Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-17 Thread RW
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:20:17 -0700 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of RW > > Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 1:56 PM > > To:

Re: cron jobs not done during sleep

2007-09-17 Thread RW
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:22:45 -0700 "Steve Franks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a tool or setting to implement this functionality? I want > something to happen weekly, I don't care when. One way is to install a crontab replacement like fcron, but the easiest way to handle this is to ins

Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg

2007-09-18 Thread RW
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:03 +0400 Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:01:27PM +0200, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > Suppose you deleted /var/db/pkg by accident :( What would you > > do to get it back?? > > I'd go one of these ways: > -

Re: Cron not working till 28/08/07

2007-09-19 Thread RW
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:36:07 - (GMT) "DSA - JCR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all !! > > I had several crontab jobs in order to make backups. > > All worked fine till the 28-Aug-2007 when it seems to be stopped for > some reason, I don't know why. > I had a reporting in my mail box (exter

Re: Software

2007-09-19 Thread RW
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:17:51 -0700 Kellen Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I need to be able to run iTunes for my iPod. Are really sure? Amarok, and probably other software, has ipod support. It's worth dual-booting for a few weeks to find out what you actually need. You do need to mak

Re: Hard drive RPM

2007-09-20 Thread RW
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:22:00 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > not a case of misrepresentations that I have found on network > > attached hard disk storage devices and Firewire drives. > > I have one that was expressly advertised on the package to be > > 120 Gb capacity,

Re: QEMU and tap problems

2007-09-20 Thread RW
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:21:20 -0500 Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I've been following the various instructions I've found on the web in > an attempt to get tap networking with qemu-devel-0.9.0s.20070802 and > Are you actually sure that you actually need tap? A lot of the

Re: downgrading to an earlier version of the same port

2007-09-20 Thread RW
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:27:10 -0500 Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 20 September 2007 19:37:10 Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > On my machine it appears that jdk-1.5.0.12,1 is broken and I want to > > downgrade to a previous cvsup of the same port (I don't know the > > exact tag bu

Re: QEMU and tap problems

2007-09-21 Thread RW
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:08:41 -0500 (CDT) "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, September 20, 2007 20:47, RW wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:21:20 -0500 > > Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I've been followi

Re: Are you guys using xcdroast?

2007-09-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:17:24 -0400 Lisandro Grullon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Erich and thank youf rot the reply, > I do understand that this is an X aplication, I am trying to run it > in 6.2_release using Xorg 7.2 and Gnome2, still giving me that > strange error when I try to execute fr

Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?

2007-09-22 Thread RW
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:26:40 +0200 Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the default MTA were changed many existing users would be quite > upset when their working configurations suddenly stopped working - so > one should not change the default MTA without a very good reason. > Although

Re: The best way to keep the system clean?

2007-09-24 Thread RW
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:25:01 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:17 +0800, ronggui wrote: > > My problem, many times I install some software from ports, it > > install the dependency software. Then after some time, I find that > > software isn't what I want,

Re: Questions on the scheduler

2007-09-24 Thread RW
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:23:40 -0400 "Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard a lot of winging about the FreeBSD scheduler from Linux > people, and even saw that is the reason for one fork off of FreeBSD. > > In my experience, I've gotten better performance out of FreeBSD on > single

Re: Silly IPFW question.

2007-09-24 Thread RW
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:33:05 -0400 "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am sorry if this is a no-brainer > > Is there anyway to make a rule in IPFW that will match MAC addresses > instead of IP or port numnbers (and no, I didnt see anything in the > docs :-)) man ipfw a

Re: Silly IPFW question.

2007-09-24 Thread RW
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:47:31 -0400 "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > I have a client to wants access to mysql on port 3306, but none (4) > of his computers have static IPs. So, answer your question, he wants > to access from several hops down the (internet) pipe. > > And I j

Re: USB 2.0 PCI card for FreeBSD 5.4?

2007-09-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:36:14 -0700 "Roger B.A. Klorese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know one or two PCI USB cards that are compatible with > FreeBSD 5.4? > > (Please let's hold off on the "upgrade, you fool" messages -- the > cycle is: > - install USB 2.0 card > - back up to USB dri

Re: PF: block out port 80 so that not allow clients in LAN to browse Internet via port 80

2007-09-25 Thread RW
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:52:16 +0700 vuthecuong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently I used squid for cache proxy configured to go internet > through port 3128. > But internet browser in LAN still connect to Internet through port 80 > if in conenction option of Internet browser is chose to connect

Re: PF: block out port 80 so that not allow clients in LAN to browse Internet via port 80

2007-09-25 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:15:36 +0200 Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, he could block, but transparently doing it without annoying > users is better(tm). It depends. If they are doing a lot of ftp downloading, you may want to force it to go though squid, so it can be cached. And you can't r

Re: Software Lojack

2007-09-26 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:34:15 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:56PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > > I know all about various precautions to be taken. > > I also know I could write something. I just wanted > to know if something like that is a

Re: DJBDNS missing from ports?

2007-02-12 Thread RW
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:43:43 +0100 Roger Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Mailing List, > > After a recent buildworld (6.2-STABLE FreeBSD) and portsnap fetch > portversion reported djbdns as being in need of an upgrade, however > portupgrade just exits like so: > > # portupgrade -Rr

Re: Poll: What's the best audio player

2007-02-13 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:40:02 -0600 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13/02/07, Dak Ghatikachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/13/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > What is the best audio (MP3/OGG/Etc) to use under Gnome? > > > > > > > > I felt that the mplaye

Re: Secure Telnet

2007-02-13 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:35:19 - (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am working with oone of my vendors and they are asking for a secure > telnet program on my FreeBSD box. > What's wrong with ssh? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: Dual boot problems

2007-02-13 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03 -0500 (EST) "Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's > architecture is forced to i386 only in the Makefile. I haven't dug > into why, but I'm confident there is a reason. Obviously, grub > becomes a non-opt

Re: pf/ppp timing problem at startup

2007-02-13 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:14:50 +0100 cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using ADSL to connect (using a static IP), and ppp(1) > needs some time (a few seconds) to initialize and configure > the tun(4) device. Parallel to this, pf(4) starts immediately, > and doesn't recognize ext_if (tun0), wh

Re: Dual boot problems (RESOLVED)

2007-02-13 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:51:52 -0500 (EST) "Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03 -0500 (EST) > > "Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's > >> architecture is forced to i386 only in the Makefile

Re: pf/ppp timing problem at startup

2007-02-14 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:27:02 +0100 cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There shouldn't be. Here there are. It's on a: > > FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Tue Jan 16 14:45:10 CET > 2007 > > /etc/ppp/ppp.conf: > -- > > default: > set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun c

Re: Dual boot problems (RESOLVED)

2007-02-14 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:46:18 -0800 Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RW wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:51:52 -0500 (EST) > > "Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03

Re: PF slowing down file copies

2007-02-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:38:39 +0100 J65nko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For keeping state on TCP connections you should only create state on > the first packet of the 3 way TCP handshake. Using "flags S/SA" will > ensure this. This will prevent problems with TCP windows scaling.. Why? Creating a s

Re: PF slowing down file copies

2007-02-22 Thread RW
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:04:18 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-02-22 14:30, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:38:39 +0100 > >J65nko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> For keeping state on TCP connections you

Re: PF slowing down file copies

2007-02-22 Thread RW
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:45:06 +0100 J65nko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/22/07, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:38:39 +0100 > > J65nko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > For keeping state on TCP connections you shoul

Re: Forcing correct version of Clamav to be installed

2007-02-24 Thread RW
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:02:24 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In most of the common cases where alternative dependencies are > available in the ports, there will be a mechanism available for > choosing amongst various different ones coded into the port Makefile. I think that on

Re: pf and keep/modulate state on 6.2

2007-02-26 Thread RW
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:59:58 -0600 "J.D. Bronson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:52 AM 02/26/2007, you wrote: > >Wow, this fixed my FTP-over-DSL-to-6.2 problem too. With modulate > >state, I was getting ~30K/sec. With just keep state, I'm now getting > >more like what my connection is capable

Re: pf.conf and cable modem

2007-02-28 Thread RW
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:55:55 -0800 "Josh Carroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am converting from DSL to RoadRunner this week and wondering if > > there is anything special I need to do to my pf.conf for passing > > DHCP into my NIC? > > I think all you'll need is: > > pass in quick on $ext_

Re: pf.conf and cable modem

2007-02-28 Thread RW
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:44:21 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > When I used DHCP with PF, I found that it just worked without any > > rules at all. > > That's been my experience as well (admittedly on OpenBSD, but it's >

Re: pf.conf and cable modem

2007-02-28 Thread RW
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:02:15 + RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:44:21 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Quoting RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > When I used DHCP with PF, I found that it just worked without any > > >

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-02-28 Thread RW
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:32:57 +0100 (CET) Christian Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good morning[1], folks! > > I am currently setting up a Sun U60 with FreeBSD. A few amount of apps > will be installed on it, when I'm through with it. And that is where > it gets a little frustrating. > > The p

Re: pf.conf and cable modem

2007-02-28 Thread RW
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:19:13 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:44:21 -0500 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was using a half-bridge modem that had a 30 second lease time, > > which was definite

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread RW
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on both > disks, or an alternative boot manager such as grub or gag. Read the > handbook. I recall reading that too, but I've never understood what it's supp

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread RW
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:37:26 -0500 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:34:10AM +, RW wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 > > Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I should also ment

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread RW
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:49:23 -0500 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:39:05PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > > (*) Actually I have no idea what would happen if you stuck some > > other booter like grub or gag on a later disk. But blank (new) > > disk or Windows

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-05 Thread RW
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 13:55:53 +0100 (CET) Christian Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:37:33 + RW wrote: > > > There are two problems here. The first is that not all of the > > underlying builds support this. The second is that we are using > &g

Re: portmanager and use.perl port

2007-03-05 Thread RW
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:41:55 -0800 Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So at times I run portmanager on many of my servers but I want to > make sure that the perl installed is the port and not the system > version. Are you aware that 5.x and 6.x releases don't have perl in the base system, and that

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-05 Thread RW
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:45:53 - "Thomas Sparrevohn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There really two answers possible here - > > 1) Let's call it one depth e.g. make -j - Which works with some not > all ports - Nice when it works and I guess ports/Mk could hold a flag > 2) Let's call it width - e

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d startup scripts

2007-03-07 Thread RW
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:40:09 -0600 Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 07), Don O'Neil said: > > Are there any special naming requirements for scripts in > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d for 6.1? > > > > Someone is telling me they need to have a .sh suffix to startup > > correc

Re: defrag

2007-03-07 Thread RW
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 15:01:12 +0100 (CET) Christian Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You do know that you can use 'tunefs -m 0'? This will in fact cause > fragmentation to happen - even on UFS2! UFS2 has methods of avoiding > fragmentation that work quite well but it is not a 'magical' file > syst

Re: DEFAULT CFLAGS SETTING

2007-03-09 Thread RW
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:53:00 -0500 Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday March 08, 2007 at 07:45:06 (PM) Christian Walther wrote: > > > > CFLAGS can be defined in /etc/make.conf > > My CFLAGS is set to -O2 -pipe. You might want to take a look at > > CPUTYPE, too. This can be set to mat

Re: DEFAULT CFLAGS SETTING

2007-03-09 Thread RW
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:04:50 -0800 Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Walther wrote: > > On 08/03/07, White Hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What is the default CFLAGS setting in FBSD-6.2 and would it > >> improve performance any to set > >> > >> CFLAGS=Os > >> > >> as oppose

Re: Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-09 Thread RW
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:24:47 -0500 Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried starting it from CRON; however, the variables: > > GPG_AGENT_INFO > GPG_TTY > > are not set.. > See crontab(5) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: ext3 support

2007-03-09 Thread RW
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:06:29 +0100 "Benjamin Sobotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dear list, > > > > does freebsd 6.x support the ext3 filesystem? > > > > TIA > > > > zheyu > > ___ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.fre

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-12 Thread RW
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:27:52 -0800 jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you will allow me to break in on this exchange; > Does this advise apply if you have static ip service The important thing is really your reverse DNS, if you have control of it and looks like a real server name, e.g. mai

Re: choosing window manager

2007-03-12 Thread RW
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:41:02 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A few years ago I created a ctwm.desktop (somewhere, I forget > where), and was able to use GNOME || CTWM with gdm. I cobbled > together a kde.desktop and then was able to run KDE using gdm > as w

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-12 Thread RW
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:36:41 -0800 jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 12, 2007, at 9:05 AM, RW wrote: > > > The important thing is really your reverse DNS, if you have control > > of it and looks like a real server name, e.g. mail.example.com, > > y

Re: Manual updates

2007-03-12 Thread RW
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:35:42 -0700 (PDT) Paulette McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Update ports > 1a) CVS > 2b) portsnap > 2) Build INDEX (depends on the tool; identify tools). > Also what are the pro's and con's of obtaining the > index from the methods listed below. > 2a) "make index" >

Re: Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

2007-03-13 Thread RW
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:39:20 -0400 Randy Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is already a mechanism in place for this: > > /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf It better to put the configuaration in make.conf so it's seen by the ports system itself. ports-mgmt/portconf can simplify this T

Re: DNS configuration

2007-03-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:56:31 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> but i don't know how to configure DNS . plz .. ? > > > > Read the same handbook as adviced earlier. And for DNS the O'Reilly > > book is great. DNS is no toy. It should be handled with great care. > > The

Re: Corrupted OS

2007-03-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:16:33 -0700 (PDT) Drew Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it never hurts to get up to date on security, does it? Where do > I find this cutting edge? It's a badly named chapter in the handbook, but the process for following a security branch is the same as tracking

Re: squid

2007-03-16 Thread RW
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:45:22 + "neo neo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How to configure to use my FreeBSD as a proxy with Squid ? Just install it and read the notes that are printed-out at the end of the install. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: SUMMARY: CPUTYPE for VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX

2007-03-16 Thread RW
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:39:00 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had two responses telling me that the make.conf defaults are > just fine, and two (one off list) recommending i686/pentiumpro. One > for pentiumpro and the other for i686, but as Andreas Rudish > helpfully

Re: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-19 Thread RW
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:27:19 -0400 Chris Slothouber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jeffrey, > > Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > > On my perimeter firewall, I default deny outbound traffic. This > > cuts off fetching using active FTP. Is there some way that I can > > tell portupgrade to pass the -p f

Opera Video Plugin?

2007-03-19 Thread RW
Is there a way to play video from Opera? I've tried both native and linux versions of the mplayer plugin with the either versions of Opera, and I've tried GXine with native Opera, all without success. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-19 Thread RW
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:04:16 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my perimeter firewall, I default deny outbound traffic. This > cuts off fetching using active FTP. Is there some way that I can > tell portupgrade to pass the -p flag to fetch? This doesn't make any sense unless

Re: gbde and geli - differences

2007-03-20 Thread RW
that had worked before. It's still possible to access the data by copying the backing files to disk, but that's not very practical. I guess it may be possible to work around the problem with a union filesystem, but I haven't pursued that yet. I understand that it's poss

Re: gbde and geli - differences

2007-03-20 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:15:04 +0100 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:36:19PM +, RW wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:06:28 +0100 (CET) > > Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > what they are. both wo

Re: portmanager or portupgrade?

2007-03-21 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:45:54 -0500 Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > n j wrote: > > Hello, > > > > first off, I'm looking for a ports upgrading solution on my box, not > > trying to start a religious debate over which one is better. I'm > > interested in hearing what other FreeBSD admins are usin

Re: gbde and geli - differences

2007-03-21 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:02:51 +0100 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:13:21AM +, RW wrote: > > > > > > i need both encrypted partition and encrypted copies/DVDs. > > > > > > > > I'd be interested if

Re: resync ports/packages after upgrade?

2007-03-21 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:36:42 -0400 Jeff Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did a binary upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2 and made what I think was the > mistake of having it install the ports tree over my existing ports > tree. I'd been using portupgrade to maintain my ports. What's the > easiest

Re: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-21 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:45:39 -0800 "Peter A. Giessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007/03/21 14:29, Jeffrey Goldberg seems to have typed: > > > > As an aside, I'd like to rant that there is no reason for ftp to > > exist anymore. Sure it is stateful in a way that HTTP isn't, but > > that

Re: help on picking an IMAP server

2007-03-22 Thread RW
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:40:48 -0500 David Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using imap-uw for some time but now I would like to > have an imap server that can have subfolders. Out with imap-uw.. > > I tried dovecot but I was unable to get it to create subfolders, > although it seem

Re: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-23 Thread RW
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:05:51 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. Scott) wrote: > [Jeffrey Goldberg] > >As an aside, I'd like to rant that there is no reason for ftp to > >exist anymore. Sure it is stateful in a way that HTTP isn't, but > >that isn't enough to justify its continued use. >

Re: Updating GCC

2007-03-23 Thread RW
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:18:03 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, White Hat wrote: > > > --- Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Mar 22, 2007, at 12:34 PM, White Hat wrote: > Add: > > CC?= /usr/local/bin/gcc > CXX?=/usr/local/bin/

Re: rc.d scripts

2007-03-23 Thread RW
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:15:29 -0400 Tom Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to make a script in /etc/rc.d run last? For > instance I want dhclient to be the last script in /etc/rc.d/ to run. > Any help is much appreciated. Just have it require the last script, which is bgfs

Re: gbde and geli - differences

2007-03-25 Thread RW
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:10:11 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> why there are both? what should i use to have better chance i will > >> be able to recover data after say 10 years knowing password? > > > > I presume it's to do with geli using OpenSSL libraries and so > > pi

Re: gettext upgrade problems

2007-03-25 Thread RW
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:46:06 -0400 Dantavious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > As a result of the upgrade to gettext-0.16.1, I am rebuilding ports > on a desktop machine. I received an error with the port OpenEXR > after hours of rebuilding the ports. My first question is what caused > th

Re: rc.d scripts

2007-03-26 Thread RW
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:03:38 -0400 Kevin Brunelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Does anyone know how to make a script in /etc/rc.d run last? For > > >instance I want dhclient to be the last script in /etc/rc.d/ to > > >run. Any help is much appreciated. > > > > This may have already been answe

Re: understanding this portupgrade error

2007-03-27 Thread RW
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:59:43 -0400 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm upgrading cacti, and it's failing on the net-snmp port. > > ===> Installing for net-snmp-5.3.1_2 > ===> net-snmp-5.3.1_2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - > found ===> Generating temp

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread RW
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:19:47 -0500 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Obviously, as I am not about to batter you > about the neck and head with the beam projecting > from my eye (hold still, you've got a . . .), > I can only suggest a decent cringe&pray > manouver (as I execute from

Re: Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?

2007-03-28 Thread RW
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:19:12 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then, the only thing wrong is that your offsets should start at 0. > They mean within the slice, not raw disk sector 0. I was just looking at the bsdlable manpage, and it says: "For partition `c', * will be interpre

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-29 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:15:53 -0400 Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:36:59 -0400 > "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 28/03/07 RW said: > > > > > The gettext upgrade is actually a

Re: FreeBSD X11/GNOME/KDM issue

2007-03-29 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Joseph Marah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After install I looged in through GDM. I saw everything > KDE brought with it using GNOME interface and read the KDE mannual a > bit. Then I used the user administration tab and added myself as a > user in additio

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-29 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:41:06 -0400 Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:40:05 +0100 > RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Portmanager is really no better, the dependencies recorded in the > > package database are also recursive. The

Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-30 Thread RW
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:44:33 +0100 Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Walther wrote: > > >> > >> > > I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately: > >> > > > >> > > Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying > >> > > (1 retry left) LBA=13554983 > >> > > M

Re: How can I view sstreaming video?

2007-04-04 Thread RW
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:14:16 -0700 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not too many weeks ago I had streaming video going (thru > mplayer) on FBSD as well as Ubuntu; now I have neither. The mplayer > plugin app just STOPS after several moments of making its > links and loading

Re: problem with modem

2007-04-05 Thread RW
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 09:41:56 +0200 "Christian Walther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 04/04/07, dark abeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi i have one question ok > > i'm downloaded operating system freebsd release v6.0 and i have one > > problem in installation modem type sagem [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should sudo be used?

2007-04-05 Thread RW
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:56:28 -0500 Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Victor Engmark wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, > > but I'm having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not > > mentioned at all) and Google (most of the

Re: Any Way to Plug This Hole in Local Sendmail Delivery?

2007-04-05 Thread RW
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:18:33 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The second is that the spammer could be forging in the sender > address (envelope FROM) > >MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The third type of forgery is in the header From address. Bear in mind that both of the

Re: update from x86 to amd64

2007-04-06 Thread RW
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 12:11:59 -0300 freenity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I want to install i386 fbsd 6.2 on my amd64, because there is not > much programs that run properly on amd64 arch. > I would like to know if it is posible to update from i386 to amd64 > later without loosing information?

Re: Unistall KDE and Xorg

2007-04-09 Thread RW
On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:20:55 -0400 dbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a simple way to uninstall KDE and Xorg, or do I have to use > the pkg_delete command for each one? > > Thanks > I'd use "portmanager -slid", it understands build dependencies, which I don't think pkg_cutleaves does.

Re: gbde and geli - differences

2007-04-10 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:15:50 +0100 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:33:19PM +, RW wrote: > > How do you attach the dvd content? > > > > # geli attach /dev/cd0 > > Cannot read metadata from /dev/cd0: Invalid argument.

Re: ipfilter and DHCP

2007-04-10 Thread RW
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:26:36 -0400 Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "J.D. Bronson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ok...what do you guys do to handle a change of IP/network via DHCP > > with ipfilter? > > > > I have been told that if my IP changes while the machine is up and > > runn

Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file

2007-04-10 Thread RW
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:52:43 -0500 Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:48 PM 4/10/2007, L33T Networks wrote: > >What is the second line with 10.20.30.199, and the hostname ends in a > >period? I've never seen this in a host file previous to FBSD v.6. > > > >apollo# cat /etc/hosts > >#:

Re: Shell PATH not being reread

2007-04-12 Thread RW
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:29:29 -0700 Sean Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just installed FreeBSD 6.2 Release. I su to root and run > > pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui > > It installed fine Just in case you are not aware, the base-system now comes with csup, which is a rewrite of cvsup-wi

Re: trouble printing from opera

2007-04-16 Thread RW
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:07:34 -0500 David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 15 April 2007 09:49:57 pm you wrote: > > im running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3, with KDE, cups, and most current > > opera. i can print from everything else i use (which is i guess > > just kmail... but i did test

Re: PPP and resolv.conf

2007-04-17 Thread RW
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:48:25 +0800 "Richard Simmonds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >How can I stop ppp from modifying my /etc/resolv.conf? > >Everytime I establish a pppoe session, my resolv.conf file gets > reconfigured to my ISPs DNS Servers. > > It's dhclient, not ppp that's modding the fi

Re: gimp: install conflicts

2007-04-17 Thread RW
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:26:11 -0700 (PDT) White Hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FreeBSD-6.2 > > I have a question regarding gimp-devel, the meta-port > for Gimp. >... > The problem is that there appears to be a conflict > between the two versions of gimp-app being installed. > Is this correct, or

Re: Using Screen

2006-11-29 Thread RW
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:22, Dan Sikorsky wrote: > Hey, I have a good question for you guys. > > Lets say, I started a job on a computer, if you must know, portmanager -u , > and then left... but I know its sitting there stuck on a config window > waiting for someone to press enter... As f

Re: Using Screen

2006-11-30 Thread RW
On Thursday 30 November 2006 01:27, Nadow wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:22, Dan Sikorsky wrote: > > Hey, I have a good question for you guys. > > > > Lets say, I started a job on a computer, if you must know, portmanager -u > > , and t

Re: Spam prevention

2006-11-30 Thread RW
On Thursday 30 November 2006 02:58, Armin Arh wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 06:53:36PM -0500, Ian Lord wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to setup a mail server with postfix and sendmail... > > exim + bogofilter doing their job here. I've played around with one of Arnin's pubbox.net account,

Re: portmanager error: Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf

2006-12-01 Thread RW
On Friday 01 December 2006 12:18, Willem Hendriks wrote: > When i install any port with portmanager, i get the following > error-message: > > > ** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf: pkgtools.conf is the configuration file for portupgrade. Unfortunately the developer of portmanag

Re: pkgtools.conf error with portmanager

2006-12-02 Thread RW
On Saturday 02 December 2006 12:54, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I know this was reported the other day; however, I have just encountered > it myself. Evidently, the last 'portupgrade' update is now causing > 'portmanager' to issue this error message: > > > ** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtoo

Re: pkgtools.conf error with portmanager

2006-12-02 Thread RW
On Saturday 02 December 2006 21:26, Garrett Cooper wrote: > RW wrote: > > My patch file is below. > > > > $ cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager/ && cat files/patch-no-ruby-support > > --- libMGPM/src/MGPMrReadConfigure.c.orig Sat Dec 2 17:10:45 2006 >

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