Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:28:51 + b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Scott Bennet wrote: There haven't been much changes in the infrastructure of these two ports recently, so any problems are probably arising from changes in the distfiles, or problems in your base system or the ports that

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:32:21 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Scott Bennett wrote: Alexander Best wrote: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:03:12 -0200 Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 4:32:45 pm Erik Norgaard wrote: Jonathan McKeown wrote: Just as a matter of interest, if you want to rip sendmail out of the base system, which MTA would you like to replace it with? Or

Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-28 Thread b. f.
On 10/28/09, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:28:51 + b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Scott Bennet wrote: ... With one exception, I do not alter the contents of the ports tree manually. ... I have not made alterations to any ports in the ports

Re: gcc -pg and ld error, cannot find -lgcc_p

2009-10-28 Thread b. f.
Use sysinstall to add the proflibs distribution. Or one could rebuild/install world (and kernel if necessary) after investigating the NO_PROFILE option in /etc/make.conf. There's only a PERL_VERSION in make.conf. Since sysinstall doesn't work (this is -p4, not a base media install),

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:11:15 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when I installed vista I had to do some boot manager tricks (both before and after install)... namely I had to allow windows to nuke

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Bernt Hansson
Lars Eighner said the following on 2009-10-28 05:46: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting language to configure it. Other than

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Bernt Hansson
Lars Eighner said the following on 2009-10-28 05:46: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting language to configure it. Other than

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:05:39 +0100, Michaël Grünewald michaelgrunew...@yahoo.fr wrote: (I feel sorry for the very poor english I demonstrated in the message I wrote this morning: I was in a hurry!) Don't mind, many user here aren't native speakers, but are still completely good to understand.

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:56:11 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: I have tried them all... now I have linux-f10 with flashplayer10 installed and all I get is an error that flashplugin.so cannot be started because a shared file freetype.so.6 cannot be found... It's there allright and is

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:56:11 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: I have tried them all... now I have linux-f10 with flashplayer10 installed and all I get is an error that flashplugin.so cannot be started because a shared file freetype.so.6 cannot be found... It's there

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Tony McC
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:43:11 -0500 PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: I wish someone could explain to me why I am no longer able to install flashplugin ... none of the methods work for me on amy version... I have literally tried them all.. the latest was linux-f10 - I cleaned out all the

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:53:18 +, Tony McC af...@btinternet.com wrote: You seem to want everything to just work without having to think about it, so perhaps Windows would be better for you? [...] But my guess is that you really would be happier and more productive with a Windows OS. That

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Tony McC
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:10:25 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: In Windows, things don't work without thinking. The misbelief that is does is grounded in the fact that other people have to deal with problems, while the user praises Windows for its easyness of use. In PJ's case, maybe

FreeBSD_RC2?

2009-10-28 Thread David McDonald
I looked at the contents of the link to 8.0_RC1 and found files there marked RC2. I will give it a try but is that the real RC2 release for FreeBSD 8.0? thanks David McDonald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:53:18 +, Tony McC af...@btinternet.com wrote: You seem to want everything to just work without having to think about it, so perhaps Windows would be better for you? [...] But my guess is that you really would be happier and more productive

m4 (was Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?)

2009-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com writes: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting language to configure it. Other than

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:16:27PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Jack L. wrote: I was able to dual boot win7 and freebsd 8 without any problem, just installed windows first and installed freebsd with the freebsd boot manager and it said F1 windows and the rest are FreeBSD I am

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
Tony McC wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:10:25 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: In Windows, things don't work without thinking. The misbelief that is does is grounded in the fact that other people have to deal with problems, while the user praises Windows for its easyness of use.

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:03:12PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 4:32:45 pm Erik Norgaard wrote: Jonathan McKeown wrote: Just as a matter of interest, if you want to rip sendmail out of the base system, which MTA would you like to

Re: FreeBSD_RC2?

2009-10-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:48:16AM -0600, David McDonald wrote: I looked at the contents of the link to 8.0_RC1 and found files there marked RC2. I will give it a try but is that the real RC2 release for FreeBSD 8.0? In general one should not assume that any Release or Release Candidate

Two versions of m4

2009-10-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:46:07 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Walter Venable
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Lars Eighner said the following on 2009-10-28 05:46: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Evidently by making it

Re: FreeBSD_RC2?

2009-10-28 Thread David McDonald
Thank you for your reply. Now to try it out. David McDonald At 09:22 AM 10/28/2009, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:48:16AM -0600, David McDonald wrote: I looked at the contents of the link to 8.0_RC1 and found files there marked RC2. I will give it a try but is that the

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Powell
Michaël Grünewald wrote: [snip] I have backups of the data contained in the broken, so the data on this disc are not a concern. I have however a question: How do I verify that a hard-drive is accurately working if its firmware will hide the bad sectors as long as possible? [snip] As

How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread George Sanders
I would like to: - upgrade the built-in OpenSSL that comes with FreeBSD (in my case, 6.4-RELEASE) - replace it with OpenSSL that I build myself from the source tarball If I do this with a plain old: ./config ; make ; make install OpenSSL does indeed build and install, but it installs in

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Tony McC
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:13:02 -0400 PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: But to study the manual is beyond the capabilities of anyone ... sure, you can read it and study it... but you will forget anything you have read almost immediately if you are not applying what you are studying at once...

RE: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread Gary Gatten
Maybe remove the existing package first? And try to use a pkg if you can for the new one. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of George Sanders Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:58 AM To:

Re: gcc -pg and ld error, cannot find -lgcc_p

2009-10-28 Thread Vaibhav Gavane
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:34 AM, free...@t41t.com wrote:  Use sysinstall to add the proflibs distribution.       Or one could rebuild/install world (and kernel if necessary) after investigating the NO_PROFILE option in /etc/make.conf. There's only a PERL_VERSION in make.conf. Since

Re: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread George Sanders
- Original Message From: Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com To: George Sanders gosand1...@yahoo.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, October 28, 2009 11:01:35 AM Subject: RE: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ? Maybe remove the existing package

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Tony McC
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:00:00 + Tony McC af...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi PJ, ok, I tried (I was also trying to offer you support, just a different kind). There was a lot of irrelevant material in your response but the part I have quoted shows such a deep misunderstanding of what I was

Re: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:57:52 -0700 (PDT) George Sanders gosand1...@yahoo.com replied: I would like to: - upgrade the built-in OpenSSL that comes with FreeBSD (in my case, 6.4-RELEASE) - replace it with OpenSSL that I build myself from the source tarball If I do this with a plain old:

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-28 Thread DAve
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: You aren't supposed to use CNAMES for anything found in other RR's; in particular, you should always use an A record with the hostnames used for nameservers (ie, have an NS record), because you are supposed to be using

Re: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
George Sanders wrote: - Original Message From: Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com To: George Sanders gosand1...@yahoo.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, October 28, 2009 11:01:35 AM Subject: RE: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ? Maybe

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 02:14:17AM +, Frank Shute wrote: I'll speculate as to the reasons: NetBSD: probably wanted something smaller footprint-wise. OpenBSD: wanted something more secure. Those both sound like great reasons. Dragonfly: started afresh, so could replace it without

Re: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:14:22AM -0700, George Sanders wrote: Yes, but I still won't know how to put the new version in _exactly the same place_ as the one I just removed. For complex reasons of space and tools (embedded system, etc.) I do indeed need to use the source tarball. So I'd

Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Yuri
When I plug in my USB floppy drive I get these messages: ugen1.2: NEC at usbus1 umass0: NEC NEC USB UF000x, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.50, addr 2 on usbus1 umass0: UFI over CBI with CCI; quirks = 0x umass0:4:0:-1: Attached to scbus4 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 12:14:17 am Frank Shute wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:45:59PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 7:31:34 pm Jerry McAllister wrote: [snippage] So, that leaves personal preference as the only real reason for wanting to replace it.

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
Tony McC wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:00:00 + Tony McC af...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi PJ, ok, I tried (I was also trying to offer you support, just a different kind). There was a lot of irrelevant material in your response but the part I have quoted shows such a deep

Re: Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: When I plug in my USB floppy drive I get these messages: ugen1.2: NEC at usbus1 umass0: NEC NEC USB UF000x, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.50, addr 2 on usbus1 umass0: UFI over CBI with CCI; quirks = 0x umass0:4:0:-1: Attached to

Re: Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Yuri
Adam Vande More wrote: Did you remove devel/libusb It's installed: libusb-0.1.12_4 I enabled debugging and now get an extended dmesg log: ugen1.2: NEC at usbus1 umass0: NEC NEC USB UF000x, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.50, addr 2 on usbus1 umass0: UFI over CBI with CCI; quirks = 0x

Re: Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Adam Vande More
What does this mean? I remember using the same drive in 7.0 without problems. Yuri -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Yuri
Adam Vande More wrote: What does this mean? I remember using the same drive in 7.0 without problems. It used to work in FreeBSD-70 long time ago. Now in FReeBSD-8.0-RC1 it doesn't. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:05:39 +0100, Michaël Grünewald michaelgrunew...@yahoo.fr wrote: I have however a question: How do I verify that a hard-drive is accurately working if its firmware will hide the bad sectors as long as possible? I think the smartctl program from

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:13:02 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: And I do wish I could use only FreeBSD... the problem is that there are some limitations on compatibility with the normal user's MS systems... You're mixing up things here. Things in MICROS~1 land are not compatible to the

Re: Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Yuri y...@rawbw.com writes: Adam Vande More wrote: Did you remove devel/libusb It's installed: libusb-0.1.12_4 That's your problem, then. You need to remove it and rebuild the ports that depended on it. This was mentioned in /usr/ports/UPDATING and /usr/src/UPDATING. -- Lowell Gilbert,

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread David N
2009/10/29 Michaël Grünewald michaelgrunew...@yahoo.fr: Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:05:39 +0100, Michaël Grünewald michaelgrunew...@yahoo.fr wrote: I have however a question: How do I verify that a hard-drive is accurately working if its firmware will hide the bad sectors as

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-28 Thread Alexander Best
Scott Bennett schrieb am 2009-10-27: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:40:48 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Alexander Best wrote: Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts:

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:13:02 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: And I do wish I could use only FreeBSD... the problem is that there are some limitations on compatibility with the normal user's MS systems... You're mixing up things here. Things in MICROS~1

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Hello David, thank you for your comments, David N wrote: 2009/10/29 Michaël Grünewald michaelgrunew...@yahoo.fr: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours)

Is Intel 5100AGN WiFi card supported?

2009-10-28 Thread Yuri
I have to change WiFi card, and my laptop only accepts certain types, others are banned by BIOS. Is this one: Intel 5100AGN supported? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Failure to connect USB Floppy drive

2009-10-28 Thread Yuri
Lowell Gilbert wrote: That's your problem, then. You need to remove it and rebuild the ports that depended on it. This was mentioned in /usr/ports/UPDATING and /usr/src/UPDATING. I removed this port but still have this problem. Yuri ___

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:45:24 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Yeah, but stupid errors are not. Nobody can make all the errors. anyway I goofed somewhere. but what is strange is that the only obvious problem I have is this flashplugin - no matter what I do, I cannot get it to work.

Re: Is Intel 5100AGN WiFi card supported?

2009-10-28 Thread herbert langhans
Do you know the card's chipset? The Atheros chips are working well, I have a TP-Link card with such.. Cheers herb langhans On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 02:08:14PM -0700, Yuri wrote: I have to change WiFi card, and my laptop only accepts certain types, others are banned by BIOS. Is this one:

Re: Is Intel 5100AGN WiFi card supported?

2009-10-28 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I have to change WiFi card, and my laptop only accepts certain types, others are banned by BIOS. Is this one: Intel 5100AGN supported? There was a commit to 9 CURRENT the other day r198429 so Current has some support for it Sam

breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
well, i just bought a used dell for my new DNS, mail, and web server. they snickered when i asked if they would pre-install freebsd... so it's up to me. this dell was running losedows, vista, so i assume it has some kind of sound card. it has

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:25:53 +0100 Polytropon Polytropon free...@edvax.de replied: [snip] That's not FreeBSD's fault. If professional web designers need to optimize their content in order to prevent you from properly accessing it, it's their fault. I would complain to them, or just ignore them.

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: this dell was running losedows, vista, so i assume it has some kind of sound card. That's an interesting conditional implication thought. :-) it has 256MN ATI X1300 PRo video. is this enough to power

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:55:20 -0400, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:25:53 +0100 Polytropon Polytropon free...@edvax.de replied: [snip] That's not FreeBSD's fault. If professional web designers need to optimize their content in order to prevent you from properly

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:25:53 +0100 You don't really believe that do you. Web creators attempt to make their sites accessible to the largest possible audience. It is probably cost prohibited, if even reasonably possible to make a

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread David N
2009/10/29 Michaël Grünewald michaelgrunew...@yahoo.fr: Hello David, thank you for your comments, David N wrote: 2009/10/29 Michaël Grünewald michaelgrunew...@yahoo.fr: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num  Test_Description    

[OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, my company is going to shoot a TV spot that will show me at work. The first thing my desktop will contain is some BSD/FreeBSD logo. As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge columns of numbers running over the screen or at least one window. Does somebody know a

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:32:42 +0100, Bertram Scharpf li...@bertram-scharpf.de wrote: As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge columns of numbers running over the screen or at least one window. Does somebody know a programm that produces such nice output? What about ls

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Mak Kolybabi
On 2009-10-28 23:32, Bertram Scharpf wrote: As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge columns of numbers running over the screen or at least one window. Does somebody know a programm that produces such nice output? If you're not dead-set on numbers, somethings like the

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
Replying to myself and adding: % hexdump some large file looks interesting, too. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:55:20 -0400, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:25:53 +0100 Polytropon Polytropon free...@edvax.de replied: [snip] That's not FreeBSD's fault. If professional web designers need to optimize their content in order to

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:43:01 -0500, Mak Kolybabi m...@kolybabi.com wrote: If you're not dead-set on numbers, somethings like the following works: while true; do; dd if=/dev/urandom bs=64 count=1 2/dev/null | sha256; done ^ Without this ; it works (tested: sh, bash) - and looks

Bind Sendmail to an IP address

2009-10-28 Thread Aflatoon Aflatooni
Hi, I have a Freebsd 7.2 installation and using Sendmail for the SMTP service. This server has two public interfaces and different IP addresses. I need to have sendmail configured so that the outbound emails are sent using a certain IP address (SPF rules).  I have tried the following without any

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: this dell was running losedows, vista, so i assume it has some kind of sound card. That's an interesting conditional implication thought. :-)

Re: gnu tar checkpoint variable expansion

2009-10-28 Thread Jay Hall
Try this: /usr/local/gtar-1.22/bin/tar -cf - ${WHATTOBACKUP} \ --checkpoint-action='echo=Checkpoint #%u' \ --checkpoint-action=exec=/usr/local/scripts/check_disk_usage.sh $ {DIR} The use of single quotes prohibits the expansion of environment variables. Use double qoutes instead.

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 16:08, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:     so: what is the URL to download the 8.0-PRE freebsd?

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread Mario Lobo
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 23:11:15 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Completely side question I use sysutils/fusefs-ntfs to mount my vista partition do I need to change anything in my /etc/rc.d/* hierachy and/or /etc/fstab after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g instead of via the

I'm sure you've heard this before...

2009-10-28 Thread Henry Olyer
I want to turn the disks off. I sometimes run large jobs and want to switch down the drives. On some IBM blades, I have FBSD 6.1, on another machine I am using 7.2. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Gary Gatten
Why not Beastie smashing avitars of the PC and MAC dudes from the Apple commercials in the US? That would be sweet! Those commercials are pretty funny, and just keep getting better! Marketing GENIUS' from Apple! Which BSD core did they borrow? Is it Free or Open? - Original Message -

Re: I'm sure you've heard this before...

2009-10-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:12:06 -0400 Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: I want to turn the disks off. I sometimes run large jobs and want to switch down the drives. On some IBM blades, I have FBSD 6.1, on another machine I am using 7.2. If they're ATA drives you can use my ATAidle

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread jhell
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:32, lists@ wrote: Hi, my company is going to shoot a TV spot that will show me at work. The first thing my desktop will contain is some BSD/FreeBSD logo. As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge columns of numbers running over the screen or at

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread jhell
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:03, jhell@ wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:32, lists@ wrote: Hi, my company is going to shoot a TV spot that will show me at work. The first thing my desktop will contain is some BSD/FreeBSD logo. As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge

Re: Bind Sendmail to an IP address

2009-10-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:49:15 -0700 (PDT), Aflatoon Aflatooni aaflato...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I have a Freebsd 7.2 installation and using Sendmail for the SMTP service. This server has two public interfaces and different IP addresses. I need to have sendmail configured so that the outbound

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread RW
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:04:24 + Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: I must admit I gave up ever getting Flash to work RELIABLY on FreeBSD a long time ago. It's just too hard, too much work, and not worth the misery of installing heaps of crud just to get a flipping browser plugin

Multiple PostgreSQL 8.4 instances in FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 Jails

2009-10-28 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
Hello List, I want to setup 5 postgreSQL 8.4 servers in separate jails on a amd64 FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 machine while searching the web for someone that has done this before I found this: my question is this... is this still relevant on FreeBSD 8.0 RC2(amd64) and postgreSQL 8.4 The following was

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread Gary Gatten
How but some ascii art that animates Beastie walking across the screen or something? A little creativity? - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: jhell jh...@dataix.net Cc: Bertram Scharpf li...@bertram-scharpf.de;

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread jhell
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:11, aryeh.friedman@ wrote: I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when I installed vista I had to do some boot manager tricks (both before and after install)... namely I had to allow windows to nuke my mbr then use EasyBCD to remake it

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:44:42PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 16:08, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:     so: what is the URL to

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

2009-10-28 Thread jhell
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:37, Ggatten@ wrote: How but some ascii art that animates Beastie walking across the screen or something? A little creativity? - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: jhell jh...@dataix.net Cc:

Re: Multiple PostgreSQL 8.4 instances in FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 Jails

2009-10-28 Thread Uwe Laverenz
Sam Fourman Jr. schrieb: I want to setup 5 postgreSQL 8.4 servers in separate jails on a amd64 FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 machine while searching the web for someone that has done this before I found this: my question is this... is this still relevant on FreeBSD 8.0 RC2(amd64) and postgreSQL 8.4 There

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:00:57 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:44:42PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ Yes! but i bought the *Intel* 2-duo-core or whatever; not the AMD (aDvanced micro Devices) chip.

Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:19:08 + b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10/28/09, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:28:51 + b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Scott Bennet wrote: ... With one exception, I do not alter the contents of the ports

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 05:11:54PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Wednesday 28 October 2009 12:14:17 am Frank Shute wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:45:59PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 7:31:34 pm Jerry McAllister wrote: [snippage] So, that leaves