Re: MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-29 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 26, 2008, at 7:23 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: 1) Incoming SMTP (e.g. someIP:* -- yourIP:25) 2) Outbound SMTP (e.g. yourIP:* -- someIP:25) #2 has become prominent in the past few years, and is applied by ISPs because they want to curb their customers sending spam out onto the Internet

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
stripped and only 35 not stripped. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Firewalls using a DNSbl (and distributed ssh attacks)

2008-12-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
on fredrick from a third source and so on. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: editing dhcpd.conf file

2008-12-30 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Dec 30, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Pieter Donche wrote: Now, when someone already registered his laptop, and buys a new latop to replace the old (a different MAC address), can then omshell be used to record the change in the /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf file? Does omshell edit the

Re: Portsnap Not Found Issues

2009-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
again. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

bash versus sh test builtin

2009-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
]$ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi not root Does anyone have a recommendation of how to run this simple test in / bin/sh and how to write tests reasonably portably? -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: bash versus sh test builtin

2009-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: UID=$(id -u) if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi UID is not a variable set by /bin/sh, which is why the test fails. Ah. Thank you. I was, as you see, barking up the wrong tree. Thank you for setting me strait on this. Cheers, -j

Re: receiving mail

2009-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:51 PM, Pieter Donche wrote: What's wrong? Why does this not work out of the box ?? Given the security history of sendmail, it's not prudent to enable sendmail by default. It's not just that, but people who don't

Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: 1/ backing up the hacked [mailman] files and restoring them later (but I will overwrite the newer files with older ones perhaps breaking something). 2/ making them read only (but the end result will be the same and upgrading as root I will

Re: Launching Vim

2009-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Can someone give me a heads up on this. I just installed vim, but when I try to launch the program I get this error message: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libperl.so not found, required by vim Is this a path problem? The actual

Re: sendmail not listening on port 465

2009-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
use TLS on the submission port, 587. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: off topic: reporting attempts to access computers

2009-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 19, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Andrew Gould wrote: What information should I send to an ab...@* address when reporting a break-in attempt? My logs show a dictionary attack of invalid user names against port 22. So source of these is almost always some other compromised Unix-like system.

Re: Can stock syslog do hostA - fileA?

2009-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
-$YEAR$MONTH $DAY owner(daemon) group(wheel) dir_owner(daemon) dir_group(wheel) perm(0640) dir_perm(0750) create_dirs(yes)); }; log { source(s_udp); destination(hosts); }; Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Quirk with latex-suite]

2009-03-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
any useful help on the FreeBSD list, try joining https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vim-latex-devel Also the Usenet group comp.text.tex is remarkably helpful. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: portupgrade question

2009-04-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
to portupgrade. Or use the -c option (as mentioned by someone else in this thread) to do all of the config questions up front. I didn't know about that one. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd

Re: ntp problem

2009-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
of NTP servers is available at http://www.pool.ntp.org/ -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

2009-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
that I'd been somehow careless when running mergemaster. But now it looks like a bug. I've been using -Ui for mergemaster for a while now, but only seem to have experienced this problem recently. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-01 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
mailing list, and it is likely that some fix will be in with the next batch of rule updates for those who use sa-update. But if you aren't willing to wait or you don't use sa-update, I recommend the above workaround. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-01 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 1, 2010, at 5:19 PM, RW wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:05:54 -0600 Jeffrey Goldberg jeff...@goldmark.org wrote: it is likely that some fix will be in with the next batch of rule updates for those who use sa-update. It's already available in sa-update. Great. How do I know if I

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
-message that instructs people to add the enabling lines in /etc/periodic.conf.local I'm also wondering about the name of the port. This really is only one utility. Anyway, those are trivial concerns. The substance of your port all looks very good to me. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
panic. This problem has been fixed, but I still am extra careful with my USB backup disks: (1) Power for the back-up disks should be on a UPS (2) umount the file systems on the back-up disk when not in use. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. It does support being pushed to over Mobile Me, but not on regular IMAP. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 28, 2010, at 3:49 PM, krad wrote: On 28 March 2010 21:38, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Mar 28), Ron said: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: IMAP, but not POP3, can be used to push, but the iPhone mail client doesn't support that [...] So how is Mobil

Re: Honey pot email address

2009-05-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 1, 2009, at 11:57 PM, Andrew wrote: Does anyone have any ideas on how to get on as many spammers mailing lists as possible? The single fastest way is to post to Usenet using that address as a from address. You should start seeing lots of spam within 48 hours of that. Then once

Meta: useless text/plain part [Was: Ethernet - Internet I/O]

2009-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
is broken in that it sends messages that claim to provide a text/plain alternative, but doesn't actually honor that claim. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Secure unsalted or fixed salt symmetric encryption?

2009-05-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
in / etc/make.conf ? -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: flaw found [in my own program]

2009-06-09 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 8, 2009, at 7:15 PM, Gary Kline wrote: not surprisingly, i found a fla w in my getc(fp) program that tried to read past ? and ? ... the example i added to my test file was simply the 2 bytes and ?. so if you have a stray ? with a

Re: feedback, comments on this php-delimiter scrubbing program?

2009-06-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg and record states and decide based on the state, rather then inlined switch statements, if only for readability. Even for a very simple task, the logic of your code is very very hard to read. Clarify the logic (using the idea of a state) and you will find that this can

Re: feedback, comments on this php-delimiter scrubbing program?

2009-06-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
is going on. Once you understand the concepts here it should be very easy to write code to do similar things in the future. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ gkline.c Description: Binary data

Re: Sendmail Masqurading and root mails

2009-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
has the EXPOSED_USER(`root') line lives at /usr/share/sendmail/cf/domain/generic.m4 Just make a copy of that file, call it beasie.m4, remove the EXPOSE_USER directive from your copy and then change DOMAIN(generic) to DOMAIN(beasie) in your mail .mc file. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey

Re: Sendmail Masqurading and root mails

2009-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
.private.mypublicdomain.com and set up a local (on your private network) nameserver for that private subdomain. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Mail server recomendations (was: is the list the right place toask?)

2007-02-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
-- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

Re: force smtp auth

2007-02-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
to tell you the FreeBSD way of doing things. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

Re: kernel make fails

2007-02-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 15, 2007, at 11:45 PM, Gary Schenk wrote: After editing and successfully running make cleandepend and make depend, my custom kernel failed during make with this output: : undefined reference to `ieee80211_next_scan' *** Error code 1 If you have removed all Wireless LAN stuff your

Re: pkg_version: not found

2007-02-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 17, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Richard Collyer wrote: there is no pkg_version in that dir but pkg_version -v works. Odd no? Try which pkg_version to find out the path of the one that is working. Also try whereis pkg_version -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: pkg_version: not found

2007-02-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 18, 2007, at 4:49 AM, Richard Collyer wrote: I'm guessing a sym link from /usr/local/sbin/ to the correct location would be ok? I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be ok. But keep in mind that I've been using FreeBSD for less than two weeks. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions

2007-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd- questions/index.html I was initially surprised by the conventions used on this list, but am growing more accustomed to them and trying to comply, even thought it isn't what I do for most of the lists I'm on. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: How Do I Surf To My Server?

2007-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
specific. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How Do I Surf To My Server?

2007-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 19, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Drew Jenkins wrote: From: Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you tell us more about your home set-up? Presumably you have some sort of router doing NAT and DHCP? Tell us about it. I had, but perhaps in a different thread, so forgive me for not putting

Re: Remote access to config FreeBSD server

2007-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
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Re: Reg, User rights

2007-02-22 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
of not having to give out a root-like password but still to require authentication when operating as root. Ever since I learned this trick from OS X, I've been using it everywhere I can install sudo. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries

2007-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. Szervusz, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries

2007-02-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
, there is an article about the GPL that appeared in Alaplap in 1994 titled Van aki szabadon szereti (Some like it free) by me and translated from English to Hungarian by Horlai Janos. Unfortunately, I can't find the exact reference. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
of the form I will do X if at least N other people commit to doing X. Someone has to keep track of those commitments (I'm *not* volunteering) but there is this group participation protocol that has been used by various volunteer organizations with some success. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

2007-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
yet. I don't even know what IMAP server the OP is using. It will almost certainly be one of courier, cyrus, or uw. I would recommend to the OP to first find out what imap server they are running and then post the question to the very helpful Usenet group comp.mail.imap -j -- Jeffrey

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

2007-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
of not being universally support and it means that the server stores an unencrypted copy of the users' secret credentials. I, personally, don't use it for the servers I have managed. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe

2007-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
will have gone to outputfile -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

2007-02-27 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. Maybe something in there will help. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Future of FreeBSD 7.0 and up

2007-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Dwight Smith wrote: I guess my question is that will the ease of building or installing software for FreeBSD ever streamline to where you do not have to do as many steps and text config file entries? I've recently moved back to BSD from more than a decade of

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
with /usr/local/etc/postfix/ -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: The FreeBSD's Implementation Language

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
to me. So from this point on, for any question that you ask which can be answered with a little bit of your own digging around through what is already made public on the 'net, I am going to recommend that you do that digging yourself. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
counter measure, but you will have seen that opinions differ. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
will offer different advise. I certainly believe my advise is good advise (otherwise I wouldn't have offered it), but I'm also aware that I could well be wrong. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

gcc internal error on buildkernel

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
/make.conf And a copy of my kernel configuration file is at http://ntp0.goldmark.org/temp/DOBBY Any clues or suggestions would be most welcome. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
correct information you provide, the less mail from your system will look like spam. But even localhost.local would be OK (though a useful domain name would be better). Using google.com would make it look like you are up to no good. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

How to reinstall gcc

2007-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
a install a functioning gcc? -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: How to reinstall gcc

2007-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 13, 2007, at 4:37 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: My question is without a functioning gcc, how do a install a functioning gcc? It seems to me that the easiest way would be to do a binary install/upgrade from the distribution CD. You might even get away with copying

Re: Exim 4.66 Causing Kernel Panics?

2007-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 13, 2007, at 5:39 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: Anyone aware of a reason why a fresh build/install of exim 4.66 would cause kernel panics and reboots on my FreeBSD 6.1 machine? My machine, just out of the blue this morning, started rebooting every 3 minutes I narrowed it down to exim I

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
to reverse resolve the IP of your mail hub. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

CPUTYPE for VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX

2007-03-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
advantage of that by compiling for my system. Does anyone have a similar system? And what CPUTYPE or local tuning do you recommend? A dmesg for the system is available at http://ntp0.goldmark.org/temp/dmesg Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

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

2007-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[mailed, posted and bcc'ed to off list respondents] First let me quote my original query: I have one of these CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (999.52-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x691 Stepping = 1 Features=0x380b035FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,MMX,FXSR,SSE

Re: Optimizationn questions?

2007-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 15, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Jorn Argelo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Danny Pansters wrote: I know that this has been discussed a few times before, but IMO running a slightly stripped down kernel (i.e. custom, not GENERIC) actually proves to be helpful in

Re: Optimizationn questions?

2007-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 16, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:19:25AM +0100, Danny Pansters wrote: On Friday 16 March 2007 01:04:51 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: me, too. Of course it will speed up booting but then again how much time does one spend booting, compared

Re: recommend console email client?

2007-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 18, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: alpine = said to support charset conversion but cannot find any link for downloading it. The link for downloading alpine is deliberately not made public. That is because alpine is considered alpha and UW seems to want everyone who is

Re: Simple sendmail.cf question

2007-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
files from the .mc files using m4. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: recommend console email client?

2007-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
are released under a very non- restrictive license. So really it's just Pine that's been under their peculiar license. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
tell portupgrade to not use active mode FTP. (Or maybe fetch itself when it fails with active mode ftp should try again with passive). -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
As far as I can tell this and many other configuration options are not documented anywhere outside of the .mk files themselves. Is that really how things should be? /Rant Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone for their help and patience. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 21, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 05:29:03PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Rant As far as I can tell this and many other configuration options are not documented anywhere outside of the .mk files themselves. Is that really how things should

Re: Why is sendmail giving me this 550 error?

2007-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
is not. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

log rotation recommendations

2007-03-24 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
like newsyslog(8) only knows about HUPping syslogd. If there is no conventional BSD way of doing this, I'll just install logrotate and go with what I know, but I thought I would check here first. Thanks, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. [...] Any hints on setting this up? If nut-ups isn't the right software, I'm open to suggestions. I'm not familiar with nut-ups, but I've been very happy with apcupsd (in ports/sysutils). I am using an APC Back-UPS XS 1200. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Josh Carroll wrote: Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 - p5-GSSAPI-0.24 (security/ p5-GSSAPI): p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] Well this one is pretty obvious. Look at what the stale dependency is, and what it's suggesting? :)

Re: advice on anti-spam tools

2007-04-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. But on the whole, spam is an unsolved problem. And is well beyond the topic of this discussion list. I'd recommend that you look at something like a spamassassin mailing list. Sorry I can't be more helpful. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

Re: Saved Email - Spamassassin

2007-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
that you get your mail delivery and access sorted out before you try to set up sa-learn. Otherwise, you will find yourself pulling the ground out from underneath the Bayes filtering. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: cups-1.3.3 not compiling anymore in FreeBSD 7.0

2007-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
deinstall make clean make reinstall in the cups-base port directory. I don't know if this will work for others. I don't know why it worked for me. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd

Different DNS responses depending on query source

2007-10-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
on different IPs (possibly using jails). But I don't have an IP address to spare on the DMZ. So is there a way to have bind listening on the only interface and IP address the host can have give different answers depending on where the query comes from? Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: Different DNS responses depending on query source

2007-10-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Yuri Pankov wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: So is there a way to have bind listening on the only interface and IP address the host can have give different answers depending on where the query comes from? You can use BIND's view statement: http://www.isc.org

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Robin Becker wrote: At present I have reduced the email to a textual format with an embedded textual link. So the email looks like Your Document, Thank you for your inquiry. below is a link to the brochures as requested, in Adobe Acrobat format. It

Re: OpenEXR linking error

2007-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Robin Becker wrote: these all sound very reasonable. However, we use the same IP for several virtual hosts ie we have more than one domain name so the reverse DNS is not clear to me. Is the from address inspected for comparison with the RDNS ie if I claim to be

Re: Error -mailman installation through ports

2007-10-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
installation. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Virtual email server

2007-10-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 17, 2007, at 10:46 PM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 22:40 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: Postfix, cyrus courier imap/pop and squirrelmail - use mysql to tie it all together. http://howtoforge.org/virtual_postfix_mysql_quota_courier +1 ;; Me, too. -j

pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format

2007-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
Yesterday I moved from 6.2-RELENG to 7-RELENG and everything worked fine (though I do have a few questions about mergemaster that I'll ask later). As suggested on this list, I started to rebuild all of my ports. I started with portupgrade -f '2007-11-01 12:00' and all seemed to go well

Re: pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format

2007-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Nov 2, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: $ sudo pkgdb -v -F --- Checking the package registry database /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument $ sudo file /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash

Re: ok... what did i miss?

2007-11-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Nov 4, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Jonathan Horne wrote: all my 6.2 computers say the correct time, but my 7.0 BETA-2 says an hour ahead (as in, it didnt make the DST change last night on its own). My 7.0 BETA1 machine switched to winter time just fine. -j

Re: ok... what did i miss?

2007-11-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Nov 4, 2007, at 4:02 PM, icantthinkofone wrote: I have the correct time but it says CST for Central Standard. Why doesn't it say CDST? Standard time is what we have in the winter. Daylight Savings time is what we have in the summer. I know this is counter-intuitive since we are on

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 24, 2007, at 2:20 AM, Erik Cederstrand wrote: I know this is not an answer, but why not just upgrade to 7.0 if you need the C7 support? I'm on 7B3, but when I look at /usr/src/share/examples/etc/make.conf, I just see this # Currently the following CPU types are recognized: #

hangs instead of reboots on HP s3220n

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. And if I didn't provide enough information, just let me know what y'all need. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: hangs instead of reboots on HP s3220n

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Dec 21, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I have an HP s3220n which will boot just fine, but won't reboot [...] I get a proper shutdown with the last line on the console saying Rebooting The power stays on, but the machine just hangs at that point. Never mind. It just takes

which cputype for Althon 64 X2 Dual Core

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
a list of alternatives? I didn't find anything in the NOTES files telling me what was available. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: which cputype for Althon 64 X2 Dual Core

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
First of all, thank you very much for your response. I have some follow up questions below. On Dec 21, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Dec 21, 2007, at 4:33 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: What optimizations should I make in make.conf? A reasonable starting point is no special

Re: syslog-ng not logging

2007-12-27 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
daemon /dev/console for console logging. Will log rotation preserve daemon ownership? Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: syslog-ng not logging

2007-12-27 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Dec 27, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Peter Boosten wrote: Quoting Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there any reason not to simply do a cd /var/log chown -R daemon . I think (but I'm not sure) that permissions will be reversed by mtree. This is the first I've heard of mtree. I just looked

Re: freebsd / gateway / parental control

2007-06-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 28, 2007, at 3:40 PM, zigniew szalbot wrote: On the software side I am also looking for some kind of parental control utility. I guess I can use pf. But would that be enough? I think it would have to be something that would allow me to define keywords based on which sites containing

Re: parental control with squid and dansguardian

2007-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. That is block all outbound traffic to ports 80 and 443 unless they come from the machine running squid. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Adding a new command

2007-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
and /usr/bin are as fully part of FreeBSD as the kernel itself, while on Linux distributions, those things are bundled with Linux as part of a distribution. So this is one reason why it is best to put tools like you describe in /usr/local/sbin Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing)

2007-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jul 12, 2007, at 1:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why, despite sending multiple e-mails to the unsubscribe address, am I continued to be subscribed to this list?? Any help would be grand. My guess is that you are subscribed using a different address than the one that you think you are.

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