[SFD-discuss]Re: Hardware Freedom Day 2025

2024-10-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
LM wrote: > I know it's a bit early but Hardware Freedom Day 2025 ( > https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/hfd/blog ) is in April (about 6 months > away). With all the recent hurricanes and power outages in the US, I > thought it would be interesting to investigate Open Hardware options > for dealing wi

Re: [Tiff] 3P security issue reported against libTIFF

2024-08-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey via Tiff
Hi, Reference: > From: Greg Troxel via Tiff > Reply-to: Greg Troxel > Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:45:23 -0400 Greg Troxel via Tiff wrote: > Ashish Patil via Tiff writes: > > > This issue is of high priority for us, as our customers have started > > reporting it. We look forwar

[Mailman-Users] Re: Hackers subscribing lots of people

2024-07-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> From: John > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:33:41 + John wrote: > > Hello, > > We're running mailman 2. > > Quite a few script kiddies and other idiots have figured out that > they can use our mailman installation to annoy people. I saw a subscribe flood too on my Mailman2, to

[Mailman-Users] Re: Outlook blocked again, but strange response

2024-03-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> From: Lindsay Haisley > On top of this, MS Outlook servers are, and have been for a long time, > a real PITA, notorious for long time for blocking emails on very flimsy > grounds. To the best of my knowledge, there's no fix for this at the > list-server level. > > The bottom line seems to be th

Re: Inquiry Regarding FreeBSD 12 Support Procedure

2024-03-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Hi Team, > I am writing to inquire about the procedure or process for obtaining suppor= > t for FreeBSD 12. I would greatly appreciate any information or guidance yo= > u could provide regarding the support options available for this version. C= > ould you please provide details on how to access

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Ed Maste wrote: > MBR (PC BIOS) partition tables were historically maintained with > fdisk(8), but gpart(8) has long been the preferred method for working > with partition tables of all types. fdisk has been declared as > obsolete in the man page since 2015. Similarly BSD disklabels were > historic

Re: [Nut-upsuser] My Back-UPS RS 1000 went haywire, any ideas?

2023-10-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Good advice from Jim K, I wonder if Gennadiy's input power plugs & sockets or cable or trip fuse have got loose, dirty, high resistance ? Doesnt seem a battery problem, but always worth checking: One can measure a battery's internal resistance by disconnecting, & connecting across a car headlamp

[SFD-discuss]Software Freedom Day

2023-09-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi FreeBSD Hackers cc sfd-discuss@mailman3.com The 20th annual Software Freedom Day globaly is Sat. 16 Sept. 2023 https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ It's fun to attend &/or organise a local event. eg a 2011 example from Munich Germany http://www.berklix.org/sfd/ Forwarded from:

Re: regression failure of wpa_supplicant from 12.3-RELEASE to 12.4-RELEASE

2023-05-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Bjoern A. Zeeb" wrote: > On Thu, 25 May 2023, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > >> Hi wireless@freebsd.org, > >> I suffered regression failure of wpa_supplicant from 12.3-RELEASE to > >> 12.4-RELEASE, ifconfig

Re: regression failure of wpa_supplicant from 12.3-RELEASE to 12.4-RELEASE

2023-05-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Hi wireless@freebsd.org, > I suffered regression failure of wpa_supplicant from 12.3-RELEASE to > 12.4-RELEASE, ifconfig wlan0 | grep status > was not showing status: associated > > I made notes here: > http://www.berklix.com/~jh

regression failure of wpa_supplicant from 12.3-RELEASE to 12.4-RELEASE

2023-05-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi wireless@freebsd.org, I suffered regression failure of wpa_supplicant from 12.3-RELEASE to 12.4-RELEASE, ifconfig wlan0 | grep status was not showing status: associated I made notes here: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/freebsd/src/gen/usr.sbin/wpa/regression.REL=12.4-RELEASE.dif

Re: Grep with non-ascii

2023-02-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> The one positive development in the world of computing that I would > credit to Java is the earliest big push toward the adoption of UTF-8. > I strongly hope UTF-8 becomes universally used sooner rather than > later. -- George No idea What migh

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Question about Tripp-Lite UPS life span

2023-02-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> If you can, I suggest > to also test the new batteries using a decent load ( an incandescent 12V > automotive light bulb for instance - something in the region of 100W ; I > have one from my old car, when testing batteries I connect in parallel > main and high beam ) Cars are not wired for b

Re: 1 year src-patch anniversary!

2023-01-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261657 is a trivial fix > to an admittedly trivial issue, but it's soon going to hit one year old, > and has not had any feedback. Not even "this is rubbish. close ticket" > > | jamie@catwalk:~ % stat 'so good they named

[Mailman-Users] Re: AT&T Blocking (was AOL list member not receiving list traffic)

2022-09-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> No known instances of members reporting us as spam. Un-realised reports are worse, where you only later discover your domain name or an IP number has been falsely listed. I searched for a tool to periodically run, to automatically scan with a list of RBL providers, whether any RBL has silently

Re: where are the git to svn export script(s) please ?

2022-07-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Warner Losh wrote: > --60fd5605e458f96e > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 4:56 PM Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Hi curr...@freebsd.org > > cc ctm-us...@freebsd.org > > > > Has git to sv

where are the git to svn export script(s) please ?

2022-07-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi curr...@freebsd.org cc ctm-us...@freebsd.org Has git to svn exporter stopped for src-12 ? https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/12/ Closure of ports from svn was mentioned long ago for ports@ at: https://www.freebsd.org/developers/cvs/ But no mention of src-12, src-cur & svn tr

Re: [users@httpd] setting up a new site?

2022-06-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> I've had my own web page since 2003 or so but lost it all when a pair of new > seacrate 2T drives died in the night last fall about 2 weeks apart. http://archive.org wayback machine, may have some of your data. For the verbose rest: cut the crap. Even I (native English), struggled & failed to

Re: Backing up your PGP key by hand

2022-05-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Stuart Longland via Gnupg-users wrote: > On Tue, 03 May 2022 19:52:21 + (UTC) > Matt Borja wrote: > > > Does exporting your private key (which already comes encrypted and requires > > password authentication) to encrypted USB flash drive then placed under > > lock and key not suffice as an of

pkg install chromium failed on 12.3-STABLE : Solved

2022-05-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi ports@ Tip to avoid 12.3-STABLE taking ages for enormous cd /usr/ports/www/chromium ; make after failing to find a package pkg install chromium pkg search chromium vi -c/url: /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf :s/latest/quarterly/ Caution: A subsequent `pkg upgrade` will caus

[Mailman-Users] Re: group mismatch

2022-05-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Also: procmail is antique abandonware that no one should use in 2022, > but it can be very hard to replace. I have a massive time investment in working procmail rules. Use is not abandoned here. "If it aint broke dont fix it." ;-) Cheers, -- Julian Stacey http://berklix.com/jhs/ http://stole

Re: [Tiff] best tiff tag names for start and end datetimes?

2022-05-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Simon (Vsevolod) Ilyushchenko" wrote: > 1. Bob: The reason I'd like to have the option of timezones is that modern > timestrings like ISO8601 often have them, so using Z to indicate UTC (which > is indeed the majority of our timestamps) would both handle the common case > and allow the possibility

Re: Backing up your PGP key by hand

2022-05-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthias Apitz wrote: > I think, paper tapes as in the years 70 would be the best media for this > approach. Paper tape had a high error rate (& tear rate). It chaffed & built dirt on reader, & absorbed finger grease & misread whether optical or capacitive readers. Mylar (plastic) was better, str

Re: breaking modules

2022-05-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Allan Jude wrote: > On 5/3/2022 2:05 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > >> From: bugzilla-nore...@freebsd.org > >> Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 17:20:14 + > >> To: j...@berklix.com > >> > >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263758 > >

Re: breaking modules

2022-05-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I wrote: > > > From: bugzilla-nore...@freebsd.org > > Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 17:20:14 + > > To: j...@berklix.com > > > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263758 > > > > Li-Wen Hsu changed: > > > >What|Removed |Added > > -

Re: breaking modules

2022-05-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I wrote: > > > From: bugzilla-nore...@freebsd.org > > Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 17:20:14 + > > To: j...@berklix.com > > > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263758 > > > > Li-Wen Hsu changed: > > > >What|Removed |Added > > -

Re: breaking modules

2022-05-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> From: bugzilla-nore...@freebsd.org > Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 17:20:14 + > To: j...@berklix.com > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263758 > > Li-Wen Hsu changed: > >What|Removed |Added > ---

Re: breaking modules

2022-05-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> From: bugzilla-nore...@freebsd.org > Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 17:20:14 + > To: j...@berklix.com > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263758 > > Li-Wen Hsu changed: > >What|Removed |Added > ---

Re: breaking modules

2022-05-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Eugene Grosbein > Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 22:13:26 +0700 Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 03.05.2022 21:46, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Hi, Reference: > >> From: "Julian H. Stacey" > >> Date

Re: breaking modules

2022-05-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Eugene Grosbein > Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 22:13:26 +0700 Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 03.05.2022 21:46, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Hi, Reference: > >> From: "Julian H. Stacey" > >> Date

Re: breaking modules

2022-05-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: "Julian H. Stacey" > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 23:57:02 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Ed Maste wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 at 11:28, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > > > but that's crude. It&#

Re: breaking modules

2022-05-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: "Julian H. Stacey" > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 23:57:02 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Ed Maste wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 at 11:28, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > > > but that's crude. It&#

Phone number spamming from https://www.freebsd.org/releases/1.1.5/SUPPORT.TXT

2022-05-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi doc@ I am drowning in phone spam calls from mostly robots who do not speak, but also some gumans, to my phone number listed in https://www.freebsd.org/releases/1.1.5/SUPPORT.TXT I would really like either - my phone number deleted please, - or my whole entry - or the whole damn file.

Re: breaking modules

2022-04-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Ed Maste wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 at 11:28, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > but that's crude. It's nice to be able to build most modules ready > > in case wanted later, so how about a DUDS env. mechanism like ports/ ? > > I'd rather not add additio

breaking modules

2022-04-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi stable@ on 12.3-STABLE Wed Apr 27 18:08:15 CEST 2022 just after a make world I see these fail: /sys/modules/ random_fortuna random_other I'm not interested ion the specifics here, I don't use them, & probably those that know will fix them, ... but probably meantime some other module(s) will br

Re: [Bug 263578] iwlwifi: AX200 - two cards: one gets permanently disassociaited, the other one works as intended...

2022-04-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
bugzilla-nore...@freebsd.org wrote: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263578 > > Bug ID: 263578 >Summary: iwlwifi: AX200 - two cards: one gets permanently > disassociaited, the other one works as intended... >Product: Base S

Re: Chromium and Iridium consistently not building for 123amd64 latest

2022-04-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Rene Ladan wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 11:38:36PM +, Pau Amma wrote: > > On 2022-04-18 22:10, Mark Millard wrote: > > > Looking at the log shows other failures during 97% : > > > > [massive snip] > > > > > I suspect that the rest of the time was its very slow scanning > > > of the huge

Re: recover deleted file

2022-04-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> okay... > all seems very time consuming operations!! Yes > There should be an os "undelete" as happens in NTFS for example.. which is > very fast and can be done also with extra tools without a hassle. A WIBNI (Wouldnt It Be Nice If) for Unix FS's for as long as I can remember (decades) but no

Re: recover deleted file

2022-04-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Depends on the kind of file. > > You can always: > 1. reboot the system into single user mode, mount the fs readonly (important= > to not overwrite data you want to recover) > 2. dd the partition and into a file > 3. find the content of the deleted file in the dump > > I was able to recover a

Re: [sane-devel] Remove user authorization support from net backend / saned frontend?

2022-04-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Or, more likely: is that the same password the individual uses to > log into their system? Or to access their e-mail? Or (hopefully not) > their bank account? > > That is why it is actually better to use no authentication, than to > allow weak authentication. It would be unf

Re: [sane-devel] Remove user authorization support from net backend / saned frontend?

2022-04-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Steven Santos wrote: > How difficult would it be to replace the current sane.users scheme with a > pam integration and a modern cypher? Top posting is bad, it looses prior context. PAM's wasted my time too often: Bad to force PAM on all. But If Steven Santos wanted to spend his time developing t

Re: ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers

2022-01-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > With a 12.2 src & current (well maybe a week old) ports, in > > ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers/ > > I selected all video drivers with options (for some machine testing later) > > & with make package hit 2 errors below, > > > > I dont need those drivers, but others m

ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers

2022-01-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
With a 12.2 src & current (well maybe a week old) ports, in ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers/ I selected all video drivers with options (for some machine testing later) & with make package hit 2 errors below, I dont need those drivers, but others may, Nice if someone else could confirm or deny bre

[Mailman-Users] Re: I'm on Microsoft's blocklist again!

2021-12-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> From: Jayson Smith Jayson Smith wrote: > > If my server were spewing > out spam, I ought to be hitting Spamhaus/SORBS/etc. spam traps left and Sorbs list the innocent to extort de-list fees http://www.berklix.org/~jhs/mail/sorbs/ -- Julian Stacey http://berklix.com/jhs/ http://

Re: Key Management - BSI had send private key instead of public key

2021-11-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Am 17.11.21 um 23:49 schrieb Stuart Longland via Gnupg-users: > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 23:17:58 + > > Стефан Васильев via Gnupg-users wrote: > > > >> [1] > >> https://www.golem.de/news/verschluesselung-bsi-verschickt-privaten-pgp-schluessel-2111-161073.html > > > > Is there a

Re: [HEADSUP] making /bin/sh the default shell for root

2021-09-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2021 08:52:53 -0700 (PDT) > "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 08:34:58AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On 9/22/21 1:36 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > TL;DR: this is not a proposal to deorbi

Re: Important note for future FreeBSD base system OpenSSH update

2021-09-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 05:09:45AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > 10.09.2021 1:01, Ed Maste wrote: > >=20 > > > To check whether a server is using the weak ssh-rsa public key > > > algorithm, for host authentication, try to connect to it after > > > removing the ssh-rs

Re: src/lib/libgcc_s needs mv /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/lib/libc/libc.a

2021-09-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Ian, Thanks for your post, which I must re-read, meantime on 2 boxes I found with addition of -B -j 1 I can repeat eg: cd /usr/src/ make -B -j 1 all make -B -j 1 install make -B -j 1 all make -B -j 1 install make -B -j 1 all make -B -j 1 insta

Re: src/lib/libgcc_s needs mv /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/lib/libc/libc.a

2021-09-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
/lib/libc/libc.a https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2021-September/000225.html From: From: Julian H. Stacey Dimitry suggested maybe a rare race condition, so I just started a make -B -j 1 world It will take a while, old machines here, (maybe that's what's e

Re: src/lib/libgcc_s needs mv /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/lib/libc/libc.a

2021-09-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
/lib/libc/libc.a https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2021-September/000225.html From: From: Julian H. Stacey Dimitry suggested maybe a rare race condition, so I just started a make -B -j 1 world It will take a while, old machines here, (maybe that's what's e

src/lib/libgcc_s needs mv /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/lib/libc/libc.a

2021-09-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi all, Anyone else seen this ? After cd /usr/src ; make install this fails cd /usr/src/lib/libgcc_s ; make until a manual mv /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/lib/libc/libc.a\ /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/lib/libc/libc.a.MV when cd /usr/src ; make all ; m

/usr/ports/www/chromium make fails

2021-08-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Using recent ports current on 12.2-STABLE I see pkg install chromium fails, as does cd /usr/ports/www/chromium ; make ===> FreeBSD 10 autotools fix applied to /data/release/s2/usr/ports.current/www/chromium/work/chromium-91.0.4472.164/third_party/farmhash/src/m4/libtool.m4 cd /data/

[Mailman-Users] Re: What to do when hosting providers frequently gets listed on an RBL

2021-06-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
stinga wrote: > On 05/06/2021 04:20, Kenneth Kron wrote: > > My hosting seems to be permanently banned by Yahoo and today Comcast > > started bouncing them. > > > > I worked on the yahoo problem for a week with tech support and they never > > seemed to make any progress. Yesterday comcast.net

Re: Spam mail being sent via the FreeBSD mailing lists

2021-05-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > On May 25, 2021, at 8:53 PM, jake h wrote: > > > I have recently received several pieces of spam mail, apparently sent via > > > this mailing list. These pieces of mail are the usual spam formula; Your > > > phone has a virus, Ads, Fake blackmail, so on and so forth.

Re: Is there a way to subscribe to the commit messages for only ports you maintain?

2021-05-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 2021, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > I'd use /usr/ports/mail/procmail > > I wouldn't; it's an unsupported and obscure scripting language just asking > for bugs, and actually has several CVEs against it. URLs please ? N

Re: Is there a way to subscribe to the commit messages for only ports you maintain?

2021-05-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Chris wrote: > On 2021-05-17 16:30, Jan Beich wrote: > > Chris writes: > > > >> I'd like to subscribe to the commit messages > >> ( dev-commits-ports-all ) > >> but only receive messages that affect me -- the > >> ports I currently maintain. Is it possible? Or > >> am I just dreaming? ;-) > > >

Re: /usr/ports/print/ghostscript9-agpl-base gs_ll3.ps: Error: /undefinedresource (fwd)

2021-05-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: =?UTF-8?B?VMSzbA==?= Coosemans > Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 22:47:13 +0200 =?UTF-8?B?VMSzbA==?= Coosemans wrote: > On Tue, 04 May 2021 22:01:46 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" > wrote: > >> Delete all those .pkgsave files. These

Re: /usr/ports/print/ghostscript9-agpl-base gs_ll3.ps: Error: /undefinedresource (fwd)

2021-05-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: =?UTF-8?B?VMSzbA==?= Coosemans > Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 17:51:05 +0200 =?UTF-8?B?VMSzbA==?= Coosemans wrote: > On Tue, 04 May 2021 16:29:47 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" > wrote: > > Hi ports@ people, > > I wrote this to doc...@

/usr/ports/print/ghostscript9-agpl-base gs_ll3.ps: Error: /undefinedresource (fwd)

2021-05-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi ports@ people, I wrote this to doc...@freebsd.org Sun, 02 May 2021 23:43:44 +0200 but no reply by Tue May 4 16:26:48 CEST 2021. Have others seen similar or got ideas to fix gs ghostscript ? --- Hi doc...@freebsd.org as MAINTAINER= in /usr/ports/print/ghostscript9-agpl-base I'm stuck,

Re: 12.2-STABLE pkg upgrade remove firefox then need firefox-esr

2020-12-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Thanks Jan Beich for: > "Julian H. Stacey" writes: > > > On 12.2-STABLE pkg upgrade removed firefox, I wonder why ? > > I ran pkg add firefox-esr, > > & am now runnning cd /usr/ports/www/firefox ; make > > Build jobs die due to SIGKILL awfully of

12.2-STABLE pkg upgrade remove firefox then need firefox-esr

2020-12-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
On 12.2-STABLE pkg upgrade removed firefox, I wonder why ? I ran pkg add firefox-esr, & am now runnning cd /usr/ports/www/firefox ; make Cheers, -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix Sys. Eng. http://berklix.com/jhs/ UK stole 3.7 million Brexit votes, 700K in EU http://StolenVotes.UK Treason: Cabi

Re: calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Here's another 2 calendar errors, presumably cpp, that manifest in 12.2-STABLE, that 9.2-RELEASE gets right. Man calendar: Empty lines and lines protected by the C commenting syntax (/* ... */) are ignored. --- Input ~/.calendar/calendar friday fish /* * Oct 21 AAA */ fr

Re: calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Stefan > Am 28.10.20 um 13:02 schrieb Julian H. Stacey: > > man calendar states: > >"The calendar internal cpp does not correctly do #ifndef and will discard > >the rest of the file if a #ifndef is triggered." > > That is wrong, as proved by te

calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
man calendar states: "The calendar internal cpp does not correctly do #ifndef and will discard the rest of the file if a #ifndef is triggered." That is wrong, as proved by test file: --- // Test data for ~/.calendar/calendar * bla0 #ifdef DEBUG1 * 28bla1 #endif #ifdef DEBUG2 * 28

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Multi UPS Monitoring

2020-10-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> > I've read through as many relevant mailing list posts and public blog = > posts as I could, but I can't seem to find an answer to my issue. > >=20 > > I currently have 2x Tripp Lite SMART1500LCDXLs, and I am attempting to = > monitor both of them with the same Raspberry Pi using NUT. Rasp. Pi,

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Multi UPS Monitoring

2020-10-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: "Julian H. Stacey" > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 01:57:16 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > > I've read through as many relevant mailing list posts and public blog = > > posts as I could, but I can't s

Re: /usr/src/usr.bin/gh-bc don't know how to make /usr/src/contrib/bc/locales/en_US.UTF-8.msg

2020-09-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
added cc: ctm-us...@freebsd.org , step...@math.missouri.edu Summary of this mail below: I suspect I know where the problem is, Stephen & I will probably be able to resolve it. Stefan Esser wrote: > From: Stefan Esser > To: "Julian H. Stacey" > Cc: curr...@fr

Re: /usr/src/cddl/sbin/zfs don't know how to make zfs-change-key.8

2020-09-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Ryan Moeller wrote: > > On 9/1/20 7:42 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi curr...@freebsd.org, > > > > With .ctm_status src-cur 14656 .svn_revision 364986 /usr/src/cddl/sbin/zfs > > # bmake[4]: don't know how to make zfs-change-key.8. S

Re: /sys/modules/ nfscl & nfsd

2020-09-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Rick Macklem wrote: > > Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > >Hi curr...@freebsd.org, > > > > > >/sys/modules/ nfscl & nfsd > > >With .ctm_status src-cur 14656 .svn_revision 364986 > > > > > >/usr/src/

Re: /usr/src/usr.bin/gh-bc don't know how to make /usr/src/contrib/bc/locales/en_US.UTF-8.msg

2020-09-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Thanks Stephan for your comprehensive analaysis, i'll look into all this & reports back inc. CC current. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, Consultant Sys. Engineer, BSD Linux http://berklix.com/jhs/ Crash Brexit Dec. 2020 paid by speculators. http://berklix.uk/brexit/#money ___

/usr/src/cddl/sbin/zfs don't know how to make zfs-change-key.8

2020-09-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi curr...@freebsd.org, With .ctm_status src-cur 14656 .svn_revision 364986 /usr/src/cddl/sbin/zfs # bmake[4]: don't know how to make zfs-change-key.8. Stop Avoided for now with /etc/src.conf WITHOUT_ZFS=YES Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, Consultant Sys. Engineer, BSD Linux http://berkl

/usr/src/usr.bin/gh-bc don't know how to make /usr/src/contrib/bc/locales/en_US.UTF-8.msg

2020-09-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi curr...@freebsd.org, /usr/src/usr.bin/gh-bc don't know how to make /usr/src/contrib/bc/locales/en_US.UTF-8.msg With .ctm_status src-cur 14656 .svn_revision 364986 /usr/src/usr.bin/gh-bc Avoided for now with /etc/src.conf WITHOUT_GH_BC=YES Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, Consultant Sys. Eng

/sys/modules/ nfscl & nfsd

2020-09-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi curr...@freebsd.org, /sys/modules/ nfscl & nfsd With .ctm_status src-cur 14656 .svn_revision 364986 /usr/src/sys/fs/nfsclient/nfs_clkrpc.c:40:10: fatal error: 'opt_kern_tls.h' file not found # #include "opt_kern_tls.h" # /usr/src/sys/modules/nfsd # /usr/src/sys/fs/nfsserver/nfs_nfsdkrp

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman v2.x

2020-08-30 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote: > On Sun, 2020-08-30 at 14:29 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > I wrote a long screed, full of piss and vinegar. But on reflection, > > clearly nobody is reading what I wrote earlier, so let's try pithy and > > dry. It's still long. :-( > > > > Chip Dav

ports/textproc/py-sphinx fails to fetch Sphinx-3.2.1.tar.gz

2020-08-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi pyt...@freebsd.org with FreeBSD lapr.js.berklix.net 12.1-STABLE FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE #774: Tue Jul 7 20:44:49 CEST 2020 j...@lapr.js.berklix.net:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/LAPR.small amd64 & a current ports/ cd /usr/ports/textproc/py-sphinx; make fetch failed to fetch python/Sphinx-3.2

How it fits BSD? (fwd)

2020-08-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi advocacy@ cc Andrey Ponomarenko who wrote this below, sounds useful when advocating BSD, so appended in full. Forwarded from: "Julian H. Stacey" http://berklix.eu/~jhs/ --- Forwarded Message >From owner-freebsd-hardw...@freebsd.org Thu Aug 13 14:38:07 2020 From: Andrey Po

Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Request for net-snmp 5.8 on freeBSD

2020-07-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Ramya Yella > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 15:46:19 +0530 > To: freebsd-ports-annou...@freebsd.org Ramya Yella wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to know when FreeBSD will start supporting the net-snmp > 5.8 version. Any tentative release date? Strange.

Re: Office Hours today @ 18:00 UTC - Core Candidates

2020-05-30 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > On 2020-05-27 22:01, Philip Paeps wrote: > > > On 2020-05-27 22:35:14 (+0800), Allan Jude wrote: > > >> Sorry for the late notice, I thought I sent this last week. > > >> > > >> After the slate of candidates was finalized last week, I

Re: jitsi documentation

2020-05-30 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Bob Eager wrote: > First, thanks to all who worked on this port. I looked at this a while > ago and was totally confused by it all! > > I have installed jitsi in a FreeBSD jail and it works very nicely. I > wrote down what I did so that I could do it again in rather less time. > Then I got a bit c

[Mailman-Users] max_message_size description suggested extension

2020-05-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi all, On my mailman server I have: General Options max_message_size 10K Content filtering collapse_alternatives Yes convert_html_to_plaintext Yes I posted OK to a list with Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plai

Re: reccomendations of conference / party audio video softwar

2020-05-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
To: "https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports"; + BCC Bernhard & Astrid Jitsi Meet & Server now in FreeBSD ports/ www/jitsi-meet net-im/jitsi-videobridge (Bernhard, might make NetBSD easier too ?) https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/www/jitsi-meet/pkg-descr?view=markup https:/

Re: mail/mailman v3?

2020-04-30 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 29.04.20 um 17:00 schrieb Julian H. Stacey: > > Greg Veldman wrote ports@: > >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 01:02:14PM -0700, Chris wrote: > >>> It also wouldn't be that difficult to simply modify mailman(2) > >>> to adopt

Re: mail/mailman v3?

2020-04-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Greg Veldman > Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:33:42 -0400 Greg Veldman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 05:00:01PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Even if it's possible to bend ports/mail/mailman to support Mailman3 > > Please do no

Re: mail/mailman v3?

2020-04-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Greg Veldman wrote ports@: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 01:02:14PM -0700, Chris wrote: > > It also wouldn't be that difficult to simply modify mailman(2) > > to adopt the py3.x language changes. > > To simply make it work, perhaps not. To make it work well and > be reliable... might be more difficul

Re: Asterisk video conferences using NetBSD?

2020-04-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> So close to getting everything work, yet so far... Would appreciate any > hints whatsoever. I haven't tried Asterisk [yet], but set up multiOS general public groups with party/conference audio + video. On MS & Linux & Android & FreeBSD, So far we've used Jitsi, Links to Jitsi & loads of competi

Re: Working on Zoom port

2020-04-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > All, > > > > Given how Zoom is getting used a lot more these days, I've started > > working on a port that installs the Zoom linux client. > > > > Here is a link to my github if anyone wants to help: > > > > https://github.com/emc2/freebsd-ports/tree/zoom > > > >

Re: Bcc

2020-04-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Dave Close > Reply-to: Discussion list for EXMH users > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 16:58:16 -0700 Dave Close wrote: > When I use Bcc with exmh, the recipient receives a *text* copy of my > entire message -- including all headers, MIME parts, and attachments

Re: lib/libsysdecode /usr/include/./sys/pioctl.h:45:2: error: " is deprecated

2020-04-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Brooks Davis wrote: > > --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:49:47PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Anyoe else seeing this on cur

lib/libsysdecode /usr/include/./sys/pioctl.h:45:2: error: " is deprecated

2020-04-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Anyoe else seeing this on current ? ===> lib/libsysdecode (all) env CPP="cpp" MK_PF="yes" /bin/sh /usr/src/lib/libsysdecode/mkioctls /usr/include > ioctl.c.tmp In file included from :97: /usr/include/./sys/pioctl.h:45:2: warning: " is deprecated, ptrace() should be used instead" [-W#warni

Re: Looking for java an android devs on netbsd environment

2020-04-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
David Brownlee wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 15:27, John m0t wrote: > > > > Hello; > > > > I am trying to set a full production system to do android and java > > development in NetBSD. > > > > Is anyone doing it right now or ever done it before? > > > > I need to know if these things work on ne

Re: current: cd /lib ; ln -s libncurses.so.9 libncurses.so.8 xterm & ffox

2020-04-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Lorenzo Salvadore > Reply-to: Lorenzo Salvadore > Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:56:27 + Lorenzo Salvadore wrote: > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Wednesday 1 April 2020 02:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

current: cd /lib ; ln -s libncurses.so.9 libncurses.so.8 xterm & ffox

2020-03-31 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi ports@ A libcurses version problem: Running 13.0-CURRENT with /usr/src cat .svn_revision 359319 cat .ctm_status src-cur 14430 /usr/ports cat .svn_revision 529842 cat .ctm_status ports-cur 13423 After pkg upgrade pkg autoremove xterm & firefox failed with ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "li

Re: src/usr.bin/kyua breaks on manbuild.sh: Permission denied

2020-03-30 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 02:15:29AM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Ed Maste wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 20:48, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > > > > > l /usr/src/contrib/kyua/doc/manbuild.sh > > > >

Re: src/usr.bin/kyua breaks on manbuild.sh: Permission denied

2020-03-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Ed Maste wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 20:48, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > l /usr/src/contrib/kyua/doc/manbuild.sh > > -rw-r--r-- 1 jhs staff 5187 Mar 25 12:34 > > /usr/src/contrib/kyua/doc/manbuild.sh > > Indeed, this is the problem. manbui

src/usr.bin/kyua breaks on manbuild.sh: Permission denied

2020-03-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
src/usr.bin/kyua breaks on manbuild.sh: Permission denied Example: cd /usr/src cat .ctm_status src-cur 14430 cat .svn_revision 359319 uname -a FreeBSD lapr.js.berklix.net 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #14410: Sun Mar 15 16:28:46 CET 2020 j...@lapr.js.berklix.net

Re: [sane-devel] I/O error when attempting scan on epson xp-620

2020-03-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> 2. On attempting to scan using xsane on the XP-620, it starts to scan, b= > ut after a few seconds I get an error message A longshot but easy to try: If you are using a USB hub, unplug, wait, replug, or go direct without a hub for a test. My hub recently went crazy, & like you, Xsane started th

Re: reccomendations of conference / party audio video software ?

2020-03-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Vincent DEFERT wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to arrive late, I just see this post now. > > If your install videoconferencing software on your machine, you have no > guarantee your contacts will be able to use the same, or that they'll > know how to install it, or even that they'll be allowed to instal

Re: reccomendations of conference / party audio video software ?

2020-03-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Bob Eager wrote: > People have been saying good things about jitsi (Java based) bu the > port didn't work on a quick try (my ports tree isn't very new though > and there was no time to update it). Thanks Bob & others who mailed Jitsi, By chance I too tried a week or so ago & it failed. Just failed

reccomendations of conference / party audio video software ?

2020-03-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi ports@ Any reccomendations of conference / social group party chat server software ? As much more of the world goes into lock down & social distancing, ie not meeting friends at the pub / restuarant etc on Saturday night etc, BBC has shown some social groups have arranged a matrix of 10 to 20 f

boot ROM security flaw in Intel chips

2020-03-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Suggested reading: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/05/unfixable_intel_csme_flaw/ https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/about/news/unfixable-vulnerability-in-intel-chipsets-threatens-users-and-content-rightsholders/ Cheers -- Julian Stacey, Consultant Systems Engineer, BSD Linux http://berklix.com

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