Combining netcat with fifos results in stuck queues/sbwait

2012-09-03 Thread Wayne Sierke
I was hoping to establish a simple processing server using nc(1). After finding numerous examples of combining netcat with fifos (named pipes) I am unable to establish a reliable setup. E.g. following the example of the canonical netcat server: server: #mkfifo backpipe #nc -l 4242

re: Patch failed to apply cleanly [chromium-20.0.1132.57] FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

2012-07-15 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 22:33 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > When attempting to upgrade chromium-19.0.1084.56_1 to > chromium-20.0.1132.57 on FreeBSD9.0 (FreeBSD box2 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD > 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 > r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i

Re: LibreOffice Writer crashes when accessing the fonts pull down list

2011-10-04 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 09:41 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > Hi List > > I've got a problem with the above. > > I've not made any changes other than updated the ports when so is needed. > > If I do the setting/change of the font via the menu, I can get what I > want. But if I pull down the fonts l

Re: Regex Wizards

2011-09-26 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 22:02 -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Under the ERE implementation in RELENG_8, I'm having > trouble figuring out how to group and backreference this. > > Given a line, where: > If AAA is present, CCC will be too, and B may appear in between. > If AAA is not present, neither CCC o

Re: Arduino UNO - upload not working

2011-07-30 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 00:20 +0100, Michael wrote: > On 30/07/2011 07:56, Wayne Sierke wrote: > > > > 0) The automatic reset for programming generally didn't work for me. > > However after judicious experimentation I was able to time a manual > > reset of the board

Re: Arduino UNO - upload not working

2011-07-30 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 00:01 +0100, Michael wrote: > Hello, > > Can anybody confirm that Arduino UNO is working fine with FreeBSD? > > I'm having problems with uploading my sketches. Arduino IDE says: > > Binary sketch size: 3620 bytes (of a 32256 byte maximum) > avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in

Re: awk question: replacing "%d%s" by "%d %s"

2011-01-13 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 07:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:22:18 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi > wrote: > > True. But > > sub(nr,"[a-z]"," &"); > > > > does the trick. (tested on Freebsd 7.2) > > > > Explamation: "&" is a 'replacement side' magic incantation to the rege

Re: regex question....

2010-12-05 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 10:19 -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth RW on Sunday, 05 December 2010: > > On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 20:32:57 -0800 > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 06:49:45PM -0800, xSAPPYx wrote: > > > > > > Also, the + operator means '1 or more' but needs escaped: > > >

Re: Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-28 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:49 +0200, Christopher Illies wrote: > Not knowing much about sendmail, I tried google and more or less > blindly followed suggestions. Here is what I have done so far, but > sending email still does not work: > > 1. recompiled sendmail with sasl by adding the following l

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards.

2010-10-28 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 15:18 +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > I've got a very large file with paragraphs separated only by "\n". > > > How do I put a blank line _after_ each newline? > In

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards.

2010-10-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 18:16 -0700, Liontaur wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > I've got a very large file with paragraphs separated only by "\n". > > How do I put a blank line _after_ each newline? > > > > > Perhaps using sed? i'm definitely no sed expert but the su

Re: sed problem

2010-09-29 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 17:43 +0800, lhmwzy wrote: > #%sed -e '/GROUP/{/Test/! d}' test > sed: 1: "/GROUP/{/Test/! d} > ": extra characters at the end of d command > also have error. > the system: > #uname -a > FreeBSD bxzxfreebsd.slof.com 7.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p5 #1: > Fri Dec 4 17:58:

Re: apropos returning same item twice

2010-09-18 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 12:18 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: > On Thursday 16 September 2010 4:12:44 am Wayne Sierke wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 18:27 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: > > > On Wednesday 15 September 2010 12:39:15 pm Wayne Sierke wrote: > > > > On

Re: apropos returning same item twice

2010-09-16 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 18:27 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: > On Wednesday 15 September 2010 12:39:15 pm Wayne Sierke wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 00:37 +, Alexander Best wrote: > > > On Sat Sep 11 10, Steven Friedrich wrote: > > > > Why does apropos list mysql

Re: apropos returning same item twice

2010-09-15 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 00:37 +, Alexander Best wrote: > On Sat Sep 11 10, Steven Friedrich wrote: > > Why does apropos list mysql(1) twice? > > > > It doesn't return duplicates with apropos kde... > > maybe you have a gzip'ed and plain version in /usr ? > > see PR #4419. > > cheers. > alex

Re: Any awk gurus on the list?

2010-08-22 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 12:12 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to use awk to parse values from a string of > unknown length and unknown fields using awk, from within a shell script, and > write those values to a file in a certain order. > > Here's a typical string that I w

Re: Forged messages being posted to freebsd-questions

2010-08-21 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 09:33 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > Can some explain to me or know what criteria is used to determine > when a posting to the lists need moderation? > I have read post in the past that say the list is not moderated or > comments such as above. > > But, then I try to post somet

Re: Printing from linux-firefox

2010-08-01 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 15:00 +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: > Having trouble getting flshh to work with native firefox, > I decided to try one or other of the linux versions. > > With > linux-firefox-devel-3.5.9 > I was able to get flash wworking OK. > But the linux version does not find any any printer

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-29 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 03:32 +, RW wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:04:24 + > Freminlins wrote: > > > > I must admit I gave up ever getting Flash to work RELIABLY on FreeBSD > > a long time ago. It's just too hard, too much work, and not worth the > > misery of installing heaps of crud jus

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:32 +0100, Peter Harrison wrote: > I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone > offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? > > Is it as simple as pkg_delete'ing 3.0 and then installing 3.5? > > Thanks for any thoughts. Should be, or if you use portup

Don't let mergemaster beat you down [was Re: Failed update]

2009-08-10 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 08:34 -0700, Richard Mahlerwein wrote: > I'm redoing the whole process in single user mode. My guess is I > goofed something during mergemaster and devd.conf is messed up. > (Mergemaster is, undeniably, my least favorite utility). I lost practically all of my 'mergemaster

Re: mysql hiding from top

2009-05-03 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 18:49 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > hello, > > Today I have finally upgraded my system to 7.1-RELEASE and just noticing > that mysql process is not being shown via the top command. > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > 1612 root

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-12 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 10:54 -0700, ton80 wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to install FreeBSD. > During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system > hangs indefinitely. > When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. > During the boot process, as it is reading all the

Re: help with AWk

2008-09-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 22:06 -0500, Len Conrad wrote: > The logic desired if > > If IP has no PTR, print "PTR_NUL", else print the PTR. > > > dig +short -x 1.2.3.4 | awk '{if ( $0 == "" ) {print "PTR_NUL" } else {print > $0 } }' > > ... works if PTR exist, but if no PTR, PTR_NUL doesn't print.

Re: Fix corrupted terminal output

2008-09-23 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 17:09 -0700, Chris St Denis wrote: > Occasionally, I accidentially cat a binary file or a directory casing > the terminal output to be corrupted with text looking like (don't know > if this will make it through the mail cleanly) > > E ??? ?? ?. > 2#

RE: Firefox won't start

2008-09-18 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:25 -0400, Joe Tseng wrote: > You got it!!! I type in "firefox3" in the terminal and the prompt comes > right back. > Does it run sufficiently to return a version? %firefox3 -version Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2008 mozilla.org Tr

RE: how do I disable the generation of XOFFs when using tip over aserial port to another device

2008-09-13 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 10:50 -0700, Jeff Haran wrote: > Wayne, > > Thanks for the response. After I sent the original email, I found the > tandem variable in the tip source code and toggling it off did indeed > disable the generation of XOFFs. It would have been easier if tandem had > been document

Re: cd and rm a directory with '^M'

2008-09-11 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 01:28 -0400, DAve wrote: > Edwin Groothuis wrote: > >> I had rsync create a directory with a '^M' in it. > > > > Use command-line completion: > > > > [~/xx] [EMAIL PROTECTED]>touch foo^Mbar # that's ^V^M > > [~/xx] [EMAIL PROTECTED]>ls -l > > total 0 > > -rw-r--r

RE: how do I disable the generation of XOFFs when using tip over aserial port to another device

2008-09-08 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 10:50 -0700, Jeff Haran wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Wayne Sierke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 1:12 AM > > To: Jeff Haran > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: how

Re: how do I disable the generation of XOFFs when using tip over a serial port to another device

2008-09-06 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 12:20 -0700, Jeff Haran wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > I have connected one of the RS232 ports of my PC with FreeBSD (v6.3) on > it to a device that does not understand XON/XOFF flow control. I run the > tip program to connect to that device. > > How do I configure tip and/or the s

Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 11:40 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > Hello, > > > > for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail > > server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my own > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > How have you i

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 08:25 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > My thanks to several people who have provided great suggestions > and an apology for not being clear on the log data I am mining > for MAC addresses. It is syslog and a typical line looks like: > > Aug 26 20:45:36 dh1 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 1

Re: serial console - no go

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:43 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> > >> what i do wrong? > >> > > Have you checked flag setting on sio? > > > ># dmesg | grep "sio.*flags" > >sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 > > on acpi0 > > yes. i then tried to chan

Re: serial console - no go

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 22:00 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > i put -h in /boot.config > > FreeBSD loaders starts with serial console fine, load kernel, boots and... > kernel uses VGA as console. > > what i do wrong? > Have you checked flag setting on sio? # dmesg | grep "sio.*flags"

Re: Possible hardware damaging bug with halt/reboot!

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 15:36 -0700, Christopher Joyner wrote: > I think this thing could break my fan if I left it running. > The fan gets fast, really fast. Sounds like it's running faster than it can > handle. >  That would only be the case if there is some bigger fault at play, such as having

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 22:12 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am trying to isolate only the MAC addresses that appear in > dhcpd logs. > For anyone who is interested, the sed construct that should do > this looks like: > > sed 's/.*\([[ your regular expression ]]\).*/\1/' > > The \1 tells sed

Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl

2008-08-24 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 15:16 -0700, Walt Pawley wrote: > At 10:01 AM +0100 8/23/08, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >Walt Pawley wrote: > >> > >> At the risk of beating this to death, I just happened to > >> stumble on a real world example of why one might want to use > >> Perl for sed-ly stuff. > >> ... s

Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl

2008-08-21 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:12 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > cat tcpdump.txt | awk '{if ($3 != "192.168.100.204.25") print $3}' | \ > > awk '{FS = "."} {print $1,".",$2,".",$3,"."$4}' | sed s/" "//g > > > why you all abuse "cat" command. simply awk http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: How to use dig with an ip list

2008-08-18 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 22:52 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On August 18, 2008 10:13:54 PM -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Aug 18, 2008, at 9:03 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > >> I know I'm missing the obvious. I want to use an IP list to > >> generate an ip+hostname l

Re: Maildrop + sendmail

2008-08-17 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 17:22 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > Maybe it's not a FBSD problem, but I think someone here have the > answer. > I'm trying to use maildrop as MDA with sendmail, but I'm facing > some troubles. > That is, since some of my local users don't

Re: general question - php5 extensions

2008-07-16 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 22:47 -0400, Brad Mettee wrote: > Ok, maybe I wasn't as clear as I should have been. > > It wasn't that I didn't find php5-extensions, or even that it's difficult > to use, but actually tracking down the php5-extensions directory in the > first place was somewhat of a prob

Re: why is this script failing?

2008-07-16 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 15:01 +0100, RW wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:52:59 +0930 > Wayne Sierke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:42 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > > > you can always do > > > > > > find /tm

Re: why is this script failing?

2008-07-15 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:42 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > you can always do > > find /tmp/kde-*/ -iname "*wav" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -vf > > the advantage over doing using rm * or for * in ... is that if you > have LOTS of files, the expanded list of files may be too much. find | > xargs will

RE: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS

2008-06-09 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:27 -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: > On Behalf Of cpghost > > On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:40:17 -0600 > > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm no specialist and it may be an urban legend, but from > > what I gathered, some coils could exhibit the behavior of > > generating those

Re: formatting disk for FreeBSD : Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip]

2008-01-26 Thread Wayne Sierke
David, On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 00:48 +, David Larkin wrote: > It is a fairly old machine I am trying to use. > One that has been switched off and gathering dust for some time. > > ROM PCI/ISA BIOS 2A5LHL1A > > Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG, AnEnergy Star Ally > Copyright(c) 1984-99 Award

Re: Maildrop filtering issues

2008-01-25 Thread Wayne Sierke
Derrick, On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 00:22 -0500, Dantavious wrote: > Hi all, > I have a working Postfix Mailserver with maildrop installed. This mailserver > is setup for virtual accounts. I would like to filter incoming mail using > maildrop at the server. I followed all the docs that I could

Re: Eclipse and FreeBSD7

2008-01-19 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 00:02 +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 05:36:17PM +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 11:58 +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > Eclipse will only work with the native-jdk. Use your installed > > > diablo-jdk t

Re: Eclipse and FreeBSD7

2008-01-18 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 11:58 +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:40:39PM +0100, Nicolas Letellier wrote: > > [...] > > I saw this page (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118115) > > which says that the last version has corrected the problem (3.2.2_1). > > But the pro

Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-07 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 04:09 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Numbers are up from November, which is what we hope for ... not drastically, > but 7.5% isn't shabby either: > > Last MonthThis Month % Change > Total Systems 2085 2254 7.50% >

Reducing reserved space on large filesystems

2006-09-19 Thread Wayne Sierke
I was very interested to read the following written by Matthew Seaman in 2004. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/033754.html The parameters given to newfs(8) don't depend on the size of the filesystem, so much as the size of the files you intend to s

Re: mouse wheel problem

2005-09-03 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 09:38 -0700, Dave McCammon wrote: > > --- Alejandro Pulver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > It works for me without the "ZAxisMapping" option > > (and the same > > options in rc.conf): > > > > Identifier "Mouse1" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option

Re: Hardware vendors in Australia...

2005-07-31 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 22:10 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > Hi all, > Can anyone recommend a vendor / reseller of server hardware in Australia > (preferrably NSW)? In particular, (dual ) Opteron based systems. Of > course, it'd be great if anyone actually had suggestions on the > specifics of t

Re: install Apache1 and Apache2 on the same server

2005-07-16 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 01:51 +0200, Ksenia Marasanova wrote: > Greetings, > > I have FreeBSD box that runs Apache1 from ports. Now I'd like to > install Apache2 from ports (and run it on different IP), without > overwriting httpd binary of Apache1. What would be the correct, > port-friendly :) way

Re: squid bind to port 80 fails when started via squid.sh script

2005-07-05 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 03:33 +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Wayne Sierke wrote: > > > FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE/squid-2.5.9_3 > > > > If I start squid via the script (as root), I get: > > > > /var/log/squid_cache.log: > > > > commBind: C

Re: squid bind to port 80 fails when started via squid.sh script

2005-07-05 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 13:38 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Wayne Sierke wrote: > > FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE/squid-2.5.9_3 > > > > If I start squid via the script (as root), I get: > > > > /var/log/squid_cache.log: > > > > commBind: Cannot bind socket FD

squid bind to port 80 fails when started via squid.sh script

2005-07-05 Thread Wayne Sierke
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE/squid-2.5.9_3 If I start squid via the script (as root), I get: /var/log/squid_cache.log: commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 11 to *:80: (13) Permission denied FATAL: Cannot open HTTP Port Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE9): Terminated abnormally. However, starting it as: # /u

Re: Questions about packages and ports

2005-07-05 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 13:25 -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On a similar note can someone remind me how to set the remote package > site for pkg_add and portupgrade -P? I remember it had something to do > with setenv but don't remember the variable it uses and I've never > used the portupgrade -P o

RE: can't figure out ssh, read lots of docs...

2005-06-04 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 10:03 -0400, fbsd_user wrote: > The abuse-reporting-system scripts can be downloaded from > > http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/fbsd_installguide/index.phpor > http://freebsd.packards-home.net/index.php > > It was submitted to FreeBSD as a port but not accepted yet. > U

Odd files in /etc/mail after 5.2->5.4 upgrade and mimedefang not working

2005-05-30 Thread Wayne Sierke
I'm trying to establish why I'm currently having a problem with my sendmail/mimedefang setup after upgrading from 5.2 to 5.4. I found these files in /etc/mail: .mc .cf .submit.mc .submit.cf I thought this looked curious, albeit (to me) meaningless: # diff -u freebsd.submit.cf .submit.cf --- fre

Re: Can I mount an ISO image directly with mount?

2005-05-30 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 11:01 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I believe I read a posting over a year ago, that stated that you could mount > an ISO file directly with mount. > > I searched the archives but couldn't find it. > I searched the FAQ and handbook as well. > > I do see a section in the

Re: Killing spam on FreeBSD

2005-05-25 Thread Wayne Sierke
Kirk, On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:50 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I recently started rejecting about 99.9% of incoming spam *without* using > challenge-response or other load-increasing methods. For details, read: > > http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/FilterMailWithPostFix > >

Assistance with installing un-ported zope Products

2005-02-19 Thread Wayne Sierke
Is there anyone who might be able to offer assistance with the installation of troublesome zope Products on a FreeBSD system? I've been struggling with trying to get the CMFFeed Product installed and can't get past the getnewsctl script failing. I'm guessing that other unported zope Products might

Sendmail rejects incoming messages with large number of 'received' headers

2005-02-06 Thread Wayne Sierke
My FreeBSD mail server includes a getmail/sendmail/maildrop combination which occasionally fails when getmail retrieves a message via POP which has a large number of 'received' headers which result in it being rejected by sendmail. Is there some way of convincing sendmail to accept these messages,

Re: How to NOT load AGP?

2004-10-07 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 10:14, Scott I. Remick wrote: > Background: > > My computer likes to lock up sometimes in XFree86. This last time it was > All along I've been using the FreeBSD AGP. I'm thinking maybe I need to try > nvidia's (some people swear one way, some the other... if only there was >

Re: apache+mod_ssl-1.3.29+2.8.16_1:

2004-05-09 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 14:16, Dirk Meyer wrote: > whitevamp schrieb:, > > > i have to go into the httpd.conf file and do this #LoadModule php4_mod > > ule and #AddModule mod_php4.c > > then start apache then go back into the httpd.conf file and remove the # 's an > > d then restart apache then itl

Re: recommends on the best webstats suite?

2004-05-04 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 02:25, Gary Kline wrote: > To the list, > > I think I have tried all that you guys have mentioned. > The only one that just-worked out of the box was > webalizer. (it's been awhile... ) awstats was a bear; > and analog was a bear++. > >

Re: MIMEDefang/Sendmail problem

2004-04-12 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 12:05, Matt Navarre wrote: > I've been trying to get MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin/ClamAV running as described in > this article: > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/01/Big_Scary_Daemons.html?page=1 > > I think I've got everything set up right, but nothing seems to be gettin

$PIR: ROUTE_INTERRUPT failed.

2004-03-29 Thread Wayne Sierke
Do I need to be concerned about these boot entries in /var/log/messages (running -CURRENT i386): kernel: pci1: on pcib1 -> kernel: $PIR: ROUTE_INTERRUPT failed. kernel: pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) and I presume to be related: kernel: vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa00

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-22 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 16:52, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > Steve Ireland wrote: > > > This is a PS/2 thing, not an operating system thing. You really can > > fry your motherboard plugging and unplugging PS/2 devices while the > > system is powered up. > > I suppose it's possible, but I know I 've ne

RE: newsyslog and apache

2004-03-22 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:07, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Hi. > > I do not run apache at all, but I am the guy who has done the > most-recent work on the newsyslog command. > > If I were to guess, I think your problem might be that you end > up sending multiple USR1 signals to apache. I haven't lo

Re: Cannot find libpthread on 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3

2004-03-22 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 05:24, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 22), Matthew Emmerton said: > > libpthread does not exist anymore. Use libc_r instead. > > Actually, libpthread exists in -current, but not in 5.2. Linking with > -lc_r should work, and in 5.2 it'll really give you libkse

Re: [Q] Best location of ntpd driftfile ?

2004-03-21 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 04:04, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Mar 21, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote: > > setting up ntpd, I find that its default location for the drift file > > is /etc/ntp.drift. > > Right, and that is probably the best location, too. > Looks like it's been moved to /v

Re: gnomemeeting still marked as forbidden but culprit ports fixed?

2004-03-18 Thread Wayne Sierke
Apologies for previous post; finger trouble in evolution... On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 03:32, Wayne Sierke wrote: > As I was updating my ports I got gnomemeeting failing as forbidden with > a reference to: > http://people.freebsd.org/~eik/portaudit/27c331d5-64c7-11d8-80e3-0020ed76ef5a.html &

gnomemeeting still marked as forbidden but culprit ports fixed?

2004-03-18 Thread Wayne Sierke
As I was updating my ports I got gnomemeeting failing as forbidden with a reference to: http://people.freebsd.org/~eik/portaudit/27c331d5-64c7-11d8-80e3-0020ed76ef5a.html which says: Affects: * pwlib <1.6.0 * asterisk <=0.7.2 * openh323 <=1.12.0_2 __

Re: ClamAV Log Rotation (WAS: Antivirus suggestion...)

2004-03-16 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 08:45, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: > Hope this is of some use: > > > Clamd log rotation: > > first and foremost, make sure that clamav is gonna drop a pidfile. in > /usr/local/etc/clamav.conf, uncomment: > > # This option allows you to save the process identifier of the lis

Sound problem with short sounds (aureal 8830)

2004-03-16 Thread Wayne Sierke
FreeBSD-5.2-RELEASE w/aureal 8830 (Xitel Storm Platinum) I appear to be having the problem with playback of short sound (.wav) files which I found a discussion about in the freebsd-multimedia archives (from about June of last year - albeit for a different card). That thread appeared to culminate i

Re: log rotation

2004-03-15 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 23:07, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:30:05PM +1030, Wayne Sierke typed: > > On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 10:37, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > > Quick questions: > > > I've run across some mumblings in the ClamAV lists about Clamd n

Re: log rotation

2004-03-15 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 10:37, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > Quick questions: > I've run across some mumblings in the ClamAV lists about Clamd not > logging anymore (or not scanning anymore?) when the maximum > logfile size is reached. Is anyone in FreeBSD running this, and if so, > are you using Newsys

Re: Unable to mount .iso image using md(4)

2004-03-11 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 02:41, Wayne Sierke wrote: > I don't seem to be able to mount any .iso images on 5.2-RELEASE: > > # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /root/tomsrtbt_1_7_361.iso > md0 > # mount_cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt > mount_cd9660: /dev/md0: Invalid argument > # mdconfig -l

Unable to mount .iso image using md(4)

2004-03-11 Thread Wayne Sierke
I don't seem to be able to mount any .iso images on 5.2-RELEASE: # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /root/tomsrtbt_1_7_361.iso md0 # mount_cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt mount_cd9660: /dev/md0: Invalid argument # mdconfig -l md0 # I get the same result on two different systems (both 5.2-RELEASE but not identical i

Re: using hyperterminal

2004-03-08 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 10:56, Ryan Merrick wrote: > Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote: > > How is `tip` related to well-known windows' hyperterminal? E.g. can I use > > hyperterm-to-tip style connection? If they're using different protocols, is > > there a BSD hyperterminal version? > > > Hi, > > Tip is

Automatically maintaining dns server addresses from an external router

2004-03-07 Thread Wayne Sierke
As indicated in another thread (ssh disconnecting) I currently have a D-Link router managing my dynamic-IP Internet connection. I currently let my workstations use the dns services provided by the router since the router "knows" the current IP addresses for the upstream dns servers. I would like t

Re: ssh disconnecting [WAS: Getting Cut-Off]

2004-03-07 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 08:17, Rishi Chopra wrote: > Wayne, > > I left an SSH connection open to my server last night, and it was still > connected this morning; the amount of time exceeded that of past > sessions when I was unexpectedly disconnected. > > I understand your reasoning when stating

Re: ssh disconnecting [WAS: Getting Cut-Off]

2004-03-06 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 02:14, Malcolm Kay wrote: > We have installed 15 EPIA systems and in a few months have had 3 mother > boards replaced for problems with the on board vr interface. > > A bit of a search reveals a large number of reported problems from most > version of BSD, Linux and even the

Re: ssh disconnecting [WAS: Getting Cut-Off]

2004-03-06 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 01:37, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Wayne Sierke wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 01:09, Chuck Swiger wrote: > [ ... ] > > Can I disable ACPI with the server running, or am I going to have to > > restart? > > acpiconf -d > Ok, did this. > &

Re: Getting Cut-Off

2004-03-06 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 00:06, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Rishi Chopra wrote: > > I connect to the FreeBSD machine via SSH, and use secure file transfer > > to upload/download from the machine. > > > > In the last week, the FreeBSD machine has dropped my connection on 3 > > seperate occasions. I'll qu

Re: ssh disconnecting [WAS: Getting Cut-Off]

2004-03-06 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 01:09, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Wayne Sierke wrote: > [ ... ] > > I've been having a similar problem, afaict since I moved my server to > > 5.2-RELEASE from 4.8-RELEASE and to a EPIA 5000 board (from a Pentium > > system). > > > > I&#

USB cameras - Xirlink IBM PC Camera/W9967CF

2004-03-06 Thread Wayne Sierke
I have the following two cameras on-hand: kernel: ugen0: WINBOND W9967CF, rev 1.10/1.10, addr 3 kernel: ugen2: Xirlink IBM PC Camera, rev 0.01/0.02, addr 8 I can't find anything to support either of these cameras. Just wondering whether I've missed something obvious? It appears that the W9967CF

Re: ssh disconnecting [WAS: Getting Cut-Off]

2004-03-06 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 19:39, Rishi Chopra wrote: > Wayne, > > I would not suspect the hardware. My suspicion is this has something to > do with SSH configuration. Is there a setting within the FreeBSD SSH > configuration files that specifies disconnection of idle connections? > > I didn't thi

ssh disconnecting [WAS: Getting Cut-Off]

2004-03-06 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 16:45, Rishi Chopra wrote: > I have two machines in my loft (a FreeBSD server and a Win2k box) > connected via CAT5 crossover cable. > > I connect to the FreeBSD machine via SSH, and use secure file transfer > to upload/download from the machine. > > In the last week, the

Re: Size of variables in awk

2004-03-03 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 02:48, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 03), Wayne Sierke said: > > On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 18:34, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > In the last episode (Mar 03), Wayne Sierke said: > > > > It seems I've run into the 32-bit signed numb

Re: Size of variables in awk

2004-03-03 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 18:34, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 03), Wayne Sierke said: > > It seems I've run into the 32-bit signed number wall in awk > > (5.2-RELEASE). > > > > My totals are maxing out at 2147483648. > > > > Would anyone h

Size of variables in awk

2004-03-02 Thread Wayne Sierke
It seems I've run into the 32-bit signed number wall in awk (5.2-RELEASE). My totals are maxing out at 2147483648. Would anyone happen to know whether that's really the case (that awk is only implemented with 32-bit number capability - unfortunately I don't have any other awks nearby to verify no

Re: System hangs when I go from X to console (nvidia)

2004-02-19 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 04:31, Graeme Smith wrote: > I wonder if anybody has had this problem or can tell me what to try > next. > > I installed a Geforce 2 400 MX into my machine yesterday and actually > succeeded in getting it to work with X after 12 hours. All apart > from from one annoying

RE: How to deal with package conflicts (apache)?

2004-02-13 Thread Wayne Sierke
Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:24:32PM +1030, W. Sierke wrote: > > How should I deal with package conflicts such as > > apache13/apache13-mod_ssl... > > > > I've installed apache13-mod_ssl but a couple of other ports I want to > > install want apache13 (specifically apache-1.3.29

RE: I'm really upset with my new computer

2004-02-09 Thread Wayne Sierke
Jerry McAllister wrote: > > I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX > permissions on their > > proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a > patch is committed > > into the source tree. > > That doesn't make any sense. No hard drive vendor "supports UNIX > permissions" on t

'Best' way of adding quoted string options to Makefile/pkgtools.conf?

2003-12-30 Thread Wayne Sierke
I was trying to add the following type of option to a port's Makefile: --option='space delimited list' (that's how it was indicated it should be presented in the port's installation notes). Not knowing the "correct" way to achieve it as a combination of Makefile/pkgtools.conf entries I ended up