Re: genuine bulk email

Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: 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 .. When you personalize that give the date and IP address of the request. Something like

genuine bulk email

can be done to make emails less likely to be classified as spam? I assume that spammers try very hard and fail, so is this kind of email application effectively dead in the water before it starts? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: genuine bulk email

Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: 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

DELL Poweredge 400 SC NIC

m not sure if that's the NIC. Is there anyone with some good advice on how to proceed? I can always add one of the various ethernet cards we have lying about if all else fails. -- Robin Becker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

change of behaviour after reboot

obviously changed as the scripts now only work if I use #!/usr/local/bin/python I'm worried now in case my reboot or the over usage has caused some hidden damage. Anybody have any idea what could cause this misbehaviour? -- Robin Becker ___ fr

no reverse dns

ur ISP will not make the reverse mapping. I assume that we're trying to reverse lookup something and the lack of reverse dns is causing this issue. What can I add to my rc.conf to stop this arplookup problem? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-q

Re: no reverse dns

Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 29, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Robin Becker wrote: We have just moved offices and our freebsd machine has started complaining in the following terms Oct 29 17:14:39 int kernel: arplookup ww.xx.yy.zz failed: host is not on local network We have an external router

gcc 3.4.4 -fno-gcse

timisation approach is going wrong. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

gcc-4.3.3 problem

uot; since importing it failed: Shared object "libgcc_s.so.1" I see that the gcc 4.3.3 libs were installed in /usr/local/lib/gcc-4.3.3 and I can get things to work by setting up the appropriate -L option and LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Is there some way to make these libraries available

Re: gcc-4.3.3 problem

Robin Becker wrote: I'm trying to run some benchmarks for a modified version of Python 2.5.2, unfortunately the modification requires a newer version of GCC so I have installed gcc version 4.3.3 from ports. When I try to run my make command I'm seeing this error *** WARNING

Re: gcc-4.3.3 problem

4.3.3 >> >> things improved. > > The ports framework has support to do this automatically, so the > question is why it didn't happen. Could you file a PR on the matter? > yes. I looked in the makefile and it certainly has USE_LDCONFIG= ${TARGLIB} so I su

fix remote degraded gmirror

identify. I looked at the smartctl output and see this /dev/ad4 Device Model: WDC WD1600JS-22MHB0 Serial Number:WD-WCANM4438410 /dev/ad6 Device Model: WDC WD1600JS-22MHB0 Serial Number:WD-WCANM4434657 is this sufficient to enable a data centre engineer to fix my problem? -- Rob

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

is required, Dru Lavigne was my guide when we installed this stuff, but this is the first time it's failed and she doesn't mention the repair process. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

doesn't seem to be required. I guess the whole idea is to be able to just connect a new disk and start the system up and then insert back into the mirror. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

I tried to insert gmirror complains that it is too small. What are my options? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-que

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

00 bytes which looks quite strange as it looks like something got lopped off somehow. I didn't think bad blocking/sectoring was done any more. Anyhow they've removed this disk and are considering options (at least I hope they are). -- Robin Becker

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

around for ways to shrink the slice, but didn't discover anything very authoritative or easy. Is there a slice reduction beast? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

binary upgrade 6.1 - 7.2/8.0

Is it feasible to upgrade a system from 6.1 to 7.2 or 8.0-RC1 and if yes what sequence of upgrades should I actually carry out ie is it feasible to do 6.1-6.2 and then 6.2 - 7.2 or should it be done in small steps? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd

Re: atom based servers

s will still be using the Intel 945 or similar chipsets. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

binary package dependencies

ict with a later one? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: binary package dependencies

se when I install apache22 it's the entire ports system that needs to record the conflicts. I don't think it's reasonable for an individual port to know that a future conflict may arise. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Undefined symbol libintl_bindtextdomain

o.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x28091000) however, there are references in the text of _locale_failed.so. Is there an implication that a library reference is missing during the build of the module? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

geometry does not match label

"geometry does not match label" message? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

ldconfig vs /usr/local/lib/mysql

/local/lib/mysql are on the standard paths, but I don't know where those folders get set up as there are no ld.so.conf (or ld-elf.so.conf) files in /etc. It's easy to get those folders into the /var/run/ld.so.hints etc files, but how does one make them persist? -- Ro

shutdown forensics

time. Is there any way I can trace the origin of the shutdown command? I looked in the root shell history various other logs, but couldn't see anything obvious. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: shutdown forensics

Robert Huff wrote: Robin Becker writes: I'm trying to figure out what caused an unplanned shutdown of a freebsd 6.0 server; I see this in the last output reboot ~ Thu Apr 24 06:15 shutdown ~ Thu Apr 24 06:10 but c

serial console problem

onsol so I can see what's going on, but that is happening as fast as hell freezes. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &qu

inetd[469] messages

these are every 10 minutes. I suppose it's something obvious, but I don't know what. Can anyone help? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

sudo TTY Unknown messages

would prefer to keep only one main cron job for my system or is that frowned upon. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[

Re: inetd[469] messages

Robin Becker wrote: Hi, I've recently installed/upgraded to freebsd 6.0 from freebsd 4.9. Most things have gone very smoothly and I thank the developers. However, I'm seeing a lot of these messages in the system log Dec 29 02:41:46 www inetd[469]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already

Re: sudo TTY Unknown messages

Robin Becker wrote: I am getting messages from sudo concerning an unknown TTY. eg Dec 29 02:30:40 www sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/usr/tmp/BU/svn_backups ; USER=www ; COMMAND=/usr/local/bin/svnadmin dump -q -r0:19591 /svn/private I think this is caused by not having a tty device in

freebsd hosting

but perhaps not root access. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Invisible port 80

invisible. The other machine works exactly as expected. Can anyone suggest something simple that may be causing this? So far I have only been using ssh to communicate with the machine so perhaps have neglected some network setting etc etc. -- Robin Becker

Re: Invisible port 80

je killen wrote: On Feb 4, 2006, at 5:24 AM, Robin Becker wrote: I am in the process of setting up a pair of freebsd 6.0 servers with different hosting services. On one of the servers I cannot seem to access the apache server which I have started. I can access port 80 on the machine itself

Re: Invisible port 80

Robert Huff wrote: Robin Becker writes: >> I am in the process of setting up a pair of freebsd 6.0 servers with >> different hosting services. On one of the servers I cannot seem to >> access the apache server which I have started. I can access port 80 on >> the

Re: Invisible port 80

Robin Becker wrote: Robert Huff wrote: Robin Becker writes: >> I am in the process of setting up a pair of freebsd 6.0 servers with >> different hosting services. On one of the servers I cannot seem to >> access the apache server which I have started. I can access

configure acls on remote machine

and 2 seems difficult unless I have an ssh to a home folder which isn't under /home. Any ideas welcome. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, sen

traffic analysis

e some reasonable data on this sort of problem? Perhaps I need to close down some services etc. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: traffic analysis

Jeremy Kister wrote: On 2/21/2006 5:10 AM, Robin Becker wrote: Our freeBSD 6.0 host is not yet in production, but appears to have outgoing traffic of around 140Mb/day; the http logs say 16 hits etc. The host provider said this 140Mb/day is really not that much. Unless my math is wrong

denyhosts

, str(pid)), os.F_OK): return pid else: return STATE_LOCK_EXISTS -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

ACER 1644 acpio errors

acpi0 acpi_lid0: on acpi0 acpi_button0: on acpi0 acpi_button1: on acpi0 acpi_tz0: on acpi0 atkbdc0: port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

exclude root's mail

For some reason my FreeBSD 6.0 server's root account has started to receive spam. Is there a simple way to restrict all mail for root to come from a specified local domain eg 192.168.0.0/8? I'm a naive sendmail person so please be gentle :) -- Ro

ssh protocol in 5.3

protocol 1 for legacy reasons ie we have a very old implementation of ssh on our win32 PCs. I have tried various .ssh/config options, but nothing seems to help. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: ssh protocol in 5.3

ve both protocol 1 and 2 records in the > same file; the identity files are different for 1 an 2, but have > different file names in 1 and 2, so can coexist in ~/.ssh. > > John > > Robin Becker writes: > >> I have just upgraded one of my systems from 4.9 to 5.3 and

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

O images. Absolutely stupid, made me furious. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

apachectl oddness

that echo "pass phrase" | apachectl startssl works fine even through ssh. Am I stupid or doing something wrong? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: apachectl oddness

Robin Becker wrote: I'm running standard freeBSD 4.9 and am port upgrading apache2. I think the old version was 2.50_3 and the new is 2.52_4. In the latest build I have added WITH_THREADS=1 as I need this for mod_python. I notice now that apachectl startssl has problems reading the pass p

apache & blanks in filenames

ain an entry for the image looking like Bjarne Stroustrup.jpg 07-Nov-2004 19:50 16k I'm assuming this must be a blanks in filename problem somehow, but where and how to fix? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

his on XP with a second hard drive ie ghost the whole lot across to the second drive and then swap the new larger drive into boot place. It seems XP knows the hardware and was looking for the original HD when we attempted to boot off the new one. Ther was a complicated fix involving remote re

cvsup ports questions

penldap20 was long gone). Now, however, I have to put these back by hand. This isn't too hard here, but what happens if the chain is longer. Is there an easier root with portupgrade? Another thing is, should I worry about duplicate index warnings? -- Robin Becker _

portupgrade configuration

e a way to list all of my exceptional port settings? Can I make these available to portupgrade automatically somehow? -- Robin Becker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

dell 8400 install prob

the hard drive properly. -- Robin Becker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: dell 8400 install prob

newer than what FreeBSD has added support for. Try installing to a standard ATA HD. Sigh! I tried with 4.10 as well and that also fails. Sadly I don't have a spare IDE / drive lying about. I guess I'll have to wait on freebsd or install one of the more advanced Linux OSes -- Ro

Re: dell 8400 install prob

7;t quite there yet either. I've certainly been able to get knoppix to see my hard disk XP partitions although not perhaps well enough to write them. -- Robin Becker -- Robin Becker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: dell 8400 install prob

David Kelly wrote: On Aug 15, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Robin Becker wrote: Sigh! I tried with 4.10 as well and that also fails. Sadly I don't have a spare IDE / drive lying about. I guess I'll have to wait on freebsd or install one of the more advanced Linux OSes I didn't *install* on

simultaneous apache 1.3x & 2.x

he natural version. Unfortunately this freebsd 4.9 system is also required to serve SVN so I must keep apache 2. So can I get both apaches working on the same system? Or perhaps someone has some advice about getting squirrelmail working with apache 2. -- Ro

Re: simultaneous apache 1.3x & 2.x

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Aug 28, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Robin Becker wrote: I'm trying to install squirrelmail, but it seems that PHP + apache 2 + squirrelmail doesn't go. I tried and although the install proceeds I get crashes in PHP. PHP appears to deprecate apache 2 at p

Re: simultaneous apache 1.3x & 2.x

Eric F Crist wrote: Robin Becker wrote: I'm trying to install squirrelmail, but it seems that PHP + apache 2 + squirrelmail doesn't go. I tried and although the install proceeds I get crashes in PHP. PHP appears to deprecate apache 2 at present and looking at the squirrelmail requi

serial console install

boot into a freebsd installer. I assume that I will be able to see the installer in my serial console and will be able to do the normal install, but do I get the opportunity to do some editing of /boot/loader.conf & /etc/ttys to allow the HD boot to show up in my console? -

gmirror HD failure detection

rtctl in a cron or what? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

oing bad. Would it change from COMPLETE to DEGRADED suddenly? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

also done the smartd thing with an email output as well. Thanks to all for useful input. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

linux recovery tool

One of my hosters says they provide a ram based linux recovery tool, but I'm actually using freebsd on the hardware so am wondering if linux knows how to mount UFS partitions? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

denyhosts problems

e messages related to line 24 from that setup. Does denyhosts work properly? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: linux recovery tool

Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: ... One of my hosters says they provide a ram based linux recovery tool, but I'm actually using freebsd on the hardware so am wondering if linux knows how to mount UFS partitions? -- Robin Becker Yes, it does .. thanks -- Robin B

Re: denyhosts problems

Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:22:43PM +0100, Robin Becker wrote: I'm trying to get denyhosts-2.5 to work in 6.0 and have inserted a line in hosts.allow ALL: xxx.myoffice.com : allow sshd: /etc/hosts.deniedssh : deny ALL: ALL : allow but am finding that this causes my ho

IP address impersonation

) Are there ways to mitigate this kind of problem? We have other hosted servers on machines with similar (root) access. They presumably could also be impersonated. We found this out by inspection of our own log files; could the provider be doing something more to prevent this? -- Robin B

kick off a post boot job

cally after the boot is finished? I could imagine asking another, trusted, server to supply the magic string using scp or some other secure transport and then using the decoded result to start up apache. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

sysv semaphores

they memory/cpu intensive? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: sysv semaphores

.ipc.semopm=250 kern.ipc.semume=160 kern.ipc.semusz=92 kern.ipc.semvmx=32767 kern.ipc.semaem=16384 and on my 6.1 system I see these with sysctl -a | grep ipc, however, # sysctl -a | grep seminfo /usr/RL_HOME/users/robin: # I guess they've been renamed. -- Robin Becker _

Re: sysv semaphores

Damian Wiest wrote: ... No, it's my fault; I checked things on the wrong system. OpenBSD uses seminfo, FreeBSD uses ipc. aa the joy of forking :) -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

shell test for stdout=stderr

Is there a way for a shell script to test if 2> is the same as 1>? I want to put messages in both when they are connected to different files, but would like to avoid duplicating the message when they are the same. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-que

Re: shell test for stdout=stderr

Matthew Seaman wrote: Robin Becker wrote: Is there a way for a shell script to test if 2> is the same as 1>? I want to put messages in both when they are connected to different files, but would like to avoid duplicating the message when they are the same. You could try using fstat(1) to

temporary su login

key based. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: temporary su login

e operator group and do the chmod trick on shutdown. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

binary updating 6.0-6.2

know about updates? Does the updater squirrel away copies of the updated files so a last ditch attempt at status quo restoration can be made? Also do my existing ports continue to work with the new kernel? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: binary updating 6.0-6.2

Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:38:18PM +, Robin Becker wrote: . What you want to do is a cvsup (Mathew Seaman recently pointed out csup that is supposed to be part of the system, but I don't seem to have it on the machine I am presently on running 6.

Re: binary updating 6.0-6.2

be hard to find. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

cron mystery

13 3 * * * /home/user/bin/daily 41 * * * * /home/user/bin/hourly and at 41 past the hour the hourly job came back. Is it the HOME variable or the act of rewriting? User did have home defined in /etc/passwd. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: cron mystery

Chuck Swiger wrote: Robin Becker wrote: [ ... ] before ## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * $HOME/bin/daily 19 * * * * $HOME/bin/hourly after ## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * /home/user/bin/daily 41 * * * * /home/user/bin/hourly

ezjail ip conflicts

hd is started by init nowadays. Anyhow I think I can fix the mysqld problem by having mysql_args="--bind-address=xxx.xxx.xxx.26" in the rc.conf, but I don't see any easy way to configure syslogd to start with a -b xxx.xxx.xxx.2

Re: ezjail ip conflicts

but now I see \$rc_flags which I guess must be what is used. Thanks Joe and Karol. I now get a message saying Warning: IP 209.67.217.27 not configured on a local interface. but I think that just means I don't have an alias set up yet. -- Robin Becker __

python 2.3 binary package bug

m the source of the package it seems OK. Is this a bug? The binary install mentioned certain bits might be missing, but socket wasn't one of them. If it is a bug what's the reporting mechanism? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: python 2.3 binary package bug

Gerard Seibert wrote: .. them. If it is a bug what's the reporting mechanism? man send-pr what an awful interface that was ;( made me grumpy using it. Perhaps I've grown too used to these new fangled web applications :) -- Ro

Re: python 2.3 binary package bug

Gerard Seibert wrote: On Wednesday December 06, 2006 at 11:34:40 (AM) Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Robin Becker wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: .. them. If it is a bug what's the reporting mechanism? man send-pr what an awful interface that was ;( made me grumpy using it. Perhaps

small mail server

x27;t need to authenticate directly. 3) web based interface for adding users and redirections etc etc 4) spam filtering (presumably based on their large user mail volume). 5) white/grey listing -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

find port install options

as installed by default. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: find port install options

Robin Becker wrote: Is it possible to determine what options were used during port installation. One of the recipes I'm trying to follow calls for perl to be installed with USE_THREADS=yes. well I found out that the installed perl doesn't have threads by running a thr

Re: small mail server

as well. I would base this server on a postfix solution, and for the amound of users your not likely to need a database, that's overkill. HTH Dave. .. Thanks for the offer Dave, I don't think my boss would allow non-employees to access our serve

Re: small mail server

ould be fairly easy to do. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: find port install options

N.J. Mann wrote: 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 # T

Re: find port install options

ed in building perl. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

make world for a jail

aw sub makes going on that had a different DESTDIR. Eg make -f Makefile.inc1 DESTDIR=/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp par-all how do I get things built into my desired location or is the make world eventually going to put them in the right place? -- Robin Becker _

Re: make world for a jail

c/tmp par-all is there some magic that's required to make world into a specified DESTDIR? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

BBC debate "Battle of the operating systems"

The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista, OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't press for FreeBSD. -- Ro

Re: BBC debate "Battle of the operating systems"

Robin Becker wrote: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista, OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't press for FreeBSD. unfortunately th

Re: BBC debate "Battle of the operating systems"

Bill Moran wrote: In response to Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista, OS X and Linux, but I don't see w

Synaptics trackpad problem

quot;UpDownScrolling""on" Option"UpDownRepeat""on" Option"LeftRightScrolling""on" Option"LeftRightRepeat""on" # "SHMConfig on" seems good works with synclient(1). Bu

Re: Synaptics trackpad problem

Paul Fraser wrote: On 6/3/07, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any help appreciated Hi Robin, I know this isn't going to be much of a comfort - but I've had great difficulty trying to get Xorg to work nicely with - surprise - the Synaptics touchpad on my Acer not

Is it better to just rebuild Xorg 7.2

I've just installed 6.2R and have just about got Xorg going. Is it better for me to just remove all my X related packages and try and build from the xorg-7.2 meta package or to go through the pain of trying to update? In either case I need to sync the ports tree etc. -- Robin B

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