Thread RW
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 23:32, Paul Schmehl wrote: > Yahoo wants authentication. Postfix doesn't do smtp-auth between > mailhosts, ... relay-host smtp-auth is pretty much an essential feature of an MTA these days, with so many ISP-assigned addresses being on blocklists. __

Re: MD5 discrepancy in 6.0-RELEASE/src/CHECKSUM.MD5

2005-12-08 Thread RW
On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:33, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > On 12/8/05, James Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Inside the CHECKSUM.MD5 file, however, it says that its own > > checksum should be > > > > MD5 (CHECKSUM.MD5) = 6ee62cd847afff4cadf6648389c67a11 > > This is interesting; how can

Re: Removing a port without upsetting dependencies

2005-12-11 Thread RW
On Saturday 10 December 2005 22:46, Ian Moore wrote: > Hi, > I have mplayer installed and at one stage I installed the mplayer-skins > port as well. Then I got sick of dealing with the skins port being broken a > lot because the source files are often unfetchable, so I removed the port > (I can't r

Re: Disadvantages of running software through compat5x?

2005-12-12 Thread RW
On Monday 12 December 2005 10:55, Ashley Moran wrote: > I was going to reinstall it with 6.0 and I just wondered if there was any > reason why you shouldn't run a production server on the compat5x port for > any length of time. I can't afford the downtime to remove all the ports > and re-install t

Re: Removing a port without upsetting dependencies

2005-12-12 Thread RW
On Monday 12 December 2005 03:54, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 11 December 2005 06:10 pm, RW wrote: > > On Saturday 10 December 2005 22:46, Ian Moore wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have mplayer installed and at one stage I installed the > > > mplayer-skins port

Re: Slices

2005-12-12 Thread RW
On Monday 12 December 2005 16:08, Sasa Stupar wrote: Robert Huff > > You can also do the same as I did. I have just configured one slice named / > which takes all the space on hdd and now I don't need to worry about space > shortage. If you do that you will need to

Re: Slices

2005-12-13 Thread RW
On Tuesday 13 December 2005 10:36, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > OK. But then what would be ideal slice size for /, /var, /usr, /boot? There's no need for a boot partition; that's a Linux practice. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: pine

2005-12-13 Thread RW
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 01:01, caleb wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am having some problems setting up pine && .pinerc using > FreeBSD 6.0 - STABLE. My ISP uses POP and I am using thier SMTP for > outgoing. I spoke to the helpdesk and the POP server does not support ssl. > > I h

Re: grub doesn't know ufs filesystem

2005-12-14 Thread RW
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 16:36, Micah wrote: > Some of the grubs that ship with Linux distros > do not support ufs. I'm curious as to why people care about this so much. There are numerous threads about whether or not particular bootloaders support UFS. A bootloader needs to understand

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-29 Thread RW
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:41:16 +0200 Bas Smeelen wrote: > On 09/29/2010 01:42 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:57:09 +0200 > > Bas Smeelen wrote: > > > > > >> *Cache:* number of clean pages caching data that are available for > >> immediate reallocation > >> http://www.freebsd.

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-30 Thread RW
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:24:58 +0200 Bas Smeelen wrote: > *Wired:* number of pages wired down, including cached file data pages That refers to buffer pages (displayed as Buf), which are a subset of the cached file data pages. The pages in the cache queue are not specifically cached file data pag

Re: Cleaning /var/db/portsnap/files/, how?

2010-10-04 Thread RW
On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:01:24 +0200 "O. Hartmann" wrote: > On several FreeBSD boxes "performing portsnap fetch" updating the > ports on a regular basis, folder /var/db/portsnap/files/ gets filled > over time. I was wondering if there is not an elegant, sophisticated > way cleaning up those files n

Re: Cleaning /var/db/portsnap/files/, how?

2010-10-04 Thread RW
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 08:22:58 -0400 Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 12:59:50 +0100 > RW articulated: > > > There shouldn't be any need to do that, they are supposed to be > > deleted automatically. I have 22371, if you have much more than that > > you probab

Re: Custom rc script using /usr/sbin/daemon

2010-10-05 Thread RW
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:18:38 +0200 Eric Masson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to create a script that would launch php-cgi in fastcgi > mode. So far, I've the following script : > >... > > sig_stop="TERM" > pidfile="/var/run/${name}/${name}.pid" > command="/usr/sbin/daemon -f -p ${pidfile} /usr

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread RW
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:40:54 -0700 mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/178267 >... > So, is such approval on file with the FreeBSD Foundation? " without first obtaining _any_ _required_ license or other approval ..." It doesn't sa

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-10-07 Thread RW
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 06:13:42 -0500 (CDT) Scott Bennett wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:42:30 +0100 Bruce Cran > wrote: > >You can find more information about the VM architecture at > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/vm.html . > > > The top(1) man page is clearly in er

Re: portupgrade command line option -f problem

2010-10-13 Thread RW
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:14:30 +0100 David Southwell wrote: > Hi > > man portupgrade advises: > > -f > --forceForce the upgrade of a package even if it > is to be a downgrade or just a reinstall of the same ver- > sion, or the port is held by

Re: portupgrade command line option -f problem

2010-10-13 Thread RW
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:24:26 +0100 David Southwell wrote: > Tried that but no good - it still seems to goof up. I recall it used > to work many versions ago but it may not have been picked up on a > regression test. > It works for me. Which port is it failing on? __

Re: How FreeBSD Handles a DNS that is Down

2010-10-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:22:15 -0500 Martin McCormick wrote: > Last night, I had to take down our primary DNS for > maintenance and lots of systems began having trouble of various > kinds. > > While I expected the FreeBSD system I was on to hang for > a couple of seconds and then start

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread RW
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100 Arthur Chance wrote: > 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by > inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board. I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rather than brass/empty or ferrite/empty.

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:33:46 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > I couldn't not format it (it was some FAT format on it) as it > detached from the system by itself as soon as accessed. It might just have been faulty. If it couldn't be accessed as a normal device, how would the driver get installed in the

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:32:23 +0100 Arthur Chance wrote: > On 10/21/10 13:38, RW wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100 > > Arthur Chance wrote: > > > > > >> 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by > >> inserting bra

Re: geli keys

2010-10-24 Thread RW
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:14:57 +0700 Victor Sudakov wrote: > Colleagues, > > The geli(8) man page suggests initializing a geli provider with a > random keyfile (geli init -K). It also asks for a passphrase by > default. > > What happens if a provider is initialized without the -K option, just > w

Re: geli keys

2010-10-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:07:11 +0700 Victor Sudakov wrote: > RW wrote: > > > > > > The geli(8) man page suggests initializing a geli provider with a > > > random keyfile (geli init -K). It also asks for a passphrase by > > > default. > > > > &g

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-02 Thread RW
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:42:06 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: > People, is there a utility to give me the rate of bps that I am > _supposed_ to be getting from my telco DSL? If your modem or router has some means of configuring it, typically via a browser, you can get usually get that information there.

Re: portmaster

2010-11-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:15:27 +0100 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Trying to update with portmaster (-a -B -d) but everytime the process > stops after some time and I can't find out why this happens. All I > see is a screen full of names, but no message why the thing dumped > core. > > Is there a way

Re: portmaster

2010-11-06 Thread RW
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:22:49 +0100 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Yes, of course I did. Then of course you should have mentioned it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: FreeBSD as a xen host

2010-11-07 Thread RW
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:28:06 -0600 Adam Vande More wrote: > You may wish to read that page again. Dom0 support doesn't exist in > FreeBSD, and paravirt domU is sketchy at best. The page says: "The port will only run as a guest (ie. domU) right now, on i386/PAE platforms." which is open t

Re: portmaster question

2010-11-08 Thread RW
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 22:11:50 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Jerry wrote: > > > When using 'portupgrade', I commonly use the '-r' flag in > > conjunction with the previously discussed '-a' flag. While not as > > through as the "-u -p" flags with 'portmanger', it does accompl

Re: portmaster question

2010-11-08 Thread RW
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 06:22:55 -0500 Jerry wrote: > I don't see anything that specifically states the the "-R or -r" > flags are in included with the "-a" flag; although I might be > misinterpreting it. If it was implied i think it should have been > better documented. -aRr isn't implied by -a, th

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