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: 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: 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?

2007-10-01 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?

2007-10-01 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: 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: 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

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: 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 >

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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

[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: 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

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

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: 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

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 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: 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: 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 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 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 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 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

2007-12-09 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

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: (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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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

2008-11-12 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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. _

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: X11 forwarding problems in FreeBSD 6.2 - no xauth data?

2007-07-10 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 08 July 2007 18:03:49 Pollywog wrote: > I am having some problems with X11 forwarding. I can do X11 forwarding via > ssh between two machines running Linux, but if I try to do this from > FreeBSD (KDE) to either of the Linux machines, it only works if I use > startx to star

Re: X11 forwarding problems in FreeBSD 6.2 - no xauth data?

2007-07-10 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 14:41:01 Pollywog wrote: > > I just did 'ssh' to one of the Linux hosts and when the connection was > made, I got this: > > Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. > > Does this possibly have som

gpg-agent

2007-07-10 Thread Pollywog
I have been having trouble getting gpg-agent to work. kgpg complained about the agent not running. I added this to my ~/.bashrc: GPG_TTY=`tty` export GPG_TTY This seems to have taken care of the problem but it only works when my default shell is bash. If my shell is tcsh, it doesn't work. Th

Re: gpg-agent

2007-07-10 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 19:24:33 Matt Emmerton wrote: > > I have been having trouble getting gpg-agent to work. kgpg complained > > about > > > the agent not running. I added this to my ~/.bashrc: > > > > GPG_TTY=`tty` > > export GPG_TTY > > > > This seems to have taken care of the problem but it

Re: X11 forwarding problems in FreeBSD 6.2 - no xauth data? [SOLVED]

2007-07-11 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 23:17:42 Albert Shih wrote: > Le 10/07/2007 à 14:41:01-0700, Pollywog a écrit > > > On Sunday 08 July 2007 18:03:49 Pollywog wrote: > > > I am having some problems with X11 forwarding. I can do X11 forwarding > > > via ssh between two machin

Re: Mouse deamon problems.

2007-07-11 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 12 July 2007 00:55:24 Desmond Chapman wrote: > I am installing FreeBSD and it does not recognize the USB ports, the PS/2 > port, or even the mouse types: Intellimouse, Microsoft Mouse, > Generic/Auto. How do I go about enabling the mouse daemon? And yes, I have > tried the set up. It d

Re: X11 forwarding problems in FreeBSD 6.2 - no xauth data? [SOLVED]

2007-07-12 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 12 July 2007 13:59:54 Andy Greenwood wrote: > > I had this same problem recently on my server. the sshd_config man > page says that the default location for xauth is /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth, > but mine was installed as /usr/local/bin/xauth. adding > > XAuthLocation /usr/local/bin/xauth >

Re: www/linux-flashplayer7 - now works with SOUND on youtube

2007-07-12 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 12 July 2007 19:35:47 RW wrote: > > I don't recall ever having a problem with sound on youtube with Flash7 > - the problems were with Flash9 which relies on ALSA. Does that mean Flash9 is a no-go on FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

ssh-copy-id

2007-07-13 Thread Pollywog
Since FreeBSD does not have ssh-copy-id as part of the OpenSSH package, what is the best way to copy a public key to an account on another host? Some Linuxes (Debian and Ubuntu) have a ssh-copy-id script for this in their OpenSSH packages. ___ freebsd

Re: www/linux-flashplayer7 - now works with SOUND on youtube

2007-07-13 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 14 July 2007 00:27:40 Nikola Lecic wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:33:04 +1000 > > "Paul Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually that's not entirely true - the only "problem" is sound drops > > out of sync almost straight away, but otherwise it works just fine. > > Hm, this is v

Re: FreeBSD-6.1 bootup hangs after power failure

2007-07-14 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 14 July 2007 17:36:05 Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: > > Thank you for your tips. I will download the FreeSBIE live CD tomorrow > and follow it up with your suggestions. > > One thing I find FreeBSD very fussy and sensitive in comparison to Linux > OSes is that whenever there is an power out

Re: FreeBSD-6.1 bootup hangs after power failure

2007-07-14 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 14 July 2007 18:39:04 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > Generally the APC UPSes work fine with FreeBSD. There is the apcupsd > port for controlled unattended shutdowns. They work fine in Linux too > with the same program. > You may also find other solutions that work fine with the nutups prog

Re: connecting user root with ssh

2007-07-24 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 11:33:26 Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2007 02:06:38 -0700 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > * If "root" cannot log in remotely, a cracker has to guess three > > guess or brute force - so quite long random passwords (or ssh keys) are > extremely recommendable. > >

Re: ssh X11 forwarding not working on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-07-24 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 15:59:22 Terry Todd wrote: > I have installed Xming successfully on a Windows XP system. > It works OK to a FC6 system and an older UNIXware system. > > However when trying to connect to a FreeBSD 6.2 system with PuTTY > ssh it doesn't work. PuTTY has Enable X11 forwarding

Re: ssh X11 forwarding not working on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-07-24 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 18:30:59 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > I would guess that it's an xauth(1) problem. > Make sure that XAuthLocation is set ,in sshd_config(5), to the right > path for the xauth executable (probably /usr/local/bin/xauth, if > you've done the update to X.Org 7.2. > > That's just a sh

Re: Can't burn cds

2007-07-26 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 27 July 2007 02:38:31 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On July 27, 2007 2:07:47 AM +0000 Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > I had trouble getting CD burning to work, but the FreeBSD Handbook had > > the info I needed to get it to work. I had to modify my fst

Re: Can't burn cds

2007-07-26 Thread Pollywog
s in Linux, but it works. The pertinent sections of my fstab: /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/cd0 /usr/home/pollywog/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto,nodev,nosuid 0 0 I also had to add myself (my username) to the operator group. To make it more convenien

Re: Xvnc query to gdm failing

2007-07-27 Thread Pollywog
> sudo find / | grep gdm.conf > > yields nothing. Where is it storing its settings if not in gdm.conf? Did you check /usr/local/etc/gdm/ ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: oops, what have i done!

2007-07-28 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 28 July 2007 20:23:16 Erik Trulsson wrote: > Short answer: It is perfectly normal. Don't worry. > > > Longer answer: > > The reason you have all of them installed is that some ports need one of > them, and others need another one etc. > It is perfectly safe to have all of them instal

Re: what triggers "you have mail"

2007-08-02 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 02 August 2007 15:43:36 David Banning wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:05:47AM +1000, Terry Sposato wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > It is most likely coming to your mailbox setup. You can create an alias > > for it to be delivered appropriately to your maildir. > > Do what configuration

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-08 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 09 August 2007 04:22:26 Latitude wrote: > I'm interested in changing over to FreeBSD from Windows, but I'll have > to say, you guys don't really present a forceful argument to Windows > users of how easy the switch may be. I get knee-deep in FreeBSD jargon > the second I get to your we

Re: How do I make install clean a port in the background

2007-08-10 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 10 August 2007 01:29:02 Valentin Bud wrote: > > A good ideea would be to build screen static. In case you > update your system, it is possible that the libraries on which screen > depends might be deleted. To do so > # make CONFIGURE_ENV=LDFLAGS="-static" build > # make install > that

ldap server and client conflicts, with Postfix and Courier in the mix

2007-08-10 Thread Pollywog
I want to install the LDAP server but it complains that it conflicts with LDAP client: ===> openldap-server-2.3.37 conflicts with installed package(s): openldap-client-2.3.37 However, attempting to remove the client to make room for the server results in another complaint: pkg_delete: p

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 16 August 2007 21:39:25 Laszlo Nagy wrote: > Now I'm starting to loose my enthusiasm about FreeBSD! > > - sshfs works for Linux, but not for FreeBSD, although ssh is open > source and well documented. The guy who developed it says that he could > not implement fuse very well because th

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 17 August 2007 04:11:17 Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 17), Pollywog said: > > On Thursday 16 August 2007 21:39:25 Laszlo Nagy wrote: > > > Now I'm starting to loose my enthusiasm about FreeBSD! > > > > > > - sshfs works for Linux,

installing/using phpMyAdmin

2007-08-17 Thread Pollywog
I am running FreeBSD 6.2 and I installed phpMyAdmin from ports, but when I put http://hostname/phpMyAdmin in a browser, I get "the requested URL was not found..." Is some additional configuration required or is the problem that I can only access phpMyAdmin from localhost? I have not tried that

fusefs-encfs now compiles in 6.2

2007-08-17 Thread Pollywog
Someone suggested I try to compile encfs again and since I updated my system two days ago, I tried again and fusefs-encfs now compiles. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

question about reporting bugs

2007-08-17 Thread Pollywog
I have a problem with the jabberd port in FreeBSD 6.2. The script apparently is not being executed on boot, though it works if executed manually. Who gets the bug report, the porter? Is the porter the person named for the port at FreshPorts? ___ free

Re: installing/using phpMyAdmin

2007-08-17 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 17 August 2007 17:25:46 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Yes, there is some more configuration to do. First of all you need > to make phpmyadmin appear at an appropriate place in your web tree. > That's what the package message is all about -- which you can see > again by: > > pkg_info -Dx

Re: repo-copy (CVS): What dows it mean?

2007-08-17 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 17 August 2007 23:45:36 Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Hello, > > english is not my native language so I need some help to understand what > people mean when they talk about "repo-copy". > I often see that in CVS logs. > My standard dictionary couldn't help this time... :( > repository cop

Re: question about reporting bugs

2007-08-18 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 18 August 2007 16:15:53 Nikola Lecic wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:53:27 + > > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a problem with the jabberd port in FreeBSD 6.2. > > The script apparently is not being executed on boot, though it works >

problem with supfile

2007-08-18 Thread Pollywog
Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the problem is the tag but I am unsure why: *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2 *default delete use-rel-suffix # If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than

Re: problem with supfile

2007-08-18 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 18 August 2007 19:47:21 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the > > problem is the tag but I am unsure why: > > > > *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org > > *default base=/var/db >

Re: problem with supfile

2007-08-18 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 18 August 2007 20:26:53 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > I suggest you read the example files in /usr/share/examples/cvsup. You > will get it instantly. Thanks. I do get it now, after reading your post and looking at the sample files. ___ freebs

Re: installing/using phpMyAdmin

2007-08-19 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 19 August 2007 12:45:24 vuthecuong wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > I am running FreeBSD 6.2 and I installed phpMyAdmin from ports, but when > > I put http://hostname/phpMyAdmin in a browser, I get "the requested URL > > was not found..." > > > > I

Re: installing/using phpMyAdmin

2007-08-19 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 19 August 2007 15:02:04 Gerard wrote: > On August 19, 2007 at 10:01AM Pollywog wrote: > > I did but I think there is another problem somewhere, so for the time > > being I will do without phpMyAdmin in FreeBSD. > > Could you post the relevant portions of the httpd.

Re: installing/using phpMyAdmin

2007-08-19 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 19 August 2007 23:32:58 vuthecuong wrote: > You can try by adding slash (/) ad the end of above url > it will be looked like: > http://hostname/phpMyAdmin/ Thanks, I tried that one too. I am certain it's my configuration. I will have a look at some tutorials, and I am almost certain th

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 23 August 2007 21:37:53 dgmm wrote: > > So rather than look for multiple methods to reduce the amount of incoming > to *my* address I should just accept it all and filter it locally? > > That seems rather irresponsible to me, ANy method which can help stop it > source appeaers on the

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 24 August 2007 00:22:12 Danny Pansters wrote: > I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam (my mail > goes through a hosting provider, I (post-)filter locally) and a significant > part of it is loaded with technical terms, even FreeBSD specific. I suppose > it's mea

Re: harassed by mplayer on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64

2007-08-24 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 24 August 2007 15:33:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, everybody...I've downloaded mplayer but there is not a graphical > interface... and how do I configure it? I have used it in Linux and I know that in Linux, to have a graphical interface, one has to specify that during "configur

Re: List of legal Wireless bands

2007-08-26 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 26 August 2007 17:15:35 Steven wrote: > Hi I am looking for a list of wireless bands and sub bands that can be > freely used for a private home network. I believe that would depend on the country of one's residence. What is legal in one country might run one afoul of the law (and their

Re: Important Message...

2007-08-30 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 30 August 2007 15:24:23 Glen Barber wrote: > I must reply to about 25 of these per week... but I never hear anything > back. Why would you reply to them? You will just get added to more of their lucky lottery lists and maybe get the list added too. __

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 31 August 2007 15:32:26 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > There will also probably be loads of people replying to tell you > that it is not a devil but a character representing a daemon that > is a helpful sprite and that it is not a logo, but a mascot. I think that is much less different tha

Re: wpa_supplicant question

2007-09-01 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 01 September 2007 15:07:46 Mel wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2007 16:47:49 Xihong Yin wrote: > > Thanks, I thought it was the problem of the argument. But I still can not > > connect to my Access Point using wap_supplicant while I can connect by > > 'ifconfig'. It always connects to

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