Re: xauth failure when tunneling over ssh

2008-11-12 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:58:18 Pollywog wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:20:00 Elliot Isaacson wrote: > > > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 15:51:42 Elliot Isaacson wrote: > > > > #UsePAM yes > > > > #AllowTcpForwarding yes > > >

Re: xauth failure when tunneling over ssh

2008-11-12 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:20:00 Elliot Isaacson wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 15:51:42 Elliot Isaacson wrote: > > > #UsePAM yes > > > #AllowTcpForwarding yes > > > #GatewayPorts no > > > #X11Forwarding yes > > > #X11DisplayOffset 10 > > > #X11UseLocalhost yes > > > #PrintMotd yes

Re: xauth failure when tunneling over ssh

2008-11-12 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:20:00 Elliot Isaacson wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 15:51:42 Elliot Isaacson wrote: > > > #UsePAM yes > > > #AllowTcpForwarding yes > > > #GatewayPorts no > > > #X11Forwarding yes > > > #X11DisplayOffset 10 > > > #X11UseLocalhost yes > > > #PrintMotd yes

Re: xauth failure when tunneling over ssh

2008-11-12 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 15:51:42 Elliot Isaacson wrote: > > #UsePAM yes > #AllowTcpForwarding yes > #GatewayPorts no > #X11Forwarding yes > #X11DisplayOffset 10 > #X11UseLocalhost yes > #PrintMotd yes > #PrintLastLog yes > #TCPKeepAlive yes > #UseLogin no > #UsePrivilegeSeparation yes > #Per

Re: xauth failure when tunneling over ssh

2008-11-11 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 11 November 2008 21:27:38 Elliot Isaacson wrote: > Hi, > > I've set up X11Forwarding on several linux servers before, but I've > just wasted a day trying (unsuccessfully) to figure out why I can't > get it working on freebsd (7.0-RELEASE GENERIC). > > I have not changed the defaults in

Re: SSH Port forwarding when "PermitRootLogin"==no ?

2008-10-27 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 27 October 2008 17:04:46 Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Hello, > > I'm (still) trying to work around a limitation I've encountered > with a new service provider (cf. "MTA on non-standard port"). > > As root: > # ssh -L 24:server:52525 server > >fails because root logins aren't permitted in >

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-06 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 06 October 2008 21:48:12 matt donovan wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 06 October 2008 4:24:47 pm Craig Butler wrote: > > > Hi Guys > > > > > > I have been subscribed to BSD Magazine since the start of September, I > > > was h

Re: kde4 question

2008-10-06 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 05 October 2008 19:42:36 Gary Kline wrote: > Over the past four days I've managed to get my FreeBSD server running > KDE > up by installing kde4. Now, for some reason, konqueror fails to > conntect > anywhere. > > How can I free up my old kde3 files and get konq

Re: inventory software?

2008-08-26 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 07:01:38 Omer Faruk SEN wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a inventory software in ports tree? What i want is to learn all > hardware details (ram , cpu , mainboard etc. serial numbers and amount of > them). I need a simple program that does this but couldn't able to find in

Re: PGP export question

2008-08-14 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 15 August 2008 02:54:54 EdwardKing wrote: > I use gpg 1.4.9, > $gpg --list-keys > /home/edward/.gnupg/pubring.gpg > > then I want to export pubkey, > $gpg -armor --export keyID > pubkey.asc > gpg:WARNING: nothing exported > > This content of pubkey.asc is empty,why I can't export the pubk

Re: rc.d ?

2008-08-14 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 15 August 2008 02:24:27 Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:31 am, kalin m wrote: > > hi all... > > > > i used to be able to put startup scripts in > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. now on a new 7 install i have the > > scripts there but after restart nothing happens > > Most startup

Re: rc.d ?

2008-08-14 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 15 August 2008 00:21:40 kalin m wrote: > it's not in /etc/rc.conf... it's in /etc/default/rc.conf > > like this: > > local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d" # startup script dirs. > script_name_sep=" " # Change if your startup scripts' names contain > spaces > rc_conf_files="/etc/rc.conf

Re: seen in ports and used but dont remember the name ;)

2008-07-30 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 14:22:36 andrew clarke wrote: > On Wed 2008-07-30 09:31:13 UTC-, DSA - JCR ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have used in the past year an utility for terminal that permit me to > > split the terminal in several sesions vertically/horizontally and also > > save and rest

Re: Windows > Unix volunteers

2008-06-26 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 26 June 2008 16:17:19 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify > Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme > that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for > Windows. Is th

Re: Cannot open /etc/termcap

2008-06-03 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 04 June 2008 03:10:13 Frank Shute wrote: > > A quick fix would be to scp /usr/share/misc/termcap from your home > machine to ~/.termcap on the remote host. > > Then ssh into remote host and: > > $ echo "TERMCAP=$HOME/.termcap" >> ~/.ssh/environment > > Log out and ssh in again. > > Mi

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-02 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 02 June 2008 15:58:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I agree completely, it's what got me over to BSD ! > I am a little confused. I just see a sphere with "horns" on it that reminds me of the BSD daemon's head, only made to look less "demonic". Is it supposed to be something else? If i

Re: Need to build a new mail server

2008-05-30 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 30 May 2008 18:09:48 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > exim: If I were setting up a large complicated installation for say an > ISP or a mail hosting system, exim is what I would use. I've heard > people say that they didn't understand the configuration file, but I > don't see what the problem

Re: Best Java 1.6 JDK for FreeBSD?

2008-05-07 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 15:44:50 Toomas Aas wrote: > Gunther Mayer wrote: > > Does anybody use 1.6 in production on FreeBSD? What have your > > experiences been? > > Our Tomcat-based website, which currently gets ca 75000 requests per day, > has been running with native jdk-1.6.0.3p3 for 6 months.

Re: Writing userspace device drivers

2008-05-06 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 19:14:37 Christopher Key wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wanting to write a driver for lirc to allow me to transmit IR > signals via a Global Caché GC-100. In essence, this requires me to > communicate with the GC-100 via TCP in response to ioctls (received?) > via /dev/lircX. > > C

Re: Mystery Hardware Error

2008-05-04 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 05 May 2008 03:11:52 Al Plant wrote: > > Aloha list, > > I am getting the same error on FreeBSD 7 RELEASE and 8. Current as David > is. CD's work fine. > Anybody know what this is? I have been getting the errors too, whenever I reboot the machine, I find them in the logs. I don't bur

Re: Can't upgrade lsof

2008-04-23 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 18:25:51 Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > I also have the same trouble, FreeBSD 7.0 using portupgrade -ar > > Sam Fourman Jr. I had the same problem and had to remove lsof and one other package so that I could upgrade other packages/ports. _

overnight upgrade interrupted by questions

2008-04-15 Thread Pollywog
I did 'portupgrade -aP' last night but this morning I found that one package had some questions for me about how I want to compile the package (wants to know which options I want). This meant that no packages were compiled since the cups package asked questions. Is there a way to circumvent th

Re: Why are some linux users saying that FreeBSD is dying

2008-04-08 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 21:32:01 E. J. Cerejo wrote: > "FreeBSD is a dying OS because netcraft.com confirms it" that's the > argument used some of these guys, and I'm wondering what data are they > using to make their point! Even netcraft is running FreeBSD and the > uptimes section I can see qui

Re: finding BSD Unix users

2008-04-08 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 06:38:01 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > A house with a big back deck, a big grill with a full propane tank, and a > large cooler full of ice and beer will go a long, long way towards finding > fellow BSD Unix users. Put an advert on the bulletin board of your > local communi

Re: Problem In Saving "inted.conf" .

2008-04-07 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 07 April 2008 18:01:18 behnam zahabi wrote: > Hello > I have this problem: > When i make change in ''inted.conf'' (delete ''#'' ) i can't save this file > (when i want to save, it say unable to create file). > > I think it happens because this file is read only, how can i disable > this

Re: Email problem

2008-04-04 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 04 April 2008 05:33:48 Ruel Luchavez wrote: > Hi.. > > I am having trouble in my email server I spend many hours but i cant fix > it, hopeu can help me guys > One of the account i created cant send email in any email address like > gmail.com I created it the same settings > with my other

Re: Does softupdate help squid ?

2008-03-17 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 17 March 2008 19:17:58 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Hello > > > > I'm setting up a squid cache (3.0.2) machine FreeBSD 7.0 based and I > > wonder if softupdates could help (make it faster ) or not the cache > > partition ? > > i would say it's absolutely needed. > > anyway - any reason to n

Re: USB printer

2008-03-13 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 19:37:47 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Gligor Lucian wrote: > >> David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:59:38PM -0700, Gligor Lucian >wrote: > Does FreeBSD suppor

Re: Deb archives

2008-03-04 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 02:09:25 E. J. Cerejo wrote: > Is there a way to unpack a deb package in FreeBSD? I don't see anything in > the ports to do it! > I don't know if this helps, but deb packages are really ar achives. ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: ssh tunnel question

2008-01-17 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 18 January 2008 04:52:44 Juan Ortega wrote: > Hi, I installed freeBSD 6.3RC2 on my computer. > SSH deamon is installed and working. > On my linux computer I can connect easily "ssh -D 8080 myserver.com" > and use it as SOCKS for firefox as proxy server. > But on windows I cant using putty

Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working!

2008-01-05 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 05 January 2008 22:06:27 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > > I am using 8-current (amd64) and found all I needed to do was install > www/linux-flashplugin7 then do a nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and flash > works fine (as far I can tell)... does this add any functionality I > am not aware of?

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 31 December 2007 18:10:55 Gary Smithe wrote: > > In short, here's my question: > > Canonical, RedHat, IBM, Novell, and a slew of others are funding / > supporting Linux development and pushing some of that development into > the free community, so that all can benefit from full-time deve

Re: Why aren't more secure download options offered?

2007-12-31 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 31 December 2007 04:25:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello FreeBSD representative, > BTW, this is a mailing list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

Re: Why aren't more secure download options offered?

2007-12-31 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 31 December 2007 04:25:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello FreeBSD representative, > > I am new to the FreeBSD community. In the past I have typically installed > a linux variant in my home systems, but recently decided to give FreeBSD a > try since I could not find a distribution that fi

portupgrade problem with openldap23-server upgrade

2007-12-25 Thread Pollywog
I did a portupgrade but when the time comes to upgrade openldap23-server (FreeBSD 6.2) I get this: Stop in /usr/ports/net/openldap23-server. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.12586.86 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=openldap-server-2.3.38 UPGRADE_PO

Re: SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-17 Thread Pollywog
Make sure the ISP is not blocking port 22. If they block it, you will need to change the SSH port in sshd_config and then set the router to forward the port to the server's internal IP address. It's a good idea to change the port anyway, in order not to be obvious to script kiddies. ___

Re: Question

2007-12-16 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 17 December 2007 04:27:03 Norberto Meijome wrote: > > FBsd isn't windows - go ahead and do it - if u can get the new HD and hook > it up to the old box, go into single user mode , partition the new disk as > you wish, mount each partition at a time and transfer the data. I understood t

Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?

2007-12-12 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 13 December 2007 03:35:00 Duane Hill wrote: > > It has been pretty low maintenance. I am in the process of evaluating > the possibility of using amavis-new. I used amavis-new on a Linux system and lost the ability to have per-user settings. I had to go with a systemwide setting and

question about ordering of lines in rc.conf

2007-12-09 Thread Pollywog
It appears that the order of the *_enable="YES" lines in /etc/rc.conf is important. I am looking at a HOWTO for HPLIP in which the author suggests adding two lines in a certain order. Since I recently had a problem with jabberd starting before myslq was ready to accept connections and I just f

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-09 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 09 December 2007 04:32:21 Pollywog wrote: > On Sunday 09 December 2007 04:06:29 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > HPLIP works like a charm on FreeBSD > > http://dsteinbrook.googlepages.com/hpliponfreebsd > > Thanks for that, unfortunately it indicates that this is going t

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 09 December 2007 04:06:29 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > HPLIP works like a charm on FreeBSD > http://dsteinbrook.googlepages.com/hpliponfreebsd Thanks for that, unfortunately it indicates that this is going to be more difficult for me than I thought, because I will need to recompile my k

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 09 December 2007 04:06:29 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I thought we were discussing sane-backhands and network scanning. Don't I need HPLIP in order to get my printer (scanning) to work? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 09 December 2007 03:26:19 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > On Sunday 09 December 2007 02:17:21 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > >> Saned (Sane Daemon) is included in the standard distribution of > >> sane-backhands. I checked sane-utils on the D

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 09 December 2007 03:26:19 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > Then look the /usr/local/etc/sane.d You already have all files you need > to have. > > > Debian is known for fine grinding of packages so I would not be > surprised that they divided generic sane-backhand package in several part. > T

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 09 December 2007 02:17:21 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Saned (Sane Daemon) is included in the standard distribution of > sane-backhands. I checked sane-utils on the Debian web-site and seems it > is just idiotic GUI. > I was using Debian and I now use Ubuntu and FreeBSD. The sane-utils

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 08 December 2007 20:39:06 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I was just looking at the documentation on SANE web-site about network > scanning > and I noticed that /etc/services on my i386 does not include line like > > sane-port 6566/tcp # SANE network scanner daemon > > which is

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

2007-12-04 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 18:28:42 Daniel Bye wrote: > > Check out the manual for rcorder(8), and look at the CAPITALISED files in > /etc/rc.d. > > Essentially, LOGIN is a dummy service - it is used to control startup > of services that should start late in the boot process. The jabberd control

Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics

2007-12-04 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 05:55:17 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to > set things up. Is it recommended to do this on more than one home machine running FreeBSD, or just one of them?

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

2007-12-04 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:11:32 Daniel Bye wrote: > > Try removing the # BEFORE: LOGIN line from the jabberd control script. > I haven't tested it, but from a cursory glance at the respective control > scripts, it feels like a sane first guess... What exactly does this do? It worked. I fir

jabberd will not start on reboot, only starts manually

2007-12-03 Thread Pollywog
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 restart it with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jabberd restart /var/log/messages shows: jabberd/c2s[989]: mysql: connection to database failed: Can

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-22 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 22 November 2007 21:22:50 Brent Jones wrote: > Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a > comment that comes up very regularly; "please don't top post..." > > I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread > enough times that I like t

Re: Postfix, dns, and hosts.allow

2007-11-14 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 05:01:58 jekillen wrote: > Hello: > I have a question about Postfix and > hosts.allow: > Sendmail and exim are mentioned in the > file and I assume that Sendmail would > refer to Postfix sendmail as well as Sendmail. > But Since Postfix runs smtp.d, how would I > do Po

[OFFTOPIC] Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 12 November 2007 19:06:28 Chuck Robey wrote: > > I wish it wasn't this way. Maybe it's just in the schools I visited? > If so, anyone have a better experience? Until I hear of some, I won't > contribute to any "computers for kids" deal, because it only benefits > big computer companies

Re: KDE bookmarks??

2007-11-05 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 00:34:50 Gary Kline wrote: > Folks, > > As some of you know, i was configuring kkonquereor because it has > a link to the festival tts tool. I let myself get careless with firefox; > bookmarked sites went in any-whichway. With konq, I began creating > directories to wh

Re: KDE bookmarks??

2007-11-05 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 00:34:50 Gary Kline wrote: > Folks, > > As some of you know, i was configuring kkonquereor because it has > a link to the festival tts tool. I let myself get careless with firefox; > bookmarked sites went in any-whichway. With konq, I began creating > directories to wh

multiple autoconf versions

2007-11-05 Thread Pollywog
I am running FreeBSD 6.2 and I discovered that I have four versions of autoconf installed. autoconf-2.13.000227_6 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-2.53_4 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-2.59_3 Automatically configure

Re: Is there a way to compare what is in the ports tree with what is installed?

2007-11-04 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 05 November 2007 02:04:39 Robert Huff wrote: > Brett Davidson writes: > > ie. If I had a particular version of the ports tree on a server, > > how could I check to see if any of the programs in that tree were > > actually installed? > > > > Is there a simple command or sequence of com

Re: reverse grep

2007-11-03 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 04 November 2007 00:12:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How is it possible to select lines that do NOT match a specific pattern? grep -v ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: telnet mydomain.ild 465 : connection closed

2007-10-30 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 09:18:17 dhaneshk k wrote: > telnet localhost 465 > Trying ::1... > telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost.sun.iosn.net. > Escape character is '^]'. > upto this line oly I am getting out putnot showin

Re: telnet mydomain.ild 465 : connection closed

2007-10-30 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 09:18:17 dhaneshk k wrote: > telnet localhost 465 > Trying ::1... > telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost.sun.iosn.net. > Escape character is '^]'. > upto this line oly I am getting out putnot showin

Re: telnet mydomain.ild 465 : connection closed

2007-10-30 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 09:18:17 dhaneshk k wrote: > telnet localhost 465 > Trying ::1... > telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost.sun.iosn.net. > Escape character is '^]'. > upto this line oly I am getting out putnot showin

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 22 October 2007 17:42:44 Daniel Bye wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:21:04AM -0500, W. D. wrote: > > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > > > Remote PuTTY: > > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > > > At computer terminal: > > PAM auth

Re: xmh port in 6.2

2007-10-17 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 15:16:53 Pollywog wrote: > I am doing an upgrade of ports in FreeBSD 6.2 and apparently xmh is no > longer part of the Ports collection, but when I saw "yes" to remove it, > portmanager complains that it is required by xorg and xfce. What is the >

xmh port in 6.2

2007-10-17 Thread Pollywog
I am doing an upgrade of ports in FreeBSD 6.2 and apparently xmh is no longer part of the Ports collection, but when I saw "yes" to remove it, portmanager complains that it is required by xorg and xfce. What is the problem here, anyone know? ___ freeb

Re: Ipod software

2007-10-14 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 15 October 2007 00:05:08 Rem P Roberti wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. I am trying out gtkpod now, and it seems to > work fine, although I wish that there was a non/gui type program. > > BTW, is it possible to convert mp3 files that were purchased originally > from the Apple store v

Re: question about Postfix

2007-10-01 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 02:50:24 jekillen wrote: > Hello; > I have a quick question about Postfix. > When I install Free BSD and have it > include Postfix from packages, does > the install process completely replace > Sendmail with Postfix, or do I still have > to replace Sendmail with Postfix

Re: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-10-01 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 01 October 2007 22:48:09 Pollywog wrote: > On Monday 01 October 2007 22:18:00 Chuck Swiger wrote: > > On Oct 1, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > >> By far the best anti-spam tool I've used with Postfix is policyd- > > >> weig

Re: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-10-01 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 01 October 2007 22:18:00 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 1, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > >> By far the best anti-spam tool I've used with Postfix is policyd- > >> weight. > >> mail/postfix-policyd-weight > > > > Agreed. +1. Me too. > > Seconded (or thirded :). > > policyd-weig

Re: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-09-30 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 30 September 2007 21:03:06 Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 03:20:58PM -0500, Joe in MPLS wrote: > > I'm running 6.2-STABLE with postfix with cyrus-sasl, imap-uw & horde for > > mail. I'd like to stop depending on clients(Thunderbird & PDAs) for > > primary spam control (espe

Re: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-09-30 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 30 September 2007 20:28:23 Derek Ragona wrote: > At 03:20 PM 9/30/2007, Joe in MPLS wrote: > >I'm running 6.2-STABLE with postfix with cyrus-sasl, imap-uw & horde for > >mail. I'd like to stop depending on clients(Thunderbird & PDAs) for > >primary spam control (especially because our PDA

Re: Getting vim to work correctly.

2007-09-28 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 28 September 2007 06:05:49 Jay Chandler wrote: > Eric Schuele wrote: > > On 09/27/2007 21:01, Jay Chandler wrote: > >> Howdy. > >> > >> Sorry to keep hitting the list with questions today, but does anyone > >> know how to get the home, delete, end, page up, etc. keys working > >> correctl

Re: courier-imap

2007-09-26 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 18:22:09 Bill Banks wrote: > When I try to login , in my maillog it saids no such file. How do I tell > it to use /etc/passwd > Which file is missing? I recently installed Courier-Imap on FreeBSD and some file was missing but I don't recall which one. Make sure /

Re: Confusion on SSH and PAM

2007-09-26 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 11:02:26 Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > > Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > >> Any ideas or nudges in the right direction as to why this is happening? > >> Looks like I've understood the interaction between SSH and PAM wrong > >> here, so would apprec

Re: sed question...

2007-09-25 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 22:21:48 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > A word of caution there... > > If you plan to use GNU/Linux manpages for learning sed(1) be _very_ > cautious for GNU/Linux-specific parts. There are subtle, yet possibly > important differences between GNU/Linux sed and BSD sed.

Re: Is your Thunderbird OK?

2007-09-24 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 24 September 2007 07:19:49 Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > Hi there, > > Just been wondering about this for long weeks. I have some complain > Thudnerbird's the speed when it start up on FreeBSD. Its speed is very > slow. While thunderbird start up, I go to brew coffee. Aside from that, > Thunde

Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?

2007-09-22 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 22 September 2007 19:27:36 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > That's because there's no such thing as a "newbie Sendmail user". > > Nobody stays a newbie long enough if they configure Sendmail properly That is why I use Postfix. I would not go from Postfix to Sendmail because it would make

Re: GAIM??

2007-09-19 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 20 September 2007 02:16:53 Gary Kline wrote: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ > > thanks to all you gents... i was going to ask why the name change but > it'll probly be with the src, luke. (.5-hearted ha ha) I read somewhere that AOL asked for the name change.

Re: GAIM??

2007-09-19 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 20 September 2007 01:33:38 Gary Kline wrote: > Folks, > > On my ubuntu srver I've used gaim for quite awhile. When I > looked for it with locate on my new server the file said it was > going away by fall. Is there ea new, improved port? > > gary Isn't t

Re: Telnet & smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 16 September 2007 16:28:02 Bill Banks wrote: > How do I turn on telnet for smtp? Im installing qmail > Telnet for SMTP? Are you trying to connect to port 25 (SMTP) using a telnet client for testing purposes? Don't install telnetd (telnet server), just use a telnet client: telnet 25

Re: remote [ssh] Backspace] key gives me "^?"

2007-09-14 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 15 September 2007 01:01:03 Gary Kline wrote: > Sometimes when I ssh from a remote server and edit a file with > vi, my [Backspace keys] are not interpretered correctly. > Instead of erasing characters and backing up one byte and > clearing that character my curso

Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-09-12 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 16:10:54 Derek Ragona wrote: > > Are you running ipv6? If not just comment that line out. I am not running ipv6 and I thought I did not need that line, so I have commented it out. thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-09-12 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:47:15 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > in my hosts file, I have a line that looks like this: > > ::1localhost localhost.mydomain.com > > > > Is this line for IPv6 or is there some other reason for its presence? It > > causes occasional problems, so I

a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-09-12 Thread Pollywog
in my hosts file, I have a line that looks like this: ::1localhost localhost.mydomain.com Is this line for IPv6 or is there some other reason for its presence? It causes occasional problems, so I commented it out and I kept a similar line that points to 127.0.0.1 An examp

Re: hosts is ignored

2007-09-12 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 07:46:15 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Peter Boosten wrote: > > Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have the feeling to be blind but I cannot find out why my FreeBSD 6.2 > >> machine ignores hosts. > >> > >> host.conf says > >> > >> hosts > >> dns > > > > W

Re: ssh forwarding question

2007-09-11 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 17:30:55 Bob Johnson wrote: > > It should have already been in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. So the mystery > to be solved is why it was not there (or what you had in /etc/rc.conf > that overrode it, maybe). When you installed FBSD, did you do a > "standard" install or one o

Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-10 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 10 September 2007 23:42:43 Pollywog wrote: > On Monday 10 September 2007 22:21:58 doug wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Pollywog wrote: > > > > I am using tightvnc-1.2.9_1 on FreeBSD and the windows versions of > > tightvnc on win2k and windows XP Pro.

Re: ssh forwarding question

2007-09-10 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 10 September 2007 22:39:53 doug wrote: > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > On Monday 03 September 2007, Pollywog said: > >> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 00:13:13 Pollywog wrote: > >>> On Monday 03 September 2007 23:08:45 Predrag Punoseva

Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-10 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 10 September 2007 22:21:58 doug wrote: > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Pollywog wrote: > I am using tightvnc-1.2.9_1 on FreeBSD and the windows versions of tightvnc > on win2k and windows XP Pro. On FreeBSD I only have used vncviewer running > the server on the winders boxes. I am u

Re: chmod / files and directories

2007-09-10 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 10 September 2007 16:31:35 Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: > On 10-Sep-07, at 9:40 PM, Daniel Bye wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:06:07PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:56:12PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I did read man chmod but I am n

Re: snapshot is corrupt

2007-09-08 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 08 September 2007 13:58:24 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > I just got the following when trying a portsnap. Any ideas? > I really don't understand how portsnap works, so for me the error > message isn't that useful. > > > $ sudo portsnap fetch update > Password: > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD

Re: bash on login.

2007-09-06 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 06 September 2007 15:06:02 Albert Shih wrote: > Hi all > > I'm using bash for standard shell, what I don't understand is when I'm > connect by ssh on my server the bash don't parse .bashrc file. > > But if in the bash session I type «bash» this time the .bashrc is use. > > How can I mak

Re: Burn ape music to CD

2007-09-06 Thread Pollywog
I was waiting for someone else to ask, but nobody has, so here goes... What is "ape music"? I take it there is nothing simian about it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: loopback won't enable automatically

2007-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 16:12:07 Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:47:47AM +0000, Pollywog wrote: > > I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one > > machine (it is a laptop): > > > > ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.

Re: loopback won't enable automatically [SOLVED]

2007-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:36:04 Craig Boston wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:48:12PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: > > Given your problems, I am highly suspicious that something has spammed > > your /etc/defaults/rc.conf... > > Or a mergemaster gone wrong (or forgotten to be run). This is a

Re: loopback won't enable automatically [SOLVED]

2007-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 11:48:12 Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:35:26AM +0000, Pollywog wrote: > > > I did find it in /etc/default/rc.conf: > > > > > > ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device > > > configu

Re: loopback won't enable automatically [SOLVED]

2007-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 07:25:42 Pollywog wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 04:48:53 Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:47:47 + Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one > &

Re: loopback won't enable automatically

2007-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 04:48:53 Ian Smith wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:47:47 +0000 Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one > > machine (it is a laptop): > > > > ifconfi

Re: loopback won't enable automatically

2007-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 04:48:53 Ian Smith wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:47:47 +0000 Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one > > machine (it is a laptop): > > > > ifconfi

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-04 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 04:10:50 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the > > FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up > > a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase

loopback won't enable automatically

2007-09-04 Thread Pollywog
I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one machine (it is a laptop): ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 Then everything is fine. I added ifconfig_lo0="127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0" to /etc/rc.conf but for unknown reasons it now looks like this and I still need

  1   2   >