Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-09 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 03/10/2011 04:33 AM, Juan C. Valido wrote: > I'm an old "foggie" also and a lifetime Windows guy and I did a lot of > research and a lot of trial and error until I found Dan's blog. God > Bless the Man! Without his blog I would not have this server up. And yes > it's running gnome. https://www.d

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 353, Issue 5, Message: 21 On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:02:57 -0500 pe...@vfemail.net wrote: > At 03:06 PM 3/9/2011, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> > >> I was looking at my Web log this morning, and a bunch of nonsensical > >> entries like these caught my attention: > >>

Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-09 Thread Juan C. Valido
I'm an old "foggie" also and a lifetime Windows guy and I did a lot of research and a lot of trial and error until I found Dan's blog. God Bless the Man! Without his blog I would not have this server up. And yes it's running gnome. https://www.dan.me.uk/blog/category/freebsd/ On Thu, 2011-03-10 at

IBM ServeRAID M5015 and ServeRAID-MR10i

2011-03-09 Thread lyd mc
Hi guys, We are planning to buy new servers. I would like to ask if this RAID controllers already supported by FreeBSD. Does anyone here already use it in their production servers? Thanks guys, Alydiomc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- #include It wouldn't be considered appropriate for Apple employees or contractors (well, outside of the folks working in investor relations, perhaps) to try to persuade someone to invest in a particular company because of which open source projects Apple might be contributing towards. I

IBM ServeRAID M5015 and ServeRAID-MR10i

2011-03-09 Thread lyd mc
Hi guys, We are planning to buy new servers. I would like to ask if this RAID controllers already supported by FreeBSD. Does anyone here already use it in their production servers? Thanks guys, Alydiomc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread mikel king
On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:00 AM, Nerius Landys wrote: > This is not a technical question. > > Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing > part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. You > could say that I'd like to judge Apple's moral character befo

Re: using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored?

2011-03-09 Thread Foo JH
On 3/10/2011 9:23 AM, Gary Kline wrote: Does anybody know about this obscure stuff? Disclaimer: I don't really know much about dovecot, except that it's a much better IMAP daemon than courier - I don't think dovecot handles SMTP: in other words it does not handle incoming mails. What services

any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-09 Thread Foo JH
Hi guys, I know the steps are documented on the Handbook and all. I've tried to read, follow, and re-read the steps, but I'm not still getting any popular window manager up and running on my FreeBSD servers. Meanwhile new hires are seduced by the comes-with-it windows manager via Ubuntu Deskt

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 03/09/11 16:31, Frank Shute wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 02:00:37PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: This is not a technical question. Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. Don't invest your cash

using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored?

2011-03-09 Thread Gary Kline
Does anybody know about this obscure stuff? In late DEcember, 2007 my FreeBSD server started having serious problems that were over my head. I asked this list for help but no one could help me; long-story-short, a guy from the DFW area, a self-taught net-wizard came to my rescue. Via the yahoo

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread David Kelly
On Mar 9, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > There are some/a few/several people working at Apple that play or used to > play a large role in FreeBSD. So they were basically paying these people's > salaries for their day job which allowed them to be active in FreeBSD. Also

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread David Kelly
On Mar 9, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > Don't invest your cash in a company that has reached it's peak and is > on it's way down after it's charismatic leader dies sooner rather than > later. They said that at $50/share. At $100. At $200. At $300. And continue to say it at $350. There

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread Milo Hyson
Guess that depends on how one calculates the price. - Milo Hyson Chief Scientist CyberLife Labs, Inc. On Mar 9, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 02:00:37PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: > > But even if they produce magical pixie dust they're still overpriced. _

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 02:00:37PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: > > This is not a technical question. > > Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing > part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. Don't invest your cash in a company that has reached

Re: HP Pavilion zd8000 Xorg anomaly

2011-03-09 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 13:40:38 Steven Friedrich wrote: > On Wednesday 09 March 2011 12:17:10 pm Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Steven Friedrich > > wrote: > > > My system had crashed and it caused a directory to los it's dot and > > > dot-dot entries. This was a d

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 9, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: > This is not a technical question. > > Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing > part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. You > could say that I'd like to judge Apple's moral character befor

RE: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread Michael J. Kearney
I don't know if I got through the last time but you ... could... add to but not take away from your operational matrices by writing it to a file. Using tcpdump to anylize the traffic on your webserver, It might clear up some of the confusion. tcpdump -i fxp0 -nN -vvv -xX -s 1500 port 80 > fale

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread Sander Remie
The core of apple's os is built on top of darwin which is composed of BSD and others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) But everything you see in apple's os (that smooth UI) is not BSD, only the underlying core is. Better do some research of your own. On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread Kristofer M White
You could donate directly to the FreeBSD foundation, I'm sure... :) Nerius Landys wrote: >This is not a technical question. > >Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing >part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. You >could say that I'd like to

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Nerius Landys on Wednesday, 09 March 2011: > This is not a technical question. > > Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing > part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. You > could say that I'd like to judge Apple's moral character before

Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread Nerius Landys
This is not a technical question. Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. You could say that I'd like to judge Apple's moral character before investing money with them. Does anyone know how Apple reci

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Ross
Am 09.03.2011, 21:40 Uhr, schrieb : Does this entry change your conclusion: 188.134.62.20 - - [09/Mar/2011:12:15:04 -0500] "GET http://images.google.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 13134 "-" "-" If I do: %telnet localhost 80 and enter: GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: images.google

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread peter
At 03:02 PM 3/9/2011, pe...@vfemail.net wrote: >At 03:06 PM 3/9/2011, Robert Bonomi wrote: >>> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Mar 9 10:40:23 2011 >>> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:57:03 -0500 >>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> From: pe...@vfemail.net >>> Subject: Nonsensical Web

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread peter
At 03:06 PM 3/9/2011, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Mar 9 10:40:23 2011 >> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:57:03 -0500 >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> From: pe...@vfemail.net >> Subject: Nonsensical Web Log Entries >> >> >> I was looking at my Web log this

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Mar 9 10:40:23 2011 > Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:57:03 -0500 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > From: pe...@vfemail.net > Subject: Nonsensical Web Log Entries > > > I was looking at my Web log this morning, and a bunch of nonsensical > entries lik

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread Bryan H.
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:21 AM, wrote: > > My wife will turn into a pillar of salt if she looks at my Web logs?  :) > > So this is normal behavior? > > The latest entry is: > >      188.134.62.20 - - [09/Mar/2011:12:15:04 -0500] "GET > http://images.google.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 13134 "-" "-" > > T

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread peter
At 02:23 PM 3/9/2011, Bryan H. wrote: >On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:21 AM, wrote: >> >> My wife will turn into a pillar of salt if she looks at my Web logs? :) >> >> So this is normal behavior? >> >> The latest entry is: >> >> 188.134.62.20 - - [09/Mar/2011:12:15:04 -0500] "GET >> http://imag

Re: HP Pavilion zd8000 Xorg anomaly

2011-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 9, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Steven Friedrich wrote: > Anyway, I have somehow LOST my xorg.conf that WORKED. Regrettable. Either take backups of everything you actually care about before you experience data loss-- in which case you don't have a problem, since you can easily recover your data-- o

Re: HP Pavilion zd8000 Xorg anomaly

2011-03-09 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 12:17:10 pm Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Steven Friedrich wrote: > > My system had crashed and it caused a directory to los it's dot and > > dot-dot entries. This was a directory that was used for iso-codes and > > everytie I started X, it w

Re: Installing squid, where should the directories be?

2011-03-09 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2011-03-09 17:06, Kevin Wilcox wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:27, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm installing squid on a new 8.2-RELEASE machine. Me too. I have /usr/local/squid as default directory and has made a separate mount point. Same here. As a general rule I like to give squid its

Re: Installing squid, where should the directories be?

2011-03-09 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2011-03-09 18:02, RW wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:27:27 +0100 Leslie Jensen wrote: Hello list. I'm installing squid on a new 8.2-RELEASE machine. ... When Googling this problem I see both the use of /var/squid and /usr/local/squid. ... I find what I consider conflicting information, oft

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread peter
My wife will turn into a pillar of salt if she looks at my Web logs? :) So this is normal behavior? The latest entry is: 188.134.62.20 - - [09/Mar/2011:12:15:04 -0500] "GET http://images.google.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 13134 "-" "-" This entry says that my Web server handed the person a

Re: HP Pavilion zd8000 Xorg anomaly

2011-03-09 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Steven Friedrich wrote: > My system had crashed and it caused a directory to los it's dot and dot-dot > entries. This was a directory that was used for iso-codes and everytie I > started X, it would hang. > > So I didn't want to format the drive, too extreme. So

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread Michael J. Kearney
Idk i have similar entries. Its not a proxy . Remember lot's wife. .. lol "pe...@vfemail.net" wrote: I was looking at my Web log this morning, and a bunch of nonsensical entries like these caught my attention: 124.226.181.80 - - [09/Mar/2011:09:49:58 -0500] "GET http://www.yahoo.com/ HTTP/1

Re: Installing squid, where should the directories be?

2011-03-09 Thread RW
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:27:27 +0100 Leslie Jensen wrote: > Hello list. > > I'm installing squid on a new 8.2-RELEASE machine. > ... > When Googling this problem I see both the use of /var/squid and > /usr/local/squid. >... > I find what I consider conflicting information, often it's quite > dat

HP Pavilion zd8000 Xorg anomaly

2011-03-09 Thread Steven Friedrich
My system had crashed and it caused a directory to los it's dot and dot-dot entries. This was a directory that was used for iso-codes and everytie I started X, it would hang. So I didn't want to format the drive, too extreme. So I de-installed all my ports to re-install. After I got the port

Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread peter
I was looking at my Web log this morning, and a bunch of nonsensical entries like these caught my attention: 124.226.181.80 - - [09/Mar/2011:09:49:58 -0500] "GET http://www.yahoo.com/ HTTP/1.0" 301 294 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)" 123.10.97.102 - - [09/Mar/2011:

Re: Installing squid, where should the directories be?

2011-03-09 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:27, Leslie Jensen wrote: > I'm installing squid on a new 8.2-RELEASE machine. Me too. > I have /usr/local/squid as default directory and has made a separate mount > point. Same here. As a general rule I like to give squid its own hard drive, or its own RAID. Giving it

Installing squid, where should the directories be?

2011-03-09 Thread Leslie Jensen
Hello list. I'm installing squid on a new 8.2-RELEASE machine. I've done it it before with squid 2.x and I have notes to follow. A few questions have turned up. I have /usr/local/squid as default directory and has made a separate mount point. When it comes to the cache and the logs director

java plugin for firefox

2011-03-09 Thread Pavel Timofeev
Is it necessary to install libxul for enabling java plugin in firefox3.6? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/java-plugin-for-firefox-tp31106239p31106239.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ f

Re: what is the “Online Certificate Status Protocol”

2011-03-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 09/03/2011 09:30, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > But: with wireshark i can see some "OCSP" packets [ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Certificate_Status_Protocol ] > > > Question: What are these packets? Why aren't there in HTTPS? This is your browser trying to check if the SSL certs for the s

Re: java plugin for firefox

2011-03-09 Thread Pavel Timofeev
Pavel Timofeev wrote: > > Is it necessary to install libxul for enabling java plugin in firefox3.6? > Excuse me. I use FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE i386, firefox3.6, openjdk6 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/java-plugin-for-firefox-tp31106239p31106351.html Sent from the freebsd-q

Re: license of the code in freebsd documantation

2011-03-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
2011/3/3 Kouichiro Iwao : > I'm writing a script based on the code in freebsd docs, and caring > about the license of it. The original scripts are example 6 and 7 of > the following page. How do I have to treat my code if I distribute it? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/ldap-auth/client.

Re: Server not booting

2011-03-09 Thread perryh
Doug Hardie wrote: > The motherboard doesn't recognize a USB stick for booting > unfortunately. The motherboard manual is dated 2006 so > I think its just too old for that. This http://www.plop.at/ can be loaded off just about any device the system _can_ boot from, and stands a good chance of

Re: Portupgrade and "Updating the portsdb"

2011-03-09 Thread c0re
2011/2/11 ill...@gmail.com : > On 10 February 2011 08:33, c0re wrote: >> Hello all! >> >> I've got set of servers that uses NFS mounted /usr/ports. When I use >> "portupgrade samba" on 1st server it says >> [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid >> argument] [Updating th

what is the “Online Certificate Status Protocol”

2011-03-09 Thread erikmccaskey64
I use privoxy. In the user.action file i have a redirect rule and a few websites: { +redirect{s@http://@https://@} } .twitter.com .facebook.com Ok! it's working great, e.g.: if i visit any "*twitter.com" URL it gets redirected to HTTPS! But: with wireshark i can see some "OCSP" packets [