Re: ftp passive mode

2010-05-20 Thread N.J. Mann
In message 111263.90106...@web52308.mail.re2.yahoo.com, gahn (ipfr...@yahoo.com) wrote: I am behind firewall and only pass ftp sessions are allowed. With that, most ftp sessions of portupgrade would not be able to connect to remote FreeBSD sites. Could I reconfigure the my FreeBSD

Re: src.conf: WITHOUT_SOMETHING

2008-08-01 Thread N.J. Mann
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Redd Vinylene ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Let's say I add WITHOUT_SOMETHING to /etc/rc.conf, and remake and reinstall my world. What will happen to the previous install of SOMETHING? Will it be removed or just left there to rot? After doing make

Re: Crontab Not Sending Email - nrcpts=0

2008-06-25 Thread N.J. Mann
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Schiz0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have another odd problem. Cron refuses to send any emails. Here's what DID work: [...] I also see this, both on 6-STABLE and 7-STABLE. I have not tried 8-CURRENT. This is what I have found so far. After cron has sent

Re: doesn't change to Daylight Saving Time

2008-03-10 Thread N.J. Mann
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Derek Ragona ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 08:17 AM 3/10/2008, Robert Huff wrote: Derek Ragona writes: My FreeBSD 6.2 doesn't change to Daylight Saving Time. How should I fix it? I'm having the same problem with -CURRENT. I

Re: keep track of a text file

2007-09-30 Thread N.J. Mann
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Laine wrote: Just wonder about one catch: is it possible to keep track of any text file's contents in a real time? For example, I open ttyv1 and via some magic command :) I get my file's contents updating in real time if any modifications occured. Any

Re: flash player

2007-08-26 Thread N.J. Mann
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael S wrote: I am trying to install flash 7 from ports, I keep on getting this message linux-flashplugin -- critical vulnerabilities. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/b42e8c32-34f6-11dc-9bc9-001921ab2fa4.html I know that I uninstalled

Re: uknd - uhub DRAC woes.

2007-08-25 Thread N.J. Mann
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Grant Peel wrote: Whenever I reset my DRAC cards on my Dell machines, I'm sorry but I can't help you with your problem. But, you do need to reset your clock, since you appear to have reached October two months before the rest of us. I noticed this, because my

Re: Custom builds from ports

2007-07-28 Thread N.J. Mann
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: My question concerns building ports with custom options. With some ports, 'make config' governs the options, and stores them in a file someplace so they are honored the next time you build or upgrade the port. With most ports,

Re: FreeBSD Mailing List

2007-06-12 Thread N.J. Mann
Hi, On Tuesday, 12 June, 2007 at 13:23:47 +0100, Graham Potts wrote: I seem to be having trouble with spam from your email servers - I have been receiving emails from your mailing list for some time now. The problem is that I do not want them, nor have I ever asked for them. Despite sending 4

Re: passing parameters to configure script of a port

2007-06-10 Thread N.J. Mann
On Sunday, 10 June, 2007 at 14:29:46 +0300, Angelin Lalev wrote: I want to build squid from ports, but I need to pass some custom options to configure script. Something more, I want to be sure that when I run portupdate it won't revert to default options. Which is the right way to do

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-26 Thread N.J. Mann
On Wednesday, 25 April, 2007 at 15:44:20 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: [...] I fully expect that there isn't really an answer aside from using mutt's list subscription functionality, which unfortunately overwrites the name or email of the original sender in the diplay. It doesn't for me. The

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-26 Thread N.J. Mann
On Thursday, 26 April, 2007 at 14:43:35 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:03:19PM +0100, N.J. Mann wrote: On Wednesday, 25 April, 2007 at 15:44:20 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: [...] I fully expect that there isn't really an answer aside from using mutt's list

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-25 Thread N.J. Mann
On Wednesday, 25 April, 2007 at 14:05:21 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:53:40PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Amarendra Godbole wrote: I subscribe to many fbsd lists through gmail, and am not able to visually detect which email was sent to which fbsd list. Is it

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-25 Thread N.J. Mann
On Wednesday, 25 April, 2007 at 14:47:30 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:30:42PM +0100, N.J. Mann wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-procmail.html I wasn't referring to a desire for instructions on how to use procmail. Sorry

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-25 Thread N.J. Mann
On Wednesday, 25 April, 2007 at 15:14:59 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:03:05PM +0100, N.J. Mann wrote: On Wednesday, 25 April, 2007 at 14:47:30 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:30:42PM +0100, N.J. Mann wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc

Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread N.J. Mann
On Wednesday, 18 April, 2007 at 12:16:28 -0600, Ray wrote: Hello all, I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection. I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried #make deinstall but a subsequent #make install doesn't give me the options screen. make rmconfig

Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-06 Thread N.J. Mann
On Tuesday, 6 February, 2007 at 10:04:17 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm chafing at the bit to get rid of Windows at home and move to FreeBSD. I've even got my wife convinced that she wouldn't have any more problems with KDE than she presently has with Windows. (Reality is she'd have less!)

Re: CVS (freebsd /src) confusion

2007-02-05 Thread N.J. Mann
On Monday, 5 February, 2007 at 12:17:18 -0500, Dan Casey wrote: Using cvsup I am upgrading my boxes from RELENG_6_1, to RELENG_6_2. I've been noticing something strange, and I'm wondering if I'm thinking too much into it. I've modified mergemaster so that instead of using diff, it would

Re: rc.conf Where to put DNS Servers addresses

2007-01-07 Thread N.J. Mann
On Sunday, 7 January, 2007 at 13:05:04 +0100, VeeJay wrote: During installation, we provide DNS server address, Defaultrouter address, machin's IP address and Netmask address. I can find and change the IP, Netmask and Defaultrouter addresses in /etc/rc.conf. But where to find change DNS1

Re: DNS Setting

2007-01-02 Thread N.J. Mann
On Tuesday, 2 January, 2007 at 13:22:15 +0330, Mohamad Babaei wrote: I want to put my web server (ex. www.mysite.com) on a FreeBSD server and my mail server on another server (ex. mail.mysite.com), would you tell me how should i set my DNS setting how my DNS files should look like ? where

Re: Calculate the time of last modification of a file

2006-12-27 Thread N.J. Mann
On Wednesday, 27 December, 2006 at 18:53:17 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hiya, I hope you had a merry Christmas ;) I am trying to determine the time of last modification of a file, on FreeBSD. The following code achieves the same on Linux: # AGE = (current time) - (time of

Re: error when doing make installworld

2006-12-24 Thread N.J. Mann
On Sunday, 24 December, 2006 at 08:46:15 -0800, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi peeps, I have tried to update my src with cvsup and got stuck because of an error while doing make installworld. My system is an amd64 machine running freebsd 6.1 and I have performed the steps without problems: -make

Re: find port install options

2006-12-20 Thread N.J. Mann
On Wednesday, 20 December, 2006 at 12:42:09 +, Robin Becker wrote: Robin Becker wrote: [...] thread sample script. But I guess I still need to know if any other options were used during the install. /var/db/ports e.g. cat /var/db/ports/portupgrade/options # This file is

Re: Checking processes without PIDs

2006-11-27 Thread N.J. Mann
On Mon 27 Nov 20:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written a script to determine if processes are running. I am using, as an example, ps -ax | grep -c postgrey Are you aware of pgrep(1) ? Cheers, Nick. -- ___

How RAID 10 works (was: Re: Password Security)

2006-11-23 Thread N.J. Mann
PMFJI On Thu 23 Nov 23:08, VeeJay wrote: Well, I am not an expert on FreeBSD. And thats why I don't know that how it works that If 4 Disks of same size for example 146GB each and they are configured with RAID 10, and Root, SWAP, /usr, /var File systems have been created on them. And if one

Re: Another FBSD utility/script question

2006-11-15 Thread N.J. Mann
On Wed 15 Nov 09:17, Jack Stone wrote: Here I come with another easy one for most on the list -- except for me. I have 12,000 plus lines that have an empty line in between each real line, like so: [...] grep -v '^$' Cheers, Nick. -- With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.