Re: emacs does not work on MacOSX server

2011-03-24 Thread William H. Magill
packages. I think (setq system-uses-terminfo y) in your .emacs file will switch to using terminfo, which is what OSX ships with -- i.e. no termcap file, just terminfo files. No guess as to what might have changed or why. (It still works nicely in 10.6.7.) T.T.F.N. William H. Magill

Re: Xcode 4

2011-03-13 Thread William H. Magill
the /Developer prefix, or have they now done away with the idea? T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB 667] OS X 10.6.6 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667] OS X 10.6.6 # Mac mini Core Duo [1.66 Ghz - 2 GB 667]OS X 10.6.6 # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive

Re: bind9 / rndc questions

2011-01-05 Thread William H. Magill
On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Jan 4, 2011, at 7:16 PM, William H. Magill wrote: include /opt/local/etc/rndc.key

bind9 / rndc questions

2011-01-04 Thread William H. Magill
delete the include I get: -cut here-- sudo named-checkconf named.conf named.conf:87: unknown key 'rndc-key' -cut here--- I'm obviously not understanding something here. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz

Re: bind9 / named questions

2011-01-03 Thread William H. Magill
/DesigningDaemons.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001791-BBCBHBFB T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB 667] OS X 10.6.5 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667] OS X 10.6.5 # Mac mini Core Duo [1.66 Ghz - 2 GB 667]OS X 10.6.5 # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS

Re: A question about the bind example file provided by MacPorts

2011-01-03 Thread William H. Magill
On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Dec 30, 2010, at 5:23 PM, William H. Magill wrote: The bind example file: db.127.0.0.dist differs slightly from the one which I have been using for many years now. The example file contains: $ORIGIN localhost

Re: Bind 9 not launching named...

2011-01-01 Thread William H. Magill
network -- which except for the one Alphas is all Macs. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB 667] OS X 10.6.5 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667] OS X 10.6.5 # Mac mini Core Duo [1.66 Ghz - 2 GB 667]OS X 10.6.5 # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive

Re: Bind 9 not launching named...

2011-01-01 Thread William H. Magill
On Jan 1, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Chris Janton wrote: On 2010-12-31 , at 16:50 , William H. Magill wrote: Double DUH cd /opt/local/etc more named.conf named.conf: Too many levels of symbolic links ln -s named.conf 4 lrwxr--r-- 1 root admin10 Dec 31 18:26 named.conf

Bind 9 not launching named...

2010-12-31 Thread William H. Magill
mcgillsociety.org ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; res_nsend to server shianbrae.mcgillsociety.org 98.140.106.68: Connection refused ---cut here-- What am I missing? T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB

Re: Bind 9 not launching named...

2010-12-31 Thread William H. Magill
On Dec 31, 2010, at 6:05 PM, William H. Magill wrote: I have just installed the macports version of Bind 9 and am trying to get named to run... The install apparently finishes with zero problems: . . . But I find nothing in a PS indicating that bind or named is running and dig (from

A question about the bind example file provided by MacPorts

2010-12-30 Thread William H. Magill
.IN-ADDR.ARPA. and 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. INNS localhost. The other difference is the apparently redundant , and to me contradictory 1D prefix where the SOA expiry time is set to 1W. In other respects, the files are identical. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Flat-panel iMac (2.1

Apache upgrade outdated overwrites index.html

2010-12-30 Thread William H. Magill
except The update overwrote /opt/local/apache2/htdocs/index.html not nice. Easily recovered from, but completely unexpected. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.11 # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB 667] OS X 10.6.5 # MacBook

Re: failure of port selfupdate

2010-12-20 Thread William H. Magill
On Dec 19, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Dec 19, 2010, at 20:01, William H. Magill wrote: I just decided I should probably check on the status of my macports install and got the following... ==cut here sudo port selfupdate --- Updating

Re: failure of port selfupdate

2010-12-20 Thread William H. Magill
Machine restore evidently lost or corrupted something. A complete download and re-install f Xcode 3.2.5 fixed everything. [Default installation, re-installed everything, including Unix tools.] T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.11

failure of port selfupdate

2010-12-19 Thread William H. Magill
macports1.0 Thought I had purged all the darwin ports stuff ages ago... :) T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.11 # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB 667] OS X 10.6.5 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667] OS X 10.6.5 # Mac

console.app question

2010-08-01 Thread William H. Magill
/log' The current list for files appears to be: ~/Library/Log /Library/Log /private/var/log T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.11 # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB 667] OS X 10.6.4 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo

Documentation issue? Dovecot support/install scripts from the wiki don't work... what's the trick?

2010-07-28 Thread William H. Magill
question here is ... ?--Parents? ?--Verbose? what is the assumed user environment here? Or what is the syntax of the command usage? ... clearly sudo ./Make_Dovecot_Directories.command fails. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.11

Re: Apache won't start (was: Re: Help needed...suddenly nothing works)

2010-07-28 Thread William H. Magill
re-install implies its a networking issue. Try 127.0.0.1 instead of the name localhost. What happens if you try to telnet to localhost -- you should (probably) get a connection refused error. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.11

Re: MySQL error installing Drupal -- total serendipty -- side issue with macports install itself.

2010-01-14 Thread William H. Magill
is at all that common, so I don't know that anything needs be done or even documented. I just thought it interesting to point out to the maintainers of the port system, that it is possible to do something weird inadvertently. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super

Re: Need help activating Macports install of MySQL5 on Snow Leopard

2009-12-18 Thread William H. Magill
will help someone else in the future. Without macports, I know personally from the early days of the ARPAnet and the Internet, what a painful process installing complex software is. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.11 # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo

Re: Need help activating Macports install of MySQL5 on Snow Leopard

2009-12-17 Thread William H. Magill
a reboot = So, the short is, I have the server working (accordng to the MAMP page) and now have to figure out how to authorize users! Time to break down and RTFM. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Flat-panel iMac (2.1

Need help activating Macports install of MySQL5 on Snow Leopard

2009-12-14 Thread William H. Magill
of tutorial/cookbook for installing MySQL5 on Snow Leopard. Quite frankly, at this point, I don't know what i don't know, but assume it to be substantial. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.11 # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB 667] OS

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