serial connection

2012-12-15 Thread Jonathan P
hello everyone, i need to establish a connection between 2 freebsd systems, but i have to this over a serial line, any advices? thank you all so much! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ree to stdout (which you can capture to a file, or pipe straight into the second invocation) and once against dir2 with the output of the first one as input (either in a pipeline, or by using -f with the filename of the captured output). Jonathan ___ free

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ind the best test for differences between old and new > copies of a filesystem is 'rsync -avx -n ...' Wouldn't suitable applications of mtree(8) also do what's wanted? Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Jonathan McKeown
d then changing every other environment to suit the software? I'm not sure software portability means what you think it means. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-22 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 22 June 2012 07:04:35 Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > I want to whish all a very mery Midsummer's Eve and Midsummer's Day > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer#Sweden I appreciate the sentiment but it's midwinter here ;) Jonathan _

Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-20 Thread Jonathan McKeown
timate post that's been sent through a similar remailer so I can't just toss them all away). Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: log error..

2012-04-01 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 4/1/2012 3:21 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Apr 1 01:46:26 2012 Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 13:01:31 +0700 (WIT) From: jangkawij...@students.itb.ac.id To: questions Cc: Subject: log error.. [ snip numerous syslog messages indicating incorrect zone file s

Re: Question regarding SPF records

2012-02-18 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 2/18/2012 12:18 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Feb 18, 2012 8:53 AM, "Jonathan Vomacka" mailto:juvi...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there are SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different &q

Question regarding SPF records

2012-02-18 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there are SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different "opinion" of what should be included and what should not be included. Let me give you a scenario of my setup, and hopefully someone can help me out. My d

BIND SPF/TXT Questions

2012-02-18 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
I know this is a bit off topic from CentOS itself, but are there any DNS experts that would be able to e-mail me on the side and assist with some questions I have regarding TXT/SPF records? I want to ensure my mail doesn't bounce. ___ freebsd-question

Re: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On Feb 17, 2012 6:55 PM, "Jim Pazarena" wrote: > > is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? > > A "df" seems to avoid the swap area. > > This would be on a live production server. > Thanks. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Looking for SEO / Website Design Work

2012-02-13 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On Feb 13, 2012 10:48 AM, "Shrikansh" wrote: > > Hi, > > > I am a SEO Specialist from India looking for a job in the field of Internet marketing . > > I have 4 years experience with SEO, Website Design and development. I would like to work remotely from my present location in India and help your o

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-04 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On Feb 4, 2012 4:54 AM, "Mike Clarke" wrote: > > On Saturday 04 February 2012, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > > I don't know if anyone else has already mentioned it to you in > > response to this question, but I just very recently switched over to > > using volume labels to mount my partitions inst

Re: Looking for SEO job

2012-01-26 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On Jan 26, 2012 1:25 PM, "Vani" wrote: > > Hi, > > > I am an organic SEO specialist with a bit of website design and development experience. > I would like to work remotely from my present location in India and help your organization with link building and onsite optimization work. > > My Skills i

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On Jan 18, 2012 9:37 PM, "Allan McKinnon" wrote: > > > I finally got to install FreeBSD 9 onto my computer and noticed that the installer is now different. It seems to me that it forces you into doing extra steps that I was comfortable doing on my own. I really enjoyed the old installer because

ASP running on FreeBSD via Apache/NGINX/Lighttpd

2012-01-03 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Good morning all, I currently have a website that was written in ASP back in 1999. The system is currently running Windows 2003 Server with MsSQL. Before everyone flames me for being in the wrong place, I was wondering if there is a way to allow freebsd to run old ASP code? I know years ago t

Re: booting

2011-12-17 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On Dec 17, 2011 9:04 AM, "Maxime-Etienne de Gier" wrote: > > I am really interested in Freebsd or PC-BSD but unfortunately every time > when I download an ISO of either of them and try to boot up (from the > DVD-ROM) my machine will not boot up (Laptop PackardBell). > Any insight? Thanks and much

Re: unsubscribe

2011-11-29 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" On 11/28/2011 1:19 AM, Gary Gatten wrote: Unsubscribe "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not

Re: Free BSD Website Question

2011-11-23 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Absolutely not On Nov 23, 2011 4:54 PM, "Frank" wrote: > Hey FreeBSD, > > I saw that you had a list of web hosting providers on your website and > wondered if you would consider adding WebHosting.net to your list. > http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html > > We have been around since 1998 and

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-18 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
+1 On 10/18/2011 10:15 PM, Allen wrote: On 10/17/2011 12:04 PM, Michael M wrote: *SNIP* / *PRUNE* For whatever it may be worth; I fully stand by dedicating the next release to dmr, as it wouldn't exist without him and Ken. -Allen ___ freebsd-question

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Ever heard of bold_or_underline? On Oct 11, 2011 10:06 AM, "Polytropon" wrote: > > This is _not_ a spam message trying to sell something > stupid to the list. I'm just searching for a solution > to turn consumed computing resources into a number and > a currency symbol. :-) > > Reason: A growing

Re: cat sort(1) sort floating point numbers?

2011-10-03 Thread Jonathan McKeown
strings numerically, use the --general-numeric-sort (-g) option. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thanks again Matthew On 9/14/2011 2:55 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/09/2011 19:31, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: In regards to partitioning, I have a question regarding a "rumor" that has been told to me by various different linux expe

Re: Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thanks Matthew / Michael for your responses on this. On 9/14/2011 2:51 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/09/2011 18:27, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: ... In these days of plentiful RAM, the new rule of thumb is "if you're swapping, then you're

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thanks bud. On 9/15/2011 5:19 AM, f92...@hushmail.com wrote: There is nothing wrong with having / and /usr on separate partitions; in fact, there are some mild advantages to fine-grained partitioning for folks who pay attention to their filesystem space usage. To elaborate on this: Assuming y

FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-14 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
heir server setups. Any suggestions on partitioning schema's for a general LAMP stack server, and maybe some gameservers would be GREATLY appreciated. Kind Regards, Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-14 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Excellent response. Thank you so much. On Sep 14, 2011 9:56 AM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: > > On 14/09/2011 13:34, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > > Each operating system seems to have different documentation regarding > > what a decent swap size is for systems with large a

Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-14 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
system? Your opinions are greatly appreciated Kind Regards, Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: 'Using the Packages System' international

2011-08-16 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 16 August 2011 12:13:24 Amanda Lynn wrote: > Hi! [snip] > Regards, > Amanda Lynn > +(360) 488-0303 Google the phone number. This has cropped up here before iirc - I'm not sure exactly what the scam is, but scam it is. Jonathan __

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 12 May 2011 17:26:49 Chris Telting wrote: > On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > > > I'll say that again. It is inherently insecure to run an interpreted > > program set-uid, because the filename is opened twice and there's no > > guar

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
n an interpreted program set-uid, because the filename is opened twice and there's no guarantee that someone hasn't changed the contents of the file addressed by that name between the first and second open. It's one thing to tell people they need to be careful with suid because

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
step 1. There are two common ways round this: ignore the suid bit; or arrange within the OS to pass a handle to the original file rather than a filename so that the script can't be changed out from under the interpreter. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions

Resume from suspend

2011-01-13 Thread Jonathan Fischer Friberg
Hi, Suspending my laptop (a thinkpad edge) works fine (as far as I can tell). It seems however to be impossible to resume. Is there some special option that I have to set so that the computer resumes when pressing the power button? (or opening the lid) Jonathan

Re: problem with shell script

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
x27;[s]lapd' Although as others have pointed out, you can also use pgrep. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

2011-01-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
X-related dependencies unless you make it WITHOUT_X11. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
stays true, and appends E0 to the last number as it becomes false, which lets you exclude both endpoints). Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Does WINE work on FreeBSD amd64 ?

2010-12-26 Thread Jonathan Chen
the instructions, and I can get it to play Starcraft and EVE-Online. You just got to make sure that the 32-bit executable is on your path. -- Jonathan Chen --

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-24 Thread Jonathan Chen
poll pop3.vodafone.co.nz protocol pop3 username "myusername" password "mypassword" mda /usr/local/bin/procmail sslproto "" And ~/.procmailrc looks like: # # # Trailing / for Maildir MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/

Re: Shopping cart other than OSCommerce?

2010-12-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ich do nothing at all to help the programmer make sensible decisions and follow best practice. There are database abstraction modules for PHP as far as I know, but if someone decides not to use them, is it still as hard as it was to do things safely using the builtin mysql_* functions? J

Re: PCI Parallel Port I/O card

2010-11-28 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a system which has a PCI I/O card with a parallel port > on it. I'd like my 8-STABLE/amd64 machine to recognise this card. > > The relevant bits of "pciconf -lcv" is: > >    no...@

PCI Parallel Port I/O card

2010-11-25 Thread Jonathan Chen
obe at irq 7 on isa0 which is due to /boot/device.hints of: hint.ppc.0.at="isa" hint.ppc.0.irq="7" How can I configure my system to recognise the parall

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-24 Thread Jonathan Chen
Uncomment that (remove the 'hash'), and save it (you'll have to be root > again, of course). An easier solutions would be to enable the ftp server in standalone mode via /etc/rc.conf: ftpd_enable="YES" -- Jonathan Chen --

Re: Where to send coredump?

2010-11-19 Thread Jonathan Chen
ld be subscribing to freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org. Your kernel-fu should be of a sufficient level before contemplating this branch. In general, stack traces are more useful than raw-core dumps; but patches are more than welcome. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ___ free

Re: BUG: wrong log messages

2010-11-18 Thread Jonathan Chen
1::1500030698  11929.21.61868.. > 21..91073::1417464787  oouutt  vviiaa  rree00 > This particular bug of overlapping output from multiple-core machines has been around for years. I don't think it's going to get fixed anytime soon. -- Jonathan Chen

Re: strange behaviour on FreeBSD 7.1

2010-11-18 Thread Jonathan Chen
that approx 40 processes came and went in-between. This indiciates that you probably have some script running that's spawning a large number of short-lived processes. -- Jonathan Chen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE)

2010-11-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 05 November 2010 22:51:01 Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Nov 5 02:26:31 2010 > > From: Jonathan McKeown > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:27:38 +0200 > > Subject: Glue re

Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE)

2010-11-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
is exactly what /should/ happen. Only the .au servers (or servers they delegate to) are authoritative for hosts in the .au zone. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 15:47:36 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: > > > I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find > > > it incredible

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ive, is there any easy way to filter out /all/ the sockpuppets at once? Or do I just need to keep adding them one at a time? Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
the FreeBSD project to support their products for them. There are other companies, as I said, that won't do either. I don't think it's fair to blame the FreeBSD developers for that; nor indeed to expect the FreeBSD developers to be responsible for making Su

Re: Could not chdir to home directory

2010-08-26 Thread Jonathan Chen
SD bigpink.juniper.net 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0: > Mon Oct 25 16:23:23 PDT 2004 > r...@bigpink.juniper.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/bigpink i386 > > > > Please let me know how I can get to my home directory. Check the output of: ls -ld / ls -ld /hom

Re: Grepping a list of words

2010-08-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
s and produce up to three lists: of words only in file one, of words only in file 2 and of words common to both files. You can suppress any or all of the output lists. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: How to connect a jail to the web ?

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 11 August 2010 03:07:32 Rocky Borg wrote: > You should probably preface this by saying you're the author of Qjail > and have been actively promoting it in a few places including the fbsd > forums. That's interesting, given that you're replying to Fbsd8 . The announcement of qjail cam

Re: virtualbox

2010-08-07 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 06:19:51PM +0200, Samuel Martín Moro wrote: > Very powerfull, indeed > too bad vrdp doesn't work on OSE... It works great with the VNC server replacement. I've got this running on 8-STABLE/amd64. -

Re: FreeBSD and Broadband network connection

2010-07-22 Thread Jonathan Chen
r0 network with your modem, and set it as the default route. If this is not the case, you will need to provide the list with more details as to the internal network structure; ie IP addresses, etc. -- Jonathan Chen --- "I l

Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
ur kernel has COMPAT_FREEBSD32, it will be able to run wine/i386 in /compat/i386/usr/local/bin. All your amd64 binaries will still be there from / downwards. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen --

Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
ile to allow it to build on amd64? > Please, just answer yes or no. Yes you can try, but it won't work. You'll hit a point where it will complain about an illegal assembler instruction. What will work is detailed at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine#head-6963d527c173e57b1567e881305b544d3

Re: i386 wine on amd64 - DRI a lost cause?

2010-07-03 Thread Jonathan Chen
game. > > I have also played Command and Conquer 3 on nvidia (but the proprietry nvidia > driver does not use dri). I'm got (unjailed) wine/i386 on amd64, and it plays DirectX 9 games with no problems; eg EVE-Online. I'm using the nvidia-drivers, which have to be installed o

Re: what is /usr/sbin/nmbd

2010-06-19 Thread Jonathan Chen
e Linux shell script running without your knowledge. Check to see if you machine has got any funny scripts in /tmp or /var/tmp, indicating some incursion. -- Jonathan Chen -- "Beer. Now there'

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:39:37 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > "But what about hard links?" I hear you ask. Simple: > > find /usr/lib /lib -name '*.so.*' -links +2 +1 surely? + modifier in find(1) means ``more tha

Re: Simulate CRON

2010-06-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
under CRON would be running under. env(1)? From the manpage: The env utility executes another utility after modifying the environment as specified on the command line. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 10 June 2010 18:30:52 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 10/06/2010 17:12:50, Jerry wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:12:48 +0200 > > > > Jonathan McKeown articulated: > >> > >> Isn't that called VERP (variable envelope return path)? I agree - the &

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
archived mailing lists, of their competence and diligence. I'll shut up now. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:51:42 Rob Farmer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: [rant about midphase hosting and mpcustomer.com] > > They posted in a previous thread about this, saying they couldn't > unsubscribe under their address, ie. somebody

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:06:46 Rob Farmer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Matthias Fechner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am 10.06.10 11:47, schrieb Jonathan McKeown: > >> Subject: [#24548754] Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself? > >>

Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ac.za; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:05:39 +0200 Received: by secure.mpcustomer.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 4841C1532997; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:46:31 -0500 (CDT) To: Jonathan McKeown Subject: [#24548754] Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself? Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:46:31 -0500 Fro

Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself?

2010-06-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
t; When you run that pipeline the OS doesn't start both programs exactly > > simultaneously. [...] It's a race condition. > > I would like to add that you can avoid the issue entirely by using this > command: > % ps aux -p `pgrep sh` [output sni

Re: Fwd: [#24525016] External USB drive causes system to hang completely

2010-05-31 Thread Jonathan McKeown
going on for several weeks now with no improvement. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: ipfw natd rules not loading on startup

2010-05-14 Thread Jonathan Chen
x27;m unsure as to whether they've all be resolved yet. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen | To do is to be -- Nietzsche | To be is to do -- Sartre | Scooby do be do -- Scooby __

Re: Eclipse causes segmentation fault in Java

2010-05-13 Thread Jonathan Chen
x18985] g_base64_encode_step+0xe5 > # > # An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid11170.log > # > # Please submit bug reports to freebsd-j...@freebsd.org > # At a guess, you recently upgraded to GNOME 2.30; and since it's been crashing. I just started s

Re: DNS not working since May 6 2010

2010-05-07 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 09:02:13AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/05/2010 21:40:02, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > I've got a small DNS server on my home network, and ever since May 6, > > 2010 (co-incidentall

DNS not working since May 6 2010

2010-05-06 Thread Jonathan Chen
al options: +cmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached Lookups on other domains still appear to work, Google, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc. Is anyone else seeing this? How do I fix it? Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen Attention: This email may contain information intended for the sole use o

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread Jonathan Chen
y positive. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen -- "If everything's under control, you're going too slow" - Mario Andretti __

Re: diablo-jdk not installing correctly

2010-04-25 Thread Jonathan Chen
D to make > java work > > My question is: is Java in FreeBSD an experimental/academic package? Should > I rather go with the linux compatibility way? There has been no movement with the diablo-jdk for ages; java/openjdk6 is better maintained and would be a better choice. Chee

Re: Postfix in base system

2010-04-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ce or tell me where to look for it? :-? > > Thanks %-\ I found it in the cvsweb interface to the ports tree: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/mail/postfix/Makefile Which lists rev1.155 with the commit message: Add an option to install into the

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
e. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. I haven't installed postfix, but is this possibly related to the recently (2010-03-22) added option to install postfix into the base? In which case the commit six days later claims to correct a problem with the default (non-base) install. J

Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-30 Thread Jonathan McKeown
quired to handle. IDLE is just a command that takes a long time to execute (specifically, until the client ends it or the server's time limit is reached) so that the server has to send EXISTS responses whenever mail comes in. Jonathan ___ freebsd-

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-13 Thread Jonathan Chen
servers from ntp.conf > > Can you have both in rc.conf without abusing the ntp server(s) or should > it just be one or the other? I'd like my clock to be as accurate as > possible when I start up the system. Yes. I have both enabled on my multi-boot laptop to accoun

Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

2010-03-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ten referred to as the ``allow-footshooting'' flag. That might allow you to dd your image onto the mounted disk - i'd either try it with a handy spare system or wait for someone more expert than i to comment, though. Jonathan ___ f

Re: How to get "hints" of software installed by Ports ?

2010-03-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 05 March 2010 16:20:36 Aaron Lewis wrote: > Hi, > > I installed some software from ports today , and it outputs some > useful information when finished. > e.g where its config file is > > Due to some mistakes , i lost these "important" information , how do i > see it again ? Is ther

Re: Perl 5.8 -> 5.10 On Current Production System

2010-03-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 04 March 2010 19:13:36 Matthew Seaman wrote: > You got bitten by an ill-considered change introduced after the UPDATING > instructions were written. To work around it, you need to set > DISABLE_CONFLICTS when rebuilding the port, eg like this: > ># portupgrade -m DISABLE_CONFLICTS

Re: libswt on amd64 freebsd 8.0

2010-02-17 Thread Jonathan Chen
library, so what I > should install to get it. x11-toolkits/swt -- Jonathan Chen -- "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

Re: which java on 8-release

2010-02-04 Thread Jonathan Chen
sed to rebuild itself during upgrades. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen -- Don't worry about avoiding temptation, as you g

Re: Please help me

2010-01-20 Thread Jonathan Chen
the Delete key. That's not a valid vi command. You need to be in command mode and hit the 'x' key. -- Jonathan Chen -- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- t

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-18 Thread Jonathan McKeown
ires, as you pointed out, setting a risky option which if accidentally misused, could break the whole system. I still think it's an ill-considered change for the worse to make the new behaviour the default. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-18 Thread Jonathan McKeown
e conflicting port and being able to install the replacement. This seems to me to be a very badly thought-out change which should be reverted. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Starting sshd, ssh connections

2009-12-29 Thread Jonathan Chen
192.168.254.100) > What else would be needed? I suspect your problem is that 192.168.75.8 doesn't resolve to a hostname. You could possibly put that into /etc/hosts, or put a PTR entry for it in your DNS. -- Jonathan Chen

Re: Starting sshd, ssh connections

2009-12-29 Thread Jonathan Chen
n a private network and only with IP adresses > (no hostnames) > these are not used. > So what is causing that delay at Start of sshd and use of ssh? Reverse DNS lookup. Make sure you have PTR entries for all IPs in use. -- Jonathan Chen

Re: black hole test

2009-12-16 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 22:05:06 Peter Wemm wrote: > Daignostic message to trace mailing list processing, please ignore. You have heard of freebsd-test@ , haven't you? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: 8.0: OpenSSL stat()'s NLS 500+ times causing extreme system load

2009-12-16 Thread Jonathan McKeown
stallation.'' It can also be enabled separately in nagios's main config file - child_processes_fork_twice is the option to look for. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 11 December 2009 08:17:06 Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: > > Please > > see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > > Just a side question: 5.4

Re: Downloading and Burning Free BSD

2009-12-10 Thread Jonathan Chen
ges contain packages that you may want to install. -- Jonathan Chen -- "I don't want to achive immortality through my works.. I want to achieve it through not dying" - Woody Allen

Re: error when updating ports in 8.0

2009-12-10 Thread Jonathan Chen
c (errno = 0) > At a guess, your userland and kernel are out of sync. -- Jonathan Chen -- "The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."

Re: Firefox 3.5 and Epiphany crashing since the GNOME 2.28 update

2009-12-01 Thread Jonathan Chen
/local/lib/browser_plugins altogether. > > This seems very similar to the Firefox 3.5 HTML5 crash FreeBSD 7 > users experience until they kldload sem, but I'm on 8.0 and sem is > loaded by default. Did you remember to rebuild all your ports? -- Jonathan Chen -

Re: ntpdate on FreeBSD 8.0

2009-11-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
sk0 and as I > wrote I never had problems with that. Maybe is different now? Try using: ifconfig_sk0="SYNCDHCP" which makes sure sk0 comes back with an address from DHCP before proceeding. -- Jonathan Chen

Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?

2009-11-26 Thread Jonathan Chen
.org/net-mgmt/wifimgr/ See if it helps. -- Jonathan Chen -- "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." - Robert Frost

Re: [] confession...

2009-11-23 Thread Jonathan McKeown
y pressed) whereas the sequence shift shift a b c shift d results in ABCd (double-shift locks shift key on until it's pressed again). (The other options, slow keys and bounce keys, apply if muscle control is impaired and cause a key to have to be held for a set time before it regist

Re: upgrading firefox

2009-11-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
to fetch" them. > When I just typed pkg_add -r firefox it told me I already have version > 2.0.0.20 installed. So what do I do to get a more recent version? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-portsna

Re: ELF library not found error

2009-11-18 Thread Jonathan Chen
with the possibility of library and port dependancy breakages as each installed port updates to newer and possibly incompatible versions. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen -- "A little learning is a dangerou

Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing

2009-11-16 Thread Jonathan Chen
and it's been pretty good. No major problem, aside from the lack of CPU cycles the odd time or so. -- Jonathan Chen -- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is

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