Re: cups-1.3.3 not compiling anymore in FreeBSD 7.0

2007-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
deinstall make clean make reinstall in the cups-base port directory. I don't know if this will work for others. I don't know why it worked for me. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ _

Different DNS responses depending on query source

2007-10-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
s of bind, listening on different IPs (possibly using jails). But I don't have an IP address to spare on the DMZ. So is there a way to have bind listening on the only interface and IP address the host can have give different answers depending on where the query comes from? Chee

Re: Different DNS responses depending on query source

2007-10-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Yuri Pankov wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: So is there a way to have bind listening on the only interface and IP address the host can have give different answers depending on where the query comes from? You can use BIND's "view"

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Robin Becker wrote: At present I have reduced the email to a textual format with an embedded textual link. So the email looks like Your Document, Thank you for your inquiry. below is a link to the brochures as requested, in Adobe Acrobat format. It include

Re: OpenEXR linking error

2007-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
sing 6.2-RELENG Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Robin Becker wrote: these all sound very reasonable. However, we use the same IP for several virtual hosts ie we have more than one domain name so the reverse DNS is not clear to me. Is the from address inspected for comparison with the RDNS ie if I claim to be

Re: Error -mailman installation through ports

2007-10-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
lt postfix installation. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Virtual email server

2007-10-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 17, 2007, at 10:46 PM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 22:40 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: Postfix, cyrus courier imap/pop and squirrelmail - use mysql to tie it all together. +1 ;; Me, too. -j __

pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format

2007-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
Yesterday I moved from 6.2-RELENG to 7-RELENG and everything worked fine (though I do have a few questions about mergemaster that I'll ask later). As suggested on this list, I started to rebuild all of my ports. I started with portupgrade -f '<2007-11-01 12:00' and all seemed to go well

Re: pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format

2007-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Nov 2, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: $ sudo pkgdb -v -F ---> Checking the package registry database /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument $ sudo file /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (H

Re: ok... what did i miss?

2007-11-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Nov 4, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Jonathan Horne wrote: all my 6.2 computers say the correct time, but my 7.0 BETA-2 says an hour ahead (as in, it didnt make the DST change last night on its own). My 7.0 BETA1 machine switched to winter time just fine. -j __

Re: ok... what did i miss?

2007-11-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Nov 4, 2007, at 4:02 PM, icantthinkofone wrote: I have the correct time but it says CST for Central Standard. Why doesn't it say CDST? Standard time is what we have in the winter. Daylight Savings time is what we have in the summer. I know this is counter-intuitive since we are on D

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 24, 2007, at 2:20 AM, Erik Cederstrand wrote: I know this is not an answer, but why not just upgrade to 7.0 if you need the C7 support? I'm on 7B3, but when I look at /usr/src/share/examples/etc/make.conf, I just see this # Currently the following CPU types are recognized: # Intel

Re: Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 10, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Could you downgrade Mailman and see if the problem still persists? I run the combination you have (except Mailman is 2.1.9 and FreeBSD is 6.3) and I haven't had an issue. Might be a bug introduced in Mailman 2.1.11 I'm running mailman 2.1

Re: MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-29 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 26, 2008, at 7:23 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: 1) Incoming SMTP (e.g. someIP:* --> yourIP:25) 2) Outbound SMTP (e.g. yourIP:* --> someIP:25) #2 has become prominent in the past few years, and is applied by ISPs because they want to curb their customers sending spam out onto the Internet (us

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
stripped and only 35 not stripped. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Firewalls using a DNSbl (and distributed ssh attacks)

2008-12-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
; from another IP followed by an attempt on "fredrick" from a third source and so on. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: named issue

2009-09-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
ilservers are making to the spamhaus blocking list. How many queries to the ZEN Spamhaus DNSBL are you making per day? If you exceed their "non-commercial" usage, they will cut you off. See http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html -j -- Jeffrey Goldbe

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. I prefer the milter as it allows you to reject mail early in the process. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: usenet configuration

2009-10-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 2, 2009, at 2:21 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: Aflatoon Aflatooni said the following on 2009-10-01 19:17: What is needed in order to run nntp? INN https://www.isc.org/software/inn A faq for INN is at http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html Diablo gttp://www.openusenet.org/diablo A faq fo

spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-01 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
discussion on the SA mailing list, and it is likely that some fix will be in with the next batch of rule updates for those who use sa-update. But if you aren't willing to wait or you don't use sa-update, I recommend the above workaround. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldbe

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-01 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 1, 2010, at 5:19 PM, RW wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:05:54 -0600 > Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > > >> it is likely that >> some fix will be in with the next batch of rule updates for those who >> use sa-update. > > It's already available in

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
w. Thank you both for your help on getting me to maintain my system better. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ 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: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
the defaults to "NO" and include a pkg-message that instructs people to add the enabling lines in /etc/periodic.conf.local I'm also wondering about the name of the port. This really is only one utility. Anyway, those are trivial concerns. The substance of your port all loo

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
d to a kernel panic. This problem has been fixed, but I still am extra careful with my USB backup disks: (1) Power for the back-up disks should be on a UPS (2) umount the file systems on the back-up disk when not in use. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldma

Re: Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C)

2008-03-24 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 24, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Patrick C wrote: Another option would be to dig out the associated code in pine, elm, or whatnot. See how they access mail. What is used in pine (now alpine) is the c-client libraries already mentioned in another post. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: Pine Corupting Inbox

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
eport that back here. Good luck. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
nd that this has already been done by people who are smarter and more experienced than I am. So recommendations please. -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Pine Corupting Inbox

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
sted, have you looked for any errors logged by imapd in your system logs? Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
ere some day. If I can deal with the security issue for the remote back-up this will be a perfect solution. If I can't I won't do remote back-up on the machine that is awkward to reach, I'll just have to re-arrange things. Thanks. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Problems mounting by label

2008-04-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
e to how this should be done, but something is a bit off. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: [CRON] Recommended FTP client to download and upload files?

2008-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
would you recommend for this? lftp in ports. It is very scriptable and has built in facilities to only copy "newer" files. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Installing PERL modules from CPAN (instead of ports)

2008-05-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 4, 2008, at 11:59 AM, Sahil Tandon wrote: Yes, making a new port is the easiest way to install something from CPAN. I do prefer to keep everything organized in ports, so I created my first port: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/123382 Let's hope I did

Re: living with freebsd

2008-05-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
re tempted to keep closer to GENERIC and use packages. But I only have FreeBSD servers on which I don't even run an X11 server. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 5, 2008, at 6:17 PM, doug wrote: To give limited priviledges I think sudo (as in linux??) would be used. I concur that sudo is really a very good way of managing privileges. I don't even know the root passwords on the systems that I administer (OK, I do have them stored in a nice

Re: telnet to mail server from outside does not get 220, telnet from inside works

2008-05-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 12, 2008, at 9:04 AM, brad davison wrote: But if I try the same thing from 'outside' the firewall I get: %telnet email..com 25 Trying 67.x.x.x... Connected to email.xxx.com. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. Have you checked to see what yo

Re: Lock down the all-staff email list? sendmail, alias, majordomo?

2008-05-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
ut of this situation. You have already given the answer. Use a mailing list management system like majordomo. I recommend mailman. By the way, mailman is what is used for managing the FreeBSD mailing lists. The announce list is set up so that only certain individuals can post to it. -j

Re: Bind DNS

2008-05-23 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 22, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi ALL, Is it possible in BIND DNS to block images in a certain sites? like for example the popular friends site ( friendster), i want to block most images in that site so that client will be irritated that their images don't load perfectl

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
th using soekris net48XX boxes using m0n0wall http://m0n0.ch/wall/ or pfsense http://www.pfsense.com/ both FreeBSD based. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 28, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: For small and medium sized enterprises that really just need firewall, NAT, static routing and are fine with 100Mb ether on the router, I've been happy with using soekris net48XX boxes using m0n0wall small but expensive. used 486-pent

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-29 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
n mind the next time I need to build or recommend or purchase such a device. I wasn't aware that you could get NetBSD with enough usable tools on 2MB, but I see that now. Thank you, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://w

Re: Need to build a new mail server

2008-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 30, 2008, at 10:39 AM, DAve wrote: That so much time and effort is spent telling everyone how bad qmail is still amazes me. Is it still the case that qmail does not reject mail during SMTP transaction, but instead will do an "accept and then later bounce"? If this is still true, th

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
like the old BSDie, use it. If you like the new logo, use that. If you want something else, you are free to roll your own. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 8, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Raphael Becker wrote: find . -type -f -exec grep {} \+ -exec foo {} \+ behaves like xargs foo -exec foo {} \; exec foo for every file Way cool! I hadn't known that about find(1). Cheers, -j ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing)

2007-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jul 12, 2007, at 1:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why, despite sending multiple e-mails to the unsubscribe address, am I continued to be subscribed to this list?? Any help would be grand. My guess is that you are subscribed using a different address than the one that you think you are.

Re: Transparent email proxy

2007-07-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
hings transparently? -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

postfix + spamassassin via milter

2007-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
recommended way to go with this? I see that there is a mail/spamass- milter port. I anyone using that with postfix 2.4.3? Thanks. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: postfix + spamassassin via milter

2007-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
capabilities, I won't go this route. But thanks for the suggestion. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: postfix + spamassassin via milter

2007-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jul 15, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I running postfix from ports. I would like to block as much spam as possible during the SMTP session. [...] I see that postfix now does sendmail style milters. Is that the recommended way to go with this? I see that there is a mail

Re: Transparent email proxy

2007-07-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
chanism on the submission port, but it appears that ISPs aren't doing enough to get their users to do things that way. Good luck with this. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: IMAP Sent Folder and Address Book Question

2007-07-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jul 16, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 16, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Does the IMAP protocol support storing the sent folder from thunderbird and the local addressbook on the IMAP server? In case a computer fails? I want to use dovecot or UW-IMAP instead of POP

Waiting for BIND security announcement

2007-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
n issue for me since my name servers aren't publicly queryable, but I am curios about how things like security problems in src/contrib get handled in FreeBSD. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

Re: Waiting for BIND security announcement

2007-08-01 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
me if this kind of thing doesn't get patched in the latest RELEASE. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: Waiting for BIND security announcement

2007-08-01 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
while tracking RELENG_N_M ("release with patches") I'll use bind from ports. Are there other things in /usr/src/contrib that follow this pattern? hth, Yes, it helps a great deal. Thank you very much for your work on this and your patience with me. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: Waiting for BIND security announcement

2007-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
on myself like remembering to update the serial numbers myself. (Big shouting reminder comments at both ends of the zone files seem to do the trick) Also, while I'm extremely happy with dnspark.net, having one instance of the authoritative zone data fully under my control makes me

stty: unknown mode: doofus

2007-08-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
this would be appreciated Jeffrey (doofus) Goldberg -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, sen

Re: stty: unknown mode: doofus

2007-08-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 4, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Bill Moran wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And was prompted for my password. I entered it (probably miskeyed it as I was leaning over the keyboard from a strange position and got a response back of stty: unknown mode: doofus D

Re: performance hints (6.2)

2007-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
rus or zimbra over UW-IMAP, but on this performance and scalability issue, UW-IMAP has had an unfair rap. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
ny public IP address it might have. There may be several of these if the machine had multiple IP addresses. And three are "role" names for all of the services it runs. This way, if I want to move a service to a different host, that is relatively easy. -j --

snapshot is corrupt

2007-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
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.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.Fre

Re: snapshot is corrupt

2007-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
that, you only need to do 'portsnap update' when you want to update the ports and it should not take too long if you have updated them recently. Ah. I somehow over looked the "update" portsnap command. Thank you. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://w

Re: snapshot is corrupt

2007-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 8, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Steve Bernacki wrote: This happens to me from time to time on a few older (6.1) systems. Typically, re-running "portsnap fetch" clears the issue. I did another fetch and that did seem to solve the problem. So I didn't have to go to the more drastic solution of

Re: fbsd & sendmail as MTA

2007-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
what their kids are up to. I've used the mime-defang milter for this. I was already using MIME- Defang for other things, and I wouldn't recommend going with it if your only need is to add blind recipients to various messages. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 13, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: I think I may have a better solution. The file I'm trying to massage has a predecessor - the non-unique lines are the result of a concatenation of two files. Silly me, it's better to 'grep -v' with the one file vs. the second rather than trying to m

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
27;ll keep it in mind for other things. Maybe I haven't understood what you are after. If you want to get lines that exist in either file1 or file2 but not both (and if the files are already sorted) then comm -3 file1 file2 will do that. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card?

2007-09-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 14, 2007, at 1:25 AM, Subhro Kar wrote: No offence meant, but why would you like to upgrade a "home" network to Gbit? Is it required at all? I've been slowly undertaking the same kind of upgrade and so would like to know whether my reasons are sound. As of six months ago all of th

Re: Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card?

2007-09-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 14, 2007, at 9:56 AM, David Kelly wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:55:33AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: As of six months ago all of the daily used desktops (three) in my house are gigabit, but none of the servers are. For the past year or so any time I bought a new switch, I&#x

Re: Telnet & smtp

2007-09-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
should be listening for SMTP traffic. As an aside, since you are already running sshd, there really is no need to run telnetd. I would recommend turning that off if there isn't a compelling need to run it. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.go

Re: kernel make fails

2007-02-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 15, 2007, at 11:45 PM, Gary Schenk wrote: After editing and successfully running "make cleandepend" and "make depend", my custom kernel failed during "make" with this output: : undefined reference to `ieee80211_next_scan' *** Error code 1 If you have removed all Wireless LAN stuff

Re: pkg_version: not found

2007-02-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 17, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Richard Collyer wrote: there is no pkg_version in that dir but pkg_version -v works. Odd no? Try which pkg_version to find out the path of the one that is working. Also try whereis pkg_version -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: pkg_version: not found

2007-02-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 18, 2007, at 4:49 AM, Richard Collyer wrote: I'm guessing a sym link from /usr/local/sbin/ to the correct location would be ok? I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be ok. But keep in mind that I've been using FreeBSD for less than two weeks. Cheers, -j

Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions

2007-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
/www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd- questions/index.html I was initially surprised by the conventions used on this list, but am growing more accustomed to them and trying to comply, even thought it isn't what I do for most of the lists I'm on. Che

Re: How Do I Surf To My Server?

2007-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
know, so it is hard to be more specific. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How Do I Surf To My Server?

2007-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 19, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Drew Jenkins wrote: From: Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Can you tell us more about your home set-up? Presumably you have some sort of router doing NAT and DHCP? Tell us about it. I had, but perhaps in a different thread, so forgive me for not p

Re: Remote access to config FreeBSD server

2007-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
lation. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Reg, User rights

2007-02-22 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
I like the idea of not having to give out a root-like password but still to require authentication when operating as root. Ever since I learned this trick from OS X, I've been using it everywhere I can install sudo. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghtt

Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries

2007-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
27;t yours. Szervusz, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries

2007-02-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
, there is an article about the GPL that appeared in Alaplap in 1994 titled "Van aki szabadon szereti" ("Some like it free") by me and translated from English to Hungarian by Horlai Janos. Unfortunately, I can't find the exact reference. Cheers,

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
is to have people make commitments of the form I will do X if at least N other people commit to doing X. Someone has to keep track of those commitments (I'm *not* volunteering) but there is this group participation protocol that has been used by various volunteer organizations

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

2007-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
Usenet group comp.mail.imap -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

2007-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
not being universally support and it means that the server stores an unencrypted copy of the users' secret credentials. I, personally, don't use it for the servers I have managed. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmar

Re: Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe

2007-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
out of less when you are done and the output will have gone to outputfile -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

2007-02-27 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. Maybe something in there will help. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Future of FreeBSD 7.0 and up

2007-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Dwight Smith wrote: I guess my question is that will the ease of building or installing software for FreeBSD ever streamline to where you do not have to do as many steps and text config file entries? I've recently moved back to BSD from more than a decade of lin

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
/private/etc/postfix/ in all of the paths mentioned with /usr/local/etc/postfix/ -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: The FreeBSD's Implementation Language

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
me. So from this point on, for any question that you ask which can be answered with a little bit of your own digging around through what is already made public on the 'net, I am going to recommend that you do that digging yourself. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
FAQs) for the particular MTA you use will point you to how to plug in such tools into their MTA. As I've suggested, I'm not a particular fan of this particular counter measure, but you will have seen that opinions differ. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
of the world. I hope this helps. And keep in mind that different people will offer different advise. I certainly believe my advise is good advise (otherwise I wouldn't have offered it), but I'm also aware that I could well be wrong.

gcc internal error on buildkernel

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
goldmark.org/temp/make.conf And a copy of my kernel configuration file is at http://ntp0.goldmark.org/temp/DOBBY Any clues or suggestions would be most welcome. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
or the my.dom.ain part. The more correct information you provide, the less mail from your system will look like spam. But even "localhost.local" would be OK (though a useful domain name would be better). Using "google.com" would make it look like you are up to no good.

How to reinstall gcc

2007-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
, how do a install a functioning gcc? -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: How to reinstall gcc

2007-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 13, 2007, at 4:37 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: My question is without a functioning gcc, how do a install a functioning gcc? It seems to me that the easiest way would be to do a binary install/upgrade from the distribution CD. You might even get away with copying

Re: Exim 4.66 Causing Kernel Panics?

2007-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 13, 2007, at 5:39 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: Anyone aware of a reason why a fresh build/install of exim 4.66 would cause kernel panics and reboots on my FreeBSD 6.1 machine? My machine, just out of the blue this morning, started rebooting every 3 minutes I narrowed it down to exim I t

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
1-1) has a good discussion of the need for other hosts being able to reverse resolve the IP of your mail hub. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

CPUTYPE for VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX

2007-03-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
piling for my system. Does anyone have a similar system? And what CPUTYPE or local tuning do you recommend? A dmesg for the system is available at http://ntp0.goldmark.org/temp/dmesg Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.go

SUMMARY: CPUTYPE for VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX

2007-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[mailed, posted and bcc'ed to off list respondents] First let me quote my original query: I have one of these CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (999.52-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x691 Stepping = 1 Features=0x380b035 http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp

Re: Optimizationn questions?

2007-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 15, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Jorn Argelo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Danny Pansters wrote: I know that this has been discussed a few times before, but IMO running a slightly stripped down kernel (i.e. custom, not GENERIC) actually proves to be helpful in increa

Re: Optimizationn questions?

2007-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 16, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:19:25AM +0100, Danny Pansters wrote: On Friday 16 March 2007 01:04:51 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: me, too. Of course it will speed up booting but then again how much time does one spend booting, compared to

Re: recommend console email client?

2007-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 18, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: alpine => said to support charset conversion but cannot find any link for downloading it. The link for downloading alpine is deliberately not made public. That is because alpine is considered alpha and UW seems to want everyone who is testin

Re: Simple sendmail.cf question

2007-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
te the .cf files from the .mc files using m4. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

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