Openssl error

2010-05-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
Port:   openssl-1.0.0_1 uname output: FreeBSD scorpio.seibercom.net 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Wed May  5 18:00:51 EDT 2010  amd64 When attempting to use 'openssl', this error message is produced: 34373207208:error:0E079065:configuration file routines:DEF_LOAD_BIO:missing equal sign:conf_

Re: Anyone have Comcast for an ISP?

2008-03-22 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:33:13 -0400 Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone on here have comcast for an ISP? I use them and today I > was messing around on a machine I use for FTP service over my LAN (Not > accessible from the net so I'm not worried about using it for back > ups) and anyway,

Re: some problems after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE

2008-03-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:46:34 -0500 Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I followed all the UPDATING instructions, and still had many issues > because of old libraries. So the: > portupgrade -faP > > didn't work well for me. I ended up rebuilding all the ports, which > of course fixed every

Re: SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On December 18, 2007 at 12:47AM sham khalil wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007 12:08 PM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I'm having a difficult time working with my father to get the port > > >forwarding working on his Linksys

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-15 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On December 14, 2007 at 08:03PM Frank Shute wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > > > > On December 14, 2007 at 04:10PM Frank Shute wrote: > > > > [ snip ] > > > > > I'm happy with sh as the system

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On December 14, 2007 at 04:10PM Frank Shute wrote: [ snip ] > I'm happy with sh as the system shell though; it's light weight: > > $ ls -l /bin/sh > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 111028 Nov 30 00:10 /bin/sh > > $ ls -l /bin/ksh > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 681584 Oct 6 12:33 /bin/ksh > > How a

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On December 13, 2007 at 11:40AM Andrew Falanga wrote: [ snip ] > Second, how do programs like dovecot manage users? Does each user of the > e-mail system need to be a user of the FreeBSD system (installed locally)? No, Dovecot can handle virtual users just fine. I use it in conjunction with P

Re: Error message with "denyhosts"

2007-12-09 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On December 09, 2007 at 12:14PM Andy Dills wrote: > Not sure where that random /sshd came from, but the "line 1" bit is a > pretty big hint as to where the problem is ;) > > Andy I wondered about that to; however, until today, I have never even opened that file. I have no idea where if came f

Re: jabberd will not start on reboot, only starts manually

2007-12-04 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On December 04, 2007 at 10:11AM Daniel Bye wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:04:16PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > I am running FreeBSD 6.2 with Jabberd installed from ports: > > jabberd-2.1.18 > > > > > > When I reboot the machine, jabberd will not start, but it will start if I > > manually r

Re: short Q

2007-11-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On November 26, 2007 at 07:53PM jekillen wrote: > > Did you install this from ports? If so. the script would have been > > placed > > there all ready. > Yes, that is what provoked the original question. I had built and > installed > from source tarball in the past. But one machine was always a

Re: RELENG_6_1 to RELENG_6_2 upgrade question

2007-11-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On November 26, 2007 at 06:20AM Bob Richards wrote: [ snip ] > I do NOT need to portupgrade -a since this is a minor version upgrade > right? I think you are confusing '-a' with '-f'. The former updates all out of date files. The latter forces the rebuilding of a port. I have never tried it; h

Re: Getting around ISP SMTP firewall settings (Re: Submitting a new port if send-pr is broken)

2007-11-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On November 26, 2007 at 04:00AM Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > > You should be able to set up a local mailer/MTA (sendmail, postfix, > > etc.) and tell it to use your ISP's mail server on TCP port 25, and it > > all should just "magically work" unless they require SMTP AUTH (not many > > do from wha

Re: HP Deskjet 9800 with hpijs driver

2007-11-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On November 26, 2007 at 01:23AM Erin McNew wrote: > I've been trying to get my photo printer working recently, and seem to have > run into a bit of a snag. I just tried to print out a picture as a test, > and instead of a picture, I got: PCL commands across the top of one page of > photo paper,

Re: short Q

2007-11-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On November 25, 2007 at 09:51PM jekillen wrote: [ snip ] > Thank you all for responses. > I did get this straightened out: > It is mysql_enable="YES" > and putting a script named mysql > in the /etc/rc.d directory with the > lines; > #! /bin/sh > /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql & > did

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On November 25, 2007 at 09:49PM Giorgos Keramidas wrote: [ snip ] > The footnote was easy to understand after a quick Wikipedia search: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting > > Quoting the text (so list members don't have to actually repeat the > search): > > Some mainta

Re: short Q

2007-11-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On November 24, 2007 at 12:04AM jekillen wrote: > Hello: > Is this the way to start mysqld in rc.conf? > mysqld_enable="YES" ^ mysql_enable="YES" > > I ask because I have not found the specifics. > I copied the mysql.server script to the rc.d dir. > but the documentation only de

Re: Website

2007-11-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On November 18, 2007 at 01:18PM Tino Engel wrote: [ snip ] >Seriously overusing smileys and color and fonts will make you come off >like a giggly teenage girl, which is not generally a good idea unless >you are more interested in sex than answers. Sex is the answer; the question is

Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: Website

2007-11-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On November 18, 2007 at 11:53AM Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:34:56 + > > "Frank Shute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 09:41:51AM -0600, Chris wrote: > > > > > > > > ... seems to be going bonkers?! > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Best regard

GCC43 - Increase datasize limit

2007-06-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
This is a fresh installation of FreeBSD-6.2. I am attempting to install gcc43. When I type make, I receive the following error message: Making GCC 4.3.0 fir FreeBSD 6.2 target=i386-portbid-freebsd6.2 You need to increase the datasize to at least 70 (and set kern.maxdsiz="734003200" in /boot/lo

Xorg crashes while loading XFCE4

2007-06-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
FreeBSD-6.2 Xorg-7.2 I had 'xfce4' working perfectly under Xorg-6.9; however, after updating to version 7.2, I cannot get the windows manager loaded. I moved the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and build a new one using "Xorg --configure". I was then able to at least begin loading the program before it c

Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 -> 6.2

2007-05-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 18 May 2007 13:31:52 + (UTC) Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about: > >portupgrade -afR > > Wouldn't that force everything including ports that depend on the one > being reinstalled? If you wanted, you could use: portmanager -u -l -f That will update and

Re: Problem updating Freebsd ver 6.2

2007-05-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 11 May 2007 11:23:11 -0500 (CDT) Simon Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried your suggestion and I still have the same result. It updated > couple more files, but the error (missing library) is still there. Assuming your ports tree is up to date, try running: pkgdb -Ffv

Re: Problem updating Freebsd ver 6.2

2007-05-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 11 May 2007 01:45:47 -0500 WizLayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could be wrong as I haven't used portmanager in a while (and that > was only a short time)... I believe that by default, portmanager > doesn't update dependencies more than a depth of 1 (maybe two?) > unless you use the -p

Re: test

2007-04-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:28:29 +1200 "Juha Saarinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/14/07, Hangmn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING LIST > > No, no, this is the FreeBSD Questions list. The Fucking List is down > the hall, third door to your right. Just ignore the funny noi

Re: buildworld - Stop in /usr/src/lib/ncurses/ncurses (6.2)

2007-04-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:41:58 +0200 Ewald Jenisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a problem doing a "make builworld" on a new machine: When I > start "make buildworld" in /usr/src I end up with the errors below. > > Sure enough I've set up a corresponding supfile for "stable", sources > are

Re: What am I not understanding about /etc/exports?

2007-04-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:47:29 -0400 "Jason Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerard, I have unsubscribed three times and this is what I've been > receiving in return: > > > > The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your > original message. > > - Results: >[EM

Re: What am I not understanding about /etc/exports?

2007-04-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:03:47 -0400 "Jason Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you please take me off of your mailing list. It appears that we are having an epidemic of Googlers who lack the ability to remove themselves from the mail list. Have you ever actually read all the way to the bottom

Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:35:00 -0400 "Steven Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am receiving your email because of a screw-up in Gmail. I have no > recourse but to mark your email as spam and delete it. > Gmail has been unresponsive in correcting the problem. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) Do

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:41:06 -0400 Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the other hand, I have never had a problem using 'portmanager' > provided I used the '-p -f' flags. OPPS, should have been '-p -u' flags. -- Gerard signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:40:05 +0100 RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Portmanager is really no better, the dependencies recorded in the > package database are also recursive. The big problem with gettext > was that a lot of port failed to build afterwards, leaving them with a > missing library. I ha

Re: samba and vista computers

2007-03-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:30:40 -0400 Gerald Freymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that I have my nice new HP OfficeJet 5610 printer here, I'm > trying to print to it remotely (it's connected to my Vista Home > Premium computer). > > smbclient doesn't seen to want to co-operate. > > smbclient i

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:36:59 -0400 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28/03/07 RW said: > > > The gettext upgrade is actually a good example of what portupgrade > > offers. With portupgrade the -rf option is advisable, but not > > essential, with portmaster, it's essential that

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:17:13 -0400 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking at > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/pkgdb.php > > while I run it myself. I'm finding wonderful questions like > > Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 -> p5-GSSAPI-0.24 > (security/p5-GSSAPI): p5-Ge

Re: Postgres Startup Error Message

2007-03-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:02:27 -0500 "Rick Apichairuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I occasionally receive this error message when booting up: > > > > Mar 25 08:28:24 scorpio postgres[756]: [1-1] FATAL: the database > > system is starting up > > > > Since it is an intermittent error message, I

Re: Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD

2007-03-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:19:53 +0200 Nagy László Zsolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to copy,move and delete files across two machines. They are > located far away from each other. I have other FreeBSD machines and > we were using SSH2 for this kind of task. Under windows, I could not > find

Re: auto-removal of earlier package??

2007-03-25 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:37:58 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anybody suggest ascript means to rm -i a whole slew of > packages I am collection in /usr/ports/packages/All/? Maybe I am misreading this; however, why not just use: rm -ri /usr/ports/packages/ALL/* You might

Re: GTK filedialog crashes Firefox/Thunderbird

2007-03-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:39:19 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Frank Staals wrote: > > > Hmm I wondered if I should have added what WM I was running but I > > guess so: Running xfce-4.4.0 on xorg-7.2rc3. > > > > Fixed by recompiling all my ports seems a lo

Shared object "libintl.so.6" not found

2007-03-19 Thread Gerard Seibert
FreeBSD-6.2 After booting up my system, I receive an error message: Shared object "libintl.so.6" not found This file should be in /usr/local/lib, but it isn't. I have no idea why. I can now only log in as root. Since I am not sure where this file even came from, I don't know how to replace it.

Re: Error Compile Kernel

2007-03-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:35:47 +0700 "Toan. Bach Quang Bao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have compile kernel: > > cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > > mkdir /root/kernels > > cp GENERIC /root/kernels/MYKERNEL > > ln -s /root/kernels/MYKERNEL > > /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL > > cd ../compile/

Re: Wrong dependencies..

2007-03-16 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:27:10 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I convinced portmanager that some/most of these > dependencies are incorrect? E.G.: both playmidi and > ghostscript-aafpl have been pkg_deleted! WWhat utility do > I need to run to update

Re: sendmail not working?

2007-03-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:23:32 +0100 Nagy László Zsolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derek Ragona wrote > > You need to make sure sendmail is starting and running. Check your > > rc.conf and any variables that might need to be set. > Thanks! > > In my rc.conf: > > sendmail_enable="NO" > > Howe

Re: what "port*" string can I crontab that will *work*?

2007-03-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:41:00 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody have an automatic (/etc/crontab) method of keeping > ports current? I'm almost done upgrading my 5 systems to > 6.2 (to be able to grab valid packages) and tried portupgrade > with several

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:17:38 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Check out this URL for starters: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html > > A "desktop environment" can mean anything ranging from a simple > window manager to a complet

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:28:15 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is for someone who wants to work in that environment. > > > > exactly, but it would be handy to define what "desktop" is. > > could someone provide me a definition? > > is X server alone a desktop? i thin

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:10:11 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have used XFCE 3.* on all my free BSD boxes for years. It is a > > Simple GUI which I use on any Desktops I build. The video is clear > > and is simple. ( XFCE4* I did not like the concept.) Emails etc > >

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:46:50 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe the following sums up my feeling on the matter. > > > > It is not the OS's job to stop you from shooting yourself in the > > foot. > > boom... i'm dead.. > at least for 4 years :) Sorry to hear th

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:20:03 + Hugo Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Oh well, your server, your password. Just don't say you were not > warned. I believe the following sums up my feeling on the matter. It is not the OS's job to stop you from shooting yourself in the foot. Rather, if

Re: Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:52:20 -0600 Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need a first line in your script to choose what shell to run it: > #!/usr/local/bin/bash That is all ready in the script. Sorry, I inadvertently failed to disclose that. > > You should add a line: > /usr/bin/su [to

Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
I am trying to get gpg-agent to start at boot time. If I place this in the ~/.bash_profile file, the program starts correctly. GPG_TTY=`tty` export GPG_TTY # ## Start Agent ## if test -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info \ && kill -0 `cut -d: -f 2 $HOME/.gpg-agent-info` 2>/dev/null; then GPG_AGENT_

Re: mplayer (gmplayer) with xfce4.4.0

2007-03-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:51:47 -0600 Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > What is your mplayer/gmplayer version? `pkg_info | grep mplayer` will > probably tell you. > > Is the underlying menu entry the same command that you run in the > terminal? mplayer-0.99.10_5 I have tried runni

Re: ftp set up

2007-03-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 4:48:25 -0800 Vizion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if someone could point me to a reliable detailed resource > for configuring an ftp server on freebsd 6.1 for both incoming and > outgoing files (including anonymous ftp). > > I do not want anonymous uploaders to view ex

Re: MySQL Startup Script

2007-03-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:24:39 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday, 5 March 2007 at 23:28:53 -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote: > > I built MySQL 5.1 from port on FBSD 6.2. But it doesn't start up on > > boot. There's a mysql-server script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ but if I > > tr

Re: portmanager and use.perl port

2007-03-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:41:55 -0800 Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So at times I run portmanager on many of my servers but I want to > make sure that the perl installed is the port and not the system > version. > > The only option I new about was to IGNORE building it. > > # grep perl /usr/loc

Forcing correct version of Clamav to be installed

2007-02-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
I recently contacted the maintainer of 'claws-mail' -- Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- regarding a problem with that port. It wants to install 'clamav' even though I have 'clamav-devel' installed. Since these ports conflict, the install fails. After talking to Alexander, he informs me t

xscreensaver problem

2007-02-17 Thread Gerard Seibert
I got the following information from: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#root-lock % xhost +localhost localhost being added to access control list % su % Password: # gnorpm ... # exit % xhost -localhost localhost being removed from access control list When I attempt to run the above,

Using newer version of pgp by default

2007-02-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
Freebsd-6.2 I have both GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) and versions 2.0.2 installed. I wanted to remove the older version; however, it seems that some programs depend on it. Both 'sylpheed', 'pine' and KMail insist on using the older version for pgp. How can I get them, and any other program that uses

Re: phpMyAdmin httpd segmentation fault

2007-02-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday February 13, 2007 at 06:13:41 (AM) Terry Todd wrote: > I completed steps 1 through 6 that you suggested below. Step 6 took > two whole days to complete. I had to babysit the blue screens of config. > > Sorry to say it still does the exact same thing. httpd seg faults > with no core

Re: GMail [and other free email] and these lists?

2007-02-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday February 12, 2007 at 04:45:44 (PM) Jeff Rollin wrote: > In what way does Gmail suck? 1) No White Listing 2) No configurable SPAM Filtering 3) Bcc doesn't work 4) 500 message a day limit. 5) No PGP or S/MIME support 6) No able to 'Forward as Attachment' 7) Doesn't handle 'sig delimiter'

Re: Onpening and Closing ports

2007-02-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday February 12, 2007 at 04:27:53 (PM) Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Feb 10, 2007, at 11:37 PM, Dave Carrera wrote: > > Had a little nasty person trying to break my sshd on port 22. > > > > I need to change and open a new port for sshd but i do not know how. > > > > Can one of you kind people he

Re: GMail [and other free email] and these lists?

2007-02-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday February 12, 2007 at 02:50:24 (PM) Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Does this list automatically reject subscribers "free" email addresses? > I would like to move over to Gmail to avoid all the spam coming in from > the years of using this address, but I am not getting any response from

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 07:43:01 (PM) Noah wrote: > I dont think this is an adequate solution. > > /tmp is filling up during the portmanager run. in other words - while I > am running /tmp fills up. so it needs to be erased periodically while > portmanager is running or else no ot

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 06:43:15 (PM) Noah wrote: > /tmp is filling from portmanager is placing .db information and build > details during its run. > > what options to I have to alleviate the troubles this creates? Erase them. Besides how much trouble can they be causing? Honestly,

Re: portmanager behaviour

2007-02-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 12:44:30 (PM) pete wright wrote: > hi all, i was wondering if anyone else ran into a problem recently > when portmanager was moved to /usr/ports/ports-mgt/portmanger. i have > a nightly cron which runs a "portmanager -s" to give me a status > report in the morni

Re: Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf

2007-02-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 12:12:21 (PM) Noah wrote: > Any clues on what is happening here. Is there a way to fix the > complaint below? > > # portmanager -u -y > ** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf: > undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass > ** Error occu

Re: Unable to locate Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01 perl module in ports

2007-02-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday February 06, 2007 at 12:32:50 (PM) Justin Meyer wrote: > Is this what you were looking for? > > ttyp1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports > 0 09:30:21 545 # make search name=p5-net-smtp > .. > Port: p5-Net-SMTP-TLS-0.12 > Path: /usr/ports/mail/p5-Net-SMTP-TLS > Info: An SMTP client sup

Re: Portmanager - not working after ports change

2007-02-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday February 06, 2007 at 08:19:27 (AM) RW wrote: > Probably it's just that someone need to patch it to change > "sysutils/portmanager" to "ports-mgmt/portmanager" in the source. > > As a workaround try linking portmanager's new port directory to where > its old one was. As there will be a

Re: Portmanager - not working after ports change

2007-02-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday February 05, 2007 at 01:33:25 (PM) Eric wrote: > i recommend switching to portmaster. its actively maintained and a lot > better than portmanager I tried portmaster once, and found it slower and not as through as portmanager at fully updating a system. I just discovered the same prob

Unable to locate Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01 perl module in ports

2007-02-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
I am looking for the Net-SMTP-SSL perl module in the ports system. So far I have not been able to locate it.. If I cannot locate it, I will have to use CPAN to install it; which is something I would rather not do. Does anyone know if it exists under a different name perhaps? Thanks! -- Gerard

Re: cron problem

2007-01-30 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday January 30, 2007 at 02:13:45 (PM) Charlie McElfresh wrote: > I wrote a perl script to get a news show I like. When I run it, it deletes > yesterday's copy of the show, and downloads the new copy. The script works > fine. I run the script as myself (charlie), charlie owns it, and it'

Re: Problem updating proftpd

2007-01-30 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday January 30, 2007 at 09:48:38 (AM) Greg Groth wrote: > I've tried to download the file manually, but have only been able to > connect to ftp://ftp.fastorama.com/mirrors/ftp.proftpd.org. When I > download the file from that site, I get a checksum mismatch. Attempts > to FTP to proft

Release of updated 'XORG' port

2007-01-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
Does anyone have any information regarding when the 'xorg' port will be updated from 6.9.0 to what I believe now is version X11R7.1 being release by 'x.org'? -- Gerard Scitum est inter caecos luscum regnare posse. (It is well known, that among the blind the one-eyed man is king.) Gerard

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 won't run with ATI RADEON

2007-01-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday January 27, 2007 at 09:11:06 (PM) BrendaBPowers wrote: > I am new to Unix and purchased a copy of FreeBSD 5.2.1 from Fry's to begin > learning. FreeBSD is used at my work and I wish to learn the OS myself. > Hoping > that an integrated package would be easier to install and have al

Which version of Opera to use?

2007-01-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
I have been thinking of trying Opera in KDE to see if it works better than Firefox. I have been having nothing but problems with Firefox and Flash. Would I be better off trying Opera or Linux-Opera? Both are offered in the ports. -- Gerard Thought for the Day: I think the most frightening thin

Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term)

2007-01-19 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday January 19, 2007 at 10:21:24 (AM) Ceri Davies wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:42:54AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > I think the biggest problem with Microsoft MUAs is not where they > > position the cursor, but the difficulty they cause in editing the > > text. My editor

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday January 12, 2007 at 04:54:37 (PM) Reko Turja wrote: > >I am reading many hundred lines similar to below mentioned? > > > > Could you please advise me what to do and how can I make my box more > > secure? > > > > Jan 9 17:54:42 localhost sshd[5130]: reverse mapping checking > > getadd

AC_PACKAGE_NAME

2007-01-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From time to time while compiling a program an error message will display regarding "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" with a notation to report this to the 'AC_PACKAGE_NAME'. First, is this really necessary since the package does compile and se

Re: fortune

2007-01-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday January 12, 2007 at 08:33:08 (AM) Tim Nilimaa wrote: > Im not able to run fortune on my freeBSD 5.3 installation, and I know > why - since its not installed and thats where I step into trouble. Im > not able to install it. I've searched the portscollection and asked Mr. > Google but non

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday January 10, 2007 at 07:24:22 (AM) VeeJay wrote: > How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? Well, with a BFH and a sufficient supply of C-4 (cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine), he/she could be quite dangerous. -- Gerard Mail from '@gmail' is rejected and/or disc

gnupg: discarding older version

2006-12-31 Thread Gerard Seibert
Running: /usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL= produces this output: gnupg-1.4.6_2 < needs updating (index has 2.0.1) Running: pkgdb -Fv produces this output: Checking for origin duplicates Duplicated origin: security/gnupg - gnupg-1.4.6_2 gnupg-2.0.1 Unregister a

Re: find port install options

2006-12-20 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday December 20, 2006 at 11:50:10 (AM) Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Warren Block wrote: > > >>> I suppose its safest to assume that I need to reinstall perl, but how > >>> easy > >>> is it to do that? I think it was installed by default. > > > > Easy, as long as you've u

Re: Upgrade a binary package

2006-12-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday December 14, 2006 at 03:11:30 (PM) Kris Kennaway wrote: > > I've been searching the manual and the man pages, but I can't seem to > > find a command to update an installed package to a newer version. I > > always get a message like this: > > > > pkg_add: package 'expect-5.43.0_1'

Re: Unable to build jackit-0.102.20

2006-12-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday December 14, 2006 at 10:59:27 (AM) Kay Abendroth wrote: > Gerard Seibert wrote: > > On Friday December 08, 2006 at 08:50:36 (AM) Kay Abendroth wrote: > > > > > >> Could you comment all compiler flags you set in /etc/make.conf and rerun > >>

Re: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?

2006-12-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday December 13, 2006 at 06:26:58 (PM) Chad Gross wrote: > On 12/13/06, Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 13 December 2006 16:36, Tuareg wrote: > > > On 12/13/06, Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Tuareg, > > > > > > > > Post /etc/rc.conf from one of the servers

Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x

2006-12-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday December 11, 2006 at 05:09:01 (PM) James Long wrote: > By the way, that is why it is customary to Cc: both the person and > and the list when replying. It doesn't do any good to send a response > to the list if the person who asked the question isn't subscribed. Maybe it is just me, b

Re: trying to install jre

2006-12-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday December 11, 2006 at 12:35:21 (PM) Karl Sinn wrote: > Hi, > > Am Montag, 11. Dezember 2006 16:16 schrieb Andrew Pantyukhin: > > Try this one: > > /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15 > > In the ports collection is only diablo-jre13 which does not install. > > Error message like: > diablo-jre

Re: trying to install jre

2006-12-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday December 11, 2006 at 09:32:36 (AM) Karl Sinn wrote: > I try to install jre. > > pkg_add -r jre > > does not find the file > > /usr/port/java/jre/make > > gives an error message like: > shared library c.3 not found > compat3x-i386-5... is forbidden I am assuming the the path: /usr/p

Re: Unable to build jackit-0.102.20

2006-12-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday December 08, 2006 at 08:50:36 (AM) Kay Abendroth wrote: > Could you comment all compiler flags you set in /etc/make.conf and rerun > the build? Please post your build-log again after that if sth. changes. The only global setting in the /etc/make.conf file is: NO_PROFILE=true

Re: Unable to build jackit-0.102.20

2006-12-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday December 07, 2006 at 04:57:31 (PM) Kay Abendroth wrote: > Gerard Seibert wrote: > > On Thursday December 07, 2006 at 03:39:59 (PM) Robert Huff wrote: > > > > > >> Gerard Seibert writes: > >> > >>> I have tried for two day

Re: Unable to build jackit-0.102.20

2006-12-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday December 07, 2006 at 03:39:59 (PM) Robert Huff wrote: > Gerard Seibert writes: > > > I have tried for two days now to update 'jacket' but without > > success. > > Built for me six hours ago under -Current. It doesn't seem to be worki

Unable to build jackit-0.102.20

2006-12-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
I have tried for two days now to update 'jacket' but without success. This is the log file from the build attempt: Script started on Wed Dec 6 20:08:51 2006 ===> Found saved configuration for jackit-0.102.20 ===> Extracting for jackit-0.102.20 => MD5 Checksum OK for jack-audio-connection-kit-0

Re: python 2.3 binary package bug

2006-12-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
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

Re: python 2.3 binary package bug

2006-12-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday December 06, 2006 at 07:40:57 (AM) Robin Becker wrote: > I installed this binary package > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/python23-2.3.5_1.tbz > > on my freebsd 6.1 system and while testing had a problem related to > /usr/local/lib/python2.3/l

Re: Please HELP!

2006-12-03 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sunday December 03, 2006 at 03:32:10 (AM) VeeJay wrote: > Hi > > Thanks you. But it does not work? > > I have spend whole night to solve this problem... but still haven't had it > work Please don't top post. If you don't know what that means, Google for it. Now, do you have the followi

pkgtools.conf error with portmanager

2006-12-02 Thread Gerard Seibert
I know this was reported the other day; however, I have just encountered it myself. Evidently, the last 'portupgrade' update is now causing 'portmanager' to issue this error message: ** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf: undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass **

Re: Western Australian Daylight Savings changes

2006-12-01 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday December 01, 2006 at 06:03:12 (AM) Dean Hollister wrote: > To confuse things even more, Western Australia is starting daylight saving > for a 3 year trial. The start/stop dates are not uniform, just to make > life harder. The dates are as follows: > > First on: 2:00am Dec 3 > 200

Re: Using Screen

2006-11-30 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday November 30, 2006 at 09:12:10 (AM) RW wrote: > On Thursday 30 November 2006 01:27, Nadow wrote: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:22, Dan Sikorsky wrote: > > > Hey, I have a good question for you guys. > > > > > > Lets say, I

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon

2006-11-30 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday November 30, 2006 at 07:25:32 (AM) Graham Bentley wrote: > And ... how to remove a package and all the packages > it sucked in ? > > All I get from pkg_delete that it isnt even installed when > I know it is because that was the previous command I > just ran !!! Are you sure you are

Re: Spam prevention

2006-11-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday November 29, 2006 at 06:53:36 (PM) Ian Lord wrote: > I would like to setup a mail server with postfix and sendmail... > > To fight spam, is spamassassin the best choice or should I look into > something else ? I use Postfix with MailScanner along with Clamav and SpamAssassin. There

Fixing OpenOffice

2006-11-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
Using: /usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL= produces this: openoffice.org-2.0.3! Comparison failed I was told this is because OpenOffice has moved in the 'ports tree'. My question is other than reinstalling it, how do I proceed to correct it? -- Gerard [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Getting SHTML to work

2006-11-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday November 27, 2006 at 09:20:24 (PM) Olivier Nicole wrote: > I run a site full of SSI, files are mode 644 and it is working > fine. Do you have suexec configured?Then you may have to consider the > configuration of suexec. No it isn't configured. The site will be rather small so I doubt

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