Re: fetchmail/sendmail: Domain of sender address does not exist

2013-03-20 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I sometimes see fetchmail complain: > > fetchmail: SMTP error: 553 5.1.8 ... Domain of sender > address ad...@system.mail does not exist Add FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) to your sendmail configuration. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber

Re: bsdinstall misaligns partitions

2013-01-04 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Warren Block: > > * Funnily enough, the ancient BSD "dangerously dedicated" scheme > > is the only one that out of the box does not misalign partitions. > > The filesystems don't begin at the start of the slice anyway. There is > a bsdlabel there. Yes and no. If you look at the bsdlabel(8) o

bsdinstall misaligns partitions

2013-01-04 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Shouldn't bsdinstall attempt to align partitions on 4k boundaries both for the benefit of 4k drives and flash storage? I just installed 9.1R i386 for fun and practice, in fact I installed it several times, and I played around with the partitioning options. * The modern GPT scheme reserves 34 sect

Re: lagg(4) and LACP setup

2012-07-31 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Tilman Keskinöz wrote: > FreeBSD -if0-flaky link1 SwitchFreeBSD Router > || > if1 --flaky link2 --- > > I think the best configuration would be to use lagg(4) with LACP to > catch the failing links. > > I have found several exa

Re: groff && UTF-8

2011-07-24 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Matthias Apitz wrote: > I have an older 9-CURRENT (r21, from end of Octubre) and its ports > does not have ports/textproc/groff; I was 1st thinking in some mistake > of me on CVS checkout, but when one looks into the ports page: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/groff/ >

Re: groff && UTF-8

2011-07-23 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Matthias Apitz wrote: > The critical part seems to be: the text is UTF-8 and converting this > to ISO 8859-1 is not an option. It's a Library Management System we > just ported to Unicode, and we don't want to fall back in printing :-) > > I've checked groff 1.21 from the ports but it seems to u

Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-12 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Correct. I'm currently on 7-STABLE where it's "not yet" part of > > the base system, but my new 8.2-STABLE also has it in /usr/bin. > > I believe it has been introduced with version 8... > > It is part of '7.2-RELEASE', It is not. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber

Re: Compose key and xterm vs. UTF-8

2010-03-15 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Short: > -- > Why do compose key sequences fail to work in a UTF-8 xterm? And the short answer is: They work--if you know the right sequences. The compose key handling presumably comes out of some X11 library; xterm is just the recipient. The actua

Re: Compose key and xterm vs. UTF-8

2010-03-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Roland Smith: > > Why do compose key sequences fail to work in a UTF-8 xterm? > > The port x11/rxvt-unicode is lighter on resources then xterm, and works fine > with utf-8. (with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 set) You didn't bother to read and understand my question, did you? urxvt sho

Compose key and xterm vs. UTF-8

2010-03-13 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Short: -- Why do compose key sequences fail to work in a UTF-8 xterm? Long: - I have configured a compose key (aka "Multi_key") here: $ setxkbmap -layout us -option compose:ralt When I start an xterm with an ISO8859-1 locale $ LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 xterm & I can use the compose key to

Re: simple (and stupid) shell scripting question

2010-02-16 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Nerius Landys wrote: > Is there a function, or command line utility, to "escape" a string, > making it suitable to be input on the command line? For example, this > "escape" utility would take a input of "te st" and create an output of > "te\ st". Other things such as quotes and single quotes w

Re: simple (and stupid) shell scripting question

2010-02-15 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Nerius Landys wrote: > #!/bin/sh > > DIRNAME="`dirname \"$0\"`" > cd "$DIRNAME" > SCRIPTDIR="`pwd`" > > What if I got rid of extra double quotes? Like this: > > DIRNAME=`dirname \"$0\"` > cd "$DIRNAME" > SCRIPTDIR=`pwd` That is perfectly fine. Word-splitting and filename expansion are not p

Re: Re : Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-31 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Alexandre L. wrote: > You can see here : http://www.meinberg.de/english/ Meinberg is one of those companies that don't even put price information on the web site: If you have to ask, you can't afford it. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de

Re: Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-31 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Does anyone have a recommendation on a good GPS receiver/board for use > with NTP/FreeBSD to create a stratum 1 public time server? Anything with a PPS output. The Garmin GPS 18 LVC is probably the cheapest option. > Preferably something above the Garmin "puck" lev

Burning an audio CD

2009-12-30 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Today I tried to burn an audio CD. This may actually be the first time I ever did this. I'm sure there are all kinds of GUIey tools, but I took the simple route: expanded a few high-quality MP3s to raw PCM with mpg123, then put a CD-R in the drive and burned it with burncd -f /dev/acd0 -d audi

Re: gtar-1.22_1, lzmautils-4.32.7 and xz-4.999.9

2009-09-25 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Greg Larkin wrote: > Portupgrade can handle the package move with a little extra help from an > entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING and the correct command argument ("-o > ORIGIN"). > The committer hasn't added an entry to UPDATING yet, but it's a good > idea in this situation. I didn't feel it was wa

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alpha is little endian. i had alpha 21066 running linux. > > Not true. Alpha is big- or little-endian (so, it's bi-endian), Alpha is little-endian in practice. I've never heard of DEC--or anybody else for that matter--building a big-endian a

Green saver doesn't shut off screen

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Weisgerber
With some graphic cards, the "green" screen saver doesn't shut down my flatscreen. Since I had some trouble finding one properly supported by X.org, I've tried different graphic cards over the last few days. DPMS mode in X11 is fine, but without X11, the "green" syscons screen saver doesn't work

Re: autoconf error while portupgrading audio/vorbis-tools

2007-04-03 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suggest contacting the maintainer about this (the maintainer's listed > in the Makefile). He did. (Cc: in the original message.) Is anybody else seeing this error? I can't reproduce it. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMA

ACX100 Firmware Licensing

2004-10-27 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Compared to other types of hardware, the support for wireless cards is lacking on *BSD because many vendors don't provide documentation or the cards require the upload of a binary firmware image that, absurdly as it sounds, may not be redistributed. Well, some people are working on improving this

Re: cvsync

2004-07-10 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does it have some bonuses over cvsup? It's written in portable C. It requires threads, but you don't have to worry about porting a Modula-3 compiler and runtime environment to each new platform. Featurewise it's about on a par with CVSup, with the notable

whois(1) usage

2004-04-15 Thread Christian Weisgerber
>From http://www.sixxs.net/faq/account/?faq=6bonehandle>: | * First, read about the person template: | whois -h whois.6bone.net -v person. FreeBSD's whois(1) does not have a -v flag. I checked a Mandrake Linux system, and there -v is supported and obviously produces the expected result. So, h

Re: cvsupd : TreeComp failed: Network write failure: Connectionclosed

2003-06-29 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cvsup cvsupd[60286]: -801 [2968Kin+1243Kout] TreeComp failed: Network > write failure: Connection closed At face value, this means that the network connection failed (which then causes the tree comparison layer to abort). You probably need to talk to th

Re: uucp

2003-03-12 Thread Christian Weisgerber
George Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to do an installworld and I'm receiving the following error: > mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p / > mtree: line 57: unknown user uucp > *** Error code 1 > Now, I can either go and add the user UUCP.. Do so. Why did you rem

Re: dump: skewed I/O, why?

2003-02-25 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Daxbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It might be helpful to know what argument you're passing to dump > and how you are redirecting the output. Nothing exciting there: $ dump -0a -C 8 -f /holding/foo /foo -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscri

dump: skewed I/O, why?

2003-02-25 Thread Christian Weisgerber
During a dump(8) of a filesystem on da0 to a holding file on da1, with nothing else going on, iostat(8) reports figures such as these: da0 da1 cd0 cd1 KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s 64.00 148 9.28 64.00

Re: libvorvisfile.la vanished?

2003-02-23 Thread Christian Weisgerber
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a "portupgrade -R " something's changed w/ > libvorbis. "Portupgrade -R kdegames3" won't compile cause of a missing > "/usr/local/lib/libvorbisfile.la" This is a libtool wrapper file that shouldn't be needed by anything, which is why I removed it

Re: DWL-650 won't configure under 5.0

2003-02-09 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Kevin Stevens: > How are you determining the chipset, from that vendor id somehow? Yes. Cardbus shares the PCI vendor list. http://www.yourvote.com/pci/ -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: DWL-650 won't configure under 5.0

2003-02-08 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Kevin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to the wi driver page, the D-Link DWL-650 802.11b card should be > supported. Using the GENERIC kernel, when I insert the card I get: > > cardbus1: (vendor=0x1317, dev=0x8201) at 0.0 irq 9 The DWL-650 is listed in wi(4) as having a Prism chi

Re: WLAN D-Link DWL-520+ not recognized

2003-02-04 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Pascal Giannakakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > none2@pci0:8:0: class=0x028000 card=0x3b011186 chip=0x8400104c rev=0x00 > hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Texas Instruments (TI)' > device = '802.11b+ 22Mbps Wireless Adapter' > class= network We don't support that chipset. From what I

Re: cp/mv verbose options.

2002-12-02 Thread Christian Weisgerber
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, lewiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This might sound like quite an odd questions but does anybody know if > there is a way to have a simple verbose cp/mv output that shows a time > elapsed/remaining counter, or the number of bytes copied? Very much > like the copy

Re: FreeBSD software to create "super computer" ?

2002-11-30 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm really growing tired of reading articles talking abot so and so > creating a super computer of 1400 CPUs running Linux ... latest one I read > was one that HP setup ... I think the people who jabber about clusters need a reality check. At BSDCon,

Re: rsync of /usr/ports on local lan?

2002-11-30 Thread Christian Weisgerber
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have a small network here of FreeBSD machines (-stable and -current). I > have on my production FreeBSD machine setup an rsyncd via xinetd, and > would like to rsync /usr/ports across to the other FreeBSD machines so I > wouldn't have to crontab cvsup on all of them (t

Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-03 Thread Christian Weisgerber
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But as it alienates so many Christians, Jews and Muslims as a > little Satan symbol, really limits the widespread use, public and > tax paid support and availability of BSD. God has revealed to me that He does not consider our use of the daemon symbol as an outrage ag

Re: MP3 Conversion Port?

2002-07-23 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Ogg Vorbis audio format is designed to allow this; they call it > "bitrate peeling". Are you sure? I only skimmed the discussion on this, but I was under the impression that the current format did not support it although a future one might. -- Chris

Re: MP3 Conversion Port?

2002-07-23 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a command line utility that will take mp3s with > bit rates greater than 128K as input and output 128K mp3s. Does > such a thing exist? I think the MP3 format doesn't allow bit rate peeling, i.e. you can't do this any other way than by