Re: CMS

2009-10-15 Thread Andrew Berry
On 2009-10-15, at 10:38 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm wondering if anyone reading the list has experience with a CMS on FreeBSD - one that's in ports preferably. Whatever you choose, make sure that the port maintainer is active with security updates. Sometimes it's better to give them web

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-03 Thread Andrew Berry
On 3-Aug-09, at 10:28 PM, Modulok wrote: I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing something... Take a look at pwgen (it's in ports). If you're really needing *very* secure passwords, it makes more

segfaults in libthr

2009-07-23 Thread Andrew Berry
Hi, I just upgraded a server from 7.2-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE-p2. I'm having issues with any port which links to libthr. This includes apr, subversion, and sqlite, so it's pretty common for httpd to segfault. I rebuilt libthr with debugging symbols, and I get the following backtrace. This

segfaults in libthr

2009-07-23 Thread Andrew Berry
(sorry for any duplicates, I'm having email issues) Hi, I just upgraded a server from 7.2-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE-p2. I'm having issues with any port which links to libthr. This includes apr, subversion, and sqlite, so it's pretty common for httpd to segfault. I rebuilt libthr with

Re: MySQL not restarted after portupgrade

2008-11-03 Thread Andrew Berry
On 3-Nov-08, at 1:16 AM, Yuri Pankov wrote: Apache and Courier IMAP are just not stopped during deinstall stage (IIRC). You can use AFTERINSTALL in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf to start MySQL after upgrade. Thanks! There's even an example using mysql-server in the file. My AFTERINSTALL is

MySQL not restarted after portupgrade

2008-11-02 Thread Andrew Berry
Hi, For some reason, after running portupgrade databases/mysql51-server, MySQL is brought down, but not restarted. It's not a huge issue, as I just have to remember to run the rc.d script after upgrading, but I was wondering if anyone else had seen this? portupgrade seems to work fine

Re: Upgrading to 64 bit from a 32 bit installation on FBSD 7

2008-09-18 Thread Andrew Berry
On 18-Sep-08, at 2:37 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Andrew Berry wrote: Can I simply rebuild the world (or use freebsd-update), and portupgrade everything to rebuild for amd64? Or, will things break as libraries are upgraded which still have 32-bit dependancies on the system

Upgrading to 64 bit from a 32 bit installation on FBSD 7

2008-09-17 Thread Andrew Berry
Hi, I've got a server which will be upgraded to my castoff parts which support amd64. This machine has been running Freebsd since the 5.0 RC's, starting on a P2 233Mhz, upgraded incrementally for a few years - a real testament to the stability of a FreeBSD install! What I've done in the

Re: Off Topic: Sunbird calendar server?

2008-06-29 Thread Andrew Berry
On 28-Jun-08, at 12:01 AM, Jack Barnett wrote: She is a fan of Google Calendars (which I admit works well), but I'm a fan of Sunbird (since it's local and don't need internets for it to work). I could probably convert her to Sunbird if I found a good way to share out our calendars. As

Re: xbox360?

2008-06-21 Thread Andrew Berry
On 20-Jun-08, at 6:44 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i found here http://www.freebsdos.com/news/2008/01/23/freebsd-and-the-xbox-360/ that Some of you may be aware that since the middle of 2005 it is possible to run FreeBSD on the Microsoft Xbox and later also on the Xbox 360. does it mean

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Berry
Novembre wrote: I tried to telnet to smtp.gmail.com, but it didn't work. Is that what you meant? Pretty much. The problem you're having is caused partially by being unable to manually set headers in many mail clients. If you have a server with Sendmail set up which can send outbound email

Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Berry
Steve Bertrand wrote: If the disk type is known, it is as simple as typing the appropriate location of the root fs at that prompt and the system will come up. I don't remember about FreeBSD 4, but last time I dealt with a broken fstab on FreeBSD 6 I could just press tab to get a list of

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Berry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, I think the installation and local language support(I need to read and input Chinese frequently) of ubuntu may be better than FreeBSD. I believe most of those sorts of enhancements would be provided by the applications or desktop environment. Gnome or

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Ian Smith wrote: However, what normally happens to attachments to questions@, at least to digests, is that they get stripped with a note pointing to the original attachment, as this subsequent message from Chad illustrates: Which makes sense - attachments don't clog up the list, and people

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Here is a message signed with Thunderbird 2 on Windows (ugh...). --Andrew smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
On 10-Jun-08, at 3:02 AM, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Actually I don't think you can do the same thing with a tunnel. You have to use a different IP addresses for the tunnel itself. Have you read the OpenVPN manual? Yes, I should have been clearer: With a tunnel, I can still push routes and DNS, as

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Heikki Suonsivu wrote: The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand new, but it uses an embedded cpu, a 486 clone as SoC without math. See www.compactpc.com.tw, eBOX 2300SX. It is very low cost, runs on about 3W of power with CF card as mass memory, 128M, 3 USB2, serials,

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Steve Lake wrote: Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a random string of characters. I know I

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Oliver Fromme wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: [...] By default, it appears that Mailman does not do content filtering. It also has pass rules (if filtering is enabled) for multipart/mixed, multipart/alternative and text/plain. So, it's possible that MIMEDefang is the culprit instead.

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I don't run FreeBSD on desktops so I haven't looked at the various tools available. On OS X, I use 1password which makes excellent use of the OS X Keychain system, and has terrific webbrowser integration. I'm fairly sure that the Apple Keychain libraries have been or

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-10 Thread Andrew Berry
On 10-Jun-08, at 12:10 AM, Novembre wrote: So to be more specific, how can I answer to a post from a mailing list from within my, e.g., GMail or Yahoo! mailboxes? You might be able to use telnet to open a connection to Google's SMTP servers, and paste the entire message, headers included,

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-10 Thread Andrew Berry
On 10-Jun-08, at 11:37 AM, Bob McConnell wrote: I have gotten several messages on this list from an Andrew Barry which Lookout cannot open. The error message is Can't open this item. Your Digital ID name can not be found by the underlying security system. Can anyone tell me what is causing

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-10 Thread Andrew Berry
On 10-Jun-08, at 1:07 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: The message that Andrew sent in response to you did not have a digital signature on it. I don't know if that means it was stripped by the list software or he didn't sign the message. I disabled signing when sending that message, just so my

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-10 Thread Andrew Berry
On 10-Jun-08, at 11:49 AM, RW wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:37:48 -0400 Bob McConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have gotten several messages on this list from an Andrew Barry which Lookout cannot open. I don't see any posts with that name in this list. Could they be spam? Typo on my

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-10 Thread Andrew Berry
On 10-Jun-08, at 1:07 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: Andrew, maybe you could send a signed message, state in the body that it was signed, and then I can look at the headers and tell you what's going on. Here is a message which has been signed. --Andrew

Re: viewing vCalendar files

2008-06-10 Thread Andrew Berry
On 10-Jun-08, at 1:47 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: I've been sent a vCalendar file via email. I use mutt as my mail user agent, and am not terribly interested in switching to mail/claws-mail just so I can read this vCalendar file (generated in MS Outlook). Is there some command line tool that will

Openvpn on FreeBSD 7

2008-06-09 Thread Andrew Berry
Hi, I recently upgraded a machine from FreeBSD 6.3 to 7.0. Everything is working fine except for the OpenVPN server. I had it set up with a bridge configuration, but now even with a basic tunnel I can't get successful ping across the VPN. I can make a connection from both Linux and OS X

Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7

2008-06-09 Thread Andrew Berry
On 9-Jun-08, at 3:49 PM, Nejc Škoberne wrote: I do. I don't use bridging, though. Do you have a good reason to use it? I was using it because I could then assign my laptop the same IP easily through my router (a separate device with DHCP) and also have hostnames pushed through DHCP. But

Re: what ype of app? port of *free*-service app?

2008-06-09 Thread Andrew Berry
On 9-Jun-08, at 5:31 PM, Gary Kline wrote: This is a bit hard to figure out how to phrase, so please bear with me. I want to put-back a BBS/forum type app somewhere on my site so that members of my writing group can continue to help me with their suggestions